Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

C IIHII II C A Cl O J)AVE ROSS of the local Metro office who figured prominently in charges of misconduct toward Patricia Douglas of Hollywood during a party given for delegates to the M-G-M convention at the Hal Roach ranch on the coast on the night of May 5, is now the recipient of much congratulatory conversation following the clean bill of health rendered by a grand jury out there. Since the charges were first brought out by District Attorney Huron Fitts, Dave has consistently maintained that he attended the party along with everybody else at the convention and at no time was either alone with Miss Douglas or in any compromising spot whatever. And to prove his sincerity, at the time the grand jury met on the case, Dave went out there of his own volition and told those sitting in judgment that he had met and danced with Miss Douglas, but left early and was in his hotel room at the time the alleged attack took place. His straightforward narration in the face of contradictory stories told by the plaintiff won him a “no bill” acquittal, and now Dave is happy, and so are all his Filmrow friends. Congratulations to Sinuel Roberts of the California and White Palace theatre, and his wife who last , week presented him with a second son. Born in Grant Hospital last Friday, June 18, the new baby weighed eight pounds and 13 ounces. Mother and child are reported to be doing extremely well, and with the previous experience of fatherhood behind him, Sinuel isn’t doing so bad either. If that new building now being erected at 13th and Wabash for Universal, United Artists and Columbia doesn’t hurry and get itself completed, the tenants might find that they are decidedly unpopular with their neighbors. Right now the echo of those pneumatic drills is reverberating so strongly through the Warner building next door that you can’t hear yourself think — and all its occupants are cussing the coming tenants plenty. That trailer tieup with American Can Co. on the exploitation of "Wake Up and Live” is the work of Arthur Stern of the local National Screen Office. Through the courtesy of the Ben Bernie sponsors, the trailer is offered free to theatres all over the country to be used as a teaser in advance of their regular advertising of the picture. Containing but a bare speck of commercial advertising, the trailer is a spoken continuity by the Old Maestro himself plugging the coming of the picture. Stern arranged all the details of its production and distribution. The trailer is available to exhibitors everywhere free of charge through only the Chicago office of National Screen Service. That picture, “Gambling With Lives,” under which title the local theatres prefer to advertise it, is the same “Gambling With Souls” which is distributed in this territory through Superior Pictures and which is doing such a terrific business for all the circuits, including Balaban & Katz, Essan( Continued on page 128) OPEN SHENANDOAH ALTERATION BIDDING St. Louis — The St. Louis Amusement Co. will take bids on alterations and improvements to the Shenandoah Theatre. Plans and specifications for the work are being prepared by W. J. Schlesinger, 6340 Southwood Ave. New stairways, toilet rooms and other interior alterations are to be made. As has been announced, the Shenandoah is one of the five theatre that will be managed by Ansell Bros, in connection with the recent merger of the local theatrical interests of Fanchon & Marco with the Ansell circuit. The others are the Ritz, now undergoing extensive improvements; the Empress, Tivoli and Varsity. 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