The Exhibitor (1954)

NT-2 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR Upon the occasion of her recent visit to Philadelphia in connection with advance promotion of U-I’s “So This Is Paris,” Midtown, Mara Corday visited the local ex¬ change, where she helped spark the “Charles J. Feldman Annual Sales Drive.” She is seen here with, left to right, Joseph Azzarano, office manager; Ed Heiber, branch manager; Eddie Potash, city salesman; George Evans, booker; Sieg Horowitz, sales manager; and Ed Larsen, booker. EPI I’elease schedule. En route he will confer with EPI franchise holders in Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Den¬ ver, and Seattle. Edgar F. Gross, son of Sam Gross, 20th-Fox branch manager before his untimely death, was married to Marcellina Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David S. Perry, Beverly Hills, Cal., on Dec. 26. . . . Jack Jaslow’s daughter, Beverly, was wed to Dr. Bertram Channuck at Ashburn Country Club. Leon Cohen, Vine Street Screening Room, is back from Florida sporting one of the tannest of tans. Morry H. Schwarz, veteran industryite, has joined Exploitation Productions, Inc., as local branch manager. Long and varied experience in distribution and exhibition have adequately equipped Schwarz for supervising the sales and promotion of special pictures. UA exploiteer Max Miller rushed back from Washington to attend funeral ser¬ vices for his uncle, Harry Miller, 67, a retired grocer. Warners are handling the physical distribution of “This Is Your Army” in this area. . . . Harry E. Weiner, Columbia division manager, is in Hahnemann Hos¬ pital, having undergone minor surgery. . . . John Daly, Warners booker, is in Germantown Hospital, after undergoing a serious operation on his stomach. District of Columbia Washington The Shah of Iran was a patron of Loew’s Palace during his visit. Mike Weiss, Paramount exploiteer, Philadelphia, was a visitor to the ex¬ change. Weiss is also here in connection with a special screening being held at the Capitol. Stanley Warner — Fred McMillian, managing director, and Hariot Stem, publicity, returned from Philadelphia where they spent three days sitting in on regional meetings. . . . Alice Turner, captain of usherettes, Metropolitan, re¬ turned from New York after a three day trip. . . . The local SW offices are being redecorated. . . . Wade Skinner, assistant director of advertising, resigned to take over as local representative for Mrs. Paul’s Frozen Foods. . . . Sidney Hoffman, manager. Metropolitan, marked his 17th wedding anniversary with a trip to New York. ... A surprise 5()th birthday party was held for Charles Grimes, district manager. . . . Frank LaFalce, director of advertising and publicity, spent the holidays in New Jerse.v visiting his family. . . . “This Is Cinerama” played host to more than 100 residents of the Blue Plains Home For The Aged. Vincent lorio, manager, Trans-Lux, had an Austin Healey sports car in his lobby during the run of “Phffft.” 20th Fox — Sara Zahn, operator, is grieving the death of her mother. . . . r’eggy Claggett, biller, i-esigned. . . . Buela Judkins took leave of absence to await a visit from the “stork”. . . . Charles Krips’ mother is gravely ill in a Philadelphia hospital. . . . Jack Kohler, booker, and family went to Mendhan, N. J., over the holidays. Highlight of Kohler’s trip was his first experience attending a fox hunt. . . . Frank Blake, projectionist, celebrated his 43rd wedding anniversary. . . . Sara Young, booker, visited her home in Brookline, Mass., over the holidays. . . . Ileen Olivier’s son George is engaged to be married to Ann Gallner. . . . Bob Kuttler, shipper, is grieving the death of his mother. Kuttler is in Iowa for a brief visit. Buena Vista’s Walt Disney feature, “20,000 Leagues Ihider Tbe Sea,” at¬ tracted the above opening day crowds to the SW Mastbaum, Philadelphia. Larry Graver, manager, staged a big campaign, centered around large news¬ paper ads. Sunday Movie Vote Stymies High Court Philadelphia — The State Supreme Court last week asked for additional briefs regarding precedents in an appeal for a bill in equity to throw out the Sunda.v movies referendum in Hanover Township on Nov. 3, 1953. The high court directed opposing attornies during arguments on the appeal to fi'e the additional briefs showing whether an equity suit ever was suc¬ cessfully used to void an election in the State. Justice Charles Alvin Jones said the high court now was being asked in effect to establish a “completely new procedure which would disrupt elections in the future entirely,” and which would permit elections to “drag on for months in equity courts.” Attorney for the appellants charged that the York County court erred in dismissing their bill in equity and term¬ ing alleged irregularities at all five wards in the township “trivial.” The attorneys said the recount conducted by the York County Common Pleas Court, sitting as a recount board, showed “tremendous mistakes” were made in the election which presented an “oppor¬ tunity for fraud.” Counsel for the election board and and the Hanover Ministerial Association contended it was not proved that the outcome of the election would have been changed were it not for the irregularities. They also said the recount board was forced to certify the original count be¬ cause the condition of the ballot boxes prevented the establishment of a perfect recount. The Sunday movie proposal lost in the original count by 18 votes and in the recount by 21 votes. The appellants told the Court that iriegularities by the election board included marks on ballots not made by voters, the dividing of the election board into teams to count votes on various issues, the inclusion of 24 ballots picked off the floor of the first ward polling place, the absence of a lock on the third ward ballot box, and the finding of more than 500 fifth ward ballots wrapped in paper outside the ballot box. MGM: William Zoellner, short subject salesman, is a visitor from the home office. . . . Lucille Ryan, booking depart¬ ment, had a birthday. . . . Cal Bien, sales¬ man, New Orleans, visited the exchange over the holidays. U-1: James Mitchell, shipper, was promoted to student booker. . . . Eloise Lewis is a new employee in the contract department. . . . Sylvia Weisbach is new secretary to Ray Forman, office manager. . . . Jerry De Mand, booker, moved over to cashier’s department. . . . Myrtle Fries returned after being ill. Columbia — Florence and Walter Donahue, cashier and booker respectively, flew to California to attend the wedding of their son, Joseph. . . . Sam Galantry, division manager, returned from Miami, Fla., looking very fit, after a vacation. . . . The new typist is Bonita Meek. — T. C. 1 January 12, 1955