Boxoffice-March.06.1948

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BOSTON
Three new student managers being trained
under the G.I. bill of rights were assigned
last week by Interstate Theatres. John A.
Garsin jr. is training at the Randolph in
Randolph under the direction of Mrs. Doris
Brady, who is pinchhitting for her husband
Ed Brady, confined at the Deaconess hospital.
At the Colonial in Brackton, James
H. Godsill is training under Manager Jack
O'Leary, and at the State in Millford. Dick
Phillips is a student under Manager Dick
Phillips.
The Boston Moving Picture Machine
Operators union voted to purchase the threestory
and basement property at 45 Winchester
St. for offices and headquarters. The
lease on the present quarters of the imion
expires April 30. No structural changes or
decorations need to be done on the new site,
union officials said. The entire downstairs
floor will for be the use of the members
while the offices of the executive board and
another office for Walter Diehl, business
representative, will be on the second floor.
At the present time no plans have been
made for use of the third floor space.
The Empire Theatre, Providence, operated
by the Snider circuit, closed March 3. The
be razed to make way for a
property will
new W. T. Grant store. Cola Giovana, manager,
has gone over to the Strand in the
same city, operated by Ed Reed . .
Jack
district Shea, manager of the Jamestown
circuit, was in town for meetings with his
managers from Manchester and Nashua, N.
H., and Amherst and Westfield, Mass.
Paul Blackmer is the new assistant manager
at the Suffolk in Holyoke, operated by
the Rifkin circuit. A graduate of Norwich
university and Emanuel college, he will work
under Paul Kessler, manager . . .
Henry
Needles, Hartford district manager for the
Warner circuit, was in town . . .
Frank Lydon
of the Hamilton, Dorchester, is at home under
the doctor's care for a rest.
Robert Kurson, field manager of the
Graphic circuit, will be married April 10
at Shen-y's in New York City to Elyse Nussenfeld
of Fairfield, Conn., who recently
graduated from Jackson college, Medford.
After a wedding trip to California, the young
couple will reside in Boston, where Kurson
will continue his duties with Graphic. He is
the youngest of the three Kurson brothers.
lumbia, was in town two weeks working with
Joe DiPesa on "To the Ends of the Earth,"
which opened at Loew's State and Orpheum
. . . Bill Powell, well known figure in the district,
is at the Home of Mercy hospital, Rttsfield.
He has been connected with the
Western Massachusetts circuit and the Rifkin
circuit and is at present in the phono- -
graph record tie-in business.
Arthur Goldstein, Maine district manager
for the Snider circuit, played a sneak preview
at the Strand, Portland, which was
literally a sneak preview. He obtained a
print of "To the Ends of the Earth" from
Columbia and locked it in his safe. Not even
the manager of the theatre, Samuel Feldman,
knew the title of the picture. The preview
was held on the holiday eve of February
22 and proved a great success.
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Fred Astaire supervised the opening of
his new dancing studio at Tremont and
Bosworth streets. He signed a lease with
Fred Lieberman, theatre and real estate
operator Cooney, Union Square,
Pittsfield, arrived in town for one of his
rare visits, sporting a new coat of tan acquired
on his annual vacation in Florida . . .
Mrs. Doris Mollica, Opera House, Lebanon,
N. H., was in town booking at Metro .
Arthur Viano of the Somerville. Broadway
and Teal Square theatres. Somerville, was
due back from Florida . . . Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Stern of Stern Enterprises have returned
from the sunny south looking as
brown as berries.
Bill Shirley, field representative for Coit
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