Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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26 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW. October 8, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL SHALIT HONORED AT DIVISION MANAGERS LUNCHEON. Columbia's playdate and billings drive in honor of division managers got under way last week in Detroit with a luncheon honoring Carl Shalit, central division manager. Several prominent circuit and independent exhibitors (seen above) attended to pledge their support to the success of the drive and to Shalit himself. ( Continued from Page 25) as a theatre manager. Warner Theatres District Manager Henry L. Needlt-^ headed the Hartford contingent. Eagle Lion Salesman Irving Shiffrin has been transferred from the New Haven to the Boston exchange. . . . Theatre Owners of America President Arthur H. Lockwood is the president of the new Danbury Drive-In Corp., with Max I. Mydans as vice-president and assistant treasur-er, Louis M. Gordon as treasurer and Sam Weber as secretary. Manager Harold H. Maloney of Loew's Poli, Worcester, Mass., was on the sick list last week with Sam Schubouf, assistant manager of Loew's Poli in Springfield, pinch hitting for him. . . . Fred Perry, newly-named manager of the Capitol, Middletown. Conn., announced he would start a two-day vaudeville policy at the house on Oct. 11-12. Bill of seven-acts and a feature picture will be offered every week. . . . E. M. Loew's Theatre Assistant Manager George Hudak went to New York to see Yankee-Red Sox ball game. . . . E. M. Loew's Theatres Hartford Division Manager George E. Landers attended, in Boston, the Bar Mitzvah of Joel Berler, son of the circuit's chief booker. A small fire starting in a store room off the lobby did $200 in damage to the Lyric Theatre : blaze was discovered by Manager Joe Ruggerio. . . . The E. M. Loew Taconic Theatre in Williamstown, Mass., has reopened following' a summer shutdown. NEW HAVEN MGM District Manager Herman Ripps substituted for Harry Rosenblatt who spent a week vacationing in New Hampshire with Mrs. Rosenblatt. . . . Ruth Smelter Surowiec, advertising manager of The Strand Amusement Co.. is in Bridgeport on vacation. The Poli in Waterbury will be the first Connecticut theatre to inaugurate eight-act in-person vaudeville shows starting, Oct. 20 and every Friday and Saturday thereafter. . . . Mrs. Ida Shaw, mother of Harry Shaw, is ill at her liome in Bridgeport. Back to college: Peggy O'Connor daughter of Mrs. Margaret O'Connor, cashier at the Majestic, Bridgeport, who is going to St. Elizabeth's College in New Jersey; Robert Saunders, son of Matt Saunders, manager of tlie Poli, Bridgeport, goes back to Yale ; and Sheldon Rose, son of Harry Rose, manager of the Majestic in Bridgeport, returns to Syracuse. Loretta M. Oliver, daughter of Phil Oliver of the Roxy Theatre in Bridgeport, is going to Seton Institute, Baltimore for a three months course. BUFFALO A check for $1,382.50, representing the collections taken in the Buffalo area motion picture theatres during the last three weeks' polio drive, was turned over to the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis this week by Myron Gross, chairman of the theatre division. . . . RKO Branch Manager Jack Chinell and Booker Sara Weil are busy doing extra work distributing the Community Chest trailers to theatres in Erie county. Charles B. Taylor is chairman of tlie campaign's motion picture division. Over at P'arramount they are celebrating Oscar Morgan week with Manager Mike Simon's staff paying tribute to the silver-haired ('scar's 35 years in the business. . . . Lafayette Theatre Manager George H. Mackenna is president of what his friends say is the world's worst bowling team. It's made up of live members of the Greater Buffalo Advertising Club, who hit the bull's-eye with their ad copy but aren't so liot at knocking over the pins. Screen ( luild Exchange (jeneral Manager William P. Rosenow is back from a business trip to New York. He and liis associate in the Skyway Drjve-In, William P>rent, say business is holding up even with the cool touch of fall. .Manager John Shelvet of the Dipson Amherst jammed the house with an amateur show for w^hicli the neighboring merchants provided prizes. Comedian Mantan Moreland made a three-day ]iersonal appearance at tlie Basil Broadway. BALTIMORE joe Grant of the Nemo Theatre and Variety Club Chief Barker is on a New York trip. . . . Jack and Al Levine, Irvington Theatre, are getting some Laurel sunshine. . . . Sam Shouben, Mor.gan Theatres, has changed from art policy t..' subsequent run. . . . Morris Flaks' Highland Theatre has inaugurated a series of quiz nights on Wednesdays. . . .'Ben Flaks. Lincoln and Roosevelt is in Miami to sell his hotel there. Exhibitors seen at the first Colt football game included, Mickey Hendricks, Mayfair ; Bud Rose and son Harold ; Mark Silver, United Artists: Fred Sapperstein, Eagle Lion; Chauncey Wolf, Uptown. . . . \'ariety Club Tent No. 19 Schine On Louis Schine of the Schine circuit made a paragraph in the "Remember When" section of the Jamestown, N. Y. Post-Journal which reminded readers that the circuit chief once was in the newspaper business so to speak. The paragraph recalled the day when Louis ran a small newsstand near the west end cf the Jamestown station platform. reopened its 49-50 fall season last Saturday with a new band and a floor show; it also is starting a series of game nights on Wednesdays. . . . Jack Whittle. .\ venue TReatre in Charlottesville, Va., is visiting his daughter. United Artists Manager Jerry Price was in town visiting the circuit offices. . . . Mr. and .Mrs. Stanley Baker, Hicks circuit, celebrated ,their daughter Barbara's birthday. . . , Wilbur Brizendine and Boots Wagenheim. Schwaber circuit executives, have moved into their new offices at the Met Theatre. . . . R. Williams, former Hippodrome manager, is now with the Schwaber circuit, managing the Homewood. . . . Son of Lou Gaertner, Gaertner circuit, has enrolled in Johns Hopkins University. Gordon Contee of 20thFox was in town making the rounds as was Paramount's Tommy Thompson. . . . Pete De Fazio, Warner Baltimore salesman and Cliff Harrett, Eastern shore representative, are now driving the new company cars. HARRISBURG Chertcoff' Circuit has transferred Manager Morton Brosky from the Hill, Camp Hill, to its main offices in Lancaster ; later he will manage the new King now being erected. He is succeeded at the Hill bj' Robert Johnson. Former Projectionist Arthur Feister was appointed Manager of its Lemoine house. . . . Manager Jack O'Rear of the Colonial and Mrs. O'Rear have moved into their new home at Paxtang Manor ; his assistant, Jack Trumbo. moved into the O'Rear.';' former apartment. Charles Albert is new on the National staff. . . . Kenneth L. Richards, formerly of the Rio. is assistant student manager at the State, succeeding Gene Plank now at Fabian's Reading drive-in. State Assistant Manager Spike Todorov and his wife took Plank's family from their Newport horiie to Reading for a visit with Plank. Dr. Samuel Goldstein, owner of the suburban Paxtang theatre, has arranged with the Harrisburg Children's Home to employ 16 and 17-yearold boys from the orphanage as ushers in the evenings at his theatre. On his staff current!)' are Harry T. Leidy and Ed Dean. . . . The State