Showmen's Trade Review (Jul-Sep 1945)

ating from battle fatigue in California after 35 Lombat missions. Harry and Ben Bluniiberg, Philadelphia theatre equipment dealers and W. H. Castay, New Orleans, will be in Chicago for a dealers' convention at the Edgevvater Hotel next month. N. B. Blount and Don Stafford have bought the Monarch Theatre Supply Co. of Memphis from Messrs. Cohen and Bernstein. W. H. Strafiford, business agent of the lATSE local 666, says that the basic wage of $120 for union members has not been changed since 1941 and with the increase in living expenses, members of the union want a IS per cent wage increase. He says the California base is $200 and in New York it is $150 for a 40-hour week. Bob Tucker, chief electrician of the B & K Paradise, ' is very ill, as is Francis Pallester, manager of the B & K costume department. Helen Tymanski, former secretary of the B & K Marbro district offices, has resigned and will be married this week. .\anong the B & K managers expected back soon from service are Leslie Gleason, formerly manager of the LaGrange ; Eugene Somach, formerly of the Admiral and Harvey Shapiro, , formerly of the Will Rogers. Johnny Jones of the McVickers Theatre has returned from a coast trip. .'Kdolph Linick, pioneer theatre exhibitor and one of the founders of the Jones, Linick & Schaefer Circuit, is expected here this week for a visit. He will be coming from his California home. The new Universal exchange will probably be on south Michigan Avenue near 13th Street, near the Paramount exchange. Ben Katz, Universal exploiteer, is in Mmneapolis on business. Chris Rodin of the Astor is in New York on booking deals. Robert Schmidt and Dr. Carrol of MGM s 16-mm department are in Chicago visiting equipment manufacturers. The first television sets have been installed in the Lakeview and Goudy High Schools here for pupils. DeVry reports a shipment of 40 35-mm projectors to New Delhi, India and 75 to Bombay agents. Robert Libert has been appointed distributor for Turkey; J. H. Mort, distributor I or Switzerland and Ashad AH Haji, expected licre next week, will distribute in Spain and Portugal. More employes are being hired due to an upsurge of civilian trade. The Chicago Theatre will have the world premiere of "Dolly Sisters," Oct. 5. The Army Pictorial issue of Business Screen, scheduled for November publication, will carry a complete report on the production and use of training films in the Armed Forces. William F. Rodgers, MGM vice-president and general sales manager, has left here, en route to the coast. Tom Gillham, 20th-Fox exchange manager, was host to the Great States booking department at a luncheon this week. Lt. Tack Gould has received his discharge from the Army air force and has rejoined the Paramount exchange as country salesman. Lou Goldberg and Sam StoU, Paramount salesmen, conferred this week with Alger circuit executives on the new season's product. Lester Cowan here for the "GI Joe" premiere, stated that his next film will be based on the life of Sun Yat Sen, China's first president. He said he also may produce a film based on returned veterans. Bertram Willoughby, president of Ideal Piclures and Edward Stevens, managing director of Ideal's southern offices at Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami and Richmpnd, are going to separate their business, with Willoughby retaining Chicago headquarters and seven other branches of the company in other parts of the country. Ted Reisch has joined Universal as city salesman and Robert Funk has retired as salesman to engage in another busineess. Despite the film jam on the loop, the RKO (ii-and continues to play reissues, with "Gun For Hire" and "Northwest Mounted" m for a week's run. The Woods is winding up a 14week nin of "Wontler Man." COLUMBUS RKO Grand held over the dual bill, including "Christmas in Connecticut" and "The True Glory," following one of the biggest weeks in recent months. The Grand is the first local theatre to show "The True Glory." It received high commendation from local critics. Variety Club members know that the war's over. The Sunday night dinner parties are back after three years hiatus caused when the club turned its rooms over to junior hostesses and service men. The service parties, during which thousands of men and women in uniform from all over the country were guests, were discontinued in mid-September. Bobby Jones, former chief barker of the Variety Club, is back after a vacation in Michigan. Lenore Lortz is home from New York, where she was dancing in the Rockettes' line at Radio City Music Hall. Local showmen were saddened by news of the death of Evelyn Thawl, former Columbus dancer, who died in New York following a brief illness. Miss Thav^d appeared in several pictures as well as stage musicals, including the Fannie BriceWillie Howard editipn of "Ziegfeld Follies." Gertrude Zweig, secretary to Allen Sparrow, Loew's Western division manager, is on her innual vacation. Along High Street : P. J. Wood caricatured by L. S. McClelland in his Citizen Cartoon Parade page ; Arthur Egberts, new Loew's Ohio manager, trying to locate a house for his family ; Lou Holleb, receiving many a compliment on the smart appearance of his Majestic foyer and lobby, recently refurbished ; Jayne Flasher, former Columbus Citizen feature writer and relief theatre editor, back from a long sojourn in Mexico City where she worked for United Press, telling that she'll be back soon to do publicity for RKO. She assisted Merrill Pye, MGM art director, and Jack Cummings, director, in shopping for a matador's outfit for a forthcoming musical, she related. PHILADELPHIA The United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied the petition of Warners, three atTiliates and eight major producers and distributors, for a rehearing in a monopoly suit recently won by William Goldman Theatres. Inc. Early in August, the court ruled that Warners had an unlawful monopoly on the showing of first-run motion pictures in Philadelphia. It held that the Erlanger, operated by Goldman, was entitled to its share of first-run pictures. The ruling reversed a decision by the U. S. District Court, which had dismissed Goldman's suit for $1,350,000 damages and an injunction. The Appellate court found that Goldman was entitled to both the injunction and damages, but left it to the lower court to determine the amount. The denial of the petition for a rehearing leaves but one further alternative for the defendants, an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Indication from the lawyers was that such a course would be taken. Last Monday, Goldman filed another suit with the United States District Court, seeking to obtain . first-run films from the same group of defendants for the Keith's and Karlton Theatres, of which the Goldman Company is the lessee. Frank L. McNamee, deputy chairman of the War Manpower Commission since January 22, has resigned that post to return to the operation of a circuit of motion picture theatres in eastern Pennsylvania, in which he is part owner with Jay Emanuel. Ben Harris, manager of the American Film Exchange, is in the Jefferson hospital after an abdominal operation. A section of one of his thigh muscles was removed in order to allow the operating surgeon to do an internal plastic job. Ben didn't know about the cutting of his leg until the bandage slipped and he found the incision which has six stitches in it. Rube Pearlman, Columbia salesman who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in ( Continued on Page 32) NOW BOOKING! ACTION PICTURES, Inc. ' . */>.^l^ Robert I. (.ippert. Pres. 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