DECEMBER

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BOSTON
^harles Chaplin's "Limelight," distributed by
United Ai'tists. will open Christmas day
at the American Theatres Corp. downtown
Mayflower and the Esquire uptown. Two
Selznick films, "The Fallen Idol" and "The
Portrait of Jenny" played this combination
before, as did "Life With Father" and "The
Champion." The Esquire, closed for a year,
will be reopened for the Christmas presentation
and will remain open for specialized
product after the run of "Limelight."
No sooner had the "Plymouth Adventure"
press and Mayflower society party in Plymouth
been completed than publicist Floyd
Fitzsimmons of MGM started right in again
working on another tubthumping project.
This one is on "Million Dollar Mermaid," the
holiday picture for Loew's State and Orpheum.
Julie Dorsey, one of the mermaids
in the film who is the daughter of band
leader Jimmy Dorsey, arrived in town for
two days of radio, TV and press interviews,
climaxed by a press party at the University
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club, where she demonstrated several of the
water ballets from the film in the club's
swimming pool. The invitations to the press
were imprinted on water wings as a gag.
Carl Fasick, Loew's Boston publicist, worked
with Fitzsimmons and his assistant, Bob
Holland, on the affair.
RKO
Al MargoUan has been added to the
publicity staff to assist Hugh McKenzie on
"Hans Christian Andersen." Harriet O'Brien,
local publicist, has been engaged by RKO to
help with the two luncheons honoring Samuel
Goldwyn and Mrs. Goldwyn. Margolian, former
publicist for the Astor Theatre, also
assisted McKenzie on the campaign for
"Under the Red Sea," and introduced Dr.
and Mrs. Hans Hass, producers, to the Boston
press,
. . . Sympathy
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Dick Green, a Harvard 1952 graduate, has
joined Interstate Theatres Corp. as assistant
booker, working directly under his brother
Malcolm, head buyer and booker
to Selma Rosenberg, booker stenog-
rapher at Universal, on the death of her
mother Harrison, newly appointed
representative for 20th-Fox, was introduced
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to the circuit officials in this area by Manager
Jim Connolly Chester Bahn, editor
of the Film Daily, his wife and two of their
sons, Gilbert and Chet jr., came in from
New York to attend the Harvard-Yale football
game in Cambridge.
Tlie famed Colonial legitimate theatre and
the adjacent Colonial office building have
been sold to an undisclosed buyer .
AUard Graves, partner with Interstate Th&
atres in three houses in New Hampshire
Vermont, and wife left for Florida where
they will spend the winter The wife ol
Charles 'Wilcox, owner of the Orleans Theatre,
Orleans, was in a Boston hospital . .
Lester Hughes, owner of the Nordica. Freeport,
Me., reported that his wife is slowlj
recovering after an operation
Kuntinsky of the
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Premiums conferred with Harry Germaine
the New England representative.
Nathan Goldstein, Aicade Theatre, Springy
field, completed the final plans for his theanl
tre to play first run product and then headedl
south to be gone until April 1. The change-n^
over to first run started with the 20ih-Fo3iij
feature, "Tlie Steel Trap." starring Josepl:|J
Cotten and Teresa Wright . thar,'
$700 was realized for the American Cancel f
society in the name of Helen Eager, thell
late drama and film critic of the Bostor;
Traveler, at the Helen Eager night at the!
Beacon Hill Theatre when owner Benjamir
Sack turned over the entire proceeds of the}]
evening's performance to the fun. Credit
due Tom Dowd, managing director of th
theatre, for his efforts in making the affa
a success.
George Kraska, film importer, brought t(l
this country a skiing short showing the re/
markable rehabilitation of two young AusJ
trian officers who were permanently injurecr
during the war. Called "Miracle on Skis," the
film was taken in the Alps and has mei
with instantaneous success when shown ir
theatres in this country. Mrs. John Greene
president of the Boston School of Occupa-' 'il
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