Boxoffice-January.07.1950

KANSAS CITY
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IJobert Shelton, Commonwealth Theatres
vice-president and general manager, and
Dick Orear. purchasing agent, and their
wives left December 30 for a vacation trip
to New Orleans and Mexico City . . . Lawrence
Leliman, RKO Missouri manager, returned
to his desk following recovery from
a recent operation at Menorah hospital . . .
M. D. Cohii, Paramount Theatre manager,
received notice of his appointment as pubt
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lis West 18th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
Complete Theatre Equipment & Supplies
licity and advertising director for National
Brotherhood week observance February 17-25.
Foster J. Liederbach, fonnerly of Chicago,
assumed his new duties as assistant manager
of the RKO Missouri Theatre . . . Stanley
Durwood, Durwood circuit general manager,
was elected president of the Harvard club
of Kansas City . . . Bob Carnie, Monogram
salesman, celebrated a birthday December
Hal Parker, cameraman, was making
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television commercial shorts for Nutrena
John Scott,
Mills, Inc., and other clients . . .
Republic booker, resumed his duties foUow'-
ing a two-week vacation.
Dale H. Danielson, Russell, Kas., Kansas-
Missouri Theatre Ass'n president, and O. F.
Sullivan, Wichita, Kas., head of the Kansas-
Missoun Allied unit, were among speakers
dui-ing a two-day United Film Service sales
convention here Wednesday and Thursday
(4, 51 ... Gene Blade, Altec Service Corp.,
celebrated his birthday last Sunday (1) ...
The Village Theatre, Sunflower Village, Kas.,
dark many months, has been reopened by
Paul Milberger, operator of the Garmtier in
Kansas City, Kas.
Elmer C. Rhoden jr.. Commonwealth ciicuit
film buyer, returned from a holiday visit
in California . . . George Harttmann, owner
of the Armour in North Kansas City and
now living in Los Angeles, visited Filmrow
. . . Louis Sutter, operator of the Castle here
and the Princess and Regal in Kansas City,
Kas., was recovering from a recent operation
. - R. R. Biechele, owner of the Osage
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in Kansas City, Kas., was preparing to attend
a TOA board meeting next week in
Washington.
Kansas theatremen who were in town included
Herb Stulz, Plaza, Clyde; E, J. May,
Uptown, Strong City; William Bristol, Meade,
Meade; Homer P. Strowig, Lyric, Abilene,
and Fred R. Davis, Cozy, Girard . . . Among
Missouri showmen w'he were here were Bill
Silver, Silver, Cameron; Vii-gil Anderson,
C-B. Bucklin; Frank G. Weary, Farris, Richmond;
Charles Fisk jr., Fisk, Butler; Kenneth
Noel, Community, Bois D'Arc; John
Brandt, Lyric, Plattsburg, and T. L. Wilson,
Siloam, Excelsior Springs.
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