Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

.1/hv 6, 1930 SHOW M N ■ s r u a d i^, u v i w Pa()c 23 Kennedy's orner Tluit ()ni;ili;i iircniiiTc o\ "L'nidii Pacilic" lived up to tlie highpowered precedent set by the new vogue of turning these western towns just about inside out to hail screen gUiritications of tlicm. Also it brought on to New York for a visit C. B. DeMille, hitting the ball hard with his iifty-tliird, or is it fifty-fourth?, feature. From ll;e showmanship stanilpoint not many directors get a marquee play on their creations — but C. B. docs, and his name means sometliing. 20th Century-Fox sets a new precedent Saturday when it plays daddy to the broadcast of the Kentucky Derby, and everybody who's listening to how the horses are looking as viewed by the eye of experts in judging racing flesh and blood will also hear lots about "Rose of Washington Square". The Baird television sets for theatres came ashore from a liner recently. So far there's no information as to which Broadway house will install the first television outfit. Probably first event up when, as and if television makes a bow in the film theatres soon, will no doubt be a horse race or a fight — both of which also will be covered verv ably by news cameras so that all theatres everywhere can show the customers the same thing, better if later First Crosby Film Playing at Music Hall For the first time in the history of the Radio City Music Hall, a Bing Crosby picture is playing that theatre. Universal's "East Side of Heaven", in which Joan Blondell and Mischa Auer are also featured, opened there last Thursday. Universal also announced that "The Alikado" may go into the Rivoli following the current engagement of "Wuthering Heights" w'hich has one or two weeks to go. Important Dates May 8-10: United Artists sales convention, Los Angeles. May 8-10: Film Carriers Ass'n convention, Park Central Hotel, N. Y. C. May 8-11: Columbia regional meeting. Atlantic City. May 14-16: Columbia regional meeting. Chicago. May 16: "Get Together of Good Guys" golf tournament and dinner, Conneaut Hotel. Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. May 18: Edwin Bergman outing and dinner, Mahoning Country Club, Girard. Ohio. May 20-22: Columbia regional meeting, Los Angeles. May 21-27: Silver Jubilee of Morris Joseph, Universal branch manager at New Haven, Conn. May 23-24: Kansas-Missouri Theatre Ass'n convention, Kansas City. May 23-25: N. Y. Allied "World's Fair convention." Hotel Astor. June 4-6: Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina convention. Ocean Park Hotel, Myrtle Beach, S. C. June S-10: Paramount convention, Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles. June 12: MPTO of Va. midsummer convention. Roanoke Hotel, Roanoke. June 13-15: Allied National convention, Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis. June 19-22: National Conference on Visual Education, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. Among the home office executives who will attend the Columbia regional sales meetings are those pictured above and below. Above left to right are Rube Jackter, assistant general sales manager; Abe Schneider, treasurer; joseph McConville, general manager of the foreign department; Maurice Bergman, director of advertising and publicity, and Max Weisfeldt. short subject sales manager. Below are Jack Cohn, vice-president of the company and Abe Montague, sales manager. Columbia Sales Forces Meet In Atlantic City On Monday First of Three Regional Meetings to Hear Product Announcement From Montague Columbia's sales force in the East and home office executives were preparing to gather at Atlantic City this week for the first of three regional meetings at which the company is expected to announce the strongest'^ program of pictures it has ever Jack Cohn had. The group will gather in Atlantic City's Ritz Hotel on Monday. Heading the group o f home office executives will be Jack Cohn, vice ])resident of the companJ^ Abe Montague, general sales manager will preside at the meeting. Other home office executives who will attend are Abe Schneider, treasurer; Rube Jackter, assistant genc r a 1 sales manager; Joseph McConville, foreign sales manager; Louis Astor and Louis W e i n b e r g , circuit sales managers; Max W e i s feldt, short subject sales manager; Leo Jeffe, H. C. Kaufman, Maurice Bergman, Maurice Grad, George Josephs, M. Hannock, Al Seligman, W. Brennan, Frank McGrann, A! Sherman and B. E. Zeeman. The company is expected to announce a program of 40 features with several big name directors signed to make them. In addition to the 40, Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", now in production, will be released by the company under a separate contract. There will probably be a number of Westerns announced and the usual quota of short subjects. Abe Montague Following the Atlantic Citj' meeting the group will go to Chicago for the second of the regional meetings and after that to Los Angeles for the last of them. NOTARWS TO COAST Paramount Theatre Executive Gets Post in Studio Louis Notarius, who for the past 14 years has been connected with the Paramount theatre department, leaves for the Coast next week for a post in the Paramount studio where he will work with Y. Frank Freeman. He will bring the viewpoint of the experienced theatre man to Paramount production. Some of his work, reviewing pictures for the Paramount theatre partners, he will continue on the Coast, while the remainder will be split up amongst various other executives in the home office. He is scheduled to leave New York next Friday PRANCtS Mei?C£R