Boxoffice-October.01.1955

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Elmer C. Rhoden addresses the Fox Midwest convention at Kansas City. At
left is Senn Lawler, general manager, and at right, Richard Brous, president of Fox
Midwest.
KANSAS CITY
(Continued from preceding news pagei
Guy Bloom, Nevada; WUliam Bradfield,
Carthage; Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Batman, Oregon;
Ray Cook. MaryvUle; Jack West, Harrison
ville; Walter Eisenhauer. Slater . . .
Kansa.s visitors included Lily Welty, Hill
City; Virgil Harbison, Tarkio; Jim Snyder,
Oakley; C. S. Schafer, Blue Rapids; George
Wadlington, Fredonia (who insisted nothing
ever happens to him except daylight and
dark); Leon Pugh, Ft. Scott; Bill Flynn, Emporia;
Dan Blair, Smith Center.
James Lewis, RKO manager, spent part of
last week in Manhattan and in Wichita. Inspector
Ruth Davis was back to work after
hospitalization and Nellie Bradbury was home
with a tooth infection . . . Rube Perlman, DCA
representative, conferred with Harry Gaffney
about the midwest premiere of "I Am a Camera"
at Pox Midwest's Apollo Theatre . . .
Patt Turner, office secretary at Buena VLsta,
was wearing a new wrist watch Monday (26i,
a birtliday gift from the boy friend . . . Beverly
Miller, Kansas City, says he has a new
permanent wave in the left rear fender of
hi.': rar without knowing whom to blame. Le-
Roy Kirk, maintenance man. was back at the
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Cowtown Drive-In in St. Jaseph after illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spindler, Fort Drivein
managers, took state fair vacation in
Topeka.
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The Allied Artists office is expecting Jack
Leewood in to handle the coming promotion
for "The Phenix City Story"
and Mrs. Robert McCollum, who operate the
Jewel at Clarence, Mo., recently became the
parents of a third boy . Rickert, U-I
branch operations representative who was
in town on vacation visiting his parents,
called on the Row to see the new Universal
building. Rickert says he is having his usual
bad luck. He travels by plane and his trunk
has been lost, which should have arrived here
by railway express. When in Salt Lake City,
he got a ticket for jay-walking. He goes
from here to Memphis, wondering what is
in store for him there.
L&L Popcorn and Poppers Supply have
placed a Cretors popcorn machine and Cretors
warmer, along with a new Buckingham drink
dispenser, in the new concession counter
which has been installed in Fox Midwe.st's
Uptown. It is the 11th drink dispenser installed
in this area . Truog. office
manager for United Artists, is wearing a
broad smile because UA bookers are having
the biggest demand for the Marciano-Moore
fight pictures that they have ever had for
any fight picture the office has released.
Stebbins Theatre Kquipment Co. sold a pair
of Ultra Panatar lenses to Ken Winkelmeyer
for the Fayette at Fayette, Mo., which he
operates along with the Casino at Boonville
... A dozen or more of tJie "boys" on Filmrow
kept in touch with the World Series by
having lunch together in a room at the
Muehlebach Hotel where a television set
showed the game. Another bunch had a
little bad luck when they were betting on
football games in one of the bars.
5.250 See Fightcast
INDIANAPOLIS — The Moore-Marciano
fight played before an SRO crowd of 5,2,')0 at
the Indiana and Lyric theatres here. This
was the only city in the state to show the
tight on theatre TV. Admission price was
$3.50. Both houses are owned by Greater
Indianapolis Amusements.
Vandals Wreak Havoc
In Remodeled Theaire
GREENUP. ILL.—Vandals, who broke into
the Old Trails Theatre recently, started several
fires in various parts of the building,
which was being readied for reopening following
the installation of Cinemascope and
other improvements. They used a concrete
block to batter in the east door of the theatre.
Several panels were broken before they
found the one nearest the lock. After gaining
entrance, they started a blaze adjacent
to the door by setting fii-e to piles of paper
and a broom. Three fires were started on
the rug in the lobby and another in a store
room.
Upstairs, they started a fire in the projection
room. Two other fires were set near
the stage. A window in the men's restroom
was broken. Fingerprints were taken in an
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attempt to trace the intruders. The theatre
is owned by Paul Musser of Casey. 111.
Municipal Auciitorium
At Kansas City Gets TV
KANSAS CITY—A coaxial cable which will
connect the Municipal Auditorium directly
with the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is
being installed. This is being done to meet
anticipated demands by amusement and industrial
interests for television facilities.
Four circuits will have three terminal points
in the Arena, one each in the Music Hall, the
Little Theatre and the Exhibition Hall. The
telephone company is paying the cost of installation,
estimated at $350,000.
Closed circuit transmission and color telecasting
will be included.
Pettit Readying Avalon
For October Opening
AVA. MO.—L. H. Pettit, head of the Pettit
Theatre Corp., hopes to have his beautiful
new Avalon Theatre ready for its grand
opening early In October. The theatre will
cost in exce.ss of $50,000. It will have widescreen
and be equipped for CinemaScope anc
other scopes. Pettit also operates the Sfai
here. He formerly operated a .second theatn
under a lease but that building was converter
to other use. He also owns the Pettit's High
way 14 Drive-In near the citv limits.
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