The Exhibitor (1954)

NT-2 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR Among the 51 Paramount employees recently inducted into the Paramount 25-Year Club at New York home office ceremonies were the above pictured with Barney Balaban, president; Adolph Zukor, board chairman; Austin C, Keough, vice-president and general counsel; and Russell Holman, eastern production manager. Inductee Mary Mahoney is seen receiving gold watch from Zukor. Others are Charles Urling, A. J. Richard, Alwin Beers, Robert MacDonald, John Fuchs, Richard Bennett, George Barry, John Cicero, Albert 5Iichel, Arthur Clements, Constance Bachmann, Robert McKeown, Mary Marmion, Catherine Moore, Anna Anderson, Charles Rapp, Ralph Amato, August Keuhn, Paul Pagano, Stanley Phillips, Robert Shields, Murray Wacke, George Fineman, George Westbrook, Leopold Weiner and Baruch Negrin. is their second son. . . . Ernie Stautner, Pittsburgh Steeler football star and co¬ owner, Sara-Pla Drive-In, between Lake Placid and Saranac Lake, was among those attending the world premiere of “The Silver Chalice” at Schine’s Pon¬ tiac, Saranac Lake, N. Y. He attende<l with his brother-in-law and partner, Ed Hoffman. Ray Smith, Warners branch manager, had praise for the arrange¬ ments made by Alton B. Anderson, Pon¬ tiac manager, Saranac Lake mayor. Albany exchange cut back the work week under a new agreement with office and seivice employees by opening the to OMU JOUOMV£UTIS VACCm^ . to o.tt »>*»* w, f** . i ""I ■fboiui rouNMfio«/>* r NIW YORK. “ • Developed by Dr. Jonas Salk under March of Dimes grant. • Inoculation of 425,000 children in 44 states financed by March of Dimes. • Results of vaccine evaluation by University of Michigan ex¬ pected before 1955 polio epi¬ demic season. • Effectiveness of Salk vaccine being determined at a cost of $7,500,000 in March of Dimes funds. Uve/ MARCH OF DIMES JcuvfWvy 3-3! doors later. Week covers thirty-seven and a half hours, five days. Condition of George H. C. Farley, executive, Farley Estate, owning local exchanges and several out-of-town thea¬ tres, and Farley Realty Company, was reported fairly good at Rex Hospital, Raleigh, N. Y. He was removed from a Florida-bound train after suffering a heart attack. Sidney Urbach, dough guy of Variety Club and drive-in stock owner, returned to CPA work and Variety duties fol¬ lowing an appendectomy. . . . Harry Lamont, Lamont Theatres, leaves for Key West, Fla., and a sixweek vacation. . . . Wedding bells rang in Ravena for John Leon, projectionist at Conery’s Theatre, and Joan Gardner, of that village. The couple went to New York City following a reception attended by Chet Tompkins, Conery executive, and Charlie Hunter, of the Hunter Film Service. Variety Club Chief Barker George H. Schenck expressed confidence that attendance at the testimonial dinner for Charles A. Smakwitz, Stanley Warner Max E. Youngstein, vice-president, Ibiited Artists, and Denise Darcel, costar in UA’s “Vera Cruz,” recently dis¬ cussed. entertainment arrangements for the first annual benefit show to aid the Jewish National Asthmatic Home for Children. Youngstein is entertainment chairman of the foundation’s drive, and M iss Darcel was among the headliners in the Parade of Stars held at New York’s Town Halt. zone manager transferred from Albany to Newark, N. J., would reach .300 in ballroom of Sheraton-Ten Eyck Hotel yesterday (Jan. 11). S. H. Fabian and Harry Kalmine, Stanley Warner execu¬ tives, were expected to be present as was International Chief Barker George Hoover. Tent 9 suffered no loss in sharing the profits of Tim Anspach’s used-car dealers auction with the Colonie Lions Club. Anspach sold twice as many automobiles at his Albany-Schenectady Road rooms as he did during last year when the Variety Club received about $800 for Camp Thatcher, from the auction. . . . Lions Club officers dined with Variety Club members and attended a regular Tent 9 meeting to discuss the possibility of joint sponorship of a summer camp for area underprivileged girls. Ed Wall, Paramount field represent¬ ative for the Albany and Buffalo ex¬ change areas, made his screen debut in the 20th Century-Fox Filmrow studio, where a 10-minute short of an inter¬ view he had recently held with Para¬ mount executive producer Don Hartman, in Hollywood, was shown. It preceded a preview for critics of “The Bridges of Toko-Ri.” The filmed outline of company product for the coming months is de¬ signed for use on television stations in the areas covered by the Paramount Film Distributing Corp. exploiteers. While it marked Wall’s “acting” bow-in, the short was not his first experience with motion picture production. He authored several scenarios, one of which was basis for a Paramount comedy short, “The Football Game,” a couple of years back. Dark for 26 days in a dispute between the management and the stage hands union, which spread, via the sympa¬ thetic route, to the projectionists local, the Grand reopened. Lessee-proprietor Paul V. Wallen announcd that the dis¬ agreement had been settled “by con¬ cessions on both sides.” Troy The tangled affairs of Larry Cowen, former manager, Proctor’s, and veteran Fabian employee, took another turn when his 80-year-old mother filed a grand larceny charge, alleging theft of $6,000 in jewelry. Mrs. Francis Cowen, widow and resident of the Jewish Home for the Aged, Troy, N. Y., since Cowen’s disappearance, stated that she turned her jewelry over to him for deposit in a box at the National Commercial Bank in Albany. He “diverted it to his own use,” the mother claimed. Cowen dis¬ appeared on Sept. 4. Shortly after it was announced that Cowen had taken an indefinite leave of absence. Richard Murphy was transferred to Proctor’s as his successor, from the Plaza, Schen¬ ectady, N. Y. Cowen, police say has passed a series of worthless checks in towns of eastern New Y^ork, Vermont, Massa¬ chusetts, and Connecticut. Watertown Bill Lavery, Schine’s Olympic, set a Boy Scout benefit for national Boy Scout week, which starts Feb. 7. The Scouts are great little workers and will get behind any project of theirs 100 per cent. Tieins might be ma<le with EPI’s official Scout film, “Jamboree.” January 12, 1955