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BOXOFFICE :: December 13, 19!t<br />
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BOSTON<br />
rjowntown theatre managers and booking<br />
staffs have set up an impressive list of<br />
first run product for Christmas presentations.<br />
As Christmas falls on a Thursday,<br />
the usual day for new product, all first runs<br />
are having their program changes on that day<br />
or the day before. The "Hans Christian<br />
Andersen" booking at the Astor. opening on<br />
the holiday, is set for an extended engagement.<br />
On the same day, the Esquire will reopen<br />
with "Limelight," but this film is in<br />
on a double booking and also will play the<br />
downtown Mayflower at the same time.<br />
The presentation at Loew's State and<br />
Orpheum is "The Clown," while the Metropolitan<br />
has booked "Road to Bali." The Paramount<br />
and Fenway are set with "Abbott and<br />
Costello Meet Captain Kidd," while the Keith<br />
Memorial has tentatively arranged for<br />
"Blackbeard the Pirate" and the Keith Boston<br />
has "Ruby Gentry." The Beacon Hill will<br />
offer "The Four Poster." The Pilgrim Thea-<br />
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tre, now playing occasional first run product<br />
has booked 20th-Fox's "Stars and Stripes Forever"<br />
as its Christmas presentation. Both<br />
Debra Paget and Clifton Webb, starring in<br />
the film, are expected in town for personal<br />
appearances to plug the picture.<br />
Abraham A. Spitz, theatre property owner<br />
of Providence, will celebrate his 100th birthday<br />
in May 1953. "Uncle Abe" Spitz must<br />
be one of the oldest exhibitors alive. He was<br />
a theatre manager and operator many years<br />
ago. Today he has an interest in four Providence<br />
theatres, now operated by the Snider<br />
Irving Isaacs, owner of the Telepix,<br />
circuit . . .<br />
and his wife introduced their debutante<br />
daughter Diane to Boston society at a dance<br />
at Hampshire House. She is a freshman at<br />
Wellesley college.<br />
With the closing of the Boro Drive-In,<br />
North Attleboro, Mass., owner Joe Stanzler<br />
has given the use of the marquee to the<br />
marine corps to aid its recruiting campaign.<br />
The marquee now reads: "Join the marine<br />
reserves. Fields Point, Rhode Island" and<br />
lists the telephone number. For his cooperation,<br />
Stanzler received a congratulatory letter<br />
from the marine corps.<br />
IVirs. Ann Hennan, secretary and bookkeeper<br />
for Arthur Viano for his four suburban<br />
theatres, is celebrating her 24th year with the<br />
company . . . The Wellesley National bank<br />
has taken over the Community Playhouse<br />
for a Saturday morning kiddy show December<br />
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feature with cartoons. The bank is playing<br />
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host to all children in the area in an effort<br />
to stimulate its Hopalong Cassidy Savings<br />
club. Owner Leslie Bendslev was in charge<br />
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of arrangements for the affair.<br />
Ben Sack, owner of the Beacon Hill Thea-(<br />
tre, has engaged Sam Richmond to assist<br />
him for a temporary period in his theatre<br />
interests. He is working with Tom Dowd,<br />
managing director. Richmond is maintaining<br />
his own film exchange. Lux Film Co., in<br />
the offices of Independent Exhibitors, Inc., at<br />
36 Melrose St. . . . Jack Gubbins, Paramount<br />
salesman, and his wife spent the Thanks-'<br />
giving holidays in Lisbon, N. H., with his'<br />
father-in-law Carl Richmond, owner of the<br />
Playhouse.<br />
Leslie Cohen, 7-year-old daughter of Joe<br />
Cohen, independent buyer and booker, is<br />
under observation at the Beth Israel hospital<br />
for a throat ailment . . . The Scenic Theatre,<br />
Keene, N.H., has had its lobby repainted,<br />
freshened and modernized and the entirel<br />
ceiling has been done over. The work was<br />
done by local contractors, James J. Viette<br />
Co. and the theatre was closed for five days.<br />
Bob Zerinsky is general manager.<br />
Four Uxbridge, Mass., merchants have(<br />
bought out the Cameo Theatre for a children's<br />
Christmas party on the Saturd^<br />
matinee before the holiday and have invited<br />
every youngster in town. The merchants<br />
have donated the candy and popcorn anc<br />
Christmas favors. The gala affair was prO'<br />
moted by Ned Eisner, owner and operator ol<br />
the Cameo in Uxbridge.<br />
When Albert H. Cipriano of Providenw<br />
took over the second run Uptown Theatre<br />
Providence, from the Annotti brothers in Maj<br />
1951, he put in a dish deal and added ai<br />
occasional first run Italian film to stimulat*<br />
business. The theatre is located in the Italiai<br />
section. To date, "Napoli Chicanti" holds thr<br />
boxoffice record for Italian films. Cipriano<br />
a former real estate operator, handles all tlu<br />
buying and booking himself for the Uptowi<br />
and visits Boston about once a week to bo
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