Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1946)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 5. 1946 31 REGIONAL NEWSREEL president of the State Theatre Co., is grandaddy again a couple of times. His son and daughterin-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. (Buddy) Briggs are the parents of twins, name of Tamara Sue and Tupper Sherman. Civic Theatres headquarters, and Monogram exchange, across the street from each other, have swapped locations. Civic Theatres, owned by A. P. Archer and Joe Dekker, will headquarter there until they can build their own office building at 2046 Broadway. Plans are ready and priority rights have been obtained and construction will start soon. Monogram was located in same building but next door to Republic, and Republic wanted the vault space. Robert Quinn, Paramount district publicity chief, went to New York for the company conferences on publicity, advertising and exploitation. Lon T. Fidler, three-way Monogram franchise owner, left for the Franchise owners' meeting in Chicago, and on his way back home will stop at his Salt Lake City exchange. Oscar Oldknow, vice-president of National Theatre Supply, was in Denver conferring with Joe Stone and J. J. Morgan, co-managers. George Y. Henger, concessions boss in the Cooper Foundation Theatres, has been named special representative for Paramount in the Dallas territory. Edna Kelloff, owner of the Ute, Aguilar, Colo., is taking an extended vacation beyond the time her theatre was closed due to the polio epidemic. Other theatres, 16 in number, which closed for the polio scare, have reopened. A. B. Harris closed his Echo, Encampment, Wyo., because of illness. George Frantz has returned from an inspection tour of the six C & R theatres in Oklahoma. Chas. Asmus has bought the Mesa, Norwood, Colo., from Boyd Buss. Charles Walker, 20th Century-Fox district manager, was in Denver for conferences with James Dugan, branch manager. A new jack rabbit circuit has been started by Nerval Foster. He will show films a day a week in each Mesa, Carbondale and Grand Valley. Out of town theatre folks seen on the Row included Mike Joseph, San Luis, Colo. ; Ray Katzenbach, Brush, Colo. ; Marie Goodhand, Kimball, Neb. ; Frank Barnes, Crawford, Neb. ; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kerby, Worland, Wyo., and Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Ervin, Kremmling. OMAHA CITY COUNCIL WOULD OUTLAW ALL CARNIVALS IN DES MOINES; FRENCH GROUP OFFERS FILMS City Council is readying a strict carnival ordinance that would virtually bar them from the city. Joseph Weiss is the new booker at Warner Brothers. Jack Andrews, Paramount salesman who became ill on the territory, is back on the job. iBill Miskell, in charge of theatre collections for the emergency fund to raise police and firemen pay, reports the industry is on the lasi lap of its financial job. Sally Mickle is new at 20th-Fox as a filiiij; clerk. Sidney McArdle, United Artists ofiice manager-booker, is on vacation. Rosalynn Henderson has been promoted from information girl to the contract department at Paramount. Her successor as "hello girl" is Edythe Sel linger. Joyce Anderson, secretary to Branch Manager D. V. McLucas at United Artists, is vacationing in the South. Martin Winant, Columbia home office representative, is in Omaha. Hazel Andersen, MGM office manager, is back after a short vacation. Columbia's Omaha branch took first honors in this division during the Silver .Anniversary Drive. Fred Thortsen, salesman, is acting branch manager at MGM during G. E. McGlynn's recovery from a recent operation. Florence Low, head inspectress at Columbia, has returned from a vacation in Washington, D. C. Nancy Peri has been hired as a stenographer at Warner Brothers. Fred Aliano, Columbia shipper, is vacationing in the West. Bill Miskell, TriStates district manager, spent several days in Grand Island and Hastings visiting circuit houses. Eleanor Horwitz, Columbia cashier, is back from a vacation in Chicago. Alliance Francaise opened its series of French pictures at Joslyn Memorial with "Katia" the first attraction. WASHINGTON CAPITAL'S FILM ROW VOTES TO UNIONIZE; NATE GOLDEN HEADS DRIVE FOR HANDICAP EMPLOYMENT Nathan Golden, Commerce Dept. official, and First Assistant Chief Barker of the Variety Club, Tent No. 11, was named to head Washington's city-wide drive to increase employment opportunities for the physically handicapped. Golden came out of the infantry in the first World War minus his left leg, and spent seven years in a hospital, before putting in 20 years' service with the Commerce Dept., as head of its motion picture division. Jerry Murphy, 20th Century-Fox salesman, is at Georgetown Hospital, where he underwent a major operation. MGM employes were out in full force for the Variety Club-sponsored football game in Baltimore, between the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Bears. Office Manager Joe Ivronman assisted in the Motorcade, and promotional representative Tom Baldridge was in charge of Trade Press Photographs. Other MGM Exchange employes who attended were {Continued on Page 32) _A GREAT.GLORIOnS ENTERTAIMMENTi NOW PLAYING OLD SOUTH THEATRE, BOSTON for an extended run to terrific business k STERLING HALLOWAY ^ ALBERT BASSERMAN BOOK THRU ALL ASTOR EXCHANGES