Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1948)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 23, 1948 27 REGIONAL NEWSREEL DALLAS Manager Forrest Thompson of the New Majestic is vacationing. Paramount Publicist Rufus Blair is expected here late this month on his annual "let's talk a Hollywood trip." Televised descriptions of the New Majestic opening of Oct. 7 are on local Interstate screens this week. Lou Bullman, stage manager of the New Majestic, started work for Karl Hoblitzelle when Interstate opened the theatre in 1905 and has been working continuously for the house since. John C. Greer has bought total stock in United Theatre Service Corporation here, and will be its president and general manager. Edwin Rubin, former RKO talent scout, has opened a studio here in which he will offer help to those aspiring to careers on the screen, radio, stage and in television. Theatre Guild of the Air will be broadcast from State Fair Auditorium here Jan. 23, 1949. Jimmy Durante, who heads his own show here at the State Fair Auditorium through Oct. 24, is mulling an offer to appear in a Broadway revue. Jimmy Wakefield and Wanda McKay, Monogram stars, are featured at the Flying L Rodeo at the State Fair of Texas. Local barkers of Tent 17 are contributing time to keeping the home show exhibit of the Variety Club open at the Fair. It's the group's last big money-raising effort for the year and proceeds go to the Boys Ranch at Copperas Cove, Texas. The club's headquarters in the Adolphus Hotel is being repainted. NEW HAVEN Morton Katz, MGM salesman in the New Haven territory, has resigned to book and buy for the B and Q theatres in Connecticut. Ed Lynch, manager of the Roger Sherman, has been forced to give up golf due to a bad shoulder. Charity dance sponsored by the Variety Club of Connecticut, Tent 31 at the Goffe Street Armory, turned out to be a successful affair. Now the club is planning a Hallowe'en dinner-dance in its new club rooms on Oct. 29. American, Rialto and Astor theatres in Bridgeport, are running special kiddie matinees on Columbus Day. Frances Conners, assistant manager of the Majestic, Bridgeport, and John DiBenedetto, assistant at the Poli, are both nursing swollen jaws, the result of tooth trouble. RKO Branch Manager Barney Pitkin is off to New York for home office conferences. Lou Cohen, manager of the Poli, Hartford, is sporting a new auto. PITTSBURGH The local Variety Club Tent No. 1, will hold its annual banquet in the William Penn Hotel Nov. 14. J. T. McGreevey has been appointed chairman of this affair, with M. A. Silver and William Zeilor as co-chairmen. John H. Harris, organizer of the Variety Clubs of America, will return to Pittsburgh from California in the near future to supervise the banquet preliminaries. The club will elect officers next Monday evening (25). Dave Brown, with United Artists here for many years as booker, office manager and salesman, has resigned. Austin Interrante, who operates the Rowland Theatre, Philipsburg, Pa., was married Oct. 15 in Baltimore to Miss Pauline Anton. William Nesbitt, who recently resigned as Eagle Lion office manager, has joined No Gloomy Gus Sharp issue with those whom he called the "prophets of gloom," who see dire things for the motion picture industry, was voiced in Kansas City last Thursday by Rockefeller Center Executive Director Gus Eyssell at a dinner tendered in his honor at the Hotel Muehlebach. Acknowledging that the industry is facing a crisis and is fighting for its life, Eyssell said: "I will not grant you the third point of our prophets of gloom that the future is grim indeed. The future belongs to those who know their business, who have courage, who do not expect to get something for nothing, and who realize that they must serve their community and their country." Eyssell was presented with a platinum and gold money clip as a memento. Some 300 attended the affair whose chairman was Elmer Rhoden. Republic as head booker, succeeding Cele Carpe Abel, resigned. Regis Toomey, a native of this city, flew in last week for the funeral of a close relative. Newton Williams, manager of the National Theatre Supply Company, became a grandfather this week when his daughter, Mrs. Dora Bender, gave birth to a son in Cleveland, Ohio. Eagle Lion Western Division Manager Herman Beiersdorf a visitor here from Dallas last week. HARTFORD Carl H. Nilman, who has operated drive-in theatres in several New England locations, plans to open a 500-car drive-in at Charlemont, Mass. Real estate deals figured in the New England trade picture, with the Keith, Brockton, Mass., being purchased by Joe Stanzler, operator of the Greenwich, East Greenwich, R. I. ; and the Colonial Realty Co., Roxbury, Mass., buying the Willey Block and adjoining Colonial Theatre in Rochester, N. H. The Lou Browns (be's ad-publicity chief for the Poli circuit) are noting their 15th wedding anniversary. The Tony Ripalones of the Eastwood, East Hartford, became parents of their first baby, a boy named Tony, Jr. Ted Jacocks, of Branford, treasurer of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Connecticut, was visiting in Hartford last week. Leonard L. Levy, associated with the law firm of Herman M. Levy (but not related to him), general counsel for the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America, was awarded the Nathan Burkan Memorial prize of $100 by the Yale Law School and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for his paper on "Copyright and the Motion Picture." The contest is in honor of the late Nathan Burkan, outstanding in the field of copyright law, and is conducted in various law schools throughout the country. CLEVELAND In honor of Loew's Granada's 21st birthday on Oct. 15, Manager Eddie Richardson arranged a special events celebration with speeches by the mayor and other Lakewood officials. Paramount Bookers Howard Roth, Irwin Sears and Art Young will offer service with a smile all through November which has been designated as Booker and Salesmen's Month. Variety Club has introduced a series of bridge tournament games to be held in the clubrooms with Republic Salesman Jules Livingston in charge. Al Sunshine of Advanads is attending exhibitors' conventions. S. P. Gorrel, for many years identified with Republic as city sales manager and branch (Continued on Page 30) Clarence Kaimann, president, Kaimann Theatres, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., says: "WE THINK OF ALTEC AS A FRIEND OF 00R BOX OFFICE" WNot one out of a thousand of our patrons even remotely realizes the investment we have made to give them high quality sound and complete listening satisfaction. 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