Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1940)

Page scan 000950 from Boxoffice

Record Details:

Title:
Boxoffice
Date:
Apr-Jun 1940
Publisher:
Kansas City, Associated Publications
Volume:
Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1940)
Leaf #:
000950
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
BOXOFFICE was the leading American exhibitor trade paper of the post-World War II era. But the publication had modest beginnings. In 1920, Ben Shlyen founded the paper, orginally titled THE REEL JOURNAL, in an office located in Kansas City's Film Row district. Like other regional exhibitor publications, THE REEL JOURNAL focused its attention on the local -- in this case, KC and the nearby territories that the city's distribution exchanges served. By the end of the 1920s, however, Shlyen had acquired or founded several more small exhibitor papers serving other US markets. In 1932, their titles all changed to BOXOFFICE, though they continued to be published in regional editions for decades to follow. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
June 06, 2024
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No Trial Had Started Yet ond from the left. poses while awaiting the arrival of the gov 6. Nate J. Blumberg, president of Uni ernment’s lawyers. Seated is Edward C. vcrsal, arrived early on his day. Here he Raftery of O'Brien, Driscoll and Raftery, New York — Many were the film notables who forsook Times for Foley Square to testify in pre-examination before trial in the all-industry suit. These photographs probably will carry a familiar look. All of them have appeared in Boxoffice in the last two months. They combine, however, into an interesting pretrial gallery of posed and candid camera shots of many principal industry figures. This key explains: 1. William F. Rodgers, general sales manager of Loew’s, Inc., arrives at the U. S. court house to testify. On the left is Edward McLean of Davis, Polk, Gardiner and Reed, attorneys representing the film company. On the right is Tyree Dillard jr. of the M-G-M legal staff. 2. Backgrounded by the court house are Louis Phillips, Paramount home office counsel; Y. Frank Freeman, vice-president in charge of Paramount’s studio operations, who had to fly from Hollywood for his examination, and Albert C. Bickford of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett, special attorneys for the distributor . 3. Neil F. Agnew, vice-president in charge of Paramount distribution, ponders his deposition with Phillips outside the testimony-gathering chamber. 4. Here Sidney R. Kent, president of 20 th Century-Fox, scans a transcript of his testimony as John Caskey, of Dwight, Harris, Koegel and Caskey — the inevitable present lawyer — again looks on. 5. When Adolph Zukor, chairman of the Paramount board, delved deeply into early film history, he was accompanied by former Judge Thomas D. Thacher of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett; Phillips once more and again Bickford. Zukor is sec — 1— — 3— — 4 20-B BOXOFFICE :: June 1, 1940