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•Phe Variety Club boat ride on Sunday, June
12, promises to be a grand affair. Entertainment,
prizes, refreshments, dancing, are
scheduled by the committee which includes:
Jake Flax, captain; Wade Pearson, 1st mate;
Morton Gerber, 2nd mate, and Glenn Norris,
purser. The ticket committee is composed of
Glenn Norris, Joe Kronman, John O'Leai-y,
Bill M chalson and Dr. Sylvan Danzansky.
Variety barkers and their friends will cruise
down the Potomac at 8 p. m. on the Wilson
Lines. Tickets are $1.15 each, including tax
No. 11 has two barkers on the Varety
International roster of officers; Carter
T. Barron, who has been named executive
Eide to the International chief barker, and
Nathan D. Golden, who has been appointed
international heart committee chairman for
a second year. Another gay spring luncheon
fo:- the ladies was held on Tuesday, May 24,
at the Variety Club. The following ladies were
responsible for the success of the affair: Mrs.
Jack Bryson, Mrs. Alvin Ehrlich, and Mrs.
Ben Lust. Fred Klein was responsible for
the smooth-running of the arrangements.
Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Thelma
Martin, Equity Pictures, whose husband, aged
22, was drowned when he tried to rescue the
outboard motor which fell off his canoe.
Martin and a friend, neither of whom could
swim, never came to the surface. Mrs. Martin
tried to rescue her husband, but could not
locate his body.
Metro items: Inspector Josephine Byrnes
attended the convention of Local B-13, lATSE
which was held in Baltimore this week . . .
Contract clerk Dot Small has returned to her
de.sk after a two weeks' vacation in Virginia
Beach, Va. and Myrtle Beach, S, C. . . . In-
LE ROY J. FURMAN—In charge
of operations "Monarch" Division,
Gamble Enterprises, Inc., New York,
N. Y.—says:
"We have just extended our
RCA Service agreement, and
included Projection Room
Parts. We believe it is a good
investment."
To get the benefits of RCA Service
—write: RCA SERVICE COMPANY,
INC., Radio Corporation of America,
Camden, N. J.
Gulistan Wilton Theatre Carpet
JOE HORNSTEIN has it!
Adv
spector Margaret Dempkish celebrated her
15th year with MGM on Saturday . . . Booker
Henry Ajello's little daughter, Carolyn, made
her first communion on Sunday, May 15.
Fred Klein, who has been connected with
the local 20th Century-Fox office as a. salesman
for the past 21 years, resigned this week.
Klein intends to devote his time to the personal
management of his two theatres, the
Churchill Theatre in Church Hill, Md. and
the Chester Theatre, Chestertown, Md. He
has his eye on several more houses and plans
to increase his circuit. Incidentally, Klein
became a grandfather again on Tuesday
when his daughter, Mrs. Helen Butcher, gave
birth to a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Mechanic, New Theatre,
Baltimore, Md., spent several days in
Washington this week . Century-Pox
Branch Manager Glenn Norris took a trip
to Norfolk, Va., on "Wednesday to confer with
Robert Levine, Levine circuit . . . Booker
Sara Young spent the holiday weekend in
Miami Beach, Fla., getting acquainted with
her new grandson, Dennis Young . . . Evelyn
Manstoff has resigned from the cashier's department.
Ralph Binns, Highway Express Lines, is in
the hospital where he underwent an operation.
"Whitey" Morlitch came in from the
Highway Express Lines Philadelphia office
to "hold down the fort" during Binns' absence
.
Goldstein has resigned from
Paramount . . . Jeff Hofheimer expects to
reopen his newly decorated Willard Theatre,
Norfolk, Va., on June 1.
. . Cecil
. .
Dan Atkin has sold his controlling interest
in the New Theatre. Hancock, Md. to J. G.
Miller. Atkin will continue to do the buying
and booking for the Hancock house .
Ward will book and buy for his Stone and
Bassett theatres, Bassett, Va., effective May
28 . . . Harry and Ike Katz visited their local
Samson
Kay Film Co. exchange this week .
Pike is the new salesman and will handle
Baltimore . Hanower entertained her
sister Blanche and niece Joy this week when
they stopped off en route to Florida. Another
visitor was Mrs. Lena Kolbe and daughter
Pearl . . . RKO Booker Sullivan is a daddy
again. A little girl arrived at the Sullivan
home on Monday.
David J. Melamed Named
Eagle Lion Treasurer
NEW YORK—David J. Melamed. assistant
treasurer of Pathe Industries, parent company
of Eagle Lion, has been named treasurer
of EL by William C. MacMillen jr., vicepresident
in charge of operations. Melamed
replaces A. E. BoUengier, who has returned
to his former post at the EL studios in Hollywood.
Melamed, who joined Pathe in 1941, has
been assistant treasurer since 1946. He entered
the film industry as an accountant with
Columbia's foreign department in 1933.
Second Picture at Palace
NEW YORK—"Slightly Fi-ench," Columbia
picture, starring Dorothy Lamom' and Don
Ameche, opened at the RKO Palace May 26.
the second picture to be shown under
This is
the new combined motion picture and
vaudeville policy.
Reade Circuit Opens
Its Second Drive-In
KINGSTON, N. Y.—Walter Reade Theatres
opened its second outdoor theatre, the
9W Drive-In on route 9W two miles outside
of this city Friday i'J7i. Ceremonies and a
reception held in connection with the event
were attended by State Senator Arthur
Wicks and Mayor Oscar V. Newkirk of
Kingston. The reception was held at Judy's
Inn, Kingston, follow ng the opening show,
which featured "South of St. Louis."
The theatre will accommodate 700 automobiles
on its 18-acre site. It is similar to the
first Reade drive-in at Woodbridge, N. J.,
which was opened last year, in that it will
be used as a community recreation center
as well as a theatre. The drive-in includes
a picnic area, pony rides, slides, swings, seesaws,
a dance floor, shuffleboard courts and
horseshoe pits.
Programs will be changed three times
weekly, with a single feature Fridays and
Saturdays and double features during the
week. Children under 12 are admitted free.
Leon M. Einhorn of Albany was the architect
and I&OA Slutzky of Hunter, N. Y., the
general contractor. Joe Hornstein, Inc. of
New York supplied the Motiograph projection
equipment and in-car speakers. James
McKinney & Sons of Albany furnished the
steel screen frame.
The distance from the screen to the projection
booth is approximately 250 feet. The
entrance to the theatre is directly on route
9W. An area 30 yards deep and running
parallel to the road serves as a holding space
for cars. The screen tower backs on 9W,
with lighted lettering on the shell carrying
the theatre name. A V-shaped attraction
board has been built at road level.
The boxoffices are located, in two small
dutch-door buildings and can handle four
lanes of cars simultaneously. Over the boxoffices
is a rustic canopy running 125 feet
and trimmed with neon tubing to focus attention
on the entranceway.
The theatre includes a large center building
that houses a concession stand operated
by Reade. The building also houses the projection
booth and. rest rooms.
Robert W. Case, city manager for the
Reade theatres in Kingston, is the general
supervisor. Jack Hamilton manages the
drive-in.
National Board Praises
Four Western Pictures
NEW YORK—The National Board of Review
included four westerns among the eight
features recommended for the week ended
May 21. Six shorts also were on its weekly
list.
The westerns were "Frontier Investigator"
and "Law of the Golden West," (Rep); "Lust
for Gold" I Col) and "Roughshod" (RKO).
The remaining pictures were: "Don Quixote
de la Mancha" (Aztecai, a Spanish film picked
as the starred selected feature for the week;
"All Over the T(3wn" (U-Ii, a British production;
"The Big Cat" (ELi, and "The
Secret of St. Ives" (Col).
The shorts named were: "Beauty and the
Blade" (20th-Fox); "Best of the Breed" and
"Fairway Champions" (Para), and "Fraud
Fighters," "Helicopter Magic" and "Shush
Money," all RKO.
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BOXOFFICE :: May 28, 1949