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: March<br />
. . M.<br />
. . Ruth<br />
. . Edward<br />
MINNEAPOLIS<br />
Dack from an Arizona and California vacation,<br />
Ev Seibel, Minnesota Amusement<br />
Co. advertising and publicity head, tells of<br />
running across Ben Ashe, former Berger<br />
cucuit general manager, now National Screen<br />
branch manager in Los Angeles. The meeting<br />
took place in Phoenix and Ben asked Ev<br />
to convey his regards to all his Mii-meapolis<br />
friends. While attending the "Northside<br />
777" premiere in Hollywood, he heard the<br />
doorman call out the arrival of William R.<br />
Frank, local circuit owner and Hollywood<br />
producer. Ev says the studio economy wave<br />
LeRoy J. Miller, Universal-International<br />
manager, went to Redwood Falls. Minn., to<br />
put on a special screening of "A Double Life"<br />
for Northwest Theatres managers. The occasion<br />
was the reopening of the redecorated<br />
Don Buckley Theatre . . . Cliff Gill, former<br />
Welworth circuit and 20th-Pox exploiteer<br />
here, now a freelance public relations and<br />
j<br />
publicity man in California, visited his<br />
parents and brother here.<br />
Jack Heywood, New Richmond, Wis., circuit<br />
owner, is back from a, several months'<br />
vacation in Arizona and California . . . Northwest<br />
Variety Club is discontmuing its Saturday<br />
night bingo parties . . . Gertrude Guimont,<br />
Warner Bros, head booker, returned<br />
to her post after a nine-week absence due<br />
to a fractured limb . . . Ben Marcus, Columbia<br />
district manager, was a visitor.<br />
Bernard R. Goodman, Warner Bros, .^^uper-<br />
for Anna Teener of the Paramount office<br />
staff. She announced her engagement to<br />
Jerome Lorberdaum of the Snyder drug<br />
stores.<br />
Don Swartz's Independent Film Distributors<br />
will open a branch at Sioux Falls. S. D..<br />
with Ernie Prace in charge. Swartz is now<br />
in New York for conferences with Biidd<br />
Rogers, Realart general sales manager . . .<br />
Film Classics' distribution now is being<br />
handled by National Screen in this territory<br />
. . Tire stage production of "I Remember<br />
Mama" just beats the pictures into the Twin<br />
cities.<br />
A shakeup by Morrie Steinman, Monogram<br />
manager, finds Clyde Cutter, formerly<br />
with United Artists, the new head booker,<br />
replacing Bob O'Rourke, who resigned, and<br />
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Mrs. Ruth Dickey promoted from secretary<br />
to cashier, replacing Helen Jelly, who quit<br />
after four years to go with Film Classics.<br />
The housing expeditor has under consideration<br />
another application from the Minne-<br />
sota Amusement Co. for a permit to remodel<br />
the Colonial Theatre, Watertown, S. D., to<br />
replace the State, recently destroyed by fire<br />
Heiber, Eagle Lion district manager,<br />
was a visitor.<br />
"Monsieur Verdoux" goes into Century<br />
here March 12, the St. Paul Riviera April<br />
2 and the Duluth Garrick April 22.<br />
Balman Drive-In Bid<br />
Stirs Up Twin Cites<br />
has employes in a panic and the feeling<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—The drive-in is<br />
theatre invasion<br />
that the drouth that has hit most parts of<br />
has taken the spotlight here again<br />
southern California will damage with<br />
theatre<br />
the<br />
business<br />
substantially.<br />
cense to build and operate one in suburban<br />
application of Sid Balman for a li-<br />
Brooklyn Center.<br />
Property owners and residents near the<br />
proposed theatre took a full-page newspaper<br />
ad to call on council members to keep the<br />
area free from "the nuisance." Volk Bros.,<br />
who have a theatre nearby, are among those<br />
fighting it.<br />
Balman is manager of the Bloomington<br />
Drive-In. the first in the area, which was<br />
opened last summer by Dave Plexer of Memphis.<br />
Mimresota Entertainment Enterprises<br />
was organized subsequently by a group of<br />
prominent Twin City independents to halt the<br />
invasion in this field by outside interests.<br />
MEE is building a drive-in in the midway district<br />
and has plans for several more.<br />
Ray Nichols Reopens Villa<br />
LO-VILIA. IOWA—The Villa Theatre was<br />
reopened last week by its new owners Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Ray Nichols of Fairfield. A new<br />
screen and projector have been purchased.<br />
Three changes of program will be made each<br />
week with matinees on Saturdays and Sim-<br />
Howard Clark to RKO<br />
OMAHA—Howard Clark, office manager<br />
for Film Classics and formerly with MGM<br />
here, has switched to RKO as office man-<br />
visor of exchanges, left for Chicago after a<br />
brief visit here . M. Krane sold his Loop<br />
Theatre, a subsequent run house to Max<br />
Elkins, a newcomer in the show business.<br />
Krane plans to buy a theatre elsewhere. days. Nichols recently purchased the theatre<br />
from Harold Sieverding.<br />
Harry Hirsch, veteran showman, had<br />
Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emmett Callahan,<br />
company manager of "Lady Windemere's<br />
Pan," in which Miss Skinner appeared at the<br />
Lyceum, as dinner guests at the Standard<br />
. . club J. B. McGovern, Paramount traveling<br />
auditor, was in town Juster,<br />
former Paramount biller, has become secretary<br />
ager. He succeeds Norm Nielsen, who is go-<br />
to Morrie Steinman, Monogram branch ing on the road as a salesman.*<br />
manager bells soon will ring<br />
Takes New Theatre Post<br />
OMAHA—Jack Schwiedelson. manager of<br />
the Cass Theatre, which was closed by fire<br />
department orders, now is managing the<br />
Benson Theatre for Sam Epstein.<br />
'BOXOFFICE :<br />
13, 1948
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