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July<br />
. . . Joe<br />
City Ordered to Court<br />
To Defend Fast Time<br />
DETROIT — The Independent Theatre<br />
Owners of Michigan won their first legal<br />
round in the fight against daylight saving<br />
time. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge<br />
Richter granted an order to show cause which<br />
was served on the Detroit city council. A<br />
hearing on the matter was scheduled for May<br />
28. Ralph Garber is the attorney representing<br />
ITOM. Sam Carver, president, is confident<br />
the theatre owners will win their fight<br />
to force the city to return to standard time.<br />
LOUISVILLE<br />
•phree new theatres are scheduled to open<br />
~ in Kentucky during the first part of June.<br />
They are Bennett and Smith's Valley Theatre<br />
in Taylorville, Foster Lane's Lane Theatre<br />
in Williamsburg, and Walter L. Campbell's<br />
Bell Theatre in Ravenna. The William<br />
Tell at Tell City, Ind., also will open early<br />
in June . . . Work is progressing nicely on<br />
Arnold & Sisco's new Melody Theatre in<br />
Bardstown, Ky., and an early opening is contemplated.<br />
The Lyric, one of Louisville's four colored<br />
theatres, has instituted a Big Kiddy Party<br />
which is presented every Saturday. Novelty<br />
prizes plus 10 show passes are awarded eacR<br />
week. In addition to the regular show, five<br />
cartoons are added to the program for the<br />
show. The Lyric's general manager is A.<br />
Edward Campbell and the resident manager<br />
R. L. Ransaw.<br />
The radio show, Head of the Family presented<br />
from the stage of the National Theatre<br />
each Wednesday evening for 13 weeks<br />
and broadcast over station WHAS, came to<br />
a close May 19. During the run, approximately<br />
$20,000 in cash and prizes was presented<br />
to contestants. According to the management<br />
of the theatre there is a possibility<br />
the program may be resumed in the fall.<br />
New films were in the majority at first run<br />
houses last week. Opening at Loew's was<br />
"Arch of Triumph," coupled with "Who<br />
Killed 'Doc' Robbin?" The Strand offered<br />
"Love From a Stranger" and "Heading for<br />
Heaven," the Rialto single billed "I Remember<br />
Mama," the Mary Anderson played "The<br />
Woman in White," the Scoop imported another<br />
French production, "The Eternal Return,"<br />
which was advertised for adults only,<br />
and the Brown prospered with a moveover<br />
of "Sitting Pretty." The Brown held the<br />
picture for a third week. A couple of reissues,<br />
"Butch Minds the Baby" and "Little<br />
Tough Guys," played at the National.<br />
Mr, and Mrs. Bruce Aspley of the Aspley<br />
Theatres, Glasgow, Ky., stopped over en route<br />
to Indianapolis. Other exhibitors seen here<br />
were C. K. Arnold, Arco and Crystal theatres,<br />
Bardstown; Oscar Hopper, Arista, Lebanon;<br />
George Peyton, Griffith, LaGrange;<br />
A. N. Miles, Eminence; G. M. May, Dream,<br />
Corydon, Ind.; Louis Chowning, New Washington,<br />
Ind., theatre, and Lewis Baker, Star,<br />
West Point.<br />
The Iroquois Amphitheatre's tenth anniversary<br />
celebration started with the opening<br />
of season ticket sales at their downtown box-<br />
Six shows have been scheduled from<br />
5 through August 16.<br />
COLUMBUS<br />
P<br />
J. Wood, secretary of Independent Theatre<br />
Owners of Ohio, has been elected<br />
treasurer of the Columbus Variety Club, succeeding<br />
the late Jacob F. Luft, Wood held<br />
the post for several terms in former years.<br />
Wood announced that the state ITO convention<br />
will be held at the Deshler-Wallick hotel<br />
here Tuesday and Wednesday. November 30<br />
Carl Rogers, manager of<br />
to December 1 . . .<br />
the Broad, has returned from a week's vacation<br />
. . . Max Wald, manager of the Gayety,<br />
has closed the theatre after two weeks under<br />
a film policy following a season of burlesque.<br />
The theatre will reopen in September, he<br />
said, with a burlesque policy.<br />
Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn and<br />
Martha Stewart made personal appearances<br />
. .<br />
at the world premiere of "Green Grass of<br />
Wyoming" in Lancaster, followed by similar<br />
appearances at Cincinnati and Columbus.<br />
They made two stage dates along with Virginia<br />
Jessup, Lancaster beauty chosen Queen<br />
of the World Premiere . Beverly Cochran,<br />
19-year-old sophmore in the college of education,<br />
was chosen Miss Ohio State in finals<br />
held on the Palace stage. She'll receive an<br />
RKO screen test, a modeling course, an instructor's<br />
dancing course, a traveling suit,<br />
a trip to New York and an interview with the<br />
Harry Conover modeling agency.<br />
Manager Charles Sugarman of the World<br />
is staging an "Ideal Husband" contest with<br />
The World has named<br />
$100 in prizes . . .<br />
Walter Lasker as its New York booking representative.<br />
Earlier booking of foreign films<br />
is expected by the local art house under the<br />
new arrangement. Co-owner Al Sugarman<br />
signed the deal on a recent New York trip<br />
Farley, cameraman for "Easter Parade,"<br />
is here visiting his sister, Mrs. R. J.<br />
Hoffstetter.<br />
Promote Industry's Good,<br />
Albright Tells Council<br />
CLEVELAND—Roger Albright, director of<br />
educational services of the Motion Picture<br />
Ass'n, urged the Motion Picture Council of<br />
Greater Cleveland to concentrate its educational<br />
efforts on the cultural and educational<br />
benefits that films have to offer and<br />
let the newspaper critics worry about what<br />
is wrong with the industry.<br />
Speaking of the alleged relation between<br />
motion pictures and juvenile behavior, Albright<br />
told the group that in a survey of<br />
pictures made in 1947, 28 per cent were<br />
selected as suitable for children of all ages,<br />
and 63 per cent as suitable for children over<br />
16 years of age.<br />
"As to motion pictures as a stimulus to bad<br />
behavior, I believe that there is no single<br />
influence that determines the moral foundation<br />
of a child," he said. "It takes many different<br />
kinds of influences to determine the<br />
kind of people we are.<br />
"The motion picture industry has many<br />
critics who try to determine how many things<br />
are wrong with the movies, and overlook the<br />
great amount of good in them. This must be<br />
a disturbing situation, especially to a group<br />
like this which seeks to impress the public<br />
with the progress of pictures in the fields<br />
of education and of art,"<br />
W. J. Schulte Starts Work<br />
On Richmond House<br />
RICHMOND, MICH.— William J. Schulte,<br />
who has operated the Majestic Theatre here<br />
for 24 years, has broken ground for a new<br />
theatre.<br />
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT<br />
for<br />
THEATRES and DRIVE-INS<br />
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SPEAKER<br />
SYSTEMS<br />
New exclusive<br />
arrangement<br />
guarantees<br />
excellent<br />
reproduction.<br />
•<br />
IDEAL CHAmS<br />
including the great<br />
great new Slide-Back<br />
STRONG PROJECTION LAMPS<br />
Including the sensational<br />
new 70-ampere Mogul.<br />
•<br />
CENTRUY PROJECTORS<br />
and SOUND SYSTEMS<br />
•<br />
24-HOUR PROJECTION and<br />
SOUND SERVICE<br />
WRITE FOR FREE LITERATURE<br />
THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO.<br />
Al Boudouris, Manager<br />
TOLEDO 2, OHIO: 109 Michigan, AD. 8511<br />
DETROIT 26, MICH.: 515 Charlevoix Bldg.:<br />
CA. 4319<br />
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CLE'VELAND, OHIO: 921 Guardian Bldg.:<br />
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FIRST I N<br />
MID -EAST<br />
UDT's 2,500-seat "Woods" at Grosse<br />
Point Woods, and Vince Laica's 500-seat<br />
"New" at New Baltimore simultaneously<br />
armoimce the first Mid-East installations<br />
of Heywood-Wakefield's newly introduced<br />
"Encore" line of theatre chairs.<br />
Ned Oglesby, H-W Michigan salesman,<br />
invites exhibitors to inspect the<br />
two installations.<br />
SEND FOR YOUR FREE CATALOG<br />
of Stock Date Strips and<br />
Announcement Trailers<br />
Motion Picture Service Co.<br />
125 Hyde St.. San Francisco 2. Calii.<br />
EXHIBITORS — PARK FREE AT<br />
EQUIPMENT<br />
McARTHUR THEATRE<br />
COMPANY<br />
454 COLUMBIA ST. WEST - DETROIT I. MiCH.<br />
MOTIOORAPH SERVICE<br />
Phone: CAdillac 5524<br />
BOXOFFICE :<br />
: May 29, 1948 77<br />
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