Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

Page 6 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW April 8, 1939 Testimonial For Sam Gardner Sam Gardner, salesman at MGM's Indianapolis Exchange, was recently promoted to the branch managership in Salt Lake City. A special dinner was given for him at the Variety Club. Around the table are Gardner, Mrs. Gardner, Wade Willman, Jerry Adams, Doris Rogers, Marie Kreilein, Ruth Sipe, Don MacLeod, Darlene Willman, Klaska Johnson, Margaret Nancrede, Edward Farrell, Naoma Rhodes, Robert Rigsbee, Jean Casserly, Hazel Gorman, Dorothy Reynolds, Irene O'Brien, Katy Pyle, Ralph Ripps, Madalyn Cornet, Foster Gauker, Harold Marshall, and H. A. Wagner. Univ. Lineup Nearly Ready Fox and Joseph Return to Coast As Sales Executives Prepare For Regional Meetings Universal home office executives are busily preparing the line-up of products this week to present to the first of the three regional meetings scheduled to begin in Cincinnati next Satur urday, April IS, at the Hotel;j> Netherland Plaza. John Joseph, director of advertising and publicity, leaves for the Coast on Monday. Matthew Fox, assistant to President Nate Blumberg has already left for the Coast. A program of 40 features to be made by Universal, three more produced by Harry Edington which Universal will release, four serials and 66 short subjects will be announced. Attending all the regional meetings will be Nate Blumberg, president; William A. Scully, general sales manager; F. J. A. McCarthy, eastern sales manager; W. J. Heineman, western sales manager; F. T. Murray, James Jordan, O. C. Bimder, Andrew J. Sharick, Morris Alin and Louis Pollock. The Chicago meeting will be held at the Palmer House ^ . . from April 18-20 and the San ^'^'l ^ W. Hanns. From St. Lou.s : J. E • .. . .1 Garrison, manager; Harry Hynes, J. JH. Hobbs, manager ; Henry Martin, W. G. Wray, M. M. Holstein. From Washington: B. B. Kreisler, manager; L. J. Young, B. Frank, S. Tabor, W. E. Davis and O. lilumenthal. From Albany : Joe Engel, manager ; L. J. L^Sier, W. A. Ryan and A. J. Marchetti. From Buffalo : T. J. Scully, manager ; J. Fater, W. F. Bock and Carl Heedit. From Cleveland: D. Miller, district manager; J. R. Kaufmann, manager, J. V. Frew, G. Rosenbaum, J. Krenitz, A. W. Voung. W. L. Sencer and Peter Rosian. From Pittsburgh: Tules Lapidus, manager; D, Barnholtz, L". Hess, S. E. Feld, W. Satori and F. Guehl. Meeting them at Cincinnati will be the local group headed by P. Kreiger, manager; N. LeVene, H. Young, G. B. Gomersall, J. Marks and F. Schreiber. Branch managers and salesmen attending the Chicago meeting will be: From Des Moines : J. J. .Spandau, manager; H. Schiffrin. J. Smith, Hilton Frost, I. Weincr. From Kansjis City : Pete Dana, district manager, L. J. Miller, manager, R. M. Palmquist, L. Morrow, R. Thompson, J. Beiser and E. Selig. From Omaha: Otto Siegle, manager ; R. J. Olson, L. Flensler, A. Hill Francisco meeting at the St, Francis Hotel from April 22-24 The branch managers, salesmen and office managers to the attend the Cincinnati meeting are: From Boston: W. Kelly, manager: F. Dervin, T. Shiffman, J. Curran, H. Konnis, H. Martin and J. "Murphy. From New Haven: M. Joseph, manager, and A. Titus. From Philadelphia: G. Schwartz manager; J. Engel, W. Doyle, M. Koppleman, J. Leon and R. Bernhard. The New York exchange contingent will be headed by Al Herman, district manager, and Eeo Abrams, manager, Max Cohen, Nat Goldberg, H. Furst, J. Ligget, P. Winnick and B. Price. From Atlanta: H. Graham, district manager; J. Ezell, manager, C. J. Jordan, R. Elliot, E. F. Cox, E. h. O'Neill, R. B. Gann. From Charlotte : P. Baron, manager ; R. F. Good, R. H. Mesterman, J. Greenleaf, and J. M. Bishop. From Dallas : E. S. Olsmith, manager; J. H. Lietzer, L. D. Eeitzer, W. R. Pittergle, C. M. Miller and E. V. Green. From Memphis : A. J. Pretchard, manager; H. I. Mansfield, B. H. Jordan and E. H. Andrews. From New Orleans : W. M. Richardson, manager; P. Tiessier, C. McMillin and N. Lamantia. From Oklahoma City : J. E. Sarfaty, S. H. Nesbit and Harry Hincs, Jr. From Detroit: E. Heiber, manager; J. Stewart, A. Fischer, B. Tighe and J. R. Susane. From Indianapolis : G. C. Craddock, manager ; A. Kaufman, W. B. Grant, W. Sherman. From Minneapolis: H. B. Johnson, manager; A. Zacherl, J. M. Fieldman. S. Leff, D. Gutman, M. Flollaran, and V. L. Dickenson. From Milwaukee: F. Mantzke, manager, E. W. Gavin, R. J. Basett, J. M. Hickey and O. Peterson. From Chicago : E. T. Gomersall, district manager ; M. Gottlieb, manager ; R. Funk, F. Meyers, E. Weinshenker, M. Brodsky, A. Kent, and W. Hyland. Branch managers and salesmen attending the San Francisco meeting will be : From Denver : Jack Langan, manager; A. W. O'Connell. E. Warner and T. McMahon. From Los Angeles : A. O'Keefe, district manager; C. J. Feldman, manager, A. Wog, L. Hoss, C. Wade and E. Cooke. F'rom Portland : R. O. Wilson, manager; F. M. Blake. J. Hommel, and J. Harvey. From Salt Lake City : M. Aparton, manager ; L. J. McGinlev. manager. C. L. Theuerkauf. M. J. Whitman and A. M. Kallen. From San Francisco : B. Rose, manager, King Trimble, AI Oztaby, C. E. Pace and C. F. McBride. UA Convention In Hollywood May 8; 1 1 Producers on List Record Number of Pictures Expected From Company For 1939-40 Season WARNS OF CHAOS IN NEELY BILL Proponents, Opponents Discuss Measure Washington — Hearings on the Neely Bill to prohiliit block-booking and blind-selling continued this week before the Senate interstate Commerce sub-committee. Tlie hearings opened Monday with Charles C. Pettijohn, MPPDA general counsel, and United Artists will hold its 20th Annual Convention in Hollywood beginning May 8, it was announced this week by Murray Silverstone, head of the company. The entire field staff, together with home office ex-'^ ecutives, will attend. Eleven producers who will contribute to the 1939-40 program of the company will attend the convention sessions. These include Samuel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda, David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger, Edward Small, Hal Roach, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, David Loew and Sol Lesser-Ernst Lubitsch. This is a record number of producers for the company and it is expected that they will turn out a greater number of pictures than ever before. Silverstone said he was withholding the complete product announcement pending completion of deals by several producers. Among the pictures to be definitelj' made, from information already released, will be Charlie Chaplin in"The Dictator" which Silverstone said would be definitely made despite denials. It will be released in the Fall. Fairbanks will produce "The Californian" in Hollywood. It is expected that he will not appear in it. Loew will make one or two pictures a year on the Selznick lot. Selznick will deliver three pictures for UA next season. Edward Small announced last week that he would make six pictures. Samuel Goldwyn has two pictures 3'et to deliver under his contract with UA. They will be "Angels Making Music" and "The Real Glory". Korda, Wanger, and Roach have not yet made their announcements. The Lcsser-Lubitsch combination will make three pictures every two years and Lesser will make an additional one annually. Murray Silverstone S. R. Kent, testifying before the sub-committee on Thursday afternoon, urged postponement of action on the Neely Bill until the Government suit against the majors is settled. He also said the bill was unnecessary in view of the revised trade practice draft. He claimed that the bill was strictly minority legislation and urged a complete study by some agency that will bring in facts from all parts of the industry, before the bill's enactment. Robert Montgomery, representing the Screen Actors' Guild, telling the sub-committee members that passage of the Neely measure would gravely affect the industry. When a proponent of the measure asked that local civic organizations be given a greater choice in the selection of films for the community, Pettijohn stated that if that was the issue of the present hearings, "we can save 3 or 4 days by laying on the table a trade practice program to allow this." Proponents later attacked this proposal on the ground that it could not be taken seriously in view of the industry's alleged breaking of promises.