Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

?U & HoWell Sell j^00? Members B^ BVith ock to Public registration statement covering 30,000 shares mutative preferred stock, 4% per cent series, ralue $100 per share, and 150,000 shares of ion stock, par value $10 per share, was filed ell & Howell Company, Chicago, with the ities and Exchange Commission in Philaia Monday, J. H. McNabb, president, an:ed. This will constitute the first public offer: securities by Bell & Howell, e 150,000 shares are to be sold by certain at stockholders and involve no new financing e part of the corporation. The preferred stock =ents new financing by the corporation, which to use the proceeds from its sale in part tie purchase of the Lincolnwood plant, now ed under lease from Defense Plant Corpo I. and in part to pay for contemplated addi:o this plant. 1 & Howell Company is primarily engaged : design, production and sale of motion picture -as and projectors and sound and picture ducing apparatus. The inception of the nt business of the company dates back to 1907, a 35mm theatre motion picture projector was ted and developed by Albert Summers Howell an employee in the machine shop of Donald II. The present corporation was incorporated jary 20, 1907, under the name of The Bell Howell Company for the manufacture and :tf motion picture equipment. "SE to Negotiate Increase 3,000 of Exchange Staffs e IATSE plans to start negotiations with office executives in about a month on a new act for some 3,000 film exchange "white -" workers. They are seeking to institute a m of automatic progressive wage increases >rovide better than 10 per cent wage increases, gotiations will follow approval by the Regional Labor Boards. Decisions have been handed i in 28 cities, but further clarification is needed >me decisions. e IATSE will seek to make automatic wage -ession 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 classion. xy Employees Commended • Work on War Fronts e Roxy theatre. New York, has announced two additional former employees have been tended for sesrvice on the war fronts. The are Captain Daniel R. Morgan, who was aslt manager, and Sgt. John T. Galloway, who a member of the junior executive staff, ain Morgan was awarded the Silver Star d for heroic action on the western front. Sgt. >way was commended for his work in the uction of an advanced United States Air base ast China to keep it from falling intact into lands of the Japanese. iin and Dale Join Fingold; ave Odeon Theatres C. D. Main and F. Ralph Dale resigned :h 21 from executive positions with the Odeon tres of Canada to enter a partnership agree with Sam Fingold of Toronto for operation e latter's Ontario theatre circuit, so that Mr. old may turn his attention to his other ests. Mr. Main had been head office theatre ■visor and Mr. Dale was chief booker of the <n Theatres. >ria Gold Weds Lt. Udell iss Gloria Jean Gold, daughter of Harry L. , vice-president of United Artists, became the : of Lieut. Seymour Udell, USNR, at a cere■r held Sunday at the Waldorf-Astoria in New 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 Two-Way 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?" I've been m -kissed. Now MY koven't even b«n k«e« 0! Wind's ^OfVoUHOSd lietlaredm! OUT-?!: with -■ COOKSON JUDGE fimh JENKS JetoHie COWAN Produced by LINDSLEY PARSONS . Directed by PHIL KARLSTEIN Screenplay by Richard Weill * AdopUd f,om Iho ploy by A. J. Rubl.n, Robert Chapln and Marlon Pago John, ANOTHER MONEY HIT FROM MONOGRAM in ION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 31, 1945 81