Boxoffice-July.04.1960

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'Inherit the Wind' a Hit
In Berlin, Kramer Reports
NEW YORK—A "wonderful reaction" on
Flames Destroy Remains
Of Historic N.Y. House
NEW YORK—A five-alaiTO fire burned
out the shell of the RKO 23rd Street Theatre
Wednesday (29) which was being
razed for a housing project. The theatre
was opened as Pike's Opera House in 1868
and bought the next year by Jim Fisk.
railroad baron, to please Josie Mansfield,
a showgirl.
Fisk and Jay Gould moved the Erie
Railroad offices there and Fisk built an
apartment for Miss Mansfield and a banquet
hall on the third floor. The building
was of white Tuckahoe marble in the
Italian Renaissance style.
The Albert Zugsmith production.
"Dondi." will roll on the Allied Artists lot
July 14.
ALBANY
Area drive-ins played the Patterson-
Johansson fight film released by United
Artists. Fabian's Mohawk and Saratoga
ozoners, in Colonie and Latham, respectively,
featured the exciting five-rounder.
Ditto, Sylvester Albano at his under-sky
outside Ravena, and the Rustic, Wynants-
the part of the Berlin Film Festival audience
and the European press to "Inherit tion man, now selling independent ied her husband, owner of the Malta
H rthur J. Newman, veteran film distribukill
. . . Mrs. Leona Smalldone accompan-
the Wind" was reported by Stanley product to theatres and television stations Drive-In, on a booking trip to Filmrow,
Kramer, producer-director, on June 26 in the Albany and Buffalo districts, was Mrs. Smalldone directs the concessions
via trans-Atlantic telephone to the New reported among those injured when the stand in Malta, below Saratoga.
York press at a United Artists luncheon New York Central's crack Wolverine Express
came to a quick stop, near the local Hellman went on the upgrade during the
Business for "Windjammer" at the new
at Sardi's. It was shown in Berlin June
26. The picture drew a ten-minute ovation. depot.
third week of the run, according to word
It was the beginning of a promotion Managers attending the Stanley Warner in industry circles. The Cinemiracle production
closed Sunday (3). Incidentally,
campaign for the picture instituted by area meeting at the Sheraton-Ten Eyck
Roger H. Lewis. UA vice-president in Club included: Al Swett, district chief Mary Michael Pollack was the first National
Theatres publicist to work here for
charge of advertising, publicity and exploitation,
which will continue to grow in Oscar J. Perrin, the Madison; John Brous-
"Windjammer." . Rosen, assist-
and Strand house boss; Frank Kelly, Ritz;
emphasis until its release in November for seau, the Delaware, Albany; Sid Sommer, ant to the general manager of Stanley
the Christmas holiday season.
the Troy, Troy, and Bill Leggiero, the Warner-owned WAST-TV and son of Sam
The festival audience and the critics Stanley, Utica. Joe Stowell, formerly in Rosen, SW vice-president, formerly
acclaimed the picture as one which never charge of the Lincoln, Troy, also was served as salesman for Screen Gems, Columbia
Pictures affiliate.
could have been made in a totalitarian present.
state because of its exposure of human
passions and unfairness. The picture
Astor Pictures has increased its capital
Is
based on the famous Scopes "Monkey stock from 200 shares, no par value, to
Trial" which attracted worldwide attention
35 years ago.
250 shares at $100 par value, and 200 SOUTH JERSEY
shares at no par value. Roth & Riseman,
1
Lewis told the press at the luncheon
East 57th St., New York, were recording
that
^he first sign in 20 years that an archaic
many pictures today must be conceived
attorneys here.
and
Sunday closing law in Ocean City may
treated as special events after there is. The Voorheesville Methodist Church be weakening occurred last week. The city
first, a real reason for making the picture, started summer services Sunday (3) at commission added one item to the list of
and that Kramer is a leading exponent of Don Hallenbeck's Indian Ladder automobiler
on the New Scotland road near Camp on Sunday. It was camera film. It was the
"necessities" that can be sold in the area
that approach. He cited "On the Beach" as
an example of a special event, and its promotion
worldwide as modern treatment for tor, will lead the worship throughout July; been revised. Local businessmen have indi-
Thacher. The Rev. Walter E. Taylor, pas-
first time in two decades that the law had
it. Fred Goldberg, director of advertising,
publicity and exploitation, reported Slingerlands Community Methodist on the old law, which prohibits stores, a
the Rev. James Rhodes, pastor of the cated that they may try another assault
that prints are already in all exchanges Church, during August. Sunday morning long list of businesses, and movie houses
and that screenings will start soon to gain services at the Indian Ladder have been from operating on Sunday. It's a most unusual
law when it is taken into considera-
the maximum word-of-mouth. George held for several seasons.
Schaefer, sales representative for Kramer,
Carol Youmans of Schenectady, who attended
the recent opening of the new town and depends on about two months of
tion that Ocean City is primarily a resort
called the pictm-e ideal for the big holiday
season. Myer Beck, Kramer's New York
Hellman Theatre, and Carol Smurl, Albany's
1959 Tulip Queen, will represent Site
business a year to make its money.
representative, said that original release
plans had been speeded
grading for a
up by James
new drive-in theatre
R.
the Tri-City area in the
Velde, UA New York State
domestic
on Route 130 in Edgewater
sales head, and
Park Township
Beauty Pageant at Kingston July 7-9.
Schaefer so that the
has been stopped
picture can
by a superior court injunction.
be in between
Sponsored by the Schenectady Chamber of
200 and The
300 theatres
order was handed down in the holiday
by
Commerce, the attractive young woman is
season.
Judge Orvyl Schalick who set Friday