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Tcane Seattle Lioness<br />
Gets Film Contract<br />
SEATTLE—With a $1,500 a week contract<br />
clutched in her paw, Little Tyke, a 4-yearold,<br />
380-pound Seattle lioness has gone<br />
to Hollywood and stardom in the forthcoming<br />
Cecil B. DeMille circus film "The Greatest<br />
Show on Earth." Accompanying the overgrown,<br />
but very tame, "pussy cat" is her<br />
owner George Westbeau, local rancher and<br />
real estate operator.<br />
Little Tyke first gained recognition last<br />
month on a television broadcast when she<br />
passed up a juicy filet mignon for a bowl of<br />
cereal and cream, proving to an amazed<br />
audience that meat held no charm for her.<br />
Further proof that she was tame as a<br />
kitten was shown by her mode of living as a<br />
house pet on her owner's ranch south of<br />
Seattle. Here, Little Tyke had the run of<br />
the place and enjoyed such luxuries as her<br />
own chartreuse sedan delivery truck equipped<br />
with air mattress, radio and other comforts.<br />
As a result of this pampered home life.<br />
Little Tyke is more amiable than the average<br />
house cat, even though her growls are loud<br />
and authentic and frighten visitors half to<br />
death.<br />
With her interest confined solely to a<br />
vegetarian diet, however, it is expected that<br />
Little Tyke will go far in the film capital,<br />
with eventual personal appearances and indorsements<br />
of cereals and canned vegetables<br />
jacking up her income to astronomical<br />
amounts.<br />
Color for Two by Grainger<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Technicolor commitments<br />
have been secured for two more features on<br />
F>roducer Edmund Grainger's 1951 agenda<br />
for RKO release in addition to the justcompleted<br />
"Flying Leathernecks." The tint<br />
process will be utilized on "African Intrigue."<br />
planned for lensing in British East Africa,<br />
and "Blackbeard the Pirate," to be photographed<br />
in England.<br />
Robert Patrick Clients Confer<br />
DENVER—Robert Patrick, film buyer and<br />
booker, called in the managers and owners<br />
of the theatres he services for a one-day<br />
discussion at the Cosmopolitan hotel, mainly<br />
on drive-ins. It was decided to make the<br />
meeting an annual event.<br />
Record Star Troupe<br />
Starts Long Tour<br />
Holl.vwood—What was claimed to be<br />
the largest talent caravan dispatched<br />
since World War II to bring entertainment<br />
to servicemen and defense workers<br />
got under way Sunday (4) at the Travis<br />
air force base. Headlining Phil Regan,<br />
night club, radio and film singer, the<br />
troupe embarked on a 39-week, 50,000-<br />
mile cross-country tour, all of the shows<br />
being broadcast over the full NBC network<br />
under sponsorship of Pepsi-Cola.<br />
Representatives of Imth the San Francisco<br />
and Los Angeles press attended the<br />
initial performance as guests of Col.<br />
Joseph W. Kelly, Travis base commanding<br />
officer. Every fourth broadcast will<br />
be from a defense plant.<br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
f^omplete renovation of the old Mayfield<br />
Theatre in Palo Alto has been started,<br />
according to J. M. Stephens, vice-president<br />
and general manager of Westside Theatres.<br />
The theatre has been renamed the Cardinal<br />
. . . Tlie Modesto area will be the setting for<br />
a new Technicolor film to be produced by<br />
Paramount. Nat Holt, producer, informed<br />
Bert Henson, district manager for the<br />
Modesto theatres, that technicians and actors<br />
would be there soon.<br />
About 100 patrons of the Mission Theatre<br />
in Sacramento were forced to flee when a<br />
fire broke out in the basement. Owner Henry<br />
Heber estimated damage at $15,000 to $20,000.<br />
Repairs will be started immediately . . . William<br />
Holden, actor, was in town for a few<br />
days shooting scenes at Mare Island naval<br />
shipyards . . . Steve Moore, manager of the<br />
Vogue, said thieves recently cracked open the<br />
safe and escaped with $1,460.65.<br />
W. R. DeGroat of San Jose is new manager<br />
of the Westwood Theatre in Westwood, replacing<br />
Dave Howell. DeGroat has been<br />
with Westland Theatres for the last three<br />
years and has managed theatres in McCloud<br />
and San Jose . . . Bill Blake, publicist for the<br />
Golden Gate Theatre, to publicize "Cry<br />
Danger," had the stars of the film, Dick<br />
Powell and Rhonda Fleming, accompanied<br />
by June AUyson, met at the airport by the<br />
cavalcade of Nash cars. Red Cross station<br />
wagons, press and radio. From the airport,<br />
an interview program was set up by station<br />
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KYA. The cavalcade went to San Francisco<br />
State college, where Powell made a plea for<br />
blood donors, then to the Fairmont hotel and<br />
a luncheon with the drama critics of the<br />
dailies. The luncheon was broadcast over a<br />
local station.<br />
Seen along Filmrow were Willard Wagner,<br />
general manager of George Stamm Theatres,<br />
Antioch; Paul Catalano, booking for his El<br />
Rancho Drive-In, San Jose, and Morris<br />
Safier on one of his frequent trips from Los<br />
Angeles . . . Spencer Leve and George Milner<br />
of Fox West Coast were on a business<br />
trip to Los Angeles for a meeting with FWC<br />
executives.<br />
Sid Weisbaum, Sunnymount Theatres, is<br />
out of the hospital and recuperating at home<br />
. . . "Red" Jacobs, Favorite Films bossman,<br />
returned to his desk following several weeks<br />
of hospitalization.<br />
About ready to move in and open for business<br />
at new locations in the T&D Theatres<br />
building ground floor are E. I. Rubin, the popcorn<br />
man. Favorite Films exchange and<br />
Emmet Cannon, cigar store magnate . . .<br />
Robert Lippert was in from Los Angeles to<br />
confer with the local staff . . . Francis Bateman<br />
has returned to Republic after several<br />
years absence to become district manager<br />
serving this area.<br />
The snow in San Francisco was a treat<br />
to the kiddies, but the cold wave, coldest in<br />
18 years, played havoc with drive-ins . . .<br />
Adele Kotite, Golden State Theatres booker,<br />
got news of her son, Lieut. Richard Kotite,<br />
who is in Korea, through Time magazine<br />
and an article headed "Stand at Chinyong."<br />
Leonard Goldstein has purchased<br />
Never Know" for U-I release.<br />
"You<br />
Double-Cily Debut<br />
Given 'Raton Pass'<br />
ALBUQUERQUE — Thousands of persons<br />
from this part of New Mexico were on hand<br />
for the opening of Warners' "Raton Pass" at<br />
the Kimo Theatre Tuesday (6).<br />
Dennis Morgan, Steve Cochran and Dorothy<br />
Hart were met at the Santa Fe station<br />
by a group of stock riders on horseback and<br />
an Indian band and dancers from the Albuquerque<br />
Indian school. Top city officials<br />
were in the delegation. The newsreels covered<br />
this ceremony.<br />
Later the visitors were interviewed over<br />
KOB and KOAT. Outdoor activities were<br />
covered by a mobile broadcasting unit. These<br />
included a parade in bannered automobiles<br />
to the Hilton hotel. Stars and local groups<br />
visited the Veterans hospital and were met<br />
by Gov. E. L. Mechem of New Mexico and<br />
Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado. Later Governor<br />
Mechem appeared on the stage of the<br />
Kimo.<br />
Ceremonies on a similar scale were carried<br />
out the following night at the Raton Theatre,<br />
Raton.<br />
Red Norvo and his trio have been inked<br />
for "Texas Carnival," a Metro film.<br />
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BOXOFFICE March 10, 1951<br />
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