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' ' 7Ke«t^Md SvcHt^ FiihiliQLiion Outlook PROSPECTS that Eric Johnston will call a conference to see whether it is possible to work out a formula for salvaging the arbitration plan are good. Johnston is expected back from South America December 7 or 8. He may want to take a few days to discuss the outlook with company heads. Whether it will be a call for a conference of the drafting committee that succeeded the original unwieldly arbitration committee, or an informal meeting of exhibitor unit heads with distribution heads remains to be decided. Alfred Starr, TOA president; Mitchell Wolfson, past president, and Herman Levy, general counsel, held out an olive branch to Allied at a press conference last week by saying that they had worked with Allied from the start of the arbitration negotiations and there had been no disagreement between the groups, even on the desire to arbitrate film rentals. All three emphasized, however, that they did not want to scrap the whole project because of inability to get everything asked for. Starr also said there were a few things in the last draft submitted that TOA members did not like and further negotiations were required to get these straightened out. Johnston keeps in touch with the New York MPAA offices while on trips, so he is familiar with the general outlines of current developments. Bidding YARIATIONS Of exhibitor complaints on competitive bidding practices have become so numerous it is no longer possible to keep a record of them. It makes no difference whether it is a regional exhibitor convention, or a national convention, or Allied or TOA, the complaints roll in. In Washington at the TOA meet no less a personage than M. A. Lightman made some violent remarks about bidding. At the Allied clinics in Chicago the stories were the same from both small and large towns. Sooner or later there will have to be rules covering bidding. Apparently it is common for salesmen and exchange managers to tell exhibitors what their competitors have bid, even when no bids have been submitted, in order to get higher offers. Often, it appears, the sales representative calls up several days before a bidding period has expired and says: "Joe Doakes has offered $50 more than you have; you'll have to top it." The arbitration plan provides that an exhibitor can find out what the bids have been, if he wants to make a written application after the pictures have been awarded. This ought to help. 20th-Fox Report Good ^HE 20th Century-Pox financial report for the 39 weeks ending September 27 was the last in which theatre receipts will be •By JAMES M. JERAULJ> included. The reorganization under the divorcement decree went into effect on that date. The figures were quite satisfactory from the stockholders' viewpoint—earnings at the rate of $1.39 per share. Even without the addition of a special credit of $1,077.- 755 brought about by a change in bookkeeping procedure on foreign income the $2,768,191 net was ahead of the same period last year by $620,563. The theatre income was $41,508,215, which was $2,110,061 below the previous year for the same period. How much of this was due to sale of theatres under the decree requirements was not stated. Ease Chicago Decree JÔDIFICATION of the Jackson Park decree in Chicago, so that Loop theatres can run double features for two weeks and second runs can play them an additional week in case the first run is less than two weeks, came just about a week after Allied had decided to go back into the courts for another seige of litigation. The Jackson Park decree has been a classic example of the dangers of court rule over a technical distribution-exhibition problem. It was punitive—designed to get films out to the subsequents after two weeks in the Loop. Each time that a distributor has had a film that required more than two weeks to make the distribution profitable it has been necessary to go into court and get permission after a hearing an expensive delay. And bills have been singles. Eventually it may be possible to convince the court that customs prevailing in all other cities of the United States are applicable to Chicago. Kaye as a Speaker J)ANNY KAYE told George Jessel before the Motion Picture Pioneers dinner that public speaking "was not his racket." Maybe not, but it's his forte. Kaye has ease of manner, elegance of diction and timing and clarity of expression. His sincerity is impressive. Few speakers at film gatherings have created such a definite impression as he did on this occasion and by his tribute to Nate Blumberg. Color and Black Prints On Two Fox Reissues NEW YORK—Some confusion ha.s arisen over the release of two 20th Century-Fox rei.ssues, "Leave Her to Heaven" and "To the Shores of Ti-ipoll." Originally, both were in Technicolor. However, color prints are now available only in the west, south and Canada. This means that all states north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of Colorado are being served with black and white prints only. B. G. Kranze Becomes UA Sales Manager NEW YORK—B. G. appointed general sales States and Canada) for United Artists by William J. Heineman, V ice-pr e s i d e n t in charge of distribution. Kranze has been executive assistant to Heineman since April 1951. He began his career in the industry at the Paramount Long Island Studios in 1921. He has been a salesman, branch manager eastern-central and manager for RKO. Kranze has been manager i United B. G. Kranze Later he became assistant general sales manager for the J. Arthur Rank Organization in the United States, and in 1948 was named vice-president in charge of sales for Film Classics. From there he went to Eagle Lion Classics as vice-president in charge of distribution before joining United Artists. TOA Committee Chairmen Are Appointed by Starr NEW YORK—Alfred Starr, president of Theatre Owners of America, Wednesday i26) named the chairman of standing committees as follows: Leon Levenson, Boston, concessions; Sam Pinanski, Boston. Council of Motion Picture Organizations; S. H. Fabian. New York, theatre television; Jack Braunagel, Kansas City, drive-ins; Elmer Rhoden, Kansas City, public relations; A. Julian Brylawski, Washington, D. C, national legislation; Robert Bryant, Rock Hill, S. C, and LaMar Sana, Jacksonville, state and local legislation; Herman M. Levy, New Haven, legal advisory. Also. George Kerasotes, Springfield, 111., and E, D. Martin, Columbus. Ga.. organization and membership; Joseph J. Zaro, Nashville, Tenn.. theatre equipment and accessories; R. B. Wilby, Atlanta, arbitration: Henry Anderson. New York, building and safety codes, and Myron Blank, Des Moines, research. Lou Smith on Arrangements For Adolph Zukor Jubilee NEW YORK—Lou Smith, who has been handling Movietime U.S.A. for COMPO. will be executive aide to R. J. O'Donnell in handling the Adolph Zukor Golden Jubilee Celebration. He has been loaned by COMPO for this purpose. | Smith, who has been in New York for the past week conferring with O'Donnell. has gone back to the coast. During the jubilee celebration he will have headquarters at the Motion Picture Producers Ass'n on the coast and at the COMPO offices. 1501 Broadway, New York. Charles Skouras, president of National Theatres, has agreed to act as west coast chairman for the observance. Skouras and O'Donnell will meet soon to arrange the details of the coast celebration. Zukor's 80th birthday will occur on January 7. I 20 BOXOFnCE December 6, 1962
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