Boxoffice-October.01.1955

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N. Granz Cancels Show
BUFFAI.ci N.Mii in Grnnz of Beverly
HIUs. lnt«'n.,ui"ii.ill> famous Jazz Impresario,
canceled his pcjieciuled performance of "Jazz
at the Phllhajmonio," half an hour before
curtain time Tliursday evening (22> because,
he said, the Granada Theatre stage was too
small Tlie Granada is a Schine community
theatre here Granz claimed a local disk
jockey arransod the date in the Granada for
Uie show and said "I don't have any criticism
of the Granada manaRement: the disk
jockey should have checked more closely.
"We got in lat« just before show time and
found it was Impossible. Tlie band boy had
tried to put some of the instruments on the
stage, but with the theatre's big. new screen.
It wa5 just impassible."
The cast of the canceled concert included
Ella Fitzgerald. Flip Philips. Illinois Jacquet,
Dizzy Gille.spie. Roy Eldridge. Oscar Peterson
and his trio. Buddy Rich. Gene Krupa and
Ray Brown Granz refunded some S3.000 in
ticket receipt-s as well as money received for
programs and said he felt especially sorry for
out-of-town patrons who had come from as
far as Rochester and Jame.stown.
It is reported that a representative for the
.show tried to lease one of the big downtown
theatres for the show, but was unable to find
one; and it seems that Kleinhans Music Hall
has banned the show because of the possibility
of damage to the hall. "We'd welcome
Mr. Granz if his audiences would behave,"
said Mrs. Winifred E. Corey, director of the
Kleinhans Music Hall.
Tent 7 Drive in High Gear,
Marvin Jacobs Reports
BUFFALO—Marvin Jacobs, first assistant
chief barker and chairman of the heart committee
of Variety Tent 7. has a herculean
Job on his hands. He is directing the club's
drive for funds for the Children's Hospital
Cerebral Palsy Clinic, which has been going
jon most of the year and comes to a climax
with collections in the theatres in and around
Buffalo during Thanksgiving week.
Jacobs reports there already is $11,000 in
the fund, but S19.000 more is needed by the
end of the year. Mary M. Ryan, office manager
at MGM, is chairman of the Women's
League committee for the theatre collection:
and Audrey Wagner of the Allied Artists
branch is in charge of the collectors, all of
whom are members of Variety's Women's
League and all of whom volunteer their
services.
Helen Huber. cashier at the Paramount exchange
and a member of Paramount's 25-Year
Club, has been in charge of collections at
all the big shopping plazas.
During the season about to close for the
drive-ins. the outdoorers raised S5,000 for the
fund in western New York. Last year the
1 indoor theatres raised S8. 163.52. and Jacobs
i' hopeful this will be doubled in 1955.
H. J. Yates Honors Goetz
NEW YORK—Jack Goetz was guest of
honor Tuesday i27i at a cocktail reception
T- the Essex House given by Herbert J. Yates.
Republic president. Goetz has been associated
Con.solldated Film Industries since its
•eption in 1924. He will leave October 7
' California to join Consolidated on the
ast. He and Mrs. Goetz will reside peranently
at Beverly Hills.
BUFFALO
T fster rnllock, manngcr of Loew's Theatre
in Rochester, is doing a great Job In
aiding the firefighters in Kodak Town to
put on their annual
Rochester firemen's
benefit stage show to
be held In the Eastman
Theatre October
7-9. Proceeds of the
show are iLsed to
maintain the firemen's
death benefit fund
from which insurance
i> paid to families of
deceased firefighters.
Lester has helped to
promote and stage the
Lester Pollock show for the fiiemen
for many years.
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.\bout 400 persons have been invited to the
fifth annual dinner and show sponsored by
the Newspaper Guild of Rochester in the
Sheraton Hotel in Kodak Town on October
18. Actors and stagehands will be guild
members from the news staffs of the
Democrat & Chronicle and the Times-Union.
A three-act comedy, entitled "Ivan, It's
Terrible." will be presented. George and
Harriet Warren, co-directors of the Community
Players, will direct the play
Ed Sullivan, columnist and TV star, has
lost a suit to prevent Ed Sullivan of Buffalo,
seller of radio and TV sets, from using that
name on his shop. "There were Ed Sullivans
without number long before plaintiff was
born." ruled Supreme Court Justice Walter
A. Lynch of New York in turning down the
entertainer's request for a temporary injunction.
A man, the judge added, has a right
to use his own name in business and no one
can obtain a trademark monopoly on a name
"whose bearers are legion."
Ray Wander jr.. a transplanted Buffalonian,
is writing the entire 44 shows of the
MGM Parade, an ABC television chain event.
"Tlie Clue." a detective series which WBEN-
1948. launched Wander
TV pioneered back in
on his writing career. He just has finished
adapting "Waterloo Bridge" for motion pictures
under the altered title of "Gaby." Ray's
TV writing credits include "Big Town." "My
Friend Irma" and "The Millionaire."
Phil Isaacs, who back in 1946 was head
booker and office manager at the Buffalo
Paramount exchange, has been named manager
of Paramount's new Rocky Mountain
sales division with headquarters in Denver
Charlie McKernan gathered in
some extra shekels at the Seneca. South
Buffalo UPT community house, when he put
on two matinees last Saturday. His attraction
was Disney's "Lady and the Tramp."
McKernan started one matinee at 12:45 and
the other at 4:40. The program ran continuously
from 12:45 p.m.
Dewey Michaels booked the Marciano-Moore
fight films into his Palace theatre In Buffalo
two days after the fight and Jammed 'em in
at this downtown hou.se which has a
burlesque policy ... All went well at the
telecast of the championship bout on the
Century's screen. Manager Robert T. Murphy
had no trouble with anyone trying to present
fake tickets. Anyone who held one of the
alleged phony ducats probably remained
away on reading that police would be
stationed at entrances to the theatre to
confiscate any fake tickets offered It wii:. .i
.sell-out .scveriil days before the fight. Murphy
snld.
Harry Hollander, brother of Bill Hollander.
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