The Exhibitor (1966)

NATO Tag For N.Y. Unit BU FALO — It’s i fficial! Sidney J. Cohen ha een ad ised th tt the board of directors of the National Assoc iation of Th ’atre Owners, Inc., at a meeting held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, author /ed the Allied The? re Owners of New York State, Inc., to use t ie name Na¬ tional Association of Th atre Owners of New York State. Cohen is resident of the N.Y association, and the authorization document came from Joseph C. Alterman, executive director of NATO. Exhib “Man Of Year” IRYING, TEX — -This city’s “Outstanding Young Man for 1966” is Jerry Meagher, presi¬ dent of Meagher Enterprises, a theatre chain. The local Junior Chamber of Commerce se¬ lected Meagher from a. field of seven nomi¬ nees. Meagher was cited for “charitable activi¬ ties and business achievements.” Clint Eastwood (center) who stars in United Artists' "A Fistful of Dollars," joined in WMEX radio's cerebral palsy campaign in Boston during his recent visit there to promote the picture. Pictured with him are Maxwell L. Richmond (left), president of WMEX, and Herbert Connolley, chairman of the 1967 Cerebral Palsy Campaign. CLARK TRANSFER, INC. Terminals: • BOSTON, MASS. 100 Gibson Street, Dorchester 617-282-2099 • NEW YORK, N. Y. 610 W. 47th Street 212-246-0815 • NORFOLK, VA. 316 South Main Street 703-545-3832 • PHILADELPHIA, PA. (Executive Offices) 829 North 29th Street 215-232-3100 • RICHMOND, VA. 312 South 17th Street 703-648-6083 • TAMAQUA (Hometown), PA. RD #2 717-668-1727 • WASHINGTON, D. C. 3194 Bladensburg Road, N.E. 202-526-4800 PROGRESSIVE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CO. INC. 240 N. 13th St. • PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19107 35 Tears of Theatre Construction and Maintenance BLUmBERG BROS., Inc. Cu&ufUiuuj, {o* the. 'lUeahe ,, 1305-07 VINE STREET WALNUT S-TI40— 41 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 17107 Dollinger Heads Tent 35 NEW YORK — Irving Dollinger, vice-presi¬ dent of Triangle Theatres, Inc., has been re¬ elected chief barker of Variety Club, Tent 35. Dollinger served as chief barker in 1966. Other 1967 officers are first assistant, E. David Rosen; second assistant, Charles A. Smakwitz; dough guy, Charles Boasberg; property master, Ed¬ ward C. Finneran. Mrs. Bernard Myerson has been elected President of the Variety Club Women for 1967. She succeeds Mrs. Nat Nathanson, who served in that capacity last year. The Variety Club Women also elected Mrs. Nat Fellman, vice-president; Mrs. Philip Harling, vicepresident; Mrs. Jay Western, vice-president; Mrs. Jack Yellin, vice-president; Miss Claire Roth, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Saul Susnow, recording secretary; Mrs. Saal Cottlieb, social secretary; Mrs. Robert R. Deitch, trea¬ surer. Oscar Trailer From NSS NEW YORK — The Motion Picture Acade¬ my of Arts and Sciences has again designated National Screen Service to distribute its spe¬ cial new Academy Awards trailer heralding the Oscar telecast on Monday, April 10. This color trailer starring Bob Hope will run ap¬ proximately 45 feet. In addition, NSS will prepare a special onesheet and mat announcing the Academy Awards telecast. The Academy is currently circularizing all major circuits throughout the country to submit their requirements for trailers and accessories to be shipped on or about March 1. “Dutchman” To Continental NEW YORK — “Dutchman,” the film ver¬ sion of the award winning play by LeRoi Jones, will be distributed in the United States and Canada by Continental, a division of the Wal¬ ter Reade Organization. Gene Persson, pro¬ ducer of the film, and Walter Reade, Jr., presi¬ dent of the Walter Reade Organization, disclosed the distribution agreement. 7 Arts TV Ups Ramos NEW YORK — Vicente Ramos has been ap¬ pointed director of international sales for Seven Arts television, it was announced by Richard A. F arper, vice-president, syndicated sales. R imos previously was in charge of sales for Latin America a id Southern Europe. Directors Win Long Fight On Guild Loyalty Oath NEW YORK — Six television and screen di¬ rectors, assisted by the American Civil Liber¬ ties Union, won their long fight to be admitted : to the Directors Guild of America without swearing to the non-subversive oath which was \ required by the Guild constitution. Judge I Richard H. Levet, United States District Court , for the Southern District of New York, entered ! a final order directing their admission to mem J bership and the cancellation of the oath re \ quirement. The District Court ruling implemented a decision of the Court of Appeals for the Sec¬ ond Circuit last July, which was greeted by experts in the fields of labor law and civil liberties as an unusual and landmark ruling — invalidating an anti-subversive oath by a pri¬ vate organization for the first time in a U.S. court. The United States Supreme Court left the decision in force by refusing the Guild’s application for review. The six plaintiffs were described by the Court of Appeals as “film and television direc¬ tors of long standing who . . . attacked the DGA oath solely as a matter of principle.” They are Leo Hurwitz, who handled the tv coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial; Lee R. Bobker; Robert Braverman; Gene Searchinger, who has directed films for the United States Information Agency; Darrell Random; and Hilary T. Harris, winner of a 1962 Academy Award for the Best Short Subject. The directors had all been members, and some had been founders, of an east coast union of screen and television directors which merged about a year ago with the Directors Guild, the larger west coast union. The merger agreement stipulated that the New York-based group would hold member¬ ship in the Directors Guild on the condition that they swear they are not and never have been Communist Party members and do not support the overthrow of the government by unconstitutional means. In argument before the Court of Appeals, Nanette Dembitz, appearing for the six direc¬ tors on behalf of the Civil Liberties Union, pointed out that the merger gave the Directors Guild a monopolistic position as collective bargaining representative for the film and tele¬ vision directors employed by all the major and most of the minor producers in the United States. She argued that the old theory that a union is like a social club, with absolute discretion as to whom to admit to membership, is outmoded, particularly when it has mono polistic power. An individual has a right, she further argued, to participate in the union that helps determine his working conditions. In opposi¬ tion, the Guild argued that the directors could get no redress in the courts for their exclusion from the union unless they could show they had actually lost work as a result. A noteworthy feature of the Court of Ap¬ peals decision, according to experts in the field, was its endorsement of the position that a person arbitrarily denied admission to a union can resort to the courts — previously it had been generally held that a person could recover damages if he was expelled from a union without good cause but that the union could refuse to admit anyone it pleased. Another major aspect of the Court’s action was its acceptance of the ACLU argument that the standards applied by the United States Supreme Court to oaths imposed by cities and states should also be applied to the oath im¬ posed by the Guild. 22 MOTICnI PICTURE EXHIBITOR February 8, 1967