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PORTLAND<br />
pill Graham, evangelist, is finishing his<br />
third week in this city after proving to<br />
be the theatre industry's biggest competitor.<br />
He reportedly has preached to 100,000 persons<br />
a week and has expressed his intention<br />
to remain here "as long as there is need" . . .<br />
Lou Amacher, MGM manager, said he would<br />
screen "The Next Voice You Hear ."<br />
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Graham . . . Jack Matlack. J. J. Parker executive,<br />
began building a new home.<br />
Gloria Swanson visited here last week .<br />
. . . The<br />
"City Lights." Charlie Chaplin reissue, is<br />
winding up a five-week run at the Guild,<br />
Manager Martin Foster said he had received<br />
many requests for more pictures of the same<br />
type , Amacher, MGM manager, left<br />
with his family for a vacation in Canada .<br />
"Treasure Island" opened to capacity business<br />
at the Paramount and held up well all<br />
week. It probably will hold over<br />
Orpheum did average business on "711 Ocean<br />
Drive" and the Broadway played a second<br />
week of "Duchess of Idaho." "Annie Get<br />
Your Gun" ended four weeks at the United<br />
Artists and "The Secret Fury" did average at<br />
the Mayfair.<br />
Herb Royster, manager of the Mayfair.<br />
returned after a two-week vacation at Long<br />
Beach. Wash. . T. Howard, western<br />
sales representative for SRC. conferred with<br />
Mrs. J. J. Parker on forthcoming product . . .<br />
George A. Hickey, western sales manager<br />
for MGM. also was in town to confer with<br />
Mrs. Parker and Jack Matlack. her executive<br />
assistant.<br />
"Three Little Words" was sneak-previewed<br />
at the Broadway to favorable comment .<br />
Nick Pierong. early Portland showman, died<br />
in Spokane. Wash. . Island"<br />
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PHONE PROSPECT 5-7146<br />
campaigns reached a climax Monday (14)<br />
when 200 prizes and awards were given away<br />
. . . John Stein, Hamrick's Portland advertising<br />
director and manager of the Music Box,<br />
will leave September 15 for a short vacation<br />
in Honolulu. He then will travel to California<br />
to join Jeanette MacDonald and Gene<br />
Raymond on their proposed tour. Robert<br />
Butts, manager of the Newsreel, will take<br />
over Stein's position. No succe.ssor has been<br />
named at the New.sreel,<br />
The Liberty Theatre has adopted a new<br />
program police. It now changes features<br />
every five days instead of seven. This policy<br />
was started last week and a definite increase<br />
in busine.ss has been noted . are<br />
that drive-ins have not been enjoying such<br />
high grosses this summer. The reason, according<br />
to Filmrow observers, is that there<br />
are six drive-ins near Portland this year<br />
compared with only three last year.<br />
Variety of Denver<br />
Receives Charter<br />
DENVER—Nearly 300 sat down to the<br />
charter dinner of the Variety Tent 37 at the<br />
Cosmopolitan hotel. With Pat McGee, chief<br />
barker presiding. Col. William J. McCraw,<br />
executive officer of Variety Clubs International,<br />
presented the charter of Tent 37,<br />
formed last year, to McGee and former presidents<br />
of the Rocky Mountain Screen Club,<br />
the forerunner of Tent 37. A dance followed<br />
the dinner and wound up the three-day<br />
celebration.<br />
In the golf tournament Frank Green. Fox<br />
Intermountain auditor, won top place with<br />
a gross of 87 and a net of 67. Second resulted<br />
in a three-way tie. Clarence Olson had a<br />
gross of 98; Jerry Baake a net 80, and Ed<br />
Pruitt a net 98. Their net was 68 each.<br />
Seventy-four, the largest number ever to<br />
tee off in a Denver Variety club tournament,<br />
played 18 holes each.<br />
The men, about a hundred, attended the<br />
Calcutta dinner at the Albany hotel the night<br />
prior to the tournament.<br />
The women staged a carnation luncheon<br />
and style show, with 230 attending. Dupler's<br />
furstore put on the style show, and the women<br />
were recipients of innumerable favors.<br />
They put on a dinner at the clubrooms one<br />
night, with 120 places being set.<br />
Hall Baetz, general chairman, was given<br />
credit for outstanding success of the threeday<br />
event.<br />
All of the profits, which have not yet been<br />
tabulated, go to the Variety International<br />
Clubs heart fund.<br />
Rebuild at Lds Animas<br />
LAS ANIMAS, COLO.—C. E. McLaughlin,<br />
owner of the Ritz Theatre, has rebuilt the<br />
front of that hou.se and repainted it in<br />
white, green and red. A new glass brick<br />
boxoffice and front decorationist were installed.<br />
American Supply Moves<br />
SEATTLE—American Theatre Supply has<br />
moved to 2300 First Ave. from its former<br />
location at 1504 14th St.. according to R. E.<br />
Fairleigh. The new location is in the same<br />
block with Paramount and is clo.se to other<br />
exchanges.<br />
SEATTLE<br />
Wance Weskil, already operating theatres<br />
at Colfax, Wash., and Sandpoint, Ida.,<br />
has taken over the Cordova at Pullman,<br />
Wa.sh., making this the fifth in his chain<br />
. . . Ted Snyder, B. P. Shearer Co.. is on a<br />
two-week vacation at the Olympic Hot<br />
Springs<br />
. Heyder. manager of the<br />
Capitol in Juneau, Alaska, is in the States<br />
on vacation.<br />
Morris Safier, independent distributor, is<br />
in town from Los Angeles in the interest<br />
of the French film, "Devil in the Flesh,"<br />
which he is handling in the west. Others in<br />
Seattle from Los Angeles include Joe and<br />
Gertrude Zenk. who are on vacation. Zenk,<br />
formerly with the Vinicuff Theatres, now is<br />
controller for the Harry Curland Catering<br />
Co.<br />
Chilton Robinett, James Brook. Glenn Haviland<br />
and Jack Burk of 20th-Fox have returned<br />
from a San Franci-sco sales meeting<br />
. . . Russ Schmidt, city manager of John<br />
Hamrick Theatres in Tacoma, was in town<br />
recently for a business conference . . . Arthur<br />
Slater of Northwest Film Service has<br />
returned from a cruise in Canadian and<br />
Alaskan waters with Harold McDonald.<br />
Maurice Saffle of the Saffle Theatre Service<br />
flew in last week from a similar cruise<br />
with W. B, McDonald's party.<br />
John O'Conner, manager of the Roxy in<br />
Enumclaw. is growing a luxurious beard for<br />
the Natches Pioneer days celebration coming<br />
up shortly. The alternative was a $5 fine<br />
Padgett has sold his Mode<br />
Theatre in Cottonwood. Ida., to C. A. Ulharn,<br />
who will take over October 1.<br />
Leo Adler, auditor for United Artists, is<br />
visiting the local office . . . Walter Graham<br />
of Shelton and his brother Ray of Elma<br />
were on the Row recently . . . Hal Boehme.<br />
. .<br />
salesman for Monogram, was here after a<br />
two-week trip through eastern Washington<br />
and Idaho . "Annie Get Your Gun." now<br />
in its fifth week of its first run engagement<br />
at Hamrick's Music Hall, has set a new<br />
attendance record for the theatre.<br />
Buck Stoner, western district manager for<br />
20th-Fox. was in town from San Francisco<br />
for a meeting with exhibitors . . . The Roycroft<br />
Theatree has been closed for remodeling<br />
and will open September 1 . . . Tommy<br />
Tomlinson, booker and office manager for<br />
Republic, has gone east on vacation and will<br />
drive back a new car . . . Bud Hamilton,<br />
salesman for Monogram, left for a trip<br />
through eastern Washington.<br />
. . .<br />
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AI Utigard, merchandise manager for Sterling,<br />
is on vacation Vic Grow has taken<br />
over he Roza Theatre in Zillah, recently<br />
closed by John Olson. It will reopen soon<br />
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Will J. Conner and Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Douglas Forbes flew to Portland<br />
recently to attend the Portland Film club<br />
golf tournament day attendance<br />
of 'The Flame and the Arrow" at John<br />
Hamrick's Orpheum has broken the 1950<br />
record.<br />
City House Sold<br />
Silver<br />
SILVER CITY. N. M.—The Bayard Theatre<br />
here has been sold to H. D. McClougahn<br />
of Warren, Ariz., by O. K. Leonard.<br />
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BOXOFFICE :: August 19, 1950
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