Boxoffice-July.01/1950
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. . Edith<br />
. . Pauline<br />
. . Republic<br />
. . "Our<br />
. . Dick<br />
. . Richard<br />
. . The<br />
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. . with<br />
. . Beginning<br />
. . Mel<br />
. . Sarah<br />
mount, ended up with 85 per cent. "Annie<br />
Get Your Gun," in a third week at the Teck,<br />
carded 105 per cent.<br />
Buffalo—Father of the Bride (Para) 110<br />
Center—Night and the City (20tfi-Fox), 2nd wk lUb<br />
Lafayette The Good Humor Man (Co!) 85<br />
Paramount Return ol the Frontiersman (WB); This<br />
Side of the Law (WB) Sb<br />
Teck—Annie Get Your Gun (MGM), 3rd d. t. wk lUb<br />
'Annie' Retains 130 Standing<br />
In Fourth Baltimore Week<br />
BALTIMORE—Business in Baltimore has<br />
with "Annie Get Your Gun" pull-<br />
been light,<br />
ing the bulk of the business for the last<br />
three weeks for a three-week average of 133<br />
and a fourth week rating of 130.<br />
Century Sierra (U-I) 98<br />
Town—Rocketship XM (LP) 120<br />
New—Night and the City (20th-Fox) - 123<br />
Mayfair Davy Crockett, Indian Scout 1U5<br />
Stanley Return of the Frontiersman (WB) 101<br />
Keith's—Spy Hunt (U-I) 100<br />
Valencia—Annie Get Your Gun (MGM), 4th wk .130<br />
WASHINGTON<br />
n free trip to Hollywood is the prize in<br />
the annual Little IVliss America and All<br />
American Boy contest sponsored by the<br />
Screen Children's Guild of Hollywood in association<br />
with the Kogod-Burka Theatres.<br />
Frank Boucher reports that the K-B Theatres<br />
being besieged by parents and children<br />
for entry blanks are the Apex. McArthur,<br />
Flower, Atlas, Naylor and Senator theatres.<br />
. Bill Michalson is with<br />
Warner Bros, district manager Robert<br />
Smelzer and his wife plan a trip to the coast<br />
now next week<br />
Equity<br />
. .<br />
Pictures ... At Eagle Lion Classics<br />
home office visitors include Rube Pearlman,<br />
John Consentino, auditor, and Leo Brody,<br />
here to publicize "Destination IVIoon" . . .<br />
Booker's clerk Mrs. Willie Benick has returned<br />
from a vacation which she spent<br />
helping to insulate her new home.<br />
. . . Florence<br />
Mildred Orange came back from Florida<br />
with the usual coat of tan . Clark<br />
is vacationing in Chester, Pa.<br />
Carden will move into her new apartment<br />
in Brentwood Village July 15 ... Ed Fon-<br />
. . .<br />
taine, SRO district manager, is visiting his<br />
offices in Pliiladelphia and Pittsburgh<br />
Vic Orsinger. managing director of Lopert<br />
Theatres in Washington, graduated from<br />
Georgetown law school and passed the District<br />
of Columbia bar examinations. He and<br />
his family are vacationing in Virginia Beach.<br />
Louis Calhern, director John Sturges and a<br />
camera crew from the MGM lot are in town<br />
shooting exteriors for "The Magnificent<br />
Yankee" ... At 20th-Fox Pearl Wilensky,<br />
aside from being elated over her new switchboard,<br />
has announced her engagement to<br />
Ray Kruger . . . All the boys and girls are<br />
thrilled with the beautiful new exchange<br />
and were happy to guide the visitors through<br />
the building.<br />
. . Cashier<br />
. . . Tom<br />
RKO's Barbara Allen has a new Oldsmobile<br />
. . . The quarters at 932 New Jersey Ave.,<br />
which formerly housed 20th-Fox, are being<br />
remodeled and redecorated and RKO expects<br />
to move in about September. Shipping and<br />
inspection rooms will be enlarged in addition<br />
to other improvements<br />
Agnes Turner visited<br />
.<br />
New York<br />
Goldberg, prominent Baltimore exhibitor,<br />
died recently. A pioneer in this area, Goldberg<br />
operated the Walbrook, Hilton and Harford<br />
theatres. He is survived by his wife.<br />
PHILADELPHIA<br />
•To help boost mid-day patronage Stanley-<br />
Warner Theatres have adopted a policy<br />
of a ten-cent price for kiddies at matinee<br />
performances. The amusement tax is absorbed<br />
in the admission price . . . S-W tied<br />
in with Barr's jewelry store in a $250 diamond<br />
ring giveaway to help exploit "The<br />
Great Jewel Robber." To win the ring, a<br />
patron had to use the right combination to<br />
Hal Warner of the<br />
open a locked safe . . .<br />
Benson Theatre is conducting a contest to<br />
choose Miss Southwest Philadelphia. The<br />
winner will receive an all-expense vacation<br />
to Nassau, Bermuda and the Bahamas.<br />
. . .<br />
. . Jerrie Greenberg<br />
. . . Mel<br />
Ben Wlrth, who is in charge of real estate<br />
and concessions for Stanley-Warners in New<br />
York, was in town to see his son Howard<br />
married to Dianne Saultz Ted Minsky,<br />
S-W film buj'er, had a new addition to his<br />
family with the birth of a baby at Jewish<br />
Rose Katz from the publicity<br />
hospital . . .<br />
office of S-W has resigned .<br />
Weintraub will resign in July Fox has opened his Burlington, N. J., drivein,<br />
the sixth in his ozoner chain. Fox wUl<br />
launch three more in Chestnut Hill, Bethlehem<br />
and at the seashore before warm weather<br />
ends.<br />
Allied Independent Theatre Owners of<br />
Eastern Pennsylvania at a general membership<br />
meeting in the Broadwood hotel unanimously<br />
adopted a resolution protesting the<br />
current crop of crime and western pictures<br />
being turned out by Hollywood. The exhibitors<br />
called on producers to make more "good<br />
family entertainment" . Very Own"<br />
was shown at the Variety Club Sunday (25).<br />
The Arcadia soon will show a first run<br />
picture "The Glass Mountain," for the first<br />
time in many months . Kirsch. who<br />
was manager of S-W's Queen Theatre, Wilmington,<br />
for tlie last ten years, has resigned<br />
to enter the night club business . U.S.<br />
circuit court has reserved decision on an appeal<br />
by the state board of censors from a<br />
district court ruling that the board may not<br />
censor motion pictures used in television as<br />
this would be an unlawful interference witli<br />
interstate commerce.<br />
. . .<br />
.<br />
Helen StroUo, Warner Bros, biller, is engaged<br />
. Moray. WB clerk, was<br />
vacationing Ben Kauffman. U-I tubthumper,<br />
was in town working on "Peggy,"<br />
next film at the Aldine. Mrs. Kauffman has<br />
entered the University hospital for an appendectomy.<br />
Ben has asked to be assigned to<br />
Philadelphia . biller Ruth Levine<br />
is leaving for California Yates,<br />
executive assistant to James R. Grainger,<br />
wUl come in from Republic's home office to<br />
manage the Philadelpliia branch while Norman<br />
Silverman goes to the west coast on his<br />
honeymoon . . . R. V. Graber, traveling<br />
auditor, was at Monogram.<br />
For o GOOD Chair At a GOOD Pfice —<br />
Buy<br />
IRWIN<br />
JOHN P. MORGAN CO., INC.<br />
317 N. I3lh St. Phila. - LO 4-022E<br />
. . Joe Kelley, manager of<br />
. . .<br />
Shirley Mollinger. 20th-Fox secretary to<br />
Sieg Horowitz, is leaving for her vacation at<br />
Camp Tamiment .<br />
Ellis Theatres' Erlen, has left the hospital<br />
. . . A. M. Ellis was in New York on business<br />
Charles Wagner, who had been manager<br />
of the Grand for year.^, died recently . . .<br />
Martin Ellis' son Robert is flying to Israel<br />
for a short vacation . Fishman,<br />
Clark Film head inspector, was in University<br />
hospital . . . Jean Dowling, Clark Film inspector,<br />
was recuperating after a recent<br />
operation.<br />
The Merben Theatre in the Mayfair section<br />
of Philadelphia is scheduled to open August<br />
1 . . . Ben Sielegman of the Strand, Wilmington,<br />
was hurt recently when part of a ceiling<br />
fell on him . in September the<br />
Strand, Wilmington, Del., will be operated by<br />
Ben Shindler . Fox's 800-seat Key<br />
Theatre in Doylestown, Pa., opened Thursday<br />
(29) . Milton Theatre, Milton, Del.,<br />
was to close July 1 . . . Walter Donohue,<br />
Columbia office manager, was on vacation . . .<br />
Zelda Donska, Columbia clerk, has resigned.<br />
George Hutcheon, WB office manager, went<br />
to Canada on his vacation . . . "Return of the<br />
Frontiersman" was previewed at the Stanton<br />
Wednesday (28) . . . The Parkesburg, Parkesburg.<br />
Pa., has changed to a weekend policy<br />
. . . The Sky-Vue Drive-In in Lancaster, Pa.,<br />
has inaugurated a "family night" one night<br />
a week. Admission during this night is $1<br />
per car.<br />
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