Boxoffice-July.04.1960

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boxoffice successes in this par-
ticular city. The only holdover here was
20th-Foxs "The Wind Cannot Read."
Crown Desire Under the Elms (Para);
Bell, Book and Candle (Col), reissues 85
Swan Lake (Col) 90
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:.^ s College The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (MGM); The Music Box Kid (UA) 105
"iramount The Snow Queen (U-I);
Hell Bent for Leather (U-l) 95
Roger Shermon Battle in Outer Space (Col);
12 to the Moon (Col) 90
Wholley—The Wind Cannot Read (20th-Fox),
2nd wk 80
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Shulman.
an assessment of $164,660 on
his Plaza Theatre Building has been taken
to the court of common pleas by Joseph L.
The latter charges that the as-
is grossly excessive, disproporand
unlawful.
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The Apartment' 220
Leads Boston List
BOSTON—A new low was registered
in
all downtown theatres with the exception
of "The Apartment." which led the field
followed closely by "Magdelena." Of the
holdovers, "Ben-Hur" fell off slightly but
is still well above average. "Carry On,
Nurse" was the second holdover to be
slightly above average.
(Average Is 100)
Astor The Rof Roce (Para), 4|-h wk 75
Beacon Mogdeleno (SR) 200
Hill
Boston This Is Cineromo (Cinemmo), 8th wk.
Capn The Crock in the Mirror (20th-Fox),
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wk 5tti 75
Exeter Street The BaHie of the Sexes (Cont'l)
6th wk 75
Gary Con-Con (20th-Fox), 13th wk 90
Kenmore Corry On, Nurse (Governor), 4th wk. .135
Memorial^ The Story of Ruth (20th-Fox) 100
Metropolitan Wild River (20th-Fox),
3rd ond final wk
Orpheum The Aportment (UA)
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220
Paramount Honnibol (WB) 100
Saxon Ben-Hur (MGM), 30th wk 175
'Ben-Hur' Only Holdover
Among Hartford Ofierings
HARTFORD—MGM 's "Ben-Hur" went
into a sixth week, the only holdover in
an admittedly weak-grossing period attributable
to the start of the summer
season.
Allyn The Snow Queen (U-l);
Chortroose Caboose (U-l)
Art—Tempororiiy shuttered.
90
Cine Webb The Eighth Doy of the Week (Cont'l);
The Mirror Has Two Faces (Cont'l) 110
E. M. Loew Bottle in Outer Space (Col);
12 to the Moon (Col) 85
Loews Paloce The Horse Soldiers (UA);
Man of the West (UA), revivols 80
Loews Poll The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(MGM);Noose for o Gunman (UA) 95
Meadows Dinosourus (U-l); SOS Pacific (U-l)... 100
Warner Strand Ben-Hur (MGM), 6th wk. 120
Season Opening
Lures New Haven Patrons
NEW HAVEN—The shoreline summer
season came in with ideal weather, a combination
of circumstances spelling out only
John F. Reeder Dies;
Former Disney Executive
GREENWICH, CONN.—John F.
Reeder,
57. a senior vice-president and director of
the New York advertising agency of Benton
& Bowles, and a former vice-president
of Walt Disney Productions, died recently
a; Greenwich Hospital.
He joined B&B in 1952 after seven years
with the Disney organization.
Appeals Tax Decision
WINDSOR, CONN.—An appeal from
the Windsor board of tax review decision
First 70mm Production
At Springfield Arcade
HARTFORD—The first Connecticut
Valley booking of 20th-Fox's "Can-Can"
has been set for Thursday i7i at the
Arcade Theatre, Springfield, Mass., newly
equipped for 70mm attractions.
The Arcade's manager. Arthur P. Darley,
has already indicated that evening showings
will be scheduled daily, with matinees
on Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays.
The only other valley theatre equipped
for 70mm, the local Stanley Warner
Strand, is playing an extended engagement
of MGM's "Ben-Hur." Now in its second
month, the Academy Award winner ( 1
citations) is expected to run well into
winter.
VERMONT
\7ermont theatremen will be given an opportunity
to help win courtesy honors
for their community. The Greater Vermont
Ass'n has opened its sixth annual Coui-tesy
Town contest. The winner last year was
Newport. Edwin Benjamin jr., executive
vice-president of the organization, said:
"Courtesy is absolutely essential to the
proper promotion of the tourist business,
the most rapidly growing economic factor
in Vermont today."
Rev. Gilbert V. Hartke, a former child
movie actor in "Oui- Gang" comedies who
became a Catholic priest, arrived in Winooski
to supervise Players. Inc., a group
which he founded, in preparation for the
opening of the new season at St. Michael's
Playhouse. The actor-priest is head of the
di-amatic department at the Catholic University
of America in Washington, D. C,
and his theatrical troupe recently returned
from a tour in Eui-ope.
When Arthur Dorey sr., Burlington musician
and singer, was presented the Benemenerenti
Medal by Bishop Robert F.
Joyce in the name of Pope John XXIII for
50 years' service to the Roman Catholic
Church, he recalled that his first "big
musical thrill" came in 1927 in Augusta,
Me., where he was then playing in the
Capitol Theatre orchestra. John Phillip
Sousa's band appeared there while touring
with the film, "Birth of a Nation," and
when his drummer became ill, Dorey pinchhit
in the famous band. His son Ray is a
disc jockey on WHDH in Boston and has
his own television show.
Exhibitor Takes New Post
HOLYOKE, MASS.—John H. Havens has
left the Theatre Managers Corp. of Springfield
to join the staff of Civic Club Concerts
of New York as New England representative
and promotional supervisor. He
will retain his home here. He has managed
the Victory Theatre here since September
1959 and has been city manager here
since last November.
Springfield Bijou Reopens
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Bijou Theatre,
shuttered for two weeks, reopened
June 17 with a double bill consisting of
"Career Girl" and "Love Island."
Local 182 Celebrates
50th Year in Boston
BOSTON—The Golden Jubilee
of Local
182. lATSE, was celebrated by a gala dinner
dance at the Hotel Bradford in the
Grand Ballroom on the evening of June
22, commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the founding of the Boston local.
General chairmen of the event were two
past presidents. Joseph Caplan and Joseph
Nuzzolo sr. Cochairmen were Jack Rosenberg,
president of Local 182, and Ralph
S. Frazier, business representative. The
committee chairmen, all executive board
members of the unit, were Gilbert Greek,
Morris A. Goldman, Benjamin Bearman,
Walter F. Diehl, Thomas Buckley, Hyman
Dinerstien and Alexander Tradd.
Richard F. Walsh, lATSE international
president, who is also a vice-president of
AFL-CIO, came in from New York. An
honored guest was Sir Thomas O'Brien,
president of the Theatrical and Kine Employes
of Great Britain. Speakers were
Walter F. Diehl, assistant to Walsh and a
former business representative of Local
182; Mayor John Colhns; William Belanger,
president of the State Federation
of Labor, and John Callahan, commissioner
of labor and industry.
The celebration started at 9 p.m. with
cocktails and dancing to Ruby Newman's
music. Dinner was served at midnight so
all motion picture operators could attend.
Liberal Press Attention
For New Hitchcock Film
NEW HAVEN—Weeks before the initial
Connecticut showings of Paramount's
"Psycho," the Alfred Hitchcock production
is getting an admirable amount of press
attention.
The Sunday Herald, statewide tabloid,
has already featured a cover photo of
featured player Janet Leigh on its Herald
Magazine section.
Sizable plugs have appeared in the New-
Haven and Hartford dailies, too.
New Summer Art Policy
HARTFORD—The Salvatore Grella interests,
running Italian and German imports
at the Community Theatres' 500-
seat Art during the fall and winter
months, have dropped the policy until
September. The Art, Pai'sons and Daly
here have been used for foreign films extensively
in recent years, the attendance
vaiying through seasons.
Lead for Hartford Actress
HARTFORD—Rita Gann Morley, Hartford
native, now living in New York, has
been cast in the leading role of a sciencefiction
drama, "The Flesheaters," now before
location cameras at Montauk Point,
N. Y., under the production banner of Jack
ani Terry Curtis.
Features Hi-Fi Concert
DANBURY. CONN.—John Scanlon sr.,
Danbury city manager for Stanley Warner
Theatres, featured a half-hour hi-fi
musical concert prior to performances of
a revival run of Paramount's "The Ten
Commandments" at the Empress.
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