Boxoffice-October.27.1951

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OKLAHOMA CITY
T ocal theatres ars sponsoring a Saturday
afternoon football scoreboard over this
city's 50,000-watt station KOMA from 5 to
5:30 p. m. Sponsors of the 30-minute program
are Warner Theatres, State Theatres.
Video Independent Theatres and Cooper
Foundation. Warners operates the Midwest,
Warner and Sooner here; State Theatre operates
the Center and State; Video operates
the Will Rogers, May, Agnew, Gaiety, Redskin,
Reno, Rialto. Rodeo and Twilight Gardens,
and Cooper Foundation operates the Criterion.
Harber. Tower. Plaza and Capitol.
Ollie Brownlee is operating the Ritz. sub-
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Belton, Texas
urban situation formerly affiliated with the
Cooper Foundation Theatres. Brownlee came
here from Fort Smith, Ark., to lease the
house, effective October 15. He formerly lived
here at one time, working for the Capitol,
a Cooper Foundation house. He also worked
Ralph Ayer,
for the Griffith circuit . . .
Cooper Foundation official from Lincoln,
Neb., arrived Monday (22) to spend a few
days here.
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Kroger Babb of Hallmark Pictures, Wilmington,
Ohio, was in town on business
Also Paul Wilson, assistant division sales
manager for 20th-Fox in Atlanta, who spent
Newman, a couple of days here .
manager for Universal, and Glen Fowler, Universal
booker, attended the meeting- in St.
Louis at the Chase hotel with F. T. Murray,
head of branch operations, and Irving Sochin.
assistant general sales manager, both of New
York. The meeting was held to discuss the
current print situation.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Rice of Video and
R. T. Williams, RKO manager, were among
film industry representatives at the OU-
Kansas football game at Norman. Attending
from Tulsa were Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Akers. Also among the spectators were Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Loewenstein and Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Clark.
About 45 Oklahoma exhibitors, distributors
and representatives, including film salesmen,
attended a three-day fishing party at Lake
Murray October 16-18. Out-of-state fishermen
included Bob Warner of Manley Popcorn
and Hi Martin, district manager for Univer-.
sal, both of Dallas. In charge of arrange-'
ments for the outing were Glen Thompson/
city circuit owner; Harry Lord, Moore ex-
hibitor; Lament King, Marietta exhibitor,
and Harry Lawrence, Madill showman. The
stag event is a semiannual affair.
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O. L. Smith of Marlow left on a three-week
deer-hunting trip in Colorado . Brock,
Lawton exhibitor, went to California for a .
week's visit . . . L. E. Brewer of Pauls Valley
spent the weekend in Austin, flying his own ,
airplane, to see his son L. E. Brewer jr., who
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is now in the air corps, his daughter-in-law
and his new grandson, Paul Shaw Brewer,
eight weeks old.
R. V. McGinnis was in . . . Jack Crooks
and Mr. and Mrs. John Knisely of Norman
were also at the OU-Texas game . . . Mrs.
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Margaret Day, "Mrs. Show Business" in I
Lawton, is chairman of the board for the
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town's new million dollar hospital. She re- !
ports that the new institution began to oper- I
ate in the black after its first month. She
is Joe Turner's partner and, incidentally, his
grandmother .
Snyder and the Fanroy and Alamo theatres,
has purchased a new four-seater plane which
will enable him to transact business on Filmrow
more conveniently and be back home
before showtime.
Ralph Drewry and wife spent Monday and
part of Tuesday in the city . . . Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Rice of Paramount also attended the
OU-Texas game in Dallas, as did George
LeBlanc of Altec, Finis Stilwell of Ada. Larry
Boggs of Ardmore, Paul Cornwell. Roger Rice,
Sam Stone and their wives; Janie Isom, Jane
Welch, Virginia Marcum, Billijo Herman and
Mrs. Donald Asher, all of Video in the city.
Ralph Hughes of Heavener was in town on
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business . . . Bill Wilson, manager of the
Mooreland situation, also was in . . . Walter
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Kreh. Republic
in town .
auditor from New York, was
Hamm of Lawton, who
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owns situations in Elk City, Altus. Frederick
and Law'ton, was here . Mrs. Vance Terry
of Woodward is in
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New Mexico undergoing
treatment for an allergy. Vance Terry re- i
The Ben
turned from there October 8 . . .
Terry's new home in Woodward is strictly
an answer to any homemaker's dream, with
everything new to make housekeeping a pleasure.
Nothing has been left out of the $160,000
layout. The door to the garage is electric
and opens with a push button installed in the
family car. We understand Ben did the
building, while the missus did the interior
decorating. Ben has used every newfangled
idea in the building business to make his
home, without doubt, one of the fanciest, most
up-to-date homes in the state.
Radio Comic in 'I Don't Care Girl'
Sam Hearn. radio-TV comic, has been ticketed
to the Mitzi Gaynor title-roler, "The I
Don't Care Girl," a 20th-Fox release.
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