Exhibitor's Trade Review (Mar-May 1925)

May 9, 1925 Page 47 Sales News and Personalities of the Week DENVER Dick Dickson, Famous Players Wyoming representative for several years, will shortly resign to manage the Delta and Montrose Colorado theatres. * * ♦ Guy Parfet, Pathe representative, was in Colorado Springs last week giving the exhibitors an eye full in the screening of the "Sky Pilot." Guy can usually be found with ihe big boys when anything new is available. * $ ♦ C. E. Pace, Metro-Goldwyn's Colorado representative, with the assistance of sleds and rotary snow plows, succeeded in boring through the snowbound Moffat territory recently. His trip embraced Tampa, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs, Mt. Harris, Hayden and Craig. All of these places are looking forward to a decided improvement in business upon the arrival of the tourist season in June. The Victory Theatre, Craig, is making extensive improvements, including new equipment. Pat August, manager of the Rialto Theatre, Colorado Springs, has acquired a lease on the new theatre recently completed at Manitou, and will operate it during the summer and fall months. jfc ♦ ♦ Al O'Keefe, Producers and Distributors star salesman, is keeping the South Dakota exhibitors up at all hours of the night while affixing their much desired signatures to the more important documents. Al has a habit of making notches on the steering wheel for every town he fails to sell. So far we have been unable to locate more than one notch this season. * * * Harry Levey of Metro-Goldwyn, who boasts the reputation, and justly so, of being the oldest film salesman in the Denver territory in the employ of one company, is now on the Western slope. We really envy him his trip, in view of the fact that, it will embrace Grand Junction and the fruit growing centers in blossom time. % ^ £ Bert Reynolds continues to carry glad tidings to the Nebraska and Eastern Colorado exhibitors for First National. He was in recently with a broad smile which we judge was an indication of the kind of business he had on his last trip * ^ H. A. Dunklee, Vitagraph's Colorado and Nebraska representative, is putting new mileage on a brand new Dodge coupe, end if we may judge accordingly the booker has little time for visiting while Dunklee is out. * * * Al. Johnson, former Vitagraph representative, recently resigned to accept the position of office manager for Fox. We know Al's well known executive ability will stand him in good stead and on the other hand many hotel keepers and exhibitors will miss the old boy on the road. * * , * Freddy Lind, F. B. O. booker, is causing the road men no end of concern through his success in selling the trade. The only difference we can see between Freddy and the road men is the absence of the well known and frequent expense accounts that would be in evidence were the case reversed. * * * Ed Gold, Metro-Goldwyn's genial booker, gave the office force a treat on his arrival the day after Easter all decked out in his new outfit. They are daily expecting a letter of protest from the light company on account of the lack of lights being used since he acquired this Easter oufit as the office finds no occasion to employ artificial lighting while he is around. Work may be its own reward but Universal thought that perhaps Hawley Turner might require something more substantial, and so appointed him Sales Promotion Manager INDIANAPOLIS Louis B. Goulden, manager of Celebrated Players Film Corp., has sent out a bulletin to the Exhibitors of Indiana advising to buy their pictures for the summer by mail. By so doing will save the exhibitor and exchange considerable money, the motto being Winter Pictures at Summer Prices. H. A. "Whitie" Wagner, sales Representative of Celebrated Players Film Corp., is out in the territory informing the exhibitors of Celebrated's new summer policy. * * * Chas. Reagan of Paramount Exchange is in New York to attend the sales conference. * * * John Bates, booker of Progress Pictures Corp., made a trip to Muncie and a few other towns on a selling mission. Harold Reckley, Sales representative of Progress Pictures Corp., reports business conditions getting better throughout his territory. ♦ ♦ ♦ George Levey and W. Plughes of Pathe Exchange were seen out in the territory via a la Levey's New Moon Sedan. * * * A. C. Zaring's New Theatre is progressing very nicely, work is being rushed, and when completed will be one of the most up-to-date theatres in the country with a seating capacity of about 2000. * * * H. C. Dressendorfer, manager of the local office of Educational Pictures, made a trip through northern Indiana this week and is enthusiastic as to the prospects of a very successful spring business for the exhibitors. Frank Decker, traveling the southern part of Indiana for Educational Pictures, had quite a narrow escape in the recent tornado that swept across the southern corner of Indiana. In fact Mr. Decker left Princeton just ten minutes previous to the catastrophe. On learning of the sad disaster he immediately returned to Princeton and proceeded to take an active part in the voluntary relief corps. This is the second harrowing experience Mr. Decker has had recently, as he was in Sullivan at the time of the terrible mine disaster. Gale Black, formerly of the Fox Film Corporation, is now affiliated with the local branch of Educational Pictures. He will take over a section of their Northern Indiana territory. Having been in the territory for two weeks Mr. Black has returned to the office with a great deal of enthusiasm and is thoroughly impressed with the great possibilities for short subjects." * * * BUFFALO Frank J. A. McCarthy, one of the most popular film men in the state, and manager of the Buffalo office of First National, has been elected president of the Film Board of Trade of Buffalo, succeeding Sydney Samson of Bond Photoplays, who has held the office for three years. Mr. McCarthy, who is a graduate of Harvard University, has been associated with Paramount and other companies in the Buffalo territory, prior to going with First National, where he has made an enviable record for himself. Other new officers of the board are : Vice-President, Colonel Howard F. Brink, of Educational ; Secretary, Earl W. Kramer, of Universal ; Treasurer, Henry W. Kahn, of Metro-Goldwyn. The board of directors is composed of the following : Norman L. Sper, Dependable ; Sydney Samson, Bond; Fred M. Zimmerman, Producers Distributing Corporation; Basil Brady, Pathe, and Charles W. Anthony. The Film Board is now occupying new and commodious quarters at 59 Root Building on the fifth floor. Installation ceremonies will be held at Stein's Hotel in Orchard Park on the evening of May 4. A committee composed of Messrs. Samson, Zimmerman and Kahn is now busy arranging for this annual event. £ ^ ♦ ■ Tom Brady, former Buffalo exchange man, is now contract manager for the Producers Distributing Corporation with headquarters in Toronto. * * * Manager C. W. Anthony, of Vitagraph's Buffalo exchange, has received a wire from Sam Norris of the Warner organization, informing him that no changes are to be made in the local Vitagraph personnel. Richard C. Fox, Golden Rule Pictures Corporation of Buffalo, has returned from a meeting_ of Independents in New York, with a lot of new features for distribution in the state. Mr. Fox's office is now in First Graphic's exchange in Franklin street. * * * Julius Singer, personal representative of Carl Laemmle, was in Buffalo last week end for a sales conference with local "U" Branch Manager Earl W. Kramer and his sales staff. Al Barnett of Universal is sporting a new Moon coupe as well as a new spring hat. Business must be good in the southern tier. * * * Howard Sheenhan, district manager for Fox on the West Coast, was in Buffalo last