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NEW ORLEANS<br />
Toy Houck, president of Joy Theatres, Inc.,<br />
is enjoying a rest at liis boyhood home in<br />
Magnolia, Ark. . Crook, who has been<br />
managing theatres for the Bill Lighter circuit,<br />
has accepted the position of general<br />
IN THEATRES<br />
manager of the Arrow and Jeff theatres in<br />
Jefferson parrish, owned by W. Castay . . .<br />
C. A. Knight has opened the Gulfport Drivein<br />
between Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss.<br />
Leon Felder, Altec representative, returned<br />
from Mississippi, where he supervised the installation<br />
of equipment in several new theatres<br />
. . . Fred Jack, southern division manager<br />
for United Artists, was in the city from<br />
Dallas . Moore, who operates the<br />
"official" Filmi'ow photo studio, returned last<br />
week from New York, where she spent several<br />
days. During her trip she spent a weekend<br />
on Cape Cod with friends.<br />
. . Lillie Blanchett,<br />
A. L. Morgan, booker and assistant manager<br />
for the Fred T. McLendon circuit, with<br />
headquarters in Union Springs,<br />
Mae<br />
Ala., was in<br />
the city a few days .<br />
Dixie Films clerk, underwent an emergency<br />
appendectomy May 19 at French hospital . . .<br />
Bill Johnson and A. E. Chadwick of MPA returned<br />
from a business trip to their Atlanta<br />
office.<br />
Sidney Harp, who operates the Grand theatres<br />
in Donaldsonville and Thibodaux, is a<br />
patient in Temple university hospital. Philadelphia,<br />
Pa. . . . Announcements have been<br />
received by friends of the former Cherry<br />
Preisser, musical comedy star from New Orleans<br />
and wife of David Hopkins, film studio<br />
executive of Hollywood, of the birth of a<br />
daughter, her fifth.<br />
J. E. Hobbs, Atlanta Republic manager, and<br />
Leo Seichnaydre, local manager, report they<br />
have closed a deal with the Fred T. McLendon<br />
cbxuit for all of their product, both in<br />
the New Orleans and Atlanta territories . . .<br />
Al O. Bondy of General Electric, New York,<br />
spent several days at the local Kay Films office<br />
The downtown theatre lineup last<br />
. . . week included "Unconquered" at the Saenger,<br />
"The Bride Goes Wild" at the Loew's State.<br />
"The Mating of Millie" at the RKO Orpheum,<br />
"The Fighting 69th" and "Valley of the<br />
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Giants" at the RKO Liberty, "To the Victor"<br />
at the Joy, "Tarzan's Secret Ti'easure" at the<br />
Center, "Lydia" at the Tudor and "Sitting<br />
Pretty" at the Globe.<br />
Recently opened at Zachary, La., was the<br />
Trio Theatre, operated by Mauel S. Slaughter<br />
and A. D. McKowen . Virsen soon<br />
will open his 500-seat house in Morgan City,<br />
La.<br />
New Orleans Allied<br />
Marks First Year<br />
NEW ORLEANS—Allied Theatre Owners<br />
of the Gulf States will hold its first anniversary<br />
party June 1 at the Lakewood Country<br />
club.<br />
The party is open to nonmembers as well<br />
as to members, and officials are expecting<br />
representatives of the distribution companies,<br />
other exhibitors and such national Allied<br />
leaders as William L. Ainsworth of Fond du<br />
Lac, Wis., Allied States president: Trueman<br />
T. Rembusch of IndianapoUs, Ind., national<br />
treasurer; their wives, and Col. H. A. Cole,<br />
president of the Allied Theatre Owners of<br />
Texas.<br />
This is the first time in the history of the<br />
New Orleans exchange territory that an independent<br />
exhibitor organization has reached<br />
its first anniversary.<br />
Leaders of the organization last week returned<br />
from Denver, where they attended the<br />
national Allied board meeting. They entered<br />
a successful bid for the December convention<br />
of national Allied, the bid being contingent<br />
on the ability of the group to get adequate<br />
hotel accommodations. Attending the Denver<br />
meeting were William Prewitt and Abe<br />
Berensen of New Orleans and L. J. Langlois<br />
of New Roads. They traveled in Prewitt's<br />
private plane.<br />
Judge Refuses Injunction<br />
To Stop Drive-In Project<br />
KNOXVILLE—Pleas for an injunction<br />
against construction of a drive-in on Newcom<br />
avenue near Kingston pike have been<br />
denied here by Special Chancellor Robert A.<br />
Elkins.<br />
Residents of Newcom avenue filed the petition,<br />
charging that noise from the drive-in<br />
would be objectionable.<br />
"In this world we live in today." Chancellor<br />
Elkins said in his decision, "we camiot be<br />
entirely free from noises and inconveniences."<br />
He said the theatre would not be a nuisance<br />
if properly maintained. The property, he<br />
pointed out, has been zoned for industrial<br />
purposes for years.<br />
The proposed drive-in, to be built by<br />
Drive-In Theatres, Inc., of Montgomery. Ala.,<br />
will. cost $80,000 to $90,000.<br />
W. D. Johnson Building<br />
Drive-In at Alexandria<br />
ALEXANDRIA, LA.—W, D. Johnson, owner<br />
of the Fox Theatres with headquarters here,<br />
has leased several acres of land on Mac-<br />
Arthur drive near Alexandria and construction<br />
of a drive-in theatre was started May<br />
17. The drive-in will be known as the Fox<br />
Drive-In and will cost approximately $50,000.<br />
It is expected it will be placed in operation<br />
about July 1.<br />
86 BOXOFFICE :: May 29, 1948
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