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Variely Tent 5 Elects<br />
Directors for 1953<br />
DETROIT—Variety Tent 5 has elected directors<br />
for 1953. They include Harold Brown,<br />
film buyer. United Detroit Theatres; Lew<br />
Wisper, partner, Wisper & Wetsman Theatres;<br />
Milton Zimmerman, branch manager,<br />
Columbia: Julian Lefkowitz, L&L Concession<br />
Co.; Jack Zide, manager. Allied Film Exchange;<br />
William Clark, manager, Clark Theatre<br />
Service; Daniel J. Lewis, booker. Cooperative<br />
Theatres of Michigan; Saul Korman,<br />
circuit owner; Ben Rosen, manager. Confection<br />
Cabinet Corp.: Ernest T. Conlon, executive<br />
secretary, Allied Theatres of Michigan,<br />
and Ivan Clavet, manager. National Screen<br />
Service.<br />
Adolph Goldberg, retiring chief barker and<br />
a partner in Community Theatres, was<br />
elected national canvasman. Election of officers<br />
will be held later by the new board.<br />
At the meeting Tuesday evening in the<br />
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clubrooms, much enthusiastic discussion of<br />
a reactivated program of Variety doings took<br />
place and plans were made for several major<br />
projects. Among these projects will be the<br />
construction of the Hollywood House, recently<br />
given national pubUcity; setting up a special<br />
women's committee in connection with<br />
Variety work and the general remodeling<br />
and decorating of the clubrooms.<br />
Variety added 17 new members to its roster<br />
as result of an intensive membership campaign<br />
spearheaded by membership committee<br />
chairman Irwin Shenker. Most of the new<br />
members are film salesmen, admitted under<br />
the new, special $15 annual dues policy. The<br />
new bookers: Joe Krenitz and Tom Alley, Republic;<br />
Dorsey Brown, Tom Farrell and Bill<br />
McGowan, MGM; Jim Levitt, U-I; Frank<br />
Belles and Arthur Goldsmith, RKO; Carl<br />
Scheuch and Sol Gordon, Monogram; Bill<br />
Gross and Leonard Steffens, Columbia; Jack<br />
Share, United Artists; Bennett Goldstein, ex-<br />
Schine booker; George Kendis, NSS office<br />
manager; Max Mink, RKO Palace manager,<br />
and his assistant manager, Harvey Mendelson.<br />
To help the Variety Club defray the expenses<br />
of its sponsored charity, the Cleveland<br />
Cerebral Palsy Foundation school, Bernard<br />
Rubin, head of Imperial Pictures and distributor<br />
for Modern Talking Pictures, wUl turn<br />
over to the club all income derived from the<br />
showing of a free single reel industrial film<br />
titled "24 Hours of Progress." This is an<br />
educational reel produced by the national oil<br />
companies and contains no commercial. It is<br />
free to all exhibitors in the territory. Rubin<br />
has eight prints of the subject so that mailed<br />
or phoned requests can be serviced.<br />
Sign CHRISTMAS SALUTE SCROLL and give "a<br />
dime, o dollor, or on endowment" to our own<br />
WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.<br />
Theatre Party Is Given<br />
By Grand Rapids Tent<br />
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — An unusual<br />
social get-together was held last week by<br />
Variety Tent 27 at the Wealthy Theatre here.<br />
featuring a screening of Paramount's "Cleopatra."<br />
This was followed by a buffet supper,<br />
community singing and a general chinfest.<br />
Among those attending were Mr. and Mrs.<br />
John D. Loeks, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Goodrich,<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rosendall, Chiel<br />
Barker Allen Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Clive R.<br />
Waxman, Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Robinson, Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Ray "Bud" Engel, Walter Fisher and<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Rodger Luken.<br />
Cornell Has Israel Films<br />
NEW YORK—Cornell Film Co. has signed<br />
a contract with United Films of Tel Aviv for<br />
the distribution rights to a featurette, "The<br />
Life and Times of Chaim Weizmann" about<br />
the late president of Israel. The picture is<br />
scheduled for theatrical, non-theatrical and<br />
television showing, according to J. Milton<br />
Salzburg, Cornell president.<br />
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Builder and Contractor<br />
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MOBILOIL<br />
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2103 Payne Ave. Cleveland<br />
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Holiday Greetings from<br />
WARNER BROS. PICTURES, Inc.<br />
JEROME WECHSLER<br />
Branch Manager<br />
Salesmen<br />
Erne.st Sands<br />
Eddie Catlin<br />
Robert<br />
Blitz<br />
YARRO MILLER<br />
Office Manager<br />
Bookers<br />
Arthur Ehrlich<br />
Tony Lauri<br />
Nate Gerson<br />
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR<br />
UNITED ARTISTS CORP.<br />
MOE DUDELSON<br />
District Manager<br />
George Bressler<br />
Office Manager<br />
DAVE LEFF<br />
Branch Manager<br />
Salesmen<br />
JACK SHARE<br />
LOU GEIGER<br />
PETER MARSHALL<br />
Betty Bluffestone<br />
Booker<br />
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