Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1940)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, June 5, 194( RKO Stockholders' Annual Meet Today RKO's first annual stockholders' meeting since its reorganization will be held at Dover, Del., today. No election of directors is scheduled inasmuch as the present board was designated for a two-year term with Federal court approval prior to the reorganization last year. Stockholders will be asked to approve an amendment to the company's by-law authorizing the indemnification by the company of any officer or director against whom a judgment is obtained in any action resulting from performance of official duties. George J. Schaefer, president ; Richard C. Patterson, board chairman ; William Merrill, vice-president ; Gordon Youngman. counsel ; Garrett Van Wagner, assistant treasurer, and J. Miller Walker, assistant secretary, will attend the meeting. Engel Is Honored At Party in Albany Albany, June 4. — Joseph J. Engel, former Universal branch manager here, was feted at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel yesterday before returning to Cleveland where he will work as special representative. Engel was presented with a watch by Bernie Krauze, RKO branch manager on behalf of the Albany film exchange representatives. Speakers were M. A. Silver, Warners Theatres zone manager ; Louis R. Golding, Fabian Theatres district manager, and George Tucker, RKO salesman. Personal Mention ED KUYKENDALL, M.P.T.O.A. president, who has been attending Neely bill hearings in Washington, will arrive here today. • Charles Boasberg, new Eastern central district manager for RKO, and Elmer Lux, who succeeds him as Buffalo manager, arrived yesterday for home office conferences. • Harry Cohen, Western district manager for RKO, will leave today for the Coast. • Sol Lesser, enroute to Hollywood, stopped over in Columbus, O., to visit his son, Julian Lesser, and family. • Jerome A. Siegel, son of Henry Siegel of the Little Carnegie Playhouse, and Jeanne Y. Siegel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Siegel, were married yesterday. The couple will honeymoon in Mexico. • Jacob Lavene, manager of the Academy in Buffalo, is home from the hospital after several months' illness. • W. S. Tower, Jr., Erpi special representative, has returned from a six-month stay in Argentina and Brazil. William J. Heineman, Arthur Kelly, Maurice Bergman, Hank Linet, Abe Schneider and William Fitelson lunching at the Tavern yesterday. TOM PETTEY, former press representative for Producers Association, is here from Hollywood to discuss with PM his new work as Hollywood correspondent for the publication. e Charles D. Prutzman, Lou Pollock, Larry Waterman, Morris Alin, Andy Sharick and Hank Linet, all of Universal, attended the Gloria Jean fashion show at the Plaza last night. • Arthur Silverstone, Seymour Poe and Sam Cosman at Lindy's (next to the Rivoli) yesterday for lunch. • Charles Sonin, Russell Holman, Ed Saunders, Charles Casanave, Max A. Cohen and Erno Rapee at Nick's Hunting Room in the Astor for lunch j'esterday. • Arthur Loew, Charles E. McCarthy, Herman Wobber, Harry Ruby, Robert Benjamin, Arthur Krim, Mort Spring, Sidney Phillips, Joseph Rosthal, Tony Martin and Eddie Dowling lunching at Sardi's yesterday. • Joseph Moskowitz, J. J. Milstein, Hal Horne, Kay Kamen and Joseph Pincus at Lindy's (51st St.) for lunch yesterday. • Adolph G. Johnson and Al Robbins of the Strand, Hamden, Conn., have returned after a brief visit to Washington. r VJalifornia texas 'arizona Daily Coast-to-Coast ir It's a delightfully cool overnight skysleeper trip to Los Angeles via American's Southern All-Year Route! Delicious meals aloft. Stewardess service. For reservations, call your Travel CONVENIENT DEPARTURES The Sun Country Special 7:00 am The Plainsman . 4:25 pm The Mercury. .5:10pm Agent or HAvemeyer 6-5000. Ticket The Southerner . . .10:15 pm Offices: Rockefeller Center, 18 W. 49th (Standard Time) St. ; Grand Central, 45 Vanderbilt Ave. ~n . r AMERICAN AIRLINES jw ROUTE OF THE FLAGSHIPS Bioff to Complete Six-Month Sentence Springfield, 111., June 4 — The 111 inois Supreme Court today struck the last appeal of William Bioff, I.A.T.S.E. Hollywood leader, now serving six months in Chicago on an old pandering charge. Counsel for Bioff moved to dismiss a petition for a writ of error since the Court could not normally rule on it until the October term, by which time Bioff will have completed his sentence. The Court previously had refused to free Bioff on bail pending outcome of the appeal. British Council Film Position to Kearney London, June 4.— Neville Kearney, who resigned recently as secretary of The British Film Production Association, has been appointed to direct the Film Department of the British Council. The British Council is a semi-official body, Government sponsored, and to some extent Government controlled, one of whose prime objectives is British propaganda abroad. Kearney's appointment indicates an intensification of the use of the film as a means of British ballyhoo in foreign countries. MOTION PICTURE STUDIO Fully equipped for operation Location — New York City Will lease or join organization having business or use for same. Schlusine. 1440 Broadway, New York. 20th-Fox Wins Suit Brought by Soldier Washington, June 4. — Justice James W. Morris of the District of Columbia Federal District Court today dismissed the $1,000,000 suit against 20th Century Fox brought by Robert H. Sheets, cavalry soldier, who claimed he wrote the scenario of "Road to Glory." After hearing the case for two monthg, the court found that She 'tlx copied the story from a 'r realization of the film in a fan magazine. Warners, Radtke Sued Over Patent Patent infringement suit againsi Warners, Radtke Patent Corp., Alberi A. Radtke and Leonard Day was filet yesterday in Federal court by th'i Photometric Products Corp. The action, which asks for an injunction and an accounting, claims thai Radtke developed a patent callec 'Methods and Means of Optically Reproducing Sound" while in the employ of the plaintiff's predecessoi company. The plaintiff contends the defendant allegedly conspired to deprive the plaintiff of the patent by assigning it to Radtke Patent Corp According to the complaint, Erpi, the International Projection Corp., RCA and other companies are now paying royalties on the patent. Producers Resume Labor Discussiom Hollywood, June 4.— Producers Association members today resumed discussions of problems created by laboi negotiations. They agreed to set i date for a conference with A.F.L! studio union representatives later ir the week, sent a reply to the Office Employes union which demands a closed shop contract for Central Casting Corp. employes, and discussec Screen Writers Guild contract demands. N. J. Allied to Meet Meeting, dinner and a "social evening" will be held by New Jersey Allied tomorrow at the Roger Smitf Hotel, New Brunswick. Lee Newbury, president, will be in charge. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. 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