Moneymakers

P: Variety added up the year's income for Hollywood's top ten film and theater companies, reported that while the combined gross came to a whopping $1,102,500,000 for 1958, business was still off $26 million from the previous year. Most surprising success of the moviemaking year: Columbia's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which cost a mere $660,000, has taken in $6,000,000 since it opened in December. P: For a cool $75,000, Harold Minsky's burlesque show (38 girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes Hotel to put on one performance for 1,200 conventioneers from the National Homebuilders Association. Said one homebuilder: "This is exactly the sort of thing this industry needs. We're too stodgy." P: Jingly, gutter-wise Threepenny Opera passed its 1,405th performance, became New York's third longest running musical, behind Oklahoma! (2,248) and South Pacific (1,925). Gross of the 229-seat Theater de Lys totals $1,250,000 -more than the combined take of the other top 18 off-Broadway shows for the past ten years.

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