Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

THOSE old congratulations are in order this week for Bill Boland, Republic exchange salesman, who reports the birth of a son and heir. Charlie Koerner ams a recent Filmrom visitor . . . as was Bud Rogers, sales manager for British Imperial Pictures and a brother of Universal’s Charles R. Rogers. George Mann of Redwood Theatres has returned from Europe. Jimmy Nasser of Nasser Bros, drove to Los Angeles recently. Ed Morris, city salesman for All-Star Features, is out swinging around the territory, Armand Cohn reports. George Hardy of Fresno and Rotus Harvey of Harvey Amusemeiit Co. both left for the east . . . Bill Bremer of Gilroy in town. Eddie Skolak, manager of the Capitol, combination pictures-burlesque house, scored a neat one on his colleague Hymie Seligman last week. Seems that Eddie, leaving for a fishing trip, was inviegled by Hymie into promising he’d send the latter a dozen trout within 24 hours. And he did — but when the package was opened, it proved to contain one dozen gleaming trout that came, not from a mountain stream, but from the Capitol’s own property department. Al Hixon, former assistant general manager for Golden State chain here, was here from Hollywood looking up old friends. Hixon is now handling publicity for several ranking film stars. Patrick O'Neill Dies San Francisco — Local theatre men were shocked this week to learn of the sudden death of Patrick O’Neill, father of Peggy and Helen O’Neill who operate one of the city’s major dance studios and also produce the weekly stage shows for the RKO Golden Gate. O’Neill, who was a native San Franciscan, was 67 years old. MRS. HAZEL WHELAN DEAD New York — Mrs. Hazel Whelan, once a star on the Mack Sennett lot and the estranged wife of Leslie F. Whelan, former press agent for Harold Lloyd and now connected with a major company’s foreign publicity department here, was found dead of poisoning at East Orange, N. J. THEATRE SEATS UPHOLSTERED Repairing a Specialty C. RIEGER ORdway 5898 112 HYDE STREET SAN FRANCISCO Sanitation and Cleaning Methods PACIFIC CHEMICAL CO. San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego SEATTLE (Continued from preceding page) is a boxing judge here . . . Morrie Segal, back from the well known convention. The Columbia gang are getting ready for theirs . . . Martin Steffin, over from Tacoma . . . Charley Laidlaw and wife, in from Dayton . . . Duncan McPherson, leaving Mason City long enough to do some booking . . . Mickey DeLeo, in from Port Townsend . . . Danny Matin, giving a special preview of "The Girl Said No” at the Uptown Theatre . . . Cecil Fames, visiting Al Goldstein from Portland . . . Jean Spear, getting word that the GB convention had been postponed a week . . . Mary Gibbon, back at the Sterling switchboard after the illness and operation . . . Morrie Nimmer, over from Wenatchee. Hal Daigler, looking over a sport magazine in the Rendezvous . . . Bud BensoJi, from Anacortes, lunching on the Row . . . Dave Blair, hustling Jean Spear as a witness in his application for his second papers . . . Louis Perunko and Charlie Schuler, both over from Tacoma . . . Ed Zabel, in from Olympia reporting that he does not know just when his theatre will be rebuilt after the big fire . . . Butch Wingham, George Blair and Charley Gruenberg, taking time out to fish. Hired special boat and man to run it. On the water five minutes, down came the rain. Result — 710 fishing . . . Bob Thompson, catching a preview with his family. Morrie Segal receiving a watch and $200 at the Paramount convention . . . Frank Hargraves, to Los Angeles . . . Les and Maxine Geisel caught eight beauties at Cama Beach. Smallest seven and half pounds and largest 11 pounds, the latter caught by Maxine . . . Jack Wright, over from Yakima and on to Portland with Tom and Jerry Shearer for the Rose Festival. THEIR LUCKY SEVEN Golden Gate Theatre Bldg. Has Helped Many San Francisco — Although it’s all of seven stories tall, the Golden Gate Theatre Bldg, here seems to be a stepping-stone — or jumping off point — to a variety of especially good jobs. George Ryan, for several years chief engineer of the building, recently left to take up his duties as chief engineer of the huge Federal Bldg., newly completed here. And now Melba Barry, secretary to Edward J. Feder, manager of the building, is to assume the post of theatre operator. Unlike Ryan, however. Miss Barry will not leave the building, since in common with 80% northern California theatre chains the Borg offices are located in the Golden Gate building. Recent additions to the roster of film industry firms making headquarters in the building include the Q. R. S. Neon organization, headed by E. C. Mitchell, viceducers. 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