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IVith Graduation Fete
iFALL RIVER The Yamms Theatres here
t lok a prominent part in exercises conducted
by the 60-year-old
Durfee high school. A
.^^^^ full page ad in the
Fall River Herald
News advertising the
circuit's coming attractions
contained a
message of felicitation
to the graduates, who
received diplomas at
exercises conducted
as usual, in the Durfee
« Theatre, managed by
M Paul Slayer.
' The annual reunion
of the school's class
JOHN I. McAVOY
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III the theatre. John J. McAvoy, the Durlee's
assistant manager, headed the general
committee of arrangements.
A brief history of the founding of the
ichool and the part it has played in the community
over the last six decades was pre-
Isented by Norman Zalkind. Park manager.
Three Durfee school graduates. Lillian
iRussell. Margaret Meltezo and Mary Quigiley,
employed at the Academy Theatre, at-
Itracted considerable attention by reporting
for duty in their graduation gowns.
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638 Metropolitan Avenue
Hyde Park Sta., Boston. Mass.
Tel. Hyde Park 0203R
"CORSAGE"
POST-WAR
PATTERN
BOSTON
John Dervin. manager of UA, spent a few
' days at Baker Memorial hospital for special
treatment and a routine checkup
Joan Martino. married last
. . .
summer to James
Cusinamo, has a baby girl named Marie
Anne. Joan was in the cashier's department
George
at Warners before her marriage .
Loveless, assistant shipper at
. .
Warners, was
married recently to Pat Foley of Melrose.
Mrs. Bridget King, 76, died at the home
of a daughter early in June. She was the
mother of James "Red" King, director of
publicity for RKO Theatres in Boston.
Arthur Howard has returned to his office
after an absence of over three months. Howard
underwent two major operations in three
weeks and spent more than two months in
the Newton-Wellesley hospital. Although he
is many pounds thinner, he was delighted to
be back at his desk . at the first
American League night baseball game ever
held in Boston were M. J. MuUin and his
son Marty jr., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cohen, BUI
Koster, Larry Herman, Bill Mancusco, Ted
Fleischer, Louis Stern, Zippie Goldman,
Henry Wolper and Barbara Copeland, secretary
to Harry Browning,
Although Joe Mansfield and his wife are
not superstitious, Friday the 13th proved an
unlucky day for them. Joe, a publicity man
for Eagle-Lion, was in Hartford on business
when he received a frantic telephone call
from his wife saying that fire had broken
out in their home in Hyde Park at 9 in the
morning. She grabbed their two small sons
and rushed to safety but all personal belongings
were lost, and fire and water damage
spoiled the entire contents of the house.
As it will take about three months to repair
the damage, kindly neighbors took the family
in until Joe can find a beach cottage for
the summer months.
Independent Theatre Owners of Rhode
Island have staged two successful testimonials,
one to Martin Toohey. "Crown Prince of
Pawtucket," in 1946, and the other to Edward
Fay. "Dean of Providence Theatremen." this
year. Next year the organization will honor
popular Fred Greene, "mayor" of Woonsocket,
who will have a testimonial dinner
tendered him in Providence. It will take
place in April 1948.
UA employes are making plans for
Through
their
annual summer outing in July
pressure of business, Al
.
Fowler
. .
was unable
to attend his 25th reunion at Brown university.
Providence. Al, a publicist for 20th-
Fox, was in the throes of handling three
first run engagements in downtown theatres.
March of Time was host to a group of 35
prominent Boston physicians at a screening
of "Your Doctors— 1947" at the 20th-Fox
screening room. A buffet supper followed
the screening. Among those attending was
Dr. Prank Lahey, head of the famous Lahey
clinic.
Les Bendslev of the Community Playhouse
in Wellesley Hills took his wife and young
daughter and son to the family summer
home in Cotuit on Cape Cod for the weekend
. . . Dave Hodgdon of the Princess
Amusement Co. spent a morning at the office
of Independent Exhibitors, Inc., busily
writing a letter to a member of the ways
and means committee of the state legislature
explaining the situation of theatre business
in this state.
Sidney Shumsker, army
joined PRC as a salesman.
veteran,
has
To Feature in "High Wall'
Metro has set John Ridgely to feature in
the Robert Taylor starrer "The High Wall."
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