Boxoffice-October.01.1955
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•ITS (1)1.1) rr TUKKK—diaries<br />
TigTicr. owner of the Ili-V Drive-In and<br />
the Star Theatre in Conroe, Tex., flew<br />
with the lIunlsviMe llish School football<br />
team to Anehorase. .Alaska, where<br />
they were to play the .Anchorage Iligli<br />
football dull in a regularly scheduled<br />
game Saturday il7i. In addition to the<br />
game, the .\laskans laid out an elaborate<br />
entertainment and sight-seeing schedule<br />
that would take the Texans to a number<br />
of points of interest. Tigncr took along<br />
his motion picture camera to make a<br />
35mm picture story of the trip. The film<br />
will be shown in the theatres in tluntsville<br />
and Conroe, and Tigner also will<br />
make it available to other theatres desiring:<br />
to run it.<br />
MEMPHIS<br />
T oew's State was a complete sellout for the<br />
recent heavyweight championship fight<br />
telecast. Manager Arthur Groom reported<br />
that after all .seat.s were filled at S3.30 and<br />
$4. about 40 or 50 late arrivals had to be<br />
turned awa.v. The reception was perfect.<br />
Mrs. Helen Bnister, owner, has opened a<br />
new drive-in theatre, the Dickson at Dickson.<br />
Tenn. . R. Ewell, booker and buyer for<br />
Joy. Missouri and Moonlight Drive-In at<br />
Hayti. Mo., and Lyie Richmond, Richmond.<br />
Senath. Mo., were Memphis visitors . . .<br />
Louise Mask. Luez, Bolivar, Tenn.. and W. F.<br />
Ruffin jr., Ruffin Amu.sements Co., Covington,<br />
were among visiting exhibitors.<br />
From Arkansas came Mrs. O. W. Mc-<br />
Cutchen. Ritz. Blytheville; L. G. Renfro.<br />
Grove. Holly Grove: Jim Singleton. New.<br />
Marked Tree: W. R. Lee, Gem at Heber<br />
Springs and Rice at Des Arc: T. P. Ford.<br />
Ford, Rector: A. L. White. Rand, Imperial<br />
and Skylark Drive-In. Pocahontas: John<br />
Staples. Carolyn, Piggott, and Orris Collins,<br />
Capitol. Paragould.<br />
Edward P. Sapinsley, Malco Theatres. Inc .<br />
executive, is heading the exhibitors and distributors<br />
division of the Memphis Community<br />
Chest. He held a meeting of Filmrow<br />
managers and theatre owners and organized<br />
the campaign for the motion picture industry<br />
this week<br />
. Keifer. Malco office, spent<br />
a recent weekend in Kentucky.<br />
VOTE NOW IN AUDIENCE AWARDS<br />
JACKSONVILLE You can be<br />
gob Harris, confection .sale.-, miuumer of<br />
Florida Slate Theatres, loft on u -turvcy<br />
ol circuit hou.scs In the Miami area . . .<br />
Visiting Phil Longdon. 20ih-Fox salesman<br />
at his home in Diiytona Bench was Tom P<br />
Tidwoll, 20th-Fox manaKer .<br />
E.ither<br />
Skolls was here from Seattle. Wash., at the<br />
request of the Variety Tent 44 In connection<br />
with the group's Blind Children Foundation<br />
Matt S
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