Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

86, NO. 98 MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 TEN CENTS op Calibre' |PAA Drive Fill Involve o 20 Films eeting Again Today on ans for 6-Week Drive The national joint promotion camgn of the Motion Picture Associah to publicize pictures of all its mbers scheduled for release in 1960 I be restricted to some 15 or 20 us and will include only those of ;ry top" calibre, it was learned yesday. Films selected will be from »se planned for release all year long H not just those set for the first w months of 1960. '[Plans for the six-week drive, which to take place before the first of the !ar, are being worked out by the ■ (Continued on page 2) riskin Pledges Steady olumbia Product Flow From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18.-Promise a steady flow of quality product >m Columbia Pictures was made re today to ore than 75 iding show;n of South(l California Samuel J. iskin, vicefesident i n barge of West »ast activities, he meeting, Id at the m b a s s ador otel here, arked the ,;irt of a tour \y Briskin of key West Coast areas on (Continued on page 2) Wilcox in London After ilm Discussions Here Producer Herbert Wilcox returned r London from here last night following talks with distribution and finanial executives on his next picture, |The Reason Why." Discussions here (Continued on page 2) Saskatchewan Censors Institute New Classification Category-Restricted Adult} Place 2 Films in It Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Nov. 18.-Two pictures have been placed in a new categoryrestricted adult-set up by the Saskatchewan Board of Censors. The classification, instituted by an Order-in-Council, bars attendance by anyone under 18 years of age unaccompanied by a parent or an official guardian. Such films will not be shown at drive-ins, nor on Friday and Saturday in any location where there is a single theatre. Films in this category may not be booked from and including Good Friday to the second Monday following Easter and from and including Dec. 24 to Jan. 2. The weekend ban results in children being allowed into theatres during the time best suited to them. Saskatchewan, only province besides Ontario to have a restricted category, requires films to be advertised in three classifications. These are general (suitable for all age groups), adult (unsuitable or of no interest to children), and restricted adult. Orders Affecting Stock In loew's Cos. Signed Orders affecting the disposition of stock by directors of Loew's Theatres and Loew's Inc. were signed yesterday by Judge Edmund L. Palmieri. Directors of the two companies are required under the consent decree which separated the production company from the circuit to sell stock belonging to the company with which they are no longer affiliated. Jra Guilden and Nathan Cummings, directors of Loew's, Inc., were given a time extension until Dec. 1 to deposit their stock in Loew's Theatres with a trustee. Laurence Tisch, director of Loew's Theatres, was given until the same day to get rid of his stock in Loew's, Inc. At the same time Judge Palmieri signed an order approving the action ( Continued on page 2 ) Samuel B Fox 9-Month turnings Total $2,930,532 Consolidated earnings of 20th Century-Fox were $2,930,532 for the 39 weeks ended Sept. 26, the company reported yesterday. This compares with $6,590,991 for the same period in 1958. Earnings for the third quarter of 1959 amounted to $1,159,662 compared with $1,357,982 for the third quarter of last year. Earnings for the second quarter of 1959 were $840,893. Income for the 39 weeks this year, including film rentals, television, dividends, and other, was $85,933,864 as compared with $94,136,723 in the same period in 1958. Earnings for the 39-week period of 1959 amounted to $1.25 per share on 2,338,536 shares of common stock in the hands of the public as compared (Continued on page 2) Dead Duck Prospects for Classification Viewed As Nil Two Months Study of Plan Finds Majority Opposed 'W Reports 'Pillow Talk' 28% Ahead of 'Lite'; Sees It Becoming Company Top All-Time Grosser Universal's "Pillow Talk," having had 360 engagements in six weeks, some of which are still current, is averaging almost 28 per cent better than 'Imitation of Life," the company said yesterday. At the rate the film is going, it added. Pillow" can become the biggest grossing picture in the history of Universal, topping even "The Glenn Miller Story." In its current engagements in the South, "Pillow Talk" is running almost 54 per cent above "Imitation of Life" and in the West, almost 50 per cent. It is rolling up record extended run engagements in theatres across the country, playing three and four weeks where pictures generally play single weeks and with fifth weeks topping fourth weeks and fourth weeks topping third weeks and third weeks topping second weeks. At the Music Hall in Seattle the fourth week topped all previous weeks including the initial week, the company said. The prospects of the industry officially adopting a system of classifying films for adults and children are virtually nil, in the opinion of numerous high placed industry members. Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Ass'n. president, revealed at a Hollywood press conference early in October that he and his associates were in process of discussing the adoption of a film classification system with religious and other groups that have shown interest in the idea. At the time, Johnston indicated that he had serious misgivings about film classification. Referring to experiences with adult and juvenile film labeling in England and elsewhere abroad under government regulation and with (Continued on page 3) Sen. Javits to Speak At Pioneers' Dinner Sen. Jacob Javits (R., N.Y.) will be the principal speaker at the 21st annual dinner of the Morion Picture Pioneers honoring Steve Broidy, president of Allied Artists Pictures Corp., to be held Monday at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel. According to the dinner committee, ticket sales this year have forged toward a record number, with last min(Continued on page 2) Settlement Disapproved In G.I.E. 'Holders' Suit Special to THE DAILY WILMINGTON, Nov. 18. Chief U. S. District Court Judge Caleb M. Wright today filed an opinion disapproving a proposed settlement of a suit by stockholders of General Industrial Enterprises, Inc., against Gil.E. and its majority stockholder, Baldwin Securities Corp. "The court concludes," the opinion said, "the plan of settlement is unfair, unreasonable and (Continued on page 3)