Boxoffice-December.25.1948

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fort. Tex. Every third child attending was
admitted free of charge, according to Manager
Prank Zimmermann. who owns the hill
country theatre.
William Keeler, local projectionist, was
elected business manager of local union 4P7
at a recent meeting. He will serve for a sixmonth
period . McGahey now is
editor of the San Antonio Evenings News .
Al Kaufman, public relations director for the
Alameda Teatro, said that the new Mexican
house will be opened January 22.
Ed Cruz of this city reported to police that
he was held up at knife point and robbed of
a silver saddle ring valued at $5 by two imknown
Mexicans while at the State Theatre
. . . Visitors along Filmrow included Jose
Guerra. manager of a new Mexican theatre,
Los Angeles; Dutch Cammer, Screen Guild
and Realart. Dallas, and Irving Dreher, new
south Texas film salesman for Sack Amusement
Enterprises, Dallas.
T. L. Richey Will Construct
Theatre in Linden, Tex.
LINDEN. TEX.—T. L. Richey, owner of the
Ritz, will start construction on a 600-seat
theatre soon after the first of the year. He
has retained Ray S. Smith, Dallas theatre
architect, to do the job. He also owns the
Joy in Mount Vernon, and before the war
owned the Texas at St. Jo. Richey lives in
Atlanta where his family is engaged in the
lumber industry. His buying and booking
problems are handled by the Ind-Ex Booking
Service at Dallas.
Miss Musgrave
Jerry Musgrave Named
JB Exchange Cashier
DALLAS—Jerry Musgrave. who has served
in the office of Sack Amusement Enterprises
for C. C. Bounds when
he had four theatres
the last five years,
has been employed as
cashier in the Jenkins
& Bourgeois exchange.
Miss Musgrave had
several years actual
theatre experience before
moving to Dallas.
She formerly lived in
Texarkana and worked
in the vicinity. Her
duties were buying,
booking and often full
operation of those houses. Her duties on
Filmrow have included regular exchange
booking.
Miss Musgrave has always been partial to
canaries and likes to hear them sing after
a heavy day at the office. Sunshine, her pet,
is an all yellow Hartz Mountain bird with
one tiny black spot on a wing. She has
taught the warbler several tricks, one being
to perch on her head at command. He is the
best singer she has ever owned.
House Destroyed by Fire
AMHERST. TEX.—The Majestic, owned by
O. M. Cosby jr., was destroyed by fire during
the week. Some of the booth equipment,
however, may be salvaged. It is believed
Cosby will rebuild.
Rain Over Texas Ends
Severe Dry Period
DALLAS—Glorious ran fell five hours Tuesday
morning (14). breaking the worst drouth
this territory has experienced in 30 years.
Radio reports said the rain was almost general
over the state. Exhibitors in small towns
had begim to feel the pinch of the drouth
as stock tanks and shallow wells at farm
homes dried up and farm patronage slowed
down.
Around Wichita Falls the wheatlands didn't
raise a green blade and cattle had begun to
starve. A bad winter might yet wipe them
out. Much of this picture was similar over
most of Texas. Agricultural and business
authorities had started saying things might
soon be desperate. That gloomy picture is
believed changing now. It wiU take ten inches
to restore the rainfall to normal.
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