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German Producer to Make
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HOLLYWOOD — "The Last of Mrs.
Cheney" will follow "The Royal Game"
on a large slate of two-version motion pic-
|tui-es which German producer Luggi
Waldleitner will make for the international
market, the filmmaker said in an interview
here recently. Lilli Palmer will
the title role, recreating the character
that was earlier played by Norma Shearer
in a celebrated earlyday Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer version. "Mrs. Cheney" will go before
the cameras in May.
here to screen "The Royal
Game" for distributors and exhibitors, said
that he felt the value of making films in
both the English and Geiman languages
was undeniable. English, he said, is the
strongest universal language, while German
satisfies markets in his own land.
Following the interview, the producer left
for New York to seal a deal he said he
had negotiated for U. S. release of "The
Royal Game," first film made under this
situation. While he declined to name the
with whom he is negotiating, he
1 said he had a definite commitment. J,
Arthur Rank has the release deal on
films everywhere except the
S. and Canada.
Waldleitner was joined at the interview
by Gerd Oswald, director of "The Royal
who said he has a non-exclusive
with the producer to helm other
films. He will not direct "Mrs. Cheney,"
While "The Royal Game" is essentially
an art house film, Waldleitner
feels that future films can be first-iom
projects. He plans to make all
fUms in Germany, utilizing chiefly Ameridirectors
and stars. This combination,
feels, can result in both artistic and
financial success on the world market.
Exhibitors Service Co.,
New Orleans, Will Move
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NEW ORLEANS—Exhibitors Cooperative
located on third floor in the 218
South Liberty St. film building since the
company was established in August 1955,
move into new quarters on ground
floor at 216 South Liberty, adjacent to
Poster Exchange, the latter part
of September or first week in October. The
move is a result of the nom-enewal of the
with Tulane Medical Center, owner
of the building the past few years, who
use the entire floor for its own activities,
just as the center is already making
! use of the greatest portion of the build-
ing's fourth floor.
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•Richmond, Va., National
VA.—Charles Hulbert is
managing the National Theatre for Neighborhood
Theatres, the circuit having taken
the National operation recently. The
National has a new first-run policy,
Hulbert has been in theatre business for
40 years, starting as a page boy in the
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St. Petersburg, Pla., Theatre at 14. In 1929
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atre here and two years later was manager
; of the Bijou, later named the Strand. In
Hulbert was transferred to the Lee
and remained manager of that house until
1944.
NEW ORLEANS
prom Transway: Gulf States Theatres
shortened the operations at Pix, Collins,
Miss., to Fridays and Saturdays only,
and at the Mojack Drive-In, Indianapolis,
Miss., to Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
Ruth Hazel shuttered the Ritz,
Shreveport . Fort Polk Theatre at
Leesville, which reopened early in the summer
to provide amusement for the National
Guard men during the season's training
period, is scheduled to close September 14
Brookley AFB Theatre, Mobile,
curtailed operations to Sundays, Thursdays
and Fridays.
Claude Bourgeois and associates, who
operate theatres on the Gulf Coast and the
local Arabi, have taken over the operation
of the A&G, Bay, St. Louis, from Slidell
Theatres, headed by John Richards, who
had closed it a couple of weeks ago. Full
operation was resumed Friday il9i. Slidell
also acquired the Avalon, Pass Christian,
dark for several years, and will reopen it
soon . Hi-Way Drive-In, Bay St.
Louis, will be closed for the season September
11 by Bourgeois & Co.
Page Amusements, Natchitoches, closed
the Pines Drive-In, Leesville, for the season
Webb of the indoor Marengo
and Grove Drive-In. Demopolis, Ala.,
transferred all his exchange business from
Atlanta to New Orleans . . . Cheri Caronne,
Filmrow stenographer, was on a vacation
in Pensacola . . . Stevie. the eight-year-old
son of Harry Thomas of Gulf States Theatres,
returned home to McComb from a
hospital here following a tonsilectomy.
Leonard Prelutsky, owner, and George
Matthews, in charge of camera and projection
equipment maintenance for Leonard
Audiovisual Service, attended the national
convention of 16mm distributors and exhibitors
held recently in Chicago . . .
Tommy Jensen, assistant to general manager
Earl Peri-y of Pittman Theatres, left
on a vacation in one of the western states
Other vacationists were Ix)raine Cass,
UA manager's secretary, who with hubby
Jim are at Laguna Beach (Panama City),
Fla., their chosen home upon retirement,
doubling in work and soaking up the sun
on the shore of the Gulf, with son Val
joining them over the two weekends; Steve
Pabst, 20th-Pox shipper, and svife to the
mountains in Carolinas: Eileen Kaiser.
Columbia head booker, and Joan Roach.
MGM head cashier, on a split vacation.
Upon her return, assistant Rae Rimer was
to leave for one week from a
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vacation was Nita Gibson. 20th-Fox head
booker.
Back at Allied Artists for several weeks
is former staffer Joyce Lohman, taking
over the duties of vacationist Mildred Lindsey,
assistant to head booker Earl Schroeder
Emerson. Film Inspection
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Service, and husband left on a motor tour
to California. They plan to return via
Colorado.
Joan Cascio is the new booker's steno at
20th-Fox
. . . Leonard Allen, Paramount.
was in town from Atlanta to promote
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"Psvcho, at the Saenger . . . Asa
Booksh. manager of the RKO Orpheum.
his wife and son Billy were on a vacation
at a Gulf Coast spot . O. Williamson
jr., Warner district manager, was at
Floyd Harvey jr.,
the local exchange . . .
BV sales manager, was in Memphis .
Charles Ost, Universal sales manager,
checked in from a trip along the Gulf
Coast.
Seen along Filmrow were Anna Molzon,
Royal, Norco: Mickey Versen, C-Wall,
Morgan City; Harold Dacey, Aucoin and
Piat at Raceland and Lockport theatres;
Mrs. O. J. Barre, Luling; F. G. Pratt,
Vacherie; Frank Olah sr. and jr.. Star at
Albany; Ernest Delahaye, Gwen, Maringuoin;
Joseph Fabacher, booking for Joy,
Woodville. Miss.; Waddy Jones and Willis
Houck. Joy's Theatres, and Mrs. Bertha
Foster, "Violet, Port and Sulphur theatres
Mississippi were Ed Jenner,
Laurel; A. L. Royal and son Lloyd, Meridian:
Claude Bourgeois, Biloxi, and Levon
Ezell, Pascagoula.
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Wright and family,
associated in the operation of the
neighborhood Lakeview and Fox theatres
and Algiers Drive-In, returned from a
vacation torn- through Florida via automobile
. . . Walter Guarino, manager of the
Saenger, and family visited with their families
in Morgan City and Abbeville . . . Back
to her duties as Loews State cashier is
Elsie Piaggio, who visited her daughter in
Chalmette.
United of New Orleans
Takes Over Own Buying
NEW ORLEANS — United Theatres,
which operates a dozen neighborhood theatres
here, has taken over its own buying
and booking from Theatres Service.
Edward Ludman, president, and C. Claire
Woods, vice-president and general manager
of United, has appointed Earl Kroeper, who
formerly handled the UT account with
Theatres Service, to head the newly created
UT buying-booking department.
All the United Theatres houses are first
subsequent run, except the Clabon, which
was converted a couple of years ago to a
Negro patronage first run. Woods and
Kroeper have added sneak previews to the
Clabon policy, said to be an innovation in
Negro patronage houses below the Mason-
Dixon line. The first two sneaks were "The
Story of Ruth" and "Elmer Gantry," presented
the night before their regular runs.
Besides the Clabon. United operates the
Beacon. Dreamland, Folly, Grand, Napoleon.
National. Nola, Poplar. Prytania and
Tivoli.
Two More Norelco Sales
NEW YORK—Norelco 70 35mm projectors,
arc lamps and six -channel stereophonic
sound equipment have been sold
by the Todd-AO Corp. to the RKO Pantages
Theatre in Hollywood and the RKO
Grand Theatre in Cincinnati, it was reported
during the week.
Leases Washington House
WASHINGTON, D. C—Blaine Massey,
who recently opened the Art Academy
Theatre. 535 Eighth St., Southeast, has
leased the Carver Theatre, 2405-07 Nichols
Ave., Southeast, a neighborhood theatre.
BOXOFnCE :: August 29, 1960 SE-5