Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

22 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 8, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL (Cfliili)ii(r(i ffi'in /'age -1 ) and Queen Night" will be held this Saturday night. RKO City Salesman Jack Frisch is convalescing in Florida after hospitalization for pneumonia. . . . Warner Bros. Inspectress Sophie Ringer has resigned after 30 years in the job due to ill health ; her fellow employes presented her with a watch at a farewell party. . . . Eagle Lion Assistant Cashier Joan Rittner was confined to bed with tonsilitis, while EL City Salesman Harold Hellman is in Jewish Hospital for observation. . . . Paramount Clerk Mrs. Catherine Krebs is in Christ Hospital recovering from a spinal dislocation operation. . . . Fox Stenographer's Booker Jane Rich was out several days for dental work. H. B. Snook, T. M. Fisher and J. T. Ware of Midwest Theatre Supply have returned from Chicago. . . . MGM Salesman Art Adams is back from a Washington, D. C, vacation. . . . Joe Bohn, Realart Indianapolis manager, and his wife were here celebrating Bohm's birthday. . . . RKO Manager Stanley C. Jacques and District Manager Morris Lefko were in Pittsburgh conferring with Bert Stearn of Cooperative Theatre Service. . . . United Artists Office Manager Gus J. Boudot is vacationing. . . . RKO Division Manager Emil Groth is back from vacation ; ditto Mrs. Rose Schmidt. Universal Milwaukee Manager Jack Bannan who died last week at 49, was formerly Universal Manager here. . . . Father of MGM Salesman Bob Morrell died in his New York linme of a heart attack. SAN FRANCISCO Edward D. Keil, chairman of the Centennial Commission, has requested the support and participation of California Theatre Owners Association in the placing of a plaque to honor the first theatre in San Francisco. During the Centennial celebration plans are to install the marker at the site of the Jenny Lind Theatre which was built in 1850 at the position now occupied by the Hall of Justice. Mel Klein, sales manager of the Columbia exchange, received a card, a round of drinks and a joke book from members of the exchange staff to celebrate his 20 years with the company. Klein has spent 18^ years in the local office. Klein states he will celebrate by visiting every Business Builder Two theatres in Columbus, Ohio — the World and Little — operated by H. & S. Theatres, are the first to offer a special students' rate. Ohio State University students may obtain the rate by showing their fee cards. Reduced admission is 50 cents with adults' price at 65 cents. town in the territory — including the Indian reservations. Fox West Coast circuit opened its newest theatre in Sacramento Thursday (Oct. 6) with an invitational preview. House was formerly called the Hippodrome and is now titled Crest. . . . Vista Theatre, a 480-seat house owned by the Blumenfeld Circuit, was sold by the chain to Charles M. Jacobson. Vista is located at El Cerrito in the East Bay section. Jerry Collins, San Francisco Theatres, Inc., booker, is currently vacationing in the Sierra Nevada mountains on a deer hunting expedition into the remote back country of Northern California. . . . Bill David, theatre architect and Variety Club member, is traveling with his foot in a cast after an accident at the airport. DALLAS The Phil Isley interests in Dallas announced Friday that three Isley theaters here would put junior prices in effect last Thursday. These are the Avenue, Granada and Major. Prices are 35 cents for night performances. 25 for matinees. The cut, affecting teenagers from 12 to 17, inclusive, follows a similar price readjustment announced by Interstate and affecting 20 of its Dallas houses. Publicists Toney Terry Hatfield and Julian Bowes were in Dallas last week. LOUISVILLE According to. a newspaper report the National Theatre here has been leased by Allan Moritz, Cincinnati, who is interested in two other theatres here, the Grand and the Airway. According to Manager James Robertson, employes have been given two weeks' notice and the theatre was to close Oct. 5 for remodeling. New projection and sound equipment has Ik CELEBRATE DURWOOD HOME OFFICE OPENING. The recent opening of the new home offices of the Durwood circuit at the east end of Kansas City's film row was the occasion for a celebration by the film industry and press and radio friends. Ed D. Durwood (left), president of the circuit, and Stanley Durwood (right), general manager, were hosts to the trade in their new quarters. They are shown being congratulated by Arthur Cole (left center), industry representative for Paramount and unofficial dean of K.C.'s film row, and Al Adler (right center), MGM branch manager. — KC. been purchased by A. V. Luttrell for his new 518-seat theatre in Russell Springs, Ky. . . . Dick Schreve, until recently manager of the Kentucky Theatre here for the Switow Amusement Co., is now in the automobile business. . . . Nevvsreel Cameraman Phil Harnden and wife announced the birth of a son Phil Jr., on Sept. 22. Mrs. Hugh Kessler surprised her husband, owner and manager of the Pal Theatre, Palmyra, Ind. with a birthday dinner. Among the guests were W. E. Carroll, Frank Riffle and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Ornstein. . . . Mrs. Charles O. Humston, wife of the Lyric Theatre, manager in Lawrenceburg, Ky., is convalescing from an operation at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital here. The 300-seat Wolfe Theatre, Campton, Ky., owned and operated by M. C. Hughes and J. F. Carnahan, opened on Sept. 22. It will be the only 35 mm. regular theatre in the town. . . . The Roller Derby returned to the JefTerson County Armory here on Sept. 24 and will give the local amusement houses some heavy competition. LOS ANGELES MGM Star Jane Powell cut the ribbon for the opening of the Variety Boys Club "Dream House" in Van Nuys, to serve as the fund-raising headquarters for the club which costs $1,000 a week to operate and serves a membership of 2500 youngsters. . . . Col. John L. Crovo, 47 years in show business and associated with Paramount theaters in the South since 1912 and now manager of the Arcade, Jacksonville, Fla., / was a guest wdth Mrs. Crovo at Paramount on his first studio visit. He won the trip to Hollywood as first prize in a recent contest. After four weeks the Orpheum found a growing list of regulars welcoming its new vaudeville bill, indicating its patrons' satisfaction with the return of this type of entertainment. . . . Charles P. Skouras was honored at a meeting of the Los Angeles Advertising Club for "exceptional service in the cause of safety." H. L. Waycott, Palm Theatre, Palmdale, was in for a buying and booking conference. . . . Bill Cox of the Mecca in Mojave just returned from an Oklahoma fishing trip. . . . Carey Reeves was appointed manager of the American Theatre in Newhall. . . . Verne Lindsey, manager of the Bace in Ford City, and Mrs. Lindsay are the parents of a baby girl, their fourth child. At Exhibitor Services, Lila Charleston, secretary to Harry Rackin, returned from a New York vacation and Keith McCallum was the recipient of twin cocker-spaniels which Steve Stephens gave him for his twin daughters. The 220-seat Del Rio at Cloverdale will eventually pass into the category of a standby house when Owner William H. Blair gets his new 450-seater under way. The new house, located on the south side of Main Street, is already under construction and Blair is looking forward to a Christmas opening. BOSTON Variety Club Members Eddie Meister, Lee Fields and Irving Shapiro have purchased the Latin Quarter lease from Mickey Redstone. M. Loew had planned to take over the Quarter but was unable to get Lou Walters to return from New York to operate it. . . . Permits have been asked for 10 new drive-ins to be built next spring in the Greater Boston area.