Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, November 1, 196 PERSONAL MENTION GEORGE WELTNER, president of Paramount Film Distributing Corp., and Maurice Newton, member of the Paramount Pictures directorate, will return to New York from Europe today aboard the "Queen Elizabeth." • Chables B. Moss, president of B. S. Moss Theatres, returned to New York yesterday from Paris, London and Madrid. Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, and Bernard Levy, his assistant, are in Minneapolis today from here. William Richardson, president of Capital Releasing Corp., Atlanta, has returned there from Jacksonville. • William Reich, vice-president in charge of foreign distribution for American International Pictures Export, returned to New York yesterday from Europe. • Cyd Charisse will return to New York from London today via B.O.A.C. • Louis J. Finske, president of Florida State Theatres, Jacksonville, has left there with Mrs. Finske for a vacation in Japan. • Ben Schwalb, Allied Artists producer, has returned to Hollywood from New York. Burt Hirschfield, of the M-G-M home office advertising-publicity department, has returned to New York following a tour with Dunninger, mentalist, to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Cleveland. Saturation Bookings For AIP's 'Goliath' From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31.-Multiple saturation bookings for American International Pictures' newest color spectacle, "Goliath and the Dragon," have been set in Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Charlotte and Salt Lake City on its national release date, Nov. 4, it is announced by Leon P. Blender, AIP's vice-president in charge of distribution. According to Blender, all 600 prints of the feature will be in use during month of December, concentrating on holiday playing time. Vogel at Studio ( Continued from page 1 ) and Siegel will go over the schedule of productions in final preparation, among them "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Ada," "Lady L" and "How the West Was Won," as well as plans for the first anniversary celebration of "BenHur" and the premiere of "Cimarron" in Oklahoma City Dec. 1. Pictures to be shown for Vogel include "King of Kings," now being edited, "Where the Boys Are," Christmas-New Year holiday release, and "Atlantis, the Lost Continent," plus footage filmed to date on "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "Spinster," which is now before the Reuters to Associate With News Film Agency From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Oct. 31. -Reuters news agency, with its network of communications and correspondents, is to become associated with the British Commonwealth International Newsfilm Agency (BCINA), the visual news reporting agency. This will lead, it is stated, to the world-wide expansion of BCINA's resources. The other shareholders in BCINA, which was established in 1957, are: The British Broadcasting Corporation, The Rank Organisation; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Among the BCINA subscribers are the major West European tv stations, three tv stations in Eastern Europe and tv stations in North America, Japan, the Middle East, North Africa, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to its headquarters in London, BCINA has offices in Singapore, Paris, New York and Hilversum. BCINA staff cameramen are posted in the principal capitals of Europe, in the Middle East, and in South East Asia, and it has an international network of freelance cameramen. Technicolor's Gunn Due Here on World Tour From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Oct. 31. -George Gunn, joint general manager of Technicolor Ltd., is due in New York tomorrow to begin a two-month world tour. After consultations with Technicolor Inc. executives in Hollywood he will fly on to Japan where he will have pre-production discussions on "My Geisha," which is being filmed in Super Technirama-70. He will then visit India for meetings with leading producers and directors of the Indian industry and discuss forthcoming productions. Loew's, MO Cross-Plug Films in Columbus Special to THE DAILY COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 31. Patrons of Loew's Ohio and Loew's Broad here thought they had wandered into the wrong theatres by mistake when they saw trailers plugging the premiere of Cinerama at the opposition RKO Grand. It was a gesture of friendship arranged by manager Sam Shubouf of the Ohio and manager Robert Sokol of the Broad. Skouras Check Film Quality (Continued from page 1 ) cycles; from where and when, no one can predict. "How many students are enrolled in college dramatic and writing courses, across the country?" inquired Fabian. Giving the answer, "Probably 30 to 40 thousand," the circuit head added, "How many of them are great writers?" Fabian pointed out that "There is today a surfeit of entertainment: motion pictures, television, radio, stage plays, ballets, concerts, and the like. As a result, audiences have become more discriminating, more selective." He declared, "No star, regardless of his or her stature, can make a bad picture a good one. On the other hand, good pictures have been produced without stars." "No 'formula' for the production of successful motion pictures has been developed," Fabian continued. "No theme, no emphasis is 'surefire!' The person who could devise a 'formula' would not be a millionaire; he would be a billionaire." "Born and brought up in the motion picture business, I have no basic aspirations for other fields," Fabian told a television interviewer. "I have stars in my eyes and sawdust under my feet; I want to live and to die in the motion picture business." "I hope," he added with a smile, "to die in it— with my boots on." Fabian emphasized that "Motion pictures reflect the mores of the times; they do not form the mores. This is an age of greater frankness. 'Four-letter' words, once almost unheard of in books, now appear regularly in them. The screen is " 're : fleeting' this 'frankness'," he said. Trans-Lux Dividend Trans-Lux Corp. directors have declared an annual dividend of 30 cents per share on the capital stock of the corporation, plus an extra 5 per cent stock dividend. The cash dividend is " payable Dec. 16 to holders of record on Nov. 21, while the stock dividend is payable Jan. 17, 1961, to holders of record on Dec. 16, 1960. ( Continued from page 1 ) Millionairess," starring Sophia Lore?: Peter Sellers and Alistair Sim; "Circ of Deception," starring Bradford Dill man and Suzy Parker, and "Till Queen's Guard," starring Raymond Massey, all filmed in London. Skouras next will stop in Greec j where "It Happened in Athens starring Jayne Mansfield and "Tb Lion of Sparta," starring Richarf Egan, are filming. From Greece, he will go to Egyjj where "Justine," will be made b Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Skouras wij also finalize arrangements for tl| Egyptian exteriors of "Cleopatra,' He then goes to Italy, where "Fraii' cis of Assisi," with Bradford Dillma1 and Dolores Hart, is shooting "Esther and the King," starring Joa? Collins and Richard Egan recentl wound up production in Rome. Louella Hits 'Unhealthy Films in Huh Interview Special to THE DAILY BOSTON, Oct. 31.-Blasting "unl healthy" films, Hollywood columnis Louella Parsons arrived in Boston t visit her daughter, Harriet, co-pro ducer of the pre-Broadway corned tryout, "The Rape of the Belt" at thj Wilbur Theatre on Friday. "There is too much of the un healthy in films. I don't have any thing against sex, but perversion i; something else again," the noted colt umnist said. "To me some of the films made nov are shocking. We all have enougJ trouble and when we go to the thea! tre we want to be entertained. I wanj to see films made that will get fami ilies back into the theatre." Services for Elsie Loeb CLEVELAND, Oct. 31. -Film anc theatremen attended the memoria1 services for the late Mrs. Elsie Loel! in the Suburban Temple here lasij Thursday. Mrs. Loeb, long-time film] trade correspondent, collapsed anci died in Vienna on Oct. 20 during her first European vacation. A son Dr. William J. Loeb of Mount Sina Hospital, here, and four grandchil dren survive her. 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 ON STAGE "BRAZIL"— EXCITING, EXOTIC SPECTACLE. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. 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