Boxoffice-11.04.1950

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PHILADELPHIA
TT-I's employes have foi'med a Pep club
and elected Miriam Gill president, George
Evans vice-president, Louise Azzarano treasurer,
Peter Ciccota assistant treasurer and
Pauline Hurowitz secretary. Helen Bardon
was put in charge of the social committee
. . . Isabelle Dalton, U-I inspector, was home
ill . . . Edna Laurelli, U-I assistant cashier,
has received an engagement ring . . . Jeff
Livingston, U-I home office, accompanied
Alexis Smith on her appearance to the Aldine.
. . . Paramount
. . . Mrs.
U-I exploite«r Phil Laufer was in town to
work on "Wyoming Mail"
Decorating Co. is redecorating Bob Levine's
Riverview Theatre in Norfolk, Va.
Prank Dougherty will become assistant
cashier at UA when she returns from her
honeymoon . . . Jean Gavetti, formerly assistant
cashier at UA, has resigned to become
cashier at ELC.
William Goldman's Karlton Theatre, which
is undergoing extensive renovations for reopening
as the Midway, is not affected by
the new government ban on building amusement
places . . . Charles Amsterdam, of the
Charles Sweets Co., Inc., is in Hot Springs,
Ark.
"Hamlet" opened at the Aldine on Wednesday
1 1) at regular boxoffice prices . . . Henry
Friedman, local exhibitor, will fly to Puerto
Rico to start work on the first ozoner in
that country. Friedman is associated with
some U.S. and Puerto Rican businessmen to
construct the 850-car Candado Drive-In
previewed "Border Street" at the
Princess for Polish organizations and Rabbis
LaVine, former part owner of
Favorite Films, is now city salesman for U-I
Picture Associate's annual buffet
dinner and election meeting has been
postponed until November 6. It will be held
at 6 p. m. at the RKO screening room .
RKO is prereleasing a Sportscope short subject
on Connie Mack.
Dick Mayers is the new MGM exploiteer,
replacing James Ashcraft who has retired.
Ashcraft was feted by the town's corps of
press agents at George Pishman's home.
Among those present were Dick Mayers and
Ed Gellner of MGM, Mike Weiss of Paramount,
Irv Blumberg and Everett Callow of
S-W, Bob Pryor of WCAU. Milt Young of Columbia,
Cy Cohen of the Daily News, Eddie
Rosenbaum and Ted Vanett of William Gold-
Walt Disney to Go on TV
HOLLYWOOI>—Walt Disney plans to make
his television debut Christmas day on a special
program. On the same show will be
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who
go on television Thanksgiving day for the
same sponsor.
DRIVE-IN THEATRE
PORT HOLE BLOWER
Eliminates Oust, Bugs and Rain From Coming In I
Hole — Also eliminates use of Optical Glass, There
givino clearer and cleaner projection.
DRIVE-IN THEATRE MFG. CO. Ki;?,'.,^"i'.irMo
man. Max Miller of ELC, and Sam Lischin of
the Inquirer. Ashcraft was presented a $100
bond, a caricature of Leo the Lion and a
traveling bag.
Elmer Hollander of the St. Cloud Amusement
Co. was on Vine street . . . Ned Yaffe,
of the Y&Y Supply Co. was upstate on business
. . . Stanley-Warner's Orient Theatre will
close Sunday (5) ... Paramount's Frankfort
has reopened with its former double-feature
weekend policy . . . Rose Shapiro, ELC biller,
will sing at the Deborah sanitarium Monday
evening (6i ... Grace Amrosini, ELC
contract clerk, was vacationing.
Mrs. Marie Dalton, WB inspector, fell and
broke her wrist.
Dodge Dealers Discuss
'Solomon's Mines' Tieup
NEW YORK—Regional representatives of
the Dodge Motor Co. met here Friday (3)
to complete plans for cooperation with showings
of "King Solomon's Mines." The group
came from the New York area, Philadelphia,
Harrisburg, Baltimore, Wilmington, Providence
and Boston.
The Dodge division of Chrysler Motors
made special trucks for hauling equipment
and supplies on the safari across Africa of
the company which made the location scenes.
In addition to magazine and newspaper advertising
tied in with the film, the motor
company has made a one-reel short for its
dealers, who will show it at luncheons and in
showrooms in their territories.
Similar dealer meetings are to be held
in other parts of the country.
Allied Service Picks
Eleven Directors
PHILADELPHIA—Eleven directors of Allied
Motion Picture Theatre Service, Inc.,
were elected to serve for one year at the annual
stockholders meeting October 25. They
are Martin B. Ellis, Cecil Felt, Ben Pertel,
Jack Greenberg, E. B. Gregory, Sidney E.
Samuelson, Samuel Segal and E. Roy Sullender,
all of Philadelphia, and Rubin Shapiro
of Havertown, William H. Snyder jr.. New
Oxford, and Laurence E. Woodin, Wellsboro.
The reports of the officers and audited
financial statement for the second year of
operation were submitted to the stockholders
and all were approved. The buying and booking
service now represents 55 theatres.
Following the stockholders meeting, the new
board organized and elected the following officers:
Sidney E. Samuelson, president; Ben
Pertel, vice-president; Albert M. Cohen, secretary;
E. B. Gregory, financial secretary;
Cecil Felt, treasurer, and E. Boy SuUender,
assistant treasurer. Sullender is also head
buyer and booker of the company.
U-I Plans Record Magazine
Campaign for 'Harvey'
NEW YORK — Universal-International is
planning record newspaper and magazine
advertising for "Harvey," according to David
A. Lipton, national advertising and publicity
director, who is in town for conferences
on the campaign.
Twenty-seven national magazines with a
circulation of more than 63,000.000 will be
used. These will include national weeklies,
mass circulation monthlies, family publications,
women's magazines and teenage publications.
WASHINGTON
Tack Safer, manager for Monogram here,
has been promoted to manage the New
York exchange. Milton Lipsner has been
transferred from Oklahoma to head the local
office . . . The Paradise Drive-In, Deer Park,
closed October 28 . . . Leon Black, Rome Theatres,
Baltimore, underwent a tonsilectomy
in Union Memorial hospital.
Mark Silver, former district manager for
United Artists, has formed a buying and
booking combine. Theatre A.ssociates, with
headquarters at 1301 North Chase, Baltimore
Wagner, Playhouse, Dupont and
Little theatres, underwent an operation in
Milton Schwaber,
Georgetown hospital . . .
Schwaber circuit, Baltimore, made one of his
rare visits to Pilmrow . Gordon Contee
is at home convalescing from a severe
case of pneumonia . Gonder. owner
of the Maryland Theatre in Oakland and
the Grand in Priendsville, w^on the primary
nomination for Democratic state senator.
Agnes Childress is the new shipper at National
Screen Service, replacing Loretta Core,
who has returned to New York . . . Elmer
Brient, RCA, has taken over the building on
New Jersey avenue formerly occupied by Republic
. . . Many oldtimers on Pilmrow will
remember Charles Boyer who died recently
at the age of 86. He operated the Central
and Opera House theatres in Martinsburg,
W. Va., the Colonial in Winchester and the
Palace in Hagerstown. The latter was taken
over by Mrs. Clara Wachter and renamed
the Henry.
Tent 11 held a big Halloween party in the
clubrooms on Saturday night with doughnuts
and cider on the menu. The women's social
committee, headed by Mrs. Araline Adams,
helped make the affair a grand success.
Orville Crouch, assistant to Carter Barron,
is recuperating from an appendectomy at
George Washington hospital . . . Sympathy i
to the family of Walter Pacy, Durkee circult,
who died of a heart attack while on
his way to Florida.
Bob Kutler, assistant shipper at 20th-Fox,
resigned . . . Lloyd Wineland sr. and jr. returned
from a hunting trip in Maine. "Not
much luck," said Lloyd jr. . . .
Jeanette
Adams, Monogram stenographer, has joined
Republic.
Special Men for 'Fury'
NEW YORK—John Markle and Murray
Roman have joined Robert Stillman Productions
as special exploitation men. They will
leave Monday for Lincoln, Neb., and Wheeling,
W. Va., to handle test campaigns for
"The Sound of Fury," which is being released
by United Artists.
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