Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1946)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, March 1, 1946 j Asides and Interludes By JAMES CUNNINGHAM Personal Mention CHARLES SKOURAS AND "RICK" RICKETSON have been most cooperative with war-time and peace-time public drive and campaign committees " through the many National theatres which they operate in the West. This week, in New York, both announced an anticancer campaign for all theatres ; and, by way of admitting that exhibitors' efforts have been taxed aplenty by persons soliciting the aid of theatres for drives of all kind and description, Ricketson disclosed his recent experience of receiving a gentleman in his office who stood before him, with hat unmoved, and — honest injun — asked "Rick" for the use of National's theatres to promote a drive against removing hats in building elevators. V Last week's item about underseadiver Ernest Williamson 's contemplated search for the Spanish galleon Santa Rosa and its reputed cargo of thirty millions in gold, believed resting in the ocean off the Cuban coast, reminds R'KO's Charlie McDonald of his visits with Williamson in Nassau in the Bahamas, where, "Mac" discloses, Williamson has the only undersea post office in the world. He has a Bathysphere submerged in Nassau Harbor where tourists can go out, descend through a caisson and mail a letter from the bottom of the sea in a duly-accredited British post office. V Inflation Note: Everyone is familiar with the "March of Dimes". Now being introduced is the "March of Quarters," returns from which will be used by the Women's Christian Temperance Union to make an anti-likker motion picture. V Ed Rowley of Robb and Rowley Theatres in Texas has hit upon an idea whereby anyone wishing to leave a message for posterity on the walls of the wash-rooms of his theatres or carve their initials will have to use an air hammer or a bucket of barn paint. Rowley is installing solid tile walls to the ceiling, tile vanity stools and tile benches. V The "walkie-talkie" packed-on-theback sending -receiving radios came out of the same electronic laboratories which gave sound to the motion picture industry. Their war-time uses were many. Noiv, in peacetime, they are being adapted in a most versatile manner by burglar teams, as ztfitness the pair of safe-crackers in Peoria, III., who each carried a set, one working at a safe on the inside, the other on the outside, hidden in a truck ready to radio a warning to his partner of the approach of police. JACK COHN, Columbia Pictures executive vice-president, has 'returned to New Yqrk from Miami. • Janice Elaine Linn, daughter of Byron Linn, advertising director of Comerford Theatres, Scranton, Pa., last Saturday became the bride of Sgt. William Pratt, USMC. • Ruth Goodman, secretary to RKO Radio executive vice-president Ned E. Depinet, is in Mt. Sinai Hospital here recuperating from a recent operation. • John Ballantyne, president of Philco Corp., has been elected to the board of directors of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. • Allen Smith has returned as house manager of the Warner Theatre in Memphis after three years in the Army. Robert D. Leavitt and Neil Agnew, Vanguard executives, will leave York today for Hollywood. • Patricia Roc, British actress, is due in New York from Hollywood today en route to England. • Bernard Goodman, Warner's assistant supervisor of exchanges, is in Detroit from New York. • Jules Levey, United Artists producer, is in -Miami Beacb. Joe Walsh, director of RKO Patlie Sportscopes, has returned to New York from Tucson, Arizona. GUS EYSSELL, president and managing director of Radio City Music Hall, is due back in New York from the Coast today. • Don Prince, formerly of the RKO •Radio field exploitation staff, will sail for London on the Queen Mary Monday to join the staff of Robert Wolff, the company's United Kingdom manager. • Edward L. Walton, Republic vicepresident and assistant general sales manager, will leave here Sunday for a tour of the Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle branches. • Edward Shafton, recently discharged from Army Intelligence, has returned to Omaha where he will become general counsel for the Ralph D. Goldberg Theatres. • Nicholas Napoli, president of Artkino Pictures, is due back in New York from Moscow early this month. • Joseph Jacobs, Columbia branch manager at Omaha, has been released from the hospital following an operation. • Adolph Goodman, assistant manager of the RCA Service Co., has returned to New York from New Orleans. • Harold Field, head of Pioneer Theatres which operates in Iowa, is visiting New York from Minneapolis. • Harry Romm has arrived in Hollywood from New York. Minneapolis Booking Unit Starts Today Minneapolis, Feb. 28.— Theatre Associates, Inc., new buying-booking combination headed by Ted Bolnick, is scheduled to start operations here tomorrow in offices located in the Pence Building. Bolnick earlier denied reports that "outsiders" would be invited to join the group, which comprises the Berger, Welworth (Eddie Ruben), Volk Bros., Ben Friedman and Frank and Woempner circuits. Raftery, Sears Remain Hollywood, Feb. 28. — Edward C. Raftery, United Artists president, and Gradwell L. Sears, UA distribution vice-president, have delayed their departure for New York in order to confer with Neil F. Agnew, vice-president of Vanguard, who is due here Saturday, and David O. Selznick on releasing plans for Selznick's "Duel in the Sun." Also scheduled are conferences with Sam Dembow, Jr., who arrived here yesterday from New York, on future Golden productions. UA, NSS Tie-up Starts National Screen Service will handle distribution of United Artists advertising accessories starting today, the respective companies have disclosed. Reiner Here After U.S. Foreign Job Manny Reiner, formerly with Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warners, arrived in New York yesterday from Italy after more than two-and-a-half years abroad for the Office of War Information. As Balkan films officer for the U. S. government, Reiner recently 'completed a survey of film conditions in Budapest, Belgrade, Paris, Frankfurt, Prague and Vienna. He made a study of film markets in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and Albania. . Reiner will resign from government service following conferences with State Department officials and film company foreign managers. New Boston Censor Boston, Feb. 28. — For the first time in its history Boston will have a woman censor. 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