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, . . John<br />

. . . Emmett<br />

. . The<br />

OKLAHOMA CITY<br />

/"•ashlers at the Criterion now answer the<br />

telephone with "Home of the Mystery<br />

Voice—Criterion Theatre." The Mystery<br />

Voice stunt has been going on in several<br />

C&R houses every Friday night for several<br />

weeks. Everyone in attendance gets a chance<br />

to guess at the identity of the voice, which<br />

is that of some well known Oklahoma City<br />

personality. Theatregoers write their guesses<br />

84<br />

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Phone T3-2026<br />

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ot Stock Date Strips and<br />

Announcement Trailers<br />

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IS<br />

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inventories—consultant and equipment.<br />

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Phone Yale 2-76S0<br />

Wenzel Pro 4 Projection Machines<br />

on slips of paper and a committee goes over<br />

the papers to see if anyone hit the jackpot.<br />

. . . Pat of the<br />

Carolyn Rucker, 16-year-old daughter of<br />

S. B. Rucker, Paramount office manager,<br />

went home from the hospital May 24. She<br />

received facial injuries when her car was demolished<br />

in a crash May 16 while<br />

McGee<br />

she was<br />

en route to church<br />

Cooper Foundation, Denver, was in town for<br />

a few days this week.<br />

First suburban showing here of "The Naked<br />

City" was a day-and-date engagement at the<br />

Will Rogers, May and Agnew, all Griffith<br />

operations. The pictm-e was showing at the<br />

same time at the Uptown . programs<br />

in town this week were "The Noose Hangs<br />

High" at the Center, "All My Sons" at the<br />

Midwest, "Silver River" at the Warner,<br />

"Homecoming" at the Criterion, and "Strawberry<br />

Roan" and "The Wreck of the Hesperus"<br />

at the State.<br />

Phil Keough, who has been managing the<br />

State Theatre, is back at the Center as manager.<br />

He will remain there until his return<br />

to the air corps. Keough has been called<br />

back to duty and expects to report in July.<br />

Meantime, he will relieve H. C. Federer who<br />

will leave the week of June 1 for a stay in<br />

Colorado. Mrs. Federer will accompany her<br />

husband . . Alvin Hendrix. formerly of Nebraska<br />

and Colorado, is .<br />

the new State man-<br />

ager. He was associated with theatres in<br />

Lincoln, Neb., and the Chief in Colorado<br />

Springs. Eddie Tucker is assistant at the<br />

State. He has been there about four years,<br />

except for a few months he put in at the<br />

Center after its opening.<br />

Booking and buying on the Row Monday<br />

were Miss Walsey Campbell of Newkirk. who<br />

was accompanied by her brother Paul, former<br />

owner of the Newkirk Theatre but now<br />

of California: Ed Walker of Lawton; Truman<br />

Ellard of Blanchard: Paul Roberts of Westville,<br />

who was accompanied by his brother<br />

Syncrofilm Synchro Dynamic Combination Projector<br />

and Sound Mechanism<br />

Speaker Systems<br />

• SYNCROFILM SERIES 400 and MODEL E<br />

Western Electric Licensed Sound Equipments<br />

Complete with Single and Double Amplification<br />

and Crossover Net Work.<br />

WASHED AIR COOLING UNITS

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