Showmen's Trade Review (Jul-Sep 1945)

September 15, 1945 SHOWMEN'S TRADE R E \' I E W 47 New Theatres and Renovation Projects m the News Asheville, N. C— $300,000 theatre-office building on Battery Park ; 1500 seats, four store rooms, announced by Carl R. Bamford, president, Publix-Bamford Theatres, Inc. Lansing, Mich. — Twelve hundred seat theatre with parking facilities for 300 cars in 1300 block of E. Michigan Ave., announced by E. C. Beatty, president and general manager, W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc. Red Bank, N. J. — Walter Reade plans erection of large new theatre comparable in modernism and comfort facilities to his theatre in Morristown, N. J. Douglas, Ariz. — New 700 seat Vista Theatre, Spanish style in stuccoed concrete, on G Avenue and 8th Street, announced by James N. Xalis, president. Grand Amusement Co. Grand Theatre also to be renovated and reseated. Yakima, Wash. — Two new theatres projected by Fred Mercey, Sr. at Selah and Naches, Wash., at cost of $60,000 each. Also plans new theatre in Yakima, opposite present Lyric, im-provements approximating $25,000 to Capitol Theatre, $65,000 to improve and renovate Liberty, Yakima and Roxy theatres in Yakima. Windsor, N. C. — ^Palace Theatre, owned by Roy T. Thompson, was destroyed by fire with loss estimated at $35,000. Plans under way to rebuild. Hope, Ark. — Saenger Theatre, destroyed by fire, now being rebuilt by Malco Theatres, Inc., according to M. S. McCord, North Little Rock. Kansas City, Mo. — Two new theatres announced by J. E. Pope, Fox Midwest Amusement Co. for Kansas City area, one at Overland Park to be known as the Trail, the other a new Negro theatre at 26th & Prospect Ave. Other new Fox theatres are planned for Wichita, Winfield, Hays, Kansas, and Springfield, 111. Conway, S. C. — New theatre to be operated in connection with the Carolina by the Anderson theatre interests. Asheville, N. C— A $75,000 Strand Theatre to be erected by E. B. Meiselman, Charlotte theatre owner, 800 seats, corner Biltmore Ave. and Eagle Street. Henry I. Gaines, architect, Asheville, N. C. Waterloo, S. C. — Seven hundred and fifty seat theatre to be built by H. B. Cook, owner of Ritz Theatre on Lucas Street. Ronald Greene and Robert L. Kane, architects, Asheville. Elizabeth City, N. C. — Carolina Amusement Co. will build new 750 seat theatre it was announced by Holland Webster. Site is in 500 block on East Colonial Avenue. Ironwood, Mich. — Lucile Forbes, president of the Forbes Theatres, announced plans to erect a new 500 seat theatre on Highway US-51 in Mercer, Michigan. Stockton, Calif.— New $150,000 theatre to be erected on East Main Street at junction of F and Marsh Streets by Fox West Coast Theatres, Inc. Gulfport, Miss. — Former Ford Building on 24th Avenue at 14th Street will be converted into theatre by Paramount Richards Theatres, Inc. Berrien Springs, Mich. — John Eisner of the Berry Theatre has announced plans to build a new theatre in the spring of 1946. Memphis, Tenn. — M. A. Lightman, president of Malco Theatres, Inc., outlined $1,500,000 new construction and improvement program to 50 Malco managers at dinner held in Variety Club. Plans include new theatre on Main Street ; remodeling of Capitol Theatre, East McLemore Street, Princess Theatre, Malco Theatre and erection of new drive-in-movie in Memphis. Other items. Seats— $100,000, Carpet— $40,000, Equipment — $60,000. New Theatre at Jackson, Tenn., and moving of drive-in-theatre there to new site. Hendersonville, N. C. — North Carolina Theatres, Inc. will build new 800 seat theatre on Main Street, according to H. E. Buchanan. Columbia, Tenn. — Former Vogue Theatre building, recently used as a food market, will be reconverted back into a theatre by Roy Richards of Richards and Richards. Houston, Miss. — W. R. Rush will construct a modern brick and concrete theatre which will supplement his Houston Theatre. Gastonia, N. C. — ^The Realty Building is to be torn down for the erection of a new theatre. Wallace, Idaho — Mrs. Edna Wilma Simons, president of the W. A. Simons Theatre Co., Missoula, announced plans to build a new 700 seat theatre of the stadium type to be named the Wilma in honor of her late husband who founded the circuit in 1909. Theatre will adjoin City Hall on Cedar Street. Newark, N. J.— A $150,000 combination television-movie theatre to be built at Springfield Ave. and S. 19th Street by Belray Enterprises. PROJECTORS WORTHY OF A PROUD NAME A I'ROUl) N AMK in tlic motion picture world. l)i\R^ is jListiv proud of its new 35mni nioli.ui pi.unc prt)|ect(irs for which orders are now being accepted. Into these streamlined, iiii>gc(l. (iur;il)le and troublefree essentials lo audience satisfaction has gone a wcaltli ot engineering knowledge and experience. 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