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MIAMI<br />
Qonstruction of Wometco's new Carib Theatre<br />
in Miami Beach is scheduled to begin<br />
March 7. The circuit plans to make the<br />
house one of the area's showplaces. It will<br />
seat about 2,500 . . Eddie Linda, manager<br />
.<br />
of Brandt's new Roosevelt, says no complaints<br />
were brought back to the boxoffice<br />
and that no refunds were made upon the<br />
debut of "Stromboh." The first four day.s'<br />
business was terrific, says Linda, due to the<br />
immense amount of publicity about the picture.<br />
But, after word-of-mouth publicity,<br />
business dropped off. The widely heralded<br />
"Bicycle Thief" is the feature scheduled to<br />
replace "Stromboli" at the Roosevelt. Proceeds<br />
from the first night's performance will<br />
go to the Runyon Cancer fund.<br />
Sam Katzman, Columbia producer, his wife<br />
and daughter Ruth are vacationing in Miami<br />
Beach<br />
. Piatt, talent buying executive<br />
for Balaban & Katz, arrived here from<br />
Chicago to look over the impressive array<br />
of talent taking part in the Variety Children's<br />
hospital benefit show at Paramount's<br />
Olympia.<br />
The Paramount in Palm Beach awaited the<br />
arrival of the resort's diamond-studded clientele<br />
for the February 27 annual Kiwanis<br />
show, proceeds of which are earmarked for<br />
medical and dental clinics for underprivileged<br />
children in the county. Arthur Hammerstein<br />
is producer, assisted by his nephew Oscar.<br />
John Golden is in New York to line up talent.<br />
Leon Leonidorff puts together the show.<br />
Among artists donating their services are<br />
Bert Lahr, Bert Wheeler, Victor Borge, John<br />
Edwards, Sophie Tucker, Hal LeRoy, Grace<br />
and Nicco, Scheller Bros, and the Populaires.<br />
Nettie Rosenstein presents a style<br />
show.<br />
Al Grimaldi, promotion manager of the<br />
independent Normandy, Miami Beach, left<br />
here March 3 to take a position as managing<br />
director of the Star Drive-In in Wliite Plains,<br />
N. Y. . . . Henry Karlin, developer of the<br />
wartime process of transmitting color photographs<br />
via radio, has arrived with his wife<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Novins<br />
for a visit . . .<br />
are recent arrivals. Novins was active in New<br />
Jersey theatricals prior to becoming a lawyec<br />
Wometco's Capitol, after a successful week<br />
of vaudeville in addition to its regular screen<br />
fare, has postponed its second stage presentation<br />
until operational flaws can be ironed<br />
out<br />
. Florida had the first<br />
Miami showing of "Battleground." Opening<br />
run was in Miami Beach.<br />
Pauline Corley, former BOXOFFICE representative<br />
in the greater Miami area, and<br />
well-known among operators of local circuits,<br />
visited here from her home in Marietta,<br />
Ga.<br />
Sunday's News Magazine used a page feature<br />
showing pictures of Danny Kaye, who<br />
filled a club engagement here, as a shampoo<br />
artist in a local beauty salon. "The<br />
Inspector General" is making the rounds of<br />
local circuits.<br />
Paramount's Olympia celebrated its 24th<br />
year in the entertainment field. It presented<br />
a Giant Anniversary show. Screen<br />
attraction was "The Heiress." On stage was<br />
a show, planned by Al Weiss, headed by<br />
Lanny Ross who had to beg off from encores<br />
at every performance in order not to<br />
throw the schedule completely off balance.<br />
Les Rohde, band master at the Olympia for<br />
many years, arranged music for the occasion.<br />
Special art, showing a birthday cake<br />
with blazing candles, was the motif for the<br />
week's advertising.<br />
Sam Pinanski, Boston theatre magnate, is<br />
at the Roney Plaza Cabana club for a vacation<br />
. . . Tropicaire Drive-In is showing<br />
"Birth of a Nation" . . Spyros Skouras<br />
.<br />
and his wife left here by plane for Havana<br />
... A giant easel "Roster of Stars" was set<br />
up in the street lobby of the Olympia prior<br />
to Variety's benefit there. As entertainers<br />
were recruited for the show they signed<br />
their names on the placard, the constantly<br />
growing list attracting the attention of<br />
passersby.<br />
Wometco's Rosetta planned a big children's<br />
show for the Little River neighborhood, which<br />
included a circus carnival, free balloons,<br />
lemonade, peanuts, hot dogs, animals, clowns<br />
and cowboys.<br />
CHARLOTTE<br />
IJugh Owen, eastern and southern sales manager<br />
for Paramount, conducted a sales<br />
seminar for members of the Charlotte<br />
branch. Al Duren, local manager, presided.<br />
All salesmen and brokers attended. Discussions<br />
concerned new product . Pauline<br />
Griffith, secretary of the Theatre Owners<br />
Ass'n of North and South Carolina, is in the<br />
hospital recovering after an operation.<br />
Bernie Maxwell is here to aid in exploitation<br />
for "Samson and Delilah." He spent<br />
the week in the field with Everett Olsen,<br />
Paramount Carolinas exploiteer . . . Republic<br />
has installed a new adding machine with<br />
one key recording $1,000,000, and Cy Dillon,<br />
manager, says that's "for all the cash we'll<br />
Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert is visiting<br />
haul in with 'Sands of Iwo Jima'."<br />
here. He says he and his brother Jacob<br />
have "every confidence" The<br />
that<br />
Charlotte<br />
they<br />
Variety<br />
will be<br />
Club crew held a<br />
able to disprove monopoly<br />
meeting in<br />
charges<br />
Thacker's restaurant February 27.<br />
leveled<br />
against their theatrical<br />
Chief<br />
enterprises. The<br />
Barker Worth Stewart presided<br />
government<br />
has<br />
and<br />
said<br />
filed a<br />
a report on the meeting civil antitrust would<br />
suit<br />
be issued<br />
against the Shuberts, accusing them of having<br />
later.<br />
a stranglehold on the nation's legitimate<br />
stage . . . Harry Levine, Paramount booker, Passes to Marine Club<br />
who flew into town to catch Variety's highly<br />
ORLANDO, FLA,—Forty passes to<br />
successful Olympia<br />
"Sands<br />
stage benefit, says that<br />
of Iwo Jima" were<br />
Rudy<br />
presented to members of<br />
Vallee is set for an Olympia stage date<br />
the Marine Corps league<br />
in March.<br />
by Bill Spooner. publicist<br />
for Florida State Theatres. The film<br />
played the Grand here.<br />
"The Barefoot Mailman," a novel by Theodore<br />
P>ratt, has been purchased and will be<br />
produced by Robert Cohn for Columbia.<br />
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BOXOFFICE :: March 4, 1950
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