Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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24 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 1, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL {Continued from Page 23) husband visited the former's mother in Macon. Ga., on her birthday. . . . The wife of Astor Pictures President William Richardson is visiting friends in New York. . . . Joyce Porter. Monogram Southern Exchanges, is back from out-of-town visits, and Monogram Charlotte Sales Representative J. E. McLeory returned to 'his post from Atlanta. Fire in the booth and concession stand forced temporary closing of the Manchester Drive-In at Jasper, Ala. . . . Howard Smith, owner of the Dixie in Palmetto, Fla., has leased the Palmetto there. . . . Roy Mercato opened his new theatre in Notasulga, Ala., with O. O. McConnell as manager. . . . The Capitol, Clearwater, Fla., has installed a $30,000 air conditioning plant. . . . Graham and Rockholt have opened their 220-car drive-in at Dayton, Tenn. NEW YORK Annual dinner of the Motion Picture Pioneers, which this year celebrates the tenth anniversary of men who have been in the movie business for 25 ye'ars or more, will be held Nov. 16 in the Starlight Room of the Waldorf-Astoria, it was announced after the directors met Monday. Hal Horne was appointed general chairman of the dinner committee and Bernard Estes, publicity director. Don Jacocks is taking over the booking for the Alden Theatre circuit which operates in New Jersey with former Booker Harry Klein moving to theatre operations. . . . Eagle Lion Oflke Manager Lou Falcoff joined the stork club this week when Mrs. Falcoff presented him with a daughter. . . . Ditto Bill Orr of Warners whose wife, the daughter of Mrs. Ann Warner, presented him with a boy. . . . RKO Theatres Vice-President Sol Schwartz sailed for a trip to England, France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, Thursday, accompanied by Mrs. Schwartz. Bess Golstein Allen, who keeps house and does work for a local exchange too, has moved back from her summer home at Long Branch. Film row visitors included Lou Witzman of New Jersey, M. Shulman of the Gaiety and Inlet, N. Y., Louie Goidel of the Gloria, Brooklyn, Bob Mapletoft of the Star, Jameston, N. J., Lou Ginsberg, who is now running a booking and buying outfit in New Haven. The Motion Picture Bookers Association held On the Square It seems that Emmy Dickman, 20th Century-Fox dynamic veteran Buffalo salesman, really won the Variety Club golf tournament and the Mike Shea cup connected with it, on the up and up and not by default, forfeit, etc. Emmy and Dr. Marvin Milch were tied in the tournament and in the playoff, Emmy won and was awarded the cup. Al Fitter, Paramount office manager and head booker, had low score but inasmuch as he is not a member of the Variety Club he was not entitled to win the cup. At the time the cup was donated to the Variety Club by the late Michael Shea, it was stipulated and understood that only a member of the Variety Club could or would be entitled to win it. This explanation is made here in justice to Emmy. its meeting of the fall season this week, with President Alex Arnswarlder presiding. . . , Manny Goodman has been appointed head of the eastern sales contract department for Monogram with Si Borus, who formerly headed that department, moving to home office in Flollywood as assistant to Western Sales Manager Harold Wirthwein. More than $1,250,000 was raised for the United Jewish Appeal campaign at the luncheonrally at the Commodore Hotel last week, at which Eddie Cantor was emcee and host. NEW HAVEN Julia Smith, manager of the State, Water-' bury, who is celebrating her 25th anniversary in show business, will be the guest of honor at a testimonial dinner at Waverly Inn, -Cheshire. . . . Manager H. H. Maloney of the Poli, Worcester, is back from Boston where he underwent an operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Sam Shoubouf, assistant manager of the Poli, Springfield, is temporarily covering for Maloney, who will be out several weeks. Lou Barone, chief usher of the Poli, is telling all his friends about ihis chat with Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grays'on. . . . Joe Mulvey, former assistant manager of the Paramount, resigned to become a salesman for Merchant Calculating Machines. . . . Tent 31, Variety Club of Connecticut, set Oct. 10 for special meeting in club rooms to discuss several important items and plans for winter season. Mayfair Theatre Building Superintendent John Priske is in St. Vincent's Hospital, Bridgeport. . . . Joel Levy, of the New York booking office of Loew's, was in New Haven discussing product. ... A sister team, Ann and Elizabeth Kanca, now preside over the candy stand at the American in Bridgeport. Marjorie Jacobs'on, daughter of Strand Amusement General Manager Morris Jacobson. Bridgeport, is attending the University of Michigan and his son, Eugene, Wesleyan University in Middletown. . . . MGM Manager Harry Rosenblatt and Mrs. Rosenblatt went to Boston for the weekend. DES MOINES The Des Moines Paramount Theatre will try a single act with double film features after running a seven-act show for a full week. The full-hour vaudeville show was reported to have turned in a good box-office, but the single act of Ken Griffin, organist, started for a full week on Sept. 29. The Hollywood, Estherville, Iowa, suffered slight damage from a fire in the projection booth. . . . Don Smith has been named assistant manager for the Pioneer theatres at Storm Lake, la., succeeding Jim Bye. . . . B. V. Hopkins has sold his interest in the Sidney at Sidney, la., to his partner. Earl E. Cowden. G. O. Dunkerson has sold the State at Bridgewater, la., to Thurston Ogden. C. A. Bedford, owner of the M'olo at Moulton, la., has been named superintendent of schools at Udell, la. . . . Steven Ward has been transferred from the Washington Universal branch to the Des Moines exchange to handle bookings. OKLAHOMA CITY Hlackstone, an ace magician, celebrates his thirty-third anniversary as a star with a single appearance at the Home Theatre here, Oct. 5. . . . The Del City, Lewis R. Barton's new theatre in Del City, opened Sept. 23. It is the sixth theatre which he owns and operates. Hobart, Okla., residents voted Tuesday, 688 to 617 to keep the ban on Sunday nght movies, but Tom Kirkham, manager of the two Griffith theatres, said the election was "only the end of round one." Sunday afternoon movies are permitted here, but theatres must close their boxoffices at 5 :1S P.M. Lansing Robinson, assistant manager of theatres in Stillwater for seven years, has been transferred to Bartesville, Okla. Construction has been started on a new Malco theatre in Camden, Ark., and which is scheduled for completion before the first of the year. It will seat 1,200 persons. Furnishings and equipment will cost over $50,000. . . . The New Theatre, Ft. Smith, Ark., is undergoing extensive remodeling, at a cost estimated by Manager Renv mel Young to be around $150,000, including installation of a $40,000 air-conditioning unit. Its name is being changed to the Malco. Recently through orders of the United States courts, Malco and Paramount holdngs ■ were divided. Paramount was given the Joie Theatre, for years the city's leading theatre, while the New went to Malco. Log, Inc., Beaumont, Texas, has been incorporated by J. M. Gordon, S. L. Oakley, and S. B. Landrum, to handle theatrical acts, or NEW PRESIDENT. Dale Danielson (right) is seen with a group comprising TOA's Gael Sullivan, RKO's Leon Bamberger and Elmer Bills, whom Danielson succeeded as president of Kansas-Missouri Theatre Association. The get-together was at the exhibitor organization's annual convention in Kansas City last week.