Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1929)

1286 M o t i o n P i c t h r c N c w s Regional News From Correspondents Trade Notes From Des Moines & la. Points TEWELL, IOWA, is to have Sunday movies after a period oi many years when the question has been under debate. The election last week gave favor to the lifting of the Blue Laws with a majority vote of five. A total vote of 409 was cast. John Howard, manager of the Rialto, at Burlington, was held up and robbed of $700 during the operation of the show there on Sunday night. Howard threatened by an armed, masked bandit who had been hidden in the office, was struck on the side of the head. R-K-0 entertained a large number of exhibitors in to book pictures for the Fall season. Among those who were in were F. A I arver, of the Broadway, Brooklyn ; F. 1". Holt, of the Princess, Montezuma; A. B. Pace, of the Crest, Creston; Frederick W'ayt, of the Strand, Newton ; Jake Cohen, of the Strand and Capitol. Ottumwa . Tom Arthur of the Cecil, Mason , of the Garden, Guthrie Center: Mr. Braun, of the Empire and Circle. Ottumwa; Mr. and Mrs. Lauver, e Royal, Panora. Mr. and Mrs. George Waumsely, of the Auditorium, at Clarksville, were welcomed as rare visitors along film row. Box Holm, 300 population, is to have a motion picture show as the enterprise of a group of merchants of the community who will operate the theatre for utdoors, later finding a building for the show in cold weather. Theatre is known as Community Theatre. Visitors at tin office of M-G-M were E, W. Morris, of Eagle e. and Leo Wolcott, of theatre, at Eldora Boone. Iowa. is to have the first installation of the Holmes Imperial Projectors with the sound-on-film attachment to be made in Iowa territory. John Anderson, of the Princess, al Boone, is installing the Holmes equipment Is handled in Des Moines by the Des Moines Theatre Supply Company. George Hake, at the Lyric, at Belmond, had made a number of rtant changes in his theatre and re-opened the h tuse aft plete rede* the interior The lobby was enlarged making a ten foot space with the exit side and the entrance on the The balcony which was added in the interior of the the b the seating cap; I ' 00 Villisca, Iowa, unday movies a vote after a ear fight c The Rialto. Bedford, Iowa, of which S. W, I a x, was n nt. The Harlan, at Harlan, was equipped with a Roth 30-30 ator complete. screen was purchased by Clar : iord, at Rockford. who cami ines with the iptment of Mr. Brauer as branch manager fi ir have added to the motor equipment parked along film row with their Packard coach. The newest bride and groom are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bruce. Mr. Bruce, who is assistant shipper for Univresal, was married to Emily Harbey in late August, and the wedding was only announced last week. The Talkaphone, Jr.. equipment was purchased by Albert Pace for his theatre at Creston, the Crest. Another Talkaphone installation made recently by this company is at Grand Rapids, Mich. Western Electric equipment was installed at the Paramount Film Exchange this week. Paramount entertained several callers along film row including lake Cohen, of the Strand, Ottumwa; A. B. Pettit, of the Iowa, Winterset : W. C. Treloar, of the ["reloar, Ogden; Mr. Gass, owner of the Strand. Creston. who was npanied by Clayton B Strand manager, H. E. Th< ensen, fonnerb with the Parrott Film Co., Des s, returned for a shorl here before locating in < Imaha, where he will open a studi screen and sound tests. F. E. Robertson lias bought the Toledo, at Toledo, and will take ner the active management o house himself. The Des Moines Theatre Supplj Co. reports Arthur Thiele, office manager, will take on a new talking equipment, sound on film and on disc, and also a picture machine put out by the Holmes Projector Company of Chicago. The new talking equipment which will be ready for the market on October 1 has not been given a name as yet. The machine is all ball bearing equipped, will handle any width of film, has third dimension and is not only cheaper than any other on the market but is guaranteed for five vears, says Mr. Thiele. Muriel Sears Frandsen, Ella Marie Weeks and Phil Monsky the Onawa Theatre-. Inc.. at Onawa, Iowa. Papers of incorporation for the newconcern were filed last week. Lew F.lman. purchasing head for the Forest Theatre at Forest City, pped the house with Snaplite lenses last week. Frank Wewurka is installing sound equipi in ninety days at his theatre, the Cresco Theatre li he recently took I I mial at Osage which is also a house of Mr. Wewurka's, equipped with the Genctt sound pment, which may be the type X . ■ . the Call Opera na was in at the Vational last week. He is also handling theatre fans with the state as his territory. Mr. Rice reports that Mrs. Rice who was in L)es Moines in the hospital for some time is in only fair health. Albert Pace who has had the Crest Theatre at Creson for the past five months is to install sound at this theatre. He has purchased the Talkaphone equipment which is made in Des Mi Bill Eddy of Indianapolis was a caller at the office of First National last week. Paramount entertained L. C. West of the Colonial at Grinnell. W. H Mart of the Strand at Grinnell and M. A. Sauver of the theatre at Brooklyn. Also W. P. Grossman of Nevada who has the Palace there. S. W. Leavitt, the new manager of the Rialto at Bedford, has purchased a sound reproducing machine which will be installed in the theatre by September 20. The machine is equipped with a miniature broadcasting station with microphone and electric pickup so that announcements can be made and any kind of music used. Theatre Transactions Figure In Wis. News OA LUDWIG, who own • tres at Clintonville, Wis., and Shawano, Wis., has pure the Bijou. Wausau. Wis. Hi nounces that considerable remodeling will be done on the theatre. J. Adler. owner of a chain of theatres in central Wisconsin, with headquarters at Marshfield, was in Milwaukee last week and purchased -400 theatre seats from the Palace-Orphenm. Milwaukee, tor his new house at Neilsville, \\ i Sound equipment has been installed by the management of the ' )pera I louse, located at Hilbert, Wis., a 500-seat house. The new West Bend Theatre. West Bend. Wis., being built b\ the Community Theatres. Inc., Milwaukee, will be opened on November 1st. The Capital Theatre. Mane Wis., owned and operated bj thi George brothers for many years. i n sold to Publix. Owen McKivette, manage the Venetian, Racine, was a visitor in Milwaukee during past week A new employee of the 1 Milwaukee, -aid to have walked off with $350 bank deposit last week, has disappeared entirely. The FOX, Merrill. Wis., lias ed a huge electrii ing L7i in pou by run bulbs. ntire li bb) and ci the I ' . is been rebuilt, according to Benjii, manager. Strand, Dayton, To ReOpen; Cincinnati News STRAND, Dayton. Ohio, a Keith house since 1915, which closed recently after silent movies had proved a failure, will reopen middle of October equipped with sound. A new 10-year lease has been secured, and improvements are being made by tin Fox interests wh cently acquired the house in the Keith-Libson-Heidingsfeld deal. G. Claude Miller will he retained as manager. < liseum, Toledo, Ohio, iias been remodeled and redecorated, and reopened as a full-fledged talkie house by James S. Brailey. William Smith Goldenburg. dramatic and motion picture critic of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is confined in Bethesda hospital recovi from injuries sustained when hit by an automobile. Forest. Cincinnati. as Strand. Van Wert Ohio, and Ma Akn n. ha\ e installed Da-Lin Eagle, Hamilton, Ohio, has installed sound equipment, in addition to having be< decorated both inside and out. William J., Edward L.. Cha L. and Howard Biggio, Steubcnville. Ohio, have organized Steubenville Grand Theatre Corp. Schine's Kenton, Kenl recently completed at a p 1 $175,000. was formally opened during September. Castamba, Shelby. Ohio, has been outfitted with a new $10.0110 organ. according to Allwein and Shreftler. owners. A new $15,000 house will be built at Maysville, Ohio, by James O. Ehite. who is sponsoring the project in behalf of other theatre interests. Sound equipment has been installed in the Virginia, Wellston. ' Ihii i. New screen, new dee, >r and new furnishings have been pro\ ided. Phototone sound equipment has been installed in the Kaypee, Mt i iilead, I ihio. Manager I irifnth Granger closi I iusi « hile it was being treated ao usticallj with* iir.ii .. and a< oustical ma terials. TWO -lew will lie presented every Sundat evening, with Sunday matinee performances later in vein Tin old Ro; al, ' lalii n, is being torn down to mala way for tin new hi 'list W hich Will lie I o;n cimateh 90 and will make it bow a the State Mi nliem die ( I rand Theatres ' irmed with capitalization of $4,000 In ! • ■ . i Howard Biggio, Charles L. 1 William I Biggii EMPIRE LABORATORIES INC. 723 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Quality Bryant 2180-2181 218? DEVELOPING AND PRINTING MOTION PICTURE FILM