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Shell Guessing Contest,<br />
Used for 'Winchester'<br />
PROVIDENCE— Shotgun shell guessing<br />
contests were featured In several sporting<br />
goods stores<br />
before and during the presentation<br />
at the RKO Albee of "Winchester '73."<br />
Dave Levin, Albee manager, had sport<br />
stores place huge glass bowls filled with<br />
shotgun shells in display windows. Fifty<br />
pairs of tickets to "Winchester "73" were<br />
given to the first 50 persons coming closest<br />
to estimating the number of shells in the<br />
bowls.<br />
Other exploitation stunts planned by Levin<br />
included the presentation of Ernie and<br />
Dot Lind. rifle experts, at various hunting,<br />
fishing and rifle clubs. Radio station WDEM<br />
offered prizes to listeners bringing in actual<br />
Winchester 73's.<br />
Games of Chance Hearing<br />
To Be Held in Hartford<br />
HARTTORD—The public will be given an<br />
opportunity to air its views on whether Connecticut<br />
should legalize games of chance for<br />
religious, civic and charitable groups at a<br />
hearing to be held by the state legislative<br />
council next month.<br />
The subject was by-passed by the recent<br />
legislative special session and was referred<br />
to the council for study. The council's public<br />
welfare and humane institutions committee,<br />
meeting last week, decided that public<br />
hearings would help.<br />
Following the hearing, the council will<br />
draft its recommendations to the 1951 legislature.<br />
The hearing will be held at the state<br />
capitol here, September 6, starting at 2 p. m.<br />
SPRINGFIELD<br />
. . . Manager<br />
purther proof that local audiences go for the<br />
surprise element of the sneak preview<br />
was offered when throngs flocked to the Paramount<br />
to see "Fancy Pants"<br />
Ed Smith, who had billed the showing in advance<br />
as "a top-flight comedy," was delighted<br />
with the turnout. Audience reaction afterward<br />
was very enthusiastic.<br />
Hosted by Paramount's Ed Smith, a group<br />
of 20 prominent local citizens, plus Boston<br />
officials, met with press and radio representatives<br />
at the Hotel Sheraton for a luncheon<br />
discussion of plans for the Jimmy fund campaign.<br />
The Broadway, closed for the summer and<br />
with possibilities of becoming a legitimate<br />
house in the fall. Is not forgetting that it is<br />
part of the Western Massachusetts chain.<br />
Unlike the Court Square, where the marquee<br />
says "Closed for the summer," the Broadway<br />
sign invites patrons to visit the "Air conditioned<br />
Paramount," also a Western Massachusetts<br />
property.<br />
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Paul KUngler, formerly of the Strand in<br />
Waterbury, Conn., is in charge of Loew's Poll<br />
while Mr. and Mrs. George E. Freeman are<br />
vacationing in New Hampshire .<br />
Redmond, formerly of Hartford, Conn., has<br />
I. '-en appointed the new a.ssistant at the Art<br />
. . Jim Coteia, Art manager, is taking the<br />
place of Manager Ande Sette at the Capitol,<br />
>'''= Sc-tte is on vacation.<br />
MAINE<br />
portlanders were glad to welcome Nat Silver<br />
back to the Strand Theatre after a<br />
temporary ab.sence from the city. In his<br />
most recent campaign for "Treasure Island,"<br />
he staged a big treasure hunt with tieins<br />
from 26 Portland stores. "Keys" were distributed<br />
throughout the town, with numbers<br />
to be matched with those of one of the participating<br />
stores. Sealed envelopes held gift<br />
certificates as rewards to the person matching<br />
numbers on the pasteboard key with<br />
those on the treasure chests in various stores.<br />
Two hundred awards valued at $4,000 were<br />
available.<br />
The Civic Theatre conducted a baseball<br />
contest in conjunction with "The Jackie Robinson<br />
Story." The big prize was a trip to<br />
Boston to see the Braves play. Mrs. Vicki<br />
Cousins, Civic manager, cooperated with the<br />
Ass'n of Big Brothers and Sisters of Greater<br />
Portland, an organization to provide children<br />
with amusements their families can't<br />
afford, to the extent of allowing the winner<br />
to draw a name for some youth to accompany<br />
him. An adult accompanied both.<br />
Other prize winners received baseballs autographed<br />
by Jackie Robinson or guest theatre<br />
tickets.<br />
All theatres in town are cooperating with<br />
Home Defenders of Freedom, an antihoarding<br />
movement. Between four and five thousand<br />
persons were on hand Sunday evening<br />
(6) in Portland stadium for the launching<br />
of the campaign by the governor of Maine,<br />
Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Brewster,<br />
other local notables and Joan Evans,<br />
Diana Barrymore and Robert Wilcox, stage<br />
and screen stars.<br />
Frank Clements, manager of the Capitol,<br />
returned with his family from a fishing trip<br />
in Canada . Capitol staff additions<br />
include Edward Prindell, usher, and Evelyn<br />
Stevens, cashier . Mellen and Malcolm<br />
Carr, ushers, left for two weeks' training<br />
with the national guard . Stone,<br />
manager of the Portland Theatre, was on<br />
vacation.<br />
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. . . Julia Halloran,<br />
Manager Ralph Tully, State, ran a very<br />
successful tiein on Ralston Products for local<br />
stores in connection with "Father of the<br />
Bride," which ran for two weeks and made<br />
a summertime house record Just back<br />
from a vacation, Tully started work on his<br />
job as publicity chairman for Community<br />
Chest and for the antihoarding Home Defenders<br />
of Freedom. He also is publicity cochairman<br />
for the Jimmy fund drive to start<br />
August 31 and run through September 15<br />
in this area neon signs have been<br />
installed at the State<br />
cashier, planned her wedding for August 19.<br />
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Larry Capillo reports redecorating of the<br />
lobby of the Maine Theatre. March of<br />
Time crew filmed scenes in Waterville and<br />
at Colby college for a documentary picture<br />
based on the book "Modern Arms and Free<br />
Men."<br />
Bette Davis and Gary Merrill had local<br />
newspaper people in a dither until they<br />
finally arrived, already married, at Prout's<br />
Neck, a .short distance from Portland, for<br />
their honeymoon. They visited Gary's mother<br />
and brother who live in Portland during the<br />
winter and summer at Prout's Neck. Premature<br />
reports, which had local newsmen<br />
scurrying around, were that they were planning<br />
the ceremony in Portland with relatives.<br />
The Peaks 'Island Playhouse, owned and<br />
operated by Edward Gould, has a first cla.ss<br />
stock company this season ... As of June<br />
14, Maine had 19 drive-in theatre.^. . . Theatre<br />
personnel all through the state were<br />
shocked to learn of the death of Colby<br />
Robinson, theatreman in northern Maine.<br />
Director John Ford and his wife Mary<br />
have been appointed ambassadors-at-large<br />
of the Maine American Legion. The Fords<br />
will be hosts to the Maine delegation at the<br />
Legion national convention in October. Their,<br />
son Pat, graduate of the University of Maine,<br />
will make his film debut in Paramount's<br />
"Tripoli."<br />
Promotion Drive Started<br />
On Film in Production<br />
PROVIDENCE—A long range buildup to<br />
the eventual presentation of "Quo Vadis,"<br />
now in production in Italy, is being dramatized<br />
by Maurice Druker, manager of Loew's<br />
State. Druker has had a large display case<br />
erected in the theatre lobby upon which he<br />
posts weekly cablegrams reporting the progress<br />
of the film, now about half finished.<br />
In addition, photographs showing the picture<br />
in the making are displayed. Intense<br />
interest has been expressed by patrons entering<br />
and leaving the theatre. Many of<br />
them have stopped to ask Druker how soon<br />
the film will come to this city.<br />
Rex Taylor Is Appointed<br />
To Artists School Job<br />
HARTFORD — Rex Taylor of Stamford,<br />
Conn., formerly head of the magazine department<br />
of Paramount Pictures Corp., has<br />
been appointed public relations and promotion<br />
director of the Famous Artists school of<br />
Westport.<br />
Taylor, at one time director of public relations<br />
for the Meredith Publishing Co., served<br />
as press chief of the European theatre of<br />
operations during World War II.<br />
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