Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1947)

Name Committees In Four Areas For Foundation Representatives of the motion picture industry and allied businesses met in four exchange areas during the past week and elected committees for the Motion Picture Foundation which has tentatively scheduled its national meeting for late this month or early June. At an organizing conference, called by William K. Jenkins, president of the Georgia Theatre Company, the Atlanta exchange area elected as committeemen : Mr. Jenkins, R. B. Wilby, E. D. Martin, O. C. Lamm, Nat Williams, Frank Rogers, Charles Lester, Mitchell Wolfson, Jock Mankham, Lex Benton, Kermit Stengel, J. H. Thompson, Mack Jackson, Herman Steinichen, Jack Kirby, N. A. Waters and Ike Katz. A chairman and trustee will be named at a later date. In Pittsburgh Monday, M. A. Silver, Warner zone manager, was elected Western Pennsylvania's trustee on the board at a meeting in the William Penn Hotel. Morris A. Finkel was elected chairman of the district committee, which also includes Mr. Silver, John H. Harris, Sam Fineberg, Mike Manor, William Blatt, Fred Beedle, Perry Nathan, J. B. Clark, Lee Conrad, Bert Stearn, Robert Coyle, G. Sallows, James Alexander, Morris Lefko, George Notopolos, David Kimmelman and Robert Klingensmith. At a meeting in the Broadwood Hotel in Philadelphia Monday Jay Emanuel was appointed temporary chairman of a committee to draw up a list of nominees to be acted upon Monday. The temporary committee also includes Martin Ellis, Samuel Gross, Lewen Pizor and Lester Wurtle. The area panel of Michigan film leaders met in Detroit last week and elected Earl J. Hudson of United Detroit Theatres, Michigan trustees of the Foundation, and C. L. Buermele, chairman. After the national meeting, which Mr. Hudson will attend, the panel will meet to elect a vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer. Paramount Sets Release Dates for Three Films Paramount has announced release dates for three more of its 1946-47 features. Betty Hutton's Technicolor "Perils of Pauline" will be released July 4. "The Trouble With Women," starring Ray Milland, Teresa Wright and Brian Donlevy, will be released June 27. The Pine-Thomas production "Danger Street," has a June 20 date. Film on Switzerland Set Films of the Nations, non-profit distribution agency for foreign governments, is entering the 35mm theatrical field, according to Maurice T. Groen, president. The company's first is a two-reel documentary "Historic Switzerland," released Thursday. Gamble Acquires Circle Theatre in Portland Ted Gamble, Gamble Theatre Enterprises, Portland, announced last week the acquisition of the Circle theatre, Portland, which he will add to his Pacific Northwest circuit. The Circle is the oldest house on the coast and was owned by Col. G. T. Woodlaw for 35 years. Rank Will Have Lively Schedule J. Arthur Rank, president of the British Film Producers Association, was due to have arrived in New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth Friday morning, accompanied by John Davis, managing director of the Rank Organization, and Mrs. Rank and Mrs. Davis, both of whom are making their first visit to this country. On his arrival Friday, Mr. Rank was to have been the guest of honor and speaker at a luncheon given by the Worlds' Sunday School Association at the Hotel Commodore. Also, on that day, he was to have met with the board of directors of the American RankOrganization, of which he is chairman. Meetings with Universal officials are scheduled for Saturday. Sunday he will be the guest at the country home of Spyros Skouras, president of 20th-Fox. On Mon day, Mr. Rank plans to spend almost the entire day with Universal, being the guest of the company's board of directors at a private luncheon. In the afternoon there will be a board meeting and in the evening he will be the guest of Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Assocation, and the MPA board at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner. Tuesday will see conferences with Arthur Krim, president, and Al W. Schwalberg, vice-president of Eagle-Lion, at which Mr. Davis will be present. A Pathe Industries board meeting also is scheduled. G. S. Eyssell, president and managing director of Radio City Music Hall, will give a luncheon for Mr. Rank at the theatre. On Wednesday, the whole party will entrain for Chicago, where it will stay three days before going to Toronto. A trip across Canada will follow, and then a California holiday. The group's return to England is scheduled for |ulv 17. Paramount Sets $600,000 Ad Budget on 2 Films Paramount has budgeted $600,000 for advertising on "Welcome Stranger" and "Perils of Pauline," it was announced by Curtis .Mitchell, advertising and publicity director. "Welcome Stranger," with Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Joan Caulfield, is set for special handling, after withdrawal from the 1946-1947 release schedule. "Perils of Pauline," in Technicolor, starring Betty Hutton, will go into general release the first week of July. M-C-M TRADE SHOW SAN FRANCISCO TERRITORY ONLY It GONE WITH THE WIND 2 0 t h F O X SCREEN ROOM 245 Hyde St., San Francisco, Cal. TUESDAY, MAY 20 1:30 P. M. David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Story of the Old South, "Gone With the Wind" • In Technicolor • Starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler • Leslie Howard • Olivia de Havilland • and presenting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara • A Selznick International Picture Directed by Victor Fleming • Screen Play by Sidney Howard • A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Masterpiece Release • Music by Max Steiner MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MAY 10, 1947 55