Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1939)

Illlllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllilltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllillllll ^IIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllllllllllllllll!^ The Proven Leaders of Theatre Card Games! HONEY BONUS BINGO I SCREENO BANKO | In addition to Bank Night, these gomes are now i being used by M&P and many leading theatres in | the New England territory to satisfactory results. = It Is Important to Remember ... | Ever since the beginning of Bank Night we have been the only E people who have maintained an office and given every exhibitor E legal protection and advice. No exhibitor using any of our games E has ever paid a fine or a legal fee! E Remember, too ... | that no other firm selling games in this territory maintains an office E or the services of an attorney to protect exhibitors! E In buying your game from us, you not only get the best game — E YOU GET PROTECTION WITH IT— and at the LOWEST COST. | I GOOD WILL ADVERTISING COMPANY | = 14 Piedmont Street BOSTON Liberty 9305 E E OUR LEGAL STAFF FOR YOUR PROTECTION: = ~ Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Maine S ^ George S. Ryan Pond, Morgan & Morse Robert W. Upton Judge W.R.Pattangall E EiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiir Curwood Story to 20th-Fox Sherman Signs Cameraman Hollywood — “The Hunted Woman,” Hollywood — Russell Harlan, cameraman James Oliver Curwood story, has been for Harry Sherman, has been given a purchased by 20th-Fox. long term contract. HOLIDAY GREETINGS . . . METRO PREMIUM COMPANY ARTHUR GEROME 47 Church St., Boston HAROLD RUBIN 237 So. Orange St., New Haven QINA COHEN, sister-in-law of E. M. Loew at whose office she is employed, became the mother of a baby girl last week. Henry Sperling, former local independent distributor now operating the Central in Manville, was in from Rhode Island last loeek with his wife. He won an overcoat on the Harvard-Yale game. Martha Heffner, daughter of Roy E. Heffner of Bank Night, left last week to visit her grandparents. She will be located at the Hotel Ste. Genevive, St. Genevive, Missouri . . . Heffner, who is hunting in Texas at present, plans to spend the holidays in Oklahoma. Sam Davidson spotted the Boston premiere of “Prison Train” at the Keith Boston. The Malcolm Browne production, featuring Fred Keating and Linda Winters, closed at the de luxe house Wednesday. Charles Repec, head of the M-G-M booking department, has engaged an orchestra for the Friday evening Xmas party of the local Metro exchange. Dancing will follow dinner. Vincent Freedly was in town last week to attend the opening of “Too Late to Laugh,” play written by his son and produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club and presented at the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. The Flamingo has folded . . . Edward Fitzpatrick, manager of Loew’s Poli in Waterbury, exploited “Another Thin Man” by offering a free admission to the skinniest gent showing up at the house between 8:00 and 8:30 o’clock on the opening night. Dr. and Mrs. I. H. Schwartz, en route from Palestine, are expected to land Christmas morning at Commonwealth Pier in Boston. She is the former Carolyn Mekelburg, daughter of Joseph Mekelburg of the Drive-In Theatres Corp. The couple, who are accompanied by their 15-monthold daughter Miriam, plan to remain in this country. Sandy Macdonald, owner of Windsor Lodge, and outfitter for recent New Brunswick hunting trips of local film men as Charles Brent, Roy E. Heffner, and Frank Borrelli, was in town this week. H. M. Addison, Loew’s divisional manager, plans to be in the Hub until New Year’s ... Ed Reed, Providence theatre owner, was in town last week . . . Ray Smith, Amherst theatre man, was removed to City Hospital here last week after being struck by an automobile. Steve Broidy, local Monogram sales manager, has a brand new bicycle on his hands that he will dispose of at a below-wholesale price. It was a giveaway sample. John Dervin, UA branch manager, closed the exchange at noon last Friday in memory of the late Douglas Fairbanks . . . William H. McLaughlin, Commander of the Theatrical Post of American Legion, has set the organization’s next regular meeting for the Copley-Plaza on January 8. Jack Hill of Monogram was ill last week 'Continued on page 102) 98 BOXOFFICE : : December 23, 1939