The Film Daily (1947)

,34 DAILY Wednesday, April 16, 1947 ======== I Morgan fo Hold 31 Parleys on Shorts A series of 31 meetings and conferences with district, branch and sales managers throughout the country has been scheduled by Oscar A. Morgan, Paramount short subjects sales manager. Agenda includes a discussion of 1947-48 product, with the first of the huddles to take place in Dallas, April 21, where Morgan will announce the new shorts lineOSCAR MORGAN up. Tour will take three months and will embrace every city where there is a Paramount branch office, including Los Angeles, where Morgan will confer with studio heads and report on public and exhibitor preferences. Loew's Leases Mayfair To Brandt for 5 Years (Continued from Page 1) were not made public, although the lease is understood to run for five years. The Mayfair will become the 12th link in the Brandt Times Square chain. Other vicinity Brandt stands include the Globe, Gotham, Republic, New York, Pix, Selwyn, Apollo, Victory, Times Square, Liberty and Lyric. Operating nolicy, Brandt told The Film Daily, has not been determined; he added that he would like to continue the present policy. The Mayfair, as a Loew operation, is between a second and third-run, on par with Bronx and Brooklyn. Loew's took over the Mayfair on June 10, 1935, to replace the old New York Theater which was demolished. Building at the time was owned by Walter Reade, who later sold to Loew's. Dutch Students Earn Tuition With Theater Amsterdam (By Air Mail) — Part time work for about 40 students is provided by the Kriterion Theater, operated at the University by students. Project, started about 18 months ago as a means to supplying tuition fees for students working their way through school, has paid off nearly all its debts and plays to capacity houses night after night. Operation is by a board of directors comprising students, faculty members, business men and theater industry representatives. Aside from two professional theater men, students operate and staff the theater themselves. in REUJ IHDUSTRV POSTS J. C. BOND, manager, Joy, Dardanelle, Ark. EDWIN HOLLAND, manager, Rialto, Morrillton, Ark. REMMELL YOUNG, Malco city manager. Fort Smith, Ark. JACK LIEB, motion picture and slide film division head, Kling Studios, Chicago. SHERMAN MARKS, Television Producers, Chicago. DON FAUST, Television Producers, Chicago. C. J. DUER, SRO special representative, Denver. C. E. O'BRYAN, manager, Riviera, Detroit. JAMES EDWARDS, manager, Amazon, San Francisco. N. W. DAVIDSON, manoger, Verdi, San Francisco. CHARLES SIMPSON, manager. Liberty, Akron, O. HAMILTON HORN, manager, Copley, Akron, 0. A. J. BURLESON, manager, Wallace, Andrews, Tex. Capra & Wyler Cos. Under Para. Deal! (Continued from Page 1) new deal" but prefers to continue as an indie, it was learned. It is understood that the producing companies will get five-year distribution contracts with Paramount, the arrangement being similar to, if not identical with the Hal WallisParamount relationship. Samuel Briskin, associated with Capra, Wyler and Stevens in Liberty, reportedly will get a studio post, to be created for him. Paramount, it is said, will exchange $4,000,000 of its common stock for Liberty's assets. Appeal Board Modifies Nashua Clearance Award Modifying a previous award of the Boston tribunal, the Arbitration Appeal Board has ordered that maximum clearances that the "Big Five" distributors may grant to the Tremont, State and (when playing pictures firstrun) the Colonial theaters in Nashua, N. H., over the Latchis Theater in Milford, shall be seven days and not later than 60 days after territorial release date. Finding also decreed that no clearance shall be granted by the five distributors to the Strand, State and (when playing first-run) Crown and Palace Theaters in Manchester, N. H., except on pictures not shown in the Nashua houses named. In latter case seven day clearance, but not later than 60 days after territorial release, is to prevail. Boston arbitrator had originally granted 26 days clearance and not later than 34 days after area release. Peter A. Lewis with E-L Peter A. Lewis, for the past 12 years head of the investigation department of the New York Film Board of Trade, has just joined Eagle-Lion's home office staff as officer manager and purchasing agent. JOHN NEWCOMER, manager, Ritz and Grand, Chillicothe, Mo. JACK CAMPBELL, manager, Osawa and Kansas, Osawatomie, Kans. MAX THOMAS, manager, Osage, Osage City, Kans. MARK CADLE, Theater Enterprises' city manager. Parsons, Kans. JACK GIBSON, PRC salesman, Omaha. HERSHEL DRURY, manager, Monte Theater, Monticello, la. DON HOFSTETTER, assistant manager. United Artists Theater, Chicago. GERALD PRATT, assistant manager, Huntington, Huntington, L. I. JOHN JACKSON, assistant manager. Fantasy, Rockville Centre, L. I. ARTHUR PEARCE, assistant manager. Floral, Floral Park, L. I. GEORGE RUDLOFF, assistant manager, WB Grand, Wilmington, Del., from the Army. ROBERT C. LUNCH, writing staff, Florez, Inc., Detroit. U. K. Bucking U. S. On Films at Geneva (Continued from Page 1) largely at the insistance of the U. S. delegation which will advance its proposal to drop all trade barriers and permit motion pictures to circulate freely throughout the world. On the other hand, British delegates are expected to make every effort to keep Conference to the broad issue of trade policy as a whole. Motion pictures and other industries should be fitted into their appropriate slots rather than have too much individual attention, according to the British viewpoint. With films not a major item of export in England, delegates from London will argue that they should only come into the reckoning on the issue of balance of imports and exports in relation to the dollar area. Markle Named Managing Dir. for Broadway Theater John Markle has been appointed managing director of the Broadway Theater for United Artists, it was announced by the company yesterday. Markle, who has been associated with several major theater circuits, most recently handled "Henry V" engagements for UA in Boston and Philadelphia. Price scale for Charlie Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux," now playing at the Broadway, was changed yesterday with the house adopting an unreserved policy for all seats. Admission is now scaled from 70 cents to $1.50 as opposed to previous range of 80 cents to $1.80. Rosenwald, ReVille Feted Charlotte — M-G-M employes on Friday gave a party in honor of Ben Rosenwald, former manager, and his successor, Jack ReVille. Rosenwald left for his new M-G-M post on Sunday. U-l District Heads To Meet with Scully (Continued from Page 1) Egg and I," and other U-I pix to be released during the next few months will be discussed. With "The Egg and I" se^ug record grosses and chalking up^P;iovers in its initial key city dates, the district sales heads will be instructed on selling and booking policies to be pursued. Selling policies will also be mapped on "Time Out of Mind," "Buck Privates Come Home," "Odd Man Out," "Great Expectations," "Stairway to Heaven," "Ivy," "Brute Force," "Something in the Wind," "Slave Girl," "Secret Beyond the Door,' "Singapore," "The Lost Moment," "My Heart Goes Crazy" and "Pirates of Monterey." The district sales heads who will attend the two-day meeting are Foster M. Blake, Los Angeles; Pete T. Dana, Cleveland; Joe E. Garrison, St. Louis; Mannie M. Gottlieb, Chicago; Ed Heiber, Kansas City; Dave Miller, Buffalo; Barney Rose, San Francisco; Peter F. Rosian, Cincinnati; and John J. Scully, Boston. Division managers who will attend the meeting are Fred Meyers, Eastern division; C. J. Feldman, Western division; and F. J. A. McCarthy, Southern and Canadian division. Scully will be assisted by A. J. O'Keefe, assistant general sales manager and E. T. Gomersall, assistant to Scully. Home office executives who will attend include Maurice A. Bergman, E. L. McEvoy, James J. Jordan, J. H. Huber, Ray Coyle, Frank Mooney, Milton Schneiderman, Sam Friedel, Morris Alin and Gene Kingston. Admiral Foster Series Both in Color, B & W West Coast Bureau of THE FllM DAILY Hollywood — Admiral Pictures has launched a sales campaign on its series of 12 two-reel 16 mm. dramatic musicals based on the life and songs of Stephen Foster. Available in color or black and white; the color versions were shot with the new Kodachrome commercial 16 mm. stock. Company also utilized one of the new Mitchell proiessional 16 mm. cameras in photographing the series. 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