The Exhibitor (1950)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 ^^i:ws OF THK BRANCHES Cincinnafi The state fire marshal’s office has been asked to investigate a fire which caused $30,000 damage to the screen of the suburban Montgomery Drive-In. The drive-in, built in 1939, is owned by the Smith Management Company, Boston. The Twentieth Century, suburban Oakley Square, staged its annual threeday beauty contest, with $1,500 in mer¬ chandise prizes donated by neighborhood merchants. Eighteen finalists divided the booty. . . . Eunice Poppe resigned at Cooperative Theatre Service, being suc¬ ceeded by Margaret Baker, who had previously worked in the office before her marriage to Murray Baker, Schine booker and buyer. . . . John T. Quigley is the new shipper at States Film Serv¬ ice, succeeding Stanley Hecker, resigned. Nine-year-old Thomas Breslin died after valiant efforts of physicians, who massaged his heart for eight hours. The lad was a grandson of Goldie Bres¬ lin, Warners, and a nephew of Dick Breslin, 20th-Fox salesman. West Vir¬ ginia. Attending the Eagle Lion Classics re¬ gional sales meeting in New York were Albert Glaubinger. branch manager, and Harold Heilman, Gil Shepherd, and Bill Garner, salesmen. . . . Jack Finberg, United Artists branch manager, con¬ ferred in Pittsburgh with Moe Dudelson, district manager. Charles Shaw is the new bookerbuyer for the Monte Vista and Ridge, suburban Pleasant Ridge. . . . Harry A. Bugie is booking and buying for the Lake Carlisle, Richmond, Ky. . . . Frank Weitzel is booking and buying for the Alpine Circuit. Stewart Jacobson, formerly with Eagle Lion Classics, is now Kentucky salesman for U-I, replacing Bill Brower, called to service. . . . Bill Garner, for¬ merly with Eagle Lion Classics, rejoined the company as West Virginia salesman. . . . Tony Hassmer, Eagle Lion Classics booker, resigned. Jack Ruth, RKO assistant shipper, invalided with acute arthritis, is report¬ ed on the road to recovery. . . . Marjory McCloskey, Annie Malinnowski, and Alice Bethford, inspectresses, Realart, were on the sick list. . . . The Orpheum, suburban Peebles Corner, reopened. . . . The Talawands, a new house in nearby Oxford, O., owned by attorney Charles Williams, is opening this month. Carl Mahlmann, National Screen office manager, has a new Plymouth. . . . Murray Baker, Schine booker, is driving a new Chevrolet. . . . Marie Donelson, Screen Classics office manager, spent a weekend in Detroit. . . . Joel McCrea headed a stage show for the opening of For fhe recent showing of U-Ps “Loui.sa,” Circle, Indianapolis, this unusual display, using a Venetian blind which revealed a still from the picture when opened by patrons, was used as part of a national U-I tieup set by the company. “Saddle Tramp’’ at the Keith. ... Mur¬ ray Glaubinger, son of Albert Glaub¬ inger, Eagle Lion Classics branch man¬ ager, returned to school in New York after the summer vacation. Vacationing were; Catherine Taylor, Paramount contract department; Louise Brown, MGM stenographer, in Chicago; Dave Stenger, Columbia salesman, Co¬ lumbus, O., in Florida; Harold Heilman, Eagle Lion Classics city salesman, in Michigan; Andrea Wilson, switchboard operator, and Bill Poppe, booker. United Artists, and Joan Rusch, RKO secretary, in Florida. Visitors included: Don Reade, London, Ky. ; Bob Dean, Middleborough, Ky. ; Dick Martin, Ashland, Ky. ; Frank Car¬ nahan, Manchester, Ky. ; C. E. Harvey, Grayson, Ky. ; Charles Behlen, Lexington, Ky. ; A. W. Ingle, Freeman, 0.; A. D. Kaufman, Westerville, 0.; Dick Meyers, Chillicothe, 0., Elmer Lux, Darnell Circuit, Buffalo, and Robert Wuest, RKO internal auditor. Cleveland Loew’s Theatres’ division manager Frank Murphy launched a tremendous promotion to introduce the fall season. Two daily newspapers. The News and The Plain Dealer, devoted one entire page exclusively to coming Loew attrac¬ tions. In addition to the paid ads on the page, newspapers gave free space to stories about the pictures, the stars, and to art. The News, an evening paper, used the full page on Aug. 31. The morn¬ ing Plain Dealer carried it Sept. 1. Louis Thome, Palace, Holgate, O., re¬ cently became the father of a bouncing boy named Vincente. This is his second child, the other being a daughter, Di¬ anna. . . . Mary Lou Weaver, who, as a result of the efforts of her boss, Warner branch manager Jerry Wechsler, was admitted to The Will Rogers Memorial hospital two years ago, paid her first visit to Cleveland since she was forced by illness to give up her secretarial job. She has returned to the hospital for fur¬ ther treatments, and has been assured that she will have a clean bill of health within six months. The Variety Club Boys Camp, Northfield, O., closed its four-week summer season. Forty boys from underprivileged homes were guests of the Variety Club each week. This season was late getting started but next year the camp will be in operation 12 weeks during the summer. Nat Wolf, Warner Theatres’ Ohio zone manager, and Bernard Rosenz^veig, real estate department, were territorial visitors looking over property; and as¬ sistant zone manager Dick Wright Was in Akron, Oh., and Sandusky, 0., on labor problems. The Warner Circuit lost two men to the armed forces. Gilbert Davis, assist¬ ant manager. Vogue, resigned to enlist in the navy. Thurman Hetzler, manager, Capitol, Sidney, O., relinquished his job to join the army. Jack Gertz, Jack Gertz Enterprises, is launching a new theatre promotion. . . . S. P. Gorrel, General Theatres Cir¬ cuit, states that from his experience operating five theatres, the public wants light entertainment. . . . Robert Giles, head, Warner’s sound engineering de¬ partment was vacationing in Carmda. • . . RKO was in the hands of painters. . . . Louis and Mrs. Ramsey, Corland, O., were visitors. ... It is rumored that Jack Fine, Main, will lease and operate the Knickerbocker, scheduled to be dismantled. Harry Weiss has joined the RKO sales staff under branch manager Jack Bernstein. Weiss, who replaces Ray Wild, was with the 20th-Fox exploita¬ tion department for five years, and more recently has been selling for Eagle Lion. A1 Och s new 1200-car Cloverleaf Auto Theatre opened. . . . Herb Ochs’ Timmins Drive-In, Timmins, Ontario, finally opened after repeated delays. . . . •I. S. Jossey, Hallmark Productions, is back after a prolonged stay at his Canadian lodge. . . . His secretary, Mrs. Marion Ward, went east for her vacation. Monogram will hold a salesman-booker drive the week of Oct. 22-28 in honor of Carl Scheuch and Sol Gordon, sales¬ men, and Nate Gerson, booker. The occasion will also mark the 20th anni¬ versary of Scheuch’s association with Nate Schultz, Monogram franchise owner. Variety Club has a deal to sell its present clubhouse on Euclid Avenue to the Loyal Order of Moose. The club will then establish clubrooms in a local hotel as it did before purchasing its present property. E. J. Stutz announces a new theatreTV tieup at the Cii’cle in a series of Saturday midnight vaudeville revues telecast by WEWS. First program will be presented on Sept. 16. This, accord¬ ing to Stutz, is the first local theatreTV promotion under a long term sched September 13, 1950 MIDELVST