Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

// & Howell Sell )Ock to Public registration statement covering 30,000 shares iinulative preferred stock, 4% per cent series, alue $100 per share, and 150,000 shares of ion stock, par value $10 per share, was filed iell & Howell Company, Chicago, with the itities and Exchange Commission in Phila a Monday, J. H. McNabb, president, anted. This will constitute the first public offerf securities by Bell & Howell. \ 150,000 shares are to be sold by certain Prt stockholders and involve no new financing e part of the corporation. The preferred stock sents new financing by the corporation, which to use the proceeds from its sale in part he purchase of the Lincolnwood plant, now ed under lease from Defense Plant Corpoi, and in part to pay for contemplated addi:o this plant. 11 & Howell Company is primarily engaged i design, production and sale of motion picture ras and projectors and sound and picture •during apparatus. The inception of the nt business of the company dates back to 1907, . a 35mm theatre motion picture projector was ited and developed by Albert Summers Howell ; an employee in the machine shop of Donald ell. The present corporation was incorporated uary 20, 1907, under the name of The Bell Howell Company for the manufacture and of motion picture equipment. TSE to Negotiate Increase r 3,000 of Exchange Staffs ie IATSE plans to start negotiations with e office executives in about a month on a new ract for some 3,000 film exchange "white r" workers. They are seeking to institute a ;m of automatic progressive wage increases provide better than 10 per cent wage increases, egotiations will follow approval by the Regional • Labor Boards. Decisions have been handed n in 28 cities, but further clarification is needed ome decisions. ie IATSE will seek to make automatic wage xession increases retroactive to December 1, , the date when a new contract would have negotiated were not both the IATSE and the companies working on a system of job classiion. >xy Employees Commended r Work on War Fronts ie Roxy theatre, New York, has announced two additional former employees have been mended for sesrvice on the war fronts. The are Captain Daniel R. Morgan, who was asnt manager, and Sgt. John T. Galloway, who a member of the junior executive staff, tain Morgan was awarded the Silver Star !al for heroic action on the western front. Sgt. oway was commended for his work in the ruction of an advanced United States Air base Last China to keep it from falling intact into hands of the Japanese. ain and Dale Join Fingold; ave Odeon Theatres . C D. Main and F. Ralph Dale resigned ch 21 from executive positions with the Odeon atres of Canada to enter a partnership agreet with Sam Fingold of Toronto for operation ie latter's Ontario theatre circuit, so that Mr. fold may turn his attention to his other "ests. Mr. Main had been head office theatre rvisor and Mr. Dale was chief booker of the on Theatres. Dria Gold Weds Lt. Udell [iss Gloria Jean Gold, daughter of Harry L. i, vice-president of United Artists, became the e of Lieut. Seymour Udell, USNR, at a cerely held Sundav at the Waldorf-Astoria in New k. 1 ,000 Members B'nai B'rith Goal for Coming Year One thousand members in the film and allied industries was the goal set for Cinema Lodge, B'nai B'rith during the coming year by Albert A. Senft, president, at the election and installation of officers at the Hotel Astor, New York, Tuesday night. Mr. Senft called for an intensive drive to be conducted in all home offices and other branches of the industry in New York. The group would continue its program of honoring industry leaders for their contributions to human welfare and the traditional ideals of American freedom during the coming year, Mr. Senft said. Barney Balaban, Samuel Rinzler and Harry Brandt received the Cinema "Honor Scroll" during the past year. Alfred W. Schwalberg, honorary president, presided at the installation following the election in which Mr. Senft was reelected to serve another year. Vice-presidents installed included S. Arthur Glixon, Bernard Goodman, Leo Jaffee, Samuel Lefkowitz, Jack H. Levin, Martin Levine, Milton Livingston, William Melniker, Alvin T. Sapinsley, Norman Steinberg, Louis Weber, Robert M. Weitman, Robert Wile and William Zimmerman. Max B. Blackman was reelected treasurer; Julius M. Collins, recording secretary and Herman Levine, corresponding secretary. Cowan's Next to Dramatize Work of Newspapermen Lester Cowan has announced that his next film production will be "Free Press," a dramatization of the newspaperman's profession as climaxed by the work of combat correspondents throughout the world. The idea for the production of "Free Press" grew out of a meeting held recently in New York by Mr. Cowan, Kent Cooper of Associated Press, Hugh Baillie of United Press, Joseph V. Connolly of International News Service, Cranston Williams, general manager of American Newspaper Publishers Association and John S. Knight, publisher of Knight Newspapers and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The basic fictional structure of the film is now being determined. "Free Press" will be budgeted at $2,000,000, Mr. Cowan has indicated. Quebec Enforces Children 's Law Strict enforcement throughout Quebec province of the law prohibiting theatre attendance by children under 16 was promised last Wednesday by Premier Maurice Duplessis, who reported that he had ordered cancellation of the license of the Palace theatre, Verdun, which, he said, had been found guilty of violating the law. "We warn all theatre owners that they have to respect the law," Premier Duplessis said, "If they want to violate it, they will force us to take additional measures. If the present law does not suffice, we shall institute new legislation in order to have the Quebec laws respected." Attendance by children under 16 was made illegal in the province following a disastrous fire in which many children lost their lives. The Palace, belonging to J. Arthur Rank's Odeon circuit, is managed by Howard Elliott, who did not deny the violation, but said : "The children are being penalized for an incident for which they were not at all responsible." Mr. Elliott is an active worker in the Verdun Lion's Club's effort to stamp out juvenile delinquency and said he felt that, by providing especially suitable weekend film programs for children, he was doing his share toward this end — entertaining them in a well supervised, fireproof building. The Ouebec children's prohibition law is now being tested in court. Hicks Wounded in Germany First Lieutenant Francis C. Hicks, former assistant manager of Fabian's St. George Theatre, Staten Island, N. Y., has been reported seriously wounded in Germany. He is with the Third Armored Division. Lt. Hicks is a brother-in-law of Lieut. Commander Larry Cowen, USNR, who has just completed a four-year tour of duty with the Navy, and is now an executive for Fabian in the Albany district. Dance Unit Names Neilson Rutgers Neilson, RKO Radio publicity manager, has been appointed public relations chairman of the Dance Educators of America, according to an announcement by Phyllis Eastwood, president of the Dancing Masters of America. Short Out on Lend-Lease An eight-minute Office of War Information-War Activities Committee release titled "The TwoWay Street," will be distributed by Columbia Pictures beginning April 12. With Charles Winninger as narrator, the film is about lend-lease. Half of it is done in animated cartoon form, as created for use in the Army-Navy Screen Magazine, produced by Armv Pictorial Service. "Can anyone tell a lonesome bride what to do?" COOKSON /In&te JUDGE /W JENKS Jwme COWAN Produced by LINDSLEY PARSONS • Direcfed by PHIL KARLSTEIN Screenplay by Richard Weill • Adapted from the play by A. J. Rublon, Robort Chopin and Marian Pago John ANOTHER MONBY HIT f ROM MO A/OCR AM Krai TION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 31, 1945 91