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A. Brown Parkes Gets<br />
New Lease on Liie<br />
BIRMINGHAM—A. Brown Parkes, wellknown<br />
southern theatre executive, is making<br />
a comeback.<br />
With years of experience as a theatre manager<br />
and film company executive, Parkes is<br />
now doorman at the Empire Theatre and<br />
happy as a lark over the chance to get back<br />
in his profession after a seven-year absence.<br />
He was long connected with the Paramount-<br />
Publix organization, serving all over the south.<br />
At one time he was special representative in<br />
Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, west Tennessee<br />
and east Texas. He also worked in the new<br />
theatre department, where schooling newmanagers<br />
was among his duties.<br />
As a district supervisor, Parkes represented<br />
Paramount in Louisiana, Arkansas and east<br />
Texas territories, and in Pennsylvania. After<br />
serving as managing director of the Saenger<br />
Theatre in New Orleans and city manager in<br />
Shreveport, La., Parkes worked in Paramount's<br />
foreign department in Panama,<br />
Guatemala, Cuba and north Mexico.<br />
The veteran showTnan is perhaps best<br />
known in Birmingham. He was manager of<br />
the Jefferson Theatre here for more than<br />
20 years and was managing director of both<br />
the Pantage and Temple theatres here when<br />
they first opened. Into those houses he<br />
booked all of the outstanding artists of the<br />
time.<br />
Credit for his comeback is given by Parkes<br />
to Alcoholics Anonymous and to Frank V.<br />
Merritt, general manager of Acme Theatres<br />
here.<br />
Jack Jackson Joins Sack<br />
To Handle Foreign Films<br />
DALLAS-Jack Jackson, active tor the la.'^l<br />
25 years in distribution and exhibition, has<br />
been placed in charge of the foreign film<br />
Sack Amusement Enterprises, ac-<br />
division of<br />
cording to Alfred N. Sack, general manager of<br />
the independent distribution setup.<br />
Jackson will assume his new duties June<br />
1 with offices in the Sack building at Pearl<br />
and Jackson streets.<br />
Sack Amusement Enterprises are pioneer<br />
distributors of foreign films in the south, and<br />
the addition of Jaekson to its .staff indicates<br />
a plan for long-range development of the use<br />
of foreign films in the Dallas and Atlanta<br />
territories served by the Sack exchanges.<br />
Covering the southern area will be like<br />
celebrating "old home week" says Jackson,<br />
who formerly traveled these states with exploitation<br />
pictures of his own.<br />
TEI to Start Work Soon<br />
On House in Portales<br />
PORTALES. N. M.—Theatre Enterprises,<br />
Inc.. is getting ready to start work on a new<br />
1.100-seat theatre here, according to Russell<br />
Ackley, city manager for the circuit. Louis<br />
Higdon, district manager, w'as here recently<br />
looking over the .site, now occupied by the<br />
Masonic building. TEI purchased it two years<br />
ago. The circuit also operates the Yam and<br />
Kiva theatres here.<br />
To Play Themselves<br />
Xavier Cugat and his band will play themselves<br />
in the Metro picture, "Neptune's<br />
Daughter."<br />
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: May<br />
29, 1948 87
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