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KANSAS CITY
Paul Rice, Paramount branch manager,
was in San Francisco Monday (17) attending
a sales meeting for branch and division
managers. The meeting lasted three
id forthcoming product was shown.
Gene Snitz, Columbia salesman, and his
wife Ann left Friday (21) to start their vacation.
The couple is making a grand tour
of Europe and plan to visit England.
France. Germany and other countries.
Screenings at Commonwealth: "Night
Digger" (MGM) and -Walkabout" (20th-
Fox). Friday (21): "The Hunting Party" and
'What's the Matter With Helen" (UA) Monday
(24). and "Von Richthofen and Brown"
(UA) Tuesday (25). The latter two will be
shown at 1:30 p.m.
The WOMPI Club will hold its May
meeting Tuesday (25) in the Commonwealth
screening room. The meeting will begin at
5 p.m.
Bob Jackson, Universal shipper, left
Monday (24) to start a week's vacation near
Warsaw. Bob planned to visit his mother
and sister and get in a bit of fishing.
Forty years ago, according to the column
of that name in the Kansas City Times
Tuesday (18), the classic crime epic "Public
Enemy," starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow
and Don Cook, was being highlighted
at the Newman Theatre. The Loews Midland
was featuring "Young Sinners," with
Thomas Meighan, Dorothy Jordan and
Hardie Albright. Genevieve Tobin, John
Holes and Lois Wilson were appearing in
"Seed" at the Mainstreet, while the Shubert
Theatre was playing "Dirigible" with Jack
Holt. Ralph Graves and that "King Kong"
girl.
Fay Wray.
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The annual picnic of the Motion Picture
Ass'n of Greater Kansas City will be held
Thursday, June 17, at Glenwood Park in
Overland Park, starting at 2 p.m. Torrey
Southwick and Old Gus, in above photo,
widely known TV entertainers in the Kansas
City area, will be on hand to add some delightful
moments for the kiddies. In addi-
there will be games and free soda pop.
tion,
Members and their families, as has been
the custom, will bring their own baskets of
food, according to Hal McClure, Commonwealth
Theatres booker, who is chairman of
the picnic committee. A softball game will
take place, umpired by John Long of Warner
Bros. The WOMPIs will conduct a
bingo game.
Stanley H. Durwood, president of American
Multi Cinema, announced the opening
of the Indian Springs four theatres in
the Indian Springs shopping center at 47th
street and State Ave., Kansas City, Kas.,
Wednesday (19). The theatres opened with
"Airport." "Patton," "Five Easy Pieces" and
"The Owl and the Pussycat." Spencer King
is the manager.
Central Cinema Co. of Overland Park,
Kas., announces the appointment of Bruce
A. Stenner as public relations and advertising
director. Stenner, who is a resident of
Platte City, is a graduate of Maplewood
Junior College in Kansas City North.
Charles A. Fisher heads the company.
Dr. James K. Loutzenhiser, local psychiatrist,
who is well known on Filmrow and in
film circles as a member of the motion picture
committee for the Missouri Council on
the Arts, has moved over the weekend to a
new home with his family. The new address
is 11405 Jefferson St.
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Lightner
Enjoy 3 Weeks in Europe
KANSAS CITY—Douglas Lightner, general
manager for Commonwealth Theatres
and his wife, returned from a three-week
tour of Europe, taken under the auspices of
the local Friends of Art organization, and
reported that motion picture business there
appears to be doing well.
Lightner said the group flew to Paris
where it split up. with members making
their own trips to special points of interest.
He said he noted particularly that business
was excellent in Paris, where Jerry Lewis
happened to be appearing.
From Paris the Lightners went to Zurich.
Brussels, London, Amsterdam, up the Rhine
to Strassburg, then back to Paris. Lightner
was particularly impressed with the tulips.
which were in bloom throughout Holland,
and commented on the fact that there still
was a great deal of snow in the Swiss Alps.
Continuing discussion of his observations
of theatre operations, Lightner said he did
not actually visit any theatres on his trip,
but that from what he observed, admission
prices seemed to be about in line with those
charged in major American cities. In
glimpses of theatre lobbies, however, he said
that concession selling as it is known in
American houses, appears quite different,
with no large concession layouts in the
European theatres and with sales apparently
limited to drinks and candy, the latter
available
mostly in vending machines.
Glenn Boner, Don Ireland
Join Petite Amusement
EMPORIA, KAS.—Dick Conley, president
of the Petite Amusement Corp., announces
that Glenn Boner, formerly manager
of the Fox and Lincoln theatres in
Springfield, 111., has been named manager
of the Petite Twins 1 and 2.
Conley, at the same time, announced that
Don Ireland, booker with Fox Midwest
Theatres for many years, will join the Petite
organization June 1 to head the newly
formed subsidiary, Petite Amusement Booking
Service.
The Joe Giobbis to Live
In Italy in Retirement
From New England Edition
HARTFORD—Moving back to Italy
next fall for retirement will be with mixed
feelings, says Joe Giobbi.
The long-time exhibition executive and
his wife are leaving in November.
He managed the 900-seat Crown Theatre
here for many years and, previously, was
with the then-Franklin & Hughes Theatres
in Los Angeles.
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