Ballyhoo (Jun 16, 1954)

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LOTS OF PRIZE $6 MONTY VERS oe cay fe the piles e) snowman oan BL%& back .and snock oub a prebby 2 Wing by rvoaching out for some of the prize money there ie loating around these days ooo Forgetting our BONANZA deal for the moment .a. FE have a note from Jimmy Naim, advising that R.K.O. have sprung for $500.00 in prise money for the best selling jobs submitted on taeiz ROB ROY ... This contest is exelusively for Famous Players! managers, with three hundred bucks for the winner in a large situation, and two hundred for top men in the smaller theatres, This is one time that I expect EVERY ONS OF MY MANAGERS, who has played, or is going to play ROB ROY, to submit a campaigns and Im not kidding ooo IE have seen prise awards go to campaigns i which in ay opinion didn't hold a candle to some of the work turned in by our gang-oo. simply because you guys ave either too rich and don’t need the extra gravy, or are just too lazy to sit down, dress up your selling job, and send it alongs Well, this time it's going to be « litiie different ooo Im not going to have Jinmy tell me there were no entries from $his gang oo. £ am personally checking all my dates on ROB ROY, and if your campaign dcesn't arrive within a veasonable time after the picture has played your theatre coo Brotherer-r ooo you're gonna hear from meo re supposed tc be Balilyhooin! showmen in this group ooo s-do.a Little ballyhooin! oso and let's knock off soma of that prize money cco At least, let us make a real try’. And that means you Olga, and Ted Boney, Bob Nelson aos T% has already played your houses, and each of you did a pretty . fair job on it-oo. Now jet's have the practical results. And the rest of you'so. Boh Harvey, Al Eartshorny, Eddie Landsborough, Art Cauley, George Forhan end dgack Ward ... Your dates are set so« GOAPTER IT .o06 I expest to hear from EVERT ONE C YOU coo Please don't make it necessary for a followeups BeBoMoLowe And watch for news of another prize sonceost from IoPobe in the next issue of BALLYHOO oo Everybody's just begg2ng to give auay dough ooo Reach ous for some of its £112 Let you buy mo a coke Af you WLR coo Hootie hot J Bd hanna my oh, g ¢ hile assistant a Quesday evening, June 8th, Bob Gampbell, eratyw : te capiter in Sua bury %eok unto himself a wite in the person af Helen Longehany. The marriage was golernized im the chapel at Sto Andrews United Church in Sudbuxye JEDDING BELLS Ou sheir return the couple will make theizs home in Toronto » whore Bob is the nowly appointed manager of the Bloor theatre. Congrasulations foika oop and nere’s &o & long, happy married life.