Paramount World (May 1958 - July 1962)

Paramount World Star To Be? ' LAUREL GOODWIN, shown here on the set of "Girlsl Girls! Girls!" with director Norman Taurog, not only made good as Elvis Presley's leading lady in this picture, but has been assigned a leading role with Jackie Gleason in his forthcoming Paramount comedy, "Papa's Delicate Condition." Perhaps the best news about this announcement is its confirmation of Paramount's policy of building up new talent. The Cover . . . The Tanganyika Jeep Ride — created by the Willys Motor Company and introduced with the greatest success at this year's Automobile Show in Chicago is presently a great public success in Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City. It is free, it is fun, and the line-up for rides is continuous. It is also one more proof of the fact that "Hatari!" is the one film that will disappoint nobody. Paramount World . Copyright © 1962 by Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. Published every month by Paramount Pictures Corporation, 1501 Broadway, New York 36, New York, U.S.A. Issued by and for members of the Paramount organization around the world who believe in the entertainment appeal of their motion pictures, their television enterprises and allied products, and in the business future of their company. Vol, 8, Ncs. 6 & 7 JuneJuly, 1962 ALBERT DEANE, Editor Prophetic picture Many important events in our company' s history have had a way of forecasting themselves, sometimes even years before. Such seems to have been the case with this picture of Mr. Balaban and Mr. Meitner, taken in February of 1955. This was the moment when the company's president advanced Mr. Weltner from his post as head of the international branch of the company and made him head of both the domestic and foreign operations. In short, head of world sales. And now, by direction of the board of directors of Paramount Pictures Corporation, Mr. Weltner has been elected executive vice president of Paramount , thus bringing into his sphere of executive activity all of the diversified ramifications of the Paramount organization, no matter in what part of the spinning globe which, shown here in miniature, revolves beneath the hands of both Mr. Balaban and Mr. Weltner, and which symbolizes the world-wide interests of Paramount Pictures Corporation. Jnhn P RrniA/n pictured on the page opposite, was on June Onn r. DlUfli!, to the post of Assistant Treasu rer of Paramount Pictures Corporation. He joined Paramount in January, 1962, coming to the company from General Dynamics Corporation, where he had been far 4 years. He graduated from St. John's University, Brooklyn, in 1949 with an Accountancy Major (B.B.A.). He also holds a Corporate Finance Major (M.B.A.), I960, from New York University's Graduate School. He is a C.P.A., New York State; a member of the N.Y. State Society of C.P.A.'s and a member of the committee on state taxation; a member of the American Institute of C.P.A.'s, and a member of the Domestic Tax Committee of the Motion Picture Association of America. He served with the United States Army in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, 1944-46. He is married and has two children. In addition to his being with General Dynamics, he also was from 1950-58 with the C.P.A. organization of Arthur Young & Company. Cable News Such a wealth of upbeat business re• -j. • r • ports. More on "Psycho" from India, with IS I 0PP I T I C general manager K.S.Vaidyanathan turning 'verbal handsprings.' In Madras, all performances at the Minerva were sold out, and police called to handle crowds. At the Lighthouse in Calcutta it was the same story — packed houses, tumbling records, perfect manifestation of the 'admissions' policy (which, incidentally, is being maintained around the world). Another of Mr. Vaidyanathan' s cables tells of the spread of the "ex-PSYCHO-ment" to Rangoon, Burma, where the same wonderful success story is making exhibitors happier than they have been for a long while From Zurich, Starfilm's Jules Gendre reports wonderful business registered by "My Geisha" at the Rex, with excellent press and public reaction, and fine business at the Capitol, Berne, also.