Boxoffice-08.01.1960

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LINCOLN
There's a boy now In the Bob Kassebaum
family and his name is Mark. The
baby was born at Lincoln General Hospital
to West O Drive-In Manager Bob Jassebaum
and his wife Margie. The couple has
a daughter, Mary Kay. 3.
New manager of the Cooper Foundation's
Nebraska Theatre in Lincoln is Don
Wells. He succeeds Ivan Burr, who was
transferred to Cooper's Ute Theatre in
Colorado Springs.
Dan Flanagan, manager of the 84th and
O Drive-In. is in Omaha temporarily, filling
th? managerial post at the Airport
Drive-In until the new manager arrives.
Dan didn't have to leave before his son.
Dan jr.. left July H for San Diego, where
the 18-year-old Lincolnite reported for
basic training in the U. S. Navy.
The return showing of "The Greatest
Show on Earth" at Cooper's Lincoln Theatre
reaped a harvest of satisfying moments
for Manager John Kiker and other
theatre personnel. They not only recorded
a good attendance for the second showing
but were recipients of patrons' well-satisfied
comments. "One who told me he is a
regular moviegoer remarked this is the
best he'd ever seen." reported Kiker .
The Lincoln Theatre recently sneak-previewed
"It Started in Naples" with review
cards praising the Clark Gable-Lauren
Bacall show.
A letter from former Lincolnite Ike Hoig
tells Lincoln friends he and his wife and
daughter Cindy heartily approve of their
new Oklahoma City assignment. Hoig. former
city manager in Lincoln for Cooper
Foundation Theatres, now is assistant city
manager of Cooper's Oklahoma City theatres.
Nita and Neva Cheevers, wives respectively
of Clayton and Burt Cheevers of
Nebraska Theatres, are career women
temporarily. Nita. whose husband is manager
of the State Theatre, is vacation relief
at the company's record shop in the
Varsity Theatre building. Neva, whose husband
is Varsity Theatre manager, also is
filling in for the vacationing staff of the
tie shop. located in the same building.
Cooper Foundation Theatres has a new
soft drinks price schedule in their concession
stands— 10 and 15-cent drink cups,
instead of the previous 10 and 20-cent
range. The new cups and popcorn containers
are "embossed" with "Cooper Foundation
Theatres."
Hovland-Swanson, one of Lincoln's top
apparel shops, is working with Nebraska
Theatres city manager Walter Jancke. to
herald in proper style the coming of Disney's
"Pollyanna." The shop, a calling
neighbor to the Varsity Theatre, where
"Pollyanna" opens in mid-August, presented
a "Pre-Pollyanna" fashion show
July 30 in its new showplace building.
Two Pollyanna dolls, plus a number of
Pollyanna coloring books, were awarded
that day to winners of the up-to-8 and
8-to-14-year-old coloring contest . . . F>urely
coincidental to fashion show talk was
Jancke's report that he and his son Ed
spent a week dieting. Despite Mrs. J's
normal eating habits. Walter says he lost
12 pounds in the week and his son. five.
John Dudjen, a Lincoln attorney for
Nebraska Theatres, and his family, heading
for a Southern California vacation, will see
moviemaking at first hand by touring
Warner Bros.' studio.
Kenneth Anderson, representing the
Cooper Foundation Theatres, is one of the
six stockholders and directors of the newly
formed Peterson Building Corp.. which announced
plans July 19 for a 390-stall Auto
Park Garage. The new downtown Lincoln
parking facility, costing $900,000, will be
started in early 1961 and completed before
the end of that year. It will be only a
stone's throw in location from the Cooper's
Stuart Theatre, and back to back to the
Varsity Theatre building. In fact. Nebraska
Theatres city manager Walter Jancke says
the building to extend over the adjoining
National Bank of Commerce drive-in is
going to eliminate "the one window I have
in my office." He implies, however, that
convenience of the auto park for theatre
patrons should more than compensate for
one window lost.
Carroll Baker will star in United Artists'
"Something Wild."
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