The Exhibitor (Nov 1948-Feb 1949)

NT-4 THE EXHIBITOR NEW YORK: As the New Year was ushered in, there were some changes made at the Film Center. United Artists wel¬ comed Abe Dickstein. home office ex¬ ecutive, as the new branch manager, re¬ placing Jack Ellis. Dick¬ stein formerly worked at the exchange as an of¬ fice manager, and brings popularity as well as experience to the new post. Bonded PUm Storage occupied more space on the fifth floor WALT PASHKIN of the Film Center build ■n t > ing, moving Audio Productions upstairs to the seventh floor. Space on the seventh was vacated by Principal PUms and AlO. Bondy. They moved into offices on the 1 1th floor made available by the moving of Robert Lefkof's Film Renovating Service, the Brenner Booking Service, and Standard Films into the offices next door to Re¬ public on the 10th floor. Bonded will also occupy four offices alongside of Monogram on the ninth floor in the near future. (NOTE:) Due to a typographical error, it was stated here recently that the Motion Picture Bookers Club office affair was to be held on Jan. 17. This is incorrect. The affair was held on Dec. 17. U-INTERNATIONAL: New Jersy sales¬ man Phil Winnick basked in the Florida sunshine....Brooklyn salesman Leo Green¬ field was on a two-week vacation.... Booker Hal Rosen and his orchestra entainedat Randforce booker Jack BirnbaunYs club party on Dec. 25.. ..Ex-shipping room employee James Bello, now Astor sales¬ man in Atlanta, dropped in. MONOGRAM: Night film room inspector Hy Rabinowitz became the proud father of a seven pound, 10 ounce boy, Mark Steven, on Dec. 14. The co-workers in film room presented him with an appropri¬ ate gift. ...Booker Jack Graver is making his home these days at the basketball games at Madison Square Garden.. ..Con¬ tract clerk Jean PoUins was out ill. COLUMBIA: The salesmen returned smiling and happy from their vacation the other day with Morris Fraumlin, city sales¬ man, exhibiting a nice Florida tan. Others eager to go again are Jack Sokoloff, Brooklyn, and John Wenisch, Jersey, salesmen.. ..Secretary Esther Cohen re¬ turned from her honeymoon.. ..Booker Charlie Rosenblatt’s son, Jeffrey Alan, is cutting his first tooth. RKO: Branch manager Phil Hodes re¬ turned from a Christmas weekend visit tc his married daughter in Chicago. ...Booker Charlie Raffaniello is accepting birthday congratulations on Jan. 6....JuLia DiMaggio joined the staff as a typist.... The Ned Depinet Drive is in full tilt, keeping the staff busy. EAGLE LION: Cashier Bea Friedman was married on Jan. 2. and was off to The Ned Depinet Drive recently opened in New York City as Len S. Gnienberg, RKO metropolitan district manager and drive captain, called a meeting attended by, standing, Heiman Silverman, William Hartman, Charles Denser, Phil Hodes, Charles Boasberg, Gnienberg, Carl Peppercorn, Cy Kaplan, and Lou Kutinsky, and, seated, John Dacey, Jean Slade, Dorothy Frost, and Carles Raffanello. The drive is proceeding rapidly. A1 Pierce, manager. Shea’s Bellevue, Niagara Falls, recently promoted a series of special morning shows for kids, with local merchants and a radjo station cooperating to make them sellouts. Shown is his lobby with teaser ads. The affairs attracted quite a bit of interest. sunny California for a month’s vacation. Martha Awerbach was filling in.... Secre¬ tary Fluff Blome was wearing a new wrist watch she received as a Christ¬ mas gift. UNITED ARTISTS: Janet Moses is still raving about her Christmas weekend spent skiing in New Hampshire with Screen Guild secretary Gertrude Levine.... Sonia Schwartz, secretary to office manager Pat Marcone, received a wrist watch from her boy fri^d for Christmas.. ..Members of the staff enthusiastically reminisced about working with the new branch mana¬ ger, Abe Dickstein, once office manager at UA. a vacation. ...Naomi Adler and Marcia Geiger were welcomed to the staff as the new billing clerk and tabulating clerk, respectively.. ..High averages for the season to date in bowling are owned by Fred Eusini, Prima Donnas, with 158 and Mary Elefante, AUiettes, with 119. PARAMOUNT: Ledger clerk Shirley Centner became engaged just before Christ¬ mas. ...Billing clerk Eva Cohen returned radiant from her South American vacation cruise.. ..The current booker-salesman standings find the New York branch in second place, selling over the quota in the combined and features departments. NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE: Tele¬ phone operator Ruth Galindo was off on Acting Mayor Peter Crotty, Buffalo, re¬ cently presented Terry Moore, star of Co¬ lumbia’s “The Return of October”, with a certificate of welcome when the star visited that city to help sell the show. WARNERS: Happy recipients of Christ¬ mas gift bonuses were bookers A1 Blumberg, Pete Saglembini, Mannie Cross, Syd Roth, and Mike Anderson.. ..Just re¬ turned refreshed and eager from vacations were salesmen Lee Mayer, Irving Rothenberg, and Leo Jacobi. RAMBLIN’ ’ROUND: Republic booker Hanna Eckstein was out Texas way on her vacation.... Astor’s J.J. Felder re¬ turned from California.... Equity President B.O. Mills celebrated his birthday on Dec. 20, and Myron Mills and Phil Cooper, same firm, celebrated theirs on Dec. 18 and 25, respectively. ...Astor had “Stage¬ coach’’ and “-The Long Voyage Home” booked into the Palace.... Larry Kulick, Bell, wound up his southern business trip With a short holiday stay in Florida ....Principal salesman Julius Levine was getting set for the wedding of his son, Stanley, on Jan. 9. January 5, 1949