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FILIHROWS OF AMERICA . . . PERSONALITIES YOU MEET AT THE EXCHANGES
COLUMBIA:
I. H. Rogovin, seated, district manager, at a conference with Abe Barry (L), head booker and office manager, and Tom O'Brien, sales manager.
MONOGRAM:
Ben Abrams, seated, the district manager, surrounded by (L to R) Jerry Callahan, salesman; Nate Levin, salesman; and Charles Wilson, the head booker.
UNITED ARTISTS:
Clayton Eastman, seated, is the district manager. He's shown with (L to R) Jack Meadow, office manager; Phil Engel, publicist; John Dervin, branch manager.
PARAMOUNT;
A1 Kane, seated, district manager, with aides (L to R) Arnold Van Leer, publicist; James Harris, office chief; John Kane, bookkeeper; Edward Ruff, branch manager.
20th CENTURY-FOX:
Executive lineup, left to right: L. E. Comeaux, office manager; Edward X. Callahan, district manager; James M. Connolly, branch manager; A1 Fowler, publicist; and Sam Berg, the head booker.
UNIVERSAL:
John Scully, seated, is the district manager. Standing (L to R) are Henry Wolper, office manager; Edward Feltman, the branch manager; and William Schulman, publicist.
WARNER BROS.:
Boston's branch manager is G. William Horan (seated). The staff, shown here includes Eli Leavitt, office manager; Art Moger, publicist; Leo Griffin, head booker; A. R. Daytz, sales mgr.
RKO:
Looking things over (L to R) Cyril McGerigle, head booker; Ralph Banghart, publicist; John Downing, office manager; Gus Schaefer district manager, and Ross Cropper, branch manager.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER:
A staff meeting between (L to R) Ben Wolfe, office manager; Benn Rosenwald, resident manager, and Nate Oberman, chief booker.
EAGLE-LION-PRC:
Harry Segal, E-L's district mgr.; Sam Levine, head booker; Thomas Donaldson, N. E. district manager; Alfred Fecke, branch manager.
SCREEN GUILD:
A1 Swerdlove, new Screen Guild chief. He formerly was with Film Classics when FC was a local franchise operation.
FILM CLASSICS:
New district manager is Maurice Green, who took over this spring when Film Classics bought out the franchise holder in Boston.
REPUBLIC;
L to R, Stanley Farrington, head booker; Francis Dervin, district manager, and Herbert Schaefer, branch manager. Dervin was promoted to his post in 1946.
EMBASSY:
Harry Goldman (L) and Joe Levine, who head this independent film company. They're distributing the new Byrd film.
REGAL PICTURES:
Irving Farber, manager of Regal Films, which handles independent pictures and state rights films.
BAY FILM CO.:
Edward Klein, who has been in film selling business for 30 years, now services over 400 theatres in the region.
HUB FILM EXCHANGE: Jack Meyers, exchange head, specializes in roadshow and foreign pictures for the New England market.