The Exhibitor (1950)

NT-4 exhibitor and will open every day at noon. The club previously opened at 5 p.m. The John Walshes, he is the Fulton manager, left for Newport, R. I. He will be back, but the family plans to remain there for the summer. Another Newport, R. I., vacationer will be Kaspar Mona¬ han, dramatic critic, The Press. Harry Kalmine returned to New York after four days of conferences with the Warner Theati’es executives. . . . A1 Criswell, Enright projectionist, passed on. He had been a popular projectionist for years. . . . Bert Stearn, Harry Hendel, and Jimmy Nash arranged a special preview at their Wexford Starlight Drive-In for the benefit of Camp O’Con¬ nell. Stage show, door prizes, and the sneak preview will be the attractions. . . . Harry Brenner and William C. Colella have taken over the Paramount, New Castle, Pa., and are changing the name to the Vogue. . . . Walter Yokes has been named assistant manager, Family Drive-In, New Kensington, Pa. . . . Samuel Rothenstein, Evans, Evans City, Pa., suffered another heart attack. . . . William Perilman, executive, Eagle Lion Classics, was in in connection with the consolidation of Eagle Lion and Film Classics. Visitors on Film Row; Harry Cotton, general district manager, Alexander Films; John Colder, district manager, Jam Handy; Dave Fineman, Rankin, Pa.; Bob Leiber, Braddock, Pa.; Tom Zaimes, West Tarentum, Pa.; Tom Bello, Nanty Glo, Pa.; Archie Fineman, McKee; Steve Rodnick, Jr., Oakmont, Pa.; George Saittus, Sheraton, Pa.; M. A. Rosenberg and Norman Chussett, McKees Rocks, Pa.; Norman Fleischman, Brighton, and Ray Mervis, Aspinwall, Pa. A1 Kawel resigned as salesman for Monogram. . . . John O’Hooley, who re¬ lieves Harris Circuit managers when on vacation, was taking one himself. Bill Mack, National Screen salesman was master of ceremonies for the fare¬ well party given William Pierce, assis¬ tant, Latonia, Oil City, Pa., who re¬ signed to enter a woodwork school in New York. Kentucky Louisville The directors’ nominating committee of the Kentucky Association of Theatre Owners, composed of the following di¬ rectors: Buddy Arnold, Arco and Mel¬ ody, Bardstown, Ky., and E. L. Ornstein, E. L. Ornstein Theatres, Brandenburg, Ky., and the following non-directors, Cliff Buechel, Mary An¬ derson, Louisville, and O. D. Hopper, Arista, Lebanon, Ky., who could not be present, met in KATO’s office, and selected director candidates for two years. One person was picked from each of the nine Congressional districts as well as two directors at large. Nomi¬ nated were: First, Ned Greene, Legion, Mayfield, Ky.; second, Leon Pickle, Kraver, Henderson, Ky. ; third, Cliff Buechel, Mary Anderson, Louisville, Ky.; fourth, W. D. Aspley, Aspley Theatres, Glasgow, Ky. ; fifth, J. Van Snook, Griffith, LaGrange, Ky.; sixth, Gene Lutes, Capitol, Frankfort, Ky. ; seventh, L. O. Davis, Virginia Amuse¬ ment Company, Hazard, Ky. ; eighth, W. T. Cain, Garden, Louisa, Ky., and ninth, Mrs. O. J. Minnix, Southland, London, Ky. Directors at large nomi¬ nated included Harold Sliter, Schine dis¬ trict manager, Lexington, Ky., and Ornstein. W. E. Carrell, Falls City Theatre Equipment, motored to Salem, Ind., to attend the formal opening of W. R. Callam and H. L. Blankenbaker’s new drive-in. Also on hand for the affair was E. L. Ornstein, Ornstein Theatres, Marengo, Ind. According to the Kentucky Depart¬ ment of Revenue Monthly Report, dated May, 1950, in a comparison of the state tax collections for May, 1950, as com¬ pared to May, 1949, collections were $175,456.14 for May, 1950, and $150,985.10 for May, 1949. This does not per¬ tain only to theatre taxes. Out-of-town exhibitors visiting re¬ cently included: Denzil Herbershoff, Shepherd, Sheperdsville, Ky. ; George Lindsay, Lindsay, Brownsville, Ky. ; C. K. Arnold, Arco and Melody, Bards¬ town, Ky.; E. L. Ornstein, Rialto, Mar¬ engo, Ind.; Robert Cox, Schine city man¬ ager, Lexington, Ky. ; Eric Hammel, Shelby and Burley, Shelbyville, Ky. ; W. S. Gabhart, Cardinal, Hodgenville, Ky. ; Andy Anderson, Anderson, Hartford, Ky. ; A. N. Miles, Eminence, Eminence, Ky. ; Mrs. O. J. Minnix, Southland, Lon¬ don, Ky., and Walter Wood, Riverview Drive-In, Carrollton, Ky. In Frankfort, Ky., Appellate Judge Roy Helm refused to set aside the Pul¬ aski Circuit Court’s order forbidding Somerset to grant a permit for a drivein. The permit was sought by H. E. Otto, whose plans call for erecting a $40,000 plant on East Bourne Avenue. Jack Crouthers, manager, Chakeres’ Harrod, Harrodsburg, Ky., was general chairman of the all-day home-coming program held to celebrate the founding of Harrodsburg. Also taking part in the ceremonies was Guthrie F. Crowe, presi¬ dent, Kentucky Association of Theatre Owners and Commissioner of State Police. Indiana Garrett Alex Kalafat, Kalafat Circuit, pur¬ chased a 40-acre tract of land, just west of this city, with the intention of build¬ ing an outdoor theatre. Whiting Louis Nye, manager, Hoosier, re¬ cently was awarded the “Distinguished Citizen Award” of Walter Kleiber Post 2724, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in ap¬ preciation of his service to the commu¬ nity. The award cited Nye for war bond selling, promoting and directing the yearly cleanup drive, preventing juve¬ nile delinquency by conducting proper entertainment, and for his many other civic services. At a Flag Day observ¬ ance at his theatre, which he arranged with the VFW, Nye was awarded a plaque and a medal, without his pre¬ vious knowledge of the honors. Ohio Akron A resident of Dover, O., filed suit in County Common Pleas Court for $5,000 for injuries allegedly received when she was bumped on the head two years ago by a metal object carried by a person in a row behind her in the Bexley, Dover. The woman filed the action against the Shea Theatre Corporation, Akron, and Shea Enterprises, Inc., New York City. The blow, she contends, injured her per¬ manently. She claims the Bexley was negligent in that it failed to provide an aide, had improper lighting, and permit¬ ted persons to carry heavy metal objects into the theatre. Cambridge Robert W. Cannon, Conneaut, O., has been named manager, State and Strand, Cambridge, O. Both houses are owned by Shea’s. Cannon succeeds Forney Bow¬ ers, manager since 1940. Ray McNealy, assistant manager, will serve temporar¬ ily as manager, Shea’s Conneaut thea¬ tre. His post at Cambridge is filled by Harry Buck, Jamestown, N. Y. Columbus Archie F. Bangert, 45, former theatreman, died suddenly at his home in Logan, O., after a heart attack. Surviving are his wife, Rhea Pettit Bangert, and his mother, Mrs. William Bangert, Co¬ lumbus. Bangert started his theatre ca¬ reer at the old B. F. Keith house on East Gay Street during World War I. For a short time, he operated the Rubel, Logan, O. Burial was at Oak Grove Cemetery, Logan. Dates of the convention of the Inde¬ pendent Theatre Owners of Ohio have been changed to Sept. 19, 20, 21 at the Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati. There will be seats for 440 patrons in the “theatre-in-the-round” arena being erected underneath Section 10 at Ohio Stadium by the school’s speech depart¬ ment. ... A committee, with E. M. Tharp as chairman, has been appointed to study the future use of the old Memorial Hall. For the first time, 18 theatres, neigh¬ borhood and drive-in, showed the same first-run simultaneously, “Love Happy.” “This is our answer to TV,” says Milton Yassenoff, head, co-operative group of theatre executives which booked the pic¬ ture, “Theatres all over the country are watching our experiment with this mul¬ tiple booking.’’ Norman Nadel, theatre editor, The Citizen, was guest speaker on Rod Altmeyer’s WLW-C TV Tune Shop show. . . . Carl Rogers, manager, Loew’s Broad, postcarded from Cody, Wyo., saying he was enjoying his western vacation. . . . Arthur M. Holah is vacationing on an island in the Chesapeake bay. July 5, 1950