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Vol. 50, No. 12
July 22, 1953
DALLAS CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY HOLD AN ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON AS 156 SECRETARIES ENTERTAIN.
The Women Of The Picture Industry Are Progressing
Once Again, Texas Takes The Lead In Sponsoring A New Kind Of Constructive Trade Organization
CONSIDERING the number of organ¬ izations functioning within the motion picture industry, the sup¬ position would be that every segment of the industry has long been represented, but it has remained for an energetic group of women in Dallas to come to the fore with a unique, original kind of club, and one which appears destined to make its mark nationally.
The WOMPI’s, Women of the Motion Picture Industry, recently celebrated their first anniversary, and business transac¬ tions were temporarily suspended on Dallas’ Film Row as 156 secretaries turned the tables on their employers, and treated them to lunch in the French Room of the Hotel Adolphus. The men were frankly impressed, and the members were, too, at the enthusiastic response to the organiza¬ tion, which started just a year ago as a glorified “Kaffee Klatch” on a getacquainted basis.
President Verlin Osborne, Paramount, who opened the meeting, gave a brief history of the infant organization from its inception a year ago, when 50 women met at the Town and Country Restaurant for an informal luncheon, to the present workable organization with officers and a charter membership of 100 women in the motion picture industry.
She mentioned the first constructive undertaking of the group when 20 mem¬ bers took shifts at WRR to answer tele¬ phones, and help with the theatre-spon¬ sored benefit fund for the tornado disaster area of San Angelo, Tex., and Waco, Tex. The club considers that the best public relations work for the industry can be done through such civic work in the community.
Interstate’s Loia Cheaney acted as mis¬ tress of ceremonies at the anniversary affair, and presented her boss, Interstate Circuit’s R. J. O’Donnell, who assured
WOMPI members of his cooperation in efforts to make the group national in scope. O’Donnell, in turn, introduced Dorothy Lamour, guest of honor. Miss Lamour, wearing an orchid corsage pre¬ sented by club members, spoke on the importance of public relations, emphasiz¬ ing the great opportunity women in the industry have to promote better under¬ standing both within the industry and with the public. She was accepted as an honorary member, joining another WOMPI, Mary Pickford, who was pre¬ sented with a scroll when she visited Dallas recently on her bond-selling cru¬ sade, commending her activities both in civic work and in picture making and proclaiming her an honorary WOMPI.
The club’s anniversary date had been set as the official deadline for acceptance of charter memberships, and Mildred Fulenwider, Ezell and Associates, Inc., vice-president in charge of membership,
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