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NTS Team Crowned
Nightingale Champ
DETROIT—Championship team this year
in the Nightingale club bowling league is
National Theatre Supply. Team bowlers were
Nick Forest, Carl Bewersdorf, Eugene Hass,
Floyd Akins and Gilbert Light, captain. Their
names will go on the Max Robin and Raymond
Gagnon trophy. The Jack Hall trophy
was won by Charles MacParlane, who increased
his average over last year by 23 pins.
Final team stands are as follows:
Won Lost
National Theatre Supply 68 44
National Carbon Co 51 51
Projectionists Local 199 56 56
Altec Sound Service 55 57
McArthur Theatre Equipment 55 57
Lorenzen's Flowrer Shop 52 60
Brenkert Projectors 52 60
Ernie Forbes Theatre Supply 49 63
Winners in the eight divisions are:
Group 1 —Joseph Michel, 178: John Lindenthal,
174: Herb Klein, 174; Roy Thompson,
172: Gilbert Light, 172, and Maurice
Beers, 161.
Group 2—Jack Colwell, 174; Francis Light,
170; William Fouchey, 164, and Eddie Waddell,
161.
Group 3—Matt Haskin, 171;
Edgar Douville,
165; Floyd Akins, 164; Walter Rosmys, 162,
and Donald Lewis, 160.
Group 4^Ralph Haskin, 165; Welber
Haartge, 161; Carl Larsen, 161; Nick Forest,
155: Percy Huebner, 154, and Leon Engerson,
154.
Group 5—Ralph Ball, 157; William Swistak,
150; Carl Bewersdorf, 150, and Romulus Albu
and Raymond Gagnon, 145 each.
Group 6—Roy Light, 158; Cecil Cox, 151;
Harold Welch, 145; George Haskin, 144. and
Prank Scheuer, 143.
Group 7—Edward Neilsen, 149; Fred Sutterfield,
140; Michael Badarak, 138, and Robert
Moesta, 132.
Group 8—Eugene Hass, 141; Charles Mac-
Parlane. 138; Charles Ross. 134; Carl Bacon.
130, and Earl Woodling. 128.
High single game—One from each group,
Roy Thompson, 249; Jack Colwell. 233: Edgar
Douville, 240: Welbert Baartge, 236; Raymond
Gagnon, 212; Roy Light, 214; Fred Sutterfield,
202, and Charles MacFarlane. 213.
High 3 game—One from each group, Joseph
Michel, 676; Jack Colwell, 598: Matt Haskin,
628; Welber Haaitge, 595; Raymond Gagnon,
565; Roy Light. 527; Fred Sutterfield. 515, and
Charles MacFarlane, 559.
Winners of team high single—Brenkert
Projectors, 968, and Ernie Forbes Theatre
Supply, 913. Winners of team high three-
National Carbon Co., 2,597, and National
Theatre Supply, 2,593.
Acquire Altec Service
CINCINNATI—Sound servicing agreements
in Ohio and West Virginia have been signed
with Altec Service by the following theatres:
Liberty in Middleport and Lenox in Wilmington,
Ohio, and Music Hall and Keyser in
Keyser and Colonial in Buckhannon, W. Va.
Universal Film also has signed for the service.
FILM EXCHANGE DRUGS
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Drugs • Cosmetics * Prescriptions
Personal Service irom Two Showmen
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Manager
Phone CLifford 1527. CLiiford 3694
DETROIT
Toe Del Rio, former screen comic, opened
this week at the Avenue . Lyric,
lately managed by Maurice Smilay for Associated,
is being torn down . Korman,
circuit operator, spent part of a leisure-
. . .
ly Sunday afternoon visiting his Lenox, formerly
the Oakland, in Highland Park
Joseph Urban, who was manager of the Farnum
in Hamtramck until five years ago,
when he dropped out of show business, is
the new manager of the Lenox.
Lewis W. Smith and Leon B. Nevin, local
advertising men, are establishing the Warner
Theatre Service to operate a theatre-merchant
Wilson Elliott, assistant manager
tieup . . . of the Royal Theatre, is recovering from
a serious back operation at Harper hospital.
The operation is an outgrowth of his experiences
while a German prisoner during the
war . H. Ross, who is building a
drive-in in Dearborn township, lives at the
extreme opposite end of Detroit's suburbs in
Grosse Pointe.
.
. . . Fred
Jackie Lamarr of Peryl's costume shop is
recovering from a relapse of pneumonia . . .
Bob Dunbar, who recently resigned as branch
manager of Warners, is convalescing in Phoenix
D'Ambrosia, bookkeeper at
Warners, was married Saturday
Newman, operator at the Courtesy, is back
from a month's trip to Las Vegas, the Grand
Canyon, and California. At Los Angeles he
caught the last Tom Breneman show .
Louis G. Havens, operator at the Fine Arts,
is back from a vacation spent studying television
in Chicago laboratories.
Jess Veldman, office manager at 20th-Fox,
has resigned after 21 years with the company,
and will go into business for himself
Edward Schnitzer,
in northern Michigan . . .
United Artists eastern manager, was due in
town for a brief visit . . Manuel Helfman,
.
who has taken over the former Dale Theatre,
will rename it the Model. As reported
recently, ex-owner Clare Winnie is taking
the theatre name, equipment, sign, etc., down
the street a couple of blocks to the longclosed
Victoria Theatre which will become
the new Dale.
Charlie Collins is able to talk again, although
his jaws are still wired together. He
continues to eat nothing but soup. He will
be back on the job soon at the rate he's
progressing.
fl/ISH
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MID -EAST
UDT's 2,500-seat "Woods" at Grosse
Point Woods, and Vince Laica's 500-seat
"New" at New Baltimore simultaneously
announce the first Mid-East installations
of Heywood-Wakefield's newly introduced
"Encore" line of theatre chairs.
Ned Oglesby, H-W Michigan salesman,
invites exhibitors to inspect the
two installations.
Ad Rates Are Increased
By Detroit Newspapers
DETROIT—Increases in advertising rates,
affecting particularly users of the theatre
directory, have been announced by the Times
and News, afternoon new.spapers. The morning
Times is expected to follow suit, but so
far has not notified theatres of any change.
The Times is raising its rate from 40 to 45
cents a line, or $12.60 for a basic four-line
ad. This is the rate the News has been getting
up to now. The News is boosting its rate
by 3'-! cents a line weekdays and 5 cents
Sundays. The theatre directory contains 150
to 200 listings daily.
ERNIE
FORBES
214 W. Montcalm
Detroit 1, Mich.
Phone CAdillac 1122
LEONARD SOSKIN AGENCY
Retirement income, life, automobile,
fire, health and accident insurance.
1712 Book Bldg. CA. 3S15, Detroit
LONG SIGN CO.
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MAINTENANCE SERVICE
840 W. Baltimore, Detroit — TR 1-5477
Theatrp Sign and Marquee Maintenance
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