Boxoffice-March.04.1950

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Qhief Barker Wade Pearson reported Variety
Tent 11 will present its first Great Heart
award to a local man chosen as an outstanding
civic and charitable leader at a banquet
at the Mayflower hotel May 13.
Women of Variety, headed by Mrs. Jerry
Adams' committee, will play a prominent part
in ticket sales for the forthcoming rodeo to
Mr. and Mrs.
be sponsored by Tent 11 . . .
Robert
Filmrow
Levine and Evelyn Butler visited
other Pilmrow visitors included
. . .
Dan Browning jr. and Ralph Pol-
lard of the Dixie Drive-In, Richmond, Va.
.
Lillian Lee has returned to the office after
a week's illness . . . John Tassos. Paramount
publicist, was married recently . . . Shipper
Jimmy Burns is recovering from a siege of
pneumonia
. Darr has resigned
to take up household duties . . Sympathy
.
to 20th-Fox shipper Cornehus Scott in the
death of his wife clerk Eilleen
Olivier has returned from a two-week vacation
in New Orleans , . . Inspector Margaret
Landgraf has returned to 20th-Fox.
Editor of the 20th-Pox Dynamo Roger
Ferri stopped off here en route from a Mexico
vacation to New York .
Glenn
Norris visited Baltimore ... At Columbia.
Messrs. Haupert and Greenberg are in for a
routine Hello girl Rosalie Satterwhite
audit . . .
has
resigned.
Cornelia Palumbo now is Mrs. Biti
Gene Autry, who was in town with his
rodeo, visited the local exchange and had
his picture taken with the staff . . . Manager
Ben Caplon was in Charlotte, N. C, and
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District Manager Sam Galanty was in Pittsburgh
. . . Alice Sauber was out ill.
District Theatres Clark Davis was out sick
for several days . Burling of Highway
Express Lines reports the death of his father
Siegel, Theatre Advertising Co., is
in George Washington hospital where he
underwent an operation on his knee . . . The
Gayety, which has been playing burlesque
for many years, has been renovated and will
open Monday (6) as a legitimate house with
a nonsegregation policy.
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Opening attraction
will be Susan Peters in "The Barretts of
Wimpole Street."
Manager Jerry Adams of MGM visited the
Schine home office in Gloversville, N. Y. . . .
Booker Max Stepkin celebrated a birthday
Stein, a new member of the staff,
also celebrated a birthday .
Cook's
husband Jack recently received his master's
degree in accounting at Strayer's Business
Rhoda Zell, billing department,
college . . .
has been out fighting the flu.
.
Tommy Ryan of U-I celebrated a birthday
Priess underwent an operation
on her arm . Cusic is new student
manager at the
Md.
New Theatre, Leonardtown,
Jake Flax. Republic manager, spent
. . .
several days in New York . . . Office Manager
Al Landgraf reports the neuritis in hu
arm and shoulder is improving
. . . Inspector
Pauline Struck has been out with a sprained
ankle Lion Manager Fred Rohrs
spent several days in Richmond . . . The
father of salesman Fred Sapperstein is ill
in a hospital at Baltimore.
Stuart Aorons Is Wed
To Florence Josephson
NEW YORK—Stuart Aarons, Warner Bros,
attorney 18 years, was married Sunday (26)
to Florence Josephson at the Warwick hotel.
The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. I.
Josephson of this city and is a graduate of
Hunter college and Brooklyn Law school.
She is a member of the state bar. Stuart is
a graduate of City college of New York and
Harvard Law school, and a member of Phi
Beta Kappa. He was awarded the Bronze
Star, the army commendation ribbon and the
Philippine Medal of Merit for war service.
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Goldsmith Gets Rights
To '3 Husbands' Title
NEW YORK—A board of arbitration of the
Motion Picture Ass'n of America has given
I. G. Goldsmith, producer for United Artists,
indisputable rights to the title, "Three
Husbands," which had been contested by
20th Century-Fox as infringing on their 1949
release, "A Letter to Three Wives." The
latter, which is a screen adaptation by Vera
Caspary of her novel, is now up for an
Academy Award while "Three Husbands"
was written for the screen by Miss Caspary.
Miss Caspary is also associated with her
husband. Goldsmith, in the production of
"Three Husbands," which is now being completed
in Hollywood under the direction of
Irving Reis.
Goldsmith, who flew east to press his
rights to the title, returned to Hollywood
February 28. He was represented at the
MPAA arbitration hearing by Robert J.
Rubin, Society of Independent Motion Picture
Producers counsel, and Harry D. Buckley
of United Artists.
EL Scdesmen Will Shore
In 'Indiana' Profits
NEW YORK—Frank Melford and John
Rawlins, partners heading Ventura Pictures,
will share the profits from their first picture,
"Boy From Indiana," with 176 salesmen
for Eagle Lion, which is distributing
the film.
In each territory where the picture is distributed,
the salesmen employed by the EL
branch serving that area will receive 20 per
cent of the picture's profits above a nominal
quota agreed upon by the sales organization.
When any branch has exceeded its quota, it
will receive 20 per cent of all revenue derived
by that branch in excess of the quota. "By
making the Eagle Lion salesmen, in effect,
partners in our venture, we are giving them
a real incentive and a just reward for their
efforts," Melford said.
Paramount Corp. Declares
50-Cent Common Dividend
NEW YORK—The board of directors of the
Paramount Pictures Corp. has declared a
quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share on the
common stock, payable March 29 to stockholders
of record March 16. Barney Balaban,
president, told the board that "because
of the worldwide nature of our business,"
it is impossible at this time to estimate
the consolidated earnings for the first
quarter of 1950. The estimated earnings will
be published in May, he said. The corporation
has purchased 73,710 shares of its stock
for retirement. As of March 1, 1950, 86 per
cent of the outstanding stock of the old company
has already been exchanged for stock
of the two new companies, in accordance
with the plan of reorganization.
Thomas L. W. Evans Dies
NEW YORK—Thomas Lee Wells Evans, 65,
president and co-founder of Major F^lm Laboratories.
Inc.. film processers. died Wednesday
il) in New England Baptist hospital,
Boston. His home was in Bronxville, N. Y.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lotta M.
Evans: a daughter, Mrs. Thomas N. Doyle,
and a brother. William J. Evans.
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