The Exhibitor (1960)

ALBANY Warners completed the demolition of the re¬ cently-purchased comer building which will be the site of the new lobby at the SW Strand. . . . SW district manager Alfred G. Swett now occupies part of the former United Artists office on the second floor of the theatre building, with UA moving to the RTA Building. . . . Sheila Ruth Gabrilove, daughter of Harold Gabrilove, former chief barker of the local Variety Club and one¬ time manager for a theatre circuit, was mar¬ ried to Ronald Ira Richardson, of Forest Hills, N. Y. . . . MGM’s “Ben-Hur”, SW Ritz, has played to a reported 60,000 admissions, 10 per cent of them school children. ... A proud mother saw her son’s screencraft at the new Heilman when Warners’ “Sunrise At Campobello” was premiered under the auspices of Albany County Chapter, National Foundation (March Of Dimes). Mrs. Julian B. Donehu, whose son, Vincent J. Donehu, di¬ rected the film version as he had the stage edition, missed the New York City opening because she was recuperating from major surgery at Albany Hospital. . . . The local Variety Club decided to retain its three-story brick building on State Street west of the Capitol, rather than to sell, ATLANTA A WOMPI board meeting was held at the local Variety Club. . . . D. Housley, Dixie Lee, Lenoir City, Tenn., has been released from a local hospital after an illness. . . . Melvin A. Brown, Art, Atlanta, returned from Elizabeth, N. J., where he attended funeral services for his father. . . . Charles McCormack has closed his Brundidge, Brimdidge, Ala. ... A remodeling program estimated to cost more than $10,000 will soon start at the State, Chattanooga, Tenn. ... A pre-dawn fire destroyed the Allen, North Wilkesboro, N. C., in the heart of the town. Owned by George G. Johnson and T. H. Walker, the theatre has been in operatipn for many years. . . . Crescent Amusement Company, Nashville, Tenn., has appointed Bill Graves manager of the Roxy, Decatur, Ala. He was formerly assistant manager at the Polk, Columbia, Tenn. . . . Woody Sher¬ rill is now branch manager at MGM, suc¬ ceeding William Zoellner, resigned. Sherrill has been with the company for 21 years and comes here fi'om the Chicago office, where he was sales representative. BOSTON More than 500 yoimgsters stormed the novel Columbia “Christmas in November” party for “The 3 Worlds of Gulliver” pre¬ opening at the Mayflower. . . . Governor Foster Fuculo of Massachusetts has presented an inscribed Paul Revere Bowl to Joseph E. Levine, president of Embassy Pictures Corp., in recognition of the “aggressive and suc¬ cessful advertising methods he has contribu¬ ted to the progi'ess of the motion picture industry.”. . . “The Alamo” wiU be the Christmas week attraction at Ben Sack’s Gary and at his Beacon Hill, he has Alec Guinness’ Film Exchange and Dealer Listing for the SALT LAKE CITY FILM TERRITORY A CONTINUING SERVICE • that will be re-editcd and re-published af 8-monfh intervals • Film Distriht/tors ALLIED ARTISTS, 254 E. First South St.-ELgin 9-7651 Br. Mgr.: Don V. Tibbs. Office Mgr. and Booker: Frank Smith, Jr. Sales: Graham Susman. Cashier: Betty Thornwall. Sectys.: Marion Draper, Judith Anderson. Emerg. Phone: AXtel 5-2706. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL, ENCORE, 252 E. First South St.-DAvis 2-3601 Br. Mgr.: Fred C. Palosky. Asst.: Grace McIntosh. Emerg. Phone: CRestwood 7-4763. BUENA VISTA (Disney), 139 S. Second East St.-DAvis 2-1255 Br. Mgr.: Thomas A. McMahon. Office Mgr. and Booker: Stephanie Hall. Emerg. Phone: CRestwood 7-9280. COLUMBIA, 206 E. First South St.-DAvis 2-3476 Br. Mgr.: S. S. McFadden. Office Mgr.: Dee Keener. Sales: George Berryman, John Dahl, Bob Steed. Booker: Lou Sorensen. Cashier: Arva Shiner. Emerg. Phone: INgersol 7-1637. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, 123 S. Second East St.-ELgin 5-2953 Br. Mgr.: Carl P. Nedley. Office Mgr.: George A. Derrick. Sales: Stanley Ennis, Howard Godfrey, John Moore. Booker: Robert Mandrake. Emerg. Phone: EMpire 3-2857. PARAMOUNT, 270 E. First South St.-DAvis 2-0457 Br. Mgr.: W. D. Foster. Office Mgr. and Booker: Bob Loftis. Sales: A. L. Campbell, Harry Swanson. Booker: George Alley. Cashier: Merrilyn Storrs. Emerg. Phone: HUnter 4-7308. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, 216 E. First South St., P. O. Box 1106-EMpire 3-3908 Br. Mgr.: K. O. Lloyd. Sales: Roy Pickerell, J. L. Tidwell, Vern Fletcher. Head Booker: A1 Hemingway. Cashier: Sara C. Anderson. Emerg. Phone: HUnter 4-7308. UNITED ARTISTS, 210 E. First South St.-EMpire 3-6736 Br. Mgr.: W. W. McKendrick. Office Mgr.: John C. Swonson. Sales: Joe Solomon, Glendale Larson. Field Exp.: William Press. Emerg. Phones: HUnter 5-2585, AMhurst 6-9107, ELgin 5-4923. UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL, 208 E. First South St.-DAvis 2-3561 Br. Mgr.: C. R. Wade. Office Mgr.: Dale Haslam. Sales: Tom Philibin. Booker: Don McMurdie. Cashier: LaFern Beckstead. Emerg. Phone: EMpire 4-5179. WARNER BR05., 214 E. First South St.-EMpire 4-1897 Br. Mgr.: Keith Pack. Office Mgr. and Head Booker: David W. Adamson. Sales: Perry B. Brown, Richard Iba. Cashier: Mrs. Girzy Ayres. Booking Clerk: Virginia Watts. Emerg. Phones: INgersol 7-4747, HUnter 6-6105. • Screen Trailers NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE, 246 E. First South St.-DAvis 2-0745 Br. Mgr.: Kenneth Friedman. Office Mgr.: Wilma Morrissay. Sales: Clare Swanson. Booker: Juanita Snyder Despain. Emerg. Phone: ELgin 5-7482. • Supply Dealers INTERMOUNTAIN THEATRE SUPPLY, 264 E. First South St.-EMpire 4-7821 Emerg. Phones: INgersol 6-1532, HUnter 5-9817. NATIONAL THEATRE SUPPLY, 256 E. First South St.-DAvis 8-8515 WESTERN SOUND & EQUIP. CO., 262 E. First South St.-EMpire 3-9974 Mgr.: Richard J. Gerber. Emerg. Phone: INgersol 7-4145. • Signs, Advertising and Printing FILM SERVICE, 146 S. Main St.-DAvis 2-0557 NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE, 246 E. First South St.-DAvis 2-0745 • Film Delivery Services WYCOFF CO., 346 W. Sixth South St.-DAvis 2-1361 Mgr.: M. S. Wycoff. Bus. Mgr.: Max Young. Emerg. Phone: EMpire 4-1835. A SPECIAL SERVICE . . . only in MOTION ^ICTURE EXHIBITOR “Tunes of Glory” as the holiday week at¬ traction. . . . Phil Engel, 20th Century Fox exploitation chief, is celebrating his 51st birthday. . . . G. Sheldon Ballock, president of Boston based Dickinson Films, has gone to London, Madrid, and Israel to start film production of “Mili Spies” in Israel, Turkey, London. . . . Norman Prescott, former WBZ disk jockey, has set up Lincoln Productions Inc. at 1088 Boylston St. in Boston, and has flown to Zurich to start production of an animated full length feature cartoon. Plans are to make one a year for the next three years. The officers of Lincoln Productions, Inc., are Prescott, president, Allan Curhan, vice-president; Sidney Cohen, secretarytreasurer. PROVIDENCE, R.I., NEWS— Boston’s War¬ ner Brothers exploiteer Floyd Fitzsimmons was the main speaker before the Warwick, Rhode Island, Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner with an estimated 800 in attendance. He spoke on exploitation, publicity in the movies. Loew’s Theatre manager Bill Trambukis acted as master of ceremonies and moderator. BUFFALO Frank Arena is in Buffalo from Loew’s in Cleveland supervising the operation of the Loew-Shea circuit in Buffalo and Niagara Falls during Edward F. Meade’s vacation. . . . Lewis J. Leiser and his Allied Artists ex¬ change staff moved from 505 Pearl street to space in the Universal-International branch building at 301 Franklin street. . . . Clint Young, Geneva, has sold his Strand, Seneca Falls, to that village’s board of trustees for use as a recreation center. The theatre will continue to operate as a motion picture house for about a month before remodeling for the recreation spot. . . . Mannie A. Brown and Associates have taken on the dis¬ tribution in the Buffalo and Albany exchange areas of Citation Pictures. . . . Michael F. Ellis, Jr., vice-president, Ellis Advertising Company, has been elected chief barker of Tent 7, Variety Club of Buffalo. He succeeds Alfred E. Anscombe. Other new officers named for 1961 are James J. Hayes, manager, Cinema, first assistant chief barker; Nathan Dickman, B&D Film Distributors Company, second assistant chief barker; Thomas Fenno, WKBW sales staff, property master; and Myron Gross, Cooperative Theatres, dough guy. . . . Arthur Krolick, district manager, AB-PT, Buffalo and Rochester; Charles B. Taylor, director of advertising and publicity; and Francis Anderson, city manager, Ro¬ chester, wiU attend the meeting of AB-PT affiliates, Dec. 15 and 16 at the Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., at which time Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of Ameri¬ can Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, will issue a new release schedule for the first six months of 1961 in his continuing campaign for orderly distribution of quality product. Watch for them! NEXT! Milwaukee Territory Issue of December 21 Dallas Territory Issue of December 28 Save Them! 18 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR December 14, I960