Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Friday, September 16, 19 Warner Golf Tourney Has 125 Entries About 125 golfers will tee off this morning at the annual Warner Club golf tournament at the Old Oaks Country Club, Purchase, N. Y. Arthur Sachson, Jerry Keyser and Leonard Palumbo will handle the arrangements at the club. In addition to the regular nlay there will be a putting contest, longest drive contest and a hole-in-one contest. Lunch will be served between 12 and 2 P.M. In the evening dinner will be served and prizes will be awarded by Leonard Schlesinger. Warner Club members and guests attending will include : Joby Adams, Lou Aldrich, Ken Aneser, Charles Baily, Harold Bareford, E. Bisher, Joe Bloom, Al Blum, Clayton Bond, Jim Brennan, W. V. Brooks, W. A. Cannon, Al Carpenter, Joe Castellano, E. Carney, Andrew Connor, M. J. Connor, H. E. Cooke, Lou Dennis, H. M. Doherty, Mike Dolid, Nat Fellman, .Charles Foder, Norman Foley, S. Friedman, Morton Gerber, J. J. Clynn, Gil Golden. Dick Golden, Larry Golob, Jess Gourley, Gene Grant, L. B. Griffin, Roy Haines, W. S. Halliday, Maurice Henry, Ed Hinchy. Joe Hummel, Frank Hurtt, Irving Hyland. Saul Immerman, Don Jacocks, Arthur Jones, Louis Kaufman, Jerry Keyser, Ray Kinney, B. Klawans, Herb Kempe, Ernest Lange, James Lannon, Paul Lazarus, J. N. Lubin, Stan Levine, Harold Lee, Karl MacDonald, Pat Marcone, Frank Marshall, Tommy Martin, Dr. Merk>amer. Stewart McDonald, R. A. McGuire, Joe McLaughlin. Edwin Morris, Harry Novak. Tome O'Sullivan, Lenny Palumbo, Sid Rechetnik, Elkan Reiner, Sol Reiner, Lester Rieger, Larry Roberts, Harold Rodner, Harry Rosenquest, Alan Rubinger, C. C. Ryan. Lee Rogers, Henry Sanicola, Sam Sax. Martin Schiff, Leonard Schlesinger, S. Schneider. Ed Schnitzer, E. Schreiber, Sol Shernow, Arthur Siegel, A. Silver, Stan Smithers, Herman Starr, Fred Stern, Lee Stewart, Dan Triester. Al Trojak, E. N. Ullberg. A. Vigard. Albert Warner, Charles Warren. Rudy Weiss, Gene Werner, Hal White. Jacob Wilk, Bob Williams, Roy Winkler. Cy Wood and Joe Zybulewski. Tack Alicoate. James M. Jerauld. James P. Cunningham. A-Mike Vogel, Jack Harrower, Roy Chartier, Abe Bernstein, James Cron. Ray Gallegher, Floyd Stone, Hy Daab and Chick Lewis. i Purely Personal ► AH. McCAUSLAND, Irving • Trust representative in RKO, will leave tonight for the coast by train for studio conferences. He expects to return in time for the RKO reorganization hearing in Federal court Sept. 29. • Sonny Seidelman, young son of J. H. Seidelman, Universal foreign head, who returned with his father from Europe yesterday, spent the summer at a camp in the Alps. • Ed Kuykendall, M.P.T.O.A. president, who postponed his scheduled trip to New York a week ago, will arrive here Monday from his Columbus. Miss., home. • Gladys Swarthout, accompanied by her husband, Frank Chapman, will leave today for Hollywood. Lynne Overman is also heading west. • B. N. J udell has acquired the midwestern territorial rights to "Adventures of Chico," produced and distributed by Woodward Productions. • Don Velde, in charge of Paramount's accessory department, will return next week from a field trip. • Bing Crosby left Chicago yesterday en route here. He will sail for a vacation in Bermuda. • Mort Bltjmenstock is redecorating his home. SAMSON S. KRITZBERG, president of Amkino, is on a two-week tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio and upstate New York towns, accompanied by Selig Pitt, Ohio representative. • Rita Mooney, secretary to J. E. Robin, equipment dealer, will be married next week to Neal Brenkert, son of Karl Brenkert, head of Brenkert Light Projection Lamp Co. • N. H. Goldstein returned to Springfield, Mass., yesterday following business conferences with Y. Frank Free man and Leon Netter at the Para mount home office. • Ellen Drew, Paramount player left Hollywood yesterday for a tour of 30 key cities in which she will make personal appearances. • Charles A. Morla, assistant foreign export manager of Monogram, will sail today on the Santa Rosa on a seven-week business trip. Raymond Duport, sales and promotion manager of the Forest Mfg. Corp., has left on a 10-day trip through the south. • Jack Bellman, Republic district manager, is due today from Albany conferences. William S. Hart is due from the coast today to attend the trial of his suit against U. A. Bargaining Demands Come Up at Hearing Hollywood, Sept. 15. — With the Screen Directors' Guild announcing that in the course of the hearing it intended getting testimony from Jack L. Warner, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B Mayer and Hunt Stromberg, copies of the bargaining demands by the guild were introduced today before N.L.R.B. Examiner William Ringer. Demands made by the guild which were stymied by producers' insistence that the guild is not the proper bargaining representative for assistant directors and unit managers in addition to directors were outlined. ITOA Goes to Astor Allied of New Jersey will lose a neighbor next Monday when the I.T.O.A. will move from the Lincoln Hotel to the third floor of the Astor. For three years the two independent exhibitor organizations have been neighbors on the same floor of the Lincoln, although sometimes they have been unfriendly in their rivalry. Crime Group Starts Chance Games Attack A crusade against theatre chance games by the Society for the Prevention of Crime, backed by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, resulted in the arraignment yesterday of the staff of the Jewel Theatre in Harlem in Magistrate's Court on a charge of conducting a lottery. Harry G. Kosch, counsel for the Belle Circuit, which operates the house, obtained postponement of the hearing to Oct. 4. Magistrate Peter A. Abies continued bail of $25 for each defendant, which was given in Night Court following the police raid. Mr. Kosch said in court that numerous theatres in New York state are running some kind of chance game, that they have been upheld by some court decisions and that he intends to make a test case of the Jewel Theatre prosecution, with appeal to the state Supreme Court if necessary. Milstein Appointed Small's Agent Here Hollywood, Sept. 15. — Edward Small today appointed J. J. Milstein as his New York representative. Mr. Milstein, who resigned last December after two years as Republic sales manager, will have charge of all eastern contacts for the producer. Mr. Milstein is here now and will remain for 10 days in conferences with Mr. Small and his executive staff. Prior to going with Republic he was in charge of sales for M-G-M in the Los Angeles territory for 12 years. He produced "Fight for Peace" recently. Curry Forming New Company in England Harry Curry, sales executive in England who at one time represented Warners and Paramount in Great Britain and Paramount in Australia, is forming a new English independent producing and distributing organization, which is intended to work on a reciprocal basis with American independent companies. It i= his plan, Mr. Curry declared at a trade press luncheon at the Tavern yesterday, to produce films in England for quota purposes there. Those which are thought satisfactory for this market will be distributed in the United States by J. H. Hofifberg Co. Mr. Hoffberg was the co-host at yesterday's luncheon. Mr. Curry has purchased about 12 American independent films for English distribution. He goes back to England on the Georgic tomorrow. Hicks Moves Foreign Men Three shifts in the Paramount foreign office managerial setup have been made by John W. Hicks, vicepresident in charge of foreign distribution. Henry Gordon, formerly at Trinidad, has been appointed to the Panama office. Robert L. Graham of the Australian office has been named Gordon's assistant in the Canal Zone. Saul Jacobs, manager at Guatemala, has been transferred to Trinidad. Freeman Will Spend More Time in Fiel Y. Frank Freeman, Paramoc theatre head, will spend more tii in the field visiting with the coi pany's theatre associates at their c erating headquarters as a matter future policy, he said yesterday. The new procedure will elimin; the projected meeting with the coi pany's western associates in Chffl this fall, as the individual opera!' in that territory will be visited by & Freeman within the next few montl His initial schedule will take him Toronto next week for conferenc with N. L. Nathanson and J. J. Fil gibbons. He will spend next wee end in New Orleans conferring wi E. V. Richards and will go to A lanta from there for conferences wi the heads of the Lucas & Jenki circuit. Other Paramount associat will be visited later, Mr. Freem: said. Basil Dean Resigns From A.T.P. Studh London, Sept. 15. — Basil Dean, e ecutive head of Associated Talki: Pictures Studio, which he founded 1931, has severed his connection wi that organization, as well as with A sociated British Film Distributors, Lt Mr. Dean has long been a leadii figure in the entertainment world hei noted as a producer both of stage pla and pictures. His future plans are n vet known. Consolidated Pays 25c Consolidated Film Industries' dire tors yesterday voted a dividend of i cents on the preferred stock, payat Oct. 10 to stockholders of record Sej 26. Selznick Signs Hitchcock Hollywood, Sept. 15. — Selznick International today signed Alfred Hitchcock to direct "Rebecca," from the Daphne du Maurier novel soon to be published in the United States. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) MARTIN QUIGLEY, Editor-in-Chief and Pi lisher; 3. M. JERAULD, Managing Edit JAMES A. 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