Exhibitors Herald (1925)

2^) EXHIBITORS HERALD April 4, 1925 Arthur S. Kane, New Contact Executive for Universal. Diplomacy and Personality Win Kane Unique Job By John S. Spargo launching Constance Talmadge as a big star; his efficient conduct of the Realart Company; and, finally, his administration of Associated Exhibitors, are well known to everyone in the business. Every position he has held has increased his business stature, broadened his outlook, humanized his viewpoint and added scores of new friends to those who already regard Arthur S. Kane not only as a clever business man but a valuable personal friend. Outside of business Mr. Kane’s principal relaxation is golf. Being a member of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club and the Rancho Club, which is in California, he is able to accomplish this relaxation whether he is in California or New York. His interest in athletics is inborn. In Topeka high school, where he received his preparatory education, he organized a football team, the first Topeka high school ever had, and for two years was its captain and quarterback. Later in Baker University at Baldwin, Kans., and Washburn College at Topeka, he played not only football but baseball, hockey and every other sport which was on the college athletic curriculum. Later he acted as student coach of football for Washburn College. * =!■ ♦ New YORK, March 24. — Many men hold important positions in the motion picture business because they are great salesmen ; others because they are exceptional executives ; some because they have imaginative ability of a high order. But there are a few who combine all of these qualities with a tremendous amount of personality and diplomacy, who are always in high demand. Diplomacy is one of the outstanding requirements of the motion picture business, involving as it does art as well as business. One of these men is Arthur S. Kane, who has just joined Universal Pictures Corporation, in a special capacity, at the earnest solicitation of Carl Laemmle, its president. Mr. Kane has an unique job, although the necessity for it is quite apparent in every motion picture company. He will act as an official point of contact and arbiter between the sales force in New York City and the production force at Universal City. No single circumstance of the motion picture business costs it so much as the 3,000 miles which separate the producing centers from the distributing centers. These 3,000 miles spell all kinds of misunderstanding, politics, ambition and just plain ordinary waste. This is true of every company operating in California and New York. It is to bridge these 3,000 miles and to bring necessary and profitable harmony of purpose between the earnest and self-centered groups of men working in these two cities, to bring their work into the utmost conformity and unity, that Mr. Kane will devote his diplomatic and administrative efforts. * * * Mr. Laemmle could have picked out no man better qualified for such a mission than Mr. Kane. His experience has embraced every angle of the motion picture business. He has been a producer, a sales director, a general manager, the president of a big company. And with it all, he is one of the most genial and easy-tempered individuals in the world. He has a reputation of securing results with the least amount of friction, argument and hard feeling. Furthermore, he has been through the motion picture mill from its earliest beginnings. Starting as a motion picture exhibitor with a fair background of the theatre business in Topeka, Kans., he came up with the business through the old General Film Company, with all of the knowledge and experience which that organization gave to him, as well as to scores of other men who are now prominent personalities of the business. His efficient handling of Select Pictures when that organization was at a point where it required not only nerve but clever finesse to keep it from going on the rocks ; his expert arrangements for It is only natural that with his interest in athletics, Mr. Kane should go into the sporting end of the newspaper game. For (Continued on page 30)