Boxoffice-March.19.1962

. . . Tradescreeni:ig
PORTLAND
Diehard Carlson, for several years with
Favorite Films here, joined United
Artists as salesman for Oregon and paits
of Washington. He started in the motion
picture industi-y as a "poster monkey" for
20th-Pox in 1942. After war sei-vice, he
joined Jack Lovett and the Oregon Film
Cooperative in 1945. In 1949 he was with
Al Forman and United Theatres. During
the Korean conflict he was called back to
service. On release he joined Allied Aitists
and was with AA until 1959 when he joined
Wsj-ner Bros, and later Favorite Films.
"The West Side Story" opened Wednesday
1 14 1 with a benefit premiere sponsored
by the Employes Benefit Ass'n of the First
National Bank of Oregon. Mrs. Katherine
Marshal. Music Box manager, reports excellent
boxoffice sales and many block
bookings for coming weeks . . . Ei-nie Piro
was in town working on Buena Vista
product. Earl Keate was down from
Seattle to work on United Artists openings
of "Judgment at Nuremberg"
was held Monday 1121 at the
Star exchange.
The Academy Award Sweepstake contest
sponsored by Portland theatres is under
way. Journal newsboys are aiding in distributing
sample ballots throughout Portland
to nonsubscribers.
Odeon Gets Little Help
On Its Old Nova Lease
VANCOUVER — A national theatre
chain is tied tighter to a land lease in
North Vancouver than an oldtime movie
heroine ever was to the railroad tracks.
And when the land lease knots are untied
eight yeai-s from now, the script still calls
for Odeon Theatres to be hit by the train.
Assessor Jack Jellis reeled off the plot
for screening by the city court of revision
of the Odeon chain's appeal against a $22,-
400 assessment on its dark and silent Nova
Theatre, 1421 Lonsdale. The 734-seat Nova,
except for a brief profitless run by an
independent operator two years ago, has
been closed by the Odeon people since
1958. But the shutdown still left Odeon
tied to a land lease of the theatre site that
requires them to pay $10,000 amiually to
its owners until an iron-clad lease agi-eement
expires in 1970, said Jellis. And 1970
won't see an exactly happy ending for
Odeon. The theatre, built in 1937 by Odeon
for $56,000. then becomes the pi-opeity of
the site owners by provision of the lease
agreement, Jellis told the court. The city
assessment roll Usts two women as the site
owners: Agnes Albanuff, of Ashcroft, and
Mildred McMillan, Red Deer, Alta.
"I sympathize with Odeon s predicament.
Their show didn't go on—but assessment
must." said Jellis.
Court members Robert Soper, Jack Lioutet
and Dave Nicol were sympathetic, too,
over a net lease agi-eement which requires
the theatre fii-m to pay taxes and insui--
ance on top of the $10,000 per year lease
payment. But. they said their sympathy
couldn't be extended beyond playing a
few token bars of "Hearts and Flowers."
They confirmed a land assessment of
$9,400 but lopped $1,000 off the building
assessed value of $13,000 as a token reduction.
Mitchell Wolfson Awarded
NCCJ Silver Medallion
MIAMI— Mitchell Wolfson, president of
Wometco Enterprises, was awarded the
silver medallion of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews at the tenth annual
brotherhood dinner at Miami Beach's
Fontainebleau Hotel.
Wolfson's citation read:
"For his loving, heroic and faithful service
to his state and country, his .sensitive
service to education and the fine arts, his
willingness to render outstanding service
to the public interest through the broadcasting
medium—and for his consistent
and steadfast support in gift and deed of
the principles of brotherhood."
DENVER
. .
T H. Delaney and J. A. Smith have taken
over operation of the Roxy Theatre
from Art Goldstein . Dean Metzger has
closed the Rustic Pine Theatre, Dubois,
Wyo. . . . Time flies department: The
Cooper Cinerama Theatre celebrated its
first birthday March 9. Orchids were given
to the ladies attending.
. . .
The monthly luncheon of people in the
film business was held at the Brown Palace
Hotel with 40 in attendance. Four retired
veterans of the business, Barney Shooker,
Fred Brown. Gus Cohen and Buzz Briggs,
were in attendance National General
Corp.'s Bob Selig was back in the old office
conducting conferences with personnel at
Fox Intermountain ... A 14 -year-old boy
committed suicide by hanging himself from
the screen tower of the Holiday Drive-In,
Boulder. The death was discovered when
an insurance inspector was examining the
screen for wind damage prior to the theatre
opening for the spring season.
Row were Tom Knight and his
On the
son. Acme. Riverton. Wyo.; Sam Peinstein,
Kar-Vu Drive-In, Brighton; Wilbur Williams,
Flatirons, Boulder; George McCormick.
Skyline, Canon City; Frank Childs,
Starlite Drive-In, Sterling; Nora Wright,
Grand, Flagler; Russ Dauterman in from
Salt Lake City to set bookings for the Fox
Theatre, Rawlins, Wyo.; F. Nelson, Pox,
Leadville, and A. N. Beezley Midway Burlington.
Having an exclusive longterm contract
with Warners, Saverio Saridis has been
studying voice in his spare time since 1955.
SEATTLE
. . .
J^r. and Mrs. E. J. Fay of Renton were
Mike
vacationing in Honolulu
Powers. 20th-Fox manager, attended a
sales meeting in San Francisco . . .
visitors included Gordon Spiess,
PUmi-ow
Mount
View Drive-In, Cashmere; Harry Wall, in
from Lewiston to buy and book at Saffles;
Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Ulhorn, Mode at Coltonwood,
Ida.; Clyde Dmin, Liberty at
Wapato, and Lloyd Honey, Sunnyside and
Toppenish.
Marilyn Maxwell in 'Critic's Choice'
HOLLYWOOD—Marilyn Maxwell has
been inked by Warner Bros, for a role in
"Critic's Choice," starring Bob Hope and
Lucille Ball. In the film the actress will
portray Hope's first wife.
Ramati to Script 'Red Pawn'
HOLLYWOOD—Alexander Ramati has
been signed by Paramount to write the
screenplay on "Red Pawn," based on an
original story by novelist Ayn Rand.
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