DECEMBER

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Janet Brocker, secretary to MGM office
manager E^'elyn Cannon, suffered severe
bruises and shock when her car and a
truck collided while she was driving to North
Omaha to visit her mother. The car was
badly damaged and Janet was pinned inside
. . . "Bell, Book and Candle." the Van
Druten comedy, did $4,500 in three perform-
ances on the Paramount stage. Weather was
rough and driving conditions rougher.
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OMAHA
Degjna Maher, Paramount cashier, plans to
leave soon. Her husband is being transferred
to Leon. Iowa, with a packing firm . . .
Ruth Moberg, formerly with UA, is now with
Film Transport, taking the place of Louise
Robertson, who has gone to California . . .
"John Brown's Body" did $5,000 business for
one performance on the Paramount stage.
The troupe, which includes Tyrone Power.
Raymond Massey and Judith Anderson,
travels by bus.
Daniel McGrath, petty officer third class
and son of General Manager Henry McGrath
of Film Exhibitors Printing Co.. was home on
leave from the submarine Pomfret after duty
in the Korea-Japan area. He has rejoined the
sub at San Francisco . . . Marvin Jones, owner
of the State at Red Cloud, is general chairman
of the swimming pool committee and devoting
much of his time toward construction
of the project for which the town voted
$35,000 in bonds.
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cau.se of his recent bout with arthritis, spent
more than an hour getting it changed in
the dark out on the highway.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hollingsworth of the
Holly at Beatrice were vacationing in Arizona
and New Mexico . . . Hap Moehler, custodian
of the Hamburg Theatre, paid his annual
Thanksgiving day visit to Filmrow . . . Sol
Francis. AA manager, made a swing through
the western Nebraska territory and bucked
rain, snow and ice in that area's first big
siege of winter of the season . . . Rich 'Wilson.
MGM salesman, was treated to a steak dinner
by Dick Marvel. Arcadia exhibitor; then he
hit the bad part on the way into Omaha.
He picked up two spikes in a tire and, be-
Jack Renfro, Theatre Booking Service, returned
from the Variety Club convention at
Pittsburgh with glowing accounts of the organization's
work. Chief Barker Renfro and
Eddie Shafton were Omaha's representatives
after Bernard Dudgeon, manager of
the West Dodge Drive-In, announced it
looked like the layout would remain open
until December for the first time in its four
seasons. Old Man Winter struck a solid blow
at Omaha and Dudgeon almost had to change
signals . . . Omaha women whose ancestors
came over on the Mayflower were guests of a
screening of "Plymouth Adventure" which
was booked at the Omaha. The women were
members of the Nebraska Chapter of Mayflower
Daughters.
Carl White, Quality Theatre Supply Co.
owner, reported his fourth grandchild has
recovered from an abdominal operation. He
is Bruce, son of Dr. John C. White and now
three months old. Mr. and Mrs. White recently
visited Carl White jr.. stationed at
the army preinduction center in Chicago . . .
Vince Flynn, MGM manager who just returned
from vacation, was laid up for a week
with the flu.
Don Romeo, local comedian, received the
commendation ribbon from Maj. P. A. Lyck
of the Nebraska military district for work
with Special Service in Korea and Japan .
A burglar made off with $10 after breaking
into the Ewald Drive-In in Council Bluffs . .
Irvin Beck, manager of the Moon Theatre.
Wilber. Neb., told the Chamber of Commerce
that he will offer free matinees December 6
and 13 as part of the pre-Christmas program
Tri-States District Manager
for the city . . .
William Miskell announced the Orpheum's
television presentation of "Carmen" by the
Metropolitan Opera Co. will be offered at
Autumn's Think Time
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enough? Is projection adequate and your screen as
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$1.20 to $3.85. Beck received many ticket
orders even before prices were announced.
These exhibitors were Filmrow visitors:
Mrs. Arch Conklin, Griswold. Iowa: Frank
Good. Red Oak. Iowa: Marvin Jones. Red
Cloud: OUie Schneider. Osceola: Pat Plummer
and Jeanette Schoeneman. Wahoo:
Sonny Thacker. South Sioux City: Mat
Wuebben. Canton, S. D.: Doc Nalteus. Mapleton,
Iowa: Bob Kruger, Sioux City, and Al
Harriman, Alton, Iowa.
Joe H. Jacobs, Columbia manager, was in
Chicago all last week for a conference with
home office officials, including A. Montague,
general sales manager, in conjunction with
other midwest branches . Wirthwein,
western division sales manager for
Allied Artists, flew in from Los Angeles for
a conference with Omaha Manager Sol
Francis.
Mrs. E. L. Bartak, wife of the Greeley,
Neb., theatreman, was brought to St. Joseph's
hospital in Omaha for an operation . . . Mrs.
Ed Kugel, wife of the Holstein exhibitor,
Mabel Mitchell,
also entered St. Joseph's . . .
secretary to Ralph Goldberg of Goldberg
Theatres, returned from a vacation just in \
time to catch the full force of the midwest
blizzard.
Roof-scaling: burglars took $70 from a hid-
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den cabinet in the office of the Berkley
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Theatre in South Omaha. Detectives said
they entered by way of a roof trap door . . .
The Variety Club had as a special guest
Col. Bill McCraw at its December luncheon
at the Blackstone hotel . . . Funeral
services
were held at Shelton, Neb., for Mrs. V,
N. Felps, 74, whose husband operated the
theatre there for many years in the early
days of the film industry.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Van Husan of the Western
Theatre Supply Co. of Omaha left December
6 to spend the holidays with their
daughter at Richmond, Va. . student!
union of the University of South Dakota at
Vermillion has scheduled a weekly series of
movies, which will include a number of film
classics.
More snow on top of the territory's first,
heavy blanket plus the threat of more kept'
most outstate exhibitors from Omaha. A few'
hardy souls on Filmrow included Paul Tramp,
Oxford: Wally Johnson. Pi-iend: Art Goodwater.
Madison: E. L. Bartak. Greeley, and]
Ainold Meierdirks, Pender.
Begin Work on 300-Car Ozoner
CRESTON. IOWA—Work on the new drivein
to be located on the old fairgrounds property,
just north of the city limits, has begun,
according to Earl Douglass, manager here for
Commonwealth Theatres. An earlier start
was planned but work was delayed when residents
in the northern part of Crcston protested
the location of the ozoner. However
the company finally decided to go ahead.
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