Boxoffice-December.25.1948

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. . Warner
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DENVER
"The Rocky Mountain Screen club will hold
a New Year's eve party at the newly
remodeled clubrooms. All members are invited,
and are asked to bring friends . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Weiner, who recently
moved to California, were seriously injured
when they were struck by a car while they
waited in a safety zone in Los Angeles.
They spent four weeks in a hospital. Weiner
formerly was auditor for Fox Intermountain
in Denver.
A suit which involves the payment of
$18,591.41 was filed against the Motorena
Drive-In, Greeley, by a number of firms *hat
participated in the building. The suit asks
that the property be sold to satisfy the
claims . Lind, owner of theatres at
Rifle, was brought to Mercy hospital from
New Orleans, where he suffered a heart
attack while attending the Allied convention.
He will be taken to Rifle as soon as
his condition permits.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wittstruck of the Rio,
Meeker, will take an extended vacation as
soon as they decide where to go—Honolulu
or Nassau ... Ed Herschel, Metro auditor,
is at the local branch . Brown and
Mary Anderson are new clyerks at U-I .
Mel Snapp. head shipper at Paramount, is
daddy of a baby girl born at St. Luke's,
named Judith.
Christmas vacationers over the holiday
include Irene Gardner, cashier, and Norma
Tomlin, biller, to Kansas: Edna Vessa, clerk,
to Chicago: Pauline Hall, manager's secretary,
to Phoenix, and Jim Ricketts, booker,
to Des Moines . River" broke several
records in its rim at the Broadway.
Among them were that it ran longer first
run than any other film in Denver, and
it also played to more people first run than
any other film. It ran nine weeks.
.
Harry Thomas, producer, stopped a few
hours to confer with M. R. Austin, manager
for Eagle Lion . . . Sol Francis of the home
office and Lon T. Fidler, Monogram franchise
owner, went to Colorado Springs on
a sales trip Bros, exchange held
its Christmas party at the Yucca, Metro
at the Rocky Mountain Screen club: Western
Service & Supply at the Park Lane, and
Paramount at the "Branch-o."
Theatre folk on Filmrow: Neal Beezley,
Burlington: John Steele, Limon: Mrs. Fred
Lind, Rifle: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hall, Akron:
Frank Aydelotte, Fort Collins: Lloyd Greve,
Eagle: Leon Coulter, Loveland: C. E. Mc-
Laughlin, Las Animas: John Cabot. Frederick:
Elden Menagh, Fort Lupton: Glen
Wittstruck, Meeker: R. D. Ervin, Kremmling:
Dave Warnock, Johnstown: George Nescher,
Springfield: W. F. Davis, Idaho Springs:
Lynn Zorn, Julesburg: Herbert Gumper,
Ceter, and Sam Reed, Fairplay.