Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

■ Jelev'is'ion Joday Motion Picture Daily Thursday, February 25, 1! ABC-TV Presents 1960-61 Programs By SAUL OSTROVE ABC-TV yesterday announced its 1960-61 programming schedule at a breakfast conference attended by 1,000 television, advertising and press guests at the Waldorf-Astoria here. Highlight of the fall season will be a series of 26 new half-hour documentaries entitled "Winston Churchill." The programs, utilizing Allied and Axis film footage, will deal with the years between World War I and the end of World War II, as seen by SirWinston. Interviews with world leaders will be featured. "Naked City," produced by Screen Gems, will be extended to an hourlong weekly series. "The Islanders" will be another hour-long series, produced at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. "The Flagstones" is an adult cartoon family situation comedy series set in the caveman era. "Stagecoach West" is the first hour-long series produced by Four-Star. 'For Men Only' "For Men Only," a dramatic anthology series from Desilu, stars Lee J. Cobb as host and in a creative role in the production of the half-hour series. "Guestward Ho", produced by Desilu, is a half-hour comedy series produced by Cy Howard and starring Joanne Dru. "Harrigan and Son," another Desilu production, presents Pat O'Brien as a Philadelphia lawyer who is teamed with his son, Roger Perry. Further additions to the programming schedule will be announced at a later date. AROUND THE TV CIRCUIT Desilu 39-Week Net Up 400%, Arnaz Reports From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24. — Desi Amaz, president of Desilu Productions, Inc., in the company's current report to stockholders for the 39 weeks ended Jan. 30, 1960, announced that gross income for the period was $17,553,899, an 18 per cent increase over the $14,943,740 for 40 weeks ended Feb. 7, 1959. Net income for the period was $708,121 (61 cents per share), an increase of approximately 400 per cent over the $141,730 ( 12 cents per share) for the 40 weeks ended Feb. 7, 1959, Arnaz stated. Included with the report were checks representing a 15-cents-pershare cash dividend on the company's common stock, payable Feb. 26, I960, to holders of record on Feb. 12r. The board of directors did not declare any dividend on the Class "B" common stock held by Arnaz and his wife. , HUGO A.CAS0LAR0 MARTIN GOTTLIEB TtnPyrfilm effects, inc. V^^l# 1600 BROADWAY, H.Y. 19 ^^^^^^ PI A 7 A T.onoa PLAZA 7-2098 with PINKY HERMAN. WHEN CBSent the name of Larry LeSueur to the U.S.S.R. as its news correspondent for the Moscow office, the Russian Embassy refused to grant him a visa. No reason for the denial was given but CBSolons were asked to submit another name for consideration. ... It was expensive albeit very effective— we refer to the early morning ABCoffee break— held yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria which the GoldensonSiegel-Treyz combo designated to an assemblage of about 1000 guests, as "The ABChemistry of successful selling." . . . On Feb. 29 exactly 29 years ago a budding radio announcer was given a temporary assignment at NBC. Could verv well turn out to be a steady job for Jack Costello, who is still there, making friends and influencing more and more listeners. . . . Jack Whiting, TV and Broadway Great, who directed Charles E. Miller's "The Fair Six" which starred Martha Wright, Stephen Douglass and Margaret Hamilton when presented at the Lambs Club recently, has been signed by co-producers Len Wayland and Allan Seiden to direct it when it opens on Broadway in September. . . . Ethel (WPIX) Thorsen's floral designer Kathleen Kraham has been commissioned to do the floral interiors for the chic Monsignore. . . . News ABCaster Art Van Home sez that the "best way to lick inflation is to put more sense in our dollars." (our what????) . . . After five years in charge of national advertising for ABC, Jay Hoffer has accepted a position as station mgr. of KRAK, Sacramento, Calif. Lad has much to (H) offer, having started in radio upon graduation from N.Y.U. as announcer, deejay, promotion mgr. and later sales promotion director at WJAR (Providence, R.I.) and WICC (Bridgeport, Conn.) . . . Rosa Rio's Organ Recital last week-end up in Rome, N.Y., was a S.R.O. The radiolite's wizardry on the keyboard has been waxed in a Vox L. P. Album in which she features selections from "My Fair Lady" and "Gigi." La Rio will also be a guest next Tuesday morning on the "Hi Mom" show TVia WRCA. . . . Self-Regulation Is Vital, NAB Is Told From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Unanimous agreement that self-policing, not government censorship or intervention, is the best solution to broadcasting's problems has been voiced by the presidents of the state associations of the National Association of Broadcasters. This can be done by observance of the industry's self-imposed radio and TV codes, they said. NAB president Harold E. Fellows urged the broadcasters to take this action and to show a "sincere desire" to raise their standards by themselves. Other NAB officails made it clear that the industry is in "turbulent seas" as far as Congress is concerned, and that "in many areas of government there is a distinct feeling that the industry is not going to regulate itself and laws will have to be passed to do it." WGA and U-I Hornbeck Heads U-Ps Editorial Operations From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24.-Edward Muhl, Universal-International vicepresident in charge of production, today announced the appointment of William Hornbeck to fill the newlycreated post of supervisor of editorial operations for all productions filming under the U-I banner. (Continued from page 1) garded as a mere formality, and the writers are expected to return to work on U-I pictures tomorrow. The guild expressed gratification at having reached an agreement with U-I which is fair both to producers and writers. The terms of the agreement provide that writers will get 2 per cent of all TV proceeds received after deduction of 40 per cent to cover distribution charges and expenses. The contract is not contingent on any deal with any other guild or union. In the instance of future pictures made solely for pay-TV, the guild has the right to reopen the contract for new negotiations in this area after two years and three months from date of present agreement. Three for AA Int'l. Allied Artists International Corp. has acquired three films for distribution in Brazil, Norton V. Ritchey, president of the company, announced. The three films are Germany's "A Big Love in a Small Tent," and "The Moralist" and "Europe by Night," both Italian. Mrs. Meyer Bailey HARTFORD, Feb. 24.-Mrs. Meyer (Marion T. ) Bailey, 58, wife of the Bailey Theatres Circuit executive, died suddenly aboard a ship returning from a Caribbean cruise. Fox-Skiatroj ( Continued from page 1 ) ing the disposition of 195,000 shi of stock which were available to \ thew M. Fox. The stipulation was ] posed by Eugene Rotberg, attor for SEC's division of corporate finai Lawyers for Fox and for Skiatp president, Arthur Levey, did not at to it at this time. The proposal read into the record, and hearing aminer Robert N. Hislop agreed I counsel certainly should have an portunity to examine written coj prior to accepting or rejecting it. At the conclusion of the day's Ik ings the inquiry was recessed u March 7. It is possible that the hearing be unable to resume as scheduled which case postponement until n April, or even early May, can be pected. If the proposed stipulation is cepted, there will still remain at 1(1 two facets of the inquiry that musl i developed. One is disposition of stock held by Levey which wound in the hands of certain named inch duals. The second is the nature of company's business activities. Francis J. Purcell, attorney for and a former head of SEC's New "i office, brought with him to tod hearing Robert Hemingway, descri by Purcell as the individual best qu fied to testify concerning the fit business affairs. He declined, hi ever, to put Hemingway on the sta Purcell stated that Heming\ would be able able to provide formation concerning wired closedcuit TV and the company's relati ships with International Busii Machines, Pacific Telephone, Packard-Bell Electronics. The stipulation proposed by Ij berg goes into detail concerning manner in which 195,000 shares Skiatron reached the public e though the company had not han registration statement effective \ SEC. In general, it is a record of exercise of warrants for stock wlj had been issued to Fox. He obtai ; warrants for 200,000 shares pursu to the terms of a license agreen | under which Fox's company, Skiaf] of America, obtained the right to ploit the Skiatron SubscriberVi; system of pay-TV. 'Congo' Scores in Stoi The Fulton Theatre in Pittsbi ( has reported to 20th Century-Fox I "Masters of the Congo Jungle" rac'j| up $8,300 for its first six days at'l house despite a snowstorm that all I paralyzed the city. The film was jl duced by the Belgian Internatiil Scientific Foundation under the .1 pices of Leopold III, of Belgium. '400' Strong in Chica "The 400 Blows," during its week at the Capri Theatre in Chicgrossed a strong $12,000, it is rep1 ed by Zenith International Films, tributor of the French film. The fii represents a record for the Windy V art theatre. • OPTICAL EFFECTS • STAND PHOTOGRAPHY •ANIMATION • TITLES • ARTWORK • 8 (-Wand COLOR A Complete Service /br Film Producers'