Boxoffice-April.07.1958

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KANSAS CITY
^fter being closrd oxactly one month, the
Lyons Theatre at Lyons. Kas.. reopened
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which played c o m
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munities throughout
Kansas. Before coming to Lyons, he had
been a Fox manager at Dodge City. Ed
Hartman's Motion Picture Booking Seivice
will book and buy for the theatre.
Making his fii-st appearance on Filmrow
for some time was Lester Robison. who owns
the Rigney Theatre building at Albany. The
Rigney, which closed last November, Is still
ALEX SHNIDERMAN. co-owner of E&S
Theatre Enterprises, is shown on Film
Row in Kansas City, His 63rd Street
Drive-In Theatre has just received the
first Plast X Plate type of screen surface
in the area. Interest is keen among the
highly competitive outdoor operators and
it looks like Alex has "stolen the show,"
His "63rd" is an easy taxi-run from the
close-in Kansas City airport. Owners
from Texas to North Dakota will be
among those expected to make personal
inspections of this new picture-perfect
screen matei-ial. It must be seen to be
believed.
For further information: Write or call
George English,
PLAST X PLATE, Berwyn,
Pa. Tel: Berwyn 1225.
SCOTSMAN ICE MACHINE
MISSOURI THEATRE SUPPLY CO
115 West 18th St.
Baltimore 1-3070
Kansas City 8, Mo.
RCA THEATRE SUPPLY DEALER
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. Tourlillott. who with his .son
Ramon, operates the HolUday Theati-e at
Seneca. Mo., suffered a broken hip recently
in a fall at his farm. The hip Is mending,
but Al will be hobbling for sevei-al weeks yet
M. S. Heath of the Plaza in Libeity was
able to visit Filmrow last week after a long,
tough tu.ssle with Asian flu . . . Mi-s. T. H.
Slothower was back at home in Wichita after
several weeks spent in Tucson. Ariz. Her
Terrace and 81 drive-in theatres at Wichita
opened for the season Friday (4i.
The theatre page in the local paper has
been unusually lively the past week with the
first-run theatres cai-rying display ads on
Easter product (see Kansas City first-run
reporti. with all the greater Kansas City
drive-ins in full flower and with the Dickinson
circuit Aztec Theatre in Shawnee. Kas.,
booking a special Easter engagement of "The
Ten Commandments." Several of the neighborhood
houses offered "Raintree County" as
an Easter week attraction ... At Capitol
Flag & Banner, Nat Hechtman listed these
titles as high on the business barometer: Run
Silent, Run Deep; Merry Andrew; The Young
Lions; The Long, Hot Summer, and Paris
Holiday. The new voice on the 'phone In
Hechtman's office. Incidentally, belongs to
Aulvia Stewart, new office seci-etary.
Outdoor theatremen in this area have been
visiting the 63rd Street Drive-In to take a
look at its screen which has just been "Plast-
X-Plated." The 108x50-foot screen had a rating
of 72 per cent white reflectance before it
was treated with the "molding process" of
Plast-X-Plate. It now has a 94.9 per cent
white reflectance. The theati-e was kept in
operation throughout the work, which was
supervised by George English of the Plast-
X-Plate Co., Berwyn, Pa.
Correction: Sol Prank of McPherson, Kas.,
bought out his partners in the drive-in theatre
at Pratt. Kas., and not in Salina as
reported last week. He had been associated
with Charles Gregg and Ferd Estes of Caney
Kas.
Bob Carnie, Howco representative here, had
news from his son, Lt. Sidney Kent Carnie.
whose wife Dottle gave birth to a son named
Stephen Kent. March 13 in Carmel-by-the-
Sea. Calif. Young Camie is stationed at Ft.
Ord. taking additional training in foreign
languages. Bob was expecting Joe Solomon.
w-est coast film distributor, to stop here for
several business interviews en route to New
York.
Ira Hackney op>ened his Twin City Drive-In
at Rogers, Ark., for the season Saturday. The
Fort Drive-In at Leavenworth, operated by
Bev Miller and associates, opened for fulltime
operation on Friday. Exceedingly wet
weather in the Osborne, Kas., vicinity forced
Richard Van Scyoc to move the Pioneer
Drive-in's opening date back a week to Sunday
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... Tommy Thompson. BV manager,
.spent several days in the Kansas territory
and Hank Sonday. regional auditor for Buena
Vista, spent sevei-al days in the St. Louis
office. Hank, incidentally, was mlstitled "office
manager" in fu-st reports of his joining
Buena Vista several months ago, and we repeat—he
is officially listed as "regional auditor."
Hazel LeNolr, president of the Kansas City
WOMPI. has taken a position with First
American Pi-oducts. distributors of drive-in
theati-e accessories. The offices are on the
second floor of the Zoglin building. 1717
Wyandotte. Before joining First American.
Hazel had been with National Theatre Supply
Co.
.
Onorato of Crispy Pizza Co.
was here from St. Louis last week representing
his wares
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Walker, WB publici.st,
was in St. Louis several days in connection
with personal appearances made by Natalie
Wood as "Marjorie Morningstar" 0]>ened
there
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Docekal. RCA Service Co.
secretary, and her hu.sband Ed went to Shenandoah,
Iowa, on one of our recent rainy
weekends to visit with Evelyn's mother.
Some 160 film enthusiasts at Wichita gathered
at the Wichita Club for an Oscar party
on the night of the Academy award presentation.
C. C. Muiray. FMW city manager for
Wichita, was chairman of the entertainment
committee, and Kan.sas Citians attending included
Fred Souttar of FMW and Bob Herrell
of United Film Exchange. GuesU cast
ballots for their Oscar choices before the
Oscar-cast began and prizes were awarded
to those coming closest to the official selections
... At the FMW offices here, Vivian
Smee has replaced Margai-et Clark as secretary
to Harold Hume. Margaret "retired"
recently to await the birth of her first child.
Delores Spellman, secretaiy to Ralph Adams
at FMW, has recovered after a stubborn
siege of flu.
Exhibitors have been few and far-between
RCA SERVICE COMPANY, INC.
221 West 18Hi Street
Kansas City 8, Missouri HArrison 1-6953
$2.00 FOX HOLE SPROCKETS $2.00
Let us regrind your old sprockets
STE6BINS THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO.
1804 Wyandotte Konsos City, Mo.
MR. EXHIBITOR
Springtime is cleanup time. Paint
S^95
up and clean up with our new high
quality outside white oil paint. per gallon
SHREVE THEATRE SUPPLY CO.
217 West 18th HA 1-7849 Kansas City, M*.
Carpefs-Door Mats
Complete Initoliotlon Scrvie*—Frtt ItNmatM
R. D.MANN CARPET CO.
924-926 Wyandotte, VI. 2-1171, Kantot CIfy, M*.
1800 Ollv* St., Gorfiald 1.2«26, St. Loub, M«.
Everything for the Stage
• CURTAINS • TRACKS • RIGGING • STAGE
LIGHTING • HOUSE DRAPERIES
GREAT WESTERN STAGE EQUIPT. CO.
1324 Grand Kansas City, MIsseurl
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BOXOFFICE April 7, 1958