20th Century-Fox Dynamo (July 8, 1939)

NEW DYNAMO 5 MANY OFFICES RUNNING AHEAD OF LAST YEAR ON K-7 SELLING! The past two weeks brought to the Home Office by far the largest number of K-7 contracts recorded in any similar period since the Chicago convention, according to Contract Manager Jack Bloom. This week, he said, found the pace even swifter, notwithstanding the presence of the holiday. Individual selling particularly has speeded up considerably in the past fortnight, the official K-7 sales figures disclose. But branch managers were making their presence felt through a goodly volume of propositions from local circuits. Especially was this fact among Eastern and Midwestern office pilots, but it was Walker’s Salt Lake City that made the best place boost of the week. The Mormons are now tied with Patterson’s Vancouverans for possession of ninth position, only one-tenth of a point behind Simon’s New Haven and two-tenths to the rear of Reingold’s St. Louis. UTAHANS SHOW WAY IN K-7 RALLY Salesmen operating out of branches affili- ated with the Western division led in the K-7 sales rallies recorded officially this week. While Pittsburgh’s Moore and Interrante are still first and second, respectively, it was the Western manpower that splurged most spec- tacularly in a week that dramatically deluged the Home Office with fine K-7 deals. Salt Lake City’s McElhinney, for example, rushed from 30th to sixth place and is now definitely a threat to the Pittsburghers, St. Louis’ Eskin and Memphis’ Bas- kin and Wyse. The two Tennes- seeans are still making things un- comfortable for the alert Eskin. Krupp of Winnipeg and Klein of Washington stepped up two and three, respectively. Pitts- burgh’s Kellenberg gained a bracket, but San Francisco’s Ber- nard and New Orleans’ Shallcross did much better. Shallcross, for- merly 42nd, is now embracing Philadelphia’s Tolmas, Cleve- land’s Scheinberg and Chicago’s Simon for the 23rd tenement. Eastern salesmen, also, were in there, more active than ever. Washington’s Norris advanced from 25 to 20. Cincinnati’s Need- ham moved from 31 to 30, almost catching his team-mate, Eddie Burkart. Up high flew Charlotte’s Eber- sole, Washington’s Murphy, Mil- waukee’s Michel, Salt Lake City’s Tidwell (74 to 47), Albany’s Re- mer, Omaha’s Ironfield and Berke, Chicago’s Goodamote, Kansas City’s Kinser, Cincinnati’s Nae- gel, Atlanta’s Mitchell, Atlanta’s Laseter, Salt Lake City’s Dugan, Philadelphia’s Davis, and Mont- real’s Pearson. OTHER UNITS Status of branches, districts and divisions on K-7 short sub- jects sales more or less reflected changes in standings on feature product. Podoloff’s Minneapolis distin- guished itself in this selling test, going from 13th to fourth place. Walker’s Salt Lake Citians, fol- lowing through in every endeavor, strolled from No. 11 to No. 6, while Grady’s Cincinnatians added one when they established themselves in the 11th hole. Grassgreen’s Albanians, ad- vancing from No. 17, almost caught Atlanta, after passing San Francisco and Cleveland. Landaiche’s New Orleans jumped from 22 to 18, while Gross’ Philadelphia chugged from 25 to 24. Eckhardt’s Chicago passed Portland, while Patterson’s Van- couveran vaulted Detroit. The status of districts on short subjects sales remained un- changed with South still in com- mand, 4.6 richer than the Atlan- tics. Divisionally, Kupper’s West led Sussman’s East by 8.7, with the latter just two points better off than Gehring’s Central. Minneapolis gained 12 places on K-7 sales, going from 19 to 7. Following is the standing of every branch, district and division on the sale of the 1939-40 (K-7) feature product, based on total contracts (including recorded franchises) sold against total possibilities, as of June 26: BRANCHES July 3rd 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 June Branch (Manager) 15th Pittsburgh (Cohn) 1 Atlanta (Wilson) 2 Winnipeg (Huber) 3 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 4 Memphis (Young) 6 St. John (March) 5 St. Louis (Reingold) 8 New Haven (Simon) 7 Salt Lake (Walker) 24 10 ^Vancouver (Patterson) 12 11 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 9 12 Charlotte (Longdon) 11 13 Washington (Wheeler) 14 14 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 13 15 Los Angeles (Dillon) 10 16 Boston (Callahan) 15 17 Cincinnati (Grady) 19 18 Denver (Morrison) 17 19 Albany (Grassgreen) 16 July June 3rd Branch (Manager) 15th 20 Seattle (Edmond) 18 21 Philadelphia (Gross) 21 22 Kansas (Fuller) 20 23 Toronto (Bailey) 22 24 Des Moines (Mayer) 23 25 Cleveland (Schmertz) 25 26 New Orleans (Landaiche) 28 27 Omaha (Scott) 26 28 Frisco (Ballentine) 27 29 Oklahoma (Clark) 29 30 Indianapolis (Landis) 30 31 Buffalo (Samson) 31 32 Calgary (Skorey) 33 33 Portland (Powers) 32 34 New York (Buxbaum) 34 35 Chicago (Eckhardt) 35 36 Montreal (English) 36 37 Detroit (Sturm) 37 ♦Tied. DISTRICTS July 3rd June District (Manager) 15th South (Ballance) 1 Atlantic (Moss) 2 Northeast (Bailey) 3 Midwest (Scott) 5 Prairie (Levy) 4 July June 3rd District (Manager) 15th 6 Coast ( ) 6 7 Canada (O'Loghiin) 7 8 Mid-East (Roberts) 8 9 Great Lakes ( ) 9 DIVISIONS July 3rd June Division (Manager) 15th 1 West (Kupper) 1 2 East (Sussman) 2 July 3rd June Division (Manager) 15th Central (Gehring) 3 K-7 NEWS Sales Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on total 1939-40 (K-7) Movietone News contracts sold against total possi- bilities as of July 3rd: July 3rd BRANCHES June Branch (Manager) 15th Pittsburgh (Cohn) 1 Atlanta (Wilson) 2 Los Angeles (Dillon) 3 Cincinnati (Grady) 6 Memphis (Young) 4 Winnipeg (Huber) 5 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 19 Washington (Wheeler) 7 Portland (Powers) 8 10 *Denver (Morrison) 10 11 *Des Moines (Mayer) 9 12 Charlotte (Longdon) 12 13 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 11 14 ^Albany (Grassgreen) 14 15 ♦St. Louis (Reingold) 15 16 New Haven (Simon) 16 17 Frisco (Ballentine) 13 18 Cleveland (Schmertz) 17 19 Salt Lake (Walker) 21 20 Seattle (Edmond) 18 21 Boston (Callahan) 20 22 Omaha (Scott) 22 23 New Orleans (Landaiche) 24 24 Indianapolis (Landis) 23 25 Philadelphia (Gross) 26 26 Buffalo (Samson) 25 27 Oklahoma (Clark) 27 28 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 28 29 Kansas (Fuller) 29 30 New York (Buxbaum) 30 31 Chicago (Eckhardt) 31 32 Vancouver (Patterson) 32 33 Detroit (Sturm) 33 34 Calgary (Skorey) 34 35 Montreal (English) 36 36 St. John (March) 35 37 Toronto (Bailey) 37 *Tied. DISTRICTS July j un e 3rd District (Manager) 15th 1 South (Ballance) 1 2 Coast ( ) .. 2 3 ^Atlantic (Moss) 4 4 *M id -East (Roberts) 3 5 Prairie (Levy) 6 6 Northeast (Bailey) * 5 7 Midwest (Scott) 7 8 Great Lakes ( ) 8 9 Canada (O’Loghlin) 9 ♦Tied. DIVISIONS July June 3rd Division (Manager) 15th 1 West (Kupper) 1 2 East (Sussman) 2 3 Central (Gehring) 3 K-7 SHORTS ■- Sales —- Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on sale of 1939-40 Movietone short sub- jects product and Terry-Toon (K-7), based on contracts sold against pos- sibilities, as of July 3rd: BRANCHES July June 3rd Branch (Manager) 15th 1 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 1 2 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 2 3 Winnipeg (Huber) 3 4 Minneapolis (Podoloff) 13 5 Charlotte (Longdon) 5 6 Salt Lake (Walker) 11 7 Memphis (Young) 4 8 Los Angeles (Dillon) 6 9 Washington (Wheeler) 9 10 St. Louis (Reingold) 7 11 Cincinnati (Grady) 12 12 Seattle (Edmond) 8 13 Denver (Morrison) 10 14 Atlanta (Wilson) 14 15 Albany (Grassgreen) 17 16 Frisco (Ballentine) 15 17 Cleveland (Schmertz) 16 18 New Orleans (Landaiche) 22 19 Oklahoma (Clark) 18 20 Omaha (Scott) 20 21 St. John (March) 19 22 Indianapolis (Landis) 21 23 Boston (Callahan) 23 24 Philadelphia (Gross) 25 25 Des Moines (Mayer) 24 26 New Haven (Simon) 26 27 Calgary (Skorey) 27 28 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 28 29 Kansas (Fuller) 29 30 Buffalo (Samson) 30 31 Chicago (Eckhardt) 32 32 Portland (Powers) 31 33 Vancouver (Patterson) 34 34 Detroit (Sturm) 33 35 Montreal (English) 35 36 New York (Buxbaum) 36 37 Toronto (Bailey) 37 DISTRICTS July June 3rd District (Manager) 15th 1 South (Ballance) 1 2 Atlantic (Moss) 2 3 *Coast ( ) 3 4 *Prairie (Levy) 4 5 Mid-East (Roberts) 5 6 Midwest (Scott) 6 7 Northeast (Bailey) 7 8 Canada (O’Loghlin) 8 9 Great Lakes ( ) 9 ♦Tied. DIVISIONS July June 3rd Division (Manager) 15th 1 West (Kupper) 1 2 East (Sussman) 2 3 Central (Gehring) 3 But, again, as last year, it is Cohn’s Pittsburghers who are doing the fastest selling job. They have better than 60 per cent of their total K-7 feature possibilities sold, accord- ing to the official figures. Here, too, there has been greater speed in the past month, for their volume is now virtually parallel with their K-6 record. Indicative of the preference of exhibitors and their growing eager- ness to get the K-7 lineup as quickly as possible is the fact that many branches this week could boast volumes of 1939-40 feature product contracts in excess of the total they had at the same date last year. Salt Lake City, in fact, boasts a volume that is a full month ahead of the K-6 total, according to statistics shown the writer by Manager Charles L. Walker in that exchange the other day. Pittsburgh substantially increased its margin of leadership over Wilson’s Atlantans, but the latter are due for a splurge that will be anything but good news to the Buccanneers. Beiersdorf’s Dallas, on the other hand, is worrying the Georgians considerably. Huber’s Winnipeg, out to break its 1938-39 circulation record, is still third, 2.3 points ahead of the Texans who are now being haunted by Young’s Memphis. The Tennessee delegation rushed from sixth to fifth place and is on the verge of overtaking the Dallas crew. March’s St. John submitted to Memphis’ faster selling, trailing that office by 3.1, but still 2.3 ahead of Reingold’s St. Louisans. The Car- dinals took the seventh step from Simon’s Nutmegs. ANGELS HIT Lorentz’s Milwaukeeans, Longdon’s Carolinians and Dillon’s Ange- linos were pushed aside by Vancouver and Salt Lake City, Patterson’s exchange was formerly 12th and is now hooked with Salt Lake for the ninth post. Los Angeles was hit particularly hard, dropping from 10 to 15. Wheeler’s Wash- ington hurdled Podoloff’s Minne- apolis into the 13th slot. Salt Lake’s leap automatically pushed Callahan’s Bostonians one peg down the ladder. Grady’s Cincinnatians had no trouble passing Morrison’s Den- ver and Grassgreen’s Albany as well as Edmond’s Seattle. Gross’ Philadelphians, one point behind Seattle, took the 22nd chair from Fuller’s Kansas Citians. Other branches that moved into stronger positions on K-7 feature product sales were Landaiche’s New Orleans, and Skorey’s Cal- gary. Ballance’s South continued to pace the districts, 1.2 ahead of Moss’ Atlantics. In fact, the only change in district status profited Scott’s Midwest which took fourth place from Levy’s Prairie. The latter are some 13 points be- hind South and 11.8 to the rear of the Atlantics, and only one- tenth of a mark ahead of Coast. Coast led Canada by 3.6, with O’Loghlin’s Dominions 1.3 wealth- ier than Bailey’s Northeastern- ers. In the cellar remained the Great Lakes, 11 points under the Yankees. Close Battle For Salesmen’s Throne The keenest race ever to in- volve salesmen is on now for leadership in individual stand- ing on K-7 standing. While the Pittsburgh sales- men continue to show the way, reports reaching New Dynamo from all parts of the country indicate they are due for the stiffest opposition with which they have had to contend in two years. Abe Eskin of St. Louis, ac- cording to Ward Scott’s state- ment to the writer in Denver Tuesday, should be “leading by the end of the month. But Eskin is only one of some 27 salesmen who write they will be “leading by the end of the month.” One thing is certain: K-7 sales have sped up tremen- dously in the past two weeks. The following compilation shows the standings of all branches, dis- tricts and divisions on sale of 1938-39 (K-6) feature product for the week ending July 1, and also their rat- ings on accumulated 48 weeks’ total delivery against quota for that pe- riod, as of July 1: BRANCHES SALES July June Deliv- 1st 17th Branch ery 1 1 Atlantic 7 2 2 Northeast 9 3 3 South 4 4 5 Mid-East 6 5 4 Midwest 5 6 6 Great Lakes 2 7 7 ♦Prairie 1 8 8 *Coast 8 9 9 Canada 3 ♦Tied. DIVISIONS SALES July June Deliv- 1st 17th Branch ery 1 1 East 3 2 2 West 2 3 3 Central 1