Boxoffice-November.24.1951

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HARTFORD
Ctate Treasurer Joe Adomo, son of the Sal
Adornos of the Adorno-Middletown Theatres,
finally got his World War II service
medals the other day— five years after being
discharged from the army. The Middletown
native and three-time state treasurer received
the medals as a "special bonus" after
completing his latest army reserve officer's
phy.sical examination in Hartford. "The
medals," says Joe, "will be nice to keep as a
niomento. As for the uniform—well. I can't
get into it any more !
The Kupchunos Bros, closed the East
Windsor Drive-In, between East Hartford
and Thompsonville, for the winter. Final
show of the season featured two Paramount
revivals, "Holiday Inn" and "Wake Island"
Rifkin circuit's Jefferson, Springfield,
has a new dinnerware giveaway . . .
The E. M. Loew circuit is running vaudeville
shows on weekends at the 1,800-seat
Court Square, Springfield, managed by Sam
Schechter. The circuit has shuttered the
Riverdale Drive-In, West Springfield, also
supervised by Schechter. During the recent
illness of Hartford Division Manager George
E. Landers, Schechter filled in at the Hartford
offices, along with Jay Finn of the
Hartford Drive-In, Newington.
WORCESTER
jV/Tarjory Giard is the replacement in the
Loew's Poll boxoffice for Laura Mascia,
Dorothy Lamour's recent
who resigned . . .
trip to town gave a columnist a lead on a
story about her first visit to Worcester 18
years ago. At that time she was a beauty contest
winner with a Fanchon-Marco stage
show at the Poli.
Two men were sentenced in superior court
for breaking into the Greendale and stealing
the office safe August 20. Thomas L. Mills,
19. received a six-month term in jail and
William Bourget, 20, got a suspended sentence
for the same period. They took the safe to a
suburban town, where they forced it open and
took $433, mostly in rolled coins.
Broderick Crawford flew up from Washington
for a personal at Loew's Poli. He was
guest at an informal luncheon at the Bancroft
Room and made several radio appearances.
FALL RIVER
n procession down the main thoroughfare,
a visit to the B.M.C. Dm-fee High school
and meeting prominent residents preceded
Broderick Crawford's personal appearance at
the Empire Theatre in conjunction with the
showing of "The Mob" . Capitol Theatre,
managed by James Knight, has changed
its program policy from two to three new
offerings weekly. Shown are pictures which
proved boxoffice hits at the other Yamins
theatres.
Offerings of turlieys were made at several
local theatres the week before Thanksgiving.
Participating theatres included the Park
and Capitol here and the Island Park in
nearby Portsmouth, R. I. . . . The Park, managed
by James MacNamara, is offering
Thursday night dinnerware, silverware, ovenware
or gla.ssware giveaways.
Tickets' Big in Boston
After Nine-Day Bally
BOSTON—A nine-day saturation campaign
for RKO's musical, "Two Tickets to Broadway,"
was executed by Red King, advertising
and publicity chief for RKO Theatres in Bos- :
ton, and Ralph Banghart, director of exploi-:
tation for RKO in New England. The film!
pulled down the biggest gross of the year at^
the 3,500-seat Memorial Theatre.
Tieing in on the huge campaign were the
Boston Sunday Herald and the Boston Trav-
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eler; Filene's, Jordan's and Kennedy's de-l
partment stores: the New York, New Haven 'j
& Hartford railroad, the Park Sheraton hotels
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and local radio stations.
A limerick contest with accompanying art
and stories ran a week in the Traveler with
the grand prize an all-expense weekend in
New York for two. This contest closed on the
opening day of the musical with the winner
announced later.
(Average Is 100)
Astor—A Streetcar Named Desire (WB), 4th wk- 130
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Beacon Hill—The River (UA), 7th wk 60
Boston—Anne of the Indies (20lh-Fox);
Blackmailed (Bell), 2nd wk
' 90
Exeter Street—The Lavender Hill Mob (U-I),
2nd wk 200
Memorial Tw^o Tickets to Broadway (RKO):
Highly Dangerous (LP) _ 190 !
Metropolitan Detective Story (Para); Crazy Over
Horses (Mono) 150
Paramount and Fenway Come Fill the Cup '
(WB)-
Two-Dollar Bettor (Realart) 145 |
State and Orpheum An American in Paris
MGM), 3rd wk 120 '
Trans-Lux—Pool of London (U-I) 90
'Americcm in Paris' Grosses
160 in Second Week
HARTFORD—"An American in
Paris" did
terrific business in a second week at the
Palace, looking good enough to go a nowrare
three-week stand,
Allyn—When Worlds Collide (Para); The Sea
Hornet (Rep) 110
E M. Loew—The Mob (Col); The Magic Carpet'
(Col), 2nd wk 130 ;
Poll—Anne ol the Indies (20th-Fox); Cage ol
Gold (U-1) 115
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Palace An American in Paris (MGM), 2nd wk 160
Regal—Corsican Brothers (Realart); The Man in
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the Iron Mask (Realart), reissues 90'
Strand—The Blue VeU (RKO); Lilli Marlene i
(RKO) 140-
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