Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, April 13, 1948 Coming Events Today through Saturday — International Variety Clubs convention, Roney Plaza Hotel, Miami Beach Hotel, Miami Beach. April 1A — Installation of officers of the Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith, Hotel Astor, New York. April 19-21— Third National Television Institute, Hotel New Yorker, New York. May 4 — Independent Theatre Owners of Arkansas annual convention, Little Rock. May 2 — Jewish Theatrical Guild dinner to Walter Vincent, Hotel Astor, New York. May 7-8 — Independent Theatre Owners of Iowa and Nebraska convention, Des Moines (Iowa section). May 10-11 — Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Iowa and Nebraska convention, Omaha (Nebraska section). May 18-19— Allied Rocky Mountain ITO convention, Denver. May 17-21 — SMPE semi-annual convention, Santa Monica, Cal. May 21 — Motion Picture Associates annual dinner-dance, WaldorfAstoria Hotel, New York. Eyssell Hosts Rogers Memorial Executives Executive board members of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital were guests of G. S. Eyssell, president and managing director of Radio City Music Hall here at a luncheon in the theatre's studio apartment yesterday. In addition to board members, representatives of film companies and independent theatre groups were also present to discuss financial plans for the industry's hospital at Saranac, N. Y. Seidelman to London On E-L Sales Policy Sam Seidelman, Eagle-Lion foreign distribution general manager, will fly to London tomorrow to confer with J. Arthur Rank Organization and Pathe chiefs and to set sales policies on E-L distribution in the United Kingdom by those companies. He will also confer with heads of Rank's organization who handle Eagle-Lion product on the Continent and in the Far East. Joe Marks to Canada London, April 12. — Joe Marks, general sales-manager of London's Pathe Pictures, leaves Britain on the S.S. Queen Mary on April 30, to settle in Canada with Mrs. Marks and their two children. Marks was on the sales staff of RKO Radio here from 1930 until he joined Pathe in 1944. Ad Rates Raised 15% Pittsfield, Mass., April 12. — Theatre managers here have been informed that advertising rates of the Berkshire Evening Eagle have been raised 15 per cent. Personal Mention FRANK CAPRA is in New York from Hollywood. • James Brennan, Jr., son of the late James Brennan, who was RKO Radio Eastern division manager, has joined the managerial staff of Walter Reade Theatres in Asbury Park, N. J. • Gar O'Neil, well-known in industry advertising circles, has joined Wiley, Frazee, Davenport, Inc., advertising agency here, in an executive capacity. Zeva Yovan, formerly assistant manager at Loew's Theatre, Indianapolis, has been appointed manager of Loew's Orpheum, St. Louis. • R. M. (Bob) Savini, Astor Picures president, is in Miami from New York. Leo Seligman, treasurer of Favorite Films, will return to New York next Monday, from Miami. • Bernie Myerson, Fabian's Staten Island booker, is the new father of a boy, Alan Randall. • Jack Romaner, assistant to Lou Kaufman, of Warner Theatres, is a father for the second time. • James A. Cron has left his advertising managerial post at Showmen 's Trade Review here. • Bill Schulman, Realart advertising-publicity director, has returned here from Boston. Montague Salmon of the Rivoli here will be marshal of an Appeal for Children Parade on April 23. Ben Y. Cammack, RKO Radio Southern division manager, Dallas, has been visiting in Memphis. Harold Lane of the State Theatre, Crothersville, Ind., will undergo an operation Friday. Ben Henry of Universal, London, and Mrs. Henry arrived here last night from England. Irving Sochin, U-I Cincinnati branch manager, has become a father for the third time. • Eddie Cantor will be honored by B'nai B'rith at a testimonal in Hollywood tomorrow night. Roy O. Disney president of Walt Disney Productions, is in New York from the Coast. Tom Rogers of M-G-M's publicity department has returned here from Phoenix, Ariz. • J. Robert Rubin, M-G-M vicepresident, is due back here April 21 from the Coast. Rouben Mamoulian is in New York from Hollywood. ^L ZIMBALIST, Film Classics advertising publicity manager, will leave here today for Charlotte. C. B. Akers, Hobart, Okla., theatre operator and vice-president of Theatre Owners of Oklahoma, is campaign manager for former Gov. Robert S. Kerr, who is seeking Democratic Senatorial nomination in that state next July. • B. G. Kranze, Film Classics sales chief, will go to New Haven today to discuss his company's product with I. J. Hoffman Warner theatres' zone manager there. • Marvin Samuelson has resigned as Warner theatre assistant booker in Cleveland to join Ohio Theatre Service, buying-booking-management cooperative. • Robert W. Case, Walter Reade Theatres city manager in Kingston, N. Y., has been named Ulster County theatre chairman for the American Cancer Society's fund drive. • Ralph W. Maw, field assistant to Burtus Bishop, Jr., Midwestern MG-M sales manager, has returned to Minneapolis after a month at the home office. • Charles Vukovich has been appointed assistant to Robert Hadley, Eagle-Lion home office advertising department art director. • Ralph Trathen of the Salt Lake Tower Theatre has been named general manager of Associated Amusements, tri-state drive-in operators. • Harry Whitestone has sold his Fair-Mount Theatre, Fair-Mount, Ga., to Carter Law, former owner of the Jasper, Jasper, Ga. • Alan F. Cummings, in charge of M-G-M exchange operations, is in Detroit for a few days, from New York. o Ann G. D'Ascoli of the Eagle-Lion accounting department will be married in the fall to Michael Candido, Jr. J. H. Rampy and Mrs. Rampy have taken over the Roberta Theatre, Roberta, Ga. • R. M. Kennedy, Wilby-Kincey district manager, has returned to Birmingham from New York. • Ted Minsky has been named film buyer and booker for Warners Ohio zone, succeeding Tony Stern. • Syd Boehm and Luther Davis, M-G-M writers, are due here from the Coast tomorrow by plane. • Earl Hannah of the Strand, Thompsonville, Conn., is en route to Arizona for a month's stay. Sidney Hyams of Eros Films, and Mrs. Hyams are here from London. United Amusements 1947 Net, $262,511 Ottawa, April 12. — United Amusement Corp. reports a net profit of $262,511 in the year ending on January 3, compared with a net of $254,899 the previous year. Gross income was $1,494,384, against $1,535,098 in the previous year. Current assets total $361,349 and current liabilities, $206,520. 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