Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

PITTSBURGH DETROIT (Continued from preceding page) tive for Bank Night, joined his brother, Mort England, local distributor of the cash game, here on Saturday and they departed for Colorado Springs to attend the annual convention of Affiliated Enterprises, Inc., now in session. Elmer Thremhouser, assistant to Elbert W. Smith, manager of the local Melrose Theatre, has been so successful in operating Ten-O-Win, NSS’s theatre game, that he has been called upon to introduce the contest at several theatres in the territory. Local Monogram sales staff recently viewed a screening of a number of the Jam Handy Picture Service reels which will be offered to theatres without charge. Art Levy, Joe Gins, Charlie Kosco, Sid Sugarman and George Tice are Pittsburgh delegates to the Columbia Pictures convention in Los Angeles, noio in session. Howard Addlesberger, manager of Johnny Harris’ Duquesne Garden, is acting as relief manager for the Harris circuit’s outof-the-city managers on vacation, while his regular job at the roller skating rink is being handled by Tom McKee. Victor Lipman, vacationing from school duties at Pitt, has rejoined the engineering staff of his brother Herb Lipman’s sound system manufacturing plant on Filmrow. Speculate on Date of Next Pa. Session Pittsburgh — No date for a forthcoming special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly has been set, and although the recent session adjourned only three weeks ago, there is much speculation when the call will be made. Newspapers throughout the state are pointing to various political situations and utterances of Gov. George H. Earle in endeavoring to establish an approximate date. An August date has been generally circulated, and this report has been widely published. Another report in political circles fixes the date of a special session of the legislature after the first of the year, 1938. Unsigned Bills Wait Democratic leaders are of the opinion that a special session will not be convened until a year from now. They reason that the governor should have no trouble winning a Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate and hence there would be no profit in calling the session before the primary, which will be held in May. This seems to be the political logic of the issue. Meanwhile the final report of the past regular session has not been made. The governor has a number of unsigned bills on his desk which must be acted upon within 30 days following the adjournment. Publication of the General Assembly’s final history record is expected by the second week in July. (Continued from page 118) H. M. Richey has another gold badge — this one makes him a member of the personal staff of Leon D. Case, secretary of state. The marriage of Miss Eddean Downey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Downey, to Howard Charles Bentley of Detroit will take place Saturday, July 10. Downey is resident manager of M-G-M. Charlie Powell continues adding customers. Latest to employ Skillful Screeno are Harry Hobolth, Imlay City; John Golden of the Irving Theatre, and Paul Krauss of the Pastime. Clarence Schaller, manager of the Clifford Hotel, whose grill and bar is rapidly becoming the center of Detroit’s film folk, is positive that RKO’s Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire have plenty of fans. Eddie Loye of the RKO exchange gave Schaller two large photos of the stars to put on the Clifford bar-grill walls. They weren’t there two hours until they were gone, and the cook reporting that “the man came to fix the pictures and took them with him.” Detroit detectives soon found the “man” who admitted taking the pictures because he admired the stars so much. The photos are back in place now, and the man was not prosecuted for such devotion to his screen idols. HERE IT IS— THE HEAVYWEIGHT PROFIT PICTURE OF ALL TIME JAMES J. JOE BRADDOCK LOUIS COMPLETE BLOW BY BLOW FILM IN SOUND WITH SLOW MOTION SCENES OF THE HIGHLIGHTS AND SENSATIONAL KNOCKOUT OF BRADDOCK BOOK IT NOW and Have Action at the Box-Office IRVING DEITZ and GEORGE "B" JOSACK AT MONOGRAM PICTURES, Inc. 1701 Blvd. of the Allies ATlantic 3635-8936 PITTSBURGH, PA. 120 BOXOFFICE :: June 26, 1937.