Industry Cooperates Editorial reprinted from the Los Angeles Herald-Express, March 28, 1958 To Assure Success of A GREAT OSCAR SHOW first Governors' Ball Ho"ywood presented one of the finest Academy Awards shows in its history If enthusiastic comments are any Wednesday night and once more raised the prestige of the motion picture indus cr iterion, the Board of Governors' Ball try quite a few notches. has every indication of becoming an It was a show classic for entertainment, studded with the top stars who annual " post-Awards" event. furnished a million dollars worth of entertainment, and attended by practically This year, the grand climax to Holly a" of filmland. wood's community project, the 30th But more than that it was a show which was presented in the dignified Awards Show, was the formal dinner atmosphere which it deserved. It was not cheapened by commercials. It was not dance held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel made boring by long pauses during which the TV audience would have to wait immediately following the Awards until someone told it what kind of soap to use, what kind of car to purchase, or Presentations. what kind of pi" to obtain for a cure-a". Here, 1323 members of the motion Altogether, it was delightful. The film industry deserves a great hand for picture industry gathered to honor the having p icked up the tab this time to do it the proper way, an industry-sponsored Award w inners, nominees and partici event in which the only commercial, if it could be called that, was that the great pants in the Awards Show. event was being sponsored by the film industry itself. As a result, we can hardly Early in the year, the Awards Plan wait for next year's show. ning Committee voted to expand the There was rea l life glam or g a lore. Tears by happy winners. Near emotional Board of Governors' "post-Awards" breakdowns of happiness. The realization of suppressed sighs and sobs of gathering and extend invitations to disappointment from others. the entire Academy membership. In previous years, the Governors' Dinner, studio and individual parties were sma" gatherings held at various loca tions. Plans for private parties, however, were forgotten this year as studios and stars alike, cooperated in making the Governors' Ba" the out standing social event of the season. With arrangements in charge of George Murphy and Thornton Sargent, the Governors' Ba" had pa rty -goers dancing to the music of Ray Anthony AWARDS for Scientific or Te chnica l achievement w ere prese nted by Ranald Rea gan. Shown above and his orchestra with entertainment a re George W . Schaef er, Tadd·AO Co rp.; Ra lph B. W ight, W estrex Corp.; Reaga n; W ill iom F. provided by Bob Hope and Pearl Kelley, M otion Picture Re se arch Council; Lora nd Wa rgo, Unicorn Enginee ring Corp.; and Ben jamin Bailey. Berg , Soc iete d' Optique et de M ecanique de Ha ute Precision. All-Industry Program Backed Enthusiastically by film Community (Conti nued from Page 1) Pictures, Inc., William Goetz (Wi"iam (Perlberg - Seaton), Leonard Pras kins, Albert Band & Lou is Garfinkle (Maxim Goetz Productions, Inc.), Samuel Gold Otto Preminger, W i" Rogers, Jr., Jack Productions), Julian Blaustein (Phoenix wyn, Cary Grant (Winkle Radio Produc Rose, Aaron Rosenberg (Arcola Produc Productions), Lewis F. Blumberg (Mon tions), Clarence Greene. tions, Inc.), Frank Ross, Russe" Rouse, tefior, Inc.), Stephen Bosustow (UPA Don Hartman, Howard Hawks (Con Stanley Rubin. Pictures, Inc.) Marlon Brando (Penne tinental Company, Inc.), Leland Hay Sabu , Aubrey Schenck (Lakeside baker, Inc.), Harry Joe Brown (Produ ward (Leland Hayward Productions, Pictures), Budd and Stuart Schul berg cers Actors Corp.), Buena Vista Film Inc.), Hecht - Hi" - Lancaster (includes: (Schulberg Productions, Inc.), George Distribution Co. Harold Hecht, James Hi", Burt Lancas Seaton (Perl berg - Seaton), David O . James Cagney, Cagney Productions, ter, Contemporary Productions, Inc., Selznick (The Selznick Company, Inc.), Frank Capra, Carnegie Productions, James Productions, Norma Productions, Melvi"e Shavelson, Sherry T.V., Inc., Lon Chaney, Sidney Cohn (Highroad Susan Productions, Charlton Heston, Sol C. Siegel, Edward Sma", Robert Productions), Claudette Colbert, Frank Alfred Hitchcock, William Holden (To Sm ith (Communications Corporation of Cooper (Pajamar Productions), Gary luca Productions), Nunna"y Johnson, America), M i Iton Sperl ing (United States Cooper (Ashton Productions), Jack Sam Katzman (Clover Productions, Inc.), Pictures), Sam Spiegel (Horizon-Ameri Crandall, Trustee ("The Eddie Cantor Danny Kaye, Stanley Kramer (Stanley can Pictures), John Steinbeck, George Story")' Bing Crosby (Bing Crosby Pro Kramer Photoplays, Ltd.), Carl Krueger. Stevens, James Stewart, Andrew L. ductions), Owen Crump (Owen Crump Alan Ladd, Ladd Enterprises, Inc., Stone. Productions). Ernest Lehman (Provincetown Produc Daniel Taradash, Will iam C. Thom Doris Day, Dena Pictures, Inc., De tions, Inc.), Julian Lesser (Royal Pro as, Michael Todd, Ivan L. Tors, Charles vonshire Productions, Inc., Walt Disney ductions, Inc.), Sol Lesser, AI Lichtman, Vidor, Jerry Wold, John Wayne (Batjac (Walt Disney Productions), Kirk Doug London Films, Joseph L. Mankiewicz Productions), Jack Webb (Mark VII), las, Irene Dunne. (Figaro, Inc.), Leo McCarey, Martin Howard Welsch, Ralph Wheelright, Samuel G. Engel, Henry Ephron, Ex Melcher, Mirisch Compa.ny, Inc., Robert C. V . Whitney, Richard Widmark( Heath clusive Productions, Sylvia Fine, John Mitchum. Productions), Sam Wiesenthal, Cornel Ford (Four Provinces Productions, Ltd.), George Pal (Galaxy Pictures, Inc.), Wilde (Theodora Productions), William Brian Foy, Arthur Freed, Samuel Fu"er. Norman Panama (Parkwood Produc Wyler, York Pictures Corp., Darryl F. Clark Gable, Alvin Ganzer, Goetz tions), Gregory Peck, William Perlberg Zanuck.
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