Boxoffice-December.25.1948

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DETROIT
prank Jones of RKO has moved out on
Faust road . . . Eddie Potash, formerly with
U-I here as booker, has moved to Washington
. . . Bennett & Straight, theatrical architects,
are in their new quarters at 15624
Michigan Ave. . . . L. J. Boulet of RCA is
.
busy making nightly rounds of different
booths around town . . Casper J. Bondy.
army projectionist, was due home for the
Christmas holidays, and was to be married.
Ed Long- of Long 'Sign Co. left for a quick
'
trip to California to join his wife, who will
return with him after a. vacation . . . Sol
Krim is starting general remodeling at the
newly acquired Belmont and will change the
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ERNIE FORBES
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Film Bldg., Detroit 1, Mich.
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name, probably to the Guild . William
Crowley, who has been on the sick list for
several months, is improving . Zapp
is chairman of arrangements for the big Variety
New Year's eve affair . . . Charles
Shafer. general manager of the Shafer Theatre
Co., operating the Wayne and Garden
City houses, has been elected president of
the Wayne Board of Commerce.
C. J. Feldman, U-I western sales manager,
was rumored due here for a visit . . . Bill
Thulin. in charge of the print department
at Jam Handy, is the father of a new son
Robert . Salzberg, Cincinnati chief
for Dezel Pi'oductions, was here for a sales
conference at the home office . . . Norman
Neal, manager of the Victory, is staging a
special Saturday children's show.
Franklin Woodling, son of Earl Woodling,
who was back for a visit recently, is the new
operator at the Victoi-y, replacing Edward
Nielson, who moved to Chicago . . Eddie
.
Albert was here for a conference with Jam
Handy and Marshall Templeton . . . Al Boudoris
has closed the Detroit office of the
Theatre Equipment Co. of Toledo, formerly
in the Charlevoix building . Goldhar
and Ben Zimmer, formerly with UA, were
hosts at a big party for west side youngsters
that took over both the Royal and Varsity.
Frank J. Downey, MGM manager, headed
for Pittsburgh for a sales meeting . . . Jack
Morgan. MGM sales manager, left for his
sister's farm near Tampa for several weeks'
convalescence following a recent heart attack
. Chrysler is pinch-hitting for
Morgan . Mich., has a new mystery
theatre. Exchanges are shipping out prints,
but nobody knows who runs it or even the
name of the house around Filmrow.
Mr. and Mrs. George Haskin celebrated
their silver anniversary December 22 with
a party at home . Donlon ordered
a round of hot dogs for the whole gang .
G. M. "Power-Saw" Studebaker is the newest
member of the Nightingales, and is going
to try out his nickname on the alley
Yellich of the Stanley is anohter
bowler . . . Gilbert Light managed to
new
show up late for his own meeting. Roy
Thompson did most of the talking at the
session, ably a.ssisted by Charles MacFarlane
and Donald Lewis.
Past president Ed Douville and the Mrs.
iBea Vester) had a nice visit at the old
Colony with Earl Woodling . Akins
reports the Cleveland projectionists league
is cooking up a home and home match game
with the Nightingales for early next year .
Matt Haskin got a nice hand for his 6-10-7
split, with son Ralph Haskin in the gallery
Lindenthal managed to become a
cheering section for the opposing team, while
his own lost four points . . . Cecil Cox of the
Colony scored his first missout
Douville is sporting a new pair of shoes to
pep up her bowling with the Nightingale
girls.
Jack Colien, National Screen Service chief,
engineered a Christmas party for the staff
at the Fort Wayne hotel . . . Mrs. Frances
Tucar and Thelma Wetzel handled arrangements
for the Warner Chri.stmas party .
Clive R. Waxman. upstate independent
booker, was a visitor . . . Two formerly theatreless
towns now have new houses. Harley
Ennest opened the Posen at Posen, and Chester
Mates opened the new 340-seat Hopkins
at Hopkins. Frank R. Spangler is opening
the new 1.000-seat DeLux at Utica the first
week in January and will keep the old 532-
seat Capitol open weekends only.
. . . Alex Schreiber of Associated
John Penrod, manager of the Sheridan, sent
the first of the season's greetings . . . Jack
and Gladys Smukler sent a classic shepherds'
scene
reminisces over the old-fashioned
sleigh rides . . . Projectionists Local 199 and
Stagehands Local 38 both sent out traditional
greetings.
New Roof ior Oil City Drake
OIL CITY, PA.—The Drake Theatre building
is to have a new roof. The city has approved
a building permit for the new roof
placement.
Your Heywood - Wakefield
Seating Representative.
14021
Detroit 23, Mich.
Phone: VEnnont 7-316S
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Phone: Off. 'WAlnut 1-5524 Res.: TYler 5-9002
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