Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1946)

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By The Herald GREGORY GEORGOUSSY, RKO manager for the Near East, in New York now for the annual sales convention, reports Arabic pictures and unsettled economic and political conditions threatening American markets there. By Tlie Herald CONSTANTIN POTZIOS, general manager of Minerva Films, producers and distributors in Italy, is on a business trip here, and will also visit Mexico and South America to extend distribution of "Open City" and others produced by Minerva and Scalera. TESTIMONIAL, in New York, to Robert Weitman, Paramount theatre director, by the United Jewish Appeal musicians' division: left to right, Leonard Goldenson, Billy Rose, Barney Balaban, Mr. Weitman, William Feinberg, Louis Nizer, Maurice Bergman, Jack Rosenberg and Manny Sachs. G«ne Lester HARRY M. POPKIN, president of Cardinal Pictures, as he arrived in New York this week to confer on plans for three productions in the 1946-47 season. They will be from the properties "Sheila", "Impact" and "Whirlwind". Mr. Popkin is seeing Broadway plays on which he has obtained options and will survey Manhattan backgrounds to be use in "Impact". EARL COLLINS, Republic's new Pacific Coast district sales manager. THIS SALESMAN uses a plane. Barry Goldman, with cap, Baltimore Monogram salesman, is greeted at Glenburnie, Md., by Harry Welch, manager of the Glen and New Glen theatres. AMONG THE APPOINTMENT€ in the major companies' field staffs recently was that of Mickey Komar. He had been salesman In St. John, New Brunswick. He is now Warner branch manager. MOTION PICTURE HERALD. JUNE 22, 1946 II