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. . I I . . Joe . . HARTFORD Over 150 Assemble ^X7alter T. Murphy, manager of the Capitol At Levy Dinner New London, has been named chair- . . . in man of the New London campaign for the United Nations Crusade for Children Howie Richardson, owner and operator of the State, New Britain, gave away free comic books to youngster patrons one day last week The Lockwood & Gordon houses in . . . Windsor and Wethersfield ran special morning kiddy shows during a special vacation . . . Douglas Amos, new manager of the Webb, Wethersfield, is commuting daily from his New Haven home. A welcome visitor in these parts was Norman Rowe, former Lockwood & Gordon man in Connecticut and now the circuit's Maine district manager. Rowe stopped in for a weekend visit to renew acquaintances . Walter Lloyd of the Allyn tells the story that Bill Robinson, the famed Negro dancer who was in a booking at the State, dropped by to see Lloyd, an old pal. The doorman didn't recognize the dancer at first, and so "Bojangles" obligingly did a few steps on the lobby floor. Martin Kelleher has a new glassware deal Eddie Selet of operating at the P:-incess . . . the Crown has a new policy of cartoons on Saturdays, and also has new dish deal . . . This Space RESERVED for Our Sensational New Pattern Coming Soon! WATCH FOR IT! CAMEO SCREEN ATTRACTIONS, INC. Samuel I. Davidson. Pres. 50 Melrose St. Boston, Mass. NEW HAVEN—More than 150 motion picture, judicial and political notables and friends attended the dinner given at the Racebrook Country club for Herman M. Levy, general counsel for the Theatre Owners of America, at nearby Orange last Thursday (6j. The guest list included Gov. James C. Shannon of Connecticut. Mayor William Celetano of New Haven. Lieut. Gov. Robert Parsons, Att'y Gen. William Hadden and virtually all court house and city hall officials from here and Hamden, and the following: Dr. H. D. Hartenslen Shermccn Rosenberg J.I- Luria John Mezzanotte Louis Phillips A. Allen Johnson Timothy O'Toole George Horwitz Henry Germaine Jack Horowitz Charles Berney Samue! Shainberg Ben Simon Israel Jacobs George ElUs Barney Lenzi R. E. Hyman Don Pouzzner Joseph Cooper John R. Thim George DiCenzo Edw-ard Peters James Kavanaugh Barney Pitkin John A. Maresca Raymond Clark M. M. Krevit B. E. Hoifman Maxwell Hoffman Joseph Shrebnick WilHara Prince Dr. L. Cohen Morris Bailey Bridgie Weber Robert Saxe Sam Bofwinick Dr. A. Yudkin Bob Hoffman David Douglass Harry Hornstein Reuben Moore Meyer Bailey A. J. Siegal HoTry Stone Phil Sherman Walter Silverman Arthur Greenfield Hymie Levine Herman Pickus John Povone Charles Rechl H, M. Richey Edward Sargoy Joseph Stein Morey Goldstein Raymond Moon Robert S'ternburg W- F. Rodgers George Dembow Charles Lewis Louis Gordon Arthur Lockwood Albert Kane A. Sweedlow I- H- Rogovin Sam Seletsky CONNECTICUT Sam Rosen Sam Weber Thomas Amalruda Sam Platcow Sidney Silverberg J. B. Fishman Edward Lynch James B. Butler B- Salzman James Darby M H. Wren S. F. Gingold Dan Adley Al Pearson Elmer Ryan Burton Levy Edward Levy Lou Brown J, J. O'Leary Tom Friday Nrck Palladinc Burt Prince C- Summa R. Parsons William Benne;*. Gene Loughlin M Munson A. Paoletli John Lynch John T. Dunn William Raynsford S. M, Atkins Walter Sliles Herbert MacDonald M. I. Whalen Henry Needles Frank Starkel William Hadden Harry Strong Ray Gates William Brennan Noyes Hal! Al Pickus George Wilkinson John Santangelo Richard Belden Roger Mahan Ted Jacocks B Jacocks William Githtz NEW YORK Sam Shain James Jerauld E. S. Canter Frank S. Keyer Stanley Prenosil Searil Putziger Harold Eskin J. M. Collins William Scully Richard Daly BOSTON Dan Finn E. X. Callahan H, Stoneman J. Fleischer J. Mahonc:y Hy Fine. WAHOO l^/ America's finest Screen Gamely} HOLLYWOOD AMUSEMENT COMPANY 831 South Wabash Avenue • Chicago, Illinois BOSTON roe Cifre, chief barker of the Variety Club of New England, returned from a prolonged Florida stay where he caught a 72- Joe Cifre pound, eight-foot sailfish, for which he was awarded a citation from the Palm Beach Fishing club. He is proudly wearing a gold lapel button and has had the s a i 1 f i sh mounted. Joe is elated over the award received at the Miami convention by the Tent 23 as the outstanding Tent of Variety International. "We will receive a bronze trophy which will be presented to us formally by an international officer at a special function in the near future," he said. "The earning of this award could not have been possible without the great aid and assistance accorded our Tent by our many friends throughout the industry. Theatre owners and managers, employes, workers in the exchanges all went out to assist our 1947 fund-raising campaign and put it over the top." . . . William E. "Ted" Hathaway, who took over the Moosehead in Greenville, Me., a year ago, was making the film district last week. He admitted that it was the second time in 20 years he had been in Boston . Rapolus, Majestic, Easthampton, was booking at Columbia Another out-of-town visitor was Lou Brown, advertising director for Loew's Poll Theatres of New England . Irving and Al Cohen, Ritz, Lewiston, Me., came in for the convention, as did Carl Tutterell, manager of the Milo, Milo, Me., owned by Mrs. Ella Mills. Harry Norton, for many years manager of the Puritan in Roxbury until the house was sold recently to the E. M. Loew circuit, has joined the Princess Amusement Co., owned and operated by Charles and David Hodgdon, as manager of the Princess in Wakefield . . . SRO invited several score to a screening of "The Paradine Case" Thursday evening, the night before the premiere at the Esquu-e. You can get your SPECIRL TRAILERS THE TIME BY GOING TO YOUR NEAREST I I • BRANCH New York 245 Weit 55th St. Chicago 1327 S. Woboih Los Angeles 1574 W, Washington TnrsTTnivnT CANDY CO. 62 COMMERCE ST.. NEW HAVEN, CONN. "WE KEEP THE MOVIES SWEET" 90 BOXOFFICE : : May 15, 1948
^ ! Howard, [ by I He ' I Taw , ing I The I new I Thompson ' in I Jack Wrather to Lens Hoblitzelle Invites 750 ;i Oil Story at Tyler TYLER, TEX.—Jack Wrather. Hollywood producer and former Tyler resident, will start shooting his new picture, "Strike It Rich," in this area about May 17. It is a story of the East Texas oil fields, which the producer's father helped develop. Bonita Granville, Wrather's wife, is the star. The male lead is Don Castle, a classmate of the producer at the University of Texas. Director Herbert Leeds, assistant Rex Bailey, art director Lewis Creber, and J. T. Price jr., Wrather's representative, arrived here several days ago to make arrangements for the project. The film will have to do with such places as the Clay lease, where an ocean of black gold was discovered, and the towns of Arp and Lindale in Smith county, in and around which most of the shooting will be done. Tyler will be the base of operations. Lindale will be used to show a typical eastern Texas town before the oil boom. Kilgore, with its steel-derrick skyline, will be shown as a typical postboom town. Hollywood talent will be flown in as needed. Local people will be used as much as possible as character atmosphere. Howard Bland Will Build 400-Seater at Taylor TAYLOR, TEX.—Howard Bland, principal owner of the Howard and Ritz theatres here, is building a third house. It will be a 400- seater. ! Bland's other theatres are the 800-seat which was recently remodeled and air conditioned, and the 700-seat Rita, which also was improved recently. Robb & Rowley circuit has an interest in both houses. Bland has been an exhibitor in Taylor for almost 30 years. The original exhibitor here was Howard Hoke. He set up his enteiTDrise in 1917 and a few years later was joined Bland. Hoke still lives here. He has been in ill health for the last few years but has been doing rather nicely in recent months. is retired from the business. Short Subjects Hold Over, New Feature Brought In DALLAS—The Warner color cartoon, "I a Putty Tat," broke precedent by show- a second week in the Majestic Theatre. feature was shifted to another house but the short remained to team up with a full length film. Manager Forrest said the short holdover was a fii-st his experience on theatre row. Risque Film a Fraud DALLAS—Prank Potter, U.S. district attorney, and federal officer procured a film projector to screen a print that had been marked "obscene" by a postal inspector. A large crowd of willing reviewers about the postoffice gathered to see the risque film. All were disappointed. A federal agent said the film was so tame the owner should be faced with fraud charges. Buys Protection Theatre PROTECTION, KAS.—Merle Long has bought the Midway Theatre here from H. D. McCloughan. CAMPAIGNING—Buddy Harris, owner of the Buddy Harris circuit and one of the most popular exhibitors on the Dallas Filmrow, was a leading campaigner for the Shrine ring recently. Because he is such a tiny mite (weighing close to 300 pounds) and being afraid that nobody would notice him in a crowd. Buddy dressed in the colorful garb of a handsome caballero, mounted the back of a jeep and rode through the crowd greeting everyone with a hearty handshake. Mrs. Lucille DeShazo Dies; Veteran Nowata Exhibitor NOWATA, OKLA.—A leading citizen of Nowata and a veteran exhibitor, Mrs. Lucille DeShazo, was buried Pi-iday i7i, following services in the Nowata Baptist church. Mrs. DeShazo died two days earlier in a Tulsa hospital after a five-week illness. In 1920 Mi-s. DeShazo and her late husband moved to Nowata, where they purchased the Rex Theatre. She has operated the house by herself since her husband's death in November 1945. He was killed in an auto accident. Both Mr. and Mrs. DeShazo were civic and social leaders in Nowata. They were particularly active in civic fund drives and bond sales and have been recognized for their work with citation awards. Mrs. DeShazo also was active in golfing circles. Survivors include four brothers and five sisters. Mexicans Not Fooled By Dubbed U.S. Voices Dallas—Arthur J. Jerome of Mexico City, one of Mexico's few independent exhibitors, told a local reporter that Mexico's natives will not see Holl.vwood films that have been dubbed with Spanish dialog. "They know darn well Mickey Rooney can't speak Spanish," he said. But they like Hollywood pictures with Spanish subtitles, he explained. Hollywood is now making them that way. Mexican theatregoers also like films produced in their own country, but they will go to see only certain Mexican stars. The favored luminaries are Victor Remis, Arturo de Cordova, Maria Felix and Pedro Armendariz. Other Mexican stars are just wasting their time, Jerome said. To Foundation Parly DALLAS—Karl Hoblitzelle, president of the Interstate Circuit, has sent invitations to 750 guests for a barbecue to be held May 26 at the Texas Research foundation laboratories a few miles north of the city. Hoblitzelle. who set up the foundation with a gift of hundreds of thousands of dollars, will hold open house at the laboratories a day before the barbecue. He is president of the foundation and has been instrumental in getting other civic and business leaders to donate great sums of money for its work. Forty scientists and employes are at work at the research laboratories, studying ways to improve the productivity of Texas farmlands. Another foundation created by Hoblitzelle is the Southwest Medical foundation, which carries on a study of new medicines and techniques in medicine. Hoblitzelle has given the two foundations more than a million dollars in recent years. Capacity House Hears Jose Iturbi in Dallas DALLAS—Jose Iturbi. screen star and world-famous pianist, demonstrated again last week his tremendous drawing power in Dallas. He gave a one-night concert at Fair Park auditoriimi and, as usual, the house was sold out even before the boxoffice opened. On succeeding nights he played to full houses in Amarillo, Witchita Falls, Waco and Fort Worth. D. A. Hulcy, president of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, presented Iturbi with a letter of welcome in which he said, "The people of Dallas have long admired your artistic triimiphs as brought to us through the motion pictiire, radio and phonograph records." Week of Reissues Does Big Business in Dallas DALLAS—The Forrest Theatre, one of the smaller Interstate neighborhood houses, ran seven repeat films in one week and billed the program as All-Star week. Increased business resulted from the booking. The pictures were "Princess and the Pirat«," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cowboy and the Lady," "The Yearling," "Call of the Wild," "Tarzan and the Amazons" and "Annie Oakley." All but "The Yearling" were reissues. A House in Cameron, Tex., Is Wiped Out by Fire CAMERON, TEX. — The Milam Theatre, Stanley Swift's A house, was gutted by fire May 7. A quarter of the business block was damaged. The theatre was a total loss. Damage may approach S75.000. The Cameron Theatre, a smaller house, remains intact. Swift operates his two theatres in affiliation with the Robb & Rowley-United circuit. Drive-In Opened OKLAHOMA CITY — The Bee-Gee Auto Theatre has opened three miles east of Eastern on SE aoth street. "Welcome Stranger" was the opening attraction and free ice cream was given out. Admission prices are 40 cents for adults and children under 12. free. BOXOFFICE : : May 15, 1948 sw 91
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