Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

52 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD April 26, 1950 ( Continued from preceding page ) Theatres for Sale or Rent I BEG YOUR PARDON— THERE WERE TWO MISLEADING STATEMENTS MADE UNDER THIS HEADING LAST WEEK! A THEATRE ADVERTISED AS BEING IN WESTMINSTER, INDIANA, IS IN WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND. A THEATRE ADVERTISED AS BEING FOR RENT BY A. L. REDMAN, OLNEY, ILL., IS NOT FOR RENT BUT FOR SALE. (Classified Dept.) FOR SALE— THEATRE BUILDING COMPLETE OR PICTURE BUSINESS ONLY. Drawing from 20,000 population. No competition. Talkies. Doing good business. Price right. Address Lyons Theatre, Lyons, Illinois. STATE THEATRE— WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND. SOUND EQUIPMENT good, stage and scenery, ten year lease, reasonable rent, 775 new seats, pipe organ. New display sign 19 ft. high with 3x10 display. Everything to make a first class show. Population 4500, good drawing from! rural districts. Town lias factories, college, six banks, other industries. Will stand investigation. Reason for selling, leaving for California. A sacrifice at $17,500.00 cash. Possession at once. Address Miles S. Fox, Owner, Westminster, Maryland. ARCADIA THEATRE BUILDING, OLNEY, ILLINOIS. 650 seat, 3 stores, 7 offices, all rented; or will SELL (NOT RENT AS PREVIOUSLY STATED) the theatre alone On a good income basis. Address A. L. Redman, Pres., 212 E. Main St., Olney, Illinois THE ENTIRE EQUIPMENT of a two hundred seat theatre including piano for nine hundred dollars with or without lease of building. Apply to A. J. Gibbons, Metropolis, Illinois. BEFORE YOU BUY A THEATRE consult us. Profitable houses always on hand. Address Albert Goldman, 5 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. IN HARRISBURG, PA. Two neighborhood theatres each seating 1100. Fully equipped. Talkies. Will sell buildings or lease. Address Moe Baturin, Harrisburg, Pa. FOUR THEATRES IN FOUR DIFFERENT PROGRESSIVE Self Supporting Towns in Florida, two in County Seats. These for sale on Satisfactory Terms. Owner Retiring from Business. Address Agent C. D. Maddox, Archer, Fla. Cameras for Sale AKELEY. brand new. Write for booklet. Address Wood, 204 Inland Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana. Projector Repairing SKILLED MECHANICS, specialized tools, and a shop equipped for but one purpose can offer you nothing but the best in repair work. That is what I have, and I can offer you the best in the overhauling of your motion picture machinery equipment. One of the oldest repair men in the territory, and serving some of the largest houses. Relief equipment furnished free. For results bring your work to Joseph Spratler, 12-14 E. Ninth St., Chicago, 111. BEST SHOP for repairing projection machines. Prompt service, reasonable prices. Address Movie Supply Co., 844 Wabash, Chicago. Parks for Sale PARK FOR SALE — $4,000 PROFIT guaranteed for 1930. Valuation $32,800. Sell for $29,000. $5,000 cash and balance in easy yearly payments. Address Frank Orndorff, Mattoon, Ills. Films for Sale COMEDIES, ACTION, WESTERN and Sensational Subjects at lowest prices. Perfect condition film. List. Address Colonial Film & Supply Co., 630 Ninth Ave., New York, N. Y. EXCELLENT WESTERNS, $3 REEL; Powers 6A Projectors, $125.00. Address Marshall Films, Rome, Georgia. Chairs for Sale FOR SALE— 280 VENEER THEATRE SEATS 50c EACH Phototone Non Sync., good as new with 200 records $250.00. Address Lyceum Theatre, Terre Haute, Indiana. FOR SALE— 1000 UPHOLSTERED SEATS. In imitation Spanish leather, veneered backs. $1.85 each. 1500 5-ply veneered chairs 95c each. Address Illinois Theatre Equipment Company, 12-14 East Ninth St., Chicago, III. BIG BARGAIN in used Opera Chairs, 600 upholstered, 800 veneer. Address Movie Supply Co., 844 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. OPERA CHAIRS, seats and backs for all makes, five ply, at prices that save you money. Jobs in new and used chairs. Address Redington Company, Scranton, Pa. 1,000 used high-grade spring constructed theatre seats covered in imitation Spanish leather. The seats are all brand new with metal bottom boards. Very reasonable prices. 500 spring edge seats covered in imitation Spanish leather made by Heywood-Wakefield Company. 1,000 upholstered seats in imitation leather, veneer backs. 750 heavy 5-ply veneer theatre chairs y%" backs. Also several smaller lots of upholstered chairs, panel backs, at very attractive prices. We can furnish you with ycur needs — everything for the theatre — in the used line — at a great saving. For more information and prices, write Illinois Theatre Equipment Company, 12-14 E. Ninth Stret, Chicago, Illinois. Miscellaneous PROF. COPIES “OHIO RIVER MOON.” Ad dress John Storm, 212 Harmony Hill, Benwood W. Va. FROZEN KUSTURD MACHINES— Photos, particulars now ready. Address New International Frozen KUSTURD Machine Co., 17 East 37th St., Indianapolis, Ind. w THE VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY LETTERS FROM READERS Fair Play Appreciated YOU DESERVE THE HIGHEST PRAISE and commendation for the principles you uphold in the editorial, “Fox versus Sheehan.” I have the greatest admiration for Mr. Sheehan and the way in which he handled the Fox situation. Your sense of fair play will always keep the Herald-World on top. — Bernard A. Omlor, Ritz theatre, Tiffin, Ohio. $33,800 Rentals in 10 Years ATTACHED IS SOME RAVING I HAVE been doing on paper. I don’t know what it is worth to you, but it is my reaction and an idea. I have been an exhibitor for the past ten years in a small community of about 750 people (more or less as the fortunes of the community increased or waned), have kept abreast of the times in proportion to my community, in this time, have built an attractive little theatre, reseated now and then, put in ventilating equipment, improved projection from time to time, and until the advent of sound had a place to which our little town could point with pride. Now, the place seems shunned as though it had the measles or some such-like ailment. I have held on as long as possible. Naturally, in attempting to keep my business going I have spent all the money I made out of the business. I have just figured up that in the past ten years I have paid in to the producers and distributors approximately $33,800 for film rentals and advertising accessories. The producers and distributors certainly have a moral responsibility, or debt, to pay to the people who paid this money in to them. In attempting to hold on until sound picture rentals came down to within reason or to a point where the possible business in sight would warrant the installation of equipment and the cost of sound prints, I have spent all my money. It is now impossible for me to buy equipment. What are the producers and distributors going to do about such-like cases? Just let them go out of business? Deprive the people who paid them $33,800 of entertainment they are legitimately entitled to? Where are they going to find something to take the place of this $33,800 they will not now get? — Florida. (Editor’s Note: The name of the writer is withheld for obvious reasons.) The ivriters story follows (both letter and story are printed to present the full picture in the exhibitor’s own words). THAT $33,800 VILLAGE GOOSE Authentic figures show that a small theatre in a village in the south has paid in to producers and distributors $33,800 in film rentals and advertising accessories in the past ten years. This is in a town of around 750 souls. This theatre is going out of business. The present so called silent version no longer has sufficient entertainment value to hold patronage. Those wishing to see a picture drive 60 or 75 miles. This is rather dear entertainment and will not figure more than 1 to 50 of former theatregoers of the town. Hew many like situations throughout the country? Are producers blind to the fact that they are losing money every day by the closing up of small houses over the country? How would this work? Any producer (or all of them for that matter) should be in position to sell or rent sound equipment to these small down and out houses. Naturally, they no longer have money as they held on with silent product as long as was possible. Producers could place a good low priced disc equipment in these small houses and let them pay for themselves at say $10.00 per week and sound prints in proportion to business available. Otherwise, they are simply out the rentals they have been getting heretofore. What are they going to use instead of that $33,800 they are not now getting? Oil companies furnish equipment on a lease system of $1.00 per year for an outlet for their product. Why not the picture industry? — Florida. Plans Suit Over Award THE LYRIC THEATRE OF JACOBS Creek is out of business and the building has been remodeled into an apartment house. This theatre was boycotted by the Pittsburgh Film Board on February 4, 1928, by reason of failure to abide by an award secured by F B O. Damage suits will be filed in the near future. There is no theatre now. My theatre was operated 18 years and never had any trouble before.— W. H. Williams, Lyric theatre, Jacobs Creek, Pa. Schwartz Transferred To W B Mansfield House (Special to the Herald-World) MANSFIELD, OHIO, April 22. — Ben Schwartz, manager of the LIptown theatre, a Warner house, at Cleveland, Ohio, has been transferred to the Ohio here to succeed manager Conklin who goes to Cleveland to look after one of the Warner houses there. G. J. Reister, formerly manager of Ohio, but more recently at head of variety theatre, Cleveland, succeeds Schwartz at the Uptown.