The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

16 NEWS OF THE TERRITORY VIRGINIA New Canton DR. E. J. HADEN has the Community, PLUMMER F. T. JONES no longer operating the house. New Market JERRY PRICE, Warners salesman, was a visitor. M. CARROLL, Strand, Strasburg, was in. LINDA ROSENBERGER, cashier, Dalke’s New Market, was in Harrisonburg. VINCENT DOUGHERTY, Paramount, was a caller. PAUL McDANIEL, Dalke’s Valley houses, is sporting a new car. EARNEST (BOOGERS) SMOOT, right hand man, Community, was in Washington. CHARLES McDANIEL, Dalke’s New Market, don’t mind walking two miles to see his better half but hates to walk back. — F. O’R. Neivport News A. V. CLARK put his kid club Saturday morning program on the air over WGH at the James. BEN McKINSEY, "Bennie Mac” former youngsters, Warwick, is back in harness as doorman at that house. HARL WOLEVER is cooperat ng with the Lions Club members, who are selling tickets to “The Great Man Votes,” Paramount, for their shoes-for-the-needy fund. Warwick, James are also participating. Paramount is trying a unit show March 1. Manager WOLEVER, Paramount, worked in a newspaper tieup for "Zaza” with a silk stocking advertisement. — W. T. Richmond Things were very quiet in Richmond, as practically overcome journeyed up to Washington for the MPTO convention. Advance contingent wa. royally received by the exchange boys, who insisted on making the Variety Club the social center for the evening. So everyone adjourned to the Willard, second floor, push the button, and were received with open arms by JAKE FLAX, RUDOLPH BERGER, CARTER BARRON and others. Jake even went into his cellar for liquid refreshments and refused to let anyone else mix the cocktails. All who made their first appearance at the club rooms were awe stricken by the beauty of the surroundings, including, of course, the built-in bar. Among those who enjoyed several hours there Sunday night were: EDDIE McEVOY, New York RKO official; SAM BENDHEIM, JR., and party; JOHN CURTIS CALDWELL, the new pappa from Appomattox who said that he had named the addition "Gene Autry” because he always brought home the bacon at his Lee, Appomattox. NICK HAEFELE came all the way from Baltimore for the occasion. FLAX family was well represented. ALLEN SPARROW and his wife with MR. and MRS. FRED SITTERDING, Richmond, were there; also FRANK O’BRIEN, SAM WHEELER, HAROLD WOOD and wife, VIRGINIA SNEAD, DOROTHY SHEWBRIDGE, WADE PEARSON and his best girl, MARJORIE LEE DERMODY, MR. and MRS. BAYLISS EPPS, ROY RICHARDSON, and numerous others. Banquet and dance was held at the Shoreham, with music for dancing by the hotel orchestra and a floor show arranged by CARTER BARRON with headline acts from Loew’s Capitol and the Earle. Paramount’s ED FONTAINE arranged for the personal appearance of MADELEINE CARROLL. Here is a list of those who were there: J. P. MORGAN, PAUL BARON, MR. and MRS. J. E. FONTAINE, HORACE JONES, ALEX RAVDIN, MIRIAM HIRSCH, WARREN CONNOR, W. R. KESSLER, CHARLES STERN, MARK SILVER, MRS. JUDITH K. ROBERTS, EDWARD KUSHNER, SAM TABOR, PETE PRINCE, HONORABLE LINDSEY WARREN, MRS. JOHN B. CHALKLEY, W. C. CREW, MURRAY GREENFIELD, E. R. FULLER, GEORGE GILL, ED KUYKENDALL, DAVE PALFREYMAN, MAX KARMITZ, RICHARD HARRITY, FRED SANDY, BAYLISS EPPS and wife, FRED BEIERSDORF, ROBERT SMELTZER, BEN CAPLON, ART JACOBSON, JACK COHEN, GLENN MORRIS, ELBERT GROVER, MR. and MRS. DAVE PETERSON, NAT GLASSER, MR. and MRS. HAROLD WOOD, D. BARNEY, MR. and MRS. F. W. CARPER, MR. and MRS. RUDOLPH BERGER, GERTRUDE, JAKE, HATTIE FLAX, SENATOR RATCLIFFE, SENATOR BYRD, MR. and MRS. SAM FLAX, JOE WALSH, EARL ALLVINE, MR. and MRS. SAM WHEELER, IRA SICHELMAN, MR. and MRS. DAVE SIDDELL, HONORABLE WILLIAM D. MEDLEY, HARRY CRULL, AL FOLLIARD, VINCENT DOUGHERTY, FRED ROHRS, JOHN THOMASON, CHARLES OLIVER, JOHN GARST, I. JACOBS, SYDNEY GATES and wife, ROY RICHARDSON, STEWART TUCKER, MR. and MRS. ADRIAN BENDHEIM, HOLLIS WOOD, ELMORE HEINS. CARLTON DUFFUS and wife, WILLIAM RIPPARD, FRED RIPPINGALE, FRANK PARSONS, MR. and MRS. A. E. LICHTMAN, E. S. HORNE, MR. and MRS. ALLEN SPARROW, COLONEL ROBERT T. BARTON and MRS. BARTON, ALLEN BROWN, SAM BENDHEIM, JR., MR. and MRS. BENNIE SOMMA, HAL LYONE, MR. and MRS. HARLEY DAVIDSON, OLMSTEAD KNOX, BLANCHE HALL, L. G. GULLEN, MISS RHODA LICHTMAN, ROBERT HOFHEIMER, ROBERT FOLLIARD, EARL TAYLOR, M. J. ULLMAN, BILL HOYCES, JACK FRUCHTMAN, DAVID KAMSKY, MARGARET ROSENBERG, ED HARRIS, S. H. WILLIAMS, MR. and MRS. T. E. WILSON, MISS EVELYN GLASSER, HERBERT THOMPSON, R. WADE PEARSON, MR. and MRS. T. W. PHILLIPS, MR. and MRS. C. W. WINGFIELD, HARRY BACHMAN, MR. and MRS. TOM FOLLIARD, MR. and MRS. A. JULIAN BRYLAWSKI, CHARLIE HURLEY, RALPH BINNS, SENATOR WEAVER, JUDGE WILLIAMS. DR. I. H. GOLDMAN, MR. and MRS. FRED SITTERDING, LAURA G. BRACKETT, SAM GALANTY, CHARLES SCHULMAN, ROBERT LEVINE, V. H. NUSBAUM, MR. and MRS. MAURICE SIMON, JESSE R. SKINNER, J. F. McINTIRE, STANLEY BARR, MR. and MRS. CLARK DAVIS, E. T. WARNER, MISS BERNICE GORDON, LEONARD GORDON, WILLIAM RIPPARD, MR. and MRS. A. WOOLNER CALISCH, CARTER BARRON, D. H. COVINGTON and wife, MR. and MRS. ARLINGTON BROOKS, MR. and MRS. CHARLES STOFBERG, HONORABLE A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, SENATOR JOHN W. RUST and MRS. RUST, FRED ROHRS, HERBERT C. THOMPSON, MR. and MRS. JIM OWEN, HENRY and J. F. DUSMAN, VIRGINIA SNEAD, MR. and MRS. A. FRANK O’BRIEN, S. G. ADAMS, EDDIE CUMBERLAND, PIERRE BOULOGNE, MR. and MRS. W. F. CROCKETT, MR. and MRS. J. ELLISON LOTH, MR. and MRS. HERMAN RUBIN, J. H. WEBSTER, W. T. CULPEPPER, H. A. CREEF, MARTIN WAGNER, WILLIAM MICHALOVF., HARRY ROTH, MR. and MRS. SAM ROTH, CHARLES ROTH, EMMETT POINDEXTER, FREDERICK HALL, BEN PITTS, W. MARSHALL KING, CLAUDE PARCELL, RAY HALL, J. C. CALDWELL, HARRY BROWN, HONORABLE DAVE SATTERFIELD, D. M. KIRBY, HARRY BRANDT, the Honorable SCHUYLER O. BLAND, MISS BILLIE BARRETT, EDDIE PHILLIPS. CARTER BARRON introduced leading luminaries from the exchanges, newspapers, trade papers and others. MORTON G. THALHIMER, on behalf of the MPTO, presented president WILLIAM F. CROCKETT with a wrist watch. DOROTHY SHEWBRIDGE, efficient secretary to HAROLD WOOD, secretary, MPTO of Virginia, was taken sick in Washington. LUCY COBB, cashier, East End, is spending two weeks in Florida. Her sister, MARGARET, is substituting. MURIEL STEVENSON, secretary to FRANK O’BRIEN, v, sited the Maryland Kennel Show. MR. and MRS. ALLEN BROWN sent out a very novel announcement of the birth of their baby worded like a movie trailer. An 800-acre tract eight miles below Richmond is going to be developed into a cooperative community with a stadium and movie theatre to seat 1,200. LEAH ELSNER, daughter of MRS. HARRIET ELSNER, is now relief cashier at the Bellevue. THOMAS PITTS has taken up the Dale Carnegie course. MR. and MRS. CHARLES A. SOMMA are vacationing in Florida. MACK McLAUGHLIN, Altec engineer from Baltimore, relieved MERVIN ULLMAN when he attended the Washington convention. Weekly bowl.ng matches were postponed on account of the convention. GRAHAM BARBEE was certainly missed at the convention. Ditto HUNTER PERRY and CHARLIE SOMMA. IVAN ROSENBAUM, booker, Neighborhood Theatres, was unable to attend the convention on account of sickness. D. H. COVINGTON, manager, Ashland, Ashland, had a tieup with the Home Demonstration Club on "That Certain Age.” HARRY BROWN was in town. JACK CAMPBELL, son of BOB CAMPBELL, well known to Washington film row, has just returned with his orchestra after playing for a month in Paris France. We hear that the State, Radford, will change hands March 1. NORMAN E. MANWARING, former manager, National, and his wife have opened a rooming house. WILSON HAYES, projectionist, State, has gone to the Veterans Hospital in Hampton for treatments. — S. T. Roanoke ELMORE D. HEINS, vice-president-general manager National Theatre Corporation, appeared slated for elevation to the presidency at the annual meeting of the stockholders February 14. Corporation was headed by CHARLES M. BROUN until his death last year. At the w.nter convention of Virginia Motion Picture Theatre Owners Association in Washington, HEINS extended an invitation to the organization to meet in Roanoke next summer. Upon returning to Roanoke, he expressed the belief that his invitation would be accepted. Recent visitors to Roanoke include: JAKE FLAX, Republic; SAM TABOR, Universal; GEORGE NATHAN, National Screen; JOE WALSH, Columbia; SAM CUMMINGS. — H. H. WEST VIRGINIA Martinsburg New independent theatre is under construction here. Consists of remodeling former store, which at one time was a theatre. FRANK PONTON is in charge of construction for owner. Martinsburg already has two Warner houses. — L. S. McW. VARIETY CLUB Tent No. 19, Baltimore Due to the splendid work done by Chief Barker J. LOUIS ROME for the first annual dinner dance, a special night was set aside for celebrating the occasion February 1. Greatest crowd ever gathered in the club rooms of the Variety Club of Baltimore, Tent No. 19 assembled to do honor. One of the events of the evening was the unveiling of the fine oil painting by JOSEPH ST. LAWRENCE BAXTER, staff artist, Lexway, which now hangs in an honored position in the club rooms. February 15, 19)9