DECEMBER

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tlonul Therapy, asked to have It screened
for her faculty and students. Afterward shr
wrote to Kra.sna congratulatlnK hini for
brlnKlng the film to this country.
Morton and Morris Ladge, heads of Pronto
Popcorn Sales, rfporled the death of their
moiher, Mrs. Etta Ciott
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Moon.
mann«er of the Qulnlree Drlve-Iii for the
Rltkm circuit, has purchased four pet ducks
for his two young daughters Patrlcln and
Carol and has built a duck house for them
on the Krounds of his Norwell home. In the
.ipntiR he plans to sell Muscovy ducklings to
the local markets.
Al Lourle, owner of the Adams. Dorchester,
Is proud of his teenage daughter Nancy, who
won one of the four national prizes In a doll
contest on Kate Smith's program, spon.sored
by Seventeen magazine. Her entry, a doll
called Minnie the Mermaid, won her a beautiful
set of luggage from PUene's store.
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Bill Powell, St. Louis, division manager for
Phil Smith's midwest drive-ins. had Thanksgiving
dinner with his family in Boston
Mrs. Eleanor Jenkins, formerly employed at
the Civic Theatre. Portland. Me., for the Zeltz
circuit, has been named assistant manager,
working with Olive Barker, manager.
Producers of 'Red Sea'
Meet Press in Boston
BOSTON—Dr. Hatis Hass and his wife
Lottie Berl. the Viennese couple who produced
"Under the Red Sea." a film taken entirely
under water, met press folk at the Ritz Carlton
hotel and told of their adventures in making
the film. At his wife's suggestion, Hass
showed the scar on his left wrist where a
shark bit him during the filming of the RKO
release.
"It was just a little shark, so the scar isn't
too big," he said. But he had to have immediate
medical attention and was hospitalized
for weeks while the wound was healing, thus
holding up production. Ha.ss said his aim in
making the picture was purely scientific, and
that the idea of making a commercial motion
picture out of his discoveries came later. His
next effort will be the study of the coral
reefs around the waters of Australia. Later
they plan to make another expedition on their
new yacht to film another full-length film
of the mysteries of underwater life.
Film Series Canceled
CAMBRIDGE—Harvard college's Ivy Film
society has announced the cancellation of
Its 17 motion picture showings entitlari "The
Rise of the Cinema as a Significant Form of
Art" because of contract difficulties with the
Museum of Modern Art in New York. The
plan for showing pictures starring Douglas
Fairbanks sr., Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino,
Greta Garbo, W. C. Fields, the Marx
Bros, and others was instigated a year ago to
bring to the students a group of the older
films for study and research.
NEW HAVEN
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he will be nff Hinted with (hr fitmi
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office of NTS before comInK her<
ago Long n member of Variety, lie %m,
cnnvu.smun of Connecticut Tent 31 In-t ye»r,
members of which feted him at a rarewetl
party In the clubrooms.
Ceorge Perlrolh, n.vsLsUint at the Poll, wm
visited over the TJiantnglvIng holiday by
his wife, who ha.s bt-en 111 In Merlder She'.*
.showing steady Improvement ... Mr and
Mrs. Dick Carroll (he's office mniuutcr and
booker at the Paramount) attended the 30th
annlverslty dinner dance of the Hlllhou.se
high school cla-ss of 1922 In Yule's Chi P»l
house. Mrs. Carroll formerly was PenKy Anderson
. . . Irv Hlllman, manager of the
Roger Sherman, cooked up a full-page cooperative
ad boosting "The Iron MLstre.vs."
It ran In the Thank.sgivlng edition of the
Journal-Courier. It was his .second full page
co-op ad in less than six month*.
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Hannah Ginsburg, private secretary of Max
BIrnbaum, Warner exchange manager, taking
a two-week December vacation
of the exchanges are planning to get together
to stage one big Fllmrow Chrlstma-s
party . Kane of the Music Box.
New Britain, was on Fllmrow.
Loew's Poli Theatres Is running one of the
biggest campaigns of the year to promote
"Plymouth Adventure." A number of Connecticut
newspaper executives were taken to
Plymouth. Mass.. by train for a screening
of the film, dinner, etc. Among tho.sc who
went up on the all-day junket were Charles
T. McQueeney, news editor of the New
Haven Register: Leo Miller, managing editor
of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald: H. Viggo
Anderson. Sunday editor of the Hartford
Courant, and Allen WIdem. film editor of
the Hartford Times. A trailer truck carrying
the model Mayflower used in Hollywood
in the making of the picture was on di.