Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

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Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, August 17, 135 PERSONAL MENTION EDITORIAL Aurrichio Named Head Of Crest Studios, Inc. BG. KRANZE, vice-president of • Cinerama, Inc., left New York yesterday for Hollywood. Richard Guardian, Latin American supervisor for American Intemation Pictures, will leave here today on a tour of his territory. • Meyer M. Hutner, vice-president and director of advertising-publicity for William Goetz Productions, and Richard Kahn, Columbia Pictures exploitation manager, have arrived in Washington from New York to set the stage for the premiere of "Song Without End." C. Richard Schine, son of J. Myer Schine, head of the Schine circuit, will be married at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here on Sept. 7 to Patricia Hirschorn. • Herman Allen, Paramount office manager in Jacksonville, has left there with his family for a vacation in Central Florida. • David Barrett, designer in charge of alterations at the Trans-Lux 85th Street Theatre here, has returned to New York from Paris. • John Frankenheimer, director, will leave Hollywood today for New York. Hy Gardner, columnist of the N. Y. Herald Tribune and TV personality, left here yesterday with Mrs. Gardner aboard the "Leonardo da Vinci" for Naples. • E. C. DeBerry, assistant to Paramount vice-president Hugh Owen, is in Charlotte from New York this week. • Shari Mae Essick, daughter of gems of showmanship!... by national screen service" ( Continued from page 1 ) upon a joint business promotion campaign with distribution. Despite that, there are many in exhibition who are willing to, and do, make the best possible use of merchandising materials provided by distributors for every film with strong grossing potentials, and, in addition, apply their own showmanship talents to achieve maximum sales results. Given adequate product, there are enough such exhibitors to keep attendance at healthy levels throughout the year. Wometco Dividends Set; Waxenberg Named V-P Special to THE DAILY MIAMI, Aug. 16.-The board of directors of Wometco Enterprises has authorized payment of a quarterly dividend of 17% cents per share on the company's Class A stock and a quarterly dividend of 6V2 cents pershare on the Class B stock. Both dividends are payable Sept. 15 to stockholders of record on Sept. 1. The board also elected Jack Waxenberg a vice president of Wometco. To Film 'Brethren9 HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16. Samuel J. Briskin, Columbia's vice-president in charge of West Coast activities, has announced that "Joseph and His Brethren" will be filmed by George Sidney Productions in conjunction with Columbia as one of the company's most important properties. Sidney, who will direct as well as produce the high-budget biblical film, starts work on it immediately. Writers are now being interviewed to do the screenplay on the picture, which will be filmed in CinemaScope and color. Raymond Essick, of Modem Theatres, Cleveland, and granddaughter of P. E. Essick, one of the circuit's founders, has become engaged to Francis Patrick Burke, of Rahway, N. J. Rock Hudson, who arrived in New York on Sunday from the Coast, will leave here today for Rome. • Ted Mann, owner of the Mann Circuit, Minneapolis, has returned there from New York. • Phil Gersdorf has arrived in London from New York to set up publicity on the shooting schedule for Darryl Zanuck's production of "The Big Gamble." • Harry Mandell, production executive in Allied Artists' "Hell to Eternity," has arrived in New York from Hollywood. Joseph Aurrichio Joseph G. Aurrichio has been appointed president of Crest Studios Inc. Crest, for the past nine years a fashion studio specializing in advertising promotions, will initiate a new division to handle still photo reproduction specializing in motion picture work with Aurrichio at the helm. As president and full partner in the reorganized company, Aurrichio will be in full charge of all motion picture and commercial accounts while Lew Weinstein, of Jamaica, executive vice-president, will continue the operation of the photo studio. With RKO 25 Years Aurrichio, who served with RKO Radio Pictures for 25 years as supervisor of the still photo division, has resigned his position as vice-president in charge of sales for J. J. K. CopyArt Laboratory to assume the new post. 'Lost World' Passes $1,500,000 Mark Irwin Allen's "The Lost World" has passed the $1,500,000 mark as it enters its second month of national release. Showing in only 47 situations in the U.S. and Canada, the 20th Century-Fox picture is surpassing "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in virtually every spot. Award for 'Gulliver9 LOCARNO, Aug. 16. Charles H. Schneer's "The 3 Worlds of Gulliver," a Columbia Pictures release, received a diploma of honor from the Locarno International Film Festival. Selected for a special out-of-competition showing at the closing performance of the Locarno Festival, "Gulliver" was acclaimed by the selection committee as "one of the most enchantingly different pictures seen in years. 'Gulliver9 to Cork LONDON, Aug. 16.-Charles H. Schneer's "The 3 Worlds of Gulliver," a Columbia Pictures release, will have a presentation at the Cork Internation Film Festival, it was announced here by Dermot Breen, organizer of the Festival, at a press conference at the Irish Club. The Festival will be held at Cork, Eire, from Sept. 21-28. TENT TAL1| Variety Club Newt\ PHILADELPHIA Philade'lj Variety Post 713, American LeV of the Philadelphia Variety Club j/fl] present its annual awards at it jiastallation dinner in Sept. R at Palumbo's Restaurant. Edward Binuel, international chief barker, national Variety Clubs, will be iessented the Albert M. Cohen Ay for Humanitarian Services. Prestation will be made by Dr. I. S. Rtlin, noted surgeon and previous recent of the award. In addition, Jimmy^. rante will present the Post's Lou W ton Fight for Sight Award, establH, for the National Eye Bank Foijdation. The winner will be annov&ed later. District Attorney Victo,H. Blanc, a past commander of thews! and a former chief barker of Tenfoc. 13, will be the toastmaster. 'Stars' World Bow irj Munich on Friday Special to THE DAILY MUNICH, Aug. 16. The premiere of Charles H. Schneej Aim at the Stars," the story of r|l scientist Wernher von Braun, wj held Friday at the Matthaser palast here. Dr. von Braun and tun Jurgens, who portrays him ir.ithe Columbia Pictures release, will 1] 011 hand for the festivities, along nih producer Charles H. Schneer arjjM. J. Frankovich, vice-president ofpo lumbia Pictures and chairman ojthc board of Columbia Pictures, LtW Great Britain and Ireland. Heavy Press Coverage Plannl More than 200 members oijtibe international press corps will jver the event, which will be attend*; by high German government official! including Dr. Hans Erhard, Mijste: President of Bavaria; Gen. CfL Eddleman, Commander-in-chief, jJ ;S. Army in Europe and his staff, b;i members of the U.S. Embassy stpSn Bonn. Mann Heads Minneapfc Exhibitors for Hospil Ted Mann has accepted the e: it tor chairmanship for the Minneijolb exchange in the current Will B'jers combined audience collection ^ru1 Christmas salute campaign. Manjha: pledged the full participation <| all theatres in his own circuit, and jj>mises an all-out effort to enrol' tl cooperation, in both audience p.1 employee collections, of all thitr in the north-central United Stat<; Concentrated work will be dir t at any theatres that may not lav participated in the past. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Ch.ef and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard ^rtner . News Editor , H Art V ^ Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson Editorial Director; Pinky Herman Eastern Editor. HoHywood B Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington, E. H. Kahn, 996 National Press Bldg. Washington 4, D. L. , London bu Bear St. Leicester Square, W. 2. Hope Williams Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; William Pay, News Editor Correspondents in e prma a cap£ als of the world^ mm Picture Daily is published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue Rockefeller C«ter+ ^e"re*?r^a^0^rC^aii^ Cable, address: "Quigpubco, New York" Martin Quigley, , President;^ Martin. Quigley, _ Jr, Vice-President ;_ Theo ^Su&van , V.c ^^"^ Treasurer Raymond O Vice-President; Leo J. Brady, Secretary. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres and .Better Ket._ ^-f-^-T----., v. Entered as i as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Television Today, published daily as part of Motion Picture Daily; Motion Picture Almanac Television . Almanac Fame Entered as ^ class matter Sept. 21, 1938, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign. 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