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Mrs. Cromwell Sells<br />
Theatres and Retires<br />
BEDFORD. PA.—The Pitt and Bedford theatres<br />
have been acquired under long-term<br />
lease by B. J. Redfoot, Windber exhibitor and<br />
veteran in the industry. With the transfer,<br />
Mrs. Grace Cromwell retires from exhibition.<br />
The widow of Harry R. Cromwell, exhibitor<br />
for 30 years who died last April, Mrs. Cromwell<br />
had managed the local theatres since<br />
that time.<br />
A number of proposed purchasers or investors<br />
had made offers for the Pitt and<br />
Bedford prior to the negotiations which<br />
turned over the business to Redfoot. The<br />
theatres are in excellent condition and repair,<br />
due to the proper upkeep by the Cromwells,<br />
Redfoot stated this week. The policy will be<br />
changed but the new operator did not elaborate<br />
on this subject. The Pitt is open daily<br />
and the Bedford has been operating one<br />
change of program on weekends only.<br />
The Cromwells were well known in the<br />
mideast area and were respected exhibitors.<br />
Their theatres always were comfortable and<br />
well equipped and they really did bring Broadway<br />
to Main street for a score-and-a-half<br />
years.<br />
B. J. Redfoot. Windber exhibitor for 30<br />
years as operator of the Arcadia, also had<br />
operated the Central at Central City until<br />
this theatre was destroyed by fire last year.<br />
His experience in show business goes back<br />
some years prior to entering exhibition. He<br />
started as a nickelodeon ballad singer with<br />
illustrated slides.<br />
C. W. Dickinson Retires<br />
Aiter Selling Bison<br />
BROWNSVILLE, PA.—C. W. Dickinson, veteran<br />
in film distribution and exhibition, retired<br />
from the show business last week (15)<br />
when he sold the Bison here to the Fayette<br />
Amusement Co. A former circuit exhibitor.<br />
he withdrew by sale and lease in the last year<br />
or so until the Bison was his only operating<br />
enterprise. A year or so ago he entered the<br />
restaurant business and has made a great<br />
success of the Ranch, located on Route 19,<br />
four miles from Washington, Pa., and two<br />
miles from Canonsburg. Dickinson had been<br />
in the show business more than 30 years.<br />
Three months ago Fayette Amusement Co.,<br />
operating the Strand here, acquired the local<br />
Plaza from the Moody Enterprises, with Mrs.<br />
George Moody retiring. Leasing of the Bison<br />
gives the Fayette enterprises Brownsville's<br />
three theatres.<br />
SAM FINEBERG<br />
TOM McCLEARY<br />
84 Van Braam Street i^<br />
PITTSBURGH 19, PA ;''<br />
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Movies Art Better Than E»tr How's Your Equipment* i<br />
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PITTSBURGH<br />
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Dean Smith, projectionist at<br />
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the Warner<br />
in Erie, again is distributing the Christmas<br />
Seal film trailers in the Erie area. He has<br />
handled this work there for many years .<br />
Approximately 200 boys and girls of the<br />
school safety patrol at Butler were guests<br />
of<br />
Tuesday<br />
tlie Butler theatre for a 4;30 p. m. show<br />
Roxy at Ford City featured<br />
(20) . . .<br />
the Stoney Cooper stage show la.st Friday<br />
Abe Rothenstein's automobile was<br />
(16) . . .<br />
recovered by police on the Bluff ramp near<br />
Filmrow. The uptown and West Aliquippa<br />
exhibitors car had been stolen from a public<br />
parking lot about a month ago . at<br />
Johnstown features Professor Quiz in a stage<br />
broadcast over WARD every Thursday from<br />
9 to 9:30 p. m.<br />
. . . The<br />
A musical was presented at the Miami in<br />
Springdale the evening of November 14 by<br />
the Elks' male chorus of New Kensington. St.<br />
Alphonsus Mothers' club sponsored the event.<br />
Anthony Latella, operator of the Miami and<br />
a former professional musician, has entered<br />
the grocery and fruit market busine.ss at New<br />
Kensington ... A daughter was born last<br />
week in West Penn hospital to the Marvin<br />
Samuelsons. Papa is the city area Warner<br />
circuit booker . . . Mox Bloomberg, Portage<br />
exhibitor, was sworn in November 15 as a<br />
member of the Johnstown redevelopment<br />
authority, assigned to the slum clearance<br />
group by Mayor Walter E. Rose<br />
Manor in Squirrel Hill is closed for a month<br />
for a complete redecorating job, and Warners'<br />
Squirrel Hill is exhibiting the so-called A<br />
pictures.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. J. Kelly, parents of Gene<br />
Kelly, attended the tradeshowing of MGM's<br />
"It's a Big Country," in which the star of<br />
"An American in Paris" appears without his<br />
dancing shoes. Mother Kelly also was at the<br />
local exchange to preview "Westward the<br />
Women."<br />
Dr. Harry C. Winslow, Meadville exhibitor,<br />
served as master of ceremonies at the Armistice<br />
day program staged by the American<br />
Embassy at<br />
Legion Post and auxiliary . . .<br />
Johnstown presented a Salute to Education<br />
week on the stage one evening last week . . .<br />
Pittsburgh traffic engineer Don McNeil announced<br />
that the Boulevard of the Allies<br />
would be closed during most of 1952. Later<br />
this was denied by Pennsylvania district highway<br />
engmeer J. Paul Ambler . Rachlele's<br />
Gem at Derry is closed Wednesdays<br />
and Thursdays.<br />
. . .<br />
Atlas Theatre Supply has Installed in-car<br />
heaters at the Basle Bros. Route 19 Drive-In<br />
near Washington, Pa., and the outdoor theatre<br />
will remain open "all-year," said the<br />
management . at Wllkinsburg's<br />
"Jim Thorpe—All American" promotion<br />
trophy award was won by Bill Swope, grldder,<br />
according to Rege McCall, manager . . . Glgi<br />
Perreau, U-I's 9-year-old star, is expected to<br />
be here for exploitations on November 29<br />
The general election is several weeks In<br />
the past and city newspapers report that<br />
the Paul Bronders, local exhibitors, are reg-<br />
. . .<br />
istered as Republicans. They had been pictured<br />
on 24-sheets and other advertising acce.s.sories<br />
with their two daughters advertising<br />
Democratic candidates. Our news item<br />
on this November 3 stated that the advertisement<br />
"is suppo.sed to represent a family evidently<br />
endorsing political nominees"<br />
Basle at Washington, Pa., will feature two<br />
Henry J automobile awards, not one.<br />
Sunday Films Are Okayed<br />
In Recount of Votes<br />
EBENSBURG, PA.—The proposal to permit<br />
Sunday films in South Fork was approved by<br />
the voters with a scant margin of six votes.<br />
A recheck by the county computation board<br />
showed there were 469 votes in favor of Sunday<br />
shows and 463 against. These figures, nowreleased<br />
by the board, reversed the unofficial<br />
coimt which indicated that the Sunday film<br />
question had been defeated. The unofficial<br />
returns from South Fork's four precincts<br />
showed that the plan had been voted down<br />
by 15 votes—484 to 469. Recounted were the<br />
votes cast in the two precincts of the second<br />
ward: votes in the two precincts of the first<br />
ward were not recounted as there were no<br />
conflictions on return sheets. No approval<br />
votes were gained in the recount, but the<br />
computation board found that eight extra<br />
disapproval votes were registered in the second<br />
ward's first precinct and thirteen extra<br />
"no" votes were scored illegally in the same<br />
ward's second precinct. With removal of 21<br />
"padded" disapproval votes. Sunday films<br />
were approved. The board described the 21<br />
votes mostly as "incorrectly marked ballots."<br />
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