Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1939)

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BOB WOLFF is second in the nation-wide George J. Schaefer drive with J. Sharkey, RKO branch manager in Detroit, retaining the lead. The drive is now in its ninth week . . . Irene Castle is here from the coast and attended the opening of “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle” at the Music Hall . . . Joan Crawford was guest of honor at the Banshees’ luncheon at the Waldorf roof, Thursday afternoon . . . With the strike affecting home office projectionists, Dave Chatkin is now giving more time to his business affairs at Monarch without sitting through a lot of preview screenings. Lois Marie O’Connor celebrated her fourth birthday with a surprise at the O'Connor home in New Rochelle last Thursday . . . J. J., the daddy of the family, was too busy with the projectionists’ strike to attend . . . Bob Weitman returned Friday from, a five-day vacation cruise to Bermuda on the Volendam . . . Ad Schulberg has gone back to the coast after a trip abroad . . . Rose Lichtman, wife of the M-G-M executive, is still in town and will soon rejoin her husband at Beverly Hills . . . Harry Goetz is planning to leave for Hollywood shortly, but no date is set. Louis Hyman, special sales representative for Sol Lesser, left for the coast after a few days here on private business . . . Josephine Langfelder, telephone operator at the New York Film Board, is Bermudavacationing and Helen Gottlieb is a new stenographer in the office . . . Harold Weinstein has joined Phillips & Nizer . . . Mac Rubenfeld of the M-G-M sales department with offices at the studios is visiting his folks in Brooklyn on his first trip in four years. His brother, Joseph M„ is manager of Loew’s Oriental . . . Clifford Ross is vacationing in Miami . . . Judy Garland and her mother are in town for a week’s vacation . . . “Spud” Goldstein has joined his brother, Bob. He’s in from the coast and expects to remain . . . Arthur W. Kelly of UA at lunch with a flock of Columbia men at the Tavern. They outnumbered him by plenty, having on hand Jack Cohn, tanned by Florida sun; Abe Schneider, with the same kind of complexion; Nate Spingold, and Joe McConville. Leon Bamberger quit smoking some months ago. Result: He’s put on about ten pounds. Further result: He’s having all his suits let out to take care of added avoirdupois . . . Freddie Schwartz took his recent Lake Placid weekend guests to his home and reeled off the color films he took of them . . . Norma Davis, secretary to John J. O’Connor, sails on the Uruguay, May 20 for ten days of Nassau, Havana, etc. . . . The bright, sunny, warmish days finds Ralph Budd and Sam Lefkowitz lingering longer on the sidewalk in front of the Warner Building . . . Charles Perry, Aldine exploiteer in Philadelphia, in for advance talks with Monroe Greenthal on “Wuthering Heights” . . . William Wyler was a day late getting in from the coast. His plane was grounded in Winslow, Ariz. . . . Milton Blackstone, Leonard Picker cvnd Mel Hey man are again on the local scene, having parted company with Miami. The Stokowski concert in Philadelphia drew the in-person appearance of Hal Horne, whose employer, Walt Disney, is using the music master’s talents in a forthcoming feature cartoon . . . Any time a Cadillac limousine rolls by with license plate “SS 78,” it means Sam Sax is in it, or the neighborhood . . . Tom Gorman, who is pinch-hitting for bedded Jim Christy as RKO Chicago division manager, was a visitor with John J. O’Connor . . . Sammy Cohen of UA foreign publicity was congratulating a friend, married 20 years, via Western Union. The message went; “Many happy returns of the day. Very sorry you’re not giving away china this year. Emperor Hirohito.” . . . Harold B. Franklin, administrator of the recent MPAYBE campaign, heads for Hollywood next week. Sam Cocalis wasn’t disturbed over the operators’ strike at the exchanges and left Tuesday for Palm Beach for a two-week rest. His circuit has 41 theatres in this area. Incidentally, he was seen walking down 44:th St. the other p. m. with Ted O’Shea, Dave Levy and Jack Bowen, all M-G-M -ites. One wiseacre said that, while it was three to one against Cocalis, he would come out on top . . . Judge I. Frey of Loew’s is looking much better now that he has a newly acquired — his second — Florida tan this season . . . Bert Steam, UA district manager with headquarters in Pittsburgh, has also returned to his desk after a respite on Miami Beach . . . W. A. Finney, Loew district manager in Atlanta, visited Joe Vogel for a couple of days this week . . . Lillian Jeffrey and Johnny Murphy have a new painting job in their office at Loew’s. H. J. Yates and James R. Grainger left over the weekend for St. Louis for a brief stopover and from there head for Houston, Tex., for the Republic regional sales convention . . . Bob Smeltzer, Warner central district manager, is back in Washington after a home office powwow . . . I. F. Dolid, Norman Moray’s assistant, is due back from a short trip to the Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit exchanges . . . Nicholas M. Schenck was in Washington on a very secret engagement during the week. Exchange items: Bernie Brooks of the R&W circuit bought a new Pontiac the other day and broke it in the first day by hauling film around from exchanges to his theatres . . . Gus Solomon, Warner salesman, is mourning the loss of his father . . . Bill Rowland, the producer for RKO, returned the other day from Mexico City where he has been mixing hot tamales with celluloid . . . George Dembow and the missus acted as hosts Monday evening to Sam and Mrs. Eckman and Bill and Mrs. Rodgers with the Beatrice Lillie show and Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe on the menu . . . Herb Berg is taking his rod and tackle out of the moth bags. Arthur W. Kelly’s eyes are tiring and he now wears glasses for reading. The UA foreign head says he lost a couple of pounds on his recent trip abroad and he looks thinner . . . Eddie Silverman of the Essaness circuit, Chicago, paid his respects to old Broadway this week. Business, as usual, brought him to town . . . Maurice J. Wilson and Jeffrey Bernerd, joint managing directors of GN Pictures, Ltd., sailed from London on the Queen Mary, March 31, for home office conferences . . . Etta V. Segall, who was with Harry H. Thomas for many years, is back with him again at Merit Pictures. This is the same name Thomas formerly operated under . . . Miss Segall for the past few years had been with Grand National . . . Bob Gillham is still talking about the premiere of “I’m From Missouri” in Kan Wanderer Kelly Is Back — After touring far-off countries, Arthur W. Kelly, vice-president in charge of UA’s foreign distribution, returns to New York, and smiling. At the ship’s side to greet him were Thomas P. Mulrooney, who, at 40, finds life just beginning for him; Walter Gould and A. A. Lowe. On the extreme right, of course, is Kelly. He’s somewhat thinner than before he left New York in October, and very glad to get back. 32-B BOXOFFICE :: April 1, 1939