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CHARLOTTE
JJenry Krumm, division manager for Selznick
Releasing Organization, was here to
install J, Sam Hinson as manager of the
Carolina branch. Offices are located at 123
North Popular St. Acompanying Krumm was
G. B. Davis, special representative . . . Hy
Jacobson, Warner booker, is on leave to visit
his sick wife in New Haven . Williams,
former United Artists salesman, came
back to Charlotte this week from California.
He is .seriously ill and is hospitalized
.
Robert Kidd. formerly office manager for
Paramount, has joined Warners as booker.
John Calvert, magician who has been
signed for the role of the Falcon in the Falcon
series of pictures produced by Film
Classics, is making a personal appearance
tour through the Carolinas. He opened at
Durham and will appear at the Broadway
in Charlotte May 21 and 22.
Harry Haas, Paramount manager; Lawrence
Terrell, office manager: salesmen E. C.
DeBerry, Paul Cockrill and Ed Chumley, and
Everett Olsen. exploiteer, are in New York
attending the eastern and southern division
sales conference
. Terrell, Paramount
office manager, was mighty proud of
his vegetable garden. Hard work was bringing
results. But one morning he looked out
and discovered vandals had taken over. His
tomato plants were stolen and the rest of
the vegetables broken off to the ground.
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A new drive-in is being built at Fayetteville,
N. C, by J. G, WeUons. It is to be
called the Sky View and will open about
July 4. Wellons is spending approximately
$100,000 on the layout. All equipment is being
furnished by Wil-Kin Theatre Supply.
Wil-Kin also supplied similar equipment for
the High Point-Thomasville drive-in owned
by Prank Beddingfield and Tom Little .
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Griffith and Watt L.
Parker will spend Sunday and Monday, May
16, 17, at Myrtle Beach perfecting arrangements
for the summer convention of the
Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina,
which will be held at the Ocean Forest hotel
June 20-22.
Visitors on the Row: George Hughes and
E. L. Hearne of Albemarle, N. C; Mrs. Runa
Greenleaf and John W. Curtis of Liberty,
N. C: Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Arrlngton
of Rocky Mount, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Dandelake of Tarboro, N. C; Lyle M. Wilson
of Roanoke Rapids, N. C; R. C. Whitehurst
of Murfrecsboro, N. C: Charles E. Myers jr.
of Rich Square, N. C; R. D. McGowan of
Spring Hope, N. C; Sonny Baker of Valdese.
N. C: William Conn of Gastonia. N. C;
Mrs. B. B. Anderson and Howard Anderson
of the Anderson circuit, Mullins, S. C; Tom
Fleming of York, S. C, and J. B. Harvey of
Clover, S. C.
J. W. Mitchell, owner and operator of theatres
in Spencer and Rockwell, N. C, is building
a drive-in on the Salisbury-China Grove
highway
. M. Gibbs, for the last ten
years projectionist at the Visulite Theatre
has been named manager of the High Point
Drive-In on the highway between High Point
and Thomasville. The theatre is owned and
operated by Frank H. Beddingfield and T. A.
Little of Charlotte. Gibbs will take over his
new duties May 31. He has been in the
theatre business for more than 20 years.
His
wife and two children will follow him to High
Point within two or three weeks.
A new drive-in is being built in Liberty,
N. C, by Henry Staley, W. P. Holder and
T. G. Holder. They expect to open June 1
brothers are building a drive-in at
Belmont, N. C, and will open about June 1.
George D. Carpenter, Valdese, N. C, president
of the Theatre Owners of North and
South Carolina: Ben L. Strozier, Rock Hill,
S. C, past president and now vice-president
of the association, and their wives motored
WIL-KIN,
CHABLOTTE, N. C.
ATLANTA, GA.
"Everything for the theatre except film"
City Threatens to Close
'Hazardous' Theatres
GREENVILLE, MISS. — Demands have
been made by the city council upwn the management
of five local theatres to either comply
with fire regulations or close their doors.
The theatres could be closed, officials said,
if they do not comply with the regulations
or if unable to show a satisfactory reason for
not making the improvements. City Attorney
J. Albert Lake said that the city has authority
to impose a $100 fine on the party responsible
and sentence him to 30 days in jail for failure
to comply with regulations.
Theatres listed by Fire Chief A. Z. Lokey
as having violated safety regulations are the
Paramount, Delta, Lake, Harlem and Lincoln.
A. J. LeVay Leases Harbor
SAFETY HARBOR, FLA.—A. J. LeVay,
who returned to Safety Harbor after serving
for some time in the navy, will have, charge
of the Harbor Theatre during the summer.
M. Leventhal, owner of the Harbor, had
planned to close the place during the summer.
.
to Charleston, S. C, last week and boarded
the J. Don Alexander yacht for a trip to
Morehead City Ritchie, Republic
billing clerk, is out after an appendectomy
. . . Mrs. Carl Bamford of the Publix-Bamford-Asheville
organization has turned contractor.
She's building a house in Asheville,
The Carolina Drive-In Theatre at the junction
of highways 29 and 73 at Concord, N. C,
will hold its premiere Friday night. The
theatre is owned and operated by D. H. Jernigan
and A. J. Biggart of Lancaster, S. C,
and R. G. Covington of Greensboro, who
also owns the Motor Inn Drive-In Theatre
at Lancaster, S. C. The theatre has a capacity
of 325 cars and is equipped with in-car
speakers. More than 3 000 feet of aluminum
was used for fencing. Equipment was installed
by the Standard Theatre Supply Co.
of Charlotte and Greensboro.
A. A. Schubart, RKO exchange operations
manager, who was on an automobile vacation
trip to Georgia with his wife and mother,
dropped into the local exchange and tried to
line up additional vault space to relieve a congested
situation . . . Another RKO visitor,
Frank Duffy of the home office, left after
ten weeks for Atlanta, where he will spend
a week or two before proceeding to Oklahoma
City. Milton Yeoman, who was here assisting
Duffy, left with his wife for an assignment
in Kansas City.
The Charlotte RKO branch finished third
in the Ned Depinet drive, behind Salt Lake
City and Oklahoma City . . . Bill Prager,
RKO exploiteer. flew in from Washington to
set up campaigns on "I Remember Mama"
and "Fort Apache" over the Wilby-Kincey
circuit and "The Miracle of the Bells" in
Asheville . . . Paramount and RKO has organized
a team which will play in the Softball
league
. Branon, son of the RKO
branch manager, celebrated his sixth birthday
May 10 . . . Deanie Etheridge has been
promoted at RKO from PBX operator to
boxoffice clerk and was replaced by Margaret
Luckey .
Poovey of the RKO
staff spent a weekend at her home in Granite
Palls.
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BOXOFFICE :
: May
15, 1948