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LOUIS<br />
The strike of Public Service Co. bu.s and<br />
.street car operators had workers of local<br />
film exchanges thumbing rides to get home<br />
and back and forth to work. The Ruby<br />
S'Renco Art Theatre was especially hard hit<br />
since many of its patrons are college and<br />
university students, teachers, etc, who depend<br />
on the street cars and bu.ses to get to<br />
the<br />
theatre.<br />
Frank X. Roller and his wife of Wentzville,<br />
left here August 13 on a Holy year pilgrimage<br />
to Rome. Frances Miller of Festus, .sister of<br />
Harry Miller, theatre owner of that city, also<br />
was in the party of 90 en route to the Eternal<br />
city. They are due back October 10 . . . Exhibitors<br />
on Filmrow: Caesar Berutt, Rolla:<br />
Russell Armentrout, Louisiana, Mo.: Paul<br />
Schroeder, Lebanon; Rani Padrucci, Springfield;<br />
Forrest Pirtle, Jerseyville; Elvin H.<br />
Wiecks, Staunton; Frank Glenn, Tamaroa;<br />
Hot Gilliam, Paducah; Tom Bloomer, Belleville;<br />
Joe Katz, Benld; Mrs. Regina Steinberg,<br />
Madison; A. M. Chamness, Carrier<br />
Mills; Delbert Wagner, Eldorado; Ed Clark,<br />
Mattoon, and C. W. Locke, Memphis, Mo.<br />
Duke Clark of Dallas, division manager for<br />
Paramount, accompanied Harry Haas, local<br />
manager, on business visits to Herman Tanner,<br />
Vandalia; Frisina Amusement Co.,<br />
Springfield, and Russell Armentrout at Louisiana.<br />
Mo. . . . Anita Goldford, formerly on<br />
the staff of the Insurance Board of St. Louis,<br />
has joined Joe Hornstein, as a bookkeeperstenographer<br />
.<br />
Gorelick of Screen<br />
Guild and wife vacationed at Okee, Wis.<br />
. . Pete<br />
Seen on Filmrow; Harry Miller, Festus;<br />
Harry Blount, Potosi; Bud Mercier, Fredericktown;<br />
J. O. Sears, Bluffs; William Waring jr.,<br />
Cobden; Herman Tanner, Vandalia .<br />
Medley, Sikeston, and wife are vacationing at<br />
St. Augustine, and other Florida points.<br />
Other vacationists from local filmdom include<br />
Margaret Mang, contract clerk for<br />
MGM; Han-y jr., Missouri salesman for U-I;<br />
Marge Murphy, U-I booker; Joe Howard,<br />
Monogram- Allied Artists salesman, back from<br />
three weeks in California, and Frank Plumlee,<br />
Edwards & Plumlee circuit, Farmington,<br />
Mo.,<br />
back on the job.<br />
George Phillip is the name of a baby son<br />
born to Phil Nanos, owner of the Laclede<br />
Theatre here. The family now includes two<br />
boys and two girls . . . Many along Filmrow<br />
were sorry to learn of the death in Beverly<br />
Hills, August U, of Sam Hellman. 65, motion<br />
picture scrip writer, short story author and<br />
former St. Louis newspaperman. He went to<br />
Hollywood in 1927.<br />
A four-minute motion picture and a recording<br />
were used at a meeting of the St.<br />
Louis board of public service to support a<br />
petition for the addition of 75 taxicabs to<br />
the present fleet of 75 operated by the Laclede<br />
Cab Co. The company contends that its<br />
volume of business has increased 5,731 per<br />
cent in the past two years, making additional<br />
cabs imperative.<br />
. . .<br />
and river towns to be worked into "Show<br />
Boat." He also is to make similar studies<br />
along the Sacramento and St. John's rivers<br />
The Union Electric Co. reports there are<br />
now more than 150,000 televsion sets installed<br />
in homes in the area that it serves compared<br />
with 136.967 sets July 1. KSD-TV serves this<br />
area.<br />
Parking Lot Employes<br />
Sign Wage Agreement<br />
ST. LOUIS—A contract covering 12 employes<br />
in six midtown parking lots operated<br />
by Theatre Parking, Inc., an affiliate of<br />
Fanchon & Marco Enterprises, was to be<br />
signed early this week. Edward B. Arthur,<br />
general manager of Fanchon & Marco Enterprises,<br />
said that the agreement with Local<br />
618. AFL teamsters' union would provide a<br />
30-cent increase to $1 an hour with a guaranteed<br />
48-hour work week.<br />
The facilities of the six parking lots are<br />
u.sed by patrons of the Fox, Missouri and St.<br />
Louis theatres, operated by Fanchon &<br />
Marco. Parking lot employes had been<br />
picketing these theatres since July 15.<br />
F&M Drops Advertising<br />
In St. Louis Democrat<br />
ST. LOUIS—Fanchon & Marco, operator of<br />
the largest circuit here, has dropped all advertising<br />
in the Globe-Democrat, this city's<br />
only morning newspaper. Edward B. Arthur,<br />
comment.<br />
F&M general manager, declined to<br />
RKO continued to carry fair space in the<br />
Globe-Democrat on the current run of<br />
"Tieasure Island" and "Beaver Valley" at<br />
F&M's Shubert and suburban Shady Oak<br />
theatres.<br />
The great majority of the neighborhood<br />
and suburban theatres dropped their ads<br />
from the Globe-Democrat a couple of years<br />
ago following an increase in rates.<br />
Suggest Parking Lot Law<br />
FORT WAYNE—The city<br />
plan commission<br />
has recommended that city council enact an<br />
ordinances to require minimum off-street<br />
parking facilities for certain types of new<br />
buildings, including theatres.<br />
Billboard Press Work to St. Louis<br />
ST. LOUTS—The World Color Printing Co.<br />
here has received the contract for printing<br />
Billboard, a weekly national amusement<br />
trade magazine, beginning with the October<br />
issues. The executive offices of Billboard<br />
will continue in Cincinnati, and the press<br />
plates<br />
will be sent here for the press work.<br />
Eugene Durr to Knox, Ind.<br />
KNOX, IND.—Eugene Durr, assistant manager<br />
of the Paramount Theatre in Anderson,<br />
has been promoted to manager of the Fairy<br />
and Knox theatres here of the Alliance circuit.<br />
It<br />
Pays to Advertise<br />
—in BOXOFFICE<br />
Charles Coleman, MGM location assistant,<br />
was due here to make a personal tour of the<br />
Mississippi river from St. Louis to New<br />
Orleans and of the Ohio river from Cairo<br />
to Cincinnati to spot backgrounds, landings<br />
For Junket to Honolulu<br />
Bob Hope will spend three weeks in Honolulu<br />
this fall with his wife and their four<br />
children.<br />
BOXOFFICE<br />
:<br />
: August 19. 1950
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