Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1948)

HATES: 10c per word, minimum $1.00, cash with copy. Four insertions for price of three. CLOSING DATE: Monday noon preceding publication date. Send copy and answers to • Box Numbers to BOXOFFICE, 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 1, Mo. • CLEflfilOG HOUSE GENERAL EQUIPMENT— USED "Drive-in deal with SOS saved me $5,000,” says one happy exhibitor. "Your $2,495 DeVry outfit is worth thrice the price.” Super Simplex E-7, Superior, Brenkert, Motiograph, Century, RCA or Simplex 4 Star Sound with high intensity arcs away below the market. Wire or write now I New address, S.O.S. Cimena Supply Corporation, DriveIn Dept., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. Drive-Ins — need more power? Western Electric 600-watt Booster amplifiers, fit any sound system, $650. Twin In-Car Speakers with junction box. $16.75, complete; 70/140 ampere motor generators, $525. Super Snaplite fl. 9 lenses from $150. (Liberal trade-ins). New address, S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., Drive-In Dept., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. Daytime shadowbox beaded screens, collapsible, 39x52 in., worth $125, now $44.50; soundfllm amplifiers, $29.50 up; coinometers, $49.50; portable 35mm sound projectors, $89.50 up; 16mm sound pro.1ectors, $109.75 up; complete PA systems. $44.75; rebuilt General two unit electric ticket machines, $139.50. Send for sales bulletin. New address, S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp., 602 52nd St., New York 19. Have your machines rebuilt and modernized by factory methods. All work guaranteed. Movements a specialty. Projection Service & Supply Co., Ill North 11th St., Minneapolis 3, Minn. Special! 3,000 chairs with leatherette insert panel backs, spring cushion leatherette bottoms, complete with center and end standards. All or part. Bargain at $4.50 each. Also 1,000 full upholstered backs with leatherette spring cushion bottora.s, complete with slip covers, center and end standards. Excellent condition. $4 each for aD or part, f.o.b. Cleveland. General Theatre Bk]ulpment Co.. 2417 Prospect Ave. Phones: TOwer 1-0277, FAirmount 4958. Cleveland, Ohio. Stabilarc generator, 80-160 amperes, excellent condition; $450. L. & N. Theatre Corp., Antioch, IlL Attention! Like new. 500 loge chairs consisting of red plush mohair backs and spring cushion red mohair bottoms having red mohair arm rests, j! Complete with center and end standards. All or part, $7.50 each, f.o.b, Cleveland. General Theatre Equipment Co., 2417 Prospect Ave. Phones; TOwer 1-0277, FAirmount 4958, Cleveland, Ohio. $1,450 for complete rebuilt booth equipment Including two Simplex rear shutter projectors, stands, magazines, Ultraphone soundheads, amplifier and speaker, low intensity lamphouses and rectifiers. Years of good service in this equipment. $100 deposit with order. Balance C.O.D. What are your needs? Get our prices first. i Academy Theatre Supply Co., 1235 South Wabash Ave., Chicago. Phone: WEBster 7268. America’s Fastest Growing Supply House. ! For Sale. New Wiirlitzer drink vendors, $595 ii each. Immediate delivery. Pair used ESF portable i DeVry 35mm sound projectors. Perfect condition, $750. $100 deposit. Balance C.O.D. Candy cases, blonde wood trim, four ft., $135. Full line of 1 Drive-In equipment. Academy Theatre Supply I Co., 1235 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago. WEBster 7268. America’s Fastest Growing Supply House. Pair Peerle.ss L.I. lamps, $150; pr. 30 amp. rectifiers, $95; pr. Simplex rear shutter heads, 1 double bearing movements, spiral gears and cast iron traps, $400; pr. Larsen soundheads, complete, $100; two amplifiers, each $90; pr. Gardiner K.W. lamps, new mirrors, $150; one Western Electric mirrophonic sound system complete, 62 and 86 type amplifiers, with Diphonic speakers, excellent condition, $800; pr. Strong K.W. rectifiers, used one week, $310; pr. Syncrofilra soundheads, $150. All equipment guaranteed. Rhodes Sound and Projection Service, 218 East 56th St., Savannah, Ga. Complete booth equipment. Pair Simplex rear shutter projectors, double bearing movement pedestals, magazines, ultraphone soundheads, motors, brand new amplifiers. Strong Intensity lamps, 30 amp. rectifiers. Bargain, $975. Write to American Theatre, 3621 Main St., Indiana Harbor, Ind. Completely rebuilt guaranteed like new projector mechanisms with new rear shutters * and new double bearing intermittents. Complete sound systems, Royal Soundmaster soundheads with new motors and new gear boxes, 50 series amplifiers, and two way horn systems, de luxe projector bases, upper and lower magazines priced complete with two projectors, $1,990 and including high intensity arc lamps and rectifiers, $2,870. Postoffice Box 311. Bellevue. Neh. 25 cycle Hertner transverter high intensity, like new. Town changing to 60 cycle. Bargain. Also, 25 cycle motors in most sizes. Gem Theatre, Cornell, Wis, Simplex mechanisms. $150. Strong low intensity are lamps, $100. RCA sound complete, $500. Rectifiers. $35, Write for bargain list. Ger-Bar, Inc., 442 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis. Ind. Immediately available and priced right. One No. 105 washer complete 3 h.p. Allis-Chalmers pump; one No. 48 blower hydraulic control 7% h.p. motor, two MW-20 Gyra spray washers, two 45% by 40 in. dual directional metal deflectors. Bijou Amusement Co., 423 Fourth Ave. North, Nashville 3, Tenn. GENERAL EQUIP.— USED (Cent.) PG 31 RCA sound system complete. A-1 condition. Crated ready for shipment. This is excellent for any theatre up to 1,000 seats. Will sell to best offer. Bo.xoffiee, A-3063. Pair Powers rebuilt, $200. Pair rear shutter Simplex rebuilt, $600. Pair, like new, Ultrapbone soundheatls, complete with new motors, $80. Powers stands, magazines, $25. Pair 6 in. lens, $15. Pair Ultraphone soundheads, $20 as is. Admission sign, $7. Ed Holder, 136 East Spruce St., Canton, 111. For Sale; Two DeVry model 1, 35mm portable sound-on-film piojectors. Complete with amplifier and speaker. Purchased new in .lanuary, used one month. $1,000 cash. State Amusement Co., Box 16. Metz, W. Va. Good condition. Just taken out of the Norwood theatre, Norwood, Ohio. One No. 1-S Western Electric sound system complete with Universal bases. No. 1-A soundheads. No. 41-A and 42-A amplifiers; two No. 12-A horns and two all steel horn towers. All for $350 f.o.b., Norwood, Ohio. Vogue Theatre Co., 8459 Vine St., Cincinnati 15, Ohio. • Powers 6B projectors, complete, $150 pair, RCA soundheads for Powers, motors, attachments, $150 pair. Rialto, LaBelle, Mo. Complete standard booth equipment including projectors, sound, amplifiers, lamps, rectifiers and all accessories. Bargain. Available now. Box 5526. Cleveland, Ohio. For Sale: Two Simplex machines in A-1 condition, booth equipment, screen. Reasonable. Boxoffice, A-3068. Booth equipment for less than $3,000 cash offered subject to prior sale. For particulars reply Boxoffice, A-3069. Sound Screen. 11x14. New washable Walker plastic. Silver, reflective. Will sell for half price, $75. Sharon Theatre, New Sharon, Iowa. GENERAL EQUIPMENT— NEW Keep customers cool! Quickly order these: Air washers to fit your present blowers at 1946 prices. 5,000 cfm, $138: 7,000 cfm, $168: 10,000 cfm, $204; 15,000 cfm, $240; 20,000 cfm, $276; new blowers with motors and drives, 8,500 cfm, $172.50; 11,000 cfm, $229.90; 13,500 cfm, $276; 22,500 cfm, $348. Beat the heat, wire SOS Cinema Supply Corp., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. Drive-In Theatre Projection and sound equipment. Brand new; nothing else needed, $2,974. Theatre equipment $2,794, and $2,280, completi and installed. Ace Camera Supply, 150 N. Irby. Florence, S. C. Poster Cases. Stainless steel or extruded aluminum poster cases, iUuminated or none-illuminated Available in all sizes. Prompt delivery. Poblocki and Sons, 2159 South Klnnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee 7, Wis. Carbon Savers: "Kirk’s Three Screw” 6, 7, 8mm, fits all standard lamps. $1.50 ea. Distributed by M. D. Kirkland, 3005 W. Lanvale St., Baltimore, Md. Send money order. New booth equipment, complete. Simplex intermediate high, super bases, projector R 7, R.C.A. sound, electric ticket machine, etc. Save 25%. Was purchased for theatre I had planned to build. 2340 North llOth, Seattle 33, Wash. New No. 42 Cretors double gas popper with stand and four trays. Never out of crate. $550 cash. First cashier’s check gets it. Parma Theatre. Film Bldg., Cleveland. Ohio. Phillips new safety carbon saver. Ask your theatre dealer. THEATRES WANTED Sell your theatre privately. Confidential cor respondence invited. Leak Theatre Sales, 3422 Kinmore, Dallas. 1109 Orchard Lane, Des Moines, Iowa. Is your theatre for sale? Our cash buyers are waiting. We get quick results. Will give you a prompt estimate of your present theatre value Write us today. “Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset Ave Phone Yale 2-7650, Dallas. Texas. Cash for small town theatre, Texas. New Mex ico, Arizona. Condition of theatre and equipment immaterial. Must be good town. Give all details first letter. Bob Yancey, Normangee, Tex. Will buy or lease theatre in good midwest town. Confidential. H. McCloughan, 125 East Second. Concordia. Kas. $40,000 to purchase or as down payment on theatre. Prefer Virginia, North Carolina or South Caroiina. Ail Information first letter confidential Reply Boxoffice, A-3050. Will buy or lease theatre in good town anywhere except eastern states. Box 131, St. Louis Mich. For quick action list your theatre for sale or lease with the only licensed real estate broker in the southeast handling theatres exclusively. A. C. Cowles, 416 Peachtree Arcade. Atlanta. Ga. Small theatre wanted. Buy or lease, California Oregon, or Washington preferred. Confidence respected. Walt Dowling, 391 Springfield St Chicopee, Mass. THEATRES FOR SALE Build double parking drive-in theatres under franchise patent No. 2,102,718. reissue No. 22,756 and improvements, patent pending. Up to SO^o more seating capacity with little additional cost. Louis Josserand, Architect, 628 M & M Bldg., Houston, Tex. We have theatres. Many theatres lor sale, worth investigating. Contact us immediately. "Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset Ave. Phone Yale 2-7650, Dallas, Texas. Theatres for sale. Selected listings in Oregon and Washington now available. Write for list. Theatre Exchange Co., Fine Arts Bldg., Portland, Ore. Lifetime exhibitor retiring: First run rich Kan sas county 'seat 5,000. One other theatre. New Simplex booth. 550 Heywood chairs. E.xceptional concessions. Two well cooling. Includes brick building, apartment, store. Priced, payout 33 months, $66,000. $20,000 down. State finances, complete identification. Bo.xoffiee, A-3056. Five hundred car drive-in. West Texas city 30,000. Perfect location four-lane highway. Fastest growing city southwest. National publicity. E-7s, Brenkert highs, RCA. Paved ramps. Concrete tower includes apartment. Nine month season. $2,500 profit first month 1948. Wired for car speakers. $50,000. $15,000 down. Your finances, identity please. Leak, 3422 Kinmore, Dallas. Near Dallas. Live trade center 1,000. 275 seats, new Manley, perfect equipment. Newly decorated front. Long established. Illness. $11,000. $7,000 down. Leak, 3422 Kinmore, Dallas. For Sale: Drive-in Theatre, 300 cars. First and second run products, rich farming and oil payroll. Large construction under way. Money maker, rare opportunity. Neglected by owner with other interests. Cash or terms. Boxoffice. .4-3061. Outstanding suburb. Only theatre, separate modern community, yet near everything, Texas metropolis. Texas’ nicest town this size. Nationally known architect designed. 650 seats. Trade area 15,000. Perfect film setup. Highly profitable. $44,000. $29,000 down. Leak, 3422 Kinmore, Dallas. Theatre near Missoula, Montana, in heart of Bitterroot valley. Remodeled, redecorated and all new equipment. De luxe house. Full price, $45,000 including building. Some terms. Contact Joseph C. Butler. ATwater 6221, 304 SW 4th Ave., Poreland, Ore. A.B.C. Brokerage Company. Theatre, 274 seats, southern Idaho. Full price, $21,000 including building. Simplex machines. Western Electric sound. Wire, call or write to Nolen Howard, Box 277, phone 508, Payette, Idaho. A.B.C. Brokerage Company. 500-scat theatre, downtown Victoria, B. C. For sale or lease. Apply State Theatre, Vancouver, B. C. Colored theatre in Tennessee county scat, 6,500. County two thirds colored. Price reasonable. Reply Boxoffice. A-3065. Northeast Iowa only theatre long established town 1,700. Motiograph, Strong highs, Operadio, 380 seats mostly upholstered. Two-year payout. $27,500. SOUTHEAST IOWA town 1,900, latest equipment, $18 seat. Long established. Records available, showing excellent return. Fine apartment available. $31,000. $20,000 down. SOUTHWEST IOWA, rich agricultural town, 1,500. Simplex, 300 new seats, real opportunity. $17,600. Terms. Others throughout midwest. Leak Theatre Sales. 1109 Orchard L.ane, Des Moines. Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri. Good moneymaker. modern equipment, 800 seats. Priced $12,500. Half cash, balance terms. C. H. Potter, Broker, 4423 Benton Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. Theatre south Missouri small town. Moneymaker, 300 seats, modern equipment, everything first class. $21,500 building included. $13,500 cash, balance terms. C. H. Potter, Broker, 4423 Benton Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. Theatre, Kansas small town, modern equipment, good money-maker. Price $9,000. $6,000 down, balance terms. C. H. Potter, Broker, 4423 Benton Blvd.. Kansas City. Mo. Matex Theatre, Mabank, Tex.as. 52 miles from city limits of Pallas. Theatre including property. also home. R, Q. Coleman, Box 261, Mabank. Te:r. Another Pallas suburb.'ui theatre; very profitable, 650 seats, modern equipment, attractive front, refrigerated. Will stand rigid investigation. Long lease, $60,000. Will handle for $20,000. Reasonable terms. "Joe” Joseph, 2400 Sunset, Phone Yale 2-7650. Dallas’ leading theatre broker. Dallas colored theatre. 500 seats, modern equipment. Plenty business. Long lease, noncompetitive area. $27,500, terms. Good proposition. ".loe” Joseph. 2409 Sunset, Dailas, Tex. Phone Yale 2-7650. D, alias’ leading theatre broker. East Texas county seat theatre. 1.200 population, large trade area. Does good business in midst of new oil field. Sheet-metal building and extra lot, attractive front. Needs inside decorating. Property alone worth price of $12.500. Cash. No terms. “Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset, Dallas, Tex. Phone Yale 2-7650. Dallas’ leading theatre broker. THEATRES FOR SALE (Cent.) Central Texas small town theatre. Attractive new booth equipment. Doing real good business. Selling because of other business. Don’t pass this one up. $2,500 down. A nice family set-up. "Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset, Dalhis, Tex. Phone Y'ale 2-7650. Dallas’ leading theatre broker. West Texas theatre, county scat town. 300 cushion seats, very badly managed. Needs new owner. $1,500 down, balance $200 monthly. This theatre badly neglected. “Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset, Dallas, Tex. Phone Yale 2-7650. Dallas’ leading theatre broker. Note; Joe Joseph theatre customers. We have sold the following theatres. Please cancel off your list: Pi.x Theatre, Ft. Worth; Como Theatre, Ft. Worth: Edge Theatre. Edgewood, Tex.; Ervay Theatre, Dallas, Tex.; and on cards dated May 1, 1948, No. 7, No. 16. No. 4A, No. 13, and No. IIY'. We have more new theatres listed. I’lease phone for information. “Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset, Dallas, Tex. Phone Yale 2-7650. Dallas’ leading theatre broker. 2S0 cushioned seats theatre, good Simplex equipment, RCA sound, air conditioning, popcorn and candy bar. In prosperous mining and farming town of 1.700. Doing a very good business. New Fulton Theatre, Cuba, 111. Two modern theatres controlling rich Texas market center 3,500. \ house .and equipment nearly new. Everything finest. B house good. 795 seats total. Community noted show goers. $60,000 on leases. Liberal terms. Arthur Leak, 3422 Kinmore, Dallas, Tex. The rarest theatre opportunity ever offered. Chain of seven deluxe city suburban theatres. Modern equipment, parking lot, refrigeration, newly decorated inside and out. Over 5,000 seats. Long leases or will sell properties. Offices, storerooms and smooth organization all set up ready for immediate possession. Over $400,000 annual gross. Price $900,000 less properties. W'ill h.andle for 1/3 down to responsible parties. State finances and whom you represent. Private sale. Information by appointment only. “Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset, Dalhis, Tex. Phone Yale 2-7650. Dallas’ leading theatre broker. Theatre in Dallas. 480 seat suburban theatre worth the money, $18,500. "Joe” Joseph, 2409 Sunset, Dallas, Tex. Phone Yale 2-7650, Dallas’ leading theatre broker. Northwest Iowa only theatre unusual town year round average population over 2,000. Payroll, rich iigrlculturally, imiiortant lake resort. Top equipment nearly new. Upholstered seats. Absentee owner doing fine. Local ownership potential really outstanding. $25,000. Really exceptional. Arthur Leak, 1109 Orchard Lane, Des Moines. 4-9087. Northeast Texas University city 100,000. Reactivated major airfield. 10,000 employe DuPont plant opening. Liveliest industrial development in Texas. Family show, 400 scats. $100 day gross. Now neglected. Nearly new equipment. $22,500, liberal terms. Leak, 3422 Kinmore. Dallas, Only theatre town 1.200, r.apidly developing Childersburg section of .Alabama. Attractive lease and complete modern equipment for sale, A. C. Cowles, 416 Peachtree Arcade, Atlanta, Ga. EQUIPMENT WANTED Holmes educators, super Simplex mechanisms. Simplex portables, Weber portables. Charles Finger, Warwick. N. Y. Wanted: Pair 35mm projectors with H.I. lamps. 70 amp. iind amplifier. Write Carl T. Nall. Rt. 4, Box 493. Corpus Christi, Tex. REAL ESTATE Investigate this. Selling improved business property 200x125 ft,, in exclusive Chic, ago neighborhood. Included specifications for medical center, six retail stores, 32 bowling alleys, 1,000-seat the<atre. References required. Owner, 'Tony Sheftic, Jr., 14501 Sherman Ave., Posen. HI. Lake of Ozarks year-around vacation home. Completely furnished, entirely modern. Bo.it dock, boat and motor included. Carpenters deveiopments 14 miles south Stover, Missouri. Highway 135 and lake road 67. For appointment see C. II. Potter, 4423 Benton Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. WAbash 5755. DRIVE-IN THEATRE SUPPLIES In-a-car speaker, $14.95. Two cast aluminum water-proof speakers complete with junction box and line transformer; finest construction. For Information on eompiete line of drive-in theatre equipment, write Drive-In Theatre Manufacturing Co., 2017 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. HELP WANTED Projectionist. North Carolina town. State references, experience and salary expected in first letter. Bo.xoffiee, A-3073. MORE CLASSIFIED ON PAGE 48 BOXOFFICE :: June 5, 1948