Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

54 EXHIBITORS HERALD February 21, 1925 . . '7 — ^ \ ^ ^ [PDREDf PERSO NALJ ' . .r ' .. ' OHILADELPHIA, pa.— Morris Brown, proprietor and manager of the Capitol Film exchange, has gone to Los Angeles, to spend several weeks there as the guest of his brother. . . . Jack Conrdet, formerly Associated Exhibitor salesman in the Wilkes-Barre district, has resigned. . . . Charlie Martin, who has been covering another portion of the up-state territory for Associated, will include Courdet’s old district. . . . John Gill, of the De Luxe sales force, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis and is recovering at his home. . . . Miss Z. Eisenberg, who has been attached to the Philadelphia office of Paramount for some time, has resigned preparatory to changing her name. . . . The Stanley Company of America introduced for the first time a jazz revue with its regular picture program at the Stanley theatre the week of February 2. The staging of the production was in charge of Ned Reyburn, of New York, who is well known throughout the country as one of its best musical comedy producers. It is the intention of the Stanley company to vary its regular picture policy with short musical revues of a high caliber. George H. Earle, a prominent director of the Stanley company, has gone South to spend the remainder of the winter. He was accompanied by John J. McGuirk and Abe Soblosky, Stanley Company officials. . . . No overtures have been made by Vine Street exchanges to secure the quarters recently vacated by Universal, whose furnishings were moved into the old Selznick exchange. The building vacated by Universal was one of the largest but not the most convenient in the film district. Because of the floor space, the exchange would be a little too commodious for most of the independents doing business on the street. The national distributing companies are all satisfied with their present accommodations and it is therefore quite likely that the building will either remain vacant for some time or be taken over by a mercantile concern. A/I ILMAUKEE, WIS.— /. H. {“Go Getter") Margoles is living up to his name. G. A. Smith, chief of the Milwaukee office of Famous Players-Lasky, has just recommended him for membership in the select 100 per cent salesmen’s club of the organization. . . . Harry Perlowitz, of the Savoy, was buying and passing out cigars with reckless abandon last week. It’s a boy and gives every indication of being a regular showman. . . . Harry Hart, in charge of F. B. O. and former president of the Film Board of Trade, is in a serious condition at the Milwaukee hospital. Harry is one of the most popular and most widely known members of the trade in the city. . . . During his absence, Arthur Roberts, late of Minneapolis, is in charge of the F. B. O. shop. . . . Max Weisfeldt, district chief of F. B. O., is expected to visit Milwaukee as a result of Hart’s illness. . . . _ Oscar Kuschner, manager of Pathe, has just had his tonsils amputated. . . . James Morrissey, of Saxe’s JefTris in Janesville, now boasts an orchestra. . . J. E. {“Daddy") Wolcott, of Racine, was one of those who answered the call of the Badger Theatres Corporation for its Milwaukee mass meeting. . . A chip off the old block is the young son of Stan Brozvn, of Saxe’s Strand. Despite his knee pants, he knows more than some exhibitors about the show business and occasionally takes his turn leading the Strand orchestra. . . . Wil liam Seymour, just getting acquainted with Milwaukee, where he is now managing Ascher’s Merrill, says this town has Detroit, his old home city, beat a dozen different ways. IflljW (SEATTLE, WASH.— F. A. Smith has been appointed representative in this territory for the Alexander Film company. . . . With the transfer of L. A. Samuelson from the Portland office of Pathe to the Seattle branch, of which he is manager, the Portland branch is without a manager and will be for several weeks until the return of District Manager W. S. Wessling, who has been in the eastern part of the western territory. He installed W. A. Calkins as manager of the Butte office, following which he installed C. M. Van Horn, formerly manager of the Butte office, as manager of the Denver office. . . . Ben Shearer, of B. F. Shearer, Inc., theatre equippers and decorators, announces a new acquisition to his selling force in Frank Harris, formerly on the road for Kwality Pictures, handling Warner Bros. Classics. . . . P. C. Hurst, go-getter for First National, made a mysterious business trip to Bellingham last week. He must have carried strong medicine on that jaunt, for he returned with the pleasing announcement that he had signed up the Bellingham Theatres, Inc., managed by Fred Walton, to play all the First National features of 1925. ... A new face seen in town last week was Frank Lloyd, who, with his company, is visiting the Puget Sound country on location for the big picture he is directing, “Winds of Chance,’’ said to be a worthy successor of “Frivolous Sal.” . . . J. K. McDonald, producer of the latter picture, was also in town for a few days and was the guest of Fred Sliter, manager of the local First National branch. Mr. McDonald is elated over the success of “Frivolous Sal,” which had its premiere last week at the Liberty theatre and is the first big feature ever produced locally, having been produced at Ranier National Park. . . . Harry Black, manager of the Vitagraph Seattle offices, spent the last week end in Portland, motoring down to the Rose City accompanied by Mrs. Black. . . . J. T. {“Sheff") Sheffield, general manager of Greater Features, is spending a couple of weeks in Portland, looking after the offices there while James Moran, local manager, is spending a couple of weeks on the road. . . . Alanager Al Rosenberg of De Luxe Features declares the new cross-word puzzle films are creating quite a stir in the Pacific Northwest and probably will be as successful in achieving popularity as the crosswork puzzle sections in the daily newspapers and other periodicals. . . . Seattle exchange managers read with amusement the other day statistics compiled by the Architectural Forum of New York, which stated statistically (as those things go) that there were eight new theatres building or projected in Washington, and three in Oregon. According to Jim Hone, executive secretary of the M. P. T. O. of Washington, there are more theatres under construction in the Northwest than in any other section of the United States, and in Washington and Oregon alone there are more than twenty-five either under construction or projected for the near future. . . . Arthur Huot, Seattle F. B. O. manager, is in Los Angeles attending the west coast convention. He was accompanied south by Bill Matthews, Portland manager. . . . Seattle will have a new film exchange, a branch of the New Railway Express Film Transport company, according to the announcement of Robert E. M. Cowie, chairman, and another branch will be established at Salt Lake, both to be linked with twenty-seven branch offices to be established. . . . A. H. McMillan, who has been traveling the Oregon territory for Producers Distributing, last week joined the Seattle staff, succeeding R. C. Montgomery. When the firm’s projected new Portland home is built it will be under the management of Jack Rue, formerly manager of the Butte office. Albany, N. Y. — changes came last week along Film Row— Bob Bendell going with Renown, and Fred Robke takes Mr. Bendell’s place with Dependable. . . Julius Singer shouldn’t be overlooked, either, Sigbert Wittman, of Philadelphia, succeeding him as manager of the Universal exchange here. With a bag as big as all outdoors, presented him by employes of the exchange, Julius left for New York, happy as could be. . . . William Raf