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Chas. Manley to Speak
At UTOO Gathering
OKLAHOMA CITY—An additional speaker
will be added to the program of the United
Theatre Owners of
Oklahoma general
membership convention
March 6. 7 in
Oklahoma City. Directors
voted at their
February meeting to
invite Charles Manley
nf Manley Popcorn Co.,
Kansas City, to address
the convention.
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In addition, board
members heard reports
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Charles Manley "^00 executive
director E. R. "Red"
Slocum on progress of convention plans and
on legislation now before the legislature that
will affect the motion picture business.
The board also reviewed a problem presented
at previous meetings — policy of some
film companies locally to withhold pictures
from drive-ins. Earl Snyder reviewed the
steps taken in this matter. He said two companies
involved had been contacted, and both
had replied—one satisfactorily.
A request from COMPO asking the UTOO
board's approval on the Academy Awards
Sweepstakes was considered. The board voted
to set the request aside and leave the matter
to the discretion of the individual operators.
Some 20 board members attended the meeting.
Earl Snyder, chairman, presided in the
absence of President Bernard McKenna, who
Attention
Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle
Exhibitors
Announcing
(formerly of A. & O. Theotre Booking Service)
HIGHLY QUALIFIED TO
ASSIST IN ALL PHASES
OF YOUR BUSINESS.
Located on Filmrow
was in Cincinnati attending the National
Allied drive-in convention as UTOO representative.
OKLAHOMA CITY
^ooper Foundation Theatres has sold the
Plaza Theatre here to Sidney Cohen of
Theatre Service Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah,
Tlie Plaza had been closed for several weeks.
Prior to closing. Cooper Foundation operated
the theatre as an art house, showing principally
foreign films. In other theatre changes,
Mel J. Dowling has closed the Palace at
Eufaula, and Mi's. W. G. Wren, who recently
took over the Majestic at Temple, Okla.. has
decided to close the theatre.
Closing of the RKO office in Oklahoma
City has affected ten workers. R. B. Williams,
manager, will go to Florida for a belated
vacation. After that, his plans are indefinite.
Dan Snyder, RKO office manager,
for the time being will work at the Universal
office to help familiarize U-I staffers with
RKO's files, pictures, etc. Catherine Clark,
former RKO head booker, will go to work at
Warner Bros. here. Other workers have no
definite plans as yet.
Universal screened "The Incredible Shrinking
Man" Monday (111 in the 20th-Fox
screening room and 20th-Fox screened "Storm
Rider" and "Smiley" the previous Monday
. . . C. A. Gibbs, Columbia manager, is back
. . .
from a sales meeting in New Orleans
Visiting in Oklahoma City were Warner Bros.
Division Manager W. O. Williamson jr. of
New York and District Manager Grover Livingston
of Dallas.
Exhibitors seen on Filmrow included
Leonard White of Weatherford; Bill Jones,
Sand Springs; Earl Snyder, Tulsa; Clint
Applewhite, Carnegie; Claud Thorp, Ryan;
E. B. Anderson, Norman; O. K. Kemp, Poteau;
M. J. Dowling, Eufaula; Earl Rains, Fort
Cobb; Henry Simpson, Bristow; Eddie Jones,
Tulsa; H. D. Cox, Binger; Dana C. Ryan,
Pawnee; Bill Slepka, Okemah, and Dick
Crumpler, Checotah.
High Dallas Civic Award
To Karl Hoblitzelle
DALLAS—Karl Hoblitzelle, president of Interstate
Theatres, last week was awarded the
Distinguished Civic Service award by the
Greater Dallas Planning Council. Hoblitzelle,
known for half a century as a leading showman,
businessman, financier and philanthropist
here, is also chairman of the board of
the Republic National Bank of Dallas. Inscription
on the trophy reads; "In recognition
of long and distinguished service in the
building of a Greater Dallas."
In announcing Hoblitzelle as the winner,
speaker John E. Mitchell jr. called him "the
man of a lifetime, not of just the year . . .
His civic, cultural and philanthi-opic activities
are aw^e-inspiring. He has a dedicated mind,
heart and pocketbook, and has long been a
champion of the underprivileged."
Tent 22 to Entertain
UTOO Delegates
OKLAHOMA CITY—Variety Tent 22 is
making preparations to entertain exhibitors
and their wives arriving in town for the
UTOO convention March 6, 7 at a fun night
event on March 5.
Co-chairman of the event, which will include
special entertainment and a hors
d'oeuvres hour, are Bob Busch and George
Fisher. Fun night is being planned as a welcome
for exhibitors in town for the UTOO
convention.
Olen Nuckols, chief barker, also has announced
the completed list of committees for
1957. They are:
Bookers (membership)—C. F. Motley, main
guy; Paul Rice, co-main guy; C. B. Akers and
Earl Snyder.
Privilege (house rules and regulations)
Harry McKenna, Ed Thorne, Morris Loewenstein.
Sports and pastimes—Jake Guiles, Charles
Hudgens, John Wilkinson and Prank McCabe.
Side show committee (clubroom, entertainment
and activities) —Robert Busch, Dave
Hunt and Warren Patton.
Billers (publicity!—Gordon Leonard. L. O.
Peak and E. R. Slocum.
Heart committee—Paul Townsend, C. R.
Guthrie and R. Lewis Barton.
Welfare committee—Sam Brunk, Don Tullius
and Earl Snyder.
Fund-raising— E. R. Slocum. L. W. Kilfoy,
Fred Sanders and Bill Lewis.
Law committee—H. S. Griffing and Bill
Lewis.
Mac H. Wood, 53, Dies
GUSHING, OKLA.—Mac H. Wood. 53-yearold
manager of Cushing's three theatres, died
of a heart attack recently at his home. Wood,
a native of Brady, Tex., had been associated
with the Video theatres for more than 25
years. He came to Cushing from Frederick,
Okla., a year ago.
"Our customers appreciate
the some day delivery of orders. Only a
tremendous stock con assure this service."
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708 W. Grand Ph. RE 6-0911
OKLAHOMA CITY,
OKLA.
Location in Saigon, Vietnam
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, producer of "The
Quiet American," is in Saigon, Vietnam,
making final arrangements for the location
shooting of the film to be released to UA.
OKLAHOMA THEATRE SUPPLY CO.
628 West Grand Ave. Telephone: RE 6-8691
Oklahoma City 2, Okla.
SW-G BOXOFFICE February 16, 1957