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. . Bob<br />
,<br />
. . Georgia<br />
. . Buying<br />
—<br />
ATLANTA<br />
niabama Theatre Owners Ass'n President<br />
R. M. Kennedy, who operates theatres<br />
in Montgomery, Selma and Jasper. Ala.,<br />
Eliabethton. Tenn.. and Greensboro. N. C,<br />
on a recent visit to the Row seemed encouraged<br />
over the improvement in business dur-<br />
Heres Your Chance<br />
to<br />
get in the<br />
BIG<br />
MONEY<br />
Be Sure<br />
to Play<br />
As a screen<br />
game, Hollywood takes<br />
lop honors. As a boxoffice attraction,<br />
it is without equal. It has<br />
been a favorite with theatregoers for<br />
15 years.<br />
Write today for complete details!<br />
Be sure to give seating or car<br />
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HOLLYWOOD<br />
AMUSEMENT<br />
COMPANY<br />
3750 Oakton St.<br />
Skokie, Illinois<br />
ing the last several weeks . Theatres<br />
executive Roy M. Avey was vacationing<br />
on a Caribbean sea cruise. Avey and Dr.<br />
Floyd McRae flew to Miami where they were<br />
met by William K. Jenkins. Georgia Theatres<br />
chief executive. From Miami, the three<br />
flew to Nassau where they boarded Jenkins'<br />
80-foot oceangoing yacht, the Willie Kaye.<br />
Avey expects to be back in his office about<br />
the last week in February.<br />
.<br />
Mrs. Nell Middleton, secretary to publicist<br />
Judson Moses at MGM, has returned from<br />
a week spent at Georgetown, S. C. She visited<br />
her sister, Mrs. J. O. Guerry, who became the<br />
mother of a baby boy recently . . . Russell<br />
Holder of Rockwood Amusement. Nashville,<br />
made one of his rare visits to the Row. He<br />
was introducing his new field man. Bud<br />
Hughes, also of Nashville and<br />
booking for the Hiway 21 Drive-In at<br />
Savannah, is now being handled by owneroperator<br />
Gus Hayes.<br />
Actor John Howard arrived here Thursday<br />
(7) for a two-day visit. Howard has appeared<br />
in many motion pictures and now<br />
stars in Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal. NBC-<br />
TV program, seen here over WSB-TV. He<br />
was accompanied by his wife, Eva Ralf,<br />
formerly a prima ballerina of the Berlin State<br />
Opera . Hossee and Milton Brockett<br />
of Crescent Amusement Co., Nashville, were<br />
here on a three-day buying and booking<br />
Agnes Hurt. Republic inspector,<br />
trip . . .<br />
entered Georgia Baptist Hospital for surgery.<br />
WOMPI President Jackie Cowart has<br />
entered Piedmont Hospital for surgery. Mrs.<br />
Cowart, secretary to Martin executive, Johnnie<br />
Harrell, expects to be on leave approximately<br />
six weeks recuperating. At the<br />
WOMPI board meeting held Monday (4) at<br />
the Variety Club. Mi-s. Cowart appointed<br />
the following officers and committee chairmen:<br />
Marcelle Davis, recording secretary;<br />
Frances Hopkins, history-scrapbook chairman;<br />
ELrnestine Carter, finance chairman;<br />
Nell Middleton, publicity chaii'man; Sarah<br />
Vinson, social chairman and Helene Grovensteen,<br />
chaplain. The local WOMPI club<br />
entertained the members of the Salvation<br />
Army Girls Club at a valentine-bingo party<br />
at the Bankhead clubrooms on Thursday (14 1.<br />
Al Morgan, formerly with CBS and NBC-<br />
TV. and author of the book "The Great Man"<br />
which Jose Ferrer directed and starred in,<br />
wa.s here recently. He was taken on a tour<br />
of TV, radio and newspaper offices for interviews<br />
by Ben Hill, U-I's district press agent<br />
sister-in-law of Martin booker Lois<br />
Cone, Mrs. "Tot" Joy, was at Emory Hospital<br />
for treatment.<br />
Georgia exhibitors visiting the Row were<br />
C. A. Withrow, Odum; Herman Abrams,<br />
Richland and Lumpkin; Non-is Stephens,<br />
Grand and Screven Drive-In, Sylvania; Alton<br />
Odum, Ritz and Harlem, Thomaston; R. E.<br />
Andrews. Carver, Rome, and Nat Williams<br />
jr., Interstate Enterprises, Thomasville.<br />
Other visitors were Juanita Bellville and<br />
Juanita "Junior" Force, Lakemont Drive-<br />
In, Alcoa, Tenn.; Phil Bradley, 41 Drive-In,<br />
Chattanooga: Bob Word, Word Theatres,<br />
Scottsboro, Ala.; J. W. Riley, Tennessee Eastman<br />
Recreation Club, Kingsport, Tenn.;<br />
John Moffitt. Moffitt Theatres, Montgomery,<br />
Ala.; Phil Richardson, McLendon Theatres,<br />
Union Springs, Ala.: W. W. Hamond jr..<br />
operator of the Marshall Drive-In. Albertville.<br />
Bowline Drive-In. Decatur, and Wilson<br />
Drive-In, Florence, Ala.; Henry Webb,<br />
Marengo, Demopolis, Ala.<br />
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in Louisiana— Hodaes Theatre Supply Com pony. Inc., New Orteons<br />
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SE-4 BOXOFFICE ;: February 16, 1957