The Exhibitor (1952)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 Manager Giles Robb, Princess, Toledo, O., recently created the above front for Paramount’s “The Greatest Show On Earth.” JfBWS OF THE BRANCHES Cincinnati MGM’s second regional sales meeting got underway when Charles M. Reagan, general sales manager, opened the three-day gathering of branch managers under John J. Maloney’s division at the Netherlands Plaza Hotel. There were 26 men from the branches, in addition to eight home office executives, including Reagan, Edward M. Saunders, assistant general sales manager; Jay Eisenberg, William B. Zoellner, H. M. Richey, M. L. Simons, Dan S. Terrell, and Charles Deesen, home office assistant to Maloney. With the exception of Deesen, the home office group came from Hollywood. On hand were, from Pittsburgh: John J. Maloney, Ralph Pielow, Max Shabason, Irv Jacobs, Edward J. Moriarty, and Robert N. Clark; Cleveland: Jack Sogg, Dorsey H. Brown, Jerry Lipow, J. Phil Harrington, and E. C. Pearson; Detroit: J. Frank Downey, Lou Marks, Charles Dietz, Jack Rider, and G. W. Sampson; Indianapolis: Foster B. Gauker, Dewey Taute, and Cal Klaiber, and Cincinnati: Edwin M. Booth, Harry A. Sheeran, Carl Gentzel, Clifford Smiley, Arthur Adams, Thomas Farrell, and J. E. Watson. Business trips were made by Edward Salzberg, Screen Classics president, to Charleston, W. Va.; Milton Gurian, Monogram branch manager, to Colum¬ bus, 0., and to Kentucky, and Jack Frisch, Lippert branch manager, to Charleston, W. Va. In town were F. J. A. McCarthy, U-I southern and Canadian sales manager; Moe Dudelson, UA district manager; Dave Cantor, Joe Longo and Ken Titlebaum, RKO exploitation department, and Maurice Grad, head, Columbia short subjects department. National Theatre Supply furnished the equipment for the Central Drive-In, Coverun, Va., operated by Lang and Kaiser, and the Pineville Drive-In, Pineville, W. Va., operated by E. M. Curry, John S. Lambert, and Louis Cline. The firm also installed playground equipment at the Del-ar Drive-In, Chillicothe, O. Screen Classics booked “Chained for Life” into the Charleston, Charleston, W. Va., and the local Lyric. The Hilton sisters will make personal appearances in the houses. Mrs. Sam Weiss was elected president, Variety Wives, and other new officers were Mrs. Saul Greenberg, first vicepresident; Mrs. Robert Jacobs, second vice-president; Mrs. Philip Fox, record¬ ing secretary; Mrs. Arthur VanGelder, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Max Marcus, treasurer. Variety Wives also staged a Latin American dance in the clubrooms, with free lessons at a local dance studio as the prizes. Joan Abrose, a sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan University, spent a weekend with her parents, James S. Abrose, Warner branch manager, and Mrs. Abrose. Stanley C. Jacques, RKO branch manager, vacationed at Miami Beach, Fla. . . . The MGM Club staged a dinner dance at Hotel Metropole for its May meeting. ... A group of Paramount personnel enjoyed a picnic dinner in Sharon Woods. . . . Erdean Carter, assistant cashier, Warners, vacationed at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Parties were staged recently by Rose¬ mary Burkhart and Pat Quigley, for Plan Now To Attend l ! ! Annual Convention Kentucky Association of Theatre Owners WED.-THUR., MAY 2II-29. 1952 Brown Hotel — Louisville, Ky. WE CORDIALLY INVITE ALL EXHIBITORS Every phase of show business will he discussed WRITE FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS 427 South Third Street, Louisville, Ky. This space contributed by EXHIBITOR May 21, 1952 MIDEAST