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HOUSTON
JJoy Rogers writes his old pal Rex Van, manager
of Variety Tent 34, to say he was
headin' for Houston and the Fat Stock Show.
They will celebrate the silver anniversary of
that gathering this year . was much
in evidence at the recent auto show, pinclihitting
behind the scenes. Other Variety-ers
doing a job were advertiser Mike Conti and
Bill Jones of Jones Apothecary, chairman of
the beauty contest: entertainment chairman
Mack Howard; Chief Barker Paul Boesch.
Fred Nahas, KXYZ, did his usual top job of
emceeing. An unusual setup was a penthouse
bandstand in the shape of a grand piano suspended
above the stage. Fred introduced the
fire marshall who decorated headliner Guy
TEXAS DRIVE-IN
Mitchell with a badge making him a district
fire chief—saying that as hot as Guy was it
would take more than a fii'e department to
Caught watching the
put out the fire . . .
show were Majestic Theatre Manager John
Arnold, Lowell Bulpitt of the Boulevard Theatre,
Dick Wygant of the Heights Theatre,
and Grady Goodwin who is the new salesman
for Motion Picture Advertising.
Bob Bowers, Allied Ai'tists, has been made
manager of that film company's new exchange
in Jacksonville, Fla. He left Sunday
1 10) to take over. For about a year Bob has
been living in Bellaire with his wife Sara
and family. Of the Bowers' four children, two
THEATRE
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS IN OKLAHOMA. LOUISIANA
AND MISSISSIPPI
Will
Be Held At
ADOLPHUS HOTEL. DALLAS. TEXAS
FEBRUARY 25-26-27
Constructive Business Sessions
intermingled
with
Good Fellowship and Fun
WIRE, PHONE OR WRITE
FOR YOUR RESERVATIONS - NOW
TO:
OR:
ADOLPHUS HOTEL. DALLAS
TEXAS DRIVE-IN THEATRE OWNERS ASS'N.
P. O. BOX 1015. AUSTIN. TEXAS
Entertainment Daily for the Ladies
are now at home. Sammy attends Pershing
junior high, little Debra hasn't started school
yet. Bob jr. is in the Navy and Patricia is
enrolled at Baylor. It'll be about a month
before Bob can move the family to Jacksonville,
he said. In 17 years in the industry
Bob has made many friends. "Tell everybody
I hate to leave, but do appreciate the
new appointment," Bob said. Prior to joining
AA Bob was with MGM and then Warners,
and lived in Memphis and then Dallas
before coming to the Houston area.
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Willie Katcliff's Epsom Drive-In now has
an eight-unit show running four and a half
hours. Pix run from "Strip-Strip Ahoy" to
"3ust-a-Rama" the World in
80 Days" went into its ninth week at the
Tower Theatre on Westheimer Up on
Gray at the River
. . .
Oaks "War and Peace"
had a three-week run Fred
Nahas, heading a group of local business men,
has been named to represent Zenith Radio
Corp. on behalf of subscription TV in this
area. Pieter van Beek, of Zenith Corp., emphasized
that the operation is dependent
upon authorization of the FCC.
Actress Jane Russell has been back in
Houston to spark a membership rally for the
Harris county chapter of W.A.I.F. With her
this time was David Brian, TV's Mr. District*
Attorney, and long-time business associate
Mark Sheridan, 20th-Fox
Edyth Lynch . . .
southwest district manager, was a visitor at
the local exchange last week.
SAN ANTONIO
Ceen along the rialto: William O'Donnell,
president of Cinema Art Theatres, Dallas;
Wayne Taylor, MGM, Dallas; John
Rosenfield, amusements editor of the Dallas
Morning News, and Robert Bixler, Paramount
exploiteer, Dallas . A. Wolfe,
manager at the Prince, said he has viewed
more pictures on television during the advent
of video than he has on theatre screens in
the last
15 years.
.
Al Lowrey, advertising manager for "The
Ten Commandments," was in to handle the
group sale of tickets for the picture, whicii
opens at the Aztec February 14. The advance
sale opened here ten days before the roadshow
engagement with blocks of tickets selling
at reduced prices for school groups, religious
organizations and other civic leagues
May, onetime Interstate Theatres
employe here some years ago, was a recent
visitor in town. He now resides in Corpus
Christi . . T. L. Harville, Rio, Alice, and
Esteban Fraga, Azteca, Natalia, were in the
Alamo City booking and buying Mexican
pictures.
Herman Craver, Tower Pictures, Dallas,
called on exhibitors in the San Antonio territory
Louis Cuellar, who has been assistant
. . . booker for Clasa-Mohme here for the
last few years, resigned to take a position
with the Bexar County tax commissioners office
here. His position at C-M will be filled
when a suitable replacement can be found
Manager Norman Schwartz and his
assistant Richard Vaughan donned tuxedos
the roadshowing of "The Ten Command-
for
ments."
Starring in United Artists' "The Quiet
American" are Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave
and Claude Dauphin.
SW-2 BOXOFFICE :: February 16, 1957