Boxoffice-April.07.1958

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ALBANY
/"•arl Bovee, onetime assistant manager
of tlie Strand liere and later manager
of the Delaware, rejoins Lament Theatres
as manager of Vail Mills Drive-In at
Vail Mills. A native of nearby Gloversville,
Bovee is doing newscasts and writing continuity
for radio station WENT, Gloversville.
His affiliation with the Lamont organization,
effective April 10, will be on a
year-around basis. The Vail Mills probably
will be relighted April 17. Joe Dunaj, manager
last year, has transferred to the Riverview
Drive-Iii as Howard Gammer's assistant.
Ethel Anameier, longtime manager's secretary
at Universal, is now bookers secretary
at 20th-Fox . the third year, Norman
Weitman, Universal manager, and Mrs. Weitman
participated in an "audience awards"
party the night of the Oscar ceremonies.
Four couples joined them . Times-
Union reported that more than 9,000 entries
had been received in the first annual A-
cademy Awards contest sponsored by the
Strand and the newspaper. Only one person,
Walter Kicinski, a freshman at RPI in
Troy, turned in a perfect score—right in
all of his choices.
The closed-circuit telecast of the Basilio-
Robinson championship fight in Fabian's
Palace attracted a capacity crowd of 3,600
Two di-ive-ins of the
at $3.50 adniission . . .
Albany exchange district have been renamed.
Kallet Theatres of Oneida renamed WGAT
outside Utica the New Hartford. Ben Hobbs
replaced the Plattsburgh with Route 3. The
Utica automobiler had originally been tagged
with the call letters of a local radio station,
then operated by Ei"ic Williams, owner of
both. The ozoner is located in the town of
New Hartford. Hobbs switched the title in
the north counti-y to identify more clearly
the route on which the open-airer is located.
The concession stand at the Sunset Drive-
In, Hudson, has been virtually doubled in
size and cafeteria-type operation has been
installed. Owned by Morris and Raphael
Klein, the automobiler's concessions are being
handled this year by Ti-i-State Automatic
Candy Corp. Enlarged stand measures 27x
58 feet. A new stand, of the station tj-pe,
has been added at the Kleins' Hi-Way Drive-
In near Coxsackie. This, too, is operated by
Tri-State.
The Hi-y group came to the end of the
trail last week, on the Desmond-Cominick
Bill banning the use of subliminal advertising
for commercial purposes on film. Unanimously
passed by the Senate a w-eek before,
the measure was sent to rules committee in
the lower house. When the teenage boys and
girls, headed by John Garman of Milne High
School, Albany, called at the office of Speaker
Oswald D. Heck for assistance in getting the
bill reported from the rules committee, they
were directed to take the matter up with
Assembleyman Malcolm Wilson. Yonkers Republican
and codes chairman, who oulined
reasons why the bill should not be passed
at this time.
Phyllis Dalton. British costume designer,
will create the costumes for Samuel Bronston's
multi-million-dollar production, "John
Paul Jones," for Warner release.
Albany Filmrow Dinner
A Farewell to WB Staff
ALBAN'VT— Exhibitors and Filmrowcrs bid
"adieu" to the Warner Bros, .staff at a dinner
in Slea.sman's on the eve of the exchange's
closing. Seventy-one per.sons attended.
Brief talks were given by Ray Smith,
who continues as WB salesman and by Dick
Young, 20th-Fox booker and head of Local
F-43, who moved from vice-president to
pre.sident of the local with the retirement of
Charlotte Lansing, who lost her job as assistant
cashier through darkening of the
Warner branch.
Exhibitors present included Elias Sohlenger,
Fabian division manager; F. Chase Hathaway,
Hathaway 's Drive-In. Hoosick; Sarto
Smalldone, of Malta Drive-In, Saratoga;
LEMON • PINK
Johnny Gardner, partner of the Unadllla
Drive-In and builder of a new automobiler
near Glens Falls; Al LaFlamme, former manager
of the Strand and now partner in Unadilla
Drive-In.
W. C. Handy Rites
NEW YORK—Funeral services were held
Wednesday i2i for W. C. Handy whose life
Ls depicted in "St. Louis Blues," Paramount
picture, at the Abyssinian Baptist
Church in Harlem. He was 84 years old.
Eulogies were delivered by Mayor Rofc>ert F.
Wagner, Paul Cunningham, president of the
American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers; Ed Sullivan, TV personality, and
the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell. Burial was
in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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BOXOFFICE :: April 7, 1958 E-3