Boxoffice-December.17.1962

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King Winter Kayos
Cincy Attendance
CINCINNATI—Kins Winter received
top billing during the week with pre-
Christmas shopping as a close contender.
Movies in first-run houses experienced one
of the biggest drops in attendance in a
long time.
(Average Is 100)
Albec—Gay Purr-ce (WB) 80
Capitol—The Wonderful World of the Brothers
Grimm (MGM-Cinerama). 18th wk 75
Esquire Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Cont'l), reissue .... 75
Grand The Longest Day (20th-Fox), 6th wk. ..110
Guild—Jules and Jim (Janus), 2nd wk 75
Hyde Park Shoot the Piono Player (Astor) 75
Keith—On the Beach (UA), reissue 75
Palace Swordsman of Siena (MGM); Damon and
Pythias (MGM) 90
Twin Drive-ln What Ever Happened to Boby
Jone? (WB), subrun 85
Valley Requiem for a Heovyweight (Col) 80
One-Two From Weatherman
Pulls Detroit Levels Down
DETROIT—Weekend business was hurt
by several days of unusually fine warm
weather which drew people for a last few
hours outdoors before the snowstorm that
hit at the end of the week and kept them
close to TV. Downtown houses generally
reported fairly steady but mediocre grosses,
with the honors easily going to the outlying
Mercury with the sixth week of "The
Longest Day."
Adams Period of Adjustment (MGM), 3rd wk 50
Fox— Constantine and the Cross (Embassy); The
Bashful Elephant (AA), 2nd wk 85
Grand Circus Fancy Pants (Para); That Certain
Feeling (Para), reissues 100
Madison—Girls! Girls! Girls! (Para), 2nd wk 100
MerCLiry—The Longest Day (20th-Fox), 6th wk. ..160
Michigan The Monchurian Candidate (UA)
3rd wk 115
Polms What Ever Happened to Baby
Jane? (WB); The Story ot the Count of Monte
Cristo (WB), 4th wk 110
Trans-Lux Knm No Morals (Mishkin) 95
Paul Danesh Is Assigned
Largest Martin Theatre
BOWLING GREEN. KY.—Paul Danesh,
who has been managing the State Theatre
here for Martin Theatres, has been transferred
to Nashville to take charge of the
circuit's largest house, the Tennessee.
Danesh, who is a native of Iran, has been
succeeded here by his brother Don, who
also has been employed at the State Theatre
while attending Western State College.
De Luxe Sloan Theatre
For Southfield, Mich.
SOUTHFIELD, MICH.—A theatre costing
"several hundred thousand dollars"
will be built here by Eugene Sloan, a member
of a longtime theatre-owning family of
Detroit. As yet unnamed, the theatre will
be the first new motion picture theatre for
south Oakland County in 21 years.
The city council has granted Sloan a
building permit, following a hearing at
which the exhibitor appeared to work out
details connected with issuance of the permit.
Construction is expected to take six
months.
The theatre, which will seat 1,500, is to
be part of a development complex between
Joseph L. Hudson Drive and Nine-Mile,
north of the Northland Shopping Center
and west of Greenfield.
The last theatre built in the area was the
Main Theatre, which was opened in 1941.
It is north of Eleven-Mile and Main in
Royal Oak.
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