Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1939)

(Continued from page 99) he struck water for a new air-conditioning system. Marion Bell, district manager’s secretary at M-G-M, has returned to work after a torief illness . . . Harry Pearlswig of Metro has been ill . . . Victore Shenberg, Metro projectionist, is vacationing. Christine Antignoni, hooker for Harry Asher, has side-stepped an appe7idix removal previously believed expedient. Nathan Yamins, Allied key figure, has had Gulistan carpets installed at Fall River. The Capitol Theatre Supply Co. is now the exclusive New England theatrical distributor of the Karagheusian line. Roy E. Heffner jr., selected Cape Cod blue as the color theme for the renovation of the Key Theatre, Middleboro, at the base of the same Cape. Henry Sperling, formerly of Century Film here, has taken over the Roosevelt in Valley Falls, R. I. Martin J. Mullin and Sam Pinanski plan to attend the Paramount convention in Los Angeles. Charles Repec, Henry Wolper, A1 Wheeler, Tom Farrell, Nate Oberman and Matt Donahue of Metro, together with checking supervisors Golden and Myers, attended a distributors meeting at the Hotel Astor in New York. Mike Gorfinkle of Columbia coiitinues to be incapacitated with cm mjured vertebrae. E. M. Loew and Moving Picture Operators Union, Local 182, difficulties are in abeyance as the circuit man seeks to continue an injunction preventing picketing at a number of his houses. Cyril F. McGerigle, RKO office manager and adjutant of the Theatrical Post of American Legion, expects to have definite word by now 071 the proposed film district Legion’s spo7isorsliip of a Jmiior American League baseball aggregation. William P. Hickey, traffic commissioner, held a public hearing to consider protests against temporary traffic regulations which prohibit early morning parking on downtown Boston streets. Phil Bloomberg, general circuit 77ianager of the John A. Deery Theatre interests, has darkened the Empire in Salem. Bloomberg has assigned Al Swett, former assistant to James Field at the Paramount, to vacati07i relief work. Arthur Murch, M&P manager in Gloucester, has been booming midnight shows by commandeering his service staff as advance ticket salesman. The idea was previously carried out successfully by Al Brodie, manager of the Paramount in Haverhill . . . Additional successful promotion stunts at several M&P Theatres have been timely jitterbug nights. Leo Talent, for several years with Paramount-Famous Music Corp, has resigned from his prese7it post to accept a Neiv York positio7i with Robbins. Nobody had been appointed to succeed Tale7it up to the time of gorng to press. Max Magovsky, National Screen Service head shipper who was president of the Exchange Employes AFL-affiliated Local during the first months of its existence, and Ann Early, recently elected secretary of the body, were presented with tokens at a meeting of the organization. The latest film district citizen is the son of Joseph Carroll, U A office ma7iager, arid Mrs. Carroll. The latter was formerly employed at the local UA branch. The event took place at the Richardson House. Lou Rodriquez of the accounting department of the M&P Theatres Corp. has become the father of another girl, Miss Patria Maria Rodriquez. The theatre man, whose feminine progeny is now of triple proportions, has been momentarily expecting a wire from Eddie Cantor. Mrs. Arthur K. Howard, wife of the local Allied unit’s business manager, was resting comfortably following a major operation. Hoivard was obliged to leave for New York in order to confer with Allied’s president. Col. H. A. Cole, there for the New York U7iit’s conventio7i. Frederick Randolph Greenway, manager of Loew’s State here, and Miss Helen Francis McQuade, former showgirl, were married here. Both are originally from Chicago. Steinberg Back in Field Via Open Air House Boston — Henry Steinberg, veteran Bay State film man returning to the film fold, has leased the Sturbridge Fair Grounds for use as an open-air theatre. Steinberg who was recently appointed vice-president of a Southbridge Bank, once was a part owner of the Fenway Theatre, present local M&P first-run. He also was owner of two theatres in Webster. He built the Regent in Worcester, formerly the Steinberg, which E. M. Loew has darkened since acquiring it from Max and Joseph Levenson. jyjANAGER MORRIS ROSENTHAL of the Majestic will be lead-off man for vacations. A bathing beauty contest has bee7i arra7iged for the Globe a7id ivill be used on vaudeville nights, eliminating 07ie act. John Hesse previewed “Union Pacific” on a Saturday morning for the city’s school teachers. Reports have bee7i circulating that Lou A7iger has sold his Barnum Theatre. The buildmg housing the theatre has been sold, but Lou still has his lease. Plenty of film stars will be in this area when the strawhat theatres get underway. Among those slated are Paulette Goddard, Louise Platt, Leif Erickson, Frances Farmer, Jane Muir, Edward Everett Horton, Al Jolson, Ruth Chatterton and Roland Young. Downie Bros., first circus in, did fair busmess. Amusement busmess on the whole is in a slump here despite the fact that factory payrolls a7id ba7ik deposits (savi7igs) are mowitmg. First World Fair visitors to drop in on local managers were Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. White of Ottumwa, la. They were home guests of Manager and Mrs. Michael Carroll of the American for two weeks. Ma7iager Del Rocio of the Stra7id in Torrmgton to see his frie7id, Pearce Parkhurst of the State. Air Conditioning Bids Up in Rhode Island Providence — Bids for air conditioning equipment for all Fay theatres are said to have been asked. This will include the Majestic, Fays and Carlton. The Union Theatre, Attleboro, also is completing installation of this equipment. The Bates Theatre there, also managed by Albert I. McEvoy, has recently been reseated, new lobby frames installed and other improvements made. Cinema Club Meet Will Study Outing Plans Boston — William J. Cuddy, Cinema Club president, has called a meeting of the bookers’ and office managers’ fraternity for June 5. Tire major portion of the business, it now is planned, will be devoted to arrangements for the forthcoming annual club outing. The affair, in recent years, has been spotted several times at Labor-in-Vain on the North Shore. 7 Conquest ' Moveover After First Run in Two Units Boston — The M&P Theatres Corp., after according Republic’s “Man of Conquest” first-run day-and-date booking at the Paramount and Fenway, moved the Sam Houston epic to the Scollay and Modern theatres on a similar day-and-date policy. The Republic release has been accorded top booking on a double-feature bill at the four situations. “Father Damien" to RKO Hollywood — “Father Damien,” John Farrow’s biography of the Belgian priest who gave his life in behalf of the lepers of Molokai Island, has been acquired by RKO as a vehicle for Producer Robert Sisk. John Twist is on the screenplay. AIR CONDITIONING? Nothing Better — Nothing Cheaper Than Well Water ROBINSON ARTESIAN WELL CO., INC. EYNNFIEED CENTER, MASS. Tet. Ljunfield Center 123 BOXOFFICE :: May 27, 1939 101