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. . Carl<br />
NEW HAVEN<br />
pmployes of United Artists got their best<br />
Christmas presents when they learned<br />
that the local office had won second place<br />
in the Bill Heineman drive. The prize money<br />
was divided among Sid Cooper, manager;<br />
Henry Bruning, office manager, and Mrs.<br />
Virginia Smith, ca-shier. They, in turn, gifted<br />
co-workers. The exchange won third place<br />
in the first lap of the drive, and came in<br />
first in the second and third laps.<br />
. . .<br />
Earl Robinson, former manager of the Warner<br />
Regal, Hartford, has been assigned permanently<br />
to the Warner Palace, South Norwalk,<br />
succeeding Joe Sifer, who resigned<br />
Two members of the Universal branch here<br />
enjoyed vacations over the holidays. Alec<br />
Schimel, booker, went to Asbury Park, N. J.,<br />
and Eva Cooperstock, office manager, was on<br />
a cruise . . . Morris Rosenthal, manager of<br />
Loew's Poli, planted a newspaper story on<br />
John Philip Sousa's visits to New Haven in<br />
connection with "Stars and Stripes Forever."<br />
All members of the marine corps were admitted<br />
to the film free, if in uniform.<br />
The American premiere of "The Little<br />
World of Don Camillo" was held at the<br />
Lincoln, New Haven (26i. The Italian Film<br />
Expert Releasing Corp. wanted the film to<br />
have a regular pubUc showing before the end<br />
of the year to make it eligible for Academy<br />
• award balloting. The Lincoln was picked as<br />
a site for the rush engagement partly because<br />
the art house was scheduled for a one-week<br />
holiday shutdown. Situated at the edge of<br />
the Yale campus, the theatre gets much of<br />
its patronage from 10,000 Eli students and<br />
faculty members. "Don Camillo" will play a<br />
regular run at the Lincoln later.<br />
The Fine Arts, Sampson & Spyodick house<br />
in Westport, has gone on a first run policy,<br />
bidding against the Warner and Paramount<br />
in South Norwalk for first run bookings.<br />
Scheduled for the F^e Arts during late<br />
December and January were "Ivanhoe," "The<br />
Promoter," "The Fom- Poster" and "Breaking<br />
the Sound Barrier." Norman Bialek is managing<br />
director of the Fine Arts, one of four<br />
theatres in the Sampson & Spodick chain,<br />
which al.so operates in Bridgeport and New<br />
Haven.<br />
One of the biggest theatre Christmas parties<br />
in the country was sponsored by the<br />
New Haven Savings bank, which was host to<br />
20.000 children at two shows in each of six<br />
theatres (24). Houses used were the Pequot,<br />
Westville and Whalley, New Haven; Rivoli,<br />
West Haven, and Strand and Whitney, Hamden.<br />
The bank has been running such shows<br />
for the last three years as a goodwill gesture.<br />
The bank handles school savings in<br />
the area. This year's party was the biggest<br />
ever.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
•Ed Lynch, former manager of the Roger<br />
Sherman, now is manager of the Warner<br />
Beverly, Beverly Hills, Calif. He retired early<br />
in the year and plamied to get into another<br />
line on the coast, but his love of the business<br />
was too great Reardon. Universal<br />
manager, played host to staff members at a<br />
Christmas party in his home, and they gave<br />
him an Omega watch . Warner Theatres<br />
sponsored a Christmas<br />
.<br />
party for all New<br />
England zone managers at the Hartford club,<br />
Hartford.<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
n new industry will be located on a 100-acre<br />
tract of land on Route 16 in Newington,<br />
now owned by Louis DeRochemont. wellknown<br />
film producer. The Simplex Wire &<br />
Cable Co. of Cambridge. Mass., has taken an<br />
option on the property . . . Three members of<br />
the Weirs Ski club in Laconia are exjjected<br />
to go to Cypress Gardens, Fla., later this winter<br />
to join water skiers in a water ski film<br />
starring Esther Williams.<br />
The Palace in Manchester was the scene<br />
of a big hillbilly jamboree on December 19,<br />
when Wilma Lee and Stony Cooper's Clinch<br />
Mountain Boys. Cowboy Phil and the Golden<br />
West Girls and other acts from radio station<br />
WWVA in Wheeling, W. Va., appeared on<br />
stage. Rounding out the two-hour .show, given<br />
both afternoon and evening, was the Judy<br />
Canova film, "Honeychile."<br />
New Hampshire exhibitors are elated over<br />
an announcement by Governor-elect Hugh<br />
Gregg that he will give full support to a<br />
stepped-up Sell New Hampshire advertising<br />
program of the state planning and development<br />
commission ... As usual, films played<br />
a prominent part in the many Christmas<br />
parties staged for children throughout New<br />
Hampshire. The Bristol Lions club held its<br />
second annual gathering at the Bristol Theatre,<br />
with several films, two clowns and an appearance<br />
of Santa Claus. In Ashland, the<br />
Chamber of Commerce sponsored a similar<br />
party at the Liberty. The Portsmouth club<br />
also gave a free show, which lasted two<br />
hours. Santa was on hand to distribute candy.<br />
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