Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 5, 1949 27 REGIONAL NEWSREEL WASHINGTON Variety Club Barker Sol Kulleii, president of Kaufman Press, has been at Emergency Hospital for some time, but reports that he is getting along well and hopes to be back on the job soon . . . Variety Barker Wade Pearson, District Manager for Neighborhood Theatres of Virginia, has moved to his farm at Route 1, Vienna, Virginia . . . Newest member of Variety Club is Connie B. Gay, broadcaster. Station WARL • . . Alvin Q. Ehrlich and David Legum are doing a terrific job for the Variety Club 14th annual dinner-dance program, carrying on for the late Archie D. Engel . . . Dorothy Kolinsky, Variety Club secretary, is now in her new offices on the first floor of the Willard Hotel, Room 111, opposite the club room entranceSam Roth, Washington and Virginia Exhibitor, advises that work will begin soon on his new Embassy Theatre at Columbia Road and Mozart PI., N. W. . . . May Feldman, of Screen Guild Productions, won first prize in the National Bookers' Drive — a 1949 auto. The local Screen Guild office placed fourth in the Branch Managers' Drive, receiving a movie camera and projector, and a cash award . . . Canada Lee was in town for personal appearances at the Dupont Theatre during the first showing of "Lost Boundaries" . • . "Hamlet" will return to the Little Theatre on a regular run, continuous policy, with tickets selling from 90c to $1.20. LOUISVILLE Owner-Manager A. N Miles of the Eminence, Eminence, Ky., has announced his candidacy for mayor of that community. . . . Alexander Films Sales Manager Ken Rice was here from Colorado Springs, making the local rounds with District Manager Cecil R. Powers. The Skyway, Parkway and Theatair Twin Drive-In Theatres combined their newspaper advertising for another Louisville day-and-date, first-run picture, "The Gal Who Took the West." . . . Louisville's newest ozoner, the Preston Drive-In, was officially opened Oct. 22. Located at Preston Highway and Fern Valley Road, the under-skyer boasts all that is latest in drive-in technique, including a concrete patio for seats and dancing. It was opened with a single feature, "Sand," at 49 cents admission for adults with children free. With the Twin Theatair Drive-ins in JeflFersonville, it gives the Falls Cities seven ozoners, and additional ones are under consideration OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma City's 2,000 Hallowe'en deputies started the holiday season with special preview picture shows Saturday morning Earl Miller, owner and operator of the Jewell Theatre was host to 600 Negro boys and girls deputized by L. J. Hilbert, chief of police. Another 1,400 deputies attended a special show and cartoon feature at the Criterion as guests of the Cooper Foundation Theatres. Calvin Council, manager of Griffith Theatres in Frederick, Okla., states that the company's 400-carrer there will be ready for opening around Jan. 1. It is on a 10-acre site on the northeast edge of the city . . . The Sooner Theatre observed its first anniversary Oct. 8 • . . The State started its movie appreciation Seeds and All Fred W upper staged a free watermellon feed in the streets to celebrate his third anniversary with the Page Theatre, Clearwater, Neb. week with two first-run hits, "Roughshod" and "The Judge Steps Out." Dead : Lucian Jenkins Mason, former manager at McAlIen, Tex., Albuqurque, N. M., Oct. 17, of asthma. His mother, brother and sister survive . . . Fred Allred, 65, founder and operator of the Allred Theatre in Pryor, Okla., and a pioneer resident and business man of that town, in a Kansas City Hospital. His widow, mother and three sisters survive. VANCOUVER Former Music Box Theatre Owner Orville Soole is now on the staff of the Capitol here . ■ . Ted Ross resigned as 20th-Fox contract clerk and joined Eagle Lion as cashier, succeeding Mabel Grant who went over to SARO • . . Marion Homechuk resigned from Warner Bros, in favor of housewifely duties . . Managers of local Odeon theatres gave a stag party at the Hastings for Manager Leslie Kinnee of the Oak, Burnaby, whose marriage to Dillis Jones of Victoria was set for this week. Elsie Krakonchuk has resigned as an uslicrette at Famous Players' Strand because of ill health and has been succeeded by Joan Smith . . . Viki Paton, secretary to Roy McLeod at the Vogue, was married to William Lobb, and Vogue Usherette Leigh DuMerton was married to Raymond Baribeau. Both girls will remain in the show business. . . . Vernon Dixon, former exchange manager in Calgary for Cardinal Pictures, is now making his home in Haney, B, C, in the Eraser Valley. Max Brayer and George Miller on Oct. 27 opened the Main Theatre in the South Vancouver district The 430-seat hou-se is air conditioned with the latest equipment, seats and curtain . . • Having failed to reach agreement on a new contract. Projectionists Local 348, lATSE, and Famous Players will go before the Conciliation Board. John Hart, former British Columbia premier, will represent Famous Players and R. K. Garvin the union. Operators are asking a wage increase while the circuit has asked for a 10 per cent reduction in the hourly pay rates. OMAHA Milton Green has resigned as Eagle Lion salesman to return to New York. His successor is F. R. ("Bud") Moran who moved here from St. Louis ... A daughter, Jacqueline, was born to William Tammen, who owns the Dakota Theatre at Yankton, S. D-, and his wife . . Ted Mendenhall, United Artists salesman living in Des Moines, spent a week here for a medical checkup . . . MGM Auditor (Continued on Page 28) RELEASE IN TRUCOLOR SCREENTIME 72 MIN. 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