Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1963)

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RATES: 20(i per word, minimum $2.00, cash with copy. Four consecutive 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 24, Mo. • CLEfiRine HOUSE HELP WANTED SALESMAN wanted to represent firm selling outdoor advertising in conjunction with theatre display frame service. Opportunity to build for future. Exclusive territory available. Contact Romax-Vide Co., Chetek, Wisconsin. Wanted: Experienced Manager. References necessary. Write Associated Independent Theatres, 2075A Newbridge Road, Bellmore, L.I., N.Y. Manager-Projectionist. Aggressive young man. Must know advertising, promotion and concession operation. Write age, education, references, salary expected and send snapshot. Lyon Theatre Circuit, Franklin, Virginia. Manager wanted: Experienced, aggressive for De Luxe 1st run drive-in. Start $125.00 weekly, immediately. Drive-in experience preferred, but not essential. HELLMAN ENTERPRISES, 251 NO. 13th STREET, PHILADELPHIA 7, PA. Wanted: Experienced manager for A class theatre situated in town of 45,000, in western South Dakota. Give complete details concerning salary expected, age, promotional ability, and references. Write Box 575, Deadwood, South Dakota. POSITIONS WANTED Theatre Executive specializing in driveins. Expert boxoffice promotion, concession operation, advertising, etc. Employed, references, desire locate Boston area. Boxoffice 9649. College graduate, experienced in all phases of motion picture, TV distribution, circuit buying-booking. Will relocate. Excellent references, Boxoffice 9651. Drive-In District Manager, am looking for a progressive drive-in circuit that has need for a man with a lot of get-up and go. Now employed. Boxoffice 9658. Advertising Director — Available now, top exploitation and publicity man, excellent ad artist. Prefer connection with small circuit in southern California or Southwest. Best of references. Boxoffice 9657. Wanted: Job as projectionist. Fully qualified with 30 years experience. Must state all duties in first letter. Boxoffice 9617. EQUIPMENT REPAIR SERVICE GATORHIDEI Guaranteed reflectormender saves broken reflectors! Kwikshipped postpaid, $2.95. GATORHIDE, BOX 71, JOPLIN, MISSOURI. BUY! SELL! TRADE! FIND HELP OR POSITION Through BOXOFFICE Classified Advertising Greatest Coverage in the Field at Lowest Cost Per Reader 4 insertions for the price of 3 GENERAL EQUIPMENT— NEW Bargains in equipment — E-7 Mechanisms, Magnarc lamps and 1 KW lamps-rectifiers-amplifiers, etc. What do you need? Lou Walters Sales & Service Co., 4207 Lawnview Ave., Dallas 27, Texas. GENERAL EQUIPMENT— USED Complete RCA sound system, $450; Magnarc lamps, $275; Hertner generator, 70MO, $175; Brenkert BX-80 projectors, $150. Boxoffice 9650. WONDERFUL VALUE1 Government surplus E7 mechanisms, A1 condition, guaranteed, only $349.50 pair; change-overs, $22.50 pair. STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 621 WEST 55TH STREET, NEW YORK 19. 2 Chrysler Airtemp 50-ton air conditioning compressors. Model ARC-15. Complete 50 HP, 60 cycle motors. Allis Chalmers reduce voltage starters. BOXOFFICE 9653. For Sale: Projection-booth equipment, complete; 400 soft seats, $2.00 each. 45 HP motors and fans. KLOCK THEATRE, NEODESHA, KANSAS. EQUIPMENT WANTED Wanted: Used BRENOGRAPH EFFECTS MACHINE, Princess Pat Theatre, Alberton, P.E.I. Wanted — 2 used cut-awls in good condition. Write MONOTAG, P.O. Box 2527, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. Wanted — Bodiform or Pushback seats in good condition. Must stand inspection. One thousand or more. A. E. Schalla, 1307 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago 5, 111. Wanted — 100 and 135 AMP. rectifiers; 100 to 135 AMP. arc lamps; XL projectors; late model seats and other booth equipment. Harry Melcher Enterprises, 3238 West Fond Du Lac Ave., Milw. 10, Wisconsin. HI 2-5020. DRIVE-IN THEATRE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE BASKET REPLACEMENT for the old type No. 9434A RCA junction boxes. Replaces both baskets. Mounts on top of junction box. Easy to install. Sample and price list 65c. Best R/C Mfg. Co., 3211 St. John, Kansas City 23, Mo. PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT Playground Equipment — Theatre chairs, leatherette. LONE STAR SEATING, Box 1734, Dallas. BUSINESS STIMULATORS Bingo, more action! $4.50 M cards. Other games available, on, off screen. Novelty Games Co., 106 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Build attendance with real Hawaiian orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers of Hawaii, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los Angeles 5, Calif. Bingo Cards. Die cut 1, 75-500 combinations. 1, 100-200 combinations. Can be used for KENO, $4.50 per M. Premium Products, 339 West 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. Burlesk or Exploitation features (35mm) available. Mack Enterprises, Centralia, Illinois. For drive-ins "WINKY" car mascot. A must for every car. Arms, legs, moveeyes wink-cute, inexpensive. Write Box 248, Pulaski, Wis. MISCELLANEOUS FILMSLIDE INSERTS. Whitley, 2123 Stanley. Fort Worth 10. Texas. Buy, sell, exchange movie stills, books, magazines, pressbooks, posters, advertising material from 1950 and back. MEMORY SHOP, BOX 365, COOPER STATION, N.Y.C., GR 3-2404. POPCORN MACHINES Brand new counter model, all electric. Capacity, hundred portions per hour, $199.00. Replacement kettles all machines. 120 S. Halsted, Chicago 6, 111. THEATRES FOR SALE West Coast theatres for sale. Write for list. Theatre Exchange Company, 260 Kearney Street, San Francisco 8, California. Completely furnished 600-car modern theatre in western Kentucky. Season starting. Owner-operator. No opposition in 30 mile area. 60,000 population. First $45,000 takes all. CLARK SMITH, 3425 AMHERST, DALLAS, TEXAS. AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. Art exploitation house. Louisville, Ky. In operation now. Excellent condition. No money down. 8 yecrr lease. App. $10,000 buys everything except 4 walls. Boxoffice 9655. 300-car drive-in theatre. North Woodstock, N.H. — heart of White mountains. RCA equipment, modern snack bar, 100 ft. screen on about 100 acres of very valuable land, soon may be intersection of Interstate 93. $40,000 down — balance terms. Deer Park Enterprises, Inc., North Woodstock, N.H. For Sale — 600-seat indoor theatre in north central Minnesota. County seat, good tourist area. Excellent equipment and beautiful building. Easy terms. Boxoffice 9659. For Sale: 650-seat indoor theatre. Good condition. Progressive Alabama city — county seat. In operation now. Doing good business. Available immediately. Boxoffice 9660. THEATRES FOR LEASE University Theatre, 105th & Euclid, Cleveland. Fully equipped, busy thoroughfare. Contact William Berger, 816 Vine Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio. Phone F1A 1-0700. THEATRES WANTED Wanted to Buy or Lease: Indoor theatre in metropolitan areas, population at least 75,000. Contact William Berger, Metropolitan Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Wanted to Buy or Lease: Indoor theatre in Metropolitan area. Population at least 200,000. Contact Harry Wald, 506 St. Charles St., St. Louis, Mo. FILMS WANTED Sound and Silent 35mm films wanted. Features and shorts. Private collection. Kidder, 1711 15th Ave., Greeley, Colorado. ON LOCATION FILMING— 35mm CAN YOU AFFORD not to offer— Business-Professional men . . . what they want in screen ads . . . again this year? WHEN the entire ad can be filmed . . . tailormade “on the spot1' in COLOR with sound . . . for only $60.00. That's what they want . . . we guarantee youl OFFER 'EM . . . then send for WINCO . . . We film anything for theatres. BOX 1595, Columbia, S.C. SOUND-PROJECTION MAINTENANCE MANUAL & MONTHLY SERVICE BULLETINS SAVE FROM 20 to 40 per cent in projection room operation. Theatre owners, managers, projectionists, circuits, send TODAY for Trout's Loose-Leaf Service Manual and Monthly Service Sheets. Maintenance data on projectors, arc lamps, generators, lenses, screens; service data on theatre sound systems, amplifiers, preamplifiers, speakers, soundheads, drives, etc. New transistor sound systems. Data on 16, 35/70mm equipment. Course on sound servicing; schematics and pictures. The “Blue Book1' of the industry. Edited by the writer, 12 years technical editor of Modern Theatre. Service Manual and Monthly Sheets only $7.50; cash or check. No CODs. WESLEY TROUT, Publisher, Box 575, ENID, OKLAHOMA. THEATRE TICKETS Prompt Service. Special printed roll tickets, 100,000, $40.75; 10,000, $13.75; 2,000, $5.95. Each change in admission price, including change in color, $4.25 extra. Double numbering extra. F.O.B. Kansas City, Mo. Cash with order. Kansas City Ticket Co., Dept. 11, 109 W. 18th Street, Kansas City 8, Mo. THEATRE SEATING We specialize in rebuilding opera chairs. Our 40 years experience is your guarantee. Factory trained men ao the job properly. Write for our low prices. We go anywhere. Chicago Used Chair Mart, 829 So. State St., Chicago 5, Illinois. Phone WEbster 9-4519. SEAT RENOVATING: Neat, fast, reasonable, anywhere. Sewed combination seat covers. Service Seating Co., 1525 West Edsel Ford, Detroit 8, Michigan. Tyler 8-9481, Texas 4-2738. Chairs rebuilt anywhere, 27 years expert workmanship, sewed covers. Arthur Judge, 2100 E. Newton Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wanted: Late model theatre chairs — must have self-rising cushions. Write HAYES SEATING CO., INC., MONTOUR TALLS, N.Y. INTERMISSION TAPES Drive-In's: Increase your snack bar receipts . . . Pre-show and intermission tapes that sparkle . . . Guaranteed to sell . . . Personalized . . . Free sample. Commercial Sound Service, P.O. Box 199, Cheyenne, Wyoming. MARQUEE LETTER REPAIRING Repair Plastic Marquee Letters. PLASTIC WELD, $6.50 pint, no COD. National Theatre Supply or Plastic Weld, 424 E. Hull, Denison, Texas. Handy Subscription Order Form BOXOFFICE: 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 24, Mo. Please enter my subscription to BOXOFFICE, 52 issues per year (13 of which contain The MODERN THEATRE Section). □ $3.00 FOR 1 YEAR □ $5.00 FOR 2 YEARS □ $7.00 FOR 3 YEARS □ Remittance Enclosed □ Send Invoice THEATRE STREET TOWN STATE NAME POSITION BOXOFFICE :: April 8, 1963