Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Monday, January 25, PERSONAL MENTION T^UGENE PICKER, president of t-'Loew's Theatres, and John F. Murphy, executive vice-president, left New York on Friday for Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and Atlanta. From drere Picker will continue on to the Bahamas for a vacation, while Murphy will return to New York. Hugh Owen, Paramount vice-president, and Edward ChumleY, U.S. and Canadian sales manager for "The Ten Commandments," are in Atlanta from New York. Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, and his assistants, Bernard Levy and Al Sicignano, have returned to New York from Detroit. Jack H. Levin, president of Certified Reports, has left New York for meetings with personnel of his Southern division. Norman Nadel, motion picture editor of the Columbus Citizen-Dispatch, has arrived in New York from Ohio. • Harold Rand, Paramount publicity manager, is in Washington today from New York. • Stanley Kramer, producer-director of United Artists' "On the Beach," has arrived in New York from the Coast. • Wilbur Brizendine, general manager of Schwaber Theatres, Baltimore, has left there with Mrs. Brizendine for a Caribbean cruise. Pandro S. Berman, producer, has returned to Hollywood from New York. ychi check with national screen service for the best in SPECIAL TRAILERS New York Film Critics Present Awards for '59 New York Film Critics' awards for 1959 were presented at the annual dinner and awards ceremony here at Sardi's Restaurant on Saturday night. Joseph R. Vogel, president of Loew's, Inc., who returned here Friday after a West Coast visit, accepted the award for "Ben-Hur," which the critics voted best picture for 1959. James Stewart, who was cited for his performance in "Anatomy of a Murder," also attended the dinner. Audrey Hepburn, voted best actress for her role in "The Nun's Story," was unable to attend, and Elizabeth Taylor accepted the award for her. Francois Truffaut, author and director of "The 400 Blows," best foreign film of the year, also received his award. Fred Zinnemann, whose direction of "The Nun's Story" won him an award, was in London over the weekend. His award was accepted by Robert Anderson who wrote the screenplay for the film. The award for best screenplay was accepted by a member of the Screen Writers Guild of America for "Anatomy of a Murder," which was authored by Wendell Mayes. 'Swan Lake' to Premiere At Normandie Tonight "Swan Lake," the first Russian film of the current cultural exchange between the United States and Soviet Russia to be exhibited in New York, will have a formal premiere tonight at the Normandie Theatre under the auspices of the United Nations Committee of the City of New York and Columbia Pictures. Ambassadors and ministers of more than 40 countries, officials of the United Nations Secretariat, representatives of the United States government, New York City officials, leaders of the motion picture industry and celebrities from the entertainment world will attend. The United States will be represented by its Minister to the United Nations, James Bareo, and Turner Shelton, representing the State Department and U.S. I. A. Sinister to Speak at Edison Awards Dinner George Sinister, president of Hunter College, will discuss the image of America being projected to other parts of the world at the fifth annual Thomas Alva Edison Foundation mass media awards dinner on Wednesday, January 27, at the Waldorf-Astoria. His topic will be "The New World Frontier." Before an audience of 500 guests, Edison Awards will be given to outstanding films, television and radio programs and children's books. Sixtytwo national civic organizations select the Edison Awards by written ballot. Fox's Cleveland Manager On Air About Films Special to THE DAILY CLEVELAND, Jan. 24. Ray Schmertz, 20th-Fox branch manager, is taking to the air waves to personally tell the people of Greater Cleveland that his company is "meeting its social obligations" by making available to motion picture theatres a large group of family type pictures during the 1960 season. WNOB, via radio and TV, will use this tape recorded interview as a public service. Sullivan in Hollywood On 'Can-Can' Activity Edward E. Sullivan, 20th CenturyFox publicity director, arrives in Hollywood from here today to further coordinate the nationwide pattern of benefit premieres for "Can-Can," in Todd-AO, which will debut in major cities of the world in mid-March. Sullivan will meet with West Coast representatives of national benefit organizations to set ticket-selling policies for the Carthay Circle premiere on March 10. Attended Opening in Boston The publicity director recently returned from Boston, where he established similar sequences with groups participating in the March 23 opening at the Gary Theatre. Sullivan will hold week-long conferences with executive head of production, Buddy Adler, on national publicity plans for productions upcoming within the next three months. The publicity director will also meet with several 20th-Fox producers. Royal Crown to Build New Illinois Plant Royal Crown Cola Company, Columbus, Ga., producers of Royal Crown Cola, Nehi and Par-T-Pak beverages, will construct a flavor-ingredient manufacturing center and canning plant at Granite City, 111., according to W. H. Glenn, president. Granite City is across the Misissippi river from St. Louis, and the new plant, the company's ninth, will serve Midwest and West Coast bottlers and distributors. Herbert Crooker, 66 Herbert Crooker, 66, a pioneer in film publicity and advertising, died here Thursday at his home. The deceased, who held jobs as Eastern publicity manager for Warner Bros, and for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is survived by his wife, the former Delight Evans, onetime editor of Screenland Magazine. limit Roadshow Pol To Top Films: Schk Special to THE DAILY GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Jan. Producers were warned at the end by J. Myer Schine, presidf Schine Enterprises, Inc., that th of 65 or 70mm film and the pol roadshow engagements must t strict ed to top properties. If th« ducers realize this, he said, * can be a very healthy future i industry." He also asked tha film makers encourage "long, exb runs" for these pictures. Todd-AO equipment has nowi installed in five Schine theatre circuit head pointed out, and the houses were completely reb? a cost of over $1,000,000. The in' tion at the Monroe Theatre in R< ter was recently applauded b Robert E. Hopkins, developer i "bugeye" lens in the Todd-AO ess, after he attended a screen: "Porgy and Bess" there. In addition to the theatre^ the Schines have equipped with AO, new seats, carpets and oth pointments, they also renovate, improved many other theatres. A plete remodeling job was done Massena Theatre, Massena, York; the Elmwood Theatre, Yan, New York; and just recent Wooster Theatre in Wooster, 0 The air-conditioning program was started last year with th Theatre, Corning, New York, v extended this year by air-condit the State Theatre, Cortland, York; Geneva Theatre, Geneva York; Kent Theatre, Kent, Ohii the Massena Theatre, Massena York. Ricketson and Garni] (Continued from page 1) j The first of these, "The (j Touch," will be filmed in Ci| Scope and color and is scheduj go before cameras next month Sherman will produce and "The Golden Touch," from a: inal screenplay by Daniel D. champ. Negotiations are curren ing completed with name playe: will be announced shortly. Ricketson, Jr., is president of gari Corporation, with Gamfl treasurer, Sherman as vice-pn and Moe Tonkon as secretaiy firm of Zagon, Aaron & Schiff h legal representatives of Shergi cally. Jerry Hoffman, formerly Screen Gems, has been signed a licity director. Para. 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