Movie Age (1927)

PAGE 4 MOVIE AGE MOVIE AGE MARGARET FOLEY Editor & Manager 140 N. 33rd St. Omaha, Neb. Telephone — Harrison 1285 MADELINE GRAHL Des Moines Rep. Published Weekly by ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS, Inc. BEN SHLYEN President and Publisher Subscription Price $2.00 per year Single Copies 10 cents. Corn Show at Crete Promoted by Exhibitor Last week A. Burrus of the Isis Thea¬ tre, Crete, Nebr., held one of the best corn shows in southern Nebraska, which was a huge success. Two hundred dol¬ lars was awarded in cash prizes, as well as a free matinee ticket to the Isis, which was given to every farmer mak¬ ing an entry to the show. There were 132 participating and a full front page column was printed in the Crete News, indicating the success of the show.. Mr. Burrus writes that the day’s cash receipts at his theatre were the largest he has had in many months, aside from the free admissions, having two full houses both afternoon and evening. The entries consisted of ten ears of corn each and were judged by P. H. Stewart, Crop and Soil Expert of the State Agricultural College. Liberty Films Acquires Two Clara Bow Features Liberty Films, Inc., the same exchange that distributed “The Birth of a Na¬ tion,” “Intolerance,” “The Plastic Age” and the Dempsey-Tunney fight pictures has always been associated with big money-making propositions. In ac¬ cordance with that plan they are now distributing “The Primrose Path” and “My Lady of Whims,” both Clara Bow features. Phil Monsky, manager of Liberty Films says: “‘The Primrose Path’ and ‘My Lady of Whims’ are bound to go big with any audience. They both have Clara Bow in the featured role, they both have strong supporting casts, and lastly, both have real plots and tell a plausible story.” “Tessie,” from the pen of Sewell Ford, who wrote the famous Torchy stories, with May McAvoy and Robert Agnew is also a decided hit.” Orchestraphone Pleases In Showing in Omaha More than 200 theatre owners and Omaha residents were present at the special exhibition of the new Orchestra H. G. Dunn, of the Jewell Theatre at Valentine, Nebr., was in Omaha for several days last week. * * * Gwen Lee, an Omaha girl, whose real name is Gwendolyn Lepinsky, appeared at the Sun last week in support of Norma Shearer in “After Midnight.” * * * Theodore Roberts appeared in per¬ son at the Orpheum Theatre last week, following a week’s appearance by Lew Cody. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Norman of the Audi¬ torium Theatre at Madison, Nebr., spent Friday and Saturday in Omaha. * * * W. F. Neal, who has been working out of the Des Moines office of Paramount for the past four years, is now covering the territory out of Omaha which was vacated by Ike Ruben. * * * Frank Kennebec and Dorothy Allen are new employees at the Paramount exchange. * * * Jimmie Weeks, Columbia salesman, passed the cigars around last Monday celebrating the arrival of his baby boy. * * * Under the former organization at the Pathe office, Mr. Danke was salesmanager for DeMille Features and Mr. Brandon was sales manager for short subjects. According to the new ar¬ rangement Mr. Danke is appointed branch manager in charge of both fea¬ tures and short subjects, and Mr. Bran¬ son is short subjects sales manager. * * * F. S. Botsford of the Royal Theatre at Aainsworth, la., visited Movie Row last Wednesday. * * * F. M. Honey of the Beardsley Theatre With the Orchestraphone the small theatres can now have music which will rank with that of the larger movie houses. This machine reproduces with great accuracy and the reproduction of organ music is especially excellent. The tone is similar to a radio with a loud speaker attachment or like an am¬ plified phonograph. The music is cued to the picture by a system to insure the proper atmosphere. The Orchestraphone is distributed in Omaha by the National Theatre Supply Co., and by the Blizzard Fan Co. at Red Oak, la., called on Film Row last week. * * W. A. Bowker, our famous ex-exhibi¬ tor from Onowa, la., called on the ex¬ changes last week. * * * Glen Wilson, who formerly covered the northern half of Nebraska for Pathe, is now covering the southern block. * * * F. J. Obera of the Community Thea¬ tre at Elgin, Nebr., visited the exchange last Thursday and Friday. ^ Frances Albercombie of the National Theatre Supply Co. staff, was taken to the Lord Lister hospital last week for an appendicitis operation. * * * O. H. Dutton of the National Theatre Supply Co., left last week to visit the Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Kansas City branches. * * * Warner Bros, have taken three new salesmen on their staff. They are Irv¬ ing Meisel, D. B. Chapman and Carl Helgren. * * * The Oskaloosa high school has just in¬ stalled a new Simplex machine pur¬ chased from the National Theatre Sup¬ ply Co. Wolbach, Neb. — A deal has been closed whereby J. H. Berney purchased the Empress Theatre from Ollie Terry. Ord, Neb. — Manager Bill Nieuwland of the Ord Theatres has been having the Gem Theatre redecorated. GREET YOUR FRIENDS Through the CHRISTMAS MOVIE AGE phone at the Uptown Theatre last Wed¬ nesday. CHANGE!] if EXQ EXC1 nA GMovindAloru Movie Row: