Boxoffice-Febuary.28.1953

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KANSAS CITY
A I Cain, Paramount division manager, Dallas,
was in town. Cain and branch manager
Harry Hamburg were in St. Joseph and
Leavenworth . Haile has been
added to the Paramount sales staff here.
He formerly was in Dallas . are
shaping up for the premiere showing of "Pony
Express" in St. Joseph. The film was tradescreened
here last week .
RKO held a regional sales meeting here
Wedne,sday (25) at the Muehlebach hotel. In
from the New York sales department were
Harry Gettleson, Walter E. Branson and Sidney
Kramer. Others here for the one-day
session included A. L. Kolitz, district manager.
Etenver; M. M. Rosenblatt, Omaha;
Marvin Goldfarb, Denver; Don Conley, Des
Moines, and Giff Davison. Salt Lake City,
managers.
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Minneapolis, and Verne Skorey, assistant to
the division manager, were in town for several
days of conferences . Evens, exploiteer
for the same company, was in St. Louis
and Minneapolis working on campaigns for
"Tonight We Sing" . . . Don Walker, Warner
publicist, returned from Des Moines . . . Foster
Blake, Universal western sales manager from
New York, was at the local exchange . . .
Dick Whitley, Midcentral Theatres, Manhattan,
was on the Row.
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Ed ilartman, Motion Picture Booking
Agency, was in Denver buying and booking
for the Yucca ozoner. Santa Fe, N.M., a
Winoko situation. MPBA is now handling the
booking and buying for the Strand Theati'e,
Ransom, Kas., recently purchased by Fred
Harrison of Plains, Kas. and Mrs.
Leroy Hitchings will reopen their Hillcrest
airer, Osage City, Ka-s., March 6 . . . John
Caylor, manager of the Pix Theatre, was recently
elected president of the St. John, Kas.,
Chamber of Commerce.
Gus Diamond, operator of a circuit of driveins
in Los Angeles, was a visitor on Filmrow
Cox, Salina, Kas., was in town .
Lester Zucker, U-I district manager, was in
Des Moines . Evens. MGM exploiteer.
was in Lawrence and Topeka, Kas.,
and Joplin and Springfield, Mo., working on
"Sombrero," an Easter release . . . Beverly
Jansen has replaced Louise Hildebrand on the
Universal bowling team.
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Nona Atkeisson, MGM boxoffice clerk, resigned
effective Friday (27i. After being
married March 6, she will reside in Olathe,
Kas. . . . A. E. KruU has shuttered the O.sage
Theatre at Stover, Mo. . Many of the Filmrow
offices were closed Monday (23) in observance
of Washington's birthday .
Amacher, UA manager, was in
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northern
Kansas with salesman Jack Fi'ost calling on
exhibitors . . . M. B. Pi-esley, Savannah, Mo.,
returned frcm a vacation in New Mexico. He
is planning a trip to Hot Springs, Ark.
Cle Bratton, Ritz, Council Grove: Ben
Adams, Liberal, and Jay Wooten, Hutchinson,
Kas., were seen along the Row' . . . Commonwealth
reopened its Tristate airer, Joplin, and
71-Drive-In, Fayetteville, Ark., Friday (27)
. . . Cliff Schroder, 32, former manager in
Goodland and Norton, Kas., died recently in
Hays, Kas. . Adrian Theatre, Adrian,
Mo., has been closed temporarily . . . Tom J.
Wolf is the new manager of the Lee Theatre
at Harrisonville, Mo. He succeeded Billy
Thomas, who had been manager for the past
nine years. Wolf has served in similar capacities
in Kansas City, Leavenworth and
Herington. Kas.
The Lyons outdoorer has opened on a
present four-day schedule . exhibitors
seen along the Row last week included
C. E. Musgrave. Minneapolis and Wamego;
K. H. Ehret, Star, Clay Center, Kas.; R. C.
Davi.son. Binney Theatre. Pattonsburg, and
F. L. Lowe, Lebanon, Mo., who was in booking
for his Sterling, Kas., and Brookfield. Mo.,
houses.
Jack Braunagel, Commonwealth drive-in
supervisor, was reported seriously ill in
Research hospital. His illness was diagnosed
as malaria and pneumonia. No visitors were
allowed . . . L. McKechneay, Tristates Theatres
Corp. treasurer, was in from Des Moines
and visited Harold Lyon at the Paramount
Theatre ... Ed Golden, Golden, Golden
Booking Service, was due in this weekend
from a southern vacation.
Senn Lawler, Fox Midwest advertising and
publicity head, and Mrs. Lawler returned from
Jim Long, district
a Caribbean cruise . . .
manager for the same company, and Jim
Burke, a member of the Fox Midwest accounting
depai-tment, were spending their
vacations in Cuba . Brookside Theatre
here is running a single feature program
in the middle of the week.
$11,315.42 in Polio Drive
Shows Drop Over 1952
KANSAS CITY—Theatre audience collections
for the March of Dimes in Jackson
county this year totaled only $11,315.42. a drop
of over $6,400 from last year, according to a
report issued by Arthur Cole, Paramount,
industry representative, treasurer of the
Maich of Dimes committee for greater Kansas
City.
Collections in three houses in the Clay
county area amounted to $956.02, while 11
theatres in Wyandotte county reported donations
of $1,736.05. Thirty-four managers in
Jackson county turned in reports. The highest
came from the RKO Missouri with
$1,051.94. Several of the leading first runs
showed a considerable decline over the previous
year. As a note of comparison, 1951 collections
in Jackson county were $15,803.82.
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BOWLING
KANSAS CITY—The Continentals slipped
into third place in the Filmrow Women's
Bowling league last week. Finton Jones and
the Bureaucrats continued the race for the
league leadership.
Team Won Lost
Finton Jones 42 24
Bureaucrats 43 26
Continentals 38 31
Hartman's 37 32
Foxy Five 32 37
Manley 32 37
U-I 29 37
Columbia 20 49
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