Boxoffice - Feb. 17, 2014

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'Most Rabid Extant"—
Which is how RKO describes Gladys
Thomas. She is a fan. regards Snow
White as her favorite star and. so
states Rutgers Neilson, rode a bus all
the way from Alexandria. Pa., in a
determination to buy the first ticket
for the regular run of -Pinocchio" at
the Center. That's not all. Neilson
says she bought it.
Ur RAY JOHNSTON is back on the job
after a week of a severe cold . . . E. W.
Aaron, assistant to William F. Rodgers at
M-G-M, has set March 14 as his Florida
departure date . . . Ruth Rich, secretary
to Gus S. Eyssell at the Music Hall, is taking
in a Miami vacation . Wyler
is here from Hollywood with his wife
. . . John S. Harrington, manager of
Monogram's print and accessories departnent,
is on a six weeks tour of 29 exjhanges
that will take him as far as
Seattle . . . Harry Goldberg, director of
idvertising and publicity for the Warner
;ircuit, will be the principal speaker at the
Philadelphia Cinema Club's annual banquet,
February 20 . . . Lionel Toll is on a
Florida vacation ... F. J. A. McCarthy is
:ack from a business trip to Nashville . . .
Harold Rodner of Warner has gone to the
;oast to supervise the selection of stars
ind arrangements for filming the annual
iVill Rogers short subject.
George J. Schaefer is due from an exended
coast visit Monday . E.
Oepinet preceded him earlier iji the loeek
. . Harry Cohn and Nate Spingold headed
I'or Florida over the weekend . . . Jack
'^ohn left the same time, but in the direcion
of Hollywood . . . Sidney Kent is taking
all the Everglades State has to offer
. . Joe Moskowitz. his coast trip on and
^ff for mo7iths, still undetermined about
'lis trek west . Skouras is back
'ram Florida, bearing visible evidence of
xposure to the sun and strange contrast
heaps of white snow . G.
iobinson has returned to the coast to belin
work in ''Brother Orchid" . . . Stanley
land, Altec's staff representative, is
iround again after a business trip in
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the mideast territory . . . Nate Blumberg,
with New York snoio reports handy,
is figuring on stretching his Florida holiday
another week.
Hortense Schorr, according to schedule,
should be in Florida by this time . . .
Bill
Jaffa has returned after a month in those
parts . . . Bill Pine dipped in and out and
now is back in Hollywood. Had been in
Canada in connection with the forthcoming
De Miller on the Northwest mounted
police . . . Rube Jackter says it's Miami for
Skouras. The itinerary then calls for
shuttling back to the M-G-M studios and
home on March 5 . . . Will Hays is due
from the coast Monday .
two
weeks confinement to the Lenox Hill Hospital
where he underwent an operation
for gallstones, the condition of Joseph
Bernhard, Warner circuit head, was described
as "a little better—he'll be here
for some time." . . . Columbia is dickering
for the services of a prominent Broadway
stage director—initials H. S. . . . June
Duprez, feminine lead in "The Thief of
here.
is
Capt. Dennis F. O'Brien returned from
the coast over the weekend after checking
up on the late Douglas Fairbanks' estate
. . . Bill Scully says "My Little Chickadee"
is going into the Roxy, but a date hasn't
been set yet . . . Joe McConville is back
from Mexico and Cuba . . . George W.
Weeks is due back soo7i from a tour of
Monogram exchange centers, his last as
sales manager far the company. He is planning
eight westerns a year for Monogram,
is understood to have his financing set and
may make an additional exploitation picture
or two . . . Jay Eisenberg finally gets
away and off on his Miami vacation Friday
. . . John Stahl is planning to leave
for the coast in a feio days now that he
has sufficiently recovered from an illness
which bedded him for two weeks.
Spyros Skouras, Eddie Zabel and John
Healy are remaining over on the coast.
Powers and Harvey Cox already have
Bill
returned from the National Theatres meeting
Margaret Clancy, secretary to
. . . Walter Gould of UA went to Atlantic City
Skouras, is vacationing at Lake Placid . . .
for a rest following a short illness . . .
Bob Gillham leaves the middle of the week
for three weeks of fishing in Florida
waters . . . Another Florida vacationist
is Walter J. Hutchinson of 20th-Fox . . .
Manhattan sightseer is Miriam Hopkins
WUliam Wylers to Lake Placid.
Hal Home, Roy Disney. Ned Depinet
and Bill Levy took time out Tuesday to
give the Center marquee the once-over
on "Pinocchio" Murray left
.
Thursday for Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake
City, Butte, Seattle, Portland, San Fran-
cisco and Los Angeles on a visit to Uni-
That Packard in
exchanges . .
front of the Warner home office with the
license plate E S-60 is the property of Grad
Sears, if you must know, the "E" being
his wife's initial.
Jimmy Roosevelt next week continues on
an exhibitor contact tour, with Washington,
Baltimore and Philadelphia among
the first areas to be visited on behalf of
"The Bat," first Roosevelt-Globe production
for UA . . . Al Zimbalist, Warner
Philadelphia exploiteer, spent the weekend
with his folks in the Bronx ... J. J. Milstein
is on a southern holiday . . . The
name of Charlie Sonin's grandson—the
him in about two weeks now . . . Irving
Dollinger, New Jersey operator, is in Havana
... He plans to meet up somewhere
along the line with a neighbor, Lee Newbury,
Allied of New Jersey president, who first by the way—is Bruce Jay Meyers. He
is touring the southern cities and islands weighed six pounds, nine ounces, when delivered
at Polyclinic Hospital ... J. Rob-
F. Rodgers went from Port
Huron, where the Henry Fords helped ert Rubin was in Washington last week in
celebrate the premiere of "Young Tom Edison"
to Lake Arrowhead, where he is go-
supreme court on an appeal of the "Letty
connection with oral arguments before the
ing to meet and loll around with Spyros Lynton" decision.
Greatest testimonial to the memory of
the late Heywood Broun was the crowd
that overflowed the Manhattan Opera
House at the Newspaper Guild memorial
meeting. It was conducted in a spirit
Broun ivould have preferred best. There
were revealing anecdotes, complimentary
comments over his poker playing, and
above all, praise for the writer and th»
man. Many film people were there. Edward
G. Robinson spoke briefly about
Broun, the dramatic critic, and the inspiration
he furnished to all of the stage.
One of Broun's earlier works, "Seeing
Things at Night," ivas purchased by Nunnally
Johnson. The best story of the
evening was told by Quentin Reynolds.
It seems W. R. Hearst offered Broun an
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'Ml, Van" on Coast—
Otherivise, W. G. Van Schmus (center),
managing director of the Radio
City Music Hall in Neiv York, pays a
visit to Charles Boyer and Director
Anatoli Litvak on the set of "All This
and Heaven. Too," at the Waryier
studio.