Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

iday, October 23, 1959 Motion Picture Daily 5 PEOPLE Joseph E. Levine, whose "HerJ Lies" is now listed among the year's g grossers, is being profiled by Inez jbb for the Scripps-Howard syndite, by Stanley Penn for the Wall reet Journal and by Richard Nason (r the New York Times. □ Leo H. Hooper, former student astant manager of Loew's Poli TheaHartford, has been named raanVer of the Beach Theatre, Miami jeach, a unit of Florida State Theates. □ Jay Holmes, formerly assistant man;er at the World Theatre, Philadeljiia, has been named manager of the da Theatre, Bala, Pa. □ Melvin R. Wintman, general mauler of Smith Management Co., Bosjti, will be given a bachelor dinner | Steuben's Restaurant there on Nov. : He will be married in Boston on pv. 21 to Audrey Levine of Chelsea. onahue, Dickinson pin TOA 'New Faces' Two of Warner Bros.' new stars, oy Donahue and Angie Dickinson, 11 join the parade of "new faces" the 12th annual convention of the leatre Owners of America, at the :>tel Sherman in Chicago, Nov. 8 to , George G. Kerasotes, TOA presint announced. Kerasotes said he d just been advised by Jack L. arner, president of Warner Bros., at the studio had juggled the workg schedules of the two young stars, order to free them for the gersonal pearance in Chicago. Calls Gathering 'Greatest' The gathering of new stars at the OA convention will be one of the eatest in exhibition's history, Kerates said. Already scheduled for apparances are Sandra Dee from Uni'j;rsal Pictures, and Tom Noonan and ste Marshall from Twentieth Ceniry-Fox. Leonard Kaufman (Continued from page 1 ) ead of the company's legal staff. Prior to his affiliation with Paramount, Kaufman was associated with J|ie firm of Schwartz & Frohlich, speSalists in theatrical and motion picire law, and had been with the law ,fEces of the late Nathan Burkan. lonor IFIDA at Fete The French Film Office held a cock;jril reception here yesterday at its ffices to welcome the recent creation fit the Independent Film Importers nd Distributors of America. Fox Fulfills ( Continued from page 1 ) leading theatre circuit heads, was primarily a social gathering with golf played after luncheon. Ray Schmertz, local 20th-Fox branch manager, and E. C. Pearson, publicity director, were in charge of arrangements. Leading Exhibitors Attend Exhibitors attending included Marshall Fine, Associated Circuit; Joe Lisseauer, C. Kirball Circuit; Nat and Sam Schultz, Selected Theatres; M. B. Horwitz, Washington Circuit; Gus Lynch, Schine Circuit; Blair Mooney, Cooperative Theatres of Ohio; Jack Armstrong, Armstrong Circuit; Leon Enken, Robins Amusement Co.; Leonard Mishkind, General Theatres; Herbert Horstemeier, Booking agent, Ted Vermes, Vermes Circuit; Joe Rembrandt, Center Mayfield Theatre; John Tender, Tivoli Theatre, Lorain; Herman Frankel, Capital Elyria; Jim Shulman, Schulman, Schwartz Circuit; Jack Silverthorne, Hippodrome Theatre, Cleveland; Ralph Russell, Palace, Canton. Goldstein Named (Continued from page 1) Pioneer vice-president; and William J. German, Pioneer treasurer. Among some of the committee chairmen designated and now active on dinner and program activities for the dinner are: Chester Bahn, trade press chairman; Charles Alicoate, new member chairman; William J. German, financial chairman, and Lars McSorley, publicity chairman. Following the selection of the chairmen and committees, Depinet said, "Knowing the energy of 'Razz' Goldstein and being more familiar with his 'bag of tricks' it is my opinion that this year's Pioneer dinner will be one of the industry's most outstanding events. Judging from the early request for tickets, attendancewise, we have every reason to believe this year's dinner will be SRO." Television Today Sanford Meisner ( Continued from page 1 ) brings to the position— which finds Adler spending upward of one million dollars a week in search for new faces— more than 40 years experience as an actor-director-instructor in the dramatic arts. He will take over his new post as soon as he completes a starring role with Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa and Gig Young in Clifford Odets' "The Story on Page One" for Fox at the end of the month. In addition to handling new talent, Meisner also will give advance courses in acting to the studio's contract players. Mrs. Pauline Kaiser Funeral services will be held in Riverside, N. J., today for Mrs. Pauline Kaiser, mother if Sam Kaiser, of Kaiser, Sedlow and Temple. She died yesterday morning. Laughton to Star with Shakespearean Group From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22.-Hubbell Robinson Productions has made arrangements for Charles Laughton to introduce and star in a special 90minute telecast presenting for the first time on American television highlights from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," with the world-renowned Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-onAvon. The telecast, which will be taped in England Nov. 30, will be one in the series of Ford "Startime" Specials aired on the NBC television network Tuesdays at 9:30 P.M. Condensation Planned Due to the length of the property, Robinson stated there would be no attempt to present the entire play but rather to present a condensation, together with a tour conducted by Charles Laughton of Shakespeare's country, including the town of Stratford-on-Avon, the famed theatre, the author's birthplace, and Anne Hathaway's cottage. Robinson further stated that Fletcher Markle, an executive of Robinson Productions, will produce the television version of Peter Hall's production of the famed classic, which has been running for eight months as part of the 100th season of the Memorial Theatre. 'Movies Learn to Talk' On '20th Century' Sun. Ben Turpin, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Marie Dressier, Thomas Edison, Mickey Mouse, George Bernard Shaw, and more than two dozen other movie stars and celebrities of yesterday and today will be featured in "The Movies Learn to Talk," the premiere show in "The Twentieth Century's" 1959-60 series of documentaries on the CBS-TV network, scheduled for Sunday (6:30-7:00 P.M., EST). The documentary series, sponsored by the Prudential Insurance Company of America, with Walter Cronkite as narrator, will start its third year on television. Jack Warner to Appear Jack L. Warner, president of Warner Brothers, will appear Sunday to relate how he produced the first "talkie," "The Jazz Singer." The program will include excerpts from a dozen films, among them "Don Juan," with John Barrymore; "Anna Christy," with Garbo; "In Old Arizona," with Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid; "His Glorious Night," John Gilbert's first talkie; "The Big Sleep" and "Night and Day," and several other productions popular in the early days of the medium. Who's Where Robert F. White has been appointed director of production for Theatre Network Television, Inc., it was announced by Nathan L. Halpern, president. White was formerly with NBCTV where he was broadcast operation supervisor. □ Robert B. Hoag has been appointed assistant program director, administration, CBS Television Network, Hollywood, it was announced by William Self, director of programs, administration, Hollywood. For the past several years, Hoag has been manager of program sales, with headquarters in New York. □ Producer-director Don Hershey has joined the staff of Bill Sturm Studios here. He comes from five years of active production at Screen Gems. Producers, WGA ( Contimied from page 1 ) producers and the screen writers branch of Writers Guild of America, West, tonight reached a deadlock on the issues of royalty payments for the use of post-1948 theatrical films on television, also on the matter of paytelevision." At tonight's meeting, said Boren, the guild rejected the producers' proposals of June 25 and presently stands on its original contract proposals made last March. "The producers," said Boren, "informed the guild that the contract, which twice had been extended from its termination date of May 15, 1959, would not be extended further, and that after Nov. 17 the terms and conditions of that contract would no longer apply." CBS Affiliates Group Will Meet Next Week The annual fall meeting of the board of directors of the CBS Television Network Affiliates Association will be held at Del Monte Lodge, Pebble Beach, Calif., next Sunday through Wednesday, it was announced by Richard Borel, WBNS-TV, Columbus, Ohio, secretary of the board. The association has invited 11 key executives of the CBS Television Network. EAST COAST EDITORIAL PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL SERVICES CREATIVE EDITING AND COMPLETE SUPERVISION — RE-EDITING OF FEATURE FILMS AND TV SPOTS FILM SERVICES FOR VIDEO TAPING JOSEPH JOSEPHSON 45 West 45th St. Circle 6-2146 New York 36