Motion Picture Herald (1954)

( Continued from preceding page ) to the industry, has been named publicist for the Golden Gate theatre to replace Bill Blake who went over to MGM as field man for Northern California. . . . James Chisom has been appointed part-time booker at General Theatrical in the company’s expansion move. . . . Herb Bluchel, Jr., won the Variety Club Golf Tournament at Lake Merced links. . . . TV station KPIX has dropped all Dumont network programs, charging Dumont violated a network affiliation agreement. KOVR, Stockton’s new TV station, Channel 13, will get the Dumont programs. . . . James Myers, Allied Artists manager, was set to be in Chicago Oct. 14-16 for company sales meeting. ST. LOUIS The Riverside drive-in at Little Rock, Ark., has been sold by the Little Rock DriveIn Movies Corporation to the Capital City Real Estate Company and it is understood it will be operated by the Arkansas Amusement Company, owner of a Ltitle Rock group of theatres. . . . Mrs. Mary Vaughn, who had been with MGM in St. Louis for 35 years and who had a record of never missing a day’s work because of illness, has retired and has joined her son to live in Los Angeles. She was head of the inspection department at MGM. . . . The United Theatres Corporation at Morrillton, Ark., has advised the City Council that it will be glad to cooperate in enforcing the recently passed ordinance providing for a curfew. . . . A new screen has just been installed in the Weeks theatre in Dexter, Mo., and a full schedule of CinemaScope features set. TORONTO A committee set up by the Motion Picture Industry Council to study the formation of a Motion Picture Institute has drawn up a set of proposals to be placed before the Council at its next meeting in the fall. Members of the Committee included N. A. Taylor, Morris Stein, David Griesdorf, William Lester and Gordon Lightstone. . . Shelly Films Ltd. will build a studio-andlab film plant worth $400,000 in Long Branch, a suburb of Toronto. The firm has taken one and a quarter acres for the new plant. ... A report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. indicates there are 800,000 TV sets in operation in Canada and that by the end of 1954, 70 per cent of all Canadians are expected to be receiving national TV programs. . . . Herb Allen of Premier Operating is a proud grandfather with a grandson to his credit. . . . Edna, the hurricane, damaged the movie house at McAdam, New Brunswick. . . . Gerry Chernoff, manager of 20th-Fox at Montreal, was bereaved by the death of his father recently. VANCOUVER Joyce Reed, B. C. censor, is on vacation in Eastern Canada. . . . Marvin Thoreau, engineer for the Odeon circuit, is back from a holiday spent south of the border. . . . The Strand played two nights of grand opera to SRO. . . . B. C. financial department officials in Victoria acknowledged they had ordered a crack-down on amusement tax collections on free tickets issued by the theatre chains but planned to exempt such tickets when they are issued for “charitable reasons.”. . . . The Grand Forks drive-in is closed on account of a fire. No films were destroyed. ... Art Johnson, of Toronto, formerly a partner in the Cascades drive-in at Burnaby, has bought an interest in the downtown York Hotel. He said his father, Len Johnson, had bought the Loughheed drive-in but will be unable to take possession until 1956, when the lease of the present opeiator, Harry Phi 1 lit, expires. "Caine Mutiny” will have its first run at three Odeon houses, the Vogue, Park and Plaza. . . . “Apache” will first run at the Paradise, Park and Plaza theatres late this month. WASHINGTON George A. Crouch, Stanley Warner general zone manager, was to attend the 40th anniversary testimonial dinner in honor of Si habian, president of Stanley Warner Theatres, in Patterson, New Jersey, October 12. • ■ • A. J. Brylawski, president of the MPTO, and head of the Warner real estate department, held his annual outing for the theatre association at his farm September 16. . . . Bert Libin, account executive at station WMAL, is back at work after an eye operation. . . . 223 Variety Club members and friends attended the annual golf tournament and dinner dance at the Woodmont Country Club September 24. . . . Charles Redden, Loew’s Columbia assistant manager, is recuperating after surgery. . . . Frank Marshall, Stanley Warner home office film buyer, was in Washington recently, and attended the Variety Club Golf Tournament. COLUMBIA PICTURES ANNOUNCES THAT PRINTS OF THE FOLLOWING PICTURES ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN OUR EXCHANGE FOR SCREENING Maureen Macdonald They LUCILLE BALL O’HARA* CAREY Rode West WILLIAM HOLDEN Kiiiiiiiiii Starring ROBERT FRANCIS ! in Miss GUAM A FRANKOVICH-SALE PRODUCTION DONNA REED MAY WYNN TAKES BINNIE BARNES^GUY MIDDLETON hugh McDermott • james lilburn PHIL CAREY KICIIMOVP Screen Play by ROBERT WESTERBY Produced by M. J. FRANKOVICH • Directed by RICHARD SALE Screen Play by DeVALLON SCOTT and FRANK NUGENT with Janis James . Gloria Frank ^ 4 Produced by LEWIS J. RACHMIl • Directed by PHIL KARLSON CARTER* GLEASON HENRY McHUGH 1 Cow** 1 ( ' Color by 1 TitcHNICOIO* j Screen Play by Nat Perrin, Devery Freeman and Frank Tashlin Directed by LLOYD BACON General Release: November General Release: December an S. SYLVAN SIMON production A REPRINT General Release: October 34 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 16, 1954