The Exhibitor (1950)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 NEWS OF Till: Philadelphia Crossfown The U. S. Circuit Court last fortnight reserved decision on the appeal of the State Board of Censors from U. S. Dis¬ trict Court ruling that the board had no jurisdiction over censoring of motion pictures used in television by four tele¬ vision stations in the state since such procedure would encroach on state rights and transmission of the subjects into other states. Vine Street Jack Bergin, Jr., rowed with the Penn Varsity in the collegiate rowing cham¬ pionships at Marietta, O., last week. . . . Eagle Lion Classics will move to 1235 Vine Street, former Film Classics exchange, in the near future. The tele¬ phone number will be RI 6-3876. . . . Max Miller, Eagle Lion Classics publi¬ cist, entered Jewish Hospital for an appendectomy last week. Edward L. Walton, Republic assist¬ ant general sales manager, was in to attend the wedding of Republic branch manager Norman Silverman, accom¬ panied by Richard T. Yates, executive assistant to James R. Grainger, execu¬ tive vice-president in charge of sales and distribution. Pauline Moray, Warner clerk, was vacationing. . . . Helen Strollo, Warner biller, announced her engagement. . . . Bernice Zimath, Warner stenographer, was on the sick list. . . . Most of the exchange heads found themselves in U. S. District Court the past two weeks testifying in David Milgram’s Boule¬ vard Drive-In case. . . . George Nonamaker, Exhibitor staff, was on vacation. . . . Allied Booking and Buying Service is now handling the Starlite Drive-In, Tunkhannock, Pa., for Marvin Sands. It was divulged last week that Jean Goodwin, Eagle Lion Classics cashier, has been Mrs. Joseph Stein for over one-and-one-half years. . . . Ruth Le¬ vine, Republic biller, is leaving to go to California. When she gets settled there, she will send for her sister, telephone girl at Eagle Lion Classics. . . . Richard Yates, executive assistant to Republic’s James R. Grainger, is relieving Norman Silverman as branch manager while the latter is on his honeymoon to the west coast. Yates is from the home office. . . . Sarah Fishman, Clark Film head inspec¬ tress, was in University Hospital. . . . Jean Dowling, Clark Film inspectress, is recuperating from a recent operation. . . . George Walton, Clark Film shipping room, is commuting to Cape May, N. J. . . . Mr. and Mrs. David Moliver, Prin¬ cipal, returned from a visit to Boston. . . . R. V. Graber, travelling auditor, was in at Monogram. . . . Columbia office man¬ ager Walt Donohue was on a motor trip Harry Abbott, president, IATSE Local 307, Philadelphia, recently was named the eighth International vice-president. vacation down south. . . . Zelda Donska, Columbia clerk, resigned. . . . The 20thFox Family Club annual outing was to have been held yesterday (June 20). Pocono Mountain vacationists from 20th-Fox were Betty Kline, telephone operator; Ethel Rudick, bookers’ secre¬ tary; Shirley Mollinger, secretary, and Florence Resnick, secretary. . . . Marie Schaeffer, 20th-Fox secretary, vacationed in Frackville, Pa., her home town. . . . Dolores Gallagher, 20th-Fox cashiers’ de¬ partment, was on vacation. . . . George Hutcheon, Warner office manager, was on a Canadian vacation. Irving M. Sochin, sales head, U-I’s special film division, was in last week from New York. Gloria Swanson was in in behalf of Paramount’s “Sunset Boulevard,” and was kept busy with a round of activities including the screening at the Commo¬ dore. Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Eastern Pennsylvania was to have held a general meeting yesterday (June 20) at the Broadwood, with grosses, rentals, and taxes as part of the dis¬ cussion. Mildred Green, Republic booker, was on a Florida vacation. . . . Mrs. Florence Thesing’s son, Richard, was married to Theresa Porreca at St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Church. Mrs. Thesing is in Exhibitor’s circulation department. Circuits Stcsnley-Warner Kitty Houston, the girl with the little voice on the switchboard, was one of the unfortunate victims of the truck accident at 11th and Market. She was struck by the truck. At last reports, her left shoul¬ der was dislocated. She was discharged to the care of her family physician after treatment at Jefferson Hospital. Ellis Shipman and Dave Stadler were in New York for the contact manager’s meeting. . . . Everyone is looking for¬ ward to the office outing at Mermaid Lake, New Jersey. A gala time is antic¬ ipated. . . . Jerrie Greenberg Weintraub is leaving the company next month in anticipation of a blessed event. . . . Harry Goldberg was in from New York for an advertising meeting with Everett Callow and the managers. . . . Since “The Good Humor” ice cream man put in an appearance at the office and left some samples, everyone is looking for more pictures where they can make that kind of tieup. . . . The William Bendix Trophy to the best sandlot baseball player will be presented by A1 Plough at the end of the year in conjunction with “Kill The Umpire.” District of Columbia Washington Attorneys Miller, Sher, and Oppenheimer, Centerville Amusement Com¬ pany, last week asked the U. S. District Court to direct defendant distributors to show to the Centerville company copies of the Sargoy and Stein audit on the rentals and grosses of theatres in Church Hill and Chestertown, Md., named in the Centerville action against the distributors. The Centerville com¬ pany, which operates the Center, is The 1950 “Pennsylvania Week” motion picture committee met recently at the War¬ wick Hotel, Philadelphia, to plan area participation in the state-wide observance, scheduled for Oct. 16-22, and committeemen seated from left are: Robert Lynch, Loew’s, Inc., Philadelphia; Thomas D. Richter, public relations director. Lit Brothers; Ted Schlanger, Stanley-Warner Theatres, Philadelphia; Mrs. Edna Carroll, state chairman, who presided, and Mrs. Thelma Beresin, public relations director, Gray and Rogers Advertising. Standing from left are: Ward B. Ivreag, industry south¬ eastern Pennsylvania regional chairman and manager, Fabian Theatres, Allentown, Pa.; Herbert M. Miller, editor, EXHIBITOR, representing Jay Emanuel, publisher; Benjamin Barr, representing southeastern Pennsylvania general regional chairman William H. Doran; Sam Gilman, Loew’s Regent, Harrisburg, Pa., and east-south¬ central regional industry chairman; Louis Finske, Penn Paramount, Inc., WilkesBarre, Pa., and northeastern regional industry chairman; Ulrik Smith, Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, and Stanley Goldberg, National Screen Service. June 21, 1950 PHILA.-WASH.