The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

36 NEWS OF THE TERRITORY HERMAN KAPLIN, SAM NORTHINGTON have organized baseball teams among the Petersburg boys. Engineers of all the theatres are beginning to tune up their cooling plants. BILL DALTON, former organist, Byrd, is now playing at the Alabama, Birmingham. BEN PITTS was in. PERCY POLLARD, assistant manager, Capitol, has taken up portrait painting. CHARLIE YERBY, assistant manager, Loew’s, has been suffering from old fashioned boils. BOB OVERCASH, engineer, Capitol, made a short tour of North Carolina. All employees of Neighborhood Theatre home office enjoyed a can of pecan brittle sent by WADE PEARSON from Miami. MRS. J. G. MULLEN, mother of JOSEPH MULLEN, manager, Bellevue, was married to staff lieutenant GEORGE HOLLOWELL, Langley Field. DAVE PETERSON, Altec engineer, was in town for three days substituting for MERVIN ULLMAN, vacationing. Dave told us about the Simplex “type C” sound equipment that he and Arlington Brooks installed in Constitution Hall, Washington, for National Geographic Society. MRS. BARNEY FRANK, wife, Universal salesman, has returned with her family from Miami where they have been for the past four months. Mr. and Mrs. Frank are very proud of their oldest daughter, a professional model, model ng while in Florida for a number of commercial firms. RALPH BINNS, Horlacher Washington manager, was in. Our sympathy is extended to LEROY FORD, projectionist, Byrd, who lost his mother March 24. SAM BENDHEIM, JR., general manager, Neighborhood Theatres, has devised a plan whereby he is shifting his Richmond managers around to various theatres to get accustomed to the operation of these houses, in the event that a manager should get sick, etc. First shift brought ALEX RAVDIN to the State from the Capitol; GARRETT LEAHEY to the Westhampton from the State; STEWART TUCKER to the Capitol from Westhampton. FRANK STRAUS, advertising department, Neighborhood Theatres, attended convention of ODK in Lexington. Cowboy BOB BAKER was an added attraction at the Venus. MORTON G. THALHIMER, president, Neighborhood Theatres, spoke before the Virginia State Association of B’nai B’rith Lodges. Newly organized Richmond Film Society offered for its initial presentation the Czecho-Slovakian film, "The Inspector General.” HAROLD WOOD was in the Hermitage Golf Club tournament of Upper and Lower Lockers. GEORGIA FARTHING attended the Spring show at the Deep Run Hunt Club, "PAT” PATTERSON was in Danville. BERNARD LICHTMAN, son of PETE, and his wife have returned from honeymooning. DAISY JOHNSON, cashier, Robinson, and JESSICA HARRIS, cashier, Walker, are both on the sick list. All Lichtman theatres are having marquees repainted. RUFUS G. BYERS, Lichtman supervisor from Washington, was in. — S. T. Roanoke GLENN NORRIS, 20th Century-Fox salesman for Southwest Virginia, is reported planning to build a home at Roanoke. Recent visitors to Roanoke include HARLEY DAVIDSON, Paramount; JOE WALSH, Columbia. EDDIE FONTAINE, Washington branch manager for Paramount, is slated to visit Roanoke in the near future. Salem BERNARD DEPKIN, JR., has returned from Florida. Schoolfield L. W. LEA, Schoolfield, put in new RCA sound, new Simplex projection, new Peerless lamps. South Norfolk BEN COHEN, Ritz, is in Cincinnati, visiting his sick mother. Staunton FRANK SHAFFER, Divie, made a tieup with a candy store on “Honolulu.” Store imprinted two thousand candy bags plugging "Honolulu.” Each one was numbered. TJrbanna C. C. BRISTOW, Rappana, is recovering from a foot ailment. Bristow was able to attend to his theatre as well as his post office duties. WEST VIRGINIA Martinsburg State opened March 22. The license question was still unsettled that date. Mullins Wyoming will be enlarged in the near future. DABIS AND CASSINELLI of Hazard, West Virginia, operate it. Sophia FREEMAN AND NEWBOLD circuit is building a new 3 00-seat theatre here. White Sulphur Springs W. B. HINES, manager, Greenbrier Hotel, and the Plaza, has just returned from a trip to Philadelphia. VARIETY CLUB Tent No. 11, Washington Chief Barker A. E. LICHTMAN’S charity committee — RUDOLPH BERGER, chairman — will sponsor the Washington premiere of "The Mother,” at the National, April 17. Proceeds from the ALLA NAZIMOVA starrer will go to the Club’s charity fund. DR. ARCHIE ENGEL is chairman of the committee in charge. The weekly dances sponsored by the Club in the rooms continue to attract the members and their friends in large numbers. Recently the party was, as the witching hour approached, in full swing. Among those who were quite enjoying themselves were JAKE FLAX and Norfolk’s SIDNEY BOWDEN, who made sure also that others did likewise. Then there was MPTOA’s EDWARD L. KUYKENDALL, the genial adopted son of the Nation’s Capital, the Club, dancing about with a new charmer for every swing around. Missed were NELSON BELL, ALINE DOBYNS. HARVEY SYEDNR was a sort of bookkeeper for Steward ROBERT MARION PRUETT, whose spiritous concoctions are still mixological perfections. SAM and ESTHER WHEELER were participating as a prelude to the 20th Century-Fox chief’s leaving for the convention. BOWLING Richmond State team took first place in the Neighborhood League as they won three from Capitol while Byrd was losing one to Brook-vue. Bob Overcash’s 3 53 was high set for the night followed by Stewart Tucker and Fitzhugh Anderson with 340. League standing: Won Lost Percentage State 52 20 .7 22 Byrd 51 21 .708 Grand 46 26 .638 Westhampton . . . 42 30 .583 Ven-ton 32 40 .444 Brook-vue 30 42 .417 Capitol 24 48 .333 Office 12 60 .166 League records: High team game, State — 5 80. High team set, State — 1,622. High individual game, Williams — 146. High individual set, Overcash and Chambliss — 3 74. Washington Projectionists League The Leader regained the lead by taking two out of three games from the Circle. Leader also went into first place for high team game, with a score of 5 5 7. The standings last week: Won Lost Percentage Leader 15 6 .714 Circle 13 8 .619 Congress 10 10 .5 00 Capitol 10 11 .476 Empress 9 12 .42 8 Ambassador 5 15 .2 5 0 High Team Set: Circle, 1,60 5. Fligh Team Game: Leader, 5 5 7. High Individual Set: Leader’s Mould, 379. High Individual Game: Leader’s Mould, 143. High Individual Average: Circle’s W. Sadtler, 110-14. High Individual Strikes: Circle’s Anderson, 11. High Individual Spares: Circle’s W. Sadtler, 50. UNDER COVER AGENT. Shirley Deane and Russell Gleason head the cast of the Monogram picture, a shot of which is seen above. April 5, 19)9