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

52 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD May 3, 1930 ( Continued from preceding page) THREE HUNDRED CHAIR house in live town. Running now. Rent $75.00, very low expenses. Owner too old to continue. Exceptional opportunity for the right man. Address J. P. Redington, Scranton, Pennsylvania. 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 has 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. 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. IN HARRISBURG, PA. Two neighborhood theatres each seating 1100. Fully equipped. Talkies. Will sell buildings or lease. Address Moe Baturin, Harrisburg, Pa. 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. Cameras for Sale AKELEY, brand new. Write for booklet. Address Wood, 204 Inland Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana. Projector Repairing BEST SHOP for repairing projection machines. Prompt service, reasonable prices. Address Movie Supply Co., 844 Wabash, Chicago, Illinois. 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, Illinois. 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. Imputation Spanish leather, veneered backs. $1.85 each. , 1500 5-ply veneered chairs 95c each. Address Illinois Theatre Equipment Company, 12-14 East Ninth i St., Chicago, Illinois. BIG BARGAIN in used Opera Chairs, 600 upholstered, 800 veneer. Address Movie Supply Co., 844 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. 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 54 backs. Also several smaller lots of upholstered chairs, panel backs, at very attractive prices. We can furnish you with your 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 Street, Chicago, 111. 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. Coin Controlled Machines NEW JACKPOTS FOR MILLS with check separator reserve, $7.50, three jacks, $15.00. Lots of five or more Jackpots for Mills fronts reserve, $8.00, any quantity — hurry and save — guaranteed third deposit. Address Morrison Novelty & Mfg. Co.. Russellville, Alabama. w THE VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY LETTERS FROM READERS You re Quite Welcome, Mr. Crane I AM RETURNING TO YOU TODAY THE _ 13 copies of Better Theatres which you so kindly loaned to me last January. I feel greatly indebted to you for your kindness and I found these copies to be of greater service to me in getting material for my report than anything else to which I had access. By the time I had finished gathering the material for the report I had 72 catalogs from all parts of the country. In every letter asking for a catalog I mentioned the fact that I had seen their advertisement in Better Theatres. I recall that one of my correspondents, in a very cordial letter, stated that he had been a subscriber to your magazine for years and he added, “I always read every word of it.” You have aided me very greatly in making my report much more complete than I had ever hoped to make it and I shall soon have it ready to send on to Dr. Ganders, who is now the dean of the College of Teachers, University of Syracuse, N. Y. .Thanking you again for your kindness and wishing you continued success in the publication of your most excellent magazine, I remain— H. L. Crane, Principal, Oakley School, Cincinnati, O. Big Lakes — Fine Fishing — Yum! TO SHOW YOU I AM THINKING about you fellows up there I am sending you some pictures to give you some idea of how a little guy looks down here in Dixie. (Editor’s Note: Thanks, Mr. Odom. Sorry the pictures will not reproduce but we’re presenting your description anyway.) The residence street photograph scene shows the beautiful street of my house, and all my sons have homes on this street. The front street scene is of the south portion of the city. The Hotel Durant is in the north part of the city and a much better looking scene of business progress and buildings than this southern part. But all the cards were sold out at the drug stores at this time. However, we will have some more and I will send you one. The residence street which I live on leads out to a big summer resort, the Castillian Springs, the third best water for health by government test in the United States. Only one and three-fourth miles out, a 100 room hotel, big lakes and fine fishing and swimming and a beautifully shady location. Now the next thing is an invitation to all of you fellows to come down to see us. Bring ten or twenty pretty girls and we will make things look and seem like Christmas for you all. Your friend — Walter Odom, Sr., Dixie theatre, Durant, Miss. Favors Sound-on-Disc WHEN I CAME DOWN THIS MORNING I found a letter in the mail from Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation (J. B. Dugger), advising the small town exhibitor to install sound-on-film (Western Electric) that this company had just released a new machine that would meet the requirements of the exhibitor. He stated further that sound-on-disc would soon be a thing of the past— that this year would probably be as long as it would last. Now, I have sound in my theatre, and it is disc, and I believe it will be the only successful means of giving the patrons in a small town the best in talking. Sound-on-disc has its advantages and disadvantages, but the best advantage is, that the poorest sound-on-disc is so far superior to the best sound-on-film. Express on the disc eats the small exhibitor up, but as far as the best in sound is concerned, I myself had rather pay the difference. My talking equipment cost around $1,000 and I’ll wager I have the best talking in East Texas. I did not hire an engineer to make an analysis of my house. I treated the acoustics myself at less than $100. Further than that I had a metal ceiling, concrete floor and a balcony in the back of the house to contend with. Only last night I read an article in the Herald-World by Mr. Richardson on this question. He didn’t want to answer the question so he asked a Warner Brothers’ man. Read what he had to say about it in last week’s Herald-World. Also J. C. Jenkins’ “Colyum.” No, Mr. Dugger, I think sound-on-disc is here to stay — it is stable. — R. N. Robinson, Rex theatre, Waskom, Texas. For Users of Movie Phone I WOULD LIKE TO COMMUNICATE with some exhibitors who are using Goetz Movie Phone attachment. If any exhibitor reads this would he please send me some information on this equipment or this Movie Phone attachment. I am using Powers 6A projectors.— G. H. Fisher, Marysville, Pa. Gneier Named Publicity Chief of Fox Wisconsin (Special to the Herald-World) MILWAUKEE, WIS., April 29.— Leonard A. Gneier, for four years connected with the Orpheum circuit of Chicago, has been named state advertising and publicity manager for Fox Wisconsin theatres, succeeding L. S. Stein, who has accepted a position as publicity director for R K O’s Palace and Riverside theatres in Milwaukee. Sunday Shows Referendum For People of Peekskill (Special to the Herald-World) PEEKSKILL, N. Y., April 29.— Last week, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to permit the people of Peekskill to have a referendum on the question of Sunday shows.