Boxoffice-October.27.1951
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of the Palace and Cornes theatres,<br />
died at his home in Farmersville Monday<br />
(221 of a heart attack. He was a member of<br />
the Dallas Variety Club. He is survived by<br />
wife: a .son Frank and his mother, Mrs.<br />
W. F. Cornes of Farmersville . K.<br />
Interstate circuit, is enjoying a<br />
three-week vacation in New York, Boston<br />
and other eastern cities.<br />
Fran McCarty is leaving B&B Booking Co.<br />
November 1 to go with Clark Cowden Drilling<br />
Corp. in the M&W Tower building . . . Mar-<br />
Rowland is now working at Superior<br />
Booking Co., after being with Paramount<br />
14 months . Baskin, booker for<br />
Interstate who has been in the hospital for<br />
several months, has returned to his home and<br />
like to hear from his friends.<br />
and Mrs. Dan Hulse and Dan jr. enjoyed<br />
a pleasant vacation in Canada visiting<br />
Moose Jaw and Winnipeg. Dan jr.<br />
was awarded a scholarship to Southern Methodist<br />
university by the Dallas Masonic lodge.<br />
Willie Mae Southern, inspector at Metro,<br />
the film industry some extra pub-<br />
I licity recently. She attended a church break-<br />
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fast in south Dallas in which gifts were<br />
for the most interesting and novel<br />
Willie Mae wore a gay number<br />
up of a reel bent slightly to fit her<br />
head and decorated with strips of film, 35mm<br />
interwoven with 16mm film. To complete the<br />
effect in behalf of Movietime in Texas, she<br />
wore Movietime valances from her shoulders.<br />
She was interviewed ten days later about<br />
her novel costume on the radio.<br />
William MeCraw, executive director of Variety<br />
International, has been engaged by John<br />
Wayne as technical adviser for "The Alamo."<br />
McCraw is an authority on Texas history . . .<br />
Mrs. Mary Anna Davis, secretary to Louis J.<br />
Weber at Metro, was married to Gordon Murphy,<br />
former ice skating champion from Canada<br />
. . . Charlie Weisenberg has bought an<br />
interest in the Arlington Drive-In and is tak-<br />
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. . Bill O'Donnell<br />
ing over active management .<br />
of Interstate reports the National and<br />
Palace in Breckenridge have been sold to<br />
Douglas & Associates.<br />
Henry Penix will take over the operation<br />
of Tower in Wichita Falls November 1 . . .<br />
Joe Love's theatres in Snyder have been sold<br />
to J. L. Fife and V. F. Nichols of Seminole.<br />
John Puller, manager for Love, has taken over<br />
the booking and buying for the new management<br />
. . . Jim Prichard, division manager<br />
for Monogram, attended the joint Allied and<br />
TOA regional meeting in Memphis.<br />
Seen on Filmrow: E. W. Capps of the Hi-<br />
Ho, Gainesville; Sidney F. Smith, Limestone<br />
Theatre, Groesbeck; George C. Chatmas,<br />
Hearne: Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Stroud, Hamilton;<br />
Miss Dorothy Matson, Rockdale; Gerard<br />
J. Ebeier, King Drive-In, San Marcos; C. O.<br />
Simmons, Plaza, Denton; G. Martini, Martini,<br />
Galveston; Mr. Hust, Liberty, Fort Worth:<br />
Marvin McLarty, Circle Drive-In, Lubbock;<br />
"Doc" Schwartz, Tower. Wichita Falls; R. M.<br />
Shaw, Star Drive-In, Turnertown; Henry F.<br />
Smith, Texas, McGregor; Audrey Cox, Palace,<br />
Lamesa; Watson Davis, Pike Drive-In,<br />
Port Worth; Mrs. George Franklin, Colonial<br />
Drive-In, Argyle; Mr. and Mrs. Fort Keith,<br />
Palace, Granbury; Johnny Blocker, El Paso,<br />
and Jewel Archer of the Wes-Mer, Mercedes.<br />
Around noon Monday the Town and Country<br />
restaurant, a favorite spot for Filmrowers,<br />
sent one of their personnel to the bank. A<br />
hundred feet away, a young man brushed by<br />
and grabbed the bank deposits, which he<br />
stuffed in his shirt. The police finally got on<br />
his trail after he jumped into a car. The car<br />
drove around the block and he jumped out on<br />
Jackson street, dropped his loot and ran into<br />
National Screen Service offices hoping to<br />
lose himself, and make a backdoor exit. He<br />
was caught, however, without much trouble<br />
and brought out to a waiting patrol car on<br />
Jackson Street. Over 150 Filmrow employes<br />
were out on the street by that time watching<br />
action and wondering what everybody else<br />
was doing.<br />
Charles Connaught Dead<br />
CHICAGO—Charles L. Connaught, former<br />
owner of the State Theatre at Olivia, Minn.,<br />
died suddenly from a heart attack at his<br />
home in Haddonfield, N. J. At the time of<br />
his death, Connaught was employed by RCA<br />
Victor at Camden. He had only recently been<br />
transferred from Chicago to the New Jersey<br />
home office. He leaves a wife and two sons.<br />
Two Azteca Releases<br />
SAN ANTONIO—Two new Azteca releases,<br />
announced by booker Fernando Obledo, are<br />
"Adventurea" with Ninon Sevilla, Andrea<br />
Palma and Tito Junco, and "Rosauro Castro"<br />
starring Pedro Armendariz.<br />
U.S. Productions Screened in Mexico<br />
Out of a total of 201 feature films screened<br />
in the federal district of Mexico during the<br />
first six months of this year 120 were U.S.<br />
productions, 52 Mexican, eight Spanish, eight<br />
French, seven Italian, four Argentine and two<br />
British.<br />
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BOXOFFICE October 27, 1951 74-A
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