The Exhibitor (Jun-Oct 1939)

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6 DISTRICT VISITOR. From Quincy, Massachu¬ setts, where he manages the State for the MorseRothcnburg circuit, to Boston’s Film District frequently comes Leonard Goldberg on business. SAFETY CONVENTIONEER. For service dur¬ ing the fire at the Magnet, Claremont, New Hampshire, last spring, Wayne Chapman won a trip to Washington for the safety-patrol con¬ vention. HIS FAVORITE TRADE PAPER. Pearce Parkhurst, manager, State, Torrington, Connecticut, had this picture taken of himself while he was getting another idea on how to get more business for his theatre. Naturally, the source of his information is The Exhibitor. HERE AND THERE. Snapped by The Exhibitor’s cameraman in Boston are, left to right, (right picture) Fred Stollof, Kay Kenefick, Harry Schlitt, Exhibitors Advertising and Supply Company; (center picture) Edwin Hosmer, Independent Theatre Supply Company; (left picture) booker Sam Levine, telephonist Catherine Glazier, ad-seller Connie Denehy, all of Grand National. FROM BELOW CAPRICORN. Alfonso Merlet (right) assistant manager of Italo-Chilena Theatres, Santiago, Chile, who is in the U. S. to study motion pictures, calls at the RKO-Radio Pictures recep¬ tion suite, and is greeted by R. K. Hawkinson (left), assistant to export manager Phil Reisman, and Mike HofFay, head of the foreign department’s advertising, publicity staff. BELL S DEViCE. One of the most interesting lobby displays in many months at Loew’s Poli, Bridge¬ port, Connecticut, was this of an 1878 telephone switchboard, set up for ballyhoo of 20th CenturyFox s The Story of Alexander Graham Bell.” Left to right, the demonstrators are Usherettes Kay O Neill, Ruth Jackson, and ' Bunny” Jackson. And the old-time circuits worked all right, too! THE EXHIBITOR May 24, 1939