Boxoffice-11.11.1950

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SALT LAKE CITY
f^eorge Murphy was to wind up his coastto-coast
trip with his two-day visit to
Salt Lake this weekend. He was scheduled
to address the Kiwanis club and a press
luncheon in addition to meeting a group of
teenage representatives . . . Shirl Thayne
combined business with pleasure to bag a
four-point buck during a trip into southern
Utah. He was alone on the trip and luckily
shot his deer only 100 feet from the car.
Charles M. Pincus, manager of the Centre
Theatre, has been receiving congratulations
from national advertising and publicity directors
for "jazzing up" ads. Most recent
pictures to receive the Pincus treatment were
"The Men," in which the paraplegic angle
was played down: "Caged" and "Three Secrets."
in which the "sex" angle was played
up.
Remodeling jobs included a new front on
the theatre at Monticello. Utah; new sound
systems in showhouses at Dove Creek, Moab
and the Bonnie at Helper .
Hawk,
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operator of the Hawk Theatres, has leased
the Lyric in Logan and expects to open it
this month with Bob Steed, formerly of Paramount,
has accepted a position as salesman
for RKO out of the Chicago office, and will
be joined by his wife and family in the
Windy city soon . Morris is nowbooking
for Associated.
Don DeFore and wife, in Utah for deer
hunting, helped put out a forest fu-e in the
hills a few miles east of Salt Lake. They
dropped into the Utah Theatre, where Don's
latest picture, "Dark City," was showing.
They hadn't seen it previously . . . John Krier,
purchasing agent tor Intermountain Theatres,
returned from a confectionery meeting
in the east to discover a fire had damaged
his home.
PCCITO Groups Confer
In Salt Lake Gathering
SALT LAKE CITY—Members of the Utah,
Utah-and-southern Idaho and Montana
groups of the PCCITO, met here recently
to discuss changing conditions facing theatres
as a result of television and drive-ins.
Although no resolutions were passed and
the group discussed several issues, members
agreed it was a profitable meeting and that
another session should be held in the near
future. Sam Gillette was named to represent
Utah on COMPO, and Max Lloyd of
Twin Falls to represent Idaho.
Portales, N. M., Airer Closed
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'Deplacing Art O'Connell, who retired after
32 years with Universal. Tony Pursee has
joined the local branch as a salesman. He
came here from the Des Moines office . .
Shuttered for several months, the Brea Theatre
in Brea has been reopened by P. H
Beesac and J. W. Chapman . Grubstick
assistant general sales manager for Lippert
Pictures, came in from his San Franciscc
headquarters for huddles with Lippert executives.
Harry Levinson, RKO salesman, has beer
upped to sales manager, replacing Jack Osserman,
who recently left for England as
sales representative abroad for Producer Sol
Lesser. Shifting into Levinson's spot wai
Johnny DeCosta, office manager, while De-
Costa's post was taken over by Frank Schindler,
moving over from the Lippert branch
K. Ansell, St. Louis theatre ownei
and independent producer, was a Filmro«
visitor . . . Al Olander, operator of the Garmar
and Vogue theatres in Montebello, returned
from a brief vacation in Omaha.
The face-lifting job just completed on thf
Republic exchange is attracting a numbei
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of exhibitors. Visitors have included Hugl-
Bruen, who operates three houses in Whittier;
Sam Ozonoff of the Astor; Izzy Barman
and Jack Goldberg of the Eastlanc
chain: Ben Peskay and Tom Dolby of the
Popkin-Ringer circuit Wolff anc
Johnny Bannerman of the Southside anc
Cabart circuits were booking and buying
visitors.
Grauman's Chinese, built 23 years ago bj
the late Sid Grauman and now a flagshii,
house in the Fox West Coast chain, underwen
a $12,000 renovation process, including carpet,
ing, drapes and paint, before the invitationa
premiere Thursday (9i of "All About Eve.'
Visited annually by an estimated 400,00i
sightseers, the theatre's famous forecourt;
with footprints of Hollywood great preserveq
in cement, is being retained unchanged . .
John Beall of FWC's home office became «
father Wednesday iD when John jr. waj
born to Mrs. Beall.
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Stricken by a heart attack, Judy Poynterj
operator of an exhibitors' booking service;
has been ordered to recuperate in bed at hlj
home for the next five or six weeks . . .
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Montague, general sales manager for Colum'
bia, checked in from New York for confer
ences here with Jerome Safron, western di'
vision chief, who flew down from his Sai^
Francisco headquarters for the huddles .
Bill Wasserman, former booker for the Jacl
Chazin circuit, has joined Lippert Picture
as a salesman.
George A. Smith, Paramount's western di
vision sales manager, headed a Los Angeles
delegation attending a two-day meeting ii
Dallas of the company's central, south^ceni
tral and western divisioiis November 3. 4
The local Paramount branch delegates wer<
A. R. Taylor and Ralph Carmichael, brand
and sales manager, respectively. Lester Cole
man, aide to Smith, and Robert Blair, fielc
exploiteer, also made the trek to Texas.
Stage Acts in Lakewood
LAKEWOOD. COLO.—The Lakewood The
atre here is running vaudeville ever.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
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