Boxoffice_May.09.1960

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HARTFORD
Ted Harris, State Theatre managing director,
has been recuperating from
surgery . . . The Connecticut premiere of
MGM's "Ben-Hur" is slated for the Stanley
Warner Strand here May 19. The
downtown SW showcase is the sole Connecticut
theatre equipped to handle attractions
of the wide-widescreen calibre.
MGM's "It Started With a Kiss" was the
reopening attraction at the Rogers Comer
Drive-In . . . This may be an innovation
in the price-conscious southern New England
region: the Shrewsbury Drive-In.
Route 9. is advertising $1.10 (including
tax) a carload, as compared to conventional
$1 charge per carload by a number
of other under-skyers in this area . . . The
Torrington men's choral group appeared
at the SW Warner in that city the night
of April 26 through arrangements made
by Leonard Kupstas, SW resident manager,
Warner.
SW has shifted a number of aides. Mrs.
Olive Recave, assistant to Jack Sanson.
Strand resident manager, becomes manager
of the State, Manchester, succeeding
Edwin L. Stuart, who moves to the Capitol,
Willimantic, replacing Russell Barrett
. . . Lockwood & Gordon reopened two
more drive-ins—the East Hartford and
East Windsor.
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Peter G. Perakos sr., Connecticut industry
pioneer and president of Perakos
Theatre Associates, New Britain, and his
son John, assistant general manager, are
bound for the Mediterranean by boat for
a tour of Greece, the Aegean islands,
France and Italy. They will return in mid-
July.
Bruno Weingarten reopened E. M. Loew's
Norwich-New London Drive-In, Montville,
announcing completion of installation of
new projection equipment. His initial program
consisted of Warners' "The Bramble
Bush" and 20th-Fox's "House of Bamboo."
Leonard Young, ex-assistant to George
E. Landers, Hartford division manager of
E. M. Loew's Theatres, was signed as emcee
for a cruise ship bound south to Central
America.
BRIDGEPORT
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AArs. Frances Augustine, assistant manager
of Loew's Majestic, is back from
a two-week vacation in Miami Beach. Fla.
Alan Freed and his Big Beat Show
played a matinee at the Empress in Norwalk
Alfred Domian of
Loew's Poll placed a three-column coloring
contest in the Post for "A Dog of
Flanders" . Ehrlich, artist for Loew's
theatres here, is branching out to do personal
portraits, land and seascapes and
abstracts to display and sell.
. . .
. . . Projectionist James
James Ladino gained extra newspaper
space for "Toby Tyler" at the Beverly and
Hi-Way theatres by pointing out that the
Swan bandwagon, shown in a circus parade
sequence in the film, was once quartered
in this city with the Barnum &
Bailey Circus Manager Harry Rose
of Loew's Majestic tied up with the Sunday
Herald by giving away guest tickets
to persons whose names appeared among
the classified advertisements . . . The Playhouse
in Southbury will open for the summer
June 25
celebrated a birthday . . Ernest
Luberti .
Gilbert, projectionist at Loew's Majestic,
is now a great grandfather.
NEW HAVEN
T eonard Sampson, Robert Spodick and
Norman Bialek of the Nutmeg circuit,
booking a foursome of top art attractions
for the Lincoln, New Haven, used the overall
phrase. "The New Wave in the Foreign
Film," in newspaper advertising. The quartet,
playing during spring months, will
consist of "Black Orpheus," the Academy
Awards winner; "Ikiru," Japanese import;
"The Cranes Are Flying," Russian, and "A
Lesson in Love." Ingmar Bergman's effort.
Phil Engcl, 20th-Fox exploiteer. and Joe
Mansfield, UA. were busy in the territory
in conjunction with "A Dog of Flanders"
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and "The Fugitive Kind . . .
Henry Germaine, Paramount, reported
holdovers for "Visit to a Small Planet"
throughout Connecticut.
Michael Shillo, Israeli screen star, who
appears in a forthcoming U. S. release,
"The Whole Truth." with George Sanders
and Stewart Granger, attended a Jewish
Welfare Fund-United Jewish Appeal coffee
hour recently.
NE-4 BOXOFFICE :: May 9, 1960