Boxoffice-January.03.1953

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MINNEAPOLIS
/Condolences to
George Granstrom, popular
exhibitor and circuit owner, whose wife
died after a brief illness, and to Abbott
Swartz, UA manager, whose father-in-law,
the dad of Morrie Steinman, long a film
salesman here, died . . . Saul Malisow, 20th-
Fox manager, went to Sioux City, Iowa, to
attend a relative's marriage.
Dorothy Lebedoff, daughter of Saul Lebedoff
and sister of Martin Lebedoff, circuit
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owners, was man-led in Los Angeles, the
present home of her parents, to Irving
Cohen. She has been a script editor for 20th-
Fox for several years . . . Screen stars Larry
Parks and wife Betty Garrett will be at the
Lyceum eight days starting tomorrow C4) in
. "The
the stage play, "Anonymous Lover" .
Stooge" was given a single-day advance showing
at Radio City here as a special daybefore-New
Year's attraction. There was a
special midnight show New Year's eve, of
course. "Road to Bali" opened there New
Year's day.
. .
Playing its first subsequent run engagements
and at advanced admission, "The
Snows of Kilimanjaro" was held for second
weeks at the Up'.own, Terrace and Riverview
Chouinard, Warner city salesman,
spent the holidays with his son. daughter-inlaw
LeRoy
and grandchild in Milwaukee . J. Miller and his U-I .sales crew spent most
of the week in Chicago at a district sales
meeting.
Fay Dressel, RKO manager, was not ready
yet to announce a succe.ssor to Mike Halloran
as southern Minnesota salesman. The latter
resigned to join the Warner sales ."-taff . .
W. H. Workman. MGM manager, was back
in the saddle again after recovery from illness
Bennie Berger,
of several weeks . . . North Central Allied president who was mentioned
by the Minneapolis Star as a mayoralty
candidate, says he hasn't yet made up his
mind as to whether he'll run ... St. Paul
Dispatch critic Bill Diehl returned from a
visit to Hollywood film studios in quest of
articles and stories.
University of Minnesota Film society winter
quarter offerings will include all foreign
films, with four exceptions. They are "Rasho-
Mon," "A Nous, La Liberie," "Day of Wrath,"
"The Medium," "Brief Encounter," "Magic
Garden," "Water Birds," "The Quiet One,"
"Grand Illusion" and the reissued "Stage
Coach." Several of aforegoing have been presented
previously by Minneapolis downtown
or neighborhood houses.
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Des Moines Tent Gives
Hospital Equipment
DES MOINES—Several members of the Des
Moines Variety Tent 15 were on hand for the
presentation of oxygen tent equipment donated
by the club to the Mercy Hospital here
recently. The club also gave the Blank Memorial
hospital here a much-needed hot pack
machine for the treatment of polio and other
diseases and gave a cash donation to the
local YMCA.
The gifts were made possible through the
efforts of the membership in a fund-rai.sing
campaign during November.
The Mercy hospital presentation rated a
story and picture in the Des Moines Tribune
of retiring Chief Barker Milt Feinberg, making
the presentation to Sister Mary Pauline of
Mercy hospital.
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