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. . . November<br />
. . Milton<br />
M<br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
n special preview of "La Ronde," winner of<br />
three festival prizes due to open November<br />
21 at the Vogue Theatre here, was presented<br />
by San Francisco Theatres. Guests<br />
burst into spontaneous applause at, the completion<br />
of the film and following the screening,<br />
District Manager Irving Levin, San<br />
Francisco Theatres, was host at a champagne<br />
repast . . . America-India Friendship day was<br />
held at the Stage Door Theatre here. Patrons<br />
at the 2 o'clock matinee of "The River"<br />
gave dii-ect aid to India's famine victims.<br />
Kenneth E. Wright, managing director of<br />
Theatre Television Authority, announced that<br />
Max King, secretary to Gov. Earl Warren,<br />
became a member of the board of directors<br />
of TTA. Theatre Television Authority, according<br />
to Wright, was formed as a public<br />
service corporation to secure the rights to<br />
release and license television programs to<br />
theatres for exhibition. James Kilian has<br />
been appointed southern California manager<br />
of the organization with headquarters at<br />
10701 Va Ohio Ave. in Los Angeles.<br />
. . .<br />
Harpo Marx appeared at a celebration of<br />
the new Broadway Walnut Creek shopping<br />
Joan Fontaine spent the Thanksgiving<br />
center . . .<br />
holidays with her parents in Saratoga<br />
Scheduled to appear for a benefit pre-<br />
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William Bendix, Arleen Whelan, Corinne<br />
Calvet, Charles Coburn, Gloria Grahame and<br />
Patricia Medina. All proceeds went to the<br />
Boys City recreation project in Santa Clara<br />
county.<br />
Advertising something new under the advertising<br />
sun, is the firm of National Theatre<br />
Broadcasting, which claims to have exclusive<br />
contracts with theatres where an advertiser<br />
may present recorded broadcasts to the entire<br />
audience ... A party was held Friday (16) at<br />
the Variety Club sponsored by the distributors.<br />
It was screen test night with sets, sound<br />
camera and equipment ready for all guests<br />
30 is the date of the barn<br />
dance, sponsored by the film colony girls, at<br />
the Variety Club. For tickets call Mary<br />
Marquart, Pr 5-1613.<br />
. . G.<br />
. . John Bowles<br />
. .<br />
Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Lyon have taken over<br />
the Virginia City Theatre in Nevada .<br />
Carleton Hunt and Hans Deschultes were in<br />
from the State Theatre in Dinuba . . . August<br />
Panero was on the Row .<br />
came up from Fresno to book for his theatre<br />
. . . Peter Garrette came in from his<br />
Yolo Theatre, Woodland . Dave Richards<br />
was tracing trailers for his Rialto in Oakland<br />
. . . George Marischka, film director<br />
from Austria, was here as a guest of 20th-<br />
Fox on his way to Hollywood to study American<br />
methods of production.<br />
. . .<br />
. . Walter<br />
Tiie Fox Theatre in San Francisco, first<br />
run Market street house, is advertising free<br />
parking Marie Paisley, elevator girl at<br />
the Golden Gate Theatre building, returned<br />
from her vacation and supplied co-worker<br />
North Coast<br />
Eddie Jacobs with fresh trout . . .<br />
Theatres will move its offices from the Golden<br />
Gate Theatre building. The advertising department<br />
will headquarter at the Esquire<br />
Theatre, while executive offices will be maintained<br />
at the Orpheum Theatre .<br />
Preddey returned from his Mexican trip.<br />
Anson J. Longtin and his brother Adair<br />
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