Showmen's Trade Review (Jul-Sep 1945)

20 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW July 21, 1945 REGIONAL Continued involving the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Pittsburgh offices. Purpose of the meeting was to dsicuss forthcoming product and sales policies. Several of the new pictures were screened. Nat L. Lefton was married last week to Mrs. Emily Hinske of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Lefton will spend July and August in northern Michigan. . , . . Harry Weiss, 20th-Fox resident exploiteer, is being assisted by Frank H. Clark of the Indianapolis office in staging campaigns on Captain Eddie" and "Wilson." ^, . -n u Jane Simon, assistant to Warner i heatre ruDlicity Director J. Knox Strachan, is vacationing in the Chicago furniture mart in anticipation of moving into her new home. Charles Rich, Warner district manager, made a tour of the Cincinnati and Indianapolis offices during the past week. . Leah Goldman, of the UA secretarial force, is vacationing in Detroit. ^ , ,. ,^ ^ Another vacationer is Geraldine (jerry) Akers, secretary to 20th-Fox Branch Manager I. J. Schmertz. Opening of the Peoples Theatre, Akron, announced for early July, has been delayed to the middle of August due to a delay m deliveries of material. Ben Perse, president of the Oliver Theatre Supply Company, Inc., paid a visit here during the past week, going over the local supply situation with Manager H. M. Fritchle. Akron's Independent Theatre Owners Association has suspended business meetings over the summer, according to Max Federhar, president. Peter Wellman, Girard theatre owner, is completely redecorating the Victory and expects to have it ready to open in early August. Aimee L. Lewis, MGM booker on leave of absence, is one of the first members of the film colony to return from service to civilian life. She joined the Women's Army Corps 26 months ago and served overseas for 20 months in North Africa and Italy. C. T. Smetlzly, owner of the Ideal, Akron, has returned from a trip to the west coast. Celia Fidler is Warner District Manager Charles Rich's new secretary. Louis Aster of Columbia's home office and Sam Galanty, district manager, stopped off here for a conference with local Branch Manager Lester Zucker. Max Jacobs of Imperial Pictures has acquired for northern Ohio distribution the short subject, "Caldonia," an all-colored featurette starring Louis Jordan. Nate Schultz, Monogram franchise owner ; Sam Schultz, Carl Scheuch and Nate Gerson, all of the local Monogram office, were in New York over the weekend to attend the Monogram JOYFUL RECEPTION. Betty Hutton, star of "Incendiary Blonde," and William Demarest, star, were welcomed in Chicago by Sam Abrahams (left) of the Crest Theatre, and Gus Kerasotes of Kerasotes Theatres, Springfield, 111., in connection with Paramount's One Third of a Century celebration. Abrahams and Kerasotes were honored for their more than 30 years as Paramount customers. regional sales meeting at the Warwick Hotel. The vacation season is in full swing. Libby Schultz, Monogram secretary, is at Mackinac; Loew's Granada manager is visiting relatives in Columbus ; Howard Burkhardt, manager of Loew's State, Cleveland, is dividing his rest period between New York and Baltimore ; Abe Ludacer, manager of Loew's Park, is visiting the Iiome folks in Newcastle, Pa. Herbert Ochs, formerly of Cleveland and now head of the Dayton Drive-In Theatre, became a grandfather this week with the birth of a girl to his younger daughter, Marilyn, and Lt. Earl F. Scherffius. Mrs. Frank R. Anderson has been elected president of the Motion Picture Council of Greater Cleveland for the fifth term. Leslie E. Frye, head of the visual educational department of the Cleveland Board of Education, was elected vice-president. Other officers are : treasurer, Mrs. Warner Seely; recording secretary, Mrs. E. M. Osbone; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Lester Swift. Committee chairmen for the next season are: review chairman, Mrs. Lester Swift; program chairman, Mrs. Patricia Blair of the Cleveland Public Library; membership chairman, Mrs. James Inman. NEW ORLEANS Jerry Bridges of National Screen Service accounting department expects to be welcoming her husband Norman home by the time this is in print. He has been a navigator on a bomber in Italy and ,will be here for 30 days' leave be CROWDS TURN OUT FOR BOND SHOW AND STAGE WEDDING. This is not a line-up in front of a Broadway movie palace, so typical these days. The locale is Moline, 111., and the crowd, all of whom have purchased bonds, are waiting to gain entrance to the Le Claire Theatre to see the war bond show, stage wedding and MGM's 'The Clock." How many bonds were sold? We don't exactly know, but we'll guess: Plenty! fore re-assignment. The same is true of Marie Daries, Columbia booker, whose husband Henry Daries, U. S. Naval Reserve, is due home after 19 months' overseas duty. Both wives will take time off from work to be with their husbands. Eleanor Glover of National Screen Service shipping department has been in California to see her Army husband in the hospital there. Rene Brunet of the Imperial here has been in San Francisco with his naval officer son, Malcolm, who was expecting to be sent on overseas dutywhen he left his post here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Earl W. Schroeder has returned to his old job as booker at the Republic exchange after receiving his Army discharge. R. A. Kelly has been promoted to fulltime office manager at Republic, according to Leo V. Seicshnaydre, branch manager. The twin sons of John H. Granger, John Jr. and George, have been discharged from the Army after long tours of duty in the Aleutians. They were both technicians 5th grade. Granger is Columbia exchange office manager. When last seen, C. E. Hilgers, manager of Film Classics of the southeast, was still trying to replace Mrs. Josephine Albano, who left to join her husband in San Diego. With Mrs. Jack Auslet of Dixie Films Inc. finding time to write her far-flung family is a problem. One of her nephews, Sgt. Francis Johnson, was recently awarded a citation for bravery as a tank commander in Germany. His brother-in-law, Lloyd David, is with the same company as a tank repairman. Both men are motion picture operators by profession and the latter's wife, Catherine David, manages a theatre in Mound, Minnesota. Other service nephews on Mrs. Auslet's correspondence list are: Pete Anderson, who was recently discharged from the Navy to return to his wife and six children ; James Krause, who was wounded three times in the European theatre of war and is now awaiting assignment to the Pacific theatre ; Bernard Winkel, with the Army in the Philippines; William Brockert, who has been in New Guinea since the first landing there and is expecting to come home on 90-day furlough soon ; Germaine Brockert, recently discharged from the service; Jack Anderson and William Krause, recent inductees. All of the aforementioned clan hail originally from Minnesota, and almost all of them were in various types of motion picture work before the war and expect to return to the same after the war. Ed Schnitzer of United Artists home office and Fred Jack, southern division manager, have been here on routine business trips. Schnitzer has left for Chicago and Jack for Jacksonville, Fla. Milton Dureau, United Artists salesman, and his bride, the former Myrtle Flowers, are honeymooning in Florida. W. O. Waller, Planet Pictures executive of Hollywood, has left here for New York to confer with R. N. Savini of Astor Pictures. Claude McCrary of the Majestic, Crichton, Ala., has been here on business, as has Clinton Vucovich of the Strand and Belmont, Pensacola, Fla. The Belmont, damaged by fire, is expected to reopen soon. Roland Hoffman, assistant manager of the U. S. Army Motion Picture Service, leaves shortly for Memphis to set late summer and early fall bookings for War Department theatres in this area. BOSTON Paramount distributors and exchange managers from all parts of New England will gather for two days beginning July 30, when Adolph Zukor, Allan Usher and William Erb will be guests at a cocktail party at the Copley Plaza Hotel here. Zukor and others will speak at the meetings which will commemorate Paramount's One-Third of a Century celebration. United Artists executives in this area held a three-day sales meeting at the Statler here. The entire sales forces and bookers of Boston, New