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CINCINNATI<br />
T\a.\e Stevens, Post and Times-Star motion<br />
picture reporter, who keeps theatre<br />
managers and theatre patrons stirred<br />
up by his comments on films, invited Keith<br />
Manager Odis R. Owens to share his<br />
column one day. The Keith is showing<br />
"Flower Drum Song." and in his article,<br />
Owens said that he always rates a film by<br />
these questions: Will it do well at the boxoffice?<br />
Does the picture have a good story,<br />
and are the actors impressive in their roles?<br />
And third, the most important question,<br />
will our customers enjoy the show? In the<br />
manager's opinion, "Flower Drum Song"<br />
answers "yes" to all three questions and he<br />
i-ated it an A, but Stevens gave it a B.<br />
"Pocketful of Miracles," which recently<br />
played four weeks at the downtown Grand,<br />
was listed by the morning Enquirer among<br />
the 1961 's ten best films, it has been held<br />
over for a second week in eight neighborhood<br />
The Paramount office<br />
houses . . . workers were all aglow when they heard<br />
that Nancy Keyes. formerly in the accounting<br />
department, was the mother of a baby<br />
Ron Prewitt is the new manager<br />
boy . . .<br />
of the art Hyde Park.<br />
Pete Palazzolo, while remaining on the<br />
board of directors in an advisory capacity,<br />
is turning over his beautiful Isle of Capri<br />
dining spot in Southgate to two employes<br />
and a family friend. The Palazzolo family<br />
operates the downtown Caproni's restaurant,<br />
and has a half interest in Cincinnati<br />
Theatres Co., a chain of 13 area houses<br />
which includes the downtown Keith and the<br />
Twin Drive-In.<br />
Robert McNabb, 20th-Fox Detroit manager<br />
and area captain for Spyros P.<br />
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1327 South Wabash Chicago, Illinois<br />
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Skouras' 20th anniversary sales drive, was<br />
in to confer with local exchange staffers<br />
on the Row were Jack Needham,<br />
Columbus booker, looking quite tanned<br />
after a Florida vacation; Jerry Shinbach,<br />
Chicago, and Michael Chakeres, Dick Dickerson<br />
and Wally Allen of the Chakeres circuit,<br />
Springfield.<br />
Mitchell Blachschleger, who had been a<br />
member of the Pilmrow colony for quite a<br />
few years, and now operates the Palace,<br />
Dayton, the Skyborn Cruise-In in Fairborn<br />
and the Piqua Drive-In in Piqua, suffered<br />
a heart attack and collapsed on a downtown<br />
street while on a business errand.<br />
Selma. his wife, is comanager of Realart<br />
Pictures.<br />
Also in serious condition is Raymond<br />
Bailer, who with his wife, was injured when<br />
his car went out of control on an icy street.<br />
Bailer is owner of the popular Hangover<br />
Lounge restaurant, located on Filmrow .<br />
Norman Linz. MGM salesman, is recuperating<br />
after surgery.<br />
Charlton Heston's Next<br />
To Be 'Diamond Head'<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Charlton Heston. an<br />
Oscar winner for his performance in "Ben-<br />
Hur" and currently seen on the screen in<br />
"El Cid," has been set to star in "Diamond<br />
Head," best-selling novel by Peter Oilman<br />
which will be brought to the screen by<br />
Jerry Bresler Productions for Columbia<br />
release. British director Guy Green will<br />
make his American directorial debut with<br />
the feature, which producer Bresler plans<br />
to start on location in the Hawaiian<br />
Islands in early March.<br />
Marguerite Roberts has written the<br />
screenplay for the dramatic story of a<br />
dynastic Hawaiian family.<br />
Deal to Maria Emo<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Viennese actress Maria<br />
Emo. who recently completed the ix)le of<br />
Eva Braun opposite Richard Basehart in<br />
Allied Artists' "Hitler," has been placed<br />
under a seven-year nonexclusive contract<br />
calling for one pictui'e a year by producer<br />
E. Charles Straus. Straus previously concluded<br />
a similar contract with Cordula<br />
Trantow, German actress who portrays<br />
Hitler's mistress-niece in the same picture.<br />
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TOWN ZONE STATE..<br />
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COLUMBUS<br />
T> Patrick West, attorney and chairman<br />
of the city's film review board, has<br />
been appointed a member of the city's<br />
urban renewal commission by Mayor Ralston<br />
Westlake. West will continue to serve<br />
on the film review board. Westlake also<br />
appointed Robert W. Greer, executive secretary<br />
of the Columbus-Franklin County<br />
Federation of Labor, to the commission.<br />
Greer formerly was an officer of the local<br />
operators union.<br />
Manager Sam Shubouf of Loew's Ohio<br />
held "Flower Drum Song" for a second<br />
week . were questioning two 18-<br />
year-old youths about burglaries of four<br />
High street neighborhood theatres—Beechwold.<br />
University, State and Markham, all<br />
of the Academy-Neth circuit. Held in jail<br />
were Richard R. Jones and Don E. Pierce.<br />
Soft diink machines were broken into at<br />
each of the theatres. Police said entrance<br />
was gained via rear or side doors.<br />
Ann C. Hall, manager of the Linden Theatre,<br />
was re-arrested when she failed to<br />
appear in municipal court and forfeited a<br />
bond after being charged with holding a<br />
public dance without a license. The charge<br />
stemmed from a vice squad raid on the<br />
theatre, which was sponsoring a teenage<br />
twist dance contest. Municipal Judge Alan<br />
Schwarzwalder ordered her re-arrest.<br />
Repeal of Covington Fee<br />
Asked by Circuitman Huss<br />
COVINGTON. KY.—A theatre owner has<br />
asked the council's law committee to repeal<br />
the 51 -year-old ordinance that requires<br />
movie projectionists to pay a $10<br />
yearly fee and take an examination before<br />
being licensed.<br />
The request has been made by Wesley<br />
Huss. head of Associated Theatres, which<br />
operates the Park, Royal and Dixie theatres<br />
in Cincinnati and the Highland, Ft.<br />
Thomas.<br />
His lawyer, Leslie Barry Cors, says the<br />
ordinance is archaic because film no longer<br />
is dangerous to handle and there no longer<br />
is any need for an examination.<br />
But Earle Wagner, president of the Moving<br />
Picture Machine Operators Union,<br />
wants the ordinance to stay on the books.<br />
Wagner says the projectionists pay the $10<br />
fee, not the movie owners.<br />
"It is strange that the people who don't<br />
pay the fee should want it removed," Wagner<br />
said. "Most big cities have such an<br />
ordinance and it has worked well here."<br />
Wagner said the ordinance insures that<br />
movie projectionists are well qualified, and<br />
know all the safety regulations. He said<br />
there always is a chance that old-fashioned<br />
highly inflammable film might turn up in<br />
a projection booth. Some foreign producers,<br />
he said, use such film.<br />
Cors said the ordinance interferes with<br />
freedom of a theatre owner to select his<br />
projectionist.<br />
"Selection of the operators is controlled<br />
by license instead of the owner," he said.<br />
Donald Hunter, city building commissioner,<br />
whose department is responsible for<br />
movie houses, said he will recommend that<br />
the ordinance be repealed.<br />
"My department can continue to make<br />
inspections of projection booths," he said.<br />
"Only about 120 persons hold licenses."<br />
ME-2 BOXOFFICE February 5, 1962
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