Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

■2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 25, 19©) PERSONAL MENTION JOSEPH E. LEVINE, president of Embassy Pictures, returned to New York yesterday from Rome and Israel. Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, and his assistant, Bernard Levy, will leave New York today for a trip to the Middle West. They will be away for 10 days. • Si Seadler, M-G-M Eastern advertising manager, has returned to New York following a two-week tour in behalf of "Butterfield 8." • Ted Harris, managing director of the State Theatre, Hartford, has returned to his duties there following recuperation from surgery. John Wayne, producer-director of "The Alamo" for United Artists, will arrive in New York today from Texas. • Jim Kibby, film buyer for Floyd Theatre, Jacksonville, has left there with Mrs. Kirby for a Caribbean Aneser Dies ( Continued from page 1 ) posing at the Thomas F. Dalton Funeral Parlor, Floral Park. Aneser, who died Saturday night at Mercy Hospital, Rockeville Center, following a cerebral hemorrhage, is survived by his widow, Lucille; two sons, John and Richard, and a dughter, Nancy. Prior to joining Paramount last January, Aneser was advertising production supervisor on Samuel Goldwyn's "Porgy and Bess." He was for 25 years assistant to the advertising manager of Warner Bros. Pictures, and had also been associated with the Buchanan & Co. division of Lennen & Newell, working on the Paramount, Warner Bros, and Embassy Pictures accounts. NEW YORK THEATRES ( — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—, Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-4600 DORIS DAY • REX HARRISON IN A ROSS HUNTERARWIN PRODUCTION "MIDNIGHT LACE" A Universal-International Release In EASTMAN Color ON STAGE ' 'BRAZIL" — EXCITING, EXOTIC SPECTACLE 'Alamo Bows9 ( Continued from page 1 ) of John Wayne's Batjac Production for United Artists, "The Alamo," the group numbering upward of a hundred was welcomed in true— that is big— Texas fashion, beginning with glittering, band-blaring receptions at the San Antonio airport for groups arriving from east and west. The festivities were carried out at a dizzy pace, culminating in the opening of the $12,000,000 picture at San Antonio's Woodlawn Theatre tonight. Major J. Edwin Kuykendall of San Antonio extended the city's welcome at the airport to the arrivals, who included Wayne, Linda Cristal, Frankie Avalon, Chill Wills, Richard Boone of the cast, Dimitri Tiomkin, who composed the musical score, and James Edward Grant, who wrote the screenplay. A full sampling of the schedule of activities would be likely to leave the visitor a touch breathless prior to Monday, the key day. It started with a frontier street breakfast on Alamo Plaza before the worn, brown walls of what had formed a notable bastion in the history of this country some 124 years ago. Then followed a tribute to those heroes of yesterday with Governor Price Daniel of Texas officiating a fly-over of planes in aerial salute and a luncheon at which Wayne, Grant, and Tiomkin were presented awards. Parade a Feature Parade through the downtown area featured the afternoon and a vast motorcade moved on the Woodlawn Theatre for the evening opening, following a reception which was held at the "Alamo" premiere headquarters, the St. Anthony hotel. At the theatre the full searchlight and red carpet treatment was in full swing with television coverage and special entertainment for the crowds in front of the theatre. The weather man had a slight frown part of the time but in general behaved quite hospitably. It was a big Texas show, thoroughly in keeping with the production which, for Wayne, has been the realization of years of hope and desire. Al Manuel Named Aide To Paramount's Rackin From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 24. Al Manuel, who for the past 25 years has managed his own agency for the preparation of literary and stage properties for film production, has been named to the newly created post of executive assistant to Martin Rackin, head of production at the Paramount studio. A former newspaperman, Manuel later was an independent producer before establishing his own agency. 14 Field Men Will Cover lace7 Openings Universal Pictures has assigned 14 different field exploitation representatives to cover 52 of the key openings of "Midnight Lace," set to start this week and carry through into mid-November, it was announced by Philip Gerard, Eastern advertising and publicity director. Assignments include Al Palledino to Albany, Boston and Providence; Ray McKay to Atlanta and Charlotte; Ben Katz to Chicago; Bill Blum to Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Toledo; Julian Bowes to Dallas, Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, Port Arthur and Waco, all in Texas; Jack Wodell to Denver. Also, David Kane to Detroit, Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Flint, Bay City, Muskegon, Pontiac, Grand Rapids, Jackson Kalamazoo, Lansing, Saginaw and Port Huron, all in Michigan; Sy Schecter to Kansas City, Arkansas City and Milwaukee; Maury Steinman to Minneapolis and St. Paul; Jim Gordon to New Orleans; Billie Sanders to Philadelphia; Amike Vogel to Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and Spokane; Bob Johnson to St. Louis; Phil Katz to Pittsburgh and David Polland to Washington, Baltimore, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond. Elsie Loeb, Cleveland Trade Reporter, Dies Mrs. Elsie Loeb, Cleveland correspondent for Quigley Publications and other trade publications for many years, died suddenly while on a vacation trip to Europe, according to word received yesterday from the deceased's son, Dr. William J. Loeb of Cleveland. Very Warmly Regarded Mrs. Loeb was widely known and liked throughout exhibition and distribution circles in Cleveland. Shortly before she left on her vacation trip to Europe she was tendered a testimonial dinner by the Cleveland film trade for her services there over a 35-year period. IS AC Exhibit Head CHICAGO, Oot. 24.-Ted Dariotis, Automatic Vending Corporation, Chicago, has been named NAC's exhibit chairman for the forthcoming National Concessions Trade Show at the Conrad Hilton, opening Nov. 6 and running through to the 9th. Dariotis will be on hand before the opening of the show to assist exhibitors in setting up their displays and will continue at the show daily to assure smooth running of the exhibit hall. Atlanta Group {Continued from page 1) is expected to be filed very soon am IFIDA has said it will carrry it to th Supreme Court if necessary. Exhibitors here say they would pre fer not to be connected with the figh to wipe out the law. They said the) fear publicity surrounding the attae could generate an anti-film-industri campaign, especially in view of tht large number of "adult" films comin< out of Hollywood recently. They fee! that if the present censorship law i thrown out it will be replaced by worse one that could stand up brought before the Supreme Court Says Government Cod Stop 'Runaway' Films Commenting on the large numbe of pictures being made by Hollywood producers abroad, writer Joe Hyam observed in an article in the Sundai New York Herald Tribune .that th situation could easily change. Thj could come about, he said, "if th U. S. government cuts the tax ad vantages given Americans abroad an realizes, as have the European gov ernments, the tremendous propagand value of films produced at home." Hyams pointed out that the govern! ments of Italy, England, France art Germany have all been willing t! make concessions and offer induce; ments to domestic film makers as wel as to outside producers. Their goal "the hope of building up their horn film industry." Hyams concludes, "Perhaps th U. S. government, via concession and aids, will help Hollywood regaiii its lost stature." Levine Heads JDA Drivt Martin Levine, general manager o Brand Theatres, has been named chair man of the motion pioture division o the Joint Defense Appeal, it was an nounced by Richard Maas, JDA' general campaign chairman. Levin and a committee of industry leader will head the division's drive on be half of JDA, the fund-raising agenc for the American Jewish Committe and the Anti-Defamation League o B'nai B'rith. AJC and ADL this year seek a na tional total of $6,100,000 for th. support of their programs. Samuel Levy Dead MIAMI, Oot. 24.-Interment tool place here yesterday for Samue1 Levy, retired, who died Friday. H( was the brother of Morton A. Levy: branch manager for 20th Century Fox in Minneapolis, and of Arthu. Levy, national sales representative; for Jam Handy, with headquarters irf Detroit. 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