Boxoffice-November.24.1951

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32 December Releases;
NPA Prohibits Production
Of Color TV Projectors
Order is result of recent conference at
which it was agreed experimental work could
continue; will delay production of Kidophor
large-screen television apparatus for 20th
Century-Pox.
Six Allied Regional Meetings
Scheduled to December 12
Conventions to be held in Pittsburgh, November
26, 27; Kansas City, November 30; Detroit,
December 3-5; Boston, December 4;
Milwaukee, December 10-12, and New Orleans,
December 11, 12.
Exhibitors Urged to Support
Continuance of Movietime
Pleas are made for regional aid by Leo F.
Wolcott, chairman of the board of Allied Independent
Theatre Owners of Iowa and Nebraska,
and Earnest T. Conlon, secretary of
Movie Theatre Time in Michigan.
Attorney Criticizes Court
For Its Towne Decision
Thomas C. McCormell asks the Supreme
Court to review the appeals court decision
last July which cut a $1,520,876.26 award to
the Towne in Milwaukee by more than onethird.
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Dividends of Film Companies
For Nine Months Are Down
Payments for first three quarters of year reported
thus far total $23,354,000, as against
$27,911,000 for the same period in 1950. more
than $4,500,000 difference.
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Eastman Sales Increased,
But Net Profit Drops
Gain 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, compared
with $43,134,237 the previous nine months.
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Ginger Rogers Gets Contract
With CBS-TV for 5 Years
Will cover five-year term on her own halfhour
show and include starring in original
productions as well as singing and dancing;
said to run up to $1,000,000.
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James C. Ritter Is Dead;
Detroit Exhibitor Leader
Was one of a group who developed the idea
for an organization of independent exhibitors
and induced Abram F. Myers to become general
counsel in 1928; became president in 1933.
Orin M. Jacobson Elected
lATSE 8th Vice-President
Union leader from Tacoma, Wash., fills vacancy
on the board created by the death last
May of Floyd M. BiUingsley of San Francisco,
third international vice-president.
Also 2 Pre-Releases Set
By FRANK LEYENDECKER
NEW YORK—Exhibitors will have their
pick of 32 new features, plus one reissue,
for Christmas bookings from the 11 major
companies, ten more films than were released
during the holiday period in 1950.
In addition. Monogram's "Aladdin and His
Lamp," a Cinecolor production starring Patricia
Medina and Johnny Sands, will be
available for 300 pre-release Christmas
bookings, and United Artists will pre-release
"Another Man's Poison," Dougfair
production starring Bette Davis, Gary Merrill
and Emlyn Williams, to make it
eligible for an Academy Award.
FIVE TO BE IN TECHNICOLOR
In addition to the Cinecolor picture, five
of the December releases will be in Technicolor,
compared to four Technicolor pictures
for the holidays in 1950. The pictures are
one romantic drama, "I'll Never Forget You,"
and four adventure pictures, "Distant Drums,"
"Ten Tall Men," "Silver City" and "The Man
in the Saddle." Warner Bros, reissue of "Captain
Blood," 1935 release, is the first regularly
scheduled release for the 1951-52 season to
date.
Other important dramas for December will
be: "I Want You," "The Strange Door," "The
Big Night," "The Wild Blue Yonder," "Calling
Bulldog Drummond," "Fixed Bayonets,"
"The Girl on the Bridge," "The Family
Secret," "The Light Touch." "The Great Adventure,"
"Tales of Robin Hood," "Starlift"
and "A Christmas Carol," the last especially
suitable for Christmas bookings.
More than the usual number of comedies
includes: "Callaway Went Thataway,"
"Double Dynamite," "Weekend With Father,"
"My Favorite Spy" and "Elopement." The
balance are either minor action dramas like
"Purple Heart Diary" or westerns.
THE LINEUP BY COMPANIES
Broken down by companies, the
December
releases will be:
COLUMBIA— "Ten Tall Men," in Technicolor, starring
Burt Lancoster with Jody Lowrance, Gilbert Roland
ond Kieron Moore; "The Man in the Saddle,"
starring Randolph Scott, Ellen Drew and Joan Leslie
with Alexander Knox; "The Family Secret," starring
John Derek and Lee J. Cobb with Jody Lowrance and
Erin O'Brien Moore; "Purple Heart Diory," starring
Frances Longtord with Judd Holdren and Ben Lessey,
ond "Pecos River," a Charles Starrett western with
Smiley Burnette and Jack Mahoney.
LIPPERT— "Tales of Robin Hood," starring Robert
Clarke and Mary Hatcher; "The Great Adventure,"
set bock from November, with Dennis Price and Jock
Hawkins, and "Home Town Boy," starring Harold
Lloyd jr.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER — "Calloway Went
Thotowoy," starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire
and Howard Keel; "The Light Touch," starring Stewart
Granger, Pier Angeli and George Sanders, and "Calling
Bulldog Drummond," starring Walter Pidgeon and
Margaret Leighton with Robert Beatty.
MONOGRAM— "Northwest Territory," starring KIrby
Grant and Chinook; "Texas Lawmen," starring Johnny
Mack Brown and Jomes Ellison, and "Stage to Blue
River," o Whip Wilson western.
PARAMOUNT— "My Favorite Spy," storring Bob
Hope and Hedy Lomarr with Froncis L. Sullivan, and
"Silver City," in Technicolor, starring Yvonne De
Corlo and Edmond O'Brien with Richard Arlen, Barry
Fitzgerald and Louro Elliott.
RKO RADIO— "Double Dynamite," starring Jane
Russell, Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx; "I Wont
You," Samuel Goldwyn production starring Dana Andrews,
Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger and Peggy
Dow, and "Overland Telegraph," a Tim Holt western
with Gail Davis.
REPUBLIC— "The Wild Blue Yonder," starring Wendell
Corey, Vera Ralston and Forrest Tucker with
Phil Horns; "Womon in the Dark," with Penny Edwards
and Ross Elliott, and "Pols of the Golden West,"
starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX— "I'll Never Forget
You," in Technicolor, storring Tyrone Power, Ann
Blyth ond Michoel Rennie; "Elopement," starring
Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, William Lundigan and
Charles Bickford; "Fixed Bayonets," with Richard
Basehart, Michael O'Shea and Gene Evans, and "The
Girl on the Bridge," with Beverly Michaels and Hugo
Haas.
UNITED ARTISTS— "The Big Night," a Philip Waxman
production, starring John Barrymore jr., Preston
Foster and Joan Lorring with Philip Bourneuf and
Dorothy Comingore; "A Christmas Carol," George
Minter production made in England, with Alistair
Sim as Scrooge and Kathleen Harrison, Jock Warner
and Mervyn Johns.
UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL— "The Strange Door,"
starring Charles Loughton, Boris Korloff and Sally
Forrest, and "Weekend With Father," storring Von
Heflin and Patricia Neal with Gigi Perreau.
WARNER BROS.— "Distant Drums," in Technicolor,
starring Gary Cooper with Mari Aldon; "Starlift,"
starring Dons Day, Gordon Macrae, Ruth Roman,
Virginia Mayo and Gene Nelson with James Cagney,
Gary Cooper and eight other guest stars, and the
reissue of "Captain Blood," starring Errol Flynn,
Olivia DeHavilland and Basil Rathbone.
Foreign Film Remittances
Reach $13,727,928 Total
NEW YORK—During the life of the Motion
Picture Export Corp.—from June 1946 to
Oct. 31, 1951—$13,727,928 was remitted to this
country as a result of the joint distribution
efforts of the organization. Of this. $3,100,-
228 came from "Iron Curtain" countries. The
MPEA operated in 13 countries.
Irving Maas, retiring vice-president and
general manager of MPEA, has submitted his
report to Joyce O'Hara, acting president.
By countries the remittances were : Austria.
$1,592,988: Bulgaria, $19,745; Czechoslovakia.
$1,843,425; Germany, $836,225: Indonesia.
$1,508,080; Hungary, $447,987; Holland, $2,450,-
487; Japan, $4,235,985; Korea, $3,935; Romania,
$45,800; Poland, $307,276; Yugoslavia.
$435,995.
Sam Katzman to Produce
Eight Technicolor Films
HOLLYWOOD—Sam Katzman will produce
eight Technicolor features for Columbia
release during 1952. twice as many tinters
as he has ever made in one year previously.
Additionally, Katzman will turn out four
black-and-white subjects and three serials.
On his color .schedule are "Prince of
Pirates," "Cairo to Suez," "Jack McCall. Desperado,"
"The Pathfinder." "Serpent of the
Nile." "Slaves of Babylon." "Siren of Bagdad"
and "Flame of Calcutta."
The black-and-white entries and cliffhangers
are as yet untitled.
United Para. Dividend
NEW YORK—The board of directors of
United Paramount Theatres, Inc., has declared
a dividend of 50 cents per share on
the common stock, according to Leonard H.
Goldenson, president. The dividend is payable
December 18 to stockholders of record
November 30.
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