The Exhibitor (Nov 1938-May 1939)

20 NEWS OF THE TERRITORY ray mtontsofly THERE WILL BE A NEW ISSUE OF THIS PUBLICATION COMPLETE IN COVERAGE SERVICE AND A LAST MINUTE REPORT ON WHAT'S DOING IN THIS INDUSTRY OF OURS GRAHAM BARBEE, genial district manager, Lichtman circuit, was in our midst. Our sympathy is extended to the Lichtman brothers over the loss of HENRY LICHTMAN, son of JACK, who was short subject booker in their Washington office. EMIL MARTIN, former manager, Globe, and now checker for Ross-Federal, convulsed the boys at the Capitol with his impersonation of POPEYE. DOROTHY SHEWBRIDQE, Neighborhood Theatres’ home office, went to Fort Myer for the horse show. JOE MULLEN, manager, Bellevue, visited his mother and stepfather at Langley Field. Neighborhood Theatres have signed contracts with the Richmond Air Conditioning, to install a cooling plant in the Bluebird, Petersburg, and CATLETT and JOHNSON to install conditioning in the home office. With the advent of spring the usual carnival competition is coming up in several sections of the city. ALLEN SPARROW, manager, Loew’s, was a Norfolk visitor. TOM PITTS, manager, Patrick Henry, East End, trekked to Fredericksburg for conferences with BEN PITTS. At the same time, MRS. THOMAS PITTS went home to Suffolk. HARRY NORDIN, champ softball player, Pops’ team, visited Baltimore. A charter was issued to B. and W. Inc., Norfolk, with maximum capital $25,000, E. B. WELLS, president, Norfolk, to operate amusement enterprises. KEITH EWELL, relief doorman, Capitol, was secretly married to JULIA HARWARD in Weldon, North Carolina, March 31. MRS. KATHERINE MEBANE FRIDLEY, substitute cashier, National, was killed in an automobile accident near Hanover Courthouse. Sorry to hear of the auto smashup in which JAKE FLAX was badly cut. Here is hoping that you will be back on the job soon, Jake. BOB FOLLIARD, RKO Washington branch manager, was in town. WORTH WATKINS and VERNON MAYS have joined the service staff, National. WALTER NELSON, projectionist, Lee, hit the other day and CHARLIE HULBERT had to lock the door to keep him in the booth. HARRY HARLOW, service staff, Grand, is out ill, with RICHARD BAIRD substituting. A seven and a half pound baby boy, HAROLD REYNOLDS, was born to the wife of HIRAM "BUCK” JOHNSON, head usher, National, April 15. HERMAN RUBIN, city manager, Neighborhood Theatres, Petersburg, was in town. EDDIE MARTIN, Republic salesman, paid us a visit. DORA N. CASON, sister of AL and HERMAN NOWITSKY, died in Norfolk, April 14. Her father, CAPTAIN GEORGE I. NOWITSKY, is also well-known to the profession. DAVID WHELAN, Republic, was in town for the pre-release of "Man of Conquest.” He was accompanied by his wife, who is movie commentator of WOR and also gained quite a name by writing poetry for WALTER WINCHELL’S column. A. FRANK O’BRIEN had several nice tie-ups on "Midnight” when it played at the Colonial. MILDRED AMENT, cashier, Westhampton, sang at the recital of her teacher, MRS. FERRELL. C. HARRY TAYLOR, district service manager, RCA, was in town accompanied by MRS. TAYLOR. WADE PEARSON visited the home office of Neighborhood Theatres. At the 15 th annual meeting of the State Chamber of Commerce, MORTON G. THALHIMER, president, Neighborhood Theatres, was re-elected to serve on the board of directors. JERRY MURPHY, 20th Century-Fox OLMSTEAD KNOX, RKO-Radio, and BARNEY FRANK, Universal, were all in town. H. J. NEALE, director of outdoor advertising for the State Highway department, stated last week that a drive to check all billboards, to see whether or not permits have been issued for same — will start May 1. — S. T. Staunton JOHN RAMEY, Strand, made a tie-up with McCrory’s store on "Dramatic School.” Winchester TOM BALDRIDGE, manager, Capitol, has been elected president, Virginia State Junior Chamber of Commerce. VARIETY CLUB Tent No. 11 , Washington Variety sponsored the opening night at the National, which played Nazimova’s "The Mother,” funds going to the welfare fund. Welfare chairman RUDY BERGER said the automobile raffle, which last year was successful, will be repeated this year with the grand drawing at the November banquet. BOWLING Richmond CLEVELAND WILLIAMSON, Westhampton team, rolled high set of 3 66 as his team won two from Grand. BOB COULTER rolled 336 for Byrd as they won three from Capitol. League Standing Won Lost Percentage State 60 21 .748 Byrd 57 24 .703 Grand 52 29 .642 Westhampton . . 46 35 .568 Ven-ton 37 44 .456 Brook-vue 34 47 .419 Capitol 27 54 .333 Office 12 69 .148 League records: High team game, State5 80 High team set, State-1622 High individual game, Williams -146 High individual set, Chambliss and Overcash 3 74 Lee, Park organized teams and rolled at Haskins’ Bowling Center, with the Park, led by OTIS HINTON’S set of 309 and WILLIE THOMPSON’S game of 114, taking two out of three. JIM THOMPSON, Lee, was the real star of the night as he rolled a set of 3 3 8. CHARLIE HULBERT rolled a single game of 124 for the losers. Washington Projectionists League The relative positions of the teams remaining the same this week, although the Leader won two games from the Ambassador, the Circle two from the Congress. The standings, records as of April 11, follow: Won Lost Percentage Leader 20 10 .667 Circle 18 12 .600 Capitol 16 14 .534 Congress . . . 14 1$ .483 Empress 11 19 .367 Ambassador . . . . 10 19 .345 Team Set — Circle, 1,60 5. Team Game — Leader, 5 57. Set — Leader’s Mould, 3 79. Game — Leader’s Ross, 146. Average — Circle’s Anderson, 111-19. Strikes — Circle’s Anderson, 17. Spares — Circle’s W. Sadtler, 73. April 26, 19)9