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. . . Jack
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LOS ANGELES
J^urry I^faycttc. United Artists exploltecr.
returned to field publicity after a tenmonth
special a-sslRnment with UA west
coast publicity coordinator Leon Roth. Lafayette's
current duties are on the local
opening of "Tlie Quiet American." on which
he Is worklnK with Bill Scholl.
Jack Sonneslilne. Embassy Pictures, was Installed
Its president of the Al Jolson lodge of
Edward L. Hynian. vicepresident
Bnal B'rlth . .
of American Broadcasting-Para-
mount Tlieatres. will be here to address exhibitors
and distributors on the vital question
of orderly distribution of motion pictures for
theatres. The meeting will be February 11
In the Gold room of the National Theatres
building. 1832 So. New Hampshire Ave., to be
followed by an open fomm discussion.
BooklnK aJid buying on Filmrow were Steve
Charok. Chino Theatre. Chino. and Mr. and
Mrs. Don Mitterllng. Mission Theatre. Pallbrook
. Newman, former Columbia
exploiteer. visited friends . . . Betty Dobson,
secretary to Columbia exploiteer Jack Berwick,
was recuperating after major surgery
Berwick was vacationing . . . Wayne
Ball, Columbia executive, left for a New York
business trip.
George Wells to Produce
Awards Show Mar. 12
HOLLYWOOD—Gtoi Me Wells will produce
the Screen Writers tenth annual awards dinner
show March 12. and, as in the past two
years, the place will be the Moulin Rouge.
Allen RIvkin Is general chairman.
Assisting in staging the skits and musical
number.s will be Danny Arnold. Herbert
Baker. Richard Breen. I. A. L. Diamond. Ken
E^nglund. Julius Epstein, Mel Frank. Deverj-
Freeman. Everett FYeeman. Ivan Goff. Edmund
Hartmann, Hal Kanter. Frank Nugent.
Norman Panama. Joe Quillan. Ben Roberts.
Jack Rose. George Seaton. Mel Shavelson and
Harry Tugend.
Simultaneous 'Arms' Bow
In Eight LA Theatres
LOS ANGELES—Twentieth Centui-y-Fox
will prerelease "The Young Lions" in the
.same pattern of special roadshows that the
company used for "A Farewell to Arms."
which opened here at the Chinese. Los
Angeles and six neighborhood houses. Instead
of In a single theatre. It Is expected that
"Young Lions" will go Into a Hollywood and
downtown house and six outlying theatres at
advanced prices In late March.
Hairdressers Select Queen
IIOI,L'\'WOouglas made "Indian Fighter"
for United Artists, opened here Tuesday i21i
and was scheduled for simultaneous showing
In 15 Oregon theatres. John Ericson. who stars
in the picture, was Interviewed via telephone
by the Oregon Journal.
Johnny Mathis, Columbia Records vocal
star, who.se voice Is heard doing the title tune
for Paramounts "Wild Is the Wind." did
two performances at the Auditorium here
Sunday il9i. The show, btmked by Trans-
America, drew le.ss than 1.800 fans for two
performances and gro.s-sed a dl.sappointing
figure Tlie Hi-Lo's. Linda Leigh and the
Keith Williams orchestra were on the twohour
bill.
Scroll to Rosalind Russell
HOLLYWOOD liosallnd Ru.ssell has been
voted winner of the Golden Scroll awarded
annually by the Columbia University Theatre
Arts Society to Uir out.standlng theatre
personality of the year
SALT LAKE CITY
piiur I t.ih and Idaho theatremen and their
wives were preparing to return home
from Hawaii, where they spent a week's vacation
won in the Fox National Theatres contest.
The travelers were Jack McGee. division
manager, and Mrs. McGee: Ralph Pizza,
booker, and Mrs. Pizza; Ted KIrkmeyer. Uptown
Theatre manager, and Mrs. KIrkmeyer.
and Mr. and Mrs. Irving Simpson of Idaho
Falls. Before they left Salt Lake City by air
during a snow storm January 18. they were
.serenaded by a group of Hawaiian entertainers.
Mr. and .Mrs. Bob .Ander>un. Gunnison,
and Deward Shmer of Vernal were among
exhibitors on Salt Lake's Filmrow . . . Holdovers
continued to be the talk of Salt Lake
City moviegoers as "Sayonara" and "Peyton
Place" went into their fifth weeks. "Don't
Go Near the Water" started its fourth and
"The Sad Sack" went Into Its fifth. Coming
up early In February and probably against
each other will be "Raintree County," "Witne.'^s
for the Prosecution" and "Farewell to
Arms."
Neal East, western division manager of
Paramount, was in Salt Lake for three days
this week, meeting with Manager Frank H.
Smith and salesmen Gene Jones, Dick Stafford.
Carl Lind and office manager Bert
Turgeon. East discussed pictures that Paramount
has completed and will be releasing In
the next several months and discussed plans
for the next wave of releases on "The Ten
Commandments" . Glllman. operator
of the Colony and World Playhouse,
has moved his family to Los Angeles. He was
in Salt Lake to buy and book for his two
local
theatres.
Fresno Managerial Post
For Charles Eggleston
FRKSNO. CALir t'ii.iii. .- Eggleston.
formerly assistant to Manager John R.
Fredericks at the local Wil.son Theatre, has
been appointed manager of the Tower Tlieatre.
Eggleston succeeds George Rogers, who
resigned becau.se of ill health and has moved
to Salinas.
Both the Wilson and Tower theatres are
Fox West Coast properties.
No 'Pretty Boy' Bar
HOIjL'i'WoOD^-Fideial Judge Leon Yankwlch
denied the preliminary injunction asked
by Kroger Babb. exploitation film producer,
to restrain Sam Katzman's Clover Productions
from lensing "Tlie Pretty Boy Floyd
Story." for Columbia relea.se Tlie defendants
Immediately filed a motion for .summary
judgment, which will be heard February
17. They claim there are no proix-rty rights
to a historical character, and. therefore, anybody
can make a picture based on Floyd
Robert Ryan to Narrate
HOLLYWOOD -Robert Ryan will narrate
one of a series of documentary films on the
functloivs of the United Nations, to be produced
by the UN film committee Ryan's will
be the first of a series of half-hour films
which the UN will employ for television as
,
well as for nontheatrlcal uses.
BOXOFFICE January 27, 1968