Paramount International News (1935)

Page 8 ^aramouritJitternationalQ ^SoJUiicb CP or amount PcrMMlltAHl* ,ti CMSm Paramount tn lu CuvftMul nostru Stlmall cllltorl. ROUMAMA JOINS THE HOUSE OROAN RANKS From Bucarest comes the first issue of Manager N. G. Palugj'ay's Paramount house organ, “Gazeta Paramount,” the cover of which is reproduced above. This cover carries the likenesses of Messrs. Hicks, Lange and Schaefer, and an inspiring dedicatory message from Air. Palugyay. It marks the first time that a Paramount house organ has been issued in Roumania. BOTH FAMOUS IN JAPAN Harold Lloyd, who happens to be just about the most popular comedian with the picturegoers of Japan, meets Air. Ichizo Kobayashi, President of the Tokyo Electric Light Company on the set of “The Alilky W'ay,” which Harold is making for Paramount. At the meeting, Harold promised Air. Kobayashi that he would finish his picture in time for its release early in January in Japan, that being the best motion picture season of the year in Tomcochrane-land. T. X. JONES TO H. O. T. X. “Tex” Jones, special representative of the New York accounts department assigned to Europe, with headquarters in Paris, is in Home Office on a business trip connected with matters of international moment. He expects to spend several weeks at the Crossroads of the World, conferring with Air. Hicks and Air. Weltner before returning to his desk in Paris. He arrived October 21. F. L. THOMAS NEW BRITISH PUBLICITY AND ADVERTISING HEAD Mr. J. C. Graham, managing director of the Paramount organization in Great Britain and Ireland, announces the appointment of Mr. P’. L. Thomas as manager of the Advertising and Publicity Department. He replaces Mr. R. GittoesDavies, resigned. \Ve hojK? to l>e able to introduce Mr. Thomas to you photographical1,V through the columns of Paramount International News in the vei-y neai future. CHARLES B. BALLANCE HAS BEEN UP AVHERE THE "BENGAL LANCERS” WON GLORY Air. Hicks has been in receipt of a communication from India’s General Alanagcr Charles B. Bal lance detailing that Paramounteer’s business reconnaiscence into a territory including the Frontier stations, Rawalpindi, Alurree and Srinagar. Here is a part of the world where there is constant military actix ity, and Charles proved to be a most efficient observer. His report was made following his return to his desk at Paramount's Indian headquarters in Calcutta. HARVEY OTT TOURING CENTRAL AMERICA ON PARAMOUNT BUSINESS Outward hound from New York on the “Santa Clara” recently was Harvey D. Ott. formerly comptroller of the Paramount organization in Germany,_ hut returned to New York suffering from an illness which came within an inch of being fatal. Air. Ott has had many months of convalescence in New York and now, happily recovered, is back on the Paramount job again. He is now in Central America making a business survey of the Paramount offices there, using Cristobal as his working base. With him are Airs. Ott and their son. SAUL JACOBS STRICKEN TOM IS IN .MANILA Paramount’s General Manager for the Orient, Tom D. Cochrane, will u.se Manila as his head(piarters until the end of February. He is in the Philippine IsancLs spot relieving F. C. Henry, at present in the U. S. A. on furiough after many years spent in the Orient. SUCCESS STORY Under the heading of “From Page to Paragraph” a columnist in “The Era” of London tells the following story : Foui yeais ago Harry’ Murray was a page boy at the Paramount Theatre, Manchester. Now he has been made general manager of the .same theatre, succeeding the late IVilliam Greenfield. Saul Jacobs, manager of our Guatemala office, was stricken with appendicitis in Guatemala City early on Friday, Oct. 18th, and rushed to the local hospital where a successful operation w'as performed. He was to have been married November 1st in Cristobal to Aliss Eleanor Rosenberger. Instead, Aliss Rosenberger sailed from New York directly for Guatemala City, where the ceremony will be performed as soon as Saul's convalescence permits. During his illness, Saul’s work has been carried on faithfully by his small but efficient staff. HOUSE ORGANS RECEIVED Scanning the ‘incoming’ mailbox for the past couple of weeks we find stacked up there some mighty interesting house organ issues. “Paramountov glasnik” is in from Zagreb, with the most agreeable news that “Lives of a Bengal Lancer” has swept Jugo-Slavia, and that terrific results are anticipated from “The Crusades.” The issue has also a lot of good news about the arrival of Jan Kieimra in America and the joy that all local Paramounteers feel that he is actually making a picture for Paramount. With all the best reasons in the world, “Los Gauchos,” issue of .August-September, rejoiced muchly over the dominance of the ArgentinaL'ruguay-Paraguay Division in the Alanifestation of Honor. The issue also dealt at length with the Buenos .Aires premiere of “Tango Bar,” which we have dealt with on another page. Also considerable space was devoted, both editorially by Air. Nathan, and pictorially, to a visit to Argentina paid by General Alanager John L. Day, Jr. “Doradca Filmowy” for September Elsewhere in this issue we tell about the start of Jan Kiepura’s first Hollywood production, “Give Us This Night,” in which he is co-starred with Gladys Swarthout. But above we express to you, on Jan’s behalf, something of the pep and enthusiasm he has developed in Hollywood in connection with the making of his first picture in America. September 10, 1935 Mr. John AV. Hieks, Jr. \'e\v A'ork. Denr John: AVrestlinj? (failed “Sumo” in Japanese) is, has been and aUvays will be the national sport in Japan. Every year millions attend the sanies. In January and May, each year, they hold the tournaments. From 30,009 to 40,009 people attend <laily for II days. After that, the wrestlers show in about every town in the foiintry. I went to see them first alxMit fil'teen years affo and swore INI never j^o acain. Then someone suffj^ested that 1 study the rules, holds, etf., and visit the training quarters. This I did and since then, I have never missed i^BOna* one or two days each tournament. The matches start at 7 A.M.— the young fellows have their swing. Then about 1 P.M. the big fellows gave over the entire issue to “The Crusades,” and from such a display we can readily understand why the DeAIille film is doing such magnificent business in Poland. Alention of the September 4th issue of Australia’s “Paramount Sales Punch” really belongs with the story telling of the inspiring convention held in Alelbourne by the Blue Ribbon Bunch. The issue was published in Alelbourne, instead of in Sydney, and is all Convention. Its editorial e.xcellence is largely due to the repertorial skill of editor Reg. Kelly, and the fact that he had a Paramount event of major importance to report. We will rerievv “Rose of the Rancho” in next month’s issue. TOM COCHRANE STILL WORLD'S CHAMPION NON-WRESTLING WRESTLER A great many months ago we gave over a lot of space in one of our issues to reports from Japan dealing with the vast publicity Tom Cochrane was receiving in the press on account of his being the most avid wrestling fan in the country. Our report made to you, we thought that we were through with the subject. Fortunately we were not: Tom has bobbed up again as a space-grabber, and with a stunt which literally rocked the Japanese Empire because of its timeliness and effectiveness. We would dearly love to tell it to you ourselves, but Tom’s letter will do the job with more devastating effect, so we are going to give you the letter verbatim : come on and the matches finish around 9 P.M. These big fellows range in weight up to 4.50 p<»unds. The newspaper reporters saw that I was a regular semi-yearly attendant and they began to write about the “Paramount Foreigner” attending the matches. And every year they write up something and publish my picture in their papers. I decided to get some value out of it._so when <»iie of the second string men threw' the big “Champion of All Champions,” I called the winner to my box and told him we would present him with a handsome apron. They wear these aprons as emblems of “rank and strength” when they parade daily for the benefit of the customers. I urrange«1 to have a reporter for the “Tokyo Xlchi-Nlohl” tipped off and out came a great big article on their front page, showing photos of (Continued on Page 11)