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INDIANAPOLIS<br />
Tyfarc Wolf is installing a big playground at<br />
the Cascades Drive-In at Bloomington .<br />
Faron Young was the surprise draw of the<br />
week in his four-day personal appearance<br />
with "Hidden Guns" at the Lyric . . . Manny<br />
Marcus returned from a three-week Miami<br />
Beach vacation and reunion with his son,<br />
a student at the University of Alabama, and<br />
daughter now living in New York . . . Trueman<br />
Rembusch left Sunday for a Florida holiday.<br />
John and Jacob VVoehrles have withdrawn<br />
their application for a drive-in on state road<br />
62 at Jeffersonville because of a property<br />
owners' protest. Another bid for a drive-in<br />
at Jeffersonville was denied by the zoning<br />
board last week . Mailers has reopened<br />
the Lake at Warsaw, which was badly<br />
damaged by a boiler explosion in the basement<br />
last October 23. In addition to repairing<br />
and remodeling the theatre, Mailers has installed<br />
both electronic and electrically controlled<br />
boiler controls ... Sol Greenberg,<br />
booker for Y&W, was recuperating at home<br />
after a minor operation.<br />
Stanley A. B. Cooper reopened the Lark at<br />
Brazil as a weekend art film house. It has<br />
been closed two years. "It's a proven fact<br />
the lost audience of movie patrons are the<br />
adults," Cooper said. There will be no reduced<br />
prices for children at the Lark. Cooper also<br />
operates the Cooper at Brazil . . The Roxy,<br />
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in the Glen Park district of Gary, is being<br />
converted into a commercial building by the<br />
widow of the late Jim Bikos, who formerly<br />
operated the house.<br />
Hugh McLachlen, maintenance supervisor<br />
for Y&W, will be a speaker at the national<br />
drive-in convention in Cleveland. McLachlen<br />
also was elected president of the Good Fellows<br />
Club, a charitable organization, at Muncie<br />
recently . . . Bob Conn, until recently 20th-<br />
Fox manager, was back in town Monday on<br />
his way to Fort Wayne to speak at the<br />
Cinemascope 55 demonstration there Tuesday.<br />
T O. McCleaster, central division manager,<br />
spoke at the Louisville demonstration Thursday.<br />
Claude McKean, WB manager, went to<br />
Philadelphia for a sales meeting last week . .<br />
Howard Swigert, who owns the property, has<br />
taken over the operation of the Marion at<br />
Poseyvllle from Tom Goodman . . . Frank<br />
Carroll has informed the Allied Theatre<br />
Owners of Indiana office that he is closing<br />
the Orleans at Orleans<br />
. . . ATOI has arranged<br />
for members to have first option on<br />
the Miss Universe contest in their counties<br />
this year if they want it.<br />
GIFTS TO SCHOOL—Exhibitors in the Missouri Ozarks last week gave to the<br />
School of the Ozarks a General Electric stove and refrigerator, which had been<br />
offered as prizes in the recent Audience Awards contest. No patron qualified to win<br />
the prizes, so the showmen voted to give them to the School of the Ozarks, which<br />
depends entirely upon gifts for its operation. The school has a student body numbering<br />
300 and the students come from families throughout the Ozark area who are<br />
financially unable to send their children through high school. Shown in the photo,<br />
seated, left to right: Glenn Caldwell, Aurora; Jerry Drake, Bolivar; Dr. M. Graham<br />
Clark, president of the School of the Ozarks, and Tom Condon, district manager for<br />
General Electric. Standing: Blon Bryant, Fox Theatre, Springfield; Kyle Keltner,<br />
Ozark; George Hunter, Fox Midwest manager, Springfield; Bob Hicks, Kickapoo!<br />
Springfield; Tyndall Lewis, Gillioz, Springfield; Doyle Mowery, Springfield Drive-In!<br />
and Bob Watts of the Kickapoo. C. R. McDonald of the Tower Theatre and Glenn<br />
Hall of Cassville were not present when the picture was taken.<br />
His Liberace Promotion<br />
Brings Unusual Response<br />
NEOSHO, MO.—Ed Harris, manager of the<br />
Hugh Gardner Theatres and president of the<br />
Kansas-Missouri Theatre Ass'n, got unusual<br />
results from some thousand postcards which<br />
he had mailed from Hollywood to promote<br />
the Liberace film, "Sincerely Yours." The<br />
postcard read:<br />
Honey: I'll be in Neosho Thursday,<br />
Friday and Saturday, February 2. 3. 4.<br />
Call 96 or see me at 204 South Wood.<br />
You'll never regret the time you spent<br />
ivith me.<br />
Sincerely Yours,<br />
Liberace<br />
Addressed to Liberace at the number given<br />
came this signed reply as follows, name<br />
withheld for publication:<br />
Dear Mr. Liberace: I received your<br />
postcard today, and was very much<br />
HANDY<br />
surprised. Sorry to say I am not in<br />
Neosho but visiting my folks in Desloge<br />
while my husband is looking for<br />
work in St. Louis, but would you please<br />
write me and let me know if you are<br />
having a program in Neosho, or what<br />
it was you wanted to see me about?<br />
Thank you for your invitation.<br />
Sincerely Yours,<br />
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