The New York State Exhibitor (1933)

8 Jul 25'33 THE NEW YORK STATE EXHIBITOR . . . Williston and Mineola Theatres are open week-ends. . . . The Yoost circuit, Amphion, Chaloner, Regent, Royal, Supe¬ rior and 34th Street are now running again. . . . Bobby, Brooklyn, is being operated by the Lafayette Street Amusement Corpo¬ ration, Jack Eisenrad, president. WHEN THE LOCAL INDUSTRIAL reel trade heard that a shoe company was in the market for a commercial reel, a near riot started. . . . The ad manager of the shoe company never thought that there were so many companies in the business. . . . Lou Nizer, Film Board secretary and local attorney, is practically set on a national commercial. ADD TO CLOSINGS: . . . Rialto, Whitestone, L. 1. . . . Grand, Newark, for the summer. . . . The following Newberry shore houses are operating for the summer: Lorraine, Bay Head; Arcadia, Manesquan; Rialto, Belmar. . . . Windsor, Grand street, is open three days a week, the week-end. . . . Harvey Cribbs is booking the Graham, Gerrittsen Beach. . . . Hymie Bloom used to. . . . Doc Greenfield will operate the Brook¬ lyn Flora in the fall. . Nelson and Renner have taken the Hunsa, Brooklyn. . . . Formerly a German talkie house. LEE OCHS now has two in Peekskill, the Peekskill and Colonial. . . . Max Miller, the M. and L. Amusement Corporation, has taken the Manhattan, Greenpoint. . . . Ocean Beach Community House Theatre is being operated by the Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach. . . . House seats 400. . . . Harry Pearce manages. . . . Opens week-ends. ART GILGAR is now at the RKO Dyker. . . . Sayer Seeley is assistant at the Regent, Brooklyn (RKO). . Production in the district is picking up. KISCO, MT. KISCO, has been taken from M. and F. Theatre Corporation by Kisco Photoplay Corporation, Herman Susman, nres:dent. . . . Huntington Station Theatre, Huntington Station, Long Island, is now a Prudential possession. . . . M. Markowitz had it. . . . State, West Orange. N. J., is being operated by the Valley Amusement Company, Inc., M. Broski. . . . Consolidated recently took unto itself two houses, the Jerome, in the Bronx, and the former Loew Greeley Square. . . . Former will be a bit remodeled. . . . Areffgee Amusement Corpo¬ ration has the Ossining Cameo, wh:ch was closed. In TH STREET Miss Zagrans Arrives in Midst _ By Daniel R. Klein _ JACK BELLMAN can talk of nothing else lately but his new release, “Savage Gold,” which went into the Mayfair. . . . There seems to be an epidemic of foot trouble around the Fox exchange. . . . First Harry Buxbaum sprained his ankle several weeks ago, and now Joe Lee is walking around with the aid of a cane, thanks to an infected heel. . . . There is a new and charming addition to the Fox staff in the person of Miss Sylvia Zagrans. . . . She is billing for Educational, and was formerly with Fox, Philadelphia. . . . Louis Wietzman, the beau brummel among exhibitors, will reopen the Summit, Union City, N. J., on July 30th. . . . The house has been closed two months during which time extensive al¬ terations were made, not the least of which was the installation of wide range sound. . . . Heard 44 Ochs-Consolidated Deal That deal whereby Consolidated buys into the Lee Ochs circuit to the extent of 50%, as reported, makes Consoli¬ dated a stronger factor than ever in the 1933-1934 buying set-up. Chain recently added two more nabes, be¬ sides the Ochs group. Ochs recently took two Peekskill houses on his own. United Artists sales force were all at the Chicago convention last week, and the ex¬ change looked practically deserted. . . . Those who made the trip included Moe Streimer, Dave Burkan, Meyer Leiberman, Nat Beier, Leon Herman and Eddie Mullen. ... A story goes with Burkan’s participation in the expedi¬ tion. . . . He drove in from his home in Brooklyn on the day the party left for Chicago, checked the baggage he brought with him at Grand Central, and asked Ben Levine, of the U. A. poster department, to drive his car out to Brooklyn for him that evening. . . . He gave Ben the key to the car, which he claimed locked both door and ignition switch. . . . When Ben went to drive the car, he discovered that the key opened the door all right but it couldn’t seem to do a thing about unlock;ng the ignition. ... To make a long story short, Ben and Herb Richek, United Artists booker, who was with him, consumed four hours in trying to get it to work, in making phone calls to the Chevrolet people, and in having a key maker try his hand at it. . . . They finally got out to Brooklyn about one the next morn;ng. MEMBERS of the Metro exchange may take a trio on a yacht some time in August. H. L. Ripps, president. Exchange Club, has a picture of, and data on the yacht they would use, but whether thev will bo or not is still undecided. . Irving Dreeben is moving his poster and accessory department at Fox from the basement of the building to the third floor. . First Division keeps on having picture after pic¬ ture on Broadway, and now they have gone one better and have two playing simulta¬ neously and in the same theatre. Cameo is the house, and the double feature bill is “The Shriek in the Nieht” and “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney.’’ . . . Irving Gumberg is back with Educational as special representative, covering the entire metro¬ politan area. . . . Moe Sanders, office man¬ ager for Fox, takes every Tuesday off these sultry summer weeks to play golf. . Just what he goes around in is not known, but it’s rumored that he stooped counting after one hundred. . Maurice Silver stein, Loew booker for Metro, won fifty dollars recently in a slogan contest which was conducted over the radio by the Na¬ tional Resort Association. HERMAN GLUCKMAN, Capital head, is still away, but he doesn’t have to worry about the way his staff is handling things in his absence. . . . Dave Brill is in charge of the exchange during Gluckman’s absence, and the boys and girls under him are plugging away in a determined attempt to Drove that not even oppress:ve mid-summer heat can stop this con¬ cern. . . . New Capital releases are “The ■NTio-tit Bus,” a Tower production, and “Frozen Hell,” an authentic record of life in the Arctic. . . There will be thirteen features on the Maiestic lme-un for next season. . . . Gluckm-»n and Phil Goldstone, executive producer, " ill attend the convention. . . . Lvlian Kahne. Fox ace biller, is back from her vacat’on. looking fit as the proverbial fiddle. . . . And Dorothy Kaplan, secretary to Jack Bowen, up at MGM, is away on hers, a thirteen-day cruise to Havana. . . . Bob Ellsworth, Metro booker, is also away. . . . Charlie Dortic, United Artists head booker, is minus his mustache. ... A barber who was shaving him made a slight mistake, but with a little time the mis¬ take will be rectified and the foliage back in place again. . . . Lewis Theatre, in Newark, is now open full time after running part time for several months. DAVE LEVY, New Jersey sales manager for Metro, is living in Belle Harbor for the summer. ... In line with the current trend in musicals. Fox exchange is now tak¬ ing bookings on a re-issue of “Sunny Side Up.” As you enter the Capital ex¬ change these days you’re apt to think for a moment that you stumbled into a garrison of the early settlers in the Middle West. . . . But it’s only a swell display on behalf of the company’s new serial, “Fighting with Kit Carson.” MORRIS EPSTEIN is now interested in Hollywood Film Exchange. . . . Jack Bellman is president. . . . Epstein will be sales man¬ ager. . . . Expansion is planned. . . . U-A's contingent came back from the convention headed by Moe Streamer and all hepped up. . . . Crew included Streamer, Ed Mullen, Dave Burkan, Meyer Lieberman, Martin Moskowitz, Nat Beier, Leon Herman, E. J. Smith, S. McGrath. HAROLD CARLOCK and Sol Trauner are missing from the 44th street picture. . . . Out of Educational Fox. . . . Miss Jacobson, Arnold Jacobson and John Cronin are getting ready for vacations from Film Board duties. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: . . . Meeting of Sunday Opening Committee in offices of Adolph Zukor and Peter J. Schaefer, president, Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League of Amer¬ ica, and first vice-president of the National Association appointed to attend meeting of Ohio exhibitors in Cleveland, they about to start campaign for Sunday opening. . . . On Sunday opening committee were Zukor, Wil¬ liam A. Brady, Walter W. Irwin, Lee A. Ochs, P. A. Powers and Frederick H. Elliott, secre¬ tary. . . . Planned to co-operate with state wherever possible to secure legislation neces¬ sary. . . . Morris Sullivan and Son, Brook¬ lyn, were planning to build a theatre to cost $45,000. New Middletown Sale On application of bondholders, foreclosure sale of the former Quittner theatres, the State, Stratton and Show Shop, Middletown, has been set aside and a new sale ordered by Jus¬ tice Graham Witschief, in Supreme Court. Properties, foreclosed under a first mort¬ gage of $250,000, were bid in by John Fitz¬ patrick for $25,000 above the mortgage. It was said in court by Joseph Quittner, attorney, representing his father, Edward Quittner, veteran manager, that the general understand¬ ing was that Fitzpatrick was representing the bondholders, when in fact, as alleged, he rep¬ resented interests of Odell S. Hathaway, an original operator, who has been acting as receiver. Hathaway holds $72,000 in a second mortgage. As the properties are delinquent in taxes for $20,000, there would be only $5,000 left under the Fitzpatrick bid, with the bond¬ holders left out. Attorney Quittner, charging “fraud and conspiracy” against Hathaway, asserted speci¬ fically that Eugene Levy, Park Theatre, New¬ burgh, had offered to pay $150,000 for the combined properties in excess of the first mortgage. Court commented that “bid was undoubtedly ins’gnificant in view of value of the theatres.”