Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

"iViiesday, August 17, 1960 Motion Picture Daily tLservatives Defeated Name Levine Pioneer o f Year W Wage-Bill Votes % By E. H. KAHN ksHINGTON, Aug. 16. The ~"}J:e has taken its first two votes nnection with the proposed reviof the wage and hour law. They iiot considered bellwether votes, hcfTh they brought to the floor a full '' jojilement of the Senate's active nJbers. One Senator is hospitalized, n'mjier is retiring. \e votes taken concerned changes §|ie law covering migratory farm vriers. In each case, the conservaiv' were defeated— once by a vote 1SW> to 18, the second time by 56 to '"t2j Neither vote is thought to give a id as to the margin by which the fjfite will act on the final version of :W)ill. " f highly-placed Republican leader fixated informally that he thought "' hi Senate would eventually approve « 'II raising the minimum wage to pi 5 hourly and extending coverage ,B:DOut 1.5 million more employees. Wft is similar to the bill which the ., ||se passed. Goldwater Heard Tli, j>nator Barry Goldwater (R., Am.), who is opposed to federal , old e legislation entirely, and who has in, Conservatives in their fight against »M measure, said: "While I'll agree i iM some form of minimum wage will iniM the Senate, I am very hopeful mil it will not be the Kennedy ilijBiure." hi jhat measure, sponsored by the ill Oaocratic presidential nominee, Mtjld gradually raise the pay floor to ■s,[$S5 hourly and extend coverage to aht 5,000,000 employees. lOting on the meat of the wage m sure, which continues the exempts ill of motion picture exhibition emwl 'ees, is expected to start on Inesday. Responsible Senate I ces, including majority leader don Johnson (D., Tex.) declined predict when debate would end. nson indicated, however, that he sla lies it will not continue beyond week. (Continued of the award dinner will be announced shortly. The selection of Levine as Pioneer of the Year, according to Fabian, reflects the considerable impact which the Embassy president has made upon the industry during the past several years and is made in recognition of the international interest he has aroused in motion pictures by his showmanship and personal vitality. Levine is the seventeenth Motion Picture Pioneer to be honored. He joins a group which includes Adolph Zukor, Gus Eyssell, Cecil B. DeMille, Spyros P. Skouras, Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Jack Warner, Nate Blumberg, Barney Balaban, Herman Robbins, Robert J. O'Donnell, Joseph R. Vogel, Robert R. Benjamin, Arthur Krim, Steve Broidy and Mr. Fabian. Selection Board of 26 The Pioneers board of directors which selected Levine includes Charles Alicoate, Barney Balaban, Harry Brandt, Steve Broidy, George F. Dembow, Sam Dembow, Jr., Ned E. Depinet, Gus Eyssell, Si Fabian, William J. German, Leonard A. Goldenson, Abel Green, William J. Heineman, Marvin Kirsch, John J. O'Connor, Eugene Picker and Martin Quigley. Also Sam Rinzler, Herman Robbins, Abe Schneider, Sol A. Schwartz, Ben Shlyen, Spyros P. Skouras, Harry J. Takiff, Joseph Vogel and Major Albeit Warner. Born Sept. 9, 1905 in Boston, Levine entered the motion picture business in the early 1930's as the G-M Will Start 8 fore End of Year |: From THE DAILY Bureau jlOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16.-MetroBdwyn-Mayer will start eight picI's before the first of the year, with (Alio head Sol C. Siegel finalizing fj'luction plans before leaving tori; row for two weeks in Europe, ire he will coordinate activities on in, ig of Kings" and "The Four semen of the Apocalypse." rior to his departure, Siegel, in :tings with producer Aaron Rosenl and director Carol Reed, corned and approved all details for massive production of "Mutiny on Bounty," starring Marlon Brando. ' interior sequences will be filmed the studio, and will follow apximately three months of shooting ard the "Bounty" in Tahiti and South Pacific. from page 1 ) owner of the Lincoln Theatre, an art house in New Haven, Conn. Investing a small amount of money in some vintage Ken Maynard westerns, Levine branched out into area distribution where he packaged and promoted an assortment of exploitation features and reissues. Levine worked the New England area pioneering the extensive saturation technique, setting a pattern of distribution later followed throughout the country. For many years, producers, working through states right distribution outlets, would let Levine test a film's commercial appeal in New England before entering other markets. Expanding his releasing activity, Levine gained attention via his "hardsell" approach in the distribution of a Japanese-made science-fiction thriller, "Godzilla," and the Italian-made "Attila." Finally in 1959, Levine purchased a spectacle film called "Hercules," got Warner Bros, to distribute it, and spent one million dollars to promote it. The vast success of the attraction catapulted him into the national limelight and installed him as one of the industry's major figures. Levine recently applied his elaborate showmanship approach to the English market on "Hercules Unchained" and was met with the same enthusiastic audience response which he received in the United States. He has now expanded into film making with Embassy currently producing five motion pictures for release during 1960-61. (iff' Merge to Form Reeves Sound Studios Here Reeves Sound Studios, Inc., and Reeves Products, Inc., have been merged to form Reeves Sound Studios, a division of Reeves Broadcasting and Development Corporation, it was announced by Hazard E. Reeves, president. Reeves Sound Studios was organized in 1933. Reeves said that the new video recording studios will be completed shortly. This installation, a new concept in video recording, will enable the "mixing," or re-recording of several video tapes into a composite master tape from which copies may be made for television release. It will be poossible to integrate 16mm or 35mm pictures, black and white or color, into the video master as well as slides, backgrounds or titles with effects. Another service will be multiple copying of video tapes and "Kine" recordings from existing tapes. Vogel in Luraschi Post HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16. Robert Vogel has been appointed chairman of Foreign Language Film Award Committee of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Luigi Luraschi, former committee chairman has resigned. Cleveland Group Seeks To Enter 'Lovers' Case Special to THE DAILY CLEVEAND, Aug. 16. Backing up the now famous Jacobellis case in which Nico Jacobellis, manager of the Heights Art Theatre was found guilty of a felony by three Common Pleas judges by reason of "possessing and exhibiting an obscene motion picture," namely "The Lovers," the Cleveland Civic Liberties Union has asked permission of the Court of Appeals for permission to enter the case as a friend of the court. Morton B. Icove, counsel of the civic liberties group, said constitutional issues of interest to his organization are involved in the case. Bloom Joins Columbia HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16.-William Bloom is joining Columbia Pictures as a staff producer, it was announced by Samuel J. Briskin, Columbia's vicepresident in charge of West Coast activities. Bloom, who checks in at the studio today, is returning to Columbia, where he served as producer from 1945 to 1951. He has also held production berths at RKO, Seven Arts and M-G-M, where he was last affiliated. Bloom's first assignment will be announced shortly. PEOPLE Eddie Albert, film and TV star, has been named to the new position of vice-president of Kaiser Industries in charge of special projects. He will work with Edgar F. and Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., sons of the president, in a number of activities in the U.S. and abroad, among which will be the arrangement of TV programs and production of motion pictures in the Hawaiian Islands. □ R. Lewis Barton, circuit owner of Oklahoma City, has been chosen by the city council to serve as a trustee for the new Oklahoma City Municipal Improvement Authority. He will serve for four years. □ Emory Robinson, formerly of St. Mary's, Ga., is the new manager of the Murray Hill Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. He and his brother, J. H. Robinson, who owns and manages the Arlington Theatre, Jacksonville, have purchased the Murray Hill from Cecil Cohen, who has operated it since its construction in the late 1940's. □ Maurice M. Wheeler, limited partner in Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, has been elected a director of General Drive-in Corp., operator of the nation's second largest circuit of outdoor theatres. □ Joyce Malmborg, cashier at Allied Artists in Jacksonville, and Ollie Taeglow, Mary Ellen Spence and Betty Jean Davis, all of the Warner Brothers branch in that city, have joined the local chapter of Women of the Motion Picture Industry. O'Dwyer, Schwalberg (Continued from page 1) will be handled by the same company's releasing outlet, International Distributors, Inc. "Rush Kipling" will be the first feature on the new company's releasing schedule, according to yesterday's announcement. It is based on the stage play, "Three Men at a Party." Other films on the company's 18film slate include "The World on a String," to be produced in France and Italy; "Tales of Marco Polo," to be made in the Philippines, and "The Great Race," which will be filmed on location in Mexico. Stevens and 'Story' Theme of TV Film From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16.-"George Stevens, the Man and His Current Work, The Greatest Story Ever Told'," will be the subject of a television production to be filmed tomorrow at the headquarters of the George Stevens Co. on the 20th Century-Fox studio lot. The film will be seen on the CBS network in approximately one month. t