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Decision Due Soon
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In Ambridge Issue
PITTSBURGH—The antitrust suit brought
by Harry Norman Ball, trustee of the Penn,
Ambridge. against six film distributors and
the Notopoulos Theatre interests, on which
judgment was denied in federal district court
and which was heard on appeal last fall in
Philadelphia, is due for determination "almost
any day," according to Henry Friedman,
supervising manager of the Penn. The
theatre representatives sought first run pictures
for the Penn when the Notopoulos interests
erected a new theatre, the State, and
moved the Penn product there. Friedman,
who headquarters at the Ardmore Theatre,
Ardmore, Pa., was here last week conferring
with Harry Bernstein, manager of the Penn.
Marquee Forecasts Cold
WILMINGTON. OHIO.—The marquee of
the Murphy Theatre here called the turn
on the weather recently when it said, "If
Winter Comes, repeat performance." It
seemed like winter had returned after the
mercury dropped from 91 degrees to 44.
C^iul Conn, ever-alert projectionist at the
Norwood Telenew's, wants to know if those
SRO "boards " '\\\ our May 8 issue were to
hold up the whole paper? Incidentally, SRC's
big spread names Eugene- Alexander, recently
resigned, as branch manager, instead of
Edwin Murphy who now has the post . .
.
Jack Haynes, Butterfield booker, is trying
to figure out how to get the cement off that
clothes pole he set in his back yard—it
flopped over the next morning.
. . .
. . . Starr, by the way,
H. Edward Stuckey, John Gentile and the
Paramount salesmen headed for a sales convention
at Philadelphia over the weekend
Ben Robins, U-I nxanager, was outstate
calling on exhibitors . . . M. Harlan Starr,
Monogram manager, won a permanent wave,
distributor,
won a whole ham at the backroom exchange
and Charles Garner, independent
staff party
was a contributor to the Satui'day Evening
Post last week . . . Ruth Steinmetz, secretary
to the MGM branch manager, is attractive
in new pink glasses.
Arthur Trombley, Columbia Junior booker,
became the first male recipient of a kitchen
shower the other day when the girls ganged
up and feted his approaching marriage
Marion Coley, RKO, is practicing
. . .
up a new
dance step known as the Kangaroo Leap.
Tom Funk, former co-manager of the Great
Lakes, is doing a nice job with the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Co. . . John
.
Sklar is forming the Central Theatre Co.
with offices in the Guaranty Bldg. . . . Maurice
Beers, operator at the FenkeU, was a lastminute
BOXOFFICE visitor.
erator at the Krim in Highland Park, is back
from a month's auto trip with Mrs. Parsons to
California, the Grand Canyon, and points
between. He visited his brother, Leslie Parsons,
formerly of Tulsa, who is chief electrician
at the Fox studios.
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