Boxoffice - Feb. 17, 2014

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T)AVE FLAYER of the Amo incorporated
his new Loyal Theatre Co. for $50,000,
with himself as sole named stockliolder
. Cully Buermele, Co-op general manager,
vacationing in parts unknown, has
decided to stay away till March 1, friends
report.
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Shrine Circus calling local showfolks—
Bill Carlson, ex-chief barker of Variety,
is "barking" up there daily; Frank Lorenzen,
is
the theatrical florist, usher every
day; Fred Schader, former Fox exploiteer,
and Mac Krim, circuit owner, were
among those in Tuesday's crotvds.
Sol Krim has left for Florida . . . Ray
Schreiber, owner of the Colonial, with his
associate, WUliam Graham, and Sol Berns,
booker, was away on a week's trip to New
York to buy shows.
Paul Sander, Berni Miller and Bob Wilson
of the Chicago office of American
Guild of Variety Artists, were in town
looking over the theatre situation . . .
Lloyd Hammond, independent producer,
was a victim of indigestion . . . Polly
Pollard. Republic booker, and prexy of the
Film Bowling League, was stopped from
boivling for a couple of weeks by a torn
ligament in his right hand.
The two Robinsons—Harold and Arthur
—were lunching together Thursday, with
Bill Flemion of Excellent as the innocent
bystander . . . Jack Hurford of the Fox
is taking bets it's twins in May . . . David
M. Idzal, managing director of the Fox,
returns from a three-week trip to California.
sick list . . .
Theatrical Post Notes: George V. Clancy,
musicians official, recovered from recent
Ruben Rosenfield on
illness . . . Max Kolin, Post Commander,
Jack Ferentz.
has a next) Chevrolet . . .
musicians busiiiess agent, went ice fishing
with a can of peas for bait.
Sam Brown, circuit owner, has moved
among the elite, out in Palmer Woods,
while his dad stays on Boston Blvd. .
Alex Schreiber, breaking bread at Greenfield's
at 2:00 a. m., thinks the Loop
Lew Wisper, we hear, is at the Miami-
Biltmore, Floridifying . . . Anne O'Donnell
and Bill Flemion, Excellent's bosses, are
off on a business trip to New York.
G. E. Leveque, of Cinema Service, has
returned from New York where he attended
the national Poster Ass'n meet .
Ben Zimner, UA, sporting a newly ornamented
nose, said a razor did it . .
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W. R. Stebbins, Film Building manager,
had an important date in Ann Arbor
Saturday.
William G. (Bill) Bishop. M-G-M district
publicity chief, arrived Monday, to
run the press rooms in Detroit, barely had
a spare moment but managed to renew
his Detroit acquaintances . . . Warren
Slee, Detroit's M-G-M exploiteer, slipped
off to Port Huron Wednesday. Mrs. Slee
loas a pressroom visitor Thursday.
A. D. Dickerson has been kept busy
resurfacing screens lately . . . George Mc-
Arthur has a second son, George jr., entering
Lawrence Institute of Technology.
WOLVERINE DOINGS:
Mitchell Leisen of Menominee is director
of Paramount's "Remember the Night."
his 13th film . . . Floyd Chrysler, M-G-M
state salesman, is readying his craft, the
"Waunetta," for the lakes.
Ollie Brooks, Butterfield head booker.
^HE stork was generous to filmites the
past week. Mrs. Andrew Niedenthal,
wife of the operator of the Belvedere, Mt.
Adams, presented him with a boy. The
future exhi'oitor is a grandson of Mrs.
Charlie Niedenthal, operator of the Evanston
here. Jimmy Russell, proprietor of the
Russell, Alderson, W. Va., also is the proud
parent of a boy.
Warner's Ruth Reynolds is on the sick
list, as is Metro's Katherine Marsh . . .
was up in Port Huron for a week in advance
of the Edison premiere.
Interlochen Music Camp, up near Traverse
City, is slated to be the locale of
a Paramount feature, probably using the
camp name as title—to be filmed next
summer.
A. Milo DeHaven, manager of the 'Woodward
Grand and Belmont in Highland
Park, is keeping a complete file of exploitation
and reviews from Boxoffice,
. going "way back when" De
Haven is leaving for Rochester, Minn.,
for an operation. He will join her later.
Harry Lush, of Plymouth and Northville,
was a visitor to John Howard of
Paramount and Sam Seplowln of Republic—they
claim he's a permanent fixture
there.
Fred Willett has opened the new Rudyard
at Rudyard, near the Soo, and the
first house in the town . . . D. A. Kooker
has the "biggest little circuit" in Michigan—four
theatres, at Bruces Crossing,
Ewen, Sidnaw and Trout Creek—total
seats, 710.
E. V. Smith, RCA representative. Is back
from a trip up near the Straits . . . Mrs.
Elizabeth Moon of Charlevoix, is in Flori-
Harold Schuckert has his new Cass
City Theatre, at the town of the same
name, ready for opening February 28.
The old one burned last fall.
,
should do a good night business.
Mrs. John Walter. Huntington, W. Va.,
Paramount doings: John W. Brown,
has purchased the Park there
noio
from James
at Indianapolis, writes back how easy
Rodgers . Hyman's Keith-Albee, Charley Schroeder, local Warner sales
it
is to get a meal there and how he
Huntington, did a record business on "The accessory manager, is spending quite a bit
likes
the town . . . Bea Mattingly. John
Hunchback
Harvard's
secretary, has always lived in De-
of Notre Dame." The house, of time in the booking department these
which seats approximately 3,000, held the days . . . Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Kiesling.
troit, except three years in California
feature six days.
Kiesling & Newboldt circuit, spent several
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days here booking and shipping. While
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Jack Ryder, salesman, still windoiv shopping
for a new car and coat.
with his new theatre in Jackson, Ohio, a Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Eifert . . . "Grapes
Curtis Childers is getting along nicely here they were dinner guests of Warner's
480-seater
Joe Tracy, who used to book
which he expects to have ready
for 'Warner,
is manager of Jack Broder's new Time by May 1 . . . George Delos has taken Washington's birthday for an extended
of Wrath" opens at the RKO Palace on
over the Strand, Portsmouth. He also
'West, of Burriss Studios, got a
run at increased prices with a ^0-cent top.
operates the
letter from his wife in the Great Southwest.
Garden.
Metro's "Red" Devanney came in for a
Lou Wiethe's opening of his new West-
two-column spread in the Enquirer, apropos
Charlie Garner is distributing the Dewood
unth an invitational preview of "Abe a request from the studio for a large ii^
Lincoln in Illinois," was the event
Mille production, "King of Kings," in the
of the bear tame enough to work without a leash.' |„,
iceek.
territory Robert Bernstein and Theodore
A representative gathering of exhibitors
Devanney's nearness to Cincinnati's zoo- 'HI
David are new M-G-M student
and film folk attended . . .
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Reservations
for the Cinema Club's first an-
is not unusual when wild animals are
logical gardens brought the request, which -;
salesmen
here.
nual installation dinner, a stag affair, are needed on location in Hollywood . . . Columbus
Metroites were out frolicking at a
and Dayton scribes were guests
in the hands of RKO's Al Kolitz. Two
sleigh-ride Thursday . Collins dollars and fifty cents entitles one to cocktails,
of Metro at the preview of "Young Tom
presented his Star Dust Revue at the
Edison" at Port Huron. Mich. Cincinnati
a dinner and a revieiv to be staged
Variety Club Saturday night.
by Col. Arthur Frudenfeld. Judge Hand-
writers were unable to make the journey.
ley ivill be toastniaster . The place is the
Variety Club, the date, February 23.
Gene Custer is reopening the Princess,
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Lewisburg, W. Va., for Saturday-Sunday -
operation. Mrs. L. P. Dysard, widow of v.
the former owner, will be cashier .
Columbia is setting its sails for the A.
Montague "15th Anniversary Campaign,"
February 17 to May 10 . . . Bill Onie's
testimonial jubilee, "March for Monogram,"
is in full swing. Onie, incidentally,
is taking a short rest at Hot Springs.
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