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Bailey Bros, circus made a one-day appear-ii
ance in Manchester June 17 . . . E. C. GatesA
proprietor of the new amusement center,?
Riverside Manor, in Parmington, annoimces]
that young people may use his establish-f
ment without charge on Tuesday and Thurs "
day nights, provided it does not conflict with
advertised programs.
The Somersworth Theatre was used recently
for the staging of a minstrel revue
for the benefit of Somersworth Playgrounds/
Inc. . . . Se\'eral public events have beeof
held to raise funds to purchase a proJectorT
for school use in Milton.
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DISCOVERY DINNKR—Head table guests at the "Discovery" dinner hosted by
Joseph Lcvine of Kmbassy Pictures Corp. and Discovery Pictures, Inc., of New York at
the Boston .Art club where .\dm. Richard E. Byrd was the honored guest. Left to right:
(leorgc Curloy, city greeter and son of Mayor James M. Curley; James Irwin of New
Hampshire, toastmaster; Byrd; Joseph E. Levine and E. .M. Loew, circuit head. The
film was premiered at
Boston.
NEW H A M P SHIRE
n house bill providing a minimum wage of
50 cents an liour for all employes in New-
Hampshire, except those engaged in farm and
household work or service occupations in
hotels, restaurants and cabins, has been approved
by the hou.se of representatives.
At the annual banquet of the Hampton
Beach Chamber of Commerce and Hampton
Beach precinct commission. Gov. Charles M.
Dale stated that a survey had shown that at
least two million dollars in recreation business
had come to New Hampshire as a result
of the state's advertising program.
Sandalio Suarez of Havana. Cuba, has been
a guest of Walter E. Young, owner of the
Strand in Farmlngton, and Mrs. Young at
their Farmlngton home and their Oakbirch
Inn at Alton Bay. Suarez was one of the
hosts to the Youngs when they visited Cuba
last winter.
.\nsel Sanborn, Carroll county circuit
owner and member of the legislature, invited
his fellow lawmakers to be his guests June
24 at the Wolfeboro Casino, operated by the
exhibitor.
The directors of a film crew which will
shoot color films of a Bible pageant to be
produced by the Deorfield Community
church, have arrived in Deerfield. Cameras
will start grinding soon . picturjs
came to the rescue to entertain about 700
employes of the Chlcopee Manufacturing Co.
of Manchester when a Softball game was
rained out at their annual outing at Canobie
lake.
Matinees are being started at 3:30 p. m.,
while a remodeling Job Is In progress at the
Slate in Manchester . Duke of Paducah,
comedian of the Grand Ole Opry
radio show, and the Arkansas Cotton Pickers,
recording artists, were featured at a big hillbilly
show at Lone Star ranch near Manchester.
RCA engineers have tuned up a rear projection
booth, said to be the only one north
of New York City, at the Mount Washington
hotel at Bretton Woods, where swanky
guests pay as high as $75 a day for rooms
with a good mountain view.
Mrs. LaFell Dickinson of Keene. who In
1944 became president of the General Federation
of Women's clubs and was instrumental
In establishing youth cinema clubs
to provide educational movies for young people
all over the United States, was the subject
of a lengthy article in a Manchester
newspaper, describing this project and her
other achievements.
Rehearsals have been started in Swanzey
for the .sixth annual revival of the famous
old melodrama. "The Old Home.stead." which
will be staged by an all-Swanzey cast July
4. 5 and 6 in Potash Bowl near the birthplace
of the playwright. Denman Thompson.
A new draft of a house bill providmg for
an audit by the tax commission of the accounts
of country fairs, especially with regard
to funds which the fair associations are
entitled to receive from pari-mutuel betting
on horse racing, has been approved by the
senate.
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The fourth Musical Jamboree by pupils of
Vincent Ferdinando's School of Music was
held at the Palace in Manchester, where
Ferdinando's orchestra plays. An ensemble of
60 musicians was featured G.
Guyer. head of the visual education department
at Dartmouth college. Hanover, learned
to fly in a hurr>-. Taking his first lesson
April 28 at the Dartmouth Airways flight
school as a GI student, he won his private
pilot's licen.se in less than a month. Then he
completed seaplane training in less than a
week.
Officials of the Cheshire Fair Ass'n have
completed plans for construction of a new
exhibit building at Stafford park in Keene
J. Markey. whose father. Fred
L. Markey, is manager of the loka Theatre
In Exeter, was married there to Frederick
B. Sheehy. an air forces veteran with overseas
service. The bride is a physical education
instructor at the Unlver.slty of New
Hampshire.
Residents of Jackson were interested in the
recent world premiere of the film, "Outposts
of American Education." at the Barbizon
Plaza Theatre in New York City, as its producer,
John W. Roberts of Wakefield, Mass..
has a summer home there. Roberts toured
Turkey. Greece. Lebanon. Syria and Iraq to
shoot the film In connection with a campaign
for funds for the eight American colleges
in the Near East. Lowell Thomas is the narrator.
\ house bill calling for closer supervision
of amusements on the midways of New Hampshire's
country fairs, has been killed . . . The
New Product Uplifts
Grosses in the Hub
BOSTON—New product sent grosses up-r
ward to the best totals in some time witt'
"Miracle on 34th Street" heading the list
"The Yearling" at Loew's State and Orphean I
aLso had a big first week.
At the Esquire, where "Carnegie Hall'
opened on a two-a-day roadshow basis. th -21 J
Paramount and Fenway—Moss Rose (20th-Foxlr
Sport o< Kings (Col) 1
Stale and OrpheurS—The Yearling (MGM'
Pair Weather Cuts Grosses;
'Daughter' New Haven's Top
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NEW HAVEN—The fu-st fair Sunday 1 i
weeks murdered business and no outstanding
success was reported. "Open City" at th'i
little Lincoln, specializing in foreign fitaj
and reissues, was a solid attraction for foiif
days. Third week of "The Yearling" slumpeii"
a bit at the College. "The Farmer's Daugh
ter." dualed with "Dick Tracy"s Dilemma
upped a little from average at the Roge,|
Sherman. "Hiuh Barbaree"" and "BuUdci
Drummond at Bay" moved from the Loew,
Poll to the College for a second week.
Buou—Stairway to Heaven (U-1); The Millerson
Case iCoi) — i
College—The Yearling (MGM). 3rd dt wk - '
Loews Poll— High Barbaree (MGM); Bulldog
Drummond at Bay (Col) j
Lincoln—Open City (Mayer-Burstyn) Avg not f^
Paramount—Ramrod (UA), That's My Gal
(Rep)
Roaer Sherman --The Farmer's Daughter (RKO); ),
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (RKO) -1-
'Cheyenne' antJ 'Miracle' Big
In Healthy Hartford Session
HARTFORD
The downtown area had ODi,
two holdovers, and the new pictures far*,
uniformly well. Top grossers were "Mlra