Boxoffice-Febuary.28.1953

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BOSTON
/-vnc of the first theatres in this territory to
install new projection equipment which
can be used for third-dimension films is the
Rex Theatre in Manchester. N.H.. owned by
Lucien Decouteau. Massachusetts Theatre
Equipment Co. installed a Transcenic screen
with a 3-D section made by Raytone, Inc..
two century Academy Award projector."; with
3-D synchronizers and Century sound
Jim Shanahan, Loew's Theatres publicist,
spent the weekend here on UA's "Moulin
Rouge," which opened Thursday (26) at the
Orpheum Theatre. He reported Zsa Zsa
Gabor. starring in the film, could not come
to Boston to appear at the various functions
planned for her. She took a plane for Rome.
Italy, to be near her husband George Saunders,
who was ill.
Mrs. Ro.salind McEvoy, mother of retired
exhibitor Al McEvoy and mother-in-law- of
Bill Yaeger of Leominster, was seriously ill
in the Leominster hospital . . . Sam Horenstein
of Manley has installed a new Ai-istocrat
Manley popcorn machine in the Camden, Me.,
theatre operated by the Graphic circuit . .
Daytz Theatre Enterprises has added the
following accounts: Town Hall. Middlebury,
Vt.. Kenneth Gorham; Park. Southwest Harbor,
Me.. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Robinson; the
EUlsworth-Trenton Drive-In. Trenton. Me.,
and the Enfield Drive-In. Enfield. Md.. Samuel
Nyer, and the Dolly Di-ive-In. Sturbridge.
Mass., Peter Marrone. ,
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A. B. West of National Carbon has returned
to Boston to handle the New England
territory as a technical representative. He
makes his home in Lexington .
.letts Theatre Equipment Co. has installed new
Century Academy Award projectors and sound
system at the Middlesex school in Concord,
a private boys school which formerly used
16mm equipment. An entire new booth was
installed . . . Jim Connolly of 20th-Fox last
week (20) arranged a sneak preview of the
new Technicolor feature, "Destination Gobi."
at the Emba.ssy in Waltham, an ATC theatre.
The Boston Press club hosted its third
annual Amasa Howe award dinner at the
Sheraton Plaza hotel with 900 filling the
main ballroom at the banquet. James B.
Reston, New York Times reporter, was the
main speaker and Rudolph Elie. Boston Herald
columnist and club president, was toast-
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club for the "Best Newspaper Writing of
Public Significance" was presented to John
H. Griffin, editor in chief of the Boston Post.
Among the industryites present were Paul
Levi, Harry Browning, Dick Berenson, Floyd
Fitz.simmons, John McGrail, Edward Canter
and Joe Mansfield.
Mrs. Chester Currie, wife of the owner of
the Darlton and the Broadway theatres in
Pav,tucket, and the Lincoln in Valley Falls,
R.I.. was in a hosiptal with a back ailment . .
Edward X. Callahan jr., salesman at 20th-Fox,
and wife are receiving congratulations on the
birth of their second son and fourth child,
Michael Joseph.
Suzan Ball, Universal star, escaped injury
when the car in which she was riding collided
with another in Becket, Mass. John McGrail,
publicist, was driving Miss Ball to Boston for
a round of personal appearances, radio and
press interviews in behalf of her film, "City
Beneath the Sea."
'Peter Pan' Grosses
Huge 300 at Boston
BOSTON—"Peter Pan" in its first week at
the Memorial was the standout, with "The
Bad and the Beautiful" at the two Loew's
houses not far behind. Both films were held
over. "The Jazz Singer" pulled 125 at the
Paramount and Fenway.
(Average Is 100)
Astor^Hons Christion Andersen (RKO), 8th wk...lOO
Beacon Hill The Four Poster (Col), 7th wk 80
Boston The Silver Whip (20th-Fox), Annie Oakley
(RKO), reissues 90
Exeter Street Breaking the Sound Barrier (UA),
8th wk 85
Memorial Peter Pan (RKO) 300
MetropolitonThe Stars Are Singing (Para); The Big
Break (Regal) 80
Paramount and Fenwoy The Jazz Singer (WB);
Hurricane of Pilgrim Hill (5G) 125
State and Orpheum The Bod and the Beautiful
(MGM) 175
Only One Film, 'Beautiful,'
Hits 100 in New Haven
NEW HAVEN—Business ranged from normal
to poor at the downtowners. "The Bad
and the Beautiful" and "Tlie Jazz Singer"
were the leaders in a nonsensational week.
College Treasure of the Golden Condor (20th-
Fox); Iron Crown (Classic) 2nd wk 50
Lincoln La Ronde (Commercial), 2nd wk 95
Paramount The Redhead From Wyoming (U-l);
Thunderbirds jRep) 80
Poll The Bad ond the Beautiful (MGM); The
Hooxters (MGM) I 00
Roger Sherman The Jazz Singer (WB); Secret
Sharer (RKO) 90
'Ivanhoe' Back Again
At Hartford
HARTFORD—There were no holdovers in
the downtown area. Newcomers included
"The Stooge." "The Clown," and "I Confess."
Allyn The Stooge (Para); Torzon's Savage Fury
(RKO) 125
Hill Mob (U-l); Ivory Hunter (U-l)
Art—Lovcndcr
reissues 1 00
E. M. Loew All Ashore (Col); Savage Mutiny (Col) 1 10
Poll Ivonhoc (MGM) 130
Polace The Clown (MGM) 90
Strand— I Confess (WB); 100
NEW HAVEN
The new Bowl Drive-In at West Haven, completed
early last fall but never used because
of continuing legal litigation, will finally
open in the spring, it appeared following a
superior court ruling last week. Judge Edward
J. Daly approved an application granted by
State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey
to operate film equipment on the premises.
Fishman Theatres, operator of the indoor
Rivoli, also in West Haven, had appealed
Hickey's action. The issue in the case. Judge
Daly .said in his memorandum, "in no way
raised any question as to the necessity for a
certificate" i.ssued to the outdoor theatre by
the state traffic commission when it found
the drive-in's location "would not imperil
the safety of the public." In its appeal, the
Fishman chain claimed its rights as owners
of nearby real estate were endangered and
asked denial of the Bowl appUcation.
Jim Tobin, former manager of the Warner,
Bridgeport, who took a seven-month leave,
has returned to work, replacing Al Schleicher,
who resigned . 3-D
program got off to a fast stai't at the College
(191. with Thiiisday receipts equal to those
of a Saturday or Sunday ... A free Washington's
birthday party for school children
was held at the Whalley Theatre, sponsored
by Wonder Bread, Majestic Laundries and
C. W. Blakeslee & Sons Construction Co.
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Jack Myers, independent film salesman
from Boston, was in town . Among the film
men in New Haven for
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the 3-D opening
at the College was Paul Klingler. assistant
manager of Loew's PoU. Waterbm'y. The showopened
there and at the Poli in Norwich on
the 25th . Harry Feinstein, Warner Theatre
zone manager, and Jim Totman. assistant
manager, toured the circuit.
. . . Charles
Ben Simon, 20th-Fox manager, was in New
York . Cleveland, maintenance man
at the Loew's Poli building here, won prizes
at the poultry show in Boston
Tierney. former manager with Associated
British Cinemas, Warner affiliate in England,
has been appointed manager of the Warner
Palace, Toirington. He was a.ssistant at the
Roger Sherman when he first came here . . .
Universal and the Paramount Theatre ran
spot announcements on WNHC-TV for "City
Beneath the Sea," opening at the latter house
on the 11th.
More Installations Set
For All-Dimension Screen
HARTFORD—An "all-dimension" screen,
recently put in at the Burnside Theatre, East
Hartford, will be installed in other Connecticut
theatres soon, according to MorrLs Keppner
and Barney Tarantul. partners in the
Burnside Theatre Corp.
Alex Gottlieb has signed Glenn Ford to star
in his original western for Warner Bros,
called "5 Bullet^s."
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