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. . Rowley<br />
. . Helen<br />
. . Former<br />
. . Peggy<br />
. . Clyde<br />
:<br />
September<br />
. .<br />
DALLAS<br />
Trving Rust has been named buyer and booker<br />
for Leon Theatres, succeeding Harold<br />
Brooks who resigned to join Lester Dollison.<br />
Rust was a booker and buyer for Jefferson<br />
Amusement Co. . Browning, MGM,<br />
and E. B. Moneyhun were married in Las<br />
Cruces, N.M.. last week while Peggy was on<br />
vacation . United Theatres will<br />
hold its annual convention November 10, 11.<br />
on Southwestern avenue; Ed Wilson is at<br />
home, relaxing and, with all, very cheerful;<br />
S. L. Oakley is recuperating at his home in<br />
Beaumont, and Jack Zern seems to be doing<br />
well after entering Baylor hospital.<br />
John Q. Adams, Interstate executive, is now<br />
Admiral Adams of the Texas navy. Brig. Gen.<br />
Paul Wakefield conferred the honorary title.<br />
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Bob Hope has been invited to attend the<br />
Texas cup matches in Dallas October 24 for<br />
the benefit of the Gonzales Warm Springs<br />
Foundation . Dallas actor Aaron<br />
Spelling is before the cameras again on a<br />
Colorado location, playing in "Tlrree Young<br />
Texans" . Jane Hahn, secretary to<br />
Col. H. A. Cole, vacationed in New Mexico.<br />
Leona Pringle, MGM, was visiting friends<br />
Arkansas and New Mexico . . . Vernon<br />
in<br />
Collins, Southwest Theatre Equipment Co.,<br />
spent his vacation driving through Arkansas,<br />
while Roy Sachs, United Artists, drove to<br />
Chicago.<br />
Herman Beiersdorf, Beiersdorf Distributing<br />
Co. (Lippert), and Ti'uman Hendrix went to<br />
New Orleans to attend the regional meeting<br />
held by Lippert at the Roosevelt hote'.. "Sins<br />
of Jezebel," in Ansco Color, was screened . . .<br />
Wallace Walthall, National Screen representative,<br />
checked personally on the condition of<br />
the following Variety Club members: V. W.<br />
Crisp, former BOXOFFICE reporter, is at<br />
a convalescent home on East Grand: Louis<br />
Charninsky is confined to his bed at his home<br />
Bill Finch, office manager. Allied Artists,<br />
left on his vacation, heading north to Oklahoma<br />
City, then on into the Ozarks of southern<br />
Missouri. He said he was going to indulge<br />
in hunting and fishing . . . Alice Cameron<br />
has joined Allied, replacing Betty Adams .<br />
Louis Weber, MGM, after considerable attention<br />
to a bad leg condition, went to Baylor<br />
hospital Monday il4).<br />
Leroy Bickel, MGM, had good attendance<br />
at two tradescreenings recently. "Take the<br />
High Ground!" which will have its w'orld<br />
premiere in El Paso soon, was screened at the<br />
P^alace September 8 at 9:30 a.m., and "Mogambo"<br />
was screened in the same theatre on<br />
September 14. Coffee and doughnuts were<br />
served at the last screening . . Dave Callahan<br />
.<br />
and the booking department for Rowley<br />
United Theatres have moved into new quarters<br />
on the second floor in the offices formerly<br />
occupied by Jefferson Amusement Co. at 312 '2<br />
S- Harwood.<br />
Carl J. Mabry, president. Motion Picture<br />
Advertising, visited the Dallas Variety Club<br />
Saturday (14i as guest of Bert Graetz, division<br />
manager. He stopped over on a plane<br />
trip to New Orleans. John Cato. MPA executive,<br />
was in Dallas September U. Sam Yeager,<br />
MPA salesman, was transferred to San Antonio<br />
from the north central territory as advance<br />
man. Taking his old territory is John<br />
P. Cooke . Rembert, president, station<br />
KRLD-TV, visited his son and daughterin-law<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rembert jr. in<br />
Phoenix, Ariz. Rembert jr. is an MPA representative.<br />
The Mountaineer Drive-la, Mineral Wells,<br />
owned by T. L. Ritchie, has been closed temporarily<br />
for repairs.<br />
Scouts Get $600 for Polio<br />
HOUSTON—Houston Cub Scouts took up<br />
some S600 in audience collections at the<br />
Trail Drive-In here to aid the Gonzales<br />
Warm Springs Foundation to fight polio, according<br />
to Manager T. J. Cheney.<br />
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19. 1953
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