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OPTIMISTIC PROGNOSTICATION. Returning from Europe with Mrs. Horne , Walt Disney executive Hal Horne predicts that "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” -will set a new all-time high for world-wide grosses.
FOREIGN SALES EXECUTIVES. Accompanied by managing director Joseph Friedman, England (left), Columbia’s general foreign sales manager Joseph A. McConville arrive from England. During his trip, the GFSM set up six new offices in France, conferred with continental managers in distribution plans, operating methods.
VOYAGEURS. Paramount's Adolph Xukor, with Mrs. Xukor, board R. M. S. Queen Mary on the first leg of a world-wide survey of Paramount’s vast organization.
"VICTORIA’S” DONATION. Presented by Anna Neagle, star of RKO-Radio’s "A Lady of Windsor.” Grover Whalen (right) accepts Herbert Wilcox’s donation to New York World’s Fair 1939 of a model of the Crystal Palace seeen in the picture originally reviewed as "Sixty Glorious Years.” Pathe News
covers the event.
PRODUCTION-DISTRIBUTION PACT ANNOUNCED. At a dinner last week in New York, Herbert Wilcox (third from right) announced the formation of hnperator-Radio Pictures, Ltd., for the production, distribution in both the U. S., England of several films a year. Anna Neagle, star of RKO-Radio’s "A Lady of Windsor”; vice-president Ned Depinet, other executives were the hosts of the press when the
announcement was made.
OPTIMISTIC. Sam Galanty, Columbia’s district manager, is decidedly optimistic over the company’s prospects for the new season, what with "You Can’t Take It With You” breaking records and the production lineup including some topnotch specials.
THAT BABIES MAY LIVE. The Welfare Committee, Variety Club, headed by Metro’s Rudolph Berger, presented last week to Sibley Hospital incubator equipment, especially designed for the care of prematurely-born infants, filling a long felt need.
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