Boxoffice - Feb. 17, 2014

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HSSOCIATED Theatre Owners of Indiana,
Inc.. announces that Maurice
Reinking, operator of the Idaho and Swan
in Terre Haute, has become an active member,
also A. B. Tliompson of the Park and
Ritz in North Vernon.
The Associated Theatre Oicners of Indiana
has been invited to send a delegation
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to the Independent Theatre Owners of
Ohio convention to he held February 28-29
at Columbus . annual summer meeting
of ATOI will be held June 10, 11 and
12 at the Spink-Waivasee Hotel, Lake
Wawasee, Indiana. In conjunction with
this meeting will be featured the third annual
golf tournament.
Seen along the Row: Dick Vlastos, Fowler;
Roy Harrold, Rushville: Jack Van
Borssum, Terre Haute; Karl Gast, Akron;
Bob Hudson, Richmond: Mannie Marcus,
Fort Wayne; Wm. Studebaker. Logansport;
Sam Neall. Kokomo; D. D. Lee. Cayuga;
Harmon Allison, Mooresville; Joe Schilling,
Connersville ; A. McCarty. Pendleton; Abe
Kaufman, Terre Haute: Nick Paikos. Tipton;
Dick Neall, Edinburg; Harold Reekley,
Greencastle.
Al Ackerman, operator of the Tacoma.
gave away pictures of film stars to his
first 500 customers last Friday night . . .
Jim Kennedy at the Ritz is at it again. His
ushers are to have neiv uniforms soon.
Jim changes every six weeks . . . Earl Cunningham
at the Fountain Square will show
"Barricade" because of so many requests
for the film.
Tom Devine has booked Little Jack Little
and orchestra for next Sunday at his
new Music Hall . . . Dick Powell, local
Hollywood star, headlining
favorite and
this week's stage show at the Lyric, was
As part of the nation-wide drive of the
motion picture industry to raise $500,000
to aid Finnish civilians, Hoosier theatres
have set aside February 17 and 18 as "Help
Finland Days."
Sonja Heme's "Hollywood Ice Revue"
which opened on Tuesday, February 6 at
the new State Fair Ground's coliseum was
well received by Indianapolis fans. Among
first nighters of the show world were Marc
J. Wolf and wife, general manager of
Theatrical Managers, Inc.; Joe Neger, office
manager at Fox, and wife; Kurt Butler
of Columbia and wife; I. R. Holycross
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van Noy, Paramount
Theatre, Anderson; Alex Manta,
Indiana-Illinois Theatres, Chicago; Don
R, Rossiter, ATOI secretary; Earl Penrod,
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KTKOIT, MICH.
Bank Night distributor and wife; Danny
Penrod and Dean Hall of Boxoffice.
Theatrical Managers, Inc., operating approximately
20 theatres in Indiana, has
recently added a new theatre corporation
to their list, that of Y and W Management
Corp. V. U. Young is agent; the company
?ias 1,000 shares without par value; is incorporated
to operate theatres and other
amusement enterprises: Incorporators:
Marc J. Wolf. Robert R. Young and V. U.
Young.
Fort Wayne is scheduled to have a new
suburban house to be erected in the near
future by Frank Holland, former theatre
operator in Ohio . . . RKO has been working
with a short force due to the illness of
Roy Churchill, manager, who has the flu,
and Jerry Weiss, student booker, who also
has been ill . . . Mrs. Annette Kuebler,
operator of the Astra and Tivoli, in Jasper,
will be confined in a Louisville hospital
for a few weeks yet. Mrs. Kuebler
is recuperating after a major operation two
weeks ago.
C. E. Blake of the Louisville Savoy is
on the sick list. He is in a Chicago hospital
. . . Paramount exchange was visited
this week by Allen Usher, district manager
. . . S. B. Rees, operator of the Gem
in Plymouth, formally opened the new
Rees there last week . . . George A. Shauer,
co7inected with the Premier, Lake and
Memorial, in Valparaiso, with his brother
Justin Shauer, died here last week. Shauer
ivas president and treasurer of the Premier
Theatres, Inc., and had been in the
business with his brother and father for
•many years in Valparaiso.
given a royal Hoosier welcome. Many of
his friends turned out to greet him at the
station and a luncheon was given at the
^HE marquee of Fox's Strand here is
Variety Club with many local showmen in
being prettied
attendance . . . "GWTW" up with a fresh coat of
is in its third
paint . of three income tax
week at Loew's and doing sell-out business.
liens totaling $15,620, for the years 1920,
1921 and 1923, against the Majestic Theatre
Co. here, has been filed by Otto A.
La Budde, collector of internal revenue.
The theatre has since been converted into
a store building.
Fox's Orpheum in Green Bay has installed
a neiv screen and special projector
lenses for the showing of "Gone With the
Wind" . . . Stanley Lambert, manager of
the Rialto, Racine, reported the burglary
last week of cash and candy from a lobby
candy machine.
Feature of a Marinette Dollar Day promotion
in Marinette was a free show at
the Fox. Admission could be gained by
clipping a newspaper coupon . . . Robert
Guiterman staged Varsity Night at his
Capitol in Manitowoc. Gold footballs were
presented to the local high school champions
on the stage by several Green Bay
Packer stars.
With hundreds of farmers in Madison
attending Farm and Home Week in that
city, the Capitol presented the National
Barn Dance on the stage as a special program
tying in with the occasion . . . Elroy
Start on Drive-In Just
Outside Indianapolis
Indianapolis—Construction is underway
on the new drive-in being built on State
Road 67, just outside the city limits, by
Phil Smith. An RCA sound system, with
75-watt amplifier racks, has been purchased
for the ozoner, according to W. H.
Trunick. salesman.
Trunick also reports the sales of a sound
system for the new Lido in Michigan
City, to be opened around June 1 by Maurice
Rubin, and another sound system for
the new Fowler in Fowler, Ind.
500-Car Capacity House 1
For Broad Ripple Park
Indianapolis—A new open-air, drive-in
motion picture theatre with a capacity of
500 automobiles will be built in Broad
Ripple park this spring. The theatre
will occupy a ten-acre site east of the
park swimming pool, and approximately
$60,000 will be expended in construction.
Oscar Baur of Terre Haute, president
of the Terre Haute Brewing Co., is ow^ner
of Broad Ripple park which covers 62
acres. The architectural firm of Graham
and Knowlton of Indianapolis is architect
and engineer for the proposed theatre.
Donald Graham, a member of the architectural
firm, said contracts for the thea-'
tre are expected to be let within a few
days and work started immediately, with^
completion aimed for April 1. The theatre
will be enclosed.
Renovate in Roann, Ind.
RoANN, Ind.—The Eagles here has been
renovated. New seats, carpeting and
lighting have been installed.
MIIIIILWAIUKIEIE
Luedtke recently staged a Popeye Birthday
party for kids at Standard's Orpheum in
Kenosha. Besides three extra Popeye cartoons,
kids received a free candy birthday
party souvenir.
With the showing of "Gone With the
Wind at the Rex, Sheboygan, the Tipo.
Bar there offered on different days free
a Scarlett O'Hara cocktail, a Rhett Butler
cocktail, a Mississippi mule, a southern'
beauty, a Dixie whisky, an Alabama fizz,'
a Kentucky river and a Charleston, in ad-i
dition to toasted cheese sandwiches.
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The General Theatre Co. of Oshkosh
has been dissolved. Charles Loioe was
president and Mrs. Ida Loive, secretary . .
"Gone With the Wind," originally slated
to open at the Capitol in Manitoiooc. February
17, has been postponed until February
24 because it has been impossible
for distributor to keep up print commitments
with present bookings.
The Isle Theatre Co. has filed articles
of incorporation at Rice Lake with Marie
Alnes, Rose Hiemenz and Marion McCuskey
as incorporators . Drive-
In Theatres, Inc.. Boston. Mass., has been
granted a permit for the erection of a $30,-
000 theatre just west of Milwaukee.
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