Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

22 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEV/, October 15, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL (Continued from Page 21) land and Cincinnati exchanges. iNick Lobich of Oliver Theatre Supply Co. and Laura Kramer were married last Saturday. . . . Realart Pictures has moved into its new 7th floor Film Bldg. location. ... A complete face lifting job has been completed at Paul Gusdanovic's LaSalle Theatre. PHILADELPHIA Paramount Kxploiteer Bill Brooker was installed as the new commander of Variety Post 713, American Legion, last week at Palumbo's. Other officers installed were Sylvan Cohen, senior vice-commander; Richard L. Brown, junior vice-commander; Jack Harris, adjutant; Norman Silverman, finance officer; William Weinstein, chaplain, and Joe Reilly and Louis Cohen, sergeants-at-arms. Jerry Levy, Columbia booker, wound up the vacationists at that exchange. . . .Clint Weyer, Mike Felt and Jack 'Beresin are among the new directors of the Philadelphia Eagles pro football team. . . . Murray Diamond and Max Bernstein, Fox-Ware Premuims, will move into their own showrooms on Vine 'Street as soon as remodeling is completed. Warner Clerk Mary Scully who has been out for several months due to a serious hip injury, is .back at her desk. . . . The Cinema, Atlantic City, has reverted to a foreign film policy with the opening of Eagle Lion's "Quartet." SAN FRANCISCO A "Hollywood Star Show" was presented at the Civic x\uditorium in San Francisco to obtain funds to build the Santa Clara Youth Center. Among the stars who donated their talents were Jack Carson, Wayne Morris, Robert Alda, Wallace Ford and many others. . . . The San Francisco unit of Paramount is leading the Western Division in the current sales campaign. The "Confidential Legislative Report" prepared by Hulda McGinn, public relations representative for California Theatre Owners Association, is being distributed to the more than 350 members of the organization. In it, is revealed all the proposed, passed and rejected legislative What's in a Name? The Wolfe put in an appearance and was quickly followed by the Shepherd down Kentucky way recently. Theatres by those names were opened, the former by M. C. Hughes and J. F. Carnahan in Campton and the latter by Denzil Herbershoff in Shepherdsville. of 1949 at the Sacramento State Capitol. R. A. Long, traveling auditor for Warner Bros, from the New York home office, visited the local exchange. . . . Paramount Manager Neal East is attending a company sales meeting at New York's Plaza Hotel. . . . Paramount Salesman Jack Stevenson is reported by coworkers to be increasing his muscles at the local Institute of Body Building. . . . Eagle Lion Booker Min Levy will travel to Sun Valley on her vacation. She will attend the PICCITO convention being held there. Variety Club's annual golf tournament conducted by Tent 32 is set for Oct. 25 at the Lake Merced Club. Freddie Dixon, last year's chairman, is again acting as head of the contest. Prizes are being offered at the door and for the contests. NEW HAVEN Due to injuries suffered by Walter Kessler, manager of Loew's Ohio in Columbus, John DiBeneditto, assistant manager of the Poli, Bridgeport, is being sent to Loew's Broad in Columbus as temporary manager. Bob Ritzert, assistant at the Globe, Bridgeport, moves to the Poli as temporary assistant manager and Dave Lee of the Bijou, New Haven moves to the Globe as temporary assistant manager. Ruth Bolton, relief manager on the Poli circuit, moves to the Lyric, Bridgeport, as manager. Vaudeville is heading back to various Connecticut theatres. Latest is the Bridgeport Lyric which will open a one-day continuous policy with a screen hit starting Sunday, Oct. 23. The Palace, New Britain, is going into a two-day continuous policy and Klein Memorial, ?Bridgeport, into a reserved seat policy on Sunday night. . . . Paramount Manager Jim Darby is presenting local stage show in form of fashion show. Alice Fox, secretary at the Poli, Bridgeport, is in General Hospital there for an operation. . . . Paramount Manager Henry Germaine went to New York' to attend annual sales convention. Ben Simon, 20th Century-Fox manager, returned from New York where he attended company sales meeting. Projection room changes in Bridgeport call Thomas Colwell from the Hi-Way to the new Beverly ; Joseph Kaplan from the Stratford to the Hi-Way and William Towle to the Stratford. CHARLOTTE Bob Ingram of Atlanta, Ga., Southern division manager of Columbia, was honored by Charlotte movie film leaders at a luncheon nt Hotel Barringer Oct. 6. Ingram is being honored nationally with a "Bob Ingram Dirve" sales campaign in which all Colurrtbia exchanges are participating. For many years Ingram was Charlotte manager for Columbia. Several years ago he took over the Atlanta branch office, and later was made Southern Division Manager. The luncheon in his honor was in charge of Columbia Charlotte Manager H. D. Williamson. LOS ANGELES 'Mrs. T. A. Jensen of the 29 Palms Theatre at TwentyNine Palms, was in on a booking and buying trip. . . . Don Gutman of the San Pedro Drive-In Theatre is doing his own buying. He was formerly associated with Calpac. >. . . The contingent of Tri-States Theatre managers arrived for week's stay in Hollywood as prize in the circuit's recent A. H. Blank 70th Anniversary Drive. They include William Miskell, Omaha theatres district manager ; Robert Leonard, Paramount theatre, Des Moines ; Ira Grain, Bonham Theatre, Fairbury, Neb., and Betty Hensler, manager of the Upton, Des Moines, one of the few women managers in the country. Paramount Manager Al Taylor and Charles Kranz, Realart franchise holder in Los Angeles, left for New York for their individual company meetings. . . . Clyde Eckhardt is in MGM EXECUTIVE TRAINING GROUPS 'LEARN THE ROPES' IN NEW YORK Since the policy was instituted last year of picking men from its field staff for executive training, two MGM Executive Training Groups have thus far been brought to New York for four-week courses during which they visited alt MGM executives and gained an insight into all ph-ses of company operation, including distributor, exhibitor, theatre operator, accounting etc. Their schedule also included visits to the MGM Recoids department. National Screen Service, and the Dale Carnegie Institute. When the courses were completed, the company hod, as it will have in the future when additional groups are brought to the home office, men thoroughly fit for promotion as the occasion arises. In photo at left the first group is seen at a meeting with Loew theatre executives. L-R: Ansley B. Podgett, Atlanta; John E. Murphy, out-of-town Loew theatre operation head; Louis Marks, Cleveland; Michael J. Ford, Chicago; H. Russell Gaus, Los Angeles; Joseph R. Vogel, Loew vice-president in charge of theatre operations; Louis J. Weber, Dallas; Gene Picker. Loew metropolitan circuit head; Philip F. Gravitz, New Haven; Oscar Doob, Loew theatre executive. One of the first visits of the second group (photo at right) while in New York was to attend a sales cabinet meeting under the direction of William F. Rodgers, MGM vice-president and general sales manger; the picture includes only a portion of the cabinet which attended this particular session. Seated are Jay M. Eisenberg, liaison between legal and sales departments; John P. Byrne, eastern sales manager; Rodgers; Charles M. Reagan, of the home office sales department, Edward M. Saunders, assistant sales manager. Standing, l-r, is the second group: William Madden, Boston; Harold Zeltner, Chicago; "Connie" Carpou, Oklahoma City; Woodrow Sherrill, Kansas City; C. E. "Pete" Prince, Washington, and Max Shabason. Pittsburgh.