Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

30 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD December 20, 1930 Allied Is All Set to Fight Any Return to Advance Deposits Board Rejects Gabriel Hess' Draft of Results of 5-5-5 Conference — Allied Leaders Also Charge Copyright Protection Bureau Has Exceeded Authority (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Dec. 18. — Any return to the deposit system as a sequel to the United States Supreme Court rulings against the Credit Committee system and the arbitration clauses of the uniform contract will mean a fight with Allied States, according to a decision of Allied leaders as announced by Abram F. Myers, president and general counsel. The board also voted to reject Gabriel Hess' draft of the results of the 5-5-5 conference on the new contract. The members of the Allied Board decided to protest against any requirement by distributors that exhibitors rent newsreels and short product in order to obtain long features. It was charged that this was being done, with the result of forcing exhibitors to book more shorts than they needed and preventing them from doing business with producers making only short product. _ Myers was asked to investigate the activities of the Copyright Protection Bureau after board members had declared the bureau had exceeded its authority. At the same time they emphasized that they held no brief for bicycling. Myers also was requested to otbain assurance from the Federal Theatrical Accounting Service and from distributors using the service that the information obtained by the checking service will not be used by distributors for exchange of price data. Federal's Personnel All Bonded, Declares Ross Harry A. Ross, president of Federal Theatrical Accounting Service, commenting on the Allied action, told the HeraldWorld in Chicago what he had emphasized at the time the first announcement regarding the company was made, that the concern has no connection whatever with the distributing corporations and that all its information is absolutely confidential. "Federal Theatrical Accounting Service is independently owned and operated," Ross stated, "and in no way connected with film companies. The personnel is bonded and the affairs of the bureau are strictly confidential. An affidavit supporting this statement is available to anyone." Lichtman Addresses UA Sales Group in Chicago Al Lichtman presided over a midwest United Artists sales conference at the Hotel Blacksone, Chicago, on Sunday, December 14, and told the Chicago convention essentially what he had told the group in New York the pre Swedes Laud York In Cable to Zukor (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Dec. 18. — Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount Publix, has received a cable stating that the independent film exhibitors of Sweden passed a resolution at their annual winter convention in Stockholm warmly praising the services of Carl P. York, Paramount general manager for Scandinavia, on behalf of the motion picture industry of Sweden. vious Sunday : that the accession of Samuel Goldwyn to the Art Cinema production post marks a new era in United Artists history. Those present included H. L. Gold, Ben Fish, Fred Zimmerman, C. E. Smith, Jack Kaplan, Clifford E. Almy, E. Kempner, S. Schonfeld, E. Stewart, Carl Weinberg, Walter Loewe, Louis Geiger, R. Shallenberger, M. R. Barnett, William Elliott, S. Horowitz, Charles Kranz, J. D. Goldhar, A. M. Goodman, Edward Grossman, Sam Gorelick. Doak Roberts, Wm. Truog, T. R. Thompson, Al Hoffman, D. V. McLucas, Jerry Marks, A. Gonsior, M. Hellman, E. Pickler, A. Buchanon, H. Malone, Calvin Bard, H. R. Barker, M. S. Frankle, L. Ringler, F. A. Rohrs, A. Kent, R. Abelson, W. Arnold, Geo. McBride, H. Pitner, J. Cantor, H. Rees and Wm. Scott. Film Colony Plans To Rebuild Homes Destroyed in Fire (Special to the Herald-World) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.— Members of the motion picture colony of Malibu Beach are planning to rebuild the eighteen homes destroyed in Monday's explosion and fire which caused a loss estimated at $80,000. Among those listed as having suffered losses are A. L. Rockett, Leo McCarey, George De Sylva, Allen Dwan, James Malcolm Taylor, Marie Prevost, Louise Fazenda, Oliver C. Marsh, Ben Hendricks, Jr., and Frank Fay. The blast occurred near the home of George De Sylva, of De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, and the residence soon was ablaze. The flames then spread rapidly. A similar fire in September, 1929, also caused a heavy loss. British Company Gives Two Films for Benefit (Special to the Herald-World) TORONTO, Dec. 18.— British International Pictures, Ltd., has donated two feature films, through Regal Films, Ltd., Toronto, for the benefit performance in Loew's Theatre, Toronto, on Friday, January 9, under the direction of Manager Jules Bernstein as a boost for the workless. The pictures are "The Middle Watch" and "How He Lied to Her Husband." The former was one of the British pictures presented at the gala performance in London, England, for the premiers of various Dominions who were in attendance at the Imperial Conference. Exhibitor Group Donates $1000 for Unemployment (Special to the Herald-World) CINCINNATI, Dec. 18.— The Greater Cincinnati Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association has donated $1,000 to the Board of Public Welfare to be used in connection with the unemployment situation here. Know Your Exchange —Managers— The exchange manager is the direct contact between exhibitor and distributor, and therefore it is to their mutual advantage to know each other. The Herald-World presents a series of brief sketches of exchange managers and their outstanding activities in the motion picture field. SA. SHIRLEY, district manager for • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with headquarters in Chicago, had his first experience in the film business with Powers and Henry, Pittsburgh wholesale jobbers of talking machines. This brought Shirley into contact with Clark and Rowland, then operating the Pittsburgh Calcium Light and Film Company, and he later became branch manager for that concern at WilkesBarre, Pa. When that branch was sold to the General Film Company, Shirley continued as manager, but later General Film transferred him to Boston as branch manager. PROJECTIONIST, pianist and manager — that's a part of the varied and inter S. A. ShirUy esting experience in V. Dixon the motion picture business that has been acquired by V. Dixon, Calgary branch manager for R K O Distributing Corporation in Canada. And he has been in the film trade for more than twelve years. Dixon was born in England in 1896, and was educated at the B u r 1 e y grammar school. It was in 1913 that he came to Canada, and then followed with two years of service in the Royal Air Forces. D B. BINNS, sales manager of the Phila-»-V« delphia area of Warner Brothers, a new position created at the time of the centralization of the sales forces of Warner, First National and Vitaphone, started in the motion picture trade in Philadelphia in May, 1914, with Tri-State Star Feature Company, owned and operated by his brother, W. R. Binns. In 1916 R. B. entered the employ of V. L. S. E., under the direction of J. S. R. B. Binns Hebrew. This company afterward became known as Vitagraph.