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. . Lloyd<br />
. . . Figures<br />
. . Margaret<br />
: March<br />
. . Ken<br />
BOSTON<br />
jpuring the subzero weather, a girl cashier<br />
in the Keith Memorial Theatre booth<br />
had to be taken to the hospital to have her<br />
hands thawed out. The mercury tumbled to<br />
the lowest registration in three years . . .<br />
George Roberts and his wife trained for<br />
Florida during the worst blizzard of the year<br />
to visit Mrs. Roberts' father, Herman Rifkin,<br />
at Miami Beach. They will return March 11<br />
Russo. Selznick publicist, left for<br />
New Haven to arrange screenings of "The<br />
Third Man" for exhibitors and Yale professors<br />
of drama, music and English.<br />
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Sundowners" staged by Joe Mansfield of<br />
Eagle Lion was an art contest held in the<br />
inner lobby of the Pilgrim Theatre where the<br />
film will receive its New England premiere.<br />
Seventy-five students of local art schools<br />
competed for awards for the best copy of a<br />
huge six-foot blowup of the profile of John<br />
Barrymore jr. who is making his screen debut<br />
in the film. Prizes were a savings bond, cash<br />
awards and guest tickets. The affair was<br />
held on Friday from 1 to 5 p. m.<br />
Visitors included Len Richter, Star, Pascoag,<br />
The highlight of the campaign R. I.; Alec Davis, head of the Champ<br />
for "The Amusement Co.; Speros Latchis, Latchis circuit;<br />
Edward 'White, Mansfield; Francis<br />
- Perry, Orpheum, Foxboro; Bill Savage, manager<br />
of the Arcadia, Portsmouth; Dominic<br />
Turturro, Elms, Millbury: Henry Annotti of<br />
the Uptown, and Archie Silverman and Al<br />
Siner, Strand, Providence.<br />
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9, Anton<br />
has<br />
Karas, the Hungarian zither player whose<br />
music plays a prominent part in establishing<br />
the mood of the film, will make a personal<br />
appearance in the theatre. He will stay here<br />
two weeks as the headliner in the Oval Room<br />
of the Copley-Plaza. On April 26 he will go<br />
to Providence where he is booked at the<br />
Providence-Biltmore hotel and will appear at<br />
the opening of the film in that city.<br />
Newell Stepp, general manager for several<br />
years of the B&Q circuit, has resigned to<br />
go to New Jersey to join Donald Jacocks in<br />
the Aldon Theatre circuit. No replacement<br />
has been announced from the B&Q home<br />
office at 100 Boylston St. . . . The funeral<br />
of Marion Coles, 58. director and treasurer<br />
of New England Theatres, was held at the<br />
Waterman chapel with burial in Columbia,<br />
S. C. A graduate of Clemson college in 1913,<br />
he was a first lieutenant in World War I<br />
before becoming associated with Paramount<br />
Pictures in 1918 in Atlanta and New York.<br />
He joined M&P Theatre in 1933, transferring<br />
to New England Theatres in January 1949<br />
at the time of the splitup of the M&P corporation.<br />
He leaves his wife, a son Charles<br />
and his mother.<br />
The Variety Club is sponsoring a sixth<br />
birthday party for Jimmie Ferragamo of<br />
Pramingham, a lad stricken with incurable<br />
cancer. Barkers Joe Cifre and Bill Koster<br />
are providing a Roy Rogers feature film,<br />
ice cream, popcorn and autographed pictures<br />
of baseball stars for Jimmie and 200<br />
of his friends and neighbors. The affair will<br />
be held at the Nicoli club across the street<br />
from Jimmie's home. The lad is unaware<br />
that this may be his last birthday.<br />
Projectionists Local 182 will give its ruby<br />
jubilee celebration April 24 at the Copley-<br />
Plaza. Joe Cifre. general chairman, says the<br />
speaker will be a man of national reputation.<br />
Entertainment and dancing will start<br />
at 8 p. m. but the main part of the program<br />
will not start till 12:30 to permit all projectionists<br />
and theatremen to attend after<br />
the theatres close for the night.<br />
Graham Greene, well-known British novelist,<br />
was here for the opening of "The Heart<br />
of the Matter," the Rodgers and Hammerstein<br />
production which has been made into a<br />
play by him and Basil Dean, British director.<br />
Nine novels by Greene have been made into<br />
films, five of them in this country. "The<br />
Power and the Glory," "Ministry of Fear"<br />
and "This Gun for Hire" were made by Paramount,<br />
"Orient Express" by 20th-Fox and<br />
"Confidential Agent" by Warners. "The Fallen<br />
Idol" was adapted from his short story.<br />
"The Basement Room," made in England and<br />
distributed by Selznick, while "The Third<br />
Man," an original Greene story, was made in<br />
Vienna under the Selznick banner.<br />
H. S. CarUsle of the Bellevue, St. Albans,<br />
Vt., and his wife were vacationing in Florida<br />
. . . George Hackett of the Middlesex Amusement<br />
Co. also was in Florida . Forkey,<br />
owner of the Park and Greendale theatres in<br />
Worcester, returned to the Laconia hospital<br />
to undergo a second kidney operation.<br />
Local exhibitors who have accepted the invitation<br />
of Spyros Skouras to attend the<br />
20th-Fox conference March 6-10 in Chicago<br />
include Martin Mullin, Samuel Pinanski, Arthur<br />
Lockwood, Ted Pleisher, Arthur Howard,<br />
Daniel Murphy, Nathan Yamins of Fall<br />
River and Edward Pay of Providence. They<br />
will accompany E. X. Callahan and James M.<br />
Connolly of the Boston office to the meeting<br />
Embassy Pictures have appointed Saul<br />
Levin as sales manager for Movie Quiz. The<br />
audience contest has been booked in 54 New<br />
England theatres to start April 1 . . . Roger<br />
Berube of Madawaska, Me., who is building<br />
a new drive-in in that area, writes he is<br />
given out by theatres in Boston<br />
planning to make a trip to Filmrow for on the drive for the repeal of the federal<br />
bookings<br />
. Coen now is handling amusement tax show that 248,000 patrons in<br />
New Hampshire and Vermont for EL, being this area have signed cards. These signed<br />
transferred from Maine when Carl Devisia<br />
slips have been crated in packages of 10,000<br />
joined the company. Al Fecke had been and in<br />
sent to the proper authorities in Washington.<br />
New Hampshire and Vermont for more<br />
than 27 years. He has been given the Massachusetts<br />
Came Home" will open<br />
"Three<br />
sector.<br />
at the Paramount<br />
and Fenway theatres here March 15,<br />
when civic and social leaders, officials of local<br />
schools and colleges. Parent -Teacher organizations<br />
and women's clubs will be guests<br />
of the managements. Governor Dever and<br />
Mayor Hynes and their staffs will be among<br />
guests. Both theatres will have special sections<br />
roped off for the distinguished guests.<br />
Phil Engel. 20th-Fox publicist, is working on<br />
details of the opening .<br />
Coyne,<br />
contract clerk at 20th-Fox, was married" recently<br />
to Jack Donahue of Dorchester. Following<br />
a honeymoon trip to New York and<br />
Philadelphia, she will return to her desk.<br />
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