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OLLYWOOD<br />
NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE PRODUCTION CENTER<br />
(Hollywood Office—Suite 219 at 6404 Hollywood Blvd.: Ivan Svear, Western Manager)<br />
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Hollywood Elite See<br />
'Emperor Waltz' Bow<br />
HOLLYWOOD—A blue ribbon group of<br />
stars, industry figures, society elite and civic<br />
notables was on hand when Paramount staged<br />
its world premiere of "The Emperor Waltz"<br />
at the HoUj'wood Paramount Theatre May<br />
26. The star-spangled proceedings included<br />
the usual throngs of autograph seekers, a<br />
television broadcast of premiere events, newsreel<br />
and radio coverage and other elements<br />
customarily associated with top hat-and-furs<br />
openings.<br />
Guests included stars and executives from<br />
virtually every production company, as well<br />
as Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Bing Crosby and<br />
Joan Fontaine, stars of the filnr, and Pi-oducer<br />
Charles Brackett were among the first<br />
nighters. Others on hand included President<br />
Barney Balaban of Paramount, Henry Ginsberg,<br />
S. J. Briskin. Joseph I. Breen, Frank<br />
Capra, D. A. Doran, C. B. DeMille, Y. Frank<br />
Freeman, William Dozier, Jack Karp, Sol<br />
Lesser, David Loew, Mervyn LeRoy, Gene<br />
Markey, E. J. Mannix, William Meiklejohn,<br />
N. Peter Rathvon, Hal Roach, Dore Schary,<br />
Joseph M. Schenck, David O. Selznick, Jack<br />
Warner and Richard Maibaum.<br />
group of Hollywood stars and<br />
participated in RKO Radio's midpremiere<br />
of "The Miracle of the<br />
at the RKO Palace in Chicago May 25.<br />
the trek were Producers Jesse Lasky<br />
Walter MacEwen, Fred MacMurray,<br />
Prank Sinatra, Jack Paar, Barbara Hale and<br />
Bill Williams. Opening day receipts were<br />
turned over to the national cancer fund.<br />
in Central Park," musical starring<br />
Deanna Durbin and Dick Haymes and produced<br />
by Universal-International, was given<br />
its world premiere at the Criterion in New<br />
May 26.<br />
Frank LaFalce Presents<br />
Still Library to Academy<br />
HOLLYWOOD—More than 2,000 stills<br />
comprising a collection which covers the<br />
period of 1921 to 1933 was donated to the<br />
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<br />
library by Frank LaFalce, Warner Theatres<br />
advertising and publicity director in Washington.<br />
Included are stills from 385 films<br />
spanning that period.<br />
Jolson' Big in Helena Return<br />
HELENA, MONT.—For the third time "The<br />
Jolson Stoi-y" played to a packed house at the<br />
Marlow Theatre here, where it was returned<br />
for a two-day run. It also was shown at<br />
East Helena a few months ago.<br />
SAG Aids Fight to Upset<br />
Hartley Union Shop Rule<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Currently in<br />
the throes of<br />
arranging an election under NLRB auspices<br />
on the union shop question in accordance<br />
with provisions of the Taft-Hartley law, the<br />
Screen Actors Guild at the same time has<br />
become active in efforts to have Congress<br />
abolish that portion of the T-H legislation.<br />
SAG leaders granted permission to Rep.<br />
Richard Nixon of California to present the<br />
guild's viewpoint on the matter in his appearances<br />
before a joint congressional committee<br />
on labor-management relations. In<br />
a letter to Nixon signed jointly by SAG<br />
President Ronald Reagan and John Dales jr.,<br />
executive secretary, it was set forth that the<br />
guild has had union shop contracts with producers<br />
for more than ten years and that it<br />
"has never been questioned that these union<br />
shop provisions have the overwhelming approval<br />
of the employes involved."<br />
It explained that such union shop elections<br />
may be applicable in industries where there<br />
are "stable groups of permanently employed<br />
workers performing services for a single employer."<br />
but in the case of the SAG it emphasized<br />
that of approximately 9,000 film<br />
actors "only about 500 are permanently employed<br />
by any one employer," The remainder<br />
work for different companies for varying<br />
periods, the SAG reported.<br />
Meantime plans were in the making for a<br />
mail ballot among SAG members within the<br />
next few weeks to determine whether or not<br />
film Thespics wish to maintain the same<br />
closed shop conditions under which they have<br />
functioned for some years. Balloting will be<br />
conducted on an industry-wide, not a studioby-studio,<br />
basis and the guild is currently<br />
preparing a list of members eligible to participate.<br />
Only actors who have worked during<br />
the past 12 months will be permitted to<br />
ballot.<br />
Simultaneously the SAG announced the<br />
opening of a chapter and office in Detroit<br />
to supervise the commercial film field. William<br />
Saunders will be in charge.<br />
The SAG recently informed more than 400<br />
producers throughout the country that its<br />
contract, expiring July 31, 1948, will be terminated<br />
on that date, but offered to negotiate<br />
a new contract "at any reasonable time and<br />
place."<br />
The Screen Publicists Guild will seek an<br />
early meeting with Columbia studio officials<br />
and will also call an executive board meeting<br />
to discuss Columbia's recent discharge of<br />
three publicists and the transfer of another<br />
from the west to the east coast. The studio's<br />
action came only shortly after one<br />
senior blurber, previously laid off, had been<br />
reinstated as the result of a ruling handed<br />
down by an arbitration panel.<br />
SPG leaders indicated they might file unfair<br />
labor practice charges with the NLRB<br />
if a satisfactory settlement is not obtained<br />
in parleys with Columbia executives.<br />
Meantime the SPG membership approved<br />
a single slate of officer nominees who will<br />
be automatically installed at the Guild's annual<br />
meeting June 15. Re-elected president<br />
was Lesley Mason, with Bill Lyon going in<br />
as vice-president; Chip Cleary, financial secretary;<br />
Len Shannon, treasurer; Milton Stein,<br />
warden and conductor; Milton Gottlieb, business<br />
manager, and Don Reeve. Bob Sill and<br />
Walter Seltzer, trustees.<br />
Writers Will Attack<br />
Alleged Blacklist<br />
HOLLYWOOD—An injunction against implementation<br />
of the film industry's non-<br />
Communist hiring policy as enmiciated last<br />
November by Eric Johnston will be sought<br />
June 1 by attorney Thurman Arnold, acting<br />
for the Screen Writers Guild, the Authors<br />
League of America and 30 individual wTiters.<br />
SWG spokesmen here said that at the weekend<br />
Arnold, now in Washington, had not<br />
decided w-hether to file the action in the<br />
District of Columbia federal district court<br />
or in a similar court in Los Angeles.<br />
Listed as defendants will be the Motion<br />
Picture Ass'n of America, the Ass'n of Motion<br />
Pictm-e Producers, Society of Independent<br />
Motion Picture Producers, Johnston.<br />
Paramount, Loew's, Warners, 20th Centui'y-<br />
Fox. Columbia, Universal-International and<br />
RKO.<br />
Sheridan Gibney,<br />
SWG president, stressed<br />
the suit, attacking the alleged industry<br />
"blacklist," is in "no way connected with the<br />
defense of the individuals charged with being<br />
in contempt of Congress." He referred to<br />
the so-called "unfriendly ten," of whom Dalton<br />
Ti'umbo and John Howard Lawson have<br />
already been convicted.<br />
BOXOFFICE :<br />
: May<br />
29, 1948<br />
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