Variety (October 03, 1951)

*. mi Give Red Probe Dramatic dinar fcpt Ctkki Dozen <MHh>. •UOI. By MIBB KAPLAN 4 C M«iiy»oo4. (kt 2 Johnston Appointed iS^WSLSSra;' I W ^MdCtilrmM fhr con*re»«man imho Mood up hi» Eric Johnslon. Economic SUblli- committee gave the Coast H» dou tat ton Administrator and president bir feature of the week, Their re of the Motion Picture At*n of sprettve future* promptly provoked America, hot been homed genera! nw»r* ipiriibllnp thou the Induatry chairman of B ro the rh ood Week attitude toward a •core of Wttneaa- I which wilt be nationally eheerved I n who declined on Constitutional neat Etb 17 14 under »poa*or*hip ground* to flee any Information of the National Conference of to the Houfu Un-American Acthi- Christian* A Jena. [ firm Sub-Committee investigating Appointment of Johnyton mark* Commiantat infiltration in the Aim the second aoccesaive year he ha« \ 9* 10 II. r). * People will Talk** tooth). Ilia Kind of Woman ’ iBKOE That» My Boy*’ ipnri. "Place la Sun** ippr*. "Cape. HornWower < W B». •“Ilich. Pretty- *M-Gu ♦jim Thorpe*' »WB>. "Show Boat** tM-G). 12. Tron Man** fWI. Red Stance Bathsheba hldM»t r y The tv# MtiMnrtlihpOdifer Sidney Bachman and Hep. Donald I. Jarhbun ‘It. Cal —provided a dramatic climax ta the local bear* lag* Buchman "most r f p tt tfuHv but flatly. declined to no me persona with whom he had been anw Mtrd during hi* arven year* at a Com- muniat Party member Ja bon had left the hiring shortly after Bu< h man began t o teat if y and hi* *b arm e left the tu b c ommittee w ith held the port Liz Scott-Heared Cleared far Brit Pic >K/- Despite Slack Liiabetb Scott lad inked to coMaf with must be discharged. )u»t at others were dumisted la past. It waa taid. However. there * no certaiaty re- garding Burhman • future because of the peculiar circumstances sur- rounding hit appearsare before the Houte investigation unit Buchman. on technical ground*, could not be cued for contempt because of lack of a committee quorum However, he volunteered to waive thia con- |. tlderatlon. week wat t Majoitt) of Hollywood's 23 un- Paul Hen- cooperative- witnesses before the Screen Director* Set Up Free lmnrance Plan Holl yw o o d. Oct. 1. Screes Directors Guild pm aounced a premiam free II ix>0 life i inaurance pokey far each of U» B2 ' aaember* IS food standing. Deal. Brst of its kind by asy IkMst froup. *was set with Occidental Insurance. There will be no Increase la •*»esamenu. Guild footing all mums. Mem b ers are covet long as they re ta food standing. : U alike! y—Mesetti; Strum ASausy Possibility that • dim version a# Gian • Carle Menottl s musical drama. **The Consul:' will be made aoen is rather unlikely. the author composer hat disclosed He *5 Pape Igt el boaofhce U*| Is 2d hey cities shorn “ “ * ddthl and r fBKOI dm at the wiebeta. The dl.ld4.S0g relied up by "Dsetd" ee national champ m Sep. tember elan indicated that the pub- lk it pr ep f ig to pay sharply if they have the aw *•» The Gregory Perk Bueaa Hayward starter not ooly did sock to record trade In virtually all spoil but held to smash totals on many extended- run dates, film was first three out • of four weeks during the month, "Leathernecks'* waa a high gross- I er most of tho month, and handily risk < akuiatcdly—-and I waive the lat h of a Uhl* ’ Me followed his statement with a telegram to the committee offering to stipulate for the record that a quorum was present at all times Better, he told a press conference, to waive the technicality than to ’ waver fiom personal principle " Object* to 2d Tes t imo n y Buchman stipulated that he was Willing to stand on the testimony ns Ik had given »t lie voiced a mild objecticm to going through no definite statement about either. Two others have been dismissed, another resigned and one—Carl last week that both Mist Vott and Foreman—faces the end of a bright He nr rid have been cleared for their career via dissolution of his Mints b* British Equity. Mlftia j paf>nership in the Stanley Kramer ■■ read tn The Stolen face.** srhed I Committee are still p ond er ing Ziri ouorum-^maklnat*”it*imasnai- uled to go before the cameras Oct. their emp-«\ ment futuren a week j A r med ji WdHt ISiBt tMt Bt ltB |M» to nu Mu. hm.n for K.nirmpt. ?» «« lb» *rtltrtl .lo*« •» J»<~. .firr Ihr h..ni>«. <W). I*c. produce* t..m _iu rm*r»t.i n *n d*m anded that CwWM btl f l si Wt- fkHH 1 L — It Kssnl g , fjggB p sndnrse I Neame and David Lean had ap- proached him in regard ta lensing Consul. * Although he is "vaguely Inter rated'* in i he Seame Lean offer Menottt said prospetta of s deal are remote But he may consider aurh an arrangement, he added. If he is permitted to shoot "The Con- sul** <he way he wants It done The British producers are partnered in Cmegutid. Inc. which hat turned out such Alma aa "Great Expects lions ‘ and Oliver Twist.’* Even more remote. Menotti stated Is • published report that Evan Frankel. Walter Lowendahl and Chandler Cowles would lenae The Consul ’ in Home next Spring B«thnian be recalled before the l» am of S grwqp ■ MibRsAart U -1 kt Paramount, and Marguerite lull rommittee in Washington and l Ippefrt Will distribute in the U I t ! ■»■ >» ■> fci^^Hier at Metrw. quest toned again. The 4W year-old Although American actor Robert I min are employeC^gJJ^aa been dim industry Agure answered Sta< k early lavt month was refused promptlv . / ~a permit by the British MinlMry ’ I wmt inio thts out of frith of Labor, Lippert sold in Hew Tork ripie ’ he deelsred. ’ I t«K*k thts try * refusal of a permit to Stack was seen as the start of • possible rrtaiiat<»r> campaign against U. S union restrict Iona on alien talent. Stavk was ta have appeared In the Jay Lewi's produ ct io n of "Gift Ho rse. His difficulty came as somewhat of a surprise, since prior to the incident there had been no{ int erfe r e nc e with Yank playars in Brltisbmade pictures Lippert la| im lined to think the ciearante on company . Moat of the others were on freelance status although a few told the committee that they had lost employment long before their actual appearances as witnesses and purely on tha basis of re- ceiving a subpoena. Five of the Aim industry s hi i cooperative"* witnesses are work _ mg The reception Is screenwriter the*iuUmruninpnatr aaid he had Marlin Berkeley, the committees ^ even k nown of such a project i I LI _ I ... m,. * kckpot w »t ne*s who spMled onto unta ^ had read It in The 1C T the "ordesl of testifying a srrund \\\ks Ssutt and llenreid wag forth th e record ajotal of IM> names "f .Time*. Frankel. Lowendahl and "• ^ Cowles, of course, were associated with Transdlm in making the Aim version of The Medium * which Menotti wrote and directed. time—but reiterated that he would Communist Partjr P coming because "Face* is a HltKe , ^ t . I ... . I J a British Abu, rather than a Joint ported!) has a acteenwntlng post new one were Issued and would production. the ofAng Others are writers iNklfy exactly as he bad originally, j jjtars were htred by Lippa rt. who qpd owed on pnge 2t)» Ex-Counterattack Pard Hired by C*L Piets As Klimheth WUsnn who was fehired cbargA thelg com pi* ns. turn off to ^ Town" Carreras account Thu* ^Face" u ^ or ~ M . #l 7 HmaicUn d entirely British Same * n<1 * ho rr<a> .^ d ***' pcocedure waa a)-o used on lk ***"; Carreras production of 'Blonde ?*!'** ^ r BtorkmaH * W tuck Stars t.corge ^ependeot publlclit B.lliamF Bt rut and Marguerite Chapman. unan*.j toil ■ • t tii',1 a i • a. nirm ami .Marguerite t napman , — ^ Link with r atriotu (>roups *~t "i>»»d »n c»ur«.- mm«j —gSy*.' " Ll. . .. .. . ._z! z»»iwo *<•«. Kenneth Bierly, former p.ntner tn Counterattack anti-CommuhiM puhlnation has bet n hired hv Co- lumbu Pictures on a consultant basis. It was said by Col that his work has nothing to tk> with politi- cal afAliaiums of employers, hut that he Is serving as a I la hum with . _ „ . veteran and patriotic gr«*ups ^ ‘< h , unlra^acUnmJri oflh* Motion which he has excellent contacts be- , , r ** ,n| f r ” " , ^ —-a ki. r«..M.r.it»k > future As*n of America, tuid the tM>«rd in the H'WOOD RED SITUATION WELL IN HAND—O’HARA .... *7*,if. tant ^tn the story department, and erative'* witness who resigned his teevee story editor poet an re- ceipt of the »ubpoena although be declared he was "hot now" a Com- munist and had not been when he took the >ob s year ago. Metro dis- tause of hi« former Counterattack osscm latton. | ivtl . * , ^ . « o. — UnaM -t-h prok.; g.W”«JgJ!*.".yjgyjgf I> lemx because of red tinge attnb * , hr * °* 1 I • B ® ‘ on# m ' ,h . uted to some of its actors and j hrailm studio personnel after pix on which 1 **k Johnston, pres of the they worked were completed MPA A. was a surprise visitor at Headaches have been pretty well j the board meet On leave of ab- stained via Bierly s advice and aid J ^nee now to serve as U. S Eco- lleiba leikviu. aa architectural researcher, both of whom had been : V”*V^T-..'“*1 working on a week-to-week basis Hrm Wrt U« —k Th . rtudl0 >ddrd ida( U ha. Ih* of Miss Roberta "under con- sider at too' Foreman, who stated that be signed s non Communist oath in September. 1930 and that the statement "was true then and Is true now,” hat declined to from Counterattack t*r« auu of dis- agreement on poliev with his'part- ners. Theodore Kirkpatrick and John Keenan He thereupon set up hla own out At, Kerbv tusdatri. E uhitc relations outfit In the anti- •d Aeld. I Bierly Is a former FBI agent who nomie Stabiluatiun Administrator. ♦ M Stanley Kramer's an- ts said to have disengaged himself '** BAbt the company toppers a nouncrmrn i indicating an effort « .« S « m « a »ia*iL.u ma a.M Ik* u Arid 9 will he made by other partners to oust Foreman The statement said that "there is total disagreement* between Kramer and Foreman. Others with Atm industry con- nections whom the rommittee re- garded a* uncooperative' in- cluded: director Michael Gordon, publici«t Charles Daggett, writer Albert Levitt and his wife. Helen Slote Levitt, writers Bess Taffel. Henry Blankfort. Philip Stevenson j Dan and Lilith James ‘authors of "Bloomer Girt'*)* Robert Richards SMtlpfl IB N Y * n<1 bw wife Ann Roth Morgsn ■ m 11,1 ♦ Richards, Michael Wilson. John Li libation between Pat he Indus- Sanford. Louisa Rousseau and tne* and lam Bunin Production* Reuben Ship, actors Howland over the latter s Atm version of Chamberlin ard Jeff Corey and Alice in Wonderland' hat been actresses Georgia Backus Aleman- Trans-Lai Deni Oat Failure ta get together on terms resulted in the abandonment of a deal whereby Trans-Lux Theatres was ta taka aver tha recently com- pleted Fine Alts Theatre. N. Y. Instead, the house will be run by owners Richard Davia In associa- tion with Oliver A. Unger A 4A5- seater. the Fine Arts is on tha site formerly occupied hy Cafe Society Uptown. Theatre opens Oct. IS with Uni- versal-International's British im- port. "Tha Lavender Hill Mob" Policy will be dret-nin. either of American or foreign origin. Davis is better known as a book publish- er. while Unger Is national sales director of Sander Productions. Teciini’t 50c Dirry Technicolor has declared its reg- ular quarterly dividend of 5K per- share. Herbert T Kalmus. presi- dent and general af the U. S Marti nearly $700,000 last month with- out the benefit of any inc reased scale. ’ Here Comes Groom * 'Psrt at- tested to the sustained popularity of Bing Crosby tap capturing th i place t«y a substantial margin. It was third or better is national rat- ings throe Weeks In September. People Will Talk** *2<Hh> wound up fourth, the Cary. Grant-Jesone Crain Aim having to evsrea m s what some crix regarded as s compel s- Uvety wordy, rambling story. "HlS Kind of Woman RKO> finished in fifth position, the Jana Buasetl-ltebert Mitchura atarrrr catching on via the he man and femme lure. "That*! My Boy * Par*. No 1 boxotAce Winner .n August, captured sixth spot. . ‘’Place In Sun** <ParV really out In distribution only two weeks te , any greet extent, was seventh. ( apt. Horatio Homblower” iWI», fourth In Aug—I. continued an enough playdates to win eighth po- sition. "Rich. Young. Pretty* • M-G) took over ninth slot It was 11th In August. "Jim Thorpe* (WB). which did not measure up ss strong as espected In soma spots, took tenth place money, while "Show Boat** (RCl, second best ta August, was 11th. "Iron Man" <U) edged out "Meet M# After Show" ‘20th > for 12th position. "Show" had Its real play in the preceding month when the film finished sixth. ; "Meet After Show" '20th'. * Aa- {Continued an page «3> L. A. to N Y. Morey Amsterdam Jsck B ruder Sherrill Corwin Jerome Court land Broderick Crawford Frank Danzig > Hou*? \ oU‘s KHM. More J For KreT »»rohr Till Tvl kathinglso. Oct. 2. Hou^e Vn-AserlrM Activities Committee has Just received addi- tional cash fb hvpo us investlgal- mg activities ll»ue; fa.*t w»« k voire! it an esira lionosb to op- erate with until Dm- beginning uf Junusry . TIIM, Original requ»-*t from the committee was MMJN Mrantuwe, Danny Dare. T\ producer. ap|MF-.«rt <i before the committee at hi* own req u est Uu week to d#ny charge* by- Martin Berkeley that he wo* a former Con|my During the hearingk m L. A. B* rkHry said he had known rundown on the worid situation prior to taking off for Europe on a Iwo-week appratsoL There was no discussion of the time of Johnston s return lo the M PA A. Hr * slated to reas*ume his post shortly after his nine- month leave exptrsw Oct 24, con- tinxrat on rerlain supplementary X»v c rnmenta! duties. Pathe, Bonis Suit Oi papers filed in N. Y. Bu-1 Court last week. Mritled and di«< i»uimunt >ng to prrme Pathe. as parent firm of the de| fund Eagle Lion Classics, brought s 11 0t7 MB damage action against Huntn. claiming non-deliver)' of Alice'* pent* Bunin retaliated with a $1 >00 000 countcr-«uit accord- del and Mary Virginia Farmer, Schenck Drops Turf , To Concentrate on Pix Hollywood Oct. 2., Joseph M Schenck has sold his Interest in the Dei Mar Turf Club to Louis B Mayer. Tom Peppers. rland ami Dare in the parte At his brief charging he did deliver the prints Alfred Hart. Harry Cm hearing here Dare said he is not sod ELI was guilty of a bad Job other Southern California turfmen now and never ha* been a member tn selling and exploiting the pie- Schenck explained jgfllbg by gf MB GBMMnnist Party ^ He %aid.ture. Case grew out of a 1$4$ stating he felt he could not con- tinue to be active in track opera- tion because of my primary inter- ests in motion pictures." be knew Berkeley when they both agreement whereby ELC was to worked an the Coast about 15 years lease the film. Terms af tbs set 1 1lenient were uodisclosd. Divvy Is payable Oct. 22 to stock- holders of record on Oct. 10. EuropB lo N. Y. Josephine Bskef Claire Bloom Eleanor BolanskJ Robert Breen A Ido Cieroltnl Jena Dalnmplt Michael Evans Josa Ferrer Mary Garden Keq Ginigrr Trudy Goth ■ Lew Grade David E Green Sam Harris Audrey Hepburn Phyllis Hill David Kapp Ken Giniger Gilbert Miller Borrah Minevitrh . Raymond Rouleau Bill Dosier |>ou*!at Fairbanks, Jr. Hunts Hall Ernest Haller Oscar Karl we is Patricia Knight Harold Knox Milton Kraanar Elsa Ixnchaster Victor Laaky Gummo Marx Arthur L. Mayer WilUam Meikiejohn Ray MUland Thomas Mitchell Mike Nidorf Lloyd Nolan Cathy O'Donnell James Page Pagiiane Alice Pr , r» e Alfred San tell Robert C. Schnitarr Robert Shackieton Spyros P. Skouras H- hrrt Snowrdy Elisabeth Taylor Jennia Tourel UU Vatenty Judy Wabn Bruno Walter Allen Rivkin Rosalind Russell Oscar Saul Karl Struts -j Gloria Swunson Danny Thomas N. Y.toLA. Peggy Cass Joan Caulfield Celeste Holm Bertram Lebhar, Jr. David A. Upton Prank Rom P rank Scully Charles P Skouras N. Y. lo Europ# Alfred W. Crown Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn Jimmy Kirkwood H Phil Be v a a a _ m