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. . Leon . . Harry . . Business . . The . . Tiny . . Tri-State ; ' ALBANY The two-day all-Negro bill at the Royal will be continued for alternate weeks as long as business holds up, Neil Hellman said. He reported that the first show drew well. In addition to increased advertising, radio time is being purchased. Circulars are also distributed. Thirty per cent of the audience for the opening bill was white. A large part of the population in the neighborhood of the Royal is now Negro . . . Fred Haas, chief engineer for Fabian Theatres, made a prewinter Inspection of houses in Albany, Cohoes, Schenectady and Troy. He also took a looksee at the Mohawk Drive-In. Haas, who spent two months here last spring supervising the remodeling of the Leland, said he had noted an increase in labor productivity. A steadier flow of materials is one of the reasons for this. Frank Cunning-ham, former assistant at the Grand here, and at the Family, Utlca, was a member of the Knights of Columbus choir which entertained Chamber of Commerce members at a buffet lunch in the Ten Eyck hotel . . . Judge John Boyd Thacher, former mayor and close friend of local film men. presided . Einhorn, architect specializing in drive-ins, made a business trip to New York. Ed Maloney, Paramount manager, has found a house after searching for a year. It's in Newtonville, four m.les from town. Maloney's wife and four children will Join Seen at the Variety Club's him December 1 . . . first meeting in the new room Monday night were George Abramson, Larry Cowen, George Seed, Joe Saperstein, Alex Sayles, Gerry Atkln, Sylvan Leff, Neil Hellman, Jack Goldberg, Joe Weinstein. Charles A. Smakwitz, Si Feld, Arthur Horn, Fred Sliter. Ed Wall, Arthur Newman, Joe Miller, Nate Dickman, Gene Vogel, Gene Lowe, Harry Lamont. Harold Gabrilove, Dr. Samuel Kalison, Leonard Simon, Henry Seiden, Samuel Warshaw, Tom Harris, Nate Winigand, Dave Marks. Saul J. Ullman, chief barker, presided. Mrs. May Finan, switchboard operator in the Warner Theatres upstate offices, returned from a visit with her son William in Washington, where he is a brother studying at Catholic university Mohawk . Drive-In rates high among area ozoners in front flash. It is very brilliantly illuminated, in keeping with the Fabian maxim that a flash 'is necessary to attract motorists . . . The Uptown in Rensselaer is using spot announcements over station WROW in Albany to advertise that it has been completely remodeled. Frank Shea, director of commercial and television sales for March of Time, revealed here that "Crusade In Europe." a 26-week television program, just completed, has had such a splendid response the editors have decided to make a complete story of the Pacific phase of the war. Shea added, "We expect that the audience in the latter part of 1950 will be double if not triple the present televis on audience." It is reported that Metro liked so well the campaign which Schine circuit exploitation director Seymour L. Morris planned for "The Doctor and the Girl" that the company included the material in a supplemental press- . . Johnny . book . recently has been on the downbeat, Phil Baroudi, operator of houses in North Creek, Warrensburg and Indian Lake, said during a visit here. He reported it is worse than a year ago. The situations are in the Adirondack Mountains Your Best Buy is Griggs' New 30-Line Chair! with the self-rising seat! Gardner's Colony, Schenectady, is staging *j bingo on Tuesday nights. 1< Dan Houlihan, 20th-Fox manager, has sold l| his home in McKownville and is moving to ' Schoharie, where he has purcha.sed an apple Sam Rosenblatt expects to reopen the Strand, Watervliet, on Christmas day. Fire gutted it in September . . . F. Chase Hathaway's drive-in at Castleton, Vt., has closed orchard . Town Revue, presented by students of the Congdon Studios, featured an Armistice morning show at Warners' Lincoln, : its first season. His Hoosick ozoner remains Troy. Fifteen cartoons also were presented, open . Lamont shuttered the Lake for admission of 25 cents . . . Warners' American. Troy, is advertising "An Old-Fashioned George Drive-In, but kept the Vails Mills, Middleton and Kingston automob.lers open Social night" on Tuesdays. for weekend operation, and the Poughkeepsie situation on fulltime for a while. The Mohawk will run through Thanksgiving, Neil Fabian's Grand with an eye to installing an Filmrow hears that engineers liave inspected Hellman said. air conditioning system and redecorating the house. Fabian executives have considered air conditioning the theatre for the last five years. In fact, this is part of a program for modernizing the 35-year-old house which reached the blue print stage in 1947. but was sidetracked because of costs. At that time the idea was to rename the house the State. Xavier Cugafs failure to draw the anticipated capacity audiences at the Palace ha,s been attributed to the fact teen-agers passed up his stage show . Automatic Candy Corp. is introducing in some theatre.? a box so fashioned that popcorn can be scooped into it without using a metal shovel. Freddie Schwenn, The box has no top . . . Fabian Theatres sign painter, fashioned the lifesize figure of Larry Parks which tops the Grand marquee for "Jolson Sings Again." Spotlight Studios of New 'Vork turned out the blowups. Gus Schaefer, who resigned as RKO northeastern district manager, is reported plan- • ning to give full time to four theatres in which he holds an interest in the Springfield and Hartford areas. It is said that Schaefer, well known in the Albany area, wanted to resign the RKO post last May, The Albany exchange has been placed under Morris Lefko, head of the east central division . . . "Jolson Sings Again" played to heavy business, nearly 20.000 persons, during the first week at the Grand, but dipped some at the start of the' .second week, according to Filrm-ow reports. Six screenings have been given daily. Weekday matinee patronage was not too good.' even at the regular 50 cents admission. Many older people bought tickets, but chUdren. who. contributed substantial numbers to the audi-: ence for "The Jolson Story." did not repeat on the same scale. Chief points of discussion in area circles are whether the picture: warrants the terms which Columbus asks anriwhether advanced admissions are wise. A chair for finer theatres. COMFORTABLE! <strong>MODERN</strong>! Reasonably Priced — plus Automatic See Self-Rising Seat! EQUIPMENT COMPANY 1560 Broodwoy New York City 19, N. Y. Offices: Dallas, Memphis, Shreveport, Oklahoma City and Home Office, Belton, Texas. The local film colony is prepared to extend a "welcome home" greeting to C. J. Latta, former Warner Theatres zone manager here, who now is managing director of ttie Britishi affiliate, when he and his wife make a visit in January. They will sail from Southampton December 10 aboard the Queen Mary and will spend the Christmas holidays in New York City. They plan to come to Albany early in January as guests of Fred I. Arciiibald. publisher of the Times-Union. "Chicago Deadline" is reported to have been proved a sleeper at the Strand. Another film that did nicely was "Without Honor" at the Ritz . . . Oscar Perrin, Ritz manager, and other local film men who have seen the English-made "Saraband," consider it one of the most spectacularly produced, beautifully acted and superbly photographed pictures they have recently seen, "Saraband" is a historical costume feature best suited to class audiences. 60 BOXOFFICE November 13. ^
I I 1 theatre. 1 The ; with i the I pany , lease I ' by 1 the I Reade I New I I I The UA, Cohen File Suits Over 'Home of Brave' NEW YORK—United Artists has sued Max A. Cotien for a total of $8,000 in damages said to represent rental payments withheld on "Home of the Brave" and "High Fury," which played second to it on a double bill. Cohen has filed counter-suits for $15,000 in damages, claiming that UA violated a first run contract by selling "Home of the Brave" to Loew's. Because two films were involved and the damages asked for the second feature were small, that suit was filed in the city court of New York, which does not hear cases of more than $3,000. "The Home of the Brave" suit was filed in the New York supreme court. Both sides have now agreed to consolidate actions in the supreme court. UA filed the actions against Cohen and two of his corporations—Ancore and Andear Amusements—following the run of "Home of the Brave" at the New Amsterdam and Harris theatres, which are operated by the two defendant corporations. Cohen came back with counter actions, claiming that UA had signed a first run agreement for the showing of "Home of the Brave" in the metropolitan area. Cohen said this pact was violated when UA also sold the film to Loew's as a first run engagement. New Building, Theatre For Midtown New York NEW YORK—Sigmund Dornbusch of Newark has bought a 20,000 square foot site on Seventh avenue and 56th street on which he may construct an office building conta.ning a motion picture theatre and basement garage. He acquired the property now used as a parking lot, from the Mutual Life Insurance Co. It is assessed at $785,000. Berk & Krumgold were the brokers. Bornbusch said one of the major circuits is interested in leasing and operating the He refused to name the chain. size of the theatre and the office , building will be determined after discussions prospective tenants. E>ornbusch said the building may go as high as 25 stories and theatre as large as 1,800 seats. The comnow operating the parking lot has a which runs another two years, but Dornbusch said building could be started next May if certain pending deals go through. Walter Reade May Attend 1st Albany TOA Session ALBANY—The possibility that Walter Reade jr., one of the moving spirits in the national TOA, may attend the first fall luncheon meeting of the Albany TOA, is foreseen Harry Lamont, temporary chairman of area group. Lamont conferred with and other TOA executives while in ; York for the third annual midwinter conference of Variety Clubs International. Saul J. Ullman, who met with Lamont and Leonard L. Rosenthal, executive director for ^the Albany unit, on plans for the session here, lalso is scheduled to talk with TOA toppers during a trip to New York. date for the initial confab of the 1949- |50 season has not been set. AT ALBANY DINNER — The Albany Variety ('lub recently opened the new fall and winter season with a dinner at Heeler's restaurant. Shown in the accompanying: picture are Abbic Lane, singer with the Xavier Cugat orchestra playing at the Palace Theatre, and Saul J. Ullman, chief barker. Cugat and members of his company were guests at the dinner. Flans for the annual Denial day campaign which the club will sponsor, to provide funds for its summer camp for boys, were discussed during the dinner. Midwest Drive-In Buys Site On New S-3 in Rutherford NEW YORK—The Midwest Drive-In Co., headed by Philip Smith of Boston, has bought a 24-acre site on the new route S-3 in Rutherford, U. J., as a site for a drivein to cost about $450,000, according to Berk & Krumgold, theaare realty specialists who handled the sale. The property was acquired from the Belle Meade Coi^p. of this city. The site is only a 12-minute drive from the New York side of the Lincoln timnel and the drive-in will be the closest to the Times Square area. Plans call for a large playground for use prior to .showtime, extensive landscaping and parkways, and construction of a special road on each side of route S-3' and a tunnel under the highway to eliminate traffic hazards. Variety of Albany Elects New Members of Crew ALBANY—The Variety Club met Monday night in its new clubrooms on Clinton avenue and elected a crew of 11. These men were to meet at 11 a. m. Saturday in the Warner Theatres offices to selected officers for 1950. The new crew consists of Charles A. Smakwitz, Joe Saperstein, Ed Wall, Gene Reade to Decide by Tues. On Action Against RKO New York—The Walter Reade Theatres will d-ecide by Tuesday (22) whether to sue RKO over the Trenton-New Brunswick situation. Reade and RKO officials, represented on the Trenton-New Brunswick board of directors, met Friday (18) in another attempt to end their joint ownership agreement and transfer the circuit assets. EK 9-Month Net Profit Slightly Under 1948 NEW YORK—Eastman Kodak Co. has reported a net profit of $35,130,264 for the first nine months of 1949. after charges and taxes, compared to $42,501,249 for the same period in 1948. This is equal to $2.68 per common share on the 12.999.069 shares outstanding, compared to $3.41 per share on the 12,380,065 shares outstanding in 1948. The net profit for the third quarter of 1949 was $13,761,434 or $1.05 per common share. The Eastman Kodak directors have also declared a dividend of 50 cents on the common stock, payable Jan. 3, 1950, to stockholders of record December 5, plus a dividend of one .share of common stock for each 20 held, payable Jan. 21, 1950, to stockholders of record December 23. This action brings the 1949 cash declarations to $1.70, as 40 cents was voted in each of the preceding quarters. This compares with $1.60 last year when a like stock dividend was declared in November. The EK directors have also voted a wage dividend of an estimated $15,500,000 for about 48,000 Kodak men and women in the western hemisphere, the largest total wage dividend in the 38-year history of the plant at Kodak. The dividend will be paid March 10, 1950. INCORPORATIONS —ALBANY— Basil's Abbott Theatre: Buffalo; $100,000. $100 par; William G. Beyer, 54 Urban St ; Arlene G. Misener, 501 Morgan Blvd.; Mildred Ruth, 471 Koons Ave. Herb Sheldon Enterprises: Radio and television business; 200 shares, no par. Olympia Miniature Corp.: Manufacture figurines, pictures, theatrical properties ai.d toys, in New York; 300 shares. Hollywood Enterprises: Promotion and exploitation in the theatrical and commercial fields; 200 shares, no par. Dell Amusement Corp.: Kings county; 200 shares, no par. Auburn East-West Drive-In Theatre Corp.: Auburn; 200 shares, no par; Hubert P. Wallace, Aubm-n, and Anne M. Wallace, 6 Melrose Rd. Vogel, Charles Dortic, Sylvan Leff, Arthur Newman, Gerry Atkin, Leo Rosen, Dr. Samuel Kalison and Nate Winig. Clyde J. Murphy Co.: Formed to conduct a genera) painting an'l contracting business Neil Hellman, a former chief barker, and in Troy; $10 000. $100 par- Clyde J. and Dorothy Murphy. This concern does the painting Rosen were elected delegates to the national convention in New Orleans, and Simon and and decorating in area Fabian theatres. Atkin, alternates. Bell Park Movies: Fû•nish amusement to public; 100 shares, no par. Israel Amusement Center: To do business in New York; 200 shares, no par. Biofilms, Inc., of New York: Dissolved. Rights to "Cyrano de Bergerac' Screen rights to "Cyrano de Bergerac," a play by Edmond Rostand, have been acquired by Producer Stanley Kramer for United Artists. BOXOFnCE :: November 19, 1949 60-A
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