Boxoffice-May.03.1952

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CINCINNATI
All cx-fonvli'l wius cauKlit by police attcmptliiB
to enter the 20th-Fox offices here.
The porter heiud a window break nnd .summoned
police, who found the .suspect hiding
In n loft behind a motor of the air eondltlonlng
.system. He has a burglary record dating
back to 1930.
James Abroso, WB manager, and his sales
staff attend a meeting In Pittsburgh conduced
by Benjamin Kiilmeiison. general .sales
manager . Harrell, Cleves, has returned
from Florida and was on FUmrow
here.
Utiicr vislturs Included Roy Wells. Dayton;
Bennett Goldstein, Cleveland: Dick Miller,
Jur circuit; Salem; Charles Behlen, Lexington,
Ky.; Clarence Brown, Jackson Center;
John Powell and Max Matz, Blueficld;
Guy Greathou.se, Aurora, Ind.; Christian
Pflster, Tioy; Hurry McHaffie, Marmet;
Frank Yas.senoff. Columbus; Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Martin, Clrclevllle; J, E. Denton, Owenton;
Sylvester Moorman, Coldwater; Poster
Lane. Williamsburg; W. B. Wright, Whitesburg.
Maurice Cirad, .short subject sales manager,
Columbia, was expected here for a visit
at the branch . Long, former assistant
contract clerk. MGM, has been promoted
to assistant cashier, replacing June
Kenning, who resigned . Tunick,
manager of Souvalne Selective Pictures in
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis and St.
Louis, has his office at 1716 Logan St.
The Starlight Drive-In, Sheridan, across
the river from Ashland. Ky., held its formal
opening Saturday i3). Dr. W. E. Day
Is owner of the new drive-in. Midwest Theatre
Supply equipped it with RCA .sound and
Kenneth Ray, former head
projection . . .
of the Ohio censor board and exhibitor at
the Variety, ZanesviUe, is taking time off to
campaign for the Taft brothers—Charles P.,
who aspires to the gubernatorial office, and
Robert A., who seeks the Republican nomination
for President.
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Mrs. Krma Boedeeker, who operates the
Maple Drive-In at ZanesviUe, had a stage
built on the .screen tower and plans to use
It for per.sonal appearance shows
Goldberg, local manager for Realart, advises
the censor board has now approved the originals
of both "Frankenstein" and "Dracula,"
a sjx'cial Realart combination to be released
soon. Goldberg and Bernle Rubiti of Cleveland
accompanied Budd Rogers, president of
Realart, to Columbus, to discu.ss the pa-ssing
of the pictures by the cen.sor board.
Robert Doppes, former student booker, U-I,
who Is a seaman reserve in the navy, is laid
up In a navy hospital in BainbridKe, Md., with
Ro.scmary Meyer, contract
scarlet fever . . .
Mildred Miller,
clerk, has a new niece . . .
roving reporter for the local Cincinnati Enijuirer,
visited Filmrow offices to interview
employes for opinions on current problems.
She was accompanied by a photographer.
Variety Chief Barker Vance Schwartz made
a hurried trip to the west coast becau.se of
the death of his mother. Schwartz's father
died seven month ago . Ruth Bryant
is the new telephone operator at Paramount,
replacing Mrs. Georgia Regan, who re.signed.
John Quincy Havfklns, former porter at
20lh-Fox who had been pensioned by the
company last November, died at age 72 . .
.
Ethel Stenger, bookkeeping machine operator.
20th-Fox, has for the third time donated a
pint of blood to the Red Cress,
Officers and directors of the Variety
Club have voted to spon.sor a new charity
the Hamilton county Council for Retarded
Children. Vance Schwartz, chief barker, said
that most of the 300 local Variety members
were enthusiastic about sponsoring the cau.se
of the mentally handicapped children when
they learned of the neglect now suffered by
the.se children. According to statistics,
Schwartz .said, 3 per cent of the nation's
population is mentally retarded—or 4,500,000,
with 238,000 in Ohio and 21,000 in Hamilton
county.
Irving Tombach, Warner Bros, exploitation
representative, arranged a .special screening
of "The Lion and the Horse," photographed
in WarnerColor, here recently. Invited to the
screening were Cincinnati photographic experts,
the press and other interested people.
After the ,screening a discussion led by E. B.
Radcliffe, film critic of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
showed agreement that the color was
extremely good.
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Kroger Store Sponsors
Parties at 2 Theatres
TOLKDO—Two neighborhood theatres have
arranged with the Kroger Co., chain grocery
film, to stage Kroger night film programs
at half-price admission. The Colony, managed
by Jack Lykes, near the largest Kroger
supermarket in the area, was the first to
u.se the idea. In return for the chain's announcing
the plan to some 20,000 area residents
and publicizing it in the store, the
Colony .set aside a Monday evening as Kroger.
night, at which free coupons distributed by the
store were good for half-price admission. The
film offering and date was publicized in
neighborhood .siiopping papers by the store.
An interval of three weeks .separates each
such special event.
Finding the program succe.ssfully received
at the Colony, the idea was extended to the
Westwood, a half block from a Kroger store.
The theatres were receptive to the plan because
Monday evening Is generally a slow
night. They found they could do better with
.some 600 or 700 patrons at half price than
without the tie-in. Lobby displays and store
displays both plugged the Kroger night event.
Several baskets of groceries also were given
from the stage on that evening.
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Teenage Girls Arrested
On Theatre Fire Charge
DAYTON—Two teenage girls have admitted
to police that they started two local
theatre fires. The girls, aged 14 and 16
years, are in county detention home awaiting
drapes were torn down and ignited.
juvenile court action.
The girls were picked up when they were
caught setting fire to two upholstered chairs
in the women's restroom at Keiths Theatre.
The girls said they deliberately set the chairs
afire with cigarets. They also admitted starting
another fire a few days earlier in the
women's lounge at the Victory. At the Victory,
Similar fires have occurred in the same
theatres and in the Colonial Theatre in recent
weeks.
Riots in Michigan Prison
Windfall for 'Convicts'
DETROIT—Quick thinking by the Columbia
exploitation staff, represented here by
Clarence Bell, drew .some nice newspaper
space and art work when thousands of convicts
rioted at Jackson Monday. Columbia
had "Big Jim" Morton, ex-convict, in town
in connection with "My Six Convicts," and
promptly planted a special Interview by reporter
Robert Perrin in the Detroit Free
Press. Morton was quoted as an authority
on the management of penitentiaries—from
the inside—and was depicted exercising his
craft at lock-picking.
To Try All-Night Policy
DETROIT—An all-night operation policy
is to be tried out for the first time by a first
run hou.se here. Starting April 30, the Palms-
State, operated by United Detroit Theatres,
will run till 6:00 a. m., then close until 10:45
a. m. The policy is viewed skeptically locally,
in view of the evidence from the Korman circuit's
Broadway Capitol, normally a second
run on major pictures, that there is an inadequate
number of shift workers here at
present to bring big crowds downtown for the
all-night shows.
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