Boxoffice-March.19.1962

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Edward Small Wants
rjlvis Presley, now enjoying his Memphis
home between pictures, leaves soon for
Hawaii to make a Paramount film directed
by Hal Wallis. MGM is also considering
doing a biography of Elvis' manager.
Colonel Tom Parker, and would star Elvis
in the film as the colonel, the colonel said.
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The latter also announced that Elvis would
give an all-charity, personal appearance
show here around Christmas. The Hawaii
film which will soon go into production will
be "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
Rex McCaskill, owner, has contracted
with Film Ti-ansit to begin serving the
Palace at Ridgely. The Palace has been
closed since around January 1. McCaskill
bought the closed theatre from J. U. Burton
and has reopened it for fuUtime
operation.
VV. F. Ruffin sr. and W. F. Ruffin jr.,
who operate drive-ins and theatres from
their Covington headquarters of Ruffin
Amusements Co., were here on business.
N. B. Fair, Pair, Somerville. and Louise
Mask, Luez, Bolivai-, were also among visiting
Tennessee exhibitors.
Cliff Wilson, booker for Para -Gulf Theatres,
New Orleans, was in Memphis on
business. Wilson is a former Memphian
and worked here for some time . . . C. C.
Bach, manager, and R. L. Bostick, southern
manager. National Theatre Supply Co., attended
the Show-A-Rama at Kansas City.
Leon Rountree, Holly. Holly Springs;
John Twiehaus, Skylark Drive-In, Clai-ksdale;
H. W. Odom, Odom, Dui'ant, and
Prank Heard, Lee Drive-In. Tupelo, were
among Mississippi's visiting exhibitors.
From Arkansas came William Elias,
Murr, Osceola; Orris Collins, Capitol, Paragould;
John Staples, Carolyn, Piggott; Jack
Lowrey, Ritz, Russellville ; Jack Noel,
Maxie, Trumann; T. A. Ray, Calico, Calico
Rock; Walter R. Lee, Gem at Heber
Springs and Rice at Des Arc, and Victor
Weber, Center at Kensett and Palace at
Bebee.
A citation was presented WOMPI representatives
Leone Cooper and Jessie Ray
Luch at Evergreen Presbyterian Church for
outstanding service on the part of the club
by the American Cancer Society. Service
for March will include booking and distributing
trailers to theatres in the Memphis
trade territory for the American
Cancer Society . Bonnie Steward
and her family are in Fort Myers, Pla., for
a week of fishing and relaxing.
Hats were modeled and sold at the
WOMPI monthly social meeting at the
home of Lois Evans. A "Las Vegas" night
party followed, with Lorene Stephens capturing
the top prize. Socko Martin of
United Artists was buck-of-the-month
winner.
David Flexer, president of Inflight Motion
Pictures, and Mrs. Flexer left on a
two-week visit to London, Paris and Rome
where Flexer will enlarge his service installations
for the coming summer's expanded
program of flight showings. Mrs.
Flexer is a well-known exhibitor in this
area.
Janus Acquires Film
NEW YORK—Janus Films has acquired
the United States distribution rights to
"Jules et Jim," said to be a current hit in
Palis. American premiere will be held in
early summer.
Indies to Pool Stars
HOLLYWOOD — An independent
producers'
pool of stars, whereby each independent
company would sign and develop
its own contract players, on whom it would
have first call and who would be made
available on loan to other companies, was
suggested by Edward Small, head of his
own production company.
By such a system, Small said, the independents,
who initiate approximately 75
per cent of today's feature product, would
eliminate agent-control of production and
the excessive salaries of stars which cut
down Hollywood production.
Cleveland Editors Get
Briefing on Film Code
CLEVELAND—Editors Wright Bi-yan of
The Plain Dealer and Louis B. Seltzer of
the Press-News together with the heads of
their advertising departments were briefed
by Gordon White from the Motion Picture
Producers Ass'n office on the workings of
the advertising code as it applies to film
ads in newspapers.
The ads for a "side-street" house, which
regularly plays "nudist camp" and similar
movies and so advertises them, were
singled out by White as the kind of advertising
the code does not countenance. He
stressed to the advertising departments
that these sex -laden ads are the kind which
make the going tough for the carefully
screened ads which follow the code. The
pictures which play this house rarely have
the MPPA code approval, and the advertising,
while watched carefully by the
newspapers, is invariably on the sensational
side.
White is making a cross-nation tour of
the more influential newspapers, explaining
in detail at each stop the workings of
the advertising code and its aims to cooperate
in clean advertising for motion
pictures on the movie pages of the nation.
Tony Curtis, Harold Hecht
Ink Coproduction Deal
HOLLYWOOD—Tony Curtis and Haa--
old Hecht have finalized arrangements to
make "Monsieur Cognac" for Universal release.
The modern comedy written by
Philip Rapp and Richai-d Powell will be a
coproduction of Cm-tis' and Hecht's independent
outfits and will be lensed at U-I.
Hecht first completes his upcoming
"Ashiya" for United Ai-tists release, and
Cui-tis will make "40 Pounds of Ti-ouble"
and possibly "Playboy," for Columbia.
Hecht has just completed "Taras Bulba,"
in which Curtis starred.
Sargent, Hendricks Head
Awards Ball Committee
HOLLYWOOD—Thornton Sargent and
Bill Hendricks have been appointed chairmen
of the Board of Governors Ball committee
for the 34th Annual Awards show.
Steve Broidy, chainnan of the program
committee for the show, said the ball will
again be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,
immediately following the Oscar show
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Monday, April 9.
BOXOFFICE March 19, 1962
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