Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, September 15, 19i PERSONAL MENTION E RIC JOHNSTON, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, returned to New York last night from Rome and left here immediately for Washington. Philip Gerard, Universal Pictures Eastern advertising-publicity director, will leave New York today for Toronto. Don Capano, vice-president of S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., will leave here this week with Mbs. Capano for an extended trip to Europe. Philip Rose, co-producer of Columbia's "A Raisin in the Sun," arrived in New York yesterday from Hollywood. Israel Deal (Continued from page 1) in Turkey, Rrazil, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Argentina. The board was advised that the Turkish government has already allocated dollars for the importation of films there with the Film Importers Ass'n. given responsibility for the allocation. On Brazil the board discussed the 10 per cent municipal tax in Sao Paulo and sent recommendations to its representatives there. It also considered the advisability of affiliating with the Sao Paulo distributors syndicate which deals with wage matters in that area. 260 Under Discussion Import licenses in Pakistan for the year starting Oct. 1 were divided. The total is 125. Still being discussed are 260 licenses. The board further took up the government tax situation in Argentina where there is a levy on distribution and exhibition as opposed to admissions. The problem is to decide who will pay what. No decision has been made. Joseph B. Rosen, Universal Pictures regional sales manager, and Jeff Livingston, executive coordinator of sales and advertising, were in Boston yesterday from New York. Chables Goldsmith, managing director of M-G-M Pictures, Ltd., London, will return to England today aboard the "United States." Chables Simpson, vice-president of Capital Releasing Corp., Atlanta, is in Hollywood from there. Jack Sanson, manager of the Stanley Warner Strand Theatre, Hartford, and Mbs. Sanson are marking their golden wedding anniversary. Rodgers to Finish Term Richard Rodgers, composer member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers since 1926, has agreed to serve on the Society's board of directors to finish out the unexpired term of his partner, the late Oscar Hammerstein, II, until the new ASCAP elections in January. WB Meet Here Today The three-day Warner Brothers national conference on advertising and publicity will open today at the home office, with advertising-publicity director Richard Lederer presiding. The conference, which will continue through Saturday, will deal with the promotion campaigns for five new releases and one re-release. Set 'Ben-Hur' Policy in 100 New Engagements Special to THE DAILY CHICAGO, Sept. 14. With 20 field representatives gathered here for a two-day meeting on "Ben-Hur," the policy for handling the picture in 100 new engagements over the next two months was announced by M-G-M's top sales and advertising executives. Plan is to open "Ben-Hur" in each and every situation according to the same pattern that was used at the New York and Los Angeles premieres. Openings to Be Formal Formal openings with top local dignitaries and press will be held. All fanfare facilities that can be mustered on the local scene will be used. In each situation "Ben-Hur" field representatives will work the territory well in advance and will follow through with exhibitors until the engagement is well under way. New Grant 'U9 Film HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14.-A third independent Cary Grant vehicle for release by Universal moved toward production today with the signing of British writer-actor Bryan Forbes to write the screenplay of an untitled romantic adventure set in the Middle East. Based on an original script called "One Arabian Night" by Sidney Carroll, the property is being blue-printed to go before the cameras at the studio and locations in North Africa and Hong Kong in the spring of 1961, according to Edward Muhl, vice-president of Universal-International, distributor of the picture. Ashamed of Runaway Production — Senary Dore Schary is "ashamed and chagrined at the number of Hollywood producers who are running abroad in an obvious effort to avoid taxes." The producer of "Sunrise at Campobello," talking informally to the press yesterday at a luncheon preceding the screening of the picture, scored what has come to be called "runaway production" by "those who at this crisis in world hstory are running away from their responsibility of carrying part of the tax load." Schary, in a relaxed mood, also was enthusiastic about the prospects for "Sunrise," which he hopes will be a welcome change in the recent screen fare. "We have had a surfeit of pictures dealing with violence and aberrations of all kinds," he declared. "There are facets of nobility we have had too little of on the screen and there are emotions unconnected with Freud which can provide tears and excitement." Plans Play for Spring He is in New York rehearsing his play "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." He has purchased the stage and screen rights to "The Devil's Advocate" and will produce it on Broadway next spring "probably with motion picture backing." In any event he will produce it as a picture following its opening on the stage. Double Bills Appear On Way Out in Detroit Special to THE DAILY DETROIT, Sept. 14. Downtown Detroit theatres, which have played double bills on first-run engagements for years, are going in more and more for single features. The Palms, a United Detroit house, was so successful with "Psycho" as a single that it will play its next booking, "Elmer Gantry" alone also. The same circuit is playing "Ocean's 11" at the Michigan without a co-feature. Roadshow engagements are now in three downtown theatres, leaving only the Broadway, Capitol, and Fox with double bills. Penn. Allied ( Continued from page 1 ) 8 Independent Exhibitors of New En] land, Inc., which still remains outsiflfl Internal differences boiled over the national board meeting when tj election of Edward Lider, of IEN'I who was in the traditional line of su cession to the Allied presidency, wj upset by what some directors chargj were unfair methods. Special Committee Formed After the resignations of the ti units a special national Allied co mittee was formed charged with tempting to bring the locals ba into the fold. This committee vt composed of Al Myrick, Allied pr i ident, and Trueman Rembusch a} Irving Dollinger, national directci While the Western Pennsylvania u : was receptive to overtures of U committee and met with it, IE!)! remained adamant in its position, j Also attending the meeting v| Milton London, regional vice-pnjdent of national Allied. New Schine Positions! For Morris, Evans Special to THE DAILY GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Sept. ,.. | —Accelerating its program of divefication, Schine Enterprises, Inc. s increasing the staff at the execute offices in New York City and Is appointed Seymour L. Morris dirtor of the hotel division advertisi;, publicity and promotion departmf :. President G. David Schine said tl Morris has been moved to the N* York base, from Glovers ville, whe he directed advertising and public y for the Schine Circuit over a 20-yr period. Replacing him in Gloversville s Seymour H. ( Si ) Evans, assistant I rector of theatre advertising and p>licity since 1951. Schine Enterprises is opening p other Schine Inn this month, p Chicopee, Mass. Another motor I is scheduled for Syracuse, N. Y. r|e corporation has also created a holing division, headed by Jack Mitcb'l, a former Schine Theatre zone mi ager in Watertown. Video Policy Unchanged c. J. Thompson Dies OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 14.-Operation policy of Video Independent Theatres will be unchanged from that existing before the death of Henry S. Griffing, it has been announced here by the executive committee which has been named to take over management of the circuit. Members of the committee are: chairman J. Carlton Updike, executor of the Griffing estate; C. O. Fulgham, C. F. Motley, Larry Boggs, Jack Brooks, Ernest L. Williamson and Mrs. Lois Chambers McColgin. BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 14.-Funal services have been held here for CB Thompson, brother of J. H. "Tomi" Thompson, head of Martin & Thoi> son Theatres, Atlanta, and presicl of Theatre Owners of Georgia. ll 2 'Inherit9 to Bow Oct. 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