DECEMBER

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'Andersen Is Smash at Two Theatres;
Holdovers Good in Holiday Week
NEW YORK—"Hans Christian Andersen" Beekman— Under the Red Sea (RKO), 2nd wk...l20
, , ,. , - , ^ i ii Broadway—This Is Cinerama (Cinerama), reserved
opened to sensational business at two tnea- sects, 9th wk 1 50
tres, the Criterion, where part of the huge 105
Copitoi—The Prisoner of Zendo (mgm), 4th wk..
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,. ^ , ^ ii_ 1. r-i- ^ Criterion Hans Christian Andersen (RKO) 175
first week gross came from the benefit open- f,^^ Arts—The Promoter (U-i), 5th wk 135
ing, which was donated to the Will Rogers 55th street— Life Begins Tomorrow (M-K), 2nd
Memorial hospital, and the Paris, where the
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Gio*b''e— Kansas City' Confidential (UA).'
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first week was the highest in the history Guild— Leonardo do Vinci (Picture), 2nd wk 120
, ., ,. „ „ ,j , „^„ Little Carnegie The Hour of 13 (MGM), 5th wk. . 90
of the five-year-old house. Loew's Stot^Outpost in Malaya (UA) 105
Except for "Kansas City Confidential," Mayfair—The Thief of Venice (20th-Fox) no
„,ui«u u^^ *-u« Urtr.*. ^*^««;«^ TTTQQb- t.i»^/>« Tiiltf Normandie—The Mudlark (20th-Fox), reissue. ... 1 00
Which had the best opening week since July
palace— it Grows on Trees (U- 1), plus vaudeville.no
at the Globe, the other new pictures for Paramount—The iron Mistress (WB), plus stage
Thanksgiving week were little better than
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average, including "The Thief of Venice" Radio City Music Hail—Plymouth Adventure
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