The Exhibitor (1956)

MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR 35 Konecoff ( Continued from page 8) 9. He would like to see a Film Fair where industry merchandise could be dis¬ played to the public here instead of a festival, as was contemplated, because the latter is usually associated with com¬ petitive judging and the former would be more helpful. CHARM DEPARTMENT: From Isla de Pinos, Cuba, comes a lucky shark's tooth to remind that Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., has finished filming his “The Sharkfighters,” starring Victor Mature, in CinemaScope and color, for UA release. We are informed that Caribbean fishermen carry them for luck, hut there is no proof that it will help in games of chance like craps. Our particular tooth came from a earcharhinus leucas which was killed in the filming. Oh boy. COASTING ALONG: From our west coast spy comes word of how director Norman McLeod observed the off-camera cast and crew working on Red Skelton’s “Public Pigeon Number One” being broken up by Red’s jokes and fluffs. He decided to film them unobserved. The re¬ sulting footage will be used as trailers to sell the film to the public. A cute idea. THE METROPOLITAN SCENE: Lots of excitement at the opening of “The Man Who Knew Too Much” at the Paramount where lobby broadcasts by station WINS took place and holders of winning cards distributed by a couple resembling Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day came to collect their lucky prizes. Managing director Robert Shapiro was on hand to see that everything went off shipshape in show¬ manship fashion, backed by Burt Cham¬ pion and his Paramount publicity crew. . . . While Emmett Kelly, clown of renown, performs on the stage of the Roxy in the near future, the circus motif will be car¬ ried to the lobby of the house with an exhibit of circus paintings by Mrs. Dane Clark, the esteemed 20th -Fox executive Ulric Bell, and others. . . . Stop the ma¬ chines. . . . Dana Wynter, 20th-Fox star of “D-Day The Sixth Of June,” has been named Miss Ivy Leaf by the Fourth Divi¬ sion Association. . . . Harry Botwick, southeastern manager, Florida State The¬ atres, as a substitute columnist on The Miami Herald, had some jim dandy things to say about the biz and its advancements. . . . Quite a radio and TV campaign put on by RKO for its opening of “While The City Sleeps” at the Criterion. . . . The Nation had a comprehensive piece in the May 12 issue on the Japanese film indus¬ try by critic and producer Akira Iwasaki. . . . The April issue of Arizona Highways had a wonderfully illustrated and inter¬ esting article on John Ford and the pro¬ duction of “The Searchers.” . . . Silvana Pampanini is a big thing in the June issue of Esquire, they tell us. . . . Frank Sinatra has been given the achievement award of the New York Esca Club. Collier Young at a recent New York trade press interview discussed tentative plans for the dual world premiere of his production for UA release, "Huk," in the United States and in the Philip¬ pines, where it was filmed. Trans-Lux TV Adds Carlton New York — The appointment of Rich¬ ard Carlton as vice-president in charge of sales of the newly-formed Trans-Lux Television Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trans-Lux Corporation, was announced recently by president Richard Brandt. Dickstein Heads UJA Drive New York — Abe Dickstein, 20th-Fox Atlantic district manager, again has accepted the chairmanship of the indus¬ try’s United Jewish Appeal drive in the exchanges. In this year’s campaign in New York, UJA hopes to raise the metropolitan portion of the $109,235,000 required, the UJA of Greater New York being the only fund-raising agency in this area for the United Israel Appeal, the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee, the New York As¬ sociation for New Americans, the National Jewish Welfare Board, and the American Jewish Congress. Committees of prominent industryites are assisting in the effort. Smolin Joins AAP New York — As part of the expansion of Associated Artists Productions in con¬ nection with its distribution of the War¬ ners library of feature films and shorts, Jay H. Smolin joined the company to head up the advertising, promotion, and publicity operation. The announcement was made by Bob Rich, general sales manager for AAP. Carol Levine continues as director of publicity and film research for the major television film distributing company. When this man walks into your theatre... ...your service worries are over. 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