The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

^niong Sxchange Rovir \y • iVitk the cMca Who Sell the 9tctxLres Chicago The trade is extending congratulations to Roy Alexander. Chicago manager of Universal, on his promotion to district manager of the western territory. William Brumberg, country sales manager, succeeds Mr. Alexander. James Harris, city sales manager of Associated Exhibitors, has joined the Pathe organization. John Menikow, short subject sales manager of Universal, has succeeded him at Associated. George Dembox. manager of the Fox Chicago office, has returned from a business to New York. Charley Casanave, formerly with the Coston circuit as booking manager, is now associated with Joe Hopp in the management of the American Theatres Circuit. The big event of Film Row last Monday was the opening of the new Pathe offices at 1025 South Wabash avenue. They say that the feed -Manager Jimmie Gillick put on for the buncli was "some eats." The offices are the last word in efficiency. Alfred Botsford, advertising manager of the new Famous Players-Balaban & Katz organization, was in the city last week for the Paramount convention at the Drake Hotel and dropped in to meet the boys at the general offices of Balaban & Katz. William Lyman, formerly with Selznick, has been named assistant branch manager for Warner Brothers Exchange. The boys at the F. B. O. exchange gave Charley Miller a fine silver set for a wedding gift and Jack Sampson, branch manager, told Charley how glad they all are that he is settled for keeps. Short feature sales are booming at Universal. The reason is that Johnny Mednikow, sales manager of that department, is the proud father of a baby girl. Both mother and child are doing well and Johnny has too with his short feature sales. Sidney Oppenheim R. Abrahams nad B. Blaurock have organized the Short Subject Exchange, Inc., with offices at 806 South Wabash avenue, to manufacture and distribute short subjects in this territory. The boys of the Universal exchange gave Manager Roy Alexander a fine traveling bag and kit on his first anniversary in charge of the local offices of the company. Earl Pickler has been added to the sales staff of the Capitol Film Exchange under Henri EUman. The Pathe exchange opened last week at 1025 South Wabash avenue. Charles Keppler and Joseph Woodworth have been added to the sales force to sell two-reel comedies. Sam Blair will handle the publicity and Miss Lucy Calhoun will have charge of the public relations department. Charles Casanave is now with the National Theatres Corporation, booking pictures for them. His offices are in the Strauss building'. Detroit A party given in honor of J. E. Ryder, sales manager of the Detroit office of Paramount, who is being transferred to the Chicago office, attracted nearly 100 film men and women to Plymouth, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, one evening last week. Otto Bolle, manager of tiie Paramount office in Detroit, was in charge of the party, which he termed a "Jinx Party" because it was held on Friday the thirteenth. A home cooked chicken dinner was served at 8 p. m.. after which dancing was indulged in until far after midnight. Harry Ross, district manager of Paramount, and other officials of the concern were in attendance. Mr. Ryder leaves for his new position on December 1. |IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIllllllllllll|ll|l|!||||||||||||lll|||j||||l|||||| I The Anns Have It g Mere man had best beware. More women 1 g tlien men are entering the exchange business 1 f in Pittsburgh. Most of them are Anns, as wit m M ness: M ^ Robert Ehinbar, Metro Goldwyn Mayer M g booker, is the proud daddy of 8-pound Audrey B g Ann. rhe mother formerly was Miss Mary M g Angel of the Paramount exchange. M g George Tice, short subjects booker at Uni g p versal, is also a new daddy, Mrs. Tice having ^ g presented him with 8-pound Dorothy Ann. 1 g M£uiager James H. Alexander of Columbia g g Film Service, is the father of a fifth child, a 1 g boy — James Herbeirt Alexander, Jr. The new g comer is the first heir in the Alexander liouse % % hold, the other four children being girls — g g Lorraiiiev Dorothy, Mearle and Virginia. % iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif San Francisco A district sales convention was held by Famous Players-Lasky at the Whitcomb Hotel, San Francisco, November 14, with about fifty in attendance from the I^os Angeles, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco exchanges. John Clark, division sales manager from New York, directed the meeting. Among those in attendance were C. N. Peacock, manager of the Los Angeles exchange; George P. Endert, Seattle manager; Neal East, Portland manager, and Tom H. Bailey, San Francisco. F. E. Lane, formerly with Famous PlayersLasky, San Francisco, has joined the staff of the Pathe exchange as two-reel comedy salesman. Ben Fish, who has been special feature representative in the Salt Lake City anil Denver territories for the Pathe, is now traveling! out of the San Francisco branch as short subject salesman. Having entirely recovered from his operation for appendicitis, Carol Nathan, Ban Francisco branch manager for Universal, is again attending to his regular duties. F. L. Butler, formerly with Fox in San Francisco, but for the past year with Universal at Kansas City, has again felt the lure of the city by the Golden Gate and Is now handling the city territory for Pathe. Gilbert Moyle. auditor for First National, San Francisco, is recovering from a serious illness. It will be tome time btfore he will be able to be at the exchange again. The Mutual Independent Exchange has been opened for ljusiness at 281 Turk street, with J. P. Brett In charge. As soon as the exchange is in smooth running order Mr. Brett will return to Los Angeles, leaving C. C. Thompson In charge. Tom H. Bailey, manager of the San Francisco branch of Famous Players-Lasky, has returned from the national convention of this organization held in Chicago. Donald Smith, with the Producers Distributing Corp., has been promoted to the position of district representative, under District Manager L. W. Weir. The territory formerly covered by D. Frazer has been divided and the two will cover the field more intensively than has been possible In the past. Joe Flanagan, an old-time film man, has joined the Producers Distributing staff as shipping clerk. Grin Woody, special representative of Associated Exhibitors, paid the local exchange a visit recently and later left for the Pacific Northwest. Joe Huff, with the Universal exchange, has been givon the San Joaquin Valley territory again and Isadore Wolt has been returned to San Francisco. Albany, N. Y. George Ames, local manager for Pathe, made his first trip out over the territory last week and was accompanied by Charles Henschel of New York, eastern district manager. Eleanor Tenney, connected with the Pathe office force, and Dick ©truwe, a student booker at the office, were quietly married a few days ago. Vic Bendell is once more selling film, no-w representing Warner Brothers over the northern territory, succeeding Bert Gibbons. According to J. N. Klein, local manager for Warners, his 13-months-oId son Dick has just started to walk, and as soon as he begins to talk, he expects him to start in selling film. E. O. Brooks, serial sales manager for Pathe, has arrived in Albany for a few days* stay. A group of First National officials stopped over here for a few hours one day last week and conferred with Alec Herman, the local manager. The party included Sam Spring, secretary-treasurer of First National; A. W. Smith, N. Dcpinnet and M. Marin, district sales manager. Arthur G. Whyte of the Peerless Booking Agency of New York, was in town last PYlday. Dick Bennett, who has been cashier at Warner Brothers' exchange here, and Walter Vadney, shipper, have resigned to take the active management of the Hudson Theatre in Watervliet. Mrs. H. M. Carkner has been named as cashier and Everett Ingram as sliipper. Ted O'Shea of the Metro-Goldwyn offlce made a swing upstate last week that Included theatres In Utica and that section. W. V. A. Mack of New York, short subject sales manager for Pathe, was in Albany last week on his way back home from Buffalo. Tom North, special exploitation representative from Pathe's home office, was also in Albany for a couple of days. liobert Mochrie, manager of the Pro-DlsCo exchange in Albany, was in Hanover, N. H., last week, attending the DartmouthCornell game. Amos Leonard of Syracuse, a Pathe salesman out of Albany, has been promoted and made district serial sales representative and will divide his tmie between Albany, Boston and New Haven. Joseph Cantor Is In charge of the exchange just opened in Albany by the Freedona Film Company. Abe Eskln has succeeded Charles Boyd as Albany manager for Associated Exhibitors. J. H. Maclntyre, local manager for Paramount, returned last week from several days spent in Chicago. Edward Urschel has been appointed as booker in the Pathe exchange, succeeding Arthur O'Toole, who recently returned to St. Louis. Fred Robke has been taken on by First National as a salesman. He was formerly with United Artists here. Omaha Jack Edwards of the Omaha offlce of Universal, has been temporarily transferred to the Salt Lake City offlce to do some advance advertising on "The Phantom of The Opera." L. A. CahiU, at one time connected with the old Mutual Film Corporation and more recently in the advertising sign business, is traveling the Iowa territory for Warner Bros. R. S. Ballantyne. at one time manager for Goldberg Bros., Omaha, has recently been appointed manager of the southern district for Pathe. (More exchange newt on next page)