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CHICAGO<br />
^jdward Novak has been named manager<br />
of the Chicago offices of the National<br />
Theatre Supply Co. He succeeds Roy<br />
Rosser jr., who resigned after many years<br />
with National to join the Brunswick Corp.<br />
20th annual National Audio-<br />
Visual Convention and Exhibit will be held<br />
August 6-9 at the Morrison Hotel here .<br />
Revere Camera Co., headed by Ted Briskin,<br />
has been taken over by Minnesota Mining<br />
and Manufacturing Co.<br />
Automatic Canteen Co. has taken over<br />
the Nationwide Pood Service Co. operations<br />
involving concessions in theatres,<br />
factories, offices and institutions. Ben<br />
Regan, president of Nationwide, now becomes<br />
a director of Automatic Canteen.<br />
Larry Woolf has joined Graphic Pictures<br />
as producer, it was announced by Robert<br />
Estes, president of Graphic. Woolf has<br />
been associated with Pilmack for several<br />
years . . . Latest reports on Jack Kirsch<br />
indicate that he is much improved and<br />
able to return to business.<br />
"The Bellboy" opened in some 60<br />
theatres in Chicagoland and reports say<br />
the film is doing well in most of the<br />
situations ... Si Greiver has been appointed<br />
to handle the booking and buying for<br />
the new Oasis Drive-In which is being<br />
constructed at Higgins and Touhy by Oscar<br />
Brotnian. The opening is scheduled for<br />
September. Greiver will also do the booking<br />
for the California. Jackson Park and<br />
Old Orchard theatres.<br />
At Warner Bros., Betty Bruggeman of<br />
the publicity department is vacationing.<br />
Helen Queenan is spending her holiday<br />
visiting with relatives in Mississippi and<br />
New Orleans . . . The Palace at Crown<br />
Point, which has been closed for some<br />
time, reopened July 31 under the joint<br />
ownership of Ed Pruscucki and Joseph<br />
Paunicka.<br />
Owners of the Biltmore are continuing<br />
to operate the Biltmore Theatre since<br />
B&K relinquished their lease in July.<br />
Alvin Frank has been named manager and<br />
Allied Theatres of Illinois will handle the<br />
booking and buying.<br />
As a screen game,<br />
HOLLYWOOD takes top<br />
honors. As a box-office attraction,<br />
it is without equal. It hat<br />
aeen a favorite with theatre goers for<br />
over 15 years. Write today for complete details.<br />
Be sure to give seating or cor capacity.<br />
HOLLYWOOD AMUSEMINT CO.<br />
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Joseph E. Levine, promoter of "Hercules<br />
Unchained," was here for the launching of<br />
the campaign which is heralding the Friday<br />
i5i opening in 80 situations. This<br />
will include neighborhood houses in the<br />
Chicagoland area and downstate.<br />
Thirteen drive-ins which participated in<br />
the simultaneous first-run opening of<br />
"Hannibal" reported outstanding business.<br />
The film went into 79 theatres throughout<br />
this area for the initial showing . . . Walter<br />
Winchell, here for the Republican convention,<br />
said he is set for a leading role in<br />
Universal's "Dondi" . . . Dave Sandine, in<br />
charge of maintenance for H&E Balaban,<br />
returned from a vacation in northern<br />
Wisconsin . Nichols, manager of<br />
the Windsor, is enjoying a vacation.<br />
Mike Yelk, manager of the Milford<br />
Theatre, is at Edgewater Hospital following<br />
a heart attack . Levinsohn of<br />
Chicago Used Chair Mart said his company<br />
has completed two rebuilding jobs for the<br />
Pioneer circuit in Atlantic and Sac City,<br />
Iowa . . . Robert Sherman has rejoined the<br />
Stanley Warner staff and will be assistant<br />
to Pete Pisano at the Avalon. Sherman<br />
was formerly at the Capitol.<br />
At Universal, Herb Martinez, Paul<br />
Sadzeck and Marlene Jablonski are vacationing<br />
... A delegation of teenage fans<br />
met William Castle on his arrival here in<br />
connection with the opening of "13<br />
Ghosts" at the Chicago Theatre . . . The<br />
management at the Todd Theatre reported<br />
that at the end of the 31st week more<br />
than 300.000 persons had seen "Ben-Hur."<br />
Daily matinees will continue until Labor<br />
Day.<br />
Donald Crisp stopped off en route to<br />
New York where he boards the S.S.<br />
America for Scotland. Crisp said he will<br />
be joined there by Walt Disney for whom<br />
he will star in "Grey Friar's Bobby" .<br />
Gertrude Tucker, who has been on the<br />
Universal staff here for 42 years, is<br />
giving "how-to" tips to her niece, Helen<br />
Silvers, who is starting in the business at<br />
United Artists . . . Ace Seating & Upholstering<br />
Co. is reupholstering the seats<br />
in the Alex Theatre, Crown Point.<br />
Harry Kalmine, vice-president and general<br />
manager of Stanley Warner Theatres,<br />
was here to meet with local staff members<br />
and also to discuss plans with his group<br />
in Milwaukee<br />
.<br />
Balaban, with his<br />
two cochairmen, Harry Lustgarten and<br />
Irving Mages, are sending out last-minute<br />
reminders in connection with the Variety<br />
Club's Golforama to be held August 26 at<br />
the Elmhurst Country Club. Tickets at<br />
$12.50 provide golf, softball, cards, lunch<br />
and a steak or lobster tail dinner.<br />
Nancy Root, who appears in the new<br />
fihn, "College Confidential," arrived here<br />
as a California delegate to the Republican<br />
convention ... A pocketbook edition of<br />
"The Prime Time," written by Mrs. Irwin<br />
Joseph, is being submitted for publication.<br />
It is to be distributed in connection with<br />
the film bearing the same title. Mrs.<br />
Joseph has also authored two of the books<br />
complementing "Because of Eve," which<br />
is<br />
distributed by Modern Film Distributors.<br />
PRODUCER LOOKS OVER BEAU-<br />
TY CONTEST ENTRANTS — Ross<br />
Hunter, producer for Universal-International<br />
Pictures, while visiting in<br />
Chicago, looks over several young<br />
ladies who are entrants in the Miss<br />
Chicago Pageant. More than 100 applicants<br />
already have been entered<br />
in the contest, which is sponsored by<br />
Variety Club of Illinois. The winner<br />
will be selected August 5 at a Coronation<br />
Ball in the Sheraton Towers<br />
Hotel to represent the city of Chicago<br />
in the Miss America contest in<br />
Atlantic City in September.<br />
Kansas City Exhibitors<br />
Get 'Psycho' Sales Tips<br />
KANSAS CITY—Friday i22i afternooi<br />
Harry Hamburg, Paramount exchang<br />
manager, presented to a group of locii<br />
exhibitors the Alfred Hitchcock plan fc<br />
showing "Psycho." Hamburg himself ha<br />
earlier attended a regional meeting i<br />
Dallas where the plan was explained i<br />
detail.<br />
Mainly the plan calls for no admittanc<br />
and seating after the film starts, since i<br />
this type of show the suspense is killed<br />
patrons see the end before the beginnin<br />
Martin Stone brought his recordt<br />
machines and played the Hitchcock tape<br />
cleverly worded, to make his point wll<br />
exhibitors. Following these, the reguls<br />
trailer was shown. Then an exploitatic<br />
kit. containing pressbook, mat and con<br />
plete instructions, w'as passed out to eac<br />
person present.<br />
Columbia's "Try, Ti-y Again" is the sto<br />
of the gay adventures of a young marrii<br />
couple.<br />
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C-4 BOXOFFICE August 1, n3
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