Boxoffice-11.04.1950

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/"•lifton Webb, who recently completed the is in New York after visiting the Westrex
20th-Pox film, "For Heaven's Sake," and offices in Singapore and London.
Fayette W. Alport, British representative for
Bernard Jacon, Lux vice-president in charge
the Motion Picture Ass'n of America, sailed
of sales, will go to Los Angeles to supervise
the "Bitter Rice" opening at the Laurel
on the Queen Mary for London The same
liner arrived in New York two days earlier
and Vagabond theatres November 10. Doris
with Tilly Losch, Countess of Carnarvon,
DowlLng, American star of the Italian film,
the famous dancer, abroad . . . Morgan
is already on the coast for appearances at
Hudgins, unit publicity man for MGM's "Quo
the day-and-date opening . . .
Norman
Vadis," got back from a six-month stay in
Moray, Warner Bros, short subjects sales
Rome and left November 1 for Washington
head, is back after ten days at the studio.
to visit relatives before returning to the
coast. Sam Zimbalist, producer; Mervyn
LeRoy, director, and Robert Taylor and
Deborah Kerr, the stars, are due back from
Rome the end of November.
. . .
Edward Morey, Monogram-Allied Artists
vice-president, left for Hollywood to attend
a stockholders and directors meeting
Nat Levy, RKO eastern division sales manager,
has returned from a business trip
through his
RKO manager at
territory Sam Gorelick,
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Chicago, returned to his
office following a series of business meetings
with home office executives . . Jules
.
K. Chapman. Eagle Lion Classics supervisor
of exchange operations, left October 30 on
a five-week tour of the offices west of Chicago.
Milton E. Cohen, ELC eastern division
manager, is on a six-week tour of the
branches in connection with the Bill Heineman
drive contest. He will return to New
York November 22.
William W. Howard, RKO Theatres assistant
general manager, is on a business trip
which will take him to Cincinnati, Chicago,
Dayton, Columbus, Denver, Des Moines and
New Orleans in connection with the "Boost
Your Business" campaign . . . R. M. Savini,
president of Astor Pictures, will visit the
exchanges in Dallas and Kansas City following
his trip to the TOA convention in
Houston . S. Tower jr., managing director
of the Western Electric Co. of Australia.
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Ben Washer, formerly publicity manager
for Paramount, is press agent for Frederick
Lon.sdale's play, "The Day After Tomorrow,"
which Shuberts produced at the Booth Theatre
and is also keeping his hand in the film
business by doing special publicity on two
20th Century-Fox pictures, "All About Eve"
and the forthcoming "The Mudlark." His
Broadway show is filled with film actors, including
Beatrice Pearson, Melville Cooper
and two British players, Ralph Michael and
Jack Watling, recently featured in "Quartet"
Gabriel Pascal, who will produce the
George Bernard Shaw film, "Androcles and
the Lion," flew back to England November
1, but was too late to see the playwright, who
died early November 2 . . . Bernard Smith,
head of Paramount's west coast story department,
is in New York on a combined business
and pleasure trip seeing Broadway shows, etc.
Kenneth McKenna, MGM story head, is
also in New York conferring with book pubhshers,
editors and writers. Helen Deutsch,
MGM writer whose latest script is "King
Solomon's Mines," is also here from the
coast . . . Jerry Bresler, Columbia producer,
is here from the coast for conferences on
"The Flying Missile," which he just completed
Irving Rubine, vice-president of Robert
Stillman Prod., arrived November 1 from
Phoenix, Ariz., for conferences with his eastern
staff and United Artists executives on
the four test engagements set on "Sound
of Fury," which will be generally released in
January.
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Vera-Ellen, MGM contract player, arrived
by plane from London November 2 after completing
"Happy-Go-Lovely" Keyes,
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who has completed "The Prowler" for United
Artists release, is in New York to cooperate
with UA on advance publicity and for a brief
holiday Cummins, currently co-
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starring with Edward G. Robinson in Operation
X," arrived in New York October 29 en
route to England, where she will marry Derek
Dunnett .
Meiser has completed her
first film role in Robert Stillman's "Queen
for a Day" and is back to her radio and
playwrightlng activities in New York.
Montague Salmon has returned to his
duties as manager director of the Rivoli,
following a month's stay in the Medical
Center in Jersey City recovering from a leg
ailment, to prepare for the Election day
opening of "Undercover Girl" . . . Helen
Lepska, secretary to Foster M. Blake, U-I
western sales manager, married Frank A.
Rizzo October 28.
Bank Advances Finances
Before Release Is Set
NEW YORK—Chemical Bank & Trust Co.
has advanced about half of the $650,000 production
budget of "He Ran All the Way,"
starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters
and being made by the independent unit in
which Garfield is a partner with Bob Roberts.
The deal is slightly unusual in that it is only
the third time the bank has supplied first
money before distribution arrangements have
been made on a film, according to Edwin
Van Pelt, Chemical vice-president.
The others were: "Guilty of Treason," produced
by Edward and Bob Golden, for which
a releasing arrangement was made later with
Eagle Lion, and Seymour Nebenzal's "M,"
recently completed, which probably will be
released through Columbia.
Those supplying second money for "He
Ran All the Way" include Roberts and
Garfield, the Motion Picture Center, at
whose studio it is being made, and clients of
Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim, law firm,
which handled financial negotiations.
Many Guests at Special
Showing of 'Goldbergs'
NEW YORK—Several hundred invited
guests attended a screening of "The Goldbergs"
Monday evening (30) at the Paramount
Theatre. They Included exhibitors,
writers of syndicate, magazine, radio and
tradepaper articles, officials of the United
Parents Ass'n and personal guests of Paramount
officials. Max E. Youngstein, Paramount
vice-president in charge of advertising,
publicity and exploitation, scheduled the
large-scale showing in preference to a series
of small ones, he said, because of wide interest
in the picture and because it is due
for early national release.
The entire radio and television cast of "The
Goldbergs" duplicate their roles in the picture.
Mel Epstein produced and Walter Hart
directed.
Remodeled Capitol Soon
To Open in Brooklyn
NEW YORK—Extensive alterations are
being made to the Capitol, 286 Saratoga
Ave.. Brooklyn, recently leased by the Randforce
circuit from Moe Goldman and William
Freeman, operators of ten houses in
the metropolitan area, through Berk &
Krumgold, theatre specialists. The theatre
seats 1.800. An early reopening is planned.
BOXOFFICE
:: November 4, 1950