Boxoffice-March.06.1948

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in another collision in which his new car was
Eddie Hileman jr., son of the former theatre
manager in Clairton, and Joyce Ancarana
were married Marcn 7 ... Eli Kaufman has
withdrawn from the theatre premium-games
sales field . . . R. O. Fredley has withdrawn
from the management of the drive-ins operated
by Dr. R. B. Herrick in New Castle and
Butler. He will manage an outdoor theatre
out of this area . . . Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Anderson of the Alpine circuit are in Florida
. . . John Wincek and Albert R. Tate's Super
51 drive-in near Beaver, which will be ready
for opening within two months, has been renamed
Highway 51 drive-in.
M. A. Rosenberg appeared on a better traffic
radio program on KQV Saturday night
last week and following an interview participated
in a quiz competition. He was a winner,
too, carrying out a pen set, $2.50 in cash
and two tickets for the J. P. Harris Theatre.
Mrs. Robert Lynch, wife of the Warner
salesman, who underwent a major operation
in Grove City hospital, has returned to her
home in HarrisviUe . Bob Leibers,
Braddock and Rankin exhibitors, returned
from Miami . J. Kann and Harry
Kodinsky wei'e hosts at the March 12 family
night get-together in the Variety Club .
Bob Hornick, managing the two theatres in
South Pork; has closed the Palace on Monday
and Tuesday.
The Ted Laskeys are parents cf a second
daughter, Elaine, born in Uniontown hospital
February 29 ... J. S. Cangney, sales manager
for Lima Speaker, Inc., was here this week
from Lima, Ohio . . . Eagle Lion will produce
a feature picture which will tell the story
of the Steubenville vice crusade . . . Mrs.
Tillie Garrity of the Warner exchange was
. . . Sam
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to undergo a major operation this week in St.
John's hospital.
A second daughter was born a week ago
in MoMtefiore hospital to the Al Singers.
Papa manages Warners' Plaza
Shapin, in charge of exchange operations
for Warners, was a local visitor . . Rabbi
Sidney Akeslrad of Detroit, son of the former
McKees Rocks exhibitor, will marry
Catherine Cohen of Rochester, N. Y., in June
LaBelle, Warner circuit's local
persomiel manager, suffering with penicillin
is poisoning, recuperating in West Penn
hospital.
Bob Gibson, who managed Cuppie's diivein
theatre in Centerville last season, has been
named manager of the Strand, Brownsville,
owned by Mrs. Mary Laskey . . . Beatrice
Corcoran, daughter of George J. Corcoran,
Allied MPTO director, appeared in a leading
role in the Uniontown high school operetta.
COLUMBUS
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Alexander Theatre Supply has sold complete
new RCA booth equipment to the
Theatres here
Alpine circuit for theatres in Berkeley
have been victims in
Springs,
a crime
Alderson and Salinesville . . Playhouses
wave. Following the boxoffice holdup of
April show will be "Years Ago" Columbia Neth's Eastern, in which gunmen escaped
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staged a regional session here last week with
with $170, the Avondale was burglarized by
who Sam Galanty, district manager, Washington,
thieves entered via a coal chute and
escaped with $300. according to Manager
presiding. Branch managers in
ance were Allan Moritz, Cincinnati;
attend-
Oscar Ben Nichols. A prowler who attempted to
Ruby, Cleveland, and Arthur H, Levy, Pittsburgh.
break into Neth's Cameo was frightened awny
John Kendrick, by special officer. Four
suspects in the Eastern robbery have confes.sed.
Harry Brown, pioneer showman, is vacationing
in Florida. Brown, father of Cliff, the
Kane exhibitor, first exhibited pictures in Resignation of Robert Little, manager nl
Kane in 1905 . . Keith Chambers, Parsons, the Esquire, to join Hygienic Productions has
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W. Va., exliibitor, is home recuperating after caused several managerial shifts in the
an operation while his wife has gone to a
pneumonia.
Academy circuit. William Clifford, manager
hospital with of the Westmont, has succeeded Little. Jack
Houbler, manager of the Cleve. has shifted
to the Westmont and Ralph DennLson has
become manager of the Cleve.
John Pekras, retired owner of the old
Dreamland. High Street theatre landmark
in the silent days, left an estate valued at
$176,918, according to an inventory filed in
probate court. Pekras died last December 1.
Bulk of the estate was left to Mrs. Pekras.
His son Theodore, local theatreman, was left
$5,000.
Little Jack Little subbed for Joe Howard,
composer of "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her
Now," who was unable to appear on the
Palace stage due to illness ... J. Real Neth
is back at his desk after a two-week illness
John Hardgrove and her two
youngsters, Gracie and Jamie, have been
vacationing in California. Mrs. Hardgrove
wrote her husband, supervisor of Academy
theatres, that 6-year-old Gracie has become
a confirmed Roy Rogers fan after meeting
the cowboy star and wants chaps and guns
for playthings instead of dolls. Two-yearold
Jamie wanted to meet Donald Duck, so
Daddy Hardgrove is getting a duck and will
have it in the yard when Jamie comes home.
P. J. Wood, secretary of the Independent
Theatre Owners of Ohio, is recuperating in
Florida from a recent illness ... An ordinance
proposing a ban on smoking in retail
stores, theatres, passenger elevators and
places of assembly was held over for the
third week for additional study in the city
council at the request of Council Pi-esident
Joseph R. Jones and Councilman Walter R.
Snider. It is sponsored by the fire department.
Smoking now is banned in theatre
auditoriums by state law. Tlie new ordinance
would prohibit smoking throughout theatres
excepting smoking rooms.
Theatres here have been placed in type C
in the new rezoning ordinance amendment
which establishes four types instead of the
.single type in effect for the last 25 years.
Theatres are classified with auto parks, barber
and beauty shops, billboard and advertising
signs, fish markets, ice houses, motor
bus terminals and sanitariums.
The Michigan Alumni Ass'n has temporarily
into gone exhibition business. Public
showing of color movies of the Rose Bowl
game between Michigan and Southern California
W'as held at the Southern hotel ballroom.
The film also was shown to 2,100
inmates of Ohio penitentiary . . . Col. Bob
French, former Columbus radio and newspaperman,
is back in town to work for the
newly licensed Gustav Hirsch PM station,
WVKO, here.
Altec Installations
DETROIT The following installations
have been completed by Altec Service Corp.,
according to F. C. Dickely, district manager:
Mecca Theatre. Litchfield, universal base;
Park Theatre, Montague, William Thleman,
Motiograph sound equipment, and Woods
Theatre, Grosse Polnte, Simplex sound system.
WE PREFER
SMART ENTERTAINMENT
That you investigate thoroughly the
character of any Premium Concern ofiering
to solicit your neighborhood merchants
on giveaways.
Too bad we have to make this sugges-
NATIONAL THEATRE ADVERTISING CO.
Max U
RAYMOND ALLISON — Uivoli
and Hollywood theatre circuits, Central
Pennsylvania—says:
"Prior to installation of RCA
equipment in all my theatres,
headaches were plenty. RCA
solved all my troubles. In
our opinion RCA is tops in
service."
To get the benefits of RCA.Service
—write: RCA SERVICE COMPANY,
INC., Camden, New Jersey.
Adv.
BOXOFFICE :
13, 1948