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. . August<br />
. . . William<br />
. . . Harry<br />
. . Lenore<br />
. . Guido<br />
. . Marjorie<br />
. . George<br />
CLEVELAND<br />
IJarry Schreiber. RKO Theatres district<br />
manager and chief barker of the Variety<br />
Club, has named M. B. Horwitz as chairman<br />
of the house committee, Mannie Stutz and<br />
Nate Schultz as co-chairmen in charge of<br />
purchases and Nat Barach as cliairman of<br />
the entertainment committee.<br />
Jack Meyer, former manager at the Willoughby<br />
Theatre. Willoughby, has opened the<br />
Geneva Theatre at Geneva-on-the-Lake. a<br />
resort built last summer by Resort Theatres<br />
Corp. . Ilg of the Ohio Theatre,<br />
Lorain, and his wife and daughter are vacationing<br />
on the west coast . . . Max Federhar,<br />
president of the Akron Theatre Managers<br />
Ass'n, says practically the entire membership<br />
plans to attend the ITO convention at Cedar<br />
Point in July.<br />
. . Virginia<br />
Arthur Marchand of Film Transit was in<br />
Cincinnati last week in his capacity as secretary<br />
of the Parma Exchange club .<br />
and Dean Buell, former Republic book-<br />
ers, are parents of a son born June 19 at<br />
Mary Rates, Republic<br />
Huron Road hospital . . .<br />
a.sslstant booker, was guest of honor<br />
at a spinster dinner given by the girls of<br />
the exchange and was presented a luggage<br />
set. She will be married July 5 to Bernard<br />
Drews.<br />
Sam Weiss, Film Classics manager, spent<br />
a week in the territory calling on exhibitors<br />
. . . Harold Raives, Schine Ohio zone manager,<br />
ill for the last several months, .s<br />
gradually taking up office reins again, working<br />
a short schedule for a while .<br />
. . Sam<br />
Seplowin, Republic district manager, held a<br />
regional meeting of branch managers at the<br />
Statler last Sunday. Present were Irwin<br />
H. Pollard, Detroit: Ike Sweeney, Pitt.sburgh;<br />
George Kirby, Cincinnati, and Norman Levin,<br />
Cleveland.<br />
George Bennett of the E-L publicity and<br />
exploitation department was back in town<br />
for the first time in six weeks. He hasn't<br />
been at his desk .since he started to work<br />
on the world premiere of "Repeat Performance"<br />
in Zanesvllle. On his way to Cleveland<br />
he and Dick Basehart. the Zanesvllle boy<br />
who stars in "Repeat Performance." visited<br />
Louis Bromfields farm outside Mansfield to<br />
discuss production aiigles of "Kenny," a<br />
Bromfield story soon to be produced by<br />
E-L. From Mansfield Mr. and Mrs. Basehart<br />
drove In to Cleveland with Bennett<br />
through a driving rain, arriving just in time<br />
to catch a train to Chicago where they<br />
stopped off to visit Basehart's brother, and<br />
then on to the west coast.<br />
Jack O'Connell bows out of the Ohio Theatre,<br />
Toledo. July 1, when the owner of the<br />
building, Edward Bialorucki, takes over its<br />
operation. O'Connell has operated the house<br />
under lease for the last 17 years . . . Fred<br />
Scheuerman, who was Warner Bros, and PRC<br />
office manager before joining Cooperative<br />
Theatres of Ohio, and his wife, last week<br />
celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.<br />
Matt Goodman, United Artists manager<br />
who has .sold his product to every circuit in<br />
the territory, reports unusual exhibitor interest<br />
in UA's announcement that "Carnegie<br />
Hall " will be released for popular price<br />
showing . Fogelson, secretary to<br />
the 'Warner manager, Jerry Wechsler, is<br />
vacationing in New York , . . Nat Wolf, Warner<br />
zone manager, and Lou Ratener, Warner<br />
contact manager, attended a home office zone<br />
managers' meeting last week.<br />
. . .<br />
R. W. Arnold, Warner auditor, is in town<br />
Zoellner, MGM reprint and short<br />
subject representative, visited Cleveland<br />
Wedding bells will ring .sometime in September<br />
for Nancy Milli, MGM booker's secretary<br />
and Frank Girman, now attending<br />
Ohio State university . . . Bob Davis is the<br />
new MGM student booker . Tarassoff,<br />
MGM booker, is vacationing in the east<br />
Walders, RKO manager, was in<br />
Detroit to meet Robert Modine. RKO vicepresident<br />
and general sale.s manager.<br />
The Yorktown Theatre, being erected by<br />
the Velas brothers, is expected to open in<br />
mid-July . Spaync's new Lyn Theatre,<br />
Akron, should turn on the lights in about<br />
two weeks . McCord, secretary<br />
to the Warner assistant zone manager, Diclc<br />
DRIVE-IN and<br />
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Drawings, specifications, blueprints to fit any expenditure<br />
for the simplest to the most complex theatre.<br />
* DoVry Projectors and Amplifiers<br />
* ALTEC LANSING Amplifiers and Speakers<br />
RADIANT Sound Screens<br />
STRONG Rectifiers * National Carbons<br />
*<br />
*<br />
* STRONG Lamps<br />
NEUMADE Accessories * GOLDE Supplies<br />
TIFFIN Draperies and Scenery<br />
Complete Factory Service<br />
Film Booking Service Available<br />
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Wright, is spending her vacation gettmg settled<br />
in the new home she and her husband<br />
have been building the last year.<br />
Bad luck stalked Harold "Bud"' Friedman<br />
on his wedding trip. While en route home<br />
from Florida, he suffered a gallstone attack<br />
and was hospitalized in Savannah, Ga. At<br />
last account he was resting comfortably at<br />
Cantler hospital there . . . Charles Rich,<br />
Warner district manager, attended the Indiana<br />
exhibitors' convention held in Wawasee.<br />
Leo Jones of Upper Sandusky also<br />
attended.<br />
Three new drive-ins are opening In this<br />
area. The Mansfield-Gallon drive-in. bull;<br />
by Harold Nussbaum, opened June 18; A. K<br />
Veach's Twilight drive-in in Goshen township,<br />
was scheduled to open June 26 and the<br />
Blue Sky ozoner in Wadsworth, built by<br />
N. Selby, is aiming for a July 4 opening.<br />
. .<br />
Norman Levin, Republic manager, report-s<br />
he can't keep sufficient prints of the Roy<br />
Rogers westerns in Trucolor on hand to<br />
meet the demand . . . Mrs. William R. Thoma,><br />
was installed as president of the Cleveland<br />
Cinema club last week in absentia. She was<br />
called to Washington by the illness and<br />
death of her brother . Hearings on the Orrville<br />
arbitration case have been continued<br />
until a July date to be set as soon as parties<br />
to the suit can agree as to the time.<br />
"It Happened on Fifth Avenne" is playing<br />
at the Hippodrome while "Miracle on 34lh<br />
Street" is playing at the Allen . . Playing<br />
.<br />
of "Best Years" at advanced prices just four<br />
weeks after its first showing, has proved disappointing.<br />
It is believed patrons resent the<br />
number of advanced price pictures being<br />
showii within a short space of time .<br />
park, Cleveland's outdoor summer<br />
. . Cain<br />
theatre,<br />
opened its tenth season last week with a<br />
presentation of a Welsh comedy, "The Barber<br />
and the Cow."<br />
Remodeled Rivola Opens<br />
TAWAS CITY. MICH.—A;.hmun Theatres<br />
reopened the remodeled Rivola June 13 under<br />
a new name, the Bay. Remodeled at a cost<br />
of several thousand dollars, the house has<br />
new sound, .screen, cushion seats and a triangular.<br />
neon-light«d marquee. It is operated<br />
on an evening show basis.<br />
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M. H. FFITCHLE<br />
Manager<br />
23rd and Payne Ay«nut<br />
Phone: PRoscecl 6934<br />
CLEVELAND<br />
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