Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1940)

Page 14 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW October 12, 1940 Meet Your Exchnngemen JPaui (J3aron (Universal) Here's a real success story. Paul has been with Universal since he wore his first pair of long pants, IS years ago. He is still a young man, in fact one of the youngest big city branch managers today. He worked up from office boy through the ranks to his latest post as Universal's Boston branch manager. Along the way he was top salesman in Philadelphia, and for the past two years branch manager in Charlotte. It's a long, way from the gangling, talky office boy of 15 years ago to his present job but it's an inspiration to many another worker. (Warner Bros. Selling crackerjacks between acts in a legitimate theatre in Omaha was where Silent Earl Bell, as he is known, got his start. He went through various stages of the business and finally landed with Warner Bros., way back in the silent days. He managed the Omaha and Kansas City offices for franchise holders and got the Omaha assignment when Warner Bros, became distributors. In 1929, he joined the theatre department, first in New York, then in Pittsburgh. Returning to distribution in 1932, he took over his present assignment. riant (MGM) Here's another 25-year MGM veteran. And what's more, he's dean of New Orleans branch managers, having held the post since 1917. When he joined MGM in 1915, (it was Metro then), he was combination poster clerk, shipping clerk, booker and film inspector. At that time, the New Orleans staff consisted of manager, , combination bookkeeper stenographer and B riant. So promotion was fast and two years saw his rise to his present post. He is a native of New Orleans and a graduate of Tulane. omai 'ot^owLiac^in (Paramount) ^J*/arry. (J3latt (MGM) oCeo U. Seicshnaudre (Republic) One of this gentleman's principal difficulties is the frequent mispronunciation and misspelling of his name. The above is correct. There should be no trouble about it down in New Orleans, where he is Republic's branch manager and where he has been in the business for 24 years. He started with Josiah Pearce and Sons in a theatre. Since 1922, he has been associated with Arthur Bromberg, rising gradually from poster clerk, shipping clerk, booker and salesman to his present post. Meet one of the best known salesmen in the Dominion, all ye strangers in the U. S. ■ He's been selling out of Montreal ever since he joined the company way back in 1922. At the last Paramount sales convention he was elected to the 100 per cent club for the fifth time, a record in the 20year history of that organization. If you ever get a chance, ask him to tell you some of the stories of selling in the wilds of Quebec province in the winter. They're full of humor and drama. Joseph JP(otte( (Warner Bros.) This is one of five j^k Plottel brothers — ■ all in AM ^^^k the film industry. Joe is JE& manager of the Toronto -^W ! office of Warner Bros. Although a native of Leeds, England, he has lived most of his life in Canada. He joined Warner Bros, in 1927 as a salesman and soon was promoted to a branch managership in Vancouver. A couple of years there and he was upped again, this time to the managership in Toronto. His hobbies are buying and selling mining stocks and his two daughters, aged 13 and 9. Sometimes, we wonder what happens to all the theatre checkers and where they go. Here's the answer concerning one of them. Harry was a checker in the Seattle branch of MGM in 1927. A year later, he became poster clerk and a few months after that, he was promoted to assistant booker. Five years ago, he was again advanced, this time to his present post of head booker. He's a baseball player of some repute, pitching for the exchangemen against the theatremen in their annual games. Sot W. SacL (RKO-Radio) Sol started the hard way and has worked himself up to branch manager in Dallas the same way. He started as a checker in 1925 and a year later was a booker. A little later, he was promoted to salesman, still in Dallas, where he remained until 1930. Then he was promoted to branch manager and sent to Memphis. With the merger of RKO and Pathe, he traveled in Arkansas, transferring again to Dallas in 1932. Two years later, he was again manager, a post he holds today. STANLEY POOLEY, assistant manager of the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, B. C, has been promoted to the managership of the Windsor, succeeding LARRY NEW, who has been moved to the Kerrisdale. RICHARD LETTS of the Capitol has taken POOLEY's place at the Orpheum. JERRY ROSS, formerly a vaudeville master of ceremonies, is now managing the Palomar Theatre in Seattle, Wash, for the Sterling chain, and he is also handling the stage shows at the circuit's other houses. CHARLES BARNES is his assistant. JOSEPH FORTE has been appointed manager of Warner Bros.' Parker Theatre in Philadelphia. IRVING BROKAW is the new manager of the Larkin Theatre, San Francisco. HARRY CLEMENS, former manager of the Parker Theatre, Philadelphia, has been switched to the Imperial. WILLIAM OSTENBURG will manage his father's Bluff's Theatre, Scotts Bluff, Neb., succeeding HARRY RODELL, assigned as manager of the Delmar, Morrell, Neb. RODELL replaces ROBERT ANDREWS, promoted to city manager at Gering, Neb. ALVIN LEONARD has been named student assistant manager of Loew's, Rochester, N. Y. EDMUND HOWARD, former assistant manager, has been transferred to Loew's State, Boston. Kit Carson III Visits Governor Greetings from Governor Ralph Carr, of Colorado, were delivered to Governor Herbert H. Lehman, of New York (right), by Kit Carson III as the personal emissary of Gov. Carr in delivering messages to the governors of fifteen states on a two month's transcontinental tour in connection with the exploitation of Edward Small's "Kit Carson," which is based on the life of Carsons grandfather, at the Executive Mansion in Albany last week. Carson added color to his several gubernatorial visits and various personal and radio appearances by appearing in the 80 year old costume worn by his famous grandfather, which has been handed down through the family. The picture played in Albany the following day.