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U.A. BANQUET IN HONOR OF KORDA CLIMAXES LONDON SALES. CONVENTION
Opening of a new chapter in the history of United Artists was celebrated at the Savoy Hotel in London, Oct. 18-13, when for
the first time delegates from the U.A. offices in Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, joined their British brethren at an international sales convention, presided over by Murray Silverstone, who supervises the sales and corporate activities of our company in Great Britain and on the Continent.
Following the sales meeting, the entire delegation, numbering 70, paid a visit to the new Korda studios at Denham, and afterwards
to Worton Hall, where shooting on "Things to Come" was in progress. A special screening of Samuel Goldwyn's "Barbary Coast" at the London Pavilion Theatre was another item on the convention program.
Climax of the convention was a banquet given in honor of Alexander Korda, which was also attended by a number of prominent figures
in the industry. Replying to speeches of welcome by Mr. Silverstone, Douglas Fairbanks and others, and cablegrams of felicitation from the U.A. producers in Hollywood, Mr. Korda declared his election to the board of the United Artists Corporation had given him great pleasure for sentimental as well as practical reasons.
He reminded his hearers that at the outset of his career as a producer in England, when he stood very badly in need of encouragement and sympathy, it was from United Artists, and from Mr. Silverstone in particular, that he had got that emouragement and sympathy.
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CRITERION FILM PRODUCTIONS IN LONDON
Criterion Film Productions, Ltd., is the name of the new company organized in London by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Marcel Hellman for the production of pictures to be released through United Artists.
The first production of the new organization, now in an advanced stage of camera work, is the screen adaptation of Jeffery Farnol's “The Amateur Gentleman," with Fairbanks and Elissa Landi in the stellar roles. The suvporting cast includes Gordon Harker, Frank Pettingell, Basil Sydney, Athole Stewart, Hugh Williams, Mona | Maris, Irene Browne, Margaret Lockwood, tsme Percy and George Merritt. It is under the direction of Thornton Freeland, ace Hollywood director (who made "Whoopee"), and the screen play is
by Clemence Dane, noted English playwright.
The chairman of Criterion Film Productions is Captain A. CunninghamReid, D.F.C., M.P., and the managing directors are Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Marcel Hellman, George Smith and H.A,. Hawes, A.C.A.