Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, November 25, 195£ PERSONAL MENTION WOLFE COHEN, president of Warner Brothers International, has arrived in New York from the Coast. He will leave here shortly for Cuba and other Caribbean countries. • Leon Roth, president of the Mirisch Co., will return to Hollywood at the weekend from New York. • C. J. Latta, managing director of Associated British Pictures Corp., and MacGregor Scott, director and general manager of Associated British Pathe, are in New York from London. • Sidney Kramer, director of foreign distribution for NTA, will leave Hollywood at the weekend for New York. • Charles Isenberg, West Coast story editor for Drexel Pictures, will arrive in New York on Monday from Hollywood. • Nathan Milgrim, associated with David Milgrim Theatres, Philadelphia, is hospitalized at Einstein Medical Center, Northern Division, in that city. • Sol Krim, theatre owner of Detroit, has left there for a one-month vacation in Florida. • Ray Edwards, sales representative for Howco Films, Atlanta, is hospitalized there for surgery. • Edmund Grainger, producer, and Anthony Mann, director of M-G-M's forthcoming "Cimarron," have left Hollywood for shooting location at Tucson, Ariz. No Paper Tomorrow Motion Picture Daily will not be published tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. KNOW-HOW EXPERIENCE DEPENDABILITY MAX E. YOUNGSTEIN, United Artists vice-president (center) receives the Human Relations Award of the Motion Picture Division of the Joint Defense Appeal from Harry Brandt (left) president of ITOA, at the industry luncheon honoring Youngstein yesterday. At right is Solomon M. Strausberg, board chairman of MMPTA and JDA luncheon chairman. Doris Day Is Allied 'Female Star of Year* Special to THE DAILY MILWAUKEE, Nov. 24. Doris Day was named "Top Female Star of the Year" today by the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors. Ben Marcus, general convention chairman of the Allied group, announced here that Miss Day had won the honor following a secret poll taken among the exhibitor membership. The award was based on the actress' "outstanding contribution and excellent entertainment performances in 1959, and most recently in the current motion picture, 'Pillow Talk'." Yesterday Rock Hudson, who costarred with Miss Day in the film, was awarded the "Star of the Year" Award by the same group of exhibitors. Marcus said that the actress will be given the award trophy at the banquet climaxing the association's convention next month at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach. Krim in Group Planning Luxury Hotel in Tahiti From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24. Mac Krim, member of the Detroit theatre family, and of late active in real estate development here, is a member of a syndicate which on Dec. 1 will begin construction of a 200-room luxury hotel in Papeete, Tahiti. Krim is associated in the $1,500,000 project with promoter Bruce Jones, and investors Larry Doheney, Larry Pringle and Calvin Helgo, who are reported to be putting up $1,000,000, widi a French syndicate supplying the balance. The new hostelry plans to offer special inducements to production companies seeking South Seas locations, and to vacationing Hollywoodites and other professionals. Big Magazine Campaign Promotes 'Petticoat' An extensive national magazine advertising budget has been allocated by Universal-International for its campaign on "Operation Petticoat," which will be comparable in every respect to the magazine campaigns on "Imitation of Life" and "Pillow Talk," David A. Lipton, vice-president, announced yesterday. Aimed at capturing all segments of today's audiences, ads have been placed in 18 national magazines having a combined circulation of nearly 30 million and a readership in excess of 104 million, he said. Fox To Use Comics In 'Journey' Campaign A national comic book promotional campaign aimed at reaching 1,500,000 movie-goers between 8 and 16 has been set by 20th Century-Fox and Dell Publishing Co. for "Journey to the Center of the Earth," Edward E. Sullivan, 20th-Fox publicity director, has announced. A network of 200,000 dealerships and outlets in 50 states will distribute the specially-created comic book which features in pictures the Jules Verne tale of mystery and adventure. 'Abner' Here Dec. 11 Paramount's "Li'l Abner" will open Friday, Dec. 11, at the Roxy Theatre, as the Christmas holiday attraction. Youngstein \ (Continued from page 1 ) his "distinguished community serij ices and outstanding leadership in th advancement of human rights causes. The Human Relations Award, pre sented to him by Harry Brandt, pres! dent of the Independent Theatii Owners of America, was made by th< Motion Picture Division of the JoiijJ Defense Appeal. Youngstein's "aggressiveness and vjj sion" as a former president of th Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith and a a member of several other civic an philanthropic organizations, was cite! during presentation of the award. ' Arnold Forster, general counsel d| the Anti-Defamation League and m tional director of the League's Civ! Rights Division, warned his audienc not to be "lulled into a false sens of security." "While great strides have beej' made in providing a climate of raciaand religious understanding, there i still a vital need to wipe out pocket' of prejudice which still exist in man] areas of American life," Forster saio' Solomon Strausberg, president cr| Interboro Theatres, Inc., was toast/ master at the luncheon. Among thosf seated with him at the dais were Bar ney Balaban, Robert S. Benjamin* Brandt, Forster, William J. Germari1 Leon Goldberg, Irving H. Greenfield' Arthur B. Krim, Rabbi Moshay F Mann, Eugene Picker, Burton Rob' bins, Sam Schneider, Al Schwalberg, Leslie Schwartz, Sol Schwartz, Ado] pi Schimel and Robert M. Weitman. The Joint Defense Appeal is th$ fund-raising arm of the Americaih Jewish Committee and the AntiDefamation League. Both groups sup port a program devoted to combatting bigotry, safeguarding human right)! and promoting interfaith harmony. 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