Variety (May 1958)

Wednesday, May 7, 1958 OBITUARIES ‘ ELAINE S. CARRINGTON ‘Theatre: Bom in New York, he Elaine Sterne Carrington, 66 , went to Chi 48 years ago. . originator of radio soap operas. Survivors include his wife and died May 4 in New York, after a two. sisters. . ■ short illness. - -- , Details in TV. LAWRENCE M> GOODWIN . • ■ Lawrence M. Goodwin, 56, v,p: urv „ v rnRvvi fiTc and Detroit . manager for United 1 . HENRY CORNELIUS Film Service Inc , died in Chicago : Henry Cornehus, 43, moted^film April 27 during a business trip. He i producer and .^ irec ^ or - h ^ 1 T 5 d .^ 1 ^ c<; 2 had managed the Detroit branch » in London ^fter a_ short ilmess. s j nC e 1951 after several years as Born in South Africs, - , he studied rjijA«nQ manager theatrical P r ^tm n u under Max Wif | -pother, and soh survive. Reinhardt m Berlin until the rise • . * : ■■■ ■ : of Hitler, when he left for France TELL TEIGEN to take up freelance journalism: Tell Teigen. 34. Norwegian aerial He started his career in_En- ; acrobat’. fell to his death from top gland working. for Sir^ Ale^nd r - 0 f an 86 -foot pole while perform- Korda and . R ® n ®Clair, then re-• ; ihg \vith: Rudy-Bros'. Circus in Palm turned to his dative South Afuca springs. Cal., April 27■ I to become Deputy Directornf the ? H is wife. : Gerd, also a performer, i film section of General Smuts d son survive • propaganda organization. ■ •: 1 •• As associate producer for Sir* Mother, 66 of publicist Tom Michael Balcon, Cornelius m ade Wright died n 28 in Los An- ; his mark and achieved^imrMth geles stie - v , former wife of . his ass^nment as directors of Relate H, B. ; icy) Wright, man- • Passport to^Pirplwo. >****■ im l ager of Graum ? m ; s Chinese Thea- lowed by tre in the 1920s and early.’30s. Her A Camera, international .winners ; husband . Andrew B. Turnbull, sur- He had lust completed the new • , • - r Kenneth More comedy,. “Next to i • ■ .;■■ ■ No Time.’’ . • , t Howard (Joe) Hall, 52. an origl- Survived by his wife and o j rtaI member of Glen Cray’s Casa daughters. i Loma orch and a top pianist, died . ••_[May 1 in a Michigan veteran’s hos- WALTER H. BROOKS ; pital.. A native of Stratford, Ont., Walter H. Brooks, 64 : , veteran irt ' he also was an original sideman film exhibition and until recently,. wi t h t he Pee Wee Hunt band. a trade publication editor, died in , . — ; — his sleep in his New York home | Edward W. Ward, 69, president May 1. . .. | of Silco Theatres, Silver. City, N.M., Brooks began on the exhibition; where he operated the silco and end in 1908 and took on the man- Gila, died there April 28 following agement of theatres: in New York a heart attack. Surviving are his and Pennsylvania 1912 to 1915. He wife and three daughters, later became advertising-publicity . . . . . ■ • • manager, and then eastern produc- . Giacinto Spadaccini, 64, trombon- tion manager of Educational Film r ist with the Philadlphia Civic Corp., a talent agent, represents- Opera Company for more than 30 tive of Eddie Dowling, legit thea- years, died April‘24 in that city, tre manager and held various Surviving are his wife, two sons other business posts. In 1944 he and a daughter. ! was appointed assistant director of ”——. exhibitor relations at Metro and Mrs. Nettie Linton, 75, onetime three years later switched to edi- vaudeville performer known prp- fessionally as Anita Lawrence, died recently in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In Memory Surviving are a son and two sisters. Of My Beloved Father Henry Seeberger, 79, longtime cnu/ADn MEIA/MAkl clarinetist and violinist with Troy, EDWARD NEWMAN N.Y., bands, died April 29 in that vi . city./ His! brother and sister sur- M*y 7, 1955 vive. Charles Beauregard, 83, pioneer tor of the Manger Round Table sec- New . Hampshire exhibitor, died tion of Motion Picture Herald. . April 24 in Laurel, Md., while re- . Survivors are the widow, Ethel, turning from Florida to his Marl- and a brother, Arthur. boro, N.H., home. In Memory Of My Beloved FefKer EDWARD NEWMAN Mfy 7, 1955 HARRY J. ALLEN Harry J. ATlen, 66 , one of the pioneers of the film industry in Canada, died of a heart attack April SO in Toronto. With his two cou¬ sins, Jule Allen and J. J. Aliens he helped organize the Allen chain across the Dominion in 1912-’15>. Harry J.. Allen concentrated on Western Canada and was response ble for construction of deluxe thea¬ tres in Calgary, Vancouver, Edmon¬ ton. Regina, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon,. Medicine Hat and Fort, William. The trans-Canada /chain of some 40 Allen houses was sold to Famous Players (Canadian) in 1922, with the Allen family currently han¬ dling Canadian distribution of Co¬ lumbia Pictures, : . I Survived by wife, two sons, two daughters. EDWARD C. LOUGHLIN SR. Edward . Castelio Loughlin Sr.. 57, youngest of the noted Castelio bareback riders ’ of circus fame . some years ago, died of a heart at¬ tack April 23 in Henderson, N. C. He was fatally stricken when driv¬ ing on a nearby highway , with his brother, David. A native of Henderson, he was the son of the late David Castelio Loughlin and Ada Wallett Castelio, both of whom were from bareback performing families.. After retir¬ ing from the arena about 25 years ago, he went into the jewelry and appliance business! . . His brother survives. + ' ——- ' , CHESTER J. O'NEILL Chester J. O’Neill Sr.* 69, retired : costume manager and designer; died April 28 in Philadelphia. He had been adviser to the Mask and Wig Club of the U. Of Pennsylvania for 3.7 years. He was employed by Van Horn Costumers, Phila., and Brooks & Co., New York. Son, four daughters, four sisters and .two brothers survive. MELVILLE L. ROSENBERG Melville L. Rosenberg, 60, vet pianist for the Shubert .theatres in Chicago,; died there April 24 fol- lowing-., a heart attack suffered while he, was playing at the Harris Derek Walker, 29, died in Lon¬ don, April 25, of Leukemia, follow¬ ing a short illness. He was features editor and special writer of Pic- turegoer,. Britain’s fan pic mag. Freddie Dee (real name De Pi¬ ano), 34, actor and former theatre owner and manager, died April 27 in Hollywood. His Wife and daugh¬ ter survive. Al De Gaetano, 64, pioneer film editor, died May 2 in Hollywood, He started in silent pictures. His wife, son and daughter survive. Mother* of fish Josephs, with NBC’s news dept, and formerly the “Lee’.’ in the vaude turn of Stone & Lee, died April 30 in Dallas. Father, 68 ,. of film actor Don Marlowe; died April 28 in Ells¬ worth, Wise. y . Wife, of cameraman Frederick E. West! died April 29 in Hollywood. Daughter also : survives. ‘Jew Suess’ Alive — • Continued from page 1 capital investment. Bender Said he figured the value of the print would go up over the years, and considering Harlan’s action in de¬ stroying the negative, he was right. Then Bender got into trouble with the tax people and pledged “Jew SuesV’ as a security!. The tax people kept pressing him for payment, and; Bender finally contacted a rich cloak-and- suiter to . see whether the latter would be interested in going into partnership with him.. All that Was needed was 35,000 DM to re¬ lease the picture from the juris¬ diction of the finance ministry and an additional 15,000 D M; to do a dubbing job in Arabic. Bender said, with the Middle Eastern; con¬ tracts promised, the picture would earn 3,000,000 DM iii threq years. What he didn’t know was that his proposed partner was Jewish; So, in December, .1957, Bender’s dealings came to • the attention of the federal authorities, ..reported by the man Bender wanted to do business witli." The wheels started rolling and' the .'courts became in¬ terested. Meanwhile, however, the tax people kept asking ; for their money. For a period, a Swiss at¬ torney was engaged to Help. sell the picture abroad, with the. full knowledge and encouragement of the German state tax officials. Ex¬ planation here is that the treasury men weren’t interested in anything •but'getting their money. On March 24, 1958, a temporary injunction was issued. to keep Bender from disposing of “Jew Suess.” Blocking move Was insti-. tuted by the Terra. Complained Bender <as quoted by the Spiegel): “First they ruined me. And now they want to steal the picture from me, too.” ‘Swastika’TV Continued from page l.sss inside when they put on that Ger-. man stuff. You know, however, there are only three rules on the booksr—no eye-gouging, choking or' hitting low.” Of the; two “German” wrestlers, Haire opined:. “Personally, I think they're just a couple of Tennessee hillbillies.’’ : Atlanta German. Consul, Karl Schoenbach, was not so casual about the matter. He. said the same thing , had happened about a year ago. “Some people called me and said they were upset over wrest¬ lers wearing swastikas and shout¬ ing 'Heil Hitler!’” He revealed that be arranged to talk to one of the “German” wrest¬ lers and urged him to discontinue such demonstrations. “He was from Milwaukee,” Schoenbach said. “Didn’t speak a word of German,, either, and said he was doing it just for fun. ; “I told him this would hurt Ger- man-Aiherican . relations. The wrestler agreed to drop the salute, but said he couldn’t remove! the swastika because it was sewed on his jacket.” > Schoenbach failed to see any humor in the situation and de¬ clared: “If there were any legal way to stop this, we would take it up immediately,” Federal Communications Com- mision regulations do not forbid any such carryings-on. “While It definitely is in bad taste . :it is not indecent, pro¬ fane. or obscene,” said C. O. Hud¬ son* assistant, engineer in charge of Sixth Radio District for the FCC. . Action got underway, however, when complaints reached ears of powers-that-be. at WLW-A, owned and operated' by Crosier Corp. Howard Rowe, promotion manager of . station, conferred with Paul Jones and Doji McIntyre, who prof [mote "Live Atlanta Wrestling’’ matches. They agreed that the | demonstrations complained about i were in bad taste and that the "German” wrestlers will not be. al¬ lowed to repeat it on television;. Poland Tops U.S. . Continued from page * 5=^5 fodliier with Raymond Polanski’s funny “Two Men and a Wardf rpbe,” latter with What looks like a list of honor for America’s ex¬ perimentalists: Hilary ..Harris (“Highway),’ r Francis Thompson (“A Day in New York,”. enthusias¬ tically cheered), Kenneth Onger (“Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome”). Only. Argentine (with Rodolfo Kuhn’s “Sinfonia in No Bemol”), Holland (with Hy Hirsch’ “Gyro- morphosis’•), Israel (with Yoram Gross’ “Songs Without W’ords”) and France (with Agnes Varda’s "Opera-Mouffe”) succeeded in making the grade. But ‘apart from r a few . genuine creative, eforts, the real surprises of this Festival remained far be¬ tween. Too many films/were of in- ferioP quality, repetitious, unim¬ aginatively put together: One missed the iconoclasm, the power to shock Of. old masters like Luis BUnuel, Man Ray or Jean Cocteau. In : fact the most “experimentar’ items of. the competition were ac¬ cidental: just before the opening, a workman, in a true Mack Sennett way, slit the screen with a ladder. And Abel Gance’s . "Magirama,”. due to open the- Festival in a revof lutionary way, became, owing to technical defects, a. sad casualty. TV Making Pix Biz Look Good ' Continued; from, page 1 there is a constant weather-eye to dication). And the accent there , television in all its potentials. ’ was chiefly on costs, the possible One big objective is tollvision. uncertainty of films to maintain Hollywood is not blind to the con- ratings, ^ etc. Not a word about venience of and the in-the-home shows, live programming and boxoffice appeal of solid entertain- showmanship in general, ment, and if it ever comes to pass There was a feeling too that, that pay-see is the answer to the unlike the recent American News- first-run picture business all the paper Publishers Assn, conclave in guilds and crafts don’t want to New York, Where the press came overlook any opportunities. ■ Gotham with a cohesive con- This IS one iiiaior factor behlni I'HMjl'S 1 , ?"“ b : the current Screen Directors' Guild strike vote. It's behind the American Federation Of Musicians' ' as ls detai >ed in the tv demands. It’s behind the overall s n . ,‘ „... tiMont cnoaVin „ nf thinking of the entire picture busi- ^ an g nnn’ ^rfnnn 11 ^^ nn | act ■■fa,' boxoffice, the 40,000, 50,000 and ran inn tin HP 60 ’ 000 crowds drawn at the Los Adgeles Coliseum by the Dodgers is another kind of show business, solidate its uoxoiTiCg position- fpom „*4 ua “Young Lions ,’ 5 “80 Days” and "10 mam^s ^brin^their 5 brSod'-^t C’s” (or make your own list) have upped SC ales, $2.50 and $3—just to not only given moral support to t a the picture business but hds sus- feae ue baseball PP 8 : tamed it on an economic front. league baseball. But even as this now familiar pix ys. tv struggle continues there MARRIAGES continues an intensive program of tak w Westmere!'V ?! t ^ m » g t0 °" e end 3. He’s associated with his father cutting down that staggering pycr-. j n operation of several drive-ins in head. the Albany area. Film exchanges abroad and at Patricia Lahlum to Art DePew, home have been'-reduced in num- Las. Vegas, March 26. He’s a trum- ber and/or facilities merged by al- peter in LawTence Welk orch. most Overy major. Spinoffs of Kathryn Sadler to Christopher -every convertible asset of non-pro- Eatoii, London, April 26. Bride is ductive or “fat” or luxury char- a cabaret, comedienne. Bridegroom acter are being mulled and exer- |s U.s^ tv producer, j Cised. Needless, realty is being ap-|_ t Mar i* Coane ip Junmy praised for quick sale. Story prop- j [Moran, Philadelphia, May 31. Bride erties are being reappraised. Utili- j is Rrmo ration hf onp anothpr'c Hictrihntinn ! „ Josepha Heifetz to Robert BjTne, zation of one another’s distribution San Francisco, May 3. Bride’s a fa ^ ies ,i s fdrtherediv concert pianist, daughter of violin- .This doesn t mean any of them ist Jascha Heifetz; he’s editor of an is going out-of. business. It is,the engineering trade magazine. . : very, desire to. stay in business that Georgia Davis to Dan Goodwin, prompts these moves. Toppers. Houston. Tex., recently. He’s with must be cautious else rahk-and- j Winkler Drive-In Theatre ’there, filers get the idea of liquidation.] Pat Sheehan to Dennis Crosby, This already has created some j Vegas, May 4. She’s a show- nervousness. Company execs are he’s the son of Bing Crosby, concerned that such misinforma- : ~ tion will percolate damagingly .into RIPTH^ their global organizations. The DIIvinD danger there lies from franchise-! Mr. and Mrs. Brian Rix, son, holders who might look to other London, April 28. Father is actor- companies for product manager at . Whitehall Theatre. • But even as trade observers-A 1 ®? 1 " is actress Elspet Gray, were told about keeping that w.k. an i* ? mk > ^on, overhead down ferine lineered Chicag0 ^ May 2 * Father ls a radl °" i?£ ^ tv critic for the Chicago Tribune. th a t none v as Vi filing tp^ive up j Mr and Mrs. Gregory Peck, his kingdom. Studio royalty still: daiighter Santa Monica, Cal . May likes to rule its respective terrain.; lv Father is an actor. Stepping Up Production [ Mr. and Mrs. Tony Martinez, son, As Milton R. Rackmil, president Los Angeles, April 30. Father is of Universal, which is 82% owned, bandleader on tv’s “Real McCoys.” by Decca Records (of which he’s Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kinney, son, also prez), is readying for produc- Lbs Angeles, April 24. Mother is tion resumption July 1 , the trade former secretary, to Frank Sinatra; is also watching the new^^ setup at , : at ^f/-’ ■ Wr i. t ^’ a . r . t ^t of UPA’s “Mis- Metro and Columbia. Sol C. Siegel ter Magoo ■ senes. _ . has taken: over as production boss. an f Stuart Whitman, «t the.Culver City plant ana Sam-!? an ' L, ».*?« eIe5 ' April 26. Father nel J. Briskln, briefly the bankers' Mr ; an< j j lrs Harold N Mitcha . ““'f* director of Loew's Inc ! more son; Houston. April 2. Father (the Metro parent), has succeeded j is operator of the Market Street Harry Cohn in charge of filmmak- - Drive-In Theatre there, ing under Abe Schneider, the j Mr, and Mrs. Rick Ingersoli, soh, company’s new president. Latter ; Los Angeles. April 28. Father is a is staying on in Hollywood for an | Metro publicist, indefinite period to. supervise the! Mr. and Mrs. Bob Threlfall. son. Company’s new production line be-i New . York, April 24. Mother is cause, as is: patent to all, without ;:d a ncer DprOthy Dushock; father is the merchandise there’s no pic- : an electrician av ith Broadway pro- ture business. There is a spe-i du ^ 01 ? ^ Ca P A tam - ^ eial apotUght on Col-for more than^1 dadehtef New Yori ”ADrn nr ?8 ^ eaS 0 J?i * Bas i c Mt>'- it. concerns ;Mother-is singer Lee Perinsffath the new teamwork setup, on -a a dancer in Broadway production committee basis between the ad- 0 f “Oh Captain ” ministrative-sales in New York arid I Mr. and Mrs. Emmett O'Connell, the production committee in Holly-I son, Independence, Mo., April 29, wood. Then, too, there is the chal- i Father is master- property man ienge to Sam. Briskin after the [ with Broadway production of “Oh resistance within Loew’s Inc. man-. Captain.” agement when attorney. Edwin J. ■ : Mr. and Mrs,. Melvin B. Dan- Weisl.: (incidentally.: also a Para- ! neisei\ daughter. New York. April mount board member) influenced Father is assistant foreign the Lazard Freres-Lehman Bros. sa \ e I 5 L manager for RKO banking groupS .to place Briskin ;on ^e boew board, since resigned. 3 ' FathC ‘ ,S ; Lazard-Lehman are active in Loew ■ stockholdings;. [ Meantime, as Hollywood has ob- ; served; that tv seems increasingly - incapable of. holding its. audiences ] for any great consecutive periods, j an bbsen ation about the NAB convention at this . point is. not amiss. This has to do with the somewhat appalling; lack of appre¬ ciation, as to what programming, means to the. medium. The- broadcasters talked about legislative,. civic, vidpix; technical, sales and merchandising matters but nary a seminar on. the basic of all show business—the show,” Nearest thing was the vidpix/ .panel headed by» Milton Gordon (Television Programs of America) and George Shupert (ABC-TV syn- MET SET IN DETROIT; !■,. Detroit, May 6 . The Metropolitan Opera of New i York will make its first visit to De¬ troit next - Spring, appearing . in three or. four: performances next April or May in the Masonic Audi- ; torium. The. program wilt replace the traditional November appear¬ ance of the New York Citv. Opera Co. Wav was cleared when Cleveland - waived an agreement with the Met thsr*it=J^*oifldn’t appear within 400 [miles of Cleveland.