The Exhibitor (1953)

NT-4 EXHIBITOR The Albany division, Fabian Theatres, recently met in the Palace offices to discuss a new drive. Attending the “Hold That Line” meeting are, left to right, front row, William With, assistant manager, Palace; Joe Saperstein, buyer-booker; Saul J. Ullman, division manager; Larry Cowen, Proctor’s, Troy, and publicity director, and George Seed, Cohoes, Cohoes, and rear row, Paul Wallen, Grand, Albany; George Lourinia, Saratoga Drive-In; Alex Sayles, Palace, Albany; Richard Murphy, Plaza, Schenectady; Phil Rapp, State, Schenectady; Lewis Rapp, Erie, Schenectady; Guy Graves, Schenectady cty manager; Stanton Patterson, Leland, Albany, and Irwin LJlman, Mohawk Drive-In. Colonel William McCraw, right. Variety (Hubs International executive director, recently joined officers of Tent 35, New York, in promoting the club’s “Danny Kaye Night” at the Palace on Feb. 25. Seen here are, left to right, Ira Meinhardt, Property Master; Ed Lachman, Chief Barker, and Cy Seymour, special events chairman. EYKEWr THE New York — -United Artists captured the flag in the first lap of the “Bernie Kranze Drive” for billings and collec¬ tions. The drive will continue until June 20. Paramount — Print booker Gus Rolf is taking orders from the marines. John Curtin has been promoted to print booking. . . . Newcomer and recent marine vet, Bill Monahan, takes over as ledger clerk. ... A new addition, clerktypist Walter Woods, just got his navy discharge. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Curtin were off on a honeymoon after their Valentine Day wedding. . . . The Red Cross mobile blood unit will be at the home office on Feb. 27 to receive dona¬ tions. . . . Returned after illness were Ruth Richardson and booker Richard Magan. ... On the sick list were ledger clerk Nicholas Vacca and shipper Hal Wickliffe. United Artists — Booker Ben DeAugusta has begun pacing the floor awaiting the arrival of a new addition. . . . Janet Moses, cashier department, ill for a few months, is expected back. Bonded — Shippers Johnny Hogan and Rocco Seripiglia were ill. . . . Examiner Lenard Mitola gave a birthday shindig to celebrate his son’s four years. Lou Notis and A1 Tomkins were on hand. Rochester (Continued from 'preceding page) Tracy Allen, projectionist, Central Di ■ive-In, was in Miami, Fla., having a grand time. . . . Bill Belcher’s wife has been seriously ill at St. Mary’s Hospital. . . . Joe Pandina will soon be riding around again in his car that was badly smashed up. — Walter A. Knopf Schenectady John Gardner announced a new mid¬ week “Curtain at 8” policy of English and other foreign films at the Colony. RKO — The virus and colds put on the sick list Philis Friedman, contract clerk; John Giles, statistician; Dolores Smith, typist clerk; Sylvia Reiss, biller, Dorothy Post, upstate booker, and Philis Philips, stenographer. . . . Angie Mazzei, assist¬ ant cashier, was well enough to come back to the office. Columbia — File clerk Joyce Jones was feted with a birthday party with compli¬ ments of the office club. . . . Typist Frances Taylor became an aunt again when her sister had a baby girl, her second. . . . Still ill was contract clerk Mattia Lynch. . . . Typist Frances Taylor is polishing up on her interpretive dancing by taking a course at Katherine Dunham’s school. ... In the fire are plans for an office skating party. MGM — Bookkeeping machine operator Mary Mayham was still ill. . . . The passing of Robert Ellsworth was mourned. Bookers Biog — A Brooklynite by birth, Ben DeAugusta spent his school years commuting to Manhattan, where he attended Textile High School. When the war came, he served with the Navy serving on an ammunition ship at Anzio Piper Laurie, starred with Tyrone Power and Julia Adams in U-I’s “The Missis¬ sippi Gambler,” is seen as she recently arrived in New York to aid in the advance promotion of the picture at Loew’s State. and around the Kiel Canal, Germany. During an Atlantic hurricane, he was blown overboard, but quick action on the part of his buddies, brought him in safely. After the war, in June, 1948, he heard wedding bells. Starting as a bookkeeper in Film Classics, he went to Eagle Lion in the same position. In July, 1951, he joined United Artists in the boxoffice department, working himself up to New Jersey booker. He owns his own home in Bergenfield, N. J., where he plies his photography hobby in the base¬ ment darkroom. His wife, Ann, now ex¬ pects their first child momentarily. Ramblin’ ’Round — The “Charles J. Feldman Silver Anniversary Drive” at U-I, has the exchange in the lead. . . . Secretary Ann Jones, 20th-Fox, is plan¬ ning to spend the Washington Birthday weekend in the Berkshire Mountains. . . . Warners’ clerk typist Arlene Moffa be¬ came a year older. . . . Print booker Auria Lopez, Republic, was sick. . . . The folks at Hornstein’s theatre equip¬ ment shop were working like demons to keep up with demands for third dimen¬ sional installations. . . . The Annex was taken over by Zenith Pictures, Inc., to be used as a studio for producing motion pictures. — J. A. D. Leon Kelmer, manager, and Pat Grosso, publicist, RKO Albee, Brooklyn, recently installed a coin pitching game in the lobby with proceeds going to the “Brotherhood Week” drive currently being held. February IS, 1953