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BOSTON
Independent Exhibitors, Inc., will hold its
monthly meeting June 8 at 12:30 at the
Shangri-La restaurant, with Daniel Murphy
presiding. All members are m-ged to attend
and hear Ray Feeley, business manager, present
a full report of the Allied board meeting
held in Denver. Two resolutions to be
ratified by directors are on the agenda as
well as other important matters.
A group of well-wishers from Independent
Exhibitors drove out to the home of Fi-ank
Lydon and were pleased to note his improved
condition from his recent attack . . .
Richard Arnold, an ex-service man, has been
put on the staff of the Community Play-
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house, Wellesley Hills, by owner Leslie Bendslev
as part of the GI on-the-job training
program.
Sarkes Arakelian has opened his new 600-
car Riverside Drive-In on the Haverhill-
Lawrence boulevard. Complete RCA sound
and projection equipment was installed by
Capitol Theatre Supply Co. Capitol also has
contracted for RCA installations in the two
drive-ins being erected by Mickey Redstone
in Dedham on Route 128 and in Revere on
the boulevard. Another Capitol installation
of RCA equipment is going in the Pittsfield
Drive-In.
Dave Skvirsky, 20th-Fox booker, is taking
an indefinite leave. He will sail for London
July 9 and visit friends in England three
or four months . . . Edward Maloney, Paramount
sales manager, has returned from a
six-month stay in the Denver office where
he pinch-hit during the illness of the late
Two illnesses were reported
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from Paramount—Katherine O'Brien, clerk,
was iia the hospital with a light case of
scarlet fever while Bud Scully, clerk, was
suffering with the measles.
Sympathy to Andrew Tegu, Brattleboro,
Vt., circuit head, in the death of his father,
John T., 79 . . . Construction of the new theatre
in Lyndonville, Vt., will be started June
14 by Tegu . . . Evelyn Haisler has resigned
from Poppers Supply and has joined Theatre
Quiz, Inc., sponsor of Swap-a -Letter club,
where she is secretary to Jim Kennedy . . .
The Bradford Theatre, Bradford, Vt., owned
by Winona Bogle, is closed for renovations
and is due for an early July reopening. She
also operates the Fairlee, Fairlee, Vt. . . .
Thursday closings is being tried by Mrs.
Ethel Bronson, Unity Theatre, Unity, Me.
Joseph Levenson, son of Max L. Levenson
of the Levenson circuit, recently was appointed
one of the three Massachusetts men
to become Junior Fellow for three years of
study and research in Harvard university's
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Over 20,000 letters from all states in the
union have been poui-ing in to the Children's
Hospital Cancer Research Foundation since
the national radio hookup with the Ralph
Edwards Truth or Consequences program of
May 22. Every letter included a donation
of some sort, from small change up to generous
checks. Johnny Dervin and Joe Cifre,
Variety Club heads who sponsored the program
which introduced Jimmy Anonymous,
a brave lad suffering with the dread disease,
said the response has exceeded their wildest
hopes.
Annette Silverman, bookkeeper at E. M.
Loew's, will be married June 10 to Murray
Lew of Dorchester. After a wedding trip
to Canada, Annette will return to her desk
Rittenberg, office manager,
left on a two-week cruise to Guatemala,
while Lee Livingstone, switchboard operator,
was recovering from an attack of mumps
. . . Thomas Duane, SRO manager, reports
"Mr. Blanding's dream house," under construction
in Oak Hill at Newton Centre, will
be ready for public inspection early in July.
Ted Baldwin, SRO director of exploitation,
is now in town checking on the local General
Electric, Jordan Marsh, National Lumbermen's
Ass'n and other tieins. The house
is expected to be finished at the time of the
release date of the picture. The theatre where
it will play has not been announced.
Arthur Dame, manager of the State,
Pi-esque Isle, Me., is back on the job after
a two-week New England vacation. He recently
was nominated for the vice-presidency
of the local Lions club . . . If Al Fowler,
20th-Fox publicist, doesn't greet you in his
usual gracious manner, it's because of an
uncomfortable boil on his neck . Beier,
head of Film Classics here, tradescreened
"Will It Happen Again?" Attendance was
excellent.
A talk by Art Moger, Warner publicist,
was broadcast by WMEX on a half-hour program
sponsored by the Hearst newspapers.
His subject was Warner's new product, inaugm-ating
the sales drive which runs from
May 23 to August 28 . . . The Cinema Club
of New England, of wliich Charlie Wilson
is president, staged a screening for members
and their wives, followed by a turkey dinner
served by the auxiliary of the American
Legion Post. Wrist watches were presented
to Tom Fermoyle of M&P Theatres, retiring
president, and Harold Young, independent
booker, retiring secretary, as tributes
for their long service to the club.
The Puritan, Roxbury, has reopened under
the E. M. Loew banner with Eddie Carey
as manager. George Ramsdell, originally
slated for the post as manager, has been
switched to the Modern, Marlboro, also under
E. M. Loew. The Puritan has been completely
redecorated while being closed several
months.
John J. Reardon Dies
MILFORD, CONN.—John J. Reardon, 74,
former theatre and hotel operator, died May
22 at his Milford home after a long illness.
He operated the Capitol here 11 years. Survivors
include his wife and a sister.
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