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IJarry Botwick, busy supervisor of Florida
State Tlieatres operations in the booming
south Florida gold coast area, came in
for a day of hui-ried conferences with home
Bob Daugherty, ailing
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general manager of the Floyd Theatres circuit
in central Florida, left his Haines City
home for a complete physical checkup in a
noted New Orleans clinic . . . Thomas P.
Tidwell, 20th-Fox local manager, is now
occupying a bright new office in the 20th-
Fox building on Bay street.
Jimmy Hobbs, Allied Ai'tists executive from
Atlanta, came in to make arrangements for
the opening of a Jacksonville exchange in
the near future. Several former members
of the RKO staff will form the nucleus of
the Allied Artists local organization. They
are George Andrews. Alice Yeargan. Mayce
Beall and Jerry Wardlow. Bob Bowers was
reported to be on his way here from Houston,
Tex., to manage the exchange . . . Gene
Hudgens, former RKO office manager, has
joined Byron Adams' staff at United Artists
in the same capacity . other RKOers
have found employment in the local industry:
Dorothy Edrington with 20th-Fox and La-
Dene Mauldin with Warner Bros. . . Approaching
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motherhood brought about Har-
riett Gunter's resignation from the 20th-Fox
staff.
At the invitation of Col. John Crovo, president
of the Motion Picture Council, Ed
Chumley, Paramount manager, addressed the
civic group on the subject of "The Ten
Commandments" at a luncheon meeting in
the Hotel Seminole .
Shaaber,
projection booth expert formerly with Wil-
Kin Theatre Supply, has joined the Roy
Smith staff to advise exhibitors regarding
the proper utilization of carbons and equipment.
Jack Fitzwater, Bay-Lan Theatres supervisor
in Tampa, suffered from an acute attack
of bursitis in his right elbow ... On
Sunday, Feb. 10, 1907, or 50 years ago, the
Savoy Theatre was opened at the city's
main intersection of Main and Forsyth
streets with a single admission price of five
cents. A skyscraper now occupies the spot
which still is in the heart of the theatrical
district.
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Florida business visitors from New York
were Sidney Markley, Paramount executive,
and George Walder, sales manager for Lorraine
Carbons of unseasonably
warm weather have continued without intsrruption
and have forced operators of indoor
theatres to use their air conditioning
systems instead of their heating plants
Tampa exhibitor Pete J. Sones was traveling
over the state in a new Plymouth
A teenage hotrod club supplied Herb Roller.
Edgewood Theatre manager, with a sidewalk
hotrod exhibit when he played the
AIP combination of "Hot-Rod Girl" and
"Girls in Prison."
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transfer
of Jack Miller to the first run Gables
from the Shores: James Puller, from the
Regent to the Shores; David Payne, into the
Colony from the Boulevard, with Tom Braun
pinch-hitting at the Boulevard; Fred Hughes
to the Regent from the Olympia, and John
Calio, formerly with the Brandt circuit, to
an assistant's post at the downtown Florida.
Disney cameramen have completed a
tour
of Fort Lauderdale, the results of which will
be screened on the Sunday TV show in September.
Chief Cameraman Ray Jewell said
the pictures are to be incorporated in a 90-
minute travelog on Florida's Gold Coast,
entitled "Winter Wonderland." The yacht
center at Lauderdale was used, six sections
of the Intra-Coastal waterway and New
River, and parts of the downtown area. Three
days of shooting were scheduled for Miami
Beach before the crew returned to California.
. . .
Walter Kesce of Rainbow Pictures is on the
lookout for a one-armed actor between 30
and 40 years of age. Wants him for a documentary
Manager Jack Winters of the
Sunset Art Theatre reports on two well
satisfied customers who attended every performance
of "Madame Butterfly," just concluding
a much-lauded run at both the Mayfair
and Sunset. Customers were two crickets
who chirped happily in time with the music.
Though diligently sought, the musical pair
could not be found or ejected. However, the
following picture "War and Peace," left them
speechless.
When Fred MacMurray appeared at the
Carib, Miami and Miracle theatres, patrons
received a surprise dividend when Guy Rennie
came on stage and introduced Mac-
Mm-ray's wife, June Haver, the actress . . .
"Seven Wonders of the World" will open
soon at the Roosevelt, succeeding "This is
Cinerama."
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