Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

26 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 5, 1949 Regional Newsxeel News of Events and Personalities Reported by Correspondents Throughout the Nation DENVER Orin Dowler has been named city manager for Atlas Theatres at Salida, Colo., succeeding Ralph Hamilton who goes to Sante Fe, N. M., to manage the Santa Fe for Don Beers . . . Marguerite Khourly, cashier at the Tabor, was robbed of $25 by a thug that told her to put the "big bills in a sack-" The holdup man was caught a few hours later, within minutes of another holdup he staged. F. H. Ricketson, Jr Fox Interniountain Theatres, and Mrs. Rickertson, will go to New York for the opera opening, after which Rickertson will go to Europe with Charles Skouras . . . Doug Matthews, Motiograph treasurer, was here from Chicago for a visit with Ted Knox, its local dealer. Atlas Theatres will reopen the Gothic, Nov 9, following a $200,000 remodeling job. All that remains of the old theatre is the two side walls. Seating has been increased to 900. Moz Buries is the new Paramount salesman succeeding C. J. Duer, who is now Monogram manager here . . William Robinson, new 'o the business, joins Universal as booker, succeeding Gene Klein, boosted to office manager . . . MGM Western Division Sales Manager George A. Hickey, stopped over in Denver to confer with Manager Henry Friedel. William Albright, lately with Tom Bailey, has acquired the Denver and Salt Lake City franchises of Motion Picture Sales Corporation, with Robert Brown, formerly with Universal, as office manager . . . George Kerer is back in Denver, and is the franchise owner of Continental Pictures, Inc . . . United Artists West Coast District Manager W. E. Calloway, and District Manager William Keith, were in Denver for conferences with Manager Clarence Olson. With Calloway was Edward Zabel, Los Angeles, film buyer for National TheatresVictory Manager Vincent Footman is vacationing, with Luther Strong, manager of the Victory, Pueblo, Colo., pinchhitting for him . . . Fox Intermountain Theatres .Salt Lake City Booker William Dollison was in Denver on business. CLEVELAND RKO Office Manager Otto Braeunig is back from the second part of his inrerrupied vacation. He and his wife spent part of the time in Canada. . . . Loew Theatre Division Manager Orville Crouch announced the transfer of State Assistant Manager Alan Treuhauf to a similar post at the Valentine, Toledo. . . . James Fuller, projectionist at the LaSalle Theatre, and wife are vacationing in Florida. Columbia Bookers Leonard Steffans, Gerald Kerner and Tony Laurie art: looking for extra bookings during the Sam Galanty Playdaie and Billing Drive which celebrates Galanty's 20 years with the company and his tenth year as district manager in the Cleveland area. . . Allen and Majestic Theatres, Lima, changed hands on N(;v. 1 when Don Loukas turned over the keys to William Cummings, an oldtirnei in the exliibition fieldVariety Club's first of a series of business men's luncheons, reld last Monday in the clubrooms, attracted more than 50 members. Judge REGIONAL NEWS INDEX Atlanta 30 Boston 26 Buffalo 30 Chicago 30 Cleveland 26 Columbus 28 Dallas 29 Denver 26 Des Moines 31 Harrisburg 26 Hartford 30 Indianapolis 26 Kansas City 28 Los Angeles 31 Louisville 27 Milwaukee 28 Minneapolis 28 New Haven 29 New Orleans 29 New York 29 Oklahoma City 27 Omaha 27 Philadelphia 31 Pittsburgh 31 Portland 29 St. Louis 29 Salt Lake City 29 San Francisco 30 Toronto 31 Vancouver 27 Washington 27 Drucker was the guest speaker. Meetings are scheduled for alternate Alondays ... P. L. Tanner of 1-^ilm Transit has sufficiently recovered from injuries sustained in a recent automobile accident, to spend part of each day in his office . . . P E. Essick of the Essick and Reif circuit, a patient at St. Vincent's Hospital the past two weeks, is expected to be released and hack at hi.^ desk this week. HARRISBURG Newcomer on the staff of Loew's Regent is William Hoyer . . ■ State Assistant Manager .'^pike Todorov, his wife and daughter are home from Miami Beach where they visited Franklin Maury, former assistant at the Harrisburg Colonial, and his family . . . Gene Plank, Reading drive-in manager, visited former associates at the Harrisburg State and Colonial . . . Itagle Lion Exploiteer Jack Helm was in town; ditto Max Miller. Loew's Regent Manager Sam Oilman gave a luncheon at the Harrisburger, followed by a reception for Peter Lawford, here in advance of his picture, "The Red Danube," that he might meet the local press. He was also a guest on Red McCarthy's WHGB radio program, escorted by police. He made two appearances during the first evening performance at the Regent. Drive-ln Lobby The Boston Pilgrim Theatre, key theatre of the American Theatres Corporation here, will have a new entrance from the Shoppers Garage and will be the first theatre in Boston at which one may drive into a "lobby" — of the garage — give the car to an attendant and enter at once into the auditorium of the theatre. INDIANAPOLIS Howard Rutherford, manager of Loew's Park, Cleveland, 0., has been named manager of Loew's here, succeeding Boyd Sparrow, transferred to San Francisco. . . . Indianapolis has been selecte-d for the world premiere of the Mickey Rooney feature, "The Big Wheel," drama of auto racing shot at the Indianapolis Speedway here last summer. It opens at Loew's Nov. 10 Indianapolis Co-Operative Theatres' will book and buy for the Dream and Lincoln here, General Manager P. J. Peterson announced . • . Rex Carr, formerly of Indianapolis, has been appointed booker for the Selina at Selina, O., by owner Roger Sherer . . . Joe Schilling, operator of the Auditorium, Connersville, who was under observation at the Methodist Hospital here, has been released and will recuperate at home . . . Alex Kalafat, who owned the Lans, at Lansing, Mich., sold his interest to his brother . . • Carl Miller, salesman at MidWest Theatre Supply Co., reports the arrival of a baby boy, born Oct. 22 Peter Mailers and wife visited their daughter in New York, and while there, Mailers called on 20th-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras on business . . . Screen Guild effective Oct. 29 will distribute the Albert Dezel Productions in Indiana and Kentucky. Larry Jacobs, is the new manager of the combination, and Rosemary Lundberg, is the office manager . . . William Slater, of Film Classics, New York, was in the city. BOSTON At a breakfast at the Algonquin Club Mayor James M. Curley announced that three motion picture theatres would be built in what he said is to be a new $180,000,000 "Veterans' City", the largest development ever attempted in the United States, with construction within Boston city limits to begin "soon". Each theatre, he stated, would seat more than 1,200, with garages and off-street parking lots. American Theatres Associate Publicist Herbert Philbrick, who came into prominence as an FBI undercover man to expose secrets of the Communist party in America, has resigned and joined a large industrial concern as sales manager . . . ATA Washington, D. C, Publicist Robert Test and his assistant, Jack Mankey, spent several days in Boston last week . . • Lou Gordon of the Lockwood-Gordon circuit made an inspection trip of all the circuit's houses during the past two weeksHarry Sigel and Ben Wood made a business trip to Provi-dence last week . . . D. B. Stanbro has returned from three weeks spent on the Pacific Coast and in Houston, Tex., where he and Mrs. Stanbro were guests of Glenn McCarthy at the Hotel Shamrock . . . The Publicity Club of Boston has shifted its business meeting ■sessions from the Hotel Touraine to the directors' room of radio station WEEI . . • Scores of local theatre men and women attended what is said to have been the largest banquet ever served on one floor in Boston at the Hotel Statler Oct. 24 when 2,400 persons were served on the mezzanine floor.