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BOSTON Till- .seuso I (or Ihf amiual<br />
Christmas office parties has arrived. This<br />
year Bllnstrub's rostaiirant leads the field In<br />
the choice of cafes for dinner. Four exchanges<br />
have selected this spot. On December<br />
I<br />
.2. the 20th-Fox office force will arrive at<br />
Ullnstnib's after a screening In the Fox Llltl:-<br />
Theatre and cocktails at the Variety Club.<br />
The MOM Pep club chose the same evening<br />
'for Its Christmas party at the same restur.int.<br />
by a screening In the MOM screening<br />
room and cocktails In the office. United<br />
Artists will serve cocktails In the office while<br />
Universal will have a icreening to be folllowed<br />
by cocktails and a buffet dinner In the<br />
oHice. The Warner party will be held on<br />
December 15 with a screening, cocktails in<br />
Ithe office and dinner at Blinstrub's.<br />
The same is true of RKO with the datt-<br />
December 16. Paramount will hold its party<br />
on December 15 with a screening, cocktails<br />
and a catered dinner served In the office. Re-<br />
Subllc will also stay within the confines of<br />
le office with the date December 23. Columbia<br />
has set December 19 for the office<br />
party with a screening and cocktails and dinner<br />
in the Circus room of the Hotel Bradford.<br />
Plans are not yet complete for the National<br />
Screen Christmas party, nor for the<br />
Monogram office force, which usually joins<br />
irith the Rifkin circuit.<br />
Henderson Richey Talks to lENE<br />
rill- fivi-ni.iii :;ctiiimI < Diuriiiiiiii < iinimittrr is sIium ii here. I.c-ft to riKht. srat*d,<br />
are Irviiis Isaacs, Norman (M.ivsiiian and l.i-nnard (ioIdborR. StandinK, arf Ray<br />
Kccley, executive director, and I.i-slir itrndsli-v.<br />
BOSTON—Joseph Kaufman, director of<br />
theatre operations and distribution for Cinerama,<br />
who was to have been the principal<br />
speaker at the banquet climaxing the annu:il<br />
convention of Independent Exhibitors of New<br />
England here Monday and Tue.sday, was unable<br />
to keep the engagement. Henderson<br />
Richey of MGM was moved up on the pro-<br />
Kram to take Kaufman'.s place.<br />
Maurice Wolf, former Bostontan. was<br />
emcee at the banquet. Head table guests Included<br />
Leon Bamberger, who made the main<br />
address at the luncheon; Norman Classman.<br />
Leonard Goldberg. Irving Isaacs. Leslie<br />
Bendslev. Walter Mitchell. Arthur Lockwood<br />
E. M. Loew. Edward 8. Canter. Gabriel Piemonte.<br />
president of Boston city council, and<br />
Ma.'Lsarhiisett.s .Senator Charles ONon<br />
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iTowi<br />
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Walter Diehl Jr. Winner<br />
In History Competition<br />
BOSTON—Walter Diehl jr.,<br />
son of the busiless<br />
agent of projectionist Local 182, vva.s one<br />
3f the winners in the tenth annual Hearst<br />
Mewspapers American HLstory awards compeplUon<br />
for Boston high school students and<br />
thus became eligible to take the national<br />
finals examination to comp3te for the grand<br />
brlze. In the finals, the five Boston students<br />
vUl take the same written test prepared by<br />
he social studies department of the U.S. Miliary<br />
Academy at West Point that will be given<br />
o 61 other finalists in 11 other major cities.<br />
The completed examinations will be .sent<br />
West Point for grading by faculty members<br />
here. All papers will be known to judges<br />
>nly by a code number. The names of the<br />
dinners will be made known after the Christnas<br />
holidays. Walter jr.. 17. is a senior at<br />
he Archbishop Williams high school in<br />
Jraintree and is an honor student.<br />
Boston Tent 23 Re -Elects<br />
Variety Tent 23 of<br />
New England has reelected<br />
all its officers for<br />
the coming year. The<br />
new slate is shown in<br />
the adjacent ohotos.<br />
Officers<br />
Walter A. Brown was re-elected chief barker, with Max Levenson.<br />
center. :ind Thi! Smith, right, as assistant.<br />
ames Moore, 93, Is Dead<br />
PORTLAND. ME.—James E. Moore. 93. forner<br />
theatre "manager here, died recently at<br />
he home of his daughter. Mrs. Mae E. Brinklan.<br />
In Mount Vernon, N. Y., where he had<br />
aade his home for the past few years. He was<br />
nee proprietor of the old Portland Theatre.<br />
nA later operated the Jefferson and Keith<br />
heatres here. He also is survived by a son<br />
1 Long Island City, N. Y.<br />
1 1 *lan 'Invasion' Bow<br />
i HARTFORD—Dave Lustig and Sid Zins of<br />
le Columbia exploitation department. New<br />
ork, conferred here with George E. Laners,<br />
Hartford division manager for E. M.<br />
oew's Theatres, on promotion for "Invasion,<br />
Ud '.S.A." at the E. M. Loew's Hartford.<br />
Louis \\. Richmond. left doughty, and Michael Redstone, right, property master.<br />
OXOFFICE December 13. 1952<br />
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