Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1938)

"BOYS TOWN'' CONTINUES ITS PLACE IN FRONT BOSTON Fenway — Valley of the Giants (Para); Time Out for Murder (20th-Fox) 120 Memorial — My Lucky Star (20th-Fox), 2nd wk. ; Personal Secretary (Univ) 70 Metropolitan — Four Daughters (FN); Campus Confessions (Para) 160 Orpheum — I Am the Law (Col); The Gladiator (Col) 100 Paramount — Same as Fenway 115 State — Same as Orpheum 100 CHARLOTTE Broadway — Secrets of an Actress (WB) 100 Imperial — Valley of the Giants (WB), 1st half. 100 Imperial — Rich Man, Poor Girl (M-G-M), 2nd half 100 State — Battle of Broadway (20th-Fox), 1st half 85 State— Rollin' Plains (GN), 2nd half 95 CHICAGO Apollo — I Am the Law (Col), 2nd loop wk 85 Chicago — Sing You Sinners (Para), plus stage show 95 Garrick — Bold That Co-ed (20th-Fox), 2nd loop wk 90 Palace — Room Service (RKO), stage show, 2nd wk 100 Roosevelt — Three Loves Has Nancy (M-G-M).. 90 State-Lake — Men Are Such Fools (WB), plus stage show 75 United Artists — Algiers (DA), held 2nd wk 110 CINCINNATI Albee — Sing You Sinners (Para), held over... 120 Capitol — Four Daughters (FN), held 2nd wk...H0 Grand — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M), 3rd wk...,100 Keith’s — Road to Reno (Univ) 90 Lyric — Three Loves Has Nancy (M-G-M), 2nd wk 110 Palace — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M), held over 120 Shubert — Alexander's Ragtime Band (20th Fox), 6th wk 110 CLEVELAND Allen — Four Daughters (FN), 2nd wk 150 Hippodrome — Room Service (RKO) 85 Palace — The Garden of the Moon (FN). stage: Chester Morris, Bert Wheeler & vaudeville.. 95 State — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M) 115 Stillman — Boys Town (M-G-M), 2nd wk 150 DALLAS Capitol — Time Out for Murder (20th-Fox), 1st half 90 Capitol — Affairs of Annabel (RKO), 2nd half.. 80 Majestic — Racket Busters (WB) 90 Melba — Block-Heads (M-G-M) 85 Palace — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M) 125 Tower — Sing You Sinners (Para), 2nd wk 100 DETROIT Adams — Reformatory (Col); Keep Smiling (20th-Fox) g0 Cinema— Moonlight Sonata (Malmar), 2nd wk. . 80 Fox — Straight, Place and Show (20th-Fox), plus stage show 75 Michigan — The Texans (Para); Campus Confessions (Para) 60 Palms-State — Blockheads (M-G-M); Ambulance Chaser (M-G-M) 80 United Artists — Boys Town (M-G-M), 2nd wk... 85 INDIANAPOLIS Alamo — Riders of the Black Hills (Rep) 80 Apollo — Hold That Coed (20th-Fox) 80 Circle — Four Daughters (FN) 80 Loew's — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M) 150 Lyric — Meet the Girls (20th-Fox), plus stage show 90 KANSAS CITY Esquire — My Lucky Star (20th-Fox) good Midland — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M); The Lady Objects (Col) 160 Newman — Sing You Sinners (Para) 130 Orpheum — Four Daughters (FN) good Tower. — Hold That Co-ed (20th-Fox), plus stage show 90 Uptown — Dracula (Univ); Frankenstein (Univ). 125 (AVERAGE IS 100%) Top Hits of the Week Boys Town (dual) — New Haven. .205 Boys Town — Pittsburgh 200 You Can’t Take It With You — Omaha 185 Four Daughters (dual) — Boston. .160 Too Hot to Handle (dual) — Kansas City 160 Boys Town — Cleveland and Philadelphia (both 2nd wk. ) 150 Drums — Portland, Ore 150 Four Daughters — Cleveland, (2nd wk.) ; Portland, Ore. (dual) 150 Marie Antoinette — Minneapolis. . 150 Room Service — New York City.. ..150 Sing You Sinners (stage show) — Los Angeles 150 Too Hot to Handle — Indianapolis 150 EXTENDED RUNS Algiers, 11th wk., Los Angeles. Alexander’s Ragtime Band, 6th wk., Cincinnati; 4th wk., Washington. Boys Town, 4th wk., Portland, Ore.; 3rd wk., New York City; 3rd wk.. Salt Lake City. Marie Antoinette, 5th wk. of roadshow, New York City; 3rd wk., Cincinnati. Spawn of the North, 3rd wk., New York City. LOS ANGELES Chinese — Hold That Co-ed (20th-Fox); Mysterious Mr. Moto (20th-Fox) 125 Downtown — Valley of the Giants (WB) ; Blockheads (M-G-M) 100 Four Star — Algiers (UA), 11th wk 60 Hillstreet — Affairs of Annabel (RKO); Youth Takes a Fling (Univ) 110 Hollywood — Same as Downtown 100 Pantages — Same as Hillstreet 120 Paramount — Sing You Sinners (Para), plus stage show 150 State — Same as Chinese 110 MILWAUKEE Palace — Spawn of the North (Para); Give Me a Sailor (Para), 2nd wk 100 Riverside — Personal Secretary (Univ) ; Schnickelfritz Band 120 Strand — Love Finds Andy Hardy (M-G-M); Gateway (20th-Fox) 100 Warner — Four Daughters (FN); The Affairs of Annabel (RKO) 135 Wisconsin — Boys Town (M-G-M); Speed to Burn (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 115 MINNEAPOLIS Aster — The Gladiator (Col); Sky Giant (RKO). 100 Century — Mother Carey’s Chickens (RKO).... 70 Orpheum — Algiers (UA) 100 State — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M) 150 World — Romance of Limberlost (Mono) 70 NEW HAVEN College — Boys Town (M-G-M); Safety in Numbers (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 205 Loew-Poli — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M), moved to College for 2nd wk. 125 Paramount — Sing You Sinners (Para); Booloo (Para), 2nd wk. (6 days) 80 Roger Sherman — Valley of the Giants (WB) ; Secrets of an Actress (FN) ..110 NEW ORLEANS Center — Prison Break (Univ) 70 Globe — Love Finds Andy Hardy (M-G-M).... 80 Liberty — Club de Femmes (S-E-L-F) 75 Orpheum — Give Me a Sailor (Para) 50 Saenger — Cowboy From Brooklyn (WB) 95 State — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M) 135 Tudor — I’ll Give a Million (20th-Fox) 100 NEW YORK CITY Astor — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M), 5th wk. of roadshow 90 Capitol — Boys Town (M-G-M), 3rd wk 85 Criterion — Campus Confessions (Para) 75 Globe — Wanted by the Police (Mono) 100 Paramount — Spawn of the North (Para), 3rd wk., plus stage show 100 Radio City Music Hall — Carefree (RKO), plus stage show 100 Rivoli — Room Service (RKO) 150 Roxy — Hold That Co-ed (20th-Fox), plus stage show 100 Strand — Garden of the Moon (FN), plus stage show 125 OKLAHOMA CITY Criterion — Hold That Co-ed (20th-Fox) 80 Liberty — Men Are Such Fools (WB); Little Tough Guy (Univ) 95 Midwest — Carefree (RKO), moved to Tower.... 130 State — Man From Music Mountain (Rep); I Cover the Waterfront (UA) 110 Tower — Boys Town (M-G-M), 2nd wk 120 OMAHA Brandeis — You Can’t Take It With You (Col).. 185 Omaha — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M), 9 days... 100 Orpheum — Boy Meets Girl (WB); Gateway (20th-Fox) 120 PHILADELPHIA Aldine — Boys Town (M-G-M), 2nd wk 150 Boyd — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M) 130 Earle — Secrets of an Actress (FN), plus stage show featuring Buddy Rogers and Mary Brian 110 Fox — Straight, Place and Show (20th-Fox); American Ice Carnival on stage 100 Karlton — Four Daughters (FN), 2nd run 100 Keith’s — My Lucky Star (20th-Fox), 3rd run.. 90 Stanley — Sing You Sinners (Para) 95 Stanton — 10th Ave. Kid (Rep) 90 PITTSBURGH Alvin — Straight, Place and Show (20th-Fox) . . . 125 Barry — A Dangerous Adventure (Rep); Panamint’s Bad Man (20th-Fox) 100 Fulton — My Lucky Star (20th-Fox), 2nd wk.,.100 Penn — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M) 110 Stanley — Garden of the Moon (FN); Kay Kyser orchestra on stage 190 Warner — Boys Town (M-G-M), 2nd d. t. wk...200 PORTLAND, ME. State — Four’s a Crowd (FN); Army Girl (Rep) 125 PORTLAND, ORE. Broadway — Drums (UA) ; The Road to Reno (Univ) 150 Mayfair — Boys Town (M-G-M); Freshman Year (Univ), 4th wk 125 Orpheum — Valley of the Giants (WB) ; Safety in Numbers (20th-Fox) 100 Paramount — Hold That Co-ed (20th-Fox), plus stage show 110 United Artists — Four Daughters (FN); The Missing Guest (Univ) 160 SALT LAKE CITY Capitol — Billy the Kid Returns (Rep); Gateway (20th-Fox) 100 Centre — Straight, Place and Show (20th-Fox).. 95 Mario — The Buccaneer (Para) 105 Paramount — Too Hot to Handle (M-G-M), 2nd wk 100 Studio — Boys Town (M-G-M), 3rd wk 120 Utah — I Am the Law (Col) 115 Victory — Footloose Heiress (WB); The Last Stand (Univ) 105 WASHINGTON Capitol — My Lucky Star (20th-Fox), plus stage show 85 Columbia— Alexander’s Ragtime Band (20111 Fox), 4th wk 75 Earle — Four Daughters (FN), plus stage show. 125 Keith's — Room Service (RKO) 125 Metropolitan — Secrets of An Actress (FN).... 90 Palace — Marie Antoinette (M-G-M), 2nd wk. ..125 16 BOXOFFICE October 8, 1938