Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1946)

12 SHDWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, December 7, 1946 NATIONAL NEWSREEL PICTURE PEOPLE Alfred Crown, Sam Goldwyn's foreign sales manager, is back in New York after nine weeks in France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark and England. William Wyler, whose direction of "The Best Years of Our Lives" is causing raves aplenty, found tribute for his achievement from men in the service Wednesday night when the Motion Picture Chapter of the American Veterans Committee cited him for his work in connection with that picture. Chairman Walter Brown presided. back from their inspection of new theatres in Havana and Mexico City. Warners' Philippines Supervisor Cliff Almy is on his way to California for a month's vacation due to ill health incurred when he was a war prisoner of the Japanese. Columbia Vice-President and General Sales Manager A. Montague, accompanied by Rube Jackter and other members of his staff, were back in New York this week after a sales meeting in Chicago where sales plans were discussed. Warner Theatres President and General Manager Harry M. Kalmine and Herman R. Maier of the construction department are Clark Ramsay, one time advertising manager of Universal has been appointed a vicepresident of the Monroe Greenthal Company SHOWMEN'S SILHOUETTES by Dick Kirschbaum I'D Z.1K6 TO B£ AN USH€R 'CAUSE IT'LL I / \ LOOKGOOD ON MY ( r , R€CORP ^ r„ I rK\G£T TO Be A BIG WoRK£D UP TH£ HARD IVAY ME STARTfP WiTH LOEWS AS AH US^€R-AHO HE'S STILL WiTHlHEH ^ So SORR)/ fRieHR BUT W(NG5AM£AN FlSfBUTONLVTOMAINTAirV ORDfR' Hf MANA6fP 5oM£ TOUGH HOUSfS VIC£Pl2£5ID(rNTOF 10€W'S, INC, IN CKAR6£ OF A^L TfAeATREOPcRATmON£0FTM£ I NDU5TRY5 AIOST POPULAR TOP if A£CUT(V£5. Dip I TfLLVouf WHAT A'\y BOY ' DICK, P\0,^^: V£ST€RPW -L £oV£5 D£€PSef\ ■FISHING-AND \TALIAN PASrAFAQ/O/L which handles the Universal-International and the J. Arthur Rank account. Ramsay will be in charge of the West Coast office. RKO Research Director Harold Hendee is all set to address the American Association of University Women at Englewood, N. J. Sunday on the timely topic of "Making Movies the Real McCoy." A. Firoe, Altec Lansing Corporation's plant superintendent, stopped off in New York this week on his way to Montreal to attend ceremonies marking the beginning of production of Altec products by the Northern Electric Company of Canada. Eagle-Lion Producer John Cornfield, who made "Bedelia," dropped in on New York before going Hollywoodward on Dec. 4. Paul Soskin, who produces for J. Arthur Rank, is taking a holiday in the U.S.A. Sam Goldwyn has been awarded the Scholastic Magazines' Movie of the Month Award for "The Best Years of Our Lives," with the scroll to be presented to Goldwyn this month. Those wide smiles on the faces of Ned Depinet and Bob Mochrie are due to something new which has been added by Walt Disney — "Song of the South." The picture opened in New York with lines extending around the Palace and is, in addition, doing phenomenal business at all its other stands, which to date are mostly in the south. Roxy Theatre Managing Director John Balaban and his associate Irving Lesser are not crying into their noon-day milk either over what the "Razor's Edge" is doing at that house. Despite a business-busting brownout, the house has had lines out in the semidark street even at nights. Disney Profits Off Walt Disney Productions this week reported a net income of $196,000 for the fiscal year ending Sept. 28, a drop from the $350,532 net of the 1945 fiscal year. The current returns amount to 26 cents a share of common stock as compared to 1945's 31 cents a share. Disney management had predicted a drop and present figures do not reflect the possible earnings of either "Make Mine Music" or "Song of the South." Next Week ADOLPH ZUKOR RKO Declares Dividend Directors of RKO this week declared a dividend of 30 cents a share of common stock to be paid Tan. 2, 1947. School Days 1946 Fox Intermountain Theatres this week entered the avocation of educating the young in a big way by offering six of its oil or gas-heated theatres in Denver to serve as classrooms for an hour and a half on week-day mornings. Denver schools, heated by coal, are closed. Fox Intermountain further offered to furnish appropriate films, either shorts or features, to tie in with the program of the school board. Each theatre would serve as a classroom from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Houses offered for use to the school board are the Aladdin, Esquire, Webber, Bluebird, Ogden and Mayan.