Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ten cents per word, money-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 not subject" to agency commission. Address copy and checks: <Th 'N PICTURE HERALD, Classified Dept., Rockefeller Center, New Yorl (20) STUDIO EQUIPMENT 3 BERNDT MAURER 16MM. RECORDING SYSTEMS with latest variable intensity galvanometers, $1995 : Akeley Newsreel sound Camera, modernized with variable intensity galvanometer; Portable Amplifier; Magazines; 3 Lenses with matched finders; friction tripod cables; represents $13,000 value. Special at $6,995; Duplex 35/16 Reduction Printer, $2,250. Send for list of recording and laboratory equipment. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. BUSINESS BOOSTERS BINGO CARDS, DIE CUTS, 1 TO 100 OR 1 TO 75, $2.25 per thousand, $20.00 for 10,000. S. KLOUS, care of MOTION PICTURE HERALD'. 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. VENTILATING EQUIPMENT NEW AIR WASHERS, ROTARY SPRAY MAT TYPE to work with any blower — easily installed. 5,000 cfm., $115; 7,000 cfm., $140; 10,000 cfm., $170; 15,000 cfm., $200; 20.000 cfm., $230. Recirculating Pump slightly additional. New prewar Blowers starting at $106.50 for 5,500 cfm.; also Diffuser Grilles, from $21.80. AA-5 MRO1 Priority required. Send for Air Conditioning Catalog. S. 0. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. USED EQUIPMENT SEVEN SOLD LAST MONTH — COMPLETE SIMplex Booth outfits consisting of Projectors, Lamphouses. Lens, Soundheads, Motors. Amplifiers, Speakers and sound screen. Rebuilt and guaranteed one year — $1500.— why pay more? S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. ARMY SURPLUS GENERATORS, GOOD FOR years, 40/80A 220V, worth $500, now $95.; Arc Spotlamp 100A with pedestal, $125.; Simplex E-7 Intermittents, $75.; Water Cooler. DC only, $77.50; Brenkert F2 combination Jlide Effect Machine, cost new $750., closing out $265. ; Roth Actodector Suprex Generators rebuilt, $397.50; LowIntensity Arc Lamps, $75. Spring bulletin now ready. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. 575 HEYWOOD WAKEFIELD HEAVY PANEL back, squab cushion chairs, steel tubular standards, excellent condition, as is, $4.35; 500 HeywoodWakefield heavy panel back, box spring cushion Chairs, excellent condition, $5.95; 200 Irwin heavy panel back squab cushion Chairs, excellent, as is, $4.75; 900 Irwin Chairs, heavy panel back, box spring cushions, newly reupholstered, rebuilt, $7.50; 700 American veneer Chairs. 3 -ply backs and seats, reconditioned, $4.50; Aislelites, $2.97. Wire us now. Su O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., New York 18. TWO 35MM. MOTION PICTURE MACHINES, complete from projection room to horn room. In A-l condition. Write B. K. REASOR, East Prairie, Mo. 2 ACME SIMPLEX PROJECTORS. 30 AMP. LAMPhouses. RCA Sound. Suitable for small theatre, school or church. Write ESKIN THEATRES, INC., 4630 W. Burleigh St.. Milwaukee 10, Wis. FOR SALE: PORTABLE PROJECTORS, SOUND. Location available. Write SHELOR, 317 West Main. Decatur. 111. • FOR SALE— TWO' POWERS PROJECTORS COMplete with all sound equipment and now operating. Price $700. PLANTATION THEATRE, Catron, Mo. HELP WANTED MANAGER WANTED— MIDWEST CITY— GIVE Experience, references and salary desired., BOX 1845, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. W AN TED : MANAGER FOR MODERN THEATRE in coal mining camp. Also two operators for other towns. These positions permanent, with excellent opportunity for advancement. State age, draft and family status, experience, references, salary expected. Drunkards, drifters and chasers need not apply. CHEROKEE AMUSEMENTS, INC., Erwin, Tenn. SERVICES FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND DOOR CLOSERS. ALL types and sizes repaired. Mail to: MINNESOTA FIRE EXTINGUISHER CO., 2476 University Ave., St. Paul 4, Minn. SERVICING DATA RCA PG105 $2. WESLEY TROUT, Engineer, Enid. Okla. POSITIONS WANTED AT LIBERTY: THEATRE MANAGER— ENERGETIC and aggressive showman. Experienced all types of operation and responsible in every respect. Reliable, references. Desires connection with individual operator as close associate or with leading corporation. ADDRESS BOX 1843, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. THEATRE MANAGER DESIRES CHANGE. REAL showman — community builder — expert buyer booker publicist. Will consider any good offer anywhere. Address ATHA, 1812 Elsmere Ave., Dayton, Ohio. THEATRES TO BUY OR LEASE 500 SEAT MOTION PICTURE theatre fully equipped within 100 miles of New York City. BOX 1842, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. WILL BUY OR LEASE PROFITABLE THEATRE; prefer Eastern States. BOX 1846, MOTION PICTURE HERALD'. FOR SALE -NORFOLK NEIGHBORHOOD THEAtre opened last year, seating 400. BOX 1848, 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. UUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New lork 20. ( MOTION PICTURE SOUND ENGINEERING. A "must" to all those working with sound equipment. Written by top-tiight engineering experts of Hollywood studios and research laboratories. Covers all phases of sound engineering and equipment. Readable diagrams; charts, tables, and graphs, $0.50 postpaid. QUiGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20. AIR CONDITIONING, WHETHER YOUR THEAtre has 300 or 3.0UU aeato, this book has ail 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 ot, film industry. $4, postpaid. UUIGLEY BOOKSHOP. 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 2U. SOUND TROUBLE SHOOTING CHARTS. THE little book, with the blue cover all good operators reach tor 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. QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ENTIRE BUSINESS BLOCK, FIREPROOF CO'Nstruction, containing theatre and following income producing properties, Postoffice, Drugstore, Pool Hall, Restaurant, Hotel (thirty rooms with natural hot mineral baths), Liquor Store, will be sold on reasonable terms to right party. On account of age owner wants to retire. Owner operating part, renting others. CHAS. F. RUMBAUGH, Pagosa Springs, Colo. PARTNER WANTED' WITH $5,000 AND YOUR OWN 16mm. sound machines (2), which you are to operate for 200-seat up-to-date theatre in New Jersey. Summer proposition. BOX 1850, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. 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 -THOOL Elmira, New York. U. S. Army Has $250,000,0 Investment in Communicatioi The U. S. Army has a $250,000,000 inves; in communications equipment overseas, com with an investment of $52,000,000 by comi private companies, Senator Burton K. Whel1 Montana, chairman of the Senate Interstate merce Committee, disclosed last Thursda Washington. Senator Wheeler said he doubted whethe Government's wartime investments in radio1 other equipment "should be turned over to vate -monopoly." He referred to the recent proposal calling for a private post-war com cations corporation to operate overseas, and he was inclined to favor a post-war Goverl ownership of American international com cations facilities. Paul Porter, chairman of the Federal Com cations Commission, appeared before the S committee and declared the FCC had no" opinion on whether the merger should be Gc ment or privately owned. The Navy proposa= vides that five of the 20 directors of the cor would be representatives of the War, Navy, merce, State and Post Office Departments. Last weekend, Senator Wheeler comment Washington that facilities for bringing in ft news to the American press should operal dependency of any post-war international munication-s monopoly. To Construct and Alter 250 South African Theatres In the first two years after the war, som to 300 theatres will be constructed or recondi;; in South Africa, Ross Allen, assistant to El F. Lomba, 20th Century-Fox managing di in that territory, recently reported. Mr. Alle been in New York from Johannesburg for office conferences. Business in South Afric reached its peak, Mr. Allen said, due to the 1» capacity of present theatres. Films were the recreation for South Africans, he observed,American product occupying 85 per cent c available screen time, and British films takii the rest. Washington House Will Show Foreign Films After several weeks of experimentation, 5 Lust's Hippodrome theatre, Washington, I has entered the art cinema field. Under the management of Bernard Lust, the theatre wi ture first run foreign language and art fil well as revivals of outstanding Hollywocx European product. Marie McCall Joins Yorke Marie McCall, script writer, formerly of mount, and during the last two years attacl the office of the Surgeon General, U. S. \ Health Service, Washington, D. C, has joint staff of Emerson Yorke Studio, New York; ducers of informative and war training films, initial assignment will be on a series of heall medical shorts which the Yorke Studio is> ducing. Joshua Lowe Dies Joshua Lowe, 69, head of the London bun; Variety since 1922, died in London March a result of injuries suffered in a street aci Mr. Lowe joined the staff of Variety soon: the latter was founded in 1905. His revievpeared in that publication for 35 years undi signature of "Jolo." He is survived by his the former Charlotte Parry, and a brother, : Lowe. Set Tieup on "Burma" Through the cooperation of Motorola Radi tributors, 348 radio stores in upstate New Yoi devoting window displays to Warner's "Obj> Burma," coincident with the showing of thi in that territory. In addition to this promc activity, the Kemp Equipment Company, Mo agency in Rochester, contracted with S WSAY to use two electrical transcriptions during the run of the film in that city. 34 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 31