Boxoffice-December.02.1950

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INDIANAPOLIS
pobert "Bob" Shook has succeeded Rush
Williams a,s booker at Republic Pictures.
Williams joined the United Artists staff as
office manager, and Mrs. Mary Long succeeds
Mrs. Jean Be.ssisi as cashier, who has
gone to Paramount Pictures exchange as
cashier there . Bess Thomas, wife of
Ray Thomas, booker at U-I, is now working
parttime at Republic Pictures in the general
office.
Hester Colburn, inspector at RKO-Radio
Pictures, who has been away from work for
several weeks because of an injured ankle,
has recovered sufficiently so as to be back
on the job . Lebbetter, who operates
the Howard at Monon, has announced the
birth of a baby boy, born in St. Elizabeth'.-;
hospital, Lafayette, November 3, and named
William Scott. Weight, 5 pounds and 12
ounces.
Jack Van Borsson, who operates the Savoy
and West, Terre Haute, was confined at his
home by influenza . Hancock, operator
of the Prewitt, Plainfield, is on the
sick list . . . George Lindsay, operator of the
Lindsay at Brownsville, Ky., was on the Row
booking and buying . . . Lou Weinberg, from
the sales organization of Columbia Pictures,
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New York, was in Saturday ( 18 1 pepping
up the boys on the A. Montague and Liquidation
drive.
Herman Morgan, salesman at U-Ii Pictures,
has resigned his position. No one
has been appointed officially to fill the vacancy
, wife of Jules Goldman and
her son have flown to New York City, where
she will spend the holidays . . . Branch manager
Tom O. McCleaster of 20th-Fox was in
Chicago over the weekend for a meeting
of the Central and Midwest district and
branch managers.
Norma Schnarr, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Schnarr who operate the Daisy
Theatre here, flew to Utrecht, Holland, November
16 for an extended visit. She will
visit her many friends in the land of dikes
during the next several months.
Lee L. Goldberg, head of Realart Pictures
exchange, here and Cincinnati, announces
the acquisition for the local exchange territory
of a series of 20 pictures of the Zane
Grey reissues, available to Indiana exhibitors
through the local branch . . . Abe Baker
of the Baker Booking Service has added
the Brokaw Theatre, Angola, Ind.
Universal Pictures entertained the Filmrow
crowd November 18 at the Variety Club of
Indianapolis. There was everything from I
turkeys to orchids. The affair was one of
the best and biggest to date. "Are you tired,
listless, bored or broke?" was the bulletin announcement.
Everybody was there and the
clubrooms were jammed to overflowing. Sam
Oshry, Universal manager, planned the affair.
The United Film Booking Service, headed
by Ted Mendelssohn, has been appointed as
buyer and booker for the Seymour Drivein,
Seymour, Ind., for the year 1951 . . .
"Because of Eve" will open at Keith's Theatre
here December 6. In Indianapolis "Because
of Eve" will be billed as "Adam and
Eve" in order not to cause any confusion
with a picture similar in name, according
to Ted Mendelssohn, distributor of the film
in Indiana.
Exhibitors seen on Filmrow were: Bruce
Kixmiller, Bocknell: E. Orenstein. Marengo;
Earle Payne, Louisville, Ky.; R. L. Norton,
Red Key; Pete Dawson, Louisville, Ky.; Nick
Paikos, Tipton.
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