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. . . Verne . . Teseo . . . . SAN FRANCISCO J|ric Erickson, master spy of World War n, spoke at a meeting of the San F^-ancisco Council of Women's Clubs about his adventures as depicted in "Counterfeit Traitor," the screen version of his novel Zeesman of Motion Picture Counseling Co. reports that the Skyview Drive-In in Sacramento is being enlarged to 2,050-car capacity and expanded to a twin-screen operation with six boxoffices. Moh^ Arc Carbons j^ QuaUtif, Pnx^jeoUcui, The ONLY Imported Carbon Carrying # This Seal '// Equipment will include in-car heaters and 70mm projection. The architect is Gale Santocono. "El Cid" closes at the Alexandria Theatre in mid-May. No replacement has been announced ... Ed Chrisman. representing Cretors Co. of Nashville, Tenn.. was in town . Tesi. Patio Theatre. Half Moon Bay, was on the Row buying . Alex Levin has been appointed manager of the Times Theatre . . . David A. Williams will reopen the River Theatre, Gurneville, for the summer April 24. Joe E. Brown was crowned with a daffodil-covered basball glove and reigned as king over the annual "Spring Comes to Maiden Lane" festivities Thursday i5). Joe is featured in "Damn Yankees" at the dinner theatre in the Sheraton-Palace Hotel .. . "The Magic Sword," a film about the ancient legend of St. George and the Dragon, will appear on the Esquire Theatre and Mission Drive-In screens in May . "The White Bear" a Polish prize-winning film, will have its first test run in the United States at the Movie here. WB-Oppenheimer Talks End HOLLYWOOD—Due to failure to reach amicable financial terms, negotiations between Jess Oppenlieimer and Warner Bros, head Jack L. Warner regarding the producer joining Warners as a television and movie producer have been terminated. American Tested and Approved in America's Leading Theatres DISTRIBUTED BY: Western Theatrical Equipment Company 168 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, California United Artists' "The Manchurian Candidate" is a story of suspense and nightmare ranging from battlefield in Korea to a political party convention in Madison Square Garden. ENDLESS ^BR9 BURNS THE ENTIRE HVnM^l POSITIVE ROD ^'^BI^gH Save Carbon ^^ ^^^^^1
. . Howard . . Bob . . Sympathy . . Eva as DENVER T K. Powell. Cliff Tlicatrc at Wiay. is up and around again after a siege of pneumonia . to John Burton of the Nile Theatre in Mitchell, Neb., on the death of his mother . and Carroll Schad of the Star Theatre in Guernsey, Wyo.. had their son home on spring vacation from the University of Wyoming in Laramie. . The Teleglobe Co. has applied for a permit to operate pay TV in the Denver area through KTVR, Channel 2, which vva.s sold recently. Since Teleglobe cannot get a hearing until after the KTVR sale i.s cleared with the FCC, it will be at least a year until the pay TV project is ready to go ahead. A Sunday supplement of the Denver Post carried a page article on Cheyrl Sweeten who was selected by TOA as "Star of Tomorrow." Cheyrl is the daughter of Bob Sweeten, managing director of the Centre Theatre and Doreen Jensen Silver Hill Theatre for plan to close their the summer while theii- Oskosh Drive-In . is open will cut playing time Kehr in the Prairie Theatre to weekends only while the West Fifth Street Drive-In is open this summer. Westland, Cooper Leasing Pact on Colorado Houses COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO.—Larry Starsmore. president and general manager of Westland Theatres, which has its headquarters here, and Kenneth E. Anderson, general manager of Cooper Foundation and Cooper Foundation Theatres, Lincoln, Neb., have completed arrangments for Westland to lease the Cooper Theatre. Grand Junction, and for Cooper to lease the Chief, Greeley. The leasing arrangements will become effective May 1. As a result of the agreement, Westland will operate the Mesa and Cooper theatres in Grand Junction, the only conventional theatres in that town. Cooper will operate its Colorado in Greeley, which was built in 1957. as well as the Chief there. These are the only conventional theatres in Greeley. Starsmore said arrangements will make it possible for the Mesa in Grand Junction to have a steady flow of top product. Anderson stated that Cooper's top product will be played in the Colorado Theatre in Greeley. Both men indicated they felt the new arrangements would be beneficial to both companies and to the public. All Cape Shopping Center Will Have Art Theatre HYANNIS. MASS.—This Cape Cod community, reigning during the JFK administration as the Summer White House town, is the site of one of the nation's most unusual shopping centers, to be known as the All-Cape Shopping Center, and covering a 35-acre tract. Construction has already started on the shopping plaza, a striking highlight to be a lovely, natural four-acre kidney-shaped lake in the middle of the Picture Pond Plaza. Encircling the lake will be stores. a summer playhouse, an art film theatre and a restaurant. A fishing footbridge will bridge the neck of the lake. Wally Kemp to Supervise Six Theatres In Wyoming for Commonwealtti Circuit CASPER. WYO—Operation of six area theatres, leased to Commonwealth Theatres. Inc.. of Kan- .sas City, Mo., will be supervised by Commonwealth district Wally manager KemiJ, who head- (luarter.s in Grand Island, Neb. The lease agreement between Commonwealth and Rialto Theatre, Inc. was announced last vvLck by Common- AVally Kemp wealth president Richard H. Orear and Rialto president Russell W. Schulte. and brings to 111 the number of theatres now operated by the Missouri-based circuit. Orear announced also that there would be no drastic change in per.sonnel in the Wyoming houses, which include the Rialto. America and Terrace Drive-In here; the Mesa, Douglas: Ramona. Wheatland, and Fiesta. Gillette. Everett Allen, who has been with Rialto for many years, will become city manager. Jerry Parker, former manager of the 50 Highway Drive-In at Sedalia. Mo., has come in to assist Allen and to manage the American Theatre. Jack Bass, a long-time employe of Rialto, will manage the Terrace Drive-In, which opened last Friday for the season. Much of Bass's work in recent years has been as manager of the Terrace. The local Rialto, from which the Schulte firm takes it name, was built in 1922 by Henry Brennan, who encountered financial difficulties when construction was about half complete, resulting in the Schulte interests taking over the building and operation through E. J. Schulte, father of Russell Ẇhen the Rialto opened, the elder Schulte brought Mel H. Todd, veteran theatre manager, from Cheyenne to run the theatre. Todd's wife, Florence, was a musician and organized an all-woman orchestra, called the Ladies Netto Orchestra, which Richard II. Orear, president of Commonwealth Theatres, Inc., at left, concludes a lease acrreement with Russell VV. Schulte of Rialto Theatre. Inc., Casper, Wyo., under which Commonwealth takes over operation of six Wyoming theatre properties. .she directed and which played regularly at the theatre. The Rialto also had the first Vitaphone equipment here, installed in 1928 for the showin'^ of "Lights of New 'York." Later the Schulte interests leased the Rex and America theatres. The Rex was sold last year to a hotel firm and now is being demolished. The Rex. originally called the Iris and boasting ornate theatre boxes, in addition to its theatrical use also served as a community auditorium. Russell Schulte, associated with the operation of the Rialto since his high school days, began his theatre work by taking tickets there while home on summer vacations from school in California. Following his graduation from the University of California at Los Angeles, his father gave him a fuUtime job and he rose steadily thiough various positions until, following his father's death, he became president of the company. Schulte has many other business interests, the press of which made him decide to lease the theatres. His interests involve numerous real estate holdings and he is a director of the First National Bank here. Although the theatres have been leased, the Rialto Theatre, Inc., which also has other theatres not involved in the lease agreement, will continue to maintain an office in the Rialto building. Dallas Schuder Appointed Y&W Ass't-Gen. Manager BLOOMINGTON, IND.—Dallas "Dal" Schuder has replaced Vic Sicilia as assistant general manager of the Y&W Theatre Corp. operating the Princess. Harris Grand and Cascades theatres. Sicilia left Bloomington recently to accept a management position in Gary. Reviewing his career in exhibition, Schuder said he began as a projectionist at 19, making $10 a week for six nights' work. He got a 50-cent raise when he started showing Satui'day matinees. Always interested in movies. Schuder said he " played with a "magic lantern a child in Bartholomew Coimty and had a home movie outfit as a teenager. In 1947 he became manager of the Pixy Theatre in Edinburg and left two years later to become assistant manager of the Lyric Theatre in Indianapolis. While in Edinburg, he ran the first talking movie and the first Sunday movie shown there. In Indianapolis, Schuder worked at the Lyric and Keith's theatres before becoming manager of the Circle Theatre for seven years. Rochester Coronet Opened After Renaming, Updating ROCHESTER. N.Y.^The Coronet Theatre, formerly the Arnett. was reopened recently with Max Fogel as the new manager. Pogel for many years operated the old Webster Theatre. The Coronet, along with a new name, has a new look, having been tui-ned into a luxury establishment with 600 seats for showing first-run films. BOXOFFICE April 16, 1962 W-7
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