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. . George<br />
. . Sunset<br />
: March<br />
. . Allied<br />
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. . . William<br />
. . Joe<br />
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the Rex. Next fall, he plans to enter college.<br />
Glenn Carruthers, Grove City exhibitor,<br />
reports that community's sesquicentennial<br />
will be an event of next August . . . Larry<br />
Lowstetter. Meyersdale exhibitor, has sold<br />
"Miss Economy." his race honse . . . Lee Conrad<br />
put on a stage show at the Park, Meadville,<br />
which featured the three Kress sisters<br />
of Meadville, former Rockettes who have<br />
made three USO overseas tours . . M. A.<br />
.<br />
Silvers, Warner circuit zone manager, is<br />
active again after being down with virus X.<br />
John Perry, Belle Vernon exhibitor and<br />
liotel man, was active at the state restaurant<br />
owners' convention here, as was Jack Mapel,<br />
Point Marion theatre owner-restaurateur<br />
Hi-Way Theatre, summer playhouse,<br />
will present eight plays in the Ebensburg-<br />
Cambria high school auditorium June 26 to<br />
August 21. Warners' Harris in Donora, is<br />
advertising for musicians and entertainers<br />
Browarsky, local exhibitor, has been<br />
\acationing in Florida . MPTO directors<br />
were in session March 5 at headquarters<br />
. Jaffee of the Casino<br />
has been taking the" baths at Hot Springs.<br />
Junior Miss America contest, scheduled<br />
for May, has been set back to September,<br />
according to the Pittsburgh Junior Chamber<br />
of Commerce ... An Equity summer<br />
theatre will open at Colonial Manor near<br />
Irwin in June with Carl Low and Clay<br />
Flagg producing, and Paul Foley directing<br />
. . . P. D. "Dinty" Moore, Warner manager,<br />
would like to take his vacation to "bake<br />
out" a lingering cold but he can't get away<br />
from the office.<br />
The M. A. Rosenbergs. McKee.s Rocks exhibitors,<br />
have returned from their vacation<br />
in Florida . Drive-In at Meadowbrook,<br />
W. Va., has installed pipes for in-acar<br />
speaker field stands and the former<br />
screen structure is<br />
screen.<br />
being replaced by a larger<br />
Mrs. Ray Hickman Elected<br />
To Late Husband's Posts<br />
CLEVELAND—Mrs. Ray C. Hickman has<br />
been elected vice-president and secretary<br />
of the Washington Theatre Co.. to fill the<br />
offices held by her late husband. John<br />
Woodard, Dover, Ohio, has been named to<br />
succeed Hickman on the board of directors.<br />
Steve Broidy to Visit<br />
PITTSBURGH—Exhibitor friends of<br />
Steve<br />
Broidy, president of Monogram and Allied<br />
Artists, will greet him here next Thursday<br />
111). Broidy will stop here en route to New<br />
York from Amarillo, Tex., where he attended<br />
the premiere of AA's "Panhandle," sepia tone<br />
western thriller starring Rod Cameron. "Panhandle,"<br />
will open locally in the Fulton at<br />
an early date.<br />
Fined for Obscene Show<br />
GREENSBURG, PA.—Charged with giving<br />
and permitting the exhibition of an obscene<br />
show and obscene pictures, Tom R. Kamerer,<br />
Charles Kisner and Sam W. Betters were<br />
fined $100 and costs by Judge Edward G.<br />
Bauer. State police pressed charges following<br />
a raid on a North Huntingdon township<br />
tavern last June 22.<br />
•BOXOFFICE :<br />
Quiz Show Takes to Air<br />
From National. Louisville<br />
LOUISVILLE SomclhinK new in quiz<br />
shows has reached Louisville by way of the<br />
National Theaatre. Sponsored by a local<br />
ice cream manufacturer, the show is called<br />
"Heaa of the Family." The initial program<br />
was presented to the theatre audience<br />
Wednesday night, February 25, and was<br />
broadcast over station WHAS. The program<br />
i.s of the audience participation type with<br />
prizes awarded to the winners. The show is<br />
scheduled as a weekly affair and is to continue<br />
for an indefinite run. The National<br />
is herded by Vance Schwartz and is managed<br />
by Jimmy Robertson.<br />
From the BOXOFFICE Files<br />
(Twenty Years Ago)<br />
E. FONTAINE has returned to Cleveland<br />
J<br />
as manager of the Paramount exchange.<br />
He has been in Pittsburgh for Paramount.<br />
H. Brauer and Harry Dodge succeeded him<br />
in Cleveland. Brauer is now in Columbus,<br />
and Dodge has gone in the advertising business.<br />
Harry Goldstein, Albany manager, has<br />
become Pittsburgh manager. K. G. Robinson,<br />
salesman from Boston, has taken over the<br />
Albany exhange.<br />
Fines are being paid weekly by three motion<br />
picture theatre managers in Dover, Ohio.<br />
This has been going on all winter. Every<br />
Sunday the proprietors of the Ohio, Webber<br />
and Pike theatres are arrested for infraction<br />
of the law. pay a fine of $15.45 ani then go<br />
back to their shows.<br />
Reade's Hippodrome in Cleveland has inaugurated<br />
a bargain matinee policy of all<br />
seats in the house at 25 cents till 5 p. m. .<br />
J. C. Hudges of Hillsboro, Ohio, has purchased<br />
the theatre in Leesburg from H. L. Wiggins<br />
of Hillsboro. H. W. Byrd of the Forum Tlieatre<br />
has a lease on this house . Playhouse,<br />
at Jackson. Ohio, has been sold by<br />
O. J. Welsh to Harold Priest. Joseph and<br />
Robert Stern, operators of the Marlow, Grand,<br />
Eastern and Lyric at Ironton, are planning<br />
the erection of a new theatre in Jackson at a<br />
cost of $60,000. It will be across from the<br />
Cambria hotel.<br />
The Troy Amusement Co. has opened its<br />
new $100,000 theatre in Troy, Ohio, the Mayflower.<br />
It is a two-story playhouse in the<br />
Georgian style . . . A. G. Longbrake, formerly<br />
m?nager of the Band Box Theatre in Springfield,<br />
has been transferred to the Regent in<br />
the same capacity . . . Phil Charnas, manager<br />
cf the Bucyrus Theatres Co., has announced<br />
plans to erect a new theatre in Bucyrus.<br />
George Shenker has sold the Cozy Theatre<br />
in Lorain. Ohio, to the Interstate Theatres.<br />
Inc. This was the last of a chain of houses<br />
in Lorain owned by Shenker. Sam T. Read<br />
is<br />
managing the Cozy.<br />
. .<br />
Richard Weil, formerly in charge of<br />
publicity for Progress Pictures Corp., has<br />
been heard from. He is with Educational<br />
Films on the west coast and agrees with<br />
Arthur Brisbane that there's nothing like<br />
California . "The Jazz Singer" blazed a Out of<br />
nev." trail in Columbus, now in its eighth<br />
week at the Grand, a history-making engagement.<br />
COLUMBUS<br />
prcd Astaire was to look at his proposed<br />
dance studios on East Broad street . . .<br />
John B. Brobst of the Ohio, known as Benny<br />
to his Loew's co-workers, was given a pin<br />
by Manager Walter Kessler, signifying completion<br />
of a score of years as electrician<br />
at the Ohio and Broad E. Brown,<br />
stage and screen star and native of Holgate,<br />
was invited to be a gue.st at the Variety Club<br />
membership dinner held during his local<br />
appearance in "Harvey" at the Hartman.<br />
Charles Koch, operator at the Southern<br />
for 17 years, is taking a three or four-week<br />
vacation in California. Bert Fletcher, his<br />
fellow operator, just returned from a<br />
holiday<br />
in Mexico. Tom Johnston is subbing for<br />
Koch ... J. Real Neth is recovering at his<br />
home from an illness which has kept him<br />
from his desk for several weeks.<br />
A cashier and usher at Neth's Eastern<br />
were held up by two bandits who threatened<br />
them and then fled with $170 in cash.<br />
Florence H3ll. cashier and Lewis Hagen,<br />
usher, were in the boxoffice when one of<br />
the gunmen drew a pistol from under his<br />
jacket and ordered: "Give us all the money<br />
you got. We mean business." J. A. "Jimmy"<br />
Tallman, manager, told police Miss Hall gave<br />
the gunman all the money in the booth.<br />
Lou Holleb, Robert Nelson, John Bracroft<br />
and Leo Haenlein of the Variety Club landed<br />
in the Dispatch as some of the bachelor<br />
targets for the Leap Year party held last<br />
Saturday in the clubrooms. They were pictured<br />
with a local model and one of the 20<br />
from a New York modeling school who picked<br />
the most eligible bachelor at the party .<br />
The sophomore class of Capitol university<br />
here presented "Knickerbocker Holiday," the<br />
old Nel-son Eddy film, on the campus for<br />
35 cents, "including refreshments." Show<br />
held one performance only on Saturday<br />
night. Other campus organizations are<br />
planning similar film shows.<br />
Thertres are fating other forms of competidon,<br />
too. First boxing bill in some years<br />
w.^'s held last week at Memorial hal! with<br />
3,462 patrons paying $14,723. An ice rink<br />
large enough to permit hockey games is<br />
under consideration in the Ohio State university<br />
district. The rink, to cost $100,000.<br />
would permit skating nine months a year<br />
Perry, known along the Rialto<br />
as "Jiggs." was killed when he walked into<br />
a house trailer while crossing a downtown<br />
street. Jiggs was a ballyhoo man who worked<br />
street stunts for all downtown theatres at<br />
one time or another.<br />
. . Harold<br />
The Variety Club will take over the first<br />
night's sale of tickets for "The Skating<br />
Vanities of 1948." which will be staged here<br />
starting April 27. Portion of the proceeds<br />
will go into the heart fund . . . Patricia<br />
"Pat" Moore was chosen "Miss Loew Springtime"<br />
to symbolize Loew's Springtime Hit<br />
Parade now being celebrated at the Ohio<br />
and Broad. She is a local model .<br />
painter, reports a first<br />
Martindrle. Loew's<br />
sign of spring—he caught a two-foot blacksnake<br />
in his back yard.<br />
Gory Category<br />
Eagle Lion will make its film title. "Blood<br />
on the Snow." less sanguine and call it<br />
"Canon City" instead.<br />
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