Boxoffice barometer (1962)

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Record Details:

Title:
Boxoffice barometer
Date:
1962
Publisher:
Kansas City : Associated Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Boxoffice barometer (1961-1962)
Leaf #:
00085
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
Collection:
Year Book and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
BOXOFFICE was the leading American exhibitor trade paper of the post-World War II era. But the publication had modest beginnings. In 1920, Ben Shlyen founded the paper, orginally titled THE REEL JOURNAL, in an office located in Kansas City's Film Row district. Like other regional exhibitor publications, THE REEL JOURNAL focused its attention on the local -- in this case, KC and the nearby territories that the city's distribution exchanges served. By the end of the 1920s, however, Shlyen had acquired or founded several more small exhibitor papers serving other US markets. In 1932, their titles all changed to BOXOFFICE, though they continued to be published in regional editions for decades to follow. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
November 10, 2022
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ROSTER OF THE WHICH SELECTS THE Mional ten Council Members of the National Screen Council select the picture each month to receive the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award. This is done by mail. A list of the current releases is sent on a post card ballot for marking and returning by a specified date. The picture receiving the most votes receives the Award, and Honorable Mention is given those that so impressed the members as to receive a sizable number of votes. A space on the ballot for comment has resulted in an interesting exchange of opinion on a page devoted to the Council's appraisal of pictures. Kim; Ribbon Winners Membership in the National Screen Council comes under four classifications: Editors of newspapers and magazines, radio ar.d TV commentators, members of film councils, social, civic, and educational groups and of exhibitor organizations. The Council and the Award it selects have a threefold purpose. BOXOFFICE sponsors them to encourage the production of mo- tion pictures with appeal to the mass of regular patrons of all ages, to foster a greater public appreciation of the more whole- some type of motion picture entertainment, and to stabilize motion picture attendance on a higher average level. VELMA WEST SYKES, Chairman MARJORY L. ADAMS, Boston Globe WAYNE ALLEN, Springfield (III.) Journal Register H. VIGGO ANDERSEN, Hartford Courant STAN ANDERSON, Cleveland Press NEVART APIKIAN, Syracuse (N.Y.) Post Standard GRACE L. BARNETT, Freeport (111.) Journal Standard BILL BARR, Tampa (Fla.) Tribune EVE BARTLETT, Public Relations Counselor, San An- tonio KAY BATES, BOXOFFICE Correspondent, Phoenix ROBERT BATTLE, Nashville Banner JOHN BEAUFORT, Christian Science Monitor FRED BEERS, Perry (Okla.) Journal AMALIA MENDEZ DE BITTERLIN, Hollywood Cor- respondent, Panamanian Newspapers LOUIS V. BLAY, Steubenville (Ohio) Herald Star GEORGE BOURKE, Miami (Fla.) Herald ALAN GREY BRANIGAN, Newark Evening News ELSTON BROOKS, Fort Worth Star-Telegram HOWARD C. BROWN, Hollywood correspondent, "Movie Life" (Australia) JOHN BU3TIN, Austin (Tex.) American-Statesman NAOMI CADDEL, Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Journal HAROLD L. CAIL, Portland (Me.) Press Herald- Express GOWAN H. CALDWELL, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal LILY MAY CALDWELL, Birmingham News-Age-Herald KATE CAMERON, New York News VIVIAN CANNON, Mobile Press Register GEORGE CHRISTIAN, Houston Post INGRID CLAIRMONT, Scandinavian Press, Hollywood LEONARD CLAIRMONT, Swedish Press, Hollywood HAROLD V. COHEN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette THERESA LOEB CONE, Ookland Tribune ALTON COOK, New York World-Telegram LOUIS COOK, Detroit Free Press PAT COONEY, BOXOFFICE Correspondent, Des Moines CARL E. COOPER, Kansas City Star KIMBALL DAVIS, Binghamton (N.Y.) LEO J. DEAN, Parents' Magazine HENRY DECKER, Frederick (Md.) News-Post AMADO E. DINO, Hollywood Correspondent, Manila Post-Herald JIM DOWNING, Tulsa Tribune ALBAN A. DUBE, Fall River (Mass.) Herald News LOUIS A. ECKL, Florence (Ala.) Times AL M. ELEWITZ, Milwaukee Sentinel RUTH ELGUTTER, Toledo Times HARRY H. EVANS, Farn.ly Circle Magazine CHUCK FISHER, Movieview Magazine, Kansas City GENE FRETZ, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock JOE FITZ GERALD, Nebraska Stcfe Journal & Star, Lincoln LESTER CLARK GIFFORD, Hickory (N. C.) Daily Record RAE GILDER, Mior i Beach Sun JOHN M. GORDON, Sp ngfield (Mass.) Union Republican RALPH GREEN, Sioux roils (S.D.) Argus-Leader FRANK GROSJEAN, Sr report Journal MOTION PICTURE EDITORS MARIE HAMILTON, Editor, Green Sheet, New York ARNOLD HEDERMAN, Jackson (Miss.) Daily Clarion Ledger MRS. AUDREY HEIDINGSFELDER, Port Arthur (Tex.) News RUTH HENDERSON, Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta (Me.) GLENN HIMEBAUGH, Canton (Ohio) Repository PAUL HOCHULI, Houston Press ELINOR HUGHES, Boston Herald FRANK JACOBSON, Key West Citizen ARCH W. JARRELL, Grand Island (Neb.) Daily Inde- pendent. WILL JONES, Minneapolis Tribune EARL C. KELLEY, Concord (N.C.) Tribune HERB KELLY, Miami Daily News PAINE KNICKERBOCKER, San Francisco Chronicle DAVID V. KOCH, Dayton Journal Herald HERBERT B. KRONE, Lancaster (Pa.) New Era VIRGIL D. LANGDON, Tacoma News Tribune JAMES LEE, Worcester (Mass.) Gazette LEO LERMAN, Mademoiselle Magazine R. E. LEWIS, Topeka Journal JAMES L. LIMBACHER, Dearborn Press JOHN LONGINOTTI, Hot Springs (Ark.) Sentinel- Record RAYMOND LOWERY, Raleigh (N. C.) News and Ob- server W. H. LYTTLETON, Peoria (III.) Journal-Star RUTH MARSHALL, Rockford (III.) Morning Star MILDRED MARTIN, Philadephia Inquirer JUNE MARTINEAU, Salt Lake Tribune NAZIH MASSAAD, Hollywood Pictorial Magazine JUDGE J. MAY, Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville JEANNETTE MAZURKI, Glendale (Calif.) News Press DON LEE McCULTY, Clarksburg (W. Va.) Exponent TED F. McDANIEL, Emporia (Kas.) 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SAMPAS, Lowell (Mass.) Sun RUSS SCHOCH, American Press Institute, Columbia U., New York ROBERT SCHWARTZ, Hollywood Correspondent, for- eign press LUCILLE M. SCOTT, Atlanta Daily World WILLIAM E. SEIFERT JR., Spartanburg (S.C.) Journal B. J. SKELTON, Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register CAROL STAMY, Orlando Sentinel-Star JIMMY STARR, Los Angeles Herald & Express ADOLPH J. STERN, Camden (N. J.) Courier-Post DALE STEVENS, Cincinnati Post & Times MILDRED STOCKARD, Houston Chronicle BOB STOUT, Phoenix Gazette MARY X. SULLIVAN, Boston Sunday Advertiser HARRISON SWAIN, St. Petersburg Times BRADFORD F. SWAN, Providence Journal BYRON G. TAFT, Yankton (S.D.) Press and Dakotan LARRY TAJ IRI, Denver Post R. K. TINDALL, Shenandoah (Iowa) Evening Sentinel WARNER TWYFORD, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot BARBARA UDELL, Beloit (Wis.) Daily News WILLARD L. UNDERWOOD, Wichita Falls (Tex.) Times & Record News LESLIE A. WAHL, Saginaw (Mich.) News BOB WALTERS, Portland Oregonian HARRY WARNER JR., Hagerstown (Md.) 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