Boxoffice-January.03.1953

Hollywood Ready to Pay Its
Tribute
To Adolph Zukor on 80th Birthday
HOLLYWOOD—Adolph Zukor, Paramount
board chairman, was due in Saturday (3), accompanied
by Mrs. Zukor, to be the guest
of honor at a gigantic industry-wide banquet
on Wednesday (7), his birthday. The event,
to be staged at the Hollywood Palladium under
the sponsorship of Variety Clubs Iniernaaonal,
celebrates Zukor's 80th birthday and
50th anniversary in show business.
The affair, to be attended by a host of
executives, stars and civic leaders, is the kickoff
of a year-long tribute to the film pioneer.
The banquet will be preceded on the same
day by a birthday luncheon at Paramount.
On Sunday (4i Zukor was .slated to place
his hand and foot prints in the forecourt of
Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Charles P. Skouras, National Theatres and
Fox West Coast presidei«, is in charge of
banquet arrangements, and the entertainment
segment of the program is being
planned and produced under the direction of
Rouben Mamoulian.
Typical of industry-wide interest in and
support of the Zukor fete was the action of
the Screen Writers Guild, the executive board
of which passed a resolution congratulating
Zukor on the double occasion of his 80th
bn-thday and his "50th year of unselfish service
and leadership."
20,500,000 TV Sets in Use
WASHINGTON—There are 20,500,000 television
sets in use out of 23,000,000 already
produced and within another five years there
will be 50,000,000 TV .sets in use in the United
States, according to A. D. Plamondon jr.,
president of the Radio-Television Manufacturers
Ass'n in a years end statement.
Eidophor Being Perfected;
May Be Ready Late in Year
NEW YORK—Several months have been
spent perfecting the Eidophor color television
projector for theatres and it will be ready
for another demonstration in about six
months.
If the demonstrations are completely satisfactory,
another 90-day period will pa.ss before
the production of the apparatus will be
put on a commercial ba-sis.
Spyros Skouras, 20th Century-Fox president,
says he hopes to have the machines on
the market by the end of the coming year.
Trebilcock Quits Toronto Imperial
TORONTO—The film fraternity here was
startled at the year's end by the announcement
of the resignation of Fred Trebilcock as
manager of the big Imperial, largest theatre
of Famous Players Canadian Corp., after
more than 25 years with the circuit. Trebilcock
said he planned to move to California.
Russ R. McKibbin, now manager of the Victoria,
will move over to the Imperial.
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JAMES STEWART
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