Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1943)

42 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW January 16, 1943 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ten cents per word (10 words minimum). No cuts or borders. No charge for name and address. S insertions for the price of 3 Money order or check with copy. Ads will appear as soon as received unless otherwise SstructeT Address: Classified Dept.. SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, 1501 Broadway. New York City. j ir^iiff BOOKS SYSTEMATIZING THEATRE OPERATION, a condensed, easy-to-read book covering every important phase of theatre operation. Written by "Chick" Lewis. Sent postpaid upon receipt of $1.00 in cash, check or money order. Address, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. EQUIPMENT WANTED LOOK BACK STAGE— DIG IT UP— IF ITS GOOD, LLL BUY IT— Arcs, Rectifiers, Lenses, Projectors. Give age, condition, first letter. Box 579, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. 16mm SOUND PROJECTORS, HIGHEST PRICES PAID. Box 580, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. IMMEDIATE SPOT CASH PAID FOR Power's, Simplex and Portable Projectors, or what have you? Best prices, squarest deal. Grobarick, Eldridge Park, Trenton, N. J. HELP WANTED MANAGERS. A AND B HOUSES, small towns, excellent opportunity for men with some experience, ambition and personality. State draft status, experience, minimum salary, references. Write P. O. Box 1301 Knoxville, Tennessee. OPERATORS. SIX AND SEVEN DAY SMALL TOWNS. Any age over eighteen for Powers, Simplex, R.C.A., Western Electric who can keep good equipment in serviceable condition. Good chance for advancement. State if union, draft status, lowest salary, experience, references. Write P. O. Box 1301, Knoxville, Tennessee. OPERATORS AND SIGN PAINTERS for New Mexico and West Texas circuit. State age-family-experience-draft and salarv expected. Write Box 786, Roswell, N. M. WANTED — EXPERIENCED OPERATORS FOR SMALL CIRCUIT. State age, experience, salary expected, draft status. R. N. SMITH THEATRES, Mission, Texas. NEW EQUIPMENT FINISHING UP 1942 WITH A BANGHISTORY MAKING VALUES— Heavy Duty Vacuum Cleaners, $89.50 ; No Draft Speaking Tubes, $5.75; Quart Fire Extinguishers, $11.25; Simplex 3000' Magazines, set $49.50; BauschLomb 6" Series II Lenses, $29.50; Optical Porthole Glass, square inch 9c ; "Admit One" tickets, 29c roll; Utah 12" Dynamic Speakers, $12.95; Bausch-Lomb 10 J4" Peerless Reflectors, $15.75; Snowhite Voco-Chrome Soundscreens, 235^c sq. ft.; Heavy Curtain Track, $1.80 ft.; Luxlite Series I Lenses, $4.95. Send for Big Bargain Bulletin. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 449 W. 42nd Street, New York City. ADEQUATE STOCK REPLACEMENT PARTS AVAILABLE for Powers, Simplex, Superior, Motiograph, Peerless. Also Reflectors, Rectifier Bulbs, Exciter Lamps, Projection and Spotlamps. We'll keep your theatre operating. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 449 W. 42nd Street, New York City. SOUND EQUIPMENT R.C.A. Photophone 35mm SOUND PROJECTORS, $97.50; Double Royal Zenith with Baby Arcs and Rectifiers, $575.00; Double DeVry 1000' outfit, $395.00 ; Simplex SP's, Holmes, etc. Gas Engine Power Plants from $129.50. Ask for list of other 35mm, 16mm Portables, Bell Howell, Victor, Ampro, etc. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 449 W. 42nd Street. New York City. THEATRE GAMES CONTROLLED BINGO GAME— 12 ways in which to win, $3.00 a thousand. 16 or 70 ways to win, two colors, $3.50 a thousand. Box 581, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. DIE CUT BINGO CARDS— $17.50 in 10,000 lots. Smaller quantities, $2.00 per 1,000, 1-75, 1-100. IMMEDIATE DELIVERYORDER NOW. S. Klous, c/o Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. INCREASE ATTENDANCE AT YOUR JUVENILE MATINEES. Use comic magazines as premiums. We can supply these in large or small quantities, new, late, complete copies, publishers' remainders and overprints, at lowest prices. Representatives wanted. Theatre and Radio Adv. Co., 154 Maiden Lane, New York City. USED EQUIPMENT SWAP SHOP GOING GREAT GUNS— Tell me what you've got — what you want — what you have to sell. I'm in touch with thousands of exhibitors and I'll get you action. No charge for my services, because I'll add my own commission. Box 577, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. GLUE YOUR EYE TO THIS AD EACH ISSUE— IT PAYS TO STICK BY US— Rebuilt Vacuum Cleaners, from $19.95 ; Popcorn Machines, from $37.50 ; Film Measuring Machines, $35.00; 1000 Watt Mogul Pre-focussed Spotlamps, $2.00 ; RCA 14" Loudspeakers, $9.95 ; quart Fire Extinguishers, $6.95; 300 Watt Mogul Mazda Lamps, 19c; 500 Watt, 39c; Ticket Chopper, $39.50 ; Simplex Ticket Machine, $9.954. -JR. CA. Photocell Transformers, 75c ; Powers 6B Heavy Pedestals, $39.50 ; Simplex Intermittents, $9.95 ; Suprex 45 Amp. Rectifier, $59.50; Footlights, Borderlights, $1.25 ft; Autocash Coin Changers with penny chute, $29.50; Lenses, $2.95; Powers Mechanisms, $39.50; Automatic Arcs from $39.50; Amplifiers, $4.95; Soundheads, $9.95. ANNIVERSARY SALE CIRCULAR free. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 449 W. 42nd St., New York City. FOR SALE: COMPLETE THEATRE EQUIPMENT, except chairs. Simplex projectors, all good condition. FERRELL, Taloga Theatre, Taloga, Oklahoma. SILVER SKATES (Mono.) Drama-WithMusic. Principals: Kenny Baker, Patricia Morison, Frank Faylen, Joyce Compton, Paul McVey, Belita, Irene Dare, Danny Shaw. Plot: The singer in an Ice Show tries to help the young owner get the show back on its feet. To do this, he has to prevent the star of the show from leaving, so he becomes engaged to her. He also finds a great many different types of acts to attract the public. The engagement is broken when the star of the show announces her marriage to another . . . so the singer marries the owner to whom he was engaged all the time. Director, Leslie Goodwins. THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS (WB) Musical. Principals: Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino. Plot: Eddie Cantor is chosen as honorary chairman of the entertainment committee of a mammoth Cavalcade of Stars Benefit. The producers who appointed him, find him disrupting all rehearsals, so via a ruse, they get rid of him. His double, a man who runs a "see the movie stars homes" bus, takes his place and the entertainment proceeds smoothly. Director, David Butler. IDAHO (Rep.) Western. Principals: Roy Rogers, Virginia Grey, Ona Munson, Smiley Burnette, Dick Purcell, Harry Shannon. Plot: When two crooks learn that the judge in a small town, is a reformed ex-bank robber, they try to force him into helping them. When he refuses they get help from the woman saloon keeper, whom the judge has been trying to reform. However, a State Ranger and his superior officer, friendly rivals for the hand of the judge's daughter, take things over and straighten everything out. Director, Joseph Kane. PRIVATE MISS JONES (MGM) (In Technicolor) Drama. Principals: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Jose Iturbi, Mary Astor, John Boles, Dick Simmons. Plot: The daughter of a Colonel gives up a concert career when she falls in love with a private whose family are circus people. This alarms her father, who although he hasn't seen the girl's mother for over fifteen years, wires her to come and straighten matters out. This proves a good move for when the Colonel and the boy receive orders to go overseas, both women promise to wait. Director, George Sidney. APE MAN (Mono.) Horror. Principals: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie, Minerva Urecal, Henry Hall. Plot: The disappearance of a noted scientist starts an investigation by his family and the police. They learn that the man, through experimenting with some fluid which he injected into his body, had become an Ape and that the series of murders which have been occurring were perpetrated by him in his efforts to get enough human spinal fluid to bring him back to normal form. Director, William Beaudine. WYOMING HURRICANE (Col.) Western. Principals: Russell Hayden, Bob Wills, Alma Carroll, Tristram Coffin. Plot: A wealthy rancher welcomes a newcomer to the community, at a birthday party given for his daughter. The newcomer becomes so well entrenched in the afTections of the townspeople, that when a young cowboy accuses him of being the head of a band of rustlers, the people scoff at him. But when he eventually produces the incriminating evidence, the newcomer is hauled off to jail with his accomplices. Director, ^^'illiam Berke.