The Film Daily (1941)

EQUIPMENT NEWS W DAILY Friday, March 14, 1941 New Kenney Project Will Cost $200,000 (Continued from Page 1) cost, including the store building of which it is a unit, approximately $200,000, was filed with the village this past week. The project, launched by Charles H. Kenney, is expected to be ready some time during the Summer. Interior of the theater will be simple and thoroughly modern, and the latest type of air conditioning plant will be installed. Sufficient additional land has been purchased adjacent to the building to provide parking space. Basement of the building, it is asserted, will contain one of the smartest recreation centers in Nassau County, with bowling alleys, a restaurant and cocktail lounge scheduled for community use. NTS Supplies Shores St. Clair Shores, Mich.— Shook & Thomas have modernized their Shores Theater with new Simplex Four Star sound, Super Simplex projectors, Simplex high lamps and rectifiers, Irwin Clipper chairs, B & L lenses, Crestwood carpet, Walker screens and National marquee. This installation was made by National Theater Supply Co.'s Detroit office. Queen City Is Enjoying Building Boom; One House Memorial to Exhib. Elmer Shard Cincinnati — A spurt in new houses is decidedly in evidence here. Ralph Kinsler announces the new Shard, to be erected as a memorial to Elmer Shard, former Cincinnati exhibitor, will be under way in mid-April, at Lockland, Greater Cincinnati suburban area. Other suburban houses will include opening of a new house, St. Leger, Walnut Hills, by Mannie Marcus, who also operates the Esquire; and the construction of a new 700-seater, named West Hills, by Bob Fitzwater on Queen City Ave. A large parking lot will adjoin, and the latest equipment will be installed including the special sound required to enable Cincinnatians to see "Fantasia," as yet unable to be shown here. Miami Drive-In Gets New In-Car Loud Speakers Miami — Talking pictures are going "silent" at the Miami Drive-In Theater, and this is being brought about through the installation of individual loud speakers in each car. The speakers, equipped with volume control, permit perfect hearing even though the car may be closed against rain or cold. Equipment is being furnished by the Rola Co. of Cleveland. According to Ira Lowe, manager, the system will involve the expenditure of some $15,000. The theater recently issued the one millionth ticket; this was on the third day after the third anniversary of the opening of the Drive-In. It is estimated that some 500,000 cars have visited the place since it was opened. Pic Theater Boon On Currently in Alabama ME, Some folks may enjoy carrying around in their own heads all the worries of the world. Not so, smart showmen. Worries that can be delegated, they delegate — to people willing and able to take responsibility. To keep projection room equip RELAX ment in the pink of condition, they know they need engineers, so they take Altec service — sound service and booth parts service. Take this time-tested way to relax: save all your energies for the prime job of showmanship. Change to Altec. (Continued from Page 1) territory for new enterprises, handsome new theaters are springing up like mushrooms in other towns and still others are under construction. The Crescent Theater Co. of Nashville has opened the Roxy at Decatur. Roy Martin, owner of a chain of Alabama and Georgia theaters, is planning to build a $100,000 theater in Dothan and a smaller one in Roanoke. Waters Theater Co. will reopen the Homewood Theater, Birmingham, dark for many months, after a $15,000 remodeling and enlarging progrom. New equipment costing $10,000 will be installed. Seating capacity of remodeled house will be 750. Wilmot C. Douglas is architect; Thomas C. Bradfield, contractor. Theater will serve the Homewood, Edgewood and Hollywood suburb. Muscle Shoals Theaters, Inc., is building a $124,000 theater at Sheffield. Alabama Theaters, Inc., is building a $40,000 neighborhood theater in Cloverdale, exclusive residential section of Montgomery. And the U. S. Army is constructing theaters in the cantonment area of the pursuit school at Selma, the Air Base at Mobile, and Gunter Field in Montgomery. NTS Equips New Houses In the Ohio Territory Cincinnati — Alexander Smith & Sons' Crestwood carpets have been installed in the new local Shard Theater along with Super Simplex projectors Simplex sound, Walker screen, Peerless Magnarc lamps, Clipper chairs, B & L lenses, and a National marquee by the local branch of National Theater Supply Co. Another new house, McCook Theater, Dayton, has received from the same supply source a Walker P.M. screen, Super Simplex projector, Simplex sound, Peerless Magnarc lamps, Clipper chairs, Cinephor Treated lenses, and other equipment. CHANGE TO ALTEC SERVICE • A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER Ideal Betters Projection Chateauga, N. Y.— The Ideal Theater has been equipped with Super Simplex projectors, Simplex high lamps and rectifiers and Super Cinephor F-2 lenses, installed by the National Theater Supply Co.'s Albany office. Shortage of Metals Is Causing Concern (Continued f.om Page 1) Estimated fabricator requirements were 720,344 tons, leaving a deficit of 83,122 tons. On the basis of £ January rate, consumption of cop; in this country was running at annual level of 1,461,456 tons, but according to a recent survey, if metal were available, use of copper for the months of February-March-April would probably average 135,000 tons per month. If this latter basis were mainted, an annual use of $1,620,000 tons is indicated. On Wednesday of this week, 3,000 workers at the Edgewater, N. J., sheet mill of the Aluminum Co. of America went on strike, further affecting the situation with respect to that metal. Just previously, George Kapps, of Decorative Metal Products Co. of Detroit, reported virtually complete stoppage of supplies of aluminum for poster frames, and said he is planning on brass, plated with nickel or chrome for a new line. It was also reported that some exhibitors are turning again to wooden frames for lobbies. MPPDA Takes Hand Also from Detroit comes word that Joseph Miskinis, circuit operator, is having his new Carthay's construction held up by steel delivery delay. George W. Steele, Daytona (Fla.) contractor, has been delayed in erecting the new $90,000 Daytona Theater for John and Drew Eberson because of inability to get prompt delivery of steel. Close contact is being maintained between representatives of MPPDA and official Government channels whereby the latter will take every possible step to expedite deliveries cf materials required by film theaters, both in the line of equipment and essentials for construction needs. Many major and important indie circuits, as well as individual exhibs., are anxious that nothing impede progress of building programs now under way or contemplated. RCA Lists Chi. Jobs Chicago— A. E. Klein of RCA Mfg. Co. here lists recent installations as follows: RCA Magic Screens for Zionsville Theater, Zionsville, Ind.; Rio, Joliet, 111.; and eight local houses, — Rosette, New Rex, Empress, Emmett, Highway, Today, Apollo and Rogers; and RCA sound for the Rio, Joliet, 111., operated by E. Codo; State-Harrison, Chicago, for S. Neski; 1,000 Car Drive-In, Chicago, for Illinois Drive-In Corp.; R. E. Beck's Today, Chicago, including Brenkert projectors, lamps; and Warners' State, Racine, Wis. « Beck-O'Toole Sign ATC Chicago— L. R. Beck, RCA's service manager, and R. O'Toole, branch chief engineer, have closed a contract covering service and maintenance for 12 Indiana and Illinois houses of the Alliance Theater Circuit, headed by S. J. Gregory. ':!'!!! h re £ I'M mil