Boxoffice-November.24.1951

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Film Dividends Lag Behind Last Year WASHINGTON—Film company dividend payments were lagging behind last year by more than $4,500,000 at the end of September, the Department of Commerce announced Monday (19 >, but pointed out that many companies often report late, so that no firm conclusions can be drawn at this time. For the first nine months of 1951. motion picture companies have thus far reported dividend payments totaling $23,354,000, as against $27,911,000 for the same period in 1950. An example of tardiness in reporting. Commerce officials noted, is the Stanley Co., which has made no report this year, but in 1950 had paid out $904,000 in four dividends issues by the end of September. September dividends reported to the Commerce department totaled $4,545,000, compared with $6,923,000 in September 1950. A breakdown of the September figures showed these differences from the final reports for September 1950: Warner Bros, made no payment, as against $1,824,000 a year ago. However, the September 1950 dividend was unusual, department officials explained, because the regular Warner dividend generally comes in October, and it may be assumed that an October payment will be reported. Paramount Pictures paid out $1,151,000, as against $1,324,000 in September 1950. Twentieth Century-Fox dropped from a dividend of $1,521,000 in September 1950 to $1,384,000 this September. Loew's paid a dividend of $1,929,000, the same as in September a year ago. United Artists paid out only $11,000, as against $12,000 last September, but has already reported a $300,000 dividend in October, which corresponds to that made in August 1950, the Commerce department report said. Eastman Sales Increase But Net Profit Drops NEW YORK—Sales of the Eastman Kodak Co. went up during the first nine months of the year to $384,243,040, compared with $295,- 364,390 for the same period the previous year, but the net profit fell off to $32,350,194 ($2.13 per share), compared with $43,134,237 ($3.13 per share i the previous nine months. The .shift was due to higher expenses and increased taxes. For the quarter ending September 9 the net income was $9,239,116 (61 cents per share). The board voted a dividend of 60 cents a share on the common, plus a stock dividend of one common share for every ten held. The cash payment will be made January 2 to .stockholders of record December 5, making the total dividend for 1951 $1.80. The stock distribution will be made January 26. Savini Awarded $11,000 NEW YORK—Robert M. Savini and Charles Y. Uille have been awarded an $11,000 default judgment in New York supreme court against Koland E. Geiger and Richard B. Morros, doing business as World Enterprises. The defendants, it was charged, failed to complete a six-picture film production contract. The Judgment has been filed in the county clerk's office. New Dublin Variety Tent Officers Are Inducted NEW YORK—The first officers and crew of the new Dublin Tent No. 41, Variety Clubs International, who will serve during 1952, were inducted Friday (23) by Marc J. Wolf, international chief barker, who flew with Mrs. Wolf to Ireland for the ceremony. A large delegation from the London tent attended. Headquarters are in the Shelbourne hotel, Dublin. The officers are: Louis Elliman, Theatre Royal, Dublin, chief barker; Norman Barfield, Paramount, first assistant chief barker; Brinsley Sheridan, Adelphia Cinema, Dunlaoghaire, second assistant chief barker; Robert Britten, 20th Century-Fox, dough guy, and T. O'Keeffe, Carlton Cinema, property master. Before returning to their Indianapolis home, Marc and Mrs. Wolf will tour France, Italy, Switzerland and as many other countries as time will permit. Robert O'Brian Promoted To UA-TV Western Head NEW YORK—Robert "Pat" O'Brian, a veteran of six years in TV, who was formerly in charge of the southern territory for the television department of United Artists, has been promoted to western representative by John Mitchell, director of UA-TV. O'Brian will make his headquarters in Chicago with full command over the entire western operations. O'Brian, who is 32, entered television in 1945 as supervisor of sales promotion and publicity for WRGB, the General Electric TV station in Schenectady, and was vice-president of Atlas Television, independent production company in New York, before joining United Artists. He was radio director of Seidel Advertising in New York before joining TV. O'Brian was also a writer, producer and actor in radio before enlisting in the U.S. army air corps before Pearl Harbor. MPEA Planning to Combat Belgian Restrictions NEW YORK—Proposals will be made shortly to Belgium by the Motion Picture Export Ass'n as a countermove to plans there to impose limitations on remittances and import licenses. There are no such restrictions at the moment. MPEA met Monday (19) on the subject and will discuss it at least once more before arriving at conclusions. The meeting also went into detail regarding various operational problems in about a dozen other foreign markets. The Spanish situation, which has brought about an exchange of views between John G. McCarthy for MPEA and Ellis Arnall for the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, was discussed briefly. Hal Roach TV Production Set With Official Films NEW YORK—Hal Roach has arranged a television production deal with Official Films. The new association will result in an extensive lineup of pictures to be made on the Hal Roach lot in Hollywood with the national sales to be handled by the William Morris Agency. Sign the 1951 'Christmas Solute'— Variety Clubs- Will Rogers Memorial hospital—ond "help core tor our own." An Open Letter Sent To David J. Greene NEW YORK—RKO Theatres management fired a second broadside late in the week at the stockholders committee seeking proxies i for the December 6 meeting of the board of directors. This was in the form of an open letter to David J. Greene, who heads the committee, asking replies to a series of ques- tions. Greene was asked if he and his "small group of associates" are not seeking control of the company, if he did not offer Schwartz stock options as a reward for cooperation and if the stock option "bugaboo" is not raised now because Schwartz "turned down" his offer. He was also asked why stockholders haven't been told that the Greene group lost district court moves to have "certain directors" removed and to restrict the right of Irving Trust Co. to vote the Howard Hughes stock trusteed with it. It quoted the court as saying: "None of the judges here can see any justification for granting this relief on either motion." The circuit charged errors in reports of earnings and unfair comparison of operations with larger circuits, and asked what evidence has been given stockholders that the members of the committee can improve earnings. It pointed out plans to combat television competition. The circular was headed: "Why Are You Afraid to Tell the True Story?" Thomas Turner Cook Sues 'U' for Antitrust Fee NEW YORK—Thomas Turner Cooke, who was one of the attorneys for Universal Pictures Co., Inc., in the government's antitrust suit against the major companies between June 1946 and February 1951, has filed suit in U.S. district court for $135,000. He claims this amount is due him under the terms of a fee agreement. Cooke says he has been paid $15,000. He is the lawyer who upset the NRA in the famous Schechter poultry case by carrying it to the U.S. Supreme Court. RKO Names Max Mendel Film Head in Germany NEW YORK—Max Mendel has been named RKO general manager in Germany by Phil Reisman, vice-president in charge of foreign distribution. He had been Universal-International general manager in Germany and previously was associated in various capacities abroad with Paramount and MGM. He joined the film industry in Germany in 1927 as a salesman for Parufamet, the combination of Paramount. UFA and MGM. CBS-Columbia Buys Plant NEW YORK—CBS-Columbia, Inc., has started a $5,000,000 expansion plan with the purchase of a new plant in Long Island City. Queens, from the Mack Ti'uck Co. David H. Cogan, president, said the plant covers 275.000 square feet, which, together with facilities of the company in Brooklyn, brings the total manufacturing space to over 500,000 square feet. The firm manufactures electronics equipment for civilian and military use. 38 BOXOFFICE November 24, 1951 ^0 i j i
NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE PRODUCTION CENTER (Hollywood Office— Suite 219 at 6404 Hollywood Blvd.: Ivan Spear, Western M anager) iPte Fancy 'Quo Vadis' Bow At Four Star Z9th HOLLYWOOD — Premiere trappings as opulent as the picture itself are being assembled for the upcoming invitational debut of MGM's "Quo Vadis" at the Four Star Theatre here Thursday (29). An all-out. klieglighted. red-carpeted event, it will be attended by a star-studded turnout, including cast toppers Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr. Producer Sam Zimbalist and Director Mervyn LeRoy, as well as top brass representatives from other studios and an array of acting personalities. The front of the Pour Star is being embellished with an early Roman appearance and a new boxoffice is being erected. "Quo Vadis" will be on a reserved-seat basis throughout its engagement at the showcase, while its day-date partner, the United Artists. will screen the picture as a continuous run. * * * "Decision Before Dawn," which 20th Century-Fox filmed entirely in Germany, will be world-premiered December 19 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Directed by Anatole Litvak, and produced by Litvak and Frank McCarthy, the film stars Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill. * * • Tony Martin, who stars with Janet Leigh in RKO's "Two Tickets to Broadway," was on hand for appearances when the Technicolor musical opened in New York Wednesday (21) at the Paramount Theatre. * * * Preceding its Thanksgiving day opening at the Downtown Paramount and the Hawaii in Hollywood, Paramount's "When Worlds Collide," science-fiction subject produced by George Pal, was screened for 1,000 clergymen Tuesday (20) at the Hawaii. * * * Already set for its world premiere Tuesday (27) in the home of a Bellaire, Ohio, housewife, "My Favorite Spy," the new Paramount comedy starring Bob Hope, will be given a second premiere the following night at the U.S. army hospital in Camp Atterbury. Both screenings were set as the result of a letterwriting contest on "Why the premiere of 'My Favorite Spy' should be held in my home town." Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Jerry Colonna, Earl Wilson and Hy Averback will attend both showings. HOLLYWOOD—Now in his 16th year as an executive and vice-president of Columbia, B. B. Kahane has been given a new long-term contract with the company. Film Publicists Given Substantial Pay Hike HOLLYWOOD — Another segment of industry personnel was on the receiving end of salary boosts when the Publicists Guild and major studios reached agreement on a 10 per cent pay tilt for drumbeaters in the senior classification, a 24-cent-an-hour increase for other categories and a working arrangement for cost-of-living increases. Senior blurbers thus are upped from 173.55 to $190.90 weekly, with the new contract running to Oct. 25. 1953, subject to approval by the federal wage stabilization board. * * * Set designers, sketch artists and model makers on the major lots in an NLRB-conducted election designated the lATSE as their bargaining agent. No other union was on the ballot, the choice lying between the lA and "no union." Nearly 100 Enlisted For Overseas Trips HOLLYWOOD—It will be an overseas Christmas and New Year's for nearly 100 Hollywood personaUties, of whom approximately half have been recruited by the Hollywood Coordinating committee to entertain troops in four global areas during the yule season. Plans call for four USO-Camp Shows units to be dispatched December 21 to cover the European and North African sectors, the Caribbean, Alaska and the Pacific, including Japan and Korea. So far set are: JuUa Adams Janet Leigh Richard Allan Arthur Loew jr. Roscoe Ates John Lund Ward Bond Connie Ross Kay Brown Joyce McKenzie Raymond Burr Ray Milland Betty Butler Bodil Miller Carleton Carpenter Richard Morns Diane Cassidy Jane Nigh Carolina Cotton Debbie Reynolds Tony Curtis Barbara Ruick Yvonne DeCarlo Helene Stanley George Dolenz Jan Sterling Paul Douglas Audrey Totter Yvette Dugay Bobby Tucker Maynard Ferguson Forrest Tucker Lisa Ferraday Beverly Tyler Johnny Grant Pat Williams Marilyn Johnson Joy Windsor Howard Keel Keenan Wynn Piper Laurie Meantime Danny Kaye and Monica Lewis, who have been entertaining United Nations troops in Korea, were due to return Wednesday (21) after a tour of several weeks. Hollywood MPIC Confers HOLLYWOOD—A discussion of the recent Movietime, U.S.A. campaign highlighted the monthly meeting Tuesday (20) of members of the Motion Picture Industry Council. Disney Studio Making TV Chrislmas Film HOLLYWOOD—Similar in approach to the TV package which he put together in 1950 for Christmas day telecasting, Walt Disney is preparing a 60-minute show combining cartoon characters and live action for video consumption on Christmas day this year. The Young & Rubicam agency is coordinating the program as liaison between Disney and the sponsor, Johnson & Johnson. « « * Earl McEvoy, former Columbia megaphonist, was inked to direct the first three in a series of Raffles 30-minute mystery dramas to be produced by Monogram's new subsidiary. Interstate Television Corp. The pictures will star George Brent and Nigel Bruce. * « * Add to the list of new entrants in the TV film field: Anthony Veiller, writer-producer who recently formed a theatrical production unit in partnership with Donald Hyde, acquired "Sister Anastasia," by Vivian Cosby, and is planning a series of 39 video pictures around the character. William and Edward Nassour, active in the independent production field, purchase(i rights to "Sheena," jungle-woman comic-book character, whom they will utilize in a batch of 13 30-minute films for TV consumption. Actress Laraine Day and her baseball-manager husband, Leo Durocher, are starring in a series of 15-minute subjects, "The Hot Stove League," written by Robert Todd and being produced by Marty Martyn and Ted Kneeland. They're being shot at General Service studios. » * » With 16 already in the bag, Rene Williams will launch production Tuesday (27) on ten more 15-minute TV films at the Goldwyn studio to complete his Invitation Playhouse series, being made for distribution by Syndicated Television Corp. William Asher directs. Entertain at Ft. Ord HOLLYWOOD — Keenan Wynn and his acting troupe spent Thanksgiving day entertaining hospitalized Korean veterans at the Travis air force base and troops at Ft. Ord. Wynn was accompanied on the trek by Betty Butler. Wendell Corey, Jane Greer, Judy Kelly. Arthur Loew jr., Barbara Ruick and Benay Venuta. Are you doing all you can to "help core for our own" by getting oil your employes to sign the 1951 'Christmos Salute'? BOXOFFICE November 24, 1951 39
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