Boxoffice-May.03.1952

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Dayard .M. Grant, vice-president of Duiwood
Theatres. Inc.. is going into business on
his own. He will continue to base his operations
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Theatres home
affice at 1806 Baltimore
hue. Grant is a sonin-law
of Ed D. Durwood.
president of the
theatre circuit . . .
Brooks Noah and Richard
Wiles jr.. owners
of the Winoko Corp..
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N. M.. this week for
the opening of their
Bayard M. Grant newly acquired Yucca
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Charles Cook, salesman for U-I, and his
wife Carol, .secretary to U-I office Manager
Larr.v Klein, purchased a new home and
moved into it this week. The purchase included
the ranch house and an acre of land.
The house is located next door to the home of
Mildred Harris, Commonwealth drive-in
booker . . Tlie Universal staff will have its
annual picnic Monday (5i.
Julian King. Lippert franchise holder in Des
Moines, was in tow'n recently, accompanied
by his wife . Latimer of L&L Popcorn
has installed three drink machines at
Ft. Riley, Kas. On a recent trip to Kansas
he also checked and adjusted new Cretors
popcorn machines at the Ayr-Vue Drive-In,
Hutchinson, and at the Great Bend drive-in.
AI Webster of Altec. Oklahoma City, is expected
here the weekend of May 10. Webster
wrote to friends on Filmrow recently saying
that in the few weeks he had been in Oklahoma
City he had seen every type of weather
earthquake, tornado, rain, sleet and even sunshine.
.
Finton Jones jr., son of the theatre insurance
man. is going on a tour of duty with the
coast guard to Alaska, Guam, Honolulu and
on to Japan. Young Jones was home recently
Mrs. Abbott Sher, wife of the
on leave . . .
Film Delivery executive, is recuperating after
surgery Wolf, stenographer at
Paramount, is on vacation.
Visitors on Filmrow this week included
Bernie Shaner, Odessa, and Paul McCarthy,
formerly of Algona, Iowa, and at one time
with Shreve Theatre Equipment Co. here . .
E. E. Hopkins will open his Camdenton Drive-
In, Camdenton, Friday (2). Hopkins was a
viiitor in Ed Hartman's Motion Picture Booking
Agency Friday (25).
Ben Adams of El Dorado was in town as
was Chet Borg of the Mo-Kan Drive-In, Fort
Scott ... A three-year-old boy who wandered
about six blocks from his home hunting the
Uptown Theatre brought publicity to that
house this week. The youngster, who frequently
accompanies his parents to the show
at the Uptown, apparently remembered the
route and took out on his own to find the
theatre.
Actor Mickey Rooney was in town this week
for the opening of "Sound Off" Thursday at
the Missouri. Columbia salesman Herb Stulz
and Pat Pinnell came in off the road to help
with publicity on the opening and Rooney's
appearance . Marcus, Columbia district
manager, will return to the office Monday
(5) after a vacation on the west coast
and attending the Variety Clubs International
convention in Las Vegas.
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Also attending the Las Vegas Variety convention
was Ben Shlyen, publisher and editor
in chief of BOXOFFICE .
returned to work at Columbia after recovering
from an attack of flu . . . The local Universal
office last week went from ninth to foiu-th
place in the Nate Blumberg drive. The drive
ended May 3.
Roscoe R. Thompson, former branch manager
for Lippert here, has joined the Warner
Bro;. sales staff as representative in the
Wichita territory. Thompson succeeds salesman
Dwight Borin, who resigned. The change
was effective this week.
Cleanup Crews Repair
Riverside Drive-In
KANSAS CITY—Cleanup crews this week
turned to the task of repairing and rebuilding
the Riverside Drive-In here, damaged .severely
by the recent flooding of the Mis.souri river.
Conservative estimates of damage, still not
completely apprai.sed, ranged from $15,000 to
$20,000. This would make a total of .some
$50,000 damage suffered by the Riverside
drive-in in the two floods which have inundated
it within the last year. About $30,000
damage was suffered by the drive-in last
July.
Jack Braunagel, head of the Commonwealth
drive-in division, said that current
flowing into the Riverside had wrecked the
dike which normally protects it from the
river. Crews will first rebuild the dike,
Braunagel .said.
Water has been going out of the drive-in
rapidly, he said, but it has left a large amount
of mud and debris. The rapid current also
took the roof off the concessions building and
knocked out the front of that building. It
ruined shrubs and landscaping and, Braunagel
said, there may be some damage to the
plumbing. At midweek it was hoped that
major resurfacing would not be necessary.
Durwood Reopens Skylark
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Alter Flood Rolls By
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—Durwood Theatre
circuit reopened its Skylark Drive-In here
Friday (2) after the ozoner escaped flooding
by the Missouri river. The drive-in had been
evacuated and closed and, while flood waters
did close a bridge leading to the airer, the
drive-in itself escaped damage. Howard Griffin
is manager of the Skylark for the circuit.
Harry Horrocks, 62, Dies;
Former Theatre Owner
KANSAS CITY, KAS.—Harry Horrocks, 62,
former local theatre owner, died in a hospital
at Cottonwood, Ariz., this week after a heart
attack.
Horrocks was a native of Brookfield, Mo.,
and lived here for 30 years. He lived at
Sedona, Ariz., after moving from here about
a year ago. He formerly operated the Midway
Theatre. He is survived by his wife
Nellie and a brother Marion.
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