Boxoffice-December.02.1950

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Contact lor 1951 Playdates
Dick C Crane, Gen. Sales Mgr.
Hollywood Producers & Distributors
308 S. Harwood Dallas, Texas
Phone ST-2552
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Eddie Ott of Marysville, Kas., runs a night
club and dance hall there and recently put
in a new driveway to his place. The local
paper got a little mixed up and reported he
was building a "drive-in." Now Ott is getting
mail and receiving callers, wanting to sell him
equipment.
will open in this territory December 6 . .
Doug Lightner, city manager at Manhattan;
Frank Dodson of Ellsworth, and Tom Wolfe
of Herington, Kas. were at the Commonwealth
home office Monday (27).
Edward Aaron, midwest division manager
for 20th-Fox, sprained an ankle Sunday (26>,
when he caught his foot between his car
and the curb. Since this necessitated his remaining
at home for several days, the sales
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Parkhurst, former general manager of meeting scheduled for the following day was
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Allied here, started Monday i27) as a in his home was quite a shindig the
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salesman for Lippert Productions Senn
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Lawler and wife have been in Macomb. 111.,
where thev were called by the death of Mrs.
Lawler's father, Thomas Terrill of that city detail the party agenda. Starting with swimming
at four ("For those who have had their
Gretchen Brown, who was a secretary at
commonwealth Theatres nearly 20 years, has bath this year, there'll be checkers and cards
returned from a seven-week vacation on the and ping pong there"', dinner was at seven,
west coast and Is back on the Row with a new after which "Mad Wednesday" was screened
job. She is now at Consolidated Agencies as for the crowd. Phil Blakey, manager, was in
secretary to Clarence Schultz Pauline charge and it could be he wrote the poetic invitations,
but skeptics on the Row were in-
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Krieger contract clerk at MGM, is recovering
from a wrist operation . . . Shirley Foster is clined to credit his wife.
the new booker's secretary at MGM, replacing
Mrs. Dorothy Stamphel who is now oecretary
to Harold Hume at Fox Midwest.
Riverside Drive-In employes put on at the
KCAC on Monday (27 1. Whoever wrote the
invitations cooked up some fancy rhyming to
Jack Braunagel, in charge of drive-ins for
Commonwealth, reports all of their outdoor
shows have closed now except the ones at
Fayetteville and Springfield, which are open
only on weekends.
Commonwealth circuit notes. Bill Baker
sends greetings from Biloxi where he is in the
air force ... Rex Barrett of the Uptown Theatre
in Columbia again held a special screen-
for Stephens college girls. His assistant,
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Charlie Kleppsattel, has been accepted for
Joan Holscher, assistant regional editor of
officers training and leaves soon Frank
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BOXOFFICE and Kansas City area reporter,
Kennedy at Norton got some nice local press
was married Sunday (26) night at the Christian
church in Independence to Frank Baer
notices when he invited the high school football
team to be his guests at a showing of
and left for a honeymoon in Memphis and
"The Jackie Robinson Story" .
Nashville. Baer is employed at the Kellypublic
relations-minded exhibitor is Jack
Williams Motor car Co. Mrs. Baer will continue
on the staff of BOXOFFICE Dick
Stephenson of Higginsville. He went before
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the city fathers and persuaded them to do
O'Rear and Roy Tucker, engineers at Commonwealth
Theatres, made a trip to Trenton,
away with parking meters on shop and show
days. Result: Jack is very popular with motorists.
Mo to complete plans for air conditioning
the Plaza Theatre there. The Plaza is owned
by W. O. Lenhart, an affiliate of Commonwealth.
local office Teenagers can keep a secret
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Harry Simons, MGM auditor, was at the
because last week 70 of them did surprise
Dave Kent, assistant to Terry Turner, RKO
Bonny Golden, daughter of MGM's Eddie
home office publicist, arrived Monday (27)
Golden, at a birthday party at Holiday House
and was met here by Lou Dufour from St.
in Kansas City, Kas. It was Bonny's 14th
Louis, regional exploiteer. They will work
birthday and the guests were fellow members
on the local campaign for "Outrage," which
of her freshman class at Southwest High
National Screen Service reports Lee
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Hayob of the Mary Lou at Marshall, Mo.
called Monday (271 as did Harry Till of the
Till at Hamilton, Mo.
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Visiting at Republic was W. D. Fite of the
Fife at Eldorado, Kas.. and John Courter
National
of the Courter at Gallatin. Mo.
Theatre Supply had these exhib-
itors in recently for supplies: Nick Kotsis.
Holden at Holden, Mo.; Irwin Dubinsky from
Fort Madison, Iowa; E. C. Michael, Micklo at
Drive-In, McPherson. Kas.; Doc Cook, Tivoh,
Maryville Mo. exhibitors seen on
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the Row included F. G. Weary of the Farris
at Richmond. Mo, and Ray Miner of the
Leroy at Leroy, Kas.
Don Davis, district manager for RCA Victor
has been given an additional title by Jack
O'Brien, theatre division sales manager at
the home office in Camden. N. J. The Davis
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