The Exhibitor (1954)

NT-2 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR Goldberg, MGM resident manager, and Chief Barker Jules Peiimutter joined in the encomium for Greenfield. Among others attending the dinner were Ray Smith, WB manager, and Harry LaVigne and Jimmy Moore, WB salesmen; Dan Houlihan, Paramount manager, and Howard Smidt and Gordon Bugie, Para¬ mount salesmen; Max Westebbe, RKO manager, and Howard Goldstein, RKO salesman; Clayton Pantages and John Wilhelm, 20th-Fox salesmen; Jack Sussman, Columbia salesman, and Milt Lev¬ ins, Columbia booker; Ralph Ripps, MGM salesman, and Frank Carroll, MGM office manager; Bob Adler, Allied Artists booker salesman, and Rudy Bach, A A salesman; Gene Lowe and Bob Friedman, U-I salesman, and John Capano, U-I booker; Burt Toppal, United Artists salesman; Harry La¬ ment, Lament Theatres; Morris Klein, Hi Way Drive In, Coxsackie, and Mountain Drive-In, Hunter; Irwin Ullman, Mohawk Drive-In manager; at¬ torney Lewis A. Sumberg; Sidney Ur¬ bach; George Schenck, Tri-State Auto¬ matic Candy branch manager; Jack Hamilton, Berlon Vending manager; Charles A. Smakwitz, Stanley Warner zone manager; Nate Winig, former chief barker. Variety Club; Aaron Winig; Fred G. Sliter, retired 2()th-Fox salesman; and Arthur Green. Nat Rosen, 20thFox manager, and Arthur J. New¬ man, Republic manager, could not attend. The Variety Club will be directed for the next year by a crew of experienced men, elected at a meeting in the Clinton Avenue headquarters. It comprises Jack Goldberg, MGM resident manager; Nor¬ man Jackter, Columbia branch manager; Sylvan Leff, owner. Highland and Rialto, Utica, Town and Black River Drive-In, Watertown, and upstate representative nfor Realart; George Schenck, TriState Automatic Candy Corporation branch manager; Irwin Ullman, man¬ ager, Fabian’s Mohawk Drive-In; Lewis A. Sumberg, attorney, and Sidney Ur¬ bach, certified public accountant; Aaron Winig, State Tax Commission aide; Leo Greenfield, former U-I branch chief; Arthur Green, proprietor. Green’s Wine and Liquor Store; and William Wennar, loan company man and Amateur Ath¬ letic Union workers. Jackter, Schenck, Sumberg, Urbach, Leff, and Winig served on the retiring crew; Greenfield, with the 195,3 group. Jim Pierson and Gordon Bugie (Al¬ bany salesmen) surveyed Plaza and Proctor’s in Schenectady, and Troy and Proctor’s in Troy, for Vista Vision. Ted Kuczynski is new assistant manager, Delaware, Stanley Warner art house, directed by John Brousseau. . . . Sidney Dwore is concentrating on opera¬ tion of the Cameo, Schenectady, after doubling during the summer as buyerbooker for the Mountain Drive-In, Loch Sheldrake; Spar Drive-In, Saratoga; Dix Drive-In, Hudson Falls; Skyline DriveIn, Port Henry; and Valley Brook DriveIn, Lowville. Dwore’s eyes light up when he talks about his son Martin, who played on the World’s Champion Little League team of Schenectady. Paul V. Wallen installed a 30-foot-wide screen in the Grand. EYllISG ITIE New York — .Allied Artists switchboard operator Marge Downing resigned to await the stork in November. Officeites presented her with a gift. United Artists — Booker Sophie Bochilo’s son Murray, back from Wash¬ ington, expects to take the police ex¬ amination here. . . . Booker’s secretary June Hill is fixing up her new home after returning from her honeymoon. . . . Clerk Tom Kneitel wrote an article about UA for the NYU newspaper. Favorite — Secretary Jean Harris said “yes” to Sid Gelfand and the couple plan to be married on Nov. 24. The prospective groom is a teacher at Wayne Junior High School, New Jersey. . . . Former booker Gloria Korn Finkleman became the mother of an eight-pound boy, Michael. . . . The organization is readying the Filmakers production of “Crashout” for November. . . . Assistant booker Sherry Shenendorf was on the sick list. 20th-Fox — Inspectress Lena Olando entered Misericordia Hospital in New York for surgery. . . . Ann Buchdahl, booker’s cleik, resigned. . . . Bookers and salesmen received a week’s salary as a result of the recent quota drive. MGM — Birthday greetings go to head booker Harry Margolis on Nov. 4. . . . Office manager Sidney Stockton was re Basil Theatre Circuit held the first managers meeting of the Fall season in their offices in Basil’s Lafayette building. Prior to getting down to the business of the day, cocktails and luncheon were served. The managers and office person¬ nel were addressed by C. J. Basil, presi¬ dent; B. J. Basil, vice-president; and T. J. Basil, treasurer and concessions head. The guest speaker was Sidney Pfeifer, attorney for the organization. In addition, various phases of operation were discussed by G. M. Westergren, assistant, general manager and V. Spen¬ cer Balser, film buyer and head booker. Those in attendance were George Mackenna, general manager, Lafayette, and his staff, including Bill Brereton, pub¬ licity director ; George Simon, house manager; and Lorraine Gardiner, secre¬ tary. Basil Community Theatre man¬ agers in attendance were John Haimerl, Apollo; Richard Miller, Victoria; Robert Grochowiak, Genesee; Alfred Cerankowski. Strand; George Kraus, Varsity; Ronald Haimerl, Colvin, Kenmore; and John T. Basil, LaSalle, Niagara Falls. Unable to attend were Harold Murphy, Roxy, and Everett Tanner, Broadway. The office staff present included Mary Armbruster, office manager; Edith Jae¬ ger; Helen Jackson; and Gertrude Pike. Other meetings are planned for every month, the Basil policy for many years. Gloversville Tragedy struck in the family of Mrs. J. Meyer Schine, wife of the president. covering from minor surgery. . . . The film room had a birthday party for head shipper Gerard Lee. U-I — Jon Mayer, son of salesman Fred Mayer, is managing the Michigan Tech basketball team which recently played the Harlem Globetrotters. Paramount — The new ledger clerk, Janice Abolafia, is a June grad of Flush¬ ing High. Columbia — Assistant cashier Cliff Pierce retunied from his Florida so¬ journ. . . . Birthday congrats went to booker Irving Barron and cashier Irv¬ ing Spanier. . . . Officeites sent a getwell card to Sylvia Needel, secretary to Nat Cohen, recovering at home. RKO — Head booker Bill Hartman will be taking an extra week vacation in Fridays. . . . Booker Murray Blutrich won a Hi-Fi speaker system as a door prize at the Audio Fair. Warners — ^Rita Levy, secretary to Norman Ayers, marks her natal day on Nov. 4. . . . Lee Mayer, New Jersey salesman, returned from his southem tour vacation. Ramblin’ ’Round — ^Jack Zide, Detroit franchise holder for Realart, was visit¬ ing. . . . Morris Weinstein, former Eagle Lion salesman, was also seen. . . . “Outlaw Territory,” a Realart release, will go on the RKO Circuit on Nov. 17 to 20. . . . Republic’s switchboard opera¬ tor Irene Anastasiou’s current rage for football is due to influences of her Col¬ umbia player beau. . . . Officeites from Bonded formed a bowling club to meet every Tuesday. — J. A. D. Schine Circuit and Schnie Hotels, when her brother, Milton Feldman, 47, was stricken with a heart attack, lost con¬ trol of his automobile, and struck a tree. Police summoned to the scene found him dead when they arrived. The car was badly damaged. Norwich Carl Dickerson, Schine’s Colonia, re¬ cently obtained a full page in his local newspaper editorially heralding his fall festival of hits. In addition, local in¬ dustries came through with an accom¬ panying coop ad page. Further, the local paper printed an editorial about the industries paying tribute to the Colonia, proving once again that good pictures make good public relations. Troy Richard Murphy, new manager, Fabian Proctor’s, had a Hallowe’en Eve horror show, at $1 admission. . . . Joseph Stowell, Lincoln lessee, installed CinemaScope. Utica Utica, Stanley Warner theatre, dark for more than a year, was to be re¬ lighted for a weekend engagement of the famed and very popular stage musi¬ cal, “Oklahoma.” Watertown The Liberty, operated by Peter Vournakis, closed for three days to make changes in connection with Cin¬ emaScope. November 3, IdSU