Boxoffice-March.06.1948

: March
Columbia Transfers
Roscoe to Atlanta
NEW YORK—George Roscoe, Charlotte
branch manager lor Columbia, has been
named manager of the Atlanta exchange,
with R. D. Williamson, Charlotte salesman,
named to succeed him in Charlotte. They
work under the supervision of R. J. Ingram,
southeastern district manager.
Roscoe joined Columbia in May 1933 as a
salesman in Charlotte. He was named manager
in February 1944. Williamson joined
the company two years later as a sale.sman
in
Charlotte.
Crestview Ticket Levy
Lands in Courts Again
CRESTVIEW, FLA. — Once more Crestview's
city amusement tax ordinance has
landed in the courts. Judge Stuart Gillis
has issued a temporary injunction which requires
the tax to be paid to the court until
a final decision is reached. The ruling was
handed down in a suit brought by Neal
Robinson who asked a declaratory judgment
to prevent the city from collecting the tax.
Some six months ago Judge Gillis declared
a similar ordinance to be illegal. Recently
a new ordinance was passed.
A final decision on the case will not be
reached, said Judge Gillis, until a similar
case now pending in the state supreme court
is
decided.
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Two Managers Shifted
By Florida Theatres
ORLANDO, FLA.—WUliam J. Wilson jr. is
the new manager of the Beacham Theatre.
He was transferred to Orlando from Winter
Park where for the past few years he has
been in charge of the Colony. Wilson has
been connected with Florida State Theatres
12 years, going to Winter Park from the
Vogue Theatre in Orlando. Therefore his
return to Orlando is somewhat in the nature
of a home-coming. Ralph W. Saunders,
who has been manager of the Vogue in Orlando,
replaced Wilson as manager of the
Colony in Winter Park. With him the
change is also a homecoming, as at one
time he was manager of the Colony.
J. T. Lester Buys Ground
For Parking in Memphis
MEMPHIS— J.
T. Lester, owiier of the new-
Park Theatre here, has purcha.sed additional
land to the east of his theatre to be used
for parking space. The $12,000 land purchase
will give the Park a much larger lot.
Lester plans to blacktop the lot so it will
be an all-weather affair. He already owned
a 125xl50-foot lot for parking. The new lot
is 114 by 200 feet.
Plan Huntsville Drive-In
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.—Plans are being completed
for construction of a drive-in theatre
on Whitesburg drive here. The project w-as
announced by Walton Fleming, president of
Acme Investments, Inc., which owns and
operates the Center Theatre in West Huntsville.
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13, 1948