Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1943)

July 24, 1943 Sunday, seven days a week. I work out of local 170, Kansas City, Mo." Your reference to trouble with Victory carbons is pretty broad and general. * I suggest that you go through your past issues of Better Theatres since the introduction of Victory carbons; there have been a number of excellent articles on projection lighting that dealt with the use of these new carbons. If these do not give you a cue to your difficulty, tell us specifically what your trouble it. [The department The Light on Your Screen, conducted by Charles E. Shultz, is especially concerned with individual problems in projection lighting. — Ed.] An Illustrated Note On Projection in England OUR OLD FRIEND, William E. Goewey, wrote us the other day to pass on a bit of information that had come to him from England, including a snapshot of a projection room over there. "I thought you might be interested in hearing about a brother's workshop in En gland," he says. "The picture was taken by my good projectionist friend Peter Groves, formerly of the Ritz theatre in Leyton, England, and now in the Merchant Navy. The Ritz is a 2,500-seat house with standing room for 500. Looking at the equipment at the other end of the room we have first a bi-Unial, which is a double slide projector; then come the two projectors, which are made by Ross (an English firm). The arc house and the spot are also by Ross. Sound is RCA. "My friend, Groves is, believe it or not, only 17 years of age and started in projection at 14! "Notice that the British heads are all open, similar to the Powers. It seems that our makes do not find their way to England, with the exception of the Simplex. I say this because I was told by Groves that he has asked numerous projectionists and that they had only heard of Simplex from the U.S.A., as being the only enclosed type of head. "Taking the chance that all lady operators in the United States will take up arms against me, let me quote from my friend's letter — and he has had plenty of experience in training women for a projectionist's duties." He writes, "Don't have any women in your box [projection room]. They're poison! I know I am young, but up to now I have had to train six wo BETTER THEATRES 105 Pfjoiosraph from "ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC" as Produced by Warner Brothers TOO BIG TO WRITETOO "HOT" TO HANDLE Shortly a Nation that has ORCHIDS TO . . . In many theaters "ACTION gasped at the published ac Director: IN THE NORTH ATLANcounts of their sinkings, will Lloyd Bacon TIC" will be projected by see a thrilling episode from the Cameraman: day-in, day-out dependable heroic battle of the convoys — Ted McCord DeVRY Precision Projectors. Warner Brothers' "ACTION Soundman Voice, roar of battle, shriek of IN THE NORTH ATLAN c A Risgs sirens and sound of sea, subs, TIC." Bogart, Massey, Hale ships and planes will be the show us what our Merchant Marine is more natural because of the range of doing to get the ships across — re-enact DeVRY High Fidelity Sound Systems, for us a heroism words are inadequate As peace nears, the foresighted and to describe — situations difficult to com forthright plan to buy De VRY's. prehend. What a subject! What a DeVRY CORPORATION, 1111 plot ! What a supurb motion picture ! Armitage Avenue, Chicago, U. S. A. BOX OFFICE BOOSTERS FOR JULY The Human Comedy — MGM . . Song of Texas— REP . . Hers to Hold — UNIV . . Appointment in Berlin — COL Stage Door Canteen — UA . . . Petticoat Larceny — RKO . . . Stormy Weather — 20TH-FOX For Whom the Bell Tolls — PARA . . . Wings Over the Pacific — MONO . . . Follies Girl — PROD. WORLD'S MOST COMPLETE LINE OF MOTION PICTURE SOUND EQUIPMENT The Most Simplified Theatre Bookkeeping System Yet Devised Every exhibitor will appreciate the completeness and convenience of this easy accounting system. Enables you to keep an accurate and up-to-the-minute record o* every phase of the business of your theatre QUICLEY BOOKSHOP ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK $2.00 POSTPAID