Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 1, 1949 25 REGIONAL NEWSREEL chestras and concerts. B. Y. & H. Company, Inc., Temple, Texas, was incorporated by Joy N. Houck, Arthur P. Brashear and Ed. Jarbrough to handle opera and plaj^houses. SALT LAKE CITY Fox Intermountain District Manager Jack McGee has been in the Montana territory the past few weeks. . . . Warner Booker Ralph Piza will head home this week from a vacation in Los Angeles, and Universal Booker George Berryman from Montana. . . . United Artists Manager Carroll Trowbridge is back from a southern Utah sales trip. ... RKO District Manager Al Kolitz spent several days here with Manager Giff Davison and his sales force. . . Mrs. Tolan, who operates theatres in Tremonton, Utah, called on film row friends and exhibitors. Two modern Salt Lake City neighborhood theatres are nearing completion — one is J. Kenneth Thayne's Crest, seating 800 and costing $120,000; the second is the Richey, being built by Alvie Peterson at a cost of $100,000, with seats in the auditorium "staggered" and with a cry room. . . . Cameras are grinding on MGM's "Outriders" near Kanab, southern Utah. Papers are being signed for a new $25,000 corporation. Affiliated Super-Drive-In Theatres, to ht operated by C. C. McDermond, with Joe Nercission as booker. . . . Universal sent a location company to Cedar City and Kanab, Utah, to film its Audie MurphyWanda Hendrix Technicolor feature, "Sierra." While film's action takes place in northern California, Universal decided that the southern portion of Utah "looks more like northern California than northern California itself." CHARLOTTE James Yates, manager of the Columbus and Madis'on theatres at Whiteville, N. C, has been transferred to Dunn, N. C, to manage three movie houses there. Ed Jones of Bishopville, S. C, has arrived in Whiteville and taken the place filled for the past four years by Yates. Mr. and Mrs. Yates will make their home in Dunn. Morning shows at the Gaston Theatre at Mount Holly, N. C, have been discontinued because the attendance did not justify their continuance, according to Manager Kenneth Davis. The last one was given Sept. 23. LOUISVILLE ~ Denzil F. Herbershoff opened the new Shepherd at Shepherdsville on Sept. 23. It's in the Masonic Hall building, which for a number of years housed a 16-mm. roadshow theatre. . . . Bob Harned of the Theatair Drive-In at Jeffersonville, Ind., says his second under-skyer will open Oct. 1 and that he has another in the works. . . . Fire burned a complete film and caused considerable damage to the projection booth equipment of R. E. Horton's Neon at Clayburg, Ind. The house closed for a week. . . . The Ace at Brandenburg, owned by E. L. Ornstein Theatres and managed by Eugene Martin, has been outfitted with new auditorium chairs and other improvements. . . . The National offered another stage show with a pair of re-issues. The Clyde Marshalls of the Columbian at Columbia, have returned from an extended Canadian vacation. . . . Recent out-of-town exhibitors : George Lindsay, Brownsville ; J. V. Snook, LaGrange ; J. T. Kennedy, Jr., Stanton ; A. N. Miles, Eminence; Oscar Hopper, Lebanon; the A. V. Luttrells, Russell Springs ; Luther Knifiey, Knifely; Frances Wessel, Carrollton ; J. E. Thompson, Bowling Green ; Louis Chowning, Madison, Ind. ; E. L. Ornstein, Marengo, Ind., and Jesse D. Fine, Evansville, Ind. INDIANAPOLIS Eagle Lion Manager Gordon Craddock announced he would leave Indianapolis the middle of October for Dallas, Texas, to take over the exchange there. . . . The Idaho and Swan theatres, Terre Haute, Ind., will be taken over Nov. 1 by the Y. and W. Management Corporation, Indianapolis. . . . The National Screen Employes Mutual Benefit Club held its annual picnic Sept. 17 at Northern Beaoh Amusement Center with a buffet luncheon and entertainment. The Maplecroft Auto Theatre on U. S. Road 40 is conducting a children's picture contest. The pictures, taken at the theatre, will be flashed on the screen and the audience will vote for their favorites. Babies up to 3-year-olds and children from 3 to 6 years are eligible. . . . Jodie Burk, assistant cashier at Warner Bros.' ■office, succeeds Rosemary Giegrich, who resigned, and Rosie Pollard has been appointed bookkeeper in the cashier's department. . . . Dorothy Baily, booker's stenographer at MGM, and John Glanton were married here on Aug. 27. Booth equipment ^of the Neon Theatre, Jeffersonville, Ind., was destroyed in a fire which started while the house was closed for repairs. New equipment has been installed. . . . R. S. Weilert, operator of the Ritz, at Alexandria, Ind., who suffered with hay fever for several weeks, now has a severe case of asthma. . . . Thelma Smith, manager's secretary at Universal, is vacationing in the Smoky Mountains. HARTFORD Wedding bells rang recently for two Hartford area industryites : Strand Assistant Manager Charles Atamaina and Warner Candy Girl Janet Chicano; Everett (Mass.) Capitol Manager Vince O'Brien and Virginia Grady. . . . Maurice Bailey of the Bailey circuit, New Haven, and Mrs. Bailey announced the engagement of their daughter. Joyce Zelda, to Bernard L. Kaye. Harry Schwartz is the new chief of service at the Hartford Allyn. . . . William Kosack is the new assistant manager of the Warner (Contimied on Page 26) Next? Buffalo Corporation Counsel Fred C. Maloney has ruled that the use as ushers of deputy sheriffs for duty at Memorial Auditorium and Civic Stadium is a violation of section 241 of the Buffalo city charter. As a result of Police Commissioner McMahon's order forbidding the use of uniformed policemen at public events where admissions were charged, promoters had adopted the practice of having ushers sworn in as deputy sheriffs to keep order. BeiALUGOSl. i VOODOO ween