Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1944)

36 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW March 11, 1944 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ten cents per word (10 words minimum). No cuts or borders. No charge for name and address. 5 insertions for the price of 3. Money order or check with copy. Ads will appear as soon as received unless otherwise instructed. Address: Classified Dept., SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. 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, or money order. Address, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. EQUIPMENT WANTED WANTED — PIPE ORGAN in fair condition. State make, stops, etc. St. Stanislaus Church, 118 N. Market St., Summit Hill, Pa. WlfAT YOU GOT— I'LL TAKE— AND PAY CASH — Arcs, Rectifiers, Lenses, Projectors, Motors, etc. Give age, condition, first letter. Box 638, c/o ... Sjjppwmenis Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York POP CORN MACHINES WANTED. All electric French Fry type. Highest cash price. Furnish full description and quantity available. Hundred machines for sale, all makes. Krispy Kist Korn Co., 120 S. Halsted, Chicago 6, 111. LOOKING FOR SOUND PORTABLE PROJECTORS— 16MM or 35MM — Highest prices paid. Box 639, c/o Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. POPCORN MACHINES WANTED. Latest and largest Manley Burch, regular or counter models. Give full information. El Reno Theatres, El Reno, Oklahoma. NEW EQUIPMENT CLOSING OUT BOX-OFFICE HEATERS, $6.95; Rear shutters for Simplex, $77.50; Box-office reports, 18c pad; Latest electrolux vacuum cleaners, complete $85.00; Aluminum foil snipes, $1.00 dozen; Lobby pickup pans with toy brooms, $1.59; Baby spots, $6.95; Box-office chairs, $6.50; Collapsible 36" x 48" beaded screens, $11.50; Rectifier bulbs, 15 ampere gordos, $6.95; Six ampere Westirighouse, $3.95; Fine quality leatherette — 50 yard rolls— -$1.41 yd.; Suprex carbon savers, 98c; Vocochrome snowhite soundscreens, 23 ^c sq. ft.; Flextone washable, 30%c; Crystal beaded, 3954c. Winter bargain bulletin ready. S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., 449 West 42nd St., New York City 18, N. Y; HELP WANTED WANTED ASSISTANT HOUSE MANAGER. Permanent position with excellent future. State age, experience, references, salary expected and draft status. Reply to Columbia Amusement Company, Arcade Theatre Bldg., Paducah, Ky. WANTED INTELLIGENT, EXPERIENCED MOTION Picture Operator with personality and appearance suitable to be eventually promoted to house managership. Give full details in your letter, stating age, experience, references, salary expected and draft status. | Reply to Columbia Amusement Company, Arcade Theatre Bldg., Paducah, Ky. SIGN LETTERING SIGN PAINTING. Easy way to paint signs. Use letter patterns. Avoid sloppy work — wasted time. No experience needed for expert work. Write for free samples. John Rahn, N1329 Central Ave., Chicago 51, Illinois. SITUATION WANTED THEATRE MANAGER desires change, can buy and book pictures, draft exempt, would buy theatre. Box 641, c/o Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. SOUND EQUIPMENT STILL SOME LEFT— INDUCTEE SOLD OUT— public address amplifiers, microphones, speakers, baffles, at knockdown prices. Send for bulletin Rem-8. S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., 449 West 42nd St., New York City 18. N. Y. SOUND EQUIPMENT SIMPLEX 2000' semi-professional 1000 watt sound projectors, as is $3^25.00 ; other makes $99.50 up; Plenty 16mm Sound Projectors, Bell & Howell, Victor, RCA, Universal; RCA Rack Panel PA83 Amplifiers, $35.00; Jensen 14" Superspeakers, reconditioned $39.50; Soundheads, $9.95 up; amplifiers, $4.95 up; New RCA Multicellular Horns, $79.50; Western Electric 555 Receivers, $17.95; new Portable Screens, $7.95 up. Send for lists. S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., 449 West 42nd St., New York 18, N. Y. FACTORY REBUILT — Late model "Soundmaster" sound heads with rotary scanning, gyrofilter, direct connected motor, modern up-to-date amplifiers and speaker systems. BALLANTYNE CO., 222 N. 16th, Omaha 2, Nebr. STUDIO EQUIPMENT 35/16mm REDUCTION PRINTERS, sound $475.00; Picture $675.00j;i 35mm Film Phonograph, $375.00; Studio GlowlamMf Recorder, 35mm, complete $555.00; Hollywood 16mM Recorder with Berndt-Maurer type Galvanometer complete, $795.00; Blue Seal 3 element Glowlamps, $22.'7]5.' Send for Studio and Laboratory Equipment listings. S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., 449 West 42nd St., New York City 18, N. Y. THEATRE FOR SALE SEBRING THEATRE, SHELBURN, INDIANA, for sale or lease.,, . . . THEATRE GAMES CONTROLLED BINGO GAME— die cut— 12 ways to win, $3.50 a ^thousand. 16 or 70 ways to win, two colors, $4.00 a .thousand. Box 581, c/o Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. DIE CUT BINGO , CARDS— $20.00 in 10,000 lots. Smaller quantities,. $2.25 per l;0b:0. 1-75, 1-100. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. S. Klous, c/o Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City 18, N. Y. THEATRE SEATING 140 GRAND RAPIDS VENEER CHAIRS, reconditioned, $2.50; 360 Heywood-Wakefield, as is, $3.50; 250 American Veneers, rebuilt, $3.75; 1107 Heywood late model metal plated Red Velour new fully upholstered backs, newly upholstered leatherette spring edge cushions, aisle lights, beautiful design, rebuilt, $8.75. Wire for list. S. O. S. Cinema Supply Corp., 449 West 42nd St., New York City 18, N. Y. WE HAVE THE MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT to do an expert job of rebuilding and reupholstering your chairs. Work done in your* theatre. John A. Moran Chair Co., 1001 West Linden St., Scranton, Pa. USED EQUIPMENT STAGE SETTING FOR 12' x 30' PROSCENIUM, $52.50; Ticket Chopper, $19.50; Simplex SI Latest Type Mechanism, rebuilt, $475.00; Brandt Jr. Coin Changers, $119.50; Payroll type, $95.00; 20/40 ampere Arc Generators, $57.50; Twin 50 ampere Suprex Rectifiers, rebuilt, $297.50; Single 45 ampere, $112.50; Electric Household Range, 4 Plates, white enamel, shopworn, $67.50; Reflectors, assorted sizes, 50% off; Peerless 8" condenser lenses, $3.95; Thirty Ampere Rectifiers with tubes, $99.50; Kliegl 2000 watt Spotlamp on Casters, $59.50; Simplex Intermittents, $9.95; Motiograph Projector Mechanisms, $95.00; Send for Winter Bargain Bulletin. S. O. S. Cinema Supply Corp., 449 West 42nd St., New York City 18, N. Y. DOUBLE SIMPLEX SOUND SYSTEM, 2000' SP Projectors; 4 point Pedestals; 1000 watt lamps; NP5 Simplex Amplifier; Loudspeaker and cables. Suitable for small house. Cases scuffed; need slight repairs. Entire outfit $750.00. M. S. England, 85 Van Braam St., Pittsburgh, Pa. FOR SALE— TWO BURCH POPCORN MACHINES. A-l condition. Write for prices. Cecil R. Atkinson, Star Theatre, Star City, Arkansas. FOR SALE — pair Royal Zenith model C Powers 6B and complete booth equipment new sound. Triangle Theatre, Box 366, Junior, W. Va. FOR SALE — complete booth equipment. Used Holmes, Simplex, Powers. Transformers, lamps, motors, etc. Holmes Projector Sales Co., 1717 Wyandotte, Kansas City, Mo. PILEBUCK (Col.) Drama. Principals: Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Wallace Ford, Tom Tully. Director, Eddie Sutherland. Plot: An exforeign correspondent, supposedly brokendown but really a special agent, starts work at a shipyard as a pilebuck, to uncover saboteurs. His brother is the shift boss of the pilebucks. The correspondent finds himself saddled with a lovely wife and two children as part of his special assignment. An oldtime sweetheart, now going with his brother, complicates his budding affair with his "wife." He foils the saboteurs; his brother wins his ex-sweetheart and he leaves for Combat Intelligence after obtaining his "wife's" promise to wait. PRACTICALLY YOURS (Para.) Comedy': Drama. Principals: Fred MacMurray^ Claudette Colbert, Allyn Joslyn, Cecil Kellaway, Isabel Randolph, Rosemary DeCamp. Director, Mitchell Leisen. Plot: A returning hero finds himself saddled with an unexpected sweetheart and publicity provided by his former boss. He and the girl carry out the farce of being in love until they actually do fall for each other. A boy friend provides some amusing complications, while the hero's dog turns out to be he girl's rival. But it ends happily with the hero and the girl marrying before he returns to active duty in the Pacific. IT HAPPENED TOMORROW (UA) Drama. Principals: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy. John Philliber, Edward Brophy. Director, Rene Clair. Plot: A young newspaperman finds himself with a copy of tomorrow's newspaper, and after reading the news becomes involved in the happenings yet to come. Because of this, he's arrested as an accessory to a robbery; he saves a young lady whom he's interested in from drowning and he learns about his own death. He finally gets everything straightened out . . . and wins the girl he saved fro™ drowning. FORTY THIEVES (UA) Western. Principals: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Louise Currie. Director, Lesley Selander. Plot: Hoppy gets the wind taken out of his sails by the bad element who gang up on him for all the punishment they received because of his work. When the Governor of a state sends for him to help clean up the town. Hoppy falls into the hands of the gang waiting. They frame him and he suffers a terrific amount of punishment at their hands, before he is freed and things are straightened out. MR. WINKLE GOES TO WAR (Col.) Drama. Principals: Edward G. Robinson, Robert Armstrong, Ted Donaldson, Bob Haymes, Sam Flint. Director, Alfred E. Green. Plot: After being inducted into the Army at the age of . forty-four, a bank clerk proves his mettle by taking it with the youngest rookies — and remaining after the law permitted the release of all men over thirtyeight. He'd had a disagreement with his wife before he left, but is reconciled with her after he gets an honorable discharge for being wounded in action. RED CROSS WEEK March 23rd Thru 29th «< ►