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. . . Hazel<br />
. . Jake<br />
. . Cheri<br />
. . Stan<br />
. . Mr.<br />
. . Mayor<br />
. . Roy<br />
. .<br />
Harlan<br />
OMAHA<br />
pjuane Lockman, Stuart exhibitor, recently<br />
passed his state aeronautics commission<br />
exam with a grade of 87. He owtis his own<br />
plane . . . Bill Wink, Warner salesman, had<br />
to go to the farm to catch up with Rod Bailey,<br />
Ainsworth exhibitor. Bailey, painting the<br />
buildings, laid down a brush for film talk.<br />
. . . R. C.<br />
in town for a checkup with a heart specialist.<br />
He was told he is making good progress following<br />
attacks that sent liim to bed. His<br />
new theatre at Mapleton should be ready<br />
Max,<br />
to open in mid-December<br />
Sibley, Iowa, exhibitor, was away on a duck<br />
hunting trip to north central Iowa and southern<br />
Minnesota.<br />
Film salesmen found Al Myric, Iowa-Nebraska<br />
Allied president, plenty busy at Lake<br />
Park. Iowa, lining up the two big meetings<br />
at Des Mo nes and Omaha .<br />
and Mrs.<br />
William Miskell attended the wedding of<br />
Nancy Branton in Des Moines. Miskell is<br />
Tri-States district chief Blackburn,<br />
.<br />
manager of the Orpheum, will take off for a<br />
California vacation about Thanksgiving time<br />
Dunn, Valentine exhibitor, stayed<br />
around a second week for medical treatment.<br />
Carolyn Joyce, U-I contract clerk, is spending<br />
a third week at home following an operation<br />
Schlank, former film salesman<br />
here, recently bought the Amusu The-<br />
.<br />
atre at Muscatine. Iowa Glenn<br />
.<br />
Cunningham was on hand to cut the yellow<br />
ribbon for the prem.ere of "She Wore a Yellow<br />
Ribbon" at the Brandeis. Manager Larry<br />
Caplain also arranged for a full color page<br />
of cooperative ads and the SAC band to play.<br />
Ed Hanzel, owner of the Bee Theatre at<br />
Beemer, Neb., has completed renovation of his<br />
farm buildings near Dodge and<br />
.<br />
Red Oak. Iowa, drive-ins shutdown last week.<br />
But Bill Miskell, Ti'i-States Theatres district<br />
chief, laughed and said if this weather doesn't<br />
change he will be showing a New Year's eve<br />
Howard Clark, RKO office manager-booker,<br />
is taking a late vacation . . . Ray Brown, Harlan,<br />
Iowa, exhibitor, opened the pheasant<br />
season in that state and got his hmit of two<br />
birds in a few minutes .<br />
Sherman, picture at the Omaha Drive-In.<br />
secretary to Columbia Manager Joe Jacobs,<br />
is wearing an engagement sparkler . . . Wlien Harold Clingman, owner of the Prim at<br />
Arnold Moser, owner of the Todd County Primghar. Iowa, is turning out some fancy<br />
Theatre at Mission, S. D., isn't watching the items from his basement work shop. One<br />
theatre, he keeps busy as veterans service is a cigaret dispenser he has had patented and<br />
director ... Joe Scott, 20th-Fox manager, another is a wagon cart "what not" . . .<br />
John<br />
was in Des Moines the first of the week. Irwin, owner of the Avalon at Elgin, was<br />
visiting in Butte, Neb. Runyan. who<br />
.<br />
Eddie Kugel, Holstein, Iowa, exhibitor, was<br />
built the Omaha Drive-In and other open<br />
air houses in this area, was killed in an auto<br />
accident in Indiana.<br />
Visitors along Filmrow included Tony Polanka.<br />
Shelby; Carl Johnson. Red Oak, Iowa;<br />
Al Weubben, Parkston, S. D.; Arnold Meierdierks,<br />
Pender; Harold Schnoover, Aurora;<br />
Oliver Schneider, Osceola; Fi-ank Cook, David<br />
City; A. Burrus, Crete; Sol Solominski,<br />
Loup City; Arnold Johnson. Onawa, Iowa;<br />
Mrs. Archie Conklin, Griswold. Iowa: J. C.<br />
Green, Sargent and Frank Good, Red Oak,<br />
Iowa.<br />
To Renovate Corral Drive-In<br />
WEBSTER CITY. IOWA—Closed for the<br />
season about two weeks ago. the Corral<br />
Drive-In near here will be renovated during<br />
the winter months. The premises will<br />
be beautified with landscaping. Art Downard.<br />
formerly of Cherokee, Iowa, assumed<br />
management of the drive-in last October 8.<br />
Harold Burton, an employe this summer, will<br />
be assistant manager of the Web.ster and<br />
Isis theatres.<br />
Your Best Buy is Griggs' New 30-Line Chair!<br />
wifh the self -rising seat!<br />
A brcmd new chair ior finer theatre?;<br />
Well constructed, comfortable, good<br />
looking, reasonably priced. This chair<br />
is equipped with automatic self-rising<br />
seal. For complete information<br />
See E. J. Staton<br />
m our Oklahoma City office, 708 W<br />
Grand, 7-1821, Oklahoma City, Okla<br />
Or Call, Wire or Write:<br />
Belton,<br />
Texas<br />
EQUIPMENT<br />
COMPANY<br />
Offices: Datlas, Memphis, Shreveport, Oklahoma<br />
City and New York City.<br />
'Bride' Still Draws<br />
Kansas City Money<br />
KANSAS CITY—Pleasant fall weather continued<br />
to lure potential theatregoers away<br />
from first run boxoffices, and trade generally<br />
was off. Moved to the Esquire after four<br />
weeks at the Orpheum. "I Was a Male War<br />
Bride" continued to draw heavily and chalked<br />
up 120 per cent. "Red Light" and "Mississippi<br />
Rhythm," dualed at the Roxy, gave the theatre<br />
its best gross in recent months. "Quartet"<br />
still was pulling well at the outlying Kimo.<br />
(Average is 100)<br />
Lsquii -I Wa I Male War Bride (20th-Fox), 5th<br />
d t, W£ "•J<br />
Kimo— Quartet (EL), 4th wk 175<br />
Midland—The Doctor and the Girl (MGM), Hohday<br />
in Havana (Col) <br />
Orpheum—Pinky<br />
(20th-rox) Average not yet determmed<br />
Paramount—Red, Hot and Blue (Para) 100<br />
RKO Missouri—Ichabod and Mr. Toad (RICO);<br />
Winner Take All (Mono) 100<br />
loe Paloolta in<br />
-Red Light (UA) Mississippi Rhythm<br />
(Mo<br />
'ower, Uptow<br />
West (U-I)<br />
Fan y—The Gal Who Took the<br />
Task Force' Leads Newcomers<br />
At Minneapolis Theatres<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—Three newcomers. "Task<br />
Force," "Chicago Deadline" and "Lost Boundaries,"<br />
came through well. There was an<br />
unu.sually large array of holdovers. It wos<br />
the third week for the high-stepping "She<br />
Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and the second for<br />
"Quartet," highly praised on every hand, and<br />
"Everybody Does It," "Oh, You Beautiful<br />
Doll" and "Under Capricorn."<br />
Aster—Aloska (1/ono); Klondike Fury (Ndono), re-<br />
Cenlury-bhV You Beautiful Doll (20th-Fox), 2nd<br />
Gopher—Legion of Lost Flyers (U-I): Haiders oj<br />
Desert (U-I), reissues<br />
the<br />
Lyceum—Quartet (EL), 2nd wk ..•.. no<br />
Lyric—Everybody Does It (20th-Fox), 2nd d. t.<br />
Radio City-Task Force (WB) 125<br />
.^<br />
RKO Orpheum—Lost Boundaries (FC)<br />
„,;A"r"'°<br />
RKO Pan—She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (RKO),<br />
3rd<br />
Slate—Chicago Deadline (Para)<br />
World—Under Capricorn (WB), 2nd d. t. wk..<br />
Grosses at Omaha Theatres<br />
Below Other Recent Totals<br />
OMAHA—Gro.s,ses at fir.st runs here were<br />
below levels of other recent weeks. "Alias;<br />
Nick Beal" and "Miraculous Journey" at the<br />
Omaha registered 115 per cent as the leader.<br />
"Home of the Brave" at the State was the<br />
only other newcomer to rate better than<br />
average.<br />
Omaha -AUas Nick Beal (Para), Miraculous<br />
Journey (FC)<br />
Orpheum—Black Magic (UA). The Lost<br />
, ...<br />
Bandit<br />
,<br />
Parc^ount—Everybody Does It (ZOth-Fox) 100<br />
RKO Brandeis -Tokyo Joe (Col), Make Mine<br />
Laughs (RKO) ,?„<br />
Slatf-Home of the Brave (UA) <br />
Town-The Doolins of Oklahoma (Col), 2nd run;<br />
Murders in the Rue Morgue (U-I); The Roren<br />
(U-I) split with Tanan Triumphs (RKO); Toizon's<br />
Desert Mystery (RKO) ^=<br />
Screeno Is Ruled Illegai<br />
At Page in Shenandoah<br />
SHENANDOAH. IOWA — County Attorney<br />
Everett McFarland has notified Glenn Deeter,<br />
manager of the Page Theatre here, that<br />
Screeno is illegal. Screeno, a modified form<br />
of bingo, has been a Wednesday night drawing<br />
card for years. Cancellation of Screeno<br />
left the theatre with $300 in the grab bag.<br />
"Turkey shoots" that have featured bingo<br />
and other games of chance have also been<br />
canceled.<br />
74<br />
BOXOFFICE November 19, 1949
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