20th Century-Fox Dynamo (June 3, 1939)

2 NEW DYNAMO CHARLOTTE SWINGS BACK INTO ACTION FOR DELIVERY THRONE ’38-’39 TOTAL DELIVERY 43 Weeks Following; is how the branches, districts and divisions stand on accumulated total delivery for the first three-quarters (43 weeks) of the 1938-39 season against quota for that period as of May 27 s BRANCHES May May 27th Branch (Manager) 20th 1 Des Moines (Mayer) 2 2 Chicago (Eckardt 1 3 Winnipeg (Huber) 4 4 St. John (March) 3 5 Montreal (English) 5 (> Minneapolis (Podoloff) 6 7 Charlotte (Longden) 8 8 New Orleans (Landaielie) . . 7 9 Omaha (Scott) 9 10 Memphis (Young) 10 11 Calgary (Skorey) 11 12 Cincinnati (Grady) 12i 13 St. Louis (Reingold) 13 14 Atlanta (Wilson) 14 15 Detroit (Sturm) 15 10 Toronto (Bailey) 10 17 New Haven (Simon) 17 18 Milwaukee (Lorent/,) 20 19 Seattle (Edmond) IS DISTRICTS May May 27th District (Manager) 20th 1 Prairie (Levy) 1 2 Canada (O’Loglilin) 2 3 Great Lakes (—) 3 4 South (Ballance) 4 5 Midwest (Scott) 5 DIVISIONS May May 27tli District (Manager) 20th 1 Central (Gehring) 1 2 West (Kupper) 2 May May 27th District (Manager) 20tli 3 East (Sussman) 3 11 BRANCHES HAVE ELECTED THEIR LOCAL DRIVE LEADERS; SEVEN SET COMMITTEES Letters to New Dynamo indicate the personnels of 11 more branches have elected their local Kent Drive leader. This brings the total of fixed local Drive leaders to 17—or nine more than were in action last year, 13 more than were named in 1937 and 15 more than 1936. Seven other branches have set up competing committees to function during the seventh annual S. R. Kent Drive. Each committee represents a major or salesman’s zone. In two other branches, monthly Drive leaders have been named. Here each leader will serve for a month’s period. The identity and other interesting material regarding these local Drive leaders, new localized methods of Drive participa- tion, etc., will be published in the first issue of the S. R. Kent Drive publication that Roger Ferrie will issue from the Coast. May May 27tb Branch (Manager) 20th 20 Washington (Wheeler) .... 19 21 Salt Lake (Walker) 22 22 Kansas (Fuller) 21 23 Portland (Powers) 23 24 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 24 .25 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 25 20 Indianapolis (Landis) 20 27 Los Angeles (Dillon) 27 28 Boston (Callahan) 29 29 Philadelphia (Gross) 28 30 Cleveland (Schirtertz) ..31 31 Buffalo (Samson) *0 32 New York (Buxbauin) 32 33 Vancouver (Patterson) 35 34 Frisco (Ballentine) 33 35 Oklahoma (Clark) 34 30 Denver (Morrison) 30 37 Albany (GrassgreenJ 37 3!ay May 27th District (Manager) 20tli 0 Mid-East (Roberts) 0 7 Atlantic (Moss) 7 8 Coast (—) 8 9 Northeast (Bailey) 9 10WANS RETURN TO THE TOP Lorentz’s Brewers Again Exceed Their Quota (Continued from page 1) for them. But, the Domin- ions are a stubborn and powerful lot when cornered —and right now they are cornered. Joe Huber’s Winnipeg, which was outstanding in the K-6 Kent Drive period, is counting on first place. The Winnipegs figure they can earn the title, but they will have to deliver record amounts to overtake Chi- cago, which is building up a July that will flabbergast company executives. Prairie and Chicago offices, with O’Loughlin’s Canadians, have been directly responsible for keeping Gehring’s Centrals in divisional leadership. Since the Drive, the Prairie and Chi- cago branches have done the heavier work—and got the re- sults that have prevented Kup- per’s Westerners from snatch- ing the divisional crown from the Centrals. Winnipeg and Montreal have set a territorial record of which they can be proud, for in the past 20 months they have con- sistently been among the first five branches on accumulated delivery. They have led the Canadian parade that has kept Central division in first place from its very inception. But, the Canadians are defi- nitely in a tight corner right now. Minneapolis, Charlotte, Oma- ha, New Orleans and Memphis are definitely on their trail. To be true, Skorey’s Calgary is still 11th, and dangerous, but that outfit will be smart not to overlook the presence of Grady’s Cincinnatians at its rear. Cal- gary and Cincinnati are parted by one-half points. For a while, Cincinnati looked like one Eastern contingent that stood an exceptionally splendid chance of finishing first, but along came strikes, shutdowns and other re- verses over which the Ohio- ans had no control and they stepped down below quota. In one stretch last month some 53 houses in the Cin- cinnati territory suspended operations because of local strikes, etc. All this cut deep into Cincinnati’s reve- nue. THIS WEEK All the more excellent were the over-quota deliv- eries of Charlotte and Jack Lorentz’s Milwaukee in view of the fact that both rung the bell in the previous week. The Brewers are very optimistic regarding this month and Charlotte, as already reported, never were more enthusiastic. But the duel between Chi- cago and Des Moines over- shadows all other tussles, even though both are threatened by a half dozen ambitious, alert rivals from other sections of the country. Meantime, here is an inter- esting feature of the present race among offices seeking par- ticipation in the distribution of the eight prizes for outstand- ing delivery on the 52-week period of the season: With Milwaukee back on the over-quota road, with records certain to come from Chicago in the next seven weeks, with Indian- apolis looming stronger and with promising reports from Detroit, indications point strongly to the possibility of Great Lakes winding up the K-6 season as the dis- trict champion. And if that actually hap- pens, then there will be no occasion to present the President’s prize. The specific stipulation is that the President’s prize goes to the district man- ager whose district finishes first on accumulated 52 weeks’ total delivery—and that means just what it says. There is no district manager supervising the affairs of the Great Lakes affairs. Drive Leader Morton A. Levy qualifies strongest for the Pres- ident’s prize now because the Prairie division is leading, but whether the latter can keep it- self on the throne is question- able. Minneapolis, Des Moines and Omaha will have to do some fancy delivering to stop Great Lakes from finishing first, if Chicago, Milwaukee, In- dianapolis and Detroit develop their present plans into per- formance. THE CONTEST There were no changes in status among divisions or dis- tricts as the result of what hap- pened during the past week. Only Charlotte and Milwau- kee exceeded their quota, ac- cording to official returns. Mayer’s Des Moines, back at the head of the column, is only seven-tenths of a point ahead of Eckhardt’s Chicagoans. The Iowans really gained nine-tenths of a point on the Chicagoans who led by a margin of two- tenths the week prior. Huber’s Winnipeg recov- ered third place at the ex- pense of March’s St. John. Winnipeg is only two- tenths of a point ahead of Chicago, which will defin- itely deliver quota this week. Neither Des Moines nor Chicago can afford to ig- nore Winnipeg, for the lat- ter is as strong a bidder for leadership as either present pacer or runner-up. And while it dropped a peg, March’s Saints are very much a contender for the top honors. The St. John crew is only nine- tenths behind Des Moines and .23 to the rear of Chicago. St. John trails Winnipeg by three- hundredths of a point. Thus, that battle for leader- ship is hotter than ever, for English’s Montrealers are far from being out of it. The Roy- alists held No. 5, trailing St. John by 1.5 and topping Podo- loff’s Minneapolis by seven- tenths. When Longdon’s Charlotte splurged ahead of Landaiche’s New Orleans, into the seventh berth, it got within three- tenths of a point of the Min- nesotans. However, Charlotte is only eight-hundredths of a point richer than New Orleans. OMAHANS IN IT Joe Scott’s Omahans are still a powerful and danger- ous ninth, only 1.2 behind New Orleans, with Tom Young’s Memphis, how- ever, teasing them no lit- tle. The Nebraskans are only two-tenths of a mark stronger than the Tennes- see aggregation. Skorey’s Calgarians are virtually tied with Mem- phis, but Grady’s Cincin- natians have far from given up hope of overtaking the Canadians and some of the U. S. offices that right now happen to be ahead of them. Reingold’s St. Louisans are showing the way for the Mid- westerners, less than a point behind Cincinnati, but with Wilson’s Atlantans right at their heels. Sturm’s promising De- troiters are a stronger oc- cupant of the 15th shelf, but, wisely, they are not understimating the strength of Bailey’s Toron- tonians. Milwaukee’s over-quota delivery was like an earth- quake to Toronto and Si- mon’s New Haveners. Lo- rentz’s Brewers strolled ahead of Edmond’s Seattle- ans and Wheeler’s Wash- ingtonians. Their two-place hop placed them within one- half point of New Haven. And that means that De- troit will have to watch out lest it surrender its Great Lakes’ runner-up position to the rejuvenated Milwau- keeans. Ever since they moved into their new and larger exchange building, the Milwaukeeans have been hitting the bull’s eye. Their aim is seemingly bettered because of new environments. In any case, they rate much stronger. The troubles of Seattle and, Washington have just started, for they are within easy hit- ting distance insofar as Walk- er’s Salt Lake City is con- cerned. The Utahans did not reach quota, but they did well enough to take 21st place from PRIZE RACE GETS CLOSER Lakes Threaten Coni' mand of Prairies and Canadians Fuller’s Kansas Citians. Salt Lake City is now less than a point behind Seattle and Wash- ington. If they can repeat their point gain this week, those two offices are doomed, but, of course, that depends on what Washington and Seat- tle do. Other branches that moved into more comfortable quarters this week were Callahan’s Bos- tonians, who overwhelmed Gross’ Philadelphians, and Pat- terson’s Vancouverans, who hur- dled Ballentine’s San Francis- ans and Clark’s Oklahoma Citi- ans. Boston is now 28th, less than a point behind Dillon’s Los Angeles. Vancouver is al- most tied with Buxbaum’s New Yorkers, but less than one-half point ahead of either San Fran- cisco or Oklahoma City. Morrison’s Denver and Grass- green’s Albanians continued at the wrong end of the ladder. BULLETINS LEVY AT H. O. FOR DRIVE CONFABS NEW YORK — Drive Leader Morton A. Levy ar- rived here Thursday morn- ing for -conferences with General Manager of Dis- tribution Herman Wobber, for discussion of matters pertaining to the coming Pig Push. He will be here several days and leaves for the Coast with Roger Ferri within the fortnight. SONJA HENIE TO GO TO NORWAY OSLO, NORWAY —Nor- way’s favorite daughter, Sonja Henie, who has been hosting Norway’s Crown Prince and Princess, who are now in America, is ex- pected here about the mid- dle of this month. She will spend her vacation here. She will return to Holly- wood later in the Summer to start work on her first picture for next season. STARS RETURN FROM PREMIERE HOLLYWOOD — Alice Bradv. Binnie Barnes, Ar- leen Whelan, Cesar Romero and Eddie Collins arrived this (Friday) morning from the world premiere of “Young Mr. Lincoln” at Springfield, 111., where they made a personal appearance Tuesday. Marian Anderson, famous Negro contralto, and her manager, S. Hurok, also arrived. BILL KUPPER ON THE COAST LOS ANGELES—West- ern Division Manager Wil- liam J. Kupper was here this week. He is working on K-7 deals and will remain here until Mr. Wobber ar- rives within the next 10 days. He expects to be back in New York around June 18. EDUCATIONAL-MONTH PRIZEWINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN A FORTNIGHT Winners of the cash prizes of $400, $300, $200 and $100 in the recently completed Educational Anniversary Month will probably be announced in New Dynamo in the next two weeks. Mr. Wobber will personally scan the records. A committee will be charged with the task of determining the prize win- ners. The five-week campaign came to an official end last Saturday. Spot-bookings proved the biggest result-getter, according to records of accomplishment for the first four months of the campaign. The $1000—split into four cash prizes—was the offer of Educational’s E. W. Hammons.