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'Miracle'
Provides
Los Angeles Spark
LOS ANGELES—Only a miracle—Fox's
"Miracle on 34th Street"—seems capable of
Injecting a spark of their former life Into
local first run takes. In Its second week,
the picture again was tops, sharing that .spot
with U-I's "Ivy." in Its debuting stanza. Re-
Issues occupied almost one-third of the de
luxe screens with "The Great Waltz." In Its
fourth week, the standout.
(Average is 100)
Belmonl. Tl Roy, Orpheum and Vogue
Road to Hollywood (Astor); Socond Chorus
iAstor), reissues 150
Chinese. Slate, Uptown and Loyola
on Mth Sliool (20th-Foi). 2nd wk 175
Downtown and Hollywood Paramcunts
Calculla (Para), 2iid wk ; Foai in Ih* Nighl
(Para), 2nd wk 135
Egyplicm, Wilahirf and Los Angeles—Living in
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a Big Way (MGM), 2nd wk 100
Four Star— The Gteal Waltx (MGM). reissue.
4lh wk- , - 150
Four Music Halls—New OrUcms (UA) 150
Guild. Ritz. United Artists, Studio City and
Ins-lTT (U-I) 175
Hillstreet and Pontages—Honeymoon (RKO).
2nd wk 95
Million Dollar— I Walk With a Zombi* (FC),
Tho Phantom Speaks (PC), reissues .. 90
Worners Downtown, Hollywood Wiltern
Cheyenne (WB), .Ird wk 90
Ink SpKjts Promote 'Learn'
To Top Spot in Seattle
SEATTLE -"Love and Learn." with the
Ink Spots on stage, did 180. leading the list
here. "Duel In the Sun." in the sixth week
of Its roadshow engagement at the Music Box.
and "The Yearling," in Its fifth recordbreaking
week at the Music Hall, pounded
right behind.
Blue Mouik:- Bedelia (KLl 70
Filth Avtnu- The Sea oi Grass (MGM) 2nd wk .. 95
Liberty—Johnny O'Clock (Col), King ol tho
Wild Horses (Col), 2nd wk 100
Music Box—Duel in the Sun (SRO), 6th d. t. wk.,
roadshow .,,. 160
Music Mil The Yearling (MGM), 5th wk 170
Orrli- m:?. Levi* and Loarn (WB); stage show 210
Palon, r Alios Billy the Kid (Rep); stage show 90
Parim HiMl Cheyenne (WB), 2nd wk 85
Roo'"/. |i Buck PriTOles Com* Horn* (U-I);
Millie's Daughter (Col), 2nd d t wk 90
Reissue Leads in San Francisco
As Show Business Pulse Falls
SAN FRANCISCO—The pulse of the motion
pictitrc liuliislry was beating ver>' feebly
here. Gasping for breath was the second
week of "High Barbaree" at the Fox Theatre,
low with an 80. "It Happened on Fifth Avenue"
opened at the Warfield and United Nations
theatres with 100. The Golden Gate
Theatre, with "Betty Co-Ed" on the screen
and John Calvert on the stage, made only
80. Best performer was the reissued "The
Great Waltz, at 150.
Esquire—The Egg ond I (U-I), 7th d. t. wk 105
Fcx-High Barbate* (MGM); My Brothar Talks
to Horsss iMGM) 2nd wk 80
Goidc-n Gate—B*lly Co-Ed (Col), stage show 80
Guild Theatre—The Great Walls (MGM),
reissue, 2nd wk 150
Orpheum—Copacabana (UA); The Millerson
Case (Col) 130
Paramount—Ch*y*nn* (WB); 1 Cover Big
Town (Para), 2nd wk 115
Si Francis—D*ar Ruth (Pora), 2nd wk 110
United Artists—N*w Orleans (UA); Th* Devil
on Whoels (PRO, 2nd wk 135
United Nations and Warfield— It Happened on
Fifth Avenu* (AA-Mono); Fall Guy (Mono) 100
DENVER
'^m. Hastings, Denver chairman for the C
theatre section of the National Con- f"
ference of Christians and Jews, has designated
Mayer Monsky, U-I branch manager,
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to act with him as co-chairman.
Forty golfers played in the annual Rocky I
Mountain Screen club Calcutta, held at the
Lakewood Country r
club. '
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was low net with a of 66;
Harry Fergtison
James Michelettl
with 70: Felix and Henry Friedel second Jack
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was a gross 125.
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tied for third with 74. The poorest score
Milt Hossfeld, Fox Intermountain Thea- :
tres film buyer, went to Los Angeles for a '
buying huddle . . . Doyle Shelton is about i
ready to open his 300-seat Monarch Theatre '
'Egg' Goes Into Fourth Week; at Pritchard, Colo. . . . John Consentlne. •
Sets Denver Two-Theatre Record ^*"" Classics auditor^ is here
. . . Here on •
busmess at the 20th-Fox exchange were Her-
DENVER—"The Egg and I" went into its man Wobber. division manager: Charles '
fourth week at both the Paramount and Es- Walker, district manager, and Alex Harrison,
quire this week, giving it the longest run district booker,
of any film ever to play these two theatres.
Aladdin—Stairway to Heaven (U-1), 2nd wk 130 Ray Bartlett is building a new 850-seat I"
^'oadv/ar-UMe Mr. lim (MGM); Boom Town S150.000 theatre at Artesla, N. M.. and hopes f
De;iham-De«1urh (Paro) Z^Z^'g" 'o have it open early in August ... P. A. •
Denver and Woiiber-The Two Mrs. Carrolls Boggess, manager of the Chautauqua Thea- .'
(WB); Backlash (20th-Fox)
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tre, Boulder, Colo., which operates only about ^
Lsquire and Paramount—The Egg "" and I U-1), *,„« ^«»u^ . i- u i-*. j
frd
two
vjri.
125
months a year, has bought new projec- '
Orpheum—Honeymoon (RKO); Dick Tracy's tors, sound screen and Other equipment from '
Dilemma (RKC5) „„ ,
100 National Theatre Supply. '^'^
Riallo— Captain CaubOB (FC); Captain Fury
(FC), reisisups 130
Tabor -That Way With Women (WB); Earl Bell, Warner manager, went to Los ^
Builalo Bill Hides Again (SG) _„ 75 Angeles for a district meeting . Davis, •
Atlas Theatres general manager, is vaca- '
tioning in Chicago .
Howard, SRO
^^ClVnGTS to Film 'Victor'
district manager, was here four days calling '-
on theatre managers and conferring with
In Locale Near Paris
Chanes Duer. local SRO manager.
HOLLYWOOD— With almost every studiJ
planning to film part of or entire pictures
abroad, Warners Bros, is no exception to the
trend. Sequences of "To the Victor," forthcoming
postwar melodrama showing the effects
of war upon individuals, will be shot in
its European locale.
Director Delmer Daves plans to leave for
Paris shortly to scout locations and make
filming arrangements. Viveca Lindfors and
Dennis Morgan already have been set to
topline but it was not revealed which of
them or what principals will make the Eufiipeiin
trek.
Marvin Goldfarb. who left RKO some tbuei
ago to look after his private interests, haa^
returned to the company as a salesman ,
Paul AUmeyer, Paramount booker, has moTedV
from Idaho Springs, Colo., to Littleton, ColaC
This puts him closer to Denver by some 25
miles . Blosser, assistant booker at
Paramount, has found a house in north t
Denver and has moved in,
William Carr, Warner Bros, auditor, is
giving the local exchange the usual periodical
checkup.
Exhibitors on Filmrow Included Doyle Sheltun.
Pritchard. Colo.: Neal Beezley. Burlington.
Colo.: Frank Roberts, Lincoln, Neb,,'
controller for the Cooper Foundation Thea-i
tres: Robert Spahn, Mitchell, S. D.: Herbert)3
Gumper, Center, Colo.: Mr. and Mrs. Predi
Lind. Rifle, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. R. D, Ervln.tJ
Kremmling, Colo.: Earl M. Campbell, Tren-i
ton. Neb.: Dorrance Schmidt. Bridgeport.
Neb.: Eldon Menagh, Fort Lupton, Cole:
George Allan sr.. North Platte. Neb., and,
Mrs, Frank Barnes and son Billy. Crawford,.
Neb.
STAR SPARKS "K.XMHOD" HOW— When Prr>ton 1 iistrr ;trrivid in Portland in
ronnrctliin with Ihr biinklnK nf "Kiimnid" at the Onturv rhpiitro. Ted Ci.imbic feted
Ihr lloll.vuiiixl star at » rpcrptiun in the llonson hotel. The event also commemorated
the K,ila n|iriiiiiK n( the (rntury.
Left til rlKhl: Jack O'Bryan, western OrcKOn salesman. United Artists; Earl F.
Kllry, ma.vnr of Portland; .\. J. Sulliv.iii, manager, UA; Foster; Morris Segel, eastern
()ret;nn sjilrvman.
Chicago Man to Film
Travelog of Montana
HELENA—James Dobyns of Chicago will
arrive here in early July to film a colored
travelog of Montana under sponsorship ol j
the state chamber of commerce.
The first part of the 60-minute film wUl,
show Montana in a pioneer .stage and wlB
introduce such historical events as Custer's
last stand by the use of headlines taker,
from pioneer newspapers.
Dobyns said that he has been much interested
in Montana since his initial visit to thi
west in 1924. He has made similar travelog! .1
of Wyoming and Colorado.