The Exhibitor (1954)

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NT-2 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR was considered the cause of the death of his son-in-law, H. K. Phillips, 59, who passed away less than 24 hours afteiwards. Houston was survived by two sens, a daughter, and several grand¬ sons. Neal and Clyde, the sons, both in showbusiness, are also active members of the Variety Club of Dallas. Houston started in the movie business in Sher¬ man, Tex., in 1911. He later went into business in Memphis, Pittsburgh, and Rust, and in recent years operated the Trinity here before he retired. He was one of thb oldest exhibitors in the state in the number of years in the business. A. T. Deutsch, relief operator. Major and Avenue, Phil Isley houses, for sev¬ eral years, died recently. . . . Dallas’ Love Field was abounding with promi¬ nent movie folk. While between planes, Pat O’Brien, May Wynn, Wayne Morris, Elaine Stewart, Dean dagger, Walter Pidgeon, John Lund and wife, Dorothy McGuire, Mercedes McCambridge, and Claire Trevor were seen i.n the terminal. The annual midwinter convention of Rowley United Theatres was held at the Adolphus Hotel, with all partners and city managei's in attendajice. John Allen, district manager, MGM, was the key speaker at the convention luncheon for all of the film company branch, dis¬ trict, and division managers. A cocktail party was given for the delegates by Alexander Film Company, Colorado Springs, Colo. Moi'e than 90 Rowley partners and managers were in attend¬ ance at this meeting. Pat Sells, Disney Productions, recent bride of Herbert McBride, was honored with a miscellaneous shower. . . . C. C. Caldwell, owner. Star Drive-In, Eunice, N. M., has reported Cinema Scope is now installed at this site. ... A visitor on the Row was Albert E. Sindlinger, Ridley Park, Pa. Denver More than 250 exhibitors attended the first of the 1955 MGM Workshops held here. This was more exhibitors than have been in Denver at any other time. Emery Austin, MGM executive. New York, presided and made the principal talk. Theatre men were enthusiastic in their praise of MGM’s efforts along the ticket-selling line. During the Work¬ shop session. Gov. Ed. C. Johnson issued a proclamation naming January as “Go to the Movie Month.” On the day follow¬ ing, COMPO held their annual luncheon for state legislators. About 400 were at this meeting. George Murphy, MGM good will ambassador, spoke and told of efforts of producers in providingbetter entertainment for the public. Following the luncheon. Rocky Mountain COMPO held a short business session presided over by Pat McGee, president, with he and Sam Feinstein, theatre owner, telling of accomplishments and aims of COMPO and urging suppoi’t at five cents a seat. The two days ended with a dinner-dance by Variety Tent 87. .411 of the sessions were held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The Denver Post is adding a new department, headed by Bruce Hamby, assistant managing editor, that will cover films, drama, radio, television. A gala “Young At Heart” party was held recently at the Central YMCA, Denver, under sponsorship of The Rocky .Moun¬ tain News, the Denver theatre, and the Hi-Y group of the YiMCA, and proved excellent bally for Warners’ “Young At Heart.” Seen, left to right, are Paul Lyday, public relations director. Fox Intermountain Theatres; Joe Flood, Den¬ ver disc jockey; and the costume winners, Joey Richey and brother Tony. and other special events. Robert K. Tweedell has been made drama critic and Thompson R. Watt radio and tele¬ vision editor. Betty Craig, long-time drama columnist, remains. Alex Murphree, former drama critic, has beem moved to rewrite. George McCool, office manager. United .4rtists, is entering his 48th year in the business. McCool, office manager here foi¬ ls years, has been with United .4rtists 22 years, coming here from Omaha. Edward J. Mapel, city councilman for 12 years, owner. Gem and Colorado, will again run for the Council post. He was twice president of the City Council. C. U. Yaeger, .4tlas Theatres presi¬ dent, went to California and will be there about three months. . . . Heading for 20th-Fox’s sales meeting in San Francisco were branch manager V. J. Dugan and salesman George Tawson, Paul Snoddy, and Dick Fulham. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Harold Olson, Sidney, Neb., and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Swartz, Red Cloud, Neb., are building a 400-car drive-in at Florence, Colo., getting ready for an early spring opening. Kansas City Chic Evens, 2()th-Fox publicist, left for Las Vegas, Nev., to attend the wed¬ ding of his daughter, Sheril, to Erwin Goldman, newspaperman with The Los .4ngeles Times. The wedding is scheduled to take place at the Last Frontier wed¬ ding chapel. . . . Nick Sunday, general manager. Consolidated .4gencies, has been in Research Hospital for observa¬ tion and a complete checkup. Max J. Rosenberg, Onyx Pictures Corporation, New Y'ork, was a visitor at Dixie Enterprises. Bud Ti'oug, office manager. United Artists, has announced that the local exchange is in first place in the current Bob Benjamin Drive. . . . Gene Sichelman, home office representative, Colum¬ bia, has been a visitor at the local exchange for several weeks. Harold Wirthwein, .Allied .Artists western division sales managei-, and Roy Brewer, in charge of exchange opera¬ tions, were in visiting at the local exchange. . . . Harry Gaffney, owner and operator, Dixie Enterprises, left for New York to attend a franchise holders meeting with Moe Kerman, Favorite .Attractions, Inc. Wood.v Longan, for the past five years with Durwood Theatres as film booker, has resigned his position. He took over as assistant to Lloyd Morris, film buyer. Commonwealth Theatres. He will super¬ vise film buying for those theatres sei’ved out of exchanges other than Kansas City. . . . Film Row visitors were Jay Wooten, Hutchinson, Kans. ; Bernard Hoss, Ness City, Kans.; L. M. Blakeman, Cimarron, Kans.; Walter Eisenhaur, Slater, Mo.; Max Davis, Lyons, Kans.; Nick Kotsis, Holden, Mo.; and W. C. Mosher, Blue Mound, Kans. MGM’s “1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration” was officially acknowledged today by Mayor William E. Kemp in a proclamation issued to William Gaddoni, MGM manager. Los Angeles Mel Rapp, executive vice-president, -Apeo, Inc., manufactureis of automatic soft drink cup dispensers and hot bever¬ age vendors, announced a special show¬ ing of the complete line of Soda Shoppes, Coffee Shoppes, and combination CoffeeSoda Shoppes will be held on Jan. 22-23 in the Hotel Statler here. More than 1, ()(>() opei-ators, bottlers, and theatre concessionaires from the 11 far western states will attend this showing. The showing is being held in Los Angeles, according to Rapp, to give those who didn’t have the opportunity to visit the NAM A Convention in Washington the chance to see the new Apeo line. In addition to Rapp, Stan Rheeling, vicepresident and western divisional man¬ ager; Bert Farmer, representative for the northwestern states; and Jack Dollagan, representative in New Mexico and Colorado, will be on hand to g7’ect all visitors. After more than half a century as a showcase for stage and screen presenta¬ tions, the famous landmark. Mason Opera House, is to be razed in order to make way for a sorely needed parking area in the downtown Los Angeles business district. In recent years the house has been opeiated by Frank Fouce as a Spanish language theatre, but in its early days it played host to such famous stage names as John Barrymore, E. H. Southei-n, Richard M;;nsfield, Gt i-aldine Farrar, and many others. . . . John Lavery, executive aide to the late presi¬ dent, National Theatres, Charles P. Skouras, has been appointed to a similar post on the staff of Edwin Zabel, FWC general manager. Another top echelon change found John Hodges trans¬ ferred fi’om Zabel’s staff to the National Theatres treasury department. Nick Estrada, Spanish language booker, has moved into new offices along the Row. . . . George A. Smith, Para¬ mount’s western division sales manager, returned from a business junket to Salt Lake City. . . . Ailing at home was Jean Warner, contract clerk, Warners. . . . January 26, 1955