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LOVE IS<br />
HERE TO STAY<br />
Don't fight it — Capitalize on it!<br />
FOR BIGGER PROFITS BOOK<br />
UNIT SHOWS LISTED BELOW<br />
1. LILI ST. CYR IN LOVE MOODS<br />
MODELS, INC.<br />
STREETS OF SORROW<br />
2. SMASHING VICE TRUST<br />
CHILD BRIDE<br />
3. DEVIL'S HARVEST<br />
FORBIDDEN WOMEN<br />
4. CHILDREN OF MOM AND POP<br />
CHILDREN OF DIVORCE<br />
5. COCAINE^<br />
CALL OF THE BLOOD<br />
6. GAMBLING WITH SOULS<br />
SLAVES IN BONDAGE<br />
7. ESCORT GIRLS<br />
MAIN STREET GIRLS<br />
8. ART OF LOVE<br />
BED-ROOM DIPLOMAT<br />
BIRTH OF LIFE (Short)<br />
9. BURNING QUESTION<br />
GUILTY PARENTS<br />
HOW TO TAKE A BATH (Short)<br />
10. hitch-hikeI^oIiell<br />
secrets of a model<br />
11. road to ruin<br />
primrose path<br />
12. HER SISTER'S SHAME<br />
TEEN AGE<br />
13. EVas OF DIVORCE<br />
SHOULD A GIRL MARRY?<br />
14. VICE RACKET<br />
RAGE OF BURLESQUE<br />
15. THRttL OFYOUTH<br />
(MY SIN) I HAVE LIVED<br />
16. STRIP-TEASE REVUE<br />
HURLY BURLY<br />
17. BOUDOIR INTRUDER<br />
LET'S LOVE AGAIN<br />
18. ALOHA (SIREN OF PASSION)<br />
NOTORIOUS BUT NICE<br />
19. BEASTS OFTffiEAST<br />
OUTRAGES OF THE ORIENT<br />
20. CITY OF^IN<br />
HOUSE OF 1000 WOMEN<br />
21. CALL OF^THeTunGLE<br />
LURE OF THE ISLAND<br />
VIRGINS OF SAMOA (Short)<br />
22. WELD BEASTS^T BAY<br />
ECSTASY IN THE WaOERNESS<br />
— ALTERNATE COMBINATIONS —<br />
children of mom and pop<br />
slaves in bondage<br />
love moods<br />
secrets^of a model<br />
escort girl<br />
affairs of a model<br />
childre"nofdivorce<br />
hitch-hike to hell<br />
streets'of'sorrow<br />
ROAD TO RUm<br />
ADDED SPICY SHORTS GRATIS<br />
COMBO MATS—SPECIAL TRAILERS AND<br />
FRONTS<br />
ALBERT DEZEL<br />
INC<br />
831 So. Wabosh Ave.<br />
Phono Harrison 7-3626—CHICAGO, ILL.<br />
CHICAGO<br />
IJerb Elisburg:, veteran exhibitor who operated<br />
the Studio in the Loop for<br />
several<br />
years, has joined the Schoenstadt chain as<br />
manager of the Piccadilly on the south side.<br />
He will continue to operate the Rosewood,<br />
which he has been managing for the building<br />
owner for the past several months. .<br />
Larry Goodman, former tradepaper reporter,<br />
has joined Filmack Trailer Co. as copy<br />
writer.<br />
Evidence that the motion picture industry<br />
is on the upgrade despite television, came<br />
here the other day during the thi-ee-day<br />
convention of Allied Artists. Steve Broidy,<br />
the president, announced Monogram, which<br />
specialized in low-budgeted "quickies," was<br />
folding and that Allied Artists would concentrate<br />
on bigger and better high-budgeted<br />
motion pictures. Broidy explained the day<br />
of the low-budget picture is over and the<br />
demand for top product is greater than<br />
ever.<br />
Ben Eisenberg and M. D. Zimmerman, who<br />
are new operating two neighborhood theatres,<br />
the Royal and Wicker Park, took<br />
over the operation of the Davis this week<br />
(3) . . . Henry E. Newell, 83, former owner<br />
of the Howard Theatre, who retired in 1942,<br />
died. He is survived by his wife, Esther.<br />
. . .<br />
.<br />
Sylvan Goldfinger, Telenews division manager,<br />
returned to his local office after a<br />
business trip to Cleveland area checking on<br />
business conditions Herb Carlin, former<br />
Civic Theatre manager is now directing<br />
press relations for the Sonja Henie ice<br />
show which opened here to capacity business<br />
Essaness Woods booked<br />
"Happy Times" (Col.) to follow "Jumping<br />
Jacks," which bowed out after four weeks<br />
. . . Tom Riley has been named manager<br />
of the B&K Tower.<br />
J. E. Odenhall of the Telenews, vacationed<br />
in Wisconsin . . . The lATSE Local B held a<br />
special meeting at the Conrad Hilton hotel<br />
last week with 100 members in attendance.<br />
All officers were re-elected including Sam<br />
Lamasky, business agent . Joyland<br />
on south State street which has played<br />
combination film-burlesque shows for many<br />
years, has been sold and will be remodeled<br />
into a business building . . . Harvey Cahn<br />
is assistant manager to Fred Mindlin of the<br />
Ziegfeld.<br />
.<br />
. . . Harry and<br />
The Skokie Drive-In closed for the season<br />
Roxy Lockport has reopened<br />
after a summer shutdown<br />
Elmer Balaban have returned from an inspection<br />
trip to their Cleveland and Detroit<br />
houses. The circuit now operates two driveins,<br />
one the Hilltop, near Joliet, 600 cars, and<br />
the other the Robin near Rockford, 800<br />
cars. Harry Wren is manager of the driveins.<br />
Frank Young, 20th Fox office manager,<br />
returned from a west coast vacation.<br />
Ideal Pictures is opening an exchange at<br />
Houston, Tex., making 27 branch offices for<br />
the company. Richard Phillips has been<br />
named eastern director of the sponsored film<br />
division . . . Howard Lambert, head booker,<br />
and Richard Felix, director of press relations<br />
for Essane.ss circuit, took over operation of<br />
the Vogue Theatre. The house was operated<br />
for many years by the Essaness.<br />
MPTO Convention<br />
Opens at St. Louis<br />
(Continued from preceding page)<br />
composed of A. B. (Buzz) Magarian, Pete<br />
Medley, Russell Armentrout, Phil Nanos,<br />
Carson Rodgers and Bill Griffin. Other<br />
committees are:<br />
Entertainment of guests: John Meinardi,<br />
Joe Ansell and Paul Krueger.<br />
Decorations: Paul Krueger.<br />
Ti'ansportation and reception—A. L. Matreci,<br />
Charles Goldman, Sidney Sayetta,<br />
Spero Karides, Nick Karakas and Demetrious<br />
James.<br />
Ticket sales—Tommy James.<br />
Cocktail parties—Paul Krueger, Phil Nanos<br />
and Val Mercier.<br />
Banquet seating—Val Mercier, Bill Kaimann,<br />
Frank Speros, Eddie Clark, Loren<br />
Cluster, and Charles Weeks jr.<br />
Publicity—Russ Bovim, Frank Plumlee,<br />
Robert Marchbank, Bob Johnson, Forrest<br />
Pirtle and Dave Barrett.<br />
Special gifts—Christ Efthim, Dean Davis,<br />
Senator Edward V. Long and Harry Miller.<br />
Reservations and registration—Mrs. Bess<br />
Schulter, Myra Stroud, Mildred LaTour,<br />
Mary Karches, Catherine Foy and Mae Sorrels.<br />
20th-Fox Technician Dies<br />
In Osage River Blast<br />
TUSCUMBIA, MO.—Jess Wolf of Los<br />
Angeles, a technician for 20th Century-Fox,<br />
died September 26 of Injuries suffered the<br />
day before in a dynamite explosion on the<br />
Osage river that occurred during the filming<br />
of a scene in the company's forthcoming<br />
production "Baptism of Fire." He was about<br />
50 years old.<br />
Wolf, who had been supervising the laying<br />
of mines from a rowboat operating on<br />
the river, had just warned hundreds of<br />
spectators to stay away from the vicinity<br />
when an explosion shook the area. He suffered<br />
the virtual loss of both legs and other<br />
injuries. Also injured in the blast were<br />
James Scott, a soldier from Ft. Leonard<br />
Wood whose home is in Denver, and William<br />
Elmore, a carpenter from Roby, Mo.<br />
"Baptism of Fire." starring Victor Mature<br />
and with an all-male cast, is to depict work<br />
of combat engineers in Korea.<br />
G. J. Slickman, Oran, Mo„<br />
Theatre Owner. Is Dead<br />
GRAN, MO.—Funeral services were conducted<br />
here Monday i29i. for G. J. Slickman,<br />
69, local theatre owner who died in a Kansas<br />
City hospital September 25.<br />
His theatre and general store and insurance<br />
office here were destroyed in a fire that broke<br />
out about midnight August 30. The loss<br />
exceeded $100,000. At the time of the fire<br />
he was a patient in a St. Louis hospital, but<br />
recovered sufficiently to return to Oran,<br />
where he had made arrangement's to open<br />
a new office for his insurance agency, and<br />
was considering plans for rebuilding tlie<br />
theatre and a building for the department<br />
store. However, he was taken suddenly ill<br />
and rushed to Kansas City where he died.<br />
He is survived by his w-ife and son and two<br />
grandchildren.<br />
64 BOXOFFICE October 4, 1952
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