Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1951)

Star Tours Heotly for 3Morietitne Motion picture personalities assigned to the second series of Movietime U. S. A. tours were announced this week by the Association of Motion Picture Producers and the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, the latter sponsoring the drive. Three tours get underway November 25 in New York state, the Rocky Mountain area and western Pennsylvania. In the first unit, which will spend four days in Buffalo before going on to a three-day stand in Albany, are Lloyd Bridges, Arleen Whelan and Andrew Solt, writer. The Rocky Mountain unit, with Keenan Wynn, Dean Jagger, Marshall Thompson and Mary McCall, Jr., writer, will begin in Salt Lake City and cover Utah, Idaho and Montana. The western Pennsylvania group will be composed of Jody Lawrence, Jack Paar, Mel Ferrer and David Brian. Starting in New Orleans December 2, the following personalities will tour the Louisiana anti Mississippi area: Anthony Dexter, Julia Adams, Charlton Heston, Lydia Clarke, Frank Faylen, Bruce Bennett, Robert Stack, Jesse White, Margaret Sheridan, Hope Emerson, players ; Maxwell Shane, Robert Fellows, Irving Asher, producers; Fred de Cordova, George Sidney, Lillian Burns, directors; Leonard Stern, Dorothy Hughes, writers. Re-Release of RKO's "Snow White" Set Saturation bookings of RKO Radio’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in the six New England states has been announced by tbe company. First bookings are for the week of February 16. The actors who spoke original voices of the characters are slated to make personal appearances in many cities. Now . . . RCA ready TO STAKE MORE MILLIONS in your theatre business Offers bold new plan to help you modernize now on low-cost credit Effective immediately: For you, the theatre owners, RCA now makes available additional millions of dollars in new credit financing in an all-out effort to give you the theatre equipment you need to modernize right now for better house appeal, bigger grosses! Get full story. Coll your RCA Dealer . . . today. THEATRE EQUIPMENT RADIO CORPORATION of AHICRICA ENGINEERING PRODUCTS DEPT. CAMDEN, N. J. IN NEWSREELS See More MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 93— World shocked by massacre of prisoners in Korea. Wyoming rail wreck kills 18. Tornado in the Midwest. Eleven orphaned in Michigan car crash. Danny Kaye entertains in Korea. Atomic air test. Beard show. Horse racing. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 94 Elizabeth and Philip back in Britain. Italian floods. U. S. plane crashes in France. Big* bed blaze in Oiicago. Australian couple wins jackpot of prizes. Football: IllinoisOhio State; PrincetonYale. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 223— Civil defense test in New York. Korean massacres. Air battles in Korea. 1952 beach fashions. G'en. MacArthur cheers Korean veterans. Gov. Warren’s hat in the ring. Wyoming train wreck. Women answer call to service. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 224 -Royal couple home. Italian floods. Blood for comrades. Crash of U. S. plane overseas kills 36 persons. Peron wins again. Eisenhower boom. Truman meets the press. U. S. Nobel Prize winners. Football: Princeton-Yale; Stanford -Oregon State. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No . 28— Korean atrocities. Gov. Warren to be candidate. The Greenback Party. Swim fashions for 1952. Millionth “D.P.” arrives here. New York civil defense. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 27— Floods in Italy. Plane crash in France. Peron retains power. Iran’s premier leaves U. S. Sen. Lodge booms Eisenhower. Royal couple arrives home. Football; AlabamaGeorgia Tech; Yale-Princeton. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 488 — Korean report. Suez crisis. Eden blasts Vishinsky. Truce talks. Trurnan vacations. Wyoming rail wreck. Tokyo union demonstration. Pakistan prime minister takes over. Atom bomb drill fashions. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 47A— Royal couple returns home. Paratroops practice in Korea. Sen. Lodge heads Eisenhower boom. Italian floods. Cold war battle in Berlin. Joe Louis arrives in Tokyo. French governor received in Algiers. Browns defeat Giants. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 509 Korean atrocities. U. N. Assembly in Paris. Simulated atom Iwmb attack. Warren’s hat in the ring. “GI Jane” joins up. Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner step out. Football thrills. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 510 — Korean heroes. Italian floods. Air crash in France. Nobel Prize winners. Foreign officers train at Fort Benning. Football: Browns Giants ; Illinois Ohio State; Princeton-Yale. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 28— New York in atom bomb test. Korean atrocities. Gov. Warren to try for presidency. Twenty-Eight Division sails. Gen. McaArthur greets Korean vets. Elizabeth and Philip sail for home. Fashions. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 2»-Sen. Lodge opens Eisenlictwer drive. Floods in Italy. Air crash in France. Welcome home to Elizabeth and Philip. Motion Picture Pioneers honor three Warner Brothers. Aboard U. S. S. Boxer. Korea wounded get carrier’s blood gift. Football; Princeton-Yale: GiantsBrowns. Brylawski Washington NPTO President 29th Time A. Julian Brylawski has been elected president of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Washington. It will be his 29th term. All other officers were reelected. They are Fred Kogod, vice-president; Lloyd Wineland, Sr., treasurer ; and Harry Bachman, secretary. William E. Truog, Veteran Kansas Distributor, Dies William Edward Truog, 71, Kansas City liranch manager for United Artists Corporation since 1928, died at his home Nov. 16 after a year’s illness. Mr. Truog entered the film industry in 1917 as manager of the W’orld Film Company after having been city manager of a typewriter firm. He joined the Goldwyn Film Company as district manager in 1920 and was district manager of Universal from 1924 to 1928. He is survived by four sons and a daughter. David N. Green David N. Green, 65, owner of the Beacon theatre. Squirrel Hill, Pa., died November 9 in Pittsburgh. His widow, two sons, and a sister survive. Mtemodeting Muteriuis WASHINGTON : Although theatre construction is almost wholly stopped by defense requirements, there is room for building, provided it comes under the heading of needed remodeling. This is the interpretation put upon Governmental pronouncements by Washington observers. For instance, the National Production Authority last week announced that theatre men who want Government allocations of materials for construction during the second quarter of 1952 or thereafter should apply before December 15 — and that those whose applications for material during the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of 1952 were rejected, should reapply. And it added that “it is hoped” structural steel will be more abundant in the latter half of next year. And, furthermore, that projects rejected now might very well receive approval later. Meanwhile, even those Washington authorities who predict a worsening building materials situation were admitting last week that the steel and aluminum supply may improve in the last half of 1952. About copper, however, no one around Washington ventures predictions. One NPA spokesman disclosed a bit of information possibly valuable to theatre men. He said ; “We have practically no applications for building in the first quarter of next year.” He continued, that he sees only two types of new theatre building likely : where it is needed in conjunction with a defense agency, or where it is needed to replace a burned or otherwise destroyed house. COMPO Sued by New York "Movietime" Company Movietime, Inc., a New York company incorporated in 1945 to give motion picture information to the public via telephone, last week sued in New York Supreme Court for an injunction against use of the slogan Movietime U.S.A. by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, the Brandt, Century, Fabian, Randforce, and other New York circuits. COMPO has refused comment on the issue. 36 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, NOVEMBER 24, 1951