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THE EXHIBITOR
VISITING ENGLISHMEN FETED BY UNITED ARTISTS; SCHENCK PRESENTS MOD CHECK
AAAONG THOSE ATTENDING the reception and dinner given by Edward C. Raftery, president, United Artists, recently in honor of Barrington Gain and Dr. Alexander Galperson at the "21" Club, New York, were the following, in the usual top to bottom, left to right, order, top row: Raftery, Gain, Mary Pickford, Galperson, Grad Sears, George Bagnall; Leonard Goldenson, Paramount, and Joe Vogel, Loew's; and, bottom row: Clayton Bond, Warners, E. C. Mills, E. Blinn, Paul Lazarus, Sr., Charles Steele, Rex Williams, Harry Muller, and Herb Berg. Raftery recently announced that as a culmination of the deal instituted by
MEL KONECOFF, of THE EXHIBITOR staff, takes time out to tell Shirley Temple the great, things in store for her at a recent party in New York, but she headed right back to Hollywood and school. She is one of the seven stars in David O. Selznick's current UA release, "Since You Went Away."
Sears during his recent visit to London, UA will distribute seven J. Arthur Rank English-made pictures, comprising "Colonel Blimp," in Technicolor; Noel Cow¬ ard's "Blithe Spirit," in Technicolor; Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed," in Technicolor; George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra," in Technicolor;
"Henry V." produced, directed by, and starring Laurence Olivier, also in Technicolor; "Her Man Gibley," by Terence Rattigan, starring Michael Wilding and Penelope Dudley Ward, and "Mr. Emanuel," a picturization of Louis Gold¬ ing's best seller.
NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK, chairman, 1944 March of Dimes Drive, is shown handing a check for $2,219,699.30 to President Roosevelt in Washington recently. This sum is approximately half of the theatre collections in the drive. Basil O'Connor, head. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, looks on.
SIXTH WAR LOAN PLANS were laid at a recent "grand strategy" meeting at the Hotel Astor, New York, and shown, left to right, are Arthur Mayer, WAC official; Harry Brandt, national chairman; Hugh Bruen, treasurer. Pacific Coast Conference of Independent Theatre Owners; William J. Crockett, president. Mo¬
tion Picture Theatre Owners of Virginia; Francis S. Harmon, WAC; R. M. Ken¬ nedy, Fifth War Loan; Bruen, John Rugar, member. Intermountain Theatres Association; and Henry Reeves, president, Texas Theatre Owners, Inc., who will get to work soon.
September 20, 1944