Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

ft, day, March 1, 1960 Motion Picture Daily 3 tt lh Annual 'New Faces' mmotion in Detroit Special to THE DAILY n'ROIT, Feb. 29.-With the aid jfe Metropolitan Exhibitors of De|| over 70 theatres will participate ;e annual "New Faces — Going :s" promotion of the Detroit Free . This is the 10th anniversary of lipewspaper feature, and plans are rvvay to give it the widest pubever, and to enroll the participa>i the maximum number of thea'kn metropolitan Detroit. Lrting yesterday, patrons of all Sparing theatres, along with ■r-> of the Detroit Free Press, starti cast their ballots for their favorjw personality of the year, from a "f nominations selected a year ago Aelen Bower, film critic of the TEST TALK Variety Club News re 20 Named Last Year tventy up-and-coming screen perities were named last year as who showed the greatest promise taining prominence during 1959, ~ it is from this list that Detroiters be invited to select the one who I the furthest on the way to star1 mmediately following the ballot•>< riod to select the 1959 winner, , Detroit Free Press will present | Bower's 1960 selections, and each Jiover a period of three weeks the , Press will run a feature story coning one of the newcomers plus o graph. ans are underway to bring a num|J Arf the screen personalities involved le new faces feature to Detroit as Elimination of the campaign, for |ic appearances which will bring face-to-face with the greatest ble number of their Detroit fans. i perstein to Handle 3-Ups for 'Spartacus' j enry Saperstein & Associates have ' . i engaged to handle the commerj merchandising aspects of the . ,paign for "Spartacus," it was an•7 need yesterday by David A. LipL1 U-I vice-president. "Merchandishas become one of the most imporfacets in the long range pre-selling big picture," Lipton said; "It is exiiely effective as a means of exploita film through the products offered sales and the vast accompanying _ „ srtising. TZj Universal for years has used merUU ndising tie-ups in the exploitation "Hits pictures, but never before have sss approached this particular phase |[[,|3xploitation on the extremely large » je that we have planned for MlUhitacus'." !»!. Buys 'Exercise* "olumbia Pictures announced here CT :erday it has purchased film rights Frederick Brisson's "Five Finger rcise," a current Broadway hit. play was written by Peter Shaffer directed by John Gielgud. The version, with an all-star cast, is atively scheduled to be released .iUfhe summer of 1961. NEW ORLEANS-Today, March 1, is Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, and open house will be in effect at the Variety Club headquarters. Cold and hot snacks will be available, as well as a variety of beverages. Sammy Wright, chairman of the house commitee. is in charge of arrangements. V PHILADELPHIAVariety Club has elected the following board of directors for the organization's Camp for Handicapped Children: Victor H. Blanc, John E. Coyne, Frank Damis, Jack Drucker, Dr. Harold Lefkoe, Harry Romain, Leon Serin and Edward A. Skyanier. Each will serve three years. Also elected were Ralph Pries, secretary; Edward Emanuel, treasurer, and Norman Silverman, assistant secretary-treasurer. V CLEVELAND-Tent No. 6 has installed Irwin Shenker as chief barker; also Will Dougherty and Harry Buxbaum, assistants; Stuart Wintner, secretary, and Sanford Leavitt, treasurer. Shenker succeeds Jim Leavitt as chief barker. Rothafel Will Handle Liquidation of Roxy Robert C. Rothafel, president and chairman of the board of Roxy Enterprises Corp., has been engaged by the Zeckendorf Hotels Corp. as a consultant for the future activities at the Roxy Theatre. This will include developing a market for the vast inventory of equipment, and supervising liquidation of effects, objects and furnishings made available by the Roxy Theatre sale to the Zeckendorf interests. Zeckendorf plans for the propertyare construction of a 900-room, 600car garage addition to the adjacent Taft Hotel after taking over the Roxy March 24. NT&T Meet (Continued from page 1) March 15 in Los Angeles, stockholders are advised in a meeting notice released yesterday. The meeting will take place in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel at 10 A.M. The amendment to the company's stock option plan would extend the termination date to Feb. 15, 1965. Other business to come before stockholders will be approval of an amendment of the certificate of incorporation increasing the authorized stock from 3,750,000 shares to 5,000,000. All of the director nominees are now serving on the board except William J. Friedman. Incumbents are Charles A. Barker, Jr., John B. Bertero, B. Gerald Cantor, Samuel Firks, Charles L. Glett, A. J. Gock, William H. Hudson, Willard W. Keith, Eugene V. Klein, Ely A. Landau, Richard W. Millar, Jack M. Ostrow, Graham L. Sterling and Oliver A. Unger. Salaries Listed The meeting notice includes information on remuneration to officers for the fiscal year ended Sept. 29, 1959, as follows: Bertero, president, $64,900; Cantor, chairman of the board, $30,130; Glett, vice-president, $46,000; Alan May, vice-presidem and treasurer, $41,580. All directors and officers of the company as a group received $353,033. Extension of the stock option plan, originally set to terminate in Feb. 15 this year, is sought since 71,926 shares are still available for future grants. The plan provides that options may be granted to salaried executive employees of the company or a subsidiary, including directors who are also salaried employees. Maximum number of employees to whom options may be granted is 50 and no one person can secure an aggregate of more than 100,000 shares. Those granted options include Bertero, Cantor, Glett and May. Options for 69,000 shares previously granted E. C. Rhoden were terminated on Nov. 30, 1959. Buy Villa Theatre BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 29.-John G. Broumas and Louis G. Heon today announced the purchase of the Villa Theatre in Rockville, Md. Broumas is president of Broumas Theatres, and Heon, head of the Georgetown Theatre Company, is associated with Broumas in several theatre enterprises. The Villa Theatre was formerly an art house, but under the operation of Broumas and Heon will present regular Hollywood product. Thomas Williams, 55 NORTH MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 29.Thomas Williams, 55, for 20 years a projectionist in the Cleveland area and a member of Local 160, IATSE, died in this community, where he had been living for the past five years. He is survived by his widow and a daughter. Reconstruct Bleecker Theatre for Films The Renata Theatre on Bleecker Street here, adjacent to the Washington Square village development, is being reconstructed and will reopen as a motion picture theatre on March 31. The new house will be called the Bleecker Street Cinema. Policy of the theatre will be to show "prize-winning films, rising talents, controversial subjects and the 'new wave' of independent American filmmakers," it is stated. Film Festivals are also to be held regularly. Lone Film House to Shut BLACKSTONE, Va., Feb. 29.-The Nottoway Theatre, the only film house here, will close on March 12. George S. Cummins, co-owner, announced, however, that the equipment will not be moved and that operation will be resumed, if conditions warrant. PEOPLE William F. Kelley, president of the Motion Picture Research Council, Los Angeles, has been elected to the board of governors of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He has been a Fellow Member of the Society. □ Stanley Kramer has been presented the Jewish Welfare Fund's "Man of the Year Award"' at a meeting held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles. Presentation was made by Leonard M. Sperry, chairman for the Greater Los Angeles area. □ Larry Steel has resigned his position with the May Company, Cleveland, to join his twin brother, William, in operation of the Apollo Theatre, Oberlin; the Star View Drive-in, Norwalk, and other theatre interests of their late father, Jerome Steel. □ Dave Roper, formerly a salesman for Warner Brothers, is now conducting his own Enterprise Booking Service, Jacksonville. □ Robert McKinley, associated for the past eight years with Loew's Theatres in Columbus, O., has moved to Cincinnati to take over managership of the Keith Theatre, a unit of the Shor circuit. He succeeds Carl Ferraza whom the circuit has promoted to head of promotion, film buying and programming. □ Manny Friedman, who has been manager of the Schine circuit's New Riviera Theatre, Rochester, N. Y., has been named manager of the new Hellman Theatre, Albany, N. Y., an operation of Hellman Enterprises. □ Carl Floyd, owner of Floyd Theatres, central Florida circuit, has acquired the Lakeland Drive-in, Lakeland, from C. W. Burrell. □ Frank Kelley, assistant manager at the Warner Theatre, Worcester, Mass., has been promoted by Stanley Warner Theatres to the managership of the Ritz Theatre, Albany, N. Y. □ George Tonko has reopened as an art house the Star Theatre, Harrisburg, Pa. □ Paul Ziffren has been retained as general counsel for the Screen Producers Guild, Hollywood. Parker Again Named HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 29. The appointment of Joe Parker as stage director for the 32nd annual "Oscar" show of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been announced by Valentine Davies, program committee chairman. Parker served as director of last year's show.