Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1962)

OMAHA pjazel Dunn, exhibitor at Valentine, has been in California with her niece, Mrs. IDorothy Cooper, who underwent lung surgery last month . . . Two exhibitors went in opposite directions on a recent weekend to visit their children and see football games. Ed Osipowicz of Correctionville went to Ames where his son is a student at Iowa State University. Irv Dubinsky of Lincoln and his wife journeyed to Boulder, where their youngest daughter is a student at the H QUALITY S U PROJEaiON C R Super-Optica R c L c E C Y REAL ECONOMY N S AMERICAN THEA. SPLY. CO.. Sioux Falls. S. D. OES MOINES THEA. SPLY. CO.. Des Moines, la. MINNEAPOLIS THEA. SPLY CO.. Minneapolis, Minn. HURLEY SCREEN COMPANY, INC. 96-17 Northern BIvtI. Corona 68, N. Y. WATCH PROJECTION IMPROVE with a Tbchnikote ^ * PRODUCTS Now! — The Only ’ ^5 » ANTI-STATIC SCREEN XR-171 Poorl • R«p«la Diut I Available from your authorized I I Theatre Equipment Supply Dealer: I I Export— Westrex Corp. I ItICHNIKOTE CORP. 63 Seobring St„ B'kiyn 31, N.Y. | University of Colorado, and saw the University of Nebraska beat the Buffalos in the Colorado homecoming game. George March, exhibitor at Vermillion, S.D., was back from a hunting trip to the west . . . Phil Lannon, West Point exhibitor, went to Gregory, S. D., to hunt pheasants. Nebraska hunters reported the birds were hard to find in the thick cover as the season opened in the state recently . . . Leonard Leise, who has the theatre at Randolph, is also county surveyor and has been busy on that job in the Laurel area. Dorothy Weaver of the 20th-Fox staff got caught in a squeeze play between a truck and another car. She had stopped at an intersection and the driver behind her reported his brakes didn’t hold, Dorothy said . . . Gary Miller, 20th-Fox shipper, not long ago was the middle man in a three-car accident of the same nature . . . Howard Kennedy, owner of the Bow Theatre at Broken Bow, went to Seattle in time to see the World’s Fair before it closed, and visited his son there. It looked like the gathering of the Omaha distribution clan in Lincoln one day recently when Pat Halloran of Buena Vista, Sol Francis of Allied Artists and Ed Cohen of Columbia were in town. Also there were Charles Caligary, Paramount, Des Moines, and Frank Thomas of Kansas City . . . S. J. Backer, Harlan, Iowa, exhibitor, was in Omaha after recovering from an illness. Filmrower Ann Cummings is a firm believer in the tradition that the show must go on. Filmrowers did a double-take when they spotted Ann wheeling a film truck from the U-I office down the street to the 20th-Fox screening room to meet the scheduled shov.?ing of “Stage Coach to Dancers Rock.” Filmrowers were saddened by the death of Rasmus “Ras” Anderson, 65, who was a shipper in Omaha for many years before his retirement. He was one of the Row’s “the industry’s first supplier of the last word in advertising” 219 -223 No. 16th Si. Phone 346-2688 P M A HA. NEBRASKA favorite people . . . The Buena Vista office received a card from booker Sam Deutch, a native New Yorker. Sam, back there on vacation, took the midwestemers’ favorite trip, a ferryboat ride around the waterfront. Exhibitors on the Row included Nebraskans Walt Austin, Plainview; Bill Zedicher, Osceola; Howard Buirus, Crete; Sid Metcalf, Nebraska City; lowarrs Arnold Johnson, Onawa; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson, Red Oak; Cecil Waller, Ida Grove and Red Oak; Jim Carleton, Griswold, and South Dakotan Eskel Lund, Viborg. DES MOINES ^hief Barker Gary Sandler reports that Variety’s 19th annual Christmas party will be held December 10 at the Jewish Community Center. The usual potful of prizes will be offered and festivities will get under way at 7:30 p.m. This is the local tent’s biggest event of the year and always di-aws guests from a wide area. Des Moines is one of the 35 cities where “The War Lover” will be exploited on land and in the air, according to Columbia Manager Joe Jacobs. Henry Hollander was in Des Moines from the Columbia home office late in October setting up plans for the campaign. A B-17 is due to arrive here from Minneapolis at 3 p.m. November 6, amid vapor trails and banners heralding the film. The Flying Fortress will bring news and TV men from the Twin Cities and will remain on display at the Municipal airport here until 8 a.m. on the 7th, when it will take off for Omaha with a Des Moines contingent aboard. “War Lover” opens here on the 21st at the Paramount. If you’re older than 10, October 30 can be a miserable birthday, observes Betty Olson of Paramount whose mother, Mrs. Cecile Culp, came into the world on that day set aside for “trick or treats.” For years, Betty has entertained at a birthday dinner for her mother, and for years the mashed potatoes have grown cold and the cocktails warmed because of interruptions by neighborhood goblins who stopped by to turn a somersault or lisp a riddle. This year Betty decided to celebrate Mother Culp’s birthday a week early. In lieu of the former “floor show,” Kizzie Utay entertained dinner guests by reading tea leaves. S. R. Nothem of the Vogue Theatre at Remsen was in town for a day recently . . . At Warners, office manager Joe Ancer enjoyed an autumn vacation. Earlier, Myrtle Bechtal, WB cashier, spent some of her vacation in Chicago . . . According to reports at Tri-States, Dick Langridge, manager of the Capitol at Grand Island, was to be wed in early November . . . Wedding bells rang out recently for Roger Hanson, assistant manager at the Omaha Drive-In . . . Art Thiele’s Des Moines Theatre Supply sold a complete stage drapery outfit to the Tri -Center Community High School at Neola. The Reinbeck Commercial Club is seeking financial suport and hopes to reopen the Reinbeck Theatre, closed the last year . . . Margaret Rowson, MGM, spent a recent weekend at Omaha where she visited her niece who is a student at Creighton University. NC-2 BOXOFFICE :; November 5, 1962