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PORTLAND<br />
pxeavation work gets under way next week on<br />
the big J. J. Parker drive-in in Astoria.<br />
Jack Matlack. executive assistant to Mrs. J. J.<br />
Parker, president of J. J. Parker Theatres in<br />
Oregon, made the trip to the Columbia river<br />
port city to officiate. Mrs. Parker is flying<br />
to Beverly Hills, Calif., to spend the Christmas<br />
holidays with her son, daughter-in-law<br />
and two grandchildren.<br />
James R. Grainger, general sales manager,<br />
and Francis Bateman, western division manager,<br />
Republic, were in town to discuss coming<br />
product with exhibitors . . Keith Petzhold,<br />
.<br />
Broadway manager, is decorating the<br />
house for the holidays. The theme this year<br />
is "Road to Bali." The picture will be holiday<br />
fare at the United Artists.<br />
AI Oxtoby, WB manager, was in Seattle<br />
for conferences at Evergreen headquarters . .<br />
Jack Partin, Republic manager, was on a<br />
sales trip in the Williamette valley. Chuck<br />
Wilkins, also of Republic's sales staff here,<br />
covered the eastern Oregon territory.<br />
While Marvin Fox, John Hamrick's Portland<br />
city manager, was on a brief vacation in<br />
Bellingham, Wash., Warren Goodwin, Liberty<br />
manager, took over his duties. Fox, back at<br />
his office Monday, reported that Charles<br />
Chaplin's "Limelight" opens at the Roxy here<br />
for Christmas. The Liberty has "Under the<br />
Red Sea" scheduled.<br />
Jim Beale, Columbia manager, left for New<br />
York Wednesday with Mrs. Beale. They will<br />
sail midnight ll9i on a tour of the West<br />
Indies, the three-week sales prize. They will<br />
spend Christmas in the Barbardos and New<br />
Year's eve in Havana. W. T. Withers of the<br />
sales staff takes over during Beale's absence.<br />
Plans for the construction of a drive-in in<br />
the Salem area have been announced by<br />
Jesse Jones. Jones, assisted by Jim Young,<br />
Salem realtor, picked a location on the west<br />
side of Lanca.?ter drive, a block and one-half<br />
north of the State street intersection. Jones<br />
said he felt that the public interest and<br />
traffic safety would be best served if the<br />
drive-in was located off the heavily traveled<br />
Highway 99. The proposed theatre will accommodate<br />
500 cars. It will be landscaped<br />
and have a snack bar. Screen and projection<br />
equipment will be installed by the Interstate<br />
Equipment Co. of Portland. Jones, a veteran<br />
in Oregon theatre business, operates the St.<br />
Johns, the Roseway and the Rio, all in Portland,<br />
and the Roxy in Sweet Home, Ore.<br />
J. J. Parker Theatres, in cooperation with<br />
the Portland ix)lice department, admitted patrons<br />
to the Broadway Thursday (ID for<br />
QUICK THEATRE SALBS!<br />
Selling theatres is our business. Live<br />
organization, quick results. When others<br />
toil, give us a try, post record of soles<br />
IS our proof.<br />
UNITED STATES COVERAGE<br />
Inquiries<br />
Amwered Immediately<br />
FRED B. LUDWIG, Realtor<br />
L BumMdi. ^* Portland 15, Oregon<br />
tbree cans of foodstuffs. The admissions<br />
were turned over to the police department's<br />
Sunshine division to go into baskets distributed<br />
to the needy on Christmas day. The<br />
canned foods day has been an annual Parker<br />
Theatre tradition for many years.<br />
Ted Galanter, west coast publicity director<br />
for MGM, was in town with Faye Antaky,<br />
who appears in the Esther Williams musical,<br />
"Million Dollar Mermaid." Miss Antaky was<br />
hostess at a luncheon at the Multnomah<br />
Athletic club where in behalf of Miss Williams<br />
she presented a trophy to Multnomah<br />
club swimmers, winners of the northwest<br />
women's championship. Press and radio representatives<br />
were on hand for the presentation<br />
and luncheon. Accompanying Galanter was<br />
Allan Welder, recently appointed northwest<br />
exploiteer for MGM.<br />
Walter Hoffman was in town Tuesday (9)<br />
working on extensive promotion for "Road<br />
to Bali." The Paramount picture has been<br />
booked into J. J. Parker's United Artists<br />
as Christmas fare.<br />
Big news of the week was the announcement<br />
by Mrs J J. Parker, president of<br />
Parker Theatres, that the United Artists<br />
Theatre would install Cinerama. Jack Matlack,<br />
executive assistant to Mrs. Parker, said<br />
the installation cost W'ould top the $70,000<br />
mark and the theatre would offer the new<br />
type of screen entertainment sometime in<br />
March. The 800-seat downtown theatre is<br />
the first to report installation of the thirddimension<br />
system.<br />
Alan Wieder, MGM, was in from Seattle.<br />
He is working on "The Prisoner of Zenda,"<br />
"Million Dollar Mermaid" and "Above and<br />
Beyond" . . . Earl Teaford replaces Johnny<br />
Kay as booker. Kay is in Phoenix, Ariz.<br />
Teaford was on the sales staff . . . Parties<br />
scheduled include a Christmas event at 20th-<br />
Fox office, with Charles Bowers sr., manager,<br />
host to his staff and another at Republic Pictures,<br />
with Jack Partin as host.<br />
'Iron Curtain' Attributed<br />
To CBC by Opposition<br />
OTTAWA—The expected explosion over the<br />
government's television policy broke out in<br />
the House of Commons when George Drew,<br />
leader of the Opposition, castigated Revenue<br />
Minister J. J. McCann and the Canadian<br />
Broadcasting Corp. over what he called "the<br />
iron curtain of the CBC."<br />
Drew condemned the restrictive measures<br />
which bar private interests from operating<br />
TV outlets in cities where the government's<br />
CBC has opened a video station or intends<br />
to do so. The government insisted on a<br />
monopoly because it had found out how tough<br />
private enterprise could be.<br />
The Opposition leader predicted that TV<br />
stations would be opened in the United States<br />
near the border to beam Canadian-sponsored<br />
programs into the Dominion.<br />
Drew charged that McCann had shown lack<br />
of concern over "filth" which had been televised<br />
by the government station in Toronto,<br />
this being a play called "Hilda Morgan," the<br />
story of an unmarried Toronto school teacher<br />
who had become pregnant. He complained<br />
that theatre programs are regulated and there<br />
is .some discipline exercised over the attendance<br />
of juveniles at theatres.<br />
sign CHRISTMAS SALUTE SCROLL and give "o<br />
dime, o dollar, or on endowment" to our own<br />
WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.<br />
SEATTLE<br />
TXTalter Hoffman, Paramount northwest<br />
publicty director, returned from San<br />
Francisco Friday (12) where he had baen<br />
working with Bob Blair from Los Angeles . . .<br />
Lloyd Honey has closed his Starlight Drive-<br />
In at Sunnyside and is wintering here at the<br />
Exeter . Ulsh was in from Anacortes,<br />
His daughter and son-in-law, the Bill Owens,<br />
are leaving for Chicago and Ulsh will take<br />
over the management of his Island and Empire<br />
theatres, which Owen had been managing.<br />
William A Scott is the new owner of the (<br />
Pateros, Pateros. He purchased the theatre<br />
from Robert Gray . . . Seattle orphans and<br />
other children in institutions were guests of<br />
the Post-Intelligencer and RKO at a special<br />
showing Saturday (20) at the Green Lake<br />
j<br />
Theatre of "Hans Christian Andersen." Bidwell<br />
McCormick of the local RKO office<br />
handled all arrangements . . . Mrs. Richard j<br />
Drake, former booking machine operator at<br />
20th-Fox, is mother of a baby girl.<br />
A gay time was had by the 32 persons attending<br />
Paramount's Christmas party at the<br />
Sorrento hotel Saturday U3i . . . Eve Rubenfield,<br />
secretary to Jack Burke, Seattle mani<br />
ager of 20th-Fox, announced her coming<br />
marriage to Bernard Ordell on December 28<br />
. . . Dave Dunkle, eastern Washington salesman<br />
for Paramount, was in town . . . Mikei<br />
Barovic of Puyallup was off for Idaho for<br />
some hunting.<br />
"Stars and Stripes Forever" is slated for<br />
and early run at the Fifth Avenue . . . The<br />
20th-Fox office is being remodeled to include<br />
offices which will be occupied by Safflesi<br />
Theatre Service, which plans to move in'<br />
around the first of the year . . . Stage star Cor<br />
nelia Skinner is coming to the Metropolii<br />
for three nights and a Wednesday matinee,<br />
beginning February 2, in "Paris '90." She l£|<br />
the entire cast in the drama in w'hich she de^<br />
picts 14 seperate women of Paris in the f:<br />
decade of the last century. The booking<br />
been made by Manager Hugh Becket.<br />
Many Adolph Zukor Kin<br />
To Attend Jan. 7 Dinner<br />
HOLLYWOOI>-More than 20 members<br />
of Adolph Zukor's family living in the Los<br />
Angeles area will be on hand for his 80th<br />
birthday dinner celebration, to be staged<br />
here January 7 at the Ambassador hotel<br />
under sponsorship of Variety Clubs International.<br />
The all-industry event honoring<br />
the film pioneer has Charles P. Skouras,<br />
president of National Theatres and Pox<br />
West Coast, as dinner chairman.<br />
Family members include Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Eugene Zukor and their sons E. John,<br />
Adolph II ;uid James: Mr. and Mrs. Boyd<br />
Morse, Arthur Loew jr., Albert A. Kaufman,<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kaufman Jr„<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Melville A. Shauer, Mrs.<br />
Jenny Shauer, Mr. and Mrs. David L.<br />
Loew, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Beck and<br />
Stewart Stern.<br />
The footprints of the elder Zukor wUl<br />
join those of other film greats in the<br />
forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre<br />
here as part of the birthday celebration.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: December 20, 195.
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