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Theatre Organ Masters Who Are Now Teaching in • • NEWS FALL. 1962 1 theatre or9 in JOURNALOF THEAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF THEATREORGAN ENTHUSIASTS Leonard MacClaln at Tower Theatre WurllTzer. See MacClaln story on page 4. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE · A. .T.O .. E. ANNUAL MEETING • EASTERN REGIONAL MEETING • WURLITZER LIST LETTERS • BILL BLUNK'S MARR& COLTON • CHAPTER NEWS issue - We must be getting through to them ..... ATOE member Leonard _C. Bleidt, M. D., writes · to ask about Theatre Organ Masters who are now teaching in • • NEWS.. ANO VIEWS Philadelphia or New York .... In the Philadelphia area we can heartily recom­ mend our new Honorary Member, Leonard Our thanks to Jim Connor and Walt Han­ Stanley Warner officials are so pleased MacClain ..... In the New York area, lon, top men of the Theatre Organ Club of with the results of Los Angeles Chapter's we recently heard that Fred F iebe 1 is El Paso, for the Annual Meeting pictures rebuilding of the 4/ 3 7 Kimball in the Wil­ teaching, and Laura Thomas mentions so graciously furnished ... This El Paso tern Theatre, that they are agreeable to Frank Columbus of Akron, New York, who group are true organ fans and we are glad entering into a like agreement with some­ is doing a lot of organ teac bing . to know that they are also ATOE members. one in the Milwaukee area. It seems they They maintain a fine 3 manual WurliTzer have an organ in one of their Milwaukee in the Plaza Theatre in E 1 Paso and in­ theatres that they will offer to ATOE vite all travelers passing thru Texas to members for rehabilitation ..... Contact stop and see them ...... Our thanks also the Stanley Warner Management Company, RAY BERRY to Ray Brubacher and Fred Myers for their 212 Wisconsin Avenue, in Milwaukee for pictorial contributions to THEATRE OR­ details .. _-. ' Billy Nalle has written to report the GAN. We received a nice letter Laura Thomas, spark-plug of the Nia­ death of the internationally known and from Clealan Blakely of Picton, Ontario, gara Frontier Chapter, recently sent a respected editor of THE AMERICAN telling us how much he enjoyed the LA lapel pin especially engraved for ATOE ORG~NIST, Ray Berry. Annual Meeting and of the various organs chapters. This pin is made from a stop In the Twenties, he had been a thea­ that he was able to see on his way back tablet and the engraving is done by a tre organist in the Chicago area. At every home ..... Patrick Shotton of Aylesbury, member of Niagara Frontier Chapter .•.. opportunity in his personal contacts, his England, wants to know if any information Contact Laura Thomas if your :Chapter is writing, lecturing and publishing, Ray is available on the WurliTzer in the Cath­ interested ..... We had been asked if Berry had eagerly and proudly promoted edral of Mexico City ..... Does anyone there was ever a service manual printed all that pertains to the welfare and appre­ have any such information? If so, we for WurliTzer pipe organs, so we wrote to ciation of the theatre organ and its play­ would like to carry the story in THEATRE Louis Rosa at the North Tonowanda Wurl­ ers. In these things, he did great good and ORGAN. Charlie Edwards of the iTzer plant and received the information he did it far and wide in the music profes­ Detroit Theatre Organ Club advises us that such a manual never was printed, s ion, not the least being in the straight that the Detroit Fox Theatre,with its 4/36 each organ being a custom-built unit. organ field. All of us who care about the WurliTzer has been taken over ·by another ATOE gets nationwide coverage in future of the theatre instrument and who enjoy the pre sent fruits of its renaissance interest and will remain open ... Bill two more big magazines - The Catholic Hollman has been play jng the organ there Digest for June 1962 and Life magazin<; owe him a huge debt and his death de­ for several months during intermissions, in its August 24 issue (thanks to Ben prives us of a wonderful friendship. however, the new management has not Hall) ..... Even the New Yorker maga­ ATOE and all of its members send continued the organ programs to date ..... zine used a drawing of an organ console their condolences to his wife. Tom B 1Hend of Pasadena reports .that the in The Movie House section of its June 16 theULTIMATE The world's newest and finest theatre organ with "horseshoe" console -- the best loved design of all times reborn for today's living. an amerlcan legacy by &11/br,,naen GULBRANSEN C O M P A N Y MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS 2 theatre organ FALL, 1962. VOL. 4, N03 WHENYOU CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS You won't want to miss your issues of THEATRE ORGAN when you move­ theatre organ so please tell us, well in advance, what your new address will be. Your• JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION local Post Office has a convenient form for this purpose. OF THEATRE ORGAN ENTHUSIASTS . - IN THIS ISSUE News and Views. • . 2 ..-- ~Tr(;r~loTMLaito~ -,, ..; Letters. • • • . • .•• , . 3 • ... - L ' Melody MM • • • • • • . • • • • • 4 Gentlemen: WurliTzer". This billing always shared WurllTzer List • . • . • • • 8 I wish to make a correction in the list equal location on the Miller marquee with Bl II 8 lunk Marr & Colton l 0 of radio station pipe organs appearing in the movie of the week and the current THEATRE ORGAN, Summer 1962, Vol. Fanchon & Marco Idea. It represented, in ATOE Annual Meeting. • • 13 IV, No. 2. addition to playing the picture, a generou,s Chapter Activities • .••••.• , 18 I grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and was Organ interlude and a ccbouncing ball'' Eastern Regional Meeting • .•.•• 21 a good friend of Mr. P. Hans Flath, Musi­ presentation of the current pop tunes. I cal Director and organist for KMBC. can still recall every glissando in the Quentin Maclean ••••••••••• 26 He did nightly broadcasts on the 3 man­ Flath rendition of ccpretty Baby", one of A.T .O.E. Membership - $5.00 per ual Robert Morton until it was dismantled the first things I heard him play. year includes subscription to when the station moved from the Pickwick In the late 1920's Flath moved on to THEATRE ORGAN. Make your Hotel to its present location. Kansas City where as I recall he spent check or Money Order Payable to I have a recording of Mr. Flath's last several years at the Midland Theatre. He A.T .O.E. and mail to P. 0. '!3ox broadcast on February 4, 1951. After the was followed at the Wichita Miller Theatre 248, Alameda, California. broadcast he talks with the announcer a­ by Roy Cato. bout the organ being dismantled. It was , I left the Midwest in the early 1930's A.T .O.E. HONORARY MEMBERS never played again, and Mr. Flath has and lost track of P. Hans Flath. Since he 1959 Jesse Crawford since died. He was a wonderful old school seemed an old man to me as a boy, I sus­ 1960 Farny Wurlitzer theatre organist, composer, arranger and pect he has by now reached the Valhalla 1961 Mel Doner conductor. for organists. I would be interested to 1962 Leonard MacClaln Mr. Flath told me the organ was bought know if any other ATOE buffs ever knew from a theatre in Oklahoma, after he and this accomplished artist of the Theatre EDITOR ..••... George f. Thompson Mr. Arthur B. Church, station owner, went Organ heyday. Associate Editor •••••.••. Bud Abel there and inspected it. As far as I know an Yours truly, Production Manager •.. Phi I Lockwood organist in Kansas City has the organ in Wilfred N. Wallace storage in his garage at this time. 4001 Stone Canyon Ave STAFF FOR A. T.O.E. Sincerely, Sherman Oaks, Calif. PRESIDENT ••••••• W.' Tin/ James Don Keilhack Vice President .••.. Dick Loderhose 5830 Lindo Paseo Dear Mr. James: Secretary • • • • • • • •. Mrs. Ida James San Diego 15, Calif. The Theatre Organ Society of Australia wishes to express its regrets upon the Advertising Manager ••.. Dewey Cagle Gentlemen: Those who chuckled over the poem, death of Jesse Crawford. THEATRE ORGAN is a quarterly ccThe Wail of the Theatre Organist", by Jesse Crawford was familiar to us thru publication devoted to the interests of the many delightful organ records released theatre organ enthusiasts, and to pub­ P. Hans Flath that appeared on the back lishing of official notes and pro­ page of the ATOE 1962 Convention Pro­ in Australia, and the name "WurliTzer'' and "Jesse Crawford'' became synony­ ceedings of the American Association gram might be interested in the following of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Al I com­ recollections evoked by the sight of this mous. munications and material should be name in pr int. We feel that the Theatre Organ world sent to THEATRE ORGAN, P. 0. Box In the early 1920's a new WurliTzer Mo­ wide fraternity has suffered a grievous 248, Alameda, California. Inquiries and loss. all materials intended for A.T.0.E. del 235 was installed in the Miller Theatre should be directed to the above ad­ in Wichita, Kansas. The first organist to Yours sincerely, J. Clancy, Hon. Secretary dress and wi 11 be correctly routed to play an extended engagement was P. Hans the proper office., Flath. As a 12 year old lad in the Wichita The Theatre Organ Society area at that time, my first exposure to real of Australia Theatre Organ was Flath at the Miller. N.S.W. Division THEATRE ORGAN (title registered U.S. Patent Office} is p.,blished by This produced a case of Theatre Organ 10 Caloola Road Wentworthville, N .S.W.
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