The Exhibitor (1954)

NT-4 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR Guests at the recent 16th annual dinner and dance of Variety Club, Tent 19, Baltimore, Md., included, left to right, Jake Flax, international representative; Jack Whittle, chief barker-elect; James Pollack, ex-chief barker; Rodney Collier, chief barker; and Jack Beresin, past chief barker. Variety Clubs International. the rest of the staff could spend the open on Jan. 8 completely repainted and time with their families. . . . Evan’s refurnished. Pier has closed for repairs but will re New Jersey Atlantic City Stanley Tannenbaum, son of Sam Tannenbaum, prominent local exhibitor, was married to Ilene Greenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Green¬ berg, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Greenberg will be remembered as a former industryite, associated with Paramount Theatres for 25 years. He is now in the restaurant business in Poughkeepsie. Many film men attended the affair. Trenton RKO management materially boosted business at the Trent, one of its eight houses, during the holiday showing of film musical fantasy “Hansel and Gretel.” Theatre ticket admissions were awarded in prizes to 20 teenagers in a coloring contest sponsored jointly by RKO and The Trentonian. A New York City department store branch was opened on the site of the old State Street. The big store neces¬ sitated purchase of the theatre and 10 adjoining stores and office properties. Pennsylvania Allentown Manos Enterprises, Inc., has purchased a controlling interest in the Super Sky¬ way Drive-In Theatre Corporation. Sol Shocker will remain as managing direc¬ tor and stockholder. The drive-in wall reopen on about March 15 and will be enlarged to 1,000 car capacity. Lancaster Fire chiefs of the four companies in East Lampeter Township registered a formal complaint against motorists blocking McMinn Road, west of the SkyvLie Drive-In. They told Township Supervisors that the road is sometimes completely blocked for as long as an hour after the movie ends, making it impossible for fire equipment to enter if a blaze should break out. After in¬ vestigating several alternatives, the supervisors issued a warning to the owner that one lane must be kept open for inbound traffic at all times. Persons living back on McMinn Road also com¬ plained that sometimes they are forced to go five miles out of their way to drive home when the road is jammed. It was said that theatre traffic is directed MARCH OF DIMES JojuiMy 3-3! sox OFFICE STATEMENTS « Dally memoranda of fhe coni»»U»» THEATRE CASH CONTROL SYSTEM Price: 25e per 50-sheet pad Printed on both sides so that complete factual totals for one day can be kept on one S’/j X 5^/2 inch sheet, each itemizes: 1. OPENING AND CLOSING TICKET NUMBERS 2. PASS AND WALK-IN TICKET NUMBERS 3. CASH TOTALS AND REFUNDS 4. TAX TOTALS 5. PROGRAM. WEATHER, AND OPPOSI¬ TION 6. SPACES FOR HOURLY TOTALS 7. MISCELLANEOUS INCOME AND DEPOSITS ' Ask for SAMPLE SHEETS ! Sold ONLY to Subscribing Theatres by EXHIBITOR BOOK SHOP 246-48 N. ^Clarion Street, Philadelphia 7, . Pa. by officers, usually a constable, hired by the theatre owner. Reading Several hundred local citizens, a traii;load who went to New York for a oneday trip and saw “Deep In My Heart” in Radio City Musical Hall, will prob¬ ably go to see it again when it comes to Reading. Sigmund Romberg, the central figure, was a young restaurant orchestra conductor here more than 4(1 years ago. Elaborate decorations in lobbies and for the exteriors of theatres here were features of the holiday. Many school and college groups held parties in some of the larger houses. Some of the suburban movie houses skipped matinees on Christmas day. Manager Bob Diehm, Loew’s, resur¬ rected Reading’s traveling billboard, mounted on a big truck, for “Deep In My Heart” publicity. As the truck was frequently tied up in dense holiday traffic with police powerless to complain if the truck had to stand in line for long periods. Diem got extra value out of the billboard. Paul E. Glase, theatre librarian of note and manager. Embassy, and other Fabian interests here, has a postal card prospectus in which a New York invest¬ ment firm offered to sell stock in the David W. Griffith Enterprises of more than 40 years ago, and he also has a program of the old Liberty, New York, the showing of “Birth of a Nation” in 1915. Scranton Jane Wright, Comerford, has resign¬ ed, and has been replaced by J-osephine Roberto, Capitol, who is succeeded by Mary Doughton. . . . Jane Williams, Capitol, was hostess to a group of fellow cashiers and candy girls of the Comerford Corporation at a buffet supper held last week at the Blue Lantern Rest¬ aurant. ... A former employe of the Granada, Robert Lonergan, was reelect¬ ed to his 16th consecutive year as execu¬ tive director, Pennsylvania State Council of public employees. . . . The son of Mary Fahey, Capitol, John Fahey, a fourth year medical student at Georgetown Medical School, is expected home for the Christmas Holidays. Virginia Tappahannock The new Wartap Drive-In will be located on the Hall property just one mile east of Tappahannock on the Warsaw-Tappahannock Highway, according to an announcement by George Clanton, local exhibitor, who is building the thea¬ tre. Variety Club Tent 13, Philadelphia Members are urged to get their reser¬ vations in at once for the dinner on Jan. 10 honoring incoming Chief Bai-ker Louis J. Goffman and outgoing Chief Barker Norman Silverman. This Bellevue-Stratford Hotel affair will feature an address by Morris Wolf. . . . The New Year’s eve party pz-oved a big success. January 5, 1 955