The Moving picture world (November 1926-December 1926)

430 MOVING PICTURE WORLD Ucccinber 11, 1926 New York Mo-,iitg Picture World Bureau. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 8. CHANGES continue to occur along Film Row. Bert Gibbons, who recently resigned as local manager for Bond, has become a salesman at the F. B. O. exchange, and will cover northern New York. Charles Walder, late of Buffalo, and one time manager of the local Goldwyn exchange, is back in town and will act as salesman at the Metro-Goldwyn exchange, succeeding Lester Wolfe, who has resigned. George Porter, a student booker at the Pathe exchange, resigned last week, and his place has been taken by B. J. Goetz, of New York City. Troy Zeb Epstein, formerly connected with the Mark Strand in New York, has been made manager of the American in Troy, succeeding Ed Trembly, who will probably go with one of the Proctor houses. There was quite a number of visitors along Albany's Film Row during the past week. P. J. Herbert, of Dover Plains, was in town, booking for his theatre. Others included Donald Bane, of Athens; Maurice Fitzer. of Syracuse; Sidney Sampson, of Buffalo; Rev. J. C. Jaeger, of Kinderhook, and Matt Moran. of Coxsackie. Jake Golden, manager of the Griswold in Troy, and a former newspaperman, will have charge of a local news reel that will be featured shortly at Proctor houses in Troy and Albany, co-operating with one of Albany's newspapers. Mr. Golden is having great success with his weekly 'Black Bottom" contests. Alex Weismann, manager of the MetroGoldwyn exchange here, endeavored to secure an airplane last week, for the quick transportation of a film to Rochster to replace one destroyed by fire in one of the theatres in that city. The aviator refused to land, however, in the darkness, and it was necessary to ship the picture by train. Saugerties Tom Thornton, owner of the Orpheum in Saugerties, certainly played the host last week, in connection with a genuine roast pig supper served in that village. Everyone along Film Row had an invitation and many were on hand. The supper is an annual affair given by the fire department, in which Mr. Thornton is one of the majordoraos. Endicott The EndicottJohnson Company is certainly to be commended in reopening the Park Theatre in Endicott, and providing wholesome entertainment for the many persons employed in the huge shoe manufacturing plant. The company has chosen well in naming William Mack as manager of the theatre. Pictures Can 't Be Projected But Patrons Prove Cops Can Omaha, Neb., Dec. 9.— It was all but a riot that occurred at Mount Vernon, la., the other day in regard to the Sunday Closing Law when an attempt was made to arrest L. D. Hendrix, proprietor of a moving picture theatre there. Hendrix was alleged to have been running his place in violation of the Sunday closing law. Several special police entered to arrest him, and one of them attempted to shut off the picture by holding a piece of cardboard over the projector lense. This angered the crowd, especially as anothbr officer was trying to arrest Hendrix at the same time without a warrant, as the crowd said. Things grew lively, and the audience turned into a mob with violence in its eye, and literally and bodily threw all the police out into the street. They gathered reinforcements, however, and Mr. Hendrix quickly submitted to arrest because he feared the mob would wreck the place in the fracas if he did not get the situation quieted down quickly. yiinnesota Moving Picture H'oria Bureau, Minneapolis^ Minn.. Dec. 1. \/r ESSRS. Tlieodore L. Hays, general •* manager of Northwest Theatres, Inc. (Finklestein & Ruben), and Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railroad, were the principal speakers at an evening Ijanquet given by the St. Cloud (Minn.) Times. The occasion was the celebration of 65 years of continuous service by the paper. . Eveleth Eveleth, Minn., has made it unlawful to paint advertisements on the sidewalks. George Langress wished to use this method of bringing future productions to the attention of the public and so he devised a novel way to get the same effect. Langress purchased linoleum mats, about two by three feet in dimension, at the local five and ten cent store and got his artist to paint the messages on them. The mats were then placed on the sidewalks in front of prominent buildings. Northwest Theatres, Inc.. has recently added to the Minneapolis manager group by making Clair McCormick manager of the American Theatre. Mr. McCormick has been in the show business for thirteen years. Duluth William McCreary has just been made manager of the Lyric Theatre in Duluth, Minn. He has managed theatres in the Twin Cities, Superior and Duluth. Michigan Moving Picture World Bureau, Detroit, Mich.. Dec. S. A FTER eight years as general manager of the Fred De Lodder theatres in Detroit, Jacob Sullivan has resigned to devote his entire time to the new Orient Theatre, of which he is general manager. The Orient will open about the middle of January. The Cinderella Theatre was robbed of Saturday and Sunday receipts amounting to about $4,000 when two masked men held up the house manager as he was ascending the stairway leading to the general offices of the Robertson Enterprises, owners of the Robertson theatres, in the Roosevelt Theatre Building. Grand Rapids E. N. Brown of the Stocking Theatre, Grand Rapids, died suddenly of heart failure last week. He was about 50 years old and was one of the pioneer exhibitors In the western part of the state. Frank and Floyd Wadlow, two of the best known of Detroit's younger exhibitors, have retired from business and will leave immediately with their families to spend the winter in the South. Arthur Zellner. special representative for United Artists, was here four days laat week in connection with the personal appearance of Vilma Banky at the Madison. St v<-r:il iiiuisunl stunts were stasred. Canada .Moving Picture World iiureau. Ottawa, Canada, Dec. 8. '"I'^HE Casino Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, A one of the oldest houses of the Canadian capital, is again under the personal direction of F. N. Leduc. For some time the theatre had been operated under a different name by Froman and Petigorsky of Ottawa, but when it was acquired by F. X. Lcduc, one of the first clianges was to go back to the old familiar name of Casino Theatre. For the first lime in many months, the Centre Theatre, a downtown house of Ottawa. Ontario, had a Saturday morning show for children. Manager Don Stapleton established a 15-cent admission price for Juveniles and cents for the adults who accompanied them. J. D. Kims, formerly manager of the Marcus Loew Theatres in Montreal. Quebec, and Ottawa, Ontario is the same J. D. Elms, who has been placed in charge of the many theatres in Brazil, South America, controlled by Metro-Gold wyn-.Mayer. Mr. Kims was succeeded at Montreal by James .Vdams. Gatineau The new town of Gatineau, Quebec, situated some 10 miles from Ottawa, the Canadian capital, now boasts a moving picture theatre, the Regent, which was opened December 6 by the Gatineau Amusement Company, Limited. The new town has sprung up within the past eight months because of the establishment of the new mills in .the vicinity by the International Paper Company. To encourage patronage at the matinees, .Manager J. T. Moxley of the Capital Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, has Instituted a regular admission price of 10 cents for ladles, at matinees only. The attendance at evening shows is very satisfactory, Mr. Moxley r€ ported. Schenectady Guy Graves, of Schenectady, does all the booking for the Farash Theatres in that city. Film Row paid Mr. Graves a compliment last week in saying that as a booker he was a "cuckoo " and supplemented the same by saying that on account of his long experience, he was the most able man In this entire territory. Last Monday night was a red letter one for Jacob Rosenthal, owner of the Rose Theatre in Troy, for he supplied six acts of entertainment, broadcast from the radio station in that city, and every act was introduced by the announcer as coming from the Rose Theatre. Toledo, Iowa H. C. Reagan of Boulder, Colo., has purchased the Cozy Theatre at Toledo, Iowa, from Greenhaigh & Burdock. The house will be renamed the Toledo. Dexter, Iowa The Princess Theatre at Dexter, Iowa, which has been dark for three months, has been reopened by Edward Awe, who has leased the house. Lismore TTie Royal Theatre in Lismore, Minn., owned by Nick Bach, was destroyed by a fire which threatened the entire business ;ction of the town.