Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1949)

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SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, November 12, 1949 27 REGIONAL NEWSREEL Capitol. Harris was formerly assistant manager at the Prjvo Paramount. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Local 250 (AFL) will hold a district meeting here on Dec. 3 to discuss varied problems confronting the organization. George W. Grayfield of Denver, secretary of the district union, will be one of the speakers along with some international officers. Union Financial Secretary Harold G. Grose is working on the program. Some 20 delegates from Utah, Wyoming and Colorado are expected to attend. Dead: John J. Gillette, former president of the Intermountain Theatre Owners Association, a former mayor of Tooele, Utah, and a state representative, at his home in Arcadia, Calif., where he had lived for 10 years, following a long illness. Burial will take place at Tooele. OKLAHOMA CITY Ed Thorne, manager of the Capitol Theatre, left last week for a pheasant hunt in northwestern Nebraska. His wife and two sons, Tommy and Geary, accompanied him. John Wayne, and his wife, movie stars, were in Oklahoma City, this week. With them were Grant Withers and Jim Arrington, Stillwater, state chairman of the Democratic party. The four started out on a state hunting trip on the Salt Plains, in northwest Oklahoma, Lake Carl Blackwell near Stillwater and the A. :\L Wright lake east of Oklahoma City. The Liberty Theatre had on the stage Nov. 4, "Whip Wilson" and his western band, plus a dual screen bill. . . . No-Kan Theatres. Inc., of Delaware has been granted a charter at Austin, Tex., for a 10-year term to handle theatrical acts with home office in Dallas, Tex. J. Harold Harris is its Texas agent. CLEVELAND M-G-M Manager Jack Sogg is back from a home office conference. . . . Herbert Ochs, Drive-In circuit owner, has sold the Canadian Port .\rthur Orive-In in Canada and the Hamilton Drive-In, to Famous Players Canadian. On the other hand, Ochs has started construction of two new out door theatres at Sarnia, Ontario, and near Jamestown, N. Y The Genevieve Akers Memorial Fund prevue last Tuesday at the Heights Theatre and contributions from members of the industry netted $6,000 which has been placed in a trust fund which will provide Mrs. Akers, mother of two daughters lost in the S.S. Noronic disaster, with a stipulated monthly income. Irwin Shenker of Berlo Vending Company was elected chief barker of the Variety Club at a general meeting held Saturday (5). He succeeds 20th-Fox manager I. J. Schmertz. Other tifficers elected are : first vice-president, Sanford Leavitt ; second vice-president, Oscar Ruby; secretary, Justin Spiegle ; treasurer, Louis Ratener ; sergeants-at-arms, Leonard Greenberger and Marshall Fine. Named to the board of directors are Irwin Pollard, Ted ^[insky. Raymond Schmertz and Al Sunshine. Howard Reif of the Essick and Reif Circuit is in Florida with his mother opening their winter home in Miami. . . . Frank Slavik, Mount Gilead exhibitor, is sufficiently recovered from a recent automobile accident to be back Snow Birds? Wolfberg Theatres of Denver and Lionel Semen, Pueblo, Colo., are experimenting to see how long folks will go to the drive-ins in the winter. The Wolfberg circuit is keeping two of its four Denver drive-ins open as long as possible, and Semon is doing likewise with one of his two at Pueblo. un the job Jack Sahlman, formerly of Brooklyn, has been named managing director of the Guild (formerly Strand) Theatre, Toledo, which is now an art theatre operated by Marverne Inc. . . . Rufus Young is remodeling his Strand Theatre, Maumee, closed for four years, for an early opening. Herman Frankel, co-owner with his brother Marvin of the theatres in Elyria, and Mrs. Frankel last week celebrated their first wedding anniversary. RKO District Manager Morris Lefko has been in Cincinnati taking charge of the office there during the illness of Manager Stanley Jacques. . . . Welber Haartge, president of the Detroit Nightingale Motion Picture Operators Bowling League, and Mrs. Haartge were in town visiting members of the Cleveland Operators' Bowling League. PITTSBURGH Lois Mcinbrfs.>e, of the 20th Century-Fo.x exchange, has resigned as of December 1 when she will leave for California to be married. . . . Norman Meryis, head of the Mervis Theatre Circuit, and Tema Schutzman, of this city, will be married on Nov. 30. and the newlyweds will take a South American cruise for a honeymoon. At a meeting of employes held last Monday, Rosalie Miller, Film Row's most popular cashier, was elected President of the 20th Century New Theatres New York — Sigmund Doriibusch and associates, a 1800-seat theatre and office building at 56th St and 7th Ave.. New York City. Buffalo — Hornell Drive-In Theatre Corp., a drive-in along the Hornell-Arkport Highway. Waynesboro. Pa.— H. C. Bondurant, an 800-car ozoner to cost about $100,000 near here. Electra, Tex. — Home Theatre Company, a 400 to 500-car under-skyer a mile from here on the Vernon Highwa_ . Independence. Kan. — William H. Wagner and Theatre Enterprises, Inc., a drive-in on West Laurel St Quincy, III.— W. J. Logan, an 800-car outdoor theatre on 36th St., between Maine and State Streets. Denver — IWax Storey, a 350-car under-skyer to cost $50,000 at Montrose, Colo.; Tom Knight, a 500-seater at Riverton, Colo. Atlanta — Georgia Theatres, a new theatre at Dade City. Fla., and a $100,000 drive-in at Chamblee, Fla. ; Wilby-Kincey Theatres, a new $1,000,000 theatre at Knoxvillc, Tenn. Bridgewater, Mass. — Ogden White, a 650-to-l,000-car drive-in here at North Gaston Ave. and Route 29. Daly City. Calif. — Mission Amusement Co., an $80,000 under-skyer here. Sunbury. Pa. — Comerford Circuit, a new theatre here at Neff and Market Streets. Half M oon Bay. Calif. — Alvin S. and Harvey R. Hatch, a 500-seat theatre, the Patio, to cost $100,000 at Miramontes and Main Streets. St. Louis — St. Louis Amusement Co.. three fourscreen. 1000-car under-skyers to cost about $150,000 each in St. Louis county. M'nneapolis — Black Hills circuit, a $77,000 theatre, the Sturgis. at Sturgis. S. D. ; Volk circuit, a 1,200f eater an'' market center at suburban Robbinsdale ; Sheldon Grengs. a 1,100 sealer in St. Paul suburb. Hazel Park. Oklahoma City — Griffith Theatres, a 400-car ozoner at Wellington. Tex. Salt Lake City — C. Kenneth Hicken and J. Marcan Nercessi?n, a $125,000 drive-in at 21st" St. anr! Wasatch Boulevard in Salt Lake City. Fox Family Club for 1950. . . . Charles Truman, Jr., son of the veteran Meadville, Pa., showman, has joined National Screen Service. Dead : Louis Gilbert, manager for the past 10 years of the local Warner Theatre, in Sarasota, Fla., after a ling illness. His widow survives. Funeral services and burial took place in Sarasota. Born in Boston, Mass.. Gilbert had been in theatre business most of his life. Prior to 1924 he had managed legitimate theatres in New York and New Jersey ; was company manager for road shows, and for many famous stars. In 1924 he joined the StanleyFabian Theatre Circuit in New York, where he remained when that organization was taken over by Warner Brothers. ALBANY Schine's Palace Theatre and eight story office building" at Watertown, N. Y., has been sold by New York theatre realty specialists. Berk and Krumgold, to Gerald Frankel of Chicago, who has arranged to lease it to Richmore Amusement Enterprises, Ind., headed by Richard P. Morgan of New York. The deal awaits approval of Federal Judge John Knight in Buffalo under terms of the Schine consent decree issued June 24, 1949. The Rochester Memorial Post 1418. Veterans of Foreign Wars, received a complete set of colors and the guidon presented to it by Monroe County VFW Commander Leonard I. Schiefifelim at a post luncheon and dance. Post Commander Richard J. Hughes accepted the colors which were sponsored by Michael J. Mungovan, representative of Local 25. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. General committee in charge of the presentation included Richard J. Binnert, Roger W. Noldt, Glen Hartwell, William J. Kelly. Edward Shields and Walter Beisheim. KANSAS CITY F'ox Midwest last week purchased the building which houses its 1,000-seat first-run Kennedy Theatre in Kirksville, Mo. The move was part of the current proceedings in settling the Kennedy estate. Earl Hayes is city manager. . . . \^audeville apparently has found a ready market in Kansas City. The third Palace bill routed over the RKO circuit last week boosted the house take considerably, although tiie week's gross was somewhat under that of the first two Palace bills to play, the Missouri Theatre. Fox Midwest president, Elmer Rhoden left last week for a European trip with "Rick" Ricketson, and Charles Skouras. Jim Long, manager of Fox Midwest's ^lissouri-Icwa division, also is vacationing in Europe — London, Paris and Rome, with a audience with the Pope. Returning, Long ivill meet the RhodenRicketson-Skouras for a London luncheon. Park College at Parkville, AIo., this fall began its student project of operating a theatre as a feature of its study of the motion picture in-, dustry, a part of its student work problem, Polic} of this Presbyterian college includes part-time jobs for the students and the operation of the theatre will help the students employed in it to earn part of their tuition, ^[rs. William Yingling, wife of the president is super( Coiitiintcd oil Page 28)