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NEWS AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION CEMTER<br />

{Hollywood Office—Suite 219 at 6404 Hollywood Blvd.: Ivan Spear, Western Manager)<br />

Clooney Film Debut<br />

In Kentucky on 28th<br />

HOLLYWOOD — Paramounts "The Stars<br />

Are Singing," which marks the film debut<br />

of songstress Rosemary Clooney, will be<br />

world-premiered January 28 in Maysville, Ky.,<br />

her birthplace. A gala. Hollywood-style opening<br />

is being planned for the debut at the<br />

Russell Tlieatre, with Miss Clooney on hand<br />

for personal appearances.<br />

A New England premiere of Allied Artists'<br />

"Plat Top" has been set for Wednesday (21)<br />

at the Paramount and Fenway theatres in<br />

Boston, following which the Walter Mirisch<br />

production will be booked into 40 other situations<br />

in the area.<br />

« * *<br />

Walt Disney's new feature-length cartoon,<br />

"Peter Pan," which RKO Radio is releasing,<br />

will have dual world premieres February 5<br />

at the Roxy in New York and the State-Lake<br />

in Chicago. Off-screen voices include those<br />

of Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans<br />

Conried and Bill Tliompson.<br />

Theatre TV vs. Home Pay<br />

Is Topic at Ad Meeting<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Large-screen theatre TV<br />

vs. pay-as-you-see home video was the subject<br />

debated in a panel discussion sponsored<br />

by the Hollywood Advertising club. Carl<br />

Leserman, executive of Telemeter, the subscription<br />

television venture, predicted that<br />

some form of pay-as-you-see TV will be in<br />

operation within two or thi'ee years, while<br />

Sherrill C. Corwin, head of the Metropolitan<br />

circuit here, opined that theatre TV "cannot<br />

be stopped." He al.so predicted Cinerama and<br />

third dimension will make rapid strides during<br />

the year.<br />

Other panelists were Al Simon, TV film<br />

producer; John A. Vizzard of the Ass'n of<br />

Motion Picture Producers, and Klaus Landsberg,<br />

manager of station KTLA, who acted as<br />

moderator.<br />

* * *<br />

The Academy of Television Arts and<br />

Sciences will hold its annual awards dinner<br />

February 5 at the Statler hotel, at which time<br />

Emmys will be passed out for achievements<br />

in various video fields.<br />

Carl Faulkner Is Sound Chief<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Succeeding Thomas Moulton,<br />

resigned. Carl Faulkner has been named<br />

head of 20th Century-Fox's studio sound department.<br />

BOXOFHCE January 17, 1953<br />

oojecutime<br />

East: Paramount's New York executives,<br />

who came here to attend the 80th birthday<br />

testimonial dinner for Adolph Zukor, headed<br />

back east. The delegation included President<br />

Barney Balaban, A. W. Schwalberg,<br />

E. K. "Ted" O'Shea, George Weltner, Austin<br />

C. Keough, Paul Raibourn, Jerry Pickman<br />

and Russell Holman.<br />

* * *<br />

West: Clay V. Hake, Paramount's general<br />

manager for Australia and New Zealand,<br />

checked out for his headquarters in Sydney<br />

after studio huddles here.<br />

* • •<br />

West: Chai-les M. Reagan, MGM's general<br />

sales manager, arrived from New York for a<br />

gander at newly completed product.<br />

* * *<br />

East: William Heineman, United Artists<br />

sales chief, and Max Youngstein, vice-president<br />

in charge of advertising and publicity,<br />

returned to New York after spending a few<br />

days here conferring with filmmakers releasing<br />

through the UA organization.<br />

* « «<br />

North: George Pal, Paramount producer,<br />

returned from a two-week trip to Mexico,<br />

scouting locations for his next picture.<br />

* *<br />

West: Lloyd Lind, Allied Artists' supervisor<br />

of exchanges, arrived from Manhattan<br />

for parleys with President Steve Broidy.<br />

* * *<br />

West: William H. Wright, MGM producer,<br />

returned from a ten-day business junket to<br />

New York.<br />

* * *<br />

West: Dudley Roberts, president of<br />

Cinerama, came in from Gotham for planning<br />

conferences with Merian C. Cooper, the company's<br />

production chief, and Louis B. Mayer,<br />

board chairman.<br />

* • «<br />

East: Arthur Freed, MGM producer, and<br />

Director Vincente Minnelli will take off for<br />

London next month to lay the groundwork<br />

for filming "Brigadoon," upcoming Gene<br />

Kelly starrer, in Britain.<br />

West: William Kupper, 20th-Fox's managing<br />

director in Britain, checked in on a combined<br />

business-pleasure trip, planning a<br />

month's stay.<br />

* * •<br />

East: Sam Zimbalist, MGM producer, will<br />

take off Sunday (18) for London to supervise<br />

final interior scenes for "Mogambo," the<br />

Clark Gable starrer, filmed in Africa.<br />

Leasing of Film to TV<br />

Enjoined by Court<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Of precedential interest as<br />

concerns the televising of films made originally<br />

for theatrical distribution is a decision<br />

reached in superior court in an action involving<br />

"Shed No Tears," a Wallace Ford<br />

starrer. Judge Frank G. Swain granted the<br />

plaintiffs. Frost Films and Equity Pictures, a<br />

preliminary injunction restraining the defendants,<br />

Chesapeake Industries and Motion<br />

Pictures for Television, Inc., from leasing the<br />

picture to video stations.<br />

The plaintiffs contend that TV .showings<br />

of the film will destroy future theatrical<br />

revenue by rendering its continued theatre<br />

bookings and possible reissue impractical.<br />

* * *<br />

Hearings in an involved corporate dispute<br />

between Louis D. Snader of Snader Telescriptions<br />

and a group composed of Henry<br />

and Al Bisno, Samuel Markowich, Henry<br />

Frye, United Television Pi-oductions and<br />

others, got under way with Judge Samuel R.<br />

Rosenbaum as arbitrator. Snader alleges that<br />

the Bisno group had no legal right to sell<br />

a batch of Telescriptions and other properties<br />

to UTP.<br />

Labor-Industry Council<br />

Studies Foreign TV Work<br />

HOLLYWOOD—So-called "runaway" production<br />

of both theatrical and TV films which<br />

are produced by American units on location<br />

in foreign locales occupied the attention of<br />

both the Motion Picture Industry Council and<br />

the Hollywood AFL Film Council last week.<br />

The former set up a special committee, with<br />

Producer Arthur Freed as chairman, to investigate<br />

the subject, as well as the 18-month<br />

tax exemption allowed Hollywood pyersonalities<br />

who remain abroad for that length of<br />

time on film commitments.<br />

The AFL council, which has repeatedly attacked<br />

the overseas production technique,<br />

voted to step up its campaign to discourage<br />

the making of video films abroad, basing its<br />

action on responses thus far received from<br />

agencies and sponsors. It was reported .several<br />

top agencies and bankrollers have assured<br />

that they have canceled plans for such<br />

foreign film ventures.<br />

Jack Aldrich to<br />

'Big Leaguer'<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Jack Aldrich, former video<br />

director, wa,s inked by MGM to make his<br />

theatrical film debut as the megaphonist on<br />

the upcoming Edward G. Robinson starrer.<br />

"The Big Leaguer."<br />

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