The Exhibitor (1954)

NT-2 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR a six editorial page pickup result. . . . The Music Hall, where “Cinerama” shows here, added matinees for the en¬ tire Christmas week. A chance for frontier life shows up in White Pine, Mich. This northern town being built in the copper country will have a supermarket and theatre section built along with 400 new homes. Carl Robertson is handling things there. . . . . . . Theatre operators sighed with relief as attempts of the Metropolitan Golf Association to get daylight saving time reestablished in Detroit failed. Detroit, one of the farthest west cities on the eastern belt, holds to standard time with normal dusk coming in at around 8:309:00 in the summer months. Another hour would ruin many drive-ins. A big drive-in project is planned by David Korman in Royal Oak Township. It will be the first in the area with car heaters, so will remain open all year. A swimming pool will convert to skating for the winter supplementing the four acre kiddyland and two concession lay¬ outs. Affiliated Theatres is planning com¬ petition nearby, bringing three drive-Tns to territory covered exclusively by Alden Smith’s Oak Drive-In for the past five yeai’s. . . . Police censors objected to only one theatre front, saw 359,000 feet of English speaking, 122,000 foreign, led by Mexican. 2,700 feet were snipped. A 27 minute short, “Mightier Than the Sword,” was previewed in Windsor, Ont. The short, produced by the Princeton P'ilm Center for the Bureau of Inde¬ pendent Publishers and Distributors is based on an idea of J. D. Geller, Wind¬ sor News president. . . . Paul Broder will close the Time, change it into a garage. Jack Broder is going into pro¬ duction. Bill Thick, Marshall, Mich., was in Ann Arbor Hospital for a checkup. Indianapolis The Variety Club of Indianapolis, Tent 10, has elected the following officers for 1955, Robert Conn, chief barker; Robert Jones, first assistant; Dale McFarland, second assistant; William Cai-roll, prop¬ erty master; and B. N. Peterson, dough guy. Piffsburgh Frank Arena, Penn manager, spent the holidays with his family in Cleve¬ land. . . . Joan Powlanski, Stanley Warner staff, got an engagement ring from Frank Bubach, a bass player with the Debonaires. . . . RKO held a trade screening of “Underwater” at the Shadyside. One of those once in a lifetime inci¬ dents happened Christmas week at the Stanley. RKO’s “Hansel and Gretel,” which had been pulled due to its slow start at this theater, was rebooked be¬ cause of the terrific amount of phone calls from parents in the entire area. . . . “Cinerama Holiday” will replace “This is Cinerama” on Feb. 16 at the Warner. The First Cinerama feature will have enjoyed a 61 week run. Saul Perlman, Warners salesman who acquired the Penn, Blairsville, Pa., and Emery Austin. MGM exploitation head, recently welcomed the winners of the “The Last Time I Saw Paris” contest, sponsored by The Indianapolis Star, Loew’s, Indianapolis, and Scandinavian Airlines, at his office prior to the groups leaving on a trip to Paris. The contest was for the best essay on “Goodwill Ambassador To Paris.” Left to right are Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Spaulding, Austin, and Spaulding, Jr. Rivoli, Altoona, Pa., announced his res¬ ignation from the local Warners sales staff. . . . Bert Stern, head. Cooperative Theatres, has acquired the DCA fran¬ chise from Charles Boasberg for his Screen Guild exchange. Walter Mackintosh, Paramount travel¬ ing auditor, is now on duty at the local branch. . . . Ken Dawson, Victoria, Gallitzen, Pa., has just installed CinemaScope equipment. . . . Ray Allison, veteran Altoona, Pa., exhibitor has sold his Rivoli, Altoona, and left for Florida where he will permanently make his home. His brother Leonard will buy and book for the Realty, Robertsdale, Pa., and Hollywood, Johnstown, Pa. The Lamp, Irwin, Pa., installed CinemaScope and reopened. . . . Dave Silverman, RKO branch manager, re¬ turned from a meeting with RKO execu¬ tives in New York, headed by President James R. Grainger, full of enthusiasm for the forthcoming RKO product. Less Chamberlain, Dale, Johnstown, Pa., was forced to take a hurried trip to Florida, due to a severe attack of asthma. His wife is operating the thea¬ tre in his absence. . . . Seen on Film Row were state exhibitors Joe Birocco, Garby, Clarion; John Muller, Nu-Luna, Sharon; Chris Fourgis, Grand, Mount Pleasant; Tony Close, State, Oceola Mills; Lou Rothenstein, Rose, Cambridge Springs, and Evans, Evans City; V. L. “Doc” Watkins, Manos Circuit booker; George Wasko, Rex and Rivoli, Portage; Stan Rawson, Best, Edinboro; and Richard Neff, Rivoli, Cresson. Ralph Green, who recently spent $50,000 in remodeling the Beacon, re¬ opened under the name of the Guild. . . . Jack Kalmenson, former branch man¬ ager, Warners, and now manager, Mil¬ waukee, stopped off to say hello on his way to New York, where his nephew, Howard Allen Kalmenson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kalmenson, will be married at the Ambassador Hotel. Mrs. Shirley Studnicki, Stanley cashier who made the newspapers recently when she faced a bandit at the boxoffice, t ! greeted the return of her husband, Joe, in Korea for the past 16 months. ... | Stanley Warner city theatre managers Y; gifted their district manager, Byron F. Moore, with a handsome rod and reel at | their annual holiday affair. ' Dick Cvetic, former manager. Strand, i Oakland, Pa., and now at the Grand, Fargo, N. D., will spend the holidays here with his parents. His dad is Matt j Cvetic, who was an undercover man for the FBI in the Communist organization. : Johnny Mayer, Penn Theatres’ artist, was operated on for ulcers at the St. Clair Memorial Hospital and is not expected back to work before February. . . . Glenn J. Easter staged a special : free Christmas kiddie show at the i Almedam, Mount Morris, Pa. | j Rialto, Daisytown, Pa., has been con¬ verted to a teenage dance hall. ... A. A. Notopoulos, Altoon Circuit, has been elected president, Blair County Heart | Fund. . . . Maury Weiss, Mainline and Erie salesman. Allied Artists, should be commended on his efforts in securing i Will Rogers pledges from exhibitors in ' this area. | Sammy Speranza, Stanley Warner executive, was chairman for the Variety Clubs New Years Eve party. . . . Mrs. C. Kellenberg, wife of the 20th-Fox sales manager, was hospitalized as a result of a fall. . . . John Ogliett, Penn and Palace, Leechburg, Pa., recently bagged a four-point buck. . . . Herman Goldberg, ! Warners’ purchasing representative, | visited here. Mrs. Nellie C. Dunn, an employee of ; Paramount for 36 years, is retiring. She i was head of the inspection department. j . . . Variety Club Tent 1 will stage its annual installation of officers today (Jan. 5). I. Elmer Ecker is the new chief barker. James G. Balmer will officiate at the installation. At this meeting, 50 new ] barkers will be initiated. Ohio Columbus The Worthington Film Society is now | composed of 150 subscribei's, said 19year-old David Sonner, its foundei'. Sonner conceived the idea after reading about experimental films in a national magazine. The story concerned Cinema 16 in New York City. The group shows unusual films twice a month in the Worthington elementai’y school audi¬ torium. The public is invited to join the group at $5 per season. J. Real Neth has installed CinemaScope equipment at the Eastern. ... Loew’s Ohio has installed a new seam¬ less screen. . . . The Ohio State football ; team, in Pasadena, Cal., for the Rose i Bowl game, were guests at Metro ; Goldwyn-Mayer studios in a party arranged by manager Walter Kessler, Loew’s Ohio. Frank Marzetti, owner. Linden, has ; redecorated the theatre including new ' carpeting, painting, reupholstering, and the installation of a soundpi-oof foyer. January 12, 1955