Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

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esday, December 23, 1959 Motion Picture Daily uiversal Net ( Continued from page 1 ) Universal reported a net loss of )20,055. otal profit for 1959 will amount about $4,600,000, after including fit of $3,667,387 from the sale of i studio property a year ago. i the first quarter of the 1959 fiscal Universal had an operating loss ^864,000. In the second quarter it lived a profit of $331,310; a profit 5638,000 for the third quarter, and Indicated profit of $795,000 for the |il quarter, for which figures are not < complete. jh the current quarter, the first of 1960 fiscal year, operating profits continuing at a "substantial" rate. Improvement in the company's ition is credited to the success of itation of Life," "This Earth Is tie," "The Perfect Furlough" and jllow Talk," with earnings from the jer and from "Operation Petticoat" jected to swell current quarter earnI "Imitation" did $6,000,000 dofctic, and "Pillow" is expected to »ross "The Glenn Miller Story," versal's record release with $7,,000. itican Film Library ( Continued from page 1 ) orical documents along with the : collection of books and ancient 'Jiuscripts of the famed Vatican irary. he Vatican film library will be er the direction of the Pontifical amission for Motion Pictures, Radio television, of which the president \rchbishop Martin J. O'Connor, tor of the North American College Home. Tie new library will deal mainly i the preservation of films about life of the Church. These will inle films on the popes, their repreatives and the Church adminision; the apostolic, charitable, and ural activities of the Church, and ^ion throughout the world, ilms on art and culture in general come within the library's scope. dnese Feature Started he Cathay Organization has started iuction, in Singapore, of the first length Chinese-language feature to be made in Malaya. Titled ~>n City," it deals with life in Single and of teen-agers struggle for (ving in an otherwise happy and tented family. las the boxoffice touch! AROUND THE TV CIRCUIT with PINKY HERMAN. IN A NEW move to provide added flexibility and improve service to ABC network clients, Si B. Siegel has named Bernard I. Paulson to head the Production Services Dept. Paulson will report to Frank Marx, veep in charge of engineering. . . . F. Sinatra's Feb. 15 Timex ABCorker, will feature four famous distaff ers; Eleanor Roosevelt, Lena Home, Juliet Prowse and a fourth which will be announced later. . . . Harold J. Klein, formerly with J J Theatres of N.Y. and associated with ABC Films since last May, has been upped to veep in charge of the firm's business affairs. . . . Prexy Maurice Levy of Eastern Effects, Inc. pridefully shows us several pix of his newly-constructed film optical bench which boasts one of the first major advances in the field in many a year; the new revision enables the technician to reduce or enlarge 20 diameters while maintaining automatic focus and aperture control; provides new light source for complete even field of light; makes it possible to spin live action scenes without use of many prisms; also will cut by many hours the delivery time of optical effects negatives. Joe (Dupont) Dougherty, after witnessing a demonstration this week of the bench remarked quote:— "This bench is great and the Russians will probably "invent" this "soon." unquote: . . . Director Dick Schneider will bring his "DoughRe-Mi" NBCast to Macy's next week (Dec. 23-24 shows) where moppets will vie for gifas and prizes instead of dough. (Like TOY-re-mi No?) . . . Howcome the delightfully-talented warbler, Pat Windsor, isn't given more guestints on the nets? Her thrilling trilling is a nitely feature at Jack Silverman's International bistro on Broadway. . . . Producer Robert Saudek has signed Hal Holbrook to star in "Roughing It," based on Mark Twain's experiences in Nevada during the Gold Rush days. Star of the NBC-TVehicle, Holbrook, has been charming audiences from coast to coast with his eloquent impersonation of Twain. Program is skedded for Friday, May 13, the 50th anniversary of the death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain.) . . . & # & "Close up of 1960," honoring Arthur Godfrey will be held at the Astor Hotel Friday, January 8 instead of the Waldorf-Astoria as originally planned, it was announced by Prexy Walter Cronkite of the Acad, of TV Arts and Sciences. . . . Maestro-Composer Paul Taubman and his charming wife spending the holidays in Miami Beach where he'll be guest conductor of the Florida Symphony Orchestra in the annual Christmas Pageant. Incidentally, Paul, there is some talk around town that the "Bride & Groom" TVehicle may return to the nets. . . . Tony Cabot, composer-conductor at the Hawaiian Room of the Hotel Lexington in Gotham, will guest on the "Joe Franklin Show," Tuesday, Dec. 29 TVia WABC. 'The Day of the Gun' For Bryna-Universal Negotiations have been completed between Kirk Douglas's Bryna Co. and Universal International for the production of "The Day of the Gun," to star Douglas and Rock Hudson, and to be directed by Robert Aldrich. The film will be shot entirely in Mexico, starting in March. Producers will be Eugene Frank and Edward Lewis, vice-president of Bryna. Podhorzer Named Agent Munio Podhorzer, president of Casino Film Exchange here and for 25 years active as importer, distributor and exhibitor in the New York area, has been appointed U.S. representative for Franco-London Film, S. A., Paris, it was announced yesterday by Henry Deutschmeister, president of the latter company. Podhorzer succeeds H. Edwards, who is retiring after many years as the Franco-London representative to the industry in this country. 20th Sets 'Page One' Fashion House Tie-In 20th Century-Fox has formulated an elaborate merchandising tie-in with Kay Windsor Fashions of New York, whereby "The Story on Page One" will be brought into more than 250,000 homes next month. The dress manufacturer and marketer will provide special labels on its new winter line numbering over a quarter of a million garments, using the slogan "This year, Kay Windsor is 'The Story On Page One'." In addition, the fashion house will embark on a lavish full-scale advertising campaign in newspapers, national magazines, garment industry publications and women's press in key cities where the Jerry Wald production will open in selected engagements in early January. Kay Windsor's sales representatives across the country, and top department store promotional personnel also will join with 20th-Fox's special advertising-publicity managers in every city in working out promotion. has the boxoffice touch! Jersey Allied ( Continued from page 1 ) disrupted transportation following the 18-hour snow storm of Monday and early yesterday which kept all but the hardiest Jerseyites from getting to the meeting in the organization's Manhattan headquarters. The meeting is scheduled to express the wishes of the membership on the reappointment of Irving Dollinger as Allied's alternate on the American Congress of Exhibitors executive committee. Al Myrick, Allied president, recently reappointed Dollinger to the post and the latter accepted subject to the approval of New Jersey Allied. The organization also is expected to petition national Allied directors for a special meeting Feb. 1 to clarify the organization's plans and policies. U.A. Begins Dates ( Continued from page 1 ) be inaugurated with "Happy Anniversary" playing at the downtown Lyric Theatre and the Park-Vu Drivein Theatre. Multiple bookings have been carried out before in the Salt Lake area in theatres under the same ownership but never before on a competitive bid basis covering all new releases. United Artists' new policy will involve one drive-in theatre east and one west of State Street for simultaneous bookings with a downtown theatre. Fox Names Selsman ( Continued from page 1 ) closed yesterday by Edward E. Sullivan, publicity director. In his new post Selsman succeeds Jack Brodsky, whose promotion to the position of New York press representative for the company was announced on Monday. William A. Smith Dies; Was Equipment Official Special to THE DAILY ALLENTOWN, Pa., Dec 22. Funeral services have been held here for William A. Smith, Sr., retired plant superintendent of Automatic Devices Co., and a well-known figure in the field of curtain machines and controls for theatrical stages. He is survived by his widow and a son, William, Jr., who succeeded him in his work at A. D.C.