Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, August i PERSONAL MENTION EDITORIAL M EYER M. HUTNER, vice-president of William Goetz Productions in charge of advertising-publicity, will leave here tomorrow for Philadelphia. Douglas Amos, general manager of Lockwood & Gordon Enterprises, Boston, has returned there from Hartford. • Nat Barach, branch manager in Cleveland for National Screen Service, has left there with Mrs. Barach for New York and Schroon Lake. • Morris Lefko, in charge of domestic distribution for M-G-M's "BenHur," and his assistant, Mel Maron. are in Dallas from New York for meetings with John S. Allen, M-G-M Southwest division manager. Harold Hecht, producer, has returned to New York following a fourweek trip to England, Spain and Yugoslavia. • Irving Hillman, New England advertising-publicity director for Stanley Warner Theatres, has returned to New Haven from Hartford. Pandro S. Berman, producer of "Butterfield 8" for M-G-M, has returned to Hollywood following a short vacation. • Jack Silverthorne, manager of the Hippodrome, Cleveland, has left there with Mrs Silverthorne for a fishing trip in Canada. Phoenix Film Studios Declares Dividend Special to THE DAILY PHOENIX, Aug. 22. A five per cent cash dividend for the quarterly period ending Aug. 20 has been declared by Phoenix Film Studios, it was reported by Kenneth Altose, president, following a meeting of the board of directors. The dividend, Altose noted, is directly attributable to first net earnings from the company's motion picture, "Four Fast Guns," currently in its fifth month of domestic release by Universal International. The distribution agreement with U-I has 79 more months to run. TV and foreign sales rights are retained by Phoenix Films Studios. The picture has been sold to Ludgate Productions for United Kingdom distribution, and negotiations are un ( Continued from page 1 ) by way of selling the U. S., its products and its way of life to people all over the world. It does that job well because its mission is not to propagandize, but to entertain. The Voice of America and other government instrumentalities, no matter how good a propagandist^ job they do, cannot hope to be as effective as the film for that very reason. It remains only to refer the results of the Indian students' poll to those highly vocal critics, in Congress and out of it, who insist upon believing that the only images of America carried abroad by Hollywood films are damaging ones. Gritting Still Missing In Airplane Flight Special to THE DAILY OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 22.-No word had been received here yet today on the whereabouts of Henry S. Griffing, president of Video Independent Theatres, who has been missing for several days along with three members of his family. Griffing was piloting his private plane on a flight that left Teterboro, N.J., Airport last Tuesday morning. He had filed no flight plan, but associates said he planned to fly to Oklahoma. Officials of Video Theatres have offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of the Griffing family and the airplane. Video operates theatres in Oklahoma and West Texas. Griffing is also secretary and a director of Oklahoma TV Corp., which owns television station KWTV here. Griffing is well-known for his pioneer work in pay-TV, having conducted the famed Bartlesville experiment two years ago. In addition he was one of the first independent exhibitors to apply for a Telemeter franchise last spring. 'Young Men9 Strong CHICAGO, Aug. 22. Columbia Pictures' release of Hall Bartlett's "All the Young Men" grossed $28,672 in the first four days of its run at the Roosevelt Theatre here. The management reports this figure as the largest for any four-day period in more than two years. Jules Schwartz to N» Y. HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22. Jules Schwartz, executive director and general business manager of Phoenix Film Studios, left here today for New York. der way for sales to Scandinavia, Italy, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaya, as well as Latin America. New Hearing on Bicks Scheduled Wednesday From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Efforts by Sen. Keating (R.. N. Y. ) to have the nomination of Robert A. Bicks reported out of the Senate judiciary committee were beaten back in a closed session of the group. In fact, another hearing on Bick's qualifications is scheduled for Wednesday. The judiciary committee voted to report favorably a number of bills on war claims. It did not adopt the Keating proposal to permit the sale to U.S. citizens of General Aniline & Film Corp. This will be offered separately by Sen. Keating unless a meeting scheduled by the committee with representatives of the Departments of State and Justice results in a committee recommendation that it be added to the bill as reported. Claims of motion picture companies for losses suffered as a result of Japanese confiscation of films would be allowable under the version of a war claims bill reported by the committee. This provision, sponsored by Sen. Dodd (D., Conn.) was not in the bill when it passed the House. The Senate committee also deleted the parts of the House-passed measure that provided for payment of claims. Under the bill sent to the Senate, claims can be made, but no funds are made available for payment. This bill will be handled in separate legislation. House for Labor Group As Pay-Bill Conferees From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The House tomorrow will give the minimum wage bill one of its final testings. It will move, in accordance with custom, to obtain unanimous consent to appoint members of the Labor Committee as conferees with the Senate on the final version of the bill. Speaker Rayburn (D., Tex.) said that he had spoken to labor committee chairman Barden (D., N. C. ), who indicated that he knew of no reason why there should be any objection. If any member desires to obstruct the bill, however, he can object. In that case, the rules committee would have to act before conferees could be appointed. Though there had been some fear that the rules group might try to block the wage bill, this has apparently diminished. Senate conferees have already been appointed. They are: Kennedy (D., Mass.); McNamara (D., Mich.); Morse (D., Ore.); Randolph (D., W. Va.); Goldwater (R., Ariz.); Dirksen (R., 111.); and Prouty, (R., Vt.). In the normal course of events, the House will also send seven to the conference. Univ. Sho t ( Continued from page production by almost a third sal will distribute 19 new jVa Lentz color cartoons insteacaf previous 13 which have prev fed many years. There will alsc be reissues of Lantz color cartoo \ n ing available a total of 25 |ie color cartoons, McCarthy no new Walter Lantz cartoons ing so produced that they car klsc projected with an anamorp] : 1 making them adaptable to alDjpe theatre programs. Continuing the company's. Jm| sis on color subjects, there kill two new two-reel color spec lis eight new one-reel color spec js, Carthy anounced. Universal til again have a one-reel subj t winter titled "Football Highdit 1960." The two, two-reel specials iv< ready been designated and arf'P ic Paradise" and "Jazz Oriei jl. Completing the program f > subjects for 1960-1961, NIK announced, will be 104 issuoiot Universal-International news/fel. Roach, Jr., Case f TV and Theafre Fir From THE DAILY Bure HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2. Roach, Jr., and Carrol Cha announced the formation of ! Enterprises for the developr production of television anc picture features. Roach and Case produced Squad" and "Public Defende other TV series. Plans call television pilots to begin imn and four features to be mac the next 12 months. Headqua be at the Hal Roach Studios "R er Rank Egyptian Dt LONDON, Aug. 22. Ts Organisation announced an a ee has been signed between J A Rank Overseas Film Distribiiirs Egyptian distributor Max Na fc distribution by him of some 20 ductions in Egypt and neitih territories. The arrangemer c most of the films lately mail i the Rank banner. NEW YORK THE! j — RADIO CITY MUSIC H.I Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-461 "SONG WITHOUT E D THE STORY OF FRANZ LISZT stain* 01 P. . B0GARDE as Frames k COLOMBIA PICTURE la ClnmSeeti t East ON THE GREAT STAGE ' TEST IV MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; ; Herbert/. Advertising Manager; Gus H. 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