The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

MOVING PICTURE WORLD Buffalo, N. Y. December 5, 1925 Denver Cold weather does not stop exchange manag-ers from making long sales trips into the territory. Robert J. Garland, manager of Metro-Goldwyn. has just left for a long trip Into Western Nebraska and Wyoming. Jack Kruni, United Artists manager, returned from Raton, N. M., and Trinidad, Col. Eugene Gerbase, local Universal manager, returned after \isiting exhibitors in Raton and Sante Fe, N. M. The Denver Joint Board of Arbitration did not hold its usual Friday meeting last week for the first time in months. The board had a clear "docket" and no cases were ready for hearing. The chairman, Gorden B. Ashworth of the Federal Theatre, went duck hunting. W. F. Reilly, auditor from the home office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is visiting the local branch. C. M. Van Horn has resigned as manager of the local branch of Pathe. He will return to the Pacific Coast where his daughter Betty is attending college. Mr. Van Horn will become connected with the Pathe exchange of San Francisco. He is succeeded in Denver by S. B. Rahn, former Pathe salesman in the Minneapolis branch of Pathe. Frank Harris, district manager for Pathe, is visiting the local branch office for an indefinite period to assist Mr. Rahn in getting a good start. Seattle Carl Stern has arrived in Seattle and assumed his duties as manager of Warner Brothers' exchange here. Mr. Stern is one of the best known of northwest film men. James Beale, who has been covering the northern part of Washington for Pathe out of Seattle, has been transferred to the city territory as salesman. Western Film Corp., D. C. Millward. manager, announces the purchase of the 24 Golden Arrow pictures for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. H. A. Black has resigned from the management of the Seattle branch of Warner Brothers. Mr. Black has not yet stated his future plans. His successor here will be named by Harry Lustig, western division manager, now on his way to Seattle. Carl Stern, long associated with Mr. Lustig, is mentioned. When Western Division Manager Frank Harris paid his first visit to the Seattle Pathe office he found a royal welcome waiting for him. Girls of the exchange had prepared a beautifully appointed dinner in the club rooms upstairs in the exchange. It was accompanied b.v all the style and elegance of an important function, but was the more enjoyable for its actual informality. Nineteen were present. Will Hudson, Pathe cameraman, entertained twelve Pathe Newsreel buddies at a dinner, celebrating the twelfth birthday of Pathe News. Pittsburgh Harold Mercer, formerly in the publicity department of the Rowland and Clark Theatres, is now with Pathe as play date clerk. Larry .lacobs is back as publicity director for the local Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer exchange. R. J. ("Cap") Kinder has been assigned city salesman for First National, succeeding Meyer E. Goldstein, who resigned to buy an active interest in the Supreme Photoplay Company, this city. The S. & S. Film & Supply Company has foreaaken the beaten path and has added to the sales force a young lady in the person of Miss Esther Levett, who for some time past has been secretary to Manager "Abe" Steinberg. Miss Levett is coming through with flying colors in her new position. K. M. Purse is the newest addition to the sales force of the local F. B. O. exchange. Rn: O'Toole is back on Film Row again, this \ lie In the capacity of booker at the Associi.ted Exhibitors exchange. Frank S. Hopkins has been appointed general manager of the Associated Exhibitors in Canada. Mr. Hopkins will have his headquarters in Toronto. He is well known hereabouts. R. C. Fox, district manager for Vital, has named F. C. Moynihan manager of the Albany branch and has appointed Frank Young, who has been booking for Renown in Albany, as assistant manager. George Schaefer has been sent to Rochester as a Vital salesman, Frank Swalbert, shipping clerk at First National, and Miss Beulah Serius, who has been in the inspection and advertising department at Dependable for several years, were married last week. Miss Ella Burg, a First National office stenographer, also was married the other day. Richard C. Fox is about to send out invitations for a preview of Mrs. Wallace Reid's new picture, "The Red Kimona," a Vital feature, in the Hotel Statler, on the evening of December 11. The same picture will be shown to exhibitors in the Onondaga Hotel, Syracuse Friday evening, December IS. A dance and refreshments will follow both showings. William Melgier's son, Arthur, who is organist at the Varsity, played the big organ at the dedication of the new home of the F. O. Eagles last Sunday. Art's dad is shipping clerk at the Educational office. W. A. V. Mack, better known as just plain Bill, and years ago as "Victrola,'' was in Buffalo the other day for a conference with Basil Brady, local Patfie manager. Bill is now the big chief of the Pathe short subjects department. Harry Bailey, who recently came from Indianapoli.'i to assume charge of the Fox office, has been elected secretary of the Film Board of Trade of Buffalo. He succeeds Earl Kramer, former "U" manager, who recently was promoted to eastern division sales manager. C. W. Anthony, former manager of Vitagraph, has resigned as Associated Exhibitors representative to become salesman with United Artists. Richard C. Fox has been appointed division manager for Vital Exchanges in charge of the Buffalo, Detroit and Albany offices. Mr. Fox has appointed George Schaefer to represent Vital in Rochester, succeeding N. Connors. Ernie Williams, in charge' of the ad sales department at Paramount, is now a daddy. It's a baby girl. The arrival gives George E. Williams, Ernie's brother and Paramount exploiteer at Buffalo, .the title of "Uncle George." Otto Siegel, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salesman, is all set for his Thanksgiving dinner. Otto has received a fat check as a bonus for good work in a recent sales drive. G. T. Hughes has been added to the Pathe sales staff. He will sell short subjects in the Syracuse territory. Mr. Hughes comes to town from Cleveland. Excavation has started on the new Paramount exchange building in North Pearl street. It is hoped to have the structure ready late next spring. Manager Marvin Kempner and his staff journeyed to Albany last week-end to attend the confab on the new season product. It was a conference of the New York, Buffalo and Albany staffs. Canada R. J. Romney of St. John, N. B., president and general manager of the new Vital Exchanges of Canada, Ltd., Is perfecting the details of his organization for the distribution of numerous independent pictures in the Dominion. I. H. Allen of Winnipeg, Manitoba, formerly manager there of the Canadian National Film Exchange, becomes Western Canadian manager for Vital Exchanges, with offices in Winnipeg. Toronto offices have been opened at 21 Dundas street east, under the management of William Melody, for many years with First National Pictures at St. John, N. B. President Romney himself is looking after the St. John, N. B., headquarters and branch office. His office Is at 27 Prince William street. St. John. 479 Kansas City A north wind added to the briskness along Kansas City's movie row last week. E. C. Rhoden, manager of Midwest Films, Inc., is beaming over the fact that he has booked the majority of houses in St. Joseph, Mo., while C. E. Allen, assistant P. D. C. branch manager, returned from what he said was a prosperous trip in the territory. George Hartman, Educational representative, will resign soon to enter a new business. C. A. Schultz, P. D. C. branch manager, made a hurried business trip to Wichita, Kans., but roturnsd in time to. meet J. M. Flinn, home office representative. Ben Blotcky, Paramount branch man-ager, has been busy with the duster since returning from the recent sales convention of his organization In Chicago. Bob Gary, Universal exploiteer, is back in town after an extensive campaign tour on "The Phantom." Harry Taylor, Universal branch manager, took to the road himself to pocket a few contracts. W. E. Truog of Kansas City, Universal district manager, visited the Omaha and Des Moines offices and found business good, while O. H. Lambert, Metro-Goldwyn office manager, returned with the same report from the territory. Frank Cassil, Associated Exhibitors branch manager, has assigned B. O. Whittaker to Western Missouri, M. C. Seneft to Northern Kansas, and Fred A. Dohr to Southern Kansas. "Gib'' Jones, Metro-Goldwyn booker, was showing onlookers how to "take" the corners in his new Chevrolet. So good has business been of late that the Universal branch is enlarging its quarters at Eighteenth and Wyandotte streets. Ohio Harry .1. Michalson, for many years salesman for F. B. O. in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed manager for that company in Cincinnati. H. (Baron) Hirsch, salesman for Progress Pictures. Cleveland, has been made manager of the Cincinnati branch of the company, succeedin.ET Maurice Strauss, resigned. John Bates, Pathe salesman, Cleveland, has recovered from a long illness and is again back in harness. G. W. Kerr, booker for Famous Players, has been transferred from tlie Pittsburgh to the Cleveland office of that company. M. M( Crt-evey has been taken out of the Oolunibu.s office to replace Kerr at Pittsburgh. L. B. Hicks, who recently cast his lot with the Progress Pictures Co., Cleveland, has been assigned the Youngstown-AkronCanton field. Cincinnati branch of the Producers Distributing Corporation is now in charge of J. E. Beck, recently appointed manager, to succeed G. N. Shafer, resigned. Beck formerly handled the Cleveland exchange of r. D. C. Cleveland Rex Film Company is the style of a new exchange recently opened in that city by J. B. Loeffler and F. W. Mast for the distribution of independent films. A. Chapman, who has been booker for Fox, Cleveland, resigned his post to become manager of Producers Distributing Corporation, Indianapolis. St. Louis Arrow Pictures has opened an exchange at 340.5 Olive street with Tom Leonard as manager. Leonard, who owns the Progress I'ictures exchan.ge at that address, will continue to operate his own office but will devote much of his time to the Arrow interests. Separate sales and office organizations will be maintained. Leonard and L. T. Rogers, general representative for Arrow Pictures, were hosts at a dinner given at the Elks Club on Tuesday noon. November 17, preceding the re-release screening of "The Primrose Path" and "Tessie," the first two of the twenty-four Golden Arrow flrst-run pictures to be released this season. Fred Wehrenberg, vice-president of the St. Louis Motion Picture Exhibitors League, was toastmaster at the dinner.