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ATLANTA
niabama Theatre Owners Ass'n President
R. M. Kennedy, who operates theatres
in Montgomery, Selma and Jasper. Ala.,
Eliabethton. Tenn.. and Greensboro. N. C,
on a recent visit to the Row seemed encouraged
over the improvement in business dur-
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3750 Oakton St.
Skokie, Illinois
ing the last several weeks . Theatres
executive Roy M. Avey was vacationing
on a Caribbean sea cruise. Avey and Dr.
Floyd McRae flew to Miami where they were
met by William K. Jenkins. Georgia Theatres
chief executive. From Miami, the three
flew to Nassau where they boarded Jenkins'
80-foot oceangoing yacht, the Willie Kaye.
Avey expects to be back in his office about
the last week in February.
.
Mrs. Nell Middleton, secretary to publicist
Judson Moses at MGM, has returned from
a week spent at Georgetown, S. C. She visited
her sister, Mrs. J. O. Guerry, who became the
mother of a baby boy recently . . . Russell
Holder of Rockwood Amusement. Nashville,
made one of his rare visits to the Row. He
was introducing his new field man. Bud
Hughes, also of Nashville and
booking for the Hiway 21 Drive-In at
Savannah, is now being handled by owneroperator
Gus Hayes.
Actor John Howard arrived here Thursday
(7) for a two-day visit. Howard has appeared
in many motion pictures and now
stars in Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal. NBC-
TV program, seen here over WSB-TV. He
was accompanied by his wife, Eva Ralf,
formerly a prima ballerina of the Berlin State
Opera . Hossee and Milton Brockett
of Crescent Amusement Co., Nashville, were
here on a three-day buying and booking
Agnes Hurt. Republic inspector,
trip . . .
entered Georgia Baptist Hospital for surgery.
WOMPI President Jackie Cowart has
entered Piedmont Hospital for surgery. Mrs.
Cowart, secretary to Martin executive, Johnnie
Harrell, expects to be on leave approximately
six weeks recuperating. At the
WOMPI board meeting held Monday (4) at
the Variety Club. Mi-s. Cowart appointed
the following officers and committee chairmen:
Marcelle Davis, recording secretary;
Frances Hopkins, history-scrapbook chairman;
ELrnestine Carter, finance chairman;
Nell Middleton, publicity chaii'man; Sarah
Vinson, social chairman and Helene Grovensteen,
chaplain. The local WOMPI club
entertained the members of the Salvation
Army Girls Club at a valentine-bingo party
at the Bankhead clubrooms on Thursday (14 1.
Al Morgan, formerly with CBS and NBC-
TV. and author of the book "The Great Man"
which Jose Ferrer directed and starred in,
wa.s here recently. He was taken on a tour
of TV, radio and newspaper offices for interviews
by Ben Hill, U-I's district press agent
sister-in-law of Martin booker Lois
Cone, Mrs. "Tot" Joy, was at Emory Hospital
for treatment.
Georgia exhibitors visiting the Row were
C. A. Withrow, Odum; Herman Abrams,
Richland and Lumpkin; Non-is Stephens,
Grand and Screven Drive-In, Sylvania; Alton
Odum, Ritz and Harlem, Thomaston; R. E.
Andrews. Carver, Rome, and Nat Williams
jr., Interstate Enterprises, Thomasville.
Other visitors were Juanita Bellville and
Juanita "Junior" Force, Lakemont Drive-
In, Alcoa, Tenn.; Phil Bradley, 41 Drive-In,
Chattanooga: Bob Word, Word Theatres,
Scottsboro, Ala.; J. W. Riley, Tennessee Eastman
Recreation Club, Kingsport, Tenn.;
John Moffitt. Moffitt Theatres, Montgomery,
Ala.; Phil Richardson, McLendon Theatres,
Union Springs, Ala.: W. W. Hamond jr..
operator of the Marshall Drive-In. Albertville.
Bowline Drive-In. Decatur, and Wilson
Drive-In, Florence, Ala.; Henry Webb,
Marengo, Demopolis, Ala.
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atlanta,
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SE-4 BOXOFFICE ;: February 16, 1957