Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1946)

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THIS WEEK the Camera reports: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS with the Warner Burbank studio were marked last week by Harold J. McCord, head of the film editing department. The company tendered him a luncheon, and Mr. McCord signed a new seven-year contract. Many executives and others of the company were at the luncheon. Shown above are: seated, Jack L. Warner, executive vice-president in charge of production; Mr. McCord and Gordon Hollingshead. Standing are directors Irving Rapper, James hlorn and Michael Curtiz. HELP, for the United Nations, through films, was the appeal of Benjamin Cohen, UN information chief, at the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers luncheon in New York Tuesday. See page 27. At the right, Mr. Cohen speaks. Listening are Ned E. Depinet, RKO Radio Pictures executive vice-president; Rutgers Neilson, AMPA president, and Francis S. Harmon, MPA vice-president. LUNCHEON IN LONDON. The host was Fred Hutchinson, Paramount general sales manager there. The guests were exhibitors and distributors. The occasion was his departure for the United States. Left to right, Arthur Brown, J. Crane, H. Fontaine, Theo. Fllgelstone, Oswald Croft, M. Shipman, Sam Graham, Mr. Hutchinson, Richard Hamer, Alfred Black, Earl St. John, Lou Morris, D. Abbey, Tony Reddin and D. J. Goodlatte. Britain needs at least 156 "A" pictures yearly, Mr. Hutchinson reported on his arrival in New York. THE BEST FATHERS OF 1946 are Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, according to the Boys Clubs of Newark. The reason: their "adoption" of boys through the Lou Costello, Jr., Youth Foundation. The comedians are shown in Newark with Steven Adubata, Boys Club representative. They may establish a foundation branch there. 10 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JUNE I, 1946.