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District Heads Study
New Columbia Films
CHICAGO—District managers and home
office representatives of Columbia Pictures
started a three-day sales meeting Monday
(231 at the Drake hotel. Liquidation problems,
general sales and new product were
the principal topics of the discussions, which
were led by A. Montague, general sales manager.
Among the films receiving attention were
"Jolson Sings Again," "All the King's Men,"
"Tokyo Joe," "Anna Lucasta," "The Decline
of Oklahoma." "Lust for Gold," "Johnny
Allegro" and "We Were Strangers."
Field representatives who attended Included
Nat Cohn. New York district manager: S. A.
Galanty. mideast district manager; Jerome
Safron, western district manager; Carl Shalit,
central district manager; B. C. Marcus, midwestern
district manager; R. J. Ingram,
southeastern district manager; J. B. Underwood,
southwestern district manager; I. H.
Rogovin. New England dsitrict manager, and
Harry Weiner, district manager for southern
New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Home office representatives present, in addition
to Montague, included Rube Jackter,
assistant sales manager; Lou Astor, Louis
Weinberg and Irving Wormser, circuit sales
executives; Maurice Grad. short subjects sales
manager; George Josephs assistant to Montague;
Joe Freiberg, manager of the sales
sales accounting department; H. C. Kaufman,
manager of the exchange operations department;
Seth Raisler, manager of the contract
department; Vincent Borelli, assistant to
circuit sales executives, and Irving Sherman
and Sydney Singerman. assistant managers
of the exchange operations department.
Federal Tax Lien Filed
MADISON—A tax lien against the Gem
Shows Theatre of Baraboo was filed in federal
court here by the internal revenue department.
The department claims $25,739 is
due from the theatre for admission taxes for
three-fourths of 1948.
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