Boxoffice-12.1953

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Kansas City Ass'n Names
Five New Directors
KANSAS CITY—Five new directors were
elected by the members of the Motion Picture
Ass'n of Greater Kansas City at an annual
membership dinner meeting Monday (7) at
the Town House in Kansas City, Kas. Four
will serve four-year terms, namely; Richard
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proudly announced that 69 boys were sent
to YMCA camp during the year and $600 expenses
paid from the MPA fimd. Another
worthy endeavor he told about was the special
showing of "Hans Christian Andersen"
for 600 orphans at the RKO Missouri Theatre.
Ed Hartman, treasurer, made an appeal to
get more members in the MPA and recommended
that a fund-raising campaign be
conducted to aid the welfare committee in
charitable projects.
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The armual golf tournament and outing
held September 21 was reported a success.
Brous, Fox Midwest Theatres: Louis Patz,
National Screen Service: Eddie Mansfield,
Commonwealth Theatres, and Ben Shlyen,
BOXOFFICE. Charles Crawford of RKO was
chosen director for a one-year term to suc-
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ceed the late Howard Burkhardt of Loew's
Midland Theatre.
Senn Lawler, MPA president, reported on
Business Education day, held November 13,
INDIANAPOLIS
which he said received the cooperation of
the MPA in escorting 20 teachers on a guided
and screening
T^att Scheidler has reopened his Orpheum
tour of the film exchanges
at Hartford City . . . The Star, Fremont,
"Julius Caesar" for them.
is now dark on Wednesday and Thursday
Mention also was made of a citation awarded
to the MPA by the United Funds campaign
nights York at Churubusco, operated
by Alex Kalafat, has installed a wide screen.
for reaching 140 per cent above last year's
The York has been remodeled to comply with
quota.
the Indiana fire laws Geraghty,
Arthur Cole of the welfare committee
secretary at National Theatre Supply, is vacationing
. . . Joe Bommerscheim, NTS, was confined
to the Methodist hospital for a major
operation. His condition is reported good.
Lawrence McGinley, World Wide Educational
Films, was a visitor on Filmrow. Mc-
Ginley was a boyhood friend of the playwright
Eugene O'Neill . . . Claude McKean,
manager, Warner Bros., and district chairman
of COMPO, held a meeting of all exchange
managers in the U-I screening room
now at the Mary Anderson,
Louisville, is outgrossing "The House of Wax,"
which held house attendance records . . .
Henry Hermanson, Brook, Brook, is hunting
in Wisconsin.
The Fowler, Fowler, operated by James
Griffis, is installing a new wide screen .
New booth equipment and a new wide screen
are being installed in the Boswell, Boswell
Colosseum of Motion Picture Salesmen
donated $100 to the cerebral palsy Telethon
of which Marc Wolf was general chairman.
Donations soared above $203,167 and
some 8,000 banks and 8,000 slips were passed
out in two hours.
Joe Bohn, Realart, was in Chicago Tuesday
visiting the Alliance circuit . . . Ray Thomas,
U-I salesman, is driving a new Ford . . . Al
Hendricks, manager, Indiana, and Alice Mc-
Mahon, who operates the Indiana Roof, were
married November 4 . . . Bob Nicholas, 20th-
Fox shipping clerk, resigned and will return
to the Indiana Telephone Co. and assume
his former duties there . Braun,
Filmrow, left for a three-week vacation in
Miami with his wife and son Harold jr.
William P. McGovem of the Ritz, Loogootee,
has installed a Walker screen and KoUmorgan
wide-angle lenses . . . Mailers Bros, installed
a Walker wide screen and wide-angle lenses
in the Grand, Bluffton.
Form Grant Productions
JEFFERSON CITY—A certificate of incorporation
has been granted to
the Crest Productions,
Inc., 106 W. 14th St., Kansas City,
to do a general motion picture business. It
was authorized to issue 6,000 shares of $5
par value stock. Incorporators were listed
as E. C. Rhoden jr., J. P. Wooten and W. B.
Adams.
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'Mr. Polls' Rolls Up 175
As Kansas Cily High
KANSAS CITY—"Mr. Potts Goes to Mos-
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cow" at the Vogue was the top grosser here |
the past week, although "The Robe" in its
tenth week at the Orpheum was not far
behind it. "How to Marry a Millionaire" J|
leveled off for its second week in the four
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Fox houses and was not held.
(Averoge Is 100)
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Kimo Tonight We Sing (20th-Fox) 100| 11^
Midland The Big Heot (Col); The Lost Posse
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(Col) 115 31
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Missouri Hondo (WB); Louisiana Territory (RKO), I
2nd wk 125 -''
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Orpheum ^The Robe (20th-Fox), lOth wk I 70 I ,.S
Paramount Flight to Tangier (Pora) 95 ,]•,
Tower, Uptown, Fairway and Granada How to !
Marry a Millionaire (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 100.
Vogue Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (Stratford). . . . 1 75
Holdovers Stay High
In Chicago Houses
CHICAGO—It appeared that the Loopi
throngs might have been more intent on getting
their Christmas shopping done for there
was a faint dent noticeable in the bonanza
boxoffice business the majority of houses have
enjoyed for so many months. On the whole,
however, the holdovers still were the drawing
cards, and "Cinerama" at the Palace, "The
Robe" at the State Lake, "Mogambo" at the
Woods and "How to Marry a Millionaire" at
the Oriental suffered little or not at all.
Carnegie— Lili (MGM), 2nd run I45<
Ctiicogo Appointment in Honduras (RKO), plus
Esquire
Eitel's
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Trent's Lost Case (Rep) . 150|
Palace This Is Cineroma (Cineroma),
Grand ^^Ali the Brothers Were Valiant (MGM),
2nd wk
Loop Martin Luther (DeRochemont), 11th wk...230ir
McVickers Botany Boy (Para); Flight to Tongier
(Para), 2nd wk 11
Monroe Yellow Balloon (AA); Jennifer (AA) ...1'
Oriental How to Marry a Millionaire (20th-Fox)
wk. .3201
Piccadi 1 ly Despen perote Moment (U-1), 2nd wk 1801
River Street (UA); Flight Nurse \
Roosevelt-
(Rep) .
State Lake—The Robe (20th-Fox), 11 th wk 480!
Surf Decameron Nights (RKO), 2nd wk 160:]
United Artists—Jock Slode (AA); Son of Belle Starr .
(AA), 2nd wk ISO'
Woods Mogambo (MGM), 4th wk 225:i
World Playhouse Cinderella (Times), 2nd wk...l30j ix,.,,,
Ziegfeld The Caoiain't Paradise (AAV 6th wk 190i!_t'^WJ
"How to Marry' Outgrosses
Others in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS—Boxoffice receipts were
fair to very good last week. The Indiana!
Theatre topped the list with "How to Marryi
a Millionaire."
Circle Colomity Jane (WB); Clipped Wings (AA).120'
Indiona— How to Marry a Millionaire (20th-Fox). .275
Keith's Little Boy Lost (Para), 2nd d. t. wk 70
Loew's Kiss Me Kote (MGM) 110
Lyric Tumbleweed (U-I); Project Moon Bose (LP). 105
Felix Snow, lATSE, 111
KANSAS CITY—Felix D. Snow, third
president of the lATSE and for many
business manager of Local 31 here, suffered
a heart attack Monday (7) night. He was
stricken in the underground garage adjoining
the Town House in Kansas City, Kas., as he
was getting his car to return home after
attending the annual dinner of the Motion
Picture Ass'n of Kansas City. Taken to
Providence hospital, he was reported Ini
critical condition.
CinemaScope to Festus, Mo.
FESTUS, MO.—H. E. Miller, manager
two local theatres, has begun installation
the Miller for CinemaScope productions.
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