NOVEMBER
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Toys Signed by Stars<br />
? To Be Sold at Cresco<br />
IOWA—A collection of HUtoitraphed<br />
toys and novelties will be auctioned<br />
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off Bt a bazaar November 16 by the Church<br />
o( the Assumption here. Among those contrlbutlnK<br />
their names are film. staRe. radio<br />
and TV stars. Among the toys are a large<br />
leddy bear autographed by Jack Carson: a<br />
child's drum bearing the signature of Jack<br />
Ro:h. Jimmy Durante's drummer, and two<br />
books on the life of Jimmy Durante with<br />
personal remarks made In the comedian's<br />
own handwriting.<br />
Margaret Truman signed her name with<br />
greetings on a large stuffed panda and doll.<br />
Danny Thomas autographed one of the hats<br />
he has worn In a show and Inscribed his name<br />
on a doll. Singer Kay Starr donated an<br />
autographed doll and head scarf scented with<br />
her own special brand of perfume. Comedian<br />
Fred Allen .scrawled his name across a polka<br />
dot tie and Sammy Kaye sent two autographed<br />
batons. Ezio Pinza and Martha Raye<br />
each contributed a stuffed baby duckling<br />
tagged with their signatures.<br />
Small Minnesota Towns<br />
To Offer Stage Shows<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—Two Minnesota towns,<br />
Duluth and Bemidji. located in the northern<br />
part of the state, are getting touring legitimate<br />
attractions this month although no<br />
regular theatre is available for them. They<br />
go into high school auditoriums.<br />
"Oklahoma!" played two performances,<br />
Sunday matinee and night, in Duluth, pop-<br />
104.066. and repeated the following<br />
afternoon and evening in Bemidji, population<br />
All performances were sold out in<br />
advance. Both towns will get "Mister Roberts,"<br />
touring drama hit. later in the month.<br />
It's the first such show for Duluth in more<br />
• than 25 years. Bemidji has never had a<br />
legitimate touring attraction before.<br />
two years ago also played<br />
another small Minnesota town, Rochester,<br />
but with this exception never before ha,s visited<br />
any of the state's other cities aside<br />
from Minneapolis and St. Paul. It just comtpleted<br />
its ninth engagement here.<br />
MGM Appoints Tom Letcher<br />
Twin Cities Exploiteer<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—For the first<br />
time in several<br />
years MGM here will have an exploiteer<br />
jwork out of its local offices. He is Tom<br />
Letcher, who has been an assistant to Noriman<br />
Pyle in Chicago the last year,<br />
Louis Orlove, who has been dividing his<br />
time between Milwaukee and Minneapolis, will<br />
confine himself henceforth to Milwaukee and<br />
the rest of Wisconsin. Ivan Fuldaucr. now<br />
m Minneapolis beating the drum for "The<br />
Plymouth Adventure," "scheduled for the Min-<br />
Ineapolis and St. Paul World theatres next<br />
week, will continue to handle the division.<br />
MINNEAPOLIS<br />
y-I'» 'HecitUM of You" gave the 4.000-»c«t<br />
Radio City here one of lt» blRKe.^t recent<br />
gro.vses The picture built steadily and finished<br />
strong. An addre.vs by film fitar Lorctta<br />
Young at the University of Minnesota-Northwest<br />
Variety Club heart hospital dedicatory<br />
banquet undoubtedly increased her boxofflcc<br />
stature locally.<br />
Addinc five additional theatres to the 65<br />
It ha.s ben servicing. Frank Mantzkc's Northwest<br />
Theatre Service, buying and booking<br />
pool, will have to put on an additional<br />
booker to handle the Increasing amount of<br />
work, Mantzkc reported . . , Equipment hou.scs<br />
here report brisk buslne.vs as builders of new<br />
drive-ins continue to enter the market.<br />
Frosch Theatre Supply landed the contracts<br />
for supplying full ozoner equipment for Eddie<br />
Ruben and Joe Floyd's new outdoor theatres<br />
at Devils Lake. N. D.. and Moorhead. Minn.,<br />
and Sheldon Greng's new drive-las to be<br />
constructed at Spooner, Wis., and Decorah.<br />
Iowa.<br />
Kelly Evidon is back on his Independent<br />
Exchange Poster job after recovering from an<br />
illness<br />
. Anderson. WB division manager<br />
whase efforts played such a large part<br />
in carrying the Northwest Variety Club's<br />
heart hospital project to success, was still in<br />
St. Mary's ho.spital receiving treatment for<br />
the gunshot Injuries received while duck hunting<br />
a few weeks ago. He'll lose the sight of an<br />
eye . hospital patient is Clem<br />
Jaunich, circuit owner, who underwent an<br />
operation at University of Minnesota hospital.<br />
, . . "St.<br />
Harold Field, circuit owner, returned from<br />
a vacation at Colorado Springs<br />
Matthew's Passion" had its northwest premiere<br />
at the Campus, local neighborhood<br />
hou.se devoted to an art policy . . Ted Mann,<br />
.<br />
circuit owner, returned from a flying business<br />
trip to the west coast . will screen<br />
"Thief of Venice" for exhibitors in the Minnesota<br />
Amusement Co. screening room Monday<br />
1 171 at 2 p. m.. with Look and Colliers magazine<br />
representatives present to explain a<br />
screen and merchandising tieup for the picture<br />
The independent downtown St. Paul<br />
. . . Lyceum was the only local theatre to advertise<br />
election returns in its newspaper ads. It<br />
brought the returns to patrons via a TV set<br />
in the lobby.<br />
Ben Friedman, circuit owner, returned from<br />
New York wh^rr he went to look over forelcn<br />
product tor hu MinneapolU nuburbM) WMt><br />
gMlt Sol KUhrr. whoM neighborhood<br />
CampuA Theatrp here ha» an art policy, will<br />
motor to New York on a Mmllar mUaton a(t«r<br />
uttrnding the Allied Statea convention In<br />
Chicago.<br />
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ir hla new subarban outdoor theatre mceU<br />
the anticipated ftucccM, Leo Aved. wtw alto<br />
operates the convenUortal Empreaa Theatre<br />
here, will proceed with plai\a (or a new home<br />
udjotninK the ozoner enormou* demand<br />
for "The Quiet Man" ha« left the local<br />
Republic exchange .^hort of printji<br />
Urquhart U back at WB following<br />
. . Don<br />
hU discharge<br />
from the navy He .terved aboard an<br />
aircraft carrier In Korea Rydeen.<br />
who recently resigned as manager of Bennle<br />
Berger's downtown first run Gopher here,<br />
has taken over as manager of the Volk<br />
brothers' de luxe neighborhood Nile and<br />
Rlvcrvlew theatres.<br />
Tom Burke, Theatre Associates' general<br />
manager, was In St. Mary's hospital under<br />
observation for back Injuries . . . Penny<br />
Singleton will appear at the Hotel Nicollet<br />
Mmne.sota Terrace November 17 ... In Minneapolis<br />
last week were Robert Young. Dane<br />
Clark and Nancy Kelly appearing at the<br />
Lyceum in the stage play, ""The Country Girl.""<br />
And to the same theatre on November 29 and<br />
30. T>Tone Power. Judith Anderson and Raymond<br />
Massey will appear (or a dramatic reading<br />
of ""John Brown's Body."<br />
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Ben Marcus, Columbia district manager, was<br />
in from Kansas City A. Levy, 20th-<br />
Fox division<br />
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manager, was in New York for<br />
a sales meeting . cities exhibitors report<br />
a welcome boxoffice pickup following the<br />
Exhibitors vtsiting Ftlmrow Included<br />
election . . .<br />
Don Stern, Prairie Farm. Wls.; Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Arvid Olson. Pine Island, Minn.:<br />
William Rodman. Henning, Minn., and Henry<br />
Simonsen. Holdlngsford. Minn. . LeRoy J.<br />
Miller. U-I manager, is getting the Will Rogers<br />
Memorial drive lined up in this territory.<br />
Tickets are going fast for the first allindustry<br />
Christmas party to be held at the<br />
Calhoun Beach hotel December 13. according<br />
to Joe Rosen of Paramount, chairman of the<br />
ticket committee. Tickets are $5.30 and the<br />
affair will include cocktails, dinner, dancing<br />
and other entertainment.<br />
HANDY SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM<br />
Build Tomah, Was., Ozoner<br />
TOMAH, WIS—Grading has been started<br />
on a drive-in here. Local Manager Clarence<br />
Holtze said the drive-in will be located just<br />
north of the city on Highways 12 and 21.<br />
Miles E. Belongia, MUwaukee, is the architect.<br />
The new outdoorer will have space<br />
for 432 cars.
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