Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1947)

32 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, March 1, 1947 REGIONAL NEWSREEL (Continued from Page 31) operation. Florence Fisher is a new employee in the booking department of Warner Bros. Theatres. Ralph E. Crabill, Warner Bros. Theatres Jamestown district manager, visited the Albany office. The family of John Bylancik tendered him a surprise party in honor of his birthday Monday (24). He is office manager of National Screen Service. Harry Rabinowitz, former booker and office manager for PRC, is making a trip to California in March and plans to locate there permanently. His family will join him after son Jerry graduates in June. Joe Rosen, 20th-Fox branch manager, has moved his family to Albany and they are residing at 8 Ryckman Avenue. Among recent Albany visitors in New York City were three MGMites, Bennet Goldstein, booker, Office Manager Edward Susse and Cashier Ruth Hogan; Paramount Branch Manager Edward Ruff ; Marian Hogan, 20th-Fox secretary ; Sid Deneau, Schine general manager. PORTLAND With the advent of the wonderful spring weather, the "Spring" has also been put in the box offices. Attendance records at the ace houses of Pacific northwest houses have again been broken. "The Jolson Story" is into the eleventh big week at Seattle's Liberty, "Blue Skies" at Fox-Spokane into a second big week, with take some 20 per cent above "Bells." Yes, it's again Bing's home town which helps a lot. "Two Years Before the Mast" Elsinore, Salem, brought fine business from numerous Willamette valley points. Long lines on initial days at Portland's Paramount, for "The Jolson Story," and SHOWMEN'S SILHOUETTES ■* Dick iwi.' J£SS££ |'V£ f3£€N CC£RK, ST£N06ecr?£TARVACCOONTANT AND A. $(\\(JD&-— 9 Worn I DO NOtrT fbST-e He wa-s A QuicKSuccess AS A BOOKER, BUS>€R AND OP€R4TOR_« CHICAGO SP€C/A£ 1ST" IN WAT|?€ MANAGEMENT OP£RAT£5 WUS€5 IN itUNOlS AND INDIANA H€ \S J£CR£TARV'TR£ASUR£R OF TH6 INDIANA-ILLINOIS TH€ATR€Sy INC e]c/j RSC I t^f-u^ Next Week . ROBERT M. ("ROB") SAYIIVI likewise at Oriental day-and-date advises Manager Frank Pratt. Paramount executives held a special dinner at Berg's Chalet, Portland, in celebration of the 13 weeks' drive, and in welcome to Hugh H. Braley on his return to the northwest as western manager and to his assistant, Harold Worthwein. Bob Blair, exploiteer ; Portland Paramount managers ; Archie Holt, star salesman ; M. M. Mesher, general manager of Evergreen Theatres and staff ; Walter Tebbetts, dean of exhibitors, now of the Crest, Portland, were among those attending the affair. Ted Gamble has named his remodeled Rex Theatre the Round Up, with Stanley Long, an old time theatre executive, as manager. John Vallin, PRC field representative, is visiting Wally Rucker, Portland and Seattle manager. Don McGregor, RKO publicist, is leaving the Pacific northwest for similar duties in Cleveland. Sammy Siegel, Columbia coast exploiteer, is visiting old friends along film row. Frank Graham has sold his two theatres in Auburn to Norton Clapp of Tacoma. Cashier Shirley Swan at the Liberty, Spokane, recently exchanged $20 in greenbacks for a roll of 50-cent pieces. On opening the roll she found it filled with washers. A daughter was born to J. and Gene Von Herberg. They already had three boys. Eagle-Lion West Coast Sales Manager L. E. Goldhammer is covering the Pacific northwest key cities. Some 400 acres of Ginger Rogers' 1,100-acre ranch on Rogue River, have been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Rene Estourville, recently of France. Jerry Laswell is back at his desk following a short illness. Better Hollywood product has brought better grosses at local theatres. MINNEAPOLIS In a bulletin sent out by North Central Allied independent exhibitors were urged to write their legislators and inform them of their opposition to three proposals "in the hopper" of the Minnesota legislature — two involving a state admissions tax and the third a daylight savings time bill. Irma Brown, box office statement clerk at MGM, is back from a vacation in Texas. A short, "Open the Door, Richard," based on the original "Dusty" Fletcher vaudeville act and starring Fletcher will be distributed in the territory by North Star Pictures. Minnesota Amusement Co. has booked the film for its entire circuit. Jack Kelly, head of the importation and reprint division of MGM, was at the Minneapolis exchange. Back from Hollywood where he has been sitting in on final script preparation for his proposed film on Dan Patch, the great race horse, W. H. Frank, Minneapolis producer, is enthusiastic over progress achieved. Walter Brennan and Jim Basquette, Amos and Andy's Gabby, the lawyer, have been signed for featured roles. Theresa Wright will play the feminine lead and Frank is awaiting word from Joel McCrea and Walter Huston about the two male leads. Alfred Green, who made "The Jolson Story," will direct the picture. W. H. Workman, branch manager of MGM,