Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1944)

10 Motion Picture Daily Friday, October 6, 1944 Equipment Dealers Open Annual Convention Today Chicago, Oct. 5. — The annual convention of the Theatre Equipment Dealers Protective Association will open here today at the Bismarck Hotel with a record attendance of 150 to 200 and the largest membership in its history. The meeting will be swelled by official speakers from Washington as well as by scores of industry leaders during the three-day sessions. The problems facing the 41 company members are manifold, and of the utmost importance at the present moment with the possibility of V-E Day coming before the first of the year, posing the question of reconversion which would permit construction of new theatres, re-conditioning and equipping of others. The opening session will be devoted to a closed business meeting for members of the Association as well as the equipment manufacturers and representatives of allied interests. Also today, the first of a series of discussions will be held covering the mutual problems of dealers and manufacturers, as well as charting of courses for the trade, not only for the two remaining months of this year, but also for 1945, and taking both the possibility of continuing war or sudden peace into consideration. Smith to Speak Allen G. Smith, WPB Theatre head in Washington, will address the convention, as will Nathan D. Golden, head of the film division of the Department of Commerce. Both men came to the convention from Washington, and Smith will give the members his views on the material situation on Saturday, while Golden will discuss the outlook for film trade in the foreign market on Sunday. Smith's speech will be a prepared one, but he is also ready to answer questions of dealers and manufacturers on changing orders of the WPB regarding the release of theatre equipment materials following V-E Day. On Sunday, last day of the convention, the morning will be devoted to an open forum between dealers and manufacturers in which they will air their problems and discuss post war demands in the equipment field. The convention will close Sunday night with the address by Golden who will also talk about the increasing demands of equipment for export after the fall of Germany. No officers will be elected, Ray G. Colvin of the Exhibitors Supply of St. Louis continuing as president and secretary. Chicago Representatives Among the Chicago representatives at the convention will be the DeVry Corporation, with William C. DeVry having made the arrangements for the Hotel Bismarck ; Bell and Howell, represented by James Booth, vice president ; Motiograph, whose delegation will be represented by the Matthews brothers ; Roy Boomer and Ray Sherman. M. H. and E. W. Goldberg as well as B. Pearlman will represent Golde Manufacturing Co., Samuel Levinson the Chicago Used Chair Co., and C. G. Anders and V. 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