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PHILADELPHIA<br />
IJen Babb, Selznick Releasing Organization<br />
director, flew in<br />
New York to help plan and direct the<br />
for "Duel in the Sun," the reissue<br />
distributed in this area by Screen Guild<br />
Lynch, Loew's district manager, has<br />
retii-ed. effective September 1. Lynch was<br />
with MGM 37 years. He was one of the first<br />
holders of the distributing company<br />
and was the last one to dispose of his<br />
to MGM. Nicholas M. Schenck. presjident<br />
of Loew's, Inc., paid tribute to Lynch:<br />
["Bob has served the company well. Knowing<br />
ihis keen interest in our company and our<br />
interest in him, we shall always be in contact<br />
with each other in one way or another. No<br />
one deserves the rewards of good service<br />
more."<br />
H. Zamsky has sent out letters on be-<br />
'(half of the local Loge 22 of the Colosseum<br />
'of Motion Picture Salesmen of America askling<br />
salesmen to line up new members for the<br />
Colosseum Social Club which is now being<br />
jrganized at an annual fee of $1 . . . Dave<br />
Josen is now distributing a 33-minute short<br />
ntitled "The Boy Who Stopped Niagara"<br />
. . Rose Kaplan. Screen Guild booker, was<br />
)n vacation . widow of Sam Hyman<br />
iied. At one time Hyman owned and operated<br />
he Cameo and Gem theatres . . . Herb<br />
iviiller, from the Jay Emanuel office, was in<br />
Mount Sinai hospital for observation.<br />
The Chelten Theatre at Chelten and Derpn<br />
avenues has been sold by the Boro The-<br />
|tre Corp. to the Christian Youth Cinema, of<br />
Ihich the Rev. Han-y G. Bristow is presilent.<br />
The property will be improved and<br />
ised for the showing of evangelical Chris-<br />
Ian films. The price was $42,500 . . . The<br />
|ew 600-car Riverview Drive-In in Pittston<br />
Mrs. Edna R. Carroll, chairman of the<br />
ate board of censorship, spoke on a Junior<br />
hamber of Commerce broadcast on WPIL's<br />
Penn Sounds Off series . . . Lou Finske<br />
Jacksonville, vice-president of Florida<br />
te Theatres, stopped here on a trip from<br />
Eysouth . Winfield, artist at Richl-t<br />
studios, will marry Jean Rubin . . . Bob<br />
leiner, field man for Columbia in Chicago<br />
son of the local Columbia district man-<br />
td er, Harry Weiner, was in town with his<br />
ide,<br />
Carol.<br />
hdies Variety Luncheon<br />
licks Off Welfare Drive<br />
Washington—Women of the variety<br />
^b, headed by Mrs. Fi-ank Boucher, Mrs.<br />
Young and Mrs. Mannie Lipskey, Satur-<br />
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