Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1948)

22 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 13, 1948 Regional Newsreel News of Events and Personalities Reported by Correspondents Throughout the Nation CLEVELAND "Hamlet," presented as a roadshow at $2.40 top continues to draw heavy advance sales in its third week at Loew's 1200-seat Ohio Theatre. Large groups of students from surrounding towns attend performances. RKO Palace Manager Max Mink has three stage shows in a row — first break in the summer's straight picture policy. This week Horace Heidt and his audition winners ; next week Rose Marie and a 5-act vaudeville bill and on Nov. 18 Dick Haymes. The theatre is installing new chairs at night without interfering with the schedules. Wade M. Carr, district manager for Manley, Inc., was host during the week to the company's division manager, N. L. Lyons. Two future film men are now attending Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. They are Larry Stotter, son of Oscar Stotter of the Ritz Theatre ; and Dick Krath, son of Alex Krath of the Market Square Theatre. Justin Spiegle has been appointed Screen Guild manager to succeed Edwin R. Bergman. Spiegle, who recently resigned from the Eagle Lion sales force to take over for Screen Guild, has been in the picture business for 22 years. Mrs. Nazera Zegiob, owner of theatres in Lorain, is planning an extensive remodeling job for her Liberty, Vermilion. Rose Weitz is back with United Artists here after spending three years in the New York office. Now she is in the booking department. Dick Dowdell is back in UA's booking department. Warner District Manager Charle Rich was in conference last week in Pittsburgh with Manager Paul Krumenacker and in Indianapolis with Manager C. W. McKean. Paramount Division Manager Ted O'Shea stopped off for a brief visit with District Manager Harry Goldstein and Branch Manager Saul Frifield. Eagle Lion Manager Robert Richardson is introducing two new salesmen to the trade — Gordon Craddock, Jr. and Al Glaubinger, who comes from Pittsburgh where he was with RKO Terry de Long of Republic and Bernard Stern of New York will be married on Dec. 26. Republic biller Margaret Waski is moving to Florida the first of the year. Associated's 1800-seat deluxe theatre in Euclid, O. will be named the Lake. Roger Scherer of Defiance, former manager of the Mailers Circuit, has purchased the Family Theatre, Fort Wayne, Ind. Nate Schultz, Monogram franchise owner, left Friday by plane for Los Angeles to attend an important company business meeting. BOSTON The Rex, Central Square, Cambridge, held its opening on Nov. 4. The theatre will specialize in only tried and true pictures. A new feature is its mammoth marquee which stretches around three sides of the building. "The Red Shoes" will have its New England premiere at the Majestic on Nov. 18. Eagle Lion Exploitation Manager Leon Brandt was in to confer with Joe Mansfield and Charles Barron, company field exploiters, on the campaign. Accompanying Brandt were Jerry Dale, T. Arthur Rank Organization, and Charles REGIONAL NEWS INDEX Atlanta 27 Boston 22 Chicago 26 Cincinnati 23 Cleveland 22 Columbus 24 Denver 24 Des Moines 30 Harrisburg 23 Hartford 30 Indianapolis 24 Kansas City 24 Los Angeles 26 Louisville 24 Minneapolis 25 Milwaukee 23 New Haven 26 New Orleans 24 New York 22 Oklahoma City 25 O.naha 26 Philadelphia 22 Pittsburgh 27 Portland 25 St. Louis 27 Salt Lake City 27 San Francisco 25 Toronto 25 Vancouver 23 Washington 26 Amory, Monroe Greenthal Agency vice-president. Mark Silver, United Artists' assistant eastern sales manager, was here to discuss coming releases with Manager John Dervin. Fred Stein, special representative in charge of special features for Eagle Lion, came in from New York for a conference with District Manager Tom Donaldson and Branch Manager Harry Segal. Lester Hughes, Nordica, Freeport, Maine, called at all of the exchanges. Bill Savitts, Arcadia, Portsmouth, N. H., was glimpsed chatting with Charley Morse, Morse Circuit. Elanor R. Silverman, formerly of Monogram, has now assumed her Eagle Lion post as assistant cashier. EL also welcomed its new office manager Ben Wolf, who was formerly with Interstate Candy Company, and once was office manager at MGM. RKO Ralph Banghart's secretary has been off from work with a slight operation to be recuperated from. She is doing well and will soon be back on the job. Bill Madden, MGM salesman, came back from vacation with a brand new Ford. Loew's Division Manager Charles E. Kurtzman took newsreels and a master motion picture of the entire Catholic Youth Organization's recent mammoth parade. The Nudes Must Go! Ten 20 by 10-foot murals of undraped womanhood which have adorned the walls of the Liberty, in San Francisco's North Beach, are up on the auction block. With acquisition of the former burlesque house by the Golden State Circuit, to become an "art" foreign-film theatre, the management decided the pictures of nudes on the walls would have to go. NEW YORK Clarence Eiseman Clarence Eiseman, for five years New York branch manager for Warner Bros., has been promoted to Metropolitan district manager with headquarters in New York, Vice-President and General Sales Manager Ben Kalmenson anounced this week. Eiseman steps into the shoes of Sam Lefkowitz, who has been granted a leave of absence due to ill health. Ben Abner will fill the place vacated by Eiseman. Abner has been New Jersey branch manager for MGM for the past 10 years. The new appointments take effect Nov. 15. Prior to Eiseman's connection with Warners as New York branch manager, he served as branch manager for United Artists in Atlanta, Pittsburgh and New York. Lefkowitz is slated for a new executive appointment when he returns to active duty at Warners. Lou Allerhand, with MGM for more than 22 years as poster clerk, booker, and salesman, in New York and New Jersey, has been appointed New Jersey branch manager. Fam Lee Theatres, Inc. of Newark, N. J., has acquired the 975-seat Astor in North Bergen, N. J. and will close it Dec. 1, for alterations. Ben Griefer is president of the new Fam Lee Theatres; Elaine C. Griefer, vice-president; Thomas A. Adams, secretary, and Peter A. Adams, treasurer. Rockefeller Center Executive Manager and Radio City Music Hall President Gus Eyssell will be honored as the "Picture Pioneer of the Year" at the ninth annual dinner of the Motion Picture Pioneers on Nov. 17 at the WaldorfAstoria. A daughter named Sarah Jane Fuller and weighing six pounds, 11 ounces, was born Nov. 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. McWilliams at the White Plains Hospital. McWilliams is Columbia's exploitation manager. The couple has another daughter, Rosanne, 7, and a son, Harry, 5. A sou named Robert, their first child, weight eight pounds, two ounces, was born Nov. 7 to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Goodman at the Flushing Hospital. Goodman is assistant to Columbia's short subjects sales manager. PHILADELPHIA The Stanley-Warner Sedgwick was held up last week with the thugs escaping with an alleged $500. John Golder, special representative for Jam Handy Films, is back from a business trip to Atlanta. Esther Bass is the new bookers' stenographer and Jean Coyle a new secretary at Eagle Lion. Milt Young, Columbia publicist, was home for the holidays with his family and then was off again for a month or more in the Rochester territory. Mrs. Ethel Poole, Universal-International contract clerk has been on the sick list. Two teen-age boys were arrested in the Stanley-Warner Kent by police who found them