Boxoffice-December.20.1952

Sousa, Clifton Webb Are Honored
At Elaborate Lambs Club Party
BROADWAY
Tames E. Perkins, managing director of allJ
Paramount offices in Great Britain and]
northern Ireland, arrived on the Queen Mary {
December 13 for a three-week visit to confer'
. . .
with home office executives. Rita Hayworth
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was also aboard H. B. Allinsmith. formerly
managing director of Westrex Corp.,
subsidiary. Western Electric Co., Ltd., wh
has been in charge of the company's activi-.<
ties in Great Britain and Ireland for the(|
past three years, is back in the U.S. . . . W11-.
liam F. Rodgers, MGM vice-president, le
for a Florida vacation December 14 .
Albert Lewin, MGM producer who will makeil
"Saadia," planed to London to complete cast-f
ing before heading for French Morocco, when
the picture will be filmed.
Seen at the Lambs' club party, left to right: AI Lichtman, Clifton Webb, Ralph
Bellamy and Robert Weitman.
NEW YORK—More than 100 men prominent
In the entertainment world, business
and the armed forces gathered at the Lambs'
club Sunday (14) to honor John Philip Sousa,
one of the founders of the organization, with
Clifton Webb as guest of honor. Webb portrays
Sousa in the 20th Century-Fox picture,
"Stars and Stripes Forever."
A plaque dedicated to the famous band
leader was unveiled in the club library.
One of Sousa's batons was given to Webb
All-Sousa Band Program
Set for Roxy Opening
NEW YORK—The U.S. Marine band will
present an all-John Philip Sousa concert
Monday (22) on the stage of the Roxy Theatre
in ceremonies attending the reopening of the
theatre.. Its entrance will be telecast nationally
by the American Broadcasting Co.
The feature picture will be "Stars and Stripes
Forever," 20th-Fox.
Work was scheduled to be completed at the
weekend on enlargement of the Roxy stage
to accommodate an ice show. About 5,000 feet
of neon tubing in four colors was being
installed under the ice surface, besides 3,000
feet of ultra-violet tubing to provide special
effects. National Theatres, which now controls
the hou.se. also was improving the marquee.
The neon tubing will cost about $38 000
and all lighting innovations about $45,000.
The first "Ice-Colorama" show has been
titled "Crystal Circus."
and a citation was awarded to 20th-Fox by
the U.S. marine corps, represented by Brig.
Gen. V. J. McCaul, director of public information.
Others present included Winthrop Rockefeller,
District Attorney Frank Hogan, Commissioner
Walter Shirley. Fire Commissioner
Jacob Grumet, Vinton Freedley, Conrad
Nagel, Rube Goldberg, Bobby Clarke, Ralph
Bellamy, Jack Pearl and William Gaxton,
shepherd of the Lambs.
SYRACUSE
f^elebrities invaded Syracuse last week causing
quite a ripple of excitement for news
people and TV and radio critics. Thursday,
Manager Sam Oilman staged a cocktail party
on the mezzanine floor of Loew's State close
by the goldfish fountain, refurbished with
beach sand, where pretty Julie Dorsey, daughter
of the bandleader Jimmy, displayed some
eye-filling bathing suits she wears in the
film, "Million Dollar Mermaid." Then, with
Harry Unterfort and his Hollywood U-I promoter
doing the honors for the "John Brown's
Body" staff and Tyrone Power, there was a
Friday preview of Power's film, "T!ie Mississippi
Gambler," at the Strand before a
luncheon at the Hotel Syracuse. Power answered
questions about Raymond Massey,
Miss Judith Anderson and himself. It was
Power's first look at the film and he in turn
invited criticism.
Jean Renoir, director of "The GoldenJ
Coach," Anna Magnani's first English-speak-i
ing picture, made in Rome in Technicolor,!
flew in from Paris via Pan American Airwaysfl
and left for Hollywood December 17 to negotiate
an American release. He spoke Decemh
15 at the Cinema 16 showing at Central!
Needle Trades auditorium . . . Kay Walsll,«
British actress who made "Young Bess" forjj
MGM in Hollywood, planed back to London
December 13 . . . Jose Ferrer, flew in fron
Europe December 15 for a short stay in Ne
York before going to Hollywood to attes
the Academy award pre-release opening
his "Moulin Rouge" in Los Angeles December
23. John Huston, director of the pictured
and Colette Marchand, Parisian ballet starJ
who makes her screen debut opposite Ferrer^
planed in from Europe December 1 and
also attend the Hollywood showing.
Richard Condon, RKO director of advertis-j
ing, publicity and exploitation, returned De-|
cember 17 from Washington, where he dis-|,
cussed plans for the opening of "Never Wave
at a WAC" with army officials . . . David
Golding, director of advertising and publicit;
for Samuel Goldwyn, got back from Florida
where he set the opening of "Hans Christian
Andersen" for Christmas day in Mia
Beach and left for Hollywood for meetir
with Goldwyn on the west coast opening atj
the Beverly Theatre December 26.
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All 8 Majors Will Close
For Long Xmas Weekend
NEW YORK— All eight major companies,
MGM, Columbia. Paramount, RKO. 20th-Fox,
U-I. UA and Warner Bros., will be closed
for a
long Christmas holiday weekend, starting
Wednesday evening, December 24, until
Monday, December 29. RKO Theatres and
Theatre Owners of Ajnerica also will be closed
for the long holiday weekend and several
other companies and organizations are expected
to follow suit.
To date, only MGM and 20th-Fox have
.scheduled closing for the long New Year's
wiekend, starting December 31 and continuing
to January 4.
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