Paul Lazarus Sr. Sales Correspondence: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 1E, 1929-1949

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 99AN/1E
Box   1
Folder   1
Boxoffice grosses: daily reports, 1949 January-August
Box   1
Folder   2
Cancellation privilege proposals, 1938-1939
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with producers on a proposal that exhibitors be allowed to cancel a certain percentage of contracted pictures.
Box   4
Folder   1
Contract forms, 1946-1947
Box   1
Folder   3
Distribution contracts, 1931-1942
Box   1
Folder   4
Double bill package deals, 1949
Scope and Content Note: Proposal to producers to exhibit some of their films as double features.
Exchange correspondence
Scope and Content Note: Includes correspondence from exchanges, exhibitors and lawyers, much of it having to do with potential anti-trust actions.
Box   1
Folder   5
1940-1948
Box   1
Folder   6
Atlanta, 1948
Box   1
Folder   7
Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, 1948
Box   1
Folder   8
Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, 1948
Box   1
Folder   9
Dallas, 1948
Box   1
Folder   10
Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, 1948
Box   1
Folder   11
Kansas City, Los Angeles, 1948
Box   1
Folder   12
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Haven, 1948
Box   1
Folder   13
New Orleans, New York, Omaha, 1948
Box   1
Folder   14
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 1948
Box   1
Folder   15
St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., 1948
Legal correspondence
Scope and Content Note: Includes correspondence from exhibitors and lawyers on alleged anti-trust violations. Documents from U.S. vs. Paramount; Nicholas George vs. Lincoln Park Theatre.
Box   1
Folder   16
1934-1935
Box   1
Folder   17
1949
Box   4
Folder   2
List of commercial theatres operating in the United States, 1945 August 1
Box   4
Folder   3
Lists of theatres refusing checking representatives, 1945, 1946
Box   1
Folder   18
Memos to employees, 1949
Miscellaneous correspondence
Box   1
Folder   19
1931-1934
Box   2
Folder   1
1935
Box   2
Folder   2
1936-1948
Box   2
Folder   3
1946-1947
Box   2
Folder   4
1948-1949
Box   2
Folder   5
O'Brien, Driscoll, Raftery and Lawler, 1949
Scope and Content Note: UA corporate counsel. Includes motions from I.B. Adelman vs Paramount.
Played and earned reports (P&E)
Box   2
Folder   6
1943-1944
Box   2
Folder   7
1945
Scope and Content Note: Includes P&E reports on Since You Went Away, February 1945-July 1945; and U.S. Army Camps breakdown of P&E.
Box   2
Folder   8
1946
Scope and Content Note: Includes Five weeks advance billings; U.S. Army Camps breakdown of P&E; Source of revenue, by picture.
Box   2
Folder   9
1947
Scope and Content Note: Includes Five weeks advance billings; U.S. Army Camps breakdown of P&E; Source of revenue, by picture.
Box   2
Folder   10
1948
Scope and Content Note: Includes Source of revenue, by picture; Breakdowns of domestic P&E for 1946, 1947 and 1948 features.
Box   2
Folder   11
1949
Box   2
Folder   12
Price adjustment policies, 1941-1942
Scope and Content Note: UA policies in regard to price adjustments to exhibitors.
Box   2
Folder   13
Raftery, Edward, correspondence, 1949
Sales correspondence
Box   3
Folder   1
1929-1930
Scope and Content Note: Includes references to the advent of the talking picture and its effect on production and distribution.
Box   3
Folder   2-6
1931-1936
Scope and Content Note: Includes Price, Waterhouse “Summary of Receipts and Expenditures, Mar 14, 1949.”
Box   3
Folder   7-8
Sargoy and Stein correspondence, 1949 January-August
Box   4
Folder   4
Survey on drive-in theatre checking, 1948 December
Box   3
Folder   9
Termination of World in Action series distribution, 1947
Box   3
Folder   10
Veterans Administration (VA) correspondence on exhibition in VA facilities, 1931-1937
Box   3
Folder   11
Withdrawal of Paramount package films from distribution, 1947