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Tuesday, April 11, 1933
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Detroit— Failure to meet musicians' payrolls, which resulted in orchestramen walking out of the Michigan, is blamed by Publix on the restricted cash situation following the bank holiday. The house is playing double features following discontinuance of the stage show.
Youngstown, O. — Manager Joe Shagrin of the Park says union officials have agreed to cut men working in his theater. New wage scale is $60 a week for operators and $55 for stage hands.
Fulton, N. Y. — Wego Theaters Corp. has been formed by Empire State Theaters, Inc., a Paramount subsidiary, and Myron Bloom to operate the Quirk and Happy Hour. Empire and Bloom each own 50 per cent of the company.
Fulton, N. Y. — Myron Bloom, former owner of the Quirk, is expected to soon take the house back from Publix.
Buffalo — Dewey Michaels, manager of the Mayfair, is returning to burlesque after a trial of straight films.
Fort Worth — The Odeon, secondrun, has reopened with a single feature policy. Earl Penix again is managing the house.
Boston — Irving Shiftman has resigned from the local Fox sales force.
Dallas — Faye Lemmon, first publicist for Elm Street Theaters, is back on the job at Old Mill after a year at the Dallas Little Theater.
Dallas — Robert Z. Glass, operator of the Knox Street theater, recently acquired the theater on Parry Ave. at the State Fair Grounds. The house will be opened under the name of Fair theater.
Canon City, Colo.— B. P. McCormick has leased the Jones from Fox West Coast.
Casper, Wyo. — E. J. Schulte, owner of all three theaters here, was elected president of the chamber of commerce while on a trip to the west coast.
Colorado Springs — Tompkins Amusement Co. has taken the America back from Publix.
Buffalo— Leonard B. Sang, once manager of the Teck here, has resigned as manager of the RKO Strand, Syracuse, and returned to this city to enter the real estate business.
Boston — Lew Gordon, nephew of the independent circuit owner, Nathan Gordon, is student manager at the Publix-Metropolitan.
Stamford, Conn. — The Palace and Strand have reverted from Publix to Charles D. and Mary C. Vuono, original owners.
Detroit — White Star theater in Hamtramck has been taken back by Arthur Rowland from Manuel Bloom.
Springfield, Mass. — R. J. McNamara, who has been managing the two Publix houses in Stamford. Conn., has been named manager of the Paramount here, succeeding Benjamin Greenberg, transferred to Boston. It is reported that Nathan E. Goldstein, who with his brother, Samuel, sold a circuit of 15 houses to Publix in 1930, may take over operation of the Paramount and Broadway here. He is now man
ager of his former circuit for Publix.
Detroit — The Alhambra, former Publix North End house, has been taken over by Barney L. Kilbride, Leland Hiller and Alfred Lane, with Lane as house manager.
Gibsonburg, O. — W. W. Clarry, former manager of the Hollywood Exchange in Cleveland, and Robert J. Ford have formed a partnership for the operation of the Del-Lu theater here. They have leased the house for a year from D. B. Follette.
Youngstown, O. — RKO Palace is dark until April 15, when it will reopen with a vaude-film policy, Manager John Elliott announces. The Paramount, taking advantage of the Palace being dark, added a stage offering and may retain it permanently.
Defiance, 0. — Leo Jones, Cleveland, has taken a 15-year lease on the Strand and is planning to form a corporation to operate it. House formerly was run by E. F. Stanley and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller.
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