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. . Republic's<br />
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. . Mason<br />
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. . Highway<br />
. Metro<br />
. . Mickey<br />
. . Martha<br />
WASHINGTON<br />
ladies' luncheon in the clubrooms early in<br />
Dorothy Kolinsky, Variety Club<br />
secretary, was to enter Doctors' hospital<br />
March 27 for surgery Variety Club<br />
St. Patrick's day party was a huge success.<br />
Hosts were Charlie Hurley. John O'Leary.<br />
Gus Lynch and Jimmy Sandford . . . George<br />
Seay and Jake Tunstall. Nottowa Theatre.<br />
Blackstone, Va., are vacationing in Florida<br />
while George's brother keeps things going<br />
Fruchtman is doing the booking<br />
and buying for the Green Acres Auto Theatre,<br />
between Newport News and Hampton,<br />
Va.<br />
Bill Snidow came in from Christianburg.<br />
Va.. to confer with booking agent Joe Walsh<br />
and to visit friends on Filmrow . . . J. H.<br />
Hopkins will open his newly remodeled New<br />
Theatre in Berlin, Md., April 1. Job cost<br />
about S37.000. Joe Walsh is doing the booking<br />
for the New Theatre . & Clark<br />
leased the Marva Theatre. Pocomoke. Md.<br />
The house was formerly operated by John<br />
Fox. who died recently. Mason & Clark were<br />
former managers of the Marva and Fox thea-<br />
high.<br />
Monogram cashier Dorothy Brookbank<br />
celebrated a birthday . . . Columbia's "Chick"<br />
Wingfield takes his job seriously. When<br />
he's not out on the road, "Chick" spends his<br />
evenings in the office getting his accounts<br />
into shape. . Items: Aileen Poe, formerly<br />
of the billing department, was given a<br />
beautiful necklace as a farewell gift from<br />
the MGM Pep club . Hodgens of<br />
the southern division manager's office spent<br />
the weekend in Harrisburg. Pa., visitins<br />
friends . . . Ethel Goldman is the new member<br />
of the Metro family . Bothwell,<br />
secretary to Rudolph Berger, was presented<br />
with a compact by the Pep club<br />
when she resigned.<br />
Leon Bamberger, sales promotion manager,<br />
and his staff at RKO have sent to each exhibitor<br />
in the U.S. and Canada attractive<br />
mailing pieces on "A Woman's Secret," "The<br />
Green Promise" and "The Pride of the Yankees."<br />
201 h-Fox Continues<br />
Video Experiments<br />
NEW YORK—Twentieth Century-Fox is<br />
continuing its experiments with films for<br />
perm.t applications pending for Boston. San<br />
Francisco. Seattle, Kansas City and St. Louis.<br />
The future of these applications will not be<br />
known until after the antitrust case is settled<br />
and the FCC studies the significance of<br />
the final<br />
settlement.<br />
New York Variety Profits<br />
From 'Bad Boy' Showing<br />
NEW YORK—The newly-formed Variety<br />
Tent 35 of New York realized a net of more<br />
than $10,000 from the sellout showing for<br />
the Heart fund of Allied Artists' "Bad Boy"<br />
at the Palace Theatre on March 22.<br />
Max A. Cohen, Century circuit executive<br />
and chief barker, introduced Audie Murphy.<br />
Jane Wyatt and Lloyd Nolan, stars of "Bad<br />
Boy," and the following AA executives: Steve<br />
Broidy. president; Harold Mirisch, vice-president;<br />
Walter Mirisch, producer, and Paul<br />
Short, who produced "Bad Boy."<br />
Milton Berle, as abbot of the Friars club,<br />
formally welcomed Tent 35 to New York and<br />
introduced the headliners in an elaborate"<br />
stage show. The performers included Phil<br />
Baker. Cab Calloway and his band. Vic<br />
Damone. Jane Pickens Perry Como, Gil<br />
Lamb. Virginia O'Brien. Jerry Colonna, Hal<br />
LeRoy. Janet Blair, the King Cole Trio, the<br />
Radio City Music Hall Rockettes and performers<br />
from other current Broadway shows.<br />
Murphy. Nolan and M'ss Wyatt also made<br />
personal appearances at the Palace during<br />
the first day of public showings of "Bad<br />
Boy" on March 23.<br />
D. C OPENING— Among those who attended the invitation premiere of "Saraband,"<br />
I. Arthur Kank production released by Eagle Lion, at the Playhouse, Washington.<br />
U. ('., left to right: Elani Saks, fashion editor, Washington Star; Jock Lawrence,<br />
Rank Organization; < liarlcs Amorv. Fred Rohrs, EL Washington branch manager;<br />
Mrs. Rohrs, and (JiTrv Wagner, manager of the Playhouse.<br />
English Background Used<br />
For a French Production<br />
NEW YORK—"Jenny Lamour," the Frenchlanguage<br />
film released in the U.S. by Vog<br />
Films, was given a second Broadway opening,<br />
this time with a new English background<br />
process, at the Ambassador Theatre March<br />
25. The new process, which employs both<br />
male and female narrators, was developed in<br />
Paris for American and British audiences and<br />
eliminates the need for English dialog titles.<br />
BOXOFFICE March 26. 1949
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