Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

ns Has Spent Entire jreer with Same Circuit Joseph G. Elkins manages the Cooleemee ; itre in Cooleemee, X. C., for North State patres, Inc. On Thanksgiving Day of 1942, Joe started to work at the circuit's Wake theatre in Raleigh as an extra usher. Six months later he became doorman and a month later was transferred to their Colon}' theatre in the same town, as an assistant. After 10 months at this post, Elkins returned to the Wake and was then promoted to manager. The first of this year, . company leased the only theatre in Cooleee, which is a small cotton mill town and our \ Round Tabler took over the managerial bs. SHOWMEN PERSONALS 'eisfeldt Holds Screening f "To Have and Have Not" ■ r. advance of his opening of '"To Have and jive Not" at the Riverside theatre, Milwauk Wis., Edward J. Weisfeldt held a screenr for the editors of all the high school papers, ourban papers and the press. A huge display jr the entrance doors in the inner lobby feared a 40 by 60 colored blowup of Humphrey ' gart and Lauren Bacall. Teaser trailers were run three weeks in adince and colored enlargements of the stars :re used on the front and in regular poster -e? in addition to special displays on both les of the box office. Happy Birthday: Archie B. Holt, E. G. Jackson, George D. Seymour, James Anderson, Hazel Van Allen, Howard Hilderbrandt, William A. Berns, Frank A. Millspaugh, Martin G. Smith, Ben Bloomfield, J. A. Klink, James M. Sanderson, Wallace H. Akin, Lawrence J. Dandeneau, Magan Kheta. Alberto Monroy, Leon Pickle, James H. Tobin, Charles H. Gibson, R. L. Nichols, Henry Eytinge, R. Borst, Frank Schellinger, J. E. McKinstry, Andrew Gibson, H. Arthur Leatherman, Herman Berlin, Jr.. Herb Righthand, Gabriel Rosenthal, Garnet M. Wright, Sam Gilman, Jack Honannson. William E. Cooper, Max S. Silverwatch, Howard B. Schuessler, F. H. Macomber, Donald T. Visger, G. B. Odium, John S. MacNeill, T. C. Clement, Victor E. Hudson, Frank Shaffer, James R. Martin, Bernal S. Lewis, Robert W. Sullivan, Oliver B. Prickett, Loren S. Cooper. R. J. Freedman, Stanley Rothenberg. In New Posts: Stanley Redmond, former manager of the Allyn theatre, Hartford, Conn., has been transferred to the management of the Norwalk theatre, Norwalk. Conn. George Seed, manager of Fabian's Cohoes, N. Y., will also manage their Empire theatre there. Jack McBride, Willoughby, Willoughby, Ohio. Harold Lyon. Des Moines, Des Moines, la. Fred McHenry, Texas and Victoria, Amarillo, Tex. Davis Alexander, Illini, Moline, 111. George Lawson, Strand, Des Moines. Arthur Lane, Ingersoll, Des Moines, Sylvan K. Barry, Highland theatre, San Antonio, Tex. Don Jacobs, Ohio, Mansfield; Paul Montavon, Sherma theatre, Chillicothe ; Alice Sagowitz, Lyric, Portsmouth ; Jeanne Ketter, Capitol, Sidney, and James Tracy, Columbia, Portsmouth, all houses in Ohio. Ernest Warren, Elgin, Ottawa, Ont, Can., succeeding Steve McManus, who has gone into the hotel business, in Windsor, Ont. Les Mitchell, Regent theatre, Brockville, Ont., having been promoted from assistant manager of the Capitol. George Higgenbotham, Upsal theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. Clement Perry has resigned as general manager of the J. J. Joelson theatres, New York. Jerry Ross, manager and master of ceremonies at the Palomar theatre, Seattle, has resigned to become master of ceremonies at the Show Box theatre there. W'arren Butler, Lyric, Seattle. Jack Hamacker, honorably discharged from the Army, is back as manager of the Blue Mouse, Seattle. William B. Potts has taken over the Garden theatre in Lansing, Mich. Carl Czolba, Warner's Melrose, Wilkinsburg, Pa., while Jack Williams succeeds Czolba at the Rowland. Milton E. Levy, formerly with Balaban and Katz,' has taken over the Music Box, Chicago. Names Sundae for "Waves" To plug the opening of "Here Come the WAVES" at the Loew's Palace theatre, Meriden, Conn., assistant manager Sherman Padowitz lined up all main stem soda fountains who concocted a special Navy sundae and featured it on counter display cards and menu sheets with full theater and film credits. Padowitz adds that the sample he had was delicious ! McCollister's Serial Gag To gain added publicity for his serial, "Black Arrow," Bill McCollister at the Louvee theatre, Wellston, Ohio, distributed cards to the kids well in advance which were appropriately lettered. Holders were told that when they had collected a set of six cards they would be admitted to the first chapter as guests of the management. G.C.F.'s Proudest Achievement Blimp n Now— Gotham Theatre, New York