The Film Daily (1948)

W*s? Friday, September 10, 1941 1 20th''Fox Toppers to Attend Coast Sales Meeting Next WeeH S. p. Skouras Smith Zanuck Gehring S:hlaifer C. P. Skouras Schenck Silverstoiie Sales Meeting Calls Fox Personnel West Home office, sales, studio and theater toppers, as well as field sales and exploitation personnel, will attend the four-day national sales meeting called by 20th-Fox for next week at the National Theaters headquarters in Los Angeles. Those attending from the home office include: Spyros P. Skouras, president: Andy W. Smith, Jr., g-eneral sales manag-er; William C. Gehring', assistant g'eneral sales manager; Murray Silverstone, vice-president and 20thFox Int'l president; Donald A. Henderson, treasurer and secretary; Lamoyne A. Jones, executive assistant to Skouras; Martin Moskowitz, executive assistant to Smith; Clarence Hill, managrer ol branch operations; Peter Levathes, short subjects sales manager; Jack Bloom, home office division aide; Morris Caplan, chief statistician; F. X. Carroll, home office sales analyst; Roger Ferri. Sam Fishman. contract department manager; Sam Shain, dir.ector of exhibitor relations; A. Tourtelotte, assistant producer of March of Time; B. Johnson of the leg'al department; Paul Terry, president of Terrytoons, and William Weiss, Terrytoon general manager. Advertising-publicity reps, from the home office attending will be: Charles Schlaifer, director of advertising and exploitation; Stirling Silliphant, executive assistant to Schlaifer; Morris Klnzler, account executive of Kayton-Spiero Advertising Agency; Christy Wilbert, advertising manager; Rodney Bush, exploitation manag:er; Sid Blumenstock, assistant exploitation manager, and Earl Wingart, assistant publicity manager. _ Harry Brand, studio publicity director, and his staff also will attend. In attendance from the field sales force will be: Eastern division Sales Mgr. R. E. Moon, Assistant Division Sales Mgr. Howard G. Minsky and Joseph St. Clair. Moon's assistant and Seymour L. Florin, H. Gillis, D. R. Houlihan, E. X. Callahan, C. B. Kosco, Joseph B. Rosen, I. J. Schmertz, J. J, Lee, T. O. McCleaster, B. A. Simon, Sam E. Diamond, Welden Waters and C. Glenn Norris. Southern Division Sales Manager H. G. Buchanan Co. tips Montgelas to Prexy Rudolph Montgelas, formerly vicepresident of Buchanan & Co., has been elected president of the advertising agency, John Hertz, Jr., chairman, announced. Action was taken at a recent meeting of the board of directors. Buchanan's new prexy, who succeeds T. S. Buchanan, resigned, for the past eight years has been the agency's executive on the Paramount account. Round Table Talks at Fox Meet Zanuck to Outline Global Filming Plans (Continued from Page 1) ters of National Theaters, Tuesday through Friday. Plans for the final 1948 quarters and the first nine months of 1949 will be discussed at the meeting, also to be highlighted by details of 20th-Fox's global production plans, a visit to the studio, and screenings of important product. Decision to produce on a global scale was first revealed by Spyros P. Skouras, president, at the company's Canadian sales convention in July. At that time he announced that the company was setting out to strengthen its position with respect to blocked foreign funds by producing pictures abroad in suitable locales, but for world-wdde distribution. Zanuck Dinner Speaker Since then, Darryl F. Zanuck, vicepresident in charge of production, traveled to Europe and spent six weeks visiting England, Italy and West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Thirty pictures are scheduled for 1948-49 production, Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th-Fox veepee, announced on his return from Europe. Six of the thirty will be filmed in Europe. France for the purpose of surveying and establishing this new policy. Next Thursday when the conference delegates visit the studio Zanuck will make the principal address at a dinner to be iield in the studio's Cafe de Paris. He will outline the company's expanded international production plans in detail and his address will climax the four-day conference. When it was decided that there would be no formal speeches at the business meetings Smith sent questionnaires listing the principal topics for discussions to the delegates so they could be prepared to discuss them in detail. In the discussions, Skouras, Smith and Williana C. Gehring, assistant general sales manager, will serve as moderators. Opening day will be devoted to general topics in open forum discussions and on Wednesday Smith will review the pictures that are scheduled for release during the next 12 months. Advertising, publicity and exploitation plans for these productions also will be outlined at this session by Charles Schlaifer, director of advertising and exploitation. Will See Four New Pix During the four-day meeting the delegates will be shown "Yellow Sky," "Unfaithfully Yours," "When My Baby Smiles At Me" and "The Snake Pit." On their visit to the studio next Thursday they will see two pictures in production, "Mother Is a Freshman" and "Down to the Sea in Ships." Conference sessions next Friday will be given over to individual branch and divisional meetings to be conducted by Smith and Gehring and the five divisional sales managers. Also Schlaifer will hold individual conferences with his field exploitation staff. That night the delegates will be the guests of Smith at a dinner and party at the Los Angeles Coliseum to watch "Gorgeous Georges" wrestle. Conference, which will be the first national sales meeting held by 20thFox on the Coast since 1941, will conclude on Saturday. Ballance, Assistant Division Sales Manager Paul S. Wilson and M. Doris, assistant to Ballance. and Fred R. Dodson, John E. Holston, Philip Longdon, T. W. Young, Mark Sheridan, Jr., and M. W. Osborne. Central Division Sales Manag-er J. H. Lorentz, H. L. Beecroft, assistant division sales manager, and Herndon Edmond, Lorentz' assistant, and T. R. Gilliam. R. Pielow, George W. Fuller, J. R. Neger, M. A. Levy, J. E. Scott and Gordon F. Halloran. Western Division Sales Manager Herman Wobber, Bryan Stoner, assistant division sales manager; Wobber's assistant, G. Newman; v. J. Dugan, C. W. Eckhardt, Charles P. Powers, Charles L. Walker. Alex W. Harrison and Chilton L. Robinett. Los Angeles branch office personnel at the convention will include: M. Sudmin, William Wall, Bernard Robinson, Bjorn Ross and Melvin Anderson. Members of the company's field exploitation staff attending will include: Mike Weiss, Wally Allen, William Michalson, Al Fowler, Robert Kaufman, Spense Pierce. James Gillespie, Ed Solomon, Jim Keefe, Harry Weiss. Walter Hoffman, By Freedman, Ed Yarbrough'. Prank Jenkins, Murray Lafayette and Virginia Seguin. Joseph M. Schenck, executive pi'oduction head of the studio, Charles Skouras. president of National Tlieaters, and his aides also will attend the conferences as will Arthur Silverstone, Canadian division manager, and ] Peter Myers, Toronto branch manager. | Aussie Reds' U.S. Pix Blasts Up "Duel" Biz \ Melbourne (By Air Mail) — Censoi ship bill passed by Victorian Parli ment which Brought pix for which n admission charge is made under cei sorship, brought violent reaetior from the Communists. They used their Eureka Yout League to stage a placard demor stration against SRO's "Duel in th Sun." Placards abused Hollywoo and termed the U. S. pix as "deger erate." Leaflets distributed demande to know why pix like "Little Re Riding Hood" and others made b the Soviet Union were attacke while the "degenerate" Hollywoo pix were screened. One leaflet sai( "We Want Healthy Films Not Hollj wood Trash." The incident has added considei ably to the box office "takes" c "Duel in the Sun." The Victorian Censorship bill ain: at having some check on foreig propaganda pix shown free througl out the State. Some of these ha\ been found to be distinctly dangei AF Films Acquires Shorts "The Children's Republic," twc reel film narrated by Madeleine Cai roll, has been acquired for distribi tion by AF Films. Company als has a series of eight French short acquired while Rosalind Kossoff wa in Paris, to be released this Fall. Vog Acquires Three French Pi American distribution rights i three new French films, none c which has been premiered in Pari have been acquired by Vog Film C Releases are "Eagle With Tw Heads," "Dedee D'Anvers" an "Manon." STORKS Gene Kingston, head of U-I's coi tract checking department, became father for the third time with th arrival of a seven pound seven ounc girl.