Boxoffice-January.08.1955

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nFeie
! Monday
"Jorthwesl Variety Club's
ling Chief Barker L. J.
elected, will be installed
ler meeting in the clubit
(10 1. Miller is urging
or the event as "a vote
he new crew and a weirs.
Miller also announced
lintments as follows
Frosch. chairman, and
lairman.
lul Malisow, chairman;
, Jack Greenberg. Don
d and Sol Torodor.
Heller, and Charles Ruell
and Ben Meshbesher.
Winchell. and Everett
Al Bloom and Edward
hanson. chairman.
anton, and Harold Kap-
I.
arer.
ss McBride, Sim Heller.
nstein, Ben Berger and
:s Jackson and Joe Podo-
Adcock, and Saul Malilan,
Jess McBride, Fay
aw, Abbott Sw'artz and
ler. Tent 12's 1955 officers
;t a.ssistant chief barker:
second assistant; Tom
3ter. and Joseph Podoloff.
:or Britt, Iowa
The Chief Theatre here
iving installation of new
it and redecoration of part
new Century projector
le Hilux curved panoramic
ed. The screen replaces
H. S. "Doc" Twedt put in
.go. Twedt explained that
allow presentation of both
'ista Vision. In addition to
trovement, the two restew
wood paneling. Further
ome in later months.
Foulkes,65,Dies
EMward W. Foulkes, 65,
Paramount Theatre, died
Iowa Methodist Hospital
ttack. He was a charter
ectionists Local 286. Born
es had lived in Des Moines
rived by a son, a daughter,
brothers.
:onsin House
:hien. wis. — Manager
X the Metro Theatre has
Cinemascope screenings.
illey. Wis.
Y, wis.—The Valley Thed
a wide screen and Cin-
;nt, according to owner
OMAHA
T>on McLucas, UA manager, came through
. . .
the trip back from Arizona w'ith only
about one hour of bad roads while a snowstorm
swept the Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas
area. The McLucases switched their route,
and roads to either side of them were blocked
while they got through without mi.shap
Ollie Schneider, Osceola exhibitor, came back
from a w'estern trip with reports of fine theatre
business in the Los Angeles and San
Francisco areas.
Omaha Offices Split
On Working Times
Omaha—The new 37'^ -hour schedule
for Filmrow is being observed in two ways.
—about 50 per cent of the exchanges are
on an 8 a.m. to 4:30 basis, the others from
8:30 to 5. The 8:30 starters include MGM,
Paramount, Columbia and Universal.
Going on the 8-4:30 schedule were Warner
Bros. 20th-Fox, United Artists, Republic
and Allied Artists.
on Filmrow included Warren Hall,
Visitors
Bunvell; Don Campbell, Central City; Ollie
Schneider, Osceola, and these lowans: Ray
Brown and Jamie Booth, Harlan; H. P. Carlton.
Griswold; Frank Good, Red Oak, and
Mrs. C. N. John.son and Richard Johnson,
Red Oak.
Three Iowa theatres announced they were
closing their doors last week. They are the
Princess at Sanborne, owned by Dr. J. C.
Sanders; the Marland at Marcus, owned by
Charles Nielsen, and the Sutherland at Sutherland,
owned by Everett Olhausen. Earlier
the Community Theatre at Winside, Neb., operated
by the Business Men's Ass'n. was
shuttered.
Mrs. J. B. Blank and her daughter Ruth
of Los Angeles are spending about a month
in Omaha visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jacobs,
her son-in-law and daughter, and her son
Ralph Blank. Jacobs is Columbia manager
and Ralph owns the Admiral and Chief theatres
and is a partner in operation of the big
Sky View Drive-In . . . Tlie Lake Andes and
Pickstown theatres in South Dakota are now
on the booking string of Bill Barker's Co-Op
Theatre Service.
The MGM exchange started the new year in
high gear as the MGM 1955 Motion Picture
Theatre Celebration got under way over a
January 1 -April 30 period. Staffers were
wearing badges boosting the theme, "There's
More Fun at the Movies" . . . Hob Hirz, manager
of the Cass Theatre at Plattsmouth, said
his new bowling alley should be in operation
by February.
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