Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1956)

( Continued from preceding page) Jules Livingston. Arrangements were also concluded at the meeting for a clambake to be held Sunday, Nov. 4, at Schluters, with Mrs. Leroy Kendis, chairman of the committee on arrangements. . . . Michael Koury, recent purchaser of the Grove theatre bldg., Lorain, has personally taken over operation of the theatre. . . . Jack Share resigned as Buena Vista salesman. . . . Rhoda Koret, former Columbia booker, joined Academy Film Service on a part time basis. Columbus Robert Horton, manager of RKO Grand for the past 18 months, has been named manager of the Hollywood of the MidStates circuit in the Cincinnati suburb of College Hill. Cincinnati is Horton’s home town. No successor has been named at the Grand, said manager Ed McGlone of RKO Palace. . . . Local theatres, which have slim audiences when Ohio State football games are played, face additional competition when closed-circuit telecasts of the three remaining Ohio State home games are shown to 7,000 persons at each game in the new St. John Arena, north of Ohio Stadium. Two 15 by 20 foot screens are being installed in the new arena, designed primarily for basketball games. Tickets are priced at $2. . . . J. Real Neth, of the Neth Neighborhood Circuit, booked the safety film, “Lakewood Learns to Live” for showings in all of his houses. . . . Samuel T. Wilson, theatre editor of the Columbus Dispatch , had a reunion with William S. Cunningham, former theatre editor of the Columbus Citizen, during Wilson’s Hollywood tour. Cunningham is now news editor of the Paramount studio publicity staff. . . . Frank Marzetti has inaugurated a student admission rate at the Linden, designed primarily for Ohio State University students. . . . Gus Sun, veteran Springfield, Ohio showman, was feted on his 88th birthday by family and friends. He is now in semi-retirement, acting advisor for the Gus Sun Booking Agency. Des Moines The Dows at Dows has been reopened under the direction of Bob Gray of Des Moines. A cash drawing is planned each week. Admission will be 20 cents for children, 40 cents for adults. . . . Improvements have been made to the Iowa theatre at Jefferson, J. Louis Smith, manager, reports. Acoustic tile has been added to the walls of the auditorium and projection booth, and the lobby has been painted. Other redecorating is planned. . . . Rudolph G. Faulds, co-owner of the Des Moines Theatre Supply Co., left an estate estimated at $216,405.00, an inventory filed in Polk county probate court showed. Faulds, 63, died of cancer Dec. 1, 1955. His will left the bulk of his estate to his widow. . . . Kermit Carr, buyer and booker for the Tri-States Theatre Corp. in Des Moines for the last five years, has resigned and will move to Omaha, Neb., where he is to become general manager of the R. D. Goldberg theatres. There are seven in the chain, two in downtown Omaha, four in the suburbs, one in Council Bluffs. Carr had been associated with Tri-States for the past 27 years. . . . Tri-States has asked the Des Moines city council to eliminate the requirement of annual city license fees for theatres. The corporation’s five theatres here pay $425 yearly in such fees. L. M. McKechneay, treasurer of the company, said the fees had been paid through years of good business, “but at this time, business conditions being what they are, we feel it is necessary to appeal to the city council to have this discriminatory ordinance repealed.” Detroit William Cornell, long time publicist for the Shubert, lately general manager of Melody Circus, has opened his own business in the Book building. Cornell, in addition to the Masonic Hall business, is doing advance work for “Ten Commandments.” . . . Ursula Davis has joined Allied Artists as cashier, coming from RKO. . . . Albert Dezel Productions’ Bert Foster has moved to California. . . . The Dexter Theatre, Inc., has bought the Dexter, in Dexter from Cunningham Oil Co., which has been operating it. . . . The City in Bay City has gone out of business. . . . Gertrude Applebaum, AA secretary, has been in Europe for six weeks. . . . The Orpheum at Ann Arbor will reopen as an art theatre. . . . The News Magazine of the Screen has completed a section on the Mormon faith. The film is distributed to schools by the Detroit News. . . . Sol Krim is back from an art film buying sesing session in New York. . . . Mrs. Laura Shook is operating the Emsee at Mount Clemens. . . . Ailing Bill Green has left his office in the able hands of his sister, Mrs. Gertrude Walker. Hartford Morris Rosenthal, manager of Loew’s Poli, New Haven, on indefinite sick leave, and Mrs. Rosenthal have left for Miami Beach, Fla., where he is to receive periodic treatment. . . . Max Birnbaum, recently retired Warner Bros. Connecticut exchange manager, and Mrs. Birnbaum have moved into a new home at Miami Beach. . . . Anthony Masella, Loew’s Palace, Meriden, Conn., has been elected president of the Unison Club of that City. . . . Charlene Landers (no relation to George E. Landers of E. M. Loew’s Theatres), has joined Bercal Theatres, Inc., of Hartford, as executive assistant to Bernie Menschell and John Calvocoressci. Barbara Higbee continues as promotion manager. . . . Livio Dottor of the Plainville (Conn.) drive-in, and his cashier, Miss Joan Scricca, will be married this Winter. . . . Abe Bernstein of the UA home office exploitation department, came through the territory, contacting drama desks on “The Sharkfighters” and “The King and Four Queens.” . . . Allen M. Widem, Hartford Times, attended the New York world premiere of Warner Bros. “Giant,” with Art Moger, field exploitation man. Indianapolis Truman Lamar, manager of the Pendleton Pike drive-in, is installing 800 in-car heaters and will operate all winter. It’s the first drive-in here to make this move. . . . The Variety Club has scheduled a Hallowe’en party for Saturday night, Oct. 27. . . . Marc Wolf, state chairman of United Cerebral Palsy, Variety’s heart fund project, is opening headquarters on the second floor of the VarietyAllied Theatre Owners building. . . . Pete Fortune has taken over the Cinema, nearnorth side neighborhood house, from Ernie Miller. . . . Marshall Fine of Cleveland, Lou Wietke of Cincinnati and Bob Wile, secretary of the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio, are out-of-the-state exhibitor representatives who have accepted invitations to the ATOI convention here Oct. 23-24. . . . Dale McFarland, general manager of Greater Indianapolis, now hopes to keep “Oklahoma” at the Lyric until the year-end holidays. His original estimate was 10 or 12 weeks when it opened 7 weeks ago. Kansas City Unseasonably warm weather in the Greater Kansas City area has kept drivein advertising as active as in summer months. Highway 40 drive-in has installed electric in-car heaters for year-round operation. . . . With “Oklahoma” opening in Todd-AO at the Tower theatre, Oct. 17, “Fantasia” making a bow in SuperScope screen at the Brookside and “Cinerama” entering its fifth month at the Missouri, moviegoers found that “everything is upto-date in Kansas City.” . . . N. J. (Nick) Sonday now represents Filmack in Kansas City. . . . George Plyton of the Fulton, Mo., drive-in, was the winner of the King of the Sun contest sponsored by Commonwealth Theatres for the managers in the circuit. . . . Majestic theatre, Scott City, Kans., owned by Fred W. Young, has new carpets. . . . The new manager of the Times theatre. Memphis, Mo., is R. L. Davis, formerly of Iowa. . . . Jack Allen is now managing the Esquire in Kansas City. Los Angeles Keith McCallum, Exhibitors Service booker, is nursing a broken wrist, the result of a fall in his office. . . . The Carthay Circle theatre will return to the policy of road show motion pictures from its present legitimate stage productions, after remodelling work, costing more than $130,000, is spent for conversion. . . . A1 O’Keefe & Associates is making final preparations to open the Belair, new 1,500 car drive-in located between Fontana and San Bernardino. John Herbel, son of the late Henry Herbel, has been named manager of the Belair. . . . Hal Gallaton, Reoublic head booker, has been transferred to Republic Studios where he is working under Carl Bryant in the TV Service Corp. subsidiary. Mrs. Reba Hammond has been named to succeed Gallaton, while Robert Robinson has been raised to the post of booker from the shipping department. . . . After 25 years in the motion picture industry. Jerry Shur, manager of the Center and Boulevard theatres in East Los Angeles, has resigned to go into another field. Memphis Mrs. Harry D. Allen is the new president of Memphis Better Films Council. . . . C. N. Bonner and his son. Robert Bonner, Community and Pines drive-in, Pine Bluff, Ark., were in Memphis on business. . . . J. K. Jameson, Sr., and his son, J. K. Jameson, Jr., of the Ken at McCrory and (Continued on opposite page) 34 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 20, 1956