Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)

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.V o ;• c in l> cr 29 . 193 0 M a l i o n P ic l it r e News 47 MANAGERS' ROUND TABLE CLUB Charles; E. Lewis Qhaltman and £ditot Of c^/aiional c4 ffodation. arcfhoiVmen. cAfeettna~ in s MOTION PICTURE NEWS &eku 'HJeeA —fat. c^utual yaene/bt and -P^oerbeffs ^Conducted By An Exhibitor For Exhibitors IS THIS YOU? IN quest of the reason for so many managers being let out. we started to ask questions among several of the out-oftown chain supervisors, and instead of poor returns at the b.o. we found that one of the chief causes for letting men out is the inability of the average house manager to take care of certain items requested by these supervisors. One man showed me his memo book wherein he made note of all the items to be taken care of by the manager. He lists the results of his inspection, the suggestion he makes, and then, on his next visit goes over all of those items and checks them off as O.K. when he finds they have been disposed of. This gentleman, to bear out his justification for letting out a certain manager, laid before me seven lists covering seven monthly inspections of a house. The lists carried about thirty different items ranging from little unimportant things up to matters of great importance. One item in particular was listed on every sheet and covered a suggestion to the manager that the old rubbish and refuse be cleaned out of the cellar of the theatre. Up to the last list this item still remained undone. Broken glass on the roofs, causing leaks and expensive redecorating. Fixing of frames in Table of Contents \ Ray Butterfield Passes Some Along ';. Thatcher Was Wide-awake * Jones Chases Away Depression U Fred Hinds Handling Own House If "Lobby Laffs" by Dick Kirschbaum T Koury of Troy, N. Y., An Artist If Golden's Amos 'N' Andy Stunts K Holden Sold Eight Ball Babies' Film If "The Showman's Calendar" «! Kligler's Service Staff 1 Hiehle Engineered "Prosperity Week" If "A Holiday Show Slant" 1 Binstock Spoke to Merchants If Jack Fink Talks! If Ryan Has a Corking Stunt If Lou Smith Gives Away Gags f Kaufman Interested the Neighborhood If Meet Evelyn Dix of Boston, Mass. If Minhinnick's Campaign for Reopening Great r McKoy's Novel Lobby Stunt If Dave Samuels Joins Club 1f Stafford Jersey Had "Harvest Week" * Egan Distributed Heralds 1f""You Can Help" t Brewer Has a Helpful Tie-Up r Kenimer's Campaign Well Executed If Orlove's Showselling Still Clicking If Weil Plugs Prohibition ' "China Again" If An Open Letter To Anson ' Rosenthal at Wilkes-Barre 1 O'Kelly Is Publicist in Parkersburg. W. Va. *f Whyte's Stunt Jammed Theatre " Hyde's Latest Going Over Great r: Weiss Gave Out Candy Confections r Fleck Putting Over Showmanship the lobby. Replacing a broken glass in one of the entrance doors. And many other items which could be handled and arranged through one of the manager's staff. Yet months rolled by and although the supervisor stressed the importance of attention to his requests and suggestions, they remained undone and more were accumulating. Even threatening the manager with demotion to a smaller house failed to produce the desired results until, finally, he let the man out entirely. We can find a close parallel to the above by citing a certain manager in a theatre where we very often stop in at right close to New York. We can recall last spring before we left for the coast when we suggested in a friendly way that the manager ought to get the burned out bulbs replaced in the marquee and upright signs. By September the number had increased and last Saturday night the entire front of that house looked like the place was about to close down. There is no necessity for such conditions existing today. You must have someone on your staff who can be depended upon to take care of keeping the house in proper shape under your orders. If you have no one, do it yourself. You are getting paid 'to lookafter the theatre. Do it — don't alibi. "Chick."