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COLUMBUS
John Pennington, Cincinnati, is the new manager
of the Majestic, succeeding Lou Holleb,
who has taken a lease on the Imperial,
Zanesville, Ohio ... A coliseum seating 20.-
000 is part of a "dream" expansion program
at Ohio State university announced last week.
The huge auditorium would provide expanded
facilities for basketball, commencement
exercises and such activities as Farmers
week. No site has been decided on, even
tentatively. The same program envisions a
new radio and speech building which would
become a httle theatre center. Other items
in the proposed expansion program include
a field house near Ohio Stadium with an
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outdoor swimming pool and a women's gymnasium.
Lise Bourdin, French cover girl and model
who was selected "Miss Arch of Ti'iumph" for
the New York premiere of the Enterprise
featm-e "Arch of Triumph," had a whirlwind
two days here in advance of the opening of
the film at Loew's Ohio under guidance of
Manager Walter Kessler, UA representative
Ward Farrar and Fred Oestreicher, Ohio
publicist. Mile. Bourdin had luncheon with
the local French club, met Mayor Rhodes and
Ohio State's May queen candidates, attended
an intrasquad football game at Ohio Stadium,
starred in a fashion show and posed for
countless pictures.
Lack of patronage caused the closing of
the Columbia Theatre stock company at
the Hartman after only three weeks of a
projected ten-week sea.son. Seven feminine
members of the company were guests of the
women's committee of the 'Variety Club at a
farewell luncheon. Mrs. Cecil M. Sansbury,
general chairman of the committee, was assisted
by Mrs. Ben Cowall, chairman of the
hostess committee. Her assistants were Mrs.
Lester Thai, Mrs. Walter Kessler, Mrs. Robert
Louis, Mrs. Sidney Katz, Mrs. H. W. Winstaffer,
Mrs. Samuel Sculler, Mrs. T. C. Polster,
Mrs. Milton Yassenoff, Mrs. Don Burrows,
Mrs. F. R. Gardiner, Mrs. Robert Wagner,
Mrs. Charles Selby and Mrs. Melville
Frank.
First cooking school since the war is being
held at the Palace, through arrangements
made by Harry Schreiber with Ramon Cram.
Dispatch promotion manager. "Classes" were
held three mornings this week with a variety
of prizes being awarded. The Palace's
"The Iron Curtain" received tieup mentions.
May is the month of queens and several local
theatres tied in with the local "royalty."
Ohio State's May queen candidates, in addition
to meeting Lise Bourdin, "Miss Arch of
Triumph" for Loew's Ohio, appeared at the
University Theatre. Gene Tierney. of the
Palace's "The Iron Curtain." picked the May
queen of Grandview High school and the
Ohio Dairy Queen of 1948 will be selected
in finals at the Palace.
Charles Egger, Washington Scripps-Howard
bureau correspondent, who saw "State of
the Union" at its preview for the 'White
House Correspondents Ass'n in the nation's
capitol, reviewed the picture for the Citizen
at its opening here at the Ohio. He was in
town for the May presidential Ohio primary.
Sistersville Theatre
Is Being Modernized
SISTERSVILLE, W. VA.—Paramount was
closed this week for extensive remodeling and
the opening of a modem new front on a
property several parcels away. Formerly a
reversed "L," the theatre is beng converted
into an "L" under plans of S.
A. Peters, owner
and veteran exhibitor. The former lobby will
be turned into a store room. The auditorium
is being renovated and decorated, new lighting
systems are being installed, as are carpets,
seats, drapes, screen, soimd-projection
Voice of the Theatre equipment, etc., from
National Theatre Supply.
Video Seen as New,
Localized Medium
COLUMBUS—Simple transmission of motion
pictures via television or simultaneous
televising of radio programs are "considerably
less than entertaining," said Nathan
M. Rudich, television editor of the New Theatre
Arts magazine, in a special television
conference which preceded the Ohio State
university institute for education by radio.
Martin A. Gosch, New York, television producer,
pointed out that the use of television
might bring about a decentralization of the
theatre and movies. Video should get its
greatest support from local theatres, he said.
Milton S. Allison, of the staff of Cincinnati's
new station, 'WLWT, said television is
a family medium. It tends to draw the family
together in the home rather than separate it
as many fields of commercial entertainment
do. He said communities should start to
organize immediately professional companies
of players that the local stations will find
and give support to when they begin television
broadcasts.
Hygienic Presents No. 4
In Charity Show Series
WILMINGTON, OHIO—The fourth
(May
6 1 edition of Hygienic Productions charity
stage show, "The Best Is Yet to Come," was
by far the best in the series to date.
Top billing in the two-hour revue went to
"Skitch" Henderson, whose terrific piano
styling rates him as one of the fastest rising
young maestros in the country.
The SRO sign went up. 21 days ahead of
the opening. With 1,000 seats, and two performances,
in a town of 10,000 people, it
goes without saying that the patrons were
well pleased with the past performances, and
look forward to the next. The next edition
of "The Best Is Yet to Come" will be presented
June 14.
Independent Poster Service
Will Open in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH—A new independent poster
exchange will be opened here within ten
days or two weeks, Eli E. Kaufman announced
several days ago. A manufacturer's
representative for theatre games and premiums
in recent months. Kaufman is a veteran
in the industry and in the poster business.
The new company will be named Pittsbm-gh
Poster Exchange.
Murdock Leaves Warners
To Go With Pennstate
UNIONTOWN, PA.—Joe Murdock has resigned
as manager of the Warner Theatre
in Morgantown. W. Va., to accept the post
as manager of the Pennstate Amusement Co.
here. He succeeds George J. Corcoran, who
has joined Allied MPTO of Western Pennsylvania
as business manager. Murdock is
a veteran of the Warners organization.
Victoria to Be Modernized
WHEELING, W. VA.—The Victoria, formerly
operated by the West Virginia Theatre
Enterprises, was transferred to Steve
Manas the first of May. The theatre will be
remodeled, decorated, reseated and newly
equipped.
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