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ALBANY<br />
i /^harles Rossi, who operates the Paramount<br />
^i, at Schroon lake during the summer, is<br />
''iHi wintering in Albany. His brother John, op-<br />
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»ls crator of the Strand in the Adirondack<br />
%. mountain resort, is running Friday through<br />
Monday, with two changes. Next month he<br />
te, ij will cut playing time to Saturday and Sunday.<br />
Charles said he had show business<br />
weather in the Adirondacks last summer,<br />
but that business was not too good." The<br />
people were not there in large numbers<br />
when we had the top pictures, or vice versa,"<br />
he said.<br />
James A. Bracken, contact manager from<br />
New Haven, drove here to confer with Charles<br />
A. Smakwitz, upstate chief for Warner Theatres.<br />
Bracken, who supervises the accounting<br />
and business end of 50-odd houses in New<br />
England and New York, returned to New<br />
Haven the same night.<br />
The Hudson Valley Broadcasting: Co., operator<br />
of station WROW, amiounced it had<br />
signed a $315,474 contract with the General<br />
Electric Co. covering complete equipment for<br />
a television station which the former hopes<br />
to operate. The contract becomes effective<br />
only on receipt of a permit from the Federal<br />
Communications Commission, which has<br />
the Hudson Valley's and several others pending—including<br />
the Schine-controlled Patroon<br />
Broadcasting Co., operating WPTR . . . Ai-my<br />
patronage from nearby Camp Pine is one<br />
of the reasons Schine's Avon, Watertown,<br />
will play vaudeville for three ' days weekly<br />
during the next several months. In Glens<br />
Falls, Amsterdam and Gloversville, vaudeville<br />
will be presented by Schine circuit two days,<br />
Friday and Saturday, once in six weeks. All<br />
book pictures with the stage shows.<br />
the 20th-Fox picture recently screened at<br />
the Ritz, Albany, under the title of "Journey<br />
Into Light," was presented in the State<br />
Schenectady, as "Skid Row." The first title<br />
was an alternative in Schenectady, where<br />
"Kind Lady" shared billing honors.<br />
Leo Greenfield, Universal manager, was introduced<br />
to Schine circuit officials during<br />
a visit to Gloversville with Peter Brosian,<br />
U-I district manager. Greenfield recently<br />
was promoted from salesman in New York<br />
City to branch manager here.<br />
Chris Pope, Schine circuit feature booker<br />
for the Albany district, spent four days<br />
on Filmrow arranging bills for the next<br />
month. He said there had recently been an<br />
improvement in business—not big but encom--<br />
aging. Pope was to see the Syracuse-Colgate<br />
football game in Syracuse Saturday with his<br />
brother, coach of the Lima, Ohio High school<br />
eleven. The Lima team won eight of nine<br />
contests this season and placed two players<br />
on the state allstar squad. Gus Lampe, general<br />
manager of the Schine circuit, also<br />
planned to view the Syracuse-Colgate clash.<br />
Lampe spent 12 years as a manager in Syracuse<br />
and grew to be an enthusiastic supporter<br />
of the Orange gridiron representation.<br />
. . . "An<br />
in several<br />
The Colonial played "Angelo"<br />
American in Paris," which opened November<br />
21 at Fabian's Palace, drew excellent business<br />
The local<br />
Schine situations . . .<br />
Paramount exchange drew encouragement<br />
from reports of fine patronage for "Detective<br />
Story" at the Avon, Watertown, and<br />
Ed Linder Is Manager<br />
Of New KB Ontario<br />
WASHINGTON—Ed Linder has been appointed<br />
manager of the Kogod-Burka circuit's<br />
new Ontario<br />
Theatre, which opened<br />
November 1 as a de<br />
luxe first run.<br />
Linder previously<br />
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