Boxoffice-July.01/1950

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SAN FRANCISCO
Ctockton City Attorney Bill Dozier appeared
before the state supreme court on behalf
of the city in an amusement tax case. Involved
is a two-cent-a-ticket tax on admissions
which Fox West Coast Theatres has
protested as "illegal," "double tax" and "discriminatory."
Litigation dates from 1945.
Supervisors for the second time turned
down an application by attorney G. E. Koshell
for a permit to build a $25,000 drive-in on
the northwest corner of Fruit Ridge road and
Franklin boulevard in Sacramento . . . Clarence
Wasserman, Sacramento theatre man,
said the new $15,000 Bell Drive-In Theatre
will be opened soon. The drive-in is being
constructed in the East Del Paso Heights
north of the Grant Union High school at
Bell avenue near Marysville road. Wasserman's
associates are J. S. Brunhouse and
Forrest Enwald.
Ruth Dow of San Francisco filed suit for
$200,000 damages in superior court alleging
that the current Katharine Hepburn film
"Adam's Rib" uses elements of a story she
wrote more than a decade ago. Named as
defendants are MGM and seven San Francisco
film houses. Miss Dow's story, titled
"Loose Me and Let Me Go," was completed in
1939 but never printed, published or copyrighted.
However, the complaint states that
parts of the story, some of the characters and
even parts of the dialog were used in the
film.
Plans have been announced to construct a
new theatre for the Monterey Peninsula in
Monte Vista Village near the foot of Carmel
Hill, to be devoted to the showing of "foreign
and domestic films of prestige quality." Construction
is expected to begin in 30 days with
completion scheduled for early fall. The theatre
will be constructed as an enterprise of
Peninsula Associates and will be operated under
a lease by Paul Clark and R. B. Read,
both of Carmel Point.
Nettie Moscr, secretary to the Paramount
manager, is resigning to live in Los Angeles.
Sales manager's secretary June Duffy was
promoted to fill the post. No replacement
has been made as yet for Miss Duffy . . .
Martha Rayo, Paramount billing clerk, is vacationing
. . . Audre Ellis, Paramount, is vacationing
for two weeks in Los Angles . .
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Jessie Cole. Paramount's assistant cashier, is
vacationing
. Merritt, Paramount
cashier, returned to work following a brief
illness.
Clint Mechan, booker at Monogram, came
back from his vacation at Crater Lake, Ore.
employes at Monogram are going allout
on the Howard Stubbins and Mel Huling
Testimonial Playdate drive celebrating 70
years of service to the Pacific coast exhibitors.
The drive is on from July 14 to October
17.
At the fifth annual Oscar award dinner and
fall fashion preview of the Manufacturers &
Wholesalers Ass'n of San Francisco held at
the Fairmont hotel, a special award was given
to actress Joan Bennett who, with her husband
Walter Wanger, was a guest of the association
Charles Carman, president of
. . . stagehands Local 16, has been named cochairman
of Building for Youth's Wishing
Well drive for San Francisco theatres. He
and Al Dunn, manager of the Orpheum and
Wishing Well chairman, are asking all San
Francisco theatres to install wells in their
lobbies. The proceeds will be given to Building
for Youth.
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. . . C. S. Quessenberry of Davis and Arnold
Grussendorf of Dixon have purchased the old
Varsity Theatre property in Davis on Second
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The wife of H. Neat East, local manager
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Robert Clark, sales manager
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mother visiting here for a week. His father
Duke Clark is division manager in Dallas
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