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KANSAS CITY<br />
yhe Women of Variety Tent 8 arc now camp out with their children Ted and Lisa.<br />
selling tickets for their first gala affair,<br />
Gaye reported she was looking forward to<br />
a picnic, which will take place Sunday peace, quiet and the wind in the pines.<br />
(17) at Comanche Park in Overland Park,<br />
Jerry Jones, American International<br />
Kas. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50<br />
booker, returned from a weekend triip to<br />
for children. All proceeds will be going to<br />
the Crippled Children's Nursery School.<br />
The picnic will begin at 12:30 p.m. and<br />
run until 5 with games and prizes. Catered<br />
refreshments, including ham. beef, assorted<br />
cold cuts, cheeses, breads and beverages,<br />
will be provided. To reserve your tickets for<br />
the whole family, call Melanie at 474-6150<br />
or contact your local Variety girl.<br />
The WOMPI Club has selected<br />
the delegates<br />
and alternates who will attend the<br />
WOMPI International convention in Chicago<br />
in September. Chosen are: JoAnn<br />
Weaver (Warner Bros.) and Fran Frame<br />
(AMC), delegates; Nadine Evans (AMC),<br />
first alternate, and Ruby Shultz (Commonwealth),<br />
second alternate.<br />
Twentieth Century-Fox moved into its<br />
new offices in the renovated VFW Building<br />
Thursday (7), thus marking the passing of<br />
another major film office from Kan.sas<br />
City's downtown Filmrow. New address of<br />
20th-Fox is: 406 West 34th St.. Kansas City,<br />
Mo. The new telephone number is: (816)<br />
531-6211, 6212 or 6213. John Catanzaro.<br />
20th-Fox division manager beadquartered<br />
in Los Angeles, was in Kansas City to visit<br />
the<br />
office.<br />
Chris Lynch, manager of the Dickiimson<br />
circuit's Park Cinema in Overland Park,<br />
Kas., and assistant to Kent Dickinson, is on<br />
vacation in Colorado with his wife. Vern<br />
.Schaliehn, head of the Dickinson accounting<br />
department, also is in Colorado taking<br />
it easy with wife Nancy and their two children.<br />
Rex Hansen of Hansen & Associates,<br />
headquartered in Princeton, 111., was m Kansas<br />
City last week to meet with Steve Durb:n,<br />
president of United National Films,<br />
and to discuss his newest release, "Satan's<br />
Children."<br />
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Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park.<br />
Jerry, his brother Joe and two others made<br />
their annual ascent of Long's Peak, the<br />
highest mountain in the Park. Jerry reports<br />
the weather was surprisingly clear, with<br />
that<br />
none of the usual "surprise" afternoon<br />
storms. The group—none of whom are<br />
under six feet tall—made the trip in a<br />
Plymouth sport Trans Am. Jerry says they<br />
had one or two "tight" situations.<br />
Carol Alt, secretary to Richard Durwood,<br />
American Multi Cinema senior vice-president,<br />
reports that she has had a further<br />
misadventure following the "towering tornado"<br />
affair earlier this summer. On a quiet<br />
Suinday, July 6, Carol and her nine-year-old<br />
son Greg were heading downtown in her<br />
1971 Fiat when their car was struck by a<br />
lady running a red light. Fortunately no<br />
one was seriously hurt but Carol's car was<br />
a total loss (and, she relates ruefully, she<br />
had just purchased four brand new tires).<br />
The story has a happy ending, for Carol<br />
now can be seen driving about in a Triumph<br />
Spitfire.<br />
G.W. "Nick" Carter, manager of the<br />
Cooper circuit's Dodge Theatre, Dodge<br />
City, Kas., had the honor of serving as<br />
parade marshal for the Dodge City Days<br />
celebration July 17. He is very adept at<br />
rope twirling and rope tricks and was recently<br />
asked by Monte Montana to come<br />
to the Calgary festivities to perform with<br />
such celebrities as Gene Autry, Rex Allen<br />
and other western stars. Unfortunately he<br />
was unable to attend. Carter has been in the<br />
theatre business 50 years, working for the<br />
National General and Mann circuits before<br />
joining Cooper Theatres.<br />
Bev Miller, Mercury Film, reports that<br />
he has a new associate in his office. Her<br />
name is "Mabel" and Miller is forced to<br />
admit that she is a plastic sort of person:<br />
Doug IJghtner, vice-president and general<br />
manager of Commonwealth Theatres,<br />
wife Mary and son^ Dave were on a 17-day<br />
trip to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque<br />
and Las Vegas. They visited Doug jr., wife<br />
,nul two daughters in Carlsbad, where he is<br />
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City to see relatives.<br />
Ruby Shultz, Lightner's<br />
secretary, returned last week with her husband<br />
from a vacation at Pomme de Terre.<br />
Screenings at Commonwealth: "Undercovers<br />
Hero" (UA), Tuesday afternoon<br />
(5); "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"<br />
(Dimsnsion), distributed by Mercury Film.<br />
Thursday afternoon (7); "Coonskin" (Bryanston),<br />
Friday afternoon (8) . . . At Guy-<br />
Con: "Brother. Can You Spare a Dime?<br />
(Dimension), Monday evening (4).<br />
Warner Bros, held a luncheon, followed<br />
by a screening of "Dog Day Afternoon,"<br />
starring Al Pacino, Wednesday (6) at the<br />
Fine Arts Theatre.<br />
Tom Edwards, former owner and operator<br />
of the Corral Drive-In and Ozark Theatre<br />
in Eldon, dropped by the Universal<br />
branch and had lunch with branch manager<br />
Ray McKitrick, Bob Johns, St. Louis<br />
manager, and Rube Finkelstein, veteran exhibitor.<br />
Edwards is now retired from the<br />
business and living in Florida.<br />
Linda Amacher, daughter of Ralph<br />
Amacher of United National Films, has<br />
joined the Dickinson Theatres booking department.<br />
The Dickinson circuit reports it is quite<br />
pleased with the healthy grosses so far<br />
shown by Paramount's "Nashville," which<br />
currently is playing at the Glenwood Theatre.<br />
John King, Universal shipper, was fishing<br />
in Kansas last week . Pictures<br />
has a new employee. She is Rose Marie<br />
Cutting, a general clerk, who formerly was<br />
with<br />
Columbia Pictures.<br />
Bob Maddex, Garnett. Kas., was among<br />
Filmrow visitors.<br />
ST.<br />
LOUIS<br />
(Continued from preceding page)<br />
the staff of 20th-Fox as ad-publicity manager<br />
in this area and in 1965 was transferred<br />
to San Francisco. In 1968 he became<br />
assistant to Marvin Levy, Cinerama Re-<br />
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