Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

MOTION PICTURE L. 88, NO. 93 JITORIAL, llied's Future NEW YORK, U.S.A., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1960 TEN CENTS By Sherwin Kane HE NEWS from Allied States annual convention in Chicago last week indicated that considerably re damage may have been done to organization by the internal conv'ersy which marked its board of ;ctors meeting a year earlier than been surmised heretofore. Reports from the convention were t attendance was disappointing and ,r, while business sessions were istructive and of real value to the libitor participants, much of the ality of former national Allied herings was lacking. British Exhibitors to Ask Chance to !ssh 1 De"dline Participate in Toll-TV If It Comes May Set Final LONDON, Nov. 12. (By Air Mail)As was expected, the Cinematograph ACE Film Plan Exhibitors Association general council's meeting on the associations recommendations on toll-tv to the government's Pilkington committee, produced . ™ Tk/f ^ many conflicting views on the sub | UCS. IVlCCl Hock Appointed Para. Ass'to Ad Manager Naturally, there have been conouting factors to Allied's seeming hargy other than the discordant ard meeting a year ago which liused the resignation of two of Aljd's strongest regional units. One U but recently rejoined; there is , indication that the other is giving U consideration to such a move. i^For one, the mortality rate within Inhibition's ranks in recent years unubtedly has been greatest among j' e smaller urban and small town exbitors who were more numerous in lied ranks than in others. This ^akened some regional organizaj ms, halting or reducing their memi ;rship payments to the national orinization, when not leaving the re', onal unit dormant, or nearly so. Other debilitating influences inVuded the retirement of Abram F. i lyers as board chairman, general Lransel and moving spirit of Allied [« more than 30 years, without organizational preparation for a replacement, and the ensuing lack of >mmunication within the organizaiOn. ' This failure to groom younger exDutive manpower (or to make use 'F it when it was available a year go) not only has proven a costly versight but now makes more diffitilt the task of Jack Kirsch, new Aled president, and Ben Marcus, chairlan, in reviving and re-building the rganization. Nevertheless, it is apparent that (Continued on page 2) ELEVISION TODAY— page 6 Mort Hock has been appointed assistant advertising manager of Paramount Pictures and will work under the supervision of Joseph Gould, a d v e r t i s ing manager, it was announced yesterday by Martin S. Davis, national advertising' publicity and exploitation manager. Hock has resigned his position as account executive with The Blaine Mort Hock Thompson Company, where he directed New York and out-of-town advertising campaigns for^ such stage productions as "Gypsy," "Take Me Along" and "Becket." He had previously been an account executive for Warner Bros. Pictures. He replaces the late Kenneth Aneser. many ject. After a long debate it was decided to call a special meeting on Nov. 30 to consider the final draft submission (Continued on page 6) Reade Managers Will Plan New Activities More than 50 theatre managers and assistants will attend a home office meeting at the Walter Reade Mayfair House headquarters in Oakhurst, N. J., tomorrow. Main item on the agenda will be announcements of the circuit's plans for the year end (Continued on page 6) Reports Progress on UK Telemeter Franchise Louis Novins, president of International Telemeter, reported further progress on continuing negotiations for assignment of a Telemeter franchise to British interests, following his return to New York from London yesterday. Novins said no deal has been concluded but indicated an announcement might be expected in the near future. Financing, Management of ACE Prods. Up for Study Final plans for the financing and organization of ACE Productions, the producing company to be set up by the American Congress of Exhibitors, are expected to be formulated at a meeting of the ACE executive committee in the Stanley Warner Corp. board room here next Tuesday. Called by S. H. Fabian, ACE chairman, the meeting is expected to be attended by as many as 40 exhibitor leaders from all parts of the country, most of them members of the ACE executive committee. The meeting is expected to hear a report on final financing proposals for ACE Productions and on preliminary proposals for organizing and staffing the company which Fabian (Continued on page 2) Canadian Censors Chided for Not 'Adapting to Changing Outlook' Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Nov. 14-Ontario's chief censor, O. J. Silverthome, has spoken up againS his fellow censors' actions. He chided them for the .-discmninate hackfg and cutting (of films) by some boards, the rigid mflexibihty, the inability to adapt to the changing out look at the Canadian people." He also pointed to the "conflicting decisions and inconsistencies which have succeeded in making censorship look ridiculous in the eyes of the people we seek to serve." He claimed Ontario's censorship has been labelled "intelligent and liberal. Are the people of Ontario different from other Canadians?" Silverthome made his points at the three-day convention of the various provincial censorship boards in St. John, N, B. Yet out of the convention came a closer liaison between the boards promising to open lines of communication in exchanging their points of view on the various films which come before them. Host-convention organizer and chairman, George S. Enos who heads New Brunswick's Board of Censors pointed out that censors, watched by their superiors and pressed by social agencies, are being urged by the motion picture industry, which is struggling against a dwindling boxoffice, to be more liberal when classifying Mirkin Heads Columbia Prod. Publicity Abroad From. THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Nov. 14-The appointment of Syd Mirkin as production publicity director for Columbia Pictures on overseas production was announced by Jonas Rosenfield, Jr., vice president in charge of advertising and publicitv. Mirkin has been serving Columbia as U. S. publicity liaison for England and the Continent. The new assignment will place Mir( Continued on page 6 ) films. Shift of 'Oscar' Show Is Clarified by Broidy By SAMUEL D. BERNS HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 14. "No slight was intended" to Hollywood, its theatres or organizations by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in shifting the scene of the forthcoming "Oscar" telecast to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Steve Broidv, chairman of the Awards Pro(Continued on page 2)