The Exhibitor (1950)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 I NEWS OF THE BRANCHES Cincinnati Additions to Realart include Terra Stenger, as secretary to Lee I. Goldberg, Hilda Moore, secretary; Elvira Dellaport, billing and office clerk, and Rosie Nordman, cashier. . . . Walter Watson, formerly with Film Classics, joined U-I as bookkeeper. . . . Barbara Born is the new switchboard operator at Loew’s. Coming and going were Mary Lou Haas, UA availability clerk, for a week¬ end in Jasper, Ind.; Matt Freed, Lippert exploitation department, in town; Milton Gurian, Lippert branch manager, in Chicago; George B. West, Monogram, to Detroit, and Ray Moon, 20th district sales manager, and Clarence Hill, New York, in town. A sneak preview was run at the Twin Drive-In for the benefit of Variety Club’s foundling home fund, under spon¬ sorship of the Tent 3 Club. . . . Dottie Schuh, secretary to Jack Finberg, UA branch manager, was a soloist in the Newman Club production of “Sunbonnet Sue.” . . . The new Lake Carlisle DriveIn at Richmond, Ky., opened on June 14. . . . Richard Tatum purchased the Twin, Waynesville, 0., from Robert Reegan. Vacationing were Florence Schumacker, U-I cashier, and Stanley Kamin, Loew’s bookkeeping department. . . . Robert J. Lipson, Mid-State Thea¬ tres, hospitalized. . . . The husband of Janet Lantry, secretary to Murray Baker, booker-buyer, Schine Theatres, was a June graduate at the University of Cincinnati. Visitors included: Woodrow Thomas, Oak Hill, W. Va.; Moe Potasky and C. F. Pfistery, Troy, 0.; Don Reade, Lon¬ don, Ky. ; Jack Stallings, Blanchester, 0.; Jim Weddel, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; Roy Wells and Jim Herb, Dayton, O.; Guy Greathouse, Aurora, Ind.; Jim Malavozos and Fred Donohue, New Bos¬ ton, O.; Foster Lane and Louie Shore, Williamson, W. Va. ; “Doc.” Newbold, Donald Keesling, and Goode Holmes, Bramwell, W. Va.; “Col.” Howell, Rich¬ land, Ky. ; Bill Thalheimer, Logan, W. Va.; Joseph Bone, Indianapolis; Jack Hoffman, Greenup, Ky. ; Carl Krimm, Lancaster, O., and Harold Moore, Charlestown, W. Va. The Strand, Telenews house, closed, thus making 10 darkened in the area within recent weeks. . . . Area exhibitors are aiding the Cerebral Palsy Drive, with J. S. Ambrose, WB branch head, and Jack Keegan, Northio Theatres gen¬ eral manager, in charge. Cleveland Universal-International’s Clevel and exchange headed by branch manager Gray Barker, Clarksburg, W. Va., who books for several drive-ins in the Wash¬ ington, D. C., and Pittsburgh territories, is pictured at right during a recent visit to the Warner exchange, Wash¬ ington, with vet salesman Cliff Jarrett. Lester Zucker held first place among the company’s 31 domestic branches as the current U-I “Big Push” sales effort went into its second half. The district headed by P. F. Rosian, and including the Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincinnati, In¬ dianapolis, and Memphis exchanges, held first place among the districts, with the southern division of F. J. A. McCarthy, leading the divisions. The Monday through Friday radio program promoted by the “Movies Are Better Than Ever” committee in cooper¬ ation with WERE reached a peak when the panel presented a $100 bond to Miss Lola Campbell, Lakewood, O., for sub¬ mitting the best letter on “What Sug¬ gestions do you have to make the movies more enjoyable so that you will go more often to the movie theatres?” Panel members are Nat Wolf, Warner The¬ atres’ Ohio zone manager; Frank Mur¬ phy, Loew’s Theatres’ division manager; Max Mink, RKO Theatres’ district man¬ ager, and James Kalafat, independent circuit owner. The winning suggestions included lower admission prices and staggered releases so that all first-run neighborhood houses do not play the same picture on the break day. Bill Colella, assistant manager, Es¬ quire, and Henry Brenner, former man¬ ager, Embassy, have purchased the Paramount, New Castle, Pa., fi’om A. J. Masters. They will take over the house on July 1, at which time they will re¬ model, redecorate, and change its name to the Vogue. J Arthur L. Mayer was the guest speak¬ er at the Allerton Hotel at a meeting of the American Jewish Committee. Practically every local distributing company was represented at the invita¬ tional preview of the remodelled Capitol, Steubenville, O., as guests of the own¬ ers, A. G. Constant, William Dipson, Jr., and George Otte. After inspecting the theatre, the guests were entertained at dinner. Among those attending from Cleveland were Jack Sogg and Jerry Lipow, MGM; Lester Zucker and E. R. Bergman, Universal-International; Mor¬ ris Lefko, RKO; Nat Barach and Irving Marcus, National Screen Service; Lou Averbach, Paramount; Sidney Cooper, United Artists; Ray Schmertz and Manny Glick, 20th-Fox; Sol Gordon, Monogram; Jules Livingston, Republic, and Jerry Wechsler, Eddie Catlin, and Dave Kaufman, Warners. Justin Spiegle, Lippert branch man¬ ager, attended a company meeting in Chicago. . . . Shelley Silverman, recently associated with Mrs. Sadie Weinstein in the Ritz, will manage the new East Lake Drive-In when it opens in late June. The new Willow, Independence, O., completed for several months but never opened because of labor trouble, was picketed by Local 160. Edwin Porozynski, one of the owners, hired a member of the American Projectionists Associ¬ ation, an independent union, to install and operate the equipment. Controversy is said to have arisen over the IA’s de¬ mand for two men in a booth. A ruling of the Ohio Board of Censors was challenged for the first time when the Ohio Supreme Court reviewed the board’s ruling banning “The Devil’s Weed.” distributed by Hallmark. Al¬ though the highest court sustained the censor board, the way has now been opened to all distributors to appeal the censor board’s ruling in the event they think such ruling to be “unreasonable or unlawful.” William Minshall, Sr., Cleveland, representing J. S. Jossey, Producer Bill Pine and “Lalo” Rios, starred in Paramount’s “The Lawless,” recently took time out from a busy two-day schedule in Cleveland, which included screenings for special women’s groups, to visit with members of the Paramount branch, and seen from left are: office manager George Bressler, Rios, branch manager Harry Buxbaum, Jr., Pine, and Lou Averbach, special Paramount sales representative. June 21, 1950 MIDEAST