Boxoffice-December.17.1955

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PHILADELPHIA
District Attorney Victor H. Blanc, who is a
past chief barker of Variety Tent 13, was
honored by the club at a luncheon on Thursday
1 8) at the Bellevue-Stratford. Speakers
included Abraham L. Preedman, city solicitor,
Mayor-elect Richardson Dilworth, Rep.
William J. Green jr.. Democratic city committee
chairman; Albert M. Greenfield, financier
and realtor, and Jack Beresin, former
chief barker of Tent 13. Louis J. Goffman,
chief barker, was toastmaster.
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. . . Ruth Mitchell,
Donald Gillis, son of Maxwell Gillis, local
manager of Allied Artists, has been drafted
. . . Dave Rosen, Majestic Pictures, went
upstate on business taking the upstate
trek was Irving Schiffman, local representative
of IFE . . . Joseph Conway, who
operates Wayne Avenue Playhouse, is looking
for another theatre in which Hollywood
product could be run
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sister of the famed flyer Gen. Billy Mitchell,
was in town as part of a nationwide tour
to help publicize "The Court-Martial of Billy
Mitchell" Mae Murry Bergin is now chief
clerk of the Pennsylvania board of censors.
AI Frank, secretary and treasurer of Hammonton
Theatres, will build a 1,000-car drivein
on a 20-acre site on the outskirts of
Ocean City . . . Viola Honig, former cashier
at Screen Guild, was a patient at Deborah
Sanitarium at Browns Mills, N. J. . . . Dave
Weinstein, veteran theatre manager, is a
new partner of American Films. Weinstein
will handle the out-of-town selling of the
firm's product.
Ben Harris, who has been ojierating American
Films, is one of the pioneer distributors
in the business . . . Variety Tent 13 held a
PHILADELPHIA
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GOLDWYN JR. IN PHILADELPHIA—Samuel Goldwyn jr., center, who is on a
nationwide personal appearance tour to spotlight regional openings of his first production,
"Man Witli the Gun," United Artists release, is shown meeting with
Philadelphia area showmen. Left to right: Charles MacDonald, York, Pa.; starlet
Karen Sharpe; Goldwyn jr.. Gene Tunick, UA branch manager in Philadelphia, and
Max Chasens, booker-buyer for the Hamid-Waxmann Theatres of Atlantic City.
Thanksgiving dance at which hypnotist Howard
Klein was presented with an award .
Mike Felt, acting movie censor, became a
grandfather when his son Harvey, who is in
the Air Force, became the father of a baby
boy . Gallen, formerly with National
Screen Service, died.
Installation will be made of 68 new 20,000
lumen-lamps on Market street, east of Broad,
to help make this the "brightest street in the
country." The first step in this direction has
been made by placing these lights between
12th and Broad streets . . . The Philadelphia
Transportation Co. has started a new bus
service carrying passengers from outlying
sections to the central-city shopping district.
The new service, designed to save time, will
continue every day department stores are
open. Generally, along the three routes, buses
stop at regular points to pick up passengers
and then make non-stop runs into the shopping
district, where again passengers can
board or leave the vehicles at numerous Intersections.
DuMont Sells N. J. Plant
NEW YORK—Allen B. DuMont Laboratories
has sold its plant at 1500 Main St., Clifton,
N. J., to the Getty Clifton Corp. The plant
covers about seven acres and has 150,000
square feet of floor space with a powerhouse.
Rogers Hospital Show
Planned December 19
NEW YORK—Cinema lodge of B'nai
B'rith, with the cooperation of the American
Guild of Variety Artists, will again sponsor
a special Christmas program for patients
at the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Saranac
Lake, Monday (19K
The first program of this kind was developed
by Burton E. Robbins, past president
of Cinema Lodge, last year and was carried
out with the cooperation of Ned E. Shugrue,
executive vice-president of the hospital, and
Marge Coate, director of sick and relief for
AGVA. A special plane will be used to take
the entertainers to the hospital, so they can
return the same evening.
Max E. Youngstein, lodge president, has
named Robbins and Milton Livingston to
accompany the entertainers. Robert K.
Shapiro will again be entertainment chairman.
Garment Industry Film
"Garment Center" will be the title of a
film based on a Reader's Digest article.
"Gangsters in the Dress business," story of
racketeering in New York, a Columbia release.
S WISHING YOU A I «^
HOLIDAY OF HAPPINESS
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STANLEY SMITHERS
SANDY GOTTLIEB
MILDRED GREEN
1231 Vine St. Philadelphia 7, Pa.
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17, 1955