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DETROIT<br />
^ave Idzal of the Pox is back after a<br />
nine-day California trip . . Joseph Pick-<br />
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. . Frank BoUacker, manager of the<br />
ering, who was operator at the Garden, is<br />
back in the army again . . . Tex Carlson,<br />
formerly of the Kramer, is out managing<br />
the Atlas for the Oleszkowicz family . . .<br />
Art Weisberg. former Korman circuit supervisor,<br />
is said to be with the Crystal and<br />
Senate .<br />
closed Columbia, is at the Apollo for Saul<br />
Korman . . . E. B. Dudley is managing the<br />
Russell, former Irving Katcher house, recently<br />
reopened by the Mabarak Real Estate<br />
Exchange.<br />
. . .<br />
Walter Corey of Monogram is moving for<br />
the third time in a year—this time to Eastlawn<br />
near the water front . . . Rosaline Davis,<br />
secretary to UA's Moe Dudelson, is engaged<br />
to Ralph Sparr . . . Lou Marks, MGM sales<br />
manager, moved into his new home<br />
Commander Lawrence E. Yoder is joining<br />
the training devices staff of Jam Handy . . .<br />
Clifford Vericker, operator at the Greenwood,<br />
reports business is surprisingly good<br />
out in the Lodge highway construction area,<br />
despite the cutoffs.<br />
Alice Gorham rated a nice story in the<br />
Detroit Times by Jack Theisen, when three<br />
wounded veterans from the Percy Jones hospital<br />
were brought to Detroit for a private<br />
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screening of "Steel Helmet." A three-column<br />
cut of the boys and a story of their reactions,<br />
favorable and otherwise, to the film were<br />
given.<br />
Jack Sage, Fisher manager, had an exhibit<br />
of Detroit history in the lobby, tied in<br />
with the 250th birthday celebration ... Ed<br />
Johnson and Harold Bernstein went all out<br />
in putting over the big Brotherhood campaign<br />
in Bay city . . . Donald Woods and<br />
Charles Snyder were among notables from<br />
Dstroit who went up to see how they did it<br />
. . . Arthur J. Hass, theatrical attorney, is<br />
moving to 1910 Buhl building.<br />
. . . Israel Eizen, former<br />
Douglas F. Brosey, former owner of the<br />
Amsterdam, moved into the brokerage business<br />
this week with the George A. McDowell<br />
Co. . . . Irene Carroll, who used to be with<br />
Mike Falk years ago, has rejoined him in<br />
the new booking office he opened in the<br />
Book building<br />
manager for Michigan Sportservice, is operating<br />
a grocery store at Michigan and Third<br />
street . . . James T. Powers, who fractured<br />
his hip December 10, still is on crutches,<br />
with a spell of convalescence still ahead, his<br />
son Tiny of Altec reports.<br />
George Hemp, now a newlywed, has moved<br />
from Royal Oak to Mount Clemens . . . Sam<br />
Green, supervisor of the Korman circuit who<br />
recently was shot in the leg by a bandit, is<br />
convalescing at home, but is on crutches . . .<br />
Harold Stephens, operator at the Ace, has<br />
moved into television at WJBK-TV .<br />
. .<br />
Jerry Carroll, 20th-Pox auditor, arrived in<br />
Howard Minsky and E. K. O'Shea,<br />
town . . .<br />
Paramount executives, were in town to visit<br />
Cooperative, Butterfield and other major circuits<br />
. . . Joseph Oles has taken over operation<br />
of the Stanley in Dearborn, recently<br />
leased to Arnold Wisper. The house was<br />
built by his father Stanley.<br />
Oscar Orwant, said to be the former owner<br />
of the Town at Grand Rapids, died recently<br />
. . . Irving Belinsky considers his circuit<br />
a sideline, with his new drug business his<br />
main occupation ... Ed Plynn, nephew of<br />
William Graham of the Majestic, is the new<br />
manager of the Romeo, replacing Wilson<br />
Elliott, who has gone into the car business<br />
. . . Charles L. Anderson, formerly at the<br />
Model, is the new operator at the Franklin,<br />
replacing Al Watt.<br />
. . William Plemion,<br />
Ralph Peckham, former manager of Grand<br />
National, was back on the Row, driving in<br />
with Herb Schilds of Monogram. Ralph now<br />
is living in New York .<br />
former manager for Lippert, has returned to<br />
the industry here with Albert Dezel Productions<br />
. . . Mike Thomas has been named<br />
manager of the Loop, replacing Fred Walton,<br />
who goes to the Broadway-Capitol, where he<br />
replaces Walter Kozaren. Thomas comes<br />
from the Chic, which he managed for Harry<br />
Balk, affiliated with the Korman Interests,<br />
who has sold the house to Edward Jacobson,<br />
who Just closed the Monroe for conversion<br />
into a store.<br />
Loma May, writer, and Edith Embury, theatrical<br />
distribution chief at Jam Handy,<br />
talked about their careers on the "Green<br />
Lights" radio program . . . James Stephen<br />
Dross is an addition in the family of Carl<br />
Dross of the Detroit Popcorn Co. . . . William<br />
J. Glrard, who left the managership<br />
of the Virginia to go back In the navy, now<br />
is at Guam. New manager is Edward Terris,<br />
who used to be with the Farnum, and<br />
who has been maintenance man for Saul<br />
Korman for the last three and one-half<br />
years . Korman has gone back to<br />
a seven-day operating policy, after closing<br />
up Wednesdays and Thursdays for a few<br />
weeks.<br />
Huge Amount of Film<br />
Screened for Newsreel<br />
DETROIT—A total of 3,744,000 feet of film<br />
has been screened for editing purposes by<br />
Norman Wheaton, manager of the Telenews<br />
and Downtown Theatres. He made this estimate<br />
in connection with the ninth anniversary<br />
of the local operation. Excluding shorts,<br />
an average newsreel output of 416,000 feet<br />
is covered, boiled down to the programs selected<br />
for actual exhibition in the two houses.<br />
In contrast, 5,965,000 feet of feature films<br />
were screened during 1950 for the local censor.<br />
Sees "Himself in 'Halls'<br />
NEW KENSINGTON, PA.—John Fontana,<br />
winner of the Bronze Star for heroism and<br />
veteran of four years in the marine corps,<br />
was a guest of the Circle here to see himself<br />
portrayed in "Halls of Montezuma." In the<br />
picture, a group of marines are searching<br />
for the source of a devastating barrage of<br />
rockets launched by the enemy Japs. At a<br />
cave occupied by several Nips, Richard Widmark,<br />
portraying Lieutenant Anderson, orders<br />
a non-com to cover a marine who is exposed<br />
to enemy fire. Turning to another man he<br />
says, "You go too, Fontana." Fontana knew<br />
Lieut. Anderson on Tarawa and remembers<br />
the "cave incident" where his name is used.<br />
Sunday Operettas Proposed<br />
HARRISBURG—Pittsburgh and other cities<br />
in the state would be permitted to allow Sunday<br />
civic light operas under terms of a bill<br />
introduced in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.<br />
Rep. Theodore H. Schmidt of Allegheny<br />
county is sponsoring the measure<br />
which would permit performances between<br />
2 p. m. and midnight by nonprofit corporations<br />
and municipalities.<br />
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