Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1956)

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IN MEMORY OF Charles P. Skouras, who headed Fox West Coast, and National Theatres, and whose ebullient personality was known the industry over: the $600,000 Charles P. Skouras Memorial Center at Normandie Avenue and Pico Boulevard, adjacent to the Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral (his project) in Los Angeles. Construction started this week. All Hands UUuNNEL >NNELl were old Hands AT THE Motion Picture Pioneers 18th annual New York banquet November 30 at the Waldorf . . . PIONEER OF THE YEAR was Texas circuit and Variety International executive Robert J. O'Donnell, and in the picture above Pioneers' president Jack Cohn hands him the award plaque, as dinner chairman Sol C. Schwartz looks on. Story on page 39. IN THE BEST of spirits, some of the guests: upper left, Herman Robbins, Milton Rackmil; left, Charles Reagan, Ed Rowley, E. V. Richards, George Skouras; left below Sam Dembow, Jr., George Dembow, Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Cohn; below, Gus Eyssell, Ned Depinet.