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THREE BRAVES OF AA—Flanked by two Indian rhiofs. left to risht. Producer Jeffrey Bernerd, Steve Broidy. president of Allied Artists, and Harold Mirisch, vice-president, are shown at Farmers Market where a large press party was held prior to the press screening of the Monogram-AA Cinecolor production, "Black Cold." The second picture shows Anthony Qutnn, star of the feature, and William C'respinel, president of Cinecolor, giving a young Indian a de luxe chair. Academy Gets Old Films From William Selig Co. HOLLYWOOD- From William Selig. motion picture pioneer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has accepted a record of the old SoUk Co. The gift includes production stills, publicity files and clips from early day films along with the first negative made by ScUg at the Chicago stock yards In 1895 as well as the lens used on the shot, a French Darlot. Since no conunerclnl motion picture raw stock was on the market at that time, Sellg had to punch the sprocket holes by hand. Psycho in the Nursery HOLLYWOOD— Juvenile delinquency with n psychological twi.st will be the theme of a new picture, "Dangerous Years," which Sol M. Wurlzel will make for 20th-Fox release. The story deals with the theory that a child may be .started on the road to delinquency In the first five yeans of his life, due to a real or imagined feeling of being unloved by his parents. At Rotary Convention HOLLYWOOD — Virginia Welles. Paramount starlet, went to San Francisco where she was guest of honor at a Wisconsin state delegation dinner at the Rotary International convention. Miss Welles was chosen because she Is a native of Wau.sau, Wis., where her father, the late Frank Welter, an executive of Pox Wisconsin Theatres, was a leader in Rotary. Big Picnic Turnout HOLLYWOOD - Record attendance of more than 2.000 was expected for Paramounfs Catalina picnic for employes and their families scheduled for June 29. Sponsored by the Paramount Studio club, the picnic was to be the fir.st since war interrupted the annual outing in 1941. Academy Enrolls 58; List to New Record HOLLYWOOD—Fifty-six new names have been added to the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, bringing enrollment in the organization to 1.756. a new record. The largest growth was in the art directors branch; n new members added. They were: Robert F. Boyle, Hilyard Morris Brown. Edward C. Carfagr.o. Robert Clatsworthy, George W. Davis. Earl Hedrick, Addison F. Hehr, Ralph S. Hurst, Eddie Imazu, Eugene Lourie. Albert Nozaki. Loren Patrick. Ri.hard H. Riedel. Alexander Roelofs. Gabriel Amerigo Scognamillo, Jack Martin Smith and Lynden Sill Sparhawk. Other branches: Directors—William Castle, Jack Gage and John S. Waters. Executives and producers—Harry Englander. Gene Fowler jr., N. Gayle Gitterman and Hal Roach jr. Film editors—Fred W. Berger, Bernard W. Burton. Daniel Mandell. Philip Martin, H. Arnold Schwarzwald and Harold Soldinger Musicians—Jack Brooks, George Dunning. Edward Heyman, Alexander Laszlo. Richard J. Powers, Walter Schumann and Leith Stevens. Public relations—Ann del Valle, Mort Goodman, Bill L. Hendricks, Gladys Mensh, Ethel Sackin, Martin Weiser, Reavis G. Winckler and John Woolfenden. Sound— Leon Becker. Lawrence A. Jones. B. J. Kroger, William J. Montague, Arthur R. Piantadosi. Writers—Samuel Fuller, Andrew Soil and Ivan L. Tors. Members at large—Frank H. Ferguson, Lou Wasserman and Ed Westrate. Shreveporters Depart HOLLYWOOD — Ralph Leaderbrand of Shreveport. president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Louisiana, and Albert J. Meek, also of Shreveport, public relations director for the chamber, returned to their homes after conferring here with Steve Broidy, president of Allied Artists and Monogram, and Lindsley Parsons, producer of Monogram's "Louisiana." regarding the world premiere of the film in Shreveport next fall. The film stars Gov. Jimmie Davis of Louisiana and is based on his life. Legion to View 'Cross' HOLLYWOOE>— "Tlie Burning Cross." ( Somerset Pictures offering to be released by I Screen Guild, will be given special showings ' for American Legion posts in more than 120 cities during the week of July 4. The feature, n produced by Walter Colmcs, is an expose of the modern Ku Klux Klan. 10 Screen Snapshots Set HOLLYWOOD- Columbia has scheduled ten shorts in the Screen Snapshots series on its 1947-48 program. Tlie shorts will be produced and directed by Ralph Staub, with production starting in July. This marks the 27th season for these one-reel features on off-stage Hollywood life. jSl :':'/ «[ il 3! -it i j3l Long Pact for Robert Sparks HOLLYWOOD—Robert Sparks has been signed to n new long-term producer contract by RKO. Three fcitures are on his upcoming schedule, "Stations West." "The Education of the Heart" and "Weep No More." 58 A Colonelcy for Janis HOLLYWOOD—Janis Paige, Warner star, has been commissioned an honorary colonel of the 13th Infantry battalion of the marine corps reserve In recognition of her interest and efforts in behalf of marine corps recruiting drives. Theatre Being Concidercd , BRAWLEY. CALIF.—A theatre is under consideration at the resort of Jacumba, near . here. Frank Salisbury jr. of Beverly Hius. real estate man, is planning also a large hotel, a lumber yard, ice plant, service station and swimming pool. BOXOFFICE :: June 28, 1947
\ Casey, - 'NAKED " 'HIGH estimonial Dinner banned for Casey lOLLYWOOD— After 50 years in the larcliUioiis field, tlie last 20 with the maproducers, Pat Casey wil be honored liih a testimonial retirement dinner soon, lists planning the fiuiction are confined to li.ise Pat calls "my boys." and include 22 i( llywood studio industrial relations man- (TS and their assistants. at one time a vice-president of the Inierican Federation of Labor, became asiDi-iated with the picture industry in 1926, phen two committees of motion picture pro- [iicers and international heads of craft liiions were first organized to handle inliistry labor problems. Casey became chairlian of the producers' group. He was still lerving in this capacity when he retired two feeks ago. Fred S. Meyer of 20th-Fox is to preside ft the farewell dinner as chairman of a comiittee that also includes W. R. Walsh of I/IGM and W. K. Hopkins of Columbia. 3ARAMOUNT international executives who completed studio cotrferences and headed ipmeward included George Weltner, presiifnt of Paramount International: John B. J.ithan, European general manager; Stanley r'raig, general manager for New Zealand: .Villiam Hurworth jr., Australian sales repcsentative: James E. Perkins, managing lirector for Great Britain, and Fred E. i.itchinson. managing sales director for 3ritain. * * « Paul Hollister, RKO Radio studio representative in Manhattan, trained out followng two weeks of studio conferences on forthxming product. Jack Osserman, RKO supervisor for Latin A:nerica. planed out on the first leg of his :np around the U.S. visiting RKO exchanges. After three weeks in Mexico City, where Ui' supervised production on "Adventures of C.isanova," shooting at the Churubusco studio, Bryan Foy, vice-president in charge of roduction for Eagle-Lion, checked back at I I s desk. Stanley Kramer, head of Screen Plays, Inc., new independent producing outfit, planed out for New York to complete releas- Irg plans for the company's 3'---year lineup. • • Producer Boris Morros trained in from New 'York for powwows with 'William Le- B iron, his partner in the United Artists sharecropping outfit. Federal Films, on their frrthcoming productions. • « * John J. Jones, president of Screen Guild P:oductions, planed out for Chicago for busint ss conferences. P. A. Bateman, general .sales manager for SG, returned to his desk after completing a series of nationwide sales conferences, the la;t two of which were held in Pittsburgh aid Washington, D. C. • » • Ed Morey, vice-president and assistant to P:esident Steve Broidy of Allied Artists and Monogram, arrived from New- York for sales huddles. [OM AND DAD." the exploitation progr.un conceived by Hygienic Produc- r^ tions of Wilmington. Ohio, has been one of exhibition's financial sensations of the past two seasons. From a modest beginning, it has grown to where 15 units currently are roadshowing the attraction in four nations. Now-, rather belatedly, comes the Catholic Legion of Decency to damn the program with a "C," or condemned, classification. Says the CLOD, "It deals with a subject mo.st objectionable for presentation in entertainment motion picture theatres, the treatment of the subject as presented is most objectionable for entertainment motion picture audiences and the film ignores completely essential and supernatural values associated with questions of this nature," M. and D. may be ignoring the "supernatural values" associated with "questions of this nature" (hush! hush! it's sexi but, as showmen w-ho have booked the feature will testify, it hasn't ignored the supernatural as concerns the black figures it left behind on the ledgers of those showmen. Now that the CLOD has decided that it naughty to see the show, its business probably will become super-supernatural. Monsignor John J. McClafferty, executive secretary of the same Catholic Legion of Decency, was guest of honor at an industry luncheon at MOM with Louis B. Mayer acting as host. Most heads and executives of all studios attended. The same week Leo press previewed its "The Hucltsters." Producer Sam Katzman, who plows a sharecropping acre over Columbia way, in one w-eek added two newcomers to his already heavy schedule of features and serials. One is "The Corsair," to be based on the epic poem by Lord Byron, first published in 1814. As the basis of the second, to be titled "Knights of the Round Table," two other classics of English literature will be utilized, Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur." Looks like someone gave Producer Katzman a book of poetry for Christmas and he finally got around to reading it. Spealting of Indians. Lou Lifton, who beats the tom-toms for Monogram, took a bow because nine tribes were represented at the powwow dinner Allied Artists staged for Hollywood's hungry press prior to the screening of Jeffrey Bernerd's "Black Gold." Tribes were Yakima, Sioux. Shawnee. Mission, Ilopi, Navaho, Kalmath, Ponca and Potawatomi, Overlooked, Chief Smohawk of the .Smolensk tribe took to the warpath. Bernie (Tlie Bashful Boy Blurben Kamins. director of publicity— if any—for Je.sse L. Lasky-Walter McEwen Productions, finally managed to ring the bell. When Bashful Bernie calls members of the press these days his conversation is preceded by the sounding of chimes, which playful and time-killing pursuit is to inform the harassed listener is that the call is on behalf of Lasky-McEwen's "The Miracle of the Bells." Characteristically Kaminsian, the chimes are muffled—and off key. Because of international red tape and unsettled conditions, John Ford and Merian C. Cooper of Arko Productions have cancelled plans for an expedition to the Belgian Congo to obtain footage for their "Mr. Joseph Young of Africa," an upcoming RKO Radio relea.se. Now, the entire picture will be shot in Hollywood. From one jungle to another. Costumes for Sol Lesser's "Tarzan and the Mermaids" will be designed by Norma, Jerry Hoffman informs. The '.cript. he -says, calls for special imaginative wardrobe for more than 60 mermaids who will not wear tails. * * « Some day the magi of production Will go too far in their destruction Of myth, tradition, time-honored fable To win for films originality's label. Sweet femmes who slay, cowpokes who croon. Whodunits what answer the question too .soon, Pug-ugjy heroes with elephant's hide, All these the public has taken in stride. But be not surprised if its patience falls When it sees on the screen Lesser's mermaids sans tails. « 4> * Anyway, the tail-less mermaids may answer the traditional observation made by the Indian upon meeting one of them. Cary Grant plays a harp solo in Samuel Goldwyn's "The Bishop's Wife." Recently he revealed plans for investing his more or le.ss hard-earned bankroll in an independent production company in partnership with Alexander Korda. One way or another. Grant seems determined to be an angel. <strong>WAL</strong>L' WITH ROBERT TAYLOR ROLLS AT MGM" —Howard Strickling Headline. Perhaps it was anticipation of rolling with a high wall that accounts for his recent vertiginous testimony before the House Committee on un-American Activities. Title changers at Columbia decided to shorten "The Mating of Millie McGonigle" to "The Mating of Millie." and "Silverado Squatters" to "Silverado." Apparently, the studios' current economy drives will stop at nothing. CITY' CAST ARRIVING IN NEW YORK" —John Joseph Headline. The humidity, no doubt. BOXOFFICE :: June 28, 1947 59
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