Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1948)

26 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 13, 194! Regional News (Continued from Page 25) nessed a screening of "Red Shoes" and then were entertained at supper in the cafe. The 65 managers of 20th Century Theatres attending the annual meeting here devoted special attention to power interruptions in addition to normal theatre problems. Famous Players Canadian is providing an annual scholarship in the course of journalism at the University of Western Ontario at London, Ont. The two drive-ins near Toronto have introduced a new giveaway, for men patrons only, the gift of a tube of shaving cream. LOS ANGELES Drive-in Theatres of America, the Pacific Coast distributor for the Josserand patent, has offered protection to any person who gets a franchise to build an automobile theatre under that patent. They are fighting the Hollingshead patent people. Donald Guttman has started a drive-in circuit, with an 850-car job in San Pedro, his first. His next project, 900-car capacity, will be at Central Avenue, outside the city limits. Sid Pink has begun an "art" policy at the Vista, which he took over last week. The local V ariety tent will hold its next election on Nov. 29 at the Ambassador Hotel. Sherrill Corwin is in charge of the dinner and entertainment. F. A. Bateman, general sales chief of Screen Guild, and wife Ina Marie, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Nov. 3 with a trip to Palm Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Skouras of Beverly Hills announced the engagement of their niece, Miss Constantina Skouras of Athens, Greece, to William Oldknow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Oldknow of Bel Air. OMAHA ~ 'Ralph Goldberg, owner of the Goldberg circuit, is in Chicago. E. G. Gannon has closed the Avalon at Schuyler and opened his new 300seat Sky Theatre. MGM's Helen Kennison is vacationing at home. Illness kept Bill Barker, Columbia salesman, home for a few days. ■ Gene Rich, head of Exhibitor's Service, will handle publicity for the tuberculosis drive in Nebraska. Tri-States General Manager G. Ralph Branton, from Des Moines, was in the city. Adele Goldstein joins MGM as a booker's stenographer Nov. 15. Hy Chapman, former Columbia branch manager, is improving after a serious illness in a Minneapolis hospital. Jimmy Redmond, Falls City manager, is 'heading the Tri-States drive in this territory for the week. Joyce Anderson, secretary to United Artists' Manager Don V. McLucas for a number of years, is returning to her old position at UA. R. W. Brown, owner of the every respect st0 V;__EXCEULENT.' f0rmt,nCIrrer wUn, N. Y. Post Nobel Prize Winner ANDRE GIDE'S SVMPHON1E PASTORALE released by FILMS INTERNATIONAL OF AMERICA INC. • 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 19, N Y Phoenix, Neola, la., is holding open house in celebration of 39 years in the business. Tri-States District Manager Bill Miskell has been approved by the City Council as one of three members of the Police Civil Service Commission. He has been a police buff for years and is chairman of the Law Enforcement and Traffic Committee of the Safety Council. WASHINGTON Marlene Dietrich will appear as a salesgirl — not in pictures but at the annual bazaar of the French Embassy on Nov. 17. Local visitors included Stage Star Maurice Evans who attended the meeting of the Women's National Press Club, and Film Star Ron Randall who was interviewed by local movie critics, gaining much publicity for "The Loves of Carmen" in which he plays the male lead. Morris Cafritz, a Washington realtor, will enter the ranks of exhibitors, according to the Washington Post, with the erection of a theatre at 14th Street above K Street. New board of governors of the Variety Club of Washington, D. C, last week elected the following officers for 1949 : Jake Flax, chief barker ; Wade Pearson, first assistant ; Morton Gerber, second assistant ; Sam Galanty, treasurer ; Jerry Adams, property master. Elected to the new board were Flax, Galanty, Adams, Gerber, George Crouch, Sidney Lust, Fred Klein, Carter T. Barron, Leon Makover and Glenn Norris. NEW HAVEN New attraction at Bob Carney's Loew's Poli theatre in Waterbury is Tiny Day and his organ playing at all performances. Bill Scanlon of the IATSE is huddling with Loew Poli Division Manager Harry F. Shaw, along with Jim Finnegan, president of the Waterbury stage union, and Frank Corrigan, business agent of the union on Waterbury set up. With promotion of Phil Gravitz as salesman for MGM, Leon Jacobson has been promoted to head booker and office manager. Sol Schiffran moves to the booking department and Vincent Flanga becomes assistant to head booker Michael Langello. New B and Q Elm Theatre in Elmwood, Conn., was opened Nov. 10. Ella Fleischer, cashier at the Black Rock Theatre, Bridgeport, has resigned to be married. Branch managers of various exchanges, along with personnel, hosted Morton Katz at a luncheon prior to his leaving MGM as salesman to become booker for B and Q theatres in Connecticut. He was presented 3 rr with pen and pencil set. Mrs. Barney Pitkin, wife of RKO's branch manager, is in Atlantic City representing local Hadassah at its convention. William Finn, manager of the Rialto, Bridgeport, is vacationing. UA Branch Manager Frank Meadow is in New York attending a home office meeting. Leo Ricci, operator of the Capitol, Meriden, will be married Nov. 15 to Edna Ellen Candelent. MINNEAPOLIS The Kenosha Standard Theatre Co., Lake Geneva, Wis., has brought suit against the city of Lake Geneva, charging a high license fee for the firm's Geneva Theatre has been used as a source of revenue, rather than as a levy to cover cost of filing and policing the property. The company asks a judgment of $1,057.50, claiming that that amount was paid the city i: 1947 and 1948 for license fees. Action ata alleges the city exceeded its authority in levying the high fee. Conrad Kriedberg, former SRO manager here, and recently transferred to the St. Louis sales staff, has resigned and is looking for a Minneapolis position. Pearl Moey, National Screen .shipping clerk, vacationed in South Dakota. Warner Cashier Gene Meredith is back from the American Legion convention at Miami and a southern vacation. Columbia Manager Hy Chapman is recovering at home following hospitalization. Frank Lane, LTniversal auditor, and Arnold Kahn, 20th-Fox auditor, have been at company exchanges here. Donald Guttman of Los Angeles, a partner with Ted Mann in a local theatre circuit, returns to film business with the construction in San Pedro, Calif., of a 900-car drive-in to cost about $250,000, 1,000-seat drive-in in southwest Los Angeles and a third outdoor stand at an undisclosed site. Mann is associated with Guttman in the theatres. North Central Allied directors have instructed Stanley Kane, executive director, to "take such action as may be necessary" to make it unlawful for "blind" checkers to operate in Minnesota without being licensed and bonded. The Minnesota attorney general will be asked for an opinion. CHICAGO ★ ★ ★ released by FILM RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL LTD. • 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 19, N Y. ★ ★ * Hearing in the Deluxe Theatre anti-trust suit against the film companies and Balaban and Katz has been postponed to Dec. 27. Judge Phillip Sullivan sustained technical objection of Eastman Kodak counsel in the Revere Camera Company's $3,000,000 anti-trust suit. Judge Donald McKinley appointed Master in Chancery L. A. Westcott to hear Balaban and Katz's claim against the Essaness circuit for alleged overcharges in joint operations. J. L. Etheridge will rename the modernized Majestic, Jo'liet, the Collins. Whiteway Signs' Maurice Weil is out of the hospital. Jerry Allen is the new manager of the Stark, Toulon, 111. Other area appointments include : Herman Jensen, manager, Davis, Chicago; Harry Goldman, Eagle Lion's Chicago manager ;