Boxoffice-11.11.1950

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SEATTLE
'enry Haustein, Paramount manager, and
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Walter Hoffman, exploiteer, attended the
ballas, Tex., powwow. Leading topics were
sales policies on "Ti-io" and "Mr. Music." 0£iicials
from the home office and the west
•oast studio attended.
the Row for a screening of WB'.s
[Breakthrough" were Les Theuerkauf of Ta-
:;oma, Arthur Zabel of Olympia and Willard
"indre of Kent . at work from vacaions
were Pat Curton of the Hamrick Tlieitres
auditing department and Dan Redden,
nanager of the Music Hall.
B. F. Shearer hosted a luncheon at the
Gainer club in honor of William J. Heineman.
,ice-president and general manager of ELC.
jtleineman was here on his return from a deer
'lunting trip into the Montana hills with Rex
Thompson, Port Orchard exhibitor.
Frank L. Newman sr., president of Ever-
;reen Theatres, was host at a luncheon given
it Ginos for managers of the Washington
iiid Seattle districts and the heads of desartments.
He awarded bonuses to winners
n the spring and summer sales
drive.
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, Chili Robinett went to San Francisco to
^1 attend a 20th-Fox managers meeting
- .\mong exhibitors on the Row were J. W.
:, Wordenberg. Ferndale; A. G. Peehia, Eaton-
!?ille; Ed Johnson, Spokane; Norman Anirews,
LaConner; Earl J. Stierwalt, Mc-
Les and Cora Theuerkauf of Tacoma.
:;leary;
Seattleites saw the only existing all-color
ilm of Korea at the Metropolitan Theatre
Sunday and Monday (5, 6). The film was pre-
;ented by Col. Homer Kellems, formerly of
jeneral MacArthur's staff, under the auspices
of World Cavalcade.
[Majors Ask Modification
Of Inspection Ruling
SALT LAKE CITY—The various
distribuor
plaintiffs in a percentage suit versus
3. L. Gillette, Tooele, Utah, exhibitor, have
iled a motion for modification of U.S. Disrict
Judge Willis Ritter's order of Novem-
)er 1 permitting inspection of certain recirds
of the distributors in the Salt Lake
:;ity branch exchanges. The matters inolved
in this ruling will be reargued shortly.
Judge Ritter has also signed an order permitting
the distributors to audit Gillette's
ecords back to Jan. 1, 1941. With the inipection
order previously granted the disributors
last March, this makes a total
ludit period of over nine years.
At the argument of the motion for an adiitional
audit period this October, the disributors
also brought on for hearing their
ibjections for various of the interrogatories
iropounded by the exhibitor defendants, and
ill the distributor objections to the exlibitor
interrogatories were sustained by
ludge Ritter.
^ew Canby Opening Soon
CANBY. ORE.—The new Canby Theatre,
ihich is expected to be opened here soon by
ir. and Mrs. O. A. Nelson, will institute Satirday
and Sunday matinees. The old theatre
lere has been holding Wednesday evening
Greenings.
Mrs. Edna Simons Weds
Edward Sharp in East
NEW YORK—Mrs. Edna Wilma Simons,
president of the W. A. Simons Amusement
Co., Missoula, Mont.,
was married at the
Little Church Around
the Corner here recently
to Edward
Sharp, an executive of
the Simons firm. The
couple left here the
day after the ceremony
to fly to Spokane,
Wash.
The theatre circuit
which Mrs. Simons
„,., „, heads operates a chain
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Montana and Idaho.
Mrs. Helen Farber, cousin of the groom.
was bridesmaid at the ceremony and L. H.
Francis, New York theatre circuit contact
for Heywood-Wakefield Co., was best man.
Both the bride and groom are close friends
of B. F. Shearer, president of the B. F.
Shearer Co., theatre equipment distributor
with executive offices in Seattle.
The wedding was followed by a dinner
at the Astor hotel at which the bridal party
was .joined by Fred Farber, husband of the
bridesmaid, Dorothy Scott and Cele Carton,
close friends.
Southwest Theatres Buys
Interest in Imperial
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—Southwest Theatre
Corp., a subsidiary of Fox West Coast,
purchased a 50 per cent interest in the Imperial
Theatre here from Ralph Davis sr.
and Helen Speck, president and secretary,
respectively, of the Adolph Ramish Corp.
Purchase price was reported as $137,500.
The remaining 50 per cent interest is retained
by Sol Lesser, Hollywood producer and
circuit operator.
PORTLAND
John Parker, son of Mrs. J. J. Parker, head
of the Parker circuit, became father of
a baby girl named Laura Lee. He is an
employe in the casting office at the Republic
studio. The young Parkers live in Burbank,
Calif. The grandmother now is in New York
on vacation.
A general renovation will be started at
Hamrick's Music Box Theatre as soon as
new carpeting arrives. Scheduled improvements
include new carpets, draperies, recovering
and repairing of -seats and repainting
inside and out .
representatives called
on Evergreen and Parker officials to make
way for the opening of "Rouge River" at the
Mayfair.
Santa Barbara Airer Launched
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.—Ground has
been broken and construction launched on
this community's first drive-in, the 900-
car Airport Drive-In, being built by Sher«ll
Corwin and Jay Sutton, Los Angeles exhibitors,
and Edward Greybill, who will
manage the ozoner.
Present plans call for the unit to be ready
for operation during Christmas week.
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