Boxoffice-December.17.1955

: December
Theatre Bomb Scare
Is Termed a Hoax
LOS ANGELES—A telephone report that
bombs had been planted in two crowded
Hollywood theatres led police on Sunday
evening (11) to evacuate some 2,000 patrons
from the Hollywood Paramount and Grauman's
Chinese. Thorough searches of both
revealed no bombs, and police termed the
call a hoax.
The call was traced to a pay telephone in
the Chinese Theatre. The respective managements
emptied both showcases without
incident, and the audiences returned after
the searches had been completed.
Copyright Infringement
Ruling Is Handed Down
HOLLYWOOD—It depends upon how much
of a literary property has been satirized as
to whether such parody constitutes an infringement
of copyright and unfair competition.
That is the reasoning offered by
Federal Judge James M. Carter in a memo-
randum ruling in favor of the defendant,
NBC, in a damage action filed more than a
year ago by Columbia Pictures, charging
copyright invasion in a Sid Caesar-Imogene
Coca burlesque, "From Here to Obscurity," on
TV.
Judge Carter held that some "limited" liberty
should be permitted inasmuch as the
Caesar-Coca skit touched upon only a portion
of Columbia's "Prom Here to Eternity." The
jurist added that when some months ago he
ruled against Jack Benny in a similar suit
brought by MGM in connection with a Benny
burlesque of MGM's "Gaslight," he did so
because the TV comic's satire covered the
entire property.
To Produce Four for WB
HOLLYWOOD — Independent
producers
Prank Melford and Jack Dietz have moved
into new offices here to begin preparations
on a fom--picture program for Warner Bros.
distribution. Melford in the past has headquartered
on the RKO Pathe lot in Culver
City.
Leslie Nielson will portray June Allyson's
husband in MGM's "The Opposite Sex."
Norman A. Fox Western
Becomes Screenplay
GREAT PALLS, MONT.—A play,
"Bet the
Wild Queen," based on a short story written
by Norman A. Fox of Great Falls, nationally
known western author, has been made into a
motion picture. "Bet the Wild Queen" was
first published in 1940 in the Argosy magazine
and was selected in 1933 for inclusion in an
anthology of stories by members of Western
Writers of America.
As Fox wrote the story, it dealt with a
gambler and a girl in Ft. Benton in the
Vigilante days of the 1860s, but in the film
version the locale is a Yukon mining camp.
Rory Calhoun and Gale Robblns are starred
in the screenplay. Others in the cast are
Donald Curtis, James Millican, William Leslie,
Ted Jacques and Sidney Mason.
'Werewolf to Cameras
HOLLYWOOD—Lensing has been launched
on "The Werewolf," a new addition to Sam
Katzman's production slate for Columbia.
Starring Don Megowan, the science-fiction
horror drama, written by James P. Gordon,
is being directed by Fred Sears.
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To AU Our Friends
The Merriest of Christmoses and a
Joyous and Successful 1956
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