Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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24 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 15, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL { CoiifiiiHcd from Page 23) Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Rosenberg, theatre owners, have announced the engagement of their daughter, MilHe, to Leonard B. Wechsler, of McKeesport, Pa. He is the son of Jerry Wechsler, former Warner salesman here and now manager of that company's Cleveland Branch. Rosenberg was President of the AMPTO of Western Pennsylvania for many years. The beautiful New Majestic Theatre, Ellwood City, Pa., operated by Biordi Bros., opened this week with gala festivities, which were attended by a number of exhibitors and distributor representatives. TORONTO The "United Front" conference of the entire Canadian industry drew some 50 delegates to the two-day meeting Oct. 12-13 at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, with Famous Players Canadin President J. J. Fitzgibbons presiding as national chairman of the sponsoring group, the National Committee of the Motion Picture Exhibitors Ass'n of Canada. This conference was virtually a sequel to the all-industry meeting of American organizations in Chicago last month. The decisions of the Ottawa meeting will be brought before regional and other Dominion groups for ratification. Among the 50 delegates were 19 officers and members of the National Exhibitors' committee. Others were from the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Ass'n, the Ass'n of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada, newsreels and the press. Foremost among the delegates was Motion Picture Ass'n of America Vice-President Francis S. Harmon. On closing day Famous Players Canadian gave a luncheon for the assembly. Toronto Tent No. 28 of the International Variety Clubs paid tribute to the memory of Roly Young, film reviewer of the Toronto Globe and Mail who died suddenly not long ago. The members raised a memorial fund of four figures which was presented privately to his mother. For the third time in three months the Skyway Drive-In at Hamilton, Ont., was burglarized on Oct. 6. Manager P. A. Claus reports the safe was smashed, $500 in cash and $60 worth of cigarettes taken. The under-skyer is a Famous Players Canadian situation. DALLAS Phil Isley, Dallas theatre owner, and his wife were injured in a car accident last Tuesday near the outskirts of Houston. Isley's right arm was broken and Mrs. Isley had some teeth knocked out and received a hip injury. Isley told Houston police the car struck a boulder on the edge of the highway and rammed into a culvert. The Isleys are parents of Screen Actress Jennifer Jones. Last week the 1,350-seat, $350,000 Campus. Denton, was opened with Raymond Willie and James O. Cherry, Interstate executives, attending from Dallas. Nine Dallas theatres carried on Sunday, Oct. 8 films of the University of OklahomaUniversity of Texas football game, at State Fair's Cotton Bowl. The Jamieson Studios of Dallas are making the grid shorts. . . . One hundred and fifty Dallas film men, representing .all major film row groups here, attended the banquet given last week at Town and County Restaurant, for J. B. Underwood who was White Elephant Sale San Francisco's Film Colony girls this week palmed off their "white elephants" for a good cause — the Variety Club Heart Fund, and incidentally had a lot of fun. The girls threw a party to which each one brought some useless article which was auctioned off with the proceeds going to the local Variety Club's humanitarian project. honored on his completion of 21 years with Columbia. Wallace Walthall, National Screen Service executive, was toastmaster. George Bannan, Warner Brothers exploiteer, was called to Milwaukee by the death there of his brother, Jack Bannan. . . . When Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity, meets here in November, delegates will be entertained at a barbecue at the Boys Ranch at Bedford. The Boys Ranch tumbling and boxing teams, says James O. Cherry, head of the ranch, will entertain the visitors with a show. SALT LAKE CITY Film Classics Manager Dave McElhinney has moved the branch ofiice to its new quarters in the Film Center Building. . . . Fox Intermountain District Manager Jack McGee returned from a Montana selling trip. . . . Lou Sorenson has been relief manager in nearby Intermountain Theatres snots. . . . Manager Bob Workman of the Twin Falls, Idaho, theatre and Mrs. Workman visited friends at the Capitol here. . . . Capitol assistant Herb Schbenhardt is back from vacation. . . . Paramount Manager Frank H. Smith is in Chicago and expected to go from there to New York. MGM Manager Carl Nedley is one of the company managers who won a trip to Europe in a recent sales contest. . . . John Denman has been transferred by Fox Intermountain from manager of the iPocatello, Ida., Chief to Great Falls, Mont., and been succeeded at the Chief by Bob Litito, formerly of the Aladdin in Denver. . . . Back-ofifice employes here will elect officers this week, Don Campbell of Columbia, in charge of union affiliations, announced. Columbia Western Division Manager Jerry Safron spent several days here in his swing about the country to launch Columbiai's 13-week sales drive. Manager William Seib gave a luncheon in his honor at which Intermountain Theatres Vice-President and General Manager Tracy Barham was one of the speakers. Dead : Claude Hawks, theatre operator with a chain of houses in Utah and Nevada, died here Oct. 7 after a lingering illness. His widow, two sons and a daughter survive. PORTLAND Some 50 outstanding progressive exhibitors of Oregon are now making extensive plans and preparations to be the largest delegation of exhibitors at the PCCITO conference at Sun Valley. Among the veteran exhibitors will be Mr. and Mrs. M. W. IVIattacheck of McMinville; Mr. and Mrs. William Graeper Jr. of Portland; Mr. and Mrs. A. West Johnson, Eugene; Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Stover, Bend; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hibbert of Sheridan; Mr. and Mrs. RoUin G. Kuhn, Lebanon; Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. McKevitt, Oceanlake; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Pallay, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Robert White, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bell, Portland; Mr; and Mrs. Harry Moyer, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Whitehead, Corvallis ; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grombacher, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. I. Geller, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jones, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Piercy, Prineville; Mr. and Mrs. John Matlock, Pendleton ; Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Mattacheck, McMinville; Mrs. Lana McKevitt and Mrs. Leonard Kruse; Newport; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar George Heppner; Mr. and Mrs. CUff Daugherty, Heppner; Mrs. Kenneth Cockerline and guest, Portland; Mr. George Gessler and party of six. Sweet Home; Miss Blanctie Eagin, Heppner; Mr. W. D. Thrall, Junction City; Mrs. Golda Woolman, Drain. They will all be joined on their special cars by exhibitors from the State of Washington, headed by James Hone, managing secretary of the Alaska Washington group ; LeRoy Johnson and L. O. Lukan and numerous others. An equal number will go direct to Sun Valley from the states of Montana, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, directed by Chairman Rotus Harvey of the PCCITO trustees. Tom Shearer of B. F. Shearer Equipment Company returns from convention of Theatre Equipment Manufacturers Association. . . . Mr. and Mrs. E. Van Gortel have sold their Twisp and Winthrop theatres to Charles Nelson. . . . MGM Seattle Manager Sam Davis is leaving for New York. . . . Frances Seeger of 20th Fox is back at work following hospitalization. . . . RKO Exploitation Director Terry Turner was the guest of Seattle Manager Ed Lam. . . . Universal Assistant General Sales Manager Al O'Keefe, from New York and Western District Manager Barney Rose conferred with Seattle Manager George De Waide. . . . Buck Smith of Favorite Films and Jack Engerman of Screen Guild were in Wenatchee. ALBANY The first dinner meeting of the Albany Variety Club took place Monday evening. Kings for a day were the Warner Theatre gang. ... A meeting was held at the Statler Hotel, BufJalo, Warner Zone Manager C. A. Smakwitz presiding. Among those attending were : Max Friedman, buyer and booker, Joe Weinstein, booker, Gerry Atkin, publicity director, and Ralph Crabill district manager. . . . The following drive-in theatres will close this week : Riverside, Ogdensburg; the Fonda Drive-In, the Sunset, Massena, and the Sunset, Canton. Shirley Cohen, contract clerk at Universal, is vacationing in Canada. . . . Fox Typist Jean Mann resigned tc join her husband who is in the Navy and stationed in Virginia. She is being replaced by Nan Elevy. ... A luncheon was held at Keeler's the past week to open the Bullwinkel Playdate drive, honoring Columbia Manager Jack Eullwinkel. Among those attending were: Saul Ullman and Joe Saperstein, Fabian Theatres ; Charles Gordon, Olympic, Uitica ; John Cooney, Union Square, Pittsfield, Mass.; Neil Hellman of the Hellman Enterprises ; Harry Lamont, Lamont Circuit ; George Thornton, Saugerties, Sam Rosenblatt, American Theatres ; Charlie Dortic, salesman, and Bill Hanley o^ 'Columbia. Rose Lossi recently joined the Universal staff. . . . Warner Contact Manager Jim Faughnan is convalescing at Memorial Hospital after a recent operation. Neal Coogan of home office is pinch-hitting for him. . . . Betty Gila is a new employee at RKO. The Warner Club held its annual election and the following are the new officers : Mildred Belkin, president ; Harry Aarnove, vice-president of entertainment ; J. P. Faughnan, vice-president in charge of welfare ; W. Foley, vice-president of membership ; Catherine Katzel, secretary ; Leo Drexler, treasurer. Miss Belkin will represent the Albany unit at the National Warner Club meeting in New York on Oct. 15.