Showmen's Trade Review (Jul-Sep 1945)

September 2Q. 1^)45 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW 33 formerly with M. and P., is in the press relations department of the Central Pacific Command. Dcsjjite the spread of polio throughout the Kast, public schools in metropolitan Boston have re-opened. There is no immediate fear that a limitation will be placed on patronage of theatres in this area. Warners' Publicist, Art Moger, has successfully completed an extensive exploitation campaign in Providence for "Christmas in Connecticut." George Lougee, formerly assistant manager of the Capitol and Frank Kelley, former assistant manager of the Olympia, both in Lynn, are home on furlough. Corp. Arthur R. Goldstein, son of RKO's Harry, recently was discharged from the .A.rmy. Corp. Myron J. Segal, son of Warners' Harry Segal, has returned after almost five years in the Army. Herbert and Mrs. Philbrick have returned from a mobile vacation during which they went all through the White Mountains on bikes. Philbrick is assistant to Harry Browning, chief publicist of M. & P. theatres. DETROIT More than 400 members of Allied Theatres Association of Michigan will hold their Twentysixth annual convention here November 5th to 7th at the Statler Hotel. Fred E. Pennell, general manager for Allied Theatres in Michigan, is general chairman. The Directors Banquet will be held on the evening of November 5th and all-day business sessions are planned for the following two days. The convention will close with the annual banquet on November 7, which is always the social highlight of the annual event. Ray Branch, Hastings, Mich., is the association president and will preside at all sessions. Alice Gorham, publicity chief for the United Detroit Theatres Corp., has announced the approaching Boogie-Woogie piano contest has created more interest than expected. .Applications from high school pupils have swamped the office of the Michigan Theatre, wliere Frankie Carle will judge the contest during thj week of October 5 when his orchestra plays a iveek's engagement. PITTSBURGH His legion of friends here were very happy t.i learn of the appointment of Byron D. ("Buck") .Stoner, former branch manager for MGM and later buyer for the Pennsylvania Enterprises, Inc., as branch manager for 20th Century-Fox in San Francisco. Mrs. Stoner left Pittsburgh last week to join her husband in San Francisco. Ben Brown, Paramount, Connellsville, Pa., is seriously ill at the Montefiore Hospital here. Before resigning about two months ago. Brown was chief projectionist for the Warner Theatre Circuit in this territory, having served 16 years in that capacity. The Manos .\niusement Company headquarters at the Greensburger Hotel, Greensburg, Pa., are being enlarged and renovated. Due to recent additions to the circuit more space is required. This company is headed by the veteran sliowman, M\kt Manos, who has been in theatre business more than 30 years. . John D. Walsh, manager of Shea's Fulton, first-run downtown house in this city, has returned to his desk after an absence of two months, during which time he was vacationing and later in charge of the completion and opening of a new Shea theatre in Greenfield, Mass. Harry Passarell, ofifice manager for Paramount here, who was in a serious automobile accident six weeks ago, has returned to parttime duty, not yet having fully recovered from his injuries. It is now definite that the AMPTO of Western Pennsvlvania's silver anniversary conven tion will be held in the Hotel William Penn here October 22 and 23. Heretofore the AMPTO held its conventions at the Roosevelt Flotel. DES MOINES A new motion picture theatre will be erected at West Union, la., by Lawrence Bookenstedt of West Union and W. H. Scott of Nashua. -Architect plans are now being drawn. Work on a proposed $75,000 drive-in theatre in south Des Moines near the army post is expected to get underwav this fall, W. C. Sobel, an executive of the Mid-west Drive-In Theatres, Inc., of Boston reported while in Des Moines. He said the company hopes to have the house open by May, 1946. It will feature individual speakers for each automobile. The Des Moines Variety Club will hold its next meeting this week, at which time it is expected a membership of 125 will be attained. G. Ralph Branton is chief barker of the club. Twentieth Century-Fox is planning to make \ film out of the autobiography of MacKinlay Kantor, former Iowa novelist and short story writer. The story is bemg published this fall by Coward-MoCann and deals with his boyhood and family life at Webster City. Dana Andrews is scheduled to portray Kantor. The novelist returned to his family home at Webster City this week for a short visit. NEW YORK Tom Connors, 20th-Fox vice-president and general sales manager, has offered companypaid trips to London and Paris to 13 members of his field force who exceed their three-week quota by^the highest percentage in the current sales drive. The men selected will consist of one sales manager, tWo district managers, five branch managers and five salesmen. The trip will be in addition to the regular bonuses which the men will receive. Milton Dubin, booker at the Paramount exchange, homesick for his native town, has resigned and returned to Binghamton. Donald C. Spaulding, Columbia exploiteer, has resigned his job and become editor-in-chief of the Greenwich Reviczc, a daily. Charles Cohen, for 14 years in the MGM advertising and publicity department, has resigned to become an advertising executive with an industrial concern. Matthew Lo Russo has joined Republic's art department. Louise Crescenzo has become secretary to .Archie Berish, head booker at the Warner exchange and Eleanor Hammer has joined the exchange as file clerk. Cpl. Ralph Pielow Jr., son of the MGM exchange head, on 30-day furlough in New York, was rushed to the Ft. Totten hospital here last week, when wounds in his stomach caused by shrapnel in the ETO broke open. Cpl. Pielow was stationed at a Texas hospital originally, on his return from Europe. A meeting of Motion Picture Associates at the Capitol Hotel was held last week attended by over 100 salesmen and exhibitors. It was disclosed that the profits on the last dance at the Waldorf doubled any obtained before. A committee was formed to lay plans and raise the money for a building to be purchased about 50 miles from New York to house former film people in need. A committee composed of Samuel Rinzler, Bert Sanford, Dave Levy, Jack Ellis and Moe Sanders is in charge. Cpl. Ted O'Shea, Jr., son of E. K. O'Shea, MGM eastern sales manager, has been discharged after 30 months in the Marines and will return to the University of North Carolina in November, where he v\'ill rejoin the football team as center. Captain James O'Shea, oldest son of the MGM executive, will retire as an officer November 3 after 42 months service and also return to the same college. O'Shea himself is currently in Boston on company business. 0^ ITe^; blood .in9li"9 ild horse f .on out best Irlenis ate the first enjagemeots et this money setter^ ^ H/LLER ^OF THE RANGE ADAWTtO nOM COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE STORY "WILD Honsf BOOK IT NOW AT THESE ASTOR EXCHANGES Atlanta, Astor Boston, Embassy Buffalo, Pam-0 Charlotte. Astor Chicago, Capitol Cincinnati, Popular ri'veland, Imperial Dallas, Astor Denver, Commercial Des Moines, Film Classics Detroit, Allied Indianapolis, P.R.C. Los Angeles, Astor Milwaukee, Astor Minneapolis, Astor New Haven, Conn. 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