Boxoffice-January.24.1953

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BOSTON
IJndy St. Ledger, manager of the Bi.iou in
Pittsfield, Me., is on a six-week vacation in
Florida vacationers in Florida include
Morris Chadis, projectionist at the Re-
.
vere Drive-In, who flew down with a party
of friend.s, and Joseph Crimmins, projectionist
for the Middlesex Amusement Co., who is
expected to be gone for the rest of the winter
.. Foulds, projectionist at the
.
Central Square, Cambridge, was at the Pal-
limp displayed
mer Memorial hospital . . . The
by Dick Darby, district manager for Lockwood
& Gordon, was a result of skiing mishaps
suffered while he was on a week's vacation
in New Hampshire.
Leon Levenson, head of the concessions department
for ATG. is in charge of the February
dinner for ihe Harvard class of 1928,
which will celebrate its 25th reunion ir. June.
Ir.dustryites who are planning to take in the
reunion are John Green, head of the MGM
music department; Charles Henderson. 20th-
Fox music department: Dick Berenson, drivein
owner, who is secretary of the reuinon
committee, and Richard DeRochemont of
March of Time fame.
. . .
Irving and Al Cohen, known as "the Ritz
brothers" because they operate the Ritz Theatre,
Lewiston, Me., were in to attend the UA
trade screening of "Moulin Rouge." Al spent
the holidays on a South American cruise with
his wife Hannah Brand of the E. M.
Loew's office was in Allerion hospital for
surgery and is now recovering at home . . .
Because her husband, Lt. Robert Nelson, has
been called to active duty, Barbara Warren
Nelson is now living with her parents in
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A daughter named Jean Alice was born to
the Jerry Crowleys at Quincy. Crowley is
head booker for Daytz Theatre Enterprises
. . . John Walton has resigned from the Warner
exchange and is now booking for Columbia,
replacing Meyer Fox, who has gone
to Buffalo for Columbia as city salesman . . .
James Connolly, 20th-Fox manager, and Ben
Simon, New Haven manager, were in New
York for the testimonial dinner for William
Gehring.
Mrs. Lillian Couture, Ashby, Mass., has
closed the Gem and Strand theatres in Fitchburg
and has placed the Gem on sale . . .
Lucille Sweet, switchboard operator at WB is
recovering from pneumonia.
Ralph Banghart of Walt Disney Productions,
former New England publicist for RKO.
was in town working on "Peter Pan," booked
for February 11 at the Keith Memorial Theatre
Another former publicist in this area,
. . . Al Fowler, who has been with 20th-Fox and
other major companies, was in town wiih
his wife. They are now operating a specialty
shop in Newburyport on the
.
Row last week included Sam Mazzatta,
owner of the A.stor, Lawrence: his manager
Joe Campione, and Arch Lade, who operates
the Strand in Phillips, and the Riverside in
Kingfield, Me.
Representatives of the lATSE office employes
union in this area met with representatives
of branch operations of the major
exchanges at an all-day meeting at the U-I
office to negotiate for new contracts. Attending
were Larry Lescharsky. Warners:
William Brenner. National Screen: Clarence
Hill, 20th-Fox: F. T. Murray, U-I: J. E. Mac-
Mahon, Republic: Marvin Rosen, MOM: J.
K. Chapman, UA; A. A. Schubart. RKO, and
Arthur Israel jr., Paramount. Local representatives
were Harry Smith. RKO, president
of Local F-3: Nate Oberman, MGM,
trustee: Harry Spingler. WB. and Catherine
Breen, 20th-Fox.
A requiem high mass in memory of Richard
J. Dobbyn jr. will be held at Our Lady
of Victories church February 9 at 8:30 a. m.,
on the first anniversary of the death of the
RKO salesman in an automobile accident in
New Hampshire. The memorial mass is being
sponsored by the employes of RKO, and
all industryites are invited to attend.
Sympathy to Charles Tobey, Strand Theatre,
Westboro, oil the death of his wife Dor-
. . . C.
othy, who die4 after a long illness. She wa.s
the sister of ^eslie Bendslev of the
William
Community
Playl>(>nse, Wellesley
Dwyer, projsctionist at the strand. Maiden,
has receivejji a temporary appointment as a
state traffic inspector.
Help in fhe March of Dimes drive. Use some
method >thad for audience participation to roise funds.
1952 Films 'Besl Ever/
Film Editor Says
SPRINGFIELD—W. Harley Rudkin, film
editor of the Daily News, addressing 100
members of the Springfield Motion Picture
Council at its January meeting, said that
"the 1952 crop of motion pictures can stand
proudly beside accomplishments of any years
since we first graduated from the nickelodeon."
Speaking of the so-called opposing forces
of television and motion pictures," Rudkin
said: "It isn'i: a battle to the death. It
doesn't mean that one or the other has to
go. The era of stability is now beginning
to show itself. Television and motion pictures
can co-exist, side by side, just as radio
and the phonograph record industries have
been able to do.
"Good public relations is an asset in any
business, but in motion pictures, it is an
absolute necessity. The industry must play
with its public. It must play fair in its
advertising, in its extracurricular exploitation,
in every single facet of its dealing
with the public and with sources of public
information."
Touching briefly on censorship, the Daily
News film critic added, "Good taste is a
hard thing to define, but each man, in his
own heart, has his own concept, based, I
believe, on a pretty stable national level of
decency. There are certain limits beyond
which he will not go, and beyond which he
cannot be coerced.
"Every time I go to the movies, I go with
the expectation that this will be the best
three hours I ever spent. Today, there are
mere pictures to be enthusiastic over and
fewer to carp about than any within my
memory. Lots of other years have had their
highlights, but 1952 was particularly bountiful."
WORCESTER
.
Thirteen hundred youngsters attended the
annual party given in the Rialto by merchants
For the first
of the Island district . . . time in history, the Strand in Clinton had
The
no New Year's eve midnight .show
organ at Loew's Poli. unused for 20 years,
has been dismantled and removed to a Barre
Manager Murray Howard of the
church . . .
Warner conducted an essay contest on one of
his recent films.
Bill Herbert, former Worcester newspaperman
who now is conducting his own publicity
office in Hollywood, was a collaborator
on the original story from which the "The
Hoaxters" was made ... A preview of "Stars
and Stripes Forever" was held at the Elm
Street by the Poli . . . The Elms in Millbury
has started a chinaware giveaw^ay . . . Dizzy
Gillespie was in town for a night club engagement.
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:: January 24, 1953