Showmen's Trade Review (1945)

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20 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW October 20, 1945 70,000 16-mm. Outlets A total of 70,000 outlets for 16-mm. films, which includes schools, churches, clubs and business firms, are now available in the United States, according to figures released after a survey made by Telefilm Studios of Hollywood, it has been announced by Joseph A. Thomas, president. Thomas also revealed that a circuit of 350 theatres for 16-mm. pictures to be erected in small towns throughout the country, is being planned by an exhibitor's organization. Goldwyn Employes to Share in Business Continuing his periodic departures from customary procedure, Samuel Goldwyn at a mass interview in New York this week announced that from now on several hundred employes would share equally with him in his business and be 50 per cent partners in everything in which he was interested in the film industry. Simultaneously, Goldwyn announced the formation oi a new company, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., a California corporation, capitalized for $10 million and with 100,000 shares of stock. Half of these shares will be set aside for sale to Goldwyn employes, whether cameramen, technicians, writers, directors, stenographers or in whatever capacity, at $1 each. Goldwyn declared that in a sale he would not part with the shares for $5 million dollars. He alone will determine how many shares each employe will receive the right to purchase, based on past experience, value of the employe, loyalty in the past and length of time with the company. The producer declared that his innovation in granting employes a 50 per cent interest in his business follows the pattern of "the future oi the world as I see it." He said that he hoped the rest of Hollywood would follow suit. Up to the present time, Goldwyn has always owned 100 per cent of any company which has borne his name. His board of directors will consist of his wife, himself, James A. Mulvey, whom he has elevated to the presidency of the company, Marvin Essell and the company auditor. A. R Evens. Essell, Leon Fromkess and Pat Duggan, production executives at the studio, are vicepresidents of the new company, with Mrs. Goldwyn as treasurer; A. R. Evans, secretary and assistant treasurer and Harry Archinal, assistant-secretary. Goldwyn himself becomes chairman of the board under the new set-up. Every employe will receive a five-year contract, the producer stated in explaining how his new system will operate. If at the end of the five-year period the employe desires to leave or sell his stock it will be purchased at book value by the company. If the company's audit is not satisfactory to the employe, he may have an independent audit made and a decision will be reached between the company's and the employe's auditors. Employes receive a percentage of the profits from any picture, any story purchased, the sale of star contracts and anything from which the company derives profit. Not sharing in the profits, will be stars and featured players, because Goldwyn believes, he said, that their salaries are much higher than the average worker and they do not need to participate. Walter B. Cokell, Treasurer of Paramount, Is Dead at 57 Walter B. Cokell, 57, treasurer of Paramount for the past 12 years, died suddenly last Tuesday in the Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, N. Y., following a brief illness. Born in Denver, he graduated from New York University School of Commerce and served as an Army lieutenant in World War I. An auditor with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company at the conclusion of the war, he joined Paramount in May, 1920, as manager of the budget and cost analysis department. In 1926 he was transferred to the executive department and became assistant treasurer in January, 1933. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed treasurer. A widow and his mother survive. Gould Predicts 90% of Theatres to Use 16-mm. Ninety per cent of all the world's theatres would do better to employ the use of 16-mm. films rather than 35-mm., Walter Gould, United Artists foreign manager, declared this week at a trade press luncheon in New York. Gould predicted that use of 16-mm. in all theatres in the U. S. seating 1000 or under was not far distant, and announced that the foreign department of the company now was to have 16-mm. prints of all UA features for exhibition in any part of the world. Gould also announced a reorganization of the foreign department with the appointment of three division managers who will supervise their respective territories based from New York. The appointees include Al Lowe, general manager in South Africa, appointed division manager of the Far Eastern, Australasian and South African zone; William M. Levy, division manager of Europe and the Near East, and Sam Seidelman, division manager of Central and South America. Publicity posts have been established in key capitals and exploitation teams are already at work in South America. A service agency has been established in Paris to aid continental Europe and the Near East. Gould will leave by November 1 with Lowe for Australia to conduct a series of international sales meetings. 8 Loew's 16-mm. Men In States for Training The first group of eight men who will act as Loew International representatives for the company's 16-mm. films in all countries of the world except the U. S. and Canada, are expected in New York within two weeks and will be prepared for their jobs with an intensified instruction course covering the country, it has been announced by Arthur M. Loew, president. The eight trainees, University graduates with film experience, and natives of their respective countries, will be under the supervision of Dr. Ronald Carroll, Robert Schmitt and Haven Falconer, head of the training, equipment and educational aspects of MGM's 16-mm. operations abroad. During their instruction course in the States their schedule will take them to Washington, St. Louis, Culver City, Chicago and back to New York for the last necessary polishing. Back in their home countries they will set up "Metromobiles," the name given MGM's 16-mm. mobile units and also stationary 16-mm. circuits in theatreless towns and communities in the interior. Countries represented by the first group, each of whom will operate under the direction supervision of the local territory manager, are Cuba, France (2), Argentina, Puerto Rico, Chile, Venezuela and Belgium. Home Named Monogram Director David D. Home, assistant treasurer of Monogram International Corp., has been elected a director of the company. Paramount Club Dinner Oct. 26 The annual dinner and dance of the Paramount Pep Club will be held October 26 in the grand ballroom of the Astor Hotel. 1946 'Dimes7 Drive To Start in January The motion picture industry, at the invitation of President Truman, will again serve in the next March of Dimes drive scheduled to get underway next January with Nicholas M. Schenck, who has acted as national chairman of the industry committee since 1941, again leading the drive. Requesting the same national committeemen and state chairmen to continue in their respective capacities during the 1946 campaign, the President has invited them to attend a Nicholas M. Schenck special meeting at the White House on December 4 at which time plans for the campaign will be outlined. In a telegram addressed to all chairmen, President Truman stated : "For the first time in 13 years, the nationwide March of Dimes will get underway in January, 1946, without the living presence of the man who inaugurated the fight against infantile paralysis and who became its symbol — Franklin D. Roosevelt. The cause in which he fought so valiantly now has been bequeathed to the American public. The fight is not yet won. No words from me are needed to impress upon you the importance of this fight. It is a crusade in which we are all vitally interested." Continued the President : "It is my sincere hope and desire that the invaluable assistance which the motion picture industry of America has given this annual appeal will not only continue but will be intensified during the coming 1946 March of Dimes." Curtis Named a Vice-President Of Eastman Kodak Company Major General Edward Peck Curtis has been elected one of the four new vice-presidents of Eastman Kodak and supervisor of all sales of professional motion picture film throughout the world, and in addition, will be generally responsible for sales, advertising and distribution in Europe. Curtis has just returned to the company following nearly five years with the Army Air Forces. Perley S. Wilcox, chairman of the Tennessee Eastman Corp. board, was elected chairman of the board of Eastman Kodak Co., filling the vacancy left by the death of Frank W. Lovejoy last month. Other new vice-presidents are Ivar N. Hultman, assistant general manager ; Edward S. Farrow, also an assistant general manager, and James E. McGhee, general sales manager. Kilroe in Chile for Industry Edwin P. Kilroe, copyright advisor to 20th Century-Fox and Movietone News, is in Sant'ago, Chile, representing the industry at the Inter-American Bar Association Copyright Conference from October 20 to 29, it has been announced by the State Department. Kilroe represents the MPPDA on the Committee on Intellectual Property. He will return early in November. Schaefer Joins PRC Sales Dept. Grover Schaefer has been appointed PRC sales executive and assistant to Lloyd Lind, assistant general sales manager, it • has been announced by Harry H. Thomas, vice-president and general sales manager. Thomas left this week for a tour of the Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans. Dallas, Oklahoma and Kansas City exchanges.