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BIRMINGHAM
Oeveral managerial changes have been made
at theatres in the Birmingham area . . .
Mack Lewis, former city manager in Ensley
for R. M. Kemiedy. has left the theatre lO
take over a laundry and dry cleaning business
operated by his brother, who has gone
back into the service . . . Bill Deitenbeck.
who was city manager in Bessemer, joined
the Kennedy chain as city manager in Ensley
and Guy McDowell, formerly of Anniston, replaces
Deitenbeck as city manager in Besse-
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mer . Willeford, former manager
of the Five Points Theatre, is new manager
of Waters' Woodlawn. Joe Lackey went from
the Woodlawn to North Birmingham as manager
of the North Birmingham and the
Delmar . Hopkins is new manager
of the Avon and Ted Daniels is now manager
at Five Points . C. Watts went
to the Tarrant Theatre as manager to succeed
M. B. Shepherd.
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Emil Bernstecker, district manager lor
Wilby-Kincey, was here on his monthly tour
of the circuit . . . L. A. Holcomb. assistant
manager of the Melba, and his wife are the
parents of another girl. Karen Sue. Holcomb
subbed for W. J. Hampton when the
Galax manager went on vacation . . . Francis
S. Palkenburg, former manager of the Alabama
here, has joined the Motion Picture
Advertising Service staff ... A. E. Chadwick
and his wife, were here from New Orleans to
confer with Milton Schwarz, Alabama representative.
Chadwick is MPAS vice-president
. . Mrs. H. P. Whatley of the Arabian, Arab,
and H. P. Lawrence of the Fox, Blountsville,
were among the Alabama exhibitors on the
Row.
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NEW ORLEANS—A. W. Schwalberg, president
of Paramount Distributing Corp., will
addre.ss the annual convention of the Allied
Theatre Owners of the Gulf States here
December 5, 6 at the Roosevelt hotel. He
also will conduct a meeting of Paramount
bookers December 8-10. Attending the bookers
meeting will be J. A. Walsh, in charge
of branch operations, and the local manager
William Holliday.
Another Paramount official, Hugh Owen,
eastern-southern division manager, will attend
the Allied convention.
Slated for discussion at the convention
will be film prices and television. Film
clinics, fashioned after those held at the
national convention, will feature the gathering,
according to Abe Berenson, vicepresident
and acting manager of the local
Allied branch and convention chairman.
The clinics will deal with problems of indoor
and drive-in theatres, Berenson said.
Maurice Artigues, general manager of Allied
of the Gulf States, has resigned. Berenson
and Harold Bailey, secretary, are in
charge of the local office.
CHARLOTTE
pilmrow has about returned to normal following
the convention of the Theatre
Owners of North and South Carolina .
Mrs. Walter Griffith, executive secretary of
the TON&SC, has opened her office at .216
West Fourth St. again. During the convention
she moved her headquarters to the
Charlotte hotel.
The Manor Theatre and Charlotte News
film editor Emery Wister worked up a contest
for "King Solomon's Mines" which ran
in Wister's column Sho Nuf, asking the
readers to state in 50 words or less why they
wanted a Keepsake diamond. First prize
was a six-month pass to the theatre and
a chance on the three national prizes—
$5,000, a $3,000 and a $1,000 diamond ring.
Paul Hargett, salesman at Columbia, has
been appointed manager of the Jacksonville
branch to be opened soon . . . E. C. DeBerry,
salesman for Paramount here, was recently
given 50 pounds of country cured ham by
his father. The DeBerry home has become
a popular place on Saturday nights .
The three children of Paramount Exploiteer
Everett Olsen, twins Tom and John and
little Pamela, had their tonsils removed in
Charlotte's Presbyterian hospital , . . Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Littman of Rutherfordton,
N, C. are grandparents. Their daughter
gave birth to a baby girl recently.
Miss Jean Creighton, who is employed in
the 20th-Fox exchange here, and Billy Wilson
Steadman were married recently . . .
Jack London, Republic salesman, was back
on the road again after being ill . . Jimmie
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Austin opened his new 598-seat Austin Theatre
Stewart Theatres
in Clinton, N. C. . . . completed the remodeling of the Oasis in
Wilson. N. C, and reopened it Tlianksgiving,
naming it the Center.
BOXOFFICE December 2. 1950
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