Boxoffice-December.17.1955

Oklahoma UTO Sets
Feb. 8, 9 for Confab
From Southwest Edition
OKLAHOMA CITY—The annual convention
of United Theatre Owners of Oklahoma
will be held February 8. 9 in the Skirvin
Hotel here.
With the association now affiliated with
Allied States Ass'n, and Theatre Owners of
America having formally invited the Oklahoma
group to become an affiliate, it is possible
that top men from each of the national
organizations will be here to participate in
the convention.
While UTOO has not as yet officially affiliated
wit-h TOA, it is believed that action
to do so will be taken soon. It will thus become
the only .state exhibitor organization in
the country to have official ties with both
national organizations.
Reports on the National Allied convention
in Chicago were given by Bernard McKenna
and E. R. Slocum. UTOO director.
A general committee to handle convention
plans was named by Ed Thome, president.
Named were Ray Hughes, Bernard McKenna,
Paul Stonum, Claude Motley, Harold Combs.
Dick Thompson, Earl Snyder and Aveece
Waldron.
College Fights Drive-In
COLUMBUS—Walter Mile.s, owner of several
drive-in theatres in central Ohio, has
been denied rezoning of 50 acres at Johnstown
road and Cassady avenue in Franklin
Icoimty near here for another drive-in theatre.
Officials of St. Marys of the Springs
JCoUege, residents of the area, and church
officials strongly opposed the rezoning.
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Bob Hope to Spend Yule
Again at Service Base
From Holl/wood Edition
Hollywood—As is his usual custom,
Bob Hope will forego Christma.s at home
to spend it with U. S. armed forces overseas.
The comedian has completed arrangements
with the air force to fly to
Iceland to entertain military personnel,
making the junket from England, where
he will be starring with Katharine Hepburn
in a film for .>IGM release.
R. U. Brown Sees No Threat
To Freedom of the Press
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Robert U.
Brown, president
and editor of Editor & F*ublisher, is not worrying
about any threat of press censorship as a
result of the Motion Picture Ass'n of America
statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee's
Subconunittee on Constitutional Rights.
The MPAA statement said that the Supreme
Court's failure to eliminate pre-censorship
of films after including them among
the media of information had "seriously
eroded the freedom of the press."
Brown asserts that the courts "would
quickly correct any interpretation such as
the one held by the MPAA" because Supreme
Court decisions over a period of 150 years had
upheld the freedom of the press.
Brown added that he was sympathetic to
the film industry's anti-censorship moves and
said the 1952 decision in "The Miracle Case"
was a "positive one for the film industry, but
cannot be considered a negative one with
respect to other media."
38 Toronto Houses Start
Safety Elephant Shows
From Canadian Edition
TORONTO—No less than 38 Toronto theatres,
comprising neighborhood and suburban
units of Famous Players, Bloom & Fine, 20th
Century Theatres and Allen circuits, have
combined for the presentation of a series of
ten Saturday juvenile shows called Elmer the
Safety Elephant Theatre Parties in cooperation
with the Toronto Traffic Safety Coimcil
and the Evening Telegram. The newspaper
has gone all out with its campaign publicity.
The grand prize for the audience competitions
is an all-expense trip to Disneyland in
California next Easter, but there are 3,800
prizes in all for weekly aw ards on a safety quiz.
Sign Garage Lease
For Boston Common
From New Englond Edition
BOSTON—A contract and lease for the
construction and 40-year operation of a parking
garage under Boston Common has been
signed at long last by Mayor Hynes and
Motor Park officials. Actual work will start
on the project, which will have a capacity
of 3,600 cars, by March 15. The cost is
established at between ten and eleven million.
Mayor Hynes hailed the signing of the contracts
as "the culmination of many years of
waiting for this project which is so necessary
for the improvement of Boston with respect to
its parking facilities and its shopping and
theatre areas."
Downtow'n theatre managers have long
awaited this step in the city's desire to make
available more space for auto parking. One
manager of a first run house said, on hearing
the news that the garage is at last to be
a reality, "This is the most heartening news
we downtown managers have had since the
reduction of the admission tax. The parking
facilities in this city have been ridiculous to
the point of disaster. The garage will not
only alleviate the off-street parking problem,
but it will facilitate the present traffic
hazards. We have been longing for this construction
which we believe will step up our
evening business by at least 10 per cent."
Under the terms of the agreement, the
garage would be built wholly by Motor Park
at its expense with the city receiving 2 per
cent of the gross receipts annually. At the end
of 40 years, the project would revert to the
city.
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