Boxoffice-October.27.1951

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OMAHA
Catherine Erstad has joined the RKO staff
as booker's stenographer. Both her husband
and the husband of biller Donna Carpenter
are stationed at Offutt air force base
near here . . . Max Rosenblatt, RKO manager,
visited Sioux City and Onawa, Iowa,
with salesman Paul Back ... J. J. Sparks,
former Omahan called to service while with
RKO in Des Moines, was back on furlough
from Camp Carson, Colo.
Adolph Rozanek, owner of the Times at
Crete who teacher in high school during winter
months at Cicero, 111., was a visitor at
the Theatre Booking Service office . . . Milton
Swift, head of the WB shipping department,
and Peggy Bragg, Warner inspector,
both celebrated birthday anniversaries . . .
Tino Salerno of MGM was given a cake and
a pair of gloves by the staff on her birthday
McCormick, MGM booker, attended
the Minnesota-Nebraska football game at
Minneapolis.
, . .
Jack Jorgens, MGM salesman, his wife and
son Jackson were weekend guests at Kansas
City of the William Gaddonis. Gaddoni
was former branch manager at Omaha, now
heads the Kansas City MGM office . . . Jake
Lankhorst died at Hawarden, Iowa, where his
brother, Harry J., operates the theatre
Bill Barker, partner in the Mort Ives Booking
Service, returned from western Nebraska
and got his woolens out of mothballs after
running into a snowstorm in the Ainsworth
area.
Mrs. Mary Black, mother of RKO salesman
Paul Black, is in St. Joseph's hospital
with fractured ribs and bruises suffered in
a pedestrian-truck accident on the west edge
of town . . . The mother of Regina Molseed,
20th-Fox office manager, fell and broke her
hip . Kosuit, Bernice Tomasiewicz
and Ceil Wolbach, all of MGM, attended the
Ak-Sar-Ben coronation.
Lucille Sorenson, MGM branch managers
secretary, will take the second week of her
vacation in November hunting pheasants
with her husband in southern Nebraska . . .
Rich Wilson, MGM salesman who accompanied
the Hollywood star caravan on the
Movietime U.S.A. junket, still is awed by the
number of autograph hunters who besieged
him on the trip . Day visited the
Warner staff while in Omaha for a Columbia
records appearance . . . Johnny Jones,
MGM booker, has learned that the price of
parking in downtown alleys is a traffic violation
ticket.
Mrs. Don McLucas, wife of the United
Artists manager, made the World-Herald
picture page in a layout of winter preparations.
Mrs. McLucas was snapped digging up
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employe of 17 years, is vacationing and Ben
Magzamin of the Dundee is filling in during
his absence . . . Eddie Horton, former assistant
manager of the State, is now manager
of the Military, replacing Gaylord Vermoss.
Sand Hills lakes and Nebraska rivers drew
many exhibitors last week but a goodly number
made a visit to Pilmrow. Included were
Burley Chamberlain, Winnebago; Bert Beams,
Sutton; Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Waybill, North
Bend; Mrs. Hans Bohnker, Charter Oak,
Iowa; Mrs. Arch Conklin, Griswold, Iowa;
Arnold Johnson, Onawa, Iowa; Cliff Shearon,
Genoa; Ralph Martin, Moorhead, Iowa; Frank
Good, Red Oak, Iowa; Tony Polonka, Shelby;
Mel Kruse, Pierce; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Goodwater, Madi.son; Art Sunde, Papillion;
Abe Sadoff and Bob Kruger, Sioux City, Iowa;
Mons Thompson, St. Paul, and D. T. Campbell,
Central City.
Music Operators Discuss
Their OPS Troubles, Too
OMAHA—One of the principal moves of the
six-state convention of the Music Operators
of America here was to separate the music
operators from other coin-machine operators.
The music men want only music machines.
Sid Levine of New York, general counsel for
the music operators, said juke boxes are now
at their height in Israel, Venezuela, Puerto
Rico and many other countries. George Miller,
national president, said juke box operators are
having OPS troubles, too. Until it unfreezes
the cost of playing the boxes, the operators
can get only five cents per record. He said
even those which had gone to ten cents had
been ordered to drop back to a nickel.
Methods of dropping controls was one of
the top subjects of the meeting. More than
1,000 persons viewed the showing of new
machines at the Paxton hotel. The convention
included representatives from Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North and
South Dakota.
Businessmen Join to Give
Theatre to Comstock, Neb.
COMSTOCK, NEB.—Plans were made to
start a motion picture theatre here at a
recent meeting of the Businessmen's club in
the Petet cafe. The move will go forward
within the next few weeks. M. F. Henderson
consented to run the theatre but, before the
house is opened again, it was decided to make
the necessary repairs and a small amount
of rebuilding and redecorating.
The present equipment in the theatre belongs
to Charles Brown and this will either
be purchased or other equipment installed in
the building after it has undergone minor
remodeling. Henderson is said to have had
a wide experience in operating theatres and
he assured Comstock of good shows while he
is at the helm.
New Operation at Revillo
'Place
REVILLO, S. D.— E. Warren Washburn has
taken over the operation of the Auditorium
Theatre here.
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Strong Omaha List
OMAHA — "A Place in the Sun" at the Paramount
led a strong list of offerings. "Fabiola"
at the Omaha had a disappointing 95 mark.
John Derek's appearances at the Brandeis
and about town and several stories in the
press plus a picture in an ancient auto
marked the opening of "Saturday's Hero."
The results were a HO week.
(Average Is 100)
Omaha—Fobiolo (UA); The Sun Sets at Dawn
(UA) 110
Orpheum—The Day the Earth Stood Still (20th-
Fox); Bandit Queen (LP) _ _105
Paramount A Place in the Sun (Para) 120
RKO Brandeis—Saturday's Hero (Col); The Lady
and the Bandit (Col) _ 110
State The Golden Horde (U-I); Kentucky lubilee
(LP), 2nd wk _ 100
Town—Devils in the Flesh (Lux); Isle oi Sinners
(Lux); Gold Strike (UA) 100
'Carnival' Scores
160 in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY—Aftermath of the American
Royal and the introduction of the new
legitimate theatre season made its weight
felt along the local first run rialto. Best
gross of the week was held by Loew's Midland,
where "Texas Carnival" scored 160 per
cent. "The Desert Fox" bowed into the fourhouse
Fox Midwest lineup to score 125 in a
pleasing week. Others were average or above.
Esquire, Uptown, Fairway and Granada — The
Desert Fox (20th-Fox); Pride of Maryland
(Mono), at Esauire and Granada only 125
Kimo Tales of Hoffmann (Lopert), 5th wk 150
Midland—Texas Carnival (MGM); The Strip
(MGM) 160
Missouri Fainting the Clouds With Sunshine
(WB); Jungle Manhunt (Col) _ 110
Paramount A Place in the Sun (Para), 2nd wk 105
Tower—People Will Talk (20th-Fox), 2nd d, t. wk.,
plus vaudeville „ _._ 100
Vogue Faust and the Devil (Col) 120
Twin City Newcomers Good;
'People' Heads for Third
MINNEAPOLIS — Such newcomers as
"Painting the Clouds With Sunshine," "The
Mob" and "No Highway in the Sky" got some
boxoffice attention. Holdovers were "The
Day the Earth Stood Still," in its third week,
and "People Will Talk" and "Saturday's
Hero," in their seconds. "People" continued to
show vitality and remained for a third week.
Century—People Will Talk (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 110
Gopher—The Day the Earth Stood Still (20th-Fox).
3rd wk 85
Lyric—Sunny Side of the Street (Col); The Big
Gu-iher (Col) 90
Pix—Saturday's Hero (Col), 2nd wk 90
Radio City Painting the Clouds With Sunshine
(WB) 100
RKO Orpheum—The Mob (Col) 100
RKO Pan—Drums in the Deep South (RKO);
lungle Manhunt (Col) „ 90
Slate—No Highv»ay in the Sky (20th-Fox) 90
World The Dancing Years (Mono) 85
Burglar Calls Twice
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA—A burglar who
may have made certain his work would be an
"inside job" by staying until every one else
had gone home, ransacked the Council Bluffs
Drive-in's coin machines. The dial was
knocked off the safe but attempts to open it
failed. The theatre lost $500 to a yegg several
months ago. This time vending machine coin
boxes were smashed open and an undetermined
amount of cash and loot taken.
Improvements at Tabor
TABOR, IOWA—A new beaded screen has
been installed at the Isis Theatre. Also new
at Max Shoemaker's theatre are new projection
lenses and a new automatic oil furnace.
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