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Banquet Scenes and Displays at Denver Allied Meet<br />
The above photo shows two groups of delegates at the first<br />
unnu;^! convention of the Allied Rocky Mountain Independent<br />
Theatres at the banquet in the Cosmopolitan hotel in Denver. In<br />
the back may be seen the head table with national regional officers<br />
and their wives. The photos below, left: Display of the<br />
Western Service & Supply Co. with Sam Langwith and Sam Reed.<br />
officers. Center: Manley, Inc., display with F. A. "Bud" Lewis,<br />
salesman; W. H. Turpie. division manager of Los Angeles, and Arlie<br />
Beery, Denver. Right: Flashy Bevelite sign highlights the National<br />
Theatre Supply display. Looking over the literature are W. C.<br />
Stahl of Theatre Specialties Co., Los Angeles, and J. J. Morgan and<br />
Joe Stone, co-managers of the Denver NTS branch.<br />
Trade Issues Aired<br />
At SCTOA Session<br />
LOS ANGELES—At a general membership<br />
meeting of the Southern California Theatre<br />
Owners Ass'n topics up for discussion included<br />
television, the juvenile delinquency<br />
program of the Theatre Owners of America,<br />
labor negotiations and the antitrust decisions<br />
handed down recently by the supreme court.<br />
Charles P. Skouras. Fox West Coast circuit<br />
president and chairman of the TOA's<br />
juvenile delinquency committee, reported on<br />
progress to date in that campaign. A thorough<br />
discussion of television was presented by<br />
Ralph Austrian, of Foote, Cone and Belding.<br />
who was a delegate to the recent convention<br />
of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers<br />
in Santa Monica.<br />
Harrj' Vinnicof, head of SCTOA's labor<br />
committee, reported on the status of negotiations<br />
with projectionists. Named to his committee<br />
"as associates were Jack Brower and<br />
Everett Cummings.<br />
Lack of time at the lucheon meeting prevented<br />
Paul Williams. SCTOA general coun-<br />
.sel. from presenting a complete report on the<br />
antitrust decision. His report will be mailed<br />
to the membership.<br />
League Play at Theatre<br />
DEERLODGE, MONT.—"Hans Brinker and<br />
Silver Skates." was presented by the<br />
Junior league Monday morning last<br />
at the Rialto Theatre.<br />
Harry Popkin Purchases<br />
Hipp for $300,000<br />
LOS ANGELES—The Hippodrome property,<br />
a south Main street landmark, was purchased<br />
by Harry M. Popkin. circuit operator<br />
and producer, for an estimated $300,000. Popkin<br />
also signed a new ten-year lease on his<br />
Star Theatre, also on Main street.<br />
Twins Then Mumps<br />
In Kendall Family<br />
Seattle—James Kendall, assistant manager<br />
of the Coliseum Theatre here, was<br />
a happy man the other day as he handed<br />
out cigars right and left. For Mrs. Kendall<br />
had just given birth to twin girls,<br />
their first offspring, and he had a right<br />
to beam.<br />
But his jubilation was short-lived.<br />
The following morning he awoke with a<br />
swollen jaw and the doctor's diagnosis<br />
was "mumps!" Now Kendall can't bring<br />
his family home from the hospital until<br />
he is all over it.<br />
Everything seems to happen at the<br />
Coliseum. A short time ago Clyde Strout,<br />
manager, was operated on for appendicitis<br />
just one week after Mrs. Strout went<br />
through the same ordeal.<br />
G. F. Handley Joined<br />
Parker Back in '07<br />
PORTLAND—Grover F. Handley. house<br />
manager of the dowoitown J. J. Parker Broadway<br />
Theatre and concessions manager of the<br />
Parker chain, is celebrating the 41st anniversary<br />
of his association with Parker. Handley<br />
opened a billiard parlor with the late<br />
J. J. Parker in 1907 on the corner of 13th<br />
and Washington streets. Except for one Interval<br />
Handley has been associated with the<br />
J. J. Parker business interests consecutively<br />
through the present day.<br />
Grover Handley came to Portland In 1890<br />
and graduated from the old Portland High<br />
school. After attending Mount Angel College,<br />
Handley started in the billiard parlor<br />
business in 1903. After joining J. J. Parker<br />
In business in 1907, Handley sold out and<br />
struck out on his own in 1910. Moving to<br />
Astoria, Ore.. Handley was in the restaurant<br />
business until 1926 when he sold out and<br />
accepted a position with J. J. Parker Theatres<br />
as assistant manager of the old Majestic<br />
Theatre. The year 1927 foimd him at the<br />
Rivoli. and in 1928 he became manager of<br />
the United Artists in Portland, a post he<br />
alternately has held with that of house<br />
manager of Parker's Broadway. In 1933 he<br />
managed the old Paramount, but the next<br />
year found him again operating the United<br />
Artists. In 1940 he was appointed as.sistant<br />
general manager of the Parker chain. He<br />
returned as manager of the United Artists<br />
in 1943. and is now managing the Broadway.<br />
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: May 29, 1948 w 59
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