Variety (October 31, 1951)

H. itsi TNT lstEm For Big-Saeen TV; Vaode or Legil Thfi((r» Network Television out- *' ■' ■ ' 1 '■ 1 ' 1 Hi which hot agented virtually *11 gg V t a c I II . *» •«** mri *4 MfSBUS JOW NClt homes to date, reportedly is ready- , . _ . . . In* the first entertainment 'How* Joseph liemhard. Whe reeejUly <« dtMInjtiU'hrd from .port, fomplrtrd t«. pu (or Wlh r*« r»- rvnb) |< bt nrtM vlr iKtalrr TV ]?•*• *'**!? **?' It's tvoerted that the «howti will either be pi/ kupt of vaude produc- tions directly from the state of lease in association—wrth Anson Bond, will make the n**t on his own. Now in New York, he expects to decide on a script for the pic before he returns to the .'Coast.. their theatre* of orictn. or pt< hups ; Jv"**** returns Ip tn e toaai^ of trvMdwav lean attract tons ; [Wllb tflfef BKt dim. Bcm^afi Will “PCC Reports 7 S 3 G In Advance Gift* Hollywood Oct SO. With 9799 M already raised ky adviMt solicitation among the ip per Income brackets. Use Perm* nent Charities Committee's 1999 drive was formally sptBsd pester day 'Mon » at a aeries of mass meeting! in the major dim Studios Goal la 91990.000. .• ’ v_ /'•.'• »..... . ■ v r • Theatres Mbs Tip Grid Chaace, Osly 1 Carries Bif Game May Force WidiF i nr. 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I\cp VFTVl If •■JV. to trht.-h »; fntanti. drfdtm tmttlr thr r , ■ t un>w> . 11 *»— 5»n» prwWrm. cmfromm, thr.tr, Hollywood, Ort SO I gjgV BF W> TV at tKia tmi, f hu’4 “—■ Ct«M Autry ha* Sled suit m Ked *»*'*IM to tie up their dim pirp- the year With more than 30 house s i now equlpoed with hi*-*crem | euaipment it * expected the num- { her will hit 90 or 00 hv that time - | and that number of houses: sup- pn s rdlv could support a special h»'» acreen event ■ initial peMduefion*, of (NNarse: will be strictly m tiie form of > x pert mm tv desuned to «c-t tie the many problems confromin* theatre TV at this time fhtef among Cal Off W Pickets Hollywood. Oct. 90. Wage Earners Committee called off its pickets who had been carry tnff banners for two days In front •>f the Paramount Hollywood and Downtown theatres urging the public to boycott the picture "M." Iteaeeu far the picketing was that Howard Do S»lva. Karon Morley. Waldo Salt and Joseph Loaey. all cpnnecttMi with the him. were also connected with the recent Red In- vestigation. .. . . Management of the two houses pointed out that they were the only ones picketed, although other the atroo wore showing pictures In which suspected Reds appeared. Vs. many problems, ronfroming theatre Hollywood,. Oct 30. rcawma. aa. nfl TV at this time fhief among OffWt Autry has hied suit In Fed ip fHn^ptn- th. ve is the Ihderuhio r« rendered rral Court, seeking an iniumtion * lor H ?h # . hv various craft and labor union* IO retrain Republic from releasing . f ’ t ^ n " r , ,h *i l rt and anMda apoarm.Iv His Pis to Video « tw SSLJSflfflS 1 eyeing hlff-screm video *«th mixed Rw> tigers* succe**ful injunc.mn J* * I?' wariness and optimism seeing in t «w»M against Rep. .im+A - Mr < -- J" 9 *' the new medium more work for Autry • attorney Martin Gang \V£?tmd h,V * their members but s!m» fearing to .says cowpoke Has commercial ftieup orrm iniffliw. ymp time ami vet a ^prec- clauses hThta' P^t sun,Dr to oni ! ***•«>T^JSPSl fttH idem for wage scale* ^ on which Federal Judge Pierson M *tenT nloJL gR J g Bg- g If I he show* invnK.d rome from »*a‘l hia verdDt for Roger* , . tr - T V^m ^ BfniSMiv KkiiSsiiMori., IL.A. vrr (Imum iImi (harset viola 1 ' ** av wihdlv If the • i i*»ir «nn.» in\ (.»(>» «i irom r ^ TV will a>v offr MAiUiM i# Bro a d way vaudfllmeries or leeil However. Cong also charges vtoD-: _JT f T . . p * v hanae*. df coume u * expected that «|M nf ant,trust Dw* and the Law the metropolitan N Y area Will he ham Art which prohibits the pub^ \atlon il Sillevl^ta^AthlMti^A ' l ked out in evtkrr in protect the *9 from being de<w>ved by anyone SSP 2™*?* 1 **' ™*}*. * b. xoffice of the original me. hmne selling old inerchandive ss new 1h# _w 1. * poMuble too that TNT odghl G*»g contends that thawing of *0 ^ 1 tr*%e a sprrial video *tud,o to stgffe l^year old pin on video constitutes ava ,j 4b] ; Xt> f OOtb— a show hut on that point thr cb*- cheating the public." since they re p*" * n V v buc —“ nggSB w " Sa ffgtS.m : provuton prrv.nl ink Rr public (rum »« hl.lor y, CaalilfeA I o*vino foe II C Mamng him to anyone but a major tjUd tilt) \ tdflllY IOi UJ. y producer or distributor, and argues Urrnn IIIIlYrTC f DVTirC T Cs II A it C lhat » hOMin e his pi ItllinU JUlfAblJvlUIIU 10 Jff Up UllKC for vision cannot be construed as dH- TA M V PAn rtf an IT i s s* ..I m tnbution to t ma)or distributor," III I T NIK VAIflS Italian Fim Eiaarts ww« am,» p u », ! rvn ! Cualino Leaving for U5. Ts Set Up Office For ; - Italian Fib Exports : Rome, (•ualimi TO N. Y. FOR YADIS’ Metro will pick up the check for : 1 UA r u,w cause Republic la Appealing the ! NB up the check for - i Rome. Oct 23 Rogers decision, il l expected the cr,,,r% Junkets from sit key cities. _ Dr ^Rcnaio Cuaitao arrive* In/ studio *»d Autry will enter in«o a “ “ Ran Francisco, to Kcw York Nov- 4 to- *i>end a month stipuDlion to take no action, nor •Hend the prem preem of th. re U> mg the groundwork for will trial be held, pending the Or* I .^ uo y» dlf ‘ at th * Capitol and the new Italian Klims Export UFE* ru,t t ourt of APfwals ruling on tho \ Aa iffi 71 ^«D»k »• *<>* 7. €>’ tlC t* 171 Jlltlf (t«nioi U illi 111 ., vsewa. la... .1 1 it Kef ntlO* TOtiroa i ■ ■> ^.111 In trtw(tdftrt with tht^ prf*-1 Kucfn vfrdtct cm trade agreement bn*,™ Italy w ’ and American companirs. |2'V r t of Frirndlr t. Sinblot ked lire would be used tu One Aulrv • * * v*#i s v» u«e s uui'i vow mu . w* agers verdict. ' cities represented will be - Flt fburt l R . Memphis, Cleveland. rrteodtv Gerture to Allied Atlanta and St Ixaul*. Loew s the- Gen* Autry, target of indie the *if p * 1 He six are in lin* to pUy 1 \SVS«U rs usa » , sosgv s sag »mi i v mw’ x • J '" ■■ • vw- mppgm •stabiish offt/f* tn t' • l .-.SI.-for the atre operators' blasts Dst year -* J T*diS on Npv. 20, eM»loitati.»n and distributiou of because of his telepic production, 11 ' , " ‘ dropped in on the Allied Slates yv f • « »,!l u *. u * *.** ."'r' 01 , u * A «" mrrtinx in n v Moo- lit. Court Hearing Sd W».Vw* M If* nun AlliraWM aMhblr Pituburth 0| ELC £(*(■* Mat! up the ssrgani/.itlon in Amcr- jconclave last year rapped Autry's ^ !L!^ ,0 !!Ef r V, ri0 ******* he TV activity be<suse they felt it was Whether Pathe Industries and Hk.T k" 1 ' m * rrturn fg : .,Kom*.|i n competition with the same ex- defunct subsidiary. Eagle Uon I/T? v** *!■ f rrMP ’ al l h* rrsults htba who helped the star to promt Glassies, will be cited for contempt <m hD N^ York visit to Ibe board, ncnce «f a severance pay arbitration Another of the principal point* Au!ry hopped down from Boa * w4rd *• to ^ determined in N. Y. C thr ^r W . nl ^ lo M,,,,u!alr , ton. where he’s making a rodeo ap- s uprrme Court at a hearing ached- l * ***- M»a ItalDna peargne*. to offer his help on ex « ,rd ior »'« Monday ,9V Motion • hL K 1 # ^r. 10 c h * r J m Vwmr phuDtion of pix and lo appear at fwr ,h f ^•Mwpt proceeding grows i Sf* ‘Operated Allied regional unit meetings if °< »« order signed this week m al tl. .ii! V * iUe m w ithin a reasonable distance ^Justice Edward R Koch. As for the trade agreement In Litigation has its origin in a suit fTtiS^oi^jSS frr J* }**' ,he III TAI DCTTIkl CIVPVk brought against Psthe and ELC by ILu ILm. Mld j 4 * try . are * l UI, GOLDSTEIN SUED P avld p*^ »f Distnn tbD pbint, iuif yet satisfied, be- No 95 of the Distributive, Process- swuse we have not seen any prac- fQD 1 QAr |M M Af.l A R|SM ,nf Wld 0ihc# Workers of Anmica tical results, and as you know, we ‘I Jww «t rUIUl/UUdH Siemuod M lillfft lioad of bkJ i iTiiii m m general, (iualmo feels that the Italian film industry head* are. at this point * not yet satisfied, be- cause we have not seen any prac- tical results, and as you know, we Italians are always very impatient * In addition to the New York IKE v .s wvu .n . tnumnuifi and Sigmu|ld : Hollywood. Ort. 39. Screen Employees Guild Action Veteran screenwriter Louise ***** *o clarify the standing of for- . m T — .• •* m f ^■ ^viiwi mi lAHmr tiimy inr lunniijf of for* office, there will be a counterpart Rousseau filed a 9190.000 plagiar- mer ELC employees as far as sev- «> ike in Rome to take care of the un suit against UI. producer xrance pay D concerned bsniness from this end. The Rome Leonard Goldstein and writer Law- After Justice Bernard Botein Dst •(fjJ 1 • tiU ,n *h^ future. *nd will rente Kimble, alleging portions of May granted the ELC workers the rhe Vrw Yor ^ her original. Haunted Heart was rtfiht to submit the dispute to ar- gir e l * •*» | abiished. , submMted to the studio in 1040 and bitration. Marlin I Rose handed In connection with the wider du- incorporated m One Way Street." <lo»n an award which ruled the ,ulu,tln Amrr ' James Mason starred and Gold- company should give its employees J? ih *y %iti * produced, with KtmbD script- wverance pay as provided rntde/a Should be dubbed into English, and ing. 'W--- . 'T contract at well as vacstion^le If so. where should the dubbing be - - ■ ■ ■■ ■ Justice Charles D Rreitel R done in New York or abroad^ Can ro „ < [J!L | U ,Km . * ItalDn Aims retain the* flavor if Morale >hort . ; award, but Path# and ELC have *10StMte 0n Kore “ W **»« «• ..th u,. Rims out of the art theatre circuit _ Jointly produced by the U S j __ vui ui uir «a irraire circuit. » _ * * ■ v *. w will bo among Gualino s problems De^»»b Department, the Assn of akM iwc* —_ VV/vf iih«i Uii liiro iU^ Weltncr Eyes Europe In the IFE setup. Motion Picture Producers sad the l ^*i , Disabled American Veterans a two- Weltner Fees f — rtel ,hort outlining the Goverw YVellMr fcyci Europe TOefll - tnXrr e%l m saving lives Of George Reitner. Paramount for- wounded men has recently been tlgn department chief, left Jt Y. completed in Korea, yesterday on the CPieen Elixabeth j Film il scheduled fur screening for a several weeks tour of Par Friday Hv at a luncheon at the •Ares in England and the Conti Hotel Astor N Y before Invited ■•■St m J f o* , 4 of the industry’, press and Trip will be s routine tn^pr.uon military. Government feels the lour of the type he makes about short will be a definite contribution this time every year. to public morale. N. Y. to Europo Pamela Brown Dan Duryea Jan de Hartog Paul Henreld Ben Henry Alexander Knox . Fred Mac Murray Russell Marker! Bill Miller Westbrook Pegler Clark Wales Georg* Weliner Talk 6-Pic Deal Sir Alexander Korda, In New York Dst week, was negotDtlng a deal with Ilya Lopert for rtleaar by the latter's Lopert Film Distrib- uting Co. of six additional Korda pix. They Include “Gilbert and Sullivan" and "Sleeping Beauty." a ballet film planned as s followup la "Rad Shoes ' and 'Tales of Holt* mans " > V-'> / •' Lopert paid Korda an advance of 91.090.000 a little more than a year ago for American distribution rights to 13 of the British produ- cer's films- They Included “Hoff* mannwhich Lopert now has in relaaaa, and 10 pix which he bat turned over to the Snader distrib- uting : organisation for tbeatrical, and tele sales. ■ • . Ala* included In tbs Original batch were ■ "Cry, the Beloved Country," produced by Zoltan Kor- da. and "Outcast af the Islands." productd and directed by Carol Read. Botb. made under the Kor- da banner, are due In New York In about two weeks Jar distribution early next year. There has been no disclosure of the price being talked for the next six pix It will probably be con- Wderahls. h owever, since the prod- uct will all he Important. Lopert haa found it unprofftabD to handle the leaner pix. which D the reason for turning them ever to Snader. Lopert Is financed, by Robert W Dowling, pret of City Investing Co., real estate and theatre operators New pix which they art taking on wilt he sent Into work by Korda shortly. ' Korda. In New York for only five days, returned ta London Saturday <27>. He was accompanied by kit brother Zoltan. Sir Arthur Jar- rati, who arrived with Korda, went back Friday <39'. Jarratt ta head of Korda’s British Lion distribut- ing company, but was in the U. S on personal business. It concerned the Mole-Richardson Co., which manufactures studio lighting equip- ment and in which Jarratt owns an interest N. Y.toLA. William Berger Ward Bond George Brandt David Butler John Dales. Jr. Mary Garden Sam Goldwyn Richard W. Krakeur Norman Krasna E J. Manntx Frank Tait Jerry Wald Europe to N. Y, Bert Bernard George Bernard Steve Brotdy David Butler . Sarah Churchill Alfred E Daff Zoe GaU Jennifer Jones Mrs Ray Noble David O. Selratok Victor Pahlen Jay Palmer Wadrtpgvtll E. Pohl i. B. Priestley Norton V. IMdMf Jerome Robbins Tennetaee Williams Shelley Winters ■ Hollywood, Oct 30 Graeteat eyebrow-raiser in y r * • la an Industry of strange bedfeliov, was the diaclomuw last week t! t Gary Cooper would ha a pann, r in the new Carl Foreman unit <j release through Robert L. Lippert Angle not generally known 1 * x Cooper haa been an Important -v veator foe the past year or more « Lippert ar e da rt Ion a . Since pert will finance Foreman Coo,.« * participation works out quite - rally. ,Reports in Hollywood ^ r were that such pressure is h. g brought to bear on Cooper th. L • may decide to pull out of the IOi man ti a np when. he retnms t- Coast Friday til. If he *ithrir.i> other of Foreman’s new partu+rf may follow auit. and then the u .• <- tion is whether Lippert will con- tinue the association*. Surprise la Cooper s wtilingru t to Imk up with Foreman, since the lanky star haa been a noted Holh- wood right-winger. Foreman « n the other hand, recently fell W k on Urn Fifth Amendment to avoid answering the $64 question put ta him feqr the Boaail';.Un-American Activities Comaaittoa at se a sian* in Hollywood. The writer-director 'who tr # new Lippert unit will also be pt<»- duceri swore that he D not now a Communist. He refused, howrvtr, to say whether he had ever be« a one Balk resulted in estrange- ment from Stanley Kramer. wi«h whom be bad been eloaely sinfii ated since the founding of the i t- tert unit four years ago. Cooper waa active In the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preserva- tion of American Ideals, militant antf-Commie group; testified at S friendly witness for the House com- mittee ln Washington ka 1947 and in other ways demonstrated h t feelings. Affection between the actor and Foreman apparently developed when they were on location togeth- er on "High Noon.’* tn whuh Cooper D starred and which Fore- man wrote and directed for Kramer, That was right before Foreman's recent appearance be- fore the House committee. The financial tieup the actor al- ready had wttb Lippert mad# lh# Foreman tieup that much easier. Cooper will oot art in the Forem*s pix anymore than be d»d in Up- pert's own production. Foreman * budgets under the three-picture deal will be only about $300,009, (Continued on page 15) L A. to N. Y. Luther Adler V Richard Arlen William Bendix Irving Berlin Vivian Blaine John Call Jack Carr Denise Darcel Mark Davis Morris Davis Richard Day , Gloria De Haven Ned E Dept net Dan Duryea Jerry Fairbanks Asa Gardner Lea Gorcey Alex Gottlieb R ►rard Greene Connie Haines Rex Harrison Paul Henreld Lou Irwin Kwt*rrt Keith Zoltan Korda Sonya Lev ten Jerry Lewis Alan Livingston Fred MacMurray Dorothy McGuire 1 anrlti Melchior Al Melnick John Merrick Robert Merrill Carmen Miranda Harold Mlriach Joseph H Mbskow tti Tom Neal George Pal Lilli Palmer Sigmund Romberg Liu bet h Scott Douglas Shearer Earl I Sponsb:# Prod Stem Harvey Stone ' Clark Wales Sam Zim baliet