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

NEW DYNAMO 7 NEW ORLEANS GREET NEW DRIVE IN FESTIVE STYLE “And We’ll Win Another Prize” That is precisely what New Orleans’ Manager Ernest Landaiche (tenth from left) said. And he meant not only in the coming Drive, but in the 52-week K-6 total delivery contest which winds up next week. New Orleans employees, at this party at the famous Antoines, pledged they “will stop at nothing to finish first in the 52-week race.” And they meant it, which is particularly anything but pleasant news for Chicago, Des Moines and St. John. “We Thrive on Keen Competition” And make no mistake about that. In its first prize-winning Drive, New Orleans were at the very bottom of the race at the end of the third week. But they finished high in the money. They trailed at the outset of the 1938 Drive, but again they rushed into prize class and earned a party—and what a magnificent celebration these young ladies and gentlemen held. Further, they insist they will finish first, second or third in the 52-week K-6 total delivery prize contest. A Grand Week for Our Mary New Orleans gave Mary Healy a royal reception—one no other Hollywood star has ever received. And Mary deserved such a home-coming. She came back to the branch where she had been secretary to Manager Landaiche. She mingled with her associates, who are prouder than ever of Mary, who is seen above (1. to r.) with Olga Doyle, Nora and Walter Murray, George Pabst, Mary, Manager Landaiche, Mrs. Ernest V. Landaiche and (back to cam- era) Betty Kennedy. PELICANS READY TO “DO IT AGAIN?” NEW ORLEANS — Ernest Landaiche’s New Orleans celebrated one Drive victory—and immediately served no- tice that it means to repeat again in the next one. But, they quickly grabbed the opportunity to make another announcement. New Orleans, realizing it has an exceptional oppor- tunity to finish first in the current K-6 52-week con- test, stated it means to up- set the plans of Chicago, Des Moines and St. John—• and be in command when the battle is over. And New Orleans is in fine condition to make good that hope, for it delivered over quota last week, it will deliver much better than 100 per cent this week and it will whip up a tre- mendous over-quota score in the final lap of the 52-week clash. More than two scores of em- ployees, their wives and sweet- hearts, got together at Antoine’s and enjoyed a well-earned party. It was a celebration so thor- oughly enjoyed by all that the personnel intends to make it “an annual occasion,” meaning it in- tends to “finish high in rhe money every year.” From six o’clock to midnight Saturday, these celebrants en- joyed themselves as we have seen no group of field employees frolic. And it was a reunion for some, too, for at Landaiche’s New Or- leans the family spirit is domi- nant. Mary Healy, former sec- retary and now featured in “Second Fiddle,” came back for a personal appearance and spent every possible free moment with the boys and girls who idolize her, attended the Drive meeting and the party. And, too, the former Nora Philbin, now the happy Mrs. Walter P. Murray, rejoined her former associates. Others present were Drive Leader M. A. Levy, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Landaiche, Mr. and Mrs. George Broggi, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. George Pabst, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Kennedy, Jr., Esther Merca- del, Edna David, W. Vegecettes, May Dempsey, Beulah Boden- heimer, Ethel Holton, Olga Doyle, Clemence McDonnell, Shirley Dickinson, Mrs. F. C. Claire Leche, Heloise Leche, Grevemberg, S. G. Grevemberg, Helen Moore, Walter Desforges, G. P. Cooke, Elizabeth Bacon, and Roger Ferri. “We Just Cannot Stop Mow!” Believe it or not, but the Drive record to date shows that New Orleans has won at least one cash prize in every Big Push con- ducted in the past six seasons. And these go-getting young men and women—for nowhere does youth dominate as it does at this exchange, as these pictures stress—mean to keep right on winning- extra money by piling up new territorial records for the company. And their prospects are particularly bright, according to the figures and facts shown your representative at the enthusiastic meeting held there. Paging' the Hollywood Scouts New Orleans is famous for many things. Prize-winning and record-breaking are two of that livewire office’s specialties. They have, in fact, provided the studio with a glamorous singing star, Mary Healy, who happened to be in town making personal appear- ances with “Second Fiddle,” during the day the Crescents will not soon forget. And Mary (third from right, above), came back home an acclaimed heroine, but she preferred to spend Saturday with her former associates of the New Orleans exchange, attending both the Drive meeting and the employees’ dinner-dance. And here Mary poses with more of our New Orleans branch girls who need bow to no one in Hollywood. Left to right, Grace Cooke, Margaret Jabalo- nowsky, Dorothy Maguire, Mr. Maguire, Mary Healy, Helen Moore and Walter Desforges. Quota? Oh, the Starting Point! And down in good old New Orleans, where they got just as big a boost in quota as any other exchange, they mean just that. And that goes for the inspectresses, who are pictured above with Chief Booker George Broggi (at extreme right). That is Dorothy Ma- guire holding the girl’s attention.