Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY NO. 27 NEW YORK, U.S.A., TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1960 TEN CENTS Hon Likely This Week w. W. Films, New Company, Slates Sage Bill to Be Ei9ht Pictures at $10,000,000 Budget lotioned Up,' jiys Johnston ininee for Vice-Pres. tks 'Liberal' Measure By E. H. KAHN iASHINGTON, Aug. 8. Miniwage legislation is on the Senalendar "and it will be promptly )ned up" for floor action, acng to Senate Majority Leader Democratic vice-presidential nee Lyndon Johnson (Tex.). The is likely to come before the te late this week. Efforts will be ; to pass a "liberal" bill, one h can be modified by a Housete conference committee with)ecoming meaningless as a politilocument. hnson appeared confident that nultiple amendments which may ( Continued on page 2 ) Completion of financing for eight new films with a total budget of $10,000,000 was announced here yesterday for W. W. Films Productions, Inc., by its president, Alfred Bloch. The schedule marks the debut of Bloch as an independent producer. He is a former associate of Boris Morros, film producer, and Walter Colmes, producer of historical documentaries. Half of the financing for W. W. Films was obtained outside the usual industry channels, Bloch said. He said this was done to "avoid that unjust division of equities which so frequently takes the lion's share of the independent producer's profit." Four of the eight pictures will be made in Pakistan. Top picture on the schedule, according to Bloch, is "Tiger Emperor," based on the memoirs of Babar, a lineal descendant ( Continued on page 3 ) idict Para. Earnings $4,500,000 tor 1960 iramount Pictures earnings for I are estimated at $4,500,000, exve of an estimated $4,000,000 of ial income in a special financial rt on the company prepared by lp & Lamont, downtown brokerfirm. he forecast for the current year pares with $4,410,000 net income L959, and $3,109,000 of special me. xamining Paramount \s asset ( Continued on page 4 ) ice-Fixing Indictment ts 7 Soft Drink Firms From THE DAILY Bureau ASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-A Fedgrand jury here has indicted a e association and seven corporas, alleging that they illegally fixed es for sale of bottled soft drinks, hose named as defendants in the (Continued on page 5) Newspaper Promotion In Rocky Mt. Area Special to THE DAILY DENVER, Aug. 8. A special newspaper section devoted to a "Preview of Hollywood's Biggest Season of New Hits" was published by the "Rocky Mountain News" yesterday as a part of its Sunday edition. The section was prepared by Fox Inter-Mountain Theatres, Inc. under direction of Robert W. Selig and in cooperation with most of the major film distributors. The 16-page section, employing color, was devoted to descriptions of numerous forthcoming pictures and featured some large illustrations. Ads of participating companies were included. Jerrold TV Systems Sold to Glett Group From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The nine community antenna TV systems owned by Jerrold Electronics Corps, have been purchased by H&B American Corp. of Los Angeles. H&B will operate the CATV's through a new subsidiary, Transcontinent Communications Systems. Purchase involved the payment of about $5 million in cash and other (Continued on page 5) Levine Will Produce New Biblical Film Joseph E. Levine will personally produce a film adaptation of the Biblical story of "Sodom and Gomorrah," it was announced yesterday by Embassy Pictures. Levine, who will make the picture in association with Titanus Films of Rome, has already signed Stewart Granger for the leading male role and is now commencing a search for an actress to co-star with him. The Biblical drama will be filmed in Rome and on actual location sites in the Middle East, and will be the most expensive Levine presentation to date. Public Inquiry into Toll-Television Advocated by British Exhibitor Branch By WILLIAM PAY LONDON, Aug. 5 (By Air Mail)-The Yorkshire branch of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association is the first to voice its alarm at the prospect of toll-TV in Britain. .EVISION TODAY— page 5 At the branch's monthly meeting, A. S. Hyde declared: "We want to know what protection we are going to receive. If films produced for the cinema are to be used then surely we should have a chance to get in on the business, or have some sort of rake-off from it, or alternatively, have some protection from the government." "I don't believe we can't stop it," he continued, and went on to advocate a public inquiry into toll-TV. He thought the cinema trade should consider its position so that it was ready to take part and have a voice in such inquiry. Chairman Jack Prendergast commented on the concern in America and said that it would have to be faced up to in this country. "We have (Continued on page 5) Board Meet Myers Remains With Allied In Legal Post Also Honorary Director; Set Up New Executive Post Special to THE DAILY CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Abram F. Myers, who retired July 1 as chairman and general counsel of Allied States after 31 years, was engaged as a lifetime legal consultant to Allied and was voted a lifetime honorary membership on Allied's board of directors ?t the organization's summer board meeting here over the past weekend. The Allied board elected Ben Marcus of Milwaukee interim chairman of the board to serve until the next annual meeting and established the eligibility requirement that a board chairman must have been a president of national Allied. Also, the board established the new post in Allied of executive director, and announced that A. W. Schwal( Continued on page 2 ) New Allied Post Is News to Schwalberg A. W. Schwalberg, head of Citation Films here, said yesterday no one from Allied States has talked to him about filling the newly established post of executive director of the national exhibitor organization, "so there is nothing I can say about it." The Allied board established the new post at its weekend meeting in Chicago, then issued a press release saying Schwalberg "was mentioned (Continued on page 2) 'Psycho' Stays Ist-Run During Circuit Bookings Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" will continue its engagements at the DeMille and Baronet Theatres through the end of August, while playing simultaneously at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre and at more than 90 neighborhood theatres in the greater metropolitan area starting Wednesday, Aug. 17. The neighborhood theatres will (Continued on page 5)