Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1962)

OMAHA Jack March of Wayne, Neb., head of the March Theatres, came out with the season’s prize birth flyer. It read: “Now Showing, Wayne Municipal Hospital, Wednesday, May 2. Matinee Performance at 2:40 p.m. Winner of Special Academy Award for Scene Stealing in 1962 — Jeffrey Philip March, in His Debut Role as ‘Diaper’ in ’Crib Side Story.’ Directed by Dr. Bob Benthack. Mack March Production in Wide Windavision and Living Color.” Mrs. March’s family name is Jeffrey. Carl White of Quality Theatre Supply I’eports a number of theatres in the area have been making improvements. Jim Travis has revamped his Century projectors at the Lakeland Drive-In at Milford, Iowa, adding water-cooled apertures and curved gates. Fred Ballantine has put in Century projectors at his drive-in at Denison. The screen at the Beatrice Crest Drive-In, damaged by wind late last season, has been rebuilt. Sid Metcalf has done some work plete details. Be sure to give seat ing or car capacity. HOLLYWOOD AMUSEMENT CO. 3750 Oakfon Sf. • Skokio, Illinois on his Trail screen at Nebraska City and repainted. Mary Frangenberg, 20th-Fox cashier, was on a vacation. Dorothy Weaver, assistant cashier, reported her mother Helen vjiabert, 80, is doing okay after an operaL.on. Her other daughter, Ruth Miller of Riverside, Calif., came home for a surprise xvlothers Day visit . . . John Irvin of the Avon Theatre at Elgin is back from a trip to Denver. He visited Norm Nielsen, former Omaha RKO manager and now manager of the plush Cooper Theatre of the Cooper Foundation Theatres in Denver. Norm took Irvin on an extensive tour of the Cinerama layout . . . Howard Kennedy opened his Broken Bow Drive-In . . . Bill Bradley has his outdoorer in operation at Neligh. Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres from New York; assistants Albert Sicignano and Walter Kaufman, and TriStates Theatres executives Don Allen and Ddu Knight of Des Moines were in to meet with Don Shane, city manager, and Carl Hoffman of the Omaha Theatre^ and inspect Tri-States’ Omaha and Orpheum h^re. The AB-PT officials also visited Minneapolis, Des Moines and other cities in he area. Tri-States is an affiliate of AB-PT. Tom Varney of the Aladdin Theatre at Broken Bow is in Europe on a month long trio . . . Opal Woodson, UA office manager, reported her mother was doing well after a slieht stroke . . . John Dugan, UA manager at Des Moines, visited the Omaha offic"". Bill Doebel, 20th-Fox booker, and ci'stoiian Ray Hudson have renewed their major league baseball war. Ray is a Dodger f^n Bill a Yankee booster. So far they have thrown everything but punches . . . Mary P nnor is the new secretary to Bill Barker ''t Co-Op Theatre Services . . . ‘‘Big Red” will open June 15 at the State. Walt Hagedone, exhibitor at the Rialto in Cozad, is busy helping corn growers in the fertile Platte Valley gird for the battle against corn root worm which last year caused wide damage. Experiments with ch micals are being carried out . . . The □ 2 years for $5 □ 1 year for $3 □ 3 years for $7 □ Remittance Enclosed □ Send Invoice THEATRE STREET ADDRESS TOWN ZONE STATE.. NAME POSITION THE NATIONAL FILM WEEKLY 52 issues a year 825 Von Brunt Bird., Kansas City 24, Mo. Grand Theatre at Ravenna produced $70 in a benefit for the high school band win... will represent Nebraska at the Seattle world’s fair late this month . . . Joe Jacobs, Columbia manager at Des Moines, was an Omaha visitor for a couple of days. Wally Johnson, former exhibitor at Friend, Neb., was in town with his wife Vivian for the antique car show and parade. Garbed in old motoring clothes, they cut quite a figure in Johnson’s prize entry. Wally has one of the finest collection of Model T’s in the country . . . Sharon and Linda, daughters of United Artists secretary Shirley Pitts, will be home from Oklahoma State University the end of the week for summer vacation. Exhibitors on the Row included Nebraskans Frank Hollingsworth, Beatrice; Jack and Phil March, Wayne; Sid Metcalf, Nebraska City; Virgil Kula, Fullerton; Bill Zedicher, Osceola; Art Sunde, Papillion; Irwin Beck, Wilber, and lowans Jim Ti'avis, Milford; Mr. and Mrs.-Val Gorham, Corning; Arnold Johnson, Onawa; S. J. Backer and A1 Haals, Harlan, and Ade Muetting, Pocahontas, who also has the drive-in at Hartington, Neb. Paul, Brother of Late Carl Reese, Omaha, Dies OMAHA— The death of Paul W. Reese marked the passing of the second of two brothers in the entertainment field within a short space of time. Carl Reese, U-I city manager in Omaha, died from injuries suffered in a South Dakota auto accident. Paul, pianist and singer, performed at many of the top theatres of the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He died at the age of 66. During the heyday of vaudeville, he accompanied such headliners as Louise Dresser and Grace LaRue. He perfonned in Orpheum theatres across the country and in London and Paris. At one time he and his sister Elsa had an act together. When vaudeville began to fade he became program director of a Los Angeles radio station and took part in the first trans -Atlantic radio broadcast from the United States to London. In the eai'ly 1940s he started a voice studio in Los Angeles. He continued to operate it until he became ill and came to Omaha. He trained many of the present professional performers. His father Theodore Rudolph Reese was a composer and performer and was director of the Omaha Musik-Verein many years. Survivors include a brother Hans, Los Angeles; sisters, Mrs. Marshall Dillon and Elsa Reese English, both of Omaha; Freda Reese Flynn, Denver, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Adrienne Reese of Omaha. Continental and Bryanston To Coproduce New Film NEW YORK — Continental Distributing, Inc., has joined forces with Sir Michael Balcon to co-produce “Don Among the Dead Men,” which will be made in England under the banner of Bryanston Productions, according to Irving Wormser, president of Continental. James Robertson Justice has been cast in the leading role of the comedy melodrama, adapted by Robert Hamer and Donald Taylor from the novel by J. H. Vulliany. The film will begin shooting in September in London and Oxford U. NC-2 BOXOFTICE :: May 21, 1962