Boxoffice-November.17.1956

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DALLAS
Everything happens at once, is the new
motto at the Plaza Theatre. Beginning
with the Saturday night (3) downpour, Ruth
Wafford and J. T. Orr's roof sprung a leak,
and they stayed up until 5 a.m. bailing out
the water from the aisles. Going from water
to fire, the stove in the women's restroom exploded
twice Monday. However, there was
no serious damage to the property. On Tuesday,
Orr had to take his wife Eloise to the
hospital for an operation at theatre opening
time, due to a sudden change in her doctor's
plans. Therefore, Mrs. Wafford was left
alone to do everything all by herself, but in
walked the 20th-Fox salesman, Wayne Love,
and he came to her rescue. Love sold popcorn
and candy for her most of the afternoon
and even swept out the lobby. (P. S. He
also sold her a Movietone newsreel series).
Mrs. Orr is doing very well after the operation
and is staying at Baylor Hospital, Mrs. Wafford
is recovering from her singed eyebrows,
J. T. Orr is nursing the water-logged calluses
on his hands and 20th-Fox is beaming over
the good public relations tendered by its
salesman by coming forth during the crisis.
There have been several sudden illnesses
and deaths among Dallas area showmen
during the past week. Woody Gibbs, U-I
booker, suffered a heart attack at the exchange
Wednesday (7) and was rushed to
the Stevens Park Clinic. While everything
was looking bright for his recovery, he suf-
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fered another attack there later on. His
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wife is employed by MGM .
Goodnight sr. suffered a fatal heart attack
while loading film for the G.A. White Express
Co. on Hickory street Thursday ... J. J. Jantz,
owner of the Frost at Frost, died Monday
after a long illness. Prior to becoming an
exhibitor there he had been a colonel in the
U. S. Army . B. S. Ferguson, owner
of the Ferguson Theatre and Hamlin Drivein
at Hamlin until recently, died. She had
sold her interests to Carl Benefiel who
handles it under the name of Hamlin Theatres,
Inc., now . . . Ray Kantor, MPA salesman
out of New Orleans, died at Beaumont
and his funeral was held Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Mount of the Capada
Drive-In, Floydada, drove to Dallas for the
funeral of Otto Akin, who had been in charge
of installations for Hardin Theatre Supply.
They dropped in at the offices of Heywood
Simmons Booking Service . D. Hill,
business agent of the projectionists, learned
of the death of a very close friend, a barber,
whom he had grown up with, after serving as
pallbearer at Akin's funeral . . . Mable
Guinan, at RKO, has been suffering with a
bad sinus cold for the past week, but has
not left the job . . . Clarence Nix, projectionist
at the Majestic screening room, fared well
with his medical checkup, but has not yet
returned to work.
. . . Lloyd
George Chatmas, owner of the Chatmas
and Queen theatres at Hearne stopped in at
Heywood Simmons on business
Edward visited the local 20th-Fox exchange
this week. He is out of the Fox division headquarters
... At RKO in the Merchandise
Mart, Mrs. M. Schulman and her son Al
were in from the Bryan theatres, as was Bill
Rau of the Alamo Booking Service in San
Antonio.
Columbia office manager Ross Morgan announced
the marriage of his daughter Gloria
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ployed at the Republic National Bank. He
also announced that Cona Shipp, the head
inspector, was out of the hospital and back
at work
. the cooperation of Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Bigham, owners of the Best
at Holland, the local Women's Study Club
sponsored a Tuesday (13) showing of Columbia's
"He Laughed Last" with the proceeds
going to the Bell County Society for
Crippled Children. There were two night
showings for it and a special children's
matinee, with^ tickets on sale in advance at
a local drugstore and bank.
. . .
Mrs. Ernest Berber of Herber Theatre
Equipment has been beaming over the renewed
interest shown by two of their smalltown
customers in revitalizing their theatres
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mitchell were in at
Herber's. They now operate theatres and
drive-ins at Forney, Cisco, Temple, Smithville
and Bastrop, and the Mitchell Furniture &
Appliance Co. at Forney
Gunter, who owns two
. . . Harrison
drive-ins at
C.
Alice,
is set to open the Depot Drive-In at McAllen,
and Mrs. Tlppie Cornes is ready to reopen
her theatre at Farmersville.
. . .
Ed Brinn, MGM salesman, has bought a
new canary yellow Plymouth and M. M.
"Pat" Murphree showed up on the Row with
a "1960 model" and gave John L. Franconi a
spin around the block in it . . . Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Darden stopped in at Webb's waffle
shop, the mecca of many showmen
Shipper Virgil Jackson of Empire Pictures
demonstrates the proper way to play the
marble machine at Screenland barbecue
during coffee break.
George Carpenter, swing projectionist at
Adelman's Delman and Tri-State's Casa
Linda, had his coffee on Jackson street . . .
Projectionist Leo Barrows, who has previously
owned theatres and is now in the booth at
Isley & Caver's Avenue, is spending his
vacation in west Texas . K. Bourgeois
at Astor Pictures has his special hillbilly show
of six shorts, featuring southwestern talent,
and a Snuffy Smith feature booked solid over
the Kay Lee Williams circuit in Oklahoma
and Arkansas, doing strong business for small
towns. He also opened his Technicolor
feature, "It Started In Paradise," at the
Trans-Texas Varsity in University Park.
Bourgeois is looking forward to receiving
prints on Astor's new Eastman Color "Men
of Sherwood Forest" after the first of the
year.
In conjunction with the opening of "You
Can't Run Away From It" at Interstate's
Palace Decca Records has tied in with two
free tickets to the showing of the Columbia
picture with each purchase of a soundtrack
album in 17 local music stores . . . Isley &
Caver's Westerner and Riverside drive-ins
and Interstate's Mansfield day-and-dated
Exhibitors "Silver River" and "Haunted
Gold." The Mansfield ran "AU-Americans of
the Southwest" with it and the other ozoners
had AA's "Dig That Uranium." R. C. "Cliff"
Sparks, business agent of the Fort Worth
projectionists union, works in the Mansfield
booth.
At Interstate's Seventh Street Art Theatre
the week was booked with three reissues;
Dominant's "Anthony Adverse" and "Johnny
Belinda" and 20th-Fox's "The Third Man,"
all single billed . . . Ilsey's Granada here
opened Selznick's "The Paradine Case"
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: November
17, 1956