Boxoffice-January.10.1953

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T^arc Wolf, former chief barker of Variety
International, was elected chief barker of
Indianapolis Tent No. 10 December 29. He
succeeds Claude McKean, who was elected to
the board of directors. Other new officers
include Trueman Rembusch. first assistant
chief barker. William A. Carroll, second
assistant chief barker; Burdette Peterson.
doughboy, and Barney Brager, property master
.. . directors, representing various
branches of show business here, include Ted
Nicholas, Al Blocher, Joe Cantor, Dale Mc-
Farland, and Dr. Marvin Sandorf, Abe Gelman
and Russ Brentlinger.
Eddie Hochstein, Columbia salesman, resigned,
and has returned to his home in
Detroit. Marty Gra.ssgreen, has gone to his
new post as office manager at the Cleveland
office . . . James Abrose, Warner district
manager, was a visitor here .
Katherine
Black, wife of Gale Black. Warner salesman,
was confined to the Methodist hospital
. . . The Roxy, at Bloomington, operated by
Doyle Carter, is now operated by the Y&W
circuit.
PICK THE WINNER—Otto K. Eitel,
president of Eitel's Palace Theatre, Chicago,
holds the ship's barrel for Barbara
Ann Scott, star of "The Hollywood Ice
Revue," while she picks the winner of the
Mayflower from among thousands of
names dropped into the barrel during the
showing of "Plymouth .Adventure" at the
Palace. The ship model was made to
order for the theatre and was on display
in the lobby during the run of the film.
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Mrs. Mildred Allen, is manager of the
Esquire Theatre here. She is a native of
Indianapolis, returning recently from N.Y.
Tlieatres has taken over the
Elwood, Drive-In, formerly operated by F.
J. Mitchell.
The Indiana Theatre televised the Indiana-
Michigan Big Ten basketball game Saturday
night 13) but drew only 1,100 customers.
Manager Al Hendricks thinks Saturday was
a poor night for it. . . . John Jones has
joined the MGM office here as exploitation
man. The territory has been covered from
Cleveland and Cincinnati for the past several
Exhibitors seen on Filmrow include
years . . .
A. Thompson, Park, North Vernon;
R.
Foster. Venro, Charleston; Jack Sloan, State.
Windfall; William Passen, Jasonville: Al.
Blankenbaker. Pastime, Richmond; Vic
Burkle, Rialto, Fortville, and E. E. Smith,
: Manager Williams, United Artists, spent
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the Christmas holiday in Atlanta with his
: family .
. . Mrs.
Katherine Black, wife of
; Gail Black, Warner salesman, is confined to
the Methodist hospital here . . .
James Abrose.
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Warner district manager, was in to see Claude
McKean.
. . .
Edward Hochstein, Columbia salesman, resigned
effective January 1. He will retiu-n to
his home in Detroit . . . Martin Grassgreen,
Columbia salesman, has been named office
manager of the exchange in Cleveland
The Roxy, Bloomington, operated by Doyle
Carter has been acquired by the Y&W Management
Corp. of Indianapolis. The change
was effective January 1.
Ted Tod, exploitation man, Chicago, was
in the city several days working on advertising
campaigns on 20th-Fox pictures slated
for the Circle and Indiana theatres . .
The
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Palace, Owensboro. Ky., has withdrawn from
the Barker Booking Service. M. E. Stevenson,
operator, is doing his own buying and booking
. . . The Palace, Fairmount. has been
taken over by Clyde Nihiser. who also operates
the Star and the Limberlost Drive-In
in Geneva.
Seattle Couple in Africa
Filming Wild Life Footage
From Western Edition
SEATTLE—Elma and Alfred Millotte are
shooting film for a new animal documentary
for Walt Disney. The couple grew up in
Seattle, attended the University of Washington
and have been working for Disney for the
past six years.
The Millottes, who have won Academy
awards for their "Seal Island" and "Beaver
Valley" films, are now in Nairobi, Kenya,
Ea-st Africa, where they are shooting a collection
of reels on African animals. Between the
two of them they undertake the duties of
director, producer, cameraman, technician
and cook.
In a recent letter to friends here they enclosed
a clipping from an East African news
paper which gives an interesting account of
their life in the jungle. In one incident,
while looking for elephants, they counted 350
of the huge beasts milling around their truck,
which did double duty as a home and studio.
The next night, feeling it might be safer up
a tree, they built a platform from which they
could photograph the herds. But so many elephants
collected around the tree that they
had to spend 24 hours in their perch before
the beasts would move far enough away to
permit them a safe descent.
Another time, relates the article, they
caught an intimate moment in the life of the
elephant when a baby fell into a hole and
they were able to photograph its rescue by an
anxious mother and sister. They also photographed
several elephants swimming.
All animals come under their skilled cameras.
Unexpected luck with lions and babboons
will probably lead to films concentrating
on the life of the animals.
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