Boxoffice-October.04.1952

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BOSTON
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paul Comi, son of Eddie Comi of Massachusetts
Theatre Equipment Co., has been
discharged from the army and will leave
shortly for the Los Angeles where he will enter
the university there to take a course in theatre
arts. A corporal in the infantry, Paul had
been in the army three years, two of which
were spent in Korea where he was wounded
three times Rubin, owner of the
Globe Premium Co., has been appointed
factory representative of Watt Pottery Co. of
Ohio, manufacturer of hand-painted ovenware.
Ricliard Oberman, assistant shipper at
National Screen will report for army duty at
Camp Devens October 6. He is the son of
Nate Oberman, Metro head booker . . . Joseph
Abramo, also of National Screen, will enter
the army November 7 . . . Cliff Parker,
Northern sales manager for Alexander Film
Co., Colorado Springs, spent a few days in
this area with District Manager Irving Saver
Theatre Enterprises reports the addition
of the Arcade Theatre, Springfield,
owned by Nathan Goldstein, to its list of
buying and booking clients.
Phyllis Rosenberg-er, switchboard operator
at the Warner exchange, resigned to join
Avery-Saul Co. of Cambridge. Margaret
Keating is the new secretary to office
DRIVE-IN OWNERS!
Special Discount on
"MOW-A/IASTER"
POWER LAWN
li/IOWERS
Cuts Lawns, High Grass and High Weeds, Brush or Briars
Cuts over rocks and uneven ground
Cuts slopes and embankments
Now in operafion in many drive-ins in this territory
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION
Roy E. Heffner Company
14 Piedmont Street Tel. Liberty 2-9305 Boston, Mass.
manager Leo Griffin . . . RKO is planning the
same TV saturation campaign for "The Lusty
Men," starring Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward
and Arthur Kennedy, as it used for the
Joan Crawford starrer, "Sudden Fear," which
played to four full weeks at the RKO
Memorial here. It was the success of the
latter film that prompted RKO officials to
put on the same type of campaign.
Nick Lavidor, manager of E. M. Loew's
Center Theatre here, and his wife became
parents of their third daughter, Elise .
gratulations also to Gordon Bradley,
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MGM
booker, on the birth of their third child and
first daughter, who was named Linda . . .
Harry I. "Zippie" Goldman, retired industryite
who was a partner with Joseph Levine in
Embassy Pictures Corp., is in Beth Israel
hospital following a heart attack.
Two managers from the Rifkin circuit,
Charles Hurley of the Phillips Theatre,
Springfield, and Albert Desautels of the
Majestic, Holyoke, spent a holiday in Boston
with luncheon at the Towne House and then
took in the Yankee-Red Sox game at Fenway
park as guests of George Roberts, general
manager of the circuit. Jim Altree, manager
of the Jefferson, Springfield, was unable to
attend as he was in the Springfield hospital
preparing for an operation, while Paul Kessler,
manager of the Suffolk, Holyoke was too
busy on the Jimmy fund drive to come to
Boston.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
TVArs. Catherine Bruno, Manchester theatre
owner, was local chairman of a paper
drive in the Queen city. The drive brought in
a total of $969.46 for the benefit of the Jimmy
cancer fund sponsored by the Variety Club
of New England and the Boston Braves
baseball team ... A father-and-son combination
attended the recent State Federation
of Labor convention in Keene. John
Callahan of Manchester became a charter
member of lATSE Local 195 in 1924 and has
been its president for more than 20 years.
His son Bradley of Concord is a member of
Local 685 of the same union and is vicepresident
of the State Federation of Labor,
Newmarket will have a theatre once more,
with a Maine man as the operator. The
town's only film house was closed several
months ago ... In an editorial entitled,
"Splendid Move," the Manchester Union-
Leader has praised the action of the Hollywood
Film Council for calling on the House
Committee on Un-American Activities to
"at once ban the importation and showing in
this country of films made abroad by persons
identified as holding membership in,
or loyalty to, the Communist party." The
editorial concluded: "The west coast labor
leaders have a strong point here, and it is
hoped that Congress will heed them."
Exhibitor Is Lawyer, Too
SALEM, MASS.— At the September session
of the supreme court of New Hampshire,
James Sayer, drive-in owner, was admitted to
the bar. He is a graduate of Boston university
law school. Sayer will practice law in association
with Charles Barnard of Manchester,
maintaining an office here. Sayer operates
the Ole Rock Drive-In here and the Stai-way
Drive-In, Somcrsworth, N. H.
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BOXOFFICE October 4, 1952