Boxoffice-March.04.1950

. . The
ST. LOUIS
John Rees, owner of the Regal in suburban
Wellsville. and wife will leave for Hot
Springs about March 20 to spend three weeks
. . , Alfred Eldridge, bandleader, pianist and
composer of the 1920s, was found dead in his
room at the MacArthur hotel. He as 64 and
recently had been playing the piano in the
Elite cafe, whose owner Eugene Dattilo. a longtime
friend, had assisted Eldridge after finding
him in straitened circumstances. In 1929.
he conducted the orchestra at the Missouri
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Theatre here and made the big time circuits
with his own band at the height of his career.
Manager Schrader Hope of the Hope Theatre
in Sesser, 111., acted promptly and efficiently
when the film broke and caught fire
during a run of "Night Train to Memphis"
one night recently. The audience of 400 was
evacuated in an orderly manner, strictly as a
precautionary measure, and Hope then extinguished
the fire before the arrival of firemen.
The loss was confined to the film and
damage to the projector . . . Jim Moran, former
stunt man, was here promoting Selznick's
"The Third Man."
B. Temborius of Breese, 111., is vacationing
in Florida . . . Exhibitors on Filmrow: Tilden
Dickson, Crystal City; John Rees, Wellsville;
Herman Tanner, Vandalia; Tom Baker, Bunker
Hill; Bill Williams, Union; Howard Bates,
Cape Drive-In, Cape Girardeau, and Paul
Musser, Casey and Greenup, 111., who recently
returned from a vacation in Florida. Eagle
Lion has transferred Peter Hayes, exploiteer,
here to serve the Kansas City, Des Moines,
Omaha and Oklahoma City exchange areas.
He formerly worked this territory.
Joyce Finney, secretary to EL Manager F. J.
Lee, has announced her engagement to Dr.
Frank Flis, owner and supervisor of the
Health club at Hotel Chase . . . Loew's Orpheum
is going after the Saturday juvenile
business, starting with a double Hopalong
Cassidy show Saturday (4) at 9 a. m. at 25
cents. The Fox has been putting on a matinee
for children each Saturday with a western
feature and vaudeville acts, while a dozen
or so neighborhood and suburban houses have
their regular Youth Cinema club shows.
The two sons of Mrs. Harry Gladney. the
former Mrs. Cecil Cannon, owner of the Elsberry,
Mo., Orpheum have become young doctors.
The elder, 26, a graduate of Washington
university and Harvard university's medical
school, is now on a fellowship in an Atlanta
hospital studying to be a heart specialist.
His brother, 24, is a graduate of the
Washington university medical school in St.
Louis and has been interne in a Denver hospital
for the past four months.
Eagle Lion expects exceptional reception for
"Guilty of Treason" . . . The Fox Theatre will
be the scene of the next world's premiere
here, namely, "Singing Guns," starring
Vaughn Monroe, who will appear at the Fox
March 11 with a stage show headed by Vic
Damone . stage show that opened at
the Fox February 25 was headed by Jerry
Colonna, mustache and all, and surrounded
by some classy singing and dancing acts.
A 16mm motion picture projector was presented
to the Volunteer Film Ass'n of St.
Louis by the Cooperative Club of Clayton for
entertaining persons confined to institutions
or to their homes. Each member of the Cooperative
club will contribute one night a
month to form two-man teams to handle the
film shows.
Coal Shortage Brings
Illinois Power Slash
ST. LOUIS—Hundreds of motion picture
theatres in Illinois went on a partial brownout
Monday (27) as a result of state orders
to cut electricity consumption at least 25 per
cent.
Coal supplies had reached a critical stage,
especially in northern Illinois, as the miners
remained away from work.
Retail Sales About Same
ST. LOXns—Department store sales in St.
Louis during the week ended February 18
were 2 per cent higher in dollar volume than
the business done by the stores in the corresponding
week of 1949, the Federal Reserve
bank reported. The increase for the Federal
Reserve district as a whole was 1 per cent.
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Arch Hosier
3310 Olive Street, St. Louis 3, Mo.
Telephone JEiierson 7974
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