Boxoffice-March.06.1948
] "DID YOU KNOW" . . . that we can rebuild your Simplex mechanisms completely and like new for approximately S250. This work is done by an A-1 mechanic, Mr. Otto Aiken, formerly with Interstate for 17 years. He knows his business! All work is guaranteed. We use Century, La Vezzi and Wenzel, not genuine Simplex parts—but we consider them better, and if they did not give satisfaction, we could not afford to guarantee them. We will furnish a loan mechanism, and handle the job on a contract basis, if desired. Write. Call or Telephone! HARDIN THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO. All Kinds of Theatre Equipment 714 South Hampton Road M-2235 Dallas, Texas BUFFALO COOLIK6 EQUIPMENT 10th FU 2nd Unit, Santa FeBldg. BUFFALO ENGINEERING COv INC. Dallas. Tax. DALLAS rohnny N. Stewart, who still lives in Kaufman though he sold his Plaza and Uptown theaties there last yeai to Buddy Harris, is beheved by friends to be out of show business just about as long as he can stand It He is pictured here as he relaxed in one of Filmrow's comfortable chairs looking at a film contract. He either has a deal in mind or just looked to J. N. Stewart ^ee if film seUing has changed. A World War I overseas veteran, Johnny has been taking it easy the past year, playing gin rummy at the Variety Club and staying in out of the weather at the stock markets. He has made several trips to New Orleans and to Hattiesburg. Miss., where his 85-year-old mother still lives. He was a theatre operator for over 25 years. L. D. Brown of the Queen and Ritz in Brownwood was here in a new western outfit and a new booking book. Brown recently took over his buying and booking from Texas Consolidated Theatres, with whom he had an arrangement for several years. Brown now is using a late model hearing aid . . . Al Pickens and wife have moved back to their Um ROAD EQUIPMENT DISPLAY & SALES MR. CECIL DAVIS 4020 MocArthur Road P. O. Bo 20 Warr Acr OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. hffi. L. C. DUCKWORTH 21S South Liberty St, NEW ORLEANS, LA MR. RAYMOND KING 192C McDutlie Street HOUSTON, TEXAS WAREHOUSES HOUSTON P. O. Box 322 102 San Jacinto S LUBBOCK 702 Texas St. BEAUMONT 550 Main St, TO RICHES ... is easier to travel, if you have the help of quality merchandise. In the popcorn business the name "The Pop Com Man" is synonymous with quality. GOLDEN CREST POP CORN SEASONING heads the list of superior merchandise you get from "The Pop Corn Man." It's pure, premiumquality cocoanut oil that stays sweet! 5 gallons to full drums, available NOW! -. West Coaat Distributor Roy C. Garland P. O. Box 647, Oxnard, Calil. CHAS. E. OARDEN & CO, • 308 South Harwood • P. 0. Box 2207 • Dallas, Texas • Riverside-6134 ( March 13, 1948 ^:iotBa
. . Joe : March former home in Tulsa, where he has an advertising job with a furniture company. He formerly worked for newspapers and theatres there and moved here several years ago with the Isley theatres. In recent months he was with United Theatres Service Corp. Bob Montgomery, former owner of theatres in Wichita Palls, who was rushed from Corpus Christi to a Temple hospital a few days ago. was taken to his home in Wichita Falls last weekend. He was revived from a coma at Temple and remains a very sick man at home. Chas. E. Darden, close friend of Montgomery, visited him Sunday . . . Philip Preston and A. K. May, owners of the Sadler at Lawn, were here at Ind-Ex Booking Service,* which has done their buying and booking the last year. They stopped at this correspondent's office to leave a subscription to BOX- OFFICE. Now Successfully Playing Theatres in the Southwest! You, Too, Can Show a Proiiif This Card William Morrow was in from Longview in connection with the reopening of his Colonial Drive-In in the next few days. He also operates the Texas and Gregg theatres there . . . J. B. Underwood, Columbia division manager, and Irving Wormser of the home office visited the Jefferson Amusement Co. office in Beaumont, and returned via Houston. Jack said the Houston Variety club really did a great job on remodeling its quarters. He and Wormser left on a trip to Memphis. Ed Blumenthal jr., manager of the Kessler Theatre, is out of the hospital after an appendectomy. His father is co-owner of the Monogram exchange. J. H. Stagner of the new Van Theatre in Van made a hurry-up trip to the Row because of amplifier trouble and Dan Hulse of Herber Bros, fixed him up. It was the Van's first booth failure since it opened several months ago. No show time was lost. Because of the extremely bad weather lately, Stagner had remained at home for two months so he put in some time booking while waiting for his sound box to be repaired. B. R. and Gordon McLendon's radio station, KLIF, almost went out as the Ti-inity river rose after heavy rains up country. Had the water risen seven more inches the insulation at the base of the antenna would have been submerged and the station would have been off the air temporarily . . . Martin Lamour of the National in Graham, arrived on the Row just in time to see film star Rod Cameron alight from a police-escorted car. Lamour was a Hollywood visitor recently and saw many stars, but not Cameron, who was here for the premiere of "Panhandle." . Theatre Enterprises is moving its repair shop to 2021 Jackson St.. next to the Interstate circuit warehouse. Move was made from their location on the corner of Pearl and Jackson E. Brown, who appears on the Melba stage in "Harvey" starting at the end of March, will be in Hugo, Okla.. April 1 for the annual circus roundup but will not miss a single Dallas performance. Roy Deviney of the Hawk Theatre in Hawkins stopped off here on his retiu-n from the Variety Club trip to Houston, and lost not a moment in trying to dig up a new theatre to add to the Hawk. Roy failed to get any dope on a blind theatre-for-sale ad in Oklahoma. The ad sounded so good he wrote to the BOXOFFICE number. . . . and the Questions are all you need to fill your theatre on that dull night each week! DR. CRANE has a ready-made audience of 20.000,- 000 people daily. Cash in on Quiz Popuiarity! For details, write, wire or phone Riverside 2761 "TEST YOUR HORSE SENSE Film Exchange Building 308 South Harwood Street Dallas. Texas BOXOFFICE : 13, 1948
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"DID YOU KNOW"<br />
. . . that we can rebuild your Simplex mechanisms completely and like new<br />
for approximately S250. This work is done by an A-1 mechanic, Mr. Otto<br />
Aiken, formerly with Interstate for 17 years. He knows his business! All<br />
work is guaranteed. We use Century, La Vezzi and Wenzel, not genuine<br />
Simplex parts—but we consider them better, and if they did not give satisfaction,<br />
we could not afford to guarantee them. We will furnish a loan<br />
mechanism, and handle the job on a contract basis, if desired.<br />
Write. Call or Telephone!<br />
HARDIN THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO.<br />
All Kinds of Theatre Equipment<br />
714 South Hampton Road M-2235 Dallas, Texas<br />
BUFFALO COOLIK6 EQUIPMENT<br />
10th FU 2nd Unit, Santa FeBldg. BUFFALO ENGINEERING COv INC. Dallas. Tax.<br />
DALLAS<br />
rohnny N. Stewart, who still lives in Kaufman<br />
though he sold his Plaza and Uptown<br />
theaties there last<br />
yeai to Buddy Harris,<br />
is beheved by friends<br />
to be out of show<br />
business just about as<br />
long as he can stand<br />
It He is pictured here<br />
as he relaxed in one<br />
of Filmrow's comfortable<br />
chairs looking at<br />
a film contract. He<br />
either has a deal in<br />
mind or just looked to<br />
J. N. Stewart ^ee if film seUing has<br />
changed. A World War I overseas veteran,<br />
Johnny has been taking it easy the past<br />
year, playing gin rummy at the Variety Club<br />
and staying in out of the weather at the<br />
stock markets. He has made several trips to<br />
New Orleans and to Hattiesburg. Miss.,<br />
where his 85-year-old mother still lives.<br />
He was a theatre operator for over 25 years.<br />
L. D. Brown of the Queen and Ritz in<br />
Brownwood was here in a new western outfit<br />
and a new booking book. Brown recently took<br />
over his buying and booking from Texas Consolidated<br />
Theatres, with whom he had an<br />
arrangement for several years. Brown now<br />
is using a late model hearing aid . . . Al<br />
Pickens and wife have moved back to their<br />
Um<br />
ROAD<br />
EQUIPMENT DISPLAY<br />
& SALES<br />
MR. CECIL DAVIS<br />
4020 MocArthur Road<br />
P. O. Bo 20<br />
Warr Acr<br />
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.<br />
hffi. L. C. DUCKWORTH<br />
21S South Liberty St,<br />
NEW ORLEANS, LA<br />
MR. RAYMOND KING<br />
192C McDutlie Street<br />
HOUSTON, TEXAS<br />
WAREHOUSES<br />
HOUSTON<br />
P. O. Box 322<br />
102 San Jacinto S<br />
LUBBOCK<br />
702 Texas St.<br />
BEAUMONT<br />
550 Main St,<br />
TO RICHES<br />
... is easier to travel, if you<br />
have the help of quality merchandise.<br />
In the popcorn business<br />
the name "The Pop Com<br />
Man" is synonymous with quality.<br />
GOLDEN CREST POP CORN<br />
SEASONING heads the list<br />
of superior merchandise<br />
you get from "The Pop Corn<br />
Man." It's pure, premiumquality<br />
cocoanut oil that<br />
stays sweet! 5 gallons to<br />
full drums, available NOW!<br />
-.<br />
West Coaat Distributor<br />
Roy C. Garland<br />
P. O. Box 647, Oxnard, Calil.<br />
CHAS. E. OARDEN & CO, • 308 South Harwood • P. 0. Box 2207 • Dallas, Texas • Riverside-6134<br />
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March 13, 1948<br />
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