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Twin Cities
Group at
Aims at Joining TOA
United Film Service Fetes Three
\i\otlier effort to silur! ii
I:...v:. Amrrica unit hen- » iia
\prclcd to rrsult from u mcrtliig of rxhlbl-
;ors here Tu«?sd«y. call«l by Harold Flold.
circuit ownrr A nmjor Interest of the group
waa TOA's fight to halt further sales of features
to television.
No Information was vouchsafed to the
press ulwut the meeting.
If a TOA unit comes Into being here It'.s
expected that it will supplant Exhibitors
Trade Ass'n. the former North Central Allied,
a National Allied affiliate Both Field
and Edmond Ruben, also a circuit owner and
«ho llkewLv was present at the meeting, an-
TOA directors and several years ago they unsuccessfully
ined to interest exhibitors hereabouts
In forming a TOA unit
In this territory the independent exhibitor
(roup always has been affiliated with North
Central Allied.
Among those attending the Field meetlns
was Charles Wlnchell. Minnesota Amusement
Co president -general manager. That circuit
ne%-er has had membership in the Allied
Stales unit here.
MINNEAPOLIS
r^esplte (he fact that no newspapers have
been publL-ihed In St Paul for more than
four weeks due to a strike, buslne.ss at the
Minnesota Amusement Co.'s two downtown
houses continues to be of boom proportions
"Peyton Place" has gone Into Its fourth week
and "Sayonara" In Its third In St. Paul, engagements
that are unprecedented for the
town In view of the fact that both pictures
are playing at advanced admission—SI 50. Instead
of the regular 90 cents, after 5 pjn.
Neither had Ijeen expected to run this long.
Word drifla here from the south that circuit
owner BUI Volk has found Florida too
cold to suit him and decided to .spend the
rest of his vacation In the West Indies . . .
Manager Jack Cohen and all hLs 20th-Fox
salesmen were In St. Vouls this week for the
sales meeting that District Manager M. A.
Levy is holding there Also present Ls Levy's
aaststant. Harold Lundqulst.
Back after a trip through North and South
Dakota and western Minnesota. Allied Artists
Manager Irving Marks reports he found
a surprising amount of optlmL^m in nearly
•11 of the small towns visited. E^xhlblton In
the .tmaller towns generally, he says, are
hoping for more "family pictures" . . . Irving
N. Margolin. Cinerama vice-president and
treasurer, was In from New York to look
UUngs over at the Century here where Clner«ma's
"Seven Wonders of the World" was
in Its 78th week with six more to go before
Its successor. "Search for Paradise" opens
The SI. Loats Park'i first Friday stage show
night, with a local popular Dixieland band
as the attraction and "Pal Joey" the picture
at no advance in admUslon. got off to a flying
start There was a large line of ticket
buyers at 9 p m and the boxofflce was
opened a half-hour earlier than usual The
band will be brought back January 31
'And God Trailed Woman" U proving one
of the downtown World* top Iwxofflce al-
(nited Kllni ."MTvIre passrd nut hi>nors to mrnitxr* of the field salr »iTr cited tor outslaiidltiK sales
performanit"* during l!i.">7 In ihrir divisions. I'nlted Film Service produm and dl«-
Iributrs film advertisini:.
tractions of all tune . British "How U<
Murder a Rich Uncle" chalked up a fourweek
first-run at the neighborhood Westgate
Nile and Camden, two of the Volk
brothers" neighborhood hou.ses here, aped
downtown houses by having a Friday night
"sneak prevue" as an added attraction. Shown
was "Pal Joey."
Theates ai Baraboo, Wis..
Sold to Ervin Clumb
BARABOO. WIS—The Al Rlngllng and
Jullar theatres here have been purchased by
Ervln Clumb of Mll-
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The theatres were
purchased from Jacob
E.skln, al.so of Milwaukee.
Clumb said
he plans to reopen the
Jullar .soon. It has
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