Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 15, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL 25 DENVER Donald Booth, formerly with Warner Bros., has been made branch manager for Lippert Pictures, while Carl Hallstrom, formerly 20th Fox booker and salesman in Salt Lake City, has been made manager of the new Lippert exchange in Salt Lake City, according to District Manager Tom Bailey. Joe Clark, reported having joined Monogram as salesman, announces he will stay on as a Lippert salesman. These four flew to San Francisco to attend a Lippert sales meeting. About 30 were entertained at luncheon at the Rocky Mountain Screen Club by Columbia Manager Robert Hill, on the occasion of the visit here of Columbia Division Manager Jerry Safron. Also at the luncheon was Sammy Seigel, western division exploitation manager. Sid Weisbaum, long ago on Denver's film row as manager for FBO, visited here and rounded up a number of oldtime friends and entertained them at lunch. Weisbaum is now in the theatre business in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Cy Lee (Poppers Supply Co.), missed being named state champions in the duplicate bridge tournament by just half a point. . . . Paramount Salesman C. J. Duer has been named branch manager for Monogram, succeeding Clarence Olson, who has returned to United Artists as local manager. . . . Ross Bluck fell as he was getting into his car and suffered two fractures on the lower leg. Tom Smiley, General Manager for Realart Colorado Co., leaves for the New York Realart sales meeting on Oct. 25-26. Smiley has just added Favorite Films product to the company's wares. . . . More giveaways this month are again in high gear with its 10 Fox theatres while six of the Wolfberg theatres continue their cash nights. CHICAGO George Busch, veteran RKO booker, has shifted to north side salesman with Will Doerr, formerly of Republic, succeeding him on the booking desk. Doerr will also handle RKO's 16-mm. . . . Hank Porter has shifted from National. Screen to Screen Guild's sales staff. . . . The Alliance circuit held its annual managers' meeting in Indianapolis at the Lincoln Hotel Oct. 7. . . . The Warner Club elected John P. Fields, manager of the Stratford, president, with Dan Mahoney of the Veronica vice-president, Veronica Raidoby, secretary, and Harry Burdett, treasurer. Warner's Partheon at Hammond, Ind., is spotting vaudeville in some bills during the fall months . . . 20th Century-Fox held a sales meeting here at the Drake, Thursday and Friday. . . . The Oriental Theatres Entertainment Corporation has .filed injunction proceedings against Essaness in an effort to enjoin them from operating the 4,000-seat Oriental. Fred A. Joyce, formerly with the Selznick publicity office, has opened his own public relations office in Chicago. He is now handling "G.L Joe" and "Love Happy." . . . Will J. Harris , director of stage productions at the Oriental, will create and produce a stage spectacle for the 42nd annual automobile show here Feb. 18-26. The Chicago film trade is actively boosting for a 1950 world trade fair here at which I. S. Arnolf, president of the Chicago Convention Bureau, hopes to get exhibits from many nations. Backing Kiddie Shows The Chicago Parent-Teachers Association is getting behind kiddie movie shows and has obtained permission from Superintendent of Schools Hunt, to sell tickets for any children's program that may be given this fall. Will Holden, district supervisor for Balaban and Katz northwest theatres, is planning to play children's films at morning shows at the Gateway. If that is successful, other houses in that territory will be used. . . . The second television show at the Coliseum, with Eddie Cantor heading the show, is said to have broken last year's 150,000 attendance. Two hundred television sets are on display, all of them reported in use. Mrs. Abraham Saperstein, widow of the late independent theatre operator, heads the ParentTeacher Ass'n activities in the Chicago area. Mrs. G. C. Jacobs is head of the P-TA's film activities in the northwest territory. VANCOUVER The 10 per cent discount on U. S. money is causing plenty of confusion at border points. Some theatres at Blain and Bellingham, which cater to the Canadian trade, are cashing Candian funds at par while others are refusing to take Canadian money at all. . . . Canadian Pacific Railroad is to introduce shipboard movies as a feature of its fast Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle daylight run ships, converting a lounge into a movie theatre and giving a one-hour free show. Idea is to popularize ship travel as against airline competition. Grosses of drive-ins are exceeding operators' expectations. At least 10 more drive-ins are expected to be built next year in British Columbia and about 25 throughout the three prairie provinces. . . . The new 335-seat suburban Main Theatre being built by George Miller, will open on Thanksgiving Day. It will be in competition to the recently constructed Odeon Eraser. Monogram-Allied Artists Manager Harry Page announced a sales drive from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 and area exhibitors are giving it hearty support. . . . Famous Player Supervisor Maynard Joiner went to Ottawa to represent the British Columbia Association at the meeting of the national committee of Exhibitors Association of Canada, Oct. 12-13 at the Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa. Vancouver Island now has more female theatre managers than any place in Canada. They are : Sheila BeJay, Rio, Victoria ; Mrs. L. Smythe, Odeon, Duncan ; Mrs. L. Warren, Qualicum Beach, and Ella Pearson at the Oak Bav Theatre in Victoria. OMAHA The Cozy Theatre at Everly, la., is back in the hands of A. F. Palmquist who owned it some years ago. He purchased the house, closed since July, at a sheriff's sale and plans to reopen it Oct. 16 as the Everly. . . . Waldo Waybill has purchased the Joy Theatre at North Bend, Neb., from Blanche Colbert. J. D. Warnock, Battle Creek (la.) exhibitor, is back from a fishing trip in Wisconsin. . . . Frank Good, Red Oak (la.) exhibitor, spent a couple of weeks in Chicago. . . . Howard Brooking. Oakland (la.), attended the Republican National Farm Conference at Sioux City. Ira Crane, who was Tri-Statcs Theatres manager at Fairbury before being transferred to Des Moines, flew to California — his award for top honors in the recent drive. . . . Paramount Manager M. E. Anderson went to New York City for a company meeting, and Ledger Clerk Regina Healy is vacationing in Denver. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Carl White, Quality Theatre Supply Company, and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mansfield, Tama (la.) exhibitors, took in the supjjly dealers meeting in Chicago, then went on to Detroit. Minor Harris, Palmer (Neb.) newspaper publisher, paid his first visit to film row. He is a member of the board operating the theatre at Palmer. . . . George Baker has sold his part interest in the Page at Shenandoah, la., to Commonwealth Theatres, Kansas City. . . . EagleLion District Manager Harold Beecroft, was in town. MGM employes held a weiner roast across the river in Council Bluffs. . . . R. D. Goldberg has installed a Cyclorarpic screen in his State Theatre, next plans one for the Dundee. OKLAHOMA CITY R. L. Barton Theatres, Oklahoma City, is sponsoring an 11 weeks' cash night program, with the help of merchants, and the Dockum Motor Co. A new automobile will be given away, at the end of the 11 weeks. . . . Rodeo Theatre, Oklahoma City, is sponsoring a merchants cash night every Thursday night. Mrs. Charles W. Gentry, mother of movie star Cathy O'Donnell, is recovering from a stroke suffered July 6. The North Main Theatre, Houston, one of Interstate's pioneer neighborhood houses, had its formal reopening Friday after having been remodeled and redecorated. The 89er Theatre opened in Kingfisher last week. Don Abernathy and J. Phil Burns are principal stockhold-ers of the Marsy corporation, which owns the theatre. Olmos Amusement Company, San Antonio, has been granted a 50-year charter, with $40,000 capital. Incorporators : John C. Carson, Louis Santikos and John L. Santikos. Ollie Brownlee, formerly manager of a Malco theatre at Memphis, Tenn., will take over in Ft. Smith, Ark., as city manager of Paramount's Joie and Hoyt's. Brownlee was manager of the Strand at Memphis since 1947. He formerly was city manager for Malco in Ft. Smith, in 1936 and for Paramount Publix in 1929-31. Remmel Young, city manager of Malco, will continue to manage Malco's Temple, Plaza Fort and Malco theatre. Ft. Smith after the formal split of the Paramount and Malco interests. (Conti)iui'd oil Page 26) PUAHH.HO S.YTH.HO SP«!At. Mm. % '^-^ 1 YOU'U GCT IT QUICK! FILMACK CHICAGO 1327 S. Wobosh N EW YORK 619 W. 54th St..