Variety (May 9, 1951)

FILMS STAGE I. Ln VOL. 182. N*. 9 NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. 1951 PRICE 25 CENTS VIDEO’S MG PLUNGE INTO FILMS Las Vegas Stresses ‘Entertannent’ NETWORK EXECS Lm-e (Bd That’s the Chance You Take) [YE PIC STUDIOS May • fry wt tad pitch The Alms for TV trend hit an r>! jljd • 11 r $177 720 (without for Hollywood »ithin t In Ha hoydry. nty; A convention trade la the concentre lion of hotel rape going t® Va- naty Clubs p owwow in Phllly Martlng tomorrow (Wad I. Group comprises Schiller, Wilbur Clark -'♦ft too operator He trio n K.M daman El Rancho. Roharl Cannon. - A«Cs Five Year _ __ § NBC Deal; Set Up £f|£ lOwlYHaCep.^ dieted that proframt lenaed an Aim speciAcsIly for TV will come into much wider uaapa la addi- t ion CIS board chairman William S Paloy. ae far hack at two yean ago on the occaaloo of hi* Aral trip to Hollywood, cryetai-ballad publiahad by SI- TV eventually will com (Continued on papa IS) Miami. May 4 Hot on the heal* of the annual Pulitzer award*, which tow ae •electkm ter a left! piny. Walter the 2 I P% NBC %u.r. thp| • Well* Ballet 4 'rai ThundarhM; Boo Ooffstetn. chief ■ (Continued on papa l»i Continued on pope ltl NBC this weak signed Abbott 4 ■■ ■ Cooteil© to a five-year deal for fnmv n f- CAM I f tv Dmcfwt«iDeri’ ™ TV tant Make • w Peal are wide with a potential in II - Vm ILLm 9 $15 000 000 Investment In the n a np *n Homes via jti l/iooes, which m addition to a 4 Kon/ic MAnrAA f-il r AVI A__C» annual fee. Include* total pro- UdllUj lvll/lil UC 14 [BMC PttB t p ASSerU duct ion coats secondary rights on Grand ispirii May 4 ihetr TV ftlma. etc Televiaioo has little chance to ea Catholic Bishop Francis J Haas Under terms of the pact, comics P*oH name hands te the same de charted that lel»vt*on while a will do a sponsored show starting free which network radio pickups greet blessing alee is doing the September They'll do a filmed from dance stands did ta the IttOs nark of the d a S B by bootlegging display every other week for a eccording to Nsughn Monroe into homes foulntm and obscenity " period of 44 weeks They'll also MoesUo who le dosing out the Arst He made the accusation In an edi do four to eight live shows during seoaoo of his own video show Tues lorial la the Western Michigan that year. During the s ec and year, day night* ea CBS. asserted that a band an TV caa hold an audience | only If the show has full production | mountings . And when that hap- to i r*i n.j?. T_i- i_L_ Ji i rked by seliouts i tumaways the on page 1«» that will all facets of i. literature pens he said, the band Itself is relegated te the background, al in all fields no matter what the source or background It will be dedicated to Damoo Runyon with not only a fund fbr the prizes run- ning into five figures, but in addi- tion a key 'Alpha Phi Beta Rapps' to the winners It will be railed the Annual Damoo Runyon Awards sad Wine hell himself will endow la full the first year's prises Idea Is to make these awards for the best In tournsUsllc rolumnint Continued oe page If* Clean It Up, Or Eke Edict Quiets Hsb ‘Rsarisf Girl New O’Casey Pby Sfcscks Hesrtes; Cal Writer Bitter Irish Fustic Houston May • Sean O'Casey's Hed Roves Far Me" had local playgoer* and critics split la half a dozen camps last week, but with this agreement They all considered It shocking ” The play which h. d It* premiere here by the new Houston Play “ “sntI-religious and “fa- • n 1 We salute It 'On Use ' r: did asore to bu Id s hand s reputs _ . . tloo then any other expimtaiioa pietely if | (Mlor Monroe recalled Many picture* ThU TV ‘Openinft’ Washington. May 4 Otto A. Harbach ASCAP dean it up. tlviUes listing Both not will t you snd said. There will be written for the me predicted and there will be hit plays and songs initiated 25 but of the play from two to