Kinematograph year book (1948)

54 The Kinemato graph Year Book. Who's What in the Industry ABBOTT, HERBERT, managing director, Gorton District Cinemas, Ltd. ; member Manchester branch C.E.A. Committee ; member of council and a founder member of Society of Cinematurians. Entered trade as pianist, 1909 ; became general and booking manager, Gorton District Cinemas, 1930, and later managing director. Address : Regent Super Cinema, Princess Road, Fallowfield, Manchester 14. Tel. : Moss Side 1955. ABELES, Jr., ARTHUR S., executive assistant to Max Milder, managing director, Warner Bros. ; b. 1914; ed. Duke University, Columbia University, U.S. ; general manager, West Indies, Warner ; 1929-41 ; assistant general manager, Brasil, Universal, 1941 ; general manager Uruguay, Warner, 1942-4 ; supervisor, Argentine, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, Warner, 1945-7 Addresses : Warner House, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 5600. Private : 22, Hasker Street, London, S.W. Tel. : Kensington 8357. ADDENBROOKE, COUNC. H. R. V., general manager, Morecambe Tower Theatre and Ballroom ; vice-chairman West Lanes. Branch C.E.A., 1946-7 ; b. Dudley, Worcestershire ; entered entertainment business 1909 ; manager, Floral Hall, Scarborough, 1910 ; general manager, Morecambe Tower in 1912 ; is vicechairman of Morecambe Corp. ; Entertainments and Publicity Committee and chairman of local Entertainment and Proprietors Association. Addresses : Office : Tower, Morecambe ; Tel. : Morecambe 116. Private : Villeiranche, Thornton Road, Morecambe. ADLEY, HARRY, managing director, Younger Publicity Service, Ltd. and associated companies ; b. 1902 ; entered trade in 1924 as producer of advertising films ; formed Younger Publicity, 1925, Younger Film Prod., Ltd., 1927, and National Film Corp., 1930 ; is director of several kinema companies ; chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Advertising and Industrial Film Association. Address : 28, Albemarle Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Regent 6593. AINSWORTH, REGINALD HENRY, general manager, Regent, Brighton ; vice-chairman, Sussex Branch C.E.A. ; vice-chairman, Brighton and Hove Entertainment Managers' Association; ed. Queen's College, London. Address : Regent, Queens Road, Brighton. Tel.: 8248-9. ALBIN, ARTHUR S., managing director, Embassy, Granton, Edinburgh ; general manager, New' Tivoli, Edinburgh ; chairman of the East of Scotland section C.E.A., for past 25 years ; b. 1875 ; entered trade as kinema pianist ; opened own kinema at Shettleston in 1913 and later purchased another at Hawick ; a past chairman of Scottish Branch C.E.A. ; and member of Benevolent Fund Committee. Addresses : Office : New Tivoli, Edinburgh. Private: Rose Villa, Viewforth, Edinburgh. ALBIN, WILLIAM, J. P., managing director, Leith Cinema Co., Ltd. ; director Granton Cinema Co., Ltd. ; general manager and director Thornliebank Cinema Co., Ltd., Glasgow ; chairman of Kinnear Morison, Ltd. ; b. 1893, Glasgow ; entered trade 1910 ; formerly proprietor of Pavilion and Palace, Dalkeith ; past chairman of the Scottish branch C.E.A., 1938 ; past president and trustee of the Scottish C.T.B.F. ; delegate to General Council. Addresses : Office : The State Cinema, Gt. Junction Street, Leith, Tel. : 37369. Private : 12, Queensferry Terrace, Edinburgh, Tel. : 33374. ALCOTT, ARTHUR, production controller, Gainsborough Pictures (1928), Ltd ; b. 1894, Hampstead ; entered trade 1910 ; production manager British Lion 1926-1939 ; joined Gainsborough 1940; recent films "Man in Grey," " Fanny by Gaslight," " Love Story," "I'll Be Your Sweetheart," "Caravan," " Root of All Evil." Addresses : Office : Lime Grove Studios, London, W.12, Tel. : Shepherds Bush 12 10. Private: Eastbury Cottage, Holland Road, London, W.14, Tel. : Western 3i67. ALDOUS, DONALD W., F.R.S.A., M. Inst.E., M.B.K.S., Assoc. S.M.P.E. Director, Walden Films, Ltd., sound department ; founder member and technical secretary of Br. Sound Recording Association, and hon. editor of its publications. Author of " Manual of Direct Disc Recording." Addresses : BCM BSRA, London, W.C.i, and " Strathdee," Studley Road, Torquay, Devon. Tel. : Torquay 87325. ALEXANDER, DONALD, documentary film producer ; chairman of DATA Film Unit ; member of management committee of Federation of Documentary Film Units; b. 1913; ed. Shrewsbury and St. John's, Cambridge. Joined Paul Rotha, Strand Films, 1935 ; Film Centre, Shell and Realist Film Unit, 1939-41 ; Paul Rotha Productions, 1941-4 ; with others founded DATA, 1944. Addresses: Office : DATA, 21, Soho Square, W.i. Tel.: Gerrard 2826. Private : Sparrow Wycke, Mundon, Essex. ALLEN, R. H., member of N.W. Branch C.E.A. committee, and accountant to Cheshire County Cinemas, Ltd., b. 1901, Liverpool. Joined Cheshire County Cinemas, 1936. Addresses : Office, Empress Cinema, Runcorn. Tel. : Runcorn 2291. Private : Lyndhurst, W'estern Crescent, Runcorn. Tel. : Runcorn 2197. ' ALLEN, S. C, director, Famous Films (London), Ltd., b. 1907, Cricklewood. Entered Kodak Ltd., 1924. Independent producer and distributor of interest films and featurettes since 1931. Address : 179, Wardour Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 4038. ANDREWS, ALFRED ERNEST, joint managing director Monarch Film Corp., b. 1890. Joined Gaumont Co., 1911 ; general sales manager 1927-33; general sales manager, Pathe 1933-43 ; managing director, Andrick