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No Ohio State Games<br />
To Theatre Screens<br />
COLUMBUS—Ohio State football games<br />
will not be televised for near-simultaneous<br />
presentation at theatres, according to Athletic<br />
Director Richard Larkins. Ohio State<br />
and Minnesota were mentioned as possibilities<br />
in the proposal accepted by Michigan,<br />
Northwestern and Illinois whereby their grid<br />
games will be piped directly to theatres in<br />
Chicago and Detroit, with only a 25-second<br />
lag.<br />
"This plan isn't a matter of inconsistency<br />
with the Big Ten's ban on live television,"<br />
Larkins explained. "It's simply a question of<br />
seeking a solution by experimentation. The<br />
Ohio State athletic department has taken<br />
the stand that we will not engage in this<br />
experimentation. We'll rest on whatever decision<br />
may be arrived at by the school actually<br />
participating in it."<br />
However, it was announced that arrangements<br />
have been completed for the showing<br />
of complete film coverage of Ohio State's<br />
games this season. The films will be televised<br />
on WBNS-TV on the Sundays following<br />
the Saturday games. Big Ten rules state<br />
that the films cannot be shown before 6<br />
p. m. Sunday. These will be official athletic<br />
department films. They will be augmented<br />
by pregame and half-time "color" shots<br />
filmed by the WBNS-TV motion picture department<br />
under the direction of Darrel Mc-<br />
Dougle. The series will be sponsored by<br />
Chevrolet.<br />
The Michigan games will<br />
be shown in the<br />
Michigan Theatre, Detroit, and the Northwestern<br />
and Illinois games at the B&K<br />
State-Lake, Tivoli and Uptown, Chicago. The<br />
Paramount tele-transcription system and the<br />
RCA direct projection equipment will be<br />
used.<br />
Detroit Chopin Theatre<br />
Leased by Jack Litsky<br />
DETROIT—The Chopin Theatre, west side<br />
house formerly operated by George Burgess,<br />
has been leased by Jack Litsky. a newcomer<br />
to show business who operates a candy manufacturing<br />
firm nearby. Management of the<br />
house has been placed in the hands of his<br />
sister Rose Litsky.<br />
The Chopin, which has been used chiefly<br />
to show Polish films on an irregular operating<br />
schedule for the last couple of years, is<br />
being switched to a three-day week of American<br />
pictures, with Polish films once a month.<br />
The house will go to a regular seven-day<br />
operation in the fall.<br />
Detroit Coronet to Bow<br />
As Foreign Film House<br />
DETROIT—The Coronet Theatre, east side<br />
house recently taken over by Albert Dezel of<br />
Dezel Productions and Leon Weingarden of<br />
Flint, will open September 1 with a first run<br />
foreign and art film policy. The hou.se has<br />
bought four major Italian films-spalter International's<br />
"Gigi," Globe Films' "II Trovatore."<br />
Motion Picture Sales' "Pagliacci" and<br />
Continental's "Rigoletto." House is being remodeled,<br />
including a new sign. It formerly<br />
was known as the Colony.<br />
Ban on Films to Russia<br />
Is Demanded by Wood<br />
Joan in Pittsburgh<br />
Exploiting "Our Very Own" and "Edge<br />
of Doom" in Pittsburgh last week was<br />
Joan Evans, Samuel Goldwyn star (top),<br />
who is shown at the RKO exchange with,<br />
left to right, William Scott, city salesman;<br />
David C. Silverman, manager, and<br />
Irving Frankel, "main line" salesman. In<br />
the bottom two photos she is seen with<br />
RKO employes including Lois Wardle,<br />
Mary Jane Kuhar, Eva Friedman, Paul<br />
Reith (office manager), Norman Chussitt<br />
(McKees Rocks exhibitor), Selma<br />
Nahmod, Marilyn Smith, Lucille Wirth,<br />
Peggy Doyle, Miriam Weinberger, Cele<br />
Kieselbach, James Caminsky, Catherine<br />
Connolly and Catherine DelTondo.<br />
Co-Op of Ohio and 20th-Fox<br />
Come to Agreement<br />
CLEVELAND — Cooperative Theatres of<br />
Ohio, headed by Milton A. Mooney and 20th-<br />
Fox, have come to terms on a block of pictures,<br />
bringing to a close, at least for the time<br />
being, a controversy between the booking<br />
organization and the distributors which resulted<br />
in Co-op not serving 20th-Fox products<br />
to its approximately 150 accounts since<br />
early spring. I. J. Schmertz. 20th-Fox manager,<br />
said the deal was consummated last<br />
week.<br />
COLUMBUS—Immediate ban of shipments<br />
of American films to Russia was urged upon<br />
President Truman by P. J. Wood, secretary<br />
of the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio.<br />
in a telegram addressed to the chief executive.<br />
Wood's telegram seconded statements<br />
made by W. Ward Marsh, film editor of the<br />
Cleveland Plain Dealer, in a recent column<br />
that "in light of what is going on all over<br />
the world-^particularly in Korea and the<br />
United Nations Security Council—the Motion<br />
Picture Export Ass'n should revise its plan<br />
for sending 20 Hollywood films to Russia."<br />
Wood's telegram read: "Some of our Ohio<br />
theatre owners have sons shedding their<br />
blood in Korea, and this organization as<br />
their representative protests the shipment of<br />
these pictures which will be used in the<br />
manner outlined in Mr. Marsh's article."<br />
Wood also telegraphed heads of the major<br />
film companies: "After reading Mr. Marsh's<br />
column in the Plain Dealer your company<br />
should hang its head in shame for selling<br />
its birthright for a mess of pottage."<br />
Marsh wrote: "Under an agreement reached<br />
between this country and Russia some two<br />
years ago. the Soviet Union agreed to buy<br />
some 20 of our pictures for the measly sum<br />
of $1,000,000. Without question, the thought<br />
at that time was this: we should even give<br />
our pictures to Russia just to show our way<br />
of life under democratic government. And<br />
Hollywood was silly enough to agree to furnish<br />
a score of pictures for $50,000 apiece.<br />
You know, as well as I do. that Russia wiU<br />
do as she damned well pleases with these<br />
pictures. In the light of her behavior—past<br />
and present—she will twist and distort,<br />
change and re-edit, add dialog and lie in<br />
superimposed titles, all of which will in the<br />
end so completely alter every film from<br />
America as to make them vital and lethal<br />
weapons against us."<br />
Mike Rosenbloom Dies<br />
In Pittsburgh at 72<br />
PITTSBURGH — Michael Rosenbloom, 72.<br />
former Carnegie and Charleroi theatre<br />
owner, died August 11 in Allegheny General<br />
hospital. He was active in civic and fraternal<br />
affairs, and was an employe of the<br />
Pennsylvania liquor control board at the<br />
time of his death. He is survived by a<br />
daughter Mrs. Emanuel Goldberg.<br />
He was a director of the Jewish Home<br />
for the Aged and a 50-year member of the<br />
Knights of Pythias. During his many years<br />
in motion picture exhibition, he was an<br />
active organizer and leader in the independent<br />
theatre owner ranks.<br />
Opening Hours Changed<br />
DANVILLE, KY.—Joe Marshall, manager<br />
of the Starlite Drive-In on the Shakertown<br />
road, has changed the opening hours at the<br />
drive-in. The boxoffice now opens at 7 p. m.<br />
and the first show starts at 8:10. The late<br />
feature is timed for 10:15. Children under<br />
12 years are admitted free.<br />
BOXOFFICE :<br />
: August 19, 1950 ME 79
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