Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1947)

Hlhat haw these things iw common 9 While checks are going between banks for clearance, they're money that's "out of circulation". To "unfreeze" these funds quickly, banks ship checks regularly by Air Express. Speed pays! M-m-m, vine ripened fruit! Only speed of delivery makes such things possible. So these delicacies are flown to you by Air Express. Speed pays! In the delivery of automobile replacement parts , manufacturers, fleet operators, and dealers specify Air Express regularly. Speed pays! Speed pays in your (wsiness, tool In your business, speed in delivery of shipment is essential. Air Express can serve you best. Planes are bigger and faster today, and there are more in service. Coast-to-coast overnight delivery of your shipment is now routine! Rates are low. For instance, a 19-lb. [.package going 1749 miles costs only $9.92. Heavier weights — any distance — similarly inexpensive. Investigate! • Special pick-up and delivery at no extra cost. e Direct by air to and from principal U. S. towns and cities. • Air-rail between 23,000 off-airline communities. • Direct air service to and from scores of foreign countries. 0E75 THERE F/RST Write today for Schedule of Domestic and International Rates. Address Air Express Division, Railway Express Agency, 230 Park Ave. , New York 17. Or ask at any Airline or Railway Express office. Air Express Division, Railway Express Agency, representing the Airlines of the United States. Balaban Urges Appeal Support Time has made the situation confronting the Jews "infinitely worse," Barney Balaban, president of Paramount and national chairman of the film division of the United Jewish Appeal, said at a dinner meeting of the Philadelphia UJA film division at the Warwick Hotel last Wednesday night in an appeal for support of the drive to raise $170,000,000 in 1947. "Today conditions are no better than they were two years ago," Mr. Balaban said, citing the Palestine situation. "Anti-semitism has grown to alarming proportions all over Europe." The following day the Philadelphia chapter of the UJA set its local quota for the 1947 campaign at $200,000. Ted Schlanger, A. M. Ellis and Sam Gross conducted the meetings. Mr. Balaban left New York for Hollywood last Friday to discuss the film capital's participation in the campaign with industry leaders. Votion Sees French Films Limited in Home Gross The highest possible gross French pictures can expect to get out of the Frenchspeaking market today is from 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 francs, and French producers, if they want to realize a profit, must keep their budget below that figure, Jack Votion, RKO studio representative in Europe, said this week in New York. Mr. Votion, whose activities cover production liaison as well as the talent and story departments on the continent, said RKO had established story departments in London and Paris with these two centers handling material from all over Europe. When "Man About Town," the RKOPathe Cinema joint French production venture starring Maurice Chevalier, is released in this country, it will have an Englishlanguage narration by Chevalier which, it is hoped, will make it completely acceptable to U. S. audiences. The vast majority of pictures now playing in Paris is American, Mr. Votion said, with the ratio established at about 10 to 1. George W. Erdmann Dies George W. Erdmann, 64, secretary of the Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association for the past 20 years and former branch manager of the Cleveland First National and Universal exchanges, died March 29 at Cleveland following a long illness. He is survived by three children, George, Althea and Florence. Services were held Tuesday. Samuel Lindenstein Samuel Lindenstein, 72, Hollywood representative of the Jay Emanuel Publications, died in Los Angeles March 29 following a heart attack. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, APRIL 5, 1947