Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 12. 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL 25 Lyric is Dallas Schuler, recently with the Sconce Circuit. While Charles Mitchell, Bicknell, Ind., manager, was away from his home Wednesday, thieves carted off his belongings in a truck. Missing, he said, are four dresses, a jacket, raincoat, and other clothing, a rifle, two 12-gauge shotguns, three fly rods and reels, a wrist watch, two electric razors and other articles. MILWAUKEE Ben Katz, former Warner exploiteer, now Universal exploitation manager, was in Milwaukee last week. . . . Also Joe Klauzer, former Fox circuit district manager, but now operating the Tivoli, Uptown and Lido theatres in Michigan City for the Manta-Rose circuit. . . . Visiting film row and the local Variety Club was Jules Gorelick, former Paramount salesman here, now with Auto Accessories in Omaha. . . . Ann Puree, once secretary to Paramount Milwaukee Manager Allen Usher, now running an infants' wear show in New York, flew in for a visit here. Jim Gallagher of the Gallagher Film Service came in from Green Bay for the state teachers' convention i\ov. 5. . . . Telenews Manager Thurston Wayner was in Chicago for the opening of the second Telenews Theatre there. . . . Xavier Cugat and his orchestra appeared last week on the stage of the local Riverside. . . . Ann Blythe, star of "Free for All," now at the Warner, made a p. a. opening night and attended a press luncheon. Angelo Provinzano, operator of the Mozart and Alamamo theatres, and Fox-Wisconsin Amusement President Harold Fitzgerald, both locally prominent civic leaders, are cooperating on plans for the new Arena, which, when completed and added to the president Auditorium, will make it one of the largest of its kind in the country. ... St. Cloud Amusement Corporation offered 10 cartoons and a Roy Rogers western at three widely-separated theatres here — Towne, Oriental and Zenith — at kiddie matinees last week, carrying out its policy of giving the youngsters good entertainment. LOS ANGELES Harry Dickerman, of the Baseline Drive-in Theatre, at Highland, California, was in town booking and buying. . . . Also, on the row was Bill Peck, operator of the Lamoda at Atascadero, Calif., who was in for a buying and booking conference with Sid Lehman and Harry Rackin of Exhibitors Service. Betty Held, pretty telephone operator, was recently added to the Exhibitors Service staff. . . . Film row attorney, Ezra Stern, has just returned from New York, where he attended the Variety Clubs' winter meeting as delegate of local Variety Tent No, 25. The local film row is wishing a speedy recovery to RKO Booker Lew Largey who is in the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital for surgery. . . . RKO Portland, Ore., Manager Dick Lange visited the Los Angeles exchange last week. . . . W. P. Wickersham of the Mesa Drive-in at Yuma, Ariz., found the Los Angeles heat too much for him. He hurried through his business here and rushed back to Yuma to cool off. . . . Columbia Booker Art Hallen, who suffered a broken leg on the first day of his vacation last August, is back at his post, but still obliged to use crutches. At Santa Ana The State, Walker's Yost, and Took No Chances When Cliff Giessemen, divisional manager of North Coast Theatres, Inc. of San Irancisco, invited his office force to dinner at his home, the gang pulled a stunt which nearly stopped the genial Cliff. Eacn member showed up at the dining table carrying his own rations (sandwich, apple, tiny bottle of wine) in a paper bag. However, they still ate the lavish dinner he provided. Princess theatres, previously owned by the Walker family, have been sold to Milton Arthur of Cabart Theatres. Died : Father of Selvin Levinson of Lamont and Newhall. . . . Father of Mrs. George Page, wife of the Arroyo Grande and Moro Bay theatreman, who died here. . . . George Topper, 64, Fox West Coast Treasurer, last Wednesday night at the Santa Monica Hospital from a heart attack. Funeral was held here Nov. 7 with interment at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood. His widow and two sons survive. ATLANTA News has just leaked out Mary Cole and John Jarvis of the Kay Exchanges local office were married on Oct. 2. ... A baby girl was born recently to Mrs. Helen Hardy, secretary to William R. Jenkins of Theatres of Georgia. . . . Jack Grayson, former theatre manager at Bartow, Fla., has been moved over to manager of the Grand, Winter Haven, Fla., where he succeeds Al Starbird, resigned. . . . Jack Austlet, former Dixie Film Exchange owner in New Orleans, has closed a deal with Stevens Pictures in Atlanta to handle its 16-mm. pictures in New Orleans. Owner Roy Miller has sold his Newton Theatre, Mansfield, Ga., to Boswell and Reynolds, owners of a circuit in Union Point, Ga. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pinson, owners of Astor Pictures and Madison Pictures in Charlotte, N. C, visited the local branch of the two companies. . . . Crescent Amusements President R. E. Baulch has returned to his Nashville, Tenn., headquarters after a visit to Washington, D. C. . . . Stevens Pictures President Ed Stevens is back from a Florida fishing trip. . . . Dixie Drive-In Theatres' Dusty Rhodes, Roy Edmonson and Harris Robinson have returned from an inspection trip to the firm's Georgia theatres. ... J. A. Dorman, Jr., is the new manager of the Waters' Avon in Birmingham, Ala. . . . T. G. Solomon and L. C. Montgomery of New Orleans have opened the 400-car drive-in, town's second one, at Mobile, Ala. . . . Monogram Southern President Arthur C. Bromberg is back from attending the exhibitors' convention in Charlotte, N. C. RKO has promoted former booker, sales and office manager, Ira Stone, to manager of its local office, replacing Hubert Lyons who resigned after 23 years with the company. . . . Ralph Peckham, who managed several exchanges here and in Dallas, Jacksonville and Charlotte, has been appointed office manager of Neil Agnew's N-P-S 'Corporation which is moving its New Orleans office to Atlanta. . . . E. M. Marks, formerly with Wilby-Kincey theatres in Charlotte, is now' managing H. B. Meiselman's Center in that city. Tom Jones of Exhibitors Service local office is back at his office after a hospital checkup. . . . Melba Wooten has resigned from Screen Guild. . . . Ernie Sands is the new Warner booker in Jacksonville, being transicrred there from Des Moines. . . . S. E. Tutor is the new manager of' the Strand, Owensville, N. C. . . . Manager L. E. Boyd has moved from the Pix to the Dixie in Jacksonville. DENVER Fox Intermountain Theaters President Frank H. Ricketson Jr. has been re-elected president of the Central City Opera House Association, and his assistant, Robert Selig, has again been named to the board of directors. The association sponsors the summer drama and opera revivals at the 71-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo. ... In St. Joseph's Hospital undergoing treatment is 20th-Fox Manager James Dugan. Matters at the exchange are being looked after by Western Division Manager Herman Wobber, who came in with Eddie Yarbrougu exploitation man. Robert Smith, partner in the Chief, Steamboat Springs, Colo., is attending the International Lions clubs' convention in Chicago. The Rocky Mountain Screen club will complete its affiliation with Variety Clubs Nov. 15, without ceremony. At a later date Robert J. O'Donnell will come to Denver to present the charter at which time a banquet and celebration will be held. Nomination of officers for Variety Tent No. 37 will be held the first week in December with induction taking place in January. The club has postponed its car giveaway to Dec. 2. BOSTON Variety Club officials last week conferred with Cort Hincken, Boston fair manager, on the possibility of his staging a gigantic benefit show for the club's crippled children fund. . . . The Publicity Club of Boston is now holding its weekly luncheons at the Towne House on Warrenton Street in the heart of the film district. RKO Theatres' Terry Turner is due here soon on a roadshow engagement. . . . Exploiteer Joe Mansfield is back in town after a road trip. . . . William Ervine was here from Universal New York headquarters visiting friends on film row. . . . Washington, D. C, publicists in Boston last week included Bob Test, Jack Mankey and Walter Bellson. . . . Broadway Producer Anthony Farrell gave a party for local drama critics at the Hotel Touraine last week. Dec. 17 has been set as the date for the marriage of Helen Shribman, daughter of the late Charles Shribman, well-known booker here, to Prof. Clyde Curran of Suffolk University. . . . Lillian Tribby, former ice skating star who is (Continued on Page 26) m FKMA ^wmmm BEST QUALITY! OUICKBST SERVICE! l^i^ F 1 L M A C K Ob»,,« *«.0'^ CHICAGO 1327 S. Wabash Avenue "HOCK r ^ NEW YORIC "*61 9 W. S4th Street