The Exhibitor (1953)

EXHIBITOR NT-2 nwiorra BRANCHES Cincinnati Carl Gentzel, MGM salesman, is at the Bethesda Hospital recuperating from a heart attack. Business trips were made by George A. Kirby, Republic branch manager, to Columbus, O.; James A. Conn, manager, National Theatre Supply, to Hazard, Ky., and James S. Abrose, Warner branch manager, to Springfield, O. Dottie Mack, local TV network star, has been named the “Doll” of Variety Clubs by members of Tent Three, which voted to present her with a plaque at the international convention in Mexico City. Tunick Releasing Company, Inc., has acquired rights for “Angel Street,” “BigBreak,” “Ghost of Rashmon Hall” and several foreign re-issues, for release in this territory. . . . Harold Schwartz, drive-in exhibitor at New Westville, O., reported turning away 500 prospective customers at the first showing of the package, “Tall Texan,” “I’ll Get By,” and the 3-D “A Day In The Country.” Exhibitors in were Moe Potasky, Troy, 0.; Dorman Law, Rossville, O.; Joe Goldstein, Cleveland; Frank Nolan, Athens, O.; Hank Davidson, Lynchburg, This diorama of the Warner brothers as Ohio pioneers highlighted the window display in Shillito’s department store, Cincinnati, as part of the recent Ohio Sesquicentennial celebration. O. ; Harold Schwartz, New Westville, O.; John R. Poe, Aberdeen, 0.; James B. Howe, Carrollton, Ky. ; Walter B. Hanna, South Shore, Ky.; Sylvan Banks, Williamson, W. Va.; Don Keesling and Goode Homes, Bramwell, W. Va.; Harold Moore, Charleston, W. Va., and J. C. Weddle, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Vacationing were Charles Basham, 20th-Fox West Virginia salesman; Peggy DeVault and Ethel Stenger, 20th-Fox clerks, and Haywood Mitchenson, U-I booker. . . . Moe Dudelson, UA division manager, was in for a sales meeting. . Rube Shor and Bill Onie, exhibitors, were predicting big business for 20thFox’s CinemaScope. Walter Smith, Midwest Theatre Supply shipper, is the proud father of a baby girl. . . . Betty Jane Lauman is a new Warner clerk. . . . Joyce Harold, UA clerk, has joined the Waves. . . . Mrs. Sarah Osage, 92, mother of Edna Osage, secretary to E. M. Booth, MGM branch manager, died after a lingering illness. Cleveland Ray Spayne is dividing his interests between running his Lyn, Akron, and operating a two-plane delivery service since he received a civil aeronautic pilot license. . . . Luthi Sign and Display Com¬ pany, with a special theatre display de¬ partment handled by Robert and Matt Bial with branch studios in the Film building, is not affected by the AF and L signpainter and neon sign strike; be¬ cause its president, F. Arthur Luthi met the union demands for a 25 cents raise bringing the rate to $3 per hour. Exhibitors in these parts are either all “het” up over 3-D and wide screens, or they are adopting a wait-see attitude in the hope that some standard of systems and equipment will be reached. More than 100 have already made appli¬ cation for CinemaScope, it is learned. Local supply companies, National Thea¬ tre Supply, Oliver Theatre Supply and Ohio Theatre Supply, are working days and nights to make conversions from 2-D to 3-D projection. Many however, are holding off until at least midsummer to make decisions, when, too, there will be a more steady flow of 3-D or wide screen product. Matt Bial, Luthi Sign and Display Company, is working on a new theatreflorist promotion. He paints posters of pretty girls wearing flowers. Each poster toeing a New Era in Enteristawf Introducing a New Era in Entertain* and ik»«lopc<) etefwd by 20th Cei 8 Era Fn!eitai«»«nC Bewtof Seen at the recent 20th-Fox demonstration of CinemaScope at the SW Mastbaum, Philadelphia, in the usual, top to bottom, left to right order, were Henry Burger, publicity, SW Pitts¬ burgh zone; Moe Silver, SW zone manager, Pittsburgh, and Bill Zeilor, manager, J. P. Harris, Pittsburgh; Silver and Spyros P. Skouras, president, 20th-Fox, who made a speech; Mrs. and Mr. R. Shapiro; J. C. Shapiro and Mrs. Shapiro, Shapiro Circuit, Pittsburgh; A1 Levy, branch manager, 20th-Fox, Pittsburgh; Lee Conrad, Park, Meadville, Pa.; M. Houghton, Franklin Kayton Enterprise, and Vincent McKay, West Virginia; Levy and Silver, and the CinemaScope Miracle Screen stretched across the Mastbaum stage. May 20, 1953 MIDEAST