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Fox Intermountain<br />
Powwow Next Week<br />
DENVER—Fox Intermountain Theatres<br />
will hold its spring convention March<br />
15-17 at the division offices. The delegation<br />
from the division offices will be headed by<br />
Frank H. Ricketson jr., president, and Robert<br />
Selig, his assistant. Matters affecting theatre<br />
operation will be given a thorough going-over.<br />
The convention will be hosts to a party<br />
from National Theatres, of which Fox Intermountain<br />
is an affiliate. Those expected from<br />
the Los Angeles offices of National Theatres<br />
are Charles P. Skouras, president: Henry Cox,<br />
treasurer: Ed Zabel, film buyer: John Bertero,<br />
legal department: Andy Krappman,<br />
mercliandise department: Irving Epstein, insurance<br />
department, and Tom Page, assistant<br />
to Skouras.<br />
, The opening day will be given over to the<br />
visiting executives, while the following two<br />
days will be devoted to discussions of divisional<br />
problems.<br />
The social side of the meeting tentatively<br />
includes a dinner-dance on Tuesday night,<br />
and events for the managers' wives.<br />
District and theatre managers attending<br />
will be:<br />
Montana district—Hall Baetz, district manager:<br />
Don Sheedy, Billings: William Powers,<br />
Butte: Irving Simpson, Caldwell: Will Steege,<br />
Great Falls: Dan Driscoll, Helena: Vern<br />
Fletcher, Idaho Falls: Jack Casey, Lewistown:<br />
Frank Larson, Missoula: Virgil Odell,<br />
Nampa: Ted Kirkmeyer, Ogden: Robert Anderson,<br />
Pocatello.<br />
Northern district—Ray Davis, district manager:<br />
Jim Hughes, Alliance: Wilbur Williams.<br />
Boulder: Jack McGee, Cheyenne: Robert<br />
Pennock, Fort Collins: Wilford Williams,<br />
Kemmerer: Tom Brennan, Laramie: Don<br />
Smith, Longmont: Ray Search, McCook: A. C.<br />
Stalcup, North Platte: Marvin Skinner, Rawlins:<br />
Russell Berry, Rock Springs: Les Newkirk,<br />
Sheridan: Elmer Haines, Sidney: Chet<br />
Miller, Sterling.<br />
Southern district—Harold Rice, district<br />
manager: Harvey Gollogher, Canon City:<br />
Keith May, Delta: Jack Kramer, Durango:<br />
Elmer Snyder, Florence: Bernard Chancellor,<br />
Hot Springs: Dick Conley, La Junta: Henry<br />
Westerfeld, Las Cruces: Mike Zaiesny, Las<br />
Vegas Robert Nelson. Leadville: Ed Nelson,<br />
Montrose: Harold McCormick, Trinidad: Don<br />
Campbell, Walsenburg.<br />
Denver district—Harry Huffman, district<br />
manager: Robert Bothwell, Aladdin: Ralph<br />
Lee, Bluebird: Bernie Hynes. Denver: Helen<br />
SpiUer, Esquire: Virgil Campbell, Isis: John<br />
Denman, Mayan: H. A. Goodridge, Ogden:<br />
Ralph Batschelet, Paramount: Jack Copeland.<br />
Rialto: Frank Culp, Tabor: Robert Lotito,<br />
Webber: Andrew Sutherland, Fox,<br />
Aurora.<br />
Local Conductor's Short<br />
Premiered in Portland<br />
PORTLAND— J. J. Parker's Broadway and<br />
United Ai-tists theatres offered a world premier<br />
showing last Saturday of the Werner<br />
Janssen musical short, "Fingal's Cave." The<br />
Broadway featured a Governor's day ceremony<br />
on stage, marked by the personal appearances<br />
of Oregon's Governor John H.<br />
Hall: Werner Janssen, local symphony conductor,<br />
and his wife, and Ann Harding, screen<br />
actress. The program was broadcast over<br />
station KEX.<br />
At Denver Screen Club Stag<br />
Dinner<br />
'hoto of the head table at the annual Sportsmen's stag dinner and party, given<br />
b.\ the Rocky Mountain Screen ciub at the clubroom.s in Denver. More than 70 sat<br />
down to dinner of antelope, wild rice, and all the trimmings. Horseracing films, with<br />
guests betting just like at a racetrack, featured the evening, along with several reels<br />
of film taken of wild life in Colorado, shown by Earl Scanlan, local bond dealer,<br />
who makes amateur films his hobby.<br />
Seated it the table clockwise, are Kibby Gart, sporting goods dealer; unidentified<br />
gncst; Ralph Batschelet, manager of the Paramount Theatre; Robert C. Hill. Columbia<br />
manager and president of the club; John O'Donnell, Denver chief of police;<br />
Kenneth MacKaig, United Artists manager and secretary of the club, and Cleland<br />
N. Feast, Colorado state game and fish commissioner.<br />
The committee that put the party over in such fine style consisted of MacKaig.<br />
Batschelet and Tom Bailey. Film Classics exchange manager.<br />
Gallery for Utah's Artists<br />
Incorporated Into Theatre<br />
KAYS'WLLE, UTAH—The new Kaysville<br />
Theatre Bldg., which has been under construction<br />
for nearly three years, is expected<br />
to be opened for occupancy next March.<br />
The theatre, being run by Cliff Ross of<br />
Miu-ray, is already completed.<br />
The building, one of the most modern of<br />
its type in the state, houses five stores in<br />
addition to the theatre. The lobby of the<br />
theatre will serve as an art gallery for Utah<br />
artists, and will be under the direction of<br />
LeConte Stewart of the University of Utah<br />
art department, who expects to attract many<br />
top showings to the Kaysville galleries.<br />
In addition to the theatre the building<br />
will house a handicraft and book shop, a<br />
ladies' style shop, a department store, a<br />
radio and appliance firm and a drug store<br />
and soda fountain.<br />
The theatre is completely air conditioned<br />
and has a seating capacity of 550. Its concrete<br />
floors are covered with carpeting.<br />
Ready to Start Work Soon<br />
On Clovis Theatre Project<br />
CLOVIS, N. M.—Reconstruction of the<br />
Mesa Theatre is expected to start here shortly<br />
and E. R. Hardwick said he hoped to have<br />
the job completed in 100 working days. Jack<br />
Corgan, Dallas theatre architect, was in<br />
town to confer with Hardwick on the plans<br />
and to prepare for the letting of contracts.<br />
Hardwick said everything in the building will<br />
be new. There will be 784 seats, arranged in<br />
a stadium-type auditorium. There will be<br />
four large rest rooms, two for colored patrons<br />
and two for white, and the auditoriiun<br />
will be redesigned to improve the acoustics.<br />
Tlie front will be all tile below the marquee.<br />
Above the marquee will be a vertical name<br />
sign.<br />
Larry Parks Loses<br />
His Contract Suit<br />
LOS ANGELES—Larry Parks lost his suit<br />
to break his contract with Columbia Pictures.<br />
Judge William C. Mathes ruled Parks<br />
waited too long before trying to break a<br />
seven-year contract signed Sept. 28, 1945.<br />
But he added there was "coercion" in getting<br />
Parks to sign the pact and that the actor<br />
"knew he couldn't get the lead in 'The Jolson<br />
Story' unless he signed."<br />
RKO Signs H. C. Potter<br />
HOLLYWOOD—H. C. Potter joined the<br />
RKO directorial roster on a long-term contract.<br />
He recently completed "Mr. Blandings<br />
Builds His Dream Hoase," Cary Grant<br />
starrer, produced by RKO for distribution by<br />
the Selznick Releasing Organization.<br />
Sutherland-EL Pact<br />
HOLLYWOOD — A two-picture<br />
distribution<br />
deal with Eagle Lion has been set by<br />
John Sutherland Productions, Inc., with the<br />
initialer, "Lady at Midnight." slated to roll<br />
early this month. Sherman Scott will direct<br />
from an original .screenplay by Richard Sale.<br />
loins R. B. Roberts<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Joining R. B. Roberts<br />
Productions as secretary-treasurer and general<br />
manager is Martin Jurow, formerly associated<br />
with the James Saphier agency.<br />
Plan New Waldport Theatre<br />
WALDPORT, ORE.—E. A. and L. E. Tedraw,<br />
owners of the Waldport Theatre, have<br />
announced that plans are being prepared<br />
for a new theatre they will build here.<br />
BOXOFFICE : : March 6, 1948 H 51
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