Boxoffice-11.04.1950

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WEST VIRGINIA
Everybody's Girl" was shown on a Saturday
midnight at the Oaks Drive-In near
Morgantown. It is an adults only show and
this was its premiere showing in the east
Award at the Starlite Drive-In near
Fairmont was a jalopy truck. Second award
entitled the winner to a free auto paint job
Glendale Drive-In featured a midnight
spook show on Saturday . . . Hilltop Drive-In
at Chester will be closed for the season after
November 5, according to Charles Pittenger,
owner.
Four more Marion county school athletic
fields will be fenced, new bleachers and night
lighting systems installed. These are at
Parmington, Rivesville, Monongah and Barrackville
. . . Elk's Charity Minstrel &
Revue was featured October 31 and November
1 at the Robinson Grand in Clarksburg
The government ban on recreational
construction applies to the four proposed
swimming pools in Wheeling.
Starlite Drive-In on Route 2 at Short
Creek recently featured "Miracle of Life,"
showing details of how a baby is born .
Robert E. Phares' Friendly Drive-In between
Elkins and Parsons is operating only on
weekends . . . Warner's Skyhne near Clarksburg
has been operating only Friday, Saturday
and Sunday nights . . . 20th-Pox Movietone
News will film Earl Reed, Parkersburg
high school junior, sharpshooting ace.
Nick Giovan, Elkins showman, has been
serving on the jury there. His wife Bessie
and her sister Mrs. Kortakos visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Manos, at
Greensburg, Pa.
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT
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THEATRES & DRIVE-INS
'Lady' Averages 130
In Cincinnati Week
CINCINNATI — An average week here
found "To Please a Lady" at the RKO Grand
scoring 130 to be the only first run to be
held over. "Tripoli" in a second week at
the Capitol hit an average 100 and a stage
act paired with "The Fuller Brush Girl" at
the RKO Albee hit par.
(Average Is 100)
Albee—The Fuller Brush Girl (Col), plus vaudeville
- 100
Capitol—Tripoli (Para), 2nd d. t. wlc 100
Grand-To Please a Lady (MGM) 130
Keiths—Woman on the Run (U-1) 9i
Lyric—Atrocities a1 Fori Santiago (SR); Before the
White Man Came (SR) 80
Palace—So Young, So Bad (UA) 80
Til Get By' Grosses 175
As Cleveland Leader
CLEVELAND—Three pictures did better
than average last week: "I'll Get By," hitting
a high of 175 at the Esquire; "Two Flags
West," with a 125 rating at the Allen, and
"Rocky Mountain" with 115 at the Hippodrome.
Allen—Two Flags West (20th-Fox) 125
Esquire—ril Get By (20th-Fox) 175
Hippodrome—Rocky Mountain (WB) 115
Lower Mall—Lady Is WilUng (Col); The
Heat's On (Col), reissues lOU
Palace—Woman on the Run (U-I) - 90
Ohio—To Please a Lady (MGM), 3rd d.t. wk 100
Stale— TripoU (Para) 90
Slillman— Dessert Hawk (U-1) 60
LOUISVILLE
Vouisest exhibitor in Kentucky is the claim
put forth by Charles Reed Mitchell II,
Barbourville, Ky. The 8-year-old registered
as a full-fledged member of the Kentucky
Ass'n of Theatre Owners at its fifth annual
convention at the Brown hotel here recently.
Charles helps usher, takes tickets and does
other chores at the theatre he owns. His
dad, Paul Mitchell, owns another theatre in
Barbourville.
The first run Strand, owned and operated
by the Fourth Avenue Amusement Co., was
closed for two days so that the auditorium
could be turned over for meetings of the
Kentucky Grand Lodge of Masons. Following
the end of the meetings the theatre
wes reopened and proceeded on regular operating
schedule . Pulliam, former
manager of the Switow Amusement Co. Kentucky
Theatre, now is at Loew's, a first run
downtown.
COLUMBUS
fUlTs. James C. Camp has been elected president
of the Columbus and Franklin
County Motion Picture council for the 1950-
51 term. Others elected: Mrs. Mary Storch
Adler and Mrs. Esther Buchman, vice-presidents;
Mrs. W. G. Dennis and Mrs. Catharine
Ross Betry, secretaries; Mrs. John Spicer,
treasurer; Miss Isabel Collins, parliamentarian
and Mrs. Betry, Mrs. Prank Hiatt and
Mrs. John J. Redfern, directors.
William Cox, assistant manager of Loew's
Dayton, spent a busman's holiday on his day
off last week, visiting local Loew officials.
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BOXOFFICE November 4, 1950
Visitors on the Row recently included J. E.
Elliott jr.. Cardinal, Hodgenville; Eric Hammel,
Shelby and Burley, Shelby ville; Ralph
Quarles. Majestie, Springfield; Gene Lutes,
Capitol, Frankfort; Jim Howe, Richland, Carrollton;
Charles H. Behlen, Nicholas, Nicholasville;
Ben Reeves, Lincoln, Stanford; Rodger
Davis, Grand, Lancaster; Fred May,
Royal. Carrollton; Foster Lane, Lane and
Dixie, Williamsburg, and Russell Phillips,
Franklin. Greensburg.
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