Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

November 2 8, 19 2 5 2581 Salt Lake City JT. Scheffield, General Man• ager for Greater Features Incorporated, has just left here, and will make a short trip into the territory before returning to the home office. James R. Keitz local branch manager for Greater Features, left with Scheffield to go into Idaho as far as Pocatello. From there Scheffield will leave him and Keitz will go as far as Boise. C. F. Parr, manager of the local Producers Distributing Corporation exchange, is leaving the latter part of this week for the key centers of Montana. C. C. McDermond, salesman for Producers Distributing Corporation, is on an extensive trip through Southern Utah. Dave Schayer is completing his trip around Boise, Idaho. Walter S. Rand is the new salesmanager here for United Artists. Rand arrived here the beginning of this week from New York. Carl Stearn will leave this week for Seattle, Washington, to take charge of the Warner Brothers Exchange there. Joe Dowd and Milton Cohn, United Artist salesmen, have both been an the city for a conference with Rand and are now going back into their respective territories. George Mayne, owner of the Socal Preferred Pictures exchange, has come in from his trip into the Idaho territory and is leaving the last of this week to return to this section. E. Peck, who was formerly booker for this exchange, has resigned. Joe Roden, who has been connected with Associated First National here, is to be assistant manager for Mayne. Frank Harris, Western District Manager for Pathe, was in this city the beginning of this week on his way to Denver where he will be for the next week or ten days. Bennett J. Brandon, Special Serial Representative for Pathe, is now working in the Salt Lake territory for two weeks before returning to New York. W. G. Seib, in charge of the local Pathe office is expecting R. D. Boomer and J. C. Hamal in from their territories the latter part of the week to attend the regular weekly sales meeting. George E. Jensen and Jack Connors, salesmen for Warner Brothers, are now in the Idaho territory. L. W. Hyde is covering the Northern Utah section out of this office. Claude Hawkes and Vete Stewart are both in the Idaho territory out of the local Associated First National office. Stewart is going on up into Montana from there. A. A. Schmidt, General Western Representative for F. B. O., will arrive in this city right away to spend a few weeks here. W. K. Bloom is now in Southern Utah, and J. K. Soloman is in the Wyoming section out of the local F. B. O. office. Samuel Henley has resigned his position as manager for Universal in this city and has left for Los Angeles where he expects to make connections with his brother Hobart Henley, who is director for Metro-Goldwyn there. The new manager for the Universal exchange here is Mathew Aparton. L. J. Schlaiffer, Division Manager for Universal is expected to arrive here some time next week. F. A. Flader, Assistant General Manager of Theatres for Uni-' versal, is in this city on business connected with the Kinema theatre. Carsten Dahnkin of the American Theatre in this city, is expected back from an extended trip to New York the first part of this week. W. M. Hughart who has been selling for Fox in this territory, has resigned to take the Associated Exhibitor's office at Butte, Montana. Hughart will be succeeded by H. A. Black, formerly branch manager at Seattle, Washington. Black was at one time Vitagraph manager at Salt Lake and is well known by Montana exhibitors. He will have his headquarters at Butte. Local Fox manager, H. Bradley Fish, is leaving the latter part of this week to meet Black in Butte. David McElhenney is in Idaho on a seven weeks' trip. J. A. Tidwell is just back from a trip through Southern Utah. A. G. Pickett, who has been in charge of the local Famous Players-Lasky exchange in this city, has resigned to take charge of a string of houses in Arizona. Pickett is to be succeeded by L. J. McGinley, who has been traveling out of this exchange in the Montana territory, for several years. The Gem Theatre of Bingham, Utah, has changed from the hands of L. Strike to Mr. Chester. Among exhibitors visiting the row this week are : Walter Stevens, owner of the Gem Theatre, Montpelier, Idaho; (Uncle) Bert Martin of a circuit of theatres near Castle Gate, Utah ; L. F. Brown, owner of the Isis Theatre, Preston, Idaho ; Mrs. J. E. Tietpjen of the Jewel Theatre, Santaquin, Utah, and S. B. Steck, operating the Lyceum Theatre, Ogden, Utica. Cincinnati THE Strand theatre, one of the Libson houses, announces that it will conduct beginning Sunday, November 15, bargain shows, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. An admission price of 25c for the entire house will prevail at these performances. After one p. m. the regular prices will prevail. The idea has been worked successfully in other cities. Al. Frank, veteran projectionist, for many years on the road with exceptional pictures for the Mitchell and McCarthy offices, is laying off this season and at off times is handling the booth at the Grand Opera House whenever a picture is shown there. Frank also acts in the capacity of general projection advisor for numerous theatres installing new machines as he is considered an expert in this field. P. Smith of the Avonel and Sylvia theatres, Bellvue, Ky., bought several feature pictures when at the film building the other day. Eddy Riesenbeck, the energetic little head usher at the Gifts theatre is one of those ambitious young chaps who is bound to get ahead. Eddy is always thinking of some way of not only seating people in the theatre but how to get more of them in. On last week's feature he was given a free hand to arrange some exploitation campaign and the way he did it would be a credit to some of the veterans in the exploitation game. Ed. Keen of the Oxford theatre, Oxford, Ohio, always has a hard time picking his pictures while in the city. Oxford is a college town the home of Miami University and the boys are hard to please. Howard Frankel was a visitor at Film Row last week, booking pictures for the Majestic theatre, Sidney, O. which he recently added to his growing chain of movie houses. Ralph Kinsler, for five years office manager for F.B.O. has resigned his position and on last Monday left for Florida by motor with Ed. Booth, former manager of the firm in Cincinnati, to enter into some private business. Johnny Eifert, office manager for Standard, has resigned and will assume Kinsler's duties at F.B.O. at once. J. F. Carl of the Metropolitan Standard, has resigned and will asother exhibitor to visit the film buildings recently. Sammy Marks, salesman for F. B.O. while away on a trip last week, suffered quite a loss when a burglar entered his home and stole a diamond ring valued at four hundred dollars and a valuable bar pin. Maurice Strauss, manager for Progress, has resigned and his place has been filled by H. Hirsh, formerly of the Cleveland office of the same firm. Elmer McKinley will continue as office manager as of yore. W. F. LaSance, of the Universal sales force won the Century Comedy sales contest that was recently conducted by the firm. G. F. Passe, of the Forum theatre, Hillsborough, O., spent several days in the city last week making the rounds of the film buildings and exchanges. Chas. Gross, owner and manager of the Columbia theatre, Dayton, O., was another welcome visitor to Film Row last week. Doc. Kolb, controlling numerous suburban houses in Cincinnati and vicinity, has booked some of the largest pictures obtainable for his various houses. W. Crist of the Opera House, Williamsburg, O., and A. Herman of the Gaiety theatre, Erlanger, Ky., were also prospective film buyers last week while on a trip to this city. K ansas City FRANK CASS, who has been city salesman for Pathe many years, has been promoted to assume the responsibilities of West Coast Special Serial Sales Representative, covering the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle offices. Exhibitors of St. Joseph held a meeting Friday of this week at which several members of *ie Kansas City branch attended. Among those present was C. E. Cook, business manager of the M. P.T.O.A. of Kansas-Missouri. Among theatre changes are the following : G. E. Gamel has sold the Royal theatre, Thaver, Ma, to R. A. Griffith; the Opera House, Newberg, Mo., is under new management; J. E. Harper has opened a new Community theatre at Blythedale, Mo Two suburban theatres turned o\ tr to the Charities Drive their entire proceeds for one night. The Ritz, new suburban house, was one of these, the Colonial the other. C. A. Schultz, branch manager frr P.D.C., is out in the territory \v helping to put over the ExhibJicrs-Month program.