Boxoffice-January.08.1955

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lights of 1954 in the Boston
ANUABY
ma" opened at the Boston
Iter A. Brown was named
;he Variety Club of New
J Mullin
d term . . . Joe Cifre retij-ed
after 49 years in the equipkVilliam
Kumins was named
iVarner Bros, . . . Martin J.
ected president of Allied
Ingland.
EBRUARY
. . .
Bin, president of United
res, was cited at Temple
rookline . . . Irving Isaacs
sident of Independent Ex-
Ingland Jimmy Fund
i,384, of which $50,000 was
ibution from tlie Kennedy
MARCH
lie Library saluted the mo-
. .
try with a huge dinner at
iza Hotel, arranged by
lan. general chairman .
:11, president of Middlesex
Maurice N. Wolf
lied . . .
relations representative for
jrs in the industry . . . Ted
led co-chairnran with Joe
54 Jimmy F^^nd Drive . . .
-operator of the Paramount
George Roberts
tres, Salem, died in Flor-
)berts was re-elected presiige,
B'nai B'rith . . . Harry
era House, Newport, R. I.,
.APRIL
er, director of research for
ncer Research Foundation,
Katharine Berkan Judd
York Medical Center . . .
:KO. was elected president
of the Cinema Club of Boston . . . Al Glaubinger
was appointed sales manager at United
Artists . . . Lloyd Clark was elected president
and Winthrop Knox jr., vice-president, of
Middlesex Amusement Co.
MAY
Hy Rne was appointed chairman for the
fifth consecutive year of United Cerebral
Palsy for theatres in
New England . . . Benn
Rosenwald was named
chairman of distribu-
. . Capitol
tion of the 1954 Jimmy
Fund Drive .
Theatre Supply
Co.. of which Kenneth
Douglass is president,
marked its 25th annivery
. . . Joseph Cap-
Ian was elected president
of Local 182,
lATSE, with Ralph
Fiazier business agent Benn Rosenwald
Heath, projectionist at the RKO
screening room for 29 years, retired.
JUNE
Brown received the Great Heart
, . . Jack
Walter A.
Award by the Variety Club of New England
at a dinner in the Hotel Statler
Walter Brown
James M. Connolly
.
Gubbins was re-elected president of the Motion
Picture Salesmans Club R.
Makelim presented his picture production
plan at a exhibition luncheon . M.
Connolly was appointed northeast division
manager for 20th-Fox, while John Feloney
was promoted to manager and John Peckos
to sales manager . Lockwood was
elected president of the Children's Cancer
Research Foundation . . . Mr. and Mi's. C. J.
Russell sr. of Bangor celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary.
JULY
. .
E. M. Loew Theatres opened a 1,000-car
drive-in at Burlington . Joe Levine of Emba.ssy
tossed an industry luncheon to kick
off the "Duel in the Sun" return engagements.
AUGUST
"The French Line" was banned in both
Boston and L>iin, as well as for Sunday
. . . Fi'ank
showings throughout the commonwealth . . .
Redstone Theatres opened its new Veterans
of Foreign Wars Parkway Drive-In at West
Roxbury Bosketti, veteran
The 1954
Lawrence
Jimmy
exhibitor, died . . .
Fund campaign was launched.
SEPTEMBER
RKO filed a suit in federal court against
state and city censors, as well as the mayors
.
of Boston and Lynn . Embassy shipping
room quarters were destroyed by fire
. . . Hurricane Edna caused havoc throughout
the area University Theatre, Cambridge,
installed an automatic telephone answering
service unit.
OCTOBER
American Theatres Corp. started a managers'
contest in celebration of its sixth
anniversary ... I. J.
Hoffman acquired the
Arcade Theatre,
Springfield, from Nathan
Goldstein
Nathan
.
Buchman
. .
resigned
from American
Theatres Supply Co. to
start a business for
himself and was replaced
by Benjamin
Conviser . Hamilton,
New York territory
salesman for Manley,
won the merchan-
I. J. Hoffman
dising sales contest conducted in the territory
by Lyman O. Seley. division manager.
NOVEMBER
New England Theatres started a managers'
Profit and Pi-estige Drive ... A luncheon
honoring ten exchange personnel who had
been promoted during the year was held at
the Hotel Bradford by the Variety Club of
New England . . . Aji antitrust suit for $10,-
000,000 was filed in federal court by Jean
Campopiano of Lawrence against the majors.
DECEMBER
Independent Elxhibitors of New England, a
unit of National Allied, conducted a one-day
convention . . . Samuel
Pinanski was tendered
a surprise testimonial
luncheon by a
group of friends . . .
MGM held a successful
Ticket Selling
Workshop at the Hotel
Bradford . . . Lockwood
& Gordon Enterprises
conducted its
annual managers and
managers
district
meeting here
Samuel Pinanski antitrust case
. . .
of
The
Victoria
Amu.sement Co., Lawrence, was settled
for a reported $87,500 after nine days of jury
trial.
To Film "The Norman' in Englcmd
Charles Warren will film "The Norman"
under the banner of his Commander Pictures
unit on location in England.
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