The Exhibitor (Jun-Oct 1943)

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40 THE EXHIBITOR PUBLICITY HEADS FOR THE DRIVE STATES WFC LIST New York — Motion picture state pub¬ licity chairmen for the Third War Loan campaign, as announced last fortnight, are the following, in The Exhibitor area: Connecticut — Lou Brown, Loew’s Poli, New Haven. Delaware — Edgar Doob, Loew’s Aldine, Wilmington. Florida — J. L. Cartwright, Tampa, Tampa. Georgia — Harold Martin, Lucas and Jenkins, Fox building, Atlanta. Maine — Connie Russell, Opera House, Bangor. Maryland — Frank Horning, Horne, Balti¬ more. Massachusetts — Harry Browning, M. and P. Theatres, 60 Scollay Square, Boston. New Jersey (southern) — Joe Murdock, Stanley, Camden. New Jersey (northern) — Robert Paskow, 17 Academy, Newark. New York (metropolitan) — Harry Mandel, RKO Pictures, 1270 Sixth Avenue. New York (upstate) — Seymour Morris, Schine Enterprises, Inc., Gloversville. Ohio — Russ Bovim, Loew’s Ohio, Co¬ lumbus. Pennsylvania (eastern) — Bill Brooker, Metro, 1233 Summer Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania (western) — James Totman, Warner circuit, 2216 Clark building, Pittsburgh. Rhode Island — (To be appointed). Vermont — Frank A. Vennett, Para¬ mount, Rutland. Virginia — George Peters, Loew’s State, Richmond. Washington, D. C. — Frank LaFalce, War¬ ner circuit, Earle building. West Virginia — Cecil Tipton, Orpheum, Huntington. The following is the official roster of state War Finance Committee members in The Exhibitor territory who will co¬ operate with the War Activities Commit¬ tee in the Third War Loan Drive: CONNECTICUT — 36 Pearl Street, Room 523, Hartford 3 Chairman . Thomas Hewes* Vice-chairman . Grosvenor Ely DELAWARE — 1064 duPont Hotel Building, Wilmington 99 Chairman . Henry T. Bush Executive vice-chairman Donald P. Ross* Executive manager . Henry O. Gray DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— 852 Wash¬ ington Building, Washington 5 Chairman . John A. Reilly* Executive manager . Hugh Lynch FLORIDA — 404 Federal Building, Jack¬ sonville 1 Chairman . W. W. McEachem* Vice-chairman . John Lofahs Executive manager . Karl Lehmann GEORGIA — 1202 C. and S. National Bank Building, Atlanta 3 Chairman . Charles A. Stair* MAINE — Federal Building, Augusta Co-chairman H. Nelson McDougall* Co-chairman Edward E. Chase Vice-chairman (eastern Maine) H. S. Stewart Executive manager Robert G. Crocker MARYLAND — Calvert Building, Fayette and St. Paul Streets, Baltimore Chairman Hooper S. Miles* Vice-chairman Charles H. Roloson, Jr. Executive manager Walter Ruth MASSACHUSETTS— 79 Milk Street, Bos¬ ton 9 Chairman Albert Evarts* Executive vice-chairman Lucius Hill Executive manager Daniel J. Doherty NEW HAMPSHIRE— Bell Building, 922 Elm Street, Manchester Chairman Winthrop L. Carter* Vice-chairman Norwin S. Bean Vice-chairman Henry J. Pelren Executive manager Reginald A. Soderlund NEW JERSEY— Post Office Building, New¬ ark 2 Chairman Franklin D’Olier* Vice-chairman Horace K. Corbin Executive manager John E. Maiming NEW YORK— 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20 Chairman . W. Randolph Burgess Vice-chairman . Bayard F. Pope Executive manager Nevil Ford* NORTH CAROLINA — Federal Building, Greensboro Chairman Clarence T. Leinbach* Vice-chairman William H. Andrews OHIO — 693 Union Commerce Building, Cleveland 14 Chairman Roy D. Moore* Associate chairman Philip J. Trounstine Executive director Harold H. Bredlow PENNSYLVANIA— 12 South 12th Street, Philadelphia Chairman Ellsworth A. Roberts* Vice-chairman Robert H. McClintic RHODE ISLAND— 1812 Industrial Trust Building, Providence 3 Chairman . G. Burton Hibbert* Vice-chairman Ernest Clayton Vice-chairman Godfrey B. Simons Executive manager Roderick Pimie SOUTH CAROLINA — 1401 Hampton Street, Columbia Chairman . Christie Benet* Executive manager Henry S. Johnson VERMONT — Hotel Van Noss, Burlington Chairman Levi P. Smith* Vice-chairman D. Arnold Skelly Executive manager Fred C. Martin VIRGINIA — 214 North Fifth Street, Rich¬ mond 19 Chairman Francis P. Gaines* Vice-chairman C. Francis Cocke Executive manager J. Joseph May WASHINGTON— 209 Federal Building, Seattle 4 Chairman . Reno Odlin* Vice-chairman Mansel P. Griffiths Vice-chairman Saul Haas Vice-chairman Dietrich Schmitz Executive manager Earl M. Richards WEST VIRGINIA— 608 Security Building, Charleston 1 Chairman . . A. C. Spurr* Vice-chairman . Lee C. Pauli, Sr. Executive manager Robert Clutter ‘Address correspondence to the name marked. The Legion Of Decency Weekly Listing Is a Regular Feature Of This Publication. PARAMOUNT TO AID WAR LOAN DRIVE Co-operating Fully With All Plans New York — Paramount Pictures through¬ out the country, in all departments and branches, together with its theatre part¬ ners and associates, was mobilizing last week along with the rest of the indus¬ try for the Third War Loan Drive start¬ ing Sept. 9. “Backing the attack,” the objective of this combined front will be to sell as many War Bonds as possible. Selling of War Bonds has been a con¬ tinuous effort for all these theatre cir¬ cuits, and they plan to step it up for the Third War Loan Drive. From Sept. 1, 1942, when they became war bond issuing agents, to June 1, 1943, Paramount theatre partners and associates have sold in excess of $78,000,000 in war bonds, it was revealed. They hope to increase this rate tremendously for the month of September and will use all means at their command to achieve maxi¬ mum bond purchases at their theatres. War bond premieres are planned during the drive in all towns where Paramount theatre partners and associates operate. Working with the state and local War Finance Committees and War Activities Committees, these theatres plan to put all the ballyhoo, showmanship, color, and spectacle behind the drive to arouse the utmost possible enthusiasm for more bond purchases among their patrons and the public at large. Newspaper and radio ad¬ vertising and publicity, screens, lobbies, fronts, tieups with other participating business groups and organizations — all these and other available channels will be used. In addition, special events are planned. The executive heads of these circuits are actively identified with the State and local Bond Drive and War Activities Commit¬ tees, and some are active nationally. Ray Beall, of the Paramount-associated Interstate Circuit of Texas, as advertising and publicity director of the industry’s Third War Loan participation, is promi¬ nent among those who are contributing their services. On the east and west coasts and through¬ out all its exchanges. Paramount will “back the attack” with bonds and manpower, led by Barney Balaban, Adolph Zukor, and Stanton Griffis in New York, and Y. Frank Freeman, B. G. De Sylva, and Henry Gins¬ berg at the Hollywood studios, and ex¬ tending throughout the rank and file. Paramount is cooperating fully with all plans as developed by the Distribution Division of the War Activities Committee, in supplying prints for war bond pre¬ mieres. A war bond premiere, with seats scaled from $10,000 to $25, will launch the ad¬ vanced price extended engagement of Paramount’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” at Loew’s Palace in Washington, D. C., on Sept. 15. Paramount will award War Bonds aggre¬ gating $1,400 to exhibitors for the best (Continued on page 49) Back the Attack — Sell and Buy War Bonds September 8, 1943