Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1948)

MILWAUKEE ^wentieth Century-Fox, parent company of Fox Wisconsin Theatres, is searching for a local television broadcasting station. That makes five Milwaukee outlets seeking a license from FCC. To date, the Milwaukee Journal station WTMJ-TV is the sole operating television station . . . The Vaughn Monroe onenighter at Milwaukee auditorium was on the sad side as far as patronage. Seems the double bill of Horace Heidt’s show at the Riverside and graduation exercises at most schools and colleges, clipped the boxoffice. Ted Todd, SRO publicist, huddled with Bill Young, local manager, relative to some tub thumping on “Mr. Blandings Builds' His Dream House" . . . WTMJ-TV has just started another serial. “Law of the Wild” with Rex. the wonder horse, and Rin Tin Tin jr., featured ... Is it true that Joe Neger. 20th-Fox manager, really located an abode? Connie Papas of the Town Theatre was here, more suntanned than ever after a heavygolf schedule in the Windy city . . . Film Arts, Wisconsin’s major industrial and theatrical film producer, moved to more spacious quarters near the Row on Sixth and State BEST IN QUALITY w FILMACK Sfijuial TRAILERS BEST IN SERVICE THREE COMPLETELY EQUIPPED PLANTS NEW YORK 245 W.M 5S»h St. : • LOS ANGELES • CHICAGO 1574 W. 1327 5. Woihington Woboih . . . Mike Colla, National Screen shipper, has that “I Give Up” look and spends all free time prepping for his July 10 wedding. It is slated to be quite some function. Charley Key, who handles most of the theatrical billboard advertising in the area, shipped his family to Michigan on the Clipper, then planed to Flint for a return Clipper jaunt across Lake Michigan with the brood . . . The ever-present labor and material problem is slowing construction on L. F. Gran’s 41 Drive-In, but an early opening is scheduled with Bill Koster, former Fox Wisconsin employe, managing the open air theatre . . . Hildegarde Albrecht, MGM booker, sharpened her golf clubs at Currie for a hot round at Rivermoor Country club, that made Row male club-wielders open startled eyes. Joe Reynolds, Oriental manager, keeps the kiddies coming with special Saturday attractions in which they participate . . . “Boots” Scharum, onetime Universal Premiums booster, was in after discharge from the hospital . . . Max Wiesner, formerly with the Alamo and Mozart, d-ied following a long illness. Mike Chesnick and Angelo Provanzano, former Fox Wisconsin executive, have been operating both houses for some time and will continue as before. Winnie De Lorenzo, Independent Film exchange operator, was a Chicago Row caller . . . Harold Pearson, ITO field man, reports that the Hollywood. Eau Claire, operated by S. M. Grengs; Rex, Park Falls, operated by J. Esterle; Avon, Medford, operated by Ray Blakeslee,. and Woods, Woodruff, operated by Harvey Frederich, are now under the protective wing of ITO of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Elsie Seidl, MGM mail clerk, says Raymond Scott's combo at the Stage Door has her puzzled. “Just what are they doing?” Elsie queried, “Trying to influence friends and win Tolan Engineering Co. Theatre Builders MAINTENANCE — REMODELING • Conventional Drive-In Quonset • COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION SERVICE Phone Essex 2552 Chicago 17. 111. Day and Night Service people by pantomime?” . . . R. Baker, RKO salesman, chairman of a golf outing at Port Washington Country club on July 25, indicates there will be valuable prizes for all, furnished by local Row firms and purveyors to the theatre business. Jesse T. McBride, Paramount manager, celebrated winning those spiked golf rubbers at the L. F. Gran-sponsored all-industry golf outing at Merrill Hills Country club, Waukesha, plus heavy cash awards in the recent Paramount drive, by staging a party for the office. Charming Mrs. McBride dreamed up food and refreshment for all. Audrey Kasehamer of Greendale joined MGM’s bookkeeping department . . . Lake Beulah draws the Eagle Lion office for a picnic on June 27, and Warners exchange will hold a picnic at the same spot a day later . . . Rudy Koutnik, Wisconsin manager, pitched on “Fury at Furnace Creek” with a tribe, of full-blooded Indians in regulation tribal clothing . . . Mrs. Jessie Wolf of 20th Century-Fox office is vacationing in Lincoln. Irv Cinatl, Paramount booker, passed out cigars announcing arrival of a baby boy . . . Eleanor Buschman, 20th-Fox, just returned from a vacation . . . Ralph Malinowsky cast his lot with Columbia as apprentice shipper . . . Marcella Rollman, secretary to John G. Kemptgen, MGM resident manager, spent a weekend in Chicago, with some Aragon dancing and night jaunts tossed in. Exhibitors on the Row: Joe Malits, Eighth Street: George Gonis, Liberty; John F. Juell, Garden. South Milwaukee; Sid Margoles, Regal, Milwaukee; H. H. Otto, Clinton, Clinton; J. S. Erickson, Rex, Kingsford, Mich.; Erv Koenigsreiter, Greendale, Greendale; Bill Exton, Roosevelt, Kenosha; Charley Guelson, Badger, Stoughton; Charley Hacker, Standard Theatres, Waukesha; Bob Guiterman, Capitol and Mikadow, Manitowoc; Nick Berg, State, Sheboygan; Nick Johnson, Strand, Manitowoc: Billy Pierce. Savoy. Milwaukee; Clem Kraemer, Fern, Mars and Atlas, Milwaukee: Walter Baier, Fort. Fort Atkinson; W. C. Fischer, Campo, Campbellsport: Barney Sherman, Douglas, Racine: F. J. McWilliams, Home and Portage, Portage; Lon Husten, Troy, East Troy; Danny Kelliher, Sprague, Elkhorn; Connie Papas, Towne. Milwaukee. 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