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Even the moviemen who have long battled pay-TV had to concede that the premiere was promising. Only M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox have yet to agree to show their films. But that did not discourage movie fans. To the sponsoring Video Independent Theaters chain came more than 1,000 applications to hook into the system (price: $9.50 a month for about 30 movies, half of them first-run features). Video, which spent $270,000 to install the system, will break even with 1,500 regular customers, aims to get 4,000 subscribers from Bartlesville...
Schubert: The Death of Lazarus (soloists, the NDR Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg. Arthur Winograd conducting; M-G-M). A fine first recording of Schubert's fragmentary oratorio based on the Biblical account of the dead brother of Mary and Martha. Schubert started the work in 1820 when he was 23, abandoned it after barely starting Part II to work on The Magic Harp. Schubert's hushed, haunting melancholy shimmers in this moving performance, illuminated by the powerful NDR Chorus and the rich singing of Soprano Barbara Troxell fas Mary...
CONNIE FRANCIS, born Constance Franconero, who broke into a network show with a kid act when she was four, later graduated to the Catskill Borsch circuit-the Concord, Grossinger's, Brown's Hotel. M-G-M Records liked her throaty, sob-ridden voice, changed her name and signed her up. Her first two singles-Freddy and Didn't I Love You Enough? are currently being followed by a bouncy number, Eighteen, and a sad-toned ballad Faded Orchid, which might go over with what the industry calls the "girdle...
Since then President Vogel has done his best to get Loew's back on the track. He planned to release 36 "worthy" pictures in 1957-58 v. only 18 in 1956, and made a succession of deals with Hollywood's independent producers to put M-G-M on a competitive par with its more alert rivals. But for Tomlinson and Meyer it was evidently a case of too little too late; Loew's estimates that its profits for the third quarter of fiscal 1957 will total exactly 1?. At a board meeting a fortnight...
...Appealing to his stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis B. Mayer, the aging (72) lion trainer who retired six years ago, but whose cream-colored, leather-paneled office is still kept vacant. Along with his two allies, said President Vogel, Old L.B. is "actively attempting to seize control...