The Independent Film Journal (1954)

MIAMI (cont'd.) erichs. . . . Paramount’s “Knock On Wood” las entered its fifth week at the Royal and Variety Theatres. . . . Mitchell Wolf son, co¬ owner of Wometco, had to delay part of pis European travels to heal an injured ankle in Oslo, Norway. Tony Pano is new assistant manag'd at the Florida Theatre. . . . David Kay now with Wometco as assistant manager at the Rosetta. . . . Jack Miller manager of the Shores received the honors of the city at the dedication of a new Post Office. The Mayor of Miami Shores pointed out the fact that Miller’s efforts have proved the importance of the theatre in the community. CinemaScope is going into the house. MILWAUKEE thony Scavatto. . . . Hector M. Frascadore, manager of E. M. Loew’s Farmington DriveIn, will be a candidate for the nomination of one of Bristol’s two posts of state rep. at the coming Republican caucus. The Lockwood & Gordon East Windsor Drive-In has started a 12-week encyclopedia giveaway, charging regular admission plus a 50-cent service chax-ge. . . . Bill Landers has been named assistant manager of the StanlevWaner Garde, New London, replacing Tom D. Genon, resigned. . . . Harold Donovan, owner of the Strand, Seymour, co-operated in a fund-raising campaign for a disabled Seymour police officer by staging a benefit performance at the theatre. . . . The MPTO of Connecticut will hold its annual golf tournament at Racebrook Country Club, Orange, on Aug. 24. United Artists, in a suit filed last week, Icharged that the major stockholders of the Milwaukee Towne Corp., which operated the Towne theatre here, violated state laws and corporation bylaws by conducting business “without corporate authority.” The officers of the firm are charged with carrying on business without holding annual stockholders’ "meetings and refusal to allow stockholders to view the corporation’s records. The Victory Drive-In Theatre, on the north-west side of the city, operated by Delft , Theatres, has installed a new large screen. John Schuyler, general manager, said the screen was one of the first such screens to be installed in an outdoor theatre. . . . Sept. 13 is the date of Wisconsin Variety’s Annual .Stag outing and Golf Tournament at the Brynwood Country Club. Only 200 can be j accommodated. Gordon Hewitt has been appointed district manager of the Fox Wisconsin Amusement Corp. as part of the shifting of personnel that has accompanied the retirement of Har¬ old J. Fitzgerald as president. Hewitt, who worked formerly in the Los Angeles head¬ quarters of National Theatres, came here 10 years ago as second assistant to Fitzgerald. NEW HAVEN Numerous trade personalities attended the opening of Connecticut’s newest outdoor situ¬ ation, the $200,000 750-car capacity East Hartford Drive-In on Route 5, South Wind¬ sor. The ozoner is operated by the South Windsor Realty Co. under the supervision of Abe Bronstein. Amalgamated Buying & Booking Service will handle film buying. Car capacity will be increased to 900 by next spring, according to resident manager An¬ NEW YORK The Normandie Theatre, on Manhattan’s 57th St., has been leased by the Trans-Lux Corp. from David Weinstock, according to Percival E. Furber, Trans-Lux head. Initial attraction at the house under the new man¬ agement will be “The Adventures of Robin¬ son Crusoe.” . . . Funeral services were held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel for Henry Randel, 58, Metropolitan New York district sales manager for Paramount Pictures. Ran¬ del, who died after suffering from a heart ailment, was president of the New York Film Board of Trade in 1945 and 1952. . . . Charles B. Moss, president of the B. S. Moss Corp. and the Macon Amusement Corp., operators of the Criterion Theatre, has been elected a director of the Variety Club Foundation to Combat EjDilspsy. Renovation work on RKO Proctor’s Mount Vernon Theatre has been completed and the theatre now boasts a “new look.” The entire lobby has been redecorated ; new mirrors have been installed in the foyer. The auditorium has been newly carpeted and a modern re¬ freshment bar installed. For better presenta¬ tion, new Bausch & Lomb CinemaScope lenses have been added to the booth equip¬ ment. The house already has stereo sound. . . . The Mayfair Theatre, Flushing, L.I., has re-opened under the management of Calvin Young and Buddy Muehnick. PHILADELPHIA Albert A. Moffa, 19th Street Theatre in Al¬ lentown, has installed ■CinemaScope. Moffa has been bringing art films to Allentown, show¬ ing one a month for the past four months. On the set of Warner Bros.' "Young At Heart" are (1. to r.): W. G. Mansell, central district manager; star Frank Sinatra; N. J. Ayers, eastern district manager, and Robert T. Smeltzer. . . . 20th-Fox sales drive will run from June 27 to September 25. The drive will be in honor of Sam Diamond, local 20th-Fox branch manager. . . . John Schaeffer, well known to local industryites, has taken over the Realart franchise in this area. He is maintaining offices at 1323 Vine street. William Wyndham, who was managing an Easton, Pa. Fabian theatre during the fall and winter, is back as assistant manager of the Rialto in Allentown. . . . Nate Milgram’s new DeLuxe Theatres Booking and Buying Service is handling the Cross Keys in New Oxford and The Riverview Drive-In in Pittston, Pa. . . . Evelyn Orowitz, returned from the West Coast where she participated in the “Miss Universe” contest as “Miss New Jersey.” She is the daughter of Eli M. Oro¬ witz, Savar Amusement Co. The annual golf tournament and dinner dance of the Variety Club, Tent 13 will be held on Friday, Sept. 17. . . . The second group of Variety Club campers left from in front of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel on Monday, August 2, at 10 :00 A.M. . . . Leo Posel, prominent exhibitor, has purchased the T’other Farm of 209 acres on Second Street Pike at Worthington Mill road above Richboro, Bucks County. . . . Paramount Decorating Company is redecorating Sehwaber’s Linden Theatre in Baltimore, Pa. When the redecoration is completed, the the¬ atre will reopen as a Cinema art house. Sandy Gottlieb’s Tri-State Theatre Service is now handling the booking and buying for Tom MeLeary’s Park Drive-In in Ixtck Haven, Pa. . . . The Favini Theatre in Jes¬ sup, Pa. has shuttered. . . . Allied Motion Picture Theatre Service is now handling the booking and buying for the Embassy The¬ atre in Lewistown, Pa. . . . James E. Sulli¬ van is the new owner of the re-opened Park Theatre in Wilmington, Del. . . . Leon Cohen’s Vine Street Screen Room now has a wide screen for CinemaScope presentations. PORTLAND-SEATTLE Seattle’s Board of Theatre Supervisors, a censorship body for motion pictures and entertainment, has been re-appointed by Mayor Alan Pomeroy. Under a new ordi¬ nance, city council confirmation is required, and three members will be replaced each year. Appointed for one year were Mrs. May F. Carroll, Robert A. Yothers and Frank Anthony Ursino. Two-year terms were given to Maurice D. Saffle, Charles C. Criekmore and Mrs. Jack C. Sperry. Appointed for three years were Mrs. Morris D. Kennedy, Mrs. Victor Zednick and Mrs. Thelma Dewitty. R. Keith Petzold, well known Portland theatre man formerly with Jesse Jones and former advertising manager for J. J. Parker Theatres, has been named new executive sec¬ retary of the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce. . . . Bud Brody, Pacific North¬ west manager for National Screen Service, reports that SuperSeope installations have been made at Edmonds, Dishman, North Bend and Bridgeport, Wash. The Tushinsky lenses have been used there for about two months. Brody predicts that SuperSeope will soon make an appearance in Seattle theatres. . . . Carl Maghne, building supervisor for Evergreen Theatres, has come to Portland to re-check the New Fox Theatre, scheduled for an August opening. RKO is shooting “Cattle Queen of Mon¬ tana” in mountain settings where the Glacier THE INDEPENDENT FILM JOURNAL— August 7, 1954 33