Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

2 Motion Picture Daily PERSONAL MENTION PAUL N. LAZARUS, Jr., vice-president of Columbia Pictures, and Jonas Rosenfield, Jr., Columbia's executive in charge of advertisingpublicity, have left New York for meetings with Midwest exhibitors. Lazarus is in Cincinnati today; Rosenfield in Detroit. Leon Roth, vice-president of the Mirisch Co., arrived in New York over the weekend from the Coast. William Dozier, vice-president of Screen Gems in charge of West Coast activities, has arrived in New York from Hollywood. James V. Frew, Southern division manager for Continental Distributing Corp., Atlanta, has returned there from Oklahoma City. Ray Stark, who will produce "The World of Suzie Wong" for Paramount, arrived in New York yesterday from London. • Ed Remig, special representative for American International Pictures, was in Atlanta from New York. • Fess Parker has arrived in New York from Hollywood. • Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres; Bernard Levy, his assistant, and Al Sicignano have returned to New York from Detroit. • Bob Rich, vice-president and general manager of United Artists Associated, has left New York for Dallas and Los Angeles. • William Weidig, traveling auditor for 20th Century-Fox, was in Albany, N. Y., from here. of dependability NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE Fortieth Anniversary Celebration Once -InA -Lifetime Tribute to Trailers 6 Join Committee for Youngstein Tribute Robert S. Benjamin, Harry Brandt, Bartley C. Crum, Charles Einfeld, Simon H. Fabian and Moss Hart have joined the honorary committee for the Health for Peace dinner honoring Max E. Youngstein on Dec. 14 at the Hotel Biltmore, it was announced by Louis Nizer, general chairman for the event. The dinner, sponsored by the Children's Research Institute and Hospital in Denver, will be highlighted by a special dramatic program featuring prominent scientists, entertainers and public figures, who will give support to the coordinated research attack against disease. Ike Jones Is Appointed By Belafonte Prods. Ike Jones, a former executive of the Hecht-Hill-Lancaster company, has been named a producer and a vicepresident of HarBel Productions, it was announced by Phil Stein, executive producer of Belafonte Enterprises. Jones announced that the company is now actively seeking material for the six productions that HarBel has contracted to produce for United Artists, which will star Harry Belafonte. HarBel is also seeking properties for their newly formed television division, and for feature films in which Belafonte will not appear. Allied to Present 3 Awards at Convention Special to THE DAILY MILWAUKEE, Nov. 15.-Three awards honoring the industry man of the year, the showman of the year and the producer of the year will be presented on the last night of Allied State's Association outdoor and indoor theatre convention at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, it was announced at convention headquarters here. The convention will take place Dec. 7 through 9. Allied has formed a special committee to devise the machinery to select the persons to receive awards in the three categories. Columbia's 1960 Slate To Be Told Wednesday From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15.-Samuel J. Briskin, Columbia Pictures vicepresident in charge of West Coast activities, will reveal the company's 1960 production program to a group of 100 leading Southern California exhibitors on Wednesday at the Ambassador Hotel. The meeting will be hosted by Norman Jackter, Columbia division manager for the Southern California and Rocky Mountain area. Wald Here for Bow Of Infidel' Tomorrow Producer Jerry Wald will personally head an array of entertainment world notables who will attend the benefit premiere of his production of "Beloved Infidel" at the Paramount Theatre here at 8:30 P.M. tomorrow. Wald will arrive in New York today to participate in the pre-premiere planning of the 20th Century-Fox release. At the opening, being sponsored by the Damon Runyon Fund, Wald will be joined by Sheilah Graham, the Hollywood columnist whose life story is depicted in the film. Also on hand will be an array of 20th CenturyFox's new young stars, including Barrie Chase, Stephen Boyd, Diane Baker, Stuart Whitman and Carol Lynley. International press coverage of the event will be afforded by the NBC radio network, the Voice of America, and Armed Forces Radio Service. NBC's "Monitor" will chat with arriving celebrities for nationwide transmission. Movietonews will film the opening for servicing to TV stations throughout the world. Legion Classifies 5; Condemns 'Lovers' The National Legion of Decency has placed the French film, "The Lovers" in its Class C, Condemned, category. At the same time the Legion this week classified four other pictures. In Class A, Section I (for general patronage) is "Masters of the Congo Jungle." In Class A, Section III (adults) are "House of Intrigue" and "Operation Petticoat." Placed in Class B (morally objectionable in part for all) is "Li'l Abner." The Legion obpected to the latter as follows: "Suggestive costuming; in addition the film contains elements that are morally unacceptable in a mass medium of entertainment." On "The Lovers," the Legion says: "The blatant violation of JudaeoChristian modesty and decency which permeates the development of the theme of this film is a serious threat to public and private morality." All Allied Artists Officers Are Reelected From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15.-A11 present officers of Allied Artists were reelected at a board meting following the annual stockholders meeting here late last week. The directors also authorized payment of a quarterly dividend of 13% cents per share on the company's 5/2 per cent cumulative preferred stock. Payment will be made Dec. 15 to stockholders of record Dec. 3. Conciliation ( Continued from page 1 ) obtained from exhibitors in widd scattered locations indicate that | every case such as these, there irw be five or six or more for which Ij conciliation results were far less sp{L tacular or, in fact, which left tj exhibitor frankly disappointed. Even worse, there seems to be lack of instances in which the exl' bitor is of the opinion that even tj approach to his problem was cauj for complaint. This, despite the we| advertised fact that company pre' dents have expressed a personal f terest in having their field sales ford make a genuine effort to have <m ciliation succeed. Say Some Managers Discourteous ( There are many stories being to1! of branch managers who have uj1 braided exhibitors for naming sevei theatres and several distribution coA panies in their letters requesting coii ciliation, despite the fact that tj conciliation rules do not bar such) procedure. Exhibitors say they ha': been asked why they didn't nari one theatre at a time, or why thl hadn't approached distributors sing1 and in alphabetical order. One exhibitor pointed out that hi he followed the procedure one brani1 manager desired of naming only or theatre at a time, he would be ef gaged in conciliation for several yea to come. Such exhibitors are not the on1 with unreasonable, one-sided, or ev^' foolish complaints. Those comprise i separate class, even more dissatisfi^ than the reasonable exhibitor. Example Cited In this separate category are mar! exhibitors who by no stretch of tl! imagination could be considered 1 be "distressed cases," and who a:j conciliation of complaints that ACl and the Motion Picture Associatic never intended to have the systel apply to. A typical example of th latter is a request to conciliate "floored" picture, one on which percentage or rental has been si below which it cannot be sold ani where in the country. The impression at this stage is ii escapable that while conciliation an ready has won many friends an champions, there are no inconside; able number of justifiably disilh1 sioned. New iSheba' Booking \ The second domestic roadshow eri gagement of Edward Small's "Sold mon and Sheba" will be held at thi Nelson Theatre in Ottawa, Canadt on Dec. 25. The UA release, pre^ viously was announced as the Christ mas attraction at the new Loew: Capitol Theatre here. 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