Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1947)

16 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, February 1, 1947 NATIONAL NEWSREEL RE PEOPLE Enterprise Ad and Publicity Vice-President Robert Taplinger came east for conferences with United Artists on campaigns for forthcoming Enterprise pictures to be distributed in the United States, and also to confer with Loew's International for campaigns on these pictures abroad. Enterprise distributes locally through UA, but Loew's has the foreign rights. Paramount President Barney Balaban left his Florida vacation to attend studio conferences in Hollywood. Also attending these meetings will be Board Chairman Adolph Zukor, Distribution Vice-President Charles Reagan; Paramount International President George Weltner; Eastern Production Head Russell Holman; National Advertising and Publicity Director Curtis Mitchell. MGM Director of Advertising and Publicity Howard Dietz is back from the coast; Chief Exploiteer William R. Ferguson also returned to New York after a trip to Chicago where he conferred with MGM field men on the campaign for "The Yearling" which opens in that city during early February. Albert E. Schiller is now head of Republic's branch operations, going up another rung of the Republic ladder which he started to climb with the formation of the organization. Motion Picture Association has appointed Frank McCarthy, former assistant secretary of state, as manager for France. SHOWMEN'S SILHOUETTES by Dick Xuscitbaum SNOWN AS THE"BANK NI6HT KING H£S ONE OF THE_ORlGINAToRS piece of § "MUST" Ito < copy— \j. DlNHeR'5 € WAS SPORTS £DJT0R OF THE DENVER POST WHEN Hf MARRIED "THE SOCIETY ePlTDR. tHt MOTION PICTVJRt iNDltfrRYJf CONTRIBUTION TO COLORS DO XVRICK" IS TMt STATE'S OUTSTANDING CIVIC AHD CULTURAL l£A0€df\EAD£D UNlTEP WARfflfST fOFL -THR.££ YEARS-MOTION PICTURE WEAP OFAU. WAR BOND DRIVES-TOP RE6I0NAL B055AMERICAN GWER. SOC€tyPRES. CENTRAmTVOPifRA HOUSE vASSOCIATlON GmL, CHAIRMAN UNIV. 0FD£NVERs8? 15,000,000 DRIVE United Artists Eastern Sales Manager Edward M. Schintzer is back in New York now after a trip to Canada which convinced him that Canadians still like Hollywood product, even though there may be a growing "antipathy" to them in Britain. Sir Alexander Korda has signed Dr. Hubert Clifford as musical director of London Films. Dr. Clifford is coming to America to see how it's done here. RKO Theatres Assistant General Manager William Howard is out inspecting the circuit's midwest theatres. Manny Reiner, Selznick Releasing Organization Latin American general sales manager says "Duel in the Sun" will be issued both in dubbed and titled versions for the "good neighbor" trade and the Mexico City premiere will probably be in May. Earl Rettig, secretary-treasurer of Rainbow Productions is back in Hollywood after a New York business trip. Hstor Will Roadshow Two 16-mm. Negro Productions Astor Pictures President Robert Savini announced this week that he had started to roadshow on 16-mm. two of his Negro features — "Beacon" with Louis Jordan and "Tall, Tan and Terrific" with Tan Morend. The 16-mm. roadshow policy, reported by Showmen's Trade Review several months ago, started in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas. It will, be spread to Louisiana and Texas, Savini said, " covering those localities where there are no theatres which will book Negro pictures for the Negro population and other locations where he has not been able to reach adequate rental agreements. Savini also announced that Astor, which has entered production in the white field, had contracted with Walt Mattox of Western Attractions, to release his recently completed western feature, tentatively titled "Harmony Trail" with Eddie Dean, Rocky Cameron, Ken Maynard, Ventriloquist Max Terhune and Dummy Elmer, and Ruth Roman. The picture was directed by Robert Emmett. Next Week HERMAN BOBBINS Record Universal Net Universal this week claimed that its net profits for the fiscal year ending Nov. 2, 1946 were record breakers, rising to $4,565,219, or equal to $5.32 a share of common, as compared with the 1945 net for the same period of $3,910,928, which represented a return of $4.85 a share on the common. Commenting on increasing costs, Board Chairman J. Cheever Cowdin and President N. J. Blumberg told the stockholders that they hoped by "strong budgetary controls over expenditures, the cost of production can be held to reasonable levels." 99-99/100% Pure? Boston's movie houses got a clean bill of health this week after the Rrv. J. Whitcomb Brougher, former pastor of Tremont Temple here, made a personal visit to all houses to check on violations of the moral code. Pastor Brougher didn't feel so enthusiastic about the local burlesque shows, though, and the order has gone down to clean up.