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TTariety Tent 4 will stage a spring festival
May 26 at 8 p. m. in the Kiel Auditorium,
with the proceeds to go into its Heart fund.
The program will featme the Crew Cuts and
Blue Bai-ron's orchestra. In addition to a
talent show and dance contest, there will be
square dancing for the young-of-heart. The
booths will be managed by members of Tent
4 in full regalia to provide the necessary atmosphere
. 19, Colosseum of Motion
Picture Salesmen of America, planned a
luncheon meeting in the Melbourne Hotel
Saturday U2). National officers of the Colosseum
and all honorary members of Loge 19
were invited to attend the meeting.
MITO officers and directors heard a report
from Paul Krueger, vice-president, and
1956 convention chairman, on the plans for
that gathering to be held here August 27
and 28. Bernard Temborius of Lebanon, 111.,
and Jimmy James of St. Louis reported on
the final details for the June 12 meeting to
be held at the Locust HlUs Country Club,
Lebanon, 111.
iVIary Jane Webb, private secretary to Clarence
Ritzier. MGM office manager, has returned
to work after ilhiess had kept her off
the job smce late in March . C.
Earle jr. has resigned from the sales staff of
National Theatre Supply and on May 15 will
become a salesman for the Missouri-Illinois
Tractor & Equipment Co., distributors of
road building and general construction equipment.
He will cover the northern parts of
St. Louis and St. Louis County. He joined
National Theatre Supply under his father,
Wilham C. Earle, St. Louis manager, in September
1945.
A. C. Brown, an auditor for Paramount,
is back in St. Louis for the first time since
1936. Upon arrival he sought to telephone
the old Beers Hotel, Grand boulevard at Olive
street, where he formerly stayed, to make a
reservation—only to find it had disappeared
from the local scene. Prior to World War
II, he covered auditing assignments in various
parts of Europe over a period of some
12 years. He discovered there have been
many changes here since his last visit to
town . Schweitzer, Allied Artists
manager, visited exhibitors in Jacksonville,
Jerseyville, Marion and Benton, 111., during
the week.
The assets of the bankrupt McCarty Theatre
Supply Co. were sold at public auction
Friday (4). Principal items sold were office
furniture, fixtures and equipment It has
been many years since such a sad scene took
place along Filmrow. Some firms have alltime
highs for income and profits: others
the smaller ones—go broke, it appears. The
bidding wasn't too lively or high . . . The
world premiere of "The Proud Ones" will be
staged at the St. Louis Theatre June 1. The
accompanying picture will be the short subject
in Cinemascope, "Land of the Bible."
Gordon Halloran and his sales staff have already
lined up some 120 playdates for the
picture in the St. Louis film territory.
Pat O'Brien, Hollywood star, speaks at a
banquet In the Chase Hotel Sunday (13) in
connection with the celebration of the 100th
anniversary in the Archdiocese of St. Louis
of the Sisters of Mercy. The celebration will
also include a two-day pageant in the Kiel
Opera House to be presented by 350 college
and high school students . Better Films
Council here will have its annual luncheon
and Installation of the 1956-57 officers at the
Congress Hotel Friday il8) ... Former State
Sen. Milton Napier, who is a vice-president
and general counsel of the Better Films
Council, on May 1 was presented the prized
American Legion Award medal by the Clarence
Sodemann Post No. 203 for meritorious
services rendered over a period of many years
to the Legion, its members and to servicemen
generally.
Charles L. Ciine, 49. a former member of
projectionists Local 143. died of cancer April
23 at Lake Charles. La. Cline served as an
operator in various local theatres for some
ten years prior to 1943. He retained membership
in the union until 1953. He was a
nephew and namesake of Charles L. Cline,
who founded Local 143 in 1908, serving as its
first president. The younger Cline served
as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy
during World War II. In recent years he
headed a farm bureau in Lake Charles.
Jesse Chinich. Buena Vista western division
manager, was a recent visitor here . . .
The 61 Drive-In on U. S. 61 at Pevely now
is operating on a full week schedule. Pi-eviously
it was open weekends only.
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CHUAOOAN.S ON LOT — Howard
Lubliner. rieht, second generation of the
pioneer Lubliner & Trinz circuit operators
in ChicaBo, and Mrs. Lubliner were recent
Hollywood visitors. During their stay
they met producer-director Cecil B. De-
Mille on the Paramount lot. They are
shown with DeMille in the Paramount
studio commi.ssary beneath framed enlargements
of Charlton Heston and Yul
Brynner, who are among the stars in De-
Mille's "The Ten Commandments."
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