The Exhibitor (Jun-Nov 1944)

NT-1 TO v m \m\m\ New York City Fox home office, left last week for a sales trip that will take him to Chicago, Mil¬ waukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines, De¬ troit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and several other eastern cities. Herbert White, manager, 20th CenturyFox’s Cuba office, arrived for a home office visit last week and will confer with execu¬ tives of the international department. He will remain here until Murray Silverstone, vice-president in charge of foreign distri¬ bution, returns from a Latin-America trip. Marion Lonaker, 20th Century-Fox pub¬ licity department woman’s page and fashion editor, left the motion picture field last week to join the staff of NBC. Crosstown Russell Holman, Paramount eastern production manager, returned to New York last week after two weeks of con¬ ferences at the studio. During his Holly¬ wood visit he was present at a series of im¬ portant meetings held by Henry Ginsberg, vice-president and general manager in charge of production of Paramount Pic¬ tures, with the studio’s producers, direc¬ tors and writers, designed to acquaint these groups with the policies and aims of the new studio regime, and to effect a closer cooperation with the studio’s picture plans for the future. Ginsberg and Hol¬ man also perfected plans for carrying out the new policy initiated by Ginsberg of closer cooperation between the studio and the eastern production office through fre¬ quent interchange of visits of executive personnel to Hollywood and New York. In line with this policy, Frank Butler and Joseph Sistrim will visit New York shortly, and Boris Kaplan, eastern talent chief under Holman, will go to Hollywood. Holman also discussed future production plans with George Pal and Jerry Fair¬ banks, producers of outside short subjects for the Paramount program. E. S. Gregg, vice-president, Western Electric Export Corporation, left last week for an inspection trip of several weeks in the British Isles in connection with the Company’s war and other business. H. M. Bessey, vice-president, Altec Serv¬ ice Corporation, left last week for a tour of Altec offices terminating in Los An¬ geles, where he will attend Altec’s annual business conferences at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Oct. 16-20. Century Circuit, now operating 17 the¬ atres in Brooklyn, has added another link in the chain, with the opening of the Lin¬ den, Parkside, and Nostrand Avenues. This house opens Oct. 12, with the entire first day’s receipt to be turned over to the Red Cross. Hal Horne, director of advertising-pub¬ licity-exploitation, 20th Century-Fox, and Charles Schlaifer, assistant director of the three departments, left last week for the coast; as did W. J. McHale, advertising department, and Louis Shanfield, head of the art department. They will discuss future ad campaigns with studio officials Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck. Rodney Bush, exploitation manager, 20th Century-Fox, left last week for Chicago and Omaha, where he will set up premiere campaigns on “Wilson.” Harvey Day, sales manager, Terrytoons, with headquarters at the 20th Century Stage and Wall Drapes JOE HORNSTEIN has it! At the request of the New York State Legislative Commission Against Discrim¬ ination, last week March of Time an¬ nounced “Americans All” will be shown at a meeting to be held by the Commission on Oct. 17. At the International Film Relations Com¬ mittee’s meeting last week the much dis¬ cussed article on the American Motion Pic¬ ture Industry, which the editors of EnGuardia have been preparing in collabora¬ tion with the Committee, received final en¬ dorsement. This is the CIAA’s answer to the Committee’s suggestion that equal presentation to Latin Americans of our motion picture industry and its war ac¬ complishments appear in its publication. Following the rotation policy of naming a chairman, Michael Hoffay, director of the foreign relations department, RKO, be¬ came the new chairman, succeeding Albert Deane, Paramount. The meeting was at¬ tended by David Blum, Loew’s Inter¬ national Corporation; Deane; Leslie F. Whelan, 20th Century-Fox; Gerald R. Keyser, Warners; Samuel Cohen, UA; Leonard Daly, UA; Hoffay; Fortunat Baronat, and Julien Benedet, Universal-In¬ ternational; David O'Malley, and Clarence Schneider, Columbia International; and Harold L. Smith, MPPDA, Inc. The Paramount Pep Club, composed of home office employes, last week swung into its fall season of activities, with em¬ phasis on service to the Paramount men and women in the armed forces and allout support of the war effort. An “assem¬ bly line” of girls has began packing Christ¬ mas boxes as the gift of Paramount to approximately 450 home office and ex¬ change employes in the services. G. Knox Haddow, president, said that group activi¬ ties of a social nature have also been launched with the choral group, of which Martha Castellan is chairman and Irene Scott, co-chairman, having held its first meeting; and the bowling league having organized 14 teams, including eight of girls and six men’s quintets. Leon Fronkess announced last week that in addition to selling the motion picture rights to his book, “I Ring Doorbells,” Russell Birdwell has been retained to pub¬ licize the production for PRC. Sam Shain, director of trade relations at 20th Century-Fox, left for the coast last week, where he will remain for a week or ten days. Arthur Sachson, assistant general sales manager, Warners, left last week for an extended tour of the southern territory. Michael Curtiz, Warner director, Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend, scripters, and producer Arthur Schwartz were enroute back to the coast last week after a week conferring with Cole Porter on “Night and Day.” James E. Coston, Chicago zone manager, Warner Theatres; Alex Halperin, booker and buyer for that zone; Nat Wolf, Cleve¬ land zone manager, and Tony Stern, buyer and booker for that zone arrived last week for conferences with Joseph Bernhard and Harry M. Kalmine. L. S. Gran, Milwaukee zone staff, and Alfred Kvoll, Milwaukee zone, also came in to take part in the advertising and publicity session. Bob Johnson, formerly city manager, Walter Reade theatres, Perth Amboy, N. J.’ last week was promoted to circuit booker ft the New York home office to fill Artie Wakoff s spot, when he leaves the com¬ ply in several weeks. Jonasson will also deads Walter Reade’ Jr-> in making film Bruce Gallop, veteran industry adver¬ tising-publicity director, last week joined David Weshner Associates. Cliff Work, vice-president and general manager of Universal Pictures Company Inc arrived in New York last week from Hollywood for general conferences with the home office. Marvin Schenck announces that Bob Kennedy, formerly of Lyons and Lyons agency, has joined the talent staff of MGM in New York. Arthur De Titta, formerly with the 20th Century-Fox Movietone News office in Paris, France, before the occupation of the city by the Nazis, and more recently in the armed forces, is in New York await¬ ing passport clearance to reopen Movie¬ tone s European headquarters in the newly freed French capital. Twentieth Century-Fox home office notes; To date Harlan Gluck, print depart¬ ment, leads home office personnel for the number of trips made by any individual to the Red Cross blood bank with a total of eight journeys. . . . And last Wednes¬ day night saw a delegation from the home office meet a team of challengers 'from De Luxe Laboratories on tennis courts up¬ town. Representing Fox on one side of the net were Bill Jordan, Paul Gross, and Irving Ross, while on the De Luxe side were John Grew, Morris Schlein, and John Bergen. Lieutenant (jg) Robert L. Estill, USN, formerly Paramount head booker in Seattle, was in New York last week and visited with George A. Smith, western division manager, and other home office executives. After two years at a Navy base operating in the Aleutians, where he was in charge of the welfare department, he has been reassigned to another theatre of war. Oscar A. Morgan, sales chief of Para¬ mount shorts, left last week on a week’s trip through the south, which will include Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Memphis territories. FOR RENT Moving picture theatre fully equipped. 700 seats. Located at 305 Market St., Newark, N. J. Apply Owners FLEISSNER, 129 Pulaski St. Service for Sound JOE HORNSTEIN has it! October 11, 1944 THE EXHIBITOR N.Y.S.