Boxoffice-April.07.1958

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DES MOINES
pniil Bozich. owner of Uie Iowa TheaUe ill
Madrid, is now showing Walt Disneyfilms
every Wednesday and Thursday evening
at 7 o'clock and at 10 a.m. on Saturday's.
The weeknight shows are scheduled
early so that children may attend without
being up late on a school night.
The Hillirest Drive-ln in Cedar Falls had
its spring opening Wednesday i2). The public
was Invited to be guests of the management
on opening night and free coffee and
free pony rides were offered. Admission
charge will remain at 60 cents for adults
and children under 12 accompanied by parents
RolUn K.
will be admitted free . . . Stonebrook. manager of the An-ow Theatre
in Cherokee, was one of the men who made
the trip to Minneapolis to attend the meeting
of the Theatre Owners Business Building
committee.
Del McHugh. manager of the Corral Drivein
in Spencer, has returned from Louisville.
where he attended the National Allied Drivein
convention Robert Holdridge. owner
of the
. . .
State and Iowa Drive-In in Shenandoah,
plans to rebuild the screen at the
drive-in. adding 14 feet to both sides, making
it 80x40 feet. The work is expected to be
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completed by April 15 . . .
Davenport got a call from a man who inquiJ-ed
if a bag had been found on one of
the seats containing a set of false teeth! The
bag was found and returned to its owner
who explained that he removed his dentures
for comfort and forgot them when he left!
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SPKNCKH. U)\VA Till' Pidiioor Thcalrc
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the name of the Spencer Community
Antenna System, will apply for a
franchise at the next regular meeting of
the city council here.
Gordon McKinnon of PTC .said that if the
group can get the franchi.se they will install
a 300 to 400-foot tower north or .south of
here. Reception would then improve to 95-100
per cent on channel 4 and to 90 per cent on
channel 9. A contract would have to be
obtained from Northwestern Bell Telephone
Co. to run coaxial cables on the telephone
poles. If the council accepts the idea, it will
be put to the public for a vote. McKinnon
stressed that a vote for the idea would in no
way obligate the voter to become a subscriber
to the service; all he would be doing
is approving the plan.
Depending upon the number of subscribers
to the service, the cost would vary and those
using the service would be billed monthly in
much the same way one is billed for his
telephone sei-vice. McKinnon said the firm
would proceed as rapidly as possible, although
the legal action may take some time. They
hope to put the plan before the voters in a
June election.
T-Bones Bally 'Cowboy'
MINNEAPOLIS—Columbia exploiteer Sam
Hart, in from New York to help publicize
"Cowboy." had western-clad models distribute
prime T-bone steaks to a couple dozen
of local newspaper and television and radio
folk who could do the pictui-e some good.
CofC Sponsors Free Films
FONDA. IOWA—Free films will be shown
at the Amuzu Theatre here for several
Saturdays, sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce. They will begin at 2:30 p.m. and
run I'l- hours. The pictures will be cartoon
carnivals. The films will be free to children
in
the area.
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MINNEAPOLIS
Joyce .V. Swan, Minneajjolis Star & Tiibune
new.-^papers executive vice-president and
local Chamber cf Commerce head, was in
New York last week to back up the overtures
that Ben Berger. legitimate impresario here,
has made to RKO Theatres for the use of
the Minneapolis RKO Orpheum for touring
Broadway attractions next .season. The Lyceum,
former legitimate house, is being converted
into an evangelical tabernacle. Berger,
and Lowell Kaplan, the Lyceum manager,
conferred in New York with BKO officials
.veveral weeks ago. but have obtained no definite
commitment from there.
. . . All ten
The St. Paul downtown Lyceum is offering
a seven-day "comedy fest" with twin
bills of funny pictui-es changed daily "a
new comedy show evei7 day." On the opening
Sunday the first 500 children attending
received large .sacks of marbles
local neighborhood theatres in the earliest
28-day clearance .slot played "Don't Go Near
the Water" over the weekend. Eight of them
combined in a large newspaper cooperative
ad . "Peyton Place" after its long
first-run downtown and engagements in
other neighborhood houses, the "fine arts"
Suburban World, which usually devotes itself
to first-runs of foreign films, cashed in
on the numerous Academy Award nominations
won by the picture and did excellent
busine.ss.
. . . Northw'est
Bob Murphy, Minneapolis Sunday Ti'ibune
film editor-critic, named a short. "The Red
Balloon," on the bill with "The Lost Continent"
at the World, as his "Movie of the
Week." Among other things, he said: "A
30-minute short subject which has collected
a lot of honors is now playing the downtow'n
World. It deserves the honors"
Variety Club has a special meeting and
dinner scheduled for its clubrooms April 7.
The speaker will be George Grim, TV news
analyst and Minneapolis Tribune columnist,
whose subject will be "The Current International
Situation." Grim for his newspaper
and TV station has traveled through EXirope
and Asia, including Russia.
New Variety Club members include Joseph
della Malva. Don O'Brien. Richard T. Quaas
and Karlton J. Ro.sholt of Twin Cities' TV
and radio stations: Robert T. Smith, Minneapolis
Ti-ibune editorial staff member: T. T.
Romson. James Hamilton Ass'n. St. Paul:
James H. Esheiman, manager of the St. Paul
Strand and Tower theatres, and Gerald
Frawley . . . The club's bulletin informs
members that Eddie Schwartz has choice
tickets for the opening baseball game of the
American Ass'n season April 22 when Minneapolis
and Louisville will clash. He also has
tickets for the "Welcome the Millers" luncheon
April 21 at the Hotel Radisson. Eddie Is
commended in the bulletin for "another good
Job well done." referring to the new 1958
roster which he has published and sent to
all
members gratis.
Ed Delaney a Grandpa
MARCUS. IOWA — Ed Delaney,
former
manager of the Lyric Theatre, which was
destroyed by fire in 1952, has become a grandfather.
A daughter was born to Robert and
Patricia Steck, who are stationed at Guam,
where Delaney's son-in-law is with the Navy.
BOXOFFICE April 7, 1958