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DALLAS
Jimmy Allard, the Palace manager, was back booked for a Rialto opening .
came
' on the job after an illness which kept him from Hollywood that Gary Cooper would be
in bed ten days ... P. A. Bob Warner of the star of the forthcoming Warner film,
Manley. Inc. left by plane Sunday (12) to "Dallas." It is to be about the city in the
attend the funeral of his brother Arthur S., post-Civil war era.
in New Haven, Conn. Arthur was the eldest
R. J. O'Donnell of Interstate and chief
of four children. The others are Mrs. A.
barker of 'Variety Clubs International received
Mautte and Miss Jennie Warner . . . Louis
Santikos of the Almos Theatre in San Antonio
was in town booking. The new
word that a group of 30 Italian filmmen
in Rome have agreed to form a new 'Variety
Club tent there . Dallas Lions
theatre
has just opened . . . Ellis W. Levy, western
division manager for the Telenews The-
club is to sponsor a stage presentation of
the
atres. Inc., was here on a four-day visit. The NBC show People Are Funny, at the Fair
Park auditorium here March 25.
corporation owns the downtown Dallas Theatre.
Exhibitors on the Row: Lloyd Franklin,
Sunshine Theatre, Clovis, N. M.; W. O. Bearden,
Aicadia, Lubbock; Mrs. Ruth Norwood
Likins, Broadway, Abilene; Jack Groves, Post
Oak Drlve-In, Houston; Dean Jones and
Tommy Yates, Anna Theatre, Anna; E. B.
Wharton, Rule, Rule; P. V. Williams, Roxy,
Munday; Mrs. Jay Huckabee, Odeon, Palmer;
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Tittle, Star, Cumby;
Mrs. Marie Schulman, Dixie, Bryan; C. O.
Simmons, Plaza, Denton; D. E. Smith, Globe,
Bertram; T. J. Hooser and E. W. Hooser,
Ritz Theatre, Seymour; Gidney Talley, Talley
Enterprises, San Antonio; J. C. Webb,
Sunset Drive-In, Temple.
The Lagow Theatre had the Kara-Kum
magic show on its stage for a special midnight
event . . . James O. Cherry, Interstate
city manager, said mail orders for tickets to
the stage attraction, "That Lady," with Katharine
Cornell, was especially heavy. The play
comes in for a matinee and night engagement
March 23 at the Majestic.
The Capitan Theatre played two first run
films, Warners' "One Last Fling" and "The
House Across the Street," each getting a
three-day showing . . . Betty Wells, former
MGM starlet, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. E. Culwell, before going to St. Louis
for a club engagement . Summers
of the Josephine in San Antonio was in booking
. . . Julian Bowles, who has handled several
film exploitation campaigns, was named
assistant publicity director for the state fair.
Charles Yeager is the director. One of
Bowles' duties will be to handle the publicity
of the summer Starlight operetta shows here.
Jack F. Dalley, former local Paramount
exploiteer and now assistant manager of New
York's Radio City Music Hall, is to visit
here April 10 . . Frank Starz of Interstate
.
left on a swing around the circuit . . . TVo
of the late 'Will Rogers' films, "David Harum"
and "Steamboat Round the Bend," were
Jack Corgan, Dallas architect who has designed
a number of theatres, left for Tulsa
The Delman staged a children's fashion
show in a night engagement. Children, ranging
in age from 1 to 12, modeled spring and
summer clothes in a 30-minute show. Style
commentator was Mrs. R. B. Regis. "Up in
Central Park" was the screen attraction. For
there . . . Ben Goldberg, with Spaller Pictures
of New York, will arrive next week to
a Saturday morning kiddy matinee, the Delman
brought in the Wrangers, four western
confer on Coronet bookings.
singers and musicians, to highlight a show
that included Gene Autry's "The Cowboy and
the Indians" and six cartoons.
The Variety Club of Dallas sponsored a St.
Patrick's dance and dinner Friday (17) in the
Grand ballroom of the Adolphus hotel. The
club will also sponsor a spring golf tournament
at the Dallas Country club May 27-29,
and is to give a square dance soon.
to attend the funeral of his brother, Cleo
Clifford . . . Gene Autry flew his own plane
in here to pick up Jack Dempsey for a Wichita
Falls benefit show for the Boys Club
swimming pool and the armed services YMCA
James Butler plans on opening his new
Lincoln Theatre for Negro patronage around
April 1. The theatre will seat 500 people . . .
Ruth Ann Mclnaney, daughter of Justin and
Ruth Mclnaney, was married to George D.
Athey. Mclnaney is with Alexander Film
Co. here.
Hillbilly Acts Scheduled
Once a Month at Drive-In
DALLAS—Hillbilly performers will make
appearances once a month at the Downs
Drive-In, owner Tim Ferguson announced
this week. The new policy was begun Thursday
and Friday (16, 17) with a show headed
by the Delmore brothers, and featuring
Wayne Raney and Lonnie Glosson, all guitarists
and singers. The Downs is on the
Fort Worth highway between Grand Prairie
and Arlington.
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BOXOFFICE :: March 18, 1950