Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily PERSONAL MENTION ROGER H. LEWIS, United Artists vice-president in charge of advertising, publicity, and exploitation, will arrive in Hollywood today from New York for promotion conferences. He returns here tomorrow. Charles Okun, in charge of theatre sales for Coca-Cola, has left Florida for Washington, D. C, and will attend the Coca-Cola regional meeting in Chicago before returning to his New York office about March 10. Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, accompanied by his assistant, Bernard Levy, leaves Hollywood today for Phoenix. Howard Minsky, assistant to George Weltner, Paramount vicepresident in charge of world sales, will be in Toronto from New York today through Friday. Edward S. Feldman, international publicity coordinator for Ray Stark's "The World of Suzie Wong," left New York last night for London. New Kil patrick Post Bill Kilpatrick, long-time associate of press agent Bill Doll and a publicist for such films as "Around the World in 80 Days," "Porgy and Bess,"' "Hercules" and "Jack the Ripper," has resigned from Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. to become assistant to the president in charge of advertising and public relations for Konstantin Kaiser's Marathon TV Newsreel. Prior to his association with Doll, Kilpatrick served five years as director of public relations for Sikorsky Aircraft. %w gems of V\ showmanship!... TRAILERS 'Snow Queen ' (Continued from page 1) at a campaign luncheon held at the U-I home office here. To fully publicize the full-length feature cartoon in Eastman Color, U-I hopes to combine the best of "Walt Disney-type salesmanship and the best of our own showmanship," said Philip Gerard, Eastern advertising and publicity director. Comic pages in the Sunday supplements of the Daily News, JournalAmerican and Daily Mirror will feature ads for "The Snow Queen" next month. The April number of Parents Magazine and the April 12 issue of Look also will have ads for the film, producing an all-publications circulation of 7,000,000 in Metropolitan New York devoted to exploitation for the film. Local children's shows on radio and television will lend their services to "The Snow Queen" drive during the next six weeks, as will several adult programs. A special events tie-in will be the celebration April 2 of the 155th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, author of "The Snow Queen." Grossinger's Hotel in New York State this weekend will observe a "Snow Queen" winter carnival which includes a preview of the picture. National, press, radio and television coverage is guaranteed for the event, Gerard said. Stars of the picture, whose voices are dubbed in the Russian-produced film, will make key city publicity tours during the campaign. ACE Executive Group To Meet Here Friday A meeting of the executive committee of the American Congress of Exhibitors has been called for Friday morning at the Stanley Warner home office board room here. An agenda for the meeting had not been completed vesterday, according to Merlin Lewis, ACE executive secretary. With no possibility of another meeting between the AGE executive committee and the Motion Picture Association of America's exhibitor relations committee being held this month, ACE is now looking to such a session some time in March, dependent on the Hollywood strike situation. by national screen service' Memphis Censors (Continued from page 1) announced the film was banned because it is "obscene." This film was banned by a previous board in 1957 and was submitted to the 1960 board. Last week the board banned "Hideout in the Sun," a nudist film. Later this week, it is expected to ban a third film, "This Rebel Breed." High Court Clears Way For Bertha to Sue NJ. From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a writ of certiorari in the case of National Theatres, Inc. In the case of Bertha Building Corp. vs. National Theatres, in refusing to review the decision of August, 1959, of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the second circuit, the Supreme Court makes it possible for Bertha to sue National Theatres, in the New York courts. Last year National Theatres moved for a summary judgment on the ground that the New York three-year statute of limitations barred action. The appeals court denied the motion. Cites Statute of Limitations In the National Theatres brief, filed with the Supreme Court last November, the petitioner asked for the high court to decide whether the New York three-year statute of limitations applied to a private right anti-trust action for treble damages brought in a Federal Court in New York prior to the effective date of the Federal four-year statute of limitations. National Theatres pointed out that besides its own case, there are "at least nine anti-trust treble damage actions" pending, with aggregate damages ( before trebling ) of over $40 million. Included in the exhibit offered by National Theatres are seven cases involving theatres, and producers, as well. Name Brodsk* NT&T Reopens Offer To Purchase NTA Stock From THE DAILY Bureau LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.-National Theatres & Television, Inc., intends to reopen its exchange offer to remaining National Telefilm Associates, Inc., stockholders and warrant-holders, B. Gerald Cantor, NT & T president and chairman of the board, announced today. NT&T acquired a majority interest in NTA through an exchange offer made on Feb. 16, 1959, to stockholders and warrant-holders of NTA. NT&T now owns 1,114,636 shares representing 87.27 per cent of a total of 1,277,197 shares of the common stock of NTA and owns warrants to purchase 346,590 shares of the common stock of NTA representing 79 per cent of a total of 440,955 shares for which warrants are outstanding. Lipton Heads Drive HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 23.-David A. Lipton, Universal-International vicepresident, again will head the amusement industry's campaign for the United Jewish Welfare Fund, it was announced at the industry's 1960 organizational meeting here. (Continued from page 1) J tinue to serve as the company's l| York press representative in adcli to assuming additional responsibil j involving tional pre | tional activ >| Formerly I member of [ Sunday dej ! m e n t of j New |1 Times, Broi served with 1 U.S. Arm) Germany 1953-54 a;! staff corres) : dent. Bro( '' came to 20t 1957 and has served as the compa • staff writer and trade press con! prior to his present position. Jack Brodsky Columbia Meet Toda On 'Strangers'1 Tie-U] Special to THE DAILY CHICAGO, Feb. 23. Coluiij Pictures promotion executives representatives of nine mid-Wes ! home-building manufacturers and sociations will meet here tomorrovj discuss details of the $6,500,000 j motion tie-up on Richard Qui [ "Strangers When We Meet." Twenty-one leading home-buih manufacturers are participating in tie-up, which centers around $250,000 ultra-modern "dream hoi' that was built for the film. 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