PICTURES UfixtlETY Wednesday, May 23, 1962 Publisher's Big Break ************************************************* Allied Rallying Theatremen In - Hollywood, May 22. Stanley Kramer has contributed New York Sound Track \\ $25,000 to the ad-pub fund estab­ lished by Atlantic-Little Brown for A***********************************************- Chicago Against 20th Rental this publisher's "Ship of Fools," After parleys at Universal, Ross Hunter a N. Y. to L. A. item via the new Katherine Anne Porter hometown Cleveland and a Seattle Expo looksee . . . Harold Robbins novel. to Tokyo; due back June 10 . . . Joe E. Levine in London for production- Terms and Clearances on 'Fair' Producer Kramer, who has the distribution pows, and to scout a sales rep for Blighty . . . Expected screen rights, for some time has for the "Boccaccio 70" preem late June: Sophia Loren, Carlo Ponti, By MORRY ROTH been strong on the idea of build­ Vittorio de Sica and Romy Schneider. Chicago, May 22. D.W.'s Final Blaze ing the bally for an original prop­ Argentine sexpot Isabel Sarli, whose "70 Times 7," was screened in The first organized exhibitor re­ erty because the values will accrue the Cannes comp Sunday (20) night, stopped here briefly Monday, sistance to a distributor's terras Hollywood. May 22. to the subsequent film production. took off for a quick trip to Caracas yesterday (Tues.), but returns for a picture in recent years is Fire last week (17) demol­ late this week for a longer visit . . . Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, who di­ shaping in Chicago, with 20th-Fox ished the old Fine Arts Stu­ rected "70," comes in from Cannes at the end of the month at about and Allied Theatres of Illinois as the time his "Summerskin" opens at the local Normandie . . . Two dios, constructed by D. W. other former Cannes visitors in town: producer-director Tony Rich­ the antagonists and "State Fair" Griffith in 1915 and long a as the issue at hand. Alden (RKO) Corp. ardson and star Rita Tushingham. whose "Taste of Honey" is one of historic film landmark in a the front favorites at the Riviera fete. On the basis of a strong down­ town run at the Oriental theatre, three-alarm blaze which near­ They love Elvis in Bangkok: UA sends out word that Elvis Presley's the Chi branch of 20th set admit­ ly took the lives of three Earnings Rise "Follow That Dream" set a new alltime. high gross of $12,500 for the tedly stiff terms for the picture firemen and endangered 15 first three days at the Grand Theatre there . . . And at UA, they love for its first outlying run, skedded Glen Alden Corp., including sub­ Stan Freberg, who's creating the radio-tv spots and a theatrical teaser others. It was being razed for sidiary RKO Theatres, earned trailer on "Road to Hong Kong." Freberg's work on "Sergeants Three" for June 15. Terms include a a commercial building. is credited with a good measure of latter film's boff b.o. $2,000 minimum guarantee against about $2,500,000 in the first four 40% of the gross, a clearance radi­ It was here that Griffith months of 1962 and is well ahead In the interests of film art, and perhaps also to have something to us of two miles between theatres filmed most of "Intolerance" of its pace for last year. For talk about at cocktail parties, celebs have been flocking to the Car­ showing the picture, and a 13% in 1916 and later produced graphic point, total earnings last negie Cinema to see "Last Year in Marienbad." Among those clocked: maximum deduction for the sec- many of his outstanding hits. year for the diversified company Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Martin, Edmund Wilson, Kirk Douglas, Burt Studio has changed hands 17 hit $3,037,000, or 54c a share. Lancaster, Shelley Winters, and others too numerous to mention . . . end feature. In addition, 20th is Leonard Pearlman, UA's general manager in Brazil, and Walter Ri- moving back 25 of the regular 65 ' times since Griffith relin­ Net income in the first quarter of '62 rose to $2,101,000, or 37c beiro, manager of the company's Belo Horizonte office in Brazil, on A run theatres to a second run po­ quished lot, and most recent­ a visit to Big Town . . . Josh Logan has joined the Seven Arts talent sition and charging a $500 guar­ ly had been owned by Colum­ per share, compared with $701,000, or 12c a share, in the year ago roster which already includes Elia Kazan and Fred Coe. Logan is to antee against 30% for the B run bia Pictures. \ do "The Careful Man," an original, late this year. showings. period. Sales for the quarter climbed to $30,434,000 from $23,- Metro reports it has over 200 firstrun dates, late June-early July, Speaking as prexy of the 85-the- set for "Boys' Night Out" . . . "That Touch of Mink" (U) premieres atre Allied association, Jack Clark, 953,000. Company does not break down its report by divisions, so the in Chicago at the United Artists, June 15 . . . Stanley Warner field owner of the Tiffin Theatre, said execs powed at the h.o. last week on summer operations . . . Variety that every element of 20th's A run Massive Levine depth of theatre income is not known. Clubs' Heart and Humanitarian Awards were presented in Dublin by terms for "State Fair" is "un­ Eamon de Valera, prez of Ireland, marking first time a head of state realistic . . . the guarantee and Albert A. List, chairman and has done the honors . . . Five shorts are on tonight's films-and-their- percentage is too high, the two Attack on Film prexy, told last week's annual directors forum of the Screen Directors International Guild at the mile limit is arbitrary, and the meeting that earnings would con­ public library . . . New York Univ. auspicing a feature, "Miguel Men- move back of the 25 theatres to tinue to run "very substantially doza," which student director Rocky Arrington will helm, rolling end- later runs is a practice .- . . re­ ahead" of last year. Glen Alden, May. Manny Garcia, 18-year-old folklore dancer, has the title role, that served for heroes and casualties." Houses in July he said, continues to scout for of a Puerto Rican tenement youth . . . British director Bryan Forbes, Dislike Precedent Something like a one-company acquisitions and mergers. Exec de­ shooting Columbia's "L-Shaped Room" from his own screenplay, get­ In a letter to member exhibitors, film festival is in the works for clined comment on possibility of ting the literary lion treatment in London with paperback reissue of Clark said that the terms were New York firstrun. As of July 1, a change in dividend policy, but his short story volume, "Truth Lies Sleeping." "20th Century-Fox's answer to that Embassy Pictures expects to have did say it would be discussed by Paramount will party host again at the Theatre Owners of America favorite distributor question, a lineup of six films on Manhattan the directors. Company currently convention Nov. 7-10 in Miami Beach. Distrib will screen "Girls, 'where and how do we reduce screens, including the Metro- pays a quarterly 10c per share Girls, Girls," Elvis Presley starrer . . .Jack Tenney, an actor and as­ the number of first runs (outlying) released "Boys' Night Out." Oth­ divvy. sistant director on Broadway ("Ross"), set to roll a shock feature this in Chicago?' " Looking to the fu­ ers are "Boccaccio 70," "Seven Holders approved a stock option summer titled "Black Autumn." Shepperd Strudwick stars. ture implications of the deal of­ Capital Sins," "Devil's Wanton" plan for officers and key employes. Two Hollywood studio crew chiefs, Stanley Detlie (props) and Carl fered for the picture, Clark quoted (the vintage Ingmar Bergman pic), Gibson (grips) are in Madrid to work with Nick Ray on Sam Bronston's (Continued' on page 17) "Divorce Italian Style," and "Sky production, "55 Days at Peking". . . starts shooting June 18. Above, Mud Below," the full length "Disturbers of the Peace" series of-articles appearing in Mademoiselle documentary from France which After First Quarter, Par's Magazine includes dramatist Gore Vidal, novelists Ayn Rand and Nor­ copped an Oscar. Engagements man Mailer, cartoonist Jules Feiffer, way-out-right publisher William for all six will be concurrent, Pitching to Do Better; F. Buckley Jr. and theatrical publicist-turned-Episcopal padre, Father Embassy's First though they won't necessarily Malcolm Boyd, an occasional byliner in this sheet . . . Pearl Buck re­ open simultaneously. elected president of Authors Guild last Wed. (16) at annual meeting Equals 67c Per Share in Hotel Roosevelt. Cleveland Amory is new vice president of Guild Embassy is blueprinting an ad- Paramount's first quarter of the Parisian Partner pub campaign to lend the spread a and the new secretary is Robert J. Landry, otherwise Managing Editor kind of fest flavor, with likelihood current year was not a particularly of VARIETY. Embassy Pictures, ever ardent of ad splurges collectively trum­ good one but, it's hoped, things Film players and showmen who know Rome as another name for for product, but never more so peting the company's pride. The will get better. The period, its Excelsior Hotel should be amused by the following from Show than now as an importer-cum-re- Magazine's June issue piece, "The Roman Spring of Al Capp": "I button-poppiing, as they see it at which ended March 31, brought a leasing -organization, continues to Embassy, is not without its mes­ had chosen to stay at the Excelsior because of its service. Not Its set itself a frisky pace in produc­ sage for theatres in a bearish net of $1,129,000, or 67c per share room service, which is adventurous, or its phone service, which is tion commitment. product market. Besides the on 1,690,231 shares outstanding. suspenseful, or its twenty-four-hour valet service, which teaches you The indie's European partner­ aforesaid six, Joe E. Levine & Co. Same quarter last year brought why Roman is called the Eternal City, but for its unsurpassed cigar­ ette-lighting service." ships now extend to French film­ have 18 completed pictures back- earnings of $2,450,000, or $1.46 per maker Gilbert Bokanowski and logged, excluding the summer re­ A Toronto-made feature, shot last year by Italian immigrant Luigi Rome-based Galatea. Deal with the issue package of "Hercules" and share. Also, in the 1961 quarter Petrucci and critically drubbed, not only did good business in city's latter is for three pictures, though "Attila" (see separate story). there was an investment profit of Italian community but is now playing Hamilton, Ont. and Montreal none of the properties are as yet Not to mention, either, the' flurry $400,000, or 24c per share. and is set for release in Italy, Germany, France and Turkey this fall. Film is "It Happened in Canada," with Italian soundtrack, which Pe­ disclosed. Details will be spelled of new production commitments, The improvement looked for out, however, when Dr. Lionello also specified elsewhere this issue. trucci is following up with one in English he describes as "a sort of shortly is based on current and 'Dolce Vita' of immigrant life." Santi, Galatea's'president, arrives forthcoming product. Included in in New York next month. Jerry ~Wald will present $1,400 to winners of the Wald Graphic this is the Perlberg-Seaton pro­ Design Awards at annual event Thursday on the U. of California-L.A. The Bokanowski pact, initially N. Y. to L. A. duction of "Counterfeit Traitor," Campus. Entries will be on display at the 20th-Fox Studios after the specifying only a single project, is Jack Eenny which went into release sub­ bests are chosen. Wald founded the WGDA in 1960 to encourage a Embassy's first with a Parisian. Harry Bernsen sequent to the end of the first fresh approach to ad art as applied to pix industry. Pic, untitled, is described as a ro­ Jeanne Cooper quarter this year and is doping mantic comedy involving a ferarae King Bros, have set "King of the Wind" as one of two films they'll Bobby Darin strongly in initial dates. Company make this year in Munich, following current "Captain Sindbad". . . kleptomaniac, and is to roll this Henry Fonda is now readying Howard Hawks' summer on the French Riviera. Aline McMahon into Judy Garland's "The Lonely Stage" in London Irma Leavy "Hatari," John Wayne starrer, . . . Robert Aldrich and Seven Arts Productions firmed joint produc­ To its activity this side, the dis- Marilyn Monroe and has this pegged as the biggest tion of Henry FaoreH's novel, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" tiib has scheduled a second Rick Bob Morin entry on the 1962 lineup. Also, with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford set . . . Richard Arlen returns to Carrier production (he's the young Shirley MacLaine "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" screen with Dale Robertson in "1,000, Guns of Justin Malloy," which New Yorker who independently is now going into key-city markets. William Hawks will produce and Ray Kellogg' direct under Robertson's made "The Strangers," which Em­ Europe to U. S. Juggernaut Corp. indie banner . . ."Hud Bannon" is new tab for bassy acquired) which will mark Richard Brandt Paul Newman's Paramount pic previously titled "Hud." the screenplay debut of novelist. Claude Dauphin Norman Mailer. A drama, the story L. A. to N. Y. Novelist Mitchell Wilson, whose "Journey to a Far Meridian" will be Dan Frankel Gene Autry the first U.S.-Russ coproduction, back here after completing the film will explore the subject of censor­ Tyrone Guthrie ship and is to be lensed in Boston George Axelrod treatment of the novel in Moscow. The pic will be directed by two Peter Horner Jack Benny young Russ filmmakers, Vladimir Naumov and Alexander AIov . . ., and Provincetown, Mass. But no John Mitchell indication of a starting date. Pete Burness Nick Lapole, the Journal-American's assistant drama editor, planning Miriam Mitchell Sid Saesar a July trip to Europe to visit various locationing film units. Shani Wallis | Carleton Carpenter Concurrent with the appearance of the newly buffed up (slick paper Frank Cooper cover, inside photos, etc.) Film Quarterly, edited by Jonas Mekas, Britain's Howard Csnnell U. S. to Europe Broderick Crawford comes the announcement that PC's fourth independent film award Joseph Brun James Darren goes to Stanley Brakhage for his short pix, "The Dead" and "Prelude." & Sutherland Combine To Macdonald Carey Bill Derman Previous FC winners were "Shadows," "Pull My Daisy" and "Primary." Herman Cohen Jimmy Durante Ralph Edwards Capitol Projector Corp., of New York, has merged Capitol 16 Inc., Serve TY and Theatres Stephen Draper Irving Fein while Midget Movies Inc., also of New York, has merged Movie Mat British producer Howard Connell Ed Feldman John Forsythe Inc. Harry Alexander, was recording attorney at Albany. returned to his London headquar­ Robert Ferguson Jerry Franken Hacking around town is Leon R. Zimmerman, who also serves on ters from New York Thursday (17) Robert M. Gewald Jack Hellman and off as production manager on industrial and documentary films. after having set a deal with Ameri­ Neil Hartley George Jessel Piloting a cab, he says, is "therapuetic" after show business work. can industrial film outfit, John Charlton Heston Jack Linklelter Mildred and Gordon Gordon, who screenplayed "Experiment in Sutherland Productions, for their Eliot Hyman Patti Page Terror" from their own novel, "Operation Terror," off for a European joint production of a series of half- Aben Kandel Richard Quine swing of 12 cities on exploitation of both the film and novel . . , Jonas hour art pix, "The World of Art." Jessie Royce Landis Wesley Ruggles Jr. Rosenfield Jr. off to Cannes the past weekend . . . Lee Bergman, former The Series, of which 13 segments Jerome Lawrence Rosalind Russell Columbia publicist, joined Ideal Toy Corp. as publicity director . . . are being scheduled initially, is Joseph E. Levine Dinah Shore James Stewart being briefed by State Dept. people prior to taking on being aimed at theatrical release Fred Robbins Plato Skouras the role of official U.S. rep at the Berlin Film Festival June 22-July 3 abroad and tv distribution in the Jonas Rosenfield Jr Liam Sullivan . . . Henry Fonda went west Monday (21) for confabs at various studios States. Connell had had talks with Peter Sellers Miyoshi Umeki concerning current and future assignments, also to complete work in CBS execs about the series over a Ray Stark David Victor his segment "How the West Was Won." He was one of emcees Sat. period of several months, but the Joseph R. Vogel (19) at the Kennedy Birthday Rally in NY. William L. Stein John Wayne web finally bowed out saying they Howard Taubman American International Pictures prexy Jim Nicholson here en route could not guarantee net time. Pro- Doodles Weaver . Richard Thorpe Meredith Willson back to his Hollywood h.q. after a European trip . . . 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