Boxoffice-January.10.1953

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DETROIT
]^ightingale notes: Carl Bewersdorf and John
Pasquinzo have joined the Ernie Forbes
team, pushing the team record up to just
.
. . .
11 pins short of a high single on their first
try . . . Michael Badarak is on the sick list
and may undergo surgery Albu
is entering the hospital for a checkup
Gil Light hit his high for the season with
a score of 243.
. Al Broder
Ed Johnson is chairman of a committee
to establish a fund to build an addition to
a Bay city synagogue as a memorial to the
and
late Harold Bernstein . .
Cy Lipson, Realart executives, were in town
to confer with local distributor Jack Zide
on product . . . Mickey Zide, Jack's son, now
with the coast guard at Staten Island, was
able to get home for the New Year's holiday
. . . Clair Townsend of the Lippert staff
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is returning from a vacation in Florida, and
salesman Bert Foster and Mrs, Foster from
California to attend the Lippert sales conference
at Chicago January 10, 11.
Eddie Heiber, who has been pinch-hitting
as manager for Universal, is out of the hospi.al
and convale.scing at the Sheraton-
Frank R. Spangler. Utica
Cadillac hotel . . .
exhibitor, became a grandfather for the
second time . . . Moe Dudelson, United
Artists district manager, spent the New
Year's holidays in Des Moines, visiting his
son and three grandchildren . . . George W.
Sampson, RKO salesman, is back home to
convalesce after hospitalization.
Jack Broder, principal in the Van Houdt
circuit, became a father for the second time,
with the birth of a daughter on December 27.
Jesse Cole, seating specialist, is heading
south for a few months . Miller,
former United Detroit Theatres executive, is
the new sales chief at Solventol . Lee
wound up the old year with a trade screening
of "Tliief of Venice" . McGuire,
former public relations chief of Cooperative
"Theatres, has reopened his office as a management
consultant here, moving into the
Farwell building.
TOLEDO
"The 3,400-seat Paramount, has booked "Good
Night Ladies" for three evenings and one
matinee performances January 12-14 . . . The
Gayety, local burle.sque house, has been reopened
by Victor Lewis, who lea.sed the house
for a year from Abe Goodman, local bakery
operator. Goodman bought the house at
public auction to satisfy federal tax liens
against Jack Rubens, former operator. This
makes two burle.sque houses in the city, with
the Town Hall having opened this fall under
aegis of Jack Kane, Youngstown.
Incorporates at Akron
AKRON—The Akron Theatre Supply Co.,
in business since 1936, has filed articles of
incorporation with the secretary of state's
office in Columbus by Harry P. and Dorothy
P. Jones of Cuyahoga Falls and their sonin-law,
Allan R. Benson. The company handles
sales and services, wholesale and retail: miscellaneous
theatre and television supplies
and equipment, and audio and visual training
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Donald Scott to Galion Theatre
GALION, OHIO—Donald T. Scott, graduate
of Bowling Green University, has been appointed
assistant manager of the Galion.
Gloria Grosh, parttime projectionist at the
Galion, was married December 28 to John
W. Shindledecker.
Detroit Unions Back
Ticket Levy Slash
DETROIT—strong support of organized
labor for a reduction of the admission tax
was indicated by the Detroit Labor News,
organ of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation
of Labor, which devoted its first
column this week to a proposed bill to be
introduced by Michigan Congressman John
D. Dingell (Dem.i. According to the headline,
the Bill would lower taxes on movies.
While a host of other provisions are included
in the bill, exceptional significance is .seen
in the fact that this AFL publication selected
to picture provisions for keynote emphasis,
and added in the .second paragraph that
lower admi.ssion tax "has long been advocated
by unions in that field."
Dingell's plans to introduce such a bill
which would slice the tax to 10 per cent according
to the Labor News, were disclosed
in a story in BOXOFFICE, October 25, when
Dingell called the tax "vile and vicious" in
an address before the annual convention of
Allied Theatres of Michigan.
Preliminary returns from 35 theatres in
the study of theatre revenues in relation to
taxes, conducted by Allied Theatres of Michigan,
have brought out some smazing totals
to date, according to Ernest T. Conlon, executive
secretary of Allied. Individual returns
show already that "in many cases" the admission
tax collected has run to four or five
times the net profits of the theatre.
Other theatres are operating at an actual
lo.ss, returns show. One small town theatre
reported that the admission tax has exceeded
the profit in three of the past five years.
Further study and analysis of the returns
will be made after more complete retui'ns are
in, Conlon said.
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