Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1940)

BROADWAY \^ARNER circuit zone managers and members of the home office executive staff who were hosts to Joseph Bernhard, general manager of the chain, at a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in commemoration of his 10th anniversary with the company, included Moe Silver, Nat Wolf, Howard Waugh, James Coston, Don Jacocks, I. J. Hoffman, Ted Schlanger, Harry Kalmine, John J. Payette, Herb Copelan, Clayton E. Bond, J. M. Brennan, Prank E. Cahill, Nat Fellman, Jules Girden, Harry Goldberg, Edward E. Hinchy, Louis J. Kaufman, Sam E. Morris, Herman Maier, Harry Mayer, W. Stewart McDonald, Prank Phelps, Harold Rodner, Harry Rosenquest, Leonard Schlesinger, Abel Vigard, M. Blackman, Jules Levey, Rudy Weiss, Ben Wirth and Lou Brager. Others there were Major Albert Warner, Sam Schneider, Sam Carlisle, Carl Leserman, Herman Starr, Mort Blumenstock, Stanleigh P. Friedman, Harold S. Bareford, R. W. Perkins, Miles Alben, H. Levinson, Morris Ebenstein, Joe Hummel, Karl Macdonald, Roy Haines, Ben Kalmenson, Al Schwalberg, Arthur Sachson, Arthur J. Siegel, T. J. Martin, W. S. Halliday, Frank L. Gates, Barney Klawans, Herman Levine, Max Friedman, Sol Bragin, Alex Halpern, Frank Damis, Max Hoffman, Lester Krieger, Harry Feinstein, George Crouch, Ralph W. Budd, A. C. Brauninger, Mike Dolid, Jack Schwartz, Frank Marshall, Don Sherwood, W. G. Wallace, Martin F. Bennett, Harry Kaplowitz, Moe Henry, Dan Triester, Lou Siegel, Ray Hewlett, Harry Two Farewells: One for Reeve and One for Bergman — The retiring advertising manager of 20th Century-Fox was guest at an informal dinner at the Tower Club in the Park Central Hotel where approximately 55 men gathered to bid Arch Reeve well as he prepared to return to Hollywood. Above, Charles E. McCarthy presents him with a watch as Al Wilkie and Jerome Beatty look on. Below, attentive ears bend toward the discs which recorded the informal speeches so that Reeve might have them for posterity. Earlier that same day, over 100 members of Columbia’s headquarters staff gathered in the East Ballroom of the Hotel Astor for a similar purpose, their guest of honor being Maurice A. Bergman, retiring director of advertising and publicity, who, on Monday, assumed Reeve’s post at 20th Century-Fox. He, too, got a watch. Kaestner, Joe Tisman, Leonard Ormaner and A. Rockvam. Monroe Greenthal is due back from the coast and a publicity conference with UA producers over the weekend . . . George P. Dembow is back at his National Screen office, taking it warily and easily after his recent hospitalization . . . Jules Girden, Warner circuit executive, entered Manhattan General Hospital Thursday for a major operation. He figures to be on the sick list for six weeks . . . Jack Levin, head of the Copyright Protection Bureau, and the activities of the CPB, were the subject of a feature article in the amusement section of the Sunday Times . . . Leon D. Netter, Paramount theatre executive, is on a business trip through the south. In Atlanta his conference is with Arthur Lucas, W. K. Jenkins and R. B. Wilby, then to Jacksonville for a confab with E. J. Sparks, thence to Miami to talk with S. A. Lynch . . . Henry King, 20th Century-Fox director, is here from the coast on a businesspleasure trip. Edgar W. Lloyd, distributor of ‘‘Merry Wives,” is on a sales trip through the middle west . . . Pauline Kelen, switchboard operator at the Walter Reade office, is due back Monday from a vacation in Florida (Continued on page 34) BOXOFFICE :: December 7, 1940 29