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THE NEW COINOMETER COIN CHANGER
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A. D. C. AND VALLEN CURTAIN TRACKS
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24-HOUR SERVICE
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214 South St. Paul St.
Phone Riverside 5009
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HOLLYWOOD AMUSEMENT COMPANY
831 South Wabash Avenue • Chicago, Illinois
pioyd Murphy of Commerce Advertising Motion
Picture Service, Alexandria, was a
visitor on the Row . on the RowJ
included Jeff Rebstock, Golden Meadows;
Roy Pfeiffer, Baton Rouge; Nick Lamantla, "
Bogalusa; Ernest Delahaye, Maringouin; O. f
J. Gaude, Port Allen, and R. E. Carrolla,
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Slidell.
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Every year New Orleans becomes better HI «4J
represented in Hollywood. The Crescent
city's latest contribution to the motion pic-
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ture world is lovely Gloria Henry, who, al- .
though she is just getting under way In
Cinemaland, has had three starring roles in
a few months . . . Ernest McKenna, manager
of the Joy on Canal street, announces the
arrival of a son. Ernest Clair. McKenna,
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who hails from Boston, is proud of the fact (
that the baby was born on Bunker Hill day, ij'l
June 17«
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The Star, a new colored theatre at Crowley,
La., opened last weekend . . . The Fran,
a colored house in Winona, Miss,, closed last
The Webster, Springhill, La., closed
temporarily for repairs . . . Dan Guidry Is
week . . .
erecting a new theatre in Breaux Bridge. La.,
which will be named the Dan. The new
house, which will have its opening soon,
will be booked through the Milton Guidrj'
Enterprises, which recently took over operation
of the other two houses in the town.
Jeff Davis, UA manager, is confined to the
local Bapti.st hospital . . . Monogram held Its
annual picnic last Saturday i21i. employes
motoring to Fountainbleu park for the day
"man of many interests," W. A.
Prewitt jr., head of Associated Theatres and
president of Allied Theatres of the GuU
.states, together with other executives of the
Aero club, has announced completion of ar- i
rangements for the aimual Gulf States air- i
plane model contest, to be held here August i
1-3.
Mary Pisciotta of Mike and Mary's Filmrow
grill, together with Mrs. Willis Houck,
wife of Willis Houck of Joy Theatres, flew
to Dallas for a ten-day stay . . . PRC will
install air conditioning . . . New Orleans will
again be represented on the screen, when
Mary H. Dickey, employed by John Richards,
son of E. V. Richards of the Paramount-
Richards Theatres, the only licensed female
air transport pilot in America, is featured in
an issue of the Woman Speaks series.
Mrs. Henry Lazams, owner of the Lazarus i
circuit, has returned from a trip to Bryan, i.
Tex., where she operates theatres, and to
Dalla.s, where .she visited the exchanges . .
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Auslet of Dixie Films had^
as their guest the past week Mrs. Auslet'si
niece, Rita Winkel of Minneapolis. Rita says\j
slie was fascinated with her first visit south.
Downtown theatres rontinne to feel thet:
effect of the lure of the beaches and the open:
roads upon their patrons. Bu.slness continues
low despite very good programs. Last week
Loew's opened with "Duel in the Sun," while
the Saenger showed "The Fabulous Dorseys."
At the Orpheum "Framed" was the offering,
and at RKOs Liberty "The Egg and I" enjoyed
its second downtown week. "The
Farmer's Daughter" was the feature at the
Tudor, and at the Globe "New Orleans"
played its final downtown week. The St.
Charles offered a double bill, "Condemned
to Devil's Island" and "Woman Chases Man."
The Center had "Backlash." The Joy presented
"The Homestretch." The new Arrow
offered "Little Mr. Jim." The Strand
played a double bill "My Dog Shep" and
"Law of the Lash."
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BOXOmCE :: June 28, 1947'