Boxoffice-11.11.1950

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BOSTON
Cam Feldman has leased the Allen Theatre,
closed for several months from owner
John Anthony. Feldman and his son operate
the Capitol. Winchendon, and the Wilmington
Meyer Stanzler of
in Wilmington . . . Providence has sold his interest in the Cranston
Drive-In, Cranston, R. I., to William
Deitch of Warwick, R. I. The Stanzler brothers,
Meyer, Joseph and Max. have sold their
combined interest in the Greenwich Theatre,
East Greenwich, R. I., to the Arinakis
brothers, operators of the Kent Theatre,
East Greenwich.
. . . Dominic
Samuel Horenstein, Manley's New England
distributor, has installed a Manley Aristocrat
at the Strand Theatre, Fall River, owned and
operated by Norman Zalkind
Turturro, owner of the Elms Theatre, Millbury,
has been elected vice-president of the
Max Levenson,
Millbury Kiwanis club . . .
his wife and daughter returned from a sixweek
visit to London where they attended the
wedding of their son Dr. Joseph Levenson
. . . Visitors on Filmrow: Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Hughes, Nordica, Freeport, Me.; Elihu
Glass, Majestic, West Springfield; Joe
Mathieu, Keene, N. H.; Ernie Warren, Warren,
Whitman; Al Vonck, York Beach, Me.;
Bob Wheeler, Riverside, Richmond, Me.;
James Guarino, stockholder in several Springfield
drive-ins; Bill Yeager, Plymouth, Leominster,
and Ernest Hickey, former general
manager for Shea's New England Theatres.
Edward Fahey met with New England Shea
Theatres managers Dale McCoy, Bernie
Hickey, Jack Baumgardt and Fenton Scribner
. . . Joe Cifre has returned from three consecutive
conventions: the Tesma conclave
in Chicago, the Variety International meet
in Pittsburgh, and the SMPTE convention at
Lake Placid, N. Y. . . . Massachusetts Theatre
Equipment has installed Cycloramic
screens in the following spots: Maine and
New Hampshire's Cumberland, Brunswick,
Me.; Arthur Viano's Broadway and Somerville
Theatres, Somerville; George Markell's
Hudson Theatre, Hudson, and Richmond &
Stern's newly acquired Colony Tlieatre, Lynn.
Leon J. Levenson, general manager of
American Theatre Corp.'s candy vending department,
has been appointed to the board
of directors of the Boston committee on adult
education ... A concessions contest among
clerks and vending girls has been started in
the Graphic circuit by General manager
Newell Kurson. The four week contest, em-
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bracing the Graphic circuit's 16 theatres,
will be finished by the 15th of November.
Contest was instigated to stimulate profits in
the concessions department . Johnson,
manager of the Camden Theatre, Camden,
Me., a Graphic circuit theatre, has been
recalled into the navy with Merlin Piper replacing
. Levine. distributor of
Pentagon Pictures in New England, held a
press screening of "Pink String and Sealing
Wax," opening at the Copley Theatre. It
was followed by a luncheon for the critics.
Interstate's Modern Theatre, Brockton,
clo.sed for several months, reopened November
4 with six acts of RKO Palace vaudeville
for Saturdays and Sundays. Ad:n;ssion
is 74 cents top for the weekends. The vaude
ville is booked through Ross Frisco agency
of Boston and the Dow agency of New York.
Mac Perlstein is manager.
All the New England drive-ins of E. M.
Loew will be closed by November 12 with
the exception of the Norwich-New London
Theatre which will remain open a few mor3
weeks, weather permitting. The Kingston
Drive-In was the first to close on October
22 with the Brewer in Bangor and the Augusta,
Me., theatres shutting their gates
October 29.
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C^'\iy Manager Everett Merrill's announcement
that he would grant a license to the
new open-air theatre on Greenwood street
drew adver.;e reaction from neighbors, and
the city manager said he would grant a
hearing . Poli awarded a trip to
Bermuda to the winner of its amateur contest
series . . . John Larson, former director
of the Boylston Summer Theatre, will direct
Eddie Dowling's next Broadway play, "Angel
in the Pawnshop."
.
Bill Hebert, former Worcester new.^paperman
now heading his own publicity office
in Holywood collapsed there from overwork
the Daggett Playhouse in
Westboro in bankruptcy, the place has been
converted into a night club by owner Joe
Pezzella, and a series of name attactions
Arthur Mabey, manager
was started . . .
of the State in Milford, held a preview of
"Stars in My Crown" for clergymen.
.
Everett A. Hildreth, 52, former manager of
the Worcester, suffered fractures of both
legs in a truck accident on the Worcester-
Boston turnpike. He is with the state department
of public works Bill Brown,
manager of the Park and Greendale, "I guess
television's threat to the films is past. People
no longer inquire if TV hurts us" . . . Murray
Howard, manager of the Warner, has
salvaged the big round mirror that formerly
adorned his lobby and has placed it in his
Felix Migliaccio, new manager
office . . .
of the Modern in Marlboro, was host to
Telegram and Gazette newsboys.
To Wear Divided Skirts
Maureen O'Hara, who is learning to ride
again, will wear divided skirts in the 20th-
Fox picture, "Kangaroo." to be shot in
Australia.
From the BOXOFFICE Til^ \
(Twenty Years Ago)
gOSTON may become the capital of a revi
lutionary motion picture world, accon
nig to Blair Coan, special representati'
of George K. Spoor, whose laboratories a
claimed to have developed natural-visio
three-dimension picture. Coan was in Bo
ton recently seeking a .site for a stud
lot in eastern Massachu'^etts. It has take
15 years to perfect the process at a cost i
about $7,000,000. The new apparatus utiliz(
90 per cent of the light, while the usu;
camera utilizes only about 40 per cent. Wit
this advantage, Coan says, pictures can \
taken in London fog. So average weath(
in New England should be especially .sui''
able for good photography, he says.
Work has begun on demolishing properl
on Main street in Torrington. Conn., recenl
ly purchased by Warners for the site of i'
new theatre at an estimated cost of $750,00
It is expected that work will be pushed o
the new project and that when finishei
the Palace, also owned by Warners, will clos
leaving the Alhambra and the new theati
to fill the needs of local theatregoers.
The Boston exchanges of First Nation:
and Warner Bros, are now consolidated un
der one roof . . . The RKO Keith BostO
now presents a new front to the publit
The name was changed from Keith Albes t
Keith Boston . Levenson group ha,
added the Plymouth Theatre in Worceste
to its New England chain . wi:,
erect a new 2.000-seater on the site of th
old Adams House on Wa.shington street i:,
Boston at a cost of approximately $2,000,00(
Editor & Publisher, trade publication fo
newspapermen, quotes a newspaper advertis'
ing manager as follows: "Motion picture ad|
vertising as run by the average local theatr'
certainly has not kept pace with the in;
dustry. There is very little difference ii
size, typographical appearance, and the na;
ture of the copy run today as comparei
with that of ten years ago. If anything it i
duller. The average theatre will submit :
50-line advertisement containing a jumble »
words and phrases, each word and phras'
to be set in different size, and each sizproclaiming
this particular picture as th
greatest in the world."
RKO Holds Firm Lead
In Boston Bowling
BOSTON—The RKO team managed ti
hold a firm lead as the fifth week of th'
Theatrical Bowling league went by. Stand
ings are:
Team Won Lost Team Won Los
RKO 15 5 New England 11 9
Independents 12 8 Macaulay Post 7 13
A:iii;aled 11 9 Harry's Bar 4 16
Peggy Lee at Hartiord State
HARTFORD— Peggy Lee, the Capitol recording
artist who recently completed a roli
in the new Bing Crosby Paramount film
"Mister Music," headlined last week's vaude
ville show at the State Theatre. Hartford.
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