Boxoffice-March.06.1948

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==^ fLASH ==^ THEATRE SEATS RECOVERED — REPAffiED ANYWHERE BEST WORKMANSHIP. POSITIVELY LOWEST PRICE. PROMPT SERVICE 1 JOHN HEIDT, 1507 W. Kcrby. Detroit 8. Mich. Phone: TYIer 7-8015 Magazine Subscriptions The Ideal Gift For Sale or Lease — All or Part DRIVE-IN THEATRE Location includes bathing beach and ye JOEL Deti JOSEPHSON LONG SIGN CO. MARQUISE SIGNS MAINTENANCE SERVICE 840 W. Baltimore, Detroit — TR 1-5477 Looking For Film Row Contacts? Office or desk space available, personal representation. Box 1005 1009 Fox BIdg., Detroit 1, Mich. ERNIE FORBES 214 W. Montcalm Detroit 1, Mich. Phone CAdillac 1122
: March 2nd ;'''..' . . The . . The . . Four New Theatres Seen for Worcester WORCESTER. MASS.— If and when the federal government removes its postwar ban iin construction of theatres, four new ones iuc promised this city. That would give Worcester 16 film houses. E. M. Loew of Boston has blueprints drawn for the neighborhood theatre on Grafton Hill and only the building priorities are holding him back. Loew also is anxious to build a downtown theatre. He has bought land on High street for this purpose, but is reported anxious to purchase more before he goes ahead with his plans. This theatre would have an entrance on Main. A third pictui-e house would be in the building to be erected at Southbridge and Cambridge streets and a fourth in the development just started on upper Lincoln street. Eventually it is expected there will be 350 new home units there. Southbridge and Pramingham are among the nearby commimities that expect erection of new theatres. Tony Boscardine Opens House in Dover Plains CANAAN. CONN. — Tony Boscardine, operator of the Colonial, Canaan, Conn., began interstate operations when he opened his 725-seat Dover Theatre, Dover Plains, N. Y., March 3. The Colonial-type building has a modern, attractive interior, with latest type equipment. National Theatre Supply Co. of New Haven, under the supervision of William Hutchins, installed carpet. Simplex projection and sound, the screen, and other equipment. The seats are Heywood-Wakefield. Frank Knickerbocker, son-in-law of Boscardine. will manage the house. Michael McAndrew to the Strand in Springfield HOLYOKE, MASS.—Michael McAndrew. assistant manager at the Suffolk Theatre here under Manager Paul Kessler, has been promoted to the position of manager of the Strand in Springfield. Both theatres are owned and operated by Herman Rifkin. McAndrew received his training at the Suffolk under the provisions of the G.I. bill of rights on-the-job training program. 4 Arbitrator Selected NEW HAVEN—Fleming James, professor of the Yale law school, has been agreed upon as arbitrator of the clearance complaint against the major distributors of the State Theatre, Springfield, Conn. No date has been set for the hearing. Secretary OUver Bishop of the Connecticut AAA board reports a late March hearing may be held for the West Side Amusement Co.'s complaint against the majors, in which relief is sought for the Barnum, Bridgeport. Intermissions at Webb HARTFORD—Jim Farrell. manager of the suburban Webb Playhouse, has scheduled brief intermissions following the main feature nightly to enable patrons to visit restrooms or candy snack bar. according to Farrell. The Webb runs weekday evenings only, with matinees on Saturday and Sunday. New Haven Leaders Meet, Talk Over Foundation NEW HAVEN—The first organizational meeting of the general committee of the Motion Picture Foundation was scheduled here March 12, with Carl Goe, Warner manager, as chairman. Dr. J. B. Fishman, trustee, who has attended national meetings on the Foundation, will give his report. Other key men here included Harry L. Lavetes, alternate trustee, Lou Brown, publicity chief, and an area committee consisting of Max Salzburg, Ben Simon, Henry Germaine. Arthur Greenfield, Harry Rosenblatt, B. E. Hoffman, Harry Shaw, Jim Darby, Morris Jacobson, Barney Pitkin, Henry Needles, Maurice Bailey, Walter Murphy, John Scanlon, Peter Perakos, Leon Jakubson. Matthew Kennedy, Freda Swirsky, Samuel Zipkin, James Bracken, Russell Barrett, Daniel Pouzzner. Hub Snarled Again By Heavy Snowfall BOSTON—The worst blizzard of the season, bringing several more feet of snow, arrived March 2 and crippled transportation once more. The weekend before, however, was a good one, with nice returns at the boxoffice. "Call Northside 777" at the Metropolitan was the standout. (Av 0) Astor—The Bishop's Wile (RKO), 10th wk. Boston Green For Danger (EL), plus stage show Exeter Street—The Upturned Glass (U-!); One Our Aircraft Is Missing dlAV reissno 3rd wlc Kenn 5pt, "ial—Night Song 1- , Fighting Ma( (Mono), 2n'i .-, k Melropolitar.— Call Northside 777 i_Uth-Fox) Paramount and Fenway—Saigon (Para); Let's Live Again (20th-Fox), 2nd d. t. wk. State and Orpheum Three Daring Daught (MGM); The Wreck of the Hesperus (Co "Body and Soul' Holds Over At the Roger Sherman NEW HAVEN— -Body and Soul," dualed with "Stork Bites Man," did fine business at the Roger Sherman and stayed on for a repeat week. The Loew Poll bill, "To the Ends of the Earth" and "Son of Rusty," moved over to the College. A week's vacation in the public schools helped midweek takes, but bad weather, with rain and sleet, halted business at the end of the week's runs. Detail for the week ended March 3: Bijou—Cass Timberlane (MGM); Campus Honeymoon (Rep) , d t wk 90 College—Gentleman's Agreement (20th-Fox); Philo Vance's Secret Mission (EL), 3rd wk 96 Loew Poll—To the Ends of the Earth (Col); The Son of Rusty (Col) 108 Paramount—Saigon (Para), Gas House Kids in Hollywood (EL), 2nd wk 90 " ady and Soul '""' Stork Man (UA) (Ua; "Gentleman's Agreement' Hits 225 in Hartford Opener HARTFORD—Newcomers included "Gentleman's Agreement." "If You Knew Susie" and "Albuquerque." Allyn—Albuqueque (Para), The Flame iHejl lU E M. Loews—Relentless (Col Two Blondes and (Col), Redhead 3rd wk a UX Loew's Poll Gentleman's Agreement i.'Mthfjx) The Challenge ^czlace—Cass Timberlane (20th-Fox) (MGM) wk. Devil Ship (Col). 3rd Regal—The Voice of the Turtle (WB), 3rd wk 9( it of Stale—Docks New Orleans (Mono), plus Providence Empire To Wreckers Soon PROVIDEInv^c, R. I.— Providence's oldest theatre, the Empire, reached the end of a colorful career last week when the curtain came down on the final motion picture showing. The building at 260 Westminster St. Is to be razed to make way for a department store. Wreckers are scheduled to take over about April 1. The theatre was opened 70 years ago March 4, 1878, as Loew's Grand Opera Hou.se. with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as the first attraction. Since then it has been called the Gaiety. Keith's, the Victory and finally the Empire. About every type of theatrical entertainment has been presented in the old theatre. Once it scored a triumph over its chief competitor, the Opera House, by bringing Henry Irving, famoiLs British actor, to Providence. It also has housed such attractions as Bob Inger-soll's lectures, performances of the Boston Museum stock company, vaudeville, burlesque and a dime museum. The theatre was the first home of the Albee stock company, which was popular for many years and started many actors on the road to fame. The house has been admired through the years for its paintings and ornate decorations, but little remains today to indicate its long and colorful past. Just before the war t)he theatre was in the news when 26 children were injured in a stampede for the balcony exits after a false alarm of fire. FALL RIVER Deginning^ March 8 and for seven consecutive Monday nights, amateur shows will be featured at the Empire by William S. Canning, manager. The shows will be conducted in two series of seven Mondays, each with the later series open only to contestants in the first series. The performances will be in charge of Billy Jackson's Vaudeville Co. of Ernest Israel, assistant to Nathan Yamms at his Boston offiore, recently inspected Yamins houses here . . . Following a long established custom, all local theatres will close Good Friday . Capitol marquee was heavily damaged when struck by the roof of the van of a large truck. . • Work is progressing on the remodeling of the Strand, a Yamins house. All seats have been removed from the balcony and loges, Shows will be halted this spring for the major renovations in the auditorium William S. Canning spoke at the recent annual dinner of the Fall River Burns club. He also was master of ceremonies at the opening campaign dinner of the Fall River Music Assn . Royal, a suburban house, collected $104.14 in March of Dimes donations. Fisher Zeitz of the Zeitz Theatres drove back from Miami Beach to New Bedford after two weeks there . . . Nathan Yamins visited here upon his return from Miami Beach, where he was wintering with Mrs. Yamins. Following a visit with Speaker Joseph W. Martin jr., in Washington. Yamins returned to Miami Beach. BOXOFFICE : 13, 1948 NE 91
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