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Nashville Paramount Theatre. Damage was
estimated at $7,500. screen, drapes and
sound equipment being destroyed. An electrical
short is believed to have started the
fire. Fireman Earl Campbell, 24, was in-
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jured while fighting the fire when a curtain
rod fell on his head.
VVOMPI of Memphis gave a birthday
party for Arthur- Bonds, a member of the
family WOMPIs adopted at Christmas
time, on his fifth birthday. There were 12
guests at the party at the Aii-way Theatre,
where all were hosted by Willie Shapiro,
who also provided popcorn all around. Ice
cream was provided by Peggy Hogan's husband
Thomas, who is with Sealtest.
WOIVtPI members are collecting broken
and used jewelry for Goodwill Industries
as their project for Febi-uary . . Helen
.
Guess. Malco Theatres, is a new WOMPI
member .
monthly meeting of
WOMPI was held at a dinner at the Variety
Club. A film of the 1961 WOMPI national
convention at Charlotte was shown.
Gene Bearman, member of the Memphis
board of censors, said "Sweet Bird of
Youth" is a fine movie but reconunended
it for adults only. Four members of the
censor board, including Bearman, screened
the MGM movie.
A 13-year-old Memphis boy, Foley Flinn,
plays the boy Jesus in the new "King of
Kings" now at the State Theatre. His
grandparents, Mr. and Mi-s. W. J. Floyd,
live here. His parents. Col. and Mrs. Robert
Payne Flinn. were living in Madi'id when
the film was made there. Colonel Flinn is in
the Air Force.
Henry King, director, was in town to promote
the 20th-Fox film, "Tender Is the
Night," which opened February 1 at the
Plaza . . . Foster Hotard, booker for the
Martin Theatres of Georgia, from Atlanta,
was in Memphis booking for the ciixuit.
Visiting exhibitors included Frank Heard,
Lee Drive-In, Tupelo. Miss.; T. A. Ray,
Calico. Calico Rock. Ark.; Jack Lowrey,
Ritz at Russellville and Joy at Dardenelle,
Ark.; Louise Mask, Luez, Bolivar, and N. B.
Pair. Pair, Somerville.
Edward D. Clisby has assumed ownership
and operation of the Lakeside Drive-In at
Starkville, Miss. . . Malco has closed the
Frayser
.
Drive-In at Frayser, the Jaxon
Drive-In and 61 Drive-In in Memphis for
the season.
Orris Collins, owner of the Sunset Drive-
In at Paragould, Ark., has closed his Sunset
"until I can predict the weather." He
is expected to reopen from time to time
during spells of good weather.
Dorothy Dandridge Gets
Top Role in 'Marco Polo'
HOLLYWOOD—Dorothy Dandridge has
been signed by French producer Raoul
Levy to star opposite Alain Delon in
"Marco Polo," which Christian-Jacque will
direct in color and widescreen. Miss
Dandridge has left for Yugoslavia where
she will complete a week's work, to be followed
by five weeks of shooting in India in
April.
* * *
George Chakiris, young star who won
recognition for his performance in "West
Side Story," has been signed for a starring
role in "Diamond Head," JeiTy Bresler production
for Columbia release. Guy Green
will direct the film on location in Hawaii,
with Charlton Heston heading the cast.
Production is slated to start early in March.
JACKSONVILLE
]^ary Hart, WOMPI director at Florida
State Theatres, received a $1,243 check
on behalf of WOMPI from the Motion Picture
Charity Club for services rendered by
the entire WOMPI membership in aiding
the MPCC with its sponsorship of the midway
at the Jacksonville Agricultural and
Industrial Fair at the Gator Bowl last
November. All the money will be used by
WOMPI in conducting its charitable enterprises
... A new project to which WOMPI
has dedicated itself is assisting the Northeast
Florida Heart Ass'n with its office,
patient care and solicitations programs.
Fred Kent, owner of Kent Theatres, has
been re-elected president of the statewide
Ribault Corp., which will celebi-ate with a
week-long festival at the local Coliseum
the quadricentennial in 1962 of the landing
of a group of French settlers under the
leadership of Capt. Jean Ribault in 1562 at
a point of land a few miles from present
downtown Jacksonville.
Steve Formato, a new salesman on the
staff of Fred Hull, MGM manager, is following
in the footsteps of his father Louis,
who is district manager for MGM in
Washington, D.C. . . . Judson Moses. MGM
publicist from Atlanta, came in for advance
promotional work on "The Colossus of
Rhodes" . . . Jackie Baggett, MGM booking
clerk, was hospitalized for dental surgery.
Mrs. Mildred Driscoll came in for a
lengthy visit with her sister, Shirley Gor-
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