Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today (Jul-Dec 1930)

4 Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW and Motion Pictures TODAY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930 PATHE CHANGES FIELD SYSTEM, PERSONNEL, IN FOUR DIVISIONS The Pathe field system, as rearranged by E. J. O’Leary, general sales manager, is now composed of four divisions — Eastern, Southern, Western and Midwestern. Several changes in exchange personnel are announced. With the resignation of Central Division Manager Harry Graham, all of the branches in that division, with the exception of Buffalo have been transferred to the Midwestern division. Buffalo comes under the Eastern Division. The exchanges transferred to the Midwestern group are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. James Reilly has been trans <y ferred from Buffalo to Cleveland E. J. O’Leary as branch manager, replacing 0 s car Ruby, resigned. Harry Dixon, formerly with R K O has been appointed t o succeed Reilly as manager o f the Buffalo branch. The four division managers continuing In charge are E. L. McElvoy, Eastern; W. E. Callaway, Southern; J. H. McIntyre, Western; and H. S. Lorch, Midwestern. Divisional headquarters are maintained in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago, respectively. The field managerial personnel is now as follows; Eastern Division;— Albany, L. Garvey; Boston, R. C. Cropper; New Haven, Harry Gibbs; New York, R. S. Wolff; Philadelphia, R. Mochrie; Washington, C. W. Stomoaugh; Buffaio, Harry Dixon. Southern Division; — Atlanta, C. W. Allen; Charlotte, R. C. Price; Dallas, W. E. Callaway; Memphis, A. M. Avery; New Orleans, G. C. Brown; Oklahoma City, W. R. Pittinger. Western Division; — Denver, F. H. Butler; Los Angeles, J. S. Stout; Portland, H. L. Percy; Salt Lake City, A. J. O’Keefe; San Francisco ,M. E. Cory; Seattle, C. L. Theuerkauf. Midwestern Division; — Chicago, J. J. Clarke; Des Moines, Lou E1-. man; Detroit, Harris Silverberg; Kansas City, Ray V. Nolan; Milwaukee, T. Greenwood; Minneapolis, M. E. Montgomery; Omaha, R. S. Ballantyne; Cincinnati, S. Jacques; Cleveland, J. B. Reilly; Indianapolis, G. L. Levy; IMttsburgh, S. Lefko; St. Louis, Vy'. E. Branson. WARNERITES TO DANCE AND ELECT OFFICERS Members of the ‘Warner Club will attend a dance at Hotel Pennsylvania Sept. 25. Officers w'lll be reelected. Publication of the Warner Club News will be resumed this week, under the editorship of Alfred Zimbalist and Sidney Rechetnik. It has a circulation of 6,000. CROSLAND ACCOMPANIES FATHER’S BODY EAST HOLLYWOOD BUREAU — Alan Crosland will leave Sunday night for East Orange, New Jersey accompanyingthe remains of his father, James Fredrick Crosland who passed away while visiting his son at his Beverly Hills home. Funeral services will be held from the home of Alan Crosland's brother, Jaines Kenneth Crosland, in East Orange, New Jersey. The father was living in New York when he came to visit in California. MRS. NOAH BEERY BACK, WAS AT LAS VEGAS LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18.— Mrs. Noah Beery was at the home of friends in Hollywood yesterday following reports that she had mysteriously disappeared. Mrs. Beery said she had been in Las Vegas to “establish a residence’’, and might return to make it permanent. After his wife had been located Mr. Beery asked the authorities to continue their investigation of her absence, as he intended to prosecute any one guilty of enticing Mrs. Beery from her home. 3AVETTA ARRIVES FROM FRANCE J. Carlo Bavetta, managing director for Fox Film in France, has arrived in New York for conference with General Foreign Manager Clayton Sheehan. He expects to be here for several weeks. BAGGOT DIVORCED HOLLYWOOD BUREAU. — King Baggot, director, has been divorced by his wife, Ruth Considine Baggot. AD-VANCE-AD “In these days of grief, in the show business, your trailer service is the one bright spot.’’ Rex Theatre, St. Louis, Mo. TRANS=ATLANTIC TEST OF TELEVISION FAILS IN GERMAN’S ATTEMPT The first attempt to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic failed yesterday when, according to cable dispatches from Berlin, Professor Carolus, inventor of the German type of apparatus, called the trial off after three days of e.xperlmentation. Carolus is understood to have negotiated with both Radio Corporation and the General Llectric to arrange the trans-Atlantic experiment. DEL RIO, MUCH BETTER, TO RESUME IN ‘‘DOVE” Dolores Del Rio is convalescing in Hollywood from; her recent severe illness, and will soon resume her work at the United Artists Studio with Walter Huston in the film version of Willard Mack’s “The Dove,” which Thornton Freeland is directing. LYON THREATENED LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18.— Accused of threatening Ben Lyon through the mails, a young man calling himlself Dick Warde, of New York, v;as under arrest here yesterday. To the police he admitted sending the actor three postcards threatening to kill him. He was arrested in front of Warner Bros.’ studio where Lyon was working, and had a loaded pistol in his pocket. FAU MEET S.MP-L SET FOR OCT. 20-23 The Fall meeting of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers will be held October 20 to 23 inclusive at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. The address of welcome will be delivered by Major Edward Bowes, Director of the Capitol Theatre, New York. Meeting headquarters will be in the Saile Moderne, the Roof Garden of the Hotel. Ladies headquarters will be located on the Roof Garden with Mrs. E. I. Sponable as hostess. Golf privileges have been arranged at several Country Clubs. Election of officers will be held on Wednesday afternoon and the Semi-Annual Banquet Wednesday evening. FREULER COMING HOLLYWOOD BUREAU. — John R. Freuler, President of Big 4 Film Corporation, has left the Coast for New "Vork to launch plans for his company for the coming season. 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