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OKLAHOMA CITY
T^rs. Izah Adams's daughter graduated from
the school of medicine of the University
of Oklahoma this month. She is Dr. Carolyn
Adams Hayes of Sulphur, wife of Dr. Marvin
Bryant Hayes, who is with the Veterans hospital
in Little Rock. It is believed that Sulphur
is the only town in Oklahoma that has
produced two women doctors. The other one
graduated last year. Dr. Hayes will enter
the Women's and Children's hospital in San
Francisco. Mrs. Adams has the Ritz Theatre
in Sulphur, and formerly was an Oklahoma
City exhibitor.
Griffith Theatres, Inc., has purchased the
Plaza Theatre in Tulsa. The Plaza, Tulsa's
first suburban theatre, located on the southside,
was owned by Gen. Alva J. Niles. It
was compltely rebuilt eight eyars ago after
it was destroyed by fire.
About the Griffith circuit: Bob Aldridge
of the home office accounting department
has returned from a two-week vacation at
St. Louis . Stone of the same department
also is back from his holiday, spent
at home . . . Allen B. Dean, manager of the
H&S Theatre at Chandler, was elected chairman
of the Lincoln county chapter of the
American Red Cross . . . Cuero, Tex.. Lions
enjoyed a program at the Rialto Theatre, following
their weekly noon luncheon, where
the Cuero high school band was heard in a
half-hour concert . Love jr., manager
of the Tall Chief. Fairfax, was named
first vice-president when the American Businessmen's
club met recently.
A. F. Hornbeck of Shawnee feted the
women in the Griffith home office with a
picnic at his lodge on the shore of Lake
Shawnee. About 20 attended. Motor boating,
soft ball and badminton furnished recreation
. . . Mozelle Britten Dinehart, who
grew up here but left at an early age to try
her fortune on the stage and screen, is back
in the old home town and is now a columnist.
She is visiting relatives here. Her successful
career included marriage to Alan Dinehart.
Mrs. Dineharfs weekly comments
on Hollywood affairs appear now in 15 papers,
principally on the Pacific coa.st. While here
Governor Turner commissioned her a full
colonel on his staff.
The Home Theatre has a new carpet wlUt'
a leaf pattern in its lobby. The remainder
of the theatre will be carpeted soon . . . Sally
Dulany, ledger clerk at Paramount, and her
daughter Sue left for Murphysboro, 111., to
vacation two weeks . Rice. Paramount
booker, has returned from his two-week holiday.
He took his family to California and
Texas.
The city Paramount office has new fluorescent
lighting. The exchange office also
has been repainted and new flooring is to be
installed within the next few days.
Morris Loewenst«in, TOO president, met
Hollywood and learned that
a former Oklahoman.
Sid Grauman in
the famous showman is
Grauman told Loewenstein that he remembers
making the run in Oklahoma with his mother
and father. His mother, he said, kept some
property here for at)OUt 25 years, but finally
let it go for taxes. It was located in the
Capitol hill part of Oklahoma City.
William P. Samet, who wounded George
Leech, city detective, a year ago after a
holdup at the Warner Theatre, escaped
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