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. . Hank<br />
. . Senn<br />
. . Ralph<br />
. . Virginia<br />
house manager, Nelly Morgan, assistant<br />
nianager, and others on the staff.<br />
. .<br />
Vacations are still in full swing on the<br />
Row. Jim Lewis, manager at RKO. will have<br />
to use a substitute typist or his own huntand-peck<br />
system on the typewriter, with his<br />
secretary, Mary Lamble. on vacation. Bob<br />
Ringler, RKO salesman for northern Kansas,<br />
is also on annual leave . . . Mary Heueisen,<br />
Warner booker, is taking her two weeks off<br />
in town . . . Edd Haas, one of Fox Midwest's<br />
district managers, is loafing with Mrs. Haas<br />
Mary<br />
in his cottage at Colorado Springs .<br />
Lou Clark, bookkeeper for the Missouri Theatre<br />
Supply Co.. is giving California the tour-<br />
onceover.<br />
ist<br />
Eddie Golden, city salesman for MGM.<br />
postponed his vacation once when reported<br />
as taking it. but now he will spend two weeks<br />
with his wife and two daughters at the Lake<br />
of the Ozarks. The two daughters. Bonny.<br />
13, and Penny. 10. have been modeling at<br />
Macy's in some of their fashion showings<br />
. . . Tillie Eastburn. MGM cashier, is back<br />
from an outing spent at Lake Okoboji in<br />
Iowa . Sonday. MGM booker, took<br />
Mrs. Sonday and motored all over the west.<br />
Dorothy Peterson, booker-stenographer, is<br />
leaving the MGM exchange ... At RCA. Mrs.<br />
Lavonne Francesconi has retired to devote<br />
her time to household and family duties, and<br />
has been replaced by Ramona Laquet as secretary<br />
to Don Davis and Walter Varnum . . .<br />
Virginia Lee Scott, from Dixie, is the new<br />
telephone girl at MGM.<br />
.<br />
Gadabouts of the week include E. D. Van<br />
Duyne. district manager, and J. H. Moore.<br />
field supervisor for RCA Service. They were<br />
spending a week on business in Minneapolis<br />
and St. Paul Lawler, public relations<br />
director at Fox Midwest, and Ralph<br />
Adams, film buyer, have returned from the<br />
convention held by National Theatres in Los<br />
Leon Robertson, city district<br />
Angeles . . .<br />
manager for Fox Midwest, returned from a<br />
business trip to Chicago.<br />
Withy, the exclusive monkey that escaped<br />
from the Crest Drive-In here several weeks<br />
ago, was captured by Mrs. Bob Walter, wife<br />
of the Crest manager, with the aid of a<br />
little food and coaxing. The monkey walked<br />
up to Mrs. Walker seeking a bite of food,<br />
and she grabbed him.<br />
Arthur Cole and "Dick" Biechele went to<br />
Mason City, Iowa, to attend the reopening<br />
of the State Theatre there. It was recently<br />
purchased by Clarence Schultz and has been<br />
extensively remodeled . Morrow jr.<br />
has been taken on as a student salesman at<br />
the 20th-Fox exchange . Gaylord<br />
is substituting for Zella Faulkner in the<br />
offices of the A. P. Baker Enterprises while<br />
Miss Faulkner is undergoing hospitalization<br />
George Forman. zone manager for Hallmark<br />
Productions, . . .<br />
visited the Row Wednes-<br />
day (16).<br />
Satisfaction — Always<br />
Missouri Theatre Supply Co.<br />
L. I. KIMBRIEL. Manngar<br />
Pbon* BAllimore 3070<br />
S£ lis W. 181b Eanaaa Cily B. Mo. Z<br />
MINNEAPOLIS<br />
pat O'Brien, film star, will make his first<br />
Minneapolis personal appearance August<br />
31 when he opens a two-week engagement at<br />
the Hotel Nicollet Terrace Room . . . Industry<br />
leaders here believe that restrictions on<br />
credit, curtailment of television manufacture,<br />
etc.. is sure to have favorable boxoffice<br />
repercussions . . . William Floyd of New<br />
York, who will be the organist at Radio City<br />
theatre when that de luxe showhouse resumes<br />
organ music and community sings within<br />
the next few weeks, has been regular organist<br />
at the Radio City Music Hall and Paramount<br />
Theatre in New York City.<br />
The state bar association is investigating<br />
the conduct of the Rubin Shetsky and Laura<br />
Miller murder trials by Judge J. J. Moriary<br />
of Shakopee, Minn., particularly with regard<br />
to the installation of loudspeakers in a nearby<br />
theatre to permit overflow crowds to hear<br />
testimony in both trials and the televising of<br />
Shetsky by KSTP-TV while he was on the<br />
stand testifying in his own behalf. Both<br />
were sensational murder trials involving<br />
Minneapolitans.<br />
North Central AUied's regional meeting in<br />
Sioux Falls attracted a good turnout. The<br />
meeting was given over largely to high film<br />
costs . . . The new Bob Hope comedy. "Fancy<br />
Pants." is set for the St. Paul Paramount<br />
August 31 and Radio City here September 1<br />
. . . North Central Allied's current bulletin<br />
tosses orchids at MGM for selling "Annie<br />
Get Your Gun" to smaller situations flat.<br />
Radio City Theatre got a bad break when<br />
the University of Minnesota decided it would<br />
not follow the lead of other Big 10 institutions<br />
in the Chicago and Detroit areas and<br />
permit large screen televising of its football<br />
games next fall. The large screen television,<br />
designed to bring important events to patrons<br />
at the time of their happening, is now being<br />
installed in the showhouse. The Western<br />
Conference previously had prohibited Uve<br />
televising of any of its football games mext<br />
fall.<br />
W. G. Hall Improves<br />
BURWELL. NEB.—W. G. Hall has installed<br />
a new Cycloramic screen in the Rodeo Theatre.<br />
New seats also were to be added.<br />
Vandals Damage Neon Sign<br />
PANORA. IOWA — Vandals damaged the<br />
large neon star at the entrance of the Star<br />
Drive-in here, owners reported. County officers<br />
are investigating.<br />
Exhibitor Produces Play<br />
ST. JOHN. KAS.—John Caylor. manager<br />
of the Pix Theatre, is producer and director<br />
of the play. "He Done Her Wrong," which<br />
was given by a local cast on Festival day here<br />
Wednesday (16).<br />
New Seats at Fair Theatre<br />
FAIRFAX, MO.—Mr. and Mrs Don Fraser<br />
have installed 112 cushion seats in the Fair<br />
Theatre, continuing an improvement program.<br />
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: August 19, 1950 55
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