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. . Betty<br />
. . Frank<br />
. . George<br />
. . Homer<br />
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. . Wolfe<br />
B R O A DWAY<br />
fiUiam B. Zoellner, head of MGMs short<br />
W"<br />
subjects sales and reprints and importations,<br />
is back from a mideastern trip . . .<br />
Jeanne Cagney is spending a month in town.<br />
Carl Dreyer, European director, is expected<br />
here from Copenhagen March 26 lor the<br />
opening of "Day of Wrath" at the Little<br />
Carnegie Theatre. He also will visit Hollywood<br />
.<br />
Harris, Realart board chairman<br />
and treasurer, is vacationing at Boca<br />
Raton, Fla., with Mrs. Harris . . . Gregory<br />
LeCava arrived from Hollywood ... Sol A.<br />
Schwartz, vice-president and general m.\nager<br />
of RKO Theatres, and Mrs. Schwartz<br />
returned from a three-week stay on the coast.<br />
Schwartz visited circuit houses in San Francisco<br />
and Los Angeles and reviewed new product<br />
at the studio.<br />
A son was born to J. V. Washburn, Altec<br />
Service inspector, and Mrs. Washburn .<br />
Leonide Kipnis. president of Westport International<br />
Films, distributors of "The Raven,"<br />
left for Canada to select background locations<br />
for a picture to be produced by the company<br />
this summer . . . Jean Louis, Columbia head<br />
fashion designer, spent a few days in Gotham<br />
before flying to Europe Rockwell,<br />
.<br />
publisher of Screenland. Silver Screen and<br />
Movie Show magazines, left for Hollywood to<br />
see studio executives.<br />
Paulette Goddard, who recently arrived<br />
from Hollywood, and Macdonald Carey will<br />
appear on a Motion Picture Relief Fiuid, Inc.,<br />
broadcast on the Screen Guild Players show<br />
over CBS March 15 Stevens and<br />
.<br />
Harriet Parsons, executive producer-director<br />
and producer, respectively, of "I Remember<br />
Mama," came east for the opening of the<br />
film at the Radio City Music Hall . . . Ray<br />
Milland is here for a series of radio broadcasts<br />
as part of the campaign on Paramount's<br />
"The Big Clock."<br />
Jules Levey, producer, will sail for Europe<br />
on the SS Amsterdam March 16 ... Ed<br />
Grigsby of the Altec Lansing sales staff in<br />
Hollywood has been elected to the board of<br />
directors of the West Coast Electronic Manufacturers<br />
Ass'n . C. Walker, Comerford<br />
Theatres executive, was awarded the<br />
Laetere medal for 1948 by Notre Dame university<br />
. Krone, secretary to CoKunbia's<br />
Rube Jackter, become engaged to<br />
Bernard G. Unger.<br />
Charles C. Moskowitz, Loews vice-president<br />
and treasurer, left at the weekend for<br />
Hollywood . . . Leon Leonidoff, senior producer<br />
for Radio City Music HaU, returned<br />
from Florida.<br />
Samuel Eckman jr., chairman and managing<br />
director of MGM Pictui-es, Ltd., Robert<br />
Wolff, managing director for RKO Productions,<br />
Inc., and Lawrence R. Kent, 20th-Fox<br />
representative in England, arrived on the<br />
Queen Elizabeth.<br />
Jay Eisenberg of the MGM legal department<br />
and Irving Helfont met with Henry L.<br />
Nathanson, president of MGM Films of<br />
Canada, and Ted Gould, sales manager, in<br />
Montreal . Cohen, Warner International<br />
vice-president in charge of far eastern<br />
and Latin American distribution, is in<br />
Shanghai on an inspection tour . . . Hal Wallis<br />
is here for a two-week visit. He will confer<br />
with Joseph Hazen, president of Hal Wallis<br />
Production, on futiu-e film plans. Wallis<br />
will be joined here by Anatole Litvak, who<br />
has just completed work on "Sorry, Wrong<br />
Number." They intend to fly to Paris to set<br />
plans for an overseas production.<br />
Stanley Hand, general sales manager for<br />
Nu-Screen, is visiting Florida and the southern<br />
territory. He is due back April 10 . . .<br />
Jack Segal, vice-president of Columbia Pictures<br />
Infl Corp., left for Palm Beach where<br />
he was married to Shirley Edelman of this<br />
city. The couple will leave for a honeymoon<br />
in Europe the latter part of the month.<br />
Jay Gove, head of the MGM sales development<br />
division, is back from a Nassau vacation<br />
. . . J. E. Currie, manager of National<br />
Theatre Supply's drive-in theatre department,<br />
is back from the coast.<br />
MGM executives are back from a five-day<br />
conference at the studio. William F. Rodgers,<br />
vice-president and general sales manager,<br />
will return in a few weeks with Edwin<br />
W. Aaron, his assistant. Back at their desks<br />
are Henderson M. Richey, exhibitor relations<br />
head: John P. Byrne, eastern sales manager,<br />
and Herman Ripps, assistant to Byrne.
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