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WASHINGTON<br />
•Phe Variety Club will observe Brotherhood<br />
week February 25 at the Statler hotel.<br />
Drew Pearson will be guest of honor and<br />
Louis Novins, assistant to Barney Balaban,<br />
win be the speaker.<br />
Charles Hurley, RKO salesman, is up and<br />
around again after his recent operation. He<br />
is not well enough to go on the road as yet,<br />
but well enough to greet his exhibitor friends<br />
George Nathan is the<br />
in the<br />
new manager at National Screen Service,<br />
being promoted from salesman when Arthur<br />
Jacobson resigned Sympathy to the<br />
family of James T. Powell, Chincoteague, Va.,<br />
who died February 3.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fnichtman went to<br />
New York to attend the wedding of their<br />
niece, Irene Fruchtman .<br />
Jack<br />
Safer went to Charlottesville, Roanoke and<br />
Charlotte.<br />
Executives of Local F13 are making arrangements<br />
for two mobile units to visit<br />
Filmrow in March to take chest X-rays.<br />
Anyone interested should contact his office<br />
manager . . . Sam Mellits, Denton, Md.,<br />
exhibitor, returned from his Florida vacation<br />
. . . The Star, South Hill, Va., will open<br />
February 16, says owner Chris Geohegan.<br />
fifth time, has gone to California to visit<br />
daughter Helen, who expects a visit from<br />
the stork soon . . . Uncle Leonard Gordon<br />
came in to buy and book for his Palace,<br />
Wythe and Stuart theatres.<br />
At Paramount, shipper James Burns suffered<br />
a broken toe when a film case fell<br />
on his foot . . . Lillian Lee is thrilled with<br />
her new apartment in the Lindberg, just<br />
two blocks from the office . . . Hazel Strawderman<br />
became Mrs. Jerry Jarosik and is<br />
honeymooning in St. Louis. Chief accountant<br />
Ida Green represented Paramount at<br />
the wedding . Mancini is the<br />
mother of a baby daughter . salesman<br />
George Kelly had his car wrecked when<br />
a school bus ran into it. Fortunately, no<br />
one was hurt.<br />
Glenn Norris, 20th-Fox district manager.<br />
NEW MIRROPHONIC SOUND<br />
JOE HORNSTEIN, Inc.<br />
G30 Ninth Av New York Cily<br />
visited his Philadelphia office Tuesday . . .<br />
Sjonpathy to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Epstem,<br />
Screen Guild, in the death of Mr. Epstein's<br />
mother last Sunday . . . Mike Leventhal is<br />
readying himself for the Allied meeting to<br />
be held next week at the Statler . . .<br />
The<br />
severe cold weather we are having is hurting<br />
Mrs. Margaret Holz, wife of Emil Holz,<br />
Loew's Columbia projectionist, died in her<br />
sleep Sunday night. Death was due to a<br />
cerebral hemorrhage ... Joe Breeheen. RKO<br />
manager, went to Gloversville. N. Y., last<br />
week to confer with Schine circuit executives<br />
. . . Reminder to Variety Club ladies:<br />
Every Wednesday wUl be ladies' day at the,<br />
club, with the first Wednesday of the month<br />
resei-ved for bingo and the remaining Wednesdays<br />
to cards. Ltmcheon will be served at<br />
12:30. Reservations can be made thi-ough<br />
Mary Nathan or Ann Bord.<br />
Al Benson and Glenn Norris were in charge<br />
of arrangements for the Valentine day party<br />
held in the clubrooms Satui'day to an overflowing<br />
crowd. John Broumas was in charge<br />
of the entertainment. The party replaced the<br />
annual Valentine day luncheon, which had<br />
been held since the inception of Variety.<br />
Many valuable door prizes were distributed<br />
and guests enjoyed dancing to the tune of<br />
Morgan Baer's music.<br />
News of the Warner club bowling league:<br />
The Sheridan team took one from the Savoy,<br />
but the Savoy bounced back in the second.<br />
The Ambassador divided a pair with the<br />
Pemi. The Metropolitan split with the Calvert.<br />
The Kennedy joined the Ambassador<br />
and Metropolitan in vying for second place<br />
by twice whipping the Tivoli. In a crucial<br />
battle for both teams, the York broke even<br />
with the Avenue Grand. The Takoma, by<br />
walking over the Beverly twice, started back<br />
up in the pin parade. Earl Yates checked<br />
back afer a month's absence from the Local<br />
Office team and guided the team to a double<br />
win over the Silver. Still short two men,"T>he<br />
Warner managed to take one from the Central.<br />
Winslow had two 106 games for the Seco<br />
and Dronenburg had a 106 for the Apollo-<br />
Home. Each team took one. The Colony split<br />
with Uptown.<br />
Max Stepkin, formerly with Kay Film Co.,<br />
is now connected with Theatre Consultants,<br />
Inc., and the McCarthy Decorating Co. . . .<br />
Paramount tradescreened four features this<br />
week, "Caged Pui-j'" and "Mr. Reckless"<br />
Thm'sday and "Speed to Spare" and "The<br />
Big Clock" Pi-iday.<br />
More Warner items: A. Julian Brylawski<br />
of Realty has a new secretary, Annette<br />
Umansky . Suit resigned to await an<br />
infant, expected in March . . . Sid Zins of<br />
Columbia has been in working on "The<br />
Swordsman" . . . Excitement reigned in the<br />
lobby of the Warner Theatre when two turtledoves,<br />
used in a "Voice of the Turtle"<br />
display, displayed the tm'tledove equivalent<br />
of planned parenthood by the production of<br />
an egg. Although the first was broken in the<br />
excitement ithe new parents were caught<br />
with their nest down), the usherettes are<br />
confidently awaiting the aiTival of another<br />
ornithological blessed event.<br />
Louis A. Blundon, 84-year-old tavern keeper,<br />
saw his first motion pictvu-e the other evening.<br />
After enjoying "My Wild Irish Rose,"<br />
Blundon is quoted as saying he'd like to go<br />
again some time.<br />
20th-Fox Seeks Permit<br />
For Video Station<br />
WASHINGTON—Twentieth Century-Fox<br />
has applied to the FCC for a construction<br />
permit for a new television station in Boston.<br />
The company is expected to file additional<br />
applications. If the FCC grants the application,<br />
20th-Fox will be the second major film<br />
company to operate a television station.<br />
Paramount was the first.<br />
Paramount also has applied for a Boston<br />
Bill Crockett, Virginia Beach, Va., spent<br />
station through its subsidiary. New England<br />
several days in town attending the supreme Valentine's day birthday greetings to Irvm Theatres. To date three out of five television<br />
channels set aside by the FCC for<br />
court hearings . . . Mr. and Mrs. W. Stradley<br />
were in to buy and book for the new<br />
Hackerman, Joseph Fisher and Hariy Brown<br />
. Chief Barker Frank Boucher sent out a Boston have been assigned. The 20th-Fox<br />
theatre they are opening in Cecilton, Md.. complete letter outlining arrangements for<br />
application for a construction permit makes<br />
February 20. House seats 300 and was formerly<br />
a school building . . . Ray Gingell, in Miami Beach April 12-17.<br />
maining two channels in that city.<br />
the national convention which will be held<br />
a total of nine applicants vying for the re-<br />
Hiser Theatre, Bethesda, Md., recently underwent<br />
surgery for the removal of a<br />
Warner Theatres Items: Charles Mac- Whether Paramount will be permitted to<br />
cyst<br />
on his eyelid . . . Gus Eyssell, managing Gowan, head of the contract department, bid for a construction permit in Boston will<br />
returned from Florida. Neal Coogan, who be determined by the FCC after March 1.<br />
director Radio City Music Hall, was reported<br />
to have been seen in Washington<br />
held down the desk while MacGowan was On that day the FCC will hold hearings in<br />
sunning and surfing, returns to the New Washington on Paramounfs right to apply<br />
Sunday.<br />
York office . . . Max Miller of Eagle Lion for the Boston station and for an additional<br />
The Julian Gordons, Newport News. Va.,<br />
has been working with the advertising and station to be built in Dallas by Interstate<br />
publicity department on "T-Men" . . . Cecilia circuit.<br />
are the parents of a son, Richard Scott,<br />
toorn January 28 . . . Carlyn Gordon<br />
Brown joined the advertising and publicity<br />
Wasserman<br />
is the mother of a daughter, Marcla . . .<br />
An FCC ruling limits the number of stations<br />
that may be owned by one company<br />
staff . . . Frank La Falce, chief of the adpub<br />
department, was at home with a severe<br />
Mrs. Bertha Gordon, grandmother for the<br />
to five. Paramount operates a Los Angeles<br />
cold.<br />
station through its wholly-owned subsidiary,<br />
Television Productions, and a Chicago station<br />
through Balaban & Katz. Allen B. Du<br />
Mont Laboratories, a Paramount affiliate,<br />
operates three stations in New York, Pittsburgh<br />
and Washington.<br />
Twentieth-Fox originally applied for a construction<br />
permit in Boston in 1945, but withdrew<br />
its application when the FCC turned<br />
down the CBS appeal for setting aside channels<br />
for color television.<br />
Bill Would Prohibit Sale<br />
Of Unwrapped Candy<br />
ALBANY—A bill prohibiting the sale of<br />
loose confections or candy bars, at prices<br />
from five to ten cents, unless they are<br />
wrapped in paper or cellophane has been<br />
introduced by Assemblyman Richard H.<br />
Knauf, Binghamton Republican. The measure<br />
exempts maple syrup and maple sugar<br />
products.<br />
Rooney in 'Monkey on Stick'<br />
The next Mickey Rooney starrer, "Monkey<br />
on a Stick," will be produced by Al Lichtman<br />
for Metro.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: February 14, 1948
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