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|l,000-Seater Planned<br />
For Chicago Center<br />
rom Central<br />
Edition<br />
CHICAGO—A design and engineering<br />
;ontract for construction of a 1,000-seat<br />
.heatre in the Glenwood Shopping Plaza by<br />
;i-B Qiterprises has been awarded to Mel-<br />
!0 Engineers of Chicago. Completion is ex-<br />
)ected by December.<br />
Plans for the Glenwood Theatre call for<br />
i!Xtra-wide<br />
spacing of seats and the latest<br />
n widescreen projection equipment and<br />
itereo-sound facilities. The parking area<br />
Vill handle more than 1,000 cars.<br />
Officials of H-B Enterprises are Robert<br />
Hullinger, Avery E. Heim and Thomas<br />
3ralm.<br />
IWOMPI President Ncanes<br />
Charlotte Committees<br />
Southeast Edition<br />
— Jeanette Royster,<br />
JVOMPI president, announced the appointnent<br />
of the following committee chaimien<br />
'or 1965-66: Sei-vice, Rosaline Hutton, Counibia;<br />
progiam, Joan Jackson, National<br />
rheatre Supply Co.; membership, Betty<br />
Coone, Warner Bros.; finance. Mack Wess,<br />
i[\\'in States Booking; publicity, Thelma<br />
:ulp, Warner Bros. ; Will Rogers campaign,<br />
iCathleen Perrell, Universal; industry service,<br />
Dessie Guyer, Columbia; social, Betty<br />
'Jeatty, MGM; Bulletin, Doris Ducker, 20th<br />
':;entury-Pox ; bylaws, Myrtle Parker, Paranount;<br />
yearbook, Amalie Gantt, Howco<br />
international, and historian. Vera Robinion,<br />
Buena Vista. Myrtle Parker is<br />
j)arliamentarian.<br />
latest addition to the WOMPI memliership<br />
roll is Mai-y Nell Rosenblatt, secreiary<br />
to the branch manager at Allied<br />
|ui.ists.<br />
jlnjury to Children' Low<br />
Used in Obscenity Case<br />
.rom New Englond Edition<br />
— The Connecticut state<br />
'Olice department has charged Brooks LejVitt,<br />
manager, and Howard E. Williams,<br />
I'lojectionist, of the subui-ban Berlin Drivela<br />
with exhibiting Audubon's "The 'D'<br />
lirls," described as an obscene motion<br />
i'icture.<br />
under $300 bond for circuit court<br />
[ppearance. LeWitt and Williams face<br />
|iaximum penalties of $4,500 fine and ten<br />
ears in prison.<br />
The state police charge cited injury or<br />
jisk of injury to children and giving an<br />
iidecent and immoral exhibition.<br />
Police Major Carroll E. Shaw said<br />
!ais marks the first time the injury to<br />
ihildren statute had been employed in<br />
iich a case.<br />
jtewart Films Trailer<br />
•'or Wometco Theatres<br />
om Western<br />
Edition<br />
HOLLYWOOD — A special trailer with<br />
ames Stewart has been filmed on the<br />
;3th Century-Pox set of Robert Aldrich's<br />
rhe Plight of the Phoenix" for the<br />
j^ometco circuit in Florida. The trailer has<br />
jie star thanking Wometco patrons for<br />
jielr support of the chain's theatres as the<br />
celebrates its 40th anniversary. The<br />
;aUer will be run in Wometco theatres for<br />
'vo weeks.<br />
3X0FFICE :: August 16, 1965<br />
CINCINNATI<br />
Bud Hughes, McKee. Ky., exhibitor, and<br />
his grandson Billie attended several<br />
Cincinnati Reds baseball games while visiting<br />
the Row. Filmrow also welcomed Kentuckians<br />
Russell McClanahan. Irvine; Jimmy<br />
Denton, Owingsville; Dan Ki-ueger,<br />
Statxtord, and Bill Powers, Pendleton.<br />
. . .<br />
Going here and there were Bob Rehme,<br />
UA field representative, to Pittsburgh;<br />
branch manager Harold Rullman, AIP. to<br />
Dayton; Bill Brower, BV, and Milton<br />
Gm-lan, AA, to the Chakeres circuit,<br />
Springfield. Also visiting Chakeres were Jud<br />
Spiegle, Seven Ai'ts Pictui'es, and Harry<br />
Askins, Magna Pictures, Cleveland<br />
Wally Allen, Chakeres booker, attended the<br />
Disney seminar in Cleveland for "That<br />
Darn Cat."<br />
. .<br />
Francis de Zengremel, formerly with<br />
Schine's, Bellefontaine, has been appointed<br />
manager of Chakeres' house in Xenia .<br />
Judy Priske, Universal office staffer, and<br />
John Reinersman, married August 14 at<br />
Holy Cross Chuixh, are honeymooning in<br />
Kentucky.<br />
Filmrow has welcomed back Louise Vinson.<br />
Paramount cashier, who had been ill<br />
several weeks . . . Ollie Nicklas, State manager.<br />
Springfield, is recuperating satisfactorily<br />
at his home after several weeks<br />
in Mercy Hospital.<br />
. . .<br />
William Garner, UA salesman, is vacationing<br />
in Texas and Grant Frazee, assistant<br />
general manager, Chakeres circuit, is<br />
in Miami Beach, Fla. Also away are William<br />
Brower, BV manager; WUbur Hetherington,<br />
UA booker; Edith Tieman, secretary<br />
to Ray Russo, 20th-Pox manager;<br />
Charlotte Pox, Columbia inspector, and<br />
Wes<br />
John Wootan, Universal shipper<br />
Willmer, controller, and Lea Prank, office<br />
staff, Chakeres, Springfield, have retm-ned<br />
from Michigan vacations.<br />
Peter Rosian, Universal regional sales<br />
manager, was in for several days last week.<br />
Among the out-of-town visitors noted were<br />
Guy Greathouse. Aurora, Ind.; Ohioans<br />
Harry Wheeler. Galipolis; Hank Davidson,<br />
Lynchbm'g; Clark Krites, Yellow Springs;<br />
Kenneth Nitz and Jerry Knight. Columbus.<br />
"My Kingdom for a print" was the cry<br />
for the Beatles' "HELP!" last week by<br />
United Artists when it was discovered the<br />
film had been booked August 25 into eight<br />
suburban houses and there were not<br />
enough prints to go aromid. This is probably<br />
the first time this type of predicament<br />
has occurred in this area. With<br />
Solomon wisdom, the decision was made<br />
to play only the largest theatre in the area<br />
and move to the suburbs later. So "HELP!"<br />
has been switched to the 3,100-seat Albee<br />
Theatre opening September 1,<br />
If the pull of "Sound of Music" at the<br />
International 70 continues, it may be playing<br />
here until after the Christmas holidays.<br />
If so, it would rest the cui'rent long-run<br />
record from "Cleopatra," which played the<br />
Grand for 42 weeks in 1962-64. J. Elmer<br />
Jones, the theatre's manager, is amazed at<br />
the repeat business by movie fans. To date,<br />
the record is held by an elderly lady w'ho<br />
has just retmned to London. "She saw it<br />
17 times," Jones said.<br />
How does this sound as a record breaker?<br />
"The Art of Love" cunently in the restyled<br />
Mary Anderson, Louisville, played to more<br />
patrons during its first week than the theatre<br />
had had duiing the entire previous<br />
year. . . . And "What's New Pussycat?"<br />
played to 11,107 patrons during its first<br />
seven days at the Times.<br />
Union Rents Theatre<br />
From New Englond Edition<br />
MERIDEN, CONN.~The Sheet Metal<br />
Workers International Ass'n Local 40 rented<br />
the Tolls Meriden Theatre for a 9 a.m.<br />
union meeting on a recent Friday.<br />
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