Kinematograph year book (1944)

Our Leading Companies 355 Capital : £1,361,000 in 500,000 Cum. 5 per cent. Cum. Preference Shares and 861,000 Ordinary Shares of which £478,785 Cum. Preference Shares and £861,000 Ordinary Shares were issued and converted into Stock. 4 per cent. Mortgage Debenture Stock: 4 J per cent. Mortgage Debenture Stock. Athorised and Issued : £400,000 ; Subscribed and paid-up £353,5174, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. National Screen Service, Ltd. Incorporated May 26, 1926. Directorate: H. Robbins (U.S.A.) (Chairman), T. Gruen (U.S.A.), F. J. C. Weinberg (U.S.A.), W. B. Brenner (U.S.A.), C. Gordon Ross, M.C., P. Kimberley, O.B.E. (Managing Director). A. Williams (General Manager), F. T. Harvey (Secretary), A. H. Nye (Sales Manager). Registered Office, Wallace House, 11 311 7 Wardour Street, London, W.i. National Studios, Ltd. Incorporated December 3, 1940. Directorate : G. W. Parish, F.C.l.S. (Chairman) Lady Yule, G. M. Yule. Secretary: A. L. Dugon, A.C.A. Authorised Capital: £100,000. Private Company. National Studios, Boreham Wood, Herts. Odeon Theatres Limited. Incorporated February 20, 1937. Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman). F. Stanley Bates and John Davis (Joint Managing Directors), J. A. Callum, L. W. Farrow, Rt. Hon. Earl Winterton, P.C., M.P., E. T. Carr, L. Lewis, Lt.-Col. Brian Mountain. Authorised Share Capital : £6,000.000 divided into 4,000,000 6 per cent. Cum. Pref. Shares of £1 each and 8,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 5s. each. Issued Capital: 1,563,151 6 per cent. Cum. Pref. Shares of £1 each and 3,787,966 Ordinary Shares of 5s. each. 49, Park Lane, London, W.i. Telephone : Mayfair 781 1. Paramount Film Service, Ltd. Incorporated Februaiy 8, 191 5, as J. D. Walker's World's Films, Ltd. ; title changed March 19, 1919, to Famous Lasky Film Service, Ltd. ; title changed to Paramount Film Service, Ltd., June 27, 1930. Directorate : David E. Rose (Chairman and Man. Director), Edward Ayres and Cecil Frank Karuth. Secretary : Percy D. Cornwell. 161 170, Wardour Street, London. W.i. Pathe Pictures, Ltd. Incorporated 191 1. Directorate : W '. Moffat ; E. Lightfoot, M. Milder ; E. G. M. Fletcher, LL.D. (Lond.) ; and P. A. Warter. Secretary : H. G. Howell. Private Company. Film House, 142/150, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Pinewood Studios, Ltd. Incorporated August 2, 1935Directorate: J. Arthur Rank (Chairman), E. Ronald Craminond (Vice-Chairman), Rt. Hon. Lord Grantley, Charles Eoot, R. J. V. Hake, Spencer M. Reis and W. H. Cockburn. Secretary : M. L. Axworthy. Private Company. Authorised Capital : £300,000. Fulmer Road, Iver Heath, Bucks. Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, Ltd. Incorporated November 12, 1909. Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow, F.C.A. (Finance) and Mark Ostrer (Joint Managing Directors), Col. H. A. Micklem, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Deputy Chairman) ; Sir William F. Jury, S. J. Gordon, Maurice Ostrer, Allan E. Messer, C.B.E. ; and G. J. Woodham Smith. Secretary ; Edmund A. Crisp. Authorised and Issued lapital: £3,200,000 divided into 100,000 *]\ per cent. " A " Cumulative Preference Shares of £1 each ; 600,000 7J per cent. "B" Cumulative Preference Shares of £1 each ; 2,000,000 10 per cent. Cumulative Preference Shares of £1 each : and 1,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 10s. each. New Gallery House, 123, Regent Street, London, W.i. RCA Photophone, Ltd. Incorporated September 10,1929. Directorate : P. A. Tumor (Deputy Managing Director and Secretary), J. C. Atkinson, J. Moxon Broad, F. R. Deakins, B. E. G. Mittell and R. H. Oxley. A uthorised and Issued Capital: £10,000. Electra House, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.2. RKO Radio Pictures, Ltd. Incorporated June 18, 1930. Directorate : Sir Randle F. Holme, Ned E. Depinet. Lunsford P. Yandell, P. N. Reisman and G. W. Dawson (also Secretary). Authorised and Issued Capital : £10,000 in 10,000 OrdinaryShares of £1 each. 2, 3 and 4, Dean Street, Soho, London, W.i. Sound City (Films), Ltd. Incorporated July 21, 1933. Directorate : Norman Greenlees Weir Loudon Chairman and Managing Director), John Eric Mawson Greenwood and Frederick Dubois, M.B.E., F.S.A.A. Secretary, Frederick Dubois M.B.E., F.S.A.A. Authorised Capital: 350,000 divided into 175,000 6 per cent, um. Participating Pref. shares of £1 each, and 700,000 Ordinary shares of 5s. each. Issued Capital: 134,800 6 percent. Cum. Participating Pref. shares of £1 each and 624,852 Grdinarv shares of 5s. each. Registered Office, Sound City, Shepperton, Middlesex. Registrar and Transfer Office, F R. Allen 3 and 4, Clement's Tnn, London, W C RENOVATION — FURNISHING — DECORATION BY MODERNISATION LTD., ALMA WORKS, I 50, WHIRLOW LANE, Tel.: 754. BATLEY, YORKS. | SHEFFIELD, 1 1 . Tel.: 72892. Specialists in Assessments and Repairs to Blitzed Cinemas. M2