The Exhibitor (Nov 1939-May 1940)

26 by coupons. . . . Warner lease on Majestic expires in March and owner Fred Peters contemplates operating it himself. Gloversville Schine Home Office News Semi-annual managers’ meeting was held at the Schine home offices January 18 at which plans were made for “Gone With the Wind” showings in key Schine houses and the Neely bill discussed fully. Those announced as attending included Louis Lazar, Bellefonatine, Ohio and Kentucky zone manager; Lew Hensler, Lexington, Kentucky manager; Pat McGee, Ohio district manager; Frank M. Boucher, Maryland and Delaware district; Marsh Gollner, Maryland district; Bud Silverman, Rochester city manager; Clinton C. Young, Geneva, western New York state zone manager; William A. Tubbert, Watertown, northern New York district manager; Jerry Fowler, Cortland, Southern Tier manager; Harry Goldsmith, Buffalo, western New York district; Gus Lampe, Syracuse, RKO-Schine city manager; Sid Holland, Gloversville, Mohawk Valley district manager; Harry Thompson, Cleveland, Cleveland territory booker; Joel Golden, Cincinnati, Cinncy booker; Harold Raives, Buffalo, Buffalo district booker and all home office department heads. Members of the Schiners’ club of the home office enjoyed a gala day of winter sports, January 21 at North Creek. There was skating and tobogganing for all, with several impromptu snowball fights. Friends and wives of the club members were special guests at the outing. . . . Harold F. Sliter and Sandy Lazar have been busy on a local campaign for “GW TW” which they hope will set the pace all over the circuit. Picture will play here at the Glove starting February 25, and running for seven days consecutively. It will outrun the “Birth of A Nation” by one day, that other epic having played here six days. “Wind” run will be the longest for any picture in the city’s history. Alfred Marqusee, assistant to E. Douglas Leishman in the statistical department, has been promoted to the operations and publicity department, where he will be assistant to Harold F. Sliter. Al, one of the most popular members of the Schine organization, is president of the Schiners’ club. He “rose from tbe ranks,” having started as a Schine usher. . . . Charles Stern, Bert Stearn, United Artists, and Monroe Greenthal, advertising director for UA, were in for conferences with Messrs Lynch, Sliter, Marqusee and Lazar. . . . Schine home office is going for Winter sports in a big way, which accounts for the run on wool socks at local stores, and also for the fact that Dewey Lederer, who has been learning to ski, now eats all his meals standing up! Congrats go to Sid Holland for his first prize of $1000 offered by Columbia in its “Only Angels Have Wings” contest. He was manager of the Elco, Elkhart, Indiana, at the time. Highland Falls Pete Bekeros, City, has negotiated a new contract with Altec covering complete service of all projection equipment in addition to his present sound service contract. Jamestoivn Plans are set for “GWTW” to play the Winter Garden early in February, Charlie THE EXHIBITOR Fish is making elaborate plans. . . . Ralph Crabill, district manager, is looking forward to a Florida vacation in February. . . . Allen Newhall, Palace, has a car giveaway sold to merchants in the works for pre-Easter attraction. . . . Virginia Callahane, Palace cashier, is photogenic. . . . John McAuliffe can prove. . . . Virginia Fischer, Shea’s cashier, is a badminton enthusiast. . . . Girl friend from Ohio visited Joe Hockenberry, Roosevelt manager. . . . Happy birthday to Virginia Fischer and Ruth Kelley, January; to Charles Fish and Virginia Callahan, February. . . . Sandra Louise is the new baby daughter of doorman Arthur Kahle. . . . Jack Marpole, National Screen representative, New York City, was in. . . . Joe Florio, sound engineer, took over Ralph Crabill with some trick ping pong shots. Charlie Fish, Winter Garden, discontinued “Wahoo” as Saturday night feature. . . . F. M. Westfall, Buffalo, and the missus were in. . . . Ralph Crabill, district manager, announced a shift of assistant managers in his territory. Frank Bartholomay who has been in Olean two years goes to the Babcock, Wellsville; Bill Kamas assistant, Wellsville theatres, for the past year and a half, transfers to Haven, Olean. . . . Virginia Traynor, Babcock, Wellsville cashier, was taken ill on the job and is confined to her home. . . . Night prices on Sunday matinee have gone into effect for the third week at Shea’s and Palace as an experiment. Jeffersonville Pop Eisenberg, Maple, is sojourning in Florida. Kingston Joseph Lacalle, manager, Reade’s Kingston for the past six months, has been transferred to the Community, Saratoga, and is being succeeded by John J. Gutteridge, Savoy, Manhattan. Nicholas Schermerhorn, who opened the Reade unit in Saratoga three years ago, goes to the Community in Moorestown, New Jersey. Lake George A petition asking a special village election for the purpose of voting $3,000 for publicity purposes is to be presented to the Board of Trustees, under Chamber of Commerce sponsorship. Lake Placid Over 300 persons were turned away from Lake Placid over the holiday when hotel accomodations were insufficient. . . . An early showing of the Walt Disney feature cartoon, “Pinocchio,” distributed by RKO, is scheduled for Ernie Dodd’s Palace, February 22. Liberty George Klemm, Liberty projectionist, is sporting a new car. . . . George Stark and Joe Dealy are vacationing in Florida. . . . George Bruener, Liberty projectionist, has been bitten by the photographic bug and is also a darned good cartoonist. . . . Milton Kutcher, former editor, Livingston Manor Times and now manager of the Liberty, is doing a swell job. Fourth Estate loses and show business gains. . . . Observed at the Triangle Dinner in an early morning discussion of the war were two veterans of the last scrap, Jack Carroll, U. S. Army, and George Klemm, German Army. Medina Raymond Majeski, chief of service, Diana, has been doubling as decorator. . . . Cliff Schaufele, Diana, runs a weekly revival picture one day, pictures requested by the public. He also uses “A Ham and Bacon Night,” a give-away by coupons of meats, together with gags and stunts. Pay-Off Club also runs one night a week and “Bingo” one night. Middletown Paramount will install new Simplex Four-Star Sound System. Netvbnrgh Manager Clint Lake, Ritz, Newburgh, presented Paul Whiteman’s Band. . . . Harry Friedman again heads Newburgh’s “march of dimes” campaign for President’s birthday benefit. Tenth session of the Netco (Insomnia) Bowling League was a series of upsets. Ritz defeated Park, 2-1; Managers defeated Art Department, 2-1; Cameo shut out Ushers; Operators defeated Broadway, 2-1; Clint Lake turned a 204 high single for the session. Teams now stand Park won 24, lost 6; Managers won 21, lost 9; Cameo won 21, lost 9; Ushers won 18, lost 12; Broadway won 16, lost 14; Art Department won 9, lost 21; Ritz won 7 lost 23; Operators won 4, lost 26. . . . Park started "Library Night” with an encyclopedia and dictionary giveaway. . . . Ken Helstern, Ritz projectionist, was slightly injured in a smashup. . . . James D. Tweed, business manager. Local 45, has been confined to his home. . . . Marianne Carroll was a patient at St. Luke’s Hospital. . . . Jack (Golden Boy) Corwin and frau Betty were observed bowling. . . . Ernie Bryant, Ritz service staff, has been released after several months of hospitalization. . . . Flo Decker, Ritz cashier, has changed her address. An action has been brought against Eugene Levy and the Netco Theatres Corporation to recover $50,000 for a broken neck allegedly suffered when a patron fell in leaving the Ritz, February 14, 1939, it was revealed with filing in Goshen of an order directing Saint Luke’s Hospital to produce records of the injury for the defendant to copy. . . . Plaintiff in the action is Chauncey H. Townsend, and he is represented in the action by Bertrand L. Pettigrew, New York, and Henry Hirschberg, Newburgh. He charges that he suffered permanent injury as a result of tbe neck fracture. . . . Order was signed by Justice Graham Witschief, and it directs the hospital to produce the plaintiff’s hospital records at the Newburgh court house on January 19, so the defendants may make photostats or other copies. The plaintiff had permitted an examination of the records, but refused to permit the hospital to let copies of them be made. The order was granted on aplication of Levy and the corporation. . . . Townsend contends that he fell while stepping from an elevated row of seats to an aisle, and he charges that the management failed to have the row of seats properly illuminated. . . . The application for the order also revealed that notice has been given by the plaintiff of his intentions to amend his complaint to increase the damages sought to $100,000. Poughkeepsie Bardavon will install new Simplex Four-Star Sound System. . . At a recent meeting of Local 499, the following officers were elected: President, Frank Van Etten; vice-president, D. Eighme; recording secretary, Louis Ross; financial secretary, treasurer and business manager, Kenneth Browne. . . . Among visitor were Elliot McManus, 20th Century; Harry Rubin, Paramount projection director; Jack Carroll, Altec; Ed Hartley, NTS. January 24, 1940