The Exhibitor (1955)

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MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR NT-r) ■Minn., caus('(l it to t('ar loose from its anchorins: and plung:e to th'' sidewalk durinp: theatre hours recently. No one was injured. . . . Interior wall panels and decorations at the Paradise, Mona, .Minn., w're dama>i'ed by heat and smoke 1 rom a smouldei'ing fire. The fir' ate i .s way throug:h the insulation ;n the walls and ceilinji' of the house. . . . .Aliic'd .Artist.s is ne«otiatinf>’ for the; leas( of the former U-I exchange on I'^’m Row, accoiding to Irvin>> Marks, h -inch manag:er, and may move from its present location on nearby Glenwood Aveune. . . . Thieves foi'ced open the boxofiico of the Lyceum, combination legitimate and film house opei'ated by Ren Bergei’, and made off with $160 in rolled coin. . . . Sunday motion pictures, illegal in South Dakota since 1907, were appi-oved by the Legislature sitting in Sieux Falls. Oklahoma City Funds amounting to $112.65 were raised recently at the Time, Stigler, Okla., for the Haskell County Dairy Breeders Association. The funds came from half of the receipts of a two-day run of a film at the theatre and were enough to pay off all debts of the association. Sponsor of the association is the Stigler Lion Club’s dairy committee. Bill Maddox, U-I salesman, is now back on the job after having spent sev¬ eral weeks in the hospital from an attack of penicillin poisoning. . . . Hy Martin, U-I district manager from Dallas, was in. . . . Barbara Rychlec, receptionist, MGM, has announced her engagement to Jimmy Cook, Bourlon Electric Company. They plan to be married in the eaily fall. S. B. Rucker, cashier. Paramount, and his family spent the weekend at Lake Texhoma fishing. . . . Bob Bixler, Para¬ mount publicity man, Dallas, was in. . . . Fran Johnson, contract clerk. Paramount, spent the weekend with her mother in Minco, Okla. . . . Sam Brunk, Buena Vista representative for Oklahoma, just returned from Dallas. Out-of-town exhibitors seen wei-e J. B. Seale, Seale Drive-In, Lockney, Tex., J. E. Holt, Wigwan and Holt, Coalgate, Okla.; Mrs. Bess M. Wilkie, State, Harrah, Okla.; Woody M. Minor, Pix, Wewoka, Okla.; H. B. Robb, Jr., .Admiral Drive-In, Tulsa, Okla.; Bernard J. McKenna, Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.; W. E. Jones, Star, Sand Springs, Okla.; Robert E. McFarland, Coronado and Lake Air Drive-In, Putnam City, Okla.; Ray Hughes, Liberty, Heavener, Okla., E. M. Freiburger, Dewey, Dewey, Okla.; Mrs. R. R. McCoy, Broncho and Gem, Edmond, Okla.; J. Y. Greenwood, Greenwood, Bos¬ well, Okla.; Jess Cooper, Lyric, Chelsea, Okla.; Wesley Hodges, Bulldog, Weather¬ ford, Okla.; Bill Cleverdon, Ritz, Eldorad, Okla.; A. Wilkinson, Ritz, and Joy, Comanche Okla.; C. L. Lance, El Rancho, Ringling, Okla.; Johnny Fagan, Bunavista Drive-In, Borger, Tex.; and Don C. Cole, Bison, Buffalo, Okla. Omaha Mayor John Rosenblatt proclaimed March 21-26 as “Strategic Aii Command 'Veek” marking Ihe ninth anniversary of the formation of the U. S. Air forces Strategic Air Command, headcpiartered at Offutt .Ail Force Base here. Para¬ mount’s “Strategic .Air Command’’ was jireviewed at the Orpheum with James Stewart and June .Allyson joining in. Newspapermen, magazine writers, photo¬ graphers, radio and TV commentators received special briefings at th(‘ Offutt Ba.s(' on the stiucture and plans of the S.AC. Harold D. LeMar, chairman, Oma¬ ha Chamber of Commerce, .Armed Forces Commit' ec, said the city CDiisidered it “a real privi’ege’’ to be the focal point of the event. The showing of the film also was a special p.-esentation of VistaVision on a new, giant curvilinear screen, with use of specially desigmed new horizontal projectors. The invited newsmen were flown to the Offutt Base by military air-lift fi'om Los Angeles and New York. Another feature of the event was the SAC annivei-sary at the Blackstone Hotel. St. Louis The 1955 annual meeting of the Missouri-IIlinois Theatre Ow-ners, an affiliate of the Theatre Ownei’s of .America, will be held at the Chase Hotel, St. Louis, on Nov. 21 and 22. Lester R. Kropp, president, MITO, has announced. The meeting voted to name Sid Sayetta, resident manager, Midwest Drive-In Theatres, to fill Bill Powell’s place on the MITO board of directors. In East St. Louis, Ill., the 55-year-old Avenue theatre building is being razed to make way for a new F. W. Woolworth Company store that is scheduled for com¬ pletion next November. In Manchester, Mo., a fire of undeter¬ mined origin swept through the Colonial building and also damaged two adjoining store buildings and an upstairs apart¬ ment suite. All were unoccupied. Fire Chief Joseph Seibert estimated the loss to the theatre structure and its contents at $8,()()(). The theati’e hasn’t been operat¬ ing for some months. The Manchester Drive-In, Des Peres, Mo.; 66 Park-In; and the second section of the South Twin Drive-In, have been opened for the 1955 season. Other area di'ive-in reopenings were Olney Drive-In, Olney, Ill., and the Sky-View Drive-In, Litchfield, Ill. The Olney Drive-In, own¬ ed by H. E. Coen, Robert Hill, and Clar¬ ence Young, is widening its screen and installing equipment for CinemaScope. . . . The Rendezvous Drive-In, Flora, Ill., owned by Harry Jones and his Valley Drive-In Corporation, and their Fairfield Drive-In, Fairfield, Ill., have both been equipped for CinemaScope and have widened their screens. .A number of the neighborhood and suburban theatres have recently gone to six-day operation, closing one night each week. It is understood that this ari-angement is an aftermath to the recently signed new wage scale and working agreement with Local 143 of the Moving Picture Operators Union that provides for one-man operation in a number of the theatres, increased wages, and a pension plan, etc. Ilugli McGregor, owner, Ritz, Areola, ill., is a patient in a Tuscola Ilk, lios pital. . . . Mrs. Edith Major, owner. Main Street, Paris, Mo., and also Major Drive-In there, has been confined to her home by illness. . . . W. Herschell Eichhorn, owner, Roxy, Mounds, Ill., and the 51 Drive-In, Cairo, Ill., was enjoying a few days rest at Hot Springs, .Ark. . . . Bill Griffin, booker-buyer, Rodgers Thea¬ tres, Cairo, Ill., is back on the job again, having recovered from his recent illness. . . . T. J. Bankhead, State, Bowling Green, Mo., and Mrs. Bankhead retuiaied from a Florida vacation. Harry C. Arthur, vice-president and general manager, F’anchon and Marco Inc., and Edwaid B. Arthur, general manager, Fanchon and Marco-St. Louis Amusement Company, were in New York City. . . . Eddie Clark, Metropolis, Ill., is in Texas on a visit. . . . Gladys Kaiser, biller. Paramount, started her two-week vacation and plans to move to new liv¬ ing quarters during that time. . . . Loren Cluster, Salem, Ill., and Mrs. Cluster, flew to Florida and the Bahamas. . . . Don Davis, theatre department, RCA, Kansas City, was in. . . . Isaac Landau, bookkeeper, McCarty Theatre Supply Company, is very proud of his final American citizenship papers. The Wehrenberg Circuit added 600 additional spaces in their 66 Park-In during the off season, increasing its capacity to 1,300 cars. . . . Charley Gold¬ man and George Ware visited the ex¬ changes to acquaint the personnel with the fine accomplishments of the Film Employees Welfare Fund for the needy in the industry. In Mansfield, Mo., the Mansfield, owned and operated by Howard Pryor, was closed for an indefinite period. . . . Tom Bloomer, Bloomer Amusement Company, Belleville, Ill.; Izzy Wienshienk, district manager, Publix Great States, .Alton, Ill.; and Howard Spies, formely of Cleveland, the new booker-buyer for the Midwest Drive-In Theatres, were inducted into membership of Tent Four, Variety Clubs International. When “Knock on Wood” opens its first-run engagement at the St. Louis, it will be the first time in several months that a Paramount picture has played a Fanchon and Marco-St. Louis Amuse¬ ment first-run house. The engagement is the first under a new contract that was negotiated with Paramount officials by Harry C. Arthur, Jr., general man¬ ager, Fanchon and Marco, Inc., and Ed¬ ward B. .Arthur, head, Fanchon and Marco-St. Louis .Amusement Company Circuit. The new deal breaks the road block of this important product for the subsequent run houses that key from such first-run houses. The disagreement over rental terms held up the showing of the 1954-55 pictuies here for some six months. Representatives of area theatres were prominent at the 1955 Red Cross fund drive kickoff. The signal for starting the local campaign to raise $1,150,000 was sounded in an intra-city broadcast of all radio stations. Representing the in¬ dustry were Lester R. Knopp, co-general munager, Fred Welirenbelg Theatres, and president, Missouri-IIlinois Theatre i\Iarch 30, 1955