The Exhibitor (1951)

NT-2 Ned Clarke, Latin-American division manager, RKO, left for a business trip to Mexico. . . . Charles Levy, eastern publicity manager, Walt Disney Produc¬ tions, returned from Cleveland, where he went to set promotional plans for Dis¬ ney’s “Alice in Wonderland.” . . . H offberg Productions announced the acquisi¬ tion of a series of 12 single-reel ballet and symphonic films for the western hemisphere. The Vienna Symphony Or¬ chestra, the Vienna Staatsopera Ballet, and the Vienna Chamber Chorus are featured. . . . Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, left for Europe enroute to Africa. New Jersey Asbury Park Publix Asbury Corporation, operator of the Walter Reade Paramount, filed a $100,000 suit against the City of Asbury Park, the Manhattan Opera Company, and the Rediker Corporation. The action is Publix’s second attempt to bar opera from Asbury Park’s Convention Hall, home of the Paramount. The complaint, filed by Harry Green, Rumson, N. J., states that in permitting operas in Con¬ vention Hall, the city violated a contract with Walter Reade barring other theatri¬ cal performances in the building. Publix charges that there was a conspiracy between the defendants to willfully and maliciously breach the lease in the mat¬ ter. The original suit was filed last sum¬ mer after a series of four operas was announced for Convention Hall by the Rediker Corporation. However, the operas were staged despite Publix pro¬ tests. Both Publix and the Rediker firm have announced they will stage operas in Convention Hall this season although Asbury Park maintains Publix does not have the right to do so. Newark John Stanek, manager, Union, Union, N. J., presented the Jane Murray Danc¬ ing School from the stage. . . . The Em¬ bassy, Orange, N. J., finished a 25th anniversary celebration. . . . Adolphe Finkenstein, manager, Embassy, started a 10-week kids giveaway. . . . Frank Kares is the new assistant manager, Branford, replacing James DiNapalo, now in the publicity department of Warner Theatres. . . . Frank Damis, Warner Theatres Jersey zone manager, and Mrs. Damis were vacationing at Hot Springs, Ark. Jack Conhaim, Hollywood, East Orange, N. J., was named “Best Show¬ man of the Month” in Warner Theatres’ three-month drive for “King Solomon’s Mines.” . . . Phil Manes, formerly with Warner Theatres, is now in California. . . . Frank Hinchy, manager, Capitol, Belleville, N. J., had police officers in his lobby signing up volunteers for civil defense during “You Can Beat the ABomb.” . . . Edward Kane, manager, Stanley, Jersey City, N. J., was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital for an emer¬ gency operation, and is on the road to recovery. New York Albany Cliff Swick, veteran of 33 years in the trade, is the new manager, Smalley’s, EXHIBITOR This “Cave Girl to Cover Girl” display of fashions in a leading department store was part of the energetic campaign recently conducted by Robert Murphy, managing director, Century, for Eagle Lion Classics’ “Prehistoric Women.” Johnstown, succeeding Joseph J. Walsh, resigned. Swick has served in managerial and promotional positions with the Smalley and Hellman-Fabian Circuits and LaMont Theatre Service. The annual Variety Club dinner-dance at the Ten Eyck Hotel proved a big success. Approved by Governor Dewey was the Mitchell Bill, which increases from 75 cents to $1 the amount of premium which may be charged by ticket brokers for admission tickets. Harry Goldberg, director of advertis¬ ing and exploitation, Warner Theatres, addressed a meeting of Warner upstate managers in this area. Zone manager Charles A. Smakwitz presided. Buffalo Condolences go to Lee Gross Adams, Buffalo Paramount Corporation booker, on the passing of her mother. . . . Film friends are pulling for the complete re¬ covery of Jack Karp, Cameo, Syracuse. . . . Stanley Kozanowski, Rivoli, walking with a cane after falling down his cellar steps, said wife Edna had gone for a spinal checkup, and wound up at the Buffalo General Hospital to undergo a spinal operation. Her sister “Heart Dale Clarkson, recently chosen “lTp Front Girl’ by members of the Stars and Stripes Mediterranean Association, is shown in New York being congrat¬ ulated by Ernie Emerling, Loew’s Thea¬ tres advertising and publicity chief, and Sam Pearlman, manager, Loew’s State, where U-I’s “Up Front” had its world premiere. Miss Clarkson tours the keys. The Marine recruiting office recently furnished both the manpower and the equipment for a lobby display for 20thFox’s “Halls of Montezuma,” Walter Reade’s Community, Morristown, N. J. The tieup was effected by R. Lanterman. Waves of Variety” hope for a speedy recovery. Leonard Jozwiak, Shea Teck manager, suffered a severe attack of the flu, con¬ fining him to the Columbus Hospital. . . . Harry Berkson, Monogram, and wife enjoyed a brief stay in Florida. . . . Jim Ryan, Ithaca, was in Buffalo booking. Murray Briskin is now buying and booking for the State, Caledonia, owned by Arthur Copeland. . . . Otto Gratzer was in from Mexico. . . . Ray Pashley is sales representative for Monogram in the Syracuse territory. He was formerly connected with Lippert. . . . Eleanor Paradeis, former Pam-O-Film owner, left for Hollywood. Milton A. Mooney, who heads Co¬ operative Theatres of Ohio, has opened a branch office with Bill Twigg as man¬ ager. It has already signed service con¬ tracts with 16 drive-ins and 11 other theatres for which it will buy and book. Twigg was Cleveland city salesman for Warners. Ed Wall, Paramount publicity direc¬ tor, issued press and radio invitations to a cocktail party and luncheon at which Gertrude Berg was guest of honor. . . . Hank Howard, RKO publicity direc Herbert J. Yates, president, Republic, recently cut the ribbon marking the formal opening of Republic House, Lon¬ don, the company’s new distribution headquarters for Great Britain and Eire. Seen with him are Forrest Tucker; Richard W. Altschuler, Republic Inter¬ national head; John Wayne, and C. Bruce Newbery, British managing director. March 28, 1951