The Exhibitor (Jun-Oct 1939)

19 BOSTON Crosstotvn DON MARTIN, manager, Beacon, Boston, has had a job on his hands, expects to have the theatre remodelling complete by the end of August, ready for the September boom. August 2 8 BEN WELANSKY’S Columbia re¬ opens, with MAX MICHAELS in charge. BEN DOMINGO, manager, RKO Keith’s Memorial, Boston, returned from vacation. MARIO DARU, Paramount publicity depart¬ ment, vacationed on the Cape, returned with a tan. HARRY SNIDER, has been in town. ROY CALL, projectionist, Hyde Park, Dor¬ chester, has gone to Waco Waco, Texas to take up duties in government’s airplane department. Totem Pole Ballroom at Norumbega Park held a Jitterbug Contest, winners of which were sent silver cup from GINGER ROGERS. Tie-in was with RKO Keith Memorial, playing "Bach¬ elor Mother.” M. and P.’s Scollay, has a brand new marquee. Telepix’s assistant manageress JEAN LIN¬ COLN left that post July 15, when she was married. MISS POLLY HOWE takes over the position. One of the local theatre managers owns a typewriter with no E’s in it. He taps his e’s but he can’t make anything out of ’em. Fact is that expenses have been watched so closely that he daren’t spend any money to fix the darn thing. So all correspondence leaving the theatre is minus the E’s. Film District "SUDS” KELLY, Winchellian manager, Olym¬ pia, Hampton Beach, was seen recently by districter with smokey glassless sunglasses. JAY McCARTHY, head shipper, Warners, is on vacation. ESTHER HALL, biller, Warners, paralleled vacation with JAY. HARRY SPRINGLER, cashier, Warners, re¬ turned recently from vacationing in Wareham with his wife and son. ALICE TANZMAN, Wholesome Film social¬ ite, will go foreign herself for three weeks, when, for the last two of August and the first of September, she will cruise aboard the Savannah Line to New York and the Bay of Naples. EDITH HARVEY, one time districter, is again gracing the district. NORMAN PORETSKY is vacationing at pres¬ ent, with companion HERB ZEIDEL, Imperial. Poretsky is from Wholesome Film. He went recently to the Isle of Shoals, to run a film for the Unitarian Laymen’s League. HERB ZEIDEL, Imperial, is a 1 6-millimeter enthusiast. Recent acquirement was a 1.5 lens, with which he shot passersby in front of RKO; CHARLEY REILLY, CHARLES ASDOT, etc. Herb had a special screening recently of his trip to Florida. MYRON SHAPIRO, son of the Wholesome Film Shapiros, has been at Camp Avoda, Middleboro. BILL MURPHY, new Imperial head, was seen recently at screening of "Return of the Frog,” "Demon Barber,” horror thrillers screened at State House, to be released August 1. DICK SEARS, Universal cameraman, saw his wife and son off to New Hampshire on a 10 day vacation. Dick will be in charge of all camera work in national guard vs. army man¬ euvers. BILLY LEVY, National Screen booker, re¬ turned from a vacation in Naples, Maine. HARRY KIRCHGESSNER, National Screen tiptop, returned from two weeks in New Hamp¬ shire. MAX BURLONE, National Screen Booker, vacationed. BEN ROGERS, Popular Pictures, booked pop¬ ular "Dead Men Tell No Tales” throughout Western Massachusetts circuit. MARY TRAINER, Columbia, returned from the hospital to her home. JACK BROWN, Paramount ad sales manager, vacationed to Sweden, Maine. National Screen announces its new Fall an¬ nouncement trailers. Trailers will bear National Screen’s baby insignia. Exhibitors and distributors who attend state Legion convention in Taunton August 17-19 will be entertained by exhibitor |IM SHEPARD, Park, Taunton; also by FRED HARTWICK, newly a Taunton exhibitor. MRS. JACK GUBBINS, wife of the Paramount salesman, recently returned from the hospital. BILL CUDDY and friends enjoyed black bass, cooked to perfection. Newbury Country Club’s annual field day, July 23, saw GEORGE PARSONS, Department of Safety Chief of Inspections, president country club, general factotum in charge of operations. Chief FRANK ROSS is treasurer and CHARLEY HEATH, popular projectionist, was a guest, and what a show at night. “Hot Shot” JAY McCARTHY, vacationed last week. MARY GRAY, E. M. Loew’s was seen at the Cocoanut Grove recently. In town was ALLAN SCHWARTZ, manager, Milford, Connecticut, Drive-In. "Mad Youth,” HARRY ASHER’S release, played great guns recently at the Globe, Boston. GENE GROSS, Monogram salesman, is sum¬ mering at Swampscott. BERT MACKENZIE, Metro publicity direc¬ tor, just returned from his vacation to the Thousand Isles, will report soon the winners of the Metro New England managers’ exploitation contest, running for the past three months. JULIAN RIFKIN, Republic, returned last week from a jump-off automobile to the coast and back. Gone only two and a half weeks, Julian, and companion, PAUL KESSLER, mana¬ ger, Suffolk, Holyoke, drove 8,000 miles, re¬ turned tanned with a thousand tales. EDWARD GOLDEN, Monogram vice-presi¬ dent, was in town last week, entertained film men at the Cocoanut Grove. Special occasion was announcement that Golden’s daughter, RUTH, was engaged to LARRY WHITTEN, MILTON BERLE’S manager. ROY HEFFNER, "Bank Night” head, was in New York. WALTER GILLIS, Cameo, is vacationing. DAVE GROVER, RKO booker, vacationed to Provincetown. CHARLEY HEATH, RKO projectionist, trekked with family to Bucksport, Maine, re¬ cently — distance of 600 miles. But they re¬ turned by train, because Charley found out the salesman’s curse — poor roads. MORT LIEBERMAN, Roxbury, Roxbury, was married. CHET GRENIER’S guests on an outdoor barbecue were BILL CUDDY, BILL MURPHY, CHARLEY WILSON, CHARLEY REPEC. JIM SHEERAN, American Legionaire and Department of Safety member, was confined to Soldier’s Home in Chelsea with an attack of arthritis. DESMOND FITZGERALD, has taken his place in the censorship department. August 2, 1939 THE EXHIBITOR GEORGE RABINOWITZ returned here to Republic, to supplant SAM SELETSKY, who took over the New Haven managership. FRANK WEINSTEIN, Playhouse, Hinsdale, was in. Gordon-Lockivood Circuit MRS. SAM RICHMOND, wife of the new general manager, gave birth to a six pound-one ounce girl, second girl in the Richmond house¬ hold. Richardson House was the birthplace. Newcomer was named FIOPE. Graphic Circuit Recent shifts in personnel brought ARTHUR ROWE from newly built Grand, Ellsworth, to Burns, Newport, Vermont, replacing LLOYD HELDMAN who went to Regal, Franklin, New Hampshire. Former Regal manager BRUCE HAWTHORNE was moved to New Star, Dover, Maine with Dover’s SIDNEY EPSTEIN shifted to summer operation at Northeast Harbor, Maine. Into Grand, Ellsworth, as manager came SUM¬ NER CHARM, Harvard grad formerly with a Boston radio station. GEORGE JONES, formerly Loew’s Orpheum, Boston, is now associated with Graphic as man¬ ager, Colonial, Belfast, Maine. E. M. Loew Circuit August 14 Gayety goes burlesque. Manager ERNIE WHITFORD is the first E. M. Loew manager to have charge of bona fide burlesque performances. Theatre will be closed just be¬ fore for alterations. E. M. LOEW, PHIL BERLER, MAX FINN spent a few days in New York. Boston National’s LOUIS KRASNOW spent part of his vacation at the World’s Fair. Morse -Rothenberg Circuit Anti-trust suit continues apace, and no one can prophecy when this case will be concluded. PAULINE BACKER, bus toured through Lake Placid, Canada. M. & P. Circuit All Maine managers of AL MOREAU’S district convened in Boston July 25 and 26. Death of the sister of BEN GREEN, cousin of SAM PINANSKI, and former operator of Platinum Salon, Metropolitan, was mourned. "Our Leading Citizen” was screened July 27 for Governor SALTO'NSTALL. Warner Circuit Broadway, Lawrence, managed by CHRIS McCAHILL, had lobby remodelled, new electric fixtures, etc. I. J. HOFFMAN, division manager, was in, visited MAX MELINCOFF and staff. NEW HAVEN Crosstotvn For the holdover, SAM BADAMO and his as¬ sociates, including CHARLIE GAUDANO, did some swell work on "Second Fiddle.” One of the angles used to get publicity for "Man With an Iron Mask” was having poster made up to tie in with merchandise in different store windows. In town and seen over at the Paramount was STANLEY REDMOND, assistant WALTER LLOYD’S Hartford Allyn. GEORGE REISING, Paramount assistant, re¬ turned from a vacation trip. Chief of staff REDMOND is now on vacation. N. E.