DECEMBER

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Bob Gardner of Gardner Theatre
coast . . .
Supply Co. is back on the job after a tussle
Film exchanges and equipment
with the flu . . .
companies on Filmrow are getting
ready
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to stage big Yule parties around the holidays
Bob Plunket. former manager of
the Grand, is now manager of the RKO
Uptown in Detroit . Banford, district
manager for MGM, has recovered from
his recent operation and is back at his desk.
Judge John Barnes has postponed the hearing
on the K&C Theatre antitrust case unt.l
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CHICAGO
SEASON'S GREETINGS
Judge Walter LaBuy can get time from presiding
at the Dupont antitrust case, now under
way in LaBuy's court . & Howell has
reduced its soundstripe price from 3^2 cents
to 2' J cents per foot. The price reduction was
made possible by lower striping costs resulting
from increased trade.
"Peter Pan," being hailed as Walt Disneys
finest animated motion picture, will premiere
February 5 at the State-Lake . H&E
Balaban circuit reports work has started on
its new TV station in Rockford, 111. The circuit
has applied to the FCC for a license for
a Milwaukee station . . . Elmer Upton, secretary
of Balaban & Katz Corp., returned from
an eastern business trip . Alliance
circuit has filed application with the FCC
LOEWS INCORPORATED
BURTUS BISHOP, JR.
Sales Manager
Midwest Division
W, E. BANFORD
District Manager
W. J. DEVANEY
Resident Manager
EDNA FRANK, Office Manager
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BOOKERS: Solly Gold, Head Booker—Herman Marks,
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SALESMEN: Mike Ford, Clarence Keim,
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for TV permits for Fort Wayne. Anderson ane
Vincennes. Ind. Permits will be filed fo
other situations as soon as plans can be com
pleted. Will and Edward DeVry of DeVr;
Corp. were hosts to 75 distributors at thi
Harry Goldstein, Alliei
Swithod club . . .
Ai'tists publicity representative, was at thi
local branch for a confab with Nat Nathansor
Albert Dezel has concluded arrangement'
with David Dietz of Dietz & Home for th:
distributioii of "Watusi" and "Cajun" in th
middle west. This exploitation unit is hot
playing the Great-States circuit in the Chi
cago territory and is booked for a holida
playdate in the Alhambra Theatre, Milwau
kee . . . Johnny Auer, Republic producer, wa
in town to film "The City Never Sleeps
Zoe Theatre, Pittfield, has reopenej
for weekend shows only, according to Te"
Dell, manager. The house is part of th-
Ai'mentrout circuit . . Jack Kii'sch, Allied c
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Illinois president, says one of the most im
portant jobs before COMPO is to help tak
the amusement tax from the books.
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S. J. Gregory, vice-president. Alliance Th«
atres, and Pete Panagos, promotion manage!
have returned from Washington, where th€'
went to make a survey of the Midstat*
circuit. Alliance subsidiary . Jack Springecountry
booking manager for the Alliance oilcuit,
supervised the production of the Eir;
bassy Hour film program for the new En!
bassy Theatre, which was opened recent
in Fort Wayne, Ind. He has also started tt,
old-time song slide program and the aud,
ence loves it, he reports.
Douglas Beck, RKO publicity manager, rt
turned from the Minneapolis-St. Paul terri
tory where he prepared a press program
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spark the opening of "Montana Belle" .
"Peter Pan" will go into the B&K State-Lai;
in February for an extended run . . . Tli
Santa Fe club will hold its 17th annuj
buffet supper for press and civic leaders '
the Crystal ballroom of the Blackstone hot'
Tuesday (23). I
"Ivanhoe," which closed eight banner wee
at the Loop's Oriental, has been booked o
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HOLIDAY GREETINGS
AND BEST WISHES FOR 1953
FROM LOCAL 110
to subsequent runs as a special feature .
Mike Gonzola has been appointed managof
the Plaza Theatre . PraJ
Glenn of the drive-in at Mount Vernon 1
vested $30,000 to install heaters for his p.
trons.
Harry Tague, 75, Stricken
CHICAGO— Services for Harry Tague,
theatre operator, were held December 5,
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burial in Waldheim cemetery. Tague »i
part-owner of the Bryn Mawr Theatre a.
had operated houses in Chicago for 40 yea:
He leaves two sons, Philip and Sidney.
According to the tenth annual report of tjij
British Film Producers' Ass'n 114 Brltij
films of 3.000 feet or more were registeil
during the year ending Mar. 31, 1952, as coi'
pared with 125 of the previous year.
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