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Antidiscrimination
Proposal in St. Louis
ST. LOUTS—A bill proposing to make it a
misdemeanor for any attempt at segregation
or discrimination according to race, color,
creed or nationally in various public places,
including motion picture theatres, has been
introduced in the board of aldermen by Alderman
Sidney R. Redmond, Negro.
The measui'e carries provision for fines
from $25 to $500. The bill also would pernut
the posting of signs advertising such segregation
or discrimination in public places. The
proposed ordinance would place the board of
aldermen on record as declaring "the practice
of exclusion, segregation and discrimination
in the use, operation and enjoyment of public
places and accommodations against any
of the resident of the city or those coming
within its boimdaries because of race, religion,
creed, color or natural origin are in derogation
of the fundamental civil rights of the
individuals involved."
Redmond said he was requested to introduce
the bill by various organizations including
the National Ass'n for the Advancement
of Colored People, the Mound City Bar Ass'n.
and the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance.
Empire Is Redecorated
CHRISMAN, ILL. — The Empire, a 300-
seater owned by George Barber of Villa Grove,
111., and managed and operated by Mr. and
Mrs. Garland "Peck" Keith, reopened April
22 after being dark for ten days. During that
period it rmderwent remodeling and redecorating.
New American seats, a larger
screen, modern air conditioning and new
aisle and side lights have been installed.
Burglars Get $43 in Harvey, 111.
HARVEY, ILL.—Manager Walter Grometer
reported to police that bm-glars had ransacked
his office and ripped open the safe at
the Harvey Theatre, making off with $4S.61
in cash.
MADISON
. . .
ly/fanager Hugh Flannery of the Orpheum
Theatre here and Mrs. Flannery left May
1 for a month's vacation trip to Florida
A film titled "Better Schools for Rural Wisconsin"
will be released soon by the University
of Wisconsin.
John McKay, formerly with Fox Wisconsin
in Milwaukee, has been named manager of
the Eastwood here. He succeeds H. L.
Mincheski ... A stenographer in the state industrial
commission won a six-month pass
to the Orpheum in that theatre's baby-sitter
contest.
The Commercial club at Monticello will
sponsor free motion pictm-es this summer.
A group of Monticello civic and business
leaders are also reported considering raising
a fund for a new theatre in that city . . .
Mayor Verne Knoll of Beaver Dam has invited
actor Fred MacMurray to visit his home
city this summer to help dedicate a new
carillon organ bought for use at the city park.
The organ is similar to the one used in Mac-
Murray's picture, "Miracle of the Bells."
NDIANAPOLIS
Dussell Bleeke, office manager and head
booker at Republic, was home suffering
from an abscess in his ear several days last
week . . . Charles Acton, salesman for Republic,
is spending his spare moments buying
furniture and getting his newly acquired
home arranged . Wells of the Na-
vacation-
tional Screen Service office staff is
ing in Ai-izona. Betty Bradgon has been
added to the NSS filing staff.
Fred Dolle of the Fourth Avenue Amusement
Co., Louisville, was here several days
Edwin Brauer, Republic
on business . . .
manager, has gone to the New 'Vork office
Daupert is the new typist at
. . Jack Norris has taken over the
RKO .
Rialto Theatre in Walkerton, Ind.
Milton Krueger, UA salesman, and Jack
Benson, assistant booker at U-I, were overnight
guests of Bob Harned at his drive-in
. . Mrs. Jules Goldman,
in Louisville the night before the race at
Churchill Downs .
wife of the Warner office manager, has returned
to the city after spending six weeks
with her father, seriously ill at his home
in New York.
Bob McCraven jr., son of the late salesman
for Warner Bros., was here winding
up his father's estate . . Brownstown, Ind.,
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had a rabies scare and all dogs in the town
were ordered vaccinated . . Eugene Steurle,
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operator of the East Broadway, Louisville,
has renovated his theatre and now will start
the family garden plot . . . Joe and William
Riese of the Riese circuit, Louisville,
have supervised the renovating and the installation
of new air conditioning in the Ideal
Theatre.
Robert and Mrs. Wayne, who operate the
Orpheum in Louisville, entertained their
many out-of-town guests during the Kentucky
Derby. Earl Bell has acquired the Avalon
here. Bell also operates the Howard in
west Indianapolis . . . Mrs. Harvey Orr, who
operates the Speedway Theatre, Speedway
City, has returned to her post after a tenday
rest . . . C. E. South, operator of the
Dream Theatre here, reports considerable
activity in his community by parents who desire
to secure more pictures for children's
matinees.
Verne Jenkins acquired the Monroe at Monroe
City . . . Mrs. Mary May, mother of Gilbert
May, operator of the Dream, Corydon,
Ind., is visiting her daughter in California
Ornstein, who operates theatres
in Milltown and Marengo, Ind., and in Brandenburg,
Ky., has disposed his interest in
the frozen locker btisiness and will devote
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George T. Landis, 20th-Fox manager,
. . .
visited the home office in New York.
Jerry Weiss, formerly living in Chicago, has
joined the Eagle Lion sales staff. He will
visit exhibitors in the northern territory . . .
Richard "Dick" Stevens of the west coast
office of Warner Bros., replaces Ira Epstein
as publicity director in the Indianapolis area.
Epstein goes to New York City for the company.
George W. Lindsay is building a 218-seat
theatre in Brownsville, Ky. The house will be
called the Lindsay . Mary-Jane Theatre
in Caneyville, Ky., built by Allen Bros.,
will hold its formal opening the last week
in May.
C. C. Sims, Loretta, Ky., is building a new
drive-in theatre at Lebanon, Ky . . . Paul
Sanders, operator of the Alhambra Theatre,
Campbellsville, Ky., has returned after visiting
his daughter in the east . . . Mannie
Marcus, head of the Marcus Enterprises, operators
in Ohio and Indiana, visited his theatres
in Cincinnati and Dayton.
Renovated Lincoln Opens
Again in Charleston, 111.
CHARLESTON, ILL.—The Lincoln Theatre,
a unit of the Charleston Theatre Co.,
which also owns the Will Rogers here, has
been playing to nice business since its grand
reopening April 25.
While the theatre was closed, the owners,
headed by Ed Clark, spent some $50,000 on
improvements. Air conditioning was installed;
the ticket window was moved forward to the
center of the doorway: new rubber tile floor
was laid in the lobby which was redecorated;
concrete flooring was laid in the balcony,
where seats were rearranged, and indirect
lighting, new automatically controlled curtains
and a new screen were installed.
Poplar Bluff Job Resumed
By I. W. Rodgers Circuit
POPLAR BLUFF, MO.—Work was resiuned
on the de luxe theatre being built
here by the Rodgers circuit of Cairo, 111.,
following the lifting of restrictions on theatre
construction. W. M. Griffin, spokesman for
the circuit, said the project probably would
take a year to complete. The house will be a
monument to I. W. Rodgers, founder of the
circuit, whose first theatre was the Criterion
in Poplar Bluff.
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