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HISTORY MAKERS OF 1937
LEO SPITZ
DR. A. H. GIANNINI •
The hegira of Merlin H. Aylesworth to Scripps-Howard found Leo Spitz, already the possessor of more titles than o pre-sound film extravaganza, the heir to even more. The youthful RKO president signed a nice new contract, the KAO as well as the B. F. Keith boards made
him their chairman, RKO and Pathe News dittoed. After a huddle with Herbert Wilcox, latter was hitched to the RKO steamroller via a 10-year distrib arrangement. Also headed the committee which welcomed the arrival of Walt Disney and his fascinating zoo. Then there was the RKO reorganization plan to which President Spitz was intimately linked.
In brisk demand by the film family, the Doctor made one farflung call. 'Twos to England, and the avowed purpose was to "congratulate D e u t s c h on the Odeon Circuit-UA deal." Home again, he was intimately concerned with the later GoldwynKorda deal for control of United Artists. Upon its collapse, UA directorate re-named him president, board chairman. As the year faded, it was learned that the Doctor had resigned as a member of Universal's voting trust.
SIDNEY R. KENT
Before that final impasse in the GB deal arrived, the figure of S. R. Kent was seen in New York, Hollywood and far-off London. After his trip overseas, he returned in good time to again enjoy the experience of being named the executive chief of 20th Century-Fox.
To honor him, and company's product with maximum bookings, his aide-de-camps, plus the exchange and sales shock troops, launched the Kent Drive which (a) swept the features and shorts lineup into fields of national and international clover, and (b) succeeded in piling up as pretty a mound of gross, and subsequently net, as an ardent auditor could wish for. Returned from the coast as year neared its close heralding "In Old Chicago" as the company's greatest effort.
• R. H. COCHRANE
Meeting of Universal's directors in late November turned the news spotlight of both the trade and daily press full upon R. H. Cochrane, Universal's president. Board elected R. H. to the chairmanship of the executive committee, succeeding J. Cheever Cowdin, and designated Nate J. Blumberg as his presidential successor. R. H. accepted the chairmanship, but resigned early in 1938. Earlier in the year, Cochrane had crusaded for higher admissions, hod attended the company's sales convention on the Coast, had appointed Gus Schoefer export manager, filling a vacancy caused by resignation of N. L. Monheim.
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