Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1946)

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ALBANY After lour starts, Iialted by rain, the Mohawk Urive-In theatre on the road to Sclu-ncctady was opened. On hand from New York' was a delegation of Fabian executives : Ed Fabian, son of S. H. ; Nat Lapkin, and Phil Harding. . . . The Strand and Palace plan special performances June 15 to aid Food Emergency Relief. . . . C. J. Latta and Charles .Smakwitz, Warners, ami Alex Sayles and Saul Ullman, Fabian, head the campaign. . . . Bill Kennedy, of Rouses Point and Champlain, is building a small theatre in Chazy for a July opening. John Moore, Paramoimt manager ; Mrs. Marie B. Eddye, office manager, and Helen Doran, cashier, were initiated into the Paramount 25-Year Club by division manager Hugh Owen and district manager A. M. Kane. . . . Ray Smith, Warner manager, is back at work after a minor operation. . . . Steve Tarbell, former Smalley circuit booker, sailed for Brazil to enter the export-import business. . . . Charles Osborn, former Warner chief checker, is manager of the Lake at Lake George. ATLANTA The Duncan & Richard theatres will spend some $40,000 to improve their houses at Fairburn, Ga. . . . Visitors included M. Wertheimer, vice-president of the Radiant Manufacturing Corporation, conferring with Edward Stevens of Ideal Pictures; Henry Green, Orr circuit booker in x\labama ; Herman Silverman, of the Wometco circuit in Miami; A. L. Shepard, Grand theatre, Waynesboro, Ga. ; D. E. Mayo, home office representative of National Screen Service ; Fred McLendon, McLendon circuit. Union Springs, Ala. . . . Tommy, fifth son of O. C. Lam, Rome, Ga., to return from military service, is back home. . . . David Katz has recovered from an eye operation. . . . Al Manley is back on the job after an operation at Johns Hopkins. Mrs. Bonnie Sudan, of Film Classics, is back after several weeks of illness. . . . Jimmy Crockett has resigned from Film Classics and Kenneth Smith has replaced him as office manager and booker. . . . Emett Grimsley, Martin city manager at I\lonroe, Ga., has a new daughter. BOSTON Suffolk Downs, horse racing track, and ^\'onderland Park, dog racing, have opened. The former operates 60 days, the latter 100 nights. Theatre grosses are affected appreciably. . . . Samuel Pinanski, of M & P Theatres, is a new trustee of Children's Hospital for the care of the crippled and handicapped. . . . Louis Krasnow is manager of the Ideal at Uphams Corner after four years in the shipyards. . . . James J. Mage was in town for a look at the Laffmovie, Tremont, and Old South theatres, among other interests. . . . James Winn, UA division manager, is recovering rapidly from a long illness. . . . Captain and Mrs. Lee Ackerman are making a nationwide tour by air of state capitals to film a travelogue featuring their buildings and histories. Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz were in town visiting Mauric Wolf. John Dervin and Phil Engel — and Suffolk Downs. . . . James Cagney and Annabella are here for the filming of "No. 13 Rue Madeleine." . . . Sig Horowitz again is covering the VermontNew Hampshire area for 20th-Fox. . . . Norbert Murray is back in the Maine territory. . . . Murray Schaefer has been assigned the Rhode Island area. . . . Carl De Vizia, RKO salesman, has recovered from his long illness. . . . Phil Berler has resigned from the E. M. Loew circuit and will move south. BUFFALO Edward F. Balser, 57, has been inducted into the Paramount 25-Y'ear Club. At a dinner in his honor he was honored by Hugh Owen, division manager. . . . Both Buffalo drive-in theatres are operating. One was blown down during a Spring windstorm, but had been rebuilt. . . . The new Midtown theatre was opened Thursday evening. N. David Goldstein is manager. Other members of the corporation are Hiram Goldstein, Buffalo ; A. E. Friedman, New York, and Nat A. Taylor, Toronto. Bertha C. Kemp is the new president of Local F-9, film exchange office employes. New president of Local B-9, shippers and inspectresses, is Mary Giallella. . . . Exploiteer Allen Weider, RKO exploitation man, was in Boston on tieups. ... At RKO, the new inspectress is Olive Ann Webster. . . . Honored at a luncheon at the Park Lane were A. W. Smith, Jr., division sales manager, Ray Moon, New York branch manager, and Stella Sidel, Mr. Smith's secretary, all of 20th-Fox. Buffalo's Howard G. Minsky, who's still looking for a place to live in Buffalo's housing shortage, was host. Reports from Rochester say salesman W. C. Rowell and wife, Evelyn, have baby Ann Elizabeth honT^ Born on Good Friday, Ann Elizabeth weighed a little more than three pounds and was placed in an incubator. CLEVELAND Holiday business dropped off the first sunny day in June. . . . Edward Fisher, Loew's publicity director, and family vacationed at Deal, N. J. Walter Kessler was pinch hitter. . . . Dick Wright, Warner circuit assistant zone manager, visited his family in Tennessee and Indiana. . . . Frank di Franco's mother died suddenly. He is hea:d shipper at Universal. . . . Evelyn Friedl, secretary to Max Lafkowich, is back from a motor trip to Washington and Williamsburg. . . . Frank Poroszinski has bought new projection equipment for the Garfield. . . . Richard Gross, son of Louis, of Ohio Film Carriers, marries Arveta Garner here June 22. David Snell, MGM musical director, visited his sister, Mrs. Dorothy Fuldheim, WJW news commentator. . . . Mrs. Frank Anderson, organizer of the Motion Picture Council chapter, has been named to the advisory board of the National Film Council. . . . Herbert Ochs, owner of drive-in theatres, will build two in Columbus, one in Toledo, one in Pittsburgh, and one in nearby Brook Park. DALLAS Heavy rain and hail storms during the past week took its toll of theatre patronage, with business off at the downtown first runs. . . . This also was true for the suburban. . . . The big grosser for the past three weeks was Columbia's "Gilda," which got $22,000 in its first at the Majestic. Despite the rain, it held up in its second week of extended run at the Tower to start a third week at that house. Russell Morgan has joined the RKO exchange as exploitation man, replacing Charles Shaw. . . . Henry Reeve, president of the Texas Theatre Owners Association, and newly elected director of the Texas unit of American Theatres Association, has returned to his home in Manard, Tex., after meeting with the other two directors, Sam Landrum, Dallas, and Leon Lewis, Ft. Worth, to set up working plans for the new organization locally. . . . J. B. Underwood, division manager of Columbia Pictures in this area, was in Chicago to attend a meeting of Columbia executives. DENVER Paul Allmeyer, Paramount booker, has a new daughter, Susan Carole. . . . The Paramount exchange honored 25-year employees at a Brown Palace Hotel dinner. They were Hugh Braly, district manager, 27 years ; Tillie Chalk, office manager, 25 years; Edna Ahlers, contract department manager, 29 years. Gifts included wrist watches, jeweled pins, albums. . . . Walter Jancke, Westland Theatres city manager, Greeley, Colo., has moved to same job at Lincoln, Neb. He was succeeded by M. E. Lofgren, formerly there, just out of the Army. . . . Bill Sembar, Paramount booker, has been vacationing. C. G. Diller is reopening the Vida, Manitou Springs, Colo., after remodeling and redecorating. . . . Marylee Baker, booker for Atlas Theatres, was ill with pneumonia. . . , Dave Davis, general manager of C. U. Yaeger Theatres, visited Columbia, Mo., with his wife, for the graduation of daughter Charlene Rae from Christian College. DETROIT Jubilee Notes : the "Million Dollar" celebration of the automotive industry attracted an estimated million persons to the huge parade, and rain squalls drove hundreds into downtown theatres. . . . Dave Izdal of the Fox selected the Jubilee Queen. . . . Earl J. Hudson of United Theatres was co-chair 20 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JUNE », 1946