Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1944)

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ten cents per word, nnoney-order or check with copy. Count initials, box number and address. Minimum Insertion, $1. Four insertions, for the price of three. Contract rates on application. No borders or cuts. Forms close Mondays at 5 P. M. Publisher reserves the right to reject any copy. Film and trailer advertising not accepted. Classified advertising noi subject to agency commission. Address copy and checks: MOTION PICTURE HERALD, Classified Dept., Rockefeller Center. New York(20) STUDIO EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: STUDIO LIGHTS, SOUND EDITOR, 163Smm. cameras, 16mm. sound projectors. We buy— accept trade. CAMERA MART, 70 West 45th St., New York City. VARIRAY GALVANOMETER, NOISELESS RECORDing Shutter for any 16mm. or 35mm. camera, includes optical system, transformer and blueprints for mounting, $995.; Complete Sound Recording Truck, worth $15,000, bargain at $7,975; Askania-Debrie type 35mm. Studio Camera, 3 lenses; 6 magazines, motor, gyro tripod: all features, worth $3,000, now $975. Send for listings. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. USED EQUIPMENT CLOSING OUT LOUDSPEAKERS. $6.75 UP; ARMY surplus Generators, $95; Simplex rebuiit Rear Shutter Mechanisms, $425: Brandt Coinometers, cashier delivery, $75; side chute, $95.; LI Arc Lamps, $75; Stereopticons, 500W, $19.95. Come to New York — make your selection here — enough equipment for 15 theatres. Complete Sound Projection inckiding lenses, lamphouses and soundscreen from $875. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. 4000 REBUILT REUPHOLSTERED SOFT BOX Spring Cushions, nine springs each, dark green plastic coated leatherette covered, $1.75; with metal bottom board $2.; Plastic material cut to fit any size seat, 50c. Give size when ordering. S. O. S. ONEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. SIMPLEX MECHANISMS COMPLETE REBUILT double-bearing front shutter; rebuilt low-intensity Peerless Arc Lamps. Large stock of replacement parts for United Research Soundheads. BODELSO'N & COMPANY, 10-38 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, N. Y. 900 REBUILT, REUPHOLSTERED STURDY IRWIN Chairs, heavy clover leaf panel backs, box spring cushions, $7.50; 565 American Chairs recently reupholstered prewar quality leatherette heavy panel backSj box spring cushions, $7.50; 70O American Chairs three-ply backs and seats, reconditioned, $4.50. Ask for stock list. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. FOR SALE— COMPLETE EQUIPMENT FOR SMALL theatre available for immediate delivery. All in good operating condition including Superior heads, magazines, ba^es, .A.shcraft lamps, Kni-lron rectifiers. Jensen speakers, film cabinets, ticket chopper, electric rewind, etc., blower ventilator, (5 HP), ozone machine and 345 Haywood seats. CENTURY THEATRE, 6513 Fourteenth Ave., Detroit, Mich. WANTED TO BUY NEED SEVERAL LARGE BURCH, MANLEY OR Cretor popcorn machines. NO'RMAN MORRISON, 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. SIGN PAINTING SIGN PAINTING, EASY WAY TO PAINT SIGNS. Use letter patterns. Avoid sloppy work, wasted time. No experience needed for expert work, free sample. JOHN RAHN, 1329 Central Ave., Chicago 51. BUSINESS BOOSTERS BINGO CARDS, DIE CUTS, 1 TO lOO OR 1 TO 75, $2.25 ner thoaisand. $20.00 for 10,000. S. KLOUS, care of MOTION PICTURE HERALD. POSITIONS WANTED THEATRE MANAGER: EXPERIENCED, RELIable, sober. Married, 29, draft exempt. Desires change. Available immediately. BOX 1810, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. NEW EQUIPMENT AUTOMATIC REGISTERS, 3, 4 AND 5 UNIT, OPA ceiling prices; Soundman's Test Instruments, $28.40 Aluminum Reels, $3.19; Army surplus RCA Public Ad dress Amplifiers, $95; Screen Masking flameproofed, 89c Flextone Washable Soundscreens, 30^c sq. ft.; Automatic Curtain Controls, $95.60 ; 5/16" Curtain Cable, 13c ft. Jewelled Aisle Lights, $2.97. Winter Bulletin ready. S.O'.S, CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. THEATRES WILL LEASE OR PURCHASE THEATRE IN Cleveland, Indianapolis or Cincinnati exchange areas. Give complete details. BOX 1811 MOTION PICTURE HERALD. BOOKS RICHARDSON'S BLUEBOOK OF PROJECTION. Best seller since 1911. Now in 7th edition. Revised to present last word in Sound Trouble Shooting Charts. Expert information on all phases of projection and equipment. Special new section on television. Invaluable to beginner and expert. $7.25 postpaid. QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20. MOTION PICTURE SOUND ENGINEERING. A "must" to all those working with sound equipment. Written by top-flight engineering experts of Hollywood studios and research laboratories. Covers all phases of sound engineering and equipment. Readable diagrams; charts, tables, and graphs, $6.50 postpaid. QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20. AIR CONDITIONING, WHETHER YOUR THEAter has 300 or 3,000 seats, this book has all the answers on air conditioning. Explains various codes and laws, concerning installation. Common sense charts. Indexed. Covers air conditioning as it relates to all branches of film industry. $4, postpaid. OUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth AvenuCj New York 20. SOUND-TROUBLE SHOOTING-CHARTS. THE little book, with the blue cover all good operators reach for when trouble starts. Will clear up that "puzzler" on all types of sound equipment in a jiffy. No booth complete without one, $1.00 postpaid. OUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20." TRAINING SCHOOLS THEATRE EMPLOYEES: TRAIN FOR BETTER position. Learn modern theatre management and advertising. Big opportunity for trained men. Established since 1927. Write now for free catalog. THEATRE MANAGERS SCHOOL, Elmira, New York. POPCORN POPCORN OF QUALITY. CAN GUARANTEE your year's supply. VALENTINE TIDSWELL & SONS, Greenville, Ohio. Chicago Projectionists To Organize More Units Some 1,500 theatre employees in Chicago will be organized, if the city's projectionists' union succeeds in current plans. The union obtained a charter for such employees from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, James Gorman, union president, said last week. The new membership drive, which begins January 1, will be under direction of Eugene Atkinson, business agent. Honor Hope with Two Awards Bob Hope, star of Samuel Goldwyn's RKO release, "The Princess and the Pirate," will be honored with two awards in January. January 17 he will receive in Philadelphia the Poor Richard Club's 1944 award for outstanding achievement, receiving a gold medal from the club's president, Graham Paterson. Sometime during the month also he will be presented with a bronze plaque by the Advertising Club of New York in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in entertaining service groups. Dies in Hollywood H:arry Langdon, 60, one of the leading comedians of the silent screen days, died in St. Vincent's Hospital, Hollywood, last Friday of a cerebral' hemorrhage. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he began hisi film career with Mack Sennett, making an esti-j mated 26 two and three-reel comedies. Many of. his roles he wrote for himself and he usually characterized a helpless, timid, somewhat wistful; little man beset with problems. At one time his weekly salary was estimated at $7,500. In 1926 he appeared in his first full length film, "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," in which Joan Crawford played opposite him and Frank Capra did the editing. He made short comedies for almost all the major studios, and played small parts in feature, films in the years that followed, but he found" the talking pictures were not his forte and his star began to wane. In 1939 he replaced Stan Laurel as a partner with Oliver Hardy iri "Zenobia," but it was a minor part. He is survived by his third wife, Mrs. Mabelj Georgena Sheldon Langdon, and a nine-year-old son, Harry J. Langdon. George W. Kellogg George W. Kellogg, 84, retired Eastman Kodakj employee, who took part in the filming of thefirst motion picture of a championship prize fight,i died in Rochester last week. Mr. Kellogg joined Eastman Kodak in the 1890's and was one of those? sent to Carson City, Nev., in 1897 to film thei Jim Corbett-Bob Fitzsimmons bout. A sister sur-' vives him. Pfc. Edward Suttell Private First Class Edward Suttell, former man ager of the Old Vienna theatre, Buffalo, was killedi in action in Germany November 27. He was one of seven machine gunners who captured 120 Ger^j mans in a single night. His widow and a son sur ' vive. Merna Kennedy Merna Kennedy, star of silent films and former} wife of Busby Berkeley, producer and dance director, died in Los Angeles December 20 of a heartj attack. She was best known for her lead in| Charles Chaplin's "The Circus." She was las seen in "The Lady with a Past." Philip G. Krause Philip G. Krause, projectionist at Warners' Boyci' theatre, Philadelphia, for the last two years, died, December 19 at his home after a long illness. He was 48. He is survived by his wife, Minnie, and^ two children, Betty and Joe. Robert Woolums Private Robert W. Woolums, 28, former manager of the Drexel theatre, Columbus, Ohio, died in France November 3. His father and two sis^ ters survive. , Grant Wooley ' Grant Wooley, 80, owner of the Lyric theatre,^ Urbana, Ohio, died at his home last week follow^ ing a long illness. \ Acquires Cleveland House [ The Crown theatre, Cleveland, has been taken over by I. Hausman, who previously had only half-| interest in the house. WAN T E D Animation and Title Cameraman Apply Cineffects, 1600 Broadway, New York City CI. 6-6252-3 tk 50 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, DECEMBER 30, 1944