Boxoffice-December.17.1962

. . . Del
. . "Castaways"
. . Bob
. . Mel
number of personal matters, in addition
to laying the groundwork in connection
with the handling of promotion and publicity
for pictures slated for this area. Just
tell 'em to remember that I broke all records
on the circus picture, for boxoffice
and ink throughout the state. I feel fine
and am all set to break a few more records.
Tell 'em to give me a buzz."
Ben Marcus of the circuit bearing his
name, the Pfister Hotel, etc., can take another
bow. Both Milwaukee papers have
been harping on the need for cleaning up,
brightening up, painting, remodeling, new
building, more hotels and so on for the city.
Since Marcus took over the Pfister Hotel,
crews have been working day and night in
restoring the edifice to its former brilliance.
The Journal noted the matter in an editorial.
Boxoffice receipts on stage plays at the
various legitimate houses here have been
slipping to the point where "something's
got to be done about it." So. station WISN-
TV proceeded to look into the matter for a
solution. Interviewed on the program which
appeared Wednesday (5), from 7-7:30
p.m., were: Paul Shyre, Fred Miller Theatre;
Alan Furlan, Sunset Playhouse; Father
John J. Walsh, S. J.. Marquette University;
Clair Richardson, Skylight; Ray
Boyle, Swan; Ray Mitchell, the Pabst, and
yours truly, Boxoffice. All sorts of excuses
were given for the lack of attendance, from
bad shows, insufficient interest, to the need
for the papers to get into the picture by
giving free publicity. Yours truly told 'em
to get on the ball and promote, but from
all indications, that sort of language they
don't understand. What's more, if the motion
picture exhibitor were given the support
and financial assistance those legits
have been receiving, the little exhibitor
would be in clover.
OMAHA
Joseph Smith, a partner in the S&M Film
Service and one of the motion picture
veterans in this territory, was one of four
Omahans who were honored by the Travelers
Protective Ass'n for 50 years of continuous
membership at a banquet at the
Castle Hotel . . . Carl White of Quality
Theatre Supply Co. was to return home
over the weekend after a successful operation
at the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn.
Russell Acton appears to have the ball
rolling at a good clip at Avoca, where he
took over the theatre which had been
closed for a number of years. Russell has
a couple of young men who have been making
personal calls through the area talking
to farmers, housewives and businessmen
and they have been getting good reaction.
He reopened on a seven-day-a-week basis
Sayles. exhibitor at Malvern and
former Omaha theatre manager, has been
receiving excellent support editorially in
the Malvern paper.
Harmon Grunke announced he will run
the O'Neill Drive-In again next year. The
layout is owned by a corporation and Harmon
said it has been leased for four years
. . . United Artists were pleased with comments
after a special screening at the Military
Theatre of "Taras Bulba," which will
be the Christmas offering at the Admiral,
Chief and the Sky 'View Drive-In combination
owned by Ralph Blank. A Nebraska
adventurer and writer, Dan Liska of Niobrara,
took part in the filming in Argentina.
Liska was on his way home from
a motorcycle trip from Nebraska to the
tip of South America when he was signed
on by United Artists.
Ed Opicensky, owner of the Strand Theatre
at Newman Grove, has decided not to
go on a yearend vacation and instead will
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continue operation of the theatre right
through the holidays Kruse, exhibitor
at Pierce, lost out in his race for
clerk of the district court by only a few
votes. He is not sure what activity he will
get into after the first of the year . . .
Reports are that Cecil Waller has sold the
equipment of the lowana Theatre at Red
Oak to the bank . Hirz and Betty
Roberts were busy clearing the path in the
Warner Bros, office for painters.
Bill Barker of Co-Op Theatre Service,
who has not been more than a few steps
from his office for many, many moons, says
the time has come—he is planning a
Christmas trip to Texas ... Ed Christensen,
veteran exhibitor at Ord, on his visit
to the Row last week claimed that the
darkness around one eye was caused by
"knuckle poisoning"— it was heard the
infection was caused by an inebriated customer
at a midnight show . . . Lillian Danielson
of the Allied Artists staff and her
sister are settled in a new apartment.
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A. G. Miller, veteran theatre owner and
former postmaster at Ainsworth, was
called to Youngstown, Ohio, by the death of
his brother Robert, 74, a native of Atkinson
will be the Christmas
holidays offering at the State . . .
Bill Wink, Allied Artists office manager,
received a letter from an outstate exhibitor
addi-essed to "Chief Snow Artist,
Allied (Snow) Artists, Omaha." Wink's
comment: "That's strange, we haven't had
any snow yet."
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