Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1947)

CLEVELAND /Cleveland will be well represented at the na^ tional Variety Club meeting on the west coast. M. B. Horwitz, canvasman, and Nate Schultz and John Urbansky sr. are delegates. Milton A. Mooney of Cooperative Theatres, Julius Lamm, manager of the Uptown, Charles Gottlob of the Mount Union Theatre, Max Shanker, Berio Vending Co.; Leo Jones of Upper Sandusky and probably Meyer Pine, head of Associated circuit, also will attend. J. O. Guthrie of the Karolyn Theatre, New London, and his son-in-law, Charles Meyer, are handing out cigars these days. The occasion is the arrival of a baby girl to Guthrie’s daughter, Hope. The young lady starts out with the euphonious name of Megan Brooke Meyer. Saul Minick, manager of the roadshow engagements in this area of “The Best Years of Our Lives,” supervised the opening of the picture April 25 at the State Theatre, Toledo. This is an independent house owned and operated by Carl Schwynd. Jack Armstrong is manager. The picture is playing a continuous policy, with no reserved seats, and prices are 90 cents to 5 o’clock; $1.25 after 5. An extensive publicity campaign preceded the opening. Sarah Shapiro London, believe it or not, has resigned from Monogram. She has been with the company ever since it was formed. Her plans are purely domestic . . . Dick Lesnick has left Film Classics and film business. He is expending his enthusiasm in a different line of business these days . . . B. W. Payne jr. of Modern Talking Pictures and Visual Communications and his wife, Evelyn, are off for Columbus, Ohio, May 1 to at FREE! Give your patrons Wear-Ever Pressure Cookers and All Metal Shopping Carts worth $287.50. Write for details. Coulter Dinnerware Theatre Films 403 Film Bldg. Cleveland 14, Ohio Theatre Games tend the fourth annual conference of the Educational Film Library Ass’n. Ruth Kronheim, Columbia cashier for the last five years, is now hanging her hat in the 20th-Fox exchange, where she takes over for Ed Scholtz, resigned. Grace Dolphin, formerly with PRC, succeeds Miss Kronheim at Columbia ... A. Milo DeHaven of Whitehouse has taken over the Marblehead Theatre at Marblehead from Mrs. Charles Bargosick . . . East Lake Drive-In at Russell’s Point opened April 29 . . . The Niles Drive-In opened April 27. Visitors spotted on Filmrow included J. J. Grady, 20th-Fox district manager; Sam Galanty, Columbia district manager; Sam Seplowin, Republic district manager; Harris Dudelson, Film Classics district manager; Emery Foffrich, Indian Lake Theatre, Russell’s Point, and Leo Jones, Upper Sandusky. Shirlene Hirshman is the new Columbia bookers secretary, succeeding Rose Weiss, since last week Mrs. Norman Berlin . . . Grace McKee, Co-Op secretary, was out all week with the flu . . . More visitors: Roger Scherer of Defiance; all of the Ohio Shea managers including Bob Russell of Ashtabula, Bob Rhodes of Akron, Jack Hynes of Youngstown, Durwald Duty of Dover and William Gillam of New Phillie. “Duel in the Sun” is set for a Loew’s Stillman opening, with the date to be announced later . . . Les Irwin of Paramount recalls a personal experience similar to the Texas City disaster. It happened in Halifax during World War I. Irwin, a Canadian by birth, and in the Canadian army, was stationed at Halifax when a big TNT plant exploded, wrecking homes and killing some 1,600 persons. It’s a third daughter for Jack Watts, National Theatre Supply Co. salesman, and Mrs. Watts. She has been named Della May . . . Irwin Field who formerly operated the Burton Opera house, is back in town. He’s been down east for months. B. N. Skirball, who divides his time between headquarters in Cleveland and his ranch B0UJLGL0 Powdered Air-Conditioner and Deodorant REMOVES ODORS COMPLETELY Makes and Keeps Every Toilet and Washroom Odor-Free KLEEnGLO Floors The all-purpose, economical cleaner for Walls — Woodwork — Carpets — Rugs — Upholstery or as a Liquid Hand Soap. Demonstration on Request THE UniUERSRL CHEITHCRL C0R1PRRV 2230-40 East Ninth St. Cleveland 15, Ohio home in California, is in town for a couple of weeks . . . Les Dowdell’s younger son Frank will be married May 3 to Jean Bollinger of this city . . . Jerry Steel, owner of the Apollo Theatre, Oberlin, is around again, looking fine after his winter vacation in Florida. Leo Jones opened the Upper Theatre, Upper Sandusky, last Sunday. Louise Stahl, the former owner, has given up theatre operation for professional nursing . . . Jack Sogg, MGM manager and G. W. Whitesell, head booker, heeded the call of Head Man William F. Rodgers and attended the company convention at the Astor hotel, New York. Nat Barach, National Screen Service manager, and Irving Marcus, salesman, were in Chicago to attend the international convention held at the Drake hotel . . . John Urbansky sr. and Bernie Rubin returned from a film shopping trip to New York, brought back for release through their Imperial Exchange “Dark Journey,” with Vivien Leigh and “Storm in a Tea Cup,” co-starring Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison. Bernard Gardner, Paramount’s Columbus salesman, is reported on the road to recovery after a serious operation. He’s still at home, but is making plans to get back on his job in a matter of weeks . . . Harold Raives, Ohio Schine zone manager, is another cheerful convalescent. At the Cleveland clinic he is reported to be coming along fine, but not fine enough to get a green light from his doctors allowing him to attend the Variety Club convention, as per his plan. Veteran Back in the Game; Kaliski to Pilot SRO PITTSBURGH — Area exhibitors will be welcoming back into the industry a veteran film distributor in Joseph Kaliski, who has been named branch representative for the new Selznick Releasing Organization. Kaliski’s record goes back a number of years and he is well known in this territory where he has devoted most of his long term in the industry. Connected for long periods with both independent and major film companies, in recent years he was stationed in the midwest and in Cleveland. His wife has owned and operated the Sherman commercial employment service here for more than 25 years. SRO’s local office is in the Clark Bldg., Liberty avenue. Eddie Fontaine, with Washington, D. C., headquarters, is district representative. OLIVER THEATRE SUPPLY CO., INC. M. H. FRITCHLE Manager 23rd and Payne Avenue Phone: PRospect 6934 CLEVELAND General Theatre Equipment Co. 109 Michigan St. Toledo 2, Ohio ADams 8511 Nights and Sun. 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