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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.
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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.
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April 16, 1962
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