Boxoffice-May.03.1952
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ATLANTA<br />
Come 75 members and guests of the Variety<br />
Tent 21 heard A. B. Padgett, John Ford<br />
and several others discuss Old Newsboy day<br />
which will be staged May 23 to raise funds<br />
for the Cerebral Palsy Home for Children.<br />
Paul E. Daughtery. Fi-ed H. Massey and James<br />
C. Shumate were the new members taken in<br />
at the meeting . Hassler, office manager<br />
and booker, is the new correspondent<br />
for BOXOFFICE and will appreciate exhibitors<br />
sending news items directly to him.<br />
"Les Miserables" will open at the State<br />
Theatre, Tallahassee, Fla., May 18-20. This<br />
new version in English is being distributed<br />
by Astor Pictures . S. Simpson of<br />
Wedowee (Ala.) Theatre, who was in booking,<br />
reported farmers have gotten a late start<br />
MOSQUITOES, GNATS, FLIES, are not allowed at this theatre<br />
DRIVE-IN<br />
T im E IRI T IR '<br />
due to bad weather and are now working long<br />
hours on their crops . Woman"<br />
and "Sins of Madeleine," both starring Hedy<br />
Lamarr. concluded a week's run at the Roxy<br />
Theatre. This is an Astor release.<br />
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Exhibitors wishing to contribute<br />
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money to i<br />
the Variety Club'.s Cerebral Palsy drive can<br />
mail contributions to John Fulton, Variety<br />
Club, Atlanta hotel, Atlanta, Ga.<br />
Films will bring out "Bitter Rice" the first<br />
of next month. Astor Pictures will handle<br />
The Lane Theatre for<br />
the distribution . . .<br />
Negroes, has been reopened in Cordele, Ga.,<br />
by George Lawrence.<br />
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Hardy Butler will operate and manage the<br />
new Forrest Park Drive-In at Lakewood . . .<br />
Capitol Theatre Supply handled the furnish-<br />
Nat Williams of ThomasviUe, will<br />
ings . . .<br />
close four of his "B" theatres . . . Al Rook<br />
has opened his own booking office . . . Eu-<br />
gene Skinner of the Dixie Drive-In Theatres<br />
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in Atlanta, is on a vacation in Florida.<br />
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CHARLOTTE<br />
tJarvey Smith of Harvey Smith Enterprises<br />
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in Atlanta came here to install a minia- .<br />
ture train in Revolution park . . . The<br />
Art<br />
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Theatre has begun a strictly art policy. The i<br />
Sofe, sure, eleon FOG from your own big Fogger. Cleons 'em out up to '/j mile from your theotre for less<br />
thon $1.00 a day. Proven on economlcol woy to control oil flying insects by Army, Navy and cities oil<br />
over U. S. Fully protected by Guarantee and Service Policy.<br />
Bye Bye B. O. Blues<br />
NOT $1700 - NOT $1200 - BUT $950<br />
For a Full-Size Fog Machine for Heavy Duty Work Under Worst Conditions<br />
"PUBLIC HEALTH INSECTICIDAL<br />
FOG MACHINE"<br />
$950.00 READY FOR OPERATION-NO EXTRAS<br />
Extended Payment Plan Availoble for First Time: Only 4 admissions per night, payable monthly, will<br />
give you complete freedom from pests.<br />
All Types of Special Equipment and Insecticides<br />
Public Health Equip. &l Supply<br />
Phone BEL. 3-3421 P. 0. Box 4143, Sto. "A" 517 N. W. 19fh St. Son Antonio, Texas.<br />
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theatre is being operated by B&B Theatres,<br />
which also operated the Tryon. The opening<br />
of the new house brings to two the number<br />
of art theatres here. The Visulite, the first,<br />
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opened several weeks ago after it was purchased<br />
by Jay Schrader.<br />
The North 17 Drive-In in Wilmington<br />
opened May 1. C. D. Holder is manager ...<br />
The Luckie Drive-In near Reidsville is being<br />
readied for a May 15 opening. Hugh<br />
Sykes & Associates are owners and Howard-<br />
Ford is manager. The ozoner is located one<br />
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mile south of Reidsville.<br />
. . Dublin Drive-In in Dublin<br />
Dick Eason of Queen City Booking Services<br />
spent several days in Wilmington preparing!<br />
for opening of Skyline Drive-In there. H. M.<br />
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Sykes sr., father of Queen City's Hugh Sykes,<br />
will manage .<br />
opened May 1. Exhibitors Service is buying<br />
and booking.<br />
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DOn'T KILL THE fflfln lUITH THE FLUTE<br />
A good sound system should be capable<br />
of reproducing the entire sound<br />
frequency range recorded on the film<br />
from the lowest 40 cycle tones of the<br />
bass viol to the 10,000 cycle tones of<br />
the flute.<br />
fllOTIOGRflPH SOUnD SySTEfUS ^^cMfuzatee<br />
the best balanced, most complete tonal range; life-like reproduction; delicate<br />
shadings of voice; musical qualities never before approached; uniform<br />
sound level throughout the theatre.<br />
1 4 models for indoor theatres from 500 to 5,000 seals and drive-ins from 200<br />
to over 1,000 cars — ALL built to the one same high standard of quality.<br />
WIL-KIN THEATRE SUPPLY, INC.<br />
Atlanta, Georgia Charlotte, North Carolina<br />
"Eyerything for the theatre except film"<br />
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light at<br />
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lower amperage<br />
SOUTHERN CARBON SUPPLY<br />
146 Walton St., Tel. Alpine 2644, ATLANTA, GA.<br />
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