Boxoffice-11.11.1950

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Dhn Payne, the actor, was guest of honor
at the marine corps' big jamboree Friday
10) at the St. Louis Theatre. His latest
Icture, "Ti-ipoli," was shown at the jamboree
"Bicycle Thief" opened an extended run
the Shady Oak Theatre in Clayton
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ulius Pirka, 52, projectionist for many years
1 West Frankfort, died there recently.
A fund to aid Deputy Constable Albert
ipman, University City, who was badly hurt
1 a fall two months ago from the roof of his
.ubhouse at Times beach on the Meramec
ver, will be raised through benefit shows
) be held the nights of November 8. 9
t the Manchester Drive-In. and the Airway
heatre, operated by the Phil Smith organiition
of Boston . . . Eddie Cantor put on
one-man show in the Kiel Opera House
riday for the St. Louis Heart Ass'n . . .
lepartment store sales were off 8 per cent
le week ended October 28 from the same
leek in 1949. Sales in the Eighth Federal
^serve district were down 4 per cent.
I Employment in manufacturing plants here
iicreased 6 per cent in the year ended Sep-
;mber 15, Paul P. Connole, manager here
3r the Missouri division of employment
icurity announced . . . Harry Tanner, ownerlanager
of the Tanner Drive-In at Pana,
dvertised the elimination of the conditions
lat caused a disruption of the water service
t the drive-in the night of October 22.
George Phillips of Screen Guild reports
msiderable interest in the territory on the
um and Abner reissues which this exchange
... A number of theatres in the
t. Louis Amusement Co. circuit are taking
dvantage of the Accredited Newspapers of
t. Louis tieup with the distributors of Starjst
tuna fish and Peter Pan peanut butter,
nder which labels from cans of the fish
nd caps from jars of the peanut butter
lay be exchanged for tickets to the theatres,
Dod on week days only.
Harry C. Arthur jr., president of Fanchon
returned from the east on October
1 1, He plans to leave for California about
Ben Kalmenson, general
'ovember 15 . . .
lies manager for Warner Bros., visited the
ical
exchange.
Exhibitors on Filmrow: Paul Schroeder,
ebanon; B. Temborius, Breese; Joe Goldirb,
Upper Alton; Gus Boemler, North
Iton; L. A. Lieber, Pacific; Tilden Dickson,
rystal City; Rani Pedrucci and John D.
liachetto, Frisina, Springfield; Herman
'anner, Vandalia.
Court Record to Be Filed
In RKO-Davis Appeal
ST. LOUIS—A motion to extend the time
for the filing of the record of the district
court on an appeal to the U.S. court of
appeals was granted to the defendant in the
ca.se of Davis vs. RKO Radio Pictures. The
time was extended to December 11 by U.S.
District Judge Roy W. Harper. The appeal
is being filed by the plaintiff.
RKO also filed a motion to compel the
plantiff to file a full transcript of proceedings
of the trial in district court in his appeal
and to force him to delete one item
from his appeal.
Matthew L. Davis, stereotyper for the Post-
Dispatch, asked $300,000 damages against the
film company because a character called
Matt Davis was depicted as a juvenile delinquent
who runs away from an orphanage,
commits a robbery and murder in the RKO
film, "Fighting Father Dunne." Davis at one
time resided at the home depicted in tlie
film, a fact which the film company did not
know, evidence in the trial pointed out.
Sosna Antitrust Suit
Reset for January 22
ST. LOUIS—The antitrust suit of Louis
M. Sosna against the Frisina Amusement
Co. of Springfield, 111., the Frisina-Mexico
Theatres Co., and various film companies,
which had been set for trial here on November
13, has been reset in U.S. district court
for January 22.
In the action filed some months ago, Sosna,
who at one time operated the Sosna Theatre
in Mexico, Mo., is seeking a total of
$450,000 under the triple damages provisions
of the antitrust law, plus attorney fees.
Sosna alleged that due to his inability to
obtain films that could be shown at a profitable
basis he "was compelled to sell the
leasehold on the Sosna Jan. 14, 1944, and
his theatre holdings in Mexico, Mo., to the
Frisina circuit and agree not to show pictures
in Mexico for ten years."
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