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y I I ' Chicken Lays an Egg As Exploiteer Crows Atlanta—Perry Spencer, exploiteer for Universal-International, got more than he asked for when he dressed a pretty Atlanta girl in a chicken costume, handed her a bantam hen he had borrowed, and took the slick chicks with him to see Paul Jones, amusement editor of the Constitution. The object, of course, was to get publicity for the engagement of "The Egg and I" at the Rialto. .About the time Spencer was getting into high gear on his pitch to Jones, the barnyard beauty let go with a loud cackle, strutted off a few paces, and turned to admire a product of her labors—a pint-sized egg. Stovall-Baugh Corp. Wins Cut in Two Years Taxes TAMPA. FLA.—The Stovall-Baugh Corp. has succeeded in getting a reduction in 194.5 and 1946 tax assessments against the Cinema and State theatres. In a final decree entered in the circuit court tax adjustment suit filed by the corporation, Judge Parks reduced the assessment against the State from $17,400 to $16,400 for 1945 and from $20,000 to $19,600 for 1946. The assessment against the Cinema was reduced from $21,700 to $18,700 for 1945. and from $24,000 to $21,000 for 1946. In his order the judge said the State was assessed $1,000 too high both years, and that the property on whicli the Cinema is located was valued too high In proportion to surrounding real estate. While this is a substantial reduction, still It is considerably more than the corporation hoped it would have to pay. The total tax now due is $2,701. This is $1,134 more than the corporation had calculated. In 'Agreement' Cast Roy Roberts and Morris Carnovsky have been added to the cast of "Gentleman's Agreement ' 20th-Fox. Memphis Variety Votes Mobile Hospital Unit MEMPHIS, TENN. — Memphis soon will have a mobile hospital unit, complete with operating room, blood plasma and surgical supplies. The Variety Club voted at a limcheon Monday at Hotel Gayoso to accept a proposal of Paramount Pictures to hold a premiere showing of "Variety Girl." receipts of which were to go to Variety clubs over the nation for some charitable purpose. The Memphis showing will be August 27. Whether to use the expected receipts for the mobile unit, or some other charitable purpose was to await decision of the club's executive board. EXPLAINED BY COLONEL McCRAW Details of Paramoimt's offer to Variety clubs over the nation were explained at the luncheon outlined by Col. William McCraw, Dallas. He explained that Paramount had paid Variety Club International $50,000 for use of the title, and in addition was offering local clubs the right to profits from a preschedule premiere showing of the picture. The mobile hospital unit would be kept for emergencies in the midsouth. such as the tornado at Tupelo, Miss., some years ago, Pre.sident Kohn said. The club also plans a series of entertainments for inmates of Memphis orphanages and social agencies. Tom Young announced a schedule of proposed entertainments. SOCIAL AGENCIES HELP The plan, worked out by the club in cooperation with the Memphis Council of Social Agencies, would permit children in orphanages to have entertainments "all of their own" to which they could invite members of the community, into whose homes the inmates have been invited. Committee members, besides Young are: Neal Blount, Bob Bostick. J. C. Alexander. Benny Bluestein. Jimmie Gillespie. Ed Williamson. Leonard Shea, Bailey Pritch.ird, Cliff Goodman and Tommy Baldridge. Firecracker Startles Taut Western Fans ! St. Petersburg— .\ western thriller was [ on the screen at the Florida. It was just * about the climax; everyone was tense, j The villain was being pursued and the hero was right behind him. Suddenly .' there was a loud bang. It didn't come from the screen but I from the balcony. James Willis, an 18- 'iyear old honor student from the Florida ' Alilitary academy, made the noise by , throwing a two-inch lighted firecracker [ into the aisle of the balcony where he '. was fitting. >; When taken before Judge Herbert L. j. Peterson, James pleaded guilty and ex- i plained he wa.s just letting off steam | and celebrating his release from the r. bonds of school work. He recently gradn- t ated from the academy with many honors. The judge restricted him to his home for two months. Second Negro Theatre Is To Seat 600 in Lakeland LAKELAND. FLA.—A new Negro thea,' tre with a seating capacity of about 600 soo> will be built here on the corner of Nort street and Texas avenue. Work will t started as soon as federal construction rtji strictions are lifted, according to an act nouncement by B. B. Garner, general mani; ager of the Talgar Theatre Co.. and the cwjj will be about $40,000. The Roxy, a Negro house now operating here, is another Unk of the 21-theatre Ta3r gar chain, and the circuit also has announce! plans for a $150,000 Negro theatre to be btiii? in Tampa. * Midweek Giveaways Pull ^ East Gadsden Patrons EAST GADSDEN, ALA.— Special events f«, Tuesday and Thur.^day nights have beo inaugurated by the Dixie. Tuesday nlgh| have been designated as Merchants Nlgb^ with merchandise prizes to be awarded Thursday nights are Hot Seat nights, ai' prizes are awarded then. | Theatre Seating Division of AMERICAN DESK MFG. COMPANY Temple, Texas Tel. LD - 4 Giving 20 to DaUas Office FORREST 2008 Jackson St. R - 3S9S Neiv 30 Day Dependable Delivery on all chair orders CALL US FOR YOUR CHAIR NEEDS DUNLAP Orleans Office W. A. PREWITT 223 So. Liberty Magnolia 6S71 Mernphis Office HARLAN H. DUNLAP 410 S. Second St. 81770 Kansas Citu Office C. I. STATON 122 W. 18lh Si. Break Ground in Attalla : .\TT.'\LL.'\. ALA.—Ground has bee broken for the $150,000 Etowah Theatre to ij built by Amusement Enterprises. Inc. Cor^ pletion is expected no later than December )i_| C. O. "Jack" Brown, manager of the Libert the circuit's other house here. said. The all conditioned house will have 1.055 seats. Bailey Plans Negro House. TALLAHASSEE, FLA.—The city buildU inspector has given Bailey Theatres a penH: to build a Negro theatre in the 500 UOil on West Tennessee street, adjacent to t present colored theatre and night club. TL cost wUl be about $40,000. A contract 1 the construction has been awarded. JACK DUMESTRE, Jr. Southeastern Theatre Equipment Co. ATLANTA CHARLOTTE lACKSONVILLE 112 BOXOFFICE ;: June 28, 1

j I . . . Morris . . Al . . Jackie mi 'ofti m tUf Iks SIB tS! JOth-Fox Winding Up Personnel Changes 1 rom Easlern Edition NEW YORK—Twentieth-Fox is winding i.p reorganization of Its sales department. Andrew W. Smith jr., new general sales manager, has made additional personnel |(.'liifts and promotions. First changes in the .•^ales setup were made two weeks ago. The new department of branch operations under Clarence A. Hill and the sales statistics lesearch department under Morris Caplan have been organized. Hill's department will supervise labor relations at the branches ,ind checking matters. ff New promotions have been made at the F>ittsburgh branch. The short subjects department under Peter Levathes now will supervise television .ictivities in addition to domestic 16mm, Movietone News, Movietone short subjects, Terrj-toons and March of Time. Levathes said his department will increase its study of the television field. No definite plans liavB been set for 20th-Fox entry in the field. VEW DEPARTMENT'S DUTIES The new branch operation department will handle the following: 1. All branch personnel excluding salesmen, exchange and district managers. 2. All leaves of absence, branch employes promotions and applications for salary increases. 3. All labor matters connected with branch operation. 4. All checking matters. Hill will represent 20th-Fox on the board of directors of Confidential Reports, Inc. 5. Copyrights on films. 6. All exchange buildings, leases and branch maintenance. 7. All equipment at exchanges. 8. All sales forms and systems used at the branches. 9. Branch operating costs, overtime, expenses and expense accounts. Many of these duties formerly were handled by Jack Sichelman and Moe A. Grassgreen. They now are working under Hill. Murray Schaffer, former Boston salesman, also has joined the new branch operation department. He will aid Hill on checking matters. Grassgreen will handle labor matters and sales forms and systems for the branches. Sichelman will serve as executive assistant to Hill, the department head said. AREA APPOINTMENTS SALES Another promotion at the home office is the appointment of Harry Mersay as assistant to Martin Moskowitz, executive assistant to Smith. The following appointments have been made in the new sales statistics research department under Morris Caplan: Frank Bryan is Caplan's assistant: James Glynn is in charge of exchange statistics: John Mesa, Theresa Bauml and Gertrude Stutman have joined the department. Short subjects: George A. Roberts is contract supervisor for MOT: Davida List is supervisor of newsreel and short subject prints; Marion Murphy is 16mm film contact. Pittsburgh exchange: George Ball is salesman for zone No. 4, succeeding Charles Kosco, who was named Buffalo branch manager: Jack Ellstrom, booker, takes over Ball's territory as a salesman: Irving Stein succeeds Ellstrom as Pittsburgh booker; Joseph Vandergrift, ad sales manager, takes over Stein's post as booker. CHARLOTTE •Pom A. Little of B&L Enterprises has been appointed to serve on Charlotte's new civil service commis.sion, one of the city government's important three-man boards. At the first meeting he nominated as chairman Kenneth M. Clontz, who is in charge of the 20th-Fox and Paramount screening rooms. Mrs. Little and daughter Martha Anne leave Sunday i29i for a week's stay in New York. S. W. Taylor of the Taylor, Edenton, N. C, underwent a leg amputation at Duke hospital, Durham. He is now sitting in a wheel chair and Mr. and Mrs. Worth getting along fine . . . Stewart of Stewart-Everett Enterprises will move to Charlotte July 1. They have been making their home in Dunn, N. C. C. A. Turnage of the Turnage, Washington, N. C, and Fullmer Wells of the Wells, Newberry, S. C, attended the Rotary convention in Los Angeles ... J. Britt Carpenter is pinch hitting at the Colonial in Valdese, N. C. for Manager Charles Burgin, a major in the army reserve, who is in training at Fort Benning, Ga., for two weeks. The condition of Max Bryant, head of Bryant Theatre Supply Co., who is ill at his home in Rock Hill, S. C, remains unchanged Nuger left this week for Johns Hopkins hospital for a checkup. He was accompanied by Mrs. Nuger. Visitors on the Row: Britt Carpenter, Colonial Theatres, 'Valdese; Roy Rowe, Burgaw; Worth Stewart, Stewart-Everett Enterprises, Dunn; John Kime, State, Roseboro, N. C; Max Zager, Palace, Greensboro; Roger Mitchell, Branwood, West Greenville: Fred Curdts, Ritz, Greenville: Ben L. Strozier. Stevenson, Rock Hill: Sonny Baker, Colonial, Valdese; E. L. Hearne, Alameda, Albemarle: L. B. Richardson, Wallace, Jonesville; Mrs. Runa Greenleaf, Liberty; Dave Cash, Kings Mountain; Tom Fleming, York. Mother of Don Graham, manager of Berlo, died last week in Philadelphia. Until a year ago Don's mother and father lived in Charlotte, the elder Graham being Don's assistant in the Berlo office . . . J. E. Huckleberry, Chicago, service engineer for Motiograph, is AFRICAN SORCERY 11 'LION MEN' MUST FACE TRIAL IN 28 KILLINGS DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika, April 5— (UP)—Eleven of 26 African natives arrested in 28 "lion men" killings in the Singida brush country Saturday were ordered tried in Tanganyika high court. Police said they had "established beyond doubt" that these natives, along with others "whose arrest is expected shortly," were responsible for at least 28 killings in the last few months. The victims were found dead with deeply-slashed bodies, h was believed at first that they were victims of man-killinq lions but, later, police learned that tribal witch doctors had been hypnotizing natives and sending them out to murder. The^ slashed their victims in a pattern that resembled the marks of a lion's claws. making an extended trip into the territory with W. F. Harris, manager of the local branch of Wil-Kin Theatre Supply . . . Frank St. Claire, local Manley representative, has returned from a swing through the territory. The Variety Club was closed for remodeling Tuesday of last week and because of delay in construction it will not be reopened until next week . Schiller, New York, head of Republic's branch operations, spent •several days here. Cy Dillon, Republic manager, is the new fire marshal for Filmrow for the next six months. He starts July 1 . . . Verdah Looper, Dillon's secretary, is vacationing in Greenville, S. C. . . . Jimmy Hobbs, Atlanta branch manager for Republic, spent last weekend in Charlotte, his former home. Steve Baranek is the new office manager for Warner Bros. in New York before He was in the home office his transfer . . . Also new at the Warner exchange is Charlie Douglas, booker, transferred from the Atlanta branch. Harry Rogers, RKO salesman who has covered part of South Carolina and the western part of North Carolina out of the Charlotte office for the past year, is being transferred back to the Atlanta office effective June 30. On the same day, Roger Mitchell, former salesman, rejoins the RKO sales staff. . This is vacation season at RKO. Seline Martin, booking department, spent last week at Carolina Beach Rhyne, general clerk, spent . the weekend at Myrtle Beach . Jim Wallace, booking department Rovy . . spent the week at Carolina Beach . and Christine Branon and . children Frost and Martha returned from two weeks at Ocean Drive and Crescent Beach . . . Clay Jessup and family are visiting with the home Janet Ingle will folks in Walhalla, S. C. . . . visit her family in Lake City next week and Ruby Poovey will see her folks in Granite Falls. The RKO softball team is in first place in the Motion Picture Softball league, having won five and lost one. From Atlanta Constitution April 6. 1947 AND WE HAVE IT IN THE JUNGLE'S WEIRP^gJl SECRET! LOBBY BOARDS- TRAILERS— ACCESSORIES- NEW PRINTS ASTOR PICTURES CO. OF GA., INC. 1B3 Walton St., N.W. MAIN 9845 ATLANTA BOXOFFICE :: June 28, 1947 113

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JOth-Fox Winding Up<br />

Personnel Changes<br />

1 rom Easlern Edition<br />

NEW YORK—Twentieth-Fox is winding<br />

i.p reorganization of Its sales department.<br />

Andrew W. Smith jr., new general sales<br />

manager, has made additional personnel<br />

|(.'liifts and promotions. First changes in the<br />

.•^ales setup were made two weeks ago.<br />

The new department of branch operations<br />

under Clarence A. Hill and the sales statistics<br />

lesearch department under Morris Caplan<br />

have been organized. Hill's department will<br />

supervise labor relations at the branches<br />

,ind checking matters.<br />

ff<br />

New promotions have been made at the<br />

F>ittsburgh branch.<br />

The short subjects department under<br />

Peter Levathes now will supervise television<br />

.ictivities in addition to domestic 16mm,<br />

Movietone News, Movietone short subjects,<br />

Terrj-toons and March of Time. Levathes<br />

said his department will increase its study<br />

of the television field. No definite plans<br />

liavB been set for 20th-Fox entry in the field.<br />

VEW DEPARTMENT'S DUTIES<br />

The new branch operation department will<br />

handle the following:<br />

1. All branch personnel excluding salesmen,<br />

exchange and district managers.<br />

2. All leaves of absence, branch employes<br />

promotions and applications for salary increases.<br />

3. All labor matters connected with branch<br />

operation.<br />

4. All checking matters. Hill will represent<br />

20th-Fox on the board of directors of<br />

Confidential Reports, Inc.<br />

5. Copyrights on films.<br />

6. All exchange buildings, leases and<br />

branch maintenance.<br />

7. All equipment at exchanges.<br />

8. All sales forms and systems used at the<br />

branches.<br />

9. Branch operating costs, overtime, expenses<br />

and expense accounts.<br />

Many of these duties formerly were handled<br />

by Jack Sichelman and Moe A. Grassgreen.<br />

They now are working under Hill.<br />

Murray Schaffer, former Boston salesman,<br />

also has joined the new branch operation department.<br />

He will aid Hill on checking matters.<br />

Grassgreen will handle labor matters<br />

and sales forms and systems for the<br />

branches. Sichelman will serve as executive<br />

assistant to Hill, the department head<br />

said.<br />

AREA APPOINTMENTS<br />

SALES<br />

Another promotion at the home office is<br />

the appointment of Harry Mersay as assistant<br />

to Martin Moskowitz, executive assistant<br />

to Smith.<br />

The following appointments have been<br />

made in the new sales statistics research department<br />

under Morris Caplan: Frank Bryan<br />

is Caplan's assistant: James Glynn is in<br />

charge of exchange statistics: John Mesa,<br />

Theresa Bauml and Gertrude Stutman have<br />

joined the department.<br />

Short subjects: George A. Roberts is contract<br />

supervisor for MOT: Davida List is<br />

supervisor of newsreel and short subject<br />

prints; Marion Murphy is 16mm film contact.<br />

Pittsburgh exchange: George Ball is salesman<br />

for zone No. 4, succeeding Charles<br />

Kosco, who was named Buffalo branch manager:<br />

Jack Ellstrom, booker, takes over Ball's<br />

territory as a salesman: Irving Stein succeeds<br />

Ellstrom as Pittsburgh booker; Joseph<br />

Vandergrift, ad sales manager, takes over<br />

Stein's post as booker.<br />

CHARLOTTE<br />

•Pom A. Little of B&L Enterprises has been<br />

appointed to serve on Charlotte's new<br />

civil service commis.sion, one of the city government's<br />

important three-man boards. At<br />

the first meeting he nominated as chairman<br />

Kenneth M. Clontz, who is in charge of the<br />

20th-Fox and Paramount screening rooms.<br />

Mrs. Little and daughter Martha Anne leave<br />

Sunday i29i for a week's stay in New York.<br />

S. W. Taylor of the Taylor, Edenton, N. C,<br />

underwent a leg amputation at Duke hospital,<br />

Durham. He is now sitting in a wheel chair and<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Worth<br />

getting along fine . . .<br />

Stewart of Stewart-Everett Enterprises will<br />

move to Charlotte July 1. They have been<br />

making their home in Dunn, N. C.<br />

C. A. Turnage of the Turnage, Washington,<br />

N. C, and Fullmer Wells of the Wells,<br />

Newberry, S. C, attended the Rotary convention<br />

in Los Angeles ... J. Britt Carpenter<br />

is pinch hitting at the Colonial in Valdese,<br />

N. C. for Manager Charles Burgin, a<br />

major in the army reserve, who is in training<br />

at Fort Benning, Ga., for two weeks.<br />

The condition of Max Bryant, head of<br />

Bryant Theatre Supply Co., who is ill at his<br />

home in Rock Hill, S. C, remains unchanged<br />

Nuger left this week for Johns<br />

Hopkins hospital for a checkup. He was accompanied<br />

by Mrs. Nuger.<br />

Visitors on the Row: Britt Carpenter, Colonial<br />

Theatres, 'Valdese; Roy Rowe, Burgaw;<br />

Worth Stewart, Stewart-Everett Enterprises,<br />

Dunn; John Kime, State, Roseboro, N. C;<br />

Max Zager, Palace, Greensboro; Roger<br />

Mitchell, Branwood, West Greenville: Fred<br />

Curdts, Ritz, Greenville: Ben L. Strozier.<br />

Stevenson, Rock Hill: Sonny Baker, Colonial,<br />

Valdese; E. L. Hearne, Alameda, Albemarle:<br />

L. B. Richardson, Wallace, Jonesville; Mrs.<br />

Runa Greenleaf, Liberty; Dave Cash, Kings<br />

Mountain; Tom Fleming, York.<br />

Mother of Don Graham, manager of Berlo,<br />

died last week in Philadelphia. Until a year<br />

ago Don's mother and father lived in Charlotte,<br />

the elder Graham being Don's assistant<br />

in the Berlo office . . . J. E. Huckleberry,<br />

Chicago, service engineer for Motiograph, is<br />

AFRICAN SORCERY<br />

11 'LION MEN'<br />

MUST FACE TRIAL<br />

IN 28 KILLINGS<br />

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika,<br />

April 5— (UP)—Eleven of 26 African<br />

natives arrested in 28 "lion men"<br />

killings in the Singida brush country<br />

Saturday were ordered tried in<br />

Tanganyika high court.<br />

Police said they had "established<br />

beyond doubt" that these natives,<br />

along with others "whose arrest is<br />

expected shortly," were responsible<br />

for at least 28 killings in the<br />

last few months.<br />

The victims were found dead with<br />

deeply-slashed bodies, h was believed<br />

at first that they were victims<br />

of man-killinq lions but, later, police<br />

learned that tribal witch doctors<br />

had been hypnotizing natives and<br />

sending them out to murder. The^<br />

slashed their victims in a pattern<br />

that resembled the marks of a lion's<br />

claws.<br />

making an extended trip into the territory<br />

with W. F. Harris, manager of the local<br />

branch of Wil-Kin Theatre Supply . . . Frank<br />

St. Claire, local Manley representative, has<br />

returned from a swing through the territory.<br />

The Variety Club was closed for remodeling<br />

Tuesday of last week and because of delay<br />

in construction it will not be reopened<br />

until next week . Schiller, New York,<br />

head of Republic's branch operations, spent<br />

•several days here.<br />

Cy Dillon, Republic manager, is the new<br />

fire marshal for Filmrow for the next six<br />

months. He starts July 1 . . . Verdah Looper,<br />

Dillon's secretary, is vacationing in Greenville,<br />

S. C. . . . Jimmy Hobbs, Atlanta branch<br />

manager for Republic, spent last weekend in<br />

Charlotte, his former home.<br />

Steve Baranek is the new office manager<br />

for Warner Bros.<br />

in New York before<br />

He was in the home office<br />

his transfer . . . Also new<br />

at the Warner exchange is Charlie Douglas,<br />

booker, transferred from the Atlanta branch.<br />

Harry Rogers, RKO salesman who has covered<br />

part of South Carolina and the western<br />

part of North Carolina out of the Charlotte<br />

office for the past year, is being transferred<br />

back to the Atlanta office effective June 30.<br />

On the same day, Roger Mitchell, former<br />

salesman, rejoins the RKO sales staff.<br />

.<br />

This is vacation season at RKO. Seline<br />

Martin, booking department, spent last week<br />

at Carolina Beach Rhyne, general<br />

clerk, spent<br />

.<br />

the weekend at Myrtle<br />

Beach . Jim Wallace, booking department<br />

Rovy<br />

. .<br />

spent the week at Carolina Beach .<br />

and Christine Branon and<br />

.<br />

children Frost<br />

and Martha returned from two weeks at<br />

Ocean Drive and Crescent Beach . . . Clay<br />

Jessup and family are visiting with the home<br />

Janet Ingle will<br />

folks in Walhalla, S. C. . . .<br />

visit her family in Lake City next week and<br />

Ruby Poovey will see her folks in Granite<br />

Falls.<br />

The RKO softball team is in first place in<br />

the Motion Picture Softball league, having<br />

won five and lost one.<br />

From Atlanta Constitution April 6. 1947<br />

AND WE HAVE IT IN<br />

THE JUNGLE'S WEIRP^gJl<br />

SECRET!<br />

LOBBY BOARDS-<br />

TRAILERS—<br />

ACCESSORIES-<br />

NEW PRINTS<br />

ASTOR PICTURES CO.<br />

OF GA., INC.<br />

1B3 Walton St., N.W.<br />

MAIN 9845<br />

ATLANTA<br />

BOXOFFICE :: June 28, 1947 113

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