Boxoffice-May.03.1952

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DETROIT
Tack Broder, now head of Realarl. stopped
' here en route from Lo.s Angele-s. and flew
east Tuesday with Sol Krim. circuit operator,
to .spend about a week in New York on
a business trip. Broder was to return this
week to the west coast Koken, in
charge of vending for
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RKO, was a local
visitor . Albert Dezel was Chicago on
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Frank Kin.sora has been named
business . . .
to the labor committee of the state fair board.
David M. Idzal of the Fox will act as a special
consultant on entertainment for the fair.
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Betty Fussner, Paramount booker, reports
practically the whole staff got chest X-rays
when the Red Cross mobile unit parked out in
front of the exchange Mitchell is
planning to close the Drayton Theatre at
Drayton Plains and convert it to commercial
Nate Bloch, operator at the Adams,
use . . .
left on an extended vacation in Arizona .
Neil Tailing, Cinema manager, lost a couple
of patrons who looked over his front, until the
woman remarked, "Let's find where 'King
Solomon's Mines' is playing. I just love those
Biblical pictures."
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Alice Gorham, UDT exploiteer, headed up
to northern Michigan for a brief vacation . .
Joe Lee was host at a screening of "Wait IMll
the Sun Shines, Nellie" and "Diplomatic
Courier" this week ... It was oldtimers week
on Filmrow. Among those noted were Clive
Waxman, Grand Rapids; Harry Ruben, Benton
Harbor; Ed Johnson, Bay City; William
Thick, Marshall; Bob Pennell, Bronson; Ray
Branch, Hastings, and Richard Ingram of
Flint and Mount Morris.
Oliver Willett, associated with his father
A. O. in the operation of the Strand at North
Branch, is taking over the Strand at Imlay
City and the Capac at Capac from Leonard
Wnuk . . . Bill Hurlbut was in Los Angeles
to attend the Monogram directors meet .
The Wisper & Wetsman office says there's
nothing to those rumors that the big circuit
had taken over the Stanley, recently closed
by the Oleszkowicz family . rumor,
that the big second run Hollywood had been
bought by a railroad, was apparently unfounded.
Harry Lush, Plymouth exhibitor, returned
from a trip to California . . . Sydney Bowman,
UA manager, is opening "The African Queen"
May 2 at the Fox to prospects of good business
. . . Jack Krass has closed the Carlton,
northwest section house . . . Terry Rurner,
Morris Lefko, Nat Levy, Don Prince and Jules
Levy, RKO executives, were in town for a
screening of "The Story of Robin Hood."
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Clarence Williamson and his National Theati-e
Supply cohorts are busy preparing equipment
for delivery to four new drive-ins now
under construction upstate
of the Dale was in a car collision at Findlay.
Ohio, on his way back from Norfolk, Va., but
his car e.scaped with minor damage .
Wagner, manager of the Ford-Wyoming
Drive-In, who can guess the number of cars
in a house within about 1 per cent, commutes
William B.
daily the 60 miles to Flint . . .
Zoellner, MGM short subjects chief, was in
. . . Ralph Peckham, formerly here with the
old Grand National, is the new southern division
chief for Cla.ssic Pictures, with offices
at Atlanta.
Sam Ackerman of the East Side, back
lunching on Filmrow, is getting reacclimated
to Detroit after his extended Florida trip . . .
Tom Allen of United Film Service was a
bright and early morning visitor . . . Donald
L. Turner, division manager for Altec, was in
from Chicago . . . Norman Meyers, managing
director of the Adams, is a veteran 16mm film
fan, with professional type equipment and a
nice output of travelogs to his credit.
J. J. Devine of Monroe, assistant to the
president of Alexander Films, met at Cliff
Bell's Tuesday noon. Noted at another table
were Sid Bielfield and Sol Jordon, two veteran
exploiteers, with Harold Brown of UDT
in another corner . Hunt, manager
of the Harper, is celebrating a victory over a
dead spot in the sound system that proved
Fred C. Dickely, Altec
baffling for a while . . .
manager, is an oldtime radio commercial
operator, including transoceanic experience
from 1917 to 1928 . . Dave Newman, counsel
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of Cooperative Theatres, is an avid student of
technology of theatre operation.
New Tax Proposal Made
By Ann Arbor Mayor
ANN ARBOR, MICH.—Apparently
undiscouraged
by the defeat of his amusement tax
proposal at a recent election. Mayor William
E. Brown jr., has recommended that a 10 per
cent amusement tax on all admissions of 25
cents or more be enacted. He suggested to
city council that the proposal be placed on
the August 5 primai-y ballot. At the April 7
election, voters defeated a proposal to place
an amusement tax on all entertainment admissions.
In presenting his new idea to the council,
the mayor expressed belief that the earlier
tax proposal was defeated because of its "indefinite
and nonspecific" nature. That proposal
asked simply for the right to levy an
admissions tax and grant authority to collect
other types of excise taxes.
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Warn on Hiring Minors
COLUMBUS—Albert A.
Woldman, head of
the Ohio industrial relations department, has
warned employers to refrain from using
minors in prohibited occupations. He pointed
out that minors under 16 are barred from
working in all amusement places, except the
stage, and listed numerous industrial occupations
forbidden to minors.
Producer Edmund Grainger has set Alan
Le May to pen "Blackbeard the Pirate," a
Technicolor costumer, for RKO.
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