Boxoffice-Febuary.28.1953

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plans to see Cinerama, several Broadway
musicals and the Metropolitan Opera.
Cugat's Wife Gets Contract
^ Jo'nnoon Abbe Lane (Mrs. Xavier Cugat) has been
Robert Wile will speak at a meeting of the
nrthur Mayer, former COMPO secretary, enough to further enrich this distinctly un- Rotary club of East Liverpool March 10. and
and Jack Servies, vice-president and American and anti-American character at the Rotary Club of Hudson, Ohio April 15.
general manager of NTS will speak at the Charlie Chaplin."
He spoke at the Barberton Rotary and the
state convention of the Independent Theatre
Richwood Lions club, recently. His topic is
Owners of Ohio at the Deshler-Wallick here Manager Walter Kessler of Loew's Ohio is "The Importance of the Theatre in Your
April 7, 8, secretary Bob Wile announced. searching for a couple married in March Community."
Maurice Bergman, public relations director 1928, to be King and Queen of the Ohio Theatre's
silver anniversary to be celebrated
for Universal, will attend the convention. Wile
said . . . James E. Hoff, commander of the March 17. The Ohio Joiu-nal is cooperating
Franklin county American Legion, said in a in the search . . . "Bwana Devil," first 3-D LOUISVILLE
letter printed in local newspapers: "Legionnaires
film to be seen here, has been attracting
have not asked that 'Limelight' be good business to FIKO Palace . . . Samuel
n ccording to a report of the state revenue
banned by anybody. We do ask patrons to T. Wil.son, Dispatch film editor, will spend
department, tax returns on amusements
consider whether they want to see it badly the first week of March in New York. He
(combined I for January 1953 was $101,379.93
as compared to $122,742.71 for January 1952,
The dates for the
a decrease of $21,362.78 . . .
annual convention of the Kentucky Ass'n of
Theatre Owners has been changed from
March 24. 25 to April 14 and 15. The convention
location
.^L>r4. Says
has also been changed from
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"SUPERB PRODUCTION
the Brown hotel here to the Seelbach. The
convention
, E. A. JOHNSON' THRUOUT . . . ADVERTISERS
chairman is W. E. Carrell. head
of the Falls City Theatre Equipment Co. In
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/ Redwood Falls Amusement Co. WELL PLEASED"
addition to the regular convention activities,
_JtK^^ Redwood Falls, Minn.
there will also be display booths available for
manufacturers, distributors and supply
dealers.
J. E. Elliott jr., who formerly owned and
operated the Cardinal Theatre Hodgenville,
Ky., is now at the Post Exchange at Fort
J^U^'OO
Knox, Ky. . Nolan, of the Parkway
Drive-In here, has been vacationing in California
. . . The Veteran's Theatre, Tompkinsville,
Ky. is closed, and all equipment is to
be sold at a public auction.
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The Scoop Theatre here, which closed sometime
ago. is being remodeled to include
ground floor store locations, with the upper
part being converted to a convention hall a-s
part of the accomodations of the Kentucky
13nV«a '^1;'".^, Stree'-
Bwana Devil" is scheduled to make
hotel . . .
its bow here the latter part of the month
at the Kentucky Theatre, owned and operated
by the Switow Amusement Co.. and managed
by Art Stani-sch.
„or« th»» » » screen ^' ^>,„e "^f ^>,o«
S. R. Scale, who ran the Berea Theatre,
Berea, Ky., for a great many years died recently
Out of town exhibitors seen on
Xd ^^y""* Held
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the Row recently included George Lindsay.
Lindsay. Brownsville: George Williamson,
. . . r.r4^°- -" "^ Griffith. LaGrange. Ky.: E. L. Ornstein. Ornstein
Theatres. Marengo. Ind.; Alton Rush,
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a....r.ns Lost River Drive-In, Bowling Green: J. E.
Thompson, Riverside Drive-In. Bowling
Green; Bob Enoch, State and Grand Theatres,
Elizabethtown: R. L. Gatrost, Victory, Vine
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Grove, and Russell Phillips, Franklin. Greensburg,
Ky.
on ho" .
they w* "
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.with »•• cordia'-*^' -^
signed with her husband's orchestra for
"Wings of the Hawk" by Universal-International.
Miss Lane is a vocalist.
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