WENDELL WILLKIE'S NEW JOB

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 148, 24 April 1942, Page 15

WENDELL WILLKIE'S NEW JOB

Chairman Of Directors Of Fox Films

| NTERESTING changes have taken place in the management of the 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation as a result, on the one hand, of Joseph M. Schenck’s disappearance from the headship of the company because of trouble with the United States authorities over his income tax, and on the other hand,

of the death this month of Walter J. Hutchison, the company’s very able and popular General Foreign Manager. Wendell L,. Willkie, unsuccessful Republican candidate against Roosevelt for the Presidency of the United States last election, and still an important figure on the international stage, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of 20th Century-Fox. Spyros Skouras, a Greek, who built up a large chain of American theatres, has been appointed president of the company; and Thomas J. Connors, a New Yorker, who began his career selling cotton goods and steel products and went on to bigger things as film salesman and sales manager for Pathe and M.G.M., becomes vice-president. Walter J. Hutchison, who died in New York, was an American born and bred, but as time went on his work and interests took him more and more under British influences. Joining Fox after last war, he went to Canada; from there to Australia, where he became the company’s managing director for the Commonwealth and New Zealand (he was last here in 1936); and thence to England, where he was appointed managing director for Great Britain.