Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1956)

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orrcune Carh an£ produce • MORE BRILLIANT ILLUMINATION • SHARPER, BRIGHTER PICTURE • PERFECT COLOR BALANCE in any lamp, on any size screen, in any theatre or drive-in. • There's a Lorraine Carbon for your particular lamp FREE! new LORRAINE CARBON CHART of recommended amperages voltage and arc gaps. ASX FOR TEST SAMPLES AT OUR EXPENSE CARBONS, Inc. BOONTON, N.J. Kesteloot previously was general manager of the wire and cable plants of Electric AutoLite Company. The International Seat Division of the Union City Body Company. Union City, Ind., has appointed W. V. Toney sales manager, replacing Vernon G. Sand ford, manager of the Buffalo branch of National Theatre Supply, recently died after two months’ illness at the age of 58. He had been associated with National since the company was organized in 1926, and had been manager at Buffalo since 1936. James Paige has bought the Savoy theatre at Blvtheville, Ark., and Lee Beecher has reopened the Little Rock Air Force Base theatre at Jacksonville, Ark. In Tyronza, Ark., J. E. Singleton, has unshuttered his Tyro theatre on a part time basis. Augustine Cianciolo has opened his 1000seat Northgate theatre in Memphis. David H. Dewey and W. V. Toney Following remodeling, William Lakie has reopened the Bijou theatre at Barnesville, Minn. The house formerly belonged to W . B. Stratton, who has taken over the Capitol in Bismarck, N. D. James Randgaard, Jr., has been appointed manager of the Hayes theatre in St. Cloud, Minn,, a unit of the Minnesota Amusement Company. Allen Evans is now operating the Ulen theatre at Ulen, Minn., on lease from A. A. Bulleyment. D. H. Dewey, who resigned to become general manager of Canadian Seating Company, Ltd., Toronto, licensee of International in Canada. Mr. Toney was previously associated with National Theatre Supply and with Paramount Affiliates, and latterly with Wil-Kin Theatre Supply, Atlanta. Robert L. Kline has been named general sales manager of the Breuer Manufacturing Company, Chicago. Mr. Kline will supervise all sales for the company's line of heavy-duty vacuum cleaners, floor scrubbing machines, portable electric blowers, and dust collectors. Two New Tesma Board Members Named' at Convention Two new members were named, and two others re-elected at the 1956 convention of the Theatre Equipment and Supply Manufacturers Association in New York last month. The new members are Arthur J. Hatch, Strong Electric Corporation, Toledo; and Martin W. Wolf, Altec Companies, Inc., New York and Los Angeles.. Clarence Ashcraft, C. S. Ashcraft Manufacturing Company, Long Island City, N. Y., and M. H. Stevens, Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N. Y., were renamed. Other directors, and the officers, carry over from last year, while J. Robert Hoff, The Ballantyne Company, Omaha; Fred C. Matthews, Motiograph, Inc., Chicago; and Oscar F. Neu, Neumade Products, Inc., New York are honorary members as past-presidents, Mr. Neu being also president-emeritus. Board members pictured are (seated, left to right) Merlin Lewis, executive secretary; Mr. Neu, Lee Jones, president; Thomas LaVezzi, vice-president; Mr. Matthews, Ben H. Adler (Adler Silhouette Letter Company, Los Angeles), (standing) Mr. Wolf, Mr. Ashcraft, Larry Davee (Century Projector Corporation), Fred Wenzel, Wenzel Projector Corporation, Chicago, Mr. Hatch and V. J. Nolan (National Carbon Company, New York). Board members missing are J. A. Fetherston, Kollmorgen Optical Corporation, Northampton, Mass.; A. E. Meyer, International Projector Corporation, Bloomfield, N.J.; J. F. O'Brien, RCA, Camden, N.J.; Mr. Stevens and Mr. Hoff. i * 6 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 13, 1956