Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1945)

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THIS WEEK the Camera report EXPLOITATION of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was mainly the topic at Paramount's two-day meeting in New York last week. Executives of sales and advertising, of home office, studio and the theatres conferred. Above, at luncheon recess, Y. Frank Freeman, studio chieftain, addresses, left to right, David Rose, Leonard. Goldenson, Eugene Street, Adolph Zukor, Barney Balaban, Robert Gillham, Claude Lee, William Jenkins and, back to camera, hlugh Owen. WAG, Hollywood, left. At the business meeting of the War Activities Gommittee, Hollywood division: John Gromwell, new chairman; Francis Harmon, national executive vice-chairman; Mary McGall, Jr., retiring chairman; John G. Flinn, retiring coordinator, who presented the 1944 report, and Tom Baily, new coordinator. GONFIRMED. The Senate last week approvf Paul A. Porter, above, as a member of the Federal Gommunications Gommission. He succeeds James L. Fly, chairman, resigned. Mr. Porter was publicity director for the Democratic National Gommittee. .V DOAK ROBERTS, Warner Brothers' newly appointed district manager for th southwestern territory. HOLLYWOOD TRIBUTE, left. At the testimonial tendered Garlos Ghavez, Mexican conductor and composer, by the Motion Picture Society for the Americas. Studio musical chiefs attended en masse. Left to right, Nat Finston, Louis Greenspan, Mr. Ghavez, Merwin Travis, Russell Pierce, Adolph Deutsch, Frank Skii ner, Raymond McKelvey, and, facing Mr. Chavez, Ted Cain, William Martin and Louis Lipstone. 10 1 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JANUARY 27, I9i