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. vice-president<br />
: <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
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C HI I C A C O<br />
IJARRY SHERMAN, producer of Paramount<br />
westerns, was through here on<br />
Monday. He stopped off long enough to<br />
screen his latest for Paramount salesmen,<br />
"Light of Western Stars."<br />
Marty Weiser, publicist who mil ivork<br />
on the west coast with Sam Clark in<br />
Henry HerbeVs ivestern district, left this<br />
week.<br />
Tom Gilliam was home this week with<br />
the flu . . . Tom Flannery of Whiteway<br />
Sign Service has returned from Miami<br />
Beach. While there he met, among others,<br />
Mort Goldberg, Henry Schoenstadt, Jack<br />
Simon Simansky and Aaron Jones.<br />
Mun Delano. Columbia office manager<br />
and booker, is back at the exchange after<br />
being aiuay for nearly ttvo months due to<br />
illness.<br />
Saxelin, LAI Monogram shipper who had<br />
en in the industry more than 25 years,<br />
died this week . . . Another back-room<br />
death was that of a veteran inspectress,<br />
Marie Downey of Columbia.<br />
Alan Dinehart of the cast of "Thanks<br />
aor My Wife" at the Selwyn, appeared<br />
Vhis week on Hal Tate's "Movie Tattler"<br />
radio show.<br />
Clyde Eckliardt, 20th-Fox branch manager,<br />
screened "Grapes of Wrath" for<br />
siany exhibitors on Monday. It opens<br />
jVIarch 1 at the Chicago.<br />
route to the west coast on the Santa<br />
Fe Chief over the weekend were Sabu and<br />
lis brother. Shaik; and the following UA<br />
I'xecutives: Murray Silverstone, Zoltan<br />
Korda, and Charles Schimrtz, the latter<br />
ji VA attorney. Arriving from the west<br />
luas Zasu Pitts.<br />
Blum and Guy C. Packard of Pholoplay<br />
Advertising were in New York atending<br />
the National Poster Ass'n meetng.<br />
To Bob Haley, publicist for the RKO<br />
'alace. goes credit for using the first quips<br />
ocally in film advertising on "Confucius<br />
t'ay." He used some of the gags to adver-<br />
'se<br />
the second week of "My Little Cliicka-<br />
Irving Tombach has gone to Kansas City<br />
J handle the advance campaign there on<br />
le Mayer-Burstyn film, "Louise," starring<br />
ilrace Moore . Bruder and his wife<br />
If the Chicago plan to go to Florida the<br />
•id of this month . Nomikos, who<br />
of Allied of Illinois, was<br />
) go to Washington this weekend on Alf'd<br />
business.<br />
iealth Olticers Close<br />
Schools in Anderson<br />
Anderson. Ind.—City health officers<br />
ive ordered all local public schools closed<br />
r a week because of the prevalence of<br />
fluenza. Sixteen teachers and approxiately<br />
2.000 have been absent because of<br />
ness.<br />
3XOFFICE :<br />
Share Proceeds With<br />
Fund for Finland<br />
Milwaukee—Twenty-seven local theatres,<br />
members of the ITPA of Wisconsin,<br />
will share ticket proceeds with<br />
the Finnish Relief Fund for two weeks.<br />
C. O. Wanvig, local drive chairman,<br />
says he expects the ticket sales to add<br />
more than $6,000 to the fund, which<br />
already exceeds $27,000 here.<br />
The relief tickets are being sold from<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 26 to March 11 at factories<br />
and business offices as well as at theatre<br />
boxoffices. Participating houses<br />
include the Oriental, Tower. Abby,<br />
Alamo, Aragon. Atlas, Burleigh, Climax.<br />
Colonial. Comet. Fern. Franklin,<br />
Grand, Greendale. Hollywood, Liberty.<br />
Lyric. Mozart, Murray, Park, Peerless.<br />
Rainbow. Roosevelt, Roxy. Tosa and<br />
Violet.<br />
Earl Bell Elected V. P.<br />
Oi ATOI's District 3<br />
Indianapolis—Earl Bell of the Howard<br />
has been elected vice-president of District<br />
No, 3 of the Associated Theatre Owners of<br />
Indiana to succeed Carl Niesse, general<br />
manager of the Olson Theatre Enterprises.<br />
The board meeting taking the above action<br />
was attended by the following: Roy<br />
E. Harrold, Rushville; Oscar Fine, Evansville;<br />
Walter F. Easley, Greensburg; Joe<br />
Schilling, Connersville; H. Lisle Krieghbaum,<br />
Rochester; Trueman Rembusch,<br />
Franklin; Alex Manta, Chicago; Ernest L.<br />
Miller. Joseph F. Smith, A. C. Zaring,<br />
Harry Markun, Isaac Holycross, Earl Bell<br />
and Don R. Rossiter, all of Indianapolis.<br />
Next regular meeting will be held at<br />
association office on March 5.<br />
Gubernatorial Candidate<br />
May Be Industry Friend<br />
Springfield. III.—Should Harry B. Hershey,<br />
Taylorville. chairman of the Democratic<br />
state central committee, who was<br />
selected at a slate making meeting here as<br />
the Democratic candidate for governor of<br />
Illinois, succeeding Governor Horner, be<br />
elected, the theatre operators of Illinois<br />
will probably find him sympathetic to their<br />
cause.<br />
Hershey, as a member of the firm of<br />
Hershey and Bliss, is attorney for the<br />
Frisina Amusement Co. with several theatres<br />
in Springfield and others in various<br />
central Illinois cities.<br />
WB Houses Take Part<br />
Chicago—Local Warner houses over the<br />
weekend participated in the Herbert Hoover<br />
Finnish Relief Fund drive. Girls, in Finnish<br />
costume, stood in the lobbies with<br />
collection baskets. No solicitations were<br />
made.<br />
Directors Re-elected<br />
LaPorte. Ind.—Directors of the LaPorte<br />
Theatre Co. have been re-elected. They<br />
are Dr. R. B. Jones, A. Sommerfield, Mrs.<br />
Eva Steinberg, H. A. Lindgren, J. C.<br />
Richter, J. Levine and Isadore E. Levine.<br />
^PR'CilFllllEllLlO<br />
CAMUEL N. BONANSINGA, business<br />
manager of the theatrical stage employes<br />
union, has been elected president<br />
of the Springfield Federation of Labor<br />
without opposition.<br />
Gus Kerasotes. president of the Kerasotes<br />
theatres, recently ivas a patient at<br />
St. John's Hospital, for a health check-up.<br />
Tanner's Roseland at Pana was scheduled<br />
to open <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 14.<br />
George Kerasotes. general manager of<br />
Kerasotes Theatres, jvho ivas married <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
3 to Miss Marjorie Bae Birnbaum, is<br />
honeymooning with his bride in Florida<br />
and Havana, Cuba.<br />
Tony Serra jr., operator at the Tivoli.<br />
was married <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 3 at St. Joseph's<br />
Church to Miss Clara Sanders.<br />
Two theatre cashiers. Miss Mary Innicotti.<br />
of the Roxy, and Ada loca, of the<br />
Tivoli, are having their tonsils out.<br />
Bill Martin, maintenance man at the<br />
Roxy, again is rushing spring. He has<br />
bought a new trailer, closed up his apartment<br />
and moved into the trailer.<br />
John Giachetto. son of Dominic Giachetto,<br />
treasurer of the Frisina chain, is recovering<br />
from a sprained ankle, received<br />
playing soccer at college.<br />
The Orpheum is doing such big business<br />
these days that it was necessary to install<br />
another boxoffice—to take care of reservations<br />
for George White's Scandals, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
16; "Gone With the Wind" starting<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 18, and for the personal appearance<br />
of Jeanette MacDonald at the<br />
theatre March 20.<br />
An Extension for Altec<br />
MuNCiE, Ind.—Theatrical Managers,<br />
Inc., have added the Strand here to the 14<br />
theatres that have renewed contracts for<br />
Altec service.<br />
TRADE DIRECTORY<br />
^^A Handy Guide for the Exhibitor^—<br />
CHICAGO<br />
SIGNS - MARQUEES AND<br />
MAINTENANCE<br />
White Way Electric Sign & Maintenance Co.<br />
Tom Flannery, President<br />
315-<strong>17</strong> W. Walton Street<br />
Phone DELaware 9111<br />
THEATRICAL PRINTING<br />
A. B. C. PRINTERS, INC.<br />
WE PRINT EVERYTHING THEATRICAL<br />
1225 South Wabash — Chicago<br />
For lowest prices Call—VIC 3456<br />
<strong>17</strong>, 1940 35
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