The Film Daily (1948)

DAILY I Monday, September 27, 194(H A Section of THE FILM DAILY eomprehensively covering the equipment indiuti7, published every second week by Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc., 1501 Broadway, New York City. John W. Alicv/ate, Publisher; Donald U. Mersereau, Associate Publisher and General Manager; Chester B. Bahn, Editor; West Coast Bureau, 6425 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood. Cal.. Ralph Wilk. Bureau Chief. Edwards or Kaimann MayHeadMo.MPTO (Continued from Page 3) tion of a president to succeed Fred H. Wehrenberg, who has declared that he will not accept re-election. Among names heard as possible successors are Tom Edwards of the Edwards & Harris Circuit, Farmington, Mo., and Clarence Kaimann of the Kaimann Circuit, St. Louis. Convention opens this morning with a board of directors meeting in the Hotel Jefferson, with the first large gathering to be a luncheon session and open forum in the Gold Room. Ofncial welcome to St. Louis will be made on behalf of the City by Charles Albanese, president of the Board of Aldermen, and Acting Mayor. Wehrenberg will respond to the greeting, and introduce the speakers, to include Leon J. Bamberger, RKO sales promotion manager; Mrs. A. F. Burt, honorary president of the Better Films Council of Greater St. Louis; Henderson Richey, public relations director of M-G-M; Herman Levy, general counsel for TOA, who is to speak on "The ASCAP and Film Industry Court Cases," and Oscar F. Neu, president of TESMA. Election of officers and board members will take place at this session. At an evening dinner meeting, Gael Sullivan, executive secretary of TOA, will be the principal speaker, while Edwards will be toastmaster. National Theater Supply will host a cocktail party before the banquet. Many of the MPTO delegates are expected to attend the TESMATEDPA equipment show, and ther is considerable interest in the RCA demonstration of large-screen television, and the smaller seven by nine foot receivers designed for use in theater lobbies. Special guests at the banquet will include State Senator Milton Napier, vice-president and counsel for the Better Films Council; Ray Colvin, TEDPA president; David Palfreyman, MPAA; Edward Zorn, UTO of Illinois president; Harry Lowenstein and M. A. Lightman, regional vicepresidents of TOA; Morris Lowenstein, TOA secretary; Charles Skouras, TOA treasurer; Oscar F. Neu, TESMA president; W. F. Ruffin, TOA director, and Roy Boomer, TESMA' secretary. ABOUT THE TRADE (Continued from Page 3) show. Joe Fetherston, Kollmorgen sales manager, and Ralph Gage, of the sales staff, will distribute a new screen chart devised by the company. Chart gives sizes of pictures projected by lenses of two to seven inches focal length, at throws of 40, to 400 feet. • • r\. H. DEWEY, who has been in the theater business, directly or indirectly since 1920, *-^ will represent International Seat Corp. at the TESMA meeting. In purchasing, maintenance, real estate, construction and accounting for Universal, Publix and Tri-States until 1939, Dewey joined International at that time and has been with the company since. • • \kfHILE F. C. (Dad) Largen, Sr., Ballantyne Co. design epgineer, has been ' Y with the company since its inception in 1932, current meeting marks his first TESMA-TEDPA convention. • • P CA today will commemorate its 20 years of service to the motion picture industry •^ with a dinner in the Crystal Room of the New Hotel Jefferson. In attendance will be RCA supply dealers, members of the RCA Theater Equipment Section and trade press representatives and their wives who are attending the TESMA meeting. RCA Theater Equipment will host a cocktail party prior to the dinner. • • A NET?'' 16 mm. film equipment catalog of Neumade Products Corp. will be made available Oct. 15. Booklet is to include pages of popular Neumade items, such a% file and storage cabinets. fil?n cleaning: machines, editing and cutting tables, film racks, splicers, handling and shipping aids, reels, cans and accessories. Catalogue is available on request to Neumade. e e IMPROVEMENTS in Wagner Sign Service's chani^ieable copy display equipment will be on view in Booths 47 and 48 of the TESMA-TEDPA convention. E. Wagner has returned from the West Coast for the meeting, accompanied by Mrs. Wagner. On hand to explain Wagner's line will be Lou Sherman, New York representative; Glenn Hennings and A. Ervine Pett of the Central district, and L. K. Billings of the Chicago office. • • ALINE of safety fireguard steel waste cans for theater booths has been developed by General Detroit Corp., G. M. Rutledge, Midwestern division manager, announced. Cans are both hand and foot operated and come in seven, nine. 12 and 15 gaPon sizef. Company also has safeguard steel containers for I' quids in one, three and five gallon sizes. Both lines are approved by the fire underwriters. e • OALLANTYNE COMPANY'S display of the new Royal Soundmaster Model 8 sound^ heads, and Model 4570 arc lamps, will be explained by llo M. Brown, chief en'ineer •^or Ballantyne. Display will be in Booth 70-71. Convention will mark the first TESMATEDPA meet attended by R. S. Ballantyne since the war, and he is exoected to address the company's cocktail party and banquet for all authorized dealers Tuesday evening. • • WHITEWAY EIECTRIC SIGNS reports a number of Chicago orders. Installations include a new canopy at the Ritz. new marqueps for the S^lwvn ■'n't f^ arris, an outside sign for the Alex, vertical fipnt for t^e Arena. Owen ihd Rio Cabana, a new neOn display for the China Doll, and a large outdoor ign for the Blue Note. O • ^TiEN B. POBLOCKI and his son, Barnpy, will be on hand at the Poblocki and Sons dis^ olay in Booth 6 at the TESMA-TEDPA show. On disolay will be the deluxe stainless ;teel case, as well as a new extruded aluminum poster case. • • J. R. (BOB) HOFP, BfVantyne tales mtnn^er. an'^ 'toward Floerchinger, sounri engineer, brought tht> company's TESM A-TFD^ A ffisplav equipment to St ^ oui<: in a panel *rurk. Stunt not O'nlv saved on freipht expente^, but permHted >'->em to tet up the booth in record time as none of the equipment needed t'' he crated. ". • • ADLER SILHOUETTE LETTER CO. will display its plastic and aluminum third dimension Iptters. and removable panels at the TESMA-TEDPA equipment show. Ben Adier and Dick Strauss will represent the company. • • ANEW junior model of the Coinometer — the Handee Coin Payer — will he unveiled by Co'nometer Corp. at the TESMA-TEDPA meeting. Machin" '•<: designed for smaller theaters that hai'e not been able to purchase the larger full sized key board coin chancers. Drive-In theaters have evidenced greit interest in the new printing register audit control to be displayed bv Ticket Register Industries at the meeting. Con'rol eliminates the use of tickets and ticket registers at Drive-ins. D. H. Finke, of Ticket Register Industries, and Allan E. Finke, of Coinometer, will be in attendance. e • AMONG the Ballantyne Co. dealers attending the TESMA-TEDPA meeting are L. M. Biesck'ey. of Perkins Elpc^ric Co., Montreal; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Rice, of Winnipeg and D. V. K. Fairleigh, of the Dominion Theater Sunply Co., Vancouver. John Hardin, of (Continued on Page 14) Record Displays at TESMA-TEDPA Show (Continued from Page 3) space in the block-lond mezzanine floor, and overflow into the Crysta and Ivory Rooms of the New Jefferson Hotel. About a hundred equip, ment firms arranged for space tc display modern equipment, furnish ings and supplies for reguliEnte*hea ters and drive-ins. -jater It is estimated that about 2,50( motion picture men are in St. Louis today for the joint TESMA-TEDPi^ meeting, and the annual conventior of the MPTO of St. Louis, Easterr Missouri and Southern Illinois. Exhibitor meeting will be held today with the equipment sessions to be started tomorrow and to run througt Thursday. RCA Dinner Tonight In advance of open sessions TESMA board schedules a luncheon meeting today, while TEDPA's directors are to meet this afternoon. RCAvdealers meet tJiis morning, and an RCA dinner will be held tonight in the Crystal Room. Equipment exhibition will be opened at 10 a. m. tomorrow, and be closed at 11 p. m., maintaining that schedule during the balance of the convention, except during some of the business gatherings. TEDPA will open its convention sessions with a luncheon tomorrow in the Gold Room at which Joseph F Holland, former City Counselor for St. Louis will be toastmaster, and Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann is to be guest speaker. Also scheduled tomorrow are the Ballantyne Co. reception for dealers, the Ideal Seating Co. dinner for its dealers, and a Ballantyne dinner. Business on Wednesday Business sessions will be started Wednesday morning, with TESMA meeting in the Gold Room, and TEDPA delegates gathering in the Crystal Room. National Carbon Co. will host a cocktail party in the evening, while the annual TESMATEDPA banquet will be held in the Gold Room that night. Activities for Thursday including afternoon meetings of the TESMA and TEDPA boards of directors. At an opening meeting in the Crystal Room, National Carbon Co. will pre miere "Carbon Arc Projection," with C. G. Ollinger, assistant advertising manager, as the lecturer. This will be followed by an address by Baron Kreuzer of RCA on "Television in the Theater," at which time RCA's new theater-size television projector will be demonstrated. New Rectifier, Lamp Introduced by Forest (Continued from Page 3) ins and larger theaters. Type MCS 90 will be made or both single and three-phase supply lines. An additional 60 to 90 ampere six tube rectifier is also being added to the line. Forest also announces an additional High Intensity Electronic Lamp to its line.