Boxoffice-January.26.1952

trfisers observes its 35th birthdoy . Robert Weitman, Paramount executive, addressing group. L to R: Barney Bolabon, Pora 

EMaurice Bergman, U-l executive; Horry McWilliams, Ampa president; Leonard Goldenson, UPT chief See page 22 

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M6MUSIC 

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Lana Turner as "The Merry Widow" with Fernando Lamas 

Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, Thomas Gomez • Color by Technicolor 

• Screen Play by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig 

Based on the Operetta written by Composer Franz Lehar 

and Authors Victor Leon and Leo Stein • Directed by Curtis 

Bernhardt • Produced bv Joe Pasternak • An M-G-M Picture 

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"Singin' In The Rain" st 

Gene Kelly, Donald O'Ccii 

Debbie Reynolds • with a 

Hagen. Millard Mitcheljl 

Cyd Charisse • Colob 

Technicolor • Screen PI: I 

Adolph Green and Ett 

Comden • Lyrics by A 

Freed • Music by Nacio 

Brown • Directed by 

Kelly and Stanley D 

Produced by Arthur I 

An M-G-M Picture 

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"Skirts Ahoy!" starring Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian 

Blaine, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Billy Eckstine • with 

The De Marco Sisters, Dean Miller • Color by Technicolor 

Written by Isobel Lennart • Directed by Sidney Lanfield 

Produced by Joe Pasternak . An M-G-M Picture

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"The Belle of New York" starring Fred 

Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, 

with Keenan Wynn, Alice Pearce, 

Clinton Sundberg, Gale Robbins • Color 

by Technicolor .Screen Play by Robert 

O'Brien and Irving Elinson . Adapted 

for the screen by Chester Erskine 

From the play by Hugh Morton 

Music by Harry Warren . Lyrics by 

Johnny Mercer . Directed by Charles 

Walters . Produced by Arthur Freed 


"Lovely To Look At" starring 

Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, 

Howard Keel, Marge and Gower 

Champion, Ann Miller • with 

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar 

Color by Technicolor • Screen 

Play by George Wells and Harry 

Ruby • Additional Dialogue 

by Andrew Solt • Based on the 

Musical Comedy "Roberta" 

From the Novel by Alice Duer 

Miller • Book and Lyrics by Otto 

A. Harbach • Music by Jerome 

Kern • Directed by Mervyn 

LeRoy • Produced by Jack 

Cummings' An M-G-M Picture 

TheyVe all been Previewed! 

Mlario Lanza in "Because 

^^ôu're Mine." Introducing 

TDoretta Morrow • with 

James Whitmore • Color 

jy Technicolor • Screen 

?lay by Karl Tunberg and 

-.eonard Spigelgass • Based 

)n a Story by Ruth Brooks 

''lippen and Sy Gomberg 

Directed by Alexander Hall 

"reduced by Joe Pasternak 


They're GREAT! Leo does it 

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Ciifluiu Tdiuinjr.-Gay Gordon . Malcoinn Cassell • Larry Olsen 

Screen Play by Jack ROSG and Melville ShavelSOH 

Music by Ma« Sterner 

Produced by Henry Blanke Directed by NormanTaurog

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"With A Song In My Heart" is set to make the nation's hearts and boxoffices tingle with excitement 

for the holiday season. A great cast headed by Susan Hayward (above) as Jane Froman, Rory 

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OF PRIME IMPORTANCE 

.\Kkl\G liaik to the early days of 

souiul. a ilistrihutioii cxeculive the other day 

remarked, ''Well, television is here to stay. It is 

part of modern living and a competitor, along 

with other diversions, for the public's leisure 

time. We can't deny its existence; nor should 

He minimize it. There is only one thing we 

should do aliout it—make motion picture entertainment 

by far the better." 

In somewhat different words, others in the 

industry have been saying the same thing. And, 

apparently, that line of thinking has effectively 

found its way into the production mills of Hollywood. 

Product improvement has been steadily 

coming to the fore and. judging from advance 

information on dozens of pictures alreadv finished, 

there will be much of top quality screen 

fare throughout the current year. 

The competition for the public's leisure time 

—and amusement dollar—has made people more 

|)icky and choosy about motion pictures. That 

sliould prime exhibitors to exert the greatest 

possible care in their bookings and to give their 

selections the best possible merchandising support. 

Accordingly, information about pictures 

is, 

today, of ])remium value. 

As has been the case for the pa.st 1.5 vears. 

BoxoFFiCE supplements its week-to-week efforts 

to provide exhibitors with accurate product information 

in its compact compendium of each 

full season's output—the Barometer Edition, 

As section two of this issue of Boxoffice. it 

does a thorough-going job of providing picture, 

player and performance data that will be of 

practical value to exhibitors throughout the year, 

and longer. 

This com|)endium ol current and coming production 

provides exhibitors with a most thorough 

insight into what they may expect from each 

company in the year ahead. It serves as an 

excellent guide in buying as well as in booking 

pictures for every type of theatre operation. 

This value obtains not only in what Barometer 

foretells of forthcoming releases, but in 

great measure in its compilation of features and 

short subjects for the season just passed. It 

serves to bring attention to many pictures which, 

for one reason or another, may have been overlooked. 

While ))ictures are being played more 

closely to release date than in past years, there 

still are many situations for which upwards of 

.50 per cent of last season's features are as yel 

unpla>ed. Too. because of the fast play-off and 

product dissipation resulting from multiple da>and-dating. 

exhibitors may find a "bonanza"' in 

the rebooking of nian\ of those pictures. Among 

iheni are. surelv. a number that would be in the 

"nuist-see" classification that the selecti\e |)iclure 

|)atr()ns have been forced to miss. 

The grossing reports on last season's features 

are of definite guidance value in booking and 

dating and in helping to determine the effort 

to lie |)ul into the showmandising of each of these 

pictures. The over-all performance record spotlights 

the pictures which may have been overlooked 

and suggests return bookings of those on 

which the full potential may not have been 

realized, because of weather, timing or competitive 

factors, such as cited in the preceding 

paragraph. 

The Blue Ribbon Award winners provide still 

another booking cue. The 12 pictures chosen 

each season by the National Screen Council afford 

opportunities for public relations tie-ins, 

for special booking arrangements or for just 

straightaway showmanship aimed at increased 

patronage. And so do those, which mav be 

among reissues available, listed as far back as 

19,32 when the Blue Ribbon Awards were inaugurated. 

The Council, sponsored by BOXOFFICE. 

is representative of social, civic, religious, educational 

and other organizations interested in motion 

picture betterment. We suggest that exhibitors 

consult the Council Roster, published in 

Barometer. It can be made to serve in creating 

special interest, not only in Blue Ribbon Award 

pictures, but also in increasing ticket sales generally. 

Right here we want to call attention to the 

fact that the National Screen (]ouncil will be 20 

years old come next March. Throughout that 

time. Boxoffice has regularly each month sent 

bulletins to the Council members, not only to 

advise of the Blue Ribbon Award winner but to 

give interesting comment received on it and on 

runnersup. As an instance of how this information 

is used to serve the industry, we quote from 

a letter just received from Miss Flo Beach Rowe, 

of Radio Station WSLB, Ogdensburg, N. Y. Says 

Miss Rowe: 

"I build most of one L5-minute program 

around the Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award bulletin 

each time it is received and will continue to 

do so. L'sually Ogdensburg. with its limit of 

two theatres, receives the movies a bit late. So 

I use your material in comiection with my 

promoting of the movies. I have three 15-minute 

daily jiiograms on WSLB and so find I can use 

your material in several wavs—in 'Women in 

— the News' "Visit With Flo'—and 'Rural Reporter'—my 

three shows." 

Streamlined for practical service. Barometer 

separates the wheat from the chaff, giving maximum 

guidance in a minimum of space; thus 

LIGHTWEIGHT FILM CONTAINERS 

STUDIED BY MAJOR COMPANIES 

Real Problem in Delivery 

Of Acetate Prints Is the 

Resistance to Abuse 

By SUMNER SMITH 

NEW YORK—Henry Reeve of Menard. 

Tex., didn't propose something entirely new 

when he asked, as reported in the January 

12 issue of BoxoFFiCE, why there aren't 

hghtweight film containers for print shipments, 

but his question was important because 

it revived interest in distributor 

plans that haven't been in the limelight recently. 

Reeve's idea, based on sound thinking, 

wasn't new because branch operations 

managers of the major companies have 

been seeking a lightweight container for 

some time. But his suggestion brought 

about a followup that showed that the 

search is vigorous and that the various 

managers will meet soon to swap their research 

under the auspices of the Motion 

Picture Ass'n of America. The companies 

are very anxious to discard the heavy 

metal can now in use and substitute a receptacle 

lighter in weight and as durable. 

STABILITY ILLUSTRATED 

The hitch is that word "durable." An 

anecdote will illustrate. 

Another Texas exhibitor somewhat over a 

year ago found the metal can containing a 

feature badly smashed through the middle 

on arrival. It was such an extreme and novel 

type of damage that after he had calmed 

down a bit, his curiosity was aroused. John 

B. McCullough, MPAA conservation director, 

happened to be in the vicinity, so the exhibitor 

asked him to make an inquiry. 

What had happened was this. The truck 

delivering the film to the theatre had developed 

a flat tire. The driver didn't find 

any suitable rocks nearby, so he used the 

can as the foundation for his automobile 

jack as he changed tires. And that was that. 

An extreme case, of course, but those cans 

have to take a lot of punishment. Some 

truck drivers, according to reports, must be 

bowling enthusiasts. 

NITKATE VERSUS ACETATE 

Reeve wasn't discussing nitrate, or inflammable, 

film stock, of course. He was talking 

about acetate, or non-inflammable, stoek. 

Regulations of the U.S. Bureau of Explosives, 

as enforced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

stipulate metal cans for nitrate 

films. Reeve's point had to do with acetate. 

It was that a cut in transportation costs 

through a reduction in weight was possible. 

He thought that a varying saving of 33 V3 to 

40 per cent would be possible to theatre owners 

on single and two-reel subjects, and a 

considerable saving on larger shipments. 

"Why then," he asked, "the continued use 

of uimecessary heavy cans in view of the 

miracles of modern scientific development of 

plastics, veneers and many lightweight 

metals?" 

That's the same idea the film companies 

have had for over a year. They have been 

looking into various lightweight substitutes. 

HENRY REEVE 

His Suggestion Generates a Discussion 

particularly since all new features and all 

new short subjects are on acetate film and 

since there is a move on foot by the newsreels 

to switch from nitrate to acetate now 

that the costs of the latter are said to be 

coming down. On the other hand, there is 

plenty of nitrate film made in earlier years 

still in distribution, and that, according to 

government rulings, must still be shipped in 

metal cans. 

So the companies, besides developing a new 

container for acetate, will have to keep on 

using metal for nitrate until the old films 

are played out. Care will have to be taken 

to see that nitrate doesn't get into the wrong 

container. 

Investigations into new types of materials 

have included plastics, metals and especially 

fiberboard. Studies haven't shown as yet that 

the plastics tested are durable enough, and 

lightweight metals seem beyond reach right 

now because of government priority rulings. 

That has left fiberboard. The ICC has ruled 

that acetate film, when no nitrate is packed 

with it, can be sent in solid fiberboard containers 

one one-hundredth of an inch thick if 

the cover is fuU telescope, meaning that the 

cover must fit down over the sides of the 

container. But what about durability? 

Paramount, according to G. Knox Haddow. 

and Loew's, according to Alan F. Cummings, 

have been doing a lot of research in fiberboard. 

They have found weight not a considerable 

factor where films are trucked instead 

of flown or sent by express, but fragility 

a real problem. They did not sound too 

optimistic, but said they would make their 

research available to the other companies at 

the coming MPAA meeting. 

Clarence A. Hill at 20th Century-Fox said 

that company had reached the conclusion 

that usage of fiberboard, at least until such 

a container is perfected, would cost much 

more because of loss due to damage than 

metal cans. To date, tests have shown that 

fiberboard doesn't stand up. Lighter metals 

are in the critical area. Plastics have been 

tried, with the company asking Eastman 

Kodak and Union Carbide to experiment. 

Bernard Goodman of Warner Bros, said a 

lot of different kinds of fiberboard cases had 

been checked without finding one that stood 

up, and said in addition that a shortage of 

fiberboard looms because of its use by the 

army. Besides the outright smashing of film 

in a lightweight container, he mentioned the 

possibility of d»-t entering and scratching 

the film surface. 

A. A. Schubart of RKO and Al Schiller 

of Republic said they had been watching the 

progress of various experiments and would be 

glad to save exhibitors money but that "of 

course we can't take it out of our company's 

pocket." 

PLASTICS TESTED BY UA 

United Artists, through a spokesman, 

eagerly awaited a suitable lightweight container. 

"It's not always the exhibitor who 

pays the transportation bills," he said. "We 

do, too. And we believe that if lighter 

containers that resist damage can be found, 

the trucking companies may be willing to cut 

charges. We have asked them to help with 

the experimentation. As for plastics, we 

tested them two years ago with the cooperation 

of a trucking firm and a company manufacturing 

metal film boxes, but nothing came 

of it. It's a real problem." 

Chester M. Ross of Bonded Film, huge 

storage house, said he would welcome lightweight 

containers made of fiberboard or any 

other material as they would greatly lessen 

the labor involved in storing film. He said 

it is possible to ship 1,000-foot reels of nitrate 

film in lightweight cans packed in fiberboard, 

but not reels having more footage. 

William B. Brenner of National Screen said 

trailers are in acetate and shipped in a tight 

roll in corrugated boxes, and sometimes 

wound around a plastic coil. He had no solution 

to offer the major companies. 

ECONOMY OR DURABILITY? 

Clint Weyer of Clark Film Service in Philadelphia, 

a member of National Film Carriers 

which handles 90 per cent of film deliveries, 

said he hadn't heard a thing about any new 

type of containers. His first reaction to a departure 

from the metal type was that it will 

be difficult to find another that will be as 

durable, but he said that his company of 

course would handle any adopted by the 

distributors. 

So the "investigation and experimentation" 

urged by Reeve has been in work for over a 

year and in some instances even longer. 

Reeve apparently summed it up neatly when 

he added: "An immediate change might not 

be feasible, because it has taken some time 

to effect the present acetate status. Such a 

reduction in weight would certainly result in 

a most helpful economy in theatre operation 

—in overhead reduction which we well know 

is steadily becoming a more and more necessary 

item in healthy theatre operation." 

Right now, the main problem is weight 

versus durability. Reeve and a lot of other 

exhibitors will be interested in the results 

of the MPAA meeting. 

8 BOXOFFICE : 

: January 26, 1952

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Ban on 'Miracle Challenged 

Film Censorship Goes 

To Supreme Court 

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on 

Monday (21) was asked to review the New 

York appeals court ruhng upholding the ban 

on exhibition of "The Miracle." 

Distributor Joseph Burstyn's attorney told 

the high court that the conclusion of the 

censors that the film was sacrilegious was unfounded 

and challenged the constitutionality 

the New York statute under which the 

state regents acted. 

Counsel Ephraim S. London told the court 

that the powers granted by the statute "are 

repugnant to the constitution of the United 

States" and argued that its terms are so 

vague and indefinite that enforcement "violated 

the due process clause of the 14th 

Amendment." 

TERM NOT DEFINED 

Although the law ^ bans sacrilegious films, 

the term "sacrilegious" is not defined, the 

brief pointed out, and therefore film producers 

cannot determine in advance the scope of 

the prohibitions, since there are no clearly 

defined standards. 

"The repression of motion pictures as media 

for the dissemination of ideas will be a real 

and immediate danger if the statutes permitting 

censorship of films on religious grounds 

are sustained," the brief declared. "Millions 

of filmgoers in New York state" would be 

denied the opportunity to see films with a 

religious theme if the picture happens to 

"conflict with (the views) of a minority of a 

religious group. 

"The cinema is perhaps our most vigorous 

art form and one of the most potent instruments 

of communications of ideas," Burstyn 

argued, declaring that the action of the censors 

would threaten free and complete use 

of the motion picture medium. 

The ban on showings of "The Miracle" violates 

the constitutional guarantees of "separate 

church and state," and of "freedom of 

religion," the brief argued, on the grounds 

that the regents are required by the statute 

to make "a purely religious judgment—and 

such judgment is made the basis for official 

action." The effect of this is that "the 

authorities charged with enforcement of the 

statute must adopt some religious dogma as 

a standard for action," the brief stated, since 

the judgments must be based on "some 

particular religious doctrine." 

VIOLATE FIRST AMENDMENT 

Furthermore, the company argued that 

film censorship of films violates the freedom 

of speech guarantees of the first amendment, 

thereby again bringing to the fore the question 

of whether films are included under 

these guarantees, "The Mutual Film case 

should be relegated to the history .shelf," it 

stated, since movies were "a trivial form of 

entertainment without significance" in 1915 

when that ruling was handed down. 

Delay COMPO Meeting 

NEW YORK—The annual meeting of the 

Council of Motion Picture Organizations 

executive board has been postponed from 

February 14, 15 to February 20, 21 to avoid 

conflict with the Federal Communications 

Commission hearing in Washington. 

Studio Toppers to Talk 

Things Over With TOA 

LOS ANGELES—With an exhibitors-producers 

round table .session to confer on 

mutual problems as one of the highlights, 

emphasis will also be directed toward arbitration, 

television, discriminatory taxation 

and otlier matters of industry concern when 

the board of directors of Theatre Owners 

of America opens a four-day conclave here 

Monday (28). 

To be held at the headquarters 

of National Theatres, the huddles will end 

Tliursday (31 1. 

OTHER TOPICS ON AGENDA 

At a planning session held here Monday 

(21 1 by 

Gael Sullivan. TOA executive director, 

and Charles P. Skouras, NT president 

and general chairman of the upcoming meeting, 

the subjects listed lor discussion also 

included: 

Furtherance of organizational plans for 

regional committees. 

Cycles of films and simultaneous releasing 

of pictures which have similar 

themes and/or story content. 

Quality and quantity films. 

Public relations. 

Censorship. 

Approximately 70 delegates will attend the 

parleys, including leading independent exhibitors, 

circuit heads and Hollywood productional 

brass. Among the latter will be 

Darryl F. Zanuck, Dore Schary, Jack L. Warner, 

Y. Frank Freeman, William Goetz, Herbert 

J. Yates, William Perlberg, Hal Wallis, 

Stanley Kramer, Steve Broidy, Jerry Wald, 

Roy O. Disney, Robert L. Lippert and Sol 

Lesser. 

Exhibitor participants will represent 9.500 

theatres in 48 states. It is the first TOA 

directors' meeting to be held here since 

March 1948; in September 1949, TOA held 

its national convention here. 

On the eve of the conclave, representative 

filmmakers who will meet with the theatremen 

expressed enthusiasm at the opportunity 

accorded for the two groups to sit down and 

engage in discussion of mutual problems. 

WaUis hailed it as a "healthy sign for the 

industry," while Wald said that by such sessions 

"a new and flourishing era of motion 

picture history is being born" and Kramer 

declared the need for meetings of this kind 

"is greater today than it ever has been before." 

NT. FWC CHIEFS TO MEET 

Broidy, opining that filmdom "has made 

great strides forward during the past year," 

said such progress has to a large degree "been 

a result of gatherings .such as this," and 

Zanuck emphasized that "we are waging a 

common struggle to 

regain the patronage of 

the public." Yates said he was looking forward 

to the parleys "with great enthusiasm," 

while Warner, Schary and Perlberg also joined 

in welcoming the TOA directorate and predicted 

the meetings would be mutually 

beneficial. 

Immediately following the close of the TOA 

.session Thursday i31), Skouras will call a 

meeting of NT and Fox West Coast executives 

for the following day to lay plans for 

NT's own annual midwinter meeting. These 

Big Ones Not Enough 

Minneapolis — North Central Allied, 

in its current bulletin, comments on the 

statement by Cecil B. DeMille that the 

public will soon be demanding only the 

big attractions. "What happens to theatres 

which require 100 to 200 pictures a 

year?" NCA asks. 

parleys will begin February 4. 

Assisting Skouras in making the TOA conclave 

arrangements are Dick Dick.son, FWC's 

southern California division manager, who 

is coordinating conference activities; George 

Bowser, FWC general manager, in charge of 

entertainment; R. H. McCuUough, television; 

Andy Krappman, merchandising; Dean 

Hyskell, decorations and exhibits, and Thornton 

Sargent, Ed Zabel, John Lavery, Pete 

Latsis and Dick Pitts. 

Here is a partial list of the delegates who 

had made reservations for the four-day meeting 

of the TOA board of directors: 

Morton Thalheimer, Neighborhood Theatres, Inc., 

Richmond, Vc; Thomas Bloomer, St. 

James, St. Louis, Herman M. Levy, 

Louis; 

TOA 

Thomas 

generol 

New York; Goel 

counsel, New Haven, S. H. Fabion, 

Sullivan, executive TOA director. New York; Robert 

Livingston, Nebraska TOA, Lincoln; Roy Cooper, 

United Calitornio Theatres, San Francisco; John Rowley, 

Dallas. 

Ted R. Gamble, Portland, Ore.; Sol Schwartz, RKO 

Theatres, New York; Mike Comertord, Scranton, Po.; 

Mitchell Wolfson, TOA president, Wometco Theatres, 

Miami; J. J. O'Leary, Comerford Theatres, Scranton; 

Ed Martin, Columbus, Go.; George Kerasotes, Springfield, 

III.; Harry Nace, Tucson; Walter Reode jr.. 

New York; Robert E. Bryant, North end South Carolina 

Theatre Owners, Rock Hill, S. C. 

George P. Skouras, United Artists Theatres, New 

York; C. E. Cook, Kansas-Missouri Theatre Ass'n, 

Maryville, Mo.; Marlin Butler, New Mexico Theatre 

Ass'n, Albuquerque; Mack Jockson, Alexander City, 

Ala.; Frank L. Newman, Fox Evergreen Theatres, 

Seattle; Elmer H. Rhoden, Fox Midwest, Kansas City; 

Frank H. Ricketson, Fox Intermountain, Denver M. 

Spencer Leve, FWC, Son Francisco; Not Williams, 

Thomasville, Ga.; Fred Schwartz, Century circuit. New 

York; Maurice Loewenstein, Theatre Owners of Oklahoma, 

Oklahoma City. 

Alfred Starr, Nashville; Kermit Stengel, Nashville; 

and, from the Los Angeles and southern California 

area, Charles Skouras, George Bowser, Dick Dick- 

P. 

son, Thornton Sargent, John Lavery and Ed Zabel, 

executives of Fox West Coast and National Theatres; 

Harry Arthur; Sherrill C. Corwin; Al Hansen; Gus 

Metzger; George Nasser. Mike Rosenberg, Russell 

Rogers; Bill Srere; Fred Stem, United Artists Theatres; 

Ed Shanberg; Harry Vinnicof; Ben Wallerstein, 

Warner Theatres. 

Ask Film Industry to Aid 

Women Recruiting Drive 

WASHINGTON—Leading executives in all 

branches of the motion picture industry were 

asked Wednesday (23i to assLst the Defense 

department in its campaign to recruit more 

women into the armed services. 

The group attending a special luncheon at 

the Pentagon heard Defense Secretary Robert 

Lovett express gratitude for many examples 

of fine work performed by the industry in 

the past in behalf of the defense and war 

effort, and praise its ability for successful 

accomplishments. 

The film industry was represented by 

Eric Johnston, Ned Depinet, David Selznick, 

Spyros and George Skouras, Abram Myers, 

Arthur Mayer, A. Julian Brylawski and Mary 

McCall, Screen Writers Guild president, Walton 

Anient and Russell Holman. 

BOXOFFICE January 26, 1952 

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ROMANCE IS 

at the Roxy Theatre, New York, and" 

BUSINESS BETTER THAN IT HAS 

BEEN IN A TWELVE-MONTH, as 

"The Model and the Marriage Broker" 

lines 

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the theatre — eager to see 20th 

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women's store, ran full 

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in all the newspapers, 

tying in "The Model 

and the Marriage 

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dresses worn by 

Jeanne Grain. 

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PciUe SW^ ôn on Theatre TV Color 

FCC Turns Down 20th-Fox 

On Theatre TV Channels 

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company loses bid to have specific 

assignment of industrial radio service chan- 

! nels considered in the theatre TV hearings 

schedviled before FCC on Febniary 25. 

FCC May Not Be Able to Hold 

Hearings Feb. 4 

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Scheduled resumption on merger proceednot 

expected due to unexpected delays 

in concluding testimony about whether Du- 

Mont is or is not controlled by Paramount. 

Karl Herzog Is Elected President 

Of Cinecolor at N.Y. Meeting 

Treasurer of company replaces John D. 

Kerr, who resigned recently; Edwin Van Pelt 

of Chemical Bank & Trust Co., and Murray 

McConnel of New York to fill two of three 

vacancies on board. 

Forced Theatre Liability 

Insurance Sought in N.Y. 

Bill introduced in legislature by Brookljm 

assemblyman calls for $25,000 coverage for 

one person and $50,000 for more than one injured 

in an accident. 

Bank of America Files Suit 

Against Loevr's Int'l 

Seeks $2,642,240, claiming that company 

pushed MGM product to detriment of nine 

L Enterprise pictures which it had agreed to 

distribute after bank foreclosure on them. 

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Monogram-AA Chiefs Hold 

Conferences at Studio 

Review accomplishments during 1951 and 

draft operational blueprints for the coming 

year as concerns product, sales policies and 

personnel coordination. 

Eric Johnston Appointed 

To Government Office 

I 

F Motion Picture Ass'n of America president 

I to head Point 4 program; estimated new job 

k would take no more than three days a month 

I from his film duties. 

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Spanish Approval Is Won 

To New Import Proposals 

Provides for issuance of film license by the 

government, an allocation of 60 to U.S. companies 

having distribution offices in Spain, 

20 Spanish importers of U.S. films and 20 

to independents. 

Mexico's 50% Film Quota Law 

Declared Unconstitutional 

Federal court grants injunction sought by 

exhibitors: ruling also eliminates requirement 

that exhibitors must register at federal cinema 

office; government appeal possible. 

Protested by Industry 

WASHINGTON—The film mdustry on 

Monday (21) asked the National Production 

Authority to declare its ban on manufacturing 

of color television equipment not applicable 

to theatre television. The request was 

made in a letter signed by Vincent Welch 

and James L. Fly for the Motion Picture 

Ass'n of America and by Marcus Cohn for 

Theatre Owners of America and the National 

Exhibitors Theatre Television Committee. 

The industry representatives argued that 

the ban was never intended to apply to theatre 

TV and cited as proof the fact that no 

film industry representatives had been called 

to the pre-ban meeting at which all segments 

of the home TV industry were present. 

The film associates argued, further, that 

production of theatre color television equipment 

"to serve thousands of people" would 

require no more critical materials than would 

the making of only one or two home color 

receivers. They contended that "the scientific 

advance in color television" should not "be 

impeded." 

The joint letter requested that NPA either 

immediately clarify its order to make it 

certain that theatre TV is exempt from the 

ban or, at the very least, call a meeting of 

spokesmen for groups and individuals interested 

in theatre TV, at which time these 

spokesmen could support with facts their contention 

that banning theatre color TV would 

result in very little, if any, savings of critical 

materials. Such a meeting subsequently was 

set for February 8 by NPA. 

New du Pont Plastic Film 

Available for Testing 

•WILMINGTON, DEL.— E. I. du Pont de 

Nemours & Co. has reported a new plastic 

film with unusual strength, heat resistance 

and insulating qualities called Mylar. It is a 

polyester film chemically like Dacron polyester 

fiber and is said to be superior to all 

materials except mica in some insulation uses 

and in capacitator and condenser applications. 

The film Is available now only for 

experimental purposes. 

Skiatron, D of J Huddle 

On Refusal of Films 

WASHINGTON — Justice 

department 

attorneys have huddled with Skiatron, 

Kreiger and Jorgensen about a forthcoming 

Skiatron protest over refusal of 

major film studios to supply films for 

the company's proposed subscriber television 

tests, it was learned Monday (21 ». 

Justice officials refused to comment, 

other than to admit that the case is 

getting some consideration, but it was recalled 

the D of J brought pressure to 

bear on the studios when Zenith was having 

trouble getting films for its Phone 

vision tests. 

Patterson Killed En Route 

From Schine Hearing 

BUFFALO — Judge Robert P. Patterson, 

former secretary of war, killed in the 

American Airlines crash at Elizabethtown, 

N. J.. Tuesday (22), was on his way to New 

York after appearing in court here for Schine 

Chain Theatres. Inc. 

Patterson left here shortly after Judge 

John Knight had signed an amended order 

in the Scliine decree extending the time in 

which the circuit must dispose of 25 theatres 

to June 24, 1953. Patterson apparently made 

a last-minute change in travel plans. He 

had intended to return to New York via New 

York Central's Empire State Express, but 

instead got a seat on the plane which crashed 

with its 23 passengers and crew. 

At the hearing, Patterson told the court 

that the circuit had been able to dispose of 

only 14 of 39 theatres ordered divorced. The 

extension orders the circuit to accept bids 

which, added to profits since last June 24, 

would be considered reasonable. One-third 

of the theatres must be sold by June 24 and 

two-thirds by December 24. 

Kiddies, Teenagers Predominate 

In Audiences, Circuit Finds 

MINNEAPOLIS—The younger element now 

predominate in theatre audiences in this territory. 

A study of the situation and survey 

by the Minnesota Amusement Co. reveal that, 

apparently, it's the middle aged and elderly 

follts who have deserted the showhouses in 

the larger numbers, or, at least, are remaining 

away. 

The children and teenagers have been comprising 

approximately 35 per cent of the big 

Paramount circuit's patronage. This fact 

could be determined because there are special 

admission brackets for the youngsters 

under 12 and for teenagers between the ages 

of 12 and 18. 

It's estimated by house managers that 

much of the bulk of the remaining adult patronage 

also constitutes what might be 

termed "young people." 

This preponderance of "young people" in 

theatre audiences augurs favorably for exhibition's 

future, in the opinion of Harry 

B. French, MAC president. Also, he points 

out it's only in the children's and teenagers 

division that MAC theatres have shown attendance 

gains in 1951. 

"The fact that there are gains in the 

youngster patronage is most encouraging to 

me," said French. "After all, these young 

people are passing up television to attend 

the theatres in the Twin Cities and nearby 

towns." 

12 BOXOFFICE January 26, 1952

TH6TWie> 

HOST 

$CR66N HISTORY! 

Sfarring 

MARION BRANDO 

Produced by Directed by Written by 

OMYLF.ZAWEUA KAZAN -IN STEINBECK 

There's Ho Business like r^S Business! 

CENTURY-FOX

First of a Series Across the Country 

20th-Fox Clinic Outlines 

Campaigns to Exhibitors 

Photos on Page 16 

NEW YORK—Television, as a competitor of 

motion picture theatres, has lost the element 

of novelty and must compete on the quality 

of entertainment. This, in effect, means that 

both distributors and exhibitors must make 

the most serious selling efforts to let the 

public know that the attractions in the theatres 

are to be better than what they can 

see at home. 

This was the approach taken by Charles 

Einfeld. vice-president in charge of advertising, 

publicity and exploitation, in stimulating 

more than 200 exhibitors and circuit representatives 

to do a top selling job at a merchandising 

clinic conducted this week (22) 

by 20th Century-Fox. 

FOR BETTER PRE-SELLING JOB 

The clinic was the first in a series to be 

conducted by the company to acquaint theatremen 

with upcoming product—particularly 

product which has been scheduled for later 

in the year and on which there is ample time 

to undertake full-scale advertising and publicity 

campaigns. The company has set its 

full schedule for 1952 on the premise that if 

the sales force and theatremen know what 

product is available and what materials have 

been provided for pre-selling a better allaround 

job will be done for individual films. 

Most of the campaign presentations were 

dramatized in such a way as to stimulate 

enthusiastic reactions on the part of exhibitors 

for the top selling efforts requested. 

Trailers were shown along with slides of 

advertisements which had been prepared. 

Magazine materials were presented in color, 

and merchandising tie-ups which offer extensive 

local use were presented. 

Al Lichtman, vice-president, opened the 

session by saying that two-thirds of the company's 

product has been completed for th; 

1952 season. Many of these will be delivered 

to exchanges six months in advance of release 

to provide for advanced exploitation. 

INCREASE IN PRODUCTION 

After pointing out that the number of pictures 

has been gradually increased in the 

past three years Lichtman said: "Our studio 

is fully aware of the score in the motion 

picture business today. In addition to working 

harder than ever before they are more 

careful in the selection of subjects and are 

all fired with a determination to succeed. 

"Also, in distribution, the same spirit prevails. 

We are determined this year to do a 

better job than ever and work in full cooperation 

with oiu- exhibitor friends." 

Einfeld took over the program after Lichtman 

finished and went straight to the point 

by saying that the film industry has the problem 

of providing better shows, and so does 

television. 

"We are making an effort to remove the 

blanket placed over regional showmanship 

by our government," he said. "Exhibitors 

cannot plan their showmanship under present 

conditions. 

"We want to show you six months in advance 

so that you can select your pictures and 

plan the efforts needed to sell them to the 

public. We hope to alert theatre management 

in advance. Imagine a television group not 

knowing a week in advance what a show was 

going to contain!" 

As a sidelight on the television situation he 

said that he had been informed by an executive 

of one of New York's biggest department 

stores that radio sales are now exceeding 

television receiver sales. 

"Our competitor has lost the element of 

novelty. Now that it must compete on the 

quality of entertainment, the thing for \is 

to do is to make the most serious selling effort. 

Let the people know that your attractions 

are going to be better than what they 

can see at home. 

"We have licked the problem of better 

productions. 

"We must take another step. We must 

pinpoint right down to every theatre the 

need of selling." 

Einfeld then pointed to large folders under 

the seats in the 20th-Fox projection room 

giving proofs of ads coming of stunts planned 

and already tested, and descriptions of novelty 

accessories which the company has been 

developing. 

On "Decision Before Dawn" there were four 

different approaches m the ads. 

Einfeld related that Macy's had chosen the 

film as the picture-of-the-month and would 

give it a two-page artistic spread which was 

shown on the screen. This ad. Einfeld said, 

will be available to exhibitors in cities where 

Macy's has no affiliated stores and where 

the stores do not compete with Macy's. 

Einfeld urged exhibitors to take advantage 

of this on a co-op basis. 

Loew's Earnings for 1951 

About Equal to 1950 Net 

NEW YORK—Loew's. Inc., reports a net 

income of $7,804,370, after depreciation, taxes 

and all other deductions, for the fiscal year 

ended Aug. 31. 1951. compared to a net 

income of $7,854,454 for the previous fiscal 

year. The net income for 1951 included net 

credit of approximately $754,000 due to reduction 

of prior year's depreciation charges 

while the previous fiscal year included $808,- 

020 profit after taxes realized from the sale 

of capital assets. 

The 1951 figure is equivalent to $1.52 per 

share while the 1950 figure is equivalent to 

$1.53 per .share. 

Current and working assets Aug. 31. 1951 

totaled $113,948,402, compared with $114,- 

161,876 a year earlier, and current liabilities 

totaled $26,685,286, compared with $24,- 

967,018, the previous year. 

For the 12 weeks ended Nov. 22, 1951 of the 

current fi,scal year, Loew's, Inc., shows net 

operating profit of $2,932,987, before federal 

taxes, compared with $2,090,127 a year earlier. 

After taxes and adjustments, net profit was 

$2,089,339, equivalent to 41 cents per share, 

compared with $1,994,954, equivalent to 39 

cents per share, in the corresponding period 

last year. 

U Board MeeSs, But No 

Action on Decca Deal 

NEW YORK—The board of directors of 

Universal Pictures declared a quarterly dividend 

of $1.0625 a share on the 4>2 per cent 

cumulative preferred stock at its meeting 

Wednesday (23). It is payable March 1 to 

stockholders of record February 15. 

Otherwise, the meeting was declared quiet, 

uneventful and productive of no news. 

"Just routine business was discussed," a 

company spokesman said. 

The statement occasioned some surprise in 

view of the attendance at the meeting of 

John Davis, managing director for J. Arthur 

Rank, owner of about 13 per cent of the 

stock, who was reported to have come here 

from London to gather additional details on 

the acquisition by Decca Records of an interest 

in Universal. Davis also was interested, 

it had been said, in conflicting reports that 

Decca would take over control of Universal 

and Universal would take over Decca. 

Two days before the meeting, the Securities 

and Exchange Commission reported that 

Decca, owner of more than 10 per cent of 

Universal commmon stock, had bought 11,900 

shares of the common in December, increasing 

its direct holdings to 263,700 shares. It 

also said Decca had reported direct holdings 

of 32,500 warrants to buy common stock. 

3 Whopping Suits Filed; 

Ask $27,022,371 Damages 

BOSTON—A triple-damage antitrust suit 

has been filed in the first district court of 

Boston by Jean Campopiano, owner and operator 

of the Capitol Theatre, Lawrence, involving 

a total amount of $23,000,000. The 

actions are made up of a main count for 

$15,000,000, a second count for $5,000,000 and a 

third for $3,000,000. Campopiano, who is an 

attorney as well as an exhibitor, is handling 

his own case. 

Charging conspiracy, monopoly and restraint 

of trade, the plaintiff alleges that he 

has been denied first run product for 15 

years from all the majors with the exception 

of 20th Century-Fox, although the Capitol is 

a first run house. 

NEW YORK—Two antitrust suits 

asking a 

total of $4,022,371 damages of the major companies 

and charging conspiracy to monopolize 

second runs in Yonkers, N. Y., were filed in 

federal court here Wednesday i23i. Yonkers 

Kent Corp. and Rojay Holding Corp. complained 

that the Kent Theatre was unable 

to get product between 1940 and 1948. Damages 

of $1,044,955 are asked. Gormel Operating 

Corp., Terrace Theatre Corp. and H. W. 

Freedman complained they could not get 

product between 1925 and 1948, and asked 

damages of $2,977,416. 

lATSE Picks Minneapolis 

NEW YORK—The general 

executive board 

of the International Alliance of Theatrical 

Stage Employes has selected Minneapolis as 

the scene of the 41st international convention 

next summer. 

The convention will open August 4 at the 

Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium. Convention 

headquarters will be the Hotel Nicollet. 


BIG EXCITEMENT! 

YOUNG BARRYMORE, IN 

A TURBULENT, DEMAND- 

ING ROLE, CONVINC- 

INGLY EARNS HIS RIGHT 

TO HIS FAMOUS NAME. 

Crams an uncommon amount 

of character insight, originality 

and intense feeling, as well 

as the seedy realism of cheap, 

big city backgrounds in the 

small hours."— r/me 

"A mature, touching story skillfully 

directed. Barrymore turns 

in a youthfully ingratiating 

performance. The 

opening scene finds 

shocking 

him precipitated 

into a bewildered, 

drunken man hunt."—Newswee/c

. Loew's 

At 20th -Fox 

Showmanship 

Clinic 

Top exhibitors in the east were 

among those who attended the 

20th Century-Fox showmanship 

clinic at which 1952 product was 

discussed and campaign materials 

were presented. Shown here are 

some of the guests at an informal 

get-together following the clinic. 

Two well-known exhibitors pose with 20th-Fox officials. Left to right: Charles 

Einfcld. director of advertising, publicity and exploitation; Joseph Vogel. theatre chief 

for Loew's. Inc.; Al Lichtman, director of distribution for Fox; Louis Schine, of the 

Schine circuit, and VV. C. Gehring, executive assistant general sales manager. 

Left to right: Oscar Doob and Ernest FnierlinE 

K.ugene Picker, and Harold Rinzler, who is wilh the 

theatre executives, \rith 

Randforce circuit. 

Two veterans in exhibition—David 

Weinstock, head of Raybond Theatres, 

and Sam Rinzler, president of Randfnrcc 

circuit—join in a story and food after the 

clinic. 

(left) 

Harry Goldberg (center), Warner theatres advertising chief, with Nat Feldman 

and Lou Kaufman. 

Lou Eûfman (left) of Warner theatres 

chats with Arthur Silverstone, assistant 

general sales manager of 20th-Fox. 

Left to right: Ben Weinstock, Raybond Theatres; Abe Dickstein, New York 

branch manager for 20th-Fox; Lou Wolf and Joe Ingbar of Brandt Theatres; and 

Lou Fishier, Cinema circuit. 


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Top Texas Showmen Show Their Big Heart 

Branch Manager in Hospital, 

So Exhibitors Take Over 

DALLAS—For the first time in motion picture 

history exhibition leaders in the exchange 

area will take over the duties of a 

distribution exchange branch manager, a 

week at a time, during the manager's hospitalization. 

When it was learned that John J. Houlihan, 

branch manager for Republic Pictures, 

would be confined to a hospital for more than 

12 weeks after a spinal operation, a hurried 

call to the COMPO Showmen of Texas 

executive committee meeting was held on 

January 22 at Town and Country restaurant. 

Claude C. Ezell, president of Claude Ezell 

and Associates, one of the largest drive-in 

operators in the country, presented the historic 

idea of inter-industry cooperation in 

support of Houlihan. The plan was enthusiastically 

and spontaneously adopted by 

unanimous acclamation and was worked out 

in detail as follows: 

Each exhibition leader, beginning with Robert 

J. O'Donnell, will give his services for one 

week as active branch manager at the Republic 

exchange for the full time in which Houlihan 

will be in the ho.spital. The succeeding 

week's responsibilities have been enthusiastically 

volunteered by: Col. H. A. Cole, cochairman 

with R. J. O'Donnell of Texas 

COMPO and chairman of the board of Allied 

Theatre Owners of Texas: Claude C. 

Ezell, C. C. Ezell and Associates: Phil Isley, 

Isley Theatres: H. J. Griffith, Theatre Enterprises: 

Julius Gordon, president of Jeffenson 

Amusement Co.: Ed Rowley, president of 

Rowley United Theatres: Johnny Long, J. G. 

Long Theatres: Bob Euler, general manager 

of Tri-State Theatres, Henry Hall, Rubin 

Frels, Henry Reeves, president of TOA of 

Texas: Wallace Blankenship and Mart Cole. 

Kyle Rorex, executive director of Texas 

COMPO Showmen, stated that Ezell had been 

named chairman of this special activity 

"which will .serve to further cement the motion 

picture industry in Texas into a cooperative 

group exemplifying the finest attributes 

in the world of showmanship, including 

cooperation, heart-warming aid to those 

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John J. Houlihan 

in trouble, and a realistic 

knowledge that 

the show must go on." 

Rorex also stated 

"remarks from various 

exhibition heads and 

other executives of 

COMPO in attendance 

at the meeting were 

typical of the big 

'Heart of Texas.' The 

tremendous efforts of 

Houlihan last fall in 

heading distribution in 

the COMPO organizazation 

were recalled by those present, and 

reciprocation for these efforts only 'added 

fuel to the fire' of the idea." 

In a telegram to Herbert J. Yates, president 

of Republic Pictures, Ezell stated: "In 

behalf of Texas COMPO Showmen, and members 

of the executive committee individually 

I wish to express myself as looking forward 

to a successful operation and speedy recovery 

of John J. Houlihan, who so wholeheartedly 

gave of himself last fall and was one 

of the mainsprings in enthusing and leading 

the distribution salesmen during the two 

weeks time given to the selling of COMPO 

... No stone will be left unturned in the 

efforts of each exhibitor to surpass the results 

of his predecessor in the way of sales 

records in your fine organization." 

To Jimmy Grainger, Ezell expressed himself: 

"We were happy in his success last fall 

as leader in the Jimmy Grainger Friendship 

drive, and he typifies the best in showmanship 

and a spirit of love and interest in his 

fellow industry workers. The idea of pinchhitting 

for Houlihan by top circuit heads of 

exliibition caught the heartstrings of leaders 

in the area and a working idea was born." 

Houlihan was due to go to the hospital on 

January 25 and "Bob" O'Donnell will take 

over responsibilities at the Republic exchange 

on January 28. O'Donnell stated "he's a 

great branch manager and this is a great 

idea." 

Col. Cole said: "This is not an honorary 

proposition. Each one of us means business." 

"I don't know of any better way to .show 

our appreciation for John's wonderful leadership 

last fall," remarked Isley. 

"I certaii-Uy want to be counted in," said 

Rowley, "and look forward to trying to fill 

Houlihan's shoes for a week. He has a fine 

organization." 

Euler, Tri-State Theatres, "I may be serving 

as guest manager for a week, but I'll be 

in there pitching just as if it were my own 

business." 

Two King Bros. Films for UA Release 

HOLLYWOOD—United Artists will release 

two King Bros, productions during the 

current year. First to go into distribution 

will be the recently completed "Mutiny," costumer 

in Technicolor, which stars Mark 

Stevens and Angela Lansbury. This will be 

followed by "The Ring," which went into production 

last week. 

Texas Drive-Ins Offer 

Easter Morn Services 

DALLAS—Claude Ezell & Associates, 

which operate an extensive chain of drivein 

theatres, will stage Easter sunrise 

services in every theatre in the circuit 

and the idea may extend to all Texas 

drive-in theatres. 

Al Reynolds, the circuit's general manager, 

said the plan has been approved by 

Texas COMPO Showmen and this organization 

will seek to stimulate Easter 

services in all drive-ins. Cooperation of 

church and civic groups will be asked. 

Paul Short of National Screen has been 

named to prepare trailers and other acces.sories 

for the cicruit. Reynolds said 

the plan is to make available at the refreshment 

bar hot coffee, sweet rolls and 

orange juice due to the early hour of 

the service and as a convenience to those 

attending. 

Nat'l 

Drive-In Show 

Scheduled March 4-6 

KANSAS CITY—The second annual National 

Drive-In Theatre Equipment show and 

meeting of drive-in theatre owners will be 

held in conjunction with the spring convention 

of Allied Theatres of Kansas and Missouri 

in the Continental hotel March 4-6. 

The convention has been moved up this 

year to provide an equipment show before 

the drive-in theatre season opens. Last year, 

outdoor exhibitors from 22 states attended 

the show and convention. Indications this 

year are that, despite NPA restrictions on 

construction, there is widespread interest in 

the show. 

Joseph Stark, director of the show, said 

that there will be considerable emphasis on 

refreshment service equipment and on equipment 

which can be used to "dress up" outdoor 

theatres. The number of applications by 

manufacturers and suppliers for booths so 

far has been encouraging. 

As was the case last year, a number of 

outstanding drive-in theatre owners will appear 

on the program to discuss various 

phases of the outdoor operation. Jay Wooten, 

Allied president, said. 

Correction 

NEW YORK—In the issue of December 29 

BOXOFFICE printed an item under a Toronto 

dateline which stated that the J. Arthur 

Rank Organization of Canada had a net 

profit of $830,000 for the fiscal year ending 

June 23, compared with a net loss of $375,000 

for the preceding 12 months. 

Sydney Wynne, executive of J. Arthur Rank 

Organization, Ltd., London, writes: 

"The story suggests that a number of figures 

quoted refer to the J. Arthur Rank Organization 

of Canada. In fact the figures are 

very garbled, but are based on the annual 

statement of accounts issued in this country 

(Great Britain) and principally concerning 

our companies operating here. So far as the 

Canadian organization is concerned figures 

have never been published, but as a matter 

of interest you will like to know that it has 

never made a loss." 

18 BOXOFFICE Januarv 26, 1952

R. L. Bostick Elected 

^1^ ^^W S(^'€hU 

NTS Vice-Presidenl 

MEMPHIS—R. L. Bostick, manager of the 

Memphis office of National Theatre Supply 

Co., has been elected 

K. L. Bostick 

well as Memphis. 

a vice-president of 

National Theatre Sup- 

ply- 

Bostick, former chief 

barker of Memphis 

Variety Club, will continue 

to live in Memphis 

but his new duties 

will make him supervisor 

of the company 

business in Atlanta, 

Charlotte, Dallas, New 

Orleans, Oklahoma 

City and St. Louis, as 

Bostick is a graduate of Richmond academy 

and attended Georgia Tech under the cooperative 

course plan, working one month and 

going to school the next month. He worked 

the alternate months before his graduation 

in the shops at Georgia railroad. 

Kenimer Succeeds Clark 

In Florida Theatres Chain 

JACKSONVILLE— L. D. Netter, president 

of Florida State Theatres, this week appointed 

Guy Kenimer general manager of 

the circuit to succeed the late Jesse Clark. 

Kenimer entered theatre business after World 

War I and managed houses here, in Tampa 

and Atlanta for the S. A. Lynch and E. J. 

Sparks chains. He became city manager of 

Tampa upon the formation of Florida State 

and was later city manager here, then becoming 

a Florida State Theatres district 

manager and eventually assistant general 

manager. 

Stanton Griffis Resigns 

As Ambassador to Spain 

WASHINGTON—Stanton Griffis has resigned 

as ambassador to Spain after a year 

on the job so that he can return to business 

life. He has been amba.ssador to Poland, 

Egypt and Argentina. 

Griffis is chairman of the executive committee 

of Paramount Pictures and is a partner 

in Hemphill, Noyes & Co., Wall street 

banking firm. He is expected to return to 

this country in February. 

'Olympic Elk' Feb. 22 

NEW YORK—"Olympic Elk," latest in 

Walt Disney's series of True-Life Adventures, 

will be released nationally February 22, according 

to Sid Kramer, RKO short subjects 

sales manager. A special pressbook is being 

prepared by S. Barret McCormick, director of 

advertising. 

UA Release for 'Fighter' 

NEW YORK—United Artists has acquired 

the release rights to "The Fighter" and will 

distribute it some time this year, according to 

Arthur B. Krim, president. It was produced 

by Alex Gottlieb from a Jack London story 

and stars Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb and 

Vanessa Brown. 

Aihilxaiion 

PROMINENT on the agenda of the Theatre 

Owners of America board of directors 

meeting at Los Angeles January 28-31 

will be the subject of arbitration. The 

Allied board will discuss the problem at 

Washington February 4-6. The Motion 

Picture Ass'n of America board is understood 

to have taken it up at the Miami 

meeting. 

This brightens the prospects for an Industry 

conference in February. 

TOA has been in favor of arbitration for 

some time and it is understood that Herman 

Levy, general counsel, has prepared 

a general outline of a plan for board approval. 

National Allied voted in favor of arbitration 

at the last national convention, 

held in New York, and since then Abram 

F. Myers has outlined his suggestions to 

members. Some Allied men want everything 

brought into the scope of arbitration, 

includins film rentals, but the board will 

have to take formal action on this. 

Some distributor attorneys have made it 

known that they are opposed to such a 

sweeping proposal. They have stated, however, 

that they will be willing to go into a 

conference whenever both national exhibitor 

organizations, plus the Western Theatre 

Owners, Inc. (formerly PCCITOi, are 

ready to talk. Rotus Harvey says the WTO 

has been ready for some time, and he recently 

proposed that an early gathering be 

called, but Allied made it clear it could 

not act until the board had reached a 

decision. 

How to reconcile conflicting ideas seems 

to be the remaining hurdle. There is no 

way of guessing how long this will take, but 

it is apparent that there is a widespread 

desire for an agreement for the first time. 

Cui Shipping Costs 

Q,ENERAL use of non-inflammable film 

stock could save an enormous amount 

of money now spent on shipping. Henry 

Reeve hit upon a subject that is bound 

to attract widespread attention before the 

year is over. 

A curious feature of this problem is the 

fact that so few people have studied it, 

or have done anything about it. Persistent 

inquiry is required to find out, even approximately, 

how many films are now going 

out on safety stock and in what kind of 

containers they are being placed. 

The cans now used in interstate shipments 

were designed when all film was 

highly inflammable. If the present regulations 

prevent the use of plastics, plywood 

or cardboard, it might be a good time to 

find out how much of a job it is to change 

the regulations. 

During World War II many shipments 

of 16mm film were in small cardboard 

boxes. Since the war there has been widespread 

use of the same type film and the 

same type shipments in many parts of 

•By JAMES M.JERAULD 

the world, including the Near East, India, 

Asia and parts of South America, Australia 

and New Zealand. Most of these go to 

remote areas. Apparently there is no reason 

why 35mm safety stock cannot be 

shipped in the same way. 

Fast Newsreels 

THE 20th Century-Fox decision to get out 

two weekly issues of fast Movietone 

News based on the latest headlines can 

prove to be an important experiment in 

the competition with television. The circulation 

will be limited at first. 

For some time newsreels have tended to 

include magazine type material or interpretations 

of the news somewhat along the 

lines pioneered by March of Time. This 

makes them more interesting for subsequent 

runs, but robs them of immediacy for 

first runs. 

The hope is that the new specials, about 

ten minutes long, will be able to compete 

with television, which uses film to a large 

extent. 

A few years back special issues and fast 

coverage by newsreels were given considerable 

advertising and were considered important 

additions for a first run program. 

RKO is showing renewed interest in 

shorts. After experimenting with special 

exploitation for the opening of "University 

Band" and "Touchdown Town" in Ann 

Arbor and Massillon the company found 

plenty of bookings on hand. How to stimulate 

interest in other subjects in the same 

way is now a topic of discussion at the 

home office. 

New Calculatoi 

n T the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

there is a new calculating machine 

that will do everything except play 

"Home, Sw'eet Home" on a harmonica. It 

will add sums in 16 digits, complete calculations 

and return the answers 20,000 times 

a minute. 

It ought to be great for audience reactions. 

It could count the chuckles, the 

heavy laughs, the light nose blowing in sad 

moments, the rustle when an audience is 

restless and come up with an estimate of 

the week's gross in less time than a manager 

could straighten his tie. 

New Theatres, Attendance 

Increase in Canada 

OTTAWA—According to government report 

on theatre operations in 1950 the number of 

film houses in Canada totaled 1,801, compared 

with 1,731 at end of 1949. Tables released 

January 21 showed aggregate grosses 

were up 7 per cent to $82,708,0-00 while additional 

amusement taxes fell by similar percentage 

to $11,445,000, making more than 

$93,000,000 spent by Canadians for film entertainment. 

The number of paid admissions increased 

1 per cent to $231,747,000, but the report 

showed only 30 per cent of potential capacity 

of all theatres was utilized on the average. 

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— 

Jack Cohn, vice-president of Columbia Pictures, spealiing: at an Ampa meeting 

honoring the National Cartoonists society. Others on the dais, left to right, are: 

Marjorie Barker, Ampa secretary and publicity head of March of Time; Harry K. 

McWilliams and Jimmy Dunn, nationally syndicated cartoonist. 

Advertising-Publicity Folks 

Mark Ampa's 35th Birthday 

Group Currently Planning to Open Classes in Advertising, 

Publicity, Exploitation to Train New Industry Manpower 

By PRANK LEYENDECKER 

NEW YORK—The Associated 

Motion Picture 

Advertisers, or Ampa as the organization 

is known to everyone in the film industry, 

will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 

1952 with a record of always fulfilling its 

original purpose— to promote a larger and 

more friendly relationship between the people 

of the advertising and publicity craft. 

In addition Ampa has always been active 

in aiding its members to advance in the 

industry and, in 1952, the organization is exploring 

the feasibility of establishing classes 

for a course in motion picture advertismg, 

publicity and exploitation to train new manpower 

for the industry. 

At present, this course is planned in the 

most general of terms, but Harry K. Mc- 

Williams, the current president, who is also 

exploitation manager of Columbia Pictures, 

has contacted the various advertising and 

publicity heads for their suggestions as to 

the subject matter which could be included 

or methods through which this subject matter 

should be presented to the students. 

The course, as now planned, would consist 

of a two-hour evening session once a week 

for a ten to IS-week period. Tuition would 

be nominal, not exceeding $15. Each session 

would be led by a leading figure in the 

motion picture advertising field and each 

would have as guest lecturer an authority 

in the particular field under consideration. 

A question-and-answer period would follow 

the formal portion of each meeting and 

would enable the student to pin-point the 

evening's subject matter to his own particular 

needs and experiences, according to present 

plans. 

Ampa, which started with 26 charter members 

in 1917, can now boast a membership of 

200, the largest number in its history. The 

organization has always given sorely-needed 

help to the advertising and publicity men 

of the industry, especially through the Ampa 

Relief fund, which was started in the early 

1940s. The proceeds of Ampa's Silver Jubilee 

dinner at the Hotel Edison, April 4, 1941, 

were set aside for the Relief fund. Another 

purpose of Ampa, according to the original 

charter, is "to reform innocent abuses relative 

to the business of advertising motion 

pictures and to diffuse accurate and reliable 

information concerning the standing of 

persons 

engaged in, and with reference to the 

conditions, customs and usages of the profession 

of motion picture promotion, as well 

as affecting and relating in general to the 

motion picture industry." 

On its 20th anniversary in March 1936. 

Ampa gave a Movie Studio party and Naked 

Truth dinner at the Hotel Astor which will 

long be remembered by its members as a high 

spot in hilarity. The elaborate and profusely 

illustrated souvenir booklet contained signed 

humorous articles by Arthur James, Ampa's 

first president; Lou Guimond. then associate 

editor of BOXOFFICE; Milton Silver, Hert 

Berg, Charles Einfeld, Jose Schorr, Jame.s 

Cunningham and Jack narrower. All except 

James and Guimond are alive and active in 

the industry. 

The souvenir booklet for the 30th anniversary 

dinner, April 23, 1947, a "Salute to the 

Presidents of Our Industry," carried a greeting 

from President Truman and brief biographical 

sketches of Barney Balaban, Robert 

S. Benjamin, Joseph Bernhard, Nate Blumberg, 

Steve Broidy, Harry Cohn, Arthur B 

Krim, N. Peter Rathvon, Edward C. Raftery, 

Nicholas M. Schenck, David O. Selznick, 

Spyros P. Skouras. Harry H. Thomas, Harry 

M. Warner and Herbert J. Yates. The majority 

of these are still active as presidents 

of major companies and ths balance are 

producing independently. 

BIG YULETIDE PARTIES 

Among the other social functions of Ampa, 

the annual Christmas parties are looked forward 

to by most members. At the most recent, 

December 1951, there were door prizes of 

elaborate gifts, donated by the various film 

companies and allied firms, for practically 

every one of the 200 guests attending. 

The organization was formed in 1917 by a 

handful of men who had been the publicity 

committee of the old Motion Picture Board 

of Ti'ade at a meeting in the Hotel Claridge. 

then one of New York's leading hostelries. 

The organization's first president was 

Arthur James, who died in 1946, and he was 

followed by P. A. Parsons. In between Parsons 

and McWilliams, the presidents were: 

Paul Gulick, Paul Lazarus sr., C. L. Yearsley, 

John C. Flinn, Victor Shapiro, A. M. Botsford, 

Glendon Allvine, Walter Eberhard. 

Bruce Gallup, George Harvey, Edward Klein, 

Michael Simmons, Edward Finney, Hal 

Home, Flinn for the second time; William R. 

Ferguson, Gallup for the second time; Gordon 

White, Ralph Rolan, Paul Lazarus jr., 

Leon J. Bamberger, Vincent Trotta, Louis 

Pollock, Trotta for the .second time, Maurice 

Bergman Martin Starr, David A. Bader, Rutgers 

Neilson, Arnold Stolz and Max E. Youngstein. 

VARIETY IN MEETING PLACES 

Ampa has held its luncheons in many 

places in the Times Square neighborhood 

since that first meeting at the Hotel Claridge. 

From there. Ampa went to the Hermitage, 

then Keen's Chop House, Cafe Boulevard, 

Janssen's, Hotel Lincoln, the Blue Ribbon, 

Hotel Edison, Hotel Paramount, Hotel Dixie, 

Sardi's, the Motion Picture club. Toots Shor's, 

the Hickory House, Hotel Bristol, the Town 

Hall club and Hotel Piccadilly, scene of the 

most recent meetings. 

In addition to McWilliams, the current 

Ampa officers are: Charles Simonelli, Universal-International 

publicity head, as vicepresident; 

Lige Brien of United Artists, as 

treasurer, and Anita McGee, secretary. The 

board of directors is composed of McWilliams. 

Brien and Miss McGee in addition to Blanche 

Livingston, Miriam Brandon Moses, Rutgers 

Neilson, Vincent Ti'otta and Gordon White, 

the last three past presidents of Ampa. 

David A. Bader, Chester Friedman of BOX- 

OFFICE and Jacques Kopfstein ai-e the board 

of trustees and Mort Blumenstock. Howard 

Dietz, Steve Edwards, Charles Einfeld, David 

A. Lipton, S. Barret McCormick. Arthur 

Sclimidt and Max E. Youngstein are on the 

advisory council. 

Thus Ampa continues to march forward 

in its 35th year. 


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IT'S BIG PARAMOUNT BOXOFFICE ACTION! 

Nat Holt's standout 

outdoor hit with 

something diffcrcnf 

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added. Danger-defying 

camera crews scaled 

precipitous canyons 

to film its exciting 

story of the pioneer 

heroes who subdued 

the last savage Arizona 

I clifT tribes. . 

Trade boys so impressed 

they tag it: 

"STRONG BOXOFFICE!" 

— S/iowmen's T. R. 

"TOP 

BUSINESS!" 

— Boxoffice 

"RATES 

"RICHLY 

HIGH!" 

— Film Daily 

SATISFYING!" 

—M. P. Herald 

STERLING 

HAYDEN 

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FORREST 

TUCKER WHELAN • 

Starring 

ARLEEN BARBARA VICTOR RICHARD 

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RUSH 

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w„h EDGAR BUCHANAN • Greeted by RAY ENRIGHT 

story and Screenplay by GERALD DRAYSON ADAMS 

Additional Dialogue by FRANK GRUBER • Produced by NAT HOLT 

• 

JORY 

ARLEN

Paper Lauds Film Industry 

For 'Hitting Back' Stand 

DES MOINES—In an editorial titled, "Censorship 

by Epithet," the Des Moines Tribune 

applauded the other day what it called "the 

motion picture industry's decijion to hit 

back." The Tribune cited the court fight in 

California between Producer Stanley Kramer 

and the wage earners committee as "the 

first round." The editorial noted that the 

picture industry "long has been the target 

for continuous prjssure and abuse." 

"Kramer has slapped a one-million-dollar 

libel suit on the committee for picketing his 

picture, 'Death of a Salesman.' and for 

charging him with being 'notorious for his 

Red-slanted, Red-starred films.' This action 

being supported by Hollywood's three leading 

is 

producer organizations. Each has de- 

clared it will continue to buck the efforts of 

any group that attempts to set itself up as 

a motion picture censor. 

"We hope the producers are able to stick 

to their resolve. With Hollywood touching 

on more and more controversial themes, the 

number of toes being stepped on is increasing 

all the time. If Hollywood is to progress 

away from the pat formulas of the past, it 

will have to be prepared to combat the prejudices 

of all sorts of groups. 

"Some segments of the entertainment industry, 

unfortunately, are finding it easier 

to succumb to pre.ssure. In New York, Philip 

Loeb has been dropped from the television 

show, 'The Goldbergs', because of his liability 

to the sponsor. In this case, his merely being 

listed in a privately compiled anti-Communnist 

publication was enough to get Loeb 

fired. 

"In these troubled and suspicious times, 

there is an almost irresistible push toward 

conformity. We hope the action of the 

Hollywood producers is a sign our creative 

industries will not be completely caught in 

the swirl." 

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Truman Foresees Rise 

In 

Theatre Grosses 

WASHINGTON—President Truman has 

confidence that motion picture theatre 

business is going to improve. 

In his budget, presented to Congress 

this week, the President estimated that 

revenues from federal admission taxes 

will rise in the next year. 

The budget foresaw receipts of $375,- 

000,000 from collections on admissions, 

other than to cabarets and roof gardens 

and similar places, during the 12 months 

ending next June 30 (fiscal year 1952). 

Actual Treasury receipts from this source 

during the 12 months ended last June 30 

were $346,500,000. The budget looked tor a 

still further jump in receipts during 

fiscal 1953, to $366,000,000. 

The State department's overseas information 

and education program would be 

increased all down the line under the 

budget with an increase to $10,600,000 for 

fiscal 1953 asked for the overseas film 

program. Actually appropriated for fiscal 

1952 was $10,225,230. 

The budget asked for a large increase 

from $969,036 to $1,131,339 for administration 

of the Federal Communications 

Commission broadcast bureau, due to the 

imminent lifting of the freeze on new 

applications for television stations. 

Zanuck, Associates Plan 

To See 'Zapata' Open 

NEW YORK—Darryl F. Zanuck, John 

Steinbeck, Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando, 

who contributed largely to the production of 

"Viva Zapata." 20th Century-Fox film, will 

attend the opening at the Rivoli Theatre here 

February 7. Zanuck is the company's head of 

production, Steinbeck wj-ote the .screen play, 

Kazan directed and Brando played the title 

role. The picture was filmed in Texas with 

Jean Peters starring opposite Brando. Others 

in the cast are Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, 

Arnold Moss, Alan Reed, Margo, Harold 

Gordon, Lou Gilbert and Mildred Dunnock. 

Existence Is Threatened 

Of British Finance Co. 

LONDON—Observers in the industry here 

see the National Film Finance Corp., which 

has financed producers, as dying a slow 

death. The Conservative government is said 

not to favor special aid to one group, especially 

in times of financial stress, and it is 

doubtful if any more funds will be appropriated 

to the NFFC. What will happen to 

the small amount remaining in its treasury 

also is in doubt. The concensus is that it 

won't be allocated to producers but eventually 

recovered by the chancellor. 

NPA Grants Permits 

To Ten Theatres 

WASHINGTON—The National Production 

Authority on Monday (21 » revealed that it 

had turned down requests for permission to 

construct seven drive-ins and five standard 

theatres during the first quarter of 1952. 

Permission was granted to three drive-ins and 

three standard theatres where no allocations 

of scarce metals were involved and one 

theatre of each type was able to go ahead 

because of being declared exempt from the 

regulations. One standard theatre was given 

allocations of scarce metals to permit building. 

In addition, one standard theatre gained 

permission for relocation and one standard 

theatre was denied permission to remodel. 

The Monday announcement covered NPA 

construction-application actions not previously 

revealed, and completes the listing of 

NPA actions with respect to the first 1952 

quarter. 

Approved with allotments of scarce metals: 

Quinter, Kos.—Wesley Bolen, standard theatre, 

$35,000. 

Approved, but no allotments necessary: 

Brentwood Islip, .. I., N. v.—Fifth Avenue. Boy 

lOre Drive-ln, Inc. drive-in, $38,000. 

City, Flo, -Floyd Theatres, standard theatre. 

$29,750 

Higginsvilli Mo.—Paul D. Neal, relocate theatre. 

Luroy, Vo.— Page Theatres, dnve-in, $15,000. 

Midland, Tex.— J. Howard Dodge, standard theatre, 

$62,000, 

Richland Center, Wis.—Muscoda Theatre, drive-in, 

$26,900. 

Wichita Foils, Tex.— Burlington-Lee & McMahon 

Theatre, drive-in, $55,000. 

Declared exempt from the regulations: 

Cornell, Wash.—August Aubert j 

tre, $47,000. 

Ruekersvflle, Vo.—M. F. Weaver, drive^ 

standard thea- 

$10,500. 

Applications denied: 

Birmingham, Ala.—Bin ngham Theatre Operating 

Co., standard theatre. 

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AFM Studio Musicians 

Win 15% Pay Boosl 

NEW YORK—The American Federation of 

Musicians and eight major producers have 

reached an agreement on a two-year contract 

granting a 15 per cent wage increase and 

other benefits to musicians employed by the 

major studios. The joint announcement of 

the contract terms was made at Miami by 

James C. Petrillo, AFM president, and industry 

leaders following two consecutive night 

meetings ending January 19. 

The 15 per cent waje hike, subject to 

federal wage board approval, affects some 

600 to 800 year-round staff musicians and 

hundreds of other musicians who answer 

studio calls for part-time employment. 

The new contract, effective January 15, 

continues the terms of the prior agreement 

under which the musicians reserve rights in 

the reuse of musical sound tracks for subsequent 

television sale and distribution. The 

television rights were not the subject of the 

negotiations In Miami, according to Petrillo. 

Under the new contract, it is provided that 

no increase shall exceed $18.50 per week. Recording 

sessions of more than six continuous 

hours draw a penalty of one hours' pay and 

all recordings done after midnight will be 

at time and a half. 

Musicians currently employed as staff members 

were "frozen" until January 1953. Contract 

musicians will be offered new contracts 

30 days before expiration of their previous 

contracts. A non-playing orchestra manager, 

receiving not less than scale for a sideline 

musician, will be hired for any recording session 

using five or more musicians. Orchestra 

managers for smaller groups will receive not 

less than $2 per musician employed and copyists 

shall receive time and a half for work in 

excess of eight hours. 

Record Bookings Sought 

For Disabled Vet. Film 

NEW YORK—More than 16,000 bookings 

are sought for "One Who Came Back," a 

Disabled American Veterans short subject, by 

Ben Kalmenson, national DAV distribution 

chairman. His hope is to exceed the marks 

set by previous DAV films. 

Local exchange area chairmen are: 

Nate Dickman, Monogram, Albany; H. Russell Gaus 

Loews, Atlanta. Hatton Taylor, RKO, Boston; Dave 

Miller, Universal-International, Buffalo Al Duren 

Paramount, Ctiarlotte; Tom Gilliam, 26th Century- 

Fox, Chicago; Joseph Rosen, 20th-Fox, Cincinnati 

Republic, 

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Cleveland; Mark Sheridan 

20th-Fox, Dallas; R. C. Hill, Columbia, Denver; Gerald 

McGlynn, Loew 5, Des Moines; Milton Zimmermi 

Columbia, Detroit; G. R. Frank, Paramount, Indie 

opolis; Russ Borg, Warner Bros., Konsas City 

Also, Fred Greenberg, Warner Bros., Los Angel 

Norman J. Colquhoun, Columbia, Memphis; Jack 

Lorentz, 20th-Fox, Milwaukee; C. J Dressell RKO 

Minneapolis; G. Reordon, Universal-International 

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George Pabst, United Artists, New Orleans 

Ben Abner, Warner Bros., New York; Ralph B Wil 

loms, RKO, Oklahoma City; I. M, Weiner, Universal 

Interriofional, Omaha; Norman Silverman, Republic 

Ph.lodelphia,;^ F. J. Guehl, Universal-lnternoTional, 

Pittsburgh; Al Oxtoby, Warner Bros,, Portland Harry 

HoQs Paramount St. Louis; Gifford Davison, RKO 

Salt Lake City; Neal East, Paramount, San Francisc- 

Eddie Lamb, RKO, Seottle; Jerry Adams, Loew 

Woshington, D. C; Robert Dunbar Warner Bro 

Jacksonville, ond Harold Laird, Republic, Tampa. 

Krumholz Is Cornell Ad Head 

NEW YORK—Sam J. Krumholz, formerly 

with Offset Reproductions, has been made 

advertising manager of the Cornell Film Co., 

producers and distributors of 16mm educational, 

religious and entertainment films. 

COPPER 

SAVERS 

In the New Haven area exhibitors and 

projectionists are enthusiastically supporting 

the drive to save copper drippings. 

The proceeds of the sales go to 

Variety Tent 31 heart fund activities. 

Shown here, left to right: John E. C. 

Kelly, president of projectionists Local 

273; W. G Mcllwain, manager of National 

Theatre Supply, and J. Wylie, 

chairman of the Variety Club heart fund. 

U-I Has a Record Backlog; 

22 Films Await Release 

HOLLYWOOD—A total of 22 completed 

pictures, 12 of them in Technicolor, reposed 

in U-I's studio vaults at the beginning of the 

new year, giving the company the largest 

backlog in its history. All are destined for 

release during the fiscal year ending October 

31. 

The completed Technicolor entries: "Bend 

of the River," "The Cimarron Kid," "Flame 

of Araby," "The Treasure of Lost Canyon," 

"Steel Town," "The Battle at Apache Pass." 

"Has Anybody Seen My Gal," "The World 

in His Arms," "Scarlet Angel," "The Duel at 

Silver Creek." "Bronco Buster" and "Son of 

Ali Baba." 

Black-and-whiters completed: "Meet Danny 

Wilson," "Francis, Racket Buster," "Ma and 

Pa Kettle at the Fair," "Here Come the Nelsons." 

"Finders Keepers," "Hear No Evil." 

"Red Ball Express," "Lost in Alaska," "Ma 

and Pa Kettle Go to Paris" and "Francis 

Goes to West Point." 

New 'Whispering Smith' 

Gets RKO Release 

NEW YORK—RKO will release "Whispering 

Smith vs. Scotland Yard" in the U.S. and 

Canada, according to Ned E. Depinet, president. 

It was made by Julian Lesser for Royal 

Productions in association with Exclusive 

Films and stars Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt 

and Rona Anderson. Francis Searle directed. 

The film was based on a Saturday Evening 

Post series by Frank H. Spearman. The release 

date has not been set. 

100 Detroit Houses 

Start Big Campaign 

DETROIT— A group of 100 Detroit houses 

have united in a promotional campaign 

worked out in cooperation with the Detroit 

Free Press, through Helen Bower, film editor, 

on the New Faces theme. A similar 

campaign was run a year ago, naming new 

screen possibilities and introducing them to 

the film public in the same paper. 

The campaign was extended from three to 

four weeks, with a full week of promotion introducing 

the event to build public interest. 

Details were worked out thi-ough the leadership 

of United Detroit Theatres, under Alice 

Gorham, director of exploitation. 

A one-half page was devoted to introductory 

material, with 20 pictures of new faces 

in the Sunday (13) paper. Actual running 

of the New Faces series started January 20, 

with a different face and brief biography 

running each day. 

A contest for the public was the kickoff 

events—a chance to vote for the favorite New 

Face, together with a statement in up to 25 

words on "What Motion Picture Entertainment 

Means to Me." Prizes include $250, 

$150, $50, and 20 prizes of $5. The winner 

of the balloting will be Invited to the Motor 

city for a special Meet Your Fans party. 

Tri Art Color Laboratory 

Processes Canadian Film 

NEW YORK—"The Royal Journey." the 

film record of the recent visit to America of 

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, 

is the first picture to be shot in the 

new Eastman Kodak three-color process and 

processed locally by the Tri Art Color Corp., 

laboratory in New York. The prints were 

delivered and finished in one week and the 

52-minute featurette is now playing in 30 

theatres throughout Canada. 

The new laboratory, which occupies lour 

floors of a Times Square building, is now 

equipped to process films within 48 hours 

after shooting, according to Al Young, president 

of Du Art Laboratories, the parent company. 

It can also handle color newsreels, he 

said, and the laboratory has a capacity for 

25,000,000 feet per year and can handle both 

16mm and 35mm reels. 

'African Queen' Praised 

By Nat'l Review Board 

NEW YORK—"The African Queen," S. P. 

Eagle production in Technicolor for United 

Artists release, was described as an "almost 

perfect picture" and given starred selected 

features rating, the top honor of the National 

Board of Review, in the weekly guide 

to selected pictures. 

"Room for One More" (WB) and "Daughter 

of the Sands," French-language picture 

released in the U.S. by Discina International, 

were given selected features rating. 

WB to Tradeshow 'Retreat' 

NEW YORK—Warner Bros, will nationally 

tradeshow "Retreat, Hell!," a United States 

Pictures production starring Frank Lovejoy, 

Richard Carlson and Anita Louise, February 

8. The picture will be nationally distributed 

February 23. 

26 

BOXOFFICE January 26, 1952

This Is What 

We Hear! 

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Vogue, Kansas City 

World, Philadelphia 

1 weeks Surf, Chicago 

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Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh 

Mercury, Buffalo 

Cinema, Detroit 

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STANLEY HOLLOWAY 

Produced by Michael Balcon • Directed by Charles Crichton 

Original Screenplay by T. E. B. Clarke 

Associate Producer Michael Trunnan 

An Ealing Studio Production 

A J. Arthur Rank Organization Presentation 

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL RELEASE

. . 

. . After 

ôU^^^w^d ê^tont 

20th-Fox Purchases Rights 

To 'My Book and Heart' 

It's seldom that a feature with a spiritual 

and 'or religious motif fails at the boxoffice 

(witness: "David and 

Bathsheba," "Stars in 

My Crown." et. al), 

which fiscal record is 

a motivating factor in 

20th Century-Fox's decision 

to lens a sequel 

In last season's "I'd 

Climb the Highest 

Mountain," the story 

of a circuit-riding 

preacher in Georgia, 

which was one of the 

Henry King 

company's top grossers 

in hinterland areas. 

Accordingly, the studio has acquired "My 

Book and Heart." a new tome by Cora 

Harris, who authored "Circuit Rider's Wife," 

from which "Mountain" was made. Further, 

the team of Writer-Producer Lamar Trotti. 

Director Henry King and topliners Susan 

Hayward and William Lundigan is being 

reassembled for the new picture, which 

will be produced in Technicolor . . . Benagoss 

Productions, the independent unit headed by 

Henry R. Benjamin, has scheduled its newly 

purchased "The Hidden Heart," by Larry 

Marcus, as its second film venture to be 

made abroad. Marcus will prepare the screenplay 

and Rudolph Mate will direct. The initial 

Benagoss picture, "The Green Glove," 

starring Glenn Ford, is due for early distribution 

by United Artists; however, releasing 

arrangements for "Heart" have not been set 

... A Vera Caspary original, "Happy Days 

Are Here Again," went to Paramount, which 

will film it as "a cavalcade of America concerning 

one family with a special musical 

background." No producer, director or 

thespian assignments have been made . 

Max Murray's Saturday Evening Post serial 

and subsequent novel, "The Neat Little 

Corpse," was purchased by Pine-Thomas Productions 

for filming as "Jamaica Run," an 

entry on the unit's four-picture Technicolor 

slate for Paramount. Arlene Dahl was 

handed the starring assignment and Lewis 

R. Foster will write the screenplay and direct. 

Ups-wing in Production Noted 

Among the Independents 

The early weeks of the new year were 

marked by a substantial upswing in the picture-making 

tempo planned by independent 

production units. 

American Pictures, headed by Albert Zugsmith 

and with Aubrey Wisberg and Jack 

Pollexfen as a producing-writing team, will 

quadruple its schedule during the year, according 

to plans outlined by Zugsmith and 

the company's treasurer, Peter Miller. Already 

completed are "3,000 A. D.." a sciencefictioner, 

and "Sword of Venus," both of 

which have been set for distribution through 

RKO Radio. Next on the docket, with releasing 

arrangements not yet set, is "City 

Beneath the Sea," while "Invasion, U.S.A." is 

in preparatory stages. The latter, which 

By 

IVAN SPEAR 

United Artists will distribute, was written by 

Robert Smith and Franz Spencer, and will 

be produced by Smith and Zugsmith with 

U.S. civil defense cooperation. 

Also on the docket are Wisberg's "One 

Woman's Story." planned for lensing in 

Spain: an original by Steve Fisher: and an 

Arabian Nights fantasy to be photographed 

in color. 

Meantime Max Rosenberg, president of 

Classic Films, arrived from his eastern headquarters 

to finalize organizational plans for 

Classic Productions, a picture-making subsidiary, 

in charge of which are George Moskov 

and Richard Barth. The latter also is 

Classic's west coast sales head. An initial 

schedule of six exploitation features is 

planned for 1952, for distribution through 

Classic's own branches, the first venture to 

be "Divorce Racket." 

Alex Gottlieb Gets Rights 

To Billy Rose Stories 

Contributing further to the industry's newfound 

interest in multi-sequence features. Independent 

Producer 

Alex Gottlieb has obtained 

rights from 

Columnist - Impresario 

Billy Rose to make a 

four-part picture based 

on short stories selected 

from the output 

of Rose's typewriter. 

To be called "Billy 

Rose's Broadway 

Tales," the photoplay 

will have different directors 

for each unrelated 

sequence and 

Alex Gottlieb 

three or four star names in each. Richard 

Conte and Lee J. Cobb, now starring in 

Gottlieb's "The Fighter," have already been 

set for the new venture. 

Gottlieb won't get around to "Broadway 

Tales" until July, however, since—after completion 

of "The Fighter"—he will launch 

"Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" 

late in February as an independent entry 

for Warner release. 

Other episodic ventures include Metro's 

"It's a Big Country," completed and due for 

early release: "Three Love Stories," now in 

work at the same studio: "Actors and Sin," 

made by Ben Hecht for United Artists distribution, 

and 20th Century-Fox's "We're Not 

Married" and "The Full House," both of which 

are currently before the cameras. 

Gary Cooper, Cornel Wilde 

Assigned Warners Roles 

Casting morsels during the period were 

highlighted by a pair of assignments at Warners. 

At the Burbank studio Gary Cooper 

was set to star in "Springfield Rifle," upcoming 

historical western, and Cornel Wilde was 

booked to portray Major Peter Ortiz, World 

War II marine hero, in "The Fighting Marine" 

Ryan 

The loanout division found Robert 

. . 

about to trek from RKO Radio to 

. 

MGM Completes Cartoons 

Seven Months Ahead 

History was made in the animated cartoon 

field when Fred Quimby, major domo 

of MGM's pen-and-ink output, revealed 

that the company's entire 1951-52 .schedule 

has been completed and shipped to 

exchanges—a full seven months ahead of 

time. 

Quimby stepped up the production pace 

last summer, and as a result all cartoons 

due until September 1, end of the 

fiscal year, already are in the company's 

branch offices. 

Included are 15 "Tom and Jerry" cartoons 

as well as seven others starring 

various animal characters. 

Universal-International for the topline in 

"Texas Man," while Producer Samuel Goldwyn 

gave the nod for Metro to borrow Farley 

Granger for one of the sequences in Leo's 

trilogy, "Three Love Stories" . . . Character 

comedian James Gleason joined the cast of 

20th Century-Fox's "We're Not Married" . . . 

As his 1,000th screen role. Jack Mulhall 

stepped before the cameras in Columbia's 

serial, "Blackhawk." He began his screen 

career in 1913 at the Thomas Edison studios 

in the Bronx, and played the first talking 

picture dual role in "The Spy." 

Robert Z. Leonard Starts 

His 70th Megging Job 

Movie milestones depai'tment: Robert Z. 

Leonard, just handed the directorial assignment 

on MGM's "Everything I Have Is 

Yours," thus undertakes his 70th piloting job 

since beginning his megging career in 1916. 

This was preceded by six years as an actor, 

Leonard having entered the business in 1910 

. . . Option hoists were the order of the day 

for Producer-Director Joseph Kane at Republic 

and Megaphonist Joseph Newman at 

20th Century-Fox. To Kane's slate were 

added "The Great A-Bomb Robbery" and 

"City That Never Sleeps," while Newman's 

next will be "Pony Soldier" . . . Scrivening 

activity showed a marked increase in tempo. 

Going on the Metro payroll to develop his 

original comedy, "You For Me," was William 

S. Roberts: Orin Jannings is penning "Broadway 

Revisited" for Warners: Charles R. 

Marion went to work on "The Rose Bowl 

Story" and Gerald Schnitzer began developing 

"Arabian Knights," both for Monogram. 

Milton Pickman Becomes 

V-P of Wald-Krasna 

For ten years an artists' representative and 

manager both here and in New York, Milton 

Pickman has severed his connection with the 

Felix Ferry-Milton Pickman agency to join 

Wald-Krasna Productions, Inc., as a vicepresident. 

He will handle thespian scrivening 

and directorial commitments on W-K films 

for RKO Radio . six years with the 

company, Barney Gerard checked out as a 

Monogram producer, with the disclosure that 

he will announce a new affiliation after a 

brief vacation. During his Monogram tenure 

Gerard made five "Bringing Up Father" 

comedies based on the George McManus 

comic strip. 


— 

— 

— 

In the Newsreels 

Movietone News, No. 7: New York hails Captain 

Carlsen, Churchill's speech to joint session of Congress; 

latest tilms ol Korea war; blizzard buries 

passenger train 

News ol the Day. No. 241: Welcome home for 

Carlsen; snowbound train rescued; spotlight on 

Kefauver; Costello wins mistrial; queens on parade; 

Churchill's speech stirs Congress. 

Paramount News, No. 44: A hero's homecoming— 

Carlsen captures New York City; Winston Churchill 

addresses Congress; passengers removed from snowbound 

train. 

Universal News, No. 527: California snow storm; 

Churchill's speech; Red prisoners-of-war; Carlsen 

hailed in New York. 

Warner Pathe News, No. 46: America hails hero 

Carlsen; Churchill addresses Congress; rescue 222 

Korea—UN prisonerof-war 

rules; West Germany 

from snowbound 

camp 

streamliner; 

meets Geneva 

ratifies Schuman plan; York beauty champ in 

New 

ballet battle 

• 

Movietone News. No. 8: Africa volcano m violent 

eruption; Los Angeles digs out of the mud; snowbound 

train finally freed; army B-25 crashes on 

guard house; big plane lifts 100.000; film notables 

attend Communion breakfast in New York; sports- 

Olympic skiers in tryout meet, American girl fights 

bulls, ice boats. 

News ol the Day. No. 242: Floods and blizzards 

sweep northern California; violence grows in Suez; 

famous general; ROK veterans welcomed 

France mourns 

to U.S.; volcano erupts in Congo; thrilling 

finish in Hialeah opening; Olympic warmup; Texas 

girl turns bullfighter. 

Paramount News. No. 4S: Winter Olympics preview—Illinois 

and Switzerland; Woodbridge, N. I.— 

Captain Carlsen; Arkansas—Ponder quads; Paris 

General DeTassigny's funeral; floods in south California; 

Denver—wild west moves indoors. 

Universal News, No. 528: British round up Suez 

terrorists, rain and snow cripples west; plane crash 

in Sacramento; African volcano erupts 

Warner Pathe News. No. 47: California digs out 

from biggest snow; British troops round up the Suez 

terrorists; Churchill bids goodby to Washington; 

Paris— DeLattry buried with martial riles, Belgian 

Congo—volcano erupts; Boston—Germann wins mile 

in K of C meet; Fox River Grove, 111.—Norge ski 

meet; Hialeah, Fla.—they're off at Hialeah. 

• 

Telenews Digest. No. 3B: Churchill's address; 

Paris—a hero dies; Niemoeller tells of Moscow visit 

winter snows trap the streamliner City of Son Francisco; 

$5,000,000 of American aid is to go to India, 

Frank Costello is free after contempt trial deadlocks; 

Italy—ballet on blades. 

• 

Telenews Digest, No. 4A: California— weather goes 

wild. Pans— who could replace Ike? Liberia—president 

inaugurated; England—a princess goes a-hunting; 

Mexico—bujliight 

Eastman's Texas Chemical 

Plant Starts Operating 

ROCHESTER— Pfoduction has been started 

in the huge new chemical plant of Eastman 

Kodak on the Sabine river near Longview. 

Texas. Twenty-two of 28 buildings have been 

completed. 

The plant is operated by Texas Eastman 

Co. and will produce raw materials for the 

Tenne.ssee Eastman Co., including ethyl alcohol 

and derivatives of normal butyraldehyde 

and isobutyraldehyde. 

The new plant is a part of a $225,000,000 

development project of the company aimed 

at making it self-sufficient on raw materials, 

according to Thomas J. Hargrave, president. 

Westrex Sells Air Force 

Film Recording Systems 

NEW YORK—'Westrex Corp. has sold 23 

Western Electric single-film newsreel recording 

systems with accessories to the Department 

of the Air Force. Wright-Patter.son air 

force base, air material command, Dayton, 

Ohio. Each consists of microphones, amplifier-noise 

reduction unit, power unit, modulator 

and interconnecting cables. 

Two-Men-in-a-Booth Law Challenged 

In Massachusetts Supreme Court 

BOSTON — Massachusetts exhibitors are 

eagerly awaiting the decision of the state 

supreme court in a test case brought by 

three local members of Independent Exhibitors, 

Inc., the New England unit of National 

Allied. The exhibitors, representing Flint 

Theatre of Fall River, Inc., Community Playhou.se 

of Wellesley, and the Telepix Cinema, 

Inc., brought a friendly action against the 

commissioner of public safety to determine 

the validity of some of his regulations requiring 

two licensed operators in a booth. 

The suit was initiated after a committee 

on industry improvement, appointed by the 

board of directors of Independent Exhibitors, 

had made an extensive study of film fire experiences 

in a nationwide siu'vey of motion 

picture theatres. The study showed that the 

hazard of nitrate film fires under conditions 

existing during the past 15 years were so good 

that they compare very favorably with any 

other class structure. This is especially true 

since the advent of safety film. 

LETTERS 

Criticizes Coverage by Newsreel 

To BOXOFFICE: 

What's wrong with the newsreels? 

I note that the above has been the subject 

of much pro and con for some time past and, 

just recently, Oscar Morgan of Paramount 

has issued a booklet on the subject. 

However, I feel the full and complete answer 

can be found by anyone who looks at 

Pathe News, No. 43. The contents of the 

sheet listed "The Enterprise in Tow," graphic 

scenes at sea. etc. I hopped right to it with 

extra inches in my ads, figuring I would give 

my patrons a thrill they could never get 

from television—actual scenes of one of the 

greatest news events of all time on my giant 

screen. Boy, what coverage I would receive! 

The reels would go all out on this for sure. 

It consumed a total of 45 feet or one-half 

minute of screen time. It was so short anyone 

in the audience who turned to sneeze 

would have missed the Enterprise entirely. 

This was the coverage given what is surely 

one of the most dramatic and thrilling stories 

of the past few years. The entire newsreel 

ran for a grand total of 605 feet or less than 

-seven minutes. 

What's wrong with the newsreels—ouch! 

A PENNS'yLVANIA EXHIBITOR. 

Objects to Ads That Counteract Goodwill 

To BOXOFFICE; 

We ran your article in our local newspaper 

about the Manhattan. Kas., theatres' comeback 

after the flood. Again this week, we 

are running the article you have in your December 

29 i.ssue on Movie Stars in Korea 

trying to build up goodwill for our theatre. 

Then the next thing, we see a full-page ad 

in a nationally known magazine showing five 

male movie stars together in a whisky ad 

drinking whisky. 

It breaks down everything we have tried to 

do to build up goodwill for the Hollywood 

The full bench of the court heard arguments 

on January 10 between Richard Wait 

of Choate, Hall & Stuart, attorney for the 

exhibitor plaintiffs, and the assistant attorney-general, 

William Kinney, representing 

the commissioner. Kinney argued that cellulose 

acetate film is combustible as a matter 

of fact as well as a matter of law. Wait 

argued that while safety film is combustible 

as a matter of fact, as is iron combustible 

as a matter of fact, that he is concerned only 

with whether it is "combustible as a matter of 

law." Kinney also argued that Judge Porte 

in the lower court did not have the authority 

to refer this matter to the state supreme 

court for advisory opinions and that the matter 

was not the subject for a court of 

equity. Wait gave the opposite arguments. 

The present hearing covers only one phase 

of the case, in which the regulations for 

nitrate film are being applied to safety film 

conditions. A decision from the supreme 

court is expected in the early spring. 

stars. I take a drink myself, but I don't have 

a picture of myself taken in a bar and run it 

in the local paper. 

Surely the money they receive from this 

kind of advertising is not worth it. What 

do you think? 

E. D. NASH 

State Theatre. 

Jackson, Minn. 

Christophers to Present 

Awards in Hollywood 

HOLLYWOOD— For the first time in the 

organization's history, the Christophers 

Catholic study group— will present their annual 

awards for motion picture and video 

achiei'ements in the film capital. Heretofore 

an eastern affair, the presentation dinner 

this year will be held locally February 14 at 

the Beverly Hills hotel. 

Totaling $25,000. the awards are broken 

down as follows: 

$10,000 to the producer, director and writer 

of "an important and successful motion picture," 

$5,000 to the author of "a significant bestseller." 

$3,000 to the producer, director and writer 

of "an outstanding television production." 

$2,000 to the writer of "a newspaper story 

of unusual merit." 

$2,000 to the author of "a magazine article 

reflecting a high sense of values." 

'Blue Veil' Is Honored 

HOLLYWOOD—"The Blue Veil." a Wald- 

Krasna production for RKO Radio, has been 

given an awai'd of merit by the Southern 

California Motion Picture council. The organization 

is affiliated with the National 

Screen council, which each month selects 

the picture which is the recipient of the 

BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon award. 


IBOXOFFICE 

BAROMETER 

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This chart records the performance of current attraction in the opening week of their first runs in 

the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements ore not listed. As new runs 

are reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in 

relation to normal grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent cs 

"normal," the figures shsw the gross rating above or below that mork.

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RCA is prepared to bring this new opportunity 

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Theatre -TV has proved its pulling power 

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Dezel Gets 1 5 Rank Films 

NEW YORK—Albert Dezel has closed a 

deal with Allied Films Corp. to distribute 15 

J. Arthur Rank pictures through his Chicago 

and Detroit exchanges. The Carnegie 

Theatre, Chicago, began showing "Caesar 

and Cleopatra" Friday (18). 

Miss Caron on Quick Cover 

NEW YORK—Leslie Caron, who appears 

in "An American in Paris," has become the 

third MGM star in a month to appeal- on the 

color cover of Quick magazine and be the 

subject of an article. The issue dated January 

21 featured her. 

Theatre Construction, 

Openings and Sales 

CONSTRUCTION: 

Decatur, Tex.—Jim Miller, local theatre manager, 

will start work soon on a drive-in just west of Sunset 

Hill, to be known as the Sunset Drive-In. Its 

opening is planned for April. 

Kansas City, Kas.—W. D. Fulton, operator of the 

Avenue and Electric theatres here, as well as othei 

properties, has started construction on a 

at the junction of highways 32 and 

. Tex.—Ace Clary plans to open the 

Drive-In in March, the most elaborate in 

IS part of Texas. 

Opp, Ala.—The Dixieland, a 300-car drive-in, is 

Iructed here by Bill Ward, Dan Page and 

^nes ijauiney, all of Opp, Route 3, and John Young 

of this community. It is to open for business in 

early February 

Osage City. Kas.—Leroy Hitchings and wife are 

buildmg a 320-car drive-in here, to be operated by 

Mrs Hitchings- An April opening is planned. 

Socorro, N. M.—George Frantz will look after the 

building of a 250-car drive-in here. 

SALES: 

Festus, Mo.— H. E. Miller, owner of the Miller 

Theatre, has purchased the Hiway Theatre in 

Crystal City, Mo,, from T. L, Dickson. 

Johnstown, Pa.—The Park Theatre building was 

tly by Paul and Ernie Panagatacos to 

ry L and Ida Rose Diamond and is being 

verted into a drug store, 

Madison, Wis.—The Badger Outdoor Theatre near 

purchased from J&M Enterprises by 

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Giveaway New 1952 car. No cost to theatre, 

Imvns 5.000 population or over. Merchant Advertising 

tieup. Interstate Theatre Service. 1115 

^:.i^l .Armour. Kansas City. Missouri. 

Comic boolts available as preraiums, giveaways 

at your kiddy shows. Large variety, latest newsstand 

editions. Comics Premium Co., 412B. Greenviich 

St., N. Y. C. Publications for premiums 

(e.vcliisively) since 1939. 

Biugo die-cut cards. 75 or 100 numbers. $3,50 

jei M, Premium Products. 339 W. 44tli St., New 

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CHESTER FRIEDMAN 

EDITOR 

HUGH E. FRAZE 

Associate Editor 

8nmm 

SECTION 

PRACTICAL IDEAS FOR SELLING SEATS BY PRACTICAL SHOWMEN 

^y^ll in ^ti Adaption of Mock Premiere Idea 

Adds New Interest to 'Starliit' 

A (. iinpai^n for "Starlift," patterned after 

a mock Hollvwood premieie reported recently 

in BOXOFFICE, captured the imaginatrtion 

of Syracuse, N Y , theatre patrons and 

pushed leceipts foi the pictuie above normal 

at the Paramount Theatre The campaign color guard was also 

was developed by Managei Chailes Graziano 

with excellent coopeiation fiom students of to the theatre. 

diamatic arts at Syracu-ê university. 

Graziano worked with the univeisity faculty, 

the Little Theatie gioup and the New Vic 

Pla>eis, enlisting talent several notches above 

the amateur status of "stars" who appeared 

at the original Ogdensburg "piemiere." 

The schedule called for an array of star 

doubles to appeal opening night of the picture 

with the usual fanfare, lights and excitement 

of a teal Hollywood piemiere. 

As an added feature, Graziano promoted 

nearly $300 in gifts from Star Vacuum stores 

as piizes to participants who did the best 

impersonations of the stars they represented. 

The prizes were displayed in advance in two 

cases placed on the sidewalk in front of the 

theatre with a 40x60 announcing the premiere 

— Chester Friedman Seven new Nash Ramblers, supplied by an 

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it 

is an indication of things to come 

during 1952, but it's been a long time 

since so many of the film companies 

have had large-scale merchandising 

plans a-brewing simultaneously. 

Twentieth-Fox played host to 

about 150 exhibitor representatives 

at the home office last week. 

The theatremen heard constructive 

suggestions for improving their 

service to patrons and received assurances 

that the company's sales 

force will help promote coming 20th- 

Fox product. 

.At MGM, a Promotion of the 

Month showmanship contest was 

announced which means S6,000 in 

cash for theatremen who engage in 

local merchandising campaigns during 

the coming months. 

Paramount released what appears 

to be a record number of national 

tieups to spearhead a campaign for 

"The Greatest Show on Earth." 

RKO launched an impressive regional 

campaign for a re-release of 

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" 

in the New England territory. 

Univer.sal - International invited 

about 100 representatives of the 

press and radio to Portland, Ore., 

where they witnessed a spectacular 

promotion of the premiere of "Bend 

of the River." 

Columbia sent the star of "The 

Barefoot Mailman" through the 

southern states to ballyhoo that picture, 

and Warners brought its stars 

into the field to put over "Distant 

Drums" and "I'll See You in My 

Dreams." 

United Artists is girding itself for 

a banner year in which the exploitation 

department will again intensify 

its promotion activities. 

The impact of the combined resources 

of the industry are thus a 

hundredfold more potent than when 

eight or ten companies bang away 

individually and separately and at 

different times. If each company 

will sustain the present surge of 

merchandising, and exhibitors will 

line up with the same determined 

and aggressive effort in local sales 

activity, 195'2 should see a return 

to the high -water mark of patronage 

indicative of a prosperous and 

thriving industry. 

auto dealer, brought the stars to the thea- 

which was brightly lighted and decorated 

for the occasion. A motorcycle escort for 

each car added another note of distinction 

to the pageant. An ROTC contingent and 

in the procession which 

formed on the university campus and drove 

Lobby interviews with the "stars" preceded 

the stage activities. Advance radio publicity 

which mentioned the opening night 

festivities included 20 gratis plugs over WFBL 

and announcements for five days on WHEN- 

TV. In addition, disk jockeys played records 

of stars who appear in the film production 

and gave the theatre credits. The 

lobby broadcast was taped and played several 

times during the current playdates by 

Bob G'Donnell on his record show over 

WSYR. 

In support of the theatre's regular advertising. 

Star Vacuum stores used two co-op 

ads in the daily papers announcing the premiere, 

a beauty parlor used star heads of 

Doris Day with picture and theatre credits 

in its regular display advertising, and both 

daily papers and three foreign language 

papers used stories and art on the picture. 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: January 26, 1952 17 3J

Outline for Promoting 

Motor Car Patronage 

Drive-In Managers Find Effective Advertising Methods By 

Concentrating on Car Owners and Adapting Standard 

Promotion Formulas of Conventional Theatres. 

Since 1945 about 3,000 outdoor theatres 

have been opened. The impact of the collective 

capacity of these operations has made 

notable impression on the habits and tastes 

of the entertainment-seeking public. The 

drive-in not only succeeded in taking away a 

portion of the patronage which formerly was 

gobbled up by the conventional theatre, but 

it has created a new audience among thousands 

of families where obtaining baby-sitters 

was a problem and where the cost of admission 

for an entire family presented a 

handicap which the budget could not surmount. 

Creating the new audience was not an easy 

task. Problems in booking, the quality of 

available pictures, the high cost of advertising 

in metropolitan newspapers and familiarizing 

the public with attractions the new 

type of theatre had to offer by way of .specialized 

service and comfort were just a few 

of the difficulties the management of these 

theatres had to contend with. The strangeness 

of the operation itself to the showmen 

who came in to manage the drive-ins and 

their own unfamiliarity with advertising and 

promotion in this field were severe drawbacks 

in the beginning. 

There was no standard formula or procedure 

for advertising and promoting drive-ins 

except those which had been used in conventional 

houses and many of these were partially 

or wholly unsuited for the new kind of entertainment 

theatre. 

The new-style showmen, many drawn from 

the ranks of the conventional theatres, began 

to develop their own techniques. Without 

attempting to list them in the order of their 

importance or strategic value, some of the 

most effective means of promoting drive-ins 

are newspapers, road signs, house programs, 

mailing devices and truck displays and signs. 

Some of the effective promotion ideas which 

have stimulated business are children rides, 

money giveaways, amateur and other forms 

of talent presentations, and free children 

admission where the youngsters are under 12 

years of age. Buck nights, introduced in 

various locations, whereby an entire carload 

of people were admitted for one dollar plus 

the tax on admissions, generally have been 

opposed by both distributing companies and 

conventional theatre operators for obvious 

reasons. 

Drive-ins are usually located on highways 

outside the city or corporation limits. Many 

are located between communities so as to 

provide a wider drawing range, making it 

necessary for the operator to advertise extensively 

in several localities. The immediate 

problem which confronts the manager of a 

new enterprise is to familiarize car owners 

with the exact location and means of reaching 

the theatre. For this purpose the campaign 

announcing the opening of the drive-in 

usually includes a map of the location and 

the highways and routes by which it can be 

reached. All advertising literature should 

contain this at-a-glance aid. Managers report 

that maps are especially effective when 

they are pocket-size. 

The opening campaign concentrates on 

selling the features of the open-air theatre. 

The elimination of baby-sitters, bottle warming 

services, free amusement for the youngsters 

prior to the start of the show, dress-asyou-are, 

relaxation in privacy and the cool 

comfort of the outdoors, no parking worries.

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Concession supply trucks servicing Moto-In Theatre, Visalia. 

Calii.. are posted with signs plugging theatre's screen attractions. 

Thousands of these cards were distributed as direction guides 

(or car owners when the Sky Drive-In Theatre opened near 

Adrian. Mich. 

large quantities so that impact attends each 

device. 

A stage built directly under the screen 

tower provides the means for presenting live 

talent as entertainment for patrons. Fireworks 

on the Fourth of July, flowers to 

women on Valentine's day and other stock 

promotions provide a ready lure on special 

holidays to get e.xtra patronage. 

The screen also is used to full advantage in 

attracting added patronage. Parkhurst regularly 

books spook shows which are put on 

at midnight. He sets a cartoon show of 

about a dozen color cartoons as added bait for 

the adults as well as the youngsters. 

TICKETS TO NEWCOMERS 

Eugene Cole, manager of the Jackson 

(Mich. I 

is another showman who 

goes in for voluminous quantities of special 

heralds and circulars. Cole designed a clever 

gadget that was coveted because it offered 

recipients a handy calendar and the year's 

baseball schedule for the Detroit Tigers. 

Folded so that the schedule was inside, it was 

as large as a regular business card. The 

calendar was imprinted on the back while 

the front carried an institutional message 

advertising the drive-in. 

Cole scans the local news columns and 

mails a guest ticket to every new resident who 

moves into the area as a get-acquainted offer. 

Parents who receive a stork visit are likewise 

on the receiving end of a friendly letter and 

a guest invitation to bring baby to the movies. 

Being located near an important railroad 

terminal, there are many railroaders who are 

subject to work call at any hour. Cole introduced 

a page service for the convenience 

of these workers which is similar to the 

paging service conventional theatres offer 

professional people. 

PROMOTES FREE FLOWERS 

The Jackson Drive-In provides free flowers 

to mothers on Mother's day and takes advantage 

of other holiday dates to promote 

extra patronage as well as good relations 

with the public. 

When the Rock Hill iN. Y.) Drive-In 

opened, publicist Dave Kane arranged a succession 

of special activities to get free newspaper 

space which was instrumental in building 

up healthy patronage from the outset. A 

uroup of western singers appearing on a radio 

show were promoted as live entertainment, 

tlieir popularity bringing many families to the 

new operation. A gas range was promoted as 

a giveaway and a horse show was presented 

on the grounds through a reciprocal tieup. 

At right, inaugural program heralding 

opening of the Delmar (Del.) Drive-In 

was an attractive 16-page brochure incorporating 

all the special features and 

services that go with outdoor movies, 

road map and drivers' direction chart. 

The local newspaper was worked into the deal, 

assuring plenty of free space for the horse 

show. 

Jue Goldberg opened the Lake Park Theatre 

at Fond du Lac, Wis., and promoted a 

60-page souvenir program with almost 40 

pages of paid advertising. 

R. E. Vaughan, manager of the Motor-In 

Theatre, Visalia, Calif., regularly gets the 

merchants in the area to sponsor full-page 

ads plugging his shows. Vaughan also has 

banners announcing his features on the rear 

of trucks which supply the concession stand 

with merchandi.se. 

When A. J. Kalberger opened the Hi-Way 

50 East Drive-In near Washington, Ind., he 

held open house for the public with an invitation 

to the public to inspect the facilities 

and conveniences on the day before opening. 

Circulars were mailed to urban and rural 

home owners throughout the territory and 

half page "Opening" ads commanded attention 

in the newspapers. 

Evan Thompson, manager of the Berkshire 

Drive-In, Pittsfield, Mass., last fall promoted 

many valuable prizes which were awarded to 

patrons in honor of the third anniversary 

of the theatre's opening. Merchants contributed 

cash so that every patron received a 

small token. The big draw was a savings bond. 

Hudson Edwards, manager of the Hi-Way 

80 Drive-In, Savannah, Ga., is another showman 

who has earned the confidence of the 

merchants. Several times each year. Edwards 

develops a full-page newspaper co-op because 

of this friendly relation.ship and each time 

the effort pays off in increased attendance. 

Slowly but surely, as drive-in exhibitors 

learn which media are most effective for selling 

their shows, advertising and exploitation 

are becoming more and more important in 

the general scheme of operation. 

Dance Precedes Trailer 

John Havens, manager of the Capitol Theatre, 

Pittsfield. Mass., engaged a local talented 

dancer to entertain audiences with a 

specialty dance number three days prior to 

the opening of "Starlift." She was presented 

just ahead of the trailer for "Starlift" as a 

special promotion stunt for the picture. 

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26, 1952 — 19 — 35

" 

Stencil Signs on Sidewalk Direct 

New Haven Folk to 'Callaway 

utilizing pressbook suggestions for "Callaway 

Went Thataway" gave the College Theatre 

in New Haven excellent grosses during 

Christmas week. The campaign put on by 

Manager Sid Kleper featured a name-thehorse 

contest sponsored by the New Haven 

Journal Courier, with a top prize of $10 and 

theatre guest tickets awarded to winners. 

An attractive lobby setpiece was made up 

of a 12-foot cutout of Dorothy McGuire 

perched atop a radiator ledge. The figure 

was tagged with a giant Christmas card 

reading. "Our Christmas gift to you, etc." 

Merchandising stills of Fred MacMurray 

were used as the basis for window, counter 

and co-op ad tieups with men's shops. Stills 

of Dorothy McGuire produced newspaper coops 

and window displays in beauty salons. 

Two thousand special heralds were distributed, 

some to stores, a quantity to Yale 

University students, and left in automobiles 

parked in downtown lots and on the streets. 

Restaurants and milk bars were supplied with 

imprinted doilies plugging the picture playdates. 

A radio campaign saturated the local area 

with picture plugs on station WBIB and 

WYBC. and a tune identification contest promoted 

in cooperation with station WELI 

yielded innumerable mentions for picture 

and theatre. A coloring contest was planted 

with the Italian language newspaper. 

Two Contests Speed 

Xapt. Hornblower' 

A. Heaton, manager of the Regal Cinema, 

Beverly, England, promoted a critics contest 

for "Captain Horatio Hornblower," which received 

several good press writeups in the 

Beverly Guardian. The newspaper invited 

readers to submit their reviews of the picture 

after seeing the film. The theatre awarded 

tickets to winners. 

The mayor of Beverly and his wife made 

an official visit and tour of the theatre opening 

night, the event being covered by press 

photographers. 

A model galleon contest stirred interest in 

the picture among the younger patrons. This 

was plugegd at the minors matinees several 

weeks in advance and winning models were 

displayed in the lobby with appropriate 

posters and signs just prior to the opening of 

the picture. 

Bakery Gives Tickets 

Plus Weekly Prizes 

Abe Cohen, manager of the Massena (Ohio) 

Theatre, has a tieup with a local bakery which 

gives the theatre from 75 to 150 extra admissions 

each week. The bakery buys regular 

theatre admission tickets which are then 

enclosed in packages of loaf bread. The bakery 

donates ten prizes every Saturday for children 

in the theatre audience. Reciprocal advertising 

at the theatre and at the store 

urges the kids to buy the sponsor's product 

to get free theatre tickets and a chance at 

winning the prizes. 

Music stores tied in with window displays 

advertising hit tunes from the picture with 

displays accessories and signs. A giant thumb 

outline covering the picture title was stencilled 

on sidewalk corners. An usher carrying 

a papier-mache head strolled around 

town with a sign, "I laughed my head off at 

the College Theatre while watching 'Callaway 

Went Thataway.' 

New York Theatremen 

Kiosks Display on Stage 

A large stage set, flanked by two Parisian 

kiosks caught the eye of patrons entering 

the Loew's 116th Street Theatre in New 

York and helped to create word-of-mouth 

publicity for "An American in Paris." The 

ostentatious display was equipped with footlights, 

overhead borders, drapes, flowers and 

Christmas ornaments, in keeping with the 

holiday playdates. A line of dancing chorus 

girls, made from lithos and wallboard, occupied 

the center of the stage. 

The display was built by Manager Joe Mc- 

Coy, student assistant John Bassolino and 

the house electrician Phil Pearman. 

Stickers on Juke Boxes 

Promote 'Sunny Side' 

Ed Lmder, manager of the Ontario in 

Washington, D. C. and a juke-box concessionaire 

exploited "Sunny Side of the Street," 

with 500 machines in the district bearing 

stickers imprinted with copy urging the public 

to play Frankie Laine's recording of 

"Jealousy" and then see and hear Frankie in 

"Sunny Side of the Street" at the Ontario. 

Co-Op Sells 'Paris' 

Toby Ross, manager of the Fox Theatre, 

Corning, N. Y., got a downtown music store 

to take a large newspaper co-op ad with 

"An American in Paris." The ad included 

copy for stimulating interest in the music 

and records plus the suggestion that the 

public see the Fox attraction. 

G. Williams Brightens 

Vestibule Displays 

With Cutouts 

A novel lobby display attracted attention 

to "The People Against O'Hara" a week 

prior to its opening at the Regent Cinema in 

Chatham, Kent, England. G. Williams, manager, 

took two photographic enlargements 

of Spencer Tracy, showing the head and 

shoulders of the star, and placed them on 

either side of a small table. A large gray 

suitcase marked exhibit "A" was set on the 

table with a small card reading, "A case 

against O'Hara." Resting against the ledge 

of the table was another sign with copy, 

"You, the people, are summoned to appear 

in the case of 'The People Against O'Hara.' 

etc.. etc." Williams reports that many people 

stopped and indicated their interest. 

Finding it difficult to set up window displays 

due to the approaching holiday shopping 

period, the Regent manager arranged 

with news venders to display news contests 

bills at two important traffic intersections. 

A theatre employe helped by appearing in 

crowds carrying a suitcase lettered. "Exhibit 

A." with the theatre name and playdate. 

Williams was successful in getting merchandising 

tieups with stores dealing in luggage, 

sports clothes and a prominently 

located florist shop. 

Guarantee for 'Years' 

Given Unique Backing 

A guaranteed midnight show heralding the 

opening of "The Dancing Years'' at the Art 

Theatre. Hartford. Conn., was backed by a 

unique offer by Manager Henry L. Needles. 

Needles took an ad in the daily papers in 

which he offered his personal endorsement 

plus the guarantee that if five patrons were 

dissatisfied with the show, he would allow 

them $25 to build a tree-sitting platform on 

Old City Hall Square. He offered to sleep on 

the platform from midnight until noon on 

any one day selected by the five dissidents. 

The unusual offer created wide word-ofmouth 

publicity for the picture. 

Roy Prytz Is Featured 

In Article at Duluth 

Roy Prytz, manager of the Granada Theatre. 

Duluth, Minn., and a regular contributor 

to the Showmandiser section, recently was the 

subject of a feature writeup in the Duluth 

News-Tribune. The article went into many 

of the ballyhoo stunts originated by Prytz 

since he took over management of the 

Granada in 1931. Written by Walter Eldot 

of the News-Tribune staff, the item was 

headed "It's Show Business." 

Show for Bottle Tops 

Jack Scanlan. manager of the Warner in 

Torrington. Conn., tied up with the Canada 

Dry Bottling Co.. offering children free admission 

at a Saturday matinee for two bottle 

caps from the company's product. The 

regular show was screened, beginning at 10 

a. m. on Saturday, and any child presenting 

two bottle caps received a free theatre ticket. 

The bottle caps were redeemed at regular 

admission price by the cooperating firm. 

36 20 BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Januar>'26, 1952

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Cincinnati Papers 

Go All-Out on Art 

For 'American' 

Nate Wise, publicity manager at the RKO 

f\ Albee in Cincinnati, planted an eight-column 

W art layout with the Cincinnati Post on "An 

American in Paris." The Cincinnati Enquirer 

also came through with an eight-column art 

.-pread followed up by a three-column pictorial 

layout and a two-column .scene mat. 

The Time.s-Star published an editorial plug- 

Ming the picture and ran a four-column ad 

followed by a five-column spread on the filai. 

Disk jockeys featured recordings from the 

picture'.s song album with theatre plugs. A 

Bookmarks at Library 

Carry 'American' Plug 

A. P. Bridger, manager of the Granada 

Cinema, Hove, Sussex, England, had three local 

lending libraries distribute bookmarks advertising 

"An American in Paris." Quiz 

throwaways based on questions regarding the 

music score, the life of George Gershwin and 

stars of the film were distributed by news 

agents to all theatre patrons. 

Menu cards were imprinted with credits 

and turned over to cafes and restaurants. A 

colorful display piece in the theatre lobby 

aroused additional interest in the playdates. 

Movietime Gels Plug 

At Kiwanis Luncheon 

William Connolly, manager of the Colonial 

in Norwich, N. Y., addressed the local Kiwanis 

public address system was .set up, bringing 

the tunes to passersby on the street, and a 

jukebox entertained patrons inside the lobby 

club at a pre-Christmas luncheon on Movietime 

U.S.A. Connolly prepared a speech from 

Willie plugging the song hits. 

At the professional football game between 

tradepaper reports refuting claims of communism 

in Hollywood, speaking out against 

University of Cincinnati and Xavier college, 

the UC band featured the entire musical 

smear campaigns directed against the film 

program of Gershwin music during the halftime 

intermission. 

capital, and stressing the fact that millions 

of people see movies each week at an average 

admission of approximately 50 cents. 

Pogue's department store devoted two entire 

windows to merchandise tieups, and TWA 

provided a visual flash in one of the best 

windows in the downtown section. The Jenny 

Fans Get Autographs 

Co.. women's specialty store, used a large 

newspaper co-op ad with credits for the picture 

and 

Milton Schwartz, manager of the Criterion 

Theatre in New York, arranged an 

theatre. 

Wise tied up with public and parochial autographing party in the theatre lobby as 

high schools on a review-writing contest. an opening-day ballyhoo for "The Strange 

Representatives from all high school papers 

Door." Boris Karloff, co-star of the film, 

participated in the contest, the winner represented 

autographed photographs to patrons 

w-ho attended during a specified hour.. 

a $25 savings bond. The reviews were 

f published in the respective school papers fol- 

^1 lowing an advance screening for the editors 

well in advance. 

Car Dealers Participate 

On Newspaper Co-Ops 

Ben Schwartz, manager of the Lincoln in 

Massillon, Ohio, proves he is versatile in promoting 

newspaper co-op ads with local automobile 

dealers. For "His Kind of Woman," 

the Massillon Buick dealer sponsored two 

quarter-page display ads, with more than 

half the space devoted to ad copy for the 

l)icture and prominent theatre playdates. 

feare copy read, "Look to Buick for the right 

ennibination . to the Lincoln Theatre 

fur the hottest combination that ever hit 

the screen." The ads appeared in the Evening 

Independent. 

On two other pictures, Schwartz promoted 

quarter-page display ads in cooperation 

with the Terry Auto Sales Co. One 

111 the tieups wâs on "Painting the Clouds 

with Sunshine"; the other was for "That's 

My Boy." 

Screening for 'Veil' 

Creates Publicity 

Two Weeks Ahead 

A comprehensive campaign for "The Blue 

Veil" put on by Don Holdren, manager of 

the State Theatre. Santa Barbara, Calif., 

gave the film a highly successful 16-day engagement. 

To create word-of-mouth publicity, Holdren 

held a morning screening and invited radio 

and newspapermen, clergymen, representatives 

of women's clubs and a select number 

of regular patrons of the theatre. 

Holdren capitalized on the song hit, 

"Daddy," which Joan Blondell sings in the 

picture. He obtained records which were 

presented to disk jockeys, resulting in gratis 

announcements. On the day before opening 

and on opening day, spot announcements were 

used in saturation proportions to reach the 

home audience. 

The State manager found the regular 'window 

card available at National Screen Service 

attractive and effective. Accordingly, he 

used a ch'cus showing of these cards throughout 

the city. 

The theatre's mailing list, built up over 

several years, was utilized for a special mailing 

of imprinted postal cards carrying a message 

for "The Blue 'Veil." 

Holdren used pressbook ads almost exclusively 

and in.serted reviewers' quotes. 

Copies of the ads were enlarged and displayed 

in 40x60s out front. Special art breaks 

and stories in the Santa Barbara News-Press 

further helped publicize the picture. 

Treasure Chest Slam-Bang Tie Up 

For 'Strange Door at RKO Boston 

Dish Wrappers Carry 

Plug for Next Show 

Thomas Ryan, manager of the Nortown 

in Detroit, uses paper bags as wrappers on 

dish" nights, imprinted with copy selling 

f. 

^) his coming attractions. Ryan reverses the 

procedure of giving patrons dishes as they 

enter the theatre, giving them to his patrons 

instead as they leave. Many folks 

have commented on this extra service since 

It eliminates the inconvenience of holding 

the dish throughout the show and the possibility 

of breakage before leaving the theatre. 

A treasure chest variation, promoted in 

cooperation with J. H. Burke Co., Philco 

distributer in Boston, was one of the highli:;hts 

of publicist J. J. King's campaign 

to exploit "The Strange Door" at the Boston 

Theatre. The sponsor donated a refrigerator 

and other valuable prizes which 

\«.ere displayed in the lobby. The refrigerator 

was locked w'ith a special lock and keys 

were distributed attached to cards directing 

the people to try to open the lock for 

the prizes. Several thousand heralds were 

distributed announcing the treasure chest 

and the picture playdates. 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser 

: 

26, 1952 — 21 — 37

: January 

Teaser Ads Pre-Tested 

For Âladdin' Campaign 

Pre-tesled advertising and exploitation materials 

are being made available to exhibitors 

lor Monogram's "Aladdin and His Lamp" 

which is now going into release. In a number 

of test engagements, the teaser advertisements 

shown above were used successiully. 

The approach is the humorous one, both in 

art and copy. Monogram has made them 

available in both single and two-column sizes. 

5.000 Shoot for Baskets 

In 'Globetrotter' Event 

A foul-sliooting contest open to all basketball 

players gave "Harlem Globetrotters" extra 

newspaper publicity when that picture 

played the Strand Theatre, Niagara Falls. 

N. Y., according to Manager R. D. Walsh. 

The contest was held under the supervision 

of the city recreation department and drew 

more than 5,000 entrants, both girls and 

boys. 

A Harlem Globetrotter trophy was pre- 

.sented to the winner. Tlie daily paper ran 

a story each day giving the standings of the 

contestants, with excellent breaks for the 

picture and mention of the theatre playdates. 

CORRECTION 

The December issue of Promotion, Pre- 

Selling Guide, erroneously listed the fourcolor 

heralds for "When Worlds Collide" at 

$55 a thousand. The correct price is $5,55 a 

thousand. 

Ad Format Is Personal 

And Packs Interest 

Walter Ahrens, manager of the Florida 

Theatre in Sebring, Fla., uses an off-thebeaten-track 

format to command reader attention 

for his newspaper ads. Straight type 

is used in most of the layout, the message 

being in the form of a personal letter addressed 

to the theatre patron. 

As with many small-town exhibitors, there 

is only a weekly to serve the news appetite 

in Sebring. Ahrens believes that his 

newsy type of advertising gives the potential 

patron a few hints on the story theme and 

stars, and because of the personal approach 

has extra value in smaller situations. 

Wishing Contest Aids 

'Lamp' in Cincinnati 

Nate Wise, publicity manager for RKO 

Theatres in Cincinnati, set up a simple contest 

under the sponsorship of the Enquirer 

which tied the holiday season in with the 

booking of "Aladdin and His Lamp" at the 

Grand Theatre. 

The paper's readers were invited to send 

in letters explaining what Christmas wish 

they would make if they could rub Aladdin's 

lamp once. The Enquirer plugged the contest 

for three days and response was good. 

For "Ten Tall Men" which played the 

Palace Theatre, stories were released to all 

the Cincinnati papers announcing a special 

prize would be awarded to the ten tallest 

men in the city upon proper verification at 

the theatre. The "prize" was a blanket invitation 

to see the picture for the families of 

the tallest men. Those selected later appeared 

on Dick Hageman's television show over 

WKRC-TV. 

Students Strut on Stage 

A Teen Talent show sponsored by a local 

merchant recently helped to boost business 

on an off night for Joe McCann, manager 

of the Wicomico Theatre at Salisbury, Md. 

The store donated a wrist watch for the 

winner. Entrants were enlisted from the high 

school and audience reaction, according to 

McCann, was good. 

Family Appeal Sells 

For Frank Boyle 

Frank Boyle, manager of the Saxon, Fitchburg, 

Mass., prepared special display ads to 

sell his Christmas week attraction. The campaign 

was used in five weekly papers and 

three dailies, and the most attractive ad was 

published on a red and green herald. 

Two shows were booked during the week, 

and the theme of the campaign was, "Two 

big shows Christmas week." This was also the 

keynote on the theatre's six-sheet stands. 

The slogan was heard on radio spot plugs 

and appeared on copy across an outside banner 

and in lobby displays. 

The last half of the week's program, "The 

Magic Carpet" and "Weekend With Father," 

was sold as an "ideal program for the entire 

family." In this connection, Boyle made an 

electrical transcription for use on radio stations, 

in which he personally endorsed the 

show and urged parents to bring the whole 

family to the Saxon. A special ad was prepared 

to run on the comic page of the local 

papers, again plugging the "bring the whole 

family" angle. 

The pre-New Year show, consisting of "A 

Christmas Carol" and "Hotel Sahara," gave 

Boyle an opportunity to plug the program 

through local high schools. Principals in 

Fitchburg and more than a dozen surrounding 

towns received postcards announcing the 

playdates, and school teachers and heads of 

English departments were given special material 

on "A Christmas Carol." 

During December, the theati-e cooperated 

on a local safety drive by running a trailer 

and an appeal from the chief of police to 

make Christmas and the New Year safe and 

happy by exercising caution in driving and 

refraining from jaywalking. 

Screens for Record Men 

Ai-thur Morton, manager of the Paramount 

Theatre, Boston, screened "I'll See You in 

My Dreams" for Columbia record dealers to 

pave the way for window and counter displays 

during the playdates. 

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Fred Greenway, manager of the Palace in Hartford, Conn., offered theatre patrons a 

bonus of a free show for attending a week of horror programs. A new program v/as 

scheduled for each day of the week. Bonus coupons were punched by the doorman 

on the first six days of the week. Those who attended all six shows and presented the 

punched card on the last day received free admission. 

38 22 BOXOFFICE Showmandiser 

: 

26, 1952

. . our 

Study of Sabbath Law 

To Be Made by Solons 

ALBANY—The senate 

and general assembly 

have authorized creation of a joint legislative 

committee on Sabbath laws, to study. 

clarify and revise provisions of the penal 

code, derived from laws first enacted in New 

York state in 1695. A resolution introduced 

by Senator Walter J. Mahoney, Buffalo, empowered 

the temporary president of the senate 

to appoint three members of the senate 

and the speaker of the assembly to name a 

similar number on the committee. 

Gov. Tliomas E. Dewey, in his annual message 

earlier this month, recommended establishment 

of such a committee "so that more 

serious inconsistencies can be removed from 

the law immediately." 

Bills permitting Sunday auto racing, roller 

skating derbies and foot racing already have 

been introduced. One measure goes farther 

by proposing that all sports and entertainment 

after 2 p. m. Sunday be allowed if local 

ordinances are adopted. 

Meantime, two other bills amending the 

civil rights law have been introduced in the 

senate. The first would make it a misdemeanor 

for a pei'son, firm or corporation to 

use the name, photograph, portrait or picture 

of any living person in connection with written 

matter "tending to malign, ridicule or 

otherwise injure such person," without first 

having obtained the written consent of the 

individual. The person would be authorized 

to bring a supreme court action to prevent 

the use thereof. If the defendant "knowingly" 

used the photograph in an unlawful 

manner, the jiu-y might award damages. 

The second measure, worded in the same 

manner as the first, applies to radiobroadcasting 

and telecasting. 

In other legislative action. Good Friday 

would be made a legal holiday undsr terms 

of a bill introduced by Assemblyman Harold 

D. Toomey. Similar measures have been 

sponsored for years, but none have been 

adopted. 

New York City could operat? lotteries for 

the benefit of pensons receiving public assistance, 

old age assistance, aid to the blind and 

municipally operated hospitals if another 

measure were passed. It calls for a constitutional 

amendment, which would require assurance 

of "reasonable revenue" to the city 

from the lotteries. Adoption of such a measure 

is considered unlikely, despite support 

from some members of the New York City 

council. 

Recommend Gael Sullivan 

As Kefauver's Manager 

WASHINGTON — Gael Sullivan, 

Theatre 

Owners of America executive director, has 

been recommended to Sen. Estes Kefauver 

(D., Tenn.i as manager of his campaign for 

the Democratic presidential nomination "if he 

is interested and available." 

Charles G. Neese, acting nationl chairman 

of the Kefauver-for-Presid?nt club, said 

Thursday i24i that he had suggested to the 

senator about ten days ago that Sullivan be 

"brought into the campaign." 

Sullivan formerly was executive director of 

the Democratic national committee before 

accepting his present film industry position. 

New York to Expand 

Fair Treatment La 

ALBANY—A bill of broad import and longrange 

significance to the entertainment business 

and its workers was introduced by senate 

majority leader Arthur Wicks of Kingston 

and assemblyman Samuel Roman of 

New York City to give the state commission 

against discrimination jurisdiction in places 

of public accommodation, resort or amusement, 

as well as in its present field of "employment." 

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey strongly 

recommended adoption of such a measure in 

his annual message to the legislature January 

9. Passage is considered certain. 

The measure amends the Ives-Quinn act 

of 1946. The five-member commission was 

described by Governor Dewey as "the model 

to other states as a wise, firm and effective 

agency for the protection of individuals 

against discrimination based on race, creed, 

color or national origin. He stated that "a 

recent selective survey of cases already closed 

by the commission, found that in nearly nine 

out of ten there had been significant improvement 

in employment policies." 

The provision in the civil rights law, under 

which discrimination in permitting equal access 

to and use of public places is punishable 

by criminal penalties, "simply does not work," 

the governor declared. "This is a field for 

education, cooperation and conciliation, 

rather than compulsion . commission 

against discrimination has demonstrated the 

pow-er of such techniques in the field of employment." 

The chief executive therefore 

recommended expansion of the commission's 

jurisdiction to include access to restaurants, 

hotels and other public accommodations. 

Any person claiming to be "aggrieved" by 

an unlawful discriminatory practice may file 

with the commission a complaint in writing 

which shall state the name and address of 

the person, etc., alleged to have committed 

the unlawful discriminatory practice. The 

Wicks-Roman bill continues the present procedure 

for complaints of di.icrimination in 

employment—designation of a commissioner 

to conduct an investigation and "endeavor to 

eliminate the unlawful discriminatory practice 

complained of by conference, conciliation 

and persuasion." 

If persuasion fails, the commisison may 

obtain a court order for enforcement of its 

findings. 

The bill would take effect July 1. 

Industry and legislative observers say it is 

unlikely the measure would be brought into 

play against motion picture theatres, "because 

they do not discriminate in New York 

state." 

Governor Dewey interpolated a declaration, 

in his message, that every once in a while 

delegates of other colors in this country on 

official business are insulted in some hotels 

and restaurants. 

The Brydges-Schell bill for a concurrent 

resolution to amend the state constitution 

permitting bingo under religious, charitable, 

veterans and volunteer firemen's au.spices 

was scheduled to be returned by the attorney 

general to the legislature this week with an 

opinion that it does not conflict with any 

other provision of the foregoing document. 

A spokesman for the attorney general's office 

indicated no objection to the resolution 

would be filed. Referral to that official is 

customary procedure. 

Schine May Obtain Another Year 

To Dispose of 25 Theatres 

WASHINGTON — The Justice department 

on Tuesday (22i presented an amendment 

to the Schine consent decree for approval 

by the Buffalo district court, under which 

Schine would get an additional year in which 

to sell 25 theatres under the decree. 

There were a number of new provisions, 

however, including one "without precedent." 

This would require Schine, in considering the 

reasonableness of any offer for one of the 

theatres to consider as part of the purchase 

price profits since June 24, 1951. 

Schine would be required to notify the 

public and real estate brokers that no reasonable 

offer for any of the theatres will 

be refused, and the offer could be as much 

below the level of reasonable as the hou.se 

has made profits since June 24, 1951. 

Schine would be allowed to lease up to half 

of the 25 theatres if nobody offers such a 

reasonable price, but would still have to sell 

outright when and if such a price could be 

obtained. Schine could also count against 

theatres to be divested any of those it now 

leases which it is henceforth able to sublet. 

Schine, under the amendment, would be 

forbidden to cliange the playing policy of any 

theatre in such a way as to reduce the value. 

Aside from which, Schine is not allowed in 

seven cities to move up the playing policies 

of any theatres or in any way change playing 

policies so that competing independent 

exhibitors might be adversely affected. 

This part of the amendment would be in 

effect from June 4, 1949, to June 24. 1953, or 

diu-ing the existence of a product limitation 

under the original decree, whichever is longer. 

The seven cities are Auburn, Corning, Geneva, 

Lockport, Oswego and Watertown, N. Y., and 

Worcester, Ohio. 

Product limitation restrictions would be 

tightened so as to apply to quarters, rather 

than merely to each full fiscal year as in the 

original consent decree. Justice officials explain 

that this is to avoid playing a number 

of top features in any one quarter. 

Schine would be required to report to 

Justice after each six-month period on their 

compliance with product limitation provisions. 

Pi-ovisions of the 1949 judgment on product 

limitations would continue until Dec. 1. 

1953, in towns where already applicable. 


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B R O A D \N Ay 

l^rs. Martin Sweeney, the former Thana 

Skouras. daughter of George Skouras. 

president of Skouras Theatres, gave birth to 

her first child, named Martin III, January 

. . . 

23. The boy is Skouras' first grandchild 

Mrs. Joel Rabin, daughter of Irving Blackman. 

Republic executive, and niece of Max 

Blackman of Warner Bros, home office real 

estate department, is the mother of a boy 

named Richard Lee, born January 16 . . 

. 

More than 200 motion picture employes in the 

Paramount building donated blood to the Red 

Cross through the Bloodmobile unit January 

18. 

Eileen Creelman, film critic and columnist 

for the World Telegram & Sun. has resigned. 

She moved over to the paper when it was 

merged with the Sun and has been serving 

as critic with Alton Cook . Waldman, 

formerly on the New York staff of 

BOXOFFICE and now with the Paramount 

publicity staff, is author of "Mambo Dance 

Craze" in the current issue of American Mercury 

. members of the RKO Theatres 

home office staff, Ray Malone and Vincent 

Liguori, have been made theatre managers, 

the former at the RKO Alden, Jamaica, 

the latter at RKO 125th Street, Manhattan. 

Ruth Newman and William Thalman 

were dropped from the RKO Theatres publicity 

staff in an economy measure. 

Sol A. Schwartz, president of RKO Theatres, 

left on a visit to theatre properties in 

Chicago. Los Angeles and San Francisco. 

While on the coast, Schwai'tz expects to see 

studio heads and talent agencies to line up 

headliners to follow the Judy Garland engagement 

at the Palace . 

Litvak. 

20th-Fox producer-director of "Decision Before 

Dawn," got in from Europe after a 

three-month stay. While abroad, he completed 

plans for filming "The Steeper Cliff" 

in Germany. 

William Wyler, Paramount producer-director 

of "Detective Story." arrived from the 

coast to confer with Paramount officials on 

the release of "Cai-rie" and to see Audrey 

Hepburn, star of "Gigi" on Broadway, about 

her film debut . Jacobs, sales 

Notables Attend Dinner to George Skouras 

manager for Discina International, left for 

the coast via TWA to set up first run deals 

on "Under the Paris Sky." "Daughter of the 

Sands" and "A Simple Case of Money" ... Si 

Seadler, MGM advertising manager, got back 

from a ten-day visit to the studio, where he 

viewed "Scaramouche," "Belle of New York" 

and "The Merry Widow." 

P. T. Dana, Universal eastern sales manager; 

Charles Simonelli, eastern advertising 

and publicity manager, and Robert Ungerfeld, 

home office exploitation representative, went 

to Detroit to confer with Earl Hudson, United 

Detroit Theatres president, and Kaiser Industries 

executives on the opening there of 

"Steel Town" . E. Perkins, Paramount 

managing director for the British 

Isles, returned to England after a month of 

home office conferences. Aboard the same 

ship were Winston Churchill; Henry R. Luce, 

editor-in-chief of Time, and Stan Laurel and 

Oliver Hardy . Zimbalist. producer of 

"Quo Vadis." and Alfred de Liagre jr., Broadway 

stage producer, sailed to England on 

the Liberie. 

Miles A. McGoldrick, Far Eastern regional 

manager for Westrex Corp, left by airplane 

for Sydney to contact Westrex offices in 

Australia, Japan. Hong Kong, Indonesia, 

Egypt and the Philippines . Williams, 

featured in "Another Man's Poison," 

arrived from London to prepare for his series 

of readings on Charles Dickens, which will 

open in Boston January 28 and in New 

York February 4 for a six-week engagement. 

Nat Nathanson, United Artists eastern- 

Canadian sales manager, left January 21 for 

a ten-day sales trip to meet with managers 

in Pittsburgh. Cleveland and Detroit . . . B. 

G. Kranze, executive assistant to William J. 

Heineman at UA, got back January 21 from 

a two-week business and holiday trip to 

Florida. Oscar A. Doob, general theatre executive 

for Loew's also got back the same day 

from a Palm Beach vacation . C. 

Dowden, Loew's assistant advertising director, 

who has been ill for several weeks, also 

reported back January 21. 

Ben Hecht arrived from the coast January 

21 to deliver to United Artists the print of 

"Actors and Sin," Sid Kullers' production 

based on his short stories . . . Walter Talun, 

the Goliath of "David and Bathsheba." returned 

from Europe January 23 and is set for 

a second American tour to exploit the picture. 

Paul Raibourn to Address 

Civic Forum on Films 

NEW YORK—Films and their place in 

the 

community will be discussed at the February 

19 meeaing of the East Side Forum on Public 

Affairs, a nonsectarian civic forum, through 

arrangements made by the organization of 

the Motion Picture Industry of the City 

of New York, of which Fred J. Schwartz of 

Century circuit is chairman. Paul Raiboui'n. 

Paramount vice-president, will be guest 

speaker. 

Top: Former President Herbert 11 Hoover; J. W'illard Hayden, president of the 

Charles Hayden Foundation; a youthful member of the Madison Square Boys club 

demonstrating his art of sailboat construction, and George P. Skouras. Bottom: 

among those who attended the dinner at the Astor to raise funds for the Boys club of 

Queens, for which Skouras donated land, were, left to right: Malcolm Kingsberg, 

Mrs. George P. Skouras, Charles Taylor, president of the St. Moritz hotel; Mrs. Milton 

C. Weisman, Max E. Youngstein and Mrs. Youngstein; Milton C. Weisman, industry 

attorney; Mrs. Charles Taylor and Joe and Mrs. Lilly. 

Roger H. Lewis Leaves 

NEW YORK—Roger H. Lewis, vice-president 

and director of the Monroe Greenthal 

Co. agency, has resigned, effective February 

8. Lewis joined the agency in 1947 and prior 

to that was in charge of New York campaigns 

for 20th Century-Fox. 


Theafre TV Officials 

Pick FCC Witnesses 

NEW YORK—Television representatives of 

the member companies of tfie Motion Picture 

Ass'n of America spent an entire day Tuesday 

1 221 planning for appearances before the 

Federal Communications Commission on theatre 

television frequencies. It was said afterwards 

that all technical and commercial details 

of the presentation should be complete 

after another meeting Tuesday i29). 

The MPAA television programming committee 

met in the morning and began lining 

up witnesses to appear before the commission. 

While no names were made public, it 

was apparent that among them will be Eric 

Johnston, MPAA president; Mitchell Wolfson, 

president of Theatre Owners of America; 

Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century- 

Fox; S. H. Fabian, head of the circuit bearing 

his name; James L. Fly, special attorney 

to MPAA; Vincent Welch, television consultant; 

Frank H. Mcintosh and Andrew Inglis, 

engineering coun.sel; Marcus Cohn, TOA 

legal counsel, and Stuart Bailey, TOA engineering 

counsel. 

Those attending one or both of the meetings 

were Fly, who presided; Welch. Ed 

Cooper, MPAA television department head; 

Sidney Schreiber, MPAA counsel: Taylor 

Mills of the New York office: Will Baltin, 

Leopold Friedman. Lou Novins, Theodore R. 

Black, E. J. Smith jr., Norman Steinberg, 

Frank Cahill jr.. Harry Goldberg, Stanleigh 

Friedman, Lester Isaac. Richard Hodgson. 

Herbert Schlafly and Norman Gluck. 

The board and executive committee of the 

MPAA will discuss the progress made to date 

on preparations for the theatre TV hearings 

to be held in Washington February 25 at a 

special meeting Tuesday (29) with Johnston 

presiding. 

B'nai B'rith Kaye Award 

To Be Broadcast by NBC 

NEW YORK—The presentation of 

the annual 

B'nai B'rith award for humanitarian 

service to Danny Kaye Sunday (27) will be 

broadcast over the National Broadcasting Co. 

network from 3 to 3:30 p. m. eastern standard 

time after a special B'nai B'rith broadcast. 

Frank Goldman, president, will officiate 

and call attention to the work of Kaye "for 

a better and happier life for all people, 

whether Jew or Gentile. Catholic or F^-otestant. 

colored or white." Kaye recently returned 

from entertaining the armed forces 

in Korea and Tokyo. The broadcast will 

celebrate the 108th anniversary of B'nai 

B'rith. 

Bookers Club Installs 

NEW YORK—Lou Wolff was installed as 

president of the Motion Picture Bookers 

Club of New York at the annual dinner and 

dance at the Tavern on the Green January 

21. Other officers installed: Bernard 

Myerson and Lou Solkoff, vice-presidents; 

Myron Starr, treasurer; Shirley Sussman. financial 

secretary: Shirley Chester, recording 

secretary; Ben Levine. .sergeant at arms; 

Morton Lightstone and Kitty Flynn. trustees. 

A. W. Schwalberg, president of Paramount 

Film Distributing Corp., was toastmaster at 

the event. 

FCC Cant Make up Mind 

On Para-DuMont Control 

Washington—The scheduled February 4 resumption 

date of the Federal Communications 

Commission hearings on the proposed merger 

of United Paramount Theatres and American 

Broadcasting Co. might not be met due 

to unexpected delays in concluding testimony 

about whether DuMont is or is not controlled 

in any way by Paramount, it appeared as the 

DuMont phase ended Thursday i24). 

FCC Counsel Fredric Ford was doubtful 

that he could be ready to resume after so 

short a recess and also indicated he would 

oppose a motion to be offered by DuMont 

Counsel Col. W. A. Roberts aiming at dismissal 

of DuMont from the proceedings. Ford 

argued that he would be forced to oppose 

the Roberta' motion, if for no other reason 

than because he would have no time to prepare 

his own "comments." 

Paramount Counsel Paul Porter argued 

strenuously for resumption of the hearings 

on schedule because, he said, he is bringing 

witnesses "from all over," even Spain. It 

was learned that the witness from Spain 

would be the recently resigned ambassador 

Stanton Griffis. a director on Paramount's 

executive committee. 

On the final day of the DuMont testimony, 

witnesses were J. P. Murtagh, lawyer for 

Paramount, and Edwin Falk, lawyer for Du- 

Mont. Their testimony backed up that given 

earlier by Paul Raibourn and Dr. Allen B. 

DuMont, respectively, and so neither added 

nor detracted from the contradictions about 

who was willing to buy or sell Paramount's 

stock in DuMont. 

Both Paramount and DuMont steadfastly 

denied that Paramount either has ever had 

or has ever tried to have any control over 

DuMont Laboratories, and this was the central 

issue of this phase of the hearings. The 

two companies are trying to prove wrong an 

earlier proposed FCC decision holding there 

is some sort of control by Paramount and 

that, therefore, the two companies must add 

their television stations together for purposes 

of the commission's ban on ownership of 

more than five stations by any one individual 

or company. 

Roberts at the outset maintained that 

DuMont didn't belong in the UPT-ABC proceedings, 

that only the proposed decision put 

them in, and that if it could be proven there 

was no control by Paramount, DuMont could 

be excused from further participation and 

the hearings would be expedited. He secured 

agreement among all parties that the issue 

of Paramount control over DuMont would be 

the first consideration in the consolidated 

hearings. 

The motion for dismissal of DuMont which 

he proposes to offer is in line with that stand. 

Paul Raibourn Denies Cash Offer Made by DuMont 

WASHINGTON—Paul Raibourn on Tuesday 

(22) contradicted flatly almost all the 

testimony offered during several days by a 

long parade of DuMont witnesses in the 

DuMont phase of the hearings on the proposed 

American Broadcasting Co. -United 

Paramount Theatres merger currently being 

held by the Federal Communications Commission. 

Paramount never had a firm cash offer for 

its stock to reject, Raibourn said in denying 

a Dr. Allen B. DuMont statement before the 

commission to the effect that Paramount had 

refused offers of $6,000,000 and $12,000,000 

for its stock. 

Raibourn said Dr. DuMont had made a 

$10,000,000 offer, but had withdrawn it becau.se 

the DuMont Laboratories were in the 

process of expanding the television set end of 

their business and couldn't afford to spend 

that much. 

Raibourn also mentioned an agreement in 

April 1950 between himself and DuMont 

under which Paramount would exchange its 

B stock for A stock and would then sell the 

A stock in small lots. DuMont had testified 

that the agreement was tos.sed out by Barney 

Balaban. Raibourn said DuMont backed out 

because his banker friends had advised him 

the DuMont connection with Paramount was 

"fortunate and successful" and should not be 

ended. 

Raibourn agreed with earlier DuMont witnesses 

on only a few points. One was the 

fact that Paramount's representation on the 

board of directors of DuMont Laboratories 

had been cut from four to three at Paramount's 

request. He said Paramount didn't 

want to reduce still further, to one, on the 

eight-man board, because three men are 

smarter than one even though they can do no 

more to control actual board decisions. 

Raibourn al.so agreed that Paramount had 

not only never controlled DuMont Laboratories, 

but had never made any attempt to 

do so. He pointed out that Paramount could 

have secured outright control at any time 

after 1938 merely through purcha.se of additional 

stock, but hadn't done so because of 

an originally established policy of keeping 

DuMont in full control. 

Reagan Heads MOM Group 

At Chicago Sales Meet 

NEW YORK—Charles M. Reagan. MGM 

vice-president and general sales manager, 

will head a home office contingent leaving 

Sunday (27) to attend the two-day sales 

conferences at the Ambassador East hotel in 

Chicago starting January 28. 

The principal topic w'ill be "Quo Vadis." 

which has already been set for engagements 

in several cities, including the Oriental, Chicago, 

starting February 14, and Philadelphia. 

Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. In Philadelphia, 

the Mastbaum outbid all other houses 

for the picture, starting February 7. In Cincinnati. 

RKO Albee has been awarded the 

bid for an indefinite run starting March 4. In 

Salt Lake City, the Uptown has been awarded 

the run. starting February 26. 

Aid rap drive—save copper drippings. 


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2nd Week Smash 

'Greatest Show' Is 

As 'Scandal Sheet' Starts Strong 

NEW YORK—As "The Greatest Show on 

Globe Submarine Conunond (Para) 1 

Earth" continued to do smash Guild—The 

business 

Red Shoes (UA), 4th 

with 

wk , revival 

Loews State—For Men Only (Lippert) 1 

long waiting lines outside the Radio City Little Carnegie—Rashomon (RKO), 4th wk li 

Music Hall, which had a stronger 

Maylair— Detective Story (Para), 11th 

second 

wk I 

Normandie — Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 

week than the big opening week, "The Model (MGM), vih wk 1 

and the Marriage Broker" had Paramount—Scandal 

a fine 

Sheet (Col), plus stage show..! 

second Pans—The River (UA), 18th wk. ol two-a-day li 

week and "Scandal Sheet" had a good opening 

week. "Model" was at the Roxy, where 

Park Avenue—Tom Brown's Schooldays (UA), 2nd 

wk 

Radio City Music Hall—The Greatest Show on 

it held over for a third, and "Scandal" was Earth (Para), plus stage show, 2nd wk 1 

at the Paramount, both houses 

Rialto—Assassin for Hire (Realart) li 

with accompanying 

stage shows. 

Roxy—The Model and the Marriage Broker (20th- 

RivoU—Decision Before Davra (20lh-Fox), 5th wk... 

Fox), plus stage show, 2nd wk V 

"Room for One More" did the best of the Sutton—The Tales oi Hoiimann (Lopert), 4th wk., 

straight-film shows in its first week at the return engagement 11 

Trans-Lux 52nd—It's a Big Country 

Strand and 

(MGM), 2nd 

"For Men Only" and "Submarine 

Command" did well at Loew's State and the Trans-Lux 60th—Bonnie 

Charlie (Snader), 

2nd wk 

..100 

Globe, respectively. E^xcept for "Detective Trans-Lux 72nd—Cage ol Gold (Ellii 

Story," still holding up in its 11th week at Victoria—Death of a Salesman (Col), 4th wk 110 

Warner—Room for One More (WB) 

the 

US 

Mayfair, the longest-run picture on World—Miracle in Milan (Burstyn), 4lh wk 100 

Broadway, and "The Lavender Hill Mob," in 

its 14th week at the Fine Arts, most of the 

others were mild. "The 

'Marriage 

River" 

Broker' Performs 

chalked up 

300 performances in its 19 weeks of two-a-day Well at Buflalo 

performances at the Paris, 

Only two new films, both British, "Cry, the 

Beloved Country" and "Mr. Drake's Duck," 

opened during the week to join 14 other pictures 

made in England or abroad among 

the 24 Manhattan first runs. 

(Average Is 100) 

Astor—Quo Vadis (MGM), 11th wit, continuous 110 

Capitol—The Light Touch (MGM) 105 

Criterion— I Want You (RKO), 5th wk... 100 

Fme Arts—The Lavender Hill Mob (U-I), 14th wk.. 110 

55th Street—Singing Angels (Lewis) 105 

BUFFALO—"Quo Vadis" was in its fourth 

week at Shea's Buffalo. It turned in a 160 

per cent. "The Model and the Marriage 

Broker." turned in a good week at the Paramount, 

and so did "Another Man's Poison" 

in a nine-day run at the Century. 

Quo Vadis (MGM), 4th wk 160 

Cente Decision Before Dawn (20lh-Fox), 2nd wk 95 

Century Anoth Man's Poison (UA) 105 

Cinema—Of M. and Music (20th-Fox) 85 

Victory (U-I) 100 

Paramo 

Model and the Marriage 

Broke (ZOth-Fox) 110 

MOW PIAYm THIS COMBO!. . . 

LOEW'S Circuit, WARNER'S, 

SKOURAS, FABIAN, CINEMA 

CENTURY and RANDFORCEI 

Teck 

Sins oi Madele 

No Theatre Reaches 

Par in Pittsburgh 

PITTSBURGH—Grosses dropped with most 

theatres featuring holdover pictures. Not one 

theatre hit the average mark on the boxoffice 

barometer. Neighborhood theatres registered 

slightly better, generally. 

Fulton—Elopement (20lh-Fox) . . 70 

Hams— Ten Tall Men (Col), 2nd wk 

, days 90 

Penn—Texas Carnival (MGM), 2nd wk,, 6 days 95 

Stanley-Distant Drums (WB), 2nd wk,, 5 days. . 80 

Warner— On Dangerous Ground (RKO) 95 

Bus Strike Continues to Hit 

Baltimore Business 

BALTIMORE-The second week of the citywide 

transit strike has left a heavy mark 

on evening boxoffice grosses downtown. A 

third week of the strike is coming up, with 

the outlook for settlement very dim. "Quo 

Vadis," making a valiant effort to hold up 

its record, did the only business of the town 

in its first week. 

Century—Quo (MGM), advanced prices 

Fine Arts—The Inheritance (Fine Arts) 

Hippodrome— Indian Uprising (Col) 

Keith's—The Strange Door (U-I) 

Maylair-Man in the Saddle (Col). 

New— Japanese War Bride (20th-Fox) 

2nd \ 

Playho,,-,- Bright Victory (U-1) 

Stanley- -I'll See You in My Dreams 

Town—Another Man's Poison (UA) 

(WB 

Valencia—Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 

(MGM), 2nd wk 

'Beloved Country' Opens 

At Bijou in New York 

NE'W YORK—Leaders in the civic, social 

and entertainment worlds attended the 

opening 'Wednesday (23) of "Cry, the Beloved 

Country" at the Bijou Theatre, where 

it will continue on a continuous-run policy. 

It is a Zoltan Korda-Alan Paton production 

presented by London Films and released in 

the U.S. by Lopen Films Distributing Corp., 

and stars Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney 

Poitier and Joyce Carey. The Arthur 

Schomburg collection of South African treasures, 

loaned by the New York Public Library, 

is on view in the Bijou lounge. 

'Mr. Drake's Duck' Opens; 

'African Queen' Dated 

NE'W YORK — "Mister Drake's Duck," a 

Fairbanks - Angel production released by 

United Artists, opened at the Embassy Guild 

Theatre in Rockefeller Center Saturday (26). 

Douglas Fairbanks jr. and Yolande Donlan 

are starred. 

Another United Artists release, John Huston's 

"The African Queen," starring 

Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, 

will open at the Capitol in February, according 

to 'William J. Heineman, vice-president 

in charge of distribution. 

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TVA, 5 Talent Unions 

Plan Merger Study 

NEW YORK—Tl-ie five labor unions comprising 

Television Authority have secured 

the services of industrial and labor relations 

experts at the Universities of California and 

Cornell to study and prepare a blueprint for 

the merger of the five unions into TVA. The 

study, which must be concluded by July 1, 

will concern the many and varied problems 

of the 30,000 members represented in the 

five unions and their relation to work in 

the allied entertainment fields. 

The five unions are Actors Equity, American 

Federation of Radio Artists, American 

Guild of Variety Ai'tists, Chorus Equity and 

American Guild of Musical Artists. Later, it 

is hoped that Screen Actors Guild and 

Screen Extras Guild, two west coast unions 

which have questioned the right for TVA 

to have jurisdiction over performers in filmed 

television shows, can be induced to join the 

new group. 

Georgie Price, president of the AGVA; 

Lawrence Tibbett, president of AGMA; Louis 

Simon, executive secretary of Actors Equity; 

George Heller, executive secretary of TVA, 

and other representatives of the unions met 

with Dean M. P. Catherwood of the New York 

State Institute for Industrial and Labor Relations 

at Cornell, and Edgar L. Warren, 

director of the Institute of Industrial Relations 

at University of California. Los Angeles. 

at the New York State School for Industrial 

Labor Relations January 22. 

Home office workers at Paramount and 

20th Century-Pox will receive pay increases 

averaging 10 per cent weekly in the new 

wage pact agreed upon by officials of the 

companies and Motion Picture Home Office 

Employes Local H-63. Both agreements will 

be for two years, with automatic pay increases 

after one year, according to Russell 

Moss, executive vice-president of Local H-63. 

Approximately 350 20th-Fox workers and 150 

at Paramount will be affected. 

Local H-63 expects to complete negotiations 

for a new wage pact for 350 RKO 

home office workers late in January, according 

to Moss. 

Exhibitor Comment Asked 

On 'Bunching' of Films 

NEW YORK—A charge made by Edward 

L. Hyman, United Paramount Theatres vicepresident, 

that distributors aim release of 

their best films at holiday periods has been 

referred by the Council of Motion Picture 

Organizations to exhibitors for comment. 

Hyman found that "bunching" resulted in 

periods of weak films that kept patrons away 

from the theatres, making it difficult to recapture 

their interest. The COMPO request 

for comment was contained in a report to 

members issued by Theatre Owners of America, 

which said COMPO will refer their comment 

to distributors. 

New Lees & Sons Dividend 

BRIDGEPORT. PA—The board of James 

Lees & Sons Co. declared the regular quarterly 

dividend of 35 cents a share on the 

common stock Wednesday (23). It is payable 

March 1 to stockholders of record February 15. 

Spanish Approval Is Won 

To New Import Proposals 

NEW YORK—The Spanish government approved 

Tuesday (22) new import license proposals 

made by the Motion Picture Export 

A.ss'n and the Society of Independent Motion 

Picture Producers. These provide for 

the issuance of the licenses by the government, 

an allocation of 60 to U.S. companies 

having distribution offices in Spain, 20 to 

Spanish importers of U.S. films and 20 to 

independents. They also provide for licen.se 

charges per film of about $10,000 compared 

with previous charges ranging up to $20,000. 

News of the successful end of long-drawnout 

negotiations was reported to John G. Mc- 

Carthy, head of the international division of 

the Motion Picture A.ss'n of America, by Stanton 

Griffis, U.S. ambassador to Spain, from 

Madrid by telephone after the Tuesday morning 

newspapers and radio carried ambiguous 

reports. McCarthy telephoned Ellis Arnall, 

SIMPP president, in Atlanta, who expressed 

satisfaction. 

The agreement, which followed four visits 

to Spain by McCarthy, apparently clears up 

a situation there which had approached the 

dimensions of a scandal. At that time the 

government permitted native producers to sell 

the licenses, and they did .so at exorbitant 

prices. Furthermore, attempts were made to 

force U.S. distributors to accept a number of 

Spanish films considered unsuitable for the 

U.S. market. The new agreement is clear-cut 

and has no such strings tied to it. Probably 

its biggest feature is control by the government 

of the issuance of licenses. 

Original proposals made by McCarthy did 

not satisfy SIMPP. which said they didn't 

protect the independents. Agreement was 

reached Thursday (17) on an allotment of 

20 licenses to independent producers out of 

the 40 previously alloted Spanish importers. 

The 20 licenses included five directly for 

SIMPP members and the remainder to others, 

including United Artists, Republic and Monogram. 

SIMPP members, of course, can distribute 

through those companies. Arnall had 

held that the number of licenses was unimportant 

compared with some specified allotment 

in order to give SIMPP bargaining 

power. 

The new agreement does not mean that 

only 100 U.S. films will be admitted by Spain 

within the year. The total will be nearer 135 

because of licenses granted before the signing 

of the new pact. 

The first of the year there were 3,950 commercial 

film theatres in Spain with a total 

seating capacity exceeding 2.000,000, according 

to an estimate of the film division of the 

Department of Commerce. Five new theatres 

were under construction in Bilbao, for the 

most part with U.S. equipment. A total of 146 

new features were released in Madrid first 

run theatres during the first ten months of 

1950. Of them, 61 were American and 28 

Spanish. This year, the number of American 

films can rise to 135. 

The next tough nut to crack on the foreign 

scene will be France whose accord with the 

U.S. industry expires June 30. Political as 

well as financial considerations enter into 

the pictur;. Then there is some fear that 

censorship groups in Germany may prove 

difficult to handle. 

Italian Promotion Group Shows 

Little 

Progress in Six Months 

NEW YORK — Although American film 

companies are reported to have contributed 

$1,000,000 since July 1950 to the support of 

Italian Films Export, Inc., organized to promote 

Italian films here, the new organization 

has not yet selected the distribution head and 

public relations man it has repeatedly said 

it was seeking, and it has made no apparent 

progress toward any promotion of Italian 

films. 

Presumably the cash advanced by member 

companies of the Motion Picture Ass'n of 

America in two six-month allotments of about 

$500,000 each has reposed in the bank, with 

withdrawals only for the salary and traveling 

expen.ses of Dr. Renato Gaulino, IFE 

managing director and president of Lux 

Films, now in Italy; the salary of E. R. 

Zorgniotti, IFE and Lux Films American 

representative, and for rent of an office adjoining 

Lux in the Paramount building. 

Gualino is scheduled to return here from 

Rome in February, but it is not known 

whether he will have the authorization of the 

IFE board to proceed with the employment 

of the two key per.sonnel or whether further 

delay will ensue. 

Reports from Rome have told of an undercover 

dispute among members of the board, 

some of whom were said to favor placing 

Italian film men in the posts while others 

have argued that only Americans have an 

intimate knowledge of the American market. 

The plan to set up a promotion organization 

here grew out of a U.S.-Italian agreement 

in which the Italian government, now 

said to be greatly concerned, had a part. 

Under it. MPAA member companies agre;d 

to advance 12 'l: per cent of their Italian 

earnings toward setting up and maintaining 

the organization, and a first payment as evidence 

of good faith immediately resulted. 

Hoi>e that early organizational differences 

would be overcome resulted in a second payment 

recently. 

In November 1951, Gualino, who also is 

president of the Italian Motion Picture Producers 

Ass'n and president of the International 

Ass'n of Film Producers, told the press 

that the first of the year was the deadline 

for starting operations. He said he had hoped 

to start operations earlier than that. He said 

then he was combing the American field for 

suitable executive talent. 

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BUFFALO 

rjick Walsh, director of publicity and advertising 

for the Hayman theatres in Niagara 

Falls, tied up with the city's recreation 

department on "The Harlem Globetrotters," 

and got a landslide of publicity in the newspapers. 

The tie-in was a shooting contest 

that attracted over 5,000 entrants, both boy.s 

and girls . . . Loretta North, the 19-year-oId 

Australian girl who was afflicted with poUo 

but recovered and won an Australia-wide 

beauty contest, was welcomed to the city 

by Mayor Mruk last Tuesday with her young 

pet kangaroo. She addressed the Greater 

Buffalo Advertising club, \-isited the Crippled 

Children's Gtiild on Delaware avenue 

and was widely interviewed by press and 

radio and appeared on WBEN-TV. Joe Labworth 

of the 20th-Fox exploitation staff W3s 

in with Miss North. She is totiring the U.S. 

in behalf of '•Kangaroo." 

Jlilt Harris, manager of the Cinema, Buffalo 

art theatre, is handling promotion 

for the coming Gene Autry show to be staged 

in Memorial auditorium February 4 with 

the proceeds going to the Variety Club's cerebral 

palsy fund. W. E. J. Martin, drama 

editor of the Courier-Express, is chairman 

of the publicity committee. Tent 7 soon is 

to benefit from another event, the hockey 

game between Buffalo and Providence in the 

Auditorium. 

John G. Chinell, RKO manager, has submitted 

an application for membership in the 

Greater Buffalo Advertising club . . . Francis 

Anderson, city manager for UPT in Rochester, 

Lester Pollock of Loew's and Frank H. 

Lindcamp of the RKO Palace believe that 

high-level comedy is the top preference of 

movie audiences in the Kodak town . . . 

Balloons, from which are suspended colorful 

cutouts of a clown figure, are flying all over 

the lobby of the Center Theatre, proclaiming 

"The Greatest Show on Earth." 

Walter Bnrgon, Center manager, says there 

was a lot of very favorable reaction following 

the staging of the Eagle Scout award ceremony 

on the theatre stage on opening night 

of "Room for One More." in which the Boy 

Scout angle is very prominent . . . Buffalo 

legal associates were shocked at the death 

of Judge Robert P. Patterson in the airplane 

crash in Elizabeth, N. J. The former secretary 

of war had been in Buffalo the morning 

of the crash working on the Schine Theatres 

case before Federal Judge John Knight. 

Herbert Hahn, in charge of United Paramount 

Theatres confections department, was 

here last weekend, looking over the refreshment 

pavilions in the Paramount. Center. 

Seneca and Niagara theatres, accompanied 

by Arthtir Krolick. general manager for UPT 

here . . . George H. Mackenna. general manager 

of Basil's Lafayette, failed to win election 

as an Ad club director. Elmer F. Ltix. 

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general manager of E>arneU Theatres and 

city councilman at large, was manager of 

Macksnnas campaign. Well. Elmer lost when 

he ran for an Ad club directorship and Mackenna 

was his manager, so now they are even 

and all is well again . . . Milt Harris is remaining 

as manager of the Cinema under 

the merger of Dewey Michaels and his son 

James with Cohen and Slotnick. 

New Para. Release Plan 

Paying Off, Hyman Says 

Bt FT.\LO—•Maker- o: mo;:or. pic-ores are 

no longer panicky about the inroads of television 

because they have learned there is a 

definite place for the movies, radio and TV 

in the entertainment world," declared Edward 

L. Hyman, vice-president of United 

Paramoimt Theatres, who was here for a 

conference with Buffalo and Rochester UPT 

executives in the Siatler hotel. 

Attending were Max Fellerman. Al Sicignano 

and Bernard Levy, members of Hyman's 

staff in New York; Arthur KroUck, general 

manager in Buffalo and Rochester: Charles 

B. Taylor, associate general manager; Edward 

Miller, manager of the Buffalo Paramoimt; 

Walter Burgon. Center Theatre; 

Charles McKeman. Seneca; John Zimmerman, 

Niagara; Mrs. Lee Gross Adams, booker; 

Francis Anderson, city manager in Rochester, 

and Joseph SzelL Regent, Rochester. 

•Paramoimt did 59.000,000 business in nine 

months of 1951 so we're definitely not 

alarmed." said Hyman. "And the future of 

our business is glowing because our policy 

of spreading our best features all through 

the year instead of making releases aroimd 

Labor day. Thanksgiving, New Year's and 

Easter is paying off in customer pleasure and 

dividends. 

"Just as TV is improving every day—you 

can watch the improvement on TV screens 

the motion picture has met the threat of 

competition by steady improvement of its 

wares. 'While I'm not speaking for Hollywood. 

Paramount plans to give the pubhc 

feature pictures all 52 weeks of the year and 

not just seasonally." 

Two Art Theatres Unite 

In Buffalo Operation 

BtTTALO — Merc-jr;.--Cineina. Inc.. has 

been formed here to operate the Mercury 

and Cinema theatres. Officers are the Cinema's 

present operators. PhO Cohen and 

Morris Slotnick. both of Rochester; Dewey 

Michaels, veteran Buffalo exhibitor, and his 

son James. The latter, now managing director 

of the Mercury. wUl be the general 

manager of the two theatres. 

The Cinema and the Mercury with seating 

capacities of 450 and 300. respectively, have 

been presenting art pictures, including the 

better foreign movies. The officers declare 

that the joint operation is "intended to maintain 

a flow to Buffalo of the best in international 

motion pictures" and that "between 

the two theatres Buffalo wUl be asstired of a 

steady and balanced presentation of first run 

re^-ived films especially aimed at a mature 

and discriminating audience." 

Associated with the new concern will be 

the Cinema in Rochester, operated by Cohen 

and Slotnick. and the ilidtown in Syracuse. 

•'By thus joining forces," the officers declare, 

"the four theatres wiU be able to obtain 

for western New York prompt showings 

of aU important international films shortly 

after their openings in New York city." 

ALBANY 

Tames P. Faughnan, contact manager for 

Warner Theatres in the upstate zone until 

that post was abolished in the economy drive 

last summer, who since has been a partner 

and general manager of Best Displays. Albany 

Eign company, has been appointed district 

accounting executive for the Office of Price 

Stabilization here at an annual salary of 

S8.360. He has asstmied the new duties at 

70 North Pearl St.. where Jim worked during 

Warner Theatres occupancy of offices there. 

The Warner zone headquarters are now in 

the Strand Theatre building. Faughnan, 

member of the Variety Club and widely 

known in film business, was connected with 

the Warner circuit from 1929 until 1951. 

The Grand inaugurated a weekly night of 

stage entertainment Tuesday to supplement 

the film program. It featured Francis Murphy's 

Albany orchestra. Diane Corby, blues 

singer; Jackie Small, tap dancer, and Charlie 

Manager Paul WaUen 

Bl an chard, local tenor. 

arranged the bookings . . . Fabian's Palace 

will present Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo the 

night of February 19. at SI .20 to S3.60 . . . 

Gene Vogel, former U-I branch manager and 

now upstate representative for a men's sporting 

clothes company, said he is doing well 

in the new job. 

"Detective Story" suffers at the boxoffice 

from a misleading title, several observers 

here believe. They say that some patrons, 

especially women, "think it's a whodunit." 

Audience reaction inside is excellent and bus 

comment is enthusiastic . . . Eddie Fabian, 

roving zone manager, huddled with Saul 

J. Ullman, upstate general manager of the 

circuit, and %Tsited theatres. 

Schine's Avon, Watertown. staged a Blood 

Bank premiere for 'Tixed Bayonets." Newspaper 

advertisements explained: "You can be 

an honor guest of the Korean veterans. Pledge 

a pint of blood for the next blood clinic and 

be a guest for the performance of Fixed 

Bayonets.' See on our stage %-eterans of the 

278th infantry combat team in a demonstration 

of hand-to-hand bayonet combat. See 

the newest in winter equipment for Operation 

Snowfall." Lou Hart arranged the promotion 

. . . Reade's Kingston and Broadway advertise 

in newspapers their Stmday shows as 

early as Wednesday. 

A strong promotion for •'Kon-Tiki" at the 

Leland. staged by Hank Howard, RKO exploiteer, 

and Pat P>atterson. manager, included 

200 school bulletins, 5,000 bookmarks distributed 

in schools, 300 window cards, 1.000 letters 

to residents of the 17th and 18th wards, 

a boys raft-making contest in a tieup with 

the Times-Union, and special copy. The Sol 

Lesser picture played the Leland, which normally 

has three second run changes, for a 

week at 50 cents matinees and 65 cents at 

night, weekdays, and 74 cents Sunday. Children 

paid 25 cents. Business was reported 

brisk. 

Woody Campbell, for years assistant contact 

man in the Warner Theatres zone offices 

and more recently head booker-office manager 

in the RKO exchange, has been appointed 

Binghamton area manager for ABC 

Vending Corp. Campbell flew to that city 

to assimie his new posx. Marty Winters, onetime 

auditor for Warner Theatres and now 

serving in a similar capacity with ABC. recommended 

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/-•urrent leaders of the Filmrow Bowling 

league were Highway Express Lines and 

20th-Pox. with the All Stars second. U-I 

third, RKO fourth. Republic-Clark fifth, 

Warner sixth and Columbia seventh. Al 

Fields and Pauline Struck continue to hold 

the highest averages. The league bowls every 

Friday night in the Hi-Skor bowling alleys 

on 13th street N.W. between G and H streets. 

Jerry Adams, chief barker of the Variety 

Club, presented a check for $2,000 to the 

Metropolitan Police Boys club, the largest 

contribution made to date in the Boys club 

campaign. Attorney General J. Howard Mc- 

Grath, one of the chairmen of the drive, accepted 

the check on behalf of the club's 

22,000 members. District Theatres Booker T. 

is now opening new runs on Saturday. 

Ivan Rosenbaum, Neighborhood Theatres 

chief booker, is a grandfather. A daughter. 

Mrs. Henry Hurwitz, gave birth to a baby 

girl named Robin Elaine. The Hurwitzes 

reside in Schenectady, N. Y. . Norris, 

new division manager for 20th-Fox and 

the new local manager. Joe Rosen, spent 

Thursday in Richmond conferring with Sam 

Bendheim and Morton Thalhimer of Neighborhood 

Theatres ... Ira Sichelman was on 

a vacation in Florida. 

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20th-Fox 

Mrs. Ben Lust has returned from a week's 

visit with relatives in New York . . . Baltimore 

exhibitors on Filmrow included Mike Leventhal. 

Joe Walderman. Morris Oletsky, Jack 

Levine. Wilbur Brizendine 

booker Sara Young visited Mrs. Hilda Hicks 

of the Hicks circuit in Baltimore. 

Skouras to Participate 

In UNESCO Discussion 

NEW YORK— Spyros P. Skoura.s. president 

of 20th Century-Fox, will be a member of a 

(30). 

Other participants will include Marc Connelly 

and Sidney Kingsley. playwrights; repre.sentatives 

of the American National Theatre 

Academy, educators, publishers and members 

of the radio industry. 

James Hendel Named 

PITTSBURGH—James Hendel has been 

appointed United Artists manager in Pittsburgh. 

He replaces Mannie Trautenberg, who 

has resigned to enter another business. Hendel 

formerly was branch manager for Eagle- 

Lion, district manager in New York and district 

manager on the coast for that company. 

He will take over February 4. 

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Joseph Rosen Was Active in Civic Activities in Cincinnati 

CINCINNATI—Joseph Rosen, manager of 

the local 20th Century-Fox exchange who 

was promoted to manager at Washington, 

effective Monday (21), created an important 

niche for himself in many of the activities 

here, both in and out of the film industry 

during the four years he headed the local 

office. He was chairman of the heart committee 

of the local Variety Club during 1951 

and 1952. Before leaving he said the local 

chapter soon would announce a new charitable 

enterpri.se in Cincinnati, in addition to 

the present foundling home which it sponsors. 

Phil Fox, manager of the Columbia 

Para Sets Managers' Meets 

In New York, Chicago 

NEW YORK—Paramount held a branch 

managers meeting at the Hotel Plaza January 

24 through Sunday (27) for Hugh Owen's 

eastern and .southern divisions and Howard 

Minsky's mideastern division with A. W. 

Schwalberg. president of Paramount Film 

Distributing Corp., presiding. Schwalberg will 

also preside at a meeting of the remaining 

members of the field sales force in Chicago 

January 31 through February 3. 

Both meetings will be to communicate to 

all members of the Paramount sales organizations 

the decisions made at the company's 

recent divisional sales managers' conclave in 

New York. 

In addition to Schwalberg. Owen and 

Minsky. tho.se who attended the New York 

meeting were: E. K. O'Shea, vice-president 

of Paramount Film Distributing Corp.; Jerry 

Pickman. vice-president and director of advertising, 

publicity and exploitation: Oscar 

A. Morgan, gexieral sales manager of .short 

subjects and Paramount News; Monroe R. 

Goodman, executive assistant to Schwalberg, 

and Robert J. Rubin, assistant to Balaban. 

Also, the following department heads: Fred 

Leroy, statistical; Arthur Dunne, contract; 

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group that will discuss mass media and community 

education at the national conference 

of the U.S. National Commission for the 

United Nations Educational. Scientific and 

Cultural Organization at Hunter college, beginning 

Sunday i27i and closing Wednesday bidding, and Joseph A. Walsh, branch 

Martin Friedman, playdate; Harold Beecroft. 

operations. 

Schwalberg gave a detailed discussion of 

Paramount product for 1952 and stressed 

individual handling of each picture. Among 

the pictures analyzed from a sales, advertising, 

publicity and exploitation view were: 

Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show on 

Earth." George Stevens' "Something to Live 

For." Hal Wallis' "Sailor Beware" and "Aaron 

Slick From Punkin Crick." "Anything Can 

Happen," "My Son, John," "Hong Kong," 

"Flaming Feather." "Denver and Rio Grande," 

"Red Mountain" and "Atomic City." 

WB Tradeshows 'Bugles'; 

Postpones 'Big Trees' 

NEW YORK—"Bugles in the Afternoon." a 

Cagney Technicolor production for Warner 

Bros, release, will be nationally tradeshown 

January 30, in place of the previously scheduled 

"The Big Trees." The latter will be 

Iradeshown nationally in February. 

"Bugles in the Afternoon." which stars Ray 

Milland with Helena Carter, will be nationally 

distributed March 8. 

branch, will take over the reins of the 

heart committee. Rosen also has been area 

distributor chairman for various industry enterprises, 

including Disabled American Veterans 

drive, the Will Rogers Memorial hospital 

fund, Red Cross and scrap drive. He 

was also active in civic affairs, and has made 

a host of friends since taking up residence 

in Cincinnati. 

Rosen's young son Bobby is with his grandparents 

in New York until Rosen and his wife 

find an apartment in Washington. His apartment 

here was bequeathed to the new 20th- 

Fox local sales manager. Jack Kaufman. 

Columbia Has 3-Day Meet 

Of Division Managers 

NEW YORK—Columbia Pictures held the 

last of its series of four sales meetings at 

the Warwick hotel Thursday. Friday and 

Saturday ( 24-26 1 with home office executives, 

division and branch managers in attendance. 

A. Montague, general sales manager; Rube 

Jackter, assistant sales manager; Louis Astor, 

Louis Weinberg and Irving Wormser, circuit 

sales executives; George Josephs, assistant 

to Montague and Maurice Grad, short subjects 

sales manager, represented the home 

office. 

Delegates from the field included I. H. 

Rogovin, New England division manager; 

Harry Weiner, division manager for .southern 

New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania; 

Lester Wurtele, Philadelphia manager; Jim 

Fater, Buffalo manager; Tom O'Brien, Boston 

manager; Walter Silverman, New Haven 

manager; Charles Dortic, Albany manager, 

and Ben Lourie, Chicago manager. 

Fox Merchandising Meet 

In Philadelphia 31st 

NEW YORK—The first 

out-of-town exhibitors 

merchandising meeting planned by 20th 

Century-Fox as a result of the success of a 

home office gathering will be held Thursday 

(31) at the Erlanger Theatre in Philadelphia. 

Other meetings around the country will follow 

later. 

Glenn Norris, Atlantic division manager, 

and Sam Diamond, Philadelphia manager, 

were in New York Wednesday (23) for a 

discus.sion of plans. About 1.000 exhibitor 

representatives are expected to attend. 

Charles Einfeld, vice-president in charge 

of advertising, exploitation and publicity, will 

take his staff to Philadelphia for the meeting. 

Victor Wood has been inked for the Michael 

Rennie starrer, "Les Miserables," a 20th-Fox 

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•The Bertera brothers, Mario, James and 

John, for a dozen years owners-operators 

of Berteras market at Laketon road and Montier 

streets, Wilkinsburg, have purchased the 

Vogue Terrace, night spot and hotel, from 

the Householder-Chakeres interests. John 

Bertera is the new manager of the enterprise, 

which is located on Crooked Run road, 

roughly 14 miles east of Wilkinsburg. Andy 

Chakeres, who sold his Vogue Terrace interest 

and who is part owner of the Roof Garden 

Drive-In near Somerset, is taking over a 

number of concessions at the new greater 

Pittsburgh airport, which is just about ready 

to open . Slavik of the Fedo at 

Wheeling was on Filmrow to purchase a 

dozen theatre chairs for the cryroom at his 

Mu-Mac Theatre in Middlefield, Ohio. 

M. A. Silver, Warner circuit zone manager, 

has been vacationing for several weeks at 

Miami Beach . and Ruth Hadburg, 

Hazelwood exhibitors, are parents of a second 

son named Benjie Keith in memory of Ben 

Siegel, who was killed in an airliner crash 

several weeks ago. The deceased was a cousin 

of David Hadburg and husband of Ethel Roth 

Siegel whose father Israel is a retii'ed city 

exhibitor. Ruth Hadburg's parents are the 

Michael N. Shapiros . Brown, local 

exhibitor, is a grandpop. A son was born two 

weeks ago at Mercy hospital to Mrs. Dick 

Brown jr. 

Guy and Phyllis Peterson write that they 

get a real thrill out of reading news of Pittsburgh 

people, Columbus and West Virginia 

friends. Now residing at 2930 Colorado Ave.. 

Santa Monica. Calif., Guy was a Paramount 

salesman in this area for more than a quarter 

of a century . . . Frances Staboulis has resigned 

as manager of the Manos at Uniontown 

to wed Lou Chacanas in April . . . Mr. 

and Mj-s. R. B. Allison, Altoona circuit exhibitors, 

entertained one evening recently at their 

home in Sylvan Hills in honor of Judge John 

M. Klepser and Mrs. Klepser. "the No. 1 family 

of Blair county." Several dozen neighbors 

and friends were present and Ray Allison sr. 

was toastmaster. William V. Mack of National 

Screen performed magic tricks and told 

some of his jokes. 

Herb Joseph, new salesman for Theatre 

Candy Co. and Showe Confections, is the son 

of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Joseph of the Triangle 

in East Liberty . former Boy 

Scouts who are still active in the organization 

are Bernard H. Buchheit of the Manos 

circuit and Anthony Mungello, Burgettstown 

exhibitor. "Buck" can recall some very exciting 

and interesting experiences, and he and 

Tony naturally .saw to it that their sons became 

Boy Scouts. 

Lou Ponsetto, Apollo exhibitor, operating 

ing the Strand six nights weekly, is closing 

the Warren there except for Friday and Saturday 

Shea's at Bradford inaugurated 

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GIFT FOR 'NELSONS—The Fulton 

Theatre, Pittsburgh, observed Nelson day 

as part of the opening festivities for 

"Here Come the Nelsons" by inviting 

some 300 families with that second name. 

Each 57th Nelson family to arrive was 

awarded a Heinz gift package of 57 varieties 

of Heinz products. John Walsh, 

right, manager of the Fulton, presents 

one of the gift packages to Nelson and 

Mrs. Nelson. 

an all new country store night on Saturday 

. at Erie dated the Ballet Theatre 

for January 29. cashing in on Life magazine's 

pictured Til Eulenspiegel feature of 

several weeks ago . . . Bill Feld, former local 

Republic manager, is the new Realart manager 

at Des Moines. 

Joseph Feldman resigned duties with the 

Warner circuit here after a score of years to 

enter the advertising agency business with 

Dubin Advertising. Inc., Union Trust building. 

He has served Warner Theatres as Newark 

zone assistant advertising manager, advertising 

manager in the Albany and Pittsburgh 

areas and for a number of years he 

has been assistant to M. A. Silver, local manager 

in the tristate zone now covering approximately 

70 theatres. Julius Dubin was a 

newspaper promotion manager here prior to 

opening his agency about eight years ago. 

Announcement is made of the engagement 

of Arthur E. Frosio, until recently manager 

of Fabian theatres at Altoona, and Jeanne 

Zeiders of that city who is employed by the 

Pennsylvania board of parole. Frosio now is 

associated with his father in the real estate 

and insurance business in Union City, N. J. 

manager of the Warner circuit and former 

circuit zone manager here. 

Three theatres here now have screen tele- 

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vision equipment, the latest being the J. P. 

Harris. The others are the Fulton and the 

Stanley, but no events are scheduled for any 

of them, and there is a cable as.sessment 

monthly whether the equipment is used or 

Virginia M. Lenigan of Millvale is 

not . . . 

the fiancee of Philip J. Delvernois jr., son 

of the Warner circuit sound technician 

Bill Thomas, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. 

William Thomas. Zelienople exhibitors, is on 

furlough from the navy after duty in the 

Pacific. The entire family visited in Boston 

Film Enterprises here is booking 

26 free short subjects, with rumiing time 

from 10 to 17 minutes, and several are in 

Technicolor at Vestabm-g has 

discontinued midweek operations. 

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. . . Independent 

Ned Depinet drive meetings were conducted 

here last week by RKO executives Nat Levy, 

division manager: Sid Kramer, short subjects 

manager, and Bob Folliard. district manager 

Evergreen Drive-In near Mount 

Pleasant, formerly handled by the Co-op office, 

will be licensed by Hanna Theatre Service 

.. now merged with UA. has 

been named a defendant in the antitrust case 

entered by Lou Kaufman, who alleges that 

the Metropolitan in the Bloomfield district 

was discriminated against by film distributors 

in favor of Warners' Plaza 

exhibitors in the city area held a 

meeting last week to discuss wage negotiations 

with the projectionists union. 

Reuben R. Harris, Warner cuxuit manager 

at Wilkinsburg who was recently transferred 

to the Strand in the Oakland dis- 

trict, reports his father John A., retired railroadman, 

died January 15 Bond 

and associates will have the new drive-in in 

Harrison township ready for opening early 

Mario Castelli has plans for 

in April . . . 

construction of an outdoor theatre in Penn 

township near the Pittsburgh line. He is not 

related to the Castelli brothers, Dario and 

James, who are area indoor and outdoor exhibitors 

. . . David Flood, Notre Dame football 

star who is engaged to Adelaide Bardits 

of the MGM exchange, has been drafted by 

the Pittsburgh Steelers for the 1952 pro grid 

season . Oglietti brothers are closing 

their Palace at Leechburg on Tuesdays- 

Wednesdays. 

Golding, Vaughan Talk 

'Andersen' Publicity 

NEW YORK—David Golding, eastern publicity 

manager for Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 

left for the coast over the weekend 

to work with Al Vaughan, studio publicity 

head, on publicity and exploitation for "Hans 

Christian Andersen," Goldwyn Technicolor 

film due to open in the fall. In his absence, 

. 

Portage borough has approved a one-half 

of 1 per cent tax on earned incomes 

Another theatre at Johnstown may fold 

within a few weeks. With no encouragement 

offered for its continued operation, the theatre 

Martin Davis will handle publicity here. 

will be turned into a warehouse James A. Mulvey, president, said the inten- 

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Several Manos theatres are expected to date tion was to insure a continuing flow of publicity 

Grace Piice Katz's Children's Theatre productions 

from the end of production to the pre- 

for Saturday morning performances release period. 

R. Carettie, RKO salesman, 

has been on a health diet and he's looking 

very well . Minsky, former local film 

man, is the new booker for Warner circuit's 

Complete Sound and Projection Service 

New Haven zone which is managed by former 

ATLAS THEATRE SUPPLY 

Pittsburgher Harry Feinstein. His brother 

Gordon Gibson. Mgr, 

Howard is a Paramount division manager and 

a former local film salesman. They are 

nephews of Harry Minsky Kalmine, general 

402 Miltenberoer St.. GRant 1-4281. Pittsburgh. Pa. 

MOTIOGRAPH — MIRROPHONIC 

46 BOXOFFICE January 26. 1952

Philadelphia Tent 

Names Committees 

PHILADELPHIA — The Variety Club has 

named new committees for 1952. They include: 

House and entertainment—George Sobel, 

chairman; Harry Biben, Harry Dressier, Edward 

Emanuel, Joseph Engel, Jack Feldman, 

Harry Dreedman, Herbert Gillis, Robert Hanover, 

Mickey Lewis, Leonard Matt and Lester 

Wurtele. 

Johnny night—Edward Emanuel, chairman; 

Meyer Adelman, Nathan Alexander, 

William Banks, Harry Biben, Oscar Neufeld, 

Ralph W. Pries, Leo Weinrott and David 

Zinkoff. 

Public relations and publicity—Robert 

Adelman, chairman; Nathan Alexander. William 

Banks. Max Bronow, Roger Clipp, William 

Kane. Max Miller, Oscar Neufeld, 

Mitchell Pantzer, Sidney Samuelson, John 

Scheuer jr., Ted Schlanger and David Zinkoff. 

Budget and finance—Jay Emanuel, chairman; 

Louis J. Goffman, Albert Goldstein, 

Jay J. Hornick, Sidney Samuelson and Morris 

Wolf. 

Heai't fund—Jack Beresin, chairman; 

Meyer Adelman, Louis J. Goddman. Jay J. 

Hornick, William Hutchins, William Kane, 

Ralph Pries, Ted Schlanger, Bernard Seidman, 

David Supow'itz and Leo Weinrott. 

Member.ship — Leonard Matt, chairman; 

Roger Clipp. Edwai'd Emanuel. Maxwell Gillis 

and Norman Silverman. 

Welfare—Meyer Adelman. chairman; Ben 

Amsterdam, Harry Battin, Arthur Silber, 

Norman Silverman and Joseph Yaffe. 

Golf tournament—Leo Beresin. chairman; 

Ben Bilbem. Edward Emanuel, Ben Fertel, 

Maxwell Gillis and Bernard Seidman. 

Fixer committee—Leo Weinrott. 

Infantile paralysis—Harry Botwick, chairman; 

Roger Clipp, Edw-ard Emanuel, Jack 

Greenberg, Sidney Samuelson. John Scheuer 

jr.. Harold Seidenberg, Clint Weyer and 

David Zinkoff. 

International convention — Michael Felt, 

chairman; William Banks, Harry Battin, Ben 

Biben, Max Bronow, Alfred Goodyear, Ralph 

Pries, Elmer Wilschke and David Zinkoff. 

Cyrus Liberman is the new director of Tent 

13, a new post combining fund-raising supervision 

and executive duties. Oscar Neufeld is 

liaison officer. 

The Main Line women's sewing circle has 

donated $4,000 to the Variety Club for another 

cabin to be dedicated to the memory 

of David Barrist. Another recent gift from 

an outsider to the Variety Club is $2,000 

from Daniel Murphy. 

Heart fund awards have gone to Ruth 

Cherry, Philadelphia, automobile; Mrs. A. 

Tripp, Philadelphia, mink jacket; "Scoop" 

Lieberman, Observer, a cruise; Raleigh See. 

Lancaster, projector and camera; Joseph 

Sakalosky, Camden, sterling silver; John 

Kebea, Philadelphia, air conditioner; Jennie 

Eva Brantley. Philadelphia, golf set. 

Steerman, Jacobs Replace 

Feldman at WB Theatres 

PITTSBURGH— B. 

W. Steerman and Sidney 

Jacobs, executives of Warner Theatres, 

will share the duties of assistant zone manager 

for the 70 theatres in the Pittsburgh 

area, left open by the resignation of Joseph 

Feldman. Feldman will leave Warner Theatres 

February 15 to assume the vice-presidency 

of Dubin Advertising Agency, which 

will then become Dubin & Feldman, Inc. 

Feldman has held various Warner Theatres 

posts, including assistant advertising manager 

in the Newark zone, advertising manager in 

the Albany and Pittsburgh zones and executive 

assistant to M, A. Silver, Warner 

Theatres head in Pittsburgh. 

Steerman will continue to function as controller 

and head of the real estate department, 

in addition to taking on new duties in 

matters relating to overall policy for the company. 

Jacobs will take over the Warner city 

district theatres, as well as the Warner and 

Stanley, and will also continue to supervise 

the company's West Virginia theatres. Silver 

also has named Frank Harpster, district manager 

for Warner Theatres in Cleveland, district 

manager for the West Virginia theatres 

starting February 4. 

H. I. Martin, Philadelphia 

U-I Manager, Succumbs 

NEEDHAM. MASS.—A requiem mass for 

Harrison J, Martin, 51, Universal manager 

in Philadelphia, was held at St. Joseph's 

church here January 23. Martin died of a 

heart attack in Queens General hospital January 

19 while on a vacation in New York. 

Martin, a veteran of more than 31 years 

with Universal, lived in CoUingwood, N. J., 

but was a native of Boston, where he lived 

until a few years ago. He is survived by 

his wife Josephine, and two daughters, JoAnn 

and Judy. 

Plan Multiple First Runs 

PITTSBURGH—Last year at this time 18 

neighborhood theatres negotiated with Columbia 

Pictures and exhibited multiple first 

runs. A similar deal is on the fire here. 

First program would combine "Scandal Sheet" 

and "The Sunny Side of the Street." 

Western Pa. 

Allied 

To Meet February 13 

PITTSBURGH—Tlie Allied Independent 

Theatre Owners ef Western Pennsylvania 

will hold a meeting for all western Pennsylvania 

exhibitors at Allied headquarters on 

Filmrow here February 13. The meeting will 

start at 12:30 p. m., when a buffet luncheon 

will be served. 

Every exhibitor or theatre manager, 

whether or not an Allied member, is invited to 

attend. 

One of the principal speakers will be Martin 

Bennett, manager of theatre equipment 

sales for RCA, who will talk of theatre television 

as it is today and the prospects for 

the future. Bennett is in charge of all RCA 

theatre TV sales and installations. 

Morris Finkel, national director, will report 

on the national Allied board meeting 

and exhibitors will discuss thsir current problems 

in theatre operation and possible means 

to increase grosses. 

Joseph Raad Acquires 

Two Warner Theatres 

PARKERSBURG, W. VA.—Warner Theatres 

have sold the Smoot and Strand here 

to the Joseph Radney Co. of Salem, W. Va., 

owned by Joseph Raad. The Warner chain 

purchased the Smoot 20 years ago and assumed 

the Strand lease several years later. 

George Corcoran, manager of the Strand, 

has accepted the invitation of the new 

operators to remain as manager. P. T. "Ted" 

Thomas, manager of the Smoot since 1935, 

had not announced whether or not he would 

remain, although he was invited to do so. 

Joseph Raad was in exhibition several years 

ago but withdrew because of other interests. 

Last year he made new investments in a 

number of small town theatres in the Mountain 

state. Several weeks ago he was in New 

York conferring with Warner circuit executives. 

The purchase price of the Parkersburg 

theatres was not disclosed. It is believed 

that Raad may purchase or lease other 

first run theatres in West Virginia. 

ed for copper is drastic—sove drippings 

Bob Shawley to Paramount 

ALTOONA, PA —Bob Shawley of Coalport. 

named by NBC officials as "the most promising 

young actor," has been signed to a contract 

by Paramount Pictures. Bob's initial 

screen appearance will be as Sgt. Herb Gordon, 

the youngest prisoner in the camp in 

"Stalag 17," a role he played in the stage version 

of the play at the 48th Street Theatre 

iH New York. 

NEW YORK KKO BACKS DRIVE—Charles Boasberg, RKO north-south 

division 

manager; Len Gruenberg, metropolitan district manager, and Phil Hodes, New York 

branch manager, seated left to right, at a meeting of the New York exchange staff 

for a Ned Depinet drive rally. Standing are: WiUiam Hartman, head booker; A. 

Joswig, home office; Charles Penser, salesman; Dorothy Post, Long Island and New 

York state booker; Herman Silverman, sales manager; Sidney Kramer, Frank Mooney 

and Ed Stokes, home office; Lou Kutinsky, New Jersey and Brooklyn salesman; 

Jack Level, home office; Lou Solkoff, city booker; Fred Trauner. Brooklyn booker; 

Milton Yeoman, office manager, and Charles Raffaniello, New Jersey booker. 

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Library of Paul Glase Holds More 

Paul E. Glase looks over three ancient playbills in his Reading, Pa., collection, 

one of which goes back to Feb. 21, 1805, believed to be the oldest in 

existence. In the above, Denman Thompson is billed as Uncle Josh and Otis 

Skinner in a Charles Frohman production. 

Than 75,000 Theatrical Treasures 

Dating Back Nearly 200 Years 

READING. PA.—One of the most amazing 

theatrical treasures in the nation—a library 

of theatre data dating back to the 18th century—is 

the property of Paul E. Glase. city 

manager for Fabian Theatres here and manager 

of the local Embassy Theatre. 

Containing more than 75,000 programs and 

playbills alone, the huge library covers every 

entertainment field, including the stage, 

screen, radio, concert and circus. The book 

section of the library consists of more than 

1,000 volumes. 

Among the treasures located, filed and indexed 

by Glase is a bill of lading, dated Dec. 

22, 1741, for the shipment of flour on the 

sloop. Charming Sally. This was the vessel 

which, on its return from a voyage to England 

in 1752, brought the first company of 

English actors to America. The troupe, the 

Hallam Players, opened at Williamsburg, Va., 

in 1752 in "The Merchant of Venice." 

The oldest known handbill of the ancient 

Charleston Theatre in Charleston, S. C. one 

of America's oldest playhouses is supposed 

to be one in the Harvard college collection. 

It is dated Dec. 4, 1805. Glase, however, has 

one advertising the appearance of John 

Hodgkinson in "Rule a Wife and Have a 

Wife," dated Feb. 21, 1805. 

Silk souvenir programs range from Edwin 

Booth's 100th performance in "Othello" in 

1875 to the golden silk program distributed at 

the 3,183rd performance of "Life With 

Father." 

Gla.se personally has compiled a list of 

every amusement attraction of importance 

in Reading from 1790 up to yesterday. 

A record of the performance of every leading 

player appearing on the New York stage 

from the Civil war to the present time also is 

included in the library. In addition are: 

A motion picture file which includes a 

complete index of all subjects made since 

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1908, when the longest film was a reel of 

1,000 feet. 

Autographs and the signed letters of 

famous stage players in the lush days of 

the legitimate theatre from 1901 to 1912. 

Minstrel programs and handbills from 

1844 to the present, including those of the 

first blackface minstrel troupe, organized 

in New York by R. W. Pelham, Frank account book of the old Academy of Music 

Brower, Joseph W. Sweeney and Dan here. Entered under expenses, it read: 

Emmett. "Paid to P. Glase for services (pallbearer 

These represent only a portion of the huge for J. Caesar)—$1." 

collection, which in some manner got its start That entry represented an important step 

back in 1901 or 1902 with a brief item in the toward the theatrical world for Paul Glase. 

Handbills dating 

batk to the 

early 1880s are 

reproduced here. 

Listed in the casts 

are John Drew. 

Maurice Barry 

more, Charlotte 

Cushman, Lawrence 

Barrett 

and Fanny 

Davenport. 

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Here is Paul Glase himself at his desk 

in the Embassy Theatre in Reading, Palooking 

over some old Biograph press 

material. 

There were other entries recording payments 

to him, but most of them were merely notations 

of 50 cents paid for hollering in the mob 

scenes. 

But rather than marking the beginning of 

a stage career for young Glase. that entry 

marked his departure from the stage for the 

front office of the theatre business. At that 

young age. Glase apparently concluded that 

"if the front office had that kind of lettuce 

to peel off for stage pallbearers," he wanted 

to be in the front office. 

Subsequently, he went on to become one 

of the be.st-known directors and producers 

of amateur productions here, manager of 

Wilmer & Vincent's big Embassy Theatre and 

a prominent figure in the circles of film house 

operators. But those experiences of the stage 

at the turn of the century led to the big 

collection of theatrical data and made of him 

a nationally recognized authority on the history 

of nearly every phase of the entertainment 

world and one of the industry's bestknown 

and most reliable reference sources 

on statistical data. 

For their historical value, a few of the old 

single-reel films made by American Biograph. 

Vitagraph. Lubin. Kalem, Edison, Essanay 

and Selig are in the library. Glase has an 

original print of "The Informer," released in 

1912 and which was produced and directed 

by David Wark Griffith several years before 

he made "The Birth of a Nation." 

In a Biograph program dated Nov. 28, 1914. 

the week's film shows are listed as "A Mother's 

Way," one-reeler starring Kate Bruce and 

Ivan Christy; "The Closing Web," two-reeler 

starring Jack Drumier, Louisa Vale. Franklin 

Ritchie. Alan Hale; "In Quest of a Story." 

starring Gretchen Hartman and William Jefferson: 

"Making Them Cough Up," starring 

Clarence Barr, and "Bertha the Buttonhole 

Maker," starring Madge Kirby; "The Deacon's 

Son," starring Lew Hart. 

Interesting note on the Biograph program 

is that, even as today, the program urged theatremen 

to work up interest in their attractions 

to the point where they would have to 

hang out SRO signs. 

There are more than 3O0 lithographs in the 

Gla.se collection. There is a program of 

Jenny Lind's appearance at Castle Garden 

in 1850, when she was brought to this country 

by P. T. Barnum. 

In the years of his career as a showman. 

Glase has gained fiu-ther accomplishments 

as a minstrel and a song composer of such 

tunes as "Newsboy's Song," "Going Up in My 

Airplane." "Little Sugar Plum" and "Bon 

Bon Lane." He was a stage show producer 

and director, a press agent for the Hippodrome, 

Princess, Empire, Pictureland, Grand, 

Palace and Orpheum theatres, a columnist for 

a local paper and photographer, director and 

editor of a weekly newsreel. 

He managed the State and Capitol theatres 

and dirscted publicity for the Rajah and 

Orpheum, and in 1933 he was named city 

manager for Wilmer & Vincent theatres here 

—the Embassy, State, Capitol and Orpheum 

—as well as resident manager of the Embassy. 

In 1938, Glase started issuing an annual 

pamphlet titled. "Lest We Forget." and devoted 

to brief reviews of the careers of .show 

people who died during the previous year. 

This pamphlet has been widely hailed. 

PHILADELPHIA 

Otar Gloria DeHaven was in town as star of 

the show at the Latin Casino . . . Freddy 

Mann, the city's new recreation commissioner, 

has gained an opinion from City Solicitor Abe 

Freedman that Mann, under the new city 

charter, has a veto power over any recreation 

project in the park. Tliis means that for 

the first time in 84 years the park commission 

can only propose projects. Mann will 

give the final approval or disapproval. The 

first project to be axed under the new 

authority vested in Mann was a summer theatre 

in Fairmount park, which Producer 

Theron Bamberger had bid on. 

Winners in the A. M. Ellis managers drive 

have been announced. The final standings 

are Bob Anderson, Oscar Althoff, Joe Churilla 

and Don Warner, Jack Schillinger, Ches 

Delikat, Marty Kruger, Milt Lewis. Ray 

Shamis, Norman Cohen, Joe Weiss, Joe Kelly, 

Norman Snyder. John Watson, Joe Wood and 

Bernie Saret ... A recent bulletin of the 

A. M. Ellis Theatres reminds managers that 

"the public hkes good service. Every manager 

today has a job on his hands to see that the 

public gets good service. You have tough 

competition—the living room armchair, a 

sandwich, a bottle of Schlitz and television! 

Think it over, then check your theatre to see 

if it is clean, well ventilated, quiet, comfortaisle 

and attractively shown off with good 

advertising. Above all, are your employes 

courteous and neat? Is your cashier 'crabby' 

and does .she argue with children about age? 

Or does she show discretion in answering the 

phone, meeting the public, handling children?" 

Tillie P. Kalodner has entered judgment for 

$30,000 in common pleas court against the 

David Milgram has 

Carman Theatre Co. . . . 

shuttered the Temple . Pizor has 

shuttered and sold the 56th Street . . . 

mount Decorating Co. is decorating 

Para- 

K&B 

circuit's new Langley Theatre in Washington. 

In elections held by the Pennsylvania State 

Labor Relations Board, employes of the Girard 

voted for district 50, United Mine Workers, 

as Its bargaining agent while employes 

of the Jumbo voted for affiliation with AFL 

Local B-lOO theatre employes union . . Rose 

Gold is a new telephone operator at Republic 

. . . Sam Hyman, Cameo Theatre, was 

on the sick list . . . Mrs. Stanley Smiths. War- 

Publicist Jack Sidney 

Gets Silver Star Meta! 

BALTIMORE — Gallantry in action 

while .serving with the 143rd infantry 

regiment in the 36th (Texas) division 

during World War II in France, has won 

the Silver Star medal for Jack Sidney, 

publicity director for Loew's Baltimore 

Theatres. 

The medal was given by Col. Arthur 

L. Shreve, chief of the Maryland military 

district, in ceremonies at district headquarters 

here January 17. 

ner booker, underwent an operation at 

Hahneman hospital. 

Harry Brillam, Lippert-SG office manager, 

reports that the week of March 9-15 

will be Lippert week, in honor of Robert L. 

Lippert. The exchange will try to get at 

least one subject on the .screen of every theatre 

in the territory. 

Mrs. Kantor, former assistant manager of 

Stanley-Warner's Logan, has replaced Charlotte 

Diamond, who has resigned from S-W's 

film department to be married . the 

sick list at Stanley-Warner were Bernice 

Herman, secretary to A. J. Vanni; Jane 

Dunav, Ted Minsk's secretary: father of sound 

engineer Al Edwards; Sam Derringer's daughter 

and William Charles, head of the sound 

department. 

Francis Anthony, manager of the Capitol 

in York. Pa., is the father of a baby daughter. 

Mary Theresa ... Ed Rosenbaum, Columbia 

exploiteer, was on the road up Boston 

way . Gross, Joe Bernhard's public 

relations director, was in town working with 

Harold Marshall, 20th-Fox tub-thumper, on 

"Japanese War Bride" . 

Ashcraft 

was working on Columbia's "The Barefoot 

Mailman" at the Stanton . . . N. E. Packwood 

closed the Ritz in Mays Landing . . . Iz 

Hirschblond closed the Community in Tuckertown, 

N. J. 

Harold J. Klein New Buyer 

For Schwartz. Goldwurm 

NEW YORK—Harold J. Klein has joined 

George Schwartz and Jean Goldwurm as 

buyer and booker for their five theatres— 

the Little Carnegie, World and Bryant in 

New York, World in Chicago and World in 

Philadelphia. Klein resigned as buyer and 

general manager for J. J. Theatres to take 

the new post. 


LA Area Red Peak Placed P ^°'", 5^' ^'''^' 

Target of Senator 

At 4,000 in House Probe 

WASHINGTON—There were oiHy 4,000 

communists in the entire Los Angeles area 

at the pealc of Red strength on the coast, the 

House un-American Activities Committee 

learned on Monday (21), first day of its new 

series of hearings on California Reds, including 

but not confined to Communism in 

Hollywood. 

Three witnesses whose testimony concerned 

Hollywood mostly rehashed old material. 

Charles Daggett, film publicist and 

former newspaperman, admitted that he had 

been a member of the Commiuiist party for 

a short time in 1945 and that, during the previous 

ten years, he had engaged in some redconnected 

activities. George Glass, Daggett's 

former partner in a Hollywood press 

agent firm, admitted attending some meetings 

in connection with the 1945 studio strike, 

but said he had refused to join the party. 

ESTIMATE BY MAX SILVER 

It was Max Silver, who admitted to being a 

full-time paid functionary of the Communist 

party for 18 years before he quit in 

1945, who said that top Red strength in the 

Los Angeles area did not exceed 4,000. He 

also said his own attempts to "integrate" 

the Hollywood and Los Angeles units were 

foiled becau.se the Hollywood Reds insisted 

on separation. They contended Hollywood 

was "a special cultural center" requiring 

special handling and, besides, wanted greater 

protection against exposure for Hollywood 

members. 

Daggett, last September, refused to testify 

other than to deny he was then a Communist. 

He said he thought he could clear himself 

merely by a denial and didn't want to 

name names, but found his position misunderstood. 

So he was now ready to testify, but 

he managed to produce very few names. 

In 1935 or 1936, he attended "several" party 

indoctrination meetings at the home of Harold 

Ashe at which Lucy Stander, wife of 

Lionel Stander, was present. He and Glass attended 

a dinner in 1945 at the home of Ring 

Lardner jr. to discuss strike activities and 

both were invited to join the Communist 

party there. Dalton Trumbo, like Lardner 

later one of the Hollywood ten convicted of 

contempt of Congress, was present as was 

publicist Robert Wachsman. 

He also called for outlawing of such rightwing 

factions as the Wage Earners Committee 

which he accused of capitalizing on the 

anti-Communist movement and of picketing 

films on the grounds they are Communistmade 

when in fact no Hollywood films are 

produced by Reds. 

Glass named only writer Gordon Kahn and 

two individuals he did not identify other 

than by name, Henry Myers and Ben Barzman, 

in the course of his testimony about 

meetings he had attended. Glass said he 

agreed to attend some meetings in connection 

with the strike, which he supported 

though he later regretted his support but 

never became a Communist. 

Arthur Loew Calls 'Vadis' 

Sales Meeting in Rome 

NEW YORK—Ai-thur M. Loew, president 

of Loew's International Corp., has summoned 

the foreign personnel to what he describes as 

a "Colo.ssal QUO VADIS Conference" in Rome 

March 23-29. Tliis will be the first sales convention 

for a single picture. 

Eighty-two men will attend, including executives 

from the New York office, territorial 

directors, key sales heads and territorial 

chiefs. 

Long range .sales policies will be discussed 

by Morton A. Spring, first vice-president, 

and Samuel N. Burger, international sales 

manager. Round-table selling talks will be 

given by Sam Eckman jr., managing director 

for MGM in Great Britain: N. Bernard Freeman, 

manager of Australia and New Zealand: 

Charles Goldsmith, coordinator of British 

Empire countries; Dave Lewis, regional director 

for Europe: Seymour Mayer, regional director 

for the Far and Middle East, and 

Maurice Silverstein, regional director for 

Latin America. 

Publicity, advertising and exploitation plans 

will be outlined by Dave Blum, advertising 

and publicity director; Arthur Pincus, assistant 

director, and Morris Frantz, advertising 

head. 

Capra to Represent U.S. 

At Int'l Film Festival 

WASHINGTON—The State department on 

Tliursday (24) appointed Frank Capra as 

United States representative at the first International 

Film Festival to be held in various 

parts of India between January 24 and 

February 27. 

Appointed along with Capra was Floyde 

E. Brooker, documentary film producer and 

SEVERAL NAMES MENTIONED 

He testified he had attended between six 

and ten meetings at the homes of writer Leo 

Townsend, songwriter Jay Gorney and writer 

Abe Polansky, who last year refused to testify. 

Daggett termed Polansky a party member. 

Larry Parks. Morris Carnovsky, Sandra Gorney 

and writer Paul Jarrico were also cited 

by Daggett in connection with the meetings. now head of the audio-visual branch of the 

Daggett severed all connections with the Mutual Security Agency. 

party in 1945 when he became convinced that Approximately 46 nations will participate 

Herbert Sorell and the CSU were making no in the festival, aimed at dramatizing "the 

efforts for a peaceful settlement. He also became 

convinced that the strike could not be and benefit the lives of people throughout 

importance of films in helping to influence 

justified because there were no wage or hour the world." The U.S. will show a group of 

demands involved. 

feature-length films and shorts and nine 

Daggett said he favored outlawing of the government-produced documentaries. 

Communist party so there would be no misunderstanding 

about its revolutionary aims. 

ed for copper is drastic—save drippings 

WASHINGTON—Sen. Edwin C. Johnson 

(D., Colo.), chairman of the .senate interstate 

and foreign commerce committee, has protested 

against the arbitrary freeze of the 

manufacture of color television sets, it was 

disclosed Thursday (24) with the release by 

Johnson of correspondence between him and 

defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson. 

In a letter dated last December 14, Johnson 

expressed concern over the order, pointing 

out that at a meeting October 25 with TV 

industry representatives, including some film 

companies, Wilson stressed that his request 

for the suspension of manufacture of commercial 

color TV sets was due to the scarcity 

of electronics equipment, but that experimental 

work in the color field would not be 

blocked, and some manufacture could go on. 

so long as it was done within the limitations 

of the materials allocations, and the manufacturers 

did not request additional allotments. 

Johnson agreed that this position was 

"sound and logical" and that he supported it 

completely. Under such a situation, he said, "it 

wa.s apparent that the Chromatic Television 

Laboratories, Inc., an affiliate of Paramount 

Pictures Corp.. or anyone else for that matter, 

could go ahead and manufacture color 

equipment so long as additional materials, 

other than those duly allocated, were not 

required." 

This presumably would mean color theatre 

television equipment as well as home receivers. 

Sindlinger Announces End 

Of Nielsen-Hooper Case 

NEW YORK—The 21-month litigation between 

Sindlinger & Co. and the Hooper and 

Nielsen firms has been settled by payment 

of $75,003 "and other considerations." The 

settlement has been approved by Judge J. 

Cullen Ganey in the U.S. district court for 

the eastern district of Peniosylvania. 

Albert E. Sindlinger, president of the company 

which bears his name, says his company 

has acquired the balance of a total of 

$190,000 of preferred and common stock held 

originally by a group of investors. The other 

"consideration" was the settlement of a 

patent dispute which now makes it possible 

for Sindlinger to operate with Radox. He 

says the company will "re-enter business using 

Radox as part of our plans, free of debt and 

completely unencumbered." 

DuMont Plans Expansion 

Of Station Sales Force 

NEW YORK—A new sales 

and engineering 

setup has been worked out by the Ti-ansmitter 

division of Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, 

Inc.. for the purpose of carrying on an 

expansion in 1952 under the dii-ection of 

James B. Tharpe, sales manager of the division. 

This is in anticipation of the lifting 

of the ban on new stations by the Federal 

Communications Commission. 

There will be a regrouping of major sales 

areas with appointments of new sales representatives: 

setting up of sales offices in key 

cities, and launching of a plan to increase 

cooperation between the division and its 

men. 

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NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE PRODUCTION CENTER 

Office— Suite 219 at 6404 Hollywood Blvd.: Ivan Spear, Western Manager) 

Charter of Sorrell's 

Local 644 Revoked 

HOLLYWOOD—One ol the final echoes 

of the 1947 studio strike resoun.-'ed when the 

International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators 

and Paperhangers of America revoked 

the charter of studio painters Local 644, 

charging the local with failure to carry out 

the board's suspension of Herbert K. Sorrell, 

Local 644's business representative. Sorrell 

also was active as president of the Conference 

of Studio Unions, one of the motivating 

forces behind the 1947 walkout. 

Sorrell's suspension was ordered nearly a 

year ago, at which time both he and trustees 

of the local filed court actions to determine 

the status of a term contract which he holds 

as business agent. Final action on Local 644's 

charter revocation is not expected until after 

disposition of these suits. 

Meantime a decision is expected shortly on 

the CSU's multimillion-dollar conspiracy action 

brought against the major studios and 

the lATSE, and currently before the U.S. 

Supreme Court. The CSU charges the lA 

and major companies conspired to lock out 

CSU workers as an outgrowth of the studio 

walkout five years ago. 

Local 644 members have been instructed by 

their international representatives to transfer 

membership into other locals in the area. 

By a vote of more than two to one. cartoonists 

employed by five producers of animated 

subjects chose the lATSE as their 

bargaining agent over the independent Screen 

Cartoonists Guild in an election supervised 

by the NLRB. The pen-and-inkers cast 276 

votes for the I A, 119 for the SCG and 12 for 

"no union. " in the election were 

employes of Warners, Metro, Walt Disney, 

Walter Lantz and United Productions of 

America. 

Bylaws of the Screen Producers Guild were 

amended at a Monday i21i meeting of the 

executive board to permit additioits to the 

membership of studio production executives 

who personally produce one or more pictures 

annually. This would include, among others, 

Dan-yl F. Zanuck and Dore Schary, head 

men at 20th-Fox and Metro. 

A general SPG membership session is 

scheii.uled for Monday i28i. at which this 

amendment will be submitted for approval. 

Film celebrities and industry executives 

will be among the guests when the Screen 

Directors Guild holds its first annual dinner 

dance Sunday night (27i at the Biltmore 

Bowl. The agenda will include announcement 

of the best directorial achievement of 1951 as 

voted by the SDG membership. 

Candidates for the best-megged picture of 

the year are "Strangers on a Train" (Alfred 

Hitchcock-Warners I Place in the Sun" 

(George Stevens-Paramount i, and "An American 

in Paris" (Vincente Minnelli-MGM). 

The latter was just chosen as the top directorial 

achievement among November-December 

1951 releases. 

Approximately a month later, on February 

25. the Screen Writers Guild will stage a 

similar event to pay tribute to scriveners of 

the best drama, musical and comedy script 

produced on a budget of $400,000 or less, and 

screenplay "most ably dealing with problems 

of the American scene." The awards-distributing 

portion of the program will be 

broadcast nationally, with George Burns acting 

as master of ceremonies. 

Meantime all members of the SWG executive 

board completed the signing of loyalty 

oaths in accordance with a Guild practice instituted 

three years ago. Also signing were 

members of the public relations firm of 

Cleary, Strauss & Irwin, recently retained 

by the SWG. 

New TV Unit to Film 

Warden Dufiy Epic 

HOLLYWOOD—To the mushrooming TV 

film production family was added a new 

firm with the organization of a unit by 

Berman Swarttz, industry attorney, and scenarist 

Walter Doniger, who have purchased 

television rights to "Duffy of San Quentin," 

biography of the former warden of that penitentiary. 

Camera work on the initial films 

in the series is planned for mid-February 

at Motion Picture Center studios, where 

Swarttz is functioning as general counsel for 

the lot. He recently resigned from the Paramount 

studio legal staff. 

Video rights to two widely syndicated 

comic strips. Little Orphan Annie and Ga.soline 

Alley, have been acquired by Este Productions, 

newly organized unit headed by 

Arthur L. Stern and William Trinz. The 

company plans a midsummer start, with each 

property to be lensed as a series of 26 halfhour 

television films. 

Theatrical film rights to Alley were purchased 

some time ago by Columbia, and two 

features ba.sed on the comic strip have been 

produced and released. 

copper drippings for defense needs. 

Ill's 'River' Junkel 

Is Firsl This Year 

HOLLYWOOD — Studio dignitaries, stars 

and the trade and general press mingled with 

civic leaders when U-I staged filmdom's first 

premiere junket of 1952. a two-day affair, in 

Portland, Ore., Tuesday and Wednesday (22, 

23). The picture. "Bend of the River," made 

its bow as the opening event in the celebration 

of Oregon's Covered Wagon centennial. 

Making the trek northward were William 

Goetz, in charge of U-I production: Aaron 

Rosenberg and Anthony Mann, who produced 

and directed the Technicolor historical western: 

James Stewart, star of the film: players 

including Julia Adams, Rock Hudson. Lori 

Nelson, Jay C. Flippen and Susan Cabot: Al 

Horwits, studio publicity director, and selected 

members of the fourth estate. 

Expanded plans for the Hollywood premiere 

of Republic's "The Wild Blue Yonder" 

found the Carthay Circle Theatre canceled 

out as the site of the debut and a tritheatre 

hookup, the Ritz, Orpheum and Vogue, as a 

substitute. The Wendell Corey-Vera Ralston 

starrer made its bow Thursday (24) at the 

Ritz, amid military trappings, and was accorded 

the premiere treatment the following 

evening at the Orpheum and Vogue. The 

Ritz opening was televi-sed over station KTTV, 

including coverage of military bands and 

marching units from March air force base, the 

air force generals, military and civic officials 

and Hollywood personaltiies vi'ho attended. 

The armed forces radio service broadcast the 

event. 

Additionally, the "Yonder" debut set a 

precedent as the first time a gala opening was 

telecast simultaneously on large-screen theatre 

TV equipment. The picture's debut at 

the Ritz, covered as noted above by KTTV, 

was channeled into the Orpheum. this marking 

the initial live telecast of a premiere in 

industry history. 

West coast premiere of Warners' Technicolor 

actioner, "The Big Trees," will be held 

February 19 at the Broadway Theatre, Yreka, 

Calif., heart of the redwood country. The 

Kirk Douglas vehicle will open the following 

day at the St. Francis in San Francisco. 

With Producer Samuel G. Engel and other 

Hollywood personalities in attendance, 20th 

Century-Fox's "Red Skies of Montana" was 

world-premiered Sunday (20) at the Fox Theatre 

in MLssoula, Mont., that state having 

been the locale of the forest fire fighting 

opus. Also making appearances were William 

Lundigan, Helene Stanley and Robert Graham, 

studio contractees. 

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scheduled 

: January 

STUDIO PERSONNEUTIES 

Barnstormers 

Independent 

ROY ROGERS, DALE EVANS and comic PAT 

ERADY will begin a 12-day stint Wednesday (30) 

at the annual Houston rodeo. The date has been 

proclaimed Roy Rogers-Dale Evans day by Mayor 

Oscar Holcombe, The perlormers will be accompanied 

by their manager, Art Rush, 

RKO Radio 

DANA ANDREWS and FARLEY GRANGER returned- 

from San Francisco atter doing personal 

appearances with the opening of Producer Samuel 

Goldwyn's "I Want You" at the Golden Gate Theatre, 

Republic 

FORREST TUCKER will appear in Columbus, Dayton 

and Indianapolis in connection with openings of 

"The Wild Blue Yonder," 

Blurbers 

Paramount 

A C LYLES, drumbeater for Pine-Thomas Productions, 

returned from a 28-day swing around key 

cities plugging the new P-T release, "Hong Kong," 

Briefies 

Metro 

Added to Producer Pete Smith's short subjects 

slate was "Aquatic Kids," story of Cypress Gardens, 

on exclusive water skiing school tor youngsters in 

Winter liaven, Fla, 

Cleffers 

Metro 

LEO BOBBINS and NICHOLAS BRODSZKY will 

write the lyrics and music, respectively, for "Small 

Town Girl," 

Monogram 

MARVIN SKILES was set as musical director on 

"Wild Stallion " Paramount 

Songwriters JAY LIVINGSTON and RAY EVANS 

were handed one-year contract extensions 

RKO Radio 

Scoring has begun under direction of WALTER 

SCHARF on Producer Samuel Goldwyn's "Hans 

Christian Andersen" 

Republic 

Composer DALE BUTTS was given a new term 

pact 

Loonouts 

Metro 

Borrowed from Producer S'amuel Goldwyn, FAR- 

LEY GRANGER will appear opposite Leslie Caron 

in one of the sequen9es in "Three Love Stones," 

trilogy being produced by Sidney Franklin 

Meggers 

Paramount 

Pine-Thomas Productions inked EDWARD LUDWIG 

to direct "The Alaskan," action drama to be photographed 

in Technicolor, 

Options 

Columbia 

Producer Sam Katzman signed LARRY STEWART 

for one of Ihe male leads in "Blackhawk," cliffhcnger 

being directed by Spencer Bennet Marking 

his TOOOlh screen role smce he began his acting 

career in 1913, JACK MULHALL was ticketed for 

the picture. A cast addition was EDDIE SAENZ, 

former pro football star. 

WEAVER LEVY. 

Cast as a Chinaman was 

Producer Stanley Kramer signed ARTHUR FRANZ 

for one of the top roles in "A Sound of Hunting." 

based on Harry Brown's Broadway pltiy, which will 

be directed by Edward Dmytryk, 

Producer Sam Katzman tagged GEORGE MONT- 

GOMERY to star in two forthcoming Technicolor 

features, "The Pathfinder" and "Jack McColl, Desperado," 

Lippert Productions 

Producer Bernard Luber inked JOHN HOYT for a 

character part in "Loan Shark," which stars George 

Raff and Gail Russell under Seymour Friedman's 

direction, 

Metro 

One of the leads in Producer George Wells' upcoming 

musical, "Everything I Have Is Yours," goes 

to DEAN MILLER, He joins a cast headed by Marge 

and Gowei Oho nd Mo Lev Robert 

Z- Leonard will direct- 

Booked for the Jane Powell topliner, "Small Town 

Girl," was NAT "KING" COLE, Leslie Kardos will 

direct the Joe Pasternak production, 

JONATHAN COTT will portray a police captain in 

the Gig "Young-Keenan Wynn vehicle, "Days Before 

Lent," being directed by Gerald Mayer for Producer 

John Houseman, Inked was EDITH BARRETT. 

DAN RISS was a cast addition lor "Mr. Congress- 

ALAN DINEHART III, son of Ihe late character actor, 

wcs booked for Producer Lawrence Weingarten's 

"Pat and Mike," remontic comedy, starring Spencer 

Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, under the direction 

of George Cukor, 

Monogram 

"The Canvas Kid," a prizefight story, will follow 

"Army Bound" on the starring schedule for STAN- 

LEY CLEMENTS. 

A cast addition for "Bowery Leathernecks" was 

JAMES FLAVIN. 

Paramount 

Completing the topline cast, SIR CEDRIC HARD- 

WICKE was signed for the Alan Ladd-James Mason- 

Patricia Medina vehicle, "Botany Bay." With John 

Farrow megging, the costumer is being produced 

in Technicolor by Joseph Sistrom. 

FORREST TUCKER joins Yvonne De Carlo and 

James Craig in the topline cast of Producer Nat 

Holt's "Hurricane Smith " The Technicolor actioner 

will be magged by Jerry Hopper. 

RKO Radio 

Broadway and TV actor PHILIP TONGUE was 

cast as a ballet manager in Producer Samuel 

Goldwyn's "Hans Christian Andersen," starring 

Danny Kaye and being directed by Charles Vidor. 

Republic 

Western comic EDDY WALLER was handed a new 

term ticket under which he will appear in four 

sagebrushers annually. 

20th Century-Fox 

Ccst in "The Full House," the five-sequence comedy 

based on O, Henry short stories, was JOYCE 

MacKENZIE, Andre Hakim is producing. 

Character actor PAUL HARVEY was signed for 

"Dream Boat," the Clifton Webb-Ginger Rogers 

starring comedy, being megged by Claude Binyon 

and produced by Sol C, Siege], 

A character lead in "Condor's Nest," starring 

Cornel Wilde under the direction of Delmer Daves, 

went to LEO G. CARROLL. lules Buck is producing. 

United Artists 

Producer-Director Samuel Fuller inked MARY 

WELCH, stage actress, for the feminine lead opposite 

Gene Evans in "Park Row," 

GERALD MOHR was signed by King Bros Produc- 

' 

WIBhING WELL ^ 

DIMES FOR POLIO—James Mason and 

wife Pamela Kellino contribute to a March 

of Dimes Wishing Well in San Francisco 

while a couple of passersby look on. The 

film stars were in the Golden Gate city 

for appearances in behalf of the world 

premiere of Republic's "Lady Possessed." 

Universal-International 

r in Producer Howard 

for Techck 

r, 

de Cordova at 

the 

JEFF CHANDLER will si 

Christies "Yankee Buccane 

nicolor filming with Frede 

megaphone. 

DON DE FORE was signed for a lead in the Tony 

Curtis-Piper Laurie vehicle, "Almost Married," which 

Douglas Sirk directs for Producer Ted Richmond, 

PALMER LEE was assigned the romantic male 

lead in "The Secret of Sally O'Malley." 

Warners 

RICHARD HALE drew a character role in Producer 

Bryan Foy's "The Miracle of Our Lady of 

Fatima," which will be directed by John Brahm, 

with Gilbert Roland in the starring male role. 

Moppet DARIA MASSEY was tagged for Ihe picture. 

Cast was 9-year-old SHERRY JACKSON, Inked were 

ANGELA CLARK and FRANK SILVERA, 

CORNEL WILDE has been ticketed to portray 

Major Peter Ortiz, marine hero, m "The Fighting 

Marine," now being scripted by Harold Medford for 

production by Henry Blanke. 

KENNETH PATTERSON and LARRY BLAKE cast 

in "Alexander, the Big Leaguer," the Doris 

Day-Ronald Reagan-Frank Lovejoy vehicle, Lewis 

Seller directs for Producer Bryan Foy, 

Booked for "The Story of Will Rogers" was CARL 

BENTON REID 

Scripters 

Monogram 

CHARLES R MARION will develop "The Rose 

Bowl Story" as a Cinecolor special, backgrounded 

against Pasadena's annual Tournament of Roses 

parade and New Year's day football game. 

Paramount 

PRESTON STURGES was set to develop "Look Ma, 

Republic 

DAVID CHANDLER is developing George Waggner's 

original, "Storm Over China," which Waggner 

will 

direct 

"City That Never Sleeps," crime drama dealing 

with the Chicago police department, is being penned 

by RICHARD COLLINS for Producer-Director Joseph 

Kane 

Story Buys 

Independent 

Benagoss Productions, headed by Henry R. Benjamin, 

purchased "The Hidden Heart," a romantic 

drama by Larry Marcus, and signed Rudolph Mate 

to 

direct. 

Paramount 

Pine-Thomas Productions purchased "The Neat 

Little Corpse," a novel by Max Murray, as a starring 

vehicle for Arlene Dahl, and will film it in 

Technicolor as "Jamaica Run." Lewis R. Foster 

will script and direct. 

Purchased was a Vera Caspary original, "Happy 

Days Are Here Again," described as a cavalcade 

of America concerning one family, with a musical 

background, 


"My Book and Heart," by Corra Harris, a sequel 

to "Circuit Rider's Wife," which the studio filmed 

last season as "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain," 

was purchased for Technicolor production. The same 

team which lensed "Mountain"— Producer-Writer 

Lamar Trotti. Director Henry King and cast toplmers 

Susan Hayward and William Lundigan—will be reassembled 

for the new picture. 

Technically 

Metro 

"Fearless Fagotn" will be photographed by HAR- 

OLD LIPSTEIN, with JAY MARCHANT as unit manager 

MARVIN STUART is the assistant director on 

"Eagle on His Cap." 

Monogram 

Crew assembled for "Bowery Leathernecks" includes 

MARCEL LE PICARD, photographer; AN- 

DREW McLAGLEN, assistant director; MARTIN OB- 

ZINA, art director, and ALLEN K. WOOD, production 

manager. 


New unit production manager assignments include 

MACK D'AGOSTINO to "The Girl Across the Street," 

EDWARD DODDS to "Texas Man," DEVreY 

STARKEY to "Yankee Buccaneer" and GENE AN- 

DERSON to "Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki," 

Warners 

STANLEY FLEISCHER was set as art director on 

"Green Light." 

"The Story of Will Rogers" will be photographed 

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More Screening Time 

To Documentaries 

HOLLYWOOD—Because of the large number 

of entries in the category, screenings of 

candidates in the documentary classification 

for the forthcoming 24th annual Oscai- event 

of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and 

Sciences will cover a five-day period. February 

5 through 9, instead of the three days 

originally scheduled. Eighteen features and 32 

shorts have been nominated. The features: 

"Pictura—Adventure m Art," Pictura Films Corp. 

"It's a Small World." British Inlormation Services. 

"The Hills ot Ireland," World Travel Films, 

"Paris 1900," Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley, Inc, 

"Royal Journey," National Film Board of Canada, 

"The DuPont Story," Apex. 

"A Watch lor Joe," Hal R. Makelim, 

"The Navy and Micronesia," U,S, naval photographic 

center. 

"This Is Koreal" Republic. 

"Breakdown." Canadian department of national 

health and welfare. 

"Out of True," British Information Services. 

"Kon-Tiki." Sol Lesser-RKO Radio. 

"As Deep as the Heart." US, army signal corps 

"David," Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley, Inc, 

"Don't Be a Winter Casualty," US, air force, 

"I Was a Communist for the FBI," Warners, 

"Kelauver Crime Investigation." 20th Century-Fox. 

"Latuko," larviUe studios. 

SHORT SUBJECTS 

"Daphni, the Virgin of the Golden Laurels," 

George Hoyingen-Huene. 

"The Charm of Ufe," Pictura. 

"Jascha Heiietz," World Artists. 

"Fresh Laid Plans," Metro. 

"Telephone Creek," Department of Aeronautics. 

"Working Together," Eddie Albert. 

"Antarctic Whale Hunt," British Inlormation Serv- 

"This Is West Point," U.S. army signal corps. 

"Balzac," AF Films. 

"Caribbean" cmd "Family Portrait," British Information 

Services. 

"The MacArthur Story," RKO Pathe. 

"Mirror of Holland," Walter Gould. 

"Of Many Voices," John Sutherland. 

"W. B. Yeats, a Tribute," Brandon Films. 

"With the Marines—Chosin to Hungnam," US 

naval photographic center. 

"Women Marines." U.S. marine corps. 

"Operation Greenhouse." U.S. air force. 

"The Story of Time." Cinema Distributors. 

"A Day with the FBI," Columbia. 

"Article 55," Leo Seltzer. 

"Benjy," Arthur P. Jacobs. 

"Coney Island, U.S.A.," Valentine Sherry. 

"Corralling the Colorado," U.S. Department of the 

Interior. 

"I See the Wind," The Lighthouse, New York 

Ass'n for the Blind. 

"The Man in the Peace Tower," National Film 

Board of Canada. 

"Man on the Land," United Productions of America. 

"The Mt. Clemens Story," U.S. air force. 

"One Who Came Back," Owen Crump. 

"People Along the Mississippi,". Encyclopaedia 

Britannica Films. 

"The Seeing Eye," Warners. 

"Water in the West," U.S. Department of the 

Interior. 

Personnelities 

(Continued from preceding page) 

by WILFRED CLINL. FOLMAR BLANGSTED has 

been named to edit the film. 

JOHN BECKMAN replaces Douglas Bacon as art 

director on "Springfield Rifle." Bacon is now recuperating 

from a major operation. 

Title 

Changes 

Paramount 

"The Streets Were Paved With Gold" (Pine- 

Thomas Prod.) to THE ALASKAN. 

"Los Alamos" to LOS ALAMOS STORY. 


"Hear No Evil" to FLESH AND FURY 

Warners 

^N the theory that one should never 

never examine the molars of a gift 

horse, it possibly is unwise to comment 

on the unusual paucity of Academy 

awards drumbeating found these days in the 

publicity releases from those studios that are 

almost sure to have pictures, producers, directors 

and actors among the nominees for 

Oscars. 

Less than two months from now—on March 

20, 1952—the 24th annual presentation ceremonies 

will be held on the stage of the RKO 

Pantages Theatre here, the same lecale that 

has been utilized for several years past. 

Nominations polls closed Saturday (26), and 

after a 14-day period in which these ballots 

will be counted, the nominees for awards in 

all categories will be made public. Thereafter, 

and adhering to the time-honored format, 

the candidate vehicles will be screened 

at the Academy Awai-ds Theatre, and final 

ballots will be mailed out February 22. These 

are retiirnable on or before March U, at 

which time the polls will close and the task 

of tabulating the votes will begin. 

Normally, when the date for Cinemania's 

annual glamorfest is this close, the mails are 

freighted with wishful-thinking, verbose 

buildup yarns which attempt to give the impression 

that a certain feature or individual 

is a leadpipe cinch to grab the award in the 

indicated 

classification. 

There have been occasional references to 

"Academy Award performances," etc., but 

the annual prolonged tubthumping is far behind 

established schedule in working toward 

its hysterical crescendo. 

Even Howard G. Mayer and Dale O'Brien, 

to wliose tender offices are entrusted the 

Academy's own public and press relations, 

seem to be less active than in other years 

as concerns pre-awards buildup. 

Just why this situation exists is anyone's 

guess. It could be that the Oscars are losing 

some of their appeal: or it might be that 

studio spacesnatchers, conditions being what 

they are within the industry, have belatedly 

decided that their best efforts should be 

devoted to the drumbeating that sells tickets. 

Whatever the reasons, Hollywood news outlets 

hope that the boring, annual avalanche 

can be held off as long as possible. 

Walter Seltzer, who is Hal VVallis's publicity 

chieftain, informs that "Norma Eberhardt, 

only heterochromatic in Hollywood, 

was signed . . for . . . role in Hal Wallis' 

. 

Martin & Lewis comedy, 'Jumpingr Jacks' . . . 

A heterochromatic is a person with different 

colored eyes. The actress has one blue eye 

and one brown eye. The picture is not in 

Technicolor," 

Fortunate that Seltzer defined a heterochromatic. 

HoIljTvood's romantic vagaries being 

what they are, the casual reader—if any 

—might otherwise have arrived at almost any 

conclusion. 

Elegant Al Vaughan, Samuel (Soldwyn's 

welkin-tinkler, seems to think that there is 

— 

news in the fact that the producer has 

added six new generators to the lot to take 

care of lighting demands for his new picture, 

"Hans Christian Andersen." The generators, 

reports Vaughan, "will put out a 

22,500 ampere connected load, largest in the 

industry." 

Heck, some of the film capital's more 

notorious lashes have carried bigger loads 

lots of times. 

When Alex Evelove gets himself stuck on 

a beverage, he's nothing if not loyal. During 

the time when Warner Bros.' "Tea for Two" 

was in production and while it was in early 

release— 'way back in September, 1950 

Anxious Alex tossed around more words on 

the subject than was ever devoted to the 

Boston Tea Party. 

And he's still at it. Nearly two years after 

the film made its debut, the Burbankian 

blurbery gets excited over the fact that 

a parade during a recent observance of 

"National Hot Tea Week" in Stamford, Conn., 

featured a float prepared by the National 

Tea bureau, depicting the promotion effected 

with Warners in conjunction with playdates 

on the aforementioned musical. 

Come now, Alex, don't you think we should 

start mixing our drinks? How about a "Hot 

Ovaltine Week" so that editors who have 

been surfeited with tea can get some sleep? 

As a prop for Producer George Pal's forthcoming 

"War of the Worlds," the Paramount 

special effects department reportedly is trying 

to dream up an acceptable death ray, a 

necessary piece of equipment for the film 

version of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel. 

So far, according to a communique from the 

studio, the best contrivance yet unveiled is 

a "cannon-like drum charged with electricity 

which gives off five-foot, lightinglike streaks 

in an awesome blue flash." 

Why not hook up A. C. (Alternating Current) 

Lyles, drumbeater for the Dollar Bills, 

Pine and Thomas? 

"Because he can read 500 words ot dialog 

without stopping to take a breath, Sam Hearn 

won the role of the long-winded lawyer in 

MGM's 'Pat and Mike,' according to intelligence 

from Howard Strickling's rover boys. 

What a waste of talent when topliners will 

be needed for an upcoming version of Jules 

Verne's "20,000 Lea^rues Under the Sea," 

which has been kicked around among various 

producers including Robert L. Lippert 

and Sid Rogell, and is now in preparatory 

stages by Walt Disney as a live-action Technicolor 

feature for RKO Radio release. 

From the praisery of Teet Carle, a tidbit 

which starts. "If you're wondering why a 

typical American like Alan Ladd is starring 

in Paramount's 'Botany Bay' 

." 

. 

Don't worry, Teet, we weren't. 

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'BEND IN THE RIVER' was world-premiered this week (23) at the Broadway 

Theatre in Portland, Ore., as part of festivities formally opening Oregon's Covered 

Wagon centennial. Shown above are several stars of the film in a conference at 

Portland on the premiere promotion. Left to right: Lori Nelson, star of the film; 

Jack Matlack, executive of the J. J. Parker Theatres; Arthur Greenfield, U-I 

manager; Julia Adams and Rock Hudson, stars in the film, and, seated. Gov. 

Douglas McKay. 

'Son of Outlaw' Runs 

Into Title Trouble 

HOLLYWOOD—No sooner had the picture 

will be carried further—with possible litigation 

indicated. 

Curtis-Leigh Team Back 

HOLLYWOOD—After a month abroad making 

benefit appearances and entertaining 

servicemen, Tony Curtis and actress-wife 

They 

Janet Leigh returned to the film colony. 

left early in December for London to appear 

at a benefit for the National Playing Fields 

Ass'n of England, and also visited military 

bases and hospitals in the American zone of 

Germany. 

Four Features From UA 

Released for February 

NEW YORK—United Artists will put four 

films in general release during February, including 

"The River," which has been playing 

two-a-day engagements in key cities since 

September, according to Arthur B. Krim, 

president. 

apparently surmounted one hurdle of the financial 

variety when "Son of the Outlaw," a 

western written and produced by and starring 

John Carpenter, ran up against another obstacle, 

this one of a possibly litigatious nature. 

They are: February 8— "Tomahawk Territory," 

starring Clayton Moore as "Buffalo 

After the AFL Film council moved to file 

Bill," produced by Edward Finney and B. B. 

claims with the California division of labor Ray for Jack Schwarz Productions; February 

law enforcement, charging that lATSE technicians 

and others employed in making the Eldowney in India and directed by Jean 

15— "The River," produced by Kenneth Mcpicture 

had not been paid, the Independent 

Renoir in Technicolor; February 22— "One 

Motion Picture Producers Ass'n stepped into 

Big Affair," produced by Benedict Bogeaus 

the breach. IMPPA Pi-esident I. E. Chadwick, 

and directed by Peter Godfrey starring Evelyn 

Keyes and Dennis O'Keefe with Mary 

after huddles with AFL representatives, arranged 

to advance the money needed to pay 

Anderson, and February 28— "The Green 

off the wage claims, and attorney Berman Glove," produced by Georges Maurer and directed 

by Rudolph Mate starring Glenn Ford, 

Swarttz was appointed trustee. The picture 

was made under the aegis of Jack Schwarz 

Geraldine Brooks and Sir Cedric Hardwicke 

Pi-oductions for United Artists release. 

with George Macready and Gaby Andre. 

However, shortly thereafter, Howard 

Hughes, RKO head man, filed a protest with 

UA that "Son of the Outlaw" infringed upon 

the title of his widely successful Jane Russell 

starrer, "The Outlaw," holding that the public 

would be inclined to the belief that the 

Carpenter vehicle had been made by Hughes 

as a sequel to that earlier feature. A spokesman 

for Hughes at RKO declared that if no 

satisfactory answer is received from UA within 

a reasonable length of time, the matter 

Lecture Series on Films 

To Be Given in School 

NEW YORK—The board of superintendents 

of the New York school system has approved 

start of an in-service program on 

films which will consist of 15 lectures by 

authorities on motion pictures and education. 

The program will be under the direction of 

Dr. Jacob Greenberg, associate superintendent, 

and will be given in cooperation with 

the Organization of the Motion Hcture Industry 

of the City of New York. 

The lectures will stress the influence of 

films on education. Some of them will be 

illustrated with the showing of old and current 

films. 

The lectures will be given every Tuesday 

in the auditorium of the High School of 

Performing Arts, 120 West 46th St. 

Projector copper drippings ore needed. 

Scripters Will Award 

Honors February 25 

HOLLYWOOD—The Screen Writers Guild 

will stage its fourth annual kudos-distributing 

dinner, paying tribute to the best film 

scripting in .several categories, Februai-y 25. 

Balloting by SWG members will determine 

winners for the best drama, musical, comedy, 

script produced on a budget of $400,000 or 

less, and the Robert Meltzer memorial award 

for the screenplay "most ably dealing with 

problems of the American scene." That portion 

of the evening devoted to distributing 

the awards will be broadcast nationally, and 

George Burns will act as emcee for the entertainment 

portion of the program. 

Everett Freeman and George Seaton are 

co-chairmen of the dinner committee, assisted 

by Richard Breen, Valentine Davies, 

Jerry Davis, Helen Deutsch, Hem-y Ephron, 

Don McGuii-e and Barry Ti-ivers. 

Assets of $613,080.23, liabilities of $25,202.81 

and a net surplus of $587,877.42 as of Oct. 

3'., 1951, were reported by the Screen Actors 

Guild. 

A cooperative committee to handle any 

disputes that may arise in connection with 

the basic working agreement between the 

major producers and the Screen Directors 

Guild has been established by the two factions. 

Representing the filmmakers on the 

committee are B. B. Kahane, Columbia; Louis 

K. Sidney, Metro; Y. Frank Freeman, Paramount; 

Fred Meyer, 20th Century-Fox; Edward 

Muhl. U-I; Edmund DePatie, Warners; 

Ernest Scanlon. RKO Radio; and H. A. Mc- 

Donnell, Republic. SDG representatives are 

Frank Capra, David Butler, Henry King, Leo 

McCarey, H. C. Potter, Mark Robson, Lesley 

Selander, George Stevens, Rex Bailey, Frank 

Ban' and Howard Koch. 

Meantime the SDG was preparing for its 

annual awards dinner, to be held Sunday 

(27 1 the Biltmore Bowl. 

Family Ratings Are Given 

Four of Ten Features 

NEW YORK — The January 15 listing of 

joint estimates of current motion pictures 

prepared by clubwomen rates four of ten 

films for the family, five for adults and young 

people and one for adults. The family films 

are "It's 

a Big County" (MGM*. "Indian Uprising" 

(Col), "Tembo" (RKO) and "Pistol 

Harvest" (RKO). The last two are also found 

acceptable for children's programs. 

Rated for adults and young people are 

"Calling Bulldog Drummond" (MGM), "Distant 

Drums" (WB), "Japanese War Bride" 

(20th-Fox), "Storm Over Tibet" (CoD and 

"Pals of the Golden West" (Rep). 

Boydstons at Waldport 

WALDPORT, ORE. — Jack and Florence 

Boydston, formerly of Corvallis, Ore., have 

purchased the Waldport Theatre from Mc- 

Kevitt's, Inc., and are now operating the 

business. Both are long experienced in show 

business and will start booking A-product into 

the house. 

Motion picture theatres in Brazil must 

exhibit eight times as many Brazilian pictures 

as foreign films. 

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IT'S A GIFT—This snappy new 1952 

Studebaker is the big prize in the campaign 

to raise funds for the handicapped 

children's hospital fund, pet charity of 

Las Vegas Variety Tent 39. Now on exhibition 

at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn in 

Las Vegas, the car was donated to Tent 

39 by Phil Kauch, second from left, 

Studebaker dealer in Burbank, Calif. 

Shown here with Kauch are Jake Kozloff, 

extreme left; Ben Goffstein, Tent 

39's chief barker, and Clark. The car 

will be awarded during the Variety Intern.ational 

convention in the Nevada community 

April 'i8-May 1. 

Council 

Supports 

Kramer Libel Suit 

HOLLYWOOD—Filing of an answer to Pi'Oducer 

Stanley Kramer's $1,000,000 libel action 

by the defendant Wage Earners committee, 

and additional .support thrown to Kramer 

by another official film group, the Motion 

Picture Industry Council, were the latest developments 

in the filmaker's battle against 

organizations engaged in assertedly "malicious" 

and "unfounded" campaigns against 

industry personnel. 

The WEC's executive director. R. A. Mc- 

Connon. denied in an answer filed in superior 

court that Kramer had been libeled by the 

description of him as "notorious for Redslanted. 

Red-starred films," and contended 

that the accusations previously had been 

published by others and, consequently, were 

privileged. 

Simultaneously the MPIC. made up of 12 

guilds, crafts and as.sociations. endorsed 

Kramer's action and pledged its "complete 

support." Three of the MPIC member-organizations—the 

Ass'n of Motion Picture Producers. 

Society of Independent Motion Picture 

Producers and Independent Motion 

Picture Pi-oducers Ass'n—had previously 

backed Kramer in individual statements. 

They were joined in the MPIC re,solution 

by the AFL Film Council, Screen Actors. 

Writers and Directors Guilds. Artists Managers 

Guild. Unit Production Managers Guild, 

Society of Motion Picture Art Directors, Independent 

Office Workers and Screen Producers 

Guild. 

Completion of editing on "Room for One 

More" marks the 80th picture Henry Blanke 

has produced for Warners. 


Mary McCall Attends 

Washington Session 

HOLLYWOOD — Filmdom's delegate to 

a 

Washington luncheon meeting hosted 

Wednesday i23i by Robert Lovett, secretary 

of defense, was Mary C. McCall jr., new president 

of the Screen Writers Guild and a 

SWG delegate to the Motion Picture Industry 

council. 

Miss McCall was named by the council to 

attend the Washington meeting, called to 

discuss the cooperation of the production 

branch of motion pictures in a forthcoming 

recruiting drive for women in the armed 

services. 

At the MPIC's most recent membership 

meeting. E. L. DePatie. Morrie Weiner and 

Howard McDonnell were seated as new delegates 

representing the Ass'n of Motion Picture 

Producers, while the new Screen Producers 

Guild representatives are William 

Perlberg. Sol C. Siegel. Edwin H. Knopf, Jesse 

L. Lasky sr,. Buddy Adler. Samuel G. Engel, 

Arthur Freed, Pandro S. Herman. Carey Wilson 

and David Tannenbaum. 

Gunther Le.ssing took over the MPIC chairmanship 

for the next six months, at which 

time he will be succeeded by Steve Broidy. 

'Greatest Show' to Open 

In London February 5 

Currently in its American premiere engagement 

at the Radio City Music Hall, Cecil 

B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth" 

has been .set for its London debut at the 

Carlton Theatre February 15. 

"Viva Zapata," 20th-Fox's film biography 

of the Mexican revolutionist, will make its 

bow February 7 at the Rivoli in New York. 

A Hollywood contingent including Darryl F. 

Zanuck. who produced: Elia Kazan, who directed; 

Marlon Brando, who has the title 

role, and John Steinbeck, who wrote the 

screenplay, will trek to Gotham for the event. 

Highlighted by a stage show headlining 

Rhonda Fleming, ancf attended by civic and 

society leaders. "Hong Kong," produced in 

Technicolor by William Pine and William 

Thomas for Paramount relea.se, was worldpremiered 

Tuesday (22i at the Fifth Avenue 

Theatre in Seattle. The event was sponsored 

by the Claina Club, organized years ago to 

foster trade with the Orient. 

Stars Lined Up to Make 

Brotherhood Disks 

HOLLYWOOD—Sixteen film and radio 

personalities were lined up by the Hollywood 

Coordinating committee to record a series of 

spot announcements on behalf of the 18th 

annual observance of National Brotherhood 

week February 17-24. 

To make the disks are Eve Arden, Edward 

Arnold. Jack Benny. Eddie Cantor. Jeff 

Chandler, Ralph Edwards, Douglas Fairbanks 

jr., June Haver. Bob Hope. Alan Ladd. Art 

Linkletter. Frank Lovejoy, Groucho Marx, 

Joel McCrea, Dennis O'Keefe and Audrey 

Totter. 

Ei-ic Johnston, president of the Motion Picture 

A.ss'n of America, is NBW general 

chairman. 

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West: Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount producer-director, 

returned after a two-and-ahalf-week 

tour on behalf of his latest film, 

"The Greatest Show on Earth." DeMille 

visited New York, Atlanta, New Orleans and 

Dallas, appearing on TV and radio shows, 

conferring with exhibitors and holding press 

interviews. 

East: Si Seadler, Loew's, Inc., advertising 

manager, returned to his New York headquarters 

after a week of huddles at Metro 

concerning campaigns on upcoming releases. 

Also heading east was J. J. Cohn, Metro 

studio executive, who planned conferences 

with home office toppers. 

West: Due in from London was Kay Harrison, 

managing director of Technicolor's British 

plant, for huddles with Dr. Herbert T. 

Kalmus, Technicolor president, and other officials. 

West: Bernard Smith, former Paramount 

story editor, recently elevated to producer, 

checked in from a week's business trip to 

Manhattan. 

East: Peter Mole, president of the Society 

of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 

left for Gotham to attend a meeting of the 

organization's executive committee and board 

of governors. 

East: William Wyler, Paramount producerdirector, 

left for New York on a business trip. 

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West: Leo McCarey, Paramount producerdirector, 

returned to the studio after a week's 

business trip to Gotham. 

West: William C. MacMillen jr., president 

of Pathe Industries, came in from Manhattan 

for a week's stay to huddle with Pathe 

laboratories toppers concerning a new expansion 

program. 

East: Jo.seph Moskowitz. 20th-Fox vicepresident 

and studio home office liaison, returned 

to his New York headquarters after 

two weeks of parleys at the Westwood film 

plant. 

West : Due in over the weekend were Arthur 

Krim, United Artists president; Robert Benjamin 

and Max Youngstein, who will confer 

locally with producers releasing through the 

company. 

Photoplay Selections 

At February 19 Dinner 

HOLL"YWOOD—"Most enjoyed" films and 

"most popular" players will be recipients of 

Photoplay magazine's annual Gold Medal 

awards at a dinner to be held February 19 at 

the Ambassador hotel here. Winners in various 

achievements categories are being selected 

via a poll of Photoplay readers. 

Due here early next month to prepare for 

the event are Fred R. Sammis, editorial director, 

Adele Whitely Fletcher, New York 

editor, and Irving Manheimer, president of 

MacFadden Publications. 

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Arthur M. Loew Asks for Removal Partmar Loses Its 

Of Aussie Currency Restrictions 

Intervention Plea 

By WILLIAM BEECHAM 

Australian Bureau, BOXOFFICE 

PERTH, W. A.—Arthur M. Loew, president 

of Loew's International who has been visiting 

Australia, says that he would like to see the 

complete removal of Australia's current restrictions 

on remittances overseas. "Naturally. 

we would like to have 100 per cent convertibility 

of our earnings—just like any other business," 

he adds. "Australia could well allow a 

full remittance of earnings if it had complete 

control of its currency, but while its currency 

is tied to sterling that is a little difficult." 

The majority of theatre managements report 

a somewhat quiet period before Christmas, 

but an excellent holiday run and very 

nice New Year takings. In Western Australia 

the open-air gardens business was at first 

quiet owing to unseasonal and rather cold 

weather, but with the coming in of summer 

business has boosted up strongly. 

Net profit of Ballarat Theatres, Victoria, 

rose from £4,909 to £6,403 in the financial 

year ended June 30. 1951. The ordinary dividend 

remains unchanged at 10 per cent, taking 

£3,149. 

A new award for theatre managers in New 

South Wales makes the following wages current: 

Managers, first schedule, £18 16s 

weekly; second schedule, £17 16s, third schedule, 

£16 lis. Assistant managers, £14 18s 6d; 

£13 6s and £13 6, respectively, and trainee 

managers £11 14s in each case. 

/ WASHINGTON—Partmar and f 

Kerridge-Odeon circuit of theatres in New 

Zealand, which comprises 17 city theatres, 21 

provincial houses and 90 subprovincial and 

country houses, will visit Australia soon—his 

first 

visit. 

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"The best film of 1951" was "King Solomon's 

Mines," according to members of the 

RAAF air station at Amberley, Queensland. 

Second place went to "Annie Get Your Gun," 

with "Black Arrow" in third place. Other 

features in the first ten were "The Chiltern 

Hundreds," "Girl of the Year," "All About 

Eve," "The Third Man," "Twelve O'clock 

High," "Two Weeks With Love" and "Morning 

Departure." 

The Motion Picture Benevolent fund of 

New South Wales this year shows a surplus 

of £8,184. Income for 1951 was £13,185 18s 2d, 

with expenditure £5,001 Is lOd. Accumulated 

fund now stands at nearly £39,000. "This is the 

fund's 20th year," said relief committee Chairman 

H. G. Hayward, "and we now have been 

able to assist 1,000 people. But this is not the 

yardstick by which we measure the work of 

the society: rather we measure up the work 

we do by the fact that we have not yet said 

no to a worthy or needy person." 

Managing Director Clay Hake of Paramount 

announces that his company soon will enter 

the 16mm field in Australia, New Zealand 

and the South Pacific Islands. First list of 

releases will be announced soon. 

WASHINGTON—Partmar and four other 

exhibitor corporations on Friday (18) lost 

theu- final appeal to intervene in the Federal 

Communications Commission hearing on 

the proposed United Paramount Theatres- 

American Broadcasting Co. merger. 

The FCC majority refused to overturn its 

previous ruling to the effect that the five 

exhibitor corporations, four of them controlled 

by Fanchon & Marco, had failed to 

justify intervention. They repeated that the 

exhibitors could present any evidence they 

wished as witnesses, but the exhibitors have 

indicated they would only participate as intervenors. 

Commissioner Jones wrote a strong dissenting 

opinion in which he argued that the 

exhibitors had presented "undisputed allegations 

of fact" showing that applicants for 

merger position are about to evict them from 

their Los Angeles theatres and that Paramount 

and United Paramount are "acting in 

conjunction" to "restrain petitioners" in their 

business and in the ability to obtain films. 

"It seems clear to me," he said, "that the 

petitioners here are persons 'aggrieved' and 

'adversely affected,' bringing them within . 

the commission's rules." 

Jones concludes that, "in view of the importance 

of the subject-matter and the great 

public interest involved . . . the commission 

should . . . (allow) interventions of those 

persons who can be of assistance to the 

commission, and particularly those who have 

had prior actual experience with the parties 

requesting the commission's approval for the 

proposed merger." 

John Griffen-Foley, who has been editor 

of Australia's leading film trade publication, 

the Film Weekly, since May 1947, has resigned 

to develop projects of his own. Eric 

Solomon, managing director of the company 

owning the Film Weekly, again will take the 

title of managing editor and assume editorial 

direction of the publication. 

R. J. Kerridge, managing director of the 

The Reelers club of Western Australia, 

film exhibitors-distributors and members of 

allied trades, held a Christmas party at the 

Palace hotel, Perth, recently. Attendance 

totaled about 50 members and guests. Function 

was conducted on informal lines with a 

buffet style dinner. On the following day the 

Motion Picture Distributors Ass'n held a similar 

function. This, although only a comparatively 

small affair, was extremely succe.ssful. 

Fairbanks Productions 

Expands Distribution 

HOLL'irwOOD—Augmenting its 

production 

and sales departments, Jerry Fairbanks Productions 

is creating a new national distribution 

division to service TV outlets and sponsors. 

It will be headed by Ralph Cattell, 

Fairbanks vice-president and general sales 

manager. 

At the same time Fairbanks confirmed the 

dissolution of a liaison with Official Films, 

sales and distribution organization, and said 

Modern Talking Pictures, commercial film 

distributor, will handle print shipments and 

inspection through its 29 exchanges. 

AT NEW YORK MEETING—Sales representatives of 20th-Fox attending the 

three-day conference at the home office in New York recently, included these from 

the west. Left to right, front row: Buck Stoner, assistant division manager; Herman 

Wobber, division manager; Charlie Powers, Portland manager; Jack Crickson, San 

Francisco manager. Second row: Kenneth Lloyd, Salt Lake City manager; Alex 

Harrison, Los Angeles manager, and Jack Burke, Seattle manager. 

UA Executive to Leave 

Soon for Coast Talks 

NEW YORK—Ai-thui- B. Krim, United Artists 

president, and Max E. Youngstein, vicepresident 

and director of advertising, publicity 

and exploitation, accompanied by Robert S. 

Benjamin, plan to leave for the coast in 

about a week. Youngstein will look into the 

future possibility of installing a promotion 

man there to act as liaison between independent 

producers and New York headquarters. 

UA said there was no immediate likelihood 

of an appointment. 

Cast as Bandit in 'Man With Gun' 

Robert Cabal has been cast as the California 

bandit, Joaquin Murietta, in Warners' 

"Man With a Gun." 


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Farminglon Drive-In 

Opening Eastertime 

FARMINGTON, N. M.—Russell Allen and 

Kelly Crawford will be the owners and operators 

of .a drive-in which will open at Eastertime. 

The partners said the theatre will be 

located adjacent to the city limits. Exact 

site was not disclosed but Crawford stated 

it would be accessible. Tlie ozoner's name 

will be chosen in a countywide contest. "In 

keeping pace with the growth and progress 

of Farmington and the San Juan basin," 

Allen said, "it will be a drive-in theatre the 

city can be proud of." 

Allen grew up with the theatre business 

here, having been associated with his mother, 

the late Mrs. F. B. Allen, in the Allen Theatre. 

In 1949. Russell and his brother Harry 

Allen opened the Aztec Theatre in Aztec. 

Earlier, in 1946, he had become the owner of 

the present Allen Theatre. Also in 1949, he 

opened the Totah Theati-e here. 

Kelly Crawford has been general manager 

of these theatres since 1941. 

NSS Western Salesmen, 

Managers Gather in LA 

LOS ANGELES—Branch managers and 

salesmen from five cities, totaling 17 in all, 

gathered here Monday and Tuesday (21, 22) 

for a western division meeting of National 

Screen Service. Pi-esiding was Mi-. Bernie 

Wolf, division manager, while featured speakers 

were George Dembow, vice-president 

and general sales chief, and Burton Robbins, 

assistant to NSS Pi-esident Herman 

Robbins. 

Personnel from the Los Angeles. San Francisco, 

Salt Lake City, Seattle and Denver 

offices attended. 

Spokane State Relighted 

SPOKANE, WASH.—Workmen from Electrical 

Products Co. are installing a California-type 

marquee on the State Theatre, according 

to Manager James Keefe. The 

house's first marquee was installed 20 years 

ago when the house was called the Clemmer. 

It is a unit of the Evergreen circuit. 

New Manager in Douglas 

DOUGLAS. WYO.—Lawrence Swallow has 

arrived from Wheatland to take over management 

of the Mesa Theatre. Don Fi-anklin, 

who had been the manager since the depai'ture 

of Jim Kennedy, has not revealed his 

future plans. 

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Write Irv Bowron, Sales Mgr. 

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pill Galloway, former booker and office 

manager at Universal, accepted a position 

with RKO in San Francisco, effective 

Edgar Mercy of Yakima 

Monday (21i 

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was in town as was Malcolm MacLeod 

Dave 

of 

the Commercial Theatre in Lopez . 

Dunkle, Paramount eastern Washington 

salesman, returned to Spokane . 

Penagoes 

and John Dore, Chicago, and Howard 

McGhee and Ed Hickey of the Midstate 

Amusement Co., Walla Walla, were in. 

. 

Naomi Garcia, Paramount secretary, was 

recuperating at home after an operation . . . 

H. B. Sobottka, Hamrick vice-president, and 

Will J. Conner, executive, were in Portland 

on business . . A. C. Brown, auditor, has 

been at Paramount the past three weeks . 

In town from Cordova was J. E. Shipley, 

making purchases at the National Tlieatre 

Supply, to equip a temporary theatre in the 

Moose hall, replacing Lathrops' theatre 

which recently was destroyed by fire. 

Joseph A. Walsh, in charge of branch operations 

of Paramount, was here from New 

York Goldsmith, who has been 

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pinchhitting in the booking department at 

Esther Myers. 

RKO. is in the hospital . . . 

Universal, was married to Larry Druxman 

at the Glendale Country club . . Henry 

. 

Haustein. Paramount manager, will leave the 

30th for Chicago to attend a sales convention. 

John Hamrick's Liberty in Portland is being 

remodeled and redecorated. The job includes 

a structural modernization of the foyer and 

mezzanine, new seats, new carpets, new lighting 

fixtures, and new stage and other draperies. 

A new first run policy will then be 

inaugiu-ated. starting with "Quo Vadis." the 

latter part of February. The Hamrick Newsreel 

Theatre there will be renamed the Roxy 

and take over the Liberty's second run product. 

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Visitors on the Row included Walter Graham, 

Shelton; Layton and Ray Stahlcup of 

the Community. John Kane of the Capitol, 

Glen Spencer of the Proctor, and Side Dean 

of the Lakewood and Rex. Tacoma. and Ernie 

Thompson of Port Townsend 

Hoffman, publicity director for Paramount, 

has moved into his new home on Mercer 

Island. 

Martin Milner, a freckle-faced, red-haired 

kid who left Seattle for Hollywood in 1945, 

won a part in the film version of "Life With 

Father." and then stayed for roles in five 

other movies and numerous television shows, 

came home last week full of enthusiasm for 

the acting profession'. Now a tall, tweedy 

20-year-old youth, Milner believes in encouraging 

stage-struck youngsters who want to 

be in pictures. Said Milner: "There's more 

work in Hollywood than there has been in 

some time. Anyone with real talefil won't 

go undiscovered for long." His father, the late 

Samuel Milner, was a film distributor here 

in the northwest. 

Joan Caulfield helped promote the showing 

of her latest film, "The Lady Says No," 

at the Fifth Avenue Theatre with personal 

appearances. She made three 25-minute appearances 

per day, each .stint consisting of 

three .short readings, two imper-sonations and 

a poetic sentimental piece. 

$200,000 Fire Destroys 

Frontier Studio Space 

HOLLYWOOD—Producer Vincent M. Fennelly's 

Frontier Pictures, which makes westerns 

for Monogram release, was without a 

headquarters when a $200,000 fire gutted the 

studio, located in the heart of Hollywood. 

Only two walls remained after ten fire companies 

fought the blaze for more than an 

hour. A preliminary investigation indicated 

that the fire started in a film storeroom. It 

broke out at night when nobody was in the 

building. 

Fennelly had just completed interiors on a 

Whip Wilson sagebrusher. At midweek Monogram 

spokesmen said he would immediately 

.secure other studio space on a rental basis. 

Montana Theatre License 

Held Outdated by New Tax 

HELENA—Montana theatres need not pay 

a $25 annual license fee on top of a tax on 

grosses, Arnold H. Olsen, attorney general, 

has ruled. Olsen informed Lloyd A. Murrils, 

Glacier county attorney, that the tax on 

grosses, enacted in 1947, supercedes the $25 

armual fee, which he held was repealed by 

the new tax law. 

City Dads Book Pictures 

BASIN, WYO.—The former Basin Community 

Theatre has been taken over from the 

Chamber of Commerce by the town of Basin. 

The chamber sought the change to permit 

to conduct other activities beneficial to the 

it 

town. The city fathers immediately began 

booking pictures. 

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26, 1952

Hamrick to Remodel 

Portland Liberty 

PORTLAND—First of a rumored series of 

extensive modernization programs for downtown 

Portland theatres was announced by 

John Hamrick's City Manager Virgil Faulkner. 

Contracts totaling $125,000 have been let 

for remodeling the Liberty, now a second run 

hou.se, but soon to play first runs. 

Faulkner said the four-to-five-week job 

calls for a daily until 5 p. m. shutdown of 

the theatre, except for Saturday and Sunday. 

Architect is Paul Carlson of Seattle, who has 

just completed similar work on John Hamrick 

theatres in Seattle and Tacoma. 

Plans call for refinishing the entire auditorium 

and lobby. New seats and carpets, 

stage curtains and draperies axe included in 

the plan. Exterior work will include repainting 

and a new color scheme for the marquee. 

Plans also are being completed for remodeling 

of Evergreen's Orpheum. The theatre, 

prominently located downtown, is opposite a 

new block-square parking area, the site of 

a Rose city landmark, now being torn down, 

the Portland hotel. 

Lowell Richardson Named 

ST. HELENS, ORE.—Lowell Richardson of 

Portland was named manager of the Roxy 

and Columbia theatres by C. H. Smith, owner 

of theatres here and in Tillamook. He replaces 

Ron Harrington, who has taken a 

position in Seattle. Richardson was formerly 

employed at the Multnomah Theatre 

in Portland. He instituted two policy 

changes upon his assumption of the management; 

elimination of loge seats at the 

Roxy and lowering of Saturday matinee 

prices there from 45 to 35 cents for adults. 

Offer Passes to Blood Donors 

DALLAS, ORE.—Greg Kershul, manager 

of the two Dallas theatres, is offering a 

free ticket to the theatres to each person 

donating blood in the current drive by the 

Red Cross chapter for an unprecedented 

total of 288 pints to meet the urgent need 

for blood plasma overseas. 

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McCarthy, left, and Anne Kimball, featured 

in Monogram's "Fort Osage," are 

interested spectators as Bruce Fowler, 

Los Angeles first run supervisor for Fox 

West Coast, signs booking contracts for 

films whicli tiie circuit will play during 

the annual Monogram week, February 

10-16. Leo Miller, western division film 

buyer for the Warher circuit, also signs 

contracts in connection with the upcoming 

drive. 

PORTLAND 

Indications are the first run lineup is due 

for a change with the announcement that 

John Hamrick's Liberty will open February 27 

with "Quo Vadis." The report is that the 

Liberty also has won the bid on such films 

as "Sailor Beware" and "Hong Kong," both 

Paramount products. The theatre currently 

is being remodeled at a reported cost of 

$125,000. Work is being done in the daytime, 

with the theatre opening to the public 

at 5 p. m. daily except Saturday and Sunday. 

John Hunter to Rebuild 

Burned Elko Theatre 

ELKO, NEV.—Intermountain Theatre Supply 

Co. of Salt Lake City has been awarded 

the contract for rebuilding the fire-razed 

Hunter Theatre here, John Hunter, manager, 

said. An estimated $75,000 will be expended. 

The former balcony-type theatre will 

be converted into a full stadium auditorium 

and new acoustical wall coverings, modern 

lighting, carpeting, draperies, a candy bar 

and new sound and projection will be installed. 

The new theatre will be among the 

most modern in Nevada, according to Phil 

Guss. general manager of Intermountain Theatre 

Supply. 

Frank Capra Is Delegate 

HOLLYWOOD — Producer-Director 

Frank 

Capra. who recently left his Paramount studio 

berth, will represent the American film 

Industry and act as an official state department 

delegate at India's international film 

festival, which opens Thursday (24) and will 

run through February 27. 

New Regulations in Brazil 

.'\ccording to a new decree, playing time of 

both domestic and imported motion pictures 

in Brazil will be regulated by the president. 

Cooper Foundation 

Reopens New Trail 

COLORADO SPRINGS—Cooper Foundation 

ushered in 1952 with the reopening of 

its completely remodeled and redecorated New 

Trail Theatre here. The house at 22 E. 

Pikes Peak Ave., which was closed after 

Thanksgiving, reopened New Year's eve with 

one of the country's 284 "Sailor Beware" previews. 

Radio broadcasts from the theatre 

were planned to mark the occasion by E. B. 

Buffington, manager. Featured on the program 

was Pat McGee of Denver, circuit manager 

for CFT. 

Ralph Ayer of Lincoln, Neb., assistant circuit 

manager; Frank Roberts, Lincoln, company 

controller; Dietz Lusk of Kansas City, 

architect; C. J. Freeman, local manager for 

the circuit, and Buffington were also spotlighted 

in the festivities. 

About 810 red and green self-rising seats 

were installed by International Seat Corp. 

of Union City, Ind. Previous capacity was 798. 

In the treatment of colors employed in redecorating, 

.shades used include magenta, cobalt 

blue, turquoise, chartreuse and pearl 

gray. Lavish gold, red and turquoise curtains 

are draped in front of the screen. A 

dressing room for ushers and storage space 

was constructed at the side of the stage. 

Tlie stylized floral pattern on the walls 

was painted by Frank Lachner of the Hanns 

Teichert studios in Chicago. Fireproof concrete 

flooring replaced the old wooden floor 

downstairs and new flooring was placed in 

the balcony. A compact and convenient concession 

was installed at the side of the lobby 

and allows more control of traffic in and out 

of the theatre. The boxoffice was placed at 

the side of the building. 

Other features of the New Trail Include 

fireproof exits, comfortable lounges with carpeting, 

new fixtures and tile walls, makeup 

stand for the women's lounge, thick carpeting 

in the lobby, manager's office and on 

the stairways; semi-indu-ect lighting 

throughout, new screen, projection equipment 

and sound from National Theatre Supply 

of Denver, an interoffice communication 

system and a redecorated marquee. 

Ai-chitectural firm for the remodeling was 

Robert Boiler and Dietz Lusk jr. Lusk said 

of the many theatres the firm has designed 

in the past, "this was the fastest remodeling 

job completed." General contractor for the 

work was Raymond C. Whitlock. 

Century TV Files Suit 

Naming Bill Elliott 

HOLLYWOOD—On the heels of its superior 

court suit charging that Monogram "induced" 

Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy star, to 

break his contract and sign with the studio. 

Century Television Production brought another 

breach-of-contract action, this time 

against Elliott. 

As in the Monogram suit. Century charges 

it signed Elliott in June 1950, to star in a 

series of TV films, but that in January 1951. 

Elliott signed with Monogram for a group 

of theatrical sagebrushers and thus is not 

able to fulfill his commitment with the 

video firm. 

Sove your copper drippings for defense. 

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'latuko/' African Documentary, Hits 

Top Score in Los Angeles Opening 

LOS ANGELES—While the southland dug 

out from under one of the most damaging 

storms in history, first run patronage zoomed 

after two or three days in which heavy rains 

and flood waters gave boxoffice takes a onetwo 

punch. Top grosser, in the first week 

of an advanced-price test engagement, was 

"Latuko," an African documentary, which 

hit a resounding 250 per cent. "Quo Vadis" 

grabbed place money with 175 in its seventh 

stanza, and the combination of Josephine 

Baker on the stage and "Honeychile" on the 

screen hit 160 in its second week. 

Chinese, Uptown. Los Angeles, Loyola—For Men 

Only (LP); Chicago CaUing (UA) 110 

Downtown Paramount Honeychile (Rep); plus 

Josephine Baker on stage, 2nd wk 160 

Egyptian. State Pandora and the Flying Dutchnian 

(MGM). 2nd wk 100 

Fine Arts—The Lavender Hill Mob (U-1), 2nd wk...l30 

Four Star. United Artists—Quo Vadis (MGM) 

8th wk 175 

Fox Wilshire—The Airican Queen (UA). 4th wk 

Globe, Ritz, Vogue—Decision Belore Dawn 

110 

(Fox). 5th wk 80 

Hawau—My Favorite Spy (Para), 4th wk 90 

Hillstreet. Pantages—Ten Tall Men (Col); 

Corky of Gasoline Alley (Col). 2nd wk 115 

Hollywood_ Paramount—Latuko (JarviUe) 250 

erly—Death ol a Salesman (Col), 

5th 

Warners Downtown, Hollywood, Wiltern— Room 

for One More (WB), South of Caliente (Rep) 

'Poison' Turns in 190 

For Top at Frisco 

SAN FRANCISCO — "Another M a n's 

Poison," with a great assist in the promotion 

line, ran the barometer up to a loud 

190 per cent at the United Artists to take 

over first spot. "Quo Vadis," in its eighth 

week at the Warfield, again hoisted itself 

into the winner's circle with a pleasant 175 '"r. 

The light went out at the Golden Gate when 

"Aladdin and His Lamp" blew a fuse with a 

rating of 65 for the opening week. 

Cmema—Distant Drums (WB); Bannerline (MGM), 

3rd wk 130 

Fox—Decision Before Dawn (20th-Fox); Calling 

Bulldog Drummond (MGM) 130 

Golden Gate Aladdin and His Lamp (Mono); 

Double Confession (SR) 65 

Orpheum—Weekend With Father (U-I); Street 

Bandits (Rep) 110 

Francis—Lady 90 

St Possessed (Rep) 

United Artists—Another Man's Poison (UA) 190 

Wariield—Quo Vadis (MGM), 8th wk 175 

"Drums' Climbs Back Up 

In Third Seattle Week 

SEATTLE—"Westward the Women" went 

from a 150 per cent second week to a still 

fine 135 third week, while "Distant Drums" 

climbed from 100 per cent in its second to 

125 in its third. Percentages from the Evergreen 

circuit were not available. 

Blue Mouse—House of a Thousand Women (SR). 70 

liberty—Weekend With Father (U-I). 2nd wk 100 

Music Boi:—Bright Victory (U-1), 2nd wk 60 

Music HaU-Westward the Women (MGM); The 

Unknown Mon (MGM), 3rd wk 135 

Orpheum— Distant Drums (WB); Finders Keepers 

(U-1), 3rd wk 125 

Tall Men' Packs Denver 

And Esquire Theatres 

DENVER—"Ten Tall Men" with "Obsessed" 

packed the Denver and Esquire to a holdover. 

"River" held at the Vogue for a third 

week after breaking records for both first 

and second weeks. "Westward the Women" 

stayed a foiurth week at the Broadway. 

Aladdin. Tabor, Webber—For Men Only (LP); 

Man Bolt (LP) 

Broadv,-ay VVestward the Women (MGM), 

110 

3rd wk 100 

Denham—Silver City (Para) 

Denver, Esquire Ten Tall Mep (Col); 

90 

Obsessed (UA) 200 

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Orpheum—An American in Paris (MGM), 4th wk. 60 

Paramount—Honeychile (Rep); Gold 

Haiders (UA) 100 

Rialto—Bride of the Gorilla (Realart); 

Boss of Boomtown (Realart) ISO 

Vogue—River (UA). 2nd wk 200 

The River' Grosses 200 Per Cent 

In 4th Portland Week 

PORTLAND — Motion picture attendance 

maintained an even keel with most fans 

waiting for the big doings accompanying the 

Most 

world premiere of "Bend of the River." 

dow'ntown houses expect boom business for 

the week with the Broadway reportedly sold 

out for the two evening performances. 

Broadway— I'll See You in My Dreams (WB), 2nd 

wk 110 

Guild—The River (UA), 4th wk 200 

Maylair—The Blue Veil (RKO) 110 

Oriental and Orpheum—The Racket (RKO) 95 

Paramount—Man in the Saddle (Col) 100 

United Artists—Westward the Women (MGM) 110 

Work Begun at Carlsbad 

On TE's New Drive-In 

CARLSBAD. N. M.—Work began last week 

on Theatre Enterprise's new drive-in on the 

north highway. Completion may be expected 

as early as April if materials can be secured 

and if good weather continues. Bill Bartlett, 

city supervisor for the theatre chain, said. 

When finished, the theatre, tentatively 

named the Corral, will handle about 400 cars. 

It is located at the north edge of the city 

limits diagonally opposite the old CCC camp 

and about one-half mile beyond the Legion 

Hut. 

Contractor is J. P. Waller, Roswell. Waller 

was the contractor who built the Cavern 

Theatre for Theatre Enterprises. 

Nobles Sell to Nietzels 

CLATSKANIE. ORE.—Tlie Westport Theatre 

was sold by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie G. Noble 

to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Nietzel of Seaside, who 

took possession this month. The Nobles will 

remain here for a while pending definite 

plans for the future. 

Patrons Can't Find 

Advertised Theatre 

Sutherlin, Ore.—Theatregoers here were 

somewhat confused when advertising began 

appearing everywhere for a Grand 

Theatre. It all started when Lloyd Wood, 

local theatre manager, made arrangements 

to have the sign on the front 

changed from Rand to Grand. 

Tlie switch was to have been made by 

a certain date and Wood, assuming it 

would be, started listing the Rand as the 

Grand in all his advertising. Patrons 

looking for the Grand couldn't find it 

because the front wasn't changed until 

later. 

Explaining the change, Wood said, "The 

name 'Rand' had little or no meaning to 

anyone in this community after the former 

owners had sold their interests. That, 

coupled with the fact that a 'G' could 

be added to the present sign at little 

cost, was perhaps our main reason for the 

change." Wood also operates the Jewel 

here. 

Playing Quota Law 

Invalid in Mexico 

MEXICO CITY—The Walt Disney version 

of "Alice in Wonderland" has w'on the right 

to the use of title and showings in Mexico, 

according to a decision handed down by 

Judge Antonio Capponi of the first district 

court here. French Transcontinental Pictures 

enjoined against show'ing its version at this 

is 

time. 

A federal judge has voided the regulation 

instituted in the fall of last year which 

had bound Mexican theatres to show as 

many Mexican motion pictures as they do 

foreign ones. The law was not obeyed to 

the letter all this time for theatre owners 

complained their revenues would have been 

seriously affected. 

The regulation would have reduced the 

Mexican market for U.S. and foreign films, 

and was established by the Ministry of the 

Interior as a move to create a greater market 

for Mexican films. Theatre managers 

had asked an injunction against the new 

law. stating that it was not discrimination 

against national films but their inferior quality 

which made boxoffice receipts drop, with 

only very few exceptions. 

The regulation was voided as a violation 

of Mexico's constitutional protection for free 

competition. 

Mexican movie producers must now have 

their scripts checked by the Ministry of Interior. 

The Producers and Distributors Ass'n 

agreed to cooperate with an order of the 

government-financed Banco Cinematografico 

which announced it w-ould not lend money for 

filming any script not approved. The movie 

division of the ministry handles film censorship. 

The bank stated it required prior approval 

of scripts to make certain that government 

money is loaned only to pictures 

which are historically accurate and as a 

move to generally raise the level of Mexican 

pictures which, until now, have been 

mediocre. 

Mexico, with an output of 100 pictures a 

year, is second only to the U.S. as a film 

producer, but the finished product leaves 

much to be desired. Whether this latest 

move will improve the quality of films remains 

to be seen. What is true is that 

Mexican film producers must operate with 

itiadequate funds and inferior equipment so 

that, even for the best, ingenuity of director 

and producer are taxed to the utmost to 

achieve a better standard. Mexican theatre 

owners have said again and again they 

would have no objection to showing a greater 

percentage of Mexican films, without the 

need for government rulings, if only the films 

w'ere of a better grade than those currently 

produced. 

Irene Dunne to TV 

HOLL'^WOOD-Another established film 

personality plunged into the TV medium 

when Irene Dunne was inked to act as mistress 

of ceremonies for 26 television film 

dramas to be produced by Edward Lewis. 

Shooting will start next month at Motion 

Picture Center studios. 

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LOS ANGELES Red Skies' Premieres DENVER 

Dread upon the waters: Recently members 

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of the Filmrow club went en masse to a 

Red Cross blood bank and were promised 

that because of this unselfish action the Red 

Cross would be happy to supply blood, free, 

to any club member needing it. First to take 

advantage of the offer was Mrs. John Ash, 

wife of the Metro auditor, via an emergency 

which necessitated blood transfusions, and 

the Red Cross delivered as agreed 

Levin of the Realart exchange returned from 

Chicago after attending the funeral of a relative. 

Here from San Francisco for studio and 

exchange huddles were Walter E. Branson, 

RKO western division sales chief, and J. H. 

. . . Harold 

Maclntyre, district manager 

Wirthwein, Monogram-Allied Ai-tists' western 

sales head, returned from a two-week trip 

which took him to Chicago, Milwaukee, Des 

Moines and other key cities . . . After being 

off sick for a spell, Bernie Cobb is back 

on the job as an RKO salesman. 

The new contract clerk at the Warner 

branch is Lou Ann Wilson . 

UA 

Carnegie, 

Booking and buying 

manager, was sick . . . 

visitors included Ei'win Sklar, Crest The- 

atre, Oceanside; Harry Nace jr. of the Nace 

chain in Phoenix; Mason Siler, who owns 

theatres in Corona Del Mar and Balboa; 

Jimmy Parks, Sunset Drive-In, Taft . . . 

Arthur Ungar, San Francisco popcorn magnate, 

dropped in on one of his periodic business 

junkets. 

Back from Eugene, Ore., was Herb Jack of 

the Kroehler Push-Back Seating Co., who attended 

the reopening of the completely remodeled 

and reseated Helig Theatre there 

. . . Bill McKendrick took off for the Ai'izona 

territory on a selling trip for United Ai'tists, 

while Bill Walsh, UA booker, headed for 

San Francisco . Filmrow club will 

stage a St. Patrick's day dance on Mai-ch 

17 at the Valley Park Country club in Glendale. 

In charge of arrangements is Jerry 

Persell, Columbia salesman. 

Francis A. Bateman, Republic western division 

sales head, planed out on a five-city 

swing for huddles at the Portland, Spokane, 

Seattle, Salt Lake City and Denver branches, 

planning to return in about two weeks . 

William Farlo, driver of a truck for the 

Gilboy film delivery service, was hospitalized 

as the result of a tragic accident in which 

a woman motorist crashed into his vehicle. 

The truck burst into flames and the motorist 

was burned to death in the head-on collision 

. . . Abe Sonosky, manager of Pox West 

Coast's Glendale, is also managing the Alex 

in that city temporarily while Carl Meeker 

is on sick leave. 

. 

Back on the Row, after a long siege of 

illness, was Bill McClintock. operator of the 

Park and Huntington theatres in Huntington 

Park Goldstein, Realart booker, 

shifted over to the Lippert Pictures branch 

in the same capacity ... A booking and buying 

visitor was Frank Valuskis, Valuskis Theatre, 

Buena Park. 

Don MacLaren has resigned as a salesman 

for the John C. Filbert supply firm after 20 

years with the company. After a short vacation 

he'll announce a new affiliation . . . 

Ruth Kurtz, cashier at the 20th-Fox exchange, 

is sporting a new DeSoto, the gift, 

she says, of her uncle. 

In Missoula, Mont. 

MISSOULA, MONT.— Bill Lundigan, Producer 

Samuel G. Engel and Mrs. Engel were 

accompanied here for the world premiere of 

"Red Skies of Montana" by Bob Graham and 

Helene Stanley, singing stars. The party arrived 

via Butte Sunday morning (20i for the 

event that night. 

Their first appearance was a parade at 

3:30 p. m., followed by a reception and dinner 

at the Hotel Florence, after which they 

staged a 45-minute program at the Fox Theatre. 

Jack S. Barrows, chief of the northern 

Rocky Mountain forest and range experiment 

station, headquarters here, helped promote the 

picture and premiere. His schedule called for 

stops at Salt Lake City, San Francisco and 

Seattle, January 21, 22; Portland, 23, 24, and 

Denver, 25-28. He served as technical adviser 

on fire prevention and control for the picture. 

BOOKED IN 300 THEATRES 

"Red Skies of Montana" opened in about 300 

theatres immediately following its premiere. 

Great Falls, Billings, Helena and Butte, Mont., 

were to .screen it within a week of the premiere 

here. 

Barrows' part in the promotion includes 

staging radio and television shows and informal 

talks at luncheons and civic meetings. 

He is using a smokejumper's suit, two parachutes 

and a region one fire pack on his 

tour. 

C. K. Lyman, supervisor of the Lolo National 

forest; Fred M. Fife, fire dispatcher, 

and Fred I. Stillings, now supervisor of the 

Clearwater National forest, but at the time 

of the filming assistant chief of fire control 

and technical adviser for the picture, play 

important parts. 

MANY LOCAL PLAYERS 

Other local players include Dr. S. N. Preston, 

who is the doctor in an ambulance 

scene; Sam Lee, Dean S. Jones, Gerald Alquist, 

James E. Hansom, Coleman King and 

photographer Warren N. Redichman, who 

interviewed and photographed the survivor 

of the fire, portrayed by Richard Widmark. 

One hundred parachutists, who were on duty 

in Missoula last summer, are shown making 

jumps in the Hayes Creek area, about five 

miles from Missoula. 

Among the honored guests at the premiere 

were Gov. and Mrs. John Bonner of Montana 

and the governors of Idaho and Washington, 

which, with Montana, comprise region 

one of the forest service, and forest service 

officials. Sid Page, manager of the Marlow 

Theatre at Helena, also attended the premiere. 

All of the proceeds were donated to 

the survivors of the smokejumpers and the 

forest ranger who lost their lives in the 

Mann Gulch forest fire in 1950. 

Big Campaign for Short 

NEW YORK—Paramount has set a feature-type 

campaign for its new Grantland 

Rice Sportlight, "Water Jockey Hi-Jinx," in 

cooperation with the civic and business 

leaders of Amityville, L. I., and the Prudential 

circuit. The world premiere was at 

the Amityville Theatre recently following a 

screening for members of the town board, the 

Chamber of Commerce and the mayor. The 

film was shot in Amityville with local residents. 

Take Bauer has sold Bauer's Drive-In at 

' Port Morgan, and the Brush Drive-In at 

Brush to John Roberts, who operates theatres 

in both cities. Bauer built both the 

Harold Michaels, U-I salesman, 

airers . . . 

is father of a baby daughter named Robin 

Ami . C. Stone, Santa Barbara, is the 

new concessions man for Manley here, succeeding 

George Porter, resigned 

Hill, Columbia manager, went to Salt Lake 

City to attend the funeral of William Seib, 

late manager there. 

Press Wood, assistant purchasing agent for 

Fox Intermountain Theatres, has resigned 

because of ill health. He is being succeeded 

by Alvin J. Plouff of the auditing department 

. and Mrs. Floyd Brethour, both 

of Filmrow, are the parents of a baby son 

named Jerome F. Floyd is a booker at 

United Ai-tists, and his wife Bobby, the 

daughter of Robert Spahn, independent film 

buyer and booker, recently was secretary at 

Lippert here. 

Kelso Lee and his son Lem have increased 

their holdings in the Northside and Starlight 

drive-ins at Colorado Springs by buying part 

of the interest of Paul Rothman. This gives 

the Lees the controlling interest . . . Projectionists 

Local 230 re-elected most of its officers. 

They include J. W. Dooley. president; 

Nick Jinacio, vice-president; R. E. 

Waller, secretary; Dan M. Kelly, treasurer; 

Charles P. Weber, business agent; Dave 

Jinacio, sergeant at arms, and G. L. Campbell, 

H. B. Banzhaf and Dave Jinacio, trustees. 

The union is now located in new offices 

at 628 Mining Exchange Bldg. 

Thomas J. Tuttle, 61, foi-mer manager of 

the Ogden, died at a Denver sanitarium after 

a lengthy illness. He is survived by his 

wife Mary, a theatre organist, and a daughter. 

. . 

Tuttle was a Variety Club member . 

Filmi'ow visitors included Mrs. Mary Lind, 

Rifle; Dorrance Schmidt, Bridgeport; Dr. 

F. E. Rider, Wauneta; Kenneth Powell, Wray; 

Neal Beezley, Burlington; Berl Lingle, 

Estancia, N. Mex.; Robert Smith, Steamboat 

Springs; Mrs. Marie Goodhand, Kimball: 

James Peterson, Littleton, and John Murray, 

Springfield. 

Mono-AA Chiefs Confer 

On Three New Pictures 

HOLLYWOOD—Sales and planning conferences 

expected to continue through the 

week got under way Monday (21) at the 

Monogram-Allied Ai-tists home office here 

with top east and west coast officials participating. 

Due in from New York were Morey R. 

Goldstein, vice-president and general sales 

chief; Edward Morey, vice-president, and 

Lloyd Lind, supervisor of exchanges. They 

will huddle with Steve Broidy, president; 

Harold Mirisch and G. Ralph Branton, vicepresidents, 

anent sales policies and bookings 

for two Monogi-am specials in Cinecolor. "Fort 

Osage" and "Rodeo," and "Waco," done in 

sepia tone. 

Give Fountain of Youth Water 

SEATTLE—A novel gimmick is being used 

at the Orpheum Theatre here to build grosses 

for "Distant Drums." The first 150 persons 

entering the theatre received a souvenir bottle 

of water from the famed Fountain of Youth. 

BOXOFFICE January 26, 1952 58-C

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SAN FRANCISCO 

nrmed forces personnel visiting here are 

allotted 150 passes to downtown first 

runs by the California Theatre Ass'n and 

the downtown theatres. They are distributed 

by the USO on a first-come, first-served basis 

continuance of the operation of the 

Chester Theatre in Chester will depend on 

local attendance. John Reynolds and Harmon 

Goins, winter lessees, announced. The 

two men leased the theatre from owner Ed 

Blaii- for the winter. 

The Westerner Drive-In at Manzanita and 

Fair Oaks boulevard in Sacramento was 

robbed recently. Robert Gingerich. manager, 

said the boxoffice was entered and the safe 

damaged. The loss was not determined . . . 

The police are also investigating the theft 

of $1,867 from the California Theatre in 

Sacramento. The authorities said there is no 

evidence a burglai- forced his way into the 

theatre, and the safe showed no marks of 

tampering. Kay Naify. manager, said receipts 

for three days were taken. 

Marion Dix, manager of the Butte in Gridley 

the last two and one-half years, has 

resigned and George Lovett has succeeded 

him. Dix said he will remain in Gridley to 

devote his full time to a new enterprise . . . 

Tom Whittemore. district manager for United 

California Theatres, has transferred William 

Shonk to Susanville to manage the Sierra. 

Shonk was the manager of the Starlight 

Drive-In in Chico last year. His successor 

THEATRE /ALE/ 

.ARAKELIAN 

PROSPECT 5-7146 

at the Starlight will not be named until 

the reopening in spring. George Lewis, recently 

of the Fox West Coast Theatres, has 

taken over the management of the Senator 

Theatre, and Joe Martin, who has been doing 

double duty at both the Senator and 

El Rey theatres, will devote full time as 

manager of the El Rey. 

Max Baer, Preston Foster and Wayne Morris 

were here for a benefit fight card for 

the March of Dimes and the Damon Runyon 

James Ford, Loew's Warfield 

cancer fund . . . 

projectionist, died January 15 . . . The 

carriers of the Call Bulletin were treated 

to a screening of "Man in the Saddle" at the 

Orpheum Theatre. The preview resulted in 

a three-column break in the newspaper. 

The Variety Club will hold its installation 

The Crest in Richmond, 

dinner February 1 . . . 

owned by Robert L. Lippert, has been 

Walter Neubauer, Ackerman- 

Ray 

closed . . . 

Roesner circuit, w'as on the Row . 

Tapia. manager of the 

. . 

Hub Theatre, broke 

an arm changing posters in the lobby . . . 

Harry Gold, day manager of the Hub Theatre, 

formerly was a film salesman for 20th- 

Two films scheduled for showing in Redwood 

City last week were clipped in four 

places to eliminate scenes found objectionable 

by Mayor Carl Britchgi and police lieu- 

Fox in the Boston territory . . . Jack Allen, 

manager of the Stage Door Theatre, was preparing 

to open "The Medium" the end of 

tenant Faulstich. The films were banned 

from showing in San Mateo at the reque.st 

January. 

of the police chief there. So the manager 

of the Fox Theatre in Redwood City requested 

Arthur Unger, popcorn man, was in Los 

the mayor and a police representa- 

John Leo 

Angeles for a business strip . . . 

tive preview them so they could show to and Harry Farros have opened offices at 

Redwood City audiences. 

174 Golden Gate Ave. to handle foreign films 

Bemis, manager of the Walter 

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Pi-eddey Co., returned from Mendocino state 

hospital at Talmage, where he installed Century 

equipment. Bob said, "They Irave one 

operator in the state hospital already, and 

if business keeps up the way it is, they'll 

have a number of exhibitors." 

Earl Boles of the Mecca in Crescent City 

suffered a heart attack but is recuperating 

nicely. Boles' new theatre, the Pic, is being 

equipped by the Walter Preddey Co., and 

should be ready to open in about 60 days 

Amundsen jr.. Cow Palace Theatre 

in Elks Grove, has been issued a permit 

to construct a quonset-style theatre and 

has started work on it . . . Charlotte Halliburton, 

secretar-y at Walter Preddey's, is back 

on the job following an auto accident. 

Braving the storms to visit the Row were 

Al Adolph, Klamath Falls: R. B. Smith, 

LonperLife! 

Longer Life! 

Minimum Maintenance! 

Pacific Coosf Disfribulors 

B. F. SHEARER COMPANY 

. 

Chochilla: E. Palermo, Star in Stockton; R. 

Patton. Sonora; Chris Peters, Manteca, and 

Al O'Keefe, new owner of Kinema Theatre, 

Fresno . on their way to the National 

Screen sales meeting in Los Angeles January 

21 were Steve Broidy of Seattle, Tony 

Hartford of Seattle and Herb Cass of Portland. 

Jack Marpole. Issy Wolfe and Ray 

Richmond of the local NSS office also attended 

Santiago of NSS was married 

Bob Carr was promoted to take 

. . . charge of the trailer department . . . Mabel 

Dahir celebrated a birthday . Patterson. 

Astor. left for Los Angeles on an extended 

trip tlu'oughout the territory. 

Barney Gurnette, new owner of the Exeter 

Theatre, was on the Row booking. He also 

owns the Clovis in Clovis . . . Bert Kulick 

of Bell Pictures was in from New York . 

Pete DeCenzie, owner of the El Rey in Oakland, 

has produced "French Peep Show," 

which he sneak-previewed on the second anniversary 

of his theatre operation. Starring 

Tempest Storm, the film was made on the 

stage by the El Rey stock players after the 

regular day's work. The audience received the 

preview with enthusiasm. 

Charlie Weiner returned from Los Angeles 

following his bookings for "Because of Eve" 

Petersen. Western Theatrical 

Equipment Co.. is suffering a bad cold . . . 

Starting February 1, Les Paul and Mary 

Ford, Capital Recording ai'tists, will head a 

four-day .stage show at the Paramount. 

Another traveler from theatrical circles here 

will be Lew Serbin, noted Dance Art Co. 

owner. Serbin is making a combined business 

. . . Norman 

and pleasure tour of Europe 

Dorn, publicist for San Francisco Theatres, 

is still singing the praises of "La Ronde" at 

the Vogue. 

The Garberville Theatre, Garberville, 

opened Saturday (12) following complete redecoration 

and remodeling. Included in the 

overhauling was the installation of a new 

concession area. Santocono. theatre architect, 

handled the remodeling . . . Michael Riordan, 

former chief of police, spoke on his recent trip 

to Ireland between showings of the musical 

"Showtime" and the Irish drama "Captain 

Boycott" at the Rio Theatre. The program was 

sponsored by the Irish Literary and Historical 

society. 

TTA Head on Civil Board 

SACRAMENTO. CALIF. — Kenneth E. 

Wright, owner and operator of the Manor 

Theatre and president and managing director 

of the newly organized Theatre Television 

Authority, has been appointed to the 

civil service board by the Sacramento city 

council. Wright has been active in civic affairs 

for the past several years. His TTA, 

a large-screen theatre TV programming 

agency, has offices here and in Los Angeles 

and San Francisco. 

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— 

St. Louis Film Council 

Hears Wm. T. Powell 

ST. LOUIS—William T. Powell, midwest 

division manager for the Smith Management 

Co. of Boston, which operates the Airway 

and Manchester drive-ins and the Gem, 

Overland and Beverly theatres in St. Louis 

county, spoke on "What Democracy Demands 

of Motion Pictures" at the January meeting 

of the Better Films Council of Greater St. 

Louis in the Scruggs Music hall Friday U8). 

Powell stressed that these are "anxious, 

uncertain days—days in which we must be 

courageous and resolute in the production 

and exhibition of motion pictures meeting 

every challenge of the times with every power 

and resource at our command." 

INDUSTRY FURNISHES LEADERS 

Powell heads the speakers bureau of the 

Motion Picture Theatre Owners of St. Louis. 

Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. 

"We must have the support of all thoughtful, 

clear-thinking people who know it is 

important in the plan of our democracy that 

a force such as ours, that has contributed so 

much to the cause of freedom, be maintained," 

he said. 

"The men and women of this industry, its 

leaders and its magnificent rank and file 

have never spared themselves in any emergency. 

They have led the way in fund-raising 

campaigns for e\'ery great cause, for the relief 

of suffering humanity, for national bond 

sales that oiu: economy might be preserved, 

and by personal appearances during the 

great conflicts and in the war in Korea in 

which we are now engaged have brought a 

touch of home to our boys." 

He brought out that much of the preesnt 

unfavorable comments on pictures come from 

persons who haven't been to a motion picture 

theatre for several years, and their unfair 

statements are parroted by their friends. 

"I deny emphatically the charge that motion 

pictures of today are not so good as they 

used to be," he continued. "I deny even more 

emphaticaly that they do not please the 

average American to whom we cater. I submit 

that the economics of this day have a 

great deal to do with our decrea.sed attendance. 

The average American who lives sensibly 

cannot afford as large an amusement 

expenditure as in the past. That is why most 

amusement—baseball, boxing, hockey—practically 

all of them face dwindling revenues. 

That is even why our large stores, astonishingly 

to some, advertise sales before 

Christmas. 

PREDICTS FILM-VIDEO UNION 

"To say that television isn't affecting us 

would be as foolish as to attempt to criticize 

it. It is a great and novel and revolutionary 

step in entertainment, just as radio was when 

It was first introduced. By its very novelty 

alone it commands the attention and the 

money of millions of our people. Nor will I 

attempt to throw stones at it by pointing out 

some of its weaknesses. It will improve 

vastly. Color is just around the corner and 

we know what a forward step that is. Rather 

I am one w'ho believes that we will join 

hands—as we did with radio— in greater scope 

and perhaps undreamed-of advances in the 

art and science of amusement. 

"In the meantime we have our trials and 

our anxious days. But I know we have 

emerged from the temporary despair of the 

past few months into the bright sunshine 

Fox Midwest Circuifs 117 Theatres 

To Conduct Presidential Poll 

KANSAS CITY—Fox Midwest Amusement 

Corp. announced this week that it would conduct 

a presidential primary and poll in 117 

theatres operated by the chain in a five-state 

area. 

Nearly 300,000 adults attend the 117 theatres, 

including 18 in the Kansas City area, 

each week. Fox Midwest officials said. Starting 

with the primary balloting on Friday (1), 

customers will be handed ballots bearing the 

names of the leading candidates for the 

presidency in both political parties. The 

ballot, according to Senn Lawler, head of advertising 

and publicity for FMW, will carry 

the names of eight candidates—Gen. Dwight 

D. Eisenhower, Senator Robert Taft, Gov. 

Earl Warren and Gov. Harold Stassen on the 

Republican side, and on the Democrat ticket 

President Truman, Vice-President Barkley, 

Senator Estes Kefauver and Chief Justice 

Fred M. Vinson. 

The theatre patrons, Lawler said, would 

be asked to select the one candidate of their 

choice on their own political party ticket. 

Tliis, Lawler added, would eliminate the difficulty 

of asking the patron whether he 

wanted a Democrat or Republican ballot. 

There also will be space for write-in candidates 

and instructions on the ballots. 

After the nominees are selected, a runoff 

poll will be held during the week starting 

Friday, February 15. Counting of the primary 

votes will take place during the interim week. 

Daily accumulative totals will be made known 

each day in each town. As soon as available 

the state and territory totals will be announced 

in the Kansas City headquarters. 

Since winners in the primary are expected 

to be different in the various towns, the run- 

of warranted optimism—that our feet are 

on the path of progress and that the guide 

posts which mark the way direct us in the 

language of what a democracy and its people 

demand of motion pictures; namely, fine 

decent, moral entertainment that may expose 

to the pitiless light of our screens the evils 

which we are encountering but which always 

will be keyed to the heartstrings and the 

emotions and hopes of a free, God-fearing 

people." 

Daniel Flanagan Shifted; 

Francis Edwards at Paola 

PAOLA, KAS.—Daniel Flanagan, manager 

of the Paola Theatre since September 1949, 

left this month for Nebraska City, Neb., where 

he has been transferred as city manager for 

Midcentral Theatres. That is Flanagan's 

home town. 

He is succeeded here by Francis Edwârds, 

who has been assistant manager at the Jayhawk 

Theatre in Lawrence. 

Tau'y Seats Restored 

OTTAWA, KAS.—The Tauy Theatre has 

installed 165 new seat backs to replace those 

damaged in last year's flood. 

There are 31 projection trucks in Denmark 

which travel through the country showing 

motion pictures. 

offs will be conducted on a local basis in each 

town. Theatre officials said the final returns 

of all the towns participating should give a 

good cross-section of opinion in the territory 

covered by the poll. 

Outside the Kansas City area, patrons of 

48 theatres in 24 Kansas towns, 26 theatres 

in 13 Missouri towns, 21 theatres in ten 

Illinois towns, one theatre in one Nebraska 

town and three theatres in three Iowa towns 

will participate. 

The theatres in Kansas City which will 

have ballots available for patrons are the 

Uptown, Esquirs, Fairway. Granada. Tower, 

Plaza. Isis. Apollo. Brookside. Waldo. Warwick. 

Benton, Vista, Rockhill, Linwood, Gladstone, 

Lincoln and Carver. Tho.se outside 

Kansas City include: 

In Kansas—Two theatres each in Arkansas 

City, Atchison, Coffeyville, Dodge City, Emporia, 

Fort Scott, lola. Liberal, Newton. Salina; 

three theatres in Hutchinson, Pittsburg; 

five in Topeka; .seven in Wichita, and one 

theatre each in Chanute. Clay Center. Concordia. 

El Dorado. Hays. Lyons. Marysville, 

Ottawa, Wellington and Winfield. 

In Missouri—Four theatres in Joplin; five 

in Springfield; two each in Cape Girardeau, 

Excelsior Springs, Kirksville, Moberly, Nevada 

and Sedalia, and one each in BoonvUle. 

Brookfield. Carthage. Lexington and Marshall. 

In Illinois—Three theatres in Jacksonville, 

Mount Vernon and West Franklin; two in 

Belleville, Benton, Centralia, DuQuoin, 

Marion and one in Christopher and Springfield. 

In Iowa—One theatre each in Council 

Bluffs, Fort Madison and Muscatine. 

In Nebraska—One theatre at Beatrice. 

Doyle Mowrey Vacations; 

William Terrill Sits In 

LINDSBORG. KAS.—While Doyle Mowrey. 

who has been manager of the Plaza Theatre 

since Arnold Slusher was transferred to Rockport. 

Mo., is on vacation. William Terrill is 

taking his place until early February. 

Terrill came here from Goodland, Kas.. 

where he was managing a Commonwealth 

situation for a while. Terrill is ordinarily 

with the circuit in Kansas City. 

Gerald Hunt Takes Over 

DONIPHAN. MO.—Gerald H. Hunt, owner 

of the Hunt Theatre, has taken over the 

Missouri Theatre, formerly operated by Mrs. 

E. J. Chilton, whose lease on that theatre 

expired and the building owner declined to 

give her a new one. Mrs. Chilton is giving 

weekend shows at her 150-car drive-in near 

here. She also contemplates the construction 

of a theatre here to provide opposition to the 

Hunt and Missouri theatres. 

W. F. Hoffman Moved 

McHENRY. ILL.—W. F. Hoffman, former 

local manager of the Colony Theatre, has 

taken a position as assistant at the Tri- 

States Paramount in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

copper drippings for defense. 


City Manager Seeks 

End to Censorship 

KANSAS CITY—In a move designed to 

bring added economies to the city government. 

City Manager L. P. Cookingham has 

recommended that city film censorship be 

abolished. 

In his recommendations to the city fathers 

late last week, Cookingham suggested a number 

of city services which could be curtailed, 

including film censorship, a practice which 

has been in force in Kansas City since the 

nickelodeon days before World War I. 

This week, the city manager said that he 

believed film censorship was not necessary, 

adding that of the hundreds of films screened 

for the censor each year, only a very few were 

banned for theatre exhibition here. 

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THE^yTRE EQUIPMENT 

442 NORTH ILLINOIS STREET 

INDIANAPOLIS 

INDIANA 

"Everything for fhe Theatre" 

INDIANAPOLIS 

fônrad Richardson has been named assistant 

manager at the Circle, and William 

Welsh is the new assistant at the Indiana . . . 

The Variety Club will install newly elected 

officers Monday (28) ... New officers of the 

Colosseum of Motion Picture Salesmen were 

to be installed at a luncheon meeting in the 

Meta Abramson, 

Antlers Saturday i26.) . . . 

who retired after 32 years of service as an 

inspector with 20th-Fox, was married to 

Dan Murphy. They are spending their honeymoon 

in Florida. 

Exhibitors seen on Filmrow: Walter Weil 

of the Weil. Greenfield; Arthur Standish, 

Hartford, Hartford City; Forrest Songer, 

Drive-In, Veedersburg; R. E. Harrold, 

Princess, Rushville, and Chuck Hood of the 

Elmwood at Elm.wood. 

Variety Club notes: The 1952 crew and canvasmen 

of the Variety Tent 10 held their 

first meeting January 7 and it was observed 

by Bernard Brager, property master, that if 

Indiana Variety does not grow in strength 

and prestige in the year ahead it will not be 

the result of any lack of enthusiasm and 

resolution on the part of the dii-ectors. 

Howard Rorer Resigns 

DIXON, ILL.—Howard Emmerson Rorer 

has resigned as manager of the Lee Theatre, 

officials of the Lee-Dix Theatre Corp. said. 

U.S. defense needs your copper drippings. 

NOW PIArm THIS COMBO! . . . 

LOEWS Circuit, WARNER'S, 


CENTURY and RANDFORCE! 

Three Area Showings 

Given by Universal 

KANSAS CITY — Universal this week 

staged a series of territory trade screenings 

of its forthcoming "Bend of the River" and 

"Bright Victory," in reply to exhibitor pleas 

for such showings in small-town theatres. 

Combining with Warner Bros, for one of 

the showings, U-I gave its area screenings 

a big sendoff at Hugh Gardner's Orpheum 

Theatre in Neosho on Tuesday (22). Warners 

screened "I'll See You in My Dreams" Tuesday 

morning. Luncheon was served at noon and 

in the afternoon the two U-I features were 

shown. 

Screenings were arranged by Russell Borg, 

WB manager here; Jack Langan, U-I manager, 

and Larry Klein, U-I office manager. 

On Wednesday (23), U-I showed the two 

features at Don Phillip's Lyric in Colby in the 

afternoon and the performances were repeated 

the following afternoon at Roy Culley's 

Pastime in Medicine Lodge. 

Invitations were extended to all exhibitors 

in the areas to attend tlie showings and 

Morrie Bellner, U-I representative, was on 

hand in behalf of his company. 

This series of screenings followed a trial 

showing for exhibitors staged in December 

at Dale Danielson's Mecca in Russell, Kas., at 

which time "Weekend With Father" and 

"Bright Victory" were shown. 

The screenings came shortly after an appeal 

by directors of the Kansas-Missouri Theatre 

Ass'n for screenings in the territory. The 

KMTA also requested that trailers be screened 

with the films, but in this week's showings 

trailers were not included. 

W. L. Moxley Sells Airer 

In Blytheville. Ark. 

BLOOMFIELD, MO.—Tlie Starvue Drive- 

In on South Highway 61, Blytheville, Ark., 

has been sold by W. L. Moxley of Blytheville 

to E. A. Mooney of Bloomfield. The 

latter has taken over the theatre and expects 

to open it in March, Moxley said. 

The Starvue has been operated by Moxley 

since it opened in 1949. He said he 

planned to purchase a theatre in Memphis 

but that he would continue to reside in 

Blytlieville, where he also owns the Mox and 

Savoy theatres. 

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'Dawn' Comes Up Like 

Thunder in Chicago 

CHICAGO— "Decision Before Dawn," plus 

"FBI Girl." had a hefty week at 115 per cent, 

a figure matched by the third weeks of "Detective 

Story" at the Woods and "The Emperor's 

Nightingale" at the World. Improved 

weather conditions were also responsible for 

upping the grosses at all first runs. "The 

Well" and "The Big Night," two UA releases. 

opened very well at the United Aitists. Pearl 

Bailey and the Saul Grauman Revue were 

the stage attractions at the Chicago, while 

Eddy Howard and Joey Bishop headed the 

stager at the Oriental. The .stage-screen bills 

registered 110 and 105 per cent. Only two 

bookings dropped below the 100 average this 

week and they managed to attain 95. 


Chicago—Double Dynamite (RKO), plus stage 

show 

no 

95 

Grand—Weekond With 

McVickers-Distant 

Father 

Drums 

(U-I), 

(WB); 

3rd wk 

Two Tickets to 

Broadway (RKO), 2nd d, t. wk ; 

Orientcl My Favorite Spy (Para), plus stage 

100 

show 105 

of (U-I); The Tide 

Roosevelt—Flame Araby Raging 

(U-I) 95 

State-Lake—Decision Before Down (20th-Fox); FBI 

Girl (LP) IIS 

United Artists—The Well (UA), The Big Night 

(UA) 110 

World Playhouse—The Emperor's Nightingale 

(Teitel), 3rd wk 115 

Woods—Detective Story (Para), 3rd wk 115 

Ziegfeld—The River (UA), 9th d. t. wk. Good 

"Lavender Hill Mob' Strong 

In Tenth Week 

KANSAS CITY—"The Lavender Hill Mob" 

continued to do sensational business at the 

Vogue here and owner Eddie Golden held it 

over for an eleventh week. Other first runs 

did good business. "My Favorite Spy," in a 

second week at the Paramount, was the 

leader in the downtown houses with 130 per 

cent, followed closely by the fourth week of 

"Quo Vadis," the second week of "I'll See 

You in My Dreams" and the opening of 

"Fixed Bayonets." 

Esquire—FBI Girl (LP); Sky High (LP) 90 

Kimc—Bitter Rice (Lux), 2nd run 90 

Midland-Quo Vadis (MOM), 4th wk 120 

Missouri— I'll See You in My Dreams (WB); 

Smuggler's Gold (Col), 2iid wk 120 

Paramount-My Favorite Spy (Para), 2nd wk 130 

Tower, Uptown, Fairway and Granada—Fixed 

Bayonets (20th-Fox); Elephant Stampede 

(Mono), at Tower and Granada only 120 

Vogue—The Lavender Hill Mob (U-I), 10th wk 175 

Indianapolis Grosses 

Run Fair to Good 

INDIANAPOLIS—Grosses at first runs 

were fair to good last week. "I'll See You 

in My Dreams" was the best at 100, while the 

advanced price run of "Quo Vadis" was in its 

final week at a 120 figiu-e. 

Circle—Double Dynamite (RKO); Her Panelled 

Door lS7-jv3in.ri 80 

Indiana— I'll See You in My Dreams (WB); The 

Girl on the Bridge (20th-Fox) 100 

Keiths—The Racket (RKO); Woman in the Dark 

(Rep) 75 

Loew's-Quo VadU (MGM), 3rd wk 120 

Lyric—Silver City (Para); Captive of Billy the 

Kid (Rep) 75 

Marysville Isis Improved 

MARYSVILLE. KAS. — Eddie Henderson, 

owner of the Isis Theatre, is making several 

improvements. New inlaid linoleum has 

been placed in the foyer and the lobby received 

a coat of paint. He has also installed 

a root beer machine and sandwich maker at 

the concession stand. 

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ST. 

LOUIS 

"The F&M Missouri Theatre was the scene 

Tuesday night (22) of a Boy Scout week 

ceremony. On the stage about 8:15 p. m. the 

boy selected to serve as a Boy Scout mayor 

of St. Louis was inducted into that office. 

Mayor Joseph M. Darst and other civic leaders 

participated in the program arranged by 

Al Wheeler, manager of the Missouri ... A 

fine attendance was anticipated for the gathering 

of independent drive-in folk scheduled 

at the Dunn hotel in Poplar Bluff Friday 

(25) under the sponsor.ship of Andy Dietz, 

general manager of Cooperative Theatres. 

The wife of John A. Krause, owner of the 

Nauvoo (111.) Theatre, gave birth to a baby 

boy named David E. in a Fort Madison, Iowa, 

hospital on January 8 . . . The U.S. district 

court of Judge Roy W. Harper has continued 

the suit of Fanchon & Marco Service Corp. 

vs. Confection Cabinet Corp. to the next term 

of court, while in the antitrust suit of D'Arcy 

vs. Fanchon & Marco et al. the defendants 

have been granted an extension to February 

8 to file their reply briefs. 

to Honolulu to wed Bill Jackson, a petty officer 

in the coast guard, there February 9 . . . 

C. D. Hill, manager for Columbia, attended 

the company's sales conference in Chicago. He 

was all steamed up about the big sales drives 

in which the top prizes are trips to Europe. 

C. D. is training his sights on Rome and its 

environs. He has been to London and Paris 

but never to the Eternal city . . . Nat Steinberg, 

Republic manager, was in Chicago January 

13 through the 15th for a sales gathering. 

Exhibitors along Filrarow: Ed Clark, Mattoon. 

Don Griffin, Charleston; Hot Gilliam, 

the Arena, Paducah; Johnny Giachetto, 

Springfield; Frank X. Reller, Wentzville; 

Roger Moyer, Louisiana, Mo.; Homer Hulsey, 

St. Clair, and Tilden Dickson, former owner 

of theatres in Crystal City and St. Clair, who 

was bidding farewell to his many friends. He 

plans to make Phoenix. Ariz., his home. 

A brother-in-law of Caesar Berutt of Rolla 

was among the 119 miners who lost their 

Uves in an explosion and fire in Orient No. 2 

mine at West Frankfort the night of Decem- 

Leo Keiler, president of the Columbia 

ber 21 . . . 

Amusement Co.. Paducah. has reber 

mained in California for the winter. Also still 

there is Harry C. Arthur, president of Fanchon 

& Marco . McCarthy, manager for 

Lippert, visited Springfield, Cairo and Paducah. 

Marc Steinberg, former manager-owner of 

the Ritz in East Alton, is stationed at the 

Great Lakes naval station in the naval reserve. 

Many Drive-In Deals 

In Sto Louis District 

ST. LOUIS—Many additional drive-ins are 

in prospect for the St. Louis trade territory 

in the spring and early summer of 1952. 

Among those under construction or definitely 

planned for an early start are a 300-car project 

at Ava, Mo., for L. H. Pettit of the Pettit 

Theatre Corp., owner of the Avalon and Star 

in Ava; a 250-car drive-in near Willow 

Springs, Mo., for R. D. Fischer, who operates 

the Star in that town; a 300-car project just 

outside of Mountain Grove, Mo., said to be 

bank-rolled by a prominent Poplar Bluff contractor 

and his business associates, and a 

300-car drive-in project on Highway No. 66 

near Marshfield, Mo., by Lloyd Smith of 

Niangua, Mo. 

Previously announced projects included the 

300-car drive-in near DeSoto, 111., of Frank 

Glenn, Tamaroa, and Wayne Smith, Herrin; 

the 350-car project on Route No. 13 west of 

Marion, 111., planned by Mayor Marshall of 

Tamaroa and a.ssociates; Frank Glenn second 

drive-in near Mount Vernon on Route 

No. 460 about three blocks west of the city 

Plans for the premiere of the Dizzy Dean limits; the 1,200-car project on Route No. 66 

picture by 20th-Fox were discussed at a just south of Springfield being constructed 

luncheon at the Jefferson hotel attended by for Kerasotes Bros.. Springfield; the 500-car 

Taylor Spink, publisher of Sporting News, the drive-in on Route 54 at Eldon, Mo., to be 

baseball paper: representatives of the St. operated by Tom Edwards of the Edwards & 

Louis Chamber of Commerce; Chick Evens, Plumlee Theatres, Farmington, Mo.; Mrs. 

exploiteer for 20th-Fox; J. McVey of the New William Sherman's 325-car Jackie Linn Drive- 

York headquarters exploitation staff; Gordon 

In at Jackson, Mo.; the 300-car drive-in on 

Halloran, St. Louis manager; Joe R. U.S. 61 near New Madrid, Mo., being con- 

Neger. Kansas City manager; Joe Feld, assistant 

structed by Norvin Garner of Dexter, Mo.; 

manager here, and Bob Johnson, man- 

the 350-car project of Harry Blount of Potosi. 

ager of advertismg and publicity for Fanchon 

& Ma:co. 

Mo., near that city, and Dean Davis' 350-car 

drive-in on Route No. 63 near West Plains, 

Mo., where he operates the Avenue and Davis 

Ruth Barlow, secretary at Realart, will fly 

theatres. 

Boothmen End Strike 

In 12 St. Louis Theatres 

ST. LOUIS—The strike of projectionists in 

12 local theatres that cater to the Negro patronage 

was settled on Friday (18) and most 

of the theatres resumed operations. 

The strike started on Dere.nber 23 after 

the theatre owners hiid rejected the demands 

of Local 143-A, for wage increase of from 

10 to 35 per cent. It was indicated that the 

settlement brought the men average increases 

of about 10 per cent. Prior to the 

walkout their weekly wage had averaged up 

to $75. Theatres affected by the strike included 

Comet, Strand, Douglass, Star, Roosevelt, 

Marquette, Criterion, Laclede, Amytis, 

Carver, Regal and Circle. 

Harry Blount to Build 

POTOSI, MO.—Harry Blount, owner-operator 

of the 500-seat Plaza Theatre here, has 

started construction of a 350-car drive-in. 

He has arranged to obtain projection and 

sound equipment from Joe Hornsteln. Inc., 

here. 

EVERYTHING FOR THE THEATRE

. . Ben 

. . Louis 

. . Betty 

. . Jack 

. . Gladyce 

ANSAS CITY 

•phe formal opening of the T. H. Slothower Klein, U-I office manager, and R. R. Thompson. 

Lippert manager. 

Sunset Theatre. Wichita, originally scheduled 

for Christmas but delayed at that time 

by the illness of Mrs. Slothower. was staged Bob Hilton. Chicago, district manager for 

Monday (21). with many industryites 

Alb3c. 

from 

was in town recently . . . Stan Warco, 

Kansas City in attendance. Among 

Altec, 

those 

returned to the local office after a 

flying to Wichita for the formal ceremony week in St. Louis . . . Barney Joffee, manager 

of 

were Jack Langan. U-I manager; Larry 

the Tower, still was in Florida soaking 

up sunshine, but was expected to return home 

next week 

. Higdon. Midcentral Theatres. 

Manhattan, was in the Missouri Theatre 

Supply Co. office late last week. 

THEATRE MARQUEES 

Visitors on the Row included Louis 

Attraction 

Stein, 

Boards 

Parsons 

Vertical 

Drive-In, 

Signs Parsons; 

Neon W. C. Silvers, 

Signs 

Cameron; Charles Knickerbocker, Liberty' 

UNITED NEON COMPANY 

Columbus; Bernie Shaner. Dixie. Odessa; 

4607 Prospect, Kansas City. Mo.. Phone AR. S20S John Egli III. Hickory. St. Joseph; Dan Blair. 

Blair. Smith Center; C. S. Schafer. Regent. 

Blue Rapids: Bob Dyson. Plaza. St. Joseph, 

and Mr. and Mrs. H. Danberry. Lucille, 

Satisfaction — 

King 

Always 

City. Hank Doering. Peoples Theatre. Garnett. 

was on the Row also. 

MISSOURI 

Gene Musgrave, owner of the Ritz, 

THEATRE Minneapolis, 

has purchased new RCA sound equip- 

SUPPLY COMPANY 

L. I. KIMBRIEL. Manage 

ment from Missouri 

Phone 

Theatre Supply. 

BAItimore Frank 

3070 

Keilhack of MTS service department made 

City 8, Mo. the installation 

CDUIMmJI 

. . . Alex Schniderman, who 

purchased Fred Meyn's flooded-out Park in 

the Argentine section of Kansas City, Kas., 

has purchased new International seats from 

MTS. Schniderman said that he had the 

flood debris cleaned out of the Park and that 

he was shooting for a February opening of the 

theatre. 

Betty Caruso, Lippert. returned from her 

vacation 

. Marcus. Columbia district 

manager, and Tom Baldwin, branch manager, 

were in Chicago for a midwest division 

meeting with home office executives . . . 

Finest Hybrid POPCORN with Top Pop-Out Louise Hanis. Columbia head inspector, left 

in 10 Lb. Moistureproof PLASTIC BAGS on a two-week leave of absence to 

ACTUALLY 

make a 

COSTS LESS than Canned Corn southern tour with 

. . only her 

. slightly more husband 

. . . 

than con, Cle 

in 100-pound sack

New Book Published 

By Louis 0. Honig 

KANSAS CITY—A new book, his second 

contribution to the history of the west, has 

made its appearance from the pen of Louis 

O. Honig. head of the real estate and insurance 

department of 

Fox Midwest Amusement 

Corp. 

The book, titled, 

"James Bridger: the 

Pathfinder of the 

Wes-t." was both 

authored and published 

by Honig and 

Louis O. Honig 

concerns the life and 

adventures of the legendary 

trapper, trader, 

guide and scout who 

played an important 

part in the winning of 

^j^g 

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Honig. who also wrote a book on early 

Americans of this area, called "Old Westport." 

has for several years syndicated a column 

of historical sketches, gleaned from his 

long interest in early Americana, his study 

of the west, its history and development and 

his devotion to the history of Westport. 

Bridger for a time was in business in Westport 

and spent his declining years near that 

community. 

Honig, with the enthusiasm of a historian, 

has traveled over much of the ten-itory that 

Bridger knew and much of which Bridger 

discovered. The mountain men of the west, 

such as Bridger, left little written or printed 

material from which modern researchers can 

reconstruct the story of their conquests. But 

with each sifting of facts, something new is 

brought to light. 

About Bridger in particular there would 

seem to be little to add, but Honig does add 

new facts unearthed in his researches. And 

he succeeds in bringing Bridger, the legendary 

figure, closer to the people of this area, making 

him more human and real. 

The Honig volume itself is described by a 

Kansas City Star reviewer as a work of 

beauty, limited to 525 autographed copies, and 

containing 152 pages. Retail price of the 

volume is given as $10. The printing, on 

heavy deckle-edge paper, was done by the 

Brown-White-Lowell press of Kansas City. 

The binding, stamped with gold, was done by 

the Carno bindery, also a local firm. 

Several of the plates with which the book 

is illustrated are from sketches made by 

Cornelius M. Ismert. local advertising man. 

In a foreword. Dwight Pennington, feature 

editor of the Star, calls Bridger one of the 

true giants of the early west and commends 

Honig for his contribution to western historical 

lore. 

Kathy Case, 18-year-old radio and TV 

actress, will make her screen debut as the 

femme lead in Columbia's "Junction City." 

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Armed Forces in Appeal 

For Blood at 'Bayonets' 

KANSAS CITY—The urgency of the need 

for blood to treat battle casualties was illustrated 

by the formidable gathering of command 

personnel from all the armed services 

on the stage of the Uptown Theatre Tuesday 

night 115) at the opening of "Fixed Bayonets." 

Navy, air force, marine and army officers 

and the 42nd army band of the Kansas national 

guard, totaling about 100, gave a brief 

program of music and talks in behalf of the 

blood donor program preceding the night 

showing of the film. 

More than 100 persons who had signed 

donor pledges were admitted free. More than 

2,000 invitations entitling signers to free admission 

were issued by the Uptown and valid 

through January 21. 

The Kansas City showing of the film was 

dedicated to Sgt. Charles R. Long, a Kansas 

City infantryman who was awarded the Congressional 

Medal of Honor posthumously for 

valor near Hoengsong. 

Tlie speakers in behalf of blood donations 

included Maj. Gen. George R. Acheson, commanding 

the central air defense force; Capt. 

James H. Flatley, Olathe air station commander; 

Lieut. Col. Joseph O. Gerot, instructor 

at the Command and General Staff 

school at Ft. Leavenworth, and Lieut. Col. 

William A. Cloman, commander of the marine 

air detachment at Olathe. 

Stagehands Local Holds 

Annual Celebration 

KANSAS CITY—Some 400 industry members 

recently attended the annual celebration 

staged by the lATSE stagehands Local 

31 at the musicians association building here. 

The evening's entertainment included dancing 

into the small hours of the morning, 

food and drinks all at the expense of the 

union. The celebration was started more than 

13 years ago when the first get-together was 

held to mark the 25th wedding anniversary 

of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Snow. Snow is a vicepresident 

of the international union and business 

agent of the local. 

Among notables attending the affair were 

Elmer Rhoden, James Long, Semi Lawler, 

Leon Robertson, Hugh Siverd, maanger of the 

Plaza; Chuck Barnes, manager of the Granada; 

Nick Sonday. manager of the Uptown; 

Roy Hill. Esquire; Roger Ruddick, Isis, and 

Harold Hume, Howard White and Joe Redmond 

jr., all of Fox Midwest; Harold Lyon, 

managing director of the Paramount; Bill 

Symon and Jim McQueeny of the Starlight 

Theatre; Lawrence Lehman, Missouri, and 

Howard Buckhardt, Loew's Midland. 

Install Fountainette 

At Columbus Liberty 

COLUMBUS. KAS.—A Selmix Moviehour 

fountainette has been installed in the Smith 

popcorn concession stand at the Liberty Theatre 

here. The dispenser, purchassd from 

National Theatre Supply, Kansas City, is 

equipped with heads to serve Coca-Cola, Hires 

root beer and Mission orange syrup. Ed 

Smith of Long Beach, Calif., is the owner 

of the concession stand, which is managed 

by Mrs. Flossie Burch of Columbus. R. E. 

Smith of NTS made the installation. 

Tlie Liberty Theatre is owned by Charlas 

Knickerbocker. 

KMTA Spring Meeting 

To Be February 2B, 27 

KANSAS CITY—Tlie Kansas-Missouri Tlieatre 

Ass'n this week scheduled its annual 

spring session and drive-in conference February 

26, 27 at the Phillips hotel here. 

Directors will hold their regular February 

session on the 25th at a dinner in the Phillips. 

The spring theatre owners meeting, open 

to all area exhibitors, replaces the regional 

spring conclaves formerly held by the KMTA. 

It is expected that KMTA President C. E. 

"Doc" Cook of Maryville will report on the 

Theatre Owners of America board meeting 

in Los Angeles, which he will attend next 

week. 

The meeting will begin at 10 a. m. both 

days and both sessions will be held in the 

Pioneer room of the Phillips. Luncheons will 

be given for both meetings. 

The annual spring drive-in meeting, held 

each year just before the opening of the outdoor 

season, brings hundreds of drive-in 

operators here to discuss operations and 

problems arising in open-airers. 

Convention committees will be called into 

sessions soon to finalize plans for the February 

meetings. 

Seneca Theatre to Bow 

SENECA, MO.—Tlie Grand Theatre, being 

built here by Al Tourloutt, to replace the 

house which burned some time ago, is now 

under construction and slated to open in 

about 90 days. Complete reconstruction of the 

house was necessitated. 

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J^ll bids for the first run showing in Chicago 

of MGM's "Quo Vadis" have been rejected. 

It is rumored the picture may play 

in tlie World Playhouse, which is operated by 

Abe and Charles Teitel. MGM will hold a 

two-day division conference of sales managers 

at the Ambassador hotel January 28 

Sullivan, executive director of the 

Theatre Owners of America, was a stopover 

on the way to Los Angeles . 

Spiers, 

manager at Lippert, resigned. Harry Dudelson, 

district manager, said no replacement 

has been named. 

Bernard Pearlman, 70, who until retiring 

three years ago was general manager of 

the National Theatre Supply Co., died last 

week. He was seriously injured in an auto 

accident three years ago. Prior to 1949 

was sales manager of Golde Mfg. Co. 

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Albert Bezel has consummated a deal with 

Allied Corp. to distribute 15 J. Arthur 

Rank pictures in his Detroit and Chicago exchanges 

... The Carnegie Theatre on the 

Film 

north side opened with "Caesar and Cleopatra" 

this week (18). 

The RKO Palace is ready to give up Broadway 

legitimate shows and return to its motion 

pictm-e policy because not enough good 

stage shows can be obtained to keep the 

huge Loop theatre operating. The Palace has 

been dark ever since "Gentlemen Prefer 

Blondes" closed in December 

. . . Harry 

Balaban of H&E Balaban circuit has been 

appointed amusement division chairman in 

the Red Cross drive. 

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The downtown Clark will run a two-week 

film festival starting February 10 . . . 

"I'll 

See You in My Dreams" and "A Streetcar 

Named Desire" are doing outstanding business 

in subsequent houses, and in many cases 

playing a week's engagement at neighborhood 

houses Jeffrey Theatre case 

against the Jackson Park Theatre day-anddate 

playing time will come up in 

Michael Igoe's court February 

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Judge 

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the Essaness 

Marcellian was named manager of 

Irving Theatre. Eugene White was 

named assistant at the Southern in Oak 

Park. 

The circuit court of appeals has sent to 

Judge John Barnes a mandate to pay the 

$940,000 awarded the Towne Theatre plus 

$75,000 in fees awarded attorney Thomas Mc- 

Connell 

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theatres are now using 

radio and TV stations to boost their film 

shows 

. Goldberg, city salesman for 

Paramount who has been ill, is back on the 

job . . . Truman Randall has retired as 

director of the Warner Rhodes Theatre 

The Lee in Whitemore, Mich., has been sold 

to Rex Kinne, owner of the Lyon in South 

Lyon, Mich. 

The Wilding studio has prepared a color 

sound film for the Goodwill Industries about 

its work in providing employment for the 

handicapped by the repair and sale of discarded 

clothing and furniture . . . Weekend 

socials for teenagers in public schools are 

taking the play away from theatres over the 

weekend. The weekly social events began last 

Friday evening in 20 schools. Programs designed 

for both teenagers and adults include 

sports, square dancing, games, motion pictures 

and other entertainment. The admission 

is free and the recreation rooms were 

crowded with youngsters over the weekend. 

Gordon Bells Lease House 

In Liberal to L. Crowes 

LIBERAL, MO.—The Liberal Theatre has 

been lea.?ed from Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bell 

by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Crowe jr., who took 

over management this month. The Bells 

came here Oct. 6, 1948, when they bought the 

theatre from Mrs. Mamie Rhodes. He expressed 

a hope that since he is just leasing, 

he may return some time but, with his fatherin-law. 

Bell has bought a poultry company at 

Coffeyville, Kas. "Junior" and Lois Crowe 

were also local residents. 

Malcolm Reid to O'Fallon 

O'FALLON, ILL.—The management of the 

State Tlieatre here has b3en taken over by 

Malcolm Reid, who has been interested in 

motion picture theatres for the past 16 

years. Reid replaced Sheldon Lending, who 

will continue to operate the Lions Theatre in 

Troy, 111. Reid has been a friend of Charles 

Goldman of St. Louis, owner of the State 

Theatre here, for many years. He comes here 

from Pickneyville. 

"The Story of Eddie Cantor," from an 

original by Sidney Skolsky, will be scripted 

by Ted Sherdeman for Warners. 

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Stormy Session Gets 

Permit for Drive-In 

EVANSVILLE, IND.—Douglas Cates, in a 

stormy session of the county board of zoning 

appeals, was given permission to build a 

drive-in at Highway 62 and Felstead road. 

The board, by secret ballot, voted unanimously 

to permit construction. 

The case has been pending about four 

months. A permit was first denied by the 

planning commission before an appeal was 

taken to the zoning board. Objectors predicted 

serious traffic hazards for the area if 

a theatre were constructed and recalled that 

the sheriff had not approved the proposal 

from a traffic safety standpoint. Cates said 

he will erect the entrance some distance from 

the highway intersection and route outgoing 

patrons north to the Mt. Vernon road. 

Cates stated he and his father-in-law Otto 

J. Hohl are jointly interested in the venture 

and that the theatre project will cost about 

$110,000. He said it is hoped to have the 

drive-in operating by April. The site has been 

zoned agricultural but the zoning board ordered 

it rezoned commercial to clear the way 

for the theatre. 

The delegation present at the meeting, including 

persons both for and against the 

drive-in—but largely remonstrators—were 

ordered from the room while the secret ballot 

was taken. 

Kingman, Kas., to Have 

Own Airer This Year 

KINGMAN, KAS.—Kenneth Quinn, manager 

of the Meade Theatre, announced the 

completion of plans for a di-ive-in on Highway 

54. Although planning had been under 

way for several months, approval for use of 

allotted materials was not received until recently. 

Most of the materials had been purchased 

and put in storage and construction 

will now be started when weather permits. 

The theatre will be located on the south 

side of 54, northeast of Kingman, on the top 

of a low hill one-half mile east of the Graber 

farm. To lessen traffic hazards the theatre 

will be set back from the highway, with entrances 

and exits containing long loops to relieve 

congestion. 

Nine or more ramps will have a capacity of 

300 cars and the plans allow space for expansion. 

A 50-foot outdoor screen has been 

ordered and RCA sound equipment will carry 

a peak load of 600 in-car speakers. Plans include 

a concession and large electric sign. 

Total cost will be about $50,000 and an opening 

by May 1 is hoped for. 

Operation of the Meade Theatre will continue 

as usual throughout the year, with a 

May-October season seen for the drive-in 

here. The nearest ozoner now is outside of 

Kingman county and traffic congestion has 

always made the prospect of driving to Wichita 

or Hutchinson unpleasant. Approximately 

eight persons will be employed during the 

drive-in season. 

Al Matreci Buys Stock 

ST. LOUIS—Clarence M. Turley, co-owner 

with Charles and George Skouras of the Ambassador 

and Missouri office and theatre 

buildings, has sold his stock interest in the 

Best Amusement Co.. owner of the Uptown 

Theatre at 4938 Delmar Blvd. to Al Matreci, 

manager and principal stockholder. 

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Marissa, 111., Will Vote 

On Sunday Blue Law 

MARISSA, ILL.—A referendum vote to 

determine the legality of this city's blue laws 

passed in 1907 to forbid commercial and recreational 

activities on Sunday will be held 

February 2. The vUIage board of trustees decided 

to permit the people to decide the issue 

after Tony Beninati of Shelbyville, 111., the 

new owner of the Mars Theatre, inaugurated 

Simday performance? D°cember 30. 

A yroup of Marissa citizens objected to 

Sunday movies. They met with Beninati 

and after this conference a charge was 

brought before the justice of the peace that 

Beninati had violated the old ordinance. 

Beninati said he will continue to give Sunday 

shovs until the people decide the question, 

Sunday attendance at the theatre has been 

good. Tuomas Allen, pastor of the First Baptist 

church, has been leading the fight against 

Sunday shows. 

Frank Finger sold the theatre to Beninati, 

effective December 1. after operating the local 

motion pictui-e theatre for 27 years. He never 

attempted to give shows on Sunday. 

Donald Kiser to Manage 

Earl Dowell's West Baden 

FRENCH LICK. IND.—The West Baden 

Theatre reopened January 12 under new management 

and with new equipment. Earl 

Dowell of Louisville, owner and operator of 

eight theatres in Indiana and Kentucky, is 

the new owner and will employ Donald Kiser 

of Matewan, W. Va., to manage the situation, 

The house had been closed for several 

months. Equipment which will handle standard-width 

film was installed and, for the 

present, the house will operate Tuesday, 

Thursday. Saturday and Sunday, with a different 

program each day. 

Zenith Aide Testifies 

ST. LOUIS—Irving Herriott of Chicago, 

attorney for the Zenith Radio Corp., and 

Eugene McDonald jr.. Zenith's president were 

to appear before the federal grand jury here 

Thursday (24) to testify in the investigation 

of James Finnegan, former collector of internal 

revenue, and the circumstances of the 

.$50,000 fee paid by ZenilU to Finnegan for his 

"influence" or "services" in obtaining motion 

picture lilms for Zenith's Phonevision tests. 

Officials of the motion picture companies 

that provided the films for the Zenith experiments 

have stated that Finnegan had no 

part in obtaining pictures from them for 

';se by Zenith. 

Cooking School in Jacksonville 

JACKSONVILLE. ILL—The Journal Courier 

is sponsoring the Thrifty Kitchen cooking 

school at the Illinois Theatre, a unit of the 

Fox Midwest circuit, January 29 through 

February 1. The school is planned and conducted 

by the National Live Stock and Meat 

Board and consists of lectures and demonstrations 

centering attention on dishes which 

add variety to the daily meals thtough practical 

cookery tips and suggestions. The school 

is to be roaducted by Lucille Harris, a field 

home economist of the board 

Producer David Lewis has acquired film 

rights to the Graham Greene novel, "The End 

of the Affair." 

Scriplers Will Award 

Honors February 25 

HOLLYWOOD—The Screen Writers Guild 

will stage its fourth annual kudos-distributing 

dinner, paying tribute to the best film 

scripting in several categories, Februai-y 25. 

Balloting by SWG members will determine 

winners for the best drama, musical, comedy, 

script produced on a budget of $400,000 or 

and the Robert Meltzer memorial award 

less, 

for the screenplay "most ably dealing with 

problems of the American scene." That portion 

of the evening devoted to distributing 

the awards will be broadcast nationally, and 

George Burns will act as emcee for the entertainment 

portion of the program. 

Everett Freeman and George Seaton ai-e 

co-chairmen of the dinner committee, assisted 

by Richard Breen, Valentine Davies, 

Jerry Davis, Helen Deutsch, Henry Ephron, 

Don McGuire and Barry Trivers. 

William Baker Replaces 

Bob Sigler at Alexandria 

ALEXANDRIA, IND. — William Baker of 

Anderson this month assumed duties as manager 

of the Town Theatre, taking the place 

of Robert Sigler, who resigned several weeks 

ago. R. J. Baker, district manager for Alliance 

Theatres, said William Baker came 

from Anderson and Fort Wayne, where he 

was manager of the Jefferson. Sigler, his 

wife and .son left for Florida, where he will 

be employed. He had been at the Town 

helm since last summer. 

Greenleaf House Renamed 

GREENLEAF. KAS. — Royal is the newname 

chosen by Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schwartz 

for the theatre they recently reopened here. 

The Schwartzes, who live at Endicott, Neb., 

bought the house three months ago from Mr. 

and Mrs. Pascal Moore and have spent considerable 

time and money improving the 

building. Schwartz said he would continue 

to repair if patronage warrants it. 

Mrs. Sherman to Continue 

BLOOMFIELD, MO.—Mrs. William Sherman, 

widow of Bill Sherman who died late in 

December, will continue to operate both the 

Sherman Theatre here and the Sherman at 

Advance. Mo., and complete the construction 

of the 325-car Jackie Linn Drive-In on Route 

No. 25 which her husband started last September 

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Take Refuge in Theatre 

ST. CHARLES, ILL. — Eight Greyhound 

buses carrying 250 people were stalled here 

during the recent snowstorm and the Arcada 

Theatre threw open its doors to about 30 

persons one evening. Some of the travelers 

spent the night at the theatre until able to 

resume their trips. 

John Travis Redecorates 

CARL JUNCTION, MO.—John Travis has 

completed a redecorating job on the inside 

of the Carl Theatre. The walls were repainted, 

new curtains hung above the back 

row of seats and side drapes on either side 

of the screen. 

St. Louis Projectionists 

Keep Harvard O'Loughlin 

ST. LOUIS—Harvard O'Laughhn was reelected 

to a two-year term as business agent 

of Local 143 at a meeting of the projectionists 

held in the Machinist hall. Prior to his election 

as business agent in 1950, O'Laughhn had 

served as a projectionist at Loew's State for 

25 years. 

Other officers elected for two-year terms; 

President, Tony Blust (re-elected); vice-president, 

C. Fred Kelsick; recording secretary, 

Alfred Savage to succeed Howard Flier, who 

declined to seek re-election; finar.cial secretary, 

Herbert Butz ire-elected); treasurer, 

Walter Wiethoff; guide, J. C. Wilson jr.; 

sergeant at arms, Clarence F. Kelsick jr.; 

D. D. Lawson and George Pallme jr., trustees; 

C. Fred Kelsick and Fremont Noertemann, 

delegates to Central Trades and Labor union. 

Delegates to convention of the lATSE to be 

held in Minneapolis next August will be Harvard 

O'Laughhn, Herbert Butz and Tony 

Blust, and delegates to the Missouri State 

Federation of Labor convention in Jefferson 

City in March, C. Fred Kelsick and Leonhard 

T. Michaels. 

Theatre and Service Club 

Host Monticello Kids 

MONTICELLO, IND.—Youngsters of the 

community recently enjoyed the annual treat 

of the Good Fellows club and the Lakes Theatre 

hers when they were entertained at a 

free show through the courtesy of Carey Sc 

Alexaiider, owner if the theatre, and the 

club. About 550 boys and giv)." from the 

first through tlie sixth grades of the local 

.schcoli, chaperoned by their teachers, saw 

two cartoons cxm "Hoedown." 

The youngsters were treated to candy bars 

and Crackerjack by the Monticello Kiwanis 

club. The committee from the Good Fellows 

in charge of the entertainment was Cy Prevo, 

chairman; Mayor Lloyd Sentz, John Van 

Meter and Jack Clapper. 

Wesley Bolen Rebuilding 

Delayed by Frozen Ground 

QUINTER, KAS.—Wes Bolen this month 

received a permit to erect a theatre building 

and immediately began definite plans for rebuilding 

the business that was destroyed in a 

November fire. Excavation began January 9 

with Blair Bros. Construction Co. in charge 

but after a few attempts the work was halted 

because of frozen ground and Bolen decided 

to await more favorable conditions. 

The new theatre will be located on the east 

side of Main street directly north of the 

S&K Motor and Equipment Co. The remains 

of the old theatre were purchased by 

Floyd Reinecker and Mat Ra.skop, who tore 

down the walls and removed the wreckage. 

Muncie Permit Renewed 

MUNCIE. IND.—A building permit for construction 

of a theau-e at Madison and 14th 

streets has been renewed by the Muncie Theatre 

Realty Corp. of Indianapolis. Plans for 

building were announced last summer but 

government restrictions postponed the construction. 

The theatre will cost an estimated 

$225,000, will be 120x125 feet and built of 

brick and steel. Space for off-street parking 

will be provided. 


Old Peoria Columbia, Like Its Screen 

Characters, Bites Dust After 50 Years 

PEORIA. ILL.—"The End." As the words 

flashed on the screen of the Columbia Theatre 

New Year's eve. it was the end of the 

year, the end of the picture and also the end 

of the old theatre. But dimmed by the New 

Year's celebration taking place was the demise 

of the Columbia, owned by the E. L. 

Harris estate, which failed to renew its 

building lease. 

Like the untold hordes of redskins which 

had whooped across its venerable screen, the 

old Columbia on South Adams street was 

biting the dust after nearly 50 years of 

motion picture history. As the oldest operating 

theatre in Peoria, the boxoffice closed 

Dec. 31, 1951, and as Manager H. A. Rhorer 

said, "It closed for good and all time." Comanaged 

with the Pi-incess Theatre, the two 

South Adams street houses were part of the 

estate of the late E. L. Harris, who died in 

1950. The estate did not renew with Fred 

Bloom, owner of the property and president 

of B&M Store, and Bloom is not certain what 

future use the building will have. 

The Columbia, a wild west, jungleman and 

gangster picture stronghold for more than a 

generation, was the oldest continuously running 

theatre in the city. Its faithful customers 

were equally familiar with the desert 

or darkest Africa or life in the wicked city. 

Unintentionally representative of the bookings 

of the theatre, its last double bill was 

"Ridin' Over the Rainbow" and "Jungle 

Terror," said the Journal-Star. 

The life of the historic theatre property, 

well identified by its narrowness and halfblock 

long length, spanned the advent of 

flickers in Peoria, hailed the first, noisecluttered 

talkies, gloried in Technicolor's arrival 

and ended with a splatter of gangland 

guns, reported the Journal-Transcript. Bloom 

said the Columbia was one of the first three 

nickelodeons in the city about the turn of the 

century. Harris took it over as his first film 

enterprise shortly before talking pictures entered 

the scene and he ran the two houses 

until his death. 

From the curious, interested in the newfangled 

technique of the moving picture, the 

audiences at the Columbia had evolved to an 

avid host of class B movie fans. Its 499 seats 

usually were well filled, especially on Saturday 

afternoons when the booking was directed 

at the small fry and adults' love for 

westerns. 

Rhorer, who locked the Columbia door for 

the last night, moves over to manage the 

Princess now. 

Lavins Reopen Skokie 

SKOKIE, ILL.—The Skokie Theatre has 

reopened as an independent theatre under 

the new managership of William and Louis 

Lavin, brothers who formerly owned the Lavin 

Film Service, a film distributing company. 

The theatre will now be open seven days and 

has added a snack bar. 

Faulkenders' Waterville 

House Renamed, Improved 

WATERVILLE, KAS.—Mr. and Mrs. Merle 

Faulkender, new operators of the former Isis 

Theatre, have renamed the house the Roxie 

and started active management this month. 

Their purchase from Dale Thornhill was reported 

in BOXOFFICE recently. Thornhill 

says he has no definite plans for the future 

but will remain in Waterville for the present 

after six years at the theatre. 

The Faulkenders have owned the Royal in 

Leonardville for the past six years and operated 

it almost ten years. They will commute 

between the two towns until they find 

residence in Waterville. Following their purchase 

of business and equipment from Thornhill, 

they just recently bought the theatre 

building, too, from Mi's. Isabelle Arganbright. 

They have already added new projector lamps 

and will make further improvements later. 

A. C. Wooten Sells Oska 

OSKALOOSA. KAS.—A. C. Wooten has 

sold his interest in the Oska Tlieatre to Mr. 

and Mrs. James Martin of Kansas City. Kas. 

Since the Martins have other business interests, 

it was con.sidered likely they will retain 

Mr. and Mrs. Horr as the local operator-managers. 

Albert A. Fletcher Buried 

ST. LOUIS—The funeral of Albert A. 

Fletcher, local projectionist, was held Saturday. 

He died January 17. 

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DeMille Avers Films 

Now in Show Business 

NEW ORLEANS—Among motion picture 

week were Cecil B. De- 

notables in town last 

Mille, who has just released "The Greatest 

Show on Earth." and starlet Marion Marshall, 

here to assist in the March of Dimes campaign. 

As enthusiastic as ever about hi.s 

work, DeMille said he is "glad to see that 

motion pictures for the first time are in the 

show business." 

"It never was necessary really to sell a 

movie attraction before," he told reporters. 

"People came to see the beautiful new theatre 

or for a place to sit down where popcorn 

flowed from the horn of plenty. They didn't 

care if there was a good picture on the screen 

or not. 

"Those days are gone, I'm happy to say. 

Now they come to see a picture." 

As for dropping off of theatre patronage, 

DeMille said he was not complaining, because 

he has made some of the biggest grossing pictres 

in the history of the industry, including 

"Samson and Delilah." He believes that "The 

Greatest Show on Earth" will be another in 

that classification, he said. 

Amazingly young in his outlook. DeMille 

began his day here by eating 17 raw oysters 

before breakfast. His introduction to Louisiana 

oysters came when he was making "The 

Buccaneer" on Barataria bay years ago, he 

said. 

"We pulled up beside an oyster barge about 

5 a. m. one day and the oystermen served 

them right off the half shell," he recalled. 

When anyone talks about brief Hollywood 

marriages, laughed the 70-year-old picture 

producer, they can't look at DeMille. He and 

his wife Isabel will celebrate their 50th 

wedding anniversary August 16. 

In contrast with the veteran who has made 

movie history. Marion Marshall, blond, blueeyed 

actress was enthusiastic over her first 

visit to New Orleans. She said she became interested 

in young polio victims who visited 

her studio about a year ago when she was 

making a picture. While here she visited the 

polio center at Charity hospital and presented 

gifts to the children there later. 

Sunday night (20) she appeared at the 

Algiers naval station at a showing of the new 

Hal Wallis-Paramount picture, "Sailor Beware," 

in which she has one of the leading 

feminine roles. The film is scheduled to open 

here at the Saenger Theatre January 31. 

While here she made appearances at the 

March of Dimes booths in the downtown business 

section. She left Tuesday (22) to continue 

the tour on behalf of the infantile 

paralysis drive. 

Guy Kenimer Succeeds Jesse Clark 

As Florida State General Manager 

Fiery Cross Planted 

At Binford's Home 

MEMPHIS — Police are investigating the 

burning of a cross in the front yard of the 

home of Lloyd T. Binford. 83-year-old chairman 

of the Memphis and Shelby county 

board of censors. The cross was burned at 

midnight last Saturday in the front yard of 

the Binford home at 1723 Peabody. 

The telephone rang at the Binford home 

and Mrs. Binford answered. A man with a 

deep voice said. "Look out in your front yard." 

Then he hung up. Flames were leaping 

almost as high as the front of the twostory 

house, according to Franklin Poe. who 

was passing by at the time. A wooden cross 

about three feet high was wrapped in rags 

which were dipped into gasoline, police said. 

The cross was planted in the yard and set 

afire. 

W. J. Nunnery jr.. a neighbor, saw the 

cross burning from his home but saw nobody 

leave the scene, he told police. 

Binford has been nationally known for his 

severe censorship of motion pictures in Memphis 

for many years. Many years ago the 

cross was burned in many places in the south 

and was blamed on the Ku Klux Klan. In 

recent years there has been little "cross 

burning." 

Said Binford: "I haven't the faintest idea 

who burned the cross." 

Normandy Drive-In Robbed 

JACKSONVILLE—A lone masked man 

drove up to cashiers Mrs. L. A. Wintz and 

Mrs. Mary Torsanks at Normandie Drive-In. 

pointed a revolver at them and said. "This 

is a stick-up." and they handed over $400. 

The bandit car was found the following 

morning half a block from the theatre. 

Cast with Spencer Tracy and Katharine 

Hepburn in MGM's "Pat and Mike" were 

Owen McGiveney and Joseph Bernard. 

JACKSONVILLE—L. D. Netter, president 

of Florida State Theatres, has appointed Guy 

Kenimer to succeed the late Jesse Clark as 

general manager of the organization. Kenimer 

is a native of Cleveland. Ga.. and received 

his higher education at the Georgia 

School of Technology. After World War I, 

in which he became a first lieutenant, he 

entered the theatre business and managed 

theatres in Jacksonville. Tampa and Atlanta. 

In Jacksonville, he managed the Rialto for 

S. A. Lynch Enterprises and the Arcade for 

the E. J. Sparks organization. He was the 

first manager of the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville 

when it was completed in 1927. 

Kenimer became city manager at Tampa 

with the organization of Florida State Theatres 

and remained in that city for one year 

before returning to Jacksonville as city manager. 

Later he became district manager for 

Florida State in northern Florida and then 

was appointed assistant general manager. 

Kenimer took over management of the maintenance 

and construction department, which 

included threatre construction, remodeling, 

accessories and concessions, and occupied this 

position until his present appointment as 

general 

manager. 

Active in civic and fraternal affairs, he is a 

member of the Timuquana Country club, the 

Maninak club. Pi Kappa Alpha and for 

several years headed the Happy Hearts club 

for underprivileged children. He is a member 

of the board of directors of the Jacksonville 

Chamber of Commerce. Kenimer is married 

to the former Hallie Crawford of Atlanta 

and has two daughters. Mrs. Charles Hillyer 

II of Jacksonville and Mrs. McKendry Tucker 

of Atlanta. 

Perry Smith to Kansas 

GRAVETTE. ARK.—Perry Porter Smith 

this month took over active management of 

the Chief Theatre in Coldwater. Kas.. and 

the Crest in Protection. Kas. He purchased 

the business and equipment from Sol Frank. 

For the past two years. Smith has owned and 

operated the Gravette theatre, moving here 

from his home town of Fairfax, Okla. 

W. L. Moxley Sells Airer 

In Blytheville. Ark. 

BLOOMFIELD, MO.—Tlie Starvue Drivein 

on South Highway 61. Blytheville. Ark., 

has been sold by W. L. Moxley of Blytheville 

to E. A. Mooney of Bloomfield. The 

latter has taken over the theatre and expects 

to open it in March. Moxley said. 

The Starvue has been operated by Moxley 

since it opened in 1949. He said he 

planned to purchase a theatre in Memphis 

but that he would continue to reside in 

Blytheville. where he also owns the Mox and 

Savoy theatres. 

THREE-POINT LANDING—Republics "Wild Blue Yonder" did excellent business 

in Birmingham, the home of Henry E. "Red" Erwin, Congressional Medal of Honor 

winner and one of the main ciiaracters in the drama. Film star Forrest Tucker made 

a personal witli the picture on Iiis current southeast tour. Shown with him (center) 

in the photo are. left to right: Harr>' M. Curl, manager of the Melba Theatre; Col. 

Paul L. Singer, chief of the .Alabama military district; FMdie Brauer, Republic southeast 

representative, and John W. Douglas, assistant general manager of Acme Theatres. 

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QURT SHREVE, district manager, will head 

the delegation from the Atlanta area of 

Manley field men to the foiu'-day convention in 

Kansas City. Installations 

of the new Manley 

popcorn machine 

include the Rialto and 

Central in Atlanta, the 

Park in Severiesville, 

Tenn., and the Tower 

m Knoxville. 

Harvey Smith was in 

Raleigh on miniature 

train business. Orders 

ars beginning to come 

in for spring delivery. 

Southeastern Equipment 

Co. reports the 35-car drive-in under 

way for Carl Floyd at Haines City, Fla., is 

being equipped with Brenkert and RCA .sound 

and projection, as is the Silver Moon which 

is being remodeled at Lakeland. Southeast 

also supplied equipment for the Starlight 

which is being opened February 5 at Wauchula. 

Fla. 

Carl Floyd will break ground February 15 

for a drive-in at Tarpon Springs, Fla. 

Philon Howell and Claude Hendrix are building 

a 300-car drive-in named the Starlight 

at Geneva, Ala., Coley Brown of National 

Theatre Supply reports, 

Carl Cater was on the Atlanta Row from 

Jacksonville, Fla. 

Ted Toddy reports the Martin has booked 

"Way Down South" around the circuit. 

I called on O. A. Cooper, manager of the 

First Avenue Theatre in Rome. He promised 

to send in some of his showmanship campaigns. 

Manager T. J. Presley of the DeSoto 

in Rome had a big wagonwheel at the side 

of the entrance with a sign proclaiming that 

"Westward the Women" actually was filmed 

on the famous pioneer trial. 

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Three Magnolia Houses 

MAGNOLIA. ARK.—Four projectionists for 

three theatres here struck at 9 a. m. one 

morning earlier this month and started picketing. 

They are members of AFL Local 826 

and local residents. 

W. P. Florence jr., manager for the theatres, 

said that despite the strike, the Cameo 

and Macco theatres were running with nonunion 

projectionists but the Joy, which is 

open only on Friday and Saturday, would 

not open because of lack of another boothman. 

Florence was noncommital about the 

details of the walkout. 

Author Charles Fox Dies; 

Wrote About Hollywood 

JACKSONVILLE—Charles Donald Fox, author 

of a number of books about Hollywood, 

died in a local hospital after a brief illness. 

Three years ago he left New York City and 

came to Florida. Among his books are "Famous 

Film Folk," "Little Robinson Crusoe," 

"Mirrors of Hollywood." "Standard Photo Plot 

Chart" and "Truth About Florida." 

With the assistance of Milton L. Silver. 

Fox edited "Who's Who on the Screen." He 

is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Vincent 

McCarth, Jacksonville. 

Transfer R. M. Saunders 

To Beachom at Orlando 

ORLANDO, FLA.—R. M. Saunders, former 

manager of the Rialto Theatre here, has 

been transferred to the Beacham. An employe 

of Florida State Theatres for 20 years, 

Saundsrs has been manager of the Roxy, 

Vogue and Colony. 

Vernon D. Hunter, city manager of Florida 

State Theatres, reported several other changes 

in personnel of local theat»es. Joe Charles 

has bsen transferred from the Grand to the 

Rialto. succeeding Saunders and Fred Miner 

will take over at the Grand. 

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Kane Sees Florida 

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JACKSONVILLE—Robert T. Kane. 35 years 

in film production, said here last week that 

existing film studios in New York are technically 

and numerically insufficient for the 

flood of film that will be necessary when the 

FCC grants an anticipated 18,000 television 

station permits compared to the 108 stations 

operating today. The 20th Century-Fox executive 

predicted that Florida's "gold coast" 

might become the television film capital just 

as Hollywood is the movie capital. 

He listed three other reasons why Florida 

has a future in the television film industry 

and construction of TV film studios should 

begin. First wa.s that labor supply in Florida 

is comparatively free of union troubles. 

Second, the fast air transportation between 

southeast Florida and New York and, third, 

the climate. Kane said there is not an actor, 

writer or producer who would not love to do 

his work in such ideal working conditions 

and weather. 

Kane also believes a merger of television 

and the motion picture industry in the near 

future is inevitable. 

Broken Baby Bottle Ends 

Child's Life in Theatre 

MIAMI—A two-year-old child fell in the 

Tower Theatre recently, broke his baby bottle 

and inflicted a cut which caused him 

to bleed to death. The baby, with his 7-yearold 

brother, had been left at the theatre 

by their mother at 5 p. m., when she reported 

for work at a bar in place of her husband 

who had been delayed. The older child was 

to telephone when they were ready to go 

home. 

The children occupied front seats, and 

shortly after 6:30 the younger boy became 

restless and began to explore the aisle and 

nearby seats. He tripped and fell, breaking 

his bottle and cutting his groin. Two patrons 

heard the child's cries and went to 

his help. Fred Dowling, an usher, took the 

struggling child to the foyer where he and 

Manager William Goller applied first-aid, 

knowledge of which all Wometco managers 

and a.ssistants are required to have. But 

the child had severed a vein and, in spite of 

their efforts, the little boy was pronounced 

dead on arrival at the hospital to which he 

was taken as quickly as the summoned pohce 

could rush him there. 

Ralph Dumke and Sandro Giglio have been 

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ATLANTA—One regional theatre was approved 

and three disapproved as the National 

Production Authority turned down 37 building 

project applications in the southeast 

which would have cost at least $5,600,000. 

Merill C. Lofton, regional director of the 

department of commerce, said the NPA approved 

allotments for the construction of 

$810,272 worth of projects in Florida, Tenne.s.see 

and Alabama and approved a theatre 

for Floyd Tlieatres at Haines City. Fla.. to 

cost $29,750 because no allotment was re- 

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Denials in the form of disapproval of allotments 

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The unarmed robber who held up the Florida 

Theatre boxoff ice last November 9 has 

been sentenced to five years in prison . 

Lamar Sarra of Florida State Theatres followed 

his trip to Gainesville by a visit to 

Miami . the visitors were Jimmy 

Biddle. owner of the Fay Theatre in Jasper; 

K. T. Barfield of the Gainesville Drive-In. 

Gainesville: A. H. Carratt of the Park Theatre, 

Starke: Mary Lou Andrews Sterchi, Community 

Tlieatre, St. Augustine: Chet 

Humphries, Ridgewood Theatre, Daytona 

Beach: W. R. Shafer. Florida Theatre. Daytona 

Beach: William Lee. Keystone Drive-In. 

Keystone Heights, Fla.: Harlow Land, Mayo 

Theatre, Mayo, Fla.. and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. 

Gammon. Ocilla. Ga. 

. . . Maurice 

Joe Thrift, formerly of the Ritz Theatre 

in Ocala. resigned to become associated with 

Carl Floyd in Haines City 

Hensler. owner of the Auburn Theatre in 

Auburndale. has opened a new drive-in there 

. 

A. H. Gawthrop. owner of the 

Linda Drive-In at Palatka. was in Jacksonville 

going over bookings with Floyd Stowe. 

A1.S0 J. N. Dakos, owner of the Ritz Tlieatre. 

Clearwater Galloway of Lippert. 

Harold Laird of Republic at Tampa and Jack 

Barrett of Monogram visited here. 

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. . . Lillian 

Warners' district head booker Milton 

Levins and office manager J. W. Meredith 

attended the premiere of "Distant Drums" 

m St. Augustine . . . Roy Morgan, formerly 

head shipper but now stationed in Norfolk. 

u us home for the holidays Sullivan, 

bookkeeping machine operator, resigned 

and was replaced by Mrs. Ida Levey 

Maxine Uitermarkt. booker's stenographer, 

returned to Iowa with her husband and was 

replaced by Helen Williams 

Thorne. supplementary clerk, became Mrs. 

Audrey Wilson, 

V. J. Mitchell January 18 . . . 

contract clerk, has announced her en- 

gagement but the date of the wedding has 

not been announced. District Manager W. O. 

Williamson paid the local office a short visit. 

Warners' extensive remodeling job was 

completed just before Christmas. They had 

obtained a vacant office next to theirs which 

they turned into a supply room. The billing 

and bookkeeping departments are now 

in their former supply room and offices for 

salesmen, branch manager's secretary and 

the bookkeeping department have been arranged 

. 

Husbands is taking a 

month's leave for an operation ... All join in 

expressing their sorrow at the pa.ssing of the 

Dunbar's young granddaughter in Pittsburgh 

after a long illness. 

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Jack Galloway of Lippert Productions visited 

in Jax Carter, manager of 

the State Theatre, Tallahassee, has been in 

•the Tallahassee Memorial hospital with an 

attack of virus pneumonia but is now on 

the road to recovery Crail 

Drive-In at DeFuniak Springs has 

been taken over by E. L. Goodwin, owner 

and operator of the Hi-Way 90 in DeFuniak 

Springs Chalman reports that 

ABC Theatre Enterprises is doing their booking 

and buying. Also that Dave Prince. RKO 

division manager, and R. C. Price, sales manager, 

are in town. 

Ralph E. Pecltham, southern division sales 

manager for Snader Productions, is making a 

business trip through Florida. Bookings have 

been set in all the principal cities in Florida 

for The Wooden Horse, Hideout, Wonder Boy, 

Angel with a Trumpet and Man in the 

Dinghy. Peckham reports that "Bonnie 

Prince Charlie." which opened recently at 

the Trans-Lux Theatre in New York City, 

is doing excellently. All productions come 

out of the Alexander Korda studios. After 

completing his tour of Florida. Peckham will 

visit Georgia. Alabama, Tennessee, New Orleans 

and the Carolinas before returning to 

New York. 

Carl Carter just returned from a visit of 

several days in Atlanta. Carter advises that 

an extensive grading and road paving job 

has been completed at the Airbase Drive-In. 

of which he is general manager. The concession 

stand has been refinished in paneled 

wood and several major changes made. Playground 

equipment has been added and the 

grounds beautified. 

Airport Theatre Reopens 

WEST PALM BEACH. FLA.—The motion 

picture theatre at Palm Beach International 

airport has been reopened for the first time 

since 1947. "Storm Over Tibet" was the attraction. 

Until more personnel has been assigned, 

the theatre will operate only on Tuesday. 

Thursday and Sunday nights. Second 

Lieut. William J. Olcheski is the officer in 

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Blackly; Walt Griswell, Lam Aumsement Co., 

Rome; Al Morgan, McLendon Theatre*; 

Uniontown; James Cagl.-, Higginbothan circuit. 

Pell City; Grover Wise, Westend Theatre, 

Birmingham; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Jarrell, 

Ritz and Roxy, Commerce; C. W. Wade. 

Clanton, Ala.: Warren Newman, Pastime 

Sandersville, and V/endPll Welch, Dallas. Ga! 

Sam Harrison of Republic is 

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boy born January 14 . . . Charlie Woodward 

former booker for 20th -Fox, is now with Republic. 

Mrs. Martha Cheaves is the latest 

addition to the offi';e staff . 

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Ira Stone, branch mcnager, checked in from 

a business trip through Tennessee. George 

Cothran, former bookor, is in the front lines 

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. Owens has orders to report 

to the army for active duty . . . Martha 

Frost's h!;sband has been recalled to the navy 

. . . Christine Elrod and Marilyn Dune I'l have 

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. Hollins, Louise Carti- md 

Ann Smith are among the new employes. 

Warner notes—Izola Snyder is recuperating 

from injuries received when hit by a car In 

front of the Warner office. Among other injuries, 

she received a fractured pelvis. This 

has long been a dangerous crossing and 

Manager Ralph lanuzzi has petitioned mayor 

William B Kartsfield to place a signal hght 

at the intersfcct'on . . John Kirby, division 

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MEMPHIS—The practice of roadshowinR 

and prereleasing certain pictures violates the 

consent decree provisions against price fixing 

and discrimination, and should be stopped, the 

Midsouth Allied board of directors charges 

in a resolution which has been sent to all 

distributors. 

"Exhibitors now as never before need the 

opportunity to play all pictures they can get." 

the resolution states, "The withholding pictures 

violates paragraph 11. section 1 of the 

decree dated Feb. 8. 1950. against fixing admission 

prices, and paragraph 11, section 8. 

against discrimination in the offering of pictures. 

"We strongly urge all distributors to offer 

all pictures they release in their sequence, including 

road.shows and prereleases, to all exhibitors 

and to all theatres. 

"Furthermore, that demands for rentals 

beyond the capacity of the individual theatres 

to pay for this type of picture be stopped. 

"Furthermore, that these pictures be released 

and made available to exhibitors and 

theatres on the same basis of availability as 

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The resolution was signed by John Mohrstadt. 

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Picture Boosting South 

Urged by Circuit Owner 

JACKSON. MISS.—A motion picture of 

the city improvement program has been advocated 

by Lloyd Royal of Meridian. Miss., 

owner of the Royal here and 16 other theatres 

in Mississippi. 

Possibility of making the picture was discussed 

here with city officials by Royal and 

his associate, Henry Thurmond. Royal wants 

to distribute the picture, which would be 

in color, throughout the state and nation 

in an effort to attract new industry to the 

south. 

Dunedin Palms Renovated 

DUNEDIN, FLA.—The interior of the Palms 

Theatre has been renovated by owner Edward 

Eckert. The auditorium walls have 

been covered with an acoustic siding and 

painted a soft blue. Matinee showings every 

day have been started, and special student 

admissions have been adopted. The Palms 

was piuxhased last June by Eckert from 

Gordon Bennett. 

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the Cannon Theatres has been sent to Lake 

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/^rowds poured into the Olympic for its 

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stage show after a period of straight pictures. 

From the enthusiasm with which the 

return to vaudeville was greeted it would 

seem that this entertainment form would be 

hard to divorce from the house which has 

presented it for so many years. 

At the studio wage sessions here, James C. 

Petrillo said: "Television has no place in 

these negotiations. That's a separate business 

and I don't think the motion picture 

studios are ready to take on TV talks because 

they're still fighting TV. As far as I'm 

concerned, you can call it TV—but it's motion 

pictures just the same. Eventually, the 

studios must get together on TV. and whan 

they do we'll probably merge with the electricians 

union!" ... It was only coincidence 

that Petrillo should arrive in Miami Beach 

the same week that the Olympia Theatre resumed 

vaudeville after a brief layoff due to 

demands by the musicians union. Petrillo 

said he personally backed up the Miami Federation 

of Musicians, which gavs a cocktail 

party and dinner for him, in their contractual 

negotiations with the theatre. 

The Ace Theatre in Coconut Grove presented 

"George Washington Carver," a fulllength 

documentary sound film of the life 

of the Negro scientist, to the pupils of Carver 

high school. This picture, directed by 

Carver at Tuskegee, Ala., in 1943 shortly before 

his death, will be shown to other school 

children all over south Florida under sponsorship 

of the George Washington Carver 

Memorial institute . . . Don Tilzer, manager 

of Claughton's Grove Theatre, hosted 1,800 

children, including more than a hundred 

uniformed Girl Scouts, at this winter's first 

free matinee for school children in the Screen 

Tours sponsored by the Tropical Audubon 

society. Tickets for the matinees are distributed 

through the schools. 

The Variety Club's second annual circus, 

starring Gene Autry, will be presented in the 

Orange Bowl February 22-24, with the proceeds 

going to the Children's hospital. Autry 

will appear twice at each performance, first 

riding his horse Champion and later singing 

with his band. The cii'cus portion of the 

show is being booked by Frank Wii'th of 

New York, booker last year. Jack Bell is 

general chairman and Ernie Seller executive 

chairman of the circus committee. 

Herb Rau, News amusement editor, is starting 

a movie poll, urging local theatregoers to 

express their opinions about the best pictures 

and best performances of the year, and 

al.so the worst. Except for "Quo Vadis" and 

"Death of a Salesman," this area has already 

been shown the outstanding films of the year. 

Lists are to be mailed in and Rau expects to 

bring the poll to the attention of exhibitors 

and producers. 

Y. Frank Freeman, Paramount vice-president 

here for the recent musicians union 

negotiations, lived in Miami in the 1920s . . . 

The Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis picture, "Sailor 

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January 23 . . . Robert H. Slavin has quit a 

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Gary Cooper, and has been in such films as 

"Beau Geste," "The Sea Hawk" and others. 

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The Edward Claughtons jr. have been 

honeymooning at the Colonial in Nassau. 

Their wedding was a recent social event of 

this city . . . MGM musical director Johnny 

Green, who did the score for "Weekend at 

the Waldorf," was vacatioiiing here ... Ed 

May, former manager of the Lincoln Theatre, 

will play the organ at a new restaurant 

in Miami Beach that theatre 

ushers threw her husband out of the Modern 

Theatre in the downtown Negro district, 

instead of calling a doctor when he became 

ill, a woman has sued the theatre for 

$100,000 damages. She claims her husband 

suffered a heart attack while viewing a picture, 

but was thrown out of the theatre 

when ushers thought he was drunk. The 

husband died. 

MGM is interested in the movie rights to 

the life of Swifty Morgan, the original 

"Lemon Drop Kid," and a resident of Miami 

Beach. One of the film company's lawyers 

phoned Morgan here and urged him to come 

to New York to make the deal. Morgan, according 

to Leonard Lyons, refused. "But this 

may mean big money," the lawyer reminded 

him. "What are you doing in Miami Beach?" 

"I spend my time with the newspapers." said 

Morgan, "reading the obits on my New York 

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L. Hughes of Hempstead, N. Y., told the 

Seventh Annual University of Florida midwinter 

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what otherwise would be perfectly normal 

eyes." 

M. A. Kirkhart, owner and operator of 

the North Miami which he acquired recently, 

has been building up neighborhood patronage. 

With the opening of his latest double 

bill he "had them lined up all day." The 

two pictures which drew such crowds were 

"Golden Horde" and "Drums in the Deep 

South." Kirkharfs policy has been to make 

his theatre as attractive as po.ssible, maintain 

a good housekeeping job, make his patrons 

as comfortable as he can and give them 

good screen entertainment value. A steady 

growth in prestige has resulted. 

Wayne Rogers, manager of Claughton's 

Normandy, says he did "really terrific" holiday 

business, helped by some very good pictures 

which brought in the trade. Rogers' 

experiment in employing a woman as assistant 

manager is working out fine. A toorapid 

turnover in assistants prompted Rogers 

to employ someone whose home was here 

and who was interested in remaining indefinitely 

on the job, thereby increasing his 

(her) value to the organization. 

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HARTSELLE, ALA.—Theatre supplies made 

here by Hubert Mitchell Industries ai-e now 

being sold aroimd the world. Military Service 

Co. of Birmingham is representing Mitchell 

in distributing seat cashions, seat slip 

covers, curtains and draperies to service 

camps and chapels all over the world. 

P. T. McNutt of Birmingham is now representing 

the company in the southeast, 

starting with an assignment in Georgia. 

Drive-In Work Slowed 

ORLANDO, FLA.—Construction of the new 

drive-in being buUt on Merritt Island by 

Talgar Theatres, is progressing very slowly, 

according to contractors. Approval of the 

National Production Authority has not been 

secured for the airer and contractors are 

having great difficulty in obtaining critical 

materials to complete the open-airer. 

Matinees for Winter Visitors 

CLERMONT, FLA.—Tlie heavy influx of 

winter visitors and residents in the South 

Lake area has made it necessary to open 

the Lake Theatre for afternoon shows. Afternoon 

shows start at 3:30 every day, wath an 

evening performances scheduled for 7 p. m. 


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Crescent to Open New 2,030-Seater 

At Nashville With About Face 

NASHVILLE—A February 28 opening date 

has been set for the Tennessee Theatre, newest 

and lai-gest of the Crescent Amusement 

Co. houses, located in the Sudekum building 

here. Kermit C. Stengel, Crescent's executive 

vice-president, said that a number of 

Hollywood stars and personalities would be 

here for the opening and the world premiere 

of "About Face." State, city and county 

officials will participate in the ceremony and 

it is hoped to realize more than $20,000 for 

the Florence Crittenton home from tickets 

selling for $10 to $50. 

Managing director of the theatre will be 

Floyd R. Rice, who has been manager of 

the Knickerbocker Theatre here. Earl T. 

Kemp, former assistant manager of the 

Knickerbocker, has been named house manager 

of the Tennessee. 

PORTER WOOLWINE NAMED 

Porter Woolwine, manager of the Inglewood 

Theatre, will succeed Rice as manager 

of the Knickerbocker, while Louis Rubenstein, 

an assistant manager at the Knickerbocker, 

will move up to the spot vacated 

by Woolwine at the Inglewood. 

The Tennessee will be one of the largest 

theatres in the state, with a seating capacity 

of 2,030 patrons. The walls of the main 

lobby are finished in marble, mirrors, abstract 

murals and bronze sculpture. One 

mural, done entirely in brass, depicts the 

development of a motion picture from the 

script stage to its presentation on the screen. 

Near life-size .sculptures done in bronze of 

Tennessee's three U.S. presidents, Andrew 

Jackson, James Knox Polk and Andrew Johnson, 

are placed on the east wall. A marble 

stairway leads from the main lobby to the 

mezzanine promenade. The walls of the 

latter are adorned with lifesize caricatures 

of famous film stars. These are blasted into 

the wall in gold leaf to insure their permanency. 

AUDITORIUM IN PURPLE 

Concession stands will be placed at both 

levels. They will be etched in aluminum and 

plate glass and will feature many innovations 

for the convenience of patrons. The 

main auditorium is finished in a motif of 

royal purple with spot murals in gold leaf 

decorating the side walls. 

Among the innovations will be the installation 

of a loge section which will be located 

in the forepart of the balcony. Patrons in 

this section will be permitted to smoke. The 

Tennessee is the first in the city and one 

of the few theatres in the south to provide 

a smoking loge section for patrons. 

The seats in the main auditorium will be 

of retractor design. The .screen of the Tennessee 

is one of the largest of any conventional 

theatre in the state, being 30x22 feet and of 

vinyle plastic construction. Three RCA machines 

have been especially designed for the 

projection of pictures on this giant screen. 

One of the theatre's principal features is 

its stage, which is large enough to accommodate 

any production for indoor entertainment. 

It has lighting of special design and 

it is equipped to take care of 19 sets. Other 

accommodations provide elaborate dressing 

rooms, equipped with showers, for performers 

as well as dressing and lounge rooms 

for others. 

The air conditioning is adjusted automatically 

to weather conditions outside and special 

facilities are provided for the removal 

of smoke in the loge section. 

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MEMPHIS—Richard Lightman, executive 

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adjacent to the home of his parents, Mrs. 

and Mrs. M. A. Lightman sr. Lightman sr. 

is president of Malco Theatres. The former 

Richard Lightman home on South Humes 

has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Myracle 

for about $13,000. 

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Texan' Bow Feb. 12 Variety Club Awards Sweaters 

At Oklahoma Cily 

jo Boys Ranch Football Squad 

OKLAHOMA CITY— Dale Robertson, 20th- 

Fox star whose mother lives here, will arrive 

February 10 for appearances on th3 following 

Tuesday il2i at Criterion and Plaza theatres 

in behalf of the opening of "Return of the 

Texan." Several other Hollywood personalities 

will appear with him. 

The film will be accorded saturation bookings 

in the state, and the star troupe will 

appear in other parts of Oklahoma. 

Coushatti Indian Tribe 

Sparks Frank Fain Airer 

LIVINGSTON, TEX.—Tlie general contract 

for construction of a drive-in to be known as 

the Chief has been let to David R. Hendrick 

& Co. of Waco by Frank Fain, for whom the 

theatre is to be built on a site south of here 

on Highway 59, purchased by Fain some 

months ago for this purpose. Construction 

was to start not later than January 1 and 

be completed by April 1. 1952, weather pernutting, 

which is the scheduled opening date. 

Fain said that Chief Drive-In was the 

name chosen in honor of the Coushatti Indian 

tribe and that Charlie Thomas w'ill paint 

miu-als for the ozoner carrying out this 

theme. 

Mark Cole Is 

Chairman 

AUSTIN, TEX.—Mark Cole of Rosenberg, 

general manager of Cole Theatres, has been 

appointed Texas theatre chairman for the 

1952 March of Dimes. The former president 

of the Rosenberg Community Chest and 

Chamber of Commerce has been very active 

in community March of Dimes affairs. As 

chairman this year. Cole will coordinate activities, 

including distribution of the trailer. 

"Theatremen of Texas have greatly aided in 

publicity and collections," Cole said, "and 

this year are looking forward to intensifying 

their cooperation to see that sufficient funds 

are raised." 

Pick Sites for Hearing 

CORPUS CHRISTI. TEX.—Alternate sites 

were selected for the January 17 public hearing 

on the question of constructing a drivem 

theatre near W. B. Ray High school. C. A. 

Richter and Leon Newman are seeking approval 

of plans to build the ozoner. "Holding 

the hearing in the high school would be 

like settling the question in the enemy camp," 

said Dean Kirkman, attorney for the plaintiffs. 

Opposition to the theatre has come 

from trustees of the Independent School 

district, PTAs at Ray and nearby Fisher 

school and the Civic Betterment League. 

Wild Bill 

Elliott in Texas 

FORT WORTH—Wild Bill Elliott and his 

mount. Red Boy. have arrived here to enter 

the annual cutting horse contest at the Fort 

Worth Livestock & Rodeo show. The star 

and his wife have been traveling from town 

to town in the Henderson district, where he 

has been serving as master of ceremony with 

a March of Dimes charity show. For Monogram, 

he completed a star role in "Waco" 

shortly before coming to Texas. 


DALLAS—Member.^ of tlie Boy.s Ranch 

football squad, several girl friends of the 

boys: the mayor of Fort Worth and civic 

dignitaries, and others were guests at a Variety 

Club dinner last week at which Boys 

Club sweaters and a trophy were awarded to 

the team members. 

C. A. Dolsen, chief barker, praised Red 

Teague for the fine athletic program at Vari- 

Joe Love Sells Circuit 

To J. L. Fife, D. F. Nichols 

SNYDER, TEX.—J. L. Fife of Seminole, 

Okla., and D. F. Nichols of Oklahoma City 

are now the owners of the Love Theatres, a 

chain of six Snyder motion picture houses. 

Finalization of the deal, which was started 

last fall, has just been announced here. The 

new owners formed a corporation with Fife 

as president, changing the name to Snyder 

Theatres. Nichols is vice-president and manager 

of the firm. 

The six theatres involved in the purchase 

from Joe Love are the Ritz, Palace, Texas, 

Aztec, Starlite and Trail. 

Dallas Hits Mere 85 

For Week's Top Mark 

DALLAS—None of the first runs came up to 

an average figure this week, with two attractions 

splitting 85 per cent for the high mark. 

MQ:e5t.c—The Cimarron Kid (U-I) 85 

Mflba-The Raging Tide (U-I) 75 

P.3l3re-I-ll Never Forget You (20th-Fox) 75 

Tov.er-No Highway in the Sky (20th-Fox) 85 

Mack Adds New Product 

DALLAS—D. F. "Mack" McCroskey has returned 

from Los Angeles, where he is reported 

to have acquired distribution rights 

to several more pictures to bolster the current 

backlog of Mack Enterprises. While 

west. McCroskey conferred with Dan Sormey 

of Sonney Amusements. "Mack" also reported 

the California weather was coming 

down in buckets and didn't meet Texas 

standards. 


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Photo at left shows members of 

the Boys Ranch football squad 

and several of their girl friends 

at the Variety Club dinner. Members 

of the Variety's Boys Ranch 

committee are at the head table 

in the background. The other 

photo shows Chief Barker Dolsen 

presenting Variety Club trophy to 

Joe Bagby and Robert Leonard, 

co-captains of the team. 

ety's home for boys. Mayor J. R. Edwards of 

Fort Worth congratulated Variety Club for 

operating Boys Ranch with "such a real 

homelike atmosphere." 

Dutch Meyer, famed coach of Texas Christian 

university, spoke briefly. 

The special trophy awarded by Tent 17 was 

presented to Joe Bagby and Robert Leonard 

co-captains of the Boys Ranch team. 

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gb Walker of Southwestern Tlieatres, including 

the Ritz at Lawton. entered St. Anthony 

ho,';pital here Sunday night i20i 

Don Cole of Monogram was rsleased froin the 

liospital in Halstead, Kas., this week and is 

improving rapidly but will have to take it 

easy at home in El Reno for a couple of more 

weeks, according to Mike Carmichael. Monogram 

manager, who visited him Sunday (20) 

at the Halstead hospital . . . Dick Grumpier. 

Checotah exhibitor, and his partner in the 

69 Drive-In, Harvey Griffin, also of Checotah. 

were Row visitors Monday (21) . . . Jack 

Pierce from Stigler and Laura Stewart, Rush 

Springs, were booking and buying on Filmrow 

the same day . 

for Allender 

Scott, Tahlequal), and D. M. Butler, Warner. 

Mike Comer, a pioneer in the distribution 

end of films, is now in the caff business at 

2Crd and North Eastern in Oklahoma City 

Joe Turner of Lawton plans to open the 

Austin Drive -In, which he recently leased, on 

March 15. 

weather 

The opening of course hinges on 

Vance Terry, Woodward, 

conditions . . . 

plans to open his drive-in, the Terry- 

time ozoner at Woodward, the fii-st week of 

April State film business, according to 

. . . 

all rsports, is showing a nice increase. This 

increase has been since the first of the year 

and seems to be the general trend over the 

territory. 

On the Row Friday (18) were Volney 

Hamm, Lawton: O. L. Smith, Marlow, and 

L. E. Brewer, Pauls Valley. Brewer reports 

his wife is recovering from second and third 

degree burns suffered recently when her 

clothes caught fire at the kitchen (electric) 

stove. She was badly burned about the back 

McClain, bookkeeper at NTS, has 

been out of the office with flu . . . j. c. Hunter 

and Ralph Drewry, both of Tulsa Downtown 

Theatres, were in New York City for a 

week, returning home the weekend of January 

19. 

Braucht & Curran, who book roadshow attractions 

as well as operate Colorcraft Poster 

Co., did a hangup good business on the return 

of the stage show "Oklahoma!" It was 

presented the nights of January 14, 15 in 

the Municipal auditorium to huge crowds despite 

the fact it had been here several times, 

including last year, when it played the Home 

Theatre, now closed. The first night of the 

1952 presentation, a reported crowd of 5,000 

persons turned out. The second and final 

night drew almost a full house, approximat>ely 

5,500 persons. The auditorium seats 6,000. 

Dee Fuller, manager of the Municipal auditorium, 

reports business, including conventions, 

basketball, dances, stage shows and the 

like, is about 10 per cent above last year at 

this time. A string of acts, bands, plays, etc., 

has been booked into the auditorium during 

the 1951-52 winter season, and many others 

are slated to come in. So far this season, all 

shows have registered a profit, and that 

includes "Candida" with Olivia DeHavilland. 

who played to small audiences for two night 

performances during sub-freezing weather. 

Mike Carmichael, Monogram manager, left 

Thursday (17) by auto for Rochester. Minn., 

to visit his sister, who resides in Canada, at 

the Mayo clinic where she was undergoing 

treatment. He planned to be away over the 

weekend 

. . . J. C. Parker of Dalhart. Tex., 

employed Bill Allison as manager of his two 

conventional houses and his drive-in. Allison 

resigned at National Theatre Supply to accept 

the Dalhart job . . . Lewis Long of the 54 

Drive-In at Guymon was on the Row Thursday 

and Friday (17, 18). He was in Guthrie 

earlier in the week for Masonic rites. 

The market for 16mm sound projectors for 

theatrical use in Nicaragua is reported to be 

near the saturation point. 

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roadshow Sunday (20), "Reefer Madness" 

and "Side Street." 

Southern Theatre Co. here will soon start 

Jây Willie jr., representing E!ectro-Aire Co., the new theatre savings plan which has been 

Dallas, was in town calling upon the trade. proving very successful at the Alameda. 

Jean Wood, a Southern Methodist 

National, 

Guadalupe and graduate, 

university 

His father is assistant general manager of 

Zaragoza has joined 

theatres. 

the office staff of Isley 

Interstate circuit . 

Silva is acting as 

Theatres on Filmrow, taking the place of 

house manager It is 

of the Alameda 

Buck night 

while Prank 

that is proving popular Marietta Wessels, who is leaving to join her 

Crozier is away for 

on a 

the 

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Drive-In each Wednesday. husband at Ft. Eustice in Virginia. 

Texas oil fields . . . 

This is to The National 

correct 

Theatre an item in 

is 

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soon to undergo a 

which stated 

complete remodeling. 

otherwise Seen along Filmrow: 

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le Moko" 

Theo Miller. Gem, 

Work will be done played 

after the 

the 

house 

Arts 

closes each 

Theatre. 

Quitman: Bill 

Holdovers 

Vasson, Cascade, 

included 

Spring; A. D. 

night. Two new "The 

stores will open 

Blue Veil" Lawrence, 

in 

at 

the National 

building, as part of the new 

the Apex, 

Josephine, 

Tioga; 

and 

C. 

"An 

R. Sandidge, Village, 

American in Paris." 

expansion. 

San Pedro 

and W. D. 

Outdoor 

Hightower, 

Theatre 

. . . Five Worth; 

Grand, Fort 

stars were 

Leon D. 

at the 

Glasscock, 

Majestic 

San Antonio; 

Manager Wallace Womack of the Arts Theatre 

recently played his first Spanish picerlers, 

Friday (18). They 

Henry 

were 

Reeves, 

Yvette 

Mission, 

Dugay, Bev- 

Menard; Red Leath- 

Tyler, John Palace, 

Hudson and 

Paducah; Mrs. 

James C. W. Matson 

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and 

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... A special discount admission price Cimarron Kid," 

The occasion was 

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Van; Mr. 

Murphy, 

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who 

T. Hitt, 

was made by the manager of the Josephine headed Hico. 

the group of Hollywood stars. 

for teachers and students to see "Of Men 

and Music" 

. Prince James 

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of the King 

Paramount, 

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San Marcos by Jerry 29 after 31 

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He will be succeeded Crain was a 

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M. 

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Mrs. Pete Torres, prominently known Kerrville 

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March of Dimes Spanish film and stage 

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?4e 

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Industry Talk Success at Corsicana 

DALLAS—Kyle Rorex, executive director 

for Texas COMPO, received an enthusiastic 

letter from Dave Yates. Interstate city manager 

in Corsicana, who with Sidney Miller, 

manager of the Hillside Drive-In, arranged 

a Rotary luncheon at which Jack Jackson, 

director of public relations for National 

Screen Service, spoke on behalf of the film 

industry and COMPO. 

Yates, in his letter, made observations on 

listener reaction to the Jackson address. 

"The industry had a terrific inning at the 

meeting of the Corsicana Rotary club," the 

letter said, adding that Jackson "delivered 

a solid talk—one that literally opened the 

eyes and minds of the listeners. 

"I was particularly pleased that there were 

three women, wives of Rotarians, there. I 

was able to get all of the local theatre boys, 

except one. for the meeting—and it was 

unanimously felt that Jackson had done a 

lot of good, on the local level, for our great 

industry. 

"I purposely waited until today to write 

as I wanted a chance to see what passing 

comments we would get. in our normal daily 

contacts, with some of the men present. We 

have had several take the opportunity to 

mention it to us, and invariably they have 

mentioned the 'good' to our business or industry. 

One of the women who was there 

was talking to Banks Lyons last night and 

she remarked that her husband mentioned it 

when he came home, etc. 

"One fellow, a longtime Rotarian, former 

district governor of Rotary, and a former 

mayor here, was seated in front of Jackson. 

As soon as the talk was finished he jumped 

up and shook hands with Jackson, praising 

the fine vocational talk. Incidentally, the 

man and his wife are two of our most regular 

moviegoers." 

Armed Forces in Appeal 

For Blood at 'Bayonets' 

KANSAS CITY—The urgency of the need 

for blood to treat battle casualties was illustrated 

by the formidable gathering of command 

personnel from all the armed services 

on the stage of the Uptown Theatre at the 

opening of "Fixed Bayonets." Navy, air force, 

marine and army officers and the 42nd army 

band of the Kansas national guird. totaling 

about 100, gave a brief program of music and 

talks in behalf of the blood donor program 

preceding the night showing of the film. 

More than 100 persons who had signed 

donor pledges were admitted free. More 

than 2.000 invitations entitling signers to 

free admission were issued by the Uptown 

and were valid through January 21. 

The Kansas City shownig of the film was 

dedicated to Sgt. Charles R. Long, a Kansas 

City infantryman who was awarded the Congressional 

Medal of Honor posthumously for 

valor near Hoengsong. 

The speakers in behalf of blood donations 

included Maj. Gen. George R. Acheson. commanding 

the central air defense force; Capt. 

James H. Flatley, Olathe air station commander. 

lowans Regard Showman's 

Dollar 'Sale' Pig in Poke 

WASHINGTON. IOWA—They were selling 

silver dollars for 85 cents at the State Theatre 

here last week and they had a heck of 

a time getting people to buy. When it was 

all over, not all of the bargain dollars were 

disposed of. and those who had purchased 

them did so only after a struggle. 

Theatre Manager Alva Hopper reported 

that of the 50 silver dollars he had acquired 

for his advertised "clearance sale." 47 finally 

were sold for 85 cents each, but not without 

a lot of persuasion. Joan Heck, who presided 

at a booth set up for the sale in the inner 

lobby of the theatre, had a mighty difficult 

time trying to sell the money. She concluded 

that Washington theatregoers are 

mighty suspicious of a bargain. 

Some of the customers said they just didn't 

want to carry a heavy silver dollar in their 

pockets or purses. Manager Hopper then 

suggested they buy the dollar for 85 cents, 

take it to the ticket window and exchange 

it for a paper dollar. 

Even then, some of them refused the offer! 

Maybe folks in Washington just don't need 

the money. 


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Oklahoma TOA Rally 

March 23 in Capital 

OKLAHOMA CITY—Plans are rolling along 

for the Theatre Owners of Oklahoma convention 

at the Biltmore hotel March 23-25. 

Morris Loewenstein, president, is convention 

chairman, and has started arrangements for 

the biggest parley to date. 

He said the first response, as usual, was 

from Leon Bamberger of RKO in New York 

City, who reserved a "spot" at the convention, 

and also offered to assist in procuring a 

RKO star for the event. 

The style show and dinner party for the 

men and women, which proved a hit last 

year, is to be repeated. 

The TOO head said United Film Service 

in Kansas City notified him that the company 

will donate $100 towards the door prizes 

for the parley. 

TNT Asks FCC Permission 

To Attend TV Hearings 

NEW YORK—Theatre Network Television 

has petitioned the Federal Communications 

Commission for permission to participate in 

the television channel hearings scheduled to 

.start February 25 in Washington, according 

to Nathan L. Halpern, president. 

The petition said that TNT is the only 

company providing network television programs 

to theatres of different circuits and 

the only experienced company solely devoted 

to development of theatre television. It also 

said that TNT was in a unique position to 

contribute valuable information, that it was 

organized subsequent to the time originally 

set by the FCC for appearances at the hearings, 

and that since then it has cooperated 

with other elements in the industry in helping 

to develop a coordinated, industrywide 

program to be presented to the FCC. 

Herman Smith Campaigns 

To Eliminate Ticket Tax 

EVERGREEN, ALA.—Seeking to knock out 

the city amusement tax. Manager Herman 

"Bing" Smith of the Pix Theatre is conducting 

a poll among his patrons to determine 

their sentiments. He has asked the 

city council to reduce or repeal the tax of 

2 cents on 40-cent adult tickets and 1 cent 

on 15-cent children's tickets. Proceeds go 

for recreational purposes. 

According to Smith, the theatre must 

hike its admission prices because of rising 

costs unless the tax is reduced or repealed. 

Child in Fatal Accident 

MIAMI—Danny Varcak, 2, accompanied by 

his brother Gerry, 7, went to see a cowboy 

picture. Danny, becoming restless, started 

toddling along the front row, slipped and the 

nursing bottle he was carrying broke, severing 

an artery. Police were unable to stop the 

bleeding and the child died. 

Japan Makes Films for Export 

Aware of the potential export market for 

Japanese feature films in Formosa, Hawaii 

and the U.S., the Ministry of International 

Trade has announced plans to improve the 

content of films. 

Oklahoma Allied to File 

Protest on Availability 

OKLAHOMA CITY—The membership of 

the new Allied Independent Theatre Owners 

of Oklahoma, meeting here Monday (21) at 

the Variety Club, voted disapproval of what 

R. V. McGimiis and Bernard J. McKenna 

jr., both of Tulsa, termed "arbitrary policy" 

adopted by Warner Bros, in the Oklahoma 

territory. 

McGinnis and McKenna said that the 

complaint was that WB delayed a 31-day 

availability by an additional seven days, 

conflicting with other 31 -day availabilities, 

and added that the Allied unit would file a 

protest with the local WB exchange and with 

the company's New York home office. 

Don Tullius, WB branch manager, said 

late Tuesday (22i that as yet no complaint 

had been filed with his office. 

McGinnis, chairman of the board of Allied 

here, and McKenna, secretary, .said most of 

the Monday .session was devoted to a film 

clinic where many complaints were discussed 

and where the grievances of one member 

were presented and adjusted. McGinnis presided 

over the film clinic. Bob Busch of the 

Uptown and Villa here is chairman of the 

grievance committee. 

The Allied group elected McGinnis as delegate 

to the national board meeting in Washington 

Februai-y 4-7. Formal action on the 

Oklahoma Allied application for membership 

in the national body will be taken at the 

February meeting. 

Later next month, on February 18, Mc- 

Ginnis will report to the regional body on 

the national meeting. Before this meeting, 

however, the weekly Allied Caravan will be 

mailed to members as well as a weekly Allied 

bulletin, both of which will report on the 

national meeting. 

Also before the February meeting, a committee 

of two will call on independent exhibitors 

in the territory to acquaint them 

with the new Allied organization and to 

obtain new members. Eddie Jones, Sand 

Springs Drive-In, Tulsa, and Earl Snyder, 

Apache Drive-In, Tulsa, make up this committee. 

The duet will devote part of each 

week to the membership campaign. 

New board members will be added at the 

February session. 

During the meeting Monday Harold D 

Bowers, Brook Theatre, Tulsa, president of 

the regional unit, presided. About 30 persons 

attended the meeting, the group's third. 

Mrs. Bess Wilkie of Harrah was a guest. 

New members include C. C. Noecker and R. A. 

Miller of the 64 Drive-In, Muskogee, and 

their booker. Athel Boyter; Byron Savage, 

Theatre Service Co.; James O. McKenna, 

Tower, and Eugene McKenna, Royal, both of 

Tulsa. 

Issued during the meeting were the new 

1952 membership cards which bear the Allied 

of Oklahoma emblem, a circle centered with 

a map of the Sooner state. The round emblem 

also carries the official name. Allied Theatre 

Owners of Oklahoma. Also issued were 

three-color decals for the members, boxoffices 

and autos. 

C. H. Weaver, Tent 22 chief barker, and the 

directors of the tent made arrangements for 

an open house to follow the Allied meeting. 

About 35 people, mostly local, attended the 

open house, featuring a buffet supper and 

bingo party in the clubrooms Monday night 

(21). I 

Bay Cities Critics Pick 

'Streetcar' Year's Best 

SAN FRANCISCO—"A Streetcar Named 

Desire" was selected as the best American 

film of 1951 by the San Francisco-Oakland 

Drama Critics Council at the annual awards 

meeting. Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando 

topped the voting for best screen performances 

for their work in the film. 

Best foreign picture was the British "Seven 

Days to Noon." San Francisco drama reviewers 

considered 273 major features, of 

which 33 were foreign films. Members of 

the council include Wood Soanes, president, 

Oakland Ti'ibune; Hortense Morton, S. F. 

Examiner; Emilia Hodel, S. F. News; William 

Hogan and Luther Nichols, S. F. Chronicle; 

and Fred Johnson and Hazel Cummings, 

S. P. Call-Bulletin. 

More Oklahoma City Notes 

. . . Ralph 

The Harber got MGM's "Quo Vadis" and 

will open it on or about February 20. Gordon 

Leonard manages the Cooper Foundation's 

newest situation . . Mrs. Goldia Davis is 

. 

the new cashier at the Majestic 

Ayer, Lincoln, Neb., a Cooper Foundation 

executive, was in town. 

Morris Loewenstein, Majestic owner and 

president of Theatre Owners of Oklahoma, 

and wife were to leave Saturday 126) for 

Los Angeles to attend the Theatre Owners 

of America executive board session. Loewenstein 

is .secretary of the group. 

On the Row were L. B. Warren of Yukon; 

G. L. Doughty, Garber; Bill Jones, Sand 

Springs; Mrs. Sam Ridgeway, Maysville; Mrs. 

Elizabeth Tucker, Guthrie; Harry Hutchinson, 

manager for Glen Thompson in Healdton; 

Mrs. Leila M. Gilbert, Sun at Will 

Rogers field: R. L. RoUier, Lamont; Eddie 

Jones, Tulsa; Mrs. D. M. Butler, Warner; Mr. 

and Mrs. Ralph Drewry and daughter Toni. 

Tulsa Downtown Theatres. 

Drewry and J. C. Hunter of the same theatre 

group attended the Chick Lewis testimonial 

dinner in New York where they 

stayed a week combining business and pleasure. 

Drewry saw some of the top plays while 

in the east . . . Also on the Row were Mrs. 

John Gray. Chickasha; C. H. Leonard, 

Meeker; Dana Ryan, Pawnee; Mrs. Wesley 

Hodges of Weatherford: Mr. and Mrs. Creal 

Black, Cordell; Mrs. Katherlne Hendricks 

and partner, Henry Simpson, Brlstow. 

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— 

Ci/iert|1op /Management 

Man... In &/ery Industry 

SHOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT A 

MOST CRITICAL EMERGENCY IN OUR COUNTRY'S AFFAIRS 

Q. Why is iron and steel scrap a matter 

of importance to me? 

A. Steel for our country's military program 

and civilian economy is being produced 

at the annual rate of 107,000,000 

tons in 1951 . . . 119,500,000 tons expected 

in 1952. Steel-making capacity 

is being increased now to meet those 

quotas. 

What Do I Get 

For My Scrap? 

In addition to being paid for your scrap, 

you remove nuisance inventory from 

your plant—saving valuable floor space. 

Also, you have a better chance of getting 

new steel or steel products. But, 

most important—you help alleviate 

a dangerous condition threatening our 

country's capacity to rearm and satisfy 

civilian requirements at the same time. 

Q. How does scrap figure in the production 

of steel? 

A. Steel is composed, generally speaking, 

50% of pig iron, 25% of "production" 

scrap (that is, the scrap which is 

produced as a by-product of steel-making) 

and 25% of "purchased" scrap. 

able to operate at capacity. That will 

mean a loss of steel production . . . and 

fewer products made of steel. 

Q. Why not use pig iron instead of 

scrap? 

A. Every ton of scrap conserves approximately 

2 tons of iron ore, 1 ton , 

of coal, nearly J4 ton of limestone and 

many other vital natural resources— to 

' 

say nothing of the extra transportation 

facilities that would be otherwise re- . 

quired. 

Q. How can more scrap be furnished? > 

A. By everybody pitching in—as we 

always do in every emergency—and 

searching out all possible sources of t 

scrap. 

Q. What are these sources? 

A. Metal-fabricating plants normally 

',, 

turn over to scrap dealers the scrap 

left from machining. But there's not 

enough of this to fill our present enormous 

need. So everybody—both in and 

out of the metal-fabricating industries 

— must sell scrap in the form of idle 

metal. 

What Do I Do Firstl 

Write for free booklet. If fells how to 

set up a Scrap Salvage Program in 

your plant. Thousands of platifs ore 

cooperating. Do your part nov/! Address 

Advertising Council, 25 West 

45fh Street, New York 19, N. Y. 

Q. We don't produce scrap— how can 

we help? 

A. Scrap is any kind of iron and steel 

that's gathering dust— obsolete machines 

or structures, jigs and fixtures, 

pulleys and wheels, chains and track, 

valves and pipe anything \

Neighborhoods Resist 

Theatre Ad Rate Hike 

MINNEAPOUS—A North Ceiitr;U Allied 

committee comprising S. D. Kane, executive 

counsel, and Martin Lebedoff, William Volk 

and Charles Rubenstein. called on Minneapolis 

Star-Tribune executives Gideon Seymour 

and John Moffatt to protest against 

an increase of 5 cents a line (10 cents an 

inch) in the theatrical display advertising 

rate, effective March 1. 

They pointed out that the theatrical rate 

now is approximately 50 per cent higher than 

for other businesses, that it would mean an 

average advance in cost of $350 a year for 

most local neighborhood and suburban theatres, 

that most of these houses now are having 

tough sledding in trying to make both 

ends meet, that they don't get any gratis 

publicity like the downtown theatres for 

their larger rate payments and that the increase 

in circulation, mainly outside Minneapolis, 

doesn't benefit them. Seymour and 

Moffatt promised to meet the committee 

again in the near future. 

New Fairbury, Neb., Woods 

Reopened by Ira Crane 

OMAHA—A variety of projects, from the 

New Woods Theatre at Fairbury to a railroad 

car. have been announced by F. A. 

Van Husan of Western Theatre Supply Co. 

Ira Crane of Fairbury has reopened the 

Woods with complete new equipment, including 

450 International chairs, RCA sound, 

stage drops, carpet, 20-ton Typhoon air conditioning 

units, light fixtures, Brenkert projectors, 

rectifiers and screen. 

Van Husan also said the Union Pacific 

railroad has bought new International theatre 

seats for its nsw instruction and meeting 

train. 

The R. D. Goldberg circuit of Omaha has 

installed new Brenkert projectors and generators 

in the Town and Dundee and new 

sound equipment and General Register ticket 

machines. 

The Neu Theatre at Stapleton. Neb., has 

purcha.sed a new RCA screen. 

Twin City Bank Night Pool 

Continues Another Year 

MINNEAPOLIS—A combined Bank night in 

which 30 Minneapolis neighborhood and suburban 

exhibitors participate, making for a 

very substantial award, will continue for another 

year. At its annual meeting the group, 

called Mill City Theatres, elected Martin 

Lebedoff. owner of two theatres, as president. 

Lebedoff says the pool is trying to work out 

a telephone hookup for the stunt in order 

to expand public participation. 

Since Bank night was legalized by a state 

supreme court decision two years ago and 

the group was organized, only four members 

have dropf>ed out. 

'Pop' Gehlsen Retires 

BURKE. S. D.— Aft

ALL OF THESE WILL POSITIVELY 

NOT BE SHOWN ON TELEVISION! 

Receivership Suit Filed 

On Cedar Rapids House 

CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA—A suit to force 

the K&L Theatres Corp., owner of the Town 

here, into receivership, has been filed in Linn 

county district court by J. D. Siegel of Cedar 

Rapids. Defendants are the corporation it- 

.'êlf and Julian H. King and Raymond J. 

Lumsden, listed as the sole stockholders, officers 

and directors of the corporation. According 

to the petition, Siegel sold the furniture, 

fixtures and equipment in the theatre 

and the adjoining candy store to the theatre 

corporation in a conditional sales contract 

Feb. 2, 1948. 

For payment, the corporation gave Siegel 

a promisory note for $31,000, which was to 

be payable in monthly installments of $250 

starting Mar. 1, 1948. It provided that upon 

default of any payment or in performance 

of the terms of the note the entire unpaid 

principal and accrued interest might be declared 

due and payable at once, without notice. 

No payments have been made since 

May 28, 1951, according to the petition. It 

adds that demand for payment of the entire 

amount has been made. The unpaid principal 

amounts to $23,793.22. 

In his petition, Siegel charges that the 

defendants have rendered the corporation 

insolvent by payment of excessive salaries 

and dividends to themselves, therefore are 

personally liable for the debts of the corporation. 

Siegel says that the value of the property 

has depreciated "very considerably" and 

that it now is inadequate to secure payment 

of the note. Tlie petition adds the property 

is in danger of being lost, materially injured 

or destroyed. 

The suit asks judgment against all three 

defendants for the amount still due, that the 

contract against the property be foreclosed, 

that the equity of the defendants in the 

property be cut off, and that a special execution 

be issued for sale of the property. 

It also asks that the plaintiff be given a 

judgment against the defendants for any unpaid 

balance remaining after the sale, the 

defendants be required to account for all 

salaries, dividends and other withdrawals 

from the corporation after the sale date, and 

that a receiver be appointed to protect the 

plaintiff's rights. 

The K&L Corp. recently won a court suit 

it brought against the Merchants National 

bank, which has purchased the building housing 

the Town Theatre. The bank had sought 

to remove the theatre corporation from the 

building. K&L suit claimed a 15-year lease 

had on the building was binding upon the 

it 

new owners. Judge Floyd Philbrick found 

for the corporation, holding it could occupy 

the building under the terms of the lease at 

least for the next 12 years. 

NOW AVAILABLE 

INDEPENDENT— 1109 Currie Ave., Minneapolis 

REALART—706 A. W. State St., Milwaukee 

William Wink Elected 

OMAHA—William Wink, Warner salesman, 

has been re-elected president of the Omaha 

loge of the Colosseum of Motion Picture 

Salesmen. Pat Halloran of 20th-Fox was 

named vice-president, Paul Back of RKO 

secretary. Bob Hirz of Warners treasurer and 

Rich Wilson of MGM sergeant at arms. 

Halt Thursday Showings 

MASSENA, IOWA—The Lux Theatre is 

discontinuing Thursday night showings for 

the winter. Lux programs will continue to 

be changed three times weekly as before, 

however. 

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BOXOFTICE January 26, 1952 

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'Dawn' Comes Up Like 

Thunder in Chicago 

CHICAGO — "Decision Before Dawn," plus 

"FBI Girl," had a hefty week at 115 per cent, 

a figure matched by the third weeks of "Detective 

Story" at the Woods and "The Emperor's 

Nightingale" at the World. Improved 

weather conditions were also responsible for 

upping the grosses at all first runs. "The 

Well" and "The Big Night," two UA releases, 

opened very well at the United Artists. Pearl 

Bailey and the Saul Grauman Revue were 

the stage attractions at the Chicago, while 

Eddy Howard and Joey Bishop headed the 

stager at the Oriental. The .stage-screen bills 

registered 110 and 105 per cent. Only two 

bookings dropped below the 100 average this 

week and they managed to attain 95. 


Chicago—Double Dynamite (RKO), plu stage 

-.110 

Grand—Weekend With Father (U-I), 3rd wk 95 

McVickers- Distant Drums (WB); Two Tickets to 

Broadway (RKO), 2nd d t. wk 100 

Oriental—^My Favorite Spy (Para), plus stage 

show 105 

Roosevelt—Flame of Aiaby (U-I); The Raging Tide 

95 

(U-I) 

Slate-Lake—Decision Before Dawn (20th-Fox); FBI 

Girl (LP) 115 

United Artists—The Well (UA); The Big Night 

(UA) 110 

World Playhouse—The Emperor's Nightingale 

(Teitel). 3rd wk 115 

Woods—Detective Story (Para). 3rd wk - 115 

Ziegfeld—The River (UA), 9lh d. t, wk Good 

'Druims' Scores 145 

In Omaha Week 

OMAHA—For a second week "An American 

in Paris" packed the State to the last row 

in the balcony and was held for a third 

week. The Orpheum had a 145 score with 

"Distant Drums" and "Corky of Gasoline 

Alley," but other first runs were near normal 

or under. 

On -The Man With a Cloak (MGM); 

rline (MGM) 

.. 95 

n— Distant Drums (WB); Corky of 

oline Alley (C:!) 145 

'aramouu' Callaway Went Thataway (MGM) 95 

IKO Erir;i..: The Mob (Col) 105 

;tate— An American in Paris (MGM), 2nd wk.; 

Fingerprints Don't Lie (LP) 120 

own— Lost Youth (Lux); Merchant of Slaves 

(Lux); Saddle Legion (RKO) 90 

OMAHA 

. 

. . . U-I 

Oalesmen who battled the South Dakota 

roads reported traveling conditions last 

week and the previous week were the worst, 

with raiti and snow freezing on highways to 

add to the theatremen's grief . . . Bill Barker, 

Co-op Theatre Service, was back on Pilmrow 

after a brief illness . . . Max Ro.senblatt, RKO 

manager, visited exhibitors in the Grand 

Island area Eichenberg sr. has 

opened a cleaning establishment. Mort jr., 

former RKO salesman, is now an army reserve 

officer on duty in Alaska 

staffers are digging in on the Nate Blumberg 

40th anniversary drive. 

Walt Hagedon, Cozad exhibitor, is making 

daily trips to Lexington, Neb., to visit his 

father, 90 years old. who is ill . Warners 

. . 

had a big turnout for the screening of "This 

Woman Is Dangerous" . Naper. Neb., 

Theatre is now reopened under Louis and 

Margie Kortmeier . Fejfar, MGM 

salesman, reports his mother has left the 

hospital after an operation and is now convalescing 

at the home of his brother Robert 

in Yankton, S. D. 

Mrs. Ed Kugel was in booking, subbing for 

her husband, Mapleton and HoLstein, Iowa, 

Glenn Slipper of 

exhibitor, who was ill . . . 

National Theatre Service reports that Al 

Schuyler, manager of the Des Moines office, 

is coming along nicely. Slipper is handling 

both spots during Schuyler's illness . . Henry 

. 

McGrath, FEPCO general manager, is recuperating 

after an operation . sneakpreviewed 

"Las Vegas Story" at the State. 

. . . Bill Madsen. foriner 

Jules Serkowich, Columbia explolteer, was 

in working on "Man in the Saddle" and 

"Boots Malone" . Manager Joe 

Jacobs reported a highly successful product 

session in Chicago 

Republic office manager who resigned to join 

his children in Seattle, is now with RKO 

Eugene Upstill, Long Pine, Neb., 

there . . . 

exhibitor, is one of the busiest men in western 

Nebraska. He is in wide demand over 

the area as an electrician and Mrs. Upstill 

helps out with the booking when he's away 

versatile Sand Hill exhibitor 

is Don Gibson of the Niobrara Theatre at 

Springview. When the telephone company 

was hard hit by storm damage, Don volunteered 

to help with line repairs. 

Despite hail, rain and snow which alternated 

in making eastern Nebraska miserable 

a good-size turnout of exhibitors showed up 

on Filmrow. Included were Adrian Mueting, 

Fonda, Iowa; Harry Hummell, Schribner; 

Mrs. Carl John.son, Red Oak. Iowa; Arnold 

Meierdirks, Pender; Bob Krueger, Sioux City; 

Marty Weiner, Sioux City West; Don Campbell, 

Central City; Carl Merriman, Alton; 

Mrs. Kugel of Holstein, and H. O. Qualsett, 

Tekamah. 

An Omaha film peddler almost talked himself 

into some manual labor on a visit in 

Tilden. Neb. Jack Andrews, Paramount salesman, 

walked in to find Millard Rethswisch, 

owner of the Victory, down on his hands and 

knees scrubbing the lobby. 

"What's the matter, can't you afford to 

hire someone to do that," joshed Jack. 

"I can if you can find someone," cracked 

back Rethwisch. "Say—how about you!" 

'Ten Tall Men' Strong 

In Twin City Cold 

MINNEAPOLIS—Bad weather continued to 

hurt the boxoffice here, but nevertheless "Ten 

Tall Men" came through splendidly for the 

Orpheum. "An American in Paris" was still 

rolling fast in its tenth week. 

Century- Bonnie Prince Charlie (Snader) 80 

Gopher— Bright Victory (U-I), 2nd wk 90 

Lyric— Lost Continent (LP): G.I. Jane (LP) 90 

Pix—The Wild Blue Yonder (Rep), 3rd wk 100 

Radio City—Another Man's Poison (UA) , 90 

RKO Orpheum— Ten Tall Men (Col) 120 

RKO Pan—Caesar and Cleopatra (UA); Seventh 

Veil (UA). reissues 100 

State—Man in the Saddle (Col) 95 

World—An American in Paris (MGM), 10th wk 150 

Garfields Operate Grand 

FARMINGTON, IOWA—Mr. and Mi'S. K. S. 

Garfield have gone to west Mi.ssouri. near 

Kansas City, to operate the Grand Theatre 

for the next three months and possibly 

longer. 

One of a series of Think 

Pieces about improving 

your theatre and its 

equipment. 

RCA products are 

among the best to 

be had—buy wisely 

Seats— Do They Get By? 

Don't kid yourself about getting by 

with those old, worn-out seats. 

When Papa is pried out of his deep-seat home upholstery, 

he won't like rickety antiques at a show— 

not even yours! 

Mama is weary and wonts to rest at your 

place, she'll do it and come oftener if your seats 

ore embraceful and cozy. 

Our seats sell themselves to you and to your 

patrons. 

Jim Skolil Adds Equipment 

I 

COMSTOCK, NEB.—Jim Skolil. owner of i 

the Comstock Theatre, has installed new I 

equipment in the house. Large crowds attended 

the premiere performances to see I 

the new screen and sound system. —

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. . Jimmy 

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. . Jerry 

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. . Joe 

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MINNEAPOLIS 

/ûo Vadis" deals for the Twin cities haven't 

^ been definitely set yet, W. H. Workman, 

MGM branch manager, reports. Bidders for 

the picture, as far as is known, include the 

Minnesota Amusement Co., RKO Theatres, 

Bennie Berger and Ted Mann . the 

first time in many a moon, the local Orpheum 

had a holdout last Saturday night with "Ten 

Tall Men." Tlie picture racked up exceptionally 

fine business and moved over to the Pan 

for a second downtown week. It also got a 

second week in St. Paul where it moved from 

the Orpheum to the World. 

"An American in Paris" is in its 11th 

week now at the World here, still garnering 

V." 

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industries. 

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grosses far above the theatre's average . . . 

Condolences to Louis Orlove whose mother 

died in Florida after a long illness. Her husband 

and three children survive. Interment 

was in Milwaukee, the family's home. She 

was 72 Nederlander, manager of 

the Lyceum, legitimate roadshow and film 

theatre, stopped over in Detroit, the home 

of his parents, en route back from New 'York 

where he had gone in quest of more bookings. 

At the first of its Saturday night pop price 

dance parties, the Variety Club turned 'em 

away. It was the biggest crowd ever to attend 

a club function. A three-piece combination 

furnished the music for the dancing and 

for Reid H- 

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other entertainment. The dance parties are 

being held every Saturday night. Admission 

is only 50 cents. 

In an upset that some hers consider ranks 

with the Walcott victory over Charles and 

the Tennessee defeat at Maryland's hands in 

football, Ralph Pielow jr. won from Martin 

Lebedoff in the semifinals of the Northwest 

Variety Club's annual gin rummy tournament. 

Pielow then went on to defeat Don 

O'Neill in the finals. So, Pielow. 20th-Fox 

manager, is the club's new gin rummy champion 

. Gruenberg, UA salesman, was 

in huddle with promoter-financier Ben 

Spewak, and the boy.s wonder what's cooking 

. . . J. T. McBride, Paramount manager, 

attended a district sales meeting in Chicago 

A. Levy, 20th-Fox district manager, 

and assistant Saul Malisow, held a sales conference 

in Kansas City this week. 

Hy Chapman, Columbia manager, was confined 

to his home by pleurisy . . . Sally Allen 

of the Paramount office staff was in Mount 

Zion hospital . . . Abbott Swartz, UA manager, 

moved into his new home . B. 

French, Minnesota Amusement Co. president, 

was at LaCrosse to check on the redecorating 

job at the circuit's Hollywood Theatre 

there . Martin and Lewis and their 

stage show come to Radio City here the 

week of February 22 they'll do five shows a 

day and six on Saturday and Sunday, spending 

all of their time between the shows in 

the theatre. 

For the first time, a suburban house, the 

Westgate, got Bob Murphy's honored position 

for "Picture of the Week" in the Sunday 

Tribune. The picture was "Inheritance," a 

British production, which had its local first 

run at the Westgate. Murphy placed it above 

such other newcomers as "Ten Tall Men" 

and "Another Man's Poison" . . . It'll be National 

Screen night at the Northwest Variety 

Club February 1 and an elaborate program 

of entertainment is promised. 

Bill Elson, circuit owner, and his wife were 

vacationing in California . Wolf returned 

from a visit to his drive-in at San 

Antonio. 

Loton Todd Starts Airer 

LEXINGTON, NEB. — Construction of a 

drive-in west of here at the edge of the city 

limits has been started. Loton Todd, who is 

building the theatre, said the land has been 

leveled and driveways are now being made. 

Todd .said he has received all of his equipment 

and the outdoorer w-ill have a 500-car 

capacity, with individual speakers. A spring 

opening is on the booking calendar. 

BUSINESS 

Local Screen Advertising of Quality 

BREVITIES 

Exhibitor's Father Dies 

VALENTINE, NEB.—U. G. Dunn, father of 

H. G. Dunn, died here. The younger Dunn 

and his wife have run the Jewell Theatre 

here many years. 

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Open Fairbury Woods D E S MOINES 

In Old Majestic Site 

FAIRBURY, NEB.—The new Woods Theatre 

has opened for business with Ira Crain 

as manager. It is located in the building which 

formerly housed the Majestic Theatre, across 

from the Pla-Mor, but townspeople would 

never recognize it as the same place. As 

reported in BOXOFFICE recently, the building 

was to be completely remodeled. 

Redecoration included extensive use of pine 

paneling and Celotex board to give it a modern 

look. The cashier is now located at the 

right of the lobby with the concession adjoining. 

New restrooms were built on the left 

of the lobby and foyer and the foyer ceiling 

lowered. Acoustic paneling was installed in 

the auditorium on the walls and ceiling. 

Walls were painted crim.son and the screen 

draw curtain is gold cloth. Ornamental light 

fixtures were added to the walls. The reseating 

totaled four less seats than were expected 

but the tally at the Woods is 458. The old 

Majestic seated 600. Both the foyer and aisles 

are carpeted in deep red. 

A new marquee will not be installed immediately. 

It has been assembled but severe cold 

prevented its installation. It will have removable 

letters with the theatre name in 

neon. The house will have matinees on Saturday, 

Sundays and holidays, with evening 

starting time at 7 o'clock. Crain has indicated 

for some time that Fairbury needed two 

theatres like most towns of its size. He is a 

former manager of the local Bonham Theatre 

and operated the Jack Rabbit Drive-In last 

summer. 

Theatres at Newton, Iowa, 

To Central States Corp. 

NEWTON, IOWA— Stock in the Capitol and 

Rialto theatres here, owned by the Tri-States 

Theatre Corp. for the last 18 years, has been 

purcha.sed by Central States Theatre Corp. 

Announcement of the sale of the stock to 

the new ow-ner was made by Dorman Hundling. 

manager of the theatres which operate 

here as the Continental Amusement Co. 

New directors for the theatres were named 

in Des Moines. Myron N. Blank was elected 

president and Hundling was named secretary. 

Blank is head of Central States. The same 

film services will be furnished by Central 

States as were by Tri-States. These include 

principally the booking of pictures and the 

accounting work. Personnel will remain the 

same. 

However, the new owners have planned 

considerable renovation and remodeling of 

the Capitol. "When the work is completed," 

said Tundling. "the Capitol again will be 

known as one of the nicest, most modern 

theatres in the state." The principal remodeling 

will be in the foyer and the front of 

the building and will include installation of 

a larger screen. 

Showman Operates Plane 

STUART, NEB.—D. J. Lockman of Stuart 

finds an airplane a handy gadget to keep 

up with all his activities. He runs the Stuart 

Theatre and also is a hog buyer for a serum 

company. He uses the plane to do all hi,"^ 

buying. 

Tîlt Feinberg, NSS manager, and salesman 

Madeline Sherman, Paramount 

suits . . . 

Bill Luftman and Lou Kravitz are back manager's secretary, is the first Filmrower 

from a three-day meeting in Kansas City to appear with the new "poodle" haircut . . . 

Terry is a new employe in NSS's Frances Boys, Paramount, was ill with the 

shipping department . were pleased flu. 

to learn of former Warner Manager George 

Lefko's new position as manager of the Warner 

Variety Club entertainment committee, 

exchange in Chicago. 

headed by Warner Manager Leon 

Mendel- 

Several exhibitors combined booking trips 

with an opportunity to see "Gentlemen Prefer 

Blondes" which played KRNT Radio Theatre 

last weekend. Among those attending 

were M. L. Dickson, Mount Pleasant, and his 

-son and daughter-in-law, Lieut, and Mrs. 

Richie Dickson, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles 

Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peterson, 

all of Hampton, Iowa . . . Ice and snow made 

road conditions hazardous and several exhibitors 

and salesmen had to postpone their 

planned trips for a couple of days. 

Bill Fultz, former Warner and RKO salesman 

here, was a visitor on the Row. Fultz 

now is midwest division salesmanager for 

Ricemor, distributors of women's coats and 

.son, held a luncheon meeting January 21. 

The date of the inaugural ball has been 

changed from February 8, as previously announced, 

to February 22. This will make it 

possible for Marc Wolf, international chief 

barker, and Col. Bill McCraw, international 

traveling secretary, to be guests of honor at 

the affair. Milt Feinberg. chief barker, has 

called a membership luncheon meeting for 

February 4 at the Standard club. 

Claudean Frueh, Republic, spent the weekend 

in Afton visiting her family . . . Edith 

Hoffman is the new biller's clerk for MGM 

Baumeister. MGM salesman and 

his wife, spent the weekend in Kansas City 

with friends. 

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Nev.- England Edition 

BOSTON—Terry Turner. RKO exploitation 

director, and Ralph Banghart, New England 

field representative, closed a deal with J. 

Marshall Duane, advertising director of First 

National Stores for a mammoth tieup on 

Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven 

Dwarfs" which will be released in more than 

150 theatres in New England during the 

February school vacation. 

First National's 979 supermarkets and 

stores in the six states will sponsor a contest 

to select a new Snow White and Prince 

Charming, and the most popular school 

teacher in New England who will act as 

chaperon of the two winners on a trip to 

England. 

The deal entaUs more than 300,000 lines of 

advertising space in First National's regular 

advertising schedule in about 70 first run 

and secondary key cities in this area. This 

linage will be at the disposal of RKO to 

promote cooperation with newspapers in those 

cities dated at a time most beneficial to the 

"Snow WOiite" playdate. First National also 

will distribute several million application 

blanks and voting coupons in its stores and 

will use one-sheet posters and counter cards 

to promote the contest. The stores will collect 

all contest entries and turn them over to the 

affiliates of the Yankee radio network, which 

will supervise all auditions and vote tabulations. 

Harold Kern, publisher, and Walter Howie, 

editor of the Hearst Record-American and 

Sunday Advertiser, have approved the plan 

and will support it editorially. 

Following the auditions in the voice contest 

in various key cities, state finalists will 

be brought to Boston for a grand coronation 

ball at the Somerset hotel February 23. The 

grand winners and the most popular school 

teacher will be named at the ball, and the 

event will be televised. 

A Charter Member Dies 

MASON CITY, IOWA—Frank E. Cawley, 

projectionist at the Palace Theatre, died recently 

at the age of 64, en route to a hospital. 

He had been employed as a projectionist 

in Mason City theatres for the past 

42 years. Cawley was a charter member of 

the projectionists union, in which he had 

held nearly every local office. He was voted 

an honorai-y life membership recently. 

Filming Winter Carnival 

ST. PAUL—Arthur Cohen of New York 

City, Oscar-winning film director, is making 

a documentary short of the annual Winter 

Carnival festival. It'll be released through 

20th-Pox. Cohen has produced and directed 

some 30 documentary films, of which "Brooklyn. 

U.S.A." won the 1947 Academy award. 

He says he plans a documentary of the Twin 

Cities in the summer. 

Buy in South Dakota 

BERESFORD, S. D.—Axel Sorenson and 

Dean Nash, exhibitor partners here, have 

purchased the theatre at Chamberlain, S. D., 

in partnership with Sorenson's twin brother. 

They also plan to build a drive-in there. 

Show's the Thing 

As Fire Proves 

.Ashland, Neb.—Strong medicine for 

those in film Industry who have thrown 

up their hands and said motion pictures 

are dying from an attack of TV-itis was 

brewed by M. C. Howe, pubUsher of the 

Ashland Gazette. 

Howe, writing editorially a couple of 

months after fire destroyed Woody 

Simek's theatre here, commented: 

"Folks who say that television can take 

the place of the motion picture theatre 

had better consult with most any Ashland 

businessman. 

"Right now we're without a theatre 

since the fire, and it makes a plenty 

broad empty space in downtown activity. 

In fact, coming into town any evening 

and not too late either, the main business 

block looks almost deserted. 

"The cars that were lined up in the 

vicinity of the theatre just aren't there, 

and even though other places are doing 

their best to fill in—the show is the 

thing for many people, especially the 

.youngsters. There's Uttle choice in the 

matter at this time, and we're all hoping 

that something will b" done as soon as 

possible!" 

Hawarden Comet Bows 

After Remodeling Job 

HAWARDEN, IOWA—The Comet Theatre 

here has reopened following a remodeling 

program which cost more than $10,000. The 

theatre was badly damaged by fire in November 

1951. Owner is Harry Lankhorst who 

.said improvements at the Comet include new 

Voice of the Theatre speakers, new sound 

and lamp houses and newly upholstered seats. 

Green and peach acoustical board has been 

placed on the walls, sound ab.sorbing acoustical 

tile at the back, and the ceiling has 

been painted. Tlie entire theatre was rewired. 

The lobby was finished in knotty 

pine, with green plastic tile on the floor. An 

imitation fireplace with gas log completes 

the lobby improvements. 

Tony Abramovich at Helm 

Of Grand Island Capitol 

GRAND ISLAND. NEB.—Tony J. Abramovich 

this month succeeded Wally Kemp at 

the management of the Capitol Theatre following 

Kemp's move to the Grand Theatre 

as manager and part owner with Mre. Madeleine 

Kaufman. 

Abramovich has been in theatre business in 

Des Moines since 1936 and was managing the 

Des Moines Theatre prior to coming here. 

The Capitol is owned by United Paramount 

Theatres. 

Schools to Plug Films 

MINNEAPOLIS—Louis Orlove. MGM exploiteer, 

has obtained assurance of E. Dudley 

Parsons, the local school board's consultant 

in visual educatiion, of the school 

system's cooperation in promoting worthwhile 

motion pictures. There will be some 

special preparation for children to see the 

approved films and discussion of them in the 

schoolrooms. The first picture to get the 

promotion cooperation will be MGM's "Quo 

Vadis," according to Orlove. 

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Remodeled Lyric Open 

Soon at Edgar, 

EDGAR, NEB.—Mons Thompson, who recently 

took over the Lyric, has .scheduled the 

reopening of the remodeled and redecorated 

house for January 31. 

Tliompson, who owns the Riviera at St. 

Paul and manages the Royal at Fullerton, 

has given the Lyric a complete going-over. 

Tlie floor incline ha.s been changed and a 

new front and foyer and marquee make it 

one of the mcst attractive in the area. 

Other major improvements include new 

restrooms. complete new equipment in the 

auditorium and redecoration of the walls, 

enlarged booth and all new booth equipment 

and new screen. There is a new heating and 

cooling system. All the planning, supervision 

and supplying was done by the Quality Theatre 

Supply. 

Defendant Motion Denied 

In Edina Antitrust Suit 

MINNEAPOLIS— Judge G. H. Nordbye in 

federal di.strict court denied the motion made 

by David Shearer, chief counsel for eight 

major film distributors and the Minnesota 

Amusement Co. and RKO Theatres, for a 

more definite statement of damages in the 

$1,911,000 antitrust conspiracy suit brought 

against them by the Edina, suburban theatre 

owned by the Friedman Bros. The defendants 

were given ten days to file an answer. 

The suit is an outgrowth of the Edina's 

failure to obtain the 28-day clearance. 

Judge Nordbye has taken under advisement 

motions made by David Shearer and other 

counsel for six major distributors and the 

Minnesota Amusement Co., defendants in a 

$495,000 antitrust conspiracy suit brought 

against them by S. G. and Martin Lebedoff, 

owners of the Homewood Theatre, local 

neighborhood house. 

The motions are to rule out exhibits relating 

to the New York consent decree case, including 

the decision, and to strike out various 

exhibits relating to alleged damages and the 

testimony of Martin Lebedoff regarding an 

alleged conversation with a former Paramount 

branch manager. 

The trial recently ended and the plaintiff's 

counsel. Lee Loevenger, and the defendant's 

lawyers have until March 15 to 

submit final briefs. 

Earl Cressman Sells Naper 

NAPER, NEB.—Louis Kortmeyer. Naper 

cafe operator, has bought the Naper Theatre 

from Earl Cressman. Cressman is now 

assistant manager of the Town Tlieatre in 

Omaha. 

John Newton Boyd Dies 

LE MARS, IOWA—John Newton Boyd, 62, 

former manager of the Royal and Elite theatres 

here, died of a heart attack at his home 

in Sioux City. 

Increase Capital Stock 

DES MOINES—The Indian Theatre Corp., 

900 Pai'amount building here, has filed notice 

of intent to increase its capital to $70,000. 

Better Times Coming As Always! 

From Mideast Edition 

GREENSBURG, PA.—The Manos circuit 

and its executives continue to go forward 

progressively in providing additional services 

and house upkeep, meeting each new day 

with innovations and leading the parade in 

showmanship. 

The house units of the Manos organization 

are being refurbished and newly decorated 

constantly in keeping with the tastes 

of the theatregoers and the seasons. Thousands 

of dollars have just been expended 

in new fixtures, fronts and doors at the 

Uniontown units. Elsewhere, in recent weeks, 

there have been other major improvements. 

Mike Manos, head of the organization, believes 

that better times definitely are coming 

for theatre owners. In his nearly 40 years 

in the industry, he has witnessed half-adozen 

major periods of depression. The industry 

survived each period through cooperation 

and hard work with major assists 

through introduction of new methods on 

several occasions. Theatre television systems 

are on order at this time for a number 

Featured Film Actress 

Former Des Moines Girl 

DES MOINES—Blonde Beverly Thompson, 

in "The 

appearing in the role of a chorus girl 

Girl Next Door," was born in Des Moines 

about 25 years ago. Daughter of the late 

Irving Thompson and Levyss Bradley, also a 

Hollywood actress, Beverly attended Lincoln 

Junior High school here before going to Hollywood 

with her mother. As a Hollywood 

High school student, she was spotted by Earl 

Carroll and signed for his theatre restaurant 

with billing as "The girl with the perfect 

figure." Her mother's . latest picture is 

"Deadline U.S.A.," starring Humphrey Bogart. 

Beverly first appeared in pictures for Warner 

Bros., then Paramount, under contract, and 

now is a freelance. 

George Hart to Continue 

KNOXVILLE. IOWA—George D. Hart, who 

recently resigned as manager of the Knoxville 

theatres and was succeeded by Prank 

Banning, as reported in BOXOFFICE, said 

he severed his connection with regret after 

ten years with Kerr Theatres and will devote 

his attention to other activities which he 

had planned for some time. Hart stated that 

later he will continue in theatre work. 

Thieves Rob Varsity 

DES MOINES—Thieves recently took $60 in 

cash and ten theatre admittance coupon 

books valued at $2.50 each from the Varsity 

Theatre here. Police said someone apparently 

hid in the theatre during the evening and 

then, after it closed, rifled the office. 

To Build Alma, Neb., Drive-In 

ALMA, NEB.—A drive-in theatre will be 

built here .soon by Paul Haeker. local theatre 

owner, and associates. Options have been 

obtained on a site and construction will begin 

as soon a-s clearance is given by the National 

Production Authority. 

Projector copper drippings ore needed. 

of the Manos units. 

But. even without such methods and equipments, 

exhibition will prosper where properly 

sold to amuement seekers, Manos said. 

With this belief, the Manos circuit has expended 

more than $1,000,000 in expansion in 

recent years. 

Manos general office headquarters have 

been remodeled. A new room for storage of 

business records in the ba.sement was dug 

out under the main street sidewalk and a 

new waterproof sidewalk has been installed. 

New office methods have been adopted and 

a registered accounting agency handles all 

bookkeeping. 

Indecision and pessimism among many exhibitors 

have not helped the industry, Manos 

said. "We've got to put our best foot forward, 

work hard and be more positive in our 

showmanship approach. Far too many entertainments 

are competing with motion pictures—far 

too many promoters are seeking 

the entertainment dollar. Our medium is 

superior In every way, but we must keep on 

selling. There should be no letdown." 

Three-Color Ansco Deal 

Being Used by Reid Ray 

MINNEAPOLIS—Reid H. Ray Film Industries 

will produce 55 ad playlet classifications, 

using the newest negative-positive 

three-color Ansco process during 1952. it was 

revealed at a home office meeting. It was 

stated that the increase in color production 

for Business Brevities and Merchants Screen 

Advertising product will bring it to an alltime 

high. 

Approximately 1.500 new ad playlets will 

be available, along with several new .series 

for national distribution through the Ass'n 

of Theatre Screen Advertisers, of which Ray 

is one of five members. Combined 1951 sales 

showed a 20 per cent gain over the preceding 

year. The industry department now makes 

training films for navy, air force and federal 

civic defense administration, as well as television 

commercials, sales films, etc. 

Altec Sells Theatre 

MINNEAPOLIS—Altec has brought .suit 

against Bill Levy, owner of the suburban 

Heights Theatre, for alleged breach of contract. 

Levy is one of a number of local 

exhibitors who have shifted over from Altec 

to the newly organized Northwest Sound 

Service, and S. D. Kane. North Central Allied 

executive counsel, his lawyer, says the suit 

is in the nature of a test. 

Edgerton House Burned 

EDGERTON. WIS.—Ten minutes before 

the Rialto Theatre was to have been opened 

recently, a fire was discovered inside a wall 

of the building, caused by a .short circuit in 

a wall light. Little damage was done and the 

show was not stopped, only delayed 20 minutes. 

Coleen Gray in 'Models' 

Hal E. Chester of Mutual Films has inked 

Coleen Gray for the femme lead in "Models, 

Inc." 

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CASE STUDY NO. f: 

88 Carloads 

CASE STUDY NO. 2 

Metalworking Plant Surprised! 

This big fabricator reported all scrap beinc turned 

in. When told needed scrap includes old equipment, 

not just "production" scrap, they uncovered 

extra tons of iron and steeL 

Here's a photographic equipment manufacturer 

with a systematic metal-salvage program. 

No more scrap, they said. Yet, after more 

careful study, they found 88 carloads of heavy 

iron and steel scrap in a 30-day period! 

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That scrap is badly needed to aid 

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CASE STUDY NO. 3: 

Paper Converter Delivers! 

This plant replaced 3000 obsolete machines 

with new ones. Held old ones for 

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BOXOFFICE January 26. 1952

I 

'Big Brawl' Article 

! Draws Comments 

i CLEVELAND—The firht jn.stallment of the 

January 19 Saturday Evening Post story, "The 

Big Brawl: Hollywood vs. Television," has 

aroused heated comment in local film circles. 

While admitting certain facts in the article, 

it seems to be the general impression of industry 

members that the conclusions are 

one-.sided and fail to present the industry 

picture as a whole. 

Admitted is the fact that theatres have 

closed during the year. But, it is pointed 

out, this statement should also be followed 

with a description of the closed theatre, its 

location, its equipment and its age. 

ATTENDANCE STILL GOOD 

"Just as the old store-room theatres gave 

way to theatre structures, so." said one exhibitor, 

"the old 500-seat house that has not 

kept abreast of the times with new equipment, 

new furnishings, air conditioning and 

parking space, is giving way to the de luxe 

1,500-seat theatre with the latest improvements 

in equipment and furnishings." This 

does not necessarily indicate that fewer 

people are attending the theatres. It only 

means that one large de luxe house is in a 

position to play to as many people as three 

small houses previously played to. 

Another prominent independent theatre 

owner believes that admissions are too high. 

"It has been the practice of our industry that 

every time we have a falling off of attendance 

we boost admissions. Right now, when 

business is bad, our admissions are the highest 

in our history. It doesn't make sense. 

Our most profitable era was when we played 

double features at 15 cents admission. We 

played to two and one-half times as many 

people as we do today. Our business was 

built on a policy of mass entertainment at 

low prices and the further we depart from 

that policy, the less business we do." 

MERCHANTS HAVE FAITH 

Merchants in this area evidently still have 

faith in the endurance of the theatre. Cleveland 

is abounding in neighborhood .shopping 

centers. These projects cost millions of dollars. 

But not one of them is without a theatre. 

The merchants believe that theatres 

draw neighborhood patronage. So firmly do 

they believe this that they are helping distressed 

theatres over their difficulties. 

Instances are reported where theatre landlords 

are reducing rents temporarily, and 

even, in some cases, are willing to let the rent 

pile up until theatre business picks up. It is 

significant that they believe the slump to be 

temporary and that, given the right kind of 

screen entertainment, fans will return. 

Another leading circuit owner has long believed 

that there will be many closed theatres, 

including first runs in coming years. It is his 

opinion that only top product will attract 

patrons. He believes it impossible for producers 

to make enough quality product to 

service as many first run theatres as now 

exist in the large cities. "With fewer first 

run theatres, and fewer pictures produced, it 

is a natural conclusion that there will be 

fewer theatres. Only the de luxe neighborhood 

houses will survive." FYogress, not television, 

causes this situation. 

Cleveland exhibitors also point to the drivein 

to prove that films are very much alive. 

They had a good season, generally, in this 

area, and they anticipate an even better one 

this summer. Therefore, those who read the 

SEP article, feel that it tells only half the 

story as between films and television. But 

they are reserving final judgment until the 

last of the three articles in the series appears. 

Several theatres have reported the return 

of long-absent patrons who have said they are 

tired of television, tired of looking at the 

small screen and tired of getting their entertainment 

at home in spite of the fact that 

it is free. 

Ohio ITO Sets Date 

For Annual Confab 

COLUMBUS. OHIO—Annual covention of 

the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio will 

be held Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, 

May 19-L'l, at the Hotel HoUenden in Cleveland, 

It was announced by Robert Wile. ITOO 

secretary. 

Cleveland Paper Boosts 

New Bette Davis Film 

CLEVELAND—Jack Silverthorne. manager 

of the Hippodrome, created citywide interest 

in "Another Man'.s Poison" through a tieup 

with the News. On four successive days prior 

to the opening of the picture, the News ran 

two photos of former Bette Davis pictures 

on the classified ad page. To help identify 

the pictures, titles of old Bette Davis pictures 

were scattered throughout the cla.ssified section. 

Prizes valued at $250 were awarded to 

the winner who correctly identified each 

photo. 

Albert Kuprion Dead 

LOUISVILLE—Albert J. Kuprion, president 

of the Kuprion Theatrical Supply Co., 

died at his home here recently. He had been 

associated with the firm at 204 W. Market for 

about 15 years and before that was with the 

Kuprion Novelty Co. for many years. The 

theatre supply business was founded by 

members of his family. 

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Year's Top Films Picked 

By Cleveland Critics 

Cleveland — The Cleveland Critics 

Circle, composed of \V. Ward Marsh, 

Plain Dealer; Omar Ranney, Press, and 

Arthur Spaeth, News, select by vote the 

picture which, in their opinion is the best 

one released in a first run situation during 

the previous month. Here is their 

top list for 1951 to date: 

January—Born Yesterday (Col). 

February—The Mudlark (20th-Fox). 

March—Cyrano de Bergerac (UA). 

.April—Fourteen Hours (20th-Fox). 

May—The Great Caruso (MGM). 

June—Strangers on a Train (WB). 

July—Oliver Twist (UA). 

.August— .Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell 

(20th-Fox). 

September—Tales of Hoffmann (Lop). 

October—A Streetcar Named Desire 

(WB). 

November—Quo Vadis (MGM). 

'Many Good Pictures' 

Lauded by Critics 

CLEVELAND—Film critics of both local 

daily papers—W. Ward Marsh of the Plain 

Dealer and Omar Ranney of the Pi-ess—selected 

their respective ten best films of 1951 

this week and commented that there were 

so many good films dm-ing the year that the 

selection of the "ten best" was exceedingly 

difficult. 

Both critics said they were impressed with 

the production and entertainment quality of 

many of the 1951 releases. 

High on both critics' lists were "An American 

in Paris," "A Place in the Sun," "The 

Red Badge of Courage" and "Quo Vadis." 

Ranney listed "A Place in the Sun" as 

the best drama of the year; "An American 

in Paris" as the best musical: "The Magnificent 

Yankee," best biography; "Cyrano de 

Bergerac," best classic adapted to the screen; 

"That's My Boy," best family comedy; "The 

Lavender Hill Mob," best adult comedy; 

"Strangers on a Ti-ain" and "Seven Days to 

Noon," best suspen.se; "The Day the Earth 

Stood Still," best science-fiction; "Kon Tiki," 

best real adventure; "The Blue Veil," best 

tear-jerker; "Quo Vadis," best spectacle; 

"The Red Badge of Courage," best war 

drama, and "The Mob," best gangster. 

Marsh, self-styled dean of the local critics 

by reason of his 25 years service to readers, 

listed Quo Vadis, An American in Paris, A 

Place in the Sun, 14 Hours, People Will Talk, 

Tlie River, Force of Arms, The Brave Bulls, 

Night Into Morning and Red Badge of Courage 

as the ten best and listed nine almost 

best pictures. These included The Frogmen, 

Ace in the Hole (The Big Cai-nival), Bright 

Victory, The Steel Helmet, The Magnificent 

Yankee, Payment on Demand, Storm Warning, 

The Mudlark and Westward the Women. 

In addition to the unusual number of fine 

pictures, critic Ranney said that the year 

was notable for Maj'io Lanza's top-rating in 

"The Great Caruso," the trend to sciencefiction 

films, the debut of Pier Angeli in 

"Teresa." Walt Disney's "Nature's Half Acre." 

(which he termed the most beautiful nature 

film ever made), the surprise picture of the 

year "At War With the Army," Josephine 

Hull in "Harvey" and lai'ge-screen theatre 

TV, w-hich Ranney tags "show business' latest 

gimmick." 

Roger Kennedy Renamed 

Business Agent of 199 

DETROIT—Roger M. Kennedy. lATSE 

vice-president, was re-elected business agent 

of the projectionists Local 199 for a twoyear 

term. Frank Kinsora of the Palms- 

State Theatre was re-elected president. Both 

men have headed the powerful Detroit local 

for about two decades. 

Other officers elected; Gilbert Light, Michigan 

Theatre, vice-president; Thomas 

O'Toole, recording secretary; Joseph Sullivan, 

treasurer; Roy Ruben, 20th-Fox, financial 

secretary; seu'geant at arms, Samuel J. 

Cornelia. Van Dyke Theatre. 

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ORLANDO. FLA.—Tom Bochert. formerly 

of the Lake Drive-In Theatre, Celina. Ohio, 

has sold his theatre interests and now is 

operating the Pickwick restaurant here. 

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Trucker Strike Threat, Rate Boost 

Jolt Film Delivery in Michigan 

DETROIT—Two major threats to smooth 

operation of film delivery in this area arose 

last week, with a boost in delivery rates, 

immediately challenged before the Michigan 

public service commission, and a general 

strike of truckers threatened. 

The strike problem arises from general negotiations 

by the teamsters union affecting 

other industries chiefly, with film carriers 

involved only incidentally. Possibility of a 

general trucking strike that would tie up the 

entire city in all industries is in the offing, 

according to reports on pending negotiations. 

The effective date would be February 1, but 

the optimistic view in the industry is that 

Detroit's exceptional significance as a key 

city in defense production would operate to 

prevent an actual strike. 

A general increase of 15 per cent in film 

delivery rates was placed in effect Friday 

(18) by Film Truck Service, which services 

most of the houses in the state except those 

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in the metropolitan area proper. It was 

promptly challenged by Allied Theatres of 

Michigan through Ernest T. Conlon, executive 

.secretary, acting through special authorization 

given at the recent board of directors 

meeting. This is believed to be the first time 

that Michigan Allied has stepped into the 

courts or quasi-judicial bodies as a direct 

voluntary participant in legal action. Conlon 

contended: "There is no justification for such 

an increase and we propose to fight it vigorously. 

In the face of the present boxoffice 

slump, this added burden could very well 

cause the closing of a great many theatres, 

depriving citizens of entertainment, especially 

in many small communities." 

Tire original petition for an increase was 

filed by Film Ti-uck Service in November, 

and the increase granted as of January 1, 

but "none of us in the theatre business knew 

anything about it until we got the letter 

dated January 10 from the company," Conlon 

said. The date for putting the hike in 

effect was given as January 18. 

The commission had granted a flat 15 per 

cent increase in rates, and it was to stop this 

action that Allied took legal steps last Friday 

(18) at Lansing before the same body. 

Conlon, commenting on the absence of a 

chance for exhibitors to present their case to 

the commission before the raise was granted, 

stressed that "there is nothing illegal about 

that; they did not have to notify us." 

Statements were sought from M. F. Gow- 

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thorpe, president of Butterfield Theatres, the 

principal exhibitor affected, and from Mrs. 

Gladys B. Pike, president of Film Truck 

Service, but neither commented on the development. 

Under commission procedure. 

Film Truck has 20 days to file an answer, 

with a date for a hearing then to be set with 

a normal minimum of ten days' advance notification. 

Charles W. Snyder, who was executive secretary 

of Allied until his resignation four 

months ago, is now an executive of Film 

Truck Service. 

Petty Insurance Racket 

Ends in Theatre Fall 

TOLEDO—A transient with a national 

reputation for petty insurance frauds was 

arrested here recently as he sought a quick 

settlement from Travelers Insurance Co. for 

injuries allegedly received in a fall November 

29 inside the Rivoli Theatre. 

John T. Hill, 33, was arrested when he returned 

to the insurance company hoping to 

get $75 for a $125 claim he had filed. The 

insurance company adjusters became suspicious 

when, after claiming the fall, the 

man said he had lost $1C0 in salary and paid 

a $25 doctor bill, but would settle for $75. 

Police inve.stigation revealed that the suspect 

obtained $30 from the Red Cab Co. November 

9 in a quick settlement for injuries 

he charged he suffered when he fell while 

stepping from a taxicab. A $75 claim against 

the American Bus Lines was collected earlier, 

he admitted. 

Police files show he had filed 38 insurance 

claims in the two years preceding his conviction, 

and used 41 aliases in the preceding 

five-year period. 

Since his New York release in 1945, he said 

he pulled 81 "falls" in various cities, mostly 

in theatres, restaurants, and while entering 

or alighting from taxicabs. He said he took 

small cash settlements in return for liability 

releases signed for the establishments. 

Harry Balk Takes Over 

Apollo From S. Korman 

DETROIT—Transfer of the Apollo Theatre 

from the Saul Korman circuit to Harry 

Balk marks the second Negro patronage 

house to be switched in recent months. Balk 

took over the suburban Elliot in River Rouge 

from Korman a few months ago. The Apollo 

transfer Is effective January 1. 

Korman has brought 'Weldon Parsons, former 

manager of the Lyric at Indianapolis, to 

Detroit, to manage the Broadway Capitol, 

3,400-seat ace house of the circuit, replacing 

Fred Walton. 

Ben All Lobby Remodeled 

LEXINGTON, KY.—A permit to remodel 

the Ben Ali Theatre lobby was issued earlier 

this month by the building inspector. Hargett 

Construction Co. has the contract for 

the project, which is estimated at $8,000. 

Renovation will include new doors, concession, 

ceiling and display cases and the relocation 

of the ticket window. 

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Detroit Business 

DETROIT—Business is holding up satisfactorily 

here on the stronger atti'actions, 

when compared to the generally low figures 

of the past year. The milder weather which 

might have helped even more was offset by 

the mood of uncertainty caused by prevaihng 

talk of unemployment conditions with automobile 

cutbacks here. 


Adams—An American in Paris (MGM), 8!h wk 75 

Cinema—The Lavender Hill Mob (U-I), 3rd wk 70 

Fox—The Magic Face (Col); The Harlem 

Globetrolters (Col) - - 90 

Madison— Native Son (Classics); Orchids lo 

Angelo (Scalora), 2nd wk 

Michioan—My Favorite Spy (Para); The 

120 

Longhorn (Mono) 120 

Palms-State—Slaughter Trail (RKO); The Whip 

Hand (RKO) 85 

United Artists—Bright Victory (U-I); Flight to 

Mars (Mono) 100 

'Decision Before Down' Best 

Of Cleveland Ne^vcomers 

CLEVELAND — "Quo Vadis," now in its 

eighth week at the Stillman, still is playing 

to big crowds. Crowds also stormed the Hippodrome 

to see "Decision Before Dawn," 

which won high praise from local critics. 

Except for these two. films failed to register. 

Neighborhood houses report that top product 

is doing better than it did prior to the holidays. 

Allen—DUtant Drums (WB), 2nd wk 80 

Hippodrome- Decision Before Dawn (20th-Fox) 125 

Lower Mall—The Mill on the Po (Lux), 2nd wk 100 

Ohio Flight to Mars (Mono); The Longhorn 

(Mono) 85 

Palace— Boots Malone (Col) __ 80 

State—Westward the Women (MGM), 2nd wk 90 

Slillman-Quo Vadis (MGM). 8th wk 150 

Tower—SI. Benny, the Dip (UA); Three Steps 

North (UA) 70 

'Drums' Best of Average 

Week in Cincinnati 

CINCINNATI—"Distant Drums" was the 

best of an average week elsewhere. It was 

moved to the Lyric for a second downtown 

week. Warners made a clean sweep of the 

outstanding grosses with 110 for the third 

week of "Dreams." 

Alh.-e - Distant Drums WB) 130 

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Araby (U-I) _ 90 

;-n: The Wild Blue Yonder (Rep). 100 

K.i'h s-Weekend With Father (U-1) 100 

Lyric-ni See You in My Dreoms (WB), 3rd 

d. I wk 110 

Palace—Boots Malone (Col) 90 

Clarence Young Elected 

President of Local 163 

LOUISVILLE—Clarence Young was chosen 

president of lATSE Local 163, succeeding 

Lester Demaree, at the projectionists' recent 

election of officers. Henry Kirk is vice-president, 

succeeding Irvin Ulmer. Chester Demaree 

was named business agent, replacing 

John Flaherty: Jack Hulett is recording secretary 

succeeding Bill Fane and Ed Williams 

was re-elected financial secretary. 

Steve Mosckos Dies 

DETROIT—The death on January 11 of 

Steve Mosckos, projectionist for many years 

at the Royal Theatre, terminated a long 

and close booth partnership with his colleague 

Leon Welch. Mosckos was one of the 

well-liked older members of the operating 

profession here. He formerly worked at the 

Lyric, Loop, Times Square and Mayfair theatres. 

David Idzal Sticking to Continuous 

Film Policy After Advance Sale Dud 

DETROIT—The motion picture theatre on 

a policy of continuous entertainment has 

proved its merit over other policies to David 

M. Idzal, managing director of the 6,000-seat 

Fox Theatre. The showman says the question 

was decided for him at the highest court 

—the boxoffice. An experiment was tried 

recently with the booking of the Spike Jones 

stage revue. It was an attempt to bring a 

notably popular flesh attraction to the public 

on a two-a-day advance sale, reserved seat 

pohcy. It didn't work and Idzal believes he 

has analyzed the reason rationally. 

The film program didn't count in this case. 

It was Spike Jones that they came—or failed 

to come—to see. It did very well over the 

weekend, especially in comparison with competition 

along the rialto, but the remaining 

four days were plain murder. As Idzal sees 

it, the average customer today, without the 

wartime surplus which he couldn't spend on 

rationed commodities, splits up his paycheck 

among the butcher, baker, milkman and, 

maybe, the corner tavern; on his account 

at the department store, his next suit and 

the installment on the TV set. What survives 

is for "miscellaneous" including entertainment. 

If there's enough and the price is right, 

the family can see Spike Jones at reserved 

seat prices and, if not, maybe they go to the 

neighborhood movie for 25 cents or watch 

Two Foreign Films Listed 

By Cleveland Critics 

CLEVELAND—Two foreign pictures for the 

first time were rated among the top five 

films of the month in the .selections of the 

Cleveland Critics Circle. They are "The Emperor's 

Nightingale," first place, and "The 

Wooden Horse," third. 

Since April 1950 when the Critics Circle 

was formed for the purpose of giving the pictures 

of their choice a subsequent run boo.st, 

never more than one foreign picture at a 

time has made the grade. The.se have included 

"Tlie Third Man," "Kind Hearts and 

Coronets," "Teresa," "Oliver Twist," "Four in 

a Jeep" and "Tales of Hoffmann." 

Tlie December selection of the Film Critics 

Circle are. In the following order: "The Emperor's 

Nightingale," "Westward the Women." 

"The Wooden Horse," "Tlie Girl on the 

Bridge" and tied for fifth, "When Worlds 

Collide" and "Ten Tall Men." 

Fred C. Lent Appointed 

TOLEDO—Fred C. Lent has been named 

manager of the Paramount, Toledo's largest 

first run theatre, operated by the Carl 

Schwyn circuit. Ed Bush, manager of the 

Stat€, also a Schwyn house, had been managing 

both houses for some time. 

Amusement Tax Slated 

GREENVILLE. PA.—The borough council 

has decided to adopt a 10 per cent amusement 

tax. An ordinance will be acted on at 

a regular council meeting on February 11. 

the wrestling on video. Showman Idzal 

draws these conclusions: 

1. They won't plan in advance to see a 

show or go to the trouble of buying seats 

either by mail or in person and then be there 

at a specific time: 

2. They want to come when they feel the 

impulse, even if they have to stand in line 

two hours (which the exhibitor is secretly 

hoping because pleasure, like misery, loves 

company). They don't want to find the boxoffice 

open only at certain hours because a 

closed boxoffice gives a melancholy first impression 

and the customers (a) wonder if 

the show was no good and folded or (b) they 

figure it's one of those exclusive, legitimate 

shows that seldom draw regular filmgoers; 

3. If the boxoffice they seek is dark, they 

will walk on down to the next well-lighted 

marquee that invites them in, and finally, 

4. The next time they think of your theatre, 

they'll wonder if it will be running when 

they get there and might count you out. 

Idzal welcomes the idea that the advance 

sale two-a-day can click in some cities but 

believes it must be where they can count on 

extensive patronage from suburban commuters, 

who plan a day in town carefully in 

advance. He says it won't work here and 

perhaps not in any city where people are 

"impulse buyers" and where individual car 

use is fairly high. 

Lewis McDonald Elected 

President of Local 248 

DAYTON—Lewis McDonald has been 

elected president of operators Local 248 here. 

Other officers are Charles Schwab, first vicepresident; 

Stanley Howell, second vice-president: 

Jack Gibbins, business agent; CaiToll 

Hathorn, secretary-treasurer; Arthur Kreider, 

recording secretary; Gene Woods, Walter 

Stoehr and Robert Todd, trustees, and Carl 

Marshall, sergeant at arms. 

The Dayton local will celebrate its 40th 

anniversai'y in May. Four charter members 

are still active. They are Gene Woods, 

Charles Schwab, Floyd Abbott and Stanley 

Howell. 

Thor Hauschild Manages 

3,400-Seat Toledo House 

TOLEDO — Thor Hauschild, theatreman 

with more than 20 years' experience, has been 

named manager of the 3,400-seat Paramount, 

operated by the Carl Schwyn circuit, according 

to Jack Armstrong, general manager. He 

comes to Toledo from the Piqua Theatre at 

Piqua and before that was manager of the 

Palace in Akron. 

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ôllie Isbee is establishing the Met Concession 

Co. to break into the theatre concession 

business in various houses. She is 

the wife of Jaclc H. Isbee, who has been in 

the exhibition field here . 

Goldberg, 

owner of the Echo in Detroit, is branching out 

into the state, taking over the Starlight Drivein 

at Holland from Gus A. Eisner, who will 

continue to operate the house at Benton 

Harbor. Rudy Kahn has been named manager 

of the Echo, succeeding Charles Davies 

Brosey, former owner of the 

Amsterdam, is specializing in the brokerage 

business now. 

Scotty Humbert, formerly producer at the 

Gayety, is manager at the Apollo for Harry 

Balk, replacing Nate Talcott, who has gone to 

Florida 

. McMillen, peripatetic 

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Paul Brake Departure 

Shuffles Battle Creek 

BATTLE CREEK—Managers in three Butterfield 

theatres have been changed as a 

result of the resignation January 11 of Paul 

O. Brake as manager of the Bijou. He 

was succeeded by Ray W. Eberhard, formerly 

manager of the Regent and a 46-year veteran 

of show business. 

Forrest H. Nichols, former manager of the 

Michigan, was transferred to the management 

of the Regent, a post he had some 

time ago, and James Bacon, Butterfield relief 

manager for this city during the past 

four years, is now at the helm of the Michigan. 

Mrs. Forrest Nichols was named relief 

manager and also remains manager of the 

Strand during its weekend only policy. 

Brake had been with the W. S. Butterfield 

circuit for many years and first came here 

from Columbus, Ohio, in 1931. During 1939 

and 1940, he served as assistant to the Butterfield 

president but returned to Battle 

Creek in 1941 and was manager of various 

houses until 1948. when he left Butterfield 

for three years before returning to manage 

the Bijou last March. 

Jim Edwards Joins Argus 

As Paul Scholz Partner 

CLEVELAND—Jim Edwards, well known 

technician, is now associated with Argus, 

Inc., as a full partner, according to Paul 

Scholz, who became head of the theatre 

equipment service in this area a year ago. 

Edwards has had ten years' experience in 

the field and, for more than four years, was 

in charge of all motion picture equipment repairs 

for the third marine corps. Since his 

separation from the service, he has been actively 

engaged in the field here. 

Scholz says Ai'gus is now in a position to 

offer more efficient service and has completely 

renovated its shop in the Film building. 

Machinery has been installed to insure 

quicker repair service on both 35 and 16mm 

equipment. Partners Scholz and Edwards 

have extended an invitation to industry members 

to drop in and inspect their new workshop, 

206 Film Bldg. 

Kids Throng 2,766-Seater 

To See Cartoon Show 

DETROIT—A special cartoon show paid 

off at the 2,766-seat Riviera Theatre for 

United Detroit Theatres last week. The 

house, operated on a second run basis, ran 

a Saturday matinee that drew a crowd of 

youngsters who packed the show, Joseph Sullivan, 

treasurer of lATSE Local 199, reports. 

Several cartoons made up the bulk of the 

program, which was completed by a western 

serial. 

Emphasizing the stress given in today's 

industry thinking upon the younger generation, 

Sullivan commented, "The kids are the 

best possible advertisement." 

Few Takers at Dedication 

CANTON, OHIO—Although there were free 

seats for more than 6,000, only 200 persons 

attended the formal dedication of the $1,250,- 

000 Memorial auditorium in Canton December 

30. The city was without a public building 

for nearly a decade following the condemnation 

of the old structure. 

'Silver Dollar' Receives 

Thanks of U. S. 

Navy 

DETROIT — Jacob Schrieber, former 

owner of the present Midwest circuit here 

has received a special certificate of Thanks 

from the Florida district of the navy recruiting 

service for his exceptional services 

to the service. A colorful member of a 

family that has made Detroit show history 

for over three decades, Schreiber's exceptional 

variety of exploitation and showmanship 

became a legend before his retirement 

from the field here about ten 

years ago. 

Current information from Florida indicates 

that Schreiber has translated the 

sense of attention-arresting exploitation 

which lured Detroiters into his Blackstone. 

Colonial and other houses into channels 

designed to aid the serviceman individually 

and the armed forces. 

Currently, he has been using his fireman-red 

Hudson convertible as a base of 

operations, usually parked in front of the 

Miami Theatre, with a trailer designed 

like a stage, similar to the life-size stages 

he created over the boxoffice or lobby windows 

of some of his houses, for iniique exploitation. 

The trailer has a life-size serviceman 

in position to fire a machine gun, 

a surefire recruiting aid. The car itself has 

a covering of green grass over the hood, with 

a red, yellow and blue live macaw standing 

on the dashboard perch, and a medley of 

bells, compasses and marine steering 

wheels (spoked) mounted in assorted and 

highly visible points. 

Over the past decade, Schreiber has become 

a legend even in fabulous Miami, 

putting on an act in hospitals to cheer 

servicemen. He is said to have over 200 

costumes and has earned the nickname of 

'Silver Dollar Jake," by awarding countless 

"silver dollar citations." By one count, 

he has given away over 25,000 of these 

"good luck pieces," genuine dollars attached 

by red, white and blue ribbons, 

mo.s'tly to servicemen. 

Walsh 388 President 

Bill 

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO—William Walsh 

was elected president of Local 388, Moving 

Picture Machine Operators, AFL, with other 

officers as follows; Phillip Diana, vice-president: 

George Amreihn, busine.ss agent, financial 

secretary and treasurer; C. H. Cook, 

recording and corresponding secretary; Jo- 

•seph Steadman and George Doerfler, executive 

board members; Edward Collins, C. H. 

Cook and Leonard Grazier, trustees. Alec 

Ipp and Cook were named delegates to the 

Mahoning Valley United Labor Congress, 

AFL. 

Slate Luncheon Meeting 

CLEVELAND—The Motion Picture Council 

of Cleveland will hold a luncheon meeting 

February 21 at Halle's and Mrs. George 

Crile w-ill show the film, "Treasure Hunting 

Holiday," made by her late husband. The 

council's junior department held an open 

discussion meeting recently during which the 

film "Quo Vadis" was compared with the 

Rome of today. 

About 36 Film Notables 

Visited Cleveland in '51 

CLEVELAND—Never before have so many 

Hollywood personalities visited Cleveland to 

perform the double duty of learning what is 

going on outside of HollyAvood in the field 

of entertainment at the point of sale and of 

letting the home folks know, via press, radio 

and TV interviews, what are some of the problems 

at the point of production. Among the 

stars and featured players who spent from 

one day to a week in Cleveland promoting 

pictures were: 

Laurelte Luez Dorothy Malone 

Malt Cvetic Larry Finley 

Syra Marty 

Richard Arlen 

Claire Phillips 

Laura Elliot 

Francis X, Bushman Jane Powell 

Piper Laurie 

Tony Martin 

Tony Curtis Gigi Perreau 

Alfred Hitchcock Van Heflin 

John Derek Dick Powell 

Beverly Michaels Louis DeRochemont 

Eleanor Parker Jinx Falketiberg 

John Ireland 

These visiting stars and Hollywood personalities 

were well represented with special 

stories in the newspapers and kept the public 

aware of motion pictures as one of the basic 

entertainment industries and of the stars as 

regular folks plus talent and personality. 

Cleveland was not included in the COMPO 

tour, but with a galaxy of approximately 30 

spread out throughout the year, the local 

public was well supplied with Hollywood stars. 

Services for Stewart Gale; 

Korean War Casualty 

GALION. OHIO—Funeral services were 

held for Pfc. Stewart J. Gale, first Gallon 

theatre employe to lose his life in the Korean 

war. He was killed in action September 4 

while serving in the 17th infantry regiment 

of the seventh division. He had been employed 

as projectionist at the former State 

Theatre, now the Gallon, and later was assistant 

manager of the Tri-City Drive-In. 

William P. Gillam, 83, once associated with 

Gallon theatres, died at his home in Cleveland 

December 15. He was buried at Nevada, 

Ohio, his birthplace. 

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Loienzen 36 24 NTS 29 31 

Nafl Carbon 33 27 Forbes 24 3G 

Amuse. Supply 29 31 Altec 23 37 

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226-214; Francis Light, 203-203; Calvin Collard, 

213. 

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High-Voltage Supply Unit 

For Theatre TV Patented 

MORGANTOWN, W. VA.—Alexander C. 

Christy of Westover, a 23-year-old West Virginia 

University junior, on December 11 received 

a patent for an electrovibrant highvoltage 

supply unit for use in television projection 

and other devices. Perfected in 1948, 

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Court Orders Inspection 

In Percentage Actions 

vices." 

CINCINNATI—Inspections of all theatre 

records in four pending percentage actions 

have been ordered by the federal coui't. Defendants 

are Samuel, Allen and Louis Levin, 

Sherwood Theatres. Inc.; Stardust Theatres, 

Inc., and Sky High Theatres, Inc. The houses 

involved are the Sherwood Drive-In, Dayton; 

Stardust Drive-In and Ski-Hi Drive-In, 

Springfield. The plaintiffs are Loew's, 20th 

Century-Fox, Warner Bros, and Universal- 

International. 

The court denied motions by the defendants, 

one of which sought to require each 

plaintiff to choose which defendant is liable 

instead of having the claims brought against 

all defendants jointly and severally. Paxton 

& Seasongood of Cincinnati are the lawyers 

for each plaintiff, with Sargoy & Stein of 

New York of counsel. 

Jack and Ray Essick Enter 

Concert Show Field 

CLEVELAND—Jack and Ray Essick of 

Modern Theatres, independent circuit with 

theatres in Cleveland, Willoughby, Calion 

and Berea, have formed Concert Attractions 

to bring to the Public Hall a series of live 

musical shows. First one is set for February 

24 and will feature Rosemary Clooney, other 

TV stars and a popular band. There will be 

two performances—a matinee and evening. 

Negotiations are pending to bring Phil Regan 

and Ilona Massey as headliners on the 

March show. 

Although the Essick brothers have experimented 

with flesh shows as added attractions 

in some of their film houses, this is their 

first venture in the concert field. 

Many Attend Hospital Dedication 

From N*w England Edition 

BOSTON—More than 1,000 

representatives 

from many fields of activity filled the ultramodern 

auditorium of the $1,500,000 Jimmy 

fund building at 35 Binney St. and later the 

Imperial ballroom of the Statler hotel for the 

dedication exercises and dinner for the new 

Children's Cancer Research Foundation hospital 

and clinic. 

CLEVELAND 

TJill Lissner is back in town. The former local 

Columbia salesman, recently transferred 

to Buffalo, prefers to live in Cleveland 

where his family and home are located. He 

hopes to make a connection here in the industry 

with which he has been affiliated for 

the last 20 years as a salesman with major 

companies . Goldfinger, district 

manager for the Sheftel-Berger houses in 

this area, spent the week in town with Hippodrome 

Manager Jack Silverthorne and 

Tower Manager Jack Kois. 

Meyer Fine, head of Associated Theatres 

circuit, was rushed to Mount Sinai hospital 

with pneumonia . Gottlob of the 

Mount Pleasant Theatre is back in Mount 

Sinai for further tests . . . Arnold Apple, son 

of projectionist Paul Apple, a World War II 

veteran who was called back into active service 

some 18 months ago, has been discharged 

and is back in civilian life . . . Nat Levy, 

RKO eastern division manager, held a twoday 

drive meeting here . Seitz and 

his brother, owners of indoor and outdoor 

theatres in Sandusky and Wadsworth, have 

purchased the Blue Sky Drive-In, Wadsworth, 

from Dale Morrison. 

Nat Barach reports his National Screen 

office has shipped the official March of 

Dimes reel to every theatre in the territory. 

He will appreciate it if any exhibitor who 

failed to receive the reel will notify him 

immediately. However, NSS has only a 

limited number of the Disabled Veterans 21- 

minute reel, "One Who Came Back," and 

this subject is being booked through Republic. 

A gratis one-sheet goes with each booking. 

Nat Barach says there will be no solicitation 

for bookings so exhibitors are asked 

to set out their playdates with Republic. 

. . . Bob 

Jack Gertz of the Jack L. Gertz Enterprises 

spent the week in New York working 

on a new theatre promotion plan 

Wile paid his first visit to Cleveland in his 

new capacity as secretary of the Independent 

Theatre Owners of Ohio. He plans to pay a 

personal visit to every theatre in the state. 

Milt Mooney of Co-Op returned Monday 

from a two-week stay in New York . . . Sam 

Galanty, Columbia division manager, stopped 

off on a routine visit with Manager Oscar 

Ruby . . . Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jossey plan a 

. . . Kroger Babb, president of 

trip to Florida along with Herbert Ochs later 

in January 

Hallmark Productions, held a stockholders 

meeting in Cleveland. Object was reportedly 

to establish a new sales policy for Hallmark. 

Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Fine will sail for a 

trip to Europe and Israel early in February 

. . . Irving Zussman of Interstate Popcorn 

was in town . . . Nat Wolf of Warners was 

at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minn., for 

a checkup . . . RKO publicity-exploiteer Joe 

Longo has been loaned to the Boston office 

for several weeks on a special assignment . 

Jack Armstrong of Bowling Green and his 

assistant Fred Lenz were Filmrow visitors. 

Others were George Wakely of the Limlite, 

Woodville; Joe Shagrin and Helen Ballin, 

Youngstown; Frank Slavik, Mount Gilead; 

Leo Jones. Upper Sandusky; Rudy Norton. 

Kenton; Frank Slavik, Middlefield, and the 

regulars from Akron and Canton. 

93 BOXOFFICE :: January 26, 1952

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CINCINNATI 

"The mother of Joseph A. McKiiight, salesman 

tor Lippert. died recently at her residence 

in Southgate, Ky. Besides Joseph, she 

leaves her husband Charles and sister, Mrs. 

Emma Jaeger . Variety wives gave a 

card party Wednesday (16) at the local Variety 

Club, the proceeds of which went to the 

heart fund. Mrs. Herman H. Hunt was general 

chairman, assisted by me.sdames Sam 

Weiss, N. P. Goldsmith, M. Marcus and I. 

Katz. The president of the Variety wives 

club is Mrs. M. Dennis. 

Filmrow employes received quite a scare 

Wednesday afternoon (16) when a fire broke 

out in the basement of the National Theatre 

Supply Co., which spread through the elevator 

shaft into the first floor. The fire started 

when some scrap film which was being hauled 

from the basement became ignited. Occupying 

the building besides National Tlieatre 

Supply ai-e Monogram, National Screen Service 

and Waldo Theatre Pi-ojection Maintenance 

The Star and Roxy theatres 

Co. . . . at Clendenin, W. Va., have been taken over 

from Ray Phelan by Harold Moore, who 

op)erates a circuit in that area. 

Jack Fuirer, West Virginia salesman for 

RKO, is a grandfather three times—his son 

now has three young daughters. Jack's son 

and family were recent visitors in Charleston 

where Pm-rer lives, from Denver, Colo., where 

the son works for the Montgomery Ward Co. 

second Depinet drive meeting was 

held at the RKO exchange by Morris Lefko, 

district manager, and Dan Loventhal of the 

home office sales department. Manager Stanley 

Jacques and salesman Lloyd Krause, Dave 

Litto, Lee Heidingsfeld, Bob Coleman and 

Jack Furrer attended the two-day meeting. 

Jimmy Minnix of the Ronnie Drive-In at 

London, Ky., is recuperating at home after an 

Raymond L. Edwards of the 

operation . . . 

Family Drive-In at Somerset, Ky., and Carl 

Huff of the Stardust at Monticello, Ky., have 

taken vacation trips. Edwards is spending a 

month between Louisville and Chicago, and 

Huff plans to fish in Florida for several weeks 

Belle Cox is the new secretary at 

Realart. 

Bob Wile, the new secretai'y of the Ohio 

Independent Exhibitors Ass'n, Columbus, was 

in getting acquainted with Cincinnati exhibitors. 

He attended a session at the Netherland 

Plaza hotel of the Greater Cincinnati 

Independent Ass'n. According to Wile, the 

state convention will be held in Cleveland 

m May . Hunt, Republic manager 

in Oklahoma City, was here with his family. 

He is a brother of Herman and Ogden 

Hunt, Cincinnati exhibitors. 

Eva Joesting, cashier at Lippert Pictures, 

spent the weekend in Mansfield attending 

a sorority convention . Vai-iety Club 

will hold a Dawn dance February 16. Tlie 

installation dinner will be held Saturday night 

(26). Vance Schwartz takes over again as 

chief barker. 

. 

Beatrice Green has joined the Theatre 

Forest Tucker, Republic 

Owners Corp. office . . . 

star in "The Wild Blue Yonder," ap- 

peared at the opening in the Colonial at 

Dayton . . Visitors on the Row: J. N. 

Brandenburg. South Shore: Cully Harvey. 

Grayson: W. T. Cain, Louisa, all in Kentucky; 

Jim Herb. Dayton: H. M. McHaffie, Marmet, 

W. Va., Gus Metro, Portsmouth; Fred Helwig, 

Charleston: Dick Myers, Chillicothe; Jim 

Denton, Owenton, Ky., and Charles Williams, 

Oxford, Ohio. 

Theatre Business Off 

In Columbus Section 

COLUMBUS — Theatre business generally 

has slumped from 10 to 12 per cent from 

that of a year ago in the Columbus area. 

Grosses now are based definitely on the merit 

of the attraction, with the exceptional pictures 

doing good business and the poor ones 

less than a year ago. Patrons are shopping 

for pictures as never before. 

There has been a trend toward upped admissions 

for pictures like "An American in 

Paris," "David and Bathsheba," "A Streetcar 

Named Desire" and "The River." Oddly 

enough, the increased admissions seem to act 

as a boxoffice stimulant. Theatremen say 

that patrons don't mind paying increased 

prices if they get top attractions. But others 

indicate that this practice drains off money 

that patrons spend for regular-priced pictures. 

Guarded optimism has been expressed for 

1952 business, with such pictures as "Quo 

Vadis," "Detective Story" and "The Greatest 

Show on Earth" counted on to do big 

business. But for run-of-mine pictures there 

is little hope for increased take. The Movietime 

U.S.A. campaign obviously did not have 

an immediate effect on the boxoffice but it 

did' have the advantage of telling people 

that movies are still here. 

Musicals, de luxe westerns and comedies 

are the biggest moneymakers. Downbeat 

problem dramas are at the bottom of the list. 

Loew's Ohio scored the yeai-'s novelty by 

booking for three nights the Metropolitan 

Opera stage production of "Fledermaus" at 

$4.30 top. Bad weather and the week-before- 

Christmas period cut into its gross but it 

did attract considerable attention. 

The trend toward drive-in theatres continues 

with a new one—the tenth in Franklin 

county—going up on North High street. 

Lee Hofheimer and Al Sugarman of H&S 

Theatres, operators of five conventional 

houses, are venturing into the drive-in field 

with this new open-airer. Drive-ins did good 

business during their last season. 

It is expected that 1952 will see the 

start of construction of at least two large 

downtown par-king garages by the city. These, 

with a total capacity of 1,000 cars, would 

materially help the bad parking situation 

and should aid downtown theatre business. 

Beat Drums for 'River' 

CLEVELAND—Lester Zucker. manager, is 

beating the drums for 

new U-I releases heralding 

the company's 40th anniversary in 

show busine.ss. 

"Weekend With Father" and "Bright Victory" 

have demonstrated their boxoffice 

power in Cleveland. "But wait until you see 

Bend of the River,' " Zucker says, "This is 

a sure-fire picture and will get universal 

acclaim." 

Three Circuits Distribute 16mm Films 

There are three circuits in Nicaragua engaged 

in the distribution of 16mm feature 

films. 

LOUISVILLE 

H B. McCoy, manager of the East Drive-In 

Theatre at Shively, Ky., is on an extended 

Florida vacation which will include an approximate 

four-week stay in Fort Lauderdale, 

with the trip back to Kentucky taking 

in several days in Palm Beach, Daytona 

Beach, St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Mc- 

Coy will return in plenty of time to get the 

East in readiness for the .seasonal opening 

date . on the Row here for the first 

time in a great many months was M. C. 

Hughes of the McKee Theatre, McKee, Ky. 

A. N. Miles of the Eminence Theatre, 

is planning an extensive vacation trip 

to New York, which will also include a boat 

cruise to the Bahamas and Na.ssau. She expects 

to be away for .several weeks. 

Mrs. Clyde Marshall of the Columbian Theatre, 

has been released from the Baptist hospital 

here and apparently is recuperating 

nicely . . . Frank Riffle, formerly .sound engineer 

for the Falls City Theatre Equipment 

Co. here, and now chief sound engineer for 

Motiograph in Chicago, returned to Louisville 

for a short visit to renew old acquaintances 

. . . Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lutes and daughter 

Carolyn are scheduled to leave for Florida in 

the very near future for a full month's vacation. 

Gene is district manager for the 

Chakeres Theatres, Springfield, Ohio ... A 

free pony and saddle were given away at 

the Kenwood Drive-In here. Free coupons 

were given out at the entrance and it was not 

necessary to attend the show. The winner 

was to be notified if he was not present at 

the time of the drawing. 

COLUMBUS 

jyjrs. Edward Kipp, 81, mother-in-law of 

screen star Joseph Cotten. died at her 

home here . Nadel, Citizen theatre 

editor, will conduct a party of 100 on a 

Broadway theatre tour March 16-22. A visit 

to Radio City Music Hall is among the 

scheduled activities. 

Robert E. Forgette, linotype operator at 

American Education Pi-ess here, and his wife 

were especially interested in the Loew's Broad 

showing of "Japanese War Bride." The Forgettes 

visited Hollywood last summer and saw 

scenes being made for the picture. Forgette's 

sister Ida is hairdresser and a makeup artist 

at 20th-Fox. She is the wife of Wilbur Mc- 

Gaugh, assistant director on the picture. The 

couple also met Maxine Marlow'e, casting 

director for the picture who formerly lived 

in Grandview, Columbus suburb. Miss Marlowe 

is the wife of Anson Bond, author of the 

original story of "Japanese War Bride." 

Hollj-wood, neighborhood house of the Fred 

Rowlands circuit, is operating only on Friday, 

Blackstone will 

Saturday and Sunday . . . 

bring his stage show to Loew's Broad for three 

days starting February 10. 

Vet Back to Theatre Post 

LEXINGTON, KY.—Thomas R. lean, recently 

separated from the army, is the new 

assistant manager of Schine's Kentucky Theatre. 

Before entering the service in 1950, 

lean was assistant manager of the Russell 

Theatre in Maysville, Ky. He was wounded 

in action in Korea. 


EHHnBHH 

20fh-Fox's New Cincinnafi Manager 

Robert McNabb Learned Business From Posterman Up 

CINCINNATI—Robert McNabb, the new 

manager for 20th Century-Fox has been with 

20th-Fox since starting 

in the industry ii, 

1935 as a posterman. 

After six months in 

this job, he moved 

into the local booking 

department, where he 

remained for five 

years, and after that 

was a salesman in 

West Virginia, then in 

the Dayton and Columbus 

territories. 

He has made a host 

of friends, and has 

Robert McNabb 

been receiving congratulatory messages from 

all over the territory on his promotion. Mc- 

Nabb worked under managers Jim Grady, 

Lev Bugie, and lastly under Joseph Rosen, 

who has been transferred to manage the 

Washington exchange. 

McNabb had been local sales manager 

since January 1946. He is married, and the 

father of a son, 5 years old, living in suburban 

Westwood. McNabb has been active 

in local Variety Club affairs, serving on the 

crew in 1951 and again this year. When a 

youth, McNabb was an ardent golfer, and 

won trophies in many amateur matches. 

Jack Kaufman, who has been Columbus 

salesman for 20th-Fox, was promoted to sales 

manager, and has taken up residence in the 

city. Sam Weiss, former Kentucky salesman, 

will cover the Columbus area. 

out of the ordinary. 

"The Fairmount is cashing in on a longstanding 

policy of not showing the ordinary 

Hollywood films . . . So, it appears the distinctive 

films, the quality pictures that appeal 

to a higher-than-average intellectual level, 

are coming into their own at 'quality 

houses.' " 

Manager Greenberger cannot explain the 

success of "The Lavender Hill Mob" at his 

Fairmount. The picture was presented without 

any advertising build-up or ballyhoo. 

Only explanation is the best medium of advertising—word-of-mouth. 

Time magazine 

had it on its Current and Choice list for 

weeks. Alec Guinness, the star, has a following 

from his work in "Kind Hearts and Coronets," 

"Oliver Twist" and "The Mudlark." 

And national magazine reviews added to the 

interest in the picture. 

"However," Greenberger comments, "other 

pictures have had like and even more publicity, 

but failed to register at the boxoffice." 

British Picture Appeal 

Is Problem to Critic 

CLEVELAND—Why British pictures are 

meat for one theatre and poison for another 

is a problem that Omar Ranney, Press film 

editor, poses. Commenting on the extraordinary 

success of art pictures at the 1.700-seat 

Fairmount, a de luxe first run neighborhood 

house, and on the sensational success of "The 

Lavender Hill Mob" as opposed to the failure 

of these pictures to attract patronage at the 

downtown theatres he asks: 

"Have a lot of discriminating filmgoers 

stopped going downtown for their film entertainment? 

Maybe so. Is the relative ease 

with which a patron can park at some of 

these outlying theatres a factor? Undoubtedly 

it is. 

"Is the trend in motion picture entertainment 

going to be more and more toward the 

development of class houses, like the Fairmount, 

in outlying sections? It would seem 

so. And it would seem, too, that in this day 

and age, what with TV and all. the theatres 

that are going to survive are those whose 

managers are alert and enterprising enough 

to build up a clientele for pictures that are 

Suit Seeks to Recover 

Rent on Closed Theatre 

AKRON, OHIO—Action was brought in 

common pleas court by Anna Palmieri, 212 

S. Detroit Ave., Los Angeles, owner of the 

Cu-cle Theatre property, to collect $17,000 

from the lessees of the theatre for rental 

allegedly due under terms of a ten-year lease 

entered into in 1943 with the Fairstone Park 

& Amusement Co. and a group of individuals, 

inclding councilman at large Michael Simms. 

The 420-seat neighborhood theatre has been 

closed since December 1950. 

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Bay Stale Exhibitors 

Warned on OPS Rule 

BOSTON—A special notice to Massachusetts 

exhibitors from the office here of the 

Independent Exhibitors of New England emphasizes 

they must keep records of their 

total food and drink sales and costs per 

month under the OPS ceiling price regulation 

11 if they operate an eating or drinking place. 

The regulation was released about six 

months ago by the OPS, and applies to theatres 

in the entire U.S. 

Separate records of "the cost per dollar 

of sales" must be kept on food and drinks, 

the lENE notice points out. This involves 

taking an inventory at the beginning of each 

month, to which is added the amounts bought 

during the month with finally a closing inventory. 

The value of the latter is then subtracted 

from the opening inventory plus the 

purchases to determine value of the total 

used. The value of total sales during the 

month then is computed. 

The cost ratio then is determined by dividing 

the total sales by value of the total u.sed. 

Delmont Merrill Retires 

As 505 Business Agent 

BOSTON—Delmont Merrill, retiring business 

agent of Local 505, the Waltham projectionists 

union, was given a dinner by the 

60 members of the local. Several members 

of Boston Local 182 attended the affair, 

which was held at Simpson House in Newton 

Center, with Vincent Kavanaugh as 

chairman. Merrill, who will continue on as 

projectionist at the Colonial at Natick, was 

given a gift commemorating the occasion. 

The Waltham local elected Fi-ed Rousseau 

business agent, replacing Merrill. Rousseau 

also continues on as secretary, with James 

Tully. stagehand at the Embassy in Waltham, 

continuing as president. 

Boston Manager Slugged 

BOSTON—James Cronin. manager of the 

Strand Theatre in South Boston, was slugged 

with a broom handle and robbed of seven 

bags containing $1,200 in bills and coins by 

two men who waylaid him in a dark corridor 

out.side his office shortly after noon recently. 

Later, police picked up a man in a tavern 

with two of the bags on his person. Still 

later, an employe of the theatre was taken 

into custody and held on suspicion of armed 

robbery. Police asserted that both men have 

confessed. Cronin was treated at Carney hospital 

for head cuts and bruises. 

LP Seeks Office Space 

NEW HAVEN—One of the 25 branches to be 

opened over the country. New Haven exchange 

of Lippert Productions, is negotiating for 

Meadow street office space. It will be under 

the management of Irving Schiffman, who 

has been in film business in New York and 

who most recently was with Eagle Lion in 

Boston. 

Walter A. Brown, New Variety Chief, 

Is 

Well-Knowr) Sports Promoter 

BOSTON—Walter A. Brown, the new chief 

barker of the Variety Club, is president and 

general manager of the Boston Garden- 

Arena Corp., and perhaps the most widely 

known promoter and 

international sports 

figure outside of active 

competitors in the 

country. Since he succeeded 

his father 

George as Garden- 

Arena general manager 

in 1937, Brown's 

name is well known 

in European sports circles, 

too. This is a result 

of the five trips 

overseas as coach, 

Walter A. Brown manager and baby-sitter 

of an American hockey team. 

Walter, as he desires to be called by his 

associates, was born Feb. 10, 1905. attended 

Boston Latin school and Exeter academy. 

Shortly afterwards he joined his dad, then 

general manager of the Arena, where he received 

his first schooling in the operation of 

a sports building. 

He served as secretary of the old Boston 

Tigers in the Can-Am hockey league and in 

1929 formed his own sextet, the Boston 

Hockey club. This team soon became the 

traveling troupe which began European treks 

in 1931, won the world's title from Toronto 

in Prague, Czechoslavakia. in 1933, and represented 

the United States at the 1936 Olympics 

in Germany. Walter was named president 

of the Garden-Arena Corp. in 1940. In 

1942 and for the following three years during 

World War II, he served in the army as a 

lieutenant colonel attached to public relations. 

Brown also is vice-president of the Eastern 

Hockey league, the Amateur Hockey Ass'n of 

the United States and of the International 

Ice Hockey Federation, and is president of 

the Arena Managers Ass'n, in the formation 

of which he was a moving spirit. He is also 

president of the Celtics professional basketball 

team in the National Basketball Ass'n 

and the Olympics hockey team. He is a director 

of the Boys Clubs of Boston, the West 

End House and the Boy Scouts of America. 

Several of the outstanding sports promotions 

of the past 15 years have been Walter's 

brainchildren. It was his idea for the winter 

sports show at the Garden with the huge 

indoor ski jump. He discovered "The Ice 

Follies" as a major presentation and started 

the organization of the "Ice Capades" to join 

the "Follies" as a bigtime ice skating show. 

Through the Ai-ena Managers Ass'n he was 

a prime mover in forming the first major 

basketball league in this country in 1945, 

then known as the Basketball Ass'n of 

America. He lives in Newton with his wife, 

the former Marjorie Hall of Arlington and 

their daughter Marjorie. 

Walter, who has been a member and on the 

board of trustees of the New England Variety 

Club for many years is a longtime friend 

and business acquaintance of John Harris, 

one of the original 11 founders of Variety 

Clubs International. The local Variety Club 

is the founder of the Children's Cancer Research 

Foundation. 

Richard Cohen Resigns 

From Mono., New Haven 

NEW HAVEN—Richard Cohen, office manager 

for Monogram here for the last nine 

years and in the distribution end of the 

business for the last 26 yeai's, has resigned to 

become associated with Leonard Sampson 

and Robert Spodick. operators of the Lincoln, 

New Haven, and Art Cinema, Bridgeport, 

both art houses. Dick's resignation was effective 

January 25. 

Dick was with 20th-Fox in New York for 

eight years and with Universal in Kansas 

City before coming to New Haven. 

Grandchild for Pinanski 

BOSTON—A daughter, their fu'st child, 

has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dunne. 

Mrs. Dunne is the former Doris Pinanski. 

daughter of Samuel Pinanski. president of 

American Theatres Corp. 

PIONEER AWARD DISPLA'V IN UOSTON—One of the many Pioneers of the 

Year award displays arranged by Warner Bros, commemorating the 25th anniversary 

of commercial sound in motion pictures was put in a window of the Home Savings 

bank on busy Tremont street in Boston. The display included stills from WB pictures 

from 1926 to 1952 and a photo of the Pioneer award presentation to the three Warner 

brothers. Thousands of passersby .stop and view the display. 

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'Elopement' at Top 

Of Hub Newcomers 

BOSTON—Three 20th-Fox films were the 

best of the week as holdovers elsewhere 

caused a dip in first run receipts. "Quo 

Vadis" dropped off in its third week of advanced 

prices but is still above average. 


Astor— I Want You (RKO), 41h wk 80 

Beacon Hi:;—Marie du Port (Belllort), 2nd wk 80 

Exeler St:.-'— The Clouded Yellow (Col), 4th wk. 85 

Memorial — Elopement (20lh-Fox),- Chain of 

Circumstance (Col) 115 

Metropolitan— Decision Before Down (20th-Fox; 

The Galloping Major (Souvaine) 

Never 

110 

Paramount and Fenway I'll Forget You 

(20th-Fox), Elephant Stampede (Mono) 95 

State and Orpheum— Quo Vadis (MGM), 3rd wk.-135 

'See You in My Dreams' Paces 

Hartford With 120 

HARTFORD — Only downtown holdovers 

were "Boots Malone" in a second week at the 

E. M. Loew's and "Lavender Hill Mob." Several 

first runs brought in reissues. 

Allyn— I'll Never Forget You (20th-Fox); 

Honeychile (Rep) - 90 

Art—The Lavender Hill Mob (U-I), 2nd wk 100 

E M Loews—Boots Malone (Col). Harem Girl 

(Col), 2nd wk 110 

Poll—name of Araby (U-I); Mr. Drake's Duck 

(UA) 85 

Palace— Sins of Madeleine (Realart); Strange 

Woman (Realarl), reissues 80 

Reaal— Jesse James (20th-Fox); Relum of Frank 

I'ames (20th-Fox), reissues 85 

Strand— I'll See You in My Dreams (WB); Her 

Panelled Door (U-I) 120 

"Decision' Is Top Earner 

At New Haven 

NEW HAVEN—The best business of the 

week was turned in by "Decision Before 

Dawn" at the Paramount. 

College—It's a Big Country (MGM); Stormbound 

(Rep) - 95 

Loew's Poll—The Model and the Marriage Broker 

(20th-Fox); The Girl on the Bridge (20th-Fox).... 95 

Paramount—Decision Before Dawn (20th-Fox); 

Crazy Over Horses (Mono) 115 

Roger Sherman—Bright Victory (U-I); Finders 

Keepers (U-I) ,.. 90 

Introduce New Employe 

At Warner Luncheon 

NEW HAVEN—This exchange district met 

Warner Theatres' new booker and buyer, Joe 

Minsky. at a luncheon at the Warner clubrooms. 

70 College St,, January 17. Harry 

Feinstein, zone manager, introduced Minsky 

to branch managers, office managers and 

bookers while Kaysey's catered. Minsky succeeds 

Herbert Copelan, who is now in exhibition 

in Havana. 

Those present included Harry Feinstein, 

Joe Minsky, Larry Germaine, Francis Flood, 

Irving Hillman, Ben Simon, Sam Germaine, 

Angelo Lombardi, Walter Silverman, Carl 

Reardon, Alec Schimel, PhU Gravitz, Leon 

Jakubson. Barney Pitkin, Jules Livingston, 

Henry Germaine, Richard Carroll, Joe Callahan, 

John Pavone and Dick Cohen. 

Willicun Levy Visits 

HARTFORD—William M, Levy, assistant 

to Max Thorpe, British managing director 

for Columbia, visited relatives here while 

in the U.S. from London on vacation. 

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To Return to Connecticut 

HARTFORD — U.S. Ambassador Stanton 

Griffis of New Canaan, chairman of the 

executive committee of Pai'amount, will return 

to his Connecticut home early in February. 

He will write a book of memoirs. 


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Day Feeley, executive director of Independent 

exhibitors, spent a few days in tlie 

Vermont area visiting members and secured 

four new applications for membership in the 

Allied unit of New England. Rene Garneau 

of the Midway Drive-In on Route 5 near 

Ascutney and Avon Atkins of the Blue Moon 

Drive-In. St. Johnsbury, have applied for 

membership in the drive-in association, while 

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Handy of the State, 

Burlington, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gamache 

of the Weldon, St. Albans, have applied for 

membership in Independent Exhibitors. Their 

applications will be voted on at the next 

monthly meeting. 

Officials of the Rifkin circuit have canceled 

matinees at the three Springfield theatres: 

the Strand, Liberty and Jefferson, but 

special kiddy attractions will be shown on 

Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and school vacations 

with pictures approved by the PTA 

being shown . . . E. X. Callahan, district 

manager for 20th-Pox; James M. Connolly, 

local manager, and John Feloney, assistant 

branch manager, attended the six-day home 

office conference in New York . Ella 

Andrews, Calderwood Theatre, North Haven, 

Me., is recovering from a throat operation, 

while Mrs. Edna Hall, Brooks Theatre, Brooks, 

Me., is back on the job after being laid up 

during the holidays. 

Harry Kaplan, operator of the Paramount 

Theatre in Boston and a member of Local 

182. is in Beth Israel hospital recovering from 

a heart attack . . . Frank Emery, manager of 

Phil Smith's Cinema Theatre, Framingham, 

has been called to his home city of Pittsburgh 

to report for his army physical. Jim Collins 

is temporarily filling in at the Cinema in the 

Shoppers World. Officials of the Smith 

Management Co. have changed the policy 

from continuous performances at the Cinema 

to a matinee at 1 :45 and continuous from 6:30. 

The bookers and sales force at RKO met 

with Nat Levy. Bob Folliard and Dan Loventhal 

from the home office for a meeting on 

forthcoming product . Sawaya, formerly 

manager of the Copley Theatre, has 

been named a.ssistant at the Translux . . . E. 

M. Loew has changed the policy at the Portland 

Theatre, Portland, Me., to a new weekend 

policy of Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 

and holidays. 

outgoing president: Ken Mayer, Universal, 

and Jack Gubbins, Paramount. 

Herbert A. Philbrick's fight against communism 

has been commended by J. Edgar 

Hoover as "an outstanding patriotic service." 

Philbrick. who was in the publicity department 

of M&P Theatres and later with American 

Theatres Corp.. spent nine years as a 

volunteer FBI counterspy. He has written a 

book entitled "I Led Three Lives," published 

by McGraw-Hill, which will run serially 

in the Boston Traveler and Sunday 

Herald. His surprise testimony in New York 

federal court marked the first time that the 

government revealed the FBI had counterspies 

inside the Red front. 

Lynn Curtis, former manager of the Strong 

Theatre at Burlington, Vt., has joined the 

Lloyd Bridgham circuit as manager of the 

Frank Berone is 

Magnet at Barre, Vt. . . . 

the new lessee of the Lakeport Theatre, 

Lakeport, N. H. . started in mid- 

January to plug a film which is not to be released 

until later. Loretta North, "Miss Kangaroo," 

an Australian beauty featured in 

"Kangaroo," made Boston her first stop on 

a 30-city tour. She spent two days in Boston 

for three radio shows and one TV performance, 

meeting with the governor and the 

mayor, a luncheon with the press and a visit 

to the Franklin park zoo. 

The Boston Moving Picture Operators Local 

182 has formed a blood bank with Meyer 

Rosen, relief operator of the Codman Square 

in Dorcester, as chairman and in full charge 

of all arrangements. Rosen is making up a 

schedule for appointments at the Red Cross 

headquarters for a dozen members at a time 

to donate blood. The underlying motive in 

forming the blood bank is to supply blood to 

members in case of need but, if it is not 

needed, it is shipped overseas to the servicemen. 

Otto Holquist, repairman at Capitol Theatre 

Supply, died January 16, with funeral 

. . . Reports 

services held in Nashua, N. H., January 19. 

A brother-in-law of president Kenneth Douglass 

of Capitol, he was also a member of 

Local 182 projectionists union 

of the testimonial dinner tendered to Delmont 

Merrill, business agent of Local 505, Waltham 

lATSE projectionists' union, were that the 

affair was a huge succe-ss. Merrill received 

a gold watch, a leather wallet and an Evans 

table lighter, all suitably inscribed, as mementoes 

of the occasion. 

William Twig, newly appointed assistant 

branch manager of Warners here, has found 

a house in Chestnut Hill and is bringing his 

wife and two daughters from their former 

Buffalo home. Twig entered the industry in 

1929 as a poster clerk in the Paramount exchange 

in Pittsburgh, his native city. He has 

been with Warners in Cleveland as city 

salesman and later was transferred to Buffalo. 

He replaces Clayton Eastman, who was 

upped to manager in Buffalo. 

Art Gilmore is supplying the narration for 

Producer Gordon Hollingshead's "Snow 

Frolics," a Warner picture. 

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Lloyd Bridgham, who operates the Uptown 

Theatre at Dover, N. H., has taken a lease on 

the State Theatre in the same town from the 

Fred Couture estate and will operate it after 

alterations. The theatre is now closed . . . 

Roy E. Heffner, Goodwill Advertising Co., 

has moved his offices to 14 Piedmont St., 

using the same telephone number. The quarters 

just vacated at 22 Church St. will be 

used as a I'epair shop and receiving room for 

Mow Master, of which the Roy E. Heffner 

Co. is the New England distributor. 

Leonard Appel of Columbia was chosen 

president at the annual election of officers 

of the Boston loge of the Coliseum of Motion 

Picture Salesmen. John Pecos, 20th-Fox, is 

new vice-president: Louis Josephs, Bay State 

Film, secretary: Jerry Callahan, Monogram, 

treasurer, and Fred Shohet, Universal, sergeant 

at arms. The executive board consists 

of the above officers and Dave Grover, RKO, 

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poger Kavanaugh of the Loew's Poll Elm 

Street left for a vacation in Florida . . . 

Bill Brown, manager of the Park, was host at 

a birthday party at the Moors for his daughter 

Joyce . . . Dick Stephens of Columbia was 

in town plugging "Ten Tall Men" at the 

Poll . . . Leo Lajoie, manager of the Capitol, 

has recovered from an illness. 

The Capitol is sponsoring a locally made 

film that will use a hundred children in the 

cast . . . Bill Piscillo, doorman at the Warner, 

has been out for a month due to influenza . 

Harry Shaw, district manager of the Poll 

circuit, presented a floodlight to the Maureen 

O'Hara Fan club for her portrait in the 

O'Hara Alcove at El Morocco restaurant. 

There was much interest here in the signing 

of comedienne Pat Carroll by MGM. She 

has played here in summer stock and later 

broke in her night club act here . . . Murray 

Howard recently observed his tenth anniversary 

with Warners. He broke in at New 

Haven and served in Bridgeport, South Norwalk 

and Springfield before coming here . 

Anna Minehan is the new cashier at the 

Warner . . . Bill McCormack, owner of the 

Red Barn Theatre, smashed his face in a 

fall, losing .some front teeth and fracturing 

his nose. 

Gene Autry and company have been booked 

into the Auditorium for a one-nighter February 

10 . . . Bill Brown has hit on the right 

formula for children's shows at the Park and 

Greendale, and they are sellouts every Saturday 

afternoon. He I'eports the full cooperation 

of the school department . . . Phil Harrington, 

student assistant manager at Loew's 

Poll, was laid low by virus. 

Peter J. Marrone has instituted action for 

rei-ssuance of a license to conduct a drive-in 

at 217 Greenwood. He got the license in 

November 1950 but it later was withdi-awn 

by city manager. His attorney, arguing the 

case before superior court Judge Fairhurst, 

termed the withdrawal as "capricious, arbitrary 

and illegal" and "purely political." 

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A columnist in the Evening Gazette recalled 

when Burt Lancaster was an acrobat 

in vaudeville at the Auditorium and Van 

Johnson sang in burlesque at the Worcester 

while a strip-teaser performed 

Howard reports a good boxoffice reaction to 

the series of "sneak previews" he has been 

staging at the Warner. 

Florence E. Meehan of Providence was married 

there to Joseph T. Harrison of Lonsdale, 

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R. I. Her father is Tom Meehan, widely 

known former manager of Poll houses in 

Worcester for many years . . . The Ballet 

Russe has scheduled its annual visit to Worcester 

for February 15 in the Auditorium . 

The Sunday Telegram carried a feature story 

on Elmer R. Daniels of Leicester, who managed 

the Capitol here for 20 years, in which 

he recalled his lifetime of show business. 

HARTFORD 

/êorge H. Wilkinson jr., president of the 

MPTO of Connecticut and owner of the 

Wilkinson Theatre, Wallingford, has been 

elected a director of the First National bank 

of Wallingford . Levy, associated 

in the law firm of Herman M. Levy, general 

counsel of TOA, was in town . F. T. 

Seaverns, president of the Bushnell Memorial 

Corp., is recuperating after a serious illness. 

He attended a recent Hartford Symphony 

orchestra concert. 

Morris Keppner, Burnside, East Hartford, 

was a New York visitor . . . Sperie Perakos, 

division manager for Perakos Theatres, and 

regional governor of the Order of Ahepa, 

Greek social and fraternal organization, installed 

officers of the Bridgeport chapter 

the other night . Sullivan, Palace 

house electrician, was rushed to Hartford 

hospital for emergency surgery. His illness 

brought Rube Lewis, lATSE Local 84 business 

agent and Palace stage manager, back 

from vacation sooner than anticipated. 

Mrs. Nancy Stern, eastern representative 

for David O. Selznick, was in town for a few 

days . . . Here to appear in "Desire Under 

the Elms," New Parsons drama, actor Karl 

Maiden told the press his next film is a 

Tyrone Power drama, entitled "Diplomatic 

Courier" . Meeker, Columbia exploiteer, 

went back to New York following 

opening of "Boots Malone" at E. M. Loew's. 

. 

Henry L. Needles, Art, was a New York 

Ray McNamara, Allyn, was in 

visitor . . . 

Boston for several days on New England 

Theatres circuit business and Mrs. 

Sal Adorno of the Adorno-Middletown Theatres 

are vacationing at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 

Sal Adorno jr., general manager of the 

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A-D hou.ses, was a Hartford visitor . . . New 

dish deals have started at the Lido, Waterbury, 

and Alcazar, Naugatuck, with the 

Ville, Waterbury, now offering towels . . . Paul 

Para of the Strand has a new Ford . . . Ann 

Kennedy is new cashier at the New Parsons 

Gene Autry western revue is booked 

into the 3,300-seat Bushnell for late in 

February. 

Sid Cooper Takes Over 

New Haven UA Branch 

NEW HAVEN—Sidney Cooper, former UA 

manager at Cleveland, has taken over the 

management of the UA branch as of January 

21, while Joseph Callahan has been transferred 

to the Boston office, where he will 

have the western Massachusetts and Rhode 

Island territory. 

Salesmen of the New Haven district were 

host,s to Callahan at a farewell luncheon at 

Kaysey's January 18. Earl Wright, on behalf 

of 

the group, gave him a pen and pencil set. 

Callahan started his UA experience as salesman 

under Raymond Wylie here, later serving 

the company in Pittsburgh. 

NEW HAVEN 

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Oixteen of the Filmrow boys gave Joe Callahan, 

United Artists, a warm sendoff 

luncheon and gift at Kaysay's, upon Callahan 

returning to his native Boston 

Minsky, new booker and buyer for 

. Joe 

Warner 

Theatres here, is living at the Hotel Taft 

now . to Sam Weber of Rosen's 

and George Weber, photographer and former 

MGM office manager, on the recent death of 

then- father. Sam, on a fishing trip with 

Sam Rosen in Florida, could not be reached 

with the news in time for the funeral. 

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Floyd Fitzsimmons, MGM exploiteer, was 

in Springfield January 18 on advance work 

for "Quo Vadis" 628-seat White 

Way Theatre, taken over for operation by 

Ralph Civitello in March, was closed by the 

.sheriff's sticker January 17. The house was 

leased by Mike Tomasino to Dandy Theatre 

Enterprises in October 1948, but Fred Dandio 

and Tony Terrezano relinquished the operation 

to Civitello. 

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John Scully, Universal district manager for 

the New England territory, was a New Haven 

Sam Zipkin, Universal's head 

visitor . . . 

shipper, has announced his forthcoming marriage 

April 6 to Beverly Levine of Perth 

Lorraine Gagliardi, secretary 

Amboy, N. J. . . . 

to Carl Reardon, soon will be married 

to Ralph Papa of this city . . George 

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Weber is a new grandfather 

Ferguson is continuing his good work by 

assuming the treasurer's post for the Friends 

of Boys, a United fund agency here, in 

addition to heading the New Haven tuberculosis 

and health drive. 

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On the sick list were Max Birnbaum, Warner 

manager, and Mrs. Al Lambert, Hillcrest, 

Taftville Piatt, RKO inspector, 

on leave to care for her sick husband, while 

is 

Ruth Bolton, 

Edna Smith substitutes . . . 

Loew's Poll relief manager, is spending all 

her free time with her ailing mother near 

Nick Dandio, operator of 

Springfield . . . 

the Guilford and father of Fred Dandio, who 

operated the now closed State at New Haven, 

has renewed his booth operator's license in 

Connecticut for the 35th year. His first job 

was at a theatre in Lighthouse Point, the 

second was at Chapel and Ferry streets and 

the third at Chapel and State. 

Rennald Graber jr., Monogram traveling 

auditor, was in town until January 21 . . . 

Dave Kaufman, Loew's Poll artist, is off for 

another skiing vacation in Vermont and 

New Hampshire, in spite of broken bones last 

year Saunders, manager of the 

Poll, Bridgeport, spent a busman's holiday 

in New Haven on his day off . . Phil 

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Gravitz, MGM manager, has moved into a 

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new home in Westville . . I. H. Rogovin, 

Columbia district manager, came in from 

Boston are perking up with 

clear, fair weather, and talking about opening 

March 30. Bloomfield's new drive-in will 

be completed this spring. 

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Grosses in Theatres 

Increase in Canada 

OTTAWA—Motion picture theatre receipts 

in Canada, exclusive of taxes, rose to $82,- 

708,000 in 1950, an increase of 7 per cent over 

the preceding year's total of $77,419,000. 

Amusement taxes collected by theatres declined 

to $11,445,000 from $12,564,000 in 1949. 

There were 1,801 motion picture theatres in 

operation during the year as against 1.731. 

Paid admissions rose 1 per cent to $231,747,000 

from $229,312,000 and per capita expenditure 

increased to $7.12 from $6.89. Of a potential 

seating capacity of 772,961,000 in 1950, only 

30 per cent was utilized compared with 30.7 

per cent in the preceding year. 

Receipts were as follows by provinces, 

totals for 1949 being in parentheses: 

Newfoundland—$863,734 ($820,107). 

Prince Edward Island—$286,334 ($280,631). 

Nova Scotia—$3,266,536 ($3,109,262). 

New Brunswick—$2,053,595 ($2,048,091). 

Quebec—$21,310,810 ($19,240,015) 

Ontario—$34,083,166 ($31,862,708). 

Manitoba—$4,197,205 ($4,235,223). 

Saskatchewan—$3,505,695 ($3,360,123). 

Alberta—$5,314,331 ($4,107,536). 

British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest 

territories—$7„826,356 ($7,422,818) 

Crawley Films Expands 

Its Studio Facilities 

OTTAWA—Graeme Fraser, assistant general 

manager of Crawley Films, has expanded 

its studio facilities by moving the art, animation, 

script and music departments into new 

premises. The film printing department and 

the four production units have gone into 

space formerly occupied by the art and other 

staffs. 

Of the 43 films produced by Crawley in 

1951. Fra.ser said that 90 per cent were in 

color, all but one were in sound and 20 per 

cent were in French. 

The company has also opened a commercial 

still-photographic division in connection with 

its Ottawa plant. 

CBC to Introduce Video 

At August Exhibition 

TORONTO—After many delays and discussions, 

an announcement has come out to 

the effect that the Canadian Broadcasting 

Corp. will introduce television programs in 

the Dominion next August. Arrangements 

have been made for transmitter towers 

despite the shortage of steel. 

The first Canadian TV broadcast is planned 

for the Canadian National exhibition here 

August 22-September 6. 

Ivor M. Leslie 

Promoted 

TORONTO—Ivor M. Leslie has been appointed 

a vice-president and director of 

Crosley Radio and Television, Ltd., of Toronto, 

with the title of general manager. 

The appointment was announced by Leonard 

F. Cramer, assistant general manager of the 

Avco Manufacturing Co.'s Crosley division. 

Leslie, a native of Toronto, has been a vicepresident 

in charge of engineering and manufacturing 

for Canadian Radio Manufacturing 

Corp. for almost two years. 

Third Week of Bus Strike 

Ends Two Long Showings 

TORONTO — Tlie trolley and bus strike 

here, which started its thii-d week January 

18. has been a factor in drawing two prolonged 

film engagements to a finish. The 

curtain was rung down on "Laughter in 

Paradi.se" after its 16th week at the International 

Cinema, while the run of "The 

Lavender Hill Mob" wound up at the Hyland 

at the end of 11 weeks. 

A hint has been heard that the Canadian 

premiere of "Quo Vadis" is being held off 

pendnig termination of the transportation 

strike. 

The trolley trouble did not interfere with 

the holding of many children's shows Saturday 

morning (19) at neighborhood theatres, 

which have benefitted from the lack of public 

transit service. 

The roadshow engagement of "The River" 

at $1 top continued for a fourth week at the 

Towne Cinema, but this theatre caters largely 

to the cairiage trade from all parts of 

Toronto, which is independent of streetcars. 

World Release Is Set 

For Royal Tour Film 

OTTAWA—National Film Board's color feature. 

"The Royal Journey," recording the 

highlights of the tour of Princess Elizabeth 

and the Duke of Edinburgh, will have worldwide 

distribution under arrangements announced 

here. 

Canadian theatrical distribution is being 

handled by Columbia of Canada, while distribution 

in the States is handled by United 

Artists. 

In the United Kingdom, the film is being 

distributed by General Film Distributors of 

the Rank group, while distribution in western 

Europe. Africa, the Far East and the British 

Commonwealth of Nations, other than Canada, 

has been taken by J. Arthur Rank Overseas 

Film Distribution. 

The French-Canadian version of the tour 

will be distributed in Prance and French 

colonies. 

To Regulate TV Antennas 

TORONTO—Legislation to regulate the 

erection, installation and specifications of 

television antennas wiU be sought by the 

city committee on legislation. The committee 

was told by a group representing the industry 

that the sale of dummy TV antennas, 

the unsafe standards used and faulty installation 

resulted from a lack of city inspection. 

"There are a lot of Toms, Dicks and Harrys 

in this business," one delegate said, "and the 

responsible members want some control of 

them." 

CBC Staif Starts Course 

MONTREAL—fifteen men and women, 

nucleus of the CBC television staff here 

have started a six-month course in television 

subjects. The number is expected to increase 

to 125 by April. The 15 producers, writers 

and technicians, are studying lighting and 

camera technique, staging, electronic theory 

and practical experimental production. Later. 

TV experts from the U.S. will give courses. 

For the present, CBC personnel who have 

studied TV two years ai-e acting as instructors. 

Toronto Grosses Up 

After Strike Sags 

TORONTO—With Toronto patrons regaining 

their equilibrium in the prolonged trolley 

strike, theatre grosses in the downtown area 

were creeping back to usual levels. There 

were seven holdovers in the list, but there 

was little inclination to change programs in 

the present situation. 


Eglinton Royal Journey (Col); The Wooden Horse 

(London), 4(h wk 90 

Foirlawn—Fixed Bayonets (20th-Fox); Oh. You 

BeauHful Doll (ZOth-Fox), reissue 100 

Hyland—The Lavender Hill Mob (JARO), lllh wk. 90 

Imperial—When Worlds ColUde (Para) 115 

Loews—Too Young to Kiss (MGM) 115 

Odeon—The Model and the Marriage Broker 

(20lli-Fox), 2nd wk 90 

Sheas—On Dangerous Ground (RKO), 2nd wk 90 

Tivoli, Capitol-Two Tickets to Broadway (RKO); 

On the Loose (RKO) 95 

University, Nortown—Close to My Heart (WB), 2nd 

wk 90 

Uptown—Callaway Wont Thalawoy (MGM) 105 

Victoria—Kon-TiK (RKO), 2nd wk 90 

Good Weekend Business Ups 

Vancouver Grosses 

VANCOUVER—Boxoffices here again followed 

the same course of the last few weeks 

with nice opening business on weekend 

changes, but slowing down over the latter 

half of the week. Leading the town was 

"An American in Paris" at the Capitol. Also 

good was "Ivory Hunter" at the Vogue. "On 

the Loose" and "Whip Hand" at the Cinema 

and a moveover of "Golden Girl" at the 

Dominion. 

Capilol—An American in Paris (MGM) Excellent 

Cinema—On the Loose (RKO): Whip Hand 

(RKO) 

Good 

Dominion— (Solden Girl (20th-Fox); His Kind 

oi Woman (RKO) Good 

Orpheum-Distant Drums (WB), 9 days Good 

Paradise—The Highwayman (Mono); The 

Longhorn (Mono) Fair 

Plaza—The Lady From Texas (U-I); Federal 

Man (Rep) 

Average 

Strand—The Unknown Man (MGM) Fair 

Studio—No Highway in the Sky (20th-Fox) 

Vogue—Ivory Hunter (JARO), 2nd wk 

Fair 

Good 

TV Film Concern Opens 

MONTREAL — Trans-World Film Laboratories, 

of which J. O. Lemire is president and 

A. Prefontaine is managing director, started 

operations recently here. The company will 

handle laboratory work for the propo.sed television 

stations .soon to be set up in the 

Dominion. The facilities will include all 

services from preparation of the script for 

shorts and commercials, actual shooting on 

is own sound stages, processing and printing, 

cutting and editing up to and including 

final release. A rental service on professional 

apparatus will also be made available. 

Top Billing to Churchill 

YARMOUTH, N. S.—At the Capitol. Manager 

Ernie Hatfield ignored Fred Astaire and 

Jane Powell, stars of "Royal Wedding," to 

give Sarah Churchill the top spot in billing. 

The Churchill name and accenting that of 

the prime minister above that of his daughter 

was stressed under the title of "She's 

Winnie's Daughter." 

Report on Canada Films 

OTTAWA — The Canadian Government 

Travel bureau here has brought out a sixpage 

report on the makeup and use of films 

to promote tourism. 

BOXOFFICE : 

: January 26, 1952 99

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'The Prowler' Ad Appeals 

To Winnipeg Patrons 

WINNIPEG—David Safeer. Odeon-Morton 

Theatres showman, planted neat copy In the 

local dailies as a teaser ad before playing 

"The Prowler" at the Garrick. Copy read: 

"Watch out for 'Tlie Prowler.' Take three 

steps to discourage prowlers around your 

house. (1) Keep all windows and doors locked, 

all shades drawn, when there is no one at 

home. (2) Cancel all your regular deliveries 

such as milk, newspapers, etc.. when 

you are away for an extended time. (3) 

Advise police when leaving town. See 'The 

Pi-owler' at the Garrick soon." 

When Safeer played "The Strange Door" 

at the Garrick, ads featured large display 

punch lines, dripping in blood. "We dare you 

... to take in the greatest chiller-diller ever 

to be presented on any screen!" This text 

accompanied photographs of Charles Laughton 

and Boris Karloff. 

OTTAWA 

n sensational incident occurred at the 20th 

Century Theatres Rideau when a holdup 

artist. Lloyd Andison, 31, was captured on 

Rideau street one minute after he had 

robbed cashier Gwenneth Knight of $35 at 

the theatre wicket. Miss Knight, daughter of 

a police official, sounded the alarm and 

assistant William Stephanishen, with two patrons, 

captured the thug as he attempted to 

leap into a moving automobile. Andison admitted 

guilt in court and was held for sentence. 

James McGuire, local projectionist, has 

been re-elected president of operators Local 

257. Bill Hartnett continues as business 

agent . Cloutier, local actress, is 

expected to stop off here early in February 

for a visit with parents on her way from London 

to Hollywood to appear with Alan Ladd 

in "Persian Gulf." She has made two features 

in France and two in England. 

Mark Stevens, Hollywood screen personality, 

played a week's engagement at Standish 

hall 

. Ernie Warren held 

"Laughter in Paradise" for a fifth week at 

the Little Elgin. In the Main Elgin, "Force 

of Arms" played two weeks . Berlin 

of the Somerset secured an early audience 

for the Saturday matinee il9) when he offered 

free ice cream to the first 100 kids. 

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Fred Leavens, manager of the Elmdale, had 

an added stage attraction in Henry LaRevere, 

RCA-Victor recording artist, twice nightly in 

connection with "Comin' Round the Mountain" 

and "Crazy Over Horses" 

Ottawa Film society, under an arrangement 

with H. Bessin, held forth at the Glebe Sunday 

afternoon (20) for a special screening 

before 600 members. The films were the 

Spanish feature, "Don Quixote de la Mancha," 

directed by Rafael Gil, and a National Film 

Board short, "Wings for NATO." 

NOW AVAILABLE 

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PEERLESS FILMS—277 Victoria St., Toronto 

PEERLESS FILMS—5975 Monkland Ave., Montreal 

Anthony J. Wright is doing an excellent 

job with his new press-relation duties in the 

National Film Board organization. The government 

film agency has long needed someone 

with initiative in this role. John Dickson 

is here from England for documentary production 

work with NFB. 


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VANCOUVER 

itol in Regina, Sask. . . . 

The Kio Theatre at Victoria, which reopened 

a month ago after being clased for eight 

months, could not make the grade and is 

closed again. It is a 450-seater and was 

opened briefly under the management of 

Jack Proudlove, former manager of the Cap- 

The two film exchange 

unions, F-71 and B-71, are working on 

new agreements with the distributors, seeking 

big wage increases over the former contract, 

which expires January 31. 

. . . 

The three Odeon circuit downtown theatres, 

the Vogue, Plaza and Paradise, have upped 

admissions by 5 cents, with a top of 70 cents. 

To date. Famous Players downtowners have 

not put the increase into effect, although they 

raised suburban tariffs by 5 cents with a 

top of 50 cents ... A heavy snowstorm here 

at the weekend was hurting business 

Jean Brown of Empire-Universal is on vacation 

Operation of 

at Pasadena, Calif. . . . the Cambie, a 450-seater, has been relinquished 

by Odeon Theatres and has been 

taken over by Jack Stone, exhibitor from 

White Rock. 

Famous Players did not renew the lease on 

the Holly\vood. a 600-seat suburban theatre, 

which FPC operated for ten years. It now 

is being operated by R. W. Faitleigh, owner 

of the property . . . "Silver Harvest," a tworeel 

Technicolor film produced for British 

Columbia Packers by Wally Hamilton of 

Trans-Canada Films, was given its premiere 

before the advertising and sales bureau of 

the Vancouver Board of Trade in Hotel Vancouver 

. Vancouver Sun reduced its 

advertising rates to theatres by four cents a 

line. 

Eddie Zetterman, manager of the Columbia, 

New Westminster, who returned home after 

a serious illness had a relapse and is back 

in the hospital . 

Duncan. Strand 

manager, pulled a Man on the Street stimt 

for "The Unknown Man" in conjunction with 

the Daily Province. The lad was spotted the 

first day and the Strand paid $50. It proved 

good advertising and upped the grosses at the 

theatre . Ackery of the Orpheum is 

holding a laugh week for his showing of 

"Callaway Went Thataway." 

Net profit of the Pacific National exhibition 

soared from $91,000 in 1950 to $139,000 

in 1951. Revenues in some instances were the 

highest ever recorded, the secretary reported 

business and organizations are 

going to be shelling out for the provincial 

government amusement tax. Commercial enterprises 

pay 17':: per cent and amateur 

groups 5 per cent. Last year the government's 

revenue from amusements was 

$2,365,000. 

Vancouver Central Lions saw a film dealing 

with the Alcan development, the Nechako 

Survey. Gyro club members heard a talk, 

"Show Business. Tlien and Now," by Mark 

Howard, and the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce 

got into the film trend with two 

films at a dinner meeting. 

A city motion picture technician was convicted 

of arson and forgery in connection 

with a fire which destroyed his film plant in 

Vancouver's east side over a year ago. Peter 

Oscar Jorgenson was acquitted of a third 

charge of trying to defraud insurance firms 

of $440,000 insurance which the firm carried 

on the plant and equipment. Jorgenson also 

was found guilty of forging a check for $3,500 

given in payment for the film studio which 

he was convicted of burning. He still has to 

face a charge of smuggling film equipment 

from the U.S. He will be sentenced later. 

Perkins Electric completed an installation of 

high intensity lamps and a motor generator in 

Al Trout's Hope Theatre at Hope, B. C. . . . 

Tommy Trinder. famous British comedian, 

will play in Vancouver and Victoria in aid 

of Canadian crippled children. The show has 

been brought to Canada by Famous Players 

to assist in funds for the Toronto Variety 

Tent and to raise money for the crippled 

children's solarium. Famous Artists of Vancouver 

is handling the shows for Famous 

Players free of charge. Vancouver has no 

Variety Club to date. 

WINNIPEG 

TTnusually mild weather for this time of 

year helped admi.ssion receipts here and 

exhibitors are gratified with public response 

to good product now in circulation. January 

and February as a rule are lean months on 

the local ledger. 

The Foto-nite cash offer now stands at 

$1,500 and the crowds are slowly starting to 

come back to the dozen Winnipeg houses 

which are united in the Wednesday night 

presentation. Law student Sam Minuk is 

emceeing Foto-nite at the State in the absence 

of Ben Sommers, the flying exhibitor, 

who in the last three months has flown 

thousands of miles as advertising consultant 

to a group of interlocking advertising agencies. 

Jock Emslie is manager of the State 

on a permanent basis. Cy Brownstone of the 

Elm. Bill Minuk of the Corona and Mort 

Calof of the Vogue are constantly scanning 

joke books at Sam Saidman's drug store, 

next to the film exchange, so as to be better 

prepared with their ad libs on stage when 

conducting Foto-nite. 

Private Showing Is Held 

For Churchill in Ottawa 

OTTAWA— Practically th" only diversion of 

Prime Minister Winston Churchill during his 

Ottawa conference was a private film show 

in the first communion breakfast of the film 

industry Sunday

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JOHN 

"The Capitol Theatre in Chipman, N. B., was 

slightly damaged by an early morning 

fire which destroyed a restaurant next door. 

J. Albert Williams owns and manages the 

The Yarmouth 

theatre, assisted by his wife . . . 

Memorial high school went opposition 

to the Capitol and Community theatres for 

two consecutive days, both afternoon and 

night, with a magic show priced at a flat $1 

for adults, both daily performances, and 

25 cents for children in the afternoons. Harrison 

the Great was billed as "Second to the 

Great Blackstone." Each of the two afternoons, 

the touring magic purveyor drove a 

car through the main stem of the town while 

blindfolded. The car was owned by Bob 

Brooks, a local photographer. 

Mrs. Shirlee M. Brownell reports she is 

trying to get into a routine and steeled down 

as manager of Goudey Theatre at Barrington 

Passage. She recently became manager 

there in succession to her father, the late 

Percy Fielding, owner-manager, who died 

during the late fall. Mrs. Brownell is the only 

child of the late exhibitor and is active as 

an angler, hunter and golfer. Mrs. Brownell 

has the assistance of her uncle, Ai'thur Fielding, 

owner-manager of the Capitol and Avon 

at Bridgewater, which is near Barrington 

Passage on the south bay shore. Mrs. Brownell 

is now with her mother, Mrs. Irene Fielding 

at the parental home in Barrington Passage. 

The Goudey was a pet project of a 

Boston gum manufacturer, who was a native 

of Barrington Passage, and was built and 

furnished on de luxe pattern. 

Repairs to the home of Malcolm Walker at 

Jollimore, across Northwest Arm from Halifax, 

have been completed. The work was 

necessitated by a fire several months ago. 

Like all exhibitors, the head of the Walker 

chain is finding that business has been affected 

by reduced spending of the people, attributed 

to the record living cost. 

In arran§ring use of a bulldozer for a drivein 

project in suburban Halifax, Mitch Franklin, 

acting president of the Franklin & 

Herschorn circuit, telephoned a construction 

firm at Sussex, N. B., while arranging for the 

use of the bulldozer, the theatreman head, 

found he was talking to the bookkeeper who 

writes songs as a sideline and one of his 

compositions soon is to be on F&H circuit 

screens in "Square Dance Katy." Arrangements 

were promptly made for the appearance 

of the bookkeeper on F&H stages in 

connection with the showing of the film. 

The bookkeeper, C. Raleigh Keith, also leads 

a dance orchestra in Sussex. 

Donors of prizes for proficiency in school 

studies in St. John were Fred G. and F. Gordon 

Spencer, president-founder and general 

manager of the F. G. Spencer Co.. operating 

a long-established theatre chain in the maritimes. 

The Spencers are father and son . 

Frequent, heavy snow storms and intense cold 

have socked boxoffice grosses since late November 

through the maritimes. Roads and 

streets have been impassable for days and 

nights at a time. More snow fell before the 

winter was half way through than all through 

the winter of 1950-51. Road and street cleaning 

proved impossible, with piled snow handicapping 

business generally. 

The London Theatre stock company is pre- 

senting weekly changes of bill at the Bishop 

Field College hall in St. John's. Nfld. Advertising 

emphasizes the company is the only 

English dramatic troupe in North America. 

Special attention is being given to producing 

plays that have been made into motion 

pictures, with patrons invited to compare 

the stage and screen productions. 

Theatre Business Up 

In Maritime Areas 

ST. JOHN, N. B.—Business for the full year 

of 1951 in the maritime provinces, has been 

reported as good by film exhibitors. Considerably 

better than for the preceding year and 

also in excess of that of the first half year 

of 1951. 

The prospects for the first six months of 

1952 are favorable, and optimism prevails 

among the theatre operators in the territory 

which comprises the provinces of New Brunswick, 

Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and 

Newfoundland. This optimistic view is based 

on the money now in circulation and the outlook 

for this year. 

When asked to set an estimate of how 

much business was up for 1951 as compared 

with 1950, the head of one chain set 10 per 

cent, the estimate being ba.sed on the maritimes. 

Types of pictures drawing at the boxoffice 

during 1951 in the maritimes were: Technicolor 

musical comedies, corn comedies and 

actions. 

Exhibitors expect the overhead to be cut 

into this year by reduced taxation as contrasted 

with last year. The heavy surplus 

piled up by the Canadian government in 

1951 is expected to ease the big tax burden 

for everybody, and to place more money in 

circulation this year. 

Thus far, the maritimes have not been 

as favored with war contracts to the extent 

of the central and western provinces and, 

of course, the central provinces get the 

lion's share of the allotment volume from 

Ottawa, The maritimers are hoping that 

their territory will be better treated this year. 

For October, November and December of 

1951, the opposition presented by hockey in 

the maritimes weakened sharply as contrasted 

with the same period of preceding years for 

about 20 years, and particularly in evidence 

the previous dozen years to the end of 1951. 

Hockey games had been marring theatre attendance 

heavily from mid-October to late 

March and early April all through the maritimes, 

until with the opening of the current 

season, the hockey promoters shot the prices 

upward heavily. And particularly in the instance 

of the Maritime Hockey league which 

expended the number of games for the 

season to 90, constituting a world's alltime 

record. The attendances in all the centers 

dived and packed rinks went out of the picture. 

The hockey promoters are fearful that this 

trend will continue for the balance of the 

season. 

MONTREAL 

"Their first visit to Filmrow in the new year 

was paid by several exhibitors. They included 

Georges Champagne of the Champagne 

circuit, Shawinigan Falls: J. Gagne of 

Ville-Marie; J. Martin, the Royal, East 

Angus: Lucien Bertrand, the Makamik, 

Joe LeBlanc, owner-manager of the Capitol 

at Shediac, has started his sixth consecutive 

one-year term in the mayoralty of that 

Makamik, Abitibi; Ai-mand Gingras, the Canada, 

Levis: Paul Dussault, the Royal, Donnacona, 

and Romeo, Couillard, the Lafontaine 

Northumberland strait town, having been reelected 

by acclamation ... A party of ten 

and the Tache, Montmagny . Kent, 

from Hollywood performed at Harmon, Goose 

United Amusement house in the west end, 

Bay and Greenland before airing back to 

will present "Tales of Hoffmann," starting 

New York. Lionel Ascher was company manager. 

February 8, with reserved seats, two performances 

daily at $1 and 75 cents. 

The widening of Dorchester street west between 

Beaver Hall hill and Delorimier avenue 

will involve the disappearance of the 

Roxy Theatre on St. Lawrence boulevard, a 

little north of Dorchester street. It is owned 

by Joseph Beaudry who is claiming from the 

public service commission the sum of $136,- 

199.80 as compensation for the expropriation 

of the building and the land, plus 10 per 

cent for forcible dispossession. The city valuators 

have given an estimate of $73,800 as 

value of the building and the land. 

The young French -Canadian actress, Suzanne 

Cloutier, daughter of the king's printer 

in Canada, has been making films in Paris 

and in London, and is now headed for Hollywood 

to star with Alan Ladd in a dramatic 

love triangle with the Iranian oil crisis as 

a background . will be no mad rush 

for television sets when TV reaches Canada 

next fall, in the opinion of S. Morgan-Powell, 

dramatic critic of Montreal Star, who says 

the closer we get to television in Canada, "the 

less excitement there appears to be" . . . The 

Seville Theatre according to its proprietor, 

Ben Garson, had a 1951 attendance of close 

to 975,000. Arrival of the millionth customer 

will be an occasion for celebration. 

. . . Mrs. 

Frank Scofield's new color ski film, "A 

World in White," was shown to Westmount 

Ski club as a benefit to the Olympic fund, 

and attracted a large attendance 

Spencer Ti-acy had to postpone her visit to 

Montreal until January 31 because of a bout 

with influenza . . . Sound color films on 

Switzerland were shown by Anton R. Lendi 

of Toronto, noted Swiss lecturer and traveler 

Yiddish-American musical motion 

picture, "Catskill Honeymoon," was presented 

at His Majesty's for a four-day run. 

Associated Screen's latest release, "The 

Roaring Game," portraying the popular winter 

sport of curling, will have its world premiere 

in Winnipeg in February coincident 

with the opening of the Manitoba annual 

"bonspiel," or contest. Production of the film 

brought out the information that there are 

more curlers in Canada than there are 

golfers. 

Robert Montgomery, who addressed the 

Montreal Canadian club, took back a fur 

cap with him to the United States as a 

memento of his visit here . , "I've always 

. 

wanted to wear one," he said . . . Crawley 

Films has produced for Green Cross Insecticides 

a color film showing Canadian fruit 

farmers how to identify and control pests . . . 

A group of Charlie Chaplin films was shown 

in Montreal Technical school by students of 

the Beaux Arts and kindred organizations. 

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: January 

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0)(0FFICE(i)DDiiJI]i/îJJD5 

The EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY ABOUT 

PICTURES 

An oven jorum, in which, for the most part, exhibitors report on subsequent-run 

showings of pictjires. One (•) denotes a new contributor: two (**) is one who 

has been reporting for six months or longer; (••*) a regular who has been 

reporting for one year or more. These columns are open to all exhibitors. 

COLUMBIA 

Doolins of Oklahoma, The iCoD— Randolph 

Scott. George Macready. Louise Albritton. 

This was a fair picture but the 

weather was against us. Played Pri., Sat. 

Harland Rankin, Beau Theatre, Belle River, 

Ont. Small town, rural trade. * * * 

Her First Romance i Col )— Margaret 

O'Brien, Allen Martin jr., Jimmy Hunt. I 

never could sell Margaret O'Brien to my 

public and this was no exception, but it 

was a cute picture that should do all right 

where she is a draw. The kids came and 

enjoyed it but it was too light for the adults, 

I guess. Played Sun., Mon. Weather: Good. 

—M. W. Long, Lans Theatre, Lansing, Iowa. 

Small town, rural trade. * * * 

Indian Territory (CoD—Gene Autry, Pat 

Buttram, Gail Davis. There is not enough 

production effort in making a suitable vehicle 

for Autry, and this one fell flat here. Played 

midweek. C, E. Bennewitz, Royal Theatre, 

Royalton, Minn. Small town, rural trade. * * • 

Jungle Manhunt (Col) —Johnny Weissmuller. 

Bob Waterfield, Sheila Ryan. This is 

like all the rest of this series—no better, no 

worse. Played Sunday. Weather: Clear. 

Don Donohue, Novato Theatre, Novato, Calif. 


Hurricane Island (Col)—Jon Hall, Marie 

Windsor, Romo Vincent. Patrons walked in 

quietly and left the same way. No comments 

from any of them, so we don't know 

just how It went over, but as usual, costume 

pictures don't draw in our town and receipts 

were very low. In our opinion, the picture 

was fair. Played Wed., Thurs. Weather: 

Clear and cold.—G. P. Jonckowskl, Lyric 

Theatre, Wabasso, Minn. Small town, rural 

trade, 

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Santa Fe (Col) —Randolph Scott, Janis 

Carter, Jerome Courtland. This is not a bad 

picture that was enjoyed by a few. Television 

hurts and the weather sure went back on 

us. Played Fl'i., Sat. Weather: Cold.—Harland 

Rankin, Erie, Wheatley, Ont. Small 

town, rural trade. * * 

LIPPERT PRODUCTIONS 

Bandit Queen iLPi —Barbara Britton, Willard 

Parker, Philip Reed. This is okay for 

a double bill. I think our booker did us a 

nice job in spotting this one. Played Wed., 

Thurs. Weather: Cold.—Harland Rankin, 

Plaza Theatre, Tilbury, Ont. Small town, 

rural trade. * * 

Leave It to the Marines (LP)—Sid Melton, 

Mara Lynn. I sure got a break on this 

photoplay. It failed to arrive on opening 

night, so I only had to show it one night 

which was exactly one too many. It's terrible! 

Played Wednesday. Weather: Cold. 

Frank Sabin, Majestic Theatre, Eureka, 

Mont. Small town trade. * • * 

Square Dance Jubilee (LP)—Don Barry. 

Mary Beth Hughes, Wally Vernon. We were 

late in playing this but the .square dance 

craze just hit here and we thought a booking 

was in order—but we guessed wrong. 

The picture and acts were okay but no 

one wanted to see them here. Played Fri., 

Sat. Weather: Cold.—Mayme P. Musselman, 

Roach Theatre, Lincoln, Kas. Small town 

trade. * • • 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Magnificent Yankee, The (MGM) —Louis 

Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz. This 

Ls strictly a magnificent picture loaded with 

in.spiration for us crepe-hangers of this generation. 

It has one of the best acting jobs 

in many a moon. A blizzard starting at 6 

p. m. opening night gave us a $3.09 take. 

Below zero temperatures at boxoffice time 

the second night helped us to enjoy a slight 

increa.se in revenue—$6.30, to be exact. Luckily, 

I ran a high school morning show and 

split the gate with the student council, so 

I did get back the cost of the picture and 

the short. If Metro makes the terms right, 

I'm going to bring this back for free in good 

weather, as I feel every good, American citizen 

.should see this. But you've got to .sell 

it, or else! Played Wed., Thurs.—Bob Walker, 

Uintah Theatre, Fruita, Colo. Small town, 

rural trade. • « • 

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (MGM)— 

Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak. 

This is a real good comedy that held together 

for three days over our weekend and played 

to about 20 per cent above average. Don't 

miss it, you small-towners. Played Sun., 

Mon., Tue.sday. Weather: Good.—Curt and 

Elsie Bigley, Princess Theatre, Humeston, 

Iowa. Small town, rural trade. • * 

Night Into Morning (MGM) —Ray Milland, 

John Hodiak, Nancy Davis. Under normal 

circumstances, this picture would have done 

better—too many Christmas activities and 

a blizzard. Blocked roads stopped it cold. 

We advertised it with twin titles, "The People 

We Love" and the above one. It is 

adult entertainment, at best. Played Tues., 

Wed.—Ken Christianson, Roxy Theatre, 

Washburn, N. D. Small town, rural trade. * • • 

People Against O'Hara (MGM)—Spencer 

Ti-acy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn. This is a 

very good picture but did not have the draw 

"Father's Little Dividend" did on the same 

time. It is worth a date and on your best 

time. We set the picture ju.st before Christmas, 

and that must have hurt, because Spen- 

This One Will Stand Up 

On Your Best Change 

QaOSSWINDS (Para)— John Payne, 

Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, 

This is a very good South Sea picture 

that drew one of the best Sunday's business 

we have had in a long time, and 

against some stiff competition. There is 

a lot of action, with a good cast and 

very good color. Play it on your best 

change—it will stand up. Played Sun., 

Mon. Weather: Fine,—Mayme P. Musselman, 

Roach Theatre, Lincoln, Kas. Small 

town trade. ' * * 

One of the Finest Films 

To Come From Britain 

QLIVER TWIST (UA)— Robert Newton, 

Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh. This 

is one of the finest films to come out of 

Britain, in my opinion. There is not one 

single (hing in it to offend anyone and it 

should be entirely suitable for all ages. 

The acting of Alec Guinness surpasses 

arythins seen in a long time. Business 

was good. Everyone was pleased with the 

picture. It accurately captures the locale 

and time of the Dickens story and is 

truly a fine, finished product. Played 

Tues., Wed., Thurs. Weather: Clear.— 

Mason Shaw, Saratoga Theatre, Saratoga, 

Calif. General and art patronage. * * 

car Tracy has always done business here 

before. Played Sun., Mon. Weather: Cold.— 

Mayme P. Mu.sselman, Roach Theatre, Lincoln, 

Kas. Small town trade. * * * 

MGM i—Jane 

Rich, Young and Pretty ( 

Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey. 

This is a Technicolor musical and the kind 

of entertainment that will bring more people 

into the theatres. It has a nice story 

much better than usual for a musical), new 

faces and fine color. The love story is light 

and pleasing. Played Tues., Wed., Thurs., and 

did all that could be expected on Christmas 

week. Weather: Rainy.—Mason Shaw, 

Saratoga Theatre, Saratoga, Calif. General 

and art patronage. * * 

Show Boat (MGM)—Ava Gardner, Howard 

Keel, Kathryn Grayson. This is a marvelous 

picture in beautiful color that even 

.seemed to have a little of that third dimensional 

depth at times. Comments were very 

good, but it didn't draw too well. Receipts 

were below average, probably due to very 

cold weather and New Year parties. It 

deserves to be played and on the best playing 

time. Played Sun.. Mon., Tues. Weather: 

Very cold and bad blizzard on New Year's 

eve.—G. P. Jonckowskl, Lyric Theatre, Wabasso, 

Minn. Small town, rural trade. 

Stars in My Crown (MGM)—Joel McCrea, 

Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell. Don't let its age 

discourage you. If you haven't shown it, do 

so. It is the perfect family feature. It was 

shown here Christmas eve and Christmas 

day. They loved it. Played Mon., Tues., Wed. 

Weather: Zero.—Frank Sabin, Eureka, Mont. 

Small town trade. • • • 

MONOGRAM 

Bowery Battalion (Mono) — Leo Gorcey, 

Huntz Hall, Donald MacBride. These "boys" 

are as old as I am and it is getting harder 

for them to look young, but they are tops 

here, as far as second features go. It's 

corn, but most of my customers like corn. 

Played Saturday.—Audrey Thompson, Ozark 

Theatre, Hardy, Ark. Rural, small town 

trade. 

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (Mono) — 

Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Robert Coogan. 

This is the best of a series that has never 

been popular here, and the characterization 

of Humphrey is well done. But those who 

have followed this popular comic character 

in the daily strips would never recognize 

their always-even-tempered hero, Joe, or 

heroine, Ann, in this quarrelsome paii'. If 

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Hollywood would stick to Ham Fisher's characterization 

of these people, this series would 

cease to be the problem it is to many of us. 

Doubled with "Blues Busters" and when 

"Satch" acquires the vocal charm of Sinatra 

and Crosby combined, it gives the story department 

a new twist and is bound to please 

small town audiences, making this one live 

up to its title. Due to basketball competition 

both nights and to sub-zero weather, these 

did only 69 per cent of normal business on 

Pri., Sat.—Bob Walker, Uintah Theatre, 

Fruita, Colo. Small town, rural trade. • * ' 

Yukon Manhunt (Mono) — Kirby Grant, 

"Chinook." Gail Davis. This is a fairly good 

story of the Wonder Dog that draws pretty 

well here, as does Kirby Grant. Grant draws 

better as a Mountie than he ever did as a 

cowboy. Played Saturday. Weather: Cold. 

Audrey Thompson. Ozark Theatre. Hardy, 

Ark. Small town, rural trade. 

PARAMOUNT 

Branded (Para) —Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, 

Charles Bickford. This is above average 

in westerns and pleased our patronage. 

Played midweek.—C. E. Bennewitz, Royal 

Theatre, Royalton, Minn. Small town, rural 

trade. * * * 

Cariboo Trail, Tlie (20th-Fox)—Randolph 

Scott, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bill Williams. 

This is an average western with that old 

favorite. Randy Scott. It played the weekend 

before Christmas to above average business. 

It satisfied the action fans and is 

worth a date. Trade for any Fox super 

and you'll be ahead. Played Thurs., Fri., Sat. 

Weather: Cold.—br-r-r-rr.—Ken Christianson, 

Roxy Theatre, Washburn, N. D. Small 

town, rural trade. * " " 

Crosswinds (Para) —John Payne. Rhonda 

Fleming, Forrest Tucker. This has wonderful 

color, a poor story, competent performances, 

average busines.s—that about sums it up. 

Doubled it with "The Tall Target" (MGM— 

Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Paula Raymond), 

which is a nifty package. Snap it 

up. There is a peach of a trailer to help the 

picture along. Together they did average 

business, but "Tlie Tall Target" is what kept 

them happy, and that is what counts here. 

Played Fri., Sat.—Don Donohue, Novato Theatre, 

Novato, Calif. Small town, rural trade. 

Here Comes the Groom (Para) —Bing 

Crosby. Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith. A picture 

tiiat ranks with some of Bing's best 

and it drew a better-than-average crowd for 

three days. It Ls worth a date on your best 

change and the picture will do business, with 

very little help. A few more like this and 

we could enjoy the racket again. Played Sun., 

Mon., Tues. Weather: Cold.—Mayme P. Musselman. 

Roach Theatre, Lincoln, Kas. Small 

town trade. * • • 

RKO RADIO 

Flying Leathernecks (RKO)—John Wayne. 

Robert Ryan, Don Taylor. I swore off of war 

pictures twice already and still I keep trying 

them, and each time the boxoffice slumps 

worse than ever. I wish the salesmen would 

lay off that high pressure stuff on these 

war pictures. Then when you can't afford to 

play one, you have to trade it for a reissue 

at top price. As you no doubt surmise by 

now, this is another top bracket picture 

that didn't pay off. Played Sun.. Mon., Tues. 

Weather: Cold.—G. P. Jonckowski, Lyric 

Theatre, Wabasso, Minn. Small town, rural 

trade. 

Riders of the Range (RKO)—Tim Holt. 

Richard Mai'tin, Jacqueline White. This is 

not as good as the usual Tim Holt westerns. 

Tim is ordinarily one of the best cowboy 

players but I believe some of the kids have 

a hard time understanding "Chito." Played 

Saturday. Weather: Good.—Audrey Thompson. 

Ozark Tlieatre, Hardy, Ark. Small town, 

rural trade. 

REPUBUC 

Bullfighter and the Lady. The (Rep)— 

Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland. This 

is something along the lines of "The Brave 

Bulls." It is very well done and excellent 

of its type—can play any situation and there 

are no actual shots of the killing of the 

animals. It held the attention very well and 

will suit a Spanish or Mexican audience 100 

per cent as well as please American audiences. 

I think this is better than "The Brave 

Bulls" in that it is shorter and has more 

action, with better bull-fighting scenes. 

Played Fri., Sat. Weather: Rainy.—Mason 

Shaw, Sai-atoga Theatre. Saratoga, Calif. 

General and art patronage. * ' 

Rio Grande (Rep)—John Wayne. Maureen 

O'Hara, Ben Johnson. Having run both this 

and "Fort Apache" by the same producer. 

I'd say they had quite a lot in common as 

far as scenery and production are concerned. 

I guess I'll have to go back to my cheap 

features on the weekends. Played Thurs., 

Fri., Sat. Weather: Good.—M. W. Long. Lans 

Need More Like This 

To Combat TV 

QF MEN AND MUSIC (20th-Fox)— 

Musical documentary. We secured 

this on a first run because exhibitors 

were afraid of it in a nearby city. We 

have considerable following in art films 

and music. We advertised it specially 

and the numbers by Rubenstein and 

Heifitz are worth the price of admission. 

If you have an audience that likes music, 

get this and push it big and play it. 

We need more like this to combat TV. 

Played Sun. through Thurs. Weather: 

Clear.—Mason Shaw. Saratoga Theatre, 

Saratoga, Calif. General and art patronage. 

* * 

Theatre, Lansing, Iowa. Small town, rural 

trade. 

' 

' * 

20th CENTURY-FOX 

Day the Earth Stood Still. The (20th-Fox) 

Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe. 

My wife (our boss and booker) saw 

this tracJe-screened and bought it. I was 

dubious but here is a swell picture. The 

paper and trailers will do nothing for you 

on this. Tell your customers there is no 

rough stuff or anything gruesome in this 

picture. There is a wonderful lesson in it. 

If you can get 'em in, they will like it. Played 

Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather: Icy roads. 

Edwin A. Falk sr., Roxy Theatre, Billings, 

Okla. Small town, farmer, oil field trade. * 

UFrogmen, The (20th-Fox)—Richard Widmaj-k, 

Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill. This 

is very good. Most people had never heard 

of this branch of service before, but after 

seeing the show, seemed anxious to find out 

more about its work. Played Wed., Thurs. 

Weather: Bad.—Audrey Thompson, Ozark 

Theatre, Hardy, Ark. Rural, small town 

trade. 

* 

^Frogmen. The (20th-Fox)—Richard Widmark. 

Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill. This 

was a very unusual picture. We expected extra 

business but didn't get it, on a high film 

rental. Played Mon., Tues. Weather: Fair. 

Harland Rankin. Plaza Theatre, Tilbury, Ont. 

Small town trade. * * * 

Great Guns (20th-Fox)—Reissue. Laurel 

and Hardy, Sheila Ryan. Corn and how—but 

did they love it! Yes, and since there is no 

business like show business, this reissue 

played midweek after Christmas and outgrossed 

"Two Flags West," "For Heaven's 

Sake," "Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell," "The 

Frogmen" and "All About Eve." You figure 

it out. Played Wed., Thurs. Weather: Cold.— 

Ken Christianson, Roxy Theatre. Washburn, 

N. D. Small town, rural trade. * * * 

I'd CUmb the Highest Mountain (20th-Foxi 

Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun. 

We played this to a good average during 

Christmas. It is a wonderful picture. You 

probably can't buy it right but don't miss 

playing it. Played Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather: 

Good.—Curt and Elsie Bigley, Princess Theatre, 

Humeston, Iowa. Small town, rural 

trade. ' * ' 

Nob Hill (20th-Fox)—Reissue. George Raft, 

Joan Bennett, Vivian Blain. A fine reissue 

from Fox, with good music, nice acting, and a 

good plot. It's a funny thing—they don't 

come like this any more. We did good business 

with Raft, who takes a part he should 

play more. Color, dances, etc., do not spoil 

the story in this one, which has more meat in 

it than present day musicals. Played Sun.. 

Mon. Weather: Warm.—Dave S. Klein. Astra 

Theatre, Kitwe/Nkana. Northern Rhodesia. 

Africa. Business and mining trade. * * * 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Champagne for Caesar lUA)—Ronald Colman, 

Celeste Holm, Vincent F*iuce. A very 

good picture that we let get old, but the print 

was perfect and the patrons got quite a 

kick out of Colman and his methods to beat 

the question man. Pick it up, for a price. 

It is still okay. Played Fri., Sat. Weather: 

Fair and cold.—Mayme P. Musselman, Roach 

Theatre, Lincoln, Kas. Small town trade. * * * 

Queen for a Day (UA)—Phyllis Avery, 

Darren McGavin, Ruby Lee. People may listen 

to the radio programs but pictures based 

on them don't seem to go over in this or 

the other two small town theatres I have 

owned. I had a few good comments on this 

from some of the women who came. Played 

Tues., Wed. Weather: Good, after a snow. 

M. W. Long, Lans Theatre, Lansing, Iowa. 


UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL 

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (U-I) 

Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long. 

This did about 10 per cent above average, 

which was not bad considering the fact that 

it played all over the country before we 

played it. This is one of the better Kettle 

pictures. Played Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather: 

Good.—Curt and Elsie Bigley, Princess Theatre, 

Humeston, Iowa. Small town, rural 

trade. * * * 

Wyoming Mail (U-I) —Stephen McNally, 

Alexis Smith. Howard DaSilva. You'll find this 

a nice action western in color, with a good 

cast and something of a new angle in a 

western story. If you buy it right and need 

westerns badly, this is better than a lot of 

them. Business was average. Played Fri.. 

Sat. Weather: Cold.—Bob Walker. Uintah 

Theatre, Fruita, Colo. Small town, rural 

trade. • * * 

WARNER BROS. 

Force of Arms (WB)—William Holden, 

Nancy Olson, Frank Lovejoy. I've just 

closed the poorest Fri., Sat. in six years. 

This, doubled with "Love Nest," failed miserably 

to a new low. The picture is okay but 

a little long. "Love Nest" (William Lundigan, 

Frank Fay. June Haver) is definitely 

a second feature. Weather: Clear—Don 

Donohue, Novato Theatre, Novato, Calif. 

Small town, rural trade. * * ' 

Fort Worth (WB)—Randolph Scott. David 

Brian, Phyllis Thaxter. This is not up to 

standard and did not do more than very 

ordinary business. I gue.ss we have had just 

too many westerns. Played Wed. through Sat. 

Weather: Rainy.—M. W. Mattecheck, Mack 

Theatre, McMinnville, Ore. City and rural 

trade. " • 

""'^"'"—* 

BOXOFFICE BookinGuide : 

26, 1952

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MGM 

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department serves also 

.Tturc Guide Review page 

of lay and tradepress reviews. The plus ond 

is not roted. Listings cover current revir' 

in ALPHABETICAL INDEX to feature re 

iber. For listings by company, in the ord 

linus signs indicate degree of 

5, brought up to date regularly, 

joses. Numeral preceding title 

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++ Very Good; + Good; — Foir; — Poor; = Very Poor. In the summary +t is rated 2 pluses, = as 2 minuses 

5 g " >. " °^ "-,1 o£ 

* bi St S' 

239 Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible 

Man (S2) Comedy U-l 3-17-51 + + + + + + 7+ 

Abilene Trail (64) Western Mono 

* - ± 2+3- 

.271 Accordino to Mrs. Ho:'le (60) Drama. . . Mono 6-23-51 + ± ± ± 4+4- 

.300 Across the Wide Missouri (81) Sup-West. MGM 9-22-51 + =t It ± + + + 7+3- 

.301 Adventures of Captain Fabian (100) Drama. Rep 9-29-51 - - + --- + 2+6- 

.233 Air Cadet (94) Coni-Dr U-l 2-24-51 4- + + + + + + 7+2- 

Aladdian and His Lamp ( ) Drama Mono 

.224 Al Jennings of Oklahoma (79) Drama. Col 1-20-51 +f i ± + + - - 6+4- 

1275 Alice in Wonderland (75) Fantasy RKO 7- 7-51 + + ++ -H -H- H ± 11+1- 

1256 Alono the Great Divide (88) West-Dr. WB 5- 5-51 H ± d: -1+ ± + ± 9+4- 

1293 American in Paris, An (115) Musical MGM 9- 1-51 fi + ++ ++ 4+ W H 14+ 

1202 American Guerrilla in the Philippines 

(105) Drama 20th-Fox 11-11-50 H H ++ ^+ +t + + 12+ 

1293 Angels in the Outfield (102) Drama MGM 9- 1-51 + ++ 4+ -H- ++ + # 12+ 

1310 Anne of the Indies (81) Drama 20th-Fox 10-20-51 H H- + -H + ± ± 10+2- 

1331 Another Man's Poison (89) Drama UA 1- 5-52 + 

+ 3+3- 

1253 Apache Drums (75) Western U-l 4-28-51 ± ± + + + + + 7+2- 

1251 Appointment With Danger (90) Drama ..Para 4-21-51 + ± + ++ + + + 8+1- 

1303 Arizona Manhunt (60) Western Rep 9-29-51 ± 

± ± 6+5- 

As You Were (57) Comedy LP 

1267 As Young as You Feel (77) Com. . .2(Hh-Fox 6- 9-51 ± ± + + H ± 8+3- 

1213 At War With the Armj (93) Comedy. . Para 12-16-50 + + tt + + ± 8+1- 

il264 Badmen's Gold (56) Western UA 5-26-51 ± 

± 2+4- 

|l300 Bannerline (87) Drama MGM 9-22-51 ± 

6+2- 

:i313 Barefoot Mailman, The (83) Comedy , Col 11- 3-51 + 

7+3- 

1304 Basketball Fix. The (70) Drama , Realart 9-29-51 ± + - 5+4- 

1223 Bedtime for Bonzo (S3) Comedy U-l 1-20-51 + + + + ++ ± 8+1- 

1299 Behave Yourself! (81) Comedy RKO 9-22-51 H + + 9+ 

1236 Belle Le Grand (90) Drama Rep 3- 3-51 + 

± 7+4- 

Bend of the Riier ( ) Drama U-l 

1255 Best of the Badmen (84) Western.. RXO 5-51 -I 

+ 7+2- 

1258 Big Carnival. The (112) Drama Para 5-12-51 4 

+ 8+2- 

(Reviewed as Ace in the Hole) 

1277 Big Gusher (68) Adv-Dr Col 7-14-51 4 ± ± + ± 6+4-- 

L317 Big Night, The (75) Drama UA 11-10-51 + - - ± 2+5- 

:1239 Bird of Paradise (100) Drama 20tli-Fox 3-17-51 + H ff + ± 10+2- 

Blazing Bullets (51) Western Mono 

1224 Blue Blood (72) Drama Monr 1-20-51 + 

+ ff 6+2- 

1159 Blue Lamp, The (84) Drama UA 6-24-50 + ± + ± ± + + 7+3- 

1299 Blue Veil, The (114) Drama RKO 9-22-51 ff ff + ft ff ft- + 12+ 

1279 Bonanza Town (56) Western Col 7-21-51 + ± ± ± 4+3- 

1330 Boots Malone (103) Drama Col 12-22-51 + ^ + + + 5+ 

1206 Born Yesterday (103) Comedy Col 11-25-50 fi- # +f ff ff + -H- 13+ 

1234 Bowery Battalion (69) Comedy . Mono 2-24-51 + + + ± - + 5+2- 

1205 Branded (94) Western Para 11-25-50 + + + + + + ± 7+1- 

1257 Brave Bulls, The (108) Drama Col 5-12-51 tt ± ++ ff ± + ff 11+2- 

1317 Bride of the Gorilla (68) Drama ... Realart 11-10-51 + 

+ ± It 5+4- 

1281 Bright Victory (97) Drama U-l 7-2S-51 -H- fl-' + ff ff ff ff 13+ 

13:2 Browning Version, The (90) Drama. .. . 

U-l 11-24-51 +f + ff + 7+1- 

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (60) Western . Rep 12-30-50 ± ± ± - 4+5- 

i::.-:. Bullfighter and the Ladj (87) Drama. , Rep 5- 5-51 + 

+f ff + ft U+ 

l;iM Bushwhackers, The (73) Western . 

Realart 12-22-51 + — It ± 5+5— 

c 

I 12ib California Passage (90) Western .Rep 12-23-50 + ± + +• It 7+3- 

1320 Callaway Went Thataway (81) Comedy. MGM 11-17-51 + + + ff + 9+ 

1310 Calling Bulldog Drummond (81) Drama MGM 10-20-51 

It + ff 6+2- 

'1217 Call of the Klondike (67) Drama Mono 12-23-50 ± + It 5+3- 

1225Call Me Mister (95) Musical 20th-Fox 1-27-51 

ff + ff + 8+1- 

Canyon Raiders (54) Western Mono 

± 1+1- 

1270 Capt Horatio Hornblower (117) Act-Dr WB 6-16-51 

ff ff ff ff + 12+ 

Captive of Billy the Kid ( ) Western. Rep 

+ 1+ 

1280 Casa Manana (73) Musical Mono 7-21-51 * - 

1280 Cattle Drive (77) Western U-l 7-21-51 + + + 

1225 Cause for Alarm (73) Drama MGM 1-27-51- ± ff - + It 2+5- 

+ 8+ 

+ ± 7+3- 

1251 Ca.alry Scout (78) Western Mono 4-21-51- =t + + + it 6+2- 

1314 Cave of Outlaws (76) Drama U-l 11- 3-51 ± ± + + + 6+2- 

1291 Chain of Circumstance (68) Drama Col 8-25-51: 

- 6+7- 

1326Chicago Calling (74) Drama UA 12- 8-51 : 

+ i: 5+6- 

1267 China Corsair (67) Acl-Dr Col 6 9-51: ± ± zt :± ± 7+7- 

1315 Christmas Carol, A (86) Drama UA 11- 3-51 : - + - ff + 7+3- 

1330Cimarron Kid, The (84) Drama U-l 12-22-51 ± + It 5+3- 

1248 Circle of Danger (86) Drama UA 3- 7-51 : 

± ff - ± + 7+5- 

1307 Close to My Heart (90) Drama WB 10-13-51; * + ± -H 7+4- 

1305 Clouded Yellow, The (96) Drama Col 10- 6-51 + + + + 6+1- 

- 

Colorado Ambush (52) Western... Mono 

± + * 3+2- 

Colora:lo Sundown ( , ) Western Rep 

UOOCome Fill the Cup (113) Drama WB 9-22-51 i + + + + ± 9+1- 

1271 Comin' Round the Mountain (77) Comedy. U-l 6-23-51 - 

it -H It It ± 8+5- 

1220 Company She Keeps, The (S3) Drama RKO 12-30-50 + ± - + ± 6+4- 

- 

1297 Corky of Gasoline Alley (70) Comedy. Col 9-15-51 - 

it It + ii 5+3- 

1218 Counterspy Meets Scotland 

Yard (67) Drama Col 12-23-50 - 

± It - + It frfS- 

DO 3:q:|> lii. IzEirlj^slzQ 

333 Craiy Over Horses (65) Comedy Mono 112-52+ ± 

291 Criminal Uwyer (74) Drama Col 

286 Crosswinds (93) Drama Para 

230 Cry Danger (79) Drama RKO 

247 Cuban Fireball (78) ComMus Rep 

294 Cyclone Fury (54) Western Col 

204 Cyrano de Bergerac (112) Drama UA 

D 

276 Dakota Kid, The (60) Western Rep 

285 Danger Zone (60) Drama LP 

2SS Darling, How Could You! (96) Comedy . Para 

292 David and Bathshcba (123) Drama .. 20th-Fox 

296 Day the Earth Stood Still (92) Drama. 20-Fox 

253 Dear Brat (82) Comedy Para 

328 Death of a Salesman (113) Drama,, Col 

329 Decision Before Dawn (119) Drama 20th-Fox 

305 Desert Fox, The (87) Drama 20th-Fox 

328 Desert of Lost Men (54) Western Rep 

302 Detective Story (103) Drama Para 

296 Disc Jockey (77) Musical Mono 

326 Distant Drums (101) Drama WB 

207 Double Crossbones (75) Com-Mus U-l 

220 Double Deal (65) Drama RKO 

319 Double Dynamite (80) Comedy RKO 

308 Drums in the Deep South (87) Drama RKO 

312 Elephant Stampede (71) Drama Mono 10-27-51 ± 

318 Elopement (81) Comedy 20th-Fox 11-10-51 + 

226 Enforcer, The (88) Drama WB 1-27-51 + 

262 Excuse My Dust (82) Mus-Com MGM 5-26-51 + 

F 

258 Fabiola (96) Drama UA 5-12-51 ft 

315 Family Secret, The (85) Drama Col 11- 3-51 it 

233 Father's Little Dividend (81) Comedy , 2-24-51 ft 

271 Father Takes the Air (61) Comedy Mono 6-23-51 it 

247 Fat Man, The (77) Mys-Dr U-l 4- 7-51 it 

1320 FBI Girl (74) Drama LP 11-17-51 — 

329 Finders Keepers (75) Comedy U-l 12-22-51 — 

255 Fighting Coast Guard (86) Drama Rep 5- 5-51 + 

241 Fingerprints Don't Lie (56) Drama LP 3-17-51 + 

253 First Legion, The (86) Drama UA 4-28-51 4 

First Time, The ( ) Comedy Col 

8-25-51 

256 Five (93) Drama Col 5- 5-51 4 

323 Fixed Ba;'onets (92) Drama 20th-Fox 12- 1-51 + 

322 Flame of Araby (77) Drama U-l 11-24-51 + 

237 Flame of Stamboul (68) Drama Col 3-10-51 4 

. 

329 Flaming Feather (78) Western Para 12-22-51 H 

317 Flight to Mars (71) Drama Mono 11-10-51 4- 

281 Flying Leathernecks (102) Drama RKO 7-28-51 + 

244 Follow the Sun (90) Drama 3-24-51 + 

245 Footlight Varieties (61) Musical RKO 3-31-51 it 

292 Force of Arms (100) Drama WB 8-25-51 it 

209For Heaven's Sake (92) Comedy 20th-Fox 12- 9-50 ff 

336 For Men Only (93) Drama LP 1-19-52 4 

314 Fort Defiance (81) Drama UA 11- 3-51 ff 

298 Fort Dodge Stampede (60) We

REVIEW DIGEST Very Good; t Good; - Fair; - Poor; = Very Poor. In the summory H is rated as 2 pluses, = as 2 

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1249 Half Angel (SO) Drama 20th-Fox 

1215 Halls of Montezuma (113) War-Dr. 20th-Fox 

1269 Happy Go Lovely (S8) Musical RKO 

1265 Hard, Fast and Beautiful (78) Drama RKO 

Harem Girl (..) Comedy Col 

1312 Harlem Globetrotters. The (SO) Drama... Col 

119S Harvey (104) Comedy U-l 

1303 Havana Rose (77) Drama Rep 

Hawk of the Wild River. The ( ..) Western. Col 

124S Heart of the Rockies (67) Western Rep 

1267 He Ran All the Way (77) Drama UA 

1276 Here Comes the Groom (114) Rom-Corn Para 

1336 Here Come the Nelsons (73) Comedy U-l 

1256 Her First Romance (73) Comedy Col 

1299 Highly Dangerous (SI) Drama LP 

120S Highway 301 (88) Drama WB 

1292 Highwayman, The (82) Drama Mono 

1297 Hills of Utah (70) Western Col 

1280 His Kind of Woman (120) Drama RKO 

1259 Hollywood Story (77) Mys-Dr U-l 

1259 Home Town Story (61) Drama MGM 

1320 Honeychile (89) Comedy Rep 

1319 Hong Kong (91) Drama Para: 

Hoodlum Empire (..) Drama Rep 

1270 Hoodlum. The (61) Drama UA 

1311 Hot Lead (61) Western RKO : 

1301 Hotel Sahara (87) Comedy UA 

1239 House on Telegraph Hill (93) Drama. 20th-Fox 

1216 Hunt the Man Down (^) Drama RKO : 

1277 Hurricane Isl.ind (72) Drama Col 

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1244 I Can Get It for You Wholesale 

I 

(91) Drama 20th-Fox 

1313 I Want You (102) Drama 

RKO : 

1246 I Was an American Spy (S5) Dr; 

. Mono 

1252 I Was a Communist for the FBI 

(84) Drama 

1223 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 

(88) Drama 20th-Fox 1 

1328 I'll Never Forget You (90) Drama. .20th- Fox 12 15-51 -f 

1327 I'll See You in My Dreams (110) Musical. WB 12 15-51 ff 

1261 In Old Amariilo (67) Western Rep 5 26-51 + 

1331 Indian Uprising (.,) Drama Col 1 

1237 Inside Straight (87) Drama MGM 3 

1260 Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison 

(87) Drama WB 5-19-51 ± 

1246 Insurance Investigator (60) Drama Rep 3-31-51 + 

Invitation, The ( ,) Drama MGM 

1276 Iron Man (82) Drama U-l 7- 7-51 ff 

1323 It's a Big Country (89) Drama MGM 12- 1-51 -f 

J 

1334 Japanese War Bride (91) Drama. 20th-Fox 

1269Jim Thorpe—All American (105) Drama. WB 

1298 Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (60) Drama. Mono 

I294Journey Into Light (88) Drama . .20th-Fox 

1258 Jungle Headliunters (65) Travel RKO 5 

1307 Jungle Manhunt (66) Drama Col 10 

1322 Jungle of Chang (67) Drama RKO 11 

1336 Just This Once (91) Comedy MGM 1 

K 

1250 Katie Did It (81) Comedy U-l 4-14-51 

Kentucky Jubilee (67) Comedy LP 

Kefauver Crime Investigation 

(52) News 20th-Fox 

1310 Kid From Amariilo, The (56) Western Col 10 

1210 Kim (113) Drama MGM 12 

1272 Kind Lady (7S) Drama MGM 

1247 Kon-Tiki (73) Adv-Dr RKO 

1222 Korea Patrol (57) Drama UA 

24-51 + 

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+ + 5+2- 

+ 7+4- 

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. U-l 1 

1285 Lady and the Bandit. The (79) Drama Col 

1302 Lady From Texas (78) Drama U-l 

1309 Lady Pays Off, The (SO) Drama 

Lady Possessed, A (..) Drama. 

, 

Rep 

: 

1326 Lady Says No. The (82) Comedy UA ] 

1250 Last Outpost. The (89) Outd'r-Drama. . Para 

1332 Las Vegas Story, The (SS) Drama RKO 

1312 Lavender Hill Mob, The (82) Comedy U-l 

127SLaw and the Lady (104) Comedy MGM 

Lawless Cowboys (58) Western Mono 

1220 Law of the Badlands (60) Western. RKO ) 

Leave It to the Marines (66) Comedy LP 

. 

1240 Lemon Drop Kid, The (91) Comedy Para 

1286 Let's Go Navy (68) Comedy Mono 

1312 Let's Make It Legal (77) Comedy. .20th-Fox : 

WB 

1230 Lightning Strikes Twice (91) Drama. 

1316 Light Touch, The (107) Drama MGM : 

1290Lilll Marlene (73) Drama RKO

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Feature productions by compony In order ot release. Number in square is notional release dote. Running 

time is in porentheses. Type of story is indicated by letters ond combinotions thereof as follows: (C) 

Comedy; (D) Drama; (CD) Comedy-Drama; (F) Fontosy; (M) Musical; (W) Western; (SW) Superwestern. 

Release number follows: u denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award Winner. Q denotes color photography. 

For review dates and Picture Guide page numbers, see Review Digest, 

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Waviie :Miiiri.4. I'le^lnn Foster, Dorothy Patrick 

Bononio Town (56) W..367 

©Mosk of the Avenger (83). .. . D . . 359 

.hilm Ileirk, Ami I l)iMiii .li.il v Lawrance 

. 368 

l 

Whistle otliton FoHsrThe (96) D. .322 

I.luvd Briiliies. HomjIIiv liisli, ('- Carpenter 

Never Trust a Gambler (79) D . . 326 51 Varieties on Parode (67) 

.lacki.. Han Clark. Cathy O'Donnell, Tom Drake 

Ciug.iii, All-Star Revue 

Pickup (78) D. .357 in; Lost Continent, The (82). 

Beverlv Midi :els. Himo 

Cyclone Fury (54) 

Nixon 

W . 

Haas, Allan Cesar Romeiu. Hillary Brooke Chiek Cliandle, 

Charles Si:nriit. Siiiilev Bumette, F. Sears 

Chain of Circumstances (68). . . .D. .309 

Itich.in Ci.n ...,,, Min: aret Field. 0. Fm\ley 

^Saturday's Hero (111) D. .401 

.luhn lienk hniiiu Keed. Sidney Blaekmer 

Lady and the Bondit, The (79). D. .337 

Loois llnnald. I'.llieia Medina. T. Tllllv 

©Sunny Side of the Street (71). M. 408 

Fraiika- lure'. Haniels. Terrv Jloore 

r.ill\ 

Magic Face, The (89) D 402 51 Leave It to the Marines (66) C 5005 

Sid Melton. Mara Lvnn 

I.lilher Adier. Palriria Knight. \\ h. Shirer 

Corky of Gasoline Alley (70) D. 302 BlAs You Were (57) C..5023 

Hills of Utah (70) W . 6 William Tracy. Joe S.iwyer 

©Magic Carpet, The (84) C. .410 

Lucille Ball. ,lohn Agar. Patricia Medina 

Criminal Lawyer (74) O. .412 EH Sky High (60) C 5024 

Pat O'Brien, .lane Wyatt, Jerome Cowan 

Sid Melton. Mara Lynn 

Mob, The (87) D. .407 

Brnderiek Ciaivford, Kilev 

Betty Buehler. R. 

Five (93) D. .371 

William I'liipps. Lee 

Susan Douglas, Earl 

Jungle Manhunt (66) D 41 

Kid From Amorillo, T he (56) .48 8 

©Barefoot Moilmon, The (83). C .404 

liimniiiij.. u Mniae, Courtland 

llhlieit Tet J. 

Harlem Globetrotters, The (80). C. 405 

TIemias i;nmr/. ILnlem lil trulters 

Son of Dr. Jskyll, The (77) ...D. 409 

Louis Hajnard. Jmh Laur^mee, A. Kuox 

Volley of Fire (63) W. .353 

Gene Aulry, Pat liuttram. Davis 

Gail 

LIPPERT 

V Al Jennings of Oklahoma (79) D. .327 

"M" (88) D. .347 

II, Hi, I Waiv. Ilimîril 11,'iSilva Ltithw .\dlcr 

My True Story (67) D. .308 

Wilhii.l I'.nln, llilcji Walker. K. Hisdim 

Flame of Stomboul (68) D. .314 

Fort Savage Raiders (54) W . . 365 alStop Thot Cob (56) C. .5014 

Richaid Iii-nning. l.i~a Fmailav 

Sid Melton. Iris Adrian. Marjorie Lord 

Texans Never Cry (68) W. .352 

.\iil i). Oene Pal liulliam. Castle 

Mary 

Sirocco (98) D. .348 Sj G.I. Jane (62) C..5012 

Iliimiihrev Bosart. Lee J. Cobb. Maria Toren 

©Hurricone Islond (72) D..349 

Two of a Kind (75) D . . 3S0 

Jean Porter. Tom .Neal. Iris Adrian 

a Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (53) 

All-Star Minstrel Show 

M 5019 

Kdmoii.l llHiien. U7.al)eth Scott. Terry Moore 

Gusher D..306 

Big (68) 

H! Highly Dangerous (81) D 5029 

Dane Margaret Lockuood. Gorin' M Clark, 

m Unknown World (63) D..5101 

Bruce Kellogg. Marilyn Kilian 

Nash. Victor 

S] FBI Girl (74) D . 5002 

Cesar liomern. Audrey Totter. George Brent 

q^ Superman and the Mole Men 

(58) D 5030 

George Reeves. Phyllis Coales 

M-G-M 

.. 1 1 

Jane Wym.oi, V.iii Johnson. Howard Keel 

51 Inside Straight (87) D. 123 

Barry David Kii.iii, Aihiie Dahl. 

H t:^©Royol Wedding (92) 

Sullivan 

M. 121 

Fred Ast.aire. Jane Pfiwell. Peter Lawford 

) Savage Drums (70) 

©Valentino (105) D..320 

Elp.iiiiir I'jiker, Dexter. li. .\nthoiiy 

©Santa Fe (89) 

Carlson 

W. .330 

Jerome KaiMinlpI) vSLdtt. .lanis Carter, 

Fury of the Congo (69) 

Courtland 

D. .329 

ini Q Father's Little Dividend (81)..C..124 

Sherry .Juhiiiiv Wfi.ssmuUer. 

Whirlwind (70) 

Miireland 

W. .354 a Danger one (56) D. .5017 

Spc-iieer 

a Soldiers 

Tracy, .In.in 

Three 

Bennett, 

(92) 

Elizabeth Taylor 

D..126 

Hugh Beaumont. Eduard Brophy. R. Travis 

S Pier 23 (59) D . . 501 

Waltei I'idgeiiii, Sleuart Granger. 

IIIO©Great Caruso, The (109) 

David Niven 

M..127 

.\iitry. Cviu' Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis 

Kirsten 

lliii;li neaiuli onl. .\nn Savage 

Marin l,iii/,i, .ViMi lIKih, Dniethy 

Brave Bulls, The (108) D..321 ^ Roaring ~City (57) D .. 501 a ©Painted Hills, The (68) 

125 

Hugh Iteaumimt. Richard Tr.avis 

Ann Do 

Las! 

Kelli 

Mel Ferrer. Mircislaia, .Anthnnv (juinn 

Her First Romance (73) C. .358 

II .\Iarcanl liii.n, All.ui Marlin Hunt 

jr.. J. 

©When the Redskins Rode (78) W. .339 •ra Kentucky Jubilee (67) C 5007 

Jerry Colonn.i. .le.in Pnrlei. Kllis.ai 

.Ion H.ill, M,.n Ij.li.', .lames Seay 

.lame^ 

Smuggler's Gold (64) D..315 

T|: Home Town Story (61) D..128 

.Marjorie Camel. .n Miteliili, Amanda Blake. C. B. Jleid 

Snake River Desperadoes (54) ..W.. 366 

Donalil 

S Go for 

Ciisp. .leffrry 

Broke! 

Lynn, 

(93) 

Reynolds 

D..129 

Van .liibnson. Warner .\nderson. L. Nak;ino 

Cliarie. Sr,;iivtl, .Snnliy Burnette, D. Keynolds 

©Lorno DoorTe (84) C. .336 

Barbara ll:ile. KicImmI Kandell 

Hon 

©Texas Rangers, 

Oreene, 

The (74) W..325 

W. .5003 (a Night Into Morning (86) D.,130 

Lloyd Bridges Ray Miltiiid, Ibuliak, .\ancv Davis 

i J Storm. N. (ie.irge 

China 

MnntS"mei\. liale 

Corsair (67) 

Beery jr. 

D..316 

ED No Questions Asked (81) D 132 

.\rleiie Dihl, Grcige 

S ©Excuse My Dust 

Mninln, 

(82) 

Sullivan 

M. .133 

.l.m l-enuiav. Ron Kandell 

Hall. l.Ha Harry 

Silver Canyon (70) W. .355 

Sabu. Lita Baron, Sid Melto 

Reil Ski'll.iit, S,dl,v Forrest. Macdonald Carey 

a Kind Lady (78) D..134 

Gene Antry, Ch;impion, Gail Davis 

Ethel M.iiiim.iie, Ma urice Eviuls. A. Lansbllry 

m Strictly Dishonorable (94) D..131 

Ezio riMz.i, .l.vncl Leigh. Millard Mitchell 

53 ©Show Boot (108) M..135 

A\a Kathrjii Gr.iyMUi. 

SLOW and the 

Howard 

Lady 

Keel. 

(104) 

Gaidner 

C. 136 

Greer Garson, Michael Wilding. Marjorie .M.iiii 

13 Teresa (105) D . . 1 37 

Pier Angeli. John Collinge 

Ericson, Patricia 

IS QRich, Young and Pretty (95). M. .138 

Jane Powell. Vic Damone. Danielle Darrieux 

@ Strip, The (85) D..140 

Mirt-rv Ronney, Sallv Forrest, Monica Lewis 

7 People Agoinst O'HoT^ (103) D 201 

S|i"iie,'i 'Irirv, ,h,hii ll,„li,,l. In, ill, Lvnn 

u Angels in the Outfield (102) D .202 

I'm! I kIi-, .laiiel Leigh. Keenan W\nn 

21 ©Mr. Imperium (87) M . 

l.aiia Tinner. Ezio Piiiza. Barrv Sullivan 

Red Bodge of Courage (69). . .204 

21' 

Audio Murphy, Bill Manldin. J. Dlerkes 

gl ©Texas Carnival (77) C..205 

Red Skclton. Esther Williams, Howard Keel 

51 Bonnerline (88) D..206 

Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore, K, Brassell 

ra Man With a Cloak (81) D..207 

Barbai SI 1 

L, Cai 

HI ©Across the Wide Mil SW. .208 

Clark (iaiile. John llodiak, M, E, .Marques 

MONOGRAM 

I- ga 

a Novy Bound (61) C. snStfuii 

Tom Neal. Regis Toomey, Wendy Waldron 

55] Man From Sonora (54) W..5141 

.liiluiii.v ,\l,iek Brown. Lyle Talbot, Lee Roberts 

18 Gypsy Fury (63) D..519J 

Viuri l.iiiillnrs. Christopher Kent, It. Brenl 

Ankrum 

B Canyon Raiders (54) W. .515 

Whip Wilson. F^zzy Knight. Phyllis Coates 

3E I was an American Spy (85). .D. .AA19> 

Ann Dvorak. Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy 

19 Ghost Chasers (69) C..5112! 

Boys 

H.ill, Giircey, lliii il/. l.iii Bowery 

a Blazing Bullets (51) W.. 514211; 

Johnnv .M.iek Binun. Lois Hall 

53; ©Cavalry Scout (78) W..5101 

.\ndrey Long. Rod Cameron. Jim Davis 

S According to Mrs. Hoyle (60) .. D. .51221 

Spring Byington, Tanis Chandler. Brett King 

g3 Nevada Badmen (58) W..5152 

Whip Wilsiin, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coales 

iCosa Monona (73) M..51U 

Robert Claike. Viiginia Carnes 

Welles. R 

Father Tokes the Air (61) C 5126 

Raymiiiiil W,illiiiiii, W.ille, c.itlell 

Desperado (51 ) W 5143 

Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall 

a Yukon Manhunt (63) 

D..5123 

Kiiby Grant, Chinook. Gail Davis 

51 Stagecoach Driver (52) W. .5153 

Whip Wi|..,ii 

a Let's Go Navy (68) C .5113 

Le.i licircev, lluiitz Hall. Tom Neal 

ST Tall Target, The (78) D .139 EH Okiohoma Justice (56) 

Johnny Mack Brown, James Dick Powell. Paula Raymond. Adolphe Menjou 

Ellis 

3; Wanted: Dead or Alive (58) . . W . 5154 

Whip Wilson. Andy Clyde 

m Joe Palooko in Triple Cross (60) D. 5118 

Joe Kirkwood. Cathy Downs. James Glea,son 

m Disc Jockey (77) M. .AA21 

Ginny Simms. Michael O'Sliea, Jane Nigh 

[D Whistling Hills (58) W. 5145 

Mack Brown. James Ellison 

Johnny 

B Yellow Fin (74) D, 5108 

Wayne Morris. Damian O'Flynn 

IS ©The Highwayman (82) D . 

j'li.nl, C. Pbiliii 

H Elephant 

Wiiula 

Stompede 

Hendri.x. 

(71 ) 

Coburn 

D .. 51 10 

Johniiv .-sl.riii.iil, lionna Martell. E. Bvanslon 

, 5223 

m Lawless Cowboys (58) W. .5155 

Whip Wilson 

©Flight to E] Mors (71) D..5103 

Marguerite (.'bapman. C.imeron Mitchell 

51 Crazy Over Horses (65) C.5114 

David Leo Guicey. lluutz Hall, 

SThe Longhorn (70) 

Gorrey 

W . 

Bill Elliott. Phyllis Coates, Myron Healev 

. 

j5i. 

©Ten Toll Men (97) D. .413 

Burl Lauraster. Jodv linvrance. G. 

©Man in the Saddle (87) 

Roland 

D. .420 

Kardoliih Sri.lt. .loan Leslie. Ellen Drew 

Purple Heart Diary (73) D..421 

Frames LiMiKford. Tunv Homano, Ben Lessv 

Family Secret, The (85) D. .414 

Lee Cobb. John Derek, Lawrance. 

J. J. 

Pecos River (55) W. .484 

Charles Slarrclt. Smiley F. Jenks 

Burnette. 

Boots Molone (103) D..419 

Williim Ibilden, .Ir.liiuiv Stewart. S. Clements 

©Indian Uprising (70) D..417 

la'i.iti MMiKomiri. .\uilrey B. Keid 

Long. C. 

Storm Over Tibet (87) D..416 

. 473 

. . . D. .423 

Iii.ioa linte/la^, Kev Iteason. M. He.iley 

Old West, The (61 ) W . 

Gene Aulrv. Gail Davis. Pat Buttram 

Smoky Canyon (55) W..483 

Charles Slarrell. Smili-y Burnette 

"The First Time (. .) C. . 

Robert Cummings. Barbara Hale. Mona Barrie 

Horem Girl (. .) C . 422 

,lni,i Davi, Arthur Blake 

Hawk of the Wild River (..)..W..482 

Charles Starreti. Smilev Bometie 

Deoth of a Salesman (113) . 

Frcdric March, Mildred Dunnock. C. Mitchell 

m Great Adventure, The (75). . . .D. .5021 

Dennis Price. Jack Hawkins 

as For Men Only (93) D .5102 

Paul Ilenreid. Margaret Field. R. Sherevm 

Man Bait (. .) D. 5103 

51! 

G gc' Breiil. Marguerite Chapman 

[B Navoio (70) Doc. .5104 

Apache Indian cast 

CO Light Touch, The (107) D. .212 

Ste"*art Granger, Pier Angeli. George Sanders 

53 Calling Bulldog Drummond (81).D..213 

W.alter Pidgcnn. Margaret Leightnn 

H. Keel 

a It's a Big Country (89) Doc. .215 

B'hel Barnmore. (Jaiv Conner Van Johnsnn 

iniWestword the Women (116) ..D. 216 

Poherl Taylor. Denize r.,,,ree|. Julie Bishop 

ill ©Pandora and *• Flying 

Dutchman (123) D. .217 

Gardner, Jam.-, Patrick 

Ava Mason. .Nigel 

m Invitation ( . . ) D . . 220 

I'orothv McGnire. Van Johnson. Ruth Rom'n 

iT Shadow in the Skv (78) D..221 

NiiuA Diiis, Kahili Meeker, James Wllitmore 

122: Lone Star (94) D. .222 

('lark Gable, Ava Gardner. Broderick Crawford 

HI Sellout, The (83) D..219 

Walter Pidgeon. Audrey Totter 

a Texas Lawmen (54) W .5146 

Johnnv Mack Brown. James Ellison 

a Northwest Territory (61) D, ,5124 

Kirhy Grant. Chinook 

(S6). W. .5156 

a steel Fist (73) D , . 521 

Riiddv McDowall, Kristine .MUler 

5J Texas City (..) W 5241 

.bibnnv Mack Brown, James Ellison 

S ©Aladdin and His Lamp (66). D. 5299 

Patricia .Medina, John Sands. Richard Krdraan 

a Night Raiders (52). . 

Wliip Wilson. Andy Clyde 

51 ©Fort Osage (72). . 

Rod Cameron. Jane Nigh 

m Waco ( . . ) 

Bill Elliott. Peggy Sti 

art 

W 5251 

W 5102 

W. .5224

. D 

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. 

. 

FEATURE 

CHART 

PARAMOUNT 

Redheod and the Cowboy (82) O..5015 

UleMii I'lHii, liliuiida Fleming, Alan Reed 

& Mating Seoson, The (101) C. .5016 

TIfrney, John Lund, Mlrlsm Hopkins 

Ocne 

©Somjon and Delilah (128) ... D. . 5010 

Victor Miture. lledy Laniarr. (ieorge Sanders 

Molly (83) C..5011 

(Uev. as Tlie fioldljergs) 

Gertrude Berj, rillllp Loeb 

©Quebec (85) O. .5017 

John Barrymore P. Knowles 

Corlnne Calvet. jr., 

Lemon Drop Kid, The (91) C. .5018 

Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan 

RKO 

RADIO 

[3 Payment on Demand (90) D. .171 

Bette Davis. Bîrry Sullivan, Kent Taylor 

iTorion's Peril (79) D..172 

Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George IMacrcady 

a Soddle Legion (60) W..117 

Tim llnll, lioinlhv Malnue. Martin 

Richard 

an Footlight Varieties (61) M..116 

Jack Paar. licil Hullnns. Leon Errol 

m My Forbidden Past (70) D. .114 

Ava Gardner, Melvyn Dougla.s, Robert MItchum 

REPUBLIC 

. 5042 

Q] Silver City Bonanza (67) W. .5051 

Hex Allen. Buddv Ebsen. Mary Ellen Kav 

m Cuban Fireball (78) MC . . 5007 

Douglas 

K^tellla Kodrigiiez, Warren 

m ©Oh! Susanna (90) D. .5008 

Ko.l Cameron. Adrian Tucker 

Biiiith, Forrest 

13 Insurance Investigator (60) , . . . D . . 5026 

Kieiiard Denning. Audrey Long. 

gS Heart of the Rockies (67) 

Hillary 

W . 

Brooke 

Roy Rogers. Penny Edwards, Gordon Jonei 

m Thunder in God's Country (67). W. .5052 

Rex Allen, Mary Ellen K«y, Buddy Elisen 

. . 

20TH CENTURY-FOX 

e Sword of Monte Cristo (80) . D . . 106 

Gfciij:? .Mi.riluiimcry. Berry Kroeger. P. Corday 

Lucky Nick Coin (87) D..108 

llniri:.- It^.fi. fnleen llray. Charles Goblncr 

©Bird of Porodcse (100) D..109 

Louis Jouriian. Debra I'aget, Jeff 

Of Men and Music (85) 

Chandler 

M..137 

Artiir Rubinstein. Jan Peerce. Jascha ilelfetz 

Kefouver Crime Invest. (52) . . . . D. . 138 

You're in the Novy Now (93) . . .C. . 110 

(Rev. as US Teakettle) Gary Cooper 

S. 

Can Get It for You 

I 

Wholesole (91) 

D..111 

Daiky, Susan Sanders 

Dun Hayward, G. 

14 Hours (91) D..114 

Paul Douglas. Richard Bnschart. B. Bel Oeddes 

Appointment With Danger (90) D..5019 

Alan Ladd, Jan Sterling. Phyllis Calvert 

©Lost Outpost, The (89) O 

. . 5020 

Iloniild Ileagan. Ithondu Klenlng. Peter Hanson 

Dear Brat (82) D. .5021 

Mona Kreeman. Edward Arnold. Billy lieVVolte 

Trio (92) D..5030 

Jan Simmons, MlcJiael Uennle. Anne Crawford 

©Passage West (80) W. .5022 

John Payne. Arleen Whclan. Dennis OKeefe 

Big Carnival, The (112) D..S023 

(Rev. as Ace In the Hole) 

Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall 

Peking Express (85) D. .5024 

Joseph Colten. Corlnne Calvet, Edmund Owenn 

Thot's My Boy (98) C. .5026 

Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Hussey 

Ruth 

©Woipoth (95) D. .5025 

Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker 

Here Comes the Groom (114). .C. .5101 

Bine Crosby, Jane Wyman, Franchot Tone 

Place In the Sun, A (122) D..5102 

Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor 

Rhubarb (94) C. .5103 

Ray .Mllland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart 

(U Tokyo File 212 (84) D, .175 

Florence Marly. Robert Peyton. K. Hnliln 

S Kon-TikI (73) 

D..173 

Thor Heyerdahl, Knut Haugland 

H Sealed Cargo (90) D..118 

Dana Andrews, Claude Rains, Cirla Balenda 

@ ©Jungle Heodhunters (65) D..177 

Lewis Cotlow, All Native Cast 

) Hard, Fast and Beautiful (78).. D. 119 

Claire Trevor. Sally Forrest, Carleton Yotmg 

U U©Alice in Wonderland (75). . D. .291 

(Walt Disney cartoon) 

Lilli Morlene (73) D. .203 

Lisa Danlely. Hugh McDermott, J. Blytbe 

[ij] Flying Leathernecks (102) D..261 [ilThis Is Koreo (50) Doc. 5127 

Jiihn Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter 

Roadblock (73) D. .204 

Charles McGraw, Gllmore 

Joan Dixon, Lowell 

Pistol Horvest (60) W..205 

.W. .5062 

Tim Holt. Joan Dixon, Richard Martin 

APail "Rocky" Lane. Mary Ellen Kay 

. i 

. 

1 

6 

FEATURE 

CHART 

UNITED ARTISTS ^ jj 

m Blue Lomp, The (84) 0. .016 

.l;ick Warner, .linimy Hanlcy. Dirk Bogarde 

S) Naughty Arlette (86) C. .226 

[H My Outlaw Brother (82) D..209 

(Urn. as .=\Iy Brother, the Outlaw) 

il Second Woman, The (91) D..639 

Hobert Young, Betsy Drake. John Sutton 

H Circle of Danger (86) D. .207 

Kav Milland, Patricia Koc, Marlus 

B So Long ot the Foir (85) 

Goring 

P.. 270 

(U Bodman's Gold (56) W..262 

ill Scarf, The (86) D. .644 

m Long Dork Hall, The (86) D. .214 

K« Harrison. Lilli Palmer, Tania Held 

When I Grow Up (90) 0.215 

Riiliby Driscoll. Robert Preston. M. Scott 

Skipalong Rosenbloom (72) . . . . W .213 

Max Posenbloom. Max Baer, Jackie Coogan 

HH Oliver Twist (105) D..216 

gjIMan From Planet X (70) P.. 647 

m Try and Get Me (92) D. .643 

(Kev. as Sound of Fury) Lovejoy 

Frank 

m First Legion, The (86) D. .648 

Charles Boyer. Lyle Bettger. Leo 0. Carroll 

H Odette (105) D. .652 

Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring 

. 

UNIVERSAL-INT'L 

Abbott and Costello Meet the 

Invisible Man (82) C.,116 

Bud Abbott. Lou Costello, Nancy Guild 

Groom Wore Spurs, The (81) C. .114 

Ginger Rogers, Joan Davis, Jack Carson 

Air Codet (94) CP..115 

Stephen McNally. Alex Nicol, Gail Russell 

Up Front (92) C.llS 

David Wayne. Tom Ewell, Marina Berti 

©Double Crossbones (75) MC..119 

Donald O'Connor. Helena Carter, Will Geer 

Ma and Pa Kettle Back 

on the Form (80) C,,117 

Marjorie Main, Percy ICllbride, Meg Randall 

Fat Man, The (77) P., 120 

J. Scott Smart. Rock Hudson, Julie London 

Katie Pid It (81) C..122 

Ann Blyth. Mark Stevens. Cecil Kellaway 

©Smuggler's Island (75) P.. 121 

Jeff Chandler. Evelyn Keyes. Philip Friend 

WARNER BROS. 

a ©Sugarfoot (80) WD. 01 

Randolph Scott. Adele Jergens, Raymond Massei 

31 Lightning Strikes Twice (91), . . .0. .019 

Ifuth Roman. Richard Todd. M. McCambridge 

©Lullaby 

il of Broadway (92).... »« 

Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S. Z. Sakall 

a Raton Pass (84) W. .021 

Dennis Morgan, Patricia Cochran 

Neal, Steve 

ill Only the Valiant (105) SW. .022 

Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond 

[U I Was a Communist for the 

FBI (83) P.. 023 

Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Phillip Carey 

SI Goodbye, My Foncy (107) C. .024 

Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Lovejoy 

Frank 

MISCELLANEOUS 

ASTOR 

Border Fence (60) P.. 8-15-51 

Walt Wayne, Lee Morgan 

Men of the Sea (70) P, . 6- 1-11 

Roger Llvesy. Margaret Lockwood 

REALART 

Basketball Fix, The (70). . . .P. Sept.-SI 

John Ireland, Vanessa Brown 

Bride of the Gorilla (68) P, .Nov.-51 

Lon Chaney Barbara Payton 

jr., 

Bushwockers, The (70) W..0ct.-51 

John Ireland. Dorothy Malone 

Two-Pollor Bettor (72) D. .Sept.-51 

Jolm Litel. Marie Windsor 

WESTERN ADVENTURE 

King of the Bullwhip (59) W. . 2-1-51 

Laab L&Rue, Fuzzy St. JohD, Anne Gnynne 

REISSUES 

Prowler, The (92) D . . 6S0 

Van Heflin. Evelyn Keycs. John Maxwell 

HI Fobiola (96) P.. 651 

Michple Morgan, Henri Vldal, Michel Simon 

H Man With My Face, The (75). . .P. .659 

C. Barry Nelson. Lynn Ainley, Matthews 

Three Steps North (85) P. .657 

Lloyd Bridges. Lea Padovani, Fabrizi 

Aldo 

©Apache Prums (75) W..123 

Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, WiUard Parker 

Hollywood Story (77) 0. .124 

Richard Conte, Henry Hull, Julia Adams 

[g Along the Great Pivide (88). .SW. .025 

Kirk Douglas. Virginia Mayo, John Agar 

m Inside the Walls of Folsom 

Prison (87) P . . 026 

Steve Cochran, David Carey 

Brian, Philip 

ID Queen for a Day (107) P. .( 

Phyllis Avery, Darren McOavin 

m He Ron All the Way (77) P . 

John Garfield. Shelley Winters, W. Ford 

Cyrano de Bergeroc (113) P..i 

Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, 

m Hoodlum, The (61) 

Prince 

P. 

William 

Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts. L. Golm 

m Pardon My French (81) C.1402 

P. Paul Henreld, Merle flberon. 

m Four in o Jeep (97) 

Bonlfas 

P . 1 1 39 

Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker, M, Medwin 

S§©New Mexico (74) P, .649 

Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine 

@ St. Benny, the Pip (80) C, .658 

Dick Haymes, Nina Foch. Roland Young 

gl Two Gals and a Guy (70) C, .654 

Janis Paige. Rnbert Alda. James Oleason 

1 Obsessed (77) P. 1188 

David Farrar, Geraldine Culver 

Fitzgerald, 

SGold Roiders (56) 

li. 

W.1172 

George O'Brien. Sheila Talbot 

Ryan. L. 

9 Mister Prake's Puck (76) C. .655 

jr., Douglaa Fairbanks Yolande Donlan 

Hotel Soharo (87) P. 1143 

Yvonne DeCarlo. Peter Culver 

Ustinov, R. 

0Mr. Peek-a-Boo (74) C.1146 

Joan Greenwood. Marcel Treville 

Arnold, R, 

Francis Goes to the Races (88). .C. .125 

Donald O'Connor. Piper Laurie 

©Prince Who Wos a Thief (88). P. .126 

Tony Curtis. Piper Laurie. Cecil Kellaway 

Comin' Round the Mountain (77) C. .127 

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. Dorothy Shay 

Iron Man (82) P. .130 

Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally 

©Mark of the Renegade (81). . . P. . 129 

Ricardo Monlalban, Cyd Charisse, C. Naish 

J. 

©Cattle Drive (77) W..128 

Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Leon Ames 

©Little Egypt (82) CD,. 131 

Rhonda Fleming, Mark Stevens, Nancy Guild 

You Never Can Tell (78) P,,132 

Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Cliarles Drake 

Thunder on the Hill (84) P.. 133 

Claudette Colbert. Ann Blyth. Douglas 

R. 

©Lady From Texas (78) P.. 136 

Howard Duff, Mona Freeman, J. Hull 

Reunion in Reno (80) C. .135 

Mark Stevens. Peggv Dow, G. Perreau 

©Golden Horde, The (76) P.. 134 

David Farrar, Ann Blyth, G, Macready 

S Strangers on a Train (101). .. .P. .027 

Farley Granger. Ruth Roman. Robert Walker 

l©Fort Worth (80) SW..02S 

Randolph Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter 

!©0n Moonlight Boy (95) M..029 

Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Jack Smith 

]B 0©Captain Horatio Hornblower 

(117) P 

Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, R. Beatty 

m Force of Arms (100) P. .102 

William Holden. Nancy Olson. Frank Lovejoy 

g^ Tomorrow Is Another Pay (90).. P.. 103 

Ruth Roman. Steve Cochran. L Tuttle 

@ A Streetcar Named Pesire (122). P. .104 

Vivien Leigh. Marlon Brando. KIro Hunter 

II] ©Painting the Clouds With 

Sunshine (87) M..105 

Dennis Morgan, Virginia M.ayo, S. Z. Sakall 

i Come Fill the Cup (113) P.. 106 

James Cagney. James Gleason, Massey 

R. 

H Tom Brown's School Days (93). W 1148 

John Howard Davies. Robert Newton 

g] ©Fort Defiance (81) P. 1147 

">ane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves 

Lady Pays Off, The (80) P. .202 

Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally. Perreau 

G. 

Raging Tide, The (94) P. .203 

Shelley Winters. Richard Conte, BIckford 

C. 

©Cove of Outlaws (76) P. .201 

Alexis Smith. Macdonald Clarey, Victor Jory 

[S Close to My Heart (90) P. .107 

Ray ftlllland. Gene Tierney, Fay Bainter 

SI Tanks Are Coming, The (90). . . P. .108 

Steve Cochran. Marl Aldon, Philip Carey 

a VChristmos Corol, A (86) P. 1149 

Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, J. Warner 

[B Big Night, The (75) D. 

John Barrymore jr., Preston Foster, J. Loring 

Strange Poor, The (80) P. .204 

Charles Laughton. Boris Karloff. Forrest 

S. 

Weekend With Father (83) C . . 206 

V.m Heflin. Patricia Neal, Glgl Perreau 

a Lady Soys No, The (82) C.1150 

J. R. "lan raulfield. 

H Chicago 

David 

Calling 

Niven. 

(74) 

Justice 

0.1152 

lan Duryea, Mary Anderson. Elliott 

R. 

SI Another Man's Poison (89) P. 11 54 

Bette Daris. Gary Merrill, E. Williams 

Bright Victory (97) P, .208 

Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Bryant 

Dow. Nana 

©Flame of Aroby (77) P.. 207 

Maureen d'Hara. Jeff Chandler. Chaney 

Lon 

©Cimarron Kid, The (84) P. .213 

Audie Murphy. Beverly Tyler, Yvette Dugav 

Finders Keepers (75) C, , 21 

Tom Ewell, Julia Adams, Evelyn Varden 

il©Pistant Drums (101)...; P. .111 

Gary Cooper. .Marl Aldon. Richard Webb 

m I'll See You in My Preoms 

(110) M. .112 

Doris Day. Lovejoy 

Danny Thomas. Frank 

ID Room for One More (95) C. .113 

Cary Gnint, Betsy Drake, Iris Mann 

m ©River, The (99) P , 

Arthur Shields, Nora Swinhurne. Tommy Bree 

3ne Big Affair (. .) P. . 

Ivil.Mi M. 

H Green 

Kevis, 

Glove, 

Dennis 

The 

O'Keefe, 

(,.) 

Anderson 

P., 

(ilinn Foril. Geraldine Broks. Andre 

Gaby 

Tomahowk Territory (. .) W. . 

Clayton Moore, Thundercloud, Yowlachic 

©Bend of the River (..) P.. 

James St.u.nl. Kimi.dy. Julia .\dams 

.\rlliur 

Meet Danny Wilson (88) C. .205 

Frank Siii;iliM, shcllcv Winlcr^. Alex Nleol 

Here Come the Nelsons (73) . . .C . .210 

0-zzie Nelson. Harriet Hilliard and family 

S Retreat, Hell! ( . . ) P 

Frank Lovejoy, Anita Louise, R. Carlson 

II This Woman Is Pangerous (..).. P . . 

Joan Crawford, fiennis Morgan, David Brian

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SHORTS CHART 

NAME BAND MUSICALS 

f'309 Siiortsmeii and Ziooy 

Elnian's Orcli. (15).. 6-13-51+ 5-12 

6310Teies,-i Brevier .mil Firelioiise 

Five Plus Two(15)6-27-51 + 6-30 

1951-52 SEASON 

7301 Tniiiniy Dorsey and His 

Orcliettra (15) H- 7-51 ± 11-10 

7^0? Woody Herman's Varieties 

(15) 12- 5-51 + 11-17 

7303 Nat King Cole and the Joe 

Adams Orch. (15). .1- 9-52 

7304 Dick Stabile and His Orch. 

(15) 1-30-52 

TWO-REEL SPECIALS 

6?n2 Arnold the Benedict 

(18) 8- 8-51 ± 7-14 


7?fll Daniier Under the Sea 

(161/2) 12-10-51 ++ 11-10 

TECHNICOLOR CARTUNES 

(Reissues) 

6329 Jiinulc Jive (7) 6-18-51 -f 6-23 

6330 Who's Cookiii' Who? (7). 7-16-51 

6331 Pied Piper of Basin Street 

(7) 8-20-51 

6332 100 Pyomies and Andy 

Panda (7) 9-17-51 

6333 The Fox and tlie Rabbit 

(7) 10-15-51 


7321 Loose Nut (7) 10-24-51 + 12-8 

7322 Abon Ben Boooie (7) . .11-19-51 ± 12- 8 

7323 Painter and Pointer 

(7) 12-12-51 ff 12- 8 

7324 Balhino Buddies (..).. 1-7-52 

7325 Sliphorn King of Polaroo 

2- 4-52 

7326 Crow Crazy ( ) 3- 3-52 . 

3-31-52 

7328 Poet and Peasant ( ) 4-28-52 

VARIETY VIEWS 

6346 Clubby Cub (9) 6-18-51 -H 5-12 

6347 Romeo Land (9) 8- 6-51 + 7-21 

6348 f/lonkey island (9) 9-10-51 ± 7-14 


7341 Italian Interlude (9) .11- 5-51 ± 12- 8 

7342 Brooklyn Goes South (9) 1-21-52 

7343 Sail Hoi (9) 2-25-52 

7344 Rhythm on the Reef (9) 4-14-52 , 

. 

WOODY WOODPECKER CARTUNES 

(Technicolor) 

6354 Sling Shot eî (7) 7-23-51 + 6-30 

6355 Redwood Sap (7) 10- 1-51 ± 9-15 

6356 Woody Woodpecker Polka 

(7) 10-29-51 + 9-15 


7351 Destination Meatball 

(7) 12-24-51 + 11-10 

7352 Little Monster (..) 2-25-52 

Warner Bros. 

Plod. No. Title Rel. Date Rating Rev'd 

BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE 

(Technicolor Reissues) 

7311 Stagefriglit (7) 6-23-51 

7312Sioiix Me (7) 7-21-51 

7313 The Stupid Cupid (7).. 9-1-51 


8301 lloliilay for Shoestrings 

(7) 9-15-51 

8302 Lady in Red (7) 10-13-51 

8303 Sniffles and Bookworm 

(7) 11-10-51 

8304 Goldilocks Jivin' Bears 

(7) 12- 1-51 

Thee 1-12-52 

8305 Of I Sing (7) 

BUGS BUNNY SPECIALS 

(Technicolor) 

7725 French Rarebit (7) 6-30-51 

7726 His Hare Raising Tale 

(7) 8-11-51 +9-8 


8723 Ballot Box Bunny (7). 10- 6-51 ff 11-24 

8724 Big Top Bunny (7) 12- 1-51 -H- 1-19 

S725 0|ieiation Rabhit (7)... 1-19-52 

FEATURETTES 

7106 Law of the Badlands (20) 8- 4-51 


8101 The Knife Thrower (20) 9-29-51 ff 10-20 

8102 A Laugh a Day (20) . .11-24-51 ff 1-19 

8103 I Won't Play (20) 12-29-51 

HIT 

PARADE OF GAY NINETIES 

7«n6 Musical Memories (9).. 6-30-51 

7803 The Naughty 20s (..). 8-18-51 

lOE McDOAEES COMEDIES 

7485 So You Want to Be a 

Paperhaiiger (10) 6- 2-51 + 7-14 

7486 So You Want to Buy a 

Used Car (10) 7-28-51 ±9-8 



Bachelor (10) 9-22-51 + 11-10 


Plumber (10) 11-10-51 

8403 So You Want to Get It 

Wholesale (..) 1-12-52 

MELODY MASTERS BAND 


5S01 U.S. Army Band (10) . .10-13-51 + 12- 1 

""rij Jan Garber and Orch. 

;io) 

n-17-51 

MERRIE MELODIES 

(Color) 

7712 Hound for Trouble (7).. 4-28-51 + 

7713 Early to Bet (7) 5-12-51 ff 

7714 Room and Bird (7) 6- 2-51 + 

7715 Cliow Hound (7) 6-16-51 + 

7716 Wearing of the Grin (7) 7-14-51 

7717 Leghorn Swoggled (7) . . 7-28-51 ff 

7718 Cheese Chasers (7) 8-25-51 + 


8701 Lovelorn Leghorn (7) . . . 9- 8-51 ff 

8702 Tweety's S.O.S. (7) 9-22-51 ff 

8703 A Bear for Punishment 

(7) 10-20-51 

8704 Sleepy Time Possum (7). 11- 3-51 + 

8705 Drip-Along Daffy (7) .11-17-51 ff 

8706 Tweet Tweet Tweety (7). 12-15-51 

8707 The Prize Pest (7) 12-22-51 

8708 Who's Kitten Who (7) 1- 5-52 

SPORTS PARADE 

(Technicolor) 

7507 Hawaiian Sports (10).. 5-12-51 + 

7508 Birds and Beasts Were 

Tliere (10) 6-16-51 7509 Making Mourrties (10).. 7-14-51 + 

7510 Kings of the Outdoors 

(10) 8-18-51 


8501 Art of Archery (10) . . 10- 6-51 8502 Cowboy's Holiday (10) . 11- 3-51 ± 

8503 Every Dog Has His Day 

(10) 12-22-51 

TECHNICOLOR SPECIALS 

7006 Stranger in the 

Lrghlhouse (20) 

7007 Sorrs ol the Plains 

5- 5-51 ff 

(19) 6- 9-51 + 

7008 Enchanted Islands (20). 8- 4-51 ff 


8001 Wirrter Wonders (20)... 9- 8-51 8002 Ride. Cowboy, Ride (20) .10-27-51 + 

8003 Lincoln in the White 

House (20) 12- 8-51 ff 

8004 Land of the Trembling 

Earth ( .) 1-26-52 

VITAPHONE NOVELTIES 

7607 World of Kids (10) 6-23-51 + 

7608 Disaster Fighters (10).. 8-11-51 ff 


8601 To Bee or Not to Bee 

(10) 9-15-51 ± 

8602 Lighter Than Air (10) .. 10-20-51 

3603 Stop! Look and Laugh 

(10) 10-20-51 + 

MISCELLANEOUS 

11-10 

11-24 

Prod. No. Title Rel. Date Rating Rev'd 

Monogram 

LITTLE RASCALS 

(Reissues) 

ChooChoo (.,) 10-28-51 

Bargain Day (..) 11-11-51 

Fly My Kite (, .) 11-25-51 

Shiver My Timbers (. .).12- 9-51 

Snanky (. ,) 12-23-51 

Male and Female (..). .11-11-51 

Hide and Shriek (. .). ..11-25-51 

Roamin' Holiday (..).. 12- 9-51 

Framing Youth (. .) 12-23-51 

Second Childhood (20) . . 1- 6-52 

Pigskin Palooka (10). . . 1- 6-52 

Shrimps for a Day (20) 1-20-52 

Three Men in a Tub (10) 1-20-52 

Fish Hooky ( .) 2- 3-52 

Came the Brawn (..).. 2- 3-52 

Sprucin' Up (. ,) 2-17-52 

Feed 'Em and Weep ( .) 2-17-52 

Republic 

SERIALS 

5083 Perils of the Darkest 

Jungle 6- 9-51 

12 Chapters (reissue) 

5084 Don Daredevil Rides Again 

12 Chapters 

5181 Goernment Agents vs. 

Phantom Legion 7-14-51 

12 Chanters 

5182 Pirates' Harbor 9-26-51 

15 Chapters 

THIS WORLD OF OURS 

. 

(Trucolor) 

5074 England (9) 4-15-51 

5075 Hawaii (9) 5-15-51 

5076 Greece (9) 6-15-51 


5085 Belgium (9) 7-15-51 

5086 Switzerland (9) 9- 1-51 .... 

5087 Italy (9) 11- 1-51 

i08S Egypt (9) 12-15-51 

Independents 

Salzburg Fiesta (I21/2) Hoffberj +5-5 

The Beautiful Blue Danube 

(121/2) Hoffberg 5-5 

Polkas (121/2) Hoffberg + 5-5 

United Natrorrs Screen Magazine 

No. 5 (10) UN + 5-12 

United Nations Screen Magazine 

No. 6 (10) UN + 5-12 

United Nations Screen Magazine 

No. 8 (10) UN + 5-12 

Yeats—A Tribute 

W. B. 

(24) Brandon Films ff 6- 9 

231 (10) Pathe Cin + 11-10 

Pacific 

SHORTS REVIEWS 

HolitdaY Land 

Columbia (Color Favoiites) 7 Mins. 

Fair. Originally released in 1934, 

this early color cartoon has a clever 

idea, which has been done to death 

in more recent cartoons. Also, the 

color is rather pale and lacking in 

sharpness. A little boy falls asleep 

and, in his slumbers, is treated to a 

veritable parade of holidays. Christmas, 

New Year's, Easter, etc., each 

I'.ave their ov/n ceremonies. 

Micinight Blunders 

Columbia 18 Mins. 

(Comedy Favorites) 

Fair. A reprint of a comedy in the 

series which starred Tom Kennedy 

and Monte Collins and -was only 

mildly amusing v/hen it viras first 

shown. The pair are special policemen 

assigned to guarding a bank at 

night- While Tom bemoans that 

'nothing ever happens," crooks proceed 

to clean out the vaults. A 

wooden-legged crook and a mechanical 

monster, whose wires go out of 

control, are also involved in the 

ridiculous doings. 

Holl'ywood Goes Western 

Columbia 

9 Mins. 

(Screen Snapshots) 

Fair. Moviegoers expect to see their 

favorites in off-screen moments in 

this series but the current issue is 

more of a plug for Gene Autry's 

rodeo show. The occasion is the third 

annual Sheriff's Rodeo in Los Angeles 

and Gene is shown putting on 

some stunts with his horse. Champion. 

Randolph Scott, Chill Wills 

and Lucille Norman, who was rodeo 

queen, ore the only other film stars 

snown. Monte Montana, trick rider 

and roper, goes through a few stunts. 

So You Want to Be a Plumber 

(Joe McDoakes Comedy) 

Warner Bros. 10 Mins. 

Fair. Scorning the services of a 

plumber, Joe "Behind the 8 Ball" Mc- 

Doakes tries to repair his leaky cellar 

pipes, assisted by his pal Marvin. 

As a result, they are locked in 

a flooded basement, but are saved 

from drowning by a trap door in 

the cellar floor. All the water goes 

down the drain and so does Joe. 

Later he crawls out of a sewer, still 

insisting he doesn't need a plumber. 

The humor is a bit watered-down in 

this one. 

Latuko 

American Museum of 

Natural History 

SO Mins. 

(African Documentary) 

Good. In selected situations, principally 

the so-called "art houses," 

this photographic record of an African 

safari, sponsored by the American 

Museum of Natural History, has 

undeniable entertainment and exploitation 

value. The Technicolor 

photography and on-the-spot sound 

track are excellent, and the well-integrated 

sequences in which unclad 

natives of both sexes appear to contribute 

to the aura of stark authenticity. 

However, these scenes and 

other gory interludes dealing with 

tribal cultures may adversely affect 

the squeamish among picture-goers, 

and hence mitigate against general 

bookings. The film v/as made under 

the supervision of Edgar M. Queeny, 

of the museum, and distribution arrangements 

have not yet been set. 

It had a recent test run in St. Louis 

and was due to open January 18 for 

a Los Angeles first run engagement. 


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26, 1952

Opinions on Current Productions; Exploitips 

mymn 'AEmmi) 

(FOR STORY SYNOPSIS ON EACH PICTURE, SEE REVERSE SIDE) 

Bend of the River F Xrr; 

Univ.-Intl (212) 91 Minutes Hel. Mar. '52 

It's been a long time since filmmakers have offered lovers 

of action fare a better western than this king-size sagebrusher. 

Not only does it have everything dear to the hearts 

of the galloper devotees—and in generous quantities—but as 

straight, gripping drama there is enough to make it satisfactorily 

salable to spectators who are indifferent about 

six-gun celluloid. As to producer, director and star, it is the 

same trio responsible for the money-grabbing "Winchester 

73," a fact not to be overlooked in merchandising. Herein 

they boat their earlier effort by a wide margin. Lightningpaced, 

suspenseful and exciting every inch of the way, the 

solidly constructed screenplay doesn't permit a single dull 

moment. Unstinting production values, eye-filling Technicolor 

photography of the breathtaking Oregon backgrounds, 

skillful direction by Anthony Mann and sterling performances 

also contribute to a sure hit Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. 

lames Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julia Adams, Rock Hudson, 

Invitation 

Lori Nelson, Jay C. Flippen, Slepin Fetchit. 

F 

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MGM (220) 85 Minutes Rel. Feb. 1, '52 

Let the cynical term this a soap opera and/or a tear 

jerker—and that's what they probably will do—it nonetheless 

is entertainment first-class for the masses, with a special 

appeal to the femme ticket buyers. And that, after all, is the 

fundamental reason for which pictures are made. The film 

should enjoy plenty of patronage after favorable word-ofmouth 

boosting from those who initially see it. Because of 

the subject ma'ter, the yarn very easily could have gotten 

a bit sticky. But a competent cast and the expert, sensitive 

direction of Gottfried Reinhardt stymied such possibilities, 

with the result that performances throughout are excellent, 

dialog and situations entirely believable. Producer Lawrence 

Weingarten mounted the vehicle with the lushness indicated 

by the high social estate of the picture's character. Accorded 

the exploitation that story and cast can provide, the 

feature should score solidly. 

Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman. Louis Calhern, 

Ray Collins, Michael Chekhov, Lisa Golm, Matt Moore. 

Fort Osage 

Monogram (5102) 

72 Minutes 

F 

Western 

(Cinecolor) 

Rel. Feb. 10, '52 

Cast and color photography—Cinecolor, that is—elevate 

this several notches above the program western, which, 

combined with its running time, makes it a booking endowed 

with unusual versatility. It is sufficiently hefty entertainmentwise 

to go topside in most situations and is compact 

enough to be used as supporting fare where indicated. In 

either niche it should prove an audience pleaser and the 

film's obvious exploitation values— title, cast and color—can 

be profitably utilized in merchandising the show. Shrewdly 

produced by Walter Mirisch, the photoplay reflects an air of 

opulence which transcends its budgetary limitations. The 

story, although it has all of the wanted sagebrush ingredients, 

possesses an original jacket, and, entrusted to a 

capable cast and the experienced direction of Leslie Selander, 

emerges as a first-rate actioner 

Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy, 

John Ridgely, William Phipps. Stan Jolley. 

Red Skies of Montana 

F 

Drama 

(Tachnicolor) 

20th-Fox (207) 99 Minutes Rel. Feb. '52 

Exciting, engrossing and startlingly informative is this saga 

of a little-known group of Uncle Sam's heroes, the men of the 

forestry service who fight fires in the national parks. Filmed 

in Technicolor on Montana locations, the picture is superlatively 

spectacular, with nature itself supplying the magnitude 

of its production values. The forest fires, whether they 

were genuine or staged, are so realistic that they will have 

spectators sweating them out on the edges of their seats. 

Knitting together the documentary facets is a formula, heelor-hero? 

type of yarn which adds materially to the action 

and suspense albeit some of its situations are contrived. 

Performances are sincerely good, but it is the production of 

Samuel G. Engel and direction by Joseph M. Newman that 

endow the feature with its scope and greatness. The spectacle 

and unusual subject matter are naturals for effective 

exploitation, 

Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jelfrey Hunter, Richard 

Boone, Warren Stevens, James Griffith, Joe Sawyer. 

The First Time 

Columbia (424) 

F 

89 Minutes ReL Feb. '52 

The comic trials and tribulations of a young couple with 

their first baby make amusing fare for average audiences, 

particularly in family houses. Robert Cummings and Barbara 

Hale supply the marquee value and are attractive and 

believable as the new parents and the supporting cast contributes 

two expert portrayals, Cora Witherspoon, as a tyrannical 

baby nurse, and Mona Barrie, who returns to the 

screen to play a glamor-girl grandmother. Most of the 

footage is devoted to hospital scenes, nurses, baby sitters, 

formulas, etc., but it has all been treated in a light-hearted 

fashion by Director Frank Tashlin, who also collaborated on 

the screenplay. One scene, a demonstration of a washing 

machine that goes berserk, is straight out of the old Mack 

Bennett slapstick comedies but it will get plenty of laughs, 

except from the more sophisticated patrons. 

Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale, Bill Goodwin, Jeff Donell, 

Mona Barrie, Cora Witherspoon, Kathleen Comegys. 

Harem Girl 

Columbia (422) 

F 

70 Minute Rel. Feb. '52 

Ever since "The Sheik" there have been horse-and-camel 

operas with transparently costumed harem dancing girls and 

white-robed desert Romeos whose tents were lusher than 

penthouse apartments. These sand sagas have been the 

victims of spoofing before, but not with the Joan Davis 

technique. Joan romps through this with her usual aplomb 

and the story has enough of the never-never quality to keep 

it from disturbing any of the delicate international relations 

in the Near East. Besides, there is a Graustarkian lack of 

identification of the locale of the picture. Not only will Joan 

Davis fans enjoy this programmer but wherever light comedy 

with a touch of slapstick is enjoyed, this should be welcomed 

at the boxoffice. It has exploitable angles ranging from 

veiled women to museum lobby displays or to a camel parade 

from the local zoo. Edward Bernds directed. 

Joan Davis, Peggie Castle, Arthur Blake, Paul Marion, Donald 

Randolph, Henry Brandon, Minerva Urecal. 

Woman in the Dark The Great Adventure F 

Republic (5131) GO Minutes Rel. Jan. 15, '52 

A story line that tails to develop beyond the routine melodramatic 

pattern and never attains more than lukewarm 

interest in its lackadaisical unfoldment probably will confine 

this programmer to the cellar niche in those exhibition situations 

in which it may be booked. As mounted by Producer 

Stephen Auer, the film is ingratiatingly enough cast, but the 

mummers have no particular weight as marquee personalities 

and are hampered in their thespian contributions by the 

above-mentioned, slow-paced screenplay. From the showman's 

standpoint, the title is probably the best exploitation 

possibility, even though there may be some conjecture as to 

what connection it has with the plot. The familiar crimedoesn't-pay 

theme also may be provocative of some merchandising 

effort, but on an overall basis there is little material 

available to work with along selling lines George 

Blair directed, 

Peimy Edwards, Ross Elliott, Rick Vallin, Richard Benedict, 

Argentina Brunetti, Martin Garralaga. 

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Lippert (5021) 75 Minutes Rel. Dec. 7, '51 

This British import was made a couple of years ago and 

has had some distribution—mostly in England—under the 

title, "The Adventurers." Under either title it's a bad picture, 

one that has very little to attract either the custom or 

the praise of overage American ticket buyers. It deserves few 

bookings in the more important situations, and even in 

grind houses, where it might slide by in the supporting 

niche, the running time is another handicap. The story is so 

confusing that unwavering attention to its unfolding still 

leaves some doubt about what it is trying to tell. Performances 

and direction do nothing toward alleviating the literary 

frailties. About the only facet which might prove mildly 

interesting to occasional spectators in this country ore the 

backgrounds of the African veldt and mountains against 

which it was photographed—but far from expertly. Directed 

by David MacDonald. 

Dermis Price, Jack Hawkins, Siobhan McKenna, Gregoire 

Asian, Charles Paton, Bernard Lee. Ronald Adam. 

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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Adiines for Newspaper and Programs 

THE STORY: "Red Skies of Montana" 

Richard Widmark, leader of a detail of the U.S. forest service's 

"smoke jumpers," and his men are trapped when they 

parachute into a blazing Montana forest. A search party 

finds Widmark delirious, and he lapses into a coma as the 

bodies of three of his badly burned men are discovered. 

Jeffrey Hunter, son of one of the dead men, nurses the suspicion 

that Widmark turned covfard and ran out on his 

crew, but Widmark, at an official hearing, is cleared of all 

guilt. Nevertheless, Widmark believes everybody has pegged 

him as a coward. When a new fire is spotted he leads a 

new crew to the scene, and Hunter—in a relief party—has a 

showdown with Widmark. Widmark risks his own life to 

save Hunter from perishing in the flames, and the latter 

realizes that he has been saved by the man he thought he 

hated, 

CATCHLINES: 

Here's the Sizzling Saga of the Smoke Jumpers . . 

Uncle 

. 

Sam's Airborne Fire Fighters . Battle Forest Flames 

and Nature's Savage Fury . Heroic Daring. 

THE STORY: "The First Time" 

Robert Cummings and Barbara Hale are a happily married 

young couple until their routine is changed by their first 

baby. Robert is forced to quit his easy job as draughtsman 

and sell washing machines, and a tyrannical baby nurse, 

Cora Witherspoon, almost runs their home. Soon, Robert 

finds he can't sell enough washing machines and Barbara is 

too worn out from baby chores to look pretty and get a 

good dinner for her husband. Their first quarrel ends in a 

reconciliation but then comes the baby-sitter problem and 

Robert finally quits selling washing machines. He is just 

about to leave home when he notices that Barbara is eating 

banana sandwiches again—a sure sign that she is pregnant 

—and a real reconciliation follows. 

CATCHLINES: 

A Carefree Married Couple Until a Baby Changed Them 

to Old Married Folks . . . The First Time Is the Hardest but 

They Love It . . . Robert Cummings and Barbara Hale—and 

Baby Makes Three—on a Merry-Go-Round of Love and 

Laughs. 

THE STORY: 

"Harem Girl" 

Joan Davis as Susie, secretary to the young and lovely 

Princess Shareen (Peggie Castle) saves her mistress from an 

assassin. Then to protect the Princess, she poses as her so 

the Princess can attend a secret meeting of her local subjects. 

The usurper of the throne. Sheik Jamal, orders Shareen to 

marry the Bey of a neighboring country, Abdul (Arthur 

Blake). Joan as the Princess is taken to meet him and accidentally 

learns where the guns are kept which the loyal subjects 

need to revolt. Joan induces a sit-down strike in the 

harem and other measures stalling for time before the usurper 

and his cohorts are overcome, with Joan fighting to the 

finish in many unorthodox ways. 

CATCHLINES: 

Shriek at Joan's "Share-the-Sheiks" Plan—She's a Houri 

From Missouri Now . a She-Wolf Now—Pulling the 

Wool Over Those Sheik-Wolves' Eyes . . . Joan's a Harem- 

Happy Houri, Dancing Cheek to Sheik . Joan 

Shake Up the Desert . Gives Those Egyptians Conniptions, 

and She'll Have You Rolling in the Aisles. 

THE STORY: "Bend of the River" 

With James Stewart, former Missouri raider now going 

straight, as their guide, a party of midwestern farmers 

reaches Oregon, planning to settle up the river from Portland, 

A late addition to the group is Arthur Kennedy, a 

one-time companion of Stewart in Missouri. In Portland the 

expedition contracts with Howard Petrie, owner of a river 

steamboat, to send cattle and food upstream a month later. 

When the boat does not arrive, Stewart returns to Portland 

to find a gold rush in progress and Petrie profiteering on 

supplies, with Kennedy as his partner. The latter aids 

Stewart in a plan to steal the supply-laden riverboat, but 

en route Kennedy puts in with gold-miners in a plot to 

sell them the provisions so badly needed by the settlers. 

In a desperate fight Stewart kills Kennedy and the riverboat 

arrives in time to avert disaster, 

CATCHLINES: 

It Was Tops as a Historical Novel . Now It's Even 

Better as a Masterpiece of Motion Picture Entertainment . 

The Story of Hardy Trail-Blazers . the Women They 

Loved. 

THE STORY: 

"Invitation" 

Dorothy McGuire, daughter of wealthy Louis Calhern, has 

been doomed since childhood to invalidism, and calmly informs 

her father that she is resigned to being a spinster. 

Shortly after, she is stunned when Van Johnson, a childhood 

friend, proposes marriage, although Dorothy had always believed 

he would marry Ruth Roman, her one close friend. 

Following an exciting European honeymoon, Dorothy and Van 

settle down, but her idyllic happiness is shattered when Ruth, 

now embittered, informs her indirectly that Dorothy is suffering 

from a mitral commisurotomy and that Calhern had 

"bought" her a year of happiness with Johnson. Van, confronted 

with this accusation, pours out his deep love for her 

and persuades her to undergo a delicate operation. It is 

successful and they face many happy years together. 

. 

. . 

CATCHLINES: 

Excitement Romance . . 

Combined in One of the 

. 

Dramatic Movie Highlights 

. 

of 

AJl 

the 

Year Story of a Bargain in Love Paid 

som 

Lifetime Dividends. 

Dir"" 

THE STORY: 

"Fort Osage" 

Frontier scout Rod Cameron is hired to lead a Californiabound 

wagon train out of Fort Osage, but there have been 

so many delays that the emigrants are becoming discontented. 

These delays are caused by Morris Ankrum and 

Douglas Kennedy, who organized the trip and are engaged 

in crooked work with the town merchants. The Osage Indians 

go on the warpath because Ankrum and Kennedy have 

failed to deliver treaty goods as promised in return for safe 

passage. Ankrum confesses this to Cameron, but is killed 

by Kennedy. Next Kennedy and his men attack an Osage 

village, but Cameron convinces the redfskins that the emigrants 

are entirely innocent of this raid. The braves join him 

in a chase which results in Kennedy's death; Cameron delivers 

the treaty goods and leads the train on to California 

in safety. 

CATCHLINES: 

With Flame and Arrow . Redskins Are on the Warpath 

... In an Exciting Action Adventure . Teems 

With Thrills and Spectacle . . . Filmed in Lustrous Cinecolor. 

THE STORY: "The Great Adventure" THE STORY: "Woman in the Dark" 

En route home from South Africa's Boer War with his buddy, 

Peter Hammond, Jack Hawkins finds a fortune in diamonds 

on the corpse of a smuggler, hides the loot and plans to return 

to recover it. Once home, he finds the girl he loves has 

married Dennis Price, believing Hawkins dead. Now more 

determined than ever to get the diamonds, Hawkins forms 

a partnership with Price and two others—Hammond and 

Gregoire Asian—and they make their way across the veldt, 

although filled with mutual dislike and distrust. During the 

trek Price disappears and Hawkins accuses Asian of foul 

play. But Hammond is startled into certain knowledge that 

Hawkins is the murderer, confronts the latter with the accusation, 

and in a chase through the black passages of a mine, 

Hawkins is buried in a cave-in. 

CATCHLINES: 

Man Against Man . in Mortal Combat . 

a Beautiful Girl and a Fortune in 

. . With 

Stolen Diamonds as the 

Stake . . . It's Compelling, Exciting, Thrilling. 

To assure the success of a jewel robbery. Gangster Peter 

Brocco persuades Richard Benedict, a reckless youngster, 

to participate, because Benedict is the brother of Rick Vallin, 

lawyer for the company which insured the gems. Brocco 

figures that when Vallin learns his brother was one of the 

thieves, he'll buy back the baubles without any questions. 

However, during the robbery Benedict is spotted by Penny 

Edwards, who confides in another of the youngster's brothers, 

Ross Elliott, a priest. Elliott and Vallin force Benedict to confess 

his complicity in the crime and, to redeem himself, Benedict 

recovers the stolen jewels from Brocco. However, the 

latter's gunmen kill the youngster; Vallin, trailing the killers, 

is aided by the timely appearance of the police, summoned 

by the priest, and the criminals are captured. 

CATCHLINES: 

A Fabulous Jewel Collection . as "The Unclaimed 

Cargo" . Under the Very Eyes of the 

Law , . . It's Fast, Furious, Exciting Entertainment All the Way.

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HELP WANTED 

Manager: Une experienced operating tlieatre in 

iidustrial commiinity. .Must be aggressive e.\- 

ilolteer. Good salary and \iorklng conditions, 

'iroup and family Insurance. Sell yourself In first 

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onfid ence. I'osltlon In Midwest. Boxofflce. 4542. 

Drive-in monajer wanted. Man to manage large 

luper de lu.\e drlve-ln located In tlie Southeast. 

12. month operation. Fine opportunity tor tlie 

Ight man. Send picture, information regardinB 

last theatre e.vpcrience, salary expected, etc., to 

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Projectionist, general maintenance. Small town 

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4544 

Explmtation. promotion, assistant manager. 

First run tlicatie. raidwestern town 30.000. 

'.\11 product a>:iihible. Must he go-getter; best 

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can write own ticket. Boseffice, 4545. 

theatre manager, metropolitan area: 

alary and experience. Boxoffice, 4551. 

GENERAL EQUIPMENT—USED 

Two Holmes 35mm portable late model pro ectors. 

like new, .Vlso complete sound equipment. 

L. ,1. $800. Hammer. Route 8. North Kansas 

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Theatre marquee, two years old. with W:igner 

10" letters. Simplex projecliiis, rear sliiitters. 

Two rectifiers. Electric ticket machine. IICA 

sound No. 105. Two Brenkert lamps. KW, 

Leonard Sosklii, 12248 Grand Itivcr, lietroit 4, 

Mich. 

For 

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and Washington now available. Write for list. 

Theatre F.xchange Co., Fine Arts Bldg., Portland, 

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HOUSE 

ititiii will that give opportunity and monetary 

I. Northern Ohio location. Uive full drive-ln 

R'lice and expectancy. Write Boxoffice. 4552. 

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Our theatre une of finest in llie country 

ami requires man of all around outdoor operation 

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all particulars and reference first letter. 

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Excellent opportunity for repair man in old 

established firm. Experience rebuilding theatre 

projection and sound equipment necessary. Boxoffice. 

4500. 

Wonderful opportunity for manager new 700-seat 

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references. Boxoffice. 4508. 

Need expert manager for modern drive-in iheae 

southwest Louisiana. Salary plus percentage 

> right man. Full particulars, please. Bo.\office, 

Need top assistant in operation of conventional 

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Wanted: Capable operator. Permanent position 

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Drive-in manager wanted. Experienced and expliiitatlon 

minded. Northern New England. Fine 

opportunity. Send Information regarding experience, 

salary expected to Boxoffice. 4585. 

Wanted: |)rlve-in tlieatre manager with experience. 

Also drlve-in theatre operator and maintenance. 

Write R. X. Smith Tlieatres, Mission, 

POSITIONS WANTED 

Drive-in manager, thoroughly experienced in all 

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Young, aggressive, 20 years in show business, 

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• SECTION TWO of BOXOFFICE for JANUARY 26. 1952

FIRST AGAIN i 

"Congratulations, 

Leo, and we're 

looking forward to 

next year's Big Ones 

like 'LONE STAR' 

•THE WILD NORTH'* 

IVANHOE'* 'SKIRTS AHOY" 

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN'* 

"WESTWARD THE WOMEN' 

'SCARAMOUCHE'* 

and all the others." 

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* Technicolor 

** Ansco Color 

'I 

couldn't have\ 

done it without 

your friendly 

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encouragement. 

( 

You've named justa 

few of my Big Onij 

for 1952. See the 

next page for mor, 

and biggest of all a 

QUO VADIS'.*"! 

This is the season of the annual polls by showmen for the past year's Tops 

in Stars, Hits, Shorts. M-G-M sweeps the industry as usual. First in Showmen's 

Trade Review Leader's Annual Poll and now in Boxoffice Barometer: 

M-G-M HIT LEADER! 

More Hits Than Any Other Company! 

("Show Boat", "King Solomon's Mines", "The Great Caruso", "Kim", "Father's Little Dividend", 

"Royal Wedding", "Go For Broke!", "Pagan Love Song", "Rich, Young and Pretty", "To Please 

A Lady", "Toast of New Orleans".) 

Twice As Many Blue Ribbons As Next Company And 

More Than The Next Tv\ô Companies Combined! 

Blue Ribbons are the Industry's Best, voted by exhibitors, press and public. M-G-M is this year's 

winner and also all-time winner! 

STAR LEADERSHIP! 

June AUyson wins top female spot for 2nd year in a row and is combined male-female poll winner. 

Female winners: June Allyson, Esther Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Jane Powell. Male 

winners: Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Gene Kelly. 

SHORTS LEADER! 

M-G-M has 3 out of 10 Top Shorts Series. TOM & JERRY CARTOONS [TechNicolor); PETE 

SMITH SPECIALTIES; M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS.

AND NEXT YEAR TOO! 

Just a Few of The Award -Winning Contenders for 1952! 

(And of course, The Greatest "QUO VADIS ') 

"THE \AÎLD NORTH "—The co-director of "King Solomon's Mines" and its handsome star Stewart 

Granger team again in a smashing Ansco Color drama. Wendell Corey and beautiful Cyd Charisse co-star. 

Packed with thrills: the avalanche, the wolf attack, the duel in the rapids topped by the searing romance 

of Granger and Charisse, the Indian maid. Truly "The King Solomon's Mines of 1952!" 

"LONE STAR"— The Battle of Texas and the Battle of the Sexes. Clark Gable fights for gorgeous 

Ava Gardner against Broderick Crawford. Cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi. It's BIG in 

Love and Action with Box-Office written all over it! 

"SINGIN' IN THE RAIN"— The producer of "Show Boat" and "An American In Paris" does it 

again! A GREAT Technicolor musical. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, 

Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse. 

"IVANHOE"— The "Quo Vadis" company brings the world another giant production. The famed 

novel in all its glory, filmed in Technicolor in actual locations. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan 

Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams. 

"BELLE OF NEW YORK"— Fred Astaire, Vera-EUen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Alice 

Pearce, Clinton Sundberg, Gale Robbins bring the fans a joyous M-G-M Technicolor musical featuring 

a "Dancing on Air" novelty that's sensational. 

"SCARAMOUCHE"— Public demand for Big, romantic dramas of "The Three Musketeers" type 

is answered by the director of that famed hit in a new thrill-packed Technicolor dramatization of the 

swashbuckling novel "Scaramouche". Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry 

Wilcoxon, Nina Foch, Lewis Stone, Richard Anderson. 

'SKIRTS AHOY!"— Packed with entertainment for the masses is this rollicking romance of the 

WAVEs and their boy friends. Technicolor musical dynamite with a breezy star cast: Esther Williams, 

Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Billy Eckstine, The De Marco Sisters, Dean 

Miller. A Wow! 

JUST THIS ONCE"— Winchell told the nation the good news in his syndicated column: "'Just 

This Once', a new M-G-M film is rated a click 'sleeper' by the trade." Once in a decade alone comes a 

comedy howl that rocks the nation. This is it. Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine, 

Richard Anderson 

"WESTWARD THE WOMEN"—The producer and director of "Battleground" have deUvered 

again. It's all about women, 200 of them, in a dangerous pioneering journey across the nation to marry 

men they never saw! Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, the "Battleground" girl, Hope Emerson, John Mclntire. 

THE MERRY WIDONA/"— Magic words that excite. And the most exciting team in years, Lana 

Turner and Fernando Lamas, brings it to brilliant Technicolor life. Here are spine-tingling dreams of 

romance and pulse-stirring songs in a rapturous musical. Cast includes: Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, 

Thomas Gomez. 

Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge & Gower Champion, Ann Miller, Sza Sza 

"LOVELY TO LOOK AT"— M-G-M gives you another great musical. Glamorous stars, Adrian's 

fabulous gowns, Jerome Kern's irresistible music. Technicolor glory. It's Box-Office! Terrific cast includes: 

Gabor, Kurt Kasznar. 

And Remember T/iese Titles "One • Piece Bathing Suit" [Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter 

Pidgeon, Donna Corcoran) 

• "Carbine Williams" (James Stewart, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen) • "Pat and 

Mike" (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, "Because You're Mine" {Mario Lanza) • "Plymouth Adventure" 

[Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr) • "Young Bess" (Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons) • "Three Love Stories" 

[Pier Angeli, Ricardo Montalban, Leslie Caron) • "Prisoner of Zenda" (Stewart Granger) • and many more.

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UROMETER 

contents 

A- 

Of Things in Prospect for the Year Ahead 10 

Production Outlook Is Better Than Ever 12 

The All-American Favorites of 1951 19 

The All-American Western Favorites 34 

Cartoons Lead the Short Subjects Parade 36 

Grosses— Ratings at the Boxoffice 38 

Western Records 50 

The Outlook Is Brighter in Britain 55 

Blue Ribbon Winners of 1950-51 60 

Blue Ribbon Winners of Past Years 73 

Blue Ribbon Honor Roll Call 74 

Roster of the Notional Screen Council 76 

Producers of the 1950-51 Hit Films 80 

Directors of the Season's Big Hits 84 

Grassroots Produce New Selling Ideas 86 

Looking Ahead at Coming Features 91 

Feature Index of the 1950-51 Releases 107 

Shorts Index of the 1950-51 Releases 147 

Published by Associated Publications as a section of BOXOFFICE at 825 Van 

Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 1, Mo. Ben Shlyen, Publisher and Editor-in-Chiel; James 

M. Jerauld, Editor; Nathan Cohen, Executive Editor; E. S. Nelson, Velma West 

Sykes, Dorothy Martin, Associate Editors; Jesse Shlyen, Managing Editor; Ivan 

Spear, Hollywood Editor; John G. Tinsley, Advertising Manager Eastern Oifice, 

9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y, Central Office, 35 West Wacker Drive, 

Chicago 1, 111. Western Office, 6404 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif.

IMPORTANT 

AHNOUNCEMENT 

FROM 

CENTURY-FOX

GREATEST^ 

RTING mi 

WES EVEll 

A^ 'DECISION BEFORE DAWN 

Anatole Litvak, the rncW mclf who gave you the 

"SNAKE PIT," has another masterpiece currently winning the critics' plaudits. Gary Merrill, 

Richard Basehart, and newcomers Oskar Werner and Hildegarde Neff lead the way in a film 

that is on everyone's "Ten Best" list... A "must" for every showman. 

JAPANESE WAR BRIDE out of the present Korean conflict comes a most 

unusual love story of mixed marriage. Introducing Japan's top feminine star "Yamaguchi," plus 

Don Taylor, Marie Windsor and Cameron Mitchell in a startling motion picture. 

THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER" Thewar»i, 

human story of the unsung matchmakers who give Cupid a little push in the right direction. 

A Jeanne Crain picture perfectly embellished by the exciting performances of Thelma 

Ritter, Scott Brady, Frank Fontaine and Zero Mostel. 

^ 

PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER m the .radmon of 

a letter 

TO THREE WIVES" and "ALL ABOUT EVE" comes a dramatic triumph which lashes out at the 

"Double Standard" of marriage. Great performances by Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Keenan 

Wynn, Michael Rennie and the positively sizzling Shelley Winters. 

RED SKIES OF MONTANA'' The first 

story of the courageous "Smoke 

Jumpers" . . . Technicolor flashing across the screen with the most spectacular action sequences 

ever filmed. Richard Widmark heads a cast of rough, tough guys in a picture that combines 

power, drama, and all the excitement of tbe Great American Northwest. 

MA»*'» 

FIVE FINwERd The true, shocking revelations of the highest paid spy in history 

whose unbelievable exploits stunned the world. James Mason, Dannielle Darrieux and 

Michael Rennie head the cast of Joseph Mankiewicz's tingler filmed in Ankara and Istanbul. 

I* 

RETURN OF THE TEXAN The adventurous story of a man who came home 

to the land that bred him and the woman who loved him. Vividly set in America's new 

great Southwest and dramatically portrayed by Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru and Walter 

Qrennan. 

VIVA ZAPATA! Another off-the-beaten-path dramatic achievement utilizing 

the collective talents of 20th Century-Fox's "Greats". John Steinbeck wrote it. Darryl 

Zanuck produced it. Elia Kazan directed it. Marlon Brando stars in it. ''That" should give 

the theatre-going public an idea of what's in store for them.

i 

ITH SIX MONTHS OF THE 

\V\w^ 

'WITH A SONG IN MY HEART" The long awaitedJane Proman story 

brought to the screen as a brilHant Technicolor musical-drama. Susan Hayward, David 

Wayne, Thelma Ritter and Rory Calhoun head a sparkling cast in a film that is destined to be 

among the very best in 1952. 

PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS Presenting Dan Dailey as he romps through the 

ever-loving Dizzy Dean story. A natural for the entire family (for exploitation too, as the 

release date coincides with the beginning of the baseball season). Joanne Dru co-stars 

in this great picture about a great guy. 

'ROSE OF CIMARRON" jack Beutel in his first film since ^'THE outlaw plus 

Mala Powers (of ''CYRANO") in an exciting outdoor adventure spectacle filmed in brilliant 

Natural Color. 

BELLES ON THEIR TOES The delightful Cilbreth family of ''CHEAPER BY 

THE 

si;-' 

DOZEN" is at it again in a great big bouncy Technicolor film headed by Jeanne 

I* 

Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget and Jeffrey Hunter. Just the most wonderful kind of 

family entertainment anyone could hope for. 

DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING PALMS'scu.h Pacific 

splendor and good old-fashioned fun in this Technicolor musical featuring Mitzi Gaynor, 

4 

David Wayne, Jane Greer, William Lundigan and Gloria DeHaven. A lot of singing . . . 

dancing . . . laughing 

. 

. . and box-office! 

THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT" Bre. HCes classic story „ow 

unfolded on the screen color by Technicolor with an impressive cast headed by Anne Baxter, 

Dale Robertson, Miriam Hopkins, Barbara Bates and Cameron Mitchell. Top dramatic fare. 

T^ IxANC3AKOO! a roaring Technicolor adventure filmed entirely in Australia. 

^^ Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Richard Boone and Finlay Currie . . . plus stampedes, 

aborigines, wild animals and blazing brush fires. Excitement all the way through and 

thoroughly promoted by equally exciting exploitation. 

W^ ''WE'RE NOT MARRIED" ... What happens when people suddenly find 

^^r that they are not legally married. A group of unusual dramatic and hilarious situations 

breathtakingly performed by Ginger Rogers, David Wayne, Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe, 

Paul Douglas and Jan Sterling.

vJj^ ^kin^d in f-^rodpectjôr the Ljear ^^liead 

by J. 

M. JERAULD 

jl^lINETEEN fifty-one closed with the 

l\Sl 

economists predicting cautiously that 

the second half of 1952 might bring 

with it a business boom. 

Sentiment among exhibitors, however, 

ranged from deep pessimism to outspoken 

optimism. Their comments depended on 

where they lived and operated. All agreed, 

however, that there had been varying degrges 

of improvement during the last three 

months. 

It is this improvement that intrigues 

the industry economists. General business 

outside the film industry is on the upgrade, 

with the exception of some local 

areas like the automobile and textile centers, 

and the rise is bound to be on an 

accelerating basis. Government spending 

is going up. General spending always 

follows it, the economists say. 

GOOD CHANCE FOR A BOOM 

For the first half of 1951 the total was 

323.4 billions. In the second half it was 

326.8 billions. The prediction for the first 

half of 1952 is 334.9 billions with a further 

increase to 352.3 billions in the second 

half. 

When that total is reached a boom will 

be under way, say the experts. There 

will be a record number of jobs and a 

record income, but profits may not hit a 

record. Taxes are too high. 

As the so-called soft goods and all 

articles requiring stategic metals become 

scarce, say the forecasters, more and more 

people will turn to entertainment the 

way they did durmg the second year of 

World War II. 

So much for the future. It's the present 

and immediate past that have this 

industry in a state of agitation. No important 

industry problems were solved during 

1951. 

INTERNAL PROBLEMS CONTINUE 

Basically, all the acrimonious discussion 

was due to the uncertainties caused 

by rising prices. Producers were trying 

to keep costs within reason, distributors 

were trying to get rentals high enough 

to assure a profit and exhibitors were 

complaining that high film costs, lack of 

prints and booking uncertainties brought 

on by competitive bidding and chaotic 

clearances were making them bite the dust, 

cr words to that effect. 

There is nothing new about intra-industry 

complaints, of course, but the current 

outcry has more volume than formerly, 

because all the big circuits find themselves 

in the same boats with the little 

fellow who used to make most of the 

noise. 

What to do about it? 

Both the national exhibitor organizations 

have turned again to arbitration and 

regional units are endorsing their stands, 

but several more weeks may elapse before 

anything definite happens. Trueman 

Rembusch, Allied president, intends 

to appoint a committee to meet with the 

distributors, but the distributors are not 

expected to move before both Allied and 

TOA and probably the PCCITO agree to 

meet with them for a general discussion 

of the broad outlines of the problem. 

This discussion could develop into a fair 

trade practice code that would require approval 

of the Department of Justice and 

the three-judge court which heard the 

antitrust case and retained jurisdiction, 

but leadership has been lacking to date. 

Three names have been suggested as 

possible leaders—Robert J. O'Donnell and 

Col. H. A. Cole, who started the Movietime 

U.S.A. movement in Texas, and William 

F. Rodgers of MGM. who headed the 

unity movement of a decade ago. but if 

they are interested, they have given no 

indication of it. 

Rodgers left December 20 for Florida 

for a two-month vacation after withdrawîng 

from his duties as general sales manager 

of MGM. He will be an active consultant 

and adviser for the company when 

he returns, but his attitude early in December 

was in 

favor of contracting rather 

than expanding his activites. 

TELEVISION A BIG QUESTION 

Television has assumed the form of a 

big question mark for 1952. Some of the 

panic caused by the huge sales of home 

receivers has subsided, partly as a result 

of the FCC freeze on station construction, 

the growing impression that advertisers 

were finding it difficult to finance programs 

that would hold interest, and the 

increasing opposition among football, 

baseball and boxing promoters to telecasts 

that were cutting into gate receipts. 

Some exhibitors thought the television 

problem was solved w'hen boxing matches 

proved a big source of income for those 

theatres with television projectors, but 

this idea was short-lived. Before cold 

weather set in it was apparent that theatres 

were going to have the same programming 

difficulties that advertising 

agencies were facing. 

Since then a period of watchful waiting 

has set in with an undercurrent of excitement 

similar to that which preceded the 

introduction of sound. The same divergent 

attitudes are present. Some, who think 

a status quo can be permanent, are saying 

the pattern of exhibition will not change: 

others foresee a revolution. Even the more 

conservative leaders with large investments 

at stake have come to the conclusion 

that they had better be prepared 

for a possible overturn in the whole competitive 

situation. 

With the government restrictions on use 

of strategic metals, there is no possibility 

of a sudden rush to television like the 

rush to sound which followed Al Jolson's 

.sound picture, but before the end of 1952 

it will known whether or not color television 

is commercially feasible. If color 

comes over the horizon, theatre and home 

television would start from scratch in a 

competitive race. 

First, assignment of wavelengths for 

theatre use must be obtained from the 

Federal Communications Commission. The 

argument for these will be that theatres 

can provide a new form of public service 

in the form of educational programs during 

non-exhibition hour.s—spmething that 

would make theatres community institutions 

to an extent often talked about but 

never achieved. 

Entertainment programs would take on 

a new form with swift transmission of 

news, coverage of local events and introduction 

of entertainment from legitimate 

theatre and other sources. 

ECONOMICS CHANGES VIEWS 

A year ago it was predicted that the 

present broadcasting interests and the financial 

interests behind set manufacturers 

would put up a struggle without quarter 

to prevent an invasion of their fields, but 

the economics of the situation have 

changed this. > 

United Paramount Theatres not only 

wants to put on all the public service and 

entertainment programs it can get: it 

wants also to do it with the cooperation 

of the American Broadcasting Co., with 

which it seeks a merger. Twentieth Century-Fox 

wants to do it w'ith an entirely 

new color apparatu.s—Eidophor—with the 

color system developed by Columbia 

Broadcasting System with General Electric 

making the equipment. RCA is strenuously 

pushing its color tubes and unquestionably 

will get into the theatre field 

through its manufacturing affiliates. 

Wayne Coy, chairman of the FCC, says 

it will be possible to build 2,000 television 

stations by using the ultra high frequencies. 

That demolishes the argument that 

there would be no room for new stations. 

Film men contend these stations would 

never be built and that, if many of them 

should be built, there would be nothing 

for them to show imless some way could 

be found to finance the programs. A percentage 

of theatre admissions would do 

this, they insist. 

SEE NEW INCOME SOURCE 

Political pressure will figure in the final 

decision, because the vast number of receiver 

owners who have been getting programs 

free contend they would be cheated 

if 

the best programs should go to theatres. 

Here again film men see a new source of 

income, because the belief is widely held 

that most of the future television programs 

will be produced from films . 

Equipment makers profess to be sitting 

on the sidelines, but they are not. 

Once theatre television has proved a success 

a stampede for installations could develop, 

and they know it. This would include 

telecasting stations, regional studios, 

microwave relays and the equipment that 

goes into theatres. 

Nobody predicts all this will come to pass 

in 1952, but all those connected with the 

present planning are certain that the possibilities 

will be known in the next year. 

10 BAROMETER Section

Year In... 

Year out... 

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by IVAN SPEAR 

AGAIN comes that time of the year 

when the shopworn crystal ball 

and faithless it has proven to be 

in many instances—must be dusted off 

and studied for a prognostication: this 

time anent what Hollywood might or might 

not do, productionwise. during the calendar 

year of 1952. 

Those who have had the patience and 

courage to follow down through the years 

the annual, clairvoyant chattering of 

scores of ob.servers of the film capital 

scene who undertake to call the turn as 

to future production plans must know, by 

50 per cent 

now, that the foreteller who is 

correct is batting very high in the celluloid 

fortune-telling league. That's because 

of Cinemania's chronic— and understandable—propensity 

toward changing its 

plans upon the drop of a pe.ssimistic conclusion 

and or the raising of the most 

diminutive flag of optimism. 

BIGGER BUDGETS ON TAP 

If any guess can be considered reasonably 

good at year's beginning, it might be 

the one that, even though fewer features 

may be forthcoming, those that are made 

will be budgeted more liberally than were 

pictures of comparable scope during the 

past few seasons. 

Two reasons are advanced for such 

logic. In the first place, the more farseeing 

among film-fabricating brass have 

apparently concluded that there has been 

a bit too much of penny-pinching: that 

there arrives a point when the elimination 

of waste—and that was highly necessary 

can evolve into the trimming, also, of those 

essential productional costs that give .substance 

to big pictures. Secondly, there 

is an almost universal and fervent revival 

of the hackneyed—but still unassailable—mor-sel 

of motion picture philosophy 

regarding the fact that "good pictures 

still get money." 

OPTIMISM WELL-GROUNDED 

And a 

look at the records reveals plenty 

of current testimony in support of that 

hoary axiom—at the same time giving 

reason why Hollywood apparently is facing 

the future with more hope and courage 

than have been evident at this time 

of the year for several seasons past. 

Figures don't lie—so goes another adage 

—and a gander at the boxoffice revenues 

accruing particularly in the latter months 

of 1951 to tho.se hunks of celluloid on 

which rather massive bankrolls were expended 

seems to establish beyond reasonable 

doubt that, other factors to the contrary 

notwithstanding, the public is still 

willing and ready to go to the movies. 

Ready, that is, if the picture palace is exhibiting 

film fare of top grade as concerns 

star names, story and production values 

and the lustrous qualities of showmanship 

and entertainment that, to date, the medium 

of televi-sion has not been able to 

match. Consider, for example, such 

money-earners as Metro's "Quo 'Vadis," 

"An American in Paris" and "Show Boat": 

20th Century-Fox's "David and Bathsheba," 

"The Desert Fox" and "On the 

Riviera": Warners' "A Streetcar Named 

Desire": Paramount's "A Place in the 

Sun" and "Detective Story"; the strong 

business being done by United Artists' 

"Fort Defiance" and RKO Radio's "Two 

Tickets to Broadway": and other product 

equally diversified as concerns subject 

matter but alike in their appeal to the 

potential patron. They have the basic 

ingredients to entertain, and they have 

been strongly sold and merchandised to 

extract the utmost from their revenue potential. 

TOP PRODUCT ABOUNDS 

The nation's shov.'men have already been 

informed, and the trade's drumbeaters 

will continue to pass along the welcome 

word, that the prospect for 1952's early 

months is aglow with news of a substantial 

supply of product capable of matching 

the boxoffice records established by film 

fare such as that mentioned above. There 

are many releases of comparable promise 

in the immediate offing, budgeted as liberally 

and adding weight to the optimistic 

.sentiment that better things are to come. 

Paramount, for instance, is highly enthused 

over Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest 

Show on Earth," which the company 

believes amply fulfills its title, and is also 

very bullish over "My Son John." Columbia 

is of the opinion that it has another 

"Born Yesterday" in "The Marrying 

Kind," in which Judy Holliday, star of 

the former, has a top comedy role, and 

the same studio is touting two of Producer 

Stanley Kramer's completed efforts "My 

Six Convicts" and "The Four Poster" as rich 

boxoffice potentials. RKO Radio's biggie 

is "Androcles and the Lion," plus which 

the Howard Hughes organization is very 

high on the prospects for "Macao"; out 

at 20th Century-Fox the passwords are 

"Viva Zapata" and "With a Song in My 

Heart." Metro feels it has SRO material 

in "The Merry Widow" and "Singin' in the 

Rain," while over at Warners the chips 

are down on "Retreat. Hell!" and "Room 

for One More." Universal-International 

believes it can match these with "Bend 

of the River," a top-budget historical 

western, and tosses in "Red Ball Express," 

a World War II cpus, for good measure. 

There are others, of course—many others 

—but limited space precludes complete 

tallying of what looms as an extensive list. 

COLOR IN BIG INCREASE 

Several motion picture companies have 

disclosed that their output of color films 

w'ill, this year, exceed that of any past 

season in their respective histories. Metro, 

which will make a minimum of 40 pictures, 

will garnish about half of them in 

Technicolor, and in addition is dabbling 

in its own tint process, employed for the 

first time on the upcoming "The Wild 

North." Limitations in laboratory facilities 

have precluded the expanded use of 

this system, but that it will be employed 

more and more by Leo in the future is a 

conclusion foregone. Warner, too, has perfected 

its Warnercolor, which will be 

viewed initially in "The Lion and the 

Horse" and "Carson City," and has extensive 

plans, also, for Technicolor. Approximately 

50 per cent of 20th Century-Fox's 

1952 output will be in Technicolor, while 

Universal-International matches that figure 

with the disclosure that 18 of its 36- 

picture schedule will be in the same tin( 

process. Monogram and its sister-company, 

Allied Artists, have embarked on an 

ambitious policy whereby at least one release 

a month will be tinted—in this case 

in either Cinecolor or that company's 

new three-hue process, Supercinecolor. 

Tliese two systems, parenthetically, are 

being utilized by the makers of considerable 

medium-budgeted celluloid, much of 

which is being turned out by independent 

units for major company release. 

Further, Republic— whose head man, Herbert 

J. Yates, has long been a vociferous 

exponent of tint photography—is speeding 

up in the use of Trucolor, which has 

abandoned the two-tint for the threecolor 

system. 

SCIENCE-FICTION CYCLE 

No Hollywood season could be considered 

complete unless a cycle or two were 

in the making—and 1952 is right in there 

pitching in this regard. The boxoffice 

appeal of such fare having been satisfactorily 

demonstrated last year with such 

entries as "The Thing From Another 

World" and "When Worlds Collide, " the 

space-opera boys are having an interplanetary 

field day. George Pal, who made 

"Collide" for Paramount, will follow that 

breadwinner with "War of the Worlds": 

Monogram has a sequel to its "Flight to 

Mars'" w'ith "Voyage to Venus"; on the 

Lippert Pictures docket is "Miss 21st Century." 

while RKO Radio will distribute 

the independently-produced "3,000 A, D.," 

United Artists will handle the release of 

"Miracle From Mars," and Arch Oboler, 

who wrote, produced and directed "Five." 

and sold it to Columbia, is following that 

with the provocatively titled "The Twonky." 

EPISODIC FEATURES COMING 

Further on the matter of cycles, not in 

recent years has there been such concentration 

on the so-called episodic feature, 

composed of three, four or more sequences 

which may or may not be interrelated, 

plotwise, and which usually employ 

different casts, directors and even 

producers. The whisper is circulating in 

some quarters—and. of course, without 

the slightest chance of official confirmation—that 

in Hollywood's new-found attachment 

for pictures of this type there 

is an undercurrent of far-.seeing commercialism. 

This school of thought holds that 

the movie magi intend, once the theatrical 

life of the episoders has ended, to cut 

them up into their component segments 

and peddle them as 15- or 30-minute subjects 

to—yes, that's right. At any rate. 

MGM recently completed and tradescreened 

its multi-sequence "It's a Big 

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Country" and has two others, "Three Love 

Stories" and "American Beauty" in preparatory 

stages: "Actors and Sin," written 

and directed by Ben Hecht and comprising 

two expisodes. is due for early release 

by United Artists. And 20th Century-Fox 

is going full steam ahead on a 

pair of others. "We're Not MaiTied" and 

"The Full House." 

STORY VARIETY A-PLENTY 

Otherwise, generally speaking, exhibitors 

can look for the film capital to supply, in 

quantities proportionate to other years, 

the varied types of celluloid entertainment 

that have long since been established 

as movie staples. Times being what they 

ai-e, there is perhaps a shade more emphasis 

upon topical fare—the topic being 

warfare, either the cwrent Korean conflict 

or the first two world wars. One of 

RKO Radio's heavily budgeted entries is 

Producer Edmund Grainger's "The Korean 

Story," while Republic, with "The 

Wild Blue Yonder" now in release is readying 

"Marines Have Wings" as a followup. 

Warners has a passel of 'em, including 

the aforementioned "Retreat, Hell!" as 

well as "Darby's Rangers" and "The 

Fighting Marine." On Stanley Kramer's 

docket at Columbia is "The Caine Mutiny," 

based on the best-seller by Herman 

Wouk, while for the same studio Sam 

Katzman is making "A Yank in Indochina." 

Paramount has a pair of GI 

comedies in "Jumping Jacks." the Dean 

Martin-Jerry Lewis starrer produced by 

Hal Wallis, and the Bob Hope topliner, 

"The Military Policeman." Completed at 

20th Century-Fox is "Five Fingers," the 

Monogram slate includes "Down Periscope" 

and Metro has "The Making of a Marine" 

on the front burner. 

MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZAS 

All is not blood and sweat and tears, 

however. As still further manifestation 

of Hollywood's decision to open the purse 

strings a mite, many studio schedules are 

heavy with the lush, multi-starred type 

of musical extravaganzas which were so 

popular in the year when money didn't 

matter—much—and which only recently 

have begun to stage a comeback. Some 

of these are an adroit blend of tunefilm 

and biography—as witness Warners' current 

and popular "I'll See You in My 

Dreams." the life story of Songwriter Gus 

Kahn: 20th Century-Fox's upcoming "The 

I Don't Care Girl," which traces the career 

of Eva Tanguay: Paramount's "Somebody 

Loves Me," wherein Betty Hutton 

portrays Blossom Seeley; and Republic's 

"Song of Youth," dealing with Stephen 

Foster as a young man. Still others are 

in the more-or-less familiar, frothy, songfilled 

category of light-hearted "escapist" 

fare, of which Paramounts' projected "The 

Golden Circle "—drawing its title from the 

studio's widely-touted roster of new acting 

contractees—Metro's "Belle of New York" 

and "Singin' in the Rain" and Warners' 

"She's Working Her Way Through College" 

are typical examples. 

Films with a religious and/or spiritual 

motif, the ever-popular crime subjects, 

swashbuckling costumers with virile heroes 

and bosomy heroines, fantasies, comedies, 

romantic dramas—they're all present and 

accounted for. Biblical spectacle—always 

sure-fire at the ticket window— will characterize 

"Pilate's Wife, " upcoming 

Wald-Krasna opus for RKO Radio: the 

historical adventures range from Metro's 

"Scaramouche" to Universal-International's 

pirate actioner, "Against All Flags," 

20th Century-Fox's release of the Wanger- 

Frenke production, "The Lady in the Iron 

Mask," and Columbia's "Caption Blood, 

Fugitive." In the realm of fantasy there 

is the Kramer project for Columbia, "The 

5000 Fingers of Dr. T," an Abbott and Costello 

starrer, "Jack and the Beanstalk," 

which Warners will release, and, of course, 

an impending contribution by Walt Disney, 

maestro of the animated cartoon 

field, who is at work on "Peter Pan" as 

part of his RKO Radio distribution schedule. 

The comedies will range from unadulterated 

slapstick—witness Paramount's 

"Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick"—to 

sophisticated fare such as Columbia's 

"The Marrying Kind" and Metro's "Pat 

and Mike." 

SAGEBRUSHERS RIDE ON 

Westerns? Relax. There'll be plenty 

of horseflesh and sagebrush, rimning the 

gamut from big-banki'olled. so-called supers 

down through the modestly budgeted, 

bread-and-butter "series" subjects—enough 

of them in each category to assure a 

steady flow to those showmen who rely 

upon the gallopers as an important segment 

of their programming and profits. 

Of note in this regard is the lessened emphasis 

upon the cavalry-vs-Injuns theme, 

which in some quarters was thought to 

have been overworked just a trifle in 

1951. The paleface-against-redskin facet 

isn't being entirely dropped however, with 

Columbia's "The Sabre and the Arrow." 

Monogram's "Fort Osage" and Universal- 

International's "Battle of Apache Pass" 

looming as examples of this sagebrush 

school. Other biggies set for early release 

include "High Noon" made by Stanley 

Kramer for United Artists release. Warners' 

"Carson City," Columbia's "Cripple 

Creek" and Paramount's "Shane." There 

have been a few changes in the "series" 

field; Roy Rogers is no longer riding the 

range for Republic, but will soon appear 

as the co-star with Bob Hope and Jane 

Russell in Paramount's comedy western, 

"Son of Paleface," while Tim Holt, after 

many years with the company, left the 

RKO Radio corral and, reportedly, plans 

to concentrate on TV. Still doing business 

at the old stand, though, are Charles 

"The Durango Kid" Starrett who ambles 

thataway for Columbia, and Gene Autry, 

who produces and stars in several annually 

for distribution by the same company. 

Rex Allen and Allan "Rocky" Lane 

continue as top hands at Republic, while 

Wild Bill Elliott. Whip Wilson and the 

Johnny Mack Brown-Jimmy Ellison team 

are on the Monogram payroll. 

America being the sports-loving nation 

that it is. upcoming picture schedules 

are dotted with entries ranging from 

horseracing (Columbia's "Boots Malone") 

to baseball (20th Century-Fox's "Pride of 

St. Louis" and Warners' "Alexander, the 

Big Leaguer"), football ("All-American" 

at Universal-International) and boxing 

(U-I's "Hear No Evil"). There's some 

stress, too. on pictures with a "message," 

whether they be an attack upon some social 

problem such as Paramount's indictment 

of alcoholism, "Something to Live 

For," barrages against Communism and 

the Iron Curtain, of which Monogram's 

"The Steel Fist" and Metro's "The Big 

Lie" are examples, or entertainmentcoated 

preachments for Americanism, as 

exemplified by "Mr. Congressman," which 

Leo now has in work. 

REVIVALS OF OLD HITS 

The theory that good story themes (like 

old generals) never die is bringing forth 

an unusually heavy agenda of—you should 

pardon the expression—remakes. One of 

the biggest grossers of all time, Warners' 

"The Jazz Singer." has been dusted off 

and will be brought up to date in a new 

version. Currently in production at 20th 

Century-Pox are "What Price Glory," 

and "Les Miserables," while Metro—with 

"The Merry Widow" awaiting release 

has scheduled a new treatment of the silent 

hit, "Flesh and the Devil," as well as 

musical version of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" 

and "Peg O' My Heart." 

Biographical subjects appear to be retaining 

a strong grip upon the affections 

of the picture-makers and, it is to be 

hoped, the paying public. Typifying this 

type of celluloid are Samuel Goldwyn's 

forthcoming "Hans Christian Andersen." 

based on the life of the famed Danish 

spinner of fairy tales; Paramount's "The 

Houdini Story." 20th Century-Fox's "The 

Pi'esident's Lady." a biography of Andrew 

Jackson and his wife, and Warners' "The 

Will Rogers Story" and "The Eddie Cantor 

Story." 

STAGE HITS AND NOVELS 

Incomplete would be any production 

year if it did not contain an array of film 

versions of stage successes and best-selling 

novels. That a Broadway stage hit 

can still command a top price as concerns 

the acquisition of screen rights thereto 

was demonstrated when 20th Century-Fox 

opened the purse strings to purchase "Call 

Me Madam" and "Gentlemen Prefer 

Blondes" while Warners has completed 

filming of "Where's Charley?" and Stanley 

Kramer, who will make them for Columbia, 

picked up "The Happy Time" and 

"Member of the Wedding." Over at Paramount 

"Stalag 17" is in the works and Hal 

Wallis, for release through that company, 

is about to launch "Come Back, Little 

Sheba." In the best-seller categoi'y Columbia 

scriveners are doing their derndest 

to delete the four-letter words from 

James Jones' "From Here to Eternity," 

while Metro will make "Moonfleet" and 

RKO Radio has "The Left Hand of God" 

on its docket. 

In toto, and as heretofore noted, an 

encouraging aura of optimism in production 

circles, strengthened by a diversified 

lineup of potent boxoffice properties, renders 

it reasonably safe to predict that 1952 

is going to be a healty year for industryites 

who aren't averse to a spot of enthusiastic 

hard work. 

BOXOFFICE 15

IT'S ALWAYS, To 

. . . Look At These Standout O 

JET PILOT 

(TBCHNICOLOR) 

THE BIG SKY 

(WINCHSSTER-HOWAUD HAWKS) 

THE LAS VEGAS 

STORY 

TEMBO 

(ANSCO COLOR) 

ANDROCLES 

AND THE LION 

(PASCAL) 

CHUCK-A-LUCK 

(TECHNICOLOR) 

DOUBLE 

DYNAMITE! 

ON DANGEROUS 

GROUND 

SNOW WHITE and 

the SEVEN DWARFS 

(DISNEY-TBCHNICOLOR) 

(RE-RELEASE) 

SONS OF THE 

MUSKETEERS 

(TECHNICOLOR) 

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MONTANA BELLE 

(TRUCOLOR) 

HAKD, FAST AND 

BEAUTIFUL 

THE STORY OF 

ROBIN HOOD 

IDISNEY-TECHNICOLOR) 

(ALL LIVE ACTION) 

JUNGLE 

HEADHUNTERS 

(SOL LESSER) 

(Print By TECHNICOLOR) 

HAPPY GO LOVELY 

(TECHNICOLOR) 

THE BLUE VEIL 

(WALD-KRASNA) 

I 

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WOMAN 

TWO TICKETS 

TO BROADWAY 

(TECHNICOLOR) 

ON THE LOOSE 

(FIIMAKERS) 

THE RACKET 

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THE KOREAN STORY 

{EDMUND GRAINGER) 

GYPSY BLOOD 

(DAVID O. SELZNICK 

- TECHNICOLOR) 

THIS MAN IS MINE 

(WALD-KRASNA) 

ALICE IN 

WONDERLAND 

(DISNEY-TECHNICOLOR) 

BEHAVE YOURSELF! 

IWALD-KRASNA) 

DRUMS IN THE 

DEEP SOUTH 

(SUPERCINECOLOR-KING BROS.) 

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SLAUGHTER 

I 

WANT YOU 

(SAMUEL GOLDWYN) 

THE HALF-BREED 

(TECHNICOLOR) 

CLASH BY NIGHT ;ht 

(WAID-KRASNA) 

THE RAGGED EDGE 

FLYING 

LEATHERNECKS 

(TECHNICOLOR-EDMUND GRAINGER) 

TRAIL 

(CINECOLOR) 

TARZAN'S 

SAVAGE FURY 

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— and here are just 

some of the stars. 

DANA ANDREWS 

«« BARKER 

WILLIAM BENDIX 

JOAN BLONDELL 

ANN BLYTH 

GEORGE BRENT 

JACK BUETEL 

CARMICHAEL 

JANIS *!?.t2^ 

CARTER 

JAMES CRAIG 

MARLENE DIETRICH 

GLORIA DeHAVEN 

BRIAN 

KIRK DONLEVY 

DOUGLAS 

MELVYN DOUGLAS 

PAUL DOUGLAS 

JOAN EVANS 

MAURICE EVANS 

MEL FERRER 

SALLY FORREST 

FARLEY GRANGER 

fWSAN HAYWARD 

JENNIFER 

CHARLES 

JONES 

LAUGHTON 

JANET LEIGH 

IDA LUPINO 

DOROTHY McGUiRE 

GROUCHO MARX 

TONY MARTIN 

ANN MILLER 

ROBERT 

MARILYN 

MITCHUM 

ROBERT MONROE 

NEWTON 

DAVID NIVEN 

MAUREEN O'HARA 

CESAR ROMERO 

JANE RUSSELL 

ROBERT RYAN 

GEORGE SANDERS 

LIZABETH scon 

JEAN SIMMONS 

FRANK SINATRA 

BARBARA STANWYCK 

CLAIRE TREVOR 

VERA-ELLEN 

JOHN WAYNE 

CORNEL WILDE 

MARIE WILSON 

SHELLEY 

WINTERS 

JANE WYMAN 

ALAN YOUNG 

ROBERT YOUNG 

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TECHNICOLOR 

IS THE TRADE MARK OF 

MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION 

HERBERT T. KALMUS, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER 

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Exhibitors, Press and Public Film 

Groups Make Selectiorts POPULRRITV 

^L _^//._^mencun 3uuonteS iL of 1951 

JUNE 

ALLYSON and Bing 

Crosby, in that order, have won 

top honors for the second year 

among America's favorite film stars. 

Securing her lead over the masculine 

contingent by v/inning twice in 

a row, the little actress, whose name 

first appeared in the voting lists in 

1943, establishes herself as no flashin-the-pan, 

but as an example of the 

steady pull to popularity by means 

of a long string of solid successes at 

the boxoffice. She proves, again, 

that the American movie fan is not 

a fickle individual who changes his 

loyalties from year to year. Many 

things go into the making of a 

popular favorite. These include years 

of well-played roles in good pictures, 

a careful handling of the build-up 

through publicity plus, of course, the 

essential quality of personal magnetism. 

Miss Allyson seems to have 

demonstrated her ability to grasp 

and hold the affections of motion 

picture fans. 

Jane Wyman's rise to third place 

in the combined list is another 

example of the long years cm actress 

may wait to win the lavor of the fans. 

Five years ago, despite some ten 

years and 35 pictures before the 

camera, she did not place among 

runnersup in the poll, although she 

had a substantial number of hits behind 

her. Yet in the last three years 

she has reached the top rungs of 

the popularity ladder. 

Nosing out favorites of other years 

on the combined list, three feminine 

stars appear for the first time. Doris 

Day, Susan Hayward and Jeanne 

Croin displace Claudette Colbert, 

Loretta Young and Olivia de Hovilland. 

Of last year's stars Clark 

Gable, Bob Hope and Spencer Tracy 

have slipped out, but John Wayne 

makes it for the first time. Crosby, 

Gregory Peck, Cary Grant and Gary 

Cooper of the old guard still reign, 

apparently indestructible in popularity. 

This year, as in all the years it has 

been in existence, the poll brings 

home the fact that stardom, in itself, 

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VARIETY 

REPORTER 

It is a must see . . . Fredric March starred as Willy 

Loman in one of the great film performances of the 

year... shattering in its emotional impact. ..A memorable 

film experience. 

A dramatic masterpiece... gripping entertainment 

March surely ranks as a leading contender 

in the awards tournament. 

FILM DAILY 

Fredric March's "Willy Loman" a brilliant rendition 

...immediately sets him up for consideration in the 

matter of masculine acting honors and awards. 

ROXOFFICE 

MOTION PICTURE DAILY 

Impressively mounted, skillfully and sensitively 

directed by Laslo Benedek, the picture is a field 

day of superb performances, with Fredric March 

dominating in the title role. 

Fredric March turns in a performance of matchless 

brilliance. Richly rewarding. 

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Romance goes wild and 

Rhythm runs riot! 

SHE'S FUNNY THAT M\ 

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Raymond BURR 

Stofy aod Screeoplay by DON McGUi • Directed by JOSEPH PB/NEY- Produced by LEONARD GOLDSIEIN

THE flLL-flUlffilCfln mm fflVORIItS Of 1951 

THE WINNERS: 

1. JUNE ALLYSON 

2. BING CROSBY 

3. JANE WYMAN 

4. ESTHER WILLIAMS 

5. GREGORY PECK 

6. GARY GRANT 

MALE 

7. GARY COOPER 

8. DORIS DAY 

9. SUSAN HAYWARD 

10. BETTY GRABLE 

11. JEANNE GRAIN 

12. JOHN WAYNE 

FEMALE 

1. Bing Crosby 8. James Stewart 1. June AUyson 7. Jeanne Grain 

2. Gregory Peck 

9. Bob Hope 2. Jane Wyman 8. Elizabeth Taylor 

3. Gary Grant 

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10. Gene Kelly Esther Williams 9. Loretta Young 

4. Gary Cooper 

11. Montgomery Ghft 4. Doris Day 10. Glaudette Golbert 

5. John Wayne 

I. Spencer Tracy 12. Dean Martin and 5. Susan Haywardll. Ava Gardner 

7. Clark Gable Jerry Lewis 6. Betty Grable 12. Jane Powell 

leii 

The Runnersup: 

Chandler 

Alan Ladd 

Bud Abbott and 

Lou Costello 

Mario Lanza 

Van lohnson 

Fred Astaire 

Randolph Scott 

Kirk Douglas 

William Holden 

Joseph Gotten 

Dan Doiley 

Red Skelton 

Glenn Ford 

Dana Andrews 

Joel McCrea 

2^ 

(Listed in Order of Highest Number of Votes Received) 

Humphrey Bogart 

Marlon Brando 

Jose Ferrer 

Danny Kaye 

Farley Granger 

Burt Lancaster 

Fred MacMurray 

Clifton Webb 

Richard Widmark 

Ronald Colman 

Paul Douglas 

Ray Milland 

Lionel Barrymore 

Broderick Crowlord 

Robert Taylor 

Walter Pidgeon 

Stewart Granger 

1. June Allyson 4. Gary Cooper 

2. John Wayne 5. Doris Day 

3. Esther Williams 6. Betty Grable 

1. John Wayne 

2. Gary Cooper 

3. Bing Crosby 

4. Abbott & Costello 

5. Randolph Scott 

G. Martin & Lewris 

Bette Davis 

Barbara Stanwyck 

Judy HoUiday 

Marjorie Main 

Joan Crawriord 

Shelley Winters 

Betty Hutton 

Ann Blyth 

Vivien Leigh 

Anne Baxter 

Ethel Borrymore 

Ruth Roman 

Irene Dunne 

Jane Russell 

Judy Garland 

Olivia de Hovilland 

HOW THE EXHIBITORS VOTED 

7. Spencer Tracy 

8. Van lohnson 

9. Clark Gable 

10. James Stewart 

11. Joel McCrea 

12. Alan Ladd 

Lana Turner 

Virginia Mayo 

Janet Leigh 

Thelma Ritter 

June Haver 

Rosalind Russell 

Eve Arden 

Deborah Kerr 

Lucille Ball 

Gene Tiemey 

Katharine Hepburn 

Greer Garson 

Kathryn Grayson 

Ginger Rogers 

Maureen O'Hora 

Joan Fontaine 

7. Bing Crosby 10. Jeanne Grain 

8. Abbotts Costello 11. Jane Powell 

9. Marjorie Main 12. Susan Hayward 

1. June AUyson 

2. Esther Williams 

3. Doris Day 

4. Betty Grable 

5. Marjorie Main 

G. Jeanne Grain 

7. Jane Powell 

8. Susan Hayward 

9. Jane Wyman 

10. Elizabeth Taylor 

11. Glaudette Golbert 

12. Loretta Young 

The Medalists: 

(Lis'ed 

Tyrone Power 

William Bendix 

Von Heflin 

Henry Fonda 

lames Cogney 

Macdonald Carey 

Charles Laughton 

Ronald Reagan 

Howard Keel 

Robert Mitchum 

Percy Kilbride 

Robert Young 

Wendell Corey 

Jimmy Durante 

Barry Fitzgerald 

Gordon MacRae 

Fredric March 

James Mason 

George Sanders 

Rod Cameron 

Tony Curtis 

Edmund Gwenn 

Audie Murphy 

Rex Harrison 

Louis Calhern 

John Gariield 

Errol Flynn 

Joe E- Brown 

in 

Dick Powell 

Charles Boyer 

Claude Rains 

Steve Cochran 

John Hodiak 

Dennis Morgan 

Charles Coburn 

Frank Lovejoy 

John Derek 

Gene Nelson 

Keenan Wynn 

Robert Cummings 

Howard Duff 

Dennis Day 

Ricordo Montalban 

Douglas Fairbanks j 

Order Named) 

Male 

David Wayne 

David Brian 

Charles Chaplin 

David Niven 

Donald O'Connor 

Peter Lawford 

William Lundigan 

John Payne 

Victor Mature 

Ezio Pinza 

Dale Robertson 

Lew Ayres 

Dan Duryea 

Vincent Price 

Richard Conte 

Pat O'Brien 

Rory Calhoun 

Jock Carson 

Leo Gorcey 

Richard Basehart 

Mel Ferrer 

Arthur Kennedy 

Cornel Wilde 

Dane Clark 

George Murphy 

Robert Ryan 

Ray Bolger 

Melvyn Douglas 

Dean Stockwell 

Scott Brady 

Gary Merrill 

William Powell 

Edward G. Robinson 

Monty WooUey 

Eddie Albert 

Brian Donlevy 

John Ireland 

Fernando Lamas 

John Lund 

Barry Sullivan 

Richard Todd 

Johnny V/eissmuller 

Orson Welles 

r. Tom Ewell 

Female 

Rhonda Fleming 

Lizabeth Scott 

Celeste Holm 

Barbara Bel Geddes 

Dorothy Lamour 

Josephine Hull 

Mercedes 

Diana Lynn 

McCambridge Peggy Dow 

Gloria Swanson 

Dorothy McGuire 

Vera-Ellen 

Eleanor Parker 

Arlene Dahl 

Hedy Lamarr 

Patricia Neol 

Jennifer Jones 

Linda Darnell 

Margaret O'Brien 

Mona Freeman 

Susan Peters 

Morta Toren 

Claire Trevor 

Cyd Charisse 

Gloria DeHaven 

Paulette Goddord 

Lilli Palmer 

Marlene Dietrich 

Spring Byington 

Yvonne De Carlo 

Rita Hayworth 

Corinne Calvet 

Joan Davis 

Joan Caulfield 

Piper Laurie 

Ann Sothern 

Joan Leslie 

Maureen O'Sullivan 

Dinah Shore 

Joan Evans 

Gertrude Lawrence 

Jan Sterling 

Jean Peters 

Ida Lupino 

Gail Russell 

Joan Bennett 

Nancy Olson 

Ann Sheridan 

Sally Forrest 

Myrno Loy 

Margaret Sullavan 

Teresa Wright 

Barbara Hole 

Alexis Smith 

Mitzi Gaynor 

Marie Wilson 

Leslie Caron 

Debra Paget 

Pier Angeli 

Betsy Drake 

Wanda Hendrix 

Danielle Darrieux 

Joanne Dru 

Merle Oberon 

Shirley Temple 

Phyllis Thaxter 

Judith Anderson 

Lauren Bacall 

Sarah Churchill 

Laraine Day 

Evelyn Keyes 

Ann Miller 

Valli 


''HERE COMES THE GROOM" -Bing's current release is 

a top-moneymaker of 1951. And in 1952 comes Bing's biggest 

of all:"JUST FOR YOU" co-starring 

Bing Crosby, 

Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore. Color by Technicolor.

HAL WALLIS

PINE and THOMAS 

Current; 

"Hong Kong" 

Completed: 

'The Blazing Forest' 

Shooting: 

"Caribbean Gold" 

All in Color 

by 

Technicolor 

For 

PARAMOUNT 

BOXOFFICE 33

' 

JL îLAmericun l/Uedtei'n ûuorit 

B IDING at the head of the pro- 

P^ cession this year again, Roy 

Rogers, with "Trigger" in parade 

gait, swings into every small 

town American Main street. He has 

maintained the front-and-center spot 

[or nine years of undisputed rule over 

the affections of small boys and their 

grownup counterparts. And for those 

nine years his footsteps have been 

persistently dogged by his contemporary. 

Gene Autry. Proving the love 

of the public for the "Toby" since 

tent show days, is the redoubtable 

George "Gabby" Hayes, representing 

tops in that necessary ingredient 

to all successful films, comic relief. 

Just behind the leading trio, and 

climbing steadily, is young Tim Holt. 

He seems to be taking the steps two 

at a time, since last year in sixth 

place, he settles into fourth as of 

1951. 

It is high time to polish up the 

saddle and the bridle and slick up 

the cowboys themselves for, riding 

full tilt into the rodeo arena, are a 

couple of gals ready to whoop it up 

with the best of the male stars. Dale 

Evans and Judy Canova in fifth and 

sixth place respectively. 

The old bromide that "there is 

nothing new under the sun" about 

Westerns was blown into a cocked 

hat in 1951. Not that the tried and 

true formulas were found wanting. 

But for reasons unknown, producers 

of the sagebrush-and-tumbleweed 

epics shifted their six-shooters and 

launched out in several new directions. 

These innovations seem to 

have met with the approval of the 

fans and it may well be that their 

ROY ROGERS 

THE 

1. Roy Rogers 

2. Gene Autry 

LEADERS 

3. George "Gabby" Hayes 

4. Tim Holt 

5. Dale Evans 

6. Judy Canova 

7. Smiley Bumette 

8. "Wild Bill" Elliott 

9. Rex Allen 

10. Charles Starrett 

numbers will have been increased 

thereby. 

To those who follow Westerns 

there has been a noticeable number 

of additions in story content. New 

situations, formerly considered 

proper grist for the standard featurewriting 

mill, have been lifted to embellish 

and enrich the old heromasquerades-as-a-villian 

theme. Historical 

incidents have, in more than 

a few instances, furnished the starting 

point for the standard exploits of 

the hero. The hero has even, on occasion, 

been given a new role to 

play. Invading the realms of the professions, 

he has become a doctor or 

a lawyer, albeit a hard-riding and 

hard-shooting doctor or lawyer. Like 

the music which goes round and 

round and comes out here, the performances 

are usually the same, but 

certainly the element of change has 

been introduced. 

Women, formerly delegated to a 

position below that of the hero's 

horse in importance in Westerns, 

have been given a new prominence. 

More women and children are being 

cast as supernumeraries as a routine 

measure. Leading women, in particular, 

have been given more to do 

and more to say. In fact, for the first 

time the names of women appeared 

on the ballot of All-American favorites. 

Achieving this recognition, of 

a standing with the fans in their own 

right, were Dale Evans, Judy Canova 

and the moppet, Eilene Janssen. 

In the case of Miss Evans, a better 

share of the honors has been evident 

since her marriage to Roy Rogers. 

Tlie publicity tour she made with 

her husband added to her popularity, 

and to his. The leavening ingredient 

introduced into the standard 

fare has made the Western a betterbalanced 

article of the motion picture 

diet. 

Judy Canova was launched during 

1951 in a picture, "Honeychile, 

\//hich is the first of a series designed 

to give her prominence as the Queen 

of the Cowgirls. Certainly a new departure 

m that, for the first time in 

a long while, a woman is to be the 

star of a western series, and her producers 

display such confidence that 

hers is the only "name" in the cast. 

This would seem to bear out the fact 

that woman's sphere is definitely no 

longer the home and the sunset. 

The same studio has sponsored 

still another innovation, that of a 

well-planned, long-range operation 

in exploiting two youngsters, Eilene 

Janssen and Michael Chapin, as 

western stars. The idea being that 

they be given experience and buildup 

as child stars, with the hope that 

such buildup will result in adult popularity 

in a few years. So far three 

pictures starring the pair have been 

released, "Buckaroo Sheriff of 

Texas," "Arizona Manhunt" and 

"The Dakota Kid." 

With public acceptance of these 

departures from precedent a wellestablished 

fact, who can say what 

new and wonderful things may be 

added in the realm of this old, but 

greatly loved, field of motion picture 

entertainment. The task of the producers 

will be to keep all the "old" 

that is good and to sift carefully and 

discard or accept those new things 

which will add interest and color to 

the product. In so doing, they may 

find that they have tapped a flood of 

new audiences which will assure an 

even greater degree of success for 

this perennial favorite. 

GENE AUTRY

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(ârtoond rJêad the ^hort ûbiectd l-ârade 

by VELMA WEST SYKES 

TAKING A POLL of short subjects 

among exhibitors is about the most 

reliable way of finding out how popular 

shorts are as the "dessert" portion of a 

theatre program. Commenting on his ballot, 

one exhibitor wrote, "Everyone likes 

short subjects—we ought to play more of 

them." And another was able to pick the 

top winners in the series field, for he wrote, 

"Bugs Bunny Specials 

and Tom & Jerry 

Cartoons are oui- best ones." That seemed 

to be the way the majority felt, for Warner's 

Bugs Bunny Specials zoomed into 

top place this year, with Tom & Jerry 

Cartoons closely crowding that position. 

Last year the positions were reversed, so it 

will be interesting to see if this seesaw 

keeps up in their relative support by the 

public taste. Another exhibitor insisted, 

"MGM and WB make the best shorts." 

Said still another, "MGM's shorts are consistently 

the best—they have new and 

fresh ideas." 

Disney Cartoons (RKO) held to third 

place where that series had scored last 

year, but there was a tie for foui-th place- 

Woody Woodpecker Cartunes (U-I) and 

Pete Smith Specialties (MGM). Last year 

March of Time (20th-Fox) was fourth this 

year, seventh. Popeye Cartoons (Para) 

moved up a notch to fifth place, and 

Stooge Comedies (Col) came up from 

eighth to sixth place. Merrie Melodies— 

Looney Tunes (WB) fell back one. to ninth 

place, and this year Grantland Rice 

Sportlights (Para) shared tenth place with 

Joe McDoakes Comedies (WB). 

From this series popularity choice, it 

would seem that people like their shorts 

humorous and a little on the "goofy" side. 

Lest this conclusion be reached too 

hastily, however, it would be well to examine 

the results of the poll of single 

short subjects chosen. The first is RKO's 

Disney featurette, "Nature's Half Acre," 

and since last year's top position went to 

Disney's "Beaver Valley," either the public 

likes longer shorts, nature realism, or 

it just likes factual subjects treated with 

imaginative artistry. 

Truth may not only be stranger than 

fiction, it may be more popular, for the 

short given second place was "Dobbin 

Steps Out" (Para), a Sportlight taken at 

the American Royal in Kansas City in 

which exhibitor George Baker's daughter. 

Linda, rides. "The Popcorn Story" (Col)— 

third from the top— is, of course, in the 

spoofing tradition, as is "JeiTy's Cousin" 

(MGM), number 4. "Enchanted Islands" 

(WB) combines the two, with unusual 

color and narration, but has to share fifth 

place honors with "Stage Struck" (20th- 

Fox), a delightful little fantasy of a baby 

elephant that wants to get into the circus 

act. 

Sixth place went to "Spooky Wooky" 

(RKO), a Leon Errol comedy. In this connection, 

one exhibitor wrote, "It is too bad 

Errol died. Maybe the type can be con- 

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O THE EXHIBITORS OF AMERICA: 

n recognition of your voting 

JOHN WAYNE top male star 

of 

the year in the BOXOFFICE 

BAROMETER POLL.... 

REPUBLIC PICTURES 

proudly presents 

JOHN WAYNE 

in his greatest 

boxoffice performance 

I 

n 

John Ford's 

TECHNICOLOR PRODUCTION 

Quiet 

Man

mam 

1 

Picture Hecords at the Nation's BoxofHces 

GROSSeS 

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55 Features in "Hit" Class 

Scoring 120% or 

More 

llpEATURE releases for 1950-51 and the box- 

*'* office records made by them are challenging 

to those who have pictured motion 

pictures as on their way out of the public entertainment 

field. Not only were 371 features 

released the past season in comparison with 

359 for 1949-50, but of these releases, 168 are 

shown to hove done average business (100 

per cent) or better in theatre first runs and 55 

of them were top hits—playing to 120 per cent 

or over. Last season there were 53 in the top 

hit class and 136 did average business or better. 

A study of the report shows that 45 per cent, 

nearly half, were average grossers; and better 

than 10 per cent of the whole became top hits. 

Tell that to the gloom-spreaders! 

While figures for the average base percentage 

gross must be changed every few 

months, the economy is naturally geared for 

making a reasonable profit. The top grosser, 

"David and Bathsheba" scored 211 for the 

1950-51 season as compared with "Samson 

and Delilah" which ran up to 221 per cent for 

1949-50. There were still two features for the 

present season that did more than 200 per cent 

of average business, and eight did more than 

150 per cent. This is not as many in that 

bracket as last season's figures, which show 

13 with 150 per cent business or better. Also, 

last season seven did more than 140 per cent 

and only six came that high this season. Going 

further, 14 did 130 per cent or more last year 

and only ten this year. However, 31 came 

over the top at 120 per cent or more this year 

compared with 19 in that bracket last year. So 

the picture as a whole is still good from the 

boxoffice standpoint. 

This year 12 of the top hits were winners of 

the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award compared 

to 1 1 last year—which means that all of the pictures 

selected by the National Screen Council 

for their family entertainment this year were 

top money-makers. This is a wholesome note 

on the public's taste in screenfare. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer again had the most 

releases which were top grossers, producing 1 

hits. The runnerup was 20th Century-Fox, with 

ten hits. The other companies were represented 

by the following, in the order of the number 

produced Warner Bros, had seven. Paramount 

and RKO tied with six each, United 

Artists, five Universal-International, four; Republic, 

two; Lopert, one. 

(These Scored Ratings of 150% or More) 

DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (20th-Fox) 211 

SHOW BOAT (MGM) 201 

THAT'S MY BOY (Para) 179 

TALES OF HOFFMANN (Lopert) 168 

WKING SOLOMON'S MINES (MGM) 176 

RIVER, THE (UA) 170 

UGREAT CARUSO, THE (MGM) 167 

UALICE IN WONDERLAND (RKO) 157 


BORN YESTERDAY (Col) 149 

AT WAR WTFH THE ARMY (Para) 148 

w'KiM (MGM) 146 

CYRANO DE BERGERAC (UA) 146 

UCAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER (WB) 142 

^FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND (MGM) 142 

These Scored Ratings of 130% or More) 

HALLS OF MONTEZUMA (20th-Fox) 138 

4>HARVEY (U-I) 138 

*JROYAL WEDDING (MGM) 138 

DALLAS (WB) 137 

OUR VERY OWN (RKO) 137 

THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD. THE (RKO) 137 

OPERATION PACmC (WB) 

MR. MUSIC (Para) 

133 

KON-TKI (RKO) 

OON THE RIVIEHA (20th-Fox) . 

OWinners of Blue Ribbon Award 

135 

131 

130 

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BAROMETER Section

What They Did in First Runs • Outstanding Hits 

51-31 

Key Cities From Which Averages Were Computed: 

Baltimore Cincinnati Detroit Minneapolis Philadelphic 

Boston Cleveland Indianapolis New Haven Pittsburgh 

Bullalo Dallas Kansas City New York San Francis 

Chicago Denver Los Angeles Omaha Seattle 

And intermediate cities and typical small town situations. 


ALL ABOUT EVE (20lh-Fox) 129 

GO FOR BROKE (MGM) 129 

MACBETH (Rep) 127 

TEA FOR TWO (WB) 127 

TOMAHAWK (U-I) 126 

I'LL GET BY (20th-Fox) 125 

ON MOONLIGHT BAY (WB) 125 

PAGAN LOVE SONG (MGM) 125 

VVFANCY PANTS (Para) 124 

OLIVER TWIST (UA) 124 

PEOPLE WILL TALK (20th-Fox) 124 

RICH, YOUNG AND PRETTY (MGM) 124 

UP FRONT (U-I) 124 

UTREASURE ISLAND 

(RKO) 

WEST POINT STORY, THE (WB) 

TO PLEASE A LADY (MGM) 

TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS (MGM) 

VALENTINO 

(Col) 

u FROGMEN, THE (20th-Fox) 

LULLABY OF BROADWAY (WB) 

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE 

INVISIBLE MAN (U-I) 

fflBCALL ME MISTER (20th-Fox) 

123 

123 

122 

122 

122 

121 

121 

120 

120 

168 Features Out of 371 

Do Average or Better 

A 


Invisible Man (U-I) 120 

According to Mrs. Hoyle (Mono) 86 

Air Cadet (U-I) 94 

Al Jennings of Oklahoma (Col) 105 

Alice in Wonderland (RKO) 157 

All About Eve (20th-Fox) 129 

Along the Great Divide (WB) 100 

American Guerrilla in the 

Philippines (20th-Fox) 113 

Apache Drums (U-I) '39 

Appointment With Danger (Para) 95 

As You Were (LP) 95 

As Young as You Feel (20th-Fox) 86 

At War With the Army (Para) 148 

B 

Bandit Queen (LP) 97 

Bedtime for Bonzo (U-I) 100 

Belle Le Grand (Rep) 99 

Best of the Badmen (RKO) 87 

Between Midnight and Dawn (Col) 103 

Big Carnival, The (Para) 113 

Big Gusher, The (Col) 95 

Bird of Paradise (20th-Fox) 110 

Blue Blood (Mono) 95 

Blue Lamp, The (UA) * 

Born to Be Bad (RKO) 99 

Born Yesterday (Col) 149 

Bowery Battalion (Mono) 100 

Branded (Para) 116 

Brave Bulls, The (Col) 95 

Breaking Point, The (WB) 103 

Breakthrough (WB) 116 

Bullfighter and the Lady (Rep) 88 

Bunco Squad (RKO) 100 

FABIOLA (UA) 

FIVE (Col) 

FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE (20th-Fox) 

LEMON DROP KID, THE (Para) 

OF MEN AND MUSIC (20th-Fox) 

PAYMENT ON DEMAND (RKO) 

RIO GRANDE (Rep) 

TRIO (Para) 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120 

120 

C 

California Passage (Rep) 99 

Call Me Mister (20th-Fox) 120 

Captain Horatio Hornblower (WB) 142 

Casa Manana (Mono) 90 

Cassino to Korea (Para) 86 

Cattle Drive (U-1) 35 

Editor's Note: 100% is average or normal business. 

'Insufficient reports for computation. 

WELL, THE (UA) 

BOXOFFICE 

120 

^Westerns not included. 

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Cause for Alarm (MGM) 85 

Cavalry Scout (Mono) 95 

Chain Gang (Col) 100 

Chain of Circumstance (Col) 37 

China Corsair (Col) 82 

Circle of Danger (UA) 95 

Comin' Round the Mountain (U-I) 95 

Company She Keeps, The (RKO) 101 

Convicted (Col) 112 

Copper Canyon (Para) 105 

Corky of Gasoline Alley (Col) 91 

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (Col) 100 

Cry Danger (RKO) 

98 

Cuban Fireball (Rep) 96 

Cyrano de Bergerac (UA) 146 

D 

Dallas (WB) 137 

Danger Zone (LP) 95 

Dark City (Para) 98 

David and Bathsheba (20th-Fox) 211 

Day the Earth Stood Still, The (20th-Fox) 116 

Dear Brat (Para) 91 

Deported (U-I) 98 

Devil's Doorway (MGM) 103 

Dial 1119 (MGM) 

97 

Disc Jockey (Mono) 95 

Double Crossbones (U-I) 94 

Double Deal (RKO) 96 

E 

Edge of Doom (RKO) 101 

Elephant Stampede (Mono) 104 

Emergency Wedding (Col) 94 

Enforcer, The (WB) 115 

Excuse My Dust (MGM) 112 

Experiment Alcatraz (RKO) 95 

F 

Fabiola (UA) 120 

Fancy Pants (Para) 124 

Farewell to Yesterday (20th-Fox) 87 

Fat Man, The (U-I) 88 

Father Takes the Air (Mono) 90 

Father's Little Dividend (MGM) 142 

Father's Wild Game (Mono) 89 

Fighting Coast Guard (Rep) 98 

Fingerprints Don't Lie (LP) 91 

Fireball, The (20th-Fox) 94 

First Legion, The (UA) 114 

Five (Col) 120 

Flame of Stamboul (Col) 95 

Flying Missile, The (Col) 94 

Follow the Sun (20th-Fox) 101 

Footlight Varieties (RKO) 97 

"ôr Heaven's Sake (2Gth-Fox) 120 

lort Worth (WB) 97 

Four in a Jeep (UA) 109 

Fourteen Hours (20th-Fox) 91 

Francis Goes to the Races (U-I) 1 15 

Frenchie (U-I) 108 

Frogmen, The (20th-Fox) 121 

Fugitive Lady (Rep) 100 

Fuller Brush Girl, The (Col) 100 

Fury of the Congo (Col) 93 

G 

Gambling House (RKO) 90 

Gasoline Alley (Col) 97 

Ghost Chasers (Mono) 95 

GI Jane (LP) 92 

Glass Menagerie, The (WB) 105 

Go for Broke! (MGM) 123 

God Needs Men (A.F.E. Corp.) 115 

Golden Horde, The (U-I) 103 

Golden Salamander (UA) 100 

Goodbye, My Fancy (WB) 96 

Great Caruso, The (MGM) 167 

Great Manhunt, The (Col) 102 

Great Missouri Raid, The (Para) 97 

Groom Wore Spurs, The (U-I) 92 

Grounds for Marriage (MGM) 95 

Gypsy Fury (Mono) 93 

Guy Who Came Back, The (20th-Fox) 106 

H 

Half Angel (20th-Fox) 103 

Halls of Montezuma (20th-Fox) 138 

Hard, Fast and Beautiful (RKO) 96 

Harriet Craig (Col) 106 

Harvey (U-I) 138 

He Ran All the Way (UA) 107 

Her First Romance (Col) 98 

He's a Cockeyed Wonder (Col) 104 

Highly Dangerous (LP) 91 

Highway 301 (WB) 104 

Highwayman, The (Mono) 80 

Hit Parade of 1951 (Rep) 85 

Hollywood Story (U-I) 91 

Home Town Boy (LP) * 

Home Town Story (MGM) 96 

Hoodlum, The (UA) 95 

Hotel Sahara (UA) 96 

House on Telegraph Hill (20th-Fox) 97 

Hunt the Man Down (RKO) 104 

Hurricane Island (Col) 98 

I 

I Can Get It for You Wholesale (20th-Fox)....l 10 

I Was an American Spy (Mono) 37 

1 Was a Communist for the FBI (WB) 109 

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (20th-Fox)....lG5 

111 Get By (20th-Fox) 125 

Inheritance, The (Fine Arts) 101 

Inside Straight (MGM) 96 

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (WB) 92 

Insurance Investigator (Rep) 92 

Interrupted Journey (Lopert) 100 

Iron Man (U-I) 110 

I 

Jackpot, The (20th-Fox) 107 

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In 

Distribution: 

When Worlds Collide 

In Preparation: 

H. G. Wells' 

The War of the Worlds 

The Houdini Story 


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Cy/TOdAeA 

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (Mono).... 90 

Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (Mono) 90 

Jungle Headhunters (RKO) 100 

K 

Kansas Raiders (U-I) 97 

Katie Did It (U-I) 95 

Kentucky Jubilee (LP) 90 

Killer That Stalked New York, The (Col) 95 

Kim (MGM) 146 

Kind Lady (MGM) 100 

King Solomon's Mines (MGM) 176 

Kon-Tiki (RKO) 131 

Korea Patrol (UA) 96 

L 

Lady and the Bandit, The (Col) 97 

Lady From Texas, The (U-I) 78 

Last of the Buccaneers (Col) 91 

Last Outpost, The (Para) 96 

Law and the Lady, The (MGM) 89 

Leave It to the Marines (LP) 95 

Lemon Drop Kid, The (Para) 120 

Let's Dance (Para) 107 

Let's Go Navy (Mono) 95 

Ufe of Her Own, A (MGM) 115 

Lightning Strikes Twice (WB) 96 

Lion Hunters, The (Mono) 88 

Little Ballerina (U-I) * 

Little Big Horn (LP) 106 

Little Egypt (U-I) 95 

Long Dark Hall, The (UA) 92 

Lorna Doone (Col) 96 

Lost Continent (LP) 107 

Louisa (U-I) 117 

Lucky Nick Cain (20th-Fox) 102 

Lullaby of Broadway (WB) 121 

M 

"M" (Col) 110 

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (U-I) 1)0 

Macbeth (Rep) 127 

Mad Wednesday (RKO) 97 

Madeleine (U-I)-. * 

Magnet, The (U-I) 107 

Magnificent Yankee, The (MGM) 93 

Man From Planet X, The (UA) 98 

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (20th-Fox).. 97 

Man With My Face, The (UA) 99 

Mark of the Renegade (U-I) 96 

Mask of the Avenger (Col) 97 

Mask of the Dragon (LP) 92 

Massacre Hill (Infl Rel) 95 

Mating Season, The (Para) 102 

Meet Me After the Show (20th-Fox) 118 

Milkman, The (U-I) 99 

Million Dollar Pursuit (Rep) 90 

Millionaire for Christy, A (20th-Fox) 96 

Miniver Story, The (MGM) 88 

Missing Women (Rep) 95 

Mister Drake's Duck (UA) 80 

Mister 880 (20th-Fox) 116 

Mister Universe (UA) 93 

Modern Marriage, A (Mono) 90 

Molly (Para) 93 

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (20th-Fox) 113 

Mr. Music (Para) 133 

Mr. Peek-a-Boo (UA) 87 

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (MGM) 96 

Mudlark, The (20th-Fox) 116 

My Forbidden Past (RKO) 109 

My Outlaw Brother (UA) 87 

My True Story (Col) 96 

Mystery Submarine (U-I) 93 

N 

Naughty Arlette (UA) 95 

Native Son (Classic Pictures) 115 

Navy Bound (Mono) 97 

Never a Dull Moment (RKO) 98 

Never Trust a Gambler (Col) 98 

New Mexico (UA) 104 

Next Voice You Hear . (MGM) 92 

Night Into Morning (MGM) 90 

No Questions Asked (MGM) 99 

No Way Out (20th-Fox) 

Ill 

O 

Obsessed (UA) 88 

Odette (UA) 96 

Of Men and Music (20th-Fox) 120 

Oh! Susanna (Rep) 89 

Oliver Twist (UA) 124 

One Minute to Twelve (UA) ;. * 

On Moonlight Bay (WB) 125 

On the Riviera (20th-Fox) 130 

Only the Valiant (WB) 114 

Operation Disaster (U-I) 87 

Operation Pacific (WB) 135 

Operation X (Col) 98 

Our Very Own (RKO) 137 

Outrage (RKO) 97 

P 

Pagan Love Song (MGM) 125 

Painted Hills, The (MGM) 89 

Paper Gallows (UA) 105 

Pardon My French (UA) 90 

Paris 1900 (Mayer) 100 

Passage West (Para) 99 

Payment on Demand (RKO) 120 

Peking Express (Para) 96 

People Will Talk (20th-Fox) 124 

Petty Girl, The (Col) 110 

Pickup (Col) 109 

Pier 23 (LP) 90 

Pool of London (U-I) 88 

Prehistoric Women (UA) 116 

Prelude to Fame (U-I) 98 

Pretty Baby (WB) 97 

Pride of Maryland (Rep) 96 

Prince Who Was a Thief, The (U-I) 107 

Prowler, The (UA) 102 

Pygmy Island (Col) 100 

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J-^lcture 

Cy/roASeS- 

Q 

Quebec (Para) 92 

Queen for a Day (UA) 84 

R 

Raton Pass (WB) 99 

Rawhide (20th-Fox) 115 

Redhead and the Cowboy, The (Para) 97 

Reunion in Reno (U-I) 78 

Revenue Agent (Col) 97 

Rhythm Inn (Mono) 95 

Rich, Young and Pretty (MGM) 124 

Right Cross (MGM) 102 

Rio Grande (Rep) 120 

River, The (UA) 170 

Roaring City (LP) 94 

Rocky Mountain (WB) 106 

Rogue River (UA) 95 

Rookie Fireman (Col) 97 

Royal Wedding (MGM) 138 

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Santa Fe (Col) 100 

Savage Drums (LP) 96 

Scarf, The (UA) 99 

Sealed Cargo (RKO) 92 

Second Face, The (UA) 97 

Second Woman, The (UA) 99 

Secret of Convict Lake, The (20th-Fox) 107 

Secrets of Monte Carlo (Rep) 88 

September Affair (Para) 104 

Seven Days to Noon (Distinguished Films).... 87 

Short Grass (Mono) 102 

Show Boat (MGM) 201 

Sierra Passage (Mono) 97 

Sirocco (Col) 106 

Skipalong Rosenbloom (UA) 89 

Sky High (LP) 83 

Smuggler's Gold (Col) 98 

Smuggler's Island (U-I) 93 

So Long at the Fair (UA) 116 

Soldiers Three (MGM) 96 

Southside 1-1000 (Mono)..., 98 

St. Benny the Dip (UA) 94 

Stage to Tucson (Col) 103 

Steel Helmet, The (LP) 112 

Stop That Cob (LP) 91 

Storm Warning (WB) 105 

Strangers on a Train (WB) 115 

Strictly Dishonorable (MGM) 93 

Strip, The (MGM) 99 

Sugarloot (WB) 109 

Sun Sets at Dawn, The (UA) 94 

Surrender (Rep) 97 

Sword of Monte Cristo (20th-Fox) 92 

T 

Take Care of My Little Girl (20th-Fox) 116 

Tales of Hoffmann (Lopert) 178 

Tall Target, The (MGM) 98 

Taming of Dorothy, The (UA) * 

Target Unknown (U-I) 100 

Tarzan's Peril (RKO) 90 

Tea for Two (WB) 127 

Teresa (MGM) 98 

Texan Meets Calamity Jane, The (Col) 95 

Texas Rangers, The (Col) 103 

That's My Boy (Para) 179 

They Were Not Divided (UA) * 

Thing From Another World, The (RKO) 137 

I3th Letter, The (20th-Fox) 91 

Three Desperate Men (LP) 98 

Three Guys Named Mike (MGM) 108 

Three Husbands (UA) 98 

Three Secrets (WB) 103 

Three Steps North (UA) 93 

Thunder on the Hill (U-I) 104 

To Please a Lady (MGM) 122 

Toast of New Orleans (MGM) 122 

Tokyo File 212 (RKO) 93 

Tomahawk (U-I) 126 

Tony Draws a Horse (Fine Arts) 103 

Tougher They Come, The (Col) 101 

Treasure Island (RKO) 123 

Trio (Para) 120 

Tripoli (Para) 103 

Try and Get Me (UA) 95 

Two Flags West (20th-Fox) 108 

Two Gals and a Guy (UA) 100 

Two Lost Worlds (UA) 96 

Two of a Kind (Col) 101 

Two Weeks With Love (MGM) 112 

U 

Under the Gun (U-1) 86 

Undercover Girl (U-I) 87 

Union Station (Para) 104 

Up Front (U-I) 124 

V 

Valentino (Col) 122 

Varieties on Parade (LP) 38 

Vendetta (RKO) 106 

Vengeance Valley (MGM) 113 

Vicious Years, The (Mono) 94 

W 

Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO) 93 

Warpath (Para) 96 

Watch the Birdie (MGM) 

HO 

Well, The (UA) 120 

West Point Story, The (WB) 123 

When I Grow Up (UA) 93 

When the Redskins Rode (Col) 93 

When You're Smiling (Col) 97 

Where Danger Lives (RKO) 103 

Whistle at Eaton Falls, The (Col) 80 

Wicked City, The (UA) 109 

Woman on the Run (U-I) 96 

Wooden Horse, The (Snader) 117 

Wyoming Mail (U-I) 92 

Y 

Yank in Korea, A (Col) 91 

Yellow Fin (Mono) 93 

Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (LP) 89 

You Never Can Tell (U-I) 94 

You re in the Navy Now (20th-Fox) 105 

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Allied Artsts presents THE HIGHWAYMAN'' • A Jack Dietz Production starring PHILIP FRIEND • CHARLES COBURN . WANDA HENDRIX co-starring 

Cecil Kellaway 

• Victor Jory Produced by Hal E. Ctiester • Based on ttie poem by Alfred Noyes • Directed by Lesley Selander • Screenplay by Jan Jeffries 

Monogram Pictures presents "FLIGHT TO MARS" starring MARGUERITE CHAPMAN . CAMERON MITCHELL witti Arttiur Franz • Virginia Huston . John Litel 

Morris Ankrum • Produced by Walter Mirisch • Directed by Lesley Selander • Screenplay by Arthur Strawn 

presents 

WALTER 

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PRODUCTION 

ALADDIN and HIS LAMP" • A WALTER WANGER Production starring PATRICIA MEDINA . JOHN SANDS !\NDS 

with Richard Erdman • Directed by Lew Landers • Screenplay by Howard Dimsdale and Millard Kaufman 

^

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Year 

for 

ARTHUR 

DIRECTOR 

LUBIN 

"FRANCIS" 

(Universal- International) 

"QUEEN FOR A DAY" 

(Robert Stillmon— United Artists Productions 

"RHUBARB' 

(Paramount) 

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(Universal- International) 

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COMING FROM 

WALT DISNEY 

The Never To Be Forgotten 

SNOW WHITE 

AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 

Brought back by popular demand 

For February 1952 Release 

• •• 

NOW FILMING IN 

ENGLAND 

The Story 

of 

ROBIN HOOD 

AN ALL LIVE-ACTION PICTURE 

Starring 

Richard Todd as Robin Hood 

Joan Rice as Maid Marian 

August 1952 Release 

^ M ir 

IN 

PRODUCTION 

Another Greet All-Cartoon 

Feature Production 

PETER PAN 

For 1953 Release 

• • • 

All in Color 

By Technicolor 

Distributed by 

RKO Radio Pictures 

BOXOFFICE 49

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IKecotdd 

One-Third of 

Westerns 

Hit Average or Better 

A 

Abilene Trail (Mono) 90 

Arizona Manhunt (Rep) 90 

M 

Man From Sonora (Mono) 90 

Montana Desperado (Mono) 95 

Nevada Badmen (Mono) 

Night Riders of Montana (Rep). 

.100 

I 

B 

Badman's Gold (UA) 98 

Blazing Bullets (Mono) 85 

Blazing Sun, The (Col) 80 

Bonanza Town (Col) 100 

Border Fence (Astor) 90 

Border Outlaws (UA) 90 

Border Treasure (RKO) 88 

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (Rep) 88 

O 

Oklahoma Justice (Mono) 90 

Outlaw Gold (Mono) 90 

Outlaws of Texas (Mono) 107 

Prairie Roundup (Col) .100 

C 

Call of the Klondike (Mono) 94 

Canyon Raiders (Mono) 100 

Colorado Ambush (Mono) 105 

Cyclone Fury (Col) 103 

D 

Dakota Kid, The (Rep) 110 

F 

Fort Dodge Stampede (Rep) 100 

Fort Savage Raiders (Col) 95 

G 

Gene Autry and the Mounties (Col) 85 

Gold Raiders (UA) 90 

Gunplay (RKO) 84 

H 

Heart of the Rockies (Rep) 91 

Hills of Utah (Col) 105 

R 

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek (Col) 100 

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail (Col) 99 

Rio Grande Patrol (RKO) * 

Rodeo King and the Senorita (Rep) 95 

Rough Riders of Durango (Rep) * 

S 

Saddle Legion (RKO) 88 

Silver Canyon (Col) 106 

Silver City Bonanza (Rep) 100 

Snake River Desperadoes (Col) 92 

Spoilers of the Plains (Rep) 83 

Stagecoach Driver (Mono) * 

T 

Texons Never Cry (Col) 80 

Thunder in God's Country (Rep) 93 

Trail of Robin Hood (Rep) 109 

U 

Utah Wagon Train (Rep). 90 

I 

In Old Amarillo (Rep) 89 

K 

Kangaroo Kid, The (UA) 95 

W 

Wanted: Dead or Alive (Mono) 105 

Wells Fargo Gunmaster (Rep) 85 

Whirlwind (Col) 108 

Whistling Hills (Mono) * 

L 

Law of the Badlands (RKO) 

HO 

Lightning Guns (Col) 93 

Yukon Manhunt (Mono) 110 

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PRODUCTIONS 

SEASON 1951-52 

"FLYING LEATHERNECKS" 

(Color by Technicolor) 

Starring 

JOHN WAYNE • ROBERT RYAN 

Directed by 

NICHOLAS RAY 

"THE 

RACKET" 

S'orring 

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53

JERRY 

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PRODUCTIONS 

NORMAN 

KRASNA 

PRODUCTIONS 

COMPLETED: 

"THE BLUE VEIL" 

Stornng 

Jane Wymon 

"BEHAVE YOURSELF!" 

starring 

Farley Granqer & Shelley Winters 

PRODUCTIONS 

FILMING: 

"CLASH BY NIGHT" 

starring 

Barbara Stanwyck 

Paul Douglas 

Robert Ryan 

Morilyn Monroe 

"THIS MAN IS 

starring 

Susan Hayward 

Robert Mitchum 

Arthur Kennedy 

MINE" 

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IN PREPARATION: 

"THE WAY UP" 

"PILATES WIFE" 

"I MARRIED A WOMAN" 

"STRIKE A MATCH" 

"EXCLUSIVE MODEL" 

"SIZE TWELVE" 

"SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE" 

"ELIZABETH AND 

, 

ROBERT BROWNING" 

"MEMOIRS OF CASANOVA" 

"HIGH HEELS" 

"THE BIG RIVER" 

"SLAPSTICK" 

"THE GIRLS HAVE LANDED" 

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by JOHN SULLIVAN 

•M LTHOUGH the British film indus- 

/3(\ try produced only 53 feature films 

in 1951 against 62 in 1950 and 66 in 

1949, the quality has remained fairly high 

and, fortunately, boxoffice receipts for 

both British and American films have 

been good, at least until the last quarter 

of the year. From October there has been 

a slight recession in the overall takings, 

mainly because of an increase in seat 

prices brought about by the Eady plan. 

While full information on this point is 

not yet available, it seems that about the 

same number of people are going to the 

movies but they are purchasing the lowerpriced 

seats. 

EADY PLAN AIDS PRODUCERS 

Prospects for the British production industry 

are, however, considerably brighter 

in 1952. Much has been written of the 

Eady plan which is designed to make sure 

that the British producer gets a bigger 

share of the boxoffice take but few people 

in the American industry understand 

exactly how it works. It must be understood 

at the start that Anglo-American 

agreements forbid discrimination against 

American films and that, in itself, prevents 

the British government from adopting 

a straightforward tax remission 

scheme for the home producer such as the 

Italians and other nations have. Therefore, 

a more complicated system was developed 

by Sir Wilfrid Eady, a permanent 

official of the treasury. Since the 

producers' cry for more money came at a 

time when the exhibitor, too, was feeling 

the pinch, an arrangement was made 

whereby the government permitted the exhibitor 

to raise the price of admissions by 

a small sum and the result was that three 

half-pence (about two cents) of this increase 

was retained by the industry and 

the balance paid to the treasury to compensate 

it for a tax loss which was to be 

felt when a reduction simultaneously was 

made in cheaper seats. Of this small sum 

the exhibitor retained one-half to compensate 

for rising salaries and other costs 

and the other half was paid by him into 

a pool known as the British Film Production 

Fund. It should be stressed at this 

point that the scheme is not official, but 

entirely voluntary and in spite of this only 

a tiny number of exhibitors have failed to 

meet the agreement signed by their association. 

HOW THE PLAN WORKS 

The simis paid into the production pool 

are allocated to British pictures according 

to their gross takings, both features and 

shorts enjoying this extra percentage. In 

the first year of the scheme, the seat deduction 

was only one third of the present 

sum but. in spite of this, more than three 

million dollars was paid into the pool to 

be shared out among British pictures distributed 

that year. The first year ended 

on August 4 and the average extra take 

for a film was about 17 '2 per cent of the 

distributor's gross. During the present 

year the figure should average more than 

30 per cent, which will mean, in effect, 

that a producer will draw a distributor's 

grcss take, since the extra 30 per cent will 

more than pay for distribution charges 

and prints and advertising. 

In the last years of the war there was 

practically no other form of entertainment 

to be had. At that time many British 

pictures were taking more than — one 

million dollars in the home market "The 

Wicked Lady" and "The Seventh Veil," 

to mention only two. During the past 

year or so the boxoffice has dropped to 

such an extent that $450,000 can be accepted 

as a good distributor's gross for a 

British picture and $600,000 -something 

fairly sensational. From the $450,000 can 

be taken $90,000 for the distributor's 

charges and a further $25,000 for prints, 

advertising and other expenses which 

means that the producer is left with a net 

return, from the home market of $335,000. 

Since a top feature film costs $350,000 to 

make at a major British studio, it can be 

seen that even a good picture could not 

make money in Britain alone. It is only 

fair to add that a film which did gross 

that figure in Britain would undoubtedly 

recoup its cost and also show a profit, 

since it could rely on perhaps $80,000 to 

$100,000 from overseas sales. But overseas 

takings take a long time to come in 

and to wait for that means that no producer 

can plan a proper continuity of 

production. That is where the Eady plan 

steps in. 

ALSO HELPS DISTRIBUTORS 

Taking the figure of $450,000 as that 

of a successful British picture during 1952, 

the producer, instead of making a loss on 

the first year's takings, can now rely on 

30 per cent of that figure coming back 

to his film without any deduction from 

the distributor. In theory the money 

should come direct to him, but, in practice, 

it is paid to the distributor, since the 

latter usually owns a substantial share 

in the film. The distributor adds it to 

the producer's net take and the figure now 

looks rather better. To his net return 

of $335,000 the producer now gets 30 per 

cent of $450,000 or $135,000, making his 

total net $470,000 and showing him a 

profit of $120,000. 

Although the average takings of films 

has fallen good pictures can still command 

big money in this market for some very 

substantial figures have been realized this 

year. Top of the list of money-makers is 

undoubtedly Metro's "The Great Caruso," 

which enjoyed the distinction of a repeat 

engagement of the A.B.C. circuit only 

three weeks after its original booking. 

What is. of course, remarkable about this 

big success is the fact that Mario Lanza 

is certainly not the conventional leading 

man. It does seem, in this country at 

least, that music still pays dividends. 

Next on the list of the big hits are "Samson 

and Delilah" and "King Solomon's 

Mines." with spectacle the attraction in 

both cases. At the time of writing these 

were undoubtedly the three biggest pictures 

of the year, but during the latter 

months a strong contender has appeared 

in the James Mason film, "The Desert 

Fox." 

FIVE BRITISH FILM TOPPERS 

Among the British pictures in the top 

brackets for money are three from the 

Rank studios which played Odeon and 

Gaumont circuits and two from Associated 

British which played their A.B.C. houses. 

The Rank pictures were two comedies and 

a drama: "Appointment With Venus," 

which was produced by Betty Box, is the 

lighthearted story of the rescue from the 

Channel Islands of a prize cow which has 

been seized by the German Army. Although 

quite unassuming, this film has 

turned out to be a big success. The other 

comedy is Michael Balcon's "The Lavender 

Hill Mob." the story of a timid bank clerk 

who robbed the Bank of England of a million 

pounds in gold. This has already 

been seen in New York and elsewhere. 

The drama standing at the top of the list 

is a hospital story, "White Corridors," 

whose take astonished even the distributor. 

OTHERS THAT SCORED HITS 

The biggest British picture on the A.B.C. 

circuit is undoubtedly "Laughter in Paradise," 

which Mario Zampi produced and 

directed at the Associated British studios. 

It is more than likely that the final 

figures for this will show it as the top 

money-maker of all British films during 

1951. The story itself was nothing sensational 

but the inspired fooling of Alastair 

Sim and a very fine cast lifted the film 

right out of the rut and brought the 

crowds out to the theatres. 

A.B.C. 's other winner deserves a paragraph 

to itself, since it stands as an object 

lesson—the lesson being that the film 

industry is. and always will be. a gamble 

and that fortunes can still be made as 

well as lost. The flim is titled "Worm's 

Eye View" and it was made by an independent 

producer and distributed by an 

independent distributor. At first none of 

the circuits were very interested, since it 

is no secret that the film cost only around 

$100,000 and the cast meant nothing to 

filmgoers. Its first three or four pre-release 

bookings, however, convinced Jack 

Goodlatte of A.B.C. that this was something 

special and the picture was booked 

in as a top feature on the entire A.B.C. 

circuit. The business done on release was 

such that the film must have returned, 

at a conservative estimate, something like 

three times the production cost to the producer. 

Judging by the films luied up for next 

year and either completed, in production, 

or awaiting studio space, the trend in 

Britain w'ill now be toward the more ambitious 

production. The extra take promised 

by the Eady bonus will probably be 

I Continued on page 90' 

BOXOFFICE 55

I 

I 

. . Celia 

. . . . The 

. . This 

HIGH 

TREASON 

. . The threat of violence 

ongs over England. The enelies 

within wear the terrible 

isguise of ordinary people. A 

tartling expose directed by Roy 

'oulting and produced by Paul 

loskin. 

.... What happens when an 

Outpost of Empire finds that 

its new Governor is a working 

man from Lancashire. 

Great acting performances 

by Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, 

Helen Cherry and a team of 

those character players for 

which British films are justly 

acclaimed, make this film yet 

HIS 

EXCELLENCY 

another Ealing Studios triumph. 

Sparkling entertainment directed 

by Robert (Kind Hearts 

and Coronets) Homer. 

y BELIEVE IN YOU 

(Brief Encounter) 

lohnson teamed with versatile, 

lophisticated Cecil Parker in 

he picture which lifts the lid 

)ff a Police Court and tells the 

tory of those anonymous peo- 

)le who stretch out helping 

hands to bewildered youngsters 

trapped in the underworld 

jungle. Directed by Basil Dearden, 

the man whose touch 

made "The Blue Lamp" an 

international success. A fine 

product from the famous Ealing 

Studios, it introduces lovely 

newcomer Joan Collins and a 

supporting cast of distinction. 

THE IMPORTANCE 

OF BEING EARNEST 

.... with one o( the greatest casts 

ever assembled in a British studio, 

Oscar Wilde's memorable comedy 

comes to the screen in Technicolor. 

Michael Redgrove, Michael Denison, 

Joon Greenwood, Doma Edith Evans, 

Margaret Rutherford and Miles Malleson 

portray with distinction Wilde's 

famous characters. Directed by Anthony 

(The Browning Version) Asquith, 

produced by Teddy Baird 

THE 

HILL 

LAVENDER 

MOB 

I . . Another winner from Eal- 

|ng Studios presenting the most 

''ormidable gang of master 

•hieves the country has ever 

Principal Characters 

David Gregory Peck 

Bathsheba Susan Hayward 

Nathan 

Raymond Massey 

Uriah Kieron Moore 

Abishai James Robertson Justice 

Michal Jayne Meadows 

Ira John Sutton 

Joab Dennis Hoey 

Goliath 

Walter Talun 

Adulteress Paula Morgan 

King Saul 

Francis X. Bushman 

Jonathan Teddy Infuhr 

David tas a boyt Leo Pessin 

Specialty Dancer Gwyneth Verdon 

Absalom Gilbert Barnett 

Priest John Burton 

Old Shepherd 

Lumsden Hare 

Egyptian Ambassador George Zucco 

Amnon Allan Stone 

Samuel 

Paul Newlan 

Jesse 

Holmes Herbert 

Executioners 

Robert Stephenson, 

Harry Carter 

Jesse's First Son Richard Michelson 

Jesse's Second Son 

Dick Winters 

Jesse's Third Son John Duncan 

Court Announcer James Craven 

Production Staif 

Producer Darryl F. Zanuck 

Director 

Henry King 

Screenplay Philip Dunne 

Color by Technicolor: 

Technicolor Color Assistant. ...Leonard Doss 

Music Alfred Newman 

Orchestration 

Edward Powell 

Director of 

Art Direction 

Photography 

Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. 

Lyle Wheeler, 

George Davis 

Set Decorations Thomas Little, 

Paul S. Fox 

Film Editor Barbara McLean 

Wardrobe Direction Charles LeMaire 

Costumes Designed by. ...Edward Stevenson 

Choreography by Jack Cole 

Makeup Artist 

Ben Nye 

Special Photographic Effects. ...Freh Sersen 

Sound E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman 

Biblical 

Technical Adviser 

Dr. C. C. McCown 

A 20th Century-Fox Production 

58 BAROMETER SecUon

THIS INSIGNE OF OUTSTANDING MERIT 

is awâraea eacn montn lay tne National Screen 

Council to 

tne picture wnicJi, in tne opinion of 

its 

members, comnines Lotn outstanding merit as 

a motion picture and -wnolesome entertainment 

tor tne entire tamily. Tne National Screen Council, 

now^ in its twentietn year, is comprised or 

motion picture editors, radio film commentators 

and representatives of Letter films councils and 

civic and educational organizations.

(From September 1950. through August 1951 > 

September LouiSQ Universal-International 

October Fancy Pants Paramount 

November MlSter 880 20th Century-Fox 

December King Solomon's Mines Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

lanuary HaiVeV Universal-International 

February Kim Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

March Royal Wedding Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer 

April Father's Little Dividend Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer 

May.. The Great Caruso Metro-Goldw^yn-Mayer 

June On the Riviera 20th Century-Fox 

July. The Frogmen 20th Century-Fox 

August Alice in Wonderland RKO Radio

Louisa 

A Universal-International Production 

SEPTEMBER 

The Cast 

Hal Norton Ronald Reagan 

Abel Burnside 

Charles Coburn 

Meg Norton 

Ruth Hussey 

Henry Hammond Edmund Gwenn 

Louisa Norton 

Spring Byington 

Cathy Norton Piper Laurie 

Jimmy Blake 

Scotty Beckett 

Chris Norton Jimmy Hunt 

Gladys Connie Gilchrist 

Dick Stewart 

Willard Waterman 

Lil Stewart Marjorie Crosland 

Bob Stewart 

Martin Milner 

Stacy Walker 

Terry Frost 

Joe Collins Dave Willock 

Production Staff 

Executive Producer Leo Spitz 

Produced by Robert Arthur 

Directed by Alexander Hall 

Story and Screenplay bi/. .Stanley Roberts 

Director of Photography 

Maury Gertsman, A.S.C. 

Art Direction 

Set Decorations 

Bernard Herzbrun, 

Robert Boyle 

Russell A. Gausman. 

Ruby R. Levitt 

Sound.. Leslie I. Carey, 

Glenn E. Anderson 

Music Frank Skinner 

Fihn Editor 

Milton Carruth 

Gowns Rosemary Odell 

Hair Stylist Joan St. Oegger 

Makeup 

Special Photography 

Bud Westmore 

David S. Horsley. A.S.C. 

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Fancy Pants A Paramount Production OCTOBER 

Humphrey 

3ob Hope 

Agatha Floud Ltjcille Ball 

Cart Belknap 

Bruce Cabot 

Mike Floud 

Jack Kirkwood 

Effie Floud Lea Penman 

George Van-Basingwell Hugh French 

Sir Wimbley Eric Blore 

The Cast 

Wampum 

Teddy Roosevelt 

Lady Maude 

Rosalind 

Twomhley 

Wong 

Joseph Vitale 

John Alexander 

Norma Varden 

Virginia Keiley 

Colin Keith-Johnston 

Joe Wong 

Production Staii 

Produced by Robert L. Welch 

Directed by George Marshall 

Screenplay by Edmund Hartmann, 

Robert O'Brien 

Based on story by Harry Leon Wilson 


Charles B. Lang jr., A.S.C. 

Art Direction Hans Dreier, 

Earl Hedrick 

Technicolor Consultant Francis Cugat 

Special Photographic Effects 

Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. 

Process Photography Parciot Edouart 

Set Decoration Sam Comer, Emile Kuri 

Edited by 

Archie Marshek 

Womeii's Costumes Mary Kay Dodson 

Men's Costumes 

Gile Steele 

Specialty Number Staged by 

Billy Daniels 

Makeup Supervision Wally Westmore 

Sou7id Recording Gene Merritt, 

Don Johnson 

Assistant Director Oscar Rudolph 

Music Score 

Van Cleave 

Songs by Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

Mister 880

King Solomon's Mines 

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production 

The Cast 

Elizabeth Curtis Deborah Kerr 

Allan Quatennain Stewart Granger 

John Goode 

Richard Carlson 

Smith Hugo Haas 

Eric Masters Lowell Gilmore 

Khiva 

KiMTJRSi 

Umbopa 

Siriaque 

Chief Gagool Sekaryongo 

King Twala 

Baziga 

Production Sfaff 

Production Chief 

Dore Schary 

Produced by 

Sam Zimbalist 

Directed by 

Compton Bennett, 

Andrew Marton 

Screenplay by 

Helen Deutsch 

Based on Novel by H. Rider Haggard 


Robert Surtees, A.S.C. 

Technicolor 

consultants 

Henri JkTFPt, James Gooch 

Art Directors Cedric Gibbons, 

Paul Groesse 

Film Editors Ralph E. Winters, 

Conrad A. Nervig 

Recording Supervisor. ...Dovglas Shearer 

Set Decorations Edwin B. Willis 

Associate 

Keogh Gleason 

Costumes by Walter Plunkett 

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Harvey 

A Universal-International Production 

The Cast 

Elivood P. Dowd James Stewart 

Veta Louise Siminons Josephine Hull 

Miss Kelly Peggy Dow 

Dr. Sanderson Charles Drake 

Dr. Chumley Cecil Kellaway 

Myrtle Mae 

Victoria Horne 

Wilson Jesse White 

Judge Gaffney 

William Lynn 

Lofgren 

Wallace Ford 

Mrs. Chumley 

Nana Bryant 

Mrs. Chauvenet Grace Mills 

Herman Clem Bevans 

Mrs. McGiff Ida Moore 


Executiiie Producer Leo Spitz 

Produced by John Beck 

Directed by 

Henry Koster 

Screenplay by 

Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney 

From the stage play by Mary Chase 


William Daniels. A.S.C. 

Film Editor Ralph Dawson 

Art Director 

Set 

Bernard Herzbrun, Nathan Juran 

Decorations 

Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron 

Sound Leslie I. Carey. Joe Lapis 

Gowns 

Orry Kelly 

Hair Stylist Joan St. Oegger 

Makeup 

Bud Westmore 

Music 

Prank Skinner

Kim A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production FEBRUARY 

Mahbub All. The Red Beard. .Errol Flynn 

Kim 

Dean Stockwell 

Lama Paul Ltjkas 

Colonel Creighton Robert Douglas 

Emissary Thomas Gomez 

Hurree Chunder Cecil Kellaway 

The Cast 

Lurgan Sahib 

Arnold Moss 

Father Victor 

Reginald Owen 

Laluli Laurette Luez 

Hassan Bey 

Richard Hale 

The Russians 

Roman Toporow, Ivan Triesault 



Dore Schary 

Produced by 

Leon Gordon 

Directed by 

Victor Saville 

Screenplay by 

Leon Gordon, 

Helen Deutsch, Richard Schayer 

From a Story by Rudyard Kipling 


William Skall, A.S.C. 

Technicolor Consultants 

Henri Jaffa, James Gooch 

Art Directors 

Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters 

Film Editor 

George Boemler 

Music by 

Andre Previn 

Recording Supervisor ....Douglas Shearer 


Associates ....Arthur Krams, Hugh Hunt 

Special Effects 

A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe 

Montage Sequence by ....Peter Ballbusch 

Costumes Designed by 

Hair Styles Designed by 

Sydney 

Valles 

Guilaroff 

Technical Adviser I. A. Hafesjee 

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Royal Wedding 


The Cast 

Tom Bowen 

Pêd Astaire 

Irving and Edgar Klinger ..Keenan Wynk 

Ellen Bowen 

Jane Powell 

James Ashmond 

Albert Sharpe 

Sarah Ashmond 

Viola Roache 

Lord John Brindale Peter Lawford Purser 

Henri Letondal 

Anne Ashmond Sarah Churchill Cabby 

James Finlayson 



Dore Schary 

Produced by Arthttr Freed 

Directed by 

Stanlhtt Donen 

Story and Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner 

Music by 

Burton Lane 

Lyrics by ....Alan Jay Lerner 

Musical Direction Johnny Green 

Dances by 

Nick Castle 

Orchestrations 

Conrad Salinger, Skip Martin 


Robert Planck, A.S.C. 

Technicolor 

Art 

Directors 

Consultants 


Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith 

Film Editor 

Albert Akst 

Recording Supervisor. ...TDovgi.\s Shearer 

Set Decoration Edwin B. Willis 

Associate 

Special Effects 

Alfred E. Spencer 

Warren Newcombe 


Sydney Guilaroff 

Makeup Created by William J. Tdttle 

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Father's Little Dividend 


The Cast 

Stanley Banks 

Spencer Tracy 

Ellie Banks Joan Bennett 

Kay Dunstan Elizabeth Taylor 

Buckley Dunstan Don Taylor 

Doris Dunstan 

Billie Burke 

Herbert Dunstan Moroni Olsen 

Police Sergeant 

Richard Rober 

Delilah 

Marietta Canty 

Tommy Bariks 

Rusty Tamblyn 

Ben Ba7iks 

Tom Irish 

Dr. Andrew Nordell Hayden Rorke 

Reverend Galsworthy Paul Harvey 

Production Staif 


Dore Schary 

Produced by 

Pandro S. Herman 

Directed by Vincente Minnelli 

Screenplay by 

Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich 

Based on Characters Created by 

Edward Streeter 


John Alton, A.S.C. 

Art Directors 

Cedric Gibbons, Leonid Vasian 

FiUn Editor Ferris Webster 

Music by Albert Sendrey 

Conducted by 

Georgie Stoll 

Recording Supervisor ....Douglas Shearer 


Associate 

Keogh Gleason 

Women's Costumes by Helen Rose 


Sydney Guilaroff 

Makeup Created by 

William Tuttle

he Great Caruso 


Enrico Caruso 

Dorothy Benjamin 

Louise Heggar 

Maria Selka 

Carlo Santi 

Park Benjajnin 

GiuUo Gatti-Casazza 

Alfredo Brazzi 

Jean de Reszke 

Antonio Scotti 

Gino 

Fucito 

Mario Lanza 

Ann Blyth 

Dorothy Kirsten 

Jarmila Novotna 

Richard Hageman 

Carl Benton Reid 

Eduard Franz 

Ludwig Donath 

Alan Napier 

Paul Javor 

Carl Milletaire 

Shepard Menken 

The Cast 

Tullio 

Vincent Renno 

Egisto Barretto 

Nestor Paiva 

Caruso (as boy) Peter Edward Price 

Papa Caruso 

Mario Siletti 

Mama Caruso 

Angela Clarke 

Hutchins 

Ian Wolfe 

Musetta 

Yvette Duguay 

Mrs. Barretto Argentina Brunetti 

Opera Montage: 

Blanche Thebom, Teresa Celli, Nicola 

MoscoNA, Giuseppe Valdengo, Lucine 

Amara, Marina Koshetz 


Dore Schary 

Produced by 

Joe Pasternak 

Associate Producer Jesse L. Lasky 

Directed by 

Richard Thorpe 

Written by 

Sonya Levien, 

William Ludwig 

Suggested by her husband's biography, 

by 

Dorothy Caruso 

Operatic numbers staged and conducted 

by 

Peter Herman Adler 

Musical Supervision and Background 

Score by 

Johnny Green 


Music Adaptation Irving Aaronson 

Color by Technicolor 


Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. 

Technicolor assistants 


Art Directors 

....Cedric Gibbons, Gabriel Scognamillo 

Film Editor 

Gene Ruggiero 

Recording Supervisor Douglas Shearer 


Associate Jack D. Moore 

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On the Riviera 

A 20th Century-Fox Production 

Henri Duran and Jack Martin 

Dannt Kaye 

Lilli Gene Tieeney 

Colette 

CoRiNNE Calvet 

Philippe Lebrix Marcel Dalio 

Periton Jean Murat 

Louis Forel 

Henri Letondal 

Antoine Clinton Sundberg 

Gapeaux 

Sig RimAN 

Mimi Joyce MacKen23E 

The Cast 

Minette 

Monique Chantal 

Mme. Cornet 

Marina Koshetz 

Mme. Periton 

Ann Codee 

Eugenie 

Mari Blanchard 

Dance Team 

Ethel Martin, 

George Martin, Vernal "Buzz" Miller 

Specialty Dancers Ellen Ray, 

Gwyneth Verdon 

Spanish Dancer Rosario Imperio 

Executive Producer ....Darryl F. Zanuck 

Produced by Sol C. Siegel 

Directed by 

Waltbr Lang 

Screen Play by 

Valentine Davies 

and Phoebe and Henry Ephron 

Based on a Play by ....Rudolph Lothar, 

Hans Adler 

Adapted by 

Jessie Ernst 

"On the Riviera," "Popo the Puppet," 

"Rhythm of a New Romance," 

"Happy Ending" by Sylvia Fine 

Technicolor Color Consultant 

Leonard Doss 


Musical Direction Alfre;d Newman 


Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. 

Art Direction 

Lyle Wheeler, 

Leland Puller 


Thomas Little, 

Walter M. Scott 

Film Editor J. Watson Webb, jr. 

Costumes Designed by 

Travilla 

Costumes for Miss Tierney Designed 

by 

Oleg Cassini 

Dances Staged by 

Jack Cole 

Orchestration Earle Hagen, 

Edward Powell

The Frogmen 

A 20th Century-Fox Production JULY 

The 

Lieut. Commander John Lawrence 

Richard Widmark 

Flannigan Dana Andrews 

Lieut. Commander Pete Vincent 

Gary Merrill 

Creighton Jeffrey Hunter 

Hodges 

Warren Stevens 

Lieut, (jg) Franklin Robert Wagner 

Canarsie 

Harvey Lembeck 

Lieut. Doyle Robert Rockwell 

Cast 

Sleepy 

Henry Slate 

Chief Ryan 

Robert Abler 

Lieut. Klinger Bob Patten 

Kinsella 

Harry Flowers 

Ferrino 

William Bishop 

Admiral Dakers 

Fay Roope 

Commander Miles William M. Neil 

Chief Petty Officer Lane ..James Gregory 

Captain Radford Russell Hardie 

Executive Producer Darryl F. Zanuck 

Produced by 

Samuel G. Engel 

Directed by Lloyd Bacon 

Screenplay by John Tucker Battle 

Story by 

Oscar Millard 

Music 

Cyril Mockridge 


NORBERT BRODINE, A.S.C. 

Art Director 

Lyle Wheeler, 

Albert Hogsett 

FilTn Editor William Reynolds 



Thomas Little 

Fred J. Rode 

Wardrobe Director Charles Le Maire 

Musical Direction Lionel Newman 

Orchestration Herbert Spencer, 

Earle Hagen 

Makeup Artist Ben Nye 

Special Photographic Effects 

Fred Sersen 

Sound 

Winston H. Leverett 

Roger Heman

. 

. 

Alice in Wonderland An RKO Radio Production 


Producer Walt Disney With the Voices o/....Kathryn Beaumont 

Production Supervision ..Ben Sharpsteen (Alice), Ed Wynn (Mad Hatter), Jerry 

i 

i 

Directors 

Clyde Geronimi, 

Colonna (March Hare) Sterling Hol- 

, 

Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson 

ôây (Cheshire Cat). Richard Haydn 

„. .. .... ,, ^, 

Directing Animators Milt Kahl. 

(Caterpillar) , Verne Felton (Queen 

«- 

-^ of 

, 

... 

Ward 

„ 

Kimball, 

_ 

Frank 

„ 

Thomas, 

„ 

Eric 

Hearts). Heather Angel (Alice's 

„ . 

Larson, John Lounsbery, Ollie Johns- 

Sister). Mello-Men Playing Cards). 

ton, Wolfgang 

„ 

Reitherman, 

.., 

Marc 

Bill Thompson (White Rabbit and 

^ 

Davis, 

^ 

Les Clark, 

„ ., 

Norm 

„ 

Ferguson. 

Dodo). Larry Grey (Lizard). Doris 

Story 

Winston Hibler, Bill 

Lloyd (Rose) , Pat O'Malley (Tweedle- 

_ - „ ^ „ . 

Peet, Joe Rinaldi, Bill Cottrell, Joe 

dee. Tweedledum, Walrus and Carpen- 

*^'"'- 

Grant, Del Connell, TED Sears, 

^°^^''« 

Erd- 

^^"''^ '^°°'' ^"°^'- 

man Penner, Milt Banta, Dick Kel- 

Queenie Leonard Flowers). James 

sey, Dick Huemer, Tom Oreb. John MacDonald (Dormouse). Dink Trout 

Walbridge. 

(King of Hearts) 

(From the original 

Musical Score by 

Oliver 

classics Wallace 

of 

Lewis Carroll) Orchestration Joseph Dubin 

72

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'^ ^-^.^V 

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dSiue V^lboon l/i/Linnerd in 

Pad U ectrd 

iln seasonal order, from September 

through August) 

1932 

Business ond Pleasure Fox 

Torzon, The Ape Man 

MGM 

No Greater Love Columbia 

The Doomed Battalion Universal 

Rebecca ot Sunnybrook Farm Fox 

Bring 'Em Bock Alive RKO Rodio 

1932-33 

Calamity 

Worr 

Phantom President Pa 

Little Orphan Annie RKO Radio 

Uptown New York KBS 

They Just Had to Get Married 

Universal 

State Fair Fox 

Oliver Twist Monogram 

King Kong RKO Radio 

Adorable 

Fcx 

Gold Diggers of 1933 Warner Bros, 

Stranger's Return MGM 

Tugboat Annie 

MGM 

1933-34 

One Man's Journey 

RKO Radio 

The Bowery 20th Century-U 

Only Yesterday Universal 

Little Women RKO Radio 

Roman Scandals United Artists 

The Cot and the Fiddle MGM 

Dovid Horum Fox 

Torzon ond His Mote 

MGM 

Vivo Villo MGM 

Little Miss Marker Paramount 

Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros. 

Treasure Islond MGM 

1934-35 

, 

One Night of Love Columbia 

Judge Priest Fox 

White Parade Fox 

Flirtation Walk First Notional 

David Copperfield MGM 

Little Colonel Fox 

Roberta 

RKO Radio 

Naughty Marietta 

MGM 

G-Men 

Warner Bros. 

The Informer ... RKO Radio 

Love Me Forever, ... .Columbia 

Alice Adams ...RKO Radio 

1935 - 36 

Top Hot 

RKO Radio 

O'Shaughncssy's Boy MGM 

Mutiny on the Bounty 

MGM 

Ah, Wilderness! 

MGM 

A Tale of Two Cities 

MGM 

Story of Louis Pasteur Warner Bros. 

The Country Doctor 20th-Fox 

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbia 

Show Boot Universal 

San Froncisco 

MGM 

The White Angel 

Warner Bros. 

The Green Postures Warner Bros. 

1936-37 

The Lost of the Mohicans 


A Midsummer Night's Dream Warner Bros. 

Charge of the Light Brigade Warner Bros 

Winterset 

RKO Radio 

The Plainsman Poramount 

Moid of Solem 

Paramount 

Maytime 

MGM 

Romeo and Juliet 

MGM 

The Prince ond the Pauper Warner Bros. 

Coptoins Courogeous 

MGM 

Wee Willie Winkie 20fh-Fox 

The Good Earth MGM 

1937-38 

MGM 

The Firefly 

Tovorich .Warner Bros. 

Wells Forgo 

Snow 

Paramount 

RKO Rodio 

White and the Seven Dworfs. . . 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Form 20th-Fox 

In Old Chicago 20fh-Fox 

Adventures of Robin Hood Worner Bros. 

Holiday 

Columbia 

Love Finds Andy Hardy MGM 

Alexander's Ragtime Band 

20th-Fox 

1938-39 

MGM 

. 

. 

Boys Town 

You Con't Toke If With You Columbia 

The Citodel 

MGM 

A Christmas Corel 

MGM 

Sweethearts ... MGM 

Gungo Din 

Pygmalion 

Radio 

MGM 

Wuthering Heights United Artists 

Union Pacific Paramount 

Young Mr. Lincoln 20th-Fox 

On Borrowed Time ... MGM 

Stanley and Livingstone 20tti-Fox 

1939-40 

The Wizard of Oz MGM 

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Columbia 

Drums Along the Mohowk 20tti-Fox 

Gulliver's Trovels Paramount 

The Greot Victor Herbert Paramount 

Pinocchio 

Young Tom Edison 

RKO Radio 

MGM 

Rebecco United Artists 

Edison, the Man MGM 

The Mortal Storm MGM 

All This, ond Heaven Too Warner Bros. 

Pride and Prejudice MGM 

1940-41 

The Howards of Virginia 

Columbia 

The Great Dictator United Artists 

Northwest Mounted Police Paramount 

Tin Pon Alley 20th-Fox 

Philodelphia Story MGM 

Virginia 

Paramount 

The Lady Eve 

Paramount 

Men of Boys Town MGM 

That Hamilton Woman! United Artists 

I Wonted Wings Poromount 

Caught in the Draft Poromount 

Blossoms in the Dust MGM 

1941 -42 

Citizen Kone RKO Rodio 

Sergeant York. Bros. 

One Foot in Heaven Worner Bros. 

H. M. Pulhom, Esq MGM 

How Green Wos My Valley 

Womon of the Year 

20tti-Fox 

MGM 

To Be or Not to Be United Artists 

Fantosio 

Tortilla Flot 

RKO Rodio 

MGM 

They All Kissed the Bride Columbia 

This Above All 20th-Fox 

The Pied Piper 20th-Fox 

1942-43 

MGM 

Mrs. Miniver 

The Major and the Minor Paramount 

Toles of Manhotton 

George Washington Slept Here 

20th-Fox 

WB 

Yankee Doodle Dandy Worner Bros. 

Star Spangled Rhythm 

Paramount 

Pride of the Yonkees RKO Radio 

Random Harvest MGM 

The More the Merrier Columbio 

Stage Door Conteen United Artists 

The Humon Comedy 

MGM 

This Is the Army Worner Bros. 

1943-44 

Dudly Wc Hail Paramount 

Lucky Stors Warner Bros. 

ilconol Diory 20th-Fox 

Come Home 

MGM 

otion Tokyo Warner Bros. 

me Curie 

MGM 

Named Joe 

MGM 

e Here, Private Hargrove MGM 

r Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount 

le White Cliffs of Dover MGM 

le Story of Dr. Wassell Poramount 

ling My Way Poromount 

1944-45 

MGM 

The Seventh Cross 

Arsenic ond Old Lace Worner Bros. 

Since You Went Away United Artists 

Mrs. Porkington MGM 

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo MGM 

The Keys of the Kingdom 

20th-Fox 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 20tln-Fox 

Notional Velvet 

MGM 

The Enchanted Cottage RKO Radio 

The Clock 

MGM 

Valley of Decision 

MGM 

Wilson 

20th-Fox 

1945-46 

story of G.I. Joe 

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes 


MGM 

The House on 92nd Street 20th-Fox 

Spellbound 


The Bells of St. Mary's RKO Radio 

The Lost Weekend 

Tomorrow Is Forever 

Paramount 

RKO Radio 

Sorotogo Trunk Warner Bros. 

Drogonwyck 

20th-Fox 

Two Sisters From Boston MGM 

The Green Years 

MGM 

Anno ond the King of Siom 20th-Fox 

1946-47 

Coesor and Cleopatro United Artists 

Three Wise Fools MGM 

Sister Kenny RKO Rodio 

Blue Skies Poromount 

The Jolson Story 

Columbia 

Song of the South 

RKO Radio 

The Beginning or the End MGM 

It Happened in Brooklyn MGM 

The Farmer's Daughter RKO Rodio 

The Yearling 

MGM 

Miracle on 34th Street 20tti-Fox 

Welcome Stranger 

Paramount 

1947-48 

The Bochelor and the Bobby-Soxer. . 

The Unfinished Dance 

Radio 

MGM 

Secret Life of Walter MiHy RKO Radio 

Where There's Life Paramount 

My Wild Irish Rose Warner Bros. 

Coss Timberlone MGM 

The Bishop's Wife RKO Radio 

Remember Momo RKO Radio 

I 

State of the Union MGM 

Green Gross of Wyoming 

Easter Parade 

20th-Fox 

MGM 

The Best Yeors of Our Lives 

RKO Rodio 

1948-49 

The Babe Ruth Story 

Monogrom 

Apartment for Peggy 20ttl-Fox 

Johnny Belindo 

Warner Bros. 

The Three Musketeers MGM 

The Snake Pit 20th-Fox 

The Boy With Green Hoir 

RKO Radio 

So Deor to My Heort 

Toke Me Out to the Boll Game 

Little Women 

RKO Radio 

MGM 

MGM 

The Borkleys of Broadway 

The Strotton Story 

MGM 

MGM 

Look for the Silver Lining Worner Bros. 

1949-50 

Come to the Sfoble 

20th-Fox 

Was a Male War Bride 20th-Fox 

I 

Ichobod and Mr. Toad RKO Radio 

Adam's Rib MGM 

On the Town MGM 

All the Kint's Men 

Columbio 

Twelve O'clock High 20th-Fox 

Cinderello RKO Radio 

Cheaper by the Dozen 20th-Fox 

The Jackie Robinson Story United Artists 

Fother of the Bride MGM 

Treasure Island RKO Radio 

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Claudette Burton 

Colbert 

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Joel 

Rory 

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Alexander McCreo 

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Dorothy Kothryn 

McGuire 

Graysoi 

Hall 

Pandro S, Berman 

Anatole Robert 

Litvak 

Mitchum 

Henry Calvin 

Moureen 

Sara 

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O'Haro 

Hoden 

Bodeen 

'3 Awords 

Homilton 

Reginald 

Juonito 

Richard L. 

Luslie 

Owen 

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Hall 

Breen 

4 Awards 

Edword 

Jack L. George 

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Wendy Hugo 

Hiller 

Butler 

Worrier 

Morsholl 

Robinson 

Carlson 

Jeon 

Fi-onk 

Hoagy 

Arthur 

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George 

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Seoton 

Sinotro 

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Holm 

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Henry 

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James 

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Tokor 

Whitmore 

Richard Conte 

Irene Dunne 

Betty 

John 

Hutton 

Dighton 

John 

Henry 

King Vidor 

Wilcoxon 

James 

Martha 

Croig 

Lisa 

Hyer 

Michael Hayes 

Lonchester 

Glynis 

Don 

Johns 

Julian Josephenson 

9 Awards 

Arthur 

Billy 

Doiley 

Debbie 

Wilder 

Freed 

Robert 

4 Awards 

Don 

Reynolds 

Ri'a 

Jesse L. 

Johnson 

Lasky jr 

DeFore 

Ginger 

Ross Hunter 

Pred Wise 

Ray Bolger 

John 

Rogers 

Grace 

Beirne Lay 

Kelly 

jr. 

Derek 

Shirley 

Zinnemann 

Sol C. Marlon 

Siegel 

Brando 

Brandon 

Temple 

Hedy 

Chorles 

Lamorr 

Lederer 

DeWilde 

Jos L. 

Hoi B. Wallis 

3 Awards 

Red Buttons 

James 

Mary 

Donald 

S Awords 

Mortin 

Monkeiwicz 

Ken 

y Awards 

Annokin 

Hume Cronyn 

Robert 

Ethel 

Jane 

Douglos 

Ingnd Bergmon 

Merman 

Murtin 

Rita 

Wolter 

Robert 

John Arttiur 

Cromwell 

onon Donlevy 

Tom Ewell 

Billie 

Moreno 

Reisch 

Burke 

Barbara Jock 

Kirk 

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Brackett 

Hitchcock 

Douglos 

Steve Forrest 

Leslie Coron 

O'Neil 

Rose 

Jeon 

William 

Samuel WiKred 

G. Engel 

JacKson 

Bobby Driscoll 

James Fox 

Peters 

Rose 

Robert 

Somuel 

Z. 

Goldwyn 

Leonard 

Jirnmy Duronte 

William Frowley 

n * Hovillond 

Jone 

Dore 

Deborah 

Powell 

Schary 

Kerr 

Dorothy 

Alon 

Joe 

Henry 

Posternak 

Levin 

Mel Ferrer 

James Gorner 

Hoyley Mills 

Provine 

Scott 

Hunt 

Joshua 

Stromberg 

Logan 

Paul Ford 

Stewort Granger Moureen 

Mar/one 

George 

O'Sullivon 

Rombeoi 

Seoton 

Anne 

Arthur 

Andrew Morton 

Billy 

George 

Revere 

Sheekmor. 

Gilbert 

Horrison 

Sidney 

6 Awards 

Andrew V. 

Sidney 

McLaglen 

Alec Guinness 

Jack 

4 Awards 

Katharine 

Hawkins 

Ross 

Sheldon 

Franklin 

Mervyn 

Richord Quine 

Chorlton Heston 

Sessue 

Mory 

Hayokowo 

Aslor 

Borboro 

^Leonard 

Rush 

Spigelgasr 

LeRoy 

Robert Stevenson 

Jeffrey Hunter 

Sterling 

Alice 

Hoyden 

Foye 

Ann 

Donald Shoemaker 

Ogden Stewart 

lârryl F. Zonuck 

John Sturges 

Curt Jurgens 

Hons 

Avo Gardner 

Jeon 

David 

Simmons 

Swift 

Holt 

S Awards 

^ David 

Arthur Kenneth 

Hornblow Richard 

Swift 

Danny Koyo 

Oscar 

Dalton 

Judy 

Homoiko 

Gorlond 

Alexis Smith 

Trumbo 

Horry 

Paulette 

J'll 

Cecil 

Jr 

Thorpe 

Kellowoy 

John Howard 

Goddord 

St, John 

Tugend 

MacGowan 

Dore Schary 

2 Awards 

Alexonder Knox 

Rock 

Signe 

Hudson 

Hosso 

Randy Stuart 

Roy Milland 

Tab 

Ruth Hunter 

Hussey 

Jessica 

2 

Tondy 

Awards 

George George Shirley 

Stevens 

Abbott 

Dovid Niven 

Jim Hutton 

Jones 

Claire Trevor 

George Abbott 

Buddy Adier 

4 Awards 

Fred 

Jomes ^ Pat 

Angela O'Brien 

Robert Hutton 

Lonsbury 

Beverly Tyler 

James Algar 

Algar 

Charles 

John 

Janet 

Kohlmor 

Irwin 

Ruggles 

Irelond 

Leigh 

Miyoshi 

Robert 

Umeki 

Ardrey 

Joseph 

Allen 

Robert 

Lionel 

Joan Leslie 

L. Mankiewicz 

Ryon 

Jeffries 

„ Vero-Ellen 

Jomes Lee Barrett 

Charles Anito 

Borton 

Sam Spiegel 

Curtis 

J-'hn Sivon 

Sam Joffe 

Louise 

Ruth 

John 

Worrick 

Tucker Bottle 

Myrno 

Bernhordt 

Robert 

Victor 

3 Awards 

Delmer 

Wagner 

Jory 

Loy 

Ruth White 

Claude Binyon 

Una Daves 

Dovid 

Kurt 

Wayne 

Kosznor 

Morkel 

Esther Williams 

Robert Bolt 

Irwm Allen 

Blake Edwords 

Robert 

Frank Copra 

Robert 

Young 

Arthur 

Margaret 

Kennedy 

O'Bnen 

Marie 

Betty 

Wilson 

Comden 

Lilli 

Fleischer 

Jock 

Palmer 

Shelley 

..Marc 

Winters 

Connelly 

Kruschen 

Jack Cumminqs 

Toy 

Flora 

Garnetf 

3 Awards 

Richard Lone 

Robson 

Estelle Winwood 

Williom Conselmon 

Louis F. Edelman 

Alfred E. Green 

Bloke Edwards 

Howard Hawks 

Edd.e 

Rosolind 

Anderson 

Glenn Langan 

Russell 

Jane 

Ian 

Wyatt 

Dolrymple 

Robert Arthur 

John 

Martha 

Lennon 

Scott 

Patrice 

Fronk 

Wymore 

Davis 

Bryan Foy 

John 

Barbara --.^^. 

Bloke 

Huston 

Lew Ayres 

Oscor 

^ 

Levant 

Stonwyck jianwy 

Edwords 

Leiond Hoy ward 

EliQ Kazon 

Bernard H, Hymon 

Stanley Kramer 

Richard 

Elizabeth 

Brodbury 

Beymer 

Herbert 

Toylc 

Foote 

Lom 

Sidney Blockmer ^ Paul 

Louis D. Lighten 

Dovid Lean 

Lukos 

Natalie Wood 

M. Fronk 

f, 'i'^ 

Fay Melvin 

, 

Pat Boone 

Gordon 

Wroy 

Frank 

MacRoe 

Loreftc 

Everett 

Ron Miller 

Richard Lester 

Stephen 

Aaron 

Boyd 

Hugh Young 

Freeman 

Morlowe 

Christopher Fry 

Rosenberg Jos L. Monkiewicz 

Chorles Boyer 

Deon Martin 

3 Awards 

bheridon 

2 

Leo 

Awards 

McCorey 

George Abbott 

Robert Felix Bressart 

Victor Moture 

Judith 

Gibney 

Anderson 

Ivon 

Mulligan 

Edgar Buchonon 

Paul 

(Original 

Goff 

McCartney 

juiie Andrews 

Adolph Green 

Bill 

Ronold 

Anderson 

Neome 

L=o G. Carroll 

Leo McKern 

Hermione Boddeley Stories) 

Eleanore Griffin 

Ken 

James 

Annokin 

Neilson 

Lee J. Cobb 

Burgess Meredith 

Lucille Boll 

Lowell S. Howley 

Irving Asher 

..""'Ph Nelson 

Jackie 

VA/ 

Cooper 

Gory Merrill 

Joan Bennett 

3 Awards 

Lillie Hoyword 

Robert 

Wolfgang 

Bossier 

Reitherman Joseph Gotten Cameron Mitchell 

Jeanne Cram 

Robert 

John 

John 

Beck 

Robertson 

Clarence 

Mork 

William Demores! Ricardo 

Considine 

Victor Heermon 

Montalban 

Arlene 

Brown 

Robson 

Melvyn .y^.vyn Douglas L/OUglO 

Dennis 

Dohl 

James A. Michener 

Elizabeth Hill 

Moroon 

Frances Dee 

2 Awards 

John Huston 

Merion C. 

Alfred 

Dmo Coope 

Sontell 

Chorles Drake 

Robert Morley 

Joon Fonfoine 

Sen 

Dorothy 

Borzmon 

Kingsley 

De Victor 

Lourentii 

Soville 

Tom Droke 

Alon Mowbroy 

Betty Garrett 

Stanley 

Lewis 

Donen 

Seller 

Fabian 

Jules Munshin 

Mifzi 

Charles 

Harry 

Bennett 

Kurnifz 

Goynor 

Orville Douglas 

O. Dull 

Sirk 

Preston Foster Laurence Noismith 

Jeon Hogen 

Pierre 

Alan 

Boulie 

Le May 

Ernestine 

Anito Loos 

Pf'er V. Herald 

Shovelson Reginald 

rri"^, 

Gardiner 

Robert Newton 

Audrey Hepburn 

Winston Charles 

HIbbler 

Vidor 

Lucien Hubbard 

Rooul 

Leo Genn 

Wolsh 

Thomas Peter 

Gilbreth 

Jon 

O'Toole 

Fay 

Corey 

Lustig 

Holden 

Edna 

Barre 

Ferber 

Lyndon 

Gomez 

John Payne 

Morsho Hunt Rulh Aeneas 

Arthur Williom P. A. Jacobs 

Wellman 

Jock Holey 

Slim Pickens 

Jennifer Brooks Flippen 

MocKenzie 

Jones 

Paul 

Ben 

Gollico 

Markson 

Nunnolly Johnson 

Richord Harris Donald Pleosence 

Veronico 

Paul 

Murray 

Jones 

Hamilton 

Sidney Poitier 

Dorothy Loke frank Sara 

B. 

Y. 

Gilbreth jr 

Mason 

Lomour 

Jomes 

John 

Horry Keller 

Von Heflin 

Anthony 

Jessie Hilton 

Meehon 

Quinn 

Royce Londis 

Edwin K. 

AIL 

^- Knopf 

Ion 

i^nopl 

Hunter 

Ronald Reogon 

Aline 

Margaret 

Seton I. 

London 

Miller 

MocMahon Alan Kichord 

Jay Lerner 

Morris 

Albert Lewin 

Burl Ives 

Michael Rennie 

Morione Main 

Leo 

Samuel 

David Lewis 

Dean 

McCorey 

Frank Nugent 

Jogger 

Ralph Richardson 

Virginio Mayo 

Ivan 

Jomes 

Marx 

14 Awards 

Jackie Jenkins 

Gilbert Roland 

Vera 

Moffot 

O'Hanlon 

Miles 

Fronk 

Paul 

Leo McCorey 

Donold Crisp 

Allon Jones 

Cesar Romero 

Ann 

Ross 

Osborn 

Miller 

Norman 

Robert 

Alon J. Pokulo 

James Stewart 

Dean Jones 

George C. Scott 

Mary Russell 

Ponomo 

Nosh 

Ernest 

Hornet Parsons 

Louis 

12 Awords 

Jourdon 

Gene Sheldon 

Mildred 

Dore Schary 

Poscal 

Notwick Samuel 

John 

W. Potrick 

William H. Pine 

Cory 

Howard 

Grant 

Keel 

Henry Silvo 

Noncy 

Taylor 

Olson 

Bill 

Ralph Peet 

Everett Risk in 

Brian Keith 

Ringo 

10 Storr 

Debro 

Wheelright 

Poget 

Louis 

Meredith 

Pelletier 

^. L. Awards 

Rocketf 

Fred 

Frank Ross 

MocMurroy 

Patric Knowles Tommy 

Betsy 

Willson Norrôn Steele 

Palmer 

Reilly Roine 

Walter 

Gregory 

Jock Kruschen 

Rod 

Luono 

Shenson 

Peck 

l-ernondo 

Steiger 

Potten 

aen Roberts 

Lawrence 

Lomos 

Basil Sydney 

Donna Reed (Screenplays) 

Stonley Roberts 

Turmon 

9 Awards 

James MacArthur 

Russ Tomblyn 

Ann Rutherford 

Rod 

Lawrence Weingarten 

Fred Astaire 

Frank McHugh 

Don 

Gale 

Robert Wise 

Henry Fonda 

Dickie 

Toylor 

Sondergaord 

7 Awards 

Ted 

Serling 

Sherdemon 

Moore 

Donrv Thomos 

Von Johnson 

Edmond 

Gloria Stewart 

Helen Deutsch 

R- C. 

O'Brien 

Keenon Wynn 

Arthur 

Marshall Thomoson 

bene Tierney 

Albert Sheriff 

Hockett 

Tess Slesinger 

O'Connell 

Richord Todd 

Lono Turner 

Fronces Goodrich 

Jo Swerling 

Anthony 

8 Awards 

Perkins 

Bing 

Robert 

Crosby 

Preston 

Arthur Aû"^ Tomlinson 

Virginia 

Dwight 

Weidler 

« Awards 

Toylor 

Teresa 

Treocher 

Wright 

Henry 

Samuel Ephron 

W. Toylor 

Roddy 

Tony 

McDowoll 

Randall 

Mickey 

Rondo Refer 

Korl 

Ustinov 

2 Awords 

Phoebe Ephron 

Tunberg 

Iph 

12 Awords 

Rooney 

Scott 

Rov Wolston 

Robert 

Ann-Morgret 

lolbot 

John Twist 

Jennings 

Stock 

Potrick 

7 

Henry 

Awords 

Wayne 

Dean 

Anno Alan Anthony 

Kosfer 

Stockwell Johnny 

Morio 

Jay Veiller 

Lerner 

George 

James 

Mervyn Cagney 

Weissmuller 

Bill 

LeRoy 

Robert 

Alberghetti 

Wolsh 

Wells 

Toylor 

Orson 

Kevin 

Welles 

CorcoroM 

Henry Trovers 

Heother Angel 

5 Awards 

Chill 

8 Awords 

Peter 

Wills 

Lowford 

Rudy 

Clarence 

Vollee 

Brown 

Fredric March 

Dick 

George 

Von Vincent Winter 

Binnie Barnes 

Oscar Brodney 

Borboro 

Cukor 

George 

Dyke 

lothon Botes 

Philip Dunne 

Winters 

Tobias 

Anne 

John 

John Ford 

Wayne 

Boxter 

6 

Henry 

Awards 

Kothryn 

George Froeschel 

Beoumont Nunnolly Johnson 

King 

Louise 

Rex Harrison 

2 Awords 

Beavers 

Cosey Robinson 

Companies 

7 Awards 

Richard Hoydn 

Philip 

Joan Blondell 

Richard 

vincente Minnelli 

George 

Williom 

Abbott 

Rodgers 

Holden 

Steve Allen 

., ^y BIyth 

Stevens 

Sob Hope 

Dono 

Madeleine 

4 Awards 

Andrews 

Corroll 

Norman 

Joon Tourog 

Gene Kelly 

Edword 

Charles 

Metro-Goldwyn- 

Bennett 

Andrews 

Coulfield 

Moyer 

Charles 

9g 

Charles Walters Tommy Kirk 

Horry 

10 

Andrews 

Awards 

Cyd Brackett 

Chorisse 

Greer 

6 Awards 

John Mills 

Richord 

Garson 

Rosemary 

Sidney 

20th 

Buchmon 

Century-Fox 76 

Clooney 

Delmer 

Kothorine 

David Butler 

Lloyd Nolon 

Attenborough 

Hepburn Adrienne Daves WB-7 Arts Corri 

57 

Howard 

Frank Copra 

Laurence Olivier 

Scotty 

Bette 

Esfobrook 

Beckett 

9 Awords 

Davis 

Paramount 

Noel 

Walter Long 

VVolter Pidgeon 

Ralph Bellamy 

Agnes 

Loroine 

Long 

47 

ley 

Mooreheod 

Doy 

Ernest 

RKO 

Yvonne 

Jeon Negulesco 

Vincent Price 

Bruce 

De Lehmon 

Radio .... . .35 

Bennett 

Carlo 

8 Awords 

Willord 

Sondro 

5 Awords 

Robertson Theodore Bikel 

Akim 

William 

Tomiroff 

Ben 

Spring 

Dee 

Isobel Lennart United 

Byington 

Joonne William 

Artists 

. . 32 

Ludwig 

Blue 

Dru 

-olumbio 

John 

.... 

Dieterle 

Stanley 

S 

Donen 

Awords 

Eddie 

Glodys Cooper 

Borboro 

Lee 32 

Eden 

Mohin 

Brocken 

Jane 

Poul 

Universal 

Clyde Geronimi 

Eddie 

Neville 

Wyman 

Somontho 

Osborn 

2s 

Albert 

Brand 

Eggor Melvi le 

Walter 

Lloyd 

Brennon 

Bridges 

7 

Geroldjrw 

Shovelson Bueno Vista .... 

Awards 

Fitzllrold 

2S 

Billy 

James Brown 

June Allyson 

Nino 

Wilder 

Allied Foch 

Artists 

Beuloh Betty 

Bondi Groble 

3 Awords 

(Mono) 

Glorio Grohome 

Irwin 

5 

Allen Prominent 

Solly 

Films.. 

Benson 

1 

Cinemo V 1 

BAROMETER Sectio

A5lue l\.lbbon Winner^ of tne f-^âdt 25 Ljeears 

(In seasonal order, September through August) 

1942-43 

MGM 

Mrs. Miniver 

The Mojor ond the Minor 

Paramount 

Tales of Monhotton 20th-Fox 

George Woshington Slept Here Warner Bros. 

Yonkee Doodle Dandy 

Warner Bros. 

Star Spangled Rhythm Paramount 

Pride of the Yankees RKO Rodio 

Random Harvest MGM 

The More the Merrier Columbia 

Stoge Door Canteen United Artists 

The HHmon Comedy 

MGM 

Is This the Army Warner Bros. 

1943-44 

So Proudly We HoU Paramount 

Thank Your Lucky Stors 

Warner Bros. 

Guadalcanal Diory 

Lossie Come Home 

20th-Fox 

MGM 

See Here, Private Hargrove MGM 

Madame Curie 

A Guy Kamed Joe 

MGM 

MGM 

Destination Tokyo Warner Bros. 

For Whom the Bell Tolls 

The White Cliffs of Dover 

Paramount 

MGM 

The Story of Dr. Wassell Paramount 

Going My Way Paramount 

1944-45 

The Seventh Cross MGM 

Arsenic and Old Lace Warner Bros. 

Since You Went Awoy United Artists 

Mrs. Porkington MGM 

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo MGM 

The Keys of the Kingdom 20th-Fox 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 20th-Fox 

National Velvet MGM 

The Enchanted Cottage RKO Radio 

The Clock 

MGM 

Valley of Decision MGM 

Wilson 

20th-Fox 

1945-46 

story of G.I. Joe 

Our Vines Hove Tender Gropes 


MGM 

The House on 92nd Street 

20th-Fox 

Spellbound United Artists 

The Bells of St. Mary's RKO Rodio 

The Lost Weekend Paramount 

Tomorrow Is Forever RKO Radio 

Saratoga Trunk Warner Bros. 

Dragonwyck 

20th-Fox 

Two Sisters From Boston MGM 

The Green Years MGM 

Anna and the King of Siam 20th-Fox 

1946-47 

Caesar and Cleopatra United Artists 

Three Wise Fools 

MGM 

Sister Kenny RKO Radio 

Blue Skies Paramount 

The Jolson Story Columbia 

Song of the South RKO Radio 

The Beginning or the End MGM 

It Happened in Brooklyn MGM 

The Former's Daughter 

The Yearling 

RKO Radio 

MGM 

Miracle on 34th Street 20th-Fox 

Welcome Stranger Paramount 

1947-48 

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. . . .RKO Radio 

The Unfinished Dance MGM 

Secret Life of Wolter Mitty RKO Radio 

Where There's Life Paramount 

My Wild Irish Rose Warner Bros. 

Coss Timberlone MGM 

The Bishop's Wife RKO Radio 

I Remember Mama RKO Rodio 

State of the Union MGM 

Green Grass of Wyoming 20th-Fox 

Easter Parade MGM 

The Best Yeors of Our Lives 

RKO Radio 

1948-49 

The Babe Ruth Story Monogram 

Apartment for Peggy 20th-Fox 

Johnny Belinda 

The Three Musketeers 

Worner Bros. 

MGM 

The Snake Pit 

20th-Fox 

The Boy With Green Hair RKO Radio 

So Dear to My Heort RKO Radio 

Toke Me Out to the Ball Gome MGM 

Little Women MGM 

The Barkleys of Broadway MGM 

The Strotton Story MGM 

Look for the Silver Lining Warner Bros. 

1949-50 

Come to the Stable 

20th-Fox 

Wos a Mole War Bride 20th-Fox 

I 

Ichobod and Mr. Tood RXO-Radio 

Adam's Rib MGM 

On the Town 

MGM 

All the Kmg's Men .'.'.'.Columbia 

Twelve O'clock High 20th-Fox 

Cinderello 

RKO Rodio 

Cheaper by the Dozen 20th-Fox 

The Jackie Robinson Story 


Father of the Bride MGM 

Treosure Island RKQ Radio 

1950-51 

•ouisa 

Universol-lnt'l 

Fancy Pants Poromount 

Mister 880 20th-Fox 

King Solomon's Mines MGM 

Harvey 

Universal-lnt'l 

Kim 

MGM 

Royal Wedding 

MGM 

Father's Little Dividend MGM 

The Great Caruso 

MGM 

On the Riviera 20th-Fox 

The Frogmen 20th-Fox 

Alice in Wonderlond RKO Radio 

1951-52 

Captain Horatio Hornblower Warner Bros. 

Angels in the Outfield MGM 

An American in Paris MGM 

A Christmos Corel 


I'll See You in My Dreams Worner Bros. 

Room for One More 

Warner Bros. 

The African Queen United Artists 

With o Song in My Heort 20th-Fox 

The Pride of St. Louis 20th-Fox 

Belles on Their Toes 20th-Fox 

The Greatest Show on Eorth Paramount 

The Story of Will Rogers Worner Bros. 

1952-53 

The Merry Widow MGM 

The Mirocle of Fotimo Warner Bros. 

Because You're Mine MGM 

Plymouth Adventure MGM 

Stars ond Stripes Forever 20th-Fox 

Peter Pan RKO-Disney 

The Stars Are Singing Paramount 

Hons Christian Andersen RKO-Goldwyn 

Titonic 

20th-Fox 

A Queen Is Crowned Universal- Int'l-Rank 

Lili 

Shone 

MGM 

Paramount 

1953-54 

Roman Holidoy Paramount 

The Robe 20th-Fox 

So Big 

How to Marry a Millionoire 

Knights of the Round Table 

Warner Bros. 

20th-Fox 

MGM 

The Glenn Miller Story Universol-lnt'l 

The Long, Long Troiler MGM 

Rose Marie MGM 

Executive Suite 

MGM 

Three Coins in the Fountoin 

The High and the Mighty 

20th-Fox 

Warner Bros 

Mognificent Obsession Universal-lnt'l 

1954-55 

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 

Brigodoon 

MGM 

MGM 

White Christmas Poramount 

The Little Kidnappers Rank-UA 

There's No Busmess Like Show Business. .20th-Fox 

The Bridges at Toko-Ri Poramount 

The Long Groy Line Columbia 

A Man Colled Peter 20tti-Fox 

Daddy Long Legs 20th-Fox 

Strategic Air Command Paramount 

The Seven Little Foys Paramount 

Mister Roberts Warner Bros. 

1955-56 

The McConnell Story Warner Bros. 

The Africon Lion Buena Vista 

My Sister Eileen Columbia 

Good Morning, Miss Dove 20th-Fox 

Guys ond Dolls 

MGM 

The Benny Goodman Story Universal-lnt'l 

Carousel 

20th-Fox 

The Man in the Groy Flonnel Suit . . . .20th-Fox 

The Swon 

MGM 

The Mon Who Knew Too Much Paramount 

The King and I 20fh-Fox 

The Eddy Duchin Story Columbio 

1956-57 

War ond Peace Paramount 

The Solid Gold Cadillac Columbia 

Friendly Persuasion Allied Artists 

Oklahoma! 

20th-Fox 

The Ten Commandments Paramount 

The Roinmoker Paramount 

Battle Hymn Universal-lnt'l 

The Spirit of St. Louis Warner Bros. 

Boy on o Dolphin 20th-Fox 

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Paramount 

Tommy and the Bachelor Universal-lnt'l 

An Affoir to Remember 20th-Fox 

1957-58 

The Pajomo Gome Warner Bros. 

Man of a Thousand Faces Universal-lnt'l 

Les Girls MGM 

April Love 20th-Fox 

Soyonoro Warner Bros. 

Old Yeller Bueno Vista 

Witness for the Prosecution United Artists 

The Bridge on the River Kwoi Columbio 

The Young Lions 20fh-Fox 

This Happy Feeling Universal-lnt'l 

No Time for Sergeonts 

Warner Bros. 

The Matchmaker Paramount 

1958-59 

MGM 

The Reluctant Debutonte 

Damn Yankees 

Warner Bros. 

The Lost Hurrah Columbia 

Gigi 

MGM 

The Inn of the Sixth Hoppiness 20th-Fox 

The Old Mon and the Sea Warner Bros. 

The Mating Gome MGM 

The Shaggy Dog Bueno Visto 

South Pacific 20th-Fox 

It Happened to Jane Columbio 

The Big Circus Allied Artists 

The Diory of Anne Fronk 20th-Fox 

1959-60 

The Devil's Disciple United Artists 

The FBI Story Warner Bros. 

The Big Fisherman Buena Vista 

The Last Angry Man 

Columbia 

Journey to the Center . .20th-Fox 

of the Earth 

On the Beach United Artists 

Toby Tyler 

Bueno Visto 

Please Don't Eot the Doisies MGM 

Conspiracy of Heorts Paramount 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn MGM 

Pollyonno Buena Visto 

The Lost World 20th-Fox 

1960-61 

Ocean's 11 Worner Bros. 

High Time 20th-Fox 

Sunrise at Compobello 

Warner Bros. 

CinderFella 

Paramount 

The Sundowners Warner Bros. 

Swiss Family Robinson Buena Vista 

One Hundred and One Dalmatians Buena Vista 

The Trapp Family 20th-Fox 

The Absent-Minded Professor Buena Vista 

The Pleasure of His Company Poromount 

The Parent Trap Buena Visto 

Tammy Tell Me True Universal-lnt'l 

1961-62 

The Young Doctors United Artists 

Greyfriors Bobby Bueno Vista 

King of Kings MGM 

Flower Drum Song Universal 

Bobes in Toylond Buena Visto 

A Majority of One 

Warner Bros. 

West Side Story United Artists 

Stote Fair 20th-Fox 

The Counterfeit Traitor Paramount 

Bon Voyage Bueno Vista 

Mr. Hobbs Tokes a Vocation 20th-Fox 

The Music Man 

Warner Bros. 

1962-63 

Five Weeks in a Bolloon 20th-Fox 

Almost Angels Bueno Vista 

The Longest Day 20th-Fox 

Billy Budd Allied Artists 

Billy Rose's Jumbo MGM 

Lawrence of Arabia Columbia 

To Kill o Mockingbird Universal 

Miracle of the White Stollions 

Buena Visto 

The Ugly American Universal 

Bye Bye Birdie Columbio 

Spencer's Mountoln Warner Bros. 

The Great Escope United Artists 

1963-64 

Gidget Goes to Rome Columbio 

Lilies of the Field United Artists 

The Incredible Journey Bueno Visto 

McLintock! United Artists 

The Sword in the Stone Buena Visto 

America America Worner Bros. 

Seven Days in May Paramount 

The Incredible Mr. Limpet Warner Bros. 

The Brass Bottle Universal 

The Chalk Garden Universol 

The Unsinkoble Molly Brown 

MGM 

Islond of the Blue Dolphins Universal 

1964-65 

A Hard Day's Night United Artists 

Kisses for My President Wamer Bros. 

Mary Poppins Bueno Visto 

My Foir Lady Wamer Bros. 

Father Goose Universal 

A Boy Ten Feet Tall Poramount 

Those Collowoys Bueno Vista 

The Sound of Music 20th-Fox 

The Truth About Spring Universal 

Mister Moses United Artists 

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying 

Machines 

20th-Fox 

Shenandoah 

Universal 

1965-66 

HELP! 


The Greot Race 

WB-7 Arts 

The Agony and the Ecstasy 

20th-Fox 

Never Too Late 

WB-7 Arts 

Thot Darn Cot 

Bueno Vista 

The Heroes of Telemork 

Columbia 

The Ugly Dachshund Buena Visto 

The Singing Nun MGM 

Born Free Columbia 

The Shop on Moin Street 

Prominent Films 

The Russians Are Coming 


Walk, Don't Run 

Columbia 

1966-67 

Fantastic Voyoge 20th-Fox 

The Wrong Box Columbia 

The Bible ... In the Beginning 20th-Fox 

Follow Me, Boys! Bueno Vista 

The Endless Summer Cinema V 

A Man for All Seasons Columbia 

Monkeys, Go Home' Bueno Visto 

How to Succeed in Business United Artists 

Thoroughly Modern Millie Universol 

Eight on the Lom 


At rico—Texas Style! Paramount 

Up the Down Stoircose WB-7 Art?

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REPRESENTATIVES OF SOCIAL, CIVIC, 

MRS. A. E. ANDERSON, G.F.W.C., Wadena, Minn. 

MRS. W. H. ANDREWS, Brooklyn Council of New Englond 

Women 

MRS. DeFOREST ANTHONY, Washington (D. C.) Motion 

Picture Council 

MRS. HENRY AUGUSTINE, Sheybogon Better Films 

Council 

MRS. RICHARD G. AUSPITZER, I.F.C.A., L. I., N. Y. 

MRS. HAROLD W. BAIN, Milwaukee County Better 

Films Council, Wauwatosa, Wis. 

MRS. LESLIE T, BARCO, Better Films Council of 

Greater St. Louis 

MRS. W. H. BARKER, G.F.W.C, San Antonio 

VIRGINIA M. BEARD, curator of films, Cleveland pub- 

library 

lic 

DR. CAMPTON BELL, ctiairman Division of Fine Arts, 

University of Denver 

MRS. J. K, BERETTA, G.F.W.C, San Antonio 

CATHERINE ROSS BETRY, Columbus and Franklin 

County Better Films Council, Ohio 

ROSEMARY BEYMER, art director, Konsas City (Mo.) 

public schools 

R R. BIECHELE, exhibitor, Kansas City 

LLOYD T. BINFORD, chairman Memphis Censor Board 

MRS. W. W. BREWER, G.F.W.C, Omar, W. Va. 

MRS. E. N. BROUGH, D.A.R., St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

MRS. WILLIAM A. BURK, president S. Calif. Motion 

Picture Council, Los Angeles 

MRS. E. L. BURNETT, chairman Indianopolis Screen 

Council, G.F.W.C. 

GENEVIEVE THOMAS BURRIS, Missouri Writers' Guild, 

Kansas City 

MRS, A. F. BURT, G.F.W.C, Greater St. Louis Better 

Films Council 

MRS. JOHN J. BUTLER, G.F.W.C, Lewiston, Me. 

MRS. ROBERT CARLETON, I.F.C.A., Polisade, N. J. 

MRS. EDWARD F. CARRAN, G.F.W.C, Lakewood, Ohio 

MRS. EDNA R, CAROLL, Pennsylvania Board of Censors, 

Philadelphia 

R L. CARTER, Hilltop Community Council, Columbus 

MRS, JOSEPH R. CHESSER, G.F.W.C. consultant. Lakeland, 

Fla. 

MRS. GEORGE E. CHICK, G.F.W.C, Madison, N. H. 

MRS. B. C CHRISTOPHER, Kansas City (Mo.) Camptire 

Girls Council 

ELSIE CLANAHAN, G.F.W.C, Belleville, III. 

SUSAN AND STEPHEN COHEN, Youth Group, Kansos 

City 

MRS. C W. CONRAD, Cleveland Cinema Club 

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Nat'l Board of Review 

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Photoplays, Indianapolis 

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court, Waterbury, Conn. 

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City 

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MRS. S. B. CUTHBERT, G.F.W.C, Atlontic City 

MRS. WILLIAM DALTON, I.F.C.A., New York City 

MRS. MILDRED C DAVIS, G.F.W.C, Flemingsburg, Ky. 

MRS. ODESSA DAVIS, B.P.W.C, Los Angeles 

CLEO DAWSON, writer and lecturer, Lexington, Ky. 

MRS. HENRY DAWSON, MPA, New York City 

MRS. EUGENE A. DEAN, G.F.W.C, St. Paul 

MRS. LAWRENCE DELAY, Springfield (Mass.) Motion 


I.F.C.A., Brooklyn 

' S. EARL T. DUTTON, A.A.U.W., Temple City, Calif. 

FRED EASTMAN, professor of biography ond 

droma, Chicago University 

MRS. CLARENCE ECHOLS, Dollos Motion Picture 

Council 

MRS. DEAN GRAY EDWARDS, eastern preview choirman 

G.F.W.C, Kew Gardens, N. Y. 

EDDY G. ERICKSON, Theatre Enterprise Inc., Kansos 

City 

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATONS 

MRS. CLAUDE FRANKLIN, Nat'l Council of Women, 

Indianapolis 

MRS, LEO FREUND, Nat'l Council of Jewish Women, 

Los Angeles 

MRS, JOSEPH E, FRIEND, Louisiono Council for Motion 

Pictures, New Orleans 

MRS. PAUL GEBHART, Cleveland Cinema Club 

MRS. HAROLD L. GEE, San Antonio Motion Picture 

Advisory and Reviewing Board 

MRS. WALTER L. GILBERT, Nat'l Board of Review, 

Cobleskill, N. Y. 

H. H. GILES, Bureau of Interculturol Education, New 

York City 

MRS. S. L. GILLETTE, G.F.W.C, Salt Lake City 

MRS. ELMORE GODFREY JR., PTA-G.F.W.C, Knoxville 

MRS. GEORGE 5. GRAVES, A.A.U.W., San Diego 

MRS. BETTINA GUNCZY, 

Council, New York City 

Protestant Motion Picture 

MRS. SHIRLEY H. GUNNELS, G.F.W.C, Fowler, Ind. 

GENEVIEVE HACKETT, motion picture chairman executive 

board, D.C.C.W., Kansas City 

MRS. OLIVER J. HALLER, G.F.W.C, Pittsburgh 

JOHN W. HARDEN, Public relations director, Burlington 

Mills, Greensboro, N. C 

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ETHEL W. HOLLINGER, S. Calif. Council of Church 

Women, Hollywood 

RUTH JEFFRIES, writer, Kansas City 

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MRS. DONALD JOHNSON, P.E.O. and Faculty Wives, 

East Lansing, Mich. 

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and Jews, New York City 

MRS. C F. JOHNSTON, Jacksonville (Flo.) Motion 


JUDGE CAMILLE KELLEY, Juvenile Court, Memphis 

MRS. ARTHUR D. KERWIN, Greater Detroit Motion 


MRS. KARL KING, Bryan (Ohio) Motion Picture Council 

MRS. B. F. KNISELEY, J. H. Reagan PTA, Dallas 

MRS. EMMA KOMINERS, G.F.W.C, Indianapolis 

MRS. WILLIAM F. KUEBLER, Kansas City Athenaeum 

MRS. CHARLES LAMBUR, Better Films Council of 

Greater St. Louis 

MRS. HERBERT LANGNER, 

mittee, New York 

American Jewish Com- 

MRS. FRANK B. LEITZ, PTA, Kansas City, Mo. 

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Newark, N. J. 

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Grand Ropids and Kent County 

MRS. FRED LUCAS, G.F.W.C, ond Indiana Indorsers 

of Photoplays, Greencostle 

MRS. JAMES E. LUTTRELL, G.F.W.C, Craig, Colo. 

MRS. J. G. MAASDAM, G.F.W.C, Oakland, Colif. 

MRS. GRACE WIDNEY MABEE, chairman Nat'l Film 

Music Council, Old Greenwich, Conn. 

MRS. EDNA B. MACLACHLAN, Cleveland Cinema 

Club 

MRS. E. ROBERT MANNING, I.F.C.A., Pittsburgh 

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Fla. 

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Mo. 

MRS. BYRON MATHEWS, Atlanta Better Films Committee 

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Ogden 

MRS. M. C McGAHERAN, G.F.W.C, Owatonno, Minn. 

INEZ MERZ, Indianapolis Screen Council 

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MRS. LEROY MONTGOMERY, D.A.R., South Norwalk 

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LUCY M. NEWBILL, Kansas City Music Clubs 

CHARLES H. NILES, University of Conn., Storrs 

MRS. WILLIAM W. NOLAN, I.F.C.A., New York City 

MRS. RALPH E. OESPER, Cincinnati Motion Picture 

Council 

MRS. CHESTER A. OMMANNEY, A.A.U.W., Los Angeles 

MRS. P. H. PARKHURST, G.F.W.C, Denver 

MRS. LODER L. PATTERSON, G.F.W.C, Ocola, Fla. 

MRS. WILLIAM HYDE PEARL, G.F.W.C, Indionapolis 

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GLADYCE PENROD, KMTA, Kansos City 

MRS. C R. PENTZ, A.A.U.W., Long Beach 

MRS. HENRY ERTELT, Women's Federation, Edgewood 

Congregationol Church, New Haven 

MRS. VERNON FARQUHAR, S. Calif. Council of Church 

Women, Hollywood 

MRS W. ROBERT FLEMING, Indiana Indorsers of 

Photoplays, Fort Wayne 

EMMA S. FORSTER, Women's Chamber of Commerce, 

Censor Board, Little Rock 

MRS, BERNARD A. FOSTER, Spartanburg (S. C) Motion 


Fort Wayne 

MRS. R. EARL PETERS, Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, 

.'RS La MONTE FOSTER, Motion Picture Council of MRS. JOHN B. PEW, Kansas City, Mo. 

Mann County, Larkspur, Calif. 

•RS. TEMPLE FRAKER, G.F.W.C, Knoxville 

MRS. L. W. POWELL, Springfield (Mass.) Motion Picture 

Council 

CONSTANCE PURDY, Nat'l Federation of Music Clubs, 

Hollywood 

EDYTH R. PYCOCK, G.F.W.C, Grand Rapids 

HARLAND RANKIN, exhibitor, Chatham, Ont. 

LAURA E. RAY, G.F.W.C, Indianapolis 

ANNA JOYCE REARDON, Woman's College, Greensboro, 

N. C 

MRS. L. O. REUNING, Canal Street Presbyterian 

Church Women's Auxiliory, New Orleans 

MRS. RAE L. RIBLER, East Bay Motion Picture Company, 

Oakland 

MRS. CLAYTON H. RIDGE, Woman's Dep't Chamber 

of Commerce, Indianapolis 

EDNA REISE, League of American Penwomen, San 

Francisco 

MRS. EDWARD J. RILEY, San Froncisco Motion Pic- 

MRS, NATHANIEL ROUSE, Stoten Island Better Films 

Council 

MRS, MAURICE W. RUSSELL, G.F.W.C, Providence 

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MRS, MAX SANSING, GFW.C, Clarksdale, Miss. 

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MRS, CLAUDE L. SEIXAS, Lorchmont-Mamaroneck (N. 

Y) Motion Picture Council 

MRS. WILLIAM P. SETTLEMAYER, D.A.R., New York 

MRS. FRED D. 5HAND0RF, Community Club, Mitchell, 

S. D. 

MRS. WAYNE F. SHAW, G.F.W.C, Lawrence, Kos. 

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MRS. HARRY E. SIBLEY, Louisville Better Films Council 

CHRISTINE SMITH, Atlanta city censor 

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Council 

MRS. HENRY EARL SMITH, Sheboygan Motion Picture 

Council 

MRS. E. D. SNOW JR., Scorsdole (N. Y.) Motion Picture 

Council 

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Edmond, Oklo. 

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of N. C, Chapel Hill 

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Council ond B.P.W. 

MRS. FREDERIC H. STEELE, G.F.W.C, Huntingdon, Pa. 

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Education, Storm Lake, Iowa 

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Fort Wayne 

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Photoplays, Green Gables 

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Detroit 

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Glendale, Calif. 

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Cleveland, Ohio 

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Knoxville 

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MARY ALICE UPHOFF, consultant in motion picture 

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D.A.R. 

MRS. JOHN B. WAIT, G.F.W.C, Chamberlain, S. D. 

MRS. E. C WAKELAM, Indianapolis Screen Council 

TOWNSEND L. WALKER, Better Films Ass'n of America, 

Memphis 

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Theatre Circuit, Mount Sterling, Ky. 

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Oklo. 

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MRS. GEORGE V. WHEELER, G.F.W.C, Milwaukee 

MRS. FAGAN WHITE, G.F.W.C, Russell, Kos. 

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Conn. 

LORA MURRELL WILLIAMS, city censor, Kansas City, 

Mo. 

MRS. MAX M. WILLIAMS, G.F.W.C, Royal Ook, Mich. 

MRS P. E, WILLIS, choirmon western division preview 

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MRS. GEORGE F. WILSON, county representative Philadelphia 

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EOXOFFICE 77


L'S 

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IJ)C^ 

Completed: 

Bernard Shaw's 

'ANDROCLES AND THE LION' 

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K O 

RADIO 

PICTURES 

In 

PreparatioTi 

'THE D E V I 

Bernard Shaw's 

DISCIPLE" 

• 

"THE LIFE OF GANDHI' 

BOXOFFICE 79

: 

PRODUCERS 

Thp Power Beliind the Scenes 

Unsung Heroes Who Make or Break the Pictures 

8 WluL 21 o(S.eadon 6 mS 

WHOEVER 

said, "I care not who 

makes the nation's laws if I may 

write its songs" understood clearly 

how much more the latter entered into 

the hearts of the people. Thus it might 

be said for the producers of motion pictures, 

that no matter who makes the laws, 

those who make the pictures which entertain 

the public are closer to the roots 

of the people's affections than those who 

make themselves responsible for their protection 

and good conduct. A motion picture 

hit producer has made something on 

which a vast audience has placed its seal 

of approval. His skill has brought forth 

a product with general mass appeal in 

the entertainment field, and he can (and 

doubtless does) feel the customary elation 

which comes after a creative effort of any 

kind makes its public appearance. 

For the 1950-51 season, eight producers 

made 21 of its hits, while 37 others had 

only one hit each. During the 1949-50 

season, 35 producers had one hit each, 

ten had two each, and only one, Sol C. 

Siegel, produced three hits. In 1950-51. 

five producers had three hits each and 

three had two hits each. Of the five men 

that produced three hits for the season, 

three of them—Arthur Freed, Joe Pasternak, 

and Darryl F. Zanuck—had two each 

last year. Robert L. Welch had one hit 

last season and William Jacobs none, .so 

their product jumped considerably, boxofficewise, 

for 1950-51. However, neither 

Welch nor Jacobs are new in the business. 

None of these producers is. They 

have all served full apprenticeship before 

becoming masters of their art, as will be 

shown by studying their backgrounds and 

careers. 

Taking them in the order in which they 

are listed, we find Arthur Freed came up 

via the .song route, having many popular 

screen songs to his credit before becoming 

a producer. That is probably why he 

made three such effective musicals for 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as those listed, including 

the outstanding "Show Boat." 

William Jacobs, native of Chicago and 

educated at the Mosely Institute, developed 

into a producer from a screenplay 

writer. He produced three delightful hi* 

musicals for Warner Bros, for the season. 

Joe Pasternak, who scored two hits in 

1949-50 and has three hits for 1950-51. 

was fortunate in having Mario Lanza in 

two of those three. He is one producer 

who has held the reins of productional 

power on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Robert L. Welch, one of whose hits of 

the season starred Bing Crosby and the 

other two Bob Hope, out of the university 

became an actor-producer at the Hedgerow 

Theatre in Philadelphia. He went to 

the Pasadena Playhouse, then was a writer 

and producer on the Kate Smith. Fred 

Allen and Jack Benny shows, as well as 

the originator of the Henry Aldrich shows, 

coining the expression, "Coming. Mother." 

Also, he produced all the U.S. Armed 

Forces radio shows during World War II. 

Darryl F. Zanuck, the Nebraska boy who 

made good in pictures to the extent that 

he is listed in that bible of distinguished 

attainment. Who's Who. has three unusual 

pictures to his credit this year, each differing 

from the other: one a religious epic 

starring Gregory Peck, another a sophisticated 

vehicle for Bette Davis, and the 

other an adult theme for Gary Grant's 

thespian talents. 

Louis F. Edelman. Harvard graduate, 

entered the motion picture industry 

as a prop boy at the Metro studios and 

went on to the .sound and story department, 

then to the Warner and to the Fox 

studios, and to Columbia in 1942. He is 

the first of those listed here for two hits, 

both made in the Warner studios. 

Leonard Goldstein, one of the few western-born 

producers, used his talents in a 

number of studios before coming to Universal 

and producing the Ma and Pa Kettle 

.series, along with such successes as 

"Tomahawk" and "Up Front." 

William Perlberg. Cornell graduate who 

served in the U.S. Navy during World 

War I, has also worked in a number of 

studios in varying capacities, but mostly 

as a producer in late years. While now 

with Paramount, his two hits for the season 

were made for 20th Century-Fox. 

Sol C. Siegel. who scored with three 

hits for the 1949-50 season, has only one 

hit to his credit for 1950-51 but it is 

Danny Kaye's "On the Riviera." Other 

notable hits whose producers had only one 

credit for the season include "Born Yesterday" 

(S. Sylvan Simon). "Cyrano de 

Bergerac" (Stanley Kramer), and "King 

Solomon's Mines" (Sam Zimbalisti. 

Producers credited with 1950-51 top 

boxoffice attractions are listed below: 

THREE WINNERS 

ARTHUR FREED: 

Show Boat (MGM) 

Royal Wedding (MGM) 

Pagan Love Song (MGM) 

WILLIAM JACOBS: 

Tea for Two (WBi 

On Moonlight Bay iWB) 

Lullaby of Broadway (WB) 

JOE PASTERNAK: 

Great Caruso. The (MGM) 

Rich. Young and Pretty 

Toast of New Orleans 

ROBERT L. WELCH: 

(MGM) 

(MGM) 

Mr. Music (Para) 

Fancy Pants (Para) 

Lemon Drop Lid, The (Para) 

ZANUCK: 

David and Bathsheba (20th-Fox) 

All About Eve (20th-Foxi 

People Will Talk (20th-Foxi 

DARRYL F. 

TWO WINNERS 

LOUTS F. EDELMAN 

Operation Pacific (WBi 

West Point Story, The (WBi 

LEONARD GOLDSTEIN: 

Tomahawk (U-I) 

Up Front (U-I) 

WILLIAM PERLBERG: 

For Heaven's Sake (20th-Foxi 

I'll Get By (20th-Fox) 

ONE WINNER 

ROBERT ARTHUR: 


Invisible Man (U-Ii 

ROBERT BASSLER: 

Halls of Montezuma (20th-Fox) 

JOHN BECK: 

Harvey (U-I) 

PANDRO S. BERMAN: 

Father's Little Dividend (MGM) 

CLARENCE BROWN: 

To Please a Lady (MGM) 


: 

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ARTHUR FREED 

LOUIS EDELMAN 

LEONARD GOLDSTEIN 

MERIAN C. COOPER: 

Rio Grande (Repi 

ANTHONY DARNBOROUGH: 

Trio (Para 

WALT DISNEY: 

Alice in Wonderland (RKO) 

SAMUEL G. ENGEL: 

Frogmen, The (20th-Foxi 

FRED F. FINKLEHOFFE: 

At War With the Army (Para) 

JOHN FORD 

Rio Grande (Rep) 

SAMUEL GOLDWYN: 

Our Very Own (RKO) 

LEON GORDON: 

Kim (MGM) 

CLARENCE GREEN: 

Well. The lUAi 

HOWARD HAWKS: 

Thing From Another World, The 

iRKOi 

CY HOWARD: 

That's My Boy (Para) 

FRED KOHLMAR: 

Call Me Mister (20th-Pox) 

STANLEY KRAMER: 

Cyrano de Bergerac (UA) 

JESSE L. LASKY: 

Great Caruso, The iMGM) 

JULES LEVEY: 

Fabiola (UAi 

BERNARD LUBER: 

Of Men and Music (20th-Fox) 

KENNETH McELDOWNEY: 

River, The (UA) 

RONALD NEAME: 

Oliver Twist (UA) 

ARCH OBOLER: 

Five (Coll 

PERCE PEARCE: 

Treasure Island (RKO) 

RUDOLPH POLK: 

Of Men and Music i20th-Fox) 

LEO POPKIN: 

Well. The (UA) 

MICHAEL POWELL: 

Tales of Hoffmann (Lopert) 

EMERIC PRESSBURGER: 

Tales of Hoffmann (Lopert) 

DORE SCHARY: 

Go for Broke! iMGM) 

SOL C. SIEGEL: 

On the Riviera 

1 

20th -Fox 

i 

S. SYLVAN SIMON: 

Born Yesterday (Coli 

JACK H. SKIRBALL: 

Payment on Demand (RKO) 

EDWARD SMALL: 

Valentino iCoI) 

ANTHONY VEILLER: 

Dallas (WB) 

ORSON WELLES: 

Macbeth iRep') 

SAM ZIMBALIST: 

King Solomon's Mines iMGM) 

WILLIAM JACOBS 

JOE PASTERNAK 

DARRYL F. ZANUCK ROBERT L. WELCH 

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BAROMETER Section 

M i

— 

DIReCTORS 

The (juiding Hands ol the Bigger Hits 

They Co-ordinate the Showmanship Ingredients 

6 2)lred 12 ZJop Mils of 

'50 -'51 

THERE 

are those in the industry who 

feel that no matter how good the 

story, how generous or even opulent 

the budget, or how popular and competent 

the stars, a picture is only as good as its 

director. Even patrons who are production-wise 

to coming attractions pay attention 

to the director credit in selecting 

screen entertainment. Most producers 

have been directors before becoming producers, 

and many of them perform a dual 

role. 

However, many directors are content 

to remain always that skilful man with 

the megaphone who brings orderly film 

.sequences out of the chaos of actors, sets, 

cameramen and other technicians with 

which he is surrounded, waiting for his 

commands in the studio or on location. 

He has been selected by the producer 

because of his imagination and practical 

methods of bringing life to a dead script. 

He knows how to deal with emotional 

crises in the cast as well as with technical 

problems which may come up as the story 

takes shape. He is aware of the varying 

tastes of the general audience toward 

which he has to aim for financial success, 

yet he must also be thinking of prestige 

awards and his own personal demands of 

his art. That he seldom makes more than 

one or two hit pictures a year is understandable. 

Not only is he a hard-working 

man but he is tied up for such periods 

of time that he does well to direct 

one hit picture a year. During the 1949- 

50 .season, Hemy Koster directed three hit 

pictures, but for 1950-51 he has only one, 

and no other director has more than two 

to his credit. 

There are six directors who made two hits 

each this season, the same as last year. 

And those with one hit each number 49, 

but it must be remembered that some of 

them shared their directing chores. Most 

of them megged alone, however, and in 

the two-hit class, only one—Hal Walker 

had any hits at all last season. This does 

not mean that Lloyd Bacon, who heads 

the list, is a novice at his profession, but 

only that this year two of his pictures 

were boxoffice hits. 

The same is true for David Butler, who 

used to alternate as actor and director 

and has made many hit pictures in the 

past. Roy Del Ruth, former scenarist for 

the Mack Sennett studios and who once 

directed the Ben Turpin comedies, was 

never better than with his expert guidance 

of "On Moonlight Bay." As for Joseph 

L. Mankiewicz. his Academy Awardwinning 

"All About Eve" and provocative 

"People Will Talk" speak for themselves. 

Norman Taurog, who has acted on the 

stage and in silent movies and specialized 

in directing children has directed clever 

and popular films in "Rich. Young and 

Pretty" and "Toast of New Orleans." Hal 

Walker, the Ottumwa. Iowa, boy who 

started on the stage and then came to 

Hollywood to act. has been directing for 

about ten years now and seems to have 

the secret of hit ingredients. 

There are a number of those who directed 

only one hit whose efforts should 

be noticed because of this one contribution 

to the hit field. Ken Annakin and 

Harold French share the honors for "Trio." 

but the results are such that if it always 

took two directors to make as good a picture, 

two directors would be the rule instead 

of the exception. Compton Bennett 

and Andrew Marton also share honors for 

an exceptional picture, "King Solomon's 

Mines." 

George Cukor helped to win laurels for 

star Judy Holliday with "Born Yesterday" 

and Michael Gordon did the same for star 

Jose Ferrer with "Cyrano de Bergerac." 

Henry King had two hit pictures last year, 

but the impact of his single one, "David 

and Bathsheba" this year, is enough for 

any director in one season. 

With Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 

who are listed as both directors 

and producers of "Tales of Hoffmann" 

this year as they were of "The Red Shoes" 

last year, the single hit is enough. The 

same can be said for George Sidney with 

his "Show Boat," even though he had two 

to his credit last season. 

Richard Thorpe also made one of the 

season's great artistic triumphs as well as 

a great boxoffice hit in "The Great Caruso." 

And in this connection it might 

be added that Irving Reis gave the musicloving 

public something unusual in his 

"Of Men and Music." 

The following directors are credited 

tuith two hit films each: 

LLOYD BACON: Call Me Mister 

Foxi, Frogmen, The (20th-Pox) 

(20th- 

DAVID BUTLER: Tea for Two (WB, 

Lullaby of Broadway (WBi 

ROY DEL RUTH: On Moonlight Bay 

The (WB) 

Lloyd Bacon 

Director 

In 1951 

''The Frogmen" 

''Golden Girl" 

Just 

Completed: 

"The I 

Don't Care Girl' 

BOXOFFICE 

87

Henry 

Hathaway 


v:ng 

. 

A Glance at Coniino Features 

Advance Data on Films, Completed or in Production, 

for Release After September I, 1951. 

Title, Cast and Other Changes Will Be Published 

as They Occur in the feature Chart and 

the News Section of BOXOFFICl. 

LOOKinCRHERD 

AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD Romantic DromaV Stars: Rita 

Hay worth, Olenn Ford, Tonn Thatcher Producer: 

Not set. Director: Vincent Sherman. Original 

Screenplay: James Gunn. 

• This marks Rita Hayworth's return to the screen 

after a three-year hiatus and reunites her with 

Clenn Ford, her co-star in "Glldo" and "The Loves 

of Carmen" The opus has a background of Trinidad 

in the West Indies. 

THE BAKEFOCT MAILMAN (Dromo). Stars: Robert 

Cummings, Terry Moore, Jerome Court land. Producer: 

Robert Cohn. Director: Earl McEvoy. Originoi: 

Theodore Pratt. Screenplay: James Gunn, 

Francs Swann. 

• A story of the Florida mail service in the early 

1900s, this depicts the adventures of the mail 

earners who walked barefoot along the beaches 

between Miami and Palm Beach on on adventurous 

three-day trek. Filmed in Supercinecolor. 

BOOTS MALONE (Sports Drama), Stars: William Hoiden, 

Stanley Clements, Johnny Stewart. Producer: 

Sidney Buchmon. Director' Williom Dieterle. Original: 

Milton Holmes Screenplay: Milton Holmes, 

Harold Buchmon. 

• William Holden, a lockey's ogent down on his 

luck, agrees to tram greenhorn, Johnny Stewart, 

a 

m.ostly as a gag, but the boy proves to be a 

natural-born rider, Johnny turns out to be the 

runaway son of a wealthy woman, and Holden ships 

h:m back home for the reword money; however, 

Johnny returns to win the big race. 

BRAVE WARRIOR (Historical Western). Stors. Jon 

Ha'l, Christine Larson, Jay Silverheels. Producer: 

Sam Katzmon. Director: Spencer Bennet- Origina' 

Screenplay Robert Kent. 

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« This is a f ictionaliz3d biography of Tecumseh, 

chief of the Shawnees, who was commissioned a 

br.gadier-general m the British army during the 

Wor of 1812 However, Tecumseh swings over to 

the American side and is instrumental m putting 

down a tribal rebellion instigated by the British 

and renegade Yankees, Filmed in Technicolor, 

THE BRIGAND (Historical Drama). Stars: Anthony 

Dexter, Gale Robbins, Carl Benton Reid. Producer: 

Edward Small. Director: Phil Karlson. Original: 

Alexandre Dumas. Screenplay: George Bruce, Jesse 

L Lasky ir. 

• The king of Mandorra, Anthony Dexter, bears a 

remarkable resemblance to an adventurer (also portrayed 

by Dexter). When the king is seriously 

wounded in an assassination attempt, the adventurer 

takes over the throne. Subsequently the real 

king is slain Dexter kills the assassins and remains 

his country's ruler, 

THE CAINE MUTINY (Maritime Drama). Stors: Not 

set. Producer: Stanley Kramer. Director: Not set. 

Originol: Herman Wouk Screenplay: No credits set. 

• Adapted from the book of the same name, this 

IS the r.em'octuol stcry of a mutiny which took 

place aboard a US. destroyer in the South Pacific 

during World Wor II. 

CALIFORNIA CONQUEST (Historical Drama). Stars: 

Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya. 

Producer: Som Kotzmon. Director: Lew Landers. 

Ortginal Screenplay: Robert E, Kent. 

• Cornel Wi>de, a young Spanish-Californio don, 

leads o group which, tired of Mexican rule, hopes 

for peace and freedorr, under U.S. dcminotion. He 

ond his cohorts ultimately defeat on anti-U.S, 

group which has been plotting to gain enough 

power to turn California over to the Russians. 

Filmed in Technicolor 

CAPTAIN BLOOD, FUGITIVE {Costume Drama). Stars: 

Louis Hayword, Patricia Medina, John Sutton. Producer: 

Harry Joe Brown, Director: Ralph Murphy. 

Original Rafael Sabatini Screenplay: Frank Burt, 

Robert Libbott 

• Pardoned and in peace after his piratical 

Blood (Louis Hayward) is forced 

forays. Captain 

to become a fugitive after being arrested when 

another buccaneer, using his name, stages a series 

of raids In disguise, Hayward trails the mosqueroder, 

vanquishes him and proves his own innocence. 

Filmed in Technicolor. 

CHARLES STARRETT SERIES (Westerns). Stars; Charles 

Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Fred F. Sears and others 

Producer: Colbert Clark. Directors: Ray Nozarro, 

Fred F. Sears. Original Screenplays: Barry Shipmon, 

Howard J, Green. 

• Eight entries hove been announced in the sagebrush 

series starring Charles Starrett as the 

"Durango Kid." The titles are: "The Hawk of Wild 

River," "The Kid From Broken Gun," "Pecos River," 

'Laramie Mountains," "Junction City," "The Rough, 

Tough West," "The Kid From Amarillo" and 

"Smoky Canyon." 

Director Rov Nazarro Original Screenplay. Frank 

Gruber 

• Outlaws are looting Cripple Creek, one of the 

nation's richest gold-mining areas, in Colorado in 

1893, Leader of the gang is William Bishop, owner 

of o saloon, George Montgomery, a government 

agent, manages to join Bishop's rrob, learns the 

stolen gold is being shipped to the Orient, and 

kills Bishop in a climactic gun battle, 

DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Drama). Stars: Frednc 

March, Mildred Dunnock, Cameron Mitchell. Producer: 

Stanley Kromer. Director: Loslo Benedek. 

Original: Arthur Miller. Screenplay: Stanley Roberts. 

• A traveling salesman for 34 years, Fredric 

March fancies himself a big shot, weli-liked by 

ail—but in truth he is a frightened little man who 

has failed at everything. At last, fired by his 

firm, he goes out of his mind, wanders via memory 

through the post and, driving madly through the 

night, IS killed in on automobile accident. 

THE FAMILY SECRET (Drama). Stars: John Derek, 

Leo J- Cobb, Erin O'Brien-Moore. Producer: Robert 

Lord (Santona Productions). Director: Henry 

Levin. Original; Mane Baumer, James Cavanagh. 

Screenplay: Francis Cockrell, Andrew Solt. 

• In sef-defense, John Derek k'lL o friend who 

who has drunkenly attacked him, but urgos his family 

to keep It quiet when Whit Bissell, a bookmaker, 

IS arrested for Ihe crime Derek's father, an attorney, 

IS pre:-sured in:o defending Biscell and loses 'he 

caê, but at the tost minute Derek confesses. 

THE FIRST TIME (Comedy-Drama). Stars: Robert 

Cumm;ngs, Barbara Hale, Bill Goodwin. Producer: 

Harold Hecht [Norma Productions). Director: Frank 

Ta::hl,n Original: Jean Rouverol, Hugo Buller. 

Screenplay: Jean Rouverol, Hugo Butler, Frank 

Dane Lussier, 

Ta:,hiin, 

« Barbara Hale and Robert Cummings, a young 

married couple, hove their first child and immediately 

encounter mother-in-law trouble, economic 

pre^îure and other problems that bring them to 

the verge of separation. Then Barbara learns she 

IS going to have on-^ther child—and she and Cummings 

are reconciled, sure that nothing can lick 

them now. 

THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Fantasy Dra-o). Stars: 

Tommy Rettig, Bob and Jack Heasley, Peter Lind 

Hayes, Mary Healy. Producer: Stanley Kramer. 

Director: Roy Rowland. Original: Ted Geisel. 

Screenplay: Ted Geisel. 

• To be hondled as a fantasy is this story of 

the world o:^ seen through the eyes of a 9-year-old 

boy, o concert pianist "prodigy," at a moment of 

extreme rebellion. 

FLAME OF CALCUTTA (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: 

Som Kotzmon, Director: Not set. Original 

Screenplay: Not set. 

• In Technicolor, this concerns a beautiful halfcaste 

involved in mystery and intrigue in India. 

THE FOUR POSTER (Drama). Stars: Rex Harrison, LilN 

Palmer. Producer: S.anley Kramer. Director: Irving 

Reis. Original: Jan de Hartog. Screenplay: Allan 

Scott. 

« This is the story of a marriage—with but two 

people in the cast. Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer 

zha-e the milestones of their wedded life, the 

heartbreaks and happiness, with a four-poster bed 

which wa:. theirs on their wedding night and en 

which, many years later, Lilli dies of on incurable 

disease. 

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (Drama). Stars Not set 

Producer: Buddy Ader. Director: Not set. Original: 

James Jonei. Screenp'ay: Daniel Taradash. 

• This is a projected film version of the bestselling 

novel by James Jones about U.S. army life 

on a military post in Hawaii just prior to and 

during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It 

deals with the hardships, joys and romances of the 

enl.sted men in one army plotoon. 

GENE AUTRY SERIES (Westerns). Stars: Gene Autry, 

Pot Buttram, Goil Davis and others. Producer: 

Armond Schoefer (Gene Autry Productions). Director 

George Archainbaud. Original Screenploys: 

Norman Hall, Gerald Geraghty. 

• Under the banner of Gene Autry Productions, 

Autry has the starring role in six sageorushcrs on 

the 1951-52 slate. The titles announced ore 

"Apache Country," "Borbed Wire," "Blue Conadian 

Rockies," "The Old West," "Night Stage to Goiveston" 

and "Wagon Team." 

THE GOLDEN HAWK (Costume Drama). Stars: Sterling 

Hayden, Rhonda Fleming, John Sutton. Producer 

Sam Katzman. Director: Sidney Satkow. 

Original; Frank Yerby. Screenplay: No credits set. 

• This version of the pirate novel by Fronk Yerby 

has Sterling Hayden in the title role as a French 

privateer in the days when France was trying 1o 

wrest control of the Caribbean from Spain and 

England Imprisoned, he is rescued by Rhonda Fleming, 

feminine pirate, and they go on together to 

new deeds of daring. Filmed in Technicolor. 

THE HAPPY TIME (Comedy Dramo). Stars: Charles 

Boyer, Bobby Driscoll, Lmdo Christian. Producer: 

Stanley Kramer. Director: Richard Fleischer. Original: 

Samuel Taylor. Screenplay: Earl Felton. 

• Fiom the Broadway stage success, this is the 

story of o French-Canadian family. 

HAREM GIRL (Comedy). Stars: Joan Davis, Arthur 

Blake, Peggy Castle. Producer: Wallace Mac- 

Donald. Director: Edward Bernds. Original Screenploy: 

Edward Bernds. 

• Hired as secretary to Peggy Castle, a middleeastern 

princess, Joan Davis disguises as the princess 

in an effort to thwart the plans of an unscrupulous 

sheik to get rid of Peggy so he can 

exploit her country's oil resources. Joan manages 

to organize a successful defense against the sheik's 

forces and Peggy's notion is saved. 

THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (Sports Drama) Stars 

The Harlem Globetrotters, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy 

Dandndge, Producer. Buddy Adler. Director: Phil 

Brown. Original Story and Screenplay: Alfred Palca. 

9 The action centers around the Harlem Globetrotters, 

famous oM-Negro basketball team, ond 

their manager, Abe Soperstein, portrayed by Thomas 

Gomez. The fictionalized story concerns on All- 

American collegiate star who joins the squad, drops 

out because of an injury and returns to aid in 

winning a key game. 

INDIAN UPRISING (Historical Western). Stars: George 

Montgomery, Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid. Producer: 

Edward Small. Director: Ray Nozarro. Originol: 

Richard Schayer. Screenplay: Kenneth Garnet, 

Richard Schayer. 

• In the 1800s, after a series of wars, Geronimo, 

the Anoche chief, signs a neace treaty with the 

U.S. But greedv whites violate the treaty terms. 

Sing'ehondedly George Montgomery, an army captain 

for whom Geronimo has respect, persuades 

the Apaches to call off their uorising, and peace is 

restored. Filmed in Supercinecolor. 

JUNGLE JIM SERIES (Jungle Dramas). Stars: Johnny 

Weissmuller, Sheila Ryan, Bob Woterfield and others. 

Producer: Sam Kotzmon. Director: Lew Landers. 

Original: Based on "Jungle Jim" comic strip. 

Screenplays: Sam Newman. 

• Two entries in this series ore planned for the 

1951-52 season. In "Jungle Manhunt," Johnny 

Weissmuller (as "Jungle Jim") crocks a syntheticdiamond 

ring; in "The Forbidden Land" he conducts 

a young anthropologist into the Land of the 

Giant People, is caught in on elephant stampede 

and has other adventures. 

THE KANSAS CITY STORY (Crime Drama). Stars: 

Edmond O'Brien (incomplete). Producer: Frank Seltzer. 

Director: Joseph Newman. Original: William 

Bowers. Screenplay: George Callahan. 

• In semidocumentary fashion this is designed 

as an exoose of municipal corruption ond graft 

and the illegal liaison between civic officiols ond 

gang leaders, 

THE MAGIC CARPET (Romantic Costume Drama). 

Stars: Lucille Boll, John Agar, Patricio Medina. 

Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: Lew Landers. 

Original Screenplay: David Mathews. 

• When the caliph of Baghdad is murdered, his 

infant son is spirited away. Grown to manhood, 

the boy (John Agar) returns to chollenge the villainous 

assassin who is now caliph. With the aid 

of a magic corpet he defeats the caliph and his 

forces and marries a beautiful princess, Patricia 

Medina. Filmed in Technicolor. 

MAN IN THE SADDLE (Western). Stors: Randolph 

Scott, Joan Leslie, Alexander Knox. Producer: 

Horry Joe Brown. Director: Andre de Toth. Original: 

Ernest Haycox. Screenplay: Kenneth Gomet. 

• After Alexander Knox marries Joan Leslie, the 

girl loved by Rancher Randolph Scott, o full-fledged 

range war starts because Knox o'so wonts Scott's 

property. At lost, and too late, Knox tries to call 

off the feud and is slain by one of his own men. 

Joon is free— but Scott has fallen in love with another 

woman. Filmed in Technicolor. 

THE MARRYING KIND (Comedy Dromo). Stars: Judy 

Hollidoy, John Harrison, Madge Kennedy. Producer: 

Bert Gronet. Director: George Cukor. Originol: 

Gorson Konm. Screenplay: No credits set. 

• Judy Hollidoy and John Harrison, considering 

divorce, tell their troubles to o judge in the New 

York court of domestic relations. An overage couple, 

with two children, they discover as they 

folk that their troubles ore not insurmountoble; 

that they have hod their shore of happiness, and 

decide to reconcile. 

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MASK OF THE AVENGER (Historical Drama). Stars: 

J ~i^,n Derek, Jody Lawrance, Anthony Quinn. Producer: 

Hunt Stromberg. Director: Phil Karlson. 

Original: George Bruce. Screenplay: Jesse L. Lasky 

jr, 

• A soldier in Italy's war with Austria in 1848, 

John Derek returns home on leave to find himself 

accused as a traitor and his father slain. Determined 

to ovenge the family name, he manages 

to prove the real traitor and assassin is Anthony 

Quinn, the militory governor, and kills him in 

hand-to-hand combat. Filmed in Technicolor. 

THE MOB (Crime Drama). Stars: Broderick Crawford, 

Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley. Producer: Jerry 

Bresier. Director: Robert Parrish. Original: Ferguson 

Fjndley. Screenplay: William Bowers. 

• Detective Broderick Crawford disguises himself 

as a dock worker to track down the head of a 

waterfront racketeering gang. The job involves his 

fiancee, who is captured by the crooks, and Crawford 

rescues her. The gang leader trails vhem 'o 

the hospital where the girl is taken, and Crawford 

slays him in a showdown gun battle. 

MONTANA TERRITORY (Western). Stars: Lon McCallister, 

Wanda Hendrix, Preston Foster. Producer: 

Colbert Clark. Director: Ray Nazarro. Original 

Screenplay: Barry Shipman. 

• Lon McColhster, arriving in Montana as a goldhunter, 

witnesses a brutal murder by road agents. 

Learning this, Preston Foster, the sheriff and leader 

of the gang, tries to eliminate Lon. However, in 

o showdown battle Foster is captured and his gang 

rubbed out. Filmed in Technicolor. 

MY SIX CONVICTS (Semidocumentory Drama). Stars: 

John Beal, Millard Mitchell, Gilbert Roland. Producer: 

Stanley Kramer. Director: Hugo Fregonese. 

Original: Dr. Donald Powell Wilson. Screenplay: 

Edward and Edna Anhalt. 

• Adapted from the book by Dr. Donald Powell 

Wilson, this casts John Beal as the research psychologist 

who, over a three-year period, conducts 

an exhaustive survey of attitudes, aptitudes and 

behavior patterns of the inmates of a state penitentiary. 

His findings were instrumental in instituting 

prison reforms. 

PAULA (Drama). Stars: Loretta Young, Kent Smith, 

Alexander Knox. Producer: Buddy Adier. Director: 

Rudolph Mate. Original: Larry Marcus. Screenplay: 

Charês Bennett. 

• Loretta Young in)ures a young orphan boy in a 

car accident. Fleeing an erroneous hit-and-run 

charge, she nevertheless arranges to take the lad 

who has become a mute— into her home to try to 

cure him. She is successful, but not before the 

story rs brought to the attention of the police, 

who let Loretta off with probation. 

PURPLE HEART DIARY (Comedy With Music). Stars: 

Frances Longford, Judd Holdren, Ben Lessy. Producer: 

Sam Katzman. Director: Richard Quine. 

Original: Frances Longford's syndicated newspaper 

column. Screenplay: William Sackheim. 

• This is a fictional version of the World War 

activities of Frances Longford and her small 

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troupe of U50 entertainers in the Pacific area. 

High point of the plot is her success in rehabilitating 

a former football star, hopelessly crippled in 

battle, and reuniting him with the nurse with 

whom he is in love. 

RED SNOW (Melodrama). Stars: Guy Madison, Gloria 

Saunders, Robert Peyton. Producer; Boris Petroff. 

Director: Horry Franklin. Original Screenplay; Tom 

Hubbard. 

• The personnel of a U.S. air force base in northern 

Alaska is assigned to track down a mysterious 

airplane which has been noted over the territory. 

The plane, it develops, is Russian, due to test 

a secret new military weapon. However, the Russian 

pilot— hating the Red regime—sabotages the 

craft and the test is a failure. 

THE SABRE AND THE ARROW (Historical Western), 

Stars: Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Lloyd 

Bridges. Producer: Buddy AdIer. Director: Andre de 

Toth. Original Screenplay: Kenneth Garnet. 

• Broderick Crawford, a cavalry sergeant in 1876, 

ond five troopers ore the only survivors of a 

brutal raid by warring Comonches. Crawford ond 

his men, and a handful of civilians, seek refuge 

in on old Spanish mission, and manage to fight 

off the redskins until the timely arrival of reinforcements. 

SCANDAL SHEET (Drama). Stars: John Derek, Donna 

Reed, Broderick Crawford. Producer: Edward 

Small. Director: Phil Karlson. Original: Samuel 

Fuller. Screenplay: Ted Sherdeman, Eugene Ling, 

James Poe. 

• Broderick Crawford, ruthless ond dynamic newspaper 

editor, kills his wife, whom he hod deserted, 

when she threatens to expose him. John 

Derek, a reporter on Crawford's paper, is assigned 

to the story, traces the dead woman's life 

bock two decades, and identifies Crawford as the 

murderer. 

THE SNIPER (Crime Drama). Stars: Arthur Franz, 

Adolphe Menjou, Mane Windsor. Producer: Stanley 

Kramer. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Original: Edna 

and Edward Anhalt. Screenplay: Harry Brown. 

• Arthur Franz, ex-con vie t and mental case, is 

impelled, by something he cannot control, to go on 

a killing spree, selecting casual acquaintances and 

even strangers as his victims. He is finally captured 

by Adolphe Menjou, a police lieutenant, but 

not before the entire city is aroused and terrorstricken. 

THE SON OF DR. JEKYLL (Horror Melodrama). Stars: 

Louis Hayward, Jody Lowronce, Alexander Knox. 

Producer: Charles R. Rogers. Director: Seymour 

Friedman. Original: Mortimer Braus, Jack Pollexfen. 

Screenplay: Edward Huebsch. 

• Louis Hayward, son of the terrifying Dr. Jekyll 

(killed when Hayward was an infant), undertakes 

experiments to prove his father was not a sadistic 

lunatic. As a result, he is wrongfully occused of 

criminal attocks, but manages to clear himself and 

place the blame on Alexander Knox, who had been 

his father's trusted friend. 

SOUND OFF (Comedy With Music). Stars: Mickey 

Rooney, Delores Sidener, Henry Slate. Producer: 

Jonie Taps. Director: Richard Quine. Original: 

No credits set. Screenplay; No credits set. 

• Mickey Rooney, on uninhibited New York nightclub 

entertainer, is drafted and sent to Fort Dix, 

where his shenanigans keep him in constant hot 

water. He tolls in love with Delores Sidener, an 

army nurse, who promises to be his girl—if he starts 

acting like a mature individual and good soldier, 

which Mickey does with conspicuous success. 

STORM OVER TIBET (Drama). Stars: Rex Reason 

Diana Douglas, My Healey. Producers: Laslo 

Benedek, Ivan Tore (Su imit Productions). Director; 

Andrew Martin. Origir 3I: Ivan Tors. Screenplay: 

Ivan Tors, Som Meyer. 

• Flying the "hi 

the Himalayas during 

World War II, Myron Healey crashes in the uncharted 

wilderness, after stealing a sacred religious 

image. His buddy, Rex Reason, who marries 

Healey's widow, undertakes a dangerous attempt 

to locate Healey, only learn definitely the 

to of 

death. 

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TEN TALL MEN (Drama). Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jody 

Lowronce, Gilbert Roland. Producer: Harold Hecht 

(Norma Productions). Director: Willis Goldbeck. 

Original: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck. 

Screenplay: Frank Davis, Roland Kibbee. 

• Tossed into the guardhouse for trying to steal 

his superior officer's girl friend, Burt Lancaster 

persuades the officer to send him and seven fellowprisoners 

(all Foreign Legionnaires) on a suicidal 

mission to divert an army of Riffs. They are successful, 

and Lancaster and his men ore decorated 

for 

bravery. 

TERRY AND THE PIRATES (Acti 

set. Producers: Som Katzmc 

jr. Director; Not set. Origino 

play: Not set. 

Drama). Stars: Not 

Douglas Fairbanks 

omic strip. Screen- 

• Planned for Technicolor filming, this is a screen 

version of the syndicated comic strip, screen rights 

to which were acquired some years ago by Douglas 

THIEF OF DAMASCUS (Costume Drama). Stars: Paul 

Henreid, Jeff Donnell, Lon Chaney. Producer: Som 

Katzman. Director: Lew Landers. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Kent. 

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• In 643 A. D., bloodthirsty John Sutton tries to 

conquer Damascus, gateway to Persia, but is opposed 

by Sheherozade (Jeff Donnell) and a dashing 

general, Paul Henreid. Foiled in his plan to marry 

her, Sutton threatens to execute Sheherozade, but 

Henreid and his followers, in hand-to-hand combat, 

drive out the invaders. 

YANK IN INDO-CHINA (Drama) 

Dick, Jean Willes, John Archer. 

Katzman. Director: Wally Grissell. 

play: Sam Newman. 

• Three Americans, who operote 

in Indo-China, are taken prisone 

munists. 

Stars: Douglas 

Producer: Sam 

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FBI GIRL (Drama). Stars: Audrey Totter, Cesar Romero, 

George Brent. Producer-Director: William 

Berke. Original: Rupert Hughes. Screenplay: Richord 

Landau, Dwight Babcock. 

• The governor of a state where a senate crime 

committee probe is obout to be launched is, in 

reality, a wanted murderer. His efforts to steal his 

fingerprints from the FBI files lead to murder and 

intrigue, but a trap laid by Audrey Totter, an 

girl, FBI leads to his ultimate capture. 

FOR MEN ONLY (Drama). Stars: Paul Henreid, Margaret 

Field, Robert Sherman. Producer-Director: 

Poul Henreid. Original Screenplay: Louis Morheim. 

• Paul Henreid, a college professor, befriends a 

student about to be initiated into a fraternity. 

The student dies, a victim of a brutal hazing, and 

Henreid is framed by a coed whose advances he 

had repulsed. However, Henreid is successful in 

having hazing outlawed and in clearing his own 

name. 

GALVESTON (Historical Western). Stars: Not set. Producer-Director: 

Charles Marquis Warren. Original 

Screenplay: John Champion. 

• Frontier days in Texas provide the background 

for this action entry. 

THE GREAT ADVENTURE (Melodrama). Stars: Jack 

Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price. Producer: 

Aubrey Baring. Director: David MocDonald. Original 

Screenplay: Robert Westerby. 

• Jock Hawkins returns from Africa's Boer War 

to find his fiancee, Siobhan McKenna, married to 

Den npan Ha 

hozardous journey to recover o cache of diamonds, 

and disappears. Accused of his murder by his 

friend, Peter Hammond, Hawkins perishes in a 

mine slide while attempting to kill Hammond. 

HELL6ATE PRISON (Action Drama). Stars: Lloyd 

Bridges (incomplete). Producer-Director: Charles 

Marquis Warren. Original: Not set. Screenplay: 

Not set. 

• Concerns a prisoner-of-war camp during the 

Civil War. 

LEAVE IT TO THE MARINES (Comedy). Stars: Sid 

Melton, Mara Lynn, Gregg Martell. Producer: Sigmund 

Neufeld. Director: Samuel Newfield. Original 

Screenplay: Orville Hampton. 

• At city hall Sid Melton gets confused, and instead 

of obtaining the morriage license his sweetheart, 

Mara Lynn, is waiting for, gets himself enlisted 

in the marine corps. A heartless sergeant, 

Gregg Martell, coveting Mara, assigns Sid to mind 

the comp mascot, but in the line of duty Sid wins 

a hero's medal. 

LOAN SHARK (Melodrama). Stars: George Raft, Dorothy 

Hart. Producer: Edward Levin. Director: Seymour 

Friedmon. Original Screenploy: not set. 

• George Raff has the starring role in this copsand-robbers 

melodrama. 

MAN BAIT (Mystery Drama). Stors: George Brent, 

Marguerite Chapman. Producers: Robert L. Lippert, 

James Carreras. Director: Terence Fisher. 

Original: James Hadley Chase. Screenplay: Frederick 

Knott. 

• This murder mystery was filmed in England. 

MASSACRE (Historical Western). Stars: not set. Producer: 

Sig Neufeld. Director: Sam Newfield. Original: 

Thomas Blackburn. Screenplay: not set. 

• A story of covalry-vs-lndions warfare in the 

1880s, this IS adopted from on Argosy magazine 

serial. 

NAVAJO (Adventure Drama). Stars: Francis Kee Teller, 

John Mitchell, members of Navajo tribe. Producer; 

Hall Bartlett. Director: Norman Foster. Original 

Screenplay: Norman Foster. 

• With the fierce independence of the Navajo, 

Francis Kee Teller, a seven-year-old, resolves to 

live with his tribe forever for from the white man. 

Forced into a hated government school, he escapes, 

vengefully luring his pursuers to certain death 

but recoils from the shaming impulse and makes 

his peace. 

RING AROUND SATURN (Drama). Stars: not set. Producers: 

Edward and William Nassour, Paul Henreid. 

Director. Paul Henreid. Original Screenplay: Paul 

Rader. 

• This is a drama of form life, dealing with a boy 

and his champion bull. 

SKY HIGH (Comedy). Stars: Sid Melton, Mara Lynn, 

Som Flint. Producer: Sigmund Neufeld. Director: 

Samuel Newfield. Original Screenplay: Orville 

Hampton. 

• When his wartime commander. Major Doug 

arrives U.S. air foil Evans, at a force base, gunner 

Sid Melton is assigned to pose as an enemy 

agent. In spite of spy Morgio Dean's sometimes 

irresistible allure, Sid's efforts help effect capture 

of the would-be saboteurs. 

STOLEN FACE (Melodrama). Stai s: Paul Henreid, 

Lizobeth Scott. Producer: Jomei Carreras, Robert 

Lippert. Director: Terence Fisher. Original: 

L. 

Alex Pool. Screenplay: Martin Berkley, Richard 

Landau. 

• This cops-and-robbers drama was produced in 

England. 

SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN (Melodroma). 

Stars- George Reeves, Phyllis Coates. Producers: 

Bernord Luber, Robert Maxwell. Director: Lee 

Sholem Original Screenplay: Richard Fielding. 

• Film version of the adventures of the comic 

strip character, the invincible Superman. 

TALES OF ROBINHOOD (Adventure) 

Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul i-avanagn. rrouucei. 

Hal Roach ir. Director: James Tinling. Original 

Screenplay: Leroy H. Zehren. 

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• In 12th century Eng'ond, nobleman Robin Hood 

(Robert Clarke) and o loyol band help redress the 

wrongs imposed on the defeated Saxons by their 

Norman conquerors. Near his headquarters deep in 

Sherwood Forest Robin Hood rescues the fair 

Moid Marion (Mary Hatcher) from robbers, and 

wins her to his ideols and heart. 

UNKNOWN WORLD (Science-Fiction Drama). Stors: 

Victor Kilion, Bruce Kellogg, Jim Bannon. Producers: 

J. R. Rabin, I. A. Block. Director: Terry 

Morse. Original Screenplay: Millard Kaufman. 

• Six men and a woman drill a hole into the 

depths of the earth, seeking a safe retreat from 

a possible atomic war. They reach a vast subterranean 

world but ore imperiled by an earthquake, 

and manage to escape just in time to ovoid 

being caught in a huge tidal wove. 

VARIETIES ON PARADE (Musical). Star: Ton Ne 

Eddie Dean, Jackie Coogon, Speciolty Acts, rruducer-Director: 

Ron Ormond. Original Screenplay; 

Ron Ormond. 

• With Eddie Gorr serving as master of ceremonies, 

this has Tom Neal, Jackie Coogon, Lyie Talbot and 

Ins Adrian appearing in a series of skits, interspersed 

with song numbers and a number of vaudeville 

acts, including acrobats, jugglers, dancers and 

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ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (Historical Western). 

Stars: Clork Gable, Mario Elena Morgues, Ricordo 

Montolbon. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: William 

A. Wellman. Original Talbot Jennings, Frank 

Covett. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings. 

• Clark Goble, a trapper and Indian fighter in the 

1880s, marries Maria Elena Marques of the Blockfoot 

tribe, to gam bargaining power with her people. 

After she bears him a son, and he foils deeply 

in love with her, she is killed in a redskin attack 

upon Gable's party, ond Gable returns the baby to 

the Blockfoot people. 

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Musical). 

Stars: Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, Dean Stockwell. 

Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Vincente Minnelli. 

Original: Mark Twain. Screenplay: Donald 

Ogden Stewort, Alon Jay Lerner. 

• Mark Twain's classic story of the Mississippi in 

the 1840s comes to the screen as a Technicolor 

tunefitm, with Dean Stockwell title-roting as the 

youngster who journeys down the river on a raft 

with a Negro slave whom he eventually succeeds in 

setting free. 

AMERICAN BEAUTY (Comedy Drama). Stars: Not set. 

Producer: Sidney Sheldon. Director: Not set. Original: 

Elick Moll, Robert Jung. Screenplay: Morgaret 

Fitts, Edith Sommer, Charles Lederer, Ken Englund. 

• In four episodes, this interweaves the stories of 

four American girls. 

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Musical). Stars; Gene 

Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscor Levant. Producer: Arthur 

Freed. Director: Vincente Minelli. Original Screenplay: 

Alon Joy Lerner. 

• Gene Kelly, an ex-GI, stays in Pans after the 

war and dobbles at being o painter. Nina Foch, 

o weolthy, foot-loose American girl, falls in love 

with him and uses her money to help his career, 

but Gene foils madly in love with Leslie Coron, a 

pretty French girl—and, although poor, they plan 

to marry. Filmed in Technicolor. 

BANNERLINE (Drama). Stars; Keefe Brosselle, Sally 

Forrest, Lionel Barrymore. Producer; Henry Sermon. 

Director; Don Weis. Original; Samson Rophaelson. 

Screenplay: Charles Schnee. 

• An ambitious young reporter, Keefe Brosselle, 

IS instrumental rousing his community to the 

in 

fact that the city is controlled by racketeering 

grafters. After he is brutolly beaten by the mobsters, 

the grand jury colls on emergency session and 

the fight begins for civic reform. 

BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE (Musical Comedy). Stars; 

Mono Lanza, Doretta Morrow, Spring Byington. 

Producer; Joe Pasternak. Director Alexander Holl. 

Original; Joe Pasternak. Screenplay; Ruth Brooks 

Flippen, Leonard Spigelgass, Karl Tunberg. 

• An opera star is drafted into military service. 

BELLE OF NEW YORK (Musical Comedy). Stars; 

Fred Astoire, Vero-Ellen, Keenon Wynn. Producer: 

Arthur Freed. Director: Charles Walters. Original 

Screenplay: Jerry Davis, Irving Elingson, Robert 

O'Brien. 

• Fred Astoire has a proposing complex—especially 

where chorus girls are concerned—and is now, 

unhappily, engaged to marry one. But he falls in 

love all over ogoin with Vero-Ellen, who is engaged 

in missionary work on the Bowery, forgets 

oil about his own wedding and finally winds up 

with Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor. 

BRIGADOON (Musical Comedy). Stars: Gene Kelly, 

Kathryn Groyson. Producer; Arthur Freed. Director: 

Not set. Original; Alan Lerner. Screenplay; 

Alan Lerner. 

• Film version of the stage success, this has a 

Scottish background and will be filmed in Tech- 

CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY (Comedy Western). 

Stars; Howard Keel, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Mc- 

Guire. Producer-Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin 

Frank. Original Screenplay; Norman Panama, 

Melvin Frank. 

• Howard Keel, hard-drinking cowboy star, is a 

has-been until TV, running his old pictures, makes 

him a notional hero. Efforts to locate him are 

futile, but his double—a cleon-living cowhand— is 

imported from the range. When the reol cowboy star 

appears, he almost ruins the plot until his double 

disposes of him and wins the gat. 

CALLING BULLDOG DRUMMOND (Mystery Drama). 

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert 

Beatty. Producer: Hayes Goetz. Director; Victor 

Soville. Original: Gerald Foirlee. Screenplay; Gerald 

Fairlce, Emmeft Rogers, Arthur Wimpens. 

• Prevailed upon by Scotland Yard to help solve 

o series of large-scale robberies. Bulldog Drummond 

(Walter Pidgeon) emerges from retirement, 

poses as a wanted criminal and joins the gang. 

At the risk of his own life, Drummond manages 

to copture the ringleader. Filmed in England. 

CARBINE WILLIAMS (Drama). Stars; James Stewart, 

Wendell Corey, Jean Hogen. Armond 

Producer; 

Deutsch. Director: Richard Thorpe. Original Screenplay: 

William Bowers, Arthur Cohn. 

• A biography of David Marshall Williams, who 

white serving o prison sentence— invented the carbine 

used by U.S. troops in World War II. James 

Stewart IS cast as Williams ond Wendell Corey as 

the prison warden who was instrumental in encouraging 

Williams to succeed in his achievement. 

DANGEROUS WHEN WET (Musical Comedy). Stars; 

Esther Williams, Fernando Lomos, Debbie Reynolds. 

Producer: George Wells. Director; Not set. Original; 

Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley. 

• Another tunefilm, in Technicolor, showcasing the 

aquotic talents of Esther Williams. 

DAYS BEFORE LENT (Dromo). Stars; Gig Young, 

Keenon Wynn, William Campbell. Producer; John 

Houseman. Director; Gerald Mayer. Original: Hamilton 

Basso. Screenplay: A. I. Bezzerides. 

A surgeon tries to quit hi 

nself bound by ties that c 

profession but finds 

innot be cut. 

EAGLE ON HIS CAP (Dramo). Stars: Robert Toylor, 

Eleanor Porker, Marilyn Erskme. Producers and 

Directors: Norman Panama, Melvin Fronk. Original; 

Beirne Lay |r. Screenplay: Norman Panama, 

Melvin Frank, Beirne Lay jr. 

• This is a film biography of Col. Paul Tibbets, 

air the force pilot who dropped the first atomic 

bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. 

EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS (Musical). Stars: Red 

Skelton Vero-Ellen (incomplete). Producer: George 

Wells. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay; 

George Wells. 

• This tunefilm will be photographed in Technicolor. 

FEARLESS FAGAN (Comedy). Stars; Debbie Reynolds, 

Corleton Carpenter (incomplete). Producer; Edwin 

H. Knopf. Director; Not set. Original; Sidney 

Franklin jr. Screenplay: Chorles Lederer. 

• Token from newspaper headlines is this story 

of a young man who, when drafted, brought his 

trained lion into camp with him because he hod 

nowhere else to dispose of the animal. 

FLESH AND THE DEVIL (Romantic Drama). Stars; 

Ava Gardner, Ricordo Montalban, Fernando Lamas. 

Producer-Director; Clarence Brown. Original: Herman 

Sudermon. Screenplay; Not set. 

• A new version of the tempestuous love story 

which was first filmed by this company as o silent 

in 1927, co-starring John Gilbert and Greta Gorbo. 

GHOST OF A CHANCE (Musical). Stars: Gene Kelly, 

Vera-Ellen (incomplete). Producer; Joe Pasternok. 

Director; Not set. Onginol: Ned Young. Screenplay; 

Karl Tunberg, Leonard Spigelgoss. 

• This musical, to be filmed in Technicolor, is 

adapted from a novel of the same title b/ Ned 

Young. 

THE GIRL IN WHITE (Drama). Stars: June Allyson, 

Arthur Kennedy, Gory Merrill. Producer: Armand 

Deutsch. Director: John Sturges. Original; Emily 

Bornnger. Screenplay: Irmgard von Cube, Philip 

Stevenson, Allon Vincent. 

• June Allyson portrays Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer 

in this film biography of the first woman 

ambu'ance doctor and surgeon in the history of 

Amer.can medicine. 

GIVE THE GIRL A BREAK (Musical). Cast; Gene 

Kelly, Vero-E len, Debbie Reynolds. Producer; Jock 

Cumm.ngs. Director: Not set. Original: Vero Cospary. 

Screenplay; Frances Goodrich, Albert Hockett. 

• This Technicolor tunefilm has a Broadway locale. 

GLORY ALLEY (Dromo). Stars; Rolph Meeker, Leslie 

Coron, Gilbert Roland. Producer: Nicholas Noyfock. 

Director; Raoul Walsh. Original Screenploy; 

Art Cohn. 

• This story of the U.S. marines costs Ralph 

Meeker as o prize-fighting champion. 

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OOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (Musical). Stars: Kothryn Grayson 

(incomplete). Producer: Sidney Franklin. Director: 

Not set. Originol: James Hilton. Screenplay 

Not set. 

• This is projected os a Technicolor musical version 

of the James Hilton story about a beloved 

teacher in an English boys' school. It was first 

produced in dromatic form in 1939. 

INTERRUPTED MELODY (Dramo With Music). Stars: 

Lana Turner (incomplete). Producer: Jacic Cummings. 

Director: Not set. Original Screenplay 

Sonya Levien, William Ludwig. 

• This traces the career of Marjorie Lawrence, on 

Australian farm girl who became a great concert 

artist. A victim of polio, she overcame that handicop 

to make a successful comeback. Filmed in 

Technicolor. 

INVITATION (Romantic Dramo). Sfors: Dorothy 

McGuire, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern. Producer- 

Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Gottfried Reinhardt. 

Original: Jerome Weidman. Screenplay Paul 

Osbo^ê. 

• Dorothy McGuire, a plain girl and almost on 

invalid, IS prepared to go through life as o spinster 

a fact which dismays her father. Learning she has 

only a year to live, he bribes Von Johnson to 

marry her Dorothy learns the truth, but by this 

time Van is in love with her—and an operation 

restores her health. 

IT'S A BIG COUNTRY (Episodic Dramo). Stors: Ethel 

Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Von Johnson and others 

Producer: Robert Sisk. Directors: George Cukor 

Charles Vidor, William Wellmon and others. Originals: 

Edgar Brooke, Dudley Schnobel, Carl Glick 

and others. Screenplay: William Ludwig, Luther 

Davis, Isobel Lennort and others. 

• Told in eight interrelated episodes, with separate 

casts, directors and writers, this presents on 

insight into the U.S. at work ond at ploy—the 

America of a Dakota wheat-grower and that of o 

Pittsburgh steel puddler—the America of on old 

lady in Chicago and of the President of the United 

States 

IVANHOE (Costume Drama). Stars: Robert Taylor 

Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine. Producer: Pandro 

S. Bermon. Director- Richard Thorpe. Original- 

Walter Scott. Screenplay: Marguerite Roberts. 

• In Technicolor, this is o story of England during 

the reign of Richard the Lion-Heorted. From 

Walter Scott's clossic adventure novel it has 

Robert Toylor in the title role and was produced 

JUMBO (Musical Comedy). Stars: Red Skelton, 

Reynolds, Donald O'Connor. 

Debbie 

Producer: Roger Edens 

Director: Not Original: Joseph set. Richard 

Fields, 

Rodgers, Lorenz Hart. Screenplay: Not set, 

• Film version of the Broadway stage success 

this will be photographed in Technicolor. 

THE LIGHT TOUCH (Drama), Stars: Stewart Granger, 

Pier Angeli, George Sanders. Producer: Pandro S 

Berman. Director: Richard Brooks. Original Screenplay: 

Richard Brooks. 

• Stewort Granger steals a valuable religious pointing 

from a museum in Sicily, then double-crosses 

his partner, George Sonders, by claiming it was 

burned in o fire. A copyist. Pier Angeli is persuoded 

to produce on imitation, but she and 

bronger foil in love; he returns the original to 

the museum and goes straight. 

LSLLI (Drama). Stars: Ralph Meeker, Leslie Coron 

Ann Miller. Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director' 

Charles Walters. Original: Paul Gollico. Screenplay: 

Helen Deutsch. 

• This romantic drama concerns a traveling show 

troupe in Europe. 

LONE STAR (Historicol Western). Stars: Clark Gable 

Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford. Producer- z' 

Wayne Griffin, Director: Vincent Sherman Original: 

Borden Chose, Howard Estobrook. Screenplay- 

Borden Chose, 

• Texas in 1845, having broken owoy from Mexico, 

has to choose between remaining o republic 

or annexing to the United States, Holding opposite 

views ore Clark Gob'e, cottle-owner who favors 

annexation, and Broderick Crawford o power in the 

Texas senate, who wonts the republic mointoined 

Ultimately Goble and his forces win. 

LOVE IS BETTER THAN EVER. Stars: Elizobeth Toyu'' 

H h?"\. Wright, 

'^"" '^°'°" Producer: Williom 

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Director: Stonley Donen, Original 

Screenplay: Ruth Brooks Flippen. 

• Vr.iting York, Elizabeth Toylor, o doncing 

New 

school instructor from New Haven, is shown the 

town by Lorry Parks, a brash agent, 

ond foils in love with him. to be 

young 

He 

press 

professes 

allergic to mornoge, but through o series 

Elizabeth convinces him thot he loves 

snogs her mon, 

ruses 

her—and 

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LOVELY TO LOOK AT (Musicol). Stars: Red Skelton, 

Kothryn Groyson, Howord Keel. Producer- Jock 

Cummings. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Original 

Screenplay: George Wells, Horry Ruby, Andrew Solt 

• This Technicolor tunefilm is o new version of 

"Roberto," the stoge musicol, first mode as a motion 

picture in the 1930s by RKO Radio with Fred 

Astoire ond Ginger Rogers os its co-stors. 

THE MAN WITH A CLOAK (Dromo). Stars: Borboro 

Stanwyck, Joseph Gotten, Leslie Coron. Producer- 

Stephen Ames. Director: Fletcher Morkle. Original 

John Dickson Corr, Screenploy: Frank Fenton 

• In 1848 Leslie Coron arrives in New York from 

hronce to persuade Louis Calhern to provide funds 

for his estranged grandson. She is befriended by 

Joseph Gotten and they uncover and defeat o plot 

whereby Colhern was to hove been murdered for 

his money. Later Colhern dies but provides for 

his grandson in his will. 

THE MERRY WIDOW (Musical). Stars: Lono Turner 

Fernando Lomos, Una Merkel. Producer Joe 

Pasternak, Director: Curtis Bernhardt, Originol 

Fronz Lehor. Screenplay: Sonjo Levien William 

Ludwig. 

• Fronz Lehor's operetta comes to the screen os 

o Technicolor musical with Lono Turner in the title 

role. 

MR. CONGRESSMAN (Droma). Stors: Louis Calhern 

(incomplete). Producer: Dore Schory. Director: Robert 

Pirosh. Original Screenplay: Robert Pirosh. 

• From nonportisan approach, this tells the 

story of the people's elected representatives who 

serve their country as members of the notion's 

legislative body. 

THE ONE-PIECE BATHING SUIT (Musical). Stors 

Esther Williams, Louis Calhern, Donno Corcoran' 

Producer: Arthur Hornblow jr. Director: Mervyn 

LeRoy. Original Screenplay: Everett Freeman. 

• Esther Williams portrays Annette Kellermon who 

overcome a physical handicap to become o champion 

swimmer and internotionol Filmed 

fovorlte. 

in 

Technicolor. 

PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (Dromo) 

Stors: Avo Gordner, James Mason, Nigel Potrick 

Producers: Albert Lewin, Joseph Kaufman. Director; 

Albert Lewin. Original Screenploy: Albert 

Lewin. 

• Avo Gardner, on uphoppy American girl living 

in Spain, foils in love with Jomes Mason who 

It develops, is the legendary "Flying Dutchman '' 

Avo joins Moson in deoth when she procloims her 

love ond he is at lost releosed from his centuriesold 

sentence to wander the earth until he finds 

o woman who will give her life for him. 

PAT AND MIKE (Romantic Comedy). Stars- Spencer 

Trocy, Kothorine Hepburn (incomplete) Producer: 

Lawrence Weingarten. George 

Director: 

Cukor. Original Screenploy: Ruth Gordon, Gorson 

• This romontic comedy reunites the stars, writer 

and director responsible for o 1949-50 seoson hit 

Adam's Rib." 

THE PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE (Historical Dramo) 

Stors: Spencer Trocy, Deborah Kerr, Von Johnson 

Producer: Dore Schary. Director: William A. Wellman. 

Original: Ernest Gebler. Screenploy: Helen 

Deutsch. 

• From the novel by Ernest Gebler, this is o 

story of the voyage of the Mayflower ond the 

landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts to found 

the colonies 

United States, 

which loter developed into the 

QUO VADIS (Historical Dromo). Stars: Robert Taylor, 

Deborah 

Kerr, Peter Ustinov. Producer: Som 

Zimbolist, Director: Mervyn LeRoy OriginoT 

Henryk Sienkiewicz. Screenplay: 

Sonyo Levien, John Lee Mohin. 

S. N. Behrmon 

• Filmed in Italy, this is said to be the costliest 

motion picture ever made. It is loid in Rome in 

the reign of the Emperor Nero, ond relates how 

a victorious warrior, Robert Taylor, embraces Christionity; 

how the populace turns against Nero ond 

his borborism, and how Nero is slain by o former 

mistress. Filmed Technicolor. 

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SCARAMOUCHE (Costume Dromo). Stors: Stewart 

Gronger, Janet Leigh, Eleonor Parker, Producer- 

Corey Wilson, Director: George Sidney Original 

Rafael Sobotini, Screenplay: Tolbot Jennings. 

• This IS o new screen version of Rofoel Sobatini's 

story about the swashbuckling 17th century French 

swordsman and lover. 

THE SELLOUT. Stors: Walter Pidgeon, Cameron 

Mitchell, Everett Sloone. Producer: Nicholas Noyfock. 

Director: Gerold Mayer, Originol Screenoloy- 

Chorles Palmer, Matthew Ropf. 

• Wolter Pidgeon, editor of o small community 

newspaper, fries unsuccessfully to fight editoriolly 

against grafting county political leaders, Intimidoted 

by the mob, he nevertheless gives testimony 

of o murder triol which links his own son-in-low 

with the crooks, and the mochine of corruption 

collapses, 

SHADOW IN THE SKY (Drama), Stors: Jomes Whitmore, 

Nancy Davis, Rolph Meeker, Producer William 

H, Wright. Director: Fred Wilcox. Original 

Fred Newhouse. Screenplay- Ben Moddow. 

O Ralph Meeker, a hospitolized war veteran, believes 

his family and friends hove deserted' him 

because his severe attacks of pome ore brought 

on during roiny periods. But the loyalty of his 

the love of o girl, 

sister and brother-in-law, and 

cure him of his trouble and return him to ori 

active place in the world. 

SKIRTS AHOY. Stars: Esther Willioms, Vivian Bloine 

Solly Forrest, Producer: Joe Posternok. Director- 

Sidney Lonfield, Original Screenplay: Isobel Lennort, 

• Three new WAVE recruits of the Great Lokes 

troining station ore Esther Williams, Vivian Bloine 

ond Solly Forrest, Esther, o sophisticoted society 

girl, Vivian, o brossy clerk, ond Solly, o mild smalltown 

girl, satisfoctorily complete their troining, 

ocquire boy friends ond ore ossigned to stotions 

in Paris, 

SOMETIMES I 

YOU (Romantic Comedy). Stors: 

Clark Gable, Avo Gordner. Producer: Arthur Hornblow 

jr Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Originol- Moss 

'^°" "^""'^^9' '-'=°"°'d Spigelgoss, 

Robert AfdrTy""^ 

• Cork Gable portrays a film director 

Gardner 

and Avo 

a Hollywood star whom he discovers 

develops 

ond 

into o notional idol. 

^"1!!^*=^ (Musical). Stars: Jone 

^"RicnTd„'''M^ Kicordo 

Powell, 

Montolbon (incomplete). Producer: 

Pasternak^ 

Joe 

Director: Robert Z. Leonord, Original 

Slgmund Romberg, Screenploy: Sonyo Levien, 

liam 

Wil- 

Ludwig, 

• Ricordo Montolbon is the title-roler in this 

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CARNIVAL 

'^^«'^f 

Willioms, Red Skelton, Howord 

(Musical Comedy). 

Keel. 

Stors- 

Producer 

Esther 

ûmmings. Director: Chorles Wolters. Orig- 

,^î 

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Do°roth'?°K?n^gs^y."^' 

• Esther Williams ond Red Skelton, cornivol oerformers, 

ore mistaken for on eccentric Texos mil 

lionaire ond his sister. By the time the mosquerod^ 

Hnwnr''/"K"P°'^''' u^'^^^' '•°"'=h,foreman, 

Ann mIm Ji; 

sheriff's 

and 

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Skelton 

with 

with 

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doughter. Filmed in TechnicClor 

THREE LOVE STORIES (Romantic Dromo). Stars- Pier 

Lomos, Leslie Coron. 

SiHnev' ^^''"?V,'^° 

Producer; 

°" 

Orlnfnni 

'"^, .D'êctor: Gottfried Reinhardt. 

Original. Loszlo Voido, I. A. R. Wylie, Arnold Phillips_ 

icreenplay: George Froeschel, Jon Lustiq 

• Three seporote plots will be interwoven into one 

feature-length film. Pier Angeli portrays o circus 

trapeze ortist in one sequence. 

TOO YOUNG TO KISS (Romontic Comedy). Stars 

June Allyson, Von Johnson, Gig Young. 

Som Producer 

Zimbolist^ Director: Robert Z. Leonord. Orignr°h' 

aT ,' J'^S"l°"- 

Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, 

Albert Hockett. 

• Pionist June Allyson, unable to secure on 

tion 

audi- 

with Von Johnson, concert manager, poses as 

o 14-year-old prodigy ond wins o hearing ond o 

'""ê an extended tour. 

evpnt?,niij° 

The 

eventuol 

hoax 

y is revealed, but by this time she 

nave 

ond Von 

fallen in love—ond merge their careers in 

marriage, 

TWO IF BY SEA (Dromo). Stars: Clark Gable (incomplete). 

Producer-Director: Clarence Brown 

George Froeschel. 

Millor' 

Originol: Roger Box. Screenploy: Ronold 

^""^^'1^°" correspondent in 

wnfln Russia during 

World Wor II marries o Russian ballet stor. After 

the war she is not permitted to leave with her 

husband, who then plans and carries out o dangerous 

mission whereby she is enobled to escope 

from the Soviet. 

THE UNKNOWN MAN (Crime Drama). Stars: Wolter 

Brosselle, Ann Hording, 

^'^^""Tr^^^*^ Producer: 

Robert Thomson. Director: Richard Thorpe. Orioinol 

Screenploy: Ronold Millar, George Froeschel 

• Believing the boy innocent. Attorney Walter 

Pidgeon secures on ocquittal for Keefe Brosselle 

on trial for murder, then is shocked to leorn 

Brosselle was guilty. His foith in o world of perl^K 

Tm 

"""^ '",'*:'='' shottered, Pidgeon becomes 

embroiled in a labyrinth of corruption and groft 

before the cose is sotisfoctorily settled. 

WESTWARD THE WOMEN (Historical Western) Stars- 

Robert Toylor, Denise Dorcel, Julie Bishop. Producer" 

Dore Schory, Director: William A, Wellmon. Originol. 

Frank Copra. Screenploy; Charles Schnee. 

• 10 Robert Taylor, veteran guide and scout is 

entrusted the task of tronsporting 200 women from 

Chicago to California to become the wives of 

ranchers in the new country He succeeds, but only 

otter innumerable quarrels, attacks by worring Indioris 

and other troubles, and of the end of the 

troil IS selected os o husband by Denise Dorcel, 

WHEN IN ROME (Comedy Dromo). Stars: Von Johnson, 

Paul Douglas, Joseph Colleio. Producer-Director: 

Clarence Brown, Original: Robert Buckner 

Screenploy: Charles Schnee, Dorothy Kingsley 

• Soiling to Rome during the Holy Year, Von Johnson, 

o Catholic priest, finds his roommote Paul 

Is 

Doug OS, wanted by the police. To elude the law 

Douglas ossumes Johnson's garb and identity' 

absorbs the foith and ultimotely joins o monastic 

order in Itoly, 

THE WILD NORTH (Outdoor Dromo). Stars- Stewart 

Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Chorisse, Producer 

Stephen Ames. Director: Andrew Morton, Original 

Screenplay: Frank Fenton 

• Stewart Gronger, fropper in the north country 

occidental'y kills o man ond is relentlessly pursued 

by Wendell Corey of the Canadian Northwest 

mounted police, Corey captures him, but en route 

bock to heodauorters Gronger soves Carey's life 

at the risk of his own, and is ocquitted of the murder 

charge. Filmed in Technicolor. 

YEARS AGO (Romantic Comedy). Stors: Spencer Trocy 

Debbie Reynolds, Producer: Lawrence Weingarten' 

Director: George Cukor. Originol: Ruth Gordon, 

Screenplay: Garson and Ruth Konin. 

• A story of family life. 

YOUNG BESS (Historical Dromo). Stars; Stewart Granger, 

Joan Simmons, Charles Loughton. Producer 

Sidney Franklin. Director: George Sidney. Original: 

Margaret Irwin, Screenplay: Jon Lustig 

Arthur Wimperis. 

• This costume dromo is loid in England during 

the reign of Henry VIII, The title chorocter is 

Elizabeth, later to become queen. Scheduled for 

Technicolor filming. 

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ALADDIN AND HIS LAMP (Costume Drama). Stars: 

Patncio Medina, Johnny Sands, John Dehner. Producer 

Walter Wanger. Director; Lew Lenders. 

Originol Screenplay: Howard Dimsdale, Millord 

Kaufman, Sam Roeca. 

• Aloddin (Johnny Sands), a pickpocket, obtains a 

mogic lomp ond wishes for o palace so thot he 

may bid for the hond of a beautiful princess, Potricio 

Medino- His rivol is a treocherous prince, 

John Dehner, but Aloddin—with the lamp's help 

outwits Dehner and wins Potricia in marriage. 

Filmed in Cinecolor. 

ARMY BOUND (Drama) Stars Stanley Clements (incomplete). 

Producer: Ben Schwolb. Director: not 

Original Screenplay: not set 

set. 

• Young Stanley Clements becomes a draftee in 

Uncle Som's peacetime military forces. 

BOMBA SERIES (Jungle Dramos). Stars: Johnny Sheffield 

Donna Martell, Myron Healey and others. 

Producer: Walter Mirisch. Director: Ford Beebe. 

Original: Roy Rockwood. Screenplays: Ford Beebe 

and others. 

• Young Johnny Sheffield portrays "Bomba, the 

Jungle Boy," based on the novels by Roy Rockwood, 

in three entries on the 1951-52 slate. They 

are titled "Elephont Stampede," "African Trcosure" 

and "Jungle Girl " 

BOWERY BOYS SERIES (Comedies). Stars: Leo Gorcey, 

Huntz Hall, Allen Jenkins and others. Producer: 

Jerry Thomos Director: Williom Beaudine. Original 

Screenplays: Jack Crutcher, Tim Ryan and others. 

• The Bowery Boys, led by Leo Gorcey and Huntz 

Hall, to in ore slated star of least five comedies 

for the 1951-52 slate, including "Hold Thot Line," 

"Bowery Leothernecks, " "Plough Jockey," "Flying 

Fools" and "Crazy Over Horses." 

COLLEGIATE SERIES (Sports Dramas). Stars; not set. 

Producer: Walter Mirisch. Director: not set. Original: 

not set. Screenplays: not set. 

• Scheduled for production at the rate of one 

a month ore 12 entries in a series devoted to 

is collegiate sports activities The initialer titled 

"Mr All-American," a football story. 

DESERT PURSUIT (Western). Stars: Wayne Morrij, 

George Tobios, Emmett Lynn. Producer; Lindsley 

Parsons. Director: George Blair. Original; Kenneth 

Perkins. Screenplay; W. Scott Darling, Warren 

Douglas. 

of • This sogebrusher is one a series of Wayne 

Morris starrers being produced this company by 

for 

Lindsley Porsons. 

DOWN PERISCOPE (Action Drama). Stars: Wayne 

Morris (incomplete) Producer: Lindsley Parsons. 

set. Director: not Original Screenplay: Sam Roeca, 

Warren D. Wandburg. 

• This story of the U.S. submarine training service 

IS slated for filming partially on locotion ot 

the training station in New London, Conn. 

FLIGHT TO MARS (Interplanetary Drama). Stars: 

Marguerite Chapman. Cameron Mitchell, Virginio 

Houston. Producer: Wolter Mirisch. Director: Lesley 

Selander Original: Walter Mirisch. Screenplay 

Arthur Strawn. 

• Five civilians make a successful rocket flight 

to Mors, but their return to Earth is hampered 

by the president of the Martian council, who 

plans to invade our planet. However, his plans 

ore thwarted and the party returns safely. Filmed 

Cinecolor 

in 

FORT OSAGE (Western). Stars; Rod Cameron, Jane 

Nigh, Morris Ankrum. Producer; Walter Mirisch. 

Director: Lesley Selonder. Original Screenplay: Don 

Ultman. 

• Hired to take a California-bound wagon train 

out of Fort Osage, Rod Cameron learns the Osage 

Indians ore on the warpath because of ill treotment 

of the hands of unscrupulous whites. With 

the Old of the Osoges, Cameron captures the 

crooks and leads the tram safely to its destination 

Filmed m Cinecolor 

JOE PALOOKA IN TRIPLE CROSS (Drama) Stars Joe 

Kirkwood )r., Cathy Downs, James Gleoson. Producer: 

Hal E. Chester Director: Reginald LeBorg 

Orioinal: Harold Bancroft. Screenplay: Jan Jeffries. 

• Based on the Ham Fisher syndicated comic strip, 

|r.) this involves Joe Polooko (Joe Kirkwood with 

gangsters who hold him, his wife and manager 

prisoners, with Joe's purse for an upcoming fight 

as the ronsom. At the last second Joe manages 

to outwit the crooks and wins the bout in defense 

of his title. 

JOHNNY MACK BROWN SERIES (Western) Stars: 

Johnny Mock Brown, Jimmy Ellison, Lois Hall and 

others Producer Vincent M, Fennelly. Directors: 

Derwin Abrahoms, Lewis D Collins and others. 

Original Screenplays: Joseph Poland and others. 

• A minimum of five subiects storring Johnny Mack 

Brown are on the docket for the 1951-52 season. 

Titles include "Texas City," "Gun Smoke Ronge," 

"Man From the Black Hills," "Oeod Man's Troil" 

and "Hired Guns." 

KIRBY GRANT SERIES (Outdoor Dromas). Stars: 

Kirby Grant. Chinook ond others Producer: Lindsley 

Parsons. Director; not set. Originols; James 

Oliver Curwood. Screenplays: William Roynor and 

others. 

• At leost two entries in this action series, based 

upon the novels by James Oliver Curwood, ore 

plonned for the 1951-52 season. Titles announced. 

"Yukon Gold," "Timber Wolf" and "Northwest 

Territory " 

THE LONGHORN (Western). Stars: "Wild Bill" Elliott, 

Myron Heolcy, Phyllis Coates. Producer: Vincent 

M. Fennelly Director: Lewis D. Collins. Originol 

Screenplay: Dan Ullman. 

• Bringing o herd of Herefords from Oregon back 

to his Wyoming ranch, "Wild Bill" Elliott has his 

friend, Myron Healey, and Phyllis Coates, daughter 

of another rancher, in his party. Healey is in 

reality a member of a gang of cattle thieves 

planning to ambush Elliott, but repents ond sacrifices 

his life to save Elliott and Phyllis. 

MY WIFE IS MINE (Romontic Drama). Stars: Rod 

Cameron, Florence Morly. Producer; Scott R. Dunlap. 

set. Director: not Original; Mory McCarthy. 

Thomos W. Blackburn. 

Screenplay: 

• This IS locoled in a small frontier town In 

Arizona, where Rod Comeron, a rancher, meets 

Florence Marly, an easterner, when she is stranded 

there after a tram wreck. 

RODEO (Western). Stars; Jane Nigh, John Archer, Wallace 

Ford. Producer; Walter Mirisch. Director: William 

Beaudine. Original Screenplay: Chorles R. 

Morion. 

• Jane Nigh monoges a rodeo with great success, 

and gets herself engaged to John Archer, the top 

rider. A misunderstanding causes Wallace Ford, 

ex-champion rider, to try his stuff once more. 

He IS seriously injured; Jane is blomed, but clears 

herself Filmed in Cinecolor. 

THE ROSE BOWL STORY (Musical). Stars: not set. 

Producer: Wolter Mirisch. Director; not set. Originol 

Screenplay: not set. 

• This Cinecolor subject will feature the fomed 

annual Tournament of Roses parode held every 

January 1 iv Pasadena, Colif., and the occompanying 

New Year's day football game staged in that 

city's Rose Bowl. 

THE SEA TIGER (Marine Drama). Stars: not set. Producer; 

William F. Broidy. Director; Jeon Yorbrough. 

Original: Charles Yerkow. Screenplay: Som Roeca. 

• Adapted from o magazine story, this concerns 

on abandoned freighter, loaded with Japanese wor 

loot, which IS found after World Wor II off the 

New Guinea coost. 

STEEL FIST (Drama). Stars: Roddy McDowall, Kristme 

Miller, Horry Lauter. Producer: William F. Brordy. 

Director: Wesley Barry. Original: Phyllis Parker. 

Screenplay: C. K. Kivari. 

• A student in Russia, and on onti-Communist, 

Roddy McDowall incites o not, then flees with 

the help of the underground He falls in love with 

Kristine Miller, a member of the underground, and 

finally is successful in crossing the border—knowing 

she will join him to shore the future in a free 

world. 

VENGEANCE TRAIL (Western). Stars: "Wild Bill" 

Elliott, Peggy Stewart, Lone Bradford. Producer; 

Vincent M. Fennelly. Director: Lewis D. Collins. 

Original Screenplay; Don Ullman. 

• "Wild Bill" Elliott returns to Kansas Territory, 

where he is wanted on a wrongful charge, to ovenge 

the death of his brother and discovers the latter 

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had turned renegade. Pardoned by a U.S. marshal, 

Elliott sets out to clean up the town and succeeds 

in tracking down his brother's slayer. 

WAGONS WEST (Western). Stars; Rod Cameron, Peggie 

Castle, Michael Chopin. Producer; Vincent M. 

Fennelly. Director: Ford Beebe. Original Screenplay: 

Don Ullman. 

• Guiding a wagon train west. Rod Cameron discovers 

some of the wogoneers ore smuggling rifles 

to the Cheyenne Indians. The Indians launch on 

attack on the troin after Comeron forbids delivery 

of the weapons; the villians ore slain and Cameron 

makes peace with the redskins. Filmed in Cinecolor. 

WALTER WANGER PRODUCTIONS (Comedies and 

Dramas). Stars: John Sands and others. Producer: 

Walter Wanger. Directors: Not set. Originals: Ben 

Hecht, Robert Ormond Cose ond others. Screenplays: 

John Tucker Battle, Sherman Lowe ond 

others. 

• Under the Allied Artists banner, and as port of 

a multiple-picture commitment, Walter Wanger 

will deliver "Queen of the Universe," "Flat Ttop," 

"Beauty and the Beast" and "The Yellow Knife," 

for the 1951-52 season. All will be photographed 

in 

Cinecolor. 

WHIP WILSON SERIES (Westerns). Stars: Whip Wilson, 

Jim Bannon, Fuzzy Knight and others. Producer: 

Vincent M. Fennelly. Directors: Howord 

Bretherton and others. Original Screenplays; Maurice 

Tombrogel ond others. 

• Whip Wilson IS scheduled to star in at least 

five sagebrush sagas on the 1951-52 docket, with 

titles including "Land Grab," "Lawless Cowboys," 

"Stage From Amarillo," "Thundering Troil" ond 

"Night Raiders." 

WILD STALLION (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Barbara 

Wooddell, Stanford Jolley, Ben Johnson. Producer; 

Walter Mirisch. Director: Lewis D. Collins. Original 

Screenplay: Don Ullman. 

• Ben Johnson is obsessed with the idea that his 

pet colt survived an Indian raid in which Ben's 

parents were slain. When he grows to manhood, 

Ben recovers his horse, which saves his life in 

another Indian attack. Ben joins the covolry ond 

the stallion is given a life-long home of the post 

over which Ben takes command 

YELLOW FIN (Drama). Stars: Wayne Morris, Adrian 

Booth, Gloria Henry. Producer; Lindsley Parsons. 

Director: Frank McDonald. Original Screenplay: 

Clint Johnson, Warren D. Wandburg. 

• Wayne Morris decides to sell his fomily's tunofishing 

boot after a series of accidents, the lost 

of which sends his father to the hospital in comatose 

condition. But a doctor prescribes one last cruise 

to snap the older man out of his amnesia; the 

experiment is successful: and Woyne keeps the boat. 

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Frank McDonald 

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complementing our feature motion picture activity, 

we have added many new friends to the old. It 

would be impossible to reach them all personally, 

to extend our sincere wishes for the coming year. 

Therefore, this message carries to all, 

including the 

friends we hope to make in 1952, the wannest 

greetings from our entire staff—TO YOU. 

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AARON SLICK FROM PUNKIN CRICK (Comedy With 

Music). Stars: Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Robert 

Morrill. Producers: William Perlberg, George Seoton. 

Director: Claude Binyon. Original: Beale Cormack. 

Screenplay: Claude Binyon. 

• Film version of what is said to be one of the 

most popular plays in the repertoire of stage stock 

companies. The city slicker, Robert Merrill, ottempts 

to gain control of the form owned by Ihe 

widow, Dinah Shore, but is thwarted by the country 

bumpkin, Alan Young. Filmed in Technicolor. 

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN {Comedy-Drama). Stars: 

Jose Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar, Producers: 

William Perlberg, George Seoton. Director; George 

Seaton. Original: Helen and George Poposhvily. 

Screenplay: George Seaton, George Oppenheimer. 

• Jose Ferrer and Kurt Kasznor, immigrants from 

Russio, seek U.S. citizenship. Ferrer falls in love 

with Kim Hunter, a court stenographer in New 

York, and pursues her to California, where he ends 

up as on orange rancher. After a series of complications 

their romance ends happily and Ferrer 

becomes an American citizen. 

THE BLAZING FOREST (Action Drama). Stars: John 

Payne, Susan Morrow, William Demarest. Producers: 

Wiliiom Pine, William Thomas. Director: 

Edward Ludwig. Original: William Wister Haines. 

Screenplay: Winston Miller. 

• John Payne is the hord-pushing boss of a timber-logging 

section, trying to moke good the wrongs 

done by a worthless brother, Richard Arlen, Payne's 

methods are misinterpreted by Susan Morrow, niece 

of the woman who owns the timber land, but ultimately 

his motives are made clear. Filmed in Tech- 

BOTANY BAY {Historical Droma). Stars: Alan Lodd, 

James Mason, Patricio Medina. Producer: Joseph 

Sistrom. Director: John Farrow. Original: Charles 

Nordhoff, James Norman Hall. Screenplay: Jonothan 

Latimer. 

• An American colonist in 1790 is unjustly convicted 

in England and sent to Australia at the time 

of the founding of that colony. Filmed in Technicolor. 

CARIBBEAN GOLD {Action Drama). Stars: Rhonda 

Fleming, John Payne, Francis L. Sullivan. Producers: 

William Pine, William Thomas. Director: Edward 

Ludwig. Original: Ellery H. Clark. Screenplay; 

Curtis Kenyon, Morton Grant. 

• This story of treosure-hunting in West Indian 

waters will be photographed in Technicolor. 

CARRIE (Drama). Stors: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer 

Jones, Eddie Albert. Producer- Director: William 

Wyler. Original: Theodore Dreiser. Screenplay: 

Ruth and Augustus Goetz. 

• Laurence Olivier, middle-aged businessman, falls 

so desperately in love with Jennifer Jones that he 

socrifices his wealth and family and becomes a 

Bowery bum. Meantime Jennifer leoves him, becomes 

successful on the stage and learns, too late, 

the depths of his affection for her. 

CR0S5WINDS (Action Drama). Stars; John Payne, 

Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker. Producers: William 

Pine, William Thomas. Director: Lewis R. Foster. 

Original: Thompson Burtis. Screenplay; Lewis R. 

Foster. 

• John Payne, skipper of a South Seos schooner, 

is tricked out of his vessel and jailed by Forrest 

Tucker, double-crossing trader, who then steals a 

cargo of gold shipped by a mining concern. Payne 

gets out of jail, rescues the stolen gold and wins 

the love of Rhonda Fleming. Filmed in Technicolor, 

DARLING, HOW COULD YOU! (Comedy) Stars: Joan 

Fontaine, John Lund, Mono Freeman. Producer; 

Harry Tugend. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Original; 

Sir James Barrie. Screenplay: Dodie Smith, Lesser 

Samuels. 

• Joan Fontaine, an attractive mother, and her 

husband, John Lund, return home after being 

away for several years to find their children are 

practically strangers. The daughter, Mona Freeman, 

believes Joan is involved in an affair with o 

young man, and in straightening out the situation 

Joan regains her children's affection. 

THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE (Western) Stars: Edmond 

O'Brien, Sterling Hoyden, Dean Jagqer. Producer: 

Not Holt. Director: Byron Haskin. Original 

Screenplay: Frank Gruber. 

• The Denver & Rio Grande rai'road is heading 

for a vital Royal Gorge pass route across the Rockies 

to Salt Lake City. Seeking the same route is the 

rival Canyon City and San Jucn rail rood. After 

much skulduggery and sabotage, the D. & R. G. 

emerges victorious. Filmed in Technicolor. 

DETECTIVE STORY (Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, 

Eleanor Porker, William Bendix. Producer-Director: 

William Wyler. Original: Sidney Kingsley. Screenplay: 

Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler. 

• In a New York police station Kirk Douglas, a 

tough detective, has to cope with a shoplifter, two 

cot burglars ond a doctor whose speciality is illegal 

operations. Learning that his own wife once patronized 

the doctor, Douglas goes berserk and is fatally 

wounded when one of the burglars tries to escape. 

FLAMING FEATHER (Western). Stors: Sterling Hoyden, 

Borbara Rush, Forrest Tucker. Producer: Nat 

Holt. Director; Roy Enright. Original: Gerald Drayson 

Adams. Screenplay; Frank Gruber. 

• A mysterious outlaw is terrorizing the citizens 

of Arizona Territory in the 1870s. Rancher Sterling 

Hoyden, his holdings wiped out by the raider, 

goes on the trail and finally corners the outlaw 

and his band of marauding Indians in o cliff dwelling. 


GENTLEMEN OF THE JUNGLE (Action Drama). Stars 

Rhonda Fleming. Producers: Wili.am Pine, William 

Thomas. Director: Lewis R. Foster. Original: Tom 

GiU. Screenploy; Not set. 

• This adventure dfoma is slated for filming in 

Technicolor on location in Guatemala. 

THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (Musical Comedy). Stars: Tom 

Morton, Rosemary Clooney. Producer; William Hommerstein 

II. Director: Not set. Original: Brett 

Morgan. Screenplay; Not set. 

• This tunefilm, with a Hollywood bockground, 

is built around the studio's "Golden Circle" of 

young contract players who are groomed for stordom. 

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (Circus Drama). 

Stars: Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde. 

Producer-Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Original 

Screenplay: Fredric Frank, Frank Cavett, Barre 

Lydon. 

• This merges Hollywood personalities with the 

Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circus in a plot that 

spans love, hate, tragedy and treachery in the 

world of spun candy and spangles. Betty Hutton 

is the trapeze artist, James Stewart the clown and 

Cornel Wilde the daring oerialist. Filmed In Technicolor. 

HONG KONG (Action Drama). Stors: Ronald Reagan, 

Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce. Producers; William 

Pine, William Thomas. Director; Lewis R. Foster. 

Original: David Lang. Screenploy; Winston Miller. 

• Ronald Reagan, American adventurer in Chi no, 

is "adopted" by a 4-year-old Chinese orphan boy 

fleeing the Reds. The boy is hiding a voluable 

jeweled idol which a war lord covets. With the aid 

of Rhonda Fleming, who is in charge of a group 

of aged Chinese, Reagan outwits the war lord. 


JUMPING JACKS (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry 

Lewis, Robert Strauss. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: 

Norman Taurog. Original Screenplay; Herbert 

Boker, John Grant. 

• In which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—after 

previous adventures with the army and navy—become 

involved with Uncle Sam's paratroopers. 

THE MILITARY POLICEMAN (Comedy). Stars; Bob 

Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell (incomplete). 

Producer: Harry Tugend. Director: George 

Marshall. Original Screenplay: Jock Sher, Hal 

Konter. 

• Bob Hope is cost as a bungling MP in this story 

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MY FAVORITE SPY (Comedy). Stars: Bob Hope, Hedy 

Lomarr, Francis Sullivan. Producer: Paul Jones. 

Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Original: Edmund 

Belotn, Lou Breslow. Screenplay: Edmund Hartmann, 

Jack Sher. 

• Bob Hope enacts o duol role os on American 

burlesque comedian and a Europeon spy. The latter, 

only link to a new type of pilotless aircraft, 

is shot, ond government security agents substitute 

the comedion for him on o trip to Tongiers, where 

he outwits an espionage ring and gets the needed 

dota. 

MY SON, JOHN (Drama). Stars; Helen Hayes, Robert 

Walker, Van Heflin. Producer-Director; Leo Mc- 

Corey. Original: Leo McCorey. Screenplay: Not set. 

• Helen Hayes and Dean Jogger ore the typical 

American parents of three sons, of whom the 

youngest is Robert Walker. To their dismoy they 

learn that Walker has become involved in o Communist 

party conspiracy. 

RED MOUNTAIN (Western). Stars; Alan Lodd, Lrzabeth 

Scott, John Ireland. Producer; Hal Wollis. 

Director; William Dieter le. Original: George W. 

George, George F. Slavin. Screenplay: John Meredyth 

Lucas, Edna and Edward Anholt. 

• Alon Lodd, Confederate army captain, joins 

Quontrell's raiders to aid the southern couse, foils 

in love with o northern girl, Lizobeth Scott, and 

disillusioned by Quontrell's cruelty and treachery 

plots his defeat and kills the guerrilla chieftain. 


SAILOR BEWARE (Comedy). Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry 

Lewis, Morion Marshall. Producer: Hal WoUis. Director: 

Hal Walker. Original: Kenyon Nicholson. 

Screenplay; John Grant. 

• Navy pals ore Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. 

The latter is allergic to women's makeup but is 

talked into accepting o bet that he con kiss the 

most beautiful girl in Honolulu. This causes trouble 

with his jealous girl friend. Morion Marshall, a 

WAVE, but Jerry manages to win the bet and square 

things with Marion. 

SCALPEL (Dromo). Stors: Burt Lancoster (incomplete). 

Producer; Hal Wollis. Director: Not set. Original: 

Horoce McCoy. Screenplay: Not set. 

• A youth comes out of the cool mines to work 

his way through medical school ond on to o great 

career, only to moke his biggest sacrifice for the 

woman he loves. 

SHANE (Western). Stars: Alan Lodd, Jean Arthur, Von 

Heflin. Producer-Director; George Stevens. Original: 

Jock Schoefer. Screenplay; A. B. Guthrie. 

• Von Heflin and Jean Arthur, of o Wyoming 

homesteading family, ore fighting o losing battle 

agoinst the big ranchers, who want the small farms 

for grozing land. But when quick-drawing Alan 

Lodd orrives ond joins the fight on beholf of the 

chers ore defeated. Filmea 

SILVER CITY (Western). Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Edmond 

O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerold. Producer: Not Holt. 

Director: Byron Haskin. Original: Luke Short. 

Screenplay: Frank Gruber. 

• Edmond O'Brien, a mining engineer, helps Yvonne 

De Carlo and her father find o rich vein in a 

leased silver mine. Barry Fitzgerold, the mine 

owner, conspires to regain his property, but with 

Yvonne's love and help O'Brien is successful in defeating 

in Fitzgerald. Filmed Technicolor. 

SOMEBODY LOVES ME {Musicol Comedy). Stars; Betty 

Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Adele Jergens. Producers: 

William Perlberg, George Seaton. Directors: Irving 

Brecher. Original Screenplay; Irving Brecher. 

• This is based on the careers of Blossom Seeley 

and Benny Fields, vaudeville and nightclub entertainers. 

The film also etches the development of 

modern Americon music orxJ includes numbers by 

Gershwin, Irving Berlin ond other composers. Jack 

Benny appears briefly as o guest stor. Filmed in 

Technicolor. 

SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR (Drama). Stars: Ray Milland, 

Joan Fontaine, Teresa Wright. Producer-Director; 

George Stevens. Original Screenplay: Dwight 

Taylor. 

• Joan Fontaine, a stage actress, has become on 

alcoholic. Becoming involved with her is Ray 

Milland, a New York advertising executive, who 

helps to cure her weakness. Tereso Wright, Milland's 

wife, completes the tongied triangle. 

SON OF PALEFACE (Comedy Western). Stars; Bob 

Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers. Producer; Robert 

L. Welch. Director: Frank Toshlin. Original Screenplay: 

Robert L. Welch, Frank Toshlin, Joe Quillan. 

• Bob Hope is cost, in this sequel to "The Paleface," 

as a Harvard graduate who goes to the 

wild west seeking the fortune presumably left him 

by his lote father. Jane Russell is the leoder of 

o bondit gang and Roy Rogers o government ogent. 

Filmed m Technicolor. 

THE STOOGE (Comedy). Stars: Deon Martin, Jerry 

Lewis, Polly Bergen. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: 

Norman Taurog. Original; Fred F. Finklehoffe, Sid 

Silvers. Screenplay: Fred F. Finklehoffe, Martin 

Rockin, 

• Dean Martin, doing a vaudeville act os a single, 

lays on egg, ond hires Jerry Lewis, o dimwitted 

clerk, to sit in a box seat and interchange banter. 

The oct is o huge success, but Dean fails to give 

Jerry credit—or billing—until forced to the reolizotion 

of how important his stooge's contribution hos 

been. 

THE STREETS WERE PAVED WITH GOLD (Action 

Drama). Stars; Rhonda Fleming, John Payne (Incomplete). 

Producers: WiHiom Pine, William 

Thomas. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: 

Geoffrey Homes, 

• A story of the Aloskon gold rush at the turn 

of the century, this will be photographed in Technicolor, 

SUBMARINE COMMAND (Drama). Stars: Wiliiom 

Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix. Producer: 

Joseph Sistrom. Director: John Farrow. Original 

Screenplay; Jonathan Latimer. 

• William Holden is skipper of a submorine in 

World War II ond, later, the Korean conflict. Brooding 

over a split-second decision which meant the 

loss of two of his crew, he neorly wrecks his marriage 

and career, but finds the onswer to his 

doubts in o heroic, dangerous and successful mis- 

THIS IS DYNAMITE (Crime Drama). Stars: William 

Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O'Brien. Producer: 

Irving Asher. Director: Wiliiom Dieterle. Originol: 

Horoce McCoy. Screenploy; John Bright, W. R. 

Burnett. 

• William Holden, o crusading reporter, is instrumental 

in breoking up on underworld syndicote 

which controls a mojor American metropolis. 

THUNDER IN THE EAST (Droma). Stars; Alan Lodd. 

Deborah Kerr, Chorles Boyer. Producer: Everett 

Riskin. Director: Charles Vidor. Original: Alan 

Mooreheod. Screenploy: Jo Swerling. 

• Aviator Alan Lodd flies guns ond ammunition 

into the Indian province of Ghondohar, but is 

hampered by Chorles Boyer, who believes the current 

insurrection con be stopped by love and kindness. 

Eventuoly Lodd decides money isn't everything 

and stands off the invoders while women 

and children escape by plane. 

WAR OF THE WORLDS (Interplanetory Drama). Stars: 

Les Tremoyne (incomplete). Producer; George Pal. 

Director; Byron Haskin. Originol: H. G. Wells. 

Screenplay: Barre Lyndon. 

• Producer George Pal, who hos mode such recent 

space operos os "Destinotion Moon" and 

"When Worlds Collide," continues in the sciencefiction 

vein with on odoptotion of H. G. Wells' 

story of on invosion from Mors. Sloted for Technicolor. 

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Science-Fiction Drama). 

Stars: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Lorry Keating. 

Producer: George Pol. Director: Rudolph Mote. 

Original; Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie. Screenplay; 

Sydney Boehm. 

• Astronomers discover another star and planet 

ore hurtling toward the earth and that the star 

will wipe out our world. A rocketship is built ond 

40 people, chosen by lot, manage to escape to the 

oncoming planet, leaving only minutes before the 

earth Is demolished. Filmed in Technicolor. 


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\NDROCLES AND THE LION (Costume Comedy). 

Stars: Alan Young, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature. 

Producer; Gobriel Pascal, Director: Chester Erskine. 

Onginol: George Bernard Shaw. Screenplay: Chester 

Erskine, Noel Langley. 

• In early Roman days, Androcles (Alan Young) 

mokes friends with o lion by removing a thorn from 

his paw. When Coesor (Maurice Evans) has his 

captoin, Victor Mature, round up some Christian 

martyrs including Jean Simmons and Androcles, 

the latter finds himself orena-bound. He Is saved 

by his good friend, the lion. 

AT SWORD'S POINT (Adventure-Droma). Stars: Cornel 

Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas. Producer: 

Jerrold T. Brandt. Director: Lewis Allen. 

Original: Alexandre Dumas. Screenplay: Not set. 

• Urgently summoned by the Queen of France, 

Cornel Wilde ond his musketeer companions— including 

brilliant swordswoman Maureen O'Horo—find 

tordly Robert 

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the Musketeers rescue the royal victim. 


BEHAVE YOURSELFI (Comedy). Stars: Shelley Winters, 

Farley Granger, William Demarest. Producers: Jerry 

Wald, Norman Krosno. Director: George Beck. 

Original: George Beck, Frank Torloff. Screenplay: 

George Beck. 

• A dog, trained by gangsters to act as a gobetween, 

is mistaken by Shelley Winters as an anniversary 

gift from her husband, Farley Granger. 

The mobsters' efforts to get the dog back result 

in a series of murders, of which Farley is suspected, 

but he ultimately manages to round up 

the crooks and is hailed as a hero. 

THE BIG SKY (Outdoor Drama). Stars: Kirk Douglas, 

Dewey Mortin, Elizabeth Coyote Threatt. Producer-Director: 

Howard Hawks. Original: A. B. 

Guthrie jr. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. 

In ]830 Kirk Douglas and his pal, Dewey Martin, 

join an adventure-ridden keelboat expedition 

into the midwest wilderness to establish a furtroding 

post. Aboard the boat is a beautiful Indian 

maiden, Elizabeth Coyote Threatt, held hostage 

to ensure safety in the wild country. During 

the hazardous voyage Douglas wins Elizabeth as 

his mate. 

THE BLUE VEIL (Drama). Stars: Jane Wyman, Richard 

Corlson, Charles Laughton. Producers: Jerry 

Wold, Norman Krosna. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. 

Original: Francois Compaux. Screenplay: Normon 

Corwin. 

• Jane Wyman, who has lost a child of her own, 

devotes her life to the care of other people's children, 

sacrificing all chonces for romance and a 

hoppy marriage. Ultimately she is reduced to poverty 

until one of her now-grown-up "children" finds 

her and takes her into his family as a permanent 

member. 

CLASH BY NIGHT (Drama). Stars: Borbara Stanwyck, 

Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan. Producers: Jerry Wald, 

Norman Krosno. Director: Fritz Long. Originol: 

Clifford Odets. Screenplay: Alfred Hayes. 

• Adapted from a stage ploy by Clifford Odets, 

this has a Monterey, Calif., fishing industry background 

and deals with o man's betroyol by his 

wife and best friend. 

DOUBLE DYNAMITE (Comedy). Stars: Frank Sinatro, 

Jane Russell, Groucho Morx. Producer: Irving 

Cummmgs jr. Director: Irving Cummings sr. Original: 

Lee Rosten. Screenplay: Melville Shavelson. 

• Frank Sinatra, a plodding clerk, is rewarded for 

rescuing a mystery man from a brawl—and automatically 

suspected of o coincidental bonk theft. 

Cleared, he sets out with his sweetheart, Jane Russell, 

and pal Groucho Morx, on a prolonged spending 

spree which the internal revenue department 

abruptly terminates. 

DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH (Historical Drama). Stars: 

Guy Madison, Barbara Payton, James Craig. Producers: 

Maurice and Frank King. Director: William 

Cameron Menzies. Original: Hollister Noble. Screenplay: 

Philip Yordan, Sidney Harmon. 

• In the Civil War, James Craig, a Confederate, is 

assigned to man o mountain outpost in an effort 

to halt Sherman's march to the sea. Opposing him 

IS his pre-war northern friend, Guy Madison. Barbara 

Payton, who loves Croig, sacrifices her life 

in a vain effort to persuade him to surrender. 

Filmed in Supercinecolor. 

EXCLUSIVE MODEL (Dramo), Stars: Not set. Producer. 

Jerry Wold, Norman Krosna. Director: Nat set. 

Original Screenplay: Ketti Frings. 

• A story of the Paris fashion industry, this is 

scheduled for Technicolor filming, partially on location 

in France. 

A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Comedy). Stars: Groucho 

Morx, William Bendix, Mane Wilson. Producers- 

Irwin Allen, Irving Cummings jr. Director: Chester 

Erskine. Original: Frederick Hozlitt Brennon. 

Screenploy: Chester Erskine. 

• Sailors Groucho Morx and William Bendix 

wongle a leove of obsence from the brig when 

Bendix acquires a racehorse. Upon sight of Marie 

Wilson they fall in love, but her heart belongs to 

Don DeFore. Brove men and true, they aid the 

romance and accidentally thwart a pair of saboteurs 

before settling back in the brig. 

THE HALF-BREED (Western). Stars: Robert Young, 

Jonis Corter, Jack Buetel. Producer: Irving Starr. 

Director: Edword Ludwig, Original Screenplay: Robert 

Hardy Andrews. 

9 Jock Buetel, half-breed Indian leader, trusts 

Robert Young, a scout, until his people are 

preyed upon. Relations continue strained until 

Young proves Reed Hodley responsible for the 

villainy. Buetel returns to his people to plead 

for understanding between the races. Filmed in 

Technicolor, 

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (Biographical Oromo). 

Stars: Danny Koye, Renee Jeonmoire, Farley Granger. 

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Charles 

Vidor. Original Screenplay: Moss Hart, Samuel 

Taylor. 

• Danny Koye is cost as Hans Christian Andersen, 

the famed Donish author whose fairy tales have 

been read by generations of children the world 

over. In Technicolor, the picture has Copenhagen 

in the 1830s as its locale. 

HIGH HEELS (Dromo). Stars: Not set: Producers: Jerry 

Wold, Normon Krosno. Director: Not set. Original: 

Morva and Lloyd Shearer. Screenplay: Marc Daniels. 

• This revolves around the girls who supply a 

minute of dancing pleasure to lonely men for 

12 cents a dance. 

YOU (Dromo). Stors" Dana Andrews, Dorothy 

McGuire, Farley Granger. Producer: Samuel 

Goldwyn. Director: Mark Robson. Original: Samuel 

Goldwyn jr. Screenplay: Edward Newhouse, Joel 

Soyre, Irwin Shaw. 

• After o hitch in World War II, Dona Andrews 

marries, settles down to raise o family, and goes 

into business with his father and younger brother, 

Farley Granger. Comes the Korean conflict and 

Granger is drafted; and Andrews realizes he, too, 

must get into service to protect his fomily ond 

country, 

JET PILOT (War Drama). Stars: John Woyne, Janet 

Leigh. Producer: Jules Furthman. Director: Josef 

von Sternberg. Original: Beirne Lay jr. Screenplay: 

Beirne Lay jr., Jules Furthman. 

• A story of how the US oir force trains its jet 

pilots and the work of jet oircroft in the Korean 

conflict. In Technicolor. 

THE KOREAN STORY (War Dromo). Stars: Robert 

Mitchum, Ann BIyth, Charles McGraw. Producer: 

Edmund Grainger. Director: Toy Gornett. Original 

Screenplay: Milton Krims, William Wister 

Haines. 

• This dromatizes the activities of the United 

Nations' ground and oir forces in the Korean theatre 

of conflict, with Robert Mitchum as a U.S. 

officer and Ann BIyth os a war correspondent. In 

Technicolor. 

THE LAS VEGAS STORY (Drama). Stars: Jane Russell, 

Victor Mature, Vincent Price. Producer: Robert 

Sparks. Director Robert Stevenson. Original: Joy 

Drotler. Screenplay: John Lorkin. 

• A girl thinks her husband has been framed on 

o robbery chorge by o detective who was formerly 

her sweetheart. The three become involved when 

she sets out to establish her husband's innocence. 

MACAO (Dramo). Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jone Russell, 

William Bendix Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director 

Josef von Sternberg. Original: Bob Williams. 

Screenplay Bernard C. Schoenfeld. 

• On the island of Macao Robert Mitchum gets 

a yen for Singer Jane Russell, and becomes involved 

with Brod Dexter, a big-shot diamond smuggler. 

When William Bendix, a disguised ploinclothesmon, 

is murdered, Mitchum outmoneuvers 

Dexter, turns him over to the authorities and wins 

the 

go!, 

MONTANA BELLE (Western), Stors: Jane Russell, 

George Brent, Scott Brady. Producer: Howard 

Welch. Director: Allan Dwon. Original: M. Coates 

Webster. Screenplay: Horace McCoy. 

• Scott Brady, o Dolton gang member, falls for 

Jane Russell, boss of o rivol gong- qs does George 

Brent, a saloon keeper, who hopes to marry and 

reform her. Mistakenly believing o doublecross 

IS afoot, Jone betrays Brady, and regrets her oction 

too late. He is trapped by Brent, and Jone dies 

in the subsequent gun fight, 

ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Dramo) Stars Robert 

Ryon, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond. Producer: John 

Houseman Director: Nicholas Roy. Original: Gero'd 

Butler Screenploy: A. Bezzerides. 

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• Robert Ryan, a detective by profession, is a lonely, 

embittered man, until his path crosses that of 

Ida Lupino Despite the handicap of blindness, 

Ida's deep, protective devotion to her mentally 

defective brother is the foctor that teoches Ryan 

a new evaluation of the role of living. 

THE RACKET (Melodromo), Stars: Robert Mitchum, 

Lizobeth Scott, Robert Ryan. Producer: Edmund 

Grainger, Director: John Cromwell, Original: Bartlett 

Cormock, Screenplay: William Wister Haines, 

W. R. Burnett. 

• Robert Mitchum, on honest cop, is out to break 

up the crime syndicate ruled by Robert Ryon. Not 

until Ryan murders o potrolmon, is captured in o 

subsequent automobile accident, ond is doublecrossed 

by his own subordinates does racket-busting 

Mitchum succeed, 

THE RAGGED EDGE (Mystery Dromo). Stars; Ido Lupino, 

Robert Ryan (tentative, incomplete). Producer: 

Collier Young (Filmakers). Director: Harry 

Horner. Original: Mel Dinelli. Screenplay: Mel 

Dinelli. 

• This suspense story is odopted from "The Men," 

o Broadway stage play. 

RANCHO NOTORIOUS (Western Stors: Morlene Dierer. 

Producer: How- 

trich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel F 

ord Welsch (Fidelity Pictures) Director: Fritz Long. 

Original: Fritz Long, Sylv Richards. Screenplay: 

Not set. 

• Dedicated to tracking down the murderer of 

his fioncee, Arthur Kennedy cultivates outlaw Mel 

Ferrer, and meets a gong of brigands at the ranch 

of ex-saloon songstress, Morlene Dietrich. Among 

them Kennedy gets his man, during o heated battle 

in which Morlene sacrifices her life to shield Ferrer. 

SLAUGHTER TRAIL (Western). Stors: Brian Donlevy, 

Gig Young, Virginia Grey. Producer-Director: Irving 

Allen. Original Screenplay: Sid Kuller. 

• Bandits holding up o stagecoach on the New 

Mexico-Arizono border in the 1880s kill two Indians 

and steal their horses. This precipitates 

on attack by the Nova)os on a fort commanded 

by Brian Donlevy, and where the outlaws hove 

taken refuge. The desperados are killed in the 

uprising and peoce returns. 

THE STORY OF ROBIN HOOD (Costume Drama). 

Stars Richord Todd, Joan Rice, Robert Newton. 

Producer: Wolt Disney. Director: Ken Annokin. 

Original Screenploy: Lawrence E. Wotkin. 

• Walt Disney, most noted for his antmoted cartoons, 

herewith swings over to live action in a 

Technicolor film version of the 12th century English 

odventurer who fought to rid his country of 

tyranny and oppression. Filmed entirely in Britain. 

SUDDEN FEAR (Drama). Stars: Joan Crawford (Incomplete). 

Producer: Joseph Kaufman. Director: 

David Miller. Original: Edna Sherry. Screenplay: 

Frank Portos, Lenore Coffee. 

• Adapted from the novel by Edna Sherry, this 

is o story of intrigue and suspense, one of o series 

of pictures to be produced by Joseph Kaufman for 

release through this company. 

SWORD OF VENUS (Dromo). Stars: Robert Clarke, 

Renee de Marco, Cotherine McLeod. Producers: 

Aubrey Wisberg, Jock Pollexfen (American Pictures 

Corp.) Director: Harold Doniels. Original 

Screenplay: Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen. 

• This swashbuckling costume dromo is one of o 

group on the schedule of Americon Pictures Corp., 

headed by Albert Zugsmith, for release through 

company. 

this 

TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY (Jungle Drama). Stars: 

Lex Barker, Dorothy Hort, Tommy Carlton. Producer: 

Sol Lesser. Director: Cyril Endfield. Original: 

Edgar Rice Burroughs. Screenplay: Hans Jocoby, 

Shirley White. 

• Edgar Rice Burroughs' famed jungle hero, Tarzan, 

encounters further odventures in this latest contribution 

to the long-lived series. 

TEMBO (Travelogue). Stars: Howard Hill. Producer- 

Director: Howord Hill. Original Screenplay: Howord 

Hill. 

• Filmed in Africa in Ansco Color, this depicts how 

Howord Hill, on archer, pits his skill against wild 

animals 

THIS MAN IS MINE (Drama). Stars: Susan Hoyword, 

Robert Mitchum, Arthur Hunnicut. Producers: Jerry 

Wold, Normon Krosna. Director: Nicholas Roy. 

Original: David Dortort. Screenplay: Horace McCoy, 

• Adapted from "Cowpoke," o novel by David 

Dortort, this is the story of o modern cowboy who 

becomes o rodeo rider, and of o girl who falls 

in love with him. In Technicolor. 

3,000 A. D. {Fantosy-Dromo), Stars: Robert Clarke, 

Margaret Field, Ron Randell, Producers: Aubrey 

Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen. Director: Stuart Gilmore. 

Original Screenplay: Aubrey Wisberg, Jock Pollexfen. 

• Manhattan has long since been Atomized. Its 

inhabitants, known os Norms, live a primitive, cavelike 

existence. Across the Hudson live the Mutotes, 

descendants of rod io-octi voted victims, whose 

tainted strain finally gets a chance for recovery, 

through love, when o Norm girl motes with the 

Mutote leader. 

TIM HOLT SERIES (Westerns), Stors: Tim Holt, Richard 

Martin, Joan Dixon and others. Producer: Herman 

Schlom, Directors: Lesley Selonder, Stewart 

Gilmore and others. Original Screenplays: Arthur 

Orloff, Adele Buffington and others. 

• Six sogebrushers storring Tim Holt ore on the 

1951-52 slate. Their titles: "Desert Possoge," "Hot 

Lead," "Marshal of the Pecos," "Overland Telegraph," 

"Rood Agent" and "Trail Guide." 

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TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY (Musical) Stars 

Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Eddie Bracken. Producer: 

No credit. Director: James V. Kern. Originol: 

Sammy Cahn. Screenplay: Sid Silvers, Hal 

Konter. 

• Tony Martin, a singer trying to hit the big 

time in New York, falls in love with Janet Leigh, 

small town go aspires to o stage career. 

Through the machinations of Martin's fost-tolking 

agent, Eddie Bracken, they finally manage to score 

a hit on Bob Crosby's television show. Filmed in 

Technicolor. 

THE WHIP HAND (Melodrama), Stars: Corlo Bolendo, 

Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier. Producer: Stanley Rubin 

Director William Cameron Menzies Original: Roy 

Hamilton, Screenplay: Stonley Rubin 

• Elliott Reid, vacationing in a smoll resort community, 

stumbles onto o syndicate of Communist 

agents conducting experiments with germ warfare, 

Reid, with the aid of G-men, foils the plot to overthrow 

the U.S. by means of mon-spreod plagues, and 

the criminals ore captured and imprisoned. 

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BA.L TABARIN (Musical Comedy). Stars: William 

Ching, Muriel Lawrence, Clarie Carlcton. Producer: 

Hermon Millakowsky. Director: Philip Ford. Original 

Screenplay: Houston Branch. 

• When Muriel Lowrence's boss is murdered, and it 

is discovered he is a notorious international fence 

for jewels, stolen Muriel flees to Paris to avoid 

being implicated. She becomes a singer at the 

famed Bol Tabarin and, with the aid of a young 

Americon composer, is finally enabled to clear 

herself. 

THE FABULOUS SENORITA (Comedy With Music). 

Stars: Estelito Rodriguez, Robert Clarke, Leon 

Belasco. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. 

Springsteen. Originol Screenplay: Jack Townley. 

• Estelita Rodriguez, rebelling against the old 

Spanish custom of parents selecting mates for their 

young, helps her sister elope with the young man 

she loves. In the ensuing complications she, too, 

falls in love—with an American college professor 

ond marries him over parental objections. 

GOBS AND GALS (Musical Comedy). Stars: George 

and Bert Bernard, Cathy Downs. Producer: Sidney 

Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay: 

Arthur Herman. 

• Home from a stmt on a Pacific atoll, Navy Lieut. 

Robert Hutton gets mobbed by lovesick women— 

a situation brought about by prankish navy yeomen, 

George and Bert Bernard—which imperils his marriage 

to Cathy Downs. After sundry complications, 

including a hossle with spies, Hutton proves his 

loyalty. 

HONEYCHILE (Western). Stors: Judy Canova, Eddie 

Foy jr., Alan Hale jr. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: 

R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay: 

Charles Roberts, Jack Townley. 

• Judy Canova, a Wyoming ranch girl, writes a 

popular song and submits it to a New York music 

publishing house, then decides she doesn't want 

to sell it after all. Meantime, by mistake, the 

publisher records the number—then has to send 

his representative to Wyoming in an effort to 

persuade Judy to sign over the rights. 

HOODLUM EMPIRE (Drama). Stars: Claire Trevor, 

Forrest Tucker, Brian Donlevy. Producer-Director: 

Joseph Kane. Original: Bob Considine. Screenplay; 

Bob Considine, Bruce Manning. 

• A key witness in congressionol hearings, aimed 

at destroying a notionwide racketeering empire, 

is a nephew of the gong leader, who had been 

groomed to take over his uncle's spot as kingpin 

but rebelled and went stroight. Despite threats 

to rub him out, the nephew comes through with 

vital testimony and is publicly acclaimed. 

THE HOT HEIRESS (Comedy). Stars: Judy Conovo (incomplete). 

Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: Not 

set. Originol Screenplay: Jack Townley. 

• One of a series of features starring Comedienne 

Judy Canovo. 

LADY POSSESSED (Droma). Stars: James Mason, 

June Havoc, Stephen Dunne. Producer: James Mason. 

Directors: William Spier, Roy Kellino. Original: 

Pamela Kellino. Screenplay: Pamela Kellmo, 

Ma Havoc and Stephen Dunne, Amen 

couple, rent the English house of a famous pianist, 

Jomes Mason. In time June acquires the mad 

obsession that she is destmed to replace Mason's 

beloved dead wife. When she learns Mason is 

omusing himself with her affections she tries 

sutcide, is saved by Dunne, and a reconciliation 

IS effected. 

MINNESOTA (Droma). Stars; Ruth Hussey, Rod Cameron, 

Jay C. Flippen. Producer-Director: Joseph 

Kane. Original; Charles Marquis Warren. Screenplay; 

Charles Marquis Warren, Norman Reilly Rome. 

• Historical drama, dealing with the development 

of the Mesabi iron range in Minnesota in 1892. 

OKLAHOMA ANNIE (Comedy With Music). Stars: 

Judy Canova, John Russell. Producer: Sidney Picker. 

Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay: 

Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo. 

• In Trucolor, this is another musical m hillbilly 

vein starring Judy Canova. 

QUEEN OF THE COWGIRLS (Comedy Western). Stars: 

Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers. Producer: 

Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. 

Original: Jack Townley, Charles E. Roberts. Screenplay: 

Jack Towntey. 

• Granddaughter of a famous female sheriff, Judy 

Canova gets riled at the laxity of the law when 

her store robbed, and organizes a women's 

sheriff, John Russell. Her 

sight of his youth and masculinity—arouses 

the committee's wrath, until Russell 

committee 

change of 

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to oust the 

mtnd—at 

proves himself by nailing the bandits. Filmed 

Trucolor. 

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THE QUIET MAN (Drama). Stars: John Wayne, Maureen 

O'Hora, Barry Fitzgerald. Producer-Director: 

John Ford. Original Screenplay: Frank Nugent. 

• John Wayne returns to his native Ireland, trying 

to put behind him the torturing memory of having 

killed a man in the prize ring. But tranquility 

eludes him; he finds himself surrounded by long 

standing, continuing feuds. After a forced fight 

with his sweetheart's brother, Wayne reconciles to 

a life of happy turbulence. 

REX ALLEN SERIES (Westerns). Stars: Rex Allen, Mary 

Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens and others. Producer; Edword 

J. White. Director: William Witney. Original 

Screenplays: Eric Taylor, William Lively, John K. 

Butler and others. 

• Eight sogebrushers starring Rex Allen, the singing 

cowboy, are on the 1951-52 schedule. Their 

titles: "Colorado Sundown," "The Last Musketeer," 

"Song of the Pony Express," "Heart of the Pecos," 

"Old Oklahoma Plains," "Border Saddlemotes," 

"South Pacific Trail" and "The Golden West." 

ROCKY LANE SERIES (Westerns). Stars: Rocky Lane, 

Penny Edwards, Roy Barcroft and others. Producer; 

Horry Keller. Directors; Harry Keller, Fred 

Bronnon and others. Original Screenploys; Richard 

Warmser, M. Coates Webster and others. 

• Rocky Lane is the star of six westerns on the 

1951-52 slate, their titles being "Captive of Billy 

the Kid," "Leadville Gunslmger," "Black Hills 

Ambush," "Bandits' Outpost," "Thundering Caravans, 

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of Jesse James" and "Desert of 

Lost Men." 

SONG OF YOUTH (Dn With Mu Sta 

Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy. Producer- 

Director: Allon Dwan. Original Screenplay: Alon 

LeMay. 

• A biography of Composer Stephen Foster, centered 

around the early days of his career. 

SOUTH OF CALIENTE (Western). Stars: Roy Rogers, 

Dale Evans, Douglas Fowley. Producer: Edward 

J. White. Director: William Witney. Ortginal 

Screenplay: Eric Taylor. 

• Roy Rogers operates a racehorse transportation 

service. When a valuable steed owned by Dale 

Evans is stolen, he pins the crime on Douglas 

Fowley, her ranch foreman, who hoped the loss 

of the horse would force Dole to sell her ronch to 

STORMBOUND (Drama). Stoi Constance Dowling, 

Andrea Checchi, Aldo Si M. Producer: Aldo 

Luigi 

Raciti. Director; Luigi Capuano Original: 

Capuano. Screenplay: Comen Meccoli, Fulvio 

._ -.., Corrado Pavolin . 

• Constance Dowling, an advent 

Amer- 

ire-seeking 

icon journalist, meets an Italia 

Andrea 

Checci, and soon learns—when ( hecchi forces her 

to aid his escape— that he is not a romantic, 

modern Robin Hood, but 

frightening confinement 

Checchi 

is 

I ruthless killer. After o 

...th a family of peasants, 

trapped by the tow. Filmed in Italy. 

STREET BANDITS (Drama). Stars: Penny Edwards, 

Robert Clarke, Ross Ford. Producer: William Lackey. 

Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay: 

Milton Raison. 

• Ignoring the protests of his low partner, Ross 

Ford, Robert Clarke accepts Roy Barcroft as a 

client and gets involved in a mobster setup. When 

fancy fees make Clarke a rich man, he marries 

Penny Edwards. Fed up. Ford joins the D.A.'s 

office. His sense of ethics restored, Clarke aids 

in convicting the mob. 

A WAC FROM WALLA WALLA (Comedy). Stars: Judy 

Canova (incomplete). Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: 

Not set. Original Screenplay: Jock Townley, 

John Butler, Arthur Hormon. 

• In which Judy Canova joins the peacetime army. 

THE WILD BLUE YONDER (Air Drama). Stars: Wendell 

Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker. Producer-Director: 

Allan Dwan. Original: Andrew Geer, 

Charles Grayson. Screenplay: Richord Tregaskis. 

• Wendell Corey is an enthusiastic B-29 pilot, Forrest 

Tucker a competent but flight-shy instructor. 

During the war they take part in the vital bombing 

of Japan. They both fall in love with a 

nurse. Vera Ralston. Following a major mission. 

Tucker, m an heroic try at a crash landing, dies. 

Corey succeeds in winning Vera. 

WOMEN IN THE DARK (Drama). Stars: Penny Edwards, 

Ross Elliott, Rick Vollin. Producer: Stephen 

Auer. Director: George Blair, Original: Nicholas 

Cosentmo- Screenplay; Albert DeMond. 

• With the connivance of a crooked official, Peter 

Brocco arranges the theft of a fabulous jewel collection. 

In a squeeze play, Brocco involves Richard 

Benedict, knowing his elder brother, Rick Vallm, 

lawyer for the insurance company, will hove to 

come across. Richard retrieves the jewels, but is 

killed in doing so. 

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ANNE OF THE INDIES (Pirate Drama). Stars: Jean 

Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget. Producer: 

George Jessel. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Original; 

Herbert Ravenalsass. Screenplay; Philip Dunne 

• Jean Peters portrays Captain Providence, a ruthless, 

cut- throat pirate leader whose name in the 

early 1600s strikes terror from the ports of the 

West Indies to the trading houses of London. A 

protege of Blockbeard, she is ultimately defeated 

by him in a sea battle, and goes down to death 

with her ship. 

BELLES ON THEIR TOES (Comedy). Stars: Jeanne 

Cram, Myrno Loy, Barbara Bates. Producer: Samuel 

G. Engel. Director: Henry Levin. Original: 

Frank ond Ernestine Gilbreth. Screenplay: Not set. 

• A sequel to last season's "Cheaper by the 

Dozen," this relates the further adventures of the 

Gilbreth family after the sudden death of the father. 

Taking over his work as an efficiency engineer, the 

mother, Myrna Loy, manoges to keep the home 

together and steer her brood through their romantic 

and educotionol problems. 

CRY OF THE SWAMP (Drama). Stars: Jean Peters, 

Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith. Producer: Robert 

Jacks. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original 


• While journeying through Georgia's Okefenokee 

swamp, Jeffrey Hunter encounters Walter Brennan, 

who has fled there to escape an unjust murder 

charge, and the latter's daughter, Constance 

Smith, Jeffrey and Constance fall in love and 

the boy is successful in seeing thot Brennan is 

given a fair trial. 

DARLING, I AM GROWING YOUNGER (Romantic Comedy). 

Stars: Cary Gront, Ann Sot hern (incomplete). 

Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Howard Hawks. 

Original: iean Bernard Luc. Screenplay: Bush- 

L. 

Fekete, Mary Helen Fay. 

• A couple hos been ideally married for ten years 

—until o psychiatrist comes between them. From a 

French play. 

DEADLINE—U.S.A. (Drama). Stars: Humphrey Bogort, 

Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter. Producer: Sol C. 

Siegel. Director: Richard Brooks. Original Screenplay: 

Richard Brooks. 

• Humphrey Bogart portrays a crusading newspaperman 

in this story of the Fourth Estate. 

DECISION BEFORE DAWN (Drama). Stars: Richard 

Bosehart, Gary Merrill, Hildegarde Neff. Producer- 

Director; Anatole Litvak. Original; George Howe. 

Screenplay: Peter Viertel. 

• Adapted from the prize-winning novel, "Call It 

Treason," and filmed entirely in Germany, this is 

laid in the winter months of 1945, when U.S.-indoctrinated 

Nazi soldiers were used as members of 

an intelligence team to bring World War 1 a 

speedier end. 

THE DESERT FOX (Biographical Drama). Stars: James 

Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy. Producer: 

Nunnally Johnson. Director: Henry Hathaway. 

Original: Desmond Young. Screenplay; Nunnally 

Johnson. 

• James Mason portrays Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, 

the so-called "Desert Fox," in this biographical 

subject, which traces Rommel's career from the 

North African campaign in World War 11 to his 

death as a forced "suicide" after his name was 

linked with a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf 

Hitler. 

DIPLOMATIC COURIER (Drama). Stars: Tyrone Power, 

Patricio Neol, Stehen McNally. Producer: Casey 

Robinson. Director: Henry Hathaway. Original 

Screenplay: Liam O'Brien, Casey Robinson. 

• Tyrone Power, top diplomatic courier for the 

state department, journeys to Salsburg to pick up 

an important document from a wartime buddy. The 

document proves to be the Soviet timetable for 

World War 111—and Power obtains it, but only after 

the trail leads to murder, romance and intrigue. 

DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (Suspense Drama). Stars: 

Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe (incomplete). 

Producer: Julian Blaustein. Director: Roy Baker. 

Original: Elick Moll. Screenplay: Frank Partos, 

Moll. 

Elick 

• A baby sitter protects her infant charge against 

a demented relative of the child. 

DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING 

PALMS (Comedy). 

Stars: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, David Wayne. 

Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director; Edmund Goulding. 

Original: Edward Hope. Screenplay: Claude 

Binyon. 

• At the end of World War II, Capt. William 

Lundigan is given occupation duty on a South 

is Pacific island, where he oppointed military governor. 

He promptly becomes involved with three 

beautiful gals—the daughter of a missionary, a 

war correspondent and a native princess—but 

event uolly solves his problems. 

DREAM BOAT (Comedy). Stars; Clifton Webb, Ginger 

Rogers, Anne Francis. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. 

Director: George Binyon. Original: John D. Weover. 


• A one-time movie star becomes popular all 

over again when his pictures are revived on tele- 

ELOPEMENT (Romantic Comedy). Stars: William Lundigan, 

Anne Francis, Clifton Webb. Producer: Fred 

Kohlmar. Director: Henry Koster. Original Screenplay: 

Bess Taffel. 

• Clifton Webb, a noted industrial designer with 

career ambitions for his daughter, Anne Francis, is 

furious when he learns she is eloping with a 

psychology professor, William Lundigan. After frantic 

attempts to sidetrack the marriage, he finally 

decides it is the right thing and gives his blessing. 

FIVE FINGERS (Drama). Stars: James Mason, Danielle 

Darrieux, Michael Rennie. Producer: Otto Long. 

Director: Joseph Mankiewicz. Original: L. C. Moyzich. 

Screenplay: Michael Wilson. 

• This is said to be a factual account of "Operation 

Cicero," through which, in 1944, an espionage 

ring operated within the British embassy in Turkey 

and stole hundreds of top secrets, including 

plans for the allied invasion of Normandy, for 

transmission to the German high command. 

FIXED BAYONETS (War Drama). Stars: Richard Basehart, 

Gene Evans, Skip Homeier. Producer: Jules 

Buck. Director; Samuel Fuller. Original Screenplay: 

Samuel Fuller. 

• One Gl platoon in Korea is assigned to fight 

a rear-guard action to protect a battalion whrch 

is being withdrawn. Weathering Red motor-fire and 


machine guns, a tank ottock and on assoult by 

Communist infantry, the platoon suffers many casualties 

and, hardened, toughened ond exhausted, 

safely reaches its own lines. 

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Comedy With Music). 

Stars: Not set. Producer: George Jessel. Director: 

Richard Sale. Original: Anita Loos. Screenplay: 

Mary Loos, Richard Sale. 

• From the best-seller of the 19205 and the recent 

musical stage hit based thereon, this will be 

filmed in Technicolor. 

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (Comedy). Stars: June Haver, 

Dan Dailey, Dennis Day. Producer: Robert Bossier. 

Director: Sole. Richard Original: Louis Bush-Fekete, 

Mary Fay. Screenplay: Isobel Lennort. 

• Dancing and singing star June Haver hos fame, 

fortune, everything—but the widower next door, 

Don Dailey, doting parent of 10-year-old Billy 

Gray. Billy's jealousy and opposition cause June to 

withdraw until, in the hands of a designing moppet, 

Billy is won over to a more tolerant attitude 

toward true love. 

GOLDEN (Historicol GIRL Drama). Stars: Mitzi Gaynor. 

Dole Robertson, Dennis Day. Producer: George 

Jessel. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Original: Albert 

ond Arthur Lewis, Edward Thompson. Screenplay: 

Walter Bullock, Charles O'Neal, Glodys Lehman. 

• Film biography of Lotto Crabtree (portrayed by 

Mitzi Gaynor), the famed entertainer known as 

the "Merry Madcap" during California's gold rush 

days a century ago. She was the first to elevate 

the singing-dancing comedienne to the status of 

legitimate stardom. Filmed in Technicolor. 

I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU (Droma). Stars: Tyrone 

Power, Ann BIyth, Michael Rennie. Producer; Sol 

C. Siegel. Director: Roy Baker. Original: John Balderston. 

Screenplay: Ronald MacDougoll, 

• Tyrone Power, a scientist working in modern 

London, is oble to transport himself back to the 

late 18th century, which he regards as "the age 

it of reason." Finding to be, instead, an era of 

cruelty and prejudice, he manages to bridge back 

to the present through the aid and love of Ann 

. BIyth. 

ISLAND IN THE SKY (Drama). Stars: Richord Widmork 

(incomplete). Producer; Frank Rosenberg. 

Director; Not set. Original; Ernest K. Gann. Screenplay; 

Not set. 

• A trans-Atlantic airplane pilot crashes in the 

northern wilderness but is ultimately rescued. 

JAPANESE WAR BRIDE (Romontic Drama). Stars; 

Don Taylor, Shirley Yomaguchi, Cameron Mitchell. 

Producers: Joseph Bernhord, Anson Bond. Director: 

King Vidor. Original Screenplay: Kotherine Turney, 

Irving Shulmon. 

• On American Gl falls in love with and marries o 

Japanese girl. This deals with their efforts to make 

the morriage a successful one through mutual 

adjustments. 

JOURNEY INTO LIGHT (Drama). Stors: Sterling Hoyden, 

Viveco Lindtors, Thomas Mitchell. Producers: 

Joseph Bernhord, Anson Bond, Director: Stuart 

Hcisler. Original: Anson Bond. Screenploy; Stephanie 

Nordii, Irving Shulmon. 

• Sterling Hoyden, o small-town minister, becomes 

disgusted with the hypocrisy of his flock when his 

commits suicide. alcoholic wife He degenerates into 

bum but is rehabilitated through the 

a Skid Row 

love and faith of Viveca Lindfors, the blind daughter 

of the owner of a slum mission, and returns 

to his colling. 

KANGAROO (Action Drama). Stars: Peter Lowford, 

Maureen O'Hora, Chips Rafferty. Producer: Robert 

Bossier. Director: Lewis Milestone. Original: Martin 

M. Berkeley. Screenplay; Horry Kleiner. 

• First full-length Technicolor subicct to be made 

in Austrolio, this deals with the devastating drought 

of 1900-1903. It IS backgrounded on an Australian 

cattle ronch, whose owner, on a bender, meets two 

gentlemen of fortune who escort him home and plot 

unsuccessfully to steal his daughter and fortune. 

THE LADY IN THE IRON MASK (Costume Drama) 

Stars: Louis Hayward, Patricio Medina, Alan Hole 

jr. Producers: Walter Wonger, Eugene Frenke. Director: 

Ralph Murphy. Original: Aubrey Wisberg, 

Jack Pollexfen. Screenplay; Not set. 

• Twin princesses are born to the King of France 

and after his deoth one is banished and the other 

mode a claimant to the throne. A conspiracy to 

is switch sisters overthrown by D'Artagnon (Louis 

Hoyword) and the Three Musketeers, and the right 

princesss rescued from torture. Filmed in Eastman 

Kodak color. 

LES MISERABLES (Drama). Stars; Michael Rennie, 

James Robertson-Justice, Elsa Lonchester. Producer: 

Fred Kohlmar. Director: Lewis Milestone. 

Original; Victor Hugo, Screenploy: Not set, 

• Adopted from Victor Hugo's classic novel, this 

is the story of o man's desperate effort to shoke 

off pursuit by a relentless, unswerving and cruel 

police officer who adheres to the letter of the law 

and does not take mitigating circumstances into 

consideration. 

LET'S MAKE IT LEGAL (Romantic Comedy). Stors: 

Cloudette Colbert, Mocdonold Carey, Zochory Scott. 

Producer: Robert Bossier. Director; Richard Sole. 

Original: Mortimer Brous, Screenplay: F. Hugh 

Herbert, I. A. L. Diamond. 

• After 20 years of marriage, Cloudette Colbert 

and Mocdonold Corey ore divorcing, but on on 

omiable basis. Into her life pops Zochary Scott, 

who once proposed to her, and who now tries to 

rekindle the old romance. However, Corey puts up 

a vigorous bottle and manages a reconciliation. 

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LOVE NEST (Comedy). Stars: June Hover, William 

Lundigon, Frank Fay. Producer; Jules Buck. Director; 

Joseph Newmon. Original; Scott Corbett. 

Screenplay; I. A. L. Diomond. 

• June Haver buys o ramshackle boarding house 

so her ex-GI husband, William Lundigon, will have 

o ploce to come home to. The venture proves to 

be Q constant scries of headaches, culminating with 

the arrests of Lundigon ond a swindling boorder, 

Frank Fay, but ultimately the situation is straightened 

out satisfactorily. 

LYDIA BAILEY (Historical Droma). Stars; Dole Robertson, 

Anne Francis, Charles Korvin, Producer; 

Jules Schermer. Director; Jean Negulesco. Original; 

Kenneth Roberts. Screenplay: Michael Blankfort, 

Philip Dunne. 

• Adapted from the novel by Kenneth Roberts, 

costs Dole Robertson as a two-fisted adventurer 

this 

in the early 1800s who becomes involved in the 

efforts of Haiti to resist copture by Napoleon and 

aids thot smoll country in smashing Bonoporte's 

ottempted invasion. Filmed in Technicolor. 

MABEL AND ME (Comedy). Stars; Don Dailey (incomplete). 

Producer; Samuel G. Engel. Director: 

Henry Levin. Original; Robert Thoeren. Screenploy; 

Julius ond Philip Epstein. 

• A group of GIs forms o syndicate to purchase 

a rocehorse. 

THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER (Roman 

tic Comedy). Stars: Jeanne Cram, Scott Brady, 

Thelmo Ritter. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director; 

George Cukor. Original; Walter Reisch. Screenplay; 

Walter Reisch, Richard Breen, Charles Brackett. 

• Thelmo 

offices in 

Ritter, 

New York— 

o marriage 

"the loneliest 

broker, 

city 

has 

in 

her 

the 

world." She becomes friendly with Jeanne Cram, 

o lingerie model, and tries to pair her off with 

Scott Brady, one of Thelma's dissatisfied clients. 

It's a tough battle, but finolly Jeanne and Scott 

see the light and fall in love. 

ONE NIGHT STAND (Comedy-Dromo). Stars; Dovid 

Wayne, Gloria DeHoven. Producer: George Jessel. 

Director; Not set. Original; Hunt Stromberg jr. 

Screenploy; George Jessel. 

• Concerns the adventures of o traveling roodshow 

company. 

OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT (Outdoor Droma). Stors: 

Dole Robertson, Anne Baxter, Barbara Botes. Producer: 

Julion Bloustein. Director; Joseph Newman. 

Original: Bret Horte. Screenplay; Edmund North. 

• This is a new version of Bret Horte's classic odventure 

story of California in the gold rush doys 

of 1849. 

PASS THE AMMUNITION (Wor Dromo). Stars; William 

Lundigon (incomplete). Producer; Jules 

Schermer. Director; Not set. Original: Ted Sherdemon. 

Screenplay; Not set. 

• William Lundigon is cost as Fother McGuire, the 

US, novy choplain who during o World War II 

naval battle shouted, "Proise the Lord and pass 

the ammunition," a sentiment that became universally 

famous ond the title for o popular song. 

PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER (Dromo). Stors; 

Bette Dovis, Helen Westcott, Gory Merrill, Shelley 

Winters, Producer; Nunnolly Johnson, Director: 

Jean Negulesco. Original; I. A. R. Wylie. Screenplay: 

Nunnolly Johnson. 

• Believing his wife is faithless, Gary Merrill leaves 

her and boards o plone for Los Angeles on which 

there ore three other possengers, all of whom confide 

their problems to him. The plone crashes; 

Merrill, the only survivor, consoles the fomilies of 

the dead passengers, then decides to give his marriage 

another try. 

THE PINWHEEL MAN (Dromo). Stars: Not set. Producers: 

Joseph Bernhord, Anson Bond. Director; Not 

set. Originol; Anson Bond. Screenploy: Not set. 

• This is o story of the rocket-propelled, onemon 

helicopters which hove been developed by 

the U.S, navy, 

PONY SOLDIER (Historical Western). Stars; Tyrone 

Power. Producer; Somuel G. Engel, Director; Not 

set Originol: Garnett Weston, Screenplay; John 

C. Higgins. 

• This o story of the Royol Conodion Northwest 

Mounted Police during the time of the bottle 

of the Little Big Horn, ond how that low enforcement 

organizotion hondled the Cree Indians 

returning from the mossacre of Gen. George 

Custer. 

THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (Hijtoricol Drama). Stars; 

Not set. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Not 

set. Original; Irving Stone. Screenploy: Leonard 

Fields. 

• From the biogrophicol novel by Irving Stone, 

this is the story of President Andrew Jackson and 

his wife, Rachel. To be filmed in Technicolor. 

THE PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS (Baseball Dromo). Stars; 

Don Doiley, Joanne Dru, Hugh Sanders. Producer: 

Jules Schermer. Director; Harmon Jones. Original 

Screenplay; Richard Murphy. 

• This is o biography of Jerome Herman "Dizzy" 

Dean (portrayed by Don Dailey), who began his 

career os a sondlot showoff in Arkonsas, wos discovered 

by a major league tolent scout, and become 

known, as o St. Louis Cordinol pitcher, os the 

"strike-out king of the Nationol League." 

RED SKIES OF MONTANA (Action Dromo). Stars: 

Richard 

Widmork, Constonce Smith, Joseph Sowyer. Producer; 

Samuel G, Engel. Director; Joseph Newman. 

Original: Art Cohn. Screenploy; Horry Kleiner. 

• This IS o story of the "Smoke Jumpers," the 

parachute corps of the U.S. forest service. A 

porotroop crew chief, Richard Widmork, is suspected 

of cowardice, but in o heovy timberlond fire displays 

courage and heroism and is redeemed in the 

eyes of his men. Filmed in Technicolor. 

RETURN OF THE TEXAN (Western). Stars; Dole 

Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan. Producer; 

Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: Delmer Doves. Original" 

Fred Gipson, Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, 

• Adopted from "The Home Ploce," o novel by 

Fred Gipson, this tells the story of o young Texan 

returning to his form with his motherless boys after 

his beloved wife dies. After hord struggles, physical 

and financial, he ochieves success ond happiness 

and the love of a neighboring form girl. 

ROSE OF CIMARRON (Western). Stars: Jock Buetel, 

Molo Powers, Bill Williams. Producer; Edword L. 

Alperson. Director; Harry Keller. Original Screenplay; 

Not set. 

• This story of the early west was photographed in 

the new Eostmon three-color process. 

SALLY, IRENE AND MARY (Musicol). Stars; June 

Hover, Mitzi Gaynor, Gloria DeHoven. Producer: 

Fred Kohlmar. Director: Not set. Original; Eddie 

Dowling, Cyris Wood. Screenplay: Bess Toffel. 

• Stemming from the Broadway musicol which was 

a hit in the early 1920s, this is a new version of 

the property, which has been filmed twice previously 

—once in 1925 OS a silent, ond agoin as o tunefilm 

in 1938. 

SNOW COVERED WAGONS (Historical Western). Stars: 

Not set. Producer; Edward L. Alperson. Director; 

Not set. Original; Julia Cooley Altrocchi. Screenplay; 

Not set. 

• This sago of the western pioneers is based on 

the ill-foted Donner Forty expedition to California 

during the gold rush days. 

SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (Action Drama). Stars: 

Gregory Peck, Susan Hoyword, Hildegorde Neff. 

F. Producer; Dorryl Zonuck, Director: Henry King. 

Original; Ernest Hemingway. Screenplay; Casey 

Robinson. 

• is the male topliner in this Technicolor 

Gregory Peck 

film version of one of Ernest 

Hemingwoy's 

toles of romance and adventure in Africo. 

THE STEEPER CLIFF (Drama). Stars; Oscor Wefner 

(incomplete). Producer; Frank Rosenberg. Director; 

Anotole Litvak. Original; David Dovidson. Screenplay; 

Harry Kleiner. 

• To be lensed on location in postwar Germony, 

this concerns the establishment of democrotic 

newspapers, under Americon supervision, in that 

country. 

THE STORY OF ESTHER (Biblical Dromo). Stars: Not 

set. Producers: Joseph Bernhord, Anson Bond. Director: 

Not set. Original: Old Testament. Screenplay; 

Frank ond Doris Hursley. 

• This contribution to the cycle of religious films 

utilizes the Old Testament as it plot source and 

will be produced in Technicolor. 

VIVA ZAPATA! (Dromo). Stors: Morion Brondo, Jean 

Peters Anthony Quinn. Producer; Dorryl F. Zonuck. 

Director; Elio Kazan. Original; Edgcumb Pinchon. 

Screenploy; John Steinbeck. 

• A biography of Emiliono Zopoto, the Mexican 

military leoder ond oily of Poncho Villa, who fought 

untiringly to end the tryronnicol 34-year reign of 

the dictator-president, Porfirio Dioz, but ultimately 

was bertayed and ossassinofed. Portroying the 

revolutionary zealot is Morion Brando. 

WAIT TILL THE SUN SHINES, NELLIE (Romantic 

Drama). Stars: Dovid Woyne, Jean Peters, Hugh 

Morlow Producer; George Jessel. Director: Henry 

King. Original; Ferdinond Reyher. Screenploy; 

Allon Scott. 

• A small midwestern town is celebrating its 50th 

anniversary. The town barber, Dovid Wayne, thinks 

bock over the past holf-century, reviewing his 

romance with Jean Peters, who hoted the place; 

how, through the yeors offer she is killed in on 

accident, Wayne successfully brings up his children 

and becomes o happy grondfather. 

THE WAY OF A GAUCHO (Dromo). Stars: Rory Calhoun, 

Gene Tierney, Everett Sloone. Producer; 

Philip Dunne. Director; Jacques Tourneur. Originol; 

Herbert L. Childs, Screenploy; Philip Dunne, 

• This story of Argentina's famed cowboys was 

produced entirely on location in that South American 

country. 

WHAT PRICE GLORY (Wor Droma). Stars: James 

Cogney, Corinne Colvet, Don Dailey. Producer; 

Sol C. Siegel. Director; John Ford. Maxwell 

Original: 

Anderson, Lawrence Stollings. Screenplay: 

Henry and Phoebe Ephron. 

• This is a new version, in Technicolor, of the 

fomed ploy obout World War I, first filmed in 

1926. Don Dailey is Sergeant Quirt, James Cogney 

IS his orch-rivol Goptoin Flogg, and Corinne Colvet 

is the French modemoiselle over whom they carry 

out their fabulous feudin' ond fightin'. 

WITH A SONG IN MY HEART (Biogrophicol Drama). 

Stars: Suson Hayword, Dovid Wayne, Thelmo Ritter, 

Producer: Lomar Trotti, Director; Walter Long. 

Lomor Trotti. 

Original Screenplay; 

• Susan Hoyword portroys Jone Fromon in this 

film biogrophy of the singer who staged o courageous 

comeback offer neor-fotol injuries incurred 

in o plone crash while en route to entertain GIs in 

Europe in World War II. Believed hopelessly paralyzed, 

she learns to walk ogoin and re-estoblishes 

herself os a topflight entertoiner. 

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ACTORS AND SIN (Droma). Stars: Edword G. Robinson, 

Morsha Hunt, Dan O'Herlihy. Producer: Sid 

KuMer. Director: Ben Hecht. Original Screenplay: 

Ben Hecht. 

• In two Interrelated sequences, this story of show 

business is adapted from short stories by Ben 

Hecht, who also directed. 

AFRICAN QUEEN (Droma). Stors: Kothorine Hepburn, 

Humphrey Bogort, Robert Morley. Producer: 

Sam Spiegel (Horizon Pictures). Director: John 

Huston. Original: C. S. Forrester. Screenplay; John 

Collier. 

• From the novel by C. S. Forrester, this is the 

story of a prim missionory (Katharine Hepburn) 

and on earthy, convention-defying od venturer 

(Humphrey Bogart), who are thrown together when, 

aboard the "African Queen," a nverboot in the 

jungles, they successfully escope a native uprising. 

ANOTHER MAN'S POISON (Drama). Stars: Bette 

Davis, Gary Merrill, Emiyn Willioms. Producer: 

Daniel M. Angel. Director: Irving Rapper. Original: 

Leslie Sands. Screenplay: Vol Guest. 

• Bette Davis is forced to allow Gary Merrill to 

impersonate the estranged, blackmailing husband 

she has murdered, and soon unwittingly captivotes 

him. But Bette desires her secretary's fiance. 

When Merrill tries to foil her designs, Bette poisons 

him, later ironically meets her own decrth from the 

same lethal flask. 

THE BIG NIGHT (Melodrama). Stars: John Barrymore 

jr., Joan Lorring, Preston Foster. Producer: 

Philip Waxman. Director: Joseph Losey. Original: 

Stanley Ellin. Screenplay: Stanley Ellin, Joseph 

Losey. 

• John Barrymore jr., just turned 17, is a witness 

when his father is mercilessly beaten by a newspaper 

columnist. Seeking revenge, the lad steals 

a gun, sets out after the lournolist and wounds 

him. The father is picked up by the police as the 

shooting suspect and protects the boy by "confessing." 

CAPTIVE CITY (Drama). Stars; John Forsythe, Joan 

Creers, Harold J. Kennedy. Producer: Theron Worth 

(Aspen Productions), Director: Robert Wise. Original: 

Alvin Josephy jr. Screenplay: Karl Kamb. 

• John Forsythe and his wife, Joon Creers, are 

forced to flee for their lives when Forsythe's newspaper 

uncovers evidence to prove local crime is 

linked to the big time and corrupting leading citizens. 

At a distant town, after eluding the pursuing 

hoodlums, honest authorities enable Forsythe 

tell to his story before the senate crime committee. 

CATTLE QUEEN (Western). Stars: Mario Hart, Droke 

Smith, William Fowcett. Producer: Jock Schwarz. 

Director: Robert Tansey. Original: Robert Emmett. 

Screenplay: Frances Kavonaugh. 

• Morio Hart, feminine cattle baron, aided by 

Drake Smith, successfully battles against the efforts 

of villainous forces to wrest her land end 

wealth away from her. 

CHICAGO CALLING (Drama). Stars: Don Duryea, 

Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert. Producer: Peter 

Berneis. Director: John Remhardt. Original Screenplay: 

Peter Berneis, John Reinhordt. 

• Angered at his drinking, Mary Anderson and 

their daughter leave Dan Duryeo and go to Chicago. 

En route they ore in Qn accident, and Mary 

telegraphs that she will telephone him next day to 

give him the details. Then Dan, broke. Is confronted 

with the problem of raising money to prevent 

hfs phone from being removed. 

AGAINST ALL FLAGS (Maritime Drama). Stars: Errol 

Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn. Producer: 

Howard Christie. Director: George Shermon. Original: 

Aeneas MacKenzie. Screenplay: Aeneas Moc- 

Kenzie. 

• Planned for Technicolor filming, this is locoled in 

Madagascar in the eorly 1 8th century and deals 

with o bond of pirates led by o woman. 

ALL-AMERICAN (Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis. Producer: 

Not set. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: 

Not set. 

• This Tony Curtis starrer has a collegiate football 

background. To be filmed in Technicolor. 

THE BATTLE OF APACHE PASS (Western). Stars: John 

Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: George Sherman. 

Original Screenplay: Gerald Droyson Adams. 

• John Lund is a squore-shooTing cavalry officer 

whose word Is good with the Apaches. His efforts 

to maintain peace with the Indians ore hampered, 

however, by Bruce Cowling, Qr\ unscrupulous mining 

tycoon. Cowling is slam in the subsequent uprising 

and the Apache leaders inform Lund that 

warfare must inevitably continue. 

BEND OF THE RIVER (Outdoor Drama). Stars: James 

Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julia Adams. Producer: 

Aoron Rosenberg. Director: Anthony Mann. Original: 

William Gullck. Screenploy: Borden Chose. 

• James Stewart, a frontiersmen, guides a wagon 

train of mid western farmers into the Snake river 

country of Oregon in the 1850s, where they plan 

to settle. After staving off mutiny and winning 

on all-out battle against gold-htjngry miners, the 

farmers settle down to a peaceful life. Filmed in 

Technicolor. 

Producer-Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Originol: 

Chorles Dickens. Screenplay: Noel Langley. 

• When Scrooge (Alastair Sim), a notorious miser, 

is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob 

Marley (Michael Hordem), he becomes terrorized 

because 

sets about 

of his 

making 

wicked 

amends—by 

ways, feels 

rewarding 

remorse end 

those 

around him, ond depriving Death of Ttny Tim 

(Glyn Dearmon), son of foithful Bob Cratchit 

(Mervyn Johns,) 

ELEPHANT WALK (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: 

Douglas Fairbanks jr. Director: Not set. Original: 

Robert Stondish. Screenplay: D. M. Morshmon jr. 

• To be filmed on location in Ceylon, in Technicolor, 

this drama of life in the Orient is adapted 

from a novel by Robert Stondish. 

FORT DEFIANCE (Western). Stars: Peter Graves, Ben 

Johnson, Dane Clark. Producer: Frank Melford. 

Director; John Rawlins. Original Screenplay: Lou 

Lantz. 

• Ben Johnson, a Civil War veteran, comes west 

on the trail of Done Clark, o deserter, whose 

actions caused the annihilation of Johnson's company. 

Johnson meets Clark's blind brother, Peter 

Graves; they become fast friends, and Clark is slam 

in a battle with another group of gunfighters out 

to kill him. Filmed in Cmecolor. 

GOLD RAIDERS (Western). Stars: George O'Brien, the 

Three Stooges, Sheila Ryan. Producer: Bernard 

Glosser. Director: Edward Bernds. Original Screenplay: 

William Lively, Elwood Ullman. 

• George O'Brien sells an insurance policy to a 

mine owner and promises to protect his shipments. 

However, bandits headed by a saloon keeper learn 

where the gold hos been stored after shipment and 

attempt to hijack it. The plot is foiled by O'Brien 

with the dubious assistance of the Three Stooges. 

THE GREEN GLOVE (Drama). Stars: Glenn Ford, Geroldine 

Brooks, Sir Cednc Hardwtcke. Producer-Direstor: 

Rudolph Mate (Benagoss Productions). Original 

Screenplay: Charles Bennett. 

• This romantic drama wos filmed entirely In 

Europe. 

HARRY SHERMAN SERIES (Westerns). Not set. 

Producer: Horry Sherman. Directors: Not set. 

Originals: W. C. Tuttle and others. Screenplays: 

Not set. 

• Producer Harry Sherman plans a series of sagebrushers, 

the titles of which are "Wherever the 

Grass Grows," "Tall Man From Texas" and "The 

Golden Lody." Also on the docket is a group based 

on the "Hashknife Hartley" stories by W. C. Tuttle. 

Their titles: Valley of Vanishing Herds," "Tumbling 

River Range," "Horseshoe Luck," "The Mystery 

of Red Triangle," "The Big Pay-Off" and 

"Deception Trail." 

HIGH NOON (Western). Stars: Gary Cooper, Koty 

Jurado, Thomas Mitchell. Producer: Stanley Kramer. 

Director: Fred Zinnemonn. Original screenplay: 

Carl Foreman. 

• Gary Cooper, peace officer In a frontier town 

in the 1870s, breoks up a gang and sends its 

leader to prison, then plans to retire. Comes word 

that the outlaw has been pardoned and is en 

route back for vengeance. In o foray on the 

deserted street Cooper slays the gunflghter, then 

leaves town with his bride. 

I WANT TO BE LOVED (Romantic Comedy). Stars: 

Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson. 

Producer: Benedict Bogeaus. Director: Peter Godfrey. 

Original Screenplay: George Bricker, Francis 

Swonn, Leo Townsend. 

• This story of a romantic triangle was lensed 

entirely on location in Mexico. 

BRONC BUSTER (Western). Stars: John Lund, Scott 

Brady, Joyce Holden. Producer: Ted Richmond. Director: 

Budd Boetticher. Original: Peter B. Kyne. 

Screenplay: Horace McCoy. 

• John Lund is a popular world's champion cowboy 

who sees great possibilities In cocky newcomer 

Scott Brady. Brady becomes o showoff, resorts 

to unethical practices, and even steals Lund's girl, 

Joyce Holden. He comes to his senses offer a wild 

contest on a Brahma bull and wins Lund's forgiveness. 


CAVE OF OUTLAWS (Western). Stars: Macdonald 

Corey, Alexis Smith, Victor Jory. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Williom Castle. Original 

Screenplay: Elizabeth Wilson. 

• After serving time for a payroll robbery Macdonald 

Carey tries to locate the loot hidden by confederotes 

in a cove. Meanwhile he buys a newspaper 

edited by Alexis Smith, whose husband has 

disoppeored. In time Corey uncovers the gold, 

which Victor Jory is also seeking, ond unmasks 

Jory OS the murderer of Alexis' husband. Filmed 

in 

Technicolor. 

THE CIMARRON KID (Western). Stars: Audie Murphy, 

Beverly Tyler, James Best. Producer: Ted Richmond. 

Director: Budd Boetticher. Original Screenplay: 

Louis Stevens. 

• Audie Murphy is jailed for Riding the notorious 

Dalton gong and upon release loins the mob. When 

he falls in love with Beverly Tyler he agrees to 

pull one lost job and go straight. In hot pursuit 

of the gang, an unscrupulous detective, David 

Wolfe, eventually shoots Murphy in the back. 


THE CITY AND JASON EDWARDS (Drama). Stars: 

Not set. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director: 

Not set. OrlgirTol Screenplay: Irving Shulman, Max 

Lief. 

• An aged recluse finds an underground home 

for himself in the New York subway. 

THE LADY SAYS NO (Romantic Comedy). Stars: Joan 

Coulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice. 

Producers: Frank Ross, John Stillmon jr. Director; 

Frank Ross. Original Screenplay: Robert Russell. 

• Joan Caulf leld writes a book which criticizes 

men and urges her sex to resist them. Her attitude, 

it develops, stems from a youthful association with 

on incompatible aunt and uncle, and when her 

relatives are reunited Joan casts off her inhibitions 

ond falls m love with David Niven, a picture-magazine 

photographer. 

LIMELIGHT (Drama With Music). Stars: Charles Chaplin, 

Clare Bloom, Charles Chaplin jr. Producer- 

Chaplin. Original Screenplay: 

• This IS Charles Chaplin's first picture-making 

effort since "Monsieur Verdoux" and has a bailer 

background, telling the story of a dancer who 

rises to fame in that field. 

THE LOUDEST LAUGH OF ALL (Romantic Comedy). 

Stars: John Payne (incomplete). Producer; Aubrey 

Schenck. Director: Not set. Original: Harold 

Greene, Burt Kelley. Screenplay; Not set. 

• This IS the initialer In a series of six pictures 

to be produced for UA release by Associoted Artists 

and Producers, headed by Sol Lesser, Edward Small 

ond Sam Briskin. 

MIRACLE FROM MARS (Interplanetary Drama). Stars: 

Andrea King, Bigelow Savre, Peter Graves (incomplete). 

Producers: Donald Hyde, Anthony Veiller. 

Director: Harry Horner. Original: John L. Bolderston, 

John H. Hoore. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller. 

• A scientist succeeds in moking radio contact 

with the planet Mars and causes o world upheaval. 

THE RIVER (Droma). Stars: Arthur Shields, Nora 

Swinburne, Thomas E. Breen. Producer; Kenneth 

McEldowney. Director: Jeon Renoir. Original: 

Rumer Godden. Screenplay: Rumer Godden, Jean 

Renoir. 

• Mode in India, this is the story of a British 

family in Bengal, being visited by Thomas E. Brcen, 

an American who lost a leg m World War II. He 

becomes Involved in romantic co/npllcotions with 

two teenaged girls in the family and finally falls 

in love with a beautiful half-caste. Filmed in Technicolor. 

THE THIEF (Suspense Droma). Stars: not set. Producer: 

Horry Popkin (Clarence Greene, Russell 

Rouse). Director: Russell Rouse. Original Screenplay: 

Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse. 

• This suspense adventure will be turned out by 

the same production organization which supplied 

"The Well" for distribution by this company during 

1951. 

TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS (Drama). Stars: John 

Howard Dovies, Robert Newton, James Hayter. Producer: 

Brian Desmond-Hurst. Director; Gordon 

Parry. Original: Thomas Hughes. Screenplay: Noel 

Langley. 

• Filmed in England, this is a new version of the 

novel by Thomas Hughes about life at the British 

school, Rugby, a century or more ago. The story 

attacks the public school system of thot time but 

points up the efforts of zealous educators to bring 

about needed reforms. 

THE WELL (Drama). Stars: Richard Rober, Barry 

Kelly, Christine Larson. Producer: Harry Popkin. 

Directors: Leo Popkin, Russell Rouse. Original 

Screenplay: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene. 

• A Negro child falls into an obandoned well and, 

learning she Is missing, it is rumored she has been 

kidnapped by a white man. Mob violence ond race 

riots threaten but, when she is located, these feelings 

are dispersed in a united and successful effort 

by whites and Negroes to rescue her. 

THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK (Western). Stars: Faith 

Domergue, Audie Murphy, Stephen McNolly. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Don Siegel. 

• Audie Murphy, a fast-shooting young westerner, 

saves a marshal's life and avenges the murder of 

his father. Filmed Technicolor. 

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FINDERS KEEPERS (Comedy). Stars: Tom Ewell, Julia 

Adams, Evelyn Varden. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. 

Director: Frederick de Cordova. Original 

Screenplay: Richard H. Morris. 

• Smollfry Dusty Henley finds a coche of bills 

which his grandma, Evelyn Varden, is all for keeping. 

But his mother, Julia Adams, threatens to 

leave his father, Tom Ewell, a parolee, unless the 

money is handed over to the police. Grandma, 

captured by the robbers, changes her tune, and 

Dusty, a la Hopalong Cassidy, comes to her rescue. 

FLAME OF ARABY (Adventure Drama). Stars: Maureen 

O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, Richard Egon. Producer; 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Charles Lamont. 

Original Screenplay: Gerald Droyson Adams. 

• Jeff Chandler, son of on Arabian shetk, end 

Maureen O'Hara, o princess, fall in love. Her 

cousin, Maxwell Reed, hoping to gain the kingdom, 

poisons her father, then tries to marry Maureen 

off to either of two villains, Lon Choney or Buddy 

Boer, Chandler, however, wins a horse race to 

determine the winner of her hond. Filmed In Technicolor. 

FRANCIS, RACKET BUSTER (Comedy). Stors; 

Donald O'Connor, Nancy Guild, Yvette Dugay. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director; Arthur Lubin. 

Original Screenplay; Oscar Brodney. 

• Receiving "scoops" from police horses, Francis, 

the "talking mule," passes them on to Donald 

O'Connor, who becomes a sensational reporter. 

When rivol newsman Larry Gates frames Donald 

for murder, Francis, irked by O'Connor's neglect 


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of Yvette Dugay for scheming Nancy Guild, lets 

him stew, but finally takes the witness stand 

to clear hJm. 

THE GOLDEN HORDE (Costume Drama). Stars: Ann 

BIyth, David Farrar, George Macrcady. Producers: 

Howard Christie, Robert Arthur. Director: George 

Sherman. Original: Harold Lamb, Screenplay: Gerald 

Drayson Adams. 

• In 1220 Genghis Khan and his hordes sweep 

westward across Asia to capture Samarkand, gateway 

to Persia, They meet opposition from the 

city's princess, Ann BIyth, and a group of English 

crusaders, led by David Farrar. Through strategy 

and hand-to-hand combat the invaders are 

repulsed. Filmed in Technicolor. 

THE GREAT COMPANIONS (Drama). Stars: Dan 

J. Dailey (incomplete). Producer: Albert Cohen. 

Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: Gene Markey. 

Screenplay: Martin Berkeley. 

• A medicine man befriends an orphan boy in 

Michigan in 1904. 

THE HAIR-TRIGGER KID (Historical Western). Stars: 

Audie Murphy (incomplete). Producer: Albert J. 

Cohn. Director: Not set. Original: Mox Brand. 

Screenplay: Louis Stevens. 

• A story of Texas just after the Civil War, this 

Is slated for photography in Technicolor. 

HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL? (Comedy) Stars: 

Charles Coburn, Piper Lourie, Gigi Perreau. Producer: 

Ted Richmond. Director; Douglas Sirk. 

Original Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman. 

• Multimillionaire Charles Coburn wills the bulk 

of his fortune to family in on obscure Vermont 

a 

village, then— posing as a starving artist—goes to 

live with them to view the effects of this sudden 

wealth. Coburn gets them out of one scrape after 

another before they come to their senses. Filmed 

in Technicolor. 

HEAR NO EVIL (Drama). Stars: Tony Curtis, Jan 

Sterling, Mono Freeman. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. 

Director: Joseph Pevney. Original Screenplay: 

Bernard Gordon. 

• Tony Curtis, although deaf and dumb, is a 

natural welterweight boxer. Under the guidance 

of Wallace Ford he moves toward the championship, 

and Mono Freeman, a magazine writer, orronges 

for an operation to restore his hearing. 

Tony goes on to win the championship and ditches 

gold-digging Jon Sterling for Mono. 

HERE COME THE NELSONS (Comedy-Drama). Stars: 

Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Rock Hudson. Producer: 

Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Frederick de 

Cordova Original Screenplay: Ozzie Nelson, Don 

Bill Nelson, Dovenport. 

• When Barbara Lawrence visits Ozzie and Harriet 

Nelson she has not quite gotten over a 

schoolgirl crush on Ozzie, much to Hornet's 

chagrin. Rock Hudson moves in, causing Ozzie such 

discomfiture he neglects his job, and the children, 

David and Rickey, get Involved with gangsters; 

but peace and prosperity eventually come back to 

the household. 

IT GROWS ON TREES (Comedy). Stars: Irene Dunne, 

Dean Jogger. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. Director: 

Arthur Lubin. Original Screenploy: Leonord 

Praskins, Barney Slater. 

• In which Irene Dunne portrays a mystified 

housewife whose two garden trees begin to produce 

crops of $5 and $10 bills. 

THE LADY FROM TEXAS (Comedy-Drama). Stars: 

Josephine Hull, Howord Duff, Mono Freeman. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Joseph Pevney. 

Original: Harold Shumate. Screenplay: Gerald 

Drayson Adams, Connie Lee Bennett. 

• Howard Duff, a carefree cowboy, gives up his 

rooming ways to help an eccentric old lady, Josephine 

Hull, who owns a rundown ranch. In an 

effort to seize her property, the villains try to 

have her declared insane, but Duff and Mono 

Freeman thwart the plot. Filmed in Technicolor. 

THE LADY PAYS OFF (Comedy Drama). Stars: Linda 

Darnell, Stephen McNally, Gigi Perreau. Producer: 

Albert J. Cohen. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original 

Screenplay: Albert J. Cohen, Frank Gill jr. 

• Linda Darnell, a school teacher hailed as America's 

ideal "mother away from home," innocently 

becomes involved with a Reno gambling casino, 

loses $7,000 and has to earn the money by trying 

to rehabilitate the gombler's unhappy and mot+ierless 

little daughter. 

LOST IN ALASKA (Comedy). Stars 

Costelki, Mitzi Green. Producer 

Director: Jean Yarbrough. Or 

Leonard Stern, Martin Rogawoy. 

Bud Abbott, Lou 

Howard Christie. 

inal Screenplay: 

• A comedy of Alaska during the gold rush days, 

with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cast as prospectors 

and Denise Darcel as a saloon entertainer. 

MA AND PA KETTLE AT THE FAIR (Comedy). Stars: 

Marjone Mam, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Charles Barton. 

Original Screenplay: Not set. 

• Their daughter wants to go to college, so Ma 

Kettle (Mar)orie Main) enters a cooking contest at 

the county fair, hoping to bag the prize money. 

At the same time Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) 

acquires a broken-down trotting horse. After many 

complications they are successful in acquiring the 

necessary funds. 

MA AND PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI (Comedy). Stars 

Marjone Mom, Percy Kilbride (incomplete). Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Lee Sholem. 

• In which the Kettles continue their travels with 

a junket to the land of the ukulele and grass skirt. 

MA AND PA KETTLE GO TO PARIS (Comedy). Stars: 

Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Charles Lament. 

Original Screenplay; Jack Henley, Elwood Ullmon. 

• Gifted with plane tickets to Pons, Ma and Pa 

Kettle (Marjone Mam ond Percy Kilbride) run 

afoul of an international spy ring when Po attempts 

to deliver some important papers which a passenger 

aboard the plane gave him to hold for him. 

With the aid of Ma and the secret service the 

spies are captured. 

MEET DANNY WILSON {Drama With Music). Stars: 

Fronk Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol. Producer; 

Leonard Goldstein. Director; Joseph Pevney. 

Original Screenplay: Don McGuire. 

• Under the guidance of Alex Nicol, his accompanist 

and manager, Frank Sinatra skyrockets to 

fame as a night club, radio and screen star. His 

headstrong ways involve Sinatra with gangsters, but 

he finally comes to his senses after Nicol is seriously 

wounded by a gang leader. 

MY TRUE LOVE (Romantic comedy). Stars: Tony 

Curtis, Piper Laurie (incomplete). Producer: Ted 

Richmond. Director: Douglas Sirk. Original: Darwin 

Teilhet. Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman. 

• Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie elope to L»s 

Vegas, over the objections of Piper's mother, but 

complications set in when Tony has to leave for 

Korea with his army unit. 

THE RAGING TIDE (Droma). Stars: Richord Conte, 

Shelley Winters, Stephen McNally. Producer: Aaron 

Rosenberg. Director: George Sherman. Original; 

Ernest K. Gonn. Screenplay; Ernest K. Gann. 

• Richard Conte murders a competitive racketeer 

and escapes to sea in Charles Bickford's fishing 

boot. A detective, Stephen McNally, is on his 

trail, and Conte entrusts Bickford's son, Alex Ntcol, 

with his money matters and his girl. Nicol doublecrosses 

Conte, who has become a changed man ond 

gives his life to rescue Nicol from death. 

RED BALL EXPRESS (War Drama). Stars: Jeff Chandler, 

Susan Cabot, Alex Nicol. Producer; Aaron 

Rosenberg. Director: Bud Boetticher. Origmol: Marcel 

Klouber, Bill Grady jr. Screenplay; Richard 

Tregaskis, John Hayes. 

• This glorifies the motor transport corps, which 

drove huge, highly-explosive gasoline and oil trucks 

during the Normandy invasion in World War II and 

helped spark General Patton's drive into Germany. 

SCARLET ANGEL (Costume Drama). Stars: Yvonne 

DeCarlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning. Producer: 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Sidney Salkow. 

Original Screenplay; Oscar Brooney. 

• At the close of the Civil War, Yvonne DeCarlo, 

a saloon girl on the lam from the law, meets Rock 

Hudson, a merchant ship captain, and assumes 

the identity of a dead war widow to escape pursuit. 

She becomes involved with the widow's infant 

son and wealthy parents, but abandons the masquerode 

to marry Rock. 

THE SECRET OF SALLY O'MALLEY (Droma Stars; 

Ann BIyth, (incomplete). Producer: Leonard Goldstein. 

Director; Rudolph Mate. Original Screenplay: 

James O'Honlon. 

• This story of faith and devotion has o religious 

motif. 

SON OF ALI BABA (Costume Drama). Stars: Tony 

Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot. Producer: Leonard 

Goldstein. Director: Kurt Neumann. Original: 

Ed Earl Repp. Screenploy; Gerald Droyson Adams. 

• Victor Jory kidnaps and imprisons Piper Laurie 

and her mother, Katherlne Warren. Seeing a means 

of appropriating the wealth of Ali Boba (Morris 

Ankrum) he puts the blame on him. But the bold 

strategy of Tony Curtis, All's son, rescues the victims 

and paves the woy for romance. Filmed in 

Technicolor. 

STEEL TOWN (Romontic Drama). Stars: John Lund, 

Ann Sheridan, Howard Duff. Producer; Leonard 

Goldstein. Director: George Sherman. Original: 

Gerald Drayson Adams. Screenplay: Lou Breslow. 

• Cocky John Lund, heir to the steel corporation 

owned by his uncle, decides to learn the business 

from the ground up. In doing so he incurs the 

enmity of Howard Duff, a steelworker in love with 

Ann Sheridon; wins Ann's love, and eventually 

proves himself to be a right guy. Filmed in Tech- 

THE STRANGE DOOR (Costume Drama). Stars: Charles 

Laughton, Boris Korloff, Sally Forrest. Producer; 

Ted Richmond. Director: Joseph Pevney. Original: 

Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay: Jerry Sockheim. 

• For having married the woman desired by crozed 

Charles Laughton, Paul Cavanagh, his brother, is 

imprisoned. Twenty years later Laughton tries to 

marry Cavoncgh's daughter, Sally Forrest, to Ri 

ard Stapley, a supposedly drunken I Whe 

the two fall in love Loughton imprisons them olso, 

and is finally killed by Boris Korloff, a half-witted 

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THE TREASURE OF LOST CANYON (Drama). Stars: 

William Powell, Julia Adams, Rosemary DeCamp. 

Producer; Leonard Goldstein Director; Ted Tetzlaff. 

Story: Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay; 

Brainerd Duffield, Emerson Crocker. 

• Done out of a fortune by Henry Hull, Tommy 

Ivo, at the age of 10. finds refuge with William 

Powell and his kindly wife, Rosemary DeComp. 

But Hull catches up with him and has him sent 

owoy. Tommy turns up again in time to pull Powell 

out of a hole, and becomes a permanent member 

of the household. Filmed in Technicolor. 

UNTAMED (Western). Stors: Joseph Gotten, Shelley 

Winters, Scott Brady. Producer: Leonard Goldstein. 

Director: Hugo Fregonese. Original: Houston 

Bronch, Eugenia Night. Screenplay; Not set. 

• This Technicolor western concerns two powerful 

individuolists who clash in a struggle for control of 

vast ching 

WEEKEND WITH FATHER (Comedy). Stars: Von 

Heflin, Patricia Neol, Gigi Perreau. Producer: Ted 

Richmond. Director; Douglas Sirk. Original: James 

Edward Grant, Thomas Russell. Screenplay: Joseph 

Hoffman. 

• Patricio Neol, a widow, and Van Heflin, o 

widower, visit o summer camp to reconcile their 

respective offspring to their proposed marriage. 

Both sets of children have individualist ideas about 

selecting adopted parents, but after a series of complications 

and fiascos the moppets permit their 

parents to do their own choosing. 

THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (Costume Drama). Stars: 

Gregory Peck, Ann BIyth, Anthony Quinn. Producer: 

Aaron Rosenberg. Director; Raoul Wolsh. 

Onginol: Rex Beach. Screenplay: Borden Chose. 

• In the 1850s, Gregory Peck, owner of a sealing 

boot, tolls love with Ann BIyth, Russian 

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noblewoman fleeing a prince whom she cfoes not 

wont to marry. Peck and his crew are captured 

by the Russians, but escape in time to rescue Ann 

from a wedding to the prince. Filmed in Technicolor. 

YOU NEVER CAN TELL (Comedy Fantasy). Stars: 

Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake. Producer; 

Leonard Goldstein. Director: Lou Breslow. Original: 

Lou Breslow. Screenplay: Lou Breslow, David Chondle 

• King, a German shepherd dog, inherit: 

tune and Peggy Dow is named his 

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caretaker, 

Charles Drake secretly poisons King in ord( 

gain control of the fortune, but the dog 

back to eorth— in the form of a human detective, 

Dick Powell—and exposes Drake's criminal machinations. 

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ABOUT FACE (Musical Comedy). Stars: Eddie Bi 

Gordon MocRoe, Aileen Stanley. Producer: \ 

Jacobs. Director; Roy Del Ruth. Original: 

Monks jr., Fred FInklehoffe. Screenplay; 

Milne. 

• In violation of the rules, Eddie Bracken, c 

of Southern Military Institute, morriec 

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dazed to learn he's soon to be a father. His 

mates roily around to keep the secret frorr 

ing out; ofter numerous intrigues and thrt 

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ALEXANDER, THE BIG LEAGUER (Sports Dromo). 

Stars: Dons Day, Ronald Reogon, Frank Lovejoy. 

Producer: Bryon Foy. Director: Not set. Originol: 

Seelig Lester, Merwin Gerard. Screenplay; Not set. 

• A biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander, one 

of baseball's pitching immortals. 

APRIL IN PARIS (Musical Comedy). Stars: Doris Day 

(incomplete). Producers: William Jocobs, Sammy 

Cohn. Director: Dovid Butler. Original: Norman 

ICrosna. Screenplay; Williom S. Roberts, Mel Shorelson, 

Jock Rose. 

• A new version of "Princess O'Rourke," the romontic 

comedy filmed severol seasons ago by this 

compony. 

THE BIG TREES (Outdoor Droma). Stars: Kirk Douglas, 

Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan. Producer; 

Louis F, Edelmon. Director; Felix Feist. Original 

Screenplay: James Webb. 

• In the early 1900s Kirk Douglas, an unscrupulous 

logging operator, covets rich redwood timberlands 

in northern Colifornia, but his plans to steal 

the lond from settlers go owry when he learns to 

respect them for their industry and religious beliefs. 


BLOWING WILD (Drama). Stars; Not set. Producer; 

Milton Sperling (United States Pictures). Director: 

Not set. Original: John Twist. Screenplay: James 

Edword Grant. 

• Action drama with an oil fields background. 

BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON (Historical Western) 

Stars: Roy Milland, Helena Carter, Forrest Tucker. 

Producer; William Cogney. Director: Roy Rowland, 

Original: Ernest Hoycox. Screenploy: Horry Brown. 

• Here is another film version of the battle of 

the Little Big Horn, with Ray Millond cost as a 

covolry sergeant who, although not with Custer's 

Is forces. an eye-witness to the massacre. Milland 

enlists \n a successful effort to clear his name of 

o wrongful charge. Filmed in Technicolor. 

CARSON CITY (Historical Western). Stors: Randolph 

Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Mossey. Producer: 

David Weisbort. Director: Andre de Toth. 

Original Screenplay: Sloan Nibtey, Winston Miller. 

• Randolph Scott is hired by a Son Froncisco 

banker to construct a railroad to handle gold and 

silver shipments from the Comstock Lode because 

of frequent stagecoach robberies. Scott succeeds 

after overcoming bitter opposition by the holdup 

gong, headed by Raymond Massey, supposedly respectable 

mine owner. 

CLOSE TO MY HEART (Drama). Stars: Gene Tierney. 

Ray Milland, Foy Bainter. Producer: William Jacobs. 

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Director: William Kerghley. Original: James Webb, 

Screenptoy: Frank Davis. 

• Unable to have a baby of her own, Gene Tirney 

decides to adopt a foundling, but her husband, Ray 

Mrlland, is dubious about the baby's heritage. He 

discovers the child's mother is dead and the father 

is a crtminol about to be executed. Convinced there 

Is no inherent weakness in the child, he orronges 

for the adoption to go through. 

COME FILL THE CUP (Drama). Stars: James Cagney, 

Phyllis Thoxter, Gig Young. Producer: Henry Blonke. 

Director: Gordon Douglas. Original: Harlon Wore. 

Screenplay: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts. 

• Newspaperman James Cagney, a rehabilitated 

alcoholic, is given the assignment of trying to 

straighten out his publisher's nephew. Gig Young, 

a drunk who is married to Cagney's former girl 

friend. Cagney successfully accomplishes the mission 

and reunites Young with his wife, who has 

left him in disgust. 

THE CRIMSON PIRATE (Costume Drama). Stars: Burt 

Lancaster, Torin Thotcher, Nick Cravat. Producer: 

Harold Hecht (Norma Productions). Director: Robert 

Siodmak. Original Screenplay: Not set. 

• Burt Lancaster stars as a swashbuckling bucconeer 

in this Technicolor subject, filmed on location 

in Italy and England. 

DISTANT DRUMS (Historical Drama). Stars: Gary 

Cooper, Man Aldon, Richard Webb. Producer: 

Milton Sperling. Director: Raoul Walsh. Original: 

Dan Totheroh. Screenplay: Martin Rockin, Niven 

Busch. 

• The Seminole Indian war in Florida has been 

raging for seven years when, in 1 840, a daring 

operation to end the conflict is initiated. Gary 

Cooper, deadly swamp fighter, and o picked crew 

lead the redskins into a trop where they are coptured 

by an army brigade. Filmed in Technicolor. 

FOUR CHAPLAINS (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: 

Louis F. Edelmon. Director: Gordon Douglas. Original: 

Daniel Poling, Screenploy: Seymour Gomberg. 

• Concerns four heroic navy chaplains who gave 

their lives in the South Pacific in World War II. 

GETTING MOTHER MARRIED (Comedy). Stars: Not 

set. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Not set. 

Original: Mildred S. Topp. Screenplay: Devery 

Freeman, Robert Riley Crutcher. 

• Concerns the experience of o woman photographer 

in o small southern town early in the 

century. 

THE GRACE MOORE STORY (Dromo With Music). 

Stars; Not set. Producer:: Henry Blanke. Director: 

Not set. Original Screenplay: John Monks jr. 

• A biography of the singing star, from her childhood 

in Tennessee to success in night clubs, musical 

comedy, motion pictures and the Metropolitan 

Opera. 

THE HELEN MORGAN STORY (Drama With Music). 

Doris Doy (incomplete). Producer: Robert 

Stars: 

Arthur. Director; Not set. Original Screenplay; 

Dean Reisner, Lou Breslow. 

• A biography of the noted torch singer and 

cabaret entertainer. 

HERE COME THE GIRLS (Comedy With Music). Stars: 

Not set. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: H. 

Bruce Humberstone Original Screenplay: Francis 

Swonn, Leonard Proskins. 

• Two actresses entertain GIs in the Philippines 

after World War II. 

I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Musical). Stars: Doris 

Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy. Producer: 

Louis F. Edelman. Director: Michael Curtiz, Original 


• This costs Danny Thomas as Gus Kohn in o 

film biography of the songwriter. He marries Dons 

Day, employed by a music publishing firm, who 

guides him to success m his field. The market crash 

of 1929 wipes him out, but with Doris to give 

him courage and inspirotion he again hits his 

stride in Hollywood. 

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (Comedy Fantasy). Stars: 

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer. Producer: 

Alex Gottlieb. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Original: 

Fairy tale. Screenplay: Not set. 

• This fantasy in Supercinecolor casts Lou Costello 

as "Jack" of the Mother Goose tale. 

THE JAZZ SINGER (Drama With Music). Stars: Danny 

Thomos (incomplete). Producer: Louis F. Edelman. 

Director: Michael Curtiz. Original Screenplay: Lewis 

Meltzer. 

• This IS a new version of the film which, in 1927, 

starred the late Al Jolson and demonstrated the 

commercial practicability of talking pictures. 

THE LION AND THE HORSE (Outdoor Drama) Stars: 

Steve Cochran, Ray Teal, Bob Steele. Producer: 

Bryan Foy Director: Louis King. Onginol Screenplay: 

Crane Wilbur, 

• Steve Cochran captures a mognificent wild stallion 

rodeos. Subsequently 

which IS later sold for use in 

Cochran regains of possession the ani- 

mal, breaks it and uses it in ranch work. An 

escaped circus the community, lion terrorizes but 

in a fierce battle the stallion kills it. Filmed in 

color 

A LION IS IN THE STREETS (Drama). Stars: James 

Cagney (incomplete). Producer: William Cagney. 

Director: Not set. Original: Adria Locke Langley. 

Screenplay: Chories Bennett 

• A one-time peddler rises to the position of 

governor of the mythical state of Magnolia through 

the use of slogans ond tricks. His wife, like others, 

IS fascinated by his rise but not forever blind 

to the faults which eventually result in his downfall. 

MAN WITH A GUN (Costume Drama), Stars; Randolph 

Scott, Patrice Wymore, Philip Carey. Producer: 

Robert Sisk. Director: Felix Feist. Original: 

Robert Buckner. Screenplay: John Twist, 

e This historical drama has early-day Los Angeles 

its OS background. 

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MARA MARU (Drama). Stars: Errol Flynn, Ruth 

Roman, Poul Picerni. Producer: David Weisbart. 

Director: Gordon Douglas, Original: Philip Yordan, 

Sidney Harmon, Hollister Noble. Screenplay: Ivan 

Goff, Ben Roberts, Richard Nash. 

• With a Philippine Islands background, this concerns 

the adventures of a group of men who endeavor 

to recover o treasure lost at sea aboard 

a PT boat which was sunk while attempting to 

escape that area during World War 

THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA (Religious 

Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Bryan Foy. 

Director: Jonn Brohm, Original Screenplay: Crane 

Wilbur, James O'Honlon. 

• Based on miracles reported in the villoge of 

Fat i Portugal, where in 1917 three shepherd 

children claimed the Virgin Mary appeared before 

them and prophesied the coming of World War II 

and the spread of Communism. A surviving child, 

now a cloistered nun, wrote down a third prophecy 

which IS not to be disclosed until I960. 

MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND (Musical) Stars Jo 

Stafford, Dennis Morgan. Producer: Howard Welsch 

(Fidelity Pictures), Director: Not set Original: 

Alan Campbell, Hunt Stromberg jr. Screenplay: 

Dorothy Parker, Jerome Chodorov, 

• This tunef Mm, one of a multiple-picture commitment 

between Fidelity Pictures and this company, 

will be lensed In Technicolor. It stars Jo 

Stafford, radio and resordlng vocalist. 

PAWNEE BILL (Historical Western). Stars: Not set 

Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Not set. Original 

Screenplay: John Twist. 

• In Technicolor, this highlights the coreer of 

Pownee Bill, the Indion fighter and scout, who was 

born Gordon Lillie in Illinois, 

RETREAT, HELL! (Drama). Stars: Fronk Love|oy, Anita 

Louise, Richard Corlson. Producer: Milton Sperling 

(United States Pictures), Director: Joseph Lewis 

Original Screenplay: Martin Rackin, Ted Sherdeman. 

• A story of the Korean war, this deals principally 

with the heroic First Marine Division and 

Its bitterly-fought retreat from the Chongjin reservoir, 

during which the division commander declared: 

"Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another 

direction " 

ROOM FOR ONE MORE (Drama). Stars: Cory Grant, 

Betsy Droke, Ins Mann, Producer: Henry Blanke. 

Director: Norman Taurog, Original: Anna Perrott 

Rose. Screenplay: Mel Shavelson, Jock Rose. 

• Already the parents of three healthy, uninhibited 

youngsters, Cory Grant and Betsy Drake adopt another 

girl and o crippled boy, although over Grant's 

protests But the realization that he has a family 

that loves ond honors him convinces Grant 1hat 

the idea is worthwhile, even though it ties him down, 

THE SAN FRANCISCO STORY (Drama). Stars: Joel 

McCrea, Yvonne DeCarlo, Sidney Blackmer. Producer: 

Howard Welsch (Fidelity Pictures). Director: 

Robert Porrish Original Richord Summers. Screenplay: 

Harold Shumate. 

• A tale of Son Francisco ot the turn of the 

THE SEA CHASE (Action Dramo) Stars: John Wayne 

(incomplete). Producer; Robert Arthur. Director: Not 

set. Original: Andrew Geer. Screenplay: Jomes 

Warner Bellah. 

• This maritime odventure drama, to star 

Wayne, is from a novel by Andrew Geer. 

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SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE 

(Musical Comedy). Stors: Virginia Moyo, Ronald 

Reogon, Gene Nelson. Producer: Louis F. Edelman, 

Director: Bruce Humberstone. Original: Irving Wallace. 

Screenplay: A. L. Diamond, Mac Benoff. 

I. 

• Virginia Mayo earns her way through college 

by working—unbeknownst to the educational institution—as 

a burlesque queen. 

SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (Historical Western). Stors: Not 

set. Producer: Louis F. Edelmon. Director: Not 

set. Original Screenplay; Sloon Nibley, Chories 

Morquis Warren. 

• Deals with the pioneers who pushed the American 

frontier westward, ond the important part 

played in their lives by the Springfield rifle. 

STARLIFT (Musical). Stars: Doris Day, Ruth Roman, 

Dick Wesson. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: 

Roy Del Ruth. Original Screenplay; John Klorer, 

Karl Kamb. 

• This is o fictionalized version of the trips mode 

by Hollywood players to the Travis oir bose at 

Fairfield, Calif., to entertain troops being shipped 

to Korea and the wounded Gl's returning from the 

battlefront. The trips have been dubbed "Operation 

Starlift." 

STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME (Comedy With Music). 

Stars: not set. Producer: Louis F. Edelman. Director: 

Roy Del Ruth. Original Screenplay: Henry 

Garson. 

• This is Q mystery comedy with musical interludes. 

THE STORY OF EDDIE CANTOR (Drama With Music). 

Stars: Not set. Producer: Sidney Skotsky. Director: 

Not set. Original: Sidney Skolsky. Screenplay; Ted 

Sherdeman. 

• The career of one of the greats of show business 

will come to the screen in this biography of Eddie 

Cantor, who has been successful in every entertainment 

medium—the stage, motion pictures, radio, 

and television. 

THE TANKS ARE COMING (War Drama). Stars: Steve 

Cochron, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni, Producer: 

Bryan Foy. Director: Lewis Seiler. Originol: Joseph 

I, Breen jr. Screenplay: Samuel Fuller. 

• The U.S. third armored division begins its big 

push into Nazi-dominated Europe in July, 1944, 

reaches Mons In September and there fights a 

battle against German convoys which changes the 

cjurse of World War II. This is the story of one 

tank platoon and how it does its part in smashing 

the vaunted Siegfried line. 

TARGET ZERO (Drama). Stars: Not set Producer: 

Robert Sisk. Director: Not set Original Screenplay: 

James Werner Bellah. 

• A story of the Korean war, this has a woman 

correspondent as Its principal chorocter. 

THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS (Drama) Stars: Joan 

Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Producer: 

Robert Sisk, Director: Felix Feist. Original: Bernard 

Girard- Screenplay: Karl Kamb, Dan Mainworing, 

George W. Yates, Ted Sherdeman, 

• Joan Crawford, leader of a holdup gang, falls 

in love with Dennis Morgan, an eye specialist, after 

he operates to save her failing eyesight. Her 

jealous boy friend, David Brian, sets out to trail 

and kill Morgan, but is captured by the law as 

Joan, wounded, faces jail term, knowing Morgan 

o 

will wait for her. 

WHERE'S CHARLEY? (Comedy With Music). Stars: 

Roy Bolger, Allyn McLerie. Producer: Not set. Director: 

Dovid Butler, Original: Brandon Thomas, 

George Abbott, Screenplay: John Monks jr. 

• Film version of the stage musical, an adaptation 

of the perennial force, "Charley's Aunt," this was 

produced in England 

THE WILL ROGERS STORY (Drama). Stars: Will Rogers 

ir., Jane Wymon (incomplete). Producer: Robert 

Arthur. Director: Michael Curtiz. Originol Screenplay: 

Frank Davis. 

• Biogrophy of the one-time cowboy who became 

a Ziegfeld Follies star, screen celebrity and one of 

America's most beloved humorists. In Technicolor, 

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I 

A 

A Complete Production Record lor the Year 

Essential Data on 1950-51 Releases FEATURE 

INDEK 

Astor 

Holy Year at the Vatican, The 

(66) Oct. 1, '50 

Documentary. Preface narrated by Kenny 

Delmar. Shows everyday scenes and procedures 

in the Vatican, and the Pope receiving 

a group of Holy Year pilgrims. 

Commentary by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen. 

(March of Time.) 

Border Fence. ..(59) Sept. 15 

Western. Young rancher serves a term for 

his rustler friend. Later when he gives the 

friend employment he is betrayed and 

further crimes falsely laid at his door. Walt 

Wayne, Lee Morgan, Mary Nord, Steve 

Raines, Henry Garcia. Directors: Norman 

Sheldo. H. W. Kier. 

(REISSUES) 

Bridge of San Luis Key, The (110). ...Apr. 15 

Drama. Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff. Francis 

Lederer, Nazimova. 

(a plain Boycott (931 Oct. 1 

Drama. Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, 

Robert Donat. Cecil Parker. 

Dark Waters... (93) Jan. 15 

.Mystery Drama. Merle Oberon, Franchot 

Tone. Thomas Mitchell. 

Follow the Leader... (67) Nov. 1, '50 

Melodrama. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel 

Dell, Billy Benedict. Joan Marsh. 

(ireat John L., The ..(96) Aug. 1 

Drama. Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, 

Greg McClure. 

Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (67) Oct. 1 

Comedy. Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy. 

India Speaks (70) May 1 

Travelog. Richard Halliburton, narrator. 

Kit Carson... (97) Aug. 1 

Outdoor Melodrama. Dana Andrews, Lynn 

Bari, Jon Hall. 

Last of the Mohicans, The... (96) Aug. 1 

Historical Drama. Randolph Scott, Binnie 

Barnes. Bruce Cabot. 

I.iuky the Outcast (formerly "A Boy, A 

Clirland a Dog") .. (75) Aug. 15 

Comedy Drama. Jerry Hunter, Sharyn 

Moffett, Harry Davenport. Lionel Stander. 

W. R. Frank Production, 

i 

Million Dollar Kid... (67) Nov. 1, '50 

.Melodrama. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel 

Dell, Billy Benedict. 

Mr. Ace. ... (85) June 15 

Melodrama. George Raft, Sylvia Sidney. 

I'rivate Snuffy Smith (67) Oct. 1 

Comedy. Bud Duncan. Edgar Kennedy. 

Sarah Padden. 

Sinners Holiday ...(93) Feb. 15 

Drama. George Raft, Randolph Scott. 

Smugglers. The... (86) Oct. 1 

Technicolor Drama. Michael Redgrave. 

Jean Kent. Richard Attenborough. Joan 

Greenwood. 

Explanatory 

Statistical and summary data 

on feature releases arranged alphabetically 

under company headings. 

PRODUCTION NUMBER follows 

title. 

RUNNING TIME in parentheses. 

RELEASE DATE at end of title 

line is 1951 unless otherwise stated. 

TYPE of picture and color indicated 

in boldface. 

STAR and DIRECTOR credits 

conclude each summary. 

REISSUES are listed separately 

under each company heading. 

Symbol ^ indicates BOXOFHCE 

Blue Ribbon Award Winner. 

Symbol © indicates color photography. 

Columbia 

(August, 1950 through October, 1951) 

©Al Jennings of Oklahoma... .327... .(79) Mar. 

Technicolor Western. Screen version of 

autobiography of Al Jennings, Oklahoma 

•outlaw, who served time, was paroled and 

returned to his home state to become a 

successful lawyer. Dan Duryea, Gale 

Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry, Guinn 

"Big Boy" Williams. Du-ector: Ray Nazarro. 

Between Midnight and Dawn.. ..328 

(89) Oct. '50 

Melodrama. Police prowl car team balks 

juvenile delinquents in attempted robbery 

and has run-in with killer who later goes 

gunning for them. Mark Stevens, Edmond 

O'Brien. Gale Storm. Director: Gordon 

Douglas. 

Big Gusher, The....306 .... (68) July 

Action Drama. Two oil workers on a drinking 

spree buy an oil lease believed to be 

worthless. To their surprise they discover 

oil and become rich men. Wayne Morris, 

Preston Foster, Dorothy Patrick. Paul E. 

Burns. Director: Lew Landers. 

Blazing Sun, The. ...246... (70) Nov. '50 

Sepiatone Western. Hero trails two bandits, 

one of whom kills the other. In a battle 

on top of a train the remaining bandit 

is taken. Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Lynne 

Roberts, Anne Gwynne, Alan Hale jr. Director: 

John English. (1949-50.) 

Bonanza Town .367... (56) July 

Western. A criminal, believed dead, is hiding 

out and leading a robber gang. A 

government agent and his pal are watching 

him and catch the gang after they commit 

a murder. Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, 

Luther Crockett, Fred F. Sears. Director: 

Fred P. Sears. 

Born Yesterday. .344... (103) Feb. 

Comedy. Wealthy, crooked junk dealer decides 

to give beautiful but uneducated blond 

girl friend an intellectual polish. He hires 

newswriter for the job but the two combine 

against him. Judy Holliday, Broderick 

Crawford, William Holden. Director: 

George Cukor. 

Brave Bulls, The....321....(108) May 

Drama. After the death of his mistress 

and his manager in an accident, a bullfighter 

loses his courage. He sees his 

brother, a young beginner, injured and regains 

his old skill and bravery. Mel Ferrer, 

Miroslava, Anthony Quinn, Eugene Iglesias. 

Director: Robert Ros.sen. 

Chain Gang. ...313 (70) Nov. '50 

Melodrama. Masquerading as a guard, reporter 

exposes revolting chain gang conditions 

and those who profit from the use 

of such labor. Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie 

Lord, Emory Parnell, William "Bill" Phillips. 

Director: Lew Landers. 

Chain of Circumstance .309. ..(68) Aug. 

Melodrama. Couple who adopted a baby 

loses it when the husband is innocently 

involved in a jewel theft. They are able 

to prove he is not guilty and regain the 

child. Richard Grayson, Margaret Field, 

Marta Mitrovich, Harold J. Kennedy. Director: 

Will Jason. 

China Corsair. .316 (67) June 

Action Drama. Chinese pirate queen pursues 

and captures the murderer of her 

uncle who has stolen the family treasures. 

The loot is saved by a seaman but the 

girl loses her life. Jon Hall, Lisa Perraday. 

Ron Randell, Douglas Kennedy. Director: 

Ray Nazarro. 

Convicted ...324... (91) Aug. '50 

Melodrama. Man, sent to prison for an accidental 

murder, is gradually ground into 

a hardened termer. After witnessing a 

murder he is trapped between the convict's 

code and the code of the law. Glenn 

Ford. Broderick Crawford. Millard Mitchell. 

Dorothy Malone, Carl Benton Reid, Frank 

Paylen, Will Geer. Director: Henry Levin. 

Corky of Gasoline Alley. .302 (70) Sept. 

Comedy. Sequel to the first picture based 

on the comic strip. Black sheep cousin of 

Corky's wife complicates things for the 

whole family, practically wrecking the restaurant 

and the fix-it shop. The boys 

finally get rid of him. Jimmy Lydon, 

Scotty Beckett. Patti Brady. Don Beddoe. 

Director: Edward Bernds. 

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard. ...307 

(67) Feb. 

Mystery Melodrama. Scotland Yard investigator, 

working with America's counterspy 

division, discovers secrets of guided 

missile experiments are being divulged 

by secretary, under the influence of drugs, 

to spy posing as p.sychiatrist. Howard St. 

John, Ron Randell, Amanda Blake, Lewis 

Martin. Director: Seymour Friedman. 

BOXOFFICE 107

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Cyclone Fury. ...368... (54) Aug. 

Western. (Durango Kid series.) Hero assists 

Indian boy, adopted son of a murdered 

rancher, to win a contract to supply 

horses to the army and forces the boy's 

competitor to confess the crime of murder. 

Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnett, Fred F. 

Sears, Clayton Moore. Director: Ray 

Nazarro. 

Emergency Wedding... .332. ..(78) Nov. '50 

Comedy. Rich man's son marries woman 

doctor. His jealousy nearly wrecks the marriage 

but he builds hospital in which foreign 

doctors may get experience and they 

are reconciled. Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, 

Willard Parker, Una Merkel, Alan Reed. 

Director: Edward Buzzell. 

Five....371....(93) _ Oct. 

Drama. Five people survive a worldwide 

atomic explosion. There is conflict among 

them but at the last a woman and man 

start out to found a new civilization. William 

Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, 

Charles Lampkin. Director: Arch 

Oboler. 

Flame of Stamboul ...314 ...(68) JVIar. 

Melodrama. American girl is induced to 

impersonate a famous cafe dancer to protect 

the interests of a master criminal. She 

is rescued by an American agent and the 

Egyptian police. Richard Denning, Lisa 

Ferraday, Norman Lloyd. Director: Ray 

Nazarro. 

Flying Missile, The....335.... (92) 

Jan. 

Drama. Navy submarine commander engages 

in guided missile experiments which 

result in the death of one of his men. He 

blames himself for the mishap and develops 

psychotic symptoms. Glenn Ford, 

Viveca Lindfors, Henry O'NeUl, Joseph 

Sawyer. Director: Henry Levin. 

Fort Savage Raiders. .365. ..(54) Mar. 

Western. Army officer goes AWOL, joining 

a criminal gang. The hero and two 

friends are sent to take him into custody, 

which they do after a gun battle. Charles 

Starrett, Smiley Burnette, John Dehner 

Trevor Bardette, Dusty Walker. Director' 

Ray Nazarro. 

FuUer Brush Girl, The... 239 (85) Oct. '50 

Comedy. Heroine takes job with Fuller 

Brush Co. to finance marriage. Helterskelter 

adventures follow involving her in 

murder but she finally establishes her innocence. 

Lucille Ball. Eddie Albert, Jeff 

Donnell. Jerome Cowan. Director- Lloyd 

Bacon. (1949-50.) 

Fury of the Congo. .329.... (69) Apr. 

Jungle Drama. Smugglers, pretending to 

.search for a missing professor lost in the 

jungle, force Jungle Jim and men of the 

Amazon tribe to lead them to a herd of 

sacred animals whose glands secrete a powerful, 

narcotic fluid. Johnny WeissmuUer 

Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot. 

Director: William Berke: 

GasoUne AUey....30I.... (77) 

Jan. 

Comedy. Based on popular comic strip 

characters. "Corky" surprises his family by 

his marriage while still in college and proceeds 

to set himself up in the restaurant 

busmess. Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon 

Don Beddoe, Patti Brady, Madelon Mitchell' 

Director: Edward Bernds. 

Gene Autry and the Mounties .351 . 

Jan 

Action Drama. Two U.S. marshals, looking 

lor bank robbers, cross into Canada where 

they fmd a wounded Mountie. They meet 

the niece and nephew of one of the robbers 

and convert them from admiraUon of 

the outlaws. Gene Autry, Pat Buttram 

Elena Verdugo, Carleton Young Director' 

John English. 

Great Manhunt, The (formerly "State 

Secret") ....331... .(97) 

Jan. 

Drama. Political regime seeks to conceal 

death of European dictator after American 

doctor operates. Marked for death, he 

flees with showgirl, but Is freed when dictator's 

double is assassinated. Douglas Fairbanks 

jr., Glynis Johns, Herbert Lom, Jack 

Hawkins. Director: Sidney Gilliat. (Alexander 

Korda.) 

Harriet Craig....323....(94) Nov. '50 

Drama. Selfish wife dominates and eventually 

sacrifices her husband and his business 

interests to her own fanatical devotion 

to her beautiful home. Joan Crawford, 

Wendell Corey, K. T. Stevens. Allyn Joslyn, 

Lucile Watson, William Bishop. Director: 

Vincent Sherman. 

Her First Romance 358... (73) May 

Comedy. Teen-ager develops crush on popular 

schoolmate. At summer camp she gets 

into trouble trying to help him win title 

of camp "King." Before long she gets a 

new crush. Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin 

jr., Jimmy Hunt, Sharyn Moffett. Director: 

Seymour Friedman. 

He's a Cockeyed Wonder....340.... (77)....Dec '50 

Comedy. Orange sorter inherits magician's 

equipment and strives unsuccessfully for 

vaudeville career. Rehearsing in company 

warehouse, he and girl trap bandit gang 

and save orange juice payroll. Mickey 

Rooney, Terry Moore, William Demarest, 

Ross Ford. Director: Peter Godfrey. 

HUls of Utah....356....(70) Sept. 

Western. A doctor is caught in a feud between 

copper miners and cattlemen. He 

operates on the son of a mine owner. The 

boy dies but the doctor is cleared of blame 

Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elaine Riley, 

Donna Martell, Onslow Stevens. Director- 

John English. 

©Hurricane Island 349. (72) July 

Supercinecolor Costume Drama. This concerns 

the search for the fountain of youth 

in Florida in 1513 by Ponce de Leon and 

the love story of one of his captains and 

a beautiful lady pirate. Jon Hall, Marie 

Windsor, Romo Vincent, Edgar Barrier 

Karen Randle. Director: Lew Landers. 

KlUer That Stalked New York, The 

(formerly "Frightened City") ...338 

f'^) ...- 

Dec. '50 

Drama. A woman becomes the object of 

a gigantic manhunt, unaware that she is 

the carrier of a deadly infectious malady 

which threatens a city of 8,000,000 people 

Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William 

Bishop, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright 

Director: Earl McEvoy. 

Lady and the Bandit, The .337 . Sept. 

Melodrama. Dramatic events leading to 

Dick Turpln's famous ride of 200 miles from 

London to York to protect his wife, in 

medieval England. Based on the well-known 

Alfred Noyes poem. Louis Hayward, Patricia 

Medina, Suzanne Dalbert. Director 

Ralph Murphy. 

©Last of the Buccaneers.. .341. ..(79). ...Oct. '50 

Technicolor Melodrama. Jean Laffite wins 

War of 1812 for U.S. but returns to piracy. 

In love with niece of powerful merchant 

who opposes him, he overcomes many obstacles 

to win her. Paul Henreid, Jack 

Oakie, Karin Booth, Mary Anderson. Director: 

Lew Landers. 

Lightning Guns. .361 . 

Dec. '50 

Western. Suspected of murder and a raid 

on a dam, an innocent man is rescued from 

a mob by the hero. He is vindicated when 

the real criminal is captured. Charles 

Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gloria Henry, 

Edgar Dearing, Jock O'Mahoney. Director 

Fred F. Sears. 

©Lorna Doone....336.... (84) 

June 

Technicolor Costume Drama. Returned soldier 

of the English king overcomes the 

outlaw Doone family which has levied high 

taxes on the people and saves the daughter. 

Lorna, from a loveless marriage. Barbara 

Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid 

William Bishop, Ron Randell. Director' 

Phil Karlson. 

"M"....347....(88) 

Mar. 

Drama. Underworld leader seeking to make 

a trade with police to divert attention from 

his own activities, has his henchmen catch 

and "try" the perpetrator of a series of 

child murders. David Wayne, Howard 

da Silva, Luther Adler, Glenn Anders, 

Martin Gabel. Director: Joseph Losey. 

©Mask of the Avenger .359.... (83) July 

Technicolor Adventure Drama. In the Italy 

of 1848 a returned war hero masquerades 

as the Count of Monte Cristo to arouse 

the townspeople against a local tyrant. John 

Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance, 

Arnold Moss. Director: Phil Karlson. 

My True Story. .308... (67) Mar. 

Drama. Girl Jewel thief is paroled to gang 

who want her to steal valuable formula for 

a perfume base from an elderly woman. 

Girl reforms and helps in capture of the 

criminals. Helen Walker, Willard Parker, 

Elisabeth Risdon, Emory Parnell. Director- 

Mickey Rooney. 

Never Trust a Gambler ...326. (79) Aug. 

Drama. Hunted as witness to a murder, 

gambler hides out in the apartment of his 

ex-wife. When he kills a detective it is 

discovered he, himself, was the murderer 

Dane Clark, Cathy O'Donnell, Tom Drake, 

Jeff Corey, Myrna Dell. Director: Ralph 

Murphy. 

Operation X....333....(79) 

Drama. British-made. 

Feb. 

Powerful industrialist 

sees his dream of world domination 

spoUed by a journalist whom his idolized 

daughter loves. His ruin is complete when 

he is told she is not his child. Edward G 

Robinson, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene 

Nora Swinburne. Director: Gregory Ratoff. 

©Petty Girl, The. .317... (87) Sept. '50 

Technicolor Comedy With Music. Wacky 

romance of young school teacher and struggling 

creator of the Petty Girl drawings, as 

artist attempts to win acceptance in the 

commercial art world. Robert Cummings 

Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester, Melville 

Cooper, Audrey Long. Director: Henry 

Levin. 

Pickup..,.357.... (78) 

Aug. 

Drama. Story of a lonely, hardworking 

widower who meets a girl in town who 

marries him as a way out of her sordid 

existence. She is unfaithful and tries to 

have him murdered. Beverly Michaels, 

Hugo Haas, Allan Nixon. Director- Hugo 

Haas. 

Prairie Roundup....363 

. 

Jan. 

Western. (Durango Kid series.) Erstwhile 

Texas Ranger, framed on a murder charge 

escapes and finds "murdered" man heading 

a gang of ruthless rustlers. He rounds 

up gang and clears himself on the murder 

count. Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, 

Mary Castle, Frank Fenton, Forrest 

Taylor. Director: Fred F. Sears. 

Pygmy Island....342....(69) Nov. '50 

Jungle Drama. Jungle Jim leads a party 

into the wilds to find a missing WAC captain 

who is searching for a plant developed 

by pygmy tribes, valuable as war 

material. Johnny WeissmuUer, Ann Sav- 

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age, David Bruce, Steven Geray. Director: 

William Berke. 

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. ..362 

(55) - Oct. "50 

Western. (Durango Kid series.) Five ranchers 

own mysterious silver rings, and are 

killed by tomahawks. Durango discovers 

rings show location of a silver mine in 

Indian territory and routs the gang. Charles 

Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Edgar Dearing, 

Kay Buckley. Director: Fred F. Sears. 

Revenue Agent. .312... (72) 

Teb. 

Melodrama. Discovering his wife's affair 

with his employer, a husband is murdered 

when he tries to report the man for tax 

evasion. Revenue agent solves the killing 

and the tax racket. Douglas Kennedy, 

Jean Willes, Onslow Stevens, Lyle 

Talbot. Director: Lew Landers. 

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. .364 (58) Feb. 

Western. (Durango Kid series. i An outlaw 

is murdered and loot of $20,000 in gold 

taken from him. Tlie criminals plot to dispose 

of it by using a blacksmith and an 

old prospector as dupes. Cliarles Starrett, 

Smiley Burnette, Sunny Vickers, Edgar 

Dearing. Director: Fred F. Sears. 

Rookie Fireman. 311 (63) Oct. '50 

Melodrama. Young merchant seaman takes 

temporary job as rookie fireman. His hazardous 

experiences turn him into a veteran 

fire-fighter and he keeps job on a permanent 

basis. Bill Williams, Barton Mac- 

Lane, Marjorie Reynolds, Gloria Henry. 

Director: Seymour Friedman. 

©Santa Fe. ...330... (89) 

Apr. 

Technicolor Action Drama. Three brotliers. 

Confederate veterans, go west. One becomes 

a construction assistant in building the 

Santa Fe railroad. The others become renegades 

and the brother joins a posse to bring 

them in. Randolph Scott, James Craig, Jerome 

Courtland, Peter Thompson, John 

Archer, Warner Anderson. Director: Irving 

Pichel. 

Silver Canyon ...355... (70) 

June 

Western. A band of deserters from the 

Union army holds up army wagon trains. 

The chief scout of a military post tracks 

them down and they are buried under an 

avalanche from an explosion. Gene Autry, 

Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Bob Steele. Director: 

John English. 

Sirocco.. .348.. ..(98) 

July 

Melodrama. Experiences of a gun runner in 

Damascus during the French-Syrian War 

of 1925. He supplies the ragged Syrians 

and is opposed by a French intelligence 

officer, who is also his romantic rival. 

Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. 

Cobb, Onslow Stevens. Director: Curtis 

Bernhardt. 

Smuggler's Gold. ..315... (64) 

May 

Adventure Drama. Deep-sea diver believes 

he has killed a member of a smuggling 

gang and is forced to dive for sunken gold 

through threat of exposure. He is rescued 

by the coast guard. Cameron Mitchell, 

Amanda Blake, Carl Benton Reid. Director: 


Snake River Desperadoes. ...366.... (54) May 

Western. Hero is sent to stop rifle-running 

by evil white men who sell to the Indians, 

then foster war between Indians and white 

ranchers. Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, 

Don Reynolds, Tommy Ivo, Monte Blue. 

Director: Fred F. Sears. 

©Stage to Tucson. .334 ...(82) 

Jan. 

Technicolor Western. Just before the Civil 

War, two partners expose a gang which is 

hijacking stagecoaches and selling them to 

Confederate sympathizers. In a running 

battle the leader is killed. Rod Cameron, 

Wayne Morris, Kay Buckley, Sally Eilers. 

Dii'ector: Ralph Murphy. 

©Texan Meets Calamity Jane, The. ...303 

(71) Nov. '50 

Cinecolor Western. Girl battles lawyer to 

establish her ownership of a saloon. She 

wins him to belief in her claim but loses 

his love to her rival. Evelyn Ankers, James 

Ellison, Lee "Lasses" White, Ruth Whitney, 

Jack Ingram. Director: Ande Lamb. 

Texans Never Cry....352 ... (68) 

Mar. 

Western. Texas ranger gives aid to a representative 

of the Mexican government who 

is sent to investigate a gang counterfeiting 

Mexican lottery tickets. The gang is wiped 

out. Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Mary Castle, 

Russ Hayden, Gail Davis. Director: 

Frank McDonald. 

©Texas Rangers, The. ...325. (74) June 

Supercinecolor Western. Released from 

prison to help the Rangers rid the state 

of outlaws, hero wins love of woman newspaper 

publisher, traps the crime leader with 

a gold shipment and the Rangers close 

in. George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome 

Coui-tland, Noah Beery jr. Director: 

Phil Karlson. 

Tougher They Come, The ...305... (69) Dec. '50 

Sepiatone Action Drama. Two pals, one of 

whom inherits a lumber camp, have difficulty 

in operating it due to the activities 

of a foreman in the pay of unscrupulous 

competitors. Wayne Morris, Preston Foster, 

Kay Buckley, Gloria Henry, Frank McHugh. 

Director: Ray Nazarro. 

Two of a Kind. .350... (75) 

July 

Melodrama. Hero is engaged by crooks to 

po.se as the long-lost son of a millionaire. 

He gets away with the hoax but the father 

disinherits him. Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth 

Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox. Director: 

Henry Levin. 

©Valentino .320... (105) 

Apr. 

Technicolor Biographical Drama. Life of 

the great silent movie star of the '20s. His 

rise to fame, his unhappy love life and early 

death, Anthony Dexter, Eleanor Parker, 

Richard Carlson. Patricia Medina, Dona 

Drake. Director: Lewis Allen, 

©When the Redskins Rode 339 (78) May 

Supercinecolor Action Drama. Delaware 

Indian prmce wavers between Frencn and 

American Colonists, flattered by beautiful 

French spy. When the French murder lUo 

father, the Delawares ride to the defense 

of young General Washington's army. Jon 

Hall, Mary Castle, James Seay, John 

Ridgely. Director: Lew Landers. 

When You're SmiUng....304.... (75) Sept. '5i) 

Comedy With Music. Young Texan with 

singing ambitions, is mistaken for a cattle 

millionaire, and nearly "shanghaied" 

into marriage with daughter of recording 

company head, who is in financial straits. 

Jerome Courtland. Frankie Laine. Lola Albright, 

Margo Woode, Robert Shayne. Director: 

Joseph Santley. 

Whirlwind. .354 ...(70) 

Apr. 

Western. Two postal inspectors, on the trail 

of a crime syndicate, discover its leader 

has murdered his brotner and robbed 

his niece of the estate. Gene Autry, Smiley 

Burnette, Gail Davis, Thurston Hall. Director: 

John English. 

Whistle at Eaton Falls, The..322 (96) ..Aug. 

Drama. When the owner of only industry 

in a small town dies, his widow asks the 

head of the union to manage the factory. 

He finds the problems of management almost 

too much for him. Lloyd Bridges, 

Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray 

Hamilton. Director: Robert Siodmak. 

Yank in Korea, A. .346... (73) Feb. 

War Drama. Experiences of an enlisted 

man in Korea. He becomes a hero and, 

when wounded, returns to the U.S. bringing 

the letter of a dead buddy to the man's 

bereaved children. Lon McCallister. William 

"Bill" Phillips, Brett King, Larry 

Stewart. Director: Lew Landers. 

(REISSUE) 

Rex, King of the Wild Horses .310 . Apr. 

Western. "Rex," William Janney, Dorothy 

Appleby, Wallace MacDonald. 

Lippert 

(December 22, 1950 through October 26, 1951 

As You Were... 5023. (57) Sept. 28 

Comedy. Ex-GI re-enlists at recruiting station 

where he meets his old sergeant, who 

considered him a jinx to his army life. 

Flashbacks show what happened, then the 

two are shown together again as drill 

sergeant and new recruit. William Ti'acy, 

Joe Sawyer, Russell Hicks, John Ridgely. 

Director: Fred Guiol. 

Bandit Queen 5011 (72) Dec. 22. '50 

Western. Spanish beauty becomes partner 

of early California "Robin Hood" to avenge 

the murder of her parents and bring about 

the downfall of the leaders of a robber 

gang. Barbara Britton, Willard Parker, 

Philip Reed, Barton MacLane. Director: 


Danger Zone 5017 (56) Apr. 20 

Melodrama. Two separate mystery stories 

built around the same characters. Designed 

to be cut in half for subsequent use on 

television. Each is the account of a case 

handled by a private detective. Hugh Beaumont, 

Pamela Blake, Richard Travis, Edward 

Brophy, Tom Neal. Director: William 

Berke. 

Fingerprints Don't Lie 5015... (56) Feb. 1'3 

Mystery Drama. Innocent man is being sent 

to the electric chair because of forged 

fingerprints on the weapon used to murder 

the mayor. His sweetheart and a scientific 

investigator pin the crime on the commissioner 

of police. Richard Travis. Sheila 

Ryan, Tom Neal, Sid Melton, Margia Dean. 

Director: Sam Newfield. 

G.I. Jane. .5012. ..(62) July 6 

Comedy With Music. TV producer, putting 

on a recruiting show for llie WAC, receive, 

news he has been drafted. He faints and, 

while unconscious, has a dream about 

events in a mythical army camp. Jean 

Porter. Tom Neal, Iris Adrian, Jimmie 

Dodd. Director: Reginald LeBorg. 

Highly Dangerous. ...5029 .. (81) Oct. 26 

Melodrama. British-made. A woman entomologist 

is assigned to espionage investigating 

an Eastern country's germ factory. 

She is assisted by a newspaperman 

in love with her. Together they set fire to 

the place and escape. Dane Clark. Margaret 

Lockwood, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne. 

Director: Roy Baker. 

Kentucky Jubilee. .5007 (67) May 18 

Comedy With Music. A plot in which gangsters 

try to take over financial control of 

the state celebration is ini-er^persed with 

specialty numbers of sixteen different acts. 

James Ellison, Jean Porter. Jerry Colonna, 

McQuaig Twins, Fred Kirby, Chris Randall. 

Director: Ron Ormond. 

Leave It to the Marines .5005. ..(66). ...Sept. 21 

Comedy. Instead of buying a marriage license, 

young man joins the marines by mistake 

and ends up a hero. Sid Melton, Mara 


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Lynn. Greg Martell. Director: Sam Newfield. 

Little Big Horn 5003 (85) June 18 

Drama. Two cavalry officers, rivals in love, 

are sent on a mission to warn General 

Custer that the Sioux will attack. Both are 

killed in a suicidal charge against the 

Indians. Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland. Marie 

Windsor. Director: Charles Marquis Warren. 

Lost Continent....5004 .. (82) Aug. 17 

Science-Fiction. A group of scientists fly 

to investigate when an atom-powered 

rocket misfires. They find a lost world of 

prehistoric animals which, at length, is destroyed 

by an explosive disintegration. 

Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke. Chick 

Chandler, John Hoyt. Director: Sam Newfield. 

Mask of the Dragon. 5013 (53) Mar. 10 

Mystery Drama. GI in Korea sends home 

curio containing valuable mineral. When 

he returns he and a TV entertainer are 

both murdered by villain who wants it. A 

private detective solves the crimes. Richard 

Travis. Sheila Ryan. Sid Melton, Michael 

Whalen. Director: Sam Newfield. 

Pier23 .5018. (58) j\pr. 27 

Drama. Two episodes involving a waterfront 

adventurer. In one he uncovers a plot 

which had resulted in the murder of a 

wrestler. In the second he solves the murder 

of an escaped convict by the man's sister 

and an accomplice. Hugh Beaumont. Ann 

Savage, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis 

Director: William Berke. 

Roaring City. .5016.... (58) May 4 

Drama. Young man places a bet on " an 

old-time fighter and finds himself accused 

of a murder. In trying to clear himself he 

becomes involved in further kUlings. Hugh 

Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, 

Joan Valerie. Director: William Berke. 

Savage Drums. .5001. (70) June 22 

Action Drama. Hero, an Indonesian prizefighter 

in the United States, returns ©Excuse My 

to his 

Dust. 133 (82) June 22 

native island when the king, his brother, 

Technicolor Comedy With 

is 

Music. Smalltown 

inventor of an early automobile wins 

killed. There he fights against Communist 

plotters. Sabu. Lita tlie 

Baron, big 

H. B. 

race and daughter of the proprietor 

Warner, Sid Melton, Steven Geray. Director: 


Sally Forrest. Macdonald Carey. William 

of the local livery stable. Red Skelton. 

Demarest, Monica Lewis. Raymond Walburn. 

Director: Roy Rowland. 

Sky High 5024... (60) Oct. 12 

Comedy. Tail gunner is assigned to pose 

as enemy agent at air force base. His 

efforts help in the capture of saboteurs. 

Sid Melton, Mara Lynn. Sam Flint. Director: 

Sam Newfield. 

Steel Helmet, The. .5006. ..(84) Feb. 2 

War Drama. Wounded soldier in Korea is 

befriended by a war orphan and a Negro 

medic. They join a patrol in establishing 

an observation post and experience an 

enemy attack. Robert Hutton, Gene Evans. 

Steve Brodie. James Edwards. Richard Loo. 

Director: Samuel Puller. (A Deputy Corporation 

Production.) 

Stop That Cab. .5014.... (56) Mar. 31 

Comedy. Hectic adventures of a Hollywood 

cab driver with his naggi^t. "ife. an expectant 

mother who gives birth to a baby 

on the way to a hospital, and a gunman 

who robs him. Sid Melton, Iris Adrian. 

Tom Neal. Marjorie Lord, Greg McClure. 

Director: Eugenic DeLiguoro. 

3 Desperate Men. .5009.... (71) Jan. 12 

Western. Three brothers, forced into a life 

of crime, terrorize the countryside, but 

meet their downfall at the hands of a brave 

town marshal and his posse. Preston 

Poster, Virginia Grey. Jim Davis. Ross 

Latimer. Director: Sam Newfield. 

Varieties on Parade ...5020. (67) Aug. 10 

Musical. Series of vaudeville acts with 

Coogan and Garr as masters of ceremonies, 

who also offer a burlesque of Charley 

Chaplin's "The Kid." Talbot, Adrian and 

Neal appear in skits between acts. Jackie 

Coogan. Eddie Garr. Tom Neal, Iris Adrian. 

Lyle Talbot, Eddie Dean. Director: Ron 

Ormond. 

Yes Sir, Mr. Bones 5019 . July 13 

Variety Musical. Lost boy wanders into rest 

home for retired minstrel men. They 

reminisce for him and scene fades into a 

complete minstrel show. Gary Jackson. 

Cotton and Chuck Watts. P. E. Miller. Billy 

Green. Director: Ron Ormond. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

(September 1. 1950 through August 31, 1951 

Cause for Alarm....ll8 ... (73) Feb. 23 

Drama. Invalid husband, suffering from a 

persecution complex, writes a letter to the 

district attorney charging his wife is trying 

to kill him. He dies, and after wife's futile 

attempt to recover letter, it is returned for 

insufficient postage. Loretta Young. Barry 

Sullivan. Bruce Cowling. Margalo Gillmore. 

Director: Tay Garnett. 

Kind Lady....l34 . 

Devil's Doorway. .102. ..(84) Sept. 15, '50 

Western Drama. Indian Civil War hero 

seeks peace and quiet on his family's ranch 

after the conflict, but greedy whites wipe 

out the men of his tribe and overrun the 

land. Robert Taylor. Louis Calhern, Paula 

Raymond. Marshall Thompson. Director: 

Anthony Mann. 

Dial 1119. .107 ..(75) Nov. 3, '50 

Melodrama. Escaped lunatic barricades a 

bar and threatens the occupants. Police 

rescue them after vain attempt by department 

psychiatrist to quiet terrorist. Marshall 

Thompson, Keefe Brasselle, Virginia 

Field. Andrea King. Sam Levene. Director: 

Gerald Mayer. 

UFather's Little Dividend 124 (81). Apr. 13 

Comedy. Father of the bride sets out on 

a new series of difficulties with the advent 

of his first grandchild. Caring for the baby 

he loses and then recovers him. Spencer 

Tracy. Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don 

Taylor. Director: Vincente Minnelli. 

Go for Broke! 129. . (93) May 25 

Drama. Factual record of exploits of the 

442nd regimental combat team of American-born 

Japanese. They win acclaim in 

the Italian campaign, move on to France 

where they rescue the 36th Texas division. 

Van Johnson. Warner Anderson, Lane Nakano. 

George Miki, Akira Pukunaga. Director: 

Robert Pirosh. 

VvOGreat Caruso, The. .127 ..(709) Apr. 27 

Technicolor Operatic Biography. Life story 

of the great operatic tenor, Enrico Caruso. 

His sensational career, his happy marriage, 

and his death in the wings of the Metropolitan 

Opera House. Mario Lanza, Ann 

Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten. Jarmila Novotna. 

Richard Hageman. Director: Richard 

Thorpe. 

Grounds for Marriage....ll4.... (89) Jan. 19 

Comedy With Music. Ex-wife, still in love 

with her husband, devises every po.ssible 

means to see him and succeeds in breaking 

up his new romance. Van Johnson, 

Kathryn Grayson, Paula Raymond, Barry 

Sullivan. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. 

Home Town Story .128. ..(61) JWay 18 

Drama. Small-town newspaper editor, defeated 

for state legislature by son of industrialist, 

fights big business. When his 

sister is rescued from a mine cave-in by 

use of equipment lent by the big company, 

he reverses his opinion. Jeffrey Lynn, Marjorie 

Reynolds, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale 

jr. Director: Arthur Pierson. 

Inside Straight ...123... (87) Mar. 16 

Historical Drama. Life story of a shrewd 

adventurer as he rises to fortune in the 

San Francisco of 1860. He learns at last 

the satisfaction of using money for a good 

cause. David Brian, Barry Sullivan, Arlene 

Dahl, Paula Raymond, Lon Chaney jr. Director: 

Gerald Mayer. 

U-9Kim....ll5....(113) Jan. 26 

Technicolor Adventure Drama. Film version 

of Kipling's novel. Orphan boy becomes 

attendant to Hindu holy man. In this guise 

he serves as messenger for an underground 

group protecting India from invaders. 

Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, 

Robert Douglas. Director: Victor Saville. 

June 29 

Drama. Wealthy, elderly woman befriends 

impoverished artist, his wife and child. 

They imprison her. liquidate her possessions 

and try to murder her. Ethel Barrymore. 

Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury. 

Keenan Wynn. Director: John Sturges. 

-„-©King Solomon's Mines. .109 

(102) Nov. 24, '50 

Technicolor Drama. Produced in Africa. 

Renowned hunter falls in love with woman 

who hires him to guide her in search for 

her lost hu.sband in darkest Africa. Husband's 

death is proved and lovers are 

united. Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, 

Richard Carlson, Native African Tribesmen. 

Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew 

Marton. 

Law and the Lady, The .136 ..(104) July 20 

Comedy. English ne'er-do-well and brainy 

house maid combine talents to become 

international jewel thieves. They realize 

their love when the law catches up with 

them and they are being returned to England. 

Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, 

Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main. Director: 

Edwin H. Knopf. 

Life of Her Own, A. .101 (108) Sept. 1, '.50 

Drama. Small-town girl becomes a successful 

cover girl, only to share an ill-fated 

romance with a married Montana copper 

magnate. Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom 

Ewell, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Barry 

Sullivan, Jean Hagen. Director: George 

Cukor. 

Magnificent Yankee, The....ll6. ..(88). Feb. 9 

Biographical Drama. Life of Oliver Wendell 

Holmes. U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 

famous for his dissenting opinions. Depicts 

his happy marriage, his wife's death and 

his retirement. Louis Calhern, Ann Harding. 

Eduard Franz. Director: John Sturges. 

M-G-M Stor.v, The. .145... (56) Mar. 

Compilation. Free trailer to MGM accounts 

including scenes from 25 pictures, with 58 

of the company's stars and featured players. 

Produced by Herman Hoffman. Edited 

by Laurie Vejar, Ira Heymann. 

Miniver Story, The 106 (104) Oct. 20, '50 

Drama. Mrs. Miniver, in failing health, 

faces a new set of problems in peace. She 

gently persuades family toward ways of 

life she believes best for them. Greer Garson, 

Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Cathy 


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Mil 

O'Donnell, Henry Wilcoxon. Director: 

Henry C. Potter. (MGM British Studio.) 

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone....lH 

(69) Dec. 8, '50 

Comedy. Radio prize-winning widow and 

debt-ridden attorney team up on transcontinental 

train to liide body of murder 

victim and solve the crime. Majorie Main, 

James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Fred Clark, 

Dorothy Malone. Director: Norman Taurog. 

Next Voice You Hear . . ., The 110 

(83) Oct. 27, '50 

Drama. Story of an average middle-class 

American family whose routine existence 

is upset when God speaks to them on the 

radio. James Whitmore. Nancy Davis. Gary 

Gray, Tom D'Andrea, Jeff Corey. Director: 

William A. Wellman. 

Niffht Into Morning. 130. (86) June 8 

Drama. Young college professor becomes 

an alcoholic after the tragic death of his 

wife and child. He is saved from suicide 

by the intervention of two friends. Ray 

Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis. Lewis 

Stone. Jean Hagen. Director: Fletcher 

Markle. 

No Questions Asked 132 ..(81) June 15 

Drama. Involved in legal but unethical 

dealings with racketeers, hero decides to 

clear himself by a tipoff to the police. 

Marked for death by the gangsters, he is 

rescued and reforms. Barry Sullivan. 

Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen. 

Director: Harold F. Kress. 

©Pagan Love Song. .112. ..(76) Dec. 29, "S"* 

Technicolor Musical. Romance on a tropical 

island between young American, who has 

inherited a run-down plantation, and 

American girl he mistakes for a Tihitian. 

Esther Williams. Howard Keel, Minna Gombell, 

Charles Mauu, Rita Moreno. Director; 

Robert Alton. 

©Painted Hills, The 125. ..(68) May 4 

Technicolor Drama. Lassie's master is 

killed by his partner and the dog is 

poisoned. She haunts the murderer with 

her death wail and he follows her up a 

canyon and falls to his death. "Lassie." 

Paul Kelly, Gary Gray, Ann Doran, Bruce 

Cowling. Director: Harold F. Kress. 

©Rich, Young and Pretty 138 (95) Aug. 3 

Technicolor Musical. Texas rancher takes 

daughter to Paris where they meet his 

estranged actress wife. The girl is drawn 

to her mother, finds romance and the father 

and mother are reconciled. Jane 

Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey, 

Fernando Lamas, Vic Damone. Director: 

Norman Taurog. 

Right Cross... 104. ..(90) Oct. 6, '50 

Drama. Prizefight story of the rise of a 

Mexican-born, middleweight champion, in 

love with his manager's daughter, who also 

is loved by a sports writer. June Allyson. 

Dick Powell. Ricardo Montalban. Lionel 

Barrymore, Teresa Celli. Director: John 

Sturges. 

U©RoyaI Wedding. .121 .. (92) Mar. 23 

Technicolor Musical. Brother-sister musical 

comedy team goes to London for the season 

of the royal wedding. Both find romance, 

she with a nobleman and he with an English 

actress. Fred Astaire. Jane Powell. 

Peter Lawford. Sarah Churchill, Keenan 

Wynn. Director: Stanley Donen. 

oShow Boat .135. (108) July 13 

Technicolor Musical. When leading lady on 

•show boat withdraws, the captain's daughter 

replaces her. She marries the leading 

man and leaves but later returns when he 

deserts her. Many years later they are reunited 

when he learns they have a daughter. 

Ava Gardner. Howard Keel, Kathryn 

Grayson, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead, 

Marge and Gower Champion. Director: 

George Sidney. 

Soldiers Three. .126... (92) Apr. 20 

Comedy. Adventures of three British army 

privates and their two commanding officers 

in India, adapted from the Rudyard Kipling 

stories. The three are always in trouble 

but good soldiers in time of stress. Stewart 

Granger, Walter Pidgeon. David Niven, 

Robert Newton. Cyril Cusack. Director: 

Tay Garnett. 

Strictly Dishonorable .131 ..(94) July 6 

Comedy With Music. Troubles of an opera 

singer which involve his sweetheart, his 

press agent, a man who tries to blackmail 

him and a sweet young thing from the 

south. Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard 

Mitchell, Gale Robbins. Directors: Melvin 

Frank, Norman Panama. 

Strip, The. .140.... (85) Aug. 31 

Mystery With Music. Ex-GI drummer in a 

nightclub falls for a dancer, but a racketeer 

steals his girl. When the gangster is killed 

and the girl wounded, the drummer is accused 

but her deathbed confession clear.s 

him. Mickey Rooney. Sally Forrest. William 

Demarest. James Craig. Director: 

Leslie Kardos. 

Tall Target, The 139 (78) Aug. 17 

Drama. Police detective discovers plot 

to assassinate President Lincoln when, he 

makes a speech in Baltimore on the way 

to his inauguration. He sets out by himself 

to prevent the crime. Dick Powell. 

Paula Raymond. Adolphe Menjou. Marshall 

Thompson. Director: Anthony Mann. 

Teresa... .137. ..(105) July 27 

Drama. Maladjusted, neurotic GI brings 

Italian war bride to live with his parents in 

U.S. Finding their life together intolerable, 

she leaves, but they are reunited through 

aid from the Veterans Administration. 

Pier Angeli, John Ericson. Patricia Collinge, 

Richard Bishop, Peggy Ann Garner, Bill 

Maulden. Director: Fred Zinnemann. 

Three Guys Named Mike....ll9.. . ..Mar. 9 

Romantic Comedy. Airline hostess finds 

herself the romantic interest of three men 

—a pilot, science student and an advertising 

executive, all named "Mike." It proves a 

difficult choice. Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, 

Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan. Director: 

Charles Walters. 

To Please a Lady....l05.. . Oct. 13, '50 

Drama. Kill-or-be-killed attitude of auto 

race driver revolts girl columni.st. She 

learns to care when he crashes in Indianapolis 

speed event rather than cause the 

death of a fellow driver. Clark Gable. 

Barbara Stanwyck. Adolphe Menjou. Director: 

Clarence Brown. 

©Toast of New Orleans, The ...103 

(97) Sept. 29, '50 

Technicolor Musical. Plot centers around 

romance of opera star and brash young 

fisherman with a beautiful voice, against a 

turn-of-the-century New Orleans setting. 

Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza. David 

Niven. J. Carrol Naish, James Mitchell. Director: 

Norman Taurog. 

©Two Weeks With Love .108 

(92) Nov. 10. '50 

Technicolor Comedy With Music. In 1913. 

vacationing teen-ager vies for attentions of 

young man against her friend, without benefit 

of corset which stern father forbids. 

Achieved at last, corset traps her. but she 

wins favor of hero. Jane Powell. Ricardo 

Montalban. Louis Calhern. Ann Harding. 

Director: Roy Rowland. 

©Vengeance Valley....ll7.. . 

Feb. 16 

Technicolor Super-Western. Cattle ranch 

foreman is beset by difficulties and accused 

of being the father of an illegitimate 

child. In a showdown he kills hLs 

foster brother who is the real culprit. Burt 

Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, 

Sally Forrest. Director: Richard Thorpe. 

Watch the Birdie... 113 (71) Jan. 12 

Comedy. Part-time, free lance news photographer, 

engaged to cover opening of real 

estate project, accidentally snaps proof 

that the villain plans to fleece the owner. 

Complications ensue. Red Skelton, Arlene 

Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames. Director: 

Jack Donohue. 

Monogram 

(October 15, 1950 through October 28, 1951) 

Abilene Trail....4946.. . JFeb. 4 

Western. Tu'o fugitives find themselves involved 

in their friends' fight with rival 

cattle outfit. They get their herd through 

to Abilene and are cleared of horse stealing 

charges. Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde. Noel 

Neill. Tommy Farrell. Director: Lewis D. 

Collins. (1949-50.) 

According to Mrs. Hoyle....5122....(60)....May 20 

Drama. Retired school teacher becomes involved 

with gangsters who hide stolen property 

in her room and cause her to be suspected 

of the crime. Spring Byington, Brett 

King, Tanis Chandler, Anthony Caruso. 

Director: Jean Yarbrough. 

Blazing Bullets... .5142... (51) May 6 

Western. Rancher is kidnaped and unsuccessful 

suitor of his daughter is charged 

with the crime. Hero finds a cache of 

stolen gold and the missing man, clearing 

the path for the sweethearts. Johnny Mack 

Brown. Lois Hall. House Peters jr.. Stanley 

Pi-ice. Director: Wallace W. Fox. 

©Blue Blood 4904. . Jan. 28 

Cinecolor Drama. Old-time trainer, down 

on his luck, is befriended by two daughters 

of wealthy race horse breeder. They 

buy derelict horse and turn him into a 

winner again. Bill Williams, Jane Nigh, 

Arthur Shields, Audrey Long, Harry Shannon. 

Director: Lew Landers. (1949-50.) 

Bowery Battalion .5111... (69) Jan. 21 

Comedy. The Bowery Boys join the army 

and tangle with spies after information 

on a secret weapon. They round up the 

gang but end up in the guard house. Leo 

Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bowery Boys, Virginia 

Hewitt. Director: William Beaudine. 

Call of the Klondike 4920 (67) Dec. 17, '50 

Action Drama. Northwest Mountie solves 

disappearance of mine owner. Culprit is a 

supposed friend, who sets off a dynamite 

explosion in an attempt to kill hero. Kirby 

Grant. Chinook. Anne Gwynne. Lynne Roberts, 

Tom Neal. Director: Frank McDonald. 

11949-50.) 

Canyon Raiders. .5151 (54) Apr. 8 

Western. Three horse thieves gather a herd 

in a secret canyon, planning to sell to the 

army. The hero and a girl sheriff combine 

forces to defeat them. Whip Wilson. Fuzzy 

Knight, Phyllis Coates, Jim Bannon. Director: 

Lewis D. Collins. 

Casa Manana....5116....(73) June 10 

Musical. Experiences of a private secretary 

who tries to break into show business. 

Love triangle develops with her former 

boss and a night club operator, complicating 

affairs. Virginia Welles. Robert Clarke. 

Robert Karnes, Tony Roux. Director: Jean 

Yarbrough. 

©Cavalry Scout... 5101... (78) May 13 

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1951 "ROYAL WEDDING" 

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to find guns stolen from arsenal. With 

help of army officers, he uncovers illicit 

trade in arms with Indians and captures 

trader. Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim 

Davis, James Millican, Cliff Clark. Director: 

Lesley Selander. 

Colorado Ambush. .4955.... (52) Jan. 14 

Western. Ranger conceals identity to solve 

murders of Wells Fargo payroll messengers. 

Clever woman saloonkeeper and robber 

gang are killed when he completes his 

assignment. Jolinny Mack Brown, Lois Hall, 

Tommy Farrell, Christine Mclntyre. Director: 

Lewis D. Collins. (1949-50.) 

Disc Jockey... .AA21... (77) Sept. 30 

Comedy With Music. Radio platter spinner 

embarks on campaign to prove to principal 

sponsor that such entertainers are 

.still a good draw. Sponsor develops a romantic 

interest in a girl singer. Ginny 

Simms, Michael O'Shea, Jane Nigh, Tom 

Drake, Guest Disc Jockeys. Director: Will 

Jason. (Allied Artists.) 

Elephant Stampede... .5110... (71) .Oct. 28 

Jungle Melodrama. The jungle boy discovers 

the body of a guide, murdered by 

avaricious ivory hunters. When the villains 

capture him, he is freed by a stampede. 

Johmiy Sheffield, Donna Martell, Edith 

Evanson, Martin Wilkins. Director: Ford 

Beebe. 

Father Takes the Air 5126... (61) June 17 

Comedy. Father and his friend, the mayor. 

a.ssist in management of a flying school. 

By accident they capture a criminal when 

they run out of gas while flying him out 

of town. Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett, 

Florence Bates, Gary Gray, Barbara 

Brown. Director: Frank McDonald. 

Father's Wild Game... .5125... (61). ...Dec. 3, '50 

Comedy. Deciding to whip the high cost 

of meat. Father goes hunting. Shooting 

a cow is only the first mistake he makes. 

Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett, Gary 

Gray, Jane Darwell, Barbara Brown. Director: 

Herbert I. Leeds. 

Ghost Chasers. .5112. ...(69) Apr. 29 

Drama. The Bowery Boys bring justice 

down on two crooks who are operating as 

spiritualists. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bowery 

Boys, Jan Kayne. Director: Wilham 

Beaudine. 

Gypsy Fury. .5192. ..(63) Jtfar. 18 

Costume Drama. Swedish-made. English 

dialog added. Tragic story of nobleman's 

love for a gypsy. They marry but separate, 

find each other again years later but she 

is killed and he loses his mind. Viveca 

Lindfors, Ciiristopher Kent, Romney Brent. 

Johnny Chambot. Director: Christian 

Jaque. (A Terrafilm Production.) 

©Highwayman, The....AA20....(82) Oct. 21 

Cinecolor Historical Drama. In pre-revolutionary 

England, the highwayman is a 

friend of the poor, for whom he robs the 

rich. He is finally defeated by the wicked 

noblemen and put to death. Charles Cobum, 

Wanda Hendrix, Philip Friend, Cecil Kellaway. 

Director: Le.sley Selander. (AUied 

Artists.) 

I Was an American Spy....AA19....(85)....Apr. 15 

Drama. Life of Claire Phillips, undercover 

agent for America during the Japanese occupation 

of the Philippines in World War 

II. She opens a night club as a means of 

obtaining military information. Ann Dvorak, 

Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard 

Loo. Director: Lesley Selander. (Allied Artists.) 

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle 

5117.... (65) Nov. 5, '50 

Melodrama. Joe Palooka witnesses a murder 

and thereafter is a marked man. The 

killers carry their pursuit of the young 

fighter even into the ring. Joe Ktrkwood 

jr., James Gleason, Lois Hall, Robert Coogan, 

Myrna Dell, Dan Seymour. Director: 

Reginald LeBorg. 

Joe Palooka in Triple Cross.. ..5118 

(60) - Sept. 16 

Action Drama. The fighter picks up three 

hitchhikers. Their leader blackmails him 

tlirough threats against his sweetheart. At 

the championship fight, hero knocks out the 

villain and the contender. Joe Kirkwood 

jr., Cathy Downs, James Gleason, John 

Emery. Director: Reginald LeBorg. 

Let's Go Navy .5113.... (68) July 29 

Comedy. Adventures of the boys when they 

enlist in the navy to find a sailor who held 

them up and robbed them of the receipts 

of a chowder party. They end up on a 

tropical island. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, 

Allen Jenkins, Tom Neal, Bowery Boys. 

Director: William Beaudine. 

Lion Hunters, The. .5109... (75) Mar. 25 

Jungle Drama. Bomba series. The Jungle 

boy, single-handed, defeats hunters seeking 

to trap lions for export. He saves his 

friends, the lions, as well as a girl and her 

father, endangered by the hunters. Johnny 

Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Arm Todd, Douglas 

Kennedy, "W(X)dy" Strode. Director: 

Ford Beebe. 

Man From Sonora. .5141....(54) Mar. 11 

Western. Hijackers take a shipment of 

bullion, setting off an unhappy series of 

events for the hero, who is falsely accused 

by the gang leader, a prominent citizen 

of the town. Johnny Mack Brown, House 

Peters jr., Lyle Talbot, Phyllis Coates. Director: 

Lewis D. ColUns. 

Modern Marriage, A....5199....(66)....Oct. 15, '50 

Documentary Drama. Psychological reaction 

of a young bride to marriage. Her 

inability to adjust is traced to a too possessive 

mother. Reed Hadley, Margaret 

Field, Robert Clarke, Nana Bryant. Director: 

Paul Landres. (Endorsed by the American 

Institute of Family Relations.) 

Montana Desperado....5143. .(51)..._ June 24 

Western. Hero discovers a respected mining 

engineer is the masked murderer of 

several ranchers whose valuable mining 

property was the motive for the crimes. 

Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Virginia 

Herrick, Marshall Reed. Director: 

Wallace W. Fox. (A Frontier Pictures Production.) 

Navy Bound .5120 (61) Mar. 4 

Drama. Boxing champion leaves U.S. navy 

to help foster father who is in financial 

difficulties with his fishing boat. The son 

stages a match to raise the needed money, 

then re-enlists. Tom Neal, Regis Toomey, 

John Abbott, Murray Alper, Wendy Waldron. 

Director: Paul Landres. 

Nevada Badmen. 5152....(58) JWay 27 

Western. The hero and two friends go to 

the aid of a girl whose father has been 

murdered, after he had discovered gold, by 

crooks seeking a map revealing the location 

of the strike. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy 

Knight, Phyllis Coates, Jim Bannon. Director: 


Oklahoma Justice. .5144. ...(56) Aug. 19 

Western. Posing as an outlaw to catch a 

robber band, a U.S. marshal is aided by 

a bank clerk and his girl. The gang is 

rounded up and the sweethearts get the 

reward. Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy EUison, 

Phyllis Coates, Barbara Allen. Director: 


Outlaw Gold. .4954.... (51) Nov. 26, '50 

Western. Two U.S. rangers discover that 

Mexican government gold has been stolen. 

cast into type in a newspaper office and 

shipped east. They round up the gang responsible 

for the robbery. Johnny Mack 

Brown, Jane Adams, Myron Healey, Milburn 

Morante. Director: Wallace W. Fox. 

(1949-50.) 

Outlaws of Texas. .4945.... (56) Dec. 10, '50 

Western. U.S. marshal poses as outlaw to 

solve stage holdups. Discovers girl is leader 

of highwaymen as front for her father. 

With partner he captures the band. Whip 

Wilson, Andy Clyde, Phyllis Coates, Terry 

Frost. Director: Thomas Carr. (1949-50.) 

Rhythm Inn 5115. ..(73) Feb. 11 

Musical. A band in financial difficulties is 

assisted by a young amateur songwriter. 

They feature his songs and introduce his 

girl friend as vocalist. Jane Frazee, Klrby 

Grant. Lois Collier, Dixieland Band. Director: 

Paul Landres. 

Short Grass. AA18.... (82) Dec. 24, '50 

Western. Hero, once an outlaw, is able to 

repay girl and older man who had befriended 

him in past, by helping them break 

the grip of rutliless forces on their town. 

Rod Cameron. Cathy Downs, Johnny Mack 

Brown, Alan Hale jr. Director: Lesley 

Selander. (Allied Artists.) 

Sierra Passage. ...5107.... (81) Jan. 7 

Western Drama. Young lad joins a traveling 

show troupe, and for ten years conducts 

a relentless search for the two murderers 

of his father. Catching up with one 

of the criminals, he maims him for life. 

Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale jr. 

Director: Frank McDonald. 

Southside 1-1000... .AA17.... (73) Nov. 12, '50 

Melodrama. Secret service agent tracks 

down a counterfeit ring after tracing the 

notes to a convicted counterfeiter serving 

time in a Federal prison. Don DeFore, 

Andrea King, George Tobias, Barry Kelley. 

Director: Boris Ingster. (Allied Artists.) 

Stagecoach Driver... .5153. ..(52) July 15 

Western. Two pony express riders tangle 

with a pair of crooked stagecoach owners, 

out to wreck their line, and who try to 

frame them for murder. They save the 

line and expose the crooks. Whip Wilson, 

Fuzzy Knight, Jim Bannon, Gloria Winters. 

Director; Lewis D. Collins. 

Vicious Years, The. .5191. ...(81) Feb. 18 

Drama. In a war-torn Italian city, leader 

of a "wolf pack" of orphan boys witnesses 

a murder. With this knowledge he forces 

the murderer to give him shelter in his 

home. Tommy Cook, Gar Moore, Sybil Merritt, 

Eduard Franz. Director: Robert Plorey. 

(An Emerald Production formerly released 

through Eagle Lion Classics.) 

Wanted: Dead or Alive. .5154. ..(59) Sept. 9 

Western. U.S. marshal poses as an escaped 

convict to trap a gang which has been 

cashing in on wanted men, bringing them 

in "dead." Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, 

Christine Mclntyre, Jim Bannon. Director: 

Thomas Carr. (A Frontier Pictures Production.) 

WhistUng Hills. .5145.... (58) Oct. 7 

Western. Hired to investigate holdups of 

gold shipments, the hero sees a ghostUke 

rider who seems to lead each raid. When 

the gang is broken up this rider is discovered 

to be a girl. Johrmy Mack Brown, 

Jimmy Ellison, Noel Neill, Lee Roberts. 

Director: Derwin Abrahams. 

YeUow Fin. .5108. ..(74) Oct 14 

Drama, A series of accidents to tuna fishing 

vessel results in amnesia for its elderly 

captain. His son decides to sell the ship but 

on one last voyage the father recovers. 

Wayne Morris, Adrian Booth, Gloria Henry, 


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Donald. 

Yukon Manhunt. ...5123. ...(63) July 8 

Outdoor Melodrama. Canadian Mountie 

and his dog are assigned to investigate 

a series of payroll robberies at a mining 

camp. The arch criminal is the mine owner 

who had actually planned the thefts. Kirby 

Grant, Chinook, Margaret Field, Gail Davis, 

Paul McGuire. Director: Frank McDonald. 

At War With the Army 5014 (93) Jan. 17 

Comedy. Adventures of two buck privates 

in today's army. Gags and songs in episodes 

rather than a well-defined plot. Dean 

Martin. Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, Tommy 

Farrell. Director : Walker. 

Cassino to Korea. .5008.... (58) Oct. 12, '50 

Documentary. Narrated by Quentin Reynolds. 

Traces North African and Ital'ian 

campaigns. Highlights achievements of 

two American soldiers, Sgt. James M. Logan 

and Capt. David Ludlum. Stars are Allied 

and U.N, troops. Director: Edward Genock. 

©Copper Canyon. .5003 ...(83) Oct. '50 

Technicolor Western Drama. Ex-Confederate 

soldiers, seeking to mine copper, tangle 

with a crooked deputy sheriff plotting to 

buy the mining claims cheap. Famous Confederate 

colonel, posing as a trick-shot 

artist, arrives on the scene to help the 

soldiers. Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald 

Carey, Mona Freeman, Harry' Carey 

jr. Director: John Farrow. 

Dear Brat ,5021 (82) May 30 

Drama. Teen-ager organizes a society for 

the rehabilitation of criminals and brings 

an ex-convict into the household as gardener, 

to her father's embarrassment since 

he was the judge who sentenced him. Mona 

Freeman. Edward Arnold, Billy De Wolfe 

Lyle Bettger. Director: William" A. Seiter. 

^^©Fancy Pants. .5001.... (92) Sept '50 

Technicolor Comedy. Stranded actor poses 

118 

as an English butler for a family in New 

Mexico. The fireworks start when the 

townspeople mistake him for the daughter's 

titled suitor. Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce 

Cabot, Jack Kirkwood. Director: George 

Marshall. 

©Great IVUssouri Raid, The. .5013 

IS saved by his unknown mother, the wife 

Pandro S. Berman 

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29. 1950 through July 28, 1951) 

U©Alice in Wonderland. . July 28 

Technicolor Cartoon. The English classic, 

by Lewis Carroll, about a little girl who follows 

a rabbit down its hole into Wonderland. 

She has marvelous adventures and 

awakens in time to save herself from the 

wicked Queen of Hearts. Directors: Clyde 

Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson. 

(Walt Disney.) 

©Best of the Badmen....l76....(84) June 16 

Technicolor Western. Adventures of former 

members of Quantrill's Raiders with an ex- 

Union officer who becomes their leader in 

outlawry. Leader finally surrenders to 

authorities to clear his name. Robert Ryan, 

Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert I^reston, 

Walter Brennan. Director: William D. Russell. 

Border Treasure....l05.. ..(60) Sept. 16, '50 

Western. Cowboy trails gang leader when 

treasiu-e collected for stricken Mexican 

village by beautiful girl is stolen. The loot 

is recovered and started on its errand of 

mercy. Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jane 

Nigh, Inez Cooper, House Peters jr. Director: 

George Archainbaud. 

Born to Be Bad....l01....(94) j\ug. 30, '50 

Drama. Ruthless female love pirate, who 

hides her avariciousness behind a smile of 

innocence, ultimately reveals her true self 

to the two men who loved her and loses 

them both. Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan. 

Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer. Director: 

Nicholas Ray. 

Bunco Squad. .104. ...(62) Sept. 4, '50 

Drama. Exposes fake mediums who prey on 

wealthy, bereaved persons, with murder no 

obstacle. Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, 

Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley, Elisabeth 

Risdon. Director: Herbert I. Leeds. 

Company She Keeps, The. .109... (83). ...Jan. 13 

Drama. Two women, one a parole officer, 

the other a parolee, are in love with the 

same man. The officer makes the sacrifice 

so parolee may find happiness and a new 

life. Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer, Dennis 

O'Keefe. Director: John Cromwell. 

Cry Danger. .115.. ..(79) Feb. 10 

Melodrama. Man, falsely convicted on a 

murder charge, is freed from prison by a 

phony alibi. Seeking revenge, he proves his 

innocence by forcing a confession from the 

actual murderer. Dick Powell, Rhonda 

Fleming. Richard Erdman, William Conrad. 

Director: Robert Parrish. 

Double Deal 112... (65) Jan. 15 

Drama. Murder is done for the rights to 

an oil well, which, when it finally is 

brought in. proves to be water. Richard 

Denning, Marie Windsor, Taylor Holmes, 

Fay Baker. Director: Abby Berlin. 

Edge of Doom... .152... (9) Sept. 30, '50 

Drama. Tragic story of a grief-stricken 

tenement lad who murders a priest for refusing 

to give his mother an elaborate 

funeral. Dana Andrews. Farley Granger, 

Joan Evans, Mala Powers, Robert Keith. 

Dii-ector: Mark Robson. (Samuel Goldwyn.) 

Experiment Alcatraz....l07 (58) ....Nov. 21, '50 

Drama. Atomic medical research experiment 

on a group of convicts is used as an 

excuse for deliberate murder by one of the 

participants. John Howard, Joan Dixon, 

Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter. Director: 

Edward L. Cahn. 

Footlight Varieties... 116 (61) Apr. 14 

Variety Revue. With Jack Paar as master 

of ceremonies, this presents a series of 

120 

comedy and specialty acts and clips from 

past RKO films. Leon Errol, Jack Paar, The 

Sportsmen, Liberace, Harmonicats, Prankie 

Carle, Red Buttons. Director: George Bilson. 

Gambling House.. ..110.. ..(80) Jan. 27 

Melodrama. Paid stand-in for a murderer is 

tried and acquitted. He is threatened with 

deportation as an alien but pleads for a 

chance to become a citizen. Victor Mature, 

William Bendix, Terry Moore, Zachary A. 

Charles. Director: Ted Tetzlaff. 

Gunplay....l20 (60) June 7 

Western. The two heroes befriend a lad 

whose father has been murdered. A man 

who controls the town, terrorizing the people, 

is proved to be the killer. Tim Holt, 

Richard Martin, Joan Dixon, Harper Carter. 

Director: Lesley Selander. 

Hard, Fast and Beautiful. ..119.... (78) ....June 29 

Drama. Ruthlessly ambitious mother pushes 

her daughter into amateur championship 

tennis play. The girl discovers her mother's 

ulterior motives and abandons tennis for romance. 

Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton 

Young, Robert Clarke. Director: Ida 

Lupino. (A Filmakers Production. 

Hunt the Man Dowii....lll....(68) Jan. 8 

Mystery Drama. Public defender seeks to 

solve a killing with which an innocent man 

is charged. He brings an insane witness 

into court and frightens the killer into a 

confession. Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, 

Mary Anderson, Willard Parker. Director: 

George Archainbaud. 

©Joan of Arc....l65....(118) Nov. 1, '50 

Technicolor Historical Drama. Based on 

history's tragic figure of 15th century 

France, the famous Maid of Orleans, who 

led the French army to victory, then was 

burned at the stake. Ingrid Bergman, Jose 

Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, 

Gene Lockhart. Director: Victor Fleming. 

(Sierra Pictures.) 

©Jungle Headhunters....l77....(65) May 26 

Technicolor Travelog. An expedition to the 

interior of South America by Explorer Lewis 

Cotlow. At the headwaters of the Amazon, 

he films the everyday existence of the 

Jivaro tribe of headhunters. All-native 

cast. Narration by Cotlow. 

Kon-Tiki...l73....(73) May 7 

Documentary Travelog. The 101-day voyage 

made by six scientists in a raft to prove 

that it is possible to go from South America 

to the Polynesian Islands using just wind 

and sea currents. Thor Hyerdahl, Knut 

Haugland, Erik Hesselberg, Torstein Raaby. 

Introduction: Ben Grauer. lAn Art Film, 

A. B.) 

Law of the Badlands... 113. ..(60) Feb. 24 

Western. Two Texas Rangers masquerade 

as outlaws to round up a gang of counterfeiters. 

Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Joan 

Dixon, Robert Livingston. Director: Lesley 

Selander. 

Mad Wednesday (formerly "The Sin of 

Harold Diddlel)Ock")....166....(77)....Oct. 28, '50 

Comedy. Milquetoast bookkeeper fired after 

years of service with the same firm, takes 

his first drink, and finds himself with a 

circus on his hands. Harold Lloyd, Frances 

Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin. Raymond Walburn, 

Edgar Kennedy, Arline Judge. Director: 

Preston Sturges. (Howard Hughes.) 

My Forbidden Past... .114... (70) Apr. 21 

Drama, Socially ostracized heroine is 

crushed when doctor she loves marries another. 

She inherits a fortune and plots to 

break up the marriage, inadvertently 

bringing about the death of the wife. 

Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn 

Douglas. Janis Carter. 

Stevenson. 

Director: 

Robert 

Never a Dull Moment. .106. (89). ...Nov. 22, '50 

Romantic Comedy. Sophisticated New 

York songwriter marries widowed rancher 

with two daughters. They quarrel when 

she accidentally kills a prize bull belonging 

to a neighbor, but are reconciled. Irene 

Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, 

Andy Devine, Gigi Perreau, Natalie 

Wood. Director: George Marshall. 

Our Very Own... 151. ..(93) Aug. 5, '50 

Comedy Drama. Envious girl, in a moment 

of anger, tells her older sister that 

she is an adopted child. Stunned, the girl 

goes through a period of self-pity and unhappiness 

until she realizes her blessings. 

Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans. 

Jane Wyatt, Donald Cook, Natalie Wood, 

Ann Dvorak. Director: David Miller. (Samuel 

Goldwyn.) 

Outrage. .103 (75) Oct. 7, '50 

Drama. Girl's life is wrecked by criminal 

attack. Crazed by fear she almost commits 

murder, but through friendship of 

young minister is given chance to make a 

new start. Mala Powers, Tod Andrews. 

Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Rita Lupino. 

Director: Ida Lupino. lA Filmakers 

Production.) 

Payment on Demand.... 171.. ..(90) Mar. 3 

Drama. After 20 years a husband asks his 

wife for a divorce. Flashback story of the 

marriage show causes for their unhappiness. 

At the end there is hope of a reconciliation. 

Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, 

Kent Taylor, Frances Dee. Director: Curtis 

Bernhardt. (Skirball-Manning.) 

Rio Grande Patrol... 108 ...(60) Oct. 21, '50 

Western. Two members of U.S. border patrol, 

assigned to work with the Mexican 

Rurales in a gun-smuggling case, mix it up 

with the crooks who operate a dance hall 

as a front for their activities. Tim Holt. 

Richard Martin, Jane Nigh. Director: Lesley 

Selander. 

Saddle Legion ...117... (60) Apr. 7 

Western. Two cowpunchers thwart a plot 

to make it appear a herd of cattle is infected. 

They outwit the gang and the villain 

is killed. Tim Holt, Richard Martin, 

Dorothy Malone, Cliff Clark. Director: 

Lesley Selander. 

Sealed Cargo....ll8....(90) May 1

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Communist sabotage. He is assisted by a Bride of Frankenstein... (74) June 

woman, partly implicated, and a Japanese, Horror Drama. Boris Karloff. Valerie 

formerly a college pal. Florence Marly. Hobson. Colin Clive. 

Robert Peyton, Katsuhaiko Haida. Relko 

Otani. Directors: Dorrell and Stuart Mc- Broadway. (91) June 

Gowan. (A Breakston-McGowan Pi-oduction.) 

Janet 

Drama. George Raft. Broderick Crawford, 

Blair. 

^©Treasure Island. .191 ...(96) July 29, '50 

Technicolor Drama. Made in England. 

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of pirates 

in search of hidden treasure comes to life 

on the screen. Bobby DriscoU. Robert Newton. 

Basil Sydney. Walter Fitzgerald, Denis 

O'Dea. Director: Byi-on Haskin. (Walt 

Disney.) 

Vendetta. .167. ...(84) Dec. 30, '50 

Drama. In an effort to wreak vengeance 

on the family responsible for their father's 

murder, a brother and sister accomplish 

their purpose but the girl pays with her 

life. Faith Domergue. George Dolenz. Hillary 

Brooke. Nigel Bruce. Joseph Calleia. Director: 

Mel Ferrer. 

Walk Softly, Stranger. 102... (81)... .Oct. 10, '50 

Drama. Small-time crook sees the error of 

his ways through love of crippled girl. 

Makes narrow escape from gamblers he has 

robbed. Joseph Gotten. Valli, Spring Byington. 

Paul Stewart, Jeff Donnell, John 

Mclntire. Director: Robert Stevenson. 

Where Danger Lives... .024... (84). ...Nov. 23, '50 

Drama. Story of a dangerous woman, on 

the verge of insanity, who almost ruins the 

career of a young doctor who falls in love 

with her. Robert Mitchum. Faith Domergue. 

Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan. 

Director: John Farrow. (1949-50.) 

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Bombardier....l61.... (99) Sept. '50 

Melodrama. Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, 

Anne Shirley. 

China Sky... .162. ..(78) Sept. '50 

Melodrama. Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, 

Ellen Drew. 

Lady Takes a Chance, A....164. .. (86)....Aug. '50 

Comedy. Jean Arthur. John Wayne, Charles 

Winninger. 

Mr. Lucky ...163... (100) Aug. '50 

Comedy Drama. Cary Grant. Laraine Day. 

Charles Bickford. 

Show Business....l68....(92) Nov. 16, '50 

Musical. Eddie Cantor. George Murphy. 

Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly. Constance Moore. 

Tarzan and the Amazons.. ..170 

(76) Dec. 2, '50 

Melodrama. Johnny WeissmuUer, Brenda 

Joyce, Johnny Sheffield. 

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. .169 

('2) Dec. 2, '50 

Melodrama. Johnny WeissmuUer, Brenda 

Joyce. Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta. 

They Got Me Covered. .352. ..(94) Feb. 15 

Comedy. Bob Hope. Dorothy Lamour. 

Buck Privates... (84) 

June 

Comedy. Bud Abbott. Lou Costello, Andrews 

Sisters. 

California Straight Ahead... (67) June 

Action Drama. John Wayne, Louise Latimer. 

Robert McWade. 

Cohens and Kellys in Africa... (82) Oct. 

Comedy. George Sidney. Charlie Murray. 

Vera Gordon. 

Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood. .. (78) Oct. 

Comedy. George Sidney. Charlie Murray. 

Lew Ayres. Boris Karloff. 

Condemned to Hang (formerly "Phantom 

Lady").,.. (76) 

Feb. 

Drama. Franchot Tone. Alan Curtis. Ella 

Raines. 

Confessions of a Model (formerly "Rage 

of Paris").... (78) Apr. 

Comedy. Danielle Darrieux. Douglas Fairbanks 

jr.. Louis Hayward. 

Criminals of the Underworld (formerly 

"Eyes of the Underworld ").... (61) Apr. 

Melodrama. Richard Dix. Lon Chaney. 

Wendy Barrie. 

Deadly Enemies (formerly "The 

Runaround"). ..(86) 

Feb. 

Drama. Rod Cameron. Broderick Crawford. 

Ella Raines. 

Diamond Jim... (91) 

June 

Comedy Drama. Edward Arnold, Cesar 

Romero, Jean Arthur. 

Fighting SuUivans, The (formerly 

"The SulUvans") . 

Drama. Anne 

. (Ill) 

Baxter. Thomas 

Jan. 

Mitchell, 

Selena Royle. 

Fighting the Racketeers (formerly 

"Big Town Czar"). (66) Apr. 

Action Drama. Ed Sullivan. Jack LaRue. 

Frank Jenks. 

Flame of New Orleans, The... (79) June 

Romantic Comedy. Marlene Dietrich, Bruce 

Cabot, Roland Young. 

Guerrillas of the Underground (formerly 

"Paris Underground"). (97) May 

War Drama. Constance Bennett. Gracie 

Fields. George Rigaud. 

Hired Wife. ..(96) June 

Comedy Drama. Rosalind Russell. Brian 

Aherne, Virginia Bruce. 

Hit the Road. ..(61) June 

Melodrama. Dead End Kids, Little Tough 

Guys, Evelyn Ankers, Barton MacLane. 

Little Giant... (91) yg^ 

Comedy. Bud Abbott. Lou Costello. Brenda 

Joyce. 

Man Who Reclaimed His Head, The 

(82) 

Melodrama. Claude Rains. Joan Bennett 

Wallace Ford. Lionel Atwill. 

Massacre in the Orient (formerly 

"Danger in the Pacific") (60) May 

Melodrama. Leo Carrillo. Tui-han Bey Don 

Terry. 

Mob Town (60) june 

Comedy Drama. Dead End Kids, Little 

Tough Guys, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne. 

Murders in the Rue Morgue (62) June 

Horror Drama. Bela Lugosi. Sidney Fox 

Bert Roach. 

Phantom of Paris (601 Mar. 

Mystery Melodrama. Maria Montez. Patric 

Knowles, John Litel. 

Prison Break. (72) ju„e 

Melodrama. Barton MacLane. Constance 

Moore. Glenda Farrell. Ward Bond. 

Raven, The. (61) June 

Horror Drama. Boris Karloff. Bela Lugosi. 

Irene Ware. 

River Gang ..(64) Oct. '50 

Drama. Gloria Jean, John Qualen. 

Salerno Beachhead (formerly "A Walk in 

the Sun"). ..,(117) jan. 

War Drama, Dana Andrews. Richard Conte. 

John Ireland. 

San Francisco Docks (66) Oct. '50 

Drama. Barry Fitzgerald. Burgess Meredith. 

Scarlet Street... (102) June 

Drama. Edward G. Robinson. Joan Bennett. 

Dan Duryea. 

Secrets of a Sinner (formerly 

"Sinners in Paradise"! ..(63) Apr. 

Drama. John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Madge 

Evans. 

Seven Sinners. ..(86) June 

Drama. John Wayne. Broderick Crawford, 

Marlene Dietrich. 

Son of Frankenstein ,.(94) June 

Horror Drama. Basil Rathbone. Boris Karloff, 

Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill. 

South of Tahiti (75) June 

Comedy Drama. Broderick Crawford. Maria 

Montez. Brian Donlevy. 

Spoilers, The... (87) June 

Action Drama. John Wayne. Randolph 

Scott, Marlene Dietrich. 

Stormy ,,.(68) 

June 

Drama. Noah Beery jr., Jean Rogers, J. 

Farrell MacDonald. 

Sutter's Gold... (94) June 

Drama. Edward Arnold. Lee Tracy. Binnie 

Barnes. 

Up in Arms. .452.... (105) Feb. 15 

Comedy Musical. Danny Kaye. Dana 

Andrews. Dinah Shore. 

Realart 

(All Are Rei.ssues) 

Back Street... (89) 

June 

Drama. Charles Boyer. Margaret SuUavan 

Richard Carlson. 

Badlands of Dakota... (74) 

June 

Western. Broderick Crawford. Lon Chaney 

jr.. Robert Stack. 

Black Angel. (80) jan. 

Murder Mystery. Broderick Crawford. Dan 

Duryea, June Vincent. 

122 

House of Dracula... (67) Oct. '50 

Horror Melodrama. Lon Chaney. John Carradine. 

House of Frankenstein. (71) Oct. '50 

Horror Melodrama. Boris Karloff. Lon 

Chaney jr. 

Idol of the Crowds. . 

June 

Action Drama. John Wayne. Sheila Bromley. 

Billy Burrud. 

Jungle Woman... (67) June 

Melodrama. Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, 

Lois Collier, Acquanetta. 

Letter of Introduction... (103) June 

Melodrama. George Murphy, Ann Sheridan. 

Rita Johnson. Edgar Bergen and Charlie 

McCarthy. 

Tangier... (76) 

jan. 

Melodrama. Maria Montez. Sabu, Robert 

Paige. Preston Foster. 

Time of Their Lives, The. (82) May 

Comedy. Bud Abbott. Lou Costello. Marjorie 

Reynolds. 

Tower of London... (92) June 

Historical Drama. Basil Rathbone, Boris 

Karloff. Vincent Price, Nan Grey. 

Trail of the Vigilantes. .. (75) June 

Western. Broderick Crawford. Franchot 

Tone, Peggy Moran. 

Warden of the Big House (formerly 

"The Big Guy") ..(78) June 

Melodrama. Victor McLaglen. Jackie 

Cooper, Peggy Moran. 

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Werewolf of London... (76) Mar. 

Mystery Melodrama. Henry Hull. Valerie 

Hobson. Warner Oland. 

Wolf Man. The... (70) 

June 

Horror Melodrama. Claude Rains, Ralph 

Bellamy. Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney jr.. 

Evelyn Ankers. 

Republic 

(September 15. 1950 through October 15. 1951i 

Arizona Manhunt 5068 (60) Sept. 15 

Western. Orphaned daughter of outlaw is 

cared for by the sheriff when she is found 

by his grandson. She learns to respect the 

law and helps sheriff capture the outlaw 

leader. Michael Chapin. Eilene Janssen, 

James Bell. Lucille Barkley. Director: Fred 

C. Brannon. 

Belle Le Grand .5006. ..(90) Jan. 27 

Action Drama. Notorious woman gambler 

becomes involved in mining stock speculation 

and falls in love with the mine owner. 

She and her sister become rivals for his 

affections. Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Hope 

Emerson, Grant Withers, Stephen Chase. 

John Qualen. Director: Allan Dwan. 

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas. .5066. ..(60). ...May 1 

Western. First of series featuring child 

actors. A conflict over land bearing rich 

bauxite deposits, leads to kidnaping and a 

murder. Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, 

James Bell. Director: Philip Ford. 

Bullfighter and the Lady... 5009 ...(87)....May 15 

Drama. Made in Mexico. American sportsman 

learns bullfighting from leading matador, 

who is gored to death when he rescues 

his pupil in the ring. American stages 

benefit for the widow and becomes public 

idol. Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, 

Virginia Grey, John Hubbard. Director: 

Oscar Boetticher. 

Dakota Kid, The. .5067. ...(60) July 1 

Western. Second of series featuring child 

actors. Kindly sheriff, his grandson and 

the boy's playmate reform an escaped convict 

who is brought to town by a ruthless 

saloonkeeper to aid in his crooked operations. 

Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, 

James Bell, Dann Morton. Director- Philip 

Ford. 

Fighting Coast Guard .5010 .. (86) June 1 

Drama. Veteran, determined to stay out of 

service and make money in a shipyard, is 

forced to join the Coast Guard rather than 

be drafted. Almost in spite of himself, he 

becomes a hero. Brian Donlevy, Forrest 

Tucker, Ella Raines, Richard Jaeckel. Director: 

Joseph Kane. 

Fort Dodge Stampede. 5062. ..(60) Aug. 24 

Western. Deputy .sheriff arrives in a ghost 

town searching for $30,000 in loot. A group 

of pioneers resettle the place and hero 

finds the money and the gang who stole it. 

Allan "Rocky" Lane, Chubby Johnson, Mary 

Ellen Kay, Roy Barcroft. Director: Harry 

Keller. 

Fugitive Lady .5011.... (78) July 15 

Melodrama. Made in Italy. Young wife of 

a wealthy industrialist is discovered to have 

plotted his murder which had first been 

judged an accident. Janis Paige, Binnie 

Barnes, Massimo Serato, Eduardo Ciannelli. 

Director: Sidney Salkow. 

Heart of the Rockies 5042. (67) Mar. 30 

Western. Engineer constructing highway 

using prison labor thwarts the rascally foreman 

of a ranch who has framed the workmen 

for his own crimes. Roy Rogers, Penny 

Edwards, Ralph Morgan, Gordon Jones. 

Director: William Witney. 

Hit Parade of 1951 5002 (85) Oct. 15, '50 

Musical. Professional gambler, whose 

double is a Hollywood radio singing star, 

maneuvers latter into taking his place in 

Las Vegas while he goes to Hollywood to 

get away from big-money troubles. A 

comedy of errors results from the mistaken 

identities. John Carroll, Marie McDonald, 

Estelita Rodriguez, The Firehouse Five Plus 

Two, Bobby Ramos and His Rumba Band. 

Director: John H. Auer. 

In Old AmariUo 5043.(67) May 15 

Western. Young cattleman bests an unscrupulous 

ranch manager who seeks to buy 

herds cheap by depriving their owners of 

water sources. Hero employs artificial rainmaking 

devices to aid the ranchers. Roy 

Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards, 

Roy Barcroft. Director: William Witney. 

Insurance Investigator... 5026. ..(60) Mar. 23 

Melodrama. Hero solves a series of "accidental" 

deaths, which have been costing 

his company heavily, by proving that 

gamblers have been committing the murders 

and collecting insurance benefits. Richard 

Denning, Audrey Long, John Eldredge, Hillary 

Brooke. Director: George Blair. 

California Passage .5005.... (90) Dec. 15, '50 Macbeth 5003. (85) Oct. 29, '50 

Western. Two partners in a saloon love the Drama. Screen dramatization of the 

same girl. One is secretly the leader of a Shakespearean tragedy in familiar story of 

holdup gang and plots to kill his partner, the murderous Scot and his ambitionridden 

wife. Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan. 

gain control of saloon, a gold mine and the 

girl. Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estellta Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier, 

Rodriguez, Jim 

Dan 

Davis, Peter Miles. Director: O'Herlihy. Director: Orson Welles. 

Joseph 

(Mercury 

Productions.) 

Kane. 

Cuban Fireball 5007. ..(78) Mar. 5 Million Dollar Pursuit. .5028.... (60) 

Comedy. 

May 30 

Cuban heiress disguises herself as Drama. Planning a big robbery, a smalltime 

crook is forced to 

old, ugly "aunt" to avoid wolves who might 

marry 

take two partners. 

her for her money, creating entanglements 

They bring it off but his ex-sweetheart informs 

the police. 

with immigration authorities and 

police when 

He kidnaps her but she 

she is suspected of murder. 

is rescued. Penny Edwards, Grant Withers, 

Estelita Rodriguez, Warren Douglas, Mimi Steve Flagg, Norman Budd. 

Aguglia, 

Director: R. 

Leon 

G. 

Belasco. Director: William Springsteen. 

Beaudine. 

Missing Women... .5025... (60) Feb. 23 

Melodrama. A girl sets out to find the 

killers, when her bridegroom of an hour is 

shot to death by members of a gang dealing 

in stolen cars. Penny Edwards. James 

Millican, John Gallaudet, John Alvin, Fritz 

Feld. Director: Philip Ford. 

Night Riders of Montana 5059 (60) ..Feb. 28 

Western. Hero traps a gang of cattle 

rustlers against whom ranchers have organized 

a company of state rangers. He 

clears one of the rangers of a false murder 

charge. Allan "Rocky" Lane. Claudia Barrett, 

Chubby Johnson, Roy Barcroft. Director: 

Fred C. Brannon. 

©Oh! Susanna... .5008... (90) Mar. 10 

Trucolor Historical Western. A cavalry 

company guards Sioux territory from 

marauding gold -rushers. Masquerading as 

Indians, the rushers raid ranches and the 

soldiers retaliate, leaving a small group to 

meet the real Indian attack. Rod Cameron. 

Adrian Booth. Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills, 

James Lydon. Director: Joseph Kane. 

Pride of Maryland 5023 ...(60) Jan. 20 

Drama. The hectic career of a jockey culminates 

in his riding in a race against a 

horse owned by the girl he loves. She 

respects his integrity and forgives him for 

defeating her horse. Stanley Clements, 

Peggy Stewart, Frankie Darro, Joe Sawyer. 

Director: Philip Ford. 

Ray Robinson-Randolph Turpin 

Fight. The. .5095.... (53) July 20 

Sport Film. British-made. This presents 

the full Ray Robinson-Randolph Turpin 

fight in London where Robinson lost the 

middleweight championship. Narrator: 

Jimmy Powers. (Adelphi Films.) 

Rio Grande. .5004. (105) Nov. 15, '50 

Western Drama. Estranged when he fights 

for the North in Civil War, army officer 

and his wife are reunited when son serves 

under his command in the Indian Wars. 

John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, 

Claude Jarman jr., Harry Carey jr., 

Victor McLaglen. Director: John Ford. 

(Argosy Pictures.) 

Rodeo King and the Senorita....5053 

July 15 

(67) 

Western. New rider joins wild west show 

and is able to expose plot to kill one of the 

owners and gain financial control of the 

enterprise. Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, 

Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft. Director: 

Phihp Ford. 

Rough Riders of Durango..5058....(60)....Jan. 30 

Western. Hero foils a plot to steal money 

advanced to farmers for adequate guard to 

protect their shipments of produce to 

market. Allan "Rocky" Lane, Aline Towne. 

Walter Baldwin. Steve Darrell, Ross Ford. 

Director: Fred C. Brannon. 

Secrets of Monte Carlo. .5030.... (60)....June 20 

Melodrama. American traveling by plane 

to the Orient, becomes involved in the 

doings of a jewel-smuggling gang, when he 

carries a suitcase for a fellow passenger. 

Warren Douglas, Lois Hall, June Vincent. 

Robin Hughes. Director: George Blair. 

Silver City Bonanza 5051. ..(67) Mar. 1 

Western. Unscrupulous men try to oust 

woman rancher, believing treasure is buried 

at the bottom of a lake on her property. 

Hero exposes gang and kills leader in an 

underwater fight. Rex Allen, Buddy Ebsen, 

Mary Ellen Kay. Director: George Blair. 

Spoilers of the Plains .5041. . Feb. 2 

Outdoor Musical. Oil company superintendent 

thwarts a gang of foreign agents seeking 

control of a rocket weather forecaster. 

Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, 

Grant Withers. Director: William Witney. 

Surrender 5001. ..(90) Sept. 15, '50 

Drama. Beautiful golddigger ditches husband 

and starts to acquire gambling house 

proprietor to replace him. She switches to 

a newspaper man with more money but 

husband turns up and she kills him. John 

Carroll, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, 

Francis Lederer. Director: Allan Dwan. 

Thunder in God's Country.. ..5052 

(67) Apr. 8 

Western. Hero prevents a band of criminals 

from turning a peaceful community into 

a wide-open gambling resort, aided by the 

daughter of a crusading newspaper editor 

whom they had murdered. Rex Allen, Mary 

Ellen Kay, Buddy Ebsen, Ian MacDonald. 

Director: George Blair. 

©Trail of Robin Hood. 4946 

(67) Dec. 15, '50 

Trucolor Western. A Christmas tree production 

contract gives crooks an opportunity 

to try to establish a racket, which 

is foiled by the Soil Conservation Service. 

Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Jack Holt and 

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guest stars Rex Allen, Allan "Rocky" Lane, 

Monte Hale. Director; William Witney. 

(1949-50.) 

Utah Wagon Train....5054.... (67) ...Oct. 15 

Western. Hero's uncle i.s mysteriously murdered 

when he leads a wagon train over 

a trail unused for 100 years. Nephew takes 

uncle's place with wagon party to find the 

motive and the murderer. Rex Allen. Pemiy 

Edwards, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft, 

Grant Withers. Director: Philip Ford. 

Wells Fargo Gunmaster .5061 (60) .May 15 

Western. Posing as a stick-up man. a special 

investigator for the express company 

is able to track down and capture a gang 

of outlaws who have been holding up stage 

coaches. Allan "Rocky" Lane, Chubby Johnson, 

Mary Ellen Kay, Michael Chapin. Director: 

Philip Ford. 

(RE-EDITION) 

Lost Planet Airmen. .5031. (65) July 25 

Fantasy. (Re-edited from the serial. 

"King of the Rocket Men.") Mad scientist, 

seeking to gain control of the earth through 

machines he has invented, is opposed by 

sane scientist and two newspaper people. 

He is prevented from destroying New York 

City. Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, Don 

Haggerty, House Peters jr. Director: Fred 

C. Brannon. 

20th 

Century-Fox 

(September, 1950 through September, 1951) 

All About Eve. ..030... (138) Nov. '50 

Drama. As actress receives award for her 

work, story flashes back to her rise as a 

star. Shows her as avaricious girl, masquerading 

under a cloak of innocence, who 

realizes her ambitions at the expense of 

those who had befriended her. Bette Davis, 

Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, 

Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe. Director: 

Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 

©American Guerrilla in the Philippines 

032.... (105) Dec. '50 

Technicolor Drama. A few survivors of the 

squadron which helped General MacAi'thur 

escape from Corregidor, become underground 

guerrillas. After stirring adventure.s 

they are rescued by MacArthur's forces. 

Tyrone Power, Micheline Prelle, Tom Ewell. 

Bob Patten. Director: Fritz Lang. 

As Young as You Feel. .120.... (77) June 

Comedy. Discharged as too old, a printer 

completely disorganizes the company he has 

long served by posing as its eastern president 

on an inspection tour. Monty Woolley. 

Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters, 

Contance Bennett. Director: Harmon Jones. 

©Bird of Paradise. .109. ..(100) Mar. 

Technicolor Drama. Romance of a Frenchman 

and a native South Sea island girl. 

Tragedy intervenes when she throws herself 

into a volcano as a sacrifice to the 

island gods. Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget. 

Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane, Maurice 

Schwartz. Director: Delmer Daves. 

©Call Me Mister.. .104.... (95) Feb. 

Technicolol- Musical Comedy. Estranged 

husband and wife, a former song-anddance 

team, are reunited when she plays 

with a theatrical troupe in Japan where 

he is stationed with the army of occupation. 

Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny 

Thomas. Director: Lloyd Bacon. 

©David and Bathsheba . 147 

• 115) 

Pre-release 

Technicolor Biblical Drama. (Roadshow engagements 

only.) Old Testament story of 

King David's love for the wife of one of 

his captains. Drought strikes the land and 

the adulteress is blamed. David repents 

and is forgiven by Jehovah. Gregory Peck, 

Susan Hayward. Raymond Massey. Kieron 

Moore, Jayne Meadows. Director: Henry 

King. 

Day the Earth Stood Still, The. .129 

(92) Sept. 

Fantasy. Ambassador from an outer planet 

arrives in a space ship accompanied by 

an all-powerful atomic robot. The ambassador 

is killed but the robot revives him 

and they leave with parting threats. 

Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, 

Sam Jaffe. Director: Robert Wise. 

Farewell to Yesterday. .028 .. (90) Sept. '50 

Documentary. World history from the treaty 

of Versailles, giving the background of 

events leading to World War II and Korea. 

Narration by Sidney Blackmer, John 

Larkin, Kermit Murdock, William Post jr. 

A Movietonews Production.) 

Fireball, The ...023... (84) Oct. '50 

Drama. Story of a runaway orphaii lad 

who rises to success as a skating champ, 

but becomes too cocky. An attack of polio 

makes him gain humility. Mickey Rooney, 

Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, Marilyn Monroe, 

James Brown. Director: Tay Garnett. 

(A Thor Production.) 

Follow the Sun .112... (90) May 

Biographical Drama. Life story of professional 

golfer, Ben Hogan. After a nearfatal 

accident he makes a sensational 

comeback and wins the plaudits of the 

crowd. Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis 

O'Keefe, June Havoc. Director: Sidney 

Lanfield. 

. For Heaven's Sake. .033 Dec. '50 

Comedy. An angel is assigned to help a 

little girl be born to a theatrical couple. 

He materializes as a rich rancher and 

succumbs to earthly temptations. Clifton 

Webb, Joan Bennett. Robert Cummings, 

Edmund Gwenn. Joan Blondell. Director: 

George Seaton. 

14 Hours. .114. (92) Apr. 

Drama. Heroic struggle of a patrolman to 

save the life of a young would-be suicide, 

perched on the ledge of a New York hotel 

high above the street. Paul Douglas, Richard 

Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes. Debra 

Paget. Director: Henry Hathaway. 

uFrogmen, The. .122.... (96) 

July 

Melodrama. An account of the problems of 

an officer directing operations of one of 

the navy's underwater demolition teams. 

At first unpopular, he wins confidence of 

his men by personal sacrifice. Richard 

Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill. 

Director: Lloyd Bacon. 

Guy Who Came Back, The. 118 (91) July 

Drama. Professional football player, unable 

to accept the fact he is slipping, tries to 

be an entertainer and later a wrestler, but 

without success. He makes a sensational 

comeback in a football game and is reunited 

with his family. Paul Douglas, Joan 

Bennett, Linda Darnell, Don DePore. Director: 

Joseph Newman. 

©Half Angel. 116 (80) June 

Technicolor Comedy. Victim of a split personality, 

a normally prim girl becomes a 

siren and leaves her stodgy fiance to pursue 

a more compelling romantic interest. 

Marriage to the man she really loves cures 

her. Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil 

Kellaway. Director: Richard Sale. 

©Halls of Montezuma 103. (113) Jan. 

Technicolor Drama. Exploits of a battalion 

of U.S. marines in the invasion of an 

island in the South Pacific held by the 

Japanese. Depicts the grim horrors of war. 

Richard Widmark, Walter Palance, Reginald 

Gardiner, Robert Wagner. Director: 

Lewis Milestone. 

House on Telegraph Hill 117. (93) June 

Drama. Woman steals a friend's identity 

after her death in a concentration camp. 

She comes to America to claim the dead 

woman's son and his inheritance and prevents 

his murder by a villainous guardian. 

Valentina Cortesa, William Lundigan, Richard 

Basehart. Director: Robert Wise. 

I Can Get It For You Wholesale 

111 .,.(901 Apr. 

Drama. Ambitious model builds up a garment 

business with a young salesman as 

partner. She is about to accept a wealthy 

lover when she realizes she loves her partner. 

Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George 

Sanders, Vicki Cummings. Director: Michael 

Gordon. 

©I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 

105. ..(88) Feb. 

Technicolor Drama. Rural minister and his 

bride go to a Blue Ridge mountain community 

where the difficulties seem insurmountable. 

Before they leave the people 

are completely won over. Susan Hayward, 

William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, 

Lynn Bari, Barbara Bates. Director: Henry 

King. 

©I'll Get By. .027.... (83) Oct. '50 

Technicolor Musical. Partnership of publisher 

and song writer succeeds with aid 

of two girl songsters. Publisher's romance 

hiU the rocks but smooths out when all 

four meet in the South Pacific. June Haver, 

William Lundigan, Gloria DeHaven, Dennis 

Day, Harry James. Director: Richard Sale. 

Jackpot, The 031. (87) J*Iov. '50 

Comedy. Hilarious complications when 

small town business executive answers radio 

quiz question. He suffers while trying to 

raise income tax and convince wife he is 

true. James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Patricia 

Medina, Fred Clark, Natalie Wood. 

Director: Walter Lang. 

Kelauver Senate Crime Investigation, The 

138. ,.,(52) Apr. 

News Feature. Highlights of Senate Crime 

Investigation committee hearings held in 

New York and Washington, photographed, 

compiled and edited by Movietone News. 

Frank Costello, Virginia Hill, Ambassador 

William O'Dwyer and others, Senators 

Kefauver. Tobey, O'Conor and Rudolph 

Halley, committee's chief counsel. Narration 

by Joe King. 

Lucky Nick Cain... 108... (87) 

Mar. 

Melodrama. American gambler in Italy 

finds himself the prey of an international 

counterfeit gang. He is framed on a bogus 

murder charge. George Raft, Coleen Gray, 

Charles Goldner. Walter Rilla. Director: 

Joseph Newman. (Kaydor Productions.) 

Man Who Cheated Himself, The 

102.... (81) Jan. 

Drama. Cheating wife shoots her husband 

and her paramour seeks to cover up the 

crime. His brother uncovers evidence 

against the two and the wife is brought to 

trial. Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt. 

Director: Felix E. Feist. 

©Meet Me After the Show ...125. ..(86). ...Aug. 

Technicolor Musical. Broadway producer 

has made his wife a successful star. They 

quarrel and separate when she finds he has 

a wealthy female backer. She suffers from 

amnesia but recovers and they are reconciled. 

Betty Grable. Macdonald Carey, 

Eddie Albert, Rory Calhoun, Irene Ryan. 

Director: Richard Sale. 

Millionaire for Christy, A. 127. (91) Sept. 

Comedy. Secretary sets out to marry man 

who has inherited a fortune but is already 


Arthur Freed 

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Paris" 

''Show BoaK' 

''Sinqin' in the Rain" 

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engaged. After many complications she underground leader, masked and costumed 

wins the man but he loses the fortune. as a man. comes to the aid of Louis 

Eleanor Parker, Fred MacMurray, Richard Napoleon in putting down a rebellion in 

Carlson, Una Merkel. Director: George the France of 1858. George Montgomery, 

Marshall. (A Thor Production.) 

Paula Corday, Berry Kroeger. Director: 

Maurice Geraghty. (An Edward L. Alperson 

UMister 880. 024... (90) Oct. '50 Production.! 

Comedy Drama. Lovable old junk dealer, 

whose desire to help others leads him to ©Take Care of My Little Girl... 119 

print $1 counterfeit bills. Treasury agent, (93) July 

workmg on the case, meets the old gent and Technicolor Drama. Co-ed pledges a sorority. 

they become fast friends, each unaware of 

Romance with an ex-GI, who doesn't 

the other's identity. Burt Lancaster, Dorothy 

believe in the sorority-fraternity system, 

McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, Minor Wat- 

develops, and she decides they are snobbish 

son. Director: Edmund Goulding. 

and resigns. Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, 

Mudlark, The....l01... (99) Jan. 

Historical Drama. Produced in England. 

A waterfront waif is the instrument by 

which Prime Minister Disraeli arouses the 

grieving Queen Victoria to a renewed interest 

in the affairs of her countrymen. 

Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Pinlay Currie, 

Andrew Ray. Director: Jean Negulesco. 

No Way Out. .025... (106) Oct. '50 

Drama. When a white man dies in a prison 

ward, his brother charges the Negro doctor 

murdered him. A race riot results from 

the false accusation. Richard Widmark, 

Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney 

Poitier. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 

Of Men and Music. .137.... (85) ...Special—Mar. 

Classical Music. The art of Rubinstein. 

Heifetz, Peerce, Conner and the New York 

Philharmonic Orchestra recorded in sound 

and sight for future generations. Narrated 

by Deems Taylor. Mitropoulos and 

Orchestra directed by Alex Hammid. Director: 

Irving Reis. (A World Artists Production.) 

tfOOn the Riviera. .115 (90) May 

Technicolor Comedy With Music. Entertainer, 

who is aviator's double, is persuaded 

to take his place while he leaves on a 

secret business trip. Complications result, 

involving the aviator's wife and the entertainer's 

sweetheart. Danny Kaye, Gene 

Tierney. Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio. Director: 

Walter Lang. 

People Will Talk, .126 (110) Sept. 

Comedy. Struggles of a professor of medicine 

toiie/; .">j1 his radical theory that a 

physicia"h should concern himself with human 

emotions. He saves a girl student from 

suicide and marries her. Gary Grant, 

Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, 

Walter Slezak. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 

Rawhide... 113 (86) May 

Outdoor Drama. When troopers stop a 

stagecoach at a relay station seeking 

desperadoes, a young tenderfoot assists a 

woman passenger. The desperadoes arrive 

and imprison them but are outwitted by 

the inexperienced hero. Tyrone Power 

Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Edgar 

Buchanan. Dean Jagger. Director: Henry 

Hathaway. 

Secret of Convict Lake, The....l23. (83). Aug. 

Drama. Founded on a true incident iii 

1871. Five escaped convicts from Carson 

City penitentiary make their way to a community 

of women whose men are away 

prospecting. Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney 

Ethel Barrymore, Zachary Scott. Director' 

Michael Gordon. 

©Sword of Monte Cristo, The. ...106 

•8"' 

Mar. 

•; 

ûpercinecolor Historical Drama, Woman 

Mitzi Gaynor, Jean Peters. Director: Jean 

Negulesco. 

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell... 124... (87) Aug. 

Comedy Drama. An author enters a home 

for the aged, stirs up a lively interest 13th Letter, The .107. .(85) 

among the inmates, thereby proving that 

life can be wonderful at eighty. Clifton 

Webb, Joanne Dru, Hugh Marlowe, Zero 

Mostel. Director: Henry Koster. 

Feb. 

Mystery Drama. Poison-pen writer demoralizes 

a whole town by sending a series 

of letters containing malicious gossip. The 

finger of guilt ultimately points to an 

aging doctor who is jealous of his young 

wife. Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael 

Rennie, Constance Smith, Francoise Rosay. 

Director: Otto Preminger. 

Two Flags West. .029... (92) _...Nov. '50 

Outdoor Drama. Leader and group of Confederate 

prisoners, granted amnesty to fight 

Indians, desert fort where they are assigned. 

When it is attacked, and commander 

sacrifices his life, they return to 

fight. Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff 

Chandler, Cornel Wilde. Director: Robert 

Wise. 

You're in the Navy Now (formerly 

"U.S.S. Teakettle") ...llO... (93) Apr. 

Comedy. Engineer, after a short training 

period, is placed in command of an experimental 

submarine chaser by the navy. The 

crew is equally inexperienced and the vessel 

suffers repeated breakdowns. Gary 

Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie 

Albert. Director: Henry Hathaway. 

(REISSUES) 

©Jesse James. ...157.... (106) July 

Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Tyrone Power. 

Nancy Kelly, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott' 

©Kentucky. .150.... (96) 

July 

Technicolor Melodrama. Loretta Young, 

Richard Greene, Walter Brennan. 

©My Friend Flicka... 152 ... (89) June 

Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Roddy Mc- 

Dowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson. 

©Return of Frank James, The 

158.... (92) July 

Technicolor Outdoor Melodrama. Henry 

Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper. 

©Smoky... .143. ..(87) 

June 

Technicolor Outdoor Melodrama. Fred 

MacMurray, Anne Baxter. Bruce Cabot. 

©Thunderhead—Son of Flicka. .151 

(78) June 

Technicolor Outdoor Drama. Roddy Mc- 

Dowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson. 


(September 1, 1950 through October 21, 1951) 

Badman's Gold. .262. ..(56) Apr. 3 

Western. Assigned to catch a gang stealing 

shipments of gold en route to the mint, 

a representative of the law is aided by a 

girl, her brother and a dog. They win in 

an open gunfight. Johnny Carpenter, Alyn 

Lockwood, Troy Tarrell, Kenne Duncan. 

Director: Robert Tansey. 

Blue Lamp, The. ,016.... (84) Mar. 1 

Melodrama. How the British police combat 

crime, as seen through the experiences 

of a rookie London "bobby." Dirk 

Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, 

Peggy Evans. Patric Doonan. Director: 

Basil Dearden. (J. Arthur Rank.) 

Border Outlaws 260. ..(58) Nov. 2, '50 

Western. Two cowboys seek a "Phantom 

Rider" and his gang of cattle thieves only 

to discover they are actually narcoticssmugglers 

and murderers. Spade Cooley, 

Maria Hart, Bill Edwards, Bill Kennedy. 

Director: Richard Talmadge. (A United 

International Picture.) 

Circle of Danger. .207 .. (86) Mar. 22 

Drama. British-made. American goes to 

England seeking the reason why his brother 

was the only one killed in a World War IT 

raid. Learns brother was shot because he 

had endangered the whole mission. Ray 

Milland. Patricia Roc, Marias Goring, 

Naunton Wayne. Director: Jacques Tourneur. 

(Released in England under title of 

"White Heather.") 

Cyrano de Bergerac. 660. (112) July 20 

Drama. The great poet-swordsman, of the 

huge nose, wins his cousin Roxane, whom 

he loves, for another man. Only at his 

death does she realize she has always loved 

Cyrano. Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, Morris 

Carnovsky, William Prince. Director: 

Michael Gordon. (Stanley Kramer.) 

Fablola....651....(96) June 1 

Drama. Italian-made. English dialog 

dubbed in. Persecution of the Christians 

in Rome, and their deliverance by the 

legions of the Emperor Constantlne. 

Michele Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel 

Simon, Gino Cervi. Director: Alessandro 

Blasetti. (Jules Levey.) 

First Legion, The. .648.... (86) May 11 

Drama. Agnostic doctor fakes a miracle 

within the ranks of the Jesuit Order. When 

pilgrims flock to the monastery a real 

miracle occurs, restoring the faith of the 

doctor. Charles Boyer, Leo G. Carroll, Walter 

Hampden, William Demarest, H. B. 

Warner: Director: Douglas Sirk. 

Four in a Jeep 1139. .. (97) Aug. 17 

Drama. Filmed in Vierma against the 

background of Allied occupation of Austria. 

The relationship of four soldiers representing 

each of the great powers as they patrol 

the city in a jeep of the international military 

police. Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker, 

Joseph Yadin, Michael Medwin, Dinan, 

Director: Leopold Lindtberg. 

Gold Raiders J172.... (56) Sept. 14 

Western. Hero makes a deal with mine 

owners to protect their ore shipments. 

Aided by three zany proprietors of a variety 

store he captures the marauders 

and writes insurance on all the mines. 

George O'Brien, The Three Stooges, 

Sheilah Ryan, Clem Bevans. Director: Edward 

Bernds. 

Golden Salamander, The.. .271 

(96) Dec. 1, '50 

Drama. British-made and filmed in North 

Africa. English archeologist discovers a 

gun-smuggling ring in Algiers. At first indifferent, 

he is spurred to act against the 

criminals by a Greek proverb he reads on 

a small statue. Anouk, Trevor Howard, 

Herbert Lom, Miles Malleson, Walter Rilla. 

Director: Ronald Neame. (J. Arthur Rank.) 

He Ran All the Way. .646.... (77) July 13 

Drama. A thug kills a policeman during a 

payroll holdup and hides out in the apartment 

home of a girl he has picked up. He 

terrorizes her family and when he tries to 

kidnap her she shoots him. John Garfield, 

Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena 

Royle, Gladys George. Director: John 

Berry. (A Roberts Production.) 

Hoodlum, The. 653. (61) July 27 

Melodrama. Paroled convict, feeling the 

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world is against him, repays his brother's 

kindness in giving him a job by stealing 

his girl and staging a robbery. He is slain 

by the police. Lawrence Tierney, Allene 

Roberts, Marjorie Riordan. Director: Max 

Nosseck. (Jack Schwarz Productions.) 

Hotel Sahara....ll43 .. (87) Oct. 15 

Comedy Drama. British-made. A North 

African luxury hotel is taken over by 

French, Italian, British, German and 

American soldiers at different intervals 

during the war. The proprietor has a struggle 

to retain his property and his .sweetheart. 

Yvonne De Carlo. Peter Ustinov, 

Mirielle Perrey, David Tomlinson. Director: 

Ken Annakin. iJ. Arthur Rank.i 

Kangaroo Kid. The. .037.... (73) Oct. 22, '50 

Western. Made in Australia. American 

range detective goes to Australia in search 

of a fugitive and to solve gold mine robberies. 

First suspected of the crime himself, 

eventually he traps the criminals. Jock 

O'Mahoney, Veda Ann Borg, Douglass Dumbrille, 

Alan Gifford. Director: Lesley 

Selander. 

Korea Patrol. 211... (57) Jan. 15 

War Drama. A patrol of American and 

Korean soldiers is instructed to hold a 

bridge near the 38th parallel. After all 

but one are wounded, the last man blows 

up the bridge. Richard Emory, Benson 

Fong, Al Eben, Li Sun, Teri Duna. Director: 

Max Nosseck. (Jack Schwarz Productions.) 

Long Dark Hall. The. .214 ...(86) Apr. 10 

Drama. British-made. A philandering husband 

is convicted of the murder of his 

paramour. The real criminal writes the 

police a gloating letter and is caught in 

time to save the innocent man. Rex Harrison. 

Lilli Palmer, Denis O'Dea, Raymond 

Huntley. Co-directors: Anthony Bushell, 

Reginald Beck. 

Man From Planet X, The 647 (70) .4pr. 27' 

Fantasy. Man from another planet arrives 

in a space ship. Inclined to be friendly at 

first, when he abused he terrorizes the 

is 

countryside and is destroyed by artillery 

fire. Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond 

Bond, William Schallert. Director: 

Edgar G. Ulmer. (Mid-Century Films.) 

Man With My Face, The 659... (75) June 8 

Mystery Drama. Filmed in Puerto Rico. 

Double poses as an American accountant, 

usurping his position in his home with 

the assistance of the man's own wife. They 

plan to kill him but with the aid of an 

ex-sweetheart the plot is turned against the 

villain. Barry Nelson. Carole Mathews, 

John Harvey, Lynn Ainley. Director; Edward 

J. Montaigne. (Edward F. Gardner.) 

Mister Drake's Duck .655... (76) Sept. 21 

Comedy. Honeymooning couple discovers 

one duck among five dozen on their farm 

lays eggs containing uranium. Great turmoil 

results when the government steps 

In to try to isolate the atomic duck. Douglas 

Fairbanks jr., Yolande Donlan, A, E. 

Matthews, Reginald Beckwith. Director: 

Val Guest. (Douglas Fairbanks-Daniel M. 

Angel.) 

Mister Universe... 208... (90) Jan. 10 

Comedy. Small-time barker manages winner 

of the Perfect Man contest as a wrestler. 

He and the promoter outsmart themselves 

and end up as wrestlers themselves, 

working out their betting losses. Jack Carson, 

Janis Paige, Bert Lahr, Robert Alda, 

Vincent Edwards. Director: Joseph Lerner. 

(Laurel Films. 

Mr. Peek-a-Boo... 1146....(74) Oct. 21 

Fantasy Comedy. French-made. Exploit,s 

of a middle-aged clerk who discovers he can 

walk through solid walls. He falls in love 

with a beautiful thief and sets out to prove 

to her that crime does not pay. Joan 

Greenwood, Bourvil, Marcel Arnold, Roger 

Treville. Director; Jean Boyer. (Arthur 

Sachson Enterprises. 

My Outlaw Brother (formerly "My 

Brother, the Outlaw"). ...209. ..(82). ..Mar. 15 

Melodrama. In Mexico about 1900, a young 

man, trying to help a Texas Ranger catch 

a famed bandit, discovers the bandit is his 

own brother in disguise. Mickey Rooney. 

Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert 

Stack. Director: Elliott Nugent. (Benedict 

Bogeaus.) 

Naughty Arlette....226.... (86) Mar. 9 

Comedy. British-made. Middle-aged professor 

falls for charms of a teen-age student. 

At first he plans to desert his family 

but later sees the error in the new 

relationship. Mai Zetterling, Hugh Williams, 

Margot Grahame, Petula Clark. Director: 

Edmond T. Greville. 

©New Mexico. .649... (78) Aug. 24 

Ansco Color Western. Sacrifice of his own 

life by a cavalry captain as he deliberately 

blows up a large ammunition cache rather 

than allow it to fall into the hands of 

Indians in the rebellion of 1860. Lew Ayres, 

Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton. 

Director; Irving Reis. (Irving Allen. 

Obsessed.. .1188. ..(77) Sept. 7 

Drama. British-made. The rich, dominating 

wife of a schoolteacher dies, freeing 

her husband to marry his clandestine mistress. 

Poison is discovered in the body 

and the lovers accuse each other of the 

murder. David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald. 

Roland Culver, Jean Cadell. Director; 

Maurice Elvey. 

Odette .652.... (105) May 15 

Autobiographical Drama. British-made. 

Ti'ue story of Odette Sanson's experiences 

as a British military intelligence agent in 

World War II. She is sent to Ravensbruck 

concentration camp and liberated when the 

Allies invade France. Anna Neagle, Trevor 

Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov. Director: 

Herbert Wilcox. (Released earlier 

in year by Lopert Films.) 

Oliver Twist. .216. ..(105) Apr. 27 

Drama. Based on the Charles Dickens classic 

familiar to all. John Howard Davies, 

Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Alec Guinness, 

Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson. Director: 

David Lean. (J. Arthur Rank.) 

One Minute to Twelve... .203. ..(75) Oct. 1, '50 

Drama. Made in Sweden, with English 

dialog. Atomic scientist destroys him.self 

and his laboratory rather than allow sinister 

interests to ?ain control of his discoveries 

for ulterior uses. Lars Hanson, Gunnel 

Brostrom, Olaf Bergstrom, Nils Dahlgren, 

Anna Lindahl. Director: Goran Gentele. 

Paper Gallows. .220.. ..(69) Sept. 22, '51 

Drama. British-made. One of two brothers 

who collaborate in writing mystery 

stories, becomes so obsessed with idsas o;i 

crime that he commits a murder. Jealousy 

then drives him to plot to make his brother's 

sweetheart his second victim. Dermot 

Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley. Director: 

John Guillermin. (Adelphi Films, 

Ltd.) 

NOTE: "Paper Gallows," though originally 

released by Eagle Lion Classics, has 

since been turned back to the producers. 

Pardon My French. ...1402. ...(81) Aug. 10 

Comedy. Boston schoolteacher inherits a 

French chateau but finds it is occupied by 

squatters led by a young composer and his 

four motherless children. Romance develops 

between the two. Paul Henreid, Merle 

Oberon, Paul Bonifas, Jim Gerald. Director: 

Bernard Vorhaus. (Cusick International.) 

©Prehistoric Women. .205. ...(74) Nov. 1, '50 

Cinecolor Drama. Six cave women must 

find husbands. They capture several men 

who know the .secret of fire. Love comes 

to the two leaders and a new tribe is 

formed. Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Mara 

Lynn. Director: Gregg Tallas. (Alliance 

Productions.) 

Prowler, The 650. (92) May 25 

Melodrama. Called to investigate a prowler, 

policeman falls in love with the housewife. 

After an illicit affair he kills her husband. 

They marry, a baby is born, but he is 

killed in a battle with police. Evelyn Keyes, 

Van Heflin, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, 

Emerson Treacy. Director; Joseph 

Losey. (Horizon Pictures.) 

Queen for a Day (alternate title 

"Horsie"). .645...(107) July 7 

Drama. Stories of the dream fulfillment 

three different women achieve by becoming 

winners of the Mutual Network radio 

show and "Queen for a Day." Phyllis 

Avery, Darren McGavin. Rudy Lee, A(3am 

Williams. Edith Meiser, Dan Tobin. Director: 

Arthur Lubin. (Robert Stillman Productions. 

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©River, The. ..(99) Special—Sept. 10 

Technicolor Drama. Events here stem from 

the crushes three adolescent girls have 

on an American amputee war veteran, visiting 

his cousin in India. Each girl re- 

.sponds differently to the attachment and 

all recover when the hero leaves. Nora 

Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, 

Thomas E. Breen, Suprova Mukerjee, Patricia 

Walters, Radha. Director: Jean 

Renoir. 

©Rogue River 201. (79) Nov. 15, '50 

Cinecolor Western. Father and son engage 

in deadly combat for possession of a fortune 

in gold dust, the loot from a bank robbery. 

Rory Calhoun, Peter Graves, Prank Fenton, 

EUye Marshall. Director: John Rawlins. 

(Ventura Pictures.) 

Scarf, The. ...644.... (86) JVpr. 6 

Drama. Deals with the efforts of a man, 

unjustly committed to an asylum for the 

criminally insane, to prove himself both 

sane an(i innocent of the crime charged 

against him. Emlyn Williams, John Ireland, 

Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton. 

Director; E. A. Dupont. (Goldsmith- 

Caspary.) 

Second Face, The .204. . Oct. 15, '50 

Drama. Unattractive gnl, transformed into 

a beauty through plastic surgery, finds true 

love through her former employer who had 

made the operation possible. Ella Raines, 

Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson, John Sutton, 

Patricia Knight. Director; Jack Bernhard. 

Second Woman, The. .639. ..(91) Mar. 16 

Drama. Young architect becomes mentally 

depressed over a series of misfortunes that 

beset him. Girl with a statistical mind 

inearths facts proving architect is the victim 

of a group of sinister schemers. Robert 

Young. Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Henry 

O'Neill, Florence Bates. Director: James 

V. Kern. (Harry M. Popkin.) 

Skipalong Rosenbloom. .213 . Apr. 20 

Novelty Western. Outlaw and his gang are 

bested by an amateur peace officer, the 

nephew of a man they plan to fleece by 

taking control of his property for his gambling 

debts. Maxie Rosenbloom, Max Baer. 

Jackie Coogan, Fuzzy Knight, Hillary 

Brooke, Jacqueline Fontaine. Director: Sam 

Newfield. 

So Long at the Fair... 270... (85) Mar. 29 

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of events surrounding the disappearance 

of a young man who, with his sister, had 

arrived in Paris to attend the Exposition 

of 1889. Young artist helps girl find her 

brother, and a romance develops. Jean 

Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, 

Cathleen Ne.sbitt, Felix Aylmer. Directors: 

Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough. (J. 

Arthur Rank.) 

St. Benny, the Dip....658....(80) Aug. 24 

Comedy Drama. The regeneration of three 

confidence men after they disguise themselves 

as priests to escape the law. One 

devotes himself to good works, one returns 

to his deserted family and the third finds 

romance. Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland 

Young, Lionel Stander. Director: Edgar G. 

Ulmer. (Danziger Bros.) 

Sun Sets at Dawn, The. .046. ..(71) Jan. 22 

Melodrama. Short circuit in the electric 

chair delays execution of innocent man, 

convicted of murder, and real killer is 

trapped into confession by a prison trusty. 

Sally Parr, Philip Shawn, Walter Reed. 

Director: Paul H. Sloane. 

Taming of Dorothy, The. .224 

(75) Sept. 20, '50 

Comedy. British-made. Domineering wife 

of mild-mannered bank clerk is subjugated 

by his gangster double. When the 

cops and robbers chase is over, husband 

continues as a caveman and captivates 

wife. Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Margaret 

Rutherford. Director: Mario Soldati. (Renown-Lux.) 

They Were Not Divided. .275.(102)... .Feb. 8 

Drama. British-made. Experiences of two 

soldiers, one English, the other American, 

in World War II. When the American is 

wounded the Englishman refuses to leave 

him and they die together. Edward Underdown, 

Ralph Clanton, Michael Brennan, 

Helen Cherry. Director: Terence Young. 

(J. Arthur Rank.) 

Three Husbands... .642. ..(78) Nov. 3, '50 

Comedy. At death bachelor leaves letters 

indicating he has had affairs with wives 

of three friends. Wives inherit his fortune 

and husbands at last reverse the condemning 

attitudes they have assumed. 

Emiyn Williams, Eve Arden. Ruth Warrick, 

Howard da Silva. Director: Irving Reis 

(Goldsmith-Caspary.) 

Three Steps North. .657.... (85) June 15 

Drama. Made in Italy. Sordid experiences 

of dishonorably discharged GI who returns 

to Italy to recover a fortune made in the 

black market during the war, which he had 

buried m a field later converted into a military 

cemetery. Lloyd Bridges, Aldo 

Fabrizi, Leo Padovani. Director- W Lee 

Wilder. 

Try and Get Me (formerly "The 

Sound of Fury") ...643.... (92) May 4 

Melodrama. Ex-GI drifts into petty crime 

When his partner murders a kidnaped boy 

the two are lynched by a mob inflamed by 

a newspaperman's radical articles Frank 

IrfOvejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, 

Lloyd Bridges. Director: Cyril Endfield. 

(Robert Stillman Productions.) 

Two Gals and a Guy ...654... (70) Aug 31 

Comedy With Music. Complications which 

result when a TV husband-and-wife team 

breaks up because he stops her adoption of 

a child. The difficulties are worked out 

and they adopt a family of four. Robert 

Alda, Jams Paige, James Gleason. Director: 

Alfred E. Green. (Weisner Bros.) 

Two Lost Worlds. .202. ..(60) Oct. 29, '50 

Adventure Drama. A group of people, shipwrecked 

on an uncharted island, encounter 

prehistoric monsters and survive an erupt- 

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Gloria Petroff, William Kennedy. Director: 

Norman Dawn. (Sterling Productions.) 

Well, The .1145.... (85) Pre-release—Sept. 

Drama. Negroes and whites become aroused 

over the disappearance of a little Negro 

girl. When race riots are imminent the 

child is found to have fallen into an abandoned 

well. Richard Rober, Barry Kelly, 

Henry Morgan, Christine Larson. Directors: 

Leo Popkin, Russell Rouse. 

When I Grow Up .215 (90) Apr. 20 

Drama. Unhappy boy reads his grandfather's 

boyhood diary and realizes he is not 

the only one who has ever been in trouble 

and that his parents really love him. Bobby 

Driscoll, Robert Preston, Martha Scott, 

Charley Grapewin, Henry Morgan. Director: 

Michael Kanin. (Horizon Pictures.) 

Wicked City, The... 206... (76) Jan. 2 

Melodrama. French-made with English dialog. 

Canadian seaman meets and loves a 

French cafe girl. Her bad character and 

criminal associates lead him to murder her. 

Maria Montez, Jean Pierre Aumont, Lilli 

Palmer, Marcel Dalio. Director: Francois 

Villiers. 

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City Lights....635....(85) Sept. 1, '50 

Comedy. Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, 

Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann. 

(Celebrated Films.) 

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Invisible Man....ll6....(82) Mar. 

Comedy. As amateur detectives the comics 

catch the real criminal when a fighter is 

falsely accused of murdering his manager. 

By a miracle serum the fighter is made 

invisible and assists in the proceedings. 

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, 

Adele Jergens. Director: Charles Lamont. 

Air Cadet. ..115. ..(94) 

JVIar. 

Comedy Drama. Three air cadets are sent 

to Arizona for jet training under an officer 

who is a hard taskmaster. After misunderstandings 

and misadventures the men 

become friends. Stephen McNally, Alex 

Nicol, Gail Russell, Richard Long. Director: 

Joseph Pevney. 

©Apache Drums. ...123.. ..(75) 

June 

Technicolor Western. Gambler is run out 

of town, persecuted by a minister and the 

mayor. He returns to lead the fight against 

an Apache raid. Stephen McNally, Coleen 

Gray, WUlard Parker, Arthur Shields. Director: 

Hugo Pregonese. 

Bedtime for Bonzo....ll2 .... (83) Feb. 

Comedy. In an effort to prove environment 

stronger than heredity, young psychology 

is 

professor undertakes experiment to bring 

up a baby chimpanzee as a child. Ronald 

Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Jesse 

White. Director: Frederick de Cordova. 

©Cattle Drive.. .128... .(77) Aug. 

Technicolor Western. Spoiled 14-year-old 

son of railroad magnate joins a cattle drive. 

Association with a veteran cowhand makes 

a man of him. Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, 

Leon Ames, Chill Wills. Director: 

Kurt Neumann. 

Comin' Round the Mountain....l27....(77)....July 

Comedy. The boys go to Kentucky where 

they become involved in an old feud between 

the McCoys and the Winfields. The 

various characters drink a "love potion" 

which adds considerably to the confusion. 

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, 

Kirby Grant. Director: Charles Lamont. 

. Deported .103 Nov. '50 

Action Drama. Filmed in Italy. American 

gangster, deported to his native Italy, tries 

to gain control of the Italian black market 

ring. Love for a widowed countess 

causes him to do an about-face and smash 

the ring. Marta Toren, Jeff Chandler, 

Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti. Director: 

Robert Siodmak. 

©Double Crossbones. .119....(75) 

Apr. 

Technicolor Comedy With Music. Shop 

clerk, by accident, finds himself master of 

a pirate ship deserted by the crew. He 

organizes labor prisoners into a crew and 

turns buccaneer. Donald O'Connor, Helena 

Carter, Will Geer, John Emery. Director: 

Charles T. Barton. 

Fat Man, The...a20.... (77) 

May 

Melodrama. Detective solves murder of a 

dentist who had X-rayed the teeth of a 

crook and would have been able to identify 

his body. Murderer, a circus clown, is 

trapped on a high wire. J. Scott Smart, 

Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg, 

Emmett Kelly. Director: William 

Castle. 

Francis Goes to the Races....l25.... (88)....July 

Comedy. The "talking" mule makes friends 

with racehorses at the track, supplying 

tips to his youthful companion which enable 

him to win a seven-horse parlay. 

There is conflict with a gang of crooks. 

Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway, 

Jesse White. Director: Arthur Lubin. 

©Frenchie...l08 ....(80) 

Jan. 

Technicolor Western Drama. Woman owner 

of a gambling casino, seeking the two 

men who killed her father, is assisted by 

the local sheriff. When one of the men is 

murdered, the sheriff is suspected. Joel 

McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa 

Lanchester. Director: Louis King. 

©Golden Horde, The... 134... (76) Oct. 

Technicolor Melodrama. The forces of 

Genghis Khan storm Samarkand where its 

beautiful princess plans to defend herself 

by intrigue. When the situation seems 

hopeless, a band of English Crusaders 

comes to her rescue. Ann Blyth, David 

Farrar, George Macready, Richard Egan, 

Peggie Castle. Director: George Sherman. 

Groom Wore Spurs, The.. ..114.... (81) Mar. 

Comedy. Woman lawyer, engaged to get a 

cowboy star out of a gambling debt jam, 

falls for, and marries, him. He is charged 

with murder and she clears him. Ginger 

Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Mira Mc- 

Kinney. Director: Richard Whorf. (Fidelity 

Pictures.) 

UHarvey....l07....(104) _ Jan. 

Comedy. Amiable alcoholic captivates 

everyone with his imaginary companion, a 

giant white rabbit named Harvey. Even 

the doctors at a mental institution decide 

he should be allowed to keep his delusion. 

James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, 

Jesse White, Cecil Kellaway. Director: 

Henry Koster. 

Hollywood Story .124... (77) June 

Mystery Drama. In an abandoned Hollywood 

studio a New York stage producer 

prepares to make a picture about an unsolved 

murder committed there years before. 

He solves the crime and captures the 

killer. Richard Conte, Julia Adams, Henry 

Hull, Fred Clark. Director: William Castle. 

Iron Man... .130... (82) 

Aug. 

Drama. Prizefighter discovers his wife and 

his promoter-brother have arranged to 

have a fight thrown in his favor. He breaks 

with them, loses an important match, 

but is reconciled with his wife. Jeff Chandler, 

Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock 

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Pevney. 

©Kansas Raiders ...104... (80) Nov. '50 

Technicolor Western Drama. The James 

brothers join Quantrill's guerrillas, looting 

and burning in the attack on Lawrence, 

Kas. Quantrill saves Je.sse's life at the sacrifice 

of his own. Brian Donlevy, Audie 

Murphy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, 

Richard Arlen. Director: Ray Eru-ight. 

Katie Did It..._122....(81) May 

Comedy. Girl upsets a staid New England 

town when she poses for an artist. Believing 

he is married, she plans to wed her 

home-town suitor but the artist wins her 

in a split-second finish. Ann Blyth, Mark 

Stevens, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Craig 

Stevens. Director: Frederick de Cordova. 

©Lady From Texas, The ...136 ... (78) Oct. 

Technicolor Comedy Western. Hero and 

heroine strive to prevent a crafty ranch 

owner from gaining control of the property 

of a kindly but eccentric old widow, 

by having her declared mentally incompetent. 

Howard Duff, Mona Freeman, Josephine 

Hull, Craig Stevens. Director: Joseph 

Pevney. 

Little Ballerina... 182 ...(60) Not set 

Dramatic IVIusical. British-made. The 

strugggles of an earnest young dancing 

pupil to continue her studies and win recognition. 

Includes several ballet sequences. 

Yvonne Marsh, Marion Chapman, Doreen 

Richards, Margot Fonteyn. Martita Hunt. 

Director: Lewis Gilbert. (J. Arthur Rank.) 

©Little Eeypt....l31....(82) Sept. 

Technicolor Comedy Drama. Tobacco magnate 

puts up cash to transplant a street 

of old Cairo to the Chicago Fair in 1893. 

A "hootchy-kootchy" dance by the girl 

friend of the promoter becomes a hit. 

Rhonda Fleming, Mark Stevens, Nancy 

Guild, Charles Drake. Director: Frederick 

de Cordova. 

WLouisa.. .926... (90) Sept. '50 

Comedy. Bossy mother-in-law is suddenly 

transformed by a romance with the local 

storekeeper, and the whole household is 

thrown into one mirthful situation after 

another. Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, 

Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn, Spring 

Byington. Director: Alexander Hall (1949- 

.50.) 

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm 

117.... (80) Apr. 

Farce. Ma and Pa become grandparents 

and, to make room for the baby and its 

fu.ssy nurse, the family moves back to the 

farm. Discovery of uranium on the property 

brings complications. Marjorie Main, 

Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall. 

Ray Collins. Director: Edward Sedgwick. 

Madeleine .983. (101) Sept. '50 

Murder Mystery. British-made film based 

on a murder case of 1857 in Scotland, in 

which a girl goes to trial for the fatal 

poisoning of her clandestine lover. Ann 

Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie 

Banks. Director: David Lean. (J. Arthur 

Rank.) — (1949-50.) 

Magnet, The. 181. (78) Feb. 

Comedy Drama. British-made. A boy executes 

a series of childish "trades," acquiring 

and later losing ownership of a powerful 

magnet, in the course of which he 

sparks a campaign for raising funds for 

an iron lung. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, 

William Fox, Meredith Edwards. Director: 

Charles Frend. (J. Arthur Rank.) 

©Mark of the Renegade .129.... (81) jiug. 

Technicolor Drama. Mexican pirates are 

forced into the battle between those trying 

to establish early California as a republic 

and a despot who wishes to become 

its emperor. Richardo Montalban, Cyd 

C'narisse, J. Carrol Naish, Gilbert Roland, 

Andrea King. Director: Hugo Fregonese. 

Milkman, The 102. (87) JJov. '50 

Comedy With Music. Playboy, son of 

wealthy dairy owner, goes to work as a 

milkman for a rival dairy, under the wing 

of his buddy—a milkman veteran of 25 

years. The two become involved in all 

sorts of zany goings-on, including a brush 

with gangsters. Donald O'Connor, Jimmy 

Durante. Joyce Holden, Piper Laurie, Elisabeth 

Risdon, Henry O'Neill. Director: 

Charles T. Barton. 

Mystery Submarine. .106... (78) Dec. '50 

Melodrama. Nazi U-boat, still active after 

World War II, is found by U.S. Navy Intelligence 

officer. By a ruse he rescues its 

two captives and causes it to be destroyed. 

Macdonald Carey, Marta Toren, Robert 

Douglas, Ludwig Donath, Carl Esmond. Director: 

Douglas Sirk. 

Operation Disaster .113. . (100) Feb. 

Drama. British-made. Events following a 

peacetime submarine disaster. Eight sm-- 

vivors are trapped and after seven days 

of work by a salvage crew, a storm makes 

it necessary to abandon the effort. John 

Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, 

James Hayter. Director: Roy Baker. 


Pool of London 183... (86) Sept. 

Drama. British-made. Man engaged in 

smuggling asks his friend to make a delivery 

for him. Package contains diamonds 

and friend is arrested. Hero gives himself 

up to clear the friend. Bonar Colleano, 

Susan Shaw, Renee Asherson, Earl Cameron, 

Moira Lister. Dii'ector: Basil Dearden. 


Prelude to Fame 180 (77'-) Nov. '50 

Drama With Music. British import. Child, 

exceptionally gifted musically, is dominated 

and exploited by a selfish woman for her 

own aggrandizement. She seeks, unsuccessfully, 

to alienate him from his family. 

Jeremy Spenser, Kathleen Byron, Guy 

Rolfe, Henry Oscar. Director: Fergus Mc- 

Donell. (J. Arthur- Rank.) 

©Prince Who Was a Thief, The. .126 

(88) July 

Technicolor Romantic Drama. Stolen m 

babyhood, the real prince grows up as a 

thief. He raids the royal treasure house, 

is recognized as the true heir and ousts 

the false ruler. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, 

Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey. Du-ector: Rudolph 

Mate. 

Reunion in Reno. .135. .. (80) Oct. 

Drama. Little girl goes to Reno to divorce 

her parents. She is befriended by a young 

lawyer, a court stenographer and a kindly 

judge, who are able to arrange a reconciliation 

for the family. Mark Stevens, Peggy 

Dow, Gigi Perreau, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson. 

Director: Kurt Neumann. 

©Smuggler's Island. .121.... (75) 

May 

Technicolor Melodrama. Adventuress forces 

a captain to use his ship and diving equipment 

to recover sunken gold and smuggle 

it into Hong Kong. Through her weakling 

husband they lose the gold but find each 

other. Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip 

Friend. Director: Edward Ludwig. 

Target Unknown. 111. (90) Feb. 

War Drama. Crew of a bomber, shot down 

over Germany, unwittingly discloses a 

planned raid on a fuel dump. They escape 

and radio information to American bombers 

on changed location of target. Mark 

Stevens, Robert Douglas, Alex Nicol, Don 

Taylor. Joyce Holden, Gig Young. Director: 

George Sherman. 

Thunder on the Hill 133 (84) Sept. 

Mystery Drama. Group of flood sufferers 

takes refuge in a convent. A nun interests 

herself in a young girl among them 

who is accused of murder. Turning detective, 

she finds the real murderer. Claudette 

Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas. 

Anne Crawford. Philip Friend, Gladys 

Cooper. Director: Douglas Sirk. 

©Tomahawk. .110... (82) 

Feb. 

Technicolor Super-Western. Indian scout 

and army officer are enemies and rivals 

for a girl. They fight together to quell 

a Sioux uprising and the officer is killed. 

Van Heflin. Yvonne De Carlo, Pj-eston Foster, 

Jack Oakie. Director: George Sherman. 

Under the Gun. .109 .. (83) Jan. 

Drama. Gangster, convicted on evidence 

given by a woman, plots vengeance. He 

engineers the escape of a fellow convict, 

then shoots him in a bid for a pardon. 

Richard Conte. Audrey Totter. John Mc- 

Intire, Sam Jaffe. Director: Ted Telzlaff. 

Undercover Girl. .105 (82) Dec. '50 

Drama. Girl becomes policewoman to track 

down her father's killer. She poses as a 

dope peddler, is found out, but makes good 

and carries through to her objective. Alexis 

Smith, Scott Brady, Richard Egan, Gladys 

George. Director: Joseph Pevney. 

Up Front 118... (92) Apr. 

War Comedy. Adventures of two foot soldiers 

in Italy, where they battle with the 

military police more often than with the 

enemy. David Wayne. Tom Ewell. Jeffrey 

Lynn, Marina Berti. Director: Alexander 

Hall. 

Woman on the Run. .932. ..(77) Oct. '50 

Melodrama. Beautiful wife of artist who 

disappears after witnessing a murder, enlists 

the help of a reporter to find him. 

Reporter is the actual murderer and is 

shot by astute detective. A:in Sheridan, 

Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Frank Jenks, 

John Qualen. Director: Norman 

(Fidelity Pictures.)—(1949-50.) 

Foster. 

©Wyoming Mail .931 (87) Oct. '50 

Technicolor Western Drama. Barnstorming 

pugilist in post-Civil War days becomes 

undercover agent for railway mail 

system and wipes out an organized band 

of mail train robbers. Stephen McNally, 

Alexis Smith, Howard da Silva, Ed Begley. 

Director: Reginald LeBorg. (1949-50.) 

You Never Can Tell... 132... (78) Sept. 

Comedy. Dog inherits a fortune and Is 

cared for by a beautiful girl. He is poisoned 

but returns from dog heaven in 

human form to solve his murder and develop 

a romance with the girl. Dick Powell, 

Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Joyce Holden. 

Director: Lou Breslow. 

Warner Bros. 

(September 2, 1950 through August 11, 1951) 

Along the Great Divide... .025... (88) June 2 

Western Drama. U.S. marshal, interrupts 

a lynching and crosses the desert with the 

accused man in custody, to bring him to 

trial. When a quick conviction follows, the 

marshal is able to prove the man innocent. 

Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, 

Walter Brennan. Director: Raoul Walsh. 

Breaking Point, The ...005... (97) Sept. 30, '50 

Drama. Fishing boat skipper, with a mortgage, 

a plain wife and two small daughters, 

gets involved in smuggling and murder 

when he tries to to earn some easy money. 


'ij J. I. J «jpr »^ V 13 p^ .4 

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Producer 

BOXOFFICE 135

(95) 

John Garfield, Patricia NeaJ, Phyllis Thaxter, 

Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford. Director: 

Michael Curtiz. 

Breakthrough....010....(91) Dec. 9, "50 

War Drama. Infantry lieutenant, whose 

feud with his colonel is forgotten in battle, 

ultimately is recommended by the colonel 

to succeed to his command when he is 

transferred to headquarters. David Brian, 

John Agar, Frank Lovejoy, Suzanne Dalbert. 

Director: Lewis Seller. 

-~:©C'aptain Horatio Homblower....030 

(117) Aug. 11 

Technicolor Drama. Exploits of an English 

sea captain in the war against Napoleon 

in 1807. Receiving help from a Spanish 

rebel ship, he turns a captured Spanish 

warship over to them. Later, learning of an 

English-Spanish treaty he recovers the warship. 

Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert 

Beatty. Director: Raoul Walsh, 

©Dallas. .011... (94) Dec. 30, '50 

Technicolor Western Drama. Ex-Confederate 

officer assumes identity of an eastern 

dude U.S. marshal in order to stalk the 

three men who wiped out his family and 

fortune. Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve 

Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton. 

Director: Stuart Heisler. 

Enforcer, The. .015. ..(87) Feb. 24 

Melodrama. Assistant district attorney 

seeking evidence against a murder ring, discovers 

a girl witness to an urisolved killing. 

He has to smash the entire ring before she 

agrees to testify. Humphrey Bogart, Ted de 

Corsia, Zero Mostel, Roy Roberts, Everett 

Sloane. Director: Bretaigne Windust. (A 

United States Pictures Production.) 

©Fort Worth. .028... (80) July 14 

Technicolor Western Drama. Crusading 

newspaper editor seeks to bring railroad into 

frontier town. He quarrels with his best 

friend, a cattleman who wants to keep the 

raih'oad out, but wins the fight. Randolph 

Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena 

Carter. Director: Edwin L. Marin, 

Glass Menagerie, The, 007 ,,.(107). Oct. 28, '50 

Drama. Based on Tennessee Williams' stage 

play. Shy, crippled girl, living in her own 

little world surrounded by a collection of 

miniature glass animals, awakens to reality 

when love comes into her life. Jane Wyman, 

Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur 

Kennedy. Director: Irving Rapper. 

Goodbye, My Fancy .024,,., (107) May 19 

Comedy. Congresswoman returns to college 

where she had been involved in scandal with 

its president when both were students, to 

accept honorary degree. Romance blooms 

again but a current suitor wins her. Joan 

Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, 

Eve Arden. Director: Vincent Sherman. 

Highway 301 ,012 ,,..(83) Jan. 13 

Melodrama. Young girl falls in love with a 

mobster, unaware that he is a member of 

the notorious Tri-State gang. She discovers 

his identity and the gang leader tries to kill 

her. Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby 

Andre, Edmon Ryan, Robert Webber. Director: 

Andrew Stone, 

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I 023 

HARRY VON ZELL 

wiith 

George Burns and Gracie Allen 

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes 

and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the 

United States and Canada 

Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor 

Representing Craftsmen Employed in Production, 

Distribution and Exhibition in the 

Entertainment Field 

RICHARD F. WALSH 

International President 

Suite 1900 

R.K.O. Building 

1270 Sixth Avenue 

New York 20- N. Y. 

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Bad Lord Byron. lA... (85) 

Int'l R€l. Org Aug. 

Stars Dennis Price. Joan Greenwood. Mai 

Zetterling. Director: David MacDonald. (J. 

Arthur Rank.) 

Beasts of the East. (60) Classic Plots. 

Drama. Made in t)ie Philippines. Tragic 

romance of U.S. Air Corps pilot, shot down 

over Japanese-occupied territory, and 

Filipino girl who befriends him. Robert 

Neil, Erlandes Cortes, Fernando Royo. 

Ramon Tellio, Jorge Santos. Director: 

Fermin Bava. 

Best Is Yet to Come, The (formerly 

"One Too Many"). (106) .Hallmark Prods. 

Melodrama. (Roadshow release.) Woman 

concert pianist conquers alcoholism and 

makes brilliant comeback. Journalist husband 

writes series of articles and raises 

funds for hospital wing to treat the affliction. 

Ruth Warrick, Dick Travis, Ginger 

Prince, Rhys Williams. Director: Erie C. 

Kenton. 

Bitter Springs .(72) Bell Picts. Oct. 1 

Outdoor Drama. Australian-made. Struggle 

between a group of white homesteaders and 

native blacks over a land grant in Australia 

in 1900. They finally learn to live in peace. 

Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon 

Jackson, Jean Blue. Director: Ralph Smart. 

Brain Snatcher (formerly 

"The Man Who Lived Again") ..(65) 

Bell Picts July 1—Reissue 

Melodrama. British-made. Boris Karloff, 

Anna Lee. 

Canteen Follies (80) 

Arthur Davis Associates Aug. 15 

British-made. Stars Flanagan and Allan. 

Director: John Baxter. 

Chance of a Lifetime... (90). ...Ballantine Picts. 

Drama. British-made. Dissatisfied workers 

are challenged to take over management of 

an industrial plant by its overworked manager. 

They find they need his experience 

and good judgment. Basil Radford, Bernard 

Miles, Julien Mitchell. Director; Bernard 

Miles. 

Devil's Sleep... (74) Screen Art Films 

Drama, A woman juvenile judge seeks to 

run down the source of narcotics' supplied 

to teen-agers. The nng uses her own 

young daughter to blackmail her, but is 

defeated in the end. Lita Grey Chaplin, 

John Mitchum, William Thomason, Tracy 

Lynne. Director: E. Merle Connell. 

Dream Ballerina... (87) A.F.E. Corp. 

Ballet Drama. French-made with English 

dialog. A ballerina's debut is ruined when 

her gangster boy-friend creates a disturbance. 

At home, she dreams of several satisfactory 

love affairs but wakens to disillusionment. 

Violette Verdy, Gabrielle Dorziat, 

Henri Guisol, Romney Brent. Director: 

Maurice Berger. 

Edge of the World. The....(73). Classic Picts. 

Melodrama. British-made. Tragic story of 

inhabitants of an island off the coast of 

Scotland. They are at last persuaded to 

leave it for the mainland because they have 

such a struggle to survive. John Laurie, 

Bell Chrystall. Eric Berry. Kitty Kervin. 

men and women of the Isle of Hirta. Director: 

Michael Powell. 

©Emperor's Nightingale, The 

(70) Rembrandt Films 

Nu-Agfa Color Puppet Fantasy. Made in 

Czechoslovakia. A poor little rich boy has 

a dream in which puppets enact the old 

fairy tale of a great ruler who replaced a 

live songster with a mechanical bird. English 

narration; Boris Karloff. Musical 

score: Philharmonic Society. Director; 

Jiri Trnka. 

Evil Mind (formerly "The Clairvoyant") 

(71) Bell Picts July 1—Reissue 

Horror Drama. British-made. Claude Rains, 

Fay Wray. 

Exchange Girl (83) Films Int'l 

Comedy Drama. American girl goes to England 

on an exchange-of-jobs plan and 

becomes involved in the fight of a group 

of villagers to retain their homes which 

have been condemned. Yolande Donlan, 

Michael Rennie, Garry Marsh, Emrys Jones. 

Director: Val Guest. 

Flaming Hearts ..(67) CosmopoUtan Films 

Romantic Drama. British-made. Finnish 

patriot intrigues against Russia, aided by 

Russian dancer who tries to win him for 

her country. Their romance ends when she 

sacrifices herself to win his pardon. Lillian 

Harvey, Esmond Knight, Dennis Hoey, 

Robert Rendel. Director: Paul Martin. 

Dance of Life, The.... (40) Hyperion Films 

Musical Fantasy. British-made. Three 

modern dance interpretations: "The Lament," 

dealing with the glory of the bull Drama. British-made. Three generations 

Flesh and Blood. . (102) Lopert Films 

fight; "The Desperate Heart," girl dances of a family show the same traits of instability. 

The grandson is at last able to 

while reciting poem of love and frustration, 

and "The Moor's Pavane," modern dance redeem himself through his experiences in 

version of "Otello." Jose Limon, Valerie World War I. Richard Todd. Glynis Johns, 

Bettis, Letitia Ide, Ellen Love, Lucas Hoving. Joan Greenwood, Andre Morelle. Director: 

Betty Jones. Director; Walter Strate. Anthony Kimmins. 

disturbing influence. The mother, father 

and three daughters are all made unhappy 

before she ends up in prison. Jack Warner, 

Kathleen Harrison, Jane Hylton, Susan 

©Dancing Years, The 

Galloping Major, The 

Shaw, Petula Clark, Diana Dors. Director: 

Ken Annakin. 

(98) Stratford Picts Oct. 20, '50 (82) Souvaine Selective Picts. 

Technicolor Musical Drama. Story of a Comedy. British-made. Group of London ©Hills of Ireland, The 

romance of pre-World War I days in neighbors intending to buy racehorse, gets (60) World Travel Films... May 22 

Vienna, with mountainous backgrounds and jumper by mistake. They enter it in the Color Travelog. Camera tour of Northern 

waltz music of the 1911 period, interspersed Grand National where it wins because all and Southern Ireland with commentary by 

with song and dance numbers. Dennis other entries fall at the hurdles. Basil Radford, 

Pat O'Brien. Several Irish songs by tenor, 

Price. Gisele Preville, Patricia Dainton, 

Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott, A. E. Christopher Lynch, are dubbed in. Director; 

Anthony NichoUs. Director: Harold French. Matthews. Rene Ray. Director; Henry Harry Dugan. 

Cornelius. 

Days of Our Years 

Hue and Cry... (82) 

Fine Arts Films 

(lOO) 

Souvaine Selective Picts. Girl In a Million, A . (78) Oxford Films Comedy. British-made. A group of boys 

Drama. Story of our times as seen through Comedy. British-made. Scientist divorces discovers a master criminal and his gang 

the eyes of four couples, set in 1900, 1925, nagging wife and marries mute girl who are using a comic magazine as a means of 

1938 and 1950. Depicts each couple's reaction 

to the world they live in as they face the first wife. When their marriage is boys overcome them when it seems im- 

recovers her voice and becomes a shrew like communication. By sheer force of numbers, 

the social changes and great historical threatened, she feigns muteness and all possible to get police cooperation. Alastair 

events of their generation. English narration: 

ends happily. Hugh Williams, Joan Green- 

Sim, Jack Warner, Valerie White. Jack 

Pierre Fresnay, Romney Brent. Diwood, 

Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne. Di- 

Lambert. Director; Charles Crichton. (J. 

rectors: Denise and Roland Tual. 

rector: Francis Searls. (Released in England 

Arthur Rank.) 

in 

1946.) 

©Great Mr. Handel, The . 2A 

(103) Int'l Rel. Org Oct.—Reissue 

Technicolor Costume Drama. Wilfred Lawson, 

Elizabeth Allan. Director: Norman 

Walker. 

Guilt Is My Shadow 

Stratford Picts July 27 

(86) 

Drama. Patrick Holt, Elizabeth Sellars. 

Hans Christian Andersen 

(62) Hoffberg Prods. 

Animated Fairy Tales. (Spoken dialog in 

English.) Biography of the world's greatest 

story teller, with animated sequences of 

some of his most famous fairy tales. (Produced 

in Europe by Jean and Ronald 

Haines.) 

Happiest Days of Your Life, The 

(81) London Films 

Comedy. British import. Invasion of boys' 

boarding school by pupils and staff of girls' 

school. When parents arrive to investigate, 

pupils switch classes to save the day for 

their headmaster. Alastair Sim, Margaret 

Rutherford, Bernadette O'Farrell, John 

Turnbull. Director: Frank Launder. 

Harlem Follies... (46) 

Classic Picts. 

Musical. (All-Negro cast.) By staging 

"sample" show and having female troupers 

exert their charms, wealthy "angel" is 

secured for night club by owner. "Chicago" 

Carl Davis, Princess R'Wanda, "Manhattan" 

Paul, Max Granville. Ruth Mason, 

"Fats" Noel. Director; Hugh Prince. 

Headline, The (76) English Films 

Melodrama. British-made. Editor and reporter 

investigate a murder. Reporter discovers 

editor's wife was the "other woman" 

in the case. He keeps the secret but tracks, 

down the killer. Anne Crawford, David 

Farrar, John Stuart, Antoinette Cellier, 

Anthony Hawtry. Director: John Harlow. 

Hell's Gateway (formerly "The Silent 

Barriers") (73) Bell Picts July 15—Reissae 

Historical Melodrama. Made in Canada. 

Richard Arlen, Lilli Palmer. 

Her Panelled Door 

(84) Souvaine Selective Picts Aug. 27 

Drama. Girl suffering from amnesia marries 

a flyer who is shortly killed. Pregnant, 

she goes home with man who is really her 

husband though she doesn't remember liim. 

She recovers and they reconcile. Phyllis 

Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, 

Richard Burton. Director: Ladislas Vajda. 

(Associated British-Pathe, Ltd.) 

Here Come the Huggets 

(80) Pentagon Picts. 

Comedy. British-made. Young girl visiting 

in the home of an English family proves a 

Inheritance, The. (90) Fine Arts Films 

Drama. Heiress goes to live with an uncle, 

her guardian, after her father's death. With 

his son and her governess as accomplices, 

he does his best to murder her. Jean Simmons, 

Katina Paxinou, Derrick DeMarney. 

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?JL.- '..ii«>~?^îr

(80) 

Derek Bond. Director: Charles Prank. (A 

J. Arthur Rank film released in England 

in 1947 as "Uncle Silas.") 

Interrupted Journey. Snader Prods. 

. 

Melodrama. British-made. English author 

elopes with a married woman. On the train 

he dreams of a hectic series of adventures, 

awakens and returns to his wife. Valerie 

Hobson. Richard Todd. Christine Norden. 

Tom Walls. Du'ector: Daniel Birt. 

Its Hard to Be Good (93) Pentagon Picts. 

Comedy Drama. British-made. War hero 

falls in love with his nurse and decides to 

devote his life to preaching peace and 

goodwill, which course leads him into a 

series of mishaps. Jimmy Hanley, Anne 

Crawford, Raymond Huntley. Director: 

Jeffrey Dell. 

King of the Bullwhip 

(59) Western Adven. Prods. 

Western. Two U.S. marshals set out to 

trap a masked bandit who is an expert 

with the bullwhip. Climax is a duel with 

whips between the bandit and the hero. 

Al "La,sh" LaRue, Al "Fuzzy" St. John. 

Jack Holt, Tom Neal, Anne Gwynne. Director: 

Ron Ormond. 

Last Holiday (88) 

Stratford Picts Nov. 3, '50 

Comedy Drama. Salesman, told he has 

only a few weeks to live, spends his savings 

at a swank hotel, helps many persons and 

turns down financial opportunities offered 

him, only to learn that he is not going 

to die. As the hotel guests await him at 

a testimonial dinner, he is killed in an auto 

crash. Alec Guinness. Beatrice Campbell. 

Kay Walsh. Director: Henry Cass. 

Look Before You Love. (96) BeU Picts. 

Drama. British-made. A good woman marries 

a con man and tries unsuccessfully to 

reform him. He shakes down her wealthy 

suitor, offering a divorce as the bait. Margaret 

Lockwood, Griffith Jones, Norman 

Wooland, Phyllis Stanley. Director: Harold 

Huth. 

Lost People, The 

(89) Pentagon Picts Oct. '50 

Melodrama. British-made. Romance of 

two displaced persons in group torn by dissension. 

Grievances are forgotten when 

threat of plague develops among them. 

Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, 

Maxwell Reed, Siobhan Mc- 

Kenna, William Hartnell. Director: Bernard 

Knowles. 

Mail Order Brides... (65). ...Distinguished Films 

Drama. French-made film with Englishdubbed 

dialog. Young bride is found 

stranded on a desert by natives. How she 

got there is told in flashback. George 

Marcel, Renee Faure, Helen Vita. Director: 

Serge De Poligny. ( Originally a French film 

titled, "Torrent."! 

Man on the Run. .(82) 

Stratford Picts Aug. 29 

Drama. Story of army deserter who is 

implicated in a murder. Girl befriends him 

and aids in tracking down the killers. 

Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, 

Laurence Harvey. Director: Lawrence 

Huntington. 

Maniacs on Wheels. ..2C 

(76) Infl Rel. Org July 11 

Action Drama. British-made. Experiences 

of a professional motorcycle racer. He 

finally concludes he is too old and retires 

from the sport. Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, 

Renee Asherson, Bill Owen. Director: 

Jack Lee. 

Massacre Hill (formerly "Eureka Stockade") 

1C....(72) Infl Rel. Org June 

Drama. Australian-made. Gold miners fight 

for rights against governor and police 

troops. They are defeated and leaders tried, 

but public opinion forces reforms. Chips 

Rafferty. Jane Barrett, Peter lUing, Gordon 

Jackson, Sydney Loder. Director: 

Harry Watt. 

Matter of Murder, A... (52) Hoffberg Prods. 

Melodrama. British-made. Worthless 

woman, for whom a clerk has embezzled his 

employer's funds, is murdered. He is used 

as a decoy by Scotland Yard to trap the 

killers. John Barry, Maureen Riscoe, Ivan 

Craig, Ian Fleming. Director: John Gilling. 

Medium, The. ..(85) 

Lopert Films 

Musical Drama. Produced in Italy, with 

dialog in song. Fake medium is terrified 

by cold hands at a seance. She blames a 

deaf mute boy, who assists her, and kills 

him. but is never sure it was not a spirit. 

Marie Powers. Anna Maria Alberghetti, 

Leo Coleman, Belva Kibler. Director: Gian- 

Carlo Menotti. 

Midnight Blonde... (77) 

Arthur Davis 

Associates Aug. 15 

British-made. Stars Frances Day. Director: 

Kurt Bernhardt. 

Murder Without Crime... (76) 

Stratford Picts May 25 

Mystery Drama. Dennis Pi'ice, Derek Farr. 

Native Son... (90) Classic Picts. 

Drama. Made in Argentina. Screen version 

of Richard Wright's novel of a Negro who 

accidentally kills his employer's daughter. 

He flees with his sweetheart but murders 

her when he believes she has turned him in 

to the police. Jean Wallace, Richard Wright. 

Nicholas Joy, Gloria Madison. Director: 

Pierre Chenal. 

No Orchids for Miss Blandish 

(95) Renown Picts Feb. 

Melodrama. British-made. Abducted by 

jewel thieves, heroine is stolen from them 

by another gang to be held for ransom. 

Romance develops with the gang leader 

and when he is shot she kills herself. Jack 

LaRue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, 

Leslie Bradley. Director: St. John L. 

Clowes. 

No Place for Jennifer. .. (90) 

Stratford Picts... June 22 

Drama. Domestic drama highhghting the 

effects of divorce and remarriage of her 

parents on a 12-year-old girl. Leo Genn, 

Beatrice Campbell, Rosamund John. Director: 

Henry Cass. 

Outsider, The... (95) Ballantine Picts. 

Drama. British-made. Wounded veteranteacher 

in upper-class English "public 

school" befriends boy from the lower classes 

sent there as a student. Through his efforts 

a scholarship is established for such boys. 

Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard 

Miles, Robert Flemyng. Director: Roy 

Boulting. 

Pancho Villa Returns. ..(95) Hispano Cont'l 

Historical Adventure Drama. Made in 

Mexico with English dialog. His marriage 

prevented by the outbreak of revolution, a 

soldier deserts his garrison to prevent 

forced marriage of his sweetheart, and is 

sentenced to be shot. Leo Carrillo, Esther 

Fernandez, Jeanette Comber, Rudolfo 

Acosto. Director: Miguel Contreras Torres. 

©Pinafore... (70) 

Hoffberg Prods. 

Kodachrome 16mm Operetta. Screen presentation 

of Gilbert & Sulhvan's most 

famous operetta. Features The California 

Light Opera Company. Arthur Lane, Mary 

Patrick, Vickie Vale, Tommy Glynn, Jim 

Hamilton. (Produced in the Republic 

Studios, Hollywood, by Film Operettas, Inc.) 

Pink String and Sealing Wax 

(75) Pentagon Picts Oct. '50 

Drama. British-made. Maladjusted son falls 

in love with married woman who involves 

him in the murder of her husband. His 

father saves him and woman commits 

suicide. Google Withers, Mervyn Johns, 

Gordon Jackson, Catherine Lacey, Garry 

Marsh. Director: Robert Hamer. 

Portrait 

of Clare 

(100) Stratford Picts May 18 

Drama. Grandmother tells story of her 

three marriages in flashback to her granddaughter, 

seeking to prevent the girl from 

marrying ill-advisedly. Margaret Johnston, 

Robin Bailey, Richard Todd, Ronald Howard. 

Director: Lance Comfort. 

Rats of Tobruk, The (85) David BriU 

War Drama. Australian-made. Adventures 

of three soldiers in World War II. They 

survive campaigns in North Africa and New 

Guinea. Only one lives to return to Australia, 

a hero. Chips Rafferty, Grant Taylor, 

Peter Finch, ..Pauline Garrick, Mary 

Gray. Director: Charles Chauvel. 

Reluctant Widow, The .. (86) ..Fine Ar»s Films 

Costume Drama. British-made. On the 

eve of the Battle of Waterloo, England is 

riddled by French spies. At a seacoast 

tavern a beautiful woman becomes involved 

in a tangled web of intrigue. Jean Kent. 

Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Lana Morris, 

Paul Dupuis, Julian Dallas. Director: Bernard 

Knowles. 

Secrets of Nature 

(80) Oxford Fihns....Sept. '50 

Documentary. (English commentary.) Mode 

of living of w'ild animals is recorded in 

four sequences, "Biography of a Fish," 

Experiment at the Zoo," "Duel to the 

Death" and "Stork Story." Sequences directed 

by Boris Pavlov and Boris Dolin. 

Seven Days to Noon 

(93) Distinguished Films 

Drama. British-made. Religious worker in 

an atom bomb plant threatens, anonymously, 

to blow up the city of London unless 

manufacture of the atom bomb is 

stopped. Residents are ordered evacuated. 

Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, Andre Morelle, 

Sheila Manahan. Directors: Roy and John 

Boulting. 

Sin of Esther Waters 3C 

(65) Int'l Rel. Org Sept. 

Drama. British-made. Kitchen maid, 

seduced by butler in wealthy home where 

both are employed, has an illegitimate son, 

and he marries another. Years later they 

meet again and marry. He dies and she returns 

to the home where she had first met 

him. Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde. Cyril 

Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton. Directors: 

Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud. (J. 

Arthur Rank.i 

Striptease Murder Case... (40) Classic Picts. 

Mystery Musical. Underworld character, 

who threatens romance of two young nightclub 

entertainers, is murdered. Boy is suspected 

but drug addict confesses killing. 

Dennis Harrison, Janie Ford, Al Sanford, 

Denise Darnell. Director: Hugh Prince. 

©Tales of Hoffmann 

(138) Lopert Films 

Technicolor Opera Ballet. British-made. 

With dialog in recitative manner of opera 

and singing voices dubbed in, this tells the 

story of Hoffmann's four tragic love affairs. 

Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert 

Helpmann, Pamela Brown, Ludmilla 

Tcherina. Directors: Michael Powell, 

Emeric Pressburger. (London Films.) 

Third Time Lucky ...4C 

(87) Int'l ReL Org Nov. '51 

Melodrama. British-made. Young girl sus- 


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THE GREAT MISSOURI RAID" 

"FLAMING FEATHER' 

"WARPATH" 

"SILVER CITY" 

"DENVER AND RIO GRANDE" 

Now Preparing 

"HURRICANE WILLIAMS' 

"PONY EXPRESS" 

"KING COPPER 

*THE ROUGH RIDERS' 

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pect in shooting of gambler, reveals herself 

as his partner and the helpless victim 

In his feud with a rival gambler. She is 

freed. Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh. Charles 

Goldner. Harcourt Williams, Yvonne Owen. 

Director: Gordon Parry. 

Tony Draws a Horse... (90) ...Fine Arts Films 

Farce. British-made. A physician and his 

wife differ about the upbringing of their 

son. They separate and she goes to live 

with her parents, whose home she disrupts 

before she comes to her senses and makes 

amends. Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford. 

Derek Bond, Joan Parsons. Director: John 

Paddy Carstairs. 

You Can't Fool an Irishman 

(67) Bell Picts July 

Comedy. Made in Ireland. Self-styled 

Hollywood genius moves in on Irish countryside 

to produce St. Patrick film. Money 

mixups follow close on love mixups. Tommy 

Duggan, Shamus Locke, Shirl Conway, 

Josephine Fitzgerald. Director: Alfred 

Travers. 

Foreign Language 

(All have English subtitles unless otherwise 

stated. Foreign dialog indicated after 

film title.) 

Blue Angel, The.. ..German 

(97) Classic Picts Reissue 

Comedy Drama. Revised from the German 

film released in the early '30's. High school 

teacher falls in love with beer hall singer. 

He marries her, travels with the troupe and 

at length discovers she is unfaithful to him. 

Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, 

Rosa Valetti. Director: Josef von 

Sternberg. 

Buried Alive. ..Italian 

(83) Casolaro Films. ..Jan. 12 

Historical Melodrama. In 1860 an Italian 

Royalist buries his mother alive to inherit 

her estate. His sister is rescued from him 

by her sweetheart, a soldier in Garibaldi's 

army. MiUy Vitale, Paul Muller, Evi Maltagliati, 

Tina Lattanzi. Piero Palermini. Director: 

Guido Brignone. 

Cheat, The French (87) Discina Int'l 

Drama. Unfaithful wife of owner of riding 

academy is crippled in an accident. Flashbacks 

reveal story of their marriage, his 

self-sacrifice and her mercenary, ruthless 

ambition. Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, 

Jane Marken, Frank Villard. Director: 

Vves Allegret. 

Christina ("Das Madchen Christine") 

Italian. ..(85) Central Cinema...Jan. 13 

Historical Drama. Romance and adventure 

in Germany during the Thirty-Year War. 

Petra Peters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Tilly 

Lauenstein, Use Hulper. Director: Arthur 

Maria Rabenalt. (DEFA Deutsche Film 

A. G.) 

Crossroads of Passion.. ..French 

Films Int'l 

(96) 

Melodrama. Motivated by revenge, Italian 

girl becomes an espionage agent for the 

Germans. She regrets her activity when 

her own friends are killed through Information 

she has obtained. She seeks to escape 

but is caught and shot. Viviane Romance, 

Valentina Cortesa, Clement Duhour, Fosco 

Giachetti. Director: Jacques Companeez. 

Face to the Wind ...French 

(85) Souvaine Selective Picts. 

Comedy Drama. A group of street urchins 

embark on a career of dog-snatching. With 

the rewards they play Robin Hood to the 

impoverished adults of the community. 

Jackie Gencel, Pierre Larquey, Armontel, 

Georges Gosset, Laurence Aubray. Director: 

Robert Vernay. 

Formosa.. Chinese... (80) Hoffberg Prods. 

Drama. First modern Chinese dramatic 

production shown in the U.S. Story deals 

with a young graduate doctor who comes 

to the hills intent on bringing better standards 

of living to the primitive mountainfolk. 

His love for an island princess is opposed 

by her father, and the girl drowns 

herself in the sea. Shen Min, Tsung Yao, 

Lin Tse Hou, Chow Yin Yun, Sou Hu. Director: 

Ho Fei-Kwong. 

French White Cargo.. ..French 


Drama. How two competing European 

newspaper reporters, one a man, the other 

a girl, capture a dangerous white slave ring, 

and find romance together. Jean Pierre 

Aumont. Dalio, Suzy Prim, Kathryn De- 

Nagy, Jules Berry, Charles Granval. Director: 

Robert Siodmak. 

From Little Acorns. ...French 


Comedy Drama. Adapted from the world 

famous Goncourt Prize novel. "La Maternelle," 

by Leon Frapie. Filmed some 20 

years ago, but with a different version, by 

Jean Benoit-Levy. This one depicts the 

little comedies and tragedies in the lives 

of a group of nursery school children from 

the slums of Paris. Jackie Gencel, Blanchette 

Brunoy, Pierre Larquey, Yves 'Vincent, 

Marie Dea. Director: Henri Diamant- 

Berger. 

God Needs Men ...French... (90).... A.F.E. Corp. 

Desert Bride....French....(90) . Hoffberg Prods. Drama. Troubles of inhabitants of a small 

Drama. A murderer, a detective on his trail island when their priest deserts them and 

and a professional soldier down on his luck an arch criminal goes unchecked. Church 

enlist in the Foreign Legion. One man marries 

a native girl. They volunteer for a the criminal over to police who arrive to 

sexton tries to take priest's place and turns 

dangerous mission and only the detective investigate. Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine 

With These Hands... (50) 

Classic Picts. survives. Jean Gabln, Annabella, Aimos, Robinson, Daniel Gelin, Andree Clement, 

Documentary Drama. Originally produced LeVigan. Director: Julien Duvivier. 

Jean Brochard. Director: Jean Delaimoy. 

by International Ladies' Garment Workers 

Hidden River. ..Spanish.... (98) ....Clasa-Mohme 

union for its members. Cloakmaker, applying 

for retirement pension, reminisces about (90) Lopert Films Sept. '50 

Schoolteacher in 

Difficult Years.. ..Italian 

Drama. Mexican-made. 

a Mexican village opposes a tyrannical rich 

his early days with the union as a crusading 

garment worker who ultimately sees middle class Sicilian family through a 

Drama. Traces the experiences of a lower 

man and battles a smallpox epidemic, with 

aid of young medical student. 

his dreams realized. Sam Levene, Arlene decade of fascism under Mussolini. Umberto 

Maria Felix. 

Fernando Fernandez, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma. 

Director: Emilio Fernandez. 

Francis, Joseph Wiseman, Louis Sorin, Spadaro, Massimo Girotti, Ave Ninchi, 

Rudy Bond. Director: Jack Arnold. 

Odette Bedogni. Director: Luigi Zampa. 

Hoboes in Paradise.. ..French 

Wooden Horse, The... (98) Snader Prods. Doctor, Beware!....Italian 


Drama. British-made. A group of British (90) Academy Films Comedy Fantasy. Killed in an accident, 

officers escape from a German prison camp Comedy. Young doctor takes a job in an two men, dressed as saints for a masquerade, 

go first to Hell and then to Heaven, 

by concealing a man in a wooden gymnasium 

horse. Smuggled into the com- 

in dissipation. A girl inmate learns to love but are returned to life to profit by their 

orphans' home to pay off debts acquired 

pound, the hidden worker digs an escape him and helps him to solve his difficulties. experience. Raimu, Fernandel, Alerme. 

tunnel. Leo Genn. David Tomlinson, Anthony 

Steel, David Greene. Director: Jack Dillian, Adriana Benedetti. Director: Vitaff. 

(Produced by Gaumont Productions.) 

"Vittoria de Sica, Anna Magnani, Irasema Armand Bernard. Director: Rene Le Hentorio 

de Sica. 

Lee. 

Ignace....French....(78) Mot. Pict. Sales 

Musical Comedy. Orderly serves his colonel 

well, speaking of nothing he sees. He even 

masquerades as the colonel, in his absence, 

to impress the general. Fernandel, Alice 

Tissot, Saturnin Fabre, Nita Raya, Dany 

Lorys, Charpin. Director: Pierre Colombier. 

L'Affaire. French (92) Int'l Film Associates 

Drama. Loyal wife allows herself to be 

drawn into a compromising situation. Her 

husband discovers her indiscretion but forgives 

her. Claude Dauphin, Anne Vernon. 

Henri Guisol, Jacqueline Francois. Director: 

E. E. Reinert. 

Film Without a Name.. ..German 

(79) Oxford Films. ..Oct. 10, '50 

Drama. An actor, an author and a director 

discuss making a picture of the life of a 

young girl. Three possible versions of the 

La Ronde...French. ..(83). ...Commercial Picts. 

plot are presented. Hildegarde Neff, Willy 

Drama. A cycle of scenes between two people, 

in each case a man and a woman, 

Fritsch. Hans Sohnker. Irene von Meyendorff. 

Director: Rudolph Jugert. 

depicting love episodes. The whole is loosely 

Flame of Paris, The. . Frenck 

tied together by the proprietor of a carousel 

(60) Hoffberg Prods. who touches the lives of all. Anton Walbrook, 

Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux. 

Musical Comedy. French author goes to 

Tunisia where he becomes interested in a Isa Miranda. Fernand Gravet. Jean-Louis 

girl of the streets, whom he brings back Barrault. Director: Max Ophuls. 

to Paris to introduce as a princess. She 

captivates the city. Josephine Baker, Albert Lady Paname... .French. ..(97) Discina Int'l 

Prejean, Robert Arroux, Germaine Aussey. Comedy. Singer, combining an impromptu 

Director: Edmond T. Greville. 

strip tease with a song to which she has no 

legal right, becomes a sensation. As a 

result, her sweetheart becomes involved in 

a duel but all ends well. Louis Jouvet, Henri 

Guisol, Suzy Delair, Monique Melinand. 

Director: Henri Jeanson. 

Last Illusion, The....Gernian.. (89). Films Int'l 

Melodrama. Plight of a professor who returns 

from America to teach in his old 

German university. He is defeated by anti- 

Semitism. Frizt Kortner, Johanna Hofer, 

Rosemary Murphy. Lina Carstens, Ernst 

Schroder. Director: Josef von Baky. 

Lovers of Verona, The. ..French 


Melodrama. Stand-ins working with a motion 

picture company making a film version 

of 'Romeo and Juliet" have an ill-starred 

and tragic romance paralleling the immortal 

Shakespearean play. Serge Reggiani, 

Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimee, Louis 

Salou. Director: Andre Cayatte. 

Mad Queen. The. ..Spanish 

(107) Azteca Films 

Historical Romantic Drama. The Spanish 


John Auer

queen discovers her husband's infidelities. 

Overwrought, she is the victim of a court 

intrigue which seeks to prove she is mad. 

Aurora Bautista. Fernando Rey, Sara Montiel. 

Jorge Mistral, Jesus Tordesillas. Director: 

Juan de Orduna. 

Manon ... .French.... (91) Discina Int'l 

Drama. Modern version of Prevost's novel. 

"Manon Lescaut." Tragic story of a young 

girl who is unfaithful to her lover In the 

mistaken idea that she is helping him. 

Cecile Aubry, Michel Auclair. Serge Reggiani. 

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot. 

Marie of the Port.. ..French 

(90) Bellon-Ffouike 

Drama. Love triangle develops between a 

middle-aged cafe owner, his mistress, and 

the woman's younger unsophisticated sister. 

The girl turns from her rustic suitor to the 

older man. Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy. 

Nicol Courcel. Carette, Claude Romain. Director: 

Marcel Carne. 

Mill on the Po, The ("II Mulino del Po") 

Italian. (96) Lux Films. ..Oct. '51 

Drama. Story of a love doomed to tragedy 

on the banks of the river Po. Based on 

Riccardo Bacchelli's novel of Italian life at 

the turn of the century. Carla del Poggio. 

Jacques Sernas. Director: Alberto Lattuada. 

Minne... French (82) Commercial Picts. 

Comedy Drama. Married to her stodgy 

cousin, a beautiful French woman grows 

bored and has .several affairs. When her 

husband says she must choose between 

losing him and behaving herself, she reforms. 

Daniele Delorme, Frank Villard, 

Jean Tissier. Claude Nicot. Director: Jacqueline 

Audry. 

Miquette French... (83) Discina Int'l 

Farce. A timid youth is betrothed to an 

heiress to break up his romance with a 

girl his guardian also loves. The girl runs 

away but after many misunderstandings 

they are reunited. Louis Jouvet, Daniele 

Delorme, Bourvil, Saturnin Fabre. Director: 

Henri-Georges Clouzot. 

Monticello Here We Come.. ..Yiddish and 

English... (74) 

Cinema Service 

Novelty Musical Comedy. Songs, sketches, 

and folklore arranged and performed in 

separate acts by Jewish artists. Jokes betw-een 

acts are told in English. Larry 

Daniels, Burton Sisters, Menasha Skulnick, 

Michel Rosenberg. Director: Joe Seiden. 

My First Love.. ..French 

(89) Arthur Davis Associates. ..June 15 

Comedy Drama. A young man, with a 

mother complex, finds it difficult to believe 

she is a woman who could, and, in 

fact, does, fall in love. Gerard Nary, Jacqueline 

Delubac, Aime Clariond. Director: 

Berthomieu. 

My Widow and I...Italian 

(81) Disting:nished Films.. ..Aug. 29, '50 

Comedy. Man. mistakenly pronounced dead, 

goes on a trip with his wife, and is forced 

to pose as his brother-in-law while a 

former suitor pays court to his wife. Vittorio 

de Sica, Isa Miranda, Gino Cervi, 

Dina Galli, Luigi Almiranti. Director: Aldo 

de Benedetti. 

Oh, Amelia.. ..French 

(86) Lux FiIms....Oct. '51 

Comedy. Announcing his betrothal to his 

friend's mistress in order to gain an inheritance, 

the hero is forced to go through 

with the marriage and amusing and risque 

complications result. Danielle Darrieux, 

Jean Desailly. Andre Bervil, Armontel. Director: 

Claude Autant-Lara. 

Origrinal Sin, The.. ..German 

(90) Lopert Films 

Fantasy. Wealthy manufacturer, in the 

center of a wife-mistress triangle, dreams 

he is Adam in the Garden of Eden and his 

mistress is Eve. All Hell breaks loose when 

Eve persuades him to pick up the apple. 

Bettina Moissi, Bobby Todd, Joana Maria 

Gorvin. Director: Helmut Kautner. 

Orpheus ..French. (86) Discina Int'l 

Fantasy. Four people experience death and 

restoration to life, in a modern version of 

the Orpheus myth, and conclude that death 

is to be preferred to life. Narration by 

Romney Brent. Jean Marais, Francois 

Perier, Maria Casares, Maria Dea. Director: 

Jean Cocteau. 

Paris 1900. ..French... (76) Mayer-Kingsley 

Documentary. Compilation of French newsreel 

clips dealing with pre-World War I 

epoch (1900-1914). Maurice Chevalier, 

Sarah Bernhardt, Leon Blum, Georges 

Carpentier, Claude Debussy, Andre Gide, 

Edmond Rostand, Buffalo Bill. Narrator: 

Monty WooUey. 

Path of Hope, The....ltallan 

(104) Lux Films. ..Fall '51 

Drama. Story of a group of Sicilian 

peasants searching for a means of livelihood. 

When the sulphur mine in their 

village is closed, they wander across Europe 

and are finally admitted to France. 

Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Franco Navarra, 

Luciana Coluzzi, Angelina Scaldaferri. Director: 

Pietro Germi. 

©Rancho Grande....Spanish 

(100) Azteca FiIms....June 7 

Cinecolor Drama With Music. Young ranch 

foreman quarrels with his employer when 

he mistakenly believes the latter has compromised 

his sweetheart. He learns the 

truth and all ends happily. Jorge Negrete, 

Lilia del Valle, Eduardo Noriega, Trio 

Calavaras. Lupe Inclan. Director: Fernando 

de Fuentes. 

Red Angel, The French (97).... Spalter Int'l 

Melodrama. Ex-criminal opens a night club 

in Paris with his South American paramour 

as the star. A love triangle develops 

and both are kUled. Tilda Thamar, Paul 

Meurisse, Berval. Paul Demange. Director: 

Jacques Danial-Norman. 

Rendezvous With Tomorrow. ..French 


Comedy. Story of postwar French youth, 

their lives and loves, hopes, dreams and 

ambitions. Also, the problems that confront 

them in a world different than their 

parents knew. Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Auber, 

Nicole Courcel. Director: Jacques 

Becker. 

Riptide. French... (75) Films Int'l 

Melodrama. Series of character studies of 

associates of a murderer in flight, who takes 

refuge for a short time in a seaside resort 

before he kills himself. Gerade Philipe, 

Madeleine Robinson, Jane Marken, Jean 

Fervars. Director: Yves Allegret. 

Seven Journe.vs. German. . (84) 

Bell Pictures June 

Drama. An old car, being stripped for junk, 

"tells" the highlights of its life with seven 

owners. Bettina Moissi, Winnie Markus, 

Karl John, Erica Balque, Eva Gotthardt, 

Hermann Speelmanns, Fritz Wagner. Director: 

Helmut Kautner. i 

Formerly distrib\ited 

by Vogue Pictures.) 

Sinners, The... French. .. (98) Lopert Films 

Drama, Innocent girl is placed in reform 

school under the supervision of a cruel directress. 

Her lover, with aid of inmates, 

helps her to escape, but she dies while police 

pursue them. Serge Reggiani, Suzanne 

Cloutier, Jean Davy, Suzy Prim. Director: 

Julien Duvivier. 

Song of Dolores. .Spanish 

(85) Lux Films.. ..June 

Musical Melodrama. Peasant girl is res- 


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cued from a murderous attack by a student 

priest. He goes to prison and she marries 

an innkeeper. When he is released she 

must make a choice between them. Imperio 

Argentina, Enrique Diosdato. Manolito 

Diaz. Ricardo Canales. Director; Benito 

Perojo. 

Song of My Heart. ...Italian 

(86) Crown Prods. 

Operatic Comedy. Bored small-town wife 

follows a visiting operatic tenor back to 

the city. Her husband arrives and the tenor 

assists in bringing about the reconciliation. 

Giuseppe Lugo, Ruby D'Alma, Ugo Ceseri, 

Guglielmo Sinaz. Director: Guido Brignone. 

Souvenir. ..French.. ..(100) Pathe Cinema 

Romantic Drama. After a lovers' parting 

girl attempts suicide. She becomes an airplane 

hostess and lover must overcome a 

rival when he seeks to win her again. Michele 

Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Chevrier. 

Director: Jean Delannoy. 

Sylvie and the Phantom. ..French 

(85) Discina Int'l 

Fantasy. Ghost, loved by young girl, enters 

into the fun at her birthday party. When 

she falls for a living man he returns to 

heaven. Odette Joyeux, Francois Perier, 

Louis Salou, Julien Carette, Jacques Tati. 

Director: Claude Autant-Lara. 

Thrill That Kills, The....ItaUan 


Drama. (Added English sound track.) Story 

of a boy dope peddler. His real father befriends 

him and persuades him to join a 

merchant ship as a sailor, but never reveals 

their relationship. Fosco Giachetti, 

Jacques Sernas, Olga Villi, Vittorio Sanipoli. 

Director: Giorgio Bianchi. 

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 

Showplace of the Nation • Rockefeller Center, N. Y. 

AA/n institution 

known throughout the 

world for its presentation of outstanding 

motion pictures and stage shows 

notable for their good taste, beauty 

and perfection of execution. 

Chester Erskine 

Director 

'ANDROCLES and the 

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Treasured Earth... Hungarian 

(100) Artkino 

Drama. A peasant tries to cultivate a small 

tract of land against great odds in the opposition 

of a wealthy landholder and a severe 

drought. Adam Szirtes, Agi Meszaros, 

Arpad Lehotay. Director: Prigyes Ban. 

Two Madonnas, The ("Le Due Madonne") 

Italian. ...(92) Casolaro Films.. ..Dec. 1, '50 

Stars Eva Nova. 

Two Orphans, The...Italian 

(92) Globe Film Distrs. 

Costume Melodrama. Blind girl is separated 

from her sister and lost in Paris. She suffers 

great hardships but is rescued and a 

doctor restores her sight. Valli. Maria 

Denis, Osvaldo Valenti, Roberto Villa. 

Otello Toso. Director; Carmine Gallone. 

esi 

isnes 

Under the Olive Tree. ...Italian 

(107) Lux FUms....Oct. '51 

Melodrama. Tribulations of a shepherd, 

returned from the war, to find the villain 

has stolen his sheep and his girl. In the 

struggle between the men the girl's younger 

.sister is murdered. Raf Vallone, Lucia 

Bose, Falco Lulli, Maria Grazia Francia. 

Dante Maggio. Director: Giuseppe De 

Santis. 

Ways of Love.. ..French and Italian 

(120) Joseph Burstyn 

Episodic Dramas. Three separate stories 

with different casts and directors. "A Day 

in the Country": Young girl has affair with 

stranger during a family outing. "Jofroi": 

An old man's fanatical devotion to trees he 

has planted. "The Miracle": Demented girl 

is seduced by man she believes to be St. 

Joseph. Sylvia Bataille, Georges St. Saens, 

Jeanne Marken, Vincent Scotto, Annie 

Toinon. Henri Poupon, Anna Magnani. Directors: 

Jean Renoir, Marcel Pagnol, Roberto 

Rossellini. 

What's the Use of Money ('"A Che Servono 

Questi Quattrini")... Italian 

(83) Continental Picts Oct. 13, '50 

Stars Eduardo and Peppino de Filippo. 

Paolo Stoppa. 

WTiere Is Zaza? ("Dove Sta Zaza"). Italian 

(99) Casolaro Films. ..Nov. 3, '50 

Stars Nino Taranto. 

White Legs. ..French 

(99) Noel Meadow Associates 

Drama. Story of a woman of endless affairs 

sipping at many cups in her thirst for 

love. Locale is a sedate fishing village 

somewhere in Brittany. Suzy Delair, Fernand 

Ledoux, Arlette Thomas. Director; 

Jean Gremillon. 

White Line, The.. ..Italian 

(87) Lux Films....FaU '51 

Drama. New frontier line, drawn between 

two nations at the end of World War II, 

divides a peaceful country in two parts. 

Both dramatic and comical incidents result 

when the existence of the inhabitants becomes 

at once impossible. Gina Lollobrigida, 

Raf Vallone. Erno Grisa, Enzo 

Staiola. Director: Luigi Zampa. 

Women Without Names... .Italian, English, 

French... (93) Lopert Films 

Drama. Struggle of a young widow to escape 

from a refugee camp in order that her child 

may not be born in prison. She dies in 

childbirth but a guard takes the child to 

raise. Simone Simon. Valentina Cortesa, 

Francoise Rosay, Gino Cervi, Vivi Gioi. Director; 

Geza Radvanyi. 

Wonderful Times.. ..German 

(86) Academy Films 

Documentary. Compilation of old newsreels. 

History of Germany from World War 

I through Hitler. Commentator: Willy 

Fritsch. Director: Gunter Neumann. 

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ASSORTED AND .\LL-STAK COMEDIES 

A Slip and a Miss. 3422. Nov. 

. 

Hugh Herbert tells his marital woes 

9. 

to '50 

a 

divorce judge, the trouble all having started 

when he learned his wife could not cook 

and was having her mother fix the meals. 

Awful Sleuth, The .3425. .(16) Apr. 19 

Bert Wheeler's hobby as a crime magazine 

fan pays off when he accidentally stumbles 

onto a gang of thieves. But his mother-inlaw 

collects the reward. 

Blonde Atom Bomb .3415.... (17) Mar. 8 

Andy Clyde tries to buy off a night club 

dancer running around with his nephew, 

and winds up with everyone, including his 

wife, after him. 

Blunderful Time. A 3411 .(16'i). Sept. 7, '50 

Andy Clyde, in a dual role as himself and 

his drunkard twin brother, gets things so 

mixed up that no one knows whose wife is 

whose. 

Foy Meets Girl. 3412... (16«4) Oct. 5, '50 

Eddie Foy beomes involved with a wrestler's 

wife and her husband. 

Fun on the Run 3416. (16) May 10 

Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan start their 

own vaudeville act, but go broke after meeting 

a couple of goodtime golddiggers. 

He Flew the Shrew 3413 (16' i) Jan. 11 

Henpecked 'Wally Vernon hits the road with 

gentleman tramp Eddie Quillan in his 

search for the carefree life of a hobo. 

Innocently Guilty .3423 (16) Dee. 21. 50 

Bert 'Wheeler's jealous wife follows him on 

a business trip. He innocently becomes involved 

when he tries to help the wife of 

a client. 

Two Roaming Champs. .3421 

(16U) Oct. 12. '50 

Ex-world champs Max Baer and Maxie 

Rosenbloom as private-eyes who get a real 

"workout" in a haunted house. 

Wedding Yells. .3414... (16) Feb. 8 

Eddie Foy. engaged to a big. burly brunet. 

becomes involved in a hilarious mixup when 

he acts as stand-in at a friend's wedding, 

Wine. Women and Bong!. ...3424 

(15^) Feb. 22 

Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom lie to 

their wives about their absence the night 

before, but are "crossed up" by television, 

which shows them at a night club. 

Woo Woo Blues .3426 (16) July 12 

Hugh Herbert's post -honeymoon is almost 

ruined when an old flame attempts to blackmail 

him with a batch of old love letters. 

CANDID MICROPHONE 

(One-Reel Specials—Series 3) 

Candid Microphone No. 1....3551 

(11) Oct. 12, ',50 

Candid Microphone No. 2.. ..3552 

(10) Dec. 14. '50 

Candid Microphone No. 3. .3553 

(10;4) Feb. 15 


(11) Apr. 12 


(10!^) June 14 

Candid Microphone No. 6....3556 

(10) Aug. 15 

CAV.VLCADE OF BROADWAY 

(With Danton Walker. Columnist) 

China Doll. The 3652 (U) Dec. 28, '50 

BOXOFFICE 

Explanatory 

Statistical and summar-y data 

on the season's short subjects, arranged 

alphabeticall-y under compan-y 

groupings. Dates are 1951 

unless other-wise stated. 

PRODUCTION NUMBER imniediately 

follows title, except on 

those listed in numerical order by 

production number first. 

RUNNING TIME (in parentheses) 

follows production number, or title. 

RELEASE DATE at end of the 

title line. 

Symbol © indicates color photography. 

New York's exotic night spot featuring 

Oriental beauty and talent, including Ming 

& Ling and Toy & Ling. Irwin Kent's 

band furnishes the music. 

Havana-Madrid. .3653.(10) Apr. 12 

One of Broadway's night clubs where the 

rhumba is done in distinctive Latin style. 

Features Jose Curbelo and His Band, singing 

star Dorothy Claire, mambo experts 

Horacio and Lana. and comedian Henny 

Nadell. 

New York .After Midnight 3654... (11) June 28 

Night club personalities, such as Matty 

Malneck. Margot Powers and Ann McCormack. 

go to Freddie Robbins' Nest, where 

they entertain each other. 

Versailles, The ..3651....(10) Oct. 26, '50 

A tour through one of New York's most 

glamorous night spots. Features crooner 

Johnny Johnston and dance team Copsey 

and Ayres. 

COLOR FAVORITES (Re-Releases) 

(Technicolor) 

3601 Happy Tots' Expedition (7). Sept. 7. '50 

3602 Land of Fun. (7) Oct. 5, '50 

3603 .Peaceful Neighbors... (8%) Nov. 9, '50 

3604 The Foolish Bunny... (8) Dec. 7, '50 

3605 Midnight Frolics... (71-4) Jan. 11 

3606 The Carpenters. .(8) Feb. 8 

3607 Poor Little Butterfly... (8) Mar. 15 

3608 Jitterbug Knights... (7>4) - Apr. 15 

3609 Birds in Love... (8) May 17 

3610. Air Hostess (8) June 21 

3611. ...The Egg Hunt....(7H) July 26 

3612. Merry Manikins... (8) ~ Aug. 23 

COMEDY FAVORITES 

(Re -Releases) 

3431 Shot in the Escape....(19)... . Sept. 14, '.50 

1 

Billy Gilbert. Cliff Nazarro> 

KIL.M NOVELTIES 

Stars of Tomorrow—"Tots and Teens" 

3901... (10) Sept- 28, '50 

How young aspirants of show business arc 

trained at Wally Wanger's Manhattan 

school. Narrated by disk jockey Barry 

Gray. 

JOLLY FROLICS 

(Technicolor Cartoons) 

3501 The Popcorn Story. .(6'/2) Nov. 30. .50 

3502. ..Gerald McBoing-Boing....(7) .Ian. 25 

3503 ...The Family Circus... (6V.\) .lune 28 

MR. MAGOO 

(Technicolor) 

Barefaced Flatfoot, The. 3703 

Apr. 26 

(7) 

The near-sighted Magoo mistakenly believes 

his cousin to be a blackmail victim 

and trails after non-exi.stent criminals. 

Bungled Bungalow 3702 (6' (.) Dec. 28, '50 

The short-sighted Mr. Magoo runs into a 

house thief named "Hot House Harry." and 

ends up buying his own house, which had 

been transplanted to another lot. 

Trouble Indemnity .3701.... (6%) Sept. 14. '50 

Mr. Magoo puts the bite on his insurance 

company for a bite he gets from his "tiger" 

rug. 

MUSIC TO REMEMBER 

(Released together as a special library.) 

3751 Borodin's PRINCE IGOR (9^4) 

(The Polovetsian Dances) 

3752 Tchaikovsky's NUTCRACKER 

SUITE 

3753 Tchaikovsky's PIANO CONCERTO 

IN B-FLAT MINOR 

3805 

The 

The 

Cueball 

> 

3860... The Great Director... (9) July 19 

(Movie history of Cecil B. DeMille. Narrated 

by Joel McCrea.) 

SPECIAL FEATUKETTES 

(Technicolor) 

Day With the F.B.I., A. .3440 (19). ...July 21 

Produced by Louis de Rochemont. Shows 

the FBI at work in the laboratory and in 

the field. 

Vatican, The... (38) Special 

Documentary. Points of interest in and 

around Vatican City, with shots of the Swiss 

Guard at drill and in procession. Directors: 

Giuliano Tomei, Hans Nieter. lAn 

International Phoenix-Seven League Production.) 

STOOGE COMEDIES 

Baby Sitters' Jitters....3406....(16) Mar. 1 

Stooges find baby-sitting a difficult job, 

especially when the baby belongs to a divorcee 

whose ex-husband is trying to sneak 

off with him. 

Don't Throw That Knife. ..3407... (16). ...May 3 

Stooges are census takers who go through 

some merry paces when they meet up with 

"vaudevillains" who do a knife-and-sword 

act. 

Scrambled Brains .3408. (16) July 5 

One of the Stooges has hallucinations and 

wants to marry an ugly duckling whom he 

thinks is a ravishing beauty. 

Slap Happy Sleuths .3403. (16) Nov. 9, '50 

Stooges are cops who, in their own hilarious 

fashion, .solve the Great Onion Oil 

Co. robbery. 

Snitch in Time, A. 3404 ...(16%) Dec. 7, '50 

Stooges, while delivering furniture, become 

involved with thieves and get stuck in a 

stickup. 

Studio Stoops .3402. (16) Oct. 5, '50 

Stooges as termite exterminators for a movie 

studio, rub out kidnapers of actress, 

Three Arabian Nuts 3405... (16) Jan, 4 

Stooges accidentally run into an Aladdin's 

Lamp and a friendly Genii appears, who 

grants them their wacky wishes. 

Three Hams on Bye. .3401 

(I514) Sept, 7, '50 

Stooges make all sorts of zany attempts to 

keep a critic from viewing the opening 

night performance of their show. 

VARIETY FAVORITES 

(Re -Releases) 

3951 Korn Kobblers;.. (11) Sept. 21, '50 

"Little Brown Jug" and "Casey Jones." 

(Film Vodvil, Series 2, No. 4) 

3952. ..Drug Store Follies. ..(lOH). ...Nov, 23, '50 

The Leslies, Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone 

Star Cowboys. 

3953 Milt Britton and Band.dl) Dec. 21, '50 

(Film Vodvil. Series 3, No. 1) 

3954. ..Brokers' Follies (11) Feb. 22 

Martha Tilton. 

WORLD OF SPORTS 

(Commentaries by Bill Stern) 

Anglers Aweigh....3810 ...(10) July 26 

Canada's top hockey players, Maurice Richard, 

Doug Harvey and Jerry McNeil, exchange 

their hockey sticks for rods and 

reels and go fishing in the scenic Laurentian 

mountain district of Canada. 

Army's Ail-American . . (10) Feb. 22 

Typical day for Dan Foldberg, AU-American 

great of the Army's 1950 football team. 

Champion Jumpers ...3804... (10) Dec. 28, 

A '50 

camera tour of the Joseph Bragg horse 

farm in Long Island, and shots of the Piping 

Rock Horse Show. 

Future Major Leaguers ...3808. ..(11). ...May 31 

Behind the scenes with the New York 

Giants at their training camp, under the 

guidance of the famous Carl Hubbell. 

King of the Pins ...3802... (9) Oct. 26, '50 

American champ Joe Wilman gives a bowling 

exhibition. 

Mat Masters. .3803... (10) Nov, 30, '50 

Features Primo Camera and other famous 

men of the mat. 

Quebec Sports Holiday .3806 .. (8 "/„) Apr. 12 

Various types of sports, such as the Scotch 

game of curling and toboggan sliding, with 

the emphasis on skiing. 

Snow Fiesta. .3801 (9) Sept. 28, '50 

A winter carnival is held at a ski resort in 

the Laurentian mountains of Quebec. 

Sunshine Sports....3809....(10) June 28 

'Winter vacationists at Florida's Hollywood 

Beach hotel enjoy the varied sports activities 

offered. 

Mr. Tennis. .3807... (9) Apr. 26 

Pancho Segura, national professional tennis 

champ, is matched against Bob Junior 

Stobbs, national teaching professional 

champ. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

W-231 The Hollywood Bowl (7) Sept. 16, '50 

(Tom and Jerry 

1 

W-232 Garden Gopher... (6) Sept. 30, '50 

(Tex Avery 

W-233 The Framed Cat. (7) Oct. 21, '50 

(Tom and Jerry 1 

W-234 . Chump Champ. (7) Nov. 4, '50 

(Tex Avery) 

W-235 . Cat. ..(7) Nov. 25, '50 

(Tom and Jerry) 

W-236 The Peachy Cobbler... (7). ...Dec. 9, '50 

(Tex Avei'yt 

W-237 ..Casanova Cat.... (7) Jan. 6 


W-238 Fresh Laid Plans ..(9) Jan. 27 

W-239 Cock-A-Doodle Dog... (7) Feb, 10 

(Tex Avery) 

W-240 Jerry and the Goldfish... (7). ...Mar. 3 

(Tom and Jerry 

1 

W-241 Daredevil Droopy ..(6) Mar. 31 

(Tex Avery) 

W-242 ..Jerry's Cousin. (7) Apr. 7 


W-243 ..Droopy's Good Deed... (7) May 5 

(Tex Avery) 

W-244 Sleepy-Time Tom ..(7) May 26 


W-245. Symphony in Slang.... (7) June 16 

(Tex Avery) 

W-246.. His Mouse Friday (7) July 7 


GOLD MEDAL REPRINT CARTOONS 


W-261 . Zoot Cat... (7) Oct. 7, '50 


W-262 The Early Bird Dood It! 

(9) Dec. 2, '50 

(Tex Avery) 

W-263 The Million Dollar Cat .. (7). Feb. 24 


W -264 .The Shooting of Dan McGoo 

(8) Apr. 14 

(Tex Avery) 

W-265 Gallopin' Gals... (7) June 2 

W-266 ..The Bodyguard... (7) Aug. 4 


PEOPLE ON PARADE 

(Technicolor) 

P-211... Egypt Speaks. ..(8) ...Jan. 6 

P-212 Voices of Venice... (8) Feb. 3 

P-213 ...Springtime in the Netherlands 

(9) Apr. 21 

P-214. Land of the Zuider Zee. ..(9). ...Apr. 28 

P-215 A Word for the Greeks... (8). ...May 12 

P-216... Romantic Riviera... (9) June 23 

P-217....Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers 

(8) Aug. 4 

P-218....Visiting Italy.... (8) Aug. 25 

PETE SMITH SPECIALTIES 

Bandage Bait ...S-259....(9) June 16 

"Wrong Way Butch" illustrates how accidents 

can be avoided by a few simple precautions. 

Bargain Madness .. .8-260. ..(9) July 14 

Lampoons bargain buying by women. 

Camera Sleuth. ..S-258.... (10) Apr. 28 

Follows the work of a private-eye as he 

gathers photographic evidence against a 

false insurance claim. 

Curious Contests ..S-254 (8) Nov. 11, '50 

Odd types of contests, including a diapering 

contest, pie-eating and "putting out the 

cat." 

Fixin' FooI....S-257....(8) Mar. 24 

Dave O'Brien, as Mr. Average-Husband, attempts 

to fix a door, and calamities follow. 

Football Thrills No. 13. . .8-252. (9) ..Sept, 9, '50 

Scenes from 18 contests are shown in this 

compilation of the last .season's major collegiate 

football games. 

Sky Skiers 8-256.. ..(8) Feb. 17 

Preston Peterson and Karl Easterly perform 

water-ski tricks, including ski-stunting 

from a helicopter. 

Table Toppers... 8-253. ..(8) Oct. 21, '50 

Billiard wizards, Messrs. Caras Peterson 

and Mosconi. do some fancy tricks. 

Wanted: One Egg. ..S-255....(9) Dec, 16, '50 

Mother has all sorts of mishaps trying to 

save one egg needed to bake a birthday cake 

for her little daughter. 

Wrong Way Butch... .8-251... (10) Sept. 2, '50 

Dave O'Brien shows how things should not 

be done in the home work shop. 

Paramount 

CASPER CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

BlO-1.. ..Casper's Spree Under the Sea 

(8) Oct. 13. '50 

BlO-2... Once Upon a Rhyme... (8) ...Dec. 15, '50 

BlO-3 Boo Hoo Baby... (8) Mar. 30 

BlO-4 To Boo or Not to Boo ..(7) June 8 

BIO-5..B00 Scout... (8) July 27 

BlO-6 Casper Comes to Clown... (8).... Aug. 10 

GRANTLAND RICE SPORTLIGHTS 

Big Little Leaguers. ..RlO-8... (9) Mar. 16 

The Little League, comprised of lads from 

9 to 12 years of age, and numbering some 

1,500 coast-to-coast teams, have their world 

series game at Williamsport, Pa. 

City of Ball Tossers R10-ll....(10) June 22 

How the city of Denver develops its basketball 

stars. Youngsters are trained from 

elementary school on. 

Close Decisionsi...R10-10. ..(10) May 25 

Student umpires are shown as they learn 

baseball Inside and out at Bill McGowan's 

school for American league umpires and at 

George Barr's school for National league 

umpires. 

Desert Hi-Jinks. ..RlO-l... (9) Oct. 6, '50 

Unusual sports shots of skiing, tobogganing, 

polo (in which lariats are used), and a tortoise 

race. 

Dobbin Steps Out....R10-5....(10) Dec. 8, '50 

Scenes from Kansas City's American Royal 

horse show, plus shots of surrounding horse 

farms. 

Follow the Game Trails. ..RlO-12.. OVa)..July 20 

How the U.S. government protects fish and 

wild game, as well as provides approved 

hunting and fishing areas for sportsmen. 

Glacier Fishing ..RlO-3.. (10)... Oct. 6, '50 

Interesting bouts with trout are shown, 

against the scenic setting of Jasper National 

Park in the Canadian Rockies. 

Isle of Sport. ..RlO-7.. ..(10) Feb, 16 

Bermuda, its beaches, tennis courts, golf, 

fishing and sailing. 

Jumping Off Place, The....B10-9....(10)..May 11 

Ski jumping with Gordon Wren, former 

U.S. Olympic champ, and .shots of other expert 

skiers. 

Outboard Shenanigans.. ..RlO-2 

148 BAROMETER Section 

(10) Oct. 6, '50 

A streamlined, outboard motorboat race is 

shown, with unusual feats performed by 

aquatic cowboys. 

Targets on Parade ..RlO-4.... (10). ...Nov. 24, '50 

Demonstrations by bow and arrow champs 

Walt and Ken Wilhelm, skeet shooting by 

Alex Kerr, and expert casting by Cliff 

Wyatt, are shown. 

Top Flight Tumblers .RlO-6.. (9) Dec. 29, '50 

Big tumblers, little tumblers, all ages and 

sizes, demonstrate their dexterity at acrobatics.

Land 

Sing 

(7) 

(20) 

(19) 

>^ - !# 

) 

(16) 

(9) 

MUSICAL PARADE FEATURETTES 


FFlO-1 Mardi Gras (19) Oct. 6, '50 

FFlO-2 Caribbean Romance. ... (19). Oct. 6, '50 

FFlO-3. Showboat Serenade... (20)....Oct. 6, '50 

FFlO-4 You Hit the Spot (18) Oct. 6. '50 

FFlO-5 Bombalera ..(19) Oct. 6, '50 

FFlO-6 Halfway to Heaven. . Oct. 6. '50 

NOVELTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

PlO-l... Voice of the Turkey (6) Oct. 13, '50 

P10-2....Mice Meeting You... (7) Nov. 10, '50 

PlO-3. ...Sock-A-Bye Kitty. (7) Dec. 22, '50 

PlO-4.. One Quack Mind ...(7) Jan. 12 

PlO-5 Mice Paradise. (7) Mar. 9 

PlO-6 Hold the Lion. Please... (7) Apr. 27 

(Little Audrey) 

PlO-7 

. of Lost Watches... (9) May 4 

PlO-8. ...As the Crow Lies. (6) June 1 

PlO-9.. .Slip Us Some Redskin... (7) July 6 

PlO-10... Party Smarty ..(8) Aug. 3 

(Baby duclc Hueyi 

PACEMAKERS 

City of Beautiful Girls, The KlO-2 

(io) Oct. 27, '50 

Cypre.ss Gardens in Florida, popular with 

tourists for its tropical flowers, thrilling 

water shows and beautiful girls. 

Country Cop KlO-3 ..(10) Dec. 8, '50 

Young man realizes his boyhood dream of 

becoming a policeman. 

Just Fur Fun K10-l....(10) Oct. 6, '50 

Shows the activities of a pair of playful, 

young raccoons. 

Kids and Pets... KlO-5 .. (11) Mar. 23 

Children stage their own pet show, with 

dogs, birds, monkeys, rabbits and horses, 

and see to it that each w-ins a prize. 

Littlest Expert, The KlO-6.. (10) Apr. 13 

Charley Hankinson. 9-year-old baseball expert, 

tells about the outstanding achievements 

of baseball greats of the past and 

present, as each appears on the screen. 

Music Circus. .,K10-4.... (11) Feb. 2 

Tmô hou.se painters, fascinated by the rehearsals 

of St. John Terrell's Music Circus, 

neglect their work. 

POPEYE CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

ElO-l Quick on the Vigor (7) Oct. 6, '50 

ElO-2 Riot in Rhythm (7) Nov. 10, '50 

ElO-3 The Farmer and the Belle 

(7) Dec. 1, '50 

ElO-4.... Vacation With Play... (7)... Jan. 26 

ElO-5 ..Thrill of Fair (7) Apr. 20 

ElO-6. Alpine for You... (7) - May 18 

ElO-7 -Double Cross Country Race 

(7) ~ June 15 

E10-8....PiIgrim Popeye. . 

July 13 

POPEYE CHAMPIONS (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

ZlO-l. Her Honor, the Mare. ..(7) Oct. 6, '50 

ZlO-2 We're On Our Way to Rio 

Oct. 20. '.50 

(7) 

ZlO-3 PoTi-Pie a la Mode ..(6) Nov. 3. '50 

ZlO-4 Shape .Ahoy (6) Nov. 17, '50 

SCREEN SONGS 

(Technicolor) 

XlO-1... Fiesta Time (7) Nov. 17. '50 

XlO-2.... Fresh Y'eggs... (7) Nov. 17, '.50 

XlO-3.... Tweet Music... (7) Feb. 9 

XlO-4.. Drippy Mississippi... (7) Apr. 13 

XlO-5. ..Miners Forty Niners....(7) May 18 

XlO-6 . .Again of Michigan... (7)....June 29 

SPECI.ALS 

Cinematographer, The .T10-2....(10)....Jan. 15 

Shows the important part played by the 

camer.iman in the making of a film. lA 

part of "The Movies and You" series.) 

New Pioneers, The TlO-1 . Sept. 1, '50 

Filmed in Israel. A glimpse of life in Tel 

Aviv and on a communal farm settlement 

known as the "kibbutz." Narrator: David 

Vaile. Director: Baruch Dienar. (Produced 

by Baruch Dienar and Richard 

Czinner.) 

RKO Radio 

CLARK & McCULLOUGH 

(Reissues) 

13.601 ...Fits in a Fiddle ... (15) Sept. 8. 50 

13.602 Hey, Nanny Nanny .. (15)... Oct. 20, '50 

13.603 Alibi, Bye Bye. (21) Nov. 17, '50 

13.604 Jitters the Butler . (20). Dec. 29, '50 

COMEDY SPECIALS 

Newlyweds' Boarder, The. ...13,403 

(15) Jan. 19 

The newlyweds, threatened with a visit 

from in-laws, take in a boarder. Tliis leads 

to mixups when latter turns out to be a 

bank robber. 

Newlyweds' Easy Payments... 13,405 

(15) May 11 

The newlyweds have their first quarrel. 

They patch things up. then start worrying 

about meeting payments on a new car he 

promises her. 

Night Club Daze. .13,402. (16) Nov. 24, '5fl 

Gil Lamb wanders into a blood donor 

agency and is "transformed" by a transfusion. 

It all turns out to be a dream. 

Rogues to Riches 13,406 (15) July 6 

Jack Kirkwood and Wally Brown, escaping 

a detective, stumble into an audience participation 

show. Amusing complications 

follow when they have to sell a vacuum 

cleaner to get the $250 prize. 

Tinhorn Troubadours 13,404 (16) Mar. 16 

Jack Kirkwood and Wally Brown as old 

troupers behind in their rent, get on a 

television program the hard way. 

Waiting for Baby 13,401... (17). ..Sept. 22, '50 

Newlywed Robert Neil mistakenly believes 

his wife, Suzi Crandall, is going to have 

a baby, and enrolls in a class for expectant 

fathers. 

DISNEY CARTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

14.101 Hook, Lion and Sinker. (7). Sept. 1, '50 

(Donald Duck) 

14.102 Camp Dog. ..(7) Sept. 22, '50 

(Pluto I 

14.103 Bee at the Beach (7) Oct. 13, '50 

(Donald Duck) 

14,104. Hold That Pose (7) Nov. 3, '50 

(Goofy) 

14, 105. ...Morris, the Midget Moose 

(8) Nov. 24. '50 

14, 106. ..Out on a Limb... (7) Dec. 15, '50 

(Donald Duck) 

14.107. ..Lion Down... (7) Jan. 5 

(Goofy) 

14,108 Chicken in the Rough... (7). ...Jan. 19 

(Chip and Dale) 

14.109. Cold Storage ..(7) _ Feb. 9 

(Pluto) 

14.110 Dude Duck. (7) Mar. 2 

(Donald Duck) 

14.111 Home Made Home....(7) Mar. 23 

( Goofy 

14.112 Corn Chips ..(7) Apr. 6 

(Donald Ducki 

14.113 Cold War. (7) Apr. 27 

(Goofy I 

14.114 Plutopia (7) May 18 

(Pluto and Mickey Mouse) 

14.115 Test Pilot Donald... (7) June 8 

(Donald Ducki 

14,116....Tomorrow We Diet... (7) June 29 

( Goofy 

14.117. Lucky Number... (7) July 20 

(Donald Duck) 

14.118. R'Coon Dawg....(7) Aug. 10 

(Pluto and Mickey Mouse) 

DISNEY CARTOONS (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

14.701 The Moth and the Flame 

(8) _ Oct. 27. '50 

14.702 Donald's Golf Game. (8) Dec. '29, '50 

14.703 Merbabies.. (9) Feb. 23 

14,704. The Practical Pig. (8) JVpr. 20 

14,705 Polar Trappers ...(8) July 6 

(Donald and Goofy) 

14.706. The Old Mill .(9) Aug. 24 

EDGAR KENNEDY COMEDIES 

(Reissues) 

13.501 Act Your Age (18) Sept. 1, ',50 

13.502 'Tain't Legal (16) Sept. 29, '50 

13.503 Kennedy the Great (19) Oct. 27, '.50 

13.504 ..Mutiny in the County 

(17) Dec. 22, '.50 

LEON ERROL COMEDIES 

Chinatown Chump....l3.703.. ..(16) Jan. 26 

Errol's lies to his wife backfire and he 

becomes involved with a Chinese counterfeiter. 

Deal Me In. .13,706. . 

Aug. 3 

Errol's attempts to get a signed contract by 

allowing his prospective client to win at 

poker, backfire when his daughter slips in 

a loaded deck. 

One Wild Night... 13,705... (17) May 25 

Errol's wite tries to stop his philandering 

by pretending to philander her.self. 

Punchy Pancho 13.704 (16) Mar. 30 

Errol buys his wife a diamond ring, then 

poses a.s Punchy Pancho, the bandit, to 

steal it back. Plot backfires when real bandit 

shows up. 

Spooky Wooky. 13,702. .. (15) Dec. 1, '50 

Errol's teen-age daughter resorts to "ghostly" 

measures to keep her folks from buying 

a house in the suburbs. 

Texas Tough Guy .13,701 (18) Sept. 15, '50 

Errol exposes his daughter's snobbish fiance 

and saves her for the man she really loves. 

MY PALS 

Pal. Fugitive Dog. 13,201 (21) Oct. 6, '50 

Two boys adopt a wounded dog who, unbeknown 

to them, had been trained to help 

in robberies. Dog later leads them to the 

robber. Gary Gray, Gordon Gebert, Anne 

Nagel. "Flame." 

Pal's Gallant .Tourney 13,202 (22) Feb. 16 

Dog, sold to a movie studio, travels 200 miles 

to return to his boy master. Studio signs 

latter to a contract so they can get the dog 

back. Gaiy Gray, Gordon Gebert, "Flame." 

SCREENLINERS 

14,201 It's Only Muscle (9) Sept. 8, '50 

14,202. Fairest of the Finest ... (8). ..Oct. 6, '50 

14.203 The Big Appetite Nov. 3, '50 

14.204 Package of Rhythm (10) Dec. 1, '50 

14.205. Research Ranch (8) Dec. 29, '50 

14.206. Movie Oldies... (9) Jan. 26 

14,207... Lifeguard .. (8) Feb. 23 

14,208. Flying Padre... (9) Mar. 23 

14.209 .Your Fate Is in Your Hands 

(8) Apr. 20 

14.210 Florida Cowhands... (9) May 18 

14,211... Card Sharp. (9) June 15 

14,212 Cleopatra's Playground... (9)... July 13 

14.213... Antique Antics. (8) Aug. 10 

SPECIALS 

Basketball Headliners of 1951 13.801 

(16) Apr. 13 

Highlights of the .season's ten big games. 

A lesson in the arts of dribbling and passing 

is given by the Harlem Globetrotters, 

Football Headliners of 1950 .13,901 

(17) Dec. 8, '50 

Highlights the big games of the 1950 college 

football season, and the defeat by Navy of 

the Army. 

You Can Beat the A-Bomb. 13,001 

(20) Sept. 29, '50 

Use of the atom bomb as a weapon, and 

steps to take in ca.se of a surprise attack. 

SPORTSCOPES 

Big House Rodeo .14,306 ..(8) Feb. 9 

Inmates of a Texas prison help put on a 

rodeo, open to the public, proceeds of which 

go to the prison fund. 

Big Shoot, The... 14,307... (8) Mar. 9 

World's biggest trapshooting meet, held annually 

in Vandalia, Ohio, finds the women 

walking off with the top honors. 

Bridle Belles. .14,313. (8) Aug. 24 

Girls, at a swank, private school in Texas, 

are shown as they train in the art of 

"horsemanship." 

BOXOFFICE 149

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Canadian Snow Fun .14,305 .. (8) Jan. 12 

Daredevils do some tricky high altitude 

skiing in Canada's Banff National park. 

Connie Mack 14,304 (8) Dec. 15, '50 

Highlights in the career of baseball's "grand 

old man." the former manager of the 

Philadelphia Athletics. 

Crocodile Hunters 14,301 (9) Sept. 22, '50 

Natives of northern Australia hunt crocodiles 

in their primitive fashion. 

Diving D.vnasty.. .14,303. .. (8) Nov. 17, '50 

Champions Joe Mai-ino and Bruce Harlan 

of Ohio State university demonstrate their 

diving technique. 

First Lady of the Turf 14,309 (8) May 4 

Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and her fine 

stable of racehorses are shown at her Virginia 

farm and at winter headquarters in 

Florida. 

Football's Mighty Mustang. .14,302 

(8) Oct. 20, '50 

Kyle Rote, Southern Methodist university 

football star, is shown at practice on the 

campus and as he plays against Notre 

Dame. 

Lake Texoma... 14,311. .(8) June 29 

Shows the four largest man-made lakes 

in the world on the Red river, where water 

sports are a main attraction. 

Rainbow Chasers....l4,312 ... (8) July 27 

Trout fishing in southern Chile with expert 

fisherman Federico Weisner and his 

host. August Edwards. 

Slanunin' Sammy Snead. ...14,308.... (9) ...Apr. 6 

The famous golfer demonstrates a variety 

of shots on the course at Wliite Sulphur 

Springs. W. Va. 

Ted Williams .14,310. .(8) June 1 

Shows the Boston Red Sox outfielder as he 

bats, fishes and sits in his business office. 

THIS IS AMERICA 

(Series 9) 

13,101 Pinkerton Man ..(16) Sept. 15, '50 

(Private-eyes of the famous Pinkerton 

I 

agency. 

13.102. Seven Cities of Washington 

(15) Oct. 15, '50 

I Seven different "view points" of our capital 

city.) 

13.103. Whereabouts Unknown 

(15) Nov. 10, '50 

How the Missing Persons Biu'eau operates. 

13.104 Letter to a Rebel 

(16) Dec. 8, '50—Reissue 

since its first release.) 

13,105... Airlines to Anywhere... (16) Jan. 5 

(Story of the U.S. airlines.) 

13.106. Lone Star Roundup. . Feb. 2 

(An ultra-modern cattle ranch in Texas.') 

13.107. ..Cruise Ship... (16) Mar. 2 

(A Caribbean and South American cruise 

on the luxurious Santa Paula.) 

13,l«8....Day of the Fight... (16) Mar. 30 

(Preparations for the big day by the average 

professional fighter. 

13.109 The Mac.'^rthur Story .. (16). Apr. 27 

(Life and career of the famous general. 

13.110 They Fly With the Fleet (16). June 22 

(Building recruits into navy and marine 

pilots.) 

13,111... Ambulance Doctor. (16) July 20 

(Pays tribute to the internes who save 

countless lives in emergency calls. 

13,112 Prison With a Future. (14) Aug. 17 

(Marysville Reforatory for Women, in 

(Ohio.) 

Republic 

THIS WORLD OF OURS 

(Trucolor) 

England. .5074... (9) Apr. 15 

The country in Shakespeare's day and today; 

modern industries; an interview with 

the English people brings out their determination 

to remain free. 

Greece. ...5076... (9) June 15 

Country of ancient art and culture, with 

its clean, well designed streets and neat 

liomes; king designates 1951 as "Greek 

Homecoming Year." 

Hawaii .5075 (9) May 15 

Camera visit to the islands at various .seasons 

of the year: Aloha week. Lei day and 

other festival celebrations; shots of pineapple 

and sugar plantations. 

London. .5071... (9) Jan. 15 

Famous landmarks of the capital British 

city; a visit to Windsor castle, and changing 

of the guard at Buckingham palace and 

at Whitehall. 

Portugal .5072.... (9) Feb. 15 

Fabulous tower of Belem; a visit to Lisbon 

and the fishing village of Nazare; cork 

forests; grape festival of Douro valley. 

Spain....5073.... (9) Mar. 15 

Visits to Madrid, Valencia. Barcelona. Toledo, 

Granada. Majorca and Gibraltar; 

gypsy dances performed by the dancers of 

Granada. 


LEW LEHR 

(Re- Releases) 

9001... Monkeys Is the Cwaziest People 

(9) 

Aug. '.50 

9002 Monkey Doodle Dandies... (9)... Aug. '50 

MARCH OF TIME 

No. l....(Vol. 17).... (171/2) - Feb. 

Strategy for Victory. 

No. 2. (Vol. 17) (18>/2) Mar. 

Flight Plan for Freedom. 

No. 3... (Vol. 17)... .(19) Apr. 

The Nation's Mental Health. 

No. 4....(VoL 17).... (18) June 

Moroccan Outpost. 

No. 5... (Vol. 17). (19) July 

Crisis in Iran. 

No. 6. ...(Vol. 17).... (17) Aug. 

Formosa. 

THE MOVIES AND YOU 

Screen Writer. The .9702 (9V2) Nov. '.50 

Work of the men and women who write the 

screenplays, and the introduction to movie 

audiences of those screen writers who rose 

to top executive positions. 

SPECIAL 

(Two-Reel) 

G Magnetic Tide, The .7903 (21) Feb. 

Cinecolor Documentary. The new nation 

of Israel, its people at work and at play, 

and Biblical lan(dmarks in the Arab and 

Jewish sections of Jerusalem. Produced and 

directed by Dorothy Silverstone. Narrated 

by Dennis King. 

SPECIALS 

(Three Reels) 

Guest, The .7180... (32) Aug. 

From Tolstoy's tale of a lonely, embittered 

shoemaker whose faith is restored in God 

through a .series of happenings in the course 

of a day's events. David Wolfe, Warner 

Anderson. Ludwig Donath. 

Why Korea? .7101 .. (30) Jan. 

Movietone News Documentary. Newsreel 

clips show how Nazi and Italian invasion 

plans prior to World War II closely parallel 

today's movements of the Soviet Union. 

Narrator; Joe King. (Produced by Edmund 

Reek.) 

SPORTS 

Accent on Balance. ..(3105).... (8) 

Oct. 

Beautiful bathing beauties do a ballet on 

water skis at Cypress Gardens, Pla. 

Arrow Artistry. .3101.... (9) Jan. 

Archery champ Andy Vail performs in 

spectacular fashion with the bow and arrow. 

Football Winning Ways 3104 (10) Aug. 

Highlights of 1950 gridiron games, including 

scenes featuring Vic Janowitz of Ohio 

State, Babe Parilli of Kentucky, and Kyle 

Rote of Southern Methodist. Famous 

coaches are also shown in action. 

©Let's Go Marlin Fishing 3102 (10) Mar. 

Technicolor. Fishing in the Bahamas. 

Shows the skill and endurance required in 

capturing a 449-pound blue marlin. 

Mister Basketball. .3103 (9) June 

George Mikan, who guides the Minneapolis 

Lakers, world champion professional basketball 

team, is shown at home with his family 

and with the team in action. 

Surf Riding. .3106... (9) Dec. 

TERRYTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

5101 The Talking Magpies in Rival 

Romeos.... (7) 

Ian. 

5102. Nutsy in Squirrel Crazy. ..(7) Ian. 

5103. Little Roquefort in Three Is a 

Crowd... (7) 

Feb. 

5104 ..Woodman Spare That Tree. ..(7). ...Feb. 

5105 Half Pint in Stage Struck (7) Mar. 

5106. ..Mighty Mouse in Sunny Italy 

(7) Mar. 

5107 ..Gandy Goose in Songs of Erin 

(7) Mar. 

5108 The Talking Magpies in Bulldozing 

the Bull... (7) Apr, 

5109. ..Gandy Goose in Spring Fever... (7) Apr. 

5110 Mighty Mouse in Goons From 

the Moon.... (7) May 

5111 Little Roquefort in Musical 

May 

Madness.... (7) 

5112 Half Pint in the Elephant Mouse 

(7) June 

5113 The Talking Magpies in the 

Rainmakers ...(7) 

June 

5114. ...Mighty Mouse in Injun Trouble 

(7) June 

5115.. ..Little Roquefort in Seasick Sailors 

(7) July 

5116. ..The Terry Bears in Tall Timber 

Tale.... (7) 

July 

5117... Aesop's Fable in Golden Egg 

Goosie....(7) 

Aug. 

5118. Mighty Mouse in a Swiss Miss 

(7) Aug. 

5119... The Talking Magpies in Steeple 

Jacks.... (7) 

Sept. 

5120 The Terry Bears in Little Problems 

(7) Sept. 

5121. ...Little Roquefort in Pastry Panic 

(7) Oct. 

5122 The Helpful Geni (7) Oct. 

5123 The Talking Magpies in 'Sno Fun 

(7) Nov. 

5124. Mighty Mouse in a Cat's Tale 

(7) Nov. 

5125. Beaver Trouble... (7) Dec. 

5126 Little Roquefort in the Haunted 

Cat.... (7) 

Dec. 

TERRYTOONS (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

5127 The Lucky Duck. (7) Jan. 

5128... The Bird Tower ...(7) Feb. 

(Memorial Tower in Florida) 

5129. Shipyard Symphony... (7) Apr. 

5130 Temperamental Lion... (7) May 


CARTOON MELODIES 

(Features the King's Men Quartet, 

With Special Cartoon Animation) 

6381 Brother John (10) Nov. 20, '50 

6382 Peggy, Peg and Polly ..(10) Jan. 22 

6383 Xower the Boom (10) Mar. 19 

6384. Bubbles of Song. (10) May 7 

6385....Readin', Writin' and 'Rithmatic 

(10) May 28 

6386. ..Hilly BiUy (10) June 25 

6387 MacDonald's Farm... (10) July 30 

6388. Down the River... (10) Sept. 10 

LANTZ CARTUNES (Reissues) 

(Technicolor) 

6321 Life Begins for Andy Panda 

(7) Nov. 6, '.50 

6322. Three Lazy Mice... (7) Dec. 4, '50 

6323 Chew Chew Baby ..(7) Dec. 25, '50 

(Wally Walrus and Woody Woodpecker) 

6324.. ..Dippy Diplomat... (7) Jan. 15 

(Wally Walrus and Woody Woodpecker) 

6325 Adventures of Tom Thumb, Jr. 

(7) Feb. 12 

6326 Woody Dines Out ..(7) Mar. 19 

(Woody Woodpecker) 

150 BAHOMETER Section

'•" 

I 

Porky 

I 

I 

I 

(7). 

( Popular 

I 

Sylvester 

(20)..Feb. 

6327... .Andy Panda Goes Fishing 

7721. Rabbit Every Monday (7) Feb. 10 

7701... Stooge for a Mouse ..(7) Oct, 21. "50 their towns, cities and industrial centers. 

','50 

7702. Pop 'Im Pop!.... (7) Oct. '28, 

(7) Apr. 23 7722. ..Bunny Hugged (7) Mar. 10 

( Sylvester Cat) 

r(i328.. Springtime Serenade... (7) May 14 7723 Fair-Haired Hare... (7) Apr. 14 7703. Caveman Inki....(7) Nov. 25, '50 

6329 Jungle Jive. ..(7) June 18 7724 ...Rabbit Fire (7) May 19 7704 Dog Collared... (7) Dec. 2, '50 

6330. Who's Cookin' Who?... .(7) July IG (Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck) 

(Porky Pig) 

(Woody Woodpecker) 

7725 French Rarebit ..(7) June 30 7705. Two's a Crowd... (7) Dec. 30, '50 

633 1... Pied Piper of Basin Street 

7726. His Hare Raising Tale... (7) Aug. 11 (Claude Cat) 

(7) Aug. 20 FEATURETTES 

7706 ..A Fox in a Fix... (7) Jan. 20 

6332. .100 Pygmies and Andy Panda 

(Classics of the Screen) 

7707. Canned Feud... (7) Feb. 3 

(7) of Club.s .7103. ...(20) Jan. 27 

6333 The Fox and the Rabbit . Oct. 15 

re-edited golf short, showing Bobby 7708 Trouble... (7) Feb, 24 

NAME BAND MUSICALS 

Jones, the golf king, on the links. 

(Tweety Pie, the canary) 

6301 The Harmonicats & MigueUto 

Barbershop Ballads. ...7102 

7709. Corn Plastered... (7) Mar. 3 

Valdes' Orchestra. .. (15) Nov. 8, "50 

(20) Nov. 18, '50—Reissue (Crow and the farmer) 

6302. Jerry Gray & the Band of 

Favorite ballads of yesteryear as rendered 7710....Scent-imental Romeo... (7) Mar. 24 

Today.... (15) Dec. 20, '50 in minstrel .shows, by singing waiters and 7711 A Bone for a Bone ..(7) Apr, 7 

6303... Sugar Chile Robinson, Billy Holliday, others. 

7712 A Hound for Trouble... (7) Apr. 28 

Count Basie & His Sextet. (15) Jan. 3 Hunting the Hard Way... 7105 

7713, ...Early to Bet.... (7) May 12 

6304... Frankie Carle & His Orchestra 

(20) May 26—Reissue 7714 Room and Bird (7) June 2 

Sept. 17 Ace 

A 

Cat) 

Putty Tat 

(15) Jan. 31 Howard Hill shows his prowess with the (Tweety Pie and Sylvester Cat) 

6305... .Ray Anthony & His Orchestra 

bow and arrow in cougar hunting. 

7715 Chow Hound... (7) June 16 

Royal Rodeo. ..7002... (20) Nov. 4, '50 

Child ruler of imaginary kingdom loves 

western stories, and when the rodeo comes 

to town, he orders a command performance. 

Scotty Beckett. John Payne. Cliff 

Edwards. 

Sons of the Plains... 7007... (20) June 9 

Story of baby twins, one taken by Indians 

and the other raised by whites. They meet 

years later and together prevent a massacre 

of both Indians and whites. 

Stranger in the Lighthouse.. .7006 

(20) May 5 

Filmed in the fabulous Northland, this is 

the tale of a girl and her pet seal. 

Wanderers' Return, The 7003 

(20) Dec. 23, '50 

Story of modern Israel, its people, customs 

and industries, as well as its ancient landmarks. 

Wish You Were Here. 7001 ..(20) July 29, '50 

Famous places in Florida, as viewed on a 

sightseeing river crui.se. 

VITAPHONE NOVELTIES 

7601. ...Slap Happy... (10) Oct. 14, '50 

(Misadventures of Ben Turpin. early day 

hero of the Mack Sennett comedies.) 

7602. ..Those Who Dance .(10). Nov. 25, '50 

(Top dances by top Hollywood hoofers.) 

7603. Blaze Busters.dO) Dee. 30, '50 

(Fire fighters who risk life and limb.) 

7604. ..Animal Antics. ..(10) Jan. 20 

(Clips from Mack Sennett and Larry Semon 

comedies of two decades ago.) 

7605 Horse-Hide Heroes (10) Mar. 10 

(Career highlights of baseball kings.) 

7606 ..Anything for Laughs. (10) Apr. 21 

("The Show," an old Larry Semen comedy, 

is given a modern version.) 

7607. ...World of Kids.dO) June 23 

(Reactions of small fry as they play games 

and get their first haircut.) 

7608....Disaster Fighters, (10) Aug. 11 

(Rescuers at work during floods and hurricanes.) 

Serials 

COLUMBIA 

Overland With Kit Carson ("Fearless 

Frontier Fighter") 3140 

(15 chapters) Feb. 15—Reissue 

Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske, 

Bobby Clack. Directors: Sam Nelson. Norman 

Deming. 

Pirates of the High Seas ("Phantom 

Raiders of the Deep") 3120 

(15 chapters) Nov. 2, '50 

Buster Crabbe. Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell, 

William Fawcett. Directors: Spencer Bennet, 

Tliomas Carr. 

Roar of the Iron Horse ("Rail-Blazer of 

the Apache Trail") 3160 

(15 chapters) ....May 31 

Jock O'Mahoney, Virginia Herrick, William 

Fawcett, Hal Landon. Directors: 

Spencer Bennet, Thomas Carr. 

REPUBLIC 

Desperadoes of the West 5081 

(12 chapters) Dec. 23, '50 

Richard Powers, Judy Clark, Roy Barcroft, 

I. Stanford Jolley. Director: Fred C. 

Brannon. 

Don Daredevil Rides Again 5084 

(12 chapters) Sept. 1 

Ken Curtis, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, 

Lane Bradford. Director: Fred C. Brannon. 

Flying Disc Man From Mars 5082 

(12 chapters) Mar. 17 

Walter Reed, Lois Collier, Gregory Gay, 

James Craven, Director: Fred C. Brannon. 

Perils of the Darkest Jungle (formerly 

"The Tiger Woman") 

(12 chapters) 

5083 

June 9—Reissue 

Allan Lane. Linda Stirling, Duncan Renaldo, 

George J. Lewis, LeRoy Mason, 

Crane Whitley. Directors: Spencer Bennet, 

Wallace Grissell. 

Miscellaneous 

Apple Blossom Time in Poland 

(17) Films of the Nations 

Travel film. Inhabitants of the Tatra 

Mountains in Poland participate in their 

annual spring festival of folk singing and 

dancing. 

©As Old as the Hills 

(10) British Information Services 

Technicolor. Study of the formation of oil 

on the ocean bed, its chemical transformation, 

and areas where it can be found. 

Balzac... (22) A. F. Films ...July 

(English dialog.) 

Beautiful Blue Danube, The 

Hoffberg Prods. 

(121,0) 

Austrian-made. Tlie Vienna Staatsopera 

Ballet, with Erika Hanka as choreographer, 

dance in the background to the strains of 

the famous Strauss waltz played by the 

Vienna Symphony Orchestra. 

Britain's New Aircraft 


Britain displays her achievements in aircraft 

manufacture at an annual exhibition 

held at Farnborough Airfield, near London. 

(Available in 16mm only.) 

Budapest Symphony... (9) Hoffberg Prods. 

Musical documentary of the Danube river. 

Features the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, 

also Hungarian dances. 

Cadet Holiday 

(11) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada 

(Canada Carries On series.) Army cadets 

are shown in training at Ipperwash on 

Lake Huron, which is one of five similar 

camps acro.ss Canada. (Available in 35mm 

and 16mm, either in color or black and 

white.) 

Canada's Awakening North 


Kaleidoscopic review of the topography, 

resources, development and settlement of 

the Mackenzie District frontier of the 

Northwest Territories. Also depicts the life 

of the Eskimo and Indian. (Available in 

35mm and 16mm.) 

©Caribou Hunters 


Color 16mm film. The camera follows a 

group of Indian hunters of northern Manitoba 

in then- search of caribou, their main 

source of food. 

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, The 

(9) Lux Films 

(English narration.) Camera study of the 

Michelangelo painting on the ceiling of the 

Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Bach and 

Beethoven background music. 

Challenge, The (30) 

Semi-documentary. A reporter and a photographer, 

assigned to do a series of articles 

based on the President's Committee on 

Civil Rights learn what is being done to 

correct injustices as to human rights and 

liberty, and the job that yet remains to be 

done. (16mm print distributed by the 

March of Time, and 35mm distributed by 

the Motion Picture Division of the American 

Jewish Committee, and the Motion 

Picture Division of the Anti-Defamation 

League.) 

©Cheers for Chubby 

(8) Metropolitan Life Ins. 

Animated color cartoon on overweight produced 

by Jerry Fairbanks. Tells the story 

of little Chubby who ate too much and 

grew sideways when he reached manhood. 

(Gratis to theatres.) 

Christian Dior Story 

(15) A. F. Films. ..Dec. '50 


City in Siege 


The flood that hit Winnipeg, Canada, several 

years ago, the work done to meet it, 

the (iamage, and subsequent work of rebuilding 

and rehabilitation. 

©Color Keying in Art and Living 

(10) Encyclopaedia Britannica Films 

Full color educational film. A study of 

color relationships, as applied to art subjects 

and to the aspects of everyday life 

such as hair, eyes, complexion, dress and 

home decoration. 

Composers in Clay... (17) Canton-Weiner 

Shows the works of 15 modern sculptors, 

and a glimpse of each at work in his studio. 

Concert Hall Favorites 

(16 and 9) Gordon Films 

Filmed in a longer and a shorter version. 

Features concert .stars Eugene List, Yfrah 

Neaman and Susan Reed. Director: Israel 

M. Berman. 

©Coral Wonderland 

(25) Australian News and Inf. Bureau 

Kodachrome 16mm film. (Great Barrier 

Reef series.) Microscopic photograph shots 

of coral growths on islands off the Great 

Barrier Reef. 

Crucifix Carvers, The ("Die 

Herrgottschnitzer")....(10) Casino Films 

(With German spoken commentary.) Story 

of the woodcarving art and the artists in 

the village of Oberammergau. also famous 

for its Passion play. (A Hochland Film 

Pi'oduction.) 

Dances of Tibet (20) Hoffberg Prods. 

Filmed in the Himalayan Mountains. A 

collection of native Sino-Tibetan folk 

dances. 

©Dancing Fleece, The... (15) Arthur Mayer 

Technicolor. British-made. In ballet fashion, 

this tells the story of a wool worker 

who goes to the fah' and dreams of being 

a great dress designer for beautiful girls. 

Debate Continues, The 


Documentary. Formal reopening and dedication 

of the bombed House of Commons, 

with speeches by King George, Clement 

Attlee and Winston Churchill. 

Desire to Live. (12) Hoffberg Prods. 

The unseen battlefield where the war of 

the atom bomb vs. man is relentlessly being 

waged. 

Earthquake in Ecuador 

(15) United Nations Films 

Work of the UN in rescue operations and 

in food and medical aid to the people. 

Narrated by Sam Wanamaker. (Available 

in 35mm and 16mm.) 

Every Drop to Drink 


Produced for the Metropolitan Water 

Board. Shows how the Board met the 

problem of supplying pure water to the 

vast population of London. (Available in 

16mm only.) 

Family Portrait 

(25) British Information Services....May 

16mm documentary. Past and present are 

juxtaposed to present an overall picture of 

the achievements of the great nation of 

Britain. 

Father Cuyten. ... (16) Hoffberg Prods. 

Story of one of the unsung heroes of the 

war. 

©Feathered Fishes 


Kodachrome 16mm film. (Great Barrier 

Reef series.) Deals with bird life on the 

;. 


(29) 

coral islands off the Australian mainland. 

©Fifth Freedom. The 

(10) Nat'l Screen Service 

Technicolor documentary. Freedom of 

choice in industry is emphasized as an innate 

part of the American system. (Gratis 

film.) 

Fight in Malaya, The 


A report of the combined efforts of Great 

Britain and Malaya in waging war against 

Communist aggression in Asia, i Available 

in 16mm only.) 

©Folk Song Fantasy 

(10) Natl Film Bd. of Canada 

Color 16mm film. Animated puppets and 

birds enact the stories contained in three 

folk songs: "The Riddle Song," "Who 

Killed Cock Robin?" and "The Cooper of 

Fife." 

Four Songs by Four Gentlemen 


Male quartet sings as the words are flashed 

on the screen: "Camptown Races," "Bury 

Me Not on the Lone Prairie." "Grandfather's 

Clock" and "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay." 

French School of Painting 

Films. ..June 

(17) A. F. 


Genius of Turner, The... (10) Lux Films 

Works of the 19th century English painter, 

J. M. Turner. 

Grand Design, The 

United Nations Films 

(9) 

How the UN was born and what it has 

accomplished in six years in its handling 

of international problems. 

©Grandma Moses 

(22) A. F. Films. ..Dec. '50 

Technicolor featurette. Shows the famous 

90-year-old artist at her home in Eagle 

Bridge. New York. Narration by Archibald 

MacLeish. the poet. 

Hamburg Believes in Its Future 

("Hamburg Glaubt an Seine Zukunft") 

(15) Casino Films 

(With German spoken commentary.! History 

of the famous city of Hamburg, her 

destruction during World War II and her 

rebuilding determination. 

Hamburg at Night Is Beautiful 

("Hamburg bei Nacht 1st Schoen") 


(With German spoken commentary.) A 

couple plays hide-and-seek through the 

famous night-spot area of St. Pauli, near 

Hamburg's waterfront. (A Walter Schneider-Roemheld 

Production.) 

Haunted Palaces (29) Hoffberg Prods. 

Shaw Desmond, international authority on 

the supernatural, tells about ghosts. 

Hong Kong 

Information (15) British Services 

A study of the small but strategic and important 

colony of Hong Kong, both from 

within and in relation to the problems of 

the Far East. (Available in 16mm only.i 

How Britain Votes 


Shows the British election machinery in 

action, step by step, before the nation went 

to the polls on October 25. 1951. 

Hunting With Bow and .\rrow 

Cornell Films 

(17) 

Braving dangers in the wilds of the Tampiqua 

jungles of Mexico to hunt with bow 

and arrow. 

Irish Melody (36) Bell Picts. 

Barry Keegan tells the story of his life 

and success as an Irish singer. Shots of 

famous scenic spots of Ireland are shown 

and Keegan sings two Irish songs. 

Killers of the Deep... (22) Astor Picts. 

Two fishermen after game fish off the Bahamas, 

around the Panamanian coast, encounter 

sharks and other dangerous fish. 

Lesson in Anatomy, A....(ll'j) Lux Films 

Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg 

(10) A. F. Films. ..Dec. '50 

Narrator covers events up to and including 

the famous Lincoln address, entirely 

from paintings and drawings of the Civil 

War period. 

©Little Gray Neck. .326 

(20) Official Films 

Kodachrome animated cartoon. (Also in 

black and white.) A little bird regains her 

abUity to fly, and then enjoys secret revenge 

on the sly old fox. 

©Little Red Riding Hood ...325 

(10) ...Official Films 

Kodachrome. (Also in black and white.) 

16mm. three dimensional film, that brings 

the familiar story of Red Riding Hood to 

the screen, in a new form—with neither 

animated cartoons nor live characters. 

Looking at Sculpture 


A camera visit to the Victoria and Albert 

Museum, where three objects of ai-t are 

separately and carefully explored. (Available 


Love on Skis . Hoffberg Prods. 

A condensed version of the 67-minute feature, 

"Slalom." Romance on skis at St. 

Moritz. 

Loves of Franistan, The. ...(7) . .. Canton-Weiner 

Lampoons film producers who hold up the 

picture by consuming valuable time listing 

.screen credits. 

.Man's Life, A... (25)..Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada 

Ti-aining naval recruits for the Royal Canadian 

Navy, ending with a realistic demonstration 

of battle maneuvers. (Available 

in 16mm only, either in color or black and 

white. I 

©Marvels in Miniature 


Kodachrome 16mm film. ( Great Barrier 

Reef series.) Shows underwater life of 

the reef as seen under a magnifying lens. 

Memory Box... (10) A. F. Films. ...Aug. 


Milk-Made 


Compares modern milk production and processing 

with dau-y methods used in pioneer 

days. (Available in 16mm only, either in 

color or black and white.) 

.Monastery 

(20) ." Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada 

Benedictine monks are shown as they pursue 

their life of prayer, service and devotion 

in the quiet confines of their monastery 

at Saint-Benoit-du-Lac. Quebec. 

(Available in 35mm and 16mm.) 

More .About Me... (7) Canton-Weiner 

The late George Bernard Shaw wrote, directed, 

produced and acted in this film, 

wherein he expounds on various subjects 

in his own inimitable, sarcastic fashion 

Mother of Parliaments 


A shorter version of "The Debate Continues," 

this highlights scenes of the reopening 

of the House of Commons. 

Mozart and Barrios on Six Strings 

(10) A. F. Films. ..Nov. '50 


Mystery of Leonardo da Vinci, The 

(8) Lux Films 

(English narration.) A study of some of 

the painter's most famous works. 

Mystery of the Flying Saucers 


Fifty years ago H. G. Wells described flying 

.saucers, which were first reported seen 

in 1947. Shows actual shots of the saucers 

and eye-witness accounts by people who 

have seen them. 

©New Iron Horse, The... (10) Al O. Bondy 

Cinecolor. A General Electric "Excursions 

in Science" short on the history of the 

steam locomotive. Stresses the importance 

of electricity in present day operations. 

(Gratis film.) 

New Ways for Old Morocco 

(201 A. F. Films. ..Sept. '50 


Of Human Rights 

United Nations Films 

(21) 

Dramatizes the UN's Universal Declaration 

of Human Rights by citing an incident in 

a small town. (A 35mm film.) 

Old Crafts, New Graces 


Shows the skill and careful craftsmanship 

applied by British artisans and craftsmen 

in making, by hand, the finest harnessing 

and saddles, fishing rods and treasured 

silverware. (Available in 16mm only.) 

Organ, Queen of Instruments, The 

("Die Orgel. Koenigin der Instrumente") 


(With German spoken commentary.) History 

of the organ, against a background of 

landscape and pictorial art, climaxed by a 

concert with the "Wiener Sangerknaben" 

and Bruckner's Te Deum. (An Eiu-am Film 

Production.! 

Outlaw Within, The 


(Canada Carries On series.) Deals with 

the subject of cancer and the progress of 

science toward a solution. ( Available in 

35mm and 16mm.) 

Oyster Man, The 


Oyster farming in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

from their first stages of cultivation to the 

final grading and shipping. (Available in 

35mm and 16mm. i 

Pacific 231. ..(10) Pathe Cinema 

Documentary. Made in France. Sound effects 

and music are u.sed in place of dialog 

or narration in this story of the journey 

of a train from start to finish. Musical 

background by Arthur Honegger. 

Padirac... (18) A. F. Films. ..Aug. 


Screen Serv. 

©Partner Perkins... (10' o),... Nat'l 

Technicolor. Commercial reel for Chesterfield 

cigarets. Arthur Godfrey, Perry 

Como and Bing Crosby appear briefly. 

(Theatres are paid to run this.) 

©Pattern for Survival. ... (20) Cornell Films 

Kodachrome. Civilian defense measures to 

be used in case of an atomic bomb attack. 

(Produced in cooperation with the army. 

navy and air force. Available in 35mm 

and 16mm. 

1 

People. Cities, Rails 

("Menschen, Staedte, Schienen") 


(With German spoken commentary.! 

Shows Germany's famous Alpine-North 

Sea Express on its journey from Munich 

to Bremerhaven. (A Report-Film Production.! 

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First 

Polkas... (12Vi) 

Hoffberg Prods. St. Lawrence Coasters 

Austrian-made. The Vienna Symphony (11) Nat'l Film Board of Canada 

Orchestra plays a selection of Strauss Narrated in the first person by a skipper 

polkas as dances are performed in animated 

fashion by the Vienna Staatsopera aboard a river freighter, the film follows 

who takes his nephew on his first trip 

Ballet. 

the course of the voyage along the St. 

Lawrence river. (Available in 35mm and 

Rescue Mission 

(11) Nafl Film Bd. of Canada 

16mm. I 

(Canada Carries On series.) Deals with Story of a City ("Darmstadt") 

the mercy flights of the Search and Rescue 

Squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air (With German spoken commentary.) A 


Force. (Available in 35mm and 16mm.) camera tour of the important points of 

interest in the world-famous city of Darmstadt, 

well-known also as the residence of 

Rodin. . (21) Canton-Weiner 

Study of the work of the great sculptor, 

Hessian princes. 

Rodin. 

©Story of Time, The (10) C. S. Goetz 

©Run, Sheep, Run....606 

Technicolor. British-made. Animated puppets, 

cartoons, drawings and trick photog- 

(20) Official Films 

Kodachrome. Story of Nell, a champion 

raphy are used to illustrate the evolution 

sheep dog. Illustrates the dog's ingenuity, 

of clocks and man's progress in his efforts 

and the patience with which she is taught 

to tell time. 

her duties. 

Strauss Festival (5) Films Int'l 

Sailor Is Born, A 

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted 

by Oscar Strauss, presents the music 


Produced for the Admiralty. Describes the 

of the conductor and that of his famous 

training the next generation of sailors go 

relative, Johann Strauss. 

through before they move on to maneuvers 

at sea, and their first shore leave. (Available 


16mm documentary. History of the world 

Struggle for Oil. (20). ...British Inform. Serv. 

struggle for oil resources is traced from its 

Salzburg Fiesta... (121,2) Hoffberg Prods. 

beginning, prior to World War I, to date. 

Austrian-made. Folk songs and dances are 

Filmed in the heart of the oil land of Iran. 

presented against the setting of an Austrian 

beer garden. 

Student in Paris, A 

(20) Noel Meadow Associates 

Spoken in French with English subtitles, 

also portions narrated in English. 

Science in the Orchestra 


A scientific study of sound and music, with 

simple demonstrations used to explain the 

principles involved. Divided into three 

parts: (1) "The Nature of Sound"; (2) "Exploring 

the Instruments"; (3) "Looking at 

Sounds." 

Scotland Yard at Work 


Scotland Yard men re-enact crime scenes 

and show how they track down criminals. 

(10) Central Cinema Service 

The Malavsky Family Choir sing Israeli 

and Jewish hymns and folk songs. 

Singing Germany ("Singendes Deutschiand") 


Compilation of the most beloved folk songs 

of the German people. (A Fritz Boehmer 

Production.) 

Ski Chase, The... (24) Hoffberg Prods. 

Features Hannes Schneider, the world's 

champion skier, in some ski thrills in the 

Bavarian Alps. 

.Song of the Prairie. .,(18) Official Films 

Czech-made satire on American western 

movies. Puppets portray the characters of 

the villain, hero and heroine. 

Spanish Texas ...(10). .. Nation-Wide Pictures 

Historical film, with English and Spanish 

versions. Shows historical and traditional 

.spots of Texas, plus famous landmarks. 

Produced and directed by H. K. Carrington. 

Commentary by Jake Rodriguez. 

Suite of Faces... (10) A. F. Films... Aug. 


Survival Under Atom Attack 

(10) Castle Films ...Mar. 

Non-commercial film officially approved by 

the Federal Civil Defense Authority. Available 

to various industries for showing to its 

personnel. (Available in 16mm and 8mm, 

sound or silent.) 

Screaming Jets 

Target: U.S.A (20) Cornell Films 

(11) Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada What to do before, during and after an 

(Canada Carries On Series.) Shows Canada's 

progress in jet aviation as seen in able both in Kodachrome and black and 

atomic attack on an industrial area. (Avail- 

comparison with that of other countries. white; also in either 35mm or 16mm.) 


Thunder in the East 

Shawinigan 


Story of life in an industrial city of Quebec, 

as seen through the routine activities 

of a French Canadian family. (Available 

in 35mm and 16mm.) 

16mm. I 

Sing a Little... (9) ...Nat'l Film Bd. of Canada Tiepolo Skies... (11) 

Lux Films 

Allan Mills is shown as he broadcasts his (English narration.) Work of Giambatista 

familiar program of songs from inside a Tiepolo, Venetian painter of the 18th century 

famed for his beautiful skies. 

CBC studio. Animated puppets enact the 

story told by each of the three ballads. Toronto: Boom Town 


(10) Nat'l Film Board of Canada 

Singers of Israel 

(Canada Carries On series.) A comparison 

(11) -Nat'l Film Board of Canada 

(Canada Carries On series.) Traces the 

events leading up to the Korean conflict, 

and shows the unrest in Asia in its struggle 

tor nationhood. (Available in 35mm and 

between Toronto of half a century ago and 

the thriving, expanding metropolis it is 

today. (Available in 35mm and 16mm.) 

Touch of the Shamrock, A ..(28) Bell Picts. 

Irish tenor Cavan O'Connor sings Irish 

songs and folklore while the camera covers 

scenic beauties of the Emerald Isle. 

Trade on the Move—Port of Hamburg 

("Drehscheibe des Handels—Hafen Hamburg") 

.. (14) Casino Films 

(With German spoken commentary.) A 

camera tour of one of the world's largest 

and busiest ports. (A Hannes Richter Production.) 

©Triptych... ( 14) Lux Films 

Technicolor film with English dialog. Illustrates 

through the use of three famous 

paintings tlie important phases in the life 

of Jesus. Beniamino Gigli and chorus supply 

the musical background. (Pi'oduced in 

1950 by the English branch of the Society 

of St. Paul in Italy.) 

©Trooping the Colours 


Technicolor 16mm film. Welsh Guards go 

through the annual traditional ceremony 

of trooping the colours on the king's birthday. 

Tropical Lowlands... (12).. ..United World Films 

A camera visit down the Amazon river, into 

the Brazilian lowlands. Constant rains present 

a food-growing problem. Shows how 

a typical river family feeds and clothes 

itself. 

United Nations Screen Magazine No. 5 

(10) UN Film Distribution 

(This Is the United Nations. 1 half of 

film shows how UN Secretariat members 

get together to learn about the cultures of 

other lands; singing and dancing by Indian 

students; background history of Libya. 

(Available in 35mm. 1 


(10) UN Film Distribution 

(This Is the United Nations.) First half of 

film shows how a London laboratory keeps 

check on influenza epidemics throughout 

the world; second poruion explains the work 

of the UN Narcotics Division in New York. 



(10) UN FUm Distribution 

(This Is the United Nations. 1 Study of the 

work being done to establish a universal 

system of road signs in Europe and America; 

problems of the UN Commission in 

Eritrea. (Available in 35mm and 16mm.) 

Village Tale, The. ..(35) 

Palestine Films 

Featurette. Produced in Israel. Tale of an 

immigrant family from Yugoslavia who settle 

in the new Israel. Ernest Stoessel, Sho- 

.shanna Honig-Cohen. Director; George L. 

George. 

W. B. Yeats—A Tribute . ..Brandon Films 

Camera shots of scenes of Ireland are 

shown as patriotic poems of W. B. Yeats 

are recited. 

Water for the Prairies 

(19) Nat'l Film Board of Canada 

A study of the need for conservation of 

Canada's dwindling water resources, which 

is of urgent concern to the Federal and 

Alberta governments. (Available in 16mm 

only, either in color or black and white.' 

©West of England 


Technicolor. The place where for hundreds 

of yeai-s some of the best cloth in the world 

has been produced. Shows the beautiful 

Stroud valleys, looms and skilled valley 

weavers. (Available in 16mm only.) 

What the Stars Foretell 


The world-renowned astrologist, R. H. Naylor, 

explains horoscopes and the stars as 

they relate to human destinies. 

What's the Name of That Song? 

(19) Charles R. Dorety Prods. 

Two holdup men, fleeing police, hide out in 

a radio studio and get on a quiz program 

by mistake. They win the jackpot just as 

the police arrive. 

Wonder Jet... (19)... British Information Serv. 

An account of Britain's development m the 

field of jet propulsion. Highlights the careers 

of the scientists in their 18 years of 

research on tlie project. 

only.) 

Wonders of the Deep 

(Available in 16mm 


Underwater shots of a sunken troopship 

and the actual firing of a torpedo from a 

submarine. (Available in 16mm only.t 

©World Garden (11). British Inform. Serv. 

Technicolor 16mm film. Features the first 

springtime blooms in the world-renowned 

Kew Gardens, with a camera tour of other 

public and private gardens in England. 


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AWARDS FOR 1951! 

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