Boxoffice_May.09.1960

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CLEVELAND
Deter Rosian, U-I district manager, and
Mrs. Rosian left here April 29 to spend
three weeks gathering a Florida tan .
Dolores Workman of the Warner secretarial
staff is in Mount Sinai Hospital,
apparently suffering from executives' ailment—ulcers.
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Frances Weiss, UA receptionist, put her
sense of humor to work recently when
some of the office personnel objected to
turning on the air conditioning system
during a brief heat spell. She posted a
sign on the door reading: "Please Keep the
Door Closed; Some Like It Cold." which
proved not as popular as the film title
she parodied Blair Russell of the
Russell Theatre. Millersburg. who was in
town on a routine buying-booking trip,
reported his wife is now walking with only
the aid of a cane. She was injui-ed in an
automobile accident at Christmas. She has
been assured that she soon will be able
to discard all walking aids. Meantime,
Russell says theatre business in Millersburg
has shown no sign of upgrading.
Howard Reif of Modern Theatres flew
down to Miami to spend a week with his
mother, who will remain there until June
before retm-ning to their Cleveland home
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Essick of Modern Theatres and
Shaker Square Travel Service has sold his
showplace home in Cleveland Heights.
With their two children away at school he
and his wife are planning to consolidate
their housekeeping into smaller quarters.
Imperial Pictures has another de luxe
featurette of the quality of "Rhapsody in
Steel" available gratis to exhibitors. It is
another in the Jam Handy Great America
series. This 25-minute subject in Technicolor,
Superscope and widescreen shows the
reasons for America's high standard of
living and our country's spectacular rise to
economic leadership.
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Mildred Walchli, secretary to UA Manager
Danny Rosenthal, is vacationing in
Florida . . . Nate Schultz, Allied Artists
Ohio franchise owner, attended the company's
worldwide convention in Chicago
this week . William Gunzelman, auditor,
is a 20th-Fox visitor for a couple of weeks.
Ray Schmertz, 20th-Fox manager, will
have six top pictures playing the downtown
first-run theatres this month, which
is claimed to be a booking record. The
Palace will play "Flame Over India" the
week of May 5; "David and Bathsheba."
week of May 18; "Can-Can" starting May
25. The Allen has booked "Crack in the
Mirror" for the week of May 11; and the
Hippodrome has "Wake Me When It's
Over" starting May 18 and "Wild River"
on May 27.
CINCINNATI
The Rank production, "Conspiracy of
Hearts," released through Paramount,
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has been booked into the first-run 'Valley
for a Wednesday ill) opening .
L. Hudson jr. of the Hudson Theatres,
Richmond, Ind., has purchased the Cruise-
In Drive-In. Eaton, from Charles Reibel
The Crist in suburban Loveland, which
has been closed for several months, is being
reopened Wednesday illi by Ray Noble of
this city. Frank Weitzel, local independent,
is booking and buying for the house.
Numerous area exhibitors, including several
who get in only occasionally, visited
local Pilmrow offices during the week.
Among them were Fred Helwig, Charleston,
W. Va.; from Kentucky. Floyd Morrow,
Louisville; Fred May, Carrollton. and
Jerry Bressler, Pikeville, and from Ohio,
Harry Wheeler, Gallipolis: Catherine
Jones and William Goldcamp, Portsmouth;
Jack Stallings, Milford; Harley Bennett,
Circleville; Jack Needham. Coliunbus;
Jerry Jackson, Mount Holly: Mike Chakeres.
Wally Allan. Al Lidman, all of
Springfield; Max Millbauer, Fred Krimm,
William Clegg, Lloyd Hilderbrandt, John
Holokan and James Cotterman, all of
Dayton. Also in were Jerry Shinbach, Chicago,
and Milton Blackston, personal manager
for Eddie Fisher.
Joe Davidson Retires
Al Cleveland Fox
CLE'VELAND—Time, w'hich catches up
on all of us, has tapped Joe Davidson,
20th-Fox booker for the past 27 years and
an active member of the motion picture
industry for 41 years. Nobody on Filmrow
was happy when Joe was making his final
rounds prior to his retirement, effective
on the weekend. Davidson said he planned
to take an unhurried vacation, then concentrate
on one of his many hobbies.
Pittsburgh was Joe Davidson's hometown,
but his film career was mostly lived
out in Cincinnati and Cleveland. He became
interested in motion pictures
through Bill Finkel who had a small independent
exchange in Pittsburgh and
later was manager of the Lande exchange
in Cleveland. Through Finkel he joined
Harry Lande's organization in Cincinnati.
That was in 1920. and 1921 he was manager
of the branch. In 1923 he was transferred
to Cleveland as manager, succeeding
Bill Finkel who moved on to other interests.
The Lande Film Co. was then an important
independent distributing organization.
"While I was manager for Lande in
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Cleveland. I gave Nate Schultz now a major
circuit owner in this area
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his first job.
Just out of high school he went to work
for us as a shipper. Nate Bigelson was another
member of our organization. Bigelson
now manages a golf driving range,
one of the many interests of Nate Schultz,
who is the Allied Artists northern Ohio
franchise owner and head of a circuit of
about 20 theatres."
For a brief period Davidson did return
to Pittsburgh to join the Tiffany exchange
as office manager and booker, then went
to Educational there for awhile. In 1933
Fox Film Co took over Educational Films,
and took Joe along as a member of its
organization, bringing him to Cleveland in
1944 as booker.
Tent 3 Auxiliary Sponsors
Honor Luncheon and Show
CINCINNATI—A clever skit, written by
Mrs. Arthur 'Van Gelder and Mrs. Jack
Onie. and a parade of fashions staged by
a local department store, provided enjoyable
entertainment for 175 members and
guests of the Variety Club auxiliary at a
donor luncheon April 27 in Hotel Terrace
Hilton. The luncheon proceeds were donated
to the Dainty and Dapper Corner of
Goodwill Industries rehabilitation center.
With Priscilla Moritz, auxiliary president,
presiding, Paula Jane, a local TV
announcer, served as emcee. Luncheon
arrangements were made by Mrs. Sam
Weiss and Mrs. Arthur Stevens: table decorations
by Mrs. Morton Perlman, and
music by Mrs. Jack Weinstock, vocalist,
and Mrs. Esther Halen, pianist.
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