Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

SEATTLE (Continued from page 49) Tacoma announces the installation of new sound and two new projectors. Whitey Merwin in from Burlington . . . Cecil and Mrs. Gwinn over from Centralia . . . Senior Mercy up from Yakima to celebrate a birthday . . . A. G. Basil, South Bend and Raymond exhibitor, lunching at the Rendezvous . . . J. Frank of the International Projector Corp. in from the east . . . A1 Oxtoby and Si Young to the Warner convention in New York . . . Evelyn Oxtoby to her mother’s in Portland for a few days. L. O. Lukan lunching on the Row with friends . . . Eddie and Mrs. Walton to Portland . . . Sid Tewksbury of the Portland office of Republic is spending a month or so in the Washington territory. Rose Bashaw with Radio Pictures for a number of years has resigned . . . A. G. Peachia from Eatonville calling on the exchanges . . . J. T. Sheffield making a hurried trip to Butte . . . Clint Wineholt questioning the ability of a pin ball player . . . C. Roy Czerny back from the eastern vacation . . . A. B. Lindsey of the Band Box Theatre, Spokane, passing through on the way back from the California vacation . . . O. T. Taylor in from Aberdeen and Art Hile from Hoquiam. Mickey DeLeo of the Rose Theatre, Port Townsend, spending a few days here . . . Tommy Tomlinson sinking a 200-yard drive. They thought the ball was lost but they found it in the cup . . . Mrs. A. Thompson of the Seeley Theatre, Pomeroy, just as charming as ever . . . Mickey Carney of Enumclaw telling of his boy coming along fine. Jack Rosenberg down from Bellingham and driving around the Row . . . L. J. McGinley looking over the to-be new Universal quarters and telling Guy Navarre how the place is going to be changed around . . . Russ Brown of the Orpheum, Spokane, sending over tear sheets on his serial campaign . . . Bill Hamrick discussing matters with Hal Daigler . . . Jerry Ross making a flock of tieups . . . Jack Sampson putting on one of his swell campaigns for “Hit Parade” . . . Credit assist for Jerry Gibbon . . . Chuck Charles of the Everett Roxy, getting a store window break with a couple of live models doing the work. Ted Kemper of the U. S. Motion Picture department off on one of his periodical trips to Alaska . . . Art Slater smokes on an average of 65 cigars a week. Neon to Four San Francisco — Neon marquee and display lights for four Golden State houses in this territory are being furnished by the Q. R. S. Neon Corp., a national corporation growing increasingly active in the local picture. The houses are the Milano, San Francisco; the Uptown, shortly to be closed for extensive remodeling, and the two Golden State houses — the State in Lodi and the State in Auburn. Pay-Dae Enters Los Angeles — Fred A. Standiford, owner and originator of Pay-Dae, a business stimulator, has opened his national headquarters at 1951% So. Vermont, here. Standiford, formerly a Hollywood business man, has been in Texas for the past several years, where he supervised Pay-Dae in that territory. Although the Los Angeles office has only been open a few days, several deals on Pay-Dae have already been closed, the first at A1 Minor’s State Theatre, Azusa. '"Spin-O"" Makes Bow San Francisco — A new type of audience game will appear in the local theatre picture this month when Joe Meyer opens the Isis, 350-seat house in the Mission district which he has completely remodeled at a cost of several thousand dollars. The game is “Spin-O,” which differs from other wheel amusements in that the control is electric, and a button and extension is carried through the aisles so that any patron may control the spin I^RS. ALICE STUCKLIN, operator of the Majestic Theatre in Benicia, was a Filmrow visitor this week. Another visitor was John J. Hill, president of Hill Amusements Enterprises of Los Angeles, caught looking up old friends at Sajn Levin’s popular Cinema Grill. Jean Hersholt, caught in the hotel strike, carried his own baggage seven flights down to the lobby when he left town for Hollywood. Chris Hansen is taking “End of the World,” independent, on the road in Northern California. Vivian Parker, cashier at the RKO Golden Gate, May 10 celebrated her ninth year with the theatre. Teddy Courtriol, of Golden State’s office staff, is back at work after a skiiing accident which kept her in a plaster cast for several weeks. Harold Wilson, local press agent, is still on the sick list. Les Abbott, executive vice-president of Monograph, Inc., of Chicago, was a San Francisco visitor this week. Abbott is currently swinging around the Pacific Coast circle contacting old and new users of the company’s projectors, which have registered heavy sales increases in this territory in recent months. Echoes of the Chicago Monogram convention: Credit for the biggest scoop of the entire convention goes to George Blumenthal, San Francisco manager, who, finding himself on the same train with John Peters, Golden Gate Theatres executive, sold him the entire Monogram lineup before the train reached Chicago . . . “Reactions of the Men in the Field” was the subject of a talk by Ray Olmstead at the Friday session. J^OBERT W. SELIG, manager at Salt Lake City for GB, is in Denver to take charge of the office there. C. P. Rose, who was here two years ago as manager of the exchange, has again been appointed to manage the local exchange. Chas. Walker, chief here for Fox, is in Denver with District Manager Herman Wobber, working on a West Coast deal. Gordon Thornberg, one of the managers of the Salt Lake City Service Theatre Supply company, reports that Earl Steel reopens his Venice Theatre at Nephi, Utah, this weekend. Thornberg and Hazen will attend the opening, having installed the new equipment and renovated the house. In competition to the picture houses is the newly opened “State Fair Shows,” and “Big Railroad Carnival” operating at West Temple and Ninth South St. here. Coupons are issued through local news-sheets, admitting persons to different rides. Nino Martini, leading lyric tenor of the Metropolitan Opera company and singing star of the radio and motion pictures, sang in Salt Lake City May 14. Rick Ricketson, division manager for Fox Intermountain Theatres, has closed the Kit Carson Theatre at La Junta, Colo., and the Plaza, at Las Vegas, N. M. FIVE TO NEW POSTS IN RKO OFFICE STIR Los Angeles — General office shake-up at RKO, as a result of Norm Newman’s resignation, has brought the following: “Andy” Anderson, who succeeded Newman as office manager, is replaced as head booker by John Smythe, from RKO’s Seattle office. Short subject booker’s spot, formerly handled by William Pitzhenry, who also resigned, has been taken over by Howard Clark, upped from head shipper. Nobel McTaggert, assistant shipper, replaces Clark and Richard Ettinger fills the assistant shipper’s post. Newman was guest of honor at a stag dinner, Thursday, May 13, at the Elk’s Club, given him by the Film Exchange club. About 150 members were on hand to wish him well in his new business venture in Chicago. BOEDER RECONDITIONS SEATS San Francisco — Charles Rieger, who operates Rieger Theatre Upholstering here, recently completed a reconditioning job on 800 theatre seats for the Bayview, local suburban house operated by Otto Roeder. FILM... TRAILERS (SOUND OK SILENT) That Make Your Screen Your Best Advertis’ng Medium! • ATTENTION COMPELLING EFFECTS • QUICK — SURE SERVICE MOTION PICTURE SERVICE CO. O. I.. KAKSKI, Mgr. 125 Hyde vSt., San Francisco. Phone OUdway 9162 BOXOFFICE :: May 15, 1937. 51