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phe Women's Varietj Club of Tent 4 recently
sponsored a fashion show fea-
•.ji'ing youngsters from the St. Mark's Learn-
:::g Center for Preschool Children and fashions
from Fischer's of Florissant. The
youngsters, ages two through five, are retarded.
Preceding the show, the club presented
checks to various charities amounting
to $5,500. Receiving the funds were: the
.State School & Hospital Parents Ass'n. $3.-
000; St. Mary's Special School. S 1.000:
Judevinc Center. SI.000. and Camp Happy
Day. $500. Earlier Tent 4 women had presented
a check for 510.000. representing
proceeds of their various fund-raising activities,
to the Edgewood Home for Emotionally
Disturbed Children. The gift was
presented by Mrs. Thom Lewis. Women's
Variety president, to Landsden McCandless
jr.. chairman of the home's capital fund
drive. The women's next project is to sell
2.000 tickets to a fund-raising dinner to be
held April 19 at Stouffer's Riverfront Inn.
Included among the more than 100 •angels"
who paid a premium $100 for tickets
to attend the 40th annual Gridiron Dinner
and Show presented Wednesday (27) in the
Khorassan Room of the Chase-Park Plaza
Hotel by the Advertising Women of St.
Louis, which will benefit the cancer research
program at Barnard Free Skin & Cancer
Hospital, were: Better Films Council of
Greater St. Louis past-presidents Mrs. Wm.
E, (Lou) Moore and Mrs. Harold H. Feller:
1973 Variety Tent 4 Telethon Crusade
Sweetheart Mrs. Duncan Bauman, and 1974
Sweetheart Mrs. Philip F. Lichtenstein.
"Mortals" from the film industry who
were among the 900 paying $30 for tickets,
included regular supporters of the effort:
Bess Schulter. Mrs. Emil (Mary) Karches,
Mrs. Dimitrios (Georgia) James and her sisters
Harriet. Angie and Mary Boudoures.
Mrs. Herschel (Hazel McManus, Mrs. W-
phonse B. (Vicki) Magarian and your Boxoffice
reporter, who served as Gridiron assistant
to Mary Utterback. president of the
M Women's group. Gridiron proceeds for
the past several years have supported cancer
research, reaching a total of more than
$350,000 in contributions.
(^ono-ratulatlond to
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Mid-America
Theatres
on tne o,menina of tfli
TWIN CITY
CINEMA
Crystal City. Missouri
and ^kanh
rom
MAJOR SUPPLIER
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HARRY HOFF & JOHN MATTLER
RINGOLD
CINEMA EQUIPMENT CORP.
8421 Gravols
St. Louis, Missouri 63123
Phone (314)352-2020
Members of the Women's Guild of Cardinal
Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children
will spwnsor a premiere showing of the new
musical movie "Mame" at 8 p.m. Wednesday
(27) at the Esquire Theatre. Proceeds
will be used for the benefit of the poison
center located at the hospital. Tickets for
the premiere are $25 each and may be obtained
by writing or calling the public relations
department. Cardinal Glennon Hospital
for Children. 1465 South Grand.
63104. or phoning 865-4000. extension 272.
Charles Chartrand. brother of Wilson
"Shorty" Chartrand. veteran manager of
Arthur Enterprises St. Ann Theatre, died
Monday (11). Services were held Friday
(15), Survivors include Chartrand's wife
Marian; son Charles: sisters Anabel Gilroy
and Rose Kluge. and another brother.
James Chartrand. Industry friends may
make memorial contributions to Deaconess
Hospital Cancer Research of St. Mary's
Hospital,
I ronton.
Three Suspects Arraigned
After Underskyer Holdup
KANSAS CITY—Two men and a woman
believed to be connected with a robbers'
Friday night (15) at Mid-America Cinema
Corp.'s 63rd Street Drive-In were arrested
by Kansas City police officers at 63rd and
Swope Parkway approximately 15 minutes
after the holdup. All were reported to be
armed.
Weapons and money apparently taken in
the ozoner robbery were recovered.
The three were arraigned Saturday (16)
before Louis J. Mazuch, Jackson Countv
magistrate, on a first-degree robbery charge
and held in the county jail. Preliminary
hearings are set for Tuesday (26).
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$54.00
BOXOFFICE :; March 25, 1974