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. . Agnes<br />
$200,000 SlarlileAirer<br />
Will Open August 1<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—The $200,000 Starlite<br />
Drive-In, scheduled to open August 1 on Linden<br />
avenue, South San Francisco, will have<br />
one of the largest screens in the country,<br />
James B. Howell jr., president of San Francisco<br />
Drive-In Theatres Corp.. said. Ninety<br />
thousand yards of fill is being imported to<br />
grade the 14-acre parking area. Capacity<br />
is to be 800 autos. The theatre will operate<br />
under the HoUingshead patent.<br />
Permit to build a drive-in at a cost of $10,-<br />
000 on Wall avenue near Riverdale road in<br />
Ogden, Utah has been granted by Weber<br />
Wayne Stevens and<br />
county commissioners to<br />
Marcus Stevens on condition that a structure<br />
suitable for the approach to the city be<br />
erected.<br />
The new theatre to be built for the New<br />
Salinas Theatre Corp. in Watsonville in the<br />
3200 block on Main is estimated to cost $100,-<br />
000. It will have a capacity of between 500<br />
and 600 seats and will be on one floor, semistadium<br />
type.<br />
Ground work has been broken for the construction<br />
of an $85,000 theatre in Escalon<br />
which will be of Spanish architecture. The<br />
seating capacity will be about 600. Frank<br />
Peters, also operates the Manteca, Riverbank,<br />
Salida, Ripon and the Escalon theatre.<br />
C. R. Bailey, Sharp Park Theatre manager,<br />
reported contractors for the new Sharp<br />
Park Theatre will commence breaking ground<br />
in the next four or five weeks. Bailey said<br />
the theatre will be built in anticipation of<br />
an estimated substantial increase in population<br />
during the next 20 years.<br />
Sam Walyer House to Bow<br />
In Selah, Wash., July 1<br />
SELAH, WASH.—Sam Walyer expects<br />
his<br />
new Selah Theatre to be completed around<br />
July 1. This community's first theatre will<br />
seat approximately 600 in the 50xl20-foot<br />
building built of concrete blocks and cement.<br />
Walyer's son Andrew will assist him in the<br />
operation.<br />
bemg put in the new the-<br />
Around $80,000 is<br />
atre, which is situated a short distance on<br />
the main highway to Yakima. Century<br />
equipment is being installed. The stage will<br />
be used for community events. The interior<br />
color scheme is to include cream and light<br />
green walls and blue panel drapes. Seats<br />
will have green upholstery. Ceiling is of white<br />
Celotex. There is to be a large concession<br />
stand at one side of the foyer.<br />
The exterior is painted white with modernistic<br />
blue vertical stripes at the front. A<br />
brightly lighted marquee and a neon sign will<br />
be one of Selah's bright spots.<br />
Ample parking space is provided in two<br />
areas, one on either side of the house, of<br />
45x120 feet, and a large 50xl40--{oot area at<br />
the rear.<br />
Walyer is well known in Yakima where he<br />
operated Walyer's bakery.<br />
He owned a bakery<br />
in Wapato also. His new theatre is his<br />
first venture into the business.<br />
METRO PREMIUM CO.<br />
now oiiers<br />
BEAUTYWARE PREMIUM DEAL<br />
Gifts oi overpowering Boxoifice Appeal<br />
242 Hyde St. GRaystone 410S San Francisco, Calif.<br />
Kroger Babb to Feature<br />
Atlanta Child in Films<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Kroger Babb. independent<br />
producer and head of the Kaybee Corp., has<br />
assumed the exclusive management of 5-<br />
Ginger Prince and Kroger Babb<br />
year-old Ginger Prince, talented moppet of<br />
Atlanta, Ga.<br />
Contracts recently signed call for the child<br />
actor to appear in 14 pictures over a period<br />
of seven years. Ginger already has established<br />
a record for stage and radio appearances,<br />
having participated in more than 70<br />
dance revues and radio shows. Her father<br />
is Hugh Prince, former film booker and theatre<br />
manager in Atlanta.<br />
Ginger and her parents took up residence<br />
in Hollywood June 1. She is already being<br />
prepared for her initial screen appearance in<br />
"One Too Many" scheduled for midsummer<br />
production.<br />
Kroger Babb, also is president of Hygienic<br />
Pi'oductions, Inc., producers of "Mom and<br />
Dad."<br />
Fortieth Kem Anniversary<br />
Is Honored in Bakersfield<br />
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF.—The 40th<br />
anniversary<br />
of the Kern Theatre was being celebrated<br />
this week. The house, operated by<br />
Fox West Coast Theatres, was established as<br />
the Union Theatre in 1908 when it showed<br />
vaudeville and one-reel pictures. One of the<br />
highlights of each evening's bill was the vocal<br />
soloist whose song was illustrated with slides<br />
operated from the projection booth.<br />
After one year, the Union was purchased<br />
by M. R. Para and renamed the Para. Vaudeville<br />
was continued, and feature pictures<br />
were used instead of shorts. This entertainment<br />
pattern was followed without a break<br />
until 1917. when the Para was purchased by<br />
George Helm, who changed its name to the<br />
Hippodrome, still offering vaudeville and<br />
motion picture features.<br />
About 1918 Charles Grogg bought the house<br />
and operated it until 1923 when he sold out to<br />
Fox West Coast, who finally remodeled and<br />
modernized the theatre and renamed it the<br />
Kern.<br />
PORTLAND<br />
TXrilliam H. "Bill" Thedford, Portland district<br />
manager for Hamrick-Evergreen,<br />
took off for Dallas, Tex. to get married this<br />
week. The honeymoon will include a trip to<br />
Chicago, Lake Louise and Banff. June 20 is<br />
the return date. Exchange managers gave<br />
Bill a stag party last week at the Film club.<br />
RKO presented a Sunbeam mixmaster as the<br />
first wedding gift. The guests included Sam<br />
Gardner of MGM, Ted R. Gamble and Barney<br />
Rose from San Francisco. Rose is the<br />
U-I manager there.<br />
Larry Doyle of SRO shares offices with<br />
Screen Guild at 1806 N. W. Kearney St. . . .<br />
Fay Honey and his wife spent a week here.<br />
Honey received the bid to take over the new<br />
house in North Richland, Wash Mr.<br />
Blanchard of the Ideal Seating Co. of Grand<br />
Rapids, Mich., called on F. J. Becker of<br />
Western Theatre Equipment Co.<br />
Evergreen Theatres had an amphibian<br />
plane standing by to fly films over the Interstate<br />
bridge to Vancouver, Wash., in case the<br />
bridge was closed by the flood.<br />
Ryllis Hemington of the FWC public relations<br />
office in Los Angeles attended the<br />
Federation of Women's Clubs convention<br />
here . . . Katherine Marshall of the H-E<br />
main offices spent the weekend helping her<br />
husband put in a new lawn . . . Russ Morgan,<br />
western exploiteer for RKO, was in town . . .<br />
"Pinky" Shelton, Film club manager, announced<br />
he will be married August 1 . . .<br />
Donna Caba of RKO spent Memorial day at<br />
Seaside.<br />
Ralph Amacher, Mike Powers and Butch<br />
Leonard of the Eagle Lion staff tripped to<br />
Frisco for the big EL sales meeting. The<br />
stone front of the EL building finally is<br />
UA's Jack O'Bryan went to<br />
completed . . .<br />
"Chuck" Wilkins of Repubhc<br />
Astoria . . .<br />
is the father of another baby named Skeeter<br />
. . Allene Dana got a brand new apartment<br />
.<br />
right off the Row . MacRae, assistant<br />
to Lou Metzelaar at the Evergreen office,<br />
flew to Sacramento for the holiday<br />
weekend.<br />
Phil Carlin, owner-operator of the Lincoln<br />
and Elmo theatres, has put in cats to cut<br />
down exterminator costs . . . Lois Cady of<br />
the Theatre Exchange Co., moved into her<br />
new home.<br />
. .<br />
. .<br />
George DeWade, U-I manager in Seattle,<br />
was a Rose City visitor . . . Denzil Piercy of<br />
Prineville was on the Row, as was Mr. Macintosh<br />
of Arlington . . . LaVeme Spears,<br />
Film Classics, went to Eugene . . . FC's Mary<br />
Duerst took her kids to the circus over the<br />
weekend . . . Larry Bristol, Monogram manager,<br />
flew to Chicago for the sales meetings<br />
there . Louise Todd, secretary at the Music<br />
Box and Playhouse theatres, has been nursing<br />
a pet mother pigeon. The bird built her<br />
nest inside Louise's apartment . The Orpheum<br />
building is getting an inside repaint<br />
job.<br />
Plans Ketchum Theatre<br />
KETCHLTM, IDA.—O. R. Hicks plans to<br />
build a 350-seat theatre here at an estimated<br />
cost of $30,000. Equipment cost will be about<br />
$16,000. The building will be finished with<br />
California stucco and will have a three-room<br />
apartment on the second floor.<br />
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: June 5,- 1948