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KANSAS CITY
Tim Velde, general sales
manager for United
. . Capitol Flag Banner's business
. . Charles
Artists, is holding a sales conference here
Tuesday (19) with Ralph Amacher, manager
Stulz, Columbia salesman in the
Salina territory, was in for a special sales
meeting last Saturday and Monday
Beverly Miller postcards from Mexico
. . .
how
he and Mrs. Miller are enjoying
&
life below
the border .
barometer reports these high: "The Tea-
house of the August Moon," "The Wrong
Man," "Oh, Men! Oh, Women!" .
Rees, manager of the Sherman Theatre and
the Goodland (Kas.) Drive-In for Commonwealth,
was re-elected treasurer of the Goodland
Chamber of Commerce recently.
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. . .
Marvin Goldfarb, Buena Vista district manager,
came in from Denver and accompanied
Tommy Thompson. BV representative for St.
Louis and Kansas City, to St. Louis
Clyde Badger of Stebbins Theatre Equipment
Co. reports business has been picking up the
last few weeks .
Charles H. Ridgway.
mother of Mrs. George Baker, died at the
age of 91 Friday (8i. She was the widow of
a Kansas state senator and had made her
home with her daughter for many years . . .
Perry Loromor, formerly with Commonwealth
at Belleville, is now assistant manager of the
Blair Theatre at Smith Center . Lowe
has again closed his Royal Theatre at Sterling.
Lowe finds it hard to operate the theatre
at a profit on an absentee-owner basis.
He lives at Lebanon, Mo.
Larry Klein, Universal office
manager, reports
John Wangberg, former RKO salesman,
has joined the Universal sales
staff, replacing G. S. "Pat" Pinnell. Pinnell
covered the Wichita area and resigned to
accept a position as district manager for a
publishing company in Texas. Klein said
Joe Horn is here assisting with the integration
of RKO pictures with Universal. The
billing and collecting for the Disney RKO
shorts will be handled by the Kansas City
branch of the National Film Service. Buena
Vista will do the booking for them.
R. L. McWhorter, district sales manager for
Coca-Cola, is maldng a trip to New Orleans to
Louis Patz, dis-
attend a sales meeting . . .
trict manager of National Screen Service,
and Mi's. Patz have moved to the Locarno
apartments on the Plaza . Popichele,
former biller at RKO, is now with
Dixie Enterprises, operated by Harry Gaffney
Walker, publicist for Warner Bros.,
has been in town for nearly three weeks now,
an unusually long period in which he became
re-acquainted with his family. He left this
week for St. Louis to start promotion plans
for "The Spirit of St. Louis."
. . .
Lewis Henderson has resigned as bookkeeper
for 20th-Fox and accepted the job of
manager of the Jayhawk Theatre in Kansas
City, Kas. Gloria Foster has replaced him at
20th-Fox . Evens, publicist, is on a
trip with Robert Wagner, star of "The True
Story of Jesse James" Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Schultz have returned from a trip
to California ... A production crew for the
Alexander Film Co. arrive in Kansas City
the week of the 18th to shoot an on-the-spot
production for a TWA test strip . . . Howard
Strum reports his milk-shake machine has
been sold to the Electric Theatre at St.
Joseph, the State at Jefferson City, the
Boulevard and the New 50 drive-ins.
Frank Thomas, manager of Allied Artists,
reports a Playdate Drive for the month of
May. Also that Mark Richman, who played
the young romantic lead in "Friendly Persuasion,"
is appearing in the Victoria Theatre's
stage presentation of "Hatful of Rain"
exhibitors seen recently on Filmrow
include Mr. and Mrs. C. R. James, Butler;
Komp Jarrett, Nevada: Elmer Bills, Salisbury;
Harley Fryer, Lamar; Glen Hall, Cassville;
Ed Harris, Neosho; Glenn Jones, Gravois
Mills; Mrs. John Brandt, Plattsburg; Doc
Lowe, Lebanon. Kansas exhibitors included
Mrs. William Bancroft, Ottawa; Tal Richardson,
Coffeyville; Wendell Donohue, Topeka;
Louis Stein, Parsons; Marty Landau, Horton;
Mrs. J. Snyder, Oakley; R. L. Fite, El Dorado.
Word on Filmrow is that Marty Landau of
Horton, Kas., and associates have taken over
the Frontier Drive-In at Atchison. Former
owners were Charles Potter and Harold Lux.
The drive-in has been open about six years
Orear, executive vice-president of
Commonwealth Theatres, is vacationing in
Phoenix ... J. A. Camey plans to reopen the
Community House Theatre in Humansville,
Mo., in March . . . Bill Silver of Cameron, Mo.,
had a big city mishap recently. His life-size
standee of Elvis Presley was stolen from the
lobby of his Silver Theatre and he ran an ad
offering a $5 reward for its return. The theft
also rated a front-page story in the local
paper.
Publicists on Committee
For Sweepstakes Vote
KANSAS CITY — Don Walker, Warner
Bros, exploiteer, has been made chairman
of COMPO's Academy Awards Sweepstakes
for the field men in this area. Working with
him aa'e Chick Evens of 20th-Fox, Bernie
Evens of MGM and Jim Castle of Paramount.
Tom Bailey, MGM manager, is distributor
chairman and the exhibitor chairmen
are M. B. Smith of Commonwealth
Theatres and C. E. Cook, Maryville, Mo.,
exhibitor.
The Durwood, Mid-Central and Commonwealth
circuits are participating as well as a
number of independent theatres.
Buys Out Drive-In Partner
PITTSFIELD, ILL.—The Clark Drive-In
Theatre located at Summer Hill on US 54 between
here and Louisiana, Mo., has been
taken over entu'ely by Russell Armentrout of
Louisiana. Armentrout purchased the halfinterest
previously held by Roger Moyer.
The drive-in is scheduled to open for the
1957 season in about six weeks. It has been
closed since last October.
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C.6 BOXOFFICE :: February 16, 1957