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. . Ronald
. . . Bert
. . Lou
. . Henry
BROADWAY
Cam L. Seidelman, foreign operations liead
for Eagle Lion, has returned from Europe
where he held meetings on the distribution of
the company's Hollywood-made product . . .
Bernard J. Gates, Monogram International
Latin-American supervisor, left May 10 by air
for Havana and Latin-America on a threemonth
tour of the company branches .
Sidney Horen, home office representative for
20th Century-Pox International in Spain,
Portugal and Spanish North Africa, has arrived
to attend business conferences with
Murray Silverstone and other company executives.
Dan Lederman, who recently resigned
as 20th-Fox managing director of the Philippine
Islands, has been summoned here for
consultation by Silverstone.
Ben Kalmenson, Warner Bros, distribution
head, left New York May 11 for a tour of the
company branches . . . M. L. Simons, assistant
to H. M. Richey, MGM exhibitor relations
head, has returned from a southwestern trip
... F. J. A. McCarthy, southern and California
sales manager for Universal-International,
has left for Indianapolis . J.
Bamberger, RKO sales promotion manager,
has returned to the home office after attending
the annual convention of the ITO of
Arkansas in Little Rock . R. Yoimg,
chairman of the board of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad and principal stockholder in
Pathe Industries, and Robert W. Purcell,
chairman of the Pathe Industries board, have
left for Hollywood for conferences with Arthur
B. Krim, Eagle Lion president, and other
studio executives.
. . Karl Herzog,
. .
B. G. Kranze, vice-president and general
sales manager of Film Classics, Inc., is on a
trip to Chicago and Detroit .
vice-president of Cinecolor Corp., has left for
Hollywood to review new color commitments
The Film Classics department heads held
.
a luncheon party May 7 for President Joseph
Bernhard in celebration of his 59th birthday
. . . Carroll L. Puciato and James B.
Harris, assistants to Budd Rogers, Realart
vice-president in charge of sales, have returned
from Pittsburgh after conferences
with Bert Steam on the 1948-49 program.
James R. Grainger, Republic executive
vice-president in charge of sales, returned to
the home office May 12 following a trip
which took him to Chicago, Denver, San
. . Elsie
Francisco and Los Angeles . Colman
and Mrs. Colman (Benita Hume) sailed
on the Queen Elizabeth May 14 to make a
personal appearance at the London opening
of "A Double Life," the picture which
won Colman the Academy award. Nat Wolff
and his wife, Edna Best; Sophie Tucker and
Alicia Markova were also on board .
Kaufman, a member of Columbia's advertising
and publicity department, resigned May
14 to await the birth of a child . . . Sons
were born to two members of the United
Artists publicity department, the births marking
the second child in each family. The
fathers are Charles Handel, feature writer
and photo editor, and Leon Roth, promotion
manager.
Mme. Raymonde Audibert, director of
Pathe Journal in Paris: Howard Thomas,
producer of Pathe News in London, and William
Miu-ray, European chief of Warner-
Pathe News, have arrived from Europe for
conferences with Walton Ament, and other
executives of Pathe News here . . Fred H.
.
Hotchkiss, European regional manager of the
Westrex Corp., and Edward G. Wagner, controller,
sailed May 14 on the Queen Eliza-
. . . Jacques Chabrier, president
beth. Hotchkiss will visit WE offices in
Barcelona, Rome and Basle and hold a conference
in Paris with WE branch managers
in Europe
of Pathe Cinema of America, and Robert
Guillemard, production chief, have left for
Hollywood to consult with RKO officials on
the completion of "Outpost in Morocco."
Berle Adams, producer of the Louis Jordan
Negro films, is in New York for conferences
with R. M. Savini. president of Astor Pictures,
on a campaign for "Lookout Sister"
Sanford, Altec Lansing theatrical
sales manager, has left New York for a
swing through the middle west and south . . .
Hunt Stromberg, producer, with Mrs. Stromberg,
have arrived for a stay at the Waldorf-
Astoria . . . Irving Asher, MGM director. Is
a guest in the Waldorf Towers . L.
Nathanson, president of MGM Films of Canada;
Ted Gould, general sales manager, and
Dewey Bloom, exploitation representative,
have returned to Toronto after a series of
home office conferences . J. Kaufman,
Warner Bros. Theatres executive, has
returned from a trip to Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Irene Dunne has arrived for a vacation In
Macdonald Carey, Paramount
New York . . .
star, and his wife, the former Betty Heckscher,
are on a two-week vacation in Manhattan
. . . Dorothy Stickney, who has finished
"The Tatlock Millions" for Paramoimt,
has returned to New York to start rehearsals
for the new Lindsay-Crouse play, "Life With
Mother," in which she will be starred . . .
Irene Selznick, producer of the 1947 Pulitzer
Prize play, "A Streetcar Named Desire";
Billy Wilder, Paramount director-producer;
Irving Pichel, Anatole Litvak, Faith Brook,
actress-daughter of Clive Brook, and Nigel
Bruce, film and radio player, were among the
stage and screen luminaries who sailed for
London last week.
Barton P. Tumbull Dies,
Rockefeller Center Head
SUMMIT, N. J.—Barton P. Turnbull, 58,
president of RockefeDer Center, Inc., since
1945, died at his home here May 11. In addition
to his position with Rockefeller Center,
Inc., Turnbull served as president and director
of the Center Theatre Corp. and the Radio
City Music Hall Corp. At the time of his
death, he was also a director of the Chase
National Bank and the Pittsburgh Consolidating
Coal Co.
Turnbull entered the organization as treasurer
and director in 1934, shortly after completion
of the first block of buildings. He is
survived by his widow, Dorothy, and tliree
daughters.
Drop Colonial Plan to Air
NBC Telecast in Astor
NEW YORK—Colonial Television Corp. has
dropped plans for a theatre television pickup
of an NBC television broadcast at the Astor
Theatre, New Rochelle. The operator of the
theatre and Colonial could not come to terms
on the extent of the indemnity the theatre
should be granted in case of a possible property
violation suit by NBC.
Colonial reports it still is trying to line up
an exhibitor for the demonstration. The company
plans to install its large-screen theatre
television system in a theatre and give the
theatre operator a letter of indemnity.
REPUBLIC-FRIEDER DEAL SIGNED—The above group looks happy as distributor
agreements are signed between Republic Pictures International and Frieder
Films, which will represent the company in the Far East. Seated, left to right:
Richard W. Altschuler, president of Republic International, and Alex Frieder, president
of Frieder Films. Standing: Joseph E. MoMahon, Republic secretary; Miss
Fern Montgomery, secretary, Frieder Films; Philip Frieder, officer and director, Frieder
Films and Arnold Lichtig, attorney for Frieder Films.
Mexican Actress in 'Congo Bill'
Armida, a Mexican actress, will take the
role of a native girl In Columbia's "Congo
BUI."
THE IDEAL THEATRE CHAIRS
JOE HORNSTEIN has them
48 BOXOFHCE :
: May 15, 1948