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SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW
October 5, 1940
Meet Your Exchangemen
flat Jlevy (RKO-Radio)
This is a much abbreviated word-sketch of one of the most widely traveled men among the sales forces. Nat Levy started with Universal in 1919 as a booker in Toronto. In two years he was a salesman, and another year became a special representative in the U. S. He was made Albany branch manager in 1927 and then resigned to become sales manager for RKO in Philadelphia. In 1931, he was promoted to branch manager and sent to Detroit. Four years later he was promoted to District manager, a post he now holds, headquartering in Philadelphia.
$okn Scott (Republic)
The subject of this biography is a recent benedict. He was married August 31 and has but recently returned from his honeymoon to his duties as head booker and city salesman for Republic in Kansas City. He was born right there in K. C. in 1912 and when 15, was doorman and assistant manager of the Waldo Theatre, subsequently working at the
Two years later he joined
Midwest Film Distributors, as poster clerk, becoming booker in 1933. When the company obtained the Republic franchise in 1937, he got his present job.
Ashland and Benton.
Jrvin (Sale) Covat (Warner Bros.) CLrL C. X
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(MGM)
onto, "Babe" was manager.
"Babe," as he is best known, hails from Merrje Old England, so it is quite fitting and proper that he should be Warner branch manager in the most English city on the continent, Vancouver, B. C. His first film job was as a publicity and advertising man. Later he sold out of the Winnipeg and Calgary territories. When Joe Plottel was transferred to. Tormade Vancouver bratich;
.golf, pinochle and
Although born and bred in New York City, Charlie Lazarus is now quite at home in New Haven where he is head booker for MGM. He started out in the dress business at 18, continuing in that line for sometime as a salesman. In 1935, two important things happened to him. He got married and he joined MGM. He says his principal hobbies are 3 year old Stephen, dancing.
J4enry -A. ^JrieJel (MGM)
Next June, Henry Friedel will observe his 25th anniversary with MGM and its forerunners. He started in 1916 as a booker and man of all work, including shipping and selling in Omaha. A few years later, he became a fullfledged salesman. With the merger of Metro, Goldwyn and Mayer, he became assistant manager and booker in Omaha. In 1929, he was transferred to Denver as office manager and in 1933, he was promoted to his present post of branch manager.
il^obert
iamion (Columbia)
In addition to the promotions announced last weeK, several other RKO managers have been transferred and others have Deen promoted. MICHAEL EDELSTEIN has been trans1 erred from the Strand at Far Rockaway to the lilyou; he is replaced by WARREN BARi LETT, who has been at the Columbia, £ar Rockaway; the Columbia post is being filled by SIGURD WEXO, who comes trom the uyker; FRANK HOWARD has been transterred from the Greenpoint to the Dyker; JACK REIS is promoted from assistant manager of the RKO Madison to manager of the Greenpoint; he is replaced by FRANCIS KOHL, assistant at the Prospect, who in turn is succeeded by EDWARD SHANNON, chief of staff at the Dyker, promoted to assistant manager; NATHAN MAZOR, assistant at the Uptown has been transferred to the Marble Hill; his place at the Uptown is taken by JOHN ELLICK, promoted from the staff of the Palace; RICHARD REYNOLDS becomes assistant manager of the Midtown as well as the Yorktown and HERBERT BONIS, chief of staff at the Madison has been promoted to assistant manager of the Tilyou. JOHN J. O'CONNOR, vice president in charge of theatre operations, announced the changes.
Bob is a southern boy and he had some mighty good experience before becoming a Columbia salesman in Charlotte, the post he now holds. He started with Pathe in 1922 as a bookkeeper, being transferred to Charlotte in 1926 and promoted to cashier. He advanced to head booker and then resigned to join National Theatre Supply Co. as a salesman in North and South Carolina, from which post he resigned in 1935 to assume his present position.
-JrtLr W.
^s$rtj O C^onneif
(Universal
(RKO Radio)
Art has spent practically his entire life in his home town of Denver, where he is now a salesman for Universal. When he graduated from public school, he went to work for Armour and Co., packers. Before long, he joined Universal, still in Denver. He rose from assistant booker and assistant manager to his present post. His record of sales in the Rocky Mountain country has kept him among the leaders in the company's sales ranks and his present standing is fourth.
G. RALPH BRANTON, general manager of the Tri-States Theatres, announced a number of changes this week: W. R. McCULLUCH, lormerly assistant manager of the Paramount, Waterloo, Iowa, goes to the Granada, Sioux City, Iowa, replacing IRA CRANE, transferred to the Omaha in Omaha. JACK KOLBu, lormer assistant in Omaha, has been promoteu to manager of the Esquire, Davenport, Iowa. DON SHANE, former assistant at the Orpheum, Omaha, has been promoted to manager of the Capitol, Sioux City, Iowa. J. W. PICKETT, manager of the Strand, Hastings, Neb., has been moved to the Rivoli in the same city. LOUIS NUTZMAN, assistant to PICKETT has been promoted to the managership.
FRANKLIN WOODS has been appointed manager of the Peerless Theatre, San Francisco and A. CHASE manager of the Egyptian.
Lou was born in Roumania in the village of Brailia, 41 years ago. Since then, he has progressed far — he is now branch manager for RKO in Des Moines. He has sold film for Vitagraph, Associated Exhibitors, First National and Pathe, all in the same region. He was branch manager of Pathe's Des Moines office and with the merger was sent to Milwaukee and then to Omaha. He resigned for a short period and was a special representative for Universal, but rejoined RKO at St. Louis, being transferred to his present post five years ago.
With the acquisition by the Schine Circuit of the Webster Theatre, Rochester, N. Y., several changes in management have been made. MAX FOGEL, who has long been in opposition to the circuit, now joins it, as booker for the Rochester Theatres and manager of the Monroe. He replaces CLAYTON CORNELL, switched to the West End, who in turn succeeds TED WHITCOMB, resigned. HARRY ROCKOWITZ, assistant manager of the Monroe, is replaced by ARNOLD FELDMAN, and goes to the managership of the Lake Theatre.
WILLIAM GIBSON has resigned as manager of the 20th Century Theatre in Buffalo to join DICK WALSH as assistant in his duties as publicity head for two Niagara Falls Theatres and a Buffalo house.
ALTON REA, assistant manager of the Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, has been promoted to the managership of the Regent, East Liberty, succeeding HENRY SUTTON, resigned. WILLIAM WARRINGTON, assistant at the Regent, takes REA's post. JOHN RUSSELL has been appointed manager of Warner Bros.' newly acquired Melrose Theatre. ALFRED SKIGAN has been transferred from assistant manager at the Kenyon to the same post at the Enright; C. W. OLCOTT has been appointed assistant manager of the Mount Olive; MILTON GOLDEN has been transferred from assistant manager of the Schenley to the Squirrel Hill replacing ALBERT SHEMEL, transferred to the Melrose in the same capacity.