The Exhibitor (1955)

NT-2 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR Warners recently held trade screenings of “Mister Roberts’’ in the various exchange centers. Among those seen in attendance at CHICAGO at B and K’s Century were, left to right, Duncan Kennedy, general manager, Publix Great States Corporat on, with George Lefko, Warners Chicago branch manager; at DALLAS at the Majestic, left to right, Hal Cheatham, city publicity director, Interstate Circuit, Inc.; Frank Starz, publicity head, Interstate Circuit, Inc., and Bob Brock, critic and spec'al feature writer, Dallas Times Herald; at DENVER, left to right, Earl Bell, Warners branch manager; Fred Knill, vice-president and film buyer, Gilbraltar Theatre Circuit, and Tom Sm'ley, vice-president and film buyer, Wolfberg Theatres; in DES MOINES at the Des Moines, left to right, Neil Adair, Central States Theatre Corporation; L. J. Wegener, Central States Theatre Corporation; N. T. Blass, Warners branch manager; Butch De Frene, I and M Booking Agency, and M. E. Lee, Central States Theatre Corporation; at KANSAS CITY at the Brookside, left to r'ght, Glen Dickinson, Jr., Dickinson Operating Company; Russell Borg, Warners branch manager; Mrs. Velma West Sykes, feature writer for a trade publication, and D'ck Durwood, Durwood Theatres, Inc.; at MINNEAPOLIS at the State, left to right, H. B. French, president, Minneso a Amuse¬ ment Company; M. B. Adcock, Warners branch manager; Ray Niles, district manager, Minnesota Amusement Company, and Charles Winchrll, vice president, Minnesota Amusement Com¬ pany; at OKLAHOMA CITY at the Midwest, left to right, Allendar Scott, D earn; Paul Townsend, Midwest; H. D. Cox, Caddo; Clint Applewhite and son, Jerry, Liberty; Don Tullius, Warners branch manager; Bill Donaldson, Ritz; Chris Caporal, Bison; George Caporal, Mayflower; Howard O’Bryan, Yale, and B. J. McKenna, Oklahoma; and at OMAHA, left to r ght, Don Shane, city manager, Tri-States Theatres; Carl Hottman, manager, Omaha; Frank Hannon, Warners branch manager; Ed Force, manager, RKO Brandeis, and Walter Jancke, city manager, Dent Theatres, Lincoln, Neb.; at ST. LOUIS, left to right, Bill Kalmann, Bremen; John Meinhardi, district manager, Fox Midwest Amusement Corporation; Ha'l Walsh, Warners branch manager, and John Giachetto, Springfield, Ill., shoit subject booker, Frisir.a Circuit; and in SEATTLE at the Egyp¬ tian, left to right, Douglas J. Forbes, vice president and buyer, John Hamrick Theatres; John Hamrick, president, Hamrick Theatres; Vernon Stewart, Warners branch manager, and Wil' J. Conner, executive vice-president, Hamrick Theatres. The film received most enthusiastic response. tions for MGM, while in Atlanta con¬ ducting the Workshop there recently. Ed Thorne, city manager, Copper Foundation Theatres, with headquarters in the Criterion, Oklahoma City, made his second Workshop appearance as a panelist at Santa Fe. He was a panel member at the Billings, Mont., session. L. J. Williams, who operates the Williams, Union, Mo., Gasconade, Owensvi’le, Mo., and the Hermo, Hermann, Mo., will be the small town panelist on this occasion, his sixth workshop chore. Ted Galanter, west coast division press representative, will present MGM’s 33 exhibitor aids. This will be Galanter’s second appearance on a Work¬ shop program, having made his debut at the Billings, Mont., forum. Approximately 150 exhibitors from New Mexico in the Denver territory and from southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, west Texas, and Arizona are expected to attend the Santa Fe Workshop, according to MGM’s Denver branch manager, Henry Friedel, who will share the honors as host with Oklahoma City branch manager Georg? Fisher and southwest division manager John S. Allen. Salesmen James Micheleiti and Gerald Banta, Denver, also will attend. Branch managers, salesmen, and several theatre men were present at the closed circuit broadcast at the Paramount screen¬ ing room for the opening of the annual drive for funds for the Will Rogers Mem¬ orial Hospital. Exhibitors are asked to take up a collection for the fund. Sixty-nine houses in the Denver area aided the Korean fund by collections. Jack Felix, branch manager. Allied Artists, is chair¬ man of both drives. . . . Mrs. Arthur Goldstein, whose husband operates the World, is in Rose Memorial Hospital for an operation. Jane 15, 1955