Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

26 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, October 15, 1949 REGIONAL NEWSREEL {Continued from Page 25) . . . One of the largest theatres in North Texas, Interstate's Campus at Denton, opened there Oct. 5. Oklahoma use tax collection for the month of July, 1949, for theatres shows four returns and $47 tax, as compared to these returns, and $46.63 tax. An increase of .79 per cent. MILWAUKEE Fox Wisconsin Amusement is putting on AUAmerican Premieres at about 75 Wisconsin theatres during October, having started the first week of the month at the Fox Palace with "Father Was a Fullback." Ads heralded the show as "The All-American Premiere of AilAmerican Comedy." Clarence Olson, with First National's exchange here many years ago, has been appointed United Artists Denver manager. . . . Tom Mormand, fonner owner of the Rex at Racine, is reported to have been named manager of the Moonlite at Hammond, Ind. . . . Joe Woodward of the local Delft Theatre circuit office, is again in Mt. Sinai Hospital with an infection. . . . Mar Monday of the 20th-Fox inspection department is convalescing at her home after an (jperati-on. The local Variety Club is moving into its new quarters in Hotel Wisconsin. A meeting of the directors and members was held on Oct. 7. . . . Screen Guild's local office is undergoing a facelifting process with new windows and lettering. . . . National Theatres Dan Michalove was here from New York last week ; also Bill Ainsworth of the Oconomowoc and Shawano, Wis., theatres. . . . The Standard Riverside here again had vaudeville as its main feature last week. . . . The remodeled Grand at Wausau, Wis., has reopened with new main floor, new seats throughout and new heating and ventilation system. Manager Lawrence Belyz announced. INDIANAPOLIS Conditions were back to normal Wednesday at the Lyric Theatre, where an afternoon crowd Tuesday became panicky as escaping gas seeped into the theatre. One patron was slightly injured in the scramble for the front exit. The gas entered through the ventilating system after a crew of the local gas and coke company cut ofi a service line which formerly served the English Hotel now being razed. The first new theatre to be built in Indianapolis in many years, the $150,000 Arlington, held its formal opening Thursday night. Its cycloramic screen is the first of its kind in the middle West. The house is operated by the Capitol City Theatre Corp. . . . Marcie Maxwell, on temporary duty at Columbia, succeeds instructress Norma Baldwin who is on leave of absence. . . . Republic's Manager Jack Dowd spent most of the week calling on circuit executives in Louisville, Ky., and Chicago. A farewell party for Gordon Craddock, who leaves Eagle Lion for a southern post, was held Saturday, Oct. 1, with a cocktail party at the home of Peggy Zimmer, and a dinner afterwards at the Indianapolis Atheneum Turners Club. . . . Warner Office Manager Robert Halliday flew to Englewood, N. J., over the weekend to attend the wedding of his sister. . . . United Artists Cashier Mary Long succeeds Jack Anderson as office manager and head booker. Kenneth Law is remodeling his Cozy at Here's Another Reason Popcorn is a fine daily diet for aiding in the prevention of tooth decay, Dr. Robert G. Kesel, the man who discovered the ammoniated tooth powder which is getting such a dental play these days, declared in Milwaukee this week. Dispatches did not say whether popcornselling theatres, sensing a new way to boost popcorn sales, were contemplating adding dental services for a small additional admission. .\rgos, Ind. . . . Don Hammer, widely known in film circles, is the new manager at the State, Tcrre Haute, Ind. ATLANTA Parmaount Salesman E. G. DeBerry has resigned to fill the same post at the Warner exchange. ... A. F. Harton, formerly of Lawrenceville, Va., has been appointed manager of the New Drive-in at Orlando, Fla. . . Charlie Richelieu of the Royal at Tarpon Springs, Fla., has taken over the Vogue at New Port Richey, Fla., and will install new seats. . . . iMr. and Mrs. Howard Underwood, owners of the Dreamland Drive-In, Largo, Fla., have closed the house for some weeks and are vacationing at their former home in Anderson, Ind. . . . Dana Bradford has moved from Wometco's Grove to manage the Rosetta in Little River, Fla. Lester Sipe, former Carolina theatre owner, now* living in Florida, was a visitor in his old home town, Charlotte. . . . Owner O. T. Kirby of the Palace and Kirlby, Roxboro, N. C, is home after hospitalization for an eye operation. . . . Back from trips to Chicago are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strange of the Charlotte Theatre Supply and Atlanta Capital City Supply's Oscar Howell. Theatres opened recently : Rockwood Amusement's 786-seat Roxy, Russellville, Ala., with Lee Gault as city manager ; the Kuhl Co. of Orlando, Fla., its second drive-in, 500 cars, at Prairie Lake, Fla., with Jim Partlow as manager ; Earl Kretzchnar's 426-seat Hanceville at Hancevlile, Ala. ; Corinthian Outdoor Theatre Co.'s second drive-in at Sylacauga, Ala., with New Theatres Atlanta — Phil H. Kaplan, a new theatre at Macon, Ga. Washington — Sam Roth, a new theatre remodeled from a building on New York Avenue, N.W., here just off 14th Street. Denver — Black Hills Amusement Co., a 700-seater to cost $125,000 at Sturgess, S. D. ; Gus Daskalous, a 400-car under-skyer to cost $60,000 at Las Vegas, N. M. Milwaukee — Darlington Theatres, a 450-seater at Shullsburg, Wis., for Harry Melchoir's subsidiary; a new theatre has been started at Park Falls, Wis. Providence, R. I. — Nathan Yamins, a 600-seater on County Street, Somerset Center. Arkadelphia, Ark. — Cupp Theatres, a 400-car ozoner at Fifth and Main. Gatesville, Tex. — Skelton Bros., a 300-car underskyer near here. Columbus, Neb. — Platte Theatres, Inc., an openairer on the U. S. 30-81 cut-off north of Columbus. Houston, Tex. — Claude Ezell & Associates, a 650car drive-in to cost $100,000 on Shaver Street here. Minneapolis — M. L. Baratz, Minneapolis, a 1,000 seater in Suburban Richfield. Artesia, Tex. — T. E. Brown, a drive-in on West Highway 80 near Artesia. Hammond, Ind. — Peter Paulis, a 1,000-seater and store in this city's Hessville district. Mena, Ark. — R. B. Bell, a modern theatre at Sherwood and Mena Street. Cuero, Tex. — John Monroe, a drive-in here for operation by the Griffith circuit. O. L. Redfern, who formerly operated a circuit out of Parris, Ala., as manager ; J. G. Snelgrove and Q. H. Juhan, Jr.'s under-skyer at Sylvester, Ga. NEW YORK Montague Salmon, managing director of the Rivoli, sailed for London Friday with Mrs. Salmon, to revisit the city of his birth which he has not seen for 10 years. He's expected back m Gotham during November. . . . Ira Wit, motion picture word slinger on V ariety, has donned cap and gown to teach a course on motion picture industry organization at the Dramatic Workshop. The lectures will be in English. . . . Bill Brand and his wife will be given a dinner dance to celebrate their 40 years of wedded life. Throwing the party at the Hampshire House on Oct. 15 will be their four children Mrs. Beulah Levine, Mrs. Charlotte Levine, and George and Allan Brandt. Filmrowite Joan Roche got her driver's license tihs week. Pedestrians beware. . . . Exhibitor Dave of Elizabethtown, the New York Elizabethtown, was a film row visitor. . . . Sidney Drier has taken over the 6G0-seat Parkside in Brooklyn from Shanlon Theatres, headed by Alexander Shanley, who runs theatres in upstate New York. . . . United Artists' Roslynd Lipson lost her uncle. . . . Henry Hyman, well knovra on the row, where he made weekly visits to sell neckties, died this week of a heart attack. Dead : Mrs. Mary Thacher Morris, 85, mother of Virginia Nixon Morris of the Paramount advertising department, last Saturday in New York City. HARTFORD Mrs. Ruth Bolton, formr assistant manager at the Loew Poli, New Haven, has been named manager of the recently reopened Loew-PoH Lyric, Bridgeport. David Lee was transferred from student assistant at the Loew-Poli, Bridgeport, to Mrs. Bolton's former post. . . . Other appointments : Dorothy Bregnetti, candy girl at the Eastwood; Robert Rainville and Gerard Brunelli, ushers at the Warner Strand; Genevieve Clifford, cashier at the Eastwood, succeeding Dorothy Christiano ; Tony Latino, service staff, Warner Strand ; Mrs. Jean Chenail, manager, Taconic, Williamstown, Mass. ; Michael Mancini, manager, Dreamland, New Haven ; Louise Giorgio and Viola Keislich, cashiers, Loew's Poli, New Haven ; Geraldine Doucett, candy girl, Crown, Hartford. Bob Handy, operator of the Strand, Montpelier, Vt., has bought the Twin Cities DriveIn between that city and Barre from John Gardner of the Colony, Schenectady, N. Y., and Projectionist Claude Watkins of the Strand, Albany. . . . Harry Post has closed the SCOseat Astor, East Hartford, which Kurpen and Harris of Hartford had been operating. . . . Eddie Sokolowsky, former Connecticut theatre operator, and his brother-in-law, Henry Gaska, owners of the Capitol, Lowell, Mass., have leased the 800-seat Park, Nashua, N. H., on a 10-year lease, with Sokolowsky to manage it, Gaska to continue managing the Capitol. ^lanager Tommy Grace of the Eastwood, East Hartford, announced election results from the stage. . . . Wethersfield Webb Playhouse Assistant Manager Bill Daugherty was out ill. Dead : Felix J. Gadbois, 88, for many years doorman at the Marlborough, Marlborough, Mass.