Boxoffice-January.17.1953
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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 />
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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 />
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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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