Kinematograph year book (1950)

Who's What in the Industry. 79 tions, Ltd. ; member of B.K.S. Council, and chairman of Film Production Division. Address: Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761. HOPE, S. H., F.R.S.A., M.S.M.A., chairman and managing director, Hope Advertising Service, Ltd. ; director, Samuel Miles, Ltd. Addresses: Gloucester House, 19, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2, and 431, Harrow Road, London, W.io. Tel. : Whitehall 2966 and 7762, and Ladbroke 0821. HOPKINS, HARRY, director, Palace, Leeds; b. 1879, London. Delegate to General Council 1879, London. Delegate to General Council for many years, and ex-chairman, Leeds branch. Address : Private : 6, Bank View, Chappell Ailerton, Leeds 7. Tel. : 42802. HOWE, SELBY, publicity director, 20th CenturyFox ; b. London ; educated, St. Marks, Balham. Joined Jury's Imperial Pictures as advertising and publicity director, 1916, and in same position with M-G-M until August, 1941. Went to Radio Pictures as exploiteer and special representative, and joined 20th Century-Fox, 1942. Addresses : Office : 31-2, Soho Square, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 7766. Private : 55, Chiltern Road, Sutton, Surrey. Tel. : Vigilant 6293. HOWIE, ALEX, founder and managing director, Rex Publicity Service, Ltd., and Art Display Service, Ltd. ; b. Lanarkshire. Associate of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Addresses : Office : 131, New Bond Street, London, W.i. Tel.: Mayfair757i. Private: The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells. Tel. : Tunbridge Wells 20331. HOYLE, BERT, general manager, Palace and Empire Cinemas, Haslingden, Ltd. ; b. 1898 ; ed. Giggleswick School, Yorks. Addresses : Office : Empire, Haslingden. Tel. : Rossendale 269. Private : Carr Hall, Haslingden. Tel. : Rossendale 156. HUDDLESTON, COUN. ERNEST A., chairman and managing director, Witney Electric Theatre, Ltd. ; Sterling Entertainments, Ltd. ; member L. and H.C. branch, C.E.A. committee; b. 1874. Entered Industry, 1910: Member Witney U.D.C. since 1919 ; retired !949 ; Oxfordshire C.C. since 1933. Addresses : Office : Palace, Witney, Oxon. Tel. : 147. Private : 59, Corn Street, Witney. Tel. : 253. HUDSON, W. S., managing director, Hudson Cinemas, Ltd. ; b. 1899, Bradford, Yorks ; joined A. B.C. after various managerial appointments ; finally promoted area supervisor ; left A. B.C. 1945 to form present company. Addresses : Office : The Picture House, Sheringham, Norfolk. Tel. : 347 ; Private : " Glenochil," Nelson Road, Sheringham. HUGHES, HERBERT DELAUNEY, B.A., M.P., governor, Educational Foundation for Visual Aids. b. 1914. ed. Balliol College, Oxford. Elected M.P., West Wolverhampton, 1945 ; P.P.S. to late Ellen Wilkinson, Minister of Education, 1945-47 ; author of " Advance in Education." Address : House of Commons, S.W.i. HURST, BRIAN DESMOND, film director, b. 1900. ; ed. Westminster and Societe de Beaux Arts, Paris. Directed: "Tell Tale Heart," "Riders of the Sea," "Ourselves Alone," " Prison Without Bars," " On the Night of the Fire," "The Lion Has Wings," "Dangerous Moonlight," " Theirs is the Glory," " Hungry Hill," "Trottie True." Addresses : Office : ia, Bradbrook House, Studio Place, Belgrave Square, S.W.i. Private : Clapton Revel, Wooburn, Bucks. HUTCHINSON, F. E., managing director of sales, Paramount Film Service, Ltd. ; entered industry 1908, with New Century Film Service ; remained after merger with Jury Imperial Pictures and when company became Jury-Metro-Goldwyn, Ltd. ; appointed manager new Sheffield Branch, 1915 ; N. District manager, 1927 ; assistant sales manager, U.K., 1930-41 ; appointed general sales manager, Paramount, 1941 ; appointed to board 1946. Address: 170, Wardour Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 7700. HUTCHINSON, HARRY GRAFTON, C.M.A. assistant controller, Children's Clubs, b. 1890. ed. Heckmondwike Grammar School ; Bishop's College, Calcutta. Joined Odeon, 1933 ; assistant theatre controller, 1936 ; assistant publicity manager ; assistant controller O.N.C.C. Addresses : Office : 1, Heddon Street, W.i. Tel. : Regent 8080. Private : 15 Woodside Avenue, Wimbledon, S.W.19. Tel. : Wimbledon 5822. HUTCHISON, J. H., "The Showman" of the Kinematograph Weekly ; National Organiser, National Playing Fields' Association ; entered the industry with Moss Empires, at Swansea and Newcastle ; general manager of circuits in Tyneside and London ; formerly manager of the Gaumont, Hendon and Gaumont, Finchley ; author of " So This is War " and " The Complete Kinemanager." Addresses : Office : 62, Heath Street, N.W.3. Tel. : Hampstead 4606. Private : 5, Cheyne Close, Hendon, N.W.4. Tel. : Hendon 6640. HUTCHISON, JIMMY, publicist, b. 1902, Dundee ; entered industry 1916 ; joined " Kinematograph Weekly " 1918 ; press representative M-G-M 1927 ; B.I.P. 1933 ; Mayflower, 1937 ; Warner Bros., Teddington, 1939; publicity and advertising director, British National Films until 1947. Address : c jo " Kinematograph Weekly," 93, Long Acre, London,W.C.2. HUTH, HAROLD, producer, b. 1892 ; entered films, 1927 in "One of the Best," "Guilt," "Leave it to Me," "Down River," "The Outsider," "First Mrs. Fraser," "Discord," "Rome Express," "The Ghoul"; general manager, Toeplitz Productions, 1934 ; casting director, Gaumont-British, 1935-6 ; M-G-M British, 1937; director "Hell's Cargo" and "Alias the Bulldog" for Associated British, and produced "Busman's Honeymoon," for M-G-M, 1939; produced "Pimpernel Smith " for Leslie Howard, 1941 ; produced "Tartu " for M-G-M, 1942 ; produced "Love Story" and "They Were Sisters" for G.-B.; "Caravan" for Gainsborough; "Nightbeat" for London Films; "The White Unicorn " for Burnham Productions. Address : Canada House, Strand, W.C.2. HYDE, ARTHUR SHACKLOCK, managing director, Grenroyal Cinema Co., Ltd. b. 1900. Entered industry, exhibitor, 1928 ; exchairman Bradford Branch C.E.A. ; delegate to General Council since, 1938. Addresses: Office : Central Chambers, Briggate, Shipley. Tel. : Shipley 52974. Private : Four Winds Ferncliffe Drive, Baildon. Shipley. Tel. Shipley 54404.