Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (Sep 1935 - Aug 1936)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936 1 1 5M6 SUBJECTS FROM PHILLY By Nonamaker NOTES . . . LARRY MACKKY, manager of the Arcadia, had to interrupt his honeymoon to enter Mt. Sinai Hospital for a major operation . . . Penn Theatre Equipment in throes of rebuilding their showroom . . . National Screen Accessories had auspicious flash opening Monday . . . National-Penn Printing putting in new photographic equipment . . . FRANK HAMMERMAN now dish-game salesman for BARRIST & GOODWIN . . . SAM PHALEN now with HOWARD 'Lucky' PARKER ... ELI "EMO" OROWITZ, now ensconced in New York offices, and publishing a movie fan's magazine in addition to carrying on his broadcasting . . . Fox-Locust going to be turned into a night club on the order of the transformation done to the Earl Carroll Theatre in New York. JOE MOSS and others in on the proposition . . . More rumors have Nixon's Grand about to make another stab at dirt cheap double features; and the Shubert going into colored musicals . . . The Italian side of the Ethiopian conflict will be glorified in the movie showing of "Thunder Over Ethiopia" this week-end at the Met . . . Little, 22nd & Market, may go "left" art movie . . . The street stood still for quite a while Monday as news of Clem's death spread around . . . MURRAY BEIR struggling around with a dislocated back ... A guy with a name Stanley Goldberg they call "Patsy." Look at him! . . . PICTURES OF HAPPY FILMEN . . . HARRY WEINER pleased as h about "Mr. Deeds" showing at the Stanley . . . HARRY LA VINE showing broad smiles whenever Republic's future product is mentioned . . . JOE ENGLE chipper as a squirrel in a nut store since reports from the coast skyhighed "Show Boat" . . . "Grandpa" Edgar Moss proudly showing George Dembow a photo of grandson . . . SAM ROSEN tickled with the outlook of new Grand National Pictures, for whom he may work, after a trip to N. Y. NON-THEAT COMPETISH . . . Gimbel's Dept. Store inaugurates free movie shows this Friday as a daily feature. The pix are old-time mellers, silent, with old favorites like Pickford, Fairbanks, Gish, etc. ... 3 shows every day in the schedule . . . This may be the start of the oftreported retaliation by merchants against the freedishes distributed by movie houses, which has cut heavily into store sales. NEW WARNER HOUSE . . . Announcement was made Monday by Albert H. Lieberman, Inc., that a new 1000-seat movie house would be constructed at 1705-09 S. Broad Street and would be operated by Warners. Plans being prepared by Stephens & Fleisher, architects. Property is said to be adjoining a plot recently purchased by the Felt Bros, as a theatre site . . . The Fox will drop its stage show during the run of "Under Two Flags,'' giving unusual length (110 Minutes) of the picture as the reason . . . CHARLES STIEFEL says his new Snyder Avenue house will be named the "President.'' TITLE CHANGE . . . Mascot's 'Doughnuts and Society' becomes 'Life Is Like That' when it opens at Fays Friday. HARRY LA VINE and SID STANLEY engineered the title change. Novelties, Premiums, Gifts Horrow Novelty Company who moved back to their main showroom at 215 Market Street last week announce that the move was made solely for exhibitors' own benefit. By having exhibitors come down to their Market Street display rooms, Charlie Horrow, feels that they will be immediately impressed with the variety of stock carried and the rock-bottom prices offered. The Horrow Novelty Company are among the largest distributors of carnival and theatre gift merchandise in the east; and thru their large buying capacity can readily pass on to their customers considerable price saving. G-B Stars Return to U. S. New York. — Peter Lorre returns to New York Thursday, April 3 0th aboard the U. S. Liner "Washington." After completing "Secret Agent," he spent several weeks traveling on the Continent. 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