Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

dnesday, August 10, 1960 Motion Picture Daily Television Today econd Hotel ( Continued from page 1 ) Id's tallest hotel, 50 stories high, will have the largest convention, quet, ballroom and exhibit faciliof any New York hotel. Groundaking is scheduled for Oct. 1 and ipletion for Aug. 1, 1962. announcement of the new project i made at a press conference held he Four Seasons, at which Eugene ker, Loew's Theatres president; irence A. Tisch, chairman of the cutive committee; Preston R. h, a member of the board and ||d of Tisch Hotels, and Ernest E erling, vice-president in charge of I ertising publicity for Loew's lhatres, answered questions. Mortgage Money Included It was stated that the newest hotel U be financed partly with mortgage i ley and partly with Loew's Theaaj' funds. No deal has been closed I but interest has been expressed •) several principals who are awaitr final details. i reply to questions, it was Mted out that for large conventions I ! tings or exhibits for which the I hotel's facilities might be found r (equate, use could be made of the UO-seat New Capitol Theatre, one file away. For normal entertainBit or exhibit purposes, the hotel's rjhd ballroom stage will be avail1. ^ew's Theatres also plans several it1 room motor hotels on Eighth c., Manhattan, and may construct tors in various parts of the country. Bll Would End FCC hvoritism' to Congress From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Sen. iam Proxmire (D., Wis.) has inuced a measure which would, he , end the present Federal Comications Commission policy of ig special consideration to radio TV license applicants whose tholders include members of gress. •oxmire asserted that it is "pery obvious" that FCC will not ige this policy by itself, "especiali view of the clearly expressed ude of its chairman in approving policy of Congressional favorit* He stated that this is an "imd, payola practice" and that Consional silence means that the leg3rs are "insisting" on continuing "payola payoff" in enjoying this Dred, privileged, special advan' award of rich radio and TV ?hises." I ghter' Booked Abroad edallion Pictures Corp. has closed ejsue deals in England, Australia New Zealand for the film based ack London's "The Fighter," starLee J. Cobb, Richard Conte and ;ssa Brown, originally released by ed Artists and later re-issued in domestic territory by Associated ts. AROUND THE TV CIRCUIT with PINKY HERMAN. MICKEY SILLERMAN, exec veep in charge of sales for Pictures For TV, Inc. is quite excited about the fact that in but 8 weeks, they have booked their J. Arthur Rank color and black & white post '50 features in 11 markets ringing up more than $750,000 in total sales. The deal with WNBC-TV marks the largest single package of color films ever signed by NBC. . . . Marilyn Mark, associated with Drexel Prod., has been named assistant to Dick ABClark show producer, Lewis (Deak) Heywood. . . . ABC-TVeep in charge of Sales Ed Bleier recuping from an emergency appendectomy last Monday at the New York Hospital. . . . One busy hombre these bright days is an energetic and multitalented lad named Johnny Andrews. Johnny, regularly heard as the all-nite disk jockey on WNBC, is currently turning in a fine subbing stint on the "Hi Mom" morning (9-10) series TVia the NBChannels. Also rounding out his fourth year as a regular on the NBCoast-tocoaster, "Monitor," he also finds time to write pop tunes and make at least one benefit show a week. . . . Maestro Charlie Sanford accompanied by his charming wife, Betty, drives to Miami tomorrow for a two week vacation. He'll return in time to start rehearsals of his large ork for Max Liebman's "Story of the American Motorist" for U.S. Steel Hour TVia CBS. . . . Frank Fontaine's manager, Joe Lyttle in association with the Westchester Baking Solon, Bob Dulman, have a new singing find in Martin Walker, whose initial waxing of the standard ballad, "Where Can You Be?" will be released next month and can't miss zooming the handsome young Scotland-born songster to the heights. . . . ft ft ft With three pilots ready for viewing by national and regional sponsors, Prexy Ray Junkin of Program Sales, Inc., announces it has signed noted Sportcaster Bill Stern to appear in and narrate a telefilm series of 130 "Portraits & Profiles" a new approach to the behind the scenes story of great sports personalities and events of the past 40 years, with actual films of each event documenting the subject. . . . Betti Andrews is back in Gotham from a week in Hollywood where she was featured in a soecial industrial flicker. While there the former "Miss Kentucky" received 3 moom pitcher offers but TV commitments here "no let." . . . Joe Franklin, whose "Memory Lane" WABCinemagic has been one of the bright spots in local morning TV these past 5 years, has almost completed a new half-hour teleseries, "This Was Vaudeville," which can add to Joe's laurels as the gem Up at WLOB, Portland, Maine, Dick Johnson leaves for six months training with the Army so Jay Maher takes over as musicaster (disk jockey to you) And d.j. Rol Hopkins has become the proud pappy of his second boy there. . . . Chantootsie Karen Chandler, who took a two-year leave from Coral Records to study dramatics, has resumed trilling and opens an engagement at the Living Room in New York Aug. 29. ... 13 film crews are currently in action all over the world shooting footage for the 1960-61 season's "The Twentieth Century" which will be CBSponsored for the 4th year by Prudential Insurance Co. ft ft ft The great Turkish pianist, and Dot recording star Capli has just returned from a successful 4 week stint at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and will open a 6 month engagement in October at Pampas Room of the Tradewinds Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. . . . "The Walter Winchell Show" will be launched into the ABChannels Sun., Oct. 2 (10:30-11 P.M.) and on Nov. 13, will move into a regular berth at a new time (11-11:15 P.M.) W. W. will again deliver the news in his staccato style, interview guests from all over the world and will again present "Orchids or scallions." . . . Look for "Another Astaire Time," to be headed your way sometime about July, 1962. The Chrysler Corp. will present "Astaire Time," an all NBColorcast, Sept. 28 (10-11 P.M.) again featuring Barrie Chase and David Rose and his Ork. Both the 1958 and 1959 "Astaire" shows were repeated so why should this one be different? . . . Mavor Wagner has proclaimed next week "N.Y. Jazz Festival Week" in recognition of Jazz as "our musical heritage" and in honor of the appearance of leading Jazz figures at F. Geltman's Fifth Annual Randall's Island Jazz Festival to be held Aug. 19, 20, 21. . . . Ray Junkin o' memoreels. , MGA Charges {Continued from page 1) Musicians Guild, the AFM sent out the following statement: "We want to reassure musicians that the AFM will not permit these films (pictures made between 1948 and 1958) to be sold for television use without re-use payments resulting from such negotiations going to the musicians who scored the film." In today's bulletin mailed to the industry, the Musicians Guild said, "This was a well-planned scheme to fool the musicians, influence their voting and thus re-establish tke AFM's dictatorship. There is only one flaw. Many producers have sold their pictures to television despite the phony dramatic 'warning' by the AFM. Both Warner Brothers and 20th CenturyFox have unloaded millions of dollars worth of post-48s to television without batting an eye at the AFM 'ultimatum' which declared that the AFM will not permit these films to be 'sold' without re-use payments to musi cians. Cites NBC-Disney Deal The Musicians Guild stated that TV film distributors have offered the networks packages of post-48s from Warner Brothers, Fox, Columbia, United Artists and Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and that just this week a deal was disclosed for NBC to buy the entire Disney backlog for television. Musicians have not received any re-use payments from the sale of these pictures and have not been told what re-use payments the AFM has negotiated as promised, before, not after the pictures are sold, MGA charged. "The simple reason is that the AFM has already made deals to put all these re-use payments in the trust funds, just as it did with over $10,000,000 in re-use and royalties from the sale of pre-48 films," the Musicians Guild said. Legion Hits Four Films DETROIT, Aug. 9. Opposition to the showing of four films on the grounds they were written in part by communist supporters was voted by the Michigan Department of the American Legion at its convention here. The films are "Exodus," "Spartacus," "Chance Meeting," and "Inherit the Wind." Purchase 'Terror9 Rights World rights outside the U.S. and Canada have been purchased by ATA Trading Corp. for "Terror Is a Man," starring Francis Lederer and Greta Thyssen, and "The Scavengers," starring Vince Edwards and Carol Ohmart. 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