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NEW HAVEN
Rutins news: The 20th-Fox Family club is
buying pickles and mustard for a big
time at Double Beach July 30 . . . Herman
Levy has no news yet on the annual lilm
golf tournament of Connecticut MPTO, suspended
during the war years . . . MGM Peo
club plans its own outing, also in mid-July,
as do most local filmites. Looks like no event
will embrace the whole film district this
year.
Ben Simon and the 20th-Fox staff were
shocked at the passing of the eastern division
sales manager. C. E. Peppiatt. and the area
division manager. Sam Gross, both of Philadelphia,
killed in a plane crash near Leesburg.
Va. Peppiatt was a speaker at one of
the drive meetings last year and made a big
hit.
Oatdoor pop concerts in the Yale Bowl this
summer promise to be a real draw with every
sea.son ticket sold out well in advance
The MGM boys and girls had coffee
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and a
birthday cake as a surprise for shipper Saul
Schiffrin.
George Worcester, 20th-Fo.x janitor, who
will be 94 June 30 ii:id lives in the Elm Haven
hou.sing project, journeyed to Washington
to see congressmen about threatened evictions
from the project . . Harry F. Shaw.
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Loew-Poli division manager, was host to
Senor and Senora Carlos Niebla ihe is the
MGM exchange manager in Mexico City,
who are visiting in the east. Saturday night
a chummy party at the Waverly inn included
Mayor and Mrs. William Celentano, Lou and
Shirley Brown and other guests. The parly
attended mass Sunday at St. Mary's church
and .saw the sights at Yale.
Tomasino doings: Mike Tomaslno of the
White Way and Victory is receiving congratulations
all around. Son Angelo is daddy
of a baby girl Nora, born at St. Raphael's
hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Alessandro Truden
of Milan. Italy, are visiting with the Tomaslnos
and plan to fly back with their
daughter. Mrs. Angelo Tomasino. and granddaughter.
Nora, in a few weeks. Angelo
files to Rome to take a position with 20th-
Fox Rome exchange. Gloria Tomasino.
daughter of Mike, recently was graduated
with honors from Mount Holyoke college.
Vacationers: Morris Rosenthal of the Poll.
New Haven, is driving to Kansas City to
visit relatives and see the country . . . Lee
Alderman. Warners, is camping at Totem lodge
. Alice Brodner of the same office is cruising
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to Bermuda and Nassau Bru-
.
nelll, Columbia booker, vacations around
town . Martin Multer of PRC will
be putting those feminine touches on her
first apartment during her vacation.
A Warner 9xl0-foot poster on "It Happened
on Fifth Avenue." used for the opening in
Bridgeport, was cut In half to be moved into
Monogram exchange office as a permanent
plugging fixture . . . New Haven Monogram
winds up either first or second in the Harry
Thomas .sales drive . . . Columbia finishes
third place In the bonus drive.
Pete Janu.ska of RKO looks forward
vacation, desllnalion imknown . . .
to
Freda
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Kogen of Columbia and Belle Schiffrin of
20th-Fox plan a farm vacation in Missouri
over the Fourth will include
N. Brickates. manager of the Garde, New
London: Merritt Lyons, Rlalto, South Norwalk,
and Jean Paszko of 20th-Fox . . . Bernard
Levy and family of Amalgamated are
off to Narragansett Pier, R, I., for a week.
College, New Haven, tried a one-day all-
Polish show Tuesday, after the idea had been
tried at the Lyric, Bridgeport: Strand, Waterbury:
Broadway, Norwich, and Poli. Meriden.
with considerable success . . . Dual of
"Corsican Brothers" and "South of Pago
Pago" broke house records at the Strand,
Waterbury, then opened at the Bijou. New-
Haven. Wednesday . Lincoln is playing
"39 Steps" for the 'steenth time and will
soon have "Wuthering Heights" again after
many previous visits.
Bob Kaufmann is heading for Detroit to
help with 20th-Fox exploitation on the premiere
of "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her
Now" . . . Don Willins of Eagle-Lion is in
from Boston to work on the Hartford's "Lost
Honeymoon" opening . . . Floyd Fitzsimmons
is in from Albany with a natty houndstooth
jacket to pave the way for the "Fiesta" opening
at the Poli houses July 2 . . . Floyd also
tied up a Mexican band to play on the stage
of the Poli. Bridgeport, opening night. All
Carroll drugstores in Poli towns will feature
Woodbury "Fiesta" makeup.
At the College "The Great Waltz" inspired
the Kleper-Levenson team to arrange a parade
of Kaiser-Fraziers with copy. "Sweetheart
of a car: sweetheart of a picture" plugging
the pilot training school, the College
in turn had a net ad on the picture flown
over the Elm city. Music store windows,
counters, restaurant table cards and special
sundaes and .sodas were all lined up with the
"Waltz."
Conventions: It's real Milwaukee beer for
the Monogram representatives who convene
July 18-20 at Hotel Schroeder. Johnny Pavone
will meet the Boston gang for the trip
out . Darby went to Hartford for an
M&P session . . . Barney Pitkin. Hugh Maguire.
Bill Canelli, Sid Swirsky and Exploiteer
Doug Beck will repre.sent New Haven at
the RKO convention July 7-10 at the Waldorf-Astoria.
New York.
Sid training
This and that about town: Bob Spedick of
the Lincoln has moved into his new home on
Westerly road, while Partner Leonard Samp-
.son is still building on Benton street. Westville
Dick Cohen and wife celebrated
their
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19th anniversary and the admi.ssion of
their son. Morton Harold Cohen, to
Landau,
the University
of Connecticut . for an auditor's
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post, has left 20th-Fox.
New Haven, and will continue training at
Boston . . . Mrs. Earl Wright recently won
several blue ribbons for gardening, but UA
Salesman Earl really did the digging.
Sheldon Rose of the Globe. Bridgeport, is
on the dean's list at Bridgeport junior college
. Shaw and Charles Kurtzman
of Boston renewed acquaintance at the wedding
of Bob Urdang. son of the Loew Theatre
cleaning service owner, in New York.
iting auditors at MGM .
IrvinK Margolin and Arthur Sklar are vis-
. . Anthony Bo.scardlnc
of the Colonial. Canaan. Is erecting a
500-seoter at Dover Plains. N. Y. . . . Sam
Seletsky of B&Q and Walter Higglns of Prudential
were on Flhnrow last week.
HARTFOR n *
\A7alter Lloyd, Allyn manager, huddled with
Bob Wile. U-I praise agent, on "Odd
Man Out" . Stamaton. formerly a
district manager with Fox Midwest Thea-
. . . Redecoration
tres, now in the merchandising business in
Stamford, was here for a visit with Ernie
Grecula of the Hartford Theatres
has been completed at the
Daly.
Ernie Grecula reports installation of new
screen and rugs at the south end Rialto. The
circuit's Lyric has a new candy booth . . .
Hartford Theatres manager vacations get
under way in July, with Mrs. Kate Treske
of the Lenox first on the list. Hugh Campbell
of the Central. West Hartford, starts in
mid-July, and Joe Ruggerio of the Lyric will
go when Campbell returns.
Mickey Daly of Daly Theatre Corp. is
planning to take his family on a Bermuda
vacation next winter . . . Jim McCarthy,
Strand manager, attended a Warner A house
managers exploitation meeting with Dan Finn
at the zone offices in New Haven . . . Ben
Lamo and Charlie Atamian of the Strand
are continuing their day-off golf playing,
and both are becoming pretty handy at the
game.
John Scanlon, manager of the Warner,
Torrington, is back from a fishing trip . . .
Joe Miklos of the Embassy, New Britain,
leaves July 10 on vacation.
Martin Kelleher of the Princess has inaugurated
a new Saturday morning cartoon ii,
show policy. Shows start at 9:30 a. m. . . .
Visiting here last week were L. A. Kahn of
United Publicity Bureau. New York: Joe
Spivak of Connecticut Theatre Candy Co.,
New Haven, and John Pavone. Monogram
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branch manager, New- Haven.
.
Seymour "Rosie" Rosenberg, formerly on
the Proven Pictures staff, has gone into the
plastic products business Awards came
fast and heavy at the
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Loew-Poli. Manager
;
Lou Cohen has received a Dollar club gold
cup for exploitation from Loew's circuit. .
Assistant Sam Horwitz. received an MOM