The True Glory to Open Soon at Victoria
"The True Glory" to Open Soon at Victoria NEW FILM TELLS STORY OF ANY ASION OF FORTRESS EUROPE Public relations officer! from sll nine eervlee eons mends will meet )„ s Two-day sesnrieny opening...
...Columbia Pictures is distributing for the OWI, through the War Activities Gom-mittc Motion Picture Industry...
...Altogether 1,400 Army public iriiii.n» officers throughout the country will cooperate on publicity and exploitation for HThe True Glory...
...This is the first time in film history that auch an aggregation has coare together to work on any one picture...
...from sll nine eervlee eons mends will meet )„ s Two-day sesnrieny opening Wed „ctdnjr, A'«u«t Sat, Vi formulate lSd eeorditntse see War Department's share ef the nntions] publicity end exploitation campaign far On- Dwigbt T...
...la addition, fite meeting, to be held st the erecutret nffices of Co-larawia Pictures, OS Seventh Avenes, will he attended by public re-Isuons officers from the more im-, pertant posts and base-, and by itpiuaerrtntfvea of the Office of War Information and the War Arti*nie» Committee...
...To capitalise on the Memphis victory and at the same time warn other city and state censor boards which mjght be contemplating holding up this production, which deals with the life of the poor cotton farmer, Gradwell L. Sears, vice president in charge of UA distribution, declared: "I have instructed the legal deportment of United Artists to institute suit against any group of censors which tries to box out 'The Southerner' from any theatre box office in any city or town in the United Sta tee...
...The film, from the official records of the UniVd States and Britisoh Armies, tells the complete story of the Invasion of Portress Europe, from inception until the final surrender of Germany...
...At the same time officials of this film company 'learned censorious action on a much wider scale is being .contemplated by one of the states in the deep south...
...Eisenhower's ntoch-discussed film 'The True Oers...
...hff MPHis WITHDRAWS BAN ON "TUE SOUTHFRNPR" FUM, ? HIT AT THE GLOtE IN NEW PORK United Artist Corporation was advised today the Memphis censor board has withdrawn its ban on "The Southerner" being shown in that city in Tennessee...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 35
