The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

26 NEWS OF THE TERRITORY MR., MRS. EARL STITZER; MR., MRS. GORDON PULLIAM; CLEVELAND WILLIAMSON; MR., MRS. PERCY POLLARD; W. R. HUNDLEY; GROVER FINCH; WILLIAM BUTLER; JOE LAPRADE; BILL HAUSE; GRACE WARD. HELEN PASCHAL, cashier, Carillon, is back at work. During her sickness, LUCILLE SLAVEN substituted. J. BRADFORD SMITH, former doorman. Colonial, is now showing portable movies in five nearby towns who are without theatres. ALLEN SPARROW is giving an advance preview with reserved seats of "Pygmalion” at Loew’s. DAN EDDINGTON, Columbia Poster Print, is back from a business trip to Norfolk, other towns. He reports that BUCK WILDER had a relapse in Florida and his doctor and SIDNEY BOWDEN flew down there, but Buck was much better when they got there. BERTHA GORDON is starting right away on her new theatre near Newport News. ELMORE HEINS, Roanoke, told FRANK O’BRIEN that he liked the convention in Washington so well that he expected to attend more in the future. A 10-pound baby girl, BEVERLEY DALE, was born to MRS. A. P. STEWART February 18. A. P. is projectionist at the Colonial. HARLEY DAVIDSON. Paramount salesman, was in town. HARRY HARLOW, service staff, Grand, has been out sick with the grippe. CHARLIE HULBERT, manager, Lee, has a new hobby, raising canaries. — Stewart Byrd Tucker. Roanoke ELMORE D. HEINS was elected president, general manager of the National Theatre corporation, at a recent meeting of the stockholders. H. D. SCHOLZ was reelected treasurer. Recent visitors to Roanoke include JOE WALSH, Columbia; ELBERT GROVER, RKO; HARLEY DAVIDSON, Paramount. JAKE FLAX, Republic, is vacationing in Florida. Walsh and PHIL BOBYS, recently received cards from W. B. HINES, manager, Plaza, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, who has been enjoying a winter cruise through the Atlantic and Caribbean. Walsh arrived in Roanoke bursting with pride over the fact that FRANK CAPRA’S "You Can’t Take It With You,” was granted the Academy award. H. W. ROBERTSON, operator, Strand, Collins, Covington, is ill. V. E. KELSEY, motion picture firm of Plank and Kelsey, Blacksburg, is a patient at Lewis-Gale hospital, Roanoke. BERNARD DEPKIN, JR., operator of theatres at Salem, Galax, Martinsville, is ill in Florida. DAN WEINBERG, operator of houses in Bedford, Buena Vista, Lynchburg, who has been ill, is back at work. Saltville Victory has been renovated and redecorated. H. T. SPRAKER, manager, is vacationing in Florida. Winchester TOM BALDRIDGE, manager, Capitol, was again named as director for Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. WEST VIRGINIA Clarksburg More than 150 exhibitors, distributors and sales representatives of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio attended the ITO of West Virginia meeting at the Waldo Hotel. President R. J. HEIHLE presided. Speakers included Colonel H. A. COLE, president of Allied States Association, who was introduced by M. A. ROSENBERG, president, MPTO of western Pennsylvania. Cole spoke on trade practice reforms and legislation. Resolution was adopted authorizing president Heihle to appoint a committee to meet with representatives of the West Virginia managers’ association, of which SOL HYMAN, of Huntington, is president, to endeavor to amalgamate the two associations. A second resolution was adopted to accept theatre managers who are not owners as associate members. The business session consisted principally of reports from the treasurer and legislative committee on the pending legislation affecting the theatre business, particularly in West Virginia. Following the business session, a testimonial dinner was held in the Waldo Hotel for CHARLES DORTIC, now branch manager, Grand National in Pittsburgh, and ROBERT DUNBAR, now office manager for Warners’ Pittsburgh exchange, and both former West Virginia sales representatives. Martinsburg Warners will re-open the Strand. Work has started on rebuilding this house of about 400 seats. It is reported LOU KUSNER, now manager Apollo-Central will also have charge. Kusner came to Martinsburg as manager nine years ago. Warners became established in Martinsburg 10 years ago when they purchased Apollo, Central, Strand from HARRY CRANDALL. White Sulphur Springs W. B. HINES has been Panamaing, sending postcards to friends about "100 in the shade.” VARIETY CLUB Tent No. 1 1, Washington Another of the Variety Club’s "Bingo” parties was held March 2 in the main ballroom of the Willard Hotel, with plethora of door prizes, cash prizes, merchandise prizes. There was no admission charged. Tent No. 19, Baltimore Bi-monthly luncheon of the club was held at the Hotel Belvedere February 2 8. J. LOUIS ROME, Chief Barker, acted as toastmaster. Announcement was made that EDDIE PEROTKA has been appointed a member of the board of directors succeeding J. LAWRENCE SCHANBERGER, who has resigned. Perotka was in charge of the bridge tournament February 27 at which AL KAHN won first closely followed by LEON BACK second; SAM BACK, third. LOUIS AZRAEL, Baltimore News-Post and Suiulay American columnist, expects to conduct the Spelling Bee March 8. MRS. SPAULDING ALBERT heads the women’s side including MRS. J. LOUIS ROME, MRS. GORDON CONTEE, MRS. RODNEY COLLIER, MRS. MORRIS OLETSKY, MRS. JAMES OWENS, MRS. EDDIE PEROTKA, MRS. JOHN LANGE, MRS. DAN FEDDER, MRS. JOSEPH YOUNG, MRS. LEON ZELLER. PAUL VINCENT heads the mens’ team including J. LOUIS ROME, JOSEPH C. GRANT, BUDDY SILVERBERG, JACK LEVIN, LEON ZELLER, CLAUDE HELLMAN, FRANK HORNIG, JR., FREDDIE SCHMUFF, MAXWELL WEINBERG, SIDNEY GOLDSTEIN. BOWLING Richmond The Byrd, Grand are still in a tie for first place but the State team really hit the headlines this week when they broke both team records, one individual record, with Lonnie Chambliss rolling a 374 set and the team rolling a 575 game, a 1615 set. League standing: Won Lost Percentage Byrd . . . . 42 18 .700 Grand .... 42 18 .700 State 41 19 .683 Westhampton . . . 32 28 .533 Brook-vue . . . . 27 33 .450 Ven-ton .... 24 36 .400 Capitol 23 37 .383 Office .10 50 .166 League records: High individual game — Williams, 146. High individual set — Chambliss, 3 74. High team game — State, 575. High team set — State, 1615. Washington Projectionists’ League Local operators started something new in bowling recently, it was revealed last week. They organized a midnight bowling league, because that is about the only time they can bowl and went all the way to Rosslyn, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington to do their sport. Washington bowling alleys were closed to the operators, because neighbors would probably complain at that late hour. Teams and their captains are Sidney B. Lust’s Leader, Ross; Dr. William P. Herbst’s Circle, Anderson; Lloyd G. Wineland-Urie Hollingsworth’s Congress, Warren; Loew’s Capitol, Bittendender; Isaac Notes’ Empress, Mulloy; Warner Brothers’ Ambassador, Fanning. Team standings, and records: Leader Won 7 Lost 2 Percentage .778 Circle 6 3 .667 Congress 4 2 .667 Capitol 4 5 .444 Empress 3 6 .333 Ambassador . . . 0 6 .000 High team set — Circle, 1 5 69. High team game — Circle, 5 5 5. High individual set — Circle’s Anderson, 3 5 3. High individual game — Circle’s Anderson, 142. High individual average — Circle’s Anderson, 109-6. High individual strikes — Circle’s Grimes, 7. High individual spares — Circle’s Anderson, Leader ’s Mould, 20. Motion Picture Bowling League Because of numerous differences, difficulties, the league has been abandoned. March S, 19)9