Boxoffice-November.17.1956

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rjore Schary and his wife spent Monday (12)
here before going on to New York . . .
The Belmont Theatre presented the first of
a series of stage shows last weekend. The
stage review is in addition to the regular feature.
Present plans call for performances to
be headed by local television stars . . . During
October, the censor board reviewed 101 films
and ordered 14 cuts. No films were rejected.
Five were classified for adults only and 30
were foreign films.
Robert L. Kennedy, who started as an
usher with Warner Theatres back in 1927,
has been appointed manager of the Capitol
ROBERT L. KE>fNEDY
Theatre by the Stanley Warner circuit, succeeding
Richard Barry, who has taken a job
with the Chicago school board. Kennedy has
worked at the Frolic, Oakland Square, Ogden
and Highland.
Following the death of a 9-year-old boy as
he watched the combination of "The Creeping
Unknown" and "The Black Sleep" at the
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Lake Theatre in suburban Oak Park, Walter
E. McCarron, Cook County coroner, is seeking
a ban on horror double features. The
coroner's jury found the boy died of natural
causes. The coroner declared, however, that
he is of the opinion that Oak Park should
have its own censorship board and should
not rely on the Chicago censorship board to
set a method for judging pictures. Earlier he
had stated there should be only one horror
film on any one program.
Two theatres will host benefits for worthy
causes. At McVickers Theatre, Wednesday
(21), a Chicago committee hopes to raise
$35,000 to build a ninth boys town in Italy
with a benefit performance of "The Ten
Commandments." A theatre party at the
Granada will launch the 1957 fund-raising
drive of the Evelyn Steinberg Club for Cancer
Research. Funds raised by the group will go
to the Mount Sinai Medical Research Foundation
. . . T'he Acadia, located at 55th and
California, has closed. Competition with a
number of other theatres located nearby was
the reason given.
Ralph Stitt has joined the Filmack Trailer
Co. local publicity and advertising department.
Stitt, who has a wide experience in
theatre publicity and management, was most
recently a member of Columbia's publicity
staff. He will be in charge of theatre advertising
and the editing of Filmack's monthly
publication Inspiration. He replaces Dean
Davis, who will handle television and nontheatrical
advertising . than 600 persons
attended a banquet last Saturday to
hear Herman S. Skadow proclaimed Pioneer
of the Year at Bell & Howell Co. Skadow
was named the Bell & Howell veteran who
"has made the most outstanding contributions
to growth and progress of the company."
He started with Bell & Howell in 1928.
Radiant Mfg. Corp. has appointed Sheldon
D. Kaplan as sales promotion manager. Kaplan
joins Wallace Bucher, formerly advertising-sales
promotion manager who will continue
as advertising manager, in planning
and carrying out Radiant's enlarged schedule
of advertising and promotional activities for
its line of home and theatre projection
screens.
Services were held Tuesday (13) for Louis
Cochovety at Grace Methodist Church in
South Bend. Ind. For the last few weeks
Cochovety has been ill in St. Luke's Hospital
here. He was 56 years old and is survived
by his wife and a 9-year-old daughter.
Cochovety, a frequent visitor on Filmrow,
owned a number of theatres in Indiana, including
the Colfax and A-1, South Bend; the
Tivoli and Northside, Mishawauka; Moonlight
Drive-In, South Bend, and Starlite,
Osceola.
Irwin Fensin, head of Fensin Seating Co.,
has been hospitalized for observation. He
has been ailing for the last couple of weeks
... A happy person on Filmrow is Joseph
Berenson, head of National Theatre Advertising.
He has finally got his operations in
Oklahoma organized to a point where he can
settle down to problems In his Chicago office
for the next few weeks at least.
Henry Porter, associated with FMlmrow for
some 20 years and a member of the National
Screen staff here for about 12 years, has been
taken to the University of Illinois Research
& Educational Hospital for surgery. Ralph
Packard of United Film Delivery, a blood
donor, reported that Porter's condition is
grave and that blood donations are most important
to his condition. Recently Porter
lost the sight of one eye. He has been residing
in Carey, 111. The hospital is located at
840 South Wood St. and the telephone number
is MOnroe 6-3900.
Drive-in theatre equipment people say they
are expecting an unusually fine exhibit at
the Showmen's League of America convention
to be held at the Sherman Hotel November
Richard Davis, Modern Film
25-28 . . . Distributors representative in the Missouri
and Kansas areas, spent last week here for
conferences with Irwin Joseph, the company's
general manager.
Bud Boehm reopened the Halfield and is
reported to be managing the property . . .
"War and Peace" has been held over at the
State Lake. "Attack!" which was to have
opened here November 9, premieres November
20 instead.
The Howard and Norshore theatres have
sold 5,000 tickets to the District Chamber of
Commerce. Neighborhood merchants will, in
turn, present the tickets as Christmas gifts
to children in the locality. This is another
addition to the growing list of tie-in propositions
which managers of neighborhood houses
find have a steady pay-off over a long period
of time . . . The Halsted Outdoor Theatre
closed for the season Saturday night (11) ...
Ben Schumard, manager at the Lamar, left
for Florida for his vacation.
Tony Steuver of the Oriental T'heatre management
staff is going to try the winter
weather at his southern Illinois home in
Brownfield . Moore, Charlton Heston,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jerry Lewis, Eddie Fisher
and Benny Sharp and his orchestra were
guest stars at the annual Harvest Moon Festival
November 17. Cleo Moore planned to remain
so she could help with the benefit performance
of "The Ten Commandments" for
another boys town in Italy. Charlton Heston
will be a guest star for the opening of the film
at the McVickers November 20.
The Manor Theatre, closed about a month
ago, has been reopened under the ownership
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of the Manor Amusement Co. Manager is
Robert Savage . Duke Shumow has released
ownership of the Brandt Theatre. It is now
owned and operated by Leonard Singer.
Reopen for Fall Season
JOHNSTON CITY, ILL.—The Palace Theatre,
500-seater, dark since July 12, reopened
Thursday (15) for Stewart Cluster, owner.
Cluster also operates the Marion Drive-In on
Highway 37 about two miles north of Marion.
George Abbott is producing "The Pajama
Game" at Warners in association with Frederick
Brisson, Robert E. Griffith and Harold
Prince.
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