The Exhibitor (1951)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 JfBWS OF THK New York City Crosstown The Conston Corporation will operate the Garden, Paterson, N. J., as of Aug. 31. Brandt will do the buying and book¬ ing. . . . The Kings, Bronx, shuttered temporarily. . . . The Jamaica, Jamaica, L. I., closed, as did the Savoy, Asbury Park, N. J. Uda B. Ross, Westrex Corporation’s regional manager for Latin America, left for Mexico City to review the com¬ pany’s operations with the staff of the Westrex Company, Mexico. E. S. Gregg, vice-president and man¬ ager, Westrex Corporation, export sub¬ sidiary of Western Electric Company, returned after visiting the Westrex sub¬ sidiary companies located in England, Belgium, France, Spain, Brazil, Argen¬ tina, Chile, and Peru. S. Wiedemann, vice president in charge of the Westrex Company, Al¬ pine, a subsidiary of Westrex Corpora¬ tion, arrived from Basel, Switzerland. Monogram’s Latin American super¬ visor, Bernard J. Gates, arrived for head office conferences with Norton V. Ritchey, president, Monogram Inter¬ national Corporation. Adolph Schimel, vice-president and general counsel. Universal Pictures Company, Inc., has been appointed chairman, Motion Picture Industry Scholarship Fund at Yeshiva Univer¬ sity. Schimel announced the appoint¬ ment of the following to the committee: Barney Balaban, Paramount; Nate Blumberg, U-I; Spyros P. Skouras, 20th Century-Fox; Gus S. Eyssell, Radio City Music Hall; Abe Schneider, Colum¬ bia; George P. Skouras, Skouras The¬ atres; Robert M. Weitman, United Paramount Theatres; Irving H. Green¬ field, Loew’s; George Schaefer; William Zimmerman, RKO Theatres; Robert K. Christenberry, Hotel Astor; Max Seligman, Columbia; J. H. Lang, 20th Cen¬ tury-Fox; Harold Rodner, Warners; Jules W. Catsiff, Skouras Theatres, and Jacob Salzman, administrative director, Yeshiva University. Two armed bandits held up manager Murray Ingber, bound and gagged him, and robbed $377 from the office safe of the Palestine, Brooklyn. Robert L. Lippert and William M. Pizor, president and vice-president. Lippert Productions, Inc., left for Europe to visit franchise holders on the Conti¬ nent. They will also survey production in England, where “The Last Page” is being filmed. The Variety Club, Tent 35, held a fur fashion show in the North Garden of the Hotel Astor, arranged by Edward Lachman. Fred J. Schwartz, Chief Barker, outlined to those present the forthcoming campaign terminating in the fall for funds required to further activities in the tent’s welfare cam¬ paign, with winners of the 1951 Variety Club welfare awards to be announced at a costume ball in the Astor’s grand ballroom on Nov. 27. The tent will move into new air-conditioned headquarters located on the mezzanine of the Astor about Aug. 1. The Rivoli, closed for the summer, was turned over to the Office of Civilian Defense by George P. Skouras, presi¬ dent, Skouras Theatres, along with the services of Montague Salmon, manag¬ ing director, his permanent staff, and the personnel and material assistance of the Skouras Theatres Community Service Department. The theatre will be used as a recruiting center for the five New York boroughs. Proposed amendments to the New York State standard building code for places of public assembly were being studied by exhibitor organizations. The proposed amendments will be the sub¬ ject of open hearings by the Board of Standards and Appeals in New York City and Rochester. The local meeting is set for July 30 in Room 728, Empire State building, while the Rochester hearing will be on July 31 in Room 506, B and O building. Copies of the supple¬ ment containing the proposed amend¬ ments to Code Rule 36 are available from the Department of Labor offices in Albany, New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, and Bing¬ hamton. Comments on the proposals will be received by the Board of Standards and Appeals through Aug. 31. Alfred E. Daff, U-I director of world sales, left for Paris to hold the first of a series of six meetings with the Com¬ pany’s foreign distribution forces. Paramount eastern-southern division manager Hugh Owen announced the ap¬ pointment of Max Schreiber as cashier of the New York branch. Funeral services were held for Jo¬ seph Sherman. Surviving are his wife, Anna; three sons, Irving, assistant man¬ ager Columbia’s exchange operations department, Herman and Morris, and one daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Serlin. After witnessing a preview of Lou Bunin’s much discussed live action and puppet Ansco-color version of “Alice in Wonderland,” it was decided that the Souvaine Selective Pictures’ release would have a triple world premiere on July 26 at the Mavfair, Trans-Lux 72nd Street, and the Midtown. New Jersey Newark Winners of the first half of the “Sum¬ mer Showman Drive” being conducted bv Warner Brothers Jersey Zone were announced. First prize went to Edward Molteni, Regent, Paterson, N. J. Other winners were: Adolphe Finkelstein, Embassy, Orange, N. J.; Frank Costa, Warner, Ridgewood, N. J.; Gary Vroo man, Fabian, Paterson, N. J., and George Birkner, Oritani, Hackensack, N. J. The drive continues through July 31. New York State Albany Sequoia Theatres Corporation, headed by Neil Heilman, filed a certificate of voluntary dissolution in a technical move toward reorganization of the Pal¬ ace, Troy. . . . Postponed until October is the Court of Appeals decision op the appeal from the Board of Regents’ re¬ vocation of the license to exhibit “The Miracle.” Manager Alex Sayles reported a sell¬ out for the Layne-Marciano telecast at Fabian’s Palace, but the fight did not draw the early-capacity audience of the Murphy-LaMotta bout. Warner Theatres held a farewell party for those employees affected by the moving of the accounting depart¬ ment to New Haven. . . . The Variety Club, Tent 9, will hold a clambake for members and wives at Picard’s Grove on Aug. 27, with a program of sports to start at noon. The committee headed by Chief Barker Leo Rosen includes Charles A. Smakwitz, Nate Dickman, and Nate Winig. . . . Condolences are being extended to Paul Wilson, War¬ ners’ cashier, upon the death of his father. . . . Visitors in to confer with Max Friedman, Warner Theatres’ film buyer, were Moe Duddelson, UA dis¬ trict manager and Dave Leff, branch manager, and Pete Russian, U-I, Cleve¬ land. . . . Joe Lebworth, 20th CenturyFox publicity man, conferred with Gerry Atkin, Warner Theatres’ public¬ ity director, on “David and Bathsheba.” . . . Woodrow J. Campbell, former War¬ ner Theatres’ assistant contact man¬ ager, is the new office manager-booker, RKO. . . . Winnie Allen, 20th CenturyFox cashier, was vacationing in Canada. — M. E. B. Byffalo Film Row is still talking about the wedding of Patricia Ann O’Shea, daugh¬ ter of Mrs. and Edward Kelly O’Shea, vice-president. Paramount Distributing C'^rporation, to Thomas John Worthingt''n, Sayre, Pa., at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York City. The Rev. John Ouinn performed the ceremony. Shirley Kallet, wife of Robert Kallet, Oneida Circuit operator, was matron of honor. The attendants were Mrs. Edward O’Shea, Jr., Buffalo; Mrs. James O’Shea, Enid, Okla. ; Marianna Wil¬ liams, Atlanta: Ann Lydon, Sayre, and Barbara Beard, Rye. Jack Lydon was best man. Ushers were Messrs. Merrill Heagy, Otto Graham, Bernard Bernabel, and Lieutenant Edward O’Shea and Captain James H. O’Shea, brothers of the bride. The bride was graduated from Marymount College, Stephens Col¬ lege, and Northwestern University, and the bridegroom was graduated from Northwestern University. The couple flew to Bermuda for a honeymoon, after which they will make their future home in Detroit. A reception for 250 guests was given at Sherry’s immediately fol Jtdi/ 25, 1951 NEW YORK