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PORTLAND<br />
T'd CUmb the Highest Mountain" was previewed<br />
at the Civic Theatre here for clubwomen,<br />
ministers, teachers and radio and<br />
newspaper folk before opening to a very successful<br />
run, according to Manager Vicky<br />
Cousens. J. M. Connolly, manager for 20th-<br />
Fox at Boston, and Stanley Young, Maine<br />
salesman, were on hand for the showing.<br />
Luncheon followed at the Eastland hotel . . .<br />
Pisher Zeitz, owner of the Civic Theatre, has<br />
returned from a Florida trip.<br />
Manager Frank Clements, Capitol Theatre,<br />
lost his relief doorman, Malcolm Carr, to<br />
the army air force. Page Safford replaced<br />
him . Kenneth Loew, auditor on concessions,<br />
was in town recently . . . . .<br />
The Port-<br />
land Theatre has gone back to four changes<br />
weekly . . . The Strand is making a concentrated<br />
effort to attract more children. Admission<br />
has been changed to 20 cents on Saturday<br />
until 3 p. m. and on Sunday until 4<br />
p. m. Marino, assistant at the Strand, has<br />
passed his army physical.<br />
Ralph TuUy, manager of the State Theatre,<br />
held a marriage contest in connection<br />
with "The Magnificent Yankee." A U.S.<br />
savings bond and 20 pairs of guest tickets<br />
were awarded for the best answers to the<br />
question, "I believe in (early) or (late) marriage<br />
because" . . . John Divney, manager<br />
of the Star in Westbrook, cooperated with<br />
the Westbrook merchants in their appreciation-day<br />
promotion and gave away orchid<br />
corsages to the first 50 women to buy tickets.<br />
Divney reports good attendance at the special<br />
all-French picture, "Seraphino," which<br />
played two days.<br />
Edward Flaherty, usher at the Maine<br />
Theatre, has resigned to join the marine<br />
corps. Miss Caroline Matzi hais been added<br />
to the staff as cashier. Charles Hamilton,<br />
formerly of the Main Theatre, is stationed<br />
with the air corps military police in California<br />
. . . The Hussey Theatre in Mars Hill<br />
was damaged by fire recently.<br />
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Many Yale Drama Grads<br />
Working in Hollywood<br />
NEW HAVEN — A recent check on 548<br />
alumni of the Yale university department<br />
of drama, founded 25 years ago by George<br />
Pierce Baker', disclosed that 42 per cent were<br />
in education, 25 per cent in professional<br />
theatre, 11 per cent in films, 9 per cent in<br />
radio, 7 per cent in television, and 6 per<br />
cent in community theatre. Among the successful<br />
grads in Hollywood are writers Talbot<br />
Jennings, Elaine Ryan, Valentine Davies,<br />
Whitfield Cook, Marvin Borowsky, Leopold<br />
Atlas, Frank Cavett and Bernard Schoenfield;<br />
directors Elia Kazan, Henry Potter,<br />
Michael Gordon, Richard Fleischer and Edward<br />
Padula; producer George Haight; art<br />
directors Monroe Burbank and Louis Rachmil.<br />
NEW HAVEN—A recent labor<br />
department<br />
tabulation shows the average production<br />
worker in the Hartford area receives $72.74<br />
per week; Stamford second, with an average<br />
of $70.19; Waterbury, $67.45; Bridgeport,<br />
$67.44; New Britain, $66.75, and New Haven,<br />
$58.25.<br />
LYNN<br />
IWTanager Edward Myerson, Capitol, got his<br />
picture in local papers presenting complimentary<br />
tickets to Chief Petty Officer<br />
Irving McLeod of the navy recruiting station<br />
during the showing of "The Flying Missile."<br />
Store window displays helped the buildup.<br />
Myerson and Lynn newspapermen attended<br />
a dinner given in Boston for Lon Mc-<br />
Callister, star of "A Yank in Korea," also<br />
Korean veterans from<br />
shown at the Capitol.<br />
the Chelsea naval hospital were guests on<br />
the first night.<br />
Elliott Oshry and Joseph Comeau have<br />
received orders to report to the army March<br />
16, making four members of the Capitol staff<br />
in the armed forces. The others are in the<br />
marines and navy . . . When a columnist<br />
of a local paper went on his vacation, he<br />
prevailed upon Manager Myerson and Manager<br />
Royce Beckman of the Warner to take<br />
turns pinch-hitting for him. Both managed<br />
to get in plugs for their respective theatres.<br />
Manager Beckman received a letter from<br />
Gloria M. Auger, publicity secretary of the<br />
Lynn chapter of the American Red Cross,<br />
thanking him for display space, which he<br />
donated in the Warner lobby during the<br />
bloodmobile campaign.<br />
New Hampshire Balks<br />
At Licensing Operators<br />
CONCORD, N. H.—The New Hampshire<br />
Senate has killed a bill to license all motion<br />
picture operators, filed by Senator Sara E.<br />
Otis. The measure would have set up a<br />
three-man commission to examine candidates.<br />
The license fee would have been $10<br />
for the first year and $5 for each year of renewal.<br />
At a public hearing early In February<br />
more than 75 theatre owners voiced disapproval<br />
of the bill.<br />
Radio actor Norman Field has been booked<br />
for MOM'S "Strictly Dishonorable."<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
projectionist George Liburdi and his wife<br />
Virginia are the parents of a boy . . .<br />
Birthday congratulations to Edward G. Trotter<br />
of the Klein Memorial, Madge Blake of<br />
Loew's Poll and Charles Guadino of the<br />
Hippodrome . . . Managing Director John<br />
MoUoy was back from three weeks in<br />
Miami.<br />
Peter Lawrence ana Robert Penn are planning<br />
a theatre-in-the-round under canvas<br />
on the property of singer James Melton in<br />
Norwalk next summer for 12 weeks of<br />
musicals . . . Arthur Fensore is substituting<br />
for his ailing father James in the projection<br />
booth at Loew's Poll.<br />
Approximately 96,900 workers were employed<br />
in Bridgeport factories at the end<br />
of January, the highest total in two years<br />
. Jose Iturbi and his sister Ampra booked<br />
. .<br />
for a concert at the Klein Memorial on<br />
Thomas Murphy, Lyric stagehand,<br />
March 31 . . .<br />
observed a birth<br />
anniversary.<br />
Hartford Theatremen<br />
Are Fined $50 Each<br />
HARTFORD—Bemie Menschell and John<br />
Calvocoressci, partners of the Community<br />
Amusement Corp. here, were fined $50 each<br />
by police court Judge Hyman Holtman for<br />
the showing "Everybody's Girl" at the Star<br />
Theatre, February 16. Judgment was suspended<br />
in the cases of Michael W. Masselli,<br />
Star manager, and Jack Kearns, projectionist<br />
at the theatre. The 1,800-seat house has<br />
been closed since February 24 when both<br />
state and city licenses to operate had been<br />
withdrawn.<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
K Sunday evening film show, to which all<br />
residents of the community were invited,<br />
featured the Outing club's annual winter<br />
carnival in Goffstown. "The Star Dust Ice<br />
Review" also was an attraction . . .<br />
Another<br />
attempt to put a dog racing bill through the<br />
legislature has failed. The measure, which<br />
its sponsors claimed would bring anpual<br />
revenue of $1,500,000 to the state, was overwhelmingly<br />
defeated in the house of representatives.<br />
The Palace in Manchester featured two<br />
film revivals on a recent program. They<br />
were the Douglas Fairbanks jr. fi: n, "Confessions<br />
of a Model," and John i 'es and<br />
Madge Evans in "Secret of a Sinn -" . . .<br />
The state voluntary roadside impr> ment<br />
committee, including representatives the<br />
Outdoor Advertising Ass'n and the Nau nal<br />
Roadside Business Ass'n, accepted a nuH.ber<br />
of areas In the state for scenic improvement.<br />
Pinal approval by the main body will call<br />
for protection from unsightly billboards and<br />
for various improvements.<br />
Changed<br />
'Renegade' Title<br />
The title of U-I's picture, "Don Renegade,"<br />
'<br />
has been changed to "The Mark of the<br />
Renegade."<br />
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BOXOFFICE<br />
:<br />
: March<br />
10, 1951
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