UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS. INC. AN MCA INC. COMPANY r November 15, 1971 Dr. Bernard _R. Kantor, Chairman Division of Cinema University <;:>f S.outhern California University Park Los Angeles, Calif. 90007 Dear Dr. Kantor: Forgive my delay in answering your nice letter and I want to assure you I am very thrilled about being so honored by the Delta Kappa Al ha, and I most certainly will be present at the . anquet on February 6th. Cordia ~ l I ' Edi ~'h EH:mp 100 UNIVERSAL CITY PLAZA • UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA 91608 • 985-4321 CONSOLIDATED FILM I DU TRIES 959 North Seward Street • Hollywood, California 90038 I (213) 462 3161 telu 06 74257 1 ubte eddr n CONSOLFILM SIDNEY P SOLOW February 15, 1972 President 1r. David Fertik President, DKA Uni ersity of Southern California Cinema Department Los Angels, California 90007 Dear Dave: This is to let you know how grateful I am to K for electing me to honorary membership. This is an honor, I must confess, that I ha e for many years dar d to hope that I would someday receive. So ;ou have made a dre m c me true. 'I he award and he widespread publici : th· t it achieved brought me many letters and phone calls of congra ulations . I have enjoyel teaching thee last twent, -four years in the Cinema Department. It is a boost to one's self-rep ct to be accepted b: youn , intelligent people --e peciall, those who are intere.ted in film-m·king . Please e t nJ my thanks to all t e ho ~ere responsible for selec ing me for honor ry~ m er_hip. I hop to continue to be horthy f hat distinctio . p :1 cc: r. Herb Farmer Delta Kappa Alpha National Honorary Cinema Fraternity r Division of Cinema UNIVERSITY OF SouTHERN CALIFORNIA 11 Jan. 1972 SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS UNIVERSITY PAR.K Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90007 DKd H onoraries Julie Andrews D.K.A. cordially invites you to the 34th Anniversary Lucille Ball Awards · Banquet to be held Sunday evening, Feb. 6, 1972 Lucien Ballard Anne Baxter at 7:15 p.m. in Town & Gown on the USC Campus. Eric Berndt Richard Brooks Joe E. Brown Our honorees this year will be Edith Head, Alfred Frank Capra Hitchcock, Walter Matthau, and Sidney Solow. Stanley Cortez George Cukor John Cromwell Program Chairman for the Banquet is Melville Shavelson. Irene Dunne Blake Edwards The committee includes Earl Bellamy, Sybil Brand, John Ford George Cukor, Ross Hunter, Arthur Knight, Tichi Wilkerson John Flory Gene Fowler Miles, Stanley Musgrove, Virginia Ramo, Margaret Schaefer, Marjorie Fowler Leonard Spigelgass, Sue Taurog, and Jerry Wunderlich. John G. Frayne Arthur Freed Greer Garson The dress is Black Tie. A reply card is enclosed. Conrad Hall Henry Hathaway Tickets are $15.00 per person. Tables seat 12 or 14. James Wong Howe If you wish a table as an individual or in the name of Ross Hunter John Huston a company, please let us know so that we can list those Norman J ewison who take tables in our program. "Chuck" Jones Gene Kelly Stanley Kramer This year we are combining our CINEMA CIRCULUS BANQUET Jack Lemmon Mervyn LeRoy with our DKA Banquet. If you are a member of CINEMA Sol Lesser CIRCULUS in-good-standing you are invited to this Frances Marion Steve McQueen affair as a guest of the University. Additional guests Jack Oakie or spouse is at $15.00 per person. Just write CINEMA Charles Palmer Gregory Peck CIRCULUS on top of the reply card and your ticket is free. Mary Pickford Miklos Rosza Rosalind Russell Please reply promptly as space will be limited. We George Seaton Mark Serrurier have some special plans for this Banquet which will Jean Simmons make it an especially delightful evening. Reply cards Mogen Skot-Hansen Robert Snyder should be addressed to me. George Stevens James Stewart Robert Surtees Cordially, Gloria Swanson Norman Taurog William Tuttle Slavko Vorkapich ~k~ King Vidor Hal Wallis Bernard R. Kantor Jack Warner Chairman, Cinema Mae West Wally \Vestmore Haske! Wexler BRK: lp Charles Wheeler Billy Wilder Elmo Williams In Memoriam Robert Wise Roy \Volford Charles Brackett Sir Cedric Hardwicke William Cameron Menzies William Perlberg William Wyler C. B. DeMille Ub Iwerks Fred Metzler William Seiter Fred Zinnemann Karl Freund Harold Lloyd Arthur Miller Gregg Toland Adolph Zukor William Goetz Jesse Lasky Boris V. Morkovin Jerry Wald 10/71 ~ holly ~ National Cinema at Pays Tribute To It Never, in all my born day . ha this ''Titer seen . o rcpr nting Pr . id nl John R. Hubb:ucl , \\ho with many movie, TV and theatrical luminaries I x ept in Mr . H., are abroad) and too many oth r to h t 1n m days of yore at world premiere at the Chine e or E yp­ alloled space. tian theaters ) as those who attended the 34th Anniver­ sary Awards banquet of Delta Kappa Alpha, the national cinema fraternity, in USC's Town and own auditorium. At lea t 400 of the more than 500 were famous in Holly­ wood. Cholly was, as u ual the gue t of bil (Mr . Harr ) Brand, member of the banquet committee of SC Friends and Alumni, who has done so much in helping the Department of Cinema become the oldest and Jar est in the world. Honored guests at the banquet' ere Edith Head, Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Matthau and idney P. Solow, who, along with actor-director Jack Lemmon, participat­ ed in a question and answer hour. The program~ as emceed by Steve Allen , who had an amu ing a ide an­ swer for everything that happened on and off stage. Steve was excellent in thi role, and mo t of his ad lib­ bing, which is one of his fortes, had 'em rolling in the ai les. • He had been handed e era! hundred card. with Condo! nc to far h· II uffi ld. an All Am rkan names of personalities in the audience to be introduced football tar in hi day at . n th d ath r hi "ir but the arrangement proved to b a comedy of errors and the former Donna Maguire. aft r a Ion illn s. nn· he had to to half of them out after alling for Mae West, wa a wond rful lady and was alwa. a delightful con- ol Lessel'l Tichi Wilker on Miles, (representin Cinema er ationali. t a w II a: parlicipatrng in num rou phi. ir ulus , Julie Bishop, Marie and Claire Wind or, Earl lanlhropic activiti s. She al leav s < son and two Bellamy and a score or o others. If all were introduced dau hters. we d been there all night. Cholly's unexpe ted "date" wa lo ly M rl King­ ley, who's husband , Lewi , wa in· bed with the flu, as \as also my wife. Around about were dmiral and Mr . Dale Collin , Patrida Barham, ina Anderton with B b rle er, Toni (Mr . Eddie Mannix. Mrs. Frank Ro er ice pr ident Thoma. P. ' i k II Jr. changed to Republic Cor Beverly Hills Success Story poration. 1 I In 1964, his title was r changed to that of presi­ dent, Consolidated Film Called A 'Born Teacher' Industries. "In addition to knowing ed the addition of lead still in college, and I went His experience and his technology and being a acetate that reacted with to work in the family sta­ knowledge as a film good business manager, the sulfide, but the film - tionery store. engineer has taken him to the man is a born while improved- was still "We carried a large many foreign countries, in­ teacher." percepta bly stained and number of publications at cluding Russia where he The comment by Prof. fogged. the store, and I read every visited universities and Herb Farmer of the USC " Then I remembert!d magazine I could that lectured at NIKFI, the Division of Cinema de­ something I learned from would add to my technical official research institute scribes his colleague and my oldest brother who was knowledge. And hoped. friend, Sidney P. Solow, a dentist: that in most " After I got the job at president of Consolidated mouthwashes, the active CFI, I read as many ... Film Industries and Pro­ ingredient which kills bac­ pamphlets and books from fessor of Cinema at the teria was thymol. " Kodak that I could obtain, University of Southern Solow literally got the as well as all of the back California. lead O!Jt and added thymol issues of the technical Solow , a Beverly Hills to the solution. " I solved journals. '' resident, was recently the problem and the com­ General Manager honored by Delta Kappa pany gave me a raise - Solow became chief Alpha for his long from $15 to $22 .50 a week ·· chemist at CFI and in 1936 meritorious and If it seems as if the fil. · was transferred to humanitarian service . to industry was just waitin6 Hollywood, where he was the motion picture indus­ for Sid Solow to get his shortly promoted to plant try. The cinema fraternity degree in chemistry so ht~ superintendent and · Iater, was founded at USC in could be hired to make general manager. 1936. technical advances in film, In 1954, he was made a Honored with Solow this it may be interesting to vice - president of Repub­ year were actor Walter know that Solow went for lic Pictures (of which CFI Matthau , director Alfred two years after his gradua­ was a subsidiary) and was Hitchcock and designer tion looking for a job. appointed to the board of Edith Head.