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SAN ANTONIO
Deulah Greene, cashier at the Aztec who is
. . .
also a talented musician, was guest pianist
on a special studio program from the
frequency modulation station KYFM here
one "Sunday evening The Josephine, a
Mul-Den neighborhood house, is trying out
a foreign picture policy of films made in
Great Britain. Eugene Muller and W. M.
"Bobby" Dennis, former projectionist for
Interstate here, are the owners and operators
of the Josephine.
PREFERRED
Indoors or out DeV
For 250-seat to 6,000 seat theatres
and outstandingly for drive-ins with
up to 1,000 car capacity—the trend is
definitely to DeVry "12000' Series
projectors, amplifiers and in-car
speakers.
Typical of DnVRY-equipped outdoor
theatres now being readied for
spring opening is the model Drive-In
at Muncie, Indiana, shown in the airview
shot above. Other DeVry installations
being made for the coming
season are:
CALIFORNIA: Drive-In near San
Diego. GEORGIA: Drive-In Theatres
at Thomasville & Moultrie. INDI-
Diane Hart, U-I film star, represented the
motion picture industry for the fashion style
show held in Bandera recently, proceeds of
which went to benefit polio victims at the
Warm Springs Foundation at Gonzales. Vic-
. . .
tor Booth, president of the foimdation,
Samuel
was
among the principal speakers
Schwartz, Eagle Pass exhibitor; Humberto
Gonzales, Rex, Zapata; Joseph Justiniani,
Azteca. Houston, and W. B. Whitaker, Texan,
Stanton, were in town recently to shop for
Mexican pictures.
Alma Sivley, Palace doorwoman who was
on a vacation in La Grange, plans to leave
this fall to visit her husband who is overseas
Manager Lee Aronstein of the Palace
. . . was in the hospital Monday undergoing an
operation for an eye infection . . . "Scotty"
Denie, relief manager for Interstate theatres
"One Million
here, is on vacation . . .
B. C." and "Women in the Nig'ht" played a
EQUIPMENT
for TODAY'S "DRIVE-INS
ANA: Terre Haute
Drive-In. IOWA:
Drive-In at Sioux
City. OHIO: "Sciota"
at Portsmouth,
"Triangle" at Wilmington.
Also Drive-ins at Springfield and St.
Mary's. MICHIGAN: Drive-ln at
Grand Rapids. NORTH CAROLINA:
Drive-ins at Asheville, Stateville &
Charlotte. PENNSYLVANIA: "Family"
Drive-In at New Kensington.
TEXAS: Drive-In at Midland. WEST
VIRGINIA: Drive-In at Elkins and
Meadowbrook. CANADA: Peter
Drive-In, Lansing, Ontario.
// you contemplate modernizing present equipment or building anew, he
sure and see DeVky before you buy.
split week engagement at the Empire last
week.
Josephine Falba Sigard, Municipal auditorium
cashier, has been cast for a leading
role in the forthcoming Santone Civopera,
"The Vagabond King," at the Sunken Garden
open-air theatre. Mrs. Sigard is a soprano
and has studied voice in Europe and Hollywood
. Duncan, who has worked
in musical westerns, is returning to the coast
to resume his acting career . . . Les J. Ketner,
southern Texas correspondent for BOX-
OFFICE, has authored a Santone Parade column
for the next issue of the new Texas
Parade monthly magazine.
. . . Johnny Collins of
.
L. S. Arnold has closed his Texas and Rio
in Bishop due to the polio epidemic. The
house will reopen when the ban is lifted . . .
The Leon circuit's new Grande, Brownsville,
was set for opening soon after a recent postponement
. Antonio's newest open-air
theatre, the Rio, at Medina and Ruiz, opened
May 22 with a mixed picture policy . . . Mark
Holstein. U-I southern Texas representative
here, and Mrs. Holstein and daughter, were
in Oklahoma City on vacation. While in Norman,
Okla,, they attended the graduation exercises
of their son
^the Texas-Valley Film Service office, was
away on vacation with his wife, who works at
Lackland air base.
When a twister-like storm hit Harlingen
recently, the high winds left a fence around
the Valley Drive-In Theatre a mass of twisted
debris and smashed the glass marquee
Galveston's Doryce Piatt was chosen America's
most beautiful cowbelle. and is Hollywood
bound for the promised screen test. Contest
was held in Bandera.
Al Dexter of "Pistol Packin' Mama" fame
appeared in Beeville last week for a special
dance engagement . Findley, director
of publicity for the "Holiday on Ice" show
at Municipal auditorium, was in town to
praise the wonders of this ice skating spectacle.
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100 BOXOFFICE : : June 5, 1948