Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1938)

APRIL 23rd, 193 15 SHORT SUBJECTS FROM PHILLY By "Jaywalker" Thursday's mass meeting on the game situation was a fizzle and turned into more of a row than a confab. Efforts to induce exhibitors to share the financial burden of the action now pending in Common Pleas Court bogged when the general sentiment was found to be: "Let the game companies stand the cost!" The BARRIST-GOODWIN firm had already advanced a $750 fee to former city solicitor John P. Connolly and it looks as if neither exhibs nor the other game outfits will pitch in on this. Even such a staunch gameadvocate as NORMAN LEWIS hasn't contributed to the 'Bonus' cause. 'Lucky' intends to fight the SAM SOMERSON case through its own counsel, DAVID S. MALIS, and will not join with B & G in their action. With 'Lucky' apparently determined to carry the fight to the Pa. Supreme Court, there is an excellent chance that games will not be tabooed until the fall session, if then. Many indies would be satisfied to have assurance that they will be able to use them through this summer, which looks none too encouraging . . . The Shubert gets two weeks of grand opera starting May 9th when the Columbia Grand Opera Co. of N. Y. comes in. House goes legit in the fall . . . HARRY BODKIN leaves for a S. American cruise shortly . . . DAVE MILGRAM and RAY SCHWARTZ are Kings for a Day Wednesday. Luncheon at the Bellevue . . . Something of a shock to the local trade was PERCY BLOCH's exit from Paramount, after 18 years with the company . . . Hard luck seems to have hit the WB staff with appalling frequency in the past few weeks. AL REH, genial manager of the Stanley, suffered a physical collapse at the Warner Club Tuesday afternoon. AL ZIMBALIST, the ad man, went under the knife for an appendectomy Wednesday. He is at Lankenau Hospital. Could it be that the Warner boys are getting too much work and not enough vacation? . . . They found the body of unfortunate TOM PROFFITT and buried him Wednesday. CHARLIE SMITH of Preferred, who turned many a camera for the former U newsreeler, was a pallbearer . . . MILT SMITH resigned as National Screen's upstate rep. . . . The PAUL BARONs will move to Philly this summer . . . NOOKIE BECKETT steps forward to remind you and you that cigars and ciggies are still on sale at the S. W. corner . . . FRANCES CULLEN has replaced REA ROSOFF as OSCAR NEUFELD's secy. Miss Rosoff has joined Monogram's Boston staff, where she will be closer to her doctor hubby . . . Condolences to WILLIE FRIEDMAN, who lost his father last week . . . Report that WB may lose the Commodore this fall. Lease is up and the circuit is said to be driving too sharp a bargain for the house, with bondholders' committee ready to sell or lease elsewhere . . . GEORGE NONAMAKER is vitally interested in the city's gas problems. Smart Theatremen Use . . . 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This venture proposes to cover both the motion picture and legitimate stage field as well as other outside press activities . . . E. M. LOEW now has forty-two theatres, the latest addition being the new Lynn Open Air Theatre, which opened last Sunday evening. The auto theatre cost $50,000, covers fifteen acres and has room for more than six hundred cars . . . ART HOWARD has left for New York again. Busy as the proverbial bee! . . . BRAD ANGIER is still missing. Who is she? ... M. & P. Theatres are building a new theatre in Bath, Maine, to replace a house that burned to the ground several months ago . . . MAE WEST will make a personal appearance at the RKO Boston Theatre beginning April 28th. 'Tis said the contract was made by CHARLES KOERNER over a year ago . . . MAURICE SCHWARTZ of the M. & P. advertising department won a small prize in a recent famous names contest. The boy has brains! . . . DAVE WHALEN, Republic publicity head, and KATHLEEN LAMB are planning to take the plunge in June . . . The exhibs are preparing a royal welcome for A. F. MYERS, Allied's general counsel, when he gets here on the 26th . . . JIMMY O'BRIEN has returned his coonskin to the moth balls . . . JOE COHEN is raring to go, — both on the golf course and the race track. He is equally as good in his booking duties. A Joe of all trades! . . . DICK RUBIN got a swell but unexpected plug on the radio the other morning when a couple of vaudeville artists mentioned what a grand guy Dick was out Saugus way . . . LESLIE BENDSLEV, who is assisting his father at the Community Playhouse in Wellesley, is now firmly established in his new home. Both father and son have an enviable reputation in their community proving themselves real theatre executives . . . Theatres in Massachusetts are bracing themselves for some stern competition from race and dog tracks, baseball, and last but not least, outdoor life. 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