Boxoffice-March.06.1948

: March
. . . Arthur
. . Bernard
. . Jerry
UOPWA Maps Fight
For 25% Boost
NEW YORK—Tlie United Office & Professional
Workers of America, CIO, will
fight
for 25 per cent wage increases during 1948,
according to a report presented to 500 union
delegates attending the seventh constitutional
convention March 1-5 at the Hotel St. George.
Brooklyn. The UOPWA includes 3,500 film
industry workers, members of SOPEG and
SPG. Total UOPWA membership is said to
be 70,000 employes of banking, insurance,
radio and Wall Street firms in addition to
the white collar motion picture workers.
Meanwhile the 20th-Fox unit of SPG has
received wage increases ranging from $5.50
to $20.00 per week as a result of arbitration
conducted by the American Arbitration Ass'n.
All other film companies except Eagle Lion
will soon enter into arbitration proceedings
over the wage demands made by their SPG
units. Management and the union are now
selecting
arbitrators.
Jules Lapidus Son to Wed
Miss Lois Elaine Liff
NEW YORK—Dr. and Mrs, Albert A. Liff
have announced the engagement of their
daughter, Lois Elaine,
to Lawrence Herbert
Lapidus. son of Jules
Lapidus, eastern sales
^^^^ manager for Warners,
^^" and Mrs. Lapidus of
Mount Vernon.
in her jimior year at
Barnard collegeu
Lois Elaine Liff Lawrence Lapidus Is
attending Pennsylvania state college.
Along New York's Film
QHARLES BOASBERG, north-south division
manager for RKO, and assistant
By WALTER WALDMAN
Carl Peppercorn conducted a meeting at the
New York exchange March 2 to discuss the
Ned Depinet drive, which has passed the
halfway mark. Exchange staffers present
were Len Gruenberg, district manager; Phil
Hodes, branch manager; Lou Kutinsky,
Charles Penseer, Herman Silverman and John
Dacey, salesmen; Jack De Wald, accountant;
Bill Hartman, office manager, and Sy Kaplan,
Max PoUnsky and Jean Sleigh, bookers.
Gruenberg expects to saU for Bermuda
March 25 for a ten-day vacation .
Harry Margolis, booker, has been appointed
MGM shorts subjects supervisor for the second
shorts subjects sales drive. The leading
shorts subjects supervisor for each MGM
division annually wins a trip to Hollywood.
Last Year Ed Richter, head booker, was the
lucky guy
. . . Bea Friedman, assistant MGM
cashier, is back at her desk after a two-week
cruise to the West Indies.
Spring is just around the corner, according
to the members of the Motion Picture Bookers
club. Plans were discussed at the weekly
meeting at the Hotel Taft March 1 for the
organization of a softball team. Max Fried
was named a committee of one to start the
ball rolling . . . Mrs. E. Knickerbocker invited
Flimrow salesmen and bookers to the
opening of her recently acquired Dover Theatre,
Dover Plains, N. Y.
Miss Liff is a graduate
of the Fieldston
Harry Fuchs of the Skouras publicity department
school. She attended
is getting used to work again after
the University of
a six-month absence. He has been back at
Rochester and is now
the job two weeks and is just beginning to
catch up with his correspondence . . . Sam
Lefkowitz, eastern district manager for Warners,
ran into a snowstorm his second day
back from a five-week vacation in Florida
Row
Weinberg, WB office manager,
will return from Miami March 8 . . . The
combination of snow and rain March 2 was
too much for the weatherproofing of several
New Jersey theatres. Water seeped through
the roofs, causing carpet and seat damage.
The weather also kept customers at home.
Dan Halpern, former WB booker, became
father of a baby girl . . . Albert MacKenna
paid one of his infrequent visits to Pilmrow
March 2. He operates the Albermac Theatre,
Pawling, N. Y. . . . Oscar A. Doob, John
Murphy and Dan Terrell of Loew's have
returned from their travels. Doob had vacationed
in Havana and Murphy and Terrell
spent a week visiting Loew's theatres through
the south . ICranze, general sales
manager for Film Classics, is visiting exhibitors
and company personnel in and aroimd
San Francisco . . . Seymour Florin, 20th-Fox
branch manager, is on his vacation.
Harold Postman, assistant to Alan F.
Cummings, head of MGM exchange operations,
returned from a three-week tour of
the southern exchanges . . . Vaudeville will
be resumed at the St. James Theatre, Asbury
Park, March 11. Stage shows were dropped
two months ago as a result of the severe
snowstorms . Segal, former assistant
manager of the Mayfair Theatre. Asbury
Park, has been appointed manager of the
Lyric, also of Asbmy Park. Segal succeeded
Jack Thompson, who resigned.
Hickey to Confer in N.Y.
NEW YORK—Duke Hickey, community
relations division field coordinator for the
MPAA, has returned to the New York office
for department conferences. This is his first
trip here in more than four years.
N.Y. Cinema Lodge Honors
Javits and Hazel Scott
NEW YORK—Rep. Jacob K. Javits of Mew
York and Hazel Scott, pianist, were honored
by the Cinema Lodge of the B'nai B'rith at
the Hotel Astor. Tuesday (March 2i. Representative
Javits received a Cinema Lodge
"Honor Scroll" from Robert M. Weitman,
president of the lodge, for his outstanding
Americanism. Miss Scott was cited for her
contributions to the American democratic
way of life.
Representative Javits addressed the group.
He said "the ultimate test of success of our
constitutional democracy will come in the
way in which we treat our minorities in the
next decade." He discussed the problem of
displaced persons in Europe.
Weill Named UA Director
NEW YORK — Harold Weill has been
elected a member of the United Artists board
of directors. He will fill the vacancy left by
the resignation of Ai-nold Grant several
months ago, and will represent Mary Pickford.
Grant. Miss Pickford's attorney, had
been one of the four directors representing
her on the UA board. Weill, also an attorney,
is a member of the law firm of Leon, Weill
and Mahony.
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BOXOFHCE :
6, 1948