The Exhibitor (1949)

NT2 THE EXHIBITOR Warners, is now secretary at Lockwood and Gordon Enterprises. Winnie Nickerson, formerly with Capitol Theatre Supply Company, has taken a position with Embassy as secretary to Joseph Wolf, vicepresident. ... Gordon Stults, Inter¬ national Film Company, Eagle Lion’s Canadian branch, visited upon his release from the Lashey Clinic, Boston, after treatment. Special greetings were relayed to Barbara Mintz, secretary, EL, from “Jerry” Chernoff, her cousin and branch mana¬ ger of the Canadian exchange. Francis J. Sheeran, Fire Department chief, retired, was the guest of honor at a testimonial on the occasion of his 85th birthday, in Woburn, Mass. Local industryites will associate Sheeran with his son, James Sheeran, the well-known state censor, formerly connected with the Department of Public Safety, and past commander. Lieutenant A. Vernon Macaulay Post, American Legion. ... Harriet Rosen, secretary, E. M. Loew’ s, is recuper¬ ating at home from second degree burns received from a sunlamp. Ed O’Donnell, State, Webster, Mass., made the rounds of the district with the genial Trayers, introducing new¬ comer Garfield to the various ex¬ changes. The entire Eagle Lion sales force, headed by Harry Segal, branch manager, journeyed to the New York home office, for a salesmeeting. In addition to Segal, A1 Feche, Edward Resnick, Saul Levin, and Irving Shiftman made the trip. ...Max Melincoff, New England district manager, Warner Theatres, announced the following changes: Julian Eaton, assistant manager, Warner, Lynn, Mass. , became manager, Capitol, Everett, Mass., with Stanley Young taking over Eaton’ s position in Lynn. Harold Cummings, manager, Warner, Lynn, left Warners’ New England zone for another district with Royce Beckman, former manager, Capitol, Everett, Mass., filling that position. Harold Garfield, Swampscott, Mass. , will open a first-run house known as the GUAM Hall, in Seabrook, N. H. , a location that has been closed for the last eight years. The new location will run on Wednesday and Sunday. Garfield, president, G and L Enter¬ prises, bought out the equipment of W. W. Trayers, Community House, Hamilton, Mass. He also advises that this is his first venture into the entertainment line. Garfield is a shoe man, representing a New York shoe concern in the New England area. Walter E. Mitchell, Morse, Franklin, Mass. , and Mrs. Mitchell journeyed to Florida for a two-week vacation, and then drove to Washington, D, C, for the Allied board meeting at the Hotel Statler, on Feb. 14 and 15. Other Independent members who attended were: Myer Stanzler, Community, Wakefield, Mass. ; Mel Safner, Safner Circuit; Woonsocket, R. I.; Ted Rosenblatt, Community, Centerdale, R. I.; Arthur K. Howard, Affiliated Theatres: Walter Littlefield, Nathan Yamins, Yamins circuit, Julian Rifkin, Rifkin Circuit, Norman Glassman, Rialto, Lowell, Mass., and Ray Feeley, business manager. Inde¬ pendent Exhibitors. Mesdames Feeley, Glassman, Mitchell, and Rifkin planned to attend with their husbands, P, Edward Comi , president, Massa¬ chusetts Theatre Equipment Company, announced that his concern installed Century Western Electric Academy Award sound and projection equipment in the Saxon, Fitchburg, Mass. , owned by Irving Sisson. Comi further advised that the Strand, Ipswich, Mass., a Phil Smith house, was equipped with new Century projectors. Ray Feeley, business manager. Inde¬ pendent Exhibitors, Inc. , and Myer Stanzler, president. Independent TOA of Rhode Island, were invited to a board meeting of Rhode Island's Congress of PTA at the Hotel Narragansett. U-I announced that it is now ready to join the interexchange bowling league with a newly formed team. At a recent meeting Jerry Hof fman, cashier, was unanimously elected captaintreasurer. The remainder of the team includes: Bob Rand, booker and ace bowler; Harold Harris, booker; “Luckey” Martinez, shipper, and Kenneth Mayer, salesman. A highly favored Affiliated Theatre bowling team went down to defeat by NSS in the recent playoff. Dominic sparked the NSS team to victory along with Tom Morton, who held high string total for the evening. U-I is scheduled to be the next victim of NSS. A1 Swerdlove, president. Screen Guild, announced that prints of “I killed Jesse James”, highest budget picture made to date by Screen Guild, are ready for dates. This feature was screened and was well received by the exhibitors. RKO, Warners, and Loew’ s booked this feature in their “A” houses in Baltimore, Md. , and Washing¬ ton as a single feature. The addition to Screen Guild makes a total of six pictures in the last six weeks, all produced by Robert Lippert. These have been well received by the circuits as well as the independent exhibitors. The releases are: “Return Of Wildfire’’, “Last of The Wild Horses”, “Shep Comes Home,” “Thunder In The Pines”, and “Highway 13.” RKO was the scene of a recent “Ned Depinet Drive”, meeting presided over by Gus Schaefer, New England district manager and captain of this drive. In addition to the Boston personnel, Nat Levy, eastern division manager, and Harry Michaelson, short subjects chief, came in from New York. The regular monthly meeting of the Cinema Club was held at the Warner exchange, presided over by President Charles Wilson, head booker. Monogram. A discussion was held on the ap¬ proaching annual dinner dance on March 10 at the Latin Quarter. George Roberts, district manager, Rifkin Circuit, and newly elected secretary, Cinema Club, advised that members present were most gratified to learn that the program book was rapidly filling, with returns far above the preceding years results. George Roberts, general manager, Rifkin Circuit, and Julian Rifkin^ presided over the Rifkin Circuit managers meeting held at the Phillips, Springfield, Mass. In attendance were: Charles Hurley, Phillips, E. A. Altree, Jefferson, Mike McAndrews, Strand, and A1 Poulton, Liberty, all of Springfield; Paul Kessler, Suffolk, Holyoke, Mass. , and Albert Desautels. New Haven CROSSTOWN When John Garfield was playing at the Shubert in “The Big Knife”, Poli assistant manager Tony Masella aided Morris Rosenthal in getting the star to pose for pictures for "Force Of Evil”, booked for a later date at the Loew* s Poli. That MGM record display in the lobby of Morris Rosenthal’ s Loew’ s Poli, plugging Metro pictures and records, has aroused quite a bit of attention. ... Bil 1 Brown, Bijou, was working on “Badmen of Arizona”.... Jim Darby, Paramount, continued his Saturday morning shows for youngsters with the “Little Polks Talent Revue”. The entire talent show is broad¬ cast each Saturday morning over a local radio station. Hester Meyer, Paramount, resigned ....Pay Crowther, recently arrived from England, where she was doing some singing, is back at the Para¬ mount, filling the vacancy. ... Jim Darby, Paramount, received a nice bit of co-op. advertising recently when a dress store used nearly a half a page plugging a dress worn by Loretta Young to bally “Accused” _ Charles Girard, reported as a tele expert, is handling the projectionist’s job at the Avon Playhouse. Pictured in the society columns re¬ cently was a photo of Miss Janet Fish¬ man, daughter of Dr. Jack Fishman, Fishman Theatres, at an informal dance at Wellesley College, where she is attending school. ... Miss Concetta P. Tomasino, daughter of Michael Tomasino, former White Way and Victory exhibitor, is engaged to Francois A. Corcoran, according to a recent an¬ nouncement. ... Lou Moscow, Shubert, is back after a month’ s vacation at Salerno, Fla. He did some fishing in the inland waters. Among the promotional angles for “The Snake Pit”, Morris Rosenthal, Poli, obtained a public endorsement by the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene executive secretary after a preview. ... Tony Masella, Poli as¬ sistant, is quite enthused with the showing that his musician brother, Guy Masella, made' with his orchestra at the Ritz Ballroom, Bridgeport. Molly Rosenthal, wife of Poli mana¬ ger Morris Rosehthal, was named enter Pebruary 16, 1949 ’