Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

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April 12, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 69 ( Continued, from preceding page) Theatres for Sale or Rent 250 SEATS — EXCELLENT Sound-on-Disc. Nice interior. Town of 1,100. Thirty miles from Washington, D. C. Nearest competitor twenty miles away. Selling account other interests. Address T. Edgar Reed, Herndon, Va. FOUR THEATRES IN FOUR DIFFERENT PROGRESSIVE Self Supporting Towns in Florida, two ;n County Seats. These for sale on Satisfactory Terms. Owner Retiring from Business. Address Agent C. D. Maddox, Archer, Fla. ARCADIA THEATRE BUILDING, Olney, 111. 650 seat, 3 stores, 7 offices, all rented, or will rent the theatre alone on a good income basis. Address A. L. Redman, Pres., 212 East Main St., Olney, 111. CULVER THEATRE, 873 Merchants Road, Rochester, N. Y. 300 to 500 seats. High class neighborhood. Possession at once. Terms $40,000 for sale, or $4,000 rental per annum. Will take back large first mortgage. Photo on request. Inquire City Savings Bank, Albany, N. Y. Insurance THE BIGGEST SAFEGUARD for your business is the sure protection afforded by insurance. BUT insurance improperly written is itself a loss of money to you. For ten years we have made a study of the theatres insurance needs. Call on us or write us. Address Jules Tuillard & Co., Room 937, 175 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 111. Cameras for Sale AKELEY. brand new. Write for booklet. Address Wood, 204 Inland Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana. Projector Repairing SKILLED MECHANICS, specialized tools, and a shop equipped for but one purpose can offer you nothing but the best in repair work. That is what 1 have, and I can offer you the best in the overhauling of your motion picture machinery equipment. One of the oldest repair men in the territory, and serving some of the largest houses. Relief equipment tur nished free. For results bring your work to Joseph Spratler, 12-14 E. Ninth St., Chicago, 111. BEST SHOP for repairing projection machines Prompt service, reasonable prices. Address Movie Supply Co.. 844 Wabash, Chicago. Chairs for Sale BIG BARGAIN in used Opera Chairs, 600 upholstered, 800 veneer. Address Movie Supply Co., 844 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. OPERA CHAIRS, seats and backs for all makes, five ply, at prices that save you money. Jobs in new and used chairs. Address Redington Company, Scranton, Pa. 1,000 used high-grade spring constructed theatre seats covered in imitation Spanish leather. The seat* are all brand new with metal bottom boards. Very reasonable prices. 500 spring edge seats covered in imitation Spanish leather made by Heywood-Wakefield Company. 1,000 upholstered seats in imitation leather, veneer backs. 750 heavy 5-ply veneer theatre chairs Vi" backs. Also several smaller lots of upholstered chairs, panel backs, at very attractive prices. We can furnish you with your needs — everything for the theatre — in the used line — at a great saving. For more information and prices, write Illinois Theatre Equipment Company, 12-14 E. Ninth Street, Chicago, ILlinos. Slot Machine Owners, Notice JOB WANTED— HAVE HAD THREE YEARS’ experience operating Slot Machines. Can repair all types. I am 21 years old and willing to go anywhere. Make me a proposition. Address A1 Walker, care of Box 623, Cameron, Texas. Film for Sale EXCELLENT WESTERNS, $3 REEL; Powers 6 A Projectors, $125.00. Address Marshall Films, Rome, Georgia. Miscellaneous FROZEN KUSTURD MACHINES— Photos, particulars now ready. Address New International Frozen KUSTURD Machine Co., 17 East 37th St., Indianapolis, Ind. w THE VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY LETTERS FROM READERS Sunday Showings Win In Wheeling, W. Va., by Majority of One Vote ( Special to the Herald-World) WHEELING, W. VA., April 8.— The deciding vote in the recent poll for Sunday shows here brought the total of those voting for the measure to seven, making the final count 7-6. Mayor-manager Beckett of _ Wheeling cast the vote. Much satisfaction is being expressed at the headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, Inc. Secretary Linn H. E. Gale of the organization is credited with a large share of the tactical work which resulted in the victory. Bandits Slug Watchman And Policeman, Then Flee (Special to the Herald-World) BOSTON, MASS., April 8.— Night Watchman George Bullock of the Columbia theatre was knocked unconscious when he surprised two burglars attempting to open the theatre, safe. They made their escape without obtaining any booty. At Fall River, Patrolman Raymond Lennon, investigating an open door at the Strand theatre, came across two men attempting to open the theatre safe in the office. In a struggle, the officer was struck over the head and rendered unconscious and the two yeggs escaped. The safe was not opened. Voters to Have Another Chance at Sunday Shows (Special to the Herald-World) JENNINGS, LA., April 8.— The voters of Jennings will again have the opportunity to register approval or disapproval of Sunday picture shows. An election has been set for April 22, when the citizens will vote upon an ordinance passed by the Commission Council which would nullify Ordiance No. 279, which ordinance prohibits moving picture and other shows within the corporate limits on Sunday. Harry Farrell Dies (Special to the Herald-World) NASHUA, N. H., April 8. — Harry Farrell, owner of the Tremont and Colonial theatres, here, the State at Manchester and other theatres in New Hampshire, died here last week after a brief illness. A Veteran Projectionist [Picture on Page 61] ONE OF THE OLD MEN IN POINT OF service in this district is Peyton Burkett, chief projectionist at the Fox Capital theatre, Benton, Illinois. Peyton has been grinding out film for years and years, and the attached photo is a likeness of him taken some 16 or 17 years ago. I thought it might interest some of the boys in the field and would like to see the picture reproduced somehow in the Herald-World. Please be sure to return the picture after using same inasmuch as Peyton is very proud of it and judging from the expression on his face in the picture he was pretty proud of the old Powers 5. I might add that the HeraldWorld is considered quite an asset by all the 'employes of this theatre including myself and we look forward to receiving each week’s issue. — C. W. McKean, Fox Capital theatre, Benton, Illinois. On Cutting Sound Films WILL YOU, IF YOU CAN, TELL ME why the film companies change the talkie film prints so much? By that I mean that every time a picture has run a few days or weeks and you see the same subject in some other part of this state (Wisconsin), the picture has been cut. I ran “Night Ride” in Two Rivers February 15 and watched the picture from beginning to end, and again on March 2S, and both times in one of my houses, and to me it looks like they cut about 700 feet of film out. Now the public tell each other what to expect to see in a picture and when they find it cut they have a fit about it. Why not do all the cutting before the releasing of the film? It happens that I see nearly all my pictures in Milwaukee, first run, and then later run them in my houses. And I find that it is a shame the way they are cut. Some of them really have no sense left to the story. I saw one feature three times and each time I saw it it was shorter. I had a Universal News three weeks ago with four subjects cut off the end, but Graham McNamee still talking all about these subjects. It really is a shame the way these subjects are cut to almost no meaning to the picture any more. — Aug. C. Berkholz, West Bend theatre, West Bend, Wis. T echnicolor Lists Five Screen Usages for Color (Special to the HeraldWorld) NEW YORK, April 8. — Color can be employed in five ways as a medium of motion picture expression, according to Technicolor Corporation. The five usages of color on the screen are as follows: Color for realism or naturalness, color for beauty, color for dramatic or psychological reaction, color for symbolism and color to produce illusion, involving such consideration as steroscopic effect and perspective. Edward Montagne Draws New Paramount Contract (Special to the Herald-World) HOLLYWOOD, April 8. — Edward J. Montagne has re-signed for a long term as head of the story department at Paramount. Register Dubious Films (From the Department of Commerce) WASHINGTON, April 8.— The Berlin Police Department is to make a practice soon of publishing a register of dubious foreign motion picture firms so as to warn German exhibitors entering into business dealings likely to be unsatisfactory.