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. . . Funeral . . . The . . Herb . . Bob . . The rAlong New York's Film GOV. THOMAS E. DEWEY doesnt win JF the Republican presidential nomination, it won't be the fault of his neighbors at Pawling, N. Y. June 8 Albert MacKennan, owner of the Albermac Theatre, will hold two evening performances dedicated to Dewey. Proceeds will go to the Dewey campaign fund. MacKennan was in New York Wednesday (2 1 to get films for the program. He said that the show will be more of a testimonial than a political affair. Pawling citizens are getting behind the event to show their appreciation for a famous native son. It is again reported that Harry Brandt has talked to RKO officials about buying the Palace. RKO has denied this and earlier reports . . . Charles C. Moscowitz, Loew's vicepresident, spent several days in Indianapolis services were held May 30 for Ethel Meyer, cashier of the Capitol Theatre who died May 28. She had been with the theatre 17 years. N. Hayden Zook, building maintenance superintendent of Radio City Music Hall, was guest of honor at a farewell dinner June 1 given by Gus S. Eyssell, president and managing diretcor. Zook will retire this month after 15 years of service. He plans to live in Los Angeles with his wife and one of his daughters. Edward Brown, operator of a flying field at Farmingdale, N.J., opened a drive-in theatre there June 3. It is called the Fly-In and accommodates 450 automobiles, not airplanes Walter Reade Drive-In at Woodbridge, N. J., will not be open until about July 4. Heavy May rains slowed down construction Lee Jacob, Lee Mayer, Irving . . . Rothenberg and Gus Solomon of the Warner Bros, sales staff are busy with the annual BENJAMIN GOLDFINE— Alden Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania— writes: "15 years of service by RCA has insured me of continuous good sound in my theatre." To get the benefits of RCA Service —write: RCA SERVICE COMPANY, INC., Camden, New Jersey. By WALTER WALDMAN . Aiv Row GOODBYE, BROADWAY! —Herman Mankiewicz (left) leaves for Hollywood with a handshake from Johnny Broderick, famed Broadway detective whose life he will screen for RKO. drive which started May 23 and will end August 28 . Pickman, WB exploiteer, is going in for painting—on canvas. Ernie Emerling and Si Seadler are getting ready for the opening of "Easter Parade" at Loew's State late this month. The local newspaper ad campaign will top the $40,000 mark. Teaser ads will break in the Sunday (6i editions . Case of the Broadway Theatre, Kingston, is looking over prospective tenants for his summer place in the nearby Catskills . . . Milton Hornstein married Lenore Tarley May 28. Benny Berman, pioneer exhibitor in the local area, is now operating the MacArthur stadium at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He opened the stadium June 1 with wrestling matches. The season's program calls for wrestling Friday nights, and boxing matches Tuesday nights. NSS executives are making a survey of office facilities at 1600 Broadway, which the company recently bought . home office probably will move to the building from 630 Ninth Ave., but the New York exchange may remain at the Ninth avenue headquarters. Filmrow visitors: Maurice Parks of the Atlantic and Marine theatres, Atlantic Highlands; Sid Franklin of the Little Theatre. Newark, who just returned from a Florida vacation: Harvey Elliott of the Sunrise Drive-In Theatre, Valley Stream, L. I.: George "Doc" Emmot of the Newbury circuit, who recently recovered from a serious illness. . . . Mrs. NSS items: Harry Brenner, service manager, has moved to Peekskill for the summer. Henry Reiner, salesman, has been circulating the latest copy of the Taft High school yearbook. It contains sketches by his son Lawrence, who plans to be a commercial artist. Jack Levy, also of the sales department, has bought a new Hudson Minette Gold.stein has resigned as field public relations representative for Century Theatres. She had been with the circuit 15 years. Theatremen Accept Revisions in DC Code WASHINGTON—A final polish is being put on proposed amendments to the District building code fire egress regulations this week, according to A. Julian Brylawski of MPTOA. A final public hearing before the Distiict of Columbia commissioners drew "no opposition" to the suggested revisions. The amendments soften code regulations of last year as they apply to existing buildings. Brylawski estimated that "about 90 per cent" of the objectionable features have teen removed. Theatres will be affected in the following way: 1. Masonry protection will be required in those theatres where the heating plants are under the auditorium. Last year's code revisions called for removal of such heating plants. 2. Only 50 per cent of the floor space in the theatre lobby and foyer may be used for standing room. Exhibitors must post diagrams showing approval of their plans for standing room. This softens considerably the former regulation outlawing standees. 3. Present fire escapes will be acceptable, provided they are covered and protected from the weather. This will amend the regulation requiring interior stairways instead of fire escapes, which would work a hardship on most existing theatres, as they would have to undergo expensive remodeling operations. 4. Present aisles and spacing of seats will be acceptable, providing they met the code regulations in existence at the time they were built. With adoption of the amendments each theatre will be subject ta inspection by the fire marshal and the building inspector, a compliance letter setting forth what must be done, and awarding of a contract lor the required work, the contract to be let before the end of 1948. PHILADELPHIA Tune is the month for weddings, they say, and this is our first June column. Norma Mc- Dermott of the Stanley Warner film payment department, is getting her trousseau together. Helen Socho, U-I bookers stenographer, has set the date for June 12. Betty Naren, Monogram stenographer, will be married on the 22nd. Ed Ellis of A. M. Ellis Theatres has announced his engagement. Joe Vannis, 20th- Fox shipper, was married about ten days ago. Recent tub-thumpers here included Laura Wells and Eddie Rosenbaum. Ed came in town to do some work on "Arch of Ti'iumph," and spent some time visiting his old friends along Vine street. Laura Wells, special Eagle Lion publicity representative, came in from the home office to work on "Ruthless," slated to open at the Aldine soon . . . Leon Male, who operates the Seventh Street Drive-In, was fined $50 for showing films on Sunday. CLASS DISTRIBUTION FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH — thru J (JOHN) Q ^ (O. K.) 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. . Bob Allied and TOA Sei Fight on N.J. Bill TRENTON—Further action on Assemblyman Stephen A. Bator's bill to require that children up to 16 must be accompanied by adults in New Jersey theatres will face the joint opposition of New Jersey Allied and TOA members. The measure has been before the Assembly two months and has been passed on second reading. The legislature is now in recess and will reconvene in August. Bator plans to ask for a third and final reading. He said there had been no exihibitor protests either at the time he introduced his bill or since. An Allied official said his organization had been alerted to the dangers of the bill at the time of its presentation. Opposition had been played down because the unit did not want to call attention to the present law barring children under 14 unless accompanied by adults. Except for Montclair and Jersey City, few cities have ever enforced this 15-year old law. Fabian-Hellman Pick Sites For Drive-In Near Albany ALBANY—The long-rumored Fabian-Hellman drive-in near Troy came a step nearer to realization when General Manager Neil Hellman announced an 800-car situation will be built on the Albany-Troy road. F-H has taken an option on three sites along the heavily traveled artery. Selection of the final site will be made by Hellman, Nat Lapkin and Joe Egan. the latter two from the Fabian real estate department in New York. Hellman and his assistant, Leo Rosen, say that construction will begin as soon as possible after the site is chosen and that the job should be completed within two months. The Fabian-Hellman organization currently operates four drive-ins: the Mohawk on the Albany-Schenectady road, the Saratoga on the Albany-Saratoga road, the Trix near Binghampton and the Penn at North Philadelphia, Pa. Ampa to Install Officers At Luncheon on June 17 NEW YORK—Ampa will hold its 32nd annual installation luncheon for 1948-49 officers, headed by Max E. Yoiuigstein, president, at the Hotel Astor June 17.. Phil Williams, outgoing acting president, will introduce Youngstein who will outline Ampa's public relations program. Other officers are David Blum, vice-president: Harry Mc Williams, treasurer, and Evelyn Koleman, secretary. Sells Rensselaer Interest RENSSELAER. N. Y—Tom Heritage has sold his interest in the Uptown here to Bob Shattuck. They had been operating the city's only theatre as partners for more than a year. They had worked in the booth for Bill Peatherly before the war. Heritage is a printer by trade, while Shattuck is employed by a chemical company. The Uptown operates nights only, except Saturdays and is closed Thursdays. SHOW BUSINESS AID PROMISED—At a meeting with Mayor William ODwyer at Gracie Mansion both the motion picture and legitimate producers and operators promised full cooperation with the Mayor's Committee for the Commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York. Shown, left to right: Grover A. Whalen. chairman of the mayor's committee; J. Robert Rubin, chairman of the motion picture committee; Mayor O'Dwyer, and Lee Shubert, chairman of the legitimate tiieatres committee. WASHINGTON XTariety Club notes: Newest applicants approved by the membership committee are Arthur Shaftel. assistant contact manager at Warner Bros., and F. Earl Taylor, booker at Columbia . Pruett, clubroom steward many years, is now a great grandfather! His oldest grandchild, George Talburt, recently announced the birth of a daughter. Bob didn't let the news upset his daily routine at the club. It's all in a day's work. June birthdays coining up include the following Variety barkers: L. E. Harris, 7: Paul Heller, Charles Stofberg, 9: Ben Strouse, Ray Henle, 10: Lou Ramm, 11: Elvan Collamer. Phil Hayden. 14; George Creamer, Ned Bord, 15: Ed Mclntyre, George Dorsey, Roger Squitero, 18: Rudolph Berger, 19; Fred Hessick, 20: Oscar Neu, Fred DeJager, Fred Kogod, Leo Fields, 22; Herman Spitzel. 23: Henry Rodier. 24; Bill Ross. 25; Carlton Duff us, Arthur Shaftel, 26; Morton Gerber. Sam Shapiro, Gerald Sarchet, Frank Scully, 27: Morton Bramson, Denman Thompson, 29; Richard McCann, Geoi-ge Flax, I. T. Cohen. 30. Thornton Sargent, coordinator of the motion picture industry part in the program for the prevention of juvenile delinquency sponsored by the Department of Justice and Att'y Gen. Tom Clark, was here, accompanied by Sam Shain, 20th Century-Fox, to attend a press luncheon at the Mayflower hotel addressed by Clark. The luncheon was held to present the purposes of the campaign and to show "Report for Action" to newspaper representatives. This short has just been completed for the Theatre Owners of America by RKO Pathe. The opening of "The Fighting 69th" at the Metropolitan Thursday night (27) was attended by members of the local Rainbow Legion post. John Marcon, manager, greeted the veterans at 7:30 p. m. The film traces the old Irish brigade, the 69th regiment of New York volunteers, through its development as the 165th infantry of the Rainbow division. .Alma Rosenbaum, daughter of Mr. and Mi-s. Ivan Rosenbaum. Thalhimer Theatres, received an MA degree from Mount Holyoke college. South Hadley, Mass. A graduate of Westhampton college at the University of Richmond, Miss Rosenbaum received a Skinner fellowship for graduate study in the physics department. She wrote her master's thesis on the study of penetrating components of cosmic radiation. Saturday was a merry one for the patrons of the K-B Amusement Co.'s Atlas Theatre when the management put on a "big tripleaction laugh program" topped off with a pieeating contest on the stage with prizes for the boys and girls . . . Lillian Gish was guest Thursday i27i at a Women's National Press club luncheon at the Statler hotel. Gulistan Wilton Theatre Carpet JOE HORNSTEIN has it! MM BOXOFFICE : : June 5, 1948 11
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