Boxoffice-August.21.1954

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BOSTON
"ympathy to Doris Flannagan, secretary at
r 20th-Pox, in the death of her father .
Park Theatre at Richford, Vt.. is now
rating weekends only, Roy Brown reports
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broke into the concession stand
|f the Enfield Drive-In, West Enfield. Maine
hd stole, of all things, plumbing equipment,
'he culprits were caught and owner Sam
Iyer pressed charges, since it was the second
e that the same youths had broken in.
Relston, Inc., dealers for Cretors popcorn
•oducts. have installed a Cretors Olympic
jipcorn machine in the new VFW Parkway
'rive-In at West Roxbury for Michael RediSne
and another Olympic model in Red-
)ne's new ozoner in Fairfax county. Virnia.
Relston also has placed a Cretors HoUy-
K3d machine in the new candy stand in the
Theatre at Warren. R.I.. for owner Lon
harlie Fish, installation engineer for Capiil
Theatre Supply, is completing a tour of
ins and conventional houses in Maine
sjd Vermont which have recently installed
sgle track magnetic or optical sound Cinet
Scope. A. Bernadini has put in the magpie
single track at his Mount View Drive-
Burlington. Vt. Installing the optical
ck system were the Millinocket. owned by
Fink LePage. and the Lincoln. Howard
I-iner, in Maine; the Deer Park Drive-In,
r»fthwoodstock. for Paul F. :^ullavey. the
S..'-Hi Drive-In. Boscawen. for Walter Starikik,
and the Majestic and the Conway in
Ciway, N.H., for Leon Bolduc.
he Kenneth Douglasses jr. of Capitol were
ei lying a vacation in Kennebunk Beach.
iTien 90 boys from Attleboro arrived at
P.way Park one afternoon on two buses to
ai ind the Red Sox game, sudden showers
csceled the baseball contest. Quick thinking
oijthe part of the manager of the Kenmore
T^atre saved the youngsters from a disappnting
day. Arthur Donovan, manager of
tri nearby Kenmore Tlieatre proposed that
tn lads be his guests at the matinee and at
tlijsame time suggested that he would admit
thn for the loose change they had in thelipcwts.
The boys got up a total of nearly
$2| which Donovan immediately turned over
tojhe Jimmy fund and everyone was happy.
led shrimp rolls, cooked and served along
th'same style as eggroUs. have been put into
th concession stand at the Hoosac Drive-In
at .dams, and are becoming a popular additic
to the menu according to Manager
Aiiur Rosenbush. They are being sold
fo 30 cents each. Stanley Rothenberg
8J1 Charles Morse are co-owners of the
Hc!,;ac airer and the nearby Adams Theatre
atjorth Adams . . . Al Swerdlove. head of
Lijert Pictures here, introduced Stanley
Hales, producer in chief of the Australian
N Board, to the local film critics at a
Hifast at the Statler August 13. He was
'n;own for "Queen in Australia." which
Sw dlove is distributing in New England.
Sivia Sternburg, daughter of the Robert
Sttiburgs, district manager of New Eng-
H Theatres, Inc.. has selected Sunday Sept^i.er
5 for her wedding to George Lester
Spi of Mount Vernon. N.Y., at the Hotel
Stjer here. The young couple will make
9 home in Los Angeles . Margolian
BObmCE :: August 21, 1954
was called back to this territory to handle
the campaign for RKO on "Susan Slept
Here." which will open at the Keith Memorial
Theatre. Joe Longo, RKO's publicist for
New England, is on another assignment .
Ted Limberis of the Olympia Theatre at Bangor.
Me., has closed the house for the rest of
the summer.
Elizabeth Boudreau, director of public information
for the public library the last several
years, has resigned due to ill health. She has
worked closely with the industry on promotions
for films based on the classics and
other books, A dinner was held in her honor
at the Boston Press Club rooms at 37 Pi-ovince
St. Thursday (12), chairmaned by Mary
X. Sullivan.
WORCESTER
gilly Sullivan, projectionist at Loew's Poll,
returned from a vacation at the New England
beaches . Donahue, cashier at
the Warner, spent her vacation at Hampton
Beach. N.H. . Turturro. the
Elms in Millbury, is awarding 10 gifts each
Saturday matinee . Sturbridge Drive-
In. operated by Pete Marrone. scheduled professional
wrestlers in addition to the regular
film show.
Frank Dunn, chief engineer at the Poll,
has been vacationing on Lake Champlain .
The Oxford Drive-In christened its new Cinemascope
screen with "Three Coins in the
Fountain" . Leo Lajoie, the Capitol,
and family vacationed at Lake George,
with Andy Medici taking over the office duties
Cayer. student assistant manager of
the Poll, was married to Joan Belanger . . .
Arvid Lakstrom. doorman at the Warner, left
to spend a month in California.
John DiBenedetto, manager of the Poll,
was married in the rectory of St. Paul's Cathedral
to Patricia Doherty of Shrewsbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Bogatti jr. were
the attendants. After a reception for the
families at the Hotel Sheraton, the couple
left for New York and Atlantic City . . . Bob
Bergen and Bob Portle are subbing at the
Poll during the three-week vacation and
honeymoon of DiBenedetto . Walsh,
operator at the Warner, vacationed at the
New Hampshire beaches . . . John Murphy,
operator at the Poli, has been a patient in
St. Vincent hospital.
Starts 'Dragnet' Campaign
HARTFORD—The Warner Bros, film,
"Dragnet," starring Jack Webb, will have its
Connecticut premiere at the Stanley Warner
Strand September 1. Manager Jack Sanson
already has started the promotion campaign
with special stories appearing in the Hartford
Times.
Navy Flags for Navy Film
NEW HAVEN—Authentic naval flags are
being flown from the 45-foot neon upright at
Loew's Poli Theatre during the run of "The
Caine Mutiny." A collection of flags and pennants
was loaned to the Poli by the navy
reserve base here for that purpose.
VFW Parkway Airer
Opened by Redstone
BOSTON The VFW Parkway Drive-In
was opened at West Roxbury last week
• Thursday) by the Michael Redstone circuit
to turnaway business. President Redstone
turned the opening night's receipts of $1,700
over to the Jimmy fund.
A full-page co-op ad in the Boston Sunday
newspapers mentioned the names of the engineers,
designers and the firms .servicing the
theatre, plus a large picture of Michael Redstone
and a story of his theatrical background
and his many charitable endeavors. He is
treasurer of the 1954 Jimmy fund drive.
The theatre, located in the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Parkway, was hailed in the
newspapers as New England's new luxury
drive-in
theatre.
Film Villain Is Renamed
To Avoid Montana Clash
From Western Edition
ST. MARY, MONT.—When an RKO Hollywood
film company arrived in Montana to
start filming "Cattle Queen of Montana." it
found itself in a political situation which required
an immediate change in the script.
The motion picture to be filmed in Glacier
park and on the Blackfeet Indian reservation,
involves a conflict among the Indians as to
whether they can hve in "peaceful coexistence"
with the whites, and another involving
a greedy white man who throws in with some
of the Indians to keep the whites out of
Montana for his own profit.
The problem arose when a Montana spectator
heard the name "Yellowtail" used to
identify the chief Indian villain in the script.
He cautioned the film company that it might
become involved in Montana politics as he
explained that a Montana candidate for the
U.S. Senate. Robert Yellowtail of the Crow
agency, bore the same name as the film
villain. The RKO officials made a quick decision
to change the name in the script.
The Indian villain, played by Tony Caruso,
an Italian-born American from Indiana, is
now known as Notcha Kowa. "We don't believe
there will be any Indian doubles of this
name," said the film officials.
Stanley Fleischer has been assigned the art
direction duties on Warners' "Jump Into
Hell." drama of the Indo-China war.
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