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THE EXHIBITOR
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NlilWS OF THF
Chicago
Leo Huffer will build the Wayne, Waynesville, II 1 .... George Banta, Richard Hand, and Tony Vitello will provide Winemac, Ind. , with a new drive-in.
Barter, Wilmoth, and Ingram will erect an outdoor at Pankeyville, Ill. ....William K. Hollander, B and K advertising executive, accepted co¬ chairmanship of the fund drive for Union College, Jewish Institute of Rel igion. . . . The Star Dust Theatre Company will put in a drive-in at Seymour, Ind.
A new theatre is planned for Park Forest, Ill .... Harold Butcher and A. G. Lee bought the Durand, Durand, Wis. , from Durand Theatre Company,
P. B. Youngblood and son and Oral Pierson will build the Twin Lakes Drive-In, Paris, IIT. ... Fred Mathews, Motiograph prexy, took a southern business swing. ... Rol and Robinson plans a drive-in for Sandoval, Ill. ....Palmer and Minton will give West Frankfort, Ill. , a drive-in.
01 en J. Ingram and Fred W. Wilmath will put in a drive-in at Harrisburg, Ill.... James Thomas was made assis¬ tant trainee, Biltmore.
Indiana will get new drive-ins at Attica, by Carl Noggle; Bedford, by Me Carroll Enterprises, and at Sey¬ mour, by Star Dust Theatres, Inc.
Air-conditioning at theAdelphi was installed by Chicago Air-conditioning Company.
Sound absorbtion walls were in¬ stalled by Celotex Corporation in the Edgefield, S. C. , New Grande, Denver; Murray, Slayton, Minn. , and Shoals, Florence, Ala. . . . Kroeschell
Engineering Company installed cool¬ ing equipment in the Harvard, Rio, and Senate, . . . The Grand, Terre Haute, Ind., recently acquired by Alliance Theatre Corporation, will receive a $150,000 remodeling.
Helmco, Inc., is producing a “fountainette'' for theatres which do not have complete soda fountain equipment ....Drive-ins are to be built at Belleville, Ill., by the Bloomer Amusement Company and at Jacksonville, Ill., by the Central Amusement Com¬ pany.
Harry Reckas, theatre owner, or¬ ganized a group to build a $600,000 house in Burbank, Cal., which will be television equipped. ... J. W. Droll, Droll theatre Supply, took a coast busi¬ ness trip. ... William Howard, RKO Thea¬ tres’ assistant general manager, was here on his way to the home office from a trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco ....Alliance Theatre Corporation took over the Riviera, Anderson, Ind. from Colonel pred Levy, upping thea¬ tres in its circuit to 97.
The Tiffin $840,000 anti-trust suit will come before Federal judge Walter La Buy next fall.
B and k' s WBKB-TV will soon become the key outlet for CBS-TV, according to announcement by John Balaban, B and K secretarytreasurer; John Mitchell, WBKB general manager, and J.L. Van Volkenburg, CBS-TV vicepresident.
Kurt Manig, B and K accounting, became the dad of a third son, Thomas Oliver Manig. ... Charles H. Miller, Savannah, Ill., theatre owner, was a vi si tor .... James jovan Monroe owner, is meeting with attendance success by asking his audiences to suggest, on passed out slips, picture nits of former years that they would like to see again.
Earle Baker was named manager, Havana, Havana, Ill. . . . The A. J. Balabans celebrated their 3lst wedding anniversary.
Henri Elman, Capitol owner, headed, as Chief Barker, a large delegation from the Variety Club, Tent 26, for
the Variety Clubs international convention at San Francisco. ... Lou Harrison, theatre owner, was treated at Michael Reese Hospital. '
George Lucas, who started in show businees in 1890, and was a member of the Four Lucases, is now cue man on the Chicago stage. ... Jack Belasco is back at the Woods after a Florida vacation. ... Harold peck was made manager, Drive-In, Decatur, Ill.
An organ was added to improvements at the reopened Northcenter. Recitals have added many music lovers to patronage. ... Donald Dallraven was appointed manager, Mode, Onarga, Ill.
Lester C. Simansky cheered La Rabidia Sanitorium children on Easter with the gift of 100 sets of games ....Publishers of Willard Motley’s “Knock On Any Door’’, honored the author at a luncheon. ... Wally Dorff was made Republic exchange booker.
Nick Nicols, Racine, Wis., purchased the Calumet and the Hammond, Hammond, Ind. , from the Harold Leiber Circuit .... Pred Mathers, Motiograph, Inc., reported, following a successful business trip, that many new driveins are being built in Texas. ... Jack Kirsch, Allied prexy, and family re¬ turned from their Florida sojourn.
Thomas A. Lowery, advertising di¬ rector, The Daily News amusement de¬ partment, passed on.... Cinema B’ nai B’ rith lodge held a dinner meeting... Otto A. Trampe, Milwaukee projection¬ ists’ business agent and brother of Charles Trampe, owner. Monogram Mid¬ west Films, was buried in Wanderers Rest Cemetery, Milwaukee. Several Chicago projectionists attended the services.
Dallas
P.A. “Bob” Warner, vice-president, Manley, Inc. , announced that the house-warming and reception for the opening of the new Manley building at 2013-15 Young Street has been post¬ poned because of a delay in building plans. Warner and his publicity man, Hal Norfleet flew to the Variety Club’s national convention in San Francisco.
Home office executives and members of the 20th Century vention room. Branch managers and salesmen, who had lunch Fox western division sales department met in Los at the studio, and visited the sets before the meeting to
Angeles recently at the National Theatres home of f ice con discuss product and plans, are shown in session.
May 4, 1949
National