20th Century-Fox Dynamo (April 18, 1953)

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Get Your Share Of $1,750,000 This Week MAY S. M. T. W. T. F. S. 10111213141516 4 Offices Already Certain Of Record At the end of this year’s 15th stanza, four branches had already at- tained a weekly delivery average that exceeded their respective contributions to the 1952 high Division Managers’ Week (May 11-17). Vic Beattie’s Calgary has achieved this year a weekly average that is ?5.66% more than what it delivered during that productive Division Mana- gers’ Week. Tom Gilliam’s Chicago 1953 par is 11.56% above its delivery for that gala 1952 inning. Reggie March’s St. John’s par is 6.63% ahead and that of "Hi” Holston’s Charlotte 1.37% higher. WEEK ENDING MAY 16 MUST BRING $1,750,000 TO ENABLE US TO STAY AHEAD OF LAST YEAR! The 20th week of this week, or the seven-day period starting Sunday, May 10 and ending Satur- day, May 16, becomes the most challenging stanza of the first half of 1953. Last year that corres- ponding stanza was departmen- tally celebrated as Division Managers’ Week. As the result of a vigorous campaign, it de- veloped $1,701,788 in film ren- tals for the U.S. and Canada. That figure was the high week’s mark of 1952. Now, the domestics are called upon to equal or top that week. That means that in the week end- ing May 16 we must departmen- tally deliver 43.91% more than our weekly average for the past 15 weeks of this year! However, that is no abnormal assignment, for in the third week of last January, which was celebrated as Bill Gehring Week, the 38 domestic branches did $1,725,955, or $24,167 more than was developed during last year’s historic Division Man- agers’ Week. Here are the branches that must more than double their current weekly par (and how much more they must do percentage-wise) to match their 1952 Division Managers’ Week delivery: Bob McNabb’s Cincinnati 189.99% more; A1 Levy’s Pittsburgh 128.07% more; Jim Dugan’s Denver 123.61% more; Joe Scott’s Omaha 119.45% more, and Bob Conn’s Des Moines 106.11% more. Here is how much more than their weekly aver- age of the past 15 weeks other branches must do during the week ending May 16 to match their 1952 Division Managers’ Week delivery: Oklahoma City 97.47%, Minneapolis 92.81%, Albany 92.27%, Se- attle 91.96%, Buffalo 91.16%, Atlanta 86.7%, Port- land 84.41%, Indianapolis 83.65%, New Haven 81.09%, St. Louis 80.65%, Salt Lake City 78.85%, Milwaukee 72.7%, Memphis 71.96%, Detroit 64.24%, Kansas City 57.14%, New Orleans 50.87%, Wash- ington 49.28%, Boston 46.55%, San Francisco 41.37%, Cleveland 41.34%, Dallas 39.61%, Winni- peg 39.52%, Los Angeles 34.78%, Montreal 31.41% Philadelphia 12.02%, Toronto 11.18%, Vancouver 11.04%, Jacksonville 8.54% and New York 8.07%. Divisionally, the seven combinations must bring in the following more revenue above their past 15-week’s weekly average to match their 1952 Division Managers’ Week performance: Can- ada 13.13%, Empire State 22.11%, South 41.21%, Atlantic 44.82%, West 58.57%, Midwest 82.01% and Central 90.57%. Victor Beattie IHPRECEDENTED DRIVE OR The next 10 weeks confront the domestics with a responsibility whose discharge is im- perative to insure by the first of October the highest 39-week revenue ever developed in the United States and Canada by this company. None, apparently, is more cognizant of this challenge than the field dollar delivery organi- zation, for, entirely on their own, its members are voluntarily undertaking a drive that is without precedent in this company’s annals of distribution. Shuttle sheet procedure has been revived in some offices. Thirty-eight branches are currently involved in a vigorous effort, locally applied, that augurs well for the next 23 weeks. This is as it should be, for ahead are extremely rugged stanzas. In the first place, departmental delivery for the first two weeks of this quarter, including Easter Week, fell 22.11% under quota for that period, and 14.3% short of the weekly average of the first quarter—notwithstanding the fact that both sales and feature bookings for the past fortnight far exceeded the totals for the same time last year! However, the field is aware of and has steeled itself to cope with the big weeks ahead. For example: the weekly average for the next 10 weeks must be 5.1% higher than that of the past twoweek’s par, if the 1952 second quarter’s delivery is to be just matched. But, the im- perative minimum weekly expectancy, depart- mentally, is 1-6.3% higher than the average for the final 10 weeks of 1952! However, Easter Week saw only seven branches exceed their quotas. They were: Jim Connolly’s Boston, Sam Diamond’s Philadel- phia, Joe Rosen’s Washington, Reg March’s St. John, Joe Neger’s Kansas City, Tom Young’s Memphis and Ken Lloyd’s Salt Lake City. Only seven branches merited a bonus as the result of accumulated 13 weeks’ delivery in the first quarter. Fifty-six managers, sales- men and bookers participated in this distribu- tion of bonus, 36 collecting three-week’s extra salary apiece, and 20 others getting two-week’s extra salary each. Following is a list of the branches that merited a bonus along with number of members of the dollar delivery crew that participated in such cash prize-earning: three weeks’ extra salary—Tidwell’s Jacksonville (8), Abe Dick- stein’s New York (14), Sam j-jiamond’s Phila- delphia (11) and March’s St. John (3); two- week’s extra salary-joe Lee’s Detroit (7), Morris Sudmin’s Los Angeles (10) and Victor Beattie’s Calgary (3) Here Is Proof That We Have No Reason To Be Self-Satisfied: How Your Exchange Shapes Up Now On 15 Weeks* Delivery Plus Four Weeks* Advance Rental Estimate Against 19-Week Quota! The following table shows ex- actly how your branch shaped up, as of April 11, on accumulated 15 weeks’ total delivery PLUS four weeks’ advance rental estimates, against quota for 19 weeks: PI. Branch (Manager) Pet. 1 St. John (March) 103.77 2 Philadelphia (Diamond) 97.17 3 Jacksonville (TidwelI) 91.31 4 Calgary (Beattie) 87.51 5 New York (Dickstein) 87.30 6 Charlotte (Holston) 86.60 7 Detroit (Lee) 85.61 Page 2 PI. Branch (Manager) Pet. 8 Vancouver (Patterson) 82.15 9 Kansas City (Neger) 81.87 10 Los Angeles (Sudmin) 80.48 11 Milwaukee (Lorentz) 80.42 12 Montreal (Chernoff) 79.79 13 Toronto (Sherman) 79.21 14 S. Francisco (Erickson).... 78.84 15 Winnipeg (Huber) 78.47 16 Des Moines (Conn) 78.20 17 St. Louis (Halloran) 77.83 18 Boston (Connol ly) 76.97 19 N. Orleans (Briant) 76.08 20 Atlanta (Coursey) 72.97 PI. Branch (Manager) Pet. 21 Omaha (Scott) 72.77 22 Minneapolis (Malisow) 72.14 23 Memphia (Young) 71.22 24 New Haven (Simon) 71.17 25 Chicago (Gilliam) .70.99 26 Buffalo (Kosco) 69.72 27 Washington (J. Rosen) 69.63 28 Albany (N. Rosen) 68.68 29 Oklahoma City (Osborne)...68.54 30 Seattle (Burk) 67.33 31 Indianapolis (Keith) 66.20 32 Pittsburgh (Levy) 65.88 33 Salt Lake (Lloyd), 65.82 PI. Branch (Manager) Pet. 34 Cleveland (Schmertz) 65.56 35 Cincinnati (McNabb) 6 5.52 36 P ortland (P owers) 64.40 37 Dallas (Sheridan) 63.01 38 Denver (Dugan) 57.98 DIVISIONS 1 Empire (Moskowitz) 83.54 2 Canada (Myers) 81.93 3 Atlantic (Norris) 79.93 4 Midwest (M.A. Levy) 77.47 5 South (Ballance) 74.72 6 West (Wobber) 72.77 7 Central (McCleaster) 71.89