Motion Picture Herald (1954)

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Fifteen cents per word, money-order or check with copy.Count initials, boxnumberand address. Minimum insertion $1.50. Four insertions tor the price of three. Contract rates on application. No border 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: MOTION PICTURE HERALD, Classified Dept., Rockefeller Center, New York (20) POSITIONS WANTED YOUNG MAN WITH AMBITION WANTS JO'B as general manager of small theatre chain. Present contract expires in September. Prefers East Coast but will consider other areas. J3ox 2801, MOTION PICTURE HERALD THEATRE EXECUTIVE. $15,000. WORTH IT! Box 2799, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. HELP WANTED WANTED— THEATRE MANAGERS. EXPERIenced. Exploitation minded. For key and neighborhood houses. Pittsburgh and surrounding territories. Write in detail to Charles Comar, Personnel Manager, STANLEY WARNER THEATRES, 2217 Clark Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. WANTED: TOP MANAGER FOR NEIGHBORhood Boston theatre, experienced in exploitation, advertising and complete management. Salary $100 weekly. Write qualihcations to F. W. HARDING, 38 Church St., Boston 16, Mass. STUDIO EQUIPMENT FOR FUTURE PROTECTION-SHOOT LOCAL newsreels, TV commercials, documentaries. Arrange advertising tie-ups with local merchants. Ask for Film Production Catalog. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. VENTILATING EQUIPMENT BEAT THE HEAT BUT NOT THESE PRICES— ball-bearinpr bucketblade exhaust fans 12" — $25.50; 16"— $37.50; 18" — $45. Prompt deliveries blowers and airwashers. Send for details. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. DRIVE-IN EQUIPMENT DEVRY DRIVE-IN OUTFITS $1595 UP. (SEND for lists). Incar speakers w/4'' cones $15.50 pair w/junction box; Underground cable $65M. Time deals arranged. S.O.S. aNEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St.. New York 19. USED EQUIPMENT ALL STAR VALUES! RCA PG-139 sound system, rebuilt, $895; Super-Simplex and E-7 mechanisms, six months guarantee, $475 pair; Strong Mogul 70 ampere lamphouses, rebuilt, $489.50 pair; DeVry XD projectors, complete, rebuilt, $745 pair; Holmes $535. Lowest prices on screens and lenses! Write us! STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 447 West 52nd Street, New York 19. EQUIPMENT BUY OF LIFETIME! COMPLETE RCA outfit used only month $3,500. Includes Brenkert BX80 projectors, Enarc lamps. Century generator, MI'9030 soundheads, RCA amplifier, two-way speaker, etc. Available on time. S.O'.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St.. New York 19. SERVICES WINDOW CARDS, PROGRAMS, HERALDS, photo-offset printing. CATO SHOW PRINTING CO., Cato, N. Y. NEW EQUIPMENT EVERYONE’S BUYING ’EM! MASONITE marquee letters, fits Wagner, Adler, Bevelite signs: 4"— 35c; 8"— 50c; 10"— 60c; 12"— 85c; 14"— $1.25; 16"— $1.50. S.O'.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. WHY WAIT? GO WIDE-SCREEN WITH S.O.S. Save money! Mirroclaric metalized all purpose screen w/invisible seams, only $1 sq. ft. Prompt shipments, lowest prices proiection and anamorphic lenses. S.O.S. CINEMA .SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. S2nd St., New York 19 theatres WANT TO LEASE CONVENTIONAL HOUSE OR drive-in, or small town with both types. Oregon or Washington. Option to buy. Year’s lease in advance. Box 2798, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. SEATING THIS IS IT! 1500 AMERICAN BODIFO'RM fully upholstered, rebuilt like new $12.50; others from $4.50. Send for Chair Bulletin. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. BOOKS RICHARDSON’S BLUEBOO'K OF PROJECTION. New 8th Edition. Revised to deal with the latest technical developments in motion picture projection and sound, and reorganized to facilitate study and reference. Includes a practical discussion of Television especially prepared for the instruction of theatre projectionists, and of new techniques for advancement of the art of the motion picture. The standard textbook on motion picture projection and sound reproduction. Invaluable to beginner and expert. Best seller since 1911. 662 pages, cloth bound, $7.25 postpaid. QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20. N. Y. MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ALMAnac— the big book about your business — 1954-55 edition. Contains over 12,000 biographies of important motion picture personalities. Also all industry statistics. Complete listing of feature pictures 1944 to date. Order your copy today. $5.00, postpage included. Send remittance to QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue. New York 20, N. Y. BUSINESS BOOSTERS ADV’ERTISE WITH RUBBER BUCKS, INVISIBLE ink postcards, ballons. Free samples. PARKHURST ENTERPRISES, Lansing 10, Michigan. Massachusetts Official Seeks New Projection Room Rules Commissioner of Public Safety, Otis Wliitney, will propose a new set of regulations regarding the operation of projection rooms in Ma,ssachusetts theatres, it was learned last week. The proposals will be made at a public hearing scheduled to be held at the State House in Boston August 18. Meanwhile, Independent Exhibitors, Inc., is reported to he seeking an injunction against the commissioner’s order to enforce the regulation requiring two men in a booth, which has been subject to litigation for more than two years. Legion Reviews Five; Rates One As "B" The National Legion of Decency reviewed five new pictures this week, placing one, Universal-International’s “Naked Alibi,” in Class B, morally objectionable in part for all. In Class A-1, morally unobjectionable for general patronage, is Paramount’s “Liv 32 ing It Up.” In Class A-11, morally unobjectionable for adults are 20th CenturyFox’s “Broken Lance”; Columbia’s “Bullet Is Waiting,” and Allied Artists’ “The Weak and the Wicked.” G.P.E. Net Profit Shows Rise in Quarter Consolidated net earnings and sales of General Precision Equipment Corp. for both the second quarter and the first half of 1954 increased over similar periods of 1953, Hermann G. Place, president, reported. Net profit for three months ended June 30, 1954, after adjustment for minority interest, amounted to $1,485,993 compared with $804,156 for the second quarter of 1953. Consolidated net sales for the quarter were $30,816,064 against $20,985,580 in the same period in 1953. After deducting dividends on preferred stock, net profit for the second quarter was equal to $1.86 per share on 749,509 shares of common, which compared with $1.21 per share on 649,087 in the same period in 1953. Northwest Exhibitors Endorse Makelim Plan Theatre owners of Washington, Northern Idaho and Alaska, meeting in Seattle last week, unanimously approved the Makelim plan for the production of 12 pictures by producer Hal R. Makelim. Mr. Makelim himself addressed the meeting, after which exhibitors, representing the territory’s full quota, signed up for the plan, J. M. Hone, executive secretary of the exhibitor organization, announced. It was announced also that Salt Lake City exhibitors, meeting in that city, exceeded the Makelim plan quota for that territory by a rather substantial margin. SMPTE Enlarges Publication With its July issue, the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers emerges in its new, enlarged format. The publication now measures eight by llj4 inches and, in its volume 63, number one, contains 40 pages. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, AUGUST 7, 1954