The Exhibitor (Aug-Nov 1948)

NT -'2 THE EXH I Bl TOR AP a£'e from lEW SCRAPBOOK •Continuing along Film Row in Memphis, I visited the Warner ex¬ change where Tom Ballis, Madison, Memphis, was having an im¬ portant business confab wi th popular office manager Earl Hertzog. Received a hearty welcome at the offices of Monarch Theatre Sup¬ ply, Memphis, and obliged by snapping manager Neil Blount and M. Sliman, owner. Lux, Luxora, Ark. , who visited Film Row that day. Snapped Grover Wray, Exhibi¬ tor's Services head, with Para¬ mount' s Bob Kilgore in Memphis. George Royster, U-I Booker, is the proud father of a five pound, four ounce boy, bor-n on July 30. Salesmen ofi-ther various exchanges organized a union with Dave Williams, EL, president; Raleigh Good, U-I vice-president: Gene' Dyer, RKO, sec¬ retary, and Bill Lawrence, WB, trea¬ surer,. Marsh Funderburke resigned from Re¬ public as salesman to open a drive-in between Smithfield and Selma, N.C. Robert Finlayson, Republic head book¬ keeper has been promoted to salesman to fill his place, and Mitchell Little, Everett Enterprises booker, resigned to accept the job as head booker at Republic. Robert Brannon, RKO branch manager, says that he hopes to get the new RKO “This Is America”, short, “Letter to A Rebel”, on every screen in this Char¬ lotte territory. Raleigh Goode, 7-1 salesman, return¬ ed from a short stay in the hospital, and was notified that he was to be re¬ turned to South Carolina, from which he was taken less than a year ago to sell western North Carolina.; Memphis Co-workers and other Film Row em¬ ployes were passing around the excit¬ ing information of the unusual vacation tripbyMiss Ophelia Gaulding, booker, MGM. A planned trip to Chicago was suddenly changed for London, England. She made the trip by plane, and spent two weeks with friends overseas. Rol ana Adams, Boonville, Miss., and J.H. Morrow, Hamilton, Ala., was ex¬ changing shop talk with Sam Kirby, Little Rock, Ark., and W,h. Gray, Rutherford, Tenn. Gray reported his young two-mgnth old son in a local hospital for treatment, C.E. Hilgers, district manager. Eagle Lion, Dallas, was visiting.... R. M. Hammond, Jr., branch manager. Film Classics, attended a convention in New York. ... Jake Lutzer, division manager. Film Classics, Dallas, was in. One of the Row’ s oldest represen¬ tatives, Edward Patrick Doherty, sales¬ man, Columbia, resigned, effective on Sept. 1, to join the new Exhibitor Service, opened recently by Grover Wray, long-time salesman withRKO. The company has increased its service to 26 houses in Mississippi and Ten¬ nessee. Doherty will devote time to handling new accounts in Missouri and Arkansas, He will be a partner in the new booking q,nd purchasing company. Booking on the Row were: John Mohrstadt, Hayti, Mo.; W.H. Ruffin, Sr., Covington, Tenn.; C.R. Kreig, Perryville. Ark.; W.H. Peel, Kenton, Tenn.; John T. Ray, Palace and Ritz, Kenneth, Mo.; Don Landers, Harrisburg, Ark.; G. H. Goff, Parsons, Tenn.; K.H. Kin¬ ney, Hughes, Ark,; W.R. Tutt, Tunica, Miss., and L.B. Bays, Greneda, Miss. Altec signed a sound servicing deal with the Fox, Josper, Tenn. Charley O’Donnell, general manager, Dixie Theatre Corporation, NewOrleans, and S.M. Perrin, Littie Rock, Ark., salesman for Monarch Theatre Supply, conferred with N.B. Blount, Monarch manager, who made a business trip to Nashville, Tenn, Paul Wilson, 20th Century-Fox, At¬ lanta, Grace Simpson, secretary to the Paramount branch \manageF, and Frances Wilson, picture reporter, were vacationing. ... Martha Hickey steno. Republic, was vacationing. Travis Carr was receiving sympathy on the death of his father, Milton D. Carr, who died in Dallas. Carr is office manager for Paramount. . .Eugene Boggs, manager, Flexer, New Albany, Miss., House, was in on business.... Miss Alta Mae O’Neill, availability clerk, Warners, was vacationing in New Orleans. Mrs. Ray Cooper, Crenshaw, Miss,, was the winner of the all-vacation trip to New Orleans in manager Cecil Vogel’s “Summer Holiday” promotion for Loew’ s Palace. Mrs. Cooper' s let¬ ter recalled her love for her native city. New Orleans Robert O’Donnell, Dallas, vicepresident and general manager. Inter¬ state Theatres, and Chief Barker, Variety Clubs, International, and Mrs. Vinnie Pearson DeCasasus, Spooner, Wis. , and Mexico City, were married here recently in a ceremony in the International suite of the Roosevelt Hotel. Seymour Weiss, presideht. Hotel corporation, was best man and Mrs. J.H. Lutzer, Dallas, was matron of August 11, 1948