Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1947)

Guarantees long, dependable, trouble-free periormance. Now being installed everywhere by discriminating theatres. Decide now to replace your obsolete equipment. Write for free literature or see your Independent Theatre Supply Dealer for a free demonstration. MOTIOGRAPH, INC. 4431 W. Lake St., Chicago 24. 111. Export Department FRAZAR O HANSEN, LTD. 301 Clay Street San Francisco 11, Calif. PRODUCING THE BETTER PROJECTORS FOR OVER 50 YEARS National Makes A, G, Smith Chicago Branch Manager Walter E. Green, president of National Tlreatre Supply, announces the appointment of Allen G. Smith as manager of the company’s Chicago branch. Mr. Smith succeeds R. W. Dassow, who has been manager of the Chicago branch for eight years. Mr. Dassow resigned from the company to become a partner in the Chris Bendsen Company, manufacturers of signs, marquees, theatre fronts and store fronts. The line will be handled by National. “Smitty,” as he is known to thousands of exhibitors the country over, is a veteran in the theatre equipment business. Prior to his current appointment, he was National's circuit sales manager. His experience in the business goes back to the days when he “cranked” picture machines for his father, Dexter Smith, pioneer theatre owner in Oklahoma and Texas. After five years with his father, he went with the Southern Theatre Equipment Company in 1915 as an assistant repair man and shipping clerk. Following service with the Navy in the first World War, from 1917 to 1919, he returned to the Southern Theatre Equipment Company as a traveling representative covering Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. In 1924 he was appointed manager of this company’s Oklahoma City branch. In 1926, when the Southern Theatre Equipment Company was taken over by National, “Smitty” was retained as manager. In 1927 he was appointed manager of the Kansas City branch. He held this position until 1929, when Oscar S. Oldknow, then executive vice-president of Pox West Coast Theatres, appointed him supervisor of maintenance and purchasing for the Midland and Midwest Divisions of Fox. In 1932, when that company was reorganized, he became associated with Glen W. Dickinson Theatres, Inc., and shortly became assistant general manager of this circuit. In 1935 he returned to National as special representative, working in the interest of sales promotion, dividing his time between Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and Dallas. Early in 1942 his large acquaintance among circuit owners and a comprehensive knowledge of theatre equipment made him a logical candidate for the warborn assignment of Coordinator for Theatres of the War Production Board in Washington, and in a short time he received the appointment of Chief of the Theatre Equipment Section of WPB. Limitation Order L325, which he authorized and administered during the war years, was generally accepted as a model order, because of its simplicity of language and fairness of terms. When the order was revoked in May, 1945, WPB permitted him to return to National. Smith is an active member of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, MB. SMITH IkVOlCEOF THE-; THEATRE net N. Vine St., Hotlvwood 38. Ci 2S0 W. 57th St., N. Y. 19, N. V. OF HOLLYWOOD'S FIRSTRUN HOUSES HAVE INSTALLED New S.O.S. Catalog Ready 48 pages chock full of exceptional values, listing hundreds of interesting items in 'ITIKATRE & MOTION I'lCTl'KE PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT— Just Off the Press! NEW, USED, REBUILTS — ALL EULLY GUARANTEED. Save 25% to 40% and more! Included are Government Surplus materials. Send for your FREE copy now! S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP. rEw\oRK !s 56 The MODERN THEATRE SECTION