20th Century-Fox Dynamo (July 22, 1939)

4 NEW DYNAMO MOST IMPORTANT CHAINS SPEED UP K-7 BUYING Majority Of Exchanges Now Boast Volume Of Sales In Excess Of Same Date Last Year--East Teases West! Within the next 10 days every important circuit in the United States will have entered the K-7 fold. This was made certain this week as division, district and branch managers and salesmen dug into the final phase of negotiations with the few remaining unsold chains. In the past fortnight a total of 63 local circuits had been sold, according to a report from Contract Department Manager Jack Bloom. Meantime, Messrs. Wobber, Kupper, Sussman and Gehring were working with district and branch managers on a flock of other chains. Most of these were to be closed this week. Western Division Manager Kupper flew to San Francisco to apply the finishing touches to a circuit deal he had started on a recent trip to the Coast. From there he was to go to Oklahoma City Monday to close the Griffith circuit, with important appointments set with circuit heads in the Kansas City and St. Louis territories later in the week. Eastern Division Man- ager Sussman went to Bos- ton to work out with Dis- trict Manager Bailey and Boston Manager Callahan remaining details connected with two important New England chains. Next week Central Division Manager Gehring was to work with managers on several impor- tant circuit deals in Chicago and Detroit. All in all, K-7 selling is at its fastest speed since the present sales season got un- der way. A majority of the exchanges can now boast a volume of K-7 contracts in excess of the total credited them on K-6 at this time a year ago. With the K-7 season’s start only one week distant, managers and salesmen were speeding up their selling activity on every front. The past two weeks’ vol- ume was convincing proof of this being the case. At press - time Pittsburgh boasted of a total of contracts representative of almost 72 per cent of their total territorial pos- sibilities, but the South was step- ping along at a pace that men- aced the district leadership still in the possession of the Atlan- tics. Memphis was certain to climb three or four places as the result of the number of deals it had forwarded to New York. These deals have been approved, but not yet entered into the K-7 sales books of the Contract De- partment at the Home Office. Among the better known cir- cuits that have purchased K-7 contracts are the following: Fabian in Albany, Waters in Atlanta, Mathieu in Boston; Cook, Sipe and Powell in Char- lotte; Charnas in Cleveland; M. A. Lightman in Memphis; Cooper and Guthrie in Oklahoma City; Pizor and Affiliated in Philadelphia and Frisina in St. Louis. The above deals were recorded in New York last week. The following were being set this week: Loew-Poli, Balaban & Katz, Butterfield, Schine, Comerford, Harris, Mort Shea and others. This week Mr. Wobber pointed out to the Division Managers that he is disappointed with the showing of their offices on the Gaumont-British pictures. He instructed them to personally lead a campaign to increase sales on this product. Meantime, Pittsburgh main- tained its K-7 leadership, and in every phase of 1939-40 product. On feature product it topped Washington by 13 points. At- lanta, however, was only 1.6 be- hind the Nationalists and 1.8 ahead of Winnipeg. Dallas was only one-half point to the rear of the Canadians and led St. Louis Slug—Most Important Chains . by 4.7. Memphis and Salt Lake MOORE OF PITTSBURGH FIRST SALESMAN TO CLEAN UP ZONE 100% O N K-7 SALES! George Moore of Pittsburgh this week had the distinction of being the first salesman to sell every K-7 feature possibility in a zone. This beats the K-6 record made by St. Louis Salesman Abe Eskin. The Pittsburgher exceeded the St. Louisan’s record for speedy cleanup of a zone by almost one full month. Austin Interrante, another Pittsburgher, expects to be in the same healthy position as Moore within a month. Eskin is nationally third, eight points behind Interrante, but with Sam Lichter still hard-pressing him. Dugan of Salt Lake City advanced 22 places. Mitchell of Atlantic hopped exactly the same number of berths while Fred Sliter of Chicago moved up 12 and Ironfield of Omaha advanced 15. K-7 FEATURE SALES SALESMEN'S STANDING BRANCHES | MAETERLINCK TO BE FEATURED IN DELUXE | I TRAILER ON HIS FAMOUS “THE BLUE BIRD" j I : j MOVIETONE CITY—In keeping with the policy of featur- I j ing famous personalities as commentators for deluxe trailers { ' on super specials, the company this week announced it has j $ negotiated a deal with Maurice Maeterlinck whereby he will ! j be starred in the trailer for “The Blue Bird,” in which Shirley | i Temple will head an all-star cast. The trailer will be produced J ! in France where the famous author makes his home, j Meantime, Darryl Zanuck is completing plans to start pro- j s duction on “The Blue Bird.” This will happen within the next j I two weeks. | The studio is also negotiating for the services of other I s famous men to be starred in trailers on such productions as j ! “The Rains Came,” “Hollywood Cavalcade,” “Swanee River,” ? j “Drums Along the Mohawk,” “Mark of Zorro,” “The Grapes I j of Wrath,” “Brigham Young” and other super specials. j £ .. _ * ON K 7 FEATURE LINEUP j Following is the standing of every July July 15th Salesman (Branch) 6th 53 *Kinser (Kansas) 51 54 Dodson (Atlanta) 46 55 Goodamote (Chicago) 60 56 Gold (Boston) - 49 57 Humphries (Philadelphia) . . 57 58 Carrow (Detroit) 54 59 Paulson (Denver) 55 60 Horwitz (Milwaukee) 64 61 Scott (Calgary) 53 62 Naegel (Cincinnati) 66 63 *Holston (Charlotte) 71 64 Feloney (Boston) 56 65 Berke (Omaha) 63 66 Bngie (Cincinnati) 58 67 Lorentz (Minneapolis) 75 68 Davis (Philadelphia) 84 69 Riegelman (Des Moines) .... 67 70 Hancock (Indianapolis) .... 62 71 Robinette (Portland) 78 72 McClure (Atlanta) 65 73 Lyons (Minneapolis) 72 74 Edgerton (Milwauke) 74 75 Rennie (Denver) 68 76 Laseter (Atlanta) 70 77 * O’Neil (Des Moines) 80 78 *Fairchild (Atlanta) 73 79 McCleaster (Indianapolis) ... 79 80 Wright (New Haven) 76 81 Woodward (Kansas) 77 82 Dickman (Buffalo) 83 83 Rowell (Buffalo) 81 84 Westcott (Detroit) 89 85 Alexander (Boston) 82 86 W all (Los Angeles) 88 87 Hall (Minneapolis) 87 88 Pearson (Montreal) 85 89 Frederick (Seattle) 86 90 Hallstrom (Salt Lake) 90 91 Neger (Indianapolis) 91 92 Miller (Dallas) 92 93 Kubitzki (Kansas) 93 94 Kempner (Buffalo) 94 95 Feld (St. Louis) 95 96 Gledliill (New York) 96 97 Laurice (Frisco) 97 98 Keilor (Detroit) 98 99 *Robison (Los Angeles) 101 100 *Bergman (Cleveland) 99 101 Kurtz (New York) 100 102 Lester (Toronto) 102 103 Blumstein (New York) 103 104 Florin (New York) 104 105 Schutzer (New York) 105 106 fReid (Toronto) 106 107 fKnapp (Detroit) 107 108 fLoeb (Chicago) 108 109 fGrohe (Chicago) 109 City were rapidly gaining on St. Louis. Minneapolis was virtually tied with Charlotte, the latter stand- ing 3.9 behind Memphis. Most significant place gains on K-7 feature sales were negoti- ated by Charlotte and Minneap- olis, the latter also vaulting Mil- waukee, which dropped a peg, and St. John which forfeited three. SELL GAUMONT -BRITISH!