Boxoffice-October.01.1955
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MINNEAPOLIS<br />
•The Variety Club's auxiliary held Its Ilrst<br />
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fall-winter meeting to discuss plans for the<br />
coming season. LeRoy J. Miller, chief barker,<br />
urged members not to miss the first fall<br />
membership dinner meeting in the clubrooms<br />
Monday night (3i. place was held<br />
iti the sixth week of RKO's J. R. Grainger<br />
Drive by Fay Dressell and his gang at the<br />
RKO branch here . Alexander, Republic<br />
district manager, was in.<br />
Bob Branton. booker at Warner Bros., has<br />
been promoted to office manager to succeed<br />
Gene Meredith, who resigned to enter another<br />
line of business . Loeffler. Republic<br />
manager, was busy setting up "Last Command"<br />
. exploit^er Milton Crandall<br />
was in from New York to get the campaign<br />
going for "To Hell and Back," which opens<br />
at the local Orpheum theatres day and date<br />
October 12 . . . Verne Huntzlnger resigned as<br />
house manager of the Century, where "Cinerama<br />
Holiday" is playing, to take over as<br />
manager of Berger's Gopher. He succeeded<br />
Ed Linder who quit to return east.<br />
Says Humphrey Ready<br />
For Rental Hearings<br />
MINNEAPOUS—Film deul.s have been<br />
getting more "intolerable," if luiythlng.<br />
charged Bennle Bcrgcr, Allied States i-mergency<br />
defense committee chairman, who .said<br />
his "blood is boiling over the distributor*'<br />
stubborn refusal to iiffprd relief to small Uicatre<br />
owners." He claimed that at lea.it 50<br />
per cent of this territory's exhibitors arc unable<br />
to play top pictures when they still have<br />
any boxofflce value becau.se of the "exorbitant"<br />
distributor demands. "These are<br />
attractions which every community, small as<br />
well as large, is entitled to see and which<br />
are necessary to keep exhibition alive in<br />
the grass roots." he said.<br />
He and U. S. Senator H. H. Humphrey,<br />
chairman of Uie Senate's Small Bu.sines.s<br />
subcommittee, continued to hold conferences<br />
here regarding the hearings scheduled in<br />
Washington on film rentals this fall.<br />
"Senator Humphrey Is ready to start the<br />
hearings any day now. but Allied hasn't completed<br />
setting up its machinery for them<br />
yet," said Berger. "But we hope to announce<br />
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