The Exhibitor (1953)

NT-2 EXHIBITOR In Jacksonville, Alice Williams, clerk, Columbia, will wed Gene Mayberry. . . . G. A. and G. D. Addkinson will soon have their 45 Drive-In l'eady for open¬ ing in Macon, Miss. . . . Hyman Country¬ man has taken over as manager, Luverne, Luverne, Ala., succeeding David Capps. The Pract-Mon Outdoor Theatre cele¬ brated its third year. It is located on Highway 31, two miles south of Prattsville, Ala. Owners are G. C. Coburn and his three sons. Charlotte The Carolina, Imperial, Manor and Center are the local theatres to be equipped with CinemaScope. The Clearview Drive-In, Mount Olive, N. C., opened, operated by Broadus Riverbark and Henry Zibeless. . . . July is set as the opening* for the drivein being built by Fuller Sams at Adams. ville, N. C. Jim Howard, handling rhe Waco Drive-In, Goldsboro, N. C., will manage that too. ... In Waterboro, S. C., M. W. Huggins started building his new Skyway Drive-In. A $2,225,000 anti-trust action has been filed in Federal Court against Para¬ mount, 20th-Fox, Loew’s, Warners, United Artists, Columbia, Republic and Monogram in behalf of the Carver, Rock Hill, S. C. It is charged that the de¬ fendants and the operators of the other four houses in the town, the StewartEverett Circuit, Stevenson Circuit and Robert Bryant, conspired to impose un¬ justified and unreasonable clearances on the licensing and exhibition of pictures of the defendant companies. Carver Thea¬ tres, Inc., which operates the theatre, asserts it was compelled to show pictures a year or more after the other fourhouses, none of which serves a colored patronage exclusively. The plaintiff alleges that, as a result of the defend¬ ant’s action, it was forced to rent the Carver from 1948 to 1951. Memphis In Greenwood, Ark., the Palace was completely destroyed in a fire which burned itself out after destroying a newspaper plant, a beauty parlor and a vacant store. Leo Seichnaydre, left, Republic branch manager, New Orleans, and Ernest MacIvenna, right, Joy manager, are seen with ( harles Winninger and Mrs. Winninger, who stopped over recently in New Orleans on their way to the world pre¬ miere of Republic’s “The Sun Shines Bright” in Nashville, Tenn. This Stereo Realist display for WB’s 3-D “House Of Wax” in front of St. Johns, Jacksonville, Fla., was arranged by Sheldon Mandell, manager. New owner of the Lobelville, Lobelville, Tenn., is Van Duncan. . . . The Skylark Drive-In, Newport, Ark., closed for two weeks due to damage of the screen during a high wind. . . . Cecil Robinson is the new owner, Paradise, Cotter, Ark. . . . J. A. Petty announced the reopening of his Wayne, Waynes¬ boro, Tenn. This theatre was destroyed by tire last year. M. A. Lightman, Malco, went to New York for a meeting in connection with the plans of the Council of the Living Theatre, of which he is one of the active organizers. MGM is releasing ohe film which the unit is sponsoring. 20th-Fox: Visiting were John Staples, Carolyn, Piggott, Ark.; Steve Stein, manager, Met, Jackson, Tenn.; Moses Sliman, Lux, Luxora, Ark.; A. B. Garrett, Starlite Drive-In, Union City, Tenn.; Don Landers, Radio, Harrisburg, Ark.; Lyle Richmond, Richmond, Senath, Mo.; C. N. Eudy, Houston, Houston, Miss.; K. H. Kinney, Hays, Hughes, Ark.; Jack Watson, Palace, Tunica, Miss.; Mrs. Marvin McQuistion, Princess, Booneville, Miss., and William Elias, Murr, Osceola, Ark. Monogram: Visitors were W. R. Lee, Little Rock, Ark., owner, Gem, Heber Springs, Ark., and Rice, Des Arc, Ark.; C. Carpenter, Sunset Drive-In, Hamburg, Ark., and Jesse Moore, Ritz, Crensaw, Miss. 1 he Malco Mesa Drive-In, Camden, Ark., opened on the El Dorado Highway. . . . The New, Calico Rock, Aik., will open soon. Owners of the house are Mrs. James Peel and G. D. Davenport. . . . W. H. Brown bought out E. O. Roden’s interest in the 45 Drive-In, Booneville, Miss. . . . Booking at MGM now is William Moriarity. . . . Miss Wanda Wallace, daughter of Colonial’s Clifford Wallace, was married to William Duke. . . . The Lyon County Drive-In, Kuttawa Springs, Ky., was opened by Russ Wilson. . . . Among the openairers which bowed for the summer were R. B. Loery’s Starlite Drive-In, Joneboro, Ark., and K. H. Kinney’s 79 Drive-In, Hughes, Ark., while many others are now on full time. Ran the Cerebral Palsy Campaign Trailer! Meet Your Neighbor Bn The New Orleans Area Dan M. Brandon, general manager, Transway, Inc., and Film Inspection Service, Inc., was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1920. His early youth was spent much in traveling extensively in many states, winding up in Charlotte, which he pre¬ fers to call home. At Duke, the uni¬ versity of his choice, he devoted time to mechanical engineering. His scholastic accomplishments along with his athletic prowess were distinctive, graduating cum laude and third in the entire university. He then pursued his engineering studies along with business law at the University of Pittsburgh and U of P. His first experience in the film transportation business was in 1932. The summers of his college years were spent in newspaper distributorship, the handling of film, and working at theatres. The start of his engineering profession was with West f*' ..j* . v: -a DAN BRANDON inghouse, designing motors and gener¬ ators, followed by air-conditioning, and then the design of steam and gas turbines. The perfection of the latter qualified Brandon as engineer in the jet propulsion field, and he worked on the first jet units. Despite his advancement in his chosen field, he yearned to be a part of the film business, and, with an opening in the film transportation business, came to New Orleans in ’47 and helped to organize Transway, Inc., later taking over the administrative and legal aspects. He later organized Film Inspection Company. Both he and his wife, Shirley, whom he married in 1943 in Philadelphia, are familiar figures at various exhibitor conventions and the many social activities of the industry, besides his outside activities. The Brandons have two children, Danny, Jr., and Diane. New Orleans Transway, Inc., came through with prompt and efficient service in a time of flood and storm crisis. Every point was served without missout or delayed openings. In some places, it necessitated boat transportation. George Pabst returned from UA’s home executives, district and division manager’s, meet in San Francisco. Paul Shoffer has taken over the man¬ agerial reins of the Crescent Drive-In, Airline Highway, Jefferson Parish, re May 20, 1953