PONDERS TAFT-HARTLEY WAL

. . Lois
. . Jane
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WASHINGTON Government, Defendants
Miss Helen I'lman contemplates opening
her new Boulevard Theatre. Salisbury,
M(; . on Monday, June 30 . . . Albert and
iiiirgaret Landgraf have a new nephew, John
kalph ... At Republic. Rose Weast. contract
;leik, is vacationing. Ditto Cashier Bernice
knhn in Atlantic City . . . Bookkeeper Esther
Ho.lges is a lucky girl: she has found a new
\partment .
Shuniaker is the new
levk typist.
The K-B Amusement Co. Is planning to
juild a 1,000-seat theatre In Suitland. Md.,
with shopping center and parking lot . . .
Goldie Poms Is the new clerk-typist at Columbia
.
Michalson. daughter of 20th-
'Fox exploiteer, graduated from junior high
Whool last week. She and her mother left
for Port Chester. N. Y. on Thursday where
they will spend several weeks visiting Mrs.
Miihalson's folks.
Sirs. Bill Hoyle, with daughter Barbara and
son Billy jr., have gone to Annapolis. Md.,
where they have opened their beach home.
Bill, District Theatre's head of publicity, is
keeping
to
,moiher
bachelor hall . . . Morton Gerber went
Mew York to spend the weekend with his
After eight years the Howard
. . .
Theatre again will inaugurate Saturday midnipht
stage shows, effective July 5 . . .
Mildred
Morris, booking department, is vacationing
in Connecticut and Fritz Hoffman jr..
accounting department, is spending his vacation
in Illinois.
Morris Mechanic came in from Baltimore
to visit the local 20th-Fox exchange. He and
Bill Michalson arranged a terrific tieup with
GutUnaji's department store in Baltimore
in conjunction with the showing of "Miracle
on 34th Street" at the New Theatre. Guttmiin's
took full-page ads saluting the picture
and advertised the "Miracle" on Lexington
Street, where their store is located. New
York Macy's came back the following day
and placed a 300-line ad in the Baltimore
papers in acknowledgment of Guttman's ad.
Bill Weinberg, eastern agent for Hygienic
Productions, accompanied by his charming
wile, visited Baltimore and Washington in
"Mom
the interest of his new production,
. and Dad" . . PRC's Florence Carden is vacationing
in Burlington, Iowa Frances
Rader and Mary Ellen Myers
. . .
are the new
Monogram's Bill Gearing
clerk-typists . . .
ha,', returned to his booking desk after a
Lilliam Shome has
couple of weeks illness . . .
resigned.
manager, visited
Harry Martin, U-I branch
Hunter Perry and Jack Katz in Charlottesville
this week . . . Caroline Badnarek has
resigned . . . "Pat" Sheedy is the new biller
and Carol Dotson and Jean Booth just
Pete Badess?.
came In this week al.so . . .
Paramount shipper, is the daddy of a daughter
born on Monday .
Wa.sk^y.
former secretary, gave birth to a daughter
on the same day .
Pennenburg is
vacationing in New York.
Clayton Bond jr., son of Warners executive
Clayton Bond, is the new salesman at
United Artists. He replaces Ollie Wog who
resismed to go to the west coast . . . Lillian
Kleigman is the new "hello" girl and Jean
Standard is the new typist .
Fisher,
. . Ann
stenographer, replaced Norma Shipe who resigned
to go with Selznick, and Lois Simonton
replaces Virginia Rudolfi as booking
clerk.
"Voice of Theatre Speakers"
JOEHORNSTEIN has thew!
Work on Appeal Briefs
Lends Money to Youths;
Sufiers No Vandalism
IrvinRton, N. J.—David A. Basile. owner
of the Kex, is running matinees for children
again this summer as a means of
caterins to his juvenile trade, with whom
lie gets along famously.
Ba.sile ingratiates himself with the
youngsters even to the extent of lending
them the price of a ticket when they are
broke. He says that in 99 per cent of the
cases the loans are promptly repaid.
The Rex runs no matinees during the
winter but Basile put them into effect for
the summer season last year, largely to
help keep the town's children off the
streets. It is a paying proposition, too.
Basile said that, as a result of his work
with the youngsters, he has no vandalism.
"I guess they are all good kids in the
neighborhood," he said. "I never bar one
of them. If any difficulty arises, I take
the kid into the office and talk to him,
then send him back to see the show."
Unger to Hold N.Y. Meeting
For UA District Heads
NEW YORK— J. J. Unger. United Artists
general .sales manager, will conduct a threeday
district managers' sales conference July
8 to July 10 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
Edward M. Schnitzer, eastern and Canadian
sales manager, and Maury Orr, western sales
manager, will assist Unger in conducting the
meeting.
District managers attending will be layton
Eastman, New England; Jack Ellis, New
York; Mark N. Silver, Pennsylvania-Washington;
Fred M. Jack, southern; Rud Lohrenz,
mid western; Moe Dudelson, central;
C. W. Allen, pririe; W. E. Callaway, western,
and Charles S. Chaplin. Canadian general
manager. Home office executives attending
will include H. D. Buckley, head of domestic
operations; Paul N. Lazarus jr., advertising
and publicity director; Paul N. Lazarus sr.,
contract manager, and Abe Dickstein, Robert
Goldfarb and Jack Wrege, all of the home
office sales staff.
NEW YORK—The defendants and the
goverimicnt anticipated the deci.sion of the
supreme court to hear their appeals on the
antitru.st decree. At least ten days before
the deci.sion was handed down June 23. the
government attorneys and lawyers for the
defendants either were already planning or
actually writing the briefs which are .scheduled
to be submitted to the high court justices
30 days before the hearing is held. (Now
that the court has taken jurisdiction, this
hearing will probably be held late next fall.)
Universal has already started to work on
its brief. This document is being prepared
by Thomas C. Cooke, who also prepared the
appeal last winter for the company.
Universal, Columbia and United Artists
will file separate briefs. They have objected
to different parts of the decree for different
reasons, and in their briefs they will concentrate
on these points. For instance. Universal
will concentrate on the ban against
franchises; Columbia on competitive bidding
and conditional selling, and United Artists
on price-fixing.
The Big Five—RKO. 20th-Fox. Warners.
Paramount and Loew's—are planning to submit
a joint brief because they have appealed
the decree on similar grounds, and have
similar interests In having certain provisions
revised or eliminated. A joint brief will
avoid duplication of arguments, thereby makmg
the supreme court's job easier.
In their appeal last wintar the Big Five attacked
the restrictions on theatre expansion,
clearances, pools, price-fixing and the elimination
of the arbitration system. In addition.
Paramount attacked competitive bidding.
The brief will probably concentrate on the
restrictions covering theatre expansion,
clearances and arbitration.
The law firms of the Big Five are planning
to organize a committee of lawyers to map
out the brief. Specific provisions of the decree
will be as.signed to individual lawyers,
who will work on their task all summer.
The government, unlike the defendants,
will not be able to divide the task of preparing
its brief. Since it appealed all of the decree
except the provision ending arbitration, its
brief will be a comprehensive document covering
distribution and theatre ownership provisions.
Harold Lasser. who helped prepare the U.S.
appeal, is now at work on the brief.
20TH- FOX SALES HEADS HONORED—Andrew W. Smith jr., general sales manager;
William C. Gehring, assistant general sales manager, and Ray .Moon, northeast
division manager, newly promoted sales executives of 20th-Fox, are honored at an
exhibitor-sponsored luncheon at the Hotel .Astor. New I'ork City. Left to right—Sam
Rinzler, Harry Brandt, Joseph Bcrnhard, Smith, Ted Gamble and Spyros P. .Skouras.
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