Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, February 26, I PERSONAL MENTION ROBERT LIPPERT, liaison between 20th Century-Fox and Associated Producers, Inc., has arrived in New York from the West Coast. • Harold Wirthwein, Allied Artists Western division sales manager, will leav e here Monday for Denver. • William G. Reich, vice-president of American International Pictures Export Corp., will leave New York at the weekend for Europe. • Ramona Rae Brewer, daughter of Roy Brewer, Allied Artists manager of branch operations, will be married tomorrow to Anthony Moloski, at the First Congregational Church, Stamford, Conn. • Dave Alber, president of Dave Alber Associates, is recuperating at Mount Sinai Hospital following minor surgery. • Shirley Katzander, promotion director of The Reporter, will leave here today for Mexico. • R. W. Favaro, head of 20th-Fox publicity in Minneapolis, has returned there from a promotional tour that took him to Duluth, Fargo, and Sioux Falls, Minn. • William Brown of the United Artists home office exploitation staff, has returned to New York from Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport. Rites for Mrs. Al Levy Funeral services will be held this morning at Schwartz Funeral Home, Tremont Avenue, Bronx, for Mrs. Al Levy, wife of 20th Century-Fox Films' Boston branch manager. Mrs. Levy died Wednesday night in Boston. A daughter, Karen, also survives. check national screen service for the best in SPECIAL TRAILERS 'Herald' Has Section on 'Snow Queen' Campaign A special section devoted to the promotional campaign of Universale "The Snow Queen" is published in the current issue of "Motion Picture Herald," out today. The eight-page illustrated section, in color, describes in detail the elaborate national preselling and local depth selling for the cartoon feature. Included are the magazine and newspaper advertising campaign, a tie-in with the Hans Christian Andersen birthday observance, special events, star and personality tours, television and radio, records, a premium deal, merchandise and product tie-ups, organization tie-ups, and national publicity. E. J. Solon Is Dead; Mass Today in Dallas Special to THE DAILY DALLAS, Feb. 25.-Edward James Solon, treasurer of the Interstate Circuit, died here Wednesday. Solon, as a Catholic layman, received some of the highest honors awarded by his church. Pope Pius XII named him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. A little more than a year ago Pope John XXIII bestowed the title of Knight of the Holy Sepulcher. Rosaries were recited last night and tonight at the Solon residence. Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 A.M. tomorrow in Christ the King Catholic Church with Rev. Thomas K. Gorman as celebrant. Burial will follow in Calvary Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers are John Quincy Adams, James H. Sutton, Edwin J. Lamberty, William Phillips, Raymond Willie, Van Allen Hollomon, Thomas S. O'Connell and Kerr Jones. Honorary pallbearers will be Karl Hoblitzelle, Joseph McElroy, H. E. Brownfield, Edward R. Maher, W. E. Mitchell and F. O. Starz. TOA Will Aid ( Continued from page 1 ) Producers in the film capital next Wednesday, Irving M. Levin, chairman of TOA's Foreign Film Committee and executive director of the festival, told representatives of the trade, daily and magazine press at a cocktail party at Trader Vic's Restaurant here yesterday. The first American participation in the festival, which will be presented this year from Oct. 19 through Nov. 1, was 20th Century-Fox's entry last year of "Beloved Infidel." Levin expressed the hope that in years to come the San Francisco Film Festival will be as important an event in its own field in the fall as the Academy Awards are in the spring. Better Showmanship Called British Need By SAUL OSTROVE Only a marked improvement in showmanship by exhibitors will save theatres in Great Britain from declining at the same rate as television will rise in the next two years, a leading English distributor and exhibitor warned here yesterday. Given that improvement, he added, the "situation is going to be all right." "If exhibitors showed more interest in their theatres, half the battle with television would be won," said Kenneth Rive, a director of Gala Film Distributors, Ltd., of London, and president of Jacey Cinemas, which controls five first-run houses in the West End of London and 22 theatres in the provinces. 'Old-Time Showmanship' "It's not the product that's falling short, it's what's done, or not done, with the product. Jacey has acquired dying houses and put them in shape again, using old-time showmanship techniques." Most of the theatres in his group, Rive explained, play art and "off-beat" films from around the world and, unlike most other British theatres, Jacey last year was not affected by the 18 per cent national drop in theatre receipts. Rive not only is willing to coexist with television, but he said he would be happy to exhibit films in his theatres which have already been shown on home screens. In this matter, he said he stands opposed to the wishes of most other U.K. theatre owners. Tax Cuts Would Help "Great Britain stands to lose about 750 of her 4,000 theatres in the next two years, but that might be a good thing. The country will have smaller, more concise units of exhibition. If the entertainment tax comes off in the next budget our future will be bright." New York is the last stop on Rive's global film "fact-finding" tour. He already has visited Rome, Karachi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Hollywood, and he praised Japanese showmanship especially. "Television is not a menace in Japan," he said. "It's like old times the way the Japanese queue up before their cinemas, most of them quite large." Loew's Hearing Set Hearings on the petition of Loew's Theatres to acquire the legitimate American Theatre in St. Louis for motion picture exhibition has been set here on March 18 in U.S. District Court at 3:30 P.M. Judge Edmund L. Palmiere will preside at the hearing and consider further a proposal that Loew's Orpheum in St. Louis, at present a motion picture theatre, be turned back to the landlord for operation as a legitimate theatre. Judge Quigley Award Campaigns Here Today The judging of campaigns s mitted by showmen from all over world for the final quarter of 1 for Quigley Award honors of Managers' Round Table will t place today at the publication's olf here. Judges will be Robert K. Shap managing director of the New } Paramount theatre; Richard Kahn, ploitation manager for Coli bia Pictures, and Blanche Livi ston, assistant to Harry Mandel, v president in charge of advertising publicity for RKO Theatres. S. C. Bill Passed on Sunday Ban Committ Special to THE DAILY SPARTANBURG, S. C, Feb. 2] The South Carolina House has pa; and sent to the Senate a resolut1 sponsored by Representative Young of Florence and others, cab for a special legislative govern committee to look into the controw over paid amusements in the statej Sunday. The particular issue involved whether Sunday movies should be lowed. A 1712 law has been held Circuit Judge Greneker as den) their showing on Sunday. Movie I erators have a case, challenging va ity of the law, which is being teij in the courts now. According to Representative Yoi the nine-member committee propc by the House resolution would 1 hearings around the state and re] "the best way of regulating activi on the Sabbath and the degree which such activity should be re,; lated." Lipskin Plans Tour Lawrence H. Lipskin, assistant the president of Columbia Pictures ternational Picture Corporation charge of advertising and public leaves here next week for Argent Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba to lau the first Latin American premiere: Samuel Goldwyn's "Porgy and Be He plans to be gone for abou month. NEW YORK THEATRI , — RADIO CITt MUSIC HALL — Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-4600 YUL BRYNNER • KAY KENDALL in a STANLEY D0NEN Production "ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING!" A COLUMBIA PICTURES RELEASE IN TECHNICOLOR® ni ON THE GREAT STAGE "FAR EAST. FAR WEST" MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Herbert V. Fe Advertising Manager; Gus H. 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