Kinematograph year book (1927)
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The Rinemaio graph Year Booh.
W. E. Townsend appointed assistant to G. Spathacky at the Pavilion, Cardiff.
M. Thompson charge of the Place, Liverpool.
J. F. O'Kelly appointed manager of the Super Cinema, Walthamstow.
Mr. Kennerly succeeded T. Colcott Riley as manager, Palais de Luxe, Liverpool.
C. Etheridge and N. H. Chetwynd, manager and operator respectively of the New Pavilion, Harley,
Janetta Kellock, musical director, Ramsgate Picture House.
John Morgan joined Board of Directors, Star Film Service, Cardiff.
C. Starling Defrez resigned management ox the Regent, Weston-super-Mare.
Stanley Collins joined European's Publicity Department.
Frank Montrose joined Fuller's Exclusives, Manchester.
Percy Longhorne succeeded by George Bessford at Western Import's Sheffield office.
H. J. Nicholls, manager of the Chapeltown Picture Palace, vice A. E. Hodgson.
J. O. Driscoll promoted manager of the Palace, Rothesay.
Leslie Elbourne, charge of the Nuneaton Hippodrome.
A. R. Tilwey succeeded Mrs. J. W. Wiffen as manager of the Olympia, Newport
D. Robertson, manager of the Palace, West Hartlepool.
J. Harris, Stoll's representative for Notts, and Derby.
A. Manzell joined Independent Supers, Ltd., Cardiff.
Kenneth Edmondson appointed relief manager on the New Century Circuit.
R. G. E. Williams succeeded J. S. Nickson at the Central, Hulk
Sidney Jackson manager of Allied Artists, Cardiff office, vice Attwood Allen, who joined F.N.
Charles Lapworth resigned from Gainsborough Pictures Ltd.
J. A. McGilley accepted a position as Assistant Sales manager with Fox.
Bert Spathakey succeeded A. S. Whittaker as manager of the Queen's, Cardiff.
H. Green joined Graham Wilcox in Birmingham.
Tommy Green controls W. & F.'s interests in S. Yorks.
W. Chilton, manager of Brookliss', Manchester branch.
W. Hinchci.iffe joined Stoll's Manchester office.
Harold Buxton, Scala, Pendleton. Mark Grotsky, P.D.C.'s Sheffield manager. Dan Eriston joined F.P.-L's, Manchester staff.
M. Vallance succeeded J. Ormond Dann at Wardour, Dublin office.
Frank McGinnes joined Fox at Glasgow.
Jack Williams, assistant manager of the Futurist, Birmingham.
Sydney Kirsk joined F.P.-L. in Yorks.
Alphonse Rosenti, orchestral director of the Scala, Dublin, vice John Moody.
J. T. Colcott Riley, managerial control of the Royal Picture House, Egremont.
Arthur Silverstone, assistant sales manager of Allied Artists.
M. Smart succeeded H. Brownrigg at Ideal's Manchester office.
Walter Hume, manager of the King's, Preston, vice Frank Tilsey.
Harold B. Gent, manager for Allied Artists in Yorks.
J. Wright, management of the Poly, St. Albans.
H. W. Weaver, promoted manager of the Palace, High Wycombe. New Kinemas, Re-openings, etc.
Eden Theatre, Bishops Auckland, closed.
Palace, West Hartlepool, reopened. Sol
Sheckman acquired Tynemouth Palace. Obituary.
E. M. Barker, an early president of C.E.A.
F. S. Brier, 64, of Leeds. J. T. Rothwell, late
of the Tower, Leeds. H. C. Tonking, 66,
organist Grosvenor Picture House, Glasgow.
James McArthur, Carlton Picture House, Glasgow,
JULY.
The C.E.A.'s Blind-booking Referendum resulted in 1,704 for measures prohibiting Blind-booking and 198 against: 71 per cent, of the C.E.A. Membership voted.
T. A. Welsh/of Welsh Pearson and Co., Ltd., resigned from the Production Joint Committee.
It was definitely announced that the Vitagraph Co. would handle the Warner 1927 output.
Following the hostile C.E.A vote, the C.T.C., in effect, voted its own suspension.
The Cinematograph Garden Party, in aid of the Benevolent Fund, was held on Saturday/, July 17. The " Critics' Film " was purchased by New Era Films, Ltd., for fifty guineas.
The C.EA. definitely informed Renters that it regarded legislation as the only effective method of giving effect to the Referendum decision against Blind-booking.
Ray Allan, charge of the Elysium, Eastbourne.
Mr. Thorneycroft joined the Manchester staff of Languish.
W. A. GREENpromoted manager of Gaumont's Belfast branch. C. E. Alfred succeeded him at Birmingham.
Sic ft Changes, Appointments, etc.
Harry Johnson, manager of the Savoy P.H., Grimsby.
L. B. Vereycken, musical director of the Elite, Nottingham.
E. A. Roberts joined Kinematograph Equipment Co., Ltd.
P.D.C. — THE HOUSE OF VARIETY."