Boxoffice-December.17.1962

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JJdwin Howard, the Press-Scimitar amusements
editor, writing from New York,
said producer Joe Pasternak told him he
wanted to do a film on the all -girl Memphis
radio station. WHER. But, said Pasternak,
he had not been able to get the film rights
for such a feature. Dotty Abbott, general
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manager of WHER, came forward and said
she could fix that right awa.v. Her letter
has been forwarded to Pasternak.
Jerry Berger, 20th Century-Fox field exploitation
man from St. Louis, was in town
in the interest of his company's "The
Ijongest Day" . closings: Starlite,
Gassville. Ark., December 2: Ozark,
Harrison, Ark., owned by Bill Coker, November
18, and Monticello at Monticello,
Ark., owned by Jack Ryburn.
Peggy Hogan, Exhibitor Services, was
chairman of the WOMPI Christmas party,
assisted by Berry Joy Murphree of Allied
Artists as cochairman. The party was held
December 14 at the Variety Club for
WOMPI members, husbands and escorts.
Elvis Presley, home for the Christmas holidays,
has spent considerable time in the
dentist's chair but has found time to lease
the Memphian Theatre twice for private
showings of films for a large gi-oup of
friends. "It's Only Money," "Doctor No"
and "Two for the Seesaw" were the features
shown at the private screenings.
Visitors on Filmrow included: T. E. Lloyd,
8 Drive-In, Houston, Miss.: Quenton Green,
booker for Martin Theatres of Georgia,
from Atlanta; Louise Mask, Luez, Bolivar;
Whyte Bedford, Ford Drive-In, Hamilton,
Ala., and these Arkansas exhibitors: Mrs.
J. C. Howe, Sunset Drive-In, Hot Springs;
W. H. Pickens, Lyle, Carlysle; Alvin Tipton,
Tipton theatres at Caraway, Manila and
Monette; William Elias, Murr, Osceola;
Mrs. Ann Hutchings, State, Coming, and
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Braunagle, Jay-D-Bee
Amusements Co., North Little Rock.
Also here from Ai'kansas were Walter R.
Lee. Gem, Heber Springs, and Rice at Des
Arc; J. K. Jameson, Ken, McCrory; T. T.
Ray, who operates the Yell Theatre, Yellville.
Calico at Calico Rock and Melbourne
at Melbourne and lives at Mountain Home,
and Orris Collins, Capitol, Paragould.
Loew's to Build Theatre
In Washington Suburb
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Loew's Theatres has received
a green light to build a new theatre
in Springfield, Va., a suburb of Washington,
DC. Judge Edmund L. Palmieri of the
U.S. district court here granted approval of
a petition to erect the theatre, under the
provisions of the consent decrees.
The new theatre will be known as Loew's
Springfield and will be built in the Towers
Plaza Shopping Center on Shirley Highway
and Edsel Road. It will be an 800-seat
stadium type theatre, with all modern
equipment, along with substantial parking
facilities, according to Arthur M. Tolchin,
assistant to the president of Loew's. The
house will be ready for operation early next
year.
Tolchin said that in keeping with Loew's
growth program, the company was working
continuously to find new theatre locations
throughout the country.
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn play the
leading roles in Universal's "Charade."
Engineers See 'Grimm/
Hear Technical Papers
Frum Western Edition
LOS ANGELES—A screening of "The
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"
and technical reports on the Cinerama process
were featured at the SMPTE meeting at
the Stanley Warner Theatre in Hollywood.
Walter Beyer of U-I was chairman of the
meeting.
Talks by Tom Conroy on the potential
scope of Cinerama, George Pal on its storytelling
impact for features, Paul Vogel on
the problems of photography, and Robert
Hoag of MGM's special photographic department
on the traveling matte photography
and the effects in "Grimm." preceded
the screening.
Members of SPIE, SPSE, ASC, and the
Optical Society attended the closed meeting.
Arrangements for these screenings were
made by Beyer and Max Youngstein.
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