Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1962)

A TTCNTION! Central and North Central Drive-In Theatre Owners and Managers l£T US DO YOUR DRIVE IN SCREEN PAINTING No ladders, scaffolding, swings or other outmoded equipment to mar the surface of your screen Hf/GHr IS NO PROBLEM! The picture above shows Noble painting the huge "41 Twin Outdoor" screen. This 103 foot high tower puts every square inch of your screen within easy reach — nothing is missed or overlooked. YOU WILL SAVE TIME! The portoble 103 foot aerial tower comes in ready for action. There are no ladders, rigs — no ropes to worry about. No danger of falls, etc. We know how the job should be done, and we do it that way! YOUR MONEY GOES INTO YOUR SCREEN Not for paying workmen climbing all over your screen, not for setting up and tearing down oldfashioned rigging. There is no waste motion. Our aerial tower allows us to reach corners, crevices usually overlooked when working from shaky swing stages or scaffolds. ASK OUR CUSTOMERS: We hove painted some of the largest and finest drive-in screens in the country. Names on request. DON'T DELAY-NOW IS THE TIMEFOR APPOINTMENTS To Get Your Screen Ready for the New Season Write or Wire DEAN NOBLE NOBLE AERIAL SERVICE ROCHESTER, WISCONSIN or phone 242J, Woterford, Wis. OMAHA l^ussell Acton has reopened the Rialto at Villisca, Iowa. It formerly was operated by Byron Hopkins, who still has theatres at Glenwood and Council Bluffs in Iowa, and Bellevue, Neb. . . . Bob Hirz, city manager for Warner Bros., reported he has been swamped with cards and letters from persons who attended the screening of “Music Man” at the Military Theatre. “I’ve never seen the response like it after a screening,” he said. He also invited band directors from all the high schools in Omaha and they were particularly enthusiastic . . . The 20th-Fox screening room was packed for the screening of “Judgment at Nuremberg” and United Artists said the reaction was gratifying. Mrs. Mona Pace, exhibitor at Malvern, hoped to get word from doctors as to whether she would be permitted to reopen her Empress Theatre. She suffered a broken hip about two months ago and has been in a wheel chair . . . Tony Goodman, 20th-Fox salesman, won his match on the Putt for Dough television program in competition with the father of Vicki Trickett, Omahan who has been getting some fancy screen parts in Hollywood . . . Tony and 20th -Fox Manager Frank Larson attended a sales meeting at Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Richardson of the Pawnee Theatre at Pawnee City already are getting things in readiness for their vacation in July. They will spend it in the west and plan to be gone a month . . . Herman Gould, retired exhibitor in Omaha and Nebraska, is moving from Estero, Fla., to St. Petersburg. He had a private boat dock at Estero and said he “got tired of waiting for that 30-foot launch promised by Columbia salesman Ed Cohen and Center Drive-In Theatres city manager Leo Young to arrive.” Fred Schuler, who with his wife operates the theatre at Humboldt, is shoving many of the theatre chores on his wife these days while he gets his famous strawbeiry bed in shape . . . Sol Francis, Allied Artists manager, underwent an operation last week and is doing fine . . . Irwin Beck, mayor of Wilber, will close his Moon Theatre the first of June for the summer . . . Ai’t Sunde, exhibitor at Papillion, has returned from his new farm in Arkansas. A. G. “Tidy” Miller, exhibitor at Atkinson, sent this card to Bill Wink, Allied booker, from Nassau in the Bahamas: “My wife is taking me on this all-expense tour. Sure glad the lady I married is a woman with money.” An earlier card from Winter Park, Fla., said they had arrived in Florida “by way of New Orleans, where we took the night tour. What a show!” Tidy also is a retired Atkinson postmaster, has a paint factory and has been an exhibitor about 50 years. Meyer Stern, head of American International Pictures exchange for this area, and his wife are all set to leave May 11 for the Variety convention in Dublin, Ireland. Accompanying them on the plane trip will be Omahans Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Rips . . . Bill Grenville of Quality Theatre Supply has been busy working in trips to the dentist . . . Mary Frangenberg, 20th-Fox cashier, was on a vacation . . . May Witt hauer, 20th-Fox manager’s secretary, attended an executive board meeting of the Wesleyan Service Guild at Des Moines . . . Opal Woodson, United Artists office manager, attended a meeting of the United Cerebral Palsy board. Mrs. Georgia Rasley made her first trip to Omaha in many moons. She is one of the veteran exhibitors in the state and has the Royal Theatre at O’Neill . . . Other exhibitors on the Row included Nebraskans A1 Leise, Hartington; Slim Frasier, Havelock: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schuler, Humboldt; Russell Brehm, Lincoln; Howell Roberts, Wahoo; Art Sunde, Papillion; Frank Hollingsworth, Beatrice; Warren Hall, Burwell, and Sid Metcalf, Nebraska City, and lowans Carl Harriman, Alton, and Arnold Johnson, Onawa. MILWAUKEE ^he Milwaukee Sentinel stations WISN and WSN-TV, are plugging “Boat-ARama,” which among other offerings offers a free trip to Hollywood, the studios and a possible screen test to the lucky “Miss Boat-A-Rama.” Exhibitors interested, may get in touch with the sponsors. Variety Tent 14 was host to stars of stage and screen Jack Carson and Bill Bendix, both here to appear in starring roles at the Swan Theatre. The event was another “King for a Day” celebration at Fazio’s restaurant. Ray Boyle, managing director of the Swan Theatre, signed Carson to star in “The Petrified Forest,” and Bendix in “Light Up the Sky,” which Carson will direct. Both stars were presented plaques by Chief Barker Bernie Strachota, in token of their individual contributions to the motion picture industry. 91Year-Old Exhibitor Mrs. Anna Nagle Dies SHAWANO, WIS.— Mrs. Anna Nagle, 91, owner and operator of the Crescent Theatre for many years, died recently as she sat at her desk in her office at home. One of the community’s prominent business women, Mrs. Nagle was born October 24, 1870, at Beaver Dam, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Washtock. She was married in Beaver Dam to George Nagle. After living briefly in Rhinelander, they came here to build the Ci'escent Theatre. Nagle died before it was finished, but Mrs. Nagle completed it and operated it. In recent years, Mi's. Nagle was associated in operation of the Ci'escent with her niece Eleanor and Eleanor’s husband, John Reilly. Two Phoenix Theatres Book 'The Bashful Elephant' LOS ANGELES — “The Bashful Elephant” was booked by Allied Artists to open May 23 in two Phoenix theatres, the Northern Drive-In and the Strand. A McGowan International production, the film stars Molly Mack, Helmut Schmid and Kai Fischer, and was written, produced and directed by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. NC-2 BOXOFFICE :: May 7, 1962