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Miami Professional Group
Making 'Eternal Summer'
MIAMI—Viscaya Productions is the
corporate name of a group here making a
movie, "Eternal Summer." It is a thoroughly
professional group that is acting in and
producing the film, but because many of
the cast and technicians are gainfully employed
elsewhere, most of the camera work
is done on weekends and holidays when
they are free. The entire cast and crew is
Miamian. The only service performed off
limits is the processing of film, which is
being done in New York by Pathe.
J. Van Hearn, a veteran film production
e.x?cutive, wrote the script and is executi\e
producer. Larry Wolk is directing and
handling the cinematography with Lloyd
Beckworth and Max Landow on camera;
Marian Kley is script supervisor and film
editor, and David Sargeant and Grant
IGravitt are sound engineers. Others include
Ted Sack, production manager; Zane Radney.
unit manager; Ricki Winters, makeup,
and Jack Winters, formerly with
Wometco, public relations.
In the cast are model-actress Gwen De-
Castro, Jeff Brown, Ron Corsi, Maggi
Yanka Mann, Bill Mayer,
,Dave Dundon, Thora Randall and Ed
.Thomas. Locations being used include a
home at 633 Woodcrest; Key Biscayne,
is also headquarters for Viscaya; the
.Singapore Motel in Bal Harbour; a Miami
nightclub and various beach areas.
Reconstruction Planned
For Tallahassee House
TALLAHASSEE, PLA. — Preliminary
plans for reconstruction of the Florida
Theatre have been approved and invitations
to contractors to bid on the work are
expected to be sent out next month.
Tommy Hyde, vice-president of the corporation
which owns the local theatres,
said actual construction should get under
way this fall.
The theatre was destroyed by fire March
26. Much of the burned skeleton was demolished
later to limit the danger of its
falling in.
Hyde said today that part of the existing
structure can still be utilized. He said the
front of the building and the old balcony
section is reusable, although it will require
extensive repairs.
Fred H. Kent of Jacksonville, owner of
the theatre, has already approved the preliminaiT
plans.
Hyde is currently living in Vero Beach
operating theatres recently purchased by
the Kent interests. He expects to return
to Tallahassee later this year.
MIAMI
J^ one-man photography exhibit by Ralph
Corey opened August 21 at Wometco's
Mayfair Art Theatre and will continue
through September 17. At the Sunset Art
Theatre in South Miami, Ruth Romoser
also has a one-man art exhibit . . Gloria
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DeHaven of Miami Beach is leaving in
October to entertain troops in Germany.
October 31, she will be in London for an
engagement at the Palladium and will do a
television show for BBC. She plans to return
home for a few days early in November
before filling an engagement at the
St. Regis in New York.
Paul Sylbert, who with his twin brother
Richard worked on such motion pictui-es as
"Face in the Crowd," "Baby Doll" and
"Splendor in the Grass," designed the set
for the premiere of Tennessee Williams'
play, "Night of the Iguana," currently at
the Coconut Grove Playhouse. He plans to
return to Greece and has written two motion
picture scripts laid in that country.
George Bourke, Miami Herald amusement
editor, just back from a trip to Europe,
reports that a Frankfurt, Germany,
drive-in will feature two sound tracks on
all films, in English and in German, as
there is a big U. S. Army population in
Frankfurt.
The list of holdover films here is longer
than it has been for a long time. Included
are "Ben-Hur" at Brandt's Flamingo;
"Can-Can" at Florida State's Sheridan;
"Ocean's 11" at Loew's Riviera and 170th
Street theatres, Hollywood in Hollywood
and Florida State's Paramount; "Psycho"
at Claughton's Trail and Florida State's
Colony, and "Expresso Bongo" at Wometco's
two art theatres, the Sunset and Mayfair
. . . Clayton Conrad, in maintenance
at Wometco's 27th Avenue Drive-In, underwent
surgery recently at North Shore
Hospital.
For 18 years of continuous courtesy at
Florida State's Beach Theatre, Oliver Richardson,
426 Lincoln Rd., won a courtesy
award of the Miami Beach Chamber of
Commerce. Richardson, an employe at the
theatre, was nominated by Shirley Linet
P/e9SG 1
of 420 Lincoln Rd. He received a $25 savings
bond.
Marcia Ryan, in personnel at Wometco
Enterprises, was married August 6, to
Henry Newell in New Market, N. H. After
a wedding trip to Cape Cod, the couple is
at home at 642 Northeast 86th St. The
bridegroom is with Acme Concrete Co., and
formerly lived in Lowell, Mass. He served
four years in the Coast Guard, with duty
in Newfoundland and San Diego.
Rainbow Pictures, Coral Gables motion
picture studio at 1540 Levante, is planning
an addition to its existing facilites. J. M.
Lyell is the architect for the proposed addition
. . . Maury Ashmann of Film Art is
on a tour of Europe.
Don Baker, manager of Loew's 170th
Street Theatre, was having his troubles
the other day on arriving at the theatre
early to get a little work out of the way
before show time. The theatre opens at
2 p.m. but for "Ocean's 11" patrons were
not reading the timetable in the daily
papers carefully and were showing up at
11 a.m. instead of the usual time.
High Speed Photography
Session Set by SMPTE
NEW YORK—Fifteen internationally
prominent scientists and engineers will
serve on the Committee of Honor of the
fifth international congress on high speed
photography which the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers will
sponsor October 16-22 at the Sheraton
Park Hotel in Washington. Delegates from
20 foreign countries are expected to attend
the congress which will survey the use of
high speed photography as a basic tool in
research.
Meanwhile, the SMPTE has published a
181-page book, "Control Techniques in
Film Processing. The book, which contains
73 illustrations, is designed for persons
engaged in film processing in laboratories
serving motion pictures, television
and specialized fields.
i'Spartacus' Promotion In
Europe Under Way
LONDON—Fortunat Baronat, director
of foreign publicity for Universal-International
Films, has completed conferences
on promotion of "Spartacus," to open in
early December at the Metropole Theatre.
Accompanied by John Nelson-Sullivan,
U-I's European publicity coordinator for
the picture, he will conduct similar conferences
in Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Austria, Italy, Spain and France before
returning to the U. S. at the end of this
month.