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MINNEAPOLIS<br />
KTorthwest Variety Club increased its<br />
charity<br />
attend. LeRoy J. Miller, chairman of the<br />
committee in charge of ticket sales, hadn't<br />
full returns at this writing, but said the<br />
event had been a financial success. It probably<br />
will be an annual affair, he said.<br />
Tom Novak, owner of the Glencoe, Minn.,<br />
theatre, was host to 15 members of the<br />
Glencoe high school basketball team at the<br />
game . members of the film industry<br />
here accepted the invitation of Don<br />
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Buckley to attend the reopening of his newly<br />
remodeled Redwood Theatre in Redwood<br />
Falls, Minn. They complimented him on the<br />
fluid in staging a basketball game between<br />
the professional Minneapolis Lakers<br />
and Flint. The attendance was approximately<br />
many<br />
theatre's beauty and modernity.<br />
5.000 and who bought tickets didn't<br />
Karl Lindstad, veteran manager of the<br />
Paramount Theatre in Austin, Minn., written<br />
up as "a 40-year showman at 50" in the<br />
St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press, told the reporter<br />
who interviewed him that his greatest<br />
problem has been "parents turning the theatre<br />
into a baby-sitting house." Some mothers,<br />
he said, bring their children to the show<br />
at 1 p. m. Sunday, leaving them in a seat<br />
with a packed lunch and calling for their<br />
offspring at 8 p. m. that night. However,<br />
he admitted, all in all he enjoys himself<br />
sely in the show business.<br />
.<br />
Ralph Maw, MOM district manager, is back<br />
from sales conference in Los Angeles .<br />
Out-of-town exhibitors visiting Filmrow included<br />
Mr. and Mrs. G. Qualley, Lanesboro,<br />
Minn.: Percy King. Adrian. Minn., and his<br />
son from Dell Rapids. S. D. . Sioux<br />
Palls. S. D.. branch is now third nationally<br />
in the Ned<br />
Workman,<br />
Depinet sales<br />
MOM branch<br />
drive . . . W. H.<br />
manager, was in<br />
Chicago for a sales meeting . Perkins,<br />
veteran Warner salesman in southern Minnesota,<br />
suffered another fracture of his<br />
ankle when he slipped on an icy walk and<br />
is laid up at home Who entered<br />
Royal Theatre. St. Paul neighborhood house,<br />
escaped with $45 cash from the office and<br />
an undetermined amount of candy.<br />
Irving Mills, who quit Monogram to join<br />
the Eagle Lion sales staff, will be given a<br />
stag party at the Normandy hotel March<br />
26 by his friends in the industry. The party<br />
prior to his marriage at the Hotel Radisson<br />
is<br />
AprU 4 to Marjorie Kronick<br />
Hoffman. 20th-Fox exploiteer, returned from<br />
a trip through his territory beating the drum<br />
for "Gentleman's Agreement." He visited<br />
Omaha and Des Moines, where the picture<br />
is already set. There's no date for it in the<br />
Twin Cities yet.<br />
Sid Blackmer and Lois Wilson, who have<br />
appeared in many pictures, were here as guest<br />
stars with the Minneapolis Civic Theatre in<br />
"Chicken Every Svmday" . R. Murray,<br />
manager of the Lyceum, legitimate roadshow<br />
house which also plays pictures, reported after<br />
a trip to New York that he has booked "The<br />
Student Prince" for April 4; the Lunts in<br />
"Mistress Mine" for May 25-27, and "Carousel"<br />
for June 14.<br />
Cedric Adams, Minneapolis Star's coliunnist,<br />
complimented the Avalon. Minneapolis neighborhood<br />
house, for having the finest array<br />
of prizes he had ever seen at any showhouse<br />
matinee cooking school. With the temperature<br />
at 27 below zero, the theatre turned many<br />
away at its first cooking school of the sea-j'<br />
son. Bill Porter is bhe manager of this<br />
theatre . Hirsch. veteran showman,<br />
was host to Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emmett<br />
Callahan, who came here with "Lady<br />
Windemere's Fan."<br />
Clyde Cutter, veteran booker and salesman,<br />
recently with United Artists in Minneapolis,<br />
has joined the Minneapolis Allied<br />
Artists-Monogram exchange as booker and<br />
assistant to Manager Morrie Steinman on<br />
city sales. He succeeds Bob O'Rourke, resigned.<br />
'Saigon' Great Guns;<br />
'Verdoux' Is So-So<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—Holdovers were far in the<br />
majority last week, the only major newcomers<br />
being "Saigon" and "Monsiem- 'Verdoux."<br />
"Saigon" came through to smash<br />
business, benefiting, no doubt, from scarcity<br />
of fresh opposition. "'Verdoux" did only moderately<br />
well and bowed out after a single<br />
week. The holdovers, all high-steppers, were<br />
"The Bishop's Wife" and "The 'Voice of the<br />
Turtle" in their- fourth week, and "Cass<br />
Timberlane" and "To the Ends of the Earth"<br />
in their second.<br />
Aste<br />
(SR)<br />
-Blondie's Anniversary (Co Murder Mob<br />
Lyric—The Voice of the Turtle (WB), 4th d. t. -wk.<br />
Radio City—Cass Timberlane (MGM), 2nd wk.. .<br />
RKO Orpheum—To the Ends of the Earth (Col),<br />
Woild—The Bishop's<br />
Wil<br />
Alan Ladd Great Favorite<br />
With Minneapolis Patrons<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—The trade here is sitting<br />
up and taking notice at Alan Ladd's rise to<br />
boxoffice eminence. In Minneapolis, at least,<br />
he is now one of the top draws. His<br />
"Saigon" is doing excellent busine.ss at the<br />
State. Previous to it, his two preceding pictures,<br />
"Calcutta" and "Wild Harvest," also<br />
pulled smash grosses. None of the pictures<br />
garnered any great amount of critical approval,<br />
but the public flocked to see them<br />
just the same.<br />
Building Fowler House<br />
FOWLER. KAS.— S. I. Marsh is building<br />
the Artesia Theatre here following approval<br />
from the office of the housing expediter. The<br />
house will have 350 seats and is being equipped<br />
by National Theatre Supply. Kansas City.<br />
Simplex projection equipment and lamps and<br />
Voice of the Theatre horns will be featured.<br />
Marsh is shooting for an April opening.<br />
Enforce Curfew Law<br />
BEATRICE. NEB.—Mayor Velmer Morris<br />
has invoked a modified curfew here for teenagers.<br />
They must be off the street by 10:30<br />
p. m. unless they are on peaceful, legitimate<br />
business, he ordered. Police Chief Perry<br />
Barker said the curfew will apply only to<br />
"roughneck kids" who have been causing<br />
trouble.<br />
Tot Found in Theatre<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—A 9-year-old girl, missing<br />
more than 24 hours, was found asleep<br />
in a local neighborhood theatre, the American.<br />
She previously had been riding a<br />
streetcar well into the early morning.<br />
New Equipment Installations<br />
OMAHA—New theatre installations include:<br />
By the Ballantyne Co.—New sound, lamps<br />
and projection. Majestic, Oakland, Neb.: new<br />
sound, lamps and projection. Princess, Decatur,<br />
Neb.: recarpeting. Lyric, Hartington,<br />
Neb.<br />
By Western Theatre Supply Co.—New<br />
screen and lenses, Avon, Dubuque. Iowa: new<br />
screen. Strand, Dubuque.<br />
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BOXOFFICE :: March 20, 1948
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