Variety (August 1959)

:Vednegdayj Augugt ;5« W5»V ^ ^. ^gjafETT ■; . PICTURES . 7 New York Sound Track t 4 / ’ 1 ... 4+» ♦ ♦♦+-»»♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ > ♦ ♦4444 ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦44- . Trv Kupcinet in his Chicago SunrTimes “Kup’s Column”: "This Is how Variety, the show biz bible; probably will headline the Vice Pres¬ ident Nixon-Nikita Khrushchev exchange, according to Sam Tunick: ‘Dick. N s k Don’t Click—Dick Slick, Nik. Sick'!:’ Patricia Bernstein is to marry tv director Bill Morton in London on Aug. 18. She’s the daughter of Cecil Bernstein, managing director of Granada TV Network, and has been a secretary in Variety’s . London bureau for the past four years. There’ll be a reception at the Savoy following the ceremony;; ‘ . ? . Loew prexy Jce Vogel back but his wife. Bobbie! stayed on another* week in Monte Carlo. Loew Theatres board chairman Lep Friedman and wife. Ruth planning a. Baden-Baden holiday. Bern e Kreisler, prez of International Film Associates, leaves for Paris and Madrid Aug. 14 to roll a tv series'in Spain: It’s a. French- Spanish coproduction. Project keeps, him from attending the Moscow. fUmfest as a guest of the Soviets . .. . AmericoAboaf,'Universal's for¬ eign topper, leaves Sunday <9> for Rome . . . First Todd-AO show in As'a \vili be seen next week (11 ) when “South Pacific” premieres at the Cathay Cinema in Singapore 20th-Fox’s foreign billings dur¬ ing the pact month have been down . . . The N.Y. censor wants cuts in “Les Amdnts.” Picture will be the subject: of talks in Albany this week between the Regents and Louis M. Pesce, the censor J, Jay Frank¬ er has left for the Pula, Yugoslavia, film fest. Respecting recent inside item about husband-Wife clown teams, sev¬ eral more are called to Variety’s . attention by Tony Conway, the cir¬ cus buff. To wi.;: Dime and Connie Wilson, Roy and Joy Thomas, Har¬ ry and Peggy Baker, June and Geoff Dewsbury. Short and Peggy Syl¬ vester. Sy I ve 3 ters. may be seen currently in the Allied Artists feature, “The Big Circus” St the Roxy.-”” Maclean’s mag of Canada reports,the reductio ad absurdum of U.S. entertainment tax. A woman from Alberta lost her husband while vis¬ iting a small, city in Washington State, and buried hiin there. The mor¬ tician’s bill included $15 for the soloist, plus $2,50 entertainment tax. Metro has scheduled William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Haya Harareet, and Martha Scott for tours in. advance of the opening of “Ben-Hur.” j . . “Forbidden Paradise,” a nudist film from Germany being released in the U.S. by Cqlorama Features, tallied a big $5,400 ih the first three days of its Broadway run at the Globe Theatre ... Joseph Julian, actor- playwright. is back from Europe.. His play "The Giirimick” closed down for recasting after a 10-week British hinterland tour. A. German pro¬ duction in Munich is/scheduled for next season. In. Paris, Julian priK vided. the English . voice for Jean Gabin in the dubbed versions of “Gris- by” and “The Possessors”.. William Elder, newly-appointed division manager for Loew’s northeastern theatres; started with circuit in 1029 in New Haven as an usher . ; . New innovation for film showings in Singapore is advance hardticket bookings for. "This Is Cineramai” at the Shaw’s Sky. Cinema ..i Columbia y.p. Paul Lazarus Jr. to Wash¬ ington. to confer with American. Legion' officials on :William Goetz’s "They Came to Cordura”. . . Carl Foreman plan ed to> Athens and Cy¬ prus from London for meetings with Alexander Mackendrick, who will direct Foreman’s “The, Guns of Nayarone.”. ■. Metro moves into the Roxy with Mario Lanza’s, latest; film. “For the First Time” Follows the run of Allied Artists’ "The Big Circus.”. .. . Cary Grant, returned to the Coast after winding up a. tour bn behalf of “North By North¬ west.” . ;. . - ' ’. ; ”•• ••.■ . Mike Kaplan, back from publicity work, 18 months abroad, doing a four-week barnstorming tour from N Y. to L A, in behalf of Stanley Donen’s “Once More With Feeling” (Col). Author Harry Kurnitz due back from Paris also in mid-August to. essay. interviews, etc. Film stars Yul Biyritier . and Kay Kendall. . Charlton Ogburn Jr.’s novel, “The Marauders,” has been designated Book-dMhe-Mbnth Club alternate selection for August. Milton: Sperl¬ ing is to produce !the filmization for Warners ,. Jane Fonda, actress daughter of Henry Fonda, is on the' covers of Vogue” Glamour, Es¬ quire, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s and Harper’s Bazaar—fancy go¬ ing for a newcomer: Reported by Alex Shniderman, partner in the S & S Operating Co., which runs the 63d St. Drive-in Theatre. Kansas City: after attending a trade screening of “Anatoiriy of a Murder,” his 11-year-old • daughter, Alana, asked “Daddy, how. did you like ‘Monotony of a Murder.’ ” Hip Von Ronkel scripts “The Bullfighter” co-production by Jerry Lewis Productions and Paramount’s York Pictures/ to roll next Jan^ uary under direction of Norman Taurog . . . Robert Wright will re¬ create his Broadway role in Warner Bros.’ “Tall Story”. . . Elia Kazan assigned Paul Osborne to write screenplay of “Time and Tide,” for 20th-Fox release . • . Fred MacMurray. paged by British producer Sydney Box for star role in “The Day of the Triffids” scripted by Philip Yordan, who will be associated in production. Groucho Marx’s personal memoir, “Groucho and Me,” which Ber-r hard Geis. Associates \vill bring out next month, will have this dedi¬ cation: “For what it’s worth this book is gratefully dedicated to these six. masters without whose Wise and witty words my life would have been even duller: Robert Benchlcy, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lard- ner, S. J. Perelman, James Thurber; E. B. White”. ... Geis Associates is a new setup in which Marx, along with Art Linklettef, doodson & Todman and others, are associated in a capital-gains type of book pub¬ lishing. Random House distributes. Linkletter also will have his next pew work published via Geis, John Huston’s pact with Universal has been expanded to a two-pic¬ ture deal, In addition to Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” Hus¬ ton will produce “Freud,” the life story of the head-shririker ;•Cary Graht in from the Coast 1 . . Phil Gerard, Universal’s eastern publicity manager, and producer Robert Arthur back from Washington where they conferred with Navy on “Operation-Petticoat!.”;.; Herman M. Levy, Theatre : Owners of America’s general counsel, back from a month in Europe . . Michael Dante set. for 20th-Fox’s “7 Thieves!”. . ! Oscar Ho- niolka, currently vacationing in Europe with his: wife. Joan Tetzel, will make several appearances on the BBC-TV network before returning to the u s.; .. ' U.S. State Dept; has selected Malvin Wald’s “The Boy Who Owned an Elephant” as an American entry for the Venice Film Festival in the short subjects category. ■ Attempt to establish at least a degree of reciprocity in the inter¬ national dubbing field is being made by the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Radio & TV Actors and Titra Dubbing Go., largest of the dub outfits in Shubouf To Columbus-Croft To sXg. AFTBA and Titra reps! // Jndianapolis • have been to Washington to see ‘ Seri. Wayne Morse about the sit- Boxings Who-Gets-What Mystery SHIFTING LOEW^ CIRCUITMEN 4 TelePrompter Corp. appears to ! have the supplementary rights, in¬ cluding closed circuit television, : radio and films, sewed up to the heavyweight championship re- i match between Ingemar Johansson ' ... . • , , T , . • and Floyd Patterson “if” the fight Managerial shifts made by John takes place in September and “if” nrnhv pypp v.n nf T.npii'’s Tnp-; n _• - _- A , 5>en. wayne Morse aooui me sn- M p v nf t oew » fi The-; Ti *■? 1A uation,: which has France, Italy : IhuteiuflmiutMer : aI l,P re f nt " n ‘ racts ar * vall , d - . and Spain free to do any dubbing . lJcw s 'IndlMaDOUs 1 • J he !'Z° * * a „ re ex ‘ remel >' «*• they want for export to the U,S. S^?heaSe, ^^ m S u"h while the respective governments ; vh _ . hG . succeed Walter prom ” tlon , 1S wrapped up m such forbid the importation of pictures S“"f er Walter a we tet „f confusion, charges and dubbed in the States or elsewhere, j Kesslpr> “f 811 " 1 ® Incu 'wbept. (countercharges that nobody seems America iias .-iio barriers against f ^ previously revealed, lyessler j sure as to . < 4 who f s who” or 4 < what’s the imDbrtation of dubbed films ! wilt take, over the reins of Loews-what in the intricate structure of from abroad: j Warfield. San Francisco, from Wil-jthe boxing business that, has been “There are more films dubbed ! liam Elder? who becomes. Loew’s j further complicated by the scram- into EngUsh in Paris today than in i northeastern d i v i s i an manager j ble for the lucrative electronic New York,” David Horne, v.p.. and | with headquarters in Boston. Ken ; transmission rights, general manager of Titra stated : CroiE ^ presently assistant manager; In a surprise move last week last week. “We wint the same con- ® £ Shea's Buffalo, Buffalo, will, that ..—- last week. “We want the same con¬ sideration. If we want to dub an American film into Italian or French in N.Y., we should be able to do so. Arid, if necessary, the reciprocity should, be forced. on these countries. We definitely ipse lot of business by not being al¬ lowed to do .dubbing jobs in French, Italian or Spanish.” Morse Reacts Senator Morse told the group that the matter seemed to him “quite important” and that he had contacted the chairman of the Sen¬ ate Finance Committee “particu¬ larly with reference to. any action that, the Committee may take upon Senate Resolution #126.’’ Resolu- move to Tndianapolis. ‘shocked” fight promoter Bill Rosensohri, Irving B. Kahn, presi¬ dent of TelePrompter, was elected to the board of Rosensohn Enter¬ prises, Inc., the corporate promo¬ tion company. Kahn was placed on the board by Vincent J. Villela, an attorney who owns two-thirds of RosCnsohn’s company. Hereto¬ fore Villela had remained a silent ! partner and took no aetive part in • the promotion of the initial Jo- . hansson-Patterson fight. The action irked Rosensohn, a former executive of TelePrompter, because he had been at odds with his former boss over being shut Hollywood, Aug. 4. of B 2 M?Fox's ha „ S e w^ Saining £ rom" P artoipattog taThe"’^ “"‘“f (radio-film righfs to the first fight. tion has to do With; the scoring of j fhre“e years: He either will reton ^“feas'on* to Se” 1 !" films,abroad: , ( to private dramatic teaching and ^ d h f?\” a ^ n to th “ are h ‘5 Although the cost of dubbing j establish _ah. acting school or ac-|" n G us D'Lnato, abroad: .is considerably lower than cept another position of like na- Pa tPerson’s manager and Patterl it is in the U S., Horne neverthe-! ture. 1t less felt that the quality of dubbing : Bard remains at 20th for another: Sa hn E au^in/fsted thtt the s P ame in the States now is "infiniteiy su-, six weeks before departing West- ; S.,? s eiven TelePromnte? perinr” to that being done abroad.! wood lot, and it's understood no■;: 2 “ h £ e *® r * .fi ve “ t In fact, Horne pointed out, Titra . replacement.ffom outside the stu-! " ,e J s !S,ed for the ^rietaal has re-dubbed a number of pic-( diowlil be made. New talent pro- : I'® b f ass ‘ snea 10r me or,elnal tures . that ;originally had been : gram works out of the casting de- g •*. uninvited Guests dubbed abroad. “The refinement • partment; and, according to pres- j vn1p1fl _ nn . of technique and. the availability lent plans, classes will continue. f eren ce ■ Monday (3) summoned bv of talent has begun to pay off in j Bard said his exit primarily is^^ for , which vS and superior .quality here” the Titra | economie «ason^ Exjfimning Stu-.| ahn at ? e Aded although they were While Lent exec hL no com- i SaLme* disenchS 2Sh Kosen d if. ! become disenchanted w’lth Rosen- ^ ! sohn ’ s handling of the initial Jo- J! figllt and that ^i^SdSffile^i*!® had sou8ht ® ut . Kah " *® 8ai “ exec said. Dubbing orders have increased to such an extent that Titra is ex¬ panding. It has just finished a third studio, spending $65,000 on it. Horne opined that, eventually. the cost of European dubbing! of good, actors and actresses who would go up due to .the unavaila-}simpiy weren’t good-looking (Continued on page 10) enough to get contracts ! 1 National Boxoffice Survey Milder Weather Ups Biz; ‘Murder’ in First, ‘Story’ 2d, ‘Hole’ 3d, ‘North’ 4th, ‘Circus’ 5th Several key cities covered by' ruririer-up pix. Variety aTe: getting a break at the j “Blue Denim” (20thV one of the wiekets via the arrival of cooler ’ bigger new entries,, looks smash in the advantage of his experience, particularly with reference ^o the tv and other ancilliary rights. Rosensohn, who earlier had stated that he would control the supplementary rights to the re¬ match, said he found his position untenable since “he didn’t want (Continued on page 10) Idea: Throw Picket lines Around ‘John Paul Jones' As llnamerican Americana Illinois^ Allied Picks : Kirsch, Meyers, Banowitz , Chicago, Aug. 4. Jack Kirsch has been re-elected ! to , another three^year term . as • prexy of Illinois Allied. -j Annual meet of the exhib organ- j ization picked Sam !C. Meyers as j veep and Ben Banowitz! as secre- ! tary-treasurer, both for one year, plus .15 directors, also, for one year. I Hollywood. Aug. 4. Anthony Muto, who previously was 20th-Fox Washington rep and D.C; 'editor of Fox Movietonews before being brought to Hollywood as a company producer, will head up research dept, for 20th. Post covers both theatrical and tv films. He produced “A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed” last year. weather. And even in the keys still bothered by torrid blasts, . strong screen fare. is keeping the exhibitors happy. An . amazing nunJoer of b.o: hitV now are avail¬ able to the bigger first-runs^ .• “Anatomy of a Murder” (Coll, second last week, is new chsimp. “Nun’s Story” (WB); long high in t „ ratings and first last round, is fin- "Mummy” (U) looms^ , . at-uuem OI reaerai law rpninnng "-Norfh - by VNorthwest'I IM i ^ver“ (Kin.s. iooks-ius./ in B^i-, ”^ TranchitelIa . prexy Local N. Y. at the Victoria bpening week. I “Beat Generation” (M-G) ranges ' friom fair to slow in first week out. | __ „ _ . . “Holiday For Lovers” ( 20 thl. so-so Hollywood, Aug. 4. in Toronto, shapes okay in N. Y.t Establishment o£ picket lines and fair in Philiy. - ar bf T d ®® atrea sb ®'®' n f ■•Private's Affair" <20th>, due In : f apl Jones „ *? o££ ? red by Local 4r, IL: Y. shortly, is/ riled brisk this ^”®S, c , a " Musicians, round in K.C. and fair in Cincy. f A . FL „^‘I m < ; ounclI > “Mummy” (Ul looms good in ^ **■ ?"* • actment of Federal law requiring ing fifth. It was fourth last week. “Last Train From Gun Hill” (Par) is moving up to sixth position from last week’s eighth spot.;. . “South Seas Adventure” (Cine¬ rama) is winding up seventh, same as a week ago:; “Porgy and Bess” (Col), just getting started and now in four key cities, is showing enough to get eighth money. “Don’t Give Up Ship” (Par) is winding up ninth. “Five Pennies” (Par); will finish 10th. “Diary of Anne Frank” (20th) is capturing Uth spot while “Room' At Top” (Cont) rounds out the Top 12. “Gigi” . (M-G); “Darby O’Gill” (BV), “Middle of Night’’ (Col) and “South Pacific” (Magna) are .. the ^ a !? n an ^.-, . . . 47, initiated move on grounds rin^ r fln!f ? 9 npk^V l0 f 0 A S fnlu > 4 ‘ JoncSa ’' ' vhile Purporting to show ?nni? {TT /| event s Of American history, was Ltuus. / Uhis Earth Is Mine ; completely produced by Samuel in” g Omfba° n j»rIi^ g and Bronston in s P ain * used foreign ^ h gt and I technicians. (Pic recently played h 7 TVT rv c«r.ir ^ two week, stand at Egyptian, Holiv- hm A ^ k ^ y ir Gl i ^ ock 1 J : wood, but has still to gojnto gen- Omahaj looks slow m L.A. and: era i re lease ) Providence.-. “Tarzaifs , Greatest | Musicians; in further objecting to Adventure (Par>, .good ln Minne-, “j ones> " po i n t out film was scored apolis, looks nice m Detroit an d ; -^y jj r ^ ni us ici ans when so many .» ixpri u ■ ! American tunesters need work. , Windjapinier (NTD shapes . Tranchitella stressed even though ^°rt la .n d -••;-‘-‘ I mitation ; A FM’s. rival'- Musicians Guild of Life (U) long a^champ on weekly Ameriea is collective bargaining and monthly lists, looks okay m. age nt in mrfjor film studios here Louisville: land may have drawn “Jones” as- . (Complete Boxoffice'Reports on , signments, members at least would Pages 8-9-lfi;) (have been American musicians.