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8 AA Releases Are Set
For Feb.-July Period
NEW YORK—Allied Artists has set its
national release dates through July 1962.
according to Morey R. Goldstein, vicepresident
and general sales manager.
"The Bashful Elephant," a McGowan
International pictui-e starring Molly Mack
with Helmud Schmid, Kai Fischer and
Buddy Baer, will be released February 4
and "Hitler," a Three Crown production,
starring Richard Basehart with Cordula
Trantow and Maria Emo, will be released
March 11.
The April 22 release, for Easter, will be
"Reprieve," a Millard Kaufman-Ronald
Lubin production starring Ben Gazzara.
Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent
Price. Rod Steiger, Broderick Crawford and
Sammy Davis jr., with Dodie Stevens, while
"The Big Wave," produced in Japan by
Stratton Productions and Toho Company,
Ltd., starring Sessue Hayakawa, will be
released April 29.
Albert Zugsmith's "Confessions of an
Opium Eater." starring Vincent Price with
Linda Ho, will be released May 6 and "The
Bridge," produced in Germany by Pono-
Film and starring Jochem Sevcrin viith
Volker Bohnet and Cordula Trantow, will
be released June 3.
"Billy Budd." produced in England by
Peter
Ustinov and Ronald Lubin. starring
Ustinov. Robert Ryan and Melvyn Douglas
and introducing Terence Stamp, will be released
June 24 and Security Pictures' "Day
of the Triffids." made in England in color
and Cinemascope, starring Howard Keel
and Nicole Maurey. will be relea.sed July 8.
FWC to Spend $1,200,000
On Two New Theatres
BEVERLY HILLS—Plans for Fox West
Coast Theatres to spend $1,200,000 on the
construction of a new drive-in theatre in
San Jose and a hardtop theatre in the
San Fernando Valley were revealed by
Eugene V. Klein, president of National
Theatres & Television, parent company.
The new projects, in line with FWC's recently
announced program of expansion,
will have the outdoor theatre located at
Alviso and Brokaw Roads in San Jose. The
drive-in will accommodate 1,100 cars and
will cost approximately $800,000.
The $400,000 indoor house, seating 900,
will be situated at Re-seda and Devonshire
boulevards in Northridge, Calif. Construction
on the theatres will be subject to
usual government approval, it was stated.
Edward Kingsley Is Dead;
Foreign Films Importer
LOS ANGELES — Edward L.
Kingsley,
president of Kingsley International Films
and a leading importer and distributor of
foreign motion pictures, died suddenly
while on a business trip here Januai-y 31.
He was 48 years old. He had been in the
motion picture industry for 30 years, starting
with Paramount where he was the
originator of the "Movie Parade" series.
In 1946. he founded Oxford Films and introduced
the Swedish director Ingmar
Bergman to U.S. audiences, while Kingsley
International was established in 1953. For
the last six years, he had been consultant
for Columbia on European productions.
Judge Rosenman Elected
Chairman of Fox Board
1962 Allied Convention
Dec. 3-5 in
Cleveland
Columbus—Allied States Ass'n will
hold its 1962 convention December 3-5
at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel in
Cleveland, Marshall Fine, president,
announced at a meeting: of directors
of Independent Theatre Owners of
Ohio here last week. A meeting of the
national board will precede the membership
sessions.
Fine said he will go to New York
later this month for conferences with
distribution executives on sales practices.
Definite dates for the meetings,
however, have not been set.
The Allied chief praised the film
tradepress for the "excellent coverage"
of the association's recent convention
in Miami Beach. The tradepress luncheon,
he said, was the highlight of the
convention.
$3,005,367 Earned
By Universal in '61
NEW YORK—Consolidated net earnings
from operations of $3,005,367 were reported
by Universal Pictm-es for the fiscal year
ended October 28, after a provision of
$2,460,000 for federal taxes on income.
After dividends on preferred stock, the
net profit amounted to $3.22 per share on
888.390 shares of common stock outstanding,
excluding shares in the treasury as of
October 28.
For the fiscal year ended Oct. 29, 1960,
the company reported consolidated net
earnings from operations of $6,313,357,
after provision of $6,480,000 for federal
taxes, equivalent to $6.92 per share, on
the same number of shares outstanding,
excluding shares in the treasury.
MPAA and TOA Again Will
Stimulate Oscar Interest
NEW YORK—The Motion Picture
Ass'n
of America and Theatre Owners of America
again will join forces to promote public
interest in the forthcoming Academy
Awards and the Oscar telecast. The campaign
will be patterned on the formula of
past years.
Kits will be prepared and will be made
available at cost for $3 each. Company
sales forces in the field and ABC-TV will
cooperate in the project.
Paramount Dividend
NEW YORK—A quarterly dividend of 50
cents per share on Paramount's common
stock has been declared by the board of
directors, payable March 9 to stockholders
of record on February 23.
NEW YORK — Samuel I. Rosenman,
former justice of the New York state Supreme
Court and special counsel to the
President in the Roosevelt and Truman
administrations, was elected chairman of
the board of 20th Century-Pox at a meeting
of directors January 31.
His elevation to the chairmanship brings
to the 20th-Fox organization a man of
notable achievements on both the state and
national levels over a period of four decades.
Rosenman will assume his new role in
the industry April 15, and has agreed to
serve for a minimum of one year. In accepting
the post, however, he emphasized
that his time will continue to be devoted
primarily to the active practice of law, as
the senior partner in the New York law
firm of Rosenman, Colin, Kaye, Petschek
& Freund.
Under the arrangement, Skouras will
continue as president and chief executive
officer, a status he has held for 20 years.
The board chairmanship has remained unfilled
since the death of Wendell Willkie in
October 1944.
Rosenman's election, it was learned, was
by unanimous vote, indicating that he was
the choice of opposing factions within the
directorate itself, Milton Gould and John
Loeb, directors representing financial interests,
who have been critical of recent
20th-Fox operations, were high in their
praise of Rosenman, whom they regard as
a man who could provide constructive service
to the company.
There was no official comment on the
election, but it is believed that Rosenman's
election to the chairmanship will serve as
a step toward avoiding dissension within
the directorate, and have the effect of providing
an able arbiter in resolving any difference
which may arise.
It also was inteipreted as meaning that
there would be no corporate personnel
changes for at least a year, thereby offsetting
rumors that Skouras would become
chairman of the board.
Texas Legislature to Get
An Antiobscenity Bill
AUSTIN, TEX.—Rep. Tom James of Dallas,
sponsor of the bill to stop the showing
of obscene motion pictures in Texas theatres,
has received permission from Gov.
Price Daniel to let the mea.sure go before
the special session of the legislature, now
in progress.
Censorship was not the purpose of his
bill. James said, but it will give local law
enforcement agencies the power to call
exhibitors who show allegedly obscene pictures
before grand juries or courts for a
review. There was no outline of either
fines or penalties, but it was assumed the
bill would include stiff measures in this
respect.
Last year, an obscene literature bill was
passed in the legislature but motion pictures
were excluded in order to win Senate
approval.
BOXOFnCE Febi-uaiT 5, 1962