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MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR
A record crowd is expected of the Hotel Astor tonight to honor Si Fabian as "Pioneer of the Year" as the Motion Picture Pioneers hold their 16th
Annual Showmanship Dinner. Seen above is Barney Balaban, Paramount president, addressing last year's affair at which he was given this honor.
Seen, left to right, at last year's dinner are Joseph R. Vogel, Loew's; John J. O'Connor, U-l; Very Reverend James A. Pike, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and Herman Robbins, National Screen Service, who is acting this year as dinner chairman for the affair honoring Fabian.
Ernest E. Blake, Kodak, Ltd., board chairman, London, pays tribute to Balaban at last year's dinner. Also seen are Jack Cohn, Pioneers president, and Henry Ford, II, who also attended.
Balaban accepts his plaque designating him "Pioneer of the Year" for 1953 from Eric A. Johnston, MPAA president, with Cohn. Fabian is celebrating his 40th year in the industry.
FEATURE
A Salute To Si
A GROUP of inclustryites will meet at the Hotel Astor tonight, and for a change, it will make no difference whether they represent production, dis¬ tribution, or exhibition. What these men have in common is service to their industry, service which in each case has encompassed at least 25 years.
The occasion is the 16th Annual Show¬ manship Dinner of the Motion Picture Pioneers, a group founded in 1938 through the efforts of Jack Cohn, executive vicepresident, Columbia. All persons employed in the motion picture industry for 25 years or longer are eligible for member¬ ship.
The organization inaugurated in 1947 the policy of naming and honoring a Pioneer of the Year. Adolph Zukor, Para¬ mount board chairman, who began in show business more than 50 years ago, was the first chosen for this honor, fol¬ lowed by Gus Eyssell, president. Rocke¬ feller Center, Inc., and beard chairman. Radio City Music Hall, 1948; Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount pi’oducer, 1949; Spyros P. Skouras, 20th-Fox president, 1950; the Warner Brothers, Albert, Harry, and Jack, 1951; N. J. Blumberg, U-I executive, 1952; Barney Balaban, Paramount presi¬ dent, 1953; and this year Si Fabian, presi¬ dent, Stanley Warner.
Fabian is the first Pioneer of the Year whose service has been wholly in the field of exhibition and is also celebrat¬ ing his 40th year in the industry this year. The dinner, which has been desig¬ nated by Herman Robbins, chairman, as a no speech affair, will be highlighted by a pageant describing Fabian’s career, which parallels the industry’s rise from the Nickelodeon through the new tech¬ niques.
November 17. 1954