The Exhibitor (1950)

NT-6 EXHIBITOR topped it off with a tap routine. This brings to 11 the number of members of the Woodin family now engaged or hav¬ ing been engaged in show business. This year marks a combined total of 230 years in the business for the Woodin family. Virginia Richmond We wish good luck to our old friend Frank McNamee, former RKO Wash¬ ington branch manager, now president, UA. . . . Stuart White, Bristol manager. Neighborhood Theatre, Inc., was in for home office conferences. ... We glimpsed Kopeland Ornoff, Norfolk exhibitor, and his wife walking down Broad Street. . . . Frank Silveri, National assistant manager, was vacationing with relatives in Detroit. Glenn Norris, 20th-Fox manager, was in for conferences with Sam Bendheim, Jr., and Morton Thalhimer. . . . Among the highlights of the campaign on ‘‘711 Ocean Drive,” promoted by Sid Zins, Columbia exploiteer, assisted by Stewart Tucker, State manager, were advance story in The News Leader, army recruit¬ ing office special one-sheets, 500 roses to first ladies attending, special trailers placed in eight NT houses, special screen¬ ing held for state and city police officials, banners on news company trucks, win¬ dow display in travel agency, special radio announcements, 16mm. trailers by television station, and Zins interview by Harvey Hudson, disc jockey, WLEE. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Fox and Harry Jarvis were in Detroit attending the lATSE convention. . . . M. C. “Pruny” Morrisette was also in attendance. . . . Stewart Tucker, Jr., son of the State manager, is in training at Camp Pickett with the Richmond Blues. . . . Ann Harris, State box office attendant, was on vacation, Elizabeth Foster substitut¬ ing. . . .Joe Bocardi, State projectionist, revealed that he had been married for several weeks to the former Mrs. Bertha Brothers. . . . “Addie” Stewart, Colonial, vacationed at his cottage down on the York River. . . . Roy Herkimer, relief manager. Neighborhood Theatre, Inc., spent most of his vacation near Char¬ lottesville. . . . Cora Barron, Berio candy counter attendant. State, was vacation¬ ing in New York. ... We were sorry to hear of the passing of the mother of Bob Holland, Loew’s engineer. Owen Ferguson, manager, Halifax, South Boston, was in for a few days getting a physical checkup. . . . Bob Beamer, Pulaski city manager. Neigh¬ borhood Theatre, Inc., resigned to go in the hardware business. John Connor has succeeded him. . . . Dan Wilkinson, ad¬ vertising manager. Neighborhood Thea¬ tre, Inc., spent a few days of his vaca¬ tion with his wife at the Chamberlin, Old Point. . . . Virginia Jessie, National, was vacationing, Margaret Freidhoff filling in. . . . Carrington Waddell, South Boston exhibitor passed throug'h. . . . Virginia Strum, formerly associ¬ ated with the home office Neighborhood Theatre, Inc., is now a patient at Will Rogers Memorial Hospital. . . . W. B. Jones resigned as manager. Cameo, Bristol to join a circuit in Tazewell. . . . Stunts for U-Ps “Francis” are still go¬ ing strong, as indicated by this recent bit of street bally arranged by George Handy, at the Rives, Martinsville, Va. Pete Trent, personnel director. Neighbor¬ hood Theatre, Inc., is spending several weeks in Bristol giving the manager a vacation. City Council passed an ordinance pro¬ hibiting even benevolent societies from using sound trucks to advertise com¬ mercial ventures they are sponsoring for money-raising purposes. Such is the effect of a formal opinion by city attor¬ ney J. Elliott Drinard in answer to a request by Commissioner of Revenue Jordan. The ordinance in question pro¬ hibits the use of sound trucks or other sound amplifying equipment “for .any purposes connected with commercial ad¬ vertising or incident thereof.” The local industry last week mourned the death of Mrs. Ruth James Wood, wife of Harold E. Wood, secretary and treasurer. Neighborhood Theatre, Inc., and secretary, Virginia Motion Picture Association, who passed away at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Funeral services were held at the Joseph W. Bliley Fun¬ eral Home, with burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery. In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, two sons, her mother, and a brother. Jimmy Myers, manager. Bluebird, Petersburg, was a visitor. . . . Bernice Vincent lorio, Trans-Lux, Washington, D. C., can take bows for this recent “com¬ ing attraction” lobby exploitation dis¬ play on Eagle Lion Classics’ “Kind Hearts and Coronets.” A most attractive, yet simple to arrange, and attention-get¬ ting display that excellently captures the theme and mood of the film, it can, doubtlessly, be utilized by many houses. KADf SCREENINGS Philadelphia Paramount (248 North 12th) Aug. 10, 2 — “Dark City” (Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean dagger, Don DeFore). MGM (1233 Summer) Aug. 10, 11 — “A Life Of Her Own” (Lana Turner, Ann Dvorak, Ray Milland) ; 15, 11 — “Right Cross’’ (Dick Powell, June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barry¬ more) ; 17, 11 — “The Toast of New Orleans” (Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, David Niven) (Technicolor) Warners (230 North 13th) Aug. 14, 2.30 — “Tea For Two” (Doris Day, Gor¬ don MacRae, Eve Arden) (Color by Technicolor) . Alley, State box office staff, took her two children to the mountains. . . . “Pruny” Morrisette, Capitol projection¬ ist, vacationed in Abingdon, and Lena Stephenson, Berio candy attendant, Cap¬ itol, spent her vacation at home. — S. T. Waynesboro The new Skyline Drive-In, recently opened by the Newbold-Kessling inter¬ ests, Bramwell, W. Va., is being man¬ aged by John Powell, old time showman of West Virginia and well known in the Washington territory. The Skyline is one of the finer drive-ins opened this season, and is attractively landscaped at the entrance, which sets back from the road some 300 feet. The New RCA “100” projectors with special Enarc drive-in lamps were installed. All of the other equipment is RCA, furnished by Elmer Brient and Sons, Washington. Variety Club Tent 13, Philadelphia “Panic In The Streets” was screened through the courtesy of 20th-Fox. The club’s “Johnny Night” at Shibe Park tomorrow, (Aug. 10) gives promise of even being more successful than last year’s event. In addition to the regular Phillies-Giants game, a flock of added attractions has been arranged by the committee in charge. Publicity by The Daily News and other sources has .gone a long way towards putting it over. Tickets are still available. Vic Blanc has been named chairman of the 1950 golf tournament, which will be held on Sept. 22 at the Green Valley Country Club. He is already rounding up his various committees. The following radio and television per¬ sonnel visited the camp for underprivi¬ leged children in company of club representatives Earle Sweigert, Bob Adelman, Roger Clipp, and Mike Felt; WFIL, George Walsh and Tom Moorehead; WPEN, Cal Ross; WDAS, Leonard Matt; WIBG; Rupe Werling; WPTZ, Rhona Lloyd and George Skinner; WCAU, Creighton Stewart; WIP, John Facenda; WCAU-TV, Bill Searles; KYW, Tom Rogers; The Inquirer, James Cattani; The Bulletin, Ed Pollack; WPEN, Gene Kelley; WFIL-TV, newsreel crew, and a Daily News photographer. August 9, 1950