Boxoffice-11.11.1950
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New Haven Business<br />
Paced by Til Gel By'<br />
NEW HAVEN—Tile best business of the<br />
week was at the Paramount, where "I'll Get<br />
By" and "Surrender" stayed eight days. "To<br />
Please a Lady" and "Big Timber" went over<br />
from the Poll to the Bijou for a second week.<br />
Detail for the week ended November 1<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
lou—San Quentin (WB), Alcatraz Island (WB) 90<br />
Iggj^Right Cross (MGM), West of Wyoming<br />
(Mono) 90<br />
pw's Poll—To Please a Lady (MGM); Big<br />
Timber (Mono) - 100<br />
raramount—I'll Get By (20th-Fox),- Surrender<br />
(Rep). 8 days 115<br />
Roger Sherman—The Glass Menagerie (WB) 100<br />
Hartford Week Average;<br />
"Walk Softly' Scores 125<br />
Get<br />
HARTFORD—"Harriet Craig" and "I'll<br />
By" were the sole downtown holdovers. Trade<br />
was fair.<br />
Ilyn-Rio Grande (Rep); Hit Parade of 1951 (Rep) 90<br />
Writer—City Ughts (UA) 85<br />
M Loew—Harriet Craig (Col); Texan Meets<br />
Calamity Jane (Col), 2nd wk 7J<br />
Poh—The Miniver Story (MGM); Gunfire (LP) 115<br />
Cross (MGM); Riders of the Pony<br />
\ Express (LP) 75<br />
Regal— I'll Get By (WB); County Fair (Mono),<br />
:nd wk 100<br />
:.nd—Walk Softly, Stronger (RKO); Hot Rod<br />
Mono) - 125<br />
Boston Has Average Week;<br />
TU Get By' Leader at 130<br />
BOSTON—The biggest grosser of the week<br />
was "I'll Get By" at the Keith Memorial,<br />
which was held over three extra days only<br />
to make way for "All About Eve." Other<br />
first runs were average or below. Two houses<br />
ran reissues to cover the gap between new<br />
product.<br />
^stor-Platinum Blonde (Col); Gilda (Col),<br />
reissues 95<br />
Boston—Dark Mirror (Col); Seventh Veil (U-I).<br />
reissues 90<br />
Exeter Street—The Rocking Horse Winner (U-I);<br />
lacqueline Misbehaves (Ellis) 110<br />
Memorial— I'll Get By (20th-Fox). ten days 130<br />
Metropolitan—Two Flags West (20th-Fox); Hot<br />
Rod (Mono) „ 100<br />
Paramount and Fenway Dork City (Para);<br />
Sunset in the West (Rep) 100<br />
State and Orpheum—To Please a Lady (MGM). .. 95<br />
LYNN<br />
|,lX7ork on the new Swampscott Theatre<br />
leased by Samuel Pinanski, is progressing<br />
n spite of the shortage of building materials.<br />
The brick walls are nearly completed ... At<br />
Salem, where E. M. Loew has completed plans<br />
ind signed contracts for a new $200,000 playlouse,<br />
the outlook is not so promising bemuse<br />
of the ban on amusement construc-<br />
;ian. A business block has been emptied of<br />
;enants and the work begun on tearing it<br />
lown.<br />
Teentinie, a 30-minute show put on weeky<br />
by teenagers, is so well received at the<br />
Paramount that Manager James Davis will<br />
;ontinue it for an indefinite period. Davis<br />
3Ut on a show for the Community Chest<br />
uncheon, a mental telepathy exhibition by<br />
Tom and Bettie Tucker . . Chandler<br />
.<br />
D'Blenes is the new student manager at<br />
Manager Harry J. Chapnan<br />
he Paramount . . .<br />
has started a community auction on<br />
viondays at the Strand, Peabody.<br />
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE L()( AL PRESS—Sam Pinanski (R), who was reelected<br />
to his second term as TOA president, joined Julius Gordon of Jefferson<br />
Amusement Co. of Texas, in a gag shot. Donning a Stetson, a neckerchief and tossing<br />
his thumb over his right shoulder, Pinanski is reporting that "they went<br />
thataway." The girls are pretty Texas models at the registration desk of the Theatre<br />
Owners of America convention in Houston.<br />
NEW HAVEN<br />
.<br />
J^ovember also is election month for Local<br />
273 of projectionists. Business Manager<br />
Matthew Kennedy reports the 16th is the<br />
day at Trades Council hall . . Lord's Drivein<br />
.<br />
in Plainfield is expected to be ready for<br />
a March opening Kane, Paramount<br />
district manager, and John Moore, manager<br />
at Boston, conferred here two days with<br />
Henry Germalne and staff.<br />
"Clochemerle — Scandals of Paris" enjoyed<br />
a good second week at the Lincoln<br />
screened "Southside 1-1000"<br />
at the 20th-Fox screening room Thursday<br />
Bailey, Whalley, 'WTiitney and 'Westville<br />
theatres are going in for dish giveaways,<br />
the first time at the Whitney and the first<br />
in some ten years at the Whalley . . The<br />
.<br />
College has gone to a Saturday opening.<br />
.<br />
Morris Hadelman is back at the Shelton<br />
after inactive period because of health the<br />
last year . . 'Victory, New London, is now<br />
Amalgamated roster . . . Universal's<br />
on the<br />
Meadow street office is installing new booker's<br />
and cashier's receptionist cubicles as<br />
part of general spruce-up . Theatre,<br />
Norwich, will play "Louise," "Saddle<br />
Tramp," "Sleeping City" and "Wyoming<br />
Mail" first run during November . . . Frances<br />
DeMeglio, Monogram inspector, resigned to<br />
be married Thanksgiving day to Alfred<br />
Chiaramonte of New Haven, and go south<br />
for a honeymoon. The office staff gave<br />
Frances a farewell party.<br />
Saul Shiffrin, MGM booker, was presented<br />
a wallet and money gift by the fellow exchange<br />
members before embarking on matrimony<br />
. Squire, former 20th-Fox<br />
salesman now working in Springfield, has<br />
announced the arrival of a baby daughter<br />
Kaufman, former 20th-Fox exploiteer<br />
here, sends enthusiastic cards from<br />
Brussels, Belgium.<br />
Paramount bookers are working hard to<br />
come m first in Pine-Thomas drive ending<br />
early in December . Maguire, RKO<br />
office manager, is recuperating at home<br />
. after an operation at St. Raphael's<br />
Hannah Ginsberg, secretary to Al Daytz,<br />
Warner manager, also recuperating at home<br />
Frances Silverman, Warner<br />
after surgery . . .<br />
cashier, was back from her Florida<br />
vacation where she experienced the hurricane<br />
first hand.<br />
SPRINGFIELD<br />
The picture at Loew's Poll was "Crisis," and<br />
during the showing a real crisis cropped<br />
up for two women patrons. They reported<br />
that sneak thieves deprived them of their<br />
pocketbooks . previews have been<br />
coming here in clusters. Within two weeks,<br />
patrons have seen advance showings of "Harriet<br />
Craig" at the Bijou, and "All About<br />
Eve" and "King Solomon's Mines" at Loew's<br />
Poll.<br />
Big ballyhoo for the opening of "Breakthrough"<br />
at the Capitol, included the presence<br />
of Mrs. Edward Lovejoy, mother of<br />
Frank Lovejoy, who is in the film; a gun<br />
display from the Springfield armory in the<br />
lobby; the Red Cross serving coffee and<br />
doughnuts for invited military personnel<br />
from Westover Field, and a concert by the<br />
Westover band . . . Harley Rudkin, film<br />
critic for the Daily News, devoted his entire<br />
Saturday column. "Off Stage," to the pamphlet,<br />
"Exploding a Myth," distributed by<br />
Loew's Movie Memo, which offers authoritative<br />
opinion on the subject of films and juvenile<br />
delinquency.<br />
MOBILE VENDING CART<br />
for Drive-ln Theatres<br />
Take your concession stand to the customer<br />
Hot Dogs, Popcorn. Cold Drinks. Candy.<br />
Cigarettes. Ice Cream<br />
Lowest priced vend cart on the market<br />
DRIVE-IN THEATRE MFG: CO. INC. .?'?'";„""<br />
OXOFFICE November 11, 1950 101
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