The Exhibitor (1953)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 5KW9 OF TUB BRANCHES Cincinnati Greater Cincinnati residents will have the opportunity from March 16 to April 9 to learn more about the industry when the “Panoramic History of Motion Pictures” will be on view in the spacious lobby of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company’s downtown office building. Local sponsors are the Independent Ex¬ hibitors of Greater Cincinnati, Electrical Appliance Dealers Association, The Cin¬ cinnati Post, and the utility. The RKO ex¬ hibits will include the sedan used in the recently completed “Split Second,” the pirate boat from “Son of Sinbad,” two jet planes from “Jet Pilot,” the keelboat from “The Big Sky,” and “King Kong.” Herman Hunt, Chief Barker, Tent 3, Variety Club, announced the followingcommittees: house, Gene Tunick, chair¬ man; Mike Greenberg, co-chairman; heart, Edward Salzberg, chairman; Rex Carr, Saul Greenberg, Vance Schwartz, and Hunt; club, Robert L. Jacobs, chair¬ man; Harry Hartman, co-chairman; wel¬ fare, Jay Goldberg, chairman; Robert McNab, co-chairman; legal, Greenberg; fund raising, Irvin Tombach, chairman; Edward Booth, co-chairman; membership, William A. Meier, chairman; Nat Kaplan, co-chairman; non-resident, Pete Nieland; Greater Cincinnati Theatres, Morton Perlman, chairman; Willis Vance, cochairman; radio and TV, Mel Martin, chairman; Phil Haynes, co-chairman; associate barkers, Sol Koldny, chairman; Morris D. Dennis, co-chairman, and publicity, William Blum, chairman, and Hartman, co-chairman. On business trips were Selma Blackschleger, Realart, to New York City; Frank Weitzel, independent booker and buyer, to West Virginia points, and Rube Shor, S and S Amusement Company, president, to Fremont, O., and Clyde, 0. In were Robert Wile, Columbus, O., secretary, Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio, and Sam Galanty, Columbia district manager. Palacoat, Inc., suburban Blue Ash, O., has booked orders for the manufacture of 20 million pairs of polarized glasses for use in viewing 3-D films, President John Dreyer announced. The distributor is Magic Viewers, Inc., New York and Hollywood. When Georgia Anderson, Guild man¬ ager, dropped the wrong envelope in a mailbox, she had to wait several hours for a mail collector to arrive, and then provide ample proof at a branch Post Office as to her identity and contents of the envelope. The contents: $300 in cash, which she eventually got to a bank for deposit. The suburban Hyde Park, shuttered for nine months, reopened under man The above cartoon, drawn by Gilbert Cook, Greenville, Pa., manager, repre¬ sents his contribution to the current tax fight, locally and nationwide. agement of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Foley. Completely renovated, the house will have an art policy, with the openers be¬ ing “Mr. Pip” and “House of Seven Gables.” First local showings of Realart’s “Loyola, the Soldier Saint,” was at the suburban West Hills and Cheviot, with later runs booked at several other nabe houses. TOC is booking and buying for the Sunset Cruise-In, Dayton, 0., J. E. Christman, owner; Davis Drive-In, Stan¬ ford, Ky., H. C. Davis, owner, and Harlan Drive-In, Harlan, Ky., A. P. Colder, owner. In were Ross Filson, Point Pleasant, W. Va. ; H. J. Gilbert, Princeton, W. Va.; Guy Greathouse, Aurora, Ind.; J. C. Wedell, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; Gilbert L. Ogden, Warsaw, Ky. ; E. T. Denton, Owingsville, Ky. ; Howard Shelton, Vanceburg, Ky. ; Joe Marshall, Danville, Ky. ; James B. Howe, Carrollton, Ky. ; Price Conner, Harlan, Ky. ; Carl Pfister, Troy, O.; Harold Paives, Cleveland; James Herb, Dayton, O.; Jack Needham, Columbus, O.; J. B. Stedman, Marietta, O.; John R. Poe, Jr., Aberdeen, O.; George Turlukis, Hamilton, O.; Richard Timbelson, Winchester, O.; Marvin Junk, Suzan Ball, starring in U-I’s “City Beneath the Sea;” Lieutenant Harry E. Rieseberg, author of the original story, and Frank West more, U-I’s make-up representative, recently visited Detroit to aid in the promotion at the Palms, and seen, left to right, are Rieseberg, Alice N. Gorham, advertising and public¬ ity director, United Detroit Theatres; Miss Ball, Westmore, and Rufus Shepherd, manager. Palms. Batavia, 0.; Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Emmerick, Germantown, 0., and A. D. Curfman, Westerville, O. Gene Tunick, president, Tunick Re¬ leasing Company, is convalescing from surgery. . . . Florence Hermann, MGM cashier, visited in Louisville, Ky, . . . Ben Cohn and Mark Cummins, Holiday Amusement Company, returned from Florida vacations. Tent 3, Variety Club, is beating the sticks for 150 new members by June 1, with emphasis on bringing back numerous former members who dropped out. . . . The MGM Club held an enjoyable monthly meeting, with “white elephants” being donated as prizes for winners in a “bingo” game. Ralph Morley, recently in the armed forces, is now a salesman for Tunick Releasing Company. . . . James A. Curran, formerly with Paramount, is now a Kentucky salesman for UA. . . . Harry Yutze, formerly head shipper, States Film Service, has been appointed man¬ ager, suburban Westwood. E. C. Myles, owner, Goodale, Columbus, O., was killed in a traffic accident while enroute home from Film Row. . . . Harry E. Hopper, 53, widely known RKO pro¬ jectionist for many years, died recently. The deadline for RKO Theatres to dis¬ pose of the Capitol and Shubert was extended 60 days by the Justice Depart¬ ment. The circuit sold the theatres once, but was forced to take them back from the new owners. This is the second time extension RKO has received. Cleveland W. Ward Marsh, who writes, directs, and produces the weekly movie industrysponsored TV program, “Lights-CameraQuestions,” is putting the program on films to take to New York to show it to the producers in order to win their okeh for other northern Ohio TV stations. WXEL recently renewed its contract for a second 13-week period on the basis of the increasing number of questions sub¬ mitted. Bob Wile, secretary, ITOO, addressed a Rotary Club meeting in East Liver¬ pool, 0., and in April will speak at the Rotary Club at Hudson, O. His topic is “The Importance Of The Theatre In Your Community.” This is part of the institutional work he has been doing as an officer of the exhibitor unit. Ruth Schneider, a newcomer from New York, joined Imperial as secretary to Bernard Rubin. . . . Roy Gross, Gross Circuit, returned from Florida entirely recovered. Jack Fine closed the Imperial, neigh¬ borhood, which he took over in October. . . . Harold and Irma Boedecker, owners, Maple Drive-In, Zanesville, 0., will repeat last year’s policy of holding Easter dawn services. All of the women attending will receive Hawaiian orchids, which the Boedeckers get through Monogram sales¬ man S. Gordon. ... A new type plastic date strip, said to be indestructible, has March 11, 1958 MIDEAST