The Film Daily (1945)

CONSTRUCTION SEEN NORMAL BY SPRINC New Zapon-Keratol Line Is Poised for Theaters Seating Fabrics Evolved During War To Benefit Exhibitors and Patrons Stamford, Conn. — Following extensive war-time research and experimentation, the Zapon Keratol Division of Atlas Powder Co. here is poised for the manufacturing and marketing of theater chair coverings which, according to plant officials, represent decided advances over the fabrics produced in the era immediately preceding the war. Foraial announcement of the new (Continued on Page 13) See Clear Field for New 16 mm. Machines Comparatively few 16 mm. projectors which have been in service with the armed forces are expected to come back to the U .S., and the probability looms that a considerable percentage of those which do will be re-conditioned here and then used for export, authoritative channels in the 16 mm. manufacturing field assert. Three factors are sparking the (Continued on Page 12) Westinghouse Expects Biz to Equal '41 Level Pittsburgh — Ci\'11ian peace-time business and employment at Westinghouse in the first three post-war years following reconversion promise (Continued on Page 13) A Holey Blessing For Pic Theaters! San Antonio — Latest boon to theatermen and their peace-loving patrons is a popcorn bag with small perforations. Size of the holes prevents any popcorn from escaping, but unruly kids who delight in blowingup popcorn bags with attendant bang in auditoriums are thwarted by the newly-devised perforations. Ain't inventiveness grand? Equipment Field Notes IN Little Rock, Ark., construction of a new I $50,000 theater has begun with George H. { Burden of that city as contractor, and j Ginocchio & Cromwell as architects. House i is being built for Fischer & Cochran Enterprises, recently organized firm. Maury Rubens, Great States Publix maintenance director, journeyed to East St. Louis the other day to confer on plans for modernization of the Aiajestic there. A substantial improvement budget for that house is tinder consideration. Majestic Corp. will build a $600,000 plant on a 69-acre site north of Elgin, III. Plant will operate in addition to others of the company. Will DeVry, DeVry Corp. president, is back at his desk in Chi, following his recent business trip East. General Theaters, Bermuda, will modernize all circuit's houses now that peace is here. John Harding, maintenance director for the chain, has been in Chicago talking modernization with Edward Wolk and other equipment channels there. There are 14 cutlets owned by General Theaters. * * * A. ]. Wylie, Fort Worth businessman, and W. V. Adwell, of San Angelo, where he owns and operates a theater, are set to build a new stand in Tort Worth, across the street from Texas Christian University. House will be known as the "TCU," and has been designed by Jack Corgan. if it tt A sound motion picture in color, prepared especially to assist the group of home lighting consultants whom the nation's Electric Service companies have assigned to help achieve better-lighted American hemes, has just been completed by the Westinghouse Lamp Division, Bloomfield, N. J. The Peoples Theater, Akron, O., which has been closed for several months for remodeling, following a fire, has resumed operation. * * * E. R. Pierce has been named manager of plate glass sales for Libbey-Owens-Ford in Toledo, having been previously in charge of aircraft sales during the war period. Dr. L. Ai. Currie, Cleveland, has been elected vice-president in charge of research, and H. M. Warren, New York, has been named vice-president in charge of advertising and sales promotion for National Carbon Co., it is announced by A. V. Winkler, president. * * * Col. Ralph L. Hart has left his Signal Corps post in Washington to return to WE's New York headquarters as distribution manager of the telephone sales division. * * * DeVry Corp. has announced appointment of Empire Agencies, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C, as DeVry distributors for British Columbia and Yukon Territory. * * * C. S. Perkins, Altec Service Corp.'s manager of commercial engineering, announces return of E. S. Seeley to that company. Since September, 1941, Seeley has been on special leave of absence from Altec's engineering department to Columbia University on war projects. Plans and specifications for rebuilding of the Princess Theater, Crescent Amusement Co. stand in Murfreesboro, Tenn., have been prepared. House was recently destroyed by fire caused by a lighted cigarette, carelessly dropped on an upholstered seat. Loss was approximately 890,000. Bill Rominger, discharged from the Navy, is back with White way Electric Sign Co., Chicago. * « s? Radiant Manufacturing Co., Chicago, has compiled a list of more than 600 experienced film workers now in the armed services and will supply copies to companies looking for veteran employes. * * * Nicholas George, owner of the Allen Park Theater, Allen Park, Mich., has started installation of a 7 5 -ton capacity air conditioning plant for the house. « « « Thomas J. Gabriel, who recently purchased the Chandler Theater, Detroit, is planning early remodeling of the house, taking over space formerly used by a store to enlarge the front and move the box office to a central position. * • * LET'S WIN THE PEACE! WPB's Chicago Director Bases Estimate on Lack of Essential Materials Chicago — Resumption of construction work on a full scale in this territory, as well as in the nation generally, may well be delayed until the next Spring a checkup here discloses. As a consequence, a considerable amount of new theater build . ing will have to be undertaken with caution, as will remodeling projects ■: of a major character. However, it is ' pointed out, the situation will not affect expansion of exhibition out ; lets to the degree that appears on I (Continued on Page 12) i — New Lighting Era At Hand Says Ross War-time advances in lighting ! equipment will be in the front rank i of benefits which the motion picture industry as well as television will enjoy in the immediate future, Charles Ross, head of Charles Ross, Inc., Eastern representatives for Mole (Continued on Page 12) Century, WE Export in Virtual World-Wide Pact ' Century Projector Corp., it is an ' nounced, has entered into contracts with Western Electric Export Corp., I WE subsidiary, for exclusive representation of Century projectors, accessories and replacement parts, in I (Continued on Page 13) Fastnxnn Speeds Up Civilian Supplies Rochester — Eastman Kodak has announced here that its Kodak Park plant "will continue at maximum speed and capacity producing film and photographic paper and chemicals for civilian needs," but "it will be late this year before supplies will be ample for normal requirements.''' A 25 per cent increase in film and paper is expected by Sept. 1.