20th Century-Fox Dynamo (October 7, 1939)

4 NEW DYNAMO Coast And Midwest Positions Threatened By Maneuvers Of Certain Big Eastern Offices Reflecting definitely the healthiest buildup in advance rentals through superb surveillance of bookings and, in the meantime, capitalizing on the earning potentialities of every foot of available film, Landis’ Indianapolis and Wheeler’s Washingtonians are, understandably, causing the Coast pacers of the Kent Drive to do small amount of worrying! These two offices, in particular, continue to give the Western leaders the greatest concern—for the very good reason that their opposition to a threatened monopoly of prize-paying positions by Coast, Southern and Midwestern branches has come from Washington and Indianapolis. With the coming week bringing the first half of the Drive to a close, the position of Washington and Indianapolis, in the eyes of prize-carrying berth seekers, becomes more menacing than ever, as their revenue promises to hit and attain a weekly quota level. Dillon’s Los Angeles continue to lead the departmental parade on accumulated delivery, not only among the Nationals in the Drive, but for the K-7 season itself. Ballentine’s San Francisco will get stronger, Mr. Wobber expects. And last week Walker’s Salt Lake Citians furnished no vague evidence of their readiness to have plenty to say about which office shall finish first in the International sector of the Big Push. As the field was applying the finishing touches to the eighth week of the Drive, President S. R. Kent, who returned to New York Friday, and Chairman of the Board Joseph M. Schenck, were going into a huddle with Mr. Wobber. However, from the field came information that led Home Office officials to predict that the eighth week’s Drive revenue would exceed that of the corresponding week last year. Nevertheless, the company cannot view the Drive as a success until the department hits weekly quota delivery. That goal is being rapidly approached. On accumulated nine weeks’ delivery for the season, the wealthiest place gain was turned in by the chapter’s lone over-quota star, Walker’s Salt Lake City which romped from 17th to seventh place, within one-tenth of a point of Indianapolis. And Indianapolis is one point behind Simon’s alert New Haveners who will have to be reckoned with where the International group championship is concerned. New Haven trails Skorey’s Calgary by one point, with Washington 4.8 ahead of the Canadians and only two points to the rear of the San Franciscans on the nine weeks’ returns. Sturm’s Detroiters hopped a pair, while Boston and Oklahoma City dropped rather hard, enabling English’s Montreal and Beiersdorf’s Dallas to advance three apiece. St. Louis lost four. Gross’ Philadelphians, Powers’ Portlanders, Cohn’s Pittsburghers, Samson’s Buffaloans and Bux- baum’s New Yorkers also inherited better spots. Kupper’s West leads the divisional race for the season’s delivery, heading Gehring’s Centrals by five points and Sussman’s East by 6.9. Coast stayed on top of the district heap, five points above Bailey’s Northeast. Moss’ Atlantics went into the fifth position at the expense of Ballance’s South, which the former leads now by four-tenths of a place. Roberts’ Mideast trailed South by 3.9 and was 5.1 more powerful than Levy’s Prairies. Cohn’s Pittsburghers banged away very effectively in their campaign to overtake their district colleagues, the Washingtonians, in the season’s short subjects delivery race. The Buccaneers again beat their Movietone-Terrytoon quota. Again Herman Beiersdorf’s Texans distinguished themselves on short subjects delivery. They beat quota. Their Drive sixth week’s delivery in this department shot them up from 35th to 17th place in accumulated eight weeks’ status for the season. English’s Montreal, too, exceeded their fixed mark on shorts in the past week. In the season’s eight weeks’ accumulated standing the Royalists rode from 14 to 6, almost catching Reingold’s St. Louis. Dillon’s Los Angeles continues showing the way on Movietone News delivery. Last week Los Angeles again beat quota as did Wilson’s Atlanta, Longdon’s Charlotte, Gross’ Philadelphia and Buxbaum’s New York. Ballentine’s San Franciscans missed their News quota last week by only $1. Pittsburgh muffed it by $5. Morrison’s Denver went over the line for the first time this season. On adsales delivery, for the season’s nine-week period, Bob Bandy of Dallas succeeded Morris Wein- stein of New Haven to'the throne, although the latter retained his Drive leadership. The district and divisional leaderships in every dollar delivery standing for the season remained unchanged as the result of last week’s developments. K 7 TOTAL DELIVERY Nino Weeks’ Standing Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on accumulated nine weeks’ total delivery against the 1939-40 total delivery quota for that period, as of September 30: BRANCHES Sept. 30th Division (Manager) 1 West (Kupper) . . . . 2 Central (Geliring) DIVISIONS Sept. Sept. 23rd 30th Division (Manager) • • . 1 3 East (Sussman) . . . Sept. 23 rd . 3 K-7 SHORTS DELIVERY Eight Weeks Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on accumulated eight weeks’ delivery of short subjects against eight weeks’ quota, as of Sep- tember 23: BRANCHES Sept. 23rd District (Manager) 1 Atlantic (Moss) . . . 2 Coast (—) 3 Midwest (Scott) 1 Mideast (Roberts) 5 Canada (O’Loghlin) DISTRICTS Sept. Sept. Kith 23rd District (Manager) • • • 1 6 Prairie (Levy) • • • 2 7 South (Itallance) . . . . 4 8 Northeast (Bailey) . . • • • 3 9 Great Lakes (—) . . . Sept. 10th 8 6 . 9 Sept. 23rd Division (Manager) 1 East (Sussman) . . . . 2 West (Kupper) DIVISIONS Sept. Sept. Kith 23rd Division (Manager) • • • 1 3 Central (Gchring) Sept. 10th 3 K-7 NEWS DELIVERY j Eight Weeks " Following is the standing of all branches, districts and divisions on accumulated eight weeks’ delivery on Movietone News against eight weeks’ quota, as of September 23: BRANCHES Sept. Sept. 23rd Branch (Manager) 10th 1 Los Angeles (Dillon) 1 2 Charlotte (Longdon) 2 3 Philadelphia (Gross) 3 4 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 4 5 New York (Buxbaum) 7 O San Francisco (Ballentine) ... 0 7 Salt Lake City (Walker) 5 8 Atlanta (Wilson) 9 9 Winnipeg (Huber) 8 10 St. Louis (Reingold) 10 1L Minneapolis (PodolofT) 11 12 Washington (Wheeler) 12 13 Detroit (Sturm) 13 14 Denver (Morrison) 15 15 Cleveland (Sclimertz) 10 10 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 19 17 Cincinnati (Grady) 20 18 New Haven (Simon) 17 19 Vancouver (Patterson) 18 Sept. 23rd District (Manager) 1 Coast (—) 2 Atlantic (Moss) 3 South (Ballance) 4 Great Lakes (—) 5 Mideast (Roberts) DISTRICTS Sept. Sept. l(»th 23rd District (Manager) • . . 1 O Prairie (Levy) .... ... 2 7 Midwest (Scott) . . . . . . 3 8 Canada (O’Loghlin) ... 4 9 Northeast (Bailey) Sept. 10th O 8 9 DIVISIONS Sept. Sept. I Sept. Sept. 23rd Division (Manager) 10th I 23rd Division (Manager) lOtli 1 West (Kupper) 1 3 Central (Gehring) 3 2 East (Sussman) 2 I