NOVEMBER

I
OMAHA—Chief
I It
1 Preceding
,
This
'"ed if,-
"iteisi,.
Twin Cities Homewood
November 15,
Northwest Variety
BOXOFFICE :: 1952
Banquet on Dec. 8
MINNEAPOUS—The Northwest Variety
:Iub will hold Its anniml banquet the evening
bf December 8 at the Nicollet hotel, when the
University of Minnesota will present a plaque
Tribune which quoted him a.s atutlnK that the
X) the club In appreciation of the club's
iccompllshment In brlnglnR to successful
'rulUon the heart haspltal on the campus.
was the club's greatest philanthropic
project and more than $500,000 was raised to
juUd and equip It. Moreover, the club Is
aUlng an additional $25,000 annually to help
iTialntaIn the hospital, the only one In the
Jnlted States devoted solely to the treatment
i)( and research Into heart ailments.
the dinner, cocktails and hors
i'eouvres will be served. Gov. E. E. Anderson
bt Minnesota and other dignitaries will be
the club's guests and there'll be a program
If speaking and entertainment. The affair
the
*1U be for women as well as men and
Homewood's neighborhood
give It to
ilckets will be
a
$7.50 each.
competing theatre.
first run and
Lowell Kaplan has been named chairman
)f the ticket committee. Other committee
Inembers include Fay Dressell. Charles Ru-
'jenstein. Ben Meshbesher. Ralph Pielow,
Alltime Employment High
Reached in Minnesota
yyron Adcock. Sim Heller and George Cran- MINNEAPOLIS— Full employment Is a favorable
'trom.
factor for the states exhibitors cur-
rently. More workers held jobs in Minne.sota
in September than ever before in the state's
New State at Pierre, S. D.,
history, according to a report by Victor
To Have Third-Dimension Christgau. director of the state employment
service.
PIERRE. S. D.—The new State, being
jullt here by Leo Peterson and Bert John-
The alltime high of employed people
-on. will be the first of the
reached
territory's
843,654,
thea-
Christgau announced. This
;res to have a special booth and other equipiient
necessary for three dimensional films
job figure, he stated, is 27,772 more than in
August and 12,885 above the previous high of
)roduced by Natural Vision and
830,769. It
requiring
covers all nonagricultural employment.
Christgau also said that new employ-
jatrons' use of Polaroid spectacles.
ment peaks have been
is planned
reached in every
to open
September
since the
the showhouse next
January
Korean war
with
began.
Natural Vision's initial feature.
i'Swans Devil." The theatre will replace one
-hat was destroyed by fire.
Newest Oil Field Named
For Star Greer Garson
Variety Ticket Sales
KIMBALL. NEB.—Kmiball county's newest
Good for Xmas Party
oil field nine miles southeast of Kimball has
Barker
been
Jack Renfro
named after
anhounced
that salesmen took up
Greer Garson. screen actre.ss
who has an interest in
the ticket
the Sloss-State
No. 1 di.scovery well.
Miss Garson is scheduled to visit Kimball
soon to dedicate the field, which is one of
Blackstone November the most promising in the growing development
of Nebraska's oil industry.
10.
Plans already have been started for the
Public Drive for Theatre
MARCUS. IOWA—A drive to raise funds
to build a theatre here under the auspices of
Paul Heaker Injured
the Marcus Commercial club has reached
ALMA, NEB.—Paul
the
Heaker,
$11,000
Alma theatre
mark. Last week the club served
coffee and doughnuts at an open house held
to interest farmers in the project.
Mrs. Lela McCoy, GG, Dies
OMAHA— Mrs. Lela McCoy. 66. mother of
Max McCoy. MGM salesman, died at a hospital
after being seriously 111 since August
Mrs. McCoy had been a dietitian with the
C. A. Swanson Food Co. for ten years. During
Leland Davis Trcmsferred
the war she received a citation for work In
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA—Leland Davis. food packaging for overseas shipment. Survivors
include her husband, C. D. McCoy, her
who has been working as assistant manager
son and a daughter. Mrs. J. W. O'Connor, all
of Omaha.
nrlve into the entire Omaha territory with
Kood success for the Variety Club's first big
-ocial event—the Armistice eve party at the
all-industry Christmas party December 13.
rhere will be dinner, dancing and an exchange
of gifts.
'wner. received a serious head injury while
teaching his son to play golf. Heaker was
struck in the temple with the club and was
rushed to a Lincoln hospital. Although an
operation was performed he was sfiJl in a
coma and another operation was planned.
He was taken to his home until his condition
would permit further surgery.
|0f the RKO Orpheum in St. Paul. Minn., has
I
been transfered to the RKO Orpheum here.
Is Closed by Lebedoii
MINNEAPOLIS -
Martin I^obcdoff 1...
shuttered his Homewood neluhborhood thr
aire a week after Its cloftlng wu.s announced
prematurely in the Minncupoll.is Sunday
reason for the deml.se was poor baslnewi
caiLsed by t*lcvl.slon competition
The Homewrjod'.s boarding up brings to 13
the total of Twin cities theatres that have
called It quits since TV became a competitive
factor In the pa.st two years. More Independent
neighborhood houses In both MlnneapolLn
and St. Paul are reported In trade circles to
be on the brink of tos-sing In the sponge
Lebedoff. who also operates the neighborhood
Brynwood here. Is keeping the latter
open. He and his father Sol, now a Las Angeles
resident, recently won a $125,000 Judgment
against major distributors and the
Mlnne.sota Amusement Co. The suit charged
that the defendants conspired to take away
NC
'Snows' Opens at 115
To Lead in Chicago
CHICACiO BuliiC_ ... .,„,, ;..,t nin
hoiurs win ,ixitty 'The SnowA of Klllnuin-
Jiiro' o(>rnpd at the 8Ute-Lkkr. with adinUalon
prices upped M cents and II 25 and Ihe
Grand had an Bvcroffr first week with twin
bill. Tomorrow In Too Late" and Peudin'
Fool.s "O Henry'n Full ! '-- ' '
~ht
first week at the Surf
.
.n
Devil" opened at World I ...jr i . in- i.,„.
CHKo did above avera«e with -Everj-thlng I
Have Is Yours." plus a xuse revue headed
by Victor Borgc. Among the holdo\ers. The
Miracle of Fatlma' at the United Artuu had
a good second week and "Becauae You're
"
Mine at the Palace did average In a third
week.
fAveroQe It 100)
Chicago— (v«rr«liin« I Ma»« It Yam (MGM). ptu*
troge thow iQj
Eiquirc— O. Hfnry'i Full HouM (20th-fo«l IIS
Gran.)— Tomorrow It Too Lolo 'AA), Faadin' t^utt
'AA)
IQQ
Oriental— Ivonhoo ^/'',v 4Th wk ..... i|5
Palocc— BocouM You'r. Mlrto ,MGM)i 3fd wik ' 100
Stale Lake— Tho Sno>t o» Klliman|are '70th-F