DECEMBER

HART BEATS
IN
Diehard Kennedy has taken over the operation
of the Capitol and Betsy theatres
in Elizabethton. Tenn. He makes his headquarters
in Birmingham. At Wil-Kin Theatre
Supply in Charlotte, Tip Tipton said
the firm had installed Cycloramic screens in
the Plaza Theatre, Charlotte; the Varsity.
Chapel Hill. N. C, and Joy, Belton, S. C.
Harry Wayne said that he had sold Everfrost
soda bars to the Broadway in Clinton,
S. C, and the Richardson, Seneca, S. C. He
also sold Karagheusian carpeting to the
Dixie, Scotland Neck, N. C., and Cretors popcorn
machines to the Wayne, Goldsboro, and
the Starlight Drive-In, Fayettesville.
Wil-Kin had the latest in ice cream vendors,
the Colsnac, on display in Charlotte.
It is a completely automatic coin-operated
vender.
Harris Theatre Sales has installed a reconing
service for in-car speakers and servicing
for rebuilding heads and sound
equipment. Panny Cobb said Bryant Theatre
Supply had sold Wenzel projectors and
Strong lamps to the state hospital at Morganton
and new Co-Op speakers to the Conway
Drive-In, Conway, S. C. Bryant also
sold Hudson hosiery of Shelby ten pedestal
electric hair dryers.
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The Ball Theatre at Jeffersonville. S. C,
has reopened under new management. Bob
Turnbull, National Theatre Supply, has sold
Simplex equipment to the Skyline Drive-In,
Orangeburg, S. C. It is a 200-car airer,
owned by George Townsend and Will Ulmer.
Construction has been started.
Leo Wann has taken over the Union Drive-
In at Union, S. C. G. W. Whisnant of the
Carolina Neon Co. recently completed marquees
for the Haymont Theatre, Fayette-
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Charles Duncan, with Standard Theatre
Supply for the last 20 years, the last five
of them in the Charlotte office, has joined
Charlotte Theatre Supply, where he will continue
to follow his trade of sound and projection
engineering. He is a member of the
Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers.
Registration at the recent convention of
North and South Carolina Theatre Owners
was 625. The event was one of the nicest
ever held.
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Johnny Kime told me about his new drivein
which is now being built at Havelock,
N. C, and which will be named the Marine.
It is scheduled to open soon.
The stars that attended the convention
created a lot of goodwill among the exhibitors
and Bob Bryant, who went along on
the Movietime tours, reported that they
made a good impression on everyone they
met.
Nearly every dealer in equipment attended
the TESMA show in Chicago. Jack Wadsworth
has taken over the South 21 Drive-In
at Charlotte. Rainy nights have been cutting
attendance at theatres over the Carolinas
recently.
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Hodges Theatre Supply is supplying Motiograph
equipment to the Surf Drive-In
at Lake Charles, La. The 1,000-car twin
airer is being built by Percy Duplissey
and Matthews Guidry and, while construction
is under way, it is not planned to open the
airer before February 1.
Another February opening is slated for the
Motiograph-equipped Rebel Drive-In at
Natchez, Miss., being built by Charles Morel.
The 500-car airer also is being equipped by
Hodges.
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Floyd Murphy told me that he not only
remodeled the lobby of the Strand in Vicksburg.
Miss., but also added new restrooms
and brought it up to date.
J. L. Hicks of Hubert Mitchell Industries,
stage and drapery manufacturers, was on
Pilmrow conferring with E. W. Neeley at
National Theatre Supply on some jobs of remodeling.
* * *
Bob Roberts, oldtime showman, was busy
booking in stage shows and was pretty well
booked up until after January 1. Bob has
some good numbers which he is now booking.
Paul Shallcross of the American Desk Co.
is now out of the hospital after a siege of
stomach ulcers.
R. L. Gremillion of Southeastern Theatre
Supply has sold Gus Street equipment
for his Greta Green Drive-In Theatre at
Gretana, La. He has also sold equipment to
Richard Guidry, Left Cheramie and R. J.
Soignet for the Jet Drive-In at Cut Off, La.
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Don Wilmoth of Southeastern Supply has
sold RCA equipment to L. R. Navarre and
Percy A. Duplissey for the Frontier Drive-In
at Sulphur, La. Don has also sold equipment
to Joe Pentard for a Negro theatre,
named the Star, at LaFayette, La. None
of the above four have opened yet, but
opening for some will be soon. All are
equipped with RCA equipment.
Injured in Freak Airer Accident
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.—Peggy Holman,
a passenger in an automobile parked in
the Fourth Street Drive-In, was severly injured
when a portable sound speaker hurtled
through the windshield of the car in which
she was sitting. A patron, driving out of the
airer, had the portable speaker still attached
to his car window. It broke free and whipped
through the windshield of the adjacent
parked car.
Early Debut for Negro Ozoner
SCOTLANDVILLE, LA.—A drive-in for
Negroes is under construction here and is
expected to open very soon. The officers of
the constructing company. Elm Drive-In Theatre,
Inc., are Robert A. Hart III, president;
H. F. Randolph, vice-president, and Mrs.
Janet Hart, wife of the president, secretarytreasurer.
The airer is located on the Elm
Grove Garden road.
Plan New Airer for Selmer, Tenn.
SELMER, TENN.—The Selmer Amusement
Co., Inc., has announced plans for a 460-car
outdoor theatre to be located on Highway
142, near the Highway 45 intersection. Will
Tom Abernathy, president of the company,
said a spring opening is planned.
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