Motography (Jul 1918)

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July 13, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 73 Many Affiliated Units Elect Officers Every Effort Being Made to Put Co-operative Booking Plan Into Effect Quickly THAT the exhibitors' booking corporations associated with the Affiliated Distributors' Corporation are losing no time to make the co-operative booking plan of the Affiliated operative was evidenced last week by the (lection of officers in several additional units. Officers elected in each territory follow: Exhibitors' Booking Corporation of Michigan — President, \V. S. Butterfield, Battle Ocek; first vice'-president, Paul Schlosman, Muskegon; second vice-president, Harry Trendal, Detroit; secretary, King Perry, Detroit; treasurer, John P. Church, Detroit; national director, C. H. Seaman, Grand Rapids. Exhibitors' .Booking Corporation of Northern Ohio — President, Henry H. Lustig; secretary, M. B. Horwitz; treasurer, William T. Slimm; national direc tor, Samuel Bullock; manager, Michael Schachtel; all of Cleveland. Exhibitors' Booking Corporation of Southern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky — President, Charles Weigel; vice-president, Henry Hoefle; treasurer, Otto D. Dickman; secretary and national director, John Weinig; assistant secretary, John Huelner; all of Cincinnati. Exhibitors' Booking Corporation of Illinois and Wisconsin — President, -William Heaney; vice-president, William Burford; secretary, H. (bundling; treasurer, M. A. Choynski; national directors, L. H. Frank and Joseph Hopp; directors, Sam Gold. Abe Ostrofsky, Jacob Cooper, George Mopkinson and Clyde Bates. Exhibitors' Booking Corporation of Upper Western New York State — President, Ira Moshicr, Buffalo; directors, Harold B. Franklin, Buffalo; William Fait, Jr., 'Utica; W. H. Linton, Little Falls; Charles Hyman, Niagara Falls; William A. Callahan, Rochester. Exhibitors' Booking Corporation of Indiana and Western Kentucky — President, Hugh O'Donnell, Washington; vice-presidents. Charles Olson and A. C. Zearing, Indianapolis; C. R. Andrews, Muncie: treasurer, B. V. Barton, Indianapolis: national director, Frank J. Rembtisch, Shclbyville. Exhibitors' Booking Corporation of the South Atlantic States — President, B. B. Varner, Lexington, North Carolina; directors, R. D. Craver, Charlotte, North Carolina: Harry Crandall, Washington, D. C: Percy M. Wells, Wilmingti n. North Carolina; C. L. Welsh, George W. Pryor, Harry Bernstein, Virginia; A. F. Sams, South Carolina. Each booking corporation maintains its own offices in charge of its own executives, who direct and approve all bookings, pi ices and classifications of the theatres in the terrilorv. Officers and Directors of the Affiliated Distributors' Corporation at their first meeting in New York. June 19 to 21. Reading from left to right (seated)— M. Spiers. Philadelphia; Louis Frank, Chicago; Fred J. Herrington, Pittsburgh; Henry S. Lustig, Cleveland; Sydney S. Cohen, New York, chairman of the board: Sam Bullock, Cleveland, first vice-chairman ; Ernest Schwartz, attorney jor the Northern Ohio unit; John Manheiuu-r, New York, and Alfred Hyman. Buffalo. Standing, left to right — John W. Weinig, Cincinnati; Frank Renibuscli. Indianapolis, secretary; H. B. Vomer, Lexington . X orth Carolina; Charles C. Pcttijohn. general counsel; Joseph Hopp, Chicago; Charles 11. Seaman. Grand Rapids, Michigan; Henry A. Brink, president William J. Clark, treasurer, and R. D. Craver. Charlotte, North Carolina.