Boxoffice-Janury11.1965

MIAMI
Quest of honor at Vai'iety's installation
banquet January 16 will be James Carreras.
international chief barker from London.
Hem-y Oxell. head of a Miami Beach
casting agency, is to be installed as Miami's
Tent 33 chief barker . . . Howard
Warren, executive of the fonner Thunderbird
studios, is building his own film and
record studio at 35 Northeast 62nd St.
Ethel Gubernick, Wometco Enterprises
personnel department, resigned January 1
and will spend some of the next few
months traveling. She had been in
Wometco service 17 years ...CD. Crawford
of Claughton Theatres said the circuit's
Hollywood Theatre. Hollywood, will
be recarpeted and repainted this month.
The Mitchell Wolfsons visited duiing the
holiday season at their former hometown.
Key West. The Wolfsons, several years
ago. bought and restored the Audubon
house in Key West and it is now open to
the public. Their generosity triggered a
restoration program resulting in an annual
home tour for Key West residents and
visitors. The Wolfsoiis' holiday greeting
cards featmed a pictm-e of themselves and
of one of Mrs. Wolfson's paintings.
under the sponsorship of the ORT organization.
A capacity crowd attended the
benefit performance and the auction was
declared "highly successful."
"Pleasure Seekers" was the title of the
New Year's Eve picture at Wometco's Miami
and Palm Springs theatres, viewed
at both places by patrons at special bargain
prices of two attractions for the price
of one ticket. "Sylvia" played at the Wometco
Town.
More than 500 children of Wometco employes
enjoyed the company's Christmas
party at the Seaquarium. Guests were children
between the ages of 2 and 10. Their
11- and 12-year-old brothers and sisters,
honored at previous parties, acted as hosts
at
this year's fete.
Embassy's "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
has been designated as the official
Italian entry for "Best Picture of
1964" honors at the upcoming Academy
Awards.
El Paso's Northgate
To Include Theatre
Soli
Edit
EL PASO—A $200,000 theatre seating
approximately 1,000 persons, to be operated
by "one of the country's largest
amusement chains," will be constructed in
the Northgate Shopping Center, it was
announced here by J. Ted Cottle, leasing
agency for the center.
Plans call for the theatre to be of the
most modern in design and utilizing the
finest, up-to-date equipment available, he
said. Plush seating on an inclined floor,
with chairs staggered to pei-mit a full view
of the widescreen, and ample space between
rows for patrons to pass with ease
will be featured. Among other features
will be sound and projection to handle 70
and 35mm film widths.
John Arnold, manager of the Ti-opicaii'e
Drive-In, is continuing his Tuesday Silver
Dollar nights, patrons being admitted for
50 cents when they present a silver dollar
for the pm-chase of theii- tickets. Ai-nold
notes, however, that many persons are reluctant
to part with silver dollars, considering
them good luck pieces. The Tropicaire
manager said that the weekly Sunday
"flea market" or swap shop idea, held in
the airer's parking lot, continues to get bigger
and bigger and Arnold will continue the
project, which permits individuals and organizations
to sell used articles by setting
up booths in the parking lot from 6 a.m.
to 4 p.m. The project, profitable in its own
right, also is a boon to the concessions
stand.
Booked into the Roosevelt Theatre, Miami
Beach, January 21 is "Seance on a
Wet Afternoon," which received several
awards in England and high praise from
the New York critics . . . "The Pimipkin
Eater," already internationally acclaimed
as the vehicle for Aime Bancroft winning
the Cannes Film Festival award as Best
Actress, was to open Wednesday (6) at
the Miami Mayfair Theatre.
Plans of Wometco theatres in the
Greater Miami area were changed for the
New Year when "John Goldfarb, Please
Come Home" was held up by couit order.
Several Wometco situations offered a bargain
for the midiiight show, the price of
one ticket being good for the premidnight
film, as well as the midnight production.
the whole thing being handled on a kind of
preview basis ... At the Carib. Miracle
and 163rd Street theatres, "Goodbye
Charlie" was the New Year's Eve attraction.
This is the picture that was part of
a WQAM Charlie Mm-dock show promotion,
honoring him at a champagne breakfast
prior to his departure December 19
at the Miami International airport. When
Murdock retm^^ed, he brought some of the
gowns worn by the pictui-e's stars. These
were auctioned December 23 when the
picture previewed at the Carib Theatre
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