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KANSAS CITY<br />
Tleverly Miller, Leavenworth. Kas., theatreman,<br />
stopped in at the BOXOFFICE<br />
plant this week to offer an official denial<br />
that the pig which he has on display at<br />
his theatre is "on loan" from Missouri Theatre<br />
Supply Manager L. J. Kimbriel. "I<br />
bought that pig," said Miller, adding that<br />
with the pig in the theatre lobby his popcorn<br />
sales had shown a big increase. It's<br />
amazing, said Miller, how many people stop<br />
to feed the pig and to talk to him. He said<br />
he was staging a pig giveaway for November<br />
30 and that he would give the animal to<br />
the person who guessed the exact weight<br />
of the pig. "If they don't guess the exact<br />
weight," he said, "I'll keep him."<br />
George Shuster is new shipper at 'Warner<br />
Bros, here, replacing Roy Hurst, who was<br />
shifted to the booking department. Robert<br />
Jennings, whom Hurst replaced as booker, re-<br />
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UNITED NEON COMPANY<br />
4607 Prospect, Kansas City, Mo., Phone AR. 8?08<br />
signed to go with an insurance company<br />
Langan, branch manager at Universal,<br />
last weekend said that he had a<br />
notion to give girls on the U-I bowhng team<br />
a medal. The U-I team, then in bottom place,<br />
won three games straight from the topranking<br />
Hartman Allstars a week ago.<br />
RCA Service Co. employes here received<br />
a letter from Charles D. Houchen recently.<br />
Houchen, formerly field engineer in the Mo-<br />
Cook, Neb., and Minneapolis territories, now<br />
is on military leave of absence and is a<br />
captain in the signal corps, now stationed on<br />
the Korean front lines . . . E. D. Van Duyne,<br />
RCA Service district manager, and Joe Moore,<br />
district supervisor, returned from St. Paul,<br />
where they inspected installation of new<br />
RCA theatre television at the Paramount<br />
Theatre.<br />
Archie Speak, RCA field engineer, who has<br />
been very ill, has been released from the<br />
hospital and is at home in Torrington,<br />
Wyo., recuperating. He is expected to return<br />
to work about January 1.<br />
Thomas L. Mooney, RCA field engineer in<br />
St. Paul, is father of a son, Michael Thomas<br />
Stulz, western Kansas salesman<br />
for Columbia and operator of the Plaza at<br />
Clyde, was in town Friday . Ferris,<br />
Columbia booker, is in the hospital . . .<br />
Don Clark, another Columbia booker, resigned<br />
to join the staff at Paramount . .<br />
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Jules Serkowich, midwest division exploitation<br />
manager, Chicago, visited the local Columbia<br />
exchange. He discussed the forthcoming<br />
opening of "Sirocco" (25) at the Midland<br />
with Managing Director Howard Burkhardt.<br />
Bob Shelton, general manager for Com-<br />
. . .<br />
monwealth Theatres, was out of town last<br />
weekend Bob McKinley, booker at Republic,<br />
was on vacation and booker Johnny<br />
Scott was moved out of the booking office<br />
while a redecorating job was completed at the<br />
exchange . . . Phil Blakey, manager of the<br />
Riverside Drive-In, said that "Mom and<br />
Dad" completed a 12-day run at the Riverside<br />
and eight days at the Crest. The Crest<br />
was shuttered for the winter Sunday (11)<br />
and the Riverside makes its seasonal exit<br />
Sunday (25).<br />
Visitors on Filmrow were Ed Henrich,<br />
Towne, Olathe; Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Batman,<br />
Oregon, Oregon, Mo.; Lily Welty, Midway,<br />
Hill City; Gene Michaels, Braymer, Mo.;<br />
George Nescher, Valley Falls; Tom Spurgeon,<br />
Stanberry; J. Leo Hayob, Marshall;<br />
Joseph Green, Roxy. New Franklin; Bill<br />
Bradfield, Roxy, Carthage, and J.<br />
Sedalia,<br />
Mo.<br />
T. Ghosen,<br />
Arthur Greenblatt, Lippert general sales<br />
manager, New York, was in the local exchange<br />
to visit with Manager R. R. "Tommy"<br />
Thompson . . . Eddie Golden, head of Golden<br />
Booking Agency and owner of the Vogue<br />
Theatre, has been featuring an art exhibit<br />
in the theatre lobby in keeping with the<br />
new art policy of the house. The exhibit by<br />
mid-American art students has attracted<br />
much attention. Golden said, and two sales<br />
have been made.<br />
Max Reno has purchased the Jet Theatre<br />
at Grandview, Mo. Reno, who is new<br />
to the industry, is a senior captain for<br />
Trans-World airlines and is on leave. He<br />
and his wife Betty are friends and former<br />
neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur de Stefano<br />
and own a home in Overland Park. The<br />
Renos have four children. Reno plans further<br />
improvements to the 210-seat Jet . Arthur<br />
de Stefano, wife of the head of National<br />
Theatre Supply, was expected to return home<br />
from Menorah hospital this week.<br />
Unique, Barn-Style House<br />
Is Purdin's First Theatre<br />
BROOKFIELD, MO.—The Movie Barn,<br />
Purdin, Mo.'s first theatre, was dedicated<br />
with two shows attended by approximately<br />
500 persons. Craig Beckett, manager of the<br />
theatre, had a Technicolor booking for the<br />
formal opening and ten baskets of groceries<br />
were given away.<br />
The theatre is located on Highway 5 just<br />
north of the Purdin Mercantile Store. It is<br />
a 32x56-foot structure and decorated in barn<br />
style. Included in the decorations are two old<br />
wagon wheels, one outside the building and<br />
the other in; a wolf head, an old time wheat<br />
cradle, horse collars and pads. The electric<br />
light fixtures are lanterns. Beckett said the<br />
theatre would seat about 600 persons and pictures<br />
will be shown on Wednesday and Saturday<br />
evenings. There was both an afternoon<br />
and evening show for the dedication.<br />
BOWLING<br />
KANSAS CITY—Standings remained unchanged<br />
among top teams of the Filmrow<br />
bowling league in both the men's and women's<br />
divisions.<br />
Men's league standings;<br />
Team Won Lost Team Won Lost<br />
Hilz Theatre 27 6 Film Delivery 2 16 17<br />
Michael's 20 13 Fox Terriers 14 19<br />
MGM 17 IS Film Delivery 1 12 21<br />
Fox Trotters 16 17 Screenland 10 23<br />
Women's league<br />
standings:<br />
Team Won Lost Team Won Lost<br />
Hartmon's 23 10 U-I 14 19<br />
Finton Jones 22 11 Columbia Gems 12 21<br />
Foxy Five 17 16 C.S. Bureaucrats 11 22<br />
Bill White to Colfax<br />
COLFAX, IOWA—Bill White of Dallas,<br />
Tex., has taken over the management of<br />
the Star Theatre here. White has been in<br />
the theatre business ten years, starting as<br />
an usher. Frank Gentry, who has been in<br />
charge of the theatre for the last three<br />
years, has resigned to go into radio and<br />
television repair work.<br />
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52 BOXOFFICE :: November 24, 1951
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