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

NEW DYNAMO 13 EAST BESTS FOES ON ADSELLING Elliott McManus and Scott Lester Are Over Quota The East out-deliv- ered both Central and West on adsales during the past week. Elliott McManus of New York profited through the world premiere of “The Grapes of Wrath” at the Rivoli theatre in that city. Scott Lester of Albany was the week’s star. Like McManus, he exceeded his quota. There were 19 adsales man- agers who turned in earnings in excess of what they were cred- ited with dur- ing the corre- sponding week of last year. However, the first half of the K-7 season can- not be put down as a glowing success on ad- sales. Only one, A1 Miller of Wash i n g t o n, finished the 26- E . McManus week period with an accumulated delivery in excess of quota. He is 10 points ahead of Morris Weinstein of New Haven. In neither divisional or dis- trict standings were there any changes. Sussman’s East stretched its margin of divisional leadership over Kupper’s West to 1.1 and over Gehring’s Cen- trals to just 4.5. Moss’ Atlantic remained first, thanks to A1 Miller. The Atlan- tics went into the second half of the season 1.1 richer than Bal- lance’s South, which topped Scott’s Midwest by one-half point. O’Loghlin’s Canada is fourth, nine-tenths behind Midwest and 4.5 ahead of Bailey’s Northeast. Levy’s Prairies, in sixth place, needed 1.4 to parallel Northeast, and led Coast by 1.7. One-tenth of a point to the rear of the Coast stood the Great Lakes. Roberts’ Mid-East was last, 1.6 under the Lakes. THE BRANCHES New Haven’s Weinstein recov- ered second place. That meant the dropping of Malcolm John- son to third position, only four- tenths of a point behind the New Englander. St. John’s Corbett stayed fourth, eight-tenths behind John- son and the same distance ahead of Low- rey of C h a r- 1 o 11 e, who is now being pushed harder by New York’s Elliott Mc- Manus. The New Yorker ad- vanced into sixth place at the expense of his brother, Ar- thur, who op- erates in St. Louis. Just one point parts the two. Over-quota Lester held on to No. 8, but he will have to watch his step, for Clark of Salt Lake City, who hurdled Bandy of Dal- las and Gold of Des Moines, is only 3.9 points behind him. A couple of quota weeks will en- able the Utahan to overtake the rallying Albanian. A two-place drop by Jack Sturm of Detroit was the reason why A1 Mintz of Philadelphia and Coggan of Calgary each ad- vanced a peg. Glasier of To- Scott Lester SALESMEN ON K-7 SALES Following is the standing of all sales- men based on K-7 feature product sales against total zone possibilities, as of Jan. 31: •Jan. Jan. 31st Salesman (Branch) 24th 1 fMoore (Pittsburgh) 1 2 fErickson (Frisco) 2 3 fNorris (Washington) 3 1 fLichter (Cleveland) 4 5 fDare (Albany) 5 6 fMurphy (Washington) G 7 fScheinberg (Cleveland) 7 8 fHumphries (Philadelphia) . . 8 9 fBugie (Cincinnati) 9 10 Eskin (St. Louis) 10 11 Tidwell (Salt Lake) 11 12 Connelly (Boston) 12 13 Kellenberg (Pittsburgh) .... 15 I I Baskin (Memphis) 13 15 Interrante (Pittsburgh) .... 14 1G Knickerbocker (Kansas) .... LG 17 Smith (Philadelphia) 17 18 Thorpe (Pittsburgh) 18 19 Tolmas (Philadelphia) 19 20 Davis (Philadelphia) . 20 21 Robinette (Portland) 22 22 *Wright (New Haven) 29 23 *Edgerton (Milwaukee) 36 24 Knapp (Detroit) 28 25 Bergman (Cleveland) 21 2G Simon (Chicago) 25 27 Florin (New York) 23 28 ^Diamond (Washington) 30 29 *Krupp (Winnipeg) 32 30 Feloney (Boston) 24 31 Wyse (Memphis) 2G 32 *Alexander (Boston) 27 33 *Blumstein (New York) 3 1 34 Cohan (Minneapolis) 31 35 Ware (St. Louis) 33 36 Wall (Los Angeles) 38 37 Hancock (Indianapolis) .... 35 38 Ironfield (Omaha) 44 39 Mock (Charlotte) 37 40 Gribble (Dallas) 45 41 McCleaster (Indianapolis) . . . 40 42 Feld (St. Louis) 41 43 Williams (St. Louis) 39 44 Miller (Dallas) 42 45 Ilallstrom (Salt Lake) 43 46 Bernard (Frisco) 53 47 Sliallcross (New Orleans) ... 49 48 Dugan (Salt Lake) 46 49 Kurtz (New York) 51 50 *Gold (Boston) 47 51 * Goodamote (Chicago) 54 52 Dodson (Atlanta) 50 53 Houston (Dallas) 52 Jan. Jan. 31st Salesman (Branch) 24th 54 Scott (Dallas) 59 55 Klein (Washington) 18 56 Michel (Milwaukee) 55 57 *Hall (Minneapolis) 68 58 * Spear (Seattle) 56 59 Mitchell (Atlanta) 66 60 Mussman (Minneapolis) .... 58 61 Laseter (Atlanta) 60 62 Black (Indianapolis) 69 63 Simons (Boston) 61 64 *Holston (Charlotte) 67 65 *Pabst (New Orleans) 64 66 Kempner (Buffalo) 62 67 Riegelman (Des Moines) .... 57 68 Cohen (Minneapolis) 63 69 Lorentz (Minneapolis) 65 70 Neger (Indianapolis) 74 71 Naegel (Cincinnati) 77 72 *Halloran (Omaha) 70 73 * James (Oklahoma) 71 74 Hendrix (Dallas) 72 75 Fairchild (Atlanta) 73 76 Horwitz (Milwaukee) 75 77 Osborne (Oklahoma) 76 78 *Burkart (Cincinnati) 83 79 *Kinser (Kansas) 78 80 Carrow (Detroit) 79 81 Needham (Cincinnati) 84 82 *Ebersole (Charlotte) 81 83 *Loeb (Chicago) 86 81 Van Dyke (Chicago) 82 85 Rennie (Denver) 80 86 Dickman (Buffalo) 87 87 St. Clair (New York) 85 88 Rowell (Buffalo) 94 89 Schutzer (New York) 88 90 McClure (Atlanta) 89 91 Blasius (Salt Lake) 90 92 *Kubitzki (Kansas) 92 93 *Reid (Toronto) 91 94 SI iter (Albany) 93 95 Gottlieb (Des Moines) 97 96 Robison (Los Angeles) .... 101 97 Levy (Omaha) 95 98 Pearson (Montreal) 96 99 O’Neil (Des Moines) 99 100 Lyons (Minneapolis) 104 101 Keilor (Detroit) 106 102 Woodward (Kansas) 98 103 Laurice (Grisco) 100 104 Grohe (Chicago) 102 105 Paulson (Denver) 103 106 Lester (Toronto) 105 107 Scott (Calgary) 108 108 W’estcott (Detroit) 10 < 109 Frederick (Seattle) 109 * Tied. fl00% sold. ronto took 15th place from Crawford of Kansas City. Smith of Winnipeg is 22nd, a gain of one at the expense of Ed Stamp of Buffalo. Hislop of Vancouver pushed Eddie Or- senigo of Indianapolis out of the 24th pocket, where he is now to be found. Hislop is virtually tied with Stamp. Clayson of Minneapolis, Gwin of Denver, Ford of Portland and Wahl of Memphis changed to much cozier locations. The Memphian quit the cellar, where Seattle’s Thorpe is now staying, seven-tenths of a mark behind the Tennesseean. Gwin jumped at the expense of Pittsburgh’s Vandergrift, while Ford took No. 23 from Fred Miller of Omaha. What the second half of the season will bring in the way of adsales delivery time will have to determine, but certainly the adsellers have a golden oppor- tunity in current and forthcom- ing attractions to set an all-time high mark. Pictures like “The Blue Bird,’’ “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Little Old New York,” “I Was an Ad- venturess,” “Shooting H i g h,” “Dance with the Devil” and oth- ers all make the job ahead the easiest the adsales forces have tackled. Each and every one of these specials is entitled to maximum advertising support. Today advertising pays big- ger dividends than ever. It is significant that the branches that made the better showing on film delivery in the first half of the season were outstanding, too, when it came to adsales. Washington, quite definitely the East’s No. 1 office, ended the first half of the season with an over-quota score on adsales. Advance orders indicate the West is going to give the pace- setting East a stiff battle for divisional honors on adsales in the next 12 weeks. However, it is to be noted that the two ad- sales managers who exceeded quota this week were Eastern- ers. BRANCHES Jan. 27th Branch (Ads. Manager) 1 Washington (Miller) 2 New Haven (Weinstein) . . . 3 New Orleans (Johnson) . . . 4 St. John (Corbett) 5 Charlotte (Lowrey) 6 New York (McManus) 7 St. Louis (McManus) 8 Albany (Lester) 9 Salt Lake City (Clark) . . . 10 Dallas (Bandy) I I Des Moines (Gold) 12 Philadelphia (Mintz) . . . . 13 Calgary (Coggan) 14 Detroit (Sturm) 15 Toronto (Glasier) 16 Kansas City (Crawford) . . . 17 Montreal (Brault) 18 San Francisco (Lewis) . . . . 19 Oklahoma City (Whelihan) Branch (Ads. Manager) Atlanta (Hackney) . . . . Cleveland (Scott) Winnipeg (Smith) Buffalo (Stamp) Vancouver (Hislop) . . . . Indianapolis (Orsenigo) Minneapolis (Clayson) Los Angeles (Young) . . . Milwaukee (Heim) .... Boston (Krivitzky) . . . . Denver (Gwin) Pittsburgh (Vandergrift) Cincinnati (Kelly) Portland (Ford) Omaha (Miller) Chicago (Hackney) .... Memphis (Wohl) Seattle (Thorpe) Jan. 27th District (Manager) 1 Atlantic (Moss) . . . 2 South (Ballance) . . 3 Midwest (Scott) . . . 4 Canada (O’Loghlin) 5 Northeast (Bailey) . DISTRICTS Jan. 20th 1 3 4 5 Jan. 27th District (Manager) 6 Prairie (Levy) . . . . 7 Coast ( ) 8 Great Lakes ( ) 9 Mideast (Roberts) . Jan. 27th Division (Manager) 1 East (Sussman) . . . 2 West (Kupper) . . . . DIVISIONS Jan. 20th 1 . 2 Jan. 27th Division (Manager) 3 Central (Gehring) . . Jan. 20th . 20 . 21 . 23 22 ! 25 . 24 . 27 . 26 . 28 . 29 . 31 . 30 . 32 . 34 . 33 . 35 . 37 . 36 Jan. 20th . 6 . 8 . 7 9 Jan. 20th . 3 BUGIE ATTAINS 100% ON K-7 FEATURE SALES SCHEINBERG-DAVIS NEWS TIE NEW yorkersTcincinnatians AND TEXANS IN HIGH LEAPS Cincinnati’s Bugie this week entered the Exalted Order of 100 Per Cent Salesmen in the K-7 feature product sales effort. He is the ninth salesman to clean up his zone. Abe Eskin of St. Louis, Tidwell of Salt Lake City and Connelly of Boston are still trying hard to get into that group, but they are now menaced by Pittsburgh’s sales Manager C. C. Kellenberg. The latter promises to be the 10th salesman to hit the bull’s eye. In the K-7 News selling sphere, Philadelphia’s Sales Manager A1 Davis has tied Cleveland’s Ted Scheinberg 'for first position. Abe Eskin is right at the heels of another Philfdelphian, Bsn Tolmas, who is within less than a point of Davis and Scheinberg. Eskin is four points behind that trio. Abe Blumstein of New York was among those who distinguished himself most advantageously in the matter of widening News circulation. The Gotham veteran rushed from 25th to 20th pi; ce, almost catching Sam Diamond of Wash- ington. Fred Dodson of Atlanta, who is going great guns right now, stepped from 11th to 10th place and is about to conquer Feloney of Boston on the News end of the sales job. Earl Wright of New Haven hopped from 17 to 14. Morris Kurtz of New York and Pittsburgh’s Moore and Inter- rante moved in the right direction. Glenn Norris of Washington and Kellenberg Ere tied for No. 25, each showing a gain. Robison of Los Angeles marched from 38 to 31. Up, too, on News sales went Holston of Charlotte, Krupp of Winnipeg, Houston of Dallas, Connelly of Boston, Tidwell of Salt Lake City, Robinette of Portland, Scott of Dallas, Edgerton of Mil- waukee, Hall of Minneapolis, Miller of Dallgs, Laseter of Atanta, McCleaster of Indianapolis, Ware of St. Louis, Spear of Seattle, Keilor of Detroit, Rowell of Buffalo, Paulson of Denver, McClure of Atlanta, Osborne of Oklahoma City, Rennie of Denver, Scott of Calgrry and Blasius of Salt Lake City. Milwaukee’s Edgerton gained the most places. The Brewer went from 61st to 50th position. On K-7 feature sales the changes were not so numerous, nor so drastic. Edgerton gallope deffectively in this effort, too. Pie went from 36 to a hookup with Wright for possession of 22nd place. Diamond and Krupp are tied for No. 28, while Alexander of Boston and Blumstein are running neck End neck for No. 32. Gold of Boston and Goodamote of Chicago are sharing the 50th berth. Other hookups on K-7 feature sales status in- cluded the following: Hall and Spear for 57, Holston and Pabst for 64, Halloran and James for 72, Burkart rnd Kinser for 78, Ebersole and Loeb for 82, and Kubitzki and Reid for 92. A. Blumstein .Jan. Jan. 31st Salesman (Branch) 24th 1 Scheinberg (Cleveland) 1 2 Davis (Philadelphia) 2 3 Tolmas (Philadelphia) 3 4 Eskin (St. Louis) 6 5 Humphries (Philadelphia) . . 4 6 Thorpe (Pittsburgh) 7 7 Liehter (Cleveland) 5 8 Bugie (Cincinnati) 8 9 Feloney (Boston) 9 10 Dodson (Atlanta) 11 IL Mock (Charlotte) 10 12 Bernard (Frisco) 15 13 Florin (New York) 12 I I Wright (New Haven) 17 15 Naegel (Cincinnati) 13 16 Alexander (Boston) 11 17 Smith (Philadelphia) 16 18 Murphy (Washington) 18 19 Diamond (Washington) 19 20 Blumstein (New York) .... 25 21 Interrante (Pittsburgh) .... 2* 22 Moore (Pittsburgh) 26 23 Kurtz (New York) 27 24 Simons (Boston) 20 25 *Norris (Washington) 28 26 *Kellenberg (Pittsburgh) .... 29 27 Needham (Cincinnati) 21 28 Gold (Boston) 22 29 Holston (Charlotte) 30 30 Krupp (Winnipeg) 33 31 Robison (Los Angeles) 38 32 Houston (Dallas) 34 33 Cohan (Minneapolis) 35 34 * Hancock (Indianapolis) .... 36 35 * Baskin (Memphis) 31 36 Connelly (Boston) 37 37 Dare (Albany) 32 38 Tidwell (Salt Lake) 40 39 * Burkart (Cincinnati) 23 40 *Robinette (Portland) 43 41 Scott (Dallas) 44 42 Laurice (Frisco) 41 43 Cohen (Minneapolis) 42 44 Lorentz (Minneapolis) 39 45 Erickson (Frisco) 45 46 Bergman (Cleveland) 46 47 Knapp (Detroit) 47 18 Mussman (Minneapolis) .... 48 49 Dugan (Salt Lake) 49 50 Edgerton (Milwaukee) 61 51 Ebersole (Charlotte) 50 52 Hendrix (Dallas) 52 53 Michel (Milwaukee) 53 54 Klein (Washington) 51 55 Hall (Minneapolis) 56 Jan. Jan. 31st Salesman (Branch) 24th 56 Wall (Los Angeles) 54 57 Horwitz (Milwaukee) 55 58 Black (Indianapolis) 57 59 Pearson (Montreal) 59 60 Gottlieb (Des Moines) 58 61 Miller (Dallas) 62 62 Laseter (Atlanta) 63 63 Woodward (Kansas) 60 64 Simon (Chicago) 66 65 James (Oklahoma) 65 66 Van Dyke (Chicago) 64 67 Loeb (Chicago) 67 68 Wyse (Memphis) 68 69 Fairchild (Atlanta) 69 70 Schutzer (New York) 70 71 St. Clair (New York) 7 1 72 Neger (Indianapolis) 72 73 McCleaster (Indianapolis) ... 75 74 * Carrow (Detroit) 74 75 * Halloran (Omaha) 73 76 *Ironfield (Omaha) 78 77 Pabst (New Orleans) 76 78 Gribble (Dallas) 77 79 Ware (St. Louis) 81 80 Mitchell (Atlanta) 79 81 Spear (Seattle) 82 82 Goodamote (Chicago) 80 83 Riegelman (Des Moines) .... 83 84 Grohe (Chicago) 84 85 Sliter (Albany) 85 86 Kinser (Kansas) 86 87 O’Neil (Des Moines) 87 88 *Kiiickerbocker (Kansas) .... 88 89 * Frederick (Seattle) 89 90 * Keilor (Detroit) 92 91 *Shallcross (New Orleans) ... 90 92 Williams (St. Louis) 91 93 Reid (Toronto) 93 94 Rowell (Buffalo) 97 95 Levy (Omaha) 95 96 Paulson (Denver) 98 97 Hallstrom (Salt Lake) 96 98 Blasius (Salt Lake) 99 99 McClure (Atlanta) 100 100 Osborne (Oklahoma) 101 101 Rennie (Denver) 102 102 Scott (Calgary) 101 L03 Dickman (Buffalo) 91 104 Westeott (Detroit) 103 105 Lester (Toronto) 105 106 Kubitzki (Kansas) 106 107 Felt (St. Louis) 107 108 Kempner (Buffalo) 108 109 Lyons (Minneapolis) 109 * Tied.