Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (Sep 1935 - Aug 1936)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935 9 by Nonamaker THE INDUSTRY DANCES — The I. T. M. dinner-dance at the Hotel Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Motion Picture Operators' Union 307 celebration of their twenty-fifth anniversary at the Broadwood were both gala affairs . . VARIETY CLUB will hold its annual show at the Met November 18th . . . Eddie Sherman rounding up the benefit talent . . . NEW IDEAL robbed of a few dollars and candy money . . . The Kelly campaigners arrived in a motor-train to make Vine Street Democratic conscious one noon hour before election. CHARLIE GOLDFINE, Falls Theatre, doing the mike stuff and kidding his pals in the exchanges and elsewhere . . . JOE MURPHY reports he has sold his interest in Parkesburg Opera House, Diamond, Birdsboro, and Palace, Topton, Pa., as well as the Little, Philadelphia, and says he is now ready to take on any new propositions that come along . . . A noticeable improvement is apparent in the news reels — especially the Fox Movietone reel. The world-wide coverage is just about the last word, especially the war stuff from Ethiopia. When you stop to think what chances these boys really take to get a few feet of film it's breath-taking . . . that are different Buy direct from RROW Eliminating Commissions to any Agents ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW! HORROW NOVELTY CO. 215 MAPKET ST. PHILA., PA. ODDS AND ENDSJACK (Dynamo of energy) BLUMBERG deserves a vote of thanks for the unbelievable amount of work he did for the I. T. M. in the past week . . . There is another fellow by the name of GEORGE NONAMAKER, who is a member of the musician's union. I'll have to meet him sometime . . . Freely predicted that Romeo Cella will not be re-elected president of the more or less dissatisfied Musicians' Union . . . IZ BOROWSKY, Rex, trying something new in big shows for little money . . . BILL PORTER'S Republic girls challenge any other tvchanges' feminine contingent to a beauty contest . . . GREENBERG WEDS — WHILE CAMDEN BURNS — ■ j^CK GREENBERG caught us napping with that marriage last week . . . Here's belated, but nonetheless, sincere wishes for happiness . . . Star, Camden, escaped serious trouble last Wednesday night when fire broke out in the projection booth at 9.30. The 400 patrons fled out of the theatre quietly when the blaze was discovered . . . Operators Charles Flynn and Thomas Griffith were slightly hurt, the latter when he leaped from the booth to the main floor . . . What has happened to CLARENCE HEXTER, the drollest wit of Vine Street? Haven't seen him in weeks . . . ADDENDA: Cadet, Second and Ontario Streets, reported reopening under WILLIAM GOLDMAN managership. House has been closed for years and is listed as belonging to Warner Bros. . . . Hollywood, Twenty-second and Cambria Streets, opens Thursday under aegis of JAKE FOX and JACK GREENBERG . . . SID SAMUELSON and his secretary, SALLY FISHER, were in town Monday to attend to some Allied business. Dropped in to say hello to ye editor . . . Local exhibs are wondering about what they insist is a double feature show of two Paramount pictures at Warner's Stanton — ' Last Outpost" and "Wings Over Ethiopia." The latter is listed on release sheet as a feature . . . GEO. KLINE is joining Quality Premium as special representative in the Baltimore-Washington territory . . . RICHARD L. BROWN now with First Division as salesman . . . BEN STERN now officing with BILL HEENAN at 1321 Vine Street . . . QUALITY HAS GIFT DEPARTMENT Quality Premium Distributors of Philadelphia has opened a complete Gift Department for theatres using chance games. New department, under supervision of Sam Blatt, displays over 300 attractive articles direct from factory at a wide range of prices, which, they claim, omits the "middleman's" profit. Theatremen are invited to inspect the showroom display at 1305 Vine Street. P E N N THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO. Dependability Lowest Prices Let Us Quote On Your Next Requirements 309 N. 13th St., Phila. RIT. 3273 ACTIO ....What more can they ask and they won't ask for more if you give them this ROARING FARCE STREAMLINE EXPRESS — With — VICTOR JORY EVELYN VENABLE Esther Ralston Ralph Forbes Sidney Blackmer Vince Barnett COLD MEDAL FILM COMPANY 203 EYE STREET, N. W. Washington, D. C.