Boxoffice-April.07.1958

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Chicago Steps Ahead
On Ticket Tax Repeal
CHICAGO—Definite action on the abolishment
of the 3 per cent tax on theatre admission
ticltets selling for less than 90 cents
is expected within the next weelc or two. A
special citizens committee has recommended
the deletion of the tax in a report to Mayor
Daley. Patrick H. Hoy. president of the
Sherman-Ambassador hotels, heads the committee
named by Daley after a city council
resolution proposed a study to aid the local
theatre industry.
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XJcrb l.vons, Chicago Tribune columnist.
emceed the "Teacher's Pel" premiere at
the Woods Theatre, with Clark Gable in
person and a WON radio broadcast. Gable
started a key city tour here in behalf of the
film. Mrs. Gable appeared with her husband
ABC station here, has bought
a new package of 167 films from Republic
Pictures, 140 of which were canned in the
last nine years, some of them as late as
The Surf Theatre has snared one
1957 . . .
of the Oscar whinners. "Nights of Cabiria,"
for an April showing.
. . .
U-I here has added Lorena Willett and
Jean Faber. formerly with U-I in Indianapolis.
Bill Michuda was vacationing
Sam Levinsohn, head of the Chicago Used
Chair Mart, said upcoming seating contracts
indicate the business outlook in the industry
is somewhat brighter. He expressed the
opinion that theatre closings have reached
their
peak.
Now that a special permit has been granted
by the city censor board, limiting the showing
here of "The Snow Was Black" to persons
over the age of 21, Mike Kassel, local
head of Continental Films, is aiTanging a
first-i-un showing . Nuyen was
here for the March 25 opening of "South
Pacific" at the McVickers . Williams,
recently with Wilding and with Disney for
. . . Lois Cohen of Paramount is
six previous years, has joined Filmack as
head cartoon animator. Ed Stevens was
added to the animation staff, and Gladys
May is back as a film editor . . Charles
.
Golin, sales manager for Central Film Distributors,
returned from a trip to Des Moines.
Omaha and Iowa City.
MGM publicist Norman Pyle and his wife
went to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a week of
golfing . Nangle and Eleanor Keen,
critics for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago
Sun Times, left on a two-month trip in
Europe
engaged to wed Howard Lucas June 7. Lucas
was with the S. B. Greiver booking organization
until he resigned to join National Telefilm
Ward Day and Fred Bunkehnan
Ass'n . . . of Universal have temporarily traded traveling
territories. Bunkelman will serve as city
salesman while regaining his health, and Day
will travel southern Illinois,
. . . Arnold
.
The Lane Court Theatre on Armitage avenue
will initiate a Spanish-language program
April 15, three days a week
Monnette of 20th-Fox was in Wesley Memorial
Hospital Palace on South
Kedzie has closed and will be remodeled for
a church.
Condolences to Frances Kazen of Universal
on the death of a sister . . . Solomon Klein &
Sons, owners of the building, have reopened
the Pantheon with Hari-y Klein, one of the
sons, as manager.
O. V. Smith Jr. Dies
SACRAMENTO—O. V. Smith jr., 46, sales
representative for the Alexander Film Co. of
Colorado Springs, died of a heart attack
Tuesday (1 1 . A
snowstorm caused his car to
stall and, after being helped to push it to the
top of a hill at Red Bluff, he succumbed whOe
resting in the back seat of the car. He was
d brother of M. B. Smith, vice-president of
Commonwealth Theatres of Kansas City.
Wreckers Start Work
On Old Chicago Grand
CHICAGO — Wrecking of the six-story
Grand Theatre building in the Loop, which
got under way Monday, stirred many nostalgic
memories. The site will be used as a
parking lot at present, but the owners plan
eventually to build a major office structure.
Thomas Barbour Bryan built a hall on
the site back in 1860, whioli included an
auditorium in which the Chicago Philharmonic
orchestra gave its first concert in
November of that year.
A fancy garden restaurant and billiard
liall occupied the site for several years under
the ownership of J. A. and L. B. Hamlin.
This later was remodeled into a theatre,
wliich became the Grand in 1880. In the following
years it was leased by George M.
Cohan and Sam Harris, then the Shuberts,
RKO Theatres, and last by Van Nomikos,
who died last month.
BOWLING
KANSAS CITY—As the season nears its
close, Filmrow men's and women's league
teams reported these standings Friday evening
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