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CHICAGO<br />
^rs. Joseph Chesser, president, reports Better<br />
Films Council of Chicagoland's annual<br />
spring meeting April 21 in the Civic<br />
Opera House will have representatives of the<br />
motion picture Industry as special guests and<br />
Maurice N. Wolf, public relations representative<br />
of Loew's, Inc., as speaker. The MGM<br />
film, "State of the Union," will be screened<br />
Dezel and Jules Weill, general sales<br />
manager of Masterpiece Pi-oductions, were in<br />
from the coast for a confab with Sol Cohen,<br />
local Dezel Productions manager. Weill left<br />
for New York and Dezel went to his Detroit<br />
offices.<br />
. . Milt Officer<br />
Walter Woods, assistant manager of the<br />
Lamar, Oak Park, has been transferred to<br />
the Embassy as assistant<br />
to Bill Cole<br />
. . . Col. Joseph Goetz,<br />
who was assistant to<br />
RKO regional manager,<br />
has been recalled<br />
by the air corps motion<br />
picture service . . .<br />
Nat Holt, 20th-Fox<br />
producer, passed<br />
through on his way to<br />
Montreal to plan<br />
"Canadian Pacific," a<br />
motion Col. Joseph picture<br />
H. Goetz<br />
about<br />
the famous railroad<br />
system . . . Jack Schwartz, former sales<br />
manager for Eagle Lion Pictures, is spending<br />
about five weeks in Miami, including<br />
the Variety Convention<br />
.<br />
reports<br />
that the Cine Theatre has two pictures<br />
about a girdle manufacturer, "The Man Who<br />
Could Work Miracles." "The Shape of Things<br />
to Come" . . . Mort Rosenthal, formerly of<br />
the B&K Admiral, has replaced Louis Udwin<br />
as swing assistant in the northwest district.<br />
Udwin is at Lakeside replacing Charles<br />
Walsh, who became secretary to Dave Balaban.<br />
Marshall Napshin is acting as assistant<br />
at the State-Lake.<br />
Anita Colby, executive assistant with Paramount,<br />
was here in behalf of "The Emperor<br />
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sportin' Be Bop caps, gifts from M&K's adlad<br />
Jackson Garber to herald the Regal theatre<br />
appearance of the bandsman-clothier,<br />
Jimmy Dale, known to his reet-pleat customers<br />
as Hal Fox. Hal originated the<br />
Be Bop cap at his Roosevelt road shop .<br />
"The Outlaw," which had a record run at<br />
two Loop houses, is now playing ten neighborhood<br />
houses day and date.<br />
Harry Balaban of H&E Balaban circuit has<br />
returned from his Florida vacation .<br />
Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Piatt has resigned<br />
as 20th Century-Fox attorneys in local antitrust<br />
cases and Mathews & Springger has<br />
The Surfs opening of<br />
taken over . . .<br />
"Nicholas Nickleby" was attended by members<br />
of the Charles Dickens Fellowship club<br />
in commemoration of the 132th anniversary<br />
of the birth of the famous author.<br />
Madeleine Carroll, who gave up her career<br />
at the beginning of the war to work in European<br />
hospitals, vrill receive the 1948 American<br />
Brotherhood Ai-ts Citation for outstanding<br />
contribution to better human relations and<br />
welfare at a luncheon in the Stevens hotel<br />
May 18.<br />
Nicholas Butera, assistant manager of the<br />
Southern in Oak Park, has been appointed<br />
entertainment chairman of special events<br />
for the Southern District Men's Ass'n. Len<br />
Utecht, manager of the Lake, is publicity<br />
and promotion chairman, and Jimmy Smith,<br />
assistant at the Lake, is working along with<br />
Len as cameraman for the association. Len<br />
and Jimmy are also working with the Chamber<br />
of Commerce of Oak Park and the local<br />
paper. Oak Leaves, on publicity and promotion,<br />
all of which mean greater tieups with<br />
the Lake Theatre on special events.<br />
Joe Kausal, TJvoli Theatre electrician,<br />
Ben Katz, U-I exploiteer,<br />
died April 8 . . .<br />
is vacationing in Miami . Brandt,<br />
EL publicist, was in Milwaukee to spark<br />
Frank Soule, EL manager of<br />
"Ruthless" . . .<br />
branch operations, was here and In Milwaukee<br />
... Si Greiver will book for the new<br />
outdoor theatre which will open in South<br />
Bend May 1.<br />
. . .<br />
Kayline Co., distributors of candy and popcorn<br />
supplies to the trade, will move to<br />
1112 South Michigan Ave. May 1 . . . Ralph<br />
Smitha, Essaness head booker. Is vacationing<br />
in Palm Springs . . . Jack Belasco, Woods<br />
manager, planed to Miami for a vacation,<br />
but will be back in time for the premiere<br />
of "State of the Union" Oscar Morgan,<br />
head of Paramount short subjects department,<br />
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ST. LOUIS<br />
^n appropriation of $1,000 to help finance<br />
the Freedom train exhibition here June<br />
12, 13 has been approved by the city. W. E.<br />
Burtelow, chairman of a group that is campaigning<br />
to raise $50,000 for the American<br />
Heritage Foundation, sponsor of the train's<br />
tour, wrote that the city would be reimbursed.<br />
The train will be in East St. Louis September<br />
14 . . . The drive-in operated at Des<br />
Peres by Midwest Drive-In Theatre Corp.,<br />
has opened for the season.<br />
Fred Wehrenberg, who recently purchased<br />
the 66 Park-In Theatre, on U.S. 66 from<br />
Flexer Theatres of Memphis, was to open<br />
the airer this weekend. He is pushing the<br />
construction of his 1,000-car Ronnie's Drive-<br />
In on Lindbergh Boulevard for an early<br />
opening. A 1.000-car drive-in is being built<br />
on Highway 99 by Wehrenberg and Clarence<br />
and Frances Laimann.<br />
George Bowser, John Healy, John Hodges<br />
and Paul Scherer of the Fox West Coast organization<br />
were to attend a conference of<br />
executives and managers of the Fox Midwest<br />
circuit here this weekend (15-18) . . . James<br />
McCann has succeeded the late Charles Conrad<br />
as Monogram and Allied salesman under<br />
Barney Rosenthal. He came here from 20th-<br />
Fox in the Des Moines territory.<br />
A. B. Jefferis, owner of the Jefferis Theatre,<br />
Piedmont, Mo., has as a hobby the history<br />
of motion picture projection equipment, especially<br />
that used in the pioneer theatres. He<br />
recalls, for instance, that the old Central<br />
Theatre operated by the late Ed Koeln and<br />
associates at the northeast corner of Sixth<br />
and Market streets here used Powers projectors,<br />
as did the Gem on Sixth, south of<br />
Market on the site of the present York hotel.<br />
The Globe, the first film house in St. Louis on<br />
Franklin avenue had an Edison machine as<br />
did the original Plaza at Clara and Etzel<br />
avenues, the Dixie on South Broadway, Fred<br />
Wehrenberg's Best Theatre on Cherokee<br />
street and the St. Charles on St. Charles<br />
near Sixth. Oldtimers should write Jefferis,<br />
telling the kind of equipment they used and<br />
some of their amusing early experiences and<br />
the trying ones, as well. He would appreciate<br />
that. It would help complete his history of<br />
early<br />
theatres.<br />
John Rees, pioneer exhibitor of Wellsville,<br />
Mo., is vacationing in Hot Springs . . . The<br />
new theatre in Fteeburg, 111., opened April 10.<br />
Basil Clark is the owner . . . Dan Cupid has<br />
been shooting darts at RKO. Edis Knoll,<br />
booker secretary, was married to William E.<br />
Brown, a deputy city marshal of St. Louis,<br />
while Mollie Fredlick was married to Richard<br />
Rosenfeld, a draftsman.<br />
. .<br />
Justus Girard, owner of theatres in Dallas<br />
City, Carthage and Warsaw, 111., was on<br />
Pilmrow . The 194-seat Avon, Medora, 111.,<br />
has been purchased by Samuel Lowe, former<br />
Fredericktown, Mo., night club operator,<br />
from James A. Walker of Payetteville, Ark.<br />
Cliff Mantle, booker-salesman for Film<br />
Classics, brought the principals together.<br />
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