Boxoffice-Febuary.28.1953

. . Marion
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. . Burtus
CHICAGO
T^ori Knishen, director of exploitation for
United Artists, New York, is due here
March 3. 4 and 5 to confer with the managing
editors of the four daily newspapers
and arrange promotion for "Moulin Rouge."
UA will use a full-page ad in color in the
Tribune the day before the opening of
"Moulin Rouge." such as was done for the
first time on "The African Queen" . . "Come
.
Back. Little Sheba" will open for a ten-week
run at the Ziegfeld March 1 . . Florence
.
Felton. 20th-Fox employe, and her husband
returned from a honeymoon trip in New
Ralph Banghart,
Orleans and Biloxi . . .
exploiteer for Walt Disney Productions, was
here working on area openings of "Peter
Pan."
Ralph McCoy has taken over here as branch
.
sales supervisor. At one time he was district
manager for Warner
Bros, in Atlanta
Aaron Jones is vacationing
in Hollywood,
Fla. . . Also in Florida
.
for a vacation was
Manny Smerling of the
Confection Cabinet Co.
He was installed as
dough guy of Variety
Tent 26 last week.
.
Filmack Trailer Co.
is now the sole occu-
Ralph McCoy pant of the blocksquare
building it occupies here and Irving
Mack is free to proceed with his plans to
build a television studio. Renovation work
is now in progress .
of the CB Theatre
. Virgil
in
Anderson,
Bucklin. Mo.,
owner
was a
visitor.
Allied Artists has added William Lipsner
as country salesman and Gertrude Wolkerwitz
and Dorothy Greenberg to the clerical
staff . . . A. M. Van Dyke. 20th-Fox. has
left the hospital and is making nice recovery
at home . Bodwell was on the
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Row from Wyoming. III. . . . Harold Goodemote,
20th-Fox salesman, was home ill for
a week.
Carroll Carruthers of RKO is getting back
. . . Clotilde
in the swing of things after an illness of
six weeks . Bishop jr.. midwest
manager for MGM. and Dolores Heling were
married on St. Valentine's day in Milwaukee,
the brides home town
Corlandi, who had been an employe in the
U.S. embassy at Bagdad, Iraq, started clerical
duties at the Warner exchange here.
Ann Peterson is retiring after 26 years
with MGM as inspector. The staff gave her
a farewell luncheon Tuesday . . . George
Lefko. WB manager, was vacationing in California.
King Studios of Chicago has appointed
Gail Papineau a.s manager of its Hollywood
studio . . . Victor Fischer has been made manager
of the Northshore Theatre. Max Milstein
was shifted to the Howard. John Leslie to the
Buckingham and Harry Rouda to the Shore . . .
Mrs. Eugenia Strassinopoulos. daughter of
S. J. Gregory, vice-president of Alliance Theatres,
returned to Greece after a visit of several
months here.
Coincident with the opening of "The Stars
Are Singing" at Eitel's Palace last Friday
was a picture of Ro.semary Clooney, the film's
star, on the cover of Time magazine . . .
Barney Brotman of the Rock Island illl.>
Theatre and Russell Hurd. Alger Theatre at
LaSalle. conferred with Seymour Simon, Chicago
lawyer.
The Illinois Drive-In antitrust suit case has
been postponed until March 13 before Judge
John Barnes in Chicago district court . . .
Four of the five films nominated for best
picture award have been seen in local theatres.
"The Greatest Show on Earth." "High
Noon." "Ivanhoe" and "The Quiet Man." The
fifth, "Moulin Rouge," is scheduled to start
at the State-Lake April 2.
Illinois Theatre, Ottawa,
Sold to New York Broker
OTTAWA. ILL.—The Illinois Tlieatre here
has been .sold to a New York real estate broker
for approximately $60,000, by Mrs. Rita Gregory.
The building, formerly the Crescent,
went to Samuel R. Ives of New York.
Roy Helson. manager of local theatres for
Alliance Theatre Corp.. lessee of the Illinois,
said his company would vacate the premises
soon. Mrs. Gregory is the wife of S. J. Gregory,
president of the theatre corporation. The
building fir.st housed the Crescent Theatre,
opened in December 1911. The 492-seat house
first wa-s managed by Ralph W. Tippitt and
later by William Bradley.
SUCCESSOR TAKES OVER^H. P.
"Chick" Thompson, right, recently resigned
as district manager for Indiana-
Illinois Theatres, and Jack Flex, who has
taken over Chick's desk and office in the
Elkhart. Ind., headquarters. Chick now is
in partnership with Andy Anderson, operating
drive-ins in Kentucky.
Illinois High Court Rules
Benton Airer Is Legal
BENTON. ILL.—The lUinoLs supreme court,
with one dissenting opinion, upheld the legality
of building a drive-in theatre on Lake
Benton. The case had been in the courts for
several months and grew out of the leasing of
pai't of the land at Lake Benton for construction
of a drive-in by Sam Stuart Marshall
of Tamaroa. The theatre has been built and
was operated for a few weeks early last fall.
An injunction against building and operation
of the theatre was sought by Virgil H.
Center, Robert L. Strauss and Darrell J. SuUivan,
operators of the Midway Drive-In south
of Benton. They contended that the ordinance
under which the lease arrangement
was made was unconstitutional l)ecause "it
attempts to take property from a public use
and vest it in a private individual."
The suit was dismissed in circuit court here
and the plaintiffs appealed to the supreme
court. The supreme court then okayed the
leasmg of the land for construction and operation
of the drive-in.
Okay to Airer Rezoning
KANSAS CITY. KAS.—The Wyandotte
county board of commissioners has okayed rezoning
of the George Bennett farm on Route
5 near 91st street for construction of a drivein
theatre. The airer will he built on a 33-
acre tract and Bennett, a building contractor,
said work would begin immediately with completion
set for 90 days at the latest. The theatre
will have an estimated value of $100,000
and will accommodate 836 cars.
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