Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1945)

Star Autographs To Bond-Buyers HOLLYWOOD — Genuine autographs of hundreds of screen stars who have shone during the past quarter century will be given to bond buyers throughout the nation as the result of a plan set up for the Seventh War Loan drive by the Paramount studios. The idea was conceived by the studio’s bond committee, under Bernard Luber, to add impetus to the campaign. Any person who sends a bond order to the studio will receive an autograph mounted in an attractive folder. The autographs are available because the studio has kept canceled studio pay checks for more than 25 years. Signatures will be cut from the backs of these checks and requests for specific autographs will be filled in order of mailing. Many of the signatures are of stars who are now dead and in numerous cases less than a dozen autographs are in possession of the studio. Added inducement to bond buyers will be a chance to each investor to win, by lot, a grand prize of more than 100 of the rarest autographs mounted in a frame. Besides current Paramount stars, the list includes: Fatty Arbuckle, Agnes Ayres, Clara Bow, Betty Bronson, Lon Chaney, Lew Cody, Russ Colombo, Betty Compson, Dorothy Dalton, Viola Dana, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Pola Negri, William Farnum, Elinor Glyn, Jean Harlow, Wanda Hawley, Elsie Janis, Leatrice Joy, Doris Kenyon, Carole Lombard, Wallace Reid, Herbert Rawlinson, Theodore Roberts. Also Will Rogers, Dorothy Mackail, May McAvoy, Thomas Meighan, Mary Miles Minter, Lois Moran, Nita Naldi, Anna Q. Nillson, Warner Oland, Edna May Oliver, Rudolph Valentino, Lupe Velez, Conway Tearle, Ben Turpin, Milton Sills, Fred Stone, Gloria Swanson, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Warwick and Lois Wilson. 20th-Fox-Doubleday, Doran Contest Decision Delayed NEW YORK — Judges in the new writers’ contest sponsored by 20th-Fox and Doubleday, Doran will require several more weeks before announcing their selections. It was originally expected that the winners would be announced about a month following the close of the competition on February 1. However, because so many entries were received more time was needed for the judging. More than 1,400 entries were received. Named WB Algiers Head ALGIERS — Serge Goutmann has been appointed manager of the Warner Bros, branch. He succeeds Bernard Kopel, recently promoted to company supervisor for North Africa. It Costs Lfess to SEASON with SAVOROL Popcorn Seasoning Savorol saves 20% to 40% of your oil, popping shortening, or grease and GREATLY IMPROVES YOUR POPPED CORN. TRIAL OFFER: 100 Pounds $17.50 No Ration Points BESTER PRODUCTS CO. Box 278 Nashville 2, Tenn. If you want your booth to behave 365 days in the year, take a tip and get the service of Altec. Our engineers are super sleuths. They'll check and double check, detect and correct any irregularities in your projection room equipment Don't wait for things to look suspicious. If you haven't one of our contracts, it's a clear case for Altec — right now! Thousands of successful cases in our files. A phone call or letter will bring you the whole story. 250 I Vest 57th Street New York 19, N. Y. THE SERVICE ORGANIZATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY Available Now For Dating! *74e Stmey a, 'Tfotee! BOB STEELE c STERLING HOLLOWAY • JOHN MlLJftN WILLIAM FARNUM • VIRGINIA MAPllS SARAH PADOEN • FRANCIS FORD Produced by William B. David Directed by Robert Tansey Photographed in CINECOLOR SCREEN GUILD PRODUCTIONS, INC. With exchanges in the following cities: CHICAGO— 831 So. Wabash Ave. BOSTON-45 Church St. PITTSBURGH-1709 Blvd. of Allies WASHINGTON-101 New Jersey Ave. ATLANTA-164 Walton St. N.W. MINNEAPOLIS-1109 Currie Ave. PHILADELPHIA-1315 Vine St. OKLAHOMA CITY-702 W. California St. DES MOINES-1 lll'/z High St. CHARLOTTE— 300 West 3rd St. DALLAS— 308 S. Harwood St. DETROIT-2310 Cass Ave. ST. LOUIS-527 N. Grand Ave. LOS ANGELES— 323 West Sixth St. SAN FRANCISCO-125 Hyde St. MILWAUKEE-Write Ted Levy 1327 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago NEW ORLEANS-218 Liberty St. Sruteida. TORONTO, ONT.-277 Victoria St. Produced by ACTION PICTURES INC. 1069 Market Street Bldg San Francisco 3, Calif. 44