The Exhibitor (Aug-Nov 1948)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Two enterprising Floridians — Jack Vost (left), formerly of old Boston, runs the projectors at the big Daytona Beach drive-in, and his friend, C. L. Forsyth, those at the Florida, Daytona Beach. Forsyth, a terpsichorean, has plenty of time left over to run a brisk business as a dancing master in his own studio. Except for that non-regulation belt on those Navy-issue dungarees, genial Harry Fuller is fitted out for a watch in number one boiler room of a battlewagon. Instead he is checking on his projector at the Roxy Theatre, Americas, Georgia, where he's been sweating it out since leaving the service. ME^ AT WORK is a continuing regular Department of each issue of PHYSIC ALTHEATRE designed to give a ''curtain call ' to the many worthy and industrious industryites who seldom receive public acclaim. MANAGERS, ASSISTANT MANAGERS, PROJECTIONISTS, CASHIERS, and OTHER IMPORTANT THEATRE EMPLOYEES with years of Industry Service to their credit are invited to submit "on-the-job" pictures and data for consideration and possible future use in this Department. Presenting Helen Barnes — the pretty projectionist. First lady with a license to thread a machine in Rochester, N. Y., she will use her skill in promo¬ tion work for a firm of which she's secretary. Smiling Jim Martin didn't just come in from work in the cotton fields. The overalls are his uniform as projeclionist of Martin's Rose, Dublin, Ga. Cecil Fernandez, Roxy, St. Petersburg, Fla., has been a projectionist since movies were in their swaddling clothes — thirty-one (31) years. His son, Cecil, Jr., is one, too, a) the local Plaza. For twenty-two years Harry M. Dunham, Local 379, I. A. T. S. E., Perth Amboy, anonymously has run (he show at Fords Playhouse, Fords, N. J. PT-16 PHYSICAL THEATRE DEPARTMENT of THE EXHIBITOR September 22, 1948