Boxoffice-March.04.1950

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LOS ANGELES
l^ue in from New York was George Dembow.
vice-president and sales chief of National
Screen Service. Dembow's hosts during
his stay will be B. R. Wolf, western district
manager. Branch Manager Ben Ashe
and Office Manager Ralph LaDuke . . . Joe
Rosenberg, film salesman formerly associated
with Eagle Lion. Film Classics and Warners,
has joined the Monogram staff in a selling
capacity . Dickson's new secretary at
Cooperative Theatres is Beverly Livingston.
former bookers' secretary at Monogram before
swinging over to Dickson's booking service.
Pinning the rap on poor business. Jack
Mandel has shuttered his Melvan Theatre,
neighborhood house in the Hollywood area,
indefinitely . . After managing them on lease
.
for more than a year. Sid Pink has returned
the Arlington and Maynard. subsequent run
community theatres, to the Harry Vinnicof
chain, which will continue to operate them
... A booking and buying visitor was Wade
Loudermilk. operator of the Buckeye in
Buckeye. Ariz.
Howard Goldenson and Ann Litrov have
set April 20 as their wedding date. The
groom-to-be is a partner of Jules Seder in
the Encino Theatre, which opened recently
out Eiicino way in the San Fernando valley
Parker, wife of Bill Parker, sales
manager at the Film Classics branch, is recuperating
at home after undergoing major
surgery at the Cedars of Lebanon hospital.
A spot of star-gazing was on the itinerary
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for- Barry Cohen, executive of the Detroit
Theatre Enterprises in the automobile city,
during a vacation here. Accompanied by his
wife, he visited the Paramount studios In
Hollywood for an insight on the production
end of motion pictures . . . Ish White and
Ken Darby have moved their Security Theatre
offices into new quarters. Both men
were booker-salesmen at Paramount before
opening their booking service.
Absent from the Row for several years,
Mr. and Mrs. Vic Walker came in from Huntington
Beach to do some booking for their
newly acquired operation, the Surf Theatre.
The Walkers at one time owned the Walker
and State theatres in Santa Ana, but sold
out to the Southside circuit.
Another booking and buying visitor was
Fred Hershorn. operator of the Garden in
Long Beach. Commenting on the problems
of dwindling business and the discriminatory
amusement tax on tickets, Hershorn admitted
he was "seriously considering" dropping his
ticket price to nine cents for adults and children
alike—at least until the amusement levy
is
lifted.
Newly appointed western zone manager for
Hallmark Productions is Barnes Perdue, who
formerly was connected with Ted Jones'
Western Amusement Co. Huddling here with
Perdue was Hank Adams, Hallmark's national
sales manager, who checked in from Wilmington,
Ohio, for the conference, and Jean Gaston,
saleswoman, who has just returned from
covering her territory in Arizona.
Harry Popkin, United Artists producer and
partner in the Popkin-Ringer circuit here,
returned from a trip to New York with the
disclosure that, while stopping over in Chicago,
he was interviewed on the "20th Century
Limited
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airshow.
Just prior to his departure for Portland
and Seattle to contact circuit accounts. Harold
Wirthwein, western sales manager for
Monogram-Allied Artists, disclosed the appointment
of Robert C. Ryan as salesman in
the Denver exchange. Last associated with
Warners in that city, Ryan replaces Frank
Childs. who resigned to enter private business.
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