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Kosi-now, Skyway Drive-In Theatres
and Tliciitre Service Oitjsinl/alioii
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remliuls that Mayor Mruk has procliilrnccl
Buffalo Food
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XV and radio, and Ro-
Willlam r. Ro.senow berta Quinlan. NBC-
TV singing star, will
:iturc the afternoon and evening programs.
.iiKulo's own famous Bob Smith will be here
or a special Saturday Children's matinee
rogram at the show.
and their wives and sweethearts
athered in the Variety Club last Sunday
venlng for a dinner and a preview- of a new
breen hit . . . Lewis D. Humphrey, long assobated
with the East Aurora Tlieatre. has been
ppolnted treasurer of the Buffalo Center
pheatre. succeeding Mrs. Margaret Bailey,
[ho has been promoted to assistant manager
It the same house.
M. A. Brown, UA manager here, reports
lat a branch of UA will be opened Monday
17) in the National Screen building in Aliny.
It will be managed by Brown under
le supervision of District Manager Moe Dudf.son.
Michael Frashela. who has been a
desman for Columbia in the Rochester and
|yracuse areas, has shifted to UA in the same
I'rrltory. Selwyn Ginsler now is covering the
uffalo city ten-itory for UA.
Saviola, Paramount salesman in the
l.ochester and Syracuse territories, was passg
out cigars on the birth of his baby girl . .
layton Eastman. Warner manager, anpunced
that Irving Mendelsohn, who has
pen with Lippert in Boston and prior to that
UA for many years, has joined WB here
i5 salesman in the Rochester and Syracuse
The annual meeting of the
Prrltories . . .
'arlety Tent 7 of Buffalo will be held Monday
ight 1 17 1. Nominations for a new crew will
e made.
E. J. Wall, Paramount field representative,
inferred with Arthur Krolick and Charlie
[aylor on the campaign for "Cleopatra," now
Urrent at the Center. TV and radio were
ted extensively in announcing the revival of
le picture, which also was given a big ad
impaign ... Ed DeBerry. Paramount manger,
was in Gloversville for conferences with
chine circuit executives . Aero, Broaday.
Buffalo and Sheridan drive-ins were
ill open. It is the latest the outdoorers have
:malned open.
Sam Geffen, former NSS .salesman, and
Ire. Geffen are now in their new home in
The Regent Theatre
ong Beach. Calif. . . .
as reopened in Elmira. N. Y.. as a subsejent
run hou.se. The Regent Is one of three
leatres acquired there from the Warner
rcuit by Dipson theatres . Walter Michal-
:1 has resigned as a.ssistant manager at the
lenter Theatre here. He is a member of the
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juffalo Philharmonic, which is about to begin
at 21 -week .scaaon of concerts. MIchaUkI hiw.
been succeeded by Mrs Marituret Bailey, whu
has b«'cn treasurer at the Center.
KabbI IMilllp l(. IlrrnfiUIn dUcuiv.H«>d the
MCIM production of "Ivanhoc" In a reretit
sermon at the Temple B'rllh K(Klc.sh. Hoche*-
tor. The topic of his sermon wa."! "A Jew
Looks at Ivanhoc." University of Rochealer
students and high .school pupils were lnvlt«d
. . Earl Hubbard,
Norm Wolk put on a cooking .school In the
Riviera Tlieatre. Rochester. In cooperation
with the Star supermarket. The school wa/i
staged each afternoon, Monday through Friday,
from 1:30 to 3:30 p. m.
publicist at the Century. Buffalo, put
over a tieup ad with the Klelnhans store.
Charlie McKeman, manager of the Seneca.
UPT community house In South Buffalo, and
John Zimmerman, manager of the Niagara,
both put on Armistice cartoon matinees la.st
Monday, offering 13 cartoons and two Our
Gang comedies as well as free comic books
and ice cream.
E. P. Radwan, Theatre TV
Foe, Stays in Congress
BUFFALO -Edmund P. R;idwaii, Republican
candidate for Congress from the 41st
district, who has been an opponen'. of exclusive
telecasting of fights by theatres, was
re-elected November 4. A few day.s before
election he gave a talk on this proposition
on WBEN-TV. He said in part:
"More than a year ago I noticed that a
small group got together to arrange for a
theatre telecast of a major boxing contest.
By their action, the ordinary telecast of such
contest was blacked out. Certain theatres
had exclusive television rights. I did not
think this was fair, when you consider your
own investment in a television set which you
make, expecting in addition to other entertainment,
to see all major sports events. I
immediately asked the U.S. attorney general
to check into this situation to determine
whether such an exclusive monopoly violated
the antitrust laws. Attorney General Mc-
Grath assured me that such investigation
would be made. Nothing was done and
McGrath has since resigned. Recently I was
advised that this matter now has the attention
of the attorney general, and when his
investigation is complete a public report will
be made.
"When le-elected I am continuing this
project because exclusive television is a menace
which should be prevented before it
grows into a menace that could deprive the
general public of some of the best features
that may be offered in your own living
room."
Rank to Finance Program
Without Government Aid
LONDON—The J. Arthur Rank Organization
will finance its future production program,
starting January 1. without assistance
from the government's National Film Finance
Corp.
"This assumption by the group of the
entire risk has been made possible by the
Eady plan which, provided it continues,
should make possible a program of films
without loss." the Rank statement said.
The Spanish motion picture Industry produced
41 feature length films in 1951 and 15
during the first six months of 1952.
ALBANY
Teuton K. Karkmll. president of U-I and
Decca Records. W one of the Ineorpontorji
of Champion MuaIc Corp. (oimed to
conduct u mUKlc publuhtng. thratrlca!. radio
and trlrvLnlon bustneiw In New York. Capital
Block Is $20,000. $100 par Other Incorporator^
arc Leonard W Schneider and Samuel
Yumln A new Variety Club crew wUl
be elected Monday nl«ht Chief Barker Nate
WInIg said he wa.s "anxlotu" to retire . . .
Harry Lamont wa.s to cloae the SunMt Drive-
In. Kingston. Saturday (I5i. a week later
than la.st year.
Harold riabrilove, active Variety Club
member and president of RTA DUtrlbutom.
will have Vnughn Monroe a.s guest In hl»
LoudonvlUe home during the orchestra leader's
one-night stand here November 29 in
the State Armory to present the Camel Caravan
show . Agresta staged a merchant
kiddy show at the Town In Watertown
Saturday morning. Free admission tickets
were obtainable through merchant listed
In the lobby . Star-Lit Drlve-In
Plattsburg. remained open the longest of far
north automobilers.
Three hundred bars of Ice cream, un-sold
at the Albany Kennel club .show, were sent
by the Variety Club to St. John's Orphan
home In Ren.sselaer Saturday night. George
Schenck. who with Jack Hamilton, .set Op
and directed the concession stand, said. "We
hit it right on turkey, with 50 pounds came
out right on coffee and soft drinks: bought 14
pounds of ham and had to order eight additional:
missed only on frankfurters, of which
we purchased 125 pounds and sold 90 pounds."
The show attracted 722 entries and about
1.600 persons. Variety Club members who
worked hard at the show included co-chairmen
Arthur Newman and Charles A Smakwitz.
Jules Perlmutter. Harry Lamont. Lewis
A. Sumberg. Rudy Bach. Sylvan Leff. Samuel
Kalison. Nate Winig. Schenck and Hamilton.
. . George Schenck.
Frank McLean, who served as an usher at
the Strand and Palace, Ls a new memlier of
George Lourinia substituted
the police foice . . .
for George Seed at the Cohoes.
Cohoes, while Seed vacationed in the Caribbean
area following the clasing of the Mohawk
Drive-In. Lourinia managed the Saratoga
until that ozoner was shuttered, and then
shifted to the Mohawk .
manager for the Trlstate Automatic Candy
Corp.. Is fire commissioner for the Maj-wood
district, for a five-year term, two years of
which have been served.
The Playhouse's revolving stage has been
moved to the Colonial Playhouse for Malcolm
Atterbury. The switchboard, spotlight.-, masking
and .seats have been sold and transferred
to the RPI Fieldhouse in Troy. The boxoffice
was moved to the Colonial, where rehearsals
for "Affairs of State" began Monday.
First performance will be given November
19. Atterbury and his wife Ellen have sheared
Tuesday off the operating schedule this year.
Five performances will be given weekly, at a
slight reduction In prices. Productions will
run two weeks, except for musicals—extended
to three weeks.
Prestoseal Co. in Hew Spot
NEW YORK—Prestoseal Mfg. Co.. maker
of a new film splicing device, has new headquarters
at 37-27 33rd St., Long Island City
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