Boxoffice-11.04.1950
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HARTFORD<br />
Cam Harris, partner-treasurer of the 4,200-<br />
State, and his wife will leave November<br />
15 for a Miami Beach vacation. Sol Karp,<br />
assistant, will take over his duties . . . Sgt.<br />
Pat Bucherri, former manager of the HTC<br />
Rialto, is now in the special services office<br />
of the 43rd infantry division at Camp Pickett,<br />
Va.<br />
Ted Harris, managing director. State, was<br />
a New York visitor . . . Peter G. Perakos jr.,<br />
son of the head of the Perakos Theatres circuit.<br />
New Britain, has been appointed a second<br />
lieutenant in the army reserve corps.<br />
Lenny Young, former house manager, E. M.<br />
Loew's, now is handling his own television<br />
program in New York, according to reports<br />
Perakos, district manager of<br />
Perakos Theatres, sustained injuries in a fall<br />
from his horse . Franco, former aide<br />
to Fi'ank Morin, Regal manager, now is operating<br />
a garage business in Middletown.<br />
Rudy Frank, for many years publicity director<br />
for the Harris Bros. State here, and<br />
now promotion manager at station WELI,<br />
New Haven, was in Hartford . . . The New<br />
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad has<br />
resumed its policy of monthly Show Trains<br />
to New York shows. Some 800 went on the<br />
initial train of the season to see Michael<br />
Todd's "Peep Show."<br />
The Plainfield has a new dinnerware giveaway<br />
. . . George Smith, maintenance manager,<br />
Hartford Theatre ciixuit, and Hugh J.<br />
Campbell of the Central, West Hartford, went<br />
fishing off Niantic . marriages<br />
will include Lee Feigin, assistant manager.<br />
Palace, and Cynthia Levy of Hartford; Russ<br />
Ordway, manager, Webb, Wethersfield, and<br />
Dorothy Treworthy, West Hartford; Paul W.<br />
Amadeo, general manager. Pike Drive-In,<br />
Newington, and Ann Diakon, Hartford.<br />
Joe Mansfield of ELC was in town for "The<br />
Winslow Boy" at the New Center . . . Joe<br />
Borenstein, manager of the Warner Strand,<br />
New Britain, was off ill, with Ralph Careze<br />
filling in . . . Ben Lamo is reported about set<br />
to launch his own mercantile enterprise.<br />
Lamo formerly managed the Webb, and at<br />
one time assisted Jim McCarthy. Strand<br />
manager . Capuano, Elm manager,<br />
is quite active in the newly formed Elmwood<br />
Business Associates, designed to promote<br />
trade in the Elmwood section of West<br />
Hartford. He's a member of the associates'<br />
bylaws committee.<br />
Fred Levesque, projectionist at the Strand<br />
in Thompsonville, has shifted to the booth<br />
at the Eastwood Theatre, East Hartford, with<br />
Romeo Gagnon, Eastwood, replacing him at<br />
the Strand.<br />
Bargain Night Started<br />
HARTFORD—Ernie Grecula, director of<br />
advertising and publicity for the Hartford<br />
Theatre circuit, will start a Family Bargain<br />
night at the Rialto Theatre November 2 at<br />
35 and 14 cents.<br />
Radio Announcer Cast<br />
Veteran radio announcer Sam Hayes has<br />
been cast as a sports commentator in "Jim<br />
Thrope—All American," being produced for<br />
Warners.<br />
BOXOFFICE November 4, 1950<br />
Defies <strong>Boxoffice</strong> Gunman,<br />
Thinking Pistol Unloaded<br />
From Central Edition<br />
CHICAGO—A young bandit pointed a pis-<br />
at Spiro Charuhas, manager of the Mont<br />
tol<br />
Clare Theatre at 7133 Grand Ave., and Mrs.<br />
Evelyn Sedgwick, cashier, in the boxoffice<br />
as the two prepared to count $500 receipts<br />
one night last week.<br />
Mrs. Sedgwick dropped $475 into a wastepaper<br />
basket and held out a few bills to the<br />
bandit. Charuhas said, "Say, is that gun<br />
loaded?" Then he stepped out of the boxoffice,<br />
intending to get help. The bandit pursued<br />
him, but Charuhas pushed the bandit's<br />
pistol hand away. The gunman, apparently<br />
puzzled because he had failed to cow the<br />
manager, ran to a waiting auto. Charuhas,<br />
believing the bandit's gun was not loaded,<br />
still<br />
ran after him. The gunman fired as the<br />
car sped away, but the shot missed Charuhas.<br />
The Mont Clare Theatre is owned and operated<br />
by Basil Charuhas.<br />
SPRINGFIELD<br />
\Arestern Massachusetts police chiefs had an<br />
opportunity to deal with both fiction and<br />
the reality of crime in the same day. In the<br />
morning, they were invited to a preview of<br />
"Between Midnight and Dawn," hosted by the<br />
Bijou's Ed Harrison and Columbia's Joe<br />
Blaufox. The screening was barely over when<br />
they were alerted that a nearby bank had<br />
been held up by a lone gunman and looted<br />
of $10,000.<br />
American Amusement Centers, lessors of<br />
property that houses the West Side Drive-In<br />
in West Springfield, has entered suit against<br />
a neighboring automobile agency on the<br />
grounds that the latter has taken action injurious<br />
to the open-air theatre. The allegation<br />
says that in leveliiag an earthen dike<br />
and installing floodlights on the site, the auto<br />
agency is interfering with the proper presentation<br />
of the theatre's product, and that<br />
full use of the property has been interfered<br />
with.<br />
This month, the Broadway, a second run<br />
house owned and operated by Western Massachusetts<br />
Theatres, will have grand opera and<br />
concert programs on its stage, when the Wagner<br />
Concert series switches its locale from<br />
the municipal auditorium. House was originally<br />
designed for both films and legitimate<br />
stage attractions.<br />
Mrs. Kurt Laemmle of Hollywood, national<br />
executive committee member of the women's<br />
division. United Jewish Appeal and wife of<br />
the motion picture personality, addressed the<br />
Springfield division and described some of<br />
her experiences during a three and one-half<br />
month visit to Israel.<br />
Coronet Picks Two Films<br />
NEW YORK—Coronet magazine has<br />
chosen "Panic in the Streets" and "Mister<br />
880," both 20th Century-Fox productions, as<br />
pictures of the month for November and<br />
December, respectively. Another 20th-Fox<br />
film, "All About Eve," has been selected by<br />
Louella Parsons as her "best drama" in<br />
Cosmopolitan magazine for December.<br />
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