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Jack Groves, salesman for United Artists out of the Dallas branch, who took top money in the southern district in the George J. Schaefer sales drive which officially ended May 1. Groves gets a neat bonus of four week’s extra salary for his fine work.
PAT McGEE EMPLOYS KING ON OKLA. JOB
Dallas — W. B. King, of King Scenic Co., has been engaged by Pat McGee, general manager of Standard Theatres, to handle furnishings in the new Tower Theatre at Oklahoma City. The Tower there is patterned in part after Interstate’s new Tower in Dallas.
King will furnish and install all drapes throughout the theatre, including stage and all other departments. He will also furnish and install all display frames inside and in front of the house.
BUYING AND BOOKING VISIT BY W. KNOCHE
Dallas — Walter Knoche, of the Longhorn and Palace theatres in Fredericksburg, was a visitor on Pilmrow this week buying new equipment and making a booking deal. For the Longhorn he purchased reflector arc lamps, rectifiers and miscellaneous items from Herber Bros. He also made a deal with Forrest White, of the Index Booking Service, who will handle the bookings for Knoche’s two theatres.
Gains Imperial Franchise
Dallas — Imperial has closed a five-year franchise with Jack Adams for Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. The agreement will include Imperial’s current product as well as the 32 pictures for 1937-38 and the exchanges will operate under the Imperial name.
Peoples Adding Two
Clayton, Ala. — The Peoples Theatres, Inc., owners of the Clayton Theatre, has taken over the theatre at Georgiana, and announces plans for erecting a new theatre at Columbia.
DALLAS
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but this is believed the first case of a horned frog causing trouble.
Some of the boys on the Row long used to parking their cars on Harwood St. without police interference paid fines at the city hall Wednesday. Police are carefully checking all cars on the street.
C. J. Stevens has opened his new neighborhood theatre on Maple Ave. An out of the ordinary feature of the house is that its cooling system is operated by a V8 motor using natural gas.
O. C. Easter, owner of the Peak Theatre, who recently became air minded with the purchase of a fine airplane, is now soloing, having made recent trips to Houston, Oklahoma City and other airports.
R. A. Duncan, president of Tad Screen Advertising Inc., has returned from a sales promotion trip to south Texas and Oklahoma.
J. Harry Long, Tad Atlantic division manager with headquarters in Richmond, held a sales convention in Charlotte attended by the representatives working in that territory.
Ned E. Depinet, RKO’s president, drew a crowd of friends and admirers as he walked down Harwood the other day. He chatted with two or three film men who worked for him in the days of the old Consolidated Film & Supply Company on Commerce Street, and talked to poster clerks or anyone who knew him during the time he was a Dallas branch manager. Depinet arrived in Dallas from Galveston where he attended the Interstate convention.
Ross Dixon, partner with R & R in tivo theatres in Colorado, Tex., was in Dallas during the week visiting with friends and conferring at the circuit headquarters.
Dallasites on the west coast at the moment are H. R. Robb and E. H. Rowley. W. G. Underwood and C. C. Ezell were earlier visitors at the production center.
George W. Weeks, general manager of GB, was m Dallas last week conferring with John Franconi, local sales manager and contacting circuit officials.
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MOCHBIE UA DISTRICT TAKE SALES DRIVE TOP
Atlanta — Robert Mochrie, southern district manager of United Artists, received this week the award for the top performance in the George J. Schaefer sales drive officially completed May 1. The first such contest ever staged by United Artists, the drive resulted in additional awards to Jack Groves, Dallas salesman; Roy Sachs, Dallas booker.
Coming through on
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Harry Gold’s eastern division nosed out the western division in the final tabulation.
RAY ELKINS TO R & R; PAUL IS SUCCESSOR
Dallas — Due to transposition of linotype lines, complete sense in the story of Harry Paul becoming manager of Texas Theatre Supply Co. was not available from the item. As is now known, Paul is manager of that company, having resigned from National Theatre Supply Co. with whom he started 11 years ago in Dallas, later being transferred to New York and then to Omaha and Des Moines where he was branch manager. Paul was also transferred to Kansas City and back to Dallas.
Ray Elkins, who has been manager of Texas Supply will return to the general office of the Robb & Rowley circuit as purchasing agent.
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