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CLEVELAND<br />
/Cleveland theatre owners report that holiday<br />
business dropped lower this year than<br />
in any previous year. It is from 30 per cent<br />
to 50 per cent down from other records for<br />
the same period. The long steel strike is<br />
blamed, not only because of the halt in steel<br />
production in tliis highly concentrated manufacturing<br />
area, but also because of short weeks<br />
of operation at plants making automobile<br />
parts and other steel products To balance<br />
this, however, is announcement that Christmas<br />
bonuses amounting to almost a million<br />
dollars will be distributed in greater Cleveland,<br />
Some of this cash undoubtedly will<br />
turn up at the boxoffices of the city.<br />
Sam Galanty, Columbia district manager,<br />
was here in consultation with Manager Oscar<br />
Ruby. There soon will be an announcement<br />
as to Columbia's policy on "Jolson Sings<br />
Again," which is currently playing the eighth<br />
week of its prerelease run at the Esquire .<br />
"Samson and Delilah" opens its local run at<br />
the Stillman January 26. Policy still is under<br />
discussion.<br />
Max Mink, RKO Theatres division manager,<br />
announces a week's engagement of "Dr. I Q."<br />
at the Palace starting January 4 . . . Eugene<br />
Rosenbluth, owner of the Stork Theatre, announces<br />
the forthcoming marriage of his son<br />
Bertram to Leona Fromson. Bertram is the<br />
first of the five Rosenbluth brothers to marry.<br />
All five were in service during World War II.<br />
Helen Smith Russell will be hostess at the<br />
annual Akron Theatre Managers and Owners<br />
Ass'n Christmas dinner at the Mayflower<br />
hotel December 27. As usual, there will be a<br />
Cleveland delegation present. Mrs. Russell is<br />
the first woman to hold the top association<br />
office . . . Nat Barach, National Screen Service<br />
manager, has sold his Shaker Heights<br />
home and now is domiciled at the Commodore,<br />
an apartment hotel.<br />
. . . Abe<br />
Herman Deutschman of Reel F^lms is ill at<br />
Fred Holzworth,<br />
Mount Sinai hospital . . .<br />
Hilliard Square Theatre manager, has a new<br />
grandson Robert Biery Holzworth . . . Mrs.<br />
M. B. Horwitz, wife of the Wasliington circuit<br />
general manager, has returned from an<br />
early wir^ter vacation in Florida<br />
Kramer of Associated circuit, left for an undetermined<br />
stay in Miami.<br />
Word comes from St. Vincent's hospital that<br />
Vivienne Boniface's recent fall on the ice<br />
was more serious than expected. She broke<br />
her hip and other bones. She is in a cast<br />
and it will be some time before she can resume<br />
her duties as receptionist for Associated<br />
Henry Wilcoxon will not be in<br />
circuit . . .<br />
Cleveland in January to speak before cultural<br />
groups on "Samson and DelUah" as originally<br />
announced. Instead, Frank Braden and Dick<br />
Condon, coordinators in the national prerelease<br />
campaign, will be here.<br />
Academy Film Service held an employes<br />
Christmas party in its offices . Realart's<br />
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Bob Snyder and Manny Stutz were dispensing<br />
hospitality in their Film Bldg. exchange<br />
December 22 . . . The needle in the haystack<br />
has nothing on trying to find an exhibitor on<br />
Filmrow. Only ones spotted during the week<br />
were Walter Steueve of Findlay and Mrs.<br />
Mena Pliehman of Caldwell.<br />
Carl Duncan is boosting his Wednesday<br />
night business at the Duncan Theatre, Killbuck,<br />
by presenting a hillbilly show once a<br />
month on that night . . . J. S. Jossey, vicepresident<br />
of Hallmark, says prospects for<br />
showing "Mom and Dad" in Ohio within the<br />
near future are very good. "Mom and Dad"<br />
originally was pa.ssed by the cen.sor board and<br />
later withdrawn. Jossey says he anticipates<br />
a favorable reversal soon after the first of<br />
the year.<br />
Christmas card from Mrs. Frank Drew reports<br />
that she and Fi'ank, formerly MOM<br />
manager here, now are living in Los Angeles.<br />
Frank, who has been ill, is much better, she<br />
wjites, and will be glad to .see all visiting film<br />
men at their pi-esent home, 2641 Westwood.<br />
Charles Rich, Warner district manager,<br />
conducted a sales meeting here, then he proceeded<br />
Arnold Gates, manager of the Stillman Theatre,<br />
Leonard Katz and<br />
Pittsbui-gh . . .<br />
downtown Loew house, offered a special<br />
to<br />
his wife are parents of a daughter, the first<br />
kiddy program to lure cliildren away from in the Katz family. Katz is booker at RKO.<br />
the department store Santa Clauses. The<br />
show consisted of ten reels of talking animals. Rita Beickcr, Warner contract clerk, is saying<br />
He gave a puppy away as a prize. Admission<br />
farewell to her business associates, after<br />
price for all seats was 35 cents and he had .seven years service with the company. Rita,<br />
practically every seat filled.<br />
who was married recently, plans to devote<br />
her time to household duties<br />
TOLEDO<br />
. . . Rex Carr,<br />
general manager of Theatre Owners Corp.,<br />
attended to company business in New York<br />
recently.<br />
•T"own Hall, only legitimate theatre in Toledo,<br />
has booked Susan Peters in "The Barretts<br />
of Wimpole Street" for a four-day stay,<br />
January 5-8, with Saturday matinee . . , Fourteenth<br />
annual Toledo Sports, Home, Food and<br />
Auto show will be held in the Civic auditorium,<br />
March 4-12<br />
Granada Theatre here will give theatregoers<br />
another opportunity to enjoy vaudeville. Jack<br />
dinger, manager, says vaudeville will be reinstituted<br />
at the theatre Friday i30i and continue<br />
as long as there appears to be a demand<br />
for it. Bookings have been made for a fourweek<br />
period. The theatre will install new<br />
drapes, curtains and backstage equipment.<br />
Members of the Allen county school safety<br />
patrol were guests of the Jefferson Theatre,<br />
Fort Wayne, Ind., at a double-feature allcolor<br />
film program starting at 12:45 p. m. on<br />
Satui'day. The films "Desperadoes" and<br />
"Renegade" were shown.<br />
Frank Welch Co. and national headquarters<br />
of Ad-Ver-Tis-Er, Inc., have moved into<br />
a converted residential structure at 340 West<br />
Wayne St., Fort Wayne. An open-house also<br />
marked the 25th anniversary of the Welch<br />
company. Third floor of the former dwelling<br />
will be converted to the use of the art<br />
and promotion departments of the two companies.<br />
Ad-Ver-Tis-Er is an outdoor advertising<br />
poster service.<br />
'Horrors' First in Third Run<br />
DETROIT—Booking of<br />
the four-day stand<br />
of Dr. Silkini's "Asylum of Horrors" took an<br />
unusual twist when .scheduled to play third<br />
run theatres before it goes into a first run<br />
downtown house. The magic-horror roadshow<br />
will open December 27 at the Mel Theatre<br />
in Melvindale and move into the Regent<br />
and Annex theatres, then downtown to play<br />
the Broadway-Capitol for a one-day stand in<br />
each. Situation was necessitated by available<br />
booking dates in connection with each house.<br />
United Detroit Theatres circuit operates all<br />
the houses.<br />
Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn and Edmund<br />
Gwenn will play the male leads in<br />
the U-I picture, "Louisa."<br />
CINCINNATI<br />
pjave Wilson of Miami, W. Va., flew in and<br />
made the rounds of the exchanges. Becau.se<br />
of the preholiday .season, not many<br />
exhibitors were in town. The exceptions were<br />
Mr. and Mrs. F. Williamson, Dayton; J. C.<br />
Shanklin, Ronceverte, W. Va.; G. C. Porter,<br />
Beckley, W. Va.; Robert Dinkle, Raceland,<br />
Ky,; Sante Macci, Greenville; John Woodward,<br />
Zanesville. and John Walters and<br />
Frank Lively, Huntington, W. Va.<br />
S. C. Jacques, manager, RKO. was in Cleveland<br />
for a district meeting with Morris<br />
Lefko, in preparation for the forthcoming<br />
annual Ned Depinet drive.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Meier (Paramount<br />
salesman) are enjoying a belated<br />
honeymoon in Florida. The Meiers were married<br />
November 5 . . . The annual Paramount<br />
Christmas party was held Thursday i22) at<br />
the Metropole hotel. Employes, their wives<br />
and husbands, enjoyed a gala evening.<br />
Marion Conley, cashier, Paramount, spent<br />
the holidays with her family in Portland, Me.<br />
. . . Mr, and Mrs. Fred Meyers (Paramount<br />
Dayton salesman) spent the Christmas holidays<br />
with their children in Buffalo, N. Y. .<br />
Ray Moon, 20th-Fox division manager, visited<br />
hei-e, accompanied by Ed Solomon, publicity<br />
director for the central division,<br />
Twentieth-Fox salesmen who will vacation<br />
during the holidays; Robert C. McNabb, sales<br />
manager; Jack Kaufman, Columbus salesman;<br />
Sam Weiss, Kentucky, and Maimy<br />
Weiss, Dayton . . . Bill Garmer, 20th-Fox<br />
West Vii'ginia salesman, was called home to<br />
Little Rock, Ark., after his father suffered<br />
a stroke. Several days later his mother fell<br />
and fractured a hip . held its annual<br />
Christmas party Monday (19) at the Alms<br />
hotel.<br />
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BOXOFFICE December 24, 1949 73
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