Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

30 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 5, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL (Continued from Page 29) Frisch. The Motion Picture Pioneers this week appointed the following to its annual dinner committee: Alan Corellie, entertainment; Gil Josephson, arrangements ; Jack Levin, program ; Harry Takiff, membership ; Bernard Estes, publicity, Jack Starr, decorations. The dinner is to be held at the Waldorf Astoria on Nov. 16. . . . The Fox Family Club is getting ready for its Thanksgiving Party. . . . Sylvan Leff, who operates the Highland and Rialto, at Utica, has taken over the Family there from Joe Miller. The Ligget-Florin booking outfit is now booking for Austin and Browo's Lincoln at Utica and has taken over the bookings for the Doc Brown circuit in New York ! . . . The City of New York's Welfare Department has taken over three floors in the Film Centre Building where the exchanges also hang their hats . . . United Artists Assistant Booker Harold Kimmer celebrated his birthday last Friday but that day found him giving a gift instead of receiving one. He gave Ruth Hauptman a ring for that right finger on the left hand. Music by Mendelssohn in the near future. ATLANTA E. G (Dick) Johnson, for 22 years in the industry in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, has joined the Georgia Theatre Company as assistant to Buyer-Booker T. R Jones. . . . Lynn Dunn, formerly with Pal Amusement at Vidalia, Ga., has joined' Screen Guild as a salesman. . . . Republic has promoted Booker J. T. Scott to salesman. . ■ . Lewis Waits, formerly with the Queen Feature Service, Birmingham, Ala., has become a partner with Oscar Howell in the Capital City Supply Company as vice-president in charge of sales. George Hauoent of Columbia's home ofiice left for New Orleans after a stop here. . • . MGM Atlanta District Manager C. E. Kessnick and Southern Sales Manager Rudolph Berger visited the MGM branch in Jacksonville, Fla. . . . Jacksonville San Marco Manager Mabek B. Conrad has returned from vacationing in the eastern states. • . . W. L. McDowell, owner of the Victory, Senoia, Ga., has acquired state rights for "It Began With Eve-". . . Lippert Productions Sales Manager Arthur Greenblatt was here for a visit with Screen Guild's John W. Mangham. . . . Eagle Lion District Manager Grover Parsons and Atlanta Manager Bob Trwater returned from Nashville where they called on Crescent Amusement officials. lyTonogram Head Shipper Porter Epperson has quit to go into business for himself. The Meigs Theatre at Meigs, Ga., recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt according to Enterprise President Nat Williams. Dead: Philip A. Jackson, 90, father of Theatre Owner Mack Jackson of Alexander City, Ala. BUFFALO Bill Tischknopf, operator of the Rochester Drive-In and formerly of the Murray there, is in a Kodak Town hospital suffering with arthritis • . . Manager George H. Mackenna of Basil's Lafayette raised prices for "Jolson Sings Again" . . . Paramount Manager Joseph H. Clements put on a Hallowe'en preview premiere of "Everybody -Does It" at .Sunday midnight. There were community Hallowe'en shows all over Buffalo, but Manager Charlie McKernan For the Kids Special kiddie shows, sponsored by Parent-Teacher Associations, are under way in the Connecticut area, with two Lockwood and Gordon houses in the Hartford territory scheduling special Saturday morning performances, under the sponsorship of the local P-TA groups. The Webb Playhouse, Wethersfield, Conn., is scheduling a four-week series of youngster shows, starting Nov. 19, while the same circuit's Plaza, Windsor, Conn., is running Saturday morning shows through the fall and winter months. of the Seneca got the show sponsored by the South Buffalo Business Men's association for his stage. It took the form of a costume party with prizes, donated by the business men, to the children wearing the best costumes. Screen and radio player, Henry Morgan, will be the fall guy ■ at the big fall noon meeting of the Buffalo Tent of Circus Saints and Sinners at the Hotel Statler on Nov. 19. The president of the Tent, former Mayor Thomas L. Holling, has arranged to bring a large number of acts from New York for the occasion. Paramount Theatre Ad-Publicity Chief Charles B. Taylor is publicity chairman of the aifair Manager George H. Mackenna of the Lafayette has been appointed treasurer for the 1949 Sister Elizabeth Kenny polio fund appeal . . . Society of Motion Picture Engineers President Earl L. Sponable will speak at the opening of the George Eastman House in Rochester on Nov. 9. SAN FRANCISCO Loew's Vice-President and Treasurer Charles C. Moskowitz headed an official group here arranging for taking over the Warfield Theatre on Nov 30. Moskowitz and his party visited numerous area theatres . . The Motion Picture Sales Corporation is opening temp&rary distribution offices here in the Astor Picture Building under the direction of Jan Boissevain. United California Theatres Assistant Buyer Freddie Dixon was again winner at the Variety Club's annual golf tournament at the Lake Merced course, his third straight win. Other film industry trophy winners were Columbia's Mel Klein, MGM's Ted Gallenter, RKO's Joe Smith and Screen Guild's Al Grubstick. Many door prizes were presented and the assembly saw filmed pictures of the tournament. . . . The film salesman Colloseum group met at the Alexander Hamilton hotel for its regular meeting Oct. 28 to discuss plans for forthcoming activity . . . John Owens, formerly an usher at the Alexandria and doorman at the Coliseum, was promoted to student assistant manager at the Alexandria under Manager Albert Levin. The Tivoli, last house to try a vaudeville and picture policy in San Francisco and a theatrical landmark, is slated to disappear to make room for a garage. Attorneys for the widow of the late Max Morris this week .denied published reports that Mrs. Morris would unveil a plaque in honor of her husband in the offices of Western Poster Company. The denial stated that the deceased's family had not authorized the placing of such a plaque and that the present Western Poster Company has no connection with former Western Poster Company, which the late Morris headed. CHICAGO Bill Balaban, son of the B & K Executive John Balaban, has been appointed remote director for the firm's television station WBKB, where he will have complete charge of all outdoor telecasts, including sports and special events . . . D O. Dice was named Midland District Sales Manager for Western Electric lamps, and T. Douglas Scraff its Chicago city sales manager, succeeding August H. Meyer, retired. . . . A son named Bradley Allen was bom to Marbro Theatre Assistant Manager Marvin Salters. Author Carl Sandburg left for Hollywood to confer regarding filming of his book, "Remembrance Rock.". . . Jennie Filey of Warner Theatres' cashier force is a patient at the Little Mother of Mary Hospital. . . Mrs. Rusty Harman, wife of the veteran Warner salesman, is in St Luke's Hospital for an operation. . . . Red Quinlan, WKKB publicity director, is completing a book en early days of television in Chicago and the development of the B & K station. . . . MGM Publicity Director Will Bishop was elected vice-president of the Publicity Club of Chicago. Alliance Theatre circuit headquarters in the Continental Bank Building are being renovated and more office space added. The circuit's James Gregory is expected back early this month from his overseas trip. . . . Theatre managers are anxiously watching the city council's move for higher taxes on vending machines for more city revenue. The new tax plan calls for $50 annually for penny machines, $100 for nickel venders and $150 for dime venders, with an annual $5 tax for each employe of the vending machine companies. Dead : Bruce C. McClasson, son of Howard McClasson, manager of B & K's Garrick theatre building. Interment was as Elgin, 111. HARTFORD George Bronson has been named manager of Perakos Theatres' newly opened 1,000 seat Beverly at Bridgeport. . . . Nancy Hebler is the new cashier at the Webster, Hartford . . . Muriel Corrola is the new relief cashier at Loew's Poll Palace here. . . . Edna Comeau has been named cashier at the local Colonial, replacing Mrs. Elsie Moquin who has resigned to join her daughter, Irene, formerly cashier at the Colonial and Palace, who now lives in the middle west. . . Assistant Manager Stanley Szandrocha at the Embassy, New Britain, has been transferred by Warners to the State, Manchester, as temporary manager during the illness of Jack A. Sanson. . . . New England Theatres has promoted Melvin F. Morrison from manager of the Strand, Dover, N. H-, to district supervisor in that area, with John Fagan being made manager of the Dover Strand. It is rumored that Governor Bowles is considering Stanton Griffis of New Canaan, to replace Raymond E. Baldwin as U. S. Senator when Baldwin vacates that post in December. . . Pike Drive-In General Manager Joe Dolgin has moved his family from Hartford to a new home in West Hartford. . . . Jack Terry, a Hartford stagehand for 45 years, now 70 years old, is recovering from illness at his home. Maurice Shulman extensively promoted the 12th anniversary of the circuit's Webster, Hartford. . ■ . The Paramount, Springfield, Mass., is observing its 20th anniversary.