The Exhibitor (1952)

EXHIBITOR NT-1 FTKWS OF TflDR _ femif&M BRANCHES Cincinnati Charles Tobias and Peter DeRose, who wrote nine songs for “About Face,” arrived on their tour in connection with the film. The songwriters were set for appearances on the “Judy Perkins Show,” WLW-TV; Dick Hageman, WKRC-TV; Will LeMay, WSAI; Paul Dixon, WCTO-TV; Rex Dale, WCKY, and Walter Phillips, WCPO. The duo will also host a press luncheon for writers E. B. Radcliff, The Enquirer; Groverman Blake, The Times Star, and Edward Carberry, The Post. Frank W. Huss, president, Associ¬ ated Theatres, attended the annual con¬ vention of the Ohio Independent Exhibitors Association in Cleveland. . . . Rube Shor, secretary-treasurer, West Virginia Allied, was in Washington, D. C., and New York City. . . . Edward Salzberg, Screen Classics president, was on business in Chicago. . . . Allan Moritz, independent booker and exhibitor, was in Indianapolis. . . . J. P. Eiffert, Warners’ sales manager, and Charles Schroeder, salesman, were in West Virginia. . . . Jack Frisch, Lippert branch manager, was in Springfield, 0. Hundreds of friends in the industry have been extending sympathy to Edwin M. Booth, MGM district manager, on the recent death of his daughter, Mrs. Jane Booth Monsey, Indianapolis, who died of leukemia at 28. Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral services here were Phil Chakeres, Ray Friz and Frank Collins, Springfield, O.; Colonel and Mrs. Joseph Goetz, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Edna Jacobs, Columbus, O., and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hyneman, Huntington, W. Va. Quoted / recently in the popular “Opinionaire” column in The Enquirer were Irene Sagel, office manager; Ethel Stenger, bookkeeper; James Neff, head booker, and Russell Weil, booker, all at 20th-Fox; Helen Fitzwater, Columbia contract clerk, and Arthur Harbrecht, theatre manager. Dick Crain is showing films at the Mayfair, Dayton, 0., and the Gaiety, Columbus, O.. both former legit houses. . . Indian headresses were given to the first 150 youngsters who attended a recent Saturday showing of “Brave Warrior” at the downtown Grand. Recent vacationers were; Irene Sagle, 20th-Fox office manager; Ross Spencer, Columbia office manager; George Daumlyer, Warner office manager, and Juanita Martin, Paramount ledger clerk. . . . Marion Storker, National Screen Service ledger clerk, was married to Jack Flohr on May 31. . . . Bill Sorrell is a new shipper at MGM, and Joseph Meischke is new in the Paramount shipping department. Sympathy was extended to Jane Rich, 20th-Fox bookers’ clerk, and to Barbara Krauss, UA contract department, upon the deaths of close relatives. . . . On the sick list were Gus Boudot, UA office manager; Jerri Dick, Realart booker, and Myrtle McQueen, West Virginia Allied secretary. Exhibitors visiting Film Row were: Chalmers Bach, Eaton, O.; Hank David¬ son, Lynchburg, O.; Fred Krimm, Roy Wells and John Gregory, Dayton, 0. ; Jerry Jackson, Williamsburg, 0.; Frank Yassenoff and Jack Needham, Columbus, 0.; Ray Laws, Lebanon, 0.; Joe Gold¬ stein and Harold Rayes, Cleveland ; George Turkulas, Hamilton, 0.; R. J. Poe, Jr., Aberdeen, O.; Harley Bennett and Barton Cook, Chillicothe, 0.; Guy Greathouse, Aurora, Ind.; J. C. Weddel and Ralph Sacker, Lawrenceburg, Ind. ; James Denton, Owingsville, Ky. ; Henry C. Davis, Stanford, Ky. ; W. T. Cain, Jr., Paintsville, Ky. ; Walter B. Hannah, South Shore, Ky., and Joe Marshall, Danville, Ky. Cleveland While theatres in the Greater Cleve¬ land area are chafing under the year-old ruling that stopped their “Bingo” games, “Bingo” is flourishing 50 miles east of Cleveland in Ashtabula County. Frank Masek, National Theatre Supply branch manager, reports the installation of a Sel-Mix beverage dispenser in Shea’s Colonial, Akron, O., a Movie-Cone soft ice cream dispenser in the Roxy, Caldwell, 0.; Simplex sound and Peer¬ less magnarc lamps in the Novle, Cald¬ well, and super Simplex projectors in the Capitol, Bellaire, 0. The death of John G. Stamm, 80, marks the passing of one of the pioneers in the amusement field. His last local activity in the amusement field was in 1937, when he opened a penny arcade at the Great Lakes Industrial Exposition. Richard Dowdell is not moving from U-I to Republic after all. He decided to ramain at his U-I booking post. Joel Golden is now on the Monogram sales force in the Pittsburgh territory. . . . Larry Kunz, representative for American Seating Company, was on the sick list. . . . Ruth Gardiniere, booker, Co-operative Theatres of Ohio, was called to Gloversville, N. Y., by the death of her mother, Mrs. A. Gardiniere. . . . Richard Leathers, RKO Palace assistant manager, who married Louise Hutman on May 24, received an envelope con¬ taining a wedding gift from the theatre employees and his associates. MGM branch manager Jack Sogg and the entire local sales and promotion personnel returned from a division meet¬ ing in Cincinnati full of confidence. . . . Harry Kaufman, Cardinal Films, Toronto, distributors of Lippert, was in to close deals with Herbert and Jack Ochs for their Canadian drive-in circuit. . . . Moe Silver, Warner Theatres’ Pitts¬ burg zone manager, was in to discuss changes in the operation of the Ohio zone. . . . John W. Pickling, former Associated Circuit auditor, now living in St. Petersburg, Fla., was here to bury his wife, who died after a long illness. . . . Lester Dowdell was holding down the United Artists booking fort alone while his assistant, Betty Bluffestone, vacationed. Accompanying her on the trip were her daughter, Marjorie, and her sister, Mrs. Peter Rosian, wife of the U-I district manager. Harry Buxbaum, Paramount branch manager, attended a district meeting in Philadelphia, and was unable to attend the ITO convention. Lester Irwin, city sales manager, was his substitute. . . . June 7 is the date of the marriage of Alan Barck, son of Maurice and Mrs. Barck, to Marcia Abramson, Columbus, O., where the ceremony will take place. Closing of the Park Auto Theatre on Route 62 on account of road repair is said to be the only case in Ohio in which a theatre was forced to close during road repairs. It is owned by Sam and Mau¬ rice Barck. Prospects are good for four more drive-ins to be built in this territory. . . . W. N. Skirball and Joe Lissauer, Skirball Brothers Circuit, and Bernie Rubin, Imperial, were on a fishing trip at Peelee Island, Canada. Louis Swee, manager, Bedford and Stillwell, Bedford, 0., believes that at least part of the poor movie attendance is due to bad picture titles. Detroit The annual convention of Allied Theatres of Michigan will be held on Oct. 20, 21, and 22, in the Variety Club Rooms in the Tuller Hotel. The date was set by Allied President John Vlachos at the board of directors’ meeting. Vlachos appointed E. J. Pennell, Allied vice-president, to take charge as chair¬ man of the state convention. Special programs having to deal with drive-in theatres have been arranged, with several speakers slated to appear. Ted Rogvoy, well-known architect, is also slated to appear before the members attending the convention. Rogvoy is widely known for his theatre architec¬ ture not only in the United States but in Europe as well. The convention will be open to exchange managers, film delivery service men, concession opera¬ tors, and to all people in the exhibition field, according to Ernest Conlon, execu¬ tive secretary. Rufus Shepherd, manager, Palms, reports the experiment with all-night operation of the first-run is proving satisfactory. The United Detroit Thea¬ ters house is the only first-run in Detroit to operate on an all-night basis. May 28, 1952 MIDEAST