The Exhibitor (1966)

Jewish National Fund Honors Meyer Adleman NA TO Committee Makeup A Hacked ) Ind. Unit Vacations " Membership PHILADELPHIA — Meyer Adleman, Cam¬ den, N.J.. president of New Jersey Messenger Service, received a special award from the Jewish National Fund at a cocktail reception and dessert supper Sept. 1 1 at the Cherry Hill Inn. Guest speaker was Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut. Adleman was selected to receive the award at the closing session of the Jewish National Fund Convocation attended by some seven hundred civic and communal leaders in Israel recently. The convocation was the culminat¬ ing event of three days of ceremonies follow¬ ing the dedication by Chief Justice Earl War¬ ren of the John F. Kennedy Memorial and Forest in the Judean Hills on July 4. Adleman will receive the Keter Shem Tov (Crown of a Good Name) Award in recogni¬ tion of his service to his community, his people, and Israel. Proceeds of the evening will be used to com¬ plete the Camden Forest in Israel, which was started some three years ago. The first section of the Camden Forest was dedicated to Mayor Alfred R. Pierce and Mrs. Pierce. Mayor and Mrs. Pierce visited Israel to dedicate the Forest in 1963. The second section of the Forest, a Grove in memory of Nancy McComb Amoroisa, late daughter of Joseph J. McComb, Camden union leader, was dedicated by McComb personally in 1964. The committee for the Meyer Adleman Section of the Camden Forest is headed by Morris Liebman, chairman, and attorney David H. Markowitz, Mayor Alfred R. Pierce, Marvin Aranow, Michael Albert, Ellis Good¬ man, William Greenberg, Rabbi Harry B. Kellman, Rabbi Albert Lewis, Mrs. Dora E. Rose, Herman Schaevitz, Helen F. Spiegel, Mitchel Stern, and Rabbi Bernard E. Roth¬ man. The New Jersey committee which nomi¬ nated Adleman in Israel to receive this rare award was headed by attorney Meyer Pesin, Jersey City, national chairman of the Founda¬ tion for the Jewish National Fund, and attor¬ ney David H. Markowitz, Camden. MGM Appoints Field Reps NEW YORK — Ron Boatman and Bob Smith have been named field press repre¬ sentatives for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was announced by Dan S. Terrell, MGM execu¬ tive director of advertising, publicity and pro¬ motion. Boatman is MGM’s new southwestern di¬ vision field press representative. He will be stationed in Dallas and will cover the Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, and Oklahoma City territories. Smith will be based in Detroit and will be under the direction of Kal Bruss, central division field press representative. Cities he will cover include Detroit, Cincin¬ nati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis. Lights Go On Again SPRINGFIELD, MASS.— The long-shut¬ tered, downtown Paramount Theatre will be reopened late this fall by Western Massachu¬ setts Theatres, Inc. The 2,737-seat theatre, purchased by W-M-T president Colonel Samuel Goldstein last spring from the Horace M. Moses realty company, is being remodeled. September 14, 1966 Mich. Meet Discusses U.S. Uniform Time Act DETROIT — Milton H. London, presi¬ dent, Allied Theatres of Michigan, called a meeting with Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General of Michigan, to discuss the Federal Uniform Time Act. The meeting mainly was to bring the attorney general up-todate on the interests involved in the state of Michigan and to advise the State Legis¬ lature on the reactions created thus far by the exhibitors of Michigan. Attending the meeting were Lyle Smith, vice-president, Butterfield Theatres, and chairman of Allied’s legislative committee; David Newman, general counsel for Allied Theatres of Michigan; Don E. Reed, legis¬ lative counsel for the Michigan Farm Bureau; Avem Cohn, attorney for a num¬ ber of Detroit theatre interests; Leon Cohan, Deputy Attorney General; and Joseph Bilitzke, Assistant Attorney Gen¬ eral in charge of commerce. Paramount Twin Planned For Downtown Rochester ROCHESTER— The Paramount, last of the big motion picture theatres in downtown Rochester, is to be converted into a “twin” theatre, with a small cinema and a new en¬ trance added to the present theatre. Vincent C. Martina, vice-president of Mar¬ tina Theatres, Albino, N.Y., has announced the project and said construction will begin immediately. The Paramount was purchased over a year ago from the American Broad¬ casting Companies, together with the Regent, by the Martina organization. The house was managed for many years by Francis Anderson. The twin theatre will be Rochester’s first, and the only twin operation in this part of the state in a downtown area. The lobby will have a Spanish motif and will open to the present auditorium, which will be refurbished and remodeled on the balcony floor to ac¬ commodate offices as well as a small seating area. With the completion of the remodeling, construction will begin on the new theatre, with 450 seats planned. It will be called Studio II. VC Tent 11 Fefes Berle WASHINGTON — Jerry Sandy, first assis¬ tant chief barker, Variety Club Tent 11, and chairman of the 1966 Personality of the Year Award Dinner, announced that Milton Berle has been named “Personality of the Year.” Berle will be honored at the Personality of the Year Award Dinner in the Regency Room at the Shoreham Hotel Saturday, Nov. 19. Upwards of 1000 guests from government, business, and entertainment will be on hand to honor Berle. Sandy said Berle was selected for the honor for his consistently “versatile artistry” in all mediums of the entertainment business . . . and for his consideration of his fellow man. MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — The Theatre Owners of Indiana board of directors has informed the National Association of Theatre Owners that having had no reply to a resolu¬ tion of April 6 which “indicates there is no possibility for participation by Indiana in NATO under the present regime,” they have acted to “vacation” from membership. The resolution read: “The board of direct¬ ors of TOI formally protest the obvious re¬ criminations and reprisals worked on the In¬ diana unit of NATO by certain persons within NATO, thereby depriving Indiana of its right¬ ful representation in NATO affairs. The board of directors further instructs its secretary to forward copies of this Resolution to each member of the NATO board of directors and to the chairman of the NATO board, re¬ questing that this protest be read to the di¬ rectors at the next meeting of the NATO board.” TOI claims it has had no acknowledgment, discussion, action or communication of any kind from the present NATO officers other than a letter dated June 23 from Joseph Alterman, one of the executive directors of NATO, acknowledging that the resolution had been read to the board. The Indiana unit claims that representation on important NATO committees is heavily weighted in favor of certain regional units at the expense of others. According to TOI, seven units control over 50 per cent of NATO’s ap¬ pointed representation while Indiana and 10 other regional units are voiceless. It can be expected that the Indiana defection will oc¬ cupy a good bit of NATO’s attention at its upcoming first convention in New York. Interstate Names Agnew DALLAS — M. L. Agnew has been appointed city manager of Interstate theatres in Harlin¬ gen and Mercedes, it has been announced by W. E. Mitchell, vice-president and general manager of the Texas Consolidated division of Interstate Circuit, Inc. Agnew started with Interstate in 1934 in Ranger, Tex., and was with the circuit for 17 years, also managing theatres in Abilene, Breckenridge, Pharr, and Harlingen before resigning to go into the retail business. The Interstate theatres in his charge are the Arcadia, Rialto, and Grande in Harlingen, and the Rio in Mercedes. Agnew succeeds Clay Fluker, resigned. ADL To Honor O’Brien NEW YORK— Robert H. O’Brien, presi¬ dent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., will be honored by the motion picture and amusement division of the Anti-Defamation League Ap¬ peal at a luncheon in the Americana Hotel on Tuesday, Nov. 1. The announcement was made jointly by Jerome Edwards, general chairman of the di¬ vision, and honorary co-chairmen Barney Balaban, Harry Brandt, Martin Levine, and Ben¬ jamin Melniker. The announcement stated that O’Brien will be honored “for his long years of dedicated service to the democratic principles of freedom, equality and justice.” 11