The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

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PRESENTING HIZZONER AUER ( OWAH !). After a terrific battle Universal’s Mischa Auer finally won the mayoralty election at Universal City, California. EBULLIENT RF.TU RN ER. Despite how he looks . general sales manager William A. Scully is really bubbling -with enthusiasm over the prospects of the immediate future, the season of 1939-’40 for Universal. With such pictures as " Three Smart Girls Grow Up,” " The Mikado,” " East Side of Heaven,” " Big Town Czar,” " The Sun Never Sets,” the company, he says, is headed for its most brilliant year. TRUCKING DOWN THE AVENUE. Martha Tilton, songstress with the Benny Goodman band which appeared here recently, crashed the front pages and the ivire services by doing her specialty for the benefit of the Senate page boys, as the above evidence reveals. Band played Loew’s Capitol. BIG CHIEF’S SCROLL. Back of the seeming pyrotechnic display can be seen the scroll that made president W. Ray Johnston, Monogram, Chief Okla-homa Tone An Some (meaning Chief Oklahoma Mirror Pool), conferred recently in Oklahoma City. "MAN OF CONQUEST.” District manager Harry LaVine swings out with a mighty right to emphasize the fact that it was a conquest for Republic to make it, that "Man of Conquest” will scale new box-office heights. WEST MEETS EAST FOR GOOD SOUND. In a huddle for studying sound — on the film, as well as off the film in the theatre — are seen, left to right, Herb Griffin, executive vice-president, International Projector Coporation; John O. Aalberg, director, sound department, RKO-Radio Pictures, Hollywood, California; George Fried!, Jr., director, sound engineering, IPC; Herbert A. Stark f, theatres division, RKO-Radio Pictures, Hollywood. March 29, 19)9 NAT