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completing<br />
A/.y. Branch Takes Lead<br />
In Monogram Drive<br />
At the end of the first six weeks of the<br />
current STEVE BROIDY 25TH ANNIVER-<br />
SARY DRIVE FOR BOXOFFICE'S JIM<br />
MOTE FUND, a tabulation of the standings<br />
of Monogram-Allied Artists exchanges<br />
during the campaign revealed the New<br />
York office to be well out in front, having<br />
garnered 70.42 points, and followed in order<br />
by Omaha, with 66.66 points, and Cleveland,<br />
with 63.15.<br />
The drive is designed to help Exhibitor Jim<br />
Mote rebuild his 210-seat Gem Theatre in<br />
Sterling, Okla., after the showcase was<br />
destroyed by fire late in 1948.<br />
THEATRE STANDINGS UNCHANGED<br />
New standings of theatres in the drive had<br />
not, at this writing, been completely tabulated.<br />
The last figures released—for the week<br />
ending April 22, 1949—found the Bijou Theatre<br />
in Minneapolis occupying first position<br />
with 40 points, followed by the Consolidated<br />
in Honolulu, with 32 points, and the Tinker<br />
Drive-In in Midwest City, Okla., tied for<br />
third with the Luxor in Newark, N. J. Both<br />
houses had garnered 31 points.<br />
Standings of other Monogram-AA branches<br />
follow:<br />
St. Louis, 61.54 points; Memphis, 60.99<br />
Salt Lake City, 60.99; Dallas, 59.45; Oklahoma<br />
City, 58.99; Atlanta, 58.19; Minneapolis, 58.02<br />
Indianapolis, 57.88; Denver. 57.50; Boston<br />
57.39; Pittsburgh, 57.26; Cincinnati, 56.68<br />
Des Moines, 56.66; Charlotte. 55.44; Detroit<br />
54.94; New Orleans, 54.42; Milwaukee, 53.87<br />
Washington, 52.13; Los Angeles, 50.49; Seattle<br />
50.40; Kansas City, 50.13; Philadelphia, 49.82<br />
San Francisco, 49.07; Buffalo, 49.03; Albany<br />
47.73; and, in the cellar spot, Portland, 37.87<br />
Monogram-AA is, during the 13-week drive<br />
donating a portion of its receipts over the<br />
normal established for each of its exchanges<br />
to BOXOFFICE'S Jim Mote Fund, the minimum<br />
having been set at a guaranteed $5,000.<br />
Additionally, BOXOFFICE is contributing<br />
funds already donated by its readers, amounting<br />
at this point to approximately $2,000, as<br />
well as additional donations from subscribers,<br />
and also is pledging a percentage of revenue<br />
derived from the advertising which accompanies<br />
these announcements.<br />
BONDS AS TOP PRIZES<br />
Offered as prizes to entrants in the campaign<br />
are a total of $3,500 in U.S. government<br />
bonds as well as an array of valuable and<br />
useful merchandise.<br />
Meantime, the humanitarian aspects of the<br />
effort to re-establish an unfortunate exhibitor<br />
continued to invoke an unending flood of<br />
messages from exhibition circles congratulating<br />
Broidy and BOXOFFICE and pledging<br />
support of the drive. Among such communiques<br />
and typical of the response generated<br />
by the campaign are the following;<br />
"We shall do our best ... I hope that the<br />
drive will meet with great success." Herbert<br />
Kohn, Malco Theatres, Inc., Memphis.<br />
"It will be a pleasure to assist you in your<br />
endeavor."—E. D. Martin, Martin Theatres of<br />
Florida, Inc.<br />
"You have my whole-hearted cooperation<br />
... we will do everything in our power to help<br />
Independent Producers<br />
To Honor Broidy<br />
In recognition of his quarter-century<br />
of activity in motion picture distribution<br />
and production, Steve Broidy, president of<br />
Monogram and Allied Artists, will be<br />
guest of honor June 2 at a meeting of<br />
the Independent Motion Picture Producers<br />
Ass'n. I. E. Chadwick, veteran independent<br />
film-maker, is president of the<br />
organization.<br />
Broidy will be lauded at the affair for<br />
his participation in the current Broidy<br />
anniversary drive for BOXOFFICE'S Jim<br />
Mote Fund.<br />
you put it over."—Carl Buermele, General<br />
Theatre Service, Inc., Detroit.<br />
Similar pledges came from such representative<br />
organizations as Evergreen Theatres,<br />
Seattle; Cooperative Theatre Service, of Pittsburgh<br />
and Cincinnati; the Fourth Avenue<br />
Amusement Co. of Louisville, and from other<br />
exhibitors and service firms in all parts of<br />
the U.S.<br />
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Cleveland Franchise Held<br />
By Nate Schultz<br />
Driving force behind Cleveland activities in<br />
the STEVE BROIDY 25TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
DRIVE FOR BOXOFFICE'S JIM MOTE<br />
FUND is Nate Schultz,<br />
franchise holder and<br />
president of Monogram<br />
Film Distributors, Inc.<br />
A native of Russia,<br />
Schultz arrived in Cleveland<br />
at the age of five.<br />