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. . Bing<br />
. .<br />
. . . Joe Blowitz,<br />
to view the television, which is in front<br />
Manor<br />
of<br />
the standee chutes<br />
manager, is in Montefiore hospital and Dave<br />
Smith is looking after the Squirrel Hill house.<br />
AT PARAMOUNT DIVISION SALES MEETING—Paramount sales officials met for<br />
a divisional meeting May 12-14 at Pittsburgh. Shown left to right in the accompanying<br />
picture are Ulrich Smith, Philadelphia branch manager; A. C. Benson, Washington<br />
manager; E. K. O'Shea, assistant general sales manager; A. W. Schwalberg, general<br />
sales manager; Harry H. Goldstein, mideast sales manager; Saul Frifield, Cleveland<br />
manager; Edward Stuckey, Detroit manager; James J. Gardy, Cincinnati manager;<br />
Richard Morgan, legal department, and Dave Kimelman, Pittsburgh manager.<br />
PITTSBURGH<br />
IJarry Battistini, former Punxsutawney ex-<br />
. . . Betty<br />
hibitor, apparently is doing well with his<br />
investments. He leased his theatre to the<br />
Warner crixuit some years ago. Recently, he<br />
completed a large market building there,<br />
which has been leased and is occupied by the<br />
A&P stores. Harry said hello the other day<br />
on Filmrow and indicated that he might return<br />
to exhibition in this area<br />
Goldberg of the Film Classics office is wearing<br />
a sparkler from William Mash .<br />
. . Harry<br />
Finkel, theatre owner, has been ill at his<br />
home in Florida where son Morris M. Finkel,<br />
Allied MPTO president, has been visiting for<br />
a number of weeks. The illness of his father<br />
ROBERT H. URLING — Owner<br />
and Operator, Wayne Theatre,<br />
Wayne, West Virginia—says:<br />
"The theatre I operate is<br />
small but I know that I can<br />
compete with the biggest and<br />
best by using RCA sound<br />
and service."<br />
To get the benefits of RCA Service<br />
—write: RCA SERVICE COMPANY,<br />
INC., Radio Corporation of America,<br />
Camden, N. J.<br />
Jim Alexander<br />
Sam Fineberg<br />
Adv.<br />
1705 Blvd. of the AlliesI<br />
PITTSBURGH 19. PA.<br />
Phone EXpresB 0777<br />
will prevent Morris from attending the Allied<br />
confab at Dallas.<br />
Pittsburgh entertainers have increased their<br />
minimum wage scale about 70 per cent . . .<br />
Laskey Bros.' new Starlite Drive-In near<br />
Fairmont. W. Va., will open May 29 . . John<br />
.<br />
A. Robb, attorney and drive-in theatre investor,<br />
and Horace Goodenough and Joseph<br />
R. Royston jr., have incorporated Goodenough<br />
Associates, Inc., to act as business<br />
consultants, investigators and to manage all<br />
types of manufacturing businesses.<br />
MGM visitors included Harry Simons, auditor,<br />
and Oliver Broughton, home office representative<br />
... A. A. Shubert, RKO branch<br />
operations manager, was another visitor . . .<br />
Herb Ochs, drive-in circuit operator who is<br />
. .<br />
opening a new one at Elm Grove, W. Va., was<br />
a Filmrow shopper . . . Bill Walker. Crafton<br />
exhibitor, who underwent an operation in<br />
Presbyterian hospital, was to undergo surgery<br />
again this week . Gabe Rubin, Art Cinema<br />
proprietor, is busy preparing for the opening<br />
of the new drive-in at Silver Lake, and is<br />
operating a freak film show at the Casino<br />
under a special lease-license.<br />
. Bill Stich, Screen Broadcasts representative,<br />
Midget auto races will be staged May 29 at<br />
the race track on the Speedway Drive-In<br />
between Fairmont and Bridgeport, W. Va.<br />
Admission to the drive-in is 35 cents per<br />
Skyline Drive-In at New Castle featured<br />
car . . .<br />
"Mamma," Italian dialog film . . .<br />
Reynolds Drive-In near Sharon staged preshow<br />
musical entertainments recently, presenting<br />
Bill Gardner and His Rambling Riders<br />
..<br />
reports that practically all of<br />
the drive-ins of the area are using his advertising<br />
reels.<br />
Sam DeFazio, manager of the J. P. Harris.<br />
has a special baseball gear and Pirate photos<br />
display in the lobby exploiting "It Happens<br />
Every Spring." Harry Keck and Al Abrams,<br />
sports editors, were in the theatre for a sneak<br />
preview of the comedy. DeFazio reports that<br />
more and more of the theatre patrons stop<br />
IN-A-CAR SPEAKERS;<br />
SPEAKER POSTS<br />
DRIVE-IN THEATRE MFG. CO<br />
729 Baltimore<br />
K. C. Mo.<br />
Marion Fogel of Republic has been making<br />
transportation reservations for those who<br />
desire to have special bus service to and<br />
from the Filmrow bam dance at the Museum<br />
building June 3. The event has shaped up<br />
as a big evening and the sponsor, Filmrow<br />
Exchange Front Office Employes Local Fll,<br />
lATSE, has been busy with details.<br />
Tom Woods, manager of the Hi-Way<br />
Drive-In near Latrobe, also manages frozen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Dominic<br />
food lockers there . . .<br />
Navarro were hosts at the family party at<br />
Filmrow visitors included<br />
Variety Club . . .<br />
National Carbon representatives E. R. Geib<br />
of Cleveland and Pittsburgh area salesmen<br />
Robert Varsha. Jack Casey and Tom Lewis<br />
. . . Tommy Cowell and his bride are at<br />
home in Erie after a four-month honeymoon<br />
in Florida. He will get to work on his drive-in<br />
on his Lake Erie beach, but it may not be<br />
completed for opening this season.<br />
Theodore Mikolowsky, pioneer exhibitor,<br />
again is a grandpop. A second son George<br />
Julius was born to his son and daughter-inlaw<br />
the George Mikolowskys. George assists<br />
his father in exhibition at Masontown .<br />
John Perry, Belle Vernon exhibitor, has filed<br />
an amended complaint in his claim that he<br />
was illegally ousted as burgess there. The<br />
job carries no salary but Perry is staging<br />
a big court fight to be reinstated . Loew's<br />
. .<br />
Penn sneak previewed "The Stratton Story"<br />
the evening of May 18 and the following evening<br />
the J. P. Harris sneak previewed "It<br />
Happens Every Spring."<br />
Nearly three decades have passed since an<br />
independent exhibitor affair has taken Fred<br />
J. Herrington, local Allied MPTO secretary,<br />
to Dallas, but he is en route there to attend<br />
Allied sessions and the Texas convention.<br />
Last time he addressed Texas exhibitors at<br />
Dallas was in the fall of 1920. Fred has been<br />
attending independent theatre owners meetings<br />
and conventions for more than 40 years.<br />
Abe Weiner, Allied Artists-Monogram manager,<br />
has located a residence here and will<br />
move into a duplex on South Evaline street<br />
in the Bloomfield district. Mrs. Weiner and<br />
their daughter, who have made their home<br />
in Boston, will come here immediately . . .<br />
Al Suchman, SRO division manager, was a<br />
Filmrow visitor. He reports thta Eddie Fontaine,<br />
veteran of the industry, has returned<br />
to the SRO fold . . . Harry M. Kalmine,<br />
Warner circuit general manager and former<br />
local zone manager, was here for a short<br />
visit.<br />
Mother of Sam Fineberg, RCA theatre products<br />
distributor, is critically ill . . . Mother<br />
of the Gellman boys, Joseph and Gilbert,<br />
local theatremen, remains critically ill at a<br />
nursing home . Crosby, broadcasting<br />
a play-by-play account of a Pirate game<br />
last Saturday, was approached by three Pittsburgh<br />
policewomen, who just wanted to take<br />
a look at the crooner, and for a moment he<br />
said he thought he was being arrested for<br />
vagrancy as a result of his last picture . . .<br />
Allied MPTO grievance committee met.<br />
The Sunset Beach Auto Theatre and swimming<br />
pool on Route 40 near Claysville recently<br />
were reopened by C. M. Ducray and<br />
Stephen Setto.<br />
70 BOXOFFICE :: May 28, 1949
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