Variety (May 2, 1951)

, M.* t 1931 Northeast Hit la St. Louis. i». the Meckliad laid* of the city. Nizer Back Fran Fla Look Nlarr rot Monday '30' fo »k vocation In < I* sort the situation has booa abyut the smm tietpt that many ne on s r i hart sprang up la th# past several It but slightly years, ha example la the fart that ita<( At lea •it hare been erected la 8t. Louis workers will be County and throe near East St. metropolitan ar Louis and Belleville. Ill. arroos the of the year, and Mississippi and within a 14 mile radius of this city TV. of course out this way I the formative another 19 000 ded la the K ~ before the end to If V. I a three- iter, Fla.. |' t.vl aa executive officer of the * - ' ' far the falling off of the tease beef wae 122,000 BufeeU Fsr againot from 05c to T9c top. There just se em s to be s general sloughing off of buM no o s la all llnas o tin fK „ r . la the St Louie area, and even re- made la ardor to retain the full value ef the ingredients At the snme time, de Vestna said English dubbing of French pi a will ha turn* *n<1 ' ht Oe Veslnt came over primarily In study the U. S market for French Ms and to Incream the outlet Both Souvaine and de Veal ns believe the U. S can absorb more than 90 European Alms a year, Souvaine aspects to widen the selective < art I theatre Aeld through the adoption of art policies In esisting coove n - the p«*t Faria. April 10. ‘Wart-mlSM’ there are 203 to 110 I •Ibillties and shout M from drive-ins It estimated at from 10 to 11% for major companies here; for the smaller distributors, from 19 to 19%. The number of ^Far the sec o n d time. Jules Bo- Aimed starring Louis Jouvet This version Is static, literary and bog- ged down with palaver. Tedious unfoldment does not give this much c h an ce except In art houses With Jouvet name known to th# art clientele, this Aim could do for •econd-nsas and special situations m U. ft. It concerns a diabolical quack quality eight and 10 plx a ; will be exercised when It times to reieoov the pic via Fox. fee I ms f nanv t«* they're io sympathy with theatres A Afth u an np In the addad to the type t la the laet roar, and applications Bag far g sixth. The aroa inue tejjajn heavily In this bui ldin g in conventional strnc moved along steadily wt tut yuan, adding soma ST " ,n * ** T1 ~ r — j - _ Dealers Asm Jtakes ^ Phi fsr issicipil Tu ss Video Sets on* Philadelphia. May 1. • lag CMy Controller Joseph Sill Clark's proposal that a municipal illy tax be levied on television seta [mmi drew prompt Ore from the Notional Wafa Preps Three Hollywood May 1 Hal Wallis will resume prod will brush off with the passage of nation time They're in something of the Clark e proposal was made last spotlight now, It's foil but It's ««*k at a meeting ef the Municipal believed there will bo more aaour- Finance Officers Association of sore of public acceptance at a later United States sad Canada, la Del- date. las. Tax. Clark declared that a tax This same feeling la prompting os TV sets would not bo InatgaiA the of their current pix cant and at the same Lime prove DUtrtjw am said to believe that • "relatively fair levy * The 454.- there's less likely a chance of 000 seta In use In the City of Phils* protest if they withhold of the Alms for another few I rrty amounting to 9190 000 000 “a Paradoxically while the public s been given full chance to do , there have yet to be any pro* cnopemu'wiuTthe^e He's Howard da Silva. •4 Klim harmful (My Faria. April 11. At Ai aaaaaaas CoraxMn wealth circuit opeoed the Croat Fax Midwest hm added a number ef bouses (al- though some replaced farmer the •»re*>. some being Hayes. WfaffeldL Kaon, and Spring he Id. Me Inde- pendents Include Um Civic Theatre opened by Um Ernie Blocks to re*, Piece a former a vie Theatre at Sebetha. Kaax.; Um Mary Lou The- atre opened by Loo Hayob at Mar »h*ll. Mo.; the now Bea Bolt The- ft™ of Theatre Enterprises at Chil- licothe. Mo ; and the Dickinson Or* 2*t la shout to open Us now Trail Theatre la St Joe. Mo Television has had a tremen- dous impact on exhibs. especially in the Kansas City environs new cwv •red by WDAF TV. oulirt of UmJ Patterned along the linos of "Francis' and "Bonxo ’ Gallic pro- ducers have built a ptc arou n d the machinations of a seal called "Moustache " Flanked far Francois Perier, sa ingratiating comedian Aim Is pleasant fare. After a bright beginning the pic bogs down ss the artiAriallttes of the Dm via Aidet Sid Garfield Martin Davis, who has been aa •ociated with Samuel Gnldwya Productions in N. T. for the post four years, remains with the com paay as assistant director of ad err Using sod publicity under the new setup beaded far Sid Garfield Formal announcement of Gar ftrid 5 appointment j n u- *.i publicity director **• r.ade av week far prexy James A. Mulvey Davis has been acting ad pub bead since last November. dates, and also has a top spot In * M." which has played about six engagements In no Instance were any untoward Incidents reported lease Conclusions drawn from this down ss the artificialities of the plot get In the way Though not of art house caliber, this could do for some duals It has a good giannuck peg in the seal "Moustache * acts agreeably and garners most of the frequeot laughs Francois Perier Is excel- New Allen Theatre. Um Uth la Um S idney Lust chain of nabes and suburban houses, unshuttered near here recently. The 1 000* sea ter. built by local realtor Garfield Earn at coat of 9400 000 got under the ranged from the thought the public was proving itself apathetic unless its actually established s per- former Is a Cbmmie, to some observation that da SUva's name was not linked in the public mind with the Red hearings others, including the non perform ers who either refused to testify or were linked with the investiga flow through testimony of those subpoenaed Example cited was lent as the harassed seal lover Others in the cast art Ane Di- rector Pierre Billon has put a nice rhythm into the pit. Leasing and House, located a the city line la a i b o o sts ultra mode of "Brave Bulls ' has yet to encoun- ter any public antipathy Screen- writer Richard J Collins in his testimony aligned Bowen with the tervals and parts shorts get resultant irregularity In tioe and supply ** TV’s iifhts Ob’ Drive Benefits Cancer Fund ColiuDbm M*> I. Television directly raised ooe- Afth of the total 939 000 la con- tributions during the one night "Lights On" drive for the Ameri- can Cancer Society here loot Tues- day <34». WBNS-TV stretched a pis seed three-hour auction and talent show starting at • pm into Ave ho ur s and hauled la more than 94 000 in high bids on merchandise do- nated far Prankiia County mer- chants These donations were an liberal that additional merchandise wos put on the block during Thurs- day s and Friday's "Nitecapper's" show and the money garnered should bring the total raised by TV aieas to 97.004