Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

22 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 1, 1949 Regional Newsreel Nows of Events cmd Personalities Reported by Correspondents Throughout the Nation ST. LOUIS Avalon Theatre Manager Edward Harris and his wife are the parents of Mary Anne, weighing nine pounds, eight ounces, who was born Sept. 15. . . . Frank P. Morris, with Stanley Popcorn for 11 years, is succeeding R. D. Von Engehi as its St Louis representative. . . . MGM Home Office Publicist Russell Stewart was here recently. . . . Lou Ratz is RKO's new office manager here, succeeding Mollie Inger, who is the new private secretary to District Manager Ray Nolan ; Louis Palermo succeeds Ratz as head booker. Nolan's former secretary, Annette Downs, a recent bride, is moving to Denver with her husband. Columbia Amusements General Manager Leo Keiler has returned to Paducah, Ky., from a visit with relatives on the west coast. . . . Warner Manager Lester Bona concluded a deal with Carney Theatres while in Rolla, Mo. . . . Leslie B. Mace, former RCA salesman in this area, has returned here from California and is seeking a new connection. . . . Wyoming Oil Operator Joe Dyer paid a visit to a local old friend. Eagle Lion Manager F. J. Lee. . . . Manager Tom Robey of the Washington, Quincy, 111., is in St. Mary's Hospital there following a' heart attack. . . . Father of RKO Manager Tom Williamson is recovering from injuries sustained in a fall from the roof of his house. Elmer Greenlee has opened his Greenlee, Essex, Mo., four nights per week. ... J. J. Gueris installed new sound in his State, Morrisonville, 111. . . . Bill Zimmerman is recarpeting his Vita, Warrenton, Mo. . . . Mrs. Herman Steinberg, owner of the U City, St. Louis, managed by her son, Ben, has installed new sound and speaker? bought from J'oe Hornstein, Inc. That firm completely equipped five drive-ins this year — the Quincy, West Quincy, Mo. ; Hill Top, Perryville, Mo. ; Cape, Cape Girardeau, Mo. ; Sikeston, Sikeston, Mo. ; Tommie's, Kennett, Mo. . . . H. H. Roth of Memphis is reported to have sold the 800-seat Esquire at Cape Girardeau to Irving Dubinsky of St Joseph, Mo. St. Louis department store sales decreased by seven per cent the week of Sept. 17. . . . Jimmy Frisina was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Western Golf Ass'n Amateur Championship, Sept. 24, at the St. Louis County Bellerive Country Club; he was defeated by Toledo's Frank Richard Stranahan. Frisina has been Illinois champion twice. CHICAGO Three Chicago theatres are slated for demolition to make way for the city's new motor highway. Theatres are the Empire and Haymarket on West Madison Street and the Wicker Park Theatre on Milwaukee Avenue. The city will pay the owners for their land and theatres. . . . H. and E. Balaban circuit's Surf opened first-run last week with an old English film, ■'Major Barbara," and its Esquire, which features English pictures on its occasional Esquire Hour program, showed "The Woman in the Hall." Wometco's Sid Meyers is here from Miami. . Eddie Cantor and company will be here for the Electrical Living Show at the Coliseum, Oct. 1-9. . . . Frank Young, former United REGIONAL NEWS INDEX Atlanta 23 Boston 23 Buffalo 23 Charlotte > 25 Chicago 22 Cleveland 22 Columbus 27 Dallas 26 Denver 27 Des Moines 24 Hartford 25 Indianapolis 25 Kansas City 27 Los Angeles 26 Louisville 25 Milwaukee 26 Minneapolis 27 New Haven 24 New Orleans 27 New York 24 Oklahoma City 24 Omaha 26 Pittsburgh 22 Portland 23 St. Louis 22 Salt Lake City 25 Toronto 26 Vancouver 27 Washington 23 Artists manager here, has been named 20thI'o.x office manager. ... In the city from Indiana last week were L. R. Applegate lit the Colfax, and E. A. Warren of the Warner Bros. Studio, both South Bend, and Gordon I lenpel, director of the Valparaiso University at Valparaiso. Hans Teichert, director of the Hans Teichert Studios, theatre decorators, has returned from live weeks overseas, inspecting many theatres n I'lorence and other Italian cities. He was accompanied by Frank Roman of the National Chemical Manufacturing Company. . . . Paramount Studio Executives Henry Ginsberg, Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett came on last week for the preview's of "Sunset Boulevard." . . . Annual report of theatre owners' contributions made during the year to the pension fund of Operators Union 110, lATSE, will be submitted at its monthly meeting Oct. 6. . . . B. R. Stanley, Herbert Newcomb and B. B. Williams have incorporated the 460 Drive-In Theatre, Carmi. 111. Jacob C. Heck, 68, founder of the Dalite Screen Company, died at his home in Elmhurst, 111. Burial was in the Home Cemetery, Danville, 111. He is survived by hs widow and three brothers. 3 Score and 10 William Harpold, owner of the We-Go film delivery, Denver, was the recipient cf a birthday card signed by 93 backroom employes of film companies on the occasion not only of his 70th birthday, but the tenth year of being his own driver. He and his wife have owned the business .32 years. CLEVELAND W. N. Skirball of the Skirball Bros, circuit, is back home from a tour of England and the continent. . . . Judge Hoy L. Russell, owner of the Russell Theatre, Millersburg, and Mrs. Russell, who owns the Southern at Akron, are on a Canadian motoring vacation. . . . Warner Ohio Zone Manager Nat Wolf returned from the Mayo Clinic, where he went for a checkup, with a clean bill of health. . . . National Screen Service Manager Nat Barach got a big hand when he volunteered to paste Independent Theatre Owner stickers advocating ITO membership on all future shipments going out of the Cleveland and Cincinnati offices. . . . Paramount Booking Manager Howard Roth has been assigned to part-time special work in the Cincinnati area on behalf of the Paramount drive. Lippert Productions will open its Cleveland exchange the middle of October with Justin Spiegle as manager. . . . Cooperative Theatres of Michigan is now booking and buying for the State, Urichsville, and the Park, Dennison, both Tuscarawas Amusement houses. . . . Frank Slavik of the Capitol, Mount Gilead, O., emerged from a recent auto accident in which his car was completely demolished with nothing more than a broken wrist. Terese Zegiob, daughter of Mrs. Nazera Zegob, Lorain theatre owner, is ill in St. Joseph's Hospital in that city. . . . Funeral services were held Monday for United Artists Booker Rose Weitz who perished in the burning of the S.S. Noronic in Toronto Harbor. She had been with UA about 17 years. Another Noronic casualty was Joseph Thomas, a brother of Mrs. Nazera Zegiob, who owned and operated the Dreamland, Pearl and Elvira theatres n Lorain and the Thomas Grille near the Dreamland. PITTSBURGH John H. Harris, head of the Harris Amusement Enterprises, will be general chairman of the annual Variety Club, Tent No. 1 convention here on Nov. 13. His chief aides will be Warner Zone Manager M. A. Silver and J. T. McGreevey, buyer and booker for Harris Amusements. Committees for this affair will be announced later. The AFL Motion Picture Projectionists in this area celebrated the 40th anniversary of the founding of the union with a party at Bill Green's night club on Thursday of last week. .\mong the more than 300 attending were two charter members of the local ; Clyde Cain, projectionist at the J. P. Harris Theatre, and .\rthur Williams, at the Mt. Oliver, both in this city. LTnited Artists is trying something new here ; it booked first-run openings at drive-in theatres here on Sept. 30. It held simultaneous premieres of its new western, "Stampede," in three local drive-ins on that day ; they are the Maple, the EI Rancho and the South Park. The week's run experiment will determine whether or not the policy is to be continued. Edward Schnitzer and Mark Silver, United