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EXHIBITOR
Balaban, left, is glimpsed with Jim Wright, British Paramount News editor, and Paramount executives George Weltner and Russell Holman at the business meeting and luncheon in London, a high point of the tour.
In Israel, the Paramount president is pictured as he visits a settlement of new immigrants to the country. Also seen are Continental general manager John Nathan and Ladislav K. Koch, manager. Paramount's Israel office.
Weltner and Balaban pause on the road to Jerusalem as J. Astar, special representative, Israeli foreign office, guides them on a sightseeing tour. Astar is an assistant to Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
Pictured at a party following the Royal Command Performance screening in London are, from left, J. J. Fitigibbon, Weltner, Mr. and Mrs. Balaban, Art Buchwald, Mrs. Perkins, Mme. Paulette Genevoix, James Perkins, and Nathan.
The Paramount party is seen at a reception at the famed Hotel King David, Jerusalem, with Jerusalem exhibitors, city officials, and representatives of the Israeli Ministry of Interior and the foreign office, among those attending.
Balaban meets the mayor of Brussels, J. Van De Meulebroeck, at a reception for the Paramount group at the Brussels Town Hall. The party was warmly welcomed by civic officials, and other notables at every stop on the trip.
Seen in Frankfurt, Germany, as the travelers arrived to visit the German branch of Paramount are, from left, Marc M. Spiegel, MPAA representative in Germany; Weltner, Balaban, Nathan, and Rudolf Jellinek, general manager.
Mr. and Mrs. Balaban pose with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Milland and their two children aboard a ship at Southampton, England, as they depart for New York after "the most successful foreign journey in Paramount history."
January 3, 1951