Movie Industry Unleashing Film
Barrage in Bid for Lost Business
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By ALIKE MOSBY
United Press Hollywood Writer
Hollywood W Now that
television's too programs have
slowed to sum
mer re - runs,
the movie in
dustry , is un
leashing a bar
rage of care
fully selected
pictures in the
hope that its
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some industry leaders even
predict the future road of the
picture business may be found
in the results of the summer
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Khrushchev Says
Red China Milking
Soviet Reds Dry
London OP) Soviet Commun
ist Party Chief Nikita Khrush
chev has complained that Red
China "is milking us dry", diplo
matic sources said Saturday.
Khrushchev made the remark
to East European leaders during
recent negotiations for increased
Soviet aid to the satellites, the
sources said.
The Peiping regime is under
stood to be insisting that Russia
fulfil her commitments to supply
Industrial goods and raw ma
terials on which China s eco
nomic planning depends to an
important degree.
Under Pressure
Russia, although under pres
sure for more assistance from
her satellites in Europe, cannot
afford to rebuke Red China, on
whose political good will she is
at present more dependent than
ver.
Khrushchev said in Czechoslo
vakia that Russia's strength lies
in the aid which she dispenses
"with great joy" to other commu
nist states.
But there have been signs for
some time that the growing call
of Soviet assistance is severaly
testing Russia's strained econ
omy. These demands compete with
Russia's offers of economic as
sistance to underdeveloped coun
tries, made in the last 12 months
in a political contest with the
Vfest over the neutralist nations.
Lead lo0More Claims -
The latest shakeup in Moscow
may lead to more satellite claims
on Russian assistance. Khrush
chev has indicated during his
Czechoslovakian tour that Rus
sia will help the satellites in
raising their standards of living.
China's communist boss Mao
Tse Tung is expected to visit
Moscow later this month after
is call in Warsaw. Iron curtain
sources say that the question
of future Russian supplies to Red
China will be among the topics
of discussion.
boxoffice grosses. , "
Summertime has become im
portant to the movie industry
the hot months when TV relaxes
its grip on the public, school is
out and citizens seek air-conditioned
comfort. The movies
now the underdog of ' the show
business world have slipped
in to try to capture some cus
tomers. Despite official smiles of opti
mism, "Industry executives pri
vately admit movie business in
recent months has been at an all
time low," according to Variety,
a show business trade paper.
"If an expected boxoffice in
crease does not result this sum
mer, serious consequences for
the film business may result,"
Variety says. "A large number
of theaters have their backs
against the rope."
Studios Take Action
While TV takes a rest, film
studios have rushed out "Love in
the Afternoon," "A Hatful of
Rain," "The Pride and the Pas
sion," "The Sweet Smell of Suc
cess," "An Affair to Remember,
"Les Girls," "A Face in the
Crowd" and "Bernardine."
The summer splurge is an
other sign of an industrial phe
nomena of this generation the
rapid change in the movie in
dustry and even in the physical
community of Hollywood.
Ten years ago the movie busi
ness ruled the entertainment
scene, but TV and a change of
America's living habits have
brought a revolution.
Hollywood is replacing New
York as the TV capital. Next fall
70 per cent of the nation's net
work evening shows will origin
ate from here; last year it was
54 per cent from Hollywood and
48 from New York. TV pro
ducers report a flood of TV ac
tors moving here from the East.
Twentieth Century-Fox is busy
digging for oil and has a long-
range plan to subdivide some
of its valuable real estate for
public sale.
RKO and Columbia also plan
to drill for oil on their lots.
Every major studio " including
MGM is either renting space to
TV producers and or pro
ducing films for television. The
Screen Actors' Guild reports 50
per cent of the employment for
its 8,500 members comes from
TV.
But the movie industry is forg
ing ahead. Hollywood is produc
ing 365 theatrical films worth
400 million dollars this year,
compared to 296 in 1956 and
286 in 1955.
A glance at the financial state-
Esgro Convicted in
Television Trial
Texarkana, Ark. tin James
Moore, a 19-year-old Negro was
convicted of murder in the first
degree Friday night in a trial
that was the first in Arkansas to
be photographed by television
cameras.
Moore, who was tried for the
second time on the charge, was
expected to be sentenced to die
in the electric chair. An all-
white, all-male jury returned a
guilty verdict that did not rec
ommend mercy.
Moore was convicted of par
ticipating in the $10 robbery
and fatal beating of 76-year-old
M R. Hamm. A first trial ver
dict of guilty for Moore and
three other Negroes was re
versed by the Arkansas Supreme
(Sburt, which ordered separate
trials.
Youth Killed When
He Falls off Truck
Port Oxford HH Dennis
Neely, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs.
d Neely, Port Orford, was fa
tally injured Friday when he
fell off the back of a truck on
Sixes river road six miles from
here.
The coroner's office said
young Neely and 14-year-old
Robert Gilbreath were riding on
the bed of the truck operated
by Gilbreath's grandfather, B. E.
Rice. The Neely boy apparently
lost his footing and fell from
the truck against a bank as
the vehicle rounded a curve. He
then rolled back under the truck
and his head and chest were
crushed by the rear dual wheels.
He was pronounced dead on
arrival at a doctor's office here.
Shah of Iran Takes
Control of Relief
Tehran, Iran OPl The
Shah of Iran Saturday took per
sonal control of relief operations
for victims of last week's earth
quake that killed 2,000 persons,
injured 5,000 and left tens of
thousands homeless.
The Shah himself planned a
trip to the devastated Caspain
sea coast to see what can be done
to aid some 5.000 children left
motherless and homeless and
threatened with starvation.
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ments issued by the studios
shows a general increase but
helped apparently details never
are released by the sale of old
films to TV, production of new
TV series or other subsidiaries.
Columbia Pictures, for exam
ple, reveals that for the fiscal
year ended June 30 its TV unit,
Screen Gems, grossed 20 million
dollars compared to 11 million
the previous year. But the com
pany's theatrical output resulted
in only one solid hit, "The Eddy
Duchin Story."
Next: How to make a movie
hit these days.
Indian Government
Reverses Decision
Bombay, India OPl The In
dian government reversed an
earlier decision Saturday and is
sued a passport permitting an
Indian beauty linked romantical
ly with Roberto .Rossellini, to
leave the country.
In doing so, the Indian gov
ernment acted against the wish
es of the woman's husband, In
dian film director Hari Das Gup
ta, who had petitioned against
issuing a passport.
Das Gupta, in asking the gov
ernment last May to prevent his
wife, Sonali, from leaving In
dia, claimed she was prepared
to skip the country with Ros
sellini, Ingrid Bergman's mate.
Attorney May Seek to
Dismiss Clinton Case
Knoxville, Tenn. HP) A
defense attorney said Saturday
that unless the government of
fers better proof that 15 Tennes
seans "conspired" with John
Kasper to hinder the integration
of Clinton, Tenn., High school,
he will ask the court to dismiss
the case this week.
The government has connect
ed 11 of 15 Tennessee defendants
with Kasper during three days
of testimony, but chief defense
counsel Robert L. Dobbs said
there has been no proof that
they conspired with the segrega
tion leader to violate a federal
court order banning interference
of integration at Clinton.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Navy Checks Report On Sub Near Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska (IP) The
Navy Saturday was checking out
reports of an unidentfied sub
marine within the three-mile
limit of Alaskan waters.
The Civil Aeronautics admin
istration confirmed the report
made Friday by a barge skipper
for Morrison-Knulsen company.
Inc. The skipper said the sub
surfaced about 200 yards from
his vessel at 3 p.m. pst just south
of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian
Islands.
The Navy said no American
submarines were known to be
in the area.
The barge, skipper said the
sub hurriedly submerged, ap
parently after sighting the barge,
but periscope wake was visible
"for quite a while afterward."
First reports indicated the
Navy was employing aircraft
stationed on Adak Island in the
investigation. Adak is situated
several hundred miles further
out in the Aleutian chain from
Dutch Harbor.
One of the most famous mis
sions in New Mexico is the
church of Saint Francis of Assisi,
in Ranchos de Taos, north of
Santa Fe. Built in 1772, the mis
sion is noted for its exceptional
ly thick walls of adobe, sup
ported by mud buttresses, and
its gleaming white stucco exterior.
The average retail price of
beef last year was 66 cents per
pound, the lowest level since
1947. Beef output in 1956
amounted to 14,400,000,000
pounds.
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