Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 18 Jan 1956, p. 7

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Hollywood Is Scrambling i Adm. Arthur W. Radford (sec- | (left). Looking on is Maj.-Gen. ond from right), chairman of the | C. G. Mason (second from left), U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is | Adm. Radford is in Korea on shown the enemy positions at the | the last leg of a worldwide tour 2% -mile-wide demilitarized zone | of U.S. military installations. in Korea by Col. Robert B. Cobb --Central Press Canadian ew Newspaper Napoleon Is King' Of Fleet Street By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Wriler FE : LONDON (CP) -- Cecil Harms- |. worth King is the new Napoleon of Fleet street. i At 54, he is Britain's biggest | publisher in terms of circulation, { probably the most successful news- ! paper "salesman" in the world. | Consider the figures: £ His group sells 46,000,000 papers a week, outpacing all rivals. i By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Now the tail is wagging the deg. Television used to be a dirty word among the movie studios. Film bosses spoke of the tiny screen only in terms of disdain. Look at them now! The studios are scrambling to cash in on the TV gold. Most of them are making films for TV, several are selling their features and shorts to the new medium, and all are using it to exploit their new pictures. The most TV-conscious of the lots is RKO, which has already sold its old pictures to TV. Head- ing the studio is Daniel O'Shea, 'To Cash In On The TV Gold former Selznick executive most bought 'The Rack," 'The Catered recently with CBS. His production | Affair,' 'The Last Notch' and chief is Bill Dozier, another film 'Fearful Decision.' veteran who served with CBS. | "The most outstanding example OUTSPOKEN PRAISE lie 'Marty.' I hope it wins. the Dozier is outspoken in his re- (Academy Award this year: it de- gard for TV as an aid for films: [Serves to. Perhaps that will con- "I believe that television is the [vince the producers of the value greatest developer of talent this|cf TV." country has ever known. Even SETS TOO BIG more than vaudeville, which de- veloped mostly entertainers, TV material from which movies can kas provided training ground for |profit, added Dozier. actors, writers, directors, pro-| 'Most film sets are too big. You ducers In comedy, drama and all catch only a glimpse of them in fields. |the long shot, then the camera "And look at the material TV comes in for closeups. You spend has produced. MGM alone hasl!a lot of useless money in building But it's not only TV talent and| those sets, plus the expense of lighting them and filling them with enough extras so they won't] seem empty. | "Of necessity, TV learned to do without big sets. It was impossible | to have them in the early days. | So if you had a scene in a restaurant you showed a booth, not the whole place. | "And the public didn't care. | {They're interested in the charac-| iters and what is said, not in how big the set was. "Also, I think we can learn a lot from TV in speed of shooting. Too much time is wasted in the making of a movie," Dozier said that many film pro- ducers still have an ostrich atti-| tude about TV. "You mention Art Carney and they ask who he is." Rozier remarked, "That's ridicul- ous. A fellow who is seen by "TEACHERS" CARRY ON THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, January 18, 1956 7 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)--Snow GOOD EXERCISE and ice caused delays in the ar- (One of two residents of Denmark rival of 22 teachers at the elemen- owns a bicycle. SOUTHERN CROPS Sugar is second only to cotion as a money crop in Peru. tary school here - Monday, but | classes went on just the same. | Their jobs were taken over by 22 11 - year - olds, members of the! school's 'Teachers of Tomorrow' program. Opening exercises such as Bible reading had been com- pleted and lessons were under way when the teachers arrived. RALPH S. JONES and THOMAS H. GREER | ASSOCIATES | Barristers and Solicitors LOCATED AT 65 SIMCOE ST. S. DIXON'S 140,000,000 people every Saturday night cannot be ignored." J Dial RA 5-3525 QUALITY FUEL OIL -- EXPERT SERVICE | Phone | RA 3-4663 | ; 4 313 ALBERT T° His brawling tabloid, The Daily Mirror, has the world's largest daily sale, some 4,750,000. FAMOUS UNCLE wh "And we should go higher still,' says King, a tough-minded, tena- cious man who may become as legendary as his uncle, the late Lord Northcliffe. An eccentric gen- ius, Northcliffe styled himself the Napoleon of newspaper row. Lord Beaverbrook called him the great- est man who ever walked down Fleet street. Now it is King's turn. From a third-floor office in Geraldine House -- named for Jr Ton may catch and pass the rival News mother--the tall, quiet-spoken Cae ppe world, circulation a colos- rector of the flourishing Mirror sal 8.000.000. "It all depends on fortunes looks to the future coolly) Ch her they pick up their socks," and confidently. {t1sh King told a reporter. *'Otherwise "Generally, I think BI |we'll go up and meet them on the papers are in for a Father, thin| Cos pV time," he says. "Some O Rp * weaner ones may go to the wall. [CANADIAN PROPERTIES | wm I see no, particular] The Mirror group has proper A near Qui City and at Dryden, TEU rie last November|Ont. Once, it considered acquiring sent the Mirror marching into Man-|a Canadian paper. Bgsvertyock hester and gave the group new urged King to bid for the Toronto properties in Scotland. These Globe and Mail but the Mirror | "anges wil an already magnate decided it would make pag for the an odd stablemate: for his left-wing | utensifi ed competifion likely when|papers. or X he | PW ationing ends, perhaps) King used to vote socialisi, now Te E . {considers himself an independent Some think King's Sunday Pic-| Liberal, and likes his papers to torial, circulation about 5,500,000, reflect his views. CECIL HARMSWORTH KING Condems Paper's Embargo-Break' On Honors List 'Dishonorable' LONDON (Reuters)--The Gen- lead to a more realistic arrange- eral Council of the British Press ment and one that was fairer to has condemned as "dishonorable" Sunday newspapers. the action of The People, a Sun-| Pending the outcome of such dis- day newspaper, in breaking a pub-| cussions Campbell undertook to lication embargo on the Queen's honor existing embargo arrange-| New Year's honors list ments. | The council, set up by the press -- to investigate complaints against newspapers, considered the em- bargo breach by The People (cir- culation 5,000 000) at its quarterly meeting here Monday The People published details of the New Year's honors Jan. 1 de- spite the fact that the official an- nouncement carried an embargo that it was not to be published un- til the morning of Monday, Jan. 12 Parliamentary lobby journalists and the Northeastern Regional Guild of Newspaper Editors had protested to the council about The People's action. EDITOR'S LETTER The council considered a letter from Stuart Campbell, managing editor of The People, in which he said he broke the embargo as a protest against the denial to the Sunday newspapers of the right to print the honors list on one of the few occasions when Jan. 1 fell on a Sunday. Campbell contended that such a denizl was a breach of the prin- ciples of fair treatment and com mon sense. Fe said he hoped that ) as a result of the incident there could be discussions which would Your Guarantee of Heating Comfort BUY Tours Ga WHERE IS AVAILABLE we LANDER STARK OIL LTD. RA 5-3589 ® Fuel Oil @ Furnaces ® Oil Burners ¢ Coel TALENTED EATER Anselme Brillat - Savarin, 18th- century French expert on the art of dining, for some years was a musician in New York. T00 MANY BILLS? Examples of Loans You Monthly Receive | Payments $100 | $7.78 $300 | $23.35 "$510.68 | $27.00 $1000 | $44.70 $1500 | $67.05 $2000 $89.40 Larger ond many other suit your budget. 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