Exhibitors Herald (1927)

58 EXHIBITORS HERALD November 12, 1927 | CHICAGO PERSONALITIES 'L By W. W. J THE big Film ball, banquet and general get-together to be given under the auspices of the Chicago Exhibitors association and the Chicago Film Board of Trade has been set for the night of November 18 at the Stevens hotel. Festivities start at 7 p. m. FROM all indications, it looks as if the occasion will be a gala one. The various committees working under general chairman Ludwig Siegel are already hard at work planning all sorts of entertainment and special stunts. However, there will be a more serious side to the affair also. R. F. Woodhull, president of the M. P. T. O. A. will be present to give a report of the recent Trade Practice conference in New York, and it is expected that the Chicago delegates to the convention will also give reports. The committees and their members are as follows: Publicity, Fred Gilford, Joe Tastor, Si. Greiver, Dan Roche, A1 Sobler, and Harry Willard. Finance : C. W. Eckhardt, James Coston, Sid Selig, A. Schoenstadt and J. D. Abramson. Entertainment : Nat Wolf, Dave Dubin, Charles Kamp, Ben Cooney and Max Balaban. Through instructions from the Secretary of War orders have been issued to General Lassiter of the 6th Corps Area to cooperate at the showing of “Dress Parade,” the Pathe-DeMille picture made at West Point, at the Chicago theatre during the week of November 21. It is reported that the officials at West Point are highly satisfied with the picture. A private showing of the picture was given at the Pathe exchange Monday for the officers of the 6th Corps Area and those at Ft. Sheridan. People visiting the F B O exchange last week noticed a floral display in the office of Herbert Washburn. The bouquets were received by Washburn from friends congratulating him on his recent appointment to the position of branch manager at FB O. Among the F B O visitors last week were Oscar Hanson, Jefferson theatre, Goshen, Ind. ; Bill Heaseman, Colonial theatre, Danville, 111.; Jack Smith, Empire theatre, McHenry, 111., and Ed Szamecki, White Eagle theatre, South Bend, Ind. Bill Spounth has recently opened his new Jefferson theatre, and has signed a contract for the entire F B O product for this season. * * * O. C. Hammond, one of the oldest exhibitors in Chicago passed away last week. He was buried last Thursday. Mr. Hammond operated the Vendome and Pickford theatres. * * * With the Summer and Indian Summer days at last behind us, and with Old Man Winter now asserting himself, business should pick up in Chicago theatres. For the last three months there has been just one darn thing after another to ruin the appetite of the boys down the row. Here’s hoping that cold wind that swept over Chicago last Saturday blew all trouble away. H. C. Brolaski, who has been connected with Warner Brothers for the last year, is now country sales manager for the Chicago exchange. jfc sK Paul Bush, manager at the Tiffany exchange, has resigned. * * * Jack Cooney and his wife left last Wednesday for a two months’ vacation in Honolulu. When they boarded the Golden State Limited, they were greeted by a brass band and inside the train was a huge cake. But sad to relate, neither the band nor the cake was in honor of the Cooneys. It just happened that the road was celebrating its 50th anniversary. Well, anyway, the Cooneys enjoyed the music, and perhaps they got a taste of the cake, too. * * * There were two casualties down the row last week caused from new cars. Roy Alexander caught a bad cold from excessive riding in his new LaSalle Sport Phaeton, and Franc Ishmael has been suffering from rheumatic pains in his shoulder, and he, too, blames his new Auburn for his ailment. * * * Carl Laemmle was in town the first of the week on his way to the West Coast. * * * Jack Baker of Universal, was in Milwaukee last Friday on business. * * * Henri Ellman and his co-workers at Columbia are in their new offices on the second floor of the building at 831 S. Wabash. Henri says that moving is just about the hardest job he ever had. The offices have been given a new coat of paint and other improvements have been made. * * * Some of the boys down the row who feel the need for more exercise are anxious to start a bowling tournament. What do you think of the idea? The boys at F B O are willing to do the promoting if the rest will second the motion. It’s not a bad idea. The golf season is just about a thing of the past, so bowling ought to be just the thing. What do you think of it? * * * M. H. Hoffman, vice president of Tiffany Stahl Productions, passed through town Sunday. * * * The North Center is now listed among the dark theatres. It closed its doors last Tuesday with little prospects of having them opened again any time soon. This might be taken as a hint that there is such a thing as over-building even in Chicago, the world’s motion picture theatre capital. * * * Mrs. M. Gracy, owner of the Gem theatre at Crystal Lake, accompanied by her daughter Elizabeth, has gone to Louisville, Ky., to visit her son. * * * John Bobang of the Armitage theatre has returned home from the hospital, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. * * * Nick Bikos, owner of a number of theatres in Gary, left last week for Arizona, where he will spend the winter. * * * The Fox special, “7th Heaven” opened at the Monroe theatre last Saturday for an extended run. It is accompanied by Fox-Case Movietone. * * * C. C. Wallace had a fine turnout at his special trade showing of the United Artists picture, “My Best Girl,” the latest Mary Pickford picture. The picture was accompanied by the Orchestraphone, and many people in the audience expressed their approval of this new musical invention. Sterling ProcU,ctfon^n^ frfStnU For Illinois GREIVER PRODUCTIONS 831 SOUTH WABASH AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. Robert Agneiv Kathleen Myers Mildred Harris '^Directed by Fred Windemere For Indiana MIDWEST FILM CO. OF INDIANA 218 Wimmer Bldg., Indianapolis