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OKLAHOMA CITY<br />
New Display Service Open at Dallas<br />
p B. "Bill" Coleman, MGM publicist of<br />
. . .<br />
Dallas, attended the tradescreening of<br />
Lana Turner's new film, "A Life of Her<br />
Own," in the 20th-Fox screen room<br />
Burglars repaid a visit to the Redskin Theatre<br />
in the Capitol Hill business section for<br />
a 25-cent haul. The door of the manager's<br />
office and another on a closet were pried<br />
open, the knob of the safe battered, the pin<br />
drilled out and the sides partially peeled<br />
back. Manager Jo Shores said a 25-cent<br />
coin was taken from a petty cash box. The<br />
coin had been left in the box from a previous<br />
burglary "for sentimental reasons."<br />
Jimmy Burge, formerly in the theatre business<br />
and later Municipal auditorium manager,<br />
reports his first booking as manager of<br />
special events for Oklahoma Publishing Co. is<br />
receiving a fine response in ticket sale.>.<br />
Burge who took over his new duties August<br />
1, has booked Sadler's Wells Ballet, which<br />
will appear here November 28 in the auditorium.<br />
The choice seats, now sold out, went<br />
for $4.88 and $3.66. Four thousand tickets<br />
had been sold by August 10.<br />
. . . Bob<br />
Douglas York, son of Claude York, EL<br />
manager, who was bitten in the right arm<br />
by a rabid dog while playing in his backyard,<br />
is getting along fine and has had !6<br />
of his 21 shots. The dog that bit the youngster<br />
died of rabies. The Yorks have two<br />
other children Linda and Tim<br />
Busch, his wife and son Bob jr. are vacationing<br />
in Florida, where Bob lived 20 years<br />
ago. Bob manages the Uptown and Villa<br />
here.<br />
Peter Hansen and Louise Carr, two new<br />
Hollywood "finds," will play opposite each<br />
other in Paramount's "Passage West."<br />
TEXAS DRIVE-IN<br />
PERFECT LOCATION, near huge military payrcU.<br />
1,100 new homes building adjacent.<br />
Excallent new plant, showing very short payrut.<br />
Completely logical sale reason. 565,000<br />
down. STAND CLOSEST INVESTIGATION.<br />
Other drive-ins at 330,000, 536,000, 60,000<br />
down. We accept no distress properties<br />
only sound, profitable offerings. ALSO 24 indoor<br />
properties from 57,500 up.<br />
Exclu<br />
with<br />
Arthur Leak<br />
Theatre Specialists<br />
3305 Caruth Dallas 5. Texas<br />
New Phone E6-7489<br />
Sell Your Theatre Privately<br />
Westerns-Features-Serials<br />
Tower Pictures Co.<br />
HABOLD SCHWARZ<br />
302 S. Harwood St. Dallas 1, T«xa><br />
Phones C-73S7 and R-3998<br />
Frank Benson, theatre operator at Bowie, Tex., for 17 years and before that a<br />
sign painter and theatre artist in Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit, has opened a<br />
theatre display and advertising accessory business in Dallas, in association with Hal<br />
Sadler, theatre artist and manager with Robb & Rowley Theatres many years, most<br />
recently at San Angelo. Above is an interior view of the Benson -Sadler store with<br />
Benson talking to a customer.<br />
'Ocean Drive' Strong<br />
At 125 in Dallas<br />
DALLAS—"711 Ocean Drive," scoring 125<br />
per cent gave the Majestic the high mark for<br />
the week. "No Man of Her Own" placed second,<br />
doing 110 at the Melba. "The Flame<br />
and the Arrow" was in the above-average<br />
class with 105 at the Palace.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
Coronet—Stormy Weather (20th-Fox), reissue 90<br />
Dallas—Hitler's Slranqe Love Lite (HPD); Passion's<br />
Pavment (HPD), 2nd wk 90<br />
Maiestic—711 Ocean Drive (Col) 125<br />
Melba—No Man of Her Own (Para) 110<br />
Pala-e—The Flame and the Arrow (WB) 105<br />
^:allo—Operation Hayliit (LP), plus stage show.... Bb<br />
Tower—Treasure Island (RKO), 2nd d. t. wk 80<br />
Five Houses in St. Louis<br />
Start Day-Date Bookings<br />
From Central Edition<br />
ST. LOUIS—The Empress, Esquire, Norside,<br />
Varsity and Ritz, which recently entered the<br />
first run field on a day-and-date basis with<br />
the first local showing of "D.O.A." and "A<br />
Kiss for Corliss," have followed up with the<br />
first showing of "Annie Get Your Gun."<br />
At the Empress the second feature was<br />
"Law of the Barbary Coast," while the Varsity,<br />
Esquire. Norside and Ritz filled out their<br />
bills with a public relations short and a<br />
cartoon review.<br />
"Duchess of Idaho" moved over to Loew's<br />
Orpheum for its third local week—the previous<br />
two weeks at Loew's State. The second<br />
feature was "Father Makes Good."<br />
Will Write Narration<br />
The narration for "National 1-1000" will be<br />
written by John Higgins for Monogram'.<br />
BUFFALO COOLING EQUIPMENT<br />
lOth Fl.. 2nd Unit, Santa Fo Bldg, BUFFALO ENGINEERING CO., INC. Dallas. Tex.<br />
It Pays to Advertise<br />
—in BOXOFFICE<br />
BOXOFFICE '.: Augu.st 19, 1950 73
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