Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

ednesday, July 13, 1960 Motion Picture Daily Television Jo day )isney Corp. {Continued from page 1) adquarters at Calgary, Alberta. The mpany also functions on the vast :nanaskis Ranch, located some 30les west of Calgary. The production, "Nomads of the >rth," is the first major motion picre filmed in Canada by an all-Canian cast and crew. The film will be eased through the Disney organizan by the Buena Vista Distribution >mpany. AROUND THE TV CIRCUIT tratford Festival (Continued from page 1) ssented to a representative of the ench Film Office at the start of this sning's program. A citation of paripation for "Montparnasse 19," in ;ognition of the film's selection for 3 festival, will be presented to WalReade, Jr., chairman of ContinenDistributors, Inc., whose company releasing the picture in the United tes. "Montparnasse 19," based on the 3 of Modigliani, the famous French ante garde painter and sculptor, will shown for the first time in the lited States at the festival. The festival will run seven evenings 8:40, concluding next Tuesday 9), with attendance limited to the batre's 750 seat capacity. Although s year's festival will be non-comtitive, it is the hope of Pickus and ievron that within several years will become competitive and be ictioned by the International Fedition of Film Producers Associans. The balance of the program will •lude: Thursday, the Irish drama rring Arthur Kennedy, "Home Is e Hero"; Friday, the American drai "Private Property" starring Kate inx; Saturday, the British comedy, tan In The Cocked Hat"; Sunday, ; United Nations' documentary, 3wer Among Men"; Monday, the janese version of Shakespeare's [acbeth," entitled "Throne of jod"; Tuesday, the Italian comedy>ma "Wild Love." Prize-winning short subjects will Dplement each evening's program. New 'Ben-Hur' Dates M-G-M has set "Ben-Hur" for eight iv overseas openings during the next ee months. The film, already play; in seven overseas situations, is now for following cities: Buenos Aires Aug. 11; Montevideo on Aug. 18; anbay on Aug. 30; Durban on Sept. Perth on Sept. 14; Calcutta on Sept. Adelaide on Sept. 21; and Bris;ie on Sept. 27. eischmann Repacted HOLLYWOOD, July 12. Jack ;ischmann, Columbia Pictures' story tor, has been signed to a new longm contract, it was announced by nuel J. Briskin, Columbia vice-presnt in charge of West Coast activi with PINKY HERMAN. FUNNY, but Monday nite, watching the conventioneers milling about the L.A. Sports Arena at the opening of the National Democratic Conclave in L.A. we seemed to hear above the speeches, the phrase, "Alabama — twenty-four votes for Underwood.". . . Alan King swears he heard Esther Williams say this — but we have our doubts. Anyhow sezze, she says, "There's no pool like an old pool." Platter spinners should latch onto the new Caprice waxing bv Kay Lande of Frank Stanton's ballad, "My Love Will Be The Same." The flip side features another Stanton dittv (with Tommie Connor) "All the davs of mv life.". . . With Martin Block awav on a jaunt to Europe, his musical WABChores 'are expertly handled by Joel A. Spivak, young son of Ork Pilot Charlie Spivak. Joel is heard regularly on his own deejay series down in Houston, Texas. . . . Vin Carlo, seen and heard around town with Tony Cabot and Ernie Warren Orks, has waxed a listenable LP of Maceo Pinkard standards for Broadway Records. . . . The TV arm of King Features will distribute a new animated cartoon teleseries, "Sampson Scrap & Delilah" written by Allen Swift and directed by Gene Deitch for Rembrandt Films. . . . Screen Gems' hour-long detective series, "The Naked City," featuring Horace MacMahon, Paul Burke, Harry Bellaver and Nancy Malone, is currently being filmed in New York and will be slotted Wednesnites (10-11 P.M.) ABCommencing Oct. 12. Marion Dougherty, for the past 8 years casting director for the "Kraft Theatre" has been named to handle the casting chores for this series. . . . Written by Carl Reiner and Joe Stein, "The Debbie Reynolds Special," starring D.R., Walter Brennan, Charlie Ruggles and Carlton Carpenter, will be sponsored by Revlon Thurs. Oct. 27 (9:30-10:30 P.M.) over the ABChannels. . . . Bill Colleran will produce-direct. ft ft ft Dr. Frances R. Horwich (Miss Frances of the Ding Dong School TV series) has been named "Woman of the Year" by the National Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. and will receive the Award at the 33rd annual national convention next month in Miami Beach. Other recipients of this award include Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sophie Tucker, Dr. Rose Ichelson and Dr. Jessie Royer Greaves. . . . The initial "Celebrity Talent CB Scouts" program, Aug. 1 (9-9:30 P.M.) with Sam Levenson, Host, will feature Mickey Freeman, the Madison Trio and Mitzi Mason, protegees of Phil Silvers, Ann Sheridan and Audrey Meadows, respectively. New series is co-produced by Peter Amell and Irving Mansfield. . . . Rep. James E. Van Zandt (Penn) has had entered into the Congressional Record his laudatory views regarding California National Productions' forthcoming new teleseries, "The Blue Angels," 39 half-hour dramatic stories, filmed in cooperation with the U.S. Navy. Produced by Sam Gallu, himself a former Naval Officer who saw service in the Pacific during World War II, the new program will go on the air in the fall. ... Six of "Project 20" series, all originally aired TVia NBC during the past 3 years, have been re-skedded starting with "The Innocent Years" next Monday. "The Jazz Age" on Friday, Aug. 5, "The Great War" Sat. Aug. 13, "Life in the Thirties," Mon. Aug. 29, "Nightmare in Red," Sat. Sept. 3 and "Not So Long Ago," Monday Sept. 12. . . . When John Gambling, Jr. takes his annual vacation this summer, another Gambling, John, senior, comes out of his Florida nurseries to pinch-hit. John senior recently retired after a stint of 34 consecutive years as a WORacle. Tied Piper' Scheduled 'Campobello' to Detroit Miss Frances HOLLYWOOD, July 12.-An American version of the "Pied Piper" legend, with Burl Ives as star and codirector, will go before the cameras on Aug. 30 as a joint enterprise of Kaufman-Lubin Productions, Inc., and Ives' own Dunbar Productions for Allied Artists release. Detroit has been added to the group of cities to have reserved-seat engagements of Dore Schary's Technicolor version for Warner Brothers of his stage play, "Sunrise at Campobello." The premiere in the automobile city will be held on Oct. 5 at the Music Hall. Who's Where Walter J. Kaufman has been named assistant to the president at Flamingo Telefilm Sales, Inc. Kaufman formerly was associated with Warner Bros, for three years in various executive-legal capacities related to both domestic and foreign distribution. □ Stephen I. Simon has been appointed director of client services for Television Audience Research (TAR), a division of NTA Telestudios. He will coordinate activities with clients using the new in-home evaluation service, developed to test the effectiveness of TV commercials and programming. □ Martin Stone, a corporation lawyer, has been elected to the board of directors of Electro Vision Corporation, replacing Bruce Fowler, who retired. A former president of the company, Stone also serves as special advisor to the organization on planning and expansion. □ Richard Jacobson, formerly station manager of KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, Nev., has been named director of Eastern sales development for KHJ-TV, Los Angeles. He will make his headquarters at the offices of RKO General, Inc., in New York. Pay-TV Committee (Continued from page 1) publication earlier, appeared in Motion Picture Daily on Tuesday. Harling said signatures secured in the nation-wide campaign would be sent to senators and congressmen from each district or directly to Rep. Oren Harris, chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, who has filed two bills that would outlaw pay-television. The petitions will read: "I object to pay-TV because it would deprive me of the use of free TV, forcing me to pay for something I have never paid for before, and because it is not in the public interest." Harling was introduced to the more than 50 New England exhibitors present today by Chief Barker James F. Mahoney. Following his address, Harling answered questions from the floor. At the end of his visit, he said, "your very existence as an industry lies in the proper solution to this problem. I urge all of you to write or wire your congressman urging him to vote for the banning of all forms of pay-TV, whether by air or cable. And if necessary, we will take this matter to the U.S. Supreme Court." EAST COAST MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION, EDITORIAL and TECHNICAL SERVICES R FOR BETTER FILMS CREATIVE EDITING AND COMPLETE PERSONAL SUPERVISION JOSEPH JOSEPHSON 45 West 45th St. Circle 6-2146 New York 36