Boxoffice-December.17.1962

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION
(Hollywood Office— Suite 320 at 6362 Hollywood Blvd.)
No-Increase Contract
Up to Vote by Actors
HOLLYWOOD—In a mail referendum to
more than 14,000 members of the Screen
Actors Guild, voting was started Wednesday
(5) for ratification of a contract
negotiating policy designed to encourage
production of theatrical feature pictures
in this country and thus to provide more
motion picture jobs for American actors.
Return envelopes must be postmarked not
later than December 17,
Unanimously recommended by the board
of directors, and approved by approximately
a three-to-one vote at the union's general
membership meeting in Hollywood last
month, the policy states that "in view of
the present state of the domestic theatrical
motion picture production industry, with
employment of American actors in this type
of picture at an all time low, the guild will
not seek Increases in existing minimum
wage rates or changes in working conditions
which would substantially increase
the cost of hiring actors in films made in
the United States."
Technicolor Honors New
List of 25-Year Workers
LOS ANGELES—Technicolor Corp. paid
honor to employes who have reached their
25th anniversary with the company at a
luncheon at the Tail of the Cock in the
Valley. Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus spoke.
Present were the newly elected president,
Melvin H, Jacobs; Edward E. Ettinger,
executive vice-president, and Robert Riley
and Paul Passnacht, officers of more than
25 years of service.
Honored this year were Albert N. Bardwell,
Raymond G. Brock, Donald H. Eaton,
Theodore N. Pell, James R. Gallagher,
Dick L. Hollingsworth, Richard P. Koger,
Lucile B. Knudsen, M. Eugene Lynch,
George P. MacLaren, Courtland C. Morelock,
Richard B. Mueller, Ernest G. Phair,
Prank W. Taylor and William P. Ward.
Ralph Peckham Named
MP Health Fund Head
LOS ANGELES—Ralph Peckham, business
representative of the lATSE painters
Local 729, was named chairman of the
Motion Picture Health-Welfare Pund. succeeding
John Zinn, Alliance of TV Pilm
Producers. Other new officers are Albert
Erickson, LATSE craft services Local 727,
vice-chairman: Art Schaefer, Warners,
secretary, and Marshall Wortman, Revue,
vice-secretary. Hem'y Wadsworth is fund administrator.
'Black Fox' Premiered
At LA for Oscar Race
LOS ANGELES — Astor Pictures premiered
Louis Clyde Stoumen's "Black Fox"
at the Apollo Theatre here on the 14th
to make it eligible for the documentary
category for this year's Academy Awards.
The film, which received great critical and
public acclaim at the Venice Film Festival,
is narrated by Marlene Dietrich. Stoumen,
writer-producer-director, received an Academy
Award for "The Naked Eye."
Prance Nuyen, who costars in "A Girl
Named Tamiko," is the third star of the
romantic di'ama to accept an invitation to
attend the world premiere December 27 in
Honolulu. Martha Hyer and Miyoshi
Umeki have already accepted Lt. Governor
James Kealoha's invitation to the opening.
Warners Presented Two
Gold Record Awards
HOLLYWOOD—Jack L. Warner, president
of Wamer Bros. Pictures, and John
K. "Mike" Maitland, president of Warner
Bros. Records, were presented two Gold
Record awards by Mike Coolidge. Columbia
Records custom services division, for
the albums "Peter, Paul and Mary," and
Allan Sherman's "My Son, the Polk
Singer," both of which have sold in excess
of 1,000,000. Warner Bros. Records previously
earned a similar Gold Record
award for its Bob Newhart album, "The
Button-Down Mind,"
WORLD PREMIERE of "Israel Today,"
held at Beverly Theatre in Beverly Hills.
The Martin Murray production won
"Best Short Subject" award at the
Mexican Film Festival. Shown at the
gala theatre party, left to right, are:
Yma Sumac, Martin Murray, Corrine
Calvet, Pinky Lee and Ella Logan.
Sam Goldwyn Pushes
Code of Ethics Plan
HOLLYWOOD—Samuel Goldwyn hosted
a meeting of top film executives la.st week
for discussions regarding his proposed industry
code of ethics. Goldwyn himself
moderated the meeting, attended by Jack
L. Warner, Walt Disney, Y, Frank Freeman,
Charlton Heston and representatives
of each of the guilds to the number of 20.
No decision was made regarding the suggestion
that Y. Frank Freeman head the
project.
One of the points raised by Goldwyn was
the necessity of representative areas of the
industry getting together to try and work
out a plan. Other meetings and submeetings
are expected to be held in the
near future.
Goldwyn to Head
Big MPRF Drive
HOLLYWOOD — Samuel Goldwyn will
head the most important fund-raising campaign
in the 40-year histoi-y of the Motion
Picture Relief Pund next May 20-June 16.
The campaign, the first since 1955, is
needed to raise funds for the case load
which is expected to multiply in the next
five to ten years, since the average age in
the industry today is 53. Even now all
facilities at the country house, the hospital,
the pavilion and the rest home in Woodland
Hills, and at the Hollywood clinic and welfare
offices are continually expanding.
"The cost of expansion is tremendous,"
president George Bagnell said, "and cannot
be absorbed within the Fund's cun-ent budgetary
framework." Under Goldwyn's chaii--
manship, the most successful di'ive in the
Fund's history is expected. Goldwyn will
call the first of several meetings of industry
leaders and organizations after January
1.
Changes
Title
Bikini Beach lAIP). formerly The Seafighters,
to OPERATION BIKINI.
Samantha (Para) to A NEW KIND OF
LOVE.
The Horla lUA) to THE DIARY OF A
MADMAN.
The Corpse Makers lUA) to Nathaniel
Hawthorne's TWICE TOLD TALES.
Agency Signs Alberghetti
HOLLYWOOD—Anna Maria Alberghetti,
now appearing in Chicago in David Merrick's
musical, "Carnival," has signed with
the William Morris agency. Pierre Cosette
continues as her personal manager.
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