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NEWS AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION CENTER<br />
(Hollywood Office— Suite 219 at 6404 Hollywood Blvd.: Ivan Svear. Western Manager)<br />
Academy's Ballots<br />
In Mails on Jan. 20<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Preliminaries to the film<br />
colony's big annual glamorfest, the Oscars<br />
sweepstakes, will get under way January 20<br />
when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts<br />
and Sciences will mail out nominations ballots.<br />
The polls will close January 29 "and<br />
the awards nominees will be announced<br />
February 14.<br />
Thereafter the nominated pictures will be<br />
screened from February 21 through March 13<br />
at the Academy Award Theatre. Final ballots<br />
wUl be mailed March 1 and the polls<br />
will close March 15.<br />
The Academy's board of governors voted<br />
to make the presentations in ceremonies to<br />
be held on a sound stage at the Warner<br />
Bros, studios in Burbank March 24. It will<br />
be a closed affair, with no general public<br />
admission. This is a departure from the<br />
policy established during the past several<br />
years, when the Awards function was held<br />
at the Shrine auditorium and the public was<br />
permitted to purchase admission tickets.<br />
Stars Present Xmas Show<br />
For Veterans Hospital<br />
HOLLYWOOD—A star-studded array of<br />
Hollywood talent helped make Christmas a<br />
merrier one for patients at the veterans' administration<br />
Birmingham hospital in Sawtelle<br />
through presentation of a variety program<br />
emceed by Johnnie Johnston, singing<br />
star. Participating in skits were Kay Thompson<br />
and the Williams Brothers, Kathryn<br />
Grayson. Betty Garrett, Larry Parks, Hedda<br />
Hopper. Andre Previn. Eddie Bracken, Esther<br />
Williams, Richard Beavers, Mary Jane Smith<br />
and Sandra Bordova.<br />
Irene Dunne was notified by the National<br />
Conference of Christians and Jews that that<br />
organization had voted her the person who<br />
has "done most to promote better understanding<br />
among peoples of all faiths during<br />
1948." The actress will journey to New York<br />
early in February to accept the award, which<br />
last year went to Eleanor Roosevelt.<br />
20th-Fox Official Weds<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Honeymooning at Palm<br />
Springs following their recent marriage were<br />
Fred S. Meyer, director of personnel and<br />
industrial relations at 20th Century-Fox, and<br />
Molly May Weber. The quiet home ceremony<br />
was performed by Rabbi Max Nussbaimi.<br />
The bride and groom were both bereft<br />
of their mates about two years ago.<br />
Producers and Guild<br />
Plan Wage Parley<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Representatives of the major<br />
and independent producers are expected<br />
to begin parleys next month with the executive<br />
committee of the Screen Directors<br />
Guild, which has requested a hearing to submit<br />
new requests for wage increases, thus<br />
reopening the eight-year contract on which<br />
producers and the SDG reached agreement<br />
last siunmer. No salary boosts were granted<br />
at that time.<br />
Negotiators for the SDG include President<br />
George Marshall, Joseph Mankiewicz, Raoul<br />
Walsh, Albert S. Rogell and Lesley Selander.<br />
Participating in the huddles wiU be Charles<br />
Boren, labor liaison executive for the MPAA,<br />
and Anthony O'Rourke of the Society of Independent<br />
Motion Picture Producers.<br />
The new basic pact drafted last July called<br />
for a 100 per cent guild shop and certain<br />
improvements in clauses covering layoffs and<br />
directors' rights to supervise cutting of their<br />
pictures. At that time, however, the SDG<br />
withdrew a demand for salarj' hikes.<br />
Following refusal by the local National Relations<br />
Board to process the charges, the<br />
Screen Publicists Guild has withdrawn from<br />
the case in which it had filed unfair labor<br />
practice charges against Maury Foladare,<br />
freelance publicist. The SPG contended in<br />
its NLRB complaint that Foladare had refused<br />
to bargain for a guild shop for his<br />
employes and also was guilty of intimidating<br />
his workers who had expressed an interest<br />
in an SPG affiliation. Further, the SPG<br />
contended, Foladare granted wage increases<br />
to his employes in an effort to nullify the<br />
Sign Over Safe Ignored<br />
In Futile Robbery Try<br />
Phoenix—Phoenix gunmen either can't<br />
read or don't believe in signs. Three of<br />
them bound and gagged the night janitor<br />
of the Aero Theatre recently, and while<br />
one of them stood over him with a gun<br />
the other two spent 35 futile minutes<br />
trying to crack the house safe.<br />
The sign over the safe read: "<strong>Boxoffice</strong><br />
receipts are deposited daily. No<br />
money is kept in the safe over night."<br />
The gunmen left before finding out the<br />
sign wasn't kidding.<br />
guild's efforts to secure a bargaining agreement.<br />
Foladare has been placed on the SPG's "do<br />
not patronize" list, however, and the organization<br />
has also requested the AFL's central<br />
labor coimcil to place the publicist on its<br />
"do not patronize" list. This request has<br />
been referred to the CLC's executive board.<br />
After the SPG's NLRB complaint had been<br />
filed. Foladare requested that an election be<br />
held to determine whether a majority of his<br />
employes desired SPG affiliation. No such<br />
election will be .staged, however, since the<br />
NLRB tossed out the SPG's charges against<br />
the blurber as being "without merit."<br />
With negotiations for a new contract "proceeding<br />
satisfactorily," but with additional<br />
time needed to settle all the points, the<br />
Screen Actors Guild and Artists Managers<br />
Guild have extended their contract to May<br />
1, 1949. The pact originally had been due to<br />
expire January 1. 1949. Extension of the<br />
agreement was announced in a joint statement<br />
by John Dales jr., of the SAG and<br />
Adrian McCalman of the talent agents' organization.<br />
Successful conclusion of negotiations for a<br />
new union shop collective bargaining contract<br />
was disclosed by the major producers<br />
and the Screen Extras Guild. The new ticket<br />
covers a five-year period and may be reopened<br />
at stipulated dates in 1949 and 1951.<br />
It replaces the present contract which has<br />
been in effect since November 1, 1946.<br />
Unanimously okayed by the SEG's board<br />
of directors, the agreement is subject to ratification<br />
by the SEG membership and the<br />
directorates of the producing companies. The<br />
new ticket provides for retention of present<br />
basic daily rates of .$15.56 and $22.23, and calls<br />
for continued negotiations concerning the<br />
disputed $9.45 daily rate for "mob" scenes.<br />
"Preferential employment" of extras is to<br />
continue for players presently registered with<br />
Central Casting.<br />
Al Jolson Gives House<br />
HOLLYWOOD—An estate in the Hollywood<br />
foothills valued at $75,000 was presented to<br />
the Cedars of Lebanon hospital by Al Jolson,<br />
radio, screen and stage entertainer. Jolson<br />
said the institution may use the 14-room<br />
home and property for "whatever purpose it<br />
sees fit."<br />
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