Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1946)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, June 22, 1946 NATIONAL NEWSREEL PICTURE PEOPLE Enterprise President Charles Einfeld was in New York this week, to attend, among other things the Universal sales meet. J. Arthur Rank's vice-president and public relations head, Jock Lawrence, is in England conferring with Rank executives on advertising and publicity poHcies. While he's gone amiable speaking Jerry Dale is in charge. Due in New York this week were International Pictures' President William Goetz and Tyrone Power who are to confer with United World Executives Matty Fox, William Heineman, A. W. Schwalberg in connection with "The Dark Mirror." RKO Western Division Manager Walter E. Branson announced this week that he had closed a deal for Walt Disney's "Make Mine Music" with 418 Fox West Coast theatres. Dave Bader who founded the 16-mm. Reporter and left it after its initial publication, has reacquired controlling interest in the publication. Bader who is in Cape Ann to com plete a book on documentary and factual films, said he would resume publication in fall merging The Reporter with Factual Filmweek. Universal's Jimmie Grainger can grin this week over the fact that Universal's consolidated net profits for the period ending May 1946 are $2,576,045 compared with $2,064,175 for the same period in 1945. Universal International President Joseph H. Seidelman says his company will produce several pictures in France with Transcontinental films providing studio space. First will be "The Devil in the Flesh" with Michele Presle. The Motion Picture Export Association hopes to be in its new Fifth Avenue quarters some time this week, General Manager Irving Maas declares. Maas has added three new members to the staff. They are: Alfred F, Corwin, formerly of 20th Century-Fox International, as ad and publicity manager; William F. Laffan, formerly with Mike Todd, comptroller; Irving M. Eckstein, one time United Artists international department staffer, holding down the head of sales control. Spyros Skouras is a happy man these days with the results of the Greater New York Fund 1946 appeal to date. Total contributions amounting to $58,950, or 75 per cent of the New York motion picture industry's $78,600 quota have already been raised, Skouras said. PRC has named Grover Parsons, formerly with Paramount's Atlanta exchange and before that with Republic as western division manager, as its south-southwest division manager. Don Alexander, Jr. has been moved from the New York office to the home office of Alexander Films at Colorado Springs to become assistant to President J. Don Alexander. Young Alexander has also been elected to a vice-presidency of Alexander and its subsidiary Alexite Engineering. William Dozier formerly in charge of production at RKO recently was elected a vicepresident and a director of International Pictures. T. R. Thompson has joined the sales staff of Walt Disney productions. Monogram International has appointed William Reich as sales representative in Brazil. SHOWMEN'S SILHOUETTES w Dick Ki^chba.. =^ I I HOP€ VoiJ ? V<.NpW WH^^ frilS BETT€P. I B£AS\J<:<:€SS,' MFTA T-ELL -riM-E BV , ■TH' ?UN . -THf INDUSmV^" OUTSTANDING cn^USADER m VISION (MAPf TALKIN6 P(CTU/?€S P055IBZ.-E-A FIN€ SHOWMAN ANP Won't Bt map;>^ „IS AMBITION ISTOFRING -EDOCAT'ONAL FILMS TO AMERICA .F?DNIS€0-TH£ARNy/ SO°/o OF PROFITS OF "THIS ISTH€ ARMV"-<?AVe . -TH£M lOO^ / '"^^^WNS A 5TRIN<5 OF RA^ct //oRSE5 BUT N€V£R B€T5 OH Aj/S OWN Next Week KARL HOBLITZELLE William Zoellner, formerly manager of the Atlanta exchange for MGM was vacationing in Florida this week prior to taking over his new post in the MGM home office at New York as a special representative. Being a special representative is nothing new to Zoellner, whose film experience dates back to the old Goldwyn days. William Zoellner