Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, October 28, 1 PERSONAL MENTION BEN MARCUS, president of Marcus Theatres, Wisconsin, returned to Milwaukee yesterday from New York. • Sidney Cohn, president of Highroad Productions, will arrive in London today from New York. • Robert Kallet, president of Kallet Theatres, upstate New York circuit, and his brother, Sidney, chief buyer, have returned to Oneida, N. Y., from here. • Lee Koken, head of the concessions department for RKO Theatres, left here yesterday for Ohio on RKO and Glen Alden business. • Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, accompanied by Bernard Levy, his assistant, will leave Des Moines today for Minneapolis. • Irving Rubine, Highroad Productions vice-president, will leave here at the weekend for Chicago. • Al Levy, 20th Century-Fox district manager, was in Albany, N. Y., from Boston. • Alfred Hitchcock will return to New York at the weekend from Europe. • Ron W. Alcorn, producer-writer, left New York yesterday for Munich, Germany, to start work on Allied Artists' "Armored Command." • W. Ronald Lerner, screen and television writer, will leave the Coast at the weekend for Hartford. • George Nelson, of the Warner Brothers home office publicity staff, is confined to the Hospital for Joint Diseases here. • Jack Stern, of the 20th CenturyFox office in Buffalo, was in Albany, N. Y., from there. NEW YORK THEATRES — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL — i Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-4600 DORIS DAY • REX HARRISON IN A ROSS HUNTER-ARWIN PRODUCTION "MIDNIGHT LACE" A Universal International Release In EASTMAN Color OK STAGE "BRAZIL"— EXCITING. EXOTIC SPECTACU. Participating in the signing of the contract between Telemeter and AFTRA are, left to right, Mortimer Becker, general counsel, AFTRA; Donald F. Conaway, national executive secretary of AFTRA; Leslie Winik, Telemeter vicepresident; and Leonard Kaufman, counsel for Telemeter. Telemeter Pact Pontiac Theatre Burns; Patrons Leave Safely ( Continued from page 1 ) release to pay-tv. Telemeter has agreed to pay to AFTRA a total of 5 per cent of the producer's gross receipts for each and every showing of each production on pay-tv. The additional one-half of basic minimum serves as an advance against the 5 per cent of the producer's gross. A taped version of Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Consul" was made earlier this year and will be the first Telemeter presentation under the contract. Announcement will be made shortly of Telemterer's other initial entries in special categories which will include Broadway plays, original dramas and other cultural events. $25,000 for MEDICO More than $25,000 was raised for the Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO) at Wednesday night's benefit premiere of John Wayne's "The Alamo" at the Rivoli Theatre here. The audience of 1,500 people which jammed the theatre to welcome the United Artists release included stars of the stage and screen, also notables in the civic, social and business life of the city. 'Eve9 Big in Moscow WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. "All About Eve" opened very well in Moscow, according to Turner Shelton, chief of the U. S. Information Agency's international fiilm division. The premiere was attended by director Joseph Mankiewicz and by Julie Newmar. PONTIAC, Mich., Oct. 27.-The Butterfield circuit's downtown Oakland Theatre here was destroyed last evening by a fire which broke out in a drug store in the building. It, other stores and the theatre were a total loss, as two walls collapsed emitting 75 foot flames while 150 firemen fought the blaze. The patrons made an orderly exit. None was hurt. Obscenity Committee ( Continued from page 1 ) motion pictures and motion picture advertising based on public hearings on these subjects conducted by the committee on Dec. 18 and 19, 1958, and on Feb. 26, 1959. Samples of ads are included in the report. The report quotes in full the editorial by Martin Quigley called "Crisis in Code Affairs" as published in Motion Picture Daily and Motion Picture Herald in November, 1959. It also quotes from a review of "Suddenly, Last Summer" by James D. Ivers in Motion Picture Daily on Dec. 16, 1959. On Dinner Committee HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.-Samuel Briskin, Steve Broidy, Eddie Cantor, Victor Carter, Samuel G. Engel, Albert Hackett, Robert Lewin, Barry Mirkin, Mendel Silberberg and Edward Small have been appointed to a committee formed by associates of Brandeis University for a dinner honoring Pierre Mendes France to be held Nov. 16 in the grand ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Malamed, Smerling Win Lodge Prizes Dave Malamed of National Tl tres and Television was the winner the Cadillac and Sheldon Smerling Eastern Management Corp. was | winner of the 10-day all-expense-p; cruise for two in the 1960 fund-n ing drive of New York's Cinema Lod of B'nai B'rith through the sale $25 Contribution Share Certifica Joseph M. Sugar of Magna Theat: Corp. was the seller of both cer] cates. Selection of the winners was m at a luncheon at the Hotel Astor | terday before a large group of til ticipants and Cinema Lodge nw bers. Abe Dickstein, president Cinema Lodge, announced that though the goal in this year's di, had not been reached, more cert cates were sold than in any previ Cinema Lodge drive on behalf, the B'nai B'rith agencies, which elude the Anti-Defamation Leagi the Hillel Foundations and the B" B'rith Youth Organizations. Joseph Rosen Chairman Joseph B. Rosen of Universal, chs man of this year's drive, who wai speaker at the luncheon, annouwj that the increased sale of ticH would make possible more frnanc support for the Anti-Defamati League in its new undertakings ' combat increasing racial and religii intolerance. Pension Increased HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.-Effect Dec. 1, the motion picture indus pension plan retirement benefits v be increased from $75 per month $95 per month, George J. Flahei IATSE Hollywood representative pension plan board chairman, nounced. The $20 increase will apj to those now receiving pension ps ments as well as to those who ret on or after that date, according Flaherty. There will be about 800 tirees under the plan by Dec. 1. Theatre in Colorado Receives SBA Loan From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Or one theatre— the Isis in Trinidf Colo.— received a loan from Small Business Administration dun September. A participation loan $5,000 was approved for the 1^ which employs three. The agency passed its $1 billi mark in loans during September. says its average business loan slightly over $47,000 and the avera length is about six years. A&™£fu™™ G^h' feSd M^' TELEVISION' TODAY K3»%E*tor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Herbert V. Fee! Yucca-Vine Building,' Samuef D BernsV Man^ E4,*5r^ Dlre.ct°r; Pln-k? Herman' Easte™ ?dit5' Hollywood Bur<* Bear St. Leicester Square, W. 2. Hope Williams Burnu