Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, June 30, 1948 Services Are Held ForW.G.Underwood Dallas, June 29. — Ned Depinet and Sam Dembow, from New York, were among the scores of film industry leaders who attended funeral services here today for William G. Underwood, pioneer in distribution and exhibition. Underwood, who was 72, died Sunday morning in a Dallas hospital after a six-week illness. Underwood was founder of the Underwood and Ezell circuit, which controls and operates 17 theatres and drive-ins — mostly drive-ins — in Texas, and in which Claude C. Ezell is a partner. Underwood, who was born in Chicago, moved to Dallas in 1915. He was in the theatre business in Texas for 45 years. A Mason and a Shriner, Underwood also was a member of the V ariety Club of Texas and a member of the Dallas Athletic Club. Surviving are the widow and a daughter as well as a brother and two sisters. Pallbearers included Depinet and Dembow, Eph Charninsky, Ezell, Lowell Russell and Albert Revnolds. RKO Directors Set To Meet on Coast Directors of RKO are scheduled to leave here for the Coast after July 4th to visit the company's studios and to meet Howard Hughes, the company's new controlling head. During their stay in Hollywood the directors will hold their next board meeting, with July 10 as the probable date. Capra An Alternate For UNESCO Meet Washington, June 29. — Producer Frank Capra has been named by President Truman as an alternate U. S. delegate to the third general conference of the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization, to be held this fall. LeSieur Promoted (Continued from page 1) started as advertising production manager. In 1935 he added the duties of house magazine editor, after which he was promoted to sales promotion manager. In 1944 he became advertising manager, from which post he was named assistant director of advertising-publicity. J. R. Donnelly, Exhibitor Atlanta, June 29. — James R. Doniv lly, 37, vice-president of the Sevier Theatre Corp., Johnson City, Tenn., died of a heart attack at his home there. Kriedberg to St. Louis Minneapolis, June 29. — Conrad Kriedberg, Selznick Releasing Organization sales manager here, has been transferred to St. Louis for a special assignment. Personal Mention LYNN FARNOL, Eastern advertising-publicity director for Samuel Goldwyn Productions, will leave here for the Coast on Friday before starting a vacation in Colorado. • Samuel Weiss, former Eagle-Lion branch manager in St. Louis, and Joseph Bohn, E-L branch manager in Indianapolis, have joined the sales staff of Lee Goldberg, Realart distributor in the Cincinnati and Indianapolis territories. • Jack Ochs, associated with his father, Herbert Ochs, in the operation of a drive-in circuit in Ohio and Canada, will be married to Grace Couden on July 24 in Christ of the King Church, East Cleveland. • Michael Piccirillo, formerly with Loew's Theatres in New York, has been appointed manager of the Center Theatre in Hartford, succeeding Jack Simons who is now managing director of the Beacon Theatre here. • Bernard Stewart, manager of the Astor Theatre, Boston, has resigned to go to California. Jeff Sullivan, former manager of the Loew's State in Boston, has succeeded Stewart. • Nancy Sawyer Jacocks, daughter of Irving J. Jacocks who is treasurer of the MPTO of Connecticut, was married last weekend to John E. Taft in Banford, Conn. • Larry Caplane, manager of the RKO Grand in Columbus, O., will become manager of the RKQ Brandeis in Omaha on July 20. • Peter Perakos of Perakos Theatres in New Britain, Conn., is observing his 41st year in the motion picture business. • Harold Lancaster, manager of the Strand in Pawtucket, R. I., and Mrs. Lancaster have become parents of a son. • Arthur C. Bromberg, president of Monogram Southern ' exchanges, has returned to his Atlanta headquarters from New York and Washington. • Maurice Kallis, Universal-International studio advertising art director, has returned to Hollywood from New York. • Wallace Beery and his daughter, Carol Ann Beery, are in town from the Coast. Sam Schbouf, manager of Loew's Poli Lyric in Bridgeport, Conn., is vacationing in Florida. • Joe Dumas, Republic office manager in Atlanta, hafs returned to his post after several weeks' illness. • Deveraux Bessif.v, vice-president of Stevens Pictures, Miami, is in Hollywood. • R. M. Savini, Astor Pictures president, is in Hollywood from New York. P J. A. McCARTHY, Universal*■ • International Southern and Canadian sales manager, will return to New York today from Atlanta. • Hal Dawson, motion picture representative for Dell Publishing, has been elected managing director for' the Association of Screen Magazine Publishers, succeeding Homer Rockwell, president, whose term of office expired on June 1. • Mollie Prince, head of the J. Arthur Rank print traffic department here, will leave New York today for the Coast. • Adele Harris, daughter of Ted Harris of the State Theatre, Hartford, and Mrs. Harris, was married recently to Samuel Feingold of Hartford. • Monty Shaff, producer of "ManEater of Kumaon" has arrived in New York from the Coast for the premiere of the film tomorrow at the Winter Garden. Harry Schiffrin, formerly with the Warner staff in Buffalo, has become United Artists salesman in New Haven. • Ben Bartzoff, theatre and advertising executive, will open his radio station, WVOM, in Brookline, Mass., shortly. • Slocum Chapin, account executive for American Broadcasting radio sales, has been named Eastern sales manager for ABC Television. • Al Brandon, former M-G-M salesman in Denver and Texas territories, has joined Realart as salesman in Denver. • Rose Travers of the Eagle-Lion non-theatrical department here will be married on Saturday to Austin Fitzgerald. • Jack Ellis, United Artists New York district manager, is in Gloversville, N. Y., from here. • Earl Wright, Columbia salesman in Chicago, has been transferred to the New Haven exchange. • Dick Perry, United Artists salesman in New York, has been transferred to Albany, N. Y. • Isador M. Rappaport, owner of the Hippodrome in Baltimore, is a New York visitor. e John J. Maloney, M-G-M Central sales manager, has returned to Pittsburgh from New York. • Edward M. Saunders, M-G-M assistant general sales manager, is vacationing in Maine and Canada. • Jack Cummings, M-G-M producer, left Boston yesterday for the Coast. • Sam Galanty, Columbia district manager, is in Cleveland from here. Newsreel Parade T~\EWEY and Warren heading the Republican ticket are the news-l reel highlights. International and na-\ tional affairs as well as sports and human interest items round out the reels. Complete contents follozv: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 52.— Warren nominated for vice-president. Germany: U. S. Military Government issues ne«^"irrency. V iolence in Holy Land. L c A Mountbatten returns to England, m .s America of 1947 gets a new title of Trausewife. Joe Louis quits ring. Germany: Soap-box derby. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 286— Berlin under Red seige. Red rubber ship set afire. The Warrens meet the Deweys. Patty Berg wins open golf title. India bids farewell to Lord Mountbatten. PARAMOUNT NEWS. No. 88.— Berlin: New days of crisis. Tito in Yugoslavia. Lord Mountbatten's farewell to India. Haganah forces clash with Irgunists. GOP set for big campaign. Dewey and Warren. Joe Louis retires. Patty Berg wins golf title. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 156.— Warren nominated for vice-president. Lord Mountbatten leaves India. Strike in France. Colorado beetles. Telescopic ladder. Water skating. Mechanical surfboard. Soap-box derby. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 91.— Warren on Dewey ticket. Count Bernadotte in Rhodes. Miss America is married. Lord Mountbatten leaves India. French bathing suits. Mayer Honored (Continued from page 1) again," the MPAA president said in making the presentation, adding that "it is the Louis B. Mayers who have made this country great and who are the timeless inspirations for others to follow in the sturdy paths which they have beaten." Hailing Mayer as "a leader in one of the noblest causes of our times," Johnston said that "the United Jewish Appeal is not the cause alone for those of the Jewish faith." "It is a cause for all Americans," he declared. "It is humanity's cause." The following were invited to the dais, besides those previously mentioned : Samuel Leidesdorf, Herman Robbins, David Weinstock, Jack Cohn, Albert Warner, Hugo Rogers, Vincent Impelliteri, T. O. Thackrey, Dr. Jonah B. Wise, Barney Balaban, Albert Lasker, J. T. McDonald, Will H. Hays, J. Robert Rubin, Emil Friedlander,. Bert Lytell, Sylvan Gotshal, Max Gordon, Malcolm Kingsberg, Richard F. Walsh, George J. Schaefer, Steve Broidy, Julius Joelson, Gael Sullivan, Charles Strausberg, Fred Schwartz. Also, George Skouras, Marvin Schenck, Leopold Friedman, William F. Rodgers, Joseph R. 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