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\EW YORK—"New Orleans" went over
; at the Winter Garden during its opening
I k. Elsewhere along Broadway, the grosses
le generally hit by the weather. New
Ilk had its first sunny weekend in weeks
(1 the parks, beaches and highways were
wded with plea.sure-seekers.
^However, enough film patrons did stay in
A n to help fill the Music Hall, where
[rieat Expectations" was playing: the Roxy.
ore "The Miracle on 34th Street" was the
awing card, the Paramount for "Dear Ruth"
(: the Hollywood for "Possessed."
(Average is 100)
It r— Best Years ol Our Lives (RKO), 31sl wk
la idway—Henry V (UA), 3rd wk
T| itol—High Barbaree (MGM). plus stage
;.ow, 3rd wk
|li»rion—The Web (U I), 3rd wk
Icoe—Private Affairs o( Bel Ami lUA), 2d wk
Triam—Drums Along the Mohawk and Swanee
River {20th-Fox}, reissues, 2nd wk
tl ywood—Possessed (WB), 4th wk _...
|e ,v"s State—Lost Honeymoon (E-L), plus
'3lge show 90
11 ice—Woman on the Beach (RKO), 3rd wk 76
pr amount—Dear Ruth (Para), plus stage
iliow, 2nd wk
Avenue—Lady Surrenders (U-I)
Iic-.io Citv Music Hall—Great Expectations
1(^-1), plus stage show. 5'h wk „
fa to—My Brother Talks to Horses (MGM)
Iv ili— It Happened on Fiith Avenue (Mono),
>2nd wk
>>/—Miracle on 34lh Street (20th-Fbx), plus
s'age show, 2nd wk
rand—Cheyenne (WB), plus stage show,
:Td wk
Ic'oria-Duel in the Sun (SRO), 2nd wk,,
-^lurn engagement
Iiriter Garden—New Orleans (UA)
91
70
80
88
92
96
102
,.102
,. 30
.110
,. 83
, 65
,101
,. 78
. 89
.152
?uel in Sun' Is Buffalo Winner
|y Margin of 180 Per Cent
. BUFFALO—"Duel in the Sun" is still in
111" lead by a wide margin. "Born to Kill"
Ind another from RKO were good at the
je:itury. So were "The Trouble With Wom-
'
|n "Seven Were Saved" at the Great
lakes. Weather has been sultry and vaca-
|ions have started for thousands of Buf-
Jilonians.
I.u ialo—Dishonored Lady (WB), Fun on a
li Weekend (UA) 92
IWal Lakes—The Trouble With Women (Para);
Seven Were Saved iPara) 100
i; podrome—Duel in the Sun (SRO), 2nd
t. wk _ 280
[aayette—Mr. District Attorney (Col);
King o( the Wild Horses (Col) 95
re h—Cheyenne iWB), 2nd d t wk 74
pi Centurv—Bom to Kill (RKO); Likely
Slory (RKO) 100
^ilm Men to Speed Drive
'or UJA; Rally Planned
•^EW YORK—The United Jewish Appeal
ii :ve in the New York area will be speeded
ii to meet the $2,100,000 quota. Plans for i
uicheon rally to be held at the Hotel Astor
if on July 15 were discussed by industry
e; ders at a meeting in the College room of
h- hotel on Monday (June 23 1.
Matthew Fox, New York co-chairman, preu
ed. He reported that "a little over $500,-
iOj has been raised in this area." Spyros
Jljuras, nonsectarian chairman for the inii-5try,
pledged full support. David Weint'
ok also spoke. Each film company will be
e jresented by its own special committee at
h ; luncheon rally.
)ther members of the film steering comn
'tee for the New York area attending the
n eting including Jack Cohn, Max A. Cohen,
3 orge Dembow, Harry Goldberg, Leonard
3 Idenson, Irving Greenfield, Arthur Israel
ir Julius Joelson, Malcolm Kingsberg, Dr.
[? dor Lubin, Arthur L, Mayer, Charles B.
M iss, Louis A. Novins, Henry Randel, Sam
R .izler, Sam Shain, Adolph Schimel, Max
W)lff, Abe Schneider, Ed Rugoff and Sol A,
Si hwartz.
BROAD\NAy
\irilliaiii K. ISodgcrs returned from a threeday
trip to Chicago . L. Simons, assistant
to H. M. Richey, is back from San
Antonio . Allen, head of Warner
News, is on the coa.st to make arrangemen's
to transfer his headquarters to New York.
He and his family will return here some
time in July.
,
Georsv Weltncr, president of Paramount
International, returned from .studio conferences
with other company executives . ,
Nick Mamuls of Vanguard will handle unit
publicity during the New York shooting of
"Portrait of Jennie." Mamuls will be assisted
by Mel Strau.ss, foreign publicity contact.
.
Lester Cohen, manager for Warner Bros, in
Panama, is vacationing here Paul H.
Crane, export traffic
,
manager
.
for Loew's
Iiiternational, celebrated his 25th year with
the company . John B. Nathan, Paramount
division
. .
manager for continental Europe,
North Africa and the middle east, is back in
New York,
,
, . . William
Agnes McLaughlin is celebrating her silver
anniversary with the Warner exvhange
Hugh Owen, Paramount eastern and southern
division sales manager, attended a fourday
branch conference in Atlanta
Pine and William Thomas, whose prod-
uct is released by Paramount, are attending
home office conferences,
. . . Clark
Lillian Marlowe, secretary to A. W. Schwalberg,
vice-president of Eagle-Lion, will be
married July 12 to Walter Nelling at the Little
Church Around the Corner
Gable returned to the coast.
Wallace Beery will leave for Europe in the
near future . N. Wolf, assistant
to H. M. Richey, is back from a week's
visit to the MGM studio . . . Donna Reed is
back in Hollywood.
Virginia Welles and Mort Nathanson of
the Paramount publicity department were in
Detroit where Miss Welles made a series of
radio appearances. Before proceeding to
ANN
CANCER FUND BENEFIT—Victor
Moore (center), star of the first .Allied
Artists production, "It Happened on Fifth
Avenue," surrounded by Paul Domingo
(left) and Ong Chin Kun (right), manager
and director, respectively, of the
iNIalaya Film Exchange, .Singapore. .Monogram
distributors, at the Cancer Fund
benefit opening of the picture at the
Rivoli, New York City.
BIGGEST THING ON BROADWAY—
The brand new upright sign, shown
going into place on Loew's State building
on Times Square, will eclipse four stories
on the theatre front. Measuring 100 feet
from top to bottom, the monster creation
contains 4,000 electric bulbs, three-quarters
of a mile of neon, 80 transformers
and hundreds of miles of wiring. The
new sign will be officially switched on
with appropriate Broadway ballyhoo and
important figures in show business in attendance.
, . .
Hollywood, she will visit her home town,
Wausau, Wis, . Harry Goldberg, director of
advertising
. .
and publicity for Warner Theatres,
visited Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Yves Montand, French singer, will arrive here
shortly on his way to the coast.
Eddie Buzzell, MGM director, returned to
the coast , , . Norman H, Moray, short subject
sales manager for Warner Bros., returned
from a series of conferences at the studio.
. . .
Agnes Moorehead is in town . Clark
of the Warner .studio publicity department is
visiting New York in conection with commercial
tieups on forthcoming product
James Stewart is at the Waldorf.
Curtis Mitchell and Ben Washer were in
Atlanta, Detroit, Kansas City and Minneapolis
for conferences on the publicity campaign
for "Welcome Stranger" . . . Henry
Ginsberg, Paramount vice-president in
charge of production and studio operation,
is here for home office conferences.
Eileen Kaplan and Arthur I. Weinberg, son
of Louis Weinberg, Columbia circuit sales
executive, announced their engagement June
26 . . . Diana Lewis is at the Waldorf . . .
Margaret Johnston arrived on the Queen
Elizabeth for a two-week stay.
Paramount executives and home office employes
held their annual outing June 25 at,
the Longshore Country club . . . Charles M.
Reagan is in Chicago to confer with Paramount
district manager Allen Usher and
Balaban & Katz executives . Emerling,
advertising and publicity head of Loew's,
is visiting Boston and Providence.
James R. Grainger and Edward L. Walton,
a.ssistant general sales manager for Republic,
are back at the home office after a
district managers' meeting in Chicago . .
.
Edward D. Cohen, 20th-Fox supervisor for
Latin America, J. Carlo Bavetta and William
W. Sullivan, South American district sales
managers, are in New York to confer with
Murray Silverstone prior to Silverstone's departure
for Europe July 2,
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