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OCTOBER 29, 1962<br />
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NEW BARDOT IN A COF<br />
THE STORY OF A STAR AND HER<br />
SEARCH FOR LOVE AND HAPPINESSI<br />
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She was public property... but she wanted<br />
a private life of her own... a child-wonnan<br />
seeking a man to hold in the privacy of her<br />
heart and drive away the loneliness that<br />
was in the world around her.
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FAMOUS...AND LONELY! BEAUTIFUL... AND UNLOVED!<br />
^he mobs that pursued her. . . the loneliness she knew.. .<br />
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aTprivate afiair<br />
Directed by LOUIS MALLE • Filmed in EASTMAN COLOR<br />
Original Story & Screenplay by JEAN PAUL RAPPENEAU, JEAN FERRY and LOUIS MALLE<br />
Produced by CHRISTINE GOUZE RENAL for<br />
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CONTACT YOUR<br />
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:: T B E R 29, 19 6 2<br />
' 82 No. 2<br />
Guest Editorial<br />
By JOHN H.<br />
STEMBLER<br />
President. Theatre OwTiers of -\merica<br />
o .\E of the almost ludicrous aspects<br />
of our business is that there are some 17,000<br />
customers (the theatres of America I<br />
Rx: Product!<br />
not<br />
only can't get enough merchandise for their dayhy-day<br />
operation, but have little hope of ever<br />
achieving a sizable inventory.<br />
It is doubtful if any other major industry<br />
and any industry that grosses §1,500,000.000<br />
annually is indeed major—can make such an<br />
unhappy statement.<br />
The situation is an anachronism, because, by<br />
keeping product in short supply, and disregarding<br />
the demand, our "manufacturers" are not<br />
acting in their own enlightened self-interest. Despite<br />
their great diversification in recent years,<br />
our film companies still rely upon the 17.000<br />
theatres for their basic income, and to jeopardize<br />
this income through starvation does not make<br />
good business sense.<br />
This vear, our film companies will give us<br />
a total of about 204 new feature films. Our<br />
theatres could use at least 300. when it is realized<br />
that a single-feature house, playing two changes<br />
a week, needs 104 features a year, and that<br />
competition within the community immediately<br />
halves or quarters this total.<br />
is<br />
—it<br />
In even worse shape<br />
the double-feature house with the same policy<br />
needs 208 films a year.<br />
Only through ingenuitv' have theatre owners<br />
been able to keep operating. They are filling in<br />
with imported product, creating combination<br />
shows of revivals, and frequently finding it<br />
necessarv- to stretch the run of films at an<br />
operating loss. This condition cannot continue<br />
forever.<br />
The position of the film companies is imderstandable.<br />
though highly distasteful to the<br />
average exhibitor. Without their own theatres,<br />
.-ince divorcement, no film company has the<br />
responsibility nor economic motive to "stock"<br />
its<br />
own houses. Production costs have soared so<br />
greatly that each picture is an expensive gamble.<br />
And, with few exceptions, all of the film companies,<br />
with their diversified activities and reduced<br />
production, are making money.<br />
it<br />
Is there a way out of this dilemma? Yes, but<br />
wOl require that both distribution and exhibition<br />
take a fresh assessment of the problem, from<br />
a long-remge viewpoint, of what is best for their<br />
industry, rather than for their immediate<br />
personal interests.<br />
Production must realize that, unless theatres<br />
have enough product, patron attendance and<br />
interest cannot be sustained, and theatre operation<br />
cannot be profitable.<br />
\^ ithout their theatre<br />
outlets, every fihn company would be in serious<br />
financial difficulties. About all that would be<br />
required is for each film company to release a<br />
few more fUms annually than it has in the past<br />
seversJ years. The cumulative addition of 30 or<br />
40 films would make a tremendous difference.<br />
It is also axiomatic that the more times each film<br />
company comes to bat with additional pictures,<br />
the better its chances of getting a hit.<br />
For exhibition it means continued effort to<br />
find and encourage new sources of product, and<br />
to be readv, whenever an exhibitor-sponsored<br />
production program is finalized, to support such<br />
a program with money and playdates.<br />
Self-help<br />
bv exhibition must go hand-in-hand with film<br />
companv efforts to build for the future.<br />
The outlook, of course, is not entirely black.<br />
Reports of release plans by the major companies<br />
for 1963 indicate that, even at this early date,<br />
some 160 films could be completed and released<br />
to theatres nexl year. TTiis is encouraging.<br />
Further, exhibitors are building more than 250<br />
new theatres, many of them in shopping centers<br />
which represent a new source of patronage.<br />
Along with remodeling and refurbishing, exhibition<br />
is investing more than §250,000,000 in<br />
its theatres—clear indication that theatremen<br />
mav be bloody, but they have not lost their<br />
innate optimism.<br />
The Rx for our industry is more product.<br />
The<br />
mutual self-interests within our industn' must<br />
recognize, and then jointly cooperate to provide<br />
this medication.
I<br />
Warner<br />
had<br />
. . have<br />
NUMBER OF THEATRES NO BAR<br />
SW Lone Star Acquisition<br />
Sets Precedent, Levy Says<br />
NEW YORK—The court's approval of<br />
Stanley Warner's acquisition of the Lone<br />
Star circuit of Texas has a greater significance<br />
than the industry initially realized,<br />
in the opinion of Herman M. Levy.<br />
general counsel of Theatre Owners of<br />
America. In an analysis of the decision of<br />
Judge Palmieri of the U. S. District Court<br />
here. Levy pointed out that this was the<br />
first time that a former affiliated circuit<br />
Bros,<br />
i<br />
requested the court<br />
for permission to acquire as many as 37<br />
theatres.<br />
OTHER PURCHASES GRANTED<br />
Levy said that there had been other multiple<br />
acquisitions granted: seven theatres<br />
by National Theatres in and around Salt<br />
Lake City, in 1955; five "failing theatres"<br />
by National in Montana, in 1962; two driveins<br />
by Loew's in South Bend, Ind.. in 1959.<br />
and two "failing theatres" by American<br />
Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres in Tyler,<br />
Tex., in 196L<br />
"It appears from this decision," Levy<br />
said, "that the number of theatres involved<br />
in an application to acquire is not an obstacle<br />
to the court's granting permission<br />
to acquire, and that the only prohibition<br />
against an acquisition, regardless of the<br />
number of theatres involved, is that the acquisition<br />
will not 'unduly restrain competition'<br />
in the areas in which the theatres,<br />
sought to be acquired, are located."<br />
Levy explained that the court, in the<br />
Paramount case, retained jurisdiction of<br />
the case, and of some of the parties to it.<br />
for all appropriate purposes, adding that<br />
the Paramount case had been severed as<br />
to the various defendants. This particular<br />
decision concerned the defendant Warner<br />
Bros. Pictures. Inc.. and only insofar as its<br />
divorced theatre circuit was concerned.<br />
That divorced circuit now is owned and operated<br />
by the Stanley Warner Corp. The<br />
consent decree prohibited the successorowner<br />
(Stanley Warner) from acquiring<br />
any additional theatres unless it showed<br />
to the satisfaction of the court that the<br />
acquisition would not unduly restrain competition.<br />
AGREED TO DIVESTITURE<br />
Under this provision of the decree. Stanley<br />
Warner submitted to the court, for its<br />
approval, the purchase of 37 theatres in 13<br />
Texas cities and towns, most of which were<br />
drive-ins. Levy said the burden was on<br />
Stanley Warner to demonstrate to the court<br />
that competition in the areas of the theatres<br />
would not be unduly affected by this<br />
acquisition. Stanley Warner agreed to divest<br />
itself of 13 of the theatres, so that, in<br />
effect, the acquisition of 24 theatres was<br />
contemplated.<br />
After the application was submitted by<br />
Stanley Warner to acquire the Texas circuit,<br />
the Dept. of Justice notified more than<br />
100 theatre owners in the communities affected<br />
of the proposed acquisitions. Only<br />
one exhibitor attended and was heard. The<br />
D of J objected to the granting of the petition<br />
on the grounds that Stanley Warner<br />
D. C. Anti-Obscenity Bill<br />
Gets a Pocket Veto<br />
Washington—The anti-obscenity bill<br />
which was passed by Consress shortly<br />
before adjournament, and would affect<br />
only the District of Columbia, was<br />
given a pocket veto by President Kennedy<br />
who said there were constitutional<br />
considerations which influenced him<br />
not to sign the measure until Congress<br />
had heard his reasons.<br />
The bill would have permitted the<br />
seizure of property if an exhibitor<br />
showed a picture which was stamped<br />
as obscene by a censoring group. Although<br />
the President said he was in<br />
accord with the principles of the proposed<br />
legislation, he saw constitutional<br />
violations in it.<br />
Backers of the measure claimed that<br />
while the bill was local in concept, it<br />
could serve as a formula for regional<br />
bills.<br />
The President indicated that the<br />
measure would be brought to the attention<br />
of Congress when it reconvened in<br />
January, but that in its present form<br />
he did not approve.<br />
had "mass purchasing power" and should<br />
not be permitted to join with another circuit.<br />
Levy pointed out that the court disagreed,<br />
stating that there appeared to be<br />
no threat of "mass" or "circuit" purchasing<br />
power. A "naked financial potential"<br />
was not sufficient to block an acquisition,<br />
the court ruled.<br />
"The root of the evil" which the Paramount<br />
decrees sought to eliminate was that<br />
theatre operators with closed towns could<br />
use them "as a bargaining device to obtain<br />
favorable treatment in the competitive<br />
areas," the D of J contended, and that was<br />
why divestiture was ordered. But the court<br />
ruled that Stanley Warner carried no stigma<br />
because of the illegal actions of its predecessor.<br />
It stated that the "sins of the defendants<br />
. no relevance to the<br />
validity of the petition."<br />
In summary, there appears to be no bar<br />
to acquisitions by former affiliated circuits<br />
as long as competition is not unduly restrained.<br />
Fan Clubs Organization<br />
Holds 1st Conference<br />
LOS ANGELES -~ The Canadian Club<br />
Council, an organization formed and operated<br />
for the betterment of fan clubs, held<br />
its first Los Angeles regional conference<br />
at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Saturday.<br />
October 27. Representatives of active<br />
fan clubs throughout the nation which support<br />
numerous celebrities in every field, discussed<br />
their problems and plans for their<br />
respective groups, their achievements and<br />
their aims. Mrs. Jean L. Crocker is president.<br />
Stockholders of MPI<br />
To Meet December 4<br />
KANSAS CITY—The 1962 annual slockliolders<br />
meeting of Motion Picture Investors.<br />
Inc.. will be held in Cleveland December<br />
4 in conjunction with the national Allied<br />
States Ass'n convention, it was announced<br />
here this week by MPI secretary<br />
Byron Spencer. Among business to be taken<br />
up will be the election of a board of directors<br />
for the forthcoming year.<br />
Meantime. MPI treasurer Richard Orear,<br />
speaking before the Missouri-Illinois Theatre<br />
Ass'n convention in St. Louis, revealed<br />
that MPI currently is backing "The<br />
Checkered Flag," a film being made by<br />
Guild Studio 5 of Miami, headed by Herbert<br />
Vendlg. Orear said that plans for distribution<br />
of the film are in the signing<br />
]<br />
stage. He said MPI also plans to rcdistri- <<br />
bute "The Deadly Companions" newly<br />
edited and under a new title as a companion<br />
feature with "Checkered Flag."<br />
Members of the MPI executive committee<br />
of the board of directors were scheduled to<br />
meet here at noon Friday (26i to discuss<br />
activities of the company.<br />
ACE Helping to Finance<br />
"55 Days at Peking'<br />
HOLLYWOOD — American Congress of<br />
Exhibitors is involved in the financing of<br />
Samuel Bronston's "55 Days at Peking," it<br />
was confirmed by Allied Artists president<br />
Steve Broidy.<br />
AA is putting up part of the coin, in<br />
return for which it receives western hemispheric<br />
distribution rights, and ACE also is<br />
involved in the financing. It is believed to<br />
be the first time the exhibitors have actually<br />
put money into a film, although the group<br />
has talked about doing so for many years.<br />
Annual COMPO Meeting<br />
Set for Nov. 20 in N.Y.<br />
NEW YORK — The Council of Motion<br />
Picture Organizations will hold its annual<br />
meeting of the membership, board of directors<br />
and executive committee at the<br />
Americana Hotel on Tuesday, November 20,<br />
The meeting will be held on the day following<br />
the annual dinner of the Motion<br />
i<br />
Picture Pioneers and, for that reason, a<br />
large number of industry leaders is expected<br />
to attend.<br />
Charles E. McCarthy, executive vicepresident<br />
of COMPO, said that an agenda<br />
was being prepared calling for the executive<br />
committee's approval of proposed<br />
COMPO projects, a vote on the annua!<br />
budget and election of officers.<br />
David Raphael Is Promoted<br />
To Fox Continental Head<br />
NEW YORK—David Raphael has been<br />
promoted from his recent post as home office<br />
representative in charge of Europe and<br />
the Middle East for 20th Century-Fox to<br />
become Continental division manager for<br />
the company, according to Seymour Poe,<br />
vice-president in charge of world distribution.<br />
Poe has also named Andre Levy, who has<br />
served as traveling auditor in Europe for<br />
the corporation, controller of the Continental<br />
division. Both men will make their<br />
headquarters in Paris and will report directly<br />
to Poe in New York.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: October 29. 1962
8<br />
Stage Set for TOA's<br />
Miami Convention<br />
MIAMI BEACH — Despite tensions<br />
created by the situation in Cuba, a comparably<br />
short distance from here, everything<br />
was being put in order at the weekend<br />
for the opening next week of the 15th annual<br />
convention of Theatre Owners of<br />
America at the Americana Hotel. An attendance<br />
of approximately 1.000 is expected.<br />
Six full days of activities will start on<br />
Monday (5i when the nominating and<br />
finance committees will convene. Registration,<br />
too, will get under way for the early<br />
arrivals. That evening, the National Ass'n<br />
of Concessionaires will hold its president's<br />
banquet, preceding the NAC's concurrent<br />
convention.<br />
The TOA board will meet on Tuesday.<br />
The tradeshow will open that afternoon<br />
and continue daily from 2 to 6 p.m. until<br />
Friday.<br />
Under the theme of "The Challenge of<br />
Progress," the convention will open formally<br />
on Wednesday with an address of<br />
welcome by Mitchell Wolfson, honorary<br />
convention chairman.<br />
Felix J. Bilgrey, general counsel for<br />
Times Film Corp., and veteran industry<br />
attorney, will address the convention on<br />
Thursday<br />
1 devoted to the exhibitor and<br />
,<br />
the law.<br />
1<br />
Bilgrey will outline how the exhibitors<br />
and film distributors can work together<br />
to counteract theatre ads and censorship.<br />
Receptions and parties are scheduled for<br />
each evening and will wind up with the<br />
president's banquet on Saturday night. An<br />
extensive program for the delegates' wives<br />
has been arranged by Mrs. Sonny Shepherd,<br />
chairman, and her committee.<br />
Dale Robertson, actor-producer, also is<br />
sched'Jled to talk.<br />
Hoff Is Named to Board<br />
Of ABC Vending Corp.<br />
NEW YORK—J.<br />
Robert Hoff. vice-president<br />
and general manager of Ballantyne<br />
Instruments & Electronics.<br />
Inc.. of Omaha,<br />
was elected a director<br />
of ABC Vendnisj<br />
Corp., last week, it<br />
was announced by<br />
Benjamin Sherman,<br />
chairman of ABC.<br />
Hoff has served as<br />
Ballantyne<br />
general manager<br />
since the company<br />
became a wholly<br />
owned subsidiary of<br />
J. Robert Hoff<br />
ABC in April 1961.<br />
Hoff is a member of the Theatre Equipment<br />
& Supply Manufacturers Ass'n board<br />
of directors. He was a director, 1947-49;<br />
vice-president, 1949-51: and president,<br />
1951-53. He also is a member of the Society<br />
of Motion Picture & Television Engineers;<br />
Variety Club of Omaha (chief barker.<br />
1954-55 1 ; and a member of the board of<br />
directors of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital.<br />
Saranac Lake, N.Y.<br />
He joined the former Ballantyne Co. in<br />
Omaha as sales manager in 1945. Hoff<br />
fonnerly practiced law with the firm of Hoff<br />
and CoUis In Chicago.<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962<br />
CONCESSIONAIRES PROGRAM READY<br />
New Profit Making Ideas<br />
NAC Convention Theme<br />
MIAMI BEACH—Emphasis will be placed<br />
on "New Format," "New Faces," "New Subjects"<br />
and "New<br />
Profit Making Ideas"<br />
at the annual convention<br />
and tradeshow<br />
of the National<br />
Ass'n of Concessionaires<br />
at the<br />
Americana Hotel here<br />
November 6-10, according<br />
to Lee Koken,<br />
Glen Alden Corp..<br />
New York, this year's<br />
convention chairman.<br />
Koken asserted there<br />
would be something<br />
Lee Koken<br />
new and of particular interest to every concession<br />
operator, no matter what area of<br />
the amusement-recreation industry he<br />
serves.<br />
Outstanding leaders In almost every division<br />
of the food, beverage, concessions,<br />
and automatic merchandising industries<br />
will appear on the program. The NAC convention,<br />
held in conjunction with the Theatre<br />
Owners of America national convention,<br />
will consist of four morning meetings,<br />
with afternoons devoted to visiting the<br />
tradeshow,<br />
NAC directors will meet on Monday ( 5<br />
)<br />
and the first business session, on Tuesday<br />
morning, titled "Corns-A-Poppin'," will<br />
feature the popcorn segment of the program.<br />
Augie J. Schmitt, NAC president,<br />
will open the convention at this session.<br />
Speakers will include Don W. Mayborn.<br />
Comco. Baltimore: H. B. Fulford, Princeton<br />
Farms, Princeton, Ind.; Charles E.<br />
Burkhead. chief field statistics branch, U.S.<br />
Department of Agriculture; William E.<br />
Smith, executive secretaiy of the Popcorn<br />
Institute: Larry Goldmeier, Poppers Supply<br />
Co.. Philadelphia; Sydney Spiegel,<br />
Super Pufft Popcorn, Toronto, and Bert<br />
Nathan, Bert Nathan Enterprises, Brooklyn,<br />
N.Y. Discussions will include every<br />
facet of the popcorn industry from growing<br />
and processing through promotion of popcorn<br />
and manufacturing popcorn products.<br />
EMPHASIZE 'NAME BRANDS'<br />
The Wednesday morning program will<br />
follow a breakfast hosted by the Gold<br />
Medal Candy Co. and the William Wrigley<br />
Jr. Co. and will feature what NAC calls "the<br />
All-star Beverage Board of Directors" in<br />
"Name Brands Sell More Drinks." Participants<br />
will include O. "Flip" Pollon,<br />
Selmix-Amcoin; Bradford D. Ansley,<br />
vice-president. Royal Crown Cola Co.;<br />
Charles E. Baker, vice-president, Pepsi-<br />
Cola Co.; Louis Collins, executive vicepresident.<br />
Crush International; Thomas J.<br />
Deegan jr., public relations counsel, Coca-<br />
Cola: Wesby R. Parker, chairman and<br />
president, Dr Pepper Co. In addition.<br />
Charles V. Lipps. president of the Candy.<br />
Chocolate & Confectionery Institute, will<br />
speak on "Increase Candy Sales and Profits,<br />
and Patrick L. O'Malley, president,<br />
"<br />
Automatic Canteen Co. of America, will<br />
speak on "Commercial and Industrial<br />
Merchandising."<br />
Questions directed from the floor will follow<br />
all forum discussions and speeches.<br />
"Regional Tastes and Practices in Concessions<br />
and Vending," will be the subject of<br />
the Thursday morning business session, a<br />
panel discussion moderated by Irving<br />
Shapiro. Participants will include representatives<br />
from all sections of the nation<br />
and Canada, including Nat Buchman, Theatre<br />
Merchandising, Boston: Chuck Glass,<br />
Theatres Confections, Minneapolis: Lan-y<br />
Moyer, Moyer Theatres, Portland, Ore.;<br />
Charles Sweeney, Odeon Theatres, Toronto<br />
Bill Slaughter, Rowley-United Theatres,<br />
Dallas, and James O. Hoover, Martin Theatres,<br />
Columbus, Ga. Other speakers at<br />
the session will include C. S. Baker, All<br />
Weather Twin Roller Drome, Nashville,<br />
Tenn., on "Roller Skating Everywhere" and<br />
Bert Nathan, Dine-O-Rama, Inc.. Brooklyn,<br />
on "Discounts Everywhere."<br />
JOINT NAC-TOA SESSION<br />
A joint NAC-TOA concessions forum will<br />
be held Friday morning with Phil Lowe as<br />
moderator and Loyd O. Franklin. TOA<br />
cochairman, Clovis, N.M., making the introduction.<br />
Resumes of the previous NAC sessions<br />
will be given. Other speakers will include<br />
Philip L. Lowe, Lowe Merchandising<br />
Service, Newton Centre, Mass., on "Other<br />
Fun Spots: U.S.A.": Addison H. Verrill.<br />
president, Dale Systems, New York, on<br />
"Security; Of Vital Interest to All Concessionaires":<br />
Lou Abramson, executive director,<br />
NAC, on "Hard Tickets—Popcorn."<br />
Spiro J. Papas, NAC board chairman, and<br />
Morris Strassman, executive vice-president,<br />
Union News Co., New York City, also will<br />
speak.<br />
Special events prepared for women attending<br />
the convention will include a charm<br />
and personality program, a trip to Indian<br />
Village, a special luncheon, a boat trip to<br />
Seaquarium and a screening of the Children's<br />
Adventure Series.<br />
To Plug Pioneers Fete<br />
NEW YORK—Paul Kamey and Milton<br />
Livingston have been appointed cochairmen<br />
of the Motion Picture Pioneers publicity<br />
committee. Kamey is eastern publicity<br />
manager of Universal and Livingston a<br />
publicist and press contact. They will promote<br />
the annual Pioneers dinner, scheduled<br />
November 19 at the Americana Hotel, honoring<br />
Milton R. Rackmil. president of Universal<br />
Pictures and Decca Records, as the<br />
Pioneer of the Year.<br />
Harold Lasser Joins NGC<br />
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF —Harold Lasser,<br />
veteran motion pictme attorney, has<br />
joined National General Corp. here as the<br />
new general counsel of the 220-theatre circuit.<br />
He was fonnerly a member of the<br />
legal staff of Universal Pictures in New<br />
York.
. ."The<br />
Universal Lists 16 Films<br />
Ready or Being Lensed<br />
NEW YORK~In line with thf previously<br />
announced expansion of Universal throuRh<br />
its parent company. MCA. Milton R. Rackmil,<br />
president of Universal and Decca Records<br />
and vice-chairman of the board of<br />
MCA. has revealed that the company now<br />
has 16 films completed or in production<br />
and plans an expanded program of motion<br />
picture film production.<br />
Asserting that the company will continue<br />
to be a vital source of product in the years<br />
to come. Rackmil said. "With the si-eat supply<br />
of manpower we have acquired through<br />
our link with MCA. we will be able to provide<br />
greater quantity of product." The future<br />
program, he added, will not be ruled<br />
by quantity, however, but by what gives<br />
promise of boxoffice success.<br />
Product completed or now under way<br />
includes<br />
"If a Man Answers," in color, starring Sandra Dee,<br />
Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund, Cesar Romero<br />
ond Stefanie Powers. Ross Hunter Production,<br />
produced by Ross Hunter, directed by Henry Levin<br />
"Freud," starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York,<br />
Lorry Porks, Susan Kohner, Eric Portmon. John Huston<br />
Production, produced and directed by John Huston,<br />
"40 Pounds of Trouble," in Ponovision and color,<br />
starring Tony Curtis. Phil Silvers and Suzonne Pleshette.<br />
Curtis Enterprises Production, produced by Stan Margulies,<br />
directed by Norman Jewlson.<br />
"To Kill o Mockingbird," starring Gregory Peck with<br />
Mary Bodham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton.<br />
Pokula-Mulligon Production, produced by Alan<br />
Pakula, directed by Robert Mulligan.<br />
"The Ugly Americon," in color, starring Marlon<br />
Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Jocelyn Brando.<br />
Produced and directed by George Englund.<br />
"Tommy and the Doctor," in color, starring Sandra<br />
Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Beulah Bondi,<br />
Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen. Ross Hunter Production,<br />
produced by Ross Hunter, directed by Horry<br />
Zeller.<br />
"A Gothering of Eagles," in color, starring Rock<br />
Hudson. Rod Toylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Produced<br />
by Sy Bortlett, directed by Delbert Monn,<br />
"Three Woy Match" (formerly "Three on a Match"),<br />
in color, storrinq Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Goynor, Gig<br />
Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar, William Bendix,<br />
Leslie Parrish, Produced by Robert Arthur, directed by<br />
Michael Gordon.<br />
'The List of Adrian Messenger," starring George C.<br />
Scott, Dana Wynter. Clive Brook, Herbert Marshall and,<br />
appearing in unusual character delineations, Tony Curtis,<br />
Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and<br />
Frank Sinatra, Joel Production, produced by Edward<br />
Lewis, directed by John Huston,<br />
"The Iron Collar," starnng Audie Murphy, Kathleen<br />
Crowley, Chorles Drake, Produced by Gordon Kay, directed<br />
by R, G. Springsteen.<br />
"The Thrill of It All," in color, starring Doris Day,<br />
James Garner, Arlene Francis, Ross Hunter-Martin Melcher<br />
Production, directed by Norman Jewison.<br />
"Paranoiac," in color, starring Jonette Scott, Oliver<br />
Reed, Hommer Film Production, produced by Anthony<br />
Hinds, associate producer Basil Keys, directed by Freddie<br />
Francis.<br />
Kiss of the Vampire," in color, starring Clifford<br />
Evans, Edward De Souzo, Jennifer Daniel, Noel<br />
Willman, Hammer Film Production, produced by Anthony<br />
Hinds, directed by Don Shorpe,<br />
"Lancelot and Guinevere," in Ponovision and color,<br />
starring Cornel Wilde. Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne. Emblem<br />
Production, prcduced by Cornel Wilde and Bernard<br />
Luber. directed by Cornel Wilde,<br />
"Charode," in Ponovision and color, storring Cary<br />
Gront, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Motthou, Stanley Donen<br />
Production, produced and directed by Stanley Donen<br />
"Man's Favorite Sport," in color, starring Rock Hudson,<br />
Howard Hawks Production in association with Gibraltar<br />
Corp, and Laurel Productions. Produced and directed<br />
by Howard Hawks.<br />
Brackett Sues 20th-Fox<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Charles Brackett wound<br />
up what he tanned a "very happy association"<br />
of 13 years with 20th-Pox, simultaneously<br />
filing a breach-of-contract suit<br />
against the company. Legal action is asking<br />
approximately a half-year's wages at<br />
S3,000 weekly.<br />
They Can't Spend Money<br />
In Winsted on March 1<br />
WINSTED. CONN.—When Columbia<br />
Pictures' "The Man Prom the Diners'<br />
Club" has its world premiere here<br />
on March 13, the use of money will be<br />
prohibited for a period of 24 hours.<br />
This will be decreed by an ordinance<br />
passed by the council of this city of almost<br />
10,000 population.<br />
The ordinance was designed to aid<br />
and abet the world premiere of the<br />
Danny Kaye film. It stated that it shall<br />
be "unlawful for any merchant to<br />
accept cash for any article purchased,<br />
or for any merchant to accept cash for<br />
any article sold, but all transactions<br />
shall be charged to the Diners' Club<br />
Card." The Worldwide Single Credit<br />
Card Corp. will issue special cards to<br />
the entire population.<br />
Mayor John Lynch said he was proud<br />
that Winsted had been selected for the<br />
world premiere and that he was "especially<br />
pleased to participate in this<br />
progressive experiment in the use of<br />
credit, which may prove to the business<br />
world that the future method of<br />
transacting business will be through<br />
such a device as a single credit card."<br />
Ask Bertero to Arbitrate<br />
Wage Case With NGC<br />
LOS ANGELES—National General Coitd.<br />
(formerly National Theatres and Television,<br />
Inc.) last week won the first battle<br />
in its legal war with the company's former<br />
president, John Bertero. Bertero was National<br />
General's president from Oct. 1, 1958<br />
to Dec. 1, 1959 when he resigned his office<br />
and also resigned as president of National<br />
General's subsidiary, Pox West Coast<br />
Theatres Corp.<br />
National General has charged that a contract<br />
which Bertero made with the company<br />
when he resigned as president is imfaii-,<br />
invalid and cancelable. Under the<br />
contract Bertero receives $45,000 a year for<br />
five years and other sums for an additional<br />
five years, plus other benefits, regardless of<br />
whether he does any work for NGC.<br />
Last week Los Angeles Superior Court<br />
Judge Parks Still well, on the petition of<br />
National General and over the protests of<br />
Bertero, ordered Bertero to submit to arbitration<br />
for a decision on NGC's charges.<br />
PM Award to 'Barabbas'<br />
NEW YORK — "Barabbas," a Dino De<br />
Laurentiis production, presented by Columbia<br />
Pictures, starring Anthony Quinn.<br />
and costarring Silvana Mangano, Katy<br />
Jurado. Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews.<br />
Jack Palance, Vittorio Gassman, Ernest<br />
Borgnine, has been given the Parents' Magazine<br />
Special Merit Award for November.<br />
Reid H. Ray Elected<br />
SMPTE President<br />
CHICAGO—Reid H. Ray. president of<br />
Reid H. Ray Pilm Indu.stries of St. Paul,<br />
Minn., has been elected president of the<br />
Society of Motion Picture and Television<br />
Engineers, succeeding John W. Sei"vies,<br />
vice-president of National Theatre Supply<br />
Co., New York. Ray's election was announced<br />
at the 92nd annual SMPTE convention<br />
hei'e following count of mail ballots.<br />
He will take over as president on January<br />
1.<br />
Other new officers include Ethan M.<br />
Stifle, manager of the east coast division,<br />
motion picture film department of Eastman<br />
Kodak Co., as executive vice-president;<br />
Herbert E. Panner of the University<br />
of Southern California faculty as editorial<br />
vice-president; George W. Colburn, president<br />
of G. W. Colburn Laboratory, Highland<br />
Park. 111., convention vice-pi-esident;<br />
Robert G. Hufford, physici-st, motion picture<br />
film department, Eastman Kodak Co..<br />
secretary.<br />
Named to the board of governors for 1963<br />
were Max Beard, U.S. Naval Ordnance<br />
Laboratory, and Joseph T. Dougherty, E. I.<br />
du Pont de Nemours & Co.. for the eastern<br />
region; Kenneth M. Mason, Eastman<br />
Kodak Co., Chicago, and James L. Wassell,<br />
Bell & Howell, Chicago, for the central<br />
region; William E. Gephart jr., General<br />
Film Laboratory, California, and Ralph E.<br />
Lovell, Westrex Co., California, for the<br />
western region; Roger J. Beaudry, Pathe-<br />
DeLuxe of Canada, for the Canadian<br />
region.<br />
The week-long convention, held at the<br />
Drake Hotel here, included presentation of<br />
equipment papers and demonstration of<br />
new photographic equipment, as well as<br />
sessions on cinematography, television<br />
equipment, 8mm sound film and highspeed<br />
photography.<br />
Annual SMPTE Awards were presented<br />
at a ceremony on Tuesday night at which<br />
James Robertson of the National Educational<br />
Television & Radio Center was guest<br />
speaker. Recipients of awards were:<br />
Journol Award— Fred H, Perrin, for "What Is the<br />
Sensitivity of a Photographic System?"<br />
E. du Pont Gold Medal Award— Dr, Harold E.<br />
I.<br />
Edgerton,<br />
Herbert<br />
Massachusetts<br />
T. Kalmus<br />
Institute<br />
Gold Medal<br />
of Technology.<br />
Award— Paul W.<br />
Vittum, Eastman Kodak Co,<br />
Samuel L, Warner Memorial Award— Lawrence W.<br />
Dovee, president of Century Projector Corp.<br />
David Sornoff Gold Medal Award— Pierre Mertz,<br />
consulting<br />
Progress<br />
engineer.<br />
Medal Award— Dr. Frank G. Bock, president<br />
of Zoomor. Inc.<br />
Twelve men received Fellowship Awards in the Society<br />
Millord W, Baldwin |r., Joseph T. Dougherty,<br />
George T, Eaton, Henry M, Fisher, Theodore H, Fogelrran,<br />
H, Theodore Hording, George T, Keene, John A.<br />
Leermakers, James A. Moses, John W. Wentworth, Joseph<br />
D. White and Daan M. Zwick,<br />
Filmack of Chicago Offers<br />
Exhibitor Sales Aids<br />
CHICAGO — Pilmack, maker of screen<br />
trailers, is offering two sales aids to exhibitors<br />
in selling merchant ads during the<br />
Christmas season, according to Bernard<br />
Mack, president of Pilmack.<br />
Por the first time, the company is extending<br />
free promotional mailing pieces, which<br />
exhibitors can mail to local merchants. Pilmack<br />
also will furnish samples of Christmas<br />
merchant ads on film, in color and black and<br />
white, and a viewer as a further aid in selling<br />
merchants.<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29. 1962
20th-Fox Sets Eleven<br />
Releases Jan.-July<br />
NEW YORK—"The World of Marilyn<br />
Monroe," a feature-length documentary<br />
depicting the actress' career, has been<br />
added to the release schedule of 20th Century-Pox<br />
for January. The CinemaScope-<br />
De Luxe Color film will show highlights and<br />
clips from her films, including the uncompleted<br />
"Something's Got to Give."<br />
Also for January release, following prerelease<br />
showings at the yearend holidays,<br />
are "The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah,"<br />
a Titanus production in De Luxe<br />
Color, starring Pier Angeli, Stewart<br />
Granger and Stanley Baker and directed<br />
by Robert Aldrich, and "The<br />
Young Guns of Texas," in CinemaScope<br />
and De Luxe Color, starring Jim Mitchum,<br />
Jody McCrea and Alana Ladd, and "The<br />
Day Mars Invaded Earth," in CinemaScope,<br />
starring Kent Taylor and Marie Windsor.<br />
The two February releases will be "The<br />
Lion," in CinemaScope and De Luxe Color,<br />
starring William Holden, Capucine and<br />
Trevor Howard, and the re-release of "The<br />
Robe," the first CinemaScope feature, a<br />
Prank Ross production in De Luxe Color,<br />
starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons<br />
and Victor Mature.<br />
In March will come "Nine Hours to<br />
Rama," filmed in India and England in<br />
CinemaScope and De Luxe Color, starring<br />
Horst Buchholz, Jose Perrer, Diane Baker<br />
and Robert Morley, and Robert Youngson's<br />
compilation of famous comedies. "Thirty<br />
Years of Fun."<br />
The April release will be Jerry Wald's "A<br />
Woman in July," in CinemaScope and<br />
De Luxe Color, starring Joanne Woodward,<br />
Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor and Gypsy<br />
Rose Lee. Titanus' "The Leopard." made in<br />
Europe in CinemaScope and De Luxe Color,<br />
starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale<br />
and Alain Delon. directed by Luchino Visconti.<br />
will be prereleased in May. followed<br />
by general release in June. The regular<br />
June release will be Titanus' "The Condemned<br />
of Altona," starring Sophia Loren,<br />
Maximilian Schell, Predric March and<br />
Robert Wagner with Vittorio De Sica<br />
directing.<br />
Pearlayne to Distribute<br />
Three German Classics<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Pearlayne<br />
Productions<br />
has acquired three German classics directed<br />
by Curtis Bernhardt in Germany, prior to<br />
World War 11, for distribution in American<br />
art houses and universities.<br />
The deal was consummated between Gene<br />
Taft, Pearlayne production chief and Spitzenorganization<br />
der Filmwurtschaft, which<br />
acquired all UFA films. Included are "The<br />
Last Company" and "The Man Who Killed."<br />
both of which star Conrad Veidt, and "The<br />
Tunnel." starring Paul Hartmann.<br />
Dudelson Is Elected Head<br />
Of Alexander TV Firm<br />
NEW YORK—Stanley Dudelson, who has<br />
resigned as sales manager of syndication for<br />
Screen Gems, has been elected president of<br />
M.&A. Alexander Productions by the board<br />
of directors of the 12-year-old television<br />
firm. Prior to Screen Gems. Dudelson was<br />
associated with United Artists and RKO.<br />
20th Century-Fox to BuiId<br />
Manpower for Future<br />
Shelton Heads 20th-Fox<br />
Foreign Subsidiary<br />
NEW YORK—William Shelton. previously<br />
affi'iated with Times Film. Cameo<br />
International and<br />
Cinemiracle. has been<br />
named operating head<br />
of a newly formed<br />
subsidiary of 20th<br />
Century-Fox for the<br />
acquisition and distribution<br />
of "specialized<br />
product." according to<br />
Seymour Poe. vicepi<br />
esident in charge of<br />
w 01 Idwide distribution<br />
WilUam Shelton In view of the impact<br />
on the U.S. market<br />
in the last few years of a number of topgrossing<br />
films from abroad. 20th-Fox can<br />
no longer ignore what has become a major<br />
source of revenue, according to Poe, who<br />
said that such films have gone beyond<br />
mere "art house" acceptance. He mentioned<br />
that "audience tastes have broadened over<br />
the past several years" and these pictures<br />
now have wide acceptance in areas where<br />
they previously had only limited appeal.<br />
Shelton said he plans to announce a program<br />
of pictures .shortly. He had previously<br />
been associated with the introduction<br />
to the U.S. of "Devil in the Flesh,"<br />
"One Summer of Happiness" and "The<br />
Game of Love." all foreign-language films.<br />
AFM Hails AlP for Jobs<br />
To American Musicians<br />
Hollywood—American International<br />
Pictures has been hailed by the American<br />
Federation of Musicians for a "best<br />
performance" by employers in maintaining<br />
American labor standards" and<br />
"providing adequate argument against<br />
runaway filmmaking."<br />
In an unprecedented letter to James<br />
H. Nicholson. AIP president, musicians<br />
union head Herman D. Renin thanked<br />
the motion picture company on behalf<br />
of one-quarter million American professional<br />
musicians for "services above<br />
and beyond the call of duty of contract<br />
compulsion."<br />
According to Renin, "our Hollywood<br />
office has informed me that American<br />
International Pictures has not only<br />
produced and scored with live musicians,<br />
six feature motion pictures in<br />
the last 12 months, but has supplemented<br />
the foreign-made music backgrounds<br />
on the four completed films<br />
you purchased abroad with scores<br />
played by American musicians.<br />
"This to me is evidence sufficient that<br />
the performance of American Federation<br />
of Musicians members and the facilities<br />
of American recording studios<br />
provide adequate argument against<br />
runaway filmmaking." Renin added.<br />
NEW YORK—Twentieth Century-Fox is<br />
going after manpower for the future. Repeating<br />
a similar project of several years<br />
ago, the company will start at once to build<br />
a corps of at least 100 potential yomig<br />
executives who will represent the future<br />
reservoir.<br />
According to Seymour Poe, vice-president<br />
in charge of worldwide distribution,<br />
these men will serve in various capacities<br />
throughout 20th-Fox's far-flung operations<br />
as a "second line of defense" with an eye<br />
to assuming top executive responsibilities<br />
in the years to come. Each man must be<br />
under 30 years of age.<br />
Poe said that a business background was<br />
a strong prerequisite, but experience in<br />
motion pictures or training in the functions<br />
of any of the company's subsidiaries<br />
would not be a necessary qualification.<br />
"We want college graduates, men of high<br />
scholastic training and high ambitions,"<br />
Poe said. "If these men are to serve in foreign<br />
fields, they should be bilingual. We<br />
hope to make some selections from people<br />
abroad and, automatically, those will be at<br />
least bilingual. Some of these young men<br />
will have a knowledge of basic commercial<br />
law: others will have a working knowledge<br />
of accountancy or journalism."<br />
Poe said the company was looking to augment<br />
its present organization and to have<br />
leadership in reserve. This continuing<br />
principle, he added, would assure the corporation<br />
the logical inheritors of "21st<br />
Century-Fox."<br />
The initial testing phase of the program<br />
will last for a maximum of two years. Poe<br />
said that any of the "first wave" who did<br />
not make a substantial move within the<br />
organization in that period would be<br />
released.<br />
Clasa Films of Mexico<br />
Signs Gavin for 3 Films<br />
MEXICO CITY—Clasa Films, Mexico's<br />
largest independent production company,<br />
announced the signing of John Gavin to<br />
star in three pictures which will mark<br />
Mexico's initial entry into the international<br />
film market.<br />
Gavin's first picture will be "Night Call,"<br />
based on the book of short stories, "The<br />
Man Nobody Knows," by B. Traven, a mysterious<br />
writer on whose novel, "The Treasure<br />
of the Sierra Madre," was based. That<br />
film won three Academy Awards. Roberto<br />
Gavaldon will produce and direct "Night<br />
Call." The production is slated to start<br />
after Gavin completes his role in Titanus'<br />
"The Challenge," which will commence<br />
shooting in Rome next March.<br />
Gift Certificates to Cinerama<br />
LOS ANGELES—Anticipating the coming<br />
holiday rush for all performances of<br />
MGM's Cinerama "The Wonderful World<br />
of the Brothers Grimm." MGM has mailed<br />
special Christmas gift certificates to the 33<br />
Cinerama theatres throughout the counti"y<br />
where the George Pal production is now<br />
playing.<br />
BOXOFTICE October 29, 1962
and<br />
Millar and Turman, Producing in<br />
England, Plan Their Next in U,S.<br />
LONDON—After two pictures in England,<br />
both necessitated by stories with<br />
British locations and backgrounds, 31-<br />
year-old Stuart Millar and 34-year-old<br />
Lawrence Turman will be glad to get back<br />
to the United States for their next films<br />
for United Artists release.<br />
Although British technicians and studio<br />
workers are cooperative and the actual<br />
filming takes only a short time longer than<br />
in Hollywood or New York. Millar and Turman<br />
believe in taking over American stars<br />
to insure strong boxoffice value in the<br />
U. S. Their first picture completed in England<br />
early this summer. "The Lonely<br />
Stage." starred Judy Garland and. for this<br />
film, they also sent for Aline MacMahon.<br />
the American character actress whom they<br />
name "our good luck charm." Miss Mac-<br />
Mahon played in their first production for<br />
UA. "The Young Doctors," which was entirely<br />
filmed in New York and was released<br />
in September 1961.<br />
SUSAN HAYWARD STARS<br />
For their current British-made film.<br />
"Summer Flight." they brought over Susan<br />
Hayward to play the starring role which<br />
was created by Bette Davis in 1939 as "Dark<br />
Victory." This new version of the story was<br />
written for the screen by Jessamyn West.<br />
American author. Also in the picture is<br />
Diane Baker, also from Hollywood, and the<br />
American director is Daniel Petrie. Two<br />
British leading men. Michael Craig and<br />
Edward Judd, are costarred in "Summer<br />
Flight" and the British stage star, Basil<br />
Sydney, is featured.<br />
In "The Lonely Stage." which costars<br />
the British Dirk Bogarde. the director was<br />
Ronald Neame. also from England. Both<br />
pictures were made at the Shepperton Studios<br />
with "Summer Flight" a Mlrisch-<br />
Barbican presentation but both for UA release.<br />
Millar and Tui'man were bundled up<br />
while on the outdoor set of a huge mansion<br />
surrounded by well-kept gardens outside of<br />
Ascot, near London. They both had praise<br />
for Miss Hayward. who was shivering in a<br />
low-cut evening gown during the chill<br />
night-time filming of a garden scene with<br />
Miss Baker. They also said that, despite<br />
rumors of Judy Garland's temperament,<br />
she worked hard and was "most cooperative"<br />
during the filming of "The Lonely<br />
Stage."<br />
BOTH FROM LOS ANGELES<br />
Millar and Turman, who are both products<br />
of Los Angeles public schools, gravitated<br />
naturally to films. Turman became<br />
an agent handling Audrey Hepburn and<br />
Elizabeth Taylor, among others, for the<br />
Kurt Frings Agency, while Millar was assigned<br />
to the Army Signal Corps doing documentaries<br />
during the Korean War, first<br />
at Astoria, Long Island, then in Germany.<br />
Millar became associate to producer-director<br />
William Wyler on "Friendly Persuasion"<br />
and then he produced "The Young<br />
Stranger" and "Stage Struck" for William<br />
Dozier of RKO. After a year's contract at<br />
MGM, during which he failed to get together<br />
on properties, he severed his con-<br />
Lawrence Turman, left, and Stuart<br />
Millar, young producers of features for<br />
United Artists, chat with Frank Leyendeeker<br />
of BOXOFFICE at the Ascot<br />
outdoors filming near London for<br />
"Summer Flight," a Mirisch-Barbican<br />
film starring Susan Hayward.<br />
nection to form Millar-Turman Productions<br />
with Turman, who was his agent.<br />
The first Millar-Turman picture was<br />
"The Young Doctors," made with Drexel<br />
Films, Dick Clark's motion picture firm.<br />
For the future, also for United Artists<br />
release. Millar-Turman will produce the<br />
film version of Gore Vidal's Broadway<br />
stage success, "The Best Man," scheduled<br />
to start early in 1963, and then they will<br />
do "Cast the First Stone," being written<br />
by Abby Mann, who won an Academy<br />
Award for his screenplay of "Judgment at<br />
Nuremberg."<br />
Ernest Sands Is Named<br />
AA Domestic Sales Head<br />
NEW YORK — Ernest Sands has resigned<br />
as general sales manager of Astor<br />
Pictures and will join<br />
Allied Artists November<br />
5 as domestic<br />
sales manager, ac-<br />
Ernest<br />
Sands<br />
cording to Edward<br />
M o r e y. vice-president.<br />
Sands, who has<br />
been with Astor for<br />
the past year, served<br />
in various executive<br />
sales posts with Warner<br />
Bros, for 12 years.<br />
Morey said that<br />
"Ernie Sands brings<br />
with him an excellent background of distribution<br />
experience which will prove a<br />
valuable asset to Allied Artists and exhibitors<br />
alike. We are pleased to have him<br />
with us and welcome him to our organization."<br />
Lubin and Uris Plan Film<br />
NEW YORK—Producer Ronald Lubin<br />
and author Leon Uris will produce the latter's<br />
best-selling novel, "Mila 18," as an<br />
independent joint venture. Uris will write<br />
the screenplay. Uris' two previous novels.<br />
"Battle Cry " "Exodus." were made<br />
into pictures by Warner Bros, and Otto<br />
Preminger for United Artists, respectively.<br />
Worldwide Festival<br />
To Be in Hollywood<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood's first International<br />
Film Festival, long anticipated by<br />
filmmakers throughout the world, will become<br />
a reality of major stature in 1963<br />
under the sponsorship of the Screen Producers<br />
Guild, according to an announcement<br />
made by Lawrence Weingarten,<br />
president of the SPG.<br />
Decision to spearhead this American<br />
event of worldwide importance, which will<br />
include television films as well as theatrical<br />
motion pictures, was made at a special<br />
meeting of the executive board of the<br />
Screen Producers Guild.<br />
Walter M. Mirisch and John Houseman<br />
have been appointed cochairmen of the<br />
American Film Festival committee. All<br />
guilds and unions, as well as producing<br />
companies and distributors, will be invited<br />
to join with the SPG in planning and executing<br />
what Weingarten declared will be<br />
"designed to be the most elaborate and<br />
dramatic festival ever held."<br />
The SPG president also said. "It is with<br />
enormous pride that the Screen Producers<br />
Guild undertakes the responsibility of coordinating<br />
the first American Film Festival.<br />
We know that this most important event<br />
will enjoy the enthusiastic participation of<br />
every member of the motion picture industry.<br />
Entries and artists from every film<br />
producing center in the world Vvfill be invited<br />
to this festival. Competitions will be<br />
conducted and prizes awarded in all categories<br />
of creative filmmaking."<br />
Within the next few weeks the SPG will<br />
reveal detailed plans for the festival. They<br />
are communicating their plans to the State<br />
Department and the United States Information<br />
Agency and are requesting the fullest<br />
possible government cooperation.<br />
Prize-winning filmmakers Pare Lorentz<br />
and Sidney Peterson and industry filmproducing<br />
executive W. J. Blaskovich will<br />
judge the "Film As Communication" competition<br />
of 16mm nontheatrical films at this<br />
year's San Francisco International Film<br />
Festival.<br />
The finalists in the 16mm winners<br />
will be shown at the Metro Theatre on November<br />
7-9. The public is invited free of<br />
charge, for in addition to the screenings,<br />
there will be panel discussions.<br />
Martin Manulis to Judge<br />
At Monte Carlo Festival<br />
MONTE CARLO — Motion picture<br />
and<br />
television producer Martin Manulis has accepted<br />
an invitation from the Committee of<br />
the Third International Television Festival<br />
of Monte Carlo to be one of the two U.S.<br />
members of the 11-member jury now being<br />
chosen from individuals throughout the<br />
world who have made outstanding contributions<br />
to the creative arts. After having<br />
won 11 Emmy Awards for his television<br />
activities, he recently completed his first<br />
motion picture production, "Days of Wine<br />
and Roses," for Warner Bros.<br />
Manulis will arrive in Monte Carlo January<br />
8 for a week of screenings of the entries<br />
prior to the presentation of the Golden<br />
Nymph awards at a gala awards dinner on<br />
January 19.<br />
10 BOXOFFICE October 29. 1962
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Millar and Turman, Producing in<br />
England, Plan Their Next in U.S,<br />
LONDON— Aflci- two pictures in England,<br />
both necessitated by stories with<br />
British locations and backgrounds. 31-<br />
year-old Stuart Millar and 34-year-old<br />
Lawrence Turman will be glad to get back<br />
to the United States for their next films<br />
for United Artists release.<br />
Although British technicians and studio<br />
workers are cooperative and the actual<br />
filming takes only a short time longer than<br />
in Hollywood or New York. Millar and Turman<br />
believe in taking over American stars<br />
to insure strong boxoffice value in the<br />
U. S. Their first picture completed in England<br />
early this summer. "The Lonely<br />
Stage." starred Judy Garland and. for this<br />
film, they also sent for Aline MacMahon.<br />
the American character actress whom they<br />
name "our good luck charm." Miss Mac-<br />
Mahon played in their first production for<br />
UA. "The Young Doctors." which was entirely<br />
filmed in New York and was released<br />
in September 1961.<br />
SUSAN HAYWARD STARS<br />
For their current British-made film.<br />
"Summer Flight." they brought over Susan<br />
Hayward to play the starring role which<br />
was created by Bette Davis in 1939 as "Dark<br />
Victory." This new version of the story was<br />
written for the screen by Jessamyn West.<br />
American author. Also in the picture is<br />
Diane Baker, also from Hollywood, and the<br />
American director is Daniel Petrie. Two<br />
British leading men. Michael Craig and<br />
Edward Judd. are costarred in "Summer<br />
Flight" and the British stage star. Basil<br />
Sydney, is featured.<br />
In "The Lonely Stage." which costars<br />
the British Dirk Bogarde, the director was<br />
Ronald Neame, also from England. Both<br />
pictures were made at the Shepperton Studios<br />
with "Summer Flight" a Mirisch-<br />
Barbican presentation but both for UA release.<br />
Millar and Tui'man were bundled up<br />
while on the outdoor set of a huge mansion<br />
surrounded by well-kept gardens outside of<br />
Ascot, near London. They both had praise<br />
for Miss Hayward. who was shivering in a<br />
low-cut evening gown during the chill<br />
night-time filming of a garden scene with<br />
Miss Baker. They also said that, despite<br />
rumors of Judy Garland's temperament,<br />
she worked hard and was "most cooperative"<br />
during the filming of "The Lonely<br />
Stage."<br />
BOTH FROM LOS ANGELES<br />
Millar and Turman, who are both products<br />
of Los Angeles public schools, gravitated<br />
naturally to films. Tm-man became<br />
an agent handling Audrey Hepburn and<br />
Elizabeth Taylor, among others, for the<br />
Kurt Frings Agency, while Millar was assigned<br />
to the Army Signal Corps doing documentaries<br />
during the Korean War, first<br />
at Astoria, Long Island, then in Germany.<br />
Millar became associate to producer-director<br />
William Wyler on "Friendly Persuasion"<br />
and then he produced "The Young<br />
Stranger" and "Stage Struck" for William<br />
Dozier of RKO. After a year's contract at<br />
MOM, during which he failed to get together<br />
on properties, he severed his con-<br />
Lawrence Turman, left, and Stuart<br />
Millar, young producers of features for<br />
United Artists, chat with Frank Leyendecker<br />
of BOXOFFICE at the Ascot<br />
outdoors filming near London for<br />
"Summer Flight," a Mirisch-Barbican<br />
film starring Susan Hayward.<br />
nection to form Millar-Turman Productions<br />
with Turman, who was his agent.<br />
The first Millar-Turman picture was<br />
"The Young Doctors," made with Drexel<br />
Films, Dick Clark's motion picture firm.<br />
For the future, also for United Artists<br />
release. Millar-Turman will produce the<br />
film version of Gore Vidal's Broadway<br />
"<br />
stage success, "The Best Man, scheduled<br />
to start early in 1963, and then they will<br />
do "Cast the First Stone," being written<br />
by Abby Mann, who won an Academy<br />
Award for his screenplay of "Judgment at<br />
Nuremberg."<br />
Ernest Sands Is Named<br />
AA Domestic Sales Head<br />
NEW YORK — Ernest Sands has resigned<br />
as general sales manager of Astor<br />
Pictures and will join<br />
Allied Artists November<br />
5 as domestic<br />
sales manager, ac-<br />
Ernest<br />
Sands<br />
cording to Edward<br />
M o r e y, vice-president.<br />
Sands, who has<br />
been with Astor for<br />
the past year, served<br />
in various executive<br />
sales posts with Warner<br />
Bros, for 12 years.<br />
Morey said that<br />
"Ernie Sands brings<br />
with him an excellent background of distribution<br />
experience which will prove a<br />
valuable asset to Allied Artists and exhibitors<br />
alike. We are pleased to have him<br />
with us and welcome him to our organization."<br />
Lubin and Uris Plan Film<br />
NEW YORK—Producer Ronald Lubin<br />
and author Leon Uris will produce the latter's<br />
best-selling novel. "Mila 18." as an<br />
independent joint venture. Uris will write<br />
the screenplay. Uris' two previous novels.<br />
"Battle Cry" and "Exodus." were made<br />
into pictures by Warner Bros, and Otto<br />
Preminger for United Artists, respectively.<br />
Worldwide Festival<br />
To Be in Hollywood<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood's first International<br />
Film Festival, long anticipated by<br />
filmmakers throughout the world, will become<br />
a reality of major stature in 1963<br />
under the sponsorship of the Screen Producers<br />
Guild, according to an announcement<br />
made by Lawrence Weingarten,<br />
president of the SPG.<br />
Decision to spearhead this American<br />
event of worldwide importance, which will<br />
include television films as well as theatrical<br />
motion pictures, was made at a special<br />
meeting of the executive board of the<br />
Screen Producers Guild.<br />
Walter M. Mirisch and John Houseman<br />
have been appointed cochairmen of the<br />
American Film Festival committee. All<br />
guilds and unions, as well as producing<br />
companies and distributors, will be invited<br />
to join with the SPG in planning and executing<br />
what Weingarten declared will be<br />
"designed to be the most elaborate and<br />
dramatic festival ever held."<br />
The SPG president also said, "It is with<br />
enormous pride that the Screen Producers<br />
Guild undertakes the responsibility of coordinating<br />
the first American Film Festival.<br />
We know that this most important event<br />
will enjoy the enthusiastic participation of<br />
every member of the motion picture industry.<br />
Entries and artists from every film<br />
producing center in the world will be invited<br />
to this festival. Competitions will be<br />
conducted and prizes awarded in all categories<br />
of creative filmmaking."<br />
Within the next few weeks the SPG will<br />
reveal detailed plans for the festival. They<br />
are communicating their plans to the State<br />
Department and the United States Information<br />
Agency and are requesting the fullest<br />
possible government cooperation.<br />
Prize-winning filmmakers Pare Lorentz<br />
and Sidney Peterson and industry filmproducing<br />
executive W. J. Blaskovich will<br />
judge the "Film As Communication" competition<br />
of 16mm nontheatrical films at this<br />
year's San Francisco International Film<br />
Festival.<br />
The finalists in the 16mm winners<br />
will be shown at the Metro Theatre on November<br />
7-9. The public is invited free of<br />
charge, for in addition to the screenings,<br />
there will be panel discussions.<br />
Martin Manulis to Judge<br />
At Monte Carlo Festival<br />
MONTE CARLO — Motion picture<br />
and<br />
television producer Martin Manulis has accepted<br />
an invitation from the Committee of<br />
the Third International Television Festival<br />
of Monte Carlo to be one of the two U.S.<br />
members of the 11 -member jury now being<br />
chosen from individuals throughout the<br />
world who have made outstanding contributions<br />
to the creative arts. After having<br />
won 11 Emmy Awards for his television<br />
activities, he recently completed his first<br />
motion picture production, "Days of Wine<br />
and Roses," for Warner Bros.<br />
Manulis will arrive in Monte Carlo January<br />
8 for a week of screenings of the entries<br />
prior to the presentation of the Golden<br />
Nymph awards at a gala awards dinner on<br />
January 19.<br />
10 BOXOFFICE October 29. 1962
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CATV in Illinois<br />
CHICAGO — Alliance Amusement Co.,<br />
operate movie theatres. Alliance wants to<br />
own any CATV system within our audience<br />
area<br />
Ẇe cannot affoi'd to turn our heads<br />
away from progress. The motion pictiu-e<br />
industry made a big mistake by fighting<br />
television instead of joining it at its inception.<br />
It behooves us to have an open<br />
mind, and profit by our mistakes."<br />
Sidney Harman, president of the Jerrold<br />
Coi-p. expressed his gratification with the<br />
developing scope of Alliance and Jerrold<br />
oint interests.<br />
New England Variety Club<br />
Honors Mickey Daytz<br />
BOSTON—The Variety Club of New<br />
England paid tribute to Mickey Daytz at a<br />
testimonial luncheon which was held in the<br />
Georgian Room of the Statler Hilton Hotel,<br />
Tuesday (23).<br />
A prominent figui-e in the motion pictui-e<br />
industry for the past 17 years, Daytz started<br />
in Albany, N.Y., as a salesman for Warner<br />
Bros, and then was elevated to the position<br />
Df sales manager in the Boston office. He<br />
left Warner Bros, in 1951 to head his own<br />
ircuit and now supervises more than 70<br />
theatres throughout New England.<br />
Sheldon H. Levine to NTA Post<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Kenneth Herts, president<br />
3f Herts-Lion, has appointed Sheldon H.<br />
Levine, a former executive with National<br />
Telefilm Associates, exclusive sales representative<br />
for the Orient.<br />
BETWEEN THE LINES<br />
-By AL STEEN<br />
longtime operator of a circuit of theatres<br />
and drive-ins in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin<br />
and Washington state, has started construction<br />
of a community antenna television<br />
A Consent Decree Angle There's Still Time<br />
system at Streator, a city of 20,000<br />
'TJNDER the consent decrees in the case of THERE'S still time for members of Theatre<br />
Owners of America, and non-mem-<br />
southwest of here.<br />
United States vs. Paramount, et al,<br />
Alliance already is deep in the antenna<br />
successor-owners of former affiliated circuits<br />
are prevented from acquiring theatres vention in Miami Beach in case they have<br />
bers, to decide on attending the TOA con-<br />
TV field at Marseilles and Ottawa, 111., and<br />
has applications for projects at Logansport<br />
and other Indiana cities.<br />
unless they can show that such acquisitions been on the fence in making up their minds.<br />
"will not unduly restrain competition." Last-minute deciders may not be able to<br />
S. J. Gregory, president, pointed out that<br />
antemia TV is one prong of the The most recent okay by the court of a stay at the Americana Hotel because of<br />
circuit's<br />
circuit's<br />
diversification program which the company<br />
acquisition is discussed by Herman capacity reservations, but there are excellent<br />
nearby hostelries where there are<br />
started four years ago with construction of Levy, general counsel of Theatre Owners of<br />
a McDonald drive-in restaurant. The theatre<br />
firm now operates ten such eating The unanswered question is, what con-<br />
America, in this issue of <strong>Boxoffice</strong>.<br />
available rooms.<br />
The convention opens formally on<br />
places.<br />
stitutes unduly restraint of competition?<br />
Wednesday (7) and, in these days of air<br />
travel,<br />
Alliance's television enterprises ai'e joint The term never has been<br />
an exhibitor in the farthest corner<br />
clearly defined.<br />
of the state of Washington still has time<br />
ventures with Jerrold Electronics Corp. of It could mean the utilization of big buying<br />
to<br />
Philadelphia, pioneer in this field and rated power to the detriment of a circuit's competitor<br />
and that is just about the extent<br />
be present.<br />
the outstanding operator and authority on<br />
This year's TOA event shapes up as a<br />
to<br />
antenna TV. The Ottawa system, in operation<br />
a little more than a year, serves more quiring circuit still would have to abide by on the agenda will be the encouragement<br />
which the definition might apply. An ac-<br />
most constructive foi-um. Among the topics<br />
than 40 per cent of that community's the order that the licensing of pictures shall<br />
of more product, combatting pay TV, censorship,<br />
classification, wages and hours, im-<br />
homes.<br />
be on a theatre-by-theatre basis. If a competitor<br />
should find that he was being hurt proved theatre operation, new trends, new<br />
"The theatre owner's knowledge of the<br />
entertainment field," Gregory said, "and by the circuit's enti-y into his territory, his equipment and general new developments.<br />
his thorough understanding of the entertainment<br />
requirements of the public make trust suit.<br />
only recourse could be the filing of an anti-<br />
And all this will be climaxed on the night<br />
of November 10 at the gala President's<br />
Banquet. The evening social programs will<br />
community antenna system ownership a One thing that must be remembered is<br />
be loaded with activities and there will be<br />
natural for theatre operators. It is highly that even though the decree pei-mits certain<br />
practices, if they are in violation of the<br />
plenty of fun for the ladies during the days.<br />
likely that theatre owners will find this<br />
It is expected that almost 1,000 leading<br />
field increasingly attractive.<br />
antitrust laws, they are illegal because the<br />
exhibitors will be on hand, including some<br />
"It's just not reasonable to hold the point Sherman Act supersedes decrees.<br />
from Puerto Rico and England. As TOA<br />
of view that the CATV system poses a Now that it has been determined that a points out in its latest bulletin:<br />
thi-eat to the theatre owner. More to the former affiliated circuit may acquire any "It is a convention no progressive exhibitor<br />
can afford to miss!"<br />
point, is the question, who will own the niunber of theatres, subject to fair competition,<br />
there may be a rash of applications<br />
CATV system? The theatre owner, or another<br />
industry group? In towns where we in the months to<br />
•<br />
come.<br />
•<br />
A.C.E. Films Status<br />
TJEPEATEDLY, we have been asked what<br />
progress had been made with A.C.E.<br />
Films and repeatedly we had to reply that<br />
we didn't know, because Infonnation appeared<br />
to be meager. Checking up on the<br />
situation, however, a few scraps were gleaned,<br />
but nothing very decisive.<br />
The prospectus, it was learned, had been<br />
submitted to the Securities and Exchange<br />
Commission and that's where it is now.<br />
The reason for the delay in giving approval<br />
or otherwise has not been made<br />
clear. It is reported that the SEC recently<br />
has tightened up on approving certain<br />
types of public offerings, but the A.C.E.<br />
setup certainly appears to be above board<br />
and should not pose any problem.<br />
If there is any belief that the production<br />
financing company will not go through<br />
with its charted course, there seems to be<br />
no foundation for it. Prom all indications,<br />
A.C.E. Films is still in business and will<br />
continue to be.<br />
It's only the delay in getting started<br />
that's causing the anxiety. Maybe it won't<br />
be long before some substantial news will<br />
be forthcoming.<br />
Rock Hudson's Next for U-I Set<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Rock Hudson has been<br />
set to star in "Man's Favorite Sport," which<br />
Howard Hawks will produce and direct for<br />
The Obscenity Bill<br />
THE pocket-veto which President Kennedy<br />
gave to the District of Columbia antiobscenity<br />
bill should be of interest to every<br />
exhibitor because its passage in Washington<br />
could have set a formula for similar<br />
measures throughout the nation. The<br />
President's decision not to sign the bill does<br />
not mean, however, that the possibility of<br />
it still becoming a law has been eliminated.<br />
The President merely pointed out that the<br />
reasons for his refusal to sign the measure<br />
should be brought to the attention of Congress,<br />
which will reconvene in January.<br />
The Washington proposed legislation not<br />
only called for classification of motion pictures,<br />
but would have permitted the padlocking<br />
of theatres and confiscation of<br />
equipment if any pictures were shown<br />
which later were determined to be obscene,<br />
lewd or indecent. The bill went through the<br />
Senate without discussion and passed a roll<br />
call vote in the House, despite protests of<br />
some Congressmen and editorial condemnation<br />
in the press. John Stembler, president<br />
of Theatre Owners of America, and Sidney<br />
Schreiber, general counsel of Motion Picture<br />
Ass'n of America, sent personal letters<br />
to President Kennedy in opposition to the<br />
bill.<br />
Universal-International. Hawks, John Fenton<br />
Murray and Steve McNeil are scripting,<br />
the coproduction of Gibraltar Corp., Lam'el<br />
Productions, Hawks' unit and Universal.<br />
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CATV in Illinois<br />
CHICAGO — Alliance Amusement Co.,<br />
longtime operator of a circuit of theatres<br />
and drive-ins in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin<br />
and Washington state, has started constiuction<br />
of a community antemia television<br />
system at Streator. a city of 20,000<br />
southwest of here.<br />
Alliance already is deep in the antenna<br />
TV field at Marseilles and Ottawa, 111., and<br />
has applications for projects at Logansport<br />
and other Indiana cities.<br />
S. J. Gregory, president, pointed out that<br />
antenna TV is one prong of the circuit's<br />
diversification program which the company<br />
started four years ago with construction of<br />
a McDonald drive-in restaurant. The theatre<br />
firm now operates ten such eating<br />
places.<br />
Alliance's television enterprises ai'e joint<br />
ventures with Jerrold Electronics Corp. of<br />
Philadelphia, pioneer in this field and rated<br />
the outstanding operator and authority on<br />
antenna TV. The Ottawa system, In operation<br />
a little more than a year, serves more<br />
than 40 per cent of that community's<br />
homes.<br />
"The theatre owner's knowledge of the<br />
entertainment field," Gregory said, "and<br />
his thorough understanding of the entertainment<br />
requirements of the public make<br />
community antenna system ownership a<br />
natural for theatre operators. It is highly<br />
likely that theatre owners will find this<br />
field increasingly attractive.<br />
"It's just not reasonable to hold the point<br />
of view that the CATV system poses a<br />
threat to the theatre owner. More to the<br />
point, is the question, who will own the<br />
CATV system? The theatre owner, or another<br />
industry group? In towns where we<br />
operate movie theatres. Alliance wants to<br />
own any CATV system within our audience<br />
area.<br />
"We cannot afford to tmTi our heads<br />
away from progress. The motion pictui-e<br />
industry made a big mistake by fighting<br />
television instead of joining it at its inception.<br />
It behooves us to have an open<br />
mind, and profit by our mistakes."<br />
Sidney Hannan, president of the Jerrold<br />
Coi-p. expressed his gratification with the<br />
developing scope of Alliance and Jerrold<br />
joint interests.<br />
New England Variety Club<br />
Honors Mickey Daytz<br />
BOSTON—The Variety Club of New<br />
England paid tribute to Mickey Daytz at a<br />
I<br />
testimonial luncheon which was held in the<br />
Room of the Statler Hilton Hotel,<br />
Tuesday i23).<br />
prominent figui'e in the motion pictui'e<br />
industry for the past 17 years, Daytz started<br />
jin Albany, N.Y., as a salesman for Warner<br />
jBros. and then was elevated to the position<br />
of sales manager in the Boston office. He<br />
left Warner Bros, in 1951 to head his own<br />
; circuit and now supervises more than 70<br />
theatres throughout New England.<br />
'Sheldon H. Levine to NTA Post<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Kenneth Herts, president<br />
of Herts-Lion, has appointed Sheldon H.<br />
Levine, a former executive with National<br />
Telefilm Associates, exclusive sales representiative<br />
for the Orient.<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962<br />
BETWEEN THE LINES<br />
A Consent Decree Angle There's Still Time<br />
TJNDER the consent decrees in the case of<br />
United States vs. Paramount, et al,<br />
successor-owners of former affiliated circuits<br />
are prevented from acquiring theatres<br />
unless they can show that such acquisitions<br />
"will not unduly restrain competition."<br />
The most recent okay by the court of a<br />
circuit's acquisition is discussed by Herman<br />
Levy, general counsel of Theatre Owners of<br />
America, in this issue of <strong>Boxoffice</strong>.<br />
The unanswered question is, what constitutes<br />
unduly restraint of competition?<br />
The term never has been clearly defined.<br />
It could mean the utilization of big buying<br />
power to the detriment of a circuit's competitor<br />
and that is just about the extent to<br />
which the definition might apply. An acquiring<br />
circuit still would have to abide by<br />
the order that the licensing of pictures shall<br />
be on a theatre-by-theatre basis. If a competitor<br />
should find that he was being hurt<br />
by the circuit's entity into his territory, his<br />
only recourse could be the filing of an antitrust<br />
suit.<br />
One thing that must be remembered is<br />
that even though the decree pei-mits certain<br />
practices, if they are in violation of the<br />
antitrust laws, they are illegal because the<br />
Sherman Act supersedes decrees.<br />
Now that it has been determined that a<br />
former affiliated circuit may acquire any<br />
number of theatres, subject to fair competition,<br />
there may be a rash of applications<br />
In the months to come.<br />
•<br />
A.C.E. Films Status<br />
tJEPEATEDLY, we have been asked what<br />
progress had been made with A.C.E.<br />
Films and repeatedly we had to reply that<br />
we didn't know, because infoimation appeared<br />
to be meager. Checking up on the<br />
situation, however, a few scraps were gleaned,<br />
but nothing very decisive.<br />
The prospectus, it was learned, had been<br />
submitted to the Securities and Exchange<br />
Commission and that's where it is now.<br />
The reason for the delay in giving approval<br />
or otherwise has not been made<br />
clear. It is reported that the SEC recently<br />
has tightened up on approving certain<br />
types of public offerings, but the A.C.E.<br />
setup certainly appears to be above board<br />
and should not pose any problem.<br />
If there is any belief that the production<br />
financing company will not go through<br />
with its charted course, there seems to be<br />
no foundation for it. Prom all indications,<br />
A.C.E. Films is still in business and will<br />
continue to be.<br />
It's only the delay in getting started<br />
that's causing the anxiety. Maybe it won't<br />
be long before some substantial news will<br />
be forthcoming.<br />
Rock Hudson's Next for U-I Set<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Rock Hudson has been<br />
set to star in "Man's Favorite Sport," which<br />
Howard Hawks will produce and direct for<br />
-By AL STEEN<br />
THERE'S still time for members of Theatre<br />
Owners of America, and non-members,<br />
to decide on attending the TOA convention<br />
in Miami Beach in case they have<br />
been on the fence in making up their minds.<br />
Last-minute deciders may not be able to<br />
stay at the Americana Hotel because of<br />
capacity reservations, but there are excellent<br />
nearby hostelries where there are<br />
available rooms.<br />
The convention opens formally on<br />
Wednesday (7) and, in these days of air<br />
travel, an exhibitor in the farthest corner<br />
of the state of Washington still has time<br />
to be present.<br />
This year's TOA event shapes up as a<br />
most constioictive fonom. Among the topics<br />
on the agenda will be the encouragement<br />
of more product, combatting pay TV, censorship,<br />
classification, wages and hours, improved<br />
theatre operation, new trends, new<br />
equipment and general new developments.<br />
And all this will be climaxed on the night<br />
of November 10 at the gala President's<br />
Banquet. The evening social programs will<br />
be loaded with activities and there will be<br />
plenty of fun for the ladies during the days.<br />
It is expected that almost 1,000 leading<br />
exhibitors will be on hand, including some<br />
from Puerto Rico and England. As TOA<br />
points out in its<br />
latest bulletin:<br />
"It is a convention no progressive exhibitor<br />
can afford to miss!"<br />
•<br />
The Obscenity Bill<br />
PHE pocket-veto which President Kemiedy<br />
gave to the District of Columbia antiobscenity<br />
bill should be of interest to evei"y<br />
exhibitor because its passage in Washington<br />
could have set a formula for similar<br />
measures throughout the nation. The<br />
President's decision not to sign the bill does<br />
not mean, however, that the possibility of<br />
it still becoming a law has been eliminated.<br />
The President merely pointed out that the<br />
reasons for his refusal to sign the measure<br />
should be brought to the attention of Congress,<br />
which will reconvene in January.<br />
The Washington proposed legislation not<br />
only called for classification of motion pictures,<br />
but would have permitted the padlocking<br />
of theatres and confiscation of<br />
equipment if any pictures were shown<br />
which later were determined to be obscene,<br />
lewd or indecent. The bill went through the<br />
Senate without discussion and passed a roll<br />
call vote in the House, despite protests of<br />
some Congressmen and editorial condemnation<br />
in the press. John Stembler, president<br />
of Theatre Owners of America, and Sidney<br />
Schreiber, general counsel of Motion Picture<br />
Ass'n of America, sent personal letters<br />
to President Kennedy in opposition to the<br />
bill.<br />
Universal-International. Hawks. John Fenton<br />
Murray and Steve McNeil are scripting,<br />
the coproduction of Gibraltar Corp., Laurel<br />
Productions. Hawks' unit and Universal.<br />
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sisting<br />
POLITICAL ARENA OFFERS<br />
CHALLENGE TO EXHIBITORS<br />
Increasing Numbers of Theatremen Accept Responsibilities of Elective Offices<br />
Motion picture exhibitors throughout the country, traditionally<br />
aiuare of their civic respoyisibilities as businessmen, are<br />
coming more and more to the forefront in the political lives of<br />
their co7nmunities. states and nation. Their election to public<br />
office attests to the esteem with which they are regarded by their<br />
constituents and it bears ivitmess to the fact that wide participation<br />
in ciiuc affairs usually proves highly advantageous to theatre<br />
operation, by enlarging the exhibitor's circle of acquaintance and<br />
by building in his associates a seyise of confidence in him.<br />
In order to have decent self-government, one theatremanoffice<br />
holder told <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, respo7isible citizens must be interested<br />
and ivilling to serve. Local government, he continued, is<br />
just as important as federal and state government. "If we can't<br />
make democracy ivork in our own communities, we can scarcely<br />
expect it to work on the higher levels." He added that he saw<br />
hopeful signs that there is a tendency for more businessmen, including<br />
theatremen, to run for office.<br />
With November elections approaching, <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, in this<br />
issue, has selected only a few of the many public-spirited exhibitors<br />
for recognition.<br />
EDWARD V.<br />
LONG<br />
Serving his home state on the national level, and currently<br />
seeking a second term, is U.S. Senator from Missouri, Edward V.<br />
Long, veteran theatreman who operates the<br />
Orpheum Theatre at Elsberry and the<br />
Trojan Theatre at Troy, Mo.<br />
Senator Long began his political career<br />
as city attorney for Bowling Green, Mo.,<br />
where he makes his home, and as Pike<br />
County prosecuting attorney. He subsequently<br />
was elected to the Missouri Senate where<br />
he served three terms and at one time was<br />
president pro tern. In 1956, Long was<br />
elected overwhelmingly as Missouri lieutenant-governor,<br />
serving with Governor<br />
James T. Blair jr. Dui'ing a lengthy illness<br />
of Blair, Long was acting governor.<br />
In August of 1960, Missoui'i's U.S. Senator, Tom Hennings, died.<br />
Governor Blair appointed Long to fill Hennings' term until the<br />
November elections, at which time Long was elected to complete the<br />
remaining two years of the Hennings term. He now is running on<br />
the Democrat ticket for a full six-year term.<br />
CHARLES F. CARPENTIER<br />
The 29th secretary of state of Illinois and a drive-in theatre<br />
owner, Charles F. Carpentier has marked 38 years as a<br />
public official, starting in 1924 with his<br />
election as alderman for East Moline, and<br />
just four years after his entry into the<br />
motion picture business with the Strand<br />
Theatre in that city.<br />
Carpentier, who has interests in the<br />
Memri Drive-In, Milan, HI., the Semri at<br />
Silvis and the Oasis at Davenport, Iowa, also<br />
has the distinction of being the only successful<br />
Republican candidate on the state<br />
ticket in the midst of a Democratic landslide<br />
in the 1960 election.<br />
In 1933, Carpentier was elected state<br />
senator, a performance he repeated in 1942, 1946 and 1950. He<br />
resigned midway through his fourth teiTn to become secretary of<br />
state after defeating the inciunbent in one of the most closely<br />
contested elections in Illinois history. Four years later, he won<br />
reelection and led the state Republican ticket to victory with a<br />
plurality of more than 600.000 votes.<br />
Carpentier and his brother Emil, in 1925, bought the Lyric and<br />
Majestic theatres, both now closed. Carpentier later sold his<br />
interest in the Strand to his brother, but retained the drive-in<br />
interests, which he had acquired in the 1940s.<br />
Most outstanding accomplishment of his administration of<br />
his office has been sponsorship of the Illinois drivers license<br />
law and his administration of it since it was enacted in 1953. That<br />
law is credited with saving many hundreds of lives in the state.<br />
CHARLES F.<br />
ILES<br />
Charles F. Hes, a partner in Iowa Film Delivery Co., is<br />
serving his ninth year on the Des Moines city council and his<br />
third year as mayor of the Iowa capital city.<br />
Earlier this year he was elected to the<br />
governing body of the American Municipal<br />
Ass'n, a national federation of state leagues<br />
of municipalities representing 13,500 cities<br />
in the United States and Puerto Rico. He<br />
was president of the Iowa League of<br />
Municipalities last year and now is a director<br />
of the state league. He is president<br />
of the North Central Ai'ea Council of the<br />
YMCA and a director of the "Y" in Des<br />
Moines. lies is a director of the Iowa<br />
Methodist Hospital and a member of the<br />
executive committee of Wesley Acres, Methodist home for the<br />
aged in Des Moines. His partner in the Iowa Film Delivery is<br />
Harold McKinney, former chief barker of the Des Moines Variety<br />
Tent and active in the Shrine.<br />
"In my opinion," lies said, "the question is not whether one<br />
can afford to be involved in worthwhile civic activities, but<br />
whether one can afford not to be involved. If your city experiences<br />
economic and cultural growth, your business generally will grow<br />
with it. Moreover, the community is your family's home, and<br />
their well-being, to a large extent, will depend on the kind of<br />
community you live in. What you get out of community life is<br />
in dii'ect proportion to what you contribute to it."<br />
ALPHA A.<br />
FOWLER JR.<br />
The owner of the Alpha Theatre and Lithia Drive-In, Douglasville,<br />
Ga., Alpha A. Fowler, now is serving his sixth term in the<br />
Georgia House of Representatives and is<br />
considered one of the state's foremost'<br />
i^ authorities on agricultui'e, sponsoring or as-<br />
^^^ , passage of nearly all of Georgia's<br />
M major farm legislation in the last decade.<br />
"^<br />
itSs<br />
^^^^ ^^^ theatre manager has the opportunity<br />
and obligation to be a real influence<br />
for good and happiness in his place,"<br />
^ ,_i^_ Fowler said. "Our industry owes this to<br />
^1 m^^^W the community because the theatre and its<br />
^^ ^UBiB^- manager are such a vital part of the real<br />
^^^''t
,<br />
atives<br />
POSTS HELD RANGE FROM MAYOR TO UNITED STATES SENATOR<br />
J. E. DUNCAN<br />
Another Georgian, J. E. Duncan, owner of the Duncan Theatres<br />
at Carrollton, has served 14 years in the Georgia General<br />
Assembly, where he has several times been<br />
almost single-handedly successful in curtailing<br />
efforts to place special taxes on theatres.<br />
"My civic work has helped to make me<br />
known to many people in the General<br />
Assembly." Duncan said, "and I am partly<br />
responsible for the fact that none of these<br />
bills were ever reported out of committee."<br />
Duncan entered theatre business in 1925.<br />
in Atlanta, performing various duties at the<br />
West End and Empire theatres. He opened<br />
his Carrollton theatres, the Carroll and the<br />
Family Drive-In, in 1940, and, at various times through the years,<br />
has operated theatres In Alabama and South Carolina.<br />
Duncan is a member and former director of the Carrollton<br />
Rotary Club and, as such, organized the midget football club,<br />
serving as chairman of that committee for four years. He also<br />
is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and many other organizations.<br />
DON R.<br />
PEARS<br />
Don R. Pears, until recently owner and operator of the Hollywood<br />
Theatre, Buchanan, Mich., credited his experience as a<br />
theatreman as a special qualification for<br />
community service. Pears now is serving his<br />
second two-year term as speaker of the<br />
state House of Representatives, and is a<br />
leading Republican candidate for the fourth<br />
Michigan Congressional District, the position<br />
occupied for decades by Clare E. Hoff-<br />
-^<br />
^ ^ man.<br />
A fc "^<br />
'<br />
ry'T "^o believe," Pears said, "that I have<br />
^^^Tj^^^^^^ the advantage of being able to advise my<br />
^^HL^^Hn^^^l constituents that I am a business man<br />
:^H[^^ ^^'^ that, as a former motion picture ex-<br />
^^^^^ ^V^^^l ~ ^^^* hibitor, I know what it means to meet<br />
payrolls and to actually have to get out and work for a living."<br />
His first political ventui'e came in 1926, when he was elected<br />
registrar of deeds for Berrien County. He also was county juvenile<br />
agent for the State Welfare Department for six years. In 1941,<br />
he was elected county clerk, but was called into the Army after<br />
a year. After discharge from the Army, in 1944. he again became<br />
county clerk. In 1950. he was elected to the House of Representand<br />
in 1957-58 was named speaker pro tem, and subsequently<br />
speaker.<br />
j<br />
JAMES E.<br />
BENTON<br />
The president of Benton Theatres at Saratoga Springs, N.Y..<br />
at the age of 37, is serving his second term as mayor of that<br />
resort city. James E. Benton's record of<br />
^^|Mak service to his community began when he<br />
^JI^W^B^ entered the theatre business with his father<br />
^T \ in 1948, shortly after his graduation from<br />
Holy Cross College. Today, the Benton Theatre<br />
interests actively operate the Strand<br />
and the Champlain in Plattsburgh, while<br />
several of its other houses are operated<br />
under lease by other firms.<br />
"The only benefit I receive from serving<br />
as mayor," Benton said, "is the satisfaction<br />
of trying to improve the condition of my<br />
fellow Saratogans."<br />
a past president of the Saratoga Chamber of Com-<br />
Benton is<br />
merce: past president and board member of the local library.<br />
Currently, he is a member of the committee for the performing<br />
arts which will cooperate with the state in the construction of<br />
a $2,400,000 outdoor theati'e for symphony concerts, ballet and<br />
other entertainment on the state-owned Saratoga Springs Reservation.<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962<br />
HARRY J.<br />
LANKHORST<br />
The owner of the Sioux Theatre and Wigwam Drive-In in<br />
Hawarden, Iowa. Harry J. Lankhorst began serving his third twoyear<br />
term as mayor of that small town in<br />
January 1962. He previously served as mayor<br />
111 1956-57 and 1958-59.<br />
Lankhorst also is president of the Rotary<br />
Club, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,<br />
and, for the last six years has been<br />
board member of the Hawarden Industrial<br />
Development Corp. He is a member of the<br />
board of the Red Cross. He previously<br />
served as president of the Chamber of Commerce<br />
for six years and also was president<br />
of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.<br />
"I think every theatreman should take an<br />
active part in his community," Lankhorst said. "It gives him a<br />
broader view and understanding of his town and its problems,<br />
and keeps him and his theatre in the eyes of the public, his bread<br />
and butter. I have made a rule to take an active part in everything<br />
that is good for my town. I live here and want it to be<br />
one of the best towns in the country. By achieving this, I can<br />
feel that I have had a small part in its success and will leave it<br />
a better place in which to live."<br />
WILLIAM G.<br />
ENLOE<br />
The long-time district manager for Wilby-Kincey Theatres<br />
eastern North Carolina, 62-year-old William Gilmore Enloe<br />
now is in his third term as mayor of<br />
Raleigh, the Tar Heel State's capital city.<br />
Consistently supported at election time by<br />
almost every political faction in the city,<br />
Enloe is also serving his fifth term on the<br />
city council.<br />
A native of Indianapolis, Ind., Enloe<br />
entered the motion picture business as a<br />
popcorn seller at the Bijou Theatre in<br />
Greenville, S.C. at the age of 12. He<br />
eventually became ticket taker, and finally<br />
manager of the Bijou and another theatre.<br />
He became interested in politics when he<br />
came to Raleigh in 1925 as head of several motion picture theatres.<br />
He has been head of W-K Theatres in eastern North Carolina<br />
since 1939.<br />
As mayor and council member of Raleigh, Enloe has worked<br />
tirelessly and successfully for fluoridation of the city's water, on<br />
federal housing projects, urban development, boulevards which tie<br />
in with a system of beltlines ringing the city, an ultra-modern<br />
city hall and a new city-county public library.<br />
TWO NEW CANDIDATES<br />
Seeking election to their respective state<br />
Houses of Representatives on November 6<br />
are Albert Pickus. fonner president and now<br />
board chairman of Theatre Owners of<br />
America, and Calvin A. Strowig, 38-year-old<br />
Abilene, Kas., theatreman.<br />
Pickus. owner of the Stratford Theatre,<br />
Stratford. Conn., and long active in politics,<br />
will be a candidate on the Republican ticket<br />
in Connecticut. Strowig<br />
will run as a Republican<br />
candidate in<br />
Albert Pickus the Kansas elections.<br />
Strowig and his<br />
brother Bob are partners in several theatres<br />
including the Plaza and Ti-ail's End Drive-<br />
In at Abilene and other houses in Oklahoma<br />
and Iowa. Their father, the late Homer<br />
Strowig, was a life-long theatreman and<br />
twice mayor of Abilene. Young Strowig has<br />
been active in both civic and charitable<br />
organizations, and is a past director of the<br />
old Kansas-Missouri Theatre Ass'n.<br />
Calvin Strowig<br />
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'i^oUcfcw^ ^eftont<br />
pEBBTE REYNOLDS, president of the<br />
Thalians. one of the film colonies' most<br />
highly regarded charitable organizations,<br />
announced the Rroup will host a "Mutiny<br />
Till Dawn" party following the west coast<br />
premiere of MGM's "Mutiny on the<br />
Bounty," which opens at the Egyptian Theatre<br />
on November 15. The studio has<br />
turned o\er tlie opening night to the Tlialians<br />
to raise funds at $100 and $50 per seat<br />
for construction and maintenance of the<br />
Thalians' new million-dollar clinic for<br />
emotionally disturbed children. The clinic<br />
is to be on the grounds of Cedar-Sinai<br />
Hospital in Los Angeles. The party will be<br />
held at Lytton Art Center on Sunset boulevaid<br />
under the supervision of Miss Reynolds.<br />
Social and civic leaders will join<br />
some of the film capital's most noted luminaries<br />
in supporting the event. Other major<br />
stars of the organization, in addition to<br />
Miss Reynolds, are Nick Adams. John<br />
Cone, Gary Crosby, Bill Dana. Glenn Ford,<br />
Shirley MacLaine, Johnny Mathis, Hugh<br />
O'Brien, Connie Stevens, Rod Taylor and<br />
Margaret Whiting.<br />
.<br />
Producer Edward Small resumes feature<br />
film production this week with "The<br />
Corpse Makers," for United Artists with<br />
"Vincent Price starring. Sidney Salkow will<br />
direct for producer Robert E. Kent<br />
Betty Comden and Adolph Green have been<br />
signed to pen the screenplay of "I Love<br />
Louisa," Mirisch Co., presentation which J.<br />
Lee Thompson and Arthur Jacobs will produce<br />
with Thompson directing the United<br />
Artists release. Peter SeJlers has been<br />
Martin Ransohoff, Filmways<br />
signed to star . . .<br />
topper, has signed Irene and Lewis<br />
Kamp to write the screenplay for "The<br />
Sandpiper," next on his production slate<br />
H. Nicholson, American-International<br />
president, has armounced that he<br />
will personally produce "The Seafighters,"<br />
•By CHRIS DUTRA<br />
the first Prankie Avalon feature under his<br />
recently signed four-picture deal with the<br />
company. Anthony Carras will make his<br />
feature directorial debut when the film<br />
rolls on November 26 in Hollywood .<br />
Moraga Productions, headed by Mort Sahl<br />
and his business manager Milton Ebbins, has<br />
purchased the picture rights to "Time<br />
Away," novel by Robert Kirsch. Sahl will<br />
star in and produce with Kirsch writing the<br />
screenplay.<br />
Chuck Connors has been signed by MGM<br />
to star in "Flipper" at the studio. Ivan Tors<br />
is producing ... On location in Paris, producers<br />
George Axelrod and Richard Quine<br />
solved a pressing casting problem in trying<br />
to find a "Marlene Dietrich" type for<br />
"Paris When It Sizzles" by signing Marlene<br />
Dietrich for the guest star role. Noel Coward<br />
and Tony Curtis also have guest star<br />
roles in the William Holden-Audrey Hepburn<br />
starrer being released by Paramount.<br />
Producers Noi-man Lear and Bud Yorkin<br />
have signed Jack Baker to choreograph the<br />
title-song-dance-number i n Paramount'<br />
"Come Blow Your Horn." Nick Castle,<br />
originally scheduled to create the number,<br />
has been forced to bow out of the assignment<br />
because of a conflict in his schedule<br />
Richard Wilson has been signed by Warner<br />
Bros, to direct "Wall of Noise," scheduled<br />
to start shooting on the Burbank lot<br />
in December. Wilson's last two screen<br />
credits are "Al Capone" and "Pay or Die."<br />
Joseph Landon will produce from his own and that of the film's star, Frank Sinatra<br />
screenplay based on the novel by Daniel<br />
instant color-change camera shutter<br />
has come to Hollywood movie-making,<br />
Stein. Landon authored "The Hoodlum<br />
Priest." and was writer-producer on "The resulting in unprecedented in-camera color<br />
Explosive Generation" and additionally changes in the filming of Jerry Lewis' "The<br />
scripted the currently shooting "Johnny Nutty Professor." Lewis and his cinematographer<br />
Cool" for Peter Lawford's Chrislaw Productions<br />
Wallace Kelley devised the new color<br />
. . . Gene Tierney has been signed by shutter to effect fantastic color changes in<br />
producer Walter Mirisch for a key role in mid-scene—to be seen at once in the next<br />
"Toys in the Attic," now shooting on the day's i-ushes, instead of being accomplished<br />
Goldwyn lot under the direction of George weeks later in the film-processing laboratory.<br />
Roy Hill. The actress joins a lineup of top<br />
The shutter embodies a split-disc half<br />
names including Dean Martin, Geraldine<br />
Page, Yvette Mimieux and Wendy Hiller<br />
Joey Jackson, 21, Chicago born protege<br />
composed of colored gelatin, and half com-<br />
. . .<br />
of Sammy Davis jr., has been cast as an<br />
.<br />
Mack Davis has been set to write the lyrics<br />
Has Nostalgic Aspect<br />
for the title song in "Rampage," Seven Arts<br />
undergraduate in Jerry Lewis' "The Nutty<br />
Professor" now shooting at Paramount<br />
Filming of 'McLintock!'<br />
production for Warner Bros, for which<br />
Elmer Bernstein is composing the score.<br />
There is a definite nostalgic aspect<br />
to "McLintock!" a Batjac production<br />
for United Artists release, which is currently<br />
shooting in Nogales, Ariz. Ten<br />
years ago, when John Ford made the<br />
Academy Award winner "The Quiet<br />
Man," his stars were John Wayne,<br />
Maureen O'Hara and Victor McLaglen,<br />
with Wayne's son, Patrick, then 13<br />
years old, also in the cast. Ford's assistant<br />
director was McLaglen's son<br />
Andrew.<br />
"McLintock!" also stars John Wayne<br />
and Maureen O'Hara, with Patrick<br />
Wayne in one of the costarring roles.<br />
And the director is Andi'ew V. McLaglen.<br />
Others in the cast are Yvonne<br />
DeCarlo, Stefanie Powers, Chill Wills<br />
and Jack Kruschen. Michael Wayne,<br />
son of John, is holding the production<br />
reins. The production will be in<br />
Panavision and Technicolor.<br />
Extra Turns Out to Be<br />
An Old Movie 'Pro'<br />
On location in Knoxville, Term., Alex<br />
Segal, now directing the David Susskind<br />
production "All the Way Home,"<br />
which stars Jean Simmons and Robert<br />
Preston, i.ssued a call for Tennesseans<br />
to appear in the drama as extras.<br />
Segal, who assumed that the local citizens<br />
he hired as extras were amateurs,<br />
was considerably impressed by the<br />
calm demeanor, poise and exemplary<br />
behavior of one of the natives. "She"<br />
walked through her scenes so professionally<br />
that Segal had to investigate<br />
her background. His instinct proved<br />
right. The extra was an old movie veteran<br />
who recently appeared in Elia<br />
Kazan's "Wild River." The "pro" is<br />
named Molly . . . She's a dark, milkwagon<br />
horse with white markings who<br />
hails from East Temiessee. She is open<br />
to other offers, but will not sign a longterm<br />
contract!<br />
posed of a neutral filter of the same<br />
density, obviating the need for any changes<br />
of exposure. With manual manipulation,<br />
it causes immediate or gradual changes<br />
from normal to tinted lighting at will. It<br />
may be adapted to in-camera variable diffusion<br />
as well. Kelley said that the device<br />
is being made available to the industry<br />
without cost or restriction, but will reach<br />
the screen first as a startling effect in the<br />
Jerry Lewis film.<br />
Harold Hecht, whose "Flight From<br />
Ashiya" is cun-ently lensing in and around<br />
Rome, has cancelled plans to film several<br />
sequences in North Africa, because of the<br />
political uni-est in Algiers. Instead, according<br />
to Hecht, the company will film Arab<br />
sequences at Cinecitta Village, Italy, where<br />
special sets are now being constructed by<br />
art director Eugene Lourie. "Flight From<br />
Ashiya," is a United Artists release starring<br />
Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George<br />
Chakiris, Suzy Parker and Shirley Knight<br />
under the direction of Michael Anderson<br />
Panama and Melvin Frank i<br />
have signed Peter Lawford to costar with i<br />
Danny Kaye and Melina Mercouri in their<br />
original comedy "Five Pieces of Maria"<br />
which will start shooting on location in<br />
Athens on December 1, for United Artists<br />
release.<br />
Henry "Moon River" Mancini will compose<br />
the musical score for Stanley Donen's<br />
"Charade" currently shooting in Paris with<br />
Cai-y Grant and Audrey Hepburn starring<br />
in the Universal-International release . . .<br />
Novelist Polan Banks has finalized plans<br />
for the filming of "Counsel for the Crown"<br />
as his first production under the banner<br />
of Polan Banks Enterprises, Inc. The $2<br />
million film in color from his own screenplay<br />
is based on his novel, "Crown Versus<br />
Axminster," just completed, which Dodd,<br />
Mead and Co. will publish next year. The<br />
film is scheduled to roll in London next<br />
June. Banks will handle all production<br />
chores on the picture and will sign an<br />
American director. He is currently filming<br />
"Maharajah," for Allied Artists release<br />
with George Marshall directing.<br />
22 BOXOFTICE October 29, 1962
Ross to Do 'Mister Moses'<br />
And 'Peale Story' for UA<br />
NEW YORK—A picture dealing with<br />
modern Africa and another based on the<br />
life of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the<br />
noted minister and author, will occupy producer<br />
Prank Ross' time during the next two<br />
years, he told a tradepress session here.<br />
The African picture will be "Mister<br />
Moses," by Max Catto, and will be made in<br />
Kenya next summer. "The Norman Vincent<br />
Ptale Story," tentative title, will be made<br />
in New York, starting early in 1963. Both<br />
will be released by United Artists.<br />
Ross had just returned from Kenya,<br />
Tanganyika and other African locales<br />
where he scouted locations for "Mister<br />
Moses." It is a story about a confidence<br />
man who sells medicine to natives and performs<br />
magic tricks. The natives take his<br />
name of Moses literally and look to him for<br />
assistance when they have to move to make<br />
way for the construction of a dam.<br />
The producer said that Kenya was an<br />
ideal spot because it contained lush country,<br />
a lake, badlands, excellent tribal characters<br />
and essential transportation facilities—all<br />
in a single area of 35 miles. No<br />
star has been signed, although he has<br />
several under consideration. He contended<br />
that the use of an established star did not<br />
guarantee a successful picture, but it did<br />
guarantee performance.<br />
"Mister Moses" will be Ross' most ambitious<br />
project since "The Robe." It will<br />
be budgeted at just under $3,000,000. Other<br />
Catto novels which have been adapted for<br />
the screen were "Trapeze," "Fire Down<br />
Below" and "The Devil at 4 O'clock."<br />
Para. Sets 450 Holiday<br />
Dates for Presley Film<br />
NEW YORK—Paramount has set over<br />
450 Thanksgiving holiday engagements for<br />
Hal Wallis' new Elvis Presley picture, "Girls!<br />
Girls! Girls!" according to Charles Boasberg,<br />
vice-president and general sales manager.<br />
These dates will follow the threetheatre<br />
world premiere in Hawaii at the<br />
Palace, King and Wallae Theatres in Honolulu<br />
October 31.<br />
The Thanksgiving bookings form a nationwide<br />
satm-ation in 28 key city exchange<br />
areas, following the pattern established with<br />
Pi-esley's "G.I Blues" and "Blue Hawaii,"<br />
3oasberg said. The merchandising campaign<br />
for "Girls! Girls! Girls!" will include a music<br />
promotion with RCA Victor Records' soundtrack<br />
album, tieing in with thousands of<br />
disc jockeys, travel tieups, contests and<br />
special lobby materials and accessories.<br />
Hollywood News Report<br />
May Be Ready March 1<br />
NEW YORK—A "pilot" reel<br />
of the proposed<br />
Hollywood News Report, an industry<br />
newsreel, will be presented to the Theatre<br />
Owners of America convention in Miami<br />
Beach on the morning of November 7. If<br />
2,000 theatres can be obtained to buy the<br />
service, the first issue will be ready for release<br />
on March 1.<br />
Samuel D. Berns, producer of the reel,<br />
plans to turn out 13 issues a year. Each<br />
will contain scenes from forthcoming<br />
product with a definite Hollywood background.<br />
Rental charges will be on a par<br />
with prices now paid for short subjects<br />
of similar length, about 12 minutes.<br />
Industry Tries to Live With Problems<br />
Of Its Own Creation, Says Value Line<br />
NEW YORK—The motion picture industry<br />
is trying to live with the problems<br />
it helped to create, such as blockbusters,<br />
the star system, controversial films and<br />
censorship, according to an industry analysis<br />
prepared by the Value Line.<br />
Pointing out that the number of television<br />
homes in the United States had increased<br />
almost eight-fold in the decade of<br />
the 1950s, the sui'vey asserted that motion<br />
picture theatre attendance had dropped<br />
from close to 90,000,000 patrons weekly in<br />
the late 1930s to less than 45,000,000 in the<br />
mid-1950s. In the period between 1950 and<br />
1960, the number of homes having one or<br />
more television sets rose from less than<br />
6,000,000 to nearly 45,000,000.<br />
LOW-BUDGETERS IN DECLINE<br />
In the mid-1940s, the differences in quality<br />
of films had little significance to a public<br />
more concerned with enjoying an evening<br />
of relaxation than with viewing the<br />
most "esthetic" or "super-colossal" films<br />
available. Value Line stated. With the advent<br />
of television, however, the situation<br />
changed. It was noted that producers, confronted<br />
with the loss incident to the decline<br />
in attendance, virtually stopped making<br />
low-budget pictures on the premise that<br />
they could not woo customers from their<br />
television screens by offering them the<br />
same fare they saw at home free.<br />
Instead, they turned to the so-called<br />
blockbusters which, at least, were spectacles<br />
which the small TV screens could<br />
not match. Value Line asserted that the<br />
companies developed the "star" system to<br />
further glamorize their product and began<br />
to produce controversial films which<br />
dealt with subjects which hitherto had been<br />
taboo.<br />
And, claims Value Line, they created a<br />
monster, or rather, several monsters, because<br />
each of the aforementioned steps resulted<br />
in a distinct unfortunate consequence.<br />
In the opinion of the survey-makers, these<br />
were the results.<br />
"Blockbusters were enormously expensive<br />
to produce and. consequently, enormously<br />
risky relative to their cost. The star system,<br />
child of the industry, in turn, became<br />
its master. And controversial films revived<br />
the doi-mant threat of censorship. These<br />
problems, among others, still persist. Nor<br />
are they likely to be settled overnight."<br />
BEST BOOKS, PLAYS BOUGHT<br />
By buying rights to best-selling books and<br />
hit plays, producers sought assurances that<br />
the pictures would be successful. The result<br />
was that story expenses soared and<br />
costs of failures grew even more immense.<br />
Value Line noted. To assure itself that its<br />
most expensive films would be successful,<br />
the industi-y created the star system in a<br />
more all-encompassing form.<br />
"In many cases," the survey observed,<br />
"the star theory has worked. But the cost<br />
of such star insurance has been enormous.<br />
For one thing, the stars now wield virtually<br />
as much control over production as does the<br />
producer. For another, their salaries are<br />
tremendous and they often are entitled to<br />
a share of profits while assuming none of<br />
the risks. Finally, they exert an influence<br />
not only on filming, but on advertising.<br />
promotion, script-writing—practically anything<br />
involving the picture."<br />
With the public becoming tired of standard<br />
television programs, there was a trend<br />
back to the theatres to view intelligently<br />
handled presentations of subjects not previously<br />
treated on the big screen. But the<br />
industry's action in treating controversial<br />
themes led to a revival of the threat of<br />
censorship.<br />
The Value Line report reviewed the censorship<br />
situation from 1907 to the present,<br />
pinpointing a Supreme Comt decision to<br />
the effect that motion pictures' freedom<br />
was guaranteed by the First Amendment.<br />
The recent case of "The Connection" challenged<br />
the constitutionality of the New<br />
York State's censorship law rather than<br />
the state Supreme Court's decision that the<br />
film was "obscene."<br />
On this matter. Value Line said: "If the<br />
company is successful, this might conceivably<br />
presage a court ban on all censorship.<br />
As a consequence, the major companies<br />
might be able to produce more controversial<br />
films, thereby attracting bigger audiences.<br />
The ultimate result might be better films,<br />
higher industry revenues and fatter<br />
profits."<br />
Seven Arts to Distribute<br />
Six New British Films<br />
LOS ANGELES—Seven Arts Associated<br />
Corp. has acquired American distribution<br />
rights to six new British films, "My Wife's<br />
Family," "Oh, My Papa," "Contraband<br />
Spain," "The Moonraker," "It's Never Too<br />
Late," and "No Trees in the Streets." The<br />
first five of the new films are in color and<br />
Seven Arts will distribute them in the 13<br />
western states through Robert I. Ki-onenberg's<br />
Manhattan Films International.<br />
Medallion Representative<br />
NEW YORK—Medallion Pictures has<br />
named Abbot Swartz of Minneapolis as<br />
sales representative for the Minneapolis,<br />
Des Moines, Omaha and Kansas City territories,<br />
according to MuiTay M. Kaplan,<br />
sales manager.<br />
Attention:<br />
Independent<br />
Producers<br />
BOXOFFICE ATTRACTIONS INC<br />
661 Warner Building<br />
13th and "E" Streets N.W.<br />
Washington 4, D.C.<br />
Code: 202<br />
Phone: 347-3221 or 347-8451<br />
Independent distributors of motion<br />
pictures in the following territories:<br />
Pittsburgh,<br />
Cleveland<br />
Washington,<br />
D.C.<br />
Philadelphia, Pa.<br />
hio Cincinnati, Ohio<br />
Seeking additional releases<br />
for these territories.<br />
Ira Sichelman<br />
Charles Hurley<br />
General Mgr.<br />
Salesman<br />
BOXOFTICE :: October 29. 1962<br />
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Historically and Cinematically Thrilling<br />
Bv AL STEKN<br />
II N December 1787, H.M.S. Bounty sailed from England for the<br />
island of Otaheite (now Tahiti) in the South Seas for the purpose<br />
of taking on a cargo of breadfruit for consignment to the West<br />
Indies. The Bounty and her crew remained on the island more<br />
than four months and when the breadfruit plants had been placed<br />
aboard, the ship headed for Endeavor Strait.<br />
The now historic mutiny took place on April 28, 1789, off<br />
the volcanic island of Torgua, when Fletcher Christian led the<br />
mutineers against Capt. William Bligh and started a train of events<br />
which have excited readers of adventure stories ever since.<br />
Captain Bligh and 18 of his supporters were cast adrift in a<br />
23-foot boat and performed one of the most celebrated open-boat<br />
voyages in the history of the sea. Sailing 3,618 nautical miles in<br />
41 days. Captain Bligh and his men reached Timor without loss of<br />
a single life.<br />
Fletcher Christian and his mutineers returned to Tahiti. Some<br />
of them decided to remain there, while the others elected to go<br />
with Christian and a handful of native men and women. One<br />
night, they sailed from Tahiti and vanished. Eighteen years later,<br />
a ship out of Boston, the Topaz, dropped anchor at Pitcairn Island,<br />
a lonely rock 1,300 miles southeast of Tahiti. There, the mysterious<br />
disappearance was solved. Apparently, Christian had taken his<br />
little band to Pitcairn, stripped the Bounty, run her aground and<br />
burned her. A wave of violence was touched off by trouble over<br />
women and, when the Topaz reached Pitcairn in 1808, only one<br />
of the mutineers was still alive.<br />
From these exciting events, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has turned<br />
out a picture that promises to be as thrilling, and probably more<br />
so, as the actual episodes. More than three years ago, Joseph R.<br />
Vogel, president of MGM, approved the filming of the story on a<br />
vast and authentic scale, almost unprecedented in the history of<br />
motion pictures. Aaron Rosenberg, one of the most creative producers<br />
in the industry, was assigned the mammoth task of bringing<br />
the project to the screen as an Areola Production. No effort was<br />
spared to assemble top talents for all phases of the production:<br />
Lewis Milestone to direct, Charles Lederer to write the screenplay<br />
and a cast of more than 300 to be assembled, headed by Marlon<br />
Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris and the lovely native girl,<br />
Tarita. Robert Surtees, whose camera work on "Ben-Hur" had<br />
brought him his third Academy Award, was named head cinematographer,<br />
with Harold Wellman engaged for additional photography.<br />
At the MGM studios, the research department began gathering<br />
data, while in London other researchers pored over records and<br />
the original blueprints of the Bounty which still were preserved.<br />
The building of the replica required skills of a past era, the day<br />
of wooden ships and iron men. The Smith and Rhuland shipyard<br />
in Nova Scotia was selected, because it had veteran craftsmen<br />
essential to the task. The plan from the start was to film most<br />
of the picture in and around Tahiti, in the very locales where the<br />
story had taken place. This necessitated the movement of tons<br />
of equipment and about 125 men and women to the remote South<br />
Pacific area and the maintenance of this small army for many<br />
months. It has been estimated that during the location filming,<br />
the cost amounted to an average of $10,000 in local currency per<br />
day. The unit left more than $2,000,000 in the often-lean pockets<br />
of the islanders. Approximately 7,000 of them were employed<br />
in the picture's production and almost everyone else on the island<br />
had, in one way or another, been concerned with it. And, when<br />
the troupe left, the Tahitians agreed that the island would not<br />
be the same.<br />
The role of Fletcher Christian is enacted by Marlon Brando,<br />
while the distinguished English actor, Trevor Howard, portrays<br />
Captain Bligh. Richard Harris was selected to play John Mills,<br />
one of the mutineers. To portray Maimiti, the native girl who wins<br />
the heart of Christian, it was felt that a pure Polynesian should<br />
be picked. After a long search, a 19-year-old dancer from the<br />
island of Bora Bora was chosen. Her name is Tarita and, until<br />
she was placed before the cameras, she had never heard of Hollywood<br />
or of Brando, her leading man.<br />
Others in the cast are Chips Rafferty, Richard Haydn, Duncan<br />
Lamont, Ashley Cowan, Keith McConnell, Hugh Griffith, Percy<br />
Herbert, Tim Seeiey, Noel Purcell, Eddie Byrne, Gordon Jackson,<br />
Frank Silvera and Matahiarii Tama, the latter of genuine noble<br />
Polynesian birth. In addition, 15 of Tahiti's most beautiful girls<br />
were cast for important speaking roles, along with 75 of the island's<br />
most expert dancing girls and 36 dancing boys. Ten of the girls<br />
were taken to Hollywood for interior scenes.<br />
The Bounty was reproduced from the keel up at a cost of<br />
more than $750,000. Above decks, the new Bounty is a faithful<br />
copy of the original, from rope davits to 10,000 square feet of<br />
canvas on the square-rigged masts. Bligh's vessel was 85 feet<br />
long and carried a crew of 62. MGM's Bounty is 118 feet in i<br />
length, made necessary because of the space required for the ;<br />
movement of cameras during filming. Her beam is 30 feet, six :<br />
inches with a 14-foot draft, with a tonnage of 480 gross and<br />
I<br />
128 net.<br />
Now, after grueling months of preparation and work, the<br />
picture is ready for showing and will have its world premiere in i<br />
New York's Loew's State Theatre on November 8 and in an additional<br />
23 cities before Christmas. The campaign back of the i<br />
film's launching is one of the most comprehensive in MGM's long i<br />
and successful career. One of the most important ports of the ;<br />
promotion campaign is the successful tour-to-date of the Bounty,<br />
.<br />
which has touched at many cities and, following a voyage to i<br />
England, will arrive in New York in time for the premiere.<br />
The other exploitation facets ore almost endless. At the<br />
early opening cities, a large number of promotional assists hove<br />
been devised. Among these ore special displays for libraries and<br />
schools, including copies of set and costume designs made for the<br />
film; two educational film strips,- a special 30-minute 16mm short<br />
subject, detailing the building of the Bounty and covering her<br />
voyage to Tahiti, for television and school use; MGM Records has<br />
four albums, study guides, book marks, gift certificates, paperback<br />
editions, as well as merchandising tieups with clothing and<br />
toy manufacturers. MGM has groups of exploitation experts in<br />
the field and there will be individual campaigns for each of the<br />
24 cities.<br />
No effort or expense is being spared in MGM's determination<br />
to launch the spectacular film on an unprecedented scale.<br />
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BOXOFFICE :: October 29, 1962
. . HMS<br />
DANCE LADY .<br />
. . Tarita, the 19-year-old Tahitian girl, who portrays<br />
the lecding feminine role in "Mutiny on the Bounty," has her eye on<br />
Fletcher Christian (played by Marlon Brando) as she dances in this<br />
scene from the spectacular film. This is during a party which the<br />
natives stage for Captain Bllgh and others in the Bounty crew after<br />
arrival of the ship in Tahiti.<br />
ADVICE FROM THE CAPTAIN ... In this scene, Trevor Howard, as<br />
Captain Bligh, is addressing officers and men of his ship, HMS<br />
Bounty, before they go ashore in Tahiti for the first time. They have just<br />
arrived after a voyage of almost a year from England. From left, officers<br />
in background are: Ed Byrne, Marlon Brando, Tim Seeley, Keith McConnell,<br />
Dan Krohn and Ashley Cowan.<br />
RELUCTANT DANCER . .<br />
Trevor Howard, as Captain<br />
Bligh, is forced against his<br />
will to dance with Tarita,<br />
daughter of the native<br />
chieftain, during the feast<br />
held to celebrate arrival of<br />
HMS Bounty in Tahiti.<br />
Bligh must perform the<br />
dance lest he might offend mjft^<br />
•he native chief, whose<br />
friendship he seeks. THE BOUNTY UNDER SAIL .<br />
Bounty sails across the sea in this colorful scene,<br />
carrying Captain Bligh and remainder of her crew to Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants.<br />
THE LANDING ... As<br />
Captain Bligh leads his men<br />
ashore in Tahiti following<br />
the long voyage from England<br />
in HMS Bounty. Directly<br />
behind Howard is<br />
Hugh Griffith. Standing in<br />
rear of open boat is Marlon<br />
Brando, who portrays<br />
Fletcher Christian. Native<br />
canoes surround the small<br />
boat.<br />
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BOXOFFICE<br />
BAROMETER<br />
This chart records the performance of current ottroctions in the opening week of their first runs in<br />
the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engogements ore not listed. As new runs<br />
are reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in<br />
relation to normal grosses as determined by the theotre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal,"<br />
the figures show the gross rating above or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.)<br />
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; Net<br />
Appeals Court Weighs<br />
Dirty Word Decision<br />
ALBANY— Verbal sparks flew between<br />
Dr. Charles A. Brind jr.. counsel for the<br />
Regents, and Ephraim S. London, attorney<br />
for the Connection Co., in lengthy arguments<br />
before the court of appeals late<br />
Tuesday i23), on "The Connection."<br />
This film about narcotic addiction has<br />
:aused great controversy and received wide<br />
publicity because the state board of Regents<br />
denied it a license on the ground that<br />
the frequent use of a four-letter word nornally<br />
denoting human excrement made it<br />
obscene." The appellate division, third dejartment.<br />
last July unanimously reversed<br />
;he Regents, holding the word as employed<br />
,n the film "at most, may be classified as<br />
/ulgar, but it is not obscene."<br />
At the end of a lively hour, chief Judge<br />
Charles S. Desmond said the court would<br />
cake under consideration London's request<br />
that it announce a decision before writing<br />
the opinion. London based the plea on the<br />
fact the D. W. Griffith Theatre in New<br />
^ork City— in which an attempt to show<br />
the film without a license was made— is<br />
'dark and we have gone to great cost in<br />
advertising the film." Two performances<br />
were given at the Griffith before the State<br />
Education Department obtained from supreme<br />
court Justice Kenneth S. MacAffer<br />
a temporary stay restraining further exhibition.<br />
Several days later, at a special<br />
term in Kingston, Justice MacAffer signed<br />
an order permanently banning further<br />
screenings, pending the Court of Appeals'<br />
consideration of the appeal by the Regents.<br />
On basically every point raised, including<br />
the issuance of the stay, Brind and<br />
London disagreed. London argued that the<br />
four-letter word used in the film was slang<br />
for heroin, and three other phrases cited<br />
in Brind's brief were conversational for addicts.<br />
Brind claimed use of the word was<br />
designed to sell the film.<br />
Record Earnings Reported<br />
By AB-PT for 2 Periods<br />
NE'W YORK—American Broadcasting-<br />
Paramount Theatres scored record profits<br />
'jr the third quarter and the first nine<br />
months of 1962. Leonard H. Goldenson,<br />
president, said the two periods were the<br />
highest in the history of the company.<br />
operating profit for the third quarter<br />
amounted to $2,450,000, an increase of<br />
30 per cent over the $1,886,000 for the<br />
same quarter of 1961, representing 56<br />
cents per share against 43 cents last year.<br />
The nine-month net operating profit<br />
increased to $8,003,000 from $7,580,000 reported<br />
last year. This represented $1.83 a<br />
share compared with $1.74 for the like<br />
period of 1961. For the first nine months,<br />
there was a capital loss of $97,000 compared<br />
with a capital gain of $6,178,000 in<br />
the same period of the previous year.<br />
Goldenson said the third quarter results<br />
reflected continued record earnings<br />
for the ABC broadcasting division. He said<br />
theatre business improved substantially in<br />
the third quarter over the earlier periods<br />
of the year and was about comparable to<br />
the like period of 1961. All other operations<br />
were ahead of last year, Goldenson<br />
said.<br />
Meyer Ackerman Plans<br />
New Theatre in Bronx<br />
NEW YORK—Meyer Ackerman, who is<br />
partner with Robert Purman in F&A Theatres,<br />
operating theatres in New York, New<br />
Jersey and Ohio, plans to construct a new,<br />
intimate theatre in the Bronx, the Riverdale<br />
Cinema, as a solo venture.<br />
The 600-seat house, which will be the<br />
first to be built in the Bronx in more than<br />
a decade, will also be the first ever to be<br />
built in a shopping center in that borough.<br />
It will also have parking facilities for more<br />
than 300 cars in the shopping center's complex.<br />
The opening is planned for the early<br />
spring of 1963.<br />
William Eli Kohn, who most recently did<br />
the Carnegie Hall Cinema in Manhattan<br />
and the Merrick Theatre, Long Island, is<br />
the architect and the most modern equipment<br />
will be installed, including six-track<br />
sound, Ackerman said.<br />
Purman and Ackerman's theatres include,<br />
in addition to the Carnegie Hall<br />
Cinema, the Scarsdale Plaza, Riviera<br />
Cinema in Syracuse, Palace in Cleveland,<br />
Devon in the Bronx, Art in Irvington, N. J.,<br />
and the Lincoln Art Theatre, now being<br />
built on West 57th Street in Manhattan.<br />
Skouras Corp. Opens<br />
Pine Hollow Theatre<br />
OYSTER BAY, N. Y.—A gala Hollywood<br />
type premiere signalled the completion and<br />
opening to the public recently of the<br />
Skouras Theatre Corp.'s Pine Hollow Theatre<br />
on Route 106. Salah M. Hassanein,<br />
president of the circuit, hosted the opening<br />
night guests and presided at the premiere.<br />
The beautiful new theatre was built by<br />
James O'Connell of Glen Cove and designed<br />
by Drew Eberson, internationally<br />
famous theatre architect. It is equipped for<br />
70/35mm projection, coupled with sixtrack,<br />
Hi-Fi stereophonic sound. The luxury<br />
theatre seats 600 and features an electronic<br />
air purifier in the scientifically designed<br />
air conditioning and heating systems.<br />
The four men above were amon?<br />
those attending the press and film<br />
industry opening of the new 600-seat<br />
Skouras Pine Hollow Theatre at<br />
Oyster Bay, L. I. Left to right: Herman<br />
Ripps. eastern sales manager, Metro-<br />
Goldwyn-Mayer; Salah M. Hassanein,<br />
president, Skouras Theatres Corp.;<br />
Eugene Picker, vice-president. United<br />
Artists, and Robert Conn, executive assistant<br />
of domestic sales, 20th Century-<br />
Fox.<br />
Robert Shapiro Elected<br />
Head of Theatre Group<br />
NEW YORK—Robert K. Shapiro, managing<br />
director of the New York Paramount<br />
Theatre, was elected<br />
president of Metropolitan<br />
Motion Picture<br />
Theatres Ass'n at<br />
the annual meeting of<br />
the association at the<br />
St. Moritz Hotel<br />
Wednesday (24).<br />
Leslie R. Schwartz,<br />
head of Centui-y Theatres,<br />
was elected<br />
chairman of the<br />
board.<br />
Also elected were<br />
Philip P. Harling, Robert K. Shapiro<br />
Pabian Theatres executive, first vice-president:<br />
Donald S. Rugoff, president of Rugoff<br />
Theatres, second vice-president: James<br />
F. Gould, vice-president and treasurer of<br />
Radio City Music Hall, treasurer, and<br />
Walter Brecher, vice-president of Brecher<br />
Theatres, assistant treasurer.<br />
Elected members of the board were Leo<br />
Brecher, Russell V. Downing, Harry Goldberg,<br />
Charles E. Kurtzman, Harry Mandel,<br />
Martin H. Newman, Samuel Rinzler,<br />
Samuel Rosen, Rugoff, Shapiro and M. O.<br />
Strausberg. Elected as alternate members<br />
were Brecher, Thomas J. Crehan, Emanuel<br />
Frisch, Gould, Harling, Bernard Helfand,<br />
John Murphy, Arthur Rosen, Schwartz,<br />
Stanley N. Silverman and Solomon M.<br />
Strausberg.<br />
Downing was elected chairman of the<br />
executive committee by the newly elected<br />
members of the committee consisting of,<br />
in addition to its chainnan, Kurtzman,<br />
Mandel, Rinzler, Rosen and Solomon<br />
Strausberg.<br />
No Fight Now on City<br />
Pay Low, Says Frisch<br />
NEW YORK—The Theatre Owners<br />
Minimum Wage Committee does not, at<br />
this time, plan legal action against the<br />
constitutionality of the city's minimum<br />
wage law which Mayor Wagner signed<br />
Monday i22i after its passage by both the<br />
city council and the board of estimates.<br />
Emanuel Frisch, chairman, pointed out<br />
that other industries affected, the Wholesale<br />
Laundry Board of Trade and the restam'ant<br />
owners, had indicated a court contest.<br />
David Bluestone, counsel for the laundry<br />
board, has announced his organization<br />
would challenge the law by seeking an injunction<br />
on grounds it was invalid because<br />
it entered a field already pre-empted<br />
by the state. The state now has a $1.15<br />
minimum wage: the city's minimum is<br />
$1.25.<br />
Mayor Wagner replied that the city was<br />
ready to defend the legality of his measure<br />
and announced the appointment of officials<br />
to administer the city wage law. They are:<br />
John M. Ekeberg, director: James B.<br />
Mitchell, deputy director; Nathan P. Epstein,<br />
assistant director of research; Leo<br />
Friedman, assistant director of enforcement:<br />
Phil Ruffo, acting counsel: Joseph<br />
Schechter, assistant director of administration<br />
and management.<br />
Margaret Lindsay is featured as a nurse in<br />
Universal's "Tammy and the Doctor."<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962 E-1
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NEW YORK—Two new pictures, "Re-<br />
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quiem for a Heavyweight. tlie Criterion<br />
as well as the new Kips Bay east side house,<br />
and "Phaedra." at the cast side Plaza Theatre,<br />
had smash opening weeks with long<br />
lines in evidence at the latter theatre<br />
nightly. Also very big was "The Chapman<br />
Report," which also had waiting lines at<br />
the Victoria on Broadway, where it played<br />
day-and-date with the east side Trans-<br />
Lux 52nd Street.<br />
Still absolute capacity in its third week<br />
of two-a-day was "The Longest Day" at<br />
the Warner Theatre while "Barabbas" was<br />
near-capacity in its second week of two-aday<br />
at the DeMille Theatre. Reported capacity<br />
was "Long Day's Journey Into<br />
Night." in its second w-eek at Loew's Tower<br />
East, where it plays three times daily. The<br />
other two reserved-seat pictures were "West<br />
Side Story." still doing well in the first<br />
week of its second year at the Rivoli, and<br />
"The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm." doing well enough in its 11th<br />
week at Loew's Cinerama. A sixth two-aday<br />
film. "Mutiny on the Bounty." will open<br />
at Loew's State November 8.<br />
Best among the other holdovers was<br />
"Gigot." in its fourth good week at Radio<br />
City Music Hall, where it started a fifth<br />
and final week Thursday i25). "Gypsy"<br />
will follow at the Music Hall November<br />
1. "A 'Very Private Affair," in its foui-th<br />
week at Loew's State; "No Man Is an<br />
Island." in its second week at the Palace,<br />
and "Pressure Point," in its second week<br />
at the Astor. all dropped off and the latter<br />
was replaced by "The Manchurian Candidate"<br />
Wednesday i24i. "We'll Bury You"<br />
also opened Wednesday at the Forum on<br />
Broadway and the east side 72nd Street<br />
Playhouse. "Convicts 4" did well in its third<br />
week at the Paramount.<br />
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Criterion Requiem for a Heavyweight 195<br />
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DeMille Barabbas (Col), 2nd wk. of two-o-doy 190<br />
Embassy Riff Raff Girls (Cont'l) 120<br />
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BROADWAY<br />
JJORMAN ELSON, president of Guild<br />
Enterprises, which operates the Guild<br />
Theatre and other art houses in New York,<br />
left Tuesday i23i on a Par Eastern trip to<br />
line up similar product to "The Island."<br />
Japanese film current at the Guild. * * *<br />
Michele Morgan, star of "Crime Does Not<br />
Pay," and Gerard Oury. director of the Embassy<br />
release, returned to Paris Monday<br />
(221 after a week in Manhattan promotinB<br />
the opening of the film at the Sutton Theatre.<br />
• •* * Shirley Anne Field, feminine lead<br />
of Arthur Hornblow's "The War Lover,"<br />
came in from London Wednesday i24t to<br />
help promote the Columbia release. Arriving<br />
from Eiu'ope on the Prance the same<br />
day were: Gilbert Bokanowski, French director<br />
making films for Embassy Pictures:<br />
Louis Brandt, director of the Brandt Theatres<br />
chain, and his wife, nightclub singer<br />
Betty Madigan: Mrs. Peter Ustinov, wife of<br />
the playwright-star, and Robert Amon. producer<br />
of the French film, "The Devil and<br />
the Ten Commandments."<br />
•<br />
At Paramount, Jerry K. Levins, advertising<br />
manager, returned from a brief<br />
Hollywood visit for conferences with Hal<br />
Wallis on the "Girls! Girls! Girls!" November<br />
release and Joseph Friedman, assistant<br />
director of advertising and publicity,<br />
got back to New York from Honolulu,<br />
where he planned the world premiere<br />
of the same film. And Melville Shavelson,<br />
producer-director of Paramount's "Samantha,"<br />
stayed in New York to shoot additional<br />
locations in front of Korvette's and<br />
other Fifth Avenue stores. Major filming<br />
will be in Hollywood in November. * * * Sid<br />
Blumenstock has completed his assignment<br />
as roadshow coordinator for Darryl P.<br />
Zanuck's "The Longest Day" and will devote<br />
his full time to Safranski Productions,<br />
which produces radio and TV commercials.<br />
•<br />
Cliff Richard, singing star of Paramount's<br />
"Wonderful to Be Young," hopped<br />
to London for a command performance<br />
before Queen Elizabeth and is due back<br />
in the U. S. October 30 to resume his tour<br />
on behalf of the picture. He will be at the<br />
TOA convention. • * » Ann-Margret finished<br />
up her promotional activities on "Bye<br />
Bye Birdie" for Columbia and headed back<br />
to Hollywood. * * • The American premiere<br />
of the film version of Brendan Behan's<br />
"The Quare Fellow" will be held at the<br />
Carnegie Hall Cinema. Date has not been<br />
set.<br />
•<br />
Mo Rothman, executive vice-president of<br />
Columbia International, left Wednesday<br />
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ALBANY<br />
n dd Ella Meres to the list of woman managers<br />
in the Albany exchange district.<br />
She has charge of the Community in Hudson<br />
for Sylvan Leff. originally was assistant<br />
manager. At the Community, in Saratoga<br />
Springs, another Leff house, John Kelley is<br />
manager. He, too, advanced from assistant<br />
manager. These theatres are two of the<br />
distinctively styled, no-marquee type built<br />
by the late Walter Reade sr. The third is<br />
located in Red Bank. N.J.<br />
John Wilhelm, 20th-Fox manager, visited<br />
the Schine home offices in Gloversville . . .<br />
Harold Goldstein, who manages the Ft.<br />
Warren Drive-In at Castleton, Vt., for his<br />
.brother Howard, will marry Sally Gallup, a<br />
third-grade teacher in Shaker Ridge<br />
Elementary School, at services in Temple<br />
Beth El, Troy, December 23. Goldstein is<br />
studying for a master's degreee in education<br />
at Russell Sage College, Ti'oy. Miss Gallup<br />
I'is a graduate of the State Teachers College<br />
lin Albany mow called the State University<br />
in Albany) and has done post-graduate<br />
work at New York University.<br />
"The Pigeon That Took Rome" had radio<br />
'as well as newspaper advertising support<br />
;for its premieres at the Strand here and<br />
"The Chapman Report"<br />
'the Troy in Troy . . .<br />
held for a second week at the Stanley,<br />
Utica .<br />
Rialto in Glens Falls held<br />
'a one-day Opera Film Festival, consisting<br />
of "Pagliacci" and "La Traviata," the bill<br />
being booked through Max Westebbe .<br />
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and Alan<br />
Jones are among the singing stars who will<br />
be featured during an Operetta Film Festival<br />
at Fabian's Plaza in Schenectady on succeeding<br />
Tuesdays for six weeks. Tickets for the<br />
series are selling at $4.50. In Albany, SW<br />
houses have tickets for the same series, here<br />
presented at the Madison. Walter Reade has<br />
a similar series under w-ay at the Community<br />
in Kingston. Single-performance seats for<br />
adults are $L<br />
Edward J. Wall, who switched from promoting<br />
Paramount pictures in the Albany<br />
and Buffalo districts to a publicity-advertising<br />
assignment for the Home Savings<br />
Bank of this city, teamed with his wife to<br />
compete in the seventh annual regional<br />
"Best Point" contract bridge tourney. The<br />
Walls also have teamed in a new advertising<br />
venture.<br />
present Schenectady dress shop owner also<br />
bought and booked for the Plattsburgh<br />
Drive-In, Plattsburgh.<br />
.<br />
A familiar face has returned to the Paramount<br />
exchange, in a new role. Dick Hayes,<br />
for many years a crack salesman under the<br />
former Paramount operation here, came<br />
from Buffalo to assume the post of booker.<br />
Hayes had been working in the Buffalo<br />
branch, under Dan Houlihan, one-time Paramount<br />
manager in Albany and before that,<br />
local 20th Centui-y-Fox chief. For a time,<br />
Dick served with United Artists in Minneapolis.<br />
He is widely known hereabouts.<br />
Doug Hermans, foiiner Fox booker, is now<br />
working parttime on the books in the offices<br />
of Iselin Drive-In Theatres. Hermans also<br />
operates the Capitol in Ballston Spa, weekends<br />
Purner has reopened the<br />
Bijou in North Troy, with an art policy<br />
Tryon. Amsterdam first run, has<br />
moved to a weekend schedule, according to<br />
word on Filmrow. Pamela Amusement Corp.<br />
conducts this relatively new house, which<br />
is bought and booked by Brandt Theatres<br />
of New York. Schine's Mohawk is the other<br />
Amsterdam film situation. It is first nm,<br />
too.<br />
Freddie Rosenblatt, Variety member and<br />
brother of Samuel E. Rosenblatt, former<br />
chief barker and president of Acme Theatres,<br />
visited the 'Variety clubrooms in Las<br />
Vegas, Nev., during a recent western trip.<br />
"They are beautiful," he said. "Nothing like<br />
them around." The Las 'Vegas tent is vei-y<br />
active, one of its leading members being<br />
Benny Goffstein, a former barker of Albany's<br />
Tent 9 and onetime Times-Union circulation<br />
department official. Benny, now president of<br />
the plush Riviera Hotel in Las 'Vegas, and<br />
Rosenblatt hopped to Los Angeles for the<br />
final game of the playoff between the<br />
Dodgers and the Giants. Freddie then went<br />
on to San Francisco where he witnessed the<br />
first two contests in the World Series.<br />
Jos. Mankiewicz Relieved<br />
Of Further Work on 'Cleo'<br />
NEW YORK—Removal of Joseph Mankiewicz<br />
from editing "Cleopatra," which he di-<br />
A "Dusk to Dawn Show," consisting of<br />
five features, was offered Saturday night<br />
rected,<br />
(20 1 at the Auto-'Vision in East Greenbush<br />
appears to have opened a feud between<br />
him and Darryl F. Zanuck, president<br />
and at the Super 50 Drive-In, Schenectadyof<br />
road. The Auto-'Vision screened<br />
20th Century-Fox. The picture now will<br />
"Sweet Bird of Youth," "Rome Adventure,"<br />
be edited and scored in Hollywood, although<br />
"Son of Samson," "Last of the 'Vikings" and Mankiewicz was insisting that he be allowed<br />
to finish the work on the film.<br />
"A Woman Like Satan." The ozoner advertised<br />
"FREE Surprise Gift to All Who<br />
Zanuck, on Wednesday, issued a brief<br />
Remain to the 'Very End" and "Free Coffee<br />
statement in connection with the situation.<br />
This was it:<br />
at 1 o'clock."<br />
"In exchange for top compensation and a<br />
considerable expense account, Mr. Joseph<br />
Mankiewicz has for two years spent his time,<br />
talent and $35,000,000 of 20th Century-Fox<br />
stockholders' money to direct and complete<br />
the first cut of 'Cleopatra.' He has earned<br />
a well deserved rest."<br />
Tent 9 Dance Will<br />
Launch Albany Season<br />
The Warren Theatre in Warrensburg<br />
added the Patterson-Liston fight pix as a ALBANY—The Variety Club begins its<br />
Friday-Satui-day night extra with "Kid new social season with an informal dance<br />
Galahad" . first-run Tryon Theatre, November 2 in the Sheraton-Ten Eyck<br />
Amsterdam, reopened with "The Chapman clubrooms. Dancing will be to the music of<br />
Report," after a closedown of several days Johnny Costa's Boys and is slated from 9<br />
Reade's Community in Kingston p.m. to 1 a.m. The tab is $3 per couple and<br />
is serving "Free Coffee in the Mezzanine as the advance flyer says "no reservations are<br />
a Courtesy to Our Patrons." . . . Howard needed—bring your friends."<br />
Goldstein inserted copy in the Glens Falls Barkers also are urged to mark November<br />
paper announcing the seasonal closing of the<br />
30 as the date for the big Variety Derby,<br />
Dix Drive-In, adding a "Thank You for Your with more information promised on this a<br />
Patronage." The former film saleman and little later.<br />
BUFFALO<br />
The big Lafayette Theatre organ, built in<br />
1921, was played there for the last time<br />
on the night of October 17, when the Niagara<br />
Frontier Chapter of the American<br />
Theatre Organ Enthusiasts invited the public<br />
to its "Requiem Concert" at 11:40 p.m.<br />
More than 100 persons attended and heard<br />
a post-midnight recital by organist Jerry<br />
Schwab. The next day workmen began dismantling<br />
the nearly 3,000 pipes. Donald<br />
Borden has bought the organ and will build<br />
a house in Cleveland around it. Elmer<br />
Brost. onetime Lafayette organist, was<br />
present. On one-day notice the Niagara<br />
chapter called in members for the event<br />
from Buffalo, Toronto, Cleveland and Rochester.<br />
The razing of the Lafayette Theatre<br />
part of the Basil Lafayette building is<br />
scheduled to begin at once. The office part<br />
of the structure will remain.<br />
Cliff Richard, star of Paramount's "Wonderful<br />
to Be Young," visited here Tuesday<br />
(23 1 for a day of tub-thumping for the<br />
musical film that will open November 7<br />
at the Paramount Theatre. Manager Edward<br />
Miller lined up a full day's schedule<br />
for Richard, with radio, TV and newspaper<br />
interviews among the highlights of<br />
the day's activities. In the evening Cliff<br />
greeted folks in the Paramount lobby and<br />
there was a sneak preview the same night<br />
of the picture in which Richard is introduced<br />
to American film audiences. Richard<br />
will return here for the western New<br />
York premiere of the picture at the Paramount<br />
at which time he will appear on the<br />
stage of the theatre with his musical group<br />
at two performances.<br />
Fred Keller, manager of the Circle-Art<br />
Theatre, is going to put on a stage show<br />
starting November 2 and continuing for<br />
twelve performances. It is "The Connection.<br />
controversial off-Broadway production.<br />
The Circle-Art. which has installed " a<br />
stage for the production, will alternate imported<br />
and art films, like the recent "Last<br />
Year at Marienbad," with stage pieces, employing<br />
Buffalo actors . . . Manager Ed<br />
Miller of the Paramount reports much advance<br />
interest in his Grand Opera Film<br />
Festival to be presented for one day, November<br />
15, continuous from 11 a.m. The<br />
operas to be shown are "Don Giovanni" and<br />
"The Barber of Seville."<br />
The next crew meeting of the Buffalo 'Variety<br />
Club will be held Wednesday. November<br />
5, at 7:30 pm., and will start with a<br />
dinner at 6:30. Election results will be<br />
tabulated, the 1964 convention and telethon<br />
committees will report and there are<br />
many other important items to be discussed,<br />
according to Chief Barker James<br />
J. Hayes.<br />
FILMACK<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962 E-5
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J^IKE PRANKOVICH. first vice-president<br />
of Columbia Pictures in ciiarKe of production,<br />
announced at a tradcpross conference<br />
in London that his company would<br />
be spending at least $70 million on a minimum<br />
of 25 major productions during the<br />
next 12 months. At least 12 and maybe<br />
more of these features would be shot in<br />
Britain. Frankovich was amplifying the<br />
press conference he had held in New York<br />
a few days previously when he had answered<br />
allegations that many Hollywood<br />
companies were indulging in runaway productions.<br />
Columbia's head of production<br />
emphasized that he would not consider the<br />
policy of making films in the U.S. just for<br />
the sake of pleasing critics.<br />
Frankovich stated: "Columbia is an international<br />
company with international responsibilities.<br />
We will continue to make<br />
films overseas, whenever and wherever they<br />
ai-e justified by their story. Columbia's<br />
British production will not diminish but<br />
may increase." Meanwhile. Columbia's own<br />
contribution to home production was quite<br />
impressive. Otto Preminger, Stanley<br />
Kramer and Sam Spiegel would be making<br />
films in the United States, because the<br />
subjects required a U.S. background, and<br />
for no other reason.<br />
Other producers like Carl Foreman, Blake<br />
Edwards and Robert Rossen had also earmarked<br />
productions, which would be shot<br />
in the U.S. Frankovich said he believed<br />
that the most important thing was to make<br />
pictures in the best possible way using the<br />
right locations and the essential combination<br />
of creative and acting talent. He mentioned<br />
two new major subjects which had<br />
been purchased by the company. They were<br />
"Catch 22" by Joseph Heller, and "King<br />
Rat" by James Clavell, which would be<br />
added to the roster of large-scale Columbia<br />
international productions.<br />
Returning to British activities, Frankovich<br />
likened Sam Spiegel's "Lawrence of<br />
Arabia" to a great experience and declared<br />
that it would be a yardstick of brilliance<br />
for all future filmmakers. It would be<br />
opening at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on<br />
December 10, for an eight-week season,<br />
would then go into the Metropole, Victoria,<br />
for an indefinite run and afterwards return<br />
to the Odeon, Haymarket. "This is the first<br />
time that a major picture has been dated<br />
for three separate West End presentations."<br />
The Columbia chief also mentioned his<br />
satisfaction with the manner in which Columbia<br />
and British Lion were collaborating<br />
as a result of their unified distribution<br />
deal. There was full consultation on scripts<br />
and suitable subjects. Columbia already<br />
has participated in one greatly successful<br />
British Lion comedy, "Only Two Can Play,"<br />
with Peter Sellers and Mai Zetterling. It<br />
had since participated financially in the<br />
new- Richard Attenborough-Bryan Forbes<br />
"<br />
production of "The L-Shaped Room based<br />
on the Lynn Reid Banks novel. This starred<br />
Leslie Caron and Tom Bell, and was quite<br />
a tremendous picture. Because of this BLC<br />
had decided to give it the roadshow treatment<br />
in the United Kingdom. He felt that<br />
its boxoffice prospects were fantastic.<br />
By ANTHONY GRUNER<br />
For A.ssociated British Corp., the word<br />
showmanship is no industry cliche, but a<br />
basic philo.sophy and a day-to-day guide to<br />
action. Last week the circuit opened a new<br />
theatre in Colchester at the cost of over<br />
£75,000. To this cinema came not one, but<br />
four stars as well as a distinguished audience<br />
of local celebrities headed by the<br />
mayor. Richard Todd, Leslie Phillips, Carol<br />
Lesley and Mario Fabrizi were introduced<br />
from the stage, and two other stars, Roger<br />
Moore and June Christie, also would have<br />
been present if the former's car had not<br />
broken down over 50 miles away, and the<br />
latter had not suddenly been given a costaiTing<br />
role with Curt Jurgens requiring<br />
her to fly off at once over to West Berlin.<br />
As usual, this circuit put everything behind<br />
the promotion of the new theatre and the<br />
hundreds of local residents from Colchester<br />
waiting outside the theatre indicated<br />
the success of ABC's policy. Inside<br />
the cinema a packed audience saw "The<br />
Counterfeit Spy" and watched the mayor<br />
of the town symbolically declare the opening<br />
of the theatre with a key presented to<br />
him by actor Richard Todd. Brilliantly organized,<br />
by Douglas Ewin and his colleagues<br />
in ABC's publicity department, the<br />
Colchester opening reflected the basically<br />
aggressive and optimistic approach to the<br />
exhibition industry of ABC and its parent<br />
company, Associated British Picture Corp.<br />
A tribute to the growing quality and<br />
growing popularity of new features now<br />
being made by British and Hollywood companies<br />
was the news last week that the<br />
theatre ticket libraries are now arranging<br />
deals with financial guarantees for two<br />
major films shortly to be seen in the West<br />
AT AA RECEPTION—AlUed Artists<br />
and Peter Ustinov hosted a reception<br />
in New York to kick off the campaign<br />
on "Billy Budd" and to introduce<br />
Terence Stamp, who makes his<br />
screen debut in the title role. Ustinov<br />
who produced, directed and coauthored<br />
the screenplay, also costars in the film,<br />
which has its American premiere October<br />
30 at Cinema I and II. In the photo<br />
are Ustinov, left; Ed Schuman, center,<br />
Rugoff Theatres vice-president, and<br />
Ed Morey, AA vice-president.<br />
End. A guarantee of £35,000 for Sam<br />
Spiegel's "Lawrence of Arabia" on its first<br />
eight-week showing at the Odeon, Leicester<br />
Square, was announced by Peter<br />
Cadbury, head of Keith Prowse on behalf of<br />
the Combine Theatres Libraries Ass'n. This<br />
has been followed by a guarantee of £100,-<br />
000 over the first 52 weeks of new MGM-<br />
Cinerama's "How the West Was Won,"<br />
which opens at the London Casino November<br />
2. This will enable the public to book<br />
for both films as they would do for the<br />
theatre, without first traveling to the respective<br />
cinema.<br />
Commenting on these agreements, Cadbury<br />
said last week: "This does not, however,<br />
mean that we shall give guarantees<br />
freely. Only the best will be considered and<br />
we were influenced in this case by the considerable<br />
success of previous Cinerama productions.<br />
So it is no good every film producer expecting<br />
that the libraries will back his<br />
show, as Cadbury made it clear that he<br />
and his colleagues would follow the same<br />
principles that have guided the libraries<br />
over the last 100 years in the theatre and<br />
only back productions that would, in their<br />
opinion, be successful.<br />
Jonas Rosenfield jr., Columbia Pictures<br />
vice-president in charge of advertising and<br />
publicity, is here to head a series of meetings<br />
of the company's European publicity<br />
organizations to discuss promotional plans<br />
for the launchings of the Sam Spiegel-<br />
David Lean production of "Lawrence of<br />
Arabia" in each country.<br />
Attending are Syd Mirkin, overseas production<br />
publicity coordinator: Pat Williamson,<br />
director of advertising and publicity<br />
for Columbia of Great Britain; Jack<br />
Wiener, Continental publicity chief, and<br />
publicity representatives of Columbia from<br />
several European countries.<br />
M. J. Frankovich, first vice-president of<br />
Columbia Pictures, and Mo Rothman, executive<br />
vice-president of Columbia International,<br />
are also on hand as is William<br />
Blowitz of the Blowitz, Thomas and Canton<br />
Agency, producer's representative for<br />
the film.<br />
While in London, Rosenfield will also<br />
confer with Spiegel on promotional plans<br />
for the 70mm color fUm, which will have a<br />
royal world premiere at the Odeon Theatre,<br />
Leicester Square, December 10 with Queen<br />
Elizabeth II on hand, prior to the American<br />
opening at the Criterion Theatre, New<br />
York, December 16.<br />
Rosenfield also plans meetings with Carl<br />
Foreman, producer-director of "The Victors,"<br />
cuiTently in production in London;<br />
with Carol Reed, whose production of "The<br />
Running Man" is filming in Ireland, and<br />
with Irwin Shaw, whose production of "In<br />
the French Style" is now filming in Paris.<br />
He will also meet with Charles H. Schneer,<br />
whose production of "Jason and the Golden<br />
Fleece" is being readied for release.<br />
* * *<br />
Within only one week of publication,<br />
"Life at the Top," John Braine's sequel to<br />
"Room at the Top," has jumped to No. 1<br />
on Britain's best seller list. And last week<br />
Romulus Films, (James and John Woolf),<br />
who produced "Room at the Top," the<br />
forei-unner of the "New Wave" in British<br />
films, announced it will produce the film of<br />
"Life at the Top," again starring Laurence<br />
Harvey. Starting date: early 1964.<br />
E-6 BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962
. . Mr.<br />
. . Irving<br />
. . . Harry<br />
47 Youngsfers Break<br />
Ground for Theatre<br />
CHERRY HILL, N.J.—Armed with toy<br />
buckets and shovels, 47 children participated<br />
in ground-breaking at the site of<br />
tlie Colonial-style motion picture theatre<br />
scheduled for completion in February 1963.<br />
The theatre is to be operated by Walter<br />
Reade Theatres and the invitation to<br />
youngsters to take part in the ceremonies<br />
was to underscore the fact that most of the<br />
films to be shown at the new theatre will<br />
be for the entire family.<br />
The children, ranging from three to five<br />
years In age, were members of the Trinity<br />
Christian Day School, operated by the<br />
nearby Trinity Presbyterian Church, Route<br />
70 and Sawmill road.<br />
TThe new theatre design originally called<br />
ffor a modernistic style, but Bob Scarborough,<br />
developer of Barclay Farm and<br />
Barclay Center, where the theatre is to be<br />
located, pointed out the colonial theme of<br />
the surrounding community and finally a<br />
distinctly colonial theme was developed for<br />
the theatre.<br />
However, the interior of the theatre will<br />
accent the modern. The 600 seats will be<br />
the reclining type and adjust to the individual<br />
patron.<br />
Heights Construction Co., East Atlantic<br />
Avenue, Barrington, will construct the<br />
8,000-square foot theatre.<br />
Selby Tower Construction<br />
Saves Need for 16 Piles<br />
LITTLE FERRY, N. J.—Engineering<br />
studies made by consulting engineers for<br />
Eastern Management's Little Ferry Drivein,<br />
which is being built on filled land along<br />
the Hackensack river, show that 16 fewer<br />
piles would be required for the Selby Industries'<br />
standard screen tower than for<br />
any other design.<br />
Fewer piles are required for the Selby installation,<br />
according to these engineers, because<br />
the wide spread and wide bearing of<br />
Selby foundations exert lighter loads per<br />
square foot soil pressure, thus permitting<br />
erection on less stable soils than the other<br />
designs.<br />
'Phaedra' Set to Open<br />
In 26 U.S. Key Cities<br />
NEW YORK—Jules Dassin's "Phaedra,"<br />
being released by Lopert Pictures, which is<br />
playing at the Plaza Theatre and 15 other<br />
houses in the greater New York area, has<br />
been set for 26 additional key city engagements<br />
late in October and in November.<br />
The first date will be at the Guild, Pittsburgh,<br />
October 31, followed by the Charles<br />
and the Crest, Baltimore, November 1.<br />
"Phaedra" also opened October 24 at the<br />
DuPont, Washington, and the Whalley Theatre,<br />
New Haven.<br />
PITTSBURGH<br />
^orris Finkel's Shadyside Theatre, where a<br />
benefit opening of "Best of Enemies"<br />
will be held Thursday ( 1 1 for the Variety<br />
Club charity fund, has been redecorated<br />
inside and out. The new and elegant lobby<br />
features natural wood and white, with accents<br />
in black, red and brass. Here Finkel<br />
will present exhibits of European art. The<br />
exterior has a completely new look with a<br />
new marquee and decorations, new lighting,<br />
a new boxoffice and new sets of metal<br />
doors, metal walls, etc.<br />
Bernard Lauth, projectionist, reports the<br />
death of his mother Mary . . . Harry Fleishman,<br />
retired exhibitor, is home after being<br />
hospitalized a month following a heart attack.<br />
Father of Sam, Norman and other<br />
Fleishmans identified with exhibition<br />
hereabouts for a number of years, Harry<br />
was under an oxygen tent for ten days.<br />
Until his illness he relieved son Sam from<br />
time to time as manager of the Regent<br />
Square Theatre, Edgewood. Sam's brother<br />
Norman also gives an assist to Sam on occasion<br />
John Glaus, manager of the<br />
. . . Fairground Drive-in on the Brownsville<br />
road. Library, stopped to say hello and to<br />
give us checks for two-year subscriptions<br />
to <strong>Boxoffice</strong> for the Fairground and for<br />
the Silver Lake Drive-In, the only ozoner<br />
located within the city limits of Pittsburgh.<br />
Thirty-four drive-in theatres as listed in<br />
the press were open last weekend; only 16<br />
were open weeknights other than weekend<br />
nights . . . Morris Lefko, general manager<br />
for MGM roadshows, was here for sessions<br />
with Gabriel G. Rubin of the Nixon Theatre<br />
where "Mutiny on the Bounty" wUl<br />
open December 21, the night after "The<br />
Longest Day" opens at the Fulton as an<br />
Ass'n of the Army benefit . and Mrs.<br />
Floyd Klingensmith of the Sunset View<br />
Drive-In near Freeport, make weekly jaunts<br />
to New York to cheer Columbia University's<br />
gridders.<br />
Robert Work, who operates di'ive-ins at<br />
New Martinsville, W. Va., and Sardis,<br />
Ohio, recently became father of his firstborn,<br />
named Jani Roberta . Shiffrin<br />
and Jesse Levine were here working<br />
on "We'll Bury You" and "Requiem for a<br />
Heavyweight." The latter is latest COMPO<br />
plan picture in this area . . . George Tice<br />
sr. of the Woodland Drive-In at Homestead<br />
reports the birth of his second<br />
grandson (ninth grandchild) to George jr.<br />
and wife Eileen. Eileen was a Theatre<br />
Service Corp. secretary until a few months<br />
ago.<br />
Auditing-accoiinting from Buffalo and<br />
Cleveland has been concentrated at the<br />
local UA office .. . James E. Taylor and<br />
wife, part owners of the Skyway Drive-In<br />
near Butler, vacationed in the old Dutch<br />
country around Lancaster . . . Abraham H.<br />
Kalmenson, eldest brother of Ben Kalmen-<br />
.son, Warner Bros, executive, died recently.<br />
Besides Ben, he is survived by another<br />
brother Karl, his wife Rhea, a son Charles<br />
and Mrs. Howard Specter, a daughter.<br />
William Geibel of the Butler Skyway reports<br />
his son Bruce, in the Air Force in<br />
Puerto Rico, and wife are parents of a baby<br />
named Kathryn Mary. The Geibels recently<br />
took an American Airlines vacation<br />
trip which included New York, Chicago and<br />
Los Angeles , . . Robert Rose, manager of<br />
the South Hills Drive-In, was critically ill<br />
for five days after a ruptured appendix<br />
and Carol Peters, Sisterville,<br />
W. Va., exhibitors, watched West Virginia<br />
U. defeat Pitt.<br />
Associated Starts<br />
Pittsburgh Drive-In<br />
PITTSBURGH—Ernest Stem, president<br />
of Associated Theatres, this area's leading<br />
theatre investor, announced construction<br />
would begin in a week or two on a 600-car<br />
drive-in theatre on Williams road "seven<br />
minutes from downtown" in the vicinity of<br />
the Federal avenue extension. It will be<br />
named the Northside.<br />
Similar to Associated's de luxe Ardmore<br />
Drive-In, the Northside will have two indoor<br />
auditoriums, each seating 100, on<br />
either side of the projection booth.<br />
Reserve township permits have been<br />
obtained.<br />
There will be nine double ramps, 18 in<br />
all, in the compact ozoner. The concession<br />
will be leased to Berlo, as at all Associated<br />
operations. An early spring opening is<br />
planned.<br />
Associated is building another diive-in<br />
in the Cleveland metropolitan area, and<br />
last week broke ground for the Pittsburgh<br />
area's fii-st new indoor theatre in 14 years,<br />
the Monroe in Monroeville.<br />
'Billy Budd' Openings Set<br />
In New York, Washington<br />
NEW YORK — Allied Artists' "BOly<br />
Budd," produced in England by Peter Ustinov<br />
with himself and Robert Ryan starred,<br />
will have its first three U.S. openings October<br />
31 and November 1.<br />
"Billy Budd" will open at Cinema I and<br />
Cinema II in New York October 31 and<br />
Loew's Capitol Theatre, Washington, D.C.,<br />
November 1, according to Ed Morey, vicepresident<br />
of Allied Artists.<br />
Ustinov has made 32 press, radio and TV<br />
interviews during a ten-day visit to Neiy<br />
York with Terence Stamp, British actor<br />
who plays the title role, and the two will<br />
spend two days in Washington to promote<br />
the film prior to the opening there.<br />
BOONTON, N. J.<br />
Large Core<br />
Greater Crater Area<br />
MAXIMUM LIGHT<br />
Evenly Distributed<br />
-Blumberg Brothers, Inc., Philodelphio—Lombard 3-7240<br />
Notional Theatre Supply, Philadelphia— Locust 7-6156<br />
Superior Theatre Equipment Company, Philadelphia,<br />
LO 3-1420<br />
Write to Carbons, Inc., 400 Myrtle Ave., Boonton, New<br />
Jersey or phone Philip Bordonoro, 319 First Ave.,<br />
Tarentum, Po. Academy 4-3343.<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962<br />
E-7
I Monday).<br />
A MANOS REUNION — The Greemturg, Pa., Tribune-Review recently devoted<br />
a five-column space to reproduce this photo which shows past and present<br />
office employes of Manos Enterprises who were honored at a reunion held in the<br />
General Greene Hotel there. The headquarters of the circuit is located on the<br />
second floor of the hotel, which is a Manos property. Present office employes<br />
include Madeline Mangery. Madeline DeBone, Irene Balazek, Joanne Yackovich,<br />
Liduina Massaglia, Barbara Stynchula, and former employes present were Dorothy<br />
Gaudi, Frances Stanko, Christine Stauffer, Jean Leper, Betty Leighty and Dorothy<br />
Bugala.<br />
WASHINGTON<br />
f^inerama, MOM and the Stanley Warner<br />
Theatres were hosts to members of the<br />
press, radio and TV at a "Constmction<br />
Party," which was an advance preview of<br />
what their new Uptown Cinerama Theatre<br />
will look like when Its renovation is completed<br />
and it becomes the district's exclusive<br />
home of Cinerama. The October 22<br />
party at 4:30 p.m. included an abundance<br />
of refreshments for the guests invited to<br />
wend their "way between the sawhorses,<br />
tool boxes, lumber, mortar boxes, etc."<br />
MGM field representative Stanley A. Chatlin,<br />
who will remain in Washington until<br />
"The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm" opens the Uptown Cinerama, said<br />
they wanted to show how vei-y much went<br />
into making a Cinerama screen. The screen,<br />
which conceals the complex sound equipment,<br />
resembles a vertical Venetian blind<br />
because of its hundreds of inch-wide white<br />
strips glued together. The Uptown's gala<br />
premiere will be November 7.<br />
Louis Ribnitzki, Stanley Warner buyer,<br />
has been hosting the various branch managers<br />
at the Maryland football games. He<br />
is a proud alumnus of Maryland U.<br />
Inasmuch as Milton Rackmil, U-I president,<br />
will be the Pioneer of the Year, Alex<br />
Chimel, Universal branch manager, is<br />
heading a contingent of exhibitors from<br />
this area who expect to attend the dinner<br />
at the Americana in New York November<br />
19.<br />
Mrs. Rollwage Collier, president of the Motion<br />
Picture and Television Council of the<br />
D.C., spoke this week before the D.C. Federation<br />
of Women's Clubs on the council's<br />
objectives and services.<br />
Don Dnicker, editor of the motion pictui-e<br />
service of the Agriculture Department, is<br />
receiving congratulations for having edited<br />
"Ei-uption at Kilauea," which was the<br />
documentary first-prize winner at the<br />
Venice Film Festival. The Department of<br />
Agriculture, in observance of its 100th anniversary,<br />
will present a Centennial Film<br />
Festival November 7-9. consisting of 104<br />
U.S. films produced by industi-y, associations,<br />
business finns and a cross section of<br />
colleges and universities. A major festival<br />
event will be an "America's Day" program,<br />
which will show agricultural films from<br />
Canada and Latin America. A panel of<br />
final judges will select the award winners.<br />
Peter Ustinov was a visitor, di'opping in<br />
to speak about his newest film, "Billy<br />
Budd." Anthony Perkins will arrive November<br />
5 at the National Theatre in a pre-<br />
Broadway play and Viveca Lindfors will<br />
open there on Christmas Eve.<br />
MGM's 'Period' Is Booked<br />
For 33 Keys in November<br />
NEW YORK—MGM's "Period of Adjustment,"<br />
which will open at two New York<br />
theatres October 31 and in Hollywood November<br />
14, will then open in 31 other cities<br />
coast-to-coast between November 15 and<br />
November 28.<br />
The key cities will include Seattle, Sacramento,<br />
Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati,<br />
Charleston, Lexington, Steubenville, Liverpool,<br />
Baton Rouge, Pittsburgh, Madison,<br />
Mansfield, Wheeling, Champaign, San<br />
Diego, Amarillo, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls,<br />
Omaha, Miami Springs, Miami, Fort<br />
Lauderdale, Coral Gables, Miami Beach,<br />
Pocatello, Salt Lake City, Wichita, Shreveport<br />
and Lafayette.<br />
In New York, "Period of Adjustment"<br />
will open at the Paramount Theatre in<br />
Times Square and the east side Murray<br />
Hill.<br />
Paramount Holding Four<br />
Regional Sales Meetings<br />
NEW YORK—First of a series of regional<br />
sales meetings for Paramount personnel<br />
will be held in New York starting today<br />
Charles Boasberg, vice-president<br />
and general sales manager of Paramount<br />
Film Distributing Corp., will conduct<br />
the sessions. Subsequent meetings will<br />
be held in New Orleans, November 1 and 2;<br />
Chicago, November 5, 6, and San Francisco,<br />
November 8, 9.<br />
George Weltner, executive vice-president<br />
of Paramount Pictures, will attend the New<br />
York forums, along with John G. Moore,<br />
Boston: Herb Gillis. Washington: Myron<br />
Sattler. New York: Daniel Houlihan, Buffalo:<br />
William Meier, Cincinnati: Harold<br />
;<br />
'<br />
Henderson, Cleveland: Henry Germaine,<br />
New Haven: Don Hicks, Philadelphia, and<br />
Howard Nicholson, Pittsburgh.<br />
Home office sales executives who will<br />
participate in the New York meetings will<br />
be Tom W. Bridge. Hugh Owen, Alfred Taylor.<br />
Edmund C. DeBerry, Jack Perley and<br />
Arthur Hessel.<br />
Participating in the New Orleans meetings<br />
will be regional sales manager W.<br />
Gordon Bradley, Atlanta, and the following<br />
branch managers: Kip Smiley, Charlotte;<br />
Fred Mathis, Jacksonville: Tom Donahue,<br />
Memphis, and Robert Hames, New Orleans.<br />
Attending the Dallas meetings will be G.<br />
R. Frank, regional sales manager, Chicago,<br />
and branch managers Thomas Duane, Detroit:<br />
Ted Krassner, Indianapolis: Howard<br />
Ross, Milwaukee: Jess McBride, Minneapolis:<br />
Charles Caligiuri, Des Moines; Bernard<br />
Brager, Dallas; Harry Hambm-g, Kansas<br />
City, and Harry Haas, St. Louis.<br />
"The San Francisco meetings will be attended<br />
by H. Neal East, regional sales manager,<br />
Los Angeles, and branch managers<br />
Jack Stevenson, Los Angeles; James<br />
Ricketts, Denver; W. Donald Foster, Salt<br />
Lake City; Ward Pennington, San Francisco,<br />
and Henry Haustein, Seattle-Portland.<br />
Set Total of 21 Dates<br />
For 'The Longest Day'<br />
NEW YORK — Twelve new roadshow<br />
bookings have been set for Darryl F. Zanuck's<br />
"The Longest Day" to make a total<br />
of 21 roadshow engagements in the U. S.<br />
and Canada by the end of the year.<br />
The new dates are the Mercury. Detroit,<br />
where the picture opened Wednesday (24);<br />
the Roxy. Atlanta: Grand, Cincinnati; Seville,<br />
Montreal; Utah, Salt Lake City, all<br />
November 1: The Roxy, Kansas City, November<br />
7; Tower, Houston, and Ambassador,<br />
St. Louis, November 8; Hippodrome,<br />
Cleveland. November 15, and the Lincoln,<br />
Miami, November 21, as well as the Tivoli,<br />
Toronto, where the picture will open following<br />
the current roadshow attraction.<br />
"The Longest Day" is currently playing<br />
at the Warner, New York; Goldman, Philadelphia;<br />
Astor, Boston; Roosevelt, Chicago:<br />
Carthay Circle, Los Angeles: Ontario,<br />
Washington; Alexandria, San Francisco,<br />
and the Mann, Minneapolis.<br />
'7 Capital Sins' Delayed „ ,<br />
NEW YORK — Joseph E. Levine's "7<br />
Capital Sins." originally set to open at the NEW YORK—The board of<br />
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Beekman Theatre October 29, has been rescheduled<br />
for the latter part of 1962 at the<br />
same theatre. The picture was directed by<br />
seven "new wave" directors.<br />
directors of<br />
Stanley Warner Corp. has declared a dividend<br />
of 30 cents per share on the common<br />
stock, payable November 23 to stockholders<br />
of record November 8.<br />
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BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962
AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION CENTER<br />
(Hollywood Office— Suite 320 at 6362 Hollywood Blvd.)<br />
Festival Committee<br />
Names 16mm Judges<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—Prize-winning filmnakers<br />
Pare Lorentz and Sidney Peterson<br />
ind industry film-producing executive M.<br />
J. Blaslcovich will judge the "Film as Communication"<br />
competition of 16mm nontheitrical<br />
films at this year's San Francisco<br />
[nternational Film Festival.<br />
Lorentz is best known for his documentaries.<br />
"The Plow That Broke the Plains"<br />
md "The River." Among Peterson's films<br />
ire "The Lead Shoes" and "The Petrified<br />
Dog." both experimentals. He recently pubished<br />
a novel, "A Ply in the Pigment," and<br />
i\e.s here. Blaskovich is director of the<br />
?ord Motor Co.'s San Francisco Marketing<br />
institute in Burlingame.<br />
The finalists in the "Film as Communica-<br />
;ion" competition will be shown at the<br />
Metro Theatre November 7-9. The public is<br />
nvited free of charge to the morning and<br />
afternoon programs.<br />
In addition to screenings, there will be<br />
Danel discussions. The Judges' Panel will<br />
afford an opportunity to discuss the purposes<br />
of filmmaking and a panel on electronic<br />
film production will be of particular<br />
interest to industrial and commercial filmnakers.<br />
This is the third annual "Film as Comnunication"<br />
program. More than 275 entries<br />
came from ten countries and 38 were<br />
selected for showing in the finals. Last<br />
/ear's Golden Gate Award winner was "The<br />
lianguage of Faces," made by John Korty<br />
'or the American F^-iends Service Committee.<br />
Two Pyramid Shorts Set<br />
For S.F. Film Festival<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Producer David Adams<br />
las announced that two of Pyramid Short<br />
Subject Films have been selected as finalists<br />
or the Golden Gate Awards in the San<br />
i^'rancisco International Film Festival. "The<br />
jeaf," entered in the art category, will open<br />
;he festival October 31. while "Pulse of Life."<br />
larrated by Raymond Massey, is in the<br />
;ommunication category.<br />
The Four Crown Production Co. has acluired<br />
worldwide distribution rights for<br />
'Leaf" and has obtained options on the renaining<br />
seven pictures of the nature series<br />
hat Pyramid Films cun-ently has in producion.<br />
Changes<br />
Title<br />
Three on a Match (U-D to THREE WAY<br />
VIATCH.<br />
WB to Reach Teenagers<br />
For 'Purr-ee' Premiere<br />
HOLLYWOOD — A hard-hitting, allaround<br />
exploitation-promotion campaign,<br />
aimed especially at teenagers, is being unrolled<br />
by Warner Bros, in Chicago for the<br />
world premiere of "Gay Purr-ee" on November<br />
9.<br />
Pour hundred thousand throwaways, distributed<br />
by hand to students in all high<br />
schools in Chicago and suburbs, as well as<br />
Balaban & Katz theatres throughout the<br />
area and Warner Bros, record outlets<br />
should reach huge audiences.<br />
Underwater Film Festival<br />
Award Won by 'Mermaids'<br />
HOLLYWOOD—The Pilmgroup's<br />
"Mermaids<br />
of Tiburon," a John Lamb pi-oduction,<br />
will be awarded a "Special Tribute for<br />
Outstanding Underwater Photography" by<br />
the Sixth International TJnderwater Film<br />
Festival.<br />
The citation, to be presented formally<br />
at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, is<br />
the first made to a feature film since Cousteau's<br />
"Silent World" won it in 1957.<br />
MGM Pacts Frankie Avalon<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Singer-actor Frankie<br />
which made a prior deal, calling for<br />
Avalon, who has just completed his role in<br />
"Drums of Africa," produced by Al Zimbalist<br />
and Phil Ki'asne for MGM release,<br />
signed a seven-year deal at the studio.<br />
Avalon's personal manager, Robert P.<br />
Marcucci, announced the deal calls for one<br />
picture a year, with option for a second<br />
film provided Avalon's services are not<br />
required by American International Pictures,<br />
four pictures.<br />
H-L Acquires 'Roommates'<br />
HOLLYWOOD — "Roommates," standing<br />
James Robertson Justice, has been acquired<br />
by Herts-Lion International for release in<br />
the U.S. The film, originally titled "Raising<br />
the Wind," was acquired from Nat<br />
Cohen's Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors<br />
and will open its initial engagement<br />
as a cofeature with the presently i-unning<br />
"A Matter of WHO."<br />
Bobby Payne in 'Nutty Professor'<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Actor Bobby Payne, onetime<br />
Cleveland Indians outfielder, and a<br />
student at La Salle College, Philadelphia,<br />
was set to play a college student in Jerry<br />
Lewis' "The Nutty Professor," starring and<br />
directed by Lewis and produced by Ernest D.<br />
Glucksman, for Paramount release.<br />
Reginald Owen Wins<br />
A Major Thrill' Role<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Reginald Owen, one of<br />
Hollywood's most active veteran actors
'Adult Film' Theatre<br />
Closed at Seattle<br />
SEATTLE—The Beaux Arts Cinema, motion<br />
picture house at 5608 South Rainier<br />
Ave., was ordered closed by city license officials<br />
following a city council license committee<br />
hearing. The committee debated<br />
legal and moral issues involved in the displays<br />
of posters outside the theatre, which<br />
aroused leaders of several nearby church<br />
and school groups.<br />
A petition of protest was presented by the<br />
Mothers' Club of St. Edward's Parochial<br />
School, and representatives of that school<br />
and church and of the Sharpies Junior<br />
High School PTA attended the meeting. An<br />
attorney contended that the theatre had<br />
been showing films of an "obscene type"<br />
that should not be allowed close to schools.<br />
The council group supported a proposal<br />
from one of its members for drafting of an<br />
ordinance that would prohibit "adults only"<br />
films being shown in "predominantly residential<br />
areas." Corporation counsel A. C.<br />
Van Soelen warned that it may prove difficult<br />
to define such areas.<br />
UA Distributing Tour Kit<br />
To Promote Taras Bulba'<br />
HOLX."yTVOOD—A promotional tour kit<br />
for Harold Hecht's "Taras Bulba," most<br />
lavish still photo display ever assembled for<br />
a motion picture promotion, has been reproduced<br />
in triplicate for simultaneous display<br />
in the United States, Europe and the<br />
Orient. In addition to the still photo kit, a<br />
special 35mm, 24-minute trailer showing<br />
behind-the-scenes activities of the film,<br />
will be screened at each conference, which<br />
also will include the presence of regional<br />
and local exhibitors, in addition to the<br />
press.<br />
United Artists fieldmen around the world<br />
will "conduct" the tours, with stars Tony<br />
Curtis and Yul Brynner hosting as many<br />
conferences as their schedules will allow.<br />
Curtis will handle U.S. cities, with Bi-ynner<br />
committing his participation to receptions<br />
in Rome, Paris and Madrid.<br />
Yolo in Woodland, Calif.<br />
Has $100,000 Fire Damage<br />
WOODLAND, CALIF.—The Yolo Theatre<br />
at Elm and Main streets was gutted by fire<br />
recently, the loss being estimated at $100,-<br />
000. Acting fire chief James Martin said<br />
it has not been learned where the blaze<br />
started or what caused it. Firemen responded<br />
to the call just before 3:30 a.m.<br />
after police received a report of smoke<br />
coming from the building.<br />
The 750-seat theatre is owned by Peter<br />
J. Garrette of Woodland and is managed<br />
by Bernard Skellcock. The theatre stood on<br />
the site of the old National Theatre, which<br />
was gutted by fire in 1935.<br />
Job for Wally Green<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Wally Green, choreographer<br />
of the "Pink Puzzy Cat" shows,<br />
has been signed by Billy Wilder to design<br />
the "Alouette" sequence in "Irma La<br />
Douce," Mirisch Co. presentation, in association<br />
with Edward L. Alperson for<br />
United Artists release. The cast is headed<br />
by Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.<br />
Appoints Jack O'Loughlin<br />
MFDC General Manager<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—Roy Cooper, president<br />
of Mutual Film Distributing Co., has announced<br />
the resignation of Johnny Cummins<br />
and the appointment of Jack J. O'Loughlin<br />
as vice-president and general manager of<br />
Mutual, effective October 15th.<br />
Cooper stated. "We are very enthusiastic<br />
about O'Loughlin's association with us. He<br />
is capable and experienced. He was with<br />
RKO as salesman for ten years, subsequently<br />
with United Artists for 12 years as<br />
salesman, branch manager and district<br />
manager.<br />
"He has covered the Seattle-Portland,<br />
San Francisco and Los Angeles territories,<br />
where he is particularly well-known and<br />
where he has a gi-eat many friends.<br />
"During the past few years O'Loughlin<br />
was vice-president and general manager for<br />
George Bagnall & Associates of Beverly<br />
Hills in theatre and television production<br />
and distribution."<br />
Mutual is currently sales agents for<br />
Trans-Lux and Parade Releasing Corp.<br />
product.<br />
GWTW Coming Back<br />
LOS ANGELES—"Gone With the Wind"<br />
is returning to Hollywood boulevard for<br />
an exclusive run at the Egyptian Theatre,<br />
starting October 31. It follows the current<br />
"Flame in the Streets" and precedes the<br />
hard-ticket "Mutiny on the Bounty." The<br />
last local run of GWTW was at the Marcal<br />
April 4 to 17.<br />
Award to K. D. Soble<br />
From Canadian Edition<br />
TORONTO—Three special guests who<br />
received human relations awards of the Canadian<br />
Council of Christians and Jews this<br />
year were Kenneth David Soble of Hamilton,<br />
theatre and T'V station owner, Bishop<br />
John C. Cody of London, Ont., and George<br />
C. Metcalf, president of the huge Loblaw<br />
Groceteria chain.<br />
Bronston Inks James Mason<br />
MADRID—James Mason has been signed<br />
by Samuel Bronston Productions to play<br />
Timonides. the Greek philosopher, in "Fall<br />
of the Roman Empire." Anthony Mann will<br />
direct the Philip Yordan script. Sophia<br />
Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness and<br />
Richard HaiTis were previously set.<br />
To Judge 'Spaceship' Contest<br />
LOS ANGELES—Steve McCrane, head<br />
of Ryan Aeronautics art and graphic department,<br />
will judge drawing contest entries<br />
in connection with U. S. premiere of<br />
Crown International's "First Spaceship on<br />
Venus" in San Diego October 31. The aim<br />
of the contest is to find a most unusual<br />
concept of what people on the planet will<br />
look like.<br />
Confer on 'Password' Release<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Having just retuined<br />
from London, where the world premiere of<br />
their new motion pictui'e, "The Password Is<br />
Coui-age," was held, Andrew and Virginia<br />
Stone are conferring with MGM executives<br />
on domestic release plans. Money raised at<br />
the London premiere was turned over to the<br />
British Armed Services relief fund.<br />
Herb Royster Retires;<br />
Manager for 50 Years<br />
PORTLAND—Herb Royster, veteran motion<br />
picture, stage and vaudeville house<br />
manager for the past 50 years in the northwest,<br />
has retired.<br />
Royster, manager of J. J. Parker's Bi-oadway<br />
here since 1953 and prior to that manager<br />
of the Mayfair, jointly operated by<br />
both Parker and Evergreen theatres here,<br />
ended his services on October 20. He was<br />
65 years old on the 23rd.<br />
Royster. in Portland for 20 years, started<br />
in Spokane as a theatre manager. With exception<br />
of World War I duty as an aviator,<br />
he had been connected with major theatres<br />
in Spokane, Lewiston, Ida.. Seattle and<br />
Portland.<br />
As manager of the Mayfair, downtown<br />
legitimate theatre until it was rebuilt in<br />
1954 at a cost of $1,000,000 and renamed<br />
the Fox, Royster had the reputation of<br />
being one of the best legitimate house<br />
managers on the coast.<br />
He has no immediate plans.<br />
Succeeding Royster at the Broadway is<br />
a 26-year-old former bank clerk, Eric<br />
Sundholm. The son of a Portland contractor,<br />
he attended Grant High School here<br />
and majored in language and arts at Lewis<br />
and Clark College. He says he is an avid<br />
movie fan and is interested in publicity. As<br />
publicity director of the Scandinavian<br />
Men's Club here, he promoted last season's<br />
Lucia Bride pageant. He also designed the<br />
Park Haviland Hotel's prize-winning float<br />
in last June's big Rose Festival parade here.<br />
Blayney F. Matthews, 68,<br />
Studio Guard Chief, Dies<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Blayney F. Matthews,<br />
68, for many years director of plant protection<br />
at the Warner Bros, studio since 1935,<br />
died. He was a former special agent of the<br />
FBI and also former chief of the Bureau<br />
of Investigation of the Los Angeles district<br />
attorney's office, and was considered Hollywood's<br />
leading authority in security matters<br />
involving motion pictm-e studios and<br />
personnel. Survivors are his wife Patricia;<br />
a daughter, Mrs. Lewis Cavelotto, two<br />
grandchildren, two brothers and four sisters.<br />
M. Alexander Is Manager<br />
For UCT in Grass Valley<br />
GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. — M. Alexander,<br />
widely experienced manager of motion<br />
picture theatres for United California ;<br />
Theatres, has been appointed manager of<br />
the Del Oro Theatre, local UCT unit, succeeding<br />
Dan Holcomb.<br />
'<br />
Holcomb's resignation of two months ago<br />
became effective October 1, when Alexander<br />
took over managerial duties. The<br />
new Del Oro manager came from Willows,<br />
where he managed the United Theatres'<br />
playhouse for 12 years. Previously he was<br />
located at Martinez and Hanford.<br />
To Do Filming in New York<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Jack Kelly, currently<br />
on Broadway, has reactivated his Majack<br />
Productions, and plans to put his first film,<br />
"Chance Meeting." by James Komack, before<br />
the cameras in New York City, instead<br />
of using the London locale called for in the<br />
story.<br />
W-2<br />
BOXOFFICE October 29, 1962
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Farewell Luncheon<br />
Given for Pearson<br />
MILWAUKEE—An overflow gathering<br />
it the farewell luncheon for Harold Pearson<br />
at the Steak Ranch recently was<br />
jvidence of the esteem in which the forner<br />
Allied executive secretary was held<br />
every sector of the amusement industry;<br />
XI<br />
branches were well represented.<br />
ill<br />
Were all the sincere tributes paid to<br />
Pearson turned into cash, he'd be a wealthy<br />
nan. Among those who spoke were Ben<br />
Marcus, Bernie Strachota, Eddie Johnson,<br />
Andy Spheeris, Sam Kaufman and Oliver<br />
ri-ampe.<br />
After 15 fruitful years for Allied. Pearson<br />
resigned to enter the soft drink bottling<br />
Dusiness at Menominee, Mich. Henry Kratz.<br />
/eteran showman, late of the Prudential<br />
rheatres circuit, has been selected to succeed<br />
Pearson as Allied's new executive secretary.<br />
Work Started by Goldman<br />
Dn Philadelphia Orleans<br />
PHILADELPHIA—Construction got under<br />
vay recently on the new 2,000-seat Orleans<br />
Theatre of the William Goldman circuit,<br />
^ocated in the heart of an outstanding<br />
ihopping center in the northeast section of<br />
-he city, completion of the theatre is expected<br />
early in 1963.<br />
Thalheimer & Weitz, local architects, deigned<br />
the theatre. The general contractor<br />
s Fleming and Co. Spacious lounges,<br />
uxurious seating, complete air conditioning<br />
md the newly developed "eye-ease" lighting<br />
ire planned.<br />
EVERY<br />
S EATTLE<br />
Tim Brooks, office manager and booker, and<br />
Celia Blatt, booker, were released in a<br />
curtailment at 20th-Fox. Carl Handsaker,<br />
who has been eastern Washington salesman,<br />
was moved in as office manager and<br />
booker. The eastern Washington area has<br />
been added to salesman Dave Dunkle's territory.<br />
Miss Blatt had been with 20th-Fox<br />
21 years.<br />
Bliss Stansberry, cashier at Favorite Films,<br />
and her husband concluded a vacation trip<br />
that included Banff in Canada. Yellowstone<br />
Park and spots in northern California.<br />
Barney Rose, Universal district manager,<br />
came in from San Francisco for meetings<br />
at the local exchange .<br />
Crowe, Sterling<br />
advertising manager, was enjoying a<br />
European holiday. Dan Seymour of public<br />
relations was subbing during Crowe's absence<br />
. . . Lois Pouliot has been employed<br />
by MGM as a teletype operator in the new<br />
IBM accounting setup . . . Alice Haydon is<br />
a new secretarial assistant in the office of<br />
Fred Danz at Sterling.<br />
L. C. Tomlinson, office manager-booker<br />
at Favorite Films, returned from a vacation<br />
. . . "El Cid" has been doing tremendous<br />
business throughout the state. It<br />
played 11 weeks at the Fifth Avenue here<br />
and set records at Aberdeen. Bellingham<br />
and Everett. In Bellingham at the Mount<br />
Baker, a single Saturday equaled the normal<br />
week's gross.<br />
WEEK<br />
Opportunity<br />
• CLEARING<br />
in<br />
Knocks<br />
The Rodeo Drive-In at Port Orchard was<br />
closed for the season. Operating on weekends<br />
only is the Harbor Drive-In, the Kitsap<br />
at Bremerton and the Sno-King, Glenwood.<br />
Still operating full time are the Kent<br />
El Rancho, Kenmore and the Fife Auto<br />
'View. Depending on weather, tentative<br />
closures are scheduled for mid-November.<br />
The "Wildlife Screen Tours," sponsored<br />
by the Seattle Audubon Society, will include<br />
the following color films to be shown<br />
at the Palomar Theatre October through<br />
April: "Ranch and Range." "Nova Scotia,"<br />
"Pastures of the Sea" and "Flora and<br />
Fauna of British Columbia."<br />
'Steven D' for Film<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Peter Katz and David<br />
Sontag have acquired U.S. theatre rights to<br />
"Steven D." a play compiled from James<br />
Joyce's autobiographical novel, which was<br />
an award winner at a recent Dublin Theatre<br />
Festival.<br />
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At Big 250 in L.A.<br />
LOS ANGELES—First-run Los Angeles<br />
business got a shot in the ami with the results<br />
turned in when "Requiem for a<br />
Heavyweight" opened to a lush 250 per<br />
cent. "The Chapman Report" continued to<br />
attract customers, and obviously was living<br />
up to their expectations, for it remains<br />
among the toppers. The other three, "The<br />
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm,"<br />
"West Side Story," and "Tlie Music Man,"<br />
maintained their leadership, unable to be<br />
nudged from the socko scores they have<br />
tallied to date.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
Beverly— Lolito (MGM), 1 8th wk 75<br />
Beverly Canon A Summer to Remember (Moyfoir-<br />
Kingsley); Grand Concert lArtkino), reissue,<br />
Corthay—The Longest Day (26th-Fox), 2nd wk. ..325<br />
Chinese West Side Story lUA), 45th wk 225<br />
Crest—A Motfcr ot WHO iHerts-Lion), 7fh wk 65<br />
Egyptian Flame in the Streets (Atlantic), 2nd wk. 65<br />
Fine Arts Boccaccio '70 (Embassy), 13th wk 100<br />
Fox Wilshire The Sky Above—the Mud Below<br />
(Embassy), 2nd wk 65<br />
Four Star— I Like Money (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 65<br />
Hawaii Wiltern, Los Angeles, Boldwin— H a Man<br />
Answers lU-l) 75<br />
Hillstreet Lady and the Tramp (BV), reissue;<br />
Almost Angels (BV), 2nd wk 65<br />
Warren's, El Rey A Taste of Honey (Cont'l),<br />
Iris,<br />
2nd wk 65<br />
Hollywood Paramount The Music Man (WB),<br />
13fh wk 225<br />
Orpheum, Village, Loyola, Vogue The 300<br />
Spartans (20th-Fox) 65<br />
pix One, Two, Three (DA), return run 75<br />
Pontoges The Chapman Report (WB), 2nd wk.<br />
Music Hall Walti of the Toreadors (Cont'l),<br />
4th wk 85<br />
State, Hoilvwood The Creation of the Humonoids<br />
(Emerson), return run 65<br />
Vagabond Ingmar Bergman Film Festival, 2nd wk. 150<br />
Warner Beverly Requiem for a Heavyweight<br />
(Col) 250<br />
Warner Hollywood The Wonderful World of the<br />
Brothers Grimm (MGM-Cmeroma), 11th wk. .225<br />
Denver First Runs Manage<br />
To Do Average Business<br />
DENVER— Still liberally loaded with reissues,<br />
local first-run houses with one exception<br />
were able to report average or better<br />
scores. A discouraging facet is the fact<br />
that three theatres presenting brand-new<br />
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issue of "Lady and the Tramp" combined<br />
with a new film. "Almost Angels." the gtan Dutkin, Stein Enterprises, has redouble-bill<br />
scoring 200 per cent at the Den- signed and will, hereafter, be associver.<br />
ated with Herts-Lion International Pic-<br />
Aiaddin—Scven Brides for Seven Brothers (MGM), tures in Hollywood and Robert<br />
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Father of the Bride (MGM), reissues 110<br />
siegel. Occanside exhibitors, plan to at-<br />
Centre The Pigeon That Took Rome (Para) 100 "<br />
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Cooper— The Wonderful World of the Brothers tend the TOA Convention m Miami anc<br />
Grimm (MGM-Cmcroma), 11th wk 130<br />
lYien go On to the Bahamas Islands for £<br />
Crest— Corry On, Teacher (Governor); Doctor m =<br />
t->„i„i, cr.„i*v.<br />
Ralph Smith<br />
return runs 100 vacation and some golf . . .<br />
Love (Governor),<br />
Denhom— West Side story (UA), 25th wk. .. 100 Savoy Theatre. San Diego, was in towr<br />
Denver Lady and the Tromp (BV), reissue; Almost •<br />
, , j i. a i<br />
f v, i,i„.<br />
Angels (BV> .... 200 booking and buying .<br />
in for booking<br />
Esquire—The Sky Above— the Mud Below (Embassy);<br />
^nd buying WaS Sam Cornish, Ojai ThS-<br />
No Place Like Homicide (Embassy), 5th wk., ^. .<br />
moveover 100 atres, Ojai.<br />
Orpheum— Gigi' (MGM); Les Girls (MGM), reissues . . 70<br />
Report (WB); Paramount—The Chapman Dream LgO Molitor, American Theatre. Newhall<br />
Towrl^A^very ptitale' Mfoir^UdM) :: .'.'...'..: 100 was in town booking and buying and announced<br />
that he will refurnish his theatre<br />
from marquee to/and including screen, etc<br />
Grossman. Holiday in Canoga<br />
San Francisco Film Houses .<br />
Experience a Spott'y Week Park. Magnolia in Burbank. will take ovei<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—Art house holdovers the Loma Theatre in Burbank, refurnist<br />
topped the list, with "West Side Story" im- and reseat it and reopen it as the Loma<br />
proving in the last ten days of its long run. Arts Theatre. The opening program will be<br />
"No Man Is an Island" at the Golden Gate Manhattan Film's "La Dolce Vita anc<br />
held to a good 100 per cent in the second "Two Women.<br />
week. The Fox Theatre, leased for ten days £,„„ Hughes, manager of Saul Mahler's<br />
for the Bolshoi Ballet, was reopening<br />
g^gjg Theatre, and Mrs. Hughes celebrat-<br />
Thursday with "White Slave Ship."<br />
j^g their 50th anniversary . . . Robert<br />
Cinerama-Orpheum—The Wonderful World of the<br />
Brothers Grimm (MGM-Cineroma),<br />
Kroiienberg, president of Manhattan Films<br />
I<br />
Esquire— Bird Man of Aicatraz (UA), 5th wk 70<br />
i<br />
at<br />
and Mrs. Kroiienberg Were vacationing<br />
Golden Gate— No Man Is an Island (U-i) 2nd wk. 100<br />
t^g Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.<br />
Metro Boccaccio 70 (Embassy), 13th wk 200 , . , „ , , . ,. ^ . ,.<br />
Paramount— Horror Hotel (Trans-Lux) 90 Norman Jackter, Columbia district<br />
. .<br />
manof<br />
Stage Door—A Taste Honey (Confi) return run 150 ^ger, to went Off New York on "Lawrence<br />
St Francis The Chapman Report (WB), 2nd wk. 125 ?,.,,,. t , tti,<br />
United Artists—West Side Story (UA), 45th wk. ..250 of Arabia busiiiess . . . Jack Ullman, anvogue--The<br />
Devil's Wonton(E-T,bassy) 3rd wk. ..250 nounced that he will reopen his Broadwaj<br />
Worfield A Very Private Affair MGM) 90 ^, . „ . .j.. • •<br />
c i. t<br />
Theatre in El Centre with Spanish pictures<br />
exclusively.<br />
Citywide Home Repairs<br />
Hit Portland Retailers<br />
PORTLAND—Most local business, theatres<br />
included, suffered as homeowners<br />
here pitched in to clean up and repair their<br />
storm-damaged homes. Purveyors of building<br />
materials and tools, as well as all types<br />
of maintenance and repair services, were<br />
busy—retailers suffering accordingly. Both<br />
"The Music Man" and "West Side Story"<br />
reported substantial grosses.<br />
Broadway The Pigeon That Took Rome (Para);<br />
Forever My Love (Para), 2nd wk 135<br />
Fox—The Music Man (WB), 1 5th wk 1 70<br />
Music Box—West Side Story (UA), 8th month 250<br />
Orpheum, 82nd St. Drive-ln—White Slave Ship<br />
(AlP); Dangerous Charter (Crown) 135<br />
Paramount, 104fh St. Drive- In Lady and the Tramp<br />
(BV), reissue; Almost Angels (BV), 2nd wk 135<br />
A H-L Horror Bill<br />
LOS ANGELES — Herts-Lion<br />
International<br />
has scheduled initial engagements of<br />
"The Devil's Messenger," starring Lon<br />
Chaney jr. and Karen Kadler, and "Carnival<br />
of Souls," starring Candace Hilligoss, as<br />
a horror double-bill opening, at the Orpheum.<br />
Adams. Century and Manchester<br />
theatres in Los Angeles, as well as the Ritz,<br />
Inglewood; Majestic, Santa Monica; Twin-<br />
Vue Drive-In, and additional situations<br />
now being set.<br />
Big Advance on "Bounty' Tickets<br />
LOS ANGELES—MGM's "Mutiny on the<br />
Bounty," the spectacular story of romance<br />
and adventure in the South Seas, which<br />
will open at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood<br />
following the west coast invitational<br />
premiere to be sponsored by the<br />
Thalians November 15, already has chalked<br />
up a tremendous sale of tickets for its<br />
regular two-a-day engagement.<br />
Ronnie Nichols, manager of the Fox<br />
Theatre, Taft, was in for conferences with<br />
H. E. Poynter and Al O'Keefe . . . Bofc<br />
Berkum, Ken Theatre, San Diego, consulted<br />
with Jack Sherriff. salesman ol<br />
Manhattan Films, on their new dualer<br />
"Shoot the Piano Player" and "Cleo 5 to<br />
7" . . . Pete Latsis, National General Corp<br />
(Fox West Coast! advertising department<br />
was vacationing . Evans, assistant<br />
to Fred Kunkel, United Artists circuit, was<br />
passing out cigars after Mrs. Evans presented<br />
him with a baby girl, Nancy Jo .<br />
Ken Tyler, former assistant manager at<br />
the Academy Theatre. Pasadena, has beer<br />
named manager of the New Ritz Theatre<br />
in Ontario, replacing Charlie Barnes—whc<br />
has become associated with the Alfred<br />
Hitchcock Productions company.<br />
At the Monday (15i membership meeting<br />
of Variety Tent 25. the following were<br />
elected as crewmen for 1963: Fred Stein;<br />
Alfred S. Lapidus, S. Charles Lee. Robert L.<br />
Lippert, Eugene Klein, James H. Nicholson,<br />
Chester J. Doyle, Marvin Mirisch, Fred<br />
Kunkel, Sherrill Corwin and Pat R. Notaro.<br />
The crew will meet within the next few<br />
weeks to elect the chief barker and other<br />
officers.<br />
'Killing a Mouse' Slated<br />
LOS ANGELES—Fred Zinnemann will<br />
produce and direct, and Anthony Quinn will<br />
star in a film for Columbia Pictures release,<br />
venture between Zinnemann's<br />
based on Emeric Pressburger's novel, "Killing<br />
a Mouse on Sunday." Pressburger also<br />
will write the screenplay. The project, a<br />
coproduction<br />
Highland Films and Quinn's Antone Productions,<br />
will be filmed starting next<br />
spring.<br />
W-4 BOXOFFICE :: October 29, 1962
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ALL-<br />
TRANSISTOR<br />
SOUN^STEMS
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
l^rs. Gerald L. Des Laurier, president of<br />
the East Bay Motion Picture and Television<br />
Council, announced the new meeting<br />
place will be the Franklin Recreation Center.<br />
1010-15th St.. Oakland. The next meeting<br />
will be on Monday. November 5, at 10<br />
a.m.. and Mrs. Richard Callaghan, program<br />
chairman, will present the guest speaker<br />
Frank W. Galvin. district manager of<br />
United California Theatres. His topic will<br />
be "Current Pictures Plus Movies and Censorship."<br />
A large cast of motion picture recording<br />
and television entertainers will present<br />
a benefit show sponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis<br />
Foundation at midnight at the Fox<br />
Theatre, October 27. Comedian Joey Bishop<br />
will act as master of ceremonies. The show<br />
will include Jayne Mansfield, Hayley Mills,<br />
Diane McBain, Scott Brady, Annette<br />
Punicello, Doug McClure, George Greeley<br />
and his orchestra.<br />
"The Manchurian Candidate" will open<br />
its first local engagement at the United<br />
Artists Theatre Thursday, November 1 . . .<br />
George Milner has resigned from Pox West<br />
Coast, where he had been film buyer since<br />
1936. His place has been filled by Gordon<br />
Hewitt of Los Angeles.<br />
The names of 23 feature films from 18<br />
countries that will compete in the San<br />
Francisco International Film Festival have<br />
been announced by Festival Director living<br />
M. Levin. Tickets for all performances are<br />
on sale at the Metro Theatre, at bookstores<br />
and ticket outlets throughout the San<br />
Francisco Bay Area. Festival dates are October<br />
31 through November 13.<br />
^
:<br />
LOS<br />
. . Jules<br />
. . On<br />
DENVER<br />
f^ommonwealth Theatres has reopened the<br />
Grove Theatre at Gering, Neb., on weekends<br />
only . Gerlach was in conferring<br />
with local Manager Jack Felix . . . Eva<br />
Schad, Star Theatre, Guernsey, Wyo., was<br />
back on the job again after undergoing surgery<br />
in Wheatland.<br />
The Gene Fulmer-Dick Tiger fight telecast<br />
was carried on the Paramount Theatre<br />
screen . . . Bill Boston, who resigned as<br />
city manager for Commonwealth in Scottsbluff<br />
and went to California, is back in<br />
Scottsbluff . . . The sale of the Lensic and<br />
El Paseo theatres in Santa Fe to Frontier<br />
Theatres of Dallas ends an operation by<br />
the Greer family which started in 1913.<br />
Fairmont's John Watters<br />
Heads Tax Study Group<br />
From North Central Edition<br />
FAIRMONT, MINN. — John Watters,<br />
local theatre and restaurant operator, has<br />
been named chairman of the Fairmont<br />
tax study committee. Cliff Racine, trailer<br />
distributor and businessman, was selected<br />
as secretary.<br />
Watters said the committee, comprised of<br />
25 Fairmont business and professional<br />
men and industrial leaders, will examine<br />
the tax structure and financial condition<br />
of the city and school district. Watters and<br />
members of the committee stressed the<br />
point that the tax study committee "is not<br />
a group to stifle or hamper progress." but,<br />
rather, a gi-oup dedicated to the task of<br />
learning more about the affairs of the city<br />
and the public school district.<br />
THE<br />
NEARLY<br />
The LincoUi Theatre at Cheyenne is<br />
featuring one-night Film Festivals of arttype<br />
pictures sponsored by the Women's<br />
Civic League. Admittance is by season<br />
tickets only . the Row were Joe Ma-<br />
;hetta, Emerson Theatre at Brush; Howard<br />
C;ampbell, Westland Theatres, Colorado<br />
Springs: George McCormick, Skyline at<br />
::anon City, and Bob Heyl. Wyoming at<br />
rorrington.<br />
Loew's Moves Lou Cohen<br />
To Palace in Hartford<br />
-rom New England Edition<br />
HARTFORD—Moving into semi-retirenent<br />
status, Lou Cohen, manager of Loew's<br />
?oli since 1940, has shifted to managership<br />
Df the Poll's sister theatre, the Palace,<br />
A'hich is operated on a parttime basis.<br />
Mrs. Ruth CoMn, Palace manager since<br />
;he retirement of Fred R. Greenway in<br />
1959, succeeds Cohen at the Poll.<br />
A veteran of 50 years in the motion pic-<br />
;ure industry, Cohen has been with the<br />
Ijoew's Poli-New England Theatres in Hart-<br />
•ord since 1933. He wiU be 65 in December.<br />
ferry Levine to Studio<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Jerry K. Levine, advertising<br />
manager for Paramount Pictures,<br />
irrived in Hollywood for studio confer-<br />
;nces with Hal Wallis on "Girls! Girls!<br />
"lirls!" The Wallis production stars Elvis<br />
resley and was directed by Norman Tau-<br />
•og.<br />
'Grimm' Screenings for Nuns<br />
ANGELES—Roman Catholic nuns<br />
)f the Los Angeles archdiocese will be the<br />
juests at a special showing of MGM-Cineama's<br />
"The Wonderful World of the<br />
3rothers Grimm" on November 1, All<br />
Saints Day, and a second screening No-<br />
'ember 3, the latter showing both morning<br />
md afternoon performances.<br />
Renovated Capitol<br />
In Brantford Reopens<br />
From Canadian Edition<br />
BRANTFORD, ONT.—The Capitol, operated<br />
by Famous Players Canadian Corp.,<br />
has been reopened after a remodeling and<br />
refurbishing program which cost $100,000.<br />
The Brantford Expositor, in an editorial,<br />
commented:<br />
"The theatre embodies convincing evidence<br />
of the owners' faith in the future.<br />
The current event is all the more interesting<br />
and gratifying against the colorful and<br />
nostalgic story of the theatre in Brantford."<br />
The Capitol was constructed 43 years ago.<br />
Martin's Cinerama Opens<br />
With 'Brothers Grimm'<br />
From Southeast Edition<br />
ATLANTA—The Martin Cinerama Theatre,<br />
formerly the Tower which was done<br />
over and practically rebuilt at a cost to<br />
$1,000,000, opened with "The Wonderful<br />
World of the Brothers Grimm."<br />
B. G. Ki-anze, vice-president of Cinerama,<br />
Inc., and E. D. Martin, president of Martin<br />
Theatres, hosted a dinner party at the City<br />
Club, after which the 200 guests were transported<br />
to the new theatre by bus with police<br />
escort.<br />
Television and radio covered the premiere<br />
event which was attended by state, city, religious<br />
and society leaders.<br />
Ontario Censors Limit Ten<br />
From Canadian Edition<br />
TORONTO—The hand of<br />
Ontario censors<br />
became heavy when no less than six<br />
features were given the classification of<br />
"Restricted" which provides a minimum<br />
age of 18 years for patrons. The six pictures<br />
in this category are Boccaccio '70,<br />
The Chasers, A Kind of Loving, Odd Obsession,<br />
One Plus One and The Sky Above<br />
—the Mud Below.<br />
A Richard Carter Company<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Richard Carter<br />
has established<br />
his own public relations organization,<br />
following his resignation as vicepresident<br />
for the past six years at Cleary-<br />
Strauss-Irwin and Goodman. Carter will<br />
specialize in serving individual talents and<br />
companies in the entertainment world.<br />
CURABLE<br />
CANCER!<br />
A simple, painless examination,<br />
the "Pap<br />
smear", helps physicians<br />
detect cancers of<br />
the uterus in time.<br />
When discovered early<br />
and properly treated,<br />
this second most common<br />
cancer in women is<br />
nearly 100 7o curable.<br />
Our film, "Time and<br />
Two Women" will show<br />
you how to guard yourself<br />
against uterine cancer.<br />
It has already saved<br />
many lives. To see it,<br />
call the office of the<br />
American Cancer<br />
Society nearest you, or<br />
write to "Cancer", c/o<br />
your local post office.<br />
AMERICAN<br />
CANCER<br />
BOXOFFICE<br />
lOXOFFICE :: October 29, 1962 W-7
: October<br />
Mr. Theatre Supplier—<br />
^i^hwi<br />
^^^'^ 9®^ caught<br />
....NAPPING!<br />
Read what The Wall Street Journal said:<br />
"MORE THEATRES OPEN THAN CLOSE FOR FffiST TIME IN POST-WAR ERA"<br />
The movie house is enjoying a revival in both large cities and small communities. Not only<br />
are new film houses popping up all over the country and many small town theatres reopening, but<br />
also many older picture<br />
houses are being modernized or are being re-equipped<br />
The Wall Street Journal, June 7, 1962<br />
Read what BOXOFFICE said:<br />
"$54,725,400 INVESTED IN NEW THEATRES IN 1961"<br />
In 1961, exhibitors spent $54,725,400 for construction of 142 new theatres and an estimated<br />
$26,605,200 in remodeling and improvements for a total investment of $81,330,600 Estimates (for<br />
1962) include $41,581,500 allocated for new theatre construction, remodeling and improvements."<br />
BOXOFHCE, May 7. 1962<br />
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29, 1962
. Comedy."<br />
Chief Barker Joe Simpkins and His St, Louis Crew<br />
Here are the new officers of the Variety Tent 4 of St. Louis.<br />
Front row. left to right: Joe Laba. Joe Keegan, >Iilton Mandel.<br />
Joe .\nsell. Joe Simpkins (chief barken, Tony Pelusco, Dave<br />
^4ary Keueisen Honored<br />
It a Saturday Luncheon<br />
KANSAS CITY—At a luncheon held<br />
Saturday '201 in the Colonial room at<br />
Glenwood Manor Motor<br />
Lodge. Mary<br />
Heuelsen. WB booker<br />
and a charter member<br />
of the Kansas<br />
City Women of the<br />
Motion Pictiu-e IndustiT.<br />
was surprised<br />
^-- -'•^ to learn that she was<br />
^M' -3»'%^^^ ?uest of honor and<br />
^^L<br />
,<br />
^7 ^^^^^<br />
^E^<br />
*^^ event had<br />
^^^L \< hH been planned as a sa-<br />
»" i^" lute to her recent<br />
Mary Heueisen<br />
election as first vicepresident<br />
of the asjciation<br />
of WOMPI clubs.<br />
Mis. Myrtle Cain. MGM manager's sec-<br />
Stary and president of the Kansas City<br />
/OMPI club, acted as hostess and made<br />
lost of the plans for the event. Mary was<br />
tesented with a white mum corsage and<br />
fcorted to the head table where she was<br />
anked by past presidents Hazel LeNoir.<br />
lacys Melson. Bonnie Aumiller and Phyl-<br />
'^<br />
.-.rescarver. Following the meal, a gift<br />
resented—a round silver memento<br />
charm bracelet engraved "To Mary"<br />
side, and on the other. "WOMPI<br />
'<br />
Vice-President 1962-63.<br />
Irs. Jcanes C. Petrillo<br />
>ies After Long Illness<br />
CHICAGO—Mrs. Mane Petrillo. wife of<br />
imes C. Petrillo. died here Saturday (20i.<br />
ae had been iU several months with a<br />
?art condition.<br />
Petrillo, who retired in 1958 as national<br />
resident of the American Federation of<br />
Musicians, still retains his presidency of<br />
e Chicago local, a post he has held since<br />
22. He was national president 18 years,<br />
. which time he was regularly reas<br />
the local's president.<br />
''Connell to Star in TV Series<br />
HOLiTWOOD—Arthur O'Connell. two-<br />
-Academy Award nominee, has been<br />
to head a steUar cast for MGM's<br />
-;on new half-hour series. "The<br />
The series is based on the<br />
MGM motion picttu-e classic and<br />
- - lling novel, both written by William<br />
.A^rthur and Bob Johnson. Bottom row: Harry Wald, Harry King,<br />
Bruce Ha.vward. Frank Leber, Ed Dorsey, John Meinardi, and<br />
Chris Christen.<br />
Says Enterprise Needed<br />
In Booking, Promotion<br />
ST. LOUIS — Crowning of a Filmrow<br />
queen and presentation of an honorary hfe<br />
membership climaxed the annual banquet<br />
of the Missouri-Illinois Theatre Owners<br />
Ass'n in the Starlight Roof of the Chase<br />
Hotel.<br />
Receiving the Ufe membership on the<br />
board was Charles Goldman "for his years<br />
of service" to the industry and to MITO.<br />
Only two others have received this honor<br />
since the organization of MITO. They are<br />
Bess Schulter and Tommy James. Frank<br />
Plimilee. vice-president, made the presentation.<br />
ANOTHER UA QL"EEX<br />
Jackie Marcallini, a United Artists<br />
staffer, was crowned Miss Filmrow by Wes<br />
Bloomer, MITO president. The retiring<br />
queen is Rita Brusselback, also a UA staffer.<br />
Dave Arthur, Arthur Enterprises, was the<br />
emcee for the evening's festivities which<br />
inc'uded a fur fashion showing by Schimmel<br />
FuTS.<br />
During the luncheon session Richard<br />
Orear. president of Commonwealth Theatres.<br />
Kansas City, gave the keynote<br />
address in which he stressed that exhibitors<br />
must look to the young, independent producers<br />
for films in these times of product<br />
shortage, and must be willing to back these<br />
films with showmanship.<br />
"We don't need to dejiend entirely on the<br />
major companies for our product. With all<br />
the young producers trying to make a salable<br />
product there are bound to be a certain<br />
number of hits." Orear went on to<br />
stress the need for exhibitor cooperation in<br />
backing a picture. "You exhibitors expect<br />
the producer and the distributor to back a<br />
picture when you won't even book ahead of<br />
the playdate."<br />
In discussing his experiences as treasurer<br />
for Motion Picture Investors he<br />
pointed out that MPI tried getting playdates<br />
for reissues without any success and that<br />
those mo\ies are now on TV.<br />
"Motion Picture Investors is still a going<br />
concern made up of showmen who are determined<br />
to do something to help the industry."<br />
Orear stressed. Currently MPI<br />
is backing a film called "Checkered Flag."<br />
which was made by Guild Studio 5. Miami.<br />
Herbert Vendig is president of Guild Studio<br />
5. Plans for distribution are in the signing<br />
stage.<br />
There are also plans to try to redistribute<br />
"Deadly Companions" under a new title<br />
and with new editing. He concluded by appealing<br />
to the exhibitors to "repeal the soft<br />
sell and get more hard sell in then showmanship."<br />
The speaker at the opening lunch was<br />
William Hunter of Producers International<br />
Pictures, Hollj'wood. He stressed that too<br />
many exhibitors today "watch their popcorn<br />
sales instead of pushing their product.<br />
&-ery exhibitor has to get behind every<br />
product. The producer, distributor and exhibitor<br />
are a chain and either they work<br />
together or they will fall together."<br />
At the afternoon business session George<br />
Roscoe, field representative for TOA. gave<br />
a report. In discussing the product shortage<br />
Roscoe outlined the Hollywood Preview<br />
Engagement plan and urged all exhibitors<br />
to support the plan. He pointed out that<br />
the plan could appreciably help exhibitors<br />
and if the first film is not supported "it is<br />
doubtful if we can ever go to a film company<br />
for similar help in the future."<br />
He also summed up the recent pay tele-<br />
\Tsion cases and told of TOA's plans for the<br />
future.<br />
OFFICERS RE-ELECTED<br />
During the afternoon session the MITO<br />
re-elected the current slate of officers for<br />
the coming year. Re-elected were President<br />
Wesley Bloomer of Bloomer Amusement<br />
Co.. and Bloomer Enterprises. Belleville,<br />
ni. Other officers are Prank Plumlee,<br />
Farmington, Wee-president: Tommy<br />
James, St. Louis, chairman of the h)oard<br />
of directors: Jim Damos. St. Louis, treasurer:<br />
Jim James, St. Louis, secretary, and<br />
Pete Gloriod, Poplar Bluff, sergeant-atarms.<br />
The board named two new members<br />
from the St. Louis area: Herb Hartstein<br />
and John Fenton.<br />
DXOFnCE October 29, 1962 C-1
. . Hank<br />
. . Nancy<br />
AT "LONGEST DAY" SCREENING—Richard Durwood, left, vice-president<br />
of Durwood Theatres, and R. F. Goodfriend, second from right, Durwood general<br />
manager, played host at the invitational screening of "The Longest Day" at the<br />
Capri Theatre Wednesday evening (17). Shown with them are J. R. Neger, 20th-<br />
Fox manager; Lloyd Morris, Commonwealth film buyer, and, at far right, Giles M.<br />
Fowler, motion picture and drama critic for the Kansas City Star.<br />
KANSAS CITY<br />
The Weston Theatre in Missouri's tobacco<br />
town of Weston is lighting up again<br />
after a dark period of over two years. Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Eldon Rolls of nearby Atchison,<br />
Kas., have arranged to run the theatre on<br />
weekends, presenting a single change for<br />
the time being. Rolls is no newcomer to the<br />
theatre, having learned the ropes at the<br />
old Dixie Theatre at Linneus in Linn<br />
County. The Weston Theatre was operated<br />
for many years by Fred Eberwine.<br />
Sam Bernstein, concessionaire at Swope<br />
Park here, purchased the Cretors Ambassador<br />
popcorn machine and the new Cretors<br />
Caramelizer—for making and serving<br />
caramel corn—both of which were displayed<br />
at the recent convention of park executives<br />
held at the Municipal Auditorium<br />
here. The sales were made by Woodie Latimer's<br />
L&L Popcorn Co.<br />
Frances "Frankie" Jenkins, Durwood office<br />
secretary, spent a week of her vacation<br />
"just resting and relaxing" at the<br />
family home in Wichita . Porter<br />
of National Screen Service took her little<br />
granddaughter, Susan Elizabeth Stanton,<br />
to the Ozarks for a few days and then was<br />
to have a few days in St. Louis before returning<br />
to work . Wigman, manager<br />
of the Heart Drive-In Theatre, is back<br />
on the job daily now after many weeks of<br />
enforced rest and treatment of a heart<br />
condition. He is feeling much stronger<br />
and is most impatient with doctors, friends<br />
We run a fuli-time repair shop.<br />
Parts for all makes of projectors<br />
Loon equipment available<br />
SHREVE THEATRE SUPPLY<br />
217 West 18th St., HA 1-7849, Kansas City, Mo.<br />
and family members who caution him<br />
about taking things too fast.<br />
Bob DeJarnette at United Artists passed<br />
along the word that a U. S. Navy short<br />
subject in Technicolor, "The Answer," is<br />
being served gratis by UA and that he can<br />
accept bookings, starting about December<br />
10, on a first come first served basis. Rimning<br />
time of the short is 14 minutes . . .<br />
In tow^n recently on film business were Art<br />
Levy of the Jam Handy Organization, Detroit,<br />
whose product is available through<br />
I<br />
the local AIP exchange* and Abbott Swartz,<br />
head of IFD, Minneapolis. Levy, according<br />
to Larry Biechele, local AIP manager, who<br />
escorted him to the American Royal, is a<br />
good judge of horseflesh, picking the winner<br />
in event after event through the evening.<br />
J. Leo Hayob, general manager of Hayob<br />
Theatres in Marshall, has reopened the<br />
Mary Lou Theatre for the winter season,<br />
presenting one show each night at 7:30<br />
plus a Sunday matinee at 2 o'clock. The<br />
season opener Saturday (6) was "That<br />
Touch of Mink," which ran for a week and<br />
was followed by "The Music Man" and "El<br />
Cid," with "West Side Story" coming soon.<br />
Hayob emphasized that he will operate the<br />
Mary Lou only when there are high quality<br />
pictures available. His other house, the<br />
Auditorium, continued to run through the<br />
summer and will keep to its regular schedule<br />
at its regular prices. The Mary Lou<br />
price schedule is 90 cents for adults, 75<br />
cents for students with ID cards and 50<br />
cents for children under 12.<br />
Among Missouri exhibitors seen along the<br />
Row last week were Claude Hesseltine of<br />
the Lambert Theatre, Princeton; Bob Dyson<br />
of the Plaza Theatre, St. Joseph; Mr.<br />
and Mrs. E. L. FoUmer of the Roxy, Warsaw;<br />
Frank Weary jr. of Richmond and<br />
Harley Fryer of Lamar.<br />
Harold Cass, longtime film salesman, who<br />
has been convalescing after a serious illness,<br />
is starting on a trip with Mrs. Cass<br />
which will take them to New Orleans and to<br />
Hot Springs.<br />
Lloyd Hirstine Gets 111;<br />
$345,000 Suit Halts<br />
Fr.OTi Norlh Central Edition<br />
DES MOINES—A mistrial was ruled by<br />
Polk County district Judge Ralph Randall<br />
in the $345,000 lawsuit brought by Capitol<br />
Drivc-In Theatre Corp. against the Iowa<br />
Highway Commission in a land condemnation<br />
case here. The suit will be retried<br />
in the November court term. The mistrial<br />
ruling was on a highway commission motion<br />
after Lloyd Hir.stine, principal stockholder<br />
and manager of the Capitol, became<br />
ill. Hirstine had been on the witness stand<br />
for four and a half days and suffered<br />
exhaustion.<br />
The Capitol has asked $300,000 in lieu of<br />
a lesser amount awarded by a sheriff's<br />
condemnation for four-tenths of an acre of<br />
land and access taken over for the widening<br />
of Highway 69, which fronts the drivein.<br />
The theatre also seeks $45,000 for loss<br />
of direct access to its property between<br />
June 7, 1960, and Oct. 19, 1961.<br />
Attorneys for the commission asked for<br />
the mistrial on the grounds that there was<br />
"a possibility of unmerited sympathy for<br />
the theatre, that a fair and impartial verdict<br />
could not be returned, and that an<br />
expert witness for the commission was not<br />
available because of the postponement of<br />
the trial during Hirstine's illness."<br />
Short Video Film to Tell<br />
'Marilyn Monroe Story'<br />
From Western Edition<br />
HOLLYWOOD-A half-hour filmed TV<br />
special, "The Marilyn Monroe Story," is<br />
being readied by producer Art Leiberman,<br />
who concluded a deal for Official Films to<br />
distribute worldwide.<br />
Composer Elmer Bernstein will conduct<br />
and write the music and Malvin Wald is<br />
scripting with Philip R. Rosenberg editing.<br />
A top Hollywood star is expected to<br />
narrate.<br />
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KANSAS CITY—As the pins were racked<br />
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Eso-S 16 12 Manley 14 14 Inc.<br />
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Monarch-Mayfir .12 16 Untouchables 13 15<br />
HiHat Club 12 16 Black's 12 16 1<br />
Unknowns S 23 K. C. Mortgage 7 21<br />
In the Men's League Harley Dodson hai<br />
the high single game scratch score with a<br />
266 and Herb Shores the corresponding series<br />
with 615. Handicap high scores arf<br />
held by Bob DePoortere, hi- 10 with 275<br />
and Ernie Pelto, hi-30 with 666. Teair<br />
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with 1,003; team scratch series by thi<br />
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Pveryone attending the MITO convention<br />
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for many years covered all the Row's comings<br />
and goings for <strong>Boxoffice</strong> . . . Bernard<br />
Temborius reports that he has closed the<br />
Avon Drive-In at Breeze for the season .<br />
The Grand Theatre. DuQuoin. was closed<br />
by Al Spargur until further notice . . . The<br />
Senate Theatre. Elsberry. Mo., has been<br />
taken over by Harry Gladney and Virgil<br />
Weeks. The Gladneys formerly owned the<br />
Senate and had sold it to Senator Long.<br />
Universal's accounting: department has<br />
been transferred to Dallas. Eliminated<br />
were Mildred Doyle who had been with<br />
U-I since 1931; Bess Shapiro, Mary<br />
Mathis and Mary Pressley . Castile,<br />
radio personality on KMOX back in<br />
the 40s. dropped into town recently plugging<br />
three MGM films, "The Wonderful<br />
World of the Brothers Grimm." "Billy<br />
Rose's Jumbo" "Mutiny on the Bounty."<br />
It was Harry Arthur, president of Arthur<br />
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CHICAGO<br />
John Clark, president of Allied Theatres of<br />
Illinois, chaired the "King for a<br />
Day" luncheon honoring Sam Lesner, film<br />
critic for the Daily News. Tony Weitzel.<br />
Daily News columnist, was toastmaster.<br />
Proceeds from the luncheon were presented<br />
to La Rabida sanitariimi. the top<br />
Variety Club charity ... A stopover was<br />
Mervyn LeRoy. who was headed for Mayo"s<br />
for surgery . Saperstein, producer<br />
of "Gay Purr-ee," at one time was<br />
manager of the B&K State Lake Theatre<br />
here where his motion picture will premiere.<br />
Grazia Productions has been organized by<br />
G. Polacco, with offices at 1 North LaSalle<br />
St.. to produce documentary films . . . Offices<br />
at 11 South LaSalle have been opened<br />
by P. Argiriou to operate theatres and<br />
amusement centers ... As a result of the<br />
October 20 "Sweetest Day" promotion, theatres<br />
generally noted a boost in sales at<br />
their confection counters . . . The Globe<br />
Theatre on the near north side is showing<br />
fii'st runs, and attendance is showing a<br />
decided increase . Grand, operated<br />
by Beatrice Franklin, is presenting the<br />
Polish "The White Bear" to excellent business.<br />
Helen Stein is the Grand manager.<br />
Davis Carroll Productions has been<br />
organized here by B. Kleiman to produce<br />
films . Heninger was elected<br />
vice-president of Walter E. Heller Co..<br />
financier of films and TV productions .<br />
James Current was transferred from the<br />
B&K Terminal Theatre to the Marbro. Edward<br />
Konradt went to the LaGrange. and<br />
Gordon Nord was named manager of the<br />
Berwyn. Harold Teel succeeded Current as<br />
manager of the TeiTninal.<br />
Fred A. Niles, head of Fred Niles Studios<br />
here, amiounced that "Two Before Zero"<br />
will premiere at the New York Palace Theatre<br />
October 31. The film is a 90-minute<br />
"dramentary combining the best of living<br />
theatre, extant footage and cinematic forms<br />
and techniques." It stars Basil Rathbone<br />
and Mary Murphy. Motion Picture Corp.<br />
of America, which made the full-length<br />
feature, is headed by Reginald J. Holzer.<br />
Clyde L. Krebs, midwest sales manager for<br />
Reid H. Ray Film Industries three years,<br />
has been promoted to vice-president in<br />
charge of national sales. James E. Holmes<br />
has been appointed vice-president in charge<br />
of mldwestei-n operations, with headquarters<br />
at 208 South LaSalle St. . . Leslie<br />
.<br />
Silverman, brother of Edwin Silverman,<br />
president of the Essaness Theatres, died.<br />
The Bob Howe agency was appointed to<br />
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handle public relations and advertising for<br />
the Edens Theatre, now being consti-ucted<br />
by Bruce Trinz, Howard Lubliner, and<br />
Mike Stern. Lubliner and Trinz are partners<br />
in the Clark Theatre in the Loop .<br />
Sylvan Goldfinger. operator of the Loop<br />
Theatre, has booked "Gigot" to follow<br />
"The Trapp<br />
"Very Private Affair" . . .<br />
Family" is making another round in this<br />
area & Katz paid a 75-cent<br />
dividend, making $3 for the year . . . Arthur<br />
Atkinson, retired theatre engineer, died.<br />
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Paul Frees, a Hollywood "voice man." was<br />
here for a week of press, radio and television<br />
interviews in behalf of the premiere<br />
of "Gay Purr-ee" Serling, en<br />
route to Hollywood to work on the script<br />
of "Seven Days in May," the new Kirk<br />
Douglas movie, stopped here to talk about<br />
The<br />
"Requiem for a Heavyweight"<br />
Family Drive-In at Grays Lake closed for<br />
the winter has started<br />
the manufacture of a full line of parts for<br />
lamp houses . Mae Suffern, former<br />
booker at 20th-Fox, returned from a tour<br />
of Europe with her husband. She now is a<br />
Florida resident.<br />
Charlie Davidson, recuperating from illness<br />
which struck him while he was vacationing<br />
in Canada, would be pleased to hear<br />
from his friends. He is in the Toronto<br />
lOnt.) General Hospital . Miller,<br />
publicist for Paramount, went to Detroit to<br />
work on "Wonderful to Be Young" with<br />
Cliff Richard, star of the film . . . Jimmy<br />
Toll of Associated Theatres, Macomb, spent<br />
a week here visiting on Filmrow.<br />
Charles Einfeld and Arnold Conn of 20th-<br />
Fox were here to conduct an advertising<br />
seminar on "Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah"<br />
. Greenwood is retiring as<br />
salesman for Columbia. Friends and coworkers<br />
are giving him a farewell luncheon<br />
at the Covenant Club Monday 1 29 »<br />
Syndicate Suit Delayed<br />
Week for Conferences<br />
INDIANAPOLIS—Trial of a $2,700,000<br />
antitrust suit against nine movie distributors<br />
and exhibitors, slated to open in federal<br />
com-t. was postponed for a week. The delay<br />
was ordered to give the court and lawyers<br />
additional time to work out pretrial matters.<br />
The suit alleges that Syndicate Theatres<br />
was damaged by the defendants in<br />
that they were unable to obtain top movie<br />
attractions "until their freshness and<br />
novelty" was worn off.<br />
The defendants are Greater Indianapolis<br />
Amusement Co., Loew's Indiana Theatres<br />
Corp. and seven film distributors. Syndicate<br />
theatres, during the time of the alleged<br />
conspiracy from 1954-1960. were located<br />
at Elwood, Wabash, Batesville,<br />
Franklin and Columbus. Indiana.<br />
Variety Spook Party<br />
CHICAGO—The Women's Variety Club<br />
staged a Halloween Fun party in the clubrooms<br />
at the Pick Congress Hotel Saturday.<br />
The guest of honor was Forrest<br />
Tucker. Spearheading the festivities were<br />
Madge Raymer, president; Teresa Gazzolo,<br />
Cora Berenson and Natalie Nathanson.<br />
John Dromey, B&K<br />
Veteran, Retiring<br />
CHICAGO—John Dromcy. who joined<br />
the Balaban & Katz organization nearly 40<br />
years ago. will retire as chief film buyer for<br />
the Great States division, a post he has held<br />
since 1924, effective November 9.<br />
He plans to give full attention to his personal<br />
and civic interests in North Chicago.<br />
There will be no change in the present<br />
functions of the B&K booking department.<br />
The respective staff members will continue<br />
with their present assignments under the<br />
direction of Harry Lustgarten, vice-president<br />
in charge of film buying and booking<br />
for both Balaban & Katz and Great States<br />
theatres.<br />
Dromey's interest in show business began<br />
in his youth when he toured the world with<br />
Chicago's famed Paulist choir. He joined<br />
the B&K-Great States organization in 1924,<br />
starting as a booker.<br />
In 1935 Dromey was elected mayor of his<br />
home village of North Chicago, and then<br />
re-elected for three more terms, holding the<br />
office until 1949. He is now in his fourth<br />
year as alderman in North Chicago, and<br />
he also serves as chairman of the Housing<br />
Authority of Lake County.<br />
Three SW Managers Given<br />
Greater Responsibility<br />
From New England Edition<br />
HARTFORD—James M. Totman, Stanley<br />
Warner zone manager, has announced<br />
the promotion of Ray Saulnier from managership<br />
of the Capitol, Willimantic, to<br />
managership of the Garde Theatre, New<br />
London, succeeding Murray Howard, who<br />
has left the circuit.<br />
At the same time. Leonard Kupstas has<br />
been shifted from the manager's helm at<br />
the Capitol. Springfield, Mass., to the Willimantic,<br />
and Frank Kelly, formerly in the<br />
SW Newark zone in managerial capacities,<br />
becomes Capitol manager.<br />
Totman said that a midwinter opening.<br />
is now anticipated for the under-construction<br />
850-seat SW theatre at the Storrs<br />
Shopping Center, on the University of Con-i<br />
necticut campus, some 25 miles east of<br />
Hartford.<br />
Judge Lindner Postpones<br />
Hearing Asked by Ritz<br />
BSTDIANAPOLIS—Superior Court 5 Judge<br />
Lindner has postponed indefinitely a hear-i<br />
ing to decide if the Safety Board closing of<br />
the Ritz Theatre should be reviewed.<br />
Pete Pappas, attorney for theatre operator<br />
Leroy Griffith, filed for the review last<br />
month, charging the board's action was<br />
"arbitrary and capricious."<br />
The board revoked the theatre license of<br />
the former movie house at 34th and Illinois<br />
after neighborhood residents complained it<br />
was a public nuisance because of burlesque<br />
shows and movies presented there.<br />
53 Reviewed in September<br />
CHICAGO—During September, 1962 the<br />
Censor Board reviewed 53 films, 19 of which<br />
were foreign. Three were rejected, two were<br />
classified for adults only. 17 cuts were<br />
ordered and 298 permits were issued.<br />
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CHICAGO—The Loop area's lone opener.<br />
Rrquiem for a Heavyweight," at the Orintal<br />
Theatre, was a gool one. At the<br />
iojsevelt. where advance ticket sales have<br />
jeen good, grosses repeated at 250 per cent.<br />
A Kind of Loving" at the Esquire did all<br />
ight. The film had favorable comments<br />
Tom the critics, and Manager Stanley Lesjritz<br />
reported that his patrons, most of<br />
;hem his regulars, accepted the English film<br />
with very favorable remarks.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
apn—Daughter of the Sun (SR) 145<br />
crnegie—The Unsent Letter (SR) 160<br />
'ihicago— If a Man Answers (U-l), 3rd wk 125<br />
Zinema— Operation Snatch (Cont'l) 130<br />
^squire—A Kind of Loving (Governor) 185<br />
.OOP—A Very Private Affair (MGM), 2nd wk. ..100<br />
VAcVickers—The Wonderful World of the<br />
r Brothers Grimm (MGM-Cineroma),<br />
v\onroe— Femole and the Flesh (SR);<br />
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3 Blondes<br />
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His Life SR) 130<br />
Dnentoi— Requiem for a Heavyweight (UA) 200<br />
Roosevelt— Th-3<br />
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iurf— Shoot the Piano Player (Astor) 155<br />
Town— European Nights (SRI, 2nd wk 125<br />
Jnifcd Artists— Boccaccio '70 (Embassy), 5th wk. . .150<br />
.Voids—Lady and the Tramp (BV); Almost Angels<br />
(EVl, 3rd wk 125<br />
.Vorld Playhouse— Hiroshima Mon Amour (Zenith) 120<br />
'Bros. Grimm' Takes Spurt<br />
[n 10th Kansas City Week<br />
KANSAS CITY—Two local first-run situations<br />
showed particularly good returns<br />
for the week, the Paramount, where "The<br />
Chapman Report" remained very good in<br />
a second week, and the Empire, where "The<br />
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"<br />
took a healthy spurt in its tenth week. Elsewhere,<br />
things were on the quiet side,<br />
.Erookside— Carry On, Teacher (Governor^- Doctor<br />
in Love (Governor), 3rd wk 230<br />
Capri—The Best of Enemies (Col), 5th wk 90<br />
Empire—The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm (MGM-Cinerama), 1 0th wk 150<br />
Kimo— Stowaway in the Sky (Lopert), 3rd wk 125<br />
.Paramount-The Chapman Report (WB), 2nd wk. 200<br />
Plaz:i— I Thank a Fool MGM) 120<br />
iRoxy—A Motter of WHO (Herts-Lion), 2nd wk. . . 90<br />
Saxcn—That Touch of Mink (U-l), 12th wk 100<br />
Studio—The Notorious Londlady (Col), 5th wk.,<br />
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Uptown—The Sky Above—the Mud Below (Embassy);<br />
100<br />
No Place Like Homicide (Embassy), 2nd wk 115<br />
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INDIANAPOLIS — It still was quiet at<br />
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were continuing to set the pace at<br />
..he boxoffice, in this case "The Wonderful<br />
World of the Brothers Grimm," in its tenth<br />
week, and "The Chapman Report," in its<br />
second,<br />
in the Deep (SR); Sotan in High<br />
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Circle—The Three Stooges in Orbit (Col); Ringa-Ding<br />
Rhythm (Col)<br />
Esquire— Dangerous Love<br />
110<br />
100<br />
Affairs (Astor)<br />
Indiana—The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm (MGM-Cinerama), 10th wk<br />
Keith's—The Chapman Report (WB), 2nd wk<br />
135<br />
115<br />
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Loew's—A Very Private Affoir (MGM) 90<br />
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Reruns Add to Glory<br />
Of Screen Musicals<br />
NEW ORLEANS — With "Oklahonia !"<br />
bringing 'em in at the Joy Theatre, and<br />
"The Music Man" stimulating the boxoffice<br />
at the Ci\ac and "West Side Story" at<br />
Loew's State, all three return engagements,<br />
musicals again are leading the local entertainment<br />
parade.<br />
Which leads Prank Gagnard, writer of<br />
the Times Picayune Film Reprise column,<br />
to comment: "The return of musicals at<br />
'popular prices,' as opposed to premium<br />
hard-ticket prices, and all are indicative of<br />
the Hollywood product shortage, in which<br />
reruns must substitute for the once-lively<br />
flow of new releases from the droughtstricken<br />
studios on the west coast.<br />
APPEAL IN MUSICALS<br />
"Hollywood still knows where the appeal<br />
is—in the musical, which on its second or<br />
third, or first time around, still is one of<br />
the peculiar mechanical glories of the<br />
screen. No type of film holds its age as<br />
well as the musical. Such rarities as 'Gone<br />
With the Wind' aside, no picture was<br />
thought worthy of a liberal budget unless<br />
it had music.<br />
"Today's spectaculars insure only a<br />
soundtrack by Dimitri Tiomkin, Miklos<br />
Rozsa or the like, rather than the presence<br />
of Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland. Fred<br />
Astaire or Gene Kelly. Fun-loving musicals<br />
have given way to melodious sociology lectures<br />
and productions in which Rosalind<br />
Russell takes the place of Broadway's Ethel<br />
Merman.<br />
NOSTALGIA BEING EXPLOITED<br />
"But if Hollywood no longer has faith in<br />
its old art foiin, it doesn't mind exploiting<br />
the old nostalgia. MGM recently made<br />
available a series of its operettas and<br />
vintage musicals, and there are signs that<br />
the storehouse will yield other past favorites.<br />
Soon to be paired with 'Father of<br />
the Bride' on a double-bill for first-run<br />
houses is 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,'<br />
a musical that was much more inventive<br />
and spirited than the Oscar winner for<br />
.1958, 'Gigi.'<br />
"Perhaps now is the time for fans to<br />
make their preferences known, and to<br />
lamor for the return of their particular<br />
musical passions. We remember with more<br />
than nostalgia the handsomely and tastefully<br />
tinted Rita Hayworth musicals from<br />
Columbia. 'Cover Girl' and 'Tonight and<br />
Every Night' did not exactly bowl one over<br />
with production values, but they were<br />
imaginatively done. Surely the Judy Garland<br />
buffs would be quick to demand that<br />
star's inflated remake of 'A Star Is Born,'<br />
which didn't hold a candle to the emotional<br />
appeal of the talking version, but sure provided<br />
a generous serving of Garland. The<br />
time is ripe for another viewing of the 1951<br />
JAcademy Award picture. 'An American in<br />
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Paris,' which set the style for musicals of<br />
that decade. And also for the classic 'Singing<br />
in the Rain' from the following year.<br />
Perhaps a double of these Gene Kelly productions<br />
would settle the issue for film<br />
buffs, some of whom maintain that the<br />
latter is one of the best pictures to come out<br />
of Hollywood and a vastly superior cinematic<br />
exercise than 'An American in Paris.'<br />
Then there is 'Les Girls,' which we believe<br />
has not yet been exploited on television.<br />
"The list is long and subject to individual<br />
preference. And the studios are ripe for<br />
suggestions."<br />
William Baskin Wins<br />
AIP Playdate Drive<br />
JACKSONVILLE — A "lucky playdate<br />
bonus drive," engineered by V. J. "Jimmy"<br />
Bello, Atlanta manager for American International<br />
Pictures, for participation by<br />
exhibitors, film buyers and bookers of Florida,<br />
generated considerable enthusiasm<br />
among the independents and circuits playing<br />
AIP feature pictures during the June<br />
1 -October 1 period of the drive.<br />
William Baskin, west coast booker for<br />
Florida State Theatres and a local resident,<br />
was declared winner of first prize, a<br />
$100 U. S. Savings Bond, at an October 15<br />
drawing held in the local office of Charlie<br />
King, AIP salesman for Florida. Witnessing<br />
the drawing were King, his secretary<br />
Paulette Hiener and AIP booker Leonard<br />
Adams. The winning playdates for Baskin<br />
were for a booking of "Tales of Terror" at<br />
the Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, Fla., managed<br />
by Foster Hawthorne.<br />
Winner of second prize, a $75 bond, was<br />
Alice Spooner, a booker for the independent<br />
Gold-Dobrow Theatres of Pahokee,<br />
Fla., a small Everglades town on the northern<br />
rim of Lake Okeechobee. Third prize, a<br />
$50 bond, went to Harold Popel, a booker<br />
for Wometco Enterprises in Miami; fourth<br />
prize, a $25 bond, was won by Rex Norris,<br />
also a Miami booker for Wometco. A total<br />
of 319 playdates on AIP pictures were entered<br />
in the bonus drive by exhibitors, film<br />
buyers and bookers.<br />
Joins 2 Exhibitor Groups<br />
DURHAM, N.C. — Charles Abercormbie<br />
has enrolled his Carolina Theatre in both<br />
the Theatre Owners of America and the<br />
Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina,<br />
it was announced by TOA's New York<br />
headquarters. The membership is secured<br />
by George Roscoe, director of exhibitor<br />
relations of TOA.<br />
ATLANTA—H. B. Meiselman Theatres,<br />
which has its headquarters in Charlotte,<br />
N.C, is constructing two suburban theatres<br />
in this area and expects to break ground for<br />
a third one very soon.<br />
One of the two under construction, but<br />
not named to date, is in the Atlantic Discount<br />
Center on Memorial drive. It is<br />
nearing completion and is expected to open<br />
during the Christmas season, according to<br />
H. B. Meiselman, owner of the circuit.<br />
The second theatre, already named the<br />
Miracle, is being built on Peachtree road at<br />
Cherokee Plaza. Like the other theatre already<br />
under construction, it is an 870-<br />
seater and is expected to be ready for the<br />
Christmas trade. Both theatres will be<br />
ultramodern in decor and furnishings, with<br />
comfortable seats, ample aisle space and<br />
the latest projection equipment for showing<br />
all types of pictures.<br />
The Meiselman circuit operates 17 theatres<br />
in Florida and North and South Carolina,<br />
but these new Atlanta houses will be<br />
the circuit's first ventures in Georgia.<br />
JACKSONVILLE<br />
Old Katz of Coral Gables, a vice-president<br />
of the Motion Picture Advertising<br />
Service Co., and Joe Cohen, local MPA representative,<br />
were working their way<br />
through the area, calling on exhibitors and<br />
screen advertisers . . . John Harlan, Florida<br />
State Theatres chairman for the Will<br />
Rogers Christmas Salute, launched a pre-<br />
Christmas drive aimed at securing Will<br />
Rogers donations from all employes and<br />
executives of the 55-house FST circuit.<br />
Harlan interviewed Dunbar "Dunny" Morrow,<br />
local Florida Theatre stage manager,<br />
who spent eight weeks in the Will Rogers<br />
Memorial Hospital earlier this year for<br />
successful treatment of a respiratory ailment,<br />
and distributed copies of the interview<br />
for reading by the hundreds of employes<br />
of the FST circuit.<br />
VVOMPI members, their families and<br />
Filmrow friends enjoyed a delicious outdoor<br />
chicken barbecue and smorgasbord<br />
(16) on the spacious grounds of the home<br />
of Mrs. Virginia Poag, a local aunt of Douglas<br />
Walker, a Co-WOMPI member who operates<br />
the Ilan Theatre at nearby Pernandina.<br />
Chief chef for the affair was Archie<br />
Raulerson, Co-WOMPI husband of Enidzell<br />
"Easy" Raulerson. assistant to Walt<br />
Meier, manager of the downtown Florida<br />
Theatre, assisted by Flora Walden, WOMPI<br />
at the Howco Exchange.<br />
Thomas P. Tidwell, 20th-Fox manager,<br />
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LTu^h Ohi'ii. Paramount executive from<br />
the New York office, was at the Atlanta<br />
exchange recently . Howell,<br />
Paramount office manager and head<br />
booker, resigned as of October 19. Howell<br />
is entering the restaurant business with<br />
his brother-in-law in Fort Lauderdale,<br />
Pla.<br />
Frankie English, secretary to Gordon<br />
Bradley, Paramount southeastern regional<br />
manager, has been appointed chairman of<br />
the WOMPI international publicity committee<br />
by president Jean Mullis.<br />
Polly Puckett, formerly with the Capitol<br />
Releasing Corp. here, has joined the staff<br />
of the newly installed Atlanta exchange<br />
of Embassy Pictures, 193 Walton St., Northwest.<br />
Nell 3Iiddleton of MGM has undertaken<br />
new duties at the local exchange. She was<br />
promoted to be secretary to Herbert Bennin.<br />
recently named sales manager for the<br />
southern division sales office, which has<br />
been moved to Atlanta from Washington,<br />
D. C. Bennin, formerly assistant to Morris<br />
Lefko in charge of "Ben-Hur" and "King<br />
of Kings" sales, replaces Louis Pormato,<br />
who was recently named MGM's assistant<br />
general sales manager. Bennin will be<br />
joined here later by Mrs. Bennin, now in<br />
New York City. Welcome to Atlanta, Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Bennin.<br />
James V. Frew has left Continental Pictures<br />
to join Embassy Pictures here. He<br />
will head the southern sales area . . . Roscoe<br />
V. Smith, TSC vice-president, and his<br />
wife spent a week in Tennessee, where they<br />
attended the annual shorthorn cattle sale<br />
in Winchester. Smith sold six prize head<br />
from his herd ranch at Columbia, Tenn.<br />
Following the sale, the Smiths visited<br />
friends and relatives in Columbia and<br />
Nashville several days.<br />
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sent out personal invitations to exhibitors<br />
and theatre booker of the area to attend<br />
a seminar conducted by W. B. Williams.<br />
20th-Fox's soutliern division manager from<br />
Atlanta, at the Roosevelt Hotel on the subject<br />
of plans for the advertising and exploitation<br />
program in connection with the<br />
early Florida release dates of "The Last<br />
Days of Sodom and Gomorrah."<br />
Bob Stevens, formerly an outside salesman<br />
for Paramount, has taken the place of<br />
Van Bmney as a booker in the local Paramount<br />
office . . . Mrs. Fred Mathis. wife of<br />
the local Paramount manager, was successfully<br />
recovering from surgery in a local<br />
hospital.<br />
The Panama Theatre at Panama City, a<br />
unit of Martin Theatres, was shuttered for<br />
an indefinite time October 6 . . . Cecil Cohen,<br />
who operates the local Twin Hills<br />
Drive-In. has relinquished operation of a<br />
second theatre, the Pernandina Drive-In<br />
at Fernandina . Sands of New<br />
York, who worked as a booker in the local<br />
Warner Bros, office several years ago,<br />
called on Filmrow as a representative of<br />
Astor Pictures . Ezell. member of<br />
a famous family in the exhibition field and<br />
former general manager of the local Roosevelt.<br />
Strand and Skyvue Drive-In theatres,<br />
has begun a leave of absence from his duties.<br />
. . .<br />
Edward Kennedy, former manager of the<br />
Prairie Lake Drive-In at Altamonte<br />
Springs, has advanced to management of<br />
The<br />
the Astor Theatre in Orlando<br />
Palms Theatre. Dunedin. formerly operated<br />
by Ed Eckert. has been sold for nontheatrical<br />
commercial purposes . . . Thomas<br />
L. "Tommy" Hyde, general manager of<br />
Kent Theatres, came in from his Vero<br />
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Det ember in time for the blo.ssoming of<br />
South Florida's winter tourist trade. Construction<br />
on the 825-seat. $300,000 indoor<br />
house, which borders KT's existing Brevard<br />
Drive-In Theatre, was begun last<br />
August.<br />
Harry O. Youse sr.. well-known to many<br />
film folks and a brother of Dorothy Zeitlinger.<br />
treasurer of the FST credit union,<br />
died in a local hospital on October 18 after<br />
H. M. Land, brother of<br />
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a brief<br />
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illness<br />
H.<br />
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Land, operator of the Mayo<br />
Theatre. Mayo, died tragically in a fire<br />
which destroyed his home at Mayo .<br />
Vernon Hunter, retired FST city manager<br />
at Orlando, was reported to be gravely ill<br />
in the Winter Park Memorial Hospital.<br />
Winter Park.<br />
Floyd Stowe, former independent booker<br />
of this city who operates the Linda Drive-<br />
In at Palatka. is reported to be winning his<br />
health back after several months of severe<br />
illness . . . Leo Adler of New York, an auditor<br />
for United Artists, is expected to be at<br />
the UA local branch for several weeks.<br />
Before leaving with his family for their<br />
annual vacation with relatives in Hickory.<br />
N. C. "Buck" Robuck, United Artists salesman<br />
who is known fondly as the "godfather<br />
of the local WOMPI. became<br />
"<br />
the<br />
first person to sign up for a reserved seat<br />
on a chartered Greyhound bus which will<br />
carry local WOMPIs, Co-WOMPIs and<br />
friends to the WOMPI Ass'n convention in<br />
Dallas next September.<br />
Filmrow visitors included T. Edison Bell,<br />
Victoria, New Smyrna Beach; Harry Dale,<br />
Lake. Lake Butler; James O. Biddle. Fay,<br />
Jasper; Mr. and Mrs. Barksdale. Florida,<br />
Starke; Roy Bang, Apopka, Apopka; John<br />
Lawson, New, Palatka; Louie Kaniaris, San<br />
Marco Drive-In, St. Augustine Beach; S.<br />
O. Jenkins, Brunswick, Ga.; Sam A. Newton,<br />
Florida, GToveland; Bob Mullis. High<br />
Springs; Arnold Haynes. Naples. Naples,<br />
and Benny Leviton, Homerville, Ga.<br />
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first-run houses . Hildreth. manager<br />
of the San Marco Art Theatre, presented<br />
a local favorite. Peter Sellers, in an English<br />
import. "Only Two Can Play." for his foreign<br />
films fans . two weeks with a<br />
double-billin.!,' of "Lady and the Tramp"<br />
and "Almost Angels." which drew youngsters<br />
and their parents from every section<br />
of the city. Walt Meier opened with<br />
"Panic in Year Zero!" at the downtown<br />
Florida.<br />
Andrew Prine,<br />
a leading featured player<br />
in "The Miracle Worker" 'now playing at<br />
the Center) and a former resident of Jacksonville,<br />
was treated to a fine biograiihical<br />
wrlteup by Judge May, entertainment<br />
editor of the Florida Times-Union, in his<br />
Sunday column of October 21 . . . "The<br />
Chapman Report" continued another week<br />
at the Town and Country and "The Pigeon<br />
That Took Rome" held to the Five Points'<br />
screen.<br />
Importers Name Chairmen<br />
For Year's Committees<br />
From Eastern Edition<br />
NEW YORK—Chairmen to head the Independent<br />
Film Importers & Distributors of<br />
America's committees for the next 12 months<br />
have been appointed by Michael F. Mayer,<br />
executive director.<br />
The chairmen and their committees are<br />
as follows:<br />
Thomas Brandon, censorship; Sidney<br />
Deneau, exhibitor relations; Ii-a Machaels,<br />
trade practices; Robert Manby. public relations;<br />
Gary Dartnell. luncheons; Jean<br />
Goldwurm. festival and awards: Peter P.<br />
Horner, dues; Meyer Ackerman. membership;<br />
Dan Prankel. foreign affairs; Alfred Morton,<br />
legislation, and George Roth, customs and<br />
importing.<br />
Felix Bilgrey of Times Film Corp. has<br />
been appointed special counsel for the organization,<br />
to serve from October 1962 to<br />
October 1963. Bilgrey has handled numerous<br />
censorship cases for the industry.<br />
Zarzana-Boriski Theatres<br />
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HOUSTON—Albert Zarzana and Ray<br />
Boriski have reopened their Al-Ray Theatre<br />
as an art house and now are operating<br />
successfully two subsequent-run theatres.<br />
In addition to the Al-Ray, they are doing<br />
turnaway business at the Fiesta.<br />
The latter theatre was formerly the<br />
Avalon, which had been running "nudies"<br />
before Zarzana and Boriski took it over and<br />
turned it into a Spanish-language house<br />
catering to the family and renamed it.<br />
More than 200 patrons were turned away at<br />
a recent show at the Fiesta.<br />
The Al-Ray is being operated for the time<br />
being only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays<br />
and holidays. The theatre is on Irvington<br />
and easily reached by way of the North<br />
Freeway.<br />
Cinerama in Mexico City<br />
From Eastern Edition<br />
NEW YORK—Cinerama, Inc., has completed<br />
negotiations for the erection of a new<br />
Super-Cinerama Theatre in Mexico City,<br />
which will be completed early in 1963, according<br />
to B. G. Kranze, vice-president.<br />
The plans were finalized in New York with<br />
Quirino Ordaz Rocha, director-general of<br />
the Operadora Co. of Mexico.<br />
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BOSTON — Samuel Feinstein, veteran<br />
heatreman, was elected vice-president of<br />
.ffiliated Theatres Corp. at a meeting of<br />
tockholders. Arthur K. Howard, president,<br />
nnounced.<br />
Feinstein entered the motion picture exibition<br />
business in 1923 with the old<br />
'etoco circuit of independents. In 1930,<br />
hen that organization was taken over by<br />
lublix Theatres, he went with them, and<br />
|;ayed through the change to M&P Thejtres<br />
in 1933. He stayed until 1947 when<br />
[&P split and American Theatres became<br />
le unit. He was with ATC until 1957,<br />
hen he went to Florida with Smith Man-<br />
?ement, serving as district manager of<br />
leatres in Palm Beach and Miami.<br />
Coming back to Massachusetts in 1958,<br />
? handled L&D Theatres in the western<br />
irt of Massachusetts. He returned to<br />
iorida with Kent Theatres in 1960, but<br />
ime back to Massachusetts in April 1961<br />
I join Affiliated. In addition to his duties<br />
, Affiliated, he is acting as general manner<br />
of the Braintree South Shore Twin<br />
rive-In, owned by Howard.<br />
Dseph Ellul New Owner<br />
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DETROIT — Joseph H. Ellul of Fort<br />
liuderdale, Pla., owner of two downtown<br />
Detroit theatres, the Empress and the<br />
^imily, is taking over the 1,000-car Mount<br />
lemens Drive-In at suburban Mount<br />
'.emens, long operated by James Ross and<br />
.ssociates. Ross is also operator of a drive-<br />
Dearborn, Mich.<br />
Ellul formerly had a minority interest<br />
i the di'ive-in and took it over as the resit<br />
of open bids. Carl Hoffman, who sucleded<br />
Art Cooper as manager, will relain<br />
in the post, with Roger Ellul, son<br />
< the new owner, as supervisor.<br />
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BOSTON—E. M. Loew, Boston theatre<br />
lagnet, who operates a string of hardtops<br />
id di-ive-ins in New England and across<br />
te country, added another theatre to his<br />
ccuit with the purchase at public auction<br />
i Beverly of the old Ware Theatre<br />
loperty.<br />
Loew was the only bidder and paid $10,-<br />
CO for the property owned by the Equitable<br />
Ife Assurance Society of the United States.<br />
h said he will reopen the once popular<br />
fm house on Cabot street in Beverly and<br />
\\l start a contest to change the name of<br />
te house.<br />
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>JEW YORK—"The Castilians" will be<br />
t ' release title of Sidney Pink's production<br />
1- Warner Bros, release, which was called<br />
alley of the Swords" during its filming on<br />
1 ation in Spain this summer.<br />
::;esar Romero and Prankie Avalon head<br />
t ' cast of the Panacolor film, which features<br />
^ da Valli and was directed by Javier Seto.<br />
MIAMI<br />
Jii recognition of a board conference of the<br />
Women's American Organization for<br />
Rehabilitation at the Fontainebleau Hotel,<br />
Miami Beach, the Surf and Cameo theatres<br />
booked a special film dramatizing the rehabilitation<br />
training of the ORT. The film,<br />
"Mellah." was shown, the story of a boy<br />
who makes his way .from the ghetto in<br />
Casablanca to the organization's Ain Sebaa<br />
School and there learns a new way of life.<br />
It was a prize winner at the Edinburgh<br />
Film Festival and was to be shown at the<br />
Surf, October 24-27, and at the Cameo November<br />
1-3.<br />
Hubert Cornfield, relative of Stanley<br />
Kramer, was telling friends of his interest<br />
in the booking of "Pressure Point." Cornfield<br />
is the son of a former 20th Centui-y-<br />
Pox executive in charge of European<br />
operations.<br />
"The Sky Above—the Mud Below" was<br />
playing at three of Wometco's four art<br />
houses—the Mayfair, Sunset and Normandie<br />
. began the MGM World<br />
Heritage series with "David Copperfield."<br />
"Pride and Prejudice" is slated for November<br />
14 and "Little Women" December 13.<br />
Others in the series are A Tale of Two<br />
Cities, Captains Courageous, The Good<br />
Earth and Julius Caesar. Family togetherness,<br />
as far as going to the movies is concerned,<br />
may be restored.<br />
Y. Frank Freeman jr., son of the early<br />
Miami developer and executive of Paramount,<br />
died October 14 and services were<br />
Civic Activities<br />
Yield<br />
Exhibitor Many Benefits<br />
From Central Edition<br />
BURLINGTON. IOWA — Jerome B.<br />
Greenebaum, 49-year-old district manager<br />
for Central States Theatre Corp. of Iowa<br />
and Nebraska and a resident of this community<br />
for the last 16 years, is a tireless<br />
worker in behalf of many civic pi'ojects.<br />
"The benefits to the theatre from civic<br />
activities are niunerous." Greenebaum said,<br />
"for through civic activities one meets and<br />
works with community leaders, 'the doers.'<br />
The contacts will prove helpful every day<br />
in promotions and tieups and by making<br />
friends for your theatre."<br />
This alone, however, Is not Greenebaum's<br />
sole motivation for his many civic activities.<br />
"It is my personal feeling," he continued,<br />
"that everyone, whether in theatre<br />
business or any other business, has a<br />
greater obligation to the community in<br />
which he lives than merely paying taxes<br />
or making an annual contribution to the<br />
Community Chest or Red Cross. I believe<br />
they are obliged to give of themselves, if<br />
they sincerely want the right kind of community<br />
to live in. I feel the benefits for me<br />
are a better town in which to live."<br />
Greenebaum, for the last seven years<br />
parade marshal for the Burlington Christmas<br />
parade and area band festival, also is<br />
a board member of the Burlington Chamber<br />
of Commerce, vice-president of the<br />
Mercy Hospital advisory board, on the<br />
board of directors of the Des Moines County<br />
Society of Crippled Children and Adults<br />
and president of Grahn School.<br />
held Monday il5i in Atlanta. He came<br />
here early in the '20s when his father was a<br />
partner in building of the Columbus Hotel<br />
and the Exchange Club here. The younger<br />
Freeman became a producer and made<br />
Biscuit Eater, Houdini and Omar Khayyan,<br />
He was 45.<br />
Brad Bradford, who has acted as reptile<br />
and animal expert on a number of Florida<br />
localed films, entertained at a party recently<br />
for a reunion of the Florida Snake<br />
Hunters at his home, 4405 Northwest 36th<br />
Ave., which also was his 54th birthday anniversary.<br />
He is planning to do a movie<br />
based on his experiences in the Arizona<br />
Valley of Fire.<br />
Wometco's Carib, Capitol and Gateway<br />
theatres showed the Gene Fullmer-Dick<br />
Tiger fight for the middleweight crown.<br />
Sonny Shepherd, a Wometco vice-president,<br />
was promising fight fans this bout would<br />
last longer than the Sonny Liston-Floyd<br />
Patterson bout. Some of the fight enthusiasts<br />
who had tickets for the Wometco<br />
showing of that fight failed to get settled<br />
in their seats before it was all over.<br />
The annual fall meeting of the Florida<br />
Theatre Conference was held in the new<br />
million-dollar theatre at the University of<br />
Tampa . Jack Waxenberg, wife of<br />
a vice-president of Wometco Enterprises, is<br />
chairman of prizes for the first Beaux Arts<br />
Costume Ball to be held December 8 at<br />
Hialeah Race Tiack.<br />
$2,000,000 Cinerama<br />
Building for Martin<br />
From Western Edition<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—Plans have been completed<br />
for construction of a 1,000-seat Cinerama<br />
theatre-restaurant, garage and commercial<br />
facilities on Market and 'Van Ness.<br />
Martin Theatres of Atlanta has entered into<br />
a contract with Cinerama, Inc., for the erection<br />
of a four-story building to cost more<br />
than $2,000,000, according to J. Francis<br />
Ward, resident architect on the planned<br />
project. Construction is to start in April<br />
1963.<br />
The Martin-Cinerama project here is one<br />
of seven such projects, including the theatre<br />
under construction in Seattle. The San<br />
Francisco Cinerama project will be the first<br />
theatre constructed under the new building<br />
code which requires one auto parking space<br />
for every eight theatre seats.<br />
FILMACK<br />
BXOFFICE :: October 29, 1962 SE-5
. . . Gene<br />
. . Ron<br />
. . Calling<br />
. .<br />
. . Lawrence<br />
. . Bonnie<br />
. . Ernestine<br />
. . Martin<br />
. . Floyd<br />
. . Eugenie<br />
,<br />
NEW ORLEANS<br />
gunday's aniuscment page of the Times<br />
Picayune proclaimed "Movies Declare<br />
Ladies Day in New Dramas." with photos of<br />
the female stars of "The Chapman Report"<br />
and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"<br />
opening at the Saengcr and RKO Orpheum,<br />
respectively . Ormond and wife of<br />
Hollywood were in this area in behalf of<br />
"Teenage Bride." Ormond. a native of<br />
Baldwin, La., directed the Lash LaRue<br />
western series.<br />
J. D. Woodard, Warner publicist, was in<br />
town in behalf of "The Chapman Report"<br />
and "Gypsy." the latter a Christmas relea,se<br />
Barnett has been appointed chairman<br />
of the WOMPI Will Rogers drive<br />
committee and Lee Nicholaus as historian<br />
... On vacation at UA were Charles Ost,<br />
sales manager, and Shirley LeRouge, clerk.<br />
Leo Adler, UA auditor, moved on to<br />
Jacksonville<br />
after assisting In the transfer of<br />
Memphis accounting to this office . . .<br />
Marlene Pord. UA staffer, underwent ear<br />
surgery during her vacation. Catherine<br />
Bonneval vacationed at home.<br />
The Navy Point Theatre, Warrington,<br />
Fla., a Gulf States unit, has cut to Fridays,<br />
Saturdays and Sundays . at the<br />
Gulf States McComb office were John<br />
Winberry. Coliunbia manager, and Elmer<br />
Hollander of Governor Films, New York .<br />
More exhibitors were making the round of<br />
Pilmrow than in previous weeks, including<br />
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Call or write<br />
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CHARLOTTE 1, N. C.<br />
304 S. Church Street<br />
MEMPHIS 2, TENN.<br />
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NEW ORLEANS 12, LA.<br />
220 S. Liberty Street<br />
NATIONAL THEATRE SUPPLY COMPANY<br />
Phil Salles, Covington; Preacher Crossley,<br />
Laurel, Miss.: Jo.seph Barcelona, Baton<br />
Rouge; Frank Paqua, Gonzales: Mrs.<br />
Sammy Wright of the local Lakeview, Fox<br />
and Algiers, and Earl Perry, Pittman Theatres<br />
Columbia staffers helped their<br />
. . . boss John Winberry celebrate his birthday<br />
on the 18th with a cake and gifts after the<br />
close of the business.<br />
Mrs. F. F. Goodrow and Mi-s. Jack Poelman<br />
were in Houston ten days or more with<br />
the Poelmans' 3-year-old Evelyn, who has a<br />
grievous heart condition. Surgery has been<br />
prescribed, the grandfather, F. F. Goodrow,<br />
said . Schwartz is working at<br />
Kay Enterprises part time. She is a senior<br />
at Fortier High . Harvey, Kay<br />
salesman, attended the Tristates Theatre<br />
Owners Ass'n convention in Memphis.<br />
Charles Einfeld, 20th-Pox vice-president,<br />
and Robert L. Conn, sales chief, conferred<br />
with exhibitors here Monday < 22 ) on promotion<br />
for "Tlie Last Days of Sodom and<br />
Gomorrah." ALso attending were W. B.<br />
Williams, southern division manager, and<br />
Jimmy Gillespie, publicist, Dallas . . . Weldon<br />
Limniroth, Giddens & Rester Theatres.<br />
Mobile: Aubrey Lasseigne, St. Mai-y's Drivein,<br />
Bei-wick, and Lloyd Royal, Royal Theatres,<br />
Meridian, Miss, were in buying and<br />
. booking Lang, Masterpiece<br />
staffer, was home recuperating from<br />
surgery.<br />
Foster Hotard, Martin Theatres booker,<br />
was here from Atlanta for a round of exchange<br />
calls . . . Arthur Lehman, former<br />
theatre operator in Jackson, Miss., was on<br />
Filmiow . . . Mr. and Mrs. H. Solomon of<br />
the Columbia and Tylertovim, Miss., theatres<br />
were here from their home in Mc-<br />
Comb. TOSCO handles the buying and<br />
booking for the theatres . . . A. R. Carruth<br />
curtailed operations at his 51 Drive-In at<br />
Brookhaven. Miss., to Thursdays, Fridays<br />
and Saturdays. His booking is handled by<br />
Gulf States . Theatres closed the<br />
Eagle Drive-In at Brewton. Ala., for the<br />
winter . Lotz, Transway traffic<br />
manager, was home ill several days.<br />
WOMPI members from Universal and<br />
Paramount will serve as hostesses at the<br />
November social at St. Anna's Home<br />
Thursday night i8) ... The WOMPI ways<br />
and means committee, headed by Ethel<br />
Holton, is accepting orders for fniit cakes<br />
for Thanksgiving and Christmas delivery.<br />
Have you made arrangements for yours?<br />
If not, the WOMPI will gladly serve you.<br />
So place your order today. It is for a<br />
worthy cause, you know . Copping,<br />
Thelma Reinert, Helen Bila, Claire<br />
Rita Stone, Lillian Sherrick. Betty Ogden,<br />
Redeena Kincaid, Emily Landry, Gladys<br />
Villars, Inez Tauzin, Gene Barnett and<br />
Charlotte Niemeyer entertained the women<br />
were Eugenie Co|)ping. Charlotte Niemeye<br />
at St. Anna's at the September party .<br />
Helping the TB association with stuffir<br />
envelopes the last two weeks in Septembi<br />
Claire Rita Stone. Helen Bila, Redeer<br />
Kincaid, Thelma Reinerth, Lee Nickolat<br />
Marie Berglund, Helen Bila . . Tl<br />
.<br />
Variety show is ticketed for a performam<br />
at St. Anna's Home on the 29th: at £<br />
Margaret Daughter's Club November 4. ar<br />
at Maison Hospitaliere November 16.<br />
New Fox House Unde<br />
Way in Albuquerque<br />
ALBUQUERQUE — Fox<br />
Intermountai<br />
Theatres in Denver recently broke grour<br />
for a new million-dollar indoor theat:<br />
here. The house, scheduled to seat 850 pe:<br />
sons, will be the first Fox theatre in th<br />
city, although the chain owns two theatn<br />
in Las Vegas, N.M., and three in Las Cruce<br />
The theatre, under construction at tl<br />
Winrock Shopping Center here, is schec<br />
u!ed to be completed in May. The projec<br />
tion equipment will handle regular 35mi<br />
productions. Cinerama and other widf<br />
.screen processes.<br />
Fox area supervisor Ray W. Davis an<br />
city officials participated in the ground<br />
breaking ceremonies for the first new ir<br />
door theatre project in Albuquerque in se^<br />
eral years. The building will enclose 15, 0(<br />
.square feet and will include loge seats, si><br />
track stereophonic sound and a 64-fo<<br />
curved screen. A nursery for small chi<br />
dren, including nurses and attendants,<br />
planned.<br />
Fox is building the house on a 2.5-aci<br />
tract, acquired on a 46-year lease.<br />
Winrock is owned in part by Winthrc<br />
Rockefeller.<br />
Chris Knopf to Preside<br />
At TV Writers Awards<br />
From Western Edition<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Christopher Knopf wt<br />
be the chairman of the Writers Guild<br />
America West's first television write'<br />
awards and dinner show December 6<br />
the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Allan Sherman<br />
producer-director of the event. Awards f<br />
the best-written scripts in six ' categori<br />
will be presented. Preparing material f<br />
the show are Austin Kalish, Danny Simc<br />
Oliver Crawford, Everett Greenbaui<br />
Bruce Howard, Bruce Geller, Paul MascF<br />
William Idelson, Mel Tolkin, Sol Saks, Ci<br />
Reiner, Shirley Henry and Aaron Rube<br />
Jill Parsons is staff coordinator.<br />
Evylyn Currie, whose life story will<br />
filmed by Columbia, is the only woman wJ<br />
successfully bred a tiglon, a cross betwe<br />
a lion and a tiger.<br />
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ido—Joe Hornslein, Inc.. MIomI— Franklin S-3S02<br />
Roy Smith Compony, 365 Pork St., Jacksonville, Elgin 3-9140<br />
jisiano—Notionol Theatre Supply, New Orleans—Tulone 4891<br />
nnessee—Tri-State Theatre Supply, Memphis—Jackson 5-6240<br />
Notional Theatre Supply, 412 South 2nd St., Memphis,<br />
Jackson 5-6616<br />
SEr6 BOXOFFICE :: October 29, 19
1<br />
St.<br />
Joe Simpkins Named<br />
Tent 4 Chief Barker<br />
rom Central Edition<br />
ST. LOUIS—Joe Simpkins. oil developnents<br />
promoter, was elected chief barker<br />
3f Variety Tent 4 at a meeting in the<br />
Hotel.<br />
:::;hase<br />
Others elected were John Meinardi, district<br />
manager for Pox Midwest Theatres,<br />
'irst assistant chief barker; Harry Wald,<br />
iWald Enterprises, second assistant; Ed-<br />
A'ard Dorsey, property master, and Chris<br />
dough guy.<br />
:::hristen,<br />
Others on the crew are Joseph Laba,<br />
Harry King, Joseph Keegan, Joseph C.<br />
^nsell, Milton Mendell and Frank Leber.<br />
Louis Tent 4 was organized in 1933<br />
ind devotes its efforts to helping underprivileged<br />
childi-en.<br />
Hooten Is Xenia Manager<br />
!lfter Condello Resigns<br />
rom Mideast Edition<br />
XENL\, OHIO—Donald Hooten, who has<br />
leen working in theatres since he was 15, is<br />
he new manager of the Xenia Theatre,<br />
oUowing Nick F. Condello who resigned<br />
.fter serving nine years. Condello left the<br />
ndustry to become southern division man-<br />
.ger for the Chun King Corp., a drive-in<br />
estaurant chain.<br />
Hooten has been advertising manager for<br />
he Greater Indianapolis Amusement Co.<br />
nd also managed the Indiana Theatre in<br />
ndianapolis for the last four years. He also<br />
ormerly managed the Logan Theatre,<br />
jogan, and worked at the Cinestage Theatre<br />
t Columbus.<br />
Cleveland, Tenn., Benton Star-Vue<br />
Flourishing on Tenth Anniversary<br />
New Firm Plans Theatre<br />
For Suburban Houston<br />
HOUSTON—A modern 1.000-1,200 seat<br />
indoor motion picture theatre, especially designed<br />
for widescreen entertainment, will be<br />
built in the Spring Branch-Memorial area<br />
this fall, according to a story published<br />
recently in the Houston Post.<br />
The Post account continues:<br />
It will be called the Oak Village Theatre<br />
and will be built in the Oak Village Shopping<br />
Center on Shadow Oaks drive and Witte-<br />
Gressener road.<br />
Operators of the project will be the newly<br />
formed Spring Branch Theatre Co., headed<br />
by Alfred Mortensen. president, and H. D.<br />
Griffith, vice-president. Other officers are<br />
Herbert C. Graham, treasurer; Tom S.<br />
Vincent, secretary, and Harold N. Mitchamore<br />
and J. W. Hill, members of the board.<br />
Mortensen said that the estimated cost<br />
of the building is $500,000 and that he expects<br />
the project to be completed by<br />
February.<br />
Some of the Oak Village Theatre features<br />
will include a 25x60 foot screen, with the<br />
latest in modern film projection: floor space<br />
of 16,000 square feet, with between 1,000<br />
and 1,200 seats; decorative plaster walls;<br />
carpeted floors; a concession area lobby<br />
under cover, which will flank the front of<br />
the building, and a drive-in undercover area<br />
for dispersing passengers.<br />
CLEVELAND, TENN.—Ten years ago, a<br />
26-year-old used car dealer, Cletus H. Benton,<br />
and his co-worker, Hoyt O. Fair, decided<br />
to build a drive-in theatre here, although<br />
the town already had two independently<br />
owned drive-ins and two downtown<br />
theatres owned by the Crescent<br />
Amusement Co.<br />
Most people felt Benton and Pair were<br />
risking their investment to build another<br />
drive-in in a town with a population of less<br />
than 20,000, but the two young men went<br />
ahead with their plans and on Oct. 2, 1952,<br />
they opened the 553-car Star-Vue Drive-In.<br />
In the intervening years since the opening,<br />
Benton has bought and closed the two<br />
opposition drive-ins. Crescent eventually<br />
closed its Bohemian Theatre and sold the<br />
Princess to Martin Theatres. Benton, a<br />
natural-born showman, kept building his<br />
patronage until it was practical to enlarge<br />
the Star-Vue. In the spring of 1960, he<br />
added 247 speakers—giving the airer a total<br />
of 800-car places.<br />
Al Rook, owner of Film Booking Office<br />
in Atlanta, has been agent for the Star-Vue<br />
since it opened and says he is vei-y proud of<br />
his association with this highly successful<br />
operation.<br />
Benton still is in the used car business<br />
and just recently built a small shopping<br />
center near the Star-Vue. He is in the<br />
process of building an elaborate Holiday<br />
Inn-Motel in the same area.<br />
Join the Widening Circle<br />
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BOXOFFICE<br />
Always in the Forefront With the News<br />
OXOFFICE October 29, 1962 SE-7
Popcorn With 'Arfy Touch' Winning MEMPHIS<br />
Favor in Art Houses, Blevins Says<br />
MEMPHIS — The art theatres who<br />
"thought they could do without popcorn"<br />
are coming back into the popping fold with<br />
an arty touch—caramel, black walnut or<br />
chocolate popcorn.<br />
The popcorn king. Jim Blevins. said his<br />
SflUKE!<br />
For every drop or rise<br />
in BO there's a reason.<br />
We've found one sure<br />
killer of attendance is<br />
shabby seating. We<br />
know, too, that there's<br />
a simple, quick and<br />
small-cost cure for it.<br />
That's where we shine.<br />
Ask us about your seating<br />
problem.<br />
• ••••••• Now Available ••••••••
. . . "Macario,"<br />
. . The<br />
. . Phone<br />
. . The<br />
. . Prank<br />
Frank 0. Starz Dies;<br />
Long at Interstate<br />
DALLAS—Prank O. Stai-z, emeritus director<br />
of publicity and advertising for Interstate-Texas<br />
Con-<br />
1 solidated Theatres,<br />
died Sunday<br />
(21) at the age of 71<br />
after two and a half<br />
years of failing<br />
health.<br />
Starz was bom in<br />
St. Louis, where he<br />
became a newspaper<br />
reporter and worked<br />
for the United Press.<br />
He came to Texas in<br />
Frank<br />
the 1920s,<br />
Starz<br />
and held<br />
positions on newspapers<br />
in Beaumont, Dallas and Austin<br />
before entering theatre work with Interstate,<br />
serving with Karl Hoblitzelle, president,<br />
and the late Bob O'Donnell.<br />
Starz was well known not only for film<br />
merchandising talents but also for his wit<br />
and waggishness.<br />
Although semiretired, he kept a desk in<br />
the Interstate offices here and visited<br />
there twice weekly.<br />
He is survived by daughters Prankie Lou<br />
and Barbara, both of Dallas. A requiem<br />
mass was said for him Wednesday at the<br />
Holy Trinity Catholic Church.<br />
SAN ANTONIO<br />
^harles A. Wolfe, Prince Theatre, reports<br />
he did all right with "The Ruined<br />
Bruin" . dark Chinese Palace has<br />
ibeen reopened by new management . . . K.<br />
B. Wharton of the Tower and Rule theatres<br />
at Rule was in booking . . . Edward<br />
Lalo Edwards, booker for Clasa-Mohme,<br />
now is speaking Italian.<br />
.<br />
Senor L. Rodriguez, chief doorman at the<br />
Prince, has chalked up over 40 years in<br />
theatre work . your items to us at<br />
CApitol 3-7281 Empire is presenting<br />
Ramiro Cortes,<br />
triple bills at 50 cents . . . stage show booker, was in from Los<br />
Angeles calling on Azteca, Columbia and<br />
Alameda Theatre officials. The British<br />
Carry On, Teacher" was doing well at the<br />
Broadway following another from England,<br />
!"The Best of Enemies."<br />
Lloyd Munter, Aztec and Yolanda theatres.<br />
Eagle Pass, was in to contract for<br />
Spanish product . . . Paul R. Clevenger of<br />
Lone Star Producing Co. here returned from<br />
Dallas where he took in the state fair . . .<br />
The Handy-Andy supermarket gave free<br />
discount tickets for the kids to see "Lady<br />
and the Tramp" and "Almost Angels" at<br />
the Olmos. John Santikos, manager, said<br />
'both pictures were held for a second week<br />
one of the best movies to<br />
come out of Mexico with a religious theme,<br />
[was premiered at the Alameda Theatre.<br />
"The Chapman Report" held over at the<br />
Tito Guizar and his stage<br />
Majestic . . .<br />
show has been booked into the Alameda<br />
October 29 for a week . Chamrod,<br />
the Leon, Pleasanton: Mr. and Mrs. Leo<br />
Monzon, Airport Drive-In, Robstown: Senor<br />
(Continued on next page'<br />
Drive-In Owner Aids Paralyzed Girl<br />
See Movies in<br />
DURANT, OPCLA.—A 20-year-old girl<br />
from nearby Boswell, lying in a pickup truck,<br />
saw her first motion picture in three years<br />
at Ship Bullard's Ship Drive-In here recently.<br />
Her first and second trips to the outdoor<br />
theatre were a few weeks earlier.<br />
The girl, Lynn Joy Campbell, is a polio<br />
victim and is completely paralyzed. She<br />
can move only the fingers of one hand and<br />
her head. She has been in that condition<br />
since the day three years ago when she<br />
was stricken with polio.<br />
The truck trip to the movies is the only<br />
outside entertainment she has had in the<br />
three years, and relatives said the trips<br />
have done more to cheer her up than anything<br />
they have tried to do for her.<br />
COPIED CAMPER CABS<br />
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ervine Campbell,<br />
said the ti-uck idea was copied after<br />
the camper cabs that sportsmen are constructing<br />
on the back of pickup trucks for<br />
hunting and fishing trips. Her father purchased<br />
the truck in June, and began equipping<br />
it so the girl could travel in comfort<br />
with the equipment needed to help her<br />
breathe. Her father put a battei-y bank in<br />
the truck for her shell-type chest respirator,<br />
and a suction machine to clear her<br />
thi'oat. A hospital type bed slides easily<br />
into the eight foot bed on the truck, and<br />
Miss Campbell goes where the truck will<br />
take her.<br />
Campbell had been thinking about taking<br />
the truck to the drive-in movie for some<br />
time, but coiUd not because of the short<br />
life of the battei-y bank needed to operate<br />
the respirator machine. Showman Bullard<br />
talked to Lynn's uncle, OHP supervisor O.<br />
O. Campbell, and then to her father. Arrangements<br />
were made to have an extension<br />
cord ready when the truck came, and<br />
Lynn got to see her first movie September<br />
2.<br />
Bullai-d then installed a 110-volt line to<br />
the speaker post, so that anytime the<br />
Campbells came to the movie the line would<br />
be ready.<br />
At night, Lynn sleeps in a full tank type<br />
iron lung. The biggest part of the day she<br />
spends in the hospital bed using her shell<br />
respirator.<br />
JUNIOR WHEN STRICKEN<br />
She was a junior at Boswell High School,<br />
and was in Port Worth, Tex., for a summer<br />
job when she was stricken with polio. She<br />
was hospitalized in Fort Worth for nine<br />
months, and finished school in the hospital.<br />
"While she was in the hospital in Port<br />
Worth, a lot of rwlio patients came and<br />
went—if they had received polio vaccine<br />
beforehand. A lot of them w^ere really sick<br />
when they were brought in, but within a<br />
few days they would be well enough to go<br />
home, and weren't paralyzed," her father<br />
said. "That's one thing that has not been<br />
emphasized oy doctors about the Salk shots<br />
or the oral vaccines—that even though<br />
polio will stiike some who have taken them,<br />
there will not be any paralysis."<br />
For entertainment at home, Lynn has a<br />
dog Fannie, paints with her teeth, and<br />
watches television.<br />
"She either has the television, radio or<br />
Chest Respirator<br />
Ship Bullard, owner of the Ship<br />
Drive-In at Durant, Okla., adjusts the<br />
speaker for Lynn Joy Campbell, 20, a<br />
polio victim who is completely paralyzed<br />
except for her neck. The object in the<br />
lower corner of the picture is her chest<br />
respirator, with the hose to the shelltype<br />
Huxley respirator around her body.<br />
record player going all the time," her<br />
mother said. "However, the biggest thing<br />
now is the trip to the movies. It has really<br />
done a lot to cheer her up to be able to get<br />
out of the house for a while."<br />
Campbell, who operates a service station<br />
and appliance repair shop in Boswell, has<br />
only Sundays off. So, movie trips are made<br />
on Sunday night.<br />
He has her truck equipped with a roof,<br />
and side board and a door that can be removed<br />
when the track is parked. By backing<br />
into the parking space next to the concession<br />
stand, the truck can be parked so<br />
that Lynn can watch the entire movie in<br />
full comfort.<br />
Bullard thinks the idea may grow into<br />
something di-ive-in operators throughout<br />
the countiT could offer polio patients who<br />
have to remain in a respirator. He said that<br />
nothing was needed for Lynn to see the<br />
show but her father to bring her. AU of the<br />
equipment in the track can be run off a<br />
battery or from the standard 110-volt system<br />
at home or the movies. He hopes to<br />
interest members of the industry in developing<br />
further a system for handling such<br />
cases at the drive-ins of America.<br />
In July, Campbell and Bullard got together<br />
and began planning for Lynn's first<br />
movie trip. One thing and another held it<br />
up until the first week in September. Cold<br />
weather will cut out most of the movies for<br />
the remainder of the year, but Lynn is looking<br />
forward to a lot of movies in the slimmer<br />
season in 1963.<br />
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Actress Lana Turner shed her fifth<br />
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The onetime "sweater girl" of filmland<br />
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separated six weeks ago. Miss Turner said<br />
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Thousands of youngsters crowded into<br />
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of "Lady and the Ti-amp" and<br />
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a brisk business at his concession<br />
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Jim Anderson ihe is assistant<br />
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was $1. the regular price for the de luxe<br />
2.300-seat showplace.<br />
A Grand Opera Filni Festival will bring<br />
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on November 1. Tickets are on<br />
sale in advance at $1 each. There will be<br />
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Verdi's "Aida," starring Sophia Loren, and<br />
Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," the latter told<br />
in English. Both pictures are full length and<br />
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A. Rucker, former Rockdale theatre owneroperator,<br />
and Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Avila,<br />
Dallas and Port Worth theatre operators,<br />
called at the two exchanges; also Harleyl<br />
W. Kier, head of Kier Film Co.<br />
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J. O. Little, who recently took over the<br />
operation of the Princess at Sanderson<br />
from A. White, was in booking . . . Local<br />
critics Gerald Ashford of the Express-<br />
News and Renwicke Gary of the Daily Light<br />
gave "Pressure Point." which was unreeled<br />
at the Interstate Aztec, glowing reviews.<br />
Oscar Narvaez, film and stage show<br />
booker, returned from a recent business trip<br />
into old Mexico. He has been making his<br />
local headquarters here. He recently<br />
booked two Mexican vaudeville presentations<br />
into the Alameda here and the Music<br />
Hall at Houston . White, Stafford:<br />
Henry Cedillo, Stamford: Eddie<br />
Canas, Jersey Drive-In, San Benito and<br />
Harlingen, were in town . Louise<br />
Garcia returned from a recent trip to<br />
Venezuela and now works on weekends at<br />
the Alameda Record Shoppe.<br />
Manager Robert Mario Outwell of the Empire<br />
Theatre, brought back "State Fair" for<br />
its fourth time in the Alamo City . . . The<br />
Children's Rosary sponsored a 45th anniversary<br />
celebration of the last apparition of<br />
Our Lady of Fatima Saturday morning on<br />
the stage of the Alameda Theatre. Father<br />
Howard Rafferty was the principal speaker<br />
for the special event . . . L. C. Dm-st of the<br />
Bolero Drive-In, Kerrville, was in town<br />
booking Mexican-made pictures for his<br />
ozoner in the heart of the hill country.<br />
Durst celebrated the first anniversary of<br />
his airer by presenting an all -Spanish stage<br />
show featuring La Paloma del Norte and<br />
Bohemios quartet.<br />
Sylvan K. Barry, vice-president of the<br />
Texas Drlve-In Theatre Owners Ass'n and<br />
operator of the El Capitan and La Fiesta<br />
drive-ins here, was around the local Latin-<br />
American cinema booking offices as were:<br />
Johnny Flache. the Alameda, Lamesa, and<br />
his partner Delmo Pierce, who manages<br />
the Ascarate Drive-In at El Paso for Senor<br />
Flache.<br />
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Tn Mooreland, at the home of the Bill Wilsons,<br />
the first time since the disastrous<br />
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the damaging effect of the huge<br />
chunks of ice which hurtled from the sky.<br />
The Wilsons operate the Mooreland Theatre.<br />
There were holes, eight to ten inches<br />
across, in the roof, caused by the hail, then<br />
the rain came and soaked the interior. This<br />
happened in the Wilson home, and nearly<br />
every house in the city. The interior walls<br />
and ceilings had to be rebuilt and re-inforced.<br />
All glass facing the north and east<br />
were shattered when the stomi hit. The<br />
Wilsons had to replace the theatre roof. too.<br />
All neon signs in town were destroyed. One<br />
citizen reported he picked up one chunk<br />
of ice which weighed nearly 12 pounds.<br />
Most of the livestock whicli couldn't find<br />
shelter was killed. Cars looked like they<br />
had been pounded with sledge hammers.<br />
Mel Danner was putting up his air conditioners<br />
at the Circle Theatre at Waynoka<br />
for the winter. He said he's about<br />
ready to give the show business up because<br />
of too much television and school sports<br />
and entertainment. Danner and his wife<br />
often visit their daughter who lives in<br />
Thomas, 70 miles from Waynoka, and a<br />
granddaughter. Mel said if business keeps<br />
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the building until the lease ran out. The<br />
structure then was sold for $3,000 and now<br />
houses a Western Auto Store. He says he's<br />
been in the business long enough.<br />
The Ringling-Barnum & Bailey circus<br />
played at the Stockyards Coliseum three<br />
days to top houses. Merle Evans, with the<br />
Big Top since about 1916, is still with the<br />
show. However, the streamlined circus now<br />
carries only three musicians, Evans, a<br />
drummer and an organist. Local musicians<br />
make up the rest of the band. This writer<br />
trouped with Evans with a carnival in 1910<br />
and Mindy Harmon, 6-yearold<br />
twins pictured in a local newspaper with<br />
one of the circus clowns, are granddaughters<br />
of Nina Miller, Screen Guild<br />
cashier.<br />
Vincent Price, the popular actor in a<br />
series of AIP chiller films, distributed locally<br />
by Screen Guild, was in town promoting<br />
an "original art in every home" project.<br />
He is selling his collection of 1,500<br />
original art pieces . . . Red and Billie Slocum<br />
had as their guest recently Bettye<br />
Hays, the wife of Phil Hays, former Bartlesville<br />
manager for 'Video Independent in<br />
charge of 'Video's Telemovies experiment<br />
there. He now is Effingham, 111., manager<br />
for Frisina Theatres. Slocum and his wife<br />
were prominent in Oklahoma theatre business<br />
until his resignation to become a<br />
wholesale liquor salesman.<br />
Rhoda Gates, who operates the Tower<br />
Theatre in Selling, recently moved into a<br />
new home which she and her daughter had<br />
built. Mrs. Cates lived in a house trailer before<br />
her daughter came to live with her.<br />
She operates the theatre two changes per<br />
week, weekends only.<br />
At Woodward, we were welcomed by<br />
Vance and Ben Terry, who operate the<br />
Woodward Theatre and the Terrytime<br />
Drive-In. They will close the latter November<br />
19. Their old Terry Theatre, operated<br />
many years before they built the big<br />
Woodward, has been dismantled and remodeled<br />
for another kind of business. They<br />
report business was good in both the theatre<br />
and drive-in in June through August<br />
but dived since school opened in September,<br />
and now is quite a bit below 1961.<br />
A. R. Walker, better known as Al or Bob,<br />
who had theatres in Broken Arrow for<br />
many years, now owns the Frontier motel<br />
at 5510 New Sapula Rd.. Tulsa. He has all<br />
rooms air conditioned and equipped with<br />
phones and television, with a coffee shop<br />
and swimming pool on the premises. He invites<br />
film salesmen and managers to visit<br />
him any time, whether they want a place<br />
to stay or not . . . Jerry and Diana Smith<br />
became parents of a baby daughter named<br />
Stacey Lynn. She is the daughter of Roy<br />
Avey jr., who operates the Ritz Theatre in<br />
Britton and the Theatre Calendar Service.<br />
Among the few exhibitors noted on the<br />
Row were John L. Pagan, Buna Vista<br />
Drive-In, Borger, Tex.; Bill Slepka, Crystal<br />
and Jewel, Okemah; Dick Grumpier,<br />
Gentry and 69 Drive-In, Checotah; Betty<br />
Parker, Beaver at Beaver; C. L. Smith,<br />
Alamo and Long Horn at Marlow; Roy L.<br />
Rollier. Lament; Dennis Collier, Bulldog<br />
at Wcatherford, and Don Abernathy, 89er<br />
at Kingfisher . Dallas was H. K.<br />
"Buck" Buchanan. Paramount booker, who<br />
conferred with Video and Filmrow bookers.<br />
His wife made the trip with him.<br />
AMARILLO<br />
producer William Perlberg and writer<br />
Henry Denker joined author Al Dewlen<br />
here for a tour of possible locations for<br />
shooting "Twilight of Honor." The final<br />
selection will be made after the script is<br />
finished, the casting of the "five or six"<br />
leading roles and consultations with the art<br />
director. Perlberg said he would scout no<br />
other towns for possible location sites, and<br />
the film goes outside the MGM lot at all,<br />
if<br />
the Amarillo area will be the only choice.<br />
The trio were specifically interested in the<br />
courthouse, business and residential districts<br />
and the air terminal. Dewlen's novel<br />
is said to be based on a brutal murder and<br />
sensational trial that actually happened<br />
here a few years ago.<br />
The police department has filed a charge<br />
of negligent homicide against the 21-yearold<br />
man in the October 12 traffic death of<br />
8-year-old Jimmy Wilson and he has entered<br />
a plea of not guilty and is now free<br />
under a $1,000 bond. Jimmy was a son of<br />
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On Sunday night while Mrs. A. L. Blankenship<br />
was in the boxoffice of the Victory<br />
Theatre and Ross Thomas was working the<br />
front, they noticed a car bearing California<br />
license plates pass the theatre, driven<br />
by a man wearing a mask. He parked the<br />
car and purchased a ticket at their boxoffice.<br />
More than six feet tall and weighing<br />
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the lobby iboth doors had to be opened<br />
for him to make his entrance i neatly<br />
dressed but still wearing the mask. What is<br />
he? was the big question. Mrs. Blankenship<br />
made a couple of telephone calls<br />
one to this reporter, who thought it was a<br />
joke, and another to the police department.<br />
It turned out that the mysterious''<br />
masked man was a professional wrestler.<br />
"He came up and didn't even say boo!"<br />
Mrs. Blankenship said. Well, maybe that'si<br />
just as well. But that's not all of the story.<br />
This huge wrestler lit a cigaret inside the'<br />
theatre and it was little Ross's duty to tell<br />
him that was against the law. "I'm sorry,<br />
sir, you can't smoke cigarets inside thel<br />
theatre," he chided him, "but here's a cigar."<br />
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"The Miracle Worker" was off to<br />
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Siopmon' Overshadows<br />
(ther Omaha Offerings<br />
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.e Orpheum was the best of the ups. "The<br />
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rticularly excellent outdoor fall weather.<br />
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MINNEAPOLIS<br />
ctors Richard B«yiner and Bobby Darin<br />
'.vere in town plugging new pictures,<br />
pymer. here in connection with the openg<br />
of "The Longest Day" at the Mann<br />
leatre. crowned the University of Minneta<br />
Homecoming Queen. Darin. Sandra<br />
x's husband, did promotional work for<br />
f a Man Answers. ' schediUed to open soon<br />
the State Theatre, a Minnesota Amuseent<br />
Co. unit Uptown Theatre.<br />
liich did so well with "The Counterfeit<br />
raitor" a few weeks ago. has discontinued<br />
i first-run policy since the Century is no<br />
nger showing Cinerama and became a<br />
•st-run house, just too many first-run<br />
eatres in Minneapolis with not enough<br />
ovies for ail. The attractions at the Upwn<br />
will be top films shortly after their<br />
owntown runs.<br />
Some trouble has developed between the<br />
jwntown theatres and the more than halfjzen<br />
Twin Cities film societies over the<br />
X>king of certain films. More than once,<br />
independent fUm societies have booked<br />
le<br />
Ims which conflict with local commercial<br />
leatre interests. In each case, the film<br />
jciety group has been forced to cancel and<br />
bstitute another film, but much trouble<br />
old be brewing on this score before the year<br />
out. Local newspapers have been heavily<br />
itical, and one court case has already<br />
suited and more may foUow if the situam<br />
isn't greatly changed.<br />
Six "world famons operettas" are being<br />
esented in film form concurrently at both<br />
Westgate and 'Varsity theatres 'both<br />
lit of the Mann chain' each Tuesday<br />
^t. Regular features prevail the rest of<br />
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Klingel 'Tramp' Campaign<br />
Building Omaha Interest<br />
OMAHA—Jack Klingel, city manager<br />
for Cooper Foundation Theatres, has<br />
worked out a block-buster campaign in<br />
connection with the showing of "Lady and<br />
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the Tramp at the State Theatre with the<br />
Sun Newspapers of Omaha and early response<br />
indicates a highly successful conclusion<br />
by November 3.<br />
It hinges on the question: "If Lady and<br />
the Tramp were to have a puppy, what<br />
would you name it?"<br />
Also participating are Swift & Co.. Pard<br />
Dog Food and more than 100 grocery stores<br />
throughout the Omaha area.<br />
For children 14 years and younger, the<br />
contest offers a free trip to Disneyland by<br />
United Airlines jet for an adult and child,<br />
plus $150 in spending money. A cash prize<br />
of S300 is offered in Ueu of the trip.<br />
Other prizes: second, a year's supply of<br />
dog food: third, a six-month supply of dog<br />
food and a year's pass to the State: fourth<br />
and fifth, three-month supply of dog food<br />
and a six-month pass : sixth to 15th, family<br />
passes to the State.<br />
Sun Newspapers is working on the promotion<br />
in all of its suburban editions. The<br />
winners will be announced in the papers in<br />
the Thanksgiving issue.<br />
Klingel said the promotion was laid out<br />
with the assistance of Jack Harris, trainee<br />
assistant manager: Lew Neumann, Swift &<br />
Co., and EmU 'Vohoska. Sun Newspapers.<br />
Exhibitor Should Be Key<br />
Civic Worker, Ford Says<br />
CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA—W:lliam Ford,<br />
manager of the Tri-States Theatre Corp.<br />
Paramoimt here, believes that theatre managers<br />
and owners shoiild make themselves,<br />
as weU as their theatres, available for as<br />
much community service as possible.<br />
His record of community service is an<br />
impressive one. He is a member of the<br />
Chamber of Commerce executive committee,<br />
of the CofC distributive education committee,<br />
has been United Campaign chairman<br />
for the last three years, headed up the<br />
Red Cross drive for two years, senes on the<br />
Retail Merchants Bureau committee to raise<br />
funds for downtown Cedar Rapids, annually<br />
works with the Linn County Theatres Ass'n<br />
and donates his theatre for a one-day workshop<br />
prior to the opening of school each fall.<br />
"The more people we know personally,"<br />
Ford said, "the greater our opportunity becomes.<br />
I know that in Cedar Rapids, it has<br />
paid off in overall good business, as well as<br />
rentals."<br />
Charles Vickers Helps His<br />
Theatre as CofC Director<br />
\L\PLETON. IOWA — Charles Vickers.<br />
owner of the Maple Theatre here, is a<br />
vital part of his community, both through<br />
his theatre operation and in his active role<br />
with the local Chamber of Commerce. For<br />
the last seven years. Vickers has served as<br />
one of the directors of the Chamber, has<br />
been chairman of several committees and<br />
has served as a member of many others.<br />
"Anjthing that benefits this town." Vickers<br />
said, "benefits this business. Other businessmen<br />
recommend the theatre to their<br />
customers and the Chamber rents the Maple<br />
Theatre for special matinees."<br />
OMAHA<br />
f^arl Harriman, veteran Iowa exhibitor,<br />
has reopened his Palace Theatre at<br />
Alton . . . Another reopening is the Wonderland<br />
Theatre at Paullina. Iowa. A community<br />
operation, it is scheduled to join<br />
the activities November 3 after being shuttered<br />
for two years . . . Ben Juracek has<br />
closed his drive-in at Albion and reopened<br />
the controversial Boone Theatre there.<br />
George Monroe sr.. one of the pioneers<br />
of the motion picture industry in the midwest,<br />
is back at Gibbon, in the Good Samaritan<br />
Rest Home there. He had been in<br />
Hastings for a physical check-up. George<br />
at one time operated theatres at Omaha<br />
and other points in Iowa and Nebraska. His<br />
son George jr. has the Fort Theatre at<br />
Kearney.<br />
Art Johnson, owner of the Dakota Theatre<br />
at Yankton, lost aU his clothes and<br />
other possessions in a fire which destroyed<br />
several businesses in Yankton. Johnson and<br />
other residents in apartments above a cafe<br />
which biuTied escaped without injury . . .<br />
Ernie Van Wey. Gothenburg exhibitor and<br />
grand master of the Masonic Grand Lodge<br />
of Nebraska, went to Chicago for a Masonic<br />
session last week. Walt Hagedone. who has<br />
the Rialto Theatre at Cozad. was busy last<br />
week helping his son build com cribs for<br />
the big 1962 harvest.<br />
Warren HaU, who runs the Rodeo Theatre<br />
at BurweU and takes a big official<br />
part in the production of Nebraska's big<br />
rodeo there each year, also is county judge.<br />
He is anxiously awaiting completion of the<br />
new coimty courthouse which is weU along<br />
in construction . . . Iz Weiner, former exchange<br />
manager for Universal-International,<br />
stopped to visit old friends on the<br />
Row. He was on his way from New York<br />
back to San Francisco, where he now lives<br />
and is engaged in seUing film.<br />
Frank HoUingsworth, owner of the Holly<br />
Theatre at Beatrice, said he is trying to<br />
get his business affairs in shape so he and<br />
his wife can spend a couple of months in<br />
California. His daughter and son-in-law<br />
live in Fresno. Frank reported that his<br />
granddaughter, seriously injured in an<br />
auto accident, getting along nicely . .<br />
is .<br />
BUI Granville, Quality Theatre Supply, is<br />
on vacation and haxTng a wonderfiU time in<br />
Omaha "soaking up this grand Nebraska<br />
autumn weather."<br />
Frank Larson, 20th-Fox manager and<br />
head of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital<br />
Drive, is sending out letters to aU<br />
exhibitors who have not been contacted in<br />
preparation to winding up the campaign<br />
. . . Walt Jancke. Lincoln city manager for<br />
the Varsity and State theatres, returned<br />
from Chicago, where he attended the wedding<br />
of his son Ed . Goodman, veteran<br />
film salesman, plans to become associated<br />
with Bankers Life Insurance Co.<br />
Cooper Foundation Theatres' specially<br />
built theatre for Cinerama is rapidly taking<br />
shape in the Indian Hills area of West<br />
Omaha. Similar to the one in Denver, the<br />
Omaha building has progressed to the<br />
stage of potiring concrete for the main<br />
floor and balcony. The big round auditorium<br />
section is enclosed and work has<br />
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MINNEAPOLIS<br />
'Continued from preceding page'<br />
the week, but each Tuesday an old nostalgic<br />
Hollywood Technicolor operetta is shown.<br />
Films so far have been "Rose Marie." "The<br />
Merry Widow" and "The Great Waltz."<br />
Upcoming are "Sweethearts." "The Chocolate<br />
Soldier" and "The Girl of the Golden<br />
West." If the operetta festival is a success,<br />
six more operettas will be shown at a later<br />
date. So far. business on Tuesday nights at<br />
both the Varsity and Westgate has been<br />
booming.<br />
The Orpheum Theatre, one of the Mann<br />
chain, again will alternate live drama as<br />
well as movies this winter. Five Broadway<br />
road shows will play the Orpheum . . . The<br />
Lucky-Twin is the first drive-in in this area<br />
to advertise year-around moviegoing. This<br />
is due to the installation of electric in-car<br />
heaters which are guaranteed to keep<br />
cinema addicts snug and warm on even the<br />
coldest of Miiuiesota nights. Looks like<br />
the snowplows will have a busy winter.<br />
Now that baseball season is over. Bob<br />
Thill, manager of the Lyric Theatre, will<br />
have to gaze longingly at the final league<br />
standings, relive each Twins game, eagerly<br />
consume each issue of the Sporting News,<br />
and wait until next year. Bob, a great baseball<br />
fan, has baseball news thumb-tacked<br />
all over his office.<br />
The Varsity Theatre, another Mann unit,<br />
will run a 13-picture, Ingmar Bergman<br />
Film Festival starting this week and i-unning<br />
through November 16. Films will be<br />
paired off in double-features, with each<br />
double-feature running three nights. Ted<br />
Mann has prepared an interesting promotional<br />
pamphlet about the festival and is<br />
distributing it at all his other Minneapolis<br />
theatres. In the pamphlet, each film is<br />
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it to the whole of Bergman's work,<br />
complete casts are given, stills are used,<br />
and there is a one-page statement on cinema<br />
by Bergman himself. Major movie critics are<br />
also quoted. Other Bergman festivals<br />
have been held in Minneapolis in the past,<br />
but none the size and scope of this one. and<br />
with such excellent promotion.<br />
MILWAUKEE<br />
J^eyer Kahn, veteran of 33 years with<br />
20th Century-Fox's sales staff here, has<br />
been selected to succeed Carroll Morten as<br />
manager of Allied Artists' Milwaukee office.<br />
Morten's sudden death left the post<br />
open and Meyer was invited to take over.<br />
He left Pox a few months ago in that firm's<br />
retrenchment move, although he was offered<br />
the Indianapolis slot. Deciding to remain<br />
in Milwaukee, he waited for something<br />
to turn up. All Filnarow joins in<br />
wishing him the best of luck in his new<br />
post.<br />
Morrie Steinman, here to plug Allied<br />
Artists' "El Cid," really put in a hectic<br />
day 117) when he had Mrs. Charlton Heston<br />
and her parents here to help generate<br />
interest in the promotion. Between<br />
guiding Mrs. Heston on the rounds of radio,<br />
TV and newspapers, the evening dinner<br />
in her honor at Fazio's-on-Fifth, and<br />
the opening of the picture at the Strand,<br />
they cei"tainly were "on the go." Then to<br />
top it all off, he "had some difficulty" with<br />
one of the Schroeder Hotel's elevators. Get<br />
him to tell about it.<br />
Joe Reynolds, Towne Theatre manager<br />
here, had Gene Raymond, star of stage<br />
and screen, at the Press Club for lunch<br />
1 171 ... Henry Kratz, veteran showman<br />
who succeeded Harold Pearson (resigned)<br />
as executive secretary for Allied of Wisconsin,<br />
says he wonders how he will ever<br />
be able to be in two places at one time,<br />
which is about the way exhibitors express<br />
the here-there-and-everywhere policy of<br />
Pearson in his effort to keep 'em all satisfied.<br />
Joe Botsford, Milwaukee Sentinel reporter,<br />
covering the first in a series of<br />
movie operettas, "Naughty Marietta," at<br />
the Warner, took time out to interview<br />
patrons on their reactions to the film. "I<br />
don't know why they don't make movies<br />
like this any more," said one Golden Ager.<br />
"We saw Nelson Eddy at the Wisconsin<br />
State Fair this summer, and although we<br />
almost froze to death, we stuck it out!"<br />
said another. "They don't make enough<br />
good musicals," just about summed up the<br />
feeling of the overflow attendance.<br />
'Candidate' TV Splurge<br />
From Western Edition<br />
LOS ANGELES— "The Manchurian Candidate"<br />
will be given heavy promotion on the<br />
ABC-TV network November 6 election night<br />
coverage, with Janet Leigh, who stars in<br />
the United Artists release; Frank Sinatra<br />
and Laurence Harvey posing for publicity<br />
pictures. Miss Leigh will also appear as a<br />
guest star on "Ai't Linkletter's House Party"<br />
on Wednesday, October 31, to plug the picture.<br />
OMAHA<br />
(Continued from preceding page)<br />
started on the entrance area and the parking<br />
space. Workmen have started on the<br />
doctors' building which will stretch along<br />
the rear of the theatre but separated from<br />
the Cooper property.<br />
Mrs. Christine Higgins is still very active<br />
doing the buying and booking for the<br />
Paramount Theatre at Ansley and the<br />
Arnold Theatre at Arnold . . . Exhibitors<br />
on the Row included Frank Hollingsworth.<br />
Beatrice; Jack and Phil March, Wayne:<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Acton, Villisca and<br />
Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. Art Sunde, Papillion;<br />
Phil Lannon, West Point; Jack<br />
McCarthy, Louisville; Sam Backer, Harlan,<br />
and Sid Metcalf, Nebraska City.<br />
Two Portland Winners<br />
In Pepsi-Popcorn Race<br />
From Western Edition<br />
PORTLAND—Surprised were both Dean<br />
Matthews, Fox Theatre manager, and<br />
Thomas Moyer jr. of the Hood Theatre,<br />
Gresham. Both were announced as among<br />
the ten winners of a fifth prize in the national<br />
"Pepsi 'n' Popcorn" summer promotion.<br />
Most amazed was Moyer, a 15-year-old<br />
junior at Central Catholic High School. He<br />
was put in charge of the snack bar at the<br />
Hood Theatre, operated by his father, who<br />
also has the Powell, Division and 104th<br />
Street drive-ins in Portland.<br />
Moyer staged a string of promotions that<br />
gained space in the Gresham newspaper—<br />
a Pepsi drinking contest with contestants<br />
representing various communities in the<br />
area—a Pepsi matinee with admittance<br />
with bottle caps. One town store sold completely<br />
out of the soft drink.<br />
Seattle License Group<br />
Orders Theatre Closed<br />
From Western Edition<br />
SEATTLE—City license officials hen<br />
ordered the shuttering of the Beaux Arti<br />
Cinema last week in the wake of numerouf<br />
protests about "adult films" before a cits<br />
council license committee hearing. The theatre<br />
had been operating temporarily without<br />
a license pending the hearing.<br />
A proposal to prohibit the showing o)<br />
"adult" films in "predominately residentia'.<br />
areas" of the city gained support from thel<br />
committee members, after presentation of a<br />
petition signed by 532 persons protesting<br />
issuance of a license to the Beaux Arts.<br />
WB's "PT 109" is being produced ir<br />
Florida by Bryan Foy and directed by Leslie<br />
Martinson.<br />
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The VVieting Theatre in Toledo marked its<br />
50th anniversary with a variety show<br />
October 27. Duane Ellet. WHO-TV and<br />
radio personahty, was master of ceremonies.<br />
The theatre was built in 1912 by Mrs.<br />
Ella Wieting in memory of her husband<br />
Philip and given to the people of Toledo.<br />
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by the Toledo Community Theatre Guild<br />
and is used for community and stage events,<br />
as well as for weekend movies<br />
Wonderland Theatre, now a<br />
, . . The<br />
community<br />
venture at Paullina. probably will reopen<br />
about November 3.<br />
Both the Town and West-Vue drive-ins<br />
reported recent break-ins at their concessions<br />
buildings. Bill Proctor at the Town<br />
said it was the first trouble of this nature<br />
in three years at his airer, w'here the thieves<br />
took about $60 from candy machines. At the<br />
West-Vue, Jerry Bloedow reported nothing<br />
missing except a few cents from the cash<br />
register. Both drive-ins are operating on a<br />
cool weather weekend basis until Iowa<br />
winter sets in.<br />
Tom McCIeaster, 20th Century-Fox division<br />
manager from the home office, will<br />
be here October 30 to conduct an advertising<br />
seminar for exhibitors on "Sodom and<br />
Gomorrah." The seminar will be held at<br />
10 a.m. in the Fox screening room. The<br />
film will open at the Paramount Theatre<br />
January 25, according to Dave Gold, exchange<br />
manager.<br />
"Gigot," the Jackie Gleason picture,<br />
comes to the Ingersoll November 9. One<br />
notes that the critics are calling "Gigot"<br />
everything from "mediocre syrup" to a<br />
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down in the books as "laugh" week.<br />
Through a quirk in bookings, and certainly<br />
not planned, all first-run houses with the<br />
exception of one presented comedy fare.<br />
Almost all house attendance scores were<br />
average or better.<br />
(Average Is 100!<br />
Albee The Pigeon That Took Rome (Pora) ... 100<br />
Capitol The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm (MGM-Cineroma), I 1th wk 150<br />
Isquire The Best of Enemies iCol), 90<br />
3rd wk<br />
iGrand— Roman Holiday (Paro); Sobrino (Pora),<br />
1 re.ssues 00<br />
Guild Divorce— Itolion Style (Embassy) 150<br />
Hyde Pork The Big (Lopert) Money 85<br />
Keittn Lady and the ;BV), reissue; Tramp Almost<br />
Angels V) ' 75<br />
Polocc—The Chapmon Report (WB), 2nd wk 100<br />
Twin Drive-ln— (Reading side) Hero's Island (UA) ..100<br />
Twin Drive-ln—(Norwood side) The Interns (Col),<br />
run 100<br />
Volley—The Miracle Worker (UA), 4th wk 95<br />
Detroit Slips Back<br />
As Holdovers Stay<br />
DETROIT—The week's honors were<br />
shared by the second week of the sensational<br />
"I Spit on Your Grave" at the Pox<br />
and the 35th week of "West Side Story" at<br />
the Madison. However, even the best rated<br />
pictures were reported doing only soso<br />
business.<br />
Adoms Torion Goes to India (MGM); The Tartars<br />
(MGM), 2nd wk 55<br />
Fox— I Spit on Your Grave (Audubon), 2nd wk 130<br />
iGrand Circus Marco Polo (AlP); Mermaid of Tiburon<br />
(Filmgroup) '05<br />
Madison—West Side Story (UA), 35th wk 130<br />
Mercury—The Music Man (WB), 3rd wk 65<br />
Michigan Lady and the Tramp (BV), reissue;<br />
Almost Angels BV), 2nd wk 110<br />
Palms— Pressure Point (UA); Dr. Blood's Coffin<br />
(UA) 110<br />
Trans-Lux Krim—The Girl With the Golden Eyes<br />
(Kingsley) 90<br />
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HARTFORD—The best<br />
endorsement any<br />
community-minded individual can provide<br />
a family-type motion picture is to attend a<br />
performance, Allen M. Widem, Hartford<br />
Times amusements editor-columnist, told the<br />
subui-ban Windsor Locks, Conn., Rotary<br />
jClub luncheon meeting.<br />
not enough to verbally commend a<br />
motion picture," he remarked. "The only<br />
encouragement a Hollj'wood producer in the<br />
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appreciate is the attendance figui-e itself.<br />
"Only attendance justifies continuation of<br />
any semblance of family films in the Hollywood<br />
framework of mushrooming production<br />
costs."<br />
Herbert Marshall on 'List'<br />
HOLL'YW'OOD—Herbert Marshall joins<br />
stars George C. Scott, Dana Wynter and<br />
Clive Brook in Universal's Joel production,<br />
"The List of Adrian Messenger" which John<br />
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Wood is closing the<br />
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M. Wood . L. Wisman is the new<br />
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Steve Paluch is reopening the Durand<br />
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. . . Cliff Richard, interviewed by Ken Barnard<br />
on a whirlwind trip here, was due in<br />
London for a command performance at the<br />
Palladium on October 29 and back in Detroit<br />
four days later for a personal appearance<br />
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"Wonderful to Be Young."<br />
Nate Levin, manager for Allied Artists,<br />
demonstrated that he really lives for his<br />
work. He showed up at the office with<br />
plaster on his lower right jaw after selling<br />
the Patterson-Liston fight pictures. He<br />
claims he was demonstrating how the films<br />
showed what TV didn't, that an unidentified<br />
prospect clipped him a little harder<br />
than planned. He adds, "But I got the<br />
booking!"<br />
Barbara Salzman, Pilmrow's bride-to-be,<br />
is returning here from Chicago next month<br />
to work in the new Superior Films office.<br />
Mildred Thomson, formerly of Universal<br />
and RKO, is pinch-hitting meanwhile .<br />
Betty Fussner, Paramount booker, left on<br />
a week's fall vacation . . . David J. Kane,<br />
Universal exploiteer. is now sporting an<br />
oldtime corncob pipe, and glorying in the<br />
name of Korn Kob Kane . Zuelch and<br />
Clarence Berthiaume were busy supervising<br />
the vacating of Ed Susse's office for<br />
the laying of new carpeting.<br />
Joseph and Margaret Bradanini are the<br />
new owners of the Center at Marlette . . .<br />
We slipped—the correct name of the manager<br />
of the Studio Midtown, which is bringing<br />
in the record-breaking "Never on Sunday,"<br />
is Allan Kennedy.<br />
Advertising of "Ritual of Love" as "positively<br />
first showing in Detroit area" by<br />
the Melody Ai-t and the Art theatres in<br />
the Wednesday Detroit News was protested<br />
to the newspaper's advertising department<br />
by Fred Sweet, managing director of the<br />
Telenews Theatre, who recalled that his<br />
theatre played it April 26 to May 3. The<br />
paper was apparently unaware of prior run<br />
because this occurred during a newspaper<br />
strike and was not advertised therein accordingly.<br />
Distribution was by Pacemaker<br />
Films of New York, represented by William<br />
Goldberg. "This was an oversight," Lloyd<br />
A. Turel, associate of Albert Dezel, operating<br />
the Art Theatre, said. "We were not<br />
aware of any prior run. Any future advertising<br />
will be corrected immediately."<br />
Hope Lange Quits Fox<br />
From Western Edition<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Hope Lange terminated<br />
her contract with 20th-Fox. The pact had<br />
two more years to go and called for two films<br />
a year. Miss Lange recently starred in "A<br />
Pocketful of Miracles" and "The Grand<br />
The<br />
Duke and Mr. Pimm" for United Artists.<br />
latter, completed this summer, is slated for<br />
an Easter release.<br />
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Roy Light Trial May<br />
Close Out of Court<br />
DETROIT—The first day of scheduled<br />
trial of the suit brought by projectionist<br />
Roy Light against D. Faye Erskinc, former<br />
president of lATSE Local 199, and Roy<br />
Ruben, now business agent, charging "a<br />
reign of terror" and "intimidation," led to<br />
a projected .settlement procedure last week.<br />
The case was being tried by federal district<br />
Judge Thomas P. Thornton, but occupied<br />
only a few minutes in open courtroom.<br />
The intricacy of i.ssues involved apparently<br />
led to lengthy sessions by attorneys<br />
in the judge's chambers and to a couple<br />
of reces.ses which led to the projected<br />
settlement.<br />
Counsel sought to have the lATSE dismissed<br />
as defendant. It was made clear<br />
that Light is not seeking damages from the<br />
union treasury.<br />
The significance of the suit lies largely<br />
in the fact that it is one of the first in the<br />
film industry brought by a union member<br />
under his new right to sue under the Landrum-Griffin<br />
act if disgruntled with union<br />
management.<br />
Details of the settlement reached by<br />
counsel for all parties concerned are understood<br />
to hinge upon a secret ballot to<br />
be submitted to Local 199 membership asking<br />
essentially:<br />
1. Are they willing to set aside past action<br />
of the union trial committee in which<br />
Light was convicted, and hold for naught<br />
the charges made and return the $100 fine<br />
imposed.<br />
2. Are they in favor of the two named<br />
personal defendants making a settlement<br />
for $1,500 personally, with union funds not<br />
to be touched.<br />
Acceptance of the propositions by membership<br />
would apparently mean end of the<br />
lawsuit, which is being held in suspense by<br />
the court; otherwise it will go to trial subsequently.<br />
BOWLING<br />
DETROIT—The Mercury Theatre team<br />
made only two points but held the top spot<br />
in the Nightingale Club Bowling League,<br />
in a race that has already become close;<br />
Tcom W L Teom W L<br />
Mercury 12 4 Not. Carbon .8 8<br />
Armstrong 11 4 Theotre Equip't .6 10<br />
NTS 11 4 Locol 199 4 12<br />
Ark Lones 9 7 Altec 3 13<br />
High scorers; Jack Lindenthal, 201-214,<br />
603: Edgar Douville, 213, 589: Ted Kowalski,<br />
224-194, 586; Julius Pavella, 226, 585;<br />
Nick Forest, 202, 577; Roy Thompson, 196-<br />
244, 576; Carl Mingione, 223, 572; John<br />
Ondejko, 191, 533; William Fouchey, 209,<br />
521; Howard Denial, 207; Matt Haskin,<br />
523: Jack Colwell. 509; Eddie Waddell, 508;<br />
Fred Warendorp, 506.<br />
Jack Lindenthal was upstage all the way<br />
with his 603, making his first high three<br />
of the season. Howard Denial and Fred<br />
Warendorp, usually low men, came up with<br />
good pin-spilling. Don Lewis took a bow<br />
after his good game. Sparkplug Robert<br />
Bloch is urged to raise his sound level to<br />
get the Altec team out of the cellar. Twig<br />
Dewitt also is headed downward with the<br />
199 team.<br />
Phil Majeske made the 3-7-10 split; Eddie<br />
Waddell the 2-4-10; Joe Foresta, 5-8-10;<br />
Don Lewis, 4-7-9, and John Ondejko 5-7.<br />
Floyd Akins reports the comics were serious<br />
about their bowling this time.<br />
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OXOFFICE October 29, 1962 ME-3
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Compiled by Exhibitor Abe Ludacer<br />
TOLEDO—Abe Ludacer, manager of<br />
Loew's Valentine and Esquire theatre and<br />
currently celebrating<br />
his 15th year with<br />
Loew's here, has<br />
made an indelible<br />
mark in the city as a<br />
result of his participation<br />
in numerous<br />
civic and charitable<br />
organizations, particularly<br />
those to help<br />
underprivileged children<br />
and youths. As<br />
a result, he is a wellknown<br />
personality to<br />
thousands whom he<br />
has helped and cannot<br />
Abe Ludacer stand in front of his<br />
theatre for one minute without being greeted<br />
by passersby.<br />
As mentioned in "Who's Who in the Midwest,"<br />
Abe began his theatre career at the<br />
age of 12 as a reel boy in Par Rockaway.<br />
N. Y., pedaling reels from one film house to<br />
another on his bicycle. Later he managed<br />
theatres in New York City, Cleveland and<br />
St. Louis, spending the last 20 years with<br />
Loew's theatres. He came to Toledo first<br />
in 1942 from Cleveland, to assist when the<br />
Valentine was being modernized and remodeled.<br />
But he returned to become a civicminded<br />
resident May 1, 1947.<br />
He had organized the Police Athletic<br />
League chapter in Cleveland to offer recreational<br />
facilities and guidance to young<br />
men. When he came to Toledo, he joined<br />
the Fraternal Order of Police Associates,<br />
which sponsored a PAL group in Toledo,<br />
which he organized. He currently is president<br />
of POPA.<br />
Abe also is assistant treasurer of the<br />
Old Newsboys Goodfellows Ass'n, believed<br />
to be the largest charity in this city. The<br />
group, composed of former newsboys who<br />
are businessmen and industrial leaders<br />
here, raises about $100,000 annually from<br />
the sale of newspapers and other special<br />
events, the funds being used to provide<br />
needy school children with clothing and<br />
senef^ne<br />
shoes. The Old Newboys work through both<br />
public and parochial schools, endeavoring<br />
to make sure no child need be absent from<br />
school because of lack of suitable clothing.<br />
Abe's other interests include membership<br />
in the Lions Club International; serving<br />
as head of the theatre division of the<br />
United Appeal: serving as president of the<br />
Toledo Theatre Ass'n, composed of all Toledo<br />
area outdoor and indoor theatres; acting<br />
as a director of the Jewish Community<br />
Center; serving as vice-chairman of the<br />
Jewish Center Health Club and as a member<br />
of the Chamber of Commerce and Toledo<br />
Advertising Club.<br />
However, his main interest centers on<br />
helping children. He recalls that without<br />
the help of the Police Athletic League,<br />
Toledo's world champion Olympic boxer,<br />
Wilbur McClure, might never have gained<br />
a chance to fight for the title when the<br />
Olympic Games were held at Rome. PAL<br />
also provides college athletic scholarships<br />
for many boys, provides a police gym for<br />
youth fitness programs and has equipped<br />
local housing projects with equipment and<br />
gym facilities. At present Abe is helping<br />
raise money for the Sunshine Home, a project<br />
for retarded babies. When this task<br />
finished, he undoubtedly will pitch in on<br />
is<br />
some other activity for helping others, as<br />
that is what he has been doing all his life.<br />
Discussing the theatre business, Abe<br />
said that if managers could bring glamour<br />
back to the business and make going to the<br />
theatre an exciting and eventful experience,<br />
people would desert their television sets for<br />
large-screen entertainment. Having been<br />
in the theatre business all his life, he knows<br />
whereof he speaks.<br />
'Manchurian' Theme on Wax<br />
From Western Edition<br />
LOS ANGELES—Les Baxter has recorded<br />
"The Theme From the Manchui-ian Candidate"<br />
for immediate release as a single by<br />
Reprise Records to tie in with the November<br />
release, by United Artists, of the suspense<br />
drama which stars Frank Sinatra,<br />
Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh.<br />
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2eb Epstin, MGM national group salef<br />
manager, was in to confer with Esthei<br />
Nemo, local group sales manager foi<br />
"Mutiny on the Bounty," scheduled to oper<br />
December 20 at the Valley. Also on Filmrow<br />
were Leon Blender, vice-president ol<br />
American-International, and Jack Zide<br />
AIP area franchise holder; Herbert Gilles<br />
Paramount regional manager, and Loi<br />
Marks, MGM central division sales manager.<br />
Out-of-town exhibitors noted includec<br />
Harold Moore, Charleston, W. Va.; Buc<br />
Hughes, Manchester, Ky.; Foster Lane, Williamsburg.<br />
Ky.; Ohioans Jack Needham<br />
Columbus; Fred Krimm, Lloyd Hilderbrandt<br />
and William Clegg, Dayton. Murraj<br />
Baker, Continental Distributing districi<br />
manager, has returned from a companj<br />
meeting in New York . A. H<br />
Durkin, Warners, was in Dayton, and Phi<br />
Pox, Columbia, had business in Springfield,<br />
Wally Allen, Chakeres circuit drive-ii<br />
booker. Springfield, and Margie Zahner<br />
Columbia office staff, are on vacations .<br />
Tony Knollman, 20th-Pox booker, has returned<br />
from a short vacation . . . Dorothea<br />
Lang, MGM cashier, was at the Indianapolis<br />
exchange last week pinch hittini<br />
for the vacationing cashier and the assist<br />
ant cashier, who was ill.<br />
Fay Brown, Paramount ledger clerk, i,<br />
parking a new car on the film lot . .<br />
Margaret Woodruff. Columbia head booker<br />
was in Marion, during the weekend to attend<br />
a meeting of the Delta Theta Tau, i<br />
philanthropic sorority . . . Harry Sheeran<br />
MGM assistant manager, who has been re<br />
cuperating from surgery, has returned ti<br />
St. Francis Hospital for a checkup.<br />
Opening night for 20th-Pox's "The Long<br />
"<br />
est Day 1 at the Grand is be<br />
ing sponsored by the Mount St. JosepI<br />
Mothers' Club . . . "Spooks Night Out,<br />
October 27, was celebrated with midnigh<br />
shows in all of the Chakeres circuit houses<br />
The youngsters had fun, too, as Chakere<br />
had special films and some extra trimi<br />
mings to help them celebrate Halloween a<br />
matinees in most of its houses.<br />
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German Award to Walter Wood<br />
From Western Edition<br />
LOS ANGELES—An award for "men<br />
torious motion picture achievement" wa<br />
presented to producer Walter Wood by th<br />
West German government at the worl<br />
premiere of MGM's "Escape Prom Eas<br />
Berlin" held in Berlin's famed Congi-es<br />
Hall.<br />
The picture will be launched in satura<br />
tion bookings in Michigan, Ohio, Indians<br />
Connecticut and Massachusetts the firs<br />
two weeks of November, following a U.E<br />
premiere in Detroit October 31.<br />
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LOS ANGELES—Terry-Thomas receive<br />
the keys to the city from Mayor Christophe<br />
when he made personal appearances in Sa<br />
Francisco, Oakland and Menlo Park for th<br />
openings of "A Matter of WHO," suspens<br />
comedy distributed by Herts-Lion Inter<br />
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'Teacher' in Unusual Former Suburban last-Run' Theatre<br />
New Haven Booking<br />
NEW HAVEN—Maurice Bailey booked<br />
Carry On, Teacher" for its local showing<br />
irst run into the usually subsequent-run<br />
Vhitney and Westville. day-and-date,<br />
cheduling a Columbia subsequent booking<br />
if "Damn the Defiant!" as the companion<br />
eature.<br />
Is 100)<br />
^rown—Cur Man in Havana (Col), revival; The<br />
Pure Hell ot St. Trinian's (Cont'l), revivol 85<br />
Imcoln—The Island (Zenith), 2nd wk 160<br />
oew's College A Very Private Affair (MGM);<br />
The Snva-e Guns (MGM) 90<br />
aromount—Morco Polo (AlP); Airborne (SR) .... 80<br />
.oger Sherman The Chopmon Report (WB) 105<br />
Vhalley The Best of Enemies (Col), 2nd ..100<br />
wk.<br />
Vhitney, Westville (doy-ond-date Carry On,<br />
Teocher (Governor) 115<br />
lub Finds Itself Studded<br />
A^ith New, Bright Hits<br />
BOSTON—New product has been giving<br />
he first runs at the Boston boxoffice a<br />
Tiuch needed shot in the arm. Downtown<br />
louses are recouping from several weeks of<br />
ioldrums. With the falling of the legit<br />
.eason, two of Boston's three legit houses<br />
vere dark last week, interest in films has<br />
loomed up. Roadshow films and highly advertised<br />
pictures are getting the biggest returns<br />
at the ticket windows. A dull, rainy<br />
Sunday helped to turn in big grosses this<br />
veek. "Phaedra" opened at the Beacon<br />
:-Iill high above average. "Flame in the<br />
streets" opened at the Paramount nicely<br />
ibove average. "Tarzan Goes to India"<br />
)pened above average at the Orpheiim. "Reluiem<br />
for a Heavyweight" opened at a<br />
nighty 300 at the Saxon.<br />
\5tor—The Longest Doy (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 250<br />
Beacon Hill— Phaedra (UA) 300<br />
Sosfon The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
(MGM-Cinerama), 12th wk 200<br />
"opri Anna Karenina (MGM), reissue, 125<br />
2nd wk.<br />
ixeter Waltz of the Toreadors (Cont'l), 4th wk. 150<br />
-enwoy Summerskin (Angel), 2nd wk 150<br />
3ory Barobbos (Col) 300<br />
ylayflower The Chapmon Report (WB), 2nd wk. 300<br />
y^emoriol Lady and the Tramp (BV), reissue;<br />
Angels (BV), 2nd wk 250<br />
V\usic Hall—The Interns (Col), 6th wk 160<br />
Drpheum Tarzan Goes to Indio (MGM) 150<br />
Paramount<br />
,^ork Square<br />
Flome in the Streets (Atlantic)<br />
Divorce— Italian Style (Embassy),<br />
140<br />
5th wk 300<br />
;<br />
Saxon Requiem for a Heavyweight (Col) 300<br />
pate—The Amorous Sex (SR) 250<br />
Newest 'Carry<br />
On' Entry<br />
[s Hartford's Brightest<br />
HARTFORD — The British Comedy<br />
'Carry On, Teacher," sneak-previewed a<br />
.ew nights before its regular Cine Webb<br />
30W, led the first runs.<br />
Allyn—The Night They Killed Rasputin<br />
• (Brigadier); Two and Two Moke Six (Union) ....75<br />
Art Cinema The Twilight Girls (Audubon);<br />
Love in a Hot Climate (SR), 2nd wk 90<br />
Berlin Drive-In Passionate Sunday (SR); Pogan<br />
(SR) 115<br />
"inerama the Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm (Cinerama), 3rd wk 110<br />
Cine Webb Corry On, Teacher (Governor) 135<br />
I. M. Lcew's— Carnival of Souls (Herts-Lion); The<br />
Devil's Messenger (Herts-Lion) 85<br />
;-oews Palace—Marco Polo (AlP); The Phantom<br />
Planet (AlP), 2nd wk 90<br />
-oew's Poll Lady and the Tromp (BV) reissue<br />
Almost Anqels (BV), 2nd wk<br />
(Col) ....<br />
90<br />
100<br />
^ivoli The B"est of Enemies<br />
>trand—The Chapman Report (WB), 2nd wk 90<br />
Pilot Light Starts Fire<br />
WATERBURY, CONN.—A faulty<br />
stage<br />
Qilot light was blamed for the fire at the<br />
State Theatre recently which caused 53<br />
Saturday patrons to be evacuated and<br />
3aused some $1,500 in damage. Fire marshal<br />
Thomas Scadden said a drop curtain<br />
on the stage brushed against the stage<br />
pilot light, causing it to ignite the curtain.<br />
Making Comeback Under Art Policy<br />
By ALLEN M. WIDEM<br />
HARTFORD—Can a 700-seat theatre,<br />
situated in a primary suburban residential<br />
area, several miles from the principal shopping<br />
center of Connecticut's capital city<br />
and for many years relegated to last-run<br />
status by a series of lessees, "come back"<br />
sufficiently strong to enable a long-range,<br />
profitable investment for the new owning<br />
interests?<br />
So far, said Ernest A. Grecula, general<br />
manager of Connecticut Cinema, new owners<br />
of the Art Cinema, business has far exceeded<br />
even more optimistic predictions.<br />
INCREASING INVESTMENT<br />
"Business has been so encouraging," he<br />
told <strong>Boxoffice</strong> in his tiny, comfortably<br />
cluttered office just off the Franklin avenue<br />
theatre's small lobby, "that we're investing<br />
several thousand dollars in a complete<br />
redecorating job, to be completed in<br />
the daytime hours on weekdays. This will<br />
enable us to keep operating regularly since<br />
we're open from 6:30 Mondays through<br />
Fridays. The redecorating is in addition to<br />
installation of the theatre's first air-conditioning<br />
plant some weeks ago."<br />
Grecula, a 30-year veteran of independent<br />
and circuit exhibition, returned to Hartford<br />
six months as general manager of<br />
the Friedman Bros. -owned Connecticut<br />
Cinema after several years as an independent<br />
exhibitor i<br />
State Theatre, Torrington)<br />
and Hartford field sales representative for<br />
National Screen Service. He had worked<br />
for the Jacobsons' Strand Amusement Co.<br />
and A. M. Schuman's Hartford Theatre<br />
Operating Co. in the past year.<br />
Grecula is buying and booking product<br />
himself, driving into either Boston or New<br />
York at least once weekly to confer with<br />
foreign film importers and states-rights<br />
distributors. The theatre is essentially, as<br />
the monicker implies, an art film outlet,<br />
and Grecula, by assiduously applying himself<br />
to booking charts ("I've found the<br />
product section in <strong>Boxoffice</strong> tremendously<br />
useful to me, since it's compact and complete,<br />
giving me much more than a mere<br />
smattering of releases from the major<br />
companies!") has managed to latch on to<br />
product either at national release time or<br />
even before.<br />
DISTRIBUTORS COOPERATIVE<br />
"The film distributors have been extremely<br />
cooperative in helping us to get<br />
started and get the policy of first-i^un firmly<br />
ingrained at the Art Cinema." Grecula<br />
noted. "It's one thing to talk in public<br />
about helping the independent exhibitor<br />
and still another not to perform in truth:<br />
by and large, gratifyingly, the distributors<br />
have sought us out, offering help and advice,<br />
which is very helpful in our trying<br />
to get the theatre back into the black-ink<br />
columns."<br />
The Art Cinema has been operated by a<br />
successive number of short-term exhibitors,<br />
all, for varying reasons, going elsewhere.<br />
The Friedman-Grecula team seems intent<br />
on staying with their investment. The<br />
lobby is immaculately maintained,<br />
Grecula contacting a number of prominent<br />
regional artists to display their latest works<br />
on newly set up easels. He has tacked up a<br />
board reading "Notes and Quotes," featuring<br />
clippings and photos of prime interest<br />
to the art theatre aficionado. One such<br />
clipping was from <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, detailing future<br />
foreign releases of distinction.<br />
Shoring up administrative capacities,<br />
Grecula has named Arthur Lauder, formerly<br />
on the house staff of the de luxe<br />
first-run Stanley Warner Strand, as assistant<br />
manager. Poster Oakley (his brother<br />
Howard is a veteran boothman at the<br />
Lockwood & Gordon Central, West Hartfordi,<br />
is chief projectionist.<br />
Grecula is on the phone at least once a<br />
week talking with speech and drama department<br />
heads at the universities of Connecticut,<br />
Hartford and Trinity and Wesleyan<br />
colleges, advising them of current<br />
and upcoming product. He has, in an already<br />
accoladed and acclaimed (on the<br />
student level) gesture, extended a special<br />
price to students ($1, with display of a student<br />
registration card ) . Adults are charged<br />
$1.25 (this to encourage the over 21-age<br />
element, to which the bulk of the Art<br />
Cinema product is understandably geared).<br />
ADVERTISES ON STATION WAGON<br />
A subui'ban commuter (he lives in Avon,<br />
just over the West Hartford town line, a 20-<br />
minute drive from his house to the theatre<br />
i, Grecula takes great pleasure in displaying<br />
some note or reminder of his current<br />
attraction on his gleaming white station<br />
wagon. He has mounted "paper" atop<br />
the wagon and also has used a sound system<br />
on occasion.<br />
The interior of the theatre is quietly appointed,<br />
a standee sign to the right of the<br />
auditorium entrance reading, "Presenting<br />
Distinguished Quality Motion Pictures for<br />
Your Pleasure."<br />
The nearest theatre is the 800-seat Shulman<br />
Webster, at the moment on a subsequent-run<br />
policy.<br />
Significantly, the Friedman-Grecula<br />
unit joins a rapidly growing nucleus of art<br />
theatres in metropolitan Hartford the<br />
Lockwood & Gordon Cine Webb, the Ferguson-McQueeney-LaFlamme<br />
Rivoli, both oiv<br />
a regular foreign film policy, and, on occasion,<br />
the Lockwood & Gordon Central,<br />
New England Theatres Allyn, E. M. Loew's,<br />
Stanley Warner Strand and Loew's Palace.<br />
Parking, always a headache for exhibition,<br />
has been partially resolved: the D&D<br />
supermarket, half a block away, has agreed<br />
to let upwards of 50 Art Cinema customer<br />
cars park, free of charge, any day of the<br />
week.<br />
"No fee, no screen credit, just a show of<br />
merchant appreciation that a theatre is<br />
back in business again!" beams Grecula.<br />
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SPRINGFIELD<br />
J^ayor Ryan has named six prominent<br />
men to a new civic center commission,<br />
its objective being to recommend plans for<br />
a multi-purpose convention hall and auditorium<br />
for theatrical and concert use in<br />
Springfield Gaudino. Loew's<br />
Poli<br />
.<br />
manager, has been named western<br />
Massachusetts representative for Loew's<br />
Hotels,<br />
Vincent Blais. Phillips Theatre, is receiving<br />
considerable plaudits from patrons<br />
on the newly installed $5,000 lobby art exhibit.<br />
Lobby and lounge have been enhanced<br />
and embellished with a rock garden<br />
and waterfalls.<br />
The Springfield motion picture council<br />
opened its 32nd season with a reception for<br />
members, followed by a musical program<br />
and tea. Meetings are held on the third<br />
Friday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the<br />
William Pyncheon Memorial building, unless<br />
otherwise noted. Dr. Robert L. Campbell,<br />
dean of students. Western New England<br />
college, will address the November 16<br />
meeting; his subject is "The American<br />
Dream: Vision or Nightmare?"<br />
Harry Romm, producer of Columbia's<br />
"Two Tickets to Paris" accompanied principal<br />
player Joey Dee and the latter's Starlighters<br />
group to the Bijou opening. Also in<br />
attendance were Spcrie P. Perakos, general<br />
manager. Perakos Theatre Associates, and<br />
his wife Nikki.<br />
Unauthorized Film Sales<br />
Cost Dealer $32,500<br />
BOSTON—Seven film companies were<br />
awarded damages aggregating $32,500 in<br />
their joint copyright infringement suit<br />
against Leon Duquette of Pitchburg, Mass.,<br />
by U. S. District Judge Andrew A. Caffrey.<br />
Duquette was charged with unauthorized<br />
sales of 16mm prints of 138 feature-length<br />
films.<br />
The judgment awarded $10,750 to 20th<br />
Century-Pox, $6,000 to Universal, $4,500<br />
to Warner Bros., $3,750 to United Artists,<br />
$3,500 to Allied Artists, $3,200 to Columbia<br />
and $750 to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. These<br />
companies also were awarded $3,000 for<br />
counsel fees.<br />
The plaintiffs were represented by the<br />
Boston law firm of Nutter, McClennen &<br />
Fish, with the New York firm of Sargoy &<br />
Stein as counsel.<br />
Pay TV Subscribers Given<br />
Refund on 'The Prince'<br />
HARTFORD— In the first<br />
development ol<br />
its kind since the June 29 start of the paj<br />
TV experiment on WHCT-TV, subscribers<br />
have been informed they may deduct the<br />
price of a feature film from monthly statements.<br />
The attraction, Warner Bros.' "The<br />
Prince and the Showgirl," was screened on<br />
a competition outlet, WTIC-TV (the CBS-<br />
TV unit here), after WHCT-TV had shown<br />
it for a regular subscription fee. Significantly,<br />
WTIC-TV screened the Marilyn<br />
Monroe-starring vehicle in color, while<br />
WHCT-TV continues to show all product in<br />
conventional black-and-white.<br />
In an explanatory note to his 1,200 subscribers,<br />
Charles O. Wood, WHCT-TV's<br />
general manager, commented, "Subscription<br />
TV will never require you to pay for a<br />
program available to commercial television."<br />
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BRIDGEPORT<br />
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residents at a cocktail party and dinner at<br />
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Clayton G. Pantases of nearby Trumbull<br />
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Prov-Paw Drive-In Has Booth, Screen H ART FORD<br />
In Different Rhode Island Cities<br />
PROVIDENCE — Relocation and re-arrangement<br />
of the projection booth and<br />
giant screen at E. M. Loews Prov-Paw<br />
Drive-In during an updating project have<br />
led to a Providence- Pawtucket city line<br />
dispute, the airer being right on the line<br />
between the two municipalities.<br />
Vincent DiMaso. chief building inspector,<br />
said the screen was erected on new<br />
footings without issuance of a building permit<br />
in Providence because the engineer on<br />
the project was under the impression the<br />
new location was over the city line in Pawtucket.<br />
Adding to the belief of the engineer.<br />
Richard B. Rubin of Dover. Mass.. was the<br />
fact the motion picture license for the<br />
drive-in was granted in Pawtucket. because<br />
the projection booth is in that city.<br />
Checking the boundary question. DiMase<br />
then found that there is an unimproved<br />
street that was laid out on the theatre<br />
site many years ago and which the city<br />
never abandoned. It appears, he reported,<br />
that the new screen may straddle this<br />
street. This could be solved by having the<br />
Providence city council vote a formal<br />
abandonment, but before anything is done,<br />
surveyors must check the boundary lines<br />
and report back to the building inspector.<br />
It was recently learned that the engineer<br />
promised to mail a plan to the building<br />
authorities, and a request for a permit<br />
for the screen, which, if approved, would<br />
have to be issued on a past-posting date.<br />
Meanwhile the drlve-in has been reopened<br />
under the management of Joseph<br />
Donahue after a long period of darkness.<br />
The oldest of the drive-ins in this area, the<br />
Prov-Paw has been refurbished throughout.<br />
A new snackbar, screen, speakers, and incar<br />
heaters greeted patrons at the opening.<br />
FMll page ads were used in all of the<br />
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house, greeted the guests. The production<br />
was well received.<br />
Stars of the Grand Ole Opry radio and<br />
television series, including Stoncy Cooper,<br />
Wilma Lee and Rufe Davis, made personal<br />
appearances at a stage show held in the<br />
Leroy, Pawtucket. Two performances were<br />
given on the 19th. under the sponsorship<br />
of the Moslem Grotto.<br />
H press preview of the new Cinerama production.<br />
"The Wonderful World of the<br />
Brothers Grimm." was held in Cinerama<br />
Theatre the evening (16) before the opening<br />
to the public of the latest Cinerama attraction.<br />
Invitations were sent to the press,<br />
television and radio stations, as well as<br />
many state and city officials. Representatives<br />
of the Lockwood & Gordon Enter-<br />
Taking advantage of the long Columbus<br />
Day weekend, the RKO Albee presented<br />
special performances of "Lady and the<br />
Ti-amp." Columbus Day. being a full holiday<br />
in Rhode Island, schools were closed<br />
and the Westminster street house had an<br />
8:30 a.m. opening. Extra traffic patrolmen<br />
were on duty to safeguard the hundreds of<br />
childi'en who flocked to Phil Nemirow's theatre<br />
to see the showings.<br />
The Cranston Drive-In, offering a triplefeature<br />
program, gave away golf clubs, golf<br />
bags, a bicycle, Coleman cook stove, a jalopy,<br />
necklace sets and many other gifts<br />
as a holiday feature. Free cigarets also were<br />
distributed to people in the first 200 cars<br />
entering the popular ozoner.<br />
Taking cognizance of the seasonal closing<br />
of the Seekonk Automobile Speedway,<br />
the nearby Seekonk Drive-In featured a<br />
World Series of Car Racing program. The<br />
Speed-O-Rama combined Red Hot Wheels,<br />
Hot Rod Rumble, Dragstrip Hollow and<br />
Road Racers, the latter filmed at the U. S.<br />
Grand Prix races.<br />
NEW HAVEN<br />
gperie P. Perakos, general manager of<br />
Perakos Theatre Associates, Independent<br />
Connecticut circuit, has completed extensive<br />
redecorating at the two PTA first<br />
runs in metropolitan Bridgeport, the Hi-<br />
Way and Beverly, the activity including a<br />
new color scheme, plus installation of new<br />
screens, lenses and booth equipment and<br />
new curtain drapes. Jim Landino is Hi-Way<br />
manager and Henry Cohan has a similar<br />
stint at the Beverly. Perakos took a number<br />
of Connecticut critics to the Columbia<br />
"Barabbas" opening in New York in special<br />
limousines.<br />
Columbia's "The Best of Enemies" has<br />
opened briskly in key Connecticut situations<br />
and exchange manager Walter Silverman<br />
anticipates extended runs. The film is<br />
playing at the Bailey Theatres' Whalley,<br />
New Haven, and the Ferguson-McQueeney-<br />
LaPlamme Rivoli. Hartford.<br />
Murray Howard, for many years in managerial<br />
capacities with Stanley Warner<br />
Theatres and its predecessor organization,<br />
Warner Bros. Theatres, has joined the<br />
sales staff of WNLC, New London.<br />
Everett Crosby, business manager of<br />
brother Bing's Crosby Enterprises, has<br />
bought a 257-acre Salisbury, Conn., farm.<br />
Peter Coe, brilliant 32-year-old stage director,<br />
will direct "Saint—With Red Hands?"<br />
for Columbia Pictures.<br />
H French motif will highlight the November<br />
9 Connecticut opening of 20th-<br />
Fox's "Gigot" at the Perakos Theatre Associates'<br />
Elm. Sperie P. Perakos. general<br />
manager, is planning on garbing the house<br />
staff in French costume, setting up kiosks<br />
on the sidewalk, wiring the house sound<br />
system for French records and serving<br />
champagne from 7 to 8 p.m. Top celebrities<br />
will attend. He is also lining up a<br />
Lord & Taylor iWcst Hartford store)<br />
fashion show.<br />
Manny Friedman, L&G Cinerama Theatre,<br />
got a rare downtown break—foui<br />
Main street window displays at Sage-Allen<br />
& Co. for "The Wonderful World ol<br />
the Brothers Grimm." Norman Prader ol<br />
the MGM field exploitation force assisted<br />
Don Baker of Ernie Emcrling's New York<br />
home office advertising-publicity staff<br />
Loew's Theatres, visited Mrs. Ruth Colvin<br />
Loew's Poll, and Lou Cohen. Loew's Palace.<br />
Ernest A. Grecula, general manager ol<br />
Connecticut Cinema, returned from Bostor<br />
and New York booking sessions for the<br />
Art Cinema. Laurence Olivier aficionados<br />
from distant Connecticut points trekked tc<br />
Hartford. Ernie reported, for the extended<br />
return engagement of Lopert's "Richard<br />
III."<br />
Phil Keppner, 18-year-old son of Morris<br />
Keppner. partner, Burnside Theatre Corp.<br />
and Mrs. Keppner. has started his freshman<br />
year at New York University;<br />
he will<br />
major in the liberal arts. His brothei<br />
Jackie, at one time assistant to now-retired<br />
Loew's Palace Manager Fi-ed R<br />
Greenway. is working for the state motoi<br />
vehicles department.<br />
Ben Rogers, formerly with Pathe-America<br />
in the territory, is representing Academj<br />
Distributors.<br />
E. M. Loew, president of E. M. Loew<br />
Theatres, was in New York for a screening<br />
of Embassy Pictures' "Long Day's Journey<br />
Into Night." The Hartford opening<br />
site is yet to be determined by the Joseph<br />
E. Levine interests. Katharine Hepburr<br />
costars with Jason Robards jr., Sir Ralph<br />
Richardson and Dean Stockwell in the Eljl<br />
A. Landau-Sidney Lumet adaptation of the<br />
Eugene O'Neill story of a Connecticut family,<br />
circa 1912.<br />
Bushnell Plaza Updating<br />
Due for November Start<br />
HARTFORD—This city's long-projectec<br />
downtown Bushnell Plaza redevelopment i;<br />
expected to begin in November, the city's<br />
development agency to start acquiring<br />
property (including two Loew's theatre<br />
buildings, the Poll and Palace) in the 6.';<br />
acres tract.<br />
Ultimately, the project area will contair<br />
three high-rent apartment buildings, witl<br />
some 300 units: a retail shopping centei<br />
and a theatre. Whether Loew's or anothei<br />
theatre circuit or independent exhibitoi<br />
will operate the theatre is yet to be determined,<br />
it is understood from reliable<br />
UA's "Plight From Ashiya" is a story o)<br />
America's Air Rescue Service."<br />
NE-4 BOXOFFICE October 29, 196:
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TORONTO—The Uptown had the only<br />
brand new picture of the week in the playint;<br />
of "If a Man Answers" and the public<br />
response was quite good. The big Imperial<br />
had a change of program but it consisted<br />
of a revival of "Rear Window," replacing<br />
The Pigeon That Took Rome" which<br />
mo\ed to the Nortown for a third week in<br />
Toronto with nice result. The current leader<br />
was "Barabbas" at the Carlton where it<br />
registered an excellent third week on a reserved-seat<br />
basis.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
larlton— Borabbos (Col), 3rd wk 120<br />
rgiinton—The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm (MGM-Cincrama), 10th wk 105<br />
Hollvwood— My Geisha (Para), 4th wk 100<br />
Hylond The Interns (Col), 5th wk 100<br />
-Imperial— Reor Window (Para), reissue 105<br />
1 Loew's Thank Foo! (MGM), 2nd wk 105<br />
sjortown The Pigeon That Took Rome (Para),<br />
3rd wk., moveover 105<br />
rivoli— West Side Storv (UA), 23rd wk<br />
Townc—The Sky Above—the Mud Below (IFD),<br />
100<br />
6th wk 100<br />
jnivcrsity—Woltz of the Toreadors (IFD), 3rd wk. 100<br />
jptown~lf a Mon Answers (U-l) 110<br />
Cooler Weather a Spur<br />
lo Montreal Attendance<br />
MONTREAL—First-run motion picture<br />
theatres, along St. Catherine street and in<br />
Dther parts of the city, enjoyed fairly good<br />
patronage in the week under review. The<br />
cooler weather helped to attract more and<br />
more younger folks to the theatre as a<br />
likely place for the entertainment of their<br />
dates. At Cinerama's Imperial Theatre<br />
'The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm," in its 11th week, continued well<br />
patronized. At the Alouette the first of the<br />
series of great musical films of MGM,<br />
'Rose Marie," was well received, especially<br />
by fans of musical entertainment.<br />
Alouette Rose Marie (MGM), reissue Excellent<br />
Avenue Carry On Cruising (SR), 4th wk Good<br />
lapitol—The Spiral Road (U-l) Good<br />
Iinema Place Ville Mane Boccoccio '70 (IFD),<br />
wk Good<br />
Dorvol Theatre— (Red Room) That Touch of<br />
(U-l) Good<br />
Dorval Theatre— (Salle Doree) I Like Money<br />
(20th-Fox)<br />
Good<br />
Imperial—The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm, 1 1 th wk Excellent<br />
Kent—Walti of the Toreadors (IFD) Good<br />
Loew's Two Weeks in Another Town, (MGM),<br />
2nd wk Good<br />
Palace My Geisha (Para) Good<br />
Seville— La Dolce Vita (Astral) Excellent<br />
^nowdon Advise and Consent (Col), .Excellent<br />
3rd wk. .<br />
Lisa (20th-Fox), 2nd wk Good<br />
Holdovers Are Dominant<br />
,0n Vancouver List<br />
VANCOUVER—Three new films is a<br />
change for the better, but still there were<br />
too many holdovers to generate any real<br />
excitement. Best in town still was "The Interns"<br />
in a fifth week at the Capitol, closely<br />
followed by "El Cid" in a fourth Orpheum<br />
week.<br />
Capitol The Interns (Col), 5th wk Good<br />
Drpheum— El Cid (AA), 4th wk Good<br />
Plozo— Lost of the Vikings (SR), 2nd wk Fair<br />
Stanley- Block Tights (Astral), 2nd wk Fair<br />
Strand The Wonderful World of the Brothers<br />
Grimm (MGM-Cinerama), 9th wk Fair<br />
Studio Expresso Bongo (IFD), 2nd wk Averoge<br />
jVogue—The Spirol Rood (U-l), 2nd wk Fair<br />
Chuck Connors in 'Flipper'<br />
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HOLLYWOOD—Chuck Connors has been<br />
signed to star in Ivan Tors-MGM production<br />
"Flipper," scheduled to roll late this<br />
month in the Bahamas. Ai'thur Weiss wrote<br />
the screenplay.<br />
'Long Day's Journey' Will<br />
Be Premiered at Toronto<br />
TORONTO — Two special<br />
attractions<br />
have been announced for local theatres<br />
operated by Townart Hall, headed by<br />
Yvonne Taylor, wife of N. A. Taylor who<br />
heads 20th Century Theatres and various<br />
other enterprises here.<br />
The International Cinema will stage the<br />
Canadian premiere of "Long Day's Journey<br />
Into Night," scheduled for November 7 on<br />
a reserved-seat basis at $2.50 top. All seats<br />
already have been sold for the opening performance.<br />
The Towne, also operated by Townart,<br />
is preparing for the special engagement<br />
here of "Boccaccio '70," which was the<br />
opening feature for the new theatre in the<br />
Place Ville Marie in Montreal, a joint operation<br />
of United Amusement Corp.,<br />
Montreal, and Mrs. Taylor's company here.<br />
Both pictures are releases of International<br />
Film Distributors, of which the president<br />
is Nat Taylor. Incidentally, a third<br />
IFD release, "Waltz of the Toreadors" is<br />
having an extended run at the Famous<br />
Players University here.<br />
Move for Bingo Law<br />
For Charily, No Pros<br />
TORONTO—A plan to legalize bingo<br />
games for charitable purposes under licensed<br />
supervision, barring professional<br />
promoters, has been prepared for consideration<br />
of the Canadian parliament.<br />
Premier John Robarts of Ontario and<br />
John White of London, a member of the<br />
provincial legislature, are arranging to submit<br />
a brief to the federal government at<br />
Ottawa which would contain recommendations<br />
for changes in the criminal code to<br />
permit the staging of charity games by<br />
specified organizations within certain<br />
limitations.<br />
White said the proposal meant a solution<br />
under which bingo could be played for the<br />
raising of funds for charity but would keep<br />
out undesirable organizers. In this connection<br />
church groups, service clubs, war<br />
veterans and fraternal organizations had<br />
been asked for suggestions.<br />
Elsewhere in Canada another development<br />
is an agitation for the introduction of<br />
sweepstakes under Dominion government<br />
auspices for revenue purposes.<br />
Theatre owners have made no comment.<br />
Global Newsreel Contest<br />
From Western Edition<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—Nineteen countries,<br />
ten of them in Latin America, will compete<br />
in the first international newsreel contest<br />
sponsored by the San Francisco Film Festival,<br />
October 31 to November 13. Other<br />
entries are from the United States, West<br />
Germany, Pakistan, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,<br />
Poland and Yugoslavia.<br />
Gina to Star in 'Wild Sea'<br />
From Western Edition<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Gina Lollobrigida has<br />
scheduled her fourth major role in less than<br />
a year as she signed to star in "Wild Sea."<br />
Starring with her will be France's Jean-<br />
Paul Belmondo. Italian director Renato<br />
Castellani will helm "Wild Sea," on location<br />
on the Adriatic coast of Italy.<br />
Industry Sessions<br />
Will Open on Nov. 26<br />
TORONTO—The schedule for the annual<br />
convention meetings the last week of November<br />
at the King Edward Hotel follows;<br />
Monday, November 26<br />
Annual meeting. Motion Picture Theatres<br />
Ass'n of Ontario, 9:30 a.m.; Cocktails<br />
courtesy Union Carbide of Canada, 12;30;<br />
Annual luncheon. Crystal Ballroom, 1 p.m.<br />
Canadian Picture Pioneers, meeting of<br />
all branches, 3 p.m., and annual awards<br />
dinner and dance honoring Pioneer of the<br />
Year, 7:30 p.m.<br />
Tuesday<br />
Annual meeting. National Committee<br />
Motion Pictm-e Exhibitors Association of<br />
Canada, 9:30 a.m.: Variety Club luncheon<br />
at Park Plaza Hotel, 12:30 noon.<br />
Wednesday<br />
Annual meeting. Motion Picture Industry<br />
Council of Canada, 9:30 a.m.; Luncheon at<br />
12:30 for all delegates sponsored by the<br />
Canadian Motion Picture Distributors<br />
Ass'n.<br />
Thursday<br />
Motion Picture Industry Council of<br />
Canada, business sessions continued;<br />
Luncheon at 12; 30 for all delegates sponsored<br />
by General Sound & Theatre Equipment<br />
Limited.<br />
Friday<br />
Open date for tradescreenings and visits<br />
to film exchanges and theatres.<br />
Saturday, December 1<br />
Professional football game between<br />
champions from eastern and western<br />
Canada, preceded in the morning by Gray<br />
cup parade to stadium.<br />
G. B. Markell of Corwall will be the<br />
chairman for the convention of Ontario<br />
Theatre Owners Ass'n. The chaiiTnan for<br />
the National Committee of regional exhibitors<br />
will be F. Gordon Spencer of St. John,<br />
N.B., while Frank H. Fisher of Toronto will<br />
be in charge of the Industry Coxuicil<br />
sessions.<br />
Several Ontario Airers<br />
To Operate All Winter<br />
TORONTO—Nat Taylor's 20th Centui-y<br />
Theatres chain has closed the Northeast<br />
and 400 drive-ins in this area, but has continued<br />
operation at the Scarboro and Northwest<br />
units which have been equipped witli<br />
in-car heaters. Also closed here for the<br />
season is the independently-owned Dufferin<br />
Drive-In.<br />
Over in Hamilton, Joe Dydzak reported<br />
that the Starlite and Hamilton ozoners<br />
were now open on Friday and Saturday<br />
nights only, but the Clappison would operate<br />
full time until further notice. Famous<br />
Players will operate the Hamilton Skyway<br />
all winter with car heaters, but the Sunset<br />
at Brantford has shut down. The Peterborough<br />
Drive -In has been closed by 20th<br />
Century Theatres. George Delaney's Skylark<br />
at Gananoque will operate only at<br />
weekends.<br />
David Brown Will Advise<br />
From Western Edition<br />
LOS ANGELES—David Brown and 20th-<br />
Fox severed their exclusive association this<br />
past week, with the producer switching to<br />
an advisory capacity.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: October 29, 1962 E-1
. . . The<br />
MONTREAL<br />
(l^inerania Corp. had a number of patrons<br />
of all ages at its Montreal Imperial<br />
Theatre to cut the traditional anniversary<br />
cake to mark its tenth year of operations.<br />
Local Cinerama officials count 7.000,000<br />
patrons and 9,000 screenings on eight productions,<br />
the present one being "The<br />
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"<br />
Centre d'Art de L'Elysce opened its<br />
fall season with "Lola Montes," starring Martine<br />
Carol, Peter Ustinov. Anton Walbrook,<br />
Yvan Desny, Will Quadflieg, Oskar Werner,<br />
Lise Delamarc. Henri Guisol and Paulette<br />
Dubost. The Elysee. which had a very successful<br />
"film fair" at its two auditoriums<br />
during the summer, has lined up for the<br />
current season a number of outstanding<br />
films.<br />
. . .<br />
Two theatres are closing for good, the<br />
Georges at Sayabec in the Matapedia Valley,<br />
owned by M. Cote, and the Alexander<br />
The<br />
at Rouyn owned by T. AUevato . . .<br />
Lyric Cinema of La Tuque, owned by Dr.<br />
A. Thibault, was destroyed by fire on the<br />
morning of October 16 . . . Warner Bros,<br />
has booked "The Chapman Report" for<br />
The<br />
the Loew's Theatre November 30<br />
Montreal Film Board met on the 16th.<br />
Eloi Cormier, salesman at Paramount,<br />
returned from a vacation . Jack Kroll,<br />
. .<br />
Warner salesman, was in the Quebec City<br />
district . . . Roger Chartrand, MGM, retui'ned<br />
from an extensive trip . . . Claude<br />
Chenier, 20th-Pox assistant booker, has<br />
resigned and has been succeeded by Marcel<br />
Sympathy to P. E. Theriault,<br />
Cyrene . . .<br />
owner of the Azur Theatre of Maniwaki,<br />
whose son Roy. owner of the Plaza Theatre<br />
there, was killed in an automobile accident.<br />
Another son Francois, 18, was badly<br />
injured and underwent surgery for a<br />
smashed femur. Roy, 23, was married and<br />
Prompt theatre service from<br />
qualified<br />
personnel<br />
&<br />
sound equipments<br />
Complete projection<br />
Replacement parts always on hand<br />
BEST THEATRE SUPPLY REG'D<br />
4810 Saint Denis Street Montreal 34, Qne.<br />
Phone: 842-6762<br />
father of two children. The accident occurred<br />
on October 10 between Maniwaki<br />
and Mont Laurier where the two young<br />
men were going to Mont Laurier to pick up<br />
a film.<br />
Seen at the exchanges were A. Chabot<br />
of the Cinema Etoile of Ste. Justine de<br />
Langevin; Mrs. Guy Jacob, Ste. Marie Theatre.<br />
Ste. Marie de Beauce, who was accompanied<br />
by her daughter, and Tom<br />
Trow of the Imperial Theatre, Trois-Rivieres.<br />
Hockey Contest Fills<br />
FPC Toronto Theatre<br />
TORONTO — Hockey fans filled the<br />
1,500-seat College Theatre, and many were<br />
turned away, for the presentation by the<br />
Eidophor system of the first away-fromhome<br />
game by the Toronto Maple Leafs<br />
hockey team. The game was piped in from<br />
Chicago.<br />
Famous Players Canadian plans to transmit<br />
35 other Maple Leaf games in the National<br />
Hockey League cities to the College<br />
screen.<br />
Stafford Smythe, president of the Toronto<br />
Hockey Club, viewed the first closedcircuit<br />
telecast and joined in the general<br />
acclaim.<br />
The live program also was made available<br />
to Trans-Canada Telemeter subscribers<br />
in suburban Etobicoke at $1.50 per<br />
home set. One newspaper reported the<br />
game cost Telemeter $6,500.<br />
FPC arranged to show the Gene Pulmer-<br />
Dick Tiger fight from San Francisco at<br />
10:30 p.m. on the 16th. The College collected<br />
$1.25 to $2.50 for the hockey game.<br />
It also offers a season ticket for all the<br />
games.<br />
Contract to Jeremy Slate<br />
From Western Edition<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Hal Wallis signed actor<br />
Jeremy Slate to a term contract and will<br />
cast him importantly in one of his forthcoming<br />
films scheduled for an early production.<br />
The signing resulted from Slate's<br />
performance in Wallis' latest Elvis Presley<br />
starring feature, "Girls! Girls! Girls!"<br />
Slate was first introduced to TV fans as the<br />
star of the Malibu Run series and made his<br />
movie debut in the Paramount release, "G.I.<br />
Blues."<br />
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OTTAWA<br />
Three municipalities in Carleton County<br />
will vote on the question of Sunday<br />
hows at municipal elections December 3.<br />
Dne is Ottawa, which required a petition<br />
igned by 10 per cent of eligible residents<br />
)efore the city fathers gave their consent<br />
or the referendum. The second was<br />
iloucester township, which acted on the reuest<br />
of two exhibitors, and the latest is<br />
lepean township, where the council made<br />
ts own decision.<br />
Ottawa had something entirely new on<br />
he 19th, with the introduction of night<br />
chopping following approval of the city<br />
i;ouncil. Theatre managers, particularly<br />
.hose in the downtown business sections,<br />
vere delighted to see the crowded streets.<br />
;?or many years the Canadian capital literiilly<br />
closed up shop at supper time under<br />
Existing laws governing store operations.<br />
The Nelson, a unit of 20th Century Theatres<br />
which has a specialty policy, has<br />
)pened an unlimited engagement of "The<br />
3ky Above—the Mud Below," which is restricted<br />
to mature patronage by the Ontario<br />
censors . Famous Players<br />
i^Japitol, managed by Bill Culliun, broke the<br />
.•un of "The Chapman Report" one night<br />
'or the stage appearance of George London,<br />
Metropolitan Opera Co. star. The censor<br />
joard has also given the "Restricted"<br />
;lassification to "Chapman."<br />
The National Museum of Canada opened<br />
ts season of free film shows for children<br />
with two performances of "National Velvet"<br />
Saturday morning
Sell . . and Sell<br />
Scores of busy little messages<br />
go out every week to a tremendous<br />
audience— and they get a tremendous<br />
response!<br />
Every exhibitor is<br />
busy— buying,<br />
selling, renting, hiring. All this is<br />
made easier<br />
and more profitable<br />
with the classified ads in Clearing<br />
House each week.<br />
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• ADLINES & EXPLOITIPS<br />
• ALPHABmCAL INDEX<br />
• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY<br />
• FEATURE RELEASE CHART<br />
• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST<br />
• SHORTS RELEASE CHART<br />
• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS<br />
• REVIEW/S OF FEATURES<br />
• SHOWMANOISING IDEAS<br />
THE GUIDE TO I BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G<br />
Here's Contest to Keep<br />
Image Before Public<br />
One important purpose of advertising<br />
promotion simply is to let the customer<br />
know you still are in business, ready to<br />
serve. In the long pull, this "image creation"<br />
is considered by some of the ad experts<br />
to be as necessary as direct merchandising<br />
of product and price.<br />
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F. F. Chenoweth, manager for KeiT<br />
Theatres, at Bethany, Mo., passes on an<br />
idea for small towns. It's a combination<br />
that may produce substantial results, he<br />
says. It follows:<br />
Take a block or street once a week and<br />
call personally to "talk theatre" on those<br />
who live there. Present each member of<br />
every household an invitation to a<br />
weekly Block Party. Evei-yone attending<br />
gets a free drink and a free bag of<br />
popcorn.<br />
Each house visit also is used to explain<br />
the Golden Age Movie Club, which entitles<br />
the card-holder to admission for<br />
40 cents instead of the regular 65 cents.<br />
The upper age group are urged to come<br />
to the theatre for membership cards,<br />
thus starting them off with contact with<br />
the theatre.<br />
Idea<br />
for<br />
Small<br />
Town<br />
Theatres<br />
"This takes only one day a week of<br />
calling on people and the results can be<br />
very well worth the effort," Chenoweth<br />
comments.<br />
Kerr Theatres operates the Noll Theatre<br />
and the Frontier Drive-In at<br />
Bethany and other theatres in Iowa and<br />
Missouri.<br />
The invitations read:<br />
YOU'RE INVITED!<br />
ADMIT ONE<br />
Name<br />
To our weekly<br />
BLOCK PARTY<br />
NOLL THEATRE<br />
Everyone living in your block will be our<br />
guest (date). Come join us for an evening<br />
of delightful theatre entertainment.<br />
Manager.<br />
On one side was a coupon good for a<br />
free drink and a bag of popcorn.<br />
Service^ Important Word in Theatre<br />
Operation! Here's What It Means<br />
Be it a single theatre in a small community<br />
or a showplace in a metropolitan<br />
city where com.petition is keen, a<br />
ivell-trained service staff is mandatory.<br />
Bill T. Bohling, manager for the<br />
Trans-Texas Capri Theatre in El Paso,<br />
and Harry Gaines, public relations director,<br />
have come up with the following<br />
declaration of service. It has teen<br />
adopted for the entire chain by Norm<br />
Levinson, general manager, and Earl<br />
Podolnick, president of the Texasbased<br />
circuit. It follows.<br />
The repeated use of the word SERVICE<br />
has robbed it of much of its meaning. Yet, it<br />
is a vitally important word, for it has a<br />
dii-ect bearing upon the success or failure of<br />
every business. To our theatre, as to all<br />
theatres, SERVICE is a product we sell.<br />
It is our lifeblood . . . the essence and<br />
substance of our business. SERVICE means<br />
different things to different people, but to<br />
our theatre ... It means a friendly and<br />
helpful attitude upon the part of every<br />
employe toward the public and toward each<br />
other.<br />
It means courtesy on the telephone .<br />
in the ticket office ... at the door ... at<br />
the confectionery ... In the auditorium.<br />
It means attractively displayed confections,<br />
courteously served in a department<br />
that is clean and inviting.<br />
It means a clean and comfortable theatre<br />
and equipment.<br />
It means courtesy and thoughtfulness<br />
upon the part of every member of the theatre's<br />
crew.<br />
It means the correct starting time of our<br />
schedules and the handling of patrons.<br />
It means courtesy, consideration, and cooperation<br />
on the part of all our service<br />
people . . both at the theatre and to those<br />
.<br />
we meet and see on the streets coming and<br />
going from work.<br />
It means prompt and considerate handling<br />
of suggestions, criticisms and complaints.<br />
It means the efficient handling of patrons<br />
and the adequate maintenance of<br />
equipment and other facilities.<br />
It means friendly and effective cooperation<br />
between employes and officials of our<br />
company.<br />
It means practical application of the<br />
Golden Rule m our work and in our daily<br />
lives.<br />
All these things—and more go into<br />
making service which we perfomi—and sell<br />
film and ouiselves to the public.<br />
To hold the goodwill of our patrons . . .<br />
and to win new friends ... we should always<br />
remember that the SERVICE of our<br />
theatre is what we individually and collectively<br />
make it. By working together in<br />
a spirit of mutual confidence and respect,<br />
we can keep our SERVICE good and we can<br />
make it even better.<br />
While we are on the subject of what each<br />
and every employe means to the physical<br />
operation of our company, we would like to<br />
pass along some copy which we have borrowed<br />
from another business, which certainly<br />
holds tme to show business:<br />
"A conaoration may spread itself over the<br />
entire world, may employ a hundred thousand<br />
men, but the average person will<br />
usually form his judgment of it through<br />
his contact with one individual. If this<br />
person is rude or inefficient, it will take a<br />
lot of efficiency to overcome the bad impression.<br />
Every member of an organization<br />
who, in any capacity, comes in contact<br />
with the public is a salesman and the impression<br />
he makes is an advertisement, good<br />
or bad."<br />
Review on 'Landlady'<br />
Is Reproduced in Ad<br />
A review of "The Notorious Landlady,"<br />
written by Bob Sublette in the New Orleans<br />
States Item, regarded in the trade as "remarkably<br />
well written," was reproduced in<br />
a 2-col, 8-inch ad by Asa Booksh, manager<br />
of the RKO Oi-pheum, for a third -week<br />
holdover. The review follows:<br />
COMEDY-MYSTERY<br />
HIT AT BOXOFFICE<br />
"While the sick pictures are catching the<br />
headlines, the comedies are catching the<br />
patrons. There is a real double whammy<br />
when you combine those time-honored ingredients<br />
of comedy and mystery, farce and<br />
chase, such as in 'The Notorious Landlady,'<br />
now at the RKO Orpheum Theatre.<br />
"As every good comedy-mystery fan<br />
knows, the only setting for such a fare is<br />
Merrie Ole England, and MeiTie Ole England<br />
it is in this London-based film produced<br />
by Fred Kohlmar and directed by<br />
Richard Quine.<br />
"With fall almost upon us, 'Notorious<br />
Landlady' belatedly offers some first-class<br />
light summer moide fare."<br />
Honor to Texas Showmen<br />
Interstate TTieatres singled out the following<br />
showmen for honorable mention in<br />
the circuit's Weekly Digest:<br />
Brad Bushing, manager of the Esquire<br />
Theatre in Amarillo, Tex., for his concession<br />
counter display on "Hatari!"<br />
Jack Brockettes, assistant at the Bowie<br />
in Brownwood, Tex., for his "terrific" backbar<br />
display on "The Interns."<br />
Mike Gilbert, Rialto at Harlingen, Tex.,<br />
flashy, classy false front on "Mermaids of<br />
Tiburon."<br />
Dick Dixon, Majestic at Eastland, Tex.,<br />
front on "Five Weeks in a Balloon."<br />
Weldon Wood, Grand at Paris, Tex.,<br />
fronts on "The Interns" and "Kid<br />
Galahad."<br />
Cheerful Refund Offered<br />
Bud Fike, manager of the Manos Theatre<br />
in Tarentum, Pa., advertised that he<br />
would cheerfully refund the admission price<br />
if patrons did not fully enjoy "The<br />
Interns."<br />
— 174 — BOXOFFICE Showmondiser : : Oct. 29, 1962
Vacationers Gone,<br />
But Drive-In Thrives<br />
Local promotion, aggressively conducted<br />
and imaginatively developed, can provide<br />
rewarding boxoffice performance, even in<br />
those situations where a lot of the boxoffice<br />
potential is reduced by the inevitable<br />
Fred Koontz III, manager of the Woterford (Conn.)<br />
Drive-In, stands beside one of the 20 hotrod cars<br />
which showed up for a contest held in behalf of a<br />
Speed-0-Rama.<br />
turning-home, so to speak, of the summer<br />
trade. Such a situation exists at Waterford,<br />
some 50 miles south of Hartford.<br />
Fred Koontz III, manager for Lockwood<br />
& Gordon Enterprises at the Waterford<br />
Drive-In, reports he was very much pleasantly<br />
surprised with audience response to<br />
a one-day booking of an AIP triple-feature<br />
"Speed-o-Rama" show, consisting of revivals,<br />
"Dragstrip Riot," "The Road<br />
Racers" and "Motorcycle Gang."<br />
Appropriately enough, he ran a Gala<br />
Rod and Custom Car exhibit, which drew<br />
attention to the event several weeks ahead<br />
of playdate with a large concession area<br />
display on rod and chrome engine parts<br />
plus promoted trophies for distribution for<br />
"best cars in show."<br />
Koontz had a "fabulous" turnout of some<br />
20 remodeled or customized cars, and attendance<br />
nearly hit capacity, no small<br />
trick in a region known for virtual disappearance<br />
of more than half of the customers<br />
once early fall days have been<br />
reached.<br />
Another fall innovation is Koontz' Movie<br />
Quiz, conducted by Koontz or an aide before<br />
showtime on specified evenings, preferably<br />
midweek when attendance lags.<br />
"I ask some pertinent questions about<br />
stars of Hollywood or overseas production<br />
centers, and then award a pass for a future<br />
Waterford show to the first correct answer<br />
to each question."<br />
This has proved to be a great time-killer<br />
in preopening moments.<br />
Koontz has found that talking to merchants<br />
aids immeasurably "in spreading<br />
the word" of theatre attractions. "These<br />
are the people who meet the bulk of our<br />
potential audience and once the word goes<br />
around, it's inevitable that some customers,<br />
at least, will be influenced to the<br />
point of wanting to get into their cars<br />
and drive over to see what we're playing."<br />
Shadowbox on Concession Backbar Is<br />
Screen for Color Slides on Hatarif<br />
The concession stand of the Princess<br />
Theatre at Toledo is located directly across<br />
the main lobby from the boxoffice, a circumstance<br />
which Lari-y Mallory, manager<br />
for Balaban & Katz, capitalized on for a<br />
35mm color slide promotion for "Hatari!"<br />
The backbar section of the concession<br />
counter includes a 40x60 iflat) shadowbox<br />
display. Mallory had this converted<br />
into a screen by the Gross camera shop,<br />
which also made up a number of 35mm<br />
color slides, at no cost to the theatre, from<br />
the regular National Screen Service colored<br />
8x10 stills available on "Hatari!"<br />
These slides were used in a projector<br />
which was placed on top of the boxoffice in<br />
the lobby, giving a continuous, automatic<br />
showing of "Hatari!" scenes.<br />
CAMERA SHOP PLUGS, TOO<br />
The camera shop included a few slides of<br />
its own in the setup.<br />
After the picture opened at the Princess,<br />
the projector, slides, screen, etc., were<br />
moved to the Gross shop window where<br />
they were shown evenings after dark.<br />
Tlie above was part of a campaign which<br />
earned the ratuig of "outstanding" by J. R.<br />
Wheeler, B&K district manager.<br />
The Willys Motor Co. plant, which makes<br />
the jeeps used in the film, is located in<br />
Toledo, a fortunate circumstance which<br />
Mallory made good use of. The plant management<br />
agreed to the posting of 70 large<br />
"Hatari!" displays in strategic spots<br />
thi-oughout the plant administration building,<br />
etc., plugging the film and the jeeps.<br />
Willys also supplied at no cost to the theatre<br />
special reduced-admission coupons,<br />
which were distributed by the payroll department<br />
in the pay envelopes of 8,000<br />
employes.<br />
Willys loaned to Mallory a special zebrastriped<br />
jeep, in which he visited, with<br />
proper signs, the zoo, playgrounds, swimming<br />
pools, ball parks—everywhere a crowd<br />
could be found—starting ten days in advance<br />
and during the mn.<br />
A LOBBY JUNGLE!<br />
The lobby was made up in jungle fashion<br />
with artificial leaves, palm trees, etc.,<br />
borrowed from a department store.<br />
Other promotions:<br />
A "Name the Monkey" tieup was made<br />
with radio station 'WTOL, whereby a small<br />
monkey was promoted gratis from a pet<br />
shop and was presented by the station to a<br />
local boy or girl who came up with the best<br />
name for the monkey. This was a two-week<br />
promotion with five gratis spots daUy.<br />
Children were asked to send their entries<br />
direct to station WTOL. The winner could<br />
either keep the monkey or present it on behalf<br />
of the child and "Hatari!" to the<br />
Toledo zoo.<br />
The second prize was a 60-pound stem of<br />
bananas for the children to take to the zoo<br />
and feed the animals.<br />
In order to carry out the "Hatari!" effect<br />
in front of the theatre, 'WTOL made<br />
up, at no cost to the theatre, a continuous<br />
sound-effect record. This was used on a<br />
tape recorder placed in the manager's of-<br />
BOXOFFICE Showmandiser Oct. 29, 1962 — 175 —<br />
A view of the shadowbox on backbar of the concession<br />
stand at the Princess Theatre in Toledo,<br />
which was converted into a screen for the continuous<br />
showing of color slide scenes from "Hatari!"<br />
fice with loudspeaker placed on the theatre<br />
canopy.<br />
Small "Hatari!" flip cards containing<br />
scenes from the film and numbered from 1<br />
to 10 were delivered by "Hatari!" jeep to<br />
playgrounds in the area and distributed to<br />
the kids with the announcement that anyone<br />
collecting a full set of ten would be<br />
given a pass to see the film. Needless to<br />
say, there was quite a scramble in each<br />
situation with the kids trading cards back<br />
and forth in an effort to come up with a<br />
full set.<br />
Cream of Pakistan<br />
Views 'Nuremberg'<br />
When "Judgment at Nuremberg" was<br />
screened at the Palace Theatre in Karachi,<br />
Pakistan, the audience was really top level.<br />
The cream of the nation's judiciary, representatives<br />
of the legal and newspaper professions<br />
and high civU and military officials<br />
from as fai- as Dacca in East Pakistan<br />
attended.<br />
And making this impressive gathering<br />
possible was Pakistan International Airlines,<br />
which brought the guests to Karachi<br />
three weeks before opening at the PIA expense.<br />
There was Askar Ali Shah, editor<br />
of the Kyber Mail, up on the famed Kyber<br />
Pass, plus correspondents of all important<br />
papers in the country. Each male guest<br />
received a beautiful cigaret lighter and<br />
compacts went to the ladies. In all, PIA<br />
spent Rs. 8,000, approximately $1,700.<br />
In return, PIA was allowed to display<br />
posters and other promotional material in<br />
the lobbies of the Palace and two other<br />
Husein & Co. theatres, the Nishat and<br />
Nigar, during the entire run of "Judgment<br />
at Nuremberg."<br />
Stories of the judiciary preview gathering<br />
appeared in English, Urdu and vernacular<br />
papers all over the nation.<br />
Clara Reruiebaum of the Hippodi-ome in<br />
Corbin, Ky., rented the theatre for a backto-school<br />
show to ten merchants.
NEW ENGLAND TEAM GIVES SUCCESS FORMULA<br />
Flexibility in Booking and Vigorous<br />
Promotion Assure Theatre Progress<br />
Flexibility in booking—willingness to<br />
play any type of film and vigorously promote<br />
it—is the secret of success in exhibition<br />
these days, according to Eddie Ruff<br />
and Melvin Safner, New England states<br />
rights distributors who have broad experience<br />
on both sides of the industry<br />
fence.<br />
Ruff is president of Eddie Ruff Associates<br />
and Safner is a pai'tner.<br />
Even controversial films should be played<br />
in all markets if solely out of the need to<br />
display democratic principles in action, they<br />
feel, and they point to the increasing use<br />
of foreign films as evidence of the value of<br />
variety on the screen,<br />
OFTEN GOOD BET<br />
"In these product-starved days, the exhibitor<br />
who doesn't book foreign film,<br />
either out of Ignorance or of fear, is overlooking<br />
a promising bet," says Safner. "We<br />
played product like 'La Dolce Vita' with<br />
subtitles at the Route 44 Drive -In (a situation<br />
in subui'ban Providence, R.I., which<br />
he formerly operated' and piled up tremendous<br />
grosses—this in spite of opposition<br />
argument that no one will pay admission<br />
to see subtitled films in a drivein!"<br />
Progress or no-progi-ess at the boxoffice<br />
is up to the individual showman, says Safner,<br />
who comes from an exhibition family.<br />
"Exhibition can progress spectacularly<br />
or lag pitifully behind other businesses<br />
simply out of apathy and disinterest," he<br />
says. "In the final analysis, it's up to each<br />
showman to decide his own, individual<br />
pattern."<br />
Safner points to showmanship efforts by<br />
New England Theatre owners and managers<br />
as proof of what can be done on the<br />
local level to bolster the boxoffice. His theatre<br />
experience started at the Lafayette in<br />
Central Palls, R.I., which was opened in<br />
1932 by his father, the late Maurice Safner.<br />
It w'as transferred recently to Bruce<br />
Netter.<br />
The 740-seat theatre, under the Safner<br />
father-and-son team, flourished for many<br />
years. "We looked to the theatre," relates<br />
Safner. "as something more, niuch more,<br />
than a real estate investment. We looked<br />
to the Lafayette—and our employes, too<br />
as an outlet of America's greatest entertainment:<br />
we kept the theatre in good condition,<br />
greeted our patrons with courtesy<br />
and booked product of which we could be<br />
proud. This combination spelled profit.<br />
It was that simple.<br />
"If you work at it, you can come out<br />
well, vei-y well in theatre operation. You've<br />
got to look through a pressbook with the<br />
basic intent of applying the ideas to your<br />
own local situation. The ads, too, must be<br />
shaped to the individual community. Too<br />
many exhibitors are prone to overlook the<br />
pressbook; it's still a wonderfully profitable<br />
theatre aide."<br />
Safner, until three and a half years ago,<br />
had ten theatres and drive-ins under his<br />
banner. His turn to foreign films at the<br />
Route 44 Drive-In is evidence of his willingness<br />
to try something different, and he<br />
showed to the regional industry, at least,<br />
that few complaints are really registered<br />
by drive-in patrons against subtitled<br />
pictures.<br />
He tried gimmicks of every description at<br />
the Route 44. Besides "La Dolce Vita," he<br />
showed "Diabolique," the subtitled French<br />
horror film, with success.<br />
Safner is a former vice-president and<br />
Eddie Ruff, former distributor, and Melvin Safner,<br />
former exiiibitor, who suggest flexibility in booking<br />
is an asset in theatre operation.<br />
treasurer of the Independent Exhibitors of<br />
New England.<br />
"The manager's image is important, too,"<br />
Safner believes. "Anyone can handle a<br />
marquee change, but it takes a fresh approach<br />
to handle boxoffice profits."<br />
Before the theati-e was sold to Lockwood<br />
& Gordon Enterprises, Safner interests had<br />
put the theatre very much in the black.<br />
"Courtesy is contagious," he told his<br />
staff.<br />
FORMER DISTRIBUTOR<br />
Eddie Ruff's affiliation with the industry<br />
goes back many years to the days when he<br />
managed the Paramount exchanges in<br />
Portland, Me., Albany, N. Y., New Haven,<br />
and Boston. He entered independent distribution<br />
ten years ago.<br />
"It takes an imaginative showman to sell<br />
anything," he comments. "No film has yet<br />
been made that can sell itself; the theatreman,<br />
of necessity, must get out and pitch."<br />
Independent exhibitors in particular<br />
should look to these Soaring Sixties as<br />
promising indeed, in the opinion of Ruff<br />
and Safner. Both men feel that failure is<br />
as likely as a success in theatre operation,<br />
but it takes an imaginative showman, a<br />
chap able to confront day-to-day situations<br />
with resourcefulness and not a little courage,<br />
to pull a failing theatre out of the red.<br />
"The wider use of overseas titles can<br />
help a showman tremendously only if he<br />
ascertains his individual market and realizes<br />
what can sell and what can't sell on<br />
the local level," Safner concludes.<br />
Don't Ignore a Stranger!<br />
A stranger at the Grand Theatre in<br />
Paris, Tex., made front page news, with<br />
mention of "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation,"<br />
due to the sharp eye of Manager Weldon<br />
Wood. An inquiry revealed that the<br />
stranger was A. J. Hobbs, 84, who never before<br />
had attended a movie. "I liked it. It<br />
was funny," he was quoted in the Paris<br />
News with a three-column photo.<br />
Style Show Weekly<br />
The Golf Mill Theatre in subui-ban<br />
Chicago had such heavy patronage at an<br />
experimental style show that it ai-ranged<br />
a series for presentation every Tuesday<br />
starting at 1 p.m. Stores in the Golf Mill<br />
Shopping Center put on the shows.<br />
Model Cherie Foster and strongman Pete Lupus, who was dressed like a warrior, passed out miniature<br />
swords and advertising cards announcing the opening of "Sword of the Conqueror" in the Los Angeles<br />
areo. They rode around in a flat-bed truck pictured above, which included a warrior seated on a horse,<br />
like Jack Palonce in the picture.<br />
Gordon Kay has set R. G. Springsteen to<br />
direct the Audie Murphy starrer. "The Iron<br />
Collar." for Universal.<br />
— 176 — BOXOFFICE Showmandiaer : : Oct.<br />
29. 1962
jra<br />
An Interpretive analysis of toy and tradepress reviews. Runnir>g time Is<br />
plus ond minus signs Indicate degree ot merit. Listings cover current review<br />
This department also serves as on ALPHABETICAL INDEX to teoture releoscs. ci Is for<br />
Cinemascope; V VistoVision; s Superscope; ip Ponovision R, Regolscopc; t Techniramo.<br />
Symbol t.} denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award; O color photography. For listing] by<br />
company in the order ot release, see FEATURE CHART.<br />
Review digest<br />
AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX<br />
^ Very Good; + Good; — Foir; — Poor; — Very Poor. In the summary t^ is rated 2 pluses. — os 2 minuses.<br />
o
REVIEW DIGEST<br />
AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX In the summary H is rated 2 pluses, — as 2 minuses. H Very Good; + Good; - Fair; — Poor; = Very Poor.<br />
1
feature productions by company in order of release. Running time<br />
^V VistaVision; P Panovision; t Techniromo; S Other onamorphi<<br />
Blue Ribbon Aword; O Color Photography. Letters and combinoti.<br />
key on next page). For review dates and Picture Guide poge number;<br />
porentheses. c^^ is for CinemoScope;<br />
Symbol .. denotes BOXOFFICE<br />
thereof indicate story type—<br />
i Complete Feature<br />
ee REVIEW DIGEST.<br />
chart<br />
ALLIED<br />
ARTISTS<br />
AMERICAN INTl | si<br />
Hitler (107) Bi<br />
liichard I!:iiieh!U-t, Cordula<br />
Trantow, Maria Emo<br />
Hands of a Stranger (SS'/z) D..6204<br />
I'aul Ijjkather, Joan Harvey.<br />
Jas. Slaplcton, Irish McCalla<br />
Rider on a Dead Horse<br />
(72) 0D..6212<br />
John Vlvyan, Lisa Lu, Bruce<br />
GoiJon, Kevin Hacen<br />
Reprieve (106) D..6205<br />
(See "Cunvicts 4" in October<br />
iisii"ei<br />
The Bridoe (104) D. .6207<br />
(Eng-dubbed) Volker Bohnet<br />
Csntessions of an Opium<br />
Eater (85) D..6206<br />
Vincent Price. Unda Ho<br />
Payroll (SO) Ac. 6210<br />
Michael Craig. Prevost<br />
Francoise<br />
The Frijhtened City (97) D..62U<br />
Herbert Lom. Jotm Gregson,<br />
Yvonne Romain<br />
©El Cid (181) © D. .6220<br />
(?harlton Ileston. L-oren.<br />
Sophia<br />
Kaf Vallone<br />
((^emaScope version, available for<br />
special engagements)<br />
Convicts 4 (106) D..6205<br />
(was Reprieve")<br />
Gazzara. Stuart Ben Whitman, Ray<br />
Walston, Vincent Price, Rod<br />
Steiger, Sammy Davis jr.<br />
Billy Budd (123) © D..6:<br />
Robert Kyan. Peter Ustinov,<br />
Melv}!! Douglas. Terence Stamp<br />
©Day of the Triffids<br />
(119) © Ho.. 6209<br />
Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey,<br />
MenyTi Johns<br />
©Travels of Marco Polo (..)..D.<br />
.\nthony Quinn, France Nuyen
FEATURE CHART<br />
key<br />
Tio;<br />
to<br />
(An)<br />
letters<br />
Animated-Action;<br />
and combinations<br />
(C)<br />
thereof<br />
Comedy;<br />
indicating<br />
(CD) Comedy-Dromo;<br />
story type: (Ad)<br />
(Cr)<br />
Adventuri<br />
Crime<br />
Music; (DocI Oocumentory; (Dr) Dromo; (F) Fantasy; (Ho) Horror Drama; (Hi) Historii<br />
) Mystery; (OD) Outdoor Drama (S) Spectacle; (SF) Science-Fiction; (W) Western.<br />
(Ac) Action<br />
;<br />
(DM) Drama<br />
i; (M) Musical;<br />
EMBASSY ^ So
Ad.<br />
.Jean<br />
.Marie<br />
. D.<br />
Sep<br />
1 F.ilis I . - Irene<br />
.Kurt<br />
I<br />
©Son<br />
-Lludmila<br />
- Vaslli<br />
. D.<br />
Mar<br />
FEATURE<br />
CHART<br />
UNIVERSAL-INT'L<br />
0Lover Come Back (107)- C -6205<br />
Itock Hudson, I>orls l>ay,<br />
Tuny Kandall, Edie Aduus<br />
Desert Patrol (78) Ac. 6206<br />
Michael Cridg. John Gregson,<br />
Klchard Altehliorotigh<br />
The Outsider (108) D..6207<br />
'I'ony Dirtls. Bruce Bennett,<br />
James Kranclscus<br />
Nearly a Nasty Accident<br />
(86) C. .6208<br />
Jimmy Edivards. Shirley Eaton,<br />
Kenneth Connor<br />
WARNER BROS.<br />
The Couch (89) D..160<br />
Shirley luilght, H'llllams<br />
(iraJil<br />
Malaga (96) Ad.. 161<br />
Irevor llonard, Dorothy Dandrldge,<br />
Edmund I'urdom<br />
Cape Fear (106) D..6209 House of Women (85) D..163<br />
Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan<br />
The Day the Earth Caught<br />
Fire (91) D..6210<br />
Janet Munro, Leo McKern<br />
©Six Black Horses (80) . .W. .6214<br />
Audie Murphy. Dan Duryea.<br />
Joan OBrlen<br />
Lonely Are the Brave (107)<br />
(^ 00- .6215<br />
Ktrk Itouglas, Gena Rowlands,<br />
Walter llatthau<br />
©That Touch ot Mink<br />
©Merrill's Marauders<br />
(99) ® C..6216 (98) © D..165<br />
Cao' Grant, Doris Day. Jeff Chandler. Ty Hardin<br />
(31g<br />
Young, Audrey Meadows<br />
Information Received (77)<br />
yOThe Music Man (151) ® M. .168<br />
Itoberi Preston, Shirley Jones<br />
D..6217<br />
(Special engagements only)<br />
Bablna Sesselman, Wm. Sylvester<br />
©The Spiral Road (140)<br />
Rock Hudson. Burl Ives,<br />
Gena Rowlands<br />
ONo Man Is an Island<br />
(114) D..6220<br />
Jeffrey Hunter, Marshall Thompson,<br />
Barbara Perez<br />
Guns of Darkness (103) .<br />
Leslie (iron, l>avld Nlven<br />
.169<br />
©The Phantom of the Opera ©The Story of the Count of<br />
(84) Ho. 6219 Monte Cristo (101) (f).. Ad.. 167<br />
Herbert Lom, Heather Sears,<br />
Louis Jourdao, Yvonne Furoeaui<br />
Michael Gougb, Bdw. de Souza<br />
©If a Man Answers (102). .C.<br />
S,indra Dec, Bobby Darhi,<br />
Micheline Presle, John Lund<br />
Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock<br />
(72) W..6222<br />
Warren Stevens, Martin Landau,<br />
Jody Lawrance, Judy Dan<br />
To Kill a Mockingbird (..) ...<br />
Gregory Peek, Mary Badbam<br />
©Lancelot and Guinevere<br />
(..) fp)<br />
Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace<br />
What Ever Happened to Baby<br />
Jane? (..) D<br />
Joan Oawford, Bette Davis<br />
©Gay Purr-ec (85) An- -253<br />
Voices of Judy Robert<br />
Garland,<br />
Goulet, Red Buttons, Hermione<br />
Gingold<br />
©Gypsy (149) ® M..254<br />
Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood,<br />
Karl<br />
Maiden<br />
©Not on Your Life! (..) ®..C.<br />
Robert Preston, Tony Randall<br />
BOXOFFICE BookinGuide Oct. 29. 1962<br />
A.D.P. PRODUCTIONS<br />
Invasion of the Animal<br />
People (55) SF..<br />
JmIui Carradine, Wilson<br />
Barbara<br />
error of the Bloodhunters<br />
(60) Ho..<br />
Kiiljerl Clarke, Steve Conte<br />
ASTOR<br />
Victim (100) D..Feb62<br />
Dirk IJugarde, Sylvia Syms<br />
Whistle Down the Wind<br />
BRIGADIER FILM ASSOCIATES<br />
The Night They Killed Rasputin<br />
(87) D. .Jul 62<br />
Edmund Purdom, Gianna Maria<br />
Canale<br />
The Tell-Tale Heart (78) Ho. .Sep 62<br />
Lawrence Payne, Adrlenne Corrl<br />
Smashing of the<br />
Reicli (84) Doc. .Oct 62<br />
Kamikaze! (89) Doc. Oct 62<br />
COLORAMA<br />
©ihe Trojan Horse<br />
(105) © D.. Jul 62<br />
Steve Reeves, John Drew Bammore<br />
CROWN-INTERNATIONAL<br />
Blood Lust (68) D.. Jan 62<br />
Wilton Graff, Lylyan Chauvln<br />
The Devil's Hand (71) D. .Jan 62<br />
Linda Christ iajl, Robert Alda<br />
The 7th Commandment<br />
(85) D. .Feb 62<br />
Jonntlian Kldd, Lyn Statten<br />
Secret File Hollywood<br />
(82) D.. Feb 62<br />
Robert Clarke. Frandne York<br />
©Dangerous Charter<br />
(76) ® D.. Sep 62<br />
Clirls Warfleld, Sally Fraser<br />
Stakeout (81) D. .Oct 62<br />
Blng Russell, BUI Hale<br />
Varan the Unbelievable<br />
(70) D. .Oct 62<br />
..lyron Healy, Tsuruko Kobayashl<br />
First Spaceship on Venus<br />
(81) D.. Oct 62<br />
Yoko Tanl, Oldrtck Lukes<br />
MISCELLANEOUS<br />
DESILU<br />
The Scarface Mob (106) . D.<br />
liiibcrt Stack, Kcenan Wynn<br />
ELLIS<br />
Make Mine a Double (86) C. Feb 62<br />
Brian RLv, Cecil Parker<br />
FAIRWAY INT'L<br />
The Choppers (64) D. Feb 62<br />
.Vrch Hall jr.. Marianne Gaba<br />
©Ecgah (90) Ad.. May 62<br />
Bloody Brood (69) . .<br />
.<br />
I<br />
.<br />
3 Rome Adventure (118) D .<br />
(98) D. .Mar 62 Aicli Hall jr., Marilyn .Maruilng<br />
. 162<br />
Fallguy (64) D.. May 62 R. Lowery, M. .Miller. J. Ellison<br />
llayley Mill-s, Bernard l^-e<br />
Troy Donahue, Angle Dickinson,<br />
.Marshall 'lliomiisun. Gaby A.idre<br />
Peeping Tom (86) D.. May 62 Ed Dugiin<br />
Trauma (92) 0.. May 62<br />
Kossano Brazzl, Suzanne Plesbette<br />
Wild Guitar (.) M-.<br />
Karl DiK-lun, .Mulra Shearer<br />
L.MUi Barl, John Conte<br />
The intruder (83) D.. May 62<br />
William Rhatner. Maiuell<br />
Frank<br />
Airh Hall<br />
FANFARE<br />
jr.. Nancy<br />
FILMS<br />
©Make Way for<br />
(90)<br />
Lila<br />
Czar<br />
D. .Jun 62<br />
Night of Evil (88) D. .Aug 62<br />
The Concrete Jungle<br />
Erlka UeraherB (Eng-diihhed)<br />
Lisa Uaye, William Campbell<br />
The<br />
(86) D.. Jun 62 ©East of Kilimanjaro (75)<br />
D . 62<br />
S^•ulk•y Baker, Sam Wanamaker Vistarama<br />
Ad. .Jul-62<br />
I'eler Falk. Barbara Lord<br />
GOVERNOR<br />
©Doctor in Love (87) .<br />
PARALLEL<br />
Shootout at<br />
FILM<br />
Big Sag<br />
DISTRIBUTORS<br />
The Outcry (. .) D. .Oct 62<br />
.0. Apr 62<br />
SIi\t-- (''M-hran, Betsy Blair,<br />
(64) W. Jun 62<br />
Michael Craig. Virginia Maskell,<br />
Valli<br />
.\]id:i<br />
ATLANTIC PICTURES<br />
James Robertson Justice<br />
Walter Brennan. Luana Patten<br />
Carry On, Teacher (86) . C. .Jul 62<br />
.<br />
©Samar (89) Ad . . 164<br />
.Jun 62<br />
Cry Double Cross (65)<br />
Hardy Kruger, Martin Held<br />
George Montgomery, Gilbert Itoland,<br />
PLAYSTAR PRODUCTIONS<br />
Keraii'tli Connor, Leslie Phillips,<br />
Juan Sinl^. llattie Jacques<br />
Ring o( Terror (71) Ho- .<br />
©Flame in the Streets<br />
George Matlrer, Esther Furst<br />
(93) © D. .Sep 62 HERTS-LION INT'L<br />
John .M.lls, Sylvia Syms<br />
A Matter of WHO (90) CD.. Aug 62 PRODUCERS INT'L (PIP)<br />
AUDUBON FILMS<br />
Terry-Thomas, Sonja Zlemann ©The Centurion (77) S. .<br />
62 Julin Ba rymore. Jacques Sernas<br />
Zlia Rodann, Juan Ultrlen<br />
. . Carnival of Souls (91) D .Sep<br />
Snit on Grave<br />
Your<br />
Huns (85) ©The S. .<br />
Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist<br />
(100) D. .Sep 62<br />
Clielo Alnnso, Jacques Sernas<br />
The Devil's Messenger<br />
C'jii i,t an Maniuand<br />
SEVEN ARTS ASSOCIATED<br />
(72) F.. Sep 62<br />
Lon Chaney, Kadler<br />
Karen ©Girls at Sea (81) C.<br />
©Daughter of the Sun God<br />
Guv lliiifp, lionald Shiner<br />
(75) Ad. .Oct 62 ©She Didn't Say No! (96).. C.<br />
ARGENTINA<br />
©The Chapman Report (125) D..251 Summerskin (96)<br />
Bfrem Zimballst jr., Shelley Winters,<br />
. (Angel) .Alfredo Alcon<br />
Jane Fonda, (Halre Bloom, Glynls<br />
Johns<br />
FRANCE<br />
Back Streets of Paris (94) 6-18-62<br />
(President) . .SImone Signoret<br />
©End of Desire (86) 8-13-62<br />
(Confl) ..Maria Schell<br />
Five Sinners (SO) 8- 6-62<br />
(Astor) . .Marina Petrowa<br />
Girl With the Golden Eyes,<br />
The (90) 9- 3-62<br />
(KiiiRslev) I-aforet<br />
Jules and Jim (105) 6-11-62<br />
(Janus) -Jeanne Moreau, Oskar<br />
Werner<br />
Belle La Americaine (100) 1-22-62<br />
(Confl) . .R. Dbery, C. Brosset<br />
Last Year at Maricnbad<br />
(98) 4-16-62<br />
(Astor) . .Delphlne Seyrlg, Giorgio<br />
Albertazzi, Sacha Pltoeft<br />
Le Dab Se Rebiffe (96) . . 8-13-62<br />
(Times) . .Jean Gabin<br />
Magnificent Tramp, The<br />
(76) 7-16-62<br />
((?ameo)<br />
. .Jean Oahin, Darry Cowl<br />
Maiden, The (90) 5-21-62<br />
(Green-Rolh) . .Claudlne Dupuls<br />
Rififi for Girls (97) . . 6-11-62<br />
(Confl) -Nadja Tiller, R. Hosseta<br />
Shoot the Piano Player (92) 9- 3-62<br />
(.\-stor) . Charles .\znavour<br />
Sweet Ecstasy (75) © 8-13-62<br />
(Audubon) . .Elke Sommer<br />
Testament of Orpheus (79) 6- 4-62<br />
(F-A-W) . Coctcau autobiography<br />
Lisa Montell. Bill Holmes<br />
Escape to Berlin (SO) D.. Oct 62<br />
Oiristian liijerraer. Suzanne Korda<br />
JOSEPH BRENNER ASSOCIATES<br />
Karate (SO) Ad..<br />
.Iiiil 11. lit. Frank Blaine<br />
KINGSLEY<br />
Only Two Can Play (106) C. . Mar 62<br />
Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling<br />
.<br />
LOPERT FILMS<br />
The Big Money (89) C.<br />
Ian Carmlchael, Belinda Lee<br />
Mar 62<br />
Crooked<br />
There Was a<br />
Man (106) C. Jun 62<br />
Norm.in Wisdom. Marks<br />
Alfred<br />
The Horror Chamber of Dr.<br />
Faustus (95) Ho- Jul 62<br />
Pierre Brasseur, Allda Valll<br />
The Manster— Half Man, Half<br />
Monster (72) Ho.. Jul 62<br />
Peter [tjneley, Jane Hylton<br />
©Stowaway in the Sky<br />
(82) Ad. Jul 62<br />
Pascal Lamorlsse, Andre Gllle<br />
MAGNA FILMS<br />
©Black Tights (120) ® M..<br />
Cyd Charisse. Zizl Jeanmaire<br />
MEDALLION<br />
©Last of the Vikings (102)<br />
® Ad.. May 62<br />
(imeron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom<br />
FOREIGN<br />
LANGUAGE<br />
Tomorrow Is My Turn (117) 4- 9-62<br />
. (Showcorp) .Charles Aznavour<br />
Zazie (86) 4- 30-62<br />
. (Astor) .Catherine Demongeot<br />
Tales of Paris<br />
(Times)—F.<br />
(85)<br />
Arnoul, C.<br />
10-15-62<br />
Marquand<br />
GERMANY<br />
©Arms and the Man (96) 3-26-62<br />
(Casino). 0. W Fischef, Lib<br />
Piilver<br />
Beginning Was Sin, The (88) 9- 3-62<br />
(Globe) . .Ruth Nlehaus, Viktor<br />
Staal<br />
Woneck (81) 4-23-62<br />
(Brandon) Melsel<br />
GREECE<br />
Antigone (88) 10-15-62<br />
Pap.^s<br />
Take Me Away. My Love<br />
(90) 9- 3-62<br />
(Greek .M. P.) . .Christian Sylba<br />
ITALY<br />
Bell' Antonio (101) 5-21-62<br />
(Embassy) .Marcello Ma£trx)ianni,<br />
Claudia Cardinale, P. Brasseur<br />
©Boccaccio '70 (165) 7-16-62<br />
(Embassy) . -Sophia Loren, Anita<br />
Ekberg, Komy Schneider<br />
Divorce Italian Style<br />
(104) 10- 1-62<br />
(Embassy) Marcello MastrolannI<br />
.<br />
Udy Doctor, The (103) 10- 1-62<br />
(Governor) .Toto, Abbe Lane<br />
©La<br />
.<br />
Viaccia (103) 10-22-62<br />
(Emba-ssy) . .Jean-Paul Belnrondo,<br />
Claudia Cardin.ale<br />
Night. The (La Notte)<br />
(120) 3-19-62<br />
(Lopert) . .Jeanne Moreau. Marcellc<br />
.MastrolannI. Monica VlttI<br />
of Samson (90) S.<br />
.Mark Foicst. Chclo Ak<br />
MPA FEATURE FILMS<br />
St. Bourbon Shadows<br />
(70) D. -Sep 62<br />
Kicliaril lierr, .Mark Daniels<br />
PARADE RELEASING ORG.<br />
A Public Affair (75) . . 62<br />
.Myron .MeCorniick, Edw. Blnns<br />
©When the Girls Take Over<br />
(80) C. -May 62<br />
Eileen llerlie, Perlita Nellson<br />
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Wild for Kicks (92). D Jan 62<br />
David Farrar, Noelle Adam<br />
Frantic (81) .Mar 62<br />
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James Robertson Justice, Leslie<br />
Phillips<br />
Two and Two Make Six (89).. C.<br />
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UNITED PRODUCERS (UPRO)<br />
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©Flight of the Lost Balloon<br />
(D (91) Ad.. Oct 61<br />
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Happiness of Us Alone<br />
(133) 9-3-62<br />
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(Zenith) . Nobuko Otowa<br />
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Pinal, Fernando l!ey<br />
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Through a Glass Darkly<br />
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122 Donald and the Wheel<br />
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119 Saga of Windwagon<br />
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Islands the Sea Nov 105 of {2S) 61<br />
127 Bear Country (33).<br />
'eissue Apr 62<br />
131 Water Birds (31), reissue Sep 62<br />
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17101 Donalds Lucky Day.. Jan 62<br />
17102 Donald's Cousin Gus..Feb62<br />
17103 Fire Chief Mar 62<br />
17104 Early to Bed Apr 62<br />
17105 Canine Caddy May 62<br />
17106 Sprinotime for Pluto Jun 62<br />
17107 Don Watch Jul 62<br />
17108 The Art of Skiing Aug 62<br />
17109 How to Play Baseball Sep 62<br />
17110 Mickey's Delayed Date Oct 62<br />
17111 Chicken Little Nov 62<br />
17112 Two Chips and a Miss Dec 62<br />
SINGLE REEL CARTOONS<br />
125Aquamania (9) Jan 62<br />
COLUMBIA<br />
ASSORTED & COMEDY FAVORITES<br />
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6423 Flung by a Fling (16).. Dec 61<br />
6424 The Gink at the<br />
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6434 The Fire Chaser (16) Mar 62<br />
6435 Marinated Manner<br />
liS)<br />
, Mar 62<br />
6425 Let Down Your<br />
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6426 Clunked in the<br />
Clink (16) May 62<br />
6436 Microsuook (16) Jun 62<br />
7421 Sijies and Guys (I6I/2) Sep 62<br />
7431 Strop, Look and Listen<br />
(15'/2) Oct 62<br />
CANDID MICROPHONE<br />
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6553 No. 3, Series 3 (lOi/j) . .Jan 62<br />
6554 No. 4, Series 3 (11).. Apr 62<br />
6555 No. 5, Series 3<br />
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THE STORY:<br />
"The Manchurian Candidate" (UA)<br />
Members of a U.S. squad in the Korean War are captured<br />
by the Communists and brainwashed and made to<br />
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saved the entire squad. He is to become the recipient of the ,°'' r'<br />
Congressional Medal of Honor. When restored to civilian<br />
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unsuspectingly becomes the subconscious puppet of a Communist<br />
plot to gain control of the U.S. government through<br />
the outside contact, who turns out to be Harvey's mother<br />
(Angela Lansbury) and her politically minded husband<br />
(James Gregory). But during the ensuing period, other members<br />
of the squad (Frank Sinatra and James Edwards) ore<br />
being plagued by recurring nightmares of the earlier<br />
incident. As Sinatra sets out to put the pieces together he<br />
meets and becomes romantically involved with Janet Leigh.<br />
As the Communist plot is about to become a reality, Sinatra<br />
manages to figure out the puzzle and reaches Harvey in<br />
time to prevent him from assassinating the assigned political<br />
target. Harvey, now knowing the full story, shoots his mother<br />
and stepfather at a political rally before taking his own life.<br />
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