Boxoffice-December.02.1950

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NEW HAMPSHIRE
T ouis DeRochemont of Newington, who produced
the film, "Lost Boundaries," and has
lately been filming "The Whistle at Eaton
Falls," in the Portsmouth-Dover area, has
presented a 16mm projector to the new Dover
recreation center. The gift was made in appreciation
of Dover residents' cooperation in
making the new picture. A number of local
young men and women were used as extras in
the production.
Members of Local 349, American Federation
of Musicians, of Manchester, presented
a concert program at the Veterans' Administration
hospital in that city on Thanksgiving
night.
Ansel Sanborn, Carroll county film circuit
owner, attended the football game between
the University of New Hampshire and
Kent university in Durham. He was accompanied
by his wife and two sons, Richard
and John Sanborn.
Six 10-pound turkeys were given away for
the Thanksgiving holiday at the Interstate
Scenic in Rochester. They were donated by
a local jewelry store.
Roland A. "Buddy" Jenkins, news commentator
for radio station 'WHEB in Portsmouth,
is recovermg from mjunes suffered in an
automobile collision in Somersworth. He was
taken to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
A new radio station is planned in Nashua,
where the City Broadcasting Corp., headed
by Judge Bolic A. Degasis, president, is awaiting
a decision on its petition filed with the
Federal Communications commission. His
associates in operating the station, which will
be a 250-watter, will be J. E. Serwin and
Carter Knight.
Ferris "Gus" Ebol, who was formerly connected
with the Palace in Manchester, is now
assistant manager of the State in Conneaut,
Ohio. The Ohio theatre is managed by
Armand Pepin, who was also formerly connected
with the State Operating Co., which
runs Manchester's leading theatres.
Leonard Young, who is appearing on
"Variety Theatre," a television show, over a
Schenectady, N. Y., station, has been social
director at fashionable Gray's Inn in Jackson
for the past two summers . . . 'Walter S.
Young, owner of the Strand in Farmington,
has been named one of the general chairmen
for the third annual Christmas program to
be sponsored by the Farmington Businessmen's
Ass'n.
No West Haven Ruling
WEST HAVEN, CONN.—State Police Commissioner
Edward J. Hivkey has not yet
reached a decision relative to issuing a permit
for operation of a drive-in here, according
to Capt. Ross Urquhart of the licensing
division. Hearings were held in September
and October on the application of Bowl Outdoor
Theatre Corp. for a permit to open a
600-car drive-in on the south side of Orange
avenue between 'West River and Front street.
Universal has handed Jerome Cowan a
character lead in "Little Egypt."
Tom Duane Quits SRC-
Joins Jack Schlaifer
BOSTON—Tom Duane,
New England district
manager for Selznick Releasing Organization,
has joined the Jack Schlaifer Organ-
TOM DUANE
ization. Inc., as eastern division manager.
Jack Schlaifer is producers' representative for
the N. Peter Rathvon Productions. Duane
had been connected with Paramount Pictures
for 22 years until he entered the armed
service in 1942, serving four years in the air
force, leaving with the rank of major. After
the war he joined Republic as Boston manager
and in 1946 he joined David O. Selznick's
Vanguard Pictures as producer's representative
to United Artists in New England,
New York state and Canada. With the advent
of SRO, he operated as SRO district manager
in
New England.
His offices remain in the same quarters at
12 Piedmont St.
SPRINGFIELD
n t the Falls Theatre, Chicopee: Mrs. Florence
Allen, former cashier of the old Wernick,
has been appointed assistant manager .
new personnel includes: Mrs. Alice Daviau,
cashier; Mrs. Alton Corbeille, Mrs. Ruth Mc-
Guire, candy counter; Allan Pickard, Armand
Bouchard, ushers . . . Philip Law. former
Wernick assistant, a groom recently.
At the Capitol: New ushers, James Mitus,
Paul Griffin, Thomas Doblin and Richard
Bedard.
George A. Post, well known local golfer, is
a proud parent these days, for his son, David
A., appeared at the Capitol in a small role
in "The West Point Story."
David, a sonar man in the navy, plays a
cadet in the picture. He was prominent in
local little theatre circles before going into
the service, and then on to Hollywood.
T'wo Drive-ins Shuttered
HARTFORD—Two E. M. Loew drive-in
theatres in Connecticut has closed for the
season, George E. Landers, Hartford division
manager, announced. Units are at Newington,
and Milford, with reopening slated for
about Easter Sunday, Landers said.
Papers Enter Battle
Against Censorship
PROVIDENCE — Local newspapers have
been taking exception to the city censor's
recent ban of "Third Time Lucky" at Loew's
State here and it is believed in many quarters
that the furore raised over~ the censor's
action is the beginning of a determined fight
for a change in the present system of flim
censorship.
A public forum was held on the "Third
Time Lucky" ban at St. Martin's church here
and questions discussed were "What kind of
a person decides what all of us can see?" and
"How does the Pi'ovidence censor qualify to
tell us what all of us can see?"
A clergyman, a lawyer and an English
instructor were speakers at the forum. Attemps
to have Capt. George W. Cowan, local
censor, attend were in vain. The Rev. Howard
C. Olsen said he invited Cowan to attend the
forum to explain the censorship system and
to answer questions from the public.
"Captain Cowan yelled at me over the telephone,"
Olsen said. "He said, 'You can't drag
me up there. I'm not going to be questioned
by anybody.' "
Lee A. Worrell, local attorney, declared that
Rhode Island's court support of censorship
differed from that of most other states. He
said a decision by the state supreme court in
1939 classed the showing of motion pictures
and the seeing of motion pictures by the public
as a privilege and not a right.
Worrell said there were two courses of action
if the public were dissatisfied with present
censorship. Either have the state legislature
change the law or attack the person who
administers the law.
From the BOXOFFICE Files
(Twenty Years Ago)
THE INDUSTRY is preparing to fight the
proposal of the Massachusetts state commissioner
to the legislature that amusements
be taxed to raise funds to take care of the
cost of the old age assistance law which goes
into effect July 1 next year. The original
proposal was to tax all bottled beverages except
milk at a cent a pint. If this does not
raise the required $3,000,000 needed, it is
proposed to tax amusements to take care of
the deficit.
. . . Tlie Lyric in
Arthur Keenan, former manager of the
new Paramount in Lynn, has been appointed
managing director of the Olympia Theatre.
Ralph Tully who replaces Keenen, comes from
the Capitol in Worcester
Athol, Mass., has reopened under the management
of Larry Handel ... In Providence Edward
M. Fay, local theatre owner, has been
elected for the fifth time to the directorial
. . . Tlie newly
board of the MPTOA at the annual convention
held in Philadelphia
decorated and generally improved Hudson
Theatre in Hudson, Mass.. has opened under
new management.
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