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If everyone looks happy while John Wayne as McLintock is giving his wife Katherine (Maureen 

O'Hara) a long-deserved spanking, it is because they thought she had it coming. The scene 

is from "McLintock!" United Artists release which was voted the December BOXOFFICE Blue 

Ribbon Award as the most outstanding that was also family entertainment . 

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1964 

No. 12 

BANNER YEAR IN 

RECORD GROSSES during ChrLstmas 

^ week and for the two weeks following 

have created an air of the highest 

optimism this industry has seen in many 

a day. And, what is more, there are numerous 

signs of still further encouragement, 

leading to a strong belief that this 

business resurgence indicates a renaissance 

of the motion picture is under way. 

Good pictures — and not necessarily 

"big" ones—are, basically, the cause for 

this feeling of jubilation. All the current 

hits, apparently, have been made with entertainment 

as their principal objective, 

encompassing the gamut from comedy of 

the slapstick variety to serious drama. 

This has caused people, again, to talk 

enthusiastically about motion pictures 

and to spread the word-of-mouth praise 

of what they have just seen to their 

friends. 

We have heard this from so many and 

has engendered an 

to the confidence we always 

varied sources that it 

added fillip 

have had for the superiority of our motion 

pictures over any other medium of 

entertainment. The enthusiasms with 

which the public seems now to be viewing 

films are a far cry from what, not too 

long ago, was derision. 

However, some other things—some of 

which we had previously commented on 

in these pages to the trade—are being 

voiced by the ticket-buyers, many of 

whom were among "the lost audience." 

Among these "other things," was the 

most-often expressed complaint about distribution 

and/or exhibition policies that 

are denying these individuals (who can 

be multiplied into the thousands) the opportunity 

of seeing many of the fine pictures 

among the current releases. Even 

though some have been playing for three 

weeks running, there just isn't the available 

time to catch them all; and, then, 

there is the fast playoff in umpteen theatres 

at one shot—and they are gone. 

One of the complainants on this score 

was a banker who said that he and his 

wife were great movie fans and were 

highly pleased that so many good pictures 

were currently being shown. But 

they couldn't see them all. "We used to 

be able to catch a picture we missed when 

it played a drive-in, later. But we can't 

do even that any more, since the drive-ins 

are playing them all at the same time." 

Reverting to our opening thesis of 

THE MAKING 

sighting signs of encouragement and renewed 

confidence, we point to the already 

announced and long list of coming attractions—and 

we do not use that term 

loosely—that are in the immediate offing 

and which are lined up through 1964 and 

well beyond. It would be ever so much 

better, if these strong attractions were 

not bunched up together, but would be 

judiciously spaced. That would keep up 

the momentum and further build up the 

public enthusiasm for moviegoing. Too, 

it would eliminate the stretches of halfempty 

houses that but dampen the ardor 

of what the good attractions generate. 

Maybe some of this will be overcome 

by the new technological developments 

that recently have come to the fore, and 

others that are in the offing. Much progress 

has been made in the past two or 

three years in improving the physical 

attractiveness of theatre structures, in 

comfort, in sight and sound and in convenience 

for attendance, such as parking 

facilities. This is all to the good, not only 

in individual instances but for the industry 

as a whole. This has been proved 

by the fact that, even though there were 

some lapses in the quality of product during 

1962 and 1963, there was a rise in exhibition 

income. So, with the product outlook 

so very much improved for the ensuing 

year, the betterment foreseen, both 

in gross income and attendance, should 

set a new record in 1964. 

It won't be all milk and honey, to be 

sure. But the sound of the upbeat talk, 

not only from patrons but from within 

the industry, itself, is going to make it 

much more so than would otherwise be 

the case. There are many evidences of a 

greater interest among exhibitors and 

distributors in talking UP what they've 

got to sell; and stars, producers and directors 

traveling hither and yon to give 

so much backing through personal appearances 

and via radio and television 

plugs at the point-of-sale. This has been 

highly effective and indications are that 

this effort will be steadily increased. 

Yes, good product, coupled with good 

and enthusiastic showmanship — the 

basic ingredients for success in this business—bring 

out the best in all of us, all 

along the line! 

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JOE LEVINE ADDRESSES NEW YORK SHOWMEN—More than 250 exhibitors 

attended the first conclave of Joseph E. Levine's "Zulu Showmanship Caravan" 

recently held in New York. Levine, at lectern, is shown above addressing the showmen. 

Also on the dais, left to right: Robert R. Weston, Embassy vice-president in 

charge of world advertising, publicity and exploitation; Carl Peppercorn, Embassy 

vice-president and general sales manager; Martin Davis, Paramount advertisingpublicity 

vice-president; Leonard Lightstone, Embassy executive vice-president; 

James Perkins, Paramount International president, and George Richardson, Paramount 

Pictures treasurer. 

Chet Friedman Succeeds 

Roger Ferri at NSS 

NEW YORK—Roger Ferri has resigned 

as director of advertising and publicity for 

National Screen Service 

and has been succeeded 

by Chester W. 

Ferri 

Friedman. 

joined National 

Screen last Januai-y 

and was appointed 

advertising and publicity 

director in May. 

Friedman started 

in the business as an 

usher in the Paramount 

Theatre in 

New York and then 

Chester Friedman 

held managerial 

posts with Paramount Publix in Des 

Moines, Omaha and Houston, subsequently 

holding executive posts with the RKO, 

Saenger, Schine and Interboro circuits. In 

1943, he became Round Table editor for 

the Motion Picture Herald and editor of the 

Showmandiser section of Boxoffice in 1947. 

He joined MGM Pictures of Canada in 

Rock Hudson First Star for Oscarcast 

HOLLYWOOD—Rock Hudson has become 

the first star named to the cast of 

the 36th annual Academy of Motion Pictures 

Arts and Sciences Oscar presentation 

ceremonies, to be held April 13 from 

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, according 

to producer George Sidney. Jack Lcmmon 

will be master of ceremonies for the 

show, which will be carried over the combined 

radio and television facilities of ABC. 

Texas Drive-In Convention 

In Dallas February 11-13 

DALLAS—The 12th annual convention 

of the Texas Drive-In Theatre Owners 

Ass'n will be held Febraary 11-13 at the 

Statler Hilton Hotel here. Al Reynolds, 

Dallas, president of the association, said 

this week that an attendance of over 500 

persons is expected from Texas and neighboring 

states as well as from Illinois, New 

York, Kansas, Indiana, Iowa and 

Massachusetts. 

Principal speakers, Reynolds said, will 

include James Nicholson, president of 

American International Pictures, who will 

keynote the opening session. Other industry 

executi\es to be featured will include 

Edward S. Redstone, Boston, president of 

the National Ass'n of Concessionaires; John 

Rowley, Dallas, president, Theatre Owners 

of America, who will speak at the February 

12 luncheon meeting; and Texas Lt. Gov. 

Preston Smith, also a drive-in theatre 

owner, who promised to attend the presidential 

banquet and dance the final evening 

unless pressing duties detain him in 

Austin. 

Coca-Cola will sponsor the presidential 

dinner-dance, Reynolds said, while American 

International plans a breakfast, as does 

1953 and later headed his own public relations 

firm in Toronto. 

Before joining National Screen, Ferri 

had been with 20th Century-Fox for many Pepsi-Cola Co. National Screen Service will 

years in such posts as midwestern exploitation 

manager, national exploitation diture 

Advertising Service Co. of New 

sponsor an event and so will the Motion Picrector, 

studio publicity director, sales promotion 

director and editor of Dynamo, the 

Orleans. 

company's house organ. He is a former newspaper 

man in Providence, Boston and New 

York and was publicity and advertising director 

of the Shea and Emery circuits. 

United Artists to Participate 

In Texas Drive-In Conclave 

NEW YORK—United Artists will participate 

in the annual Texas Drive-In Theatre 

Owners convention February 11-13 

and will .set up a booth at the Statler Hilton 

Hotel in Dallas as part of the exhibitor 

meeting. 

A public address system will be installed 

in the booth to broadcast soundtrack recordings 

of current and future UA relca.scs. 

This is being arranged to attract the conventioniiiR 

showmen to the UA stand. 

Brochures and free copies of paperback 

editions of the company's films will be 

passed out to the exhibitors. 

Levine Heads 'Zulu' 

Showmanship Meets 

LOS ANGELES—The fourth meeting in 

Joseph E. Levine's cross-country "Zulu 

Showmanship Caravan" was held here 

Tuesday il>, with 125 exhibitors attending 

a mormng screening of "Zulu" at the Lido 

Theatre and a luncheon at the Beverly 

Hills Hotel, hosted by the Embassy Pictures 

president. Earlier meetings in the 

caravan had been held in New York, Chicago 

and San Fiancisco, and subsequent 

sessions with exhibitors were held last 

week in Dallas (8i, Atlanta (9i and Kansas 

City (10). 

Levine expressed his confidence in the 

future of the American film industry and 

asserted that Hollywood had made its 

comeback, making "more hit pictures in 

1963 than in any previous year and 1964 

looks like a still bigger year. 

"Fewer and fewer pictures prepared in 

Hollywood are being made abroad," he continued. 

"The industry's center is Hollywood 

and will remain so as long as Hollywood 

observes an open door policy toward 

world talent." 

Levine predicted that the current year 

will see a resurgence of pictures with 

strong feminine roles and added. "Hollywood 

has recovered from runaway jitters 

and is entering a long period of more jobs 

and prosperity." 

Accompanying Levine on the caravan 

were Stanley Baker, star and producer of 

"Zulu"; Cy Endfield, director and co-producer; 

Carl Peppercorn, Embassy vicepresident 

and general sales manager; 

Robert R. Weston, vice-president in charge 

of world advertising, publicity and exploitation; 

Ed Apfel, director of advertising; 

Jules Needebnan, western division 

manager, and Erwin Douglyn, western sale.s 

representative. 

With George Jessel acting as emcee, 

Endfield and Baker were introduced from 

the podium at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Jack 

Karp and Marty Rackin, Paramount Studio 

toppers, also were introduced. 

Many top exhibitors, distributors and 

heads of circuits were at the luncheon. 

These included Sherrill Corwin. Robert 

Selig, William Thedford. Paul Schreibman, 

Paul Lyday, Pete Latsis. Jack Case, Bob 

Goodfried, Bert Pirosh. Leo Miller, Jack 

Myhill, Neil Blumberg. Al Bruno. Leonard 

Schwartz, Ted Minsky, Frank Sohner, Fred 

Roe, Jack Carter. Chan Wood. Art Gordon, 

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Bernard Donnenfcld, "Red Herman 

Cohen and Martin Tenser. 

Erwin Lesser to Handle 

'Servant' for Landau 

NEW YORK — Erwin Lesser, 

formerly 

general sales manager of Lopert Films and 

more recently head of his own company. 

Brigadier Film Associates, has joined the 

Landau Co. where he will be in charge of 

domestic sales for "The Servant." This will 

be the initial picture to be offered by the 

newly formed Landau Releasing Organization, 

which will concentrate on the distribution 

of important international films in 

the United States. 

Lesser previously was associated with Ely 

Landau as general sales manager of the 

theatrical film division of National Telefilm 

As.sociatcs, which Landau headed. 

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NGC Holds Sessions 

On Terrific Twelve' 

LOS ANGELES — Sixlt'eu of National 

General Corp.s top theatre managers — 

serving as advertising "field representatives"—held 

a thiee-day series of screenings 

and workshop sessions with studio 

advertising-publicity heads here, starting 

as a followup to the company's 

Tuesday 1 7 • , 

"Terrific T\\'elve" picture-selling program. 

The program, successfully initiated last 

year, is aimed at extracting maximum 

grosses from top pictui'es and concentrates 

on monthly picture-selling campaigns in 

each of the circuit's 217 theatres in 16 

states. 

In announcing continuation of the program. 

Robert W. Selig. NGC vice-president 

and general manager of theatre operations, 

said. "We have facts and figures that prove 

our theory of 'extracting the absolute maximum' 

from pictures that the public wants 

to buy is completely sound. We have proved 

it at the only place where authentic, documented 

evidence can be found—at om' boxoffices 

across the nation. 

"We have carried out our program with 

the help of our top theatre exploitationshowman 

managers who have served as 

field representatives thi-oughout the year. 

This has increased grosses of a dozen boxoffice-potential 

pictui'es by approximately 

10 per cent. Over the past year, our- 'Terrific 

Twelve' policy added an estimated one 

million dollars to om- theatre grosses." 

The three-day meetings included screenings 

of product and workshop sessions with 

advertising-publicity heads of Universal, 

Disney, United Artists. American International 

and Embassy Pictures. 

Paul Lyday. NGC ad-pub director, said 

theatre managers selected to serve as field 

representatives are men hand-picked for 

the job because of their past records of 

selling pictui-es on the local level. "These 

showmen," he said, "will conduct area 

meetings with their fellow managers to set 

up local promotional campaigns on each 

of the project pictmcs." 

Field representatives in attendance include 

: 

H. G "Buddy" Brown, Boulevard, Wichita, Kas.; 

LcRoy Nichols, Fox, Joplin, Mo.; Roy Hill, Fox Midwest 

Theatres, Konsos City, Mo.; John Tello, Babcock, 

Bilhngs, Mont.; Russell Page, Fox, Sterling, Colo.; Steve 

Moscr, Esquire, Denver; Rex Hopkins, Orpheum, Portlond. 

Ore. 

From California: Phil Phillips, Tower, Ooklond; Donald 

Crook, Fox, Stockton; Phil Quinn, Balboa, Son 

Diego; Horry Froncis, Crest, Long Beoch; Vaughn Taylor, 

Fox, Anaheim, Phil Cothcrall, Fox, Polos Verdes; 

Bob Coftom, Academy, Posodeno; Williom Kotzky, Fine 

Arts, Beverly Hills, ond Al Bogotch, Lido, Los Angelei 

Also ottcnding were William H. Thedford, Pacific 

Coast division manager; district monogers Bob Smith, 

Bob Weeks and Harold Wyott; Pete Lotsis, press relations 

director, ond Joe Bleck, Terrific Twelve advertising 

coordinator 

Warner Bros, to Observe 

'Razz Goldstein Week' 

NEW YORK—The week of February 22 

will bo known as "Raz/, Goldstein Week" 

as the wlndup in Warner Bros.' five-month 

sales drive, which began on September 29. 

The drive, offering $35,000 in cash prizes, 

Is pushing "4 for Texas," "Mary, Mary," 

"America America," "Dead Ringer," "Palm 

" 

Springs Weekend other Warner releases 

of the fall-winter season. 

The company's Albany and Charlotte 

branches are In first and second places, respectively, 

In the cumulative standings, 

with only a single jxjrcentage point separating 

them. 

David Home Named AIP 

V-P and Foreign Chief 

NEW YORK—David Home has been appointed 

vice-president of American International 

Pictures in 

charge of foreign distribution 

by James H. 

Nicholson, president, 

and Samuel Z. Arkoff, 

executive vicepresident. 

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David Home 

will succeed Samuel 

L. Seidelman, who resigned 

late in December. 

Before joining Titra, Home was with 

Film Classics as vice-president in charge of 

foreign sales and, prior to that, with Allied 

Artists as assistant to Norton Ritchie, the 

foreign chief. He also was with the foreign 

departments of RKO Radio Pictures and 

Warner Bros. Home headed his own export 

company for seven years. 

CDA Preparing 200 Prints 

For Saturation Bookings 

MOBILE. ALA. — Saturation bookings 

and advertising for early 1964 releases received 

top priority discussion when key 

personnel of Cinema Distributors of 

America assembled here January 10 for the 

first executive meeting of the new year. 

M. A. Ripps, president, came here directly 

from New York where he had been 

conferring with processing laboratories regarding 

initial print orders for the company's 

late January, February and March 

saturations. Ripps said that the initial 

order will be about 200 prints. CDA will 

release their new science-fiction horror 

feature, "The Flesh Eaters," followed by 

"Fat Black Pussy Cat." 

Attending the home office meeting, in 

addition to Ripps, were Robert Steuer, executive 

vice-president; Clayton Pantages, 

general sales manager: Madolyn Babb, secretary-treasurer; 

Daniel Loventhal, chief 

counsel; Pat Moore, western sales manager, 

and Ross Wheeler, eastern sales manager. 

AIP Planning Christmas 

Film Package for 1964 

HOLLYWOOD — American Internationa! 

Pictures will prepare a special Christmas 

release package for 1964. according to 

James H. Nicholson, president, and Samuel 

Z. Arkoff, vice-president, who said the 

decision was based upon boxoffice results 

noted during the Christmas school holidays 

and a study of the types of pictures playing 

during the holiday season. 

"The survey indicates that audiences 

prefer action-adventure spectacles and 

light horror comedy which are strictly 

escapist entertainment during this season, 

rather than heavy drama and message 

stories," the AIP executives said. For the 

recent holidays AIP released "The Comedy 

of Terrors," the combination of "Goliath 

and the Sins of Babylon and "Samson 

" 

and the Slave Queen." "Pyro—The Man 

Without a Face" and "Summer Holiday." 

AA Division Meeting 

On Upcoming Product 

NEW YORK — Ernest Sands, general 

sales manager of Allied Artists, held a twoday 

meeting of the company's division 

managers Wednesday and Thursday (8. 9) 

to discuss plans and sales approaches for 

upcoming product. Sands talked about the 

special handling of several of the featm'es 

and discussed plans for the campaigns for 

"The Naked Kiss," "Never Put It in 

Writing," "The Strangler" and "The Thin 

Red Line." 

Special sessions were also held with Harold 

Roth, sales executive for Samuel 

Bronston Productions, on future plans for 

"El Cid" and "55 Days at Peking." Also 

attending the meetings were Edward 

Morey, vice-president: Nat Nathanson. assistant 

general sales manager: Roy M. 

Brewer, manager of exchange operations; 

Jack Bernstein, general sales manager of 

Allied Artists of Canada; John Dervin, 

New York sales executive: Harold Wirthwein, 

western division head; J. E. Hobbs, 

southern division manager: J. A. Prichard, 

southwestern division head, and Frank 

Thomas, midwestern division manager. 

AA Conducting a Contest 

For 'Soldier in the Rain' 

NEW YORK—Allied Artists is conducting 

a contest open to all exhibitors in the 

United States and Canada for the best exploitation 

campaign on "Soldier in the 

Rain." A four-page pamphlet explaining 

the details is available at AA branches. 

The wimiing exhibitor will receive an 

all-expense-paid trip for himself and a 

guest to New York for two days and two 

nights. Among the highlights of the trip 

will be an opportunity to sit in on the 

Jackie Gleason TV show and rehearsals. 

Embassy Pictures to Enter 

Television Film Production 

NEW YORK—Embassy Pictures will expand 

its cntertaiimient activities into the 

production of filmed programs for television. 

Joseph E. Levine. president, said Embassy 

had concluded negotiations with the 

American Broadcasting Co. for its initial 

series. "Hercules." which will be shot on location 

in various parts of the world, with 

a new star in the title role. The series, 

budgeted at more than $4,000,000, will consist 

of 32 one-hour shows the first season, 

Levine said. 

The "Hercules" series will be followed by 

others, including programs based on Casanova 

and D'Aitagnan. one of the heroes of 

"The Three Musketeers." 

Levine announced that Embassy was 

offering a catalog of 48 features, including 

30 in color, for television. 

William Ainsworth Dies; 

Former Allied Head 

POND DU LAC. WIS—Former National 

Allied States Ass'n president William Ainsworth 

died here at the age of 71. His 

career in exhibition began in Fond du Lac 

in 1915 and he remained active until just 

a few years ago. He also served as president 

of the Wisconsin Allied organization 

as well as president of the national 

association. 

His wife Florence Is among his survivors. 

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Cooper Foundation 

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— Cooper Foundation, which 

a chain of theatres in several 

states, reorganized its adminiistrative 

staff and elected new officers as 

11964 began. R. E. Campbell of Lincoln was 

elected to the newly created post of chairiman 

of the board with duties similar to 

those formerly performed by the president, 

a post which Campbell has held for ten 

years. 

Elwood N. Thompson of Lincoln was 

[elected president in a newly created post 

with full-time responsibilities for general 

of the Foundation. Thompprominent 

Lincoln business and civic 

leader, is resigning from his post as senior 

vice-president of the National Bank of 

Commerce Trust and Savings Ass'n, where 

he has served since 1961 when the First 

Trust Co. was merged with the bank. He 

will remain as a member of the bank board 

and as chairman of its trust advisory 

committee. 

Roger V. Dickeson, counsel for the 

Cooper Foundation, and for the last four 

months acting general manager, will retui-n 

to full-time law practice with the 

firm of Mason, Knudsen, Dickeson and 

Berkheimer, which continues as counsel for 

the Foundation. He assumed the general 

manager post left vacant when Kemieth 

Anderson resigned to enter the production 

business in southern California four 

months ago. 

Elected to the newly established post of 

vice-president for operations was George 

Gaughan, for eight years a managing executive 

of the Foundation's theatres. Another 

new post of assistant vice-president 

for operations was filled by the election of 

Herman Hallberg, also with Cooper Theatres 

management for the past four and 

one half years. 

Thompson is a member of the Foundation 

board as is Campbell, who heads the 

board of Miller and Paine, Lincoln department 

store. Other Foundation board members 

are C. Wheaton Battey, Lincoln 

banker: William Putney, insm'ance man; 

J. Lee Rankin. New York attorney; T. A. 

Sick, Lincoln insurance man and 

Van Home, Omaha businessman. 

E. N. 

Cooper currently operates recently constructed 

Cinerama luxury theatres in 

Omaha, Minneapolis and Denver, which 

are famous for their identical and unique 

circular design. Other Cooper theatres are 

operated in Lincoln. Omaha, Greeley, 

Grand Junction, Pueblo and Colorado 

Springs in Colorado and Oklahoma City. 

In late November, the Foundation opened 

its newest Cooper Theatre in Colorado 

Springs. 

Joan Crawford Is Touring 

13 Cities for Her Film 

NEW YORK—Joan Crawford, star of Columbia's 

January release, "Strait-Jacket," 

left Monday i6) on a nationwide tour to 

promote the film, which opened Wednesday 

(8) in hundreds of situations throughout 

the U.S. 

Miss Crawford will spend 13 days on tour 

and visit New York, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, 

Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and 

Toronto to meet with editors, radio-TV 

commentators and columnists in each city. 

Btitish 'Tom Jones Sweeps 

Best Ten Lists; 'Hud' Close 

By FRANK LEYENDECKER 

NEW YORK—"Tom Jones," the British 

comedy being released in the U.S by United 

Artists-Lopert, swept the motion pictui-e 

"best field" list for 1963 by being named 

"best picture of 1963" by the New York 

Film Critics, heading the "best ten" of the 

National Board of Review and being included 

in the "best ten" pictures of the 

year by every single New York daily newspaper, 

the Times, the Herald Tribune, the 

Daily News, the New York Post, the 

Jom-nal-American and the World-Telegram, 

in most of which it headed the lists. 

However, "Hud," the Hollywood picture 

made by Paramount, came close behind by 

being on every best ten list, including the 

six daily newspapers, plus the National 

Board of Review, even if it did not head the 

lists as did "Tom Jones." 

TWO MORE UA FILMS HIGH 

Two other 1963 pictm'es. the Hollywoodmade 

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," 

produced by Stanley Kramer and distributed 

by United Artists, and "The L- 

Shaped Room," British film distributed in 

the U.S. by Columbia Pictures, were on the 

majority of best ten lists, the former being 

named by the Times, the Daily News, the 

Post, the Journal-American and the World- 

Telegram, and the British picture being on 

the lists of the Times, the Daily News, the 

Journal-American and the World-Telegram, 

as well as the National Board of Review. 

In each case Judith Crist of the 

Herald-Tribune failed to include these, her 

list being predominantly foreign-made pictures, 

such as "Winter Light" and "The 

Sound of Ti'umpets." 

Also on the majority of the best ten lists 

were "America America," made in Greece 

in English for Warner Bros, release, and 

"8 '2." the Italian-language picture being 

distributed by Embassy Pictures. The 

former was listed by the Times, the Herald- 

Tribune, the Journal-American and the 

World-Telegram while the Federico Fellini 

picture was on the lists of the Times, the 

Herald-Tribune and the Daily New's, as well 

as the National Board of Review, which 

named it "best foreign picture of the year." 

THREE OTHERS ARE STRONG 

Among the pictm-es which were on thi-ee 

of the "best ten list" were "Lilies of the 

Field," produced in Arizona by Ralph Nelson 

for United Artists release; "Heavens 

Above," a British comedy distributed by 

Janus Films, and "How the West Was 

Won," the MGM-Cinerama production. 

Sm-prisingly, the world's most expensive 

film which has been playing two-a-day exclusively 

to date, was cited by only two 

papers, Bosley Crowther's list for the Times 

and Rose Pelswick's list in the Journal- 

American. Of the other pictm-es which were 

on two "best ten" lists, the only Hollywoodmade 

pictui'e was Universal's "To Kill a 

Mockingbird," which actually was on some 

of the 1962 lists. Others which were on two 

lists included the Italian-made "The Leopard," 

distributed by 20th Century-Fox, and 

"This Sporting Life" and "Lord of the 

Flies," British pictures distributed in the 

U.S. by Continental 

Thus United Artists, with three pictm-es 

on the majority of lists, and Paramount, 

Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros, and Embassy 

Pictures, releasing pictures which 

made highly respectable showings, can 

boast of "best ten" listings in their future 

advertising campaigns. 

'81/2' and 'Tom Jones' Win 

IFIDA's Top Awards 

NEW YORK — The Independent Film 

Importers and Distributors of America has 

voted its Joseph Burstyn Award to Federico 

Fellini's "8 '2" as the outstanding foreign 

film of 1963. The IFDA English Language 

Award went to United Artists' "Tom Jones" 

for which Tony Richardson was voted the 

best director of a foreign picture. Albert 

Finney won the top honor as the best actor 

in a foreign production. 

Runners-up for the Burstyn Award, 

named for the pioneer film importer, were 

"Four Days of Naples," MGM, and "The 

Suitor," Atlantic Pictm-es. The English 

language runners-up were "The L-Shaped 

Room." Royal-International, and "Mondo 

Cane," Times Film. 

Following Richardson as best director 

were Federico Fellini for "8 '2" and Bryan 

Forbes for "The L-Shaped Room." Finney's 

runners-up for acting were Marcello Mastroiamii 

for "8I2" and Richard Harris for 

"This Sporting Life," Continental release. 

Brigitte Federspiel was voted best actress 

in a foreign film for her performance in "A 

Stranger Knocks." a Trans-Lux release. 

Runners-up were Leslie Caron for "The L- 

Shaped Room" and Margaret Rutherford 

for MGM's "Murder at the Gallop. 

The technical dubbing award was won by 

Titra Sound Co. for "Divorce—Italian 

Style," followed by Peter Riethoff for his 

work on "Sundays and Cybele" and by K. 

Gordon Murray for "Little Boy Blue." 

Union Films' "Marc Chagall" won the 

Kingsley Short Subjects Award, runners-up 

being Colmnbia's "The Critic" and Janus' 

"Dylan Thomas." 

The awards will be presented formally at 

the IFIDA dinner dance at the Americana 

Hotel on January 21. 

Filmways Shows Increase 

In 3-Month Net Profit 

NEW YORK—Filmways, Inc., and subsidiary 

companies reported a net income 

of $70,331 for the three months ended November 

30. This compared with a net of 

$44,880 for the same period of 1962. Filmways, 

which produced "Boys' Night Out," 

recently completed "The Americanization 

of Emily." 

Revenue from motion picture production 

and television films dm-ing the thi-eemonth 

period amounted to $2,512,383 

compared with $2,990,185 in the same three 

months last year. Earnings per share were 

12 cents and eight cents, respectively. 

BOXOFFICE January 13, 1964 

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'A 

YOUNGSTER'S DREAM COME TRUE' 

Energetic Young Fund Drive Worker 

Permitfed to Visit Rogers Hospital 

a long way from Biloxi, Miss., to the 

It's 

Will Rogers Hospital in Saianac Lake. 

N.Y. 

but 10-year-old Joey Lamousin made 

it. It was a dream come true. 

The beginning was the summer of 1963 

when Gene DeFallo. manager of Gulf 

Slates' Beach Drive-In Theatre, asked a 

Lions Club Little League baseball team to 

help with his Will Rogers Fund Drive. 

Victor Joseph Lamousin m was one of 

those boys, and Joey showed a deep interest 

in his assignment. He became inquisitive 

about the work at the hospital. Joey was 

the hardest worker of the lot. On his own, 

he collected over $125. At a party which 

DeFallo gave for the boys, Joey said that 

someday he'd like to "visit that wonderful 

hospital." 

THE "WORD WAS PASSED" 

That word wâs passed to Gulf States 

Theatres' president. T. G. Solomon, who in 

turn contacted J. E. "Ned" Shugrue, executive 

director of the Will Rogers Memorial 

Fund. Solomon suggested that Joey 

be brought to the hospital for a visit. 

The Lamousin family had moved to 

Plattsburg, N.Y. But even that move did 

not clear the way for young Joey. 

Shugrue advised Solomon that "such a 

visit poses a problem that cannot be 

solved." (Youngsters under the age of 14 are 

not permitted as visitors in institutions for 

patients with communicable diseases.) 

In a letter to Solomon expressing thanks 

for his efforts to arrange a visit for Joey, 

Mrs. Lamousin said, "I have explained to 

Joey the rea.sons why he cannot visit the 

hospital. He understands. But, of course, 

was disappointed. I have promised him a 

trip to Saranac Lake. With a view from 

the outside we'll satisfy his desire to see the 

hospital and, perhaps, when he is older, 

he will be permitted to see the inside 

of the Research Laboratories and other 

parts of the hospital. 

"It was a pleasure, a new exeprience and 

at the same time a rewarding experience 

for Joey to work for such a wonderful 

cause. I have never seen anything impress 

Joey as much as the Will Rogers Hospital 

Fund Drive. It was a gratifying experience 

to .see my son take such an interest in the 

Drive." 

YOUTH RESTRICTIONS WAIVED 

Later communication from Shugrue said, 

"We were able to waive the youth restrictions 

at Will Rogers on a Public Invitation 

Day last week and this afforded the opportunity 

to receive young Joey Lamousin 

in to the Medical Rotunda, the Medical 

Library and the Clinical Laboratories. 

"Accordingly, we invited the Lamouslns 

—and presented Joey with a Will Rogers 

Award Statuette as evidence of our recognition 

and appreciation for what he did In 

Blloxl, M1.SS. 

"Attached is a print of Joey receiving 

the statuette from our superintendent of 

nurses, and of hLs family." 

This Christmas letter was received by 

young Joey from the Will Rogers Hospital: 

"Dear Joey: 

"Here are photographs we made of you 

and your wonderful parents and sister at 

A nurse at the Will Rogers Memorial 

Hospital presents a Will Rogers Award 

Statuette to 10-year-old Joey Lamousin 

for his untiring work in collecting 

more than $125 for the hospital. 

Will Rogers Hospital last week. 

"We hope these, and your Award Statuette 

of Will Rogers will help you to long 

remember our appreciation for what you 

did in Biloxi for this hospital. 

"Our compliments to you for reaffirming 

our faith and appraisal of the good character 

of American boys. You worked hard 

and unselfishly to help people who are hospitalized—and 

to help medical researchers 

who are striving to overcome and to prevent 

serious lung and chest diseases. 

"Thank you, and please accept our very 

best wishes for the Bright Future you so 

richly deserve." 

Yes, it's a long way from Biloxi to Saranac 

Lake, but Joey Lamousin made it. 

'The Directors' Short 

For National Release 

HOLLYWOOD—Following the initial tryout 

engagement here at the Pour Star, the 

documentary short subject, "Tlie Directors" 

will go into national release, it was announced 

by Life Magazine publisher C. D. 

Jack.son. Made originally as a short for 

promotion purposes by Life staffers, it is 

expected that the success of the film has 

prompted Life to go all out on a regular 

series. Boxoffice learned here. 

Since March of Time by the same group 

in the late 30k nothing along these lines 

has come out of the Luce publishing empire. 

Lester Schoenfeld is the distributor. 

More Than 500 Locations 

Ask for Fight TV Rights 

NEW YORK—More than 500 locations 

have requested licenses from Theatre Netw'ork 

Television for the pre.sentation on 

closed circuit tt'levision of the Sonny Liston-Casslus 

Clay heavyweight championship 

fight on February 25. 

Nathan L. Halpern. president of TNT, 

said applications had been received from 

conventional theatres, drive-ins. arenas, 

auditoriums, ball parks, race tracks and 

hotel ballrooms in more than 200 cities in 

the United States, Canada and Mexico. 

Kirk Douglas, Edw. Lewis 

Form Production Company 

NEW YORK—Kirk Douglas, currentl 

starring on Broadway in "One Flew Ove 

the Cuckoo's Nest." has formed Dougla 

and Lewis Productions with Edward Lewis 

his producer for the past five years, as 

division of Kirk Douglas Enterprises t< 

produce motion pictures, television am 

legitimate shows. 

Under the seven-year partnership agree 

ment with Lew'is, Douglas plans a $15,000, 

000 over-all program for 1964-65 which wil 

include the movie version of "Cuckoo' 

Nest." tentatively scheduled to start production 

late in 1964; "Montezuma." s 

multi-million dollar spectacle similar ir 

scope to "Spartacus" and "The Vikings," 

and an adaptation of the novel. "Seconds,' 

to be made in conjunction with Joht 

Frankenheimer Productions. 

Lewis, who has just completed the piC' 

turization of "Seven Days in May" for the 

Kirk Douglas company, which was produced 

in conjunction with Frankenheimer 

and Seven Arts, to be released by Paramount 

in February, will also be on loan, 

out to the Mirisch Co. and Frankenheimer.r 

to act as producer on "The Confessor," to 

start in mid-1964 with Henry Fonda and 

Tony Curtis starred. Douglas and Lewis 

have also commissioned Kenneth Kesey, 

author of "Cuckoo's Nest." to write an 

original, as yet untitled, for the firm's 

agenda in late 1964. 

Since 1955, Kirk Douglas Enterprises, 

through its companies, Bi-j'na Productions, 

Joel Productions and Eric Productions, 

have made 12 features, including "Spartacus," 

"The Vikings," "Lonely Are the 

Brave" and four in which Douglas did not 

appear. Lewis, who had film and TV background, 

was signed by Douglas in 1956 

writer-producer and became vice-president 

of Douglas' fimi in 1958. 

Technicolor Services 

Into Aeronautics Field 

HOLL"YWOOD — The research 

and development 

division of Technicolor Corp. 

was the successful bidder to provide photographic 

services for the National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration and 

lunar landing program, it was revealed 

Monday (6i by Patrick J. Frawley jr., 

chairman of the board and chief executive 

officer of Technicolor. 

The firm will provide complete management 

services for the installation, operation 

and management of a photographic 

laboratory to be constructed at the new 

launch operation center at Merritt Island, 

Fla. 

"We feel that the contributing factors 

leading to this important assigmnent are 

due to our many years of research and 

development pioneering in the photographic 

and processes methods." Frawley 

said. "Technicolor is pleased to add this 

important program to its expanding military 

and government activities." 

Italian Film to MGM 

NEW YORK World distribution rights.J 

with the exception of Italy, have been acquired 

to "Hercules. Samson and Ulysses"| 

by Metro-Goldyn-Mayer. The English language 

film was filmed in Eastman Colorl 

and wide screen in Italy by Internazionale 

Cinematografico Distribuzione. 

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'Mdintockl' (UA) Is Voted December 

Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award 

By VELMA WEST SYKES 

JÂTIONAL SCREEN COXJNCIL members voted "McLintock!" the December Blue 

Ribbon Award as the most outstanding of those releases for the month which was 

also entei'tainment suitable for the whole family. The rollicking, boisterous comedy in 

which John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara star has no subtleties and few inhibitions 

but manages to entertain in old-fashioned slapstick style that substitutes mudwallowing 

for pie-throwing. Produced by Michael Wayne under the direction of 

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Andrew V. McLaglen, a third Wayne i 

also appears in it. The comedywestern 

utilizes fist-fights and spankings instead of gun-toters stalking each othesdown 

deserted streets— all in tongue-in-cheek fashion. 

Our reviewer had this (in part) to say Pilot Duke rides again in this 

about it in Boxoffice, issue of November socko, comic spoof of early horse-opera 

18 of last year: 

epics, with Wayne again tall in the saddle.—Joanne 

"A laugh riot, packed with appeal, this 

Sequin, WBEN-TV, Buffalo. 

magnificent Michael Wayne produced The best fun picture we've seen in ages 

film should pull patrons on the recommendations 

is "McLintock!" I think the two fight 

of those who pass on the scenes, played for laughs, are classics. 

word. There is special excitement for Ann D. Kenny, Parents' Magazine . 

western fans—riding, shooting, rodeos, Good, rollicking fun here for all ages. 

Indians, brawls, broad humor, love in- 

Maureen O'Hara almost steals the show. 

terest, music and herds of cattle . . . 

Although the story line is merely the 

vehicle on which to hang the rollicking 

comedy events, it does, on the whole, add 

a new dimension to western filmmaking." 

Good Family Fun 

NSC members conmiented about the 

winning picture on their ballots: 

"McLintock!" is good family fun in the 

usual John Wayne manner. Even my 

youngest got a bang out of this one.—Jay 

Monsen, Radio KSUB, Cedar City, Utah 

... I had to vote for "McLintock!" when 

my 7-year-old went back to see it four 

times."—Frank Rossiter, Savannah Morning 

News. 

Nothing but entertainment plus m "Mc- 

Lintock!"—A. B. Covey, Alabama TOA, 

Montgomery . is just 

good fun—enough slapstick to whip its 

shortcomings and also action to delight 

the youngsters. Good visual impact. 

Grant Marshall, Burlington (Iowa> 

Hawkeye. 

"McLintock!" is a good family western 

with action, comedy and John -Wayne. 

Marvin A. Brock, Texas Tech College, 

Lubbock . is good, relaxed fun 

and a fine western satire in the bargain. 

—Warner Twyford, Norfolk Virginian- 

—James K. Loutzenhiser, M.D., USPHS, 

Kansas City . for the sophisticates 

—just for those who like to laugh.—Herb 

Kelly, Miami News. 

Hands down, it's "McLintock!" Here 

In Idaho Falls "McLintock!" played to 

capacity crowds for weeks. The long lines 

looked like the old days of movieland. 

Melvin Richardson, KID-TV, Idhao Falls 

best in a long time.—Jeanette 

Mazurki, Glendale News Press . . . While 

typical John Wayne fare, this is none the 

less entertaining for all ages.—Bob 

Badgley, Sacramento Union. 

"McLintock!" is so outstanding in film 

entertainment that it fulfills the National 

Screen Council's requirements to win the 

Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award.—Virginia 

R. Collier, District of Columbia MP & TV 

Council . . . John Wayne's latest western 

more or less satirizes stereotyped adventures 

in the pioneer west. It is not quite a 

click but a good, clean try.—Mrs. Kenneth 

C. Wilson, San Francisco MP & TV 

Council. 

Best entertainment for the family is 

"McLintock!"—but on a rather weak list. 

—Robert Sokolsky, Buffalo Courier-Express 

. . . This is real entertainment. 

Ralph L. Smith, Bartlesville Examiner 

Enterprise. 

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IN IT WINDING UP MOSTLY AS PUZZLED ONLOOKERS 

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Katherine McLintock .... Maureen O'Hara Bunny Dull 

Louise Warren Yvonne De Carlo Ben Sage 

Davey Elk 

Devlin Warren 

Patrick Wayne 

Puma 

Becky McLintock Stefanie Powers Agard 

Birnbaum 

Jack Kruschen Matt Douglas 

Drago 

Chill Wills Governor 

Jerry Van Dyke 

Edgar Buchanan 

Bruce Cabot 

Perry Lopez 

Michael Pate 

Strother Martin 

Gordon Jones 

Robert Lowery 

Producer 

Michael Wayne 

Director 

Andrew V. McLaglen 

Original Screenplay 

James Edward Grant 

Cinematographer .... William H. Clothier 

Film Editor 

Otho Lovering 

Sound 

Jack Solomon 

Production Staff 

Music 

Frank DeVol 

Color by Technicolor 

Original Songs: 

"Love in the Country"— Music by 

Frank DeVol, lyrics by "By" Dunham; 

"Just Right for Me"— Music and 

lyrics by "By" Dunham 

This award is shen each month by the 

National Screen Council on the basis of outstafldino 

merit and suitability for family 

entertainment. Council membership comprises 

motion picture editors, radio and TV film 

commentators, representatives better films 

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^HEN EDWARD LEWIS fiiiishes 

production 

of "The Confessor" and starts 

on the Mirisch Co. -John Piankenheimer 

deal, his new Douglas-Lewis production, 

"Seconds," based on young Lewis J. Carlino's 

screenplay of the David Ely book, 

which was bought for $75,000, will then 

take its place in the production line. The 

story concerns an "organization," which 

gives one a new start in life. First 

the group arranges for one's apparent 

death, and then all is clean on the 

new slate. Carlino is a young University of 

Southern California student, who is in the 

avant-garde area of playwriting. "Cuckoo's 

Nest," slated for Douglas-Lewis' first start 

when Douglas leaves the play in May, for 

his film commitment, may send a company 

to England, and possibly the west coast, 

although Douglas will be replaced by another 

star. In this busy life, the planning 

of the blockbuster film, "Montezuma," will 

come into 1965 or later shooting . . . "How 

to Murder Your Wife" will be filmed in 

Hollywood, in March, for a United Artists 

release. Jack Lemmon has been signed by 

George Axelrod. playwright, whose hits include 

"The Seven Year Itch," and "Will 

Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" This first 

original screenplay by Axelrod will be directed 

by Richard Quine, w'ith Axelrod acting 

as "Mr. Moneybags," the term for producers, 

used on the backlot. Gordon Carroll 

will act as executive producer in the 

Lemmon starrer Parker comes 

home again to 

. 

the 20th Century-Pox lot, 

with his first epic appropriately titled 

"John Goldfarb, Please Come Home." 

Richard D. Zanuck, vice-president in 

charge of production chores for the westside 

lot, announced the romantic, satirecomedy, 

based on the best-selling novel by 

William Peter Blatty. will star Shirley 

MacLaine, in the multi-million-dollar budgeted 

production. Blatty wrote the screenplay 

for his own Doubleday published 

novel, which will come in under Steve 

Parker Productions, Inc. 

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All of a sudden the property, "Don 

Quixote," written centuries back, has become 

a hot item. Though there are already 

eight films in distribution based on the 

Cervantes classic, a Broadway play is being 

written as a musical, with Dale Wassemian 

teamed with talented W. H. Auden, on book 

and lyrics, with a film production following. 

A. Ronald Lubin is al.so trying to put 

a Don Quixote deal together, and this 

column has knowledge of several people 

who would like to play the lead, including 

John Carradine, French actor Jacques 

Tati and Rex Harrison . Puller 

Is working on the screenplay of "The 

Charge at San Juan," his next Independent 

release. How he will get to use Mr. Castro's 

Island, Cuba, for the story of the Spanish- 

American War situation will make a good 

foUowup. Puller is writing the story 

The completed .script 

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on Metro-Ooldwyn- 

Mayer's "Muscle Beach" has been turned 

over to studio head Robert Wcitman. by 

Ira Wallach. This is not to be confu.sed 

with "Mu.scle Beach Party" of American 

International Pictures. MGM's releasing 

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schedule will include an independent production 

to be made by Alain Delon. "Have 

I the Right to Kill? " will be directed by 

Alain Cavalier, who wrote his own story 

w-hich Jean Cau screenplayed 

Bien has been handed the first draft of a 

.screenplay by writers Paul Rosner and 

Steve Gold, which is based on the original 

story "Galloway." Under the SIB banner, 

Bien counts this as the first of three to be 

produced in 1964, other than his cartoon releases 

and industrials. 

f 

Martin Ransohoff is busy on several 

projects at MGM, where he is finalizing 

plans for his Pilmways, Inc., setup. He 

completed the production for the Culver 

City studio of "The Americanization of 

Emily," and soon goes to work on the Columbia 

deal, "The Sandpiper." Following 

this "The Loved One," which Tony Richardson 

will direct, and John Calley will 

produce, is being supei-vised by Ransohoff, 

with no release deal announced. Jules 

Dassin has one in the can, "Topkapi," 

which he produced and directed for Filmways. 

The latter stars Melina Mercouri 

Spaceman or Don't Blast Me Off" 

is the title of a feature which Bert O. Gordon 

will produce and direct from an original 

story by Robin Estridge and Gordon 

L. Cohen has "The Loners," an 

original by James B. Doherty, signed for 

his Vegan Productions, with Las Vegas as 

the locale, with filming set in 1964 . 

Richard Burton and Joseph Sirola will coproduce 

a film, although Burton will not 

appear in it. The novel, from which "A 

Separate Piece" originated, was written by 

John Knowles. No writer has been assigned 

for the screenplay which will locale 

in an English school. Some of our New 

England schools around Boston are closely 

akin to British schoolgrounds and will be 

. 

used for shooting of Blarney" 

is an appropriate title for William Beem's 

first change from an actor to a producer's 

role on a picture. The Peter Foy screenplay 

will go into production soon ... A 

Perlbcrg-Seaton story about a World War 

II background is slated for early 1964 

shooting. The title of the Rod Taylor- 

James Garner costarring deal is "36 

Hours." MGM is the base for the 

production. 

"The Battle of the Villa Fiorita," the 

best-selling, contemporary story of two 

children who refuse to be victims of a divorce, 

a Book of the Month Club selection, 

has been purchased by Jack L. Warner for 

Warner Bros. The deal for the Rumer 

Godden book, which is to be Delmer Daves' 

next production for Warner, was handled 

by the H. M. Swanson agency, a local Hollywood 

firm . Berlin Wall is the 

setting for a script for his original "A Boy, 

a Ball and a Hole in the Wall," by James 

Henaghan, who is doing his writing remotely 

from Spain. The film will be shot 

in Germany . Nelson, at MGM. 

where he is preparing "The Hank Williams" 

story for Samuel Katzman's Pour 

Leaf Productions, has acquired for his own 

company all rights to "The Valiant Tailor." 

an original story, and adaptation. ba,sed on 

the legendary Grimm Fairy Tale, which has 

been revi.sed by Jeanne Leander. into a 

musical form . Broadway hit. "Plain 

and Fancy." will be director Bill Hobin's 

first feature-length motion picture under 

his Mizpah Productions banner. 

. 

Jack Warner gathered in British-actor 

Jeremy Brett, on a five-year non-exclusive 

contract calling for one picture a year, following 

his first Hollywood stint in "My 

Fair Lady." Brett, known overseas for his 

work on stage, screen and video, is a singer 

and dancer, as well as a dramatic actor . 

Barbara Eden is George Pal's choice for 

"The Disappearance," his new property by 

David P. Harmon, based on the Philip 

Wylie book. Miss Eden faced Pal's 

cameras in "Seven Paces of Dr. Lao," recently 

completed on the MGM lot . . . 

"Mickey One" is the name of the Columbia 

release to star Warren Beatty in Arthur 

Penn's production. The young star plays 

a nightclub comedian, w-ith role written m 

screenplay by A. M. Surgal . Maria 

Alberghetti plays in "The Oldest Story," 

from a novella by William Saroyan, wellknown 

playwright Ford rolls 

his independent production at the end of 

this year, also starring . . . Jeriy Lewis 

signed up the long and short of Hollywood, 

with Peter Lorre and John Carradine both 

set for roles in "The Patsy." Glenn Corbett 

moves from "Route 66," to the feature side 

of the Columbia lot, w'here he heads the 

cast of Art and Jo Napolean's "Surfing 

Wild," with filming scheduled for February. 

Joan Crawford has been signed by Robert 

Aldrich for one of the two feminine roles 

in a stoi-y which concerns a cousin returning 

to her hometown when her family 

mansion is about to be razed. Titled, "What 

Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?" the 

film, according to Aldrich. is definitely not 

a sequel to "What Ever Happened to Baby 

Jane?" Henry Farrell wrote both screenplays. 

Miss Crawford, a well-known business 

woman, gets a percentage of the 

profits, and a salary . has 

taken an option on Vic Lundin for a second 

feature following his stint as costar in 

"Robinson Crusoe on Mars" ... A costar 

role in Jerry Bresler's Columbia release 

"Major Dundee." has been garnered by 

Michael Anderson jr., son of the famed 

playwright and director, with the 19-year 

old actor playing opposite Charlton Heston 

and Richard Harris. His other starring 

roles have been in MGM's "The Out-of- 

Towners" and Disney's "The Castaways" 

and "The Sundowners." 

George Cukor is plamiing to film Compton 

MacKenzie's novel. "Sinister Street," as 

the first production for his independent 

company. Last time out. in 1935. Cukor 

did a Mackenzie story with Katharine Hepburn 

and Cary Grant as stars . . . Benton 

Film Productions. Ltd.. the Anthony Mann 

independent company, has selected "The 

Unknown Battle," a Norway-based story on 

a hero of that nation, as one of the first 

Ruddy will 

produce "Daffy" and "Arabella," the 

Brando Pcnnebakor duo which comes under 

Universal's experimental New Horizon type 

of film. 

to be directed by Mann . 

16 BOXOFFICE : 

: January 13. 1964

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Falcon Has Four More As Ticket -Buyer, Once Tradepaper 

'Companion Features' 

HOLLYWOOD—James S. Burkett, president 

of Falcon Pictures and veteran filmm 

a k e r, has announced 

four addit 

i o n a 1 "companion 

James S. Burkett 

features" for 1964 to 

follow "The Man 

Who Couldn't Walk," 

which opened last 

week in Los Angeles 

in a multiple-run 

with MGM's "V.I.P.S." 

The other features 

are "The Great 

Armored Car Swindle," 

"Nine Miles to 

Noon," "Third Stop 

. . . Danger" and "Too Young to Love." 

Falcon Pictures is a newly formed American-Canadian 

company with headquarters 

in Beverly Hills. Burkett has appointed 

Harry Stern general sales manager. 

At a recent luncheon-screening of "The 

Man Who Couldn't Walk," Stern said that 

exhibitors need indoctrinating with a fresh 

viewpoint on classification of "second features." 

He said that the "second feature" 

image is too close to the kind of entertainment 

that is supplied free to the TV fans, 

and expressed the need for film buyers and 

exhibitors to get behind the double-feature 

programs plamied by giving due credit and 

space to the "companion feature," designed 

to provide satisfying entertainment and 

complete the theatre experience of the 

ticket buyers. All references to second featm-es 

should be eliminated and the term 

"companion feature" used for more appeal 

in attracting patronage. 

Burkett's activities with Falcon will be 

devoted to obtaining the kind of "companion 

feature" product that will contain 

wholesome, exploitable subject matter. He 

said his Canadian partners are joined with 

him in a common goal to supply exhibitors 

with this type of product, in full assm-- 

ance that the boxoffice future is bright 

and the need for such product is at hand. 

Falcon product will be handled by a national 

distribution organization of independent 

franchise representatives. Morris 

Safier, an executive with Falcon and a 

veteran film distributor, will supervise distribution 

in exchange areas from Denver, 

west. 

Signature Films to Reissue 

'Scarlet Letter' of 1934 

NEW YORK—Signatm-e Films has acquired 

complete ownership and world rights 

to the 1934 version of "The Scarlet Letter," 

according to Samuel M. Sherman, president. 

The Nathaniel Hawthorne novel had 

been produced five times for the silent 

screen, but the 1934 adaptation was the only 

sound version. 

Sherman said that the success of reissues 

of this nature had been established and 

that the serious following for screen classics 

of the 1930s indicated the timing to be right 

for the picture to be shown again. 

Heading the cast of the 1934 production 

were Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry 

B. Walthall, Alan Hale, William Farnum 

and Betty Blythe. It was produced independently 

for Metro-Goildwyn-Mayer release. 

fj,7o^^ ^//g^s o Season's Films 

Editor's Note: The author of this article 

is a former tradepaper representative who 

spent many years as a reviewer, editor and 

writer on trade topics. Now in another 

field, he presents, herewith, his observations 

as a ticket-buying customer. 

By RALPH COKAIN 

THOSE WHO VIEW movies in the line of 

duty are generally mindful of the companies 

releasing them. They can, if they 

wish, consider the quality of a season's output 

in terms of one company's parade of 

hits, another's run of failures. Their moviegoing, 

by invitation and assignment, exposes 

them to the good, bad and mediocre, 

and a company is soon judged by its 

product. 

Paying patrons, on the other hand, guided 

by story, star, favorable reviews, wordof-mouth, 

or merely a spontaneous desire to 

see a movie, may neither know nor care 

from whence it came. 

As one who approaches the boxoffice 

with admission in hand, our curiosity overcame 

us a few days ago and we decided 

to take stock of our moviegoing—the pictures 

we had seen and the companies behind 

them. 

productions between De- 

We counted 15 

cember 1962, and October of this year (not 

a full 12 months, because our moviegoing 

activity has been curtailed the past few 

weeks). A far cry from the movie-a-week 

record that used to indicate normal attendance 

for most people, but not a bad 

average in the light of frequency of release, 

quality, want-to-see and convenience 

of attendance. 

We saw these films, not altogether because 

of favorable reviews or recommendations 

by others, but also because, for us, 

there was something attractive about them 

—in magnitude, stars, story treatment or 

subject matter. In a case or two, our own 

curiosity led us to the ticket window. 

"In Search of the Castaways," for instance, 

commanded our attention, not in 

expectation of outstanding entertairunent, 

but for the charm and irresistible appeal 

of Hayley Mills. 

Marlon Brando, as an American envoy to 

a southeast Asian country in "The Ugly 

American," aroused om- curiosity because 

we found it difficult to imagine Brando 

in a role that appeared to have a semblance 

of normal human warmth. 

Whatever in the world would induce one 

to see "Cleopatra"? We can't imagine. All 

we know is that our tickets were placed 

in a safe deposit box six months before 

the New York premiere. 

Advance publicity on the Tennessee location 

shooting, coupled with interest in 

the screen adaptation of James Agee's "A 

Death in the Family," propelled us to 

Philharmonic Hall during the recent Film 

Festival to see "All the Way Home." 

"The Birds," of course, for Alfred Hitchcock, 

as though since infancy we had been 

admonished, "Don't you dare miss that 

Hitchcock pictm-e, or you'll get no supper!" 

We approached "ZV2" cautiously. Oh, of 

course, it would be unique in the Federico 

Fellini manner; we had no doubt of that. 

But would it also be vague and puzzling? 

Our curiosity was too much, our resistance 

tumbled, and we saw our one foreign 

film of the year. 

Why "Hud"? The title, on first encounter, 

seemed slightly repulsive; but admiration 

for the talents of Paul Newman, and the 

highly laudatory reviews, turned the trick. 

Thinking back on those 15 productions, 

the pleasure and satisfaction most of them 

afforded us, our inquisitive mind had to 

identify the firms behind them. They 

may not surprise those who pride themselves 

on their knowledge of motion pictures. 

Nonetheless, we found them interesting, 

particularly because, out of the 15, 

eight companies were represented. 

Scoring on this basis, then, three runners-up 

were responsible for one picture 

each. Alphabetically, they were Buena- 

Vista ("Castaways"), Columbia ("Lawrence 

of Arabia") and Continental ("David 

and Lisa"). 

Tieing for second place, with two pictures 

each, were Embassy ("Long Day's 

Joui-ney Into Night" and "81/2"), Paramount 

("Hud" and "All the Way Home"), 20th 

Century-Fox ("Cleopatra" and "The Longest 

Day," in its regular run) and United 

Artists ("A Child Is Waiting" and "Irma 

La Douce"). 

With seven companies and 11 pictures 

accounted for, we checked distribution of 

the remaining four on our list. "Freud" 

(to which was later appended "The Secret 

Passion"), "The Birds," "The Ugly American" 

and "To Kill a Mockingbird" all bore 

one banner — Universal. One company, 

therefore, topped the list with 27 per cent 

of our year's screen fare. 

We were pleased to discover that so 

many companies were represented. Perhaps 

that is an indication of our changing time. 

As of this moment, there are 11 pictures 

on our future moviegoing list. 

There are fom- runners-up this time, 

with one film each. They are Buena-Vista 

("The Incredible Journey"), Paramount 

("Seven Days in May"), 20th-Fox ("The 

Man in the Middle") and United Artists 

("Ladybug, Ladybug"). 

Columbia and Universal are in a tie 

for second place, with "The Cardinal" and 

"Under the Yum Yum Tree" representing 

the former, and "Captain Newman, M.D." 

and "Charade" doing the honors for the 

latter. 

Alone at the top is MGM, which distributed 

nary a one of our pictures seen 

this past year. The count of three includes 

"The V.I.P.s" (which will be "Daughter 

of the V.I.P.s" if we don't get around to 

our neighborhood theatre pretty soon), 

"The Prize" and "Sunday in New York." 

Having read in the financial pages a day 

or two ago that MGM suffered losses this 

past fiscal year, we would like to think 

that om- choice of three from this company 

might be a good omen. 

Correction 

David Levin is the manager of the RKO 

Keith Theatre in Syracuse, N.Y., and the 

person responsible for the Santa Glaus cutout 

Wishing Well used at Christmastime 

in behalf of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, 

as depicted on the Boxoffice cover 

December 23. 

BOXOFFICE : 

: January 13, 1964 17

BOXOFFICE BAROMETER 

This chart records the performance of current attractions in the opening week of their first runs in 

the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements ore not listed. As new runs 

ore reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in (erms of percentage in 

relation to normal grosses as determined by the theatre manogers. With 100 per cent as "normal," 

the figures show the gross rating above or below that mark. (Asterisk 

* denotes combination bills.)

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Charade/ and 'Tom Jones 

Continue 

Torrid Boxoffice Pace in New York 

NEW YORK — The Radio City Music 

Hall, with "Charade" and the annual Nativity 

stage pageant, in its fifth week, and 

"Tom Jones." bigger than ever in its 13th 

week at Cinema I. especially since the picture 

has been acclaimed as "best" by the 

New York Film Critics, were tops. The 

week even had the biggest Saturday take 

in the history of Cinema I. 

Also big were "Move Over, Darling," in its 

second week at the Aster: "The Sword in 

the Stone." strong in its second week at 

the RKO Palace, and several of the pictures 

in the art spots, including "To Bed ... Or 

Not to Bed." in its second week at the 

Coronet Theatre, where it broke the house 

record; "The War of the Buttons," in its 

third week at the Little Carnegie, which 

was above the second w-eek. "The Easy 

Life." in its second big week at the Festival, 

and "America America." in its third week 

at the Paris. Also holding up well were the 

two-a-day pictm-es, "The Cardinal." in its 

fourth week at the DeMille; "It's a Mad, 

Mad. Mad. Mad World." in its eighth week 

at the Warner Cinerama; "Cleopatra," in 

its 30th week at the Rivoli, and "Best of 

Cinerama." in its second week at Loew's 

Cinerama. 

Holding up w-ell enough were two Paramount 

releases. "Love With the Proper 

Stranger." in its second week at Loew's 

State and the east side Mm-ray Hill, and 

"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" in its 

second week at the Victoria, "4 for Texas," 

in its second week at the Paramount, and 

"The Victors," in its third week at the 

Criterion and the east side Sutton Theatre. 

With all the Times Square pictures going 

into their third or fourth weeks, the only 

new picture to open since late December was 

"Moderate Cantabile," which started at the 

east side Fine Arts January 6. 

, 

(Average Is 100) 

Astor—Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 160 

Baronet Billy Liar (Confl), 3rd wk. 

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Beekmon— Lowrence of Arabia " 

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Carnegie Hall Cinema Der Rosenkavolier 

(Showcorp), 2nd wk. ot two-a-day 140 

Cinemo I Tom Jones (UA-Lopert), 1 3fh wk 250 

Cinema II Ladybug, Ladybug (UA), 2nd wk. 120 

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tentatively titled "The World's Greatest 

ALBANY 

^he second annual joint installation of officers 

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phe Harte, a 300-seater in the town of 

directors of the Variety 

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Hoosick Falls, 

7 and the Women's 

dark since 1961. is 

League 

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Swindles." arrived 

will be held Sunday a9i 

from Europe Wednesday 

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in the clubrooms. 

Anthony 

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and 

with Nate 

promotion 

for the 

man for Friday-through-Monday operation. 

Dickman and 

French pictm-e 

Barbara Quinlivan 

with Saul It 

J. 

last was operated by Charles Harte. 

as cochairmen. 

Turell. Reade-Sterling 

Joseph Harmon president. 

of Niagara Falls 

Roustang 

will also 

Sherman, who lives in Fair Haven. Vt., rims 

will be 

confer 

toastmaster. 

with 

Outgoing 

Irving 

Chief Barker 

Wormser the Capitol in Whitehall and the State in 

and 

Dickman 

Sidney G. Dcneau. 

will give an 

vice-president 

account and Mechanicville, and has an auction business 

in a theatre building at Fair Haven. 

of his stewardship 

and 

general sales manager of 

the 

the 

following will be 

Continental 

installed: 

distribution division. 

He started 

chief 

presenting 

barker. 

films at 

Thomas the latter 

W. Fenno; first assistant, 

Kolinski; second 

The five-part film was directed 

assistant. Albert 

by for six weeks. 

Claude Chabrol, 

J. Petrella: who 

property master, Ron 

made the Paris 

L. Ruth: sequence, 

dough 

"The 

Frank 

guy. Myron 

Man Lynch, 

Gross. To Who MGM 

Sold 

salesman, 

the 

reported 

Eiffel 

be installed Tower": 

the 

by the Women's 

Ugo concession stand 

Gregoretti, 

at 

League are Giannina 

who 

Pappalardo. 

"The 

made 

new Northway 83 

the 

Naples 

Drive-In. 

episode. 

Plattsburgh, 

president: Barbara 

Travel 

has been 

Orders"; 

completed 

Quinlivan and 

to 

Mary 

Roman 

the 

Polanski, 

point 

Pappalardo. 

who made 

where indoor 

the 

vice-presidents; 

Amsterdam 

sequence, 

work can continue. 

Helen 

Lynch, 

Borman. "The Diamond 

who has stayed at 

treasurer; Rita 

Necklace"; 

the motel 

Inda, financial Jean-Luc operated 

Godard, 

by 

secretary, Ada 

who Hyman Krinowitz— 

directed 

Dine, 

the 

corresponding Morrocan 

who will 

secretary 

and 

run the 

episode, and 850-car 

Horikawa, 

airer—thinks it 

Ethel Taylor, who directed 

can be 

recording secretary. 

Seberg and 

the Tokyo completed in 

episode. Jean 

time for an April 

Jeanpremiere. 

Pien-e 

When 

Cassel are among 

Lynch visited the Will 

the leading 

Rogers Hospital 

Bonnie Sciuk is selling space for the players. 

at Saranac Lake several weeks ago 

journal Tent 7 is putting out for the 

with 

upcoming 

Variety International convention 

Fred Kloepfer. Universal salesman, 

he found the recently redecorated lobby 

here 

. Fenno will attend the Variety 2 Foreign-Made Pictures 

very attractive. Patients about to leave included 

meeting in New York for newly elected 

James Jordan, an assistant to 

Acquired 

Hi 

chief 

by 

barkers ... 

Eldorado 

Sid Cohen, president 

Martin, 

of 

general sales manager for Universal; 

H. E. Goldberg, a Universal New 

Allied of New York, was in Miami 

NEW 

to attend 

YORK—Eldorado Films, Inc., has 

the National Allied board 

acquired 

session . . . Paul 

"Sword of El Cid ' 

"Black York salesman, and George Schaefer. 

Wall was home recuperating from 

Duke" for 

an 

United States and 

illness 

Canadian 

. Conried theatrical and Helen Wisper, 

will television 

present an 

distribution. The 

MGM booker, was confined 

to 

evening of Shakespearean pictures are 

readings in the 

English 

her 

versions, home 

in by a heavy 

color, produced 

in Italy 

cold . . 

Boland Theatre in Lackawanna 

A new 

on 

as 

the 

cooperative 

concession stand 

features 

has 

with 

been built at 

evening of the 18th. 

Spanish the producers. 

Plattsbm-gh Drive-In. operated by Ruterill 

David Bader, 

Shea's 

executive 

and DuMont 

. 

Teck vice-president Albany 

remains of 

Variety 

closed with the projectionists 

demanding 

Eldorado, Club 

said the 

has 

deal was 

discontinued 

the forerunner 

sponsorship of Camp 

wages and other of an expansion 

things program 

Thacher after 

for 

22 years. 

the 

the 

management company. 

No decision has 

rejects . . . Bob The films 

yet 

Sokolsky 

were 

been 

acquired through 

made on a 

of the Sefo 

new charity. 

Courier-Express, 

Films 

A recent 

declaring International, 

item in this 

that 

long column 

films 

active in 

on 

the 

incorrectly 

Italian 

stated that 

local screens during 1963 film market. 

the camp sponsorship had been continued 

"were either first rate or very much the It is understood 

opposite," 

that 

names Eldorado 

temperature often gets 

his 

has 

ten 

options 

on 

down below 

best as follows: 

To another 

zero in 

seven Watertown. 

Kill a 

features and the 

for 

Mockingbird, exposure 

of 

shrinkage 

Lilies of the Field, 

in 1964. 

The The theatre 

Longest company advertising in 

Day, David recently 

the 

and acquired 

the French 

Watertown 

Lisa, The 

paper before 

Devil's Eye, The production, "Lcs 

Christmas 

Cardinal, Loups 

was just coincidental 

Sundays and dans la Bergere," 

Cybele, The 

now and not a 

in 

Black 

French 

result of a 

Fox, 

dialog 

26-below 

A Child Is Waiting and frigid 

English blast, 

titles, 

and The which as indicated 

will 

in 

Incredible 

be 

a 

Journey. 

dubbed 

recent item. 

this year. 

The 

A "Fantasia" benefit McFadden Amusement 

performance will 

Corp., which 

be held at the 

sells amusement Hellman Theatre devices 

the and 

night 

equipment, 

of the 21st 

filed 

for 

a bankruptcy 

the petition ... Joe Garvey, 

manager, 

Richard 

Northeastern 

G. Yates 

New 

Forms York Speech Center. 

reports 

Representatives 

the 

of 

matinee business 

on "The Sword 

Film Sales 

in the Stone" 

Company 

the center arranged the showing at a luncheon 

set records 

at the Granada Theatre, with long 

NEW 

with 

lines 

YORK— 

Dave Weinstein of 

Richard 

the 

G. 

Hellman 

Yates, who resigned 

December 

forming 

Foundation. 

from morning till early evening 

Reserved seats are 

20 

$5 

as eastern 

and general 

sales manager 

. . . Annette Funicello is scheduled 

admission tickets 

of 

to be 

MGM-TV, has formed Richard G 

$2. 

here February 11 in behalf of Yates 

"Merlin 

Film Sales. Inc., which will specialize 

Jones." booked at the Granada in all 

. . . Eleanor 

phases of television and theatrical Grove Completes 

Paradeis, accountant with First National programming 'Victors' 

sales. 

Film Co. from 1920 to 1935, when she 

Yates, 

became 

director of Pamo Film Exchange 

who is the son of Herbert 

Assignment 

J. Yates, 

for Columbia 

former president and board chairman of NEW YORK— Izzy Grove, former middleweight 

boxer, has completed his assign- 

died. 

Republic Pictures, had been with MGM-TV 

since 1959. From 1945 to 1959. he had been ment of directing a phase of Columbia 

with Republic in various 

Sidney 

capacities. 

Pictures' exploitation 

E. Stern 

campaign 

Dies 

on 

at 

"The 

51; Throughout World War II. Yates was in Victors" in the five New York City 

Former N. 

the J. Allied 

U.S. 

Head 

Army as a captain in the Pacific boroughs and ten surrounding counties with 

SOUTH area of 

ORANGE, N.J.-Sidncy 

oiêrations. E. Stern, 

He is a graduate of tie-in store signs personally hailing the arrival 

of the picture. 

former Choate 

president School 

of Allied Theatre 

and Culver 

Owners 

Military Academy 

of New Jersey, and 

died Wednesday 

an alumnus of 

(8i Williams 

of 

College. Under Grove's direction, 

a 

more than 200 

heart attack at Orange stores 

Memorial Ho.spital 

and many hotels in the metropolitan 

area prominently displayed welcoming 

He was 51 years old. 

Stern was president of the Columbia Lehman Joins Trans-Lux 

Amusement Co. and vice-president 

TV 

messages for the film. The campaign included 

participation 

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in New York for indoctrination at the home 

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before taking up his Tokyo duties. 

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and. prior to that, was an independent producer 

in Germany. Spain and South Africa. 

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NEW YORK—Universal's "Man's Favorite 

Sport?" starring Rock Hudson and Paula 

Prentiss, will have its world premiere in 

Miami January 30 to launch a series of 

Florida openings, according to Hem'y H. 

"Hi" Martin, vice-president and general 

sales manager. The picture will be nationally 

released in March. 

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days of advance promotion and she will 

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of a special float in the New 

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in connection with the Orange Bowl 

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football game. The same float will be used 

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during the Gasparilli Festival in Tampa. 

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Directors Local 161 in New York 

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with Directors Guild of America has been 

okayed by the membership of DGA, after 

having previously been approved by the International 

offices of the lATSE and the 

Victors' 

membership of Local 161, according to 

olunibia president George Sidney. Although DGA 

bylaws provide a 60-day period for voting 

on such proposals, the necessary majority 

was attained in an unprecedented three 

weeks from the date of submission. Milton 

Pelsen. president-business manager of 

Tori Cit! 

Local 161, and his staff, will move to DGA's 

New York headquarters immediately. 

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'Pussycat' for 

NEW YORK — Charles K. Feldman's 

Famous Artists Productions and Warren 

Beatty Productions have concluded negotiations 

with United Artists for the distribution 

of "What's New, Pussycat?" in 

which Beatty will star. The pictm-e will go 

into production early in 1964. 

Beatty recently completed "Lilith" for 

Robert Rossen, which Columbia Pictures 

will release in 1964. 

BROADW A'f 

gARNEY BALABAN, president of Paramount, 

and George Weltner, executive 

vice-president, left Monday ( 6 > for Hollywood 

for one of their periodic studio conferences. 

Russell Holman, eastern production 

representative, flew to Hollywood 

Tuesday to .join them. * * * Si Seadler left 

for Mexico City to hold conferences with 

MGM officials participating in the MGM 

Operetta and World Heritage series and 

Eugene Jacobs. United Artists southern 

division manager, left Wednesday 1 8 1 for 

two days of meetings with branch personnel 

in Atlanta while James R. 'Velde, UA 

vice-president, returned to the home office 

the same day following a series of meetings 

with branch personnel and exhibitors in 

the Washington area. 

• 

David A. Lipton, Universal Pictures vicepresident 

in charge of advertising and publicity, 

is here from Hollywood for a week of 

conferences with home office executives on 

1964 releases. * * * John Liddiard, west 

coast sales manager for Embassy Pictures 

T'V. is in New York for home offic.3 

meetings. 

• 

Julie Andrews, who completed her starring 

role in "The Americanization of 

Emily." at MGM. planed back to England 

Wednesday i8i with her husband, producer-designer 

Tony Walton and Hermione 

Baddeley. who finished up her role in 

MGM's "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," is 

also en route back to England. * * ' Here 

from England are John Schlesinger, director 

of "Billy Liar," currently playing the 

Baronet, for newspaper and radio-TV interviews 

on the Continental release, and J. 

Lee Thompson, director of "What a Way to 

Go!" for 20th Century-Fox, who is back to 

complete the editing for the pictui-e's release 

in June. * * • Alain Delon. French 

star of MGM's "The Love Cage." got in 

from Paris Sunday 1 5 > to do location scenes 

at the Americana Hotel and also do press 

interviews. 

• 

Times Square has a new block-long sign, 

put up by Dino De Lam-entiis, the Italian 

producer, to herald his forthcoming Biblical 

epic, "The Bible," to start production in 

1964. This is the first time the 270x60 foot 

sign over both the Astor and Victoria theatres 

between 45th and 46th streets has 

been used for a picture not completed and 

not scheduled to be released in either theatre, 

according to Robert W. Dowling, 

president of City Investing Corp.. owner of 

the sign. * * Ethel Terry, fonner TV 

actress, has joined with Josh Meyer in the 

talent department of the Harold D. Cohen 

agency. 

Italy Honors Leo Jaffe 

NEW YORK—The government of 

Italy 

presented its Meritorious Order of Commendatore 

of the Republic of Italy to Leo 

Jaffe, executive vice-president of Columbia 

Pictures in a ceremony at the Italian Consulate-General 

here Friday '3i. The honor 

was conferred on Jaffe by Italian President 

Antonio Segni for Jaffe's efforts in 

fui'thering Italian-American relations in 

the sphere of motion pictures. Jaffe was 

notified of the award by Giuseppe Togni, 

Italian minister of industry and commerce. 

Add New Cinerama Houses 

In Philippines and Japan 

NEW YORK—Cinerama. Inc.. added two 

theatres in foreign countries and one in 

the Philippines to its list of houses throughout 

the world in the past few weeks, according 

to B. G. Kranze, vice-president. 

The new Roman Super-Cinerama Theatre 

in Manila, which has 1,486 seats, 

opened December 28 with "How the West 

Was Won," which has a big advance sale 

for 1964. The Sho Chi Ku Central Theatre 

in Tokyo opened in January with Stanley 

Kramer's "It's a Mad. Mad, Mad, Mad 

World," the second Cinerama house in that 

city. "Mad World" will also open in Osaka 

in March, to bring the total number of 

Cinerama theatres in Japan to six. Ki-anze 

also said that negotiations have been completed 

for a Cinerama theatre in Nagoya, to 

open early in 1964. 

Negotiations also have been completed 

with an independent exhibitor in Liverpool 

for the conversion of his Abbey Theatre 

to Cinerama, this bringing the total 

of Cinerama houses in the British Isles to 

nine, three in London, two in Birmingham, 

one each in Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester 

and Liverpool and one in Dublin, 

Ireland, Kranze said. 

Negotiations have also been completed 

with the Cathay Organization of Singapore 

for the erection of a new theatre in that 

city. The house, already under construction, 

is expected to open in the late spring 

of 1964. 

Cinerama to Open More 

Theatres in Spain 

NEW YORK—Cinerama, Inc., has completed 

negotiations for two more Cinerama 

theatres in Spain, a second one in Madrid, 

expected to open about February, and another 

in Barcelona, expected to open in 

April 1964. 

"How the West Was Won," the MGM- 

Cinerama production, has been playing in 

Cinerama theatres in Madrid and Barcelona 

since Easter 1963. 

Complete 2nd Production 

In India in English 

BOMBAY. INDIA—Production has been 

completed on Stratton Productions' "The 

Guide." filmed in English by Ted Danielewski 

and coauthored by him and Pearl S. 

Buck, this being the second feature in 

English, the earlier one being "The Householder," 

released in November by Royal 

Films International, subsidiary of Columbia 

Pictures. 

"The Guide," which was filmed in Pathe 

Color, stars Dev Anand in the title role 

with Waheeda Rehman playing opposite. 

Embassy Pictures Acquires 

Italy's 'Ape Woman' 

NEW YORK—Joseph E. Levine's Embassy 

Pictui-es has acquired the new Italian 

comedy. "The Ape Woman," starring Annie 

Girardot and Ugo Tognazzi, for distribution 

in the U.S. early in 1964. 

Filmed in Italy under the title "La Donna 

Scimmia," the picture was directed by 

Marco Perreri, Perreri and Tognaz.zi were 

director and star, respectively, of Embassy's 

current release, "The Conjugal Bed." 

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NEW YORK — Universal branches and 

listributors overseas will honor their company 

president with a Milton Rackmil sales 

Irive, a 26-\veek international sales comjetition, 

according to Americo Aboaf, viceoresident 

and general sales manager. 

The theme of the drive will be "A Salute 

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success. The 45 Universal branches in Europe, 

Latin America, the Far East and Australia 

will participate in the drive, which 

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' si'tej,;.. .jyiii include "Charade," "Captain Newman, 

"The Chalk Garden," "The Brass 

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Foreign-Made Features 

YORK—Union Film Distributors, 

^which is operating under the new owner- 

IfShip of a group headed by Joseph Auer- 

has acquired four foreign-made features 

for distribution in 1964. 

are "The Gentlemen Prom the 

East," a French film directed by Jean 

iCharles Dudremet, with Jean Marais and 

Genevieve Page starred; "Holiday in Hell," 

a French film produced by Gilbert de 

Goldschmidt, with EHina Labourdette and 

'.Georges Poujouly starred: "Happiness Is 

for Tomorrow," a film directed by Henri 

.Fabiani with Jacques Higelin and Irene 

iChabrier, and "Sun Kissed," produced with 

the cooperation of five nations, Germany, 

.Prance, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, 

the direction of Alexander Swiagenin 

with underwater sequences by Rudolf Gygi. 

Kevin McClory Plans Film 

Of Fleming's 'Thunderball' 

NEW YORK—Kevin McClory, the actor 

who owns the film rights to Ian Fleming's 

"Thunderball," the only one of the James 

Bond novels not controlled by Harry Saltzman 

and Albert R. Broccoli, is currently negotiating 

with these producers, who may 

be associated with him in the film .he 

plans to make. 

McClory, who plans to make the film in 

the Bahamas early in 1964, won the rights 

to "Thunderball" as part of his settleinent 

in a London court case. If no deal is inade 

with Saltzman and Broccoli, McClory will 

featiu'e a "new James Bond" instead of 

Sean Connery, who played the role in "Dr. 

No" and "Prom Russia, With Love," both 

for United Artists release, the latter to be 

shown in the U.S. in April 1964. 

Universal Conducting Sales 

Meetings in Mexico City 

MEXICO CITY — Universal's Latin- 

America sales conference will be held here 

this week, with Milton R. Rackmil, president, 

and Americo Aboaf, vice-president 

and foreign manager, in attendance. Also 

attending from New York are Ben M. 

Cohn, assistant foreign manager, and 

Joseph I. Mazer and Alex P. Black, foreign 

department executives. 

This is the fifth of a continuing series of 

regional overseas conferences which began 

with four European meetings in December. 

PITTSBURGH 

The theatre being constructed in the new 

Donaldson Crossroads Shopping Center 

on Route 19 between Mount Lebanon 

and Washington will be named the Plaza. 

The seating capacity will be 700, according 

to Norman Mervis, general manager 

for Associated Theatres. The initial contractor 

ran out of money and the shopping 

center development company took 

over this project and expects to have it 

ready for opening by mid-March or Easter 

Sunday. 

The Pennsylvania legislature convened 

January 7 at Harrisbui'g, and the West 

Virginia legislature, with 22 topics listed, 

opened on the 8th at Charleston . . . The 

first tradescreening of the New Year was 

held by UA on the 2nd, and the feature 

was "The Pink Panther." Last and best 

pictm-e screened in 1963 also was a UA 

release, "Tom Jones," winner of the National 

Board of Review . . . The Regent. 

Beaver Falls, will offer on stage January 

24-25 the Pittsburgh Savoyards production 

of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera 

"Ruddigore" . Isabella Young Neyland, 

80, died in Erie. Surviving are her 

husband B. G., formerly operator of the 

Folly Theatre there. 

A proposed renewal plan at Erie for the 

downtown lOth-llth, State and Peach 

block would retain such landmark buildings 

as the Strand Theatre, Telephone, 

Meiser, and YMCA ... At Washington, Pa., 

the Chamber of Commerce went on record 

opposing the city's proposed 10 per cent 

amusement tax which was included in the 

1964 budget. The association has opposed 

the levy since it was introduced in December. 

The city council, with two new 

inembers, takes over this week and the 

budget may be changed. One of the new 

members is William C. Wilson, manager of 

Associated 's Penn Theatre here. 

Holiday cards were received from many 

friends in the industry and we wish to 

acknowledge a few—from Mr. and Mrs. 

George Tice, Earl R. Beckwith, Louis J. 

Stanson, Charles and Dale Warner, Glenn 

and Mary Easter, Bertha and Goi-don Gibson, 

Joe Bugala, Adam Goelz, Vince 

Josack and Gordon Lane. Josack, partially 

paralyzed, resides at 1031 N. Whitley Ave., 

Apt. 10, Hollywood 28, Calif., and Lane, 

who was a projectionist in the original 

Nickelodeon, makes his home at 301 

Meyers Ave., Meyersdale, Pa. 

Fromkess to Make 'Party' 

As Third for AA Release 

NEW YORK—Leon Fromkess will produce 

"The Party" in March as his third 

picture for Allied Artists release. He has 

signed Jerry De Bono as writer and Allen 

Barron as director of the picture, both 

signed through the Shiffrin-Litto Agency. 

Fromkess is negotiating with Carol Lynley 

to star. 

Fromkess' first for Allied Artists, "Shock 

Corridor," was written, produced and directed 

by Samuel Fuller and his second, 

"The Naked Kiss," is now in the final editing 

stage, with Constance Towers, Michael 

Dante and 'Virginia Grey starred. These 

will be three of the five he and Sam Firks 

are to make for AA distribution. 

Children's Matinee Theatre 

At Reade-Sterling House 

NEW YORK— Films made in England 

by the Children's Film Foundation and assembled 

by the Walter Reade-Sterling organization 

as a "Children's Adventure Series," 

are being presented Saturday mornings 

in two four-week series, starting December 

21 at the 34th Street East Theatre. 

Two performances are being held each 

Satmday, at 10 a.m. and 12 noon. The 

first series presented "Circus Friends," 

"Soap Box Derby," "One Wish Too Many" 

and will conclude with "The Salvage 

Game" February 1. The second series presented 

"John of the Fair," "The Dog and 

the Diamond," "Five Clues to Fortune" 

and will conclude February 8 with "The 

Last Rhino." 

The Children's Foundation," a nonprofit 

organization, was established in 1951. 

Jerome I. Liotta and Ralph T. Desiderio 

are directors of the Children's Matinee 

Theatre. 

Paramount to Distribute 

Parade Films Overseas 

HOLL'YWOOD—Parade Pictures, headed 

by Robert Patrick and Riley Jackson, have 

concluded a deal whereby Paramount Pictures 

wiU distribute several Parade releases 

in a number of foreign territories. "East of 

Kilimanjaro" will be distributed in Japan, 

the Par East, Australia and the Latin 

American countries. "Cavalry Command" 

and "Ballad of a Gunfighter" wUI be distributed 

in the same territory. 

Howard Nicholson, former Paramount 

Pictui-es branch manager in Memphis, has 

joined Parade as sales manager in the 

Memphis territory and will set up key dates 

for the latter two features in that section 

of the U.S. J. William Piper, Donald 

Nathan and George Hoff handled the 

negotiations for Paramount. 

The Arthur Davis Co. of Tokyo, headed 

by Arthur Davis, will be Par East sales representative. 

Puerto Rican Chain Opens 

Two Theatres on Island 

SAN JUAN, P.R.—Commonwealth Theatres 

of Puerto Rico, Inc., opened the Ambassador, 

luxury first run, on December 

25 after complete reconstruction and redecoration, 

it was announced by Rafael 

Ramos Cobian, circuit head. 

Also on December 25, Commonwealth 

opened Puerto Rico's first drive-in, in 

Ponce, the island's second largest city, on 

the southern coast. In 1964, Commonwealth 

will enter the commercial real estate 

field upon the completion of a 12-noor 

office building, with two adjoining theatres, 

in the center of San Juan's business district, 

Santurce, Cobian said. This will be 

ready by the faU of 1964. 

A Reissue Multiple Run 

LOS ANGELES—Walter Reade-Sterling- 

Continental, which is handling the reissue 

of "Wuthering Heights," is setting up a 

limited multiple run of the Samuel Goldwyn 

classic here. 

Mrs. Sybil Burton of the new Establishinent 

Theatre Co. of New York, organization 

for the presentation of plays and motion 

pictures, serves as its casting director. 

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Citnilarity in choosing the ten top films 

in 1963 was evident in the selections 

of the three local critics. Jay Carmody 

Richard Coe iPost> and James 

O'Neill jr. iNewsi. All agreed on Tom 

Jones. Lawrence of Arabia. Hud and To 

Kill a Mockingbird. Other selections; S'o. 

David and Lisa. How the West Was Won, 

The L-Shaped Room. Lilies of the Field. 

The Great Escape. The Leopard. This 

Sporting Life. Knife in the Water. Heaven's 

Above. Dr. No and The Playboy of the 

Western World. 

The Ulman Theatre at Salisbury was a 

holiday casualty — destroyed by a blaze 

from an overheated furnace. The Ulman. 

built in 1888. was leased by Peninsula 

Theatres and had been booked by Harley 

Davidson of Independent Theatres . 

Davidson's son Duane. who composes music 

as well as books theatres, will get his 

Cantatas 1, U and IV performed at the 

Graz Opera in Vienna. Austria, in April 

by American soprano Valerie Goodall. She 

premiered Davidson's cantata at a concert 

of the National Ass'n for American Composers 

and Conductors at the Pan American 

Union here last spring. 

George Stevens jr., USIA motion picture 

director, retui-ned from Hollywood, where 

he spent the holiday season with his parents, 

in time to speak before the Woman's 

National Democratic Club luncheon on 

the 6th on "Our Official Movie Image 

Abroad!" He supplemented his address 

with the screening of the USIA film, "The 

Five Cities of June." This film, narrated 

by Charlton Heston. deals with five unrelated 

events during June 1963. USIA 

has submitted it to the Academy of Motion 

Pictui-e Arts and Sciences for documentary 

awards consideration in the 36th 

annual academy awards. 

Ed Rosenfeld resigned as manager of the 

Washington and Baltimore Trans-Lux theatres 

and has taken possession of two 

Waynesboro, Va., theatres, the Cavalier and 

the Wayne. Rosenfeld thinks he will like 

it better traveling to his own theatres in 

Virginia. "Lucky, that's how I feel," he 

exclaims. 

Sam Galanty has appointed Jesse Smith 

as head booker at Columbia and Charles 

Hurley has also been added to the staff as 

booker. Hurley, who was hospitalized several 

weeks, said it was "touch and go" 

but that he is "bouncing back very nicely." 

He was formerly with Boxoffice Attractions. 

Pittsburgh AA exchange manager Dave 

Silverman was a holiday house guest of 

Robert J. FoUiard, local Continental manager. 

Folllard was a bit vociferous over 

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the excellent business which "Lord of the 

Flies" was doing at the T-L Playhouse. An 

Arlington boy. 13-year-old Nicky Hammond, 

plays Robert in this motion picture 

which Washington broker Dana Hodgdon 

coproduced. Nicky is the son of Col. and 

Mrs. T. W. Hammond jr. He received no 

salary during the filming, but 10 per cent 

of the movie's profits w'ill be divided between 

the 30 boy actors. 

Bill Friedman has resigned as booker and 

buyer for the Sidney Lust circuit. He will 

announce his plans for the future later. 

NORTH JERSEY 

rdward Batlan, manager of the Ritz. 

Elizabeth, who recently retm-ned to 

that post after recuperating from an illness, 

suffered a relapse and again is in 

Fitkin Hospital in Belmar. near his home. 

His condition was listed as satisfactory. 

Fred DeAngelis. manager of the Regent. 

Elizabeth, also an SW house, has assumed 

control of both the Regent and Ritz for 

the present assisted by Joe Dotro . . . Mike 

Rush, assistant at the Regent for many 

years, has resigned. No replacement had 

been named. 

In Union City, newly appointed SW Lincoln 

manager Paul Reynaud resigned to 

leave for Florida with his wife due to her 

ill health. Replacing Reynaud is Myer Witlow, 

with Skouras for many years, who 

recently managed the new Closter Theater, 

Closter. which was opened last summer. 

Witlow and his wife live in North Bergen. 

Replacing him at the Closter was another 

veteran Skouras manager, John Lorenz. 

Newcomers to the SW organization arc 

Norman Silverman, a former Skouras man 

in Long Island, and Bob Davan, who joins 

the industry for the first time. Silverman 

at the Oritani. Hackensack. while Davan 

is 

has been appointed to fill an assistant 

manager vacancy at the Stanley Theatre. 

Jersey City. 

Elaine Hausser has joined Fabian at the 

Bellevue, Upper Montclair. where she will 

work with Manager Dick Murphy. Employed 

with Fabian for the past 12 years. 

Mrs. Hausser was manager of the State 

Theatre in Altoona. Pa., which was closed 

indefinitely last month . Oxford. 

Little Falls, a weekends-only operation, was 

opened for the full holiday week by Manager 

Carl Jablonski . Wiener, 

manager of the Wellmont. Montclair. was 

recently awarded two $500 prizes by MGM. 

one for a successful promotion of the MGM 

Operetta series and the other on the World 

Heritage films. 

The Visit' Is Completed 

By 20th-Fox in Rome 

ROME—"The Visit, the " 

20th Century- 

Vo\ drama produced by Julien Derode with 

Ingrld Bergman. Anthony Quinn and Irina 

Demich, was completed at Cinecitta late in 

December and will be distributed by I lie 

comjiany in mid-1964. 

Bernhard Wicki. who directed, is now doing 

the post-production scoring and dubbing 

in Paris on the picture, w'hich Is based 

on Friedrlch Duerrenmatt's Broadway 

stage .success, which starred Alfred Lunt 

and Lynn Pontanne 

BALTIMORE 

"l/ariety Tent 19 held its installation o) 

officers and induction of new members 

Sunday il2i at 10:30 a.m. at the Holiday 

Inn. Northwest. Along with renewing 

old acquaintances and welcoming new 

members, the club hosted a brunch at II 

o'clock. Former Chief Barker Bill Howarc 

was chairman. 

Ritz Enterprises, having sold the Ritl 

Theatre Building, has moved its offices 

to the circuit's Earle Theatre, 4847 Belair 

Rd. . Baltimoreans attending 

MGM's screening in Washington of new 

product were Aaron Seidler, head of Affiliated 

Theatres; Irwin Cohen, film buyer 

and booker; John Recher, Hicks-Baker 

Theatres, and Leon Back, head of Rome 

Theatres. 

Mike Klein, WB representative in this 

territory, was given a party at the home 

of Tom Cosgrove. also of Warner Bros., 

to celebrate his birthday . A, 

Brehm. general manager for Edmondson 

and Elkridge drive-ins. was in Washington 

on business . Schmuff. executive 

of Dui-kee Enterprises, and Jack 

L. Whittle, executive director of Allied Mo 

tion Picture Theatre Owners of Maryland, 

were in Florida this week to attend an Al 

lied committee meeting. 

JF Theatres, headed by Jack Frucht 

man. has taken over the Regent Theatre, 

a 1.500-seat house formerly operated by 

Henry Hornstein. who has been in semiretirement 

for several months. The present 

policy is to continue. 

'Becket' Starts Roadshow 

Engagements in March 

NEW YORK—Paramount will release 

Hal Wallis' "Becket" as a two-a-day re 

served seat attraction in eight exclusive 

70mm engagements in the United States 

and Canada in March. 

Charles Boasberg. Paramount general 

sales manager, reported that the pictm-e, 

which stars Richard Burton and Peter 

O'Toole. would have its world premiere in 

New York on March 11 at Loew's State 

Theatre. The other bookings are the Warner 

Beverly, Los Angeles: Eglington. Toronto: 

Cinestage. Chicago; United Artists, 

San Francisco: Seville. Montreal: Gary, 

Boston, and Ontario. Washington. 

The film will be shown on a schedule of 

ten performances weekly, with matinees on 

Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. 

Universal to Distribute 

British Film Musical 

NEW YORK Universal Pictures has 

concludi'd negotiations to handle the distribution 

of "The Dream Maker." a musical 

in color produced in England by British 

Lion Films and Magna Film Distributors, 

for the U.S. and Canada, according to 

Henry H. "Hi Martin, " vice-president and 

general sales manager. 

"The Dream Maker," which was produced 

by Norman Williams under the title "It's 

All Happening," stars Tommy Steele, teenage 

recording favorite, with Michael Medwin 

and Angela Douglas featured. 

A February release is planned. 

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HOLLYWOOD — Agreement on a 

contract 

covering theatrical screen writers was 

announced over the weekend following a 

17-hour final negotiating session between 

representatives of Writers Guild of 

America West and major studios. 

James R. Webb and Melville Shavelson, 

chairmen of the screen writers negotiating 

committee, and Charles Boren, executive 

vice-president of the Ass'n of Motion Picture 

Producers, said the contract, effective 

December 13, is for three years, with a 

provision for reopening after two years on 

only the question of minimum salary rates. 

This issue was omitted in the negotiations 

just concluded in the interest of avoiding 

any material increase in the cost of making 

films in the United States, guiM negotiators 

said. Major items in the agreement provide 

for: 

Reopening on 1. the question of pay 

television. 

2. Expanded coverage with respect to 

original screen story material. 

3. Additional payment to a screen writer 

when his original screen material is used as 

the basis for a television series. 

4. More specific definition of requirements 

on writers credits. 

5. Broader arbitration coverage. 

6. Enlarged publication rights. 

7. Definition of a number of technical 

details. 

Representing the writers, in addition to 

Webb and Shavelson, were Allen Rivkln, 

president of the screen branch of WGA; 

Michael Franklin, executive director, and 

Georgia Hanni, resident counsel. 

Representing the producers with Boren 

were Alfred P. Chamie, AMPP secretarytreasurer; 

Eugene Arnstein, Allied Artists; 

Edmund DePatie, Arthur Schaefer and 

Peter Knecht, Warner Bros.; Bonar Dyer 

and Spencer Olin, Disney; Frank Ferguson 

and Roy Metzler, 20th-Fox; Anthony 

Frederick, Morris Weiner and Marshall 

Wortman, Universal; Saul Rittenberg and 

E. C. Delavigne, MGM; Bernard Donnenfeld 

and Emmet Ward, Paramount; Gordon 

Stulberg and MUo Mandel, Columbia; 

Maui'ice Benjamin and Edward Rubin, 

AMPP counsel. 

Gary EUingsworth of the California 

State Conciliation Service sat in on the 

fmal negotiating session. 

Newsreels to Space Age 

HOLLYWOOD—Jim Morgan, president 

of Space Age Productions, has closed a deal 

for use of the entire Pathe News library 

of short subjects, newsreel footage and 

other film material shot over the years. 

Museum Requests Print 

On J.F.K. Coverage 

HOLLYWOOD—The Hollywood Museum 

requested the National Broadcasting Co. to 

supply a print of the television coverage of 

the events beginning with the assassination 

cf the late President Kennedy on November 

22 and continuing through his funeral. 

However, the cost of the film copy was 

enormous for the Museum's budget, running 

to around $10,000 for the 71 hours, 

36 minutes of material. 

A print has been donated the Library of 

Congress by NBC, and at least history is 

preserved, according to Sol Lesser, president 

of the Museimi, who was concerned 

that the video tapes of the event would be 

reused, and the picture lost. The Museum 

expects eventually to get a print of the 

film. 

TV Film Company Sets 

Up 11-Million Budget 

HOLLYWOOD—A production 

budget of 

$11,000,000. highest in the history of the 

cartoon business, has been scheduled for 

this year by Hanna-Barbera. The company 

now has ten television shows on the air. 

and the next season will have 13 'A hours 

a week on television, network and syndication. 

In the past seven years, H-B has produced 

780 cartoons, all of which were sold 

to networks or syndication. 

Writers Dinner March 9 

HOLLYWOOD — The Writers Guild of 

America West will hold its 16th awards 

dinner March 9. Nominations for the 

screen honors have been sent out for the 

best written American comedy, best written 

American drama and the best written 

American musical. 

John Musgrave to MPRF 

HOLLYWOOD—John Musgrave, former 

controller at Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 

has been appointed director of business 

management at the Motion Picture Relief 

FMnd by president George Bagnall. 

Writing "Mamie' Score 

HOLLYWOOD—Bernard Herrmann was 

signed by Alfred Hitchcock to compose an 

original musical score for his currently 

shooting "Marnie," starring Tippi Hedren 

and Sean Connery for Universal release. 

Discuss "Secret' Premiere 

HOLLYWOOD—Stephen Boyd and producer 

Robert Joseph, who handled the 

20th-Fox "The Third Secret," in which 

Boyd stars, conferred regarding the April 

premiere in this country. 

New European Chance 

For U. S. Producers 

HOLLYWOOD—Producer-director Robert 

Aldrich, upon his return from two and 

a half weeks of distribution conferences 

abroad, reported that insuffcient financing 

for nat'.ve production in Europe has 

created a vast market there for the right 

knd of American features. The growth of 

the Common Market, under which subsidies 

will be eliminated for producers to 

avoid competition, has made money hard 

to get. Thus, in most areas, according to 

Aldrch. few pictures are being made and 

there are. as a consequence, great opportunities 

for American fi'ms to fill this 

vacuum. He stressed the fact that they do 

not want the light, frothy comedies or 

farces. 

Several weeks ago. Aldrich announced 

plans to make a series of pictures in the 

$250,000 budget group. Such fi'ms. he feels, 

would do well in this market. However, the 

situation involves a totally new distribution 

attitude on the part of U.S. companies, 

which, Aldrich stated, are "reluctant to 

change their pattern and give producers 

money to make the kind of pictures that 

can fill this market. The industry is 

losing a bet in not taking advantage of 

business that is there." Aldrich is now preparing 

Henry Parrell's "What Ever Happened 

to Cousin Charlotte?" No release 

deal has been set. His last film is the 

current "4 for Texas." 

New Limelite Comedies 

Making Silent Shorts 

HOLLYWOOD—Limelite Comedies, newproduction 

company, has been formed at 

7471 Melrose. It is shooting silent comedies 

of short length with music. June Ward, 

child actor David Carr and Bill Moore top 

the cast of the first film, which has been 

completed, and are now at work on the 

second two-reeler. Leo Markus is producerdirector 

of the company and has scheduled 

theatrical release of six of the comedies 

for its first season starting in 1964. 

Sues Dimension 150, Inc. 

LOS ANGELES—A suit has been filed in 

superior court against Richard H. Vetter, 

Carl Williams, Louis de Rochemont and 

Dimension 150, Inc., by Edmund Vettie. 

who alleges a breach of contract which 

called for an exclusive representatiori' and 

commission on sales. 

A Title Change 

The title of A. C. Lyles' recent Paramount 

release "Stagecoach to Hell." has 

been changed to "Stage to Thunder Rock." 

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BACKSTAGE WITH CASSYD 

^N INCREASING amount of attention is 

being given by the studios and filmmakers 

to cinematography schools. Most 

young producers of the new genre have 

college backgrounds, and when they have 

something to say they direct their remarks 

to their own kind. 

Leo C. Rosten, psychologist, writer and 

lecturer, who wrote the novel from which 

"Captain Newman, M.D." is based, and 

Da\id Miller, the director of the Universal 

release, attended a recent class on films 

conducted at USC by Arthur Knight, motion 

picture critic for the Saturday Review. 

Unlike the usual female tea and lecture 

brigade, Rosten and Miller faced an alert 

audience eager to discuss filmmaking motivations 

and techniques, and a frank and 

lively session followed. 

At another time. Frank and Eleanor 

Perry seminared with a UCLA group when 

they were in Hollywood for the opening 

of their "Ladybug, Ladybug," and discussed 

their production with Screen Writers Guild 

members at a screening. 

This frank discussion by filmmakers like 

the Perrys. Rosten and Miller with interested 

and informed audiences is setting a 

new pattern in this center of production. 

It is distinctly a healthy development, it 

shows an intellectual growth. 

The other side of this expansion of interest 

in filmmaking in college is the importance 

this means for movie attendance. 

Students in the three major universities 

in southern California, the private colleges 

and in junior colleges are estimated to 

number around 250,000. Practically all are 

between the ages of 18 and 25, the segment 

which is the major target of industry 

efforts to stimulate theatregoing. Thus, the 

studios and the creative folk are moving in 

the right direction when they establish 

contacts with the college groups. 

If one looks at the new breed which came 

out of World War II and learned moviemaking 

by using GI Bill of Rights grants to 

go to college, among the noteworthy names 

is Burt Kennedy. Kennedy, who writes and 

directs, recently brought in "Mail Order 

Bride" for MGM ahead of schedule. 

Kennedy was raised in the tradition of 

the theatre by his parents, who were old 

vaudevillians. Following war service, young 

Kennedy studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, 

where he picked up some of the 

tricks. He made a move into television. He 

likes to direct a small story against a big 

background. He says Keir Dullea was a 

problem but Buddy Ebsen was easy to work 

with. 

Asked if he liked directing his own script, 

he suggested "you can get real lazy, when 

you direct your own." This bright young 

guy feels that television has made crews 

much happier: they don't have to stand 

around during takes, and get used to working 

together more efficiently and rapidly. 

Another man with a college background, 

one who studied to become a teacher and 

wound up in show business following a 

stint as an officer in the Army, is A. Ronald 

Lubin. A USC man, he went the talent 

agency route, handling the varied details, 

all the way from buying literary properties 

to peddling talent. An artist now at packaging 

and producing, Lubin, like other 

college-trained men, is very expressive, and 

has a fine grasp of the theoretical, as well 

as practical, aspects of handling people. 

Lubin feels that one of the great problems 

of getting a more steady stream of 

films from the creative breed of independent 

producers who number in the hundreds 

—men who are seeking to put excitement 

into productions— is the antiquated system 

of distribution and bookkeeping prevaler^ 

ni the film business. 

Lubin s method is to spend plenty of tim^ 

to develop a package—a story, with write: 

star, director, etc., pacts. His cost is un 

usually confined to the story, which he 

buys outright. Thus he is able to presen 

a low-cost package deal to the studia 

calling for them to finance the treatment 

If the studio decides this is unsatisfactory 

little property-developing expense has beer 

incurred. 

Lubin says he likes to deal with the 

majors, explaining he finds their high 

overhead is compensated for by dealing 

with top talent in all departments, real big' 

time men who bring out the finest in film-i| 

making. Lubin is an admirer of excellence 

He believes a system that closely control 

hidden expenses will assure high retui-ns oi 

properties costing a few million dollars, 

provided a more honest shake is given t( 

the producers. 

Among the "new breed" producers hi 

considers real hot, are Martin Jurow, Ala: 

Pakula, Millar and Turman, Bob Aldric 

and Kubrick and Harris. Lubin predicted! 

that his "Simon Bolivar" production, which 

is to be made in what he termed a la 

"Lawrence of Arabia," with its tremendous! 

breadth and scope, will be a winner. 

The short subjects branch of the Academy! 

of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has 

faced a scarcity of domestic nominees. Each 

year, foreign entries have outnumbered 

those produced in the U.S., and even in 

quality the shorts from abroad have been 

by far the best. The inferiority of material 

nominated by U.S. producers, both numerically 

and artistically, has been shockingly 

inferior. 

But this year, we were happy to see that 

our entries for the first time have taken 

a turn for the better. Viewing shorts is a 

different experience than screening features. 

As a member of the short subjects 

branch, we have had the pleasure of attending 

the annual shorts screenings. It is 

like going to a still picture gallery where 

one rarely identifies himself with the paintings 

on display, such as usually happens 

when viewing a feature. 

Shorts production is not centered in 

Hollywood. These come from all parts of 

the country, in lengths ranging from ten 

minutes to more than a half hour. Tliis is 

not surprising, a check of sales of professional 

sound cameras will show. In the past 

20 years more than 30,000 such cameras 

have been sold to government agencies, 

universities, broadcast stations, etc. 

Pensions to 2.020 

HOLLYWOOD—Mark Bushner, administrator 

of the Motion Picture Industry Pension 

Plan, disclosed that 2.020 industry 

workers are receiving retirement payments 

and that over $6,000,000 in benefits have 

been paid since Jan. 1, 1963, when the plan 

made its first monthly allotment. Nearly 

26,000 industry workers are covered. 

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Over Into Second Holiday Stanza 

LOS ANGELES—Boxoffice records were 

smashed here when grosses continued their 

pace for the second consecutive week in the 

holiday sessions. Jerry Lewis' "Who's Minding 

the Store'? opened strong at the Paramount. 

"Tom Jones." playing at three 

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houses including the Statewide Picfair, continued 

strong. "Love With the Proper 

Stranger," at the Village, showed great 

pulling power with a strong 450. "The Victors," 

causing some controversy, continued 

a strong 300 at the large Fox Wilshire. 

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(Averoge Is 100) 

Boldwm, Crest, Hillstrcet, Ins—The Sword in the 

Stone (BV), 2nd wk 1 00 

Beverly—America America (WB), 2nd wk 290 

Ctiinese—Charade {Univ). 2nd wk 320 

Cineromo 

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It's a Mod, Mad, 

(UA-Cineroma:, 9th wk 

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Egyptian The Cardinal 

Fine Arts—The Three Lives 

Col), 3rd wk 

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100 

Four Star— Kinns of the Sun (UA), 3rd wk 65 

Hollywood Paramount Captain Newman, M.O. 

(Univ), 2nd wk 155 

Move Over, Darhng 

Hollywood, El Rey, Loyolo 

(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 75 1 

Lrdo Ladybug, Lodybug (UAl 4th wk 90 

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Los Angeles, A l-crn^4 for Texas ,WB), 2nd wk. . . 

Muse Hall— The Ceremony UA), 2nd wk 90 

Pontages—Cleopatra (?Oth-Fox 

, wk 280 

Orpheum-Vcg.e-Picfo.r Tom Jones (UA- 

Lopert), 2nd wk 320 

P,x. Vyarren Who's Minding the Store? (Para) 130 

Villoge Love Wifh the Proper Stronger (Para), 

2nd wk 450 

240 

Worner Beverly The Prize fMGM), 2nd wk . 

Wornsr Hollywood How the West Was Won 

(MGM-Cinerama), 45th wk 195 

Wilshire—The Victors (Col), 2nd wk 300 

Record Grosses Greet 19G4 

At Portland First Runs 

PORTLAND— The New Year got under 

way here with some record grosses. The 

Broadway hit a five-year record with Universal's 

"Charade" and the 409-seat Guild, 

playing MGM's "The Prize" turned away 

crowds Saturday i4i, with a total of 863 

patrons, including standees, seeing the story 

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was high, the Guild topping percentages 

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Broadway— Charade lUniv), 2nd wk 

Fox, Divisirn 5:reet Dnvc-ln— 4 for 

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Texas (WB); 

The Man From Galveston (WB), 2nd wk 200 

Guild— The Prize (MGM), 2nd wk 250 

Hollywood -It's a Mod, Mad, Mad, Mad World 

!UA-Cinerama), 3rd wk 200 

Irvington, 104th Street Move Over, Darling iCol); 

lye Bye Birdie (Col), 2nd wk 200 

Lourolhurst Kings of the Sun (UA), Summer 

Holiday (AlP) 200 

Music Box, Amphitheatre, Super 99 Drive-In Who's 

Minding the Store? (Para); Last Train From Gun 

Hill (Para), reissue, 2nd wk 200 

Orpheum The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk.. ,200 

Paramount—Cleopatra i20th-Fox), 28th wk 200 

Bountiful San Frctncisco Holidays 

For 12 First-Run Theatres 

SAN FRANCISCO — This was a smash 

holdover week, with fine product drawing 

high percentages at a dozen first-run 

houses. Capacity houses for most all performances 

in the holiday week were reported 

at the Orphemii for "It's a Mad. 

Mad. Mad, Mad World" and at the United 

Artists for "Tom Jones." "The Cardinal." 

at the St. Francis, was up over the first 

week while "The Sword in the Stone" 

dropped slightly in the second week at the 

Paramount. "Murder at the Gallop" was 

holding strong at the Presidio. 

Embossy Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), 2nd wk.. .150 

Esquire- Who's Minding the Store? (Paro), 2nd wk.. .125 

Fox-Warfield— 4 tor Texas ;WB), 2nd wk 275 

Golden Goto Charade (Univ), 2nd wk 375 

Metro— 8V2 (Embassy), 8th wk 175 

Orpheum— It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 

(UA-Cinoramo), 4th wk 800 

Paramount The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk.. .150 

Murder at the Gallop (MGM), 2nd wk 200 

Presidio 

Stage Door Lowrence of Arabia (Col), rerun, 

3rd wk 150 

St Francis—The Cardinal (Col), 3rd wk 200 

Unted Artists—Tom Jones (UA-Lopert), 3rd wk 600 

Vogue Knife in the Woter (Kanawha), 3rd wk 250 

"Move Over, Darling' 200 

Leads Seattle Features 

SEATTLE — "Move Over. Darling," the 

only new film among a field of holdovers, 

topped them all with a strong 200 per cent in 

its first week at the Coliseum. Most were 

holding up well, how'ever. after their holiday 

introduction got them off to successful 

starts. At the Blue Mouse. "The Prize" 

wound up with 140 per cent: at the Orpheum. 

"Charade" also completed a good 

second week, with 175: and Disney's "Sword 

in the Stone" pulled 150 for its second week 

at the Paramount. Still doin?? good business 

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was "Irma La Douce, pulled 135 for 

its 24th week at the Music Box. 

Denver Two-Week Gross 

May Have Set City Record 

DENVER- Business continued to be great 

over the New 'Vear's holiday. Many industry 

ix'oplc believe that the two-week holiday 

ijrriod .set ii Denver first-run record for 

coinbini-d iTos.ses. Exhibitors were further 

fliri'ic'd by urossi's continuing strong followini; 

the vueiition period. 

A.,;,lin Charade Di.iv). .'rul wk 180 

..-nil.- Move Over, Darling (20lh-Fox), 2nd wk... 180 

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Kings of the Sun UA), moveover, 2nd wk.. 100 

Crest 

Denham Cleopatra 20th-Fox), 28th wk 110 

Denver— The Sword in the Stone BV), 2nd wk 200 

Esquire— The Conjugol Bed Embassy) 125 

International 70 -The Cordinol (Col), 2nd 180 

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Paramount— 4 for Texas (WB), 2nd wk 180 

Towne—The Prize (MGM), 2nd wk 250 „ 

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Vogue— Lord of the Flies (Cont'l), 2nd wk 400 

Merger Pact Announced 

By Two Large PR Firms 

HOLLYWOOD — Agreement to merge 

within 60 days has been reached by two 

public relations firms, Cleary-Straus-Irwin 

& Goodman and McFadden & Eddy Associates. 

The new organization will be 

known as McFadden. Strauss, Eddy. Irwin 

& Goodman, with major domestic offices 

in Los Angeles and New York and European 

headquarters in London. Paris and 

Rome. The company also will maintain an 

office in Palm Springs and affiliated offices 

across the country. 

Frank McFadden. John Strauss. James 

Eddy and Ben Irwin will head the Los 

Angeles office. Frank Goodman. CSIG 

eastern vice-president, will be in charge 

of the New York office. All employes of 

the merging companies will be retained. 

Exploitation of 'Middle' 

Laid Down at 20th-Fox 

HOLLYWOOD—Publicity directors from 

five circuits attended a screening at the 

20th-Fox studio of "Man in the Middle," 

then heard Walter Seltzer, the producer; 

Parry Lieber. studio publicity head, and 

Eddie Yarborough. fieldman, describe exploitation 

for the release—utilization of 

stars Barry Sullivan. Keenan Wynn and 

Prance Nuyen. analysis of the ads, and 

coordination of exhibitor activities. 

The film will open January 29 in 41 theatres 

in this area. 

Participating were Jack Case and Lennie 

Schwartz, Pacific Drive-Ins; Paul Lyday 

and Joe 'Vleck, Fox West Coast: Hany 

Wallace and Bruce Coi-win, Metropolitan 

Theatres: John Simes, Statewide: Dick 

Herman, Sero Drive-Ins: Bill Teawell. San 

Diego, and Bernice Livingston, ad agent. 

Miss Nuyen will work the eastern seaboard. 

Sullivan the west and Wyrm the 

south. 

Ground Suit Blocking 

Museum Construction 

HOLLYWOOD— A piece of ground opposite 

the Hollywood Museum is reportedly 

blocking start of construction on the new 

building. A superior court returned a judgment 

here for $11,750 for Steve Anthony's 

undivided half-interest in the property. 

The Los Angeles County authorities will 

now ask the district court of appeals to 

affirm the judgment so that work can 

start. Anthony is reportedly discussing taking 

the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Plan Rex Harrison Festival 

HOLLYWOOD — Metropolitan Theatres 

has under consideration a proposal to hold 

a Rex HarrLson film festival at the State 

Theatre in Santa Barbara early next year, 

similar to the festival now being conducted 

in London by Briti.sh Film Institute. 

A Martin Film for Olympics 

HOLLYWOOD—Dean Martin is helping 

raise funds to send American athletes to 

the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo by doing a 

short film which will be shown on television 

and in theatres. 

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Filmrow were robbed over the weekend 

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ind valuables, according to manager Lloyd 

Dwenby . Filmrow regulars 

gathered at the Beverly Hills Beefeaters 

restaurant to welcome Bob Carpenter, new 

CJniversal manager, and Jimmy Whiteside. 

new Columbia chief. Kudos went to Abe 

Swerdlow on his recent promotion to Uniirersal 

district manager. 

Jeannette Bank, longtime secretary to 

^»fk and tn Morris Sudmin. manager at 20th-Fox. reaii 

signed . from vacations were Bill 

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anniversary . Goldberg, Aladdin 

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Year's, as did Harold Wirthwein, Allied 

tfl'FoX Artists district manager, Joe Moss. Chunkteam 

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I>obert Reagan, 46, chief engineer of Dayco 

Electronics, died here recently after a 

heart attack. Reagan was well known in the 

industry throughout the country, and had 

been with Dayco since the inception of the 

firm seven years ago. He is survived by his 

wife and two children. Mrs. Reagan was in 

a hospital ill at the time of her husband's 

death. 

Lyie A. Bramson. Alexander Film Co. executive, 

and his wife Grace returned from a 

sales convention in the south, reporting 

that 1963 revenue from screen advertising 

was the highest in the past ten years . 

"The Prize" will open at the Embassy Theatre 

the 22nd . Jack. Los Angeles, was 

on the row ... In booking and buying were 

James Lemos of Benecia and John F. Aquila 

from Santa Helena. 

Plan for Oscar PR 

HOLLYWOOD—The first meeting of the 

public relations coordinating committee for 

the 36th annual awards presentation of the 

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 

was held to plan public relations 

activities for the Oscar show April 13. 

UCLA Opens New Theatre 

HOLLYWOOD—UCLA Theatre Arts presented 

"Sunday in New York" Friday 

• 10 1 to inaugurate its new theatre, with 

Everett Freeman, producer of the film, answering 

questions from the all-collegiate 

audience after the showing. 

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'Rather Be Rich' Tests 

HOLLYWOOD—Andy William.s of the 

television show checked into Universal 

studios for wardrobe and makeup tests and 

prerecordings prior to beginning his screen 

debut opposite Sandra Dee in "I'd Rather 

Be Rich." 

Producer-director Robert Wise has set up 

special casting offices in London and New 

York, as well as using the studio, to assemble 

a cast for "Sound of Music" for 

20th -Fox. Stuart Lyons is operating the 

European end, based in London, while 

Allen Shane and Michael Shuertliff are 

doing the scouting in New York. Julie 

Andrews has already been signed as the 

feminine star. 

Writer Claim Rejected 

HOLLYWOOD—Norman Krasna won a 

$1,500,000 damage suit filed by the late 

Valentine Davies and continued by the 

writer's widow Elizabeth. A jury in Superior 

Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler's com-t 

found no oral agreement between Davies 

and Krasna, as was claimed. Davies had 

calmed he submitted a script, "Love Must 

Go On," to Krasna, and charged it was the 

basis for Krasna's play, "Who Was That 

Lady I Saw You With?" 

Bank Sues 3 Companies 

HOLLYWOOD—The Chemical Bank & 

Trust of New York demands $15,083 in a 

suit filed in the superior court against National 

Pictures Corp., Alco Pictures Corp., 

20th-Fox Film Corp., Edward L. Alperson 

and Alperson jr. The action Involved 

guarantees on loans In connection with 

three films, Magnificent Matador, I, 

Mobster and September Storm. 

Carthay Reopening in March 

HOLLYWOOD — The Carthay Circle 

Theatre is reopening late in March, probably 

with Samuel Bronston's "Fall of the 

Roman Elmpire." The theatre will light up 

January 25 for a one-shot screening of "A 

Debt of Blood," Armenian film produced 

under the Haik Motion Picture Productions 

banner. 

Robert Mulligan directed Paramounfs 

"Love With the Proper Stranger" from an 

original screenplay by Arnold Schulman. 

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The Women of Variety Tent 32 of 

San Francisco has contributed SIS.OCO 

to the club's major charity, the Blind 

Babies Foundation, in 1963. The money 

represents proceeds of the Variety 

Blind Babies Bazaar, which is operated 

by the Variety women. Cutlines with a 

photo, in the January 6 issue of 

Boxoffice, showing .Maude Harvey presenting 

a check to Jack Marpole, Tent 

32 chief barker, said the amount was 

$1,000. This was incorrect—the figure 

should have been $10,000. Previously 

the Women of Variety had turned over 

$5,000. 

The 1963 contribution brought to a 

total of $72,400 the San Francisco 

Women of Variety have turned over 

to the Blind Babies facility in II 

years since the auxiliary was organized. 

Two Dealers Merge 

In San Francisco 

SAN FRANCISCO—Two leading theatrical 

equipment companies of San Francisco announced 

the merger of their enterprises, effective 

January 1. 

The business partnership of Walter G. 

Preddey and Robert O. Bemis has combined 

with Western Theatrical Equipment Co. 

With years of experience combined both of 

the firms feel they will be able to offer better 

and faster service. No change In personnel 

has been announced, according to 

Robert O. Bemis. 

The new firm, under the name of Western 

Theatrical Equipment Co., will be located at 

187 Golden Gate Ave., the Walter G. Preddey 

address for many years. The telephone 

number of the former Walter G. Pi-eddey 

firm will be retained—UNderhill 1-7571. 

William S. Cunninghcan 

HOLLYWOOD — William Smith Cunningham, 

publicist at MGM. died recently 

at the age of 60. He was born in Lima, 

Ohio, joined the staff of the Columbus, 

Ohio. Citizen after graduation from Ohio 

State University. He came to Los Ai\geles 

in 1943 as chief of the Los Angeles bureau 

of the Office of War Information. After 

the war he joined the publicity department 

at Paramount, and four years ago became 

a member of the MGM publicity department. 

Survivors include his wîfe Betty. 

Tiomkin in USAF Auxiliary 

HOLLYWOOD — Composor-conductor 

Dimitri Tiomkin has boon made an honorary 

member of the auxiliary branch of Uie 

USAF as a gesture of recognition and appreciation 

for his efforts in behalf of the 

Civil Air Patrol. 

First Film Story Sale 

HOLLYWOOD — Fay Baker, author of 

"Idonea Darling's War," made her first 

story sale to Larsen Productions, as a Vera 

Miles starring vehicle, and was simultaneously 

signed to write the screenplay. 

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13, 1964

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Exhibitor at Clovis 

CLOVIS, N.M.—Elmo Courtney, a lifelong 

exhibitor and longtime officer of the 

New Mexico Theatre Ass'n. died here 

recently after an illness of several months. 

The 50-year-old Courtney had been 

manager in this city for Frontier Theatres 

for 25 years, supervising the State and the 

Lyceum. Prior to 1938, he was manager of 

a Frontier house at Olney, Tex. He was 

serving his second one-year term as president 

of the New Mexico Theatre Ass'n. He 

was first elected president in July 1962, and 

re-elected last June. Prior to that he served 

as secretary-treasurer of the NMTA for 

nine consecutive terms. 

He is survived by his wife and one 

daughter. 

PORTLAND 

goxoffice takes over the Christmas-New 

year holiday period smashed records in 

at least three theatres here. A five-year 

search of records at J. J. Parker's Broadway 

revealed no pictm'e approached Universal 

"Charade." according to Ron 'Webster, 

executive secretary to Mrs. J. J. 

Parker. The Guild turned patrons away 

Saturday i4> for "The Prize"; both the 

Irvington, playing 20th Century-Pox's 

"Move Over, Darling," and Cinema 21 with 

'Under the Yum Yum Tree" reported nearcapacity 

turnout. 

Stan Smith, Irvington Theatre, has 

booked United Artists' "Tom Jones" to 

follow "Move Over, Darling" . Hopkins, 

Fox-Evergreen manager for Portland, 

represented the circuit's Oregon and 'Washington 

theatres at the National General 

Corp. clinic in Los Angeles. 

James Selvidge, manager of the Ridgemont, 

7720 North Greenwood Ave. is sponsoring 

two new film series. Old films obtained 

through New York's Museum of 

Modern Art, whose liberary of early movies 

is most extensive, will be shown each 

Wednesday and Thursday evenings 

through February 27. Included in this 

series are. The Beginnings, The Great 

Ti-ain Robbery, Mary, Queen of Scots, 

Washday Troubles. A Trip to the Moon, 

Rescued by Rover, Early Mack Sennett, 

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Nosferatu, 

The Joyless Street, The Last Laugh, 

Potemkin. Passion of Joan of Arc, and 

A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY—Joining: Vera L. Cockrill, owner and director of 

the Denham Theatre, in cake-cutting ceremonies celebrating the Denham's 50th 

Anniversary was Thomas Currigan, mayor of Denver, and members of her managerial 

staff. Left to right are James Latham, assistant manager; Mayor Currigan 

and Mrs. Cockrill; William VanDeventer, assistant to president, and Robert Clark, 

house manager. The Denham Theatre has remained one of Denver's principal entertainment 

centers since its opening. Originally owned by the Shuberts, the theatre 

boasted a very fine stock company and for many years presented many great 

names in legitimate theatre entertainment and vaudeville. Mrs. Cockrill came to 

Denver with her husband, the late Dave Cockrill, from Salt Lake City in 1934 to 

take over the Denham operation. Three years ago, she completely renovated the 

theatre to accommodate motion picture spectaculars. 

Metropolis. The second series will stress 

French product and includes 11 French 

features, 2 British and 1 American, to be 

combined in seven double-bills that will 

play for two weeks each, through April. 

Dave Dunkle, 20th-Fox salesman, returned 

to work after a vacation . . . Helen 

Reynolds, secretary at Saffles Theatre 

Service, spent Christmas in eastern 

Washington. 

Sterling et al Dismissed 

In State Antitrust Suit 

SEATTLE—an antitrust suit against 

the Sterling Theatres Co., brought last 

June by state attorney general O'Connell, 

"4 for Texas," the 'Warner Bros, comedy, 

holds at the Fox through January 14 with 

Columbia's "The Cardinal" expected to 

follow . . . Ticket sales for the appearance 

at the Auditorium here of "The Sound of was dismissed in superior com't. O'Connell 

Music" national touring company are reported 

as brisk. The stage show is the first Sterling was guilty of monopolistic prac- 

asked a $375,000 civil penalty, contending 

big Broadway-type musical to open here in 

tices. The court held that the 1961 Consumer 

Protection Act, under which the suit 

1964. It is scheduled for January 20-25, 

with two matinees . Marks, was brought, includes a provision exempting 

the theatre company, since it is sub- 

Journal entertainment editor, just back 

from a Hollywood area visit, headed for 

ject to the federal Sherman antitrust act. 

Weeki 'Wachee Springs. Fla.. to attend the Other defendants dismissed from the suit 

Warner Bros. "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" included 'William Forman, owner of United 

underwater premiere. 

Drive-In Theatres; Columbia Pictures. 

MGM, Paramount, 20th-Fox, United 

Artists, Universal and 'Warner Bros. 

SEATTLE 

Gordon Keeping in Touch 

BOISE, IDA,—Harry A. Gordon, former 

exhibitor here, has subscribed to Boxoffice 

because "I'd like to stay in touch with the 

industry." Gordon, who owned and operated 

the Rialto, closed that theatre last May 

15 due to problems arising out of competitive 

bidding, day-and-dating in the drive-in 

and lack of good product with universal appeals. 

The Rialto, which had seen 35 years 

of operation as a motion pictm'e house, was 

torn down, the property sold and converted 

into a parking lot. 

Stanley Adams produced a seasonal bestselling 

album, "Chanukah Carols." 

DENVER 

The brightest spot on the Row is National 

Theatre Supply which has lighted up 

Marlon Brando was in town for a 

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short 

Jimmy Stewart and his family 

visit . . . 

are winter sporting at Aspen . 

Newell, salesman for MGM. and Sam Dare, 

branch manager for Columbia, were winter 

vacationing . McCormick, Skyline 

Theatre, Canon City, will be a Denver resident 

for the next few months while he 

represents his district in the state legislature. 

Recent visitors to the Row were Marlin 

Butler. Tesuque Drive-In, Albuquerque, 

NM.; Joe Machetta, Emerson. Bi-ush; Sam 

Feinstein. Lincoln. Limon; John Schultz, 

Cody, Cody, Wyo.; Larry Starsmore, 'Westland 

Theatres, Colorado Springs; Ray 

Troyer, Gem, Hugo; Carman Romano, Rex, 

Louisville; R. L. Stanger, Evans Drive-In, 

Denver, and Art Goldstein, Uptown, 

Denver. 

Organ Music for 'Empire' 

HOLLY-WOOD—Director Anthony Mann 

will sponsor a four-week tour in the U.S., 

starting in February, of Richard Chilton, 

famous organist of John the Baptist 

Church in London, who recently recorded 

on tape the sounds of the cathedral's organ, 

now being integrated by composer-conductor 

Dimitri Tiomkin. into the score of 

"The Fall of the Roman Empire." 

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Grosses Stay High 

At KC First Runs 

KANSAS CITY—First-run grosses were 

only slightly below the record business reported 

during the holiday season. "Move 

Over, Darling" continued strong in its second 

stanza at the Fox Plaza with 310 per 

cent after an opening week of 380 per cent. 

"Sword in the Stone" in its second week 

at the Pox Uptown and Granada rated high 

with 285 per cent, following a record 410 

per cent for the first week. Other top attractions 

were "The Cardinal." "Cleopatra" 

and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad. Mad World," 

all holdovers. "The Prize" brought good attendance 

for a second week at Durwood's 

Roxy following a record 400 per cent for the 

opening week. 


Brookside—The Cardinal (Col), 2nd wk 260 

Ccipn Cleopotro (20th-Fox), Sth wk 250 

Empire It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 

(UA), 3rd wk 250 

Isis, Vista, Fairway, Avenue, Centre, Waldo, 

Englewood, Dickinson, Overlond, Hiway 40, 

Boulevard, 63rd St., Shawnee, Leawood, Fairyland, 

New 50 Who's Been Sleeping in My 

Bed.' (Para), plus assorted 2nd runs 135 

Kimr The Devil and the 10 Commandments 

(Union), 2nd wk 150 

Paramount—4 for Texas (WB), 3rd wk 100 

Plozo Move Over, Darlinn (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 310 

Rockhill—The Suitor (Atlontic), 2nd wk 100 

Roxy—The Ploio (MGM), 2nd wk 150 

Uptown, Gronodo The Sword in the Stone (BV); 

Disneyland After Dark (BV), 2nd wk 285 

Missouri-Illinois Assn 

Giving Champagne Party 

ST. LOUIS—The Missouri-Illinois Theatre 

Owners Ass'n will sponsor a gala champagne 

luncheon party 

Monday ( 

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, starting 

at 12:30 p.m. in 

the Chase Hotel to 

install a new slate of 

officers headed by 

Prank P 1 u m 1 e e, 

F a r m i n g t o n. 

Mo., president; St. 

L o u i s a n s Jimmy 

James, vice-president 

and secretary, and 

Jim Damos, treasurer. 

Retiring 

president, 

Frank Plumlee Wesley Bloomer, 

Belleville, 111., moves to chairman of the 

board, Thomas James, St. Louis, is honorary 

board chairman, and Pete Gloriod, 

Poplar Bluff, is sergeant at arms. 

The arrangements committee is headed 

by Bess Schulter with Jimmy James, Phil 

Nanos, Tom Williamson, George Phillips, 

Paul Danesch, Ronnie Krueger, Ray Parker. 

H. E. McManus, Herb Hartstein and 

Charles Goldman, all St. Louisans, as 

members. 

Planned as an all-play and no-speeches 

event, Ray Parker will serve as emcee. The 

invocation will be offered by Thomas 

James, and Bill Williams, Union, Mo., will 

present a plaque to Bloomer. 

Early returns on reservations indicate a 

full house, necessitating a move from the 

Regency room to larger accommodations 

in the Chase Club at the hotel. Leaders 

from all branches of the industry from all 

parts of the country are expected, plus a 

delegation from Farmington. 

Paul Danesch, managing director of the 

Cinerama, will present each luncheon guest 

a complimentary ticket good throughout 

the engagement of "How the West Wa,s 

Won." 

Reservations, at $3.50 a person, may be 

made by sending a check to MTTO, 3301 

Lindell Blvd., St. Louis 3, Mo. 

'Tom Jones' 250 Top Mark 

Among Chicago First Runs 

CHICAGO — Good weather and good 

product rounded out the week's business 

with a continuance of substantial grosses 

in many situations. Among the leaders were 

"Charade" in the third week at the Chicago: 

"The Sword in the Stone" in the 

third week at the Roosevelt: "The Cardinal" 

in the third week at the Woods, and 

"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" in the 

second week at the Loop Theatre and Esquire 

on the near north side. "Tom Jones" 

in the thii-d week at the Michael Todd 

Theatre was again a top grosser. 

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Carnegie The Conjugal Bed (Embassy), 

7th wk 75 

Chicago Charade (Univ), 3rd wk 190 

Cinema— Lord of the Flies (Cont'l), 7th wk 115 

Loop Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? 

Esquire, 

(Pare), 2nd wk 95 1 

McVickers— It's o Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 

(UA-Cinerama), Sth wk 180 

Michael Todd Tom Jones (UA-Lopert), 3rd wk. 

Oriental— Kings of the Sun (UA), 3rd wk 

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175 

Roosevelt The Sword in the Stone (BV), 3rd wk. . .200 

State Lake Cleopotro (20th-Fox), 28th wk 145 

Town—My Life to Live (Union), 3rd wk 130 

United Artists—4 for Texas (WB), 3rd wk 170 

Woods—The Cardinal (Col), 3rd wk 

World Playhouse My Life to Live (Union), 

210 

3rd wk 155 

Striptease (SR), 2nd wk 

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"Move Over, Darling' 300 

Leads Indianapolis Upsurge 

INDIANAPOLIS — It was a prosperous 

New Year, at least during the first week. 

for the city's first-run theatres. Two new 

attractions, "Move Over, Darling" and 

"Charade," were great: "How the West Was 

Won" showed renewed vigor and "Cleopatra," 

now on a week-to-week basis, drew 

many people who had kept putting off 

seeing it. Pleasant weather through the 

weekend helped. 

Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox) 300 

Circle 

Enc=re Promises! Promises! (Noonan); Mile 

1 25 

Esquire Lord of the Flies (Cont'l), 2nd wk 120 

Indiana- How the West Was Won (MGM- 

Cineramo), 30th wk 225 

Keith's—Charade (Univ) 250 

Loew's—The Priie (MGM), 3rd wk 125 

Lyric—Cleopatra (20th-Fox), 28th wk 150 

Lyon Joins Ad Dept. 

Of Commonwealth 

KANSAS CITY—Harold B. Lyon, former 

managing director of the Paramount Theatre, 

is now affiliated 

Harold B. Lyon 

with Commonwealth 

Theatres as assistant 

to M. B. Smith, vicepresident 

and advertising 

director. Lyon 

served with the Paramount 

Theatre in 

Kansas City for 13 

years, starting in January 

1951. 

Beginning his theatre 

career 38 years 

ago in Omaha at the 

Riviera Theatre, now 

the Paramount, Lyon remained there for 

one year, then went to Minneapolis and 

St. Paul, where he was situated for two 

years. His career in the theatre field has 

taken him through many of the states. 

Prom Minnesota, he went to New York 

with Publix Theatres, predecessor to the 

AB-Paramount Theatres circuit and its affiliates. 

He then was transferred to the 

west coast, where he supervised operations 

of Publix houses in California, Washington, 

Oregon, Idaho and Utah. 

Lyon returned to Omaha as assistant 

manager of the Paramount Theatre after 

several years, then in succeeding years 

was assigned to theatres in Youngstown, 

Ohio, Indianapolis and Miami. He returned 

to the midwest to join Central States 

Theatres, headquartered in Des Moines, 

and saw service at Central States houses 

in Burlington, Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, 

Iowa, in Moline, 111., and at the Des Moines 

Theatre in Des Moines. 

In his spare time, Lyon is a song writer. 

He has written a theme song for the Weeki 

Wachee, Fla., live mermaid underwater 

show under the title of "At Weeki Wachee.' 

The song was accepted as the official 

theme of the show and it was recorded 

on the AB-Paramount label. Lyon composed 

"At Weeki Wachee" without ever 

having seen that major tourist attraction. 

He wrote the lyrics after reading descriptive 

material sent him by Louis J. Finske, 

head of Florida State Theatres, Jacksonville, 

Fla., which operates the attraction, 

and Jack Mahon, managing dii'ector of the 

springs. Finske, incidentally, formerly was 

in the theatre business in Kansas City 

with the late Frank L. Newman. 

Approximately 250 leading representatives 

of the national and world press, radio 

and television will have an opportunity to 

hear Lyon's song featured in the underwater 

ballet when they visit the springs 

January 17 for the first underwater presentation 

of a motion picture, "The Incredible 

Mr. Limpet," Warner Bros, film 

starring comedian Don Knotts, who will 

attend the premiere. 

Lyon also has sold a ballad for the recording 

of "Did You Cry?" He contracted 

with the Jennings music publishing company 

and the Foremost record firm for 

release of the song which he wrote in 1944. 

The number 13 is lucky for Lyon, Landon 

Laird recently wrote in the "About Town" 

column in the Kansas City Times. Lyon 

was the 13th child in a family of 13 children. 

His father nicknamed him Baker's 

Dozen and gave him the middle name of 

Baker. This year marks his 13th as a resident 

of Greater Kansas City. It also marks 

his 13th year as a published song writer. 

The title of his song, "At Weeki Wachee," 

has 13 letters. Frank Blasco, the music 

publisher, inadvertently sent him the first 

13 copies of the song instead of the promised 

12. Since Laird's published comments 

on number 13 being lucky for Lyon, last 

week coincidentally he was assigned the 

13th space on Commonwealth's parking lot. 

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KANSAS 

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^he Motion Picture Ass'n of Greater 

Kansas City will hold a board of directors 

meeting at the Executive Motor 

Hotel. 13th and Washington, Monday il3i. 

The meeting, which will be conducted by 

Doug Lightner. president, will start with a 

luncheon. Election of officers and reports 

on several projects will be on the agenda. 

Lightner announced that more than $400 

was collected and a heap of clothing, 

household articles and food was generously 

donated in answer to MPAs request to aid 

a needy family at Christmas time. Bill Jeffries. 

Colimibia Pictures office manager. 

was in charge of the wearables and food. 

A widowed mother with five children and 

a hospitalized grandmother were benefited. 

The I'nited Theatre Owners of the Heart 

of America has scheduled a luncheon meeting 

of the board of directors for Wednesday 

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fifth floor. Norris Cresswell. UTO executive 

secretary, announced. President Paul Ricketts 

will report on plans for the annual 

Show-A-Rama convention, membership 

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Joseph Turnbull, manager of the Michael 

Todd Theatre, now showing "Tom 

Jones." will marry Dolores Luthje in 

March . Media folk received "nuclear 

bomb effects computers" as a part 

of the publicity campaign for "Dr. Strangelove 

or: How I Learned to Stop Won-ying 

and Love the Bomb." due for a late winter 

opening here December, the 

censor board reviewed 69 movies. 19 of 

which were foreign, and adulted 4, rejected 

6 and ordered cuts in 30 "Goody" 

Goddamote was able to leave the hospital 

and will welcome words of cheer from 

friends at his room in the Rienzi Hotel. 606 

West Diversey. Phone: Lincoln 9-6252. 

Balaban & Katz will close "Cleopatra" at 

the State Lake soon to get ready for the 

opening of "The Victors" early in February 

. Studebaker Theatre will open 

for "Seven Ways of Love," with Joseph 

Gotten and his wife. Patricia Medina . 

Gary Grant has been a frequent visitor 

here to see Dyan Cannon, who is appearing 

in "How to Succeed in Business Without 

Really Trying" . Stewart and his 

wife Gloria were in town for their annual 

medical checkup. 

Bob Bachman, general manager of L&M 

Management Co., vacationed in Florida . 

Si Lax of Embassy Pictures here appointed 

Arnold Monnette as salesman. The company 

has established offices at 1301 South 

Wabash . producer Allan David 

is starting the new year as radio-TV director 

for Sander Rodkin. local ad agency . 

Jane Wyman was a between-trains visitor. 

She was en route to New York City. 

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Peter Rosian, regional sales manager for 

Universal, who underwent surgery, is convalescing 

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Richard Balaban is chairman of the Variety 

Club of Illinois installation dinner to 

be held in the Pick-Congress the 15th. 

James Carreras. first assistant chief 

barker of Variety International, will fly in 

from San Francisco for the event, and chief 

Rotus Harvey will plane in from London 

critics were invited by Warner 

Bros, to take a film junket to the premiere 

of "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" at 

Weeki Wachee Springs, Fla. 

Chicago Used Chair Mart, headed by Sar 

Levinsohn. will re-cover 1.300 seats in th 

Arlington Theatre at Indianapolis 

Harold Abbott jr.. of Abbott Theatre Equipment 

Co. vacationed in Arizona . 

Dane of Filmack and husband Mauij 

celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversg 

Goldstone and Kermit Russlu 

of Russell Films hosted a tradescreenilg 

of "Tiara Tahiti" and "In the Doghous| 

. . . Teitel Film Corp is making arrangements 

to re-enter the film cleaning industry 

with a formula invented by A. Teitel 

a number of years ago. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

fjarry Kodinsky, VIC representative, will 

officiate at the annual installation 

ceremonies of the local Variety Club, to be 

held following a dinner in the clubrooms 

D. Allen, former MGM publicist, 

stopped briefly en route from Cincinnati 

to Chicago. He now is with a public relations 

firm handling promotion for motion 

pictures, records and talent. 

The Belmont Theatre here has installed 

a new Walker screen from NTS to replace 

one ruined when the janitor fell through 

it . . . NTS also installed carpet in the 

auditoriums of the North View Junior and 

the North Central high schools. 

Guests of the Screen Council at a recent 

luncheon at the Manger Motel on 

December 30th were Bob Sokol, manager of 

Loew's Theatre: Erwin J. dumb, John 

Stern, Don Mott and Candy Bowen, all of 

Greater Indianapolis Amusement Co.; Mrs. 

Marc J. Wolf and Norma G^raghty, Variety 

Club auxiliary. 

Lake Park, Iowa, Theatre 

Damaged in $75,000 Fire 

From North Central Edition 

LAKE PARK, IOWA—The State Theatre 

was severely damaged in a recent fire 

which originated next door in the furnace 

I'oom of a bowling establishment, Al Myrick, 

a past president of National Allied 

States A.ss'n, has advi.sed Boxoffice. 

A fire wall helped contain the blaze, 

the Lake Park exhibitor reported, but still 

the roof of the theatre building was burned, 

the scats ruined and extensive damage 

caused to the building and equipment. A 

department store in the theatre building 

was a total loss, as were the adjacent 

bowling firm and cafe. Loss caused by 

the fire was estimated at $75,000. according 

to Myrick. 

Future iJlans for the theatre and department 

store are undecided, accoi-ding to 

Myrick. 

Arthur Completes Its 

Renovation of Granada 

ST. LOUIS—Remodeling has been completed 

on the Granada Theatre, owned by 

Arthur Enterprises, making it a key area 

theatre of the circuit, according to Ed 

Arthur, president. Another theatre, the Hi 

Pointe, has been remodeled as a de luxe 

art theatre. Arthur Enterprises is also preparing 

to break ground for a drive-in on 

Highway 270 and West Florissant roads. 

The company owns 18 theatres in the St, 

Louis area. 

ST. 

LOUIS 

^he Schonett Theatre at Sesser. 111., has 

been reopened. It had been closed since 

May of 1963 . MGM exchange is 

revising its IBM system. Office manager 

Mike Bizio and teletyp>e operator Joyce 

Crowell will spend a few days in Dallas 

learning the new system. 

Herman Gorelick. Crest Films, spent a 

few days in Kansas City visiting exhibitors 

The Missouri-Illinois Theatre 

. . . Owners Ass'n is planning a Champagne 

luncheon on the 20th in the Regency room 

of the Chase Hotel. The occasion is the 

installation of the new slate of officers. 

Following the liuicheon all the guests are 

invited to Martin's Cinerama Theatre for 

the current feature by Paul Danesch, managing 

director. 

Dual Theatre Is Slated 

In Baltimore Center 

From Eastern Edition 

BALTIMORE — Vice-president 

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Howard 

Wagonheim of Schwaber Theatres, owner 

of the Playhouse, Five West and other theatres, 

announced plans to build new dualBfesdon 

theatres at the Yorkridge Shopping Center 

on York road north of suburban Towson. 

Ground has been broken for the theatres, 

which are to be named Cinema 1 and 

Cinema 2. They are scheduled for early 

spring openings. 

One will have a seating capacity of about 

780 and the other 408. They will be erected 

side by side: have two lobbies and one boxoffice. 

Wagonheim said the policy is not entirely 

definite at present but that one film might 

be shown oii the hour at both houses or 

each may show a different film. They may 

be art films—or they may not 

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JACKSONVILLE — Roy Cooper of San 

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and an assistant 

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meeting of the MPEOF board of directors. 

Hem-y Glover, MPEOF president and owner 

of the independent Largo Theatre, Largo, 

. mil will preside. Cooper will address a general 

membership meeting set to open at 10 a.m. 

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MARSHALL, ARK.—The Marshall theatre 

and three other business places on the 

south side of the square were destroyed by 

fire recently, one fireman losing his life and 

another being seriously injui'ed. 

Everett McKim and Rufus Horton had 

been fighting the fire on the theatre roof 

)wa:; when warned that the roof was about to 

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k; fall. While they were descending a ladder 

It! against the theatre's west wall, that wall 

t; collapsed on them. McKim died later in a 

:> Little Rock hospital and Horton was taken 

to the Horton hospital with a fractured hip 

and possible internal injm-ies. 

The theatre had not been used for some 

eari time and no one was in it when the fire 

broke out in a feed mill behind the theatre. 

!>)": A tractor being used for power backfired 

and caught fire about noon. 

Tampa Cinerama Theatre 

Closed by FST Circuit 

TAMPA, FLA.—The Palace Theatre has 

been closed by Florida State Theatres. The 

Tampa Tribune said that Louis Finske, 

president of the circuit, "would offer no 

comment on the closing and referred all 

questions to the chain's west coast division 

manager. Bob Harris. Harris had already 

declined comment." 

The Palace started as a vaudeville house 

but was converted several years ago as the 

only Cinerama theatre on the state's west 

coast. However, the final screen offering 

at the Palace was a conventional feature, 

"Under the Yum Yum Tree." 

Bill Dozier Leaves Gems 

From Western Edition 

HOLL"YWOOD—William Dozier has resigned 

as director and senior vice-president 

of Screen Gems productions. He indicated 

he would reactivate his Greenway 

Productions, for a joint development of 

television productions with SG as distributor. 

Atlanta Downtown Section 

And Theatres 

Editor's Note: The following article 

describing the doicntown section of 

At ant a as "the biggest shoppirig center 

in the world" is reprinted from the 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The 

writer. Doris Lockerman, relates the 

downtown Atlanta theatres are sharing 

the prosperity. 

Who says downtown Atlanta is deserted 

at night? Who says we roll up the streets 

and buzz out to the suburbs, the golf 

courses, the lakes? 

Not the theatre people. They know better. 

They count the money. All over the 

naf.on investors are mourning the demise 

of the downtown theatre palace, but not in 

Atlanta. Special pictures (like Cleopatra, 

The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur) gross 

more money in this city than any in 

America, including New York. 

Now, with expressway connectors opening 

up more avenues in every direction, 

far-sighted theatre people foresee the day, 

not long away, when downtown Atlanta 

will be 30 minutes away for two million 

people. "The biggest shopping center in 

the world" somebody has dubbed it, looking 

forward. 

In response to already booming business 

and in anticipation of more to come, five 

downtown theatres are now in the process 

of answering the accusing charge of the 

recent booklet "The Mess 'We Live In" by 

investing $2 million in new construction, 

renovation and beautification. 

The Fox Theatre, third largest in the 

United States and perhaps the most prosperous, 

has installed a new marquee, a new 

outside sign, giving its outside a facelifting 

and its inside a new paint job. Wilby- 

Kincey Theatre Service Corp., which operates 

the Pox and Roxy theatres, recently 

CHECK FOR WOMPI—Tom Sawyer, 

president of Jacksonville's Motion Picture 

Charity Club, is shown handing a 

Christmas check for $1,489.50 to Mary 

Hart, WOMPI finance chairman in that 

city. The money was for services 

rendered by WOMPI to the MPCC last 

November in its sponsorship of the midway 

attractions at the Jacksonville Agricultural 

and Industrial Fair, which 

attracted a gate of 150,089 persons. The 

MPCC is using its proceeds from the 

fair for equipping its new Handicapped 

Children's Park, scheduled to open in 

the summer of 1964 and WOMPI is 

also 

earmarking funds for the same project. 

Booms 

Share Prosperity 

announced a plan to replace the 5,000 seats 

in its capacious auditorium. 

When "Cleopatra" was ready to be distributed. 

20th -Fox gave it to the theatre in 

each city expected to draw the largest 

crowds. In many communities comparable 

in size to Atlanta, the much-publicized picture 

opened in suburban houses. In Atlanta 

only c'ovvntown was considered and 

"Cleopatra's" run at the Roxy has proved 

to be one of the three best engagements in 

the United States. 

Before it opened, the Roxy had installed 

new seats, new carpeting, redecorated its 

lobby and changed its facade to a more 

modem design. 

Underlining its own confidence in Atlanta's 

potential as a moviego'ng city. Martin's, 

a large theatre cha'n, has put its considerable 

investment in local downtown 

projects. The old Rialto at Forsyth and 

Luckie has been replaced with a modern 

picture palace at a cost of almost $1 million. 

Realizing that roadshows are most successful 

"where the spenders are." the same 

theatreman came to town and built Martin's 

Cinerama on Peachtree. 

A complete i-emodeling and redecorating 

job. including a complete seating change, 

will be undertaken soon at Loew's Grand. 

which has already put up a new marquee 

and remodeled its front. 

Before long, theatre owners believe, 

downtown Atlanta will compare favorably 

with Fifth Avenue, the Loop, and the Great 

White Way. 

Construction Start 

Near in Baton Rouge 

BATON ROUGE — Ground-breaking is 

scheduled near midmonth for the 1,000- 

seat. $350,000 Broadmoor Theatre, which 

will be built at the Broadmoor Shopping 

Center by Theo Cangelosi. R. Frank Cangeloii 

and Charles Myer. owners of Broadmoor 

Village. Completion is to be by October. 

The de luxe theatre will be leased to the 

owners of the Baton Rouge Gordon Theatre 

—Gordon. Randolph and Guy Ogden and 

their mother. Mrs. Gilbert Faulk. The new 

Broadmoor is to be the city's most modern 

theatre, featuring such services as cliild 

care, a smoking or rocking lounge, a TV 

lounge and other special facilities. Theatre 

plans call for a unique method of acoustics 

and air conditioning conceived by Herbert 

Mathes, considered by many as the father 

of the modern shopping center theatre. 

Plans for the Broadmoor are by Bodman. 

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Murrell. Landry and Webb, architects, with 

design, decor and other creations credited 

to Bodman. 

Reopens Greer Theatre 

GREER. S. C.—Fulltime operation has 

been resumed at the Grant Theatre on East 

Poinsett street by the lessee, H. P. Mc- 

Manus. The exhibitor recently completed 

remodeling and redecorating the theatre 

and new carpeting was installed throughout. 

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the days that snow and ice covered the 

area, closing the main highways into town 

Bros. Film Forwarding Co. was 

under an added handicap during the bad 

weather with several inspectors off ill. Effie 

Jamison was suffering with pneumonia, as 

was Ola Higgins, and Estelle Welch also 

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was incapacitated. Ruby Tumlin and Bobbie 

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Rosa Lee Peck of the AIP staff reports 

her husband underwent an eye operation on 

the third . Jean Pryor resigned 

at AIP and went to Miami where she is to 

be married and make her home . . . Thelma 

Johnson, secretary to the AA manager, W'as 

home ill. 

Columbia holiday vacations included 

Grace Wooley. secretary, who journeyed to 

Birmingham for Christmas and returned 

to work Monday 161; Herb Legg, salesman, 

and Lamar McGarity, sales manager . 

Harry Katz of Kay Films and Dixie Litho 

was in Alabama ... V. J. Bello, of AIP 

planned a trip to Birmingham . . . Da: 

Dooley, new booker at MOM, is a transfe; 

from the Jacksonville office. 

R. J. Barnes, who has drive-ins in Knoxville. 

and his family went to Lake City 

to visit relatives over the holidays. . . . 

Bob Feigan, auditor for MOM, returned 

to the home office after more than a week's 

work here. . " Giessler, who hasj 

been plagued with the virus, traveled a; 

far south as Hiway 1 would take on a holi 

day vacation. He's with Wil-Kin. 

C, H. Simpson and his son Jimmy made 

several quick trips to Chattanooga and 

Knoxville in connection with the new Riviera 

Theatre there. Manager Hugh Rainey 

reports construction is progressing wêll and 

the Rivieria vvill open January 22. 

Louise Brooks, retired AIP worker, Strieker 

ill the last of November, is recuperating at{ 

home. . Howell of Capitol City 

Supply returned home just before Christ-j 

mas from Will Rogers Hospital. 

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R. E. Andrews, Carver Theatre at RomeJ 

was in town booking. . Brown re-| 

signed from the Universal booking department 

to await the birth of her first child,! 

due in February . . . The holiday season isl 

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n bout 70 exhibitors from North and SouthI 

Carolina were invited by MGM Man-I 

ager Amos Boyette to attend a luncheon! 

here, and see "Viva Las Vegas" and "Company 

of Cowards" at screenings in the| 

Plaza Theatre and the 20th-Fox screening! 

room . Holiday, Paramount| 

manager, and his wife had as their guests! 

E. D. Deberry of New York, southern division 

sales manager, and Mrs. Deberry. 

A. B. Craver, manager of the Plaza, 

underwent surgery . Long of the! 

Columbia staff spent the Christmas holl-l 

days with her daughter and family in New| 

York state . . . Sympathy to Marion Childress 

on the death of her mother Susie I 

Moyle Carter December 31 . . . Tommy| 

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Scott Lett, Howco. and wife vacationed! 

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Irene Monohan. Howco. has returned home I 

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are crawling toward some kind of conclusion. 

One involves the French-made, "I Spit on 

Your Grave," which has a Memphis setting 

and a racial hatred theme. Merits of this 

film come up when William Kendall, manaser 

of Studio Theatre, faces trial in 

ciiminal court January 27 on a charge 

covered by a law passed in 1858. which was 

int nded to prevent showing of obscene 

films. Kendall has been indicted and is free 

under $500 bond. 

The other comes before U.S. Judge Bailey 

Brown early next month and asks that th? 

censorship laws of Memphis be declared 

unconstitutional. The film involved is Embassy's 

"Women of the World." The censoitoird 

banned it from Memphis. Howard 

predicted that "Women of the World" 

would be shown in Memphis after the court 

battle is over. 

Charley Turner Wins 

MPCC Golf Honors 

JACKSONVILLE — The Motion Picture 

Char ty Club of this city staged its second 

annual all-day golf tournament at the 

Jacksonville Beach Golf Club recently 

under the general chairmanship of Carl 

P oyd of Leesburg. head of Floyd Theatres. 

Cochairmen were Fred Mathis, Paramount 

manager, and Jennings Easley, MGM office 

manager. 

Following the tournament, Manuel Pope 

hosted a cocktail party and banquet for his 

MPCC guests at the Fisherman's Net 

Restaurant, with Fred Mathis serving as 

master of ceremonies. More than $1,000 

worth of sporting equipment and cash 

prizes were awarded to golf contestants at 

the banquet. 

Top prize winner was Charley 

Turner, MGM salesman. Other major 

prizes went to Henry Harrell, 20th-Fox 

manager: Bob Capps, MGM manager: Mike 

Seravo, Warner salesman: Bob Bowers, 

Allied Artists manager, and Ernie Pellegrin, 

Columbia office manager. Jim Kirby, 

Floyd Theatres film buyer, presented gifts 

to Mathis and Easley for their organization 

of the tourney. 

Special guests of the MPCC were John 

and Paul Murphy, executives of Loew's 

Theatres of New York, and Walter Johnson, 

city manager of Jacksonville Beach. 

Prizes were donated by Florida State Theatres, 

Kent Theatres, Floyd Tlieatres, 

Dixie Drive-In Theatres, Bailey Theatres 

of Atlanta. Smith Management Co., 

Meiselman Theatres. Claughton Tlieatres. 

Jerry and Louie Gold of Pahokee. Sheldon 

Mandell of the local Five Points Theatre, 

and Earl Turbyfill, independent booker. 

Participants from exhibition w'ere MPCC 

President Tom Sawyer. Harvey Garland. 

Bob Baum, Sheldon Mandell. Fred Kent. 

Walter Powell, Herman Allen. Carl Floyd, 

Jim Part'ow, Harold Spears, Earl Tiuby- 

Jack Kirby, Horace Denning and Mar- 

fill. 

'hall Fling. From distribution were Rick 

Beasley, Henry Harrell. George K. Preidel, 

Bob Bowers. Charley Turner. Hubert 

Weeks, Jennings Easley, Bob Capps, Bill 

McClure, "Buck" Robuck. Byron Adams, 

Fred Mathis, Dick Regan, John Tomlinson. 

Mike Seravo, Ed McLaughlin, Ernie Pellcgrin, 

Dave Roper. Judson Moses. Buford 

Styles, Dave Harris. Bob Stevens, Art Levy. 

Steve Formato and Al Rook. 

"The Wheeler Dealers," an MGM release, 

stars Lee Remlck and James Garner. 

Exhibitor L. A. Stein 

Dies in California 

JACKSONVILLE— Louis Alfred "Lukie 

Stein, a pioneer motion picture theatre cir 

cuit owner in botl 

Florida and Georgia 

died unexpected! 

December 15 in i 

Pasadena. Calif., hos 

pital. He had dividec 

his residence for thi 

last ten years betweei 

this city and Arcadia 

Calif. 

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holdings consisted o 

L. A. Stein indoor and drive-ir 

operations in sever 

South Georgia communities. Known for 

many years as one of the most famous C 

Southern showmen, he was a former presi 

dent of the Motion Picture Theatre Owner' 

of Georgia and was long an active leader ir 

many phases of southern exhibition. 

Funeral services for Stein were con 

ducted at the Jacksonville Jewish Centei 

December 18 by Rabbi Arnold Turetsky 

assisted by Rabbi Sidney M. Lefkowitz. 

Survivors include his wife Beth: a 

dauf'hter. Mrs. Robert Farber of this citv, 

his son Joel, Gainesville: two sisters, Mrs 

Sam Witten and Mrs. Sam Lazarus, both 

of this city: three brothers. Ben of this city 

Frank of Orlando and Joseph of Miami 

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•^^ 1,313 films in its 1963 fiscal year, ordered 

^'Eii cuts in 45 and banned 13. The latter included 

three untitled 16mm pictures. 

The 47th annual report did not list the 

ct'.-.Jilbanned titles, but they were: Her Bikini 

'* ior tl Never Got Wet, The Immoral West, Girl 

KififGang, Nudist Playground, Scanty Panties, 

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NEW ORLEANS 

T aiarus Theatres, which recently tui'ned 20th-Fox who had retired two years ago 

over its Coliseum to United Theatres 

Theatres annual after-Christmas 

here, continues to operate the Center on 

matinee at CarroUton Theatre for nuns 

Canal street. Discharry. which disposed of featured "The Cardinal." Preminger, on his 

invitational preview of 

its Carver and Circle to United, continues visit here for the 

to operate the Lincoln at 2514 Washington his movie at the RKO Orpheum, granted 

Ave. C. Clare Woods appointed Sidney Cospelich, 

United Theatres the privilege to present the 

who has been at the Clabon, as ace film for the Sisters in Orleans, St. 

supervisor of the trio of newly added houses Bernard and Jefferson parishes at the request 

Blocker, secretary to President 

of Msgr. Henry Bezou, superintendent 

Woods at United, reports Ruby Conrad, w-ho of the archdiocese schools who attended the 

manages the Nola, was home three days preview. 

nursing a pulled muscle, then went on a 

week's vacation in the circuit's new vacation 

Frank Pasqua, accompanied by his young 

schedule. Amelia Cardova, the relief son, was the lone exhibitor on filmrow after 

manager, was home a week with her daughter 

Film Inspection Service has 

Christmas . . . 

Maria, home from school. 

taken over distribution of Continental 

Films prints in this exchange territory . . . 

Gulf States Theatres closed the Navy Point 

Theatre in Warrington, Fla. indefinitely 

effective January 1. 

"7 Days in May" received a warm reception 

at a screening arranged by Paramount 

at the Tiger Theatre . . . Christmas was a 

day of great cheer at local theatres, as the 

festive spirit and good films brought excellent 

patronage at practically all theatres 

in town. Christmas Day openings included 

"Move Over, Darling" at the Saenger, 

"Charade at the Joy, "Who's Minding the 

" 

Store?" at 16 neighborhood theatres and 

drive-ins, and "4 for Texas" at the Orpheum. 

"Kings of the Sun" was at Loew's 

State. The art houses also reaped a harvest 

of greenbacks with such offerings as 

"Mouse on the Moon" and "Lord of Flies." 

Even the neighborhood houses were busy. 

Sympathy to Gladys Villars and members 

of the Vlgnolles family on the recent death 

of Eva 'Vlgnolles, 63, former employe of 


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Wallace C. Turner of 'Vinegar Bend, Ala., 

conferred with Page Baker of Theatre 

Owners Service on bookings for his Citronelle 

lAla.i Drive-In . the few 

other exhibitors seen around were Claude 

Bourgeois of Biloxi and Ira Olroyd, Teche 

at Franklin . J. Ballam of Hodges 

Theatre Supply wound up a two-week stay 

at the store and is back on the road . 

Warner exchange staffers gathered at the 

home of Manager Lucas Conner on the last 

Saturday night of 1963 to bid farewell 

to salesman Ed Fitzgerald, who has moved 

to Atlanta to take over the WB manager's 

post . McDonnell, Paramount staffer, 

was back after a vacation, as was E. E. 

Shinn, salesman. Jane was given a gold engraved 

wrist watch by Paramount at Christmas 

in recognition of her 25 years of service 

. 

Totora, secretary to Paramount 

Manager Bill Briant, is sporting an 

engagement ring. 

Charles A. Phillips, Jonesville, La., publisher 

who switched to exhibition at the 

Delta Theatre there, died on a hunting trip 

at the age of 67. Survivors include his wife 

and three daughters . Doerr and 

Claude Bourgeois of B&D Theatres have 

appointed John Nobles as manager at 

Slidell in charge of the Arcade and Deluxe 

theatres. Bourgeois also reported that Her- 

Big Snow at Orleans 

Is No. 1 Attraction 

New Orleans—New Year's was the 

snowiest day in this southern city in a 

century, and it cost theatres, and business 

in general, plenty. 

Nearly everybody, it seemed, from 6 

to 66 dropped all thought of indoor entertainment 

as to romp and frolick in 

the 3.8-ineh white blanket which most 

of them had seen only in pictures. 

Others who tried to go somewhere 

gave up when their cars slipped and 

skidded around in the slick surfaces the 

drivers were not used to. 

Theatres enjoyed excellent business 

all week after Christmas, but it slipped 

away down New Year's night and the 

next day during the snow. However, 

business picked up after the Sugar 

Bowl game, which attracted 80,000. 

Only two theatres, the RKO Orpheum 

and Loew's State gave New Year's 

Eve midnight shows, and they fell below 

expectations. 

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cember. B&D operates seven theatres, pluf !*''-' 

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Charbonnet here. Periods when the theatre 

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business is good offset by far periods when 

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it is bad. Bourgeois commented. 

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Maud O'Bryan, columnist of the Times 

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Picayune and States-Item, suggests that 

Cindy Carol and Cliff Richard be starred ^ffli enjoyea i 

together in a film for the teenage crowd 

•Jifaties under 

during 1964. The two were in "Summer 

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Transway: Ray Allen cut the schedule at ByDetroil 

the 67 Drive-In at Texarkana to weekends 

only on the 6th ... J. P. Serio has closed DEmoiT-i 

the Century at Morganza until Easter, an 

annual practice I. Hodges of the !M of I 

Fox in Livingston has put the theatre up ?ost 311 ot thi 

for sale or lease . . . A. L. Royal Theatres 

closed the Rebel in Meridian on the 4th samjer for 

Benoit purchased the Lake infn' 

Lake Arthur from L. A. Richard . . . J. E, Brtnient of 

Adams has cut to weekends at the Dixie 

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Robert Steuer. executive vice-president offctin, fonjei 

Cinema Distributors of America here, was )& Frederiji 

in New York to confer with Clayton Pan- Wcker, WW 

tages, CDA sales manager, on release of jlimen, f\)j 

"The Flesh Eaters." Pat McGee, western njs, w. j. 

sales director, returned to his home in Den- roBthfyjjj 

ver for the holidays, following trips to Los te 

theatrica 

An.nelos and San Francisco . toiiihrttirei 

Bonneval of the UA staff was re-elected ws, 

president of Local F57: Catherine D'Alfon- Tnisteeseb 

so, 'Warners, was named secretary: Anna iiirtots.botii 

C. Liggett, MGM, treasurer: Joe Springier, «ella,,etit 

WB, business agent: Lillian Gracianette, 

UA, and Armand Portie, MGM, sergeants at 111 

arms, and Lcona Schmltt, UA, vice-presi- ^'*Wl 

dent. 

Ileadilers 

H. A. Arara, MGM, manager and wife. 

attended the wedding of their son Thomas, 

a licutonant. at Fort St. Joe, Fla., on December 

30 . and Mrs. Bill Reites and 

their four children returned to their home 

m Tampa after spending the Christmas 

week at the home of Bill's parents, Ruth 

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Harry Thomas of Gulf States Theatres 

ade the round of exchanges spreading the 

jmpany's annual Christmas cheer among 

le bookers. Also playing Santa Claus to 

le bookers was Giddens & Rester Theatres 

f Mobile. 

Geri Faia, former secretary to Bob Corbit 

f Paramount Gulf Theatres, now with 

ilmack in Chicago, was back for a week's 

olidaying with kith and kin . . . L. C. Craig 

f the Ocean City, Pla., drive-in took over 

operation of the Palms Theatre at Fort 

-le 

/alton, formerly operated by the late Tom 

arrow. Bill Cobbs Theatre Booking Servje 

is buying and booking . . . Maxine 

ievelo. parttime worker at Exhibitors Coperative 

Service, has given up her job 

idefinitely. 

Irene Gorka, roadshow and group sales 

ublicist with the Mike Todd Theatre in 

hicago and MGM's "Ben-Hur," now is 

/ith the Martin Cinerama Theatre here, 

ifhere she succeeded Mrs. Jewel Toups. 

'aul Nosacka is the new assistant to Maniger 

Herman Gantry at the Cinerama, suc- 

:eeding Charles LaCosta, resigned . . . Don 

md Mary Kay motored to the country 

lome of Mary's mother, Mrs. Jackie Ploor. 

lear Meridian for the Christmas holidays. 

Ralph B. Mann, manager for Fred T. 

M throiish ft|McLendon Theatres at Andalusia, Ala., resorts 

more than 1,000 cans of food obtained 

a; Si, Claude aafit" a pre-Christmas matinee sponsored by 

:; rta tie ;he Junior Chamber of Commerce at the 

t.hes' 

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Martin Theatre there. The show, for the 

wiie: 

(foungsters, resulted in skyrocketing conession 

sales. Mann offered an Elvis Presley 

photo free with each purchase of a con- 

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cession during "F\in in Acapulco" and 

Idird be itam again enjoyed a concessions boom. The 13 

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theatres under Mann's supervision concents 

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Arts Theatre has been elected commander 

for 1964 of Russell Johnson Theatrical 

Post 371 of the American Legion. He succeeds 

George Fredericks, former theatre 

manager for Associated Theatres who is 

now candidate for commander of the Department 

of Michigan. Fredericks 

former state vice-commander and former 

district commander. 

Elected vice-commander was Jack Dickstein, 

former theatre manager; adjutant, 

Dick Frederick; finance officer, Clifford 

Vericker, WWJ-TV; historian, Earl Mc- 

Glirmen, Fox Theatre, and sergeant at 

arms, W. J. "Pop" Stolz, recently retired 

from the Music Hall. Named to administer 

the theatrical blood bank were Owen 

Blough, retired, and Max Kolin of the Telenews. 

Trustees elected are Bob Henri and Lloyd 

Burrows, both of the Fox Theatre, and Sam 

Cornelia, retired. 

Albuquerque Paper Asks 

Readers to Vote on Films 

ALBUQUERQUE—A general balloting to 

select the ten best and ten worst motion 

pictures shown in Albuquerque during the 

past year has been undertaken by daily 

Tribune film editor Fred Bonavita, who 

had the pubhc make the choices. 

FILM WOMEN PLAY SANTA—Shown here is a handful of the 350 or more 

youngsters from needy families housed in the Florida avenue housing project, who 

were the guests of Women of the Motion Picture Industry of New Orleans at a 

Christmas party held at the Famous Theatre. Santa Claus is Phillip, the husband 

of WOMPI Lee Nickolaus. Left to right are Delia Jean Favre, Eugenie Copping 

(party chairman) Josie Ory, producer and director of the Variety Show, Mrs. 

Nickolaus and Marie C. Berglund, WOMPI president. Mrs. Ory led the youngsters 

in a songfest of carols. Other entertainment preceding the visit by St. Nick was the 

showing of a feature length comedy and cartoons. The kids were also treated to 

for each one. 

popcorn and candy, plus a gift 

Adams Theatre 

Downtown Detroit 

Opens After $250,000 Updating 

From Mideast 

Edition 

DETROIT — The Adams Theatre reopened 

Christmas Day after closing ten 

aays for completion of a $250,000 remodeling 

program. The house features a striking 

rotating name tower atop the marquee, 

that is probably the most brilliantly lighted 

spot in central Detroit. 

The Adams project brings a syndicate 

of three exhibitor groups who operate 24 

indoor suburban and three drive-in theatres, 

into the central downtown area for 

the first time. The owners are Adolph and 

Irving Goldberg of Community Theatres, 

who will operate this house; Wisper & 

Wetsman, and Detroit Suburban Theatres 

family). 

The group combined for the first time 

with the opening of the new suburban Terrace 

Theatre early this year. The Terrace is 

being operated by the Sloans. 

The Adams is one of the oldest downtown 

theatres, built over 45 years ago and 

opened with the Vaughn Glaser Players as 

a legitimate theatre. It was operated for 

years by United Detroit Theatres or its 

predecessors, and for over 30 years by the 

Harry and Elmer Balaban interests, from 

whom the present syndicate took over 

about six months ago. Malcolm "Mickey" 

Rose, formerly of UDT, is manager of the 

house. 

Redesigning of the theatre marks the 

first public venture of the new firm of E. 

Sloan & Co., foimded by Eugene Sloan, one 

of the owners of the Sloan circuit. He has 

been active in building activities for some 

years, and is forming the new company 

to serve as design consultants, specializing 

in the motion picture field. 

The two-sided marquee is topped by a 

revolving three-sided tower, two stories 

high. The tower-marquee combination has 

a total height of four stories. The theatre 

name appears on each side, in triple neon 

tubing on two sides and in scintillating 

lamps on the third, and rotates five times 

a minute, giving 15 changes of field. Batteries 

of 40 floodlights are focused on the 

tower. 

The theatre seating has been reduced to 

1,450, a cut of 200, to allow more placement. 

The screen had been enlarged 15 

feet. The interior treatment is soft teal 

blue with gold accents. Special decorative 

castings give an accent to the lobby railings 

and to the ceiling area of the unique 

tunnel which leads from the lobby, under 

a public alley, and into the auditorium, 

actually in another building on the other 

side of the block. 

Professional and contracting credits: 

architect, Ted Rogvoy; general contractor. 

Eugene Sloan; interior decoration. Sam 

Garfinkel; marquee and tower. Mills & Co.. 

Ferndale; electrical. Detroit Commercial 

Electric; mechanical work, including air 

conditioning. Thermal Engineering; lighting 

fixtures. Lightolier. Inc.; mural by La 

Verne, lobby plantings, by David Huff. 

Sam Arnold, well known public relations 

man, is directing a strong promotional program 

to create a new image for this modern 

house, exemplifying the belief of these 

showmen investors in the future of the 

central city section. 

MCA Building Topped 

In Ancient Ceremony 


HOLLYWOOD — Following a centuries 

old custom, "topping out" ceremonies were 

held on the MCA Tower building at the 

Universal City lot when the last 30-foot 

steel beam carrying signatures from employes 

was raised in place. Lew Wasserman, 

Edward Muhl, Albert Dorskind and 

stars and starlets looked on. 

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MIAMI 

£]ach year the women's department of the 

Miami News pays tribute to Dade 

County's outstanding women for their community 

loyalty and leadership during the 

last 12 months . among the six 

women who top the list for their achievements 

in their fields for 1963 is Lillian 

Claughton. president of Claughton Theatres 

and owner of the Urmey Hotel and the 

Silver Sands motel in the Miami area. Says 

the newspaper article: "In spite of her busy 

business career Lillian has always found 

time for humanitarian causes and community 

betterment. She was organizing 

chairman of the women's committee of 

Variety Hospital, served as president of the 

women's division of the Miami-Dade 

Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the 

board of directors of the American Cancer 

Society. Last year Lillian was elected 

president of the Greater Miami Hotel Assn., 

the second wôman in its history so honored." 

Jerry Lewis, always a favorite with 

youngsters, got "stood up" on a recent Saturday 

afternoon — at least his film did. 

Promptly at 1:30 p.m. the Coral Theatre 

in Coral Gables emptied of all youngsters, 

leaving the comedian to do his wisecracking 

on celluloid to an audience of empty chairs. 

The reason, of course, for the exit onto 

Ponce de Leon avenue was the Junior 

Orange Bowl parade and nobody wanted to 

miss that! It was seen by some 55,000 spectators, 

after which many of them packed 

the Coral Gables Youth Center for the annual 

Junior ball. 

Warner Bros, will premiere its "Incredible 

Mr. Limpet," Theodore Pratt's fantasy 

about a man who discovers he could live 

like a fish, at Weeki-Wachee this month. 

Author Pratt and some 250 movie critics 

will view the movie under sea level in the 

famed clear water springs of Weeki- 

Wachee. The premiere activities will start 

on the 16th at Port Paradise Villas at 

Crystal River and continue for four days. 

G. Milton Rubin, attorney for the estate 

of Harry and Belle Heller, is reported to 

have channeled $1,000 to the Variety Children's 

Hospital building fund. The Variety 

Hospital is the project of the local Variety 

Tent 33 . Kurt Russell came 

to Miami to be honorary marshal of the 

King Orange Jamboree parade on New 

•year's Eve. Kurt portrays the title role in 

the television Jaimie McPheeters series. He 

rode in a poster-bedecked convertible as one 



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of the visiting celebrities who headed the 

glittering serpentine of floats. 

Columbia Pictures' Harry Foster has produced 

many film shorts featuring the 

beauties of Florida and would like to do it 

again—but in a bigger and better style in 

his current "Wonders of ... " musical travel 

series which have already glorified many 

places. Before leaving Florida to return to 

New York to make plans for a shooting 

schedule to start January 15, Foster 

screened a pair of his Travelarks for a hundred 

or so city officials and hotel owners 

at a luncheon. There is something called 

"local" financing which Poster's representatives. 

Jay Kashuk Associates, must arrange 

before the widescreen color cameras 

and sound tapes can start rolling here. The 

luncheon was the launching pad for the 

project. 

J. B. Watts closed the Grand in Cameron 

G. T. Mitchell cut his 

indefinitely. . . . 

shows at the Star Drive-In, Tallulah for the 

winter . Henry Lazarus motored to 

Hot Springs for Christmas holidays. 

The opening of Stanley Kramer's comedy 

spectacular, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad 

" 

World in Florida State Theatres' specially 

equipped new Sheridan Theatre on Miami 

Beach introduced moviegoers to the newly 

developed Cinerama single-lens projection 

system. The new system enables patrons 

to enjoy the ultimate in widescreen projection 

which provides a remarkably clear 

image and erases the three-panel effect of 

earlier Cinerama productions. 

The Miami Beach Opti-Mrs. got the 

Stanley Kramer blockbuster "It's a Mad, 

Mad, Mad, Mad World," into local orbit at 

the Sheridan Theatre December 19, but 

according to a columnist in the Miami Herald 

concerning the event, they were a little 

over-optimistic about stars who planned to 

come here and help in the launching. 

Florida State Theatres, says the columnist, 

still had a lot of hoopla on Godfrey road, 

where the Sheridan Theatre is located, with 

searchlights lighting up the sky, music, etc. 

Damita Jo, in town for a Doral Beach hotel 

Shell room opening, and other recording 

and supper club stars attended, plus city 

officials and cafe society figures—in their 

best bib and tuckers and minks. But some 

of the expected celebrities had to bow out. 

Edie Adams was a possibility right up until 

the first of the week and had tentatively 

accepted to Florida State Theatres' Harry 

Botwick, but had to decline. Milton Berle 

and his wife, who also made tentative 

plans to be on hand, had to bow out, the 

paper reports. Berle, however, is expected 

to be down during the run of the film, 

since he opens at the Eden Roc January 

31. Buddy Hackett. another star of the 

film, will play the Diplomat in March, and 

probably will appear with the comedy film 

at a later date. 

Technicolor Chiefs Confer 

From Western Ettition 

HOLLYWOOD — Dr. Giulio Monteleoni. 

i;eneral manager of Technicolor Italiana. 

and Mike Allan, managing director in 

Great Britain, conferred here with Technicolor 

chairman Patrick Prawley, president. 

Melvin H. Jacobs, executive vice-president, 

Edward E. Ettlngcr and other officials. 

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BOCA RATON, FLA.—An Easter opening 

the goal for the plush theatre being constructed 

is 

at the Fifth Avenue Shopping 

Center for Wometco Enterprises. Ground 

was broken for the 1.100-seat theatre December 

5. 

"It will cost over three quarters of a 

million oollars." said Keith Hendee, general 4e Sia* 

manager for Wometco in Broward and Galveston 

Palm Beach counties, "and it will have the 0i 

most modern electronic sound and projection 

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equipment." 

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Deep cushioned pushback seats will be 

installed on the main floor and rocking 

chair seats in the loges. Specialized zone 

5:!h 

air conditioning will maintain an even 

temperature at all times, according to 

Hendee. 

A feature at the groimdbreaking ceremony 

w-as the placing of a time capsule in 

the cornerstone. The time capsule, to be 

,;-;;c. 

opened in 25 years, contains newspapers 

published the day of the groundbreaking 

and predictions by prominent persons in 

the area on what will have transpired between 

1963 and 1988. Dr. Kenneth B. Williams, 

president of Florida Atlantic Univer- 

lt.Fi 

sity here; Louis Wolfson. vice-president of 

Wometco Enterprises; city and county officials 

were among those persons writing 

down what they see in the future. 

Wometco Says 1963 Profit 

Will Be Above 1962 

MIAMI — Earnings of Wometco Enter 

prises. Inc.. for 1963 will rise to about $1.25 

a common share from $1,831,254. or $1.05 

a share, in 1962, Mitchell Wolfson, president. 

toM the Wall Street JoiuTial. 

Per-share figures for both years are adjusted 

for a recent 20 per cent stock 

dividend. 

Wometco's business is primarily in the 

fields of television and radio stations, mot 

on picture theatres and soft drink 

bottling. 

Wolfson said he expected Wometco's 

earnings growth in 1964 to continue at the 

current rate. "We would have had at least i 

a 10 per cent increase in sales and earn- \ 

ings this year without acquisitions." the I 

executive said. "But including our acquisit'ons 

our net income is running about 17 '2 

j 

per cent ahead of last year and should continue 

at that rate." 

Wometco recently refinanced an existing 

$4.5 million loan by obtaining a $9 million 

loan from a large insurance company for 18 

years at 5.65 per cent interest. The $4.5 

million loan had carried a 6'8 per cent 

interest rate. The additional revenue was 

used partly toward the purchase of the 

Nashville Coca-Cola bottling plant and 

party to increase working capital. 

'Starfighters' Premiere 

Is Held at Victorville 

From Western Eilition 

VICTORVILLE. CALIF.—A premiere 

of 

"The Starfighters." an Air Force story 

about modern jet pilots flying the ultrasoivc 

F104. was held in Victorville. the 

home of the George Air Force base where 

the film was shot. Full cooperation of the 

USAP permitted scenes in color and wide 

screen to be made of the dramatic plane. 

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Têmolition has been conyileted on the 

famed Pleasure Pier at>Galveston, which 

at one time housed a movie theatre . . . 

Candy Barr. wlio is living in semiretirement 

in Texas, is being seen on the screen of the 

Paris in "Strippers Round the World." 

A meeting of managers in the Texas zone 

of the Stanley Warner Theatres was held 

in Galveston with some 40 theatre supervisors 

from Texas, Oklahoma City and 

Memphis in attendance. Conducting the 

discussions were officials from the New- 

York headquarters of the circuit. According 

to Albert H. Reynolds, SW zone manager 

with headquarters in Dallas, said 

plans were outlined for the forthcomhig 

spring and summer season. 

Glamor-Wrapped Hollywood Theatre 

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Dorothy Farrar of Houston is one of fom- 

Texas beauties seen in "4 for Texas" at the 

Majestic. The other three are Kay Coleman 

of San Antonio, Gayle Baker of Fort 

Worth and Janet Keith of Dallas. 

H. C. Federer Retires 

At State Theatres 

OKLAHOMA CITY—H. C. Federer, who 

started in 1917 as an usher at Amarillo, 

retired at the beginning of the year as 

president of State Theatres, which operates 

the State and Center in downtown Oklahoma 

City. John Harvey, who came to 

Oklahoma City three years ago from 

Corpus Christi (prior to that southern 

Louisiana and Chicago > years ago, 

has been named general manager pending 

a July board meeting, when he will be 

named vice-president. Federer, in a retirement 

statement, said there will be a trend 

back to the downtown area. 

Federer, left, is seen giving the keys to 

Harvey in the accompanying picture. 

"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to 

Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," a Columbia 

release, will have simultaneous world 

premieres in London, New York and Toronto. 

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At the grand opening of the remodeled Holly^vood Theatre in Fort Worth, Earl 

Podolnick, president of Trans- Texas Theatres (in tuxedo), is seen cutting the 

ribbon at the Christmas night opening, assisted by his family and other company 

executives. Left to right, front row: Jimmy Brassell, head booker; Podolnick; his 

wife and Jay and Marina Podolnick. and Norm Levinson, general manager and 

advertising-publicity director. Behind them are Gene Welch, assistant booker; Dick 

Empey, assistant advertising director, and Harry Gaines, manager of the Hollywood. 

FORT WORTH—This city's brightest 

and happiest Christmas package was the 

Hollywood Theatre, gift-wrapped in the 

latest in theatre glamor and comfort and 

bearing an impressive price tag—more than 

$150,000. 

These words, paraphrased from a newspaper 

account of the event, announced the 

Christmas Day reopening of Trans-Texas 

remodeled showcase on West Seventh 

downtown, its first renovation since it 

first opened in 1929, 34 years ago. 

"Nothing was spared—neither time nor 

money—by Trans-Texas Theatres to make 

the Hollywood the most magnificent and 

beautiful downtown motion picture theatre 

in Texas," circuit officials declared. 

The initial attraction was "4 for Texas." 

First patrons found an eye-catching marquee 

"The last word in street razzle-dazzle, 

also: 

New foam-cushioned seats, up to four 

inches wider than the theatre's old seats, 

with seat rows spaced wider apart to give 

more leg room. Sacrificed to give this 

added comfort were 400 seats. 

A boxoffice off the street, inside a 

beautiful new lobby, the newest New Look 

in theatre design. 

To amuse patrons while waiting for 

features to start, there is a new television 

lounge equipped with GE color television. 

There are chic new lighting fixtures 

throughout—sent to the scrap heap were 

four 2,300-pound chandeliers which had 

hung from the ceiling for 34 years. 

New carpeting is a cheerful blue with a 

snowflake design. 

Bringing warm glances of approval were 

the spacious new lobby and restrooms, with 

all new furnishings and fixtures. Vending 

machines dispensed soft drinks with 

chopped ice in the cup. 

The remodeling began three months ago 

under the direction of Earl Podolnick, president 

of Trans-Texas. Other officers are 

Wroe Owens, vice-president; Noiin Levinson, 

general manager and advertising-publicity 

director: J. E. Brassell. head booker: 

J. A. Lewandos, treasurer: Dick Empey, 

assistant advertising director, and Gene 

Welch, assistant booker. Harry Gaines is 

manager of the Hollywood. 

The opening night festivities started with 

an outside concert by the 100-piece Castleberry 

High School Lion band as klieg 

lights lighted the red-carpet scene for the 

crowd of first-nighters and invited personalities. 

Announcers from KXOL did a 

three-hour broadcast from the lobby, doing 

interviews and descriptions, and coverage 

was given by four local television and 

seven radio stations. 

Two thousand helium filled balloons were 

released at the theatre front, with free 

tickets in most of them. 

Streets around the new Hollywood were 

blocked off to handle the thousands of people, 

with 12 patrolmen assigned to control 

the traffic. 

After the formal opening festivities at 

the theatre, Trans-Texas hosted a party at 

the Worth Hotel for invited guests and 

theatre officials. 

The downtown area of Fort Worth and 

other live cities will continue to thrive, 

Podolnick believes. 

"The $150,000 or more we are spending 

on the Hollywood is an investment in 

downtown Fort Worth. It's happening all 

over Texas—downtown districts are pick- 

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read the article on the motion picture 

industry in the December 20 issue of Life. 

The writers really tell us where we are 

going. This correspondent has been in the 

motion picture industry since 1910 and has 

seen many changes, but after all the dust 

had cleared, business went on as usual. We 

are very optimistic about the future of this 

business, but some of the writers in LIFE 

are just a little pessimistic. Anyhow, we 

feel that it is good reading and we can all 

form our own conclusions about the future 

of our business. 

Dewey Gibbs and his wife Sue want to 

take this New Year opportunity to thank 

all the industryites that attended the 

going -away party given them on last November 

7 at Twin Hills Golf and Country 

Club. They have been unable to thank each 

one in person. Any one wishing to write 

the Gibbs can address them at Postoffice 

Box 177, Woodville, Miss. 

News from Barton Theatres. Mr. and Mrs. 

Harold Combs and their children Hal, Kim 

and the twins Mike and Mark spent the 

Christmas holidays in Grand Rapids, 

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C.vmpathy to Jack Stanley, Warner Bros. 

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a list of equipment he has available, 

and information on other services. 

Another letter contained an order for theatre 

equipment for a town in Africa. 

E. D. "Debbs" Hayle of the Jefferson 

Amusement Co. staff here suffered a nosebleed, 

caused by a ruptured blood vessel, 

which necessitated a week's treatment in a 

hospital . Elder of Modern Sales 

and Service spent the weekend bird hunting 

near Wichita Palls with Romer Bullington 

. Simmons underwent 

twin operations. He's at Baylor. 

John Fagan of the Buna Vista Drive-In 

at Borger was at the home of his parents 

near here to recuperate from an illness 

before returning to his theatre duties . 

H. R. "Buck" Buchanan. Paramount 

booker, had planned to spend the Christmas 

holidays in Oklahoma City with his 

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remodeled at a cost of more than $150,0i 

and reopened on Christmas Day 

Guinan, Paramount booker, spent tl 

weekend in Atlanta attending a speci 

meeting of the WOMPI International con 

mittee on bylaws. Present were Nell Mi( 

dleton, Atlanta; Gene Barnette, Ne 

Orleans; Myrtle Parker, Charlotte, 

Mary Heuelsen, Kansas City. 

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Jess Arnold. 46, was found dead of a gur 

shot wound on a ranch just southwei 

of Austin on January 2. Arnold wrote tb 

screenplay for "The Eagle and the Hawk 

a w-estern. Bob Hope had bought Arnold 

humorous sketch, "The Man Who Cura 

the Common Cold" . Peck, wir 

nsr of an Academy award as the best acU 

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bird," will be the honor guest at the 19f 

Headliners Club awards party to be held i 

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panied to Austin by his wife Veronique. 

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MILWAUKEE — A quick glance at the 

figures below might give one the impression 

that the "good old days" are back with us. 

With but a few exceptions, it will be noted 

that 250s and 300s predominate. New Year's 

Eve packed houses helped balance out. Each 

and every exhibitor spoken to was highly 

enthusiastic about his holiday business. 

(Average is 100) 

Cinema It's a Mod, Mad, Mod, Mod World 

(UA-Cineramo), 2nd wk 250 

Cinema II Move Over, Dorling (20fh-Fox), 2nd wk. 200 

Downer The Suitor (Atlantic) 125 

Moyfair—Take Her, She's Mine (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. 250 

Palace Kings of the Sun (UA), 2nd wk 175 

The Sword in the Stone (BV) 300 

Riverside 

Strand Cleopotro '20th-Fox), 25th wk 125 

Times—A Pair of Briefs (Davis) 100 

Towne—Charade (Univ) 300 

4 for Texas (WB) 250 

Prosperous New Year Start 

For Minneapolis Theatremen 

MINNEAPOLIS—The new year was rung 

in on a prosperous note locally as balmy 

weather and large Hennepin avenue crowds 

combined to make the first week of 1964 an 

enthusiastic one for Mill City exhibitors. 

The second sensational week for "Move 

Over, Darling" at the Gopher, a resounding 

300 per center, indicated that Doris Day is 

well on her way to repeating her favorite 

role for theatremen, that of Boxoffice 

Champ. Reliable "How the West Was 

Won," 180 at the Cooper, chic "Charade," 

160 at the Mann, and "The Sword in the 

Stone," 150 at the Academy, all continued 

notable holiday successes. 

Acodemy The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk. . .150 

Century Cleopatra {20th-Fox), 28th wk 70 

Cooper— How the West Was Won (MGM- 

Cinerama), 43rd wk 180 

Gopher Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), 2nd wk...300 

Lyric— 4 for Texas (WB). 3rd wk 170 

Monn—Charade (Univ), 2nd wk 160 

Orpheum Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (Para). .1 lu 

State—The Cardinal (Col), 3rd wk 80 

Suburban World The Ploygirl and the War 

Minister (Union) 100 

World The Prize (MGM), 2nd wk 120 

'Sword in the Stone' Triples 

Average at Omaha State 

OMAHA—Three doubles and one triple 

were scored by Omaha theatres dm-ing the 

New Year holiday period. The pacesetter 

was the State Theatre, where Disney's "The 

Sword in the Stone" brought many turn 

away crowds. The Orpheum went strong 

a second week with "4 for Texas" and 

"Charade" boomed the New Year's Eve 

houses. The Indian Hills Cinerama Theatre 

reported a surge in grosses for the 31st week 

of "How the West Was Won." The figures 

were gratifying, particularly in view of the 

fact thousands were glued to the tube to 

watch the University of Nebraska bop Auburn 

in the Orange Bowl. 

Admiral Kings of the Sun (UA); The Mouse on 

the Moon (Lopert) 1 60 

Cooper The Prize (MGM) 1 70 

Indian Hills— How the West Was Won (MGM- 

Cineramo), 3 1 st wk 220 

Omaha The Cordinal (Col), six days; 

Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), one day 200 

Orpheum 4 for Texas (WB), 2nd week, six days; 

Charade (UnivJ, one day 220 

State The Sword in the Stone (BV) 320 

Kiddies Party in Winsted 

From New England Edition 

WINSTED, CONN.—Five merchants, in 

cooperation with radio station 'WBZY and 

the Strand Theatre, sponsored a free holiday 

kiddies party, the morning's prizes 

topped by giveaway of a bicycle. 

OMAHA 

Jûssell Brehm of the Center Drive-In Theatres 

Corp. was among the approximately 

8,000 Nebraskans who migrated to 

Miami to watch the University of Nebraska 

football team win the Orange Bowl game 

over Auburn. Many avid Husker fans who 

are in the film business were unable to go, 

including Walt Jancke of the Lincoln Varsity 

Theatre, who attended all the regular 

season games. Walt's office has been remodeled 

and over his desk is a beautiful 

picture of his son's Doberman dog . . . The 

State Theatre is back in operation in 

Lincoln after remodeling. 

Frank Hollingsworth of the Holly Theatre 

at Beatrice was back in Nebraska from 

Fresno, Calif., but planned to return to the 

west coast after the first of the year. Mrs. 

Hollingsworth remained in Pi-emont with 

their daughter and her family. Jack Harris, 

formerly of Salina, Kas., is managing the 

Holly . Roberts, who has the Ritz 

Theatre at Cambridge, has closed it until 

mid-JanuaiT for complete remodeling, 

renovating and reseating. He has purchased 

the building which houses the 

theatre. 

Vem Brown, 81 -year -old veteran of the 

mov.'e business who returned to Iowa about 

a year ago to take over operation of his 

theatre at Missouri Valley, was in town last 

week and made the observation that "business 

is wonderful." He stopped on the Rowbefore 

making a swing through Logan, 

Woodb'ne, Pisgah, Dunlap and Mondamin, 

all good customer communities in the Missouri 

Valley area, to plug his coming 

attractions. 

Mrs. Hazel White, wife of Carl White of 

Quality Theatre Supply Co., was in Rochester 

for a checkup at the Mayo clinic . . . 

Mrs. Helen Pippet, former exhibitor who 

had theatres at Clay Center and Blue Hill, 

Neb., was in town to purchase some floor 

matting at Quality for her store . . . The 

Rosebud Theatre at Franklin and the 

Minden Theatre at Minden have been temporarily 

closed since the death of owner 

George Hall. 

Phil March, veteran exhibitor at Wayne, 

Neb., is one of the incorporators of Golden 

Egg, a new enterprise at Wayne. The corporation 

has purchased a three-acre site 

and will build a 32x300-foot laying house, 

as soon as weather permits, for the production 

of high-quality eggs. 

Elsa and Adolph Rozanek, skillful ballroom 

dancers and exhibitors at Crete, were busy 

last week. They appeared on the Eddy 

Haddad show in Omaha in the afternoon, 

then on the Joe Martin show in Lincoln 

that evening . exhibitors were in 

town last week. Those on the Row were Al 

and Leonard Leise of Randolph and Hartington. 

Neb.: Sid Metcalf, Nebraska City: 

S. J. Bac'ver, Harlan, Iowa, and Vern 

Brown of Missouri Valley, Iowa. 

Dick Hartford, young exhibitor at Valley, 

is working out some special shows with the 

cooperation of the Chamber of Commerce 

Schertz, Buena Vista secretary, 

was on vacation last week . Jim 

Metzler, Tekamah exhibitor, visited Theatre 

Booking Service . Muse Theatre 

on the edge of the downtown district 

received nice compliments on the redecorating 

done by Mr. and Mrs. William Skolnik, 

who purchased the building recently. 

Adrian Mueting, who has the Rialto at 

Pocahontas, Iowa, flew to Florida for New 

Year's and the Orange Bowl activities . . . 

Eddie Osipowicz, operator of the Ritz Theatre 

at Correctionville. Iowa, is building 

a new house. He has it all enclosed so he 

can continue operations this winter . . . 

C. N. "Bud" Robinson jr., exhibitor at 

Blair, flew to Colorado Springs for a National 

Guard activity. 

David Waller, exhibitor at Lake View, 

has been holing out in a garage doing 

mechanical work . . . Bill Burke of Theatre 

Booking Service is still home recuperating 

from a recent illness. 

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni 

appear in the riskiest assignment of their 

careers in scenes of Embassy's "Yesterday, 

Today and Tomorrow" being shot on and 

alongside the Milan-Bergamo auto expressway. 

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ânager Bob Whelan of the Academy Theatre 

converted his filmhouse to live theatre 

for "Never Too Late," the Bill Bendix 

starrer which ran through January 11. The 

Academy will revert to films for the rest of 

the month while its sister house, the 

Orpheum. hosts the two following plays in 

the Minneapolis Theatre Guild season. 

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and 

"How to Succeed in Business Without 

Really Trying" . 

Inger 

Stevens will visit the Twin Cities during 

the last week of January as a guest of the 

St. Paul Winter Carnival. 

Local neighborhood exhibitors are staggering 

happily to the bank with the returns 

from a highly successful Christmas 

vacation patronage backboned by the 

kiddies. The neighborhoods went all out 

this year in providing the youngsters with 

plenty of matinee showings and the extra 

work and time spent in the last three weeks 

have paid off handsomely. The daily blocklong 

double lines of mothers and kids waiting 

to get into the downtown Academy to 

see "The Sword in the Stone" were a big 

boost for local first-run business, too. 

Members of North Central Allied Theatre 

Owners are being urged to get their bids in 

without delay on the Allied States buying 

plan now in development stages. Legal 

forms are in the process of being drawn up. 

The unit has voted to publish a booking 

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tickets recently adopted by the Tyrone 

Guthrie Theatre for the 1964 season. 

John Stradcutter, projectionist at the 

Belle Plaine. Minn., theatre, was killed by 

an autmobile near Le Seur. He was 54 

years old ... At a recent meeting of the 

crew of the Variety Club of the Northwest. 

Gil Nathanson. president of Detroit Lakes 

Amusement Co.. was elected chief barker, 

succeeding Don Schwartz. The Tent 12 

meeting was designated Moe Levy Night in 

honor of the retirement of the 20th-Pox 

manager. 

Lou Kosek has reopened his Sibley Theatre 

in Winthrop. with a six-day, twochange 

policy effective through the winter 

community spirit runs strong in 

Bonesteel. N. D., where reopening of the 

shuttered local movie house will be undertaken 

as a community project under sponsorship 

of the American Legion post. 

MILWAUKEE 

ôt a moan was to be heard from any exhibitor 

in the Greater Milwaukee area 

New Year's Eve. Downtow-n, and even out 

in the neighborhoods, long lines were observed. 

One exhibitor said: "Some of my 

regular patrons took one look at the long 

line and decided to go downtown, only to 

come all the way back and join the line 

anyway. Guess most of us had lines for 

each performance." Optimism for 1964 

appears to have gained a foothold with 

exhibitors. 

Christmas visitors from Hollywood included 

Mr. and Mrs. Milt Rackmil. Rackmil 

is president of Universal. Milt's wife 

and Mrs. Noreen Block are sisters. 

Brooks Stevens, local industrial designer, 

has been named director of the 1964 March 

of Dimes for Milwaukee county. Other 

committee heads include Mrs. S. V. Abramson, 

president of the Better Films Council 

of Greater Milwaukee, and Mrs. Raymond 

J. Pfeiffer. who is affiliated with 

the council Wymore, the last 

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wife and widow of Errol Flynn, opened at 

the Swan Theatre here as star in "Pal 

Joey." She said when she went to Hollywood 

as a Warner Bros, "discovery," she 

went there as a musical performer and 

"fell into the trap of dramatic roles." 

Shed a tear for Joe Reynolds, manager 

of the Towne Theatre who had the "red 

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cariX't treatment all lined up for Daniel 

Mann. Hollywood director, in advance of 

"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" slated 

to open at the Towne. On being notified 

that Mann would be unable to appear due 

to illness, it became necessary for Joe to 

cancel out all his reservations and notify 

individually scores of guests, the newspapers, 

radio and TV stations. 

UA's "Lilies of the Field" wa.s produced 

and directed by Ralph Nel.son 

Joseph E. Levine Partner 

In Establishment Theatre 

Fr;m Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK—The Establishment Theatre 

Co.. Inc., a permanent producing organization 

for the presentation of plays 

and motion pictures, has been formed in 

New York by Joseph E. Levine. president of 

Embas.sy Pictures, producer Ivor David 

Balding, and writer-actor Peter Cook. 

Mrs. Sybil Burton will serve as adviser 

and as casting director for the new organization. 

Mrs. Burton is an active member 

of the artistic board of directors for the 

Establishment Theatre Co.. a group which 

includes John Bird. Cook. Alan Delynn, 

John Fortune. Jeremy Geidt. Jean vanden 

Heuvel and Levine, Serving on the executive 

committee of the organization will be 

Levine. Balding and Cook. 

As permanent home for the Establishment 

Theatre Co.. which plans an extensive 

schedule of plays production, a new, 199- 

seat theatre will be built above The 

Stroller'.s—Establishment at 164 East 54th 

St, The new legitimate theatre, which will 

include a licensed bar, is scheduled for 

opening in January. Ed Wittstein and Jules 

Fisher are the designers and Robert 

Sayles the architect of the new playhouse. 

Levine and his Embassy Pictures also will 

establish a scholarship fund at a university 

to be named later to encourage the 

development of new talent in the performing 

arts. Recipients of the scholarship 

fund will be assured involvement in productions 

of ETC. 

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To Operate Cincy Guild 

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CINCINNATI—A move which is of particular 

interest to art film patrons has 

been made to continue improvement of 

programing of movies at the Guild Theatre. 

Willis Vance, veteran showman, owner of 

the theatre property and building and head 

of the company operating the house, 

signed a five-year operating contract with 

the Kilgore Amusement Co.. 1634 Central 

Parkway. 

The contract, effective January 1. carries 

an option of renewal for five years at the 

end of the first five. Under the new setup, 

Edward Salzberg of Screen Classics, will 

book and buy for Kilgore. Salzberg has 

been on Filmrow for many years and has 

had years of experience in movie distribution. 

He also is an art film authority with 

nationwide contacts on art movies and 

foreign pictures. 

The new deal will give the Guild wider 

selection of pictures for exhibition with 

continuance of present promotion and 

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This was the Dan Flanagans' turn to have 

Christmas Day dinner for Mrs. Flanagan's 

family. If all the group had gone 

over to Dans 84th and O Drive-In that 

night for the "Wives and Lovers" and "New 

Kind of Love" double bill, the open airer 

would have had another 40 persons in its 

Christmas audience. On hand were Mrs. 

Flanagan's brothers and sisters, Mrs. Ben 

Gad?ken of Johnson. Mrs. Bob Pierce of 

Omaha. Wilfred VoUertsen of Chandler, 

Ariz., LeRoy 'VoUertsen of Brock. Ken 'Vollertsen 

of Talmadge, plus their wives and 

husbands and some 20 children, as well as 

the hostess' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Armin 

'VoUertsen of Talmadge. Helping the Flanagans 

were their five sons and daughters. 

The 84th and O, hit by zero-clinging 

temperatures arriving in mid-December, 

went on a five-night week by closing Monday 

and Tuesday nights. 

It was very, very cold outside but pretty 

hot and smoky at Cooper's Stuart Theatre 

soon after the 1 p.m. daily op>ening recently. 

The smoke filling the first floor theatre 

auditorium came from the basement of the 

Stuart building where some equipment 

operating the office building elevators went 

out of order. Patrons had to clear the theatre 

until the smoky atmosphere also was 

cleared. 

Most movies shown at the Nebraska penitentiary 

are free but some cost inmates 

money on a regular basis. Thi.s custom has 

resulted in $1,561 being accumulated and 

given by the penitentiary men to Cedars 

Home for Children during the past 16 

months. The last Cedars movie, for example, 

netted $107 for the home fund. 

Cedars, called a Home Between Homes 

for boys and girls, is operated by a community 

board with many of its personnel 

being members of the original sponsoring 

Sertoma Club. The children finding a home 

here temporarily may be from broken 

families, orphaned or in trouble with juvenile 

authorities. 

Given a front-page spot and provoking 

smiles was a montage of two signs visible 

in a downtown Lincoln block in a current 

evening paper. It indicated it's a little 

difficult to believe anything you read. One 

sign was National Bank of Commerce's 

corner service of time, temperature and tomorrow's 

weather forecast. It recorded "14 

degrees at 9:47 a.m." and predicted "cold" 

as tomorrow's weather. The other adjacent 

sign was the Varsity Theatre's marquee on 

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which it read "Summer Holiday, title 

the current picture. 

While Walt Jancke and his wife munched 

on the German chocolate cake and German 

cookies given him by the Varsity janitorial 

couple, the two looked out at snowclad 

Lincoln and thought of a favorite 

dog Holly swimming in the Pacific. Holly 

belongs to their son and daughter-in-law. 

who recently moved to Santa Barbara. 

They report Holly has taken to ocean 

swimming like a fish. About the cake and 

cookies: they've become a traditional gift 

to Walt after ten consecutive Christmas 

season presentations. They're authentic, 

being made annually by Luise Marzok who. 

with her German husband Vinzenz Marzok. 

have formed the janitorial couple at the 

Varsity for that number of years. 

DBS MOINES 

Y'ariety Club members: mark January 25 on 

your calendars as the big date for a 

gala inaugural ball! C. A. Caligiuri, Paramount 

manager, will be installed as chief 

barker at festivities slated to get under 

way with a cocktail hour at the Holiday 

Inn South at 7 p.m. Dinner is set for 8:30 

p.m.. to be followed by an evening of 

dancing at the beautiful Holiday Inn Yacht 

Cub. Come early and anchor all yachts 

in Gray's Lake. Absolutely no docking of 

yachts or fishing allowed at the indoor 

pool! Prior to the inaugural event, Caligiuri 

plans to attend a regional Variety 

meeting on the 15th in Chicago. 

Norman Holt of Warners was hospitalized 

for a short spell but plans were that he 

would be feeling fit before the New Year 

was very old . 

"The Cardinal" 

went into its third week locally, with 

raves from young and old who saw it . . . 

Laurel Nelson, exhibitor from Gowrie, paid 

an early '64 visit to the Row. 

Laurens, Iowa, is readying its theatre for 

reopening in the near future. Dr. John 

Hodges recently was elected to head the 

Community Theatre Corp. Plans for renovating 

include replacement of 150 seats. 

In the final days of the old year, many 

Iowa theatres were the scenes of annual 

"Free Kids Shows," with merchants playing 

Santa for an afternoon of cartoons, Disney 

and candy. At Council Bluffs, the Nonpareil 

newspaper sponsored a "Tired Shoppers 

Show" at the Strand. 

Perils of Progress on the Open Road: 

Wally Stolfus, Iowa City theatreman, was 

on Interstate 80, headed for Davenport, 

when a wrong turn at a cloverleaf interchange 

put him off course and en route to 

Dubuque. It can happen to anyone. The 

recently opened .segment of the Des Moines 

freeway finds many local motorists wandering 

around East Des Moines, having 

overshot a shortcut exit to the westside loop 

Congratulations to Jan Rumcr and 

husband, parents of a new male exemption 

Jan is former secretary to Central Statesman 

Larry Day. 

The Des Moines Tribune recently paid tribute 

to A. H. Blanks Children's Zoo. a 

reality soon because of his $150,000 gift 

of 

Abbott Schwai-z was 1 

to the city . . . 

from Minneapolis. 

Jaycees at Marengo have launched 

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project to reopen the theatre there, closefor 

several years. A drive has been unde 

way to raise $4,000 to take over the the 

atre building and renovate it by mid 

January. The Jaycees pledged $1,000 an 

if the drive proves successful, a loan ma 

be secured for another thousand. It wi 

take $6,000 in all to do the job. 

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Crop Far Under 1962 

OMAHA — Nebraska in 1963 produce' 

only 34 per cent of the popcorn it pro 

duced in 1962, according to estimates b: 

the State-Federal Division of Agricultura 

Statistics. The 1963 estimate was 16,800, 

000 pounds compared with 49,400,00 

pounds the previous year. However, th' 

crop was well -matured and of good qualitj 

The crop was the lowest since 1955 am 

well under the five-year average produc 

tion of 41,303,000 pounds. The 1963 har 

vested total of 8,000 acres was dowi 

from the 19,000 in 1962 and the five-yea 

average of 18.520. 

The good quality crop averaged 2.10( 

pounds an acre, 500 below 1962 but onl; 

90 pounds less than the five-year average 

First Use of Panavision 

Camera on 'Lord Jim' 


HOLLYWOOD—Columbia's "Lord Jim.' 

now on location in Hong Kong, is beinj 

filmed with Panavision's revolutionar; 

lightweight 70mm Reflex motion pictun 

camera. It marks the first commercial usi 

of the Panavision camera, the result o: 

two years of intensive research, accordinj 

to Robert E. Gottschalk, Pana\isior 

president. 

The all-magnesiimi camera, whlcJ 

weighs only 30 pounds and represents a re 

search investment of more than $250,000 

has the ability to view through the actua 

lens that is recording the picture on th( 

film at the time the picture is being taken 

As a result, unlike conventional equipment 

•scenes and special effects can be captured 

quickly and easily when the camera is com 

bined with Panavision's new electronic 

zoom lens. 

Gottschalk emphasized the lightweight 

camera is the world's only camera of its 

type and its unique features greatly increase 

the flexibility of 70mm film. 

Sam Seidelman Resigns 

Fi.rn Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK—Samuel L. Seidelman has 

resigned as vice-president in charge of foreign 

distribution of American International 

Export Corp.. subsidiary of American International 

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IN 

Xardinar Opening 

Leads in Detroit 

DETROIT— "The Cardinal" at the Madison 

was far ahead — of the other two top 

openings of the week "All the Way Home" 

at the outlying Trans-Lux Krim and 

"Kings of the Sun" at the Michigan, The 

newcomers successfully reversed the recent 

pattern in which holdover product mostly 

led the field and brought the honors back 

downtown again. 


Adams—Closed for remodeling. 

Fox Samson and the Slave Queen (AlP), Goliath 

ond the Sins of Babylon (AlP), 2nd wk 105 

Grand Circus—Take Her, She's Mine (20th-Fox), 

6th 

Madison The Cardinal (Col) 190 

Mercury— Under the Yum Yum Tree (Col), 7th wk. . .125 

Michigan— Kings of the Sun (UA) 1 30 

Polms Flipper (MGM); Captain Sindbad 

(MGM), reissues 1 05 

Trans-Lux Krim— All the Way Home (Para) 150 

Poloce Kings of the Sun (UA), 2nd wk 110 

Twin Drive-ln Cry of Battle (AA), War is Hell (AA) 100 

Valley—Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), 2nci wk. . . . 1 35 

Four Cleveland First Runs 

Triple Average in Holido'ys 

CLEVELAND — "Happy Days Are Here 

Again!" with every first-run theatre going 

far above average, some up to three times 

average business. All this in the face of a 

weekend blizzard which blitzed traffic overnight 

and most of the next day. And most 

of the hits were holdovers! 

Allen—4 tor Texas (WB), 2nd wk 140 

Colony All the Way 

Continental 

Home (Pora) 2nd wk 310 

My Name Is Ivan (Sig Shore), 2nd wk. 130 

Heights, Westwood The Suitor (Atlantic), 2nd wk,. .125 

Hippodrome Move Over, Dorling (20th-Fox), 

2nd wk 175 

Ohio The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk 300 

Poloce It's a Mad, Mod, Mad, Mod World 

(UA-Cineromo), 2nd wk 300 

State The Prize (MGM) 300 

THREE MIDEAST CENTERS 

Booth Local 199 Elects 

Dwight F. Erskine Again 

DETROIT — Dwight F. Erskine of the 

Woods Theatre in Grosse Pointe was reelected 

president of projectionists local 199 

for a two-year term. Others elected, mostly 

re-elections, are: vice-president, Melvin 

Donlon, Beverly Theatre: financial secretary-treasui-er, 

Joseph Sullivan, Fox Theatre: 

recording secretary. Jack Lindenthal, 

Grand River Drive-ln; business representative, 

Roy R. Ruben: new directors Fred 

Warendorp of the Mai-Kai Theatre at Livonia, 

Garrett Lamb of Music Hall, and 

John Tabor, and trustees Jack Colwell of 

Family Theatre, Edgar Douville of Westown 

Theatre, and James Day of Music 

Hall. Named delegates to the lATSE were 

Roy R. Ruben, Dwight P. Erskine, Joseph 

Sullivan, and Ralph L. Ruben. 

'Man in Middle' Goes 

To Detroit Suburbs 

DETROIT—The midwestern premiere of 

20th-Fox's "Man in the Middle" has been 

scheduled for the Mai Kai Theatre in suburban 

Livonia for January 22 by Nick 

George, circuit owner, and Bennett Goldstein, 

20th-Fox manager. 

The film will also open simultaneously at 

the Trans-Lux Krim Theatre in Highland 

Park, normally a semiart theatre. 

This booking is considered especially 

significant as a possible step toward the 

long-heralded movement of major first 

runs away from the downtown district to 

outlying theatres. The Mai Kai was opened 

just a year ago and has normally played 

subsequent runs, while the Krim is customarily 

classed with the major first runs 

of Detroit, like the Mercury Theatre, also 

several miles out, although the Krim follows 

closer to an art policy in its bookings. 

"This move is undoubtedly portentous of 

future film release patterns in metropolitan 

Detroit, " a spokesman for Goldstein said. 

"Mr. George, in wresting the 20th-Fox release 

for his Mai Kai Theatre, is unquestionably 

flinging the gauntlet at established 

release patterns, and, by his action in putting 

up a large advance cash guarantee, indicating 

a strong determination to become 

a major first-run exhibitor." 

The Krim also was successful in its bid 

for UA's "Tom Jones," guaranteeing a gross 

which assures the distributor a whopping 

$75,000. The film is slated to open at the 

Krim in February. Managing director 

Kingdom Brown expects it to run about 

three months. 

Billposters 94 Elects 

DETROIT—George Goddard has been 

re-elected president of Local 94 of the International 

Alliance of Billposters and 

Billers. Other officers are John St. Peter, 

vice-president: George Kapano, secretarytreasurer; 

Willard Wood, chairman of the 

board of trustees, and Casper Frederick, 

business agent. 

Detroit on Tuesday, Then 

At Cleveland and 

Cincinnati 

DETROIT—Exhibitors in three exchange 

areas—Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati 

will get the opportunity to learn the facts 

on pay television at three rallies on successive 

days this week as follows: 

TUESDAY, January 14, at Detroit, 

starting at 11 a.m. in the Variety clubrooms 

in the Tuller Hotel. 

WEDNESDAY, the 15th, at Cleveland, 

11 a.m. in the Cleveland screening 

room. 

THURSDAY, the 16th, in Cincinnati, 

11 a.m. ui parlor 6 at the Sheraton 

Gibson Hotel. 

CHIUDHOUSE AT ALL RALLIES 

Arnold Childhouse, chairman of the 

California Crusade for Free TV, will be the 

principal speaker at all three rallies. He 

will give a first-hand eyewitness report and 

answer crucial questions concerning pay 

television and its danger to theatre exhibition. 

Allied Theatres of Michigan, headed by 

Milton H. London, executive director of National 

Allied; Jack Armstrong, president of 

National Allied, and Marshall Fine, Ohio 

ITO president and National Allied chairman, 

have sent out bulletins urgently urging 

all exhibitors in the four-state area to 

attend one of the rallies and get the answers 

to such questions as the following: 

How does pay TV threaten your theatre 

investment and your livelihood? 

What is the lowdown on the subscription 

TV situation in California? 

SEEK SOURCE OF MILLIONS 

How did the promoters of pay TV raise 

more than 22 million dollars within a few 

hours on October 10? 

What is behind the 117 million dollar 

lawsuit against theatre owner and exhibitor 

associations? 

How soon will pay TV come to Detroit? 

To Cincinnati? To Cleveland? To your city? 

What can you do to protect yourself? 

The rallies are for all exhibitors regardless 

of affiliation. They are to acquaint exhibitors 

with the subscription television 

situation as it is developing in California 

and enlist support in having the issue of 

free TV vs. pay TV placed before the California 

voters in next November's election. 

"If subscription TV succeeds in Los 

Angeles and San Francisco, other areas 

can't be far behind and this could very soon 

put first-run motion pictures product on 

pay TV prior to being offered to motion 

picture theatres," the Allied leaders feel. 

"Our best bet is to join together and help 

California exhibitors stop this threat. It is 

important that drive-in as well as hardtop 

theatre owners participate." 

An article by Lois Dickert suggested the 

story of UA's "Ladybug, Ladybug." 

Attendance Records Tumble 

During Cincinnati Holidays 

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CINCINNATI—The overall average attendance 

rdfim' 

at all first-run theatres in this 

city for New Year's Week was the highest 

for a like period in the last four- years, 

despite a record dumping of snow New 

Year's Eve. With the exception of two newcomers, 

all films were holdovers from 

Christmas week, a record breaker itself. 

Also another record has been established. 

It is the first time that suburban houses 

have played first runs during the Christmas-New 

Year's weeks. It is thought, 

though not positive, at the present time, 

that the Keith has established a new house 

record with BV's "The Sword in the 

Stone" and by its concession stand which 

did a land-office business. 

Albee Charade (Univ), 2nd wk 135 

Ambassador, Ctakley, Drive-ln Who's Been 

Sleeping in My Bed? (Para), 2nd wk 190 

Capitol— It's a Mad, Mod, Mod, Mod World (UA- 

Cineromo), 3rd wk 175 

Esquire The Conjugal Bed (Embassy) 125 

Ferguson Drive-ln, 20th Century Who's Minding 

the Store? (Paro), 2nd wk 1 75 

Grand Cleopatra (20fh-Fox), 28th wk 90 

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Guild—The Small World ot Sammy Lee 'Seven 

Arts), 2nd wk 

Hyde Pork The Conjugal Bed (Embassy) 

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Keith The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk 275 

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DETROIT 

Qarl P. Easlick has taken over film buying 

for his own theatre, the Elite at Laingsburg 

. . . Richard and William Beechler 

have reop)ened the Clinton at St. Johns . 

Russell Chipman has taken over and reopened 

the Saranac at Saranac, fonnerly 

operated by Wayne Stebbins, and the 

Callier at Belding. formerly operated by 

Kenneth L. Wisman . L. Thomason 

has reopened the Wexford at Manton . 

Ray V. Rule has closed the Alco at HarrisvlUe 

Jack Repp has closed the Decatur 

. . . Theatre at Decatur. 

The capacity of the Stardust Drive-In, 

operated by Price Busters discount department 

stores at Grand Rapids, has been increased 

to 780 cars Berman, 

manager, 

. 

announced plans for converting 

the first-run Downtown Theatre into a 

theatre-restaurant for 2,500 people—just 

25 years ago, the Detroit News recalls. Oldtimers 

remember the venture faUed to last 

and the building was torn down long ago 

. . . Jack Thompson of Paramount is finding 

rabbits in his backyard, conveniently 

close to his barbecue pit—plus pheasants 

from the neighboring cemetery. 

Dave Kaplan, head of Theatrical Advertising, 

is celebrating his first grandchild's 

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birth—John Beleutz, son of Dave's daughter 

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late Phil Kaplan, founder of the old Filmrow 

firm . Wilkinson, lately of 

the Mai Kai Theatre in Livonia, is plenty 

busy getting adjusted to his new post at 

the Mel in Melvindale, succeeding the late 

Chester J. Williams. 

Ark Lanes took three points from National 

Carbon to widen their lead to five full 

games in the Nightingale Club Bowling 

League. Theatre Equipment took three 

from National Theatre Supply. High 

scorers were Jack Colwell, 195, 576; Ed 

Waddell, 213, 561; Maurice Beers, 194,561; 

William Fouchey, 258, 553; John Ondejko, 

201, 537; Fred Warendorp, 204, 531; R. 

Valiquette, 189, 516; Matt Haskin, 184, 516; 

Carl Mingione, 207, 513; D. Lewis. 185, 510; 

C. Gates, 198, 503; Francis Light, 181, 503. 

The prize turkeys went to Waddell, Haskin. 

Valiquette. Warendorp and Haskin. Second 

prizes went to Colwell, Fouchey, Gates, W. 

Roberts, and G. Lamb. Secretary William 

Bradley is figuring on another doubleheader 

bowling session. 

Fire between the holidays was reported at 

the New Gaiety Theatre, formerly operated 

as the Bijou for many years, with damage 

confined to a storeroom and contents . 

Nicholas Tsoukalas, projectionist at the 

Roxy, who is a noted dancing master In his 

off-hours, sent greetings with a picture of 

his fine family of seven . Lefkowitz 

of L&L Concessions spent much of his 

time at Flint, getting the new Dort Drive- 

In concession under way for the p>ost- 

Christmas opening 

The Lancaster Theatre in River Rouge 

has been closed by Don Lancaster, son of 

the late Thomas Lancaster, one of the 

metropolitan area's earliest exhibitors. The 

folding of this theatre reminded filmites 

of Shakespeare's famed lines about "Old 

John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster" 

H. Guy has also closed the Bliss 

Theatre at Blissfield and Russell Taylor 

has closed the Gem at Hale for the winter. 

The Holiday season was bright by greetings 

from many good friends, among them 

Tom McGuire of Oak Park, Sam Abbott of 

Hollywood, the A. Milo DeHavens of 'Venice, 

Calif.; Helen and Walt Corey, who also 

left our town for Columbus; Mrs. Harry T. 

Jarvis, able and dedicated leader of the 

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Greater Detroit Motion Picture Council; 

Joe and Roger Ellul, doing a fine father 

and son job at the heart of the city; Walt 

Disney, with a year of magic; Woodrow 

Praught's staff at United Detroit Theatres, 

with an attractively novel idea in 

packaging; Bill and Yvette Graham from 

their new venture at the Lincoln Theatre; 

Jim Hare and his fine family, from their 

headquarters at Lansing; Jack Thompson 

of Paramount, with a real Scots touch; 

Gert and Dette Schneider of the Stratford 

Theatre, in their own inimitable way; 

Daniel J. Lewis, formerly of Cooperative 

Theatres, now of Sherman Oaks, Calif., 

with the great message of peace in many 

tongues and modes; Marjorie Rice of 

Unêd Arti-sts; Herb Eschback of the News, 

with an oldtime bookmark; Char'.es N. 

Agree, theatrical architects; warm-hearted 

greetings from Mildred of the Christensen 

Dot and Joe Lee, from way down in 

office; 

Miami Beach; Lucille Beal, a cozy corner 

from the Fox Theatre building staff, and 

a worthy UNICEF contribution from Saul 

Shiefman. 

CINCINNATI 

C. Naegel, formerly with American International, 

has joined the Frank L. 

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Weitzel Booking Service Co. as salesman 

Allen, who was with the Chakeres 

Theatres for about ten years, has rejoined 

the circuit after a ten-month stint 

with the Alexander Enterprises. 

Ray Nemo, Columbia exploiteer, was in Indianapolis 

escorting Joan Crawford, who is 

starring in "Strait-Jacket." The film is 

scheduled for an early release in this area 

Chakeres, president of Chakeres 

Theatres, was in the home office in Springfield 

for a few days last week before returning 

to his winter home in Miami 

Beach, Pla. 

Among Filmrow visitors were E. T. Denton, 

Owensville. Ky.; Ohioans Jim Chakeres, 

Washington, C. H.; Charles Williams, 

Oxford; Jim Herb, Dayton; John 

Vlachos, Harrison; Grant Frazee and Nick 

Condello. Springfield. 

Sinatra Appeal Big Help 

DETROIT—Fresh evidence of 

the effectiveness 

of the motion picture theatre 

screen in presenting an important civic or 

charity message was given by success of the 

Tuberculosis and Health Society in its annual 

Christmas Seal campaign, which ran 

ahead of a year ago here. An important 

part of the promotion was a screen trailer 

which featured Frank Sinatra, with an appeal 

to buy the Christmas Seals. The selection 

was unusually timely because the appearance 

of the trailer was remarkably 

coincident with recent events involving 

the kidnaping of his son. About 30 theatres 

in the Detroit area presented the trailer. 

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Two More Shop Center Theatres Are 

Opened by Broumos in Youngstown 

YOUNGSTOWN — Two new shopping 

center theatres, the Boardman Plaza and 

the Lincohi Knolls Plaza, were formally 

opened here December 20. 

The Boardman Plaza Theatre was dedicated 

the evening before to the 1936 graduating 

class of South High School, where 

John G. Broumas of Silver Spring, Md., 

president of the 45-house Broumas circuit, 

went to school and was graduated in 193G. 

All members of the class were invited to 

the opening to see "Who's Been Sleeping in 

My Bed?" In addition, the audience m- 

cluded theatre executives from Washington 

and Cleveland, Youngstown area exhibitors, 

and representatives of the press and 

radio. 

The fiim was the New Year's Eve attraction 

at both Plaza theatres. 

Both houses have 799 seats. The Boardman 

Plaza has full Norelco 70 iTodd-Ad 

equipment with .stereophonic sound. The 

Lincoln Knolls Plaza Theatre is equipped 

for Cinemascope projection. The opening 

feature at both houses was "Pun in 

Acapulco." 

Broumas has operated the State Theatre 

in downtown Youngstown since July. 

The number of outlets in the chain is expected 

to reach 80 in its current expansion 

program. Recent openings have expanded 

company operations as far south as Florida 

and north to upper New York State. Twelve 

new shopping center theatres are now 

under construction, in addition to a third 

in Youngstown, in the Liberty Plaza, 

.scheduled to open in January. 

G. N. Limbert of Youngstown is vicepresident 

in charge of construction for 

Broumas Theatres in the Ohio-New York- 

Pennsylvania area, and will maintain his 

headquarters at the Boardman Plaza Theatre 

here. William Petrych. manager of 

the State, is city manager of the four local 

Broumas theatres. 

COLUMBUS 

Camuel T. Wilson, theatre editor of the Columbus 

Dispatch, will attend the underwater 

premiere of Warners' "The Incredible 

Mr. Limpet" at Wcekie Wachee, Fla., 

starting the 16th . Rea, who sponsors 

the Free Christian Drive-In on weekends 

during the summer, was named one 

of the ten Men of the Year here by the 

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called Rea "A Showman for the Lord." Admission 

is free to religious films shown at 

the drive-in but a freewill offering is accepted. 

Rea makes up any deficits out of 

his pocket. 

"The Prize" was held for a second week at 

Loew's Ohio. "Charade" went into a third 

week at RKO Palace . Grand, 

now in a tenth month of "How the West 

Was Won," noted that the Cinerama western 

spectacle is far and away the longrun 

champion in the three-year history of 

Cinerama here. 

Entertainment personalities Warner Baxter, 

Elsie Janis, James Thurber and Howard 

Thurston were included in the list of 12 

Columbus natives honored by inclusion in 

the new Columbus Hall of Fame in City 

Hall. Photographs of the 12 line the walls 

of the City Hall lobby. The project was 

inaugurated by Mayor W. Ralston Westlake. 

Manager Ed McGlone of RKO Palace announced 

that the theatre will be among the 

first of a selected group of RKO houses 

from coast-to-coast to undergo complete 

modernization. It will be renamed RKO 

International 70. And will be able to show 

all size films, except Cinerama, which will 

continue at RKO Grand . . . Columbus 

friends of William S. Cunningham mourned 

his recent death in Hollywood. He was 

formerly theatre editor of the old Columbus 

Citizen. Since 1943 he had been in Hollywood, 

first with the Office of War Information 

and later with Paramount and 

MGM publicity staffs. 

Ken Prickett, executive secretary of the 

Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio, has 

returned to w'ork after successful treatment 

for emphysema at Will Rogers Hospital. 

CLEVELAND 

T ew Horwitz of the Washington circuit announced 

his engagement to Doris Jones, 

assistant in a law firm which represents 

several golfing celebrities, at a family 

party held in his home on Christmas Eve. 

The marriage will take place late this 

winter or early spring . Joel, Loews 

Theatres head booker, conferred here with 

Arnold Gates, local Loew's manager. 

Mark P. Essick, son of Jack Essick of 

Modern Theatres, took over the lease of 

the University Theatre at 107th street and 

Euc'id, effective December 28. and immediately 

opened the "Asylum of Horrors" 

stage show, followed after a week by "Take 

" 

Her, She's Mine and "Comedy of Terrors." 

The younger Essick and partner John 

Smith also leased the Capitol at 65th street 

and Detroit avenue. 

Henry Greenberger of Community Theatres 

has moved to a convalescent home to 

retupcraU.' . Gattuso, manager at 

the Palace for five years, has been named 

manager of the new SouUigate Theatre 

which win be oix-ned in the Soutligate 

Shopping Center -soon . . . "Tom Jones" will 

open at the Ohio February 20 . . . Joe 

Shagiin of Fo.ster Theatres In Youngstown 

came to Cleveland the other day, called 

the weather "too cold" and started ba 

home within an hour. 

Shelly Sherman. UA booker, resigned a) 

went to Miami where she joined the Gord 

Murray organization . MUl 

formerly of Richmond, Ind., opened t 

Capitol Theatre and the Van Del Drive 

at Delphos, Ohio . Nathanson, Alii 

Artists sales chief, stopped here briefly 

the way west to confer w-ith Martin Gra 

green, new AA manager . moth 

of Jack Lewis, returned to Clevelai 

Ciinic and is "doing all right." 

The Ohio at Loudonville was opened 

mid-December by Mrs. Utterbuck for wee 

ly Saturday show'ings . Grand 

Dunkirk was burned to the ground recent 

Kalada of the General Theatr 

staff prepared a Christmas play for Chun 

of the Mother of God on West 25th stre< 

It had a cast of 50 . Blitz is resigi 

ing at Paramount as booker to join Colur 

b'a as salesman, effective the 27th . 

Whitey Skody was still undergoing tests 

Huron Road Hospital. 

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weiss. Ohio Theati 

Supply, had a very pleasant three-we

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BOSTON — For the eighth consecutive 

^'' "^nx year, the Variety Club of New England and 

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'Onelly played leading roles in raising more than 

a half million dollars for the Jimmy Fund 

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lEotliin 1963. The last drive topped the 196'2 

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Oetelil campaign by more than $70,000. 

Participating with the motion picture industry 

groups in the drive were the Boston 

Red Sox and Milwaukee Braves baseball 

teams, law enforcement agencies of New 

England, the Little Leaguers and the public 

at large. Drive leaders were William S. Koster, 

Joseph E. Cronin. Ted Williams, Curt 

Gowdy. James F. Mahoney, Hector Pelletier, 

Tom Sullivan, Judge Edward Powers 

and Bob Emery. 

Audience collections were taken at the 

theatres for the Jimmy Fund which is used 

to support research and operations at the 

Children's Cancer Research Foundation 

center in Boston. 

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Christian Science Church 

Buys Former Loew's State 

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Hi BOSTON—The former Loew's State Theatre, 

sold by the then northeast division 

manager, Charles E. Kurtzman, to the 

Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in 1959 and 

renamed Donnelly Memorial Theatre, was 

sold by the archdiocese to the Christian 

Science Church. Negotiations have been 

proceeding for some weeks and papers were 

filed immediately after the new year. 

No sale price has been disclosed for the 

property, which includes two theatres, the 

3,300-seat former State, and the tiny upstairs 

F^ne Arts Theatre, which is being 

operated as an art house, currently playing 

"Mui'iel," and shops, stores and offices. 

The theatre was used by the archdiocese 

for concerts, ballet, opera and religious 

•ie 1920s will gd 

t'. the death iA films. The property at 209 Massachusetts 

8 V, Men. He « Ave., in the Back Bay section of Boston, 

was assessed at $1,140,000 when sold to the 

sjcbstarsoU 

FsncislBiBl archdiocese and was constructed at a cost 

iaiciiftEdwaif of $2,000,000. 

The Christian Science Church had origijQjjjg 

Holli nally wanted the property when Loew's 

-uraJisroin' to decided to sell in 1959. but was outbid. The 

Christian Science Church headquarters, the 

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Mother Church, is in the same area of Boswith 

beautifully landscaped grounds 

blocks of gardens and buildings. It is 

understood that the former Loew's &(jftte 

ors are his "i building will eventually be razed to maki 

garden area for the church 

Music Box Reopened 

NEW BRITAIN — The long-shuttered 

Music Box Theatre has reopened with a 

weekend foreign film policy. 

The screenplay of Paramount's "Circus 

World" was written by Ben Hecht. 

Some Boston Theatre Records Broken 

In Outpouring of Holiday Patronage 

BOSTON — The holiday 

week brought 

some of the biggest percentages to the 

Boston boxoffice. With huge crowds for 

New Year's Eve, the motion pictui-e business 

scored its highest percentages, far 

ahead of previous years, exhibitors reported. 

Roadshow pictures ran extra shows 

which built business for the week way up. 

Some house records were broken. With the 

big pictures locked in, there were few openings 

this week. "The Prize" was the biggest 

of the openings at the Orpheum with a high 

average situation. "Take Off and Live" 

opened above average at the Pilgrim. 

Records were broken at the Beacon Hill 

with "Tom Jones," in its second week, and 

at the Saxon for "The Cardinal," in its 

fourth week. A near record was established 

at the Memorial for "Charade" in its second 

week. "Mad World," in its eighth week at 

the Boston, had the biggest business dm'ing 

the holiday week than at any time dui'ing 

its run, and bigger than opening. Outlook 

for the motion picture business in Boston 

in 1964 is considered "excellent" on the 

basis of the business racked up. A dull legit 

season, with few shows in town, has helped 

film houses here and exhibitors are mighty 

pleased with results obtained. 


Astor Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (Para), 

2nd wk 160 

Beacon Hill Tom Jones (UA-Loperf), 3rd wk 350 

Boston It's a Mad, Mod, Mod, Mad World 

(UA-Cinerama), 8th wk 250 

Capri Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), 2nd wk ... .150 

Center Blood Feost (Boxoffice Spec); Victim (5R)..150 

Cinema, Kenmore Square—To Bed Or Not 

to Bed (Cont'l), 2nd wk 200 

Exeter— Any Number Can Win (MGM), 2nd wk 160 

Gary Cleopatra (20th-Fox), moveover, 8th wk 175 

Memorial Charade (Univ), 2nd wk 275 

Music Hall—The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk. . .225 

Orpheum—The Prize (MGM), 2nd wk 210 

Paramount— 4 for Texos (WB), 3rd wk 150 

Pilgrim—Take Off and Live (5R); Harold Lloyd's 

World of Comedy (Cont'l) ISO 

Pork Square Ladies Who Do (Cont'l), 

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2nd wk 175 

(Col), 

4th wk 

'Charade' Still Showing Strength 

As New Haven Holdover 

NEW HAVEN — Universal's "Charade," 

held over day-and-date at the Stanley 

Warner Cinemart and the Redstone Milford 

Drive-In, scored a whopping 220 in its 

second week. 

Crown-Manioc (Col); The Old Dark House 

(Col), reissues 80 

Lincoln Murder ot the Gallop (MGM), 2nd wk 90 

Loew's College Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox). .. .115 

Charade 

Milford Drive-ln, Cinemart 

(Univ), 

2nd wk 220 

Paramount Who's Minding the Store? (Para) 105 

jger Sherman 4 for Texas (WB), 2nd wk 85 

halley—Cleopatro (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 190 

osses Well Above Average 

For Most Hartford Films 

HARTFORD — Universal's "Charade," 

MGM's "The Prize" and Paramount's 

"Who's Minding the Store?" are pacing the 

town. 

Cine Webb—The L-Shoped Room (Col), 3rd wk. 

100 

150 

140 

Elm—The Sword in the Stone (BV), 2nd wk.. . 

E, M. Loew's—The Cordinol (Col), 2nd wk 

Loew's Palace Move Over, Darling (20th-Fox), 

2nd wk 

.130 

Loew's Poll—Charade (Univ), 2nd wk 180 

Rivoli— Ladies Who Do (Cont'l); Mr. Hulot's 

Holiday (Cont'l), reissue 135 

Strand— 4 for Texas (WB), 3rd wk 70 

Nutmeg Owners Form 

New Theatre Firm 

NEW HAVEN — Leonard Sampson and 

Robert G. Spodick, partners in the Nutmeg 

circuit, independent Connecticut operation, 

have incorporated another theatre firm to 

be known as Amity Theatre, listing 10,000 

shares ipar $10), commencing business, 

$1,000. The business address is 1 Lincoln 

St., New Haven, home office for Sampson 

& Spodick, operators of the Lincoln 

Allyn—Who's Minding the Store? (Para); 

Lafayette (Moco), 2nd wk 

.175 

Art Cinema Zazie (Seneca); Intimate Relations 

(5R) 100 

Burnside—The Prize (MGM), 2nd wk 

Cinerama— How the West Was Won (MGM- 

155 

Cmeroma), 29th wk 80 

and Crown, New Haven; Pine Arts, Westport: 

County Cinema, Fairfield and Norwalk, 

Norwalk. The unit is shortly to start 

building another indoor theatre in Wilton. 

Incorporators of the Amity Theatre are 

Sampson, Spodick, Clara P. Sampson and 

Pearl B. Spodick. 

Young Airer Patron Wins 

Keystone Sweepstakes 

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Miss Sandy 

Brown, 31 Rice Rd., Wayland, was presented 

a Keystone camera and projector 

by Wendell F. Clement, manager of the 

Natick Drive-In, and Fred Pitts, proprietor 

of the Fitts Photo Shop, as winner of the 

Keystone Sweepstakes. 

The special promotion was jointly sponsored 

by the drive-in and the photo shop 

in November, with the contest open to all 

patrons of the theatre. 

Dinner Theatre Plan Out 

SPRINGFIELD—Wally Beach, 

ex-Trans 

Lux Theatre manager in New York, now 

producer at West Springfield's Storrowton 

Music Pair, has shelved plans for a dinner 

theatre in the Agawam Shopping Center. 

At the same time, he has dropped plans to 

produce a series of one-night stage attractions 

at the downtown first-run Paramount 

Theatre. 

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theatres. If anything, 1964 should see a 

HARTFORD — Moving into midwinter. pronounced pattern of additional merger 

of independent and circuit interests. Just 

I Exploit More In '64' who will start the pace is yet to be determined. 

Lockwood & Gordon again distinguished 

1963 drive-in operations with a fine display 

of community endeavors, geared by 

Hartford district manager Bob Tirrell's 

efforts. This included audience-participation 

games and gimmicks, particularly in 

the preperformance moments at the L&G 

East Windsor. East Hartford. Sky-Vue and 

Torrington drive-ins. 

Fred Koontz III, resident manager at the 

L&G Waterford Drive-In, again had top 

cooperation from shoreline region automobile 

dealers, providing display of new 

models. 

Arthur M. Moger, New England district 

exploitation representative for American 

International Pictures, escorted John Ashley 

of AIP's deservedly top-grossing "Beach 

Party" on an intensive appearance schedule 

throughout the state; autographing sessions 

proceeded despite adverse weather in 

large cities and tiny hamlets. 

At the moment. Brooks LeWitt, owneroperator 

of the Berlin Drive-In, is providing 

free coffee after 10 p.m. on weekend nights. 

The plan has met with encouraging audience 

response, many patrons having expressed 

appreciation for the rather unique 

and novel drive-in gesture in the cold of 

winter 

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Connecticut drive-in theatres equipped 

with free, electric in-car heaters have recorded, 

surprisingly enough, resoundingly 

strong boxoffice performance. 

Despite disheartening snow storms and 

attendant ills, the dozen-plus underskyers 

continuing to operate through the winter 

months have found weekend trade, in particular, 

well above average. Spokesmen willing 

to discuss this newest trend cite the top 

calibre of available product as the prime 

factor influencing attendance figures. 

Moreover, less of the heretofore "backbiting" 

urge on the part of certain outdoor 

interests—the trend to point up better concession, 

better screen quality, et al, as perhaps 

opposed to the next drive-ins—has 

gratifyingly enough appeared this winter. 

There's more institutional copy appearing 

in newspaper ads and for this the more farseeing 

theatre owners are indeed appreciative. 

Connecticut's 40 drive-ins, during 1963, 

experienced good boxoffice patterns, although 

drive-in men were quick to qualify 

this atmosphere with the need for topquality 

product to maintain the sustaining 

pace. 

Not so surprisingly, too, there has been 

no indication whatsoever from any quarter 

of this state pointing to any future drive-in 

theatre construction 

The feeling holds that Connecticut is 

saturated, at the moment, with drive-in 

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HARTFORD 

Diehard \Viison, manager of Lockwood 

& Gordon's East Windsor Drivein. 

is vacationing after filling in for the 

holidaying Audrey Rushon of the L&G 

Windsor Plaza. Doug Amos, the circuit's 

general manager, leaves on holiday in mid- 

January. 

The marquee at the East Windsor Drivein 

is being used dui-ing winter months ( the 

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theatre is shuttered until spring to carry 

local announcements as a good will gesture 

Windsor Parent-Teachers Club is 

sponsoring a series of five Saturday matinees, 

which started January 4. at the Windsor 

Plaza. 

Hartford visitors: Ellis Gordon, statesrights 

distributor: Eddie Ruff and Mel 

Safner. Edward Ruff Associates; James M. 

Totman. SW zone manager, and Chester 

L. Stoddard. New England Theatres. 

Alt Moger, American International field 

exploiteer. will have a book published in 

March . M. Widem. Hartford Times, 

returned from Washington. DC. . . . George 

E. Landers. E. M. Loews, hosted Tom 

Tryon's family at "The Cardinal" screening. 

The Tryons live in suburban Wethersfield 

. . . Bernie Menchell. Outdoor 

Theatres Corp. of Connecticut, was a New 

York business visitor. 

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Providence, 

Norman Pader, MGM field exploitation 

man, completed a four-city tour 

Worcester. Springfield and Hart- 

ford i 

Kerstin Jonsson. in conjunction 

with MGM's "The Prize." 

Filmrow sources insist that major interests 

have been "scouting Bisliop's Corner 

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in West Hartford, one of the best-rated 

shopping districts in metropolitan Hartford, 

for a possible theatre site. 

The district, which includes Lord & 

Taylor among prominent retail outlets, has 

no theatre at the moment. The Shulman 

Central, a 1.000-seat subsequent run, is a 

mile away. 

James Collins, district manager for Smith 

Management Co.. conferred here with Alfred 

Alperin, Meadows Drive-In resident 

manager . pioneer M. J. 

"Mickey" Daly returned from New York 

booking meetings for his Spanish-language 

Daly, the only one of its kind in Connecticut. 

Richard Arlen will play his 227th film role 

in UA's "The Best Man." 

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More Duties Are Assigned 

To SW's Alfred G. Swett 

NEW HAVEN—James M. Totman. Stanley 

Warner New England manager, has 

given Alfred G. Swett additional responsibilities 

as managing director of the newly 

constructed, de luxe Cinemart Theatre in 

the suburban Hamden Shopping Mart. 

Swett. based at the SW zone offices here 

for the past two years, will continue to 

supervise the zone flagship, the downtown 

Roger Sherman Theatre. He also will direct 

advertising and publicity for SW first-runs 

in the New England states. 

Swett. formerly Lynn. Mass., district 

manager for SW, at one time served as the 

circuit's Albany district manager. 

MAINE 

H fire has closed the Opera House, the 

only movie theatre in Millinocket. and 

there were no immediate indications when 

the establishment might be repaired and 

reopened. The blaze, which occurred December 

26. started in partitions near the 

projection booth, according to fire chief 

Chris Clark. It was apparently caused by a 

short circuit. 

The recently revised curfew ordinance 

which became effective in the Lewiston 

area December 20 specifies that the curfew 

for youngsters 17 years of age and under 

will be from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.. instead of 

the previous 9:15 p.m. deadline. Approximately 

a year ago, the youth commission 

started a review of the old ordinance and 

made a series of recommendations to the 

police commission, which approved the new 

version of the ordinance July 30. 

New Screen Installation 

For SW Hartford Strand 

HARTFORD— Stanley Warner plans to 

close the 1.500-seat Strand for three days 

prior to the January 17 world premiere of 

Continental's Wonderama attraction, "Mediterranean 

Holiday," to permit installation 

of a new screen measuring 60 feet wide and 

20 feet high. 

William Decker, Hartford resident manager, 

is to host top industry figures and 

press representatives at a Staller Hilton 

dinner prior to a January 16 invitational 

screening. 

Harry K. McWilliams of the Continental 

exploitation staff arrived to work on advance 

promotion. 

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Tn the first exchange policy of its kin 

in Connecticut, the independent Rivol 

Hartford, is accepting phone reservation 

for the Bailey Whalley, New Haven, exclu 

sive Connecticut engagement of 20th-Pox 

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"Cleopatra. film has yet to be sched 

uled for a Hartford opening. 

An exhibition of paintings by Sybil Gold 

smith of Darien opened at the Sampson < 

Spodick County Cinema, Fairfield, in con 

junction with Universal's "Charade" 

Henry Cohan, manager of the Perakc 

Theatre Associates' Beverly, Bridgeport, 1 

recipient of the Bridgeport Black Roc 

Section Businessmen's merit citation fc 

contributions to the community's well 

being. He annually hosts highway and tiaf 

fie safety shows for children. 

Sal Adorno jr., owner-operator of th 

Middletown Drive-In. Middletown. is book 

ing the underskyer again himself. For 

while, bookings were assigned to independ 

ent servicer Frank Ferguson . { 

Boyle. 51. court reporter for the Norwic 

Bulletin, died suddenly. Prior to joining th 

newspaper eight years ago. he had worke 

for Loew's Theatres for 28 years, most re 

cently as manager of Loew's Poll. Norwicl 

S. H. Fabian, president; Harry Kalmini 

general manager, and Nat Peldman. assist 

ant general manager, all of the Stanle 

Warner Management Corp., were in fror 

New York for meetings with James M. Tot 

man, zone manager. 

Sampson & Spodick's Nutmeg circuit ha 

installed a new screen and soimd facilitie 

at the first-run County Cinema. Fairfiel 

Elder, eastern division manage 

for Loew's Theatres, met with Sidney E 

Kleper, Loew's College. 

Jack Webb Sues Warners 

On His Contract Rights 


HOLLYWOOD—Jack Webb, fired De 

cember 20 by Warner Bros, as head of th 

television department, has filed suit de 

manding that the studio pay him $3,00 

weekly for the more than two years he say 

his contract runs, and asks rulings o 

other terms of the contract, principally o 

his right to work elsewhere and on th 

studio's right to call him back to work J 

it 

so desires. 

Perakos Completes Swing 

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NEW BRITAIN -Spene P. Perako.s. vici' 

president and general manager of Perakos 

Theatre Associates, completed a swing of 

circuit installations across northern Connecticut. 

Coffee for Airer Patrons 

BERLIN. CONN t)\vni'r - manager 

Brooks LeWitt of the Berlin Drive-In is 

serving free coffee after 11 p.m. these 

winter nights. 

Screens Lassie Reissue 

STAMFORD. CONN.—A reissue. "Lassie 

Comes Home," costnrring Roddy McDownll 

und Elizabeth Taylor, was screened at the 

Stamford Jewish Center. Members weri' 

charged 60 cents; nonmcmbers, 90 cents. 

BOSTON- Jacob Moger. father of Al 

Moger. exploitation chief of American In 

ternational Pictures Boston branch, die 

following a long illness January 2. He wa 

associated v.ith his son in the advertlsin 

business in Boston. 

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Throughout Montreal 

MONTREAL—Leading Montreal cinemas 

enjoyed good boxoffice business in first full 

week of the new year, the programs proving 

attractive enough to have most of the 

theatres regularly well-filled with patrons 

celebrating the coming of the new year. 

still 

"Cleopatra" at the Alouette continued to 

attract good crowds after some 28 weeks of 

showing and at the Cinerama's Imperial 

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad. Mad World" proved 

Oi very attractive. 

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Alouette Cleopatra (20th-Fox), 28th wk Excellent 

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Avenue Heavens Above (SR) 

Good 

Copitol Who's Minding the Store? (Para) Good 

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Cinema Place Ville Mane The Conjugal Bed 

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Dorvol Theatre The Incredible Journey (BV), 

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Imperial— It's a Mod, Mad, Mod, Mad World (UA- 

Cineramo) 3rd wk Excellent 

Kent The Leopord (20th-Fox) Good 

Loew's 

wk The Wheeler Dealers (MGM), 2nd Good 

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PolQce Toke Her, She's Mine (20th-Fox) Good 

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55 Days ot Peking (AA), 9th wk Good 

Westmount The Haunting (MGM) 

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TORONTO—Holdovers featured this week 

at major theatres as holiday business continued 

at a high level. Among the best were 

"Tom Jones" at the Hyland, with newspaper 

critics classing it as outstanding: "The Cardinal," 

at the Tivoli: "It's a Mad, Mad, 

Mad, Mad World," at the Carlton, and 

"Charade" at the Uptown. After two weeks 

of "Kings of the Sun," Loew's turned to 

"The Prize" while the Imperial played a 

new one "4 for Texas" to follow "Who's 

Minding the Store?" which took a second 

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Carlton— It's a Mad, Mod, Mad, Mad World (UA- 

Cinerama), 2nd wk Excellent 

Hollywood Take Her, She's Mine (20th-Fox), 

2nd wk 

Good 

Hyland 

Imperial—4 

Tom Jones (UA-Lopert), 

for Texas (WB) 

2nd wk Excellent 

Very Gooa 

Loew's-The Prize (MGM) Very Good 

Nortown Who's Minding the Store? (Poro), 

2nd wk 

Good 

Tivoli—The Cardinal (Col), 2nd wk Excellent 

Towne The Conjugal Bed (IFD), 2nd wk Good 

University- Cleopatra (20th-Fox), 29th wk. ..Very Good 

Uptown Charade (Univ), 2nd wk Excellent 

Booming Attendance Makes 

Holidays Happy in Vancouver 

VANCOUVER—Motion pictm-e exhibition 

was a booming business throughout the 

Christmas holidays with lineups all over 

the city for all types of shows. 

Capitol—Take Her, She's Mine (20th-Fox), 

2nd wk 

.Good 

Odeon—The Cordinal (Col), 2nd wk 

Orpheum The Incredible Journey (BV), 4th 

wk Very Good 

Stanley Cleopatra (20th-Fox), 26th wk 

Good 

Strond Windjammer (Cineromo), reissue, 8th wk.. .Good 

Studio Women of the World (IFD), 2nd wk Good 

Vogue, six other theatres Chorade (Univ), 

2nd wk 

Good 

Stanley Fisher, Detroit, 

Is Film History Expert 

From Mideast Edition 

DETROIT—Stanley Fisher, former MGM 

salesman, is becoming recognized as an authority 

on the early days of the motion picture 

business, with his second published 

correction in recent weeks of statements 

about film history in the local newspapers. 

Fisher challenged a feature story in the 

Detroit News, In connection with the remodeling 

of the Adams Theatre, referring 

to the first Majestic Theatre as being "on 

Woodward across from Hudson's." 

Actually the Majestic was located a block 

north between Grand River and Clifford. 


Three-Fourths of Films Being Shown 

In Quebec Province Are in French 

MONTREAL — According to a survey 

made by Montreal's French daily La Presse, 

75 per cent of the motion picture productions 

shown in Quebec province are now 

in the French-language, compared to only 

25 per cent in the years preceding World 

War II. 

Citing figures from Unifrance Film of 

Montreal, and also the National Film 

Board, La Presse reports that of a total 

of 417 films appearing on Quebec screens 

in the last year < television), 151 

were produced in the U.S., 103 in Prance, 

61 in Britain and 44 in Italy. Thus French 

films were in a strong second place. 

For previous years, the percentage of 

French-language films in distribution was: 

18 per cent, 1958; 15.2 in 1959; 21 in 1960, 

20.5 in 1961 and 24 per cent in 1962. 

DOMINATES AREA EXHIBIT50N 

La Presse noted that Famous Players 

Canadian-United Amusement Corp., controlled 

by Paramount Pictures Corp. of the 

U.S., dominates exhibition in this city and 

province. The FPC-UAC interests operate 

35 of the 57 motion picture theatres in 

Montreal and 5 of the most important 

showplaces in the province. In the last 

week of September, for example. La Presse 

reports, 23 first-run theatres in this city 

all operated by UAC, with a total of 28,600 

seats, were showing French-language films, 

and their combined boxoffice receipts for 

that week represented approximately onethird 

of the motion picture theatre receipts 

in Quebec province. These theatres showed 

product almost exclusively made in the 

U.S. or distributed by U.S. companies. 

However, a UAC change in policy is welcomed 

by La Presse, which notes that the 

United Amusement Corp. group has begun 

to show American films carrying French 

subtitles, as in the case of "55 Days at 

Peking" cm-rently at the Seville, thus 

giving recognition at last to a longstanding 

fact—that this city and province is dominantly 

French in its language and culture. 

Consolidated Theatres, a subsidiary of 

UAC, also has converted the Princess on 

St. Catherine, longtime English-language 

house, to all French under the name of 

Le Parisien. 

ODEON ACCOUNTS FOR ONE-TENTH 

The article mentions that the Odeon 

circuit, which controls the Rex Theatre 

at St. Jerome, the Capitol at St. Johns, 

the Palace in Verdun and seven theatres 

in Montreal proper, accounts for about 

one-tenth of all movie theatre receipts of 

the province. 

Distributing almost all the French films 

in Quebec until recently was Compagnie 

France-Film headed by J. A. Seve. Now 

in this growing field are Atlas Films and 

others. Cie France Film owns the Capitol 

in Chicoutimi: five theatres named Paris 

in Hull, Trois-Rivieres, St. Hyacinthe, 

Sherbrooke and Quebec City, the Pigalle at 

Quebec City, and the Bijou and St. Denis 

theatres in Montreal. 

The Cine-Art Film Co., headed by Michel 

Costom, operates Le Canadien, the 

Laval, and the Plaza in Montreal which 

show mainly European films dubbed in 

French. Cine-Art late last summer opened 

a small art house on St. Catherine street 

east called the Festival Theatre which 

presents art films from Europe. The Laval 

Theatre recently was taken over by 

United Amusement, but Cine-Art plans to 

open other theatres in Quebec province 

along the plans of the Festival Theatre 

here. 

The Leo Choquette circuit of Montreal 

operates 20 cinemas in the province, and 

represents about 5 per cent of the total 

provincial market. 

There are other independent distributors, 

as Copa Films, Cinepix, etc.,i which 

comprise a minor portion of the economy, 

although they play a very important role. 

Art Film Co., for instance, has supplied 

product for such art houses as L'EIysee and 

the Comedie Canadienne, booking films 

either from Europe or Asia. 

Montreal Gazette Lists 

Its Ten Best Pictures 

MONTREAL — "The L-Shaped Room" 

heads the "Ten Best films shown on local 

screens last year in the estimation "^f 

Harold Whitehead, critic and entertainment 

pages editor of the morning Gazette. 

His list, with his descriptions: 

1. "The L-Shaped Room" ... a near 

. . . hilarious 

perfect film with a near perfect performance 

from Leslie Caron. 

2. "Divorce—Italian Style" 

.)ob of comedy by Marcello Mastroianni. 

3. "Billy Budd" ... a beautiful little film 

about truth and innocence trying to come 

to grips with mendacity and evil. Peter 

Ustinov and Terence Stamp were memorable. 

" 

4. "Elektra Greek tragedy in a 

brooding production on its home ground; 

Irene Papas was superb as the vengeancethirsty 

Elektra. 

5. "Loneliness of the Long Distance 

Runner" ... a strange poetic film about a 

Borstal boy exercising a freedom no one can 

take away from him. Tom Courtenay was 

the runner. 

6. "8 ',2" 

tion to the year and again Signore Mastroi- 

anni proved himself a master of cinema 

acting. 

7. "Lawrence of Arabia" 

a 

. . . introduced 

fine new actor, Peter O'Toole and some 

of the most magnificent scenery ever seen 

in a film. 

8. 

" 

"Trial and Error a small, timid 

little film that never really made itself 

known. In it, Peter Sellers and Richard 

Attenborough played two lost souls who 

comfort each other. 

9. "Monkey in Winter," a French production 

which offered a magnificent performance 

by the old master Jean Gabin. 

10. "Hud," ... an excellent western with 

a keen-edged piece of acting by Paul Newman. 

New Heaters at Twin Pix 

From New England Edition 

NEW HA-VTEN—The Lockwood & Gordon- 

E. M. Loew jointly operated Candlelite 

Twin Pix Drive-In has installed newheaters. 

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FPC Fourth Quarier 

Continues Uptrend 

TORONTO—Grosses of Famous Canadian 

Theatres, which operates the largest 

circuit in Canada, in the first eight weeks 

of the final quarter of 1963 continued 

ahead of last year. 

R. W. Bolstad. president and managing 

director, in announcing payment of the 

quarterly dividend of 25 cents a share to 

stockholders of November 27 record, announced 

nine-month earnings totaled $1.- 

897,500 this year, compared to $1,597,862 

' 

last year. Net profit profit on sale 

of fixed assets! equalled 83 cents a share 

this year against 78 cents last year. 

The message to stockholders reported 

that FPC has taken over operation of the 

Golden Mile Theatre in the local shopping 

center ol (hat name. Other developments 

were reported. 

Government authority was obtained to 

acquire radio station CKKW in Kitchener, 

which marks FPC's first investment in 

radio entertainment. 

A 50 per cent stock interest in Associated 

Broadcasting Corp., which has a franchise 

for distribution of background music by 

Muzak for all of Ontario except the cities 

of Windsor and Sarnia, and including Hull, 

Que., and Sault Ste. Marie. Mich., was acquired, 

effective October 1. Allan F. 

Waters, owner of radio station CHUM, Toronto, 

owns the other 50 per cent and is 

president and general manager of Associated 

Broadcasting. 

"Our community antenna systems continue 

to develop satisfactorily," Bolstad reported. 

FPC and its affiliated United 

Amusement Corp. of Montreal recently acquired 

a substantial interest in Cable TV 

there, which operates the largest community 

antenna system in Canada. 

The results of another new venture, Eidophor 

large screen closed circuit telecasts of 

the Toronto Maple Leafs' away-from-home 

hockey games in nine theatres in Toronto, 

Hamilton, St. Catharines and Oshawa, indicate 

there wiU be "considerable variation 

in receipts from game to game, depending 

on the standing in the league of 

the opposing team, but the average is high 

enough to lead us to believe that this new 

medium of theatre entertainment has great 

promise for theatres and for the owners 

and promoters of sporting events of all 

kinds," Bolstad reported. 

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HOLLYWOOD — Anthony DiMarco and 

Roy C. Guyver have been appointed vicepresidents 

of the McDermott Co. Pat Mc- 

Dermott of the national public relations 

firm, said DiMarco will direct all creative 

services and Guyver will head administration 

and personnel. 

Toronto Critic Selects 

His Ten Best Pictures 

TORONTO—Credit for selecting the ten 

best features of 1963 ahead of other critics 

went to Frank Morriss of the Toronto Globe 

& Mail who placed "Tom Jones" at the top 

of his list, saying it was head and shoulders 

above other pictures of the year with the 

exception of "Lawrence of Arabia." 

Other pictures listed by Morriss but not 

in order of merit were: To Kill a Mockingbird, 

Hud, The Great Escape, Sparrows 

Can't Sing, This Sporting Life, The L- 

Shaped Room, Lilies of the Field and All 

the Way Home. 

For best actor he chose Rex Harrison for 

his role in "Cleopatra" and for best actress 

it was Barbara Windsor in "Sparrows Can't 

Sing." 

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The first 1964 session of the Ontario legislature 

will open the 15th but the program 

of measures to be considered has not 

been announced. Tax reductions are not 

expected 

The opening of the Elektra, formerly the 

Lux. by George Loandarten, made the tenth 

foreign-language film theatre in Toronto, 

six of which offer Italian pictures, three 

'including the Elektra i films from 

Greece and the tenth, the Revue, managed 

by William Bolonier. has a Germanlanguage 

film policy. 

The Avon, a former neighborhood cinema 

of 325 seats at 1092 West Queen, has been 

taken over by Status Theatre Productions 

for the presentation of stage plays and 

rental to other organizations. The Avon has 

been closed for months. . 

The recently opened Tepee Drive-In on 

the Liverpool road staged a dusk-to-dawn 

showing of five features on New Year's Eve. 

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THE GUIDE TOMBETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G 

Ladies Day Catches 

On Fast at Detroit 

Ladies Day has quicldy become an accepted 

tradition for downtown Detroit on 

Wednesdays. Introduced with special promotion 

recently by United Detroit Theatres, 

it has won the hearty cooperation of 

William Brown, president of the Fox Theatre, 

and of Adolph and Irving Goldberg, 

operating the Adams. These, with the 

quartet run by United Detroit—the Michigan, 

Madison, Palms and Grand Circus 

constitute all of the city's regular downtowai 

first rans. 

The general policy of all the participating 

theatres is a 50-cent admission for women 

until 5 p.m. The UDT advertisements offer 

the extra bonus of "prizes and surprises." 

In addition, the circuit lists eight nearby 

leading restaurants, with addresses, each 

offering special Ladies Day luncheons. 

The Adams is offering an added inducement 

for the girls— "free coffee and 

donuts." 

The Fox, like the Adams, offers free coffee 

and doughnuts, and has extended the 

Ladies Day promotion in two dimensions as 

well—by keeping the 50-cent admission for 

wopren woprer throughout the evening shows 

1, and by offering free admission fd? 

^X'childn children for the day "when accompanied by 

lady." 

Francis DeZengremal, manager of the 

Holland Theatre in Beliefontaine, Ohio, 

sold four Christmas kiddy shows, as did 

James Macris, Ashland, at Ashland, Ohio. 

Both are Schine theatres. 

Drop-In Demonstrated by Skydivers 

In Skydivers' Premiere Campaign 

Taking advantage of the spectacular new 

sport of skydiving, on which "The Skydivers" 

is based, Crown International Pictures 

and the Aero Drive-In, San Diego, set 

up an effective series of stunts to herald 

the opening of the first feature on the 

perilous pastime. 

Piece de resistance of the exploitation 

was a skydiving exhibition which saw members 

of the San Diego Skydivers Club drop 

from 15,500 feet into a 75-second free fall 

before opening their chutes to land on 

target. 

The "drop-in" demonstration was held 

at nearby El Cajon on the Sunday before 

the opening. A soundtrack promoted the 

film and its opening. The San Diego Union 

ran a 5-col., 13-in. news photograph of the 

event. 

Another major exploitation gimmick was 

a television program starring a feminine 

skydiver in a demonstration of parachuting 

êquipment. She plugged the film and told 

audience to look for her in shopping 

BIS where she would give away toy 

parac^tes, 100 of them containing free 

Trading Stamps Prove 

passes^ the theatre. The successful giveaway 

apmiick was a continuing feature of 

Boxoffice Stimulant 

pre-odRiing and after-opening exploitation. 

A snapshot (too dark for reproduction) Mome and Marilyn McRae, married skydiving 

from Vincent S. Wiggin, manager of the 

team and the parents of six chil- 

Opera House Theatre in Bath, Me., shows fen, appeared with the picture. They also 

the theatre with this copy on its marquee: vere successful space-grabbers in San 

"Thrill of It All . . . Friday 8:40 p.m. ii-ancisco with the opening of the picture 

. . . Free lOM Stamps," plus a banner ti 

underneath, "PLAID 10,000 STAMPS." 

[Crown International has detailed the 

Wiggin reports: "Cash giveaways were 

ipaigns in San Diego for use by other 

ti-ied, but for the same amount of money, 

ibitors and has established liaison with 

and less. Plaid stamps in telephone numbers 

can be given away, which seems to 

lydiving clubs throughout the country. 

have a much greater appeal to the theatregoing 

public." 

_j:very Friday night is trading stamp giveaway 

night at Opera House. 

Wiggin made the stamp deal with George 

Sheidy of the MacDonald Plaid Stamp Co. ferry Sherman, publicity-advertising dilor 

for Sinclair Paint Co., has made 

of Maine. 

available 34 billboards extending from 

Orange County to San Francisco Valley, 

The Rotai-y Club of Hamilton, N.Y., 

bought a Christmas show from Larry Mcand 

25 bus placards to studios and producers 

to plug films. The first to get the 

Allister, manager of the State. 

promotion will be Allied Artists' "Soldier 

in the Rain" in February. The only requirement 

on the part of Sinclair, donating 

the space, is use of the line, "Sinclair 

Skydiver landing in an exploitation stunt for "The 

Skydivers." A demonstration by San Diego Skydivers 

Club preceded opening at the Aero Drive-In 

there. 

lint Billboards to Feature Film a Month 

Paints Make Every Artist a Painter." The 

picture of a can of Sinclair paint also will 

be spotted in the comer of the ad. The 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 13, 1964 — 5 — 

company, with a nine-month lease of the 

boards, will offer the deal to one picture a 

month. 

Preparing art work for the tiein are Universal, 

Paramount and 20th-Fox. The 

latter has space for "What a Way to Go." 

Two Rentals to Gloss Firm 

Tom Williams has come through with 

two rentals at the Vernon Theatre, Mount 

Vernon, Ohio, November 6, 11 to the Pittsburgh 

Plate Glass Co.

. . $350 

Radio Station Grabs Zany Promotion 

For 

Yum Yum/ a Girl Watchers Club 

The idea is simple and pertinent to the 

film—a Girl Watchers Society. 

Interstate Theatres publicist Hal Cheatham 

and his coworkers blew up this stunt 

into a fine promotion for "Under the Yum 

Yum Tree" at the Majestic Theatre in 

Dallas. 

First there was a concrete object, a $400 

Treasure Chest of Judy Lee Jewelry i costume' 

in a beautiful vanity case, which was 

promoted. Then a radio station, KLIF, was 

brought in by means of a "contest"—join 

the Society of Girl Watchers and take a 

chance on winning the jeweh-y chest and 

case. 

The KLIF copy: 

. 

The KLIF Yum Yum Contest is the absolute funniest 

... a chonce for you to win the title of "The Official 

KLIF Girl Watcher." Naturally the contest is open to 

men only, but some gal will wind up as the big winner 

. . . some gol-wQtchin' man in Dallas is going to 

win o S350 Treasure Chest of Judy Lee jewelry (costume) 

in o beautiful vanity case. And this is all you 

hove to do to take a chonce on winning. Eoch afternoon 

between 4 and 6 p.m. there will be on official 

KLIF Yum Yum Girl Wotchers booth at Interstate's Esquire 

Theatre. Simply step up ond fill out a cord 

then listen to the Charlie-Horrigan show 

. . . 

Monday the 

25th. You could be the winner so hurry, contest closes 

Friday, November 22nd. 

Rememtier this contest is for men only and the 

prize will make that gal you most like to watch the 

happiest girl in town worth of Judy Lee jewelry 

in a lovely block vanity cose will be presented to the 

KLIF Yum Yum champion girl watcher. Register today 

ot any Intcrstote theatre between 4 and 6 p.m. 

Note the men could apply at any Interstate 

theatre in the city. This assured 

maximum convenience, and maximum mileage 

out of the stunt. Each Society of Girl 

Watchers "membership" card (approximately 

5x2 '2 inches! included a stub which 

w-as to be filled out and deposited at the 

Interstate theatre. The wimier of the $350 

jewelry chest and $50 vanity case was decided 

by a diaw. 

Watching for a Girl 

This photo, taken at radio station KLIF's "Yum Yum" 

Girl Watching booth in the Esquire Theatre in Dallas, 

was reproduced in two-column size in the News with 

the "WATCHING FOR A GIRL" caption. The boy is 

Dean Cain and the girl is Kirby McDaniel. Only men 

could join the Girl Watching contest. 

An official KLIF "Yum 

Watchers booth was opened 

at the E.squire Theatre duri) 

at which the boys were invit, 

and join the Society of Girl 

demonstrate their technique/ 

Audiences of two radio stations in Denver, KVDU and KDAB, were treated to an old fashioned mud battle 

in a promotion inspired by a scene in "McLintock!" which was showing ot the Paramount Theatre there. 

Disc jockeys from the Denver University station KVDU challenged the dccjoys from KDAB to the mudslinging 

contest, which was stogcd in front of the theatre and broadcast, glob by glob, over the two 

stations. John Dobson, manager for United Artists m Denver, rcferecd the battle in the costume he wore 

OS on cxtro in the picture Kle is seen at left holding his hot in the air. Referee ruled the mud battle 

o drow, which wos highly unpopular with the contestants, oil of whom joined forces to toss Dobson in the 

trough of mud. 

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Staffers at Drive-In 

In Halloween Dress 

The staffers of the Valley Drive-In at 

Montclair, Calif., got a lot of fun out of 

Halloween, no doubt of that. 

The staffers dressed up in costiunes for 

the occasion ... to the amusement of both 

themselves and the customers. 

A number of patrons decided to go home 

and get their cameras to photograph the 

hilarious crew. 

Michael A. Nagel. manager of the theatre 

for the company headed by William. H. 

Oldknow, also of Dallas. Tex., forwards a 

couple of panels of the snapshots, but poor 

lighting resulted in prints not good for reproduction. 

The Oldknow company also operates the 

Mission Drive-In at Pomona and the 

Robidoux in Riverside. 

Radio and Stores Assist 

Giveaway of Rambler 

The Reade-Sterling Community Theatre 

in Kingston, N.J., recently presented a 

"Rambler Giveaway Night" in cooperation 

with the local Rambler dealer, a group of 

merchants and radio station WABZ. Heavy 

sustained newspaper advertising supported 

the promotion. One insertion was aimed at 

persons registering for the car giveaway 

but unable to be present. "Listen to 

WABZ" was the suggestion. Names and 

addresses of cooperating merchants were 

given in a number of ads. 

Another promotion for this always welladvertised 

theatre was a Saturday matinee 

featured by the giveaway of a bike (boy's 

or girl's to a lucky youngster, through the 

I 

courtesy of a hardware store. Jo-Jo, the 

clown, appeared on the stage. 

'Cleo' Tickets for Stamps 

Adopted at Albuquerque 

Seats to "Cleopatra" are being made 

available in Albuquerque for merchandise 

trading stamps distributed by Barber's 

supermarkets. Theatre patrons can receive 

one regular admission ticket worth $2.50 

for three-fiftlis of a book of Top 'Value 

trading stamps. .-,.^.- ^ 

The arrangement was worked out by Lou 

Avolio, manager for Frontier Theatres, and 

Ralph Girard, advertising manager for the 

grocery chain, with an assist from the 

Denver office of Top Value stamps. "Cleopatra" 

is playing at Frontier's 1,000-seat 

Sunshine Tlicatre in Albuquei-que. The 

ten supermarkets are cari-ying advertising 

displays plugging the picture. 

Ad Draws 845 Orders 

An ad which Ed Sesjuin, director of 

B & K advertising and publicity, placed 

in the Cliicago Tribune's Sunday Visitor 

section on "Cleopatra" at the State Lake 

Theatre pulled 845 ticket orders from 264 

towns in ten states. Each order averaged 

three to four tickets for "Cleopatra." The 

ad, a full three-columns wide, pictured 

Elizabeth Taylor flanked by Rex Harrison 

and Richard Burton, with Miss Taylor 

saying, "Just say you love me like B & K 

loves the ChicaRo Tribune." The Visitor 

is circulated only beyond Chicago and 

suburbs to some 300,000 Chicago-oriented 

families. 

— B — BOXOFTICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 13, 1964

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Institutional Signs: 

Use Them in Lobby 

By ALLEN M. WIDEM 

Institutional promotion copy, an oftenignored 

facet of theatre operation, is 

front-and-center at tiie 1,900-seat, downtown 

Allyn. a first-i-un supeiTised by Ray 

McNamara, the Hartford, Conn., manager 

for New England Theatres, the AB-PT 

regional affiliate. 

Rather than insert "paper" here or there 

in the lobby on product many weeks, if not 

months away, McNamara prefers to use 

one and two-line promotional messages, all 

geared to remind the patron, both regular 

and occasional, that the Allyn is indeed to 

the fore of quality screen entertainment in 

Connecticut's capital city. 

Over the lobby doors, and in separate 

frames near the doorman, appear messages 

that are changed with faithful regularity. 

McNamara, aware that messages displayed 

for too lengthy a time span tend to wear 

out a patron's patience, culls suggestions 

from employes and even customers, for the 

proper and fitting phrase. 

DON'T TALK DOWN—OR UP! 

"We don't want to talk down, nor do we 

wish to talk up for people when it comes to 

institutional copy," McNamara remarked in 

his comfortably cluttered office. "When 

somebody sees a message in the theatre 

lobby, we want the gesture to mean something; 

in effect, bring a few more dollars, 

eventually if not now, into our boxoffice. 

That's the intent and purpose." 

The best demonstration of promotional 

messages "getting across" is found in occasional 

conversation, with business leaders 

and opinion-makers at Rotary Club 

luncheons which McNamara attends. 

"I think it means something to the 

Allyn—and to the industry as well—when 

a $75,000-a-year executive comes along to 

me before the Rotary Club luncheon at 

the Statler Hilton and reminds himself 

and me—that he has seen a humdinger of 

a promotion message instead of the conventionally 

concocted reader frame while 

passing through the Allyn lobby." 

SOME MESSAGES 

Messages, to wit: 

Allyn Theatre—Home of Superlative Entertainment 

! 

You'll Find Top Family Entertainment 

Here at the Allyn! 

We Don't Like to Boast—But Allyn Entertainment 

Is Pine Entertainment! 

Mainly About Movies—Primarily, Predominantly 

Superlative Entertainment! 

You'll Remember the Allyn—Home of 

Movies of Distinction! 

McNamara conducts sessions with his 

sei-vice staff every Sunday morning, hearing 

gripes, suggestions, ideas, and, in the 

process, reminding his crew that the theatre's 

prestige is as good as the sei-vice accorded 

its patrons, be they regular or 

casual. From these sessions, too, come the 

basic ingredient of a future Allyn institutional 

ad copy layout. 

Moreover, when a sei-vice aide sees a line 

of his in a display frame, he gets the impression, 

certainly, that what he does in 

the Allyn isn't of small consequence. He's 

part of a team.—and that's what McNamara 

calls showmanship! 

Putting Animation in 'McLintock' Displays 

The large 18-foot display 

of John Wayne 

whamming Maureen 

O'Hara, across his knee, 

high above the marquee 

of the Uptown Theatre 

front in Kansas City, 

attracted thousands of 

eyes to the "McLintock!" 

theatre front because of a 

bit of animation. Maureen's 

petticoat was made 

of real material, which 

fluttered in the breeze, as 

also did her hair. 

Note the giant float at 

the lower left hand side of 

the picture. The 15-foot 

rider's levis were loaned 

by the H. D. Lee Co., the 

manufacturer. The float 

was drawn all over town 

by a jeep furnished by 

Kansas Jeep Sales. 

The displays were arranged 

by Carl Stewart, 

Uptown manager, and 

Bernie Evens, United 

Artists. 

'Mail Early Lines on Nose of Marquee; 

Critic 

Plugs Used Other Times of Year 

A timely use for an extra part of the 

theatre marquee—the nose—was repeated 

again this last Chiistmas season by three of 

the downtown houses owned and operated 

by Frontier Theatres in Albuquerque, N.M. 

For the past five years, the nose section 

of the three theatres—the Sunshine, Kimo 

and State—has been used to plug the annual 

Christmas campaign of the U.S. Post 

Office to "mail early." 

Copy on the marquee at the Kimo is: 

"Santa's on the Way, Don't Delay, Mail It 

Right Away." 

The Sunshine has this to say: "Help the 

Post Office Make Yours a Truly Merry 

Christmas, Mail Early and Often." 

On the State, which has a real brief 

nose: "Shop Early, Mail Early." 

Lou Avolio, city manager for Frontier, 

says the gesture gives the theatres something 

to fill up the extra space with, and 

also provides a seasonal message. 

Displays went up the first week of December 

and remained in place until shortly 

before Christmas. 

The other 11 months of the year, the 

space is used to carry critics' comments on 

the films, or to give an extra plug to the 

picture being shown. 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 13, 1964 — 7 — 

Mary in Briefs! 

Jim Darby, manager of the New England 

circuit's Paramount Theatre in New Haven, Here's o way to use the "nose" of your marquee and 

announcer comes in with, "See Mary Peach plugging early mailing, always a holiday favorite 

in 'A PAIR OP BRIEFS.' " subject of the post offices. 

put a bit of humor in a radio slogan for his still get across a brief Christmas message. Three of 

campaign on "A Pair of Briefs." It starts the indoor theatres operated by Frontier in downtown 

off with the sound of a gong and then the 

Albuquerque carrying pre-Christmas messages

" 

XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

S- 

lABOUT PICTURE SI 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

Invasion of the Star Creatures! lAIPi— 

Bob Ball, Frankie Ray, Gloria Victor, What 

a lot of baloney! Such a waste of time, 

film and effort. The title was good, but 

was it a spooky film? Nope! A comedy!! 

Closed the first night. Very little business 

the second. Played Thur., Fri. Weather: 

Warm.—A, Madril, La Plaza Theatre, Antonito, 

Colo, Pop 1,255. 

BUENA VISTA 

Big Red (BV)—Walter Pidgeon, Gilles 

Payant, Emil Genest, We had many fine 

compliments on this picture which we 

might add was well attended by the family 

set. The color and scenery in this one are 

wonderful. Personally, I can't see very 

much of a difference in a Disney picture 

and some of the fine product Allied Artists 

used to put out, such as "Snowfire" and 

so on. Played Sat., Sun.—Harry Hawkinson 

jr., Orpheum Theatre, Marietta, Minn. 

Pop. 380. 

Summer Magic iBV)—Hayley Mills, Burl 

Ives, Dorothy McGuire. Disney name, as 

usual, brought in better than average business. 

Not up to "Savage Sam," but good. 

This picture outgrossed "Sam" in cities, 

but small towners and ranchers like horses 

and dogs and Indians better than music. 

Played Thurs., Fri., Sat.—Bill Curran, Ramona 

Theatre, Kremmling, Colo. Pop. 900. 

COLUMBIA 

Diamond Head i 

Col i—Charlton Heston, 

Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France 

Nuyen, James Darren. A very good picture, 

but it fell flat at the boxoffice. Some 

beautiful scenery of Hawaii which is a very 

good asset of this pictui-e. George Chakiris 

very good in this. Would like to see more 

of him. Played Sun., Mon. Weather: Warm. 

—James Hardy, Crescent Theatre, Jasonville, 

Ind. Pop. 2,500. 

Gidget Goes to Rome iCol)—James Darren, 

Jessie Royce Landis. Cesare Danova. 

In my opinion, the poorest Gidget yet. My 

gross bears me out. Played Sun. through 

Wed. Weather: Good.—E. A. Reynolds, 

Strand Theatre, Princeton, Minn, Pop. 

2,108. 

Ring-a-Ding Rhythm i 

Col )—Helen Shapiro, 

Craig Douglas, Felix Felton, Seventyeight 

minutes of trash. No comments. 

Played Thurs., Fri., Sat. Weather: Nice.— 

Paul Fournier, Acadia Theatre, St. Leonard, 

N. B. Pop. 2.150. 

'SiaTi Saying Plenty/ 

Exhibitor Urges 

Sorry that my report.s have been neglected. 

We read BOXOFFICE from 

cover to cover, first starting with 

what the exhibitor has to say. Now is 

the time to pitch in and start saying 

plenty—and doing plenty—and maybe 

we'll sell plenty of popcorn. 

Villa Theatre, 

Malta, Mont. 

ves (Para)— Debbie Reynolds. 

Cliff Robertson, Eileen Heckart. A picture 

to be proud of, a picture you'll be proud 

of showing. Debbie was wonderful and so 

were the kids. Everyone happy as they left 

after seeing a good family picture. Business 

very good for Labor Day. Played Sun., 

Mon. Weather: Rain and cool. — Ken 

Christianson, Roxy Theatre, Washburn, 

N, D. Pop. 968. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Amazons of Rome (UA)—Louis Jourdan 

Sylvia Syms. This is a French production 

dubbed in English. Louis Jourdan is very 

popular here and he was good in it. Photography 

is excellent. Although the material 

here is familiar, it is better than 

others of its type. Business good. Played 

Thurs., Fri., Sat. Weather: Cold and rainy. 

—Paul Fournier, Acadia Theatre, St. Leonard, 

N. B. Pop. 2,150. 

Irma La Douce (UA) — Jack Lemmon, 

Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi. Funny picture 

with an ending in very poor taste. I 

got a lot of squawks about it, as it is pretty 

blue. Did good business for the time played. 

Played Wed. through Sat. Weather: Warm. 

—Jim Eraser, Auditorium Theatre, Red 

Wing, Minn. 

UNIVERSAL 

Birds, The lUnivi—Rod Taylor, Jessica 

Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette. The best Hitchcock 

to date. It has a very different and 

unique type of story which the movie-going 

public is craving. Many have asked me why 

it had to end so abruptly and yet leave you 

guessing. Were the lovebirds the cause of 

the attack? Tell us, Mr. Hitchcock! Did 

above average for both nights. Again, I say. 

Good work. Mi-. Hitchcock." Played Fri., 

Sat. Weather: Warm.—James Hardy, Crescent 

Theatre, Jasonville, Ind. Pop. 2,500. 

WARNER BROS. 

Rio Bravo (WB-Reissuei —John Wayne, 

Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan. 

Ward Bond. Remember how "Rio 

Bravo" brought them in back in '59? It 

still has that special punch that makes 

a good picture. People that say they don't 

like westerns will smile and say, "Well, 

that's the best western I've seen." The 

reason westerns have lost popularity is 

because there are too many low-budget 

westerns and they can see better ones at 

home. WB, I beg you, don't let "Rio 

Bravo" go to TV, for I'll show it again! 

If "Hondo" and "The Searchers" had been 

kept off TV. they would have been big 

business at the boxoffice today. If those 

pictures were shown now, however, people 

wouldn't come to see them. They'd only 

say, "I've seen those on television." Played 

Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather: Fair.—Harold 

J. Smith, Clifton Theatre, Newport, Tenn. 

Pop. 6,250. 

Lack of TV Programs 

Helps on Weekend 

•The Thrill of It All " hits the spot 

for comedy. More lauglis than you can 

shake a stick at. I'sed one day when 

there were no TV programs due to the 

Kennedy assassination coverage, and 

had better-than-usual turnout. Don't 

me TV doesn't hurt. On the week- 

tell 

end of the President's a.ssassination we 

had the best Friday-Saturday-Sunday 

in ten years. No TV programs. Would 

like to know how other exhibitors fared 

on this partirular weekend. 

Starlite Drive-In, 

Chipley, Fla. 

I. ROCHE 

— 8 — BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 13, 1964

isuiiurticE 

An interpretive analysis of lay and tradepress 

ninus signs indicate degree or merit. Listings 

olso 

serves 

iws. Running time is in parentheses. The plus and 

current reviews, updated regularly. This department 

un ALPHABETICAL INDEX to feature releosei. © is for CinemaScope; (V VistoVision; 

(T) Techniromo; (S Other anamorphic processes. Symbol U denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon 

Award; Q color photography. Legion of Decency (LOD) ratings: Al—Unobjectionable for General Potronage; 

A2— Unobjectionable for Adults or Adolescents; A3— Unobieclionoble for Adults; A4—Morally 

Unobjectionable for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objcctionoble in Port for all; C—Condemned. For 

listings by compony in the order of release, see FEATURE CHART. 

UUUII.I11UUIU1J 

Review digest 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

++ Very Good; + Good; — Fair; — Fair; = Very Poor. In the summary ++ is rated 2 pluses, — os 2 minuses. 

27S9Act One (110) Bio Dr WB 12. 

2767 All the Way Home (103) Dr Para 

27S7 CAIone Against Rome 

(100) Rom Spec Parade 12 

2792 America America (174) Dr WB 

Any Number Can Win (116) 

23-63 A2 

30-63 A2 

16-63 

6-64 A3 

Ail«-Dr MGM 10 28-63 

2736 Atom Age Vampire (87) Ho Topai 3-63 

& £ 1 I E is iS ?= 

BQ > UIxa;£szo 

H- + 

•H + 

++ 

4+ 

Vt 10+ 

2+ 

tt 6+ 

H 5+ 

1+1- 

(^Ballad of a Hussar, The 

(94) Operetta Artkino 

2739©Battle of the Worlds (84) SF.. Topaz 

2750 Big Risk, The (111) ..Susp-Dr UA 

2792 Billy Liar (96) O Com Dr Cont'l 

2732 Black Fox (89) Doc'y Capri 

2779 ©Blood Feast (71) 

Ho Dr Boxoffice Spec. 

2727 Break, The (75) Ac Dr SR 

2764 Burning Court, The (102) 

Drama 

Trant-Lux 

—C— 

2776©Captain Newman, M.D. (126) Dr..Univ 

2774 ©Cardinal, The (175) ® Drama Col 

2757 Caretakers, The (97) Melodrama UA 

2749 Carry On Regardless (87) Com Gov. Films 

2772 ©Castilian, The (129) Adv-Dr WB 

7-29-63 

6-17-63 

7-22-63 A3 

1- 6-64 

5-20-63 Al 

ll-lS-63 

5- 6-63 

11- 4-63 A2 

10-28-63 A3 

8-26-63 A3 

7-22-63 

10-21-63 A2 

2787 ©Cavalry Command (SO) Adv Dr.. Parade 12-16-63 

2792 Ceremony, The (105) Drama UA 

2770 ©Charade (114) Mys-Com 

1- 6-64 

Univ 10- 7-63 A2 

2751 ©Checkered Flag, The (83) Dr MPI 7-29-63 

OChushingura (108) ® Drama. .. .Toho 

Ciske the Rat (88) Melodrama 

(sub titles) Bakros 

2742 ©Cleopatra (221) Todd-AO 

Hist-Spettacle 

2787 ©Comedy of Terrors, 

20th-Fox 

The (86) $) Farce Comedy AlP 

2773 Common-Law Wife (SI) Meloilr COA 

2764 Condemned of Altona, The 

(U4) © Drama 20th-Fox 

Conjugal Bed, The (90) Com Embassy 

2775 Crawling Hand, The 

(89) Sc-Fic Hansen SR 

Cross of the Living (90) Drama. .. .Cari 

2770 Cry of Battle (99) Drama AA 

—D— 

2735 Day in Court, A (70) Eng-dubbed 

Episodes 

Ultra 

2753 Defiant Daughters (91) Melodrama. .Times 

Devil and the Ten Commandments, 

The (120) Episodes Union 

2751 Double Deception (101) Melodr UMPO 

—E— 

9/2 (135) Dr-Fantasy Embassy 

2725 ©European Nights (82) Tour of 

2784 ©Europe in the Raw 

(70) Novelty Eve Prod 

Europe's night spots Burstyn 

—F— 

2783 Face of War, The (105) Doc Janus 

Fiasco in Milan (104) Comedy A-T-U 

2730 ©55 Days at Peking (150) ® 

Adventure Drama AA 

2776 ©Fire in the Flesh 

(SO) Rom MeloDr Pacemaker 

Flamboyant Sex, 

The 

(76) Drama Shawn Int'l 

2744 ©For Love or Money (lOS) Comedy Univ 

2729 Fruit Is Ripe, The (90) Eng-dubbed 

Melodrama 

Janus 

2781 ©Fun in Acapuico (97) Para 

2789 Fury at Smuggler's Bay 

(92) Ac Dr Embassy 

10-14-63 

8-26-63 

6-24-63 B 

12-16-63 

10-28-63 

9-16-63 A3 

10- 7-63 

U- 4-63 

4-22-63 

10- 7-63 B 

+ + ++ 

4+ -I- 

9-16-63 A2 + 4+ 

# + + 

tt ++ ++ 

+f ± tt 

+ + 

tt + 

H- 

+ 

H- tt +f 

+ =t 

H 

+ 

6- 3-63 A3 ± 

8- 5-63 ++ 

H H ++ 

+ + 

+ 

12-23-63 + + 

7-29-63 + 

2+ 

1+1- 

± 2+1- 

H 6+ 

H tt + 8+ 

1+ 

1+ 

6+ 

fl- 11+ 

6+2- 

2+ 

+f ± ± 7+2- 

2+ 

+ + 3+ 

H -H- + 11+ 

2+1- 

++ 4+ 

1+ 

H + ++11+ 

2+ 

1+ 

f+ ++ + 9+ 

1+1- 

1+ 

- 2+2- 

+ 3+ 

It ± 3+3- 

2+ 

++ 5+1- 

1+ 

7-15-63 A4 +t + + + ± +f 8+1- 

12- 2-63 

5-13-63 

2737 Garbage Man, The (86) Com-Satlre. .CDA 6-10-63 

2741 Get On With It (88) Comedy Governor 

2766 ©Giant of Metropolis, The 

(91) Sc-Fiction Seven Arts 

2738 Girl Hunters, The (103) ® Cr. .Colorama 

2783 Girl in Trouble (82) MeloDr. .Vanguard 

2785 Glass Cage, The (841/2) 

Sus Drama Futuramic SR 12- 9-63 

Golden Plague, The (95)

REVIEW DIGEST 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX In the fummory tt ii rated 2 pluMS, - at 2 minuiet. rt Very Good; 

-t" Good; — Foir; — Poor; — Very Poor. 

«: p S >- a 

2721OMi»n()0 Cane (102) DKumentary. .Timet 4-15-63 A4 

2735 ©Mouse on the Moon, The 

(52) Comedy Lofiert 6- 3-63 Al 

27S5 Move Over, Darlins (103) 

,5 Com 20th-Fox 12- 9-63 A3 

2758 Murdtr at the Gallop (81) 

Mystery-Corn MGM 8-26-63 Al 

2670 Murder Can Be Dsdiy 

(60) Sus. Melodr Colorama 9- 2-63 

2748 Murder on the Campus 

(61) Mys-Melo Colorama 7-15-63 A2 

©Muriel (115) Drama Upert 12- 9-63 A3 

My Life to Live (85) Drama Union 12- 2-63 

My Name Is Ivan (97) Melodr.. Sio Shore 8- 5-63 A2 

My Hobo (98) Comedy Toho 8-26-63 

2767 ©My Son, the Hero (111) Ac Or.UA 9-30-63 

—N— 

Naked Autumn (98) 'C Drama UMPO 1- 6-64 

2765 ©Nature's Sweethearts (63) Ikay 9-16-63 

2755 0Neros Mistress (86) ® 

Period Comedy MFI 8-19-63 

2760 ©New Kind of Love, A (110) Com Para 9- 4-63 

2697 No Exit (85) Drama Zenith 1-21-63 B 

2711 No Time to Kill (70) Melodr ADP-SR 3-11-63 

2777 Nurse on Wheels (86) Com Janus 11-11-63 

1 

+ 

2= + 

-it + 

H + 

++ 

+ 

+ 

++ - 

•H- ++ 

-H ± tt ++ 

Of Uve and Lust (109) Com-Dr F-A-W 7-22-63 

2774 Old Dark House, The (86) HoC Col 10-28-63 

2761 Ordered to Love (65) Drama. .Transocean 9- 9-63 

—PO— 

2777 ©Palm Sprinjs Weekend (100) Com..WB 11-11-63 B 

2776 Passionate Thief, The (95) Com.. Embassy 11- 4-63 

2773©Passion Holiday (75) Melodr. . Davis 10-28-63 

Pickpocket (75) Drama Delahaye 6-10-63 

2766 Pair of Briefs, A (90) Comedy Davis 9-23-63 

Peace to Him (88) War Drama. .Artkino 12- 9-63 

2727 Pillar of Fire (75) Eng-dubbed 

War Action Drama Noel Meadow 

2734 ©Playboy of the Western World, 

The (100) Corn-Drama Janus 

Z778 Playgirl and the War Minister, 

The (90) Com Union 

2779 Playgirls and the Vampire, 

The (76) Ho MeloDr Fanfare 

2783 ©Playgirls International 

(71) Doc Westfield Prod-SR 

2745 Please, Not Now! 

(74) fe Rom-Com 20th-Fox 

2753 Prelude to Ecstasy (84) Sus Melo Manson 

27860Prize, The (135) (fc Drama MGM 

2780 Promises! Promises! (75) Com.NTD SR 

Z733 Quick and the Dead, The (90) 

War Drama Beckman 5-27-63

Feature productions by company in order of release. Running time is in porentties«s. (Q Is for CinemaScope; 

® VtstoVision; (g) Panovision; (V) Techniramo; ^ Other onamorphic processes. Symbol ij denotes BOXOFFICE 

Blue Ribbon Aword; Q Color Photography. Letters and combinations thereof indicate story type—(Complete 

key on next page). For review dates and Picture Guide page numbers, see REVIEW DIGEST. 

ÊATURE 

ALLIED ARTISTS | =| 

CHART 

Play It Cool (74) M..6302 

Billy Fury, Helen Shapiro. 

Bobby Vee 

©Black Zoo (S8) (® ....Ho. .6303 

Michael Goiigh, Jeanne Cooper, 

Kod Lauren, Virginia Grey

FEATURE 

CHART 

The key to letters and combinations thereof indicating story type; (Ad) Adventure Droma; (Ac) Actic 

Dromo; An) Animated-Action; (C) Comedy; (CD) Comedy-Dtama; (Cr) Crime Drama; (DM) Dran 

with Music; (Doc) Documentary; (Dr) Droma; (F) Fontosy; (Ho) Horror Drama; (Hi) Historical Dromo; (M) Music 

(My) Mystery; (OD) Outdoor Drama (S) Spectocic; (SF) Science-Fiction; (W) Western. 

EMBASSY B ii

.Dec 

Apr 

.Hideko 

.Tumejl 

Larlssa 

.A, 

.Leon 

FEATURE 

CHART 

ton 

'•hii»' 

UNIVERSAL 

OTammy and the Doctor 

(S9) CO.. 6311 

Sojldra Uee, Peter Fondi 

©Sword of l^ncelot 

(116) ® Ad. .6312 

Cornel Wilde. JeaJi Wallace. 

Brian Aheme 

©A Gathering of Eagles 

(115) D..6313 OOSpencer's Mountain 

Itock Hudson. Rod Ta>lor 

(118) ® D..265 

Henry Fonda. O'Hara. 

The List of Adrian Messenger 

Maureen 

.limes MacArlhur. Wally Cox. 

(98) My.. 6315 

(TOA Hollywood Preview May 29) r>ona!d Oisp, Mlmsy Fanner 

Geoige C. Scott, liana Wynter. 

plus several surprise guests ©PT 109 (140) (g) 

D. 266 

©King Kong vs. Godzilla 

Cliff Bobertson. Ty Hardin. 

(91) HoC..6314 Gregory. Robert Ciilp. Grant 

Williams 

Michael Keith. Harry Holcomb 

©The Thrill of It All 

(108) C..6316 

Horis I>ay. James Garner. 

Arlene Francis. Edw. Andrews 

The Traitors (71) D .6317 

Patrick Allen, James Maiwell. 

Freud: Ttie Secret Passion 

(formerly titled Freud) 

(120) D .6301 

Montgomery CHIft, Susamiab York, 

(General 

release) 

©Kiss of the Vampire 

(88) Ho. 6318 

Clifford Evans, Jennifer Daniels, 

Edward De Souza 

©For Love of Money (108) C .6319 

Kirk Douglas. Mitzl (âynor. 

Gig Younj, Thelraa Ritter 

WARNER BROS. 

Black Gold (98) D. .263 

Philip Carey, Diane .McBaln 

©Palm Springs Weekend 

(100) CD.. 355 

Troy Donahue. (>onfile Stevens 

Rel. 

Date 

APEX 

Hand Trap in the (90) Jul 63 

Elsa Daniel. Francisco Kabai 

ASTOR 

During One Night (84).. D.. 

Don Borisenko, Susiin Hampshire 

Five Minutes to Live (80) Cr. . 

Johnny Cash, Donald Woods 

ATLANTIC PICTURES 

Invitation to Murder 

(65) Sus. .M. .Jun 63 

Robert Beatty, Lisa Daniely 

BOXOFFICE SPECTACULARS 

©Blood Feast 

(71) Ho. .MeloDr. .Sep 63 

Thomas Wood, .Mai Arnold 

CAPRI FILMS 

Black Fox (89) Doc. May 63 

.Nariallon Marlene Dietrich 

CINEMA DISTRIBUTORS OF 

AMERICA 

The Garbage Man 

(86) C. Jun 63 

Toney Naylor, Joseph Lincoln 

CINEMA-VIDEO 

The Right Hand of the 

Devil (72) Ho. .Jul 63 

Aram Katcher, Lisa McDonald 

No Man's Land (..) Dee 63 

Taxi to Tobrouk ( . 

COLORAMA 

Murder Can Be Deadly 

. ) Dec 63 

(76) Ho MeloDr. Aug 63 

Lyla Bocco. Maria Ciovannlnl 

FUTURAMIC-SR 

The Glass Cage '841/2) Sus Dr Dec 63 

John Hoyt. Ellsha (>ok 

Lonnia (75) Suso Dr Dec 63 

Scott Marlowe. Frank Silvers 

GOVERNOR 

Carry On Regardless 

(57) C. Jul 63 

Sidney James, Kenneth Connor 

Get On With It (SS) . C. .Jun 63 

Bob Monkhouse. Keimeth Connor, 

Shirley Baton 

MISCELLANEOUS 

HANSEN ENTERPRtSES-SR 

The Slime People 

(60) Ho..0i:t63 

Robert Hut'-on. Les Tiemayne 

The Crawling Hand 

(89) SF..0ct63 

Peter Breck. Kent Taylor. 

Rod Lauren 

HERTS-LION INT'L 

OThe Telegian 

(75) 'C ScFic Feb 64 

Dungeons of Horror (74) Ho. Feb 64 

Harvey 

©Goril'a (90) © .Adv.. Mar 64 

(iia I'etry 

The Captives (75) Adv..Mar64 

Cln inline Doermer, Snsan Korda 

. . . 

Bay of St. Michel (90) D. 64 

Ki-i-nun Viynn, Mai Zftterliiig 

JANUS 

©The Playboy of the Western 

World (100) CD.. Apr 63 

Siobhcin .McKenna, Gary Raymond 

Sparrows Can't Sing 

(93) C. Jun 63 

James Windsor 

Booth, Barbara 

Heavens Above (117) C. Jun 63 

Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Brock 

Peters 

The Face of War (105) Doc. Nov 63 

JOSEPH BRENNER ASSOCIATES 

Karate (80) Ad.. 

Joel Holt, Frank Blaine 

©The Castilian (129) ® AD. 352 

LAKE ENTERPRISES 

There Room 

(50) My.. July 63 

Liz Fraser. Griffith . . 

Is Still in Hell 

Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon, 

Murder on the Campus 

(90) Sus Dr.. Jul 63 

Broderick Oawford, Allda Valll 

(61) My. June 63 

Donald Gray. 

Wall of Noise (112) ..Ac. 351 

Terence Longdon. 

Diana Clare 

Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, 

CROWN-INTERNATIONAL 

llnrothy Provlne 

Terrified (81) Ac. .Sep 63 

Rod Lauren. Tracy Olsen 

As Nature Intended (64) D.. Oct 63 

Pamela Green 

©Rampage 

R.iberi Milcbum, 

(98) Ad. 353 

HUrttoelU. 

EMERSON FILM ENTERPRISES 

©The Kinu's Musketeers 

Elsa 

Jack Hawkins 

(96) Ac. Jul 63 

Sebastian Stone, 

Cabot. Jeffrey 

Marina Berti 

Monstrosity (65) Ho..S«p63 

Brlka Peters. Judy Baraber 

Orons Welles, Ulo Pulver. 

Edmund Purdom 

The Jolly Genie 

•('»1) Fantasy.. Jan 64 MANCUNIAN-PLANET-SR 

EVE 

The Break (75) D . . Apr 63 

PRODUCTIONS 

©Europe in the Rav» 

Tony Britton, William Lucas 

©Mary, Mary (126) C. .354 (70) Novelty.. Nov 63 

Debbie MEDALLION 

Reynolds. Barry Nelson FANFARE 

©Alone Against 

.Michael Rennle 

Rome (100) . 

63 

Playgirls and the Vampire 

The 

Barbara Valentin, Paul Glawion 

LOPERT FILMS 

©The Mouse on the Moon 

(82) C. Jun 63 

Margaret Rutherford. Terry-Thomas 

©Tom Jones (131) C. Oct 63 

Albert Finney. Susannah York 

©Muriel (115) D.. Nov 63 

©Buddha (134) D . . Jan 64 

Kojino Honga. Machlko Kyo 

MACO FILM CORP. 

©Ufayette (110) 

® 70 HID May 63 

(Bng -dubbed) Jack Hawkins. 

Rossana Podesta, Jeffries Lang 

MOTION PICTURE INVESTORS 

The Checkered Flag (83). D. July 63 

Evelyn King, (Tiarles G. Martin 

MPA FEATURE FILMS 

Four for the Morgue (84).. Ac 

Rel. 

Date 

PARADE RELEASING ORG. 

©Cavalry Command 

tiMi Ad.. Oct 63 

.loliii Agar, lUchard Arlen, Myron 

ll.aly 

©Ballad of a Gonfighter 

(84) Ad. Sep 63 

Marty Robblna 

ROYAL FILMS INT'L 

The Steppe (..) Dr..0ct63 

Charles Vanel, .Marina Vlady 

The Reluctant Saint (105) CO.. 

•Maximilian Schell, Ulrirdo .Muntaiban 

The Hunchback of Rome 

(84) MeloDr. .Nov 63 

Gerald .Maria Ferrero 

Blaln, Anna 

SEVEN ARTS 

Small World of Sammy 

Lee (105) Aug 63 

.\nlhony .Nealey. Julia Foster 

SHAWN INTERNATIONAL 

Greenwich Village Story 

(95) D. July 63 

Robert Hogan, .Mellnda Plank 

STARKEY ASSOCIATES-SR 

Man and His Woman 

(S3) 

D..Jun63 

John Ha.eron. Mary llarrlgan, 

Lisa lloliaiid 

TIMES FILM 

©Pagan Hellcat (62) ..D..Apr63 

Tnm.ita Teuiau 

Violated Paradise 

(67) Doc .July 63 

Narralion: Thoma.s L. Ilovv, I'aulette 

Giiard 

TOPAZ FILMS 

Atom Aoe Vampire (87) Ho.. Jun 63 

Albert Liipo. Siisannc Loret 

©Battle of the Worlds 

(84) SF. Jun 63 

Claiule Rains, Bill Carter 

TRANSOCEAN FILMS 

Ordered to Love (82). D Aug 63 

.Maria Perschy. Harry Meyeo 

ULTRA PICTURES CORP. 

A Day in Court (70) Ep-C May 63 

.''nphla Ijiren. Alberto Sordl 

©2 Nights With Cleopatra 

(..) ,'S)..Jun63 

(Bng-dubbed) Sophia Loren, 

Alberto Sordl, Bttore Mannl 

UNION FILM DISTRIBUTORS 

Two and Two Make Six (89).. C. 

George Cliaklrls, Jsnette Scott 

UMPO 

Double Deception 

(101) My. .Jul 63 

Jacques Rlberolles, Alice Kessler, 

Ellen Kessler 

Stacy Harris. Louis Sirgo 

NTD-SR 

WESTFIELD PRODUCTIONS 

Promises! Promises! 

©Playgirls International 

(75) C. Oct 63 (71) Doc. Dec 63 

Jayne Mansfield, Marie McDonald. Betty Andrews, Eileen Traynor 

PACEMAKER PICTURES WOOLNER BROS. 

©Fire in the Flesh 

©Haunted World (89) ® D.. Oct 63 

(SO) MeloDr.. Jul 63 (^rlslopher Lee, Reg Parks, 

' 

Claudlne Dupuls. Emo (Msa Leonora Ruffo 

©Charade (120) (g) MyC..6401 

Gary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, 

Walter Matthau, James Cobum 

©4 for Texas (115) D . .356 

Fr.^nk Sinatra. Dean Martin, 

Anita Ektierg, Ursula Andress 

Young and Willing (112) 6402 The Man From Galveston 

Virginia Maskeil, Paul Rogers (57) D. .360 

Jeffrey Foster, 

Hunter, Preston 

Joanna Moore 

©Dark Purpose (115) D..6403 

Shirley Jones, Rossano Braazl, 

George Sanders 

Pre-release 

It's All Happening (90) 6404 

Dr. Crippen (98) D . .361 

Donald Pleaaence. J. R. Justice 

©The Incredible Mr. 

Limpet (99) C..359 

Don Knotts, Carole Cook, Jack 

Weston, Andrew Duggan 

©Han's Favorite Sport? 

Act One (110) D..362 

(120) C..6405 J.iinn Robard'! jr., George Hamilton, 

Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, 

Wallach 

ICIi 

Maria Perschy 

A Distant Trumpet D..365 

Hide and Seek 6406 Troy Donahue, Su2anne Pleshette, 

Curt Jurgeos, Janet Munro, 

Diane McBaln. James Gregory 

Ian Cannlchael 

mms^mmi^^maoji^M, 

ARGENTINA 

Hand in the Trap (90) 8- 5-63 

Brazzl 

GERMANY 

FOREIGN 

LANGUAGE 

Faust (121) 5-27-63 (Tobo) . .Toshlro MITuDe, 

( DlTlna-Traut) . . Will Quadflleg 

Taka.shl Shlmura 

(Aogel) . .Elsa Daniel. Prandsee Secrets of the City (88) . . S-12-63 The Idiot (165) 5-20-63 

Rabat 

(Bakros) . .Annemarle Duerlnger 

(Shnchlko) . .Setsuko Hara 

DENMARK 

The Golden Plagua (9S) . . 8-26-63 ©Temptress and the Monk. 

A Stranger Knocks (81) . . 4-22-63 (Bakros) . .Iran Desny 

The (87) 7-15-63 

(Trans-Lux) Blrgitte Pedersolel GREECE 

(Hakim) . Tsukloka 

FRANCE 

Policeman of the 16th 

When a Woman Ascends the 

Ciske the Rat (8S) 8-26-63 Precinct 5-13-63 Stairs (111) 8- 5-63 

(Bakros) Dick van de Velde. (OMP) Costas Hadjicbrlstos 

(Toho) . Takamlne 

Kees Brusse 

We Have Only One Life 

POLAND 

Cross of the Living (90) . . 4-22-63 (116) 7-22-63 Knife in the Water (95) . .11-18-63 

(Carl) . 

.Karl Boehm. Pascale Petit (Greek M P.) . . Dlmltrl Horn, 

(Kanawha) . Niemczyk 

Julie the Redhead (96) . .12-23-63 Yvonne Sanson 

Partings (101) 12- 3-62 

(Shawn Infl) . .Pascale Petit. INDIA 

(Telenlx) . .Maria Wachowlak 

Daniel Gelln 

Two Daughters (114) .... 5-27-63 RUSSIA 

La Poupee (90) 11-11-63 

(Janus).. A. Ctiatterjee, C. Banerjee Ballad of a Hussar, 

(Lionel) Ablgnlew ITALY 

CjbuIsH, 

The (94) 7-29-63 

Sonne Teal 

Fiasco in Milan (104) ... 5-20-63 (Artklno) .Larl.ssa (Îut}klna 

Marriage of Figaro. 

(A-T-U) Vittorln Gassman 

Great Battle of the 

The (105) 

Love and Larceny 

8-12-63 

(94) .... 3-11-63 Voloa (75) 6-10-63 

(Union) . Jean Plat. 

(Major) . 

Mkliellne 

.Vittorlo Gassman, Anna 

( Artkino) . . fôcuroentary 

Boudrt 

Maria Ferrero, Peppinn de FTllppo Grown-Up Children (75).. 5-13-63 

My Life to Live (85).... 12- Run 

2-63 

With the Devil (93) 11-11-63 (Ariklnn) . Orlbov, Z. Fedorora 

(Union) Anna Karina. 

(Jlllo) Antonella Lualdl, 

House on the Front Line, 

Sandy Bebbot 

(Jerard Blaln 

The (105) 9-23-63 

Pickpocket (75) 6-10-63 

The Sound of Trumpets 

(Artkino) , Unim.. 

(Delatiaye) . Martin LaSalle 

(90) 12 -2-63 Leonid Bvkov 

Suitor, The (Janus) 

(83) 10-14-63 

. .Sandro Panzerl, 

Peace to Him (SS) 9- 9-63 

(Atlantic). Pierre Lnredano 

Btali 

Detto 

(Artkino) . .Alexander Dcmyanenko 

JAPAN 

The Devil and 

My Name Is Ivan (97) 8-5-63 

the Ten 

Ballad 0* a Hussar (94) . . 7-29-63 (Rie Shore) Kolya Burlalev 

Commandments (120) ..12-23-63 (Artklno) . Larlssa Golubklna, SPAIN 

(Uninn) . .Alain Delon. Danielle Chushingura (108) 10-14-63 Lazarillo (100) 5-13-63 

Darrlen.^ 

(Tnho) . 

.Koushlro Mat.sumoto 

(Union) . .Marco Paoletti. Juan Jose 

Third Lover, The (85) . . 7-29-63 Hidden Fortress. The (90) 7-29-63 Jfenendpz, Memmo Carotauito 

(Atlantic) . .Jacques Charrler 

(Albex) . .Toshlro Mlfune, SWEDEN 

Three Fables of Love (76) . . 9-29-63 Mlsa Uehara 

Of Love and Lust (109) . . 7-Z2-S} 

(Janus) Leslie Oiroa. Rossano ©My Hobo (98) 8-26-63 (P-A-W)..Mal ZettffUng, 

(Toho) . .KeUu Koabayashi 

Anita Bjort 

Sanfuro (96) 7- 8-63 Flamboyant Sex. The (76) . .9-30-63 

Ciske the Rat (88) 8-26-63 (Toho) .Toshlro Mlfune 

(Shawn Int'l) . -AidU Undoff, 

(Bakros) . Dtek van der Velde I 

Stray Dot 9-30-63 1 

tnia Blonstraod

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Jun 

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. Apr 

Nov 

, Nov 

Shorts chart 

25 

BOENA VISTA 

(All in color) 

FEATURETTTE SPECIALS 

5049 Yellowstont Cubs (47) May 63 

114 The Hound That Thouoht 

He Was a Raccoon (48) 

118 Horse With the Flying Tail 

(48) 

150 Yellowstone Cubs (48) ... 

0094 Letend of Sleepy Hollow (33) . 

REISSUE CARTOONS 

18201 Winter Storaoe (7) 

18202 Frank Duck Brinos Em Back 

Alive (7) 

18203 Crazy With the Heat (7) 

18204 Liciht Housekeepino (7) 

18205 Plulos Quin-puplets (7) 

18206 Canine Patrol (7)... . 

18207 Plutopia (7) 

18208 Cold Turkey (7) 

18209 How to Fish (7) 

18210 Tennis Racquet (7) 

18211 Tomorrow We Diet (7) 

1S212 Brave Engineer (7) ... 

SINGLE REEL CARTOONS 

125 Aquamania (9) 

123 Tlie Litterbug (7) 

101 How to Hsve an Accident 

at Wotk (7) ... . 

149 Toot. Whistle, Plunk 4 Boom 

TWO-REEL CARTOON SPECIALS 

122 Donald and the Wheel (18).. 

119 Sana of Windwanon Smith (14) 

102 Noah's Ark (20) . 

0097 Goliath II (15) ;' 

139 A Svmnosium on Popular 

Sonus (20) 

THREE REEL LIVE ACTION 

SPECIALS 

106 Mysteries the Deep of (25) 

105 Islands of the Sea (28) 

0099 Eyes in Outer Space (26) 

THREE REEL CINEMASCOPE 

0071 Wales (24) 

0072 Scotland (25) 

0079 Japan (28) 

0086 The Danube (27) 

THREE REEL REISSUE 

127 Bear Country (33) 

131 Water Birds (31) 

137 The Olympic Elk (27) 

(Technicolor) 

COLUMBIA 

M23-1 Harry Happy (7) ...Sen 63 

ASSORTED & COMEDY FAVORITES M23-2 Tell Me a Badtime 

(Reissues) 

Story (7) Oct 63 

7436 Pardon My Terror 

M23-3Tlie Pig's Feat (7) . , Oct 63 

June 63 M23-4 Sour Gripes (7) Oct 63 

,!''' """•" i^^ S""" /,) sen 63 

4603 Up'n Atom (6) l\\V, 

4604 Robin Hoodlum (7) . . 

Nov 63 

4605 Two Lazy Crows (7) Nov 63 

LOOPY de LOOP 

(Color Cartoons) 

7709 Sheen Stealers 

Anonymous (7) jun 6^ 

7710 Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 

"01 Not in Nottingham (7i s"p 63 

4702 Drumslicked (7) . 

Oct 63 

4703 Bear Up (7) M« S 

4704 Crook Who Cried *' 

W"" '7) [)„g3 

MR MAGOO REISSUES 

.^^ (Trchnitolor) 

TTCTBwsna Magoo (6) . . . . May 63 

775gMal.idor Manoo (6) Jul 63 

4751 Deslinalion Magoo 

'«'/'> ... Sep 63 

4752 Magoo'i Check Up (6>/,) 

._, u Oct 63 

4753 Maooo Express (&/,) Nov 63 

ONE. REEL SPECIALS 

4651 OThree Stooges 

Scraphook (8) 

s,. gj 

4652 The Little Star «( 

Bethlehem (10) Nov 63 

' ' Special 

"'cSL'i'' Release 

SPECIAL COLOR FEATURES 

7445 Wonderful New York 

(18) fyljiy ^3 

7446 Wonderful Beaulleu (18) Jul 63 

4441 Swiss Water Paradiie 

(18) Sep S3 

4442 Song of London ( . . ) Nov 61 

SERIALS 

(15 Chapter. Reissues) 

7140 Roar of the Iron Horie Mar 63 

7160 Gunflghters of the 

Northwest 

Jut«J 

4120 Captain Video (15) 

STOOGE COMEDIES 

Nov S3 

(RHnuei) 

7407 Scheming Schcmari 

in 

(16) May 63 

740S Commotion in the 

Ocean (17) Jul 63 

4401 Pest Man Wins (16) ..Sep 63 

4402 A Missed Fortune (16Vj) 

Oct 63 

4403 Listen Judge(17) Nov 63 

WORLD OF SPORTS 

7801 Hunting Unlimited {9M Jun 63 

7802 Rasslin' Rampage (9'/i) Jul 63 

CROWN INTERNATIONAL 

COLOR SUBJECTS 

The Plucky Plumber (18) Oct 62 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

TOM AND JERRY CARTOONS 

All 1.75-1 Ratio 

(Color—All New) 

C6431 Dickie Moe (7) 

C6432 Cartoon Kit (. .) 

C6433 Tall in the Trap (..) . 

C6434 Sorry Safari (7) 

CM35 Buddies Tliicker Than 

Water ( . ) 

C6436 Carmen Get it (..) 

GOLD MEDAL REPRINTS 

(Tom and Jerrys) 

W6561 Yankee Doodle Mouse (8) 

W6562 Mouse Trouble (7) ... . 

W6563 Mouse in Manhattan (8), 

W6564 Two For Tee (7) . . , 

WS565 Flirty Birdy (7) 

W6565 Quiet Please (8) 

W6567 Springtime (or Thomas (8) 

W656gThe Milky Wa^f (7) 

W6569 Trap Happy (7) ... 

W6570 Solid Serenade (7) 

W6571 Salt Water Tabby (7) . . 

W6S72 Mouse in the House (8) . 

W6573 Tlie Invisible Mouse (7) . 

W6574 The Truce Huris (8) .... 

W6575 Kitty Foiled (7) 

PARAMOUNT 

COMIC KINGS 

HIGH TOPPERS 

Reel-B&W) 

(Single 

T22-1 Thin Along (10) .... Feb 63 

MODERN MADCAPS 

P23-4 The Sheepish Wolf 

'7) Nov 63 

P23.5 Hiccup Hound Nov 63 

(7) 

P23-6Whi7 Quij Kid (7), Dec 63 

POPEYE CHAMPIONS 

E23.1 Beach Peach (7) ...Sep 63 

E23-2 Jitterbug Jive (7) ...Sep 63 

E23.3 Popeye Makes a 

Movie (7) Sep 63 

E23-4The Fly's Last Flight 

'7) Sep 63 

E23-S How Green Is My 

Spinach? (7) Sen 63 

E23-6Gym Jam (7) Sep S3 

SPECIALS 

(Color) 

AA22-1 Snortarama (65) May 63 

SPORTS IN ACTION 

(Single Reel-Color) 

0-22-1 Gun Play Apr 63 

(9) 

TRAVELRAMA 

(S'ngle Reel-Color) 

West T21-4 Swingin' (10)... Aug 63 

LESTER A. SCHOENFELD 

FEATURETTES 

J»«y (30) Mar 63 

OTravel Game Jun 63 

(30) 

OHome Made Car (30) Jul 63 

OThree Is Company (30) ..Aug 63 

ONE-REELERS 

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Listed herewith, alphabetically by companies, are all of the feature pictures 

A llUO 0£lll Yiw^ reviewed in BOXOFHCE from January 1 through December 31, 1963. This is 

designed as a further convenience for Picture Guide users, the page numbers being the key to reviews kept 

therein. Between quarters. Review Digest pages serve as a cumulative P. G. index for feature pictures. 

Foreign-Language 

Date Reviewed 

Alice in the Navy (Greek M.P.) 

Greek Apr 1 

Any Number Can Win (MGM) 

French Oct 28 

Arturo's Island (MGM) 

Italian Jan 21 

Bad Sleep Well, The (Toho) 

Japanese Feb 25 

Ballad of a Hussor, The 

(Artkino) Russian Jul 29 

Bluebeard (Reviewed as "Landru") 

(Embassy) French May 6 

Candide (Union) French ....Feb 18 

Chushingura (Toho) 

Japanese Oct 14 

Ciske the Rat (Bokros) 

German Aug 26 

Conjugal Bed, The (Embassy) 

Italian Oct 7 

Counterfeiters of Paris, The 

(MGM) French Apr 22 

Cross of the Living (Carl) 

French Apr 22 

Devil and the Ten Commandments, 

The (Union) French Dec 23 

Eclipse (Times) Italian ...Feb 11 

8'/2 (Embassy) Italian Jun 15 

Electro (Lopert) Greek Jan 14 

Faust (Divina-Walter Trout) 

German May 27 

Fiasco in Milan (A-T-U) 

Italian May 20 

Flamboyant Sex, The (Shawn) 

Swedish Sep 30 

Four Days of Naples, The (MGM) 

Italian Mar 25 

Golden Plague, The (Bokros) 

German Aug 26 

Great Battle of the Volga, The 

(Artkino) Russian Jun 10 

Grown-Up Children (Artkino- 

Mosfilm) Russian May 13 

Hand in the Trap (Angel) 

Argentinian Aug 5 

Hidden Fortress, The (Albex) 

Japanese Jul 29 

House on the Front Line, The 

(Artkino) Russian Sep 23 

Hunting in Siberia (Artkino) 

Russian Jan 21 

Idiot, Idiot, The (Shochiku) 

Japanese May 20 

Julie the Redhead (Shawn) 

French Dec 23 

Knife in the Woter (Kanawha) 

Polish Nov 18 

La Poupee (Lionex) 

French Nov 11 

Lozarillo (Union) Spanish May 13 

Letter That Was Never Sent, 

The (Artkino) Russian ..Jan 21 

Love at Twenty (Embassy) 

in 5 languages Apr 8 

Love and Larceny (Major) 

Italian Mar 11 

Lovers of Teruel (Cont'l) 

French Mar 11 

C^ 

Dote Reviewed 

Marriage of Figaro, The (Union) 

French Aug 12 

Muriel (Lopert) French ...Dec 9 

Musical Spring (Artkino- 

Mostilm) Russian May 27 

My Hobo (Toho) Japanese Aug 26 

My Life to Live (Union) 

French Dec 2 

My Nome Is Won (SIg Shore) 

Russian Aug 5 

Night Is My Future (Embassy) 

Swedish Feb 4 

Of Love and Lust (F-A-W) 

Swedish Jul 22 

Paris Belongs to Us (Merlyn Films) 

French Jan 14 

Peace to Him (Artkino) 

Russian Dec 9 

Pickpocket (Delahaye) 

French Jun 10 

Playtime (Audubon) 

French Feb 4 

Psycosissimo (Ellis) 

Italian Oct 29 

Policeman of the 16th Precinct, 

The (Greek M.P.) Greek May 13 

Run With the Devil (Jillo) 

Italian Nov 11 

Sanjuro (Toho) Japanese ....Jul 8 

Secrets of the City (Bokros) 

German Aug 12 

7 Capital Sins (Embassy) 

French Feb 18 

Sound of Trumpets, The (Janus) 

Italian Dec 2 

Steppe, The (Royol) 

Italian Oct 28 

Stranger Knocks, A (Trans-Lux) 

Danish Apr 22 

Stray Dog (Toho) Japanese Sep 30 

Suitor, The (Atlantic) 

French Oct 14 

Sundays and Cybele (Davis) 

French Feb 11 

Temptress and the Monk, The 

(Hakim) Japanese Jul 15 

Third Lover, The (Atlantic) 

French Jul 22 

Three Fables of Love (Janus) 

French Sep 23 

Time Out for Love (Zenith) 

French May 20 

Tire-Au-Flanc (Les Films du 

Corisse) French May 27 

Two Daughters (Janus) 

Indian May 27 

We Have Only One Life (Greek 

MP.) Greek Jul 22 

When a Woman Ascends the 

Stairs (Toho) Japanese Aug 5 

Winter Light (Janus) 

Swedish May 6 

Young Love (Exclusive Int'l) 

Finnish Mar 25 

Youth and His Amulet, The 

(Toho) Japanese Apr 8 

QUARTERLY 

INDEX 

TO 

PICTURE GUIDE 

REVIEWS 

First, Second, Third iq/jQ January 

and Fourth Quarters Through December 

Allied 

P.G. 

Page 

Block Zoo 2726 

Cry of Bottle 2770 

Day of the Triffids, The 2722 

55 Days at Peking 2730 

Artists 

P.G. 

Page 

Gun Hawk, The 2772 

It Ploy Cool 2744 

Shock Corridor 2748 

Soldier in the Rain 2782 

American International 

Bottle Beyond the Sun 2717 

Beach Party 2750 

Colifornia 2743 

Comedy of Terrors, The 2787 

Erik the Conqueror 2762 

Haunted Palace, The 2759 

Mind Benders, The 2715 

Night Tide 2724 

Operation Bikini 2722 

Incredible Journey, The 2771 

Miracle of the 

White Stallions 2719 

Savage Sam 2736 

Son of Flubber 2698 

Bye Bye Birdie 2720 

Cardinal, The 2774 

Diamond Head 2696 

Fury of the Pagans 2749 

Gidget Goes to Rome 2753 

In the French Style 2765 

Jason and the Argonauts ...2737 

Just for Fun 2741 

Lawrence of Arabia 2698 

L-Shaped Room, The 2741 

Man From the Diners' 

Balcony, The 2718 

David and Lisa 2702 

Great Chase, The 2697 

Ladies Who Do 2789 

Lord of the Flies 2758 

Lovers of Teruel (See foreign) 

Raven, The 2701 

Reptilicus 2695 

Samson and the 7 Miracles 

of the World 2700 

Summer Holiday 2773 

Terror, The 2762 

"X"The Man With the 

X-Ray Eyes 2768 

Young Racers, The 2742 

Buena Vista 

Columbia 

Continental 

Summer Magic .2744 

Sword in the Stone, The 2769 

Three Lives of 

Thomosina, The 2788 

Club, The 2720 

Maniac 2774 

Old Dark House, The 2774 

Recch for Glory 2765 

Running Man, The 2768 

Siege of the Saxons 2756 

13 Frightened Girls 2740 

Three Stooges Go Around the 

World in a Doze, The 2760 

Under the Yum Yum Tree ...2770 

Victors, The 2778 

This Sporting Life 2753 

Voodoo Village 2747 

Wrong Arm of the Low, 

The 2723 

Your Shadow Is Mine 2745 

Bluebeard (Reviewed as 

"Landru") (See foreign) 

Constantino and the Cross ...2696 

Conjugal Bed, The ....(See foreign) 

8'/2 (See foreign) 

Face in the Rain, A 2717 

Fury at Smuggler's Bay 2789 

Embassy 

Hellfire Club, The 2771 

Love at Twenty (See foreign) 

Madame 271 

Night Is My Future ..(See foreign) 

Passionate Thief, The 2776 

7 Capitol Sins (See foreign) 

Women of the World 2749 

1

. 

r 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

P.G. 

Page 

Any Number Can 

Win (See foreign) 

Arturo's Island (See foreign) 

Cairo 2702 

Captain Sindbod 2748 

Cattle King 2743 

Come Fly With Me 2719 

Counterfeiters of Peris, 

The (See foreign) 

Courtship of Eddie's Father, 

The 2713 

Dime With a Halo 2718 

Drums of Africa 2725 

Flipper 2728 

Follow the Boys 2710 

Four Days of Naples, 

The (See foreign) 

Haunting, The 2758 

Hook, The 2699 

All the Way Home 2768 

Come Blow Your Horn 2734 

Donovan's Reef 2742 

Duel of the Titans 2721 

Fun in Acapuico 2781 

Hud 2729 

Love With the Proper 

Stranger 2790 

20th 

Paramount 

Cleopatra 2742 

Condemned of Altona, 

The 2764 

Doy Mars Invaded Earth 2701 

Harbor Lights 2751 

House of the Damned 2716 

Leopard, The 2755 

Marilyn 2739 

Move Over, Darling 2785 

Beauty and the Beast 2703 

Big Risk, The 2750 

P.G. 

Page 

Hootenanny Hoot 2762 

In the Cool of the 2747 

Day 

It Happened at the 

World's Fair 2723 ^ pj 

Main Attraction, The 2739)) .. 

Murder at the Gallop 2758 

Prize, The 2786 

Rififi in Tokyo 2722 

Savage Guns, The 2702 

Seven Seas to Calais 2716 

Slave, The 2731 

Square of Violence 2788 

Tarzan's Three Challenges . 

.2745 

Ticklish Affair, A 2747 

Trial and Error 2696 

Twilight of Honor 2768 

V.I.P.s, The 2756 

Wheeler Dealers, The 2766 

Young and the Brave, The ...2734 

My Six Loves 2712 

New Kind of Love, A 2760 

Nutty Professor, The 2732 

Papa's Delicate Condition ...2706 

Who's Been Sleeping 

in My Bed? 2786 

Who's Minding the Store? ....2784 

Wives and Lovers 2754 

Century-Fox 

United Artists 

Call Me Bwana 2737 

Caretakers, The 2757 

Costilion, The 2772 

Child Is Waiting, A 2697 

Diary of a Madman 2714 

Dr. No 2717 

Five Miles to Midnight 2707 

Greof Escape, The 2724 

Grcot Von Robbery, The 2707 

I Could Go on Singing 2714 

irmo La Douce 2740 

It's a Mod, Mad, Mod, Mod 

Birds, The 2718 

Captain Newmon, M.D 2776 

Charade 2770 

For Love or Money 2744 

Gathering of Eagles, A 2738 

King Kong vs. Godzilla 2740 

Kiss of the Vampire 2754 

List of Adrian Messenger, 

The 2736 

Mystery Submarine 2698 

Universal 

Warner Bros. 

Act One 2789 

Block Gold 2733 

Critic's Choice 2720 

Island of Love 2724 

Mary, Mory 2761 

Polm Springs Weekend 2777 

Nine Hours to Rama 2708 

Of Love and Desire 2759 

Police Nurse 2733 

Sodom and Gomorrah 2700 

Stripper, The 2727 

Take Her, She's Mine 2772 

30 Yeors of Fun 2704 

Yellow Canary, The 2726 ^W) 

Pesk- 

World 2780 

Johnny Cool 2769 

Kings of the Sun 2788 

Ladybug, Ladybug 2790 

Lilies of the Field 2752 

Love Is a Ball 2712 

M.cLintock! 2779 

My Son, the Hero 2768 

Stolen Hours 2771 

Tom Jones 2775 

Toys in the Attic 2746 

Twice Told Tales 2768 

Vampire and the Ballerina, 

The 2700 

Poranoiac 2723 

Showdown 2721 

Sword of Lancelot (Reviewed 

OS "Lancelot and 

Guinevere") 2728 

Tammy and the Doctor 2730 

Thrill of It All, The 2738 

Traitors, The 2746 

Ugly American, The 2719 

PT 109 2716 

Rampage 

2757 Thur 

Spencer's Mountain 2709 

Term of Trial 2699 

Woll of Noise 2756 

Miscellaneous 

P.G. 

Page 

Alone Against Rome 

(Medallion) 2787 

Atom Age Vampire (Topaz) .2736 

Battle of the Worlds 

(Topaz) 2739 

Black Fox (Capri) 2732 

Blood Feast 

(Boxoffice Spectaculars) ...2779 

Bomb for o Dictator, A 

(Medallion) 2705 

Break, The 

(MancunianPlanet-SR) ...2727 

Burning Court, The 

(Trans-Lux) 2764 

Carry On Regordless 

(Governor) 2749 

Checkered Flog, The 

(Motion Picture Investors) 2751 

Cavalry Commend (Parade) ..2787 

Cleopatra's Daughter 

(Medollion) 2705 

Common-Low Wife (C.D.A.) 2773 

Crawling Hond, The 

(HonsenSR) 2775 

Creation of the Humonoids, 

The (Emerson) 2729 

Crooks Anonymous (Jonus) .2704 

Day in Court, A (Ultra) 2735 

Defiant Daughters (Times) ..2753 

Double Deception (UMPO) .2751 

During One Night (Astor) ....2704 

European Nights (Burstyn) ...2725 

Europe in the Raw (Eve) ....2784 

Faces of War, The (Janus) ..2783 

Fatal Desire (Ultra) 2703 

Festivol Girls, The 

(Olympic) 2709 

Fiend of Dope Island 

(Joseph Friedman-SR) 2707 

Fire in the Flesh 

(Pacemaker) 2776 

First Spaceship en Venus 

(Crown Int'l) 2695 

Five Minutes to Live (Astor) 2708 

Flower Thief, The 

(Filmmoker's Co-Op) 2711 

For Lovers and Others 

(Gotham) 2714 

Four for the Morgue (MPA) 2708 

Friends and Neighbors 

(Schocnfcld) 2705 

Fruit Is Ripe, The (Janus) ...2729 

Garbage Man, The (C.D.A.) 2737 

Get On With It (Governor) ,2741 

Giant of Metropolis, The 

(Seven Arts) 2766 

Hunters, The 

Girl 

(Coloramo) 2738 

Girl in Trouble 

(Vanguord-SR) 2783 

Glass Cage, The 

(Futuromic-SR) 2785 

Greenwich Village Story 

(Shown) 2752 

Heavens Above (Janus) 2750 

Hercules and the Captive 

Women (Woolner) 2726 

Householder, The (Royal) ....2777 

Hunchbock of Rome, The 

(Royal) 2780 

Invincible Gladiator, The 

(Seven Arts) 2765 

Invitation to Murder 

(Atlantic) 2761 

It's Hot in Paradise 

(Pocemoker) 2710 

Journey Into Nowhere 

(Globe-SR) 2781 

Just Once More! (Janus) 2764 

Lofoyctte (Moco) 2715 

Lonnie I FuturamicSR) 2785 

Macbeth (Prominent) 2778 

Magic Voyage of Sinbod 

(Filmgroup SR) 2715 

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Magnificent Sinner 

(Film-Mart) 2728 

Moid for Murder (Janus) 2730 

Man ond His Woman 

(Starkey Assoc.-SR) 2732 

Mill of the Stone Women 

(Parade) 2731 

Mondo Cane (Times) 2721 

Mouse on the Moon, The 

(Lopert) 2735 

Murder Con Be Deadly 

(Colorama) 2760 

Murder on the Campus 


Nature's Sweethearts 

(Ikay Beautiful) 2763 

Nero's Mistress (Manhattan) 2755 

No Exit (Zenith) 2697 

No Time to Kill (A.D.P.-SR) 2711 

Nude in Charcoal (Premier) 2712 

Nurse on Wheels (Janus) ....2777 

Ordered to Love 

(Transoceon) 2761 

Pair of Briefs, A (Davis) 2766 

Passionate Demons, The 

(Monson-SR) 2706 

Passion Holiday (Davis) 2773 

Pillar of Fire (Hoffberg) 2727 

Playboy of the Western 

World, The (Janus) 2734 

Playgirl and the War 

Minister, The (Union) 2778 

Ploygirls and the Vampire, 

The (Fanfare) 2779 

Ploygirls Internationol 

(Westfield-SR) 2783 

Please, Not Now! 

(Int'l Classics) 2745 

Prelude to Ecstasy (Manson) 2754 

Promises! Promises! 

(NTD-SR) 2780 

Quick and the Dead, The 

(Beckman-SR) 2733 

Rage of the Buccaneers 


Raiders of Leyte Gulf 

(Hemisphere-SR) 2746 

Rice Girl (Ultra) 2701 

Right Hand of the Devil 

(Cinema- Video) 2755 

Sadist, The (Fairway Int'l) ..2725 

Seducers, The 

(Joseph Brenner) 2699 

Ship of Condemned Women, 

The (Globc-SR) 2782 

Sin You Sinners 

(Joseph Brenner) 2731 

Slime People, The 

(Honsen-SR) 2775 

Small Hours, The 

(Normon C. Chaitin) 2709 

Small World of Sammy Lee, 

The (Seven Arts) 2757 

Sound of Laughter, The 

(Union) 2790 

Sparrows Can't Sing (Janus) 2735 

Spooking of Murder (UMPO) 2713 

Stork Fear (Ellis) 2769 

. 2752 

. 

There Is Still Room in Hell 

(Lake Enterprises-SR) 2784 

Tioro Tahiti (Zenith) 2786 

Trial, The (Gibraltar) 2710 

Twice a Man 

(Filmmoker's Co-Op) 2781 

Varan, The Unbelievable 

(Crown Int'l) 2695 

Violated Paradise (Times) 

...2759 

Violent Midnight (Times) 

Wastrel, The (Medollion) ...2782 

West End Jungle (Atlantic) .2703 

Whot o Woman! (F-A-W) .2763 

Wild Guitor 

(Foirwoy Int'l) 2743 

Wild Is My Love 

(General Films) 2706

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starring ALBERTO SORDI 

"Best Picture" Berlin Film Festival-1963 

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FROM "KING'S RANSOM' by ED McBAIN directed bv KUROSAWA 

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