Boxoffice-January.10.1953

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KANSAS CITY
pill Burke, RKO home office, is at the local
exchange . . . Jim Lewis, RKO manager,
returned from a trip to New Orleans .
RKO will tradescreen "The Hitchhiker" January
William Bradfield. Roxy. Carthage,
19 . . . and Dave Williams, Royal, King City,
Mo., were seen along the Row.
Ed Hartman, Motion Picture Booking
Agency, left St. Luke's hospital after being
there several weeks. He is expected back
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. . . at the office this month The local
20th-Fox branch plans a saturation booking,
beginning March 11, of the "Treasure of
Al Webster, Altec field
Golden Condor" . . .
engineer, formerly of Kansas City and nowstationed
in Oklahoma City, was a visitor.
News from the RCA service division:
Field
engineer W. C. "Coy" Waller, located in
Joplin for many years, has replaced Al Hughes
in Kansas City. Hughes is now in Omaha.
Max HoUingsworth is now field engineer in
Joplin . . . Evalyn
Docekal, office secretary,
spent the hohdays with relatives in Nebraska
and Iowa . . . E. D. Van Duyne returned
from a busine.ss trip to Omaha . . . Maj.
Charley Houchin, former RCA field engineer,
has returned from duty in Korea. He is now
stationed with the signal corps in El Paso,
Tex. Houchin formerly serviced theatres in
northwest Kansas out of McCook, Neb.
Charley Cook, Universal salesman, has resigned,
effective January 17 . . . U-I district
manager Lester Zucker and the local sales
staff returned from a two-day sales meeting
in Denver . . . Bob Carnie and Frank
Thomas, AA salesmen, are back in the territory
again . Hume, Fox Midwest
booker, returned to work after a two-week
vacation . . . Carol Cook, former U-I secretary,
returned to the hospital to undergo
further treatment for an injury sustained in
a motor car accident last fall.
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Ben Marcus, Columbia division manager,
was in Minneapolis . . . Herb Stulz, salesman
for the same company, was in town for a
sales meeting . Scott, Universal shipper,
was married late in December
Margaret Strahm,
.
Commonwealth secretary,
ha-s resigned .
Goodland,
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Kas.,
Bill
and
Terrill,
family,
Goodland
and Mr
airer,
and
Mrs. Ed Kirk, Springfield Drive-In, Springfield,
Mo., were Filmrow visitors. Both situations
are operated by Commonwealth.
. . . Mildred
Jack Braunagel and wife are vacationing
in Mexico for several weeks
Harris, Commonwealth secretary, is on vacation
. . . C. H. Badger, Stebbins Theatre
Supply, was in Wichita for several days . . .
Missouri Theatre Supply sold the Dickinson
Theatre, Mission, Kas., a new RCA Synchro-
Screen. It will be the first of its type to be
installed in Missouri. Installation is expected
within the next 30 days.
Ed Golden, Vogue Theatre operator, played
host to 300 children from five local orphanages
on December 30. Popcorn and bubblegum
were given each child at the afternoon
affair . . . Exhibitors seen along the Row
included Homer Strowig, Abilene, Kas.;
Charley Shilket, Rex, Joplin. Mo.: Howard
Larsen, Larsen, Webb City, Mo.; E. L. Follmer,
Roxy, Warsaw, Mo.: C. E. Cook, Maryville.
Mo.; Elmer Bills, Salisbury, Mo., and
Bill Flynn, Emporia, Kas.
Bev Miller. Leavenworth exhibitor, left for
a vacation in Mexico City . Colonial
Theatre here is closed again.
Film Adjectives to Give
Way to Electrical Mhos!
ST. LOUIS—Someone is always taking
the joy out of life. Now the interesting
super adjectives of the Hollywood press
agents and their brethren throughout the
land are threatened with extinction.
Speaking at the convention of the American
Ass'n for the Advancement of Science
here last week (301, Harold Schlosberg, a
Brown university psychology professor,
outlined a way to measure the intensity
of thrills experienced by an audience at a
stage play, motion picture show, or spectators
of a prizefight, etc. It is all to be done
with "mhos," and so would pass such
terms as "stupendous." "colossal" and
"supercolossal." Instead reports would be
16.932 mhos or 15,111 mhos. The device
runs on storage batteries and uses dimesize
electrodes held in the palms of the
ca^h customers. When the spectators' conductances,
caused by the thrills of the
show, were pooled, through being connected
in pai-allel with one meter, the
exact report for the press agents would
be available.
If you are now thoroughly confused, a
mho is that unit of electrical resistance,
an ohm in reverse, and conductances start
when your sweat secretion increases!
Check to Needy Family
CHICAGO—The Balch family, evicted
recently from their flat, had a joyful
Christmas after all. On Christmas eve, Ralph
Schoenig, manager of the Crown for Essaness
circuit, headed by Edwin Silverman, gave Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Balch and their three children
a check for $165. The check was for a
full day's receipts, which the management
set aside after reading about the plight of
the family. Balch, ill with Parkinson's disease,
is unable to work.
Sues Drive-In for $10,000
CHICAGO—Mrs. Anna Pawlowski, 24, of
5608 Wellington Ave., filed suit for $10,000
damages in superior court last week i31) for
an arm injury she said .she suffered last July
4 when she was struck by a bullet in the
drive-in theatre at Waukegan and Golf roads
near Glenview, operated by the Illinois Drive-
In Theatres Co. The suit charged the bullet
was fired by an unidentified person in front
of the automobile in which Mrs. Pawlowski
was seated with her husband Frank, a real
estate man. The bullet struck Mrs. Pawlowski
in the right elbow.
Farmers Ass'n Drops TV Request
COLUMBIA, MO.—The Missouri Farmers
Ass'n has dropped its plan to obtain a license
for a TV station here, according to a statement
by F. V. Heinkel, president of the
association. This move leaves the way open
for the University of Missouri.
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