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Marco's Manchester
To Reopen for 'Bali'
LOS ANGELES Closed for llie pu.st two
years, Fanchon & Marco's Manchester Theatre
In the Inglewood area Is being Klven a
housccleanlnK In prcpiiratlon for Its Christmas
day reopening when, with six other
showcases In the Los Angeles metropolitan
area. It will begin a first run engagement of
Paramount's "Road to Ball."
The 1.600-seat house will have Rube Wolf
as Its managing director. It had been completely
remodeled Just prior to being shuttered
and was darkened, according to F&M.
because of Inability to .secure product on
better than a 21 to 28-day clearance. An
antitrust action .still Is pending on the Manchester's
behalf against all of the major
companies except Warners. Columbia. Republic
and United Artists.
Running mates to the Manchester on the
"Bali" booking are the Paramount Hollywood,
the Orpheum. the Picwood and three
drlve-lns, the Olympic. El Monte and Van
Nuys.
'Carmen' TV Is Canceled
In Northwest Centers
PORTLAND—The big screen telecast of
"Carmen" in Portland. Tacoma and Seattle
have been cancelled. The Metropolitan Opera
production, which was to be brought to the
Liberty here on December 11. can not be
brought via the coaxial cable from San
P'ancisco to Northwest cities because television
stations in Portland and Seattle already
have prior committments on the lone "channel"
of the cable devoted to television.
Marvin Fox, John Hamrick city manager.
said that so far there are no provisions for
more than one TV program on the cable.
Transfer Earl Baughman
KLAMATH FALLS. ORE.— Earl Baughman.
for five years local manager of the Klamath
Theatre Co.. has been transferred to Eureka
and has been replaced here by Bert Henson.
former manager of the Modesto Theatre Co. in
Modesto, Calif.
Six Newsreel Theatres in Austria
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j There are six newsreel theatres in regular
operation in Austria with a total seating ca-
I pacity of 2,001.
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Arch Oboler's Three Dimensional Film
'Bv/ana Devil' Hits 400 in Los Angeles
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Its day-date cnRogcmcnt at thr Dijmi.I'a:.
and Hollywood Paramount theatre, y'-.:..
new alltlme record.s In both hou.i«-« I h>-
Arch Oboler feature, playing at Bd\ttncrowntown ind llollyssood
Paramount Ihralrr^, .\rrh O b o 1 e r'»
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in thr Natural VMon thrpr-dlmcnaio*
procnn, went on to e^tabll^h new bMHC
rrrord.s In both sltuatioiu. (iUmtnrd here
al the llolls-wood Par.imount premiere,
from left: Oboler. who wrote, prndurrd
and dirrrtrd; Robert SLark. male star of
the (ipus, and aclrrroi (laudrtte Thornton.
held up In a .second week with a .Tore of
150 per cent. "H^erythlng I Have Is Youn"
bowed at the Uberty to a week's gross of
115 per cent
Blue Mouse— Because of Voa (U-I), Islond Resca*
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Coliseum— Pony Soldier 20th-Fo SR.i
World—Th* Man in the White Satt ^U-l). 2nd wk
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BOXOFFICE :: December 6. 1952
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