Boxoffice-May.29.1948

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