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.Ileclric Shock Killed A T L A N T A
liitagehand. Police Say
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—Herbert Lee Aupian.
65. secretary of lATSE Local 78 for 21
ars. died at the Alabama state fairgrounds
Ijllile working as a stagehand for the Zamora
^hrine circus.
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Police said Auman was killed when he
epped on or touched an electric wire while
3,jerating a spotlight. Coroner Joe L. Hilderrand.
however, attributed death to "natural
:.>uses."
Auman's widow. Mrs. Alice P. Auman. filed
in circuit court for $50,000 damages
Is'ainst Thomas N. Packs Amusement Enter-
Iprises and Zamora temple. Auman had re-
;;gned recently as lATSE secretary because
Dt ill health. He had been employed by the
Pantages and Temple theatres here.
1600-Seat House Planned
[By Kannapolis Veterans
KANNAPOLIS. N. C—Construction of a
|600-seat theatre on Cannon boulevard at
[jackson street will begin in several weeks
and will be operated by a group of Kannap-
Iclis ex-GIs. A spokesman for the group
[said the contract for the large brick build-
Jing that will front on the boulevard and run
falong Jackson avenue for 112 feet had been
I let and materials were being assembled. Seats
;ind projection and sound equipment have
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been ordered. The theatre will represent an
investment of $50,000.
Boy Racers See Film
COLUMBUS. GA.—Sixty entrants in Co-
[lumbus' eighth all-Amencan soapbox derby
were guests of the Bradley for a preview
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showing of "Born to Speed."
Roberta Changes Hands
ROBERTA. GA.—Operation of the Roberta
Theatre has been taken over by Kyle Grace.
He acquired it from W. O. Moody of Reynolds.
prank McCallistcr, director of the Georgia
Workers Education Service, was elected
chairman of the Atlanta Film council at an
organizational meeting . . . Meyer Coleman,
formerly with National Screen Service here
and now a representative of the same company
in Washington, was a stopover en route
home from Florida.
Carl Mabry and A. E. Chadwick, executives
of Motion Picture Advertisers, New Orleans,
huddled with Guy Brown, Atlanta sales
representative, and called on exhibitors
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Brown of the
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K&B soda
shop. Filmrow hangout, are back from a
trip to Savannah . . . Mrs. W. Wood, Lithonia,
Ga., exhibitor, is confined to her home by
illness.
Exhibitors visiting: on the Row includes
Annie Sue Wynn of the Circle, Social Circle,
Ga.; Ed Beach. Silvertown, Ga.; O. C. Lam
of Lam Amusement Co., Rome, Ga.; B. J.
Curry, Strand, Portland, Tenn., and the Dumi
boys, circuit operators of Camilla, Ga.
. . Francis
Mrs. Jesse Cox of the Carver, Rock HID,
S. C, visiting here recently, reported that
business at the Coxes' new colored house is
very good . . . Felton Hooks, formerly with
Paramount, has shifted to PRC as secretary
to Ed Ashmore, office manager .
Crowe left Paramount's booking department
to join Screen Guild . Dunn has
been added to the force at the Theatrical
Printing Co. . . . Mrs. Betty HoUiman is
Don Hassler's new secretary at Astor Pictiu-es.
Jack Faulkner of Columbia is vacationing
in Chicago . . . Ted Toddy, president of Toddy
Pictures, New York, stopped for a visit with
en local representatives route home from a
vacation in Havana John Jarvis jr.,
. . .
branch manager of Kay Film Exchanges in
New Orleans, was a visitor at the home
Mrs. Thelma Hewatt has been
office . . .
added to the staff at Sack Enterprises.
Amusement
Mrs Ann Kee, formerly with PRC and now
with Southeastern Engraving Co., returning
from a vacation in Missouri . Campbell
left RKO to take a sales Job with Monogram
Southern . gave its sympathy
to W. H. Rudisill. branch man.-.ger for
Kay Film Exchanges, on the death of his
mother.
Tex Ritter, western star, headlines a Western
All-star Jamboree comin'g to the Municipal
Auditorium . . . N. E. Savini of Astor
Pictures and Mrs. Savini are grandparents
of a new baby girl . . . Babe Cohen, Monogram
branch manager, and Ben Jordan returned
from Tennessee.
Henry B. Moog, who resigned recently as
district manager of Altec Service, has gone
into the real estate busine.ss here. He continues
to serve Altec as consultant.
Power Line Break Shuts
Four Chattanooga Houses
CHATTANOOGA—The State, Rialto, Capitol
and Dixie theatres here were closed
down nearly four hours one recent afternoon
through a power failure in the underground
downtown system of the electric
power board. Most downtown houses, with
the exception of the Tivoli, had to make
ticket price refunds to patrons.
Bressler Is Producer
Jerry Bressler has been named producer of
U-I's "The Tin Flute," a drama with Montreal
setting.
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