Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

78 EXHIBITORS HERALD February 28, 1925 Supreme. . . A farewell luncheon was given to Frederick Gage, district manager for Universal who has left for the East via Hollywood. He is expected back by April. . . Carol Nathan, local manager for Universal, has closed a contract with the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Steamship line to supply each of its steamers sailing from Pacific Coast Ports for the Orient with five complete programs. . . West Coast Theatres, Inc., through Jack Retlaw, has announced the inauguration of a circuitwide exploitation department for all its theatres. . . Manager Bowles, of the West Coast theatres, Inc., for Northern California, during the first week of February received almost 200 letters praising the work of Fanchon and Marco at Loew’s Warfield theatre. . . Dorothy Yates left Pathe recently for a connection with the Golden State theatres. . . Ole Olsen has been given larger territory out of the Metro office. . . J. A. Harvey, Jr., who recently opened a new theatre at Merced, said while on the row that he would enlarge it. . . Bert Hall, of the Hall Exchange, has taken over the Quality Film Exchange in Los Angeles and will enlarge his quarters. . . During his visit in San Francisco F. S. Harvey of the Fire Prevention committee of the Hays organization was entertained by members of the local Board of Trade. . . Almost every man on Film Row attended a meeting to greet C. C. Pettijohn, general counsel for the National Film Board of Trade, and Fred Beetson, Pacific Coast representative. . . . L. P. Langhlin, of Loew’s War field theatre, has been receiving expressions of appreciation from friends of his wife upon news of her rapid recovery. She has been in the hospital several weeks. . . Charlie IVescott expects to have his new house completed by April 1. Good luck to you Charlie. Hope “Fools Day” does not joker you. . . J.es Hables has built a new film house at King City. . . Jack Dunfield, of the Star theatre, Colusa, recently visited the Pathe, Universal, and Metro-Goldwyn offices. PHILADELPHIA, PA.— Walter J. Price, -*■ who has been manager of the Washington branch of Universal, has been transferred to the local office as exchange manager, succeeding Mike Landow, who joined Famous Players as the local sales manager. Price was for several years connected with Metro-Goldwyn as the Washington exchange manager and has been identified with motion pictures for many years. . . Several changes have taken place in the personnel of the Washington and Philadelphia offices of Famous Players. A. C. Benson, a member of the Quaker City sales force, has been made sales manager in Washington. Al Davis will succeed him in covering his section of the Philadelphia territory. Carl Suelke will now cover the Jersey section. He has been the city salesman. . . A. H. Shoemaker has resigned from the Vitagraph sales force and his territory is being covered' by George W. Thompson, who was formerly Jersey representative. . . The Lincoln theatre, which has been closed for several months, has been taken over by Holman and Miller and renamed the Doris. . . The owners have made extensive alterations and improvements and the theatre is now one of the most attractive neighborhood houses in west Philly. . . The Chestnut Hill theatre, owned by Elliott Goldman, owner of the Blue Bird, has been leased to M. Chertchoff for a long period with an option San Francisco First Runs (Week Beginning February 8) C A L 1 F O R N I A— “The Dancers,** Foxi “Family Entrance,’* Pathe. LOEW’S WARFIELD — “The Great Divide,’* Metro-Goldwyni “Out of the Inkwell,’* Bray; “Crossword Puzzles,” Own Novelty. BEATTY’S CASINO— “On the Stroke of Throe,” F. B. O.; “Off His Trolley,” Pathe. GRAIVADA^— “Devil’s Cargo,” Paramount; “Felix All Puzzled,” Winkler. CAMEO— “Daughters of the Night,” Fox; “Tourist Deluxe,” Universal, IMPERIAL— “Janice Meredith,” CosmopoU itan. STRAND^— “Dawn of the East,” Famous Players; Kinogranis; “Up on the Farm,” Fox Imperial. to buy. . . Lewis Corson, who is associated with Ben Amsterdam in the Masterpiece exchange, was badly injured when an oil burning furnace exploded in the cellar of his home. He was confined to the house for about two weeks but is again able to be on Vine street. . . 5am Blatt, who managed the Owl theatre, Gray’s Ferry Road, for George Bennethun, has resigned and taken a lease on the Sun theatre, 28 and Federal streets. OTTAWA, ONT.— /. C. Kennedy, formerly manager of the Regent theatre, and more recently in charge of the Capitol theatre, Peterboro, Ont., has been transferred to Fort William, Ont., by Famous Players Canadian Corp., Tor., where he is now the manager of the Orpheum theatre. . . . Norton H. Payne, A. L. C. O., well known as a theatre organist here, has gone to Montreal where he has received the appointment of organist and accompanist of the Palace theatre, the manager of which is George Rotsky. . . Payne was organist of the Central theatre for years and was recently at the Imperial theatre. . . . The Casino theatre here is chang ing hands and an offer is being made by the new management of a prize of $20 and a season pass for the best name suggested to take the place of “Casino,” by which the theatre has ben known for many years. The theatre has presented pictures and stock vaudeville for a number of years. . . Finley McRae, son in law of the late Harry Broiise, for years owner of the Imperial and Family theatres, has become vice president of the Canadian Glass Products, Ltd., of Hull, Que., a company capitalized at $600,000. McRae is the executor of the immense estate of the late Mr. Brouse, valued at $1,750,000. McRae, incidentally, has leased the Imperial for a term of five years to Sol and A. H. Coplan who also operate the Princess here. . . Leonard Bishop, manager of the Regent theatre, has adopted the “conversational style” of newspaper advertising for attractions at the theatre. This comes in the form of a personal statement, worded in a breezy manner, set up in two columns width and signed by the name of the manager. In a recent advertisement the name of the picture was not given but the curiosity of the public was aroused by the manner in which the subject was described. . . . The standard here of censoring pictures is very high according to a statement made by Alice Miller of the Chicago board of censors in an interview while visiting here this week. Twenty-one pictures were rejected last year in Chicago, she said, of the 2,700 examined. But she noted that the Ontario board had rejected 44 of 1,600 examined. She also noted that Chicago has almost as many motion picture theatres as the whole province of Ontario. . . The appointment of Joseph Walters of Vancouver, B. C., to the board of censorship has drawn unusual comment due to the charge made by members of the Columbia legislature that the appointment had been purely political in design. . . . Attornev General Manson of British Columbia declared that his province has been rejecting more motion picture releases than any other Canadian province and that he had written the censor boards of other provinces suggesting that they tighten up in the censoring. He said that he had told exhibitors and the censor not to permit the showing of films having sex appeal. lA ANSAS CITY, MO. — A first degree robbery charge grew out of the ability of T. J. Wilson to remember distinctly features and characteristics of men. Wilson, operator of the Bancroft and St. John theatres, was robbed of valuables and cash amounting to about $500 ; but he was alert enough to notice the hands and face of one of the men who later happened to drive a taxi cab which Wilson had boarded. He recognized him and told the prosecutor his story. Jacob J. “Jake” Liberman, manager of the Empress theatre, Kansas City, was found dead in his bed Thursday morning. He had complained slightly the night before of indigestion, but was not considered ill. Mr. Liberman, a veteran in theatrical circles, lived at the Hotel Baltimore. Theatre men of Kansas City arranged for funeral services in Kansas City, as well as in New York, where the body was sent. Among those who attended the funeral in Kansas City were: William Miller, treasurer of the Empress; Jack Quinlan, manager of the Mainstreet theatre; Fred Spear and Lawrence Lehman of the Orpheum theatre; Milton Feld of the Newman theatre; Walter Finney, manager of the Pantages theatre; Ray Whittaker, manager of the Shubert theatre; Milton T. Middleton of the Gayety theatre and Tommy Taaffe of the Globe theatre. The Victory theatre, one of the early landmarks of what is now “theatre row,” is to be razed to make way for a business building. . . “Motion picture players are a hard working lot ; they have average morality and are intelligent artists,” Carl E. Milliken, twice governor of Maine, said in a conference last week before the Women’s City Club. “The unfortunate happenings of Hollywood are sins of the ‘Wallingfords’ of the profession,” he said. “Will Hays is all right and is setting well with the producers’ world.” . . Wal ter Einney, manager of the Pantages theatre, succeeded in selling the city editor of the Kansas City Journal-Post an idea which resulted in a three column spread on the various duties of an entire staff of theatre employes. . . Universal will deliver news reel twice a week by airplane to St. Joseph and on to Kansas City by rail. . . C. P. Senning, Educational branch manager, has been busy lobbying in Toueka, Kan., while Charles Knickerbocker, P. D. C., branch manager, announced that he closed big deals in Oklahoma. He returned home