Boxoffice-January.17.1953

DALLAS
Toe Hahn, who resigned as accountant for
Isley Theatres, will
take a two-week vacation
beginning January 24 and look for less
confining work. Joe hopes to find another
spot in the theatre business, particularly on
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Dallas Filmrow. His background is quite
varied and includes such supervisory work
as club, restaurant and hospital management.
Joe spent a number of years with Publix
Theatres as an auditor. He made a good
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presentation of his abilities in a television
interview on the program Opportunity Knocks
over KRLD Monday (12 1. Joe is training a
newcomer to Filmrow, Runne Barnes, whose
wife works for Wide World Pictures.
Tom Edwards and Frank Plumlee, Edwards
& Plumlee circuit, Farmington, Mo., asked to
be remembered to their friends on Dallas
Filmrow, when this writer (Prank Bradley)
visited with them recently. They told about
watching with keen interest the activities of
Texas COMPO over the last year and a half
through the tradepapers. Edwards wa,'= optimistic
about the efforts of Colonel Cole and
the COMPO tax committee in obtaining the
repeal of the discriminatory admission tax
during 1953.
Vernon Watkins is the new head booker at
Theatre Enterprises, replacing Bob Davis, who
resigned. Watkins started with the organization
in 1938 as poster clerk in Oklahoma
City. Watson became a booker after going
with H. J. Griffith to Kansas City. He was
called into the service in 1943 and served
as a sergeant in the quartermaster corps in
the South Pacific. After his discharge he
went with TEI as a booker ... P. A. Warner
went to Kansas City to confer with Charles
Manley and other officers of Manley. Inc.
Fred R. Hanson, National Theatre Supply,
is recuperating at Baylor hospital from a
minor operation and hopes to be back at the
Sam Berry,
office about January 19 . . .
National Theatre Supply, returned from a
two-week visit in Atlanta with his two sons
Sam M. II and George. The six grandchildren—four
boys and two girls— led Sam a
merry chase. He also visited his 82-year-old
sister, Mrs. L. L. Gentry, mother of J. Roy
Gentry, assistant to the president of the
Coca-Cola Co. The Atlanta branch of NTS
reports that drive-in building business is
"popping like firecrackers."
Col. H. A. Cole and Robert J. O'Donnell returned
from the west coast on Thursday (8i.
Saturday evening Cole left for New Orleans to
attend the board meetings of Allied States
Ass'n, beginning Monday (12) ... A delegation
of Dallas Variety members went to
Houston for the annual installation of officers,
Mitchell Lewis being the new chief
barker. John H. Rowley was the installing
officer. Others from Dallas were C. A. Dolsen,
Al Reynolds, Jack Bryant, Bert Graetz,
Chajles E. Darden, Kendall Way. Walter
Penn, Joe Caffo and Frank Bradley.
Charles E. Darden i."; chairman of the gin
rummy tournament committee of Dallas
Variety Club. The committee includes Jimmy
Prichard. Dave Lutzer, Sam Landrum, Johnny
Hicks, Harry Casper and Paul Evans. It met
Thursday (8i to formulate plans for the tournament.
After considerable discu.ssion, it was
decided that the tournament would be held
every Sunday night during February. War
bonds worth $1,400 will be awarded the winners
and the entry fees are $10 for men and
$5 for the women. The tournament will get
off to a good start with free buffet dinner
and Calcutta on opening night February 1.
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