Boxoffice-Janury11.1965

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SPRINGFIELD
T>edstone Theatres' de luxe Cinema 1 and
Cinema 2, West Springfield, in a campaign
for northern Connecticut trade, are
advertising in the metropolitan Hartford
dailies . . . Sperie P. Perakos of B&Q
Associates visited city manager Arthm-
Darley . Stoddard, president
of New England Theatres, met with John
R. Patno jr., resident manager at the
downtown Paramount.
Two suburban theatres—the Falls, Chicopee
Palls, and the Rivoli, Chicopee
experimented with a two-for-one ad policy,
offering two adult admissions for one
ticket's price, provided the newspaper ad
was presented at the boxoffice . . . Kay
Evans, aide to Wally Beach at the Storrowton
Music Fair on the Eastern States
Exposition gi'ounds for the past two years,
has been promoted to office manager of
the summer music tent operation.
Nutmeg Theatres Unite
In Holiday Advertising
NORWALK. CONN.—Domi logha,
Nutmeg
circuit district manager, placed composite
advertising for all NTC houses in
the area plus adjacent circuit and independent
houses, to appropriately mark the
holiday season.
Participants include Nutmeg's Norwalk,
Norwalk: Fine Arts, 'Westport; Comity
Cinema, Fairfield; "Wilton Cinema, "Wilton,
and the Lockwood & Gordon Norwalk
Drive-In, Norwalk, and Palace, South Norwalk.
Perakos Managers Confer
On BV's 'Mary Poppins'
NEW BRITAIN—Spene P. Perakos, vicepresident
and general manager, Perakos
Theatre Associates, chaii-ed a key-city
managers meeting on Buena "Vista's "Mary
Poppins."
Session participants were John D'Amato,
Elm, West Hartford; Tom Grace, Eastwood,
East Hartford, and James Landino, Hi-
Way, Bridgeport.
SILICON
Lee ARTOE SILICON TUBE
15 AMPERE
$1095
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Judge Refuses to Quash
New Haven Damage Suit
HARTFORD—U.S. District Judge Robert
C. Zampano has refused to dismiss a $61,-
000 damage suit brought by a New Haven
couple against a New Haven theatre, a
shoe manufactui-er and a mail order house.
The suit, initiated by Mr. and Mrs.
George Chairaluce, sought a total of $61,-
000 for injm-ies allegedly suffered by Mrs.
Chairaluce October 12, 1962, in a fall down
balcony stairs at the Stanley Warner
Shennan Theatre, New Haven.
Also being sued are the Wise Shoe Co.
flourishing Poli . . .
Industry observers are wondering when of New Hampshire, and Spiegel, Inc., Chicago
mail-order house.
B&Q will reopen the shuttered, downtown,
first-run Bijou, half a block from the Mrs. Chairaluce says she slipped because
The bulk of the
of a loose i-ug, breaking a heel on
suburban drive-ins have closed for the her left shoe and thereby sustaining severe
injm-ies.
colder months, intending to resume perfoi-mances
by late winter or early spring Judge Zampano iniled that a manufacturer
Gaudino, Poli Theatre, extended
must be held responsible for products
an offer to adult patrons to view used as intended and injm'ing the purchaser.
a showing of MGM's "Joy House" as guestsof-the-house,
in a holiday mood.
Mrs. Chairaluce pmxhased the Wise footwear
from a Spiegel catalog and was wearing
them for the first time when the accident
occurred. Wise filed a motion for
dismissal, claiming Mrs. Chairaluce has
failed to state a claim on which relief can
be granted. Plaintiff declared that the
shoe's heel broke because a steel brace
intended to go through the entire heel was
too short.
White City Theatre
Opening January 27
SHREWSBURY, MASS.—The new White
City Theatre will be opened Januai-y 27,
according to Perry Nathan, district manager
for Stanley Warner Massachusetts
theatres.
The new indoor theatre is in the White
City Shopping Center on Route 9. It will
be Shrewsbury's first indoor motion pictore
theatre, showing first-run films exclusively.
MAINE
J^aine State Police have reported that 15
safe-cracking jobs in Maine, dating
back to August and including bm-glanes
at drive-in theatres, have been cleared up
following inteiTogation of thi-ee who were
being held by federal authorities on charges
of passing counterfeit money. The troopers
said at least six New Hampshire breaks
were also solved. The Maine bm'glaries included
one at a drive-in theatre in Kennebuck,
where $200 was taken in a safecracking
job, and another at the Portland
Drive-In, where the thiefs punched 0E>en
a safe to grab $250.
The Empire reopened with an all-20th-
Fox program, consisting of "Rio Conchos"
and "Moro Witch Doctor" . . . The Maine
smaU business administration reported that
if the present growth rate is indicative,
there will be an increase of about 900 small
business concerns in Maine in the next
ten years former Anindel Opera
Theatre, Kennebunkport, has been converted
to the parish chm-ch for area
Catholics.
NEW/HAMPSHIRE
^his state's
minimum wage was increased
to $1.25 an horn- Januai-y 1, as the
result of a law enacted by the 1963 legislatm-e.
The increase from $1.15 applies
to all employes except those engaged in
household, domestic and farm work, outside
salesmen, employes of sunmier camps
for minors, restam-ants, hotels and inns,
newsboys and golf caddies. Certain employes
may be paid not less than 95 cents
an hour, if they are 18 years of age or
under, by keeping evidence of their age
on file. Persons with less than six months
experience in any occupation may be paid
not less than 95 cents an horn- by requesting
permission from the Labor Department.
An 18-year-old Manchester youth was
fined $75 in Hillsborough Comity superior
court December 30 for destruction of property
belonging to Manins, Inc., doing business
as the Manchester Drive-In at 777
South Willow St. It was alleged that on
August 22 the defendant spilled popcorn
over the floor of the theatre and threw a
cash i-egister to the floor, breaking it and
causing damage of more than $20.
Redstones Hoping to Open
Lawrence Twin in Spring
LAWRENCE, MASS.—An early spring
opening is the target of the construction
program under way on the million-dollar
twin theatre being built here for Redstone
Theatres of Boston. Ground-breaking ceremonies
were held last month at 141 Winthrop
Ave., where the Salem turnpike intersects
with new interstate 495. Route
495 from Lowell will lead right to the
entrance of the new theatre, only a short
distance from the Lawrence stadium.
The Redstone twin will feature staggered
seating, rocking chair lounge seats, 70mm
projection and sm-round sterophonic sound.
A lounge area on the second floor of the
main lobby will be utilized as a showplace
by local artists and craftsmen. The Redstones
also have announced that the Twin
theatres may be used free during nontheatre
houi-s as meeting places for area
clubs and organizations. Groups wanting
to sponsor benefits for charity projects
will find the Redstone ready to cooperate
Also under construction by the circuit
are theatres in West Springfield, Mass.;
Pontiac, Mich.; Louisville, Ky., and Wash
ington. D.C. Shortly before Christmas, the
circuit opened a newly completed dual
theatre in Toledo, Ohio.
Warwick Cinema Cuts Off
'Kiss Me' From Bookings
WARWICK, R.I.—The Warwick Cinema
has removed UA's "Kiss Me, Stupid" because
of a February 1964 promise not tc
screen a Legion of Decency condemned
film.
In applying for a license last year, Town
and Country Movie Theatres of Levittown,
N.Y., had told the Warwick board of public
safety its policy would be not to show
condemned product.
Board chainnan James F. Cousineau
told the press he was prepared to suspend
the theatre's license if "Kiss Me, Stupid'
wasn't cancelled.
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