Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

hursday, July 7, 1960 Motion Picture Daily 3 HIT TALK Variety Club News BOSTON Thomas A. Yawkey, iwner of the Boston Red Sox, has een elected president of the Variety Ih.b's Children's Cancer Research oundation (Jimmy Fund). Other ofcers named are: William S. Koster, Jministrative vice-president; Theoore Fleisher, treasurer, and Joseph 'umminskey, secretary. A NEW ORLEANS A feature of the ariety Club's dinner and social eveing was the awarding of the late harles Gasho's boat to Don Stafford, A'ner of the Dixie Theatre, New Orans. The lucky Stafford, however, asn't present, he being in New York : the time. He expressed his deep mreciation upon his return. A I DETROIT The annual golf and !iting party of Tent No. 5 drew some !50 members and guests to the Tarn I'Shanter Country Club. Paul Percha, ' the staff of WKMH, won the hevrolet convertible. j lew Theatre (Continued from page 1) filed it "a significant move in meetg the challenge of and drift to the j.burbs by providing the ultimate in mvenience as well as utility in the Jjart of the world's greatest city." 'With its 1200 seats the theatre will i the largest new motion picture mse to be constructed on New brk's fashionable East Side since that tea underwent its postwar face lift[g and building boom. Virtually all ieatres built on the East Side in the list 15 years have a maximum of 600 ats. 1 The structures will be built in asciation with Clement S. Crystal, one j New York's most active builders, [ho has constructed apartments, of| e structures and post offices throughIt the country. ! The theatre will be designed by hn J. McNamara, who received jide acclaim for his work on the rejntly rebuilt Astor, Loew's State lid Capitol Theatres on Broadway. ! will incorporate the latest advances ( comfort, projection, sound and reoduction and structural design. The terrace over the theatre will be ;cupied by a restaurant, and elevars will carry the patrons to the urth-floor restaurant entrance. A i>0-car garage, with adequate space Ear theatre-goers, will be part of the 'hiding's substructure. r/oulez' to Kingsley "Voulez Vous Danser Avec Moi?," test starring vehicle for Brigitte Itrdot, will be released in the U.S. by jingsley International under the title Dome Dance with Me." The comedy i-stars Henri Vidal and Dawn ddams. EDITORIAL ( Continued from page 1 ) actuality, exhibitor self interest should guarantee the success not only of the Pathe Laboratories and exhibitorsponsored production project, but of others as well. It has been apparent for long that the vast majority of exhibitors is firmly convinced that a substantial increase in product supply not only is essential to the economic wellbeing of all and the survival of many, but also would be of benefit to production-distribution by inducing an increase in theatre-going generally. The chances of those contentions being tested would seem to be growing brighter daily. Ten Short Subjects Set For Stratford Festival Special to THE DAILY STRATFORD, Conn., July 6.-Ten short subjects have been selected for presentation at the First Stratford International Film Festival, to be run July 13-19 at the Stratford Theatre here, it has been announced by Albert M. Pickus, festival chairman, and Val Chevron, festival executive director. Most of the featurettes will be shown to the American public for the first time at the festival, and many are prize winners from international festivals, Pickus said. The short subjects will be paired with the seven feature films, which are to be shown, one per evening, during die seven days of the festival. The featurettes will include: "The Magic Violin" and "Goya's Masterpiece," both in Eastman color, presented by Bernard Kreisler and International Film Associates Corporation; "One Melody and Four Painters," from Show Corporation of America; "Exposure," dealing with the United Nations' handling of the refugee problem, and "Overture," a "mood" musical, both from the United Nations. Documentary on Holland Also, "Praise the Sea," a documentary on Holland in color, from Edith Zornow; "Bernini," the story of the noted Italian architect, from CasolaroGiglio Film Distributing Company; "High Note," a musical cartoon from Warner Bros.; and "The Towers," and "The Juggler of Our Lady," both from Cavalcade Pictures of California. The festival will open Wednesday at 8:40 P.M., July 13, with the presentation of "Montparnasse 19" a French-made film from Continental Distributors, Inc., starring Gerard Philippe and Lilli Palmer. The balance of the week's program includes: Thursday, July 14, the Irish drama starring Arthur Kennedy, "Home Is the Hero" from Show Corporation of America. Friday, July 15, the American drama "Private Property" starring Kate Manx, from Citation Films. Saturday, July 16, the British comedy "Man In A Cocked Hat," starring Latham Files Data on Shopping Center Buy Special to THE DAILY ALBANY, N. Y., July 6.-Papers filed in the Albany county clerk's office indicate the Latham Circle Realty Corp., a Fabian Theatres company which registered a certificate with the Secretary of State on April 29, paid $250,624 in cash and gave Latham Enterprises, Inc., seller of the 35-store Latham Corners Shopping Center, a third purchase money mortgage for $1,349,376.13. The buyers also assumed: a first mortgage of $4,175,623.87 and interest, held by Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and a second mortgage of $275,000 and interest-held by Perini Brothers, builder of the center. Total obligations incurred by Latham Circle Realty Corp. amount to approximately $6,050,625. At the time of the Latham Corners Shopping Center opening in October, 1957, a newspaper story fixed the estimated construction cost at $10 million. Robert M. Cummings, of West7nount, Quebec, as president of Latham Enterprises, Inc., signed the "bargain and sale deed, with covenant against grantor's acts." Its New York office is at 60 East 42nd Street. Lawyers Title Insurance Corp., New York, registered the papers. Latham Circle Realty Corp.— address care Fabian Theatre Corp., 1585 Broadway— is authorized to: conduct a realty business, own, manage, operate and maintain apartment hotels, apartment houses, office buildings, loft buildings, mercantile business and all type of other buildings of any kind, nature and character in New York and other states, as well as throughout the world. Capital stock is 200 shares, no par value. Directors, and subscribers, are: Stuart G. Schwartz, Mortimer N. Felsinger and Herbert J. Jacoby, 19 E. 70th Street. Schwartz & Frohlich, same address, were incorporating attorneys. The certificate of incorporation sets forth that directors and officers need not be stockholders. 'Jack9 Big in Chicago The Boulting Brothers' "I'm All Right, Jack," a Columbia release, grossed $13,800 in its first four days at the Esquire Theatre in Chicago. The four-day gross surpassed the first week total registered by the highly successful "The Mouse That Roared" at the Esquire last year. Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas, from Show Corporation of America. Sunday, July 17, the United Nations' documentary "Power Among Men." Monday, July 18, the Japanese version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" entitled "Throne of Blood" directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, from Paul Szilard Productions. Tuesday, July 19, the Italian comedydrama "Wild Love," starring Marcel Mastroianni, from Ellis Films. PEOPLE Reginald Armour, management consultant associated with the motion picture industry since 1933 with, at various times, RKO Pictures, Republic, Columbia and Disney, has been elected president and a director of the Dorsey Corp., holding company for Dorsey Trailers, Elba, Ala. He succeeds O. DeG Vanderbilt, III, who returns to his position as executive vice-president of Blair & Co. □ Charles T. Morgan, publisher of the Louden Country Herald, Louden, Tenn., and Charles Bynum, a business man of that community, will reopen the Lyric Theatre there under the name of the New Lyric. □ Fred B. O'Mara, director of manufacturing for National Carbon Co., has been named vice-president of the company — a division of Union Carbide Corp. — in charge of production. □ Joe Stowell, formerly manager, and later operator on lease from Stanley Warner, of the Lincoln Theatre, Troy, N. Y., has been named manager of the circuit's Ritz Theatre in Albany, succeeding Frank Kelly, whom the circuit has appointed group sales director and treasurer. Bresler Adds Three HOLLYWOOD, July 6. Jerry Bresler Productions, which has been preparing two properties, "Diamond Head" and "Gidget Goes Hawaiian," for Columbia Pictures release, has added three additional properties to its upcoming program, according to Samuel J. Briskin, Columbia's vicepresident in charge of West Coast activities. Properties added to the Bresler slate are: "Bent's Fort," "A Place to Remember" and "The Flying Yorkshireman." Mouse' Is Doing Well "The Mouse That Roared," Highroad Productions feature for Columbia Pictures release, has opened to high grosses in six neighboring houses in the Metropolitan area, Columbia reports, pointing to a $15,500 take for the first week at the Malverne Theatre, Malverne, N. Y. The film is also playing to capacity audiences at the Art Theatre here, the Pix, White Plains; Cinema, Manhasset; Ormont, East Orange, and Paramount in Plainfield. 'Terrace' to Venice "From the Terrace," a 20th Century-Fox release, will be an entry at the Venice Film Festival which begins Aug. 24 and continues through Sept. 7. Officials of the festival have extended invitations to the stars, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy and Ina Balin, and producer-director Mark Robson to attend.