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OMAHA
J^eyer Stem, former chief barker of
Variety Club Tent 16 and branch manager
for American International Pictures
in this territory, will attend the convention
of Variety Clubs International at Dublin,
Ireland. May 14-19. Mr. and Mrs. Stern
and another Omaha couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Aaron Rips, plan to fly over and continue
on to London, Parts, Rome and Israel . . .
Stem was busy last week in connection
with the personal appearance of June
Wilkinson at numerous places in town on
a three-day visit. She is a star in the picture,
"Twist All Night" app)earing at the
Admiral, Chief and Sky-View Drive-In.
Gene Cline has taken over the Sun Theatre
at Beaver City, formerly operated by
Ben Thorn . Halloran, Buena Vista
representative in this area, said a big
baiTage is scheduled this spring and summer.
"Moon Pilot" will be the Easter offering
at the State and "Big Red" and
"Bon Voyage" are .scheduled in Omaha
later.
Carl White, Quality Theatre Supply, is
a good example of frustrated lawn enthusiasts
in Omaha. For the past two
weeks he has reserved a big power rake at
a rental service—and each time the midweek
sunny days have given way to miserable
weekends.
Will Warner, who opened his drive-in at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, last week, is building a
big bowling alley on the east edge of town
. . . Although the outdoorers have been
onening. the weather has been anything
but favorable. Exhibitors through northem
Nebraska, western Iowa and southeast
South Dakota were for the most part
fortunate to escape damage from flooding.
However, Central States' drive-in at Norfolk
shipped a lot of water. Cherokee and
Anthon, Iowa, were flooded but the theatres
were safe.
Russell Brehm of Lincoln reported that
all the Center Drive-In Theatre Corp.
holdings are now open . . . Haitnon Grunke
has opened for his first season at O'Neill .
Jim Schlatter, manager of the Sky-View
Drive-In in northwest Omaha, said barricades
on the street thrown up by the highway
department did not deter crowds
coming to see "Sergeants 3." Jim said
cars had to snake around a back entrance
"but they kept coming just the same" .
Fred Ballantyne. exhibitor at Denison,
Iowa, and his wife have returned from a
visit in Florida.
Mike Bosiljevac, photo engraver at TOP
Advertising Co., was a guest of the newspaper
staff at the University of Omaha.
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TOP does the engraving for the student
paf)er. Gateway, and Bosiljevac told about
Mr. and Mrs.
the engraving process . . .
Bill Barker of Co-Op Theatre Services
were in Des Moines last week for the
bowling tournament DeLand,
United Artists booker, attended the Methodist
Church Women's convention at York
. . C. A. Hill, in charge of 20th-Fox exchange
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operations at the home office in
New York, visited the Omaha exchange.
Mr. and Mrs. Rawley Connell of Bassett
were in town to buy and book for their
Rock Tlieatre and drive-in. Other exhibitors
on the Row included Nebraskans Phil
and Jack March. Wayne: Howell Roberts,
Wahoo: Harmon Grunke, O'Neill; Mrs.
Fred Schuler, Humboldt: Sid Metcalf,
Nebraska City, and lowans S. J. Backer,
Harlan: John Rentfle, Audubon: Mrs. Al
Haals, Harlan, and Jim Travis, Milford.
MILWAUKEE
T^rs. Agnes Jellama, program chairman of
the Milwaukee County Federation of
Women's Clubs, reviewed the book. "Light
in the Piazza." currently appearing on
film at various local theatres, at the April
meeting of the Better Films Council of Milwaukee
County. Mrs. A. V. Abram.son,
president, presided at the meeting held at
the Milwaukee Public Library. The preview
committee released these ratings:
Family—Excellent: South Seas Adventure:
Very Good: State Fair: Good: Three
Stooges Meet Hercules: Underwater City.
Adults and Young People—Very Good:
Madison Avenue: Good: Lonely Are the
Brave: The Outsider. Adults—Very Good:
West Side Stoi-y. Good: The Children's
Hour: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse;
Satan Never Sleeps.
The mayor's motion picture commission
issued the following film ratings: General
Audience—Bachelor of Heai-ts, Beauty and
the Beast, The Big Money, The Dalton Who
Got Away, Escape Prom Zahrain, Experiment
in Terror. Fear No More, Follow That
Dream, Hand of Death. Hatari, Hell Is for
Heroes, The Horizontal Lieutenant, Incident
in an Alley, Land We Love, Lonely
Are the Brave, Magic Tide, Merrill's Marauders,
Mighty Ursus, The Most Wanted
Man, Ring of Terror, Rome Adventure,
Secret File Hollywood. Six Black Horses,
State Fair. Swinging Along, That Touch
of Mink, 13 West Street, Twist All Night.
Mature Entertainment: Animas Ti-ujano,
Cape Fear, Force of Impulse, Hands of a
Stranger. Last Year at Marienbad, Jessica,
Lovers on a Tight Rope, Maxime. Premature
Burial, The Tell -Tale Heart and
Womanhunt. Adults — The Children's
Hour, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Rocco
and His Brothers, and Temptation. Recommended
not be shown: Erotica.
Lew Breyer, a former Milwaukeean who
is vice-president and sales manager of
King of Comedy. Inc.. the firm syndicating
a .series of Charlie Chaplin films, announced
that television stations in the
United States, Canada and Mexico will
begin televising the pictures. Breyer says
he has edited them, adding musical scores
and .sound effects. Before joining King of
Comedy, he was executive vice-president of
Milwaukee's WXIX. UHF station. Prior to
that, he was associated with ZIV Television
and Universal-International Pictures here.
LINCOLN
The .Stuart Theatre has been as lively
mornings as nights with special community
bookings. A cancer month special
showing of educational films for Lincoln
women sponsored by the Lincoln Woman's
Club and the Lancaster County Unit of
the American Cancer Society OE>ened the
series of morning engagements April 5.
School children formed the audiences for
the Junior League's annual play the first
four mornings of a five-day run. The final
April 14 perfonnance was open to the public.
Also competing for nighttime audiences
was the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra's
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April concert lOi
Both "The Children's Hour" and "On the
Wild Side" had holdover runs at the Varsity,
but this is not the only reason Walt
Jancke is going around humming a song.
It is a special new song called "Lincoln,
Lincoln, " in which Walt, as publicity and
promotions chainnan for the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce, is especially interested.
Every three out of four persons
hearing the song "which helps sell Lincoln
to Lincoln" likes the catchy swing and
words, reports Jancke. With lyrics by Jack
Callaway, KLIN radio manager, and music
by Eurel Box of Dallas, the Texas-recorded
song for Nebraska's capital city was placed
on sale April 10 by the Lincoln Chamber.
Dubinsky Bros.' Starview Outdoor Theatre,
on a weekend schedule since early
winter, opened fulltime operation April 5
with a sponsored show on KLMS. Dubinsky's
other Lincoln outdoor theatre, the
West O, will not shed its wraps until late
spring.
Some Lincoln showgoers do not have to
go to the State to see "Moon Pilot." which
took over from "Pinocchio" April 12. They
are patrons who saw the Varsity's recent
sneak preWew of "Moon Pilot."
Walt Jancke has been elected vice-chairman
of the Lincoln Air Force Base Squadron
adoption plan, recently taken over from
volunteer citizens and incoi^porated as a
responsibility of the Lincoln Chamber's
military affairs committee. In this plan,
service or other civic clubs adopt some of
the many squadrons as their special project.
Max Pennington is chaimian of the
program.
Helena Showmen Voice
Protest to Fast Time
HELENA. MONT.—Chub Munger, owner
of the Sunset Drive-In: Keith Didriksen,
owner of the Sky-Hi Drive-In, and Allen
Schrimpf, manager of the Marlow Theatre,
appeared before a meeting of the retail
merchants branch of the Helena Chamber
of Commerce to voice their opposition to a
proposal to install daylight saving time
here this summer.
Munger .said the diive-ins would be
forced to start their screen programs at
10 p.m.. and patrons would not be able to
get home before 2 a.m. if there was a double
feature. The theatremen said their combined
yearly payroll amounts to about
$55,000 and the daylight saving time would
hurt all of their business. Merchants
President Marius Olscn. after the meeting,
requested the membership to carefully consider
the merits and weaknesses of the daylight
saving proposal.
NC-4 BOXOFFICE April 16, 1962