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COLUMBIA: Saul Trauner, branch manager, has been selling films for 27 years api^WTT^^HVl

— I Continued I ontlnued from page 28) JOXFTICE :: r|or Republic, but then a Paramount Service, Special Screen Services, Inc., Allied an, recalls the skepticism of some ex- Posters and Morris Negrin's. |t]s w :ien Paramount moved. They were Incidentally, the New York branch of NSS tli.it nobody would walk the two long also provides trailers for the Albany, Buffal.) Square to buy pictures. and in addition U) we >t of Times New Haven exchanges, pe^slmists called their shots wrong. the metropolitan district. the next seven years all the major The memories of many exchange workers, ge.'^ and supply houses moved to 44th from district managers to shippers, go far beift'een Eighth and Ninth avenues, back into the early days of the film business. 16 customers kept coming for pictures. We have already mentioned John Dacey »iy Warners, 20th-Fox and Paramount and Eddie Carroll of RKO and Bob Fatuion BT-heir own exchange buildings on the of Republic In this connection. ^tl sicie of 44th, and MGM, RKO, Co- There are Monogram. PRC, many more United who were active In Artists, the industry when it &»fsal. Astor and Bell are tenants was In its infancy. of the benter Bldg., 630 Ninth Ave., between At MGM the oldtimers" list is headed by i[nd 45th streets. Jack Bowen, district manager; Bob Elsworth, Brooklyn salesman, )rthf south side of 44th street are Film and Lou Johnson, head of the shipping cs, Screen Guild, and around department and of the Shippers and Inspectors Union. the corner 1 •'ilm Classics is Hoffberg More than 30 Prod. years ago they all worked together for General Film. Film Center Bldg., in which most of changes are now situated, was opened Today, MGM is the only company with !. 5. 1928. separate New York and New Jersey branches a modern fireproof building with com- serving the metropolitan district. |U storage, screening and shipping facil- It dominates the immediate Ben Abner heads the New Jersey branch westside Ug wrliood of dingy tenements and and Ralph Pielow the New York branch. lofts. At Paramount. Henry Randel, recently dition to the exchanges, the building appointed district manager, recalls that until 1^ houses supply and accessory firms. 1941 he was manager of Paramount's Brooklyn branch. That year, Brooklyn, New Jersey JQ Hornstein of Joe Hornstein, Inc., one and New York branches were consolidated t; big supply dealers there, can vividly into a single ber the dawn of the Iniiustry when New York branch, with Randel the as manager. i? houses were located on University just off 14th street. Randel is a member of the Paramoimt 25- year club. He has been with the company he industry moved uptown, the supply 27 years. Other memljers are: Harry Friedman and Gilbert Basch of the film room; IUJ3 moved with it. Jd recalls the early days, 1903, 1904 and Rose McConnell, head of the film room; i»bouts, when projectors were rented, Sybil Mayer, ledger clqrk; Edward Bell, New lid. York salesman; Kitty Flymi. booker, and t H' remembers the supplyman's campaign Leah Peterson, cashier. Albert Gebhardt, t the manufacturers to standardize New Jersey salesman, will be eligible for lent: to get them to build flickerless membership by the end of 1947. tors; the constant fight for better iilg sources. •Pwentieth-Fox ans. These also include has Jack its quota Wolf, of the veter- head 'C al.so remembers the selling campaign taducted to induce exhibitors to install Cashier; Moe Kurtz, New Jersey sales supervisor, who has been with the company for 17 'Oprojectors. Now many theatres have machines. The Mxisi-i Hall has 12. out of the 30 years he has been in the industry. Morris Sanders also can speak with authority of the old days. Sanders, New TJ big years for the supply man were 0. when York sound came in, said Joe. sales supervisor, was president of Motion Pictures Associates in 1944-45. Ray Moon, Yan- fi'nstein and his competitors—Capitol a n Picture Supply Corp., Amusement kee division manager, spent his early film ip(y Co., Crown Motion Picture Supplies days in Detroit, where he was branch manager for Universal. SOS Cinema Supply Corp., National lire Supply, are agreed that the 1947 u meat William Murphy. Republic branch manager, situation could be better. 1 has had a varied and much-traveled ! projection line is easing and deliveries 23 years in the film business. As a salesman )rompter, but carpets and chairs still for Universal he covered Oklahoma and Kentucky; he ard to get, they say. B compared managed theatres in Chicago. with the premium houses on Kansas City, Birmingham and Rhode Island. ow, the equipment dealers are well off. Tj big three of the premium business Saul Trauner. Columbia branch manager, Tlieatre Premiums, Sidney Ross Thea- has spent all of his 27 years in the film business selling. He worked for Pathe as well as (remiums and the Metro Premium Co. Tcfd to turn down orders for lack of Columbia. The dishes on their shelves are for Moe Kerman. president of Favorite Films, y. Few are coming from factories or and head of the Astor Film exchange, started ig to exhibitors. as an exhibitor 30 years ago. He assisted date, most of the premium orders come his father. David Kerman. who operated the beyond the borders of the metropolitan Kerman Theatres in Brooklyn. For the last Although exhibitors in the metropolindistrict 25 years Moe Kerman has been a distributor, are agreed that the lush days organizing the Astor exchange in 1934. •reaver business still is brisk enough here '" '"!tpi>ne the day of the premium. TOE FELDER, vice-president of Favorite ie :rom the exhibitors, those most di- * and Astor, got his first film job more than --- cincerned with keeping business brisk 30 years ago with William Fox's Greater ve he ipproximately 600 men and women New York Film Co. He was with Fox until h(»oik in the New York exchanges. These on following page) •re he listrict managers, branch managers, Sail Tien bookers, clerks, inspectors and 8hi ers who keep 1.150 theatres in the distrir IN THE PHOTOS supplied with film. A quintet of New York's top theatres. From ^nRE \re approximately another 130 men top to bottom: The Radio City Music Hall, nd vomen employed by the five major largest of the theatres; Roxy, the 20th-Fox ni ' of the trailer and accessories showca.se; Capitol Theatre, showcase for ss. Most of them work for the New Loew's; the RKO Palace and the Astor Theatre. brh:ieh of National Screen Service, but m.

COLUMBIA:<br />

Saul Trauner, branch manager,<br />

has been selling films for 27<br />

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