Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1946)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, January 15, 194o Broidy Arrives for Mono. Board Meet Steve Broidy, Monogram president, arrived here from Hollywood yesterday to complete arrangements with Ruthrauff and Ryan, advertising agency, for the promotion of "Suspense" ; also for discussions with sales department executives and negotiations for new story properties and to preside at a board of directors meeting here Feb. 4. On his calendar for today is a press reception at the Hotel Gotham. Broidy will return to Hollywood on Feb. 10. Implementing his recent election to the company presidency, Broidy has been named president of the company's domestic subsidiaries by their respective boards of directors. W. Ray Johnston, former president, has become board chairman of the subsidiaries ; these include Monogram Distributing Corp., and Monogram Productions, Inc. Norton V. Ritchey continues as president of Monogram International, of which Broidy has become board chairman, and Johnston named vicechairman. MPAA Closes Deal On Washington Site Washington, Jan. 14. — Purchase of a Washington headquarters for the Motion Picture Association of America has been announced by President Eric Johnston, confirming a report in Motion Picture Daily on Jan. 7 that such purchase was forthcoming. The building purchased from the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board for an undisclosed sum and now occupied by the National Housing Agency, is at 16th and I Streets, N.W., two blocks from the U. S. Chamber of Commerce where Johnston now maintains his office. It contains 20 offices and a conference room. Uncertainty prevails as to when MPAA will move in, but it is pointed out that the building will be used as it now stands and that no plans are contemplated toward razing it and erecting a national film industry center which Johnston has visualized. Newsreel Pact Talks Will Start Jan. 23 Newsreel heads will meet with representatives of IATSE Newsreel Cameramen Locals No. 644, New York, and No. 666, Chicago, and possibly of Local No. 659, Hollywood, here, on Jan. 23 to start negotiations on a new contract for about 100 cameramen. Pat Casey, producers labor representative, will participate in the negotiations. As reported in Motion Picture Daily on Jan. 4, the cameramen have asked for approximately 18 per cent wage increases to raise them from their present $126 per week to $150, plus other benefits. Walter A. Lang will represent the New York cameramen's local, and W. H. Strafford, the Chicago local. Personal Mention ARTHUR M. LOEW, head of Loew's International, will leave here tomorrow on a month's vacation trip to Mexico City and subsequently to Hollywood. Joseph Drelling, Universal newsreel cameraman, and Dennis Bassone, Movietone newsreeler, have been named to the executive board of the Press Photographers Association of Philadelphia. Tom Donaldson, M-G-M Boston manager, will arrive in New York today for conferences with E. K. O'Shea, Eastern sales manager, and will return on. Thursday. • Tom Young, 20th Century-Fox branch manager in Memphis, and staff members Paul Glisson, Nat Wise, John Carter and Leo Wintker have returned to Memphis from New Orleans. Joel Bezahler, home office assistant to J. E. Flynn, M-G-M Midwest sales manager, is celebrating 25 years with the company this month. • Roger Williams, Paramount International manager of Puerto Rico, left here yesterday by plane for his post at San Juan. • William Gleicher, head of M-GM's theatre auditing department, returned here yesterday from St. Louis and Kansas City. • Paul Greenhalgh, business manager of Jay Emanuel interests, Philadelphia, is the father of a son born there recently. • Charles N. Ryan, assistant zone manager of Warner Theatres, Chicago, became the grandfather of a third grandson recently. • Carl Floyd, Florida circuit executive, is in Atlanta. • Harry Katz of PRC Pictures, Atlanta, has gone to Charlotte. TA.MES R. GRAINGER, Republic »J vice-president and general sales manager, has arrived in Hollywood from New York. • Leonard Allen, Paramount advertising and publicity manager in Atlanta, is back at his post after a Miami vacation. • Matthew M. Levy, special counsel to the IATSE, is en route to Hollywood from New York on "IA" matters. • William Eshbaugh, vice-president in charge of sales of Ted Eshbaugh Studios, has returned to the Coast from New York. • Arthur C. Bromberg, president of Monogram Southern Exchanges, is in New Orleans on business. Mrs. Bromberg is visiting a sister in Mobile. • Hal Pereira returned to Paramount's New York office yesterday following three weeks in Hollywood. • Lyle Richmond, operator of the Missouri Theatre, Senath, Mo., has gone to Florida for a vacation. • Grover Parsons, Paramount branch manager, has returned to Atlanta from Birmingham. • Robert and Ellison Dunn of the Dunn Circuit, Donaldsville, Ga., are visiting in Atlanta. • Elmer Sedin, RKO Radio home office representative, is visiting in Atlanta. • F. C. Marxsen of Shaw & Shaw Theatres, Quincy, Fla., is visiting in Memphis with his family. • Howard Pettengill of Florida State Theatres, Jacksonville, is visiting in Atlanta. • Don Jacocks of D. and Q. Theatres, Boston, is in New York for a few days. Classics to Produce In '46: Goldhammer Film Classics will "definitely" produce starting in six or eight months, according to Nickey Goldhammer, vice-president and general sales manager, who is here from Hollywood conferring with company executives. He will return to the Coast in about three weeks. Goldhammer announces the acquisition of the Milwaukee franchise and exchange from Ben Marcus. Film Classics now owns six of its own exchanges. Para. Board Meet Today Paramount's board of directors meeting, twice postponed, is now slated to be held at the home office here today. The meeting is expected to effect some changes in executive duties, among them the official appointment of Fred Morhardt as treasurer. Cowdin, Scully and Bergman to Coast J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal board chairman, will leave New York for the Coast this week to participate with other company executives in annual studio production conferences and in matters relating to the organization of United World Pictures. William A. Scully, sales head, and Maurice Bergman, Eastern advertising publicity chief, will join the group following a current sales meeting in Chicago, and one in San Francisco. Other Universal executives who will sit in on the discussions, now are on the Coast, including Nate Blumberg, president; Joseph H. Seidelman, president of Universal International ; Cliff Work, vice-president and general manager in charge of production, and John Joseph, advertising publicity director. Matty Fox, William Goetz, Leo Spitz and Monroe Greenthal of United World also are on the Coast. A Mighty Romantic Drama of America's Last Frontier DAKOTA A REPUBLIC PICTURE Starring JOHN WAYNE and Featuring VERA HRUBA RALSTON and WALTER BRENNAN with WARD BOND . 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