Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Mar 1956)

{, Continued from I'rcccding foge) Darling" in the presentation of trophies to tlie boy and girl chosen "Mr. President" and "Madam President" at the Presidential Ball of Sigma Theta Pi sorority. Proceeds of the ball went to the Columbus Citizen’s Adopt-a-Family fund. . . . "The Divided Heart" is the first attraction under the new art house policy of the Indianola neighborhood theatre, leased by Charles Sugarman from Frank Marzetti. Sugarman said the acquision of the Indianola will enable him to give faster playoff to a backlog of art films hooked by the World. DENVER Cooper Foundation Theatres are moving their headcpiarters from here to Lincoln, leaving Constance W’uehbenhorst in Denver for the time being. . . . J. J. (Jap) Morgan, for many years manager here for National Theatre Supply, and Mrs. Louise Ferguson, office manager for the same time, ever since National came to Denver, both received wrist watches as a momento of their years (30) of service. . . . Paul Thompson, bookkeeper. Service Theatre Supply, quit to accept a similar post at the Denver Shipping and Inspection Bureau, which is building a two-story addition to their present building. This will triple their space. Thompson succeeds Evelyn Benson, who has held the post since the bureau opened. She quits to devote all her time to housekeeping. . . . Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Chopping, owners of the West Drive-in. Riverton, Wyo., spent a two-week vacation in Honolulu. . . . Margie Northrup. assistant cashier at Columbia, and Wm. Grenemyer were married. . . . Beverly McAdam, Columbia booking secretary, and Robert Biesemeier engaged to be married in June. . . . Earle Peterson, formerly covering parts of the Denver and Salt Lake areas for United Artists moves into the Denver territory, taking over the northern section, with William Sombar being moved to tbe central. DES MOINES Tbe \’alley theatre at Eddyville has been closed. The house had been operated by b'rederick Reed, who is a student at Central College. . . . The Iowa at Madrid has been reopened under tbe management of William Earrell. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Lepovitz, tbe former operators, have moved to Texas. Earrell, who had been operating the house at .Scranton, is from New York. He is a television technician as well as an experienced theatre manager. . . . E. J. Kramer has completed a two-day remodeling job at his Winfield Theatre. . . . George Mullare, manager of the Clarion at Clarion, has resigned in order to take the post of manager of the Collegian theatre in Ames for the Grebach-Central States chain. Bob Nicholson, manager of the Eagle Grove theatre, has been moved to clarion to take Mullare’s former po^t. . . . Nearly 300 exhibitors attended a demonstration of Cinema.Scope 55 at the Des Moines theatre. . . . The Lone Ranger was in town for three ])ersonal appearances at the RKO Orpheum theatre. . . . Lois Loar, Warner branch manager’s secretary, was called away by the death of her mother-in-law. . . . Marilyn Wingert is the new PBX operator at Warners. . . . The rjperators of the .Schleswig theatre have announced there will be only one change weekly during February and .Marcb. A RAPID RISE Albert P. Frank, newly named to the top post of general manager of Fox Wisconsin Amusement Corporation, with headquarters in Milwaukee, started as an usher for National Theatres back in 1940 at the Fond du Lac theatre. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and has been with the company ever since. His ability and enterprise carried him upward from usher to chief of service while he was still a student at Albert P. Frank du Lac High School. Later he became doorman and finally manager of the Fond du Lac theatre. Just recently Mr. Frank was appointed by Elmer C. Rhoden, National Theatres president, to head the Fox Wisconsin Division. He has moved his wife and two children to Milwaukee for what the family expects will be a long and fruitful stay. His record indicates that it will be. DETROST Tbe Korman Enterprises’ weekly "Rock and Roll’ stage shows which got off to a fair start, died after the second week. . . . The Eerndale in Eerndale, owned and operated by Herbert Ealand, is out to establish a neigliborbood holdover record. “Mr. Roberts” and "Left Hand of God" are now in the sixth week with manager Bill Keeton pondering going into the seventh. . . . Three miles down Woodward Ave. in Highland Park, Sol Krim is doing much the same in his Krim. Normally an art house, the Krim put in “I Am a Camera” as a stop-gap during the newspaper strike in December. Krim, as reported here, decided to drop first runs while he could not advertise. When the papers went back to work, “Camera" business zoomed. Now in its sixth week, “Camera” has no set closing date. . . . Michigan ski fans are e.xpected to see "Ski Crazy” at the Alhambra. As an added attraction all skiers wearing a cast are to be admitted free. . . . “Cinerama Holiday” was to round out a full year at the A'lusic Hall February 15. . . . ,S. J. Tesluck and son Ernie are taking up tbe Yale theatre in Yale. . . . Orville IMartin, Rex projectionist, died. HARTFORD Another Connecticut daily newspaper is increasing its amusement advertising rates. The Hartford Courant, effective March 1, will charge $3.64 per column inch daily, and $4.62 per column inch Sunday. . . . The .Sainpson-Spodick-Bialek Circuit’s plans to stage a March world premiere of 20thEox’s "The Man in the Grey Flannel .Suit” at the Fine Arts theatre, Westport, have been dropped because of a prior 20th-Fox commitment to hold the premiere in New York for benefit of the ^larcb of Dimes. Parts of the Gregory Peck starrer were filmed in the Westport area. . . . Joseph W. Dolgin of the Pine drive-in, Waterbury, has returned from a Florida vacation. . . . Leon W'ebbe, of the Bob Schwartz Theatres, is back from a vacation trip to Idaho. . . . Joseph ( Chet) Philbrook, Route 46 drivein, Saddle River, N. J., has been named manager of Smith Management Company’s Meadows drive-in, Hartford, succeeding Harold Cummings, who left to join Stanley Warner Theatres in Springfield, Mass. . . . Loew’s Poli, New Haven, sneak-previewed MGM's “Meet Me in Las Vegas.” . . . Jason Theatrical Enterprises has reopened the flood-damaged Palace, Torrington first run, following remodeling estimated at $l()0,r)()(). John J. Scanlan III is resident manager. INDIANAPOLIS Nick Mailers has reopened the Lake at Warsaw, after a thorough renovation. It has been closed since a boiler explosion in October. . . . Dr. Marvin Sandorf’s Twin and Earl Bell’s Bellaire drive-ins opened for the season last weekend. . . . Stanley A. B. Cooper was to reopen the Lark at Brazil for weekend operation Eeb. 17. It has been closed for the past two years. Cooper will start an “art" policy with “I Am a Camera.” . . . Dorothy Robinson, office manager at Paramount, is quitting to accept an administrative job with a new medical clinic here. . . . Marc Wolf returned Wednesday from his vacation trip to Hawaii. . . . The Variety Club held the first of a series of open houses Monday night to acciuaint people in radio-television and other branches of the entertainment field with what it has to offer. . . . Eloyd Jessup has remodelled the lobby of the Granada at South Bend with a New Orleans motif, featuring wrought-iron grill work. JACKSONVILLE Visitors were Phil Berler of Boston, Booker for E. M. Loew’s Theatres; Eddie Myerson, Miami drive-in theatre owner ; George Cooper, 20th-Eox auditor from New York; Jim Ochs of Dania, buyer for Ochs Theatres; George Norman, Eamous theatre. Winter Park ; Arthur Davis, Gold Coast Pictures, Miami; Dave Williams, Atlanta, and Manny Reiner, New York, both of I. F. E. Releasing Corp. ; and Byron Adams, UA district manager, Atlanta. . . . Jack Courtnay. well-known itinerant Scottish organist who formerly played at the local Elorida theatre, died here on February 5. . . . R. C. Mullis. High Springs theatre owner, broke bis hip in a fall from a ladder. . . . C. H. “Danny” Deaver is now booking for George Hoover’s new Ghlden Glades drive-in theatre at Miami. . . . LaMar Sarra, FST vice-president and general counsel, was the only Florida lawyer to be singled out for a page-long tribute of praise from Georgia Robles Boone, editor, in her 1956 Florida Governmental Guide. KANSAS CITY The Ro.xy, first run theatre of the Durwood circuit, has initiated TV Guide advertising in the Kansas City edition. The first use of this medium was for “Guys and Dolls.” which ran seven weeks and broke house records. “Forever Darling” also is being so advertised. . . . Henry Underleider, conqhroller of Durwood circuit, is given (Continued on offosite /’flf/c) 30 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, FEBRUARY 18, 1956