The Exhibitor (Jun-Oct 1939)

THE EXHIBITOR 21 Jewett City JOE QUITTNER is summering with his fam¬ ily at Moodus. Madison LEO BONOFF is now making plans to install air-condition system. Manchester JACK SANSON, manager, State, is back on the job after spending some time in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and at Connecticut’s Lake Cov¬ entry. His assistant, TOM GROGAN is on his annual two weeks absence. WILLIAM PALMER, JR., Circle operator, re¬ sumes grinding after recent death of father. Marlboro City officials have placed ban on all carnivals and other traveling shows at city-owned Ward Park, heeding complaints they were a nuisance and took money out of city. Meriden JOSEPH SAMARTANO, Loew-Poli Palace manager, has returned from a vacation. LOU COHEN, who relieved JOE, is now doing relief work at the Loew-Poli, Hartford, while JACK SIMONS is away. SIDNEY KLEPER, assistant, Loew-Poli, Meri¬ den, leaves the latter part of this month for vacation. Present vacationist at the Capitol is officer JOHN CSZYMANSZEK. Introducing DENNIS RICH, manager, Cameo, Bristol, just returned from a grand vacation at his private cottage on Cedar Lake. Cashier CARMELO PROCENZANO, Cameo, is vacationing at Cedar Lake, and ELLORY GREGG is taking in the New York World’s Fair. Both of Bristol. Usual summer cleaning is being done at the Cameo, Bristol. VICTOR MORRELLI is manager, Warners’ Bristol, Bristol. — M. S. Middletown ARTHUR LOCKWOOD hopped to Washing¬ ton for MPTOA conferences with the Department of Commerce. Milford ALLAN SCHWART, manager, Drive-In, was in Boston recently. JOE PERRY is assisting at Drive-In, RICHARD MECKLEBURG also new member of the staff. LUCY FLACK is enjoying her weekends at Lakewood, New Jersey. Moosup CLYDE HESS is well liked by the various men in the territory. He has been telling some of his visitors that the corn crop won’t be very good this year on account of the drought. Niantic JOHN and STEVE PANORA are now living at their summer home. It is a treat for the vari¬ ous film row salesmen to make their calls on the Panoras in this beautiful spot. Norwalk Two clergymen led the attack on city approval of "Bingo,” although a petition bearing 2,000 names was presented as the law provided. Ques¬ tion was postponed to the August meeting when no one could produce a copy of the "Bjngo” measure. Putnam With a feminine beauty contest out of the way, manager ERWIN NEUMAN, Interstate Bradley, arranged a male beauty contest on stage July 27, in cooperation with Church Cloth¬ ing Company. Sound View Conrose’s Cinema City is making a bid for good will by allowing beach sojourners to use the theatre for midnight parties. It makes a lot of dirt to clean up the following morning, but boosts business. Nearly all those attending send their kids to see the show the following day. South Norwalk WILLIAM HATKOFF is in the pink for an¬ other year as manager of the Rialto after vaca¬ tion at Toten Lodge, Averill Park, New York. MRS. CELIA OVERTON, Rialto cashier, holi¬ dayed home. Lake Zoar was the vacation paradise for ERNEST DI ORIO, assistant manager. Palace. JACK GAMBLE, formerly of Regent, now Norwalk, is now working at new Avon, Stam¬ ford. Theatre-in-the-Woods, natural amphitheatre in Norwalk, ended adventure into outdoor vaude¬ ville after two weeks. BILLY MADIGAN pro¬ moted. HORACE MacMAHON, Hollywood free lance, visited the folks in South Norwalk. STANLEY S. JOSELOFF, formerly at Fine Arts, Westport, is home in East Norwalk from Hollywood jaunt. (Ed. — Why doesn’t he write!) Summer interest in ceramics at the Rialto is low. Ne tv Britain While other millions have been going by land, PETER PERAKOS, Palace owner, went to the World’s Fair at Flushing by sea. On the cruise were I. J. HOFFMAN, New Haven district War¬ ner manager, and others from the Warner office. MARY SHEEHAN, Palace cashier, past three years, has become relief cashier at Strand, replac¬ ing MARIE JOHNSON, who is soon to marry. DORIS DOUGHERTY takes the place of Miss Sheehan at Palace. Recovering from injuries in auto-tree crash in Branford is STEPHEN, son of PETER PERA¬ KOS, Palace owner. Vacationing currently are BUDDY FREDER¬ ICKS and JOHN D’AMATO, Embassy staff. Since hill billies were allowed to run Sunday show here, PETER PERAKOS is considering opening Sunday vaudeville at Palace. Waterbury "Hollywood Party” has been cancelled at the Loew-Poli. Returning from a pleasant vacation, FRANCIS RYAN, Loew-Poli, relates exciting details of an outdoor camping trip which he made with student assistant STEPHEN FRUIN. ED FITZPATRICK’S "Old Timers Night,” a Loew-Poli stage event, was a great success. Recent visitors to the Loew-Poli were HARRY F. SHAW, division manager, LOU BROWN, pub¬ licity director, and ELLIOT KRONISH, New Haven home office. EDDIE MASCOLI, popular Cameo manager, and his bride, the former BLANCHE SUPERNANT, are honeymooning in Washington. JOSEPHINE VERRASTRO, Loew-Poli, spent an enjoyable vacation at her sister’s summer home in Stamford. For advance lobby exploitation on "Second Fiddle,” manager ED FITZPATRICK, of the Loew-Poli employed a pianist to entertain crowds in the lobby. Inside of the Cameo will see a thorough paint job. DOMENIC JEANETTI, operator, Cameo, is a Jack of all trades. Manager BOB ZOELLER, Strand, reports that cashier HELEN DODGE, and usher FRED O’NEILL are on vacation. CARMEN MASCOLI will take his long-delayed vacation in August. Picketing at the Alhambra has finally ceased, strike being settled. ROBERT ASTON is the new usher at the Loew-Poli. Loew-Poli surrealist lobby display in conjunc¬ tion with "On Borrowed Time” is exciting plenty of comment. GEORGE LOUKIDES, assistant, Loew-Poli, won low net for local club championship. — M. S. West Haven Three West Haven organizations will defi¬ nitely operate "Bingo” in town. Windsor A new theatre to seat 600 will be built by Attorney J. L. Shulman, who has theatres in Hartford. MR. WONG IN CHINATOWN. Among those to be seen in the Monogram production are Boris Karloff, of course, as “Mr. Wong”; Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds and others. July 26, 1939