Boxoffice-December.24.1949

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Pal McGee Is Elected
Denver Variely Head
DENVER—Pat McGee, general manager of
the Cooper Foundation Theatres, was elected
chief barker for the new Tent 37 at its first
PAT AIiGEE
election under the Variety banner.
The tent
is the former Rocky Mountain Screen club,
which has club and screening rooms in its
building at 1345 Glenarm. It is said to be the
only Variety Club with its owri screening room
which is used regularly.
Other officers elected included Bernie
Hynes, manager of the Denver, first assistant
chief barker; Hall Baetz, district manager for
Fox Intermountain Theatres, .second assistant;
William Hastings, Orpheum manager,
property manager, and Harry Green, treasurer
for Fox Intermountain Theatres, doughguy.
The following are canvasmen: R. C. Hill,
Columbia manager; Fred Brown, booker and
buyer for the Black Hills Amusement Co.; Ed
Mapel, city councilman and owner of the
Gem; H. W. McLaren, president of Western
Service & Supply; Robert Selig, executive
assistant to the president of Fox Intermountain;
Mayer Monsky. U-I manager, and Duke
Dunbar and Kenneth Smith, lawyers.
The affiliation of the former Rocky Mountain
Screen club with Variety will be completed
at a dinner early in February at which
R. J. O'Donnell, chief barker of Variety International,
will present a charter.
DENVER
prank H. Rirketson jr., president of Fox Intermountain
Theatres, returned from a
five-week tour of Europe and Israel. He made
the trip with Charles P. Skouras, president
of National Theatres, and E. C. Rhoden, head
of Fox Midwest, Kansas City. Ricketson reported
that American religious films are very
popular in Europe, along with spectacular costume
pictures. While the theatres do not have
popcorn, some of them have bars and serve
liquor. Ricketson reported the spirit in Isreal
is remarkable. He said Fox theatres will be
built in Tel Aviv. Israel, and in Alexandria
and Cairo, Egypt.
"Borderline" will be premiered at the Paramount
and Webber, and there is a strong
probability that either Fred MacMurray or
Claire Trevor will be present for the event
M. R. Austin. Eagle Lion
January 24 . . .
branch manager, and Paul Snoddy and Frank
Sheffield, salesmen, left for Chicago to attend
a sales meeting . 450-car drive-in
being erected by Gus Daskalos and Steve Nitse
at Las Vegas, N. M., at a cost of approximately
$45,000, will be ready for opening next spring.
Motiograph projection equipment and speakers
are to be supplied by Ted Knox.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Knox of the Service
Theatre Supply and their two children are
sf>ending the Christmas holidays at Ray, N. D.
McAbee, booker at Lippert Pictures,
is spending the holidays at her former home
in Green Bay, Wis. . Universal exchange
held its Christmas party at the Variety
Club December 21.
Paul Rothman, owner of the Colorado
Springs drive-in theatres, and Elden Menagh,
owner of the Star, Ft. Lupton, Colo., are building
a 325-car drive-in near Brighton, Colo.,
at a cost of $50,000. It will be ready for a
spring opening . two Wolfberg driveins
which were kept open as long as possible,
closed only when the weather dropped to zero.
Davis & Jones has sold the Highway 85 drivein,
Raton, N. M., to J. E. Oliver.
Exhibitors seen on Filmrow included Dave
Warnook, Johnstown; Herbert Gumper, Center;
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Coulter, Loveland;
June Canda, Westcliff; Kenneth Powell,
Wray; Bernard Newman, Walsh; Larry Starsmore,
Colorado Springs, and Mr. and Mrs.
Don Munson. Rifle, Colo.; Robert Spahn.
Mitchell; Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Rider, Wauneta,
and Dorrance Schmidt, Bridgeport, Neb., and
Joe Stallman, Lingle, Wyo.
Pastime Theatre Remodeled
PINE BLUFF, WYO.—Remodeling and redecorating
of the Pastime Theatre here has
been completed.
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Hannah Opie Elected
SAN FRANCISCO—The Film Colony
club
elected Hannah Opie, secretary at the office
of the Independent Theatre Owiiers of Northem
California, president: Mary Marquart,
manager's secretary at MGM, vice-president;
Helen Graham, secretary at the California
Theatres Ass'n office, as secretary, and Bess
Huntoon. MGM cashier, as treasurer.
George Atton to Granada
RENO, NKV.—George Atton, formerly at
the New Turlock Theatre in Turlock, Calif.,
has assumed new duties as manager of the
Granada Theatre here. The house is operated
by T&D Theatres, for which Homer
LeBallister is district manager.