The Exhibitor (1954)

MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR NT-3 Monsignor John J. McKenna, secretary, Legion of Decency, recently presented a commendation to Lester Isaac, director of exhibition for “Cinerama,” during the first anniversary of its showing at the Boyd, Philadelphia. Hal Grossman, man¬ aging director, watches the presentation. Post C. Travelers Protective Associa¬ tion engaged the Strand, Kenneth Hinkle, manager, for its annual show for boys and girls on Oct. 30 in ob¬ servance of the association’s “Child Ac¬ cident Prevention Week.” Reports say that the Reading Con¬ sistory, Scottish Rite Masons, is plan¬ ning to move from the Plaza to the Rajah Theatre. Masonic bodies own both thea¬ tre buildings and opinion among the membership is divided on the proposed change. Considerable damage was done to the two drive-ins near here, one at Mount Penn, Pa., and the other in Muhlenberg Township, north of the city line. Fences, small buildings, and other fixtures were damaged, but in both locations the screens, one of steel and the other of wood, were unharmed. Eugene Plank, here and in Harrisburg, Pa., in alternate seasons, will become assistant manager, Embassy, here, after the season for the Reading and Mount Penn Drive-Ins, which he managed, closes. He will take the place of the recently deceased George Gross, assist¬ ant to manager Paul E. Glase. Scranton According to an announcement by J. J. O’Leary, general manager, William But¬ ler has been named Scranton city man¬ ager in charge of the Comerford and Capitol, with Bud Irwin, formerly of the Comerford, reportedly being named man¬ ager, Hollywood, Pottsville, Pa. Butler’s new position will place the neighborhood theatres on a basis of individual respon¬ sibility, which is associated with the new policy of the theatres. It was also an¬ nounced that Lloyd Hause has been named Wilkes-Barre, Pa., manager, suc¬ ceeding William Walsh, who resigned. James Reilly, former manager, Penn, has been advanced to manager, Comer¬ ford, succeeding Hause. O’Leary also re¬ ported that the Sunbury, Pa., district headquarters were being shifted to Milton, Pa., resulting in the transfer of a number of managers and assistant man¬ agers. Rev. M. E. Kilcullen, Pastor, Holy Rosary Church, celebrated the Nuptial Mass that followed the marriage cere Columbia’s “Pushover” gained consider¬ able notice in the recent shopping dis¬ trict opening day at the Mayfair, Balti¬ more, Md., when this young lady from a local modeling school, carrying an appropriately marked parasol, was used for street bally. mony of Miss Mary Nolan, Comerford, and Patrick Walker, Internal Revenue Department, formerly of the Comerford accounting department. The father of Comerford’s Florence Breslin, Tom Breslin, was discharged from the Hahnemann Hospital. . . . Kerry Cronin, son of Tom Cronin, Com¬ erford comptroller, won second honors in the freshmen class according to a release of the headmaster of the Scranton Pre¬ paratory School. . . . The birthday an¬ niversary of Jeanne Hannon, Comerford Booking department, was observed. During his recent run of “Woman’s World,” manager Ed McGovern, Comer¬ ford, had effective tieins with several of the city’s stores and marts including a large cooperative ad containing’ a cut of the film with the Globe Store. Also, a display in the automotive show rooms of Moore-Blatnick, dealers of LincolnMercury, was featured in which several of the choice models were bannered. For MPA Elects Diamond, Plans Welfare Drive PHILADELPHIA — The Motion Picture Associate.s held an election meeting and buffet super last week at the RKO projection room. Named to office were Sam Dia¬ mond, 20th Fox branch manager, president; Mort Magill, LL4 branch manager, vice president; Shep Bloom, 20th-Fox sales manager, treasurer; and Eugene Ganz, RKO salesman, secretary. The board of directors now con¬ sists of John Turner, UA district manager; Lou Formato, MGM dis¬ trict manager; George Beattie, Wil¬ liam Goldman Theatres; Dave Titleman, MGM booker; Lester Wurtele, Columbia branch manager; architect Dave Supowitz; Joe Schaeffer, Re¬ public salesman; and Jack Green¬ berg, Greenberg Theatres. Discussed were ways and means of stepping up the welfare fund, with the committee appointed re¬ cently for this purpose already reporting some progress. Plans for a forthcoming dinner to aid the fund were discussed and an an¬ nouncement about this will be forth¬ coming soon. his forthcoming “Sabrina,” enterprising McGovern has arranged with Dolitsky of this city to have a lobby display of Edith Head designed gowns that are featured in the film and which are regularly stocked in the store. All dis¬ play windows of the store will also show Edith Head gowns as well as a pro¬ fusion of window cards ballying the film. A general get-together and pep meet¬ ing was held last week in Pottsville of all Penn-Paramount district managers, J<jim £qjujipnumi • PRICED RIGHT • RCA FINANCE PLAN • INSTALLATION BY RCA SERVICE CO. • PROMPT DELIVERIES — on — • Stereophonic Sound • RCA Dyna-Lite Screens • Anomorphic Lenses • Push-Back Seats • Custom Carpet • Wide-Arc Lamps • Cinemaplastic Screen Coating Package Drive-Ins . . . Towers Enlarged . . . [IMER H. BRIENT & SONS, Inc. 925 NEW JERSEY AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON, D C. 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