Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, December 3, 1949 17 NEWSREEL CLIPS Paramount Forms ^Divorce^ Units I Paramount got ready for divorce this week I by incorporating two new companies in Albany, I N. Y., each capitalized at S4.000.000 with stock . issued at $1 par value. The two new companies are: 1) A production-distribution company which will be known as Paramount; 2) a thea' tre operating compam to be known as United Paramount Theatres. I Incorporators for the picture company are I Paramount Legal Vice-President, Austin C. j Keough. Clinton Combes and Fred Morhardt. ! Incorporators for the theatre company are I Leonard H. Goldenson. now head of Paramount Theatres, Walter Gross and Robert H. j O'Brien. Incorporations At Albany Pavilion Drive-in Theatres. Inc., with William J, Dipson, president, planning 1400-car four-screen theatre. . . . R. W. Alcorn ' Productions, Inc.. at Topeka for production J and distribution at Wichita. . . . Jefterson Drive\ in Theatre, Dallas, capital SIO.OOO, IncorporaI tors Harold J. Gibbons. George L. Gittschick, I Charles S. McCombs. I Watch 'Speed' Traps, Theatre Screen Warns When it comes to offering a public service to j his patrons, there's nothing slow about Mana5 ger Walter F. Yeinger of the Watersedge at ! Dundalk, Md. Between each show he is running I a trailer, warning the public against '"speed ] traps." What the Police Commissioner will J think of the trailer, which Yeinger said he J prepared at the request of patrons, may possibly !: be gathered from the cop3', which follows : Commissioner Beverh Ober of the Baltimore Police Department is operating SPEED TRAPS in the Baltimore Cir\ section of Dundalk. By using unidentified police cars with regular license tags. . . . Avoid receiving unnecessary^ traffic tickets. Drive carefully in that area, well under the posted speed limits. Do not get caught in these SPEED TRAPS The Management Openings The Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C, after modernization. . . . The Encore, Dallas, Nov. 24. . . . The Xew Genoa. Genoa City, Wis.. Nov. 23. after remodeling by owner Joseph Baisch. . . . The 900-seat Evergreen Circuit, Olympia, Wash., with a gala opening. . . . The Louisville Dix, for colored, Nov. 24. . . . The Fair, Dallas. . . . The 1.000 carrer Gulf -to-Bay, Clearwater, Fla. . . . The new drive-in at Marrero, La. . . . The new 700-seat Carver, for colored, Orlando, Fla. . . . Engler Bros.' Star (formerly Royal), Hopkins. ^linn.. after remodeling. Penn. Allied Group To Hear Senator U. S. Sen. Francis J. Myers will be the banquet speaker at the 29th annual convention of the Allied Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Western Pennsylvania to be held in Pittsburgh. Dec. 5-6. it was announced this week. Newsreel Initiatire If 2^Iovietone News issue No. 95 has an exclusive this week on the freighter Andalucia going aground off the northwest coast, it's due to the initiative which Staff Cameraman Parris Emery showed in not only getting there but getting back there — and sticking out lousy luck. Emerjr flew out on a tip from Seattle that the .^.ndalucia was afire. The ship v.^asn't afire, so he flew back. Then word came the ship was aground. This time he went out bucking waves with the Ccast Guard. But the Andalucia was a stubborn ship. She waited till nightfall to break up when he couldn't get a shot. Nevertheless he stuck it till morning and got a shot of the two halves of the ship drifting apart with tlie loss of a million dollar lumber cargo. Longhair Stuff Spyros Skouras, patron of the arts -and philosophies, this week was trying to do another public service via the Fox-oontrolled Roxy in New York. Negotiations are under way to get the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to play on the stage there, presumably for five shows daily, after its summer Lewisohn Stadium concerts. Dimitri Mitropoulos might conduct. While this would be a novelty to the present Roxy, if the deal goes through, since its stage has been devoted to cavorting lovelies and le jazz moderne, it probably will bring benign smiles from whatever \'allhalla the late Rox}^ Rothafel may be occupying for he used to put the giant Roxy orchestra of his da.y on the stage ever} Sunday morning for symphonic concerts. Little Ones Out of . . . Fox West Coast this week took over the 2,627-seat Loew's W'arfield in San Francisco but seems to have made up for it by taking another house right next door — the tiny 352-seat Newsreel which has been operated during the past few years by the Goldberg circuit. Fox owned the building but had leased it to Goldberg on a month-to-month basis. What policy they will use for the midget house was not announced. Variety Club Notes Charlotte, N. C, new Variety Club officers are Chief Barker Worth Steward, Assistant Chief Barkers Thomas A. Little, J. E. Holston ; Doughguy Earl A. Mulwee. Property Master Don Graham. The installation held at the club's ninth anniversary was followed b}' a dance. . . . Atlanta Variet\ Club Secretar}' Ruth Cockrill is back on the job after illness. . . . Vance Schwartz has been elected chief barker of the Cincinnati Tent. Jack Finberg, Saul Greenberg, Nat Kaplan. Pete Niland. Bill Onie. Mort Perlman. \"ance Schwartz. Rube Shor, ilanny Traut Film Events Calendar DECEMBER 5 and 6. convention, allied Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. 6-7, third annual convention, Allied Theatre Owners of the Gulf States. Jung Hotel, New Orleans. 12-13, meeting of the Conference Committee of the Motion Picture Indtistry, Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D. C. 15, annual beefsteak dinner of Allied Theatres of New Jersey. Ritz Restaurant, Passaic, N. J. enberg, Maurice White, Jack Frisch, have been elected canvasmen. Outfit is also preparing its annual Christmas party for orphans at the Orpheum with H. G. (Pop) Weasel in charge. . . . Burdette Peterson has been named head of the Indianapolis Club's Heart Fund Committee.. Film Row Chicago Film Classic Manager Edward Spiers is back on the job after sickness. . . . Jerry and lone Jernigan have taken over Realart in the Memphis territory. ... P. A. (Pop) Warner is back in his Dallas office after a cold kept him home for five days. . . . Gordon Ccntee, former Fox sales manager in Washington, D. C, is the company's new Pittsburgh manager, succeeding Weldon A. Waters. . . . Monogram Des Moines Manager George Taif is recovering from a heart attack. . . . Wife of Tri-States Advertising Head Russ Eraser underwent an operation in Des Moines. Born to: Peggy De\'ault. formerly with 20tli CenturyFox in Cincinnati, a son, last Saturday. Sol Gordon, Monogram Cleveland salesman, last week, a daughter named Lynette Cele. Ralph Quarles, Majestic Theatre, Springfield, Ky., a daughter named Jane Robertson. Charles Cohen of Universal's advertising department in New York, a son Alan, Nov. 21. H. Paul Stroud, owner of Diecast Aluminum Speakers, a daughter. Paula, Nov. 13, in St. Louis. Dead FRED A. CRUISE, house manager of Radio City Music Hall since 1934, in a New York hospital where he was under observation for a virus infection. Burial from St. John the Evangelist, last Saturday. Survivors : His mother, his wife. Edna Murphy Cruise, two brothers — Mncent and Gerald — a sister, Helen. Cruise had managed theatres from Florida to California after breaking in at the age of 19 at the old Bronx. HARRY BLAIR, 47, RKO trade press contact and treasurer of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, of a heart attack last Saturday in New York. One time manager of a Paoli, Pa., theatre, movie reviewer for the Philadelphia Daily Xczcs and Evening Ledger, he served as a publicist with several film companies and on trade papers in various capacities. During World War II, he served with the OSS. Surviving are five sisters and two brothers. PERCEIL E. GARTRELL, 54, president of the Buffalo Amusement Operators Assn. at Sandy Beach, Grand Island. BILL (BOJANGLES) ROBINSON, 71. famed tap dancer who played opposite Shirley Temple in the movies, last Frida\' in New York. TOM WALLS. 66. British actor and motion picture (directed "Johnny Frenchman." "Love Story"), in London Sunday. HARRY BERNSTEIN. 67. Columbia's New England exploitation representative, Nov. 22 at the \^eterans Administration Hospital, Washington. JACK RIGGS. exhibitor of Central City. Neb., at his home there. In exhibition for 25 years, he retired some years ago. MRS. EMMA PETERS, 65, chief RKO inspector of films in Milwaukee, last week of a heart attack.