Boxoffice-May.03.1952
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PITTSBURGH<br />
^len Easter has curtailed operations at the<br />
Almcda in Mount Morris, now offering<br />
Tuesday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday attractions<br />
. . . When the Sunset Beach Drivein<br />
on Route 40 at Claysville reopened adult<br />
admission price had been upped to 60 cents.<br />
The increase was made necessary by increased<br />
township taxes . . . Ben White, Warren outdoor<br />
exhibitor, inaugurated a new season at<br />
the Dicky-Ben Speedway nearby, with stockcar<br />
racing . . . Lieut. John Betters of the air<br />
force, who manages the Roof Garden Drivein<br />
near Somerset on weekends, was recalled<br />
to his base unexpectedly when some officers<br />
w^ere killed in a plane crash. He had expected<br />
to take his accumulated leave at this<br />
time to devote to the drive-in.<br />
F. Elmer Hasley's Main on Bessemer Terrace<br />
in East Pittsburgh, which had been open for<br />
a weekend change of program, now is closed<br />
Rothenstein, West Aliquippa and uptown<br />
Fifth avenue exhibitor, plans to move<br />
his residence from Aliquippa to Squirrel Hill<br />
, . . A John Mayer. MGM cashier, says his<br />
son Ronnie will enroll at Duke university,<br />
Durham, N. C. . . George Kreamer, Warner<br />
.<br />
auditor, who used to come to Filmrow as a<br />
UA auditor, was here. Mel Harwood. Warner<br />
auditor who was well known here, died recently.<br />
Maurice Grad, Columbia short .subjects<br />
sales manager, was a visitor . . Wallace<br />
.<br />
Nordby, former Indiana, Pa., exhibitor who is<br />
manager of the First Federal Savings & Loan<br />
Ass'n there, ha.s been appointed to the Chamber<br />
of Commerce committee of the United<br />
States Savings & Loan league.<br />
Bernard H. Buchheil, Manos circuit executive,<br />
is back at the Green-sburg headquarters<br />
after a trip to Missouri. He accompanied<br />
Mrs. George Purcell and son John, with the<br />
body of husband and father who died April<br />
21 following a heait attack. Purcell was buyer<br />
and booker for the Manos circuit . . . Rudy<br />
and Sam Navari presented "Kon-Tiki" for<br />
two days at their Eastwood in Penn township<br />
as a benefit for the Penn High Varsity<br />
club . . . W. L. Dunn, Cochranton exhibitor<br />
and contractor, has been awarded the contract<br />
for construction of a quarter-mile ti'ack<br />
for auto racing at the Crawford county fairgrounds.<br />
Bill Saal, Republic executive, was here ar-<br />
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ranging for the premiere of "I Dream of<br />
Jeannie." at the Fulton June 4. The life<br />
story of songwriter Stephen Foster will be a<br />
feature of Greater Pittsburgh Welcome week<br />
festivities and Republic stars will i)arlicipate<br />
in the dedication of the swank greater Pittsburgh<br />
airport, $30,000,000 terminal which will<br />
open May 31.<br />
. . For the first time<br />
Shea's at Bradford is dark and the McKean<br />
there is operating on a part-time .schedule . . .<br />
Bernard Davis and Larry Knee have resigned<br />
from the Warner circuit. Davis was replaced<br />
at the Victor in McKeesport by John Petros<br />
jr., formerly with the circuit at Washington,<br />
Pa. Knee's post at the Warner here had not<br />
been filled this week .<br />
since the film building at 1623 Blvd. of the<br />
Allies was constructed, half of the street floor<br />
is not in service as a film exchange. The new<br />
tenant is Clary Multiplier Corp., sales room<br />
for adding machines.<br />
Thomas Zaimes, West Tarentum exhibitor<br />
and Homestead restaurant owner, will fly to<br />
Greece on May 29 to visit his aged parents<br />
in Thessalonike. Twenty years has lapsed<br />
since he last saw them and his father is now<br />
aged 89 and his mother is 76. Zaimes will be<br />
away for four or five weeks.<br />
Professor James A. Notopoulos, one of the<br />
sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Notopoulos of the<br />
Altoona-Publix theatres, has been awarded a<br />
Guggenheim fellowship for a year's study in<br />
Greece. Author of "The Platonism of Shelley"<br />
and professor of classical languages at<br />
Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., James will<br />
sail for Greece this summer where he will<br />
continue his study of Homer as an oral poet<br />
and will record modern Greek heroic oral<br />
poety of World War II . . . Maurice "Doc"<br />
Rubin of the downtown Art Cinema states<br />
that reports that the theatre is being sold or<br />
leased are inaccurate. His brother Babe enjoyed<br />
a recent vacation in Miami ... A second<br />
son named Daniel Vincent was born<br />
April 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Corso of<br />
Star Distributing Agency.<br />
. .<br />
The newly remodeled Brighton at New<br />
Brighton adopted this new policy: Tuesday-<br />
Wednesday evenings, one paid adult admission<br />
also admits free one child under 12 years<br />
of age . . . F. P. McCoy, lATSE Tri-State<br />
Ass'n secretary-treasurer, has been at the<br />
Cleveland clinic for a checkup . Mrs. Harry<br />
Manos has joined her husband in Greece.<br />
The Vandergrift theatreman has been there<br />
several months for treatment of an illness<br />
which has been greatly relieved. They plan<br />
to remain abroad until next fall.<br />
Miss Beaver Valley will be named at a<br />
beauty show June 24 in the Rialto at Beaver<br />
Falls. Honor guest of the day will be Clare<br />
Lippert. 19. of Natrona Heights, who was Miss<br />
Pennsylvania last year . . . RKO visitors included<br />
Terry Turner and Don Pi'ince, exploitation<br />
directors, who arranged ai'ea events<br />
for mid-June when "King Kong" goes into<br />
Asked how he 'put<br />
another reissue release . . .<br />
over' "Viva Zapata!" Fulton manager John<br />
Walsh replied: "Didn't you notice? We painted<br />
out Brando's mustache in all advei-tising" . . .<br />
Mrs. Bessie E. Kihchel of the Kihchel at<br />
Jeannette has been ill and confined to her<br />
home . . D. J. Sheppard of Fabian Theatres,<br />
.<br />
Altoona, former manager of the Embassy<br />
in Johnstown, will' conduct a contest<br />
to select Miss Blair County, and Charles R.<br />
Blatt of the Governor in Somerset will sponsor<br />
the selection of Miss Somer.set County.<br />
Miss America district eliminations are<br />
John H. Harris, Pittsburgh's<br />
planned May 23 . . .<br />
best known showman, and Mrs. Har-<br />
ris, parents of 2-year-old twin sons, expect<br />
another visit from Old Doc Stork in September.<br />
Mrs. Harris is the former Donna<br />
Atwood, star of Harris' "Ice-Capades" for a<br />
number of years.<br />
Indoor Operators Fail<br />
To Shutter Drive-ins<br />
BEAVER, PA.—Indoor theatre owners this<br />
week rebuffed in an attempt to enlist the district<br />
attorney's aid in a campaign against<br />
drive-in theatres. Basis for the request for<br />
the commonwealth's aid in bottling up the<br />
outdoor theatres is the 1935 law calling for<br />
local option on Sunday operation of theatres.<br />
Beaver valley managers of indoor theatres<br />
asked District Attorney Richard P. Steward<br />
to close drive-ins which operate on Sundays<br />
in communities which have not voted in referendum<br />
to repeal the old blue law regarding<br />
entertainment on Sunday.<br />
In all the county's larger communities except<br />
Beaver this has been done. Only one<br />
outdoor theatre in Beaver county, the Tusca,<br />
is situated in a political subdivision which<br />
has approved Sunday shows. Steward informed<br />
complainants that he will act only if<br />
information is made against the drive-in by<br />
some interested party outside his office.<br />
Indoor theatre managers balked at making<br />
information against the outdoor theatres.<br />
J. C. Lund, who manages the Aliquippa theatres,<br />
publicly charged the attorney with failing<br />
to assume the responsibilities of his office.<br />
Several indoor theatres in Beaver county<br />
are preparing to close because of the influence<br />
of outdoor theatres and television. In<br />
one large community, three grocei-y chain operators<br />
seek to take up the lease on one large<br />
theatre. In some cases, indoor theatre operators<br />
are dickering with employes for pay<br />
cuts because of rising costs and falling receipts.<br />
Explosion Causes Panic<br />
PITTSBURGH—A terrific gas explosion<br />
wrecked a row of connecting houses in the<br />
Hill district late last Thursday night (24),<br />
injuring ten persons and causing a panic in<br />
the nearby Rhumba Theatre. More than 100<br />
patrons of the theatre fled when the blast<br />
virtually demolished one residence in the rear<br />
of the Rhumba, operated by Jake Soltz and<br />
son Sidney Soltz. Two suffered injuries when<br />
they fell during the stampede for exits and<br />
were removed to a nearby hospital.<br />
Wayne McPeak to Tarentum<br />
TARENTUM, PA. — New manager of the<br />
Manos here is Wayne McPeak, formerly with<br />
the Harris Amusement Co. at Pittsburgh.<br />
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42 BOXOFFICE May 3, 1952
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