Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, January 20, 1948 FT Personal Mention John execu ERNEST EMERLING and Murphy, Loew Theatre tives, returned to New York yesterday from Norfolk, Richmond and Washington. • A. W. Schwalberg, Eagle-Lion general sales manager ; Max E. Youngstein, advertising-publicity director; Harold S. Dunn, assistant general sales manager, and Frank Soule, head of branch operations, have returned to New York from Dallas. • Gene Arneel of the Motion Picture Daily editorial staff returned to his 'home in Brooklyn yesterday from Kings County Hospital to complete recuperation from a leg fracture. Arneel will observe a birthday today. David I. Goldstein, son of Springfield, Mass., exhibitor Nathan E. Goldstein, and Ritta Vorobeitchik of Belgium were married recently in Brussels. • M. B. Horwitz, general manager of the Washington circuit, Cleveland, and Mrs. Horwitz are in New York to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. • Nathan Halpern, assistant to Columbia Broadcasting president Frank Stanton, is en route to Hollywood from here. • Milton Kramer, Selznick Releasing Organization board chairman, left here for London by plane over the weekend. • Ed Hinchy, head of the Warner playdate department, will be in Washington today from New York. • William B. Levy, Walt Disney Prod, sales chief, is en route to the Coast from New York. • Silas F. Seadler, M-G-M advertising manager, will go to the Coast from New York shortly. ,262,147 Record Cinecolor Gross Hollywood, Jan. 19. — Cinecolor Corp. discloses that the company set a new sales record of $2,262,147 for the year of Oct. 1, 1946, to Sept. 27, 1947. Net profit for the period amounted to $305,780. After dividend payments, sales for the year showed a 265 per cent increase over sales for the previous year, which totalled $850,949. Due to the increased volume of busines, Cinecolor was able to reduce the price on release printing by one-half cent per foot. The company also absorbed an 11.17 per cent cost of living wage increase last year. William T. Crespinel, Cinecolor president, points out that Cinecolor's color process is now well established. May Dissolve AMPA At Meeting Friday Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, 32-year-old industry organization composed principally of publicity, advertising and trade press personnel of the East, is headed for dissolution. Officers and members will meet at Headquarters Restaurant here on Friday to terminate AMPA's welfare activities in view of the establishment of the Motion Picture Foundation, and to decide whether AMPA should continue as a purely social organization. Phil Williams, vice-president, submitted his resignation yesterday, effective Feb. 1. Arnold Stoltz, president, and Max Stein, treasurer, are slated to resign Friday, it is understood. If it is decided that AMPA shall continue as a social club, new officers will be nominated on Friday. AMPA was organized in New York in 1916. The late Arthur James, advertising-publicity director of the old Metro Pictures, was its first president, serving two terms. The organization's first social function was a "farewell" luncheon for Terry Ramsaye who, in that year as advertising-publicity head of the old Mutual Film Corp., transferred his office from New York to Chicago. Ramsaye is editor of Motion Picture Herald. Skouras Flies to UK Today to See Rank Due to a last minute change in plans, Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, postponed his departure for England from Saturday and will leave here by plane tonight instead. Purpose of his trip is to discuss with J. Arthur Rank the proposed merger of the Gaumont-British and Odeon circuits. " Twentieth-Fox has a substantial interest in Metropolis and Bradford Trust, which controls G-B. Murray Silverstone, president of 20th-Fox International, and Otto Koegel, general counsel, left here aboard the Queen Mary on Saturday. 7 "Paradine" Coast Runs at Upped Rates Hollywood, Jan 19. — David O. Selznick's "The Paradine Case" will be playing seven runs at advanced admissions in this territory on Wednesday, when the picture, which already is playing at the Bruin and Vogue here, is scheduled to open at the Fifth Avenue, Inglewood; Valley, North Hollywood ; Long Beach, Long Beach ; Tower, Pasadena; Rialto, Los Angeles. Sir Alfred to Sir Alex London, Jan. 19— Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, lately Britain's Ambassador to France, has become chairman of a French production company which is being formed by Sir Alexander Korda's London Films. Services for Walt Bennin Milwaukee, Jan. 19. — Final rites for Walter Bennin, 43, M-G-M office manager here, were held yesterday. He died Jan. 15 of a heart attack. Reade Wins Appeal in Pact Suit A gainstRKO The 1942 contract between Long Park, Inc., one of Walter Reade's theatre companies, and RKO Service Corp. has been declared "illegal, void and unenforceable" by the New York Circuit Court of Appeals in Albany. The appeal, brought by the Reade affiliate, which was awarded all legal fees, was from a decision rendered last July by the Appellate Division. Involved are 12 houses in Trenton and New Brunswick, N. J., of which Reade is part owner. It was said by the Reade office here yesterday that while the decision would affect the management of the theatres immediately, it would not in any way alter the holdings of either Reade or RKO. 575 Theatres Are in St. Louis Territory There are 575 theatres with a seating capacity of 336,215 in operation in the St. Louis territory, according to a new theatre directory which the Motion Picture Association of America is releasing today. The 22nd in a series of 31 directories, the St. Louis directory reveals that the territory's three largest cities : St. Louis, East St. Louis and Springfield, have a total of 112 theatres w;" a capacity of 109,893. St. Louis al has 94, with a capacity of 93,588, or an average of 996 seats per house. In the St. Louis area, 244 theatres are located in 236 towns with a population of 2,500 and under. They account for a total capacity of 79,030, or an average of 324 seats per theatre. 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