The Film Daily (1948)

Monday, September 13, 1948 TMIl DAILY ; Variety Clubs Meet Calls Trade Toppers (Continued from Page 1) will reach Washington Thursday to attend the dinner being tendered by Richard C. Fowler to Bob O'Donnell and^^^ remain over for the Friday lunc -^ and meeting at which the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital will be discussed and the Humanitarian Award banquet on Saturday night I when Gen. George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, will receive the 1947 Award. Carter Barron and Nate Golden, teommittee chairmen for the Wash• I ington tent, Friday announced New York acceptances for tJie Friday r: luncheon meeting and banquet included the following: Barney Bala1 ban, Spyros P. Skouras, George Skouras, William White, Leonard Goldenson, Charles Reagan, William Rodgers, Abe Montague, Bob Mochrie, Ben Kalmenson, Ned Depinet, ; ; Nate J. Blumberg, Abel Green, Jack \ I Alicoate, Chester B. Bahn, George F. ; Dembow, Herman Robbins, Si H. ; ! Fabian, Tom Connors, Jay Emanuel, George Schaefer, William Heineman, James Grainger, Max Cohen, Barret McCormick, J. Robert Rubin, Joe ' Bernhard, Sam Shain, Ned Shugrue, Dan Michaelove, Andy W. Smith, ' Jr., Martin Quigley, Bob Gillham, I Arthur Mayer, Dave Palfreyman, ; Fred Schwartz, Gael Sullivan, Earle ' I Sweigert and Max Youngstein. Variety Club delegates ' and tent repre. ; sentatlves expected are as follows ; Pittst: burgh, R. Clifton Daniel; Cincinnati. Allan Moritz: Detroit, Arthur Robinson: Buffalo, Dewey Michaels : Albany, Neil Hellman and Harry Lamont: Indianapolis, Sam Switow; Washinrton, Nate Golden: Minneapolis, William Elson : Philadelphia, Alfred Davis; Omaha, M. G. Rogers; Dallas, William O'Donnell: Dayton, Roy E. Wells: Memphis, Herbert Kotin: Atlanta, Bill Jenkins; Boston, I Murray Weiss: Charlotte, J. H. Dillon: Los I Angeles, W. H. LoUier; Chicago, Jack Rose: Grand Rapids. Herbert Boshoven; Toronto, J. J. Pitzgibbons: Mexico City. Ltiis Montes; Toledo, Jack E. Lykes; New Haven, Barney Pitkin; San Francisco, Jimmie O'Neal; Miami, George Hoover; Houston, J. P. Goodwin. I International officers alternating will include: R. J. O'Donnell. John H. Harris, Marc Wolf, Jack Bernstein, "Chick" Lewis, Jimmie Balmer, Col. W^illiam McCraw and A. K. Rowswell, who is chairman of the Humanitarian Award Committee. Other members of the International Board alternating will include Irving Mack, Chicago; H. H. Everett, Charlotte; and Dave Bershon, Los Angeles. Fire Destroys Coast Theater Newport, Wash. — Charles Bishop's Rex Theater here was destroyed by fire, with damages estimated at $50,000. The theater had partial insurance coverage. Studios Drop 53% of Writers in 3 Years West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Screen Writers Guild reports a drop of 53 per cent in number of writers under contract to major studios in the last three years. Scribes hardest hit are those in the middle and lower brackets. SWG membership is off from last year with a present total of 1,270. h/<rm «*^ PHIL M. DALY KSS Tackles a Timely Job • • • FOR REASONS thort are understandable, no company in film biz today is more attuned to showmanship and the box office miracles it can work than National Screen Service. ... So it is not suprising that the company so ably headed by Herman Robbins in formulating its plans for the George Dembow Tribute drive, (which incidentally gets underway today), has keyed it to the premise that showmanship is just as necessary to BETTER business as it was originally to BUILD show business. . . . Nor is it surprising that, in line with that approach, NSS has instructed its salesmen in calling upon exhibs. not to confine their showmanship talks to the use of the company's materials. . . . Increased newspaper space, spot radio announcements, and other media ■will be propagated as well. . . . Yet the fact that it is not .surprising that NSS has so elected, detracts not one iota from its uniqueness. ... If there's a precedent for it, indeed, Phil M doesn't recollect it as these lines take shape on the trusty Underwood. T T T • • • THAT THE POLICY thus adopted is sagacious, constructive and most sensible goes without saying. . . . And if there could be a wider adoption of the same, from time to time, the industry would be the healthier for it. . . . Sure, this is a highly competitive business, always will be. . . . But by the same token there's also a strong underlying "one-for-all-ond-all-for-one" strain. . . . Every good pic makes a general industry as well as a specific company contribution. . . . Every good campaign ditto. . . . And when NSS goes out to "talk up" not only its own wares but the effective employment of all showmanship agencies, it is doing a magnificent-and-timely-job in kind. . . . For that, a doff and flourish of Phil M's chapeau to Br'r Robbins and to the company's vice-president in charge of sales, George F. Dembow, honored by the drive. T T ▼ • • • IF TRENDS interest you, by the way, you might give a thought to this: . . . From the NSS standpoint, in the current Dembow Tribute, concentration is on away-from-theater type of advertising to "bring 'em back alive" to the ol' box office. . . . Posting of 24 sheets, six sheets and three sheets, to take advantage of renewed motoring will get heavy attention. . . . Ditto the use of window cards, heralds and other awoy-from-theater items. Caravan Operations Shift To Indianapolis Confirmed (Continued from Page 1) gested at the recent Allied convention, is designed to place Caravan operations in a more central spot geographically so that information may be more quickly exchanged between theaters on a national basis. Trueman T. Rembusch, president, and William A. Carroll, executive secretary of Associated Theater Owners of Indiana, will handle the work involved. It was emphasized that no changes in personnel or in the official set-up have been made or are contemplated. Attending last week's meetings here were Sidney Samuelson and Mrs. Samuelson of Philadelphia, Rembusch, Irving Dollinger of New Jersey; William I. Ainsworth, National Allied president, and Abram F. Myers, Allied general counsel and board chairman. Add Para. Distrib. to Prudential's Complaint (Continued from Page 1) in its $1,600,000 triple damages antitrust suit which was previously filed naming Paramount, UA, Universal, Columbia, Monogram, Eagle Lion and New England Theaters. The original action asks the court to have Paramount and New England divest themselves of the Empress Theater, South Norwalk, and Norwalk, Norwalk. Plaintiffs claim the houses were acquired to monopolize business in the locality and restrained competition. More Time for Paramount, E-L Paramount and Eagle Lion were granted until Sept. 24 to file answers in the Federal Court trust action brought by Prudential Theaters and the Playhouse Theater, New Caanan, Conn. Other defendants had been granted similar extensions. May Use London HQ As Clearing House (Continued from Page 1) able to find sufficient A and B product to make programs, but if a distributor lacks one or the other, he will seek a deal with another company to complete the progi-am. It is in this event that MPAA's office may be called upon to act as a clearing agent. ►Want a box seat for the greatest show on earth — in Technicolor? I'm just the man who can arrange it. I'm the pilot of "the Hollywood," United Air Lines' famous onestop flight from New York to Los Angeles in 11 hours and 10 minutes. »We leave New York at 12 noon. We arrive in Los Angeles at 8:10 P.M. But we time our flight to arrive over the Grand Canyon just at sunset — that's the great Technicolor Show I mentioned! 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