The Exhibitor (1952)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 NKW$ O* TUB BRANCHES Cincinnati Wedding bells will ring on May 24 for Rita Jaworski, booker’s stenographer, Warners, and Donald Willerth, armed forces, and on May 30 for Leslie Burkel, cashier’s clerk, Warners, and George Knapp, Xavier University senior. . . . Joan Scholle, a freshman at Eastern State College, Richmond, Ky., spent her spring vacation with her mother, Mrs. May Scholle, office manager, State Film Service. Carl Henichen, formerly a 20th-Fox shipper, stationed with the Eighth Infantry division in Germany, enjoyed a recent vacation in London and Den¬ mark. . . . Robert Dopps, formerly student booker at U-I, was at the Naval Base Hospital, Bainbridge, Md., ill with scarlet fever. Dorothy Lang has been promoted to assistant cashier at MGM, following the resignation of June Kenning, and Pat Kugle replaces Miss Lang as assistant contract clerk. . . . Rose Norman, for¬ merly with Columbia, is the new cashier at Lippert. . . . Ivory Schnell is the new switchboard operator at National Screen Service. . . . Thersa Kostoff is a new clerk in the cashier department at Columbia. . . . Shirley Bittner, formerly at RKO, is a new secretary, and Margie Baker has been promoted to booker at Tri-State Booking. Tim Holt, star of RKO westerns, Richard Martin, and Ray Whitley are on a personal appearance tour playing 11 theatres in the Chakeres Thea¬ tre Circuit in Kentucky and Ohio. Houses getting the attraction are the Kentucky, Paducah, Ky. ; Shelby, Shelbyville, Ky. ; Grand, Frankfort, Ky. ; Harrod, Harrodsburg, Ky. ; Town Hall, Winchester, Ky. ; Colony, Hillsborough, 0 ; Murphy, Wilmington, O.; St. Mary’s, St. Mary, 0.; Gloria, Urbana, O.; Me^dy Cruise Drive-In, and Fairbanks, Springfield, and Cliftonia, Circleville, 0. James S. Abrose, branch manager for Warners, and salesmen J. P. Eifert, R. J. Burns, C. A. Schroeder, R. Salyer, and L. J. Bugie attended a regional sales meeting in Pittsburgh. Recent business trips were made by James A. Conn, acting manager, National Theatre Supply, in Kentucky; William Hitchcock, sales representative, same company, in West Virginia; Frank W. Huss, president, Greater Cincinnati Independent Exhibitors, and director, State Association of Independent Ex¬ hibitors, at a board meeting in Colum¬ bus, 0., and Edward Salzberg, president, Screen Classics, in Indianapolis. About a dozen members of the Variety Club flew to Las Vegas, Nev., for the convention. Heading the group were Vance Schwartz, Chief Barker; Herman Hunt, delegate, and Allan Mortiz, national commiteeman. After the con¬ vention, Mortiz left for a vacation on the west coast. . . . Harold Moore, ex¬ hibitor, Charleston, W. Va., returned from a vacation in Florida. Bernard Jason, vice-president in charge of sales, Lux, was in consulting with Screen Classics, distributor for Lux. . . . Donald Q. Roberts, concessions supervisor, Manley, Inc., visited. The semi-annual meeting of Northio Theatres managers was held in the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel with Selig Seligman, vice-president and general man¬ ager, presiding. Others present were William C. Dodds, Paramount, and Frank Sutton, Rialto, Hamilton, 0. ; Dwight Kirk, Paramount, and Mrs. Nelrose Lentz, Strand, Middletown, 0-; Don Utz, Palace, and Celoy Allan, Marion, Marion, O.; Don Edwards, State, Bellevue, 0.; James Loombs, Danville, Ky., and Murray Baker, head bookerbuyer, Cincinnati. Ruth Bryant is the new telephone operator at Paramount, replacing Georgia Reagon, resigned. . . . Myrtle McQueen is a new secretary at West Virginia Allied. . . . Rosemary Meyer, contract clerk, U-I, is the proud aunt of a baby girl. . . . Mary Catherine Beck, cashier, UA, returned after having a cyst removed from her arm. A prowler was apprehended in 20thFox by Ernest Bates, night watch¬ man. ... A watch, stolen from the office of the neighborhood Rialto, and owned by Jack Onie, was recovered by the police. Screen Classics opened an independent office in Indianapolis with Moe Esserman as manager, it was announced by Edward Salzberg, Screen Classics presi¬ dent. Marie Donelson, local staff, was in Indianapolis assisting in setting up the new office, which will be operated as a partnership by Messrs. Esserman and Salzberg. W. E. Day opened the new Starlight Drive-In, Sheridan, 0., in late April; Pat Newberry plans to open his Auborn Drive-In, Cumberland, Ky., on May 15, and, on April 28, Harry McHaffie opened the Village, Charleston, W. Va., for¬ merly owned by John Tabit. National Theatre Supply installed playground equipment in the Elk View Drive-In, Elk View, W. Va., owned by Ray Phelan. . . . The neighborhood Bond is now open weekends. Exhibitors seen recently on Film Row included : Foster Lane, Williamson, W. Va. ; Dick Miller and James Doyle, Salem, W. Va. ; John Powell and Max Matz, Bluefield, W. Va.; Harry McHaffie, Marmet, W. Va.; Guy Greathouse, Aurora, Ind.; Charles Scott, Vevay, Ind.; Charles Behlan, Lexington, Ky. ; B. F. Wright, Whitesburg, Ky. ; George Marshall, Danville, Ky.; James Denton, Owingsville, Ky.; Joe Goldstein, Cleve¬ land; Vernon Berg, Yellow Springs, O.; Clarence Brown, Jackson Center, 0.; Carl Pfister and Moe Potasky, Troy, 0.; Frank Yassenoff and Jack Needham, Columbus, O.; Fred Krimm and Roy Wells, Dayton, 0.; Hank Davidson, Lynchburg, O.; John R. Poe, Aberdeen, O.; Sylvester Morman, Coldwater, 0., and Jerry Jackson, Williamsburg, 0. Cleveland Mrs. Mollie Weiss, wife of Harry Weiss, RKO salesman and president, Cleveland Salesmen’s Club, is resting at Mount Sinai Hospital following a slight heart attack. ... Joe Leavitt, projec¬ tionist, is back in the Colony booth hav¬ ing returned from Miami, Fla., where he has a winter home. . . . E. J. Stutz, Four Continents, believes there will be widespread interest in the new English language versions of “Les Miserable,” “Bitter Rice,” and “Behind Closed Doors,” soon to be released. Bill Lissner, former Columbia sales¬ man, is now in Buffalo on the United Artists sales force. Blair Mooney bought the long estab¬ lished Academy Film Service, Inc., from Gilbert Lefton. Mooney, son of Milton A. Mooney, president, Co-operative Theatres of Ohio, has been a Co-op booker. Academy Film Service, Inc., was formed about 13 years ago by Gilbert Lefton to service public and private schools with noon movies. Lefton also handled 16mm. films on a rental basis to schools, churches, and clubs. Upon returning from World War II service, he entered the 16mm. projector field. For the time being, Mooney is maintaining the organization intact. J. S. Jossey, Mrs. Jossey, and the Herb Ochses spent a weekend in Kentucky. . . . Dr. Roger Manvell, director, British Film Academy, was guest speaker at the April meeting of the Motion Picture Council of Greater Cleveland, the first women’s group he has addressed in the crosscountry good-will tour of the United States. Daylight Saving Time started. In Mansfield, O., the fast time will be given a tryout. If the people like it, it will be on the fall ballot. All plans for the ITOO convention on May 19-21 have been completed, accord¬ ing to Robert Wile, secretary, Independ¬ ent Theatre Owners of Ohio. The Local 160 Bowling League took second place in its annual champion¬ ship contest with the Detroit Nightin¬ gales. The William Kramer trophy, championship insignia, has now been won twice by each team. At the last two contests, Larry Shafer, secretary, Cleve¬ land League, was presented with a leather brief case while Floyd Akins, his counterpart on the Nightingale team, received the cutter-cup. Luncheon was prepared, and served by the wives of the Cleveland team. May 7, 1952 MIDEAST