Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1948)

HARTFORD Trailer T. Murphy, manager of the Capitol ^ in New London, has been named chairman of the New London campaign for the United Nations Crusade for Children . . . Howie Richardson, owner and operator of the State, New Britain, gave away free comic books to youngster patrons one day last week . . . The Lockwood & Gordon houses in Windsor and Wethersfield ran special morning kiddy shows during a special vacation . . . Douglas Amos, new manager of the Webb, Wethersfield, is commuting daily from his New Haven home. A welcome visitor in these parts was Norman Rowe, former Lockwood & Gordon man in Connecticut and now the circuit’s Maine district manager. Rowe stopped in for a weekend visit to renew acquaintances . . . Walter Lloyd of the Allyn tells the story that Bill Robinson, the famed Negro dancer who was in a booking at the State, dropped by to see Lloyd, an old pal. The doorman didn't recognize the dancer at first, and so “Bojangles” obligingly did a few steps on the lobby floor. Martin Kelleher has a new glassware deal operating at the Princess . . . Eddie Selet of the Crown has a new policy of cartoons on Saturdays, and also has new dish deal . . . This Space RESERVED for Our Sensational New Pattern Coming Soon! WATCH FOR IT! CAMEO SCREEN ATTRACTIONS, INC. Samuel I. Davidson. Pres. SO Melrose St. Boston, Mass. Over 150 Assemble At Levy Dinner NEW HAVEN — More than 150 motion picture, judicial and political notables and friends attended the dinner given at the Racebrook Country club for Herman M. Levy, general counsel for the Theatre Owners of America, at nearby Orange last Thursday (6>. The guest list included Gov. James C. Shannon of Connecticut, Mayor William Celetano of New Haven, Lieut. Gov. Robert Parsons, Att’y Gen. William Hadden and virtually all court house and city hall officials from here and Hamden, and the following; CONNECTICUT Dr. H. D. Hartenstein Sam Rosen Sherman Rosenberg Sam Weber J. J. Luria Thomas Amatruda John Mezzanotte Sam Platcow Louis Phillips Sidney Silverberg A. Allen Johnson J. B. Fishman Timothy O'Toole Edward Lynch George Horwitz James B. Butler Henry Germaine B. Salzman Jack Horowitz James Darby Charles Berney M. H. Wren Samuel Shainberg S. F. Gingold Ben Simon Dan Adley Israel Jacobs A1 Pearson George Ellis Elmer Ryan Barney Lenzi Burton Levy R. E. Hyman Edward Levy Don Pouzzner Lou Brown Joseph Cooper J. J. O'Leary John R. Thim Tom Friday George DiCenzo Nick Palladino Edward Peters Burt Prince James Kavanaugh C. Summa Barney Pitkin R. Parsons John A. Maresca William Bennett Raymond Clark Gene Loughlin M. M. Krevit M. Munson B. E. Hoffman A. Paoletti Maxwell Hoffman John Lynch Joseph Shrebnick John T. Dunn William Prince William Raynsford Dr. L. Cohen S. M, Atkins Morris Bailey Walter Stiles Bridgie Weber Herbert MacDonald Robert Saxe M. J. Whalen Sam Botwinick Henry Needles Dr. A. Yudkin Frank Starkel Bob Hoffman William Hadden David Douglass Harry Strong Harry Hornstein Ray Gates Reuben Moore William Brennan Meyer Bcdley Noyes Hall A. J. Siegal A1 Pickus Harry Stone George Wilkinson Phil Sherman John Santangelo Walter Silverman Richard Belden Arthur Greenfield Roger Mahan Hymie Levine Ted Jacocks Herman Pickus B. Jacocks John Pavone William Gitlitz NEW YORK Charles Recht Sam Shain H. M. Richey James Jerauld Edward Sargoy E. S. Canter Joseph Stein Frank S. Keyer Morey Goldstein Stanley Prenosil Raymond Moon SeaTil Putziger Robert Sternburg Harold Eskin W. F. Rodgers J. M. Collins George Dembow William Scully Charles Lewis Richard Daly BOSTON Louis Gordon Dan Finn Arthur Lockwood E. X, Callahan Albert Kane H. Stoneman A. Sweedlow J. Fleischer I. H. Rogovin J. Mahoney Sam Seletsky Hy Fine. a<^cC n.ccccfrt-1 WAHOO '3 w America's Finest Screen Game HOUYWOOD AMUSEMENT COMPANY 831 South Wobosh Avenue • Chicago, Illinois BOSTON Toe Cifre, chief barker of the Variety Club * of New England, returned from a prolonged Florida stay where he caught a 72pound, eight-foot sailfish, for which he was awarded a citation from the Palm Beach Fishing club. He is proudly wearing a gold lapel button and has had the s a i 1 f i sh mounted. Joe is elated over the award received at the Miami convention by the Tent 23 as the outstanding Tent of Variety International. “We will receive a bronze trophy which will be presented to us formally by an international officer at a special function in the near future,” he said. “The earning of this award could not have been possible without the great aid and assistance accorded our Tent by our many friends throughout the industry. Theatre owners and managers, employes, workers in the exchanges all went out to assist our 1947 fund-raising campaign and put it over the top.” William E. “Ted” Hathaway, who took over the Moosehead in Greenville, Me., a year ago, was making the film district last week. He admitted that it was the second time in 20 years he had been in Boston . . . Joe Rapolus. Majestic, Easthampton, was booking at Columbia . . . Another out-of-town visitor was Lou Brown, advertising director for Loew’s Poli Theatres of New England . . . Irving and A1 Cohen, Ritz, Lewiston, Me., came in for the convention, as did Carl Tutterell, manager of the Milo. Milo, Me., owned by Mrs. Ella Mills. Harry Norton, for many years manager of the Puritan in Roxbury until the house was sold recently to the E. M. Loew circuit, has joined the Princess Amusement Co., owned and operated by Charles and David Hodgdon, as manager of the Princess in Wakefield . . . SRO invited several score to a screening of “The Paradine Case” Thursday evening, the night before the premiere at the Esquu'e. Joe Cifre You can get your ^ New York 245 West SPECIAL TRAILERS 55lhSt. IN THE TIME 1 Chicagb 1 1327 S. BY GOING TO YOUR NEAREST ■ Wobosh' FIL"“i.?ilj Los Angeles 1574 W. Woshington CONN.THEATRE CANDY CO. 62 COMMERCE ST.. NEW HAVEN, CO N N. TTi ^ "WE KEEP THE MOVIES SWEET" 90 BOXOFFICE :: May 15, 1948