Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

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17 UA Exchanges at Chicago Parley Chicago — In addition to the local and home office contingents present at United Artists western regional sales conference held at the Palmer House here last Thursday to Saturday, were delegates from the exchange centers of Denver, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Omaha, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle and the six Canadian centers of Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, St. John, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Home office delegates included George J. Schaefer, vice-president and general manager; A. W. Smith jr., general sales manager; Jack Schlaifer, western division manager; Monroe W. Greenthal, director of advertising and publicity; Rodney Bush, Wanger western representative; Harry D. Buckley, vice-president; James A. Mulvey, Goldwyn vice-president; Lowell Calvert Selznick western representative; Hal Horne, associate producer for Walter Wanger; Emanuel Silverstone and Morris Helprin, Alexander Korda’s representatives in this country; Seymour Poe, assistant to Jack Schlaifer; Nat Thompson and Charles Steele. The western sales group included Ben Fish, far-west manager; Haskell Masters, Canadian district manager, and Jack Goldhar, midwest manager. From the Chicago exchange were Irving Schlank, T. C. Montgomery, Frank Young, Benjamin Eisenberg, J. E. Armgardt and Nat Nathanson. From Denver: A1 Hoffman, Earl Collins, Fred Lind and D. Nathanson. From Detroit: Morris Dudelson, E. P. Pickier, S. J. Robbins and I. Weingarden. From Kansas City: W. E. Truog, J. T. Graham, O. O. Flake and G. I. Bradford. From Los Angeles: E. W. MacLean, Guy Gunderson, Frederic Gage and Kenneth MacKaig. From Milwaukee: J. S. Abrose, Noe Provencher, Leon Weingarden. From Minneapolis: R. S. Cramblett, R. J. Wylie, F. Eisenberg, C. J. Chouinard and F. J. Kaiser. From Omaha: D. V. McLucas, H. R. Barker, D. J. McCarthy, Ed Rostermundt and J. E. Schlank. From St. Louis: William Feldstein, James Greig, F. H. Rudolph and E. A. Ashkins. From Salt Lake City: R. J. Cadman, W. K. Millar, Joe Solomon and E. M. Gibson. From San Francisco: D. J. McNerney, O. H. Watson, Paul Bush and A. Hartford. From Seattle: Guy F. Navarre, A. H. Kloepper, Jack O’Bryan and F. M. Higgins. From Canada: Sam Glazer and D. Axler of Toronto, A. Feinstein of Calgary, A. J. Jeffrey of Montreal, C. S. Chaplin of St. John, Sam Nagler of Vancouver, Dave Griesdorf and V. Rackow of Winnipeg. Separate "Wind" Pacts Chicago — At the western United Artists convention June 17-18, Monroe Greenthal, general advertising and publicity director, stated that the five David O. Selznick productions announced did not include “Gone With the Wind.” CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR NEW FOX HOUSE Mount Vernon, III. — The general contract for the construction of the new Fox Midwest Theatres, Inc., here has been awarded to Walter N. Atkinson, 114 North Johnson Ave., Mount Vernon, and work will be started immediately. The mechanical and equipment contracts will be awarded later, according to an announcement by the architect, Robert Boiler, 7332 Brooklyn Ave., Kansas City, Mo. The new building, when completed, will be among the finest motion picture theatres in southern Illinois. The structure wil be two stories in height and about 79 by 182 feet. It will be of fireproof construction throughout, reinforced concrete, steel, brick and terra cotta being used. It will have about 1,200 seats while the sound picture equipment and air-conditioning systems will be of the very latest types. The building will also include shops on the first floor adjoining the theatre entrance and lobby, while the second floor is to include a number of office rooms. MERCIER REMODELING HIS PALACE THEATRE Fredericktown, Mo. — L. A. Mercier, owner of the Palace Theatre here, has announced extensive alterations and improvements for that house. The plans and specifications were completed a few days ago by Robert Boiler, architect, 7332 Brooklyn Ave., Kansas City, Mo., and bids will be taken from contractors at a very early date. The proposed work will include complete interior alterations and a new front for the one-story, 44 by 95 foot building. Brick, steel, concrete, fibre board interior finish, lathing, plastering, structural glass, hardboard and stucco front; marquee, lighting fixtures, seats and interior furnishings are provided for by the plans. The cost of the proposed work has not been estimated. gID JOHNSON, poster artist for Loew’s Theatre, plans to enter Desloge Hospital on June 22 for a tonsillotomy. He hopes to be back at his drawing board within a few days. Mrs. Eve Espy, wife of Cullen Espy, West Coast theatre executive, was a local visitor of the past week. James E. Harris, publicity and advertising expert for Loew’s, proved equally expert at golf Friday, June 18, when he made a hole-in-one on the third hole at Triple A Country Club in Forest Park. He used an eight-iron in making the shot. Tony Matrese and Dr. Jack Ivers witnessed the shot and made the customary affidavits of authenticity, etc. Percy Barr, formerly with the National Screen Service in Indianapolis, Ind., has been added to the local sales staff of that company. CHICAGO (Continued from page 125) ess. Great States, Frisina, Gregory, Fox Wisconsin and just about all the rest of them. The Englands of Pittsburgh were among us for a couple of days last week. Specifically, that means Mort and Art England who have the Bank Night franchise in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia territories and loho have made such a big success with it. They stopped off here en route to the Bank Night convention Friday in Colorado Springs. The Chicago offices of U. S. Air Conditioning Corp. has been moved back to the former location at 1303 So. Michigan, where Archie Feinberg and G. P. Lennartz will henceforth hang their hats. Harry Nepo of the Lindy Theatre on West Madison says that his “Lindy Boosters” are a good piece of institutional promotion. He’s got a pretty fancy aggregation of soft-ball players on the team and they play just about every night on the Stadium lot. P. s.: They also win a lot of games. Bernie Barr is now in charge of the poster room for Capitol Film Exchange. “The Hit Parade,” Republic picture which features Phil Regan and Francis Langford, along with a whole flock of highpowered radio personalities and the bands of Duke Ellington, Carl Hoff and Eddie Duchin, has been booked solid by the entire Balaban & Katz circuit, including the “A” houses, the Uptown, Marbro and Tivoli following its recent successful first run at the RKO Palace. We understand the boys of RKO like to spend their food and refreshment time 'and dough) at Gibby’s Ogden Club and Grill at 192 N. Clark St. where the gracious Gibby himself plays personal host to them as well as to a number of other film and theatre personalities. Just by way of a slight change in the batting order, the members of CAPA, their wives, sweethearts and what have you indulged in a scavenger hunt recently. Starting from the clubrooms in the Sherman Hotel, groups of four went out in cars to bring in all possible items on a list o/ 17 things, all of which were intended to he as nearly impossible to obtain as could be. EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS Entire Middle West JEWEL PRODUCTIONS 8.11 S. Wabash CHICAGO Phone: Webster 7335 128 BOXOFFICE :: June 26, 1937.