20th Century-Fox Dynamo (February 3, 1940)

10 NEW DYNAMO TRAILERS STRONGER AS YEAR WADES IN TO ITS LA ST HALF! San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Haven, New York, Minneapolis Advance—Detroit, Coast, West Lead At End Of First Half Lester Sturm’s Detroit, the Coast and Kupper’s West wound up the first half of the K-7 season in possession of 26-weeks’ delivery leadership in their respective class. As the field force prepared to swing into the Division Managers’ Testimonial Delivery Drive, competition for command in every sector was closer than it has been at any stage of this season. But only Lester Sturm’s Detroiters had managed to accumulate a 26-weeks’ delivery in excess of their quota for that period. Thus, the Wolverines established themselves as the outstanding office when it comes to actual rev- enue earned in the first half of the season — and they plunge into the division pilots’ campaign stronger than ever. That the returns for Division Managers’ Jubilee will greatly alter the relative standings of branches as they now appear on this page is a foregone conclusion with those who know what is being planned for the next 12 weeks. Some of the offices now in the trailers’ berths will be outstanding in the big Drive that is just around the corner. Great Lakes, thanks to Detroit, continues to menace the pace- setting Coast, among the districts. The Lakes nosed Ballance’s South out of second place and now trail the Coast by only nine- tenths of a mark. Ballance’s South held No. 4. Tom Bailey’s Northeasterners are still hopefully aiming for the throne and, although fifth, they need but 1.6 though they are only four- tenths of a mark richer than Edgar Moss’ Atlan- tics. O’Loghlin’s Can a d i a n s wound up the first half of the season as occupants of the seventh berth, eight- tenths behind Atlantic and nine - tenths stronger than Roberts’ to tie Dixie, al- Harry Buxbaum Lew's Prairies. Mid-East, still last, trailed the latter by 1.3. Divisionally, Kupper’s West held first place and gained on Gehring’s Centrals. The two are parted by 2.7, with Suss- man’s East 1.9 below the Cen- trals. COAST STRONG The Coast, it will be recalled, launched this season in first place. Their supremacy was further exalted this week by four of their six branches. All moved into better places ex- c e p t i n g Walker’s Salt Lake Citians and Ed- mond ’s Se- attleans. Ballen- tine’s San F r anciscans, very much in the race for the K-7 de- livery cham- pionship, stand fourth, which means they moved up a notch. They switched with Paul Wilson’s Atlantans, whom the Golden Gaters top by two- tenths of a point. The latter are now 2.6 behind Wheeler’s Wash- ingtonians, definitely the most successful combination in the East. Only six-tenths point ahead of the veterans from the nation’s capital stand Clark’s Oklahoma Citians. The over- Joe Podoloff Last Half! This week saw the start of the second half of the season! To date the outfits that were out front last Octo- ber have managed to hold their posts. Will they be able to continue showing the way ? The trailers say they won’t. The trailers are stronger—and this is their chance to rehabilitate and redeem themselves. The status of the season depends on what is done in this second half! So, let’s all get in there—and hit quota, not now and then, but every week! quota Detroiters are just 4.1 above the Oilers. Continuing its efforts to over- take San Francisco, the other California delegation, Dillon’s Los Angeles rushed from eighth to sixth place, hurdling Rein- gold’s St. Louisans and swap- ping with the Utahans. The Angelinos went into the second half of the season, only 1.4 be- hind the San Franciscans. It’s a red-hot scrap that is brewing among the Northeast- erners, and particularly between Grassgreen’s Albanians and Si- mon’s New Haveners. The lat- ter, in fact, are only three-tenths of a point behind the New York Up-Staters. But, the New Eng- landers vaulted Beie rsdorf's Texans and Bailey’s Torontoni- ans, with the latter couple tied for No. 11 and four-tenths be- hind New Haven. Albany was within 1.9 of hooking Salt Lake City. The third member of the Northeastern trio — Callahan’s Boston—remained 17th. But in that position, it is only 3.2 be- hind New Haven. Morrison’s Denver rallied with three other offices in the Coast district, advancing ahead of Lorentz’s Milwaukee and Eng- lish’s Montreal, Skorey’s Cal- garians remained 13th, only one-tenth of a mark to the rear of Dallas. Long'don’s Charlotte remained j K-7 TOf AL DELIVER Y Twenty-six Weeks’ Standing BRANCHES Jan. 27th 1 3 l 8 9 10 I I 12 13 II 15 10 17 18 19 Jan. 20th . 1 Branch (Manager) Detroit (Sturm) Oklahoma City (Clark) . Washington (Wheeler) 3 San Francisco (Ballentine) ... 5 Atlanta (Wilson) 4 Los Angeles (Dillon) 8 St. Louis (Reingold) 7 Salt Lake City (Walker) 6 Albany (Grassgreen) 9 New Haven (Simon) 12 Toronto (Bailey) 10 Dallas (Beiersdorf) 11 Calgary (Skorey) 13 Denver (Morrison) 16 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 14 Montreal (English) 15 Boston (Callahan) 17 Charlotte (Longdon) 18 Minneapolis (Podoloff*) ...... 22 Jan. Jan. 27tli Branch (Manager) 20th 20 Cleveland (Schmertz) 21 21 St. John (March) 25 22 New Orleans (Landaichc) .... 20 23 Pittsburgh (Cohn) 19 24 Chicago (Eckhardt) 23 25 Memphis (Young) 24 26 Indianapolis (Landis) 26 27 Seattle (Edmond) 27 28 New Y’ork (Buxbaum) 34 29 Portland (Powers) 30 30 Philadelphia (Gross) 28 31 Des Moines (Mayer) 31 32 Omaha (Scott) 33 33 Kansas City (Fuller) 29 34 Vancouver (Patterson) 32 35 Buffalo (Samson) 35 36 Cincinnati (Grady) 36 37 Winnipeg (Huber) 37 DISTRICTS Jan. 27th 1 3 4 Jan. District (Manager) 20th Coast ( ) 1 Great Lakes ( ) 3 Midwest (Scott) 2 South (Ballance) 4 Northeast (Bailey) 5 27th District (Manager) 20th Jan. Jan. 6 Atlantic (Moss) 6 7 Canada (O’Loghlin) 7 8 Prairie (Levy) 8 9 Mideast (Roberts) 9 Jan. Jan. 27th Division (Manager) 20tli 1 West (Kupper) 1 2 Central (Gehring) 2 . -DELIVERY I I DIVISIONS Jan. I SHORTS ■—— 25 Weeks- J BRANCHES Jail. 27tli Division (Manager) 20tli 3 East (Sussman) 3 — -DELIVERY NEWS! “ 25 Weeks—- BRANCHES 18th, two-tenths behind Boston, but with Podoloff’s Minnesotans right at its heels. The Gophers gained three when they romped from 22 to 19, within four- tenths of a point of the Tar- heels. GOPHERS’ THREE Drops by Landaiche’s New Orleans and Cohn’s Pittsburgh enabled not only Minneapolis, but March’s St. John, too, stepped up. Schmertz’s Cleve- landers went from 21 to 20, within two-tenths of Minneap- olis. St. John had an especially lu- crative week, climbing four. Last week the Canadian mari- time lads rated 25th. SHORTS NEWS RACES UNCHANGED! 12 Are Over 100% on Former; 8 Beat News Quota At the end of the first half of the season, 12 offices had accumu- lated better than 26 weeks’ quota on short subjects delivery. Eight exchanges launched the last half of the K-7 year with an accumulation in excess of Movietone News delivery for six months. Districts over quota on shorts are: Moss’ Atlantics, Ballance’s South and the Coast. Moss’ Atlantics and Coast also were over quota on News de- livery at the end of the first half. Kupper’s West show the divi- sional way in both efforts. Jack Dillon’s remained in command on News, while Wilson’s Atlan- ta still stood first on Movietone- Terrytoon delivery. There were no important place changes in either race as the result of the 26th week’s re- sults. Over quota on News in the week went 15 branches, but the following had accumulated a de- livery above or equal to stipu- lated figure at the end of the 2 6th chapter of the season. Los Angeles, Charlotte, Philadelp h i a , San Francisco, Pitt sburgh, Washing ton, Salt Lake City and New York City. On Mo vie- tone-Terrytoon business, the following were above 26-week quota: Atlanta, Washington, Pitts- burgh, Portland, Toronto, Win- nipeg, New Orleans, St. Louis, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Reingold’s St. Louisans stepped up from 9 to 8 on short subjects delivery. Sturm’s De- troit took the 11th spot from Landis’ Hoosiers. Edmond’s Seattle held No. 19, but now trails Samson’s Buf- falo, the latter leaping when Beiersdorf’s Dallas fell from 18 to 22. Buxbaum’s New York and English’s Montreal upped two apiece. Callahan’s Bostonians succeeded Scott’s Omahans into the 24th slot. Dillon’s Los Angeles, Lo- rehtz’s Milwaukee and Young’s Memphis each pocketed one. Edgar Moss