The Exhibitor (1953)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 PTKWS OF THK BRANCHES Cincinnati Doris Day, accompanied by her hus¬ band, Marty Melcher, was accorded an enthusiastic reception by press and radio representatives upon her first visit to her home town in six years. Miss Day met with film critics E. B. Radcliffe, The Enquirer; Groverman Blake, The Times-Star, and Eleanor Hill, The Post, at luncheon at the Terence Plaza Hotel. Miss Day was also guest of honor at a cocktail party hosted by Columbia Records. Among those attending the annual meeting of the Ohio exhibitors in Columbus were Milton Gurian, Allied Artists branch manager; Philip Fox, Columbia branch manager; E. M. Booth, MGM branch manager; Herbert J. Gillis, Paramount branch manager, and Ralph Burling, exploitation department; Harris Dudelson, Lippert division man¬ ager; Jack Finberg, UA branch man¬ ager; James S. Abrose, Warner branch manager; Robert McNab, 20th-Fox branch manager, and Jack Kauffman, sales manager; William Blum, U-I branch manager; T. M. Fisher, Mid¬ west Theatre Supply; James A. Conn, National Theatre Supply manager; R. A. Guettler, Manley, Inc., district man¬ ager, and Don Q. Roberts, concession supervisor; Henry Rolnick, drive-in de¬ partment, Berio Vending Company, and exhibitors Rube Shor, Herman Hunt, Willis Vance, F. W. Huss, Jr., and Louis Wiethe. Huss, president, Associ¬ ated Theatres and Greater Cincinnati Independent Exhibitors, Inc., was elected vice-president of the state organization, and Wiethe, president, Wiethe Theatres, was reelected as director. Pete Niland was installed as Colosseum president at the annual dinner. He succeeds Morton Perlman, Columbia. Other new officers are: vice-president, Sam Weiss, 20th-Fox; secretary, Richard Dale Tysinger, manager, Shea’s, Ash¬ tabula, O.. developed an unusual and realistic street ballyhoo for the recent showing of U-I’s “Ma and Pa Kettle On Vacation.” Robert Clark, left, managing director, Associated British Pictures Corporation, and Walter Mirisch, Allied Artists execu¬ tive producer, recently conferred on preparations for the filming of “The Black Night,” to be made in England by the two companies as a joint venture. Breslin, 20th-Fox, and treasurer, Manny Nagel, Allied Artists. County Prosecutor Carson Hoy was the speaker for the occasion. Efforts to end Ohio’s movie censor¬ ship are meeting with stiff opposition in the state legislature from the public school lobby. The state takes in about $300,000 annually in censor fees of $3 per reel, and half of this, after expenses of the censor division, goes to the state education department for educational films shown in the state’s schools. Two local newspapers have urged editorially that the 40-year-old censorship law be repealed. More than 26,000 coupons were de¬ posited in a “Flicker Queen” contest, staged in connection with a month-long “Hollywood in Cincinnati” display in the lobby of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company. J. Elwood Jones, man¬ ager, Grand, presented the housewife winner with a new washer, dryer, and ironer, gifts of the Cincinnati Electrical Association. Business trips were made by George A. Kirby, Republic branch manager, to Charleston, W. Va.; William A. Meier, Paramount sales manager, to Dayton, O.; Vance Schwartz, Distinguished presi¬ dent, to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; Allan Moritz, exhibitor, to Louisville, Ky., and Richard Rosenfeld, Standard Plans Completed For Michigan Meet Detroit — Plans were completed this week for the Allied Theatres of Michigan 34th annual convention on April 27, 28, and 29 in the Variety Club rooms in the Hotel Tuller. The convention will be devoted mainly to 3-D, drive-ins, and the 20 percent repeal program, with prominent speakers on hand to bring to the exhibitors im¬ portant developments. Registration and an address by Wilbur Snaper will start on April 27. Snaper will speak on “Arbitration,” “Unfair Pricing of Films,” and “Increased Ad¬ missions.” Exhibitors will see “This is Cinerama” at the Music Hall at the close of the day. April 28 will be “Drive-In Day.” Buses will pick up exhibitors at the Hotel Tuller, and take them on a tour of the Town Drive-In, Dearborn Drive-In, Grand River Drive-In, West Side DriveIn, and the Bel-Air Drive-In. Lunch will be served at the Dearborn Drive-In. A banquet at the Hotel Tuller will be held in the evening with William Gehring, 20th-Fox, and Senator Homer Ferguson on hand as guest speakers. Samuel Pinanski, Boston, co-chairman, COMPO, will also be on hand for the banquet. Third-dimension will be the topic of the last day of the convention. A distributors and exhibitors luncheon will start at noon with Abram Myers speaking on the 20 per cent amusement tax amendment. Speakers from National Theatre Supply, RCA, 20th-Fox, and others will lead a discussion. The convention will wind up with a dinner and evening of festivities at the swank Elmwood Casino, Windsor, Canada. Concessions president, to New York and Chicago. Exhibitors in were William Settos, Springfield, O.; Carl Pfister, Troy, O.; Joe Goldstein, Cleveland; Barton Cook, Chillicothe, O.; Hank Davidson, Lynch¬ burg, O.; Jerry Jackson, Williamsburg, O.; George Turlukis, Hamilton, O.; Among exhibitors attending the recent ITOO convention in Columbus, O., were, left, left to right, Falter A. Burget, Lincoln Drive-In, Van Wert, and Mrs. Burget; Mrs. Horace Shock and Mr. Shock, Lima Drive-In, Lima, and at right, left to right, Mrs. J. D. Herlihy, Chillicothe; Mrs. L. M. Black and husband, Skyview Drive-In, East Liverpool, and Mrs. John Kaiser, Royal, Chillicothe. Ipril 22, 1953 MIDEAST