Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1946)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 16, 1946 REGIONAL NEWSREEL (Continued from Page 33) cording to an announcement by T. G. Whitney, district service manager. Marcella Grosse of the Warner theatre booking department, won first prize at the Warner Club masquerade Halloween party. She went as Cleopatra. The same costume also netted her a ten dollar bill as winner in another masquerade party which she attended the following flight. John Coine, local MGM office manager who was transferred to the San Francisco ofBce, announces the birth of a daughter. Julius Lamm, manager of Warners' Uptown Theatre, has a new granddaughter, Barbara Ann. She was delivered last week to his daughter, Mrs. Therese Bandler. INDIANAPOLIS Frederick Sorrells, veteran of four years in the Army, has been named the new manager af the Vogue Theatre succeeding Joseph Araiantrout, who resigned to enter another business. Peter Rosian, Universal district manager here on business Friday, remained over Saturday to attend the opening of Keith's Theatre, the new first-run house in the city. Rex Carr, general manager of Marcus Enterprises, and his family are visiting relatives in Calion, Arkansas. Fred Dolle, head of the Fourth Avenue Amusement Co., Inc., and a partner in the Greater Indianapolis Amusement Co., Inc., operators of the Indiana, Circle and Lyric Theatres, spent several days in the city inspecting his local holdings. Indiana State police recovered the car belonging to Charles Acton, Republic salesman, which was stolen from a tourist camp near Evansville, Ind. Tom Baker, head of Affiliated Theatres, Inc., dnd Mrs. Baker have gone to St. Petersburg, Ra. for the winter. Kenneth Collins, general manager of Greater Indianapolis Amusement Co., Inc., spent several days in New York City during the week on business. The 20th Annual Convention and Trade Show jf the Associated Theatre Owners of Indiana. Inc., to be held at the Hotel Severin, Indianapolis, Nov. 19-20, promises to set a new high m state exhibitor association conventions. The convention committee consisting of Marc J. Wolf, chairman, Trueman Rembusch, Maurice Rubin and Sam J. Switow, co-ohairmen, will be in charge of the affair. Jules Lapidus, eastern division manager, and Charles Rich, district manager, visited the Warner branch last Tuesday on business. Lapidus And, oh yen, if you are a ui>cr of upcriol Irnileri, you know FILM ACK'S ncrvUe anJ Fllmack's now provue sarvlco isn't ready yol . . . but II Isn't too oarly to Ihlnk about 11. II you wont to know more about it, writo ^^^^^ qiiolily con'l bo brni ! FILMACK 1327 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago 5. 111. THEY, TOO, CAN HEAR. Equipped with hearing aids, Joanne Kovacs, 11, and Esther Cruze, 10, pupils at the Lexington School for the Deaf, enjoy the Saturday morning kiddie show at the Park Avenue Theatre in New York. The hearing aids are among the several features offered by the new house. left Indianapolis for Cincinnati; Rich and manager Claude McKean went to Chicago on business. Twentieth-Fox auditor D. J. Collins, is at the local branch on business. W. C. Gehring, central division manager, and J. Bloom, his executive assistant called at the Fox branch last Wednesday. Exhibitors visiting Filmrow during the week included K. E. Maurice, Wabash, Clinton; A, L. Gravel, Gravel, Goodland ; F. C. Kohlnorst, Fairy, Napanee; J. B. Whitley, Colonial, Kokomo ; Louis Wiethe, Bard, Louisville, Ky., Mrs. W. J. Haney, Milan, Milan ; Harry Watts, Alhambra, Knightstown; William T. Studebaker, Logan, Logansport; R. L. Hudson, Sr. and his son, Richmond ; Roger Scherer, Mailers Circuit, Ft. Wayne and E. H. Austin, Austin, Versailles. TORONTO FAMOUS PLAYERS' 25 YEAR CLUB MEMBERSHIP INCREASES; CLUBHOUSE FOR VARIETY TENT In preparation for the third annual dinner of the 25 Year Club of Famous Players Canadian Corp., Toronto headoffice announces that 24 more staff employes of the circuit have become eligible for membership, bringing the total membership to approximately 100. Club functions are to be held at Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver for reunion and initiation purposes. The rewards for the old-timers include a diamond-studded lapel badge, membership certificate, three instead of two weeks' vacation with pay annually, and either an inscribed gold watch or a $100 bond. The list of candidates is headed by Angus MacCunn of the Toronto headoffice, and includes the following managers : W. W. Novak, Capitol, Winnipeg ; Chris Gcorgas, Classic, Owen Sound, Out. ; John M. Gow, Capitol, Nanaimo, B. C, and Ronald McLelland, Capitol, Toronto. Also prominent is Harold A. Bishop, district manager at Winnipeg. Speaking of veterans. Famous Players has congratulated E. P. Fields, who has been manager of the Capitol Theatre, Moose Jaw, Sask., for 28 years. The executive portion of Odeon Theatres of Canada in Toronto is having difficulty in finding office space for expanding activities, pending the completion of the Odeon Carlton Theatre. The growth of the Odeon Movie Club movement in Canada is indicated in the announcement of W. C. Tyers, manager of the Capitol Theatre, Niagara Falls, Ont., on the occasion of the first anniversary of the club, that his unit has an active membership of 1,663 juveniles. The local mayor appeared on the stage to offer community congratulations on the results of club operations and Tyers secured a full-page tie-up in the daily newspapers in which many merchants used space for felicitations. With the written consent of the Lord's Daj .Alliance of Canada, Manager R. D. Brown of the Vanity Theatre, Windsor, Ont, is opening the doors at 11 :30 P.M. on Sunday for after-midnight performances to those who have purchased their tickets in advance. Other customers have to wait until after the midnight hour to buy admissions. After a considerable number of years on the headoffice staff of Famous Players Canadian Corp. in Toronto, Miss Virginia Fish resigned to go into the travel agency business. Her associates presented her with a wrist watch in a parting gesture. Also resigned is Charlei Wilks of the advertising department, who has joined another former member, Lockie Haight. in a Toronto photographic enterprise. Manager Lloyd M. Mills of the Belsize Theatre, Toronto, has introduced a series of Thursday night musical stage presentations for both amateurs and professionals, and business haf been excellent on this otherwise weak night. Mills has also been boosting attendance at Saturday matinees by the use of giveaways for juveniles. President J. J. Fitzgibbons of Famous Players Canadian Corp. will continue as presiding officer of the Toronto Tent of Variety Clubs of America until the end of 1947, while other officers will retain their posts for the extended term, in accordance with a resolution adopted at the November meeting in the King Edward Hotel. The large gathering decided to proceed with the erection of a clubhouse in downtown Toronto because of inability to secure suitable premises after months of searching. Jay I. English, architect of Canadian Odeon, was appointed to supervise the choice of two sites. Six candidates were initiated into membership. Recently appointed Toronto branch manager of RKO Distributing Corp. of Canada, Joe McPherson has resigned to return to Winnipeg where he becomes branch manager for Monogram Pictures in succession to Sam Pearlman. Pearlman, who originally came from Calgary, has not announced his plans. The Canadian Boy Scouts Association has extended official patronage to engagements throughout the Dominion of "Men of Tomorrow," a Warner Bros. Technicolor short dealing with various phases of the Scouts program Eddie Newman, manager of the Famous Players' Metropolitan, Winnipeg, won the first-prize trophy in the sixth annual Canadian Moving Picture Digest Showmanship Contest with his campaign on "Vacation from Marriage." Second prize winner was H. F. Wilson of the Capitol at Chatham, Ont., and third was J. V. Ward. Seneca, Niagara Falls, Ont. Hudson Novel for USP "The Purple Land," novel written by W. H. Hudson in 1885, has been set by Milton Sperling, president of United States Pictures, as a future production for Warner Bros, release.