The Exhibitor (1951)

rows of the Boston Crosstown Martin J. Mullin, general chairman for the industry in the “Jimmy Fund” drive, has appointed the following re¬ gional officers: Eastern Massachusetts, Sam Pinanski, Chief Barker, Variety Club; Max Melincoff, Warner Theatres, and Norman Glassman, president, Inde¬ pendent Exhibitors of New England, co-chairmen; Western Massachusetts, Harry Smith, Western Massachusetts Theatres; New Hampshire, Lloyd Bridgham, independent exhibitor, with John Fagin, manager, Strand, Dover, publi¬ cist; Maine, Connie Russell, Sr., Bijou, Bangor, with Ralph Tully, State, Port¬ land, publicist; Vermont, Frank Vennett, Paramount, Rutland; Rhode Is¬ land, Edward Fay and Meyer Stanzler, co-chairmen ; Connecticut, Herman Lev¬ ey, Chief Barker, Variety Club, and Harry Feinstein, Warner Theatres, with Lou Brown, Loew’s Poli, handling pub¬ licity. James F. Mahoney, Interstate, and Michael Redstone, Redstone The¬ atres, are co-chairmen for the ozoners. Edward X. Callahan, 20th-Fox Atlantic division manager, is chairman for dis¬ tributors, and will be in charge of pledges from New England exchanges. E. Harold Stoneman, Interstate, is treasurer. All circuit and distributor publicity and fieldmen will display their talents to assure the unqualified success of the drive. Available at the New Eng¬ land Theatres home office, 260 Tremont Street, are 24-sheets for posting and mats for newspaper ads with exhibitors urged to avail themselves of them. An unusual one-sheet was unveiled at the meeting at the Bradford, a reproduc¬ tion of New England governors’ proc¬ lamations regarding the drive, and suit¬ able for lobby displays. An unusual sneak preview of 20thFox’s “Meet Me After the Show” was held at ATC’s Circle, Brookline, Mass., l’ecently when the advertised preview was shown in conjunction with the open¬ ing of the regular run of “Take Care of My Little Girl.” This attracted a sellout audience to the 1,400-seater, which in¬ cluded a group of about 30 exhibitors invited to the screening. Tom Ball, manager, was forced to open the outside boxoffice to handle the sale of tickets, and Phil Engel, 20th-Fox publicist, jumped into the breach acting as ticket taker. Jim Connolly and John Feloney also assisted in handling the crowds, who, along with ATC bigwigs Francis McManus and Henry Schwartzburg, re¬ portedly got quite a kick out of gettingback into this type of action. In fact, they’ll be glad to double as ushers, etc., if it’ll guarantee boxoffice activity. Marjorie Adams, The Globe critic, was the lucky winner of about 1000 pounds of steak on the hoof when NT-1 After a year in construction, the Bing recently opened in Springfield, Mass. Equipped with all modern conveniences, including air-conditioning and “bomb shelter” construc¬ tion, the new neighborhood house seats 800. Lawrence Love manages the theatre. as J. Shea, and secretary treasurer William P. Raoul. Larry Lasky, Griffing-Lasky Com¬ pany, trekked to Washington in order to get a clear interpretation of the new NPA regulations regarding drive-ins to enable him to notify his clients and pro¬ spective clients regarding possibility of constructing ozoners under the new laws. The Fairhaven Drive-In, Fairhaven, Mass., constructed by Griffing-Lasky, opened recently. The situation is oper¬ ated jointly by E. M. Loew and Nathan Yamins. Harold Armitage, projectionist, Ma¬ jestic, where a 16-week run of “Tales of Hoffmann” was recently concluded, is pinchhitting for Harold Davidson, sound engineering, while the latter vacations. The Grand, Taunton, Mass., closed for several months, reopened under man¬ agement of Joseph Rosa, who managed she won a steer during the recent critics junket to Elko, Nev., for Bing Crosby’s “Here Comes the Groom.” She also won a bottle of “Dutch Courage,” and while she donated the steer to the local hospi¬ tal, the fate of the bottle has not been revealed. The Third District of IATSE, which includes all of New England, will hold its annual convention at the Hotel Statler on Aug. 16. A one-day meet, it will get under way at 10:15 a.m., with ap¬ proximately 75 members expected to be present. Speakers scheduled are Inter¬ national President Richard F. Walsh, Assistant International President Thorn Crowds in the lobby of the Loew Poli, Hartford, Conn., rushed to show their reaction to the recent preview of 20thFox’s “Mr. Belvedere Rings The Bell.” WANTED — House manager or experienced assistant who knows operation for 1000 seat first-run theatre located in southern New Hampshire. Please state experience, refer¬ ences and salary expected. BOX 95 EXHIBITOR, 246-48 N. Clarion St., Phila. 7, Pa. August 15, 1951 NEW ENGLAND