Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1956)

( Continued from page 36) event will be Howard and her son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Watson. . . . Mrs. Tillie Kaplan, 75, mother of Betty Kaplan, secretary to MGM branch manager Jack Sogg, died this week after a month’s illness. Columbus The Ohio Federation of Child Conservation Leagues has begun an active campaign for more family movies. The project is spreading throughout the state. . . . Donald Hooten, manager of RKO Grand, has inaugurated a series of Saturday morning cartoon shows with five cartoons per show. . . . Manager Robert Sokol of Loew’s Broad reported good business for the Tom and Jerry cartoon shows held Friday and Saturday morning during the Thanksgiving holidays. . . . Special students’ price was in effect for the showing of MGM’s “Lust for Life” at Loew’s Ohio. . . . Clyde Moore, theatre editor of the Ohio State Journal, is recuperating following a week’s hospitalization with a back ailment. . . . “Giant” proved such a strong attraction in its first week at RKO Palace that manager Ed McGlone held the Warner Brothers’ attraction for a second week. Des Moines Numbers of Film Rowers have been attending Iowa football games this fall at Iowa City and are now making plans to attend the Rose Bowl game January 1. . . . Evelyn Tellis of Universal is back at the office following an illness. ... It took two screening rooms to hold the exhibitors who came to see Dave Gold’s advance showing of “Love Me Tender.” . . . Chuck lies, Variety’s assistant chief barker, has taken over the club duties of Frank Rubel during Rubel’s absence. Rubel is vacationing in Florida. With his customary perception, Frank chose the beginning of real winter in Iowa to leave the place. . . . Dorothy Pobst has announced the date for the WOMPI Christmas party — December 12 — at the Polk Federal Savings & Loan banquet room. . . . Joleen Ingram of Paramount was absent from her desk during the week because of illness. . . . The Iowa theatre at Buffalo Center has been closed by Charles Recker, who operated the house for the last 25 years. Recker said lack of patronage and support has made it impossible for him to continue in the theatre business. . . . Stock sale in Greater Marcus, Inc., which operates the Marland theatre in Marcus, was a great success — the issue was oversubscribed by almost $500. The theatre equipment is now said to be debt free. Detroit Opening of “The Ten Commandments” at the Madison was attended by Charlton Heston and son Fraser. . . . Helping to improve one of Detroit’s blighted downtown streets, Saul Korman’s National theatre has been refurbished and will carry first run features. . . . “Fantasia” will re-run at the Krim with four-track sound as in the original presentation. . . . Mr. and Mrs. James Koslow have added a Cinemascope screen to their Petoskey Northland drive-in. . . . Impending family life will take Thelma Korts from Paramount after 11 years. . . . The Star in Brooklyn is being operated by Richard Spangle. . . . Republic salesman Bert Holmes has been in Art Centre Hospital following an operation. . . . Another convalescent is Rex Kinnie, of Whitmore Lake. . . . William Green, Cinerama, is reported doing better at New Grace Hospital. Hartford Erwin Neumann’s plans to build an outdoor theatre at Dayville, eastern Connecticut community, continue to hit opposition. Latest development finds a group of objecting Dayville residents filing a protest with the State Police Commissioner at Hartford. . . . Upswing in regional theatre business has apparently encouraged two independent operators to resume performances in several houses. The Carberry, Bristol, Conn., has been reopened by Joseph Faith, while Edward Berube has reopened his Strand, Willimantlc, Conn. Both theatres are on a subsequent run policy. . . . Two smalltown situations, the Rialto, Winsor Locks, and the Colonial, Southington, both in Connecticut, are now screening three major attractions on Sunday matinees. The move is first of its kind in this exchange territory. . . . Irving Mendelsohn, UA Connecticut manager, and Mrs. Mendelsohn are marking their 25th wedding anniversary. . . . Margaret McKinnon, secretary to Henry Germaine, Paramount manager, has returned to her desk after a two-month illness. Indianapolis Thanksgiving helped first run theatres here to the best all-around week they’ve had this fall. “Giant” is still big in its second week at the Indiana and the Circle is doing a great business with “Love Me Tender” at regular prices. . . . Dale McFarland, general manager of Greater Indianapolis, and Fred Waring, who is playing the Circle Friday night, both celebrate their wedding anniversaries Dec. 2 but will preview the event while Waring is in town. Waring was married in Indianapolis on his last visit here. . . . A1 Hendricks, manager of the Indiana, was called to Amarillo, Texas, last week by the death of his father there. . . . Bill Coxer, assistant manager of Loew’s, is vacationing in Dayton, his home town . . . Dr. Marvin Sandorf, owner of the Twin drive-ins, became the father of twin boys Nov. 18. . . . Roy Kalver, Hugh McLachlan, Trueman Remhusch and Wm. A. Carroll were representing Indiana exhibitors at the National Allied convention this week in Dallas. Jacksonville “Love Me Tender” smashed all local box office records during its first few days at the Florida theatre. . . . Tim Crawford closed the Arcade theatre for three days while hundreds of Hot Point dealers in the Southeast used it for an annual sales meeting and stage show. . . . Jim Carey, manager of Loew’s Normandy, began the pre-Christmas sale of gift ticket books to drive-in theatre patrons. . . . Joe Gatrell, manager, Colony, Winter Park, was on crutches temporarily following successful leg surgery. . . . Lorraine Jackson, former manager of the Victoria theatre, New Smyrna Beach, has shifted to the Beacham theatre, Orlando. . . . Show people from all parts of Florida attended funeral services in Daytona Beach on November 25 for James L. Cartwright, 51, senior supervisor for Florida State Theatres, who died of a heart attack in a Daytona Beach hospital November 23. Kansas City Dates for the Kansas-Missouri Allied Theatre Owners convention have been set for Jan. 29-30 at the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Mo. . . . Val and Bud Mercier plan to build a drive-in near Ste. Genevieve, Mo., where the town’s only theatre recently closed. Val Mercier operates the Mercier theatre in Perryville, Mo., and the Hilltop drive-in at St. Mary’s, Mo., and his brother operates the Mercier at Fredricktown, Mo. . . . The Paola theatre, Paola, Kans., reopened after remodeling. ... It is reported that the Gypsum theatre at Gypsum, Kans, is to be reopened by Clement Anderes of Elmo, Kans., for threeshows-a-week operation. . . . Lyric theatre at Boonville, Mo., will be 100 years old in 1957. A new sign for the front includes the name, Thespian Hall, the original title of the theatre, which served as a hospital during the Civil War. Clyde Patton is manager. Los Angeles Herb Jack, seating equipment vendor, and Bundy Smith, theatre supply representative, have both moved their offices to 1977 South Vermont Ave. . . . Manny Feldstein of the Dietrich-Feldstein Theatres, was back from a trip to Manhattan. . . . Representatives from this area to the Colosseum of Motion Picture Salesmen’s national convention in St. Louis were Wayne Bateman, U.I.; Jerry Persell, Kranz-Levin.; Jules Gerelick, U.I., and Jules Needleman, Columbia. . . . KranzLevin Pictures have sold their exchange here to D.C.A., which assumed control Nov. 19. . . . Over 950 persons on Film Row received free chest x-rays from the L.A. Tuberculosis Mobile Unit which was stationed on the Row from Nov. 19 through the 21. Project was sponsored by the Film Row Club. . . . Burglars broke into the Metropolitan Theatres office and made off with quite a bit of money from the safe. The thieves then proceeded to the Pacific drive-in headquarters across the street and robbed that office as well. . . . Booking and buying on the Row were Ernest Martini, Bakersfield; Joe Markowitz, Encinitas; Bill Alford, Palm Springs, and Joe Hernandez, Guadalupe. Memphis Police reported thieves stole a large number of speakers and light bulbs from the 61 drive-in at Memphis. Theft was reported by manager James E. Shane. . . . Scott Lett, southern manager, Howco, was a Memphis visitor. . . . W. D. Mitchell bought the Bailey theatre at Cabot, Ark., from J. C. Speer. . . . Louie and Henry Haven, brothers, who operate theatres at Forrest City, Wynne, Brinkley and Marianna, Ark., were in Memphis on business. . . . W. F. Ruffin, Jr., Ruffin Amusements ( Continued on page 40) 38 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, DECEMBER I. 195*