Boxoffice-November.24.1951

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t IPciUc ScîtA 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. K 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. -X 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. * 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. -X 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. - 10 BOXOFFICE November 24, 1951
pKliv^, ruKWMKD... GOING FORWARD... WITH yWARNER RrOS. LOOKING FORWARD TO Holt •aif êr F;.j Dices tal tiies,ft| An. iM: luce ns Every pleasure of the screen -music, comedy, dancing, drama -are here in this happiness-story of songdom's great Gus Kahn and the girl who put the love in the love songs he wrote. And ifs big in heart. It tells of the fellow who didn't know how to say 'I love you' to his own girl -but said it in song for all of America's sweethearts. A dream-role for Doris Day. Danny Thomas brings his unusual, winning personality to the portrayal of Gus Kahn. It also stars Frank Lovejoy and Patrice Wymore. A grand entertainment and a cavalcade of song! It's a picture that will live up to its slogan: 'See it and sing'!
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