Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY 87. NO. 38 NEW YORK, U.S.A., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960 TEN CENTS As to Continue Put Two Films Here on G , A M P P Day-and-Night Schedule leet Is Brief; bother Slated \ifab Early Next Week Seek Pact for Actors From THE DAILY Bureau pLLYWOOD, Feb. 25-"We met I. and we will meet again early " week," was the brief, joint stateI: issued today by the Screen Ac|Guild and the Association of MoPicture Producers' negotiating Inittees following an hour-and-15( Continued on page 6) Two pictures currently being made in New York by major producers have been placed on a day-and-night shooting schedule in an effort to have them completed should the Screen Actors Guild start its strike on March 7. The films are "Murder, Inc," for 20th Centurv-Fox and "Butterfield 8," for M-G-M. Fox is confident that its film, which is shooting at the new Filmways Studios, will be finished by March 7 under the accelerated schedule, a spokesman said yesterday. The picture will then go into release in either May or June, he added. M-G-M is also hoping to complete "Butterfield 8," which started a 40day schedule here on Feb. 7 before the threatened strike. Healthy Outlook Otherwise M-G-M Sets Plan to Curb Strike Effect Stockholders' Meeting Told of Steps Being Taken Immediately Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., the new name of Loew's, Inc. approved bv company stockholders at their annual meeting in Loew's State Theatre here yesterday, has prepared a broad plan to minimize as much as possible the im pact of any M-G-M Board, Officers Are Re-Elected \thman Joins Columbia Brandt Calls for End yl. in New Post lie appointment of Mo Rothman Lecutive vice-president of ColumPictures International was announced yesterday by Lacy xv Kastner, president of the \ Columbia PicI hires Corp. sub<-*t sidiary. Rothman has resigned from United Artists to take over his new dutie-s on March 7. He will make his head quarters here. 'he new post of executive vice(Continued on page 6) To 'Blacklist Era' An "end to the era of the blacklist," which he called a "shameful chapter in the industry's history," was called for here yesterday by Harry Brandt, president of the Independent Theatre Owners Assn. of New York and Brandt Theatres. Brandt said, "If this industry is ever ( Continued on page 3 ) All members of the Metro-GoldwynMayer, Inc., board of directors were re-elected yesterday at the company's annual meeting of stockholders in the Loew's State Theatre here. Directors subsequently met and reelected all officers headed by Joseph R. Vogel, president, and reelected members of the executive committee. The board also declared a dividend of 30 cents per share, payable April 15 to holders of record on March 18. It is the third dividend, each of 30 cents, (Continued on page 6) strike which may develop in Hollywood and already h a s put some phases of the plan into action. Joseph R. Vogel, M-G-M president, said the plan includes the reduction of fixed costs, also a slowing (Continued on page 6) Joseph R. Vogel lo Rothman e-Trial Hearing Set TV Booking Suit J. pre-trial hearing will take place |; next week in the anti-trust suit of Government charging block-bookagainst six film companies. The is scheduled to begin on March (Continued on page 6) Telemeter Test Begins in Canada Today; Subscribers to See 'tourney' as 1st Film Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Feb. 25.-Over 1,000 subscribers to Telemeter, the pay-TV system of International Telemeter Co.. a division of Paramount Pictures, will begin receiving service tomorrow in Etobicoke, a suburb of this city. The 1,000 subscribers are to be joined later by another 1,000 who have signed for the closed-circuit TV but have not yet had their homes wired. Opening program tomorrow will be "Journey to the Center of the Earth," also playing a subsequent-run engagement at the Westwood Theatre. Telemeter is also to offer four hockey games to be played out-of-town by the Toronto Maple Leafs, a community forum, and a Sunday church service program. News and weather will make up the remainder of the programs. The first game of the Maple Leafs, which will be piped from Madison Square Garden, will also be shown to invited guests in the offices of Paramount Pictures in New York City Sunday night as a demonstration of the Telemeter technique. Coverage of 'Oscar' Nominations Denounced Coverage of the "Oscar" nominations last Monday night by radio and television networks was denounced as "inadequate' yesterday by the radio and television coordinating group of the Motion Picture Ass'n. The group, which is headed by Robert S. Fergu(Continued on page 3) TO A Will Ask Hollywood To Aid Frisco Festival By SIDNEY RECHETNTK Hollywood support for the fourth annual San Francisco International Film Festival will be asked by a Theatre Owners of America committee at its scheduled meeting with the Association of Motion Picture (Continued on page 2) Keep Your Eye On Brigitte Bar dots B ■« Boxoffice Difference! ■9 1 presents HBHMj nm pMWviHMEiMnH