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NEW HAVEN<br />
The Variety Club held a luncheon meeting<br />
at the Oneco March 16. Barney Pitkin<br />
presided Pickus, of the Stratford Theatre,<br />
accompanied Herman Levy. .<br />
MPTOA<br />
counsel, to the TOA meeting in Los Angeles.<br />
Pickus stopped in Indiana to visit Mrs.<br />
Pickus' family on the return trip.<br />
Work at the Black Rock, Bridgeport, has<br />
been going on without interruption so that<br />
the facelifting job can be completed as quickly<br />
as possible. But all hands were called off<br />
the job one day so the Black Rock Garden<br />
club could show pictures of the new Holland<br />
bulbs. The event had been publicized for a<br />
radius of 60 miles and every enthusiast in<br />
the area was expected. Actual count: 26 . . .<br />
Harold Dunn, eastern sales manager for Eagle<br />
—<br />
Lion, was in town on the Warner "T-Men"<br />
deal . . . Harry Gibbs, new franchise holder<br />
for the state on Astor Pictures, has his<br />
cheerful dual, "Lady in the Morgue" and<br />
"Black Doll," in the Bijou.<br />
Housewartnings, soon will be in order at<br />
the Dick Cohen home. The Monogram man<br />
signed on the dotted line for a house in West<br />
Haven . Harold Tabackmans, of the<br />
Bostwick, Bridgeport, bought a home in Fairfield<br />
. . . Lou Brown. Loew Poll publicity<br />
chief here, with Shirley and Shirley-Lou,<br />
laden with presents and good wishes, journeyed<br />
to Washington March 13 to help the<br />
W. J. E. Browns, Lou's parents, celebrate their<br />
50th wedding anniversary.<br />
Ernie Emerling, Loew advertising chief.<br />
visited Springfield, Worcester, Hartford,<br />
Meriden and New Haven with Harry Shaw<br />
and saw theatres and press . . . The Bijou will<br />
play the Italian film, "Shoe-Shine," for a<br />
week in April following a try at the French<br />
fUm, "Panic" . . . The Shubert will give the<br />
Palestinian film, "My Father's House," a New<br />
England permiere . expression on<br />
Harry Shaw's face in the Bridgeport Herald<br />
spread on Ferruccio Tagliavini, coming here<br />
in "La Boheme" at the Poll, is one of absolute<br />
amazement. Tagliavini is not singing, but<br />
eating spaghetti.<br />
The Lyric, Bridgeport, used an ItaUan picture,<br />
"Pagliacci," instead of the usual weekend<br />
vaudeville . . . The March 30 presentation<br />
of "La Boheme" at the Poll, New Haven,<br />
has had so successful an advance sale that<br />
the prediction is there will be three or four<br />
operas here next year.<br />
WORCESTER<br />
Tfaskinas Liberty succeeded Mrs. Mary Foley<br />
Moriarty, who resigned as secretary to<br />
manager Harold Maloney of Loew's Poll . . .<br />
Philip Loew, manager of the Family, has<br />
returned after a month's vacation in Florida<br />
Comtois resigned from the<br />
Capitol.<br />
.<br />
Theatres in Whitinsville collected $234.83<br />
for the March of Dimes fund . Art<br />
Mooney orchestra drew only a fair house at<br />
the Auditorium Matthews, manager<br />
of the Warner, attended a district<br />
meeting in Hartford, Conn. . Finn of<br />
Boston, general manager of the E. M. Loew<br />
circuit, was a visitor at the Plymouth.<br />
Indoors or out DeVry<br />
For 250-seat to 6,000 seat theatres<br />
and outstandingly for drive-ins with<br />
up to 1,000 car capacity—the trend is<br />
definitely to DeVry "12000" Series<br />
projectors, amplifiers and in-car<br />
speakers.<br />
Typical of DEVRY-equipped outdoor<br />
theatres now being readied for<br />
spring opening is the model Drive-In<br />
at Muncie, Indiana, shown in the airview<br />
shot above. Other DeVry installations<br />
being made for the coming<br />
season are:<br />
CALIFORNIA: Drive-In near San<br />
Diego. GEORGIA: Drive-In Theatres<br />
at Thomasville & Moultrie. INDI-<br />
ANA: Terre Haute<br />
Drive-In. IOWA:<br />
Drive-In at Sioux<br />
City. OHIO: "Sciniouth,<br />
"Triangle" at Wilmington.<br />
Also Drive-ins at Springfield and St.<br />
Grand Rapids. NORTH CAROLINA:<br />
Mary's. MICHIGAN: Drive-In at<br />
Drive-ins at Asheville, Stateville &<br />
Charlotte. PENNSYLVANIA: Family"<br />
Drive-In at New Kensington.<br />
TEXAS: Drive-In at Midland. WEST<br />
VIRGINIA: Drive-In at Elkins and<br />
Meadowbrook. CANADA: Peter<br />
Drive-In, Lansing, Ontario.<br />
// you contemplate modernizing present equipment or building<br />
sure and see DbVry before you buy.<br />
v. he<br />
Another summer stock company is in prospect<br />
for central Massachusetts. A plan is<br />
afoot to install a professional company in<br />
the Sturbridge town hall, opening a 10-week<br />
season at the end of June, with Michael<br />
Grilikhes directing. The only theatre Sturbridge<br />
ever had before was a brief experiment<br />
with a drive-in.<br />
Owners of two Milford buildings that include<br />
theatres were granted a hearing in<br />
Boston on their appeals from assessments<br />
made by the town. Tlie Stoughton Theatre<br />
Co. owns the Opera House block, which is<br />
assessed for $80,500. and the Milford Realty<br />
Co. owns the State Theatre Bldg.. a.ssessed<br />
for $166,450. Both are in the heart of the<br />
town's business district.<br />
Phil Loew, manager of the Family, was on<br />
the ticket committee for the testimonial<br />
party tendered to the champ Holy Cross college<br />
basketball team . . . Manager Bob Portle<br />
of the Elm Street reports a holdover for<br />
"Gentleman's Agreement."<br />
- great<br />
faction, increased<br />
hox office take,<br />
closer approach to<br />
the perfect show<br />
indoors or out —<br />
buy DeVry<br />
"12000 Series"<br />
thc.icre<br />
projectors<br />
FOR THE PERFECT SHOW<br />
Indoors or Out<br />
nS^* DeVry<br />
DeVry Corporation<br />
52 Vanderbilt Avenue<br />
Telephone: Murray Hill 6-3397<br />
NEW YORK 17, N. Y.<br />
Harold Maloney, manager of Loew's Poll,<br />
has been singing the blues. He lost his assistant<br />
manager, his student a.ssistant and<br />
his secretary, all during the same week. The<br />
first two were promoted and the secretary's<br />
husband returned from overseas . Calloway's<br />
orchestra drew a big attendance at<br />
Lyonhurst in Marlboro.<br />
Loew's Poll got on page one when a dog<br />
lay in the falling snow for three hours outside<br />
the theatre while awaiting his young<br />
master, who was inside watching the performance<br />
. Palmerton announced he<br />
will open the Playhouse in May.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: March 20, 1948
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