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SEPTEMBER 13, 1965<br />

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SEPTEMBER<br />

Vol. 87<br />

1 3, 1965<br />

No. 21<br />

Guest Editorial<br />

Letter to<br />

By PAUL N. LAZARUS<br />

Executive Officer and Partner,<br />

The Landau Company<br />

Dear Ben<br />

So you finally went and did it. You locked the<br />

desk in Kansas City, put out the cat. picked up<br />

your wife, packed a bag and went away on vacation.<br />

You've left this big industry of ours to<br />

shift for itself for a few weeks while vou gallivant,<br />

rest, and take a quick look at some of the<br />

overseas production activity.<br />

Well, old friend, don't worry about our motion<br />

picture industry while you're away. It will be<br />

here when you get back, unchanged for the<br />

most part, and fighting change in its traditional<br />

manner. Of course, there will<br />

a Vacationing Pulflislier<br />

be the usual number<br />

of job switches. And the exhibitor organizations<br />

will still be issuing statements urging unity<br />

all the while they are kicking each other's brains<br />

out. The dissident board members at Paramount<br />

will continue to prod and pry and the management<br />

will<br />

spend the usual amount of extra time<br />

in verbal loin-girding. Terror will strike at the<br />

hearts of distributors and exhibitors alike as the<br />

inflated summer grosses deflate to the usual September<br />

slump figures. The major companies<br />

will begin to plan for next summer's release<br />

.schedules while they are lending lip service to<br />

(he principle of "orderly release." So don't worry<br />

about us while you're away.<br />

Yes, business will be going on as usual. Exhibitors<br />

and distributors will be signing contracts<br />

containing terms which neither party expects<br />

to honor or be honored. "Adjustments'" will<br />

be taken by exhibitors because "that's how the<br />

game is<br />

who doesn't obey the rules.<br />

Oh, you'll<br />

played" and heaven help the distributor<br />

probably miss a few industry functions<br />

while you're away. Some company will undoubtedly<br />

have a small-size junket—a hundred<br />

or so newspapermen—but they will stay in the<br />

Western Hemisphere this time. There'll be a<br />

few premieres in New York with the usual collection<br />

of industry executives posing for photographs<br />

in<br />

the lobby with Red Buttons. Zsa Zsa,<br />

and Pamela Tiffin. There'll be three or four<br />

luncheons in honor of Joe I^evine that you'll miss.<br />

But don't fret, there'll be others in honor of Joe<br />

after you get back. The calendar page will<br />

look<br />

different when vou return. Ben. but thal'.'i about<br />

all.<br />

And. yet, there are changes, important chang<br />

which are slowly altering the face of the indusli<br />

Sometimes it seems that the changes are iinpi<br />

ceptible;<br />

perhaps they will be visible to you aft<br />

a period away, Wa.sn't it Marcus Aurelius wl<br />

said, "There is nothing Natures loves so well<br />

to change existing forms and to make new oti,<br />

like them"?<br />

Take, for example, what's happening to tli<br />

patterns of distribution in New York and praj<br />

tically<br />

every other major market. In New Yori<br />

where for countless years the product was (<br />

vided between Loew's and RKO, a variety<br />

'<br />

"Showcase" patterns has made the area an r<br />

citing game of catch-as-catch-can. Fourtci<br />

iiouses ringing the metropolitan area are cii<br />

rently playing our production of "Pawnbroker"<br />

it's sort of a second-run since the picture has ;<br />

ready played more than three months in thu<br />

New York theatres. In the first two and on<br />

half weeks of the multiple-run, the gross h.<br />

passed the $400,000 mark and the run continue<br />

strong.<br />

There's every reason to believe that "Tl<br />

Pawnbroker'' will gross upwards of $1,000,0(<br />

in<br />

the New York City area—and that's only pn<br />

sible as a result of a change in distribution p;i<br />

terns.<br />

And what about the changes in<br />

I<br />

production!<br />

Remember just a few years back when HolH<br />

wood was "finished" and all production activil'<br />

was overseas? Now the Hollywood stages ai<br />

jumping. Foreign production—as you will ol'<br />

serve, Ben— is booming, but it's not "runaway<br />

production. It's the normal growth of local-n<br />

lional industries in England and France an'<br />

Italy and Spain. Some of it is still Americai<br />

based production, but the great bulk of what w.<br />

called "runaway" has come back home. Evt<br />

Sam Spiegel is currently making a picture i<br />

Hollywood, his first in almost 20 years. Therei<br />

change for you.<br />

So relax and enjoy, enjoy. Everything—an<br />

everybody— will be pretty much the same whe<br />

you return. That's one of the most significai<br />

qualities of our great business.<br />

Best always,<br />

PAUL N. LAZARUS<br />

P.S. All of the above is subject to change withm<br />

notice.


TOA-ALLIED MERGER REACHED<br />

FOLLOWING YEARS OF EFFORT<br />

Amalgamation Strengthens<br />

Theatre Owners' Voice<br />

On Trade Practices<br />

NEW YORK—The merger of Theatre<br />

Owners of America and AlUed States Ass'n<br />

of Motion Pictm-e Exhibitors, effected at<br />

week's end and announced by Sumner M.<br />

Redstone, TOA president, and Jack Armstrong,<br />

Allied president, culminated five<br />

years of intensive effort and almost 35<br />

years of up-and-down discussion.<br />

Remaining now are the board details and<br />

mechanics of getting the single organization,<br />

to be known as the National Ass'n of<br />

Theatre Owners, into actual being. Such<br />

details will include the annual gatherings<br />

in the next few weeks of the two organizations<br />

at which the memberships will resign<br />

from their present national affiliations<br />

and approve membership in the unified<br />

organization.<br />

ACHIEVE EXHIBITOR<br />

UNITY<br />

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1966<br />

The conventions also will designate directors<br />

for the board of NATO, who will<br />

subsequently meet and name the first slate<br />

of officers. Armstrong and Redstone are<br />

expected to continue in their respective<br />

offices until NATO has become an actuality<br />

and its officers named, sometime after<br />

January 1, the effective date of the formation<br />

of the new organization. Ordinarily,<br />

their terms would expire at the amiual conventions—Allied's<br />

in Pittsburgh, October<br />

11-14, and TOA's in Los Angeles 27-30.<br />

The dii-ectors of the new organization<br />

also will elect an executive committee, establish<br />

a budget, provide for a national administrative<br />

office and complete all other<br />

preliminaries for NATO, which is expected<br />

to headquarter here.<br />

TOA has 29 regional affiliates and Allied<br />

has 14, but some of the regionals may<br />

fail to qualify for representation on the<br />

new boai-d of directors, since such things<br />

as minimum membership will be included<br />

in the provisions governmg eligibility for<br />

board membership.<br />

The miification of the organizations,<br />

thus, for the first time gives exliibition<br />

one voice in matters of importance to theatre<br />

owners, such as consent decree adherence,<br />

trade practices and legislation.<br />

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND<br />

TOA was formed in 1947 through the<br />

merger of the old Motion Pictm-e Theatre<br />

Owners of America, organized in 1920, and<br />

American Theatres Ass'n. It was for many<br />

years considered aloof from the problems<br />

of smaller exhibitors, since its membership<br />

numbered many of the producer-distributor<br />

affiliated circuits. Allied, organized m 1928,<br />

was constituted primarily of independent<br />

theatre operators whose problems were<br />

viewed as different from those of the affiliated<br />

circuit theatres.<br />

Following consent decree action and divorcement,<br />

the foiTnerly affiliated clixuits<br />

found their problems coinciding with those<br />

of the independent operators and the pol-<br />

These two industry leaders, Sumner M. Redstone, left, president of Theatre<br />

Owners of America, and Jack Armstrong, right, president of Allied States Ass'n<br />

of Motion Picture Exhibitors, have accomplished an aim of 35 years standing in<br />

the merger of the two organizations to form the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners.<br />

icies of the two organizations in recent<br />

years have more often than not been the<br />

same.<br />

The fu-st proposal for merging the organizations<br />

came in 1929-30 but was tm'ned<br />

down by Allied in 1931 just before that organization<br />

began its big campaign to force<br />

producer-distributors out of exhibition.<br />

While in the years following divorcement<br />

TOA and Allied found themselves frequently<br />

seeking closer relationships on<br />

trade matters, no actual effort at merging<br />

the organizations was made until about<br />

five years ago. At that time, AlUed was<br />

plagued by dissension among its regional<br />

affiliates, but survived that problem and<br />

came back as a strong exhibition representative.<br />

In January 1964 the possibility of merging<br />

the organizations was explored at a<br />

meeting in Miami Beach by representatives<br />

who reportedly engaged in "a frank and<br />

friendly exchange of views." In March of<br />

the same year, during a Show-A-Rama<br />

convention in Kansas City, officers of the<br />

two organizations studied creation of a unified<br />

organization and a joint committee<br />

was named to study the matter. At that<br />

time Ai-mstrong and Redstone reported<br />

that differences separating the groups involved<br />

viewpoints, not objectives.<br />

A special meeting was held in April 1964<br />

in Chicago when "agreement in principle"<br />

on the merger was announced and special<br />

subcommittees were named to study details<br />

of organization of a unified group. In<br />

November, TOA and Allied representatives<br />

met in New York and discussed structural<br />

problems dealing with establishing a unified<br />

organization. A di'afting committee<br />

was appointed at that session.<br />

Following this the TOA board of directors<br />

ratified the constitution for the<br />

new organization, while Allied held individual<br />

meetings of its affiliates to approve<br />

the new constitution and bylaws, the<br />

last such meeting having been held by<br />

the Iowa-Nebraska affiliate in July.<br />

Sanford Abrahams Is<br />

TOA<br />

Convention Coordinator<br />

LOS ANGELES—Sherrill C. Corwin. general<br />

chairman of the Theatre Owners of<br />

America's 18th annual convention to be<br />

held here October 28-30. announced that<br />

Sanford Abrahams has been appointed<br />

convention coordinator to work on plajining<br />

and programing for the event.<br />

Abrahams, former Allied Artists' West<br />

Coast publicity director and prior to that<br />

national director of advertising and publicity,<br />

will operate in conjmiction with Corwin<br />

and his co-chairmen. Robert W. Selig<br />

and Wilham H. Tliedford, as well as with<br />

Joseph G. Alterman. executive secretary<br />

of TOA. and the convention's executive<br />

committee of local exhibitor leaders.<br />

Advance registrations indicate the highest<br />

attendance in TOA history, and all exhibit<br />

space at the tradeshow to be held<br />

concurrently with the convention has been<br />

sold out.<br />

BOXOFTICE :: September 13, 1965


MPAA Representatives<br />

Fight Pa. Censor Bill<br />

HARRISBURG. PA—Three<br />

representatives<br />

of the Motion Picture Ass'n of America<br />

appeared before the judiciary committee<br />

of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives<br />

here Thursday (2> in opposition<br />

to House Bill 1098, proposing to establish<br />

a state censorship board. Appearing In<br />

behalf of the MPAA were Ralph S. Snyder,<br />

attorney: Geoffrey M. Shurlock, director of<br />

the Production Code Administration, and<br />

William McCutchen, associate in the<br />

MPAA community relations department.<br />

The measure would set up a board authorized<br />

to request a preview of any film<br />

to determine whether it is obscene. It<br />

would be authorized to Institute Injunction<br />

proceedings in the county In which the<br />

film Is to be shown and provides that any<br />

person violating any of the provisions of<br />

the act would be subject to a fine of $500<br />

to $1,000. or imprisonment not exceeding<br />

six months, or both.<br />

HITS ITNCONSTITUTIONAUTY<br />

Snyder told the lawmakers that the bill<br />

"has been built on the ashes of the Motion<br />

Picture Control Act of 1959 which was held<br />

unconstitutional by the State Supreme<br />

Court." He urged the commmittee to take<br />

a course of more productive use of criminal<br />

obscenity laws rather than "tampering<br />

with one of our most basic freedoms" and<br />

placing burdens on the motion picture industry<br />

as a whole.<br />

He termed the pending legislation unconstitutional<br />

because it does impose prior<br />

restraint on the exercise of the right of<br />

free speech by means of motion pictures.<br />

Shurlock outlined the workings of the<br />

Production Code Administration and<br />

pointed out that it "gets in its licks while<br />

the project is still in the script stage rather<br />

than acting purely negative after the picture<br />

has been made."<br />

He called the Code "a singularly striking<br />

example of American democracy in<br />

action," and said it is "the first and by<br />

far the best known case of a major industry—and<br />

an 'art' industry at that—undertaking<br />

to regulate itself in such detail."<br />

TREATMENT OF SUBJECT<br />

He pointed to the wholesomeness of current<br />

boxoffice champions and admitted<br />

that films do explore less wholesome areas<br />

of human conduct. "They claim the right<br />

to examine any field of human activity<br />

that can be discussed with propriety in<br />

public and by other media," he asserted,<br />

adding that perhaps some of the ciu-rent<br />

uproar "stems from the fact that they<br />

have undertaken to look at<br />

darker phases of human life."<br />

some of the<br />

Social problems, Shurlock said, can be<br />

presented in a positive and acceptable<br />

fashion. "In the long run," he concluded,<br />

"It is not the subject matter but the treatment<br />

that counts. And it is with treatment<br />

that the Code operation is fundamentally<br />

concerned."<br />

McCutchen said the Industry believes<br />

the choice of films should be left up to the<br />

individual and he outlined the Industry<br />

activity toward informing the public so<br />

"that they can more effectively select<br />

films" for their particular Interests.<br />

McCutchen outlined the development and<br />

distribution of the MPAA-sponsored The<br />

Green Sheet, telling the committee the<br />

primary function of the publication is to<br />

inform the public about the content and<br />

treatment of current motion pictures. He<br />

pointed out that The Green Sheet is mailed<br />

to every daily newspaper in the nation, to<br />

every public library, eveiy motion picture<br />

theatre and to more than 30,000 teachers,<br />

church and civic leaders.<br />

Of its availability to the public, Mc-<br />

Cutchen said, "It is reprinted in some<br />

newspapers and other publications; posted<br />

in countless schools and churches, clubs<br />

and community organizations; exhibited in<br />

theatre boxoffice windows; displayed<br />

prominently in librai'ies and broadcast over<br />

radio and television. The Green Sheet,<br />

therefore, literally is brought to the attention<br />

of millions of Americans."<br />

McCutchen pointed out that the MPAA<br />

also attempts to teach the public how to<br />

use film Information thi-ough the distribution<br />

of booklets to organizations, community<br />

groups and exhibitors, and that one<br />

of the MPAA goals is to promote the<br />

growth of enlightened audiences who will<br />

consistently seek the best in film<br />

entertairmrent.<br />

"We firmly believe that in a democratic<br />

society such as ours it is the inalienable<br />

right of the individual to make his own<br />

selections," McCutchen said.<br />

Appearing at the same hearing, representatives<br />

of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys<br />

Ass'n urged establishment of a<br />

state censor body, asserting that it would<br />

"improve efficiency in crime detection and<br />

prosecution because it would be a move toward<br />

a national standard by which obscenity<br />

may be judged."<br />

A warning to the committee came from<br />

an unexpected source, when Roderick J.<br />

Wagner, executive secretary of the division<br />

of social relations of the Pennsylvania<br />

Council of Churches, said: "We have felt<br />

the need for restraint. However, even while<br />

noting the desir-ability of restraint, we<br />

recognize the inherent dangers of censorship.<br />

There is always the possibility that<br />

the cure may be worse than the disease.<br />

We feel this possibility exists in this<br />

instance."<br />

Becomes<br />

Classification Bill<br />

Law in Montgomery, Ala.<br />

MONTGOMERY—A film classification<br />

bill, which apparently applies to films on<br />

television as well as theatres, has been<br />

signed into law by Gov. George C. Wallace,<br />

but will apply only to Jefferson County,<br />

where this city is situated, because of a<br />

population qualification.<br />

Under the bill, juvenile viewers, not<br />

the exhibitors, are made liable, with fines<br />

up to $25 for each offense. Films are to be<br />

classified by a review board of seven members<br />

named by the city and county. Films<br />

classified as adult will have to be so designated<br />

when exhibited, and persons under<br />

18 are prohibited from seeing the pictures.<br />

Exhibitor Leaders Laud<br />

TOA-Allied Merger<br />

NEW YORK—Reaction to the announced<br />

merger of Theatre Owners of America and<br />

Allied States Ass'n into a single national<br />

exhibitor organization, this week was<br />

highly optimistic across the nation.<br />

In New York, Walter Reade jr., former<br />

TOA president, said he was "thi-illed" by<br />

the news, adding that he had always believed<br />

in and worked for such a merger,<br />

and terming the agi-eement "the most giant<br />

step in exhibition since sound."<br />

In Washington, D.C., A. Julian Brylawski,<br />

president of the Motion Pictm-e Theatre<br />

Owners of Metropolitan D.C., termed<br />

the merger agi'eement "the wish of my<br />

life" and described himself as "very, very<br />

happy."<br />

In Springfield, 111., George Kerasotes,<br />

president of United Theatre Owners of Illinois,<br />

asked about the merger with Allied<br />

Theatre Owners of Illinois, said: "We have<br />

worked together in the past. I don't see<br />

why something can't be worked out. There's<br />

no point in two state organizations."<br />

!<br />

On the West Coast, Shen-ill C. Corwin,<br />

\<br />

president of Southern California Theatre<br />

Owners Ass'n, hailed the merger predicting<br />

that it would pi'oduce the "strongest" organization<br />

in the entire film industry.<br />

Richard H. Orear, president of Commonwealth<br />

Theatres, Kansas City, and<br />

TOA executive, stated: "The merger of<br />

Allied and TOA will benefit the entire mo-<br />

'<br />

tion picture industry. Exhibitors large and<br />

small will be helped. Distributors and producers<br />

will know that at long last there is<br />

one voice in the industi-y. I congratulate<br />

the officers and directors who have worked<br />

untold numbers of hours to bring<br />

this new horizon in our industry."<br />

about<br />

Douglas Lightner, president of the<br />

United Theatre Owners of the Heart of<br />

America, itself a merged organization of<br />

some years standing, expressed delight at<br />

the national merger. "UTO as a group has '<br />

]<br />

been pushing for this for the last three<br />

'<br />

years," Lightner said. "This merger will<br />

strengthen om- portion of the motion pic-<br />

tui-e industry more than any one thing i<br />

can."<br />

Second Viking Trust Suit<br />

Dismissed by Court<br />

PHILADELPHIA—A second suit brought<br />

by the Viking Theatre Co. against seven<br />

film distribution companies and three<br />

other midcity theatres has been dismissed<br />

in U.S. District Court. Sought was $1.8<br />

million in triple damages in claiming the<br />

other companies had conspired to keep the<br />

theatre from showing first-run motion<br />

pictures.<br />

A previous suit was argued right up to<br />

the U.S. Supreme Court and the Viking<br />

lost that one, too. U.S. District Court<br />

Judge John W. Lord jr. pointed to the fust<br />

suit in dismissing the second.<br />

He said the allegation was the same and<br />

that only the time period and the alleged<br />

losses were different. "The cake which the<br />

plaintiff now wishes to enjoy has already<br />

been eaten," the jurist said.<br />

The chief defendant was the Paramount<br />

Films Distributing Corp. The first suit was<br />

thrown out for lack of evidence.<br />

BOXOFFICE :: September 13, 1965


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Para. Names Gillis<br />

New Division Head<br />

NEW YORK—Charles Boasberg, general<br />

sales manager of Paramount Pictui-es. has<br />

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designated Herb Gillis<br />

to head the newly<br />

S^^l^^9^k established sales division<br />

covering the<br />

midwest with the title<br />

of midwest division<br />

manager. Gillis will<br />

head the new division<br />

consisting of Chicago,<br />

Detroit. Cleveland,<br />

Indianapolis<br />

and Milwaukee territories<br />

but will headquarter<br />

in New York<br />

Herb GUlis<br />

since, in addition to<br />

his new post, he will continue to head<br />

Paramount's department for the acquisition<br />

and sale of short subjects.<br />

The new division, according to Boasberg.<br />

was created to better handle the expanding<br />

activities of Paramount and will<br />

enable more in-depth sei-vicing of accounts<br />

in the teiTitory, greater supervision of the<br />

mai-keting activities in the area and, in<br />

general, will facilitate a more effective<br />

handling of the company's product lineup.<br />

Gillis moves' to the new post from that<br />

of U.S. and Canadian sales director for<br />

special attractions. He joined the company's<br />

home office staff in December 1963<br />

as sales manager for "The Fall of the<br />

Roman Empire," having been associated<br />

with Paramount since 1950. Pi'ior to transferring<br />

to New York, he was a regional sales<br />

manager headquai-tering in Washington.<br />

In addition to the midwest division.<br />

Paramount will continue to maintain five<br />

other sales units, the eastern, western,<br />

southeastern, southwestern and Canadian<br />

divisions.<br />

Federal Court Approves<br />

SW Pennsylvania House<br />

NEW YORK—Federal Judge Edmund L.<br />

Palmieri last week granted Stanley Warner<br />

pel-mission to acquire a 1,400-seat theatre<br />

at the South Hills Shopping Center,<br />

Bethel Park Boro, Pa., in the Pittsburgh<br />

exchange area.<br />

Permission was granted over the opposition<br />

of Associated Theatres, Warren Enterprises<br />

and Morris B. Finkel, whose<br />

claims, the judge found, reached "impressive"<br />

proportions but did not establish that<br />

the SW acquisition would unduly restrain<br />

competition. The Department of Justice<br />

did not oppose the SW petition.<br />

James B. Somerall Elected<br />

President of Pepsi-Cola<br />

NEW YORK—James B. Somerall has<br />

been elected president and chief executive<br />

officer of the Pepsi-Cola Co., by the board<br />

of directors.<br />

Until recently executive vice-president<br />

and general manager of domestic operations,<br />

Somerall had previously been president<br />

of Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling<br />

Co., Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary that<br />

operates 18 Pepsi-Cola plants in 14 cities.<br />

Prior to that he was general manager of<br />

the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Cincinnati.<br />

Embassy Signs New Pact<br />

With Pathe Laboratories<br />

NEW YORK—Embassy Pictm-es has<br />

signed a new foui'-year agreement with<br />

Pathe Laboratories for its head end 'production*<br />

and release printing, in color and<br />

black-and-white, according to Joseph E.<br />

Levine, president of Embassy, and Lawrence<br />

I. Weisman. president of Pathe Industries.<br />

Leonard Lightstone. Embassy executive<br />

vice-president, and Leo Lubin, sales executive<br />

of Pathe Laboratories, participated<br />

in the negotiations for the contract, which<br />

is effective from August 1, 1965 and continues<br />

an association of many years.<br />

Under the terms of the pact, Pathe. together<br />

with its affiUates in England<br />

(Humphi-ies Laboratory, Ltd.), Italy and<br />

Spain will process Embassy's productiondistribution<br />

program, including such current<br />

and forthcoming pictures as "Darling,"<br />

"The Tenth Victim." "Village of the<br />

Giants," "The Little Nuns." "Italiana<br />

Brava Gente," "The Daydreamer," "The<br />

Cat," "Paranoia" and "Golden Arrow." as<br />

well as "The Oscar." an Embassy-Paramount<br />

co-production. "The Idol." an Embassy-Paramount<br />

co-production filming in<br />

London, is being sei-viced by Humphries<br />

Laboratory. Pathe is also processing Embassy's<br />

TV series, including "DODO—the<br />

Kid Fi-om Outer Space."<br />

"This is another step cementing the relationship<br />

that has always existed between<br />

Pathe and Embassy," Weisman said.<br />

Embassy, Paramount Deny<br />

Carroll Baker Contract<br />

NEW YORK—In answer to allegations<br />

in a complaint by Can-oil Baker, currently<br />

starring in "Harlow," made by Joseph E.<br />

Levine for Paramount Picture release. Embassy<br />

Pictures and Paramount "do not concede<br />

thaat a seven-picture agreement had<br />

been concluded with the star."<br />

The answer to the complaint filed in<br />

New York Supreme Comt admits that<br />

there were negotiations but claims that no<br />

agreement had been entered into. The<br />

Paramount-Embassy answer also denies<br />

that any agreement had been made to star<br />

Miss Baker in "Tropic of Cancer," which<br />

appears to be the main basis for her suit.<br />

The next step is for Paramount and Embassy<br />

to obtain a deposition from Miss<br />

Baker.<br />

Admission Prices Soar<br />

To New Record High<br />

Washington — Film theatre admission<br />

prices in the first half of the<br />

year rose to another record high, according<br />

to a Labor Department survey.<br />

Theatre admissions were 146.6<br />

per cent of the 1957-59 average, up<br />

from 139 in December and 135 in June.<br />

The annual 1964 average hit 135.5 and<br />

the 1963 average was 125.4.<br />

Drive-ins rose to 112.5 from 109.1<br />

in December and 105.1 in June. The<br />

1964 yearly average was 105.7.<br />

Indoor ticlcets for adults reached<br />

144.8. while children's admissions were<br />

153.3, up from 137.1 and 145.6 in December<br />

and 132.7 and 142.8 in June of<br />

1964.<br />

Norman Weilman Now<br />

Continental Sales Head<br />

NEW YORK—Norman Weitman, who<br />

was named assistant general sales manager<br />

of Continental,<br />

the film distribution<br />

divi.sion of Walter<br />

Reade-Sterling. Inc.,<br />

in 1964, has been promoted<br />

to general<br />

sales manager for<br />

Continental by Sheldon<br />

Gunsberg, executive<br />

vice-president<br />

of the parent company.<br />

Paul Baise, who<br />

Norman Weitman<br />

has been director of<br />

advertising and publicity<br />

for Continental for the past several<br />

years and has been serving as liaison for<br />

sales and advertising, has been named district<br />

sales manager for the Los Angeles-<br />

Denver-Salt Lake City territories by Weitman<br />

and will take over his new assignment<br />

in the Los Angeles office September<br />

15.<br />

At the opening session of Continental's<br />

national sales convention Tuesday (7).<br />

Weitman announced the details of a sales<br />

drive for the fourth quarter of 1965 to be<br />

called "Continental's Golden Quarter—<br />

'65." The diive will feature eight new releases<br />

and will offer cash prizes to each<br />

salesman. In addition. Continental is offering<br />

a trip for two to Ireland next spring<br />

dui-ing production of the film adaptation<br />

of James Joyce's "Ulysses," this special<br />

prize being open only to theatre owners,<br />

managers, buyers and bookers in the U.S.<br />

The eight drive pictures ai-e—for October,<br />

"The Railroad Man," "The Lollipop<br />

Cover" and "Ghidrah—the Three-Headed<br />

Monster"; for November, "Time of Indifference"<br />

and "Underworld Informers"; for<br />

December, "Flame and the Fire." "Kwaidan"<br />

and "Walk in the Shadow."<br />

Weitman joined the Reade organization<br />

as New York district manager in September<br />

1963 after being eastern district manager<br />

for United Artists-Lopert Pictures in<br />

Philadelphia. He entered the industry in<br />

Universal Pictui'es' home office and subsequently<br />

became salesman in the Philadelphia<br />

branch, sales manager in Washington,<br />

branch manager in Albany and branch<br />

manager in Cleveland. Baise joined the<br />

Reade organization in 1948 in the advertising<br />

and exploitation department of the<br />

company's theatre circuit and later headed<br />

that operation.<br />

Oskar Werner Scheduled<br />

For Six-City P.A. Tour<br />

HOLL'YWOOD—Oskar Werner, one of<br />

the many stars in Stanley Kramer's "Ship<br />

of Fools." has been set for a six-city personal<br />

appearance tour in conjunction with<br />

domestic openings of the film being released<br />

by Columbia Pictures. This will<br />

mark Werner's first personal appearance<br />

trip in the United States.<br />

Werner leaves Los Angeles for San<br />

Francisco Wednesday (15) and then goes<br />

to Chicago September 19. Boston September<br />

20, Washington September 21, Philadelphia<br />

September 22. and into New York<br />

September 23. A newspaper, radio and<br />

television schedule is being set for the star<br />

in each key city.<br />

BOXOFHCE :; September 13, 1965


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or bust ?<br />

The difference could lie in the films you<br />

use. Use anything with less quality than<br />

Eastman films and you're jeopardizing<br />

all those large sums of money required<br />

for motion picture production. Is the<br />

gamble worth the mere fraction of a cent<br />

per foot of film you only think you're<br />

saving ?<br />

Look at it this way. Film— both negative<br />

and print stock — must provide<br />

detailed, full-tonal reproductions and<br />

must have consistent speed, uniform<br />

processing characteristics, dimensional<br />

stability, precision perforations and<br />

uniform slit edges. Go with anything less<br />

than Eastman quality and you may be in<br />

for retakes and headaches, reorders and<br />

"out-of-orders"—not to mention audience<br />

dissatisfaction.<br />

With Eastman you enjoy the services<br />

of the world's finest film engineering and<br />

technical facilities. Your total picture<br />

quality is backed by Eastman's total<br />

quality control. And Eastman's specialists<br />

are always at hand to help you get maximum<br />

production efficiency.<br />

Everything considered, doesn't it make<br />

good sense to use Eastman all the way?<br />

Motion Picture and<br />

Education Markets Division<br />

Eastman Kodak Conipatiy<br />

Hollijwood, Chicago, New York, Rochester


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ANNUAL WOMPI CONVENTION IN<br />

NEW YORK<br />

'Extended Hand' of Clubs Signifies Multitude of Service Project:<br />

NEW YORK—Women of the Motion Piclure<br />

Industry International iWOMPI^<br />

members from 17 clubs will assemble at the<br />

Astor Hotel here for their 12th annual<br />

convention on September 17-19. Because of<br />

the many added attractions in the convention<br />

city, a record-breaking attendance<br />

is exp>ected. Dorothy Reeves and<br />

Hilda Frishman of New York are co-chairmen<br />

of the convention.<br />

USED FELLOWSHIP THEME<br />

Diu-ing the last year. Mis. Lee Nickolaus.<br />

International president, has used the<br />

theme "Development by Fellowship" in<br />

carrying out the objectives of the organization,<br />

with the symbol, "the extended<br />

hand." meaning the working hand of<br />

WOMPI extended in harmony, friendship,<br />

service and peace. The purpose of WOMPI<br />

—to promote goodwill for the motion picture<br />

industi-y through service to our communities<br />

and through industry service projects,<br />

and to promote friendship between<br />

women employed within our industry locally,<br />

nationally and internationally—have<br />

been stressed in all of the activities of the<br />

clubs.<br />

In addition to the various service projects<br />

earned out by the individual<br />

clubs, WOMPI throughout the United<br />

States and in Toronto, Canada, work constantly<br />

for the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital<br />

and O'Donnell Research Laboratories<br />

at Lake Saranac, N.Y. A room is sponsored<br />

at the hospital supported by the<br />

"Dimes Prom WOMPI Dames" program,<br />

or a dime per week per member. WOMPI<br />

also assist in the annual theatre collections<br />

made for support of the hospital<br />

and its program of research, with thousands<br />

of hours contributed each year by<br />

WOMPI in making the collections.<br />

The story of WOMPI is not new. The<br />

many hours spent in humanitarian service<br />

have received both local and national recognition.<br />

News of WOMPI and its activities<br />

has spread far abroad, as evidenced<br />

by the recent visit of two members of the<br />

industry from Australia, Nola Gates and<br />

Melva McMahon who learned of WOMPI<br />

through BoxoFFicE and planned their extended<br />

trip to include visits to cities where<br />

WOMPI clubs are located to meet the<br />

members and leaiTi more of their work.<br />

THOUSANDS OF SERVICE HOURS<br />

Many thousands of hours have been<br />

contributed in service work by the clubs<br />

during the past year, and over $25,000 expended<br />

in assisting those less fortunate,<br />

in community drives and in hours of<br />

pleasure to the ill and shut-ins. Following<br />

is a brief resume of the service work carried<br />

out by the various clubs:<br />

ALABAMA<br />

Members work with the Atlanta Girls Club,<br />

taking the girls bowling, giving holiday parties,<br />

movies, etc. Game parties are given for the Highview<br />

nursing home each month. Christmas gifts<br />

were furnished for the 90 students at the Georgia<br />

Training School for Girls. Thousands of envelopes<br />

are addressed for the Crippled Children's Seal<br />

Campaign and assistance is given to the needy<br />

and ill.<br />

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TO CONDUCT INTERNATIONAL SESSIONS<br />

Lee Nickolaus<br />

President<br />

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CHARLOTTE<br />

WOMPI furnishes workers for the Presbyterian<br />

Hospital coffee shop twice monthly, with<br />

proceeds going into the student nurses loan and<br />

scholarship fund. Entertainment and refreshments<br />

are provided for the Crittenlon Home and<br />

scholarships totaling $500 were given to three deserving<br />

students to further their education. Used<br />

sheets were collected and dressings made to be<br />

used for cancer patients in the county. Thanksgiving<br />

and Christmas baskets were given to<br />

needy families, doctor bills were paid and clothing<br />

delivered. Three months' tuition was paid for<br />

a mentally retarded child and the club sponsored<br />

a deserving girl for two weeks at the 4-H<br />

summer camp.<br />

CHICAGO<br />

A Christmas movie party was held for the boys<br />

at the Old Town Boys' Club, with Santa Claus,<br />

gifts and refreshments. WOMPI members ent(Ttained<br />

bedridden women at the Oak Forest<br />

Hospital and furnished boxes of gifts and refreshments<br />

for each patient. A check was given<br />

to the Southeast Lions Club to sponsor a child<br />

for one week at its Camp Lions for visually<br />

handicapped children. Members assisted the Theatre<br />

Owners of America in filling convention<br />

kits to be given to those registering for the convention<br />

in Chicago.<br />

CLEVELAND<br />

A monthly movie and refreshment program is<br />

given for patients at Cleveland Psychiatric Hospital<br />

as part of their recreational therapy. Clothing,<br />

books and candy were furnished to the<br />

Madison Home for the Aged, and assistance was<br />

given to underprivileged families. One of the<br />

Cleveland WOMPI last year while a patient at<br />

Will Rogers Hospital did her bit by doing<br />

clerical work for a fellow patient.<br />

DALLAS<br />

Members donated food and acted as hostesses<br />

for buffet suppers for 600 to 700 boys at the<br />

LISO; worked during the State Fair of Texas<br />

manning the booth of the Lighthouse for the<br />

Blind and selling products made by the blind;<br />

assisted Variety Club in the collection of food<br />

for needy families at Christmas; showed movies<br />

regularly to the .Juvenile Home, Woodlawn Hosphal.<br />

Parkland Hospital and the Ambassador<br />

Home for the Aged, serving candy and refreshments<br />

at each place. Assistance was also given<br />

to the Terrell State Hospital, Christmas Seal<br />

mobile TB unit. Health Center of West Dallas<br />

where one member completely receded their filing<br />

system. Members also stuffed envelopes and did<br />

clerical work for the Texas Society for Crippled<br />

Children. Boxes of clothing were given several<br />

worthy causes and a donation given to purchase<br />

Hilda Frishman<br />

Co-Chairman<br />

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Dorothy Reeves<br />

Co-Chairman<br />

shoes for needy children prior to the start<br />

school. Dolls were dressed for the Salvatii<br />

Army at Christmastime, and one member acl(<br />

as swimming instructor at the summer camp<br />

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the American Red Cross.<br />

DENVER<br />

The club has worked with the young peop<br />

at the Holy Ghost Youth Center for many yea<br />

teaching handicraft skiUs, giving parties, el<br />

Also this year they gave assistance to the St.i<br />

ley Nursing Home, the Colorado Stale Hospii<br />

and Infant of Prague Nursery. Many hours wiput<br />

in by members in making dressings for ca<br />

cer patients.<br />

DES MOINES<br />

Service projects included dressing dolls aga<br />

for the Salvation Army at Christmas, clerir<br />

work for the Red Cross, birthday cards durii<br />

the year and Valentine boxes to the women<br />

the Polk County Men's and Women's Infinii<br />

ries, clerical work for the March of Dimes at<br />

Easter Seal center, and baskets of food for 1<br />

needy and shut-ins. Many hours were given<br />

assistance at Broadlawns Hospital where WOMf. J<br />

members ran the service cart from ward to war w<br />

An adopted girl was sent to summer camp ai<br />

was remembered at various times during the yia<br />

HOLLYWOOD-LOS ANGELES<br />

The major charity project is work with tl'<br />

Junior Blind. Many hours were spent in a<br />

dressing cards for them; WOMPI members dro<br />

to their summer camp loaded down with enout<br />

ready-to-eat popcorn for the whole camp.<br />

Christmas, members collected and donated ca<br />

ned goods, hams, etc., and took small real tre<br />

for each room for the resident children at tl<br />

Foundation, with gifts and filled stockings f<br />

each child. Also, two badly needed Braille wr<br />

ers were donated to this institution for the blin<br />

A cash donation was made to the Cerebral Pal<br />

drive.<br />

INDIANAPOLIS<br />

Homemade cookies were furnished each mon<br />

for the local Servicemen's Center. A cash don<br />

tion was given to the Salvation Army for tl<br />

tornado disaster fund when a severe tornado I)<br />

the Indiana area in February. Books and ma;;<br />

zines are sent to the Will Rogers Memorial Hn<br />

pital for the enjoyment of patients.<br />

JACKSONVILLE<br />

j<br />

WOMPI members book films for the Northea'<br />

Florida State Hospital, the Juvenile Sheltc<br />

Mary's Help of Christian Orphanage. Many hoii<br />

are spent each month in visiting and entertai<br />

ing patients at the AO Saints Home for the Aec<br />

the Golden Retreat Rest Home, Donovan's Re<br />

BOXOFFICE :: September 13, 19f


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'^residents<br />

Edythe Bryant<br />

Atlanta<br />

Jeannette Royster<br />

Charlotte<br />

Barbara D. Regan<br />

Chicago<br />

Margaret Bartko<br />

Cleveland<br />

Juanita White<br />

Dallas<br />

Bemice Gilmore<br />

Denver<br />

Frances Work<br />

Des Moines<br />

Betty Merritt<br />

Indianapolis<br />

Kathleen Dowell<br />

Jacksonville<br />

Nancy Porter<br />

Kansas City<br />

Lavinia White<br />

Los Angeles<br />

Lois Evans<br />

Memphis<br />

Lillian Scherick<br />

New Orleans<br />

Ellen Fischl<br />

New York<br />

Pauline Wrozier<br />

St. Louis<br />

May Levaniiusky<br />

Toronto<br />

Catherine Murphy<br />

Washington, D.C.<br />

jlome, River Garden Home and Rosewood Ha-<br />

,en Rest Home. Assistance is given to the local<br />

.lultiple Sclerosis Chapter, USO, City Rescue<br />

lission and March of Dimes.<br />

KANSAS CITY<br />

A wide ajid varied program of service activiles<br />

includes assistance at the City Union Misjion<br />

where ice cream and homemade cookies are<br />

;;rved with Sunday dinners, craft classes held<br />

;or children, refreshments and 200 baskets are<br />

rovided at Easter. They also sponsored 19 chiljFen<br />

for summer camp, and made a cash donation<br />

to help build a swimming pool for the camp,<br />

jlnnthly parties have been continued at the<br />

l^adsworth Veteran's Hospital, and the annual<br />

feast on the lawn of the hospital<br />

las given again this year. Also receiving asiistance<br />

in the form of parties and refreshments<br />

'ere the Catherine Hale Home for Blind Ladies,<br />

(lie Cystic Fibrosis Center, and the Osawatomie<br />

i'tate Hospital. Members dressed 124 dolls at<br />

hrislmas for the Salvation Army and furnished<br />

raduation outfits for three needy students. .\n<br />

(lopted family of six was provided with food,<br />

lothing, gifts at Christmas, payment of doctor<br />

ills and medicine—and the club even paid for<br />

aving a porch on the house rebuilt. The four<br />

I'Oys from this family were sent to summer camp.<br />

MEMPHIS<br />

club adopted a family of five to whom<br />

was given throughout the year. School<br />

Inthes were provided for the children and gensupplies<br />

of groceries were given the family<br />

at Thanksgiving and Christmas. WOMPI asijsted<br />

at the Heart Ass'n booth at the Midsouth<br />

rair, and did clerical work for the Heart Ass'n.<br />

Also, assistance was given<br />

individuals during the year.<br />

NEW ORLEANS<br />

to several needy<br />

Parties were given on holidays at the psychiatric<br />

ward of Charity Hospital for approximately<br />

200 patients each time. Movies, games and entertainment<br />

were provided, as w'ell as refreshments<br />

and prizes. Bingo parties were held each<br />

month at St. Anna's Home for the Aged; theatre<br />

parties were held at Christmas and in the<br />

spring for underprivileged children and orphans:<br />

remembrances were sent to an adopted girl at the<br />

State Mental Hospital; clerical help was given<br />

Travelers Aid. and food and clothing were givei<br />

to two needy families. Cash donations were made<br />

throughout the year to assist with urgent needs<br />

recommended by a social welfare worker. WOMPI<br />

assisted in the Rabies Clinic, Tuberculosis Seal<br />

drive and other civic endeavors.<br />

NEW YORK<br />

In addition to prepEiring for the forthcoming<br />

convention, the club had two major service projects.<br />

At the USO Information Center, coffee and<br />

cookies were served twice a month. WOMPI also<br />

worked as hostesses at the World's Fair USO<br />

Pavilion twice each month. Films were shown<br />

regularly at the Bellevue Hospital children's<br />

psychiatric division with refreshments after the<br />

movie. ."Vt Christmastime stockings were stuffed<br />

with toys, candies, gifts and books and given<br />

out just before the showing of the movie. Members<br />

also gave their services weekly to the hospital.<br />

In addition, this club has continued its<br />

project of providing toys for underprivileged<br />

children of the Devine Providence Shelter at<br />

Christmas.<br />

ST.<br />

LOUIS<br />

The club gave service hours to the Children's<br />

Hospital with work in the coffee shop. Each<br />

month this group helped a family recommended<br />

by the social service department of Children's<br />

Hospital. Qothing, food and gifts were provided<br />

for another family throughout the year. At<br />

Christmas a donation of candy was made to the<br />

old folks at the Alcazar Home for the Aged. Assistance<br />

was also given the Cancer Society, the<br />

Chronic Hospital of St. Louis and a cash donation<br />

each month was given to Mary Ryder<br />

Home for Women. Trailers were booked for the<br />

Muscular Dystrophy Ass'n drive, and Easter<br />

baskets went to the cliildren of the City Hospital.<br />

TORONTO<br />

WOMPI provided monthly screenings with refreshments<br />

and gifts at Christmas for the Second<br />

Mile Club, Bingo parties and entertainment were<br />

furnished for elderly indigent citizens of Laughleu<br />

Lodge. Two families of former industry men<br />

were assisted during the year with food and<br />

clothing. The club also sponsors the education<br />

of an adopted child through the Canadian Save<br />

ihe Cliildren Fund, and remembers her with<br />

gifts during the year. Assistance is given the<br />

local Variety Club in its work on \ ariety Village,<br />

and with clerical work. A cash donation was<br />

given to the Canadian Mental Health Ass'n.<br />

WASHINGTON<br />

Service projects included assistance to the<br />

American Cancer Society, the Jewish Home for<br />

Retarded Children, the Heart Fund. Society for<br />

the Prevention of Blindness and the United Givers<br />

Fund. In addition, many hours were spent visiting<br />

and helping the sick in hospitals.<br />

[•OXOFFICE September 13, 1965


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circulation<br />

Major U Campaign<br />

For 'The War Lord'<br />

By JOHN FITZGERALD<br />

NEW YORK—"It will<br />

be the biggest national<br />

pre-sell campaign in Unlversal's history."<br />

producer Walter Seltzer explained<br />

recently before jetting to Europe for ten<br />

days "to work out the United Kingdom<br />

campaign with the Rank people there."<br />

The film is "The War Lord." the $4.5<br />

million Technicolor-Panavision action<br />

drama set for Thanksgiving release.<br />

DIRECT TO EXHIBITOR<br />

This will be laimchcd by a heavy trade<br />

campaign with a direct approach to the<br />

exliibitor. "our prime customer," according<br />

to Seltzer. Some 300 copies of the<br />

script have been sent to the top brass of<br />

the circuits and other exhibitors, "who<br />

have been receiving regular letters from<br />

Heston," detailing plans. Star Charlton<br />

Heston is in paitnership with Seltzer in<br />

Court Productions. Since June, Seltzer<br />

lias been a staff producer for Universal.<br />

The campaign will first reach the public<br />

w-ith color spreads in Life and ten national<br />

magazines. "We've kept the budget<br />

flexible ... no ceiling, no base." A heavy<br />

newspaper mailing campaign has been running<br />

since August 20. Weekly, some 250<br />

papers (combined circulation 37,500.000)<br />

receive material. And some 94 papers<br />

29,000,000) received semiweekly<br />

mailings.<br />

"We've separated the approach for various<br />

magazines," Seltzer said. The actionspectacle<br />

approach will be stressed in some<br />

publications, while women's magazines will<br />

accentuate the film's being "an intimate<br />

and romantic love story." In addition, two<br />

ten-minute color featurettes are available.<br />

One covers color consultant Eliot Elisofon's<br />

activities, the other introduces Rosemary<br />

"Shenandoah" Forsyth and Guy Stockwell<br />

with Heston appearing in both.<br />

"In October and November," says Seltzer,<br />

"when we get under the gun, there will be<br />

a heavy concentration of personal appearances.<br />

We want to cover every segment<br />

of our potential audience."<br />

ROAD S.-VLESMEN NAMED<br />

Those going on the road will be: Hem-y<br />

Wilcoxon. "a helluva good salesman," who<br />

will go to ladies clubs, religious organizations<br />

and service clubs; Maurice Evans,<br />

who will be a week in the East "to attempt<br />

to get to legitimate theatre writers": Richard<br />

Boone, now in Hawaii, who will handle<br />

the Far East, the Philippines, etc: Vittorio<br />

Nino Novarese, costume designer of<br />

"The Greatest Stoi-y Ever Told," "Cleopatra"<br />

and "The Agony and the Ecstasy"<br />

fame, who is technical designer and "a<br />

walking encyclopedia on the Middle Ages":<br />

Ray Berwick. "We'll ti-y to get him on TV<br />

with some of the animals he's trained for<br />

the picture," and Heston, himself, now in<br />

England, who wUl begin promotion work<br />

there and then do two weeks "across the<br />

board" in major cities in the U.S. in November.<br />

Contract players Rosemary Forsyth<br />

(four weeks for ladies pages, beauty<br />

makeup and TV), Guy Stockwell i universities<br />

and college papers) and James Farrentino<br />

(other territories) will also do<br />

roadwork.<br />

"I'll go on tour wherever there are holes,"<br />

Seltzer added.<br />

Shot at Universal City (where "The War<br />

WELCOMED BY<br />

SENATOR — Andrew<br />

McLaglen, director of Unlversal's<br />

"Shenandoah," and Rosemary Forsyth,<br />

co-star, who are touring key cities on<br />

behalf of promotion for the film, are<br />

seen here in Washington being welcomed<br />

by California's junior Senator<br />

George Murphy.<br />

Lord" tower is now a tourist attraction)<br />

and on location in upstate California, the<br />

flim is set in the 11th century and relies<br />

heavily on the theme of the pagan custom<br />

of a village ruler's "right of the fii'st night"<br />

with his subjects' brides. The film was directed<br />

by Franklin Schaffner.<br />

Seltzer is a foimer publicity director with<br />

Hal Wallis and was executive producer for<br />

Marlon Brando's Pennebaker Co. for "One-<br />

Eyed Jacks," "Paris Blues" and "The Naked<br />

Edge." His next will be a color remake of<br />

"Beau Geste," possibly with newcomers in<br />

the leading roles.<br />

Kaminstein, Celler Push<br />

Copyright Law for CATV<br />

WASHINGTON—"At least one solution<br />

might be sought through a special provision<br />

limiting or remitting liabilities for CATV<br />

uses under certain conditions," Abraham<br />

L. Kaminstein, register of copyrights, suggested<br />

in testimony before a House judiciary<br />

subcommittee, studying proposals for<br />

copyright revision.<br />

Because of the difficulties in working out<br />

the various practical problems, Kaminstein<br />

said he hoped Congress would not deny<br />

copyright owners any rights against CATV<br />

systems.<br />

Kaminstein said sound recordings represent<br />

authorship and the contributions of<br />

the record producer "are entitled to protection<br />

as motion pictures and photographs."<br />

He admitted to a strong bias against complete<br />

exemption of jukebox performances<br />

under the present law.<br />

It was suggested by Rep. Emanuel Celler<br />

(D-N.Y.), who introduced the bill under<br />

consideration by the subcommittee, that<br />

representatives from CATV and the subcommittee<br />

work together to put CATV<br />

under the copyright laws.<br />

Hollywood Foreign Press<br />

Names Film Winners<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Joseph E. Levine's Embassy<br />

Pictures releases. "Darling" and<br />

"Casanova '70" and "Circle of Love," a<br />

Walter Reade-Sterling release, have been<br />

named winners of the Hollywood Foreign<br />

Press Ass'n's 1965 semiannual awards for<br />

outstanding foreign films, according to<br />

Herbert G. Luft, awards committee chau'-<br />

man. Award scrolls will be presented to the<br />

stars and producers of the three wirming<br />

films September 30.<br />

Services for Al Altman;<br />

Former MGM Talent Scout<br />

WORCESTER. MASS.— Funeral service.'<br />

for Al Altman, for many years talent director<br />

in the East for MGM who is creditec<br />

with discovering Joan Crawford, Jamei;<br />

Stewart and other MGM stars, were helc'<br />

at the Pearlman Funeral Home Sundaj!<br />

'5). Burial was in the Jamesville Ceme-'<br />

tery there. Altman died in New Rochellti<br />

Hospital Thursday (2) after a short illness<br />

Altman came to MGM when Louis Hi<br />

Mayer was chosen studio chief at the Cul-'<br />

ver City Studios. For most of his manj<br />

.years at MGM, he was eastern talent director<br />

and, in that capacity, discovered<br />

Miss Crawford when she was chorus girl<br />

Lucille Le Sueur- in a Winter Garder:<br />

musical and Stewart while scouting the<br />

Triangle Show when the star was £<br />

Princeton student. Altman was also f<br />

well-known amateur magician, havint<br />

served for many years as vice-president ol<br />

the American Society of Amateur Magicians,<br />

and was a close friend of Harrj'<br />

Houdini,<br />

Altman is survived by two daughters;<br />

Ruth and Dyann. who live in New Rochelle:<br />

his mother, Lena Altman, and brother;<br />

Milton and George of Clinton, Mass.: a<br />

brother Arthur of Syracuse and a sister<br />

Mrs. Pauline Hill of Framingham, Mass. i<br />

Catherine Dale Owen Rites;<br />

Film Actress of the 1930s<br />

NEW YORK—Funeral services for Ca-!<br />

therine Dale Owen, 62, stage star of the<br />

1920s, who entered films in the early talking<br />

picture days were held at the Brick<br />

Presbyterian Chuixh Friday (10). Miss<br />

Owen died at Lenox Hill Hospital Tuesda5<br />

1 7) following a heart attack.<br />

Miss Owen was leading lady in "Happj' i<br />

'<br />

Go Lucky," "The Mountain Man" and<br />

"The Play's the Thing" on Broadway before<br />

going to Hollywood to play opposit(;<br />

John Gilbert in his fii-st talkie for MGM<br />

"His Glorious Night," in 1929. Later, she<br />

played opposite Lawrence Tibbett in his:<br />

screen debut in MGM's "The Rogue Song'<br />

in 1930 and played in "Such Men Ai-e Dan-^<br />

gerous," "Born Reckless," "Today" and<br />

"Behind Office Doors," the last for RKO<br />

in 1931.<br />

She is<br />

survived by her husband, Horace<br />

P. Metzger, and a son, Robert.<br />

Dorothy Dandridge Is Dead;<br />

Negro Singer-Actress<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Dorothy Dandridge, Ne-i<br />

gro singer-actress, was fomid dead in her<br />

Sunset Strip area apartment Wednesday<br />

(8). Miss Dandridge, 41, started as a bandi<br />

vocalist and climbed to stardom in suchi<br />

films as "Porgy and Bess" and "Carmen<br />

Jones." She w'on an Academy Award nomination<br />

for the latter. Her mother. Ruby;<br />

Dandridge, was known for her roles with<br />

the late Hattie McDaniel on the old "Beulah"<br />

show.<br />

A sister, Vivian, tom-ed the country in<br />

a tumbling, singing and dancing act with<br />

Dorothy. In the 1930s the two and another<br />

girl formed a trio that sang with Jimmy<br />

Lunceford, a top band leader. After six<br />

years of marriage to Harold Nichols of<br />

the dancing Nichols brothers she and<br />

Nichols were divorced In 1951.<br />

10<br />

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. . Brad<br />

'<br />

'<br />

^oUtftw^od ^cfront<br />

JJOBERT H. O'BRIEN, president of Metio-<br />

Goldwyn-Maycr. announced that arrangements<br />

had been concluded with David<br />

L. Wolper, president of Wolper Productions,<br />

to film Legson Kayira's novel. "I<br />

Will Tiy." for MGM release. Jack Haley jr.<br />

will be the producer of the motion picture,<br />

which will be filmed in Africa in documentary<br />

style. Wolper Productions, a subsidiary<br />

of Metromedia. Inc.. has signed<br />

Lamont Johnson as director and Harold<br />

Swanton has been engaged to write the<br />

screenplay. Haley, accompanied by Johnson<br />

and Swanton, leave immediately for<br />

Africa to scout location sites . . . Producerdirector-writer<br />

Andrew L. Stone turned in<br />

to MGM the final script of "Tlie Winning<br />

of the Skies." first scripted by Ernest Gann<br />

from an original story by Stone, and has<br />

commenced writing the screenplay for a<br />

second motion picture. "The Perils of Jim<br />

Grimm." Stone and his wife. Virginia, who<br />

fimction as a production team, expect to<br />

put both projects into production in the<br />

next 12 months, with MGM to decide which<br />

property is fii-st to roll. The Stones recently<br />

completed "The Secret of My Success,"<br />

staiTing Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens,<br />

Honor Blackman and James Booth<br />

. . . Martin Poll has set an agreement with<br />

MGM for the development of a feature<br />

property, "The Appointment," for production<br />

under his Marpol Productions banner.<br />

The film, based on the novella by Leone<br />

Antonio Viola, will be screenplayed by<br />

James Salter, his first. The picture will be<br />

filmed in Rome next summer. Poll also<br />

has a multiple-picture deal with United<br />

Artists, under which he is now preparing<br />

"Heathercliff" as a vehicle for Richard<br />

Harris.<br />

Abby Mann, who recently signed a threepicture<br />

producer-writer pact with Columbia,<br />

plans to film his own original, "Two<br />

for the Road," as his first project, after<br />

he completes scripting "Andersonville" for<br />

producer-director Stanley Kiamer. "Two<br />

for the Road" is a love story dealing with<br />

small combos replacing big bands. At the<br />

same time. Mann hopes to continue his<br />

working relationship with Kramer, for<br />

whom he has written "Judgment at Nuremberg."<br />

"A Child Is Waiting" and "Ship<br />

of Fools" . . . The Bryan Forbes production,<br />

"The Wrong Box," for Columbia release,<br />

cun-ently before the cameras in Bath.<br />

England, has John Mills, Ralph Richardson,<br />

Michael Caine. Nanette Newman and<br />

the "Beyond the Fringe" comics, Peter<br />

Cook and Dudley Moore. staiTed. Based<br />

on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and<br />

Lloyd Osborne, the screenplay was written<br />

by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove,<br />

authors of "A Funny Thing Happened on<br />

the Way to the Forum," who are co-producing<br />

with producer-director Forbes. Jack<br />

Rix is associate producer of the Salamander<br />

production . Dexter, who has<br />

been working in an executive production<br />

post at Sinatra Enterprises for the past<br />

several months, besides continuing his career<br />

as an actor, will be associate producer<br />

on "The Naked Runner," which Prank<br />

Sinatra's Artanis Productions has set for<br />

.By SYD CASSYD<br />

filming abroad next year. Dexter brought<br />

the espionage-suspense drama by British<br />

writer Francis Clifford to Sinatra's att'^ntion.<br />

Under an unusual distribution agreement<br />

with Allied Artists that allows him freedom<br />

to sell personally in various foreign areas,<br />

after giving the company first chance. Peer<br />

Oppenheimer has made a distribution deal<br />

for "Operation C.I.A." with Run Run Shaw<br />

in Malaysia. Allied has release rights in<br />

the U.S. and Canada. Among deals in the<br />

works is a coproduction with Shaw on a<br />

property called "The Golden Jacket." The<br />

producer also has set production on his<br />

own original screenplay, "Deadly Contest,"<br />

to be a sequel to "C.I.A." Burt Reynolds<br />

again will star in the role of Mark Andrews.<br />

Filming will be in London . . . "The<br />

Theft of the Mona Lisa." co-starring "West<br />

Side Story" Oscar-winner George Chakiris<br />

and French actress Marina Vlady, currently<br />

before the cameras in Paris as a coproduction<br />

of Auerbach Film Enterprises<br />

of New York and Liber Films, Rome, is<br />

closely based on the actual 1911 theft from<br />

the Louvre of the famed Da Vinci masterpiece.<br />

The original screenplay was written<br />

by Walter Reich and shooting will<br />

utilize various locales in France and Italy.<br />

Dasha Auerbach has been named producer<br />

of the film. Ottavio Poggi has been upped<br />

to executive producer. Release has already<br />

been ai'ranged in Spain. France and Italy.<br />

Joseph Auerbach retains U.S. rights, which<br />

he will negotiate upon completion of the<br />

Ike Jones, a Negro producer on<br />

film . . .<br />

small exploitation, independent pictm-es.<br />

be the first Negro producer to make a<br />

will<br />

major American motion picture. Joseph<br />

E. Levine and Embassy Pictures have signed<br />

Jones to co-produce a jazz musician story<br />

called "Adam." Jones brought the property<br />

to Levine as the fii-st of a series of pictures<br />

now being discussed with Embassy.<br />

The film is based on a composite of jazz<br />

musicians and will star Sammy Davis jr.<br />

in the title role. Frank Sinatra jr. has been<br />

.signed for an important role, with negotiations<br />

on for Louis Ai-mstrong to also star<br />

and Sugar Ray Robinson to play a small<br />

role. Cecily Tyson has been set as the feminine<br />

co-star. Leo Penn will direct.<br />

Director Philip Dunne and producer Marvin<br />

Schwartz announced, through their<br />

Blackhill Productions, the acquisition to<br />

the motion pictui-e rights of "The Consort."<br />

a romantic comedy by Anthony<br />

Heckstall-Smith. Other properties on the<br />

Dunne -Schwartz slate include "Major<br />

Bell's Irregulars." currently being written<br />

by Dunne and W. H. Menger; "A Killing<br />

in the Market," based on a book by George<br />

Goodman and Winthrop Knowlton; "Tui-nabout,"<br />

an original story, and "Marriage<br />

Is a Dirty Rotten Fraud," an original<br />

screenplay by Mel Brooks, which is a joint<br />

venture of Blackhill Productions and<br />

Brooks' own company. The first film produced<br />

under the Blackhill banner is the<br />

Universal release, "Blindfold," starring<br />

. . . Alan<br />

Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale . . .[<br />

Ben Gazzara's Angela Productions has<br />

purchased the screen rights to Harris!<br />

Greene's novel, "The Flags of Doney." The<br />

story is set in post-war Italy and deals with<br />

an American soldier dishonorably discharged ,<br />

by the Army. Gazzara plans to star in the<br />

film . . . Having acquired "The Limbo Line"<br />

novel by Victor Canning, producer Sam<br />

Marx left for London for conferences with<br />

British film companies on a co-production<br />

deal. After meetings there, he goes to Rome<br />

for talks with Italian producer Dino De<br />

Laurentiis on another project<br />

Rafkin purchased the rights to Richard<br />

Fisher's novel, "Valley of Fire," which he<br />

plans as an independent production with<br />

Leslie Nielsen in the lead.<br />

Producer Charles H. Schneer. In London,<br />

has completed location scouting in East<br />

Africa for his forthcoming production<br />

"Fifth Paw of the Lion." It is based on<br />

an original screenplay by Geoffrey Jenkins<br />

and Jack Pulman and is based on the<br />

life of the famous white hunter. Pretorius.<br />

and his struggle against the Germans during<br />

World War I ... As part of pre-sell<br />

on their forthcoming "MacKenna's Gold."<br />

producers Carl Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin.<br />

now in London, have decided to record<br />

the title tune as a single before they<br />

. . .<br />

even start shooting. Tiomkin will write<br />

both the music and conduct the score ...<br />

Roger Corman has scheduled "Iwo Jima,"<br />

now being screenplayed by Richard Yates,<br />

as his initial production under his Columbia<br />

Pictures pact. Corman will direct as well<br />

as produce Steven Allen and Jayne<br />

Meadows announce they will co-star in a<br />

remake of Mark Twain's "Connecticut<br />

Yankee." the first picture under their<br />

Meadowlane Productions banner to roll late<br />

this year. Allen and Miss Meadows also<br />

are preparing an original Broadway musical<br />

written by Allen as a co-starring vehicle<br />

for themselves.<br />

George Marshall was set by Edward<br />

Small to direct Bob Hope's "Boy. Have I<br />

Got a Wrong Number!" United Artists release<br />

rolling in October. It is a reunion for<br />

Hope and Marshall. The latter directed<br />

four of Hope's biggest hits. "Ghost Breakers."<br />

"Off Limits." "Monsieur Beaucaire"<br />

and "Fancy Pants." Elke Sommer co-stars.<br />

George Beck wrote the screenplay from his<br />

Arthur Killer will direct<br />

original story . . .<br />

"The Cliffs at Mersa." Universal production<br />

due to start in January. Gene Corman<br />

will produce Leo Gordon's original<br />

with Rock Hudson and George Peppard<br />

in the cast. Exteriors will be shot near<br />

Yuma and Brawley . . . Director Peter<br />

Glenville is developing William Archibald's<br />

best-seller "The Moviegoer" as a film property<br />

to go before the cameras toward the<br />

end of next year. Glenville is currently in<br />

Paris making "Hotel Paradiso," with stars<br />

Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida and<br />

Robert Morley. the first of four films he is<br />

producing and directing for MGM . . .<br />

Producer Arthur Jacobs chose Richard<br />

Fleischer to direct "Doctor Doolittle." a<br />

Rex Harrison starrer to be filmed next<br />

summer in England, Spain and here as a<br />

joint venture of APJAC Productions and<br />

20th-Fox, for the latter's release. Leslie<br />

Bricusse is doing the adaptation of the<br />

Hugh Lofting story. The film is the third<br />

Jacobs-Pox tie.<br />

12 BOXOFFICE September 13, 1965


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By VELMA WEST SYKES<br />

n PICTURE which dramatizes a family's problems during the Civil War, "Shenandoah"<br />

cUniv), has been voted the <strong>Boxoffice</strong> Blue Ribbon Award for August.<br />

National Screen Council members made their choice on the basis of outstanding<br />

quality and suitability as whole-family entertainment. With battle scenes kept to a<br />

minimum, and personal values of the individual who is caught up in a stream of<br />

events made the dominating theme, this powerful drama is less peace propaganda<br />

than it is understanding of human beings and their motivations which make history.<br />

That the picture Is appreciated for its worth is shown by boxoffice reports from firstrun<br />

houses in key cities, which give it a score of 175 per cent of average business.<br />

Reviewing "Shenandoah" with a kingi'size<br />

review in the April 19 issue, con-<br />

[densed to regular on April 26, <strong>Boxoffice</strong><br />

had this to say about it in part: "A wann,<br />

intensely human tale of parental devotion<br />

during the tempestuous days of the<br />

Civil War, this Robert Arthur production<br />

emerges as one of the year's outstanding<br />

pictm-es aimed at the family trade. With<br />

James Stewart, the veteran star ... to<br />

interest the older moviegoers and three<br />

young players familiar to teenagers and<br />

TV fans . . . the picture should attract all<br />

'age groups and do strong business generally<br />

. . . Splendidly directed by Andrew V.<br />

McLaglen, the picture is filled with warm,<br />

touching moments and even an occasional<br />

humorous bit, as well as two youthful romances<br />

and a finale which holds hope for<br />

a brighter future."<br />

at Heart Strings<br />

; Comments from NSC members about<br />

included the following: A<br />

'wonderful, historical drama which tugs at<br />

the heart strings while giving you a<br />

[<br />

chuckle now and then. It's a pleasure to<br />

;<br />

stand out front when a movie like this is<br />

you proud to be in the motion<br />

picture industry.—Prank Aydelotte,<br />

Aggie Theatre, Fort Collins ... So grand,<br />

:so entertaining, you may say it's practically<br />

perfect.—A. B. Covey, Alabama The-<br />

Ass'n, Montgomery.<br />

"Shenandoah," unfortunately, will be<br />

advertised as a war picture and the<br />

shooting scenes be used in trailers. But<br />

[this picture is a true family picture, if<br />

I saw one. All members of the family<br />

will enjoy it and should have some interfamily<br />

discussions revolving around<br />

a family's responsibility to the state<br />

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land /or nation. No American should miss<br />

.<br />

this.—Mrs. Raymond Kanagur, Greater<br />

Detroit MFC . . . James Stewart is as<br />

American as apple pie and this story i.s<br />

a la mode for his talent.—Brainard Piatt,<br />

Dayton Journal Herald.<br />

"Shenandoah" is the best Civil War<br />

film since "Gone With the Wind." It is<br />

a family film in every respect, with warm,<br />

generous performances by James Stewart<br />

and the entire cast—and should be supported<br />

at the boxoffice.—Bob Freund.<br />

Fort Lauderdale News . This is the best<br />

of its<br />

.<br />

kind since "Gone With the Wind."<br />

James Stewart is at his best, the acting<br />

and scenery are superb, combining what I<br />

think is the best we have had lately.<br />

Mrs. Elmore Godfrey jr., Knoxville BFC.<br />

This excellent film was the winner of<br />

the Parents' Magazine Family Medal<br />

Award for June.—Ann D. Kenney,<br />

Parents' Magazine editor . . . The most<br />

wonderful picture I have seen in a long,<br />

long time.—Mrs. George D. Friman, San<br />

Francisco MP & TV Council . . . Great<br />

family entertainment, well done in all<br />

respects.—John Recher, AMPTO of Md..<br />

Baltimore ... No competition for "Shenandoah"<br />

on this ballot.—Mel Richardson.<br />

Radio KID, Idaho Palls.<br />

"Shenandoah" Ls a family pictme<br />

with interest for all and reminds me of<br />

"Friendly Persuasion." Jimmy Stewart is<br />

always tops and the film is scenically<br />

beautiful. I met Rosemary Forsyth (this<br />

is her first big picture) and found her a<br />

refreshing young lady.—Mrs. Max Williams,<br />

Greater Detroit MPC . . . This is a<br />

handsomely filmed Civil War drama, with<br />

a refreshing point of view.—Dave Mclntyre,<br />

San Diego Evening Tribune . . . Very<br />

realistic, with family loyalty—a good,<br />

clean, moral picture.—La Dera M. Blake,<br />

L.D.S. Seminary, Boise, Idaho.<br />

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JAMES STEWART EXPLAINS HIS VIEWS ABOUT THE CIV-<br />

IL WAR TO A NEIGHBOR AS THEY LEAVE THE CHURCH<br />

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ONE OF THE BATTLE SCENES IN "SHENANDOAH" THAT<br />

INVOLVES A YOUNG BOY ILLEGALLY CONSCRIPTED<br />

IN EVERY WAR. WEDDINGS WITH MEN IN UNIFORM ARE<br />

A TOUCHNG PART OF WAR'S EFFECT ON HUMAN LIVES<br />

llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll<br />

Charlie<br />

James Stewart<br />

[Sam<br />

Doug McClure<br />

i^acob<br />

Glenn Corbett<br />

Patrick Wayne<br />

Rosemary Forsyth<br />

The Cast<br />

Boy Phillip Alford<br />

Ann<br />

Katharine Ross<br />

Nathan Charles Robinson<br />

John<br />

James McMullan<br />

Henry<br />

Tim McIntire<br />

Gabriel<br />

Eugene Jackson jr.<br />

Andrew V. McLaglen<br />

'Screenplay by James Lee Barrett<br />

[Director of Photography<br />

William H. Clothier A.S.C.<br />

Directors Alexander Golitzen,<br />

Sweeney<br />

Set Decorations John McCarthy,<br />

Oliver Emert<br />

Waldon O. Watson,<br />

William Russell<br />

by<br />

Production Staff<br />

Unit Production Manager<br />

Frank Parmenter<br />

Film Editor<br />

Otto Lovering<br />

Costumes<br />

Rosemary Odell<br />

Make-up<br />

Bud Westmore<br />

Hair Stylist<br />

Larry Germain<br />

Assistant Director Terence Nelson<br />

Music Frank Skinner<br />

Music Supervision Joseph Gershenson<br />

Technicolor<br />

This awa'd Is given each month by the<br />

National Screen Council on the haiis of outstandirj<br />

merit and suitability for family<br />

entertainment. Council membership comprises<br />

motion picture editors, radio and TV film<br />

commentators, representatives of better films<br />

councils, civic, educational and exhibitor ornanizations.


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the 20 key cities checked. Picturci with fewer than five engagements are not listed. As new runs<br />

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Sold-Out 'Alphaville' Opens<br />

3rd New York Film Festival<br />

NEW YORK—The third New York Film<br />

Festival started with a sell-out opening<br />

performance of "Alphaville." the Jean-<br />

1 8<br />

Luc Godard science-fiction drama in<br />

French, which opened Tuesday i7i at New<br />

York Philharmonic Hall of the Lincoln<br />

Center as a benefit for the American Civil<br />

Liberties Union, and followed with another<br />

sell-out of the Philharmonic Hall's 2.600<br />

seats for the Wednesday (8i evening showing<br />

of Columbia Pictures' "Mickey One."<br />

produced and directed in Chicago by<br />

Arthur Penn, which was the sole U.S.<br />

film among the Festival's 25 entries.<br />

Also already sold out for showings September<br />

14 and September 18 are the<br />

original Bette Davis-RKO production of<br />

"Of Human Bondage." which was originally<br />

released in 1934 with the late Leslie<br />

Howard co-starring with Miss Davis, and<br />

"Red Beard." the Japanese film directed<br />

by Akira Kurosawa with Toshiro Mifune<br />

starred, respectively.<br />

Both Godard and Anna Karina iMrs.<br />

Godard I. who is co-starred with Eddie<br />

Constantine in "Alphaville." attended the<br />

opening film, which will be distributed in<br />

the U.S. this fall by Pathe-Contemporary.<br />

Other notables on hand for the opening<br />

showing and the champagne reception that<br />

followed included Otto Preminger, Dma<br />

Merrill. Tony Randall, Jean-Louis Barrault,<br />

Leonard Bernstein, Geraldine Fitzgerald.<br />

Robert Rossen, Dore Schary, Sidney<br />

Lumet, Bess Myerson, William Schuman<br />

and Amos 'Vogel and Richard Roud. Festival<br />

directors.<br />

Penn and Warren Beatty, the star of<br />

"Mickey One," returned from the Venice<br />

Film Festival, where the Columbia picture<br />

was the official U.S. entry and was shown<br />

there September 1. in time to attend the<br />

New York Film Festival showing Wednesday<br />

Representing Columbia Pictures<br />

at<br />

» .<br />

the Wednesday showing were A.<br />

Schneider, president: Leo Jaffe, executive<br />

vice-president: Sol A. Schwartz, senior<br />

vice-president: Rube Jackter, vice-president<br />

and general sales manager, and Seymour<br />

Malamed, Robert S. Ferguson and<br />

Stanley Schneider, vice-presidents, as well<br />

as Hm'd Hatfield, featured in the cast,<br />

and Alan Surgal, author of the screenplay.<br />

Also shown during the first week of the<br />

New York Film Festival were: "Raven's<br />

End." a Swedish film: "The Shop on High<br />

Street," Czech film, both of these previously<br />

shown at the Cannes Film Festival;<br />

"Camille Without Camelias," one of<br />

Michelangelo Antonioni's early French<br />

films: "Charluta," an Indian film by Satyajit<br />

Ray: "Black Peter," an eastern European<br />

entry: "Thomas the Impostor," a<br />

Jean Cocteau French film directed by<br />

Georges Pranju: "Identification Marks:<br />

None." also from eastern Europe, and<br />

"Walkover," a Polish entry, as well as<br />

"Knave of Hearts," a French-English picture<br />

made by Rene Clement starring the<br />

late Gerard Philipe, which was distributed<br />

by 20th Centui-y-Pox some years ago as<br />

"Lovers, Happy Lovers," and a retrospective<br />

showing of Erich von Stroheim's "The<br />

Wedding March," released by Paramount<br />

30 years ago.<br />

Pictures for the second week of the New-<br />

York Festival, starting Monday il3i will<br />

include "Shakespeare Wallah," made in<br />

India in English, and "Caressed." a Canadian<br />

film to be distributed in the U.S. by<br />

Joseph Brenner.<br />

COACH IS PRESENTED—In front<br />

of the Sunshine Coach, presented by<br />

Eliot Hyman to New York Variety<br />

Club, are (1 to r) Leonard Goldenson,<br />

president of American Broadcasting<br />

Companies, who received the<br />

coach from Tent 35; Jeremy Hyman,<br />

who made the presentation for his<br />

father, and Jack Hausman, co-founder<br />

of United Cerebral Palsy. At rear is<br />

Jack Levin, Tent 35's chief barker.<br />

The two children are Nancy Furlan<br />

and Ron Aryel. The coach was presented<br />

at a testimonial luncheon to<br />

Goldenson at the Hotel Astor on August<br />

31.<br />

MGM Sales Meeting Set<br />

This Week in New Orleans<br />

NEW ORLEANS—A fom--day sales<br />

meeting attended by MGM home office executives<br />

and division sales managers will<br />

be held at the Fontainebleau Motor Hotel<br />

Monday (13i through Thui'sday (16 >,<br />

according to Morris E. Lefko. MGM vicepresident<br />

and general sales manager, who<br />

said the purpose of the meeting Is to discuss<br />

the sales and distribution plans for the company's<br />

fall and winter releases, which he described<br />

as representing "one of the most important<br />

groups of all-appealing entertainment<br />

in MGM's history."<br />

In addition to Lefko, those attending the<br />

sales conference will include:<br />

Herman L. Ripps and Louis Formoto, assistant general<br />

sales managers; Leonard Hirsch, home office assistant<br />

to Ripps; Irving Helfont, home office assistant<br />

to Formoto; Mel Moron, roadshow soles manager;<br />

Hillis Cass, oenerol manager of MGM of Canada, Ltd.,<br />

Jay Robinovitz, MGM treasurer; Joy Eisenberg, sales<br />

department, legal advisor. Also, the compony's six<br />

division managers; Saal Gottlieb, eastern division; Lou<br />

Marks, central division; William A. Madden, midwest<br />

division; Herbert J, Bennin, southern division; Fred G.<br />

Hull jr., southwestern division and William J. Devaney,<br />

West Coast division.<br />

Among the features to be discussed at<br />

the conference are "The Cincinnati Kid,"<br />

"Once a Thief." "The Hill," "The Loved<br />

One," "The Secret of My Success," "Harum<br />

Scarmn," "When the Boys Meet the Girls,<br />

and "Doctor Zhivago," MGM's roadshow<br />

attraction.<br />

Cohen Urges Theatremen<br />

To Seek Defeat of Bill<br />

BUFFALO—Sydney J. Cohen, president<br />

of New York State Allied, has issued a plea<br />

to all theatre owners, whether they are<br />

members of Allied or not, to write their<br />

congressmen and members of the House<br />

ways and means committee, in-ging them<br />

to defeat a bill which calls for increases<br />

in payment of unemployment insurance for<br />

workers.<br />

They also should be asked to help<br />

defeat the new minimum wage scale to<br />

rise in steps to $1.75 an hour. This, declares<br />

Cohen, could put many theatres out<br />

of business.<br />

Pennsylvania House Hears<br />

Pros, Cons of Censorship<br />

HARRISBURG — The Hou.se judiciary<br />

committee, at another hearing on the proposed<br />

motion picture preview board bill,<br />

heard that a censor board is favored, although<br />

several spokesmen differed on the<br />

question. A Catholic spokesman and a<br />

Protestant Council of Churches representative<br />

asked that children be protected. The<br />

latter, at the same time, stated the bill<br />

was objectionable inasmuch as it would<br />

vest the state with broad sweeping power<br />

to censor.<br />

The District Attorneys Ass'n members of<br />

Lebanon and Luzerne coimties favored the<br />

measure as it "can be assumed the board<br />

will be composed of experts who could<br />

set uniform standards of what obscenity<br />

actually is," and that "film distributors<br />

are protected by judicial decision prior to<br />

arrest as a com-t will determine whether or<br />

not a picture violates the law."<br />

Pennsylvania PUC to Hold<br />

October Hearings on CATV<br />

HARRISBURG~The Pennsylvania Public<br />

Utilities Commission will hold hearings<br />

October 13 and 14 on an application by<br />

the Bell Telephone Co. to supply transmission<br />

service for commmiity television<br />

firms.<br />

Bell sought to establish initial rates and<br />

regulations for use of its telephone lines<br />

to carry CATV signals into homes in June<br />

but the plan was suspended by the PUC<br />

pending an investigation. The utility board<br />

is looking into Bell's new rate proposals<br />

and service conditions.<br />

PUC said in addition to taking testimony<br />

on issues raised by Bell and objecting<br />

CATV interests, the board also will S3ek<br />

data on the question of whether it has<br />

"complete, partial or any jm'isdiction" in<br />

the CATV field.<br />

MGM, WB Set Dividends<br />

NEW YORK — Two major<br />

compan;es.<br />

MGM and Warner Bros., declared dividends<br />

early in September. The board of directors<br />

of MGM voted the regular quarterly dividend<br />

of 37 '2 cents per share, payable October<br />

15 to stockholders of record September<br />

17 and the board of directors of Warner<br />

Bros. Pictures declared a dividend of<br />

12I2 cents per share on the common stock,<br />

payable November 5 to stockholders of<br />

record October 8. 1965.<br />

Louis Goldstein Speaker<br />

At MTOA Convention<br />

Gaithersburg, Md.—State controller<br />

Louis L. Gold.stein will be the speaker<br />

at the fifth annual convention of the<br />

Maryland Theatre Owners Ass'n, which<br />

opened here today (13) and will continue<br />

through Wednesday (15).<br />

The three-day event will include the<br />

presentation of awards for outstandin.g<br />

showmanship, service to the association<br />

and outstanding film distributor<br />

of the year. A testimonial dinner honoring<br />

A. Julian Brylawski. who is observing<br />

his 57th year in the motion<br />

picture business and 42 years as the<br />

first and only president of the D.C.<br />

Theatre Owners chapter, will be held.<br />

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Three-Day Holiday Boosts Broadway<br />

Runs; Two-a-Day Films Capacity<br />

NEW YORK—The three-day Labor Day these better than the previous stanzas,<br />

holiday brought in vacationing out-of- Best of the newer art house films were "The<br />

towners. to offset the crowds who left the Moment of Trath," in its third week at<br />

city, and resulted in smash business for the Pine Aits, and "Horns of Love," in its<br />

the majority of the Broadway first runs, first week at the new Embassy, although<br />

parliciUarly the five two-a-day pictures, it lasted just one week at the GuUd.<br />

all of which were capacity or clo.se to it. (Average is lOO)<br />

The Radio City Music Hall had a fine Astor—help! (ua), 2nd wk. ••••••,•,••,;,•• '• 1,'<br />

.<br />

'li^<br />

, ,, , , ..-T-i c J • J n. Baronet—The Morried Womon (Royal), 3rd wk. ..135<br />

eighth week for "The Sandpiper and the Beokman—Cosonovo '70 (Embassy), 7th wk 150<br />

one newcomer. "Paris Secret." did terrific Carnegie Hall Cmema—Marriage Italian style<br />

business in its first week at the Fomm. cmemo' i-RaH^?. il'Ife^^'ate'Tonema V)-,<br />

"Mv Pair Lady," in its 46th week at 7th wk '5°<br />

« -. 1 » 1 ii 1- i. « J Cinema II Zorba the Greek { C), moveover,<br />

the Criterion, headed the list of reserved- .<br />

387° wk. ' .<br />

'35<br />

seat films, followed by "The Sound of Mu- Cmema Rendezvous—The Pownbroker (AA),<br />

"Those Magnificent in Their Flying Criterion—My Fair Lady (WB), 46th wk. .... ..2io<br />

HTa^Vii.ioc " 19th wppk nt the De- DeMille Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Macnines, in its l,itn WeeK at t.ne ue<br />

Machines f20th-Fox), 12th wk, of two-a-day ..205<br />

Mille. all of these capacity, and "The Embassy—The Hours of Love (Cmemo V) 150<br />

"'<br />

its 29th<br />

i'rT:'J,V\RJSoyt<br />

150<br />

Greatest<br />

week at<br />

Story Ever Told." in<br />

the Warner, and "The Hallelujah<br />

;f^l:^^'-^^rZJn,<br />

3rd wk<br />

sic," in its 27th week<br />

Men<br />

at the Rivoli, and<br />

coronet-The •|pcress' File (UniJ); 'sth wk! ':,::: :200<br />

Trail." in its tenth week, where it will<br />

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.^ ^ , o i u 1 Guild The Hours of Love (Cinema V) IJ3<br />

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close its two-a-day run September 14. tmcoln Art— Darling (Embassy), 5th wk 185<br />

both of these better than preceding weeks. Little Carnegie— Life upside Down (AA). 3^d wk- ..125<br />

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J 1. Loews Capitol The Holleluiah Trail (UA), 1 0th<br />

Also holding to good business were ^^^ of two-a-doy 125<br />

"HELP!" m its second week at the Astor Loew's Stott^The Soboteur (Morituri) 20th-Fox),<br />

^^^<br />

and the Trans-Lux East, following a ter-<br />

Loew's Tower"East— Dorling (Embassy), "5th 'wk.' ! '.175<br />

rifiC opening week: "Saboteur" (renamed Murray HiII—The Soboteur (Morituri), 2nd wk. ..150<br />

from "Morituri"), in its second at p°a7a—Vh'e"Kn«k''(UA^Lo'^e'rt), 'i2t'h wk.' '<br />

Loew's state and the Mui'ray HUl: "Ship Radio City Music HoII-The Sandpiper (MGM), plus<br />

week<br />

of Fools," still strong in it^ seventh week R.^^^°^The°"Rape Tz^enith); ' 's't'h' w'k.' ':::"::: '<br />

at the Victoria and the east side Sutton, rivoN-The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 27th<br />

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both above preceding weeks, and "Sons of<br />

RKO^ssfh sTett-The Sons 'of "kotie 'Eider (Pam)','<br />

Katie Elder," in its second week at the 2nd wk<br />

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RK-O "^Sth t^t-rppt- Sutton— Ship of Fools (Col), 7th wk 185<br />

KKO t)«tn btieet.<br />

Trans-Lux-help; (UA), 2nd wk 150<br />

Best among the foreign pictui-es in east victoria— ship of Fools (Coi), 7th wk 185<br />

side spots were "Darling," in its fifth big<br />

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^'^',",f,'-1^''^o,*^7°*"*doy'"^ wow "i^^.''. . . . .160<br />

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East; another Embassy picture, "Casa-<br />

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nova '70," in its seventh strong week at J^e Sound o Music 165<br />

the Festival and the Beekman; "The Ipcress trood tor Jrirst in Bullalo<br />

File." in its fifth week at the Coronet; BUFFALO— "Cat Ballou" and "Shenan-<br />

"The Knack." in its 12th big week at the doah" attracted the greatest interest<br />

Plaza, and "Rotten to the Core," in its among new film entertainment here, "Cat"<br />

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BUFFALO<br />

TV^any nirnibprs of the New York Allied<br />

Theatres unit now are takins advantase<br />

of getting into the Allied Life<br />

Insurance group plan, according to Sydney<br />

Cohen, Allied head. He attended a national<br />

board meeting In Chicago at which discussions<br />

were held on the forming of one<br />

national allied group, which since ha.s been<br />

approved.<br />

The newest member of the Allied Theatre<br />

Owners of New York State is Alphonse<br />

A. LaBounty. operator of the Playhouse<br />

Theatre in Manchester. Vt. He is<br />

eligible for membership in the New York<br />

organization because his house is serviced<br />

from the Albany exchange.<br />

Dr. Joseph P. Gambacorta was honorary<br />

chairman of the testimonial dinner for<br />

councilman-at-large Albert J. Petrella who<br />

is first assistant chief barker of the Buffalo<br />

Variety Club. The dinner was held<br />

Sunday il2i in the Golden Ballroom of the<br />

Statler Hilton, Two past chief barkers.<br />

James J. Hayes and Dewey Michaels, were<br />

on Petrella's committee. Petrella is a Republican<br />

candidate for re-election this year.<br />

The Realty Equities Corp. of New York,<br />

which is buying the J. Myer Schine empire,<br />

said its plans for the theatres soon will<br />

be finalized. Jerome Deutsch, vice-president<br />

and secretary of Realty, told the Buffalo<br />

Evening News the company's plans for<br />

the theatres, including the two in western<br />

New York, "have not fully materialized yet.<br />

We will sell the houses as a group or become<br />

the operator. We will keep the theatres<br />

if they can be run profitably, and we<br />

think they can." Deutsch explained that<br />

while the final closing of the deal is not<br />

set until next June. Realty can take title<br />

to all or any part of the properties at various<br />

dates between now and next June.<br />

Charlie Funk, director of exploitation and<br />

publicity at the Buffalo 20th Century-Fox<br />

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Granada. It also has been booked by the<br />

Riviera in Rochester and the Squirrel Hill<br />

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Zackem of Pan- World Film exchange announces<br />

her office, headed by George<br />

Waldman, now is accepting dates on<br />

"Ecco," a Cresa-Roma release.<br />

Edythc E. Churcliill, a teacher, broadcasting<br />

executive and soprano, died Augu.st<br />

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long illness. Miss Churchill was a director<br />

and vice-president of Churchill Broadcasting<br />

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San Francisco. She was the daughter of<br />

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of San Francisco, prominent in the radio<br />

broadcasting field.<br />

Harold Golden, who has just been appointed<br />

president of ABC Films, Inc., the<br />

film syndication of American Broadcasting<br />

Companies, is a former Buffalonian. In<br />

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Levy & King advertising agency here, and<br />

previously had been active in television and<br />

motion picture promotion, acting and directing.<br />

Fred Keller, manager of the Circle-Art<br />

Theatre, sponsored a Musical Showcase,<br />

including such hits of other days as "Maytime"<br />

and "Showboat," which also played<br />

at Melody Fair, "An American in Paris."<br />

"The Student Prince." "Brigadoon" and<br />

"Naughty Marietta." Tlie showcase opened<br />

August 30 and closed Sunday i5). Two<br />

musicals were shown on each program.<br />

A fourth network is being fonned to serve<br />

the new family of UHF commercial TV<br />

stations coming into being throughout the<br />

country. Executive vice-president of the<br />

new organization is Buffalonian Alfred E.<br />

Ansconibe, president of Broadcast Properties,<br />

Inc., and operator of a UHF station<br />

in Binghamton, N.Y. Anscombe. a past<br />

chief barker of the Buffalo Variety Club,<br />

said the new network plans to micro-wave<br />

films and syndicated TV series to a minimum<br />

of 50 UHF stations across the country<br />

at low cost from headquarters in Philadelphia.<br />

The station is expected to be on<br />

the air sometime next year. Anscombe is<br />

negotiating with a Midwest banking organization<br />

to set up a new chain of TV stations<br />

and CATV units. He is actively working<br />

to obtain CATV franchises from Buffalo<br />

and western New York communities.<br />

Blatt Bros, has taken over the Keller<br />

Theatre in Northeast. Pa., and will operate<br />

it only Fridays through Sundays. Northeast<br />

is about ten miles from Westfield.<br />

N.Y.. where Blatt Bros, operates the Grand<br />

Theatre. The Keller opened under its newmanagement<br />

Friday (3i with "The Monkey's<br />

Uncle." Russell Patti, who manages<br />

the Grand, will supervise the operation of<br />

the Keller for the time being.<br />

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jyTanager Sid Sommcr of the Troy in Troy<br />

was back on the job Saturday illi<br />

after<br />

an absence because of illness. His assistant<br />

John Rock was in charge whUe he was off.<br />

Martin Burnett, district manager, and Joe<br />

Stowell, Madison manager, spelled Rock in<br />

emergencies.<br />

. . . Mrs.<br />

George Baltshar, former assistant manager<br />

of the Strand, works on theatre advertising<br />

for the Times-Union<br />

John Dingee. office manager-secretary at<br />

Hallenbeck & Riley, audio-visual firm, was<br />

featured in the Knickerbocker News as<br />

"Today's Office Beauty." Don Hallenbeck,<br />

owner of the Indian Ladder Drive-In, New<br />

Salem, is a partner in the firm.<br />

The Delaware, Stanley Warner art house,<br />

opened "The Pawnbroker" after an extended<br />

run of "Casanova '70." "The Pawnbroker"<br />

was condemned iC rating) by the<br />

Legion of Decency, and "Casanova," given<br />

a morally objectionable rating (B) by the<br />

Legion.<br />

. . . Harold<br />

The Beatles' "HELP!" was held for a<br />

second week at the Strand because of excellent<br />

first-week patronage<br />

Tanner, employed at the Delaware, and his<br />

wife, a Strand cashier, moved from north<br />

Albany, which is to be bisected by an<br />

arterial highway, to Rensselaer.<br />

Schine's Liberty at Herkimer will be<br />

among the situations playing the filmed<br />

"La Boheme" by the LaScala Opera group<br />

in early November. The theatre, managed<br />

by Jake Weber, was inadvertently omitted<br />

from the previous announcement on the<br />

WaiTier Bros, releasing schedule.<br />

Four drive-ins playing "Cat Ballou" dayand-date<br />

with Fabian's Palace exhibited<br />

three different supporting features. The<br />

Klein family's Hi-Way in Coxsackie and<br />

James Carellis' Hudson River, between<br />

Mechanicville and Schaghticoke, had "Die!<br />

Die! My Darling!": Sarto Smalldone's<br />

Malta at Malta screened "Grood Neighbor<br />

Sam" and Alan Iselin's Super 50, "Major<br />

Dundee."<br />

The Palace fm'nishes free parking to<br />

patrons evenings and Sundays at three<br />

nearby lots. A lobby sign explains that<br />

parking fees will be refunded at the boxofBce<br />

when tickets are purchased. A<br />

smaller sign hangs at the window.<br />

Word has been received of the birth of a<br />

daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick E. Mc-<br />

Henry, born August 19 in Modesto. Calif.<br />

Her late grandfather was William W. Farley,<br />

co-developer of Filmrow here and<br />

owner of theatres in Albany. Schenectady<br />

and the Catskills.<br />

Hugh Owen, Eastern sales manager for<br />

Paramount, and Dan Houlihan, Buffalo<br />

manager, joined John Serfustino, local<br />

manager, in an open house at the quarters<br />

at 991 Broadway. Exhibitors and film buyers<br />

were on hand in goodly numbers. Additional<br />

space is expected to be leased by<br />

Paramount.<br />

Schenectady-area theatremen were relieved<br />

Tuesday (7i when Local 301, International<br />

Union of Electrical Workers, called<br />

off a planned strike, scheduled because of<br />

the discharge of a probationary employe.<br />

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GETS CANADIAN AWARD—Producer-director<br />

Laurence Kent (center)<br />

is shown being presented an award of<br />

merit from the Canadian Film Institute<br />

for his production, "Caressed."<br />

Joel Samuels, left, director of the National<br />

Film Board of Canada, makes<br />

the presentation while Joseph Brenner,<br />

right, worldwide distributor of "Caressed,"<br />

looks on. The event was held<br />

in Kent's honor at Sardi's Restaurant<br />

in New York, August 25.<br />

SW Zone Manager's Office<br />

Now at N.Y. Headquarters<br />

NEW YORK — Charles A. Smakwitz,<br />

Stanley Warner Theatres zone manager.<br />

has moved his headquarters from Newark<br />

to the home office here at 1585 Broadway.<br />

George Isenberg, real estate head for New<br />

York and New Jersey, also will now be in<br />

the home office.<br />

Other changes include Anthony WUliams,<br />

assistant zone manager, who will have his<br />

office at the Fabian Theatre in Paterson,<br />

N.J.: Harold C. Widenhorn, district manager,<br />

who will have his office in the Ritz<br />

Theatre, Elizabeth, N.J.: Edgar Goth, publicity<br />

director, whose office will be in the<br />

Royal Theatre, Bloomfield, N.J.; John<br />

Damis. maintenance department head,<br />

Oritani Theatre. Hackensack, N.J.; Charles<br />

Piltz and George Weiss, sound engineers,<br />

Capitol Theatre, Passaic, N.J.: and Eugene<br />

Santo, traveling auditor, whose office will<br />

be in the Bradford Theatre at Newark.<br />

IFIDA Elects New 3-Man<br />

Governing Committee<br />

NEW YORK—The Independent Film Importers<br />

& Distributors of America has<br />

elected a new three-man governing committee<br />

for the coming year, composed of<br />

Jean Goldwurm, president of Times Film:<br />

David Emanuel, president of Governor<br />

Films, and Milton Piatt, general sales manager<br />

of Sherpix, Inc.. these to govern<br />

IFIDA in lieu of a president.<br />

The newly elected IFIDA governors succeed<br />

Irving Wormser, vice-president of<br />

Walter Reade-Sterling. and Daniel Frankel,<br />

president of Zenith International, who did<br />

not seek re-election. Goldwurm was reelected.<br />

'Playground'<br />

\<br />

in October<br />

YORK— "The Playground," pro-<br />

and directed by Richard Hilliard<br />

in Boston and its environs, will<br />

its American premiere at the Fifth<br />

Cinema in October, The pictm-e<br />

inspued by the book, "My Brother<br />

by C. L. Sulzberger, columnist of<br />

1<br />

the New York Times.<br />

ERO ADW Ay<br />

FDWARD S.<br />

FELDMAN, vice-president in<br />

charge of publicity and advertising for<br />

Seven Arts, and Thomas Lazarus, advertising<br />

coordinator: Herbert Richek, director<br />

of operations, and Sidney Kiwitt, business<br />

affairs manager for the company, left to<br />

attend Seven Arts International's first<br />

global conference of sales and merchandising<br />

executives, starting in London<br />

Wednesday (8). * * * Irving Sochin, vicepre.sident<br />

of Rizzoli Film Distributors, left<br />

for Italy Tuesday i7» for a one-week round<br />

of business meetings on the American premiere<br />

of Federico Fellini's "Juliet of the<br />

Spirits." Sochin will confer with Pellini<br />

and fly to Rome to meet with Angelo Rizzoli,<br />

president. * * * Michele DePaoIis, sales<br />

manager of Buena Vista International for<br />

Italy, came to New York on the luier<br />

Raffaello with his wife to visit the Walt<br />

Disney exhibits at the World's Pair.<br />

•<br />

Michael Mindlin jr., vice-president<br />

of Filmways, Inc., retm-ned from England<br />

Thursday 1 where he was 1 involved<br />

in pre-production conferences on MGM-<br />

Filmways' "13," which is scheduled to go<br />

before the cameras September 13, and held<br />

meetings on "The Sandpiper," "The Cincinnati<br />

Kid" and "The Loved One," also<br />

MGM-Filmways releases. * * * Buster<br />

Keaton, who is filming an American International<br />

picture in Italy, is being<br />

honored by both the New York Film Festival,<br />

which will show three Keaton films<br />

September 14, "The Railroader," "Film"<br />

and "Seven Chances," and by the Museum<br />

of Modern Art. which will show his classic,<br />

"The General," September 23-25. * * * Alex<br />

North, who composed the music for "The<br />

Agony and the Ecstasy" for 20th Century-<br />

Fox, arrived in New York Tuesday (7) for<br />

promotion activities for the October 7<br />

opening at Loew's State.<br />

•<br />

Sean Connery arrived in the U.S. aboard<br />

the liner United States Wednesday i8) to<br />

start rehearsals for Warner Bros.' "A Fine<br />

Madness," which will go before the cameras<br />

in Greenwich Village Monday (20i with<br />

Joanne Woodward, who came on from the<br />

West Coast by train, Jean Seberg and<br />

Patrick O'Neal also starred under Irvin<br />

Kershner's direction. Also filming in New<br />

York is Ursula Andress, who arrived from<br />

Rome with producer Carlo Ponti and director<br />

Elio Petri for location shooting on<br />

the Embassy film, "The Tenth Victim," set<br />

for Christmas release. * * * Jason Robards.<br />

who completed Warner Bros.' "A Big Hand<br />

for the Little Lady" in Hollywood, is in New-<br />

York for rehearsals with his co-star. Anne<br />

Bancroft, in Alexander Cohen's Broadway<br />

play, "The Devils," being directed by<br />

Michael Cacoyannis for a Boston opening<br />

in October.<br />

•<br />

Vacationing in Europe are Ernest Shapiro<br />

of RKO Theatres, who is visiting<br />

Greece and Italy with his wife, and Paul<br />

Crane, MGM traffic manager, who left<br />

with Mrs. Crane Tuesday i7) for a trip to<br />

France, England, Spain and Portugal.<br />

' * Leonard Feldman, research director<br />

for Harrington, Righter and Parsons, has<br />

joined Screen Gems as research manager.<br />

* * * Ellen FischI of United Artists and<br />

Donna Frintzilas of Brandt Theatres were<br />

named delegates to the WOMPI international<br />

convention to be held at the Hotel<br />

Astor September 17-19. Clarice Hausman<br />

of Paramount and Amy Rhode of MGM<br />

were named alternates.<br />

•<br />

Arthur Godfrey, who will make his motion<br />

picture debut in MGM's "The Glass<br />

Bottom Boat," starring Doris Day, flew to<br />

Hollywood Tuesday 7 ' 1 for wardrobe fittings.<br />

* * * Glenn Ford, who will begin his<br />

starring role in the Paramount-Seven Arts<br />

production of "Is Paris Burning?," left for<br />

Paris Tuesday i7) to join the Paul Graetz<br />

filming now in progress in the French<br />

capital and Joseph Gotten, who completed<br />

Joseph E. Levine's "The Oscar" in Hollywood,<br />

left for Italy to begin work in Levine's<br />

"The Ti-amplers." * * * Father Leo<br />

Lunders, the Dominican priest representing<br />

the Fischermont Monastery as adviser<br />

on MGM's "The Singing Nun," returned<br />

to Brussells over the Labor Day weekend,<br />

but will come back to Hollywood for the<br />

filming of the Debbie Reynolds picture.<br />

•<br />

Peter Lawford, head of Chrislaw Productions<br />

and executive producer of "Billie" for<br />

United Artists, returned to Hollywood after<br />

meeting with UA home office executives<br />

while Joseph Friedman, executive assistant<br />

to Martin Davis at Paramount, and Mort<br />

Hock, advertising manager, went to Hollywood<br />

for conferences with studio executives.<br />

* * * Andrea Harris, daughter of<br />

Nathan Harris and Mrs. Harris of Valley<br />

Stream, L.I., who is vice-president of Prudential<br />

New York Theatres, was maiTied<br />

to Dr. Stephen S. Scheldt, an intern at<br />

Montefiore Hospital, the Bronx, Saturday<br />

(11 ) at the Regency Hotel.<br />

•<br />

Paul Lyday, Buena Vista's promotion<br />

manager, is shifting his headquarters from<br />

New York to the Walt Disney studio in<br />

Burbank, Calif. However, he'll continue to<br />

supervise exploitation on the local level<br />

throughout the countiT-<br />

* * * After many<br />

delays, the Paramount Building was scheduled<br />

to go on the auction block on<br />

Wednesday i8>. Mortimer M. Caplin, trustee<br />

for Webb & Knapp which holds an interest<br />

in the building, had claimed that<br />

Paramount Pictures' low rental for its<br />

home office space had harmed the interest.<br />

It is understood that a settlement on that<br />

issue has been reached.<br />

Merrick Theatre to Century<br />

NEW YORK—The Merrick Theatre in<br />

Jamaica. Queens was taken over by Century<br />

Theatres, starting Wednesday


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. . Jack<br />

Veteran Industryite<br />

Dies in Pittsburgh<br />

PITTSBURGH—Services for Edward H.<br />

"Goodie" Good, 72. retired film industry<br />

employe, were held Labor Day (6> in the<br />

Ferguson-Wood Funeral Home. Oakland.<br />

Burial was in Smithfield Cemetery.<br />

Good, a film handler, expediter, collector,<br />

shipper, head shipper and film director,<br />

served the business here for more than 50<br />

years. Most of his years of employment<br />

were with George Callahan's Exhibitors<br />

Service Co., and in more recent years with<br />

Callahan's son's Pittsbui-gh Film Service.<br />

He leaves his wife Margery and a brother<br />

Howard F. Good.<br />

Long-Time Exhibitor<br />

Succumbs at Pittsburgh<br />

PITTSBURGH—Chalmer E. "Chal" Cupler.<br />

who operated the Coui't Theatre at<br />

Washington, Pa., for many years, died August<br />

29 in Washington Hospital. His sister<br />

Chrystal, wife of Jolin D. Lacock, was associated<br />

with him in the theatre business.<br />

Cupler also leaves another sister Velma<br />

and a brother Kenneth L.. both of Washington.<br />

His father, the late Benjamin Earl<br />

Cupler, was an exhibitor in partnership<br />

with Joseph Mercer, who in later years<br />

was a theatre owner at Warwood and<br />

Wheeling. W. Va.<br />

BALTIMORE<br />

Qlrcuit Court Judge J. Gilbert Prendergast<br />

ruled the film "Crazy Wild and Crazy"<br />

is objectionable under Maryland's censorship<br />

law and the Board of Censors was<br />

proper in banning it. The judge has seen<br />

the picture at a special screening. The<br />

board, through the attorney general's office,<br />

filed suit to have the film banned.<br />

Assistant attorney general Fred Oken's<br />

petition to the court contended the picture<br />

is objectionable and without any redeeming<br />

merits that might justify public showing.<br />

Edmondson Drive-In had near-capacity<br />

crowds at its Labor Day dusk-to-dawn<br />

show. That same night, the Timonium<br />

Drive-In featui-ed a giant fireworks<br />

display.<br />

. .<br />

Sam Lambert, superintendent under<br />

Aaron B. Seidler, general manager for Joe<br />

Grant Theatres, is on a two-week vacation<br />

. . . Blanche Boughter of the Playhouse<br />

cashier staff has returned from an Atlantic<br />

City vacation . Joe Sauers resigned after<br />

ten years as projectionist for the Board of<br />

Motion Picture Censors.<br />

Elizabeth Cox is now manager of the<br />

Super 50 Drive-In at Trappe, Md.<br />

Mickey Hendricks, manager of the<br />

. . .<br />

New<br />

Horn Theatre, spent his day off sailing on<br />

the Chesapeake Bay.<br />

Jack Whalen, manager of the Five West<br />

and the Seven East, entertained friends<br />

from Philadelphia over the Labor Day<br />

weekend . Whittle, executive secretary.<br />

Allied Motion Picture Tlieatre Owners<br />

of Maryland, spent a weekend at Ocean<br />

City . . . Joseph Walderman. owner of the<br />

Park Theatre, was in New York on business.<br />

PHILADELPHIA<br />

\X7illiani Goldman, 68, owner of Goldman<br />

Theatres here, was one of two members<br />

of the outgoing 15-member board of education<br />

to be reappointed to<br />

a new streamlined<br />

nine-member board by Mayor James<br />

Tate. In addition to heading the circuit<br />

bearing his name, he also is president of<br />

WHYY, educational radio and television<br />

stations in Philadelphia. Some civic<br />

groups have questioned his eligibility to be<br />

on the board, however, since he is registered<br />

to vote out of the Bellevue-Stratford<br />

Hotel in center city but maintains his<br />

family home in suburban 'Villanova.<br />

Motion picture censorship has become a<br />

campaign issue in Philadelphia's district<br />

attorney election battle. Incumbent James<br />

C. Crumlish jr.. a Democrat, authored the<br />

legislation now pending before the legislature.<br />

His opponent Arlen Specter has<br />

accused him of attacking obscenity "solely<br />

for political publicity."<br />

Two Philadelphia policemen portrayed<br />

bm-glars in a film segment made here by<br />

J&F Products for the International<br />

Ass'n of Chiefs of Police. Other segments<br />

are to be filmed in various parts of the<br />

nation. The 27-minute color picture will<br />

have its premiere October 4 in Miami at<br />

the association's convention. The film<br />

doesn't have a title yet.<br />

Motion picture critic Ernest Schier of<br />

the Bulletin called the film "Darling,"<br />

showing at the midtown Arcadia, "a sizzling<br />

satire as a British Dolce Vita" . . . The<br />

two men arrested outside the Wayne Avenue<br />

Playhouse following the postponement<br />

of a Viet Cong film have been cleared of<br />

fighting charges. They are Marvin Burak,<br />

the man who leased the theatre for the<br />

showing of the controversial film, and<br />

James McClintock, a man who punched<br />

Burak while he was atmouncing the postponement<br />

to a crowd. The film "Why Viet<br />

Nam" allegedly .shows American atrocities<br />

being committed against Communist<br />

forces.<br />

Merton Shapiro of Sameric Theatres has<br />

returned from Rome where he visited with<br />

John Wayne. He Immediately started discussions<br />

with his father Samuel over the<br />

opening of two more theatres. One will be<br />

an art house on exclusive Rittenhouse<br />

Square in the downtown section and the<br />

other will be a drive-in at Pennsauken,<br />

across the Delaware River in New Jersey.<br />

Both will be named the Eric as are other<br />

theatres presently in operation and on the<br />

planning boards. They are named for Eric<br />

Shapiro. 9-year-old son of Merton and<br />

grandson of Samuel Shapiro.<br />

A. M. Ellis Theatres took over operation<br />

of the Yorktown motion picture house<br />

Wednesday 1 1 > in suburban Cheltenham<br />

Township.<br />

The Lincoln Drive-In is holding a tie-in<br />

promotion every Thursday night with a<br />

new discount store that opened nearby. It<br />

is called Kelly's Korner Nite in honor of<br />

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PITTSBURGH<br />

Justice Michael A. Musitiiinno of llie Pennsylvania<br />

Supremo Court discussed<br />

"The Need for Reviewing Motion Pictui'es<br />

—Censorsliip" at the Oakland Kiwanis<br />

Club luncheon Tuesday i7i ... Dependable<br />

Drivc-In's Labor Day attraction was a<br />

diLsk-to-dawn Chillerama. with Bill Cardelle<br />

of WIIC-TV making a personal appearance.<br />

Pi-ee coffee and donuts were<br />

served at dawn. All-night shows, with five<br />

and six features, were offered at many<br />

outdoor theatres, including the Gateway,<br />

both Greater Pittsburgh airers. Harmar.<br />

Kenmawr, Monroeville, Route 19, South<br />

Hills, Tri-State and Twin Hi-Way. Other<br />

ozoners mostly used thi-ee features. Fireworks<br />

were added at the ABC, Kane Road<br />

and New Super 30, and some had late color<br />

"spook" shows.<br />

Paintings by Carol Jean Nicolella. junior<br />

at Carnegie Tech. are on display in the<br />

Pemi Theatre lobby, Washington, Pa. Bill<br />

Wilson, manager, exploited the art show in<br />

"Little Washington" papers . . . Glenn<br />

Easter, Mount Morris exhibitor and 16mm<br />

sound projector-film distributor, was in<br />

New York in comiection with piuxhasing<br />

his 16mjii school supplies for the new season.<br />

Art D'Anniballe might have been forewarned<br />

when two masked men robbed him<br />

at his SteubenvUle drive-in. He was featuring<br />

"The Outlaws IS Coming" and "Law<br />

The Warner Bros.<br />

of the Lawless" . . .<br />

Bldg. has been sold to Duquesne University<br />

Tamburitzans. The exchange office moved<br />

into Gateway Towers last fall, being the<br />

fiist film company to leave Filmrow.<br />

Shawnee Broadcasting Co.. Chillicothe.<br />

Ohio, seeks FCC approval to constnict a<br />

radio station for Aliquippa . . . Reportedly<br />

the Borriello brothers will take over the<br />

long-closed theatre at Nanty-Glo. in negotiations<br />

with Joseph Delisi, owner. The brothers<br />

are in the produce business and all<br />

have theatre interests. Carl is connected<br />

with the Donora, Patsy is with the Baden<br />

and Midland, and Andy with the Elizabeth.<br />

Jerrilyn. daughter of the Saul I. (Columbia<br />

PerUmans. and Betsy, daughter of<br />

I<br />

the<br />

Irv iMGM> Jacobs, are resuming studies<br />

at Penn State where they are sophomores<br />

Waynes Drive-In now is oix-n only<br />

on weekends as is the Tusca at Beaver<br />

Vandergrift council entered into<br />

a CATV agreement with GT&E.<br />

Local option for Sunday movies in Pennsylvania<br />

would be abolished under terms<br />

of a bill proposed in the House of Representatives<br />

at Harrisburg. A fuither curtailment<br />

of the so-called "Sunday blue<br />

laws" is entailed in this measure, which<br />

would allow pre.sentation of motion pictui-es<br />

anywhere in the state on Sunday. Sponsors<br />

of the bill say approximately ten communities<br />

now ban Sunday showings following<br />

referenda on the issue.<br />

Paul E. Smith, 64. Meridian, veteran employe<br />

of theatres and a former Butler<br />

County detective, died suddenly Monday<br />

(6i at his home. He was projector operator<br />

at the Penn and had been in local<br />

theatres since 1920. He leaves a son William<br />

H. Smith and two grandchildi-en.<br />

Bernard Buchheit of the Rustic Drivein<br />

in the Greensburg-Mount Pleasant area<br />

received a half-page free plug in the Tribune<br />

Review Wednesday i8i in a "night<br />

out" tie-up with the newspaper carriers<br />

who won free meals and a free show . , .<br />

Better Films and Television Council resumed<br />

meetings in the Stanley Warner<br />

screening room in the Clark Bldg. Mrs. L.<br />

M. Callaghen is president.<br />

Washington Exhibitors File<br />

Protest on Films in Clubs<br />

WASHINGTON—Exhibitors and the Motion<br />

Picture Theatre Owners of Washington,<br />

headed by Julian Brylawski, have filed<br />

formal complaints here against certain<br />

night spots, cinematheques, for showing<br />

motion pictm-es. The complaints to the<br />

department of licenses and inspections<br />

charge "unfair competition" because patrons<br />

can smoke, di'ink and visit.<br />

The department is studying the matter<br />

as to certain violations of codes and equipment,<br />

as well as compliance with specific<br />

regulations, including having seats fastened<br />

to the floor. "Casablanca" and "That<br />

Naughty Gh-l" are among the films shown<br />

in a Georgetowii restaurant.<br />

WASHINGTON<br />

The Washington premiere of 20th Centuiy-<br />

Fox's "The Agony and the Ecstasy"<br />

will benefit the Washington chapter of the<br />

National Society of Arts and Letters'<br />

scholarship fund. The opening event, set<br />

for November 3 at the Uptown Theatre,<br />

will be followed by a reception given by<br />

Italian Ambassador Fenoaltea and his wife<br />

at their embassy. Mrs. John A. Logan,<br />

patroness of the arts, is chairman of the<br />

benefit performance, from which proceeds<br />

will be used to further talented youths'<br />

education in the various art fields. Principals<br />

involved in the premiere are Charles<br />

Grimes, assistant zone manager for Stanley<br />

Warner Theatres, publicists Frank LaPalce,<br />

20th-Fox publicist Hal Marshall of Philadelphia,<br />

and the Arts and Letters' local<br />

president Mrs. Charles King Holmes and<br />

parliamentarian Mrs. George B. Green.<br />

. . .<br />

Joe Brecheen, Buena Vista branch manager,<br />

has booked "Old Yeller" for rerelease,<br />

fu-st multi-run, beginning October<br />

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Sheldon Tromberg has set "Rotten<br />

to the Core" to open at the Green Hill Theatre<br />

for its first-run Philadelphia engagement<br />

following the current "Agent 8%"<br />

Frank Damis, Stanley Warner zone<br />

manager with headquarters at Philadelphia,<br />

hosted various branch managers at<br />

a luncheon in Paul Young's. Among those<br />

present were Alex Schlmel, Universal: Ted<br />

Krassner, Paramount: Ben Bache, Warner<br />

Bros., and Shep Bloom, 20th-Fox.<br />

Columbia booker Harold Levy is back at<br />

the exchange after vacationing . . . United<br />

Artists salesman Jim Svenstrup visited the<br />

Frederick territory ... In Baltimore, exhibitor<br />

interest in "The Ipcress File" was<br />

evidenced when Jack Fruchtman, J. P.<br />

Theatres: Aaron Seidler, Hillendale and<br />

Northwood theatres, and Boots Wagonheim.<br />

Schwaber circuit, were seen delivering<br />

their bids personally.<br />

Visitors to Filmrow included John Caldwell<br />

of the Appomattox Theatre and Coswell<br />

Drive-In: Hugh Sample, formerly with<br />

Independent Theatres, en route to Europe,<br />

and Ernest Price and Kenny Andrews from<br />

the Azalea Drive-In at Norfolk.<br />

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION CENTER<br />

Italian Film Winner<br />

Venice Feslival<br />

VENICE, ITALY — Luchino Visconti's<br />

Italian film, "Vaglie Stella dell' Orso." star-<br />

Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel and<br />

Britain's Michael Craig, won the Golden<br />

Lion of St. Mark, the award for the best<br />

at the 26th annual Venice Film Festival<br />

here, which ended Monday 6 ( 1 The<br />

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same picture, which will be released in the<br />

by Royal Films International as<br />

will also be shown at the New<br />

York Film Festival Friday (17).<br />

Annie Girardot received the Volpi Cup<br />

best performance by an actress for her<br />

portrayal in Marcel Carne's French film,<br />

Rooms in Manhattan." which was<br />

filmed in New York, whUe Toshiro<br />

won the Volpi Cup as best actor for<br />

performance in the Japanese film,<br />

"Akahige" (Red Beard). A special jui-y<br />

prize was shared by the Mexican film,<br />

del Desierto." directed by Luis<br />

and the Soviet film, "I Am Twenty<br />

Old," directed by Marlen Kutziev.<br />

Catholic award was given to<br />

"Akahige."<br />

were only ten entries in compeat<br />

the Venice Festival, including the<br />

U.S. entry, Columbia's "Mickey<br />

produced and directed by Arthur<br />

in Chicago with 'Warren Beatty<br />

starred.<br />

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In addition to the Italian winner,<br />

"Mickey One" and the Japanese "Red<br />

Beard" were also entries at the New York<br />

which will end Saturday (18).<br />

Young Ends 'Thunderball/<br />

Assignment for TV<br />

Starts<br />

HOLL'YWOOD—Director Terence Young,<br />

who has completed his foiu'th James Bond<br />

film "Thunderball," starts his directorial<br />

assignment on "Poppies Ai-e Also Flowers,"<br />

the fomth of the Xerox United Nations TV<br />

specials.<br />

The story is based on an original preby<br />

the late Ian Fleming just before<br />

death. It will be fihned in the Nice<br />

studios and on location in Monte Carlo,<br />

Prance, Naples and Iran. It will be telecast<br />

in this country in December and<br />

shown theatrically in foreign countries to<br />

aid the UN campaign against the evil of<br />

natrcotics.<br />

Dedicate Alan Ladd Bust<br />

HOLL'YWOOD—A bust of the late Alan<br />

Ladd was unveiled by Edmond O'Brien in<br />

a ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial<br />

Park, Glendale, on Saturday i4). Italian<br />

sculptress Lia Di Leo was commissioned<br />

to do the bust by Ladd's widow Sue Carol.<br />

BOXOFFICE September 13, 1965<br />

(Hollywood Office—Suite 321 at 6362 Hollywood Blvd.)<br />

Hollywood Studios, DGA Cooperate<br />

In Training Assistant Directors<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Culminating more than<br />

a year of preliminary screening, testing<br />

and interviews, the motion pictm-e industry<br />

program for assistant directors moved into<br />

full operation Thursday i2) when ten<br />

trainees started their thi-ee-year program<br />

in motion pictui-e and television production.<br />

Selection of the trainees, announced by<br />

George Sidney, Directors Guild of America<br />

president, and Charles Boren, executive<br />

vice-president of<br />

the Ass'n of Motion Picture<br />

and Television Producers, was made<br />

by a committee of AMPTP and DGA representatives.<br />

In all, 640 applicants were<br />

considered and 17 were approved. Plans<br />

call for trainees to rotate among the studios<br />

so they will become familiar with the<br />

varied practices in motion picture and<br />

television production thi-oughout the industry.<br />

They also will attend a weekly<br />

three-houi- seminar dealing with all phases<br />

of fUm production and various collective<br />

bargaining contracts within the industry.<br />

AMPTP studios taking part in the program<br />

are Columbia. Bing Crosby Productions,<br />

MGM, Paramoimt, 20th Century-<br />

Fox, Danny Thomas, Universal and 'Warner<br />

Bros. Independent companies are participating<br />

through the Society of Independent<br />

Producers, with the first trainee going<br />

to the Mirisch Co.<br />

Trustees, made up of 12 representatives<br />

from management and the guild, will administer<br />

the program. Emmett 'Ward, Paramount<br />

labor relations manager, is board<br />

chainnan: Marshall 'Wortman. Universal,<br />

vice-chairman; Robert Vreeland, DGA,<br />

secretary, and 'Wallace 'Worsley, DGA, vicesecretary.<br />

Ti'ustees are: DGA—Monis Abrams, Rex<br />

Syd Cassyd Makes Tour<br />

Of Mexican Industry<br />

Los Angeles—Syd Cassyd, Western<br />

editor of BOXOFFICE, this week completed<br />

a tour of the Mexican film industry<br />

arranged by representatives of<br />

the Mexican government and both production<br />

and exhibition there. During<br />

the tour, Cassyd discussed the problems<br />

of the industry in Mexico with heads<br />

of government agencies, union, production<br />

and exhibition executives. His report<br />

on the visit will appear in forthcoming<br />

issues.<br />

Bailey. John Bowman, Mike Daves, Lesley<br />

Selander, Don 'Weis, Les Goodwins,<br />

George Sidney. Mike Vidor, Joseph C.<br />

Youngerman. AMPTP—Alfred P. Chamie.<br />

John Zinn, John Pommer. Arthur Schaefer,<br />

Charles S. Boren, Benjamin B. Kahane.<br />

Ernest Scanlon jr., H. R. Guillotte and<br />

Eugene Ai'nstein.<br />

DGA Directors Meeting<br />

Called for October 2<br />

HOLLY'WOOD—The national directors<br />

meeting of the Directors Guild of America<br />

will be held October 2 in Chicago, announces<br />

George Sidney, president, when<br />

former members of the Screen Directors<br />

International Guild will be installed to<br />

the national board. Pi'ior to the meeting,<br />

the SDIG will elect two memt)ers for the<br />

national board and 13 members for the<br />

Eastern directors council.<br />

Retired Naval Officer<br />

To Oversee 'Ambush Bay'<br />

HOLLYWOOD — Aubrey Schenck,<br />

executive<br />

producer of "Ambush Bay," a<br />

United Artists release scheduled to roll In<br />

the Philippine Islands October 15. has<br />

signed Lt. Cmdr. (ret.) Clem Stadler of the<br />

Marine Coi-ps as technical advisor. He<br />

formerly served in a similar capacity at<br />

MGM dming the production of "The Ueutenant"<br />

television series and has served as<br />

technical advisor with other major studios<br />

in the production of features and TV<br />

series with a Marine. Naval or military<br />

backgromid. "Ambush Bay" starring Hugh<br />

O'Brian. Mickey Rooney and Jim Mitchum.<br />

will be a Schenck-Zabel Pioduction with<br />

Hal Klein producing and Ron Winston<br />

directing.<br />

Harry Gaffney on Tour<br />

To Set Up USA's 'Wahine'<br />

HOLL'YWOOD—Harry Gaffney, Western<br />

sales manager for United Screen Arts, left<br />

for Chicago to set up multiple runs for<br />

"One Way Wahine," USA's current feature,<br />

to be released next month. From Chicago,<br />

he will go to Milwaukee to set up the<br />

world premiere showing of "The Young<br />

Sinner," which was shot in and around<br />

Milwaukee.<br />

In "The Silencers," Daliah Lavi's second<br />

film for Columbia Pictures, Miss Lavi will<br />

star opposite Dean Martin.<br />

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Rainy Labor Day Boon to First Runs<br />

In LA; 'Sound of Music High 595<br />

LOS ANGELES—This city liad its first<br />

rainy Labor Day weekend in years and it<br />

helped drive customers to the theatres instead<br />

of seeking entertainment at the<br />

beaches, etc. Business at the bo.xoffice was<br />

brisk, showing a substantial boost over last<br />

week's receipts. Newcomers were paced by<br />

the Beatles' "HELP!" with 210 per cent.<br />

"Sons of Katie Elder" at 185 and "I Saw<br />

What You Did " 95.<br />

(Average Is 100)<br />

Baldwin, Crest, Hollywood, Orpheum, Wiltem The<br />

Sons of Kotie Elder (Para) 185<br />

Beverly Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines (20th-Fox), 12th wk 230<br />

Bruin, Vogue Whot's New Pussycat? (UA),<br />

10th wk 355<br />

Chinese Von Ryan's Express {20th-Fox),<br />

7th wk 190<br />

Cineramo TTie Greatest Story Ever "Told<br />

(UA), 29th wk. 220<br />

Egyptian My Fair Lady (WB), 45th wk 410<br />

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El " Rey, ' State I Sow What You Did (Univ)<br />

95<br />

Fine Arts Zorbo the Greek (IC), 32nd wk. 170<br />

Four Star, Ins, Los Angeles, Loyola HELP!<br />

(UA)<br />

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Hollywood-Paramount—The Sandpiper (MGM),<br />

8th wk<br />

120<br />

Lido The Knack (UA-Lopert), 6th wk<br />

160<br />

Music Hall The Collector (Col), 8th wk 170<br />

Pontoges The Greot Roce (WB), 10th wk 400<br />

Pix Cot Ballou (Col), 5th wk 140<br />

Village Cosonovo '70 (Embassy), 7th wk 265<br />

Womer Beverly Ship of Fools (Col), 5th wk 200<br />

Warner Hollywood The Hallelujoh Trail (UA),<br />

1 1th wk 270<br />

Worner's, World Lord Jim (Col), 2nd wk 85<br />

Wilshire The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

26fh wk 595<br />

Trail,' "Sound of Music' Up<br />

To 500s in San Francisco<br />

SAN FRANCISCO — "The Hallelujah<br />

Ti-ail" and "The Sound of Music" bm-st<br />

into the 500-circle under the impetus of<br />

excellent Labor Day weekend business<br />

which also saw 11 other first-run programs<br />

reach or exceed the 175 gi-oss percentage<br />

level. Embassy's "Darling" took off at the<br />

Alexandi-ia and Vogue with a composite<br />

325 and "The Pawnbroker" packed in<br />

crowds at a 350 grossing rate.<br />

Alexandria, Vogue Darling (Embossy) 325<br />

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Crown Harlow (Para), 2nd wk 175<br />

Esquire— Having o Wild Weekend (WB), The<br />

Rot Race (Para) 75<br />

Fox-Porkside Those Mognificent Men in Their<br />

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 8th wk 200<br />

Fox-Worticld She (MGM) 200<br />

Golden Gate Cinerama The Hallelujah Trail<br />

(UA), 9th wk 500<br />

Lorkin The Soft Skin (Cinema V), 2nd wk 200<br />

Metro The Collector (Col), 8th wk 175<br />

Music Hall Red Desert (Rizzoli), 2nd wk 200<br />

Presidio The Pawnbroker (AA), 5th wk 350<br />

Royal Harlow (Poro), 2nd wk 175<br />

St. Francis Operation Crossbow (MGM), 3rd wk. ..100<br />

United Artists The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

24th wk 525<br />

'Saboteur' High New Film<br />

Among Portland First Runs<br />

PORTLAND—With vacation days at an<br />

end and the American Legion convention<br />

in the past, fii-st-run boxoffices settled<br />

down a bit but such headliners as "My<br />

Fair Lady," in its 43rd week, and "The<br />

Sound of Music," in its 20th stanza, still<br />

topping the gross ratings with 200.<br />

Broadway Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines (20th-Fox), 3rd wk<br />

Cinema 21, Fine Arts A Very Speciol Favor<br />

180<br />

(Univ), 3rd wk 150<br />

Division Shenondooh (Univ), 7th wk 165<br />

82nd Street Drive-ln Toboos of the World (AlP)<br />

Fox—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 20th wk. .<br />

155<br />

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Hollywood The Hallelujah Trail (UA), 5th wk. 175<br />

Irvington Operotion Crossbow (MGM), 4th wk, 160<br />

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Laurelhurst Zorbo the Greek (IC), 2nd wk 180<br />

Music Box Whot's New Pussycat' (UA), 9th wk. . 180<br />

Off-Broadway Cosanovo '70 (Embassy)<br />

150<br />

Orpheum, Sandy Boulevard The Saboteur (Morituri)<br />

20th-Fox) 165<br />

Paramount My Fair Lady (WB), 43rd wk 200<br />

Powell How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (AIP),<br />

3rd wk 150<br />

"Shenandoah' 275 Best Mark<br />

In Strong Denver Week<br />

DENVER—Newcomer "Shenandoah" and<br />

long-run "Sound of Music" were the first<br />

and .second gi-ossers of the week, the Civil<br />

War film starting its Paramount run with<br />

275 and the Warner musical scoring 225<br />

in its 24th week at the Aladdin.<br />

Aladdin The Sound of Music (20fh-Fox), 24th wk. 225<br />

Centre Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines (20th-Fox), 7th wk 160<br />

Cooper Ifs o Mad, Mod, Mod, Mod World (UA),<br />

45th wk 180<br />

Donhom My Fair Lady (WB), 42nd wk 140<br />

Denver Sergeant Deadhead (AIP); I'll Take<br />

Sweden (UA), rerun 1 00<br />

Esquire Zorba the Greek (IC), 11th wk 150<br />

International The Hallelujoh Trail (UA), 10th wk. 135<br />

LakeRidge, Mayan, Centennial, Monaco, West,<br />

Valley, Wadsworth That Funny Feeling<br />

(Univ); various co-features 90<br />

Paramount Shenandoah (Univ) 275<br />

Towne Agent 8% (Cont'l), 2nd wk 125<br />

Vogue Cot Ballou (Col); World Without Sun<br />

(Col), rerun 1 50<br />

Grcmman's Sets Extended<br />

Run of 'Ipcress File'<br />

HOLLYWOOD — In an unprecedented<br />

booking, Universal's "The Ipcress File"<br />

will begin an exclusive extended engagement<br />

at Grauman's Chinese Theatre<br />

Wednesday < 22 1 , it was announced by<br />

Henry H. Martin, Universal vice-president<br />

and general sales manager, and Dan Poller,<br />

National General co-director of theatre<br />

operations. Michael Caine stars In the<br />

British made Technicolor film, which is<br />

setting records at the Coronet Theatre<br />

in New York. Harry Saltzman. co-producer<br />

of the James Bond thrillers, produced "The<br />

Ipcress File," which was directed by Sidney<br />

J. Furie, from the best-selling novel<br />

by Len Deighton.<br />

LOS ANGELES i\<br />

•phe Roy Cooper Co., West Side-Valley<br />

Theatres, announces several<br />

(<br />

theatre ;<br />

management changes. William E. Hupp<br />

j<br />

has been promoted to advertising manager<br />

for West Side-Valley Theatres. Roy Cooper<br />

,<br />

is adding Hupp to the main office<br />

'<br />

staff<br />

and placing him in charge of circuit advertising.<br />

He also will work closely with the<br />

booking and buying department, specializing<br />

in foreign films. Pioneering foreign<br />

films in San Francisco, the circuit now<br />

has three de luxe foreign film hou.ses there:<br />

,<br />

the Guild Theatre, Menlo Park; the Pine<br />

Ai'ts, Palo Alto, and the new Twin Cinema<br />

in Belmont with the Bel-Art makint; up<br />

the foreign film half of the duo. John<br />

Heathcote. who for two years has managed<br />

the Los Altos and Fine Arts theatres for<br />

West Side-Valley, now will add the Park<br />

and Guild theatres. House managers appointed<br />

are Ged Dewey to the Park and<br />

Guild theatres in Menlo Park and Hal<br />

Smith to the Los Altos theatres in Lo.s<br />

Altos.<br />

Another major film exchange will move<br />

to the Beverly Hills Filmrow. American International<br />

Pictiu-es of the Pacific Coast,<br />

headed by New1,on P. "Red" Jacobs will<br />

move on or about November 1, to 29:;<br />

South La Cienaga Blvd., Beverly Hills.<br />

Condolences to Chet Eckert. controller<br />

for National General Corp. on the death of<br />

his father ... Ed Harris is back at his I<br />

old post at the Canon Theatre, a Herbert<br />

Kosner operation. He was in public relations<br />

for a while on his own.<br />

Among the out-of-towners in for the i<br />

Cooperman-Adler wedding were Herb Resner<br />

from San Francisco; Marty Foster,,<br />

San Francisco theatre owner; Mr. and Mrs.<br />

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Jack Lowell. San Diego theatre<br />

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and Lloyd Katz, Nevada Theatre Corp.,<br />

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Pacific Drive-In Theatres Corp. has<br />

options on two new open-aii' projects in<br />

the north and south end of Seattle. United I<br />

Theatres, Pacific affiliate, is behind the<br />

move. Mike Fonnan, son of Pacific president<br />

William R. Fomian and executive of<br />

the circuit, and Cap Caspare, real estate<br />

head, visited Seattle regarding the two<br />

undertakings.<br />

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Morgan Signs for 'War'<br />

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HOLLYWOOD — Harry Morgan, well- i<br />

known character comedian, was signed to<br />

play "Major Pott," harassed AiTny intelli-<br />

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HOLLYWOOD—Felix<br />

PORTLAND<br />

The Sound of Music" continues here with<br />

attendance on the upswing, despite a<br />

ong engagement now topping the 22-week<br />

nark. Rex Hopkins, Fox-Evergi-een city<br />

iianager. advises a better gross now than<br />

)n opening with the pre-Labor Day weeknid<br />

setting a record.<br />

Many exhibitors spent their vacation at<br />

jeach resorts. Included were the Sol Mailels<br />

at Seaside with Maibels commuting<br />

laily to his Aladdin Theatre here. He met<br />

ilric Sundholm. Broadway Theatre maniger.<br />

and other theatremen at the popular<br />

ocean beach resort.<br />

('Northwest<br />

Co-Productions Increase<br />

Avala Films Income<br />

BELGRADE. YUGOSLAVIA—More than<br />

'52 million in hard cui-rency flowed into<br />

Yugoslavia as a result of co-production<br />

leals between Avala Films of this country<br />

md pictm'e-makers in the United States.<br />

Sngland. Geimany, Prance and Italy, it<br />

i.vas revealed here by Ratko Drazovic, gen-<br />

,;ral manager of Avala Films.<br />

said he expects the income<br />

a-om motion picture production to in-<br />

?rease at least 25 per cent in 1965 and an<br />

additional 16 per cent in 1966 under present<br />

production plans, which includes a<br />

r;hree-picture deal with producer-director<br />

'Micholas Ray, who launches his first film<br />

|.n association with Avala at the end of<br />

;his month. The film, titled "The Doctor<br />

'md the Devils," will star Maximilian<br />

SSchell and Susannah York.<br />

"The production capacity of Avala Films<br />

!S very large," Drazovic said. "However, the<br />

Isntire domestic output can only absorb 15<br />

!per cent of this capacity. So. if we want to<br />

keep the whole studio functioning, we have<br />

;o make deals from abroad for the other<br />

I35<br />

per cent.<br />

Refusal of Airer Permit<br />

Sends Sterling to Court<br />

— A raling by the City of<br />

iHoughton refusing Sterling Theatres a<br />

'aermit to construct a drive-in is being<br />

contested in court here by the circuit.<br />

Sterling's attorney, John C. Vertrees, has<br />

:)btained a coui-t order instiaicting Hough-<br />

,»n officials to furnish the coui't a comolete<br />

transcript of the hearing on Sterling's<br />

application for the airer before the<br />

iSoughton city council and planning comnission.<br />

The transcript must be deposited<br />

;j^ith the Seattle court by September 17.<br />

president<br />

of the Los Angeles advertising and<br />

publicity firm of Flowers & Associates, anjProducer<br />

Felix Feist<br />

Feist, 55, producer<br />

pf the TV series "Peyton Place." died<br />

Irhursday ( 2 ) . Feist's film credits include<br />

I'This Is the Life," "George 'White<br />

;3candals," "Big Trees" and "Guilty of<br />

•rreason." Starting as a film salesman, he<br />

!)ecame a director for RKO in 1923 and in<br />

lis later industry career was a cameraman<br />

or International Newsreel, test director<br />

md short subjects writer for MGM and<br />

contract director for Universal. Sui'vivors<br />

[ire his wife Barbara, three sons and three<br />

laughters.<br />

lOXOFTICE September 13, 1965<br />

Three New Salesmen Added<br />

By Flowers & Associates<br />

SAN FRANCISCO—Paul Flowers,<br />

PAUL FLOWERS<br />

nomiced that his group sales department<br />

has recently been expanded with the addition<br />

of three new specialists in the field.<br />

All have had past experience with different<br />

film distributors and Flowers is<br />

anticipating a record year for group sales.<br />

Artist to Display 'Film'<br />

Paintings During Festival<br />

SAN FRANCISCO—"The Painted Screen:<br />

An Ai-tist's View of the Cinema" by local<br />

artist Bill Webber is being prepared for<br />

viewing dm-ing the San Francisco Film<br />

Festival. Comprised of 50 retrospective<br />

works, the display, rendered in oil and<br />

acrylic, will be set up at the Galerie de<br />

Toui's starting October 18. There wOl be<br />

25 paintings at the galleiT and 25 in the<br />

main lobby of the Masonic Auditorium.<br />

Included in the collection are interpretations<br />

of Greta Garbo as "Camille,"<br />

"Wings," "All Quiet on the Western Front,"<br />

and many other classics. Scenes from<br />

modern Italian and Japanese films also<br />

will be represented in painting, as will<br />

stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey<br />

Bogart. Directors slated to be present<br />

at the festival include George Cukor, Hal<br />

Roach, Busby Berkeley and John Huston.<br />

Kenneth LaFurge Acquires<br />

Grand Theatre in Huron<br />

From North Central Edition<br />

HURON. S.D.<br />

— Kenneth LaFurge has<br />

purchased the Grand Theatre from W. J.<br />

McDermott and reopened the house, which<br />

had been closed for more than a year.<br />

The Grand, one of the oldest businesses<br />

in Highmore, first opened its doors 65<br />

years ago.<br />

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The 38-year-old Fox Oakland Theatre will<br />

be closed tomorrow il4i. Consequently,<br />

35 employes of the 3,300-seat house, one of<br />

the last of the Bay Area's big movie palaces,<br />

have been given termination notices<br />

as of that date. According to the management,<br />

the Pox Oakland is being closed<br />

"temporarily" because of a dearth of firstrun<br />

films. There are no plans to demolish<br />

the building.<br />

Charles "Chuck" McDonald, sales manager<br />

of Pop Corn Specialties, San Fi'ancisco,<br />

driving down a fire road between<br />

San Rafael and San Anselmo, was killed<br />

August 29 when his motor bike swerved<br />

off the road and flipped him several feet<br />

into the aii-. He had been employed by Pop<br />

Corn Specialties for three years.<br />

Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton play<br />

major roles in Joseph E. Levine's "The<br />

Daydreamer."<br />

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Thi- f;ill film season heralds the showing<br />

c<br />

of foreign, art and off-the-beatentrack<br />

pictures at the Queen Theatre. "Anatomy<br />

of a MaiTiage" in two<br />

parts', "China!" and Ingmar Bergman's<br />

new "All These Women" and reissued "The<br />

Devil's Eye" start off the new series. Summer<br />

bookings were dominated by 'Walt<br />

Disney. Jeny Lewis and pictmes aimed<br />

at the teen trade.<br />

Consolidated Amusement Co. posted Albert<br />

Diaz into the Beach Theatre. Waikiki,<br />

mo\ing over from the Kaimuki Tlieatre,<br />

with Valentine Richards, filling the manager's<br />

spot left open in the latter house.<br />

Both are veteran managers for Consolidated.<br />

* * *<br />

DENVER<br />

Pob Heyl's West Drive-In. Torrington.<br />

Wyo., was robbed by young thieves<br />

who not only stole the money but the<br />

cash register as well . . Dorrance Schmidt,<br />

.<br />

Ti-ail Theatre. Bridgeport, Neb., will enroll<br />

his son as a freshman at the University<br />

of Nebraska . . . Jeni George,<br />

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John George.<br />

State Theatre. Rapid City. S.D.. will enter<br />

the University of Wyoming . . . BUI Saxton,<br />

formerly with MGM as a booker, is now<br />

managing the Dogie Theatre, Newcastle,<br />

Wyo., for the Black Hills Amusement Co.<br />

. . . National Theatre Supply has completed<br />

installation of new 70/35mm projectors<br />

in the Centre Theatre. Denver. NTS<br />

also has installed new Simplex in-car<br />

speakers at the Silver Star Drive-In, Wallace.<br />

Ida., and new playgiound equipment<br />

at the Geneva Drive-In, Orem, Utah.<br />

'Virgil<br />

John Burton has remodeled the concession<br />

stand in his Nile Theatre, Mitchell,<br />

Neb., and has installed new equipment, including<br />

an ice machine .<br />

has remodeled<br />

. .<br />

and rearranged<br />

Stanley<br />

the lobby<br />

and foyer of the Goodhand Theatre, Kimball,<br />

Neb Considerable damage was<br />

done to Al Kane's Fiesta Drive-In, Las<br />

Cruces, N.M., by flash floods . . . Mr. and<br />

Mi-s. W. Hipscher, Post Theatre, Igloo, S.<br />

D., traveled to Montana to visit theii'<br />

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Summer's over but "A Swingin' Summer"<br />

tackles a September date at the King and<br />

Waialae Drive-In. backed by heavy promotions<br />

and tie-ups with a local rock and<br />

roll radio station and the Yamaha motorbike<br />

dealers.<br />

Poui- Japan-made films, "The Shape of<br />

Night." "It's a Woman's World." "With<br />

"<br />

Beauty and Sorrow and "Love Bondage.<br />

have been booked for the Nippon Theatre's<br />

art film festival. Each picture is scheduled<br />

for a week's run. with one special<br />

performance nightly at 10:45. following<br />

the end of each night's regularly scheduled<br />

programs.<br />

* * •<br />

One of the nation's first screenings of<br />

Hal Wallis' "Boeing. Boeing" was at the<br />

Queen Theatre, presented as a studio<br />

sneak preview to a capacity house that<br />

included regular patrons and iiivited guests.<br />

Wallis was in Honolulu long enough to see<br />

the big opening day crowd of his "The<br />

Sons of Katie Elder" at the New Royal<br />

in Waikiki.<br />

Film and live-show critic Phil Mayer i.s<br />

back covering the openings after a mild<br />

coronary attack. In the meantime. Walt<br />

Christie jr., the original "moviegoer" columnist,<br />

keeps informing his readers every<br />

week with brief comments on cui'rent pictm-es.<br />

« * •<br />

"Spots in the Sim." which might be<br />

termed the Japanese "Mondo Cane." now is<br />

showing on the islands of Hawaii and Maui,<br />

with special promotion provided by George<br />

Honda. Blanketing each playdate (usually<br />

a one-night booking! with circus heralds.<br />

Honda's personal attention to each spot,<br />

large or small, seems to be doing the trick.<br />

daughter . . . Lyle Fodnes, New Roxy,<br />

Hemmingford, Neb., is mystified—someone<br />

mailed liim a 1929 pictm-e postcard of the<br />

theatre—and Fodnes was wondering where<br />

it came from.<br />

Buying: and booking on the Row were<br />

Dick Klein, Trojan. Longmont; Bob Heyl.<br />

Wyoming, Torrington, Wyo.; Bill Bertolero,<br />

Black Hills Amusement Co., Rapid City, S.<br />

D.; George Simms, Star, Fort Lupton;<br />

Alt Goldstein, Roxy, Denver; Sam Rosenthal,<br />

Bison, Buffalo, Wyo.; George Mc-<br />

Cormick, Skyline, Canon City.; Lou Avolio,<br />

city manager for Frontier Theatres, Albuquerque,<br />

N.M.<br />

Ground was broken for the $500,000<br />

Continental Theatre which will be erected<br />

at Hampden and the 'Valley highway in<br />

the southeast section of the city. Officers<br />

of the new corporation are George Gaughan,<br />

formerly with Cooper Theatres, and<br />

Nonnan Neilsen, formerly manager of the<br />

Cooper Cinerama Theatre here in Denver.<br />

Film, TV Personalities<br />

Attend Santa Fe Fiesta<br />

SANTA FE—A number of show business<br />

personalities, including two well-known to<br />

moviegoers, were on hand for the fourday<br />

annual Santa Fe Fiesta over the Labor<br />

Day weekend.<br />

Included were actress Greer Garson and<br />

actor Robert Pi'eston. Others were TV star<br />

Art Linkletter, his wife and family.<br />

Miss Gai-son owns a ranch at nearby<br />

Pecos, N.M., and Preston was in the area<br />

shooting a television series. Linkletter and<br />

family flew in to attend the events, along<br />

with some business activities. This year's<br />

fiesta was the 253rd annual celebration of<br />

the event.<br />

Embassy's "Wife for Sale" concerns a<br />

young executive who confuses his wife's<br />

beauty with his corporate assets.<br />

Holloway House Publishinc<br />

Creates M.P. Division<br />

LOS ANGELES -A motion picture divi<br />

i<br />

sion of Holloway House Publishing Or<br />

here has been created with titles fron i<br />

the book division to be released for motioi<br />

picture production. Involved in the trans<br />

action to the new company under thi<br />

name of HH Productions is $1,400,000 fo<br />

options on book rights and subsequen<br />

production money.<br />

Frank Warren, New York motion pictun<br />

financier and banker of several films it<br />

major release, along with Leo Guild, execu<br />

tive editor of Holloway House PublishinR<br />

will head the new company.<br />

The first title to go into production ii<br />

Hollywood will be a comedy titled, "Hov<br />

to Win in Las Vegas," story of three girl,<br />

in Las Vegas, one of whom has a com<br />

puter system for beating roulette. Stell;<br />

Ste\'ens and Dorothy Provine will do tw(<br />

of the roles. Dee Hill will script.<br />

Among other titles released to the motion<br />

picture division are "I Am No<br />

Ashamed," the stoi-y of Barbara Payton<br />

"My Name is Leona Gage— Won't Somebody<br />

Help Me," "The Loves of Casanova,'<br />

"Satyricon," "The Hip Hypnotist" by Pat<br />

Collins, "Every Diamond Doesn't Sparkle.'^<br />

story of the Dodgers, "Ladies on Call," the!<br />

life of madam Lee Fi-ancis, and 30 other<br />

titles.<br />

Frank Warren will operate administra-'<br />

tive offices from New York and Leo Guile<br />

will head the Hollywood division.<br />

United Screen Arts Hires<br />

Four in Expansion Move<br />

HOLL'YWOOD—Vern Carstensen, executive<br />

vice-president and treasurer of Unitec<br />

Screen Arts, announces the addition oi<br />

personnel to the fii-m's accounting, sale:<br />

and exploitation departments.<br />

Barbara Bardmess has been added t(<br />

the accounting staff as boxoffice auditor<br />

Raenelle Prokopis for accounts receivables<br />

Sondra Roudebush as secretary to Westeri<br />

sales manager Harry Gaffney and Joyct-<br />

Bohnsack has been transferred from thf<br />

sales department to exploitation as as-,<br />

sistant to Dick Robbins, promotion anc;<br />

exploitation director. Kim Moore ha*<br />

joined the promotion staff.<br />

Robert Mitchum, Wife<br />

Stop at Albuquerque<br />

ALBUQUERQUE—Motion picture actoi<br />

Robert Mitchum stopped in Albuquerque<br />

briefly over the Labor Day weekend, er<br />

route to Ruidoso Downs, to attend the AU-<br />

American Quarter Horse F^itm'ity.<br />

Mitchum told reporters at the airpoi-l<br />

that he planned to make a film callec<br />

"Eldorado" for Paramount near Tucsor<br />

starting in October. Accompanied by hi;<br />

wife, he was scheduled to stay in Ruidosc<br />

through Tuesday


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2nd<br />

Excursions to<br />

Loop<br />

Build Film Grosses<br />

CHICAGO — The Labor Day weekend<br />

found many people on the highways, using<br />

the thi-ee-day hohday to get away. But<br />

excm-sion fares from neighboring locales<br />

brought an unusually heavy number of<br />

visitors to Chicago, many of whom visited<br />

iLoop theatres. Evidence of this was indicated<br />

at the State Lake, where "Once a<br />

Thief" was a newcomer: at the Oriental,<br />

which opened with "Billie"; at the Chicago,<br />

where "Cat Ballou" had another bonanza<br />

week: at the Woods, where "HELP!" was<br />

still strong in the fourth week: at the<br />

lUnited Artists, where "What's New Pussy-<br />

'cat?" was in the 11th week. Neighborhood<br />

'houses showing "Shenandoah" for the<br />

first time reported good grosses. Outlying<br />

situations playing "Von Ryan's Express,"<br />

following its initial showing at the Oriental,<br />

was a real contender for good business.<br />

"Mary Poppins" continued to be a top<br />

grosser in its current "select theatre" show-<br />

,ing.<br />

(Average Is 100)<br />

Cornegie Casanova '70 {Embassy), 5th wk 165<br />

"hicago Cat Ballou (Col), 2nd wk 350<br />

'linemo-JBackfire (Royal), 2nd wk 165<br />

Ilinestoge Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines (20fh-Fox), 9th wk 350<br />

isquire The Knock (UA-Lopert), 2nd wk 200<br />

.OOP Cosonovo '70 (Embassy), 5th wk 165<br />

vlcVickers The Greotest Story Ever Told (UA)<br />

26th wk 100<br />

Michael Todd The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

25th wk 375<br />

Oriental Billie (UA) 200<br />

,^olace My Foir Lady (WB), 45th wk 275<br />

[Roosevelt The Glory Guys (UA) 155<br />

(itote Lake Once a Thief (MGM) 225<br />

iJnited Artists What's New Pussycat? (UA),<br />

1 1th wk 200<br />

Aioods—HELP! (UA), 4th wk ^300<br />

[Sound of Music' 375 High<br />

For KC Labor Holiday<br />

KANSAS CITY — Holdover attractions<br />

itopped new openings for the week due to<br />

un influx of visitors for the Labor Day<br />

weekend. "The Sound of Music" in its<br />

:?ighth week at the Midland was at the<br />

nead of the parade with 375 per cent, top-<br />

Iping the previous week of 300 per cent.<br />

'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines" pulled 350 per cent in the 11th<br />

.veek at the Brookside, rising above the<br />

brevious week of 200 per cent. "Zorba the<br />

jreek" in its third week at the Kimo<br />

';ripled average business but was stronger<br />

the previous week with 450 per cent.<br />

HELP!" scored 220 per cent for the thii'd<br />

^.veek at the Uptown and Avenue. "Youi'<br />

jPast Is Showing" In its second week as a<br />

reissue at the Rockhill clicked with 185<br />

l^er cent.<br />

,ioulevard, Crest, 1-70, Riverside, Gronodo (KCK),<br />

' Isis, Overland How to Stuff a Wild Bikini<br />

(AlP); Tickle Me (AA) 100<br />

;<br />

jJrookside Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

I Machines (20th-Fox), 11th wk 350<br />

!:apri My Fair Lady (WB), 38th wk 125<br />

,;mpire The Hallelujah Trail (UA), 7th wk 125<br />

,Cimo Zorlw the Greek (IC), 3rd wk 300<br />

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KANSAS CITY<br />

Qlen Dickinson and Doug Ljghtner, area<br />

exhibitor co-cliairnicn. Stajiley Durwood.<br />

national exhibitor co-chainiian. and<br />

Tom Bailey. K.C. area distributor chairman,<br />

are busily heading the Will Rogers<br />

Hospital Fund collections for the area.<br />

Kansas City is the first city in which there<br />

has been a break-through on radio and<br />

television for fund solicitations, plus theati-e<br />

collections. All station managers operating<br />

here and in the surrounding area<br />

have been contacted regarding collections.<br />

Contributions, other than at theatres, may<br />

be sent to City National Bank & Ti-ust Co.<br />

Total receipts for the Will Rogers diivein<br />

coUectioivs in Kansas City were $6,187.08.<br />

which is $2,783.71 more than last year. Donations<br />

from each di-ive-in during the<br />

three-week collection period were reasonably<br />

higher than last year.<br />

Al Eleuitz was here last week to do some<br />

advance promotion work for "The Ipcress<br />

Pile" (Universal! scheduled for opening<br />

at the Paramount Theatre Pi-iday (17<br />

Walsh, mother of Ray Walsh,<br />

owner of the Peoples Theatre and the Neocha<br />

Di-ive-In at Chanute. Kas.. died Wednesday<br />

(11.<br />

Hazel Jones, office manager for National<br />

Screen Service, and an employe there for<br />

27 years, retired August 27, the date of<br />

her 5th wedding anniversai-y. She worked<br />

on Filmi-ow from 1923 until 1932 with<br />

Pathe-RKO and from 1932 until 1938 with<br />

Universal Pictm-es. NSS employes honored<br />

her with a luncheon in their recreation<br />

room.<br />

Al Fitter, assistant general sales manager<br />

for United Ai-tists in New York. Al Fisher,<br />

head of exploitation for UA in New York,<br />

and Eugene "Gene" Jacobs, Southern division<br />

sales manager for UA in New York,<br />

will visit Kansas City today (13i and tomorrow<br />

(14>, conferring with Ralph Amacher,<br />

branch manager, and staff.<br />

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Riiy Breen has been appointed manager<br />

at the Fairway Theatre, replacing Hugh<br />

Siverd. temporarily there, who was transferred<br />

to the Brookside. Breen foimerly<br />

was assistant manager at the Brookside<br />

and Uptown.<br />

Patty Gascish, bookers' secretary at<br />

United Ai-tists, is vacationing in Chicago<br />

for two weeks . . . Ellen Parker, UA cashier,<br />

was vacationing in Honolulu last week .<br />

Dona Brown is the new biller and secretary<br />

for the local UA branch.<br />

Bob DeJarnette, office manager for<br />

United Ai-tists in Kansas City, will soon<br />

leave for Charlotte, N.C.. where he will be<br />

stationed as UA salesman there. Bill Gill,<br />

new head booker, will be office manager<br />

and head booker, replacing DeJaniette.<br />

"Billie," a United Artists production, will<br />

open at the Plaza Theatre here Wednesday<br />

(291, to be followed by a saturation booking<br />

all over the territory startmg October<br />

13. The promotion for the pictui-e will include<br />

special newspaper ads, radio and<br />

television sp)ots.<br />

Kansas City WOMPIs to be at the international<br />

convention in New York are<br />

Gladys Melson. Hazel LeNoii'. Goldie Woerner,<br />

Jean Miller, Mary Hayslip, Alna Nece,<br />

Myi'tle Cain, Dorothy Wackerman, Pat<br />

Pierstorff and Nancy Porter, delegates, and<br />

Judy Helton and Bernice Powell, alternates.<br />

The convention will be held at the Astor<br />

Hotel Friday thi'ough Sunday (17-19).<br />

WOMPIs from 16 clubs in the United<br />

States and one from Canada are to attend.<br />

. . .<br />

Eric Green, branch manager of 20th Century-Fox.<br />

reports his daughter has enrolled<br />

for her freshman year at Northwest<br />

State College at Maryville. Mo.<br />

Mike Lee, district manager of Embassy Pictures,<br />

with headquarters in Minneapolis,<br />

will be in Kansas City this week, taking<br />

care of the office while Dorothy Wackerman<br />

is at the WOMPI convention.<br />

( 3 ) .<br />

Wichita's Westport Drive-In screen<br />

tower was damaged dui'ing the heavy rainstorm<br />

Friday night A strong wind tore<br />

off most of the right side of the screen and<br />

blew 20 sheets from the facing, according<br />

to William Allison, Missouri Theatre Supply<br />

manager. The drive-in, operated by<br />

Woody Banitt and Al McClui-e, was forced<br />

to close that night and money was refunded<br />

to the patrons, but the theatre was<br />

back in operation for Satui-day. No one<br />

was hm't.<br />

A screen arts course is listed on the<br />

agenda for adiilt education classes which<br />

will be held in Lillis High School each<br />

Monday evening, October 4 through January<br />

31. College credit can be earned. An<br />

entire film will be shown at each session<br />

and lectures will be given by Sister Bede<br />

Sullivan, O.S.B. Classes will be from 6:30<br />

to 9:45. Tuition for the entire series i.s<br />

$45. For fui-ther infoiTnation call LO 1-<br />

4445, LO 1-8250 or LO 1-6479,<br />

Screenings: "Willie McBean and His<br />

Magic Machine" (Magna) at Conxmon<br />

wealthh screening room Wednesday aftern<br />

noon (15).<br />

Out-of-town exhibitors on Filmrow:]<br />

From Kansas—C. E. Musgi-ave and Elbertf<br />

Drummond. Minneapolis: Fl'ed Munson.j<br />

Lyons: Hairk Doering, Garnett, and Elrnlel<br />

Block, Sabetha. From Missouri—Harleyl<br />

Fryer. Lamar: Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jarboe.<br />

Cameron: Bob Adkins, Higginsville, and<br />

Glen Jones, Gravois Mills.<br />

The United Theatre Owners of the Heart<br />

of America will hold a board of director.^<br />

luncheon meeting Wednesday (15i at Hotel<br />

Continental, starting at noon, Norris Ci'esswell,<br />

executive secretary, announced. Thi.s<br />

marks the first meeting of the fall season.<br />

Funeral Services Held<br />

For Kansas Theatreman<br />

COLUMBUS, KAS.—Services for Arthur<br />

W. "Art" Pugh, 76, owner-operator of the-'<br />

atres in southeast Kansas for many years.'<br />

were held Tuesday (7) in the Murdock<br />

Chapel here. Bm-ial was in Bethel Cemetery<br />

at Erie, Kas. Pugh was admitted to a<br />

hospital in Joplin. Mo., August 16 and!<br />

later transferred to a local hospital where'<br />

he died Saturday (4)<br />

For many yeais Pugh and his wife, along<br />

with their- son Leon and daughter Viola<br />

Wadlington operated various theatres,]<br />

among which are the Columbus Drive-Ini<br />

and State Theatre here, and the Fredoniaj<br />

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currently operates. The son will open thej<br />

Kansas Theatre there when the drive-inj<br />

closes. In June. Pugh retired from active<br />

participation in theatre operation for thej<br />

first time in more than 40 years.<br />

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Horvitz was elected president of the firmi<br />

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CHICAGO<br />

Wikkl Vickery Jenkins, a local artist, is exhibiting<br />

her latest oU paintings in the<br />

Esquiie Theatre's Little Gallery. She conducts<br />

a program of oil paintings for handicapped<br />

patients at the Chicago Institute<br />

of Rehabilitation. The film attraction at<br />

the Esquire is "The Knack" . doings<br />

are underway for the launching in late<br />

September of "The Ipcress Pile." The combined<br />

efforts of Universal's publicist Ben<br />

Katz; Ed Seguin. who heads advertising<br />

and publicity for B&K, and B&K publicist<br />

Tom Gorman have been going into preopening<br />

exploitation for the first showing<br />

lat the Chicago Theatre in the Loop.<br />

Warner Bros, press chief Frank Casey<br />

joined other Warner Bros, executives in<br />

New York for a discussion of the premiere<br />

activities for the Columbus Day opening<br />

of "The Great Race" at the State Lake<br />

Theatre. According to current plans, some<br />

of the film's numerous top stars should<br />

'be on hand for the ballyhoo at the State<br />

Lake.<br />

Oskar Werner will be here September 20<br />

lin connection with "Ship of Fools." And<br />

Werner's co-star Michael Dunn will be<br />

doing his night club act at Mr. Kelly's<br />

when the pictm-e opens September 30 at<br />

the United Ai'tists Theatre in the Loop . . .<br />

Publicist Paul Montague is recuperating<br />

from surgeiy on his right hand for a nerve<br />

.connection . . . William Castle, producer of<br />

"'I Saw What You Did," shipped in carloads<br />

iof seat belts for the multiple first-run<br />

openings, with the comment: "Fasten youi-<br />

'seat belts! It will jet you to new heights<br />

Iof terror and suspense and excitement."<br />

Two-day, twice-a-day showings of an<br />

actual performance by the La Scala Opera<br />

:company of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme"<br />

are scheduled for October 20 and 21<br />

in selected movie houses around town . . .<br />

|Milt Simon has been commuting to down-<br />

Istate and Indianaiwlis area cities for<br />

opemngs of "Kwaheri," for which he was<br />

appointed distributor in the midwest area.<br />

Paramount publicist Dick Taylor was in<br />

Indianapolis for the multiple-run openings<br />

of "The Skull." He has also been setting<br />

up a campaign for the October 1st opening<br />

of "Situation Hopeless but Not Serious,"<br />

which will make its local debut at<br />

the Esquire Theatre . Artists<br />

press chief Wally Heim has been going<br />

around in circles supervising op>ening activities<br />

of "Billie" at the Oriental: Glory<br />

Guys" at the Roosevelt: "Hallelujah Trail"<br />

at the McVickers and the world premiere of<br />

"A Rage to Live" at the Woods.<br />

G. R. Frank, Paramount branch manager<br />

here, is relaxing on a short holiday<br />

. . . American International's "Swingers'<br />

Paradise" is paired with "Shenandoah" in<br />

a series of neighborhood theatres .<br />

Condolences to Alice Dubin of American<br />

International on the death of her brother<br />

Ralph. He had been living in California.<br />

Tess Sullivan of American International's<br />

office staff is enjoying a vacation in Michigan<br />

. . . New member of American International's<br />

local force is Shirley Sterling. She<br />

was formerly associated with MGM and<br />

Brotman-Sherman Theatres . . . Mrs. Sam<br />

Seplowin is recuperating at home after<br />

several weeks in the hospital.<br />

Herman Ripps, MGM assistant general<br />

sales manager, was here to talk about fall<br />

product, including "Once a Thief." Also discussed<br />

were saturation openings of "The<br />

Great Spy Mission," which goes into citywide<br />

release October 1. This marks the<br />

fii-st showings following the film's run at<br />

the Oriental Theatre in the Loop. And "The<br />

Yellow Rolls-Royce," which opens in several<br />

select theatres and drive-ins, will play<br />

with "The Sandpiper" in a number of situations<br />

. . . MGM Records is setting up its<br />

own distributorship in Chicago. Morris<br />

Price heads up the office.<br />

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the distilbutois and exhibitors are spearheading<br />

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In this area. Tom Gorman of Balaban &<br />

Katz is working with critics and columnists<br />

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Included are Warner Bros.' "Marriage<br />

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"The Hill" and "The Secret of My Success"<br />

and Columbia's "Ship of Fools."<br />

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Peter Rosian, Universal regional sales<br />

manager, spent a few days here with<br />

branch manager Herb Martinez and members<br />

George Rose,<br />

of the sales staff . . . booker for Universal, and his wife Ruth<br />

celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary<br />

September 15. Just a month to the day,<br />

their daughter Donna will be feted at a<br />

Sweet Sixteen party Ruskenko of<br />

. .<br />

the Universal office staff is vacationing .<br />

Get well wishes to Mrs. Beverly Paonessa,<br />

secretary to Universal branch manager<br />

Herg Martinez. She is currently recuperating<br />

in the hospital.<br />

While heavy advance bookings for<br />

"Sound of Music" are going to delay the<br />

opening of "The Agony and the Ecstasy"<br />

at the Michael Todd, advance publicity by<br />

way of posters and reservation blanks is<br />

bringing in astounding results. With a 40x<br />

60 panel in the lobbies of the Todd. Cinestage<br />

and the McVickers. blanks for "priority<br />

ticket sales" were mailed in by 1.200<br />

people in less than a week. No advertising<br />

on any other level has thus far been done.<br />

Bob Allen, head of Continental Distributing<br />

Corp. here, attended a sales meeting<br />

in New York. A big part of the discussion<br />

concerned satm-ation campaign plans<br />

for "Ghidrah," which opens October 29 in<br />

top Chicagoland theatres Hess,<br />

head of Azteca and<br />

.<br />

Clasa-Mohme here,<br />

and Bruce Trinz of the Clerk Theatre in<br />

the Loop, completed arrangements for a<br />

progi-am of Spanish-language movies directed<br />

by the internationally known producer<br />

Luis Bunuel. Included are "Ensayo<br />

de Crimen," (Criminal Life of Archibaldo<br />

de La Cruz) ; followed by "Subida el Cielo"<br />

Bus Ride<br />

) . a first prize-wimier<br />

at Cannes. The films will be shown with<br />

English subtitles.<br />

Raquel Considlne of Azteca Films is vacationing<br />

in Acapulco . . . During August<br />

1965. the Censor Board reviewed 61 movies.<br />

16 of which were foreign films. Three were<br />

"adulted," foui- were rejected but no cuts<br />

were ordered . Town Theatre is<br />

showing an exhibit of oils highlighting<br />

Chicago scenes by Fi'ank Beatty. He was<br />

art director for Popular Mechanics prior<br />

to his i-etirement.<br />

"The Sound of Music" at the Michael<br />

Todd, "Those Magnificent Men in Their<br />

Flying Machines" at the Cinestage and<br />

"The Greatest Story Ever Told" at the<br />

McVickers have returned to the regular<br />

schedule of ten performances weekly, replacing<br />

the 14 shows which were scheduled<br />

for the summer months and vacation<br />

periods. The regular schedule calls for<br />

seven evening shows and matinees on<br />

Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, with<br />

extra matinees on holidays.<br />

Members of the Variety Club of Illinois,<br />

headed by Vic Bernstein, chief barker, welcomed<br />

the addition of the Robert A. and<br />

Mary C. Black Building to the present<br />

structures which serve LaRabida Jackson<br />

Park Sanitarium.<br />

Mrs. Reade Jr.<br />

Named<br />

rrom Eastern Edition<br />

TRENTON. N.J.—Mrs. Walter Reade<br />

jr., wife of the board chaiiman of the<br />

Walter Reade- Sterling circuit, has been<br />

named vice-chairman of the "Citizens for<br />

Hughes committee."<br />

INDIANAPOLIS<br />

J^rs. Helen Bohn, formerly with Realartl<br />

here, retui-ned to her home in Cincinnati,<br />

following a visit to Washington, D.C<br />

.<br />

and Lakewood, N.J. . . . Mrs. Mary Long<br />

lUAi and her husband Bill spent the Labor<br />

Day weekend boating on Cumberland lake<br />

in Kentucky . N. Peterson, NTS, spent<br />

the weekend at Dayton and Zanesville.<br />

Ohio. In Dayton he entered his son Tom<br />

as a freshman at Dayton University and<br />

in Zanesville visited his son B. N. jr. and<br />

family . T. Lochry and his<br />

family have returned from a motor trip to<br />

the West Coast.<br />

Word has lieen received here of the death<br />

of Joe Million, owner of the Veedersburgi<br />

Drive-In, Veedersburg. Million was a pio-]<br />

neer in the drive-in theatre business in<br />

this area. In recent years he had been<br />

making his home at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,<br />

because of his health. Death came to him<br />

while he was flying to Veedersburg.<br />

Ground was broken this week for an 800-<br />

seat theatre in the Nora Plaza Shopping,<br />

Center, north on Highway 100 .. . Larry<br />

Shubnell, manager of the Strand Theatre,<br />

Muncie, is vacationing in New York and<br />

Washington, D.C, with Mrs. Shubnell. In<br />

Washington they will visit their son who<br />

accepted a position there following his<br />

graduation from Notre Dame.<br />

$3 Million Project Halts;<br />

Optometrist Won't Vacate<br />

From Mideast Edition<br />

YOUNGSTOWN — An optometrist who!<br />

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refuses to vacate the Palace Theatre Bldg.l<br />

until his lease expires in 1970 is blamed forj<br />

postponement of the $3 million Plaza I!<br />

project planned by Stephen C. Baytos Si\<br />

Associates.<br />

Plaza I is designed to house a Cinerama<br />

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Theatre, apartments, indoor parking andl<br />

specialty shops. The Palace, built in 1926,]<br />

was razed earlier this year. Baytos said thej<br />

cleared site next to the building will be-'<br />

come a parking lot until construction of<br />

Plaza I can begin.<br />

Broumas July Showmanship<br />

Award to Bill Woodward<br />

From Eastern Edition<br />

SILVER SPRING, MD.—John G. Broumas,<br />

president of Broumas Theatres, has<br />

announced that Bill Woodward, manager<br />

of the circuit's Oipheum in Connpllsville.<br />

Pa., has won the July Manager of the<br />

Month Showmanship Award.<br />

Woodwai-d's campaigns for "The Man<br />

From Button Willow" and "The Yellow<br />

Rolls-Royce" earned him the circuit's midsummer<br />

honors. In addition to a "hearty<br />

well done" from Broumas. Woodward received<br />

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MEMPHIS — Two newcomers to the<br />

Memphis fu'st-run scene packed in a first<br />

week's business of 350 per cent. One was<br />

"The Knack" at the Guild; the other,<br />

Universal's "Shenandoah" at the Malco<br />

Theatre. A second week of "HELP!" at<br />

Palace and the 22nd week of "The<br />

Sound of Music" at the Paramount each<br />

scored 300, tripling average grossing figm'es<br />

for those theatres. All-in-all, first runs<br />

were doing banner business.<br />

(Average Is 100)<br />

Crosstown Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

(20th-Fox), 10th wk 200<br />

Guild—The Knack (UA-Lopert) 350<br />

'Malco Shenandoah (Univ) 350<br />

(UA), 2nd wk 300<br />

Paramount The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

22nd wk 300<br />

Park—Thot Funny Feeling (Univ), 2nd wk 120<br />

In Harm's Way (Para) 1 50<br />

'State— I Sow What You Did (Univ), 2nd wk 150<br />

Warner War-Gods of the Deep (AlP), The Lost<br />

of Sinbad (AlP) 100<br />

Martin's Atlanta Rialto<br />

Opens Smoking Lounge<br />

91 of the 1,200 seats<br />

in Martin's Rialto Theatre are being used<br />

in the new smoking lounge which was<br />

opened Sunday, August 29, but Manager<br />

Bui'en A. Eidson can add as many more<br />

seats as he desires when the necessity<br />

arises since the Rialto is a stadium-type<br />

theatre.<br />

Rialto's smoking lounge is the secjond<br />

to be opened in Atlanta. The second<br />

'such lounge in a theatre made its debut a<br />

icouple of months ago at Loew's Grand<br />

[When Manager Bill Shealey opened his<br />

;loge section and first balcony, a total of<br />

|500 seats, after they were properly treated<br />

and equipped to meet the city's fire regu-<br />

:lations.<br />

additional charge of 25 cents is levied<br />

ifor smoking area privileges.<br />

Greenbriar Theatre, now being con-<br />

!structed in the shopping center of that<br />

iname, will have a smoking lounge with<br />

'200 capacity.<br />

Jaycees Restore Theatre<br />

(At Unadilla, Georgia<br />

— Sei-vice clubs in towns<br />

.where there is a dark theatre would do<br />

well to follow the example of the Junior<br />

iChamber of Commerce of Unadilla, Ga.,<br />

Judy Canova claimed for years as<br />

'her home town.<br />

Unadilla's Jaycees Saturday i4i took<br />

lOver the operation of the former Dixie<br />

Theatre, renamed it the J.C., cleaned it up,<br />

Jremodeled it and now the town has moition<br />

pictures once more,<br />

the J.C. is not a profit-making<br />

! project, the Jaycees wll use any money it<br />

for its many civic endeavors. The<br />

|Tom Jones Agency of Decatur, Ga., is buyjing<br />

and booking for the new location.<br />

Owners of 'Six Flags Over Texas'<br />

To Build $7 Million Atlanta Center<br />

ATLANTA—Not too long ago 'Walt Disney<br />

scouts were here making a sui-vey<br />

with a view to locating an "Eastern" Disneyland.<br />

It was reported they were interested<br />

in an established resort at nearby<br />

Lake Spivey, but the deal never came off.<br />

At last reports, Disney had decided on a<br />

Florida location for an East Coast Disneyland.<br />

Meanwhile, Georgia has been transfoiTning<br />

Stone Mountain Park into a reasonable<br />

(junior grade) facsimile of the Disney<br />

facility, including a sky lift to the top of<br />

the 900-foot granite mountain<br />

i often referred<br />

to as the Eighth 'Wonder of the<br />

World), a lake with sternwheel steamboats,<br />

restaui'ants, a swaiik motel, a "working"<br />

plantation and a full size train on<br />

tracks that circle the mountain. Other<br />

amusement park attractions are planned,<br />

but the main tourist lure will be a huge<br />

carving on the steep side of the mountain<br />

featuring such Confederate stalwarts as<br />

Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Stonewall Jackson,<br />

F^'esident Jefferson Davis, and so on.<br />

HALP' MILLION VISIT PARK<br />

Stone Mountain Park is located 20 miles<br />

from Atlanta and an estimated half a million<br />

visited the park since the $1 per vehicle<br />

admission charge began April 1.<br />

General manager Harold Maddux told the<br />

Stone Mountain Memorial Ass'n that it<br />

is conceivable that a million visitors will<br />

visit the park before the year is over.<br />

Stickers are good for one year.<br />

While the Disneyland people passed up<br />

this area, a Texas industrial development<br />

firm. Great Southwest Corp., has announced<br />

it will build a $7 miUion amusement<br />

center that could tm-n into Georgia's<br />

No. 1 tourist attraction just as Disneyland<br />

has done in California.<br />

Great Southwest is the owner-operator of<br />

"Six Flags Over Texas" amusement center<br />

in the Dallas-Fort 'Worth area, the nation's<br />

most profitable "theme" amusement<br />

center. They plan to model the Atlanta<br />

center after the Lone Star State layout,<br />

which racked up $2 million profit last<br />

year.<br />

TRACT COSTS $5,000,000<br />

Great Southwest announced Tuesday<br />

(17) it had paid $5 million for a 3,000-<br />

acre tract in Southwest Atlanta—the largest<br />

industrial real estate transaction in<br />

the history of the Southwest—upon which<br />

it plans a long range $400 million recreation-industrial<br />

complex.<br />

Angus G. Wynne jr., president of Great<br />

Southwest, made the announcement at a<br />

meeting in Dallas, which was attended by<br />

Georgia's Gov. Carl Sanders, Atlanta<br />

Mayor Ivan S. Allen jr. and county commissioners<br />

James Aldiedge, Archie Lindsey<br />

and Harold McCart.<br />

Wynne said construction will begin immediately<br />

on the recreation facility, a 140-<br />

acre center that will cost more than $7<br />

It is due to open in the sprmg of 1967<br />

and admission prices are expected to be<br />

the same as at Six Flags: $3.50 for adults<br />

and $2,50 for children, for which patrons<br />

may enjoy any —and all—attractions, m-<br />

cluding 75 rides and shows.<br />

Great Southwest expects the Atlanta<br />

recreation center to be more profitable<br />

than the Texas operation since Atlanta<br />

has twice as many people in its trade area.<br />

At Six Flags last year attendance was<br />

1 600 000. About 31 per cent came from<br />

Dallas and Fort Worth and only 25 per<br />

cent from out-of-state.<br />

Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is the majority<br />

owner of Great Southwest.<br />

Lindsey Jones Assigned<br />

To Para. Overseas Post<br />

ATLANTA — Lindsey Jones, son of<br />

George Jones, regional accounting manager<br />

for Universal in Atlanta, has been<br />

appointed assistant to the pubhcity and<br />

advertising director for Em-ope and the<br />

Near East for Paramount Pictures. His<br />

job will require frequent trips to the 17<br />

territories in his district which stretches<br />

from Lisbon to Lebanon.<br />

A foi-mer booker for Umversal m Atlanta.<br />

Undsey spent fom- years in the<br />

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production. He worked under directors<br />

Hem-y Levin. Mei-vyn LeRoy. Ralph Levy,<br />

Richard Quine, Otto Pieminger and Henry<br />

Koster.<br />

William Shapiro Dies<br />

In Memphis Hospital<br />

MEMPHIS—William Shapiro, 70, wellknown<br />

Memphis exhibitor, died at Baptist<br />

Hospital September 2. He h^d beeii in<br />

show business for 50 years and a Memphis<br />

theatre operator for 25 years.<br />

Shapiro owned and operated the Lamai<br />

and Airways theatres and had been<br />

honored by the Optimist Club for his f.ee<br />

Christmas shows for years for underprivileged<br />

children. He was a World War<br />

I veteran.<br />

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JACKSONVILLE<br />

Yn> Sawyer, president of the Motion Picture<br />

Charity Club and a home office<br />

executive of Florida State Theatres, announced<br />

that the group's aiinual invitational<br />

golf tournament will be held early in<br />

October at the Jacksonville Beach Golf<br />

Club under the chairmanship of Robert<br />

Parber. executive head of Stein Theatres.<br />

Tlie tourney will be followed by a cocktail<br />

party and banquet for MPCC members<br />

and their guests, Sawyer stated.<br />

Pete Rosi.in. Universal division manager<br />

from Cleveland, was a guest of honor at an<br />

industry luncheon given by Florida State<br />

Tlieatres in the Studio Tlieatre August 3).<br />

Also honored was LaMar Sarra. FST vicepresident<br />

and general counsel, whose birthday<br />

marked the occasion. FST president<br />

Louis J. Finske served as emcee and FST<br />

WOMPI leaders Anne Dillon and Mary<br />

Hart, assisted by Ed Dorsey, FST mail<br />

clerk, served the smorgasbord meal. Guests<br />

included all managers of Florida film distribution<br />

offices. FST home office personnel,<br />

local FST theatre managers. FST district<br />

supervisor Harry Botwick from<br />

Miami and his advertising assistant Ralph<br />

Puckhaber and FST district supervisor Bob<br />

Harns from Tampa. The luncheon followed<br />

an advertising meeting devoted to advance<br />

promotional work on "The Ipcress File."<br />

which has been adopted as an FST project<br />

picture.<br />

Bob Jones, junior manager of the downtown<br />

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and salesmen from all parts of Florida and<br />

46 Georgia counties who were attending<br />

an annual convention at the Civic Auditorium.<br />

Marty Shearn. senior manager of<br />

the Center, has been home for several<br />

weeks as the result of a recurring illness.<br />

Mary Grace Ezell. the daughter of Clint<br />

Ezell. a former local exhibitor who is now<br />

vice-president of the Roy Smith Co. of<br />

this city and Tampa, a leading theatre supply<br />

firm, won the title of Miss Jacksonville<br />

for the coming year at a beauty pageant<br />

and talent show staged at the Civic Auditorium<br />

the night of September 4. Mary<br />

Grace won her title in competition with<br />

15 opponents. A student at Jacksonville<br />

University and choreographer for the local<br />

Little Theatre. Mary Grace is a professional<br />

ballet dancer who spent several<br />

months touring with the Broadway company<br />

of "No Strings."<br />

St. Augustine—40 miles south of this<br />

city—drew thousands of pleasure and entertainment<br />

seekers during a week-long celebration<br />

which marked the 400th anniversary<br />

on September 8 of the founding of St.<br />

Augustine as the birthplace of the nation<br />

when Capt.-Gen. Don Pedro Mendenez de<br />

Aviles. a Spanish conquistador, led an expedition<br />

which founded this first permanent<br />

white settlement in what is now<br />

the United States. It was reported that<br />

motion picture interests were on hand to<br />

consider the dramatic historical events of<br />

St. Augustine's founding for possible development<br />

as screen entertainment. A<br />

pageant, "The Cross and the Sword."<br />

written by Paul Green, a leading Southern<br />

playwright, was presented.<br />

The State Tlieatre at Cocoa has been<br />

shuttered temporarily for refurbishing and<br />

conversion into an art theatre by Kent<br />

Theatres. It is expected to reopen in October<br />

with foreign film programs and a<br />

coffee service for patrons similar to those<br />

offered by FST's San Marco Art Theatre<br />

in this city . . . Col. John Crovo. retired<br />

local exhibitor, returned from his annual<br />

summer visit to Louisville. Ky.. where his<br />

three older sisters (aged 83, 88 and 90)<br />

reside.<br />

Roy Bang has reopened the State Theatre,<br />

Eustis, as a sub-run theatre. Its<br />

former first-run policy has been taken<br />

over by the Movie Garden Drive-In. Eustis.<br />

operated by MGM Theatres . Carver<br />

Theatre. Orlando, fonnerly operated by<br />

Ed Gordon, is scheduled to open September<br />

16 as a unit of Bailey Theatres of Atlanta.<br />

and the Park. St. Petersburg, has also<br />

been opened under Bailey operation.<br />

Arvin K. "Arv" Rottisctiild, fomier local<br />

exhibitor who now heads Greater Jacksonville<br />

Economic Opportunity. Inc.. is planning<br />

to form an $800,000 Neighborhood<br />

Youth Corps for this city and environs<br />

which will serve about 1.000 young people<br />

from poverty stricken homes .<br />

Kent, president of Kent<br />

. . Fred<br />

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chairman of the Duval-Nassau County<br />

junior college advisory committee, presided<br />

over an organizational meeting of the important<br />

educational group prior to going<br />

abroad for an armual vacation trip.<br />

Joseph Reiff is the new Colimibia Pictures<br />

branch manager in New York, succeeding<br />

Saul Ti'auner.<br />

MIAMI<br />

AAcmbers of tlie executive board o<br />

lATSE. meeting in Miami Beach a<br />

the Carillon Hotel August 25, attendr(<br />

groundbreaking ceremonies of the nvv<br />

Studio City, headed by international pre.si<br />

dent of lATSE Richard F. Walsh. Thi<br />

lATSE tour of the city also included :<br />

visit to the Ivan Tors-MGM Studios ii<br />

north Miami, a boat trip to Port Lauder<br />

dale, and a tour of Vizcaya, Dade Count;<br />

art museum, for the ladies. Representative<br />

of locals greeting executive board mem<br />

bers were Paul G. Robertson. Operator.<br />

Local 316: Harold J. Jones. Operators Loca<br />

316-A: Albert M. Stasko, Stage Employe<br />

Local 545: Mis. I. Ricky Caminite. Treas<br />

urers and Ticket Sellers Local 827: Mar J<br />

garet Kunkle. Theatrical Wardrobe Attendants<br />

Local 853: Paul L. Robinson jr.i<br />

Mixed Local 646, and Walter Davis. Camersl<br />

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Albert Bundlow, former director of in<br />

ternational exports for Wometco, has beei<br />

named director of sales and marketing foj<br />

Blackstone Cigar Co. of Boston . . . "Shen,<br />

andoah" had its preview here last week anc<br />

those who saw it said it was a "weeper'<br />

and when it plays the di-ive-ins there won'<br />

be a "dry vrindshield in the place."<br />

Gov. Haydon Bums and the Florida dej<br />

velO'pment commission have been working<br />

closely with Tors and Ben Chapman wh3<br />

are enlarging the Tors Studios at a cos]<br />

of more than $500,000. At the next sessioij<br />

of the legislature, recommendations will b|<br />

made for new laws to attract motion picturl<br />

producers to this state. Changes will b|<br />

asked in the child labor law. as well a|<br />

the sales and use tax and the persona]<br />

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the following day. An attempt will be mad(<br />

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Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson and Gary<br />

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The Miami Beach public library's filn<br />

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Pool" to Jack Lemmon's Jalem Productions.<br />

His successful novel of last season.<br />

Man Who Wrote Dirty Books,"<br />

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Another Miami Beach graduate. Ar-<br />

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wives, double standards of morality,<br />

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Soupy Sales will check into the Diplomat<br />

Hotel here on Veterans Day, November 11,<br />

to prepare for the star role of "The Birds<br />

Do It" at Tors' north Miami studio . . .<br />

"The Great Race" has been snared by<br />

Florida State Theatres for an exclusive<br />

showing starting October 15. The Coral<br />

Theatre will present it in a "special," but<br />

non-roadshow, foiTnat of continuous performances.<br />

The owners of the Roosevelt Theatre say<br />

long-time "movies-only" house wUI be<br />

to a legitimate theatre, hosting<br />

stageshows. Ernest Stern, president<br />

of the Associated Theatres, Pittsbm-gh-based<br />

chain that owns the house,<br />

plans to bring legitimate theatre to<br />

Miami Beach this season are only in the<br />

exploratory stages. The theatre would have<br />

enlarge its stage, add di'essing rooms<br />

and make other alterations. The 1,200-<br />

seat Roosevelt would undertake a four- or<br />

five-month season.<br />

Kosbergr, Universal Studios film<br />

who won acclaim for his work on<br />

"'VictoiT at Sea," was on a trip to Miami<br />

Beach for what he called an "official va-<br />

He told Lou Rubin, owiier of<br />

Chandlers Restaurant, that he was on a<br />

personal scouting trip to see how much of<br />

"threat" Miami poses to Hollywood as<br />

television center.<br />

Some of the greatest international films.<br />

the sensitive dramas of Bergman<br />

Fellinl to the rollicking comedies of<br />

Charlie Chaplin, are on tap this fall, the<br />

University of Miami Film Society announces.<br />

Performances, to be held each<br />

Saturday, will begin Satui-day i25) with<br />

"Virgin Spring" and will end<br />

with the December 1 1 showing of "Best<br />

Enemies," starring David Niven. Foreign<br />

films<br />

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will have English sub-titles. Periformances.<br />

all double bills, will be held in<br />

Lecture Hall at the miiversity.<br />

Single admission is 50 cents and a season<br />

1<br />

ticket for the 11 performances is $4.25.<br />

Lew Price, director of the Miami-Metro<br />

department of publicity and tom'ism, will<br />

be honored at a testimonial luncheon<br />

'Thursday H6). Chief barker HemT Oxell<br />

says he expects several hundred members<br />

Variety Club Tent 33, which is sponsoring<br />

the dinner, and then- guests to turn<br />

to pay tribute to Pi-ice for his "many<br />

distinguished services and personal efforts<br />

behalf of Variety Children's Hospital."<br />

Past Chief Barker George MacLean is<br />

of the event to be held in the<br />

Colonial Hotel.<br />

ATLANTA<br />

1 D. "Woody" Woodard, Warner Bros.<br />

Southeastern exploiteer, has returned<br />

from a 4,000-mile junket in connection<br />

with "The Great Race," which is set to<br />

open in mid-October at Martin's 1,200-<br />

seat downtown Rialto. He and his wife<br />

spent the Labor Day weekend visiting his<br />

mother in Jacksonville and he was in New<br />

York Friday < 10 1 to attend the WB seminar<br />

on "La Boheme," which all fieldmen<br />

were to attend,<br />

A sneak thief has struck again on Filmrow.<br />

This time the victim was a secretary<br />

in the Capital City Supply Co. Her<br />

pocketbook, containing $35, was lifted by<br />

a man seen leaving the office . . . John<br />

Calhoun, MGM public relations, has returned<br />

from a vacation to Chicago. Formerly<br />

in Milwaukee for MGM, he succeeded<br />

Judson Moses in the Southeast when Moses<br />

was transferred to the Southwest, with<br />

headquarters in Dallas.<br />

R. C. Cobb, head of the circuit which<br />

owns and operates the 1,200-car Thunderbird<br />

Drive-In here, is ill at home in Payette,<br />

Ala., headquarters of the chain .<br />

Pat Patterson, Excelsior Distributing Co.,<br />

San Francisco, spent some time here on<br />

"Shotgun Wedding.'' He also was in Kansas<br />

City, Washington and New York. Ths<br />

film now is being handled in the Atlanta<br />

and Jacksonville areas by the Al Rook<br />

Agency.<br />

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Martin's l,COO-seat Strand in nearby<br />

Marietta set an all-time record at the<br />

opening of "Shenandoah" . Jack Riggs,<br />

operator of Specialty Booking Service,<br />

made a visit to Dublin, Ga., to talk bookings<br />

with H. L. Cordell, owner of Theatres,<br />

Inc,<br />

H. H. "Bo" Digges and his wife were<br />

Atlanta visitors and conferred with Tom<br />

Jones of the booking agency bearing his<br />

name at Decatur- about product for their<br />

Twin City Drive-In, Bluff City, Tenn. . . .<br />

James Zimmerman. Martin's Atlanta district<br />

manager, called on his brother Jerry<br />

Zimmerman, a Southern Airways pilot, to<br />

help out when two of his key managers<br />

left on overlapping vacations. Jen-y had<br />

been a manager for eight years before joining<br />

the airlines. The managers on vacations<br />

are Bm-en A. "Tiny" Eidson of the<br />

Rialto and Kenneth Hood, the Village.<br />

Walt Disney, Joseph E. Levine and AIP<br />

are vying for the subsequent-run dollar,<br />

with "Harlow" showing at three hardtops<br />

and eight di'ive-ins; "The Monkey's Uncle"<br />

at three conventional theatres and five<br />

aii'ers and "Ski Party" at two theatres<br />

and five drive-ins.<br />

Billy Jenkins, manager of Martin's<br />

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Cindy's fabled coach was modern, too, a<br />

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visited Martin's Beverly Theatre in Columbus,<br />

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Norris McCollum, fonner manager of<br />

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MEMPHIS<br />

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Freckle-faced Eddie Hodges, who rose to<br />

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So Eddie settled for a tour of Elvis' home,<br />

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Graceland for many years was<br />

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Congratulations to Levin Culpepper, former<br />

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as postmaster . . . Mi-, and Mrs.<br />

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lanta Martin of 20th Cen-1<br />

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Carole Conway Hendrix of Reidsville<br />

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pleasure rides away from hospital<br />

confinement, was presented to the Texas<br />

Institute for Rehabilitation and Research<br />

by the Variety Club of Houston.<br />

Jack Bryant, chief barker of the Variety<br />

Club, presented the $10,000 coach to Dr.<br />

William A. Spencer, director of the institute.<br />

The bus is equipped with a locking<br />

track for wheel chairs and has 20 regular<br />

seats.<br />

Scenes in 'Sand Pebbles'<br />

To Be Made on USS Texas<br />

HOUSTON — The Battleship Texas is<br />

going to become a movie star. Director<br />

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preparation for shooting scenes for "The<br />

Sand Pebbles" aboard here in April 1966.<br />

Filming on the 20th-Fox movie, a story of<br />

a U.S. Navy gunboat on patrol along<br />

Yangtze river in 1925, will begin<br />

in November in Taiwan.<br />

Actor Steve McQueen, who plays a chief<br />

machinist, the major character in the film,<br />

wiU be in the Battleship Texas scenes.<br />

The battleship will play the part of an<br />

American warship docked in the harbor of<br />

Shanghai, some scenes to be taken below<br />

decks in the crew's quarters. The filming<br />

be done possibly on Monday when<br />

the battleship is closed as a tourist at-<br />

Wise said that the battleship<br />

will be used for the scenes because she<br />

is one of the few ships of her vintage<br />

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Okla. Showman<br />

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OKLA,—Funeral rites for C.<br />

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who built the first vaudeville house<br />

and movie theatre in the Oklahoma Strip,<br />

were held Wednesday ( H . died August<br />

29 in Guymon Memorial Hospital.<br />

Active in the theatre business 60 years.<br />

he had been a real estate developer and<br />

had operated a di-y goods and hardware<br />

store here, as well as owner of the Dime,<br />

the first film house west of Oklahoma<br />

He also had operated theatres at<br />

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civic and social leader leaves his<br />

I wife Lelia: a son, one daughter, three<br />

and a great-gi-andson.<br />

Judge Delays Decision<br />

In Tulsa Film Charges<br />

TULSA—Common Pleas Com-t Judge Ed<br />

Morris delayed a decision in the case of<br />

Jose Antonia Ramirez, owner of the Paris<br />

Theatre, and James Moore, his projectionist,<br />

charged with exhibiting an "obscene<br />

motion picture." The judge moved his<br />

court to the Orpheum Theatre to view the<br />

film.<br />

Another Marquee Message<br />

CROCKETT. TEX.—The double<br />

feature<br />

at the Rio Theatre held the following message<br />

to patrons on the marquee of the theatre:<br />

"Who's in My Bed? "—"None But the<br />

Brave."<br />

I BOXOFFICE September 13, 1965<br />

New Oklahoma City<br />

Committed to<br />

By SAM BRUNK<br />

OKLAHOMA CITY — Construction<br />

nearing completion here on the Continental,<br />

the first of three roadshow theatres<br />

to be designed, engineered and constructed<br />

by the Atlas Organization of Oklahoma<br />

City. The other two theatres are<br />

under construction in Denver and Tulsa.<br />

The Oklahoma City Continental Theatre<br />

is scheduled for opening in October, the<br />

exact date to be announced later. It will<br />

be owned and operated by Barton Theatres<br />

of Oklahoma City of which R. Lewis Barton<br />

is president. The Denver and Tulsa<br />

Continental theatres will be owned and<br />

operated by Continental Roadshow Theatres,<br />

a Denver-based company.<br />

Situated at the crest of one of the city's<br />

highest elevations, in United Founders<br />

Life Plaza at May avenue and Northwest<br />

Express highway, the Continental will<br />

be easily accessible from all parts of the<br />

metropolitan area. Matinee movie fans<br />

will have a magnificent view of downtown<br />

Oklahoma City from a spacious<br />

lounge with 20-foot pictm-e glass windows<br />

or from the large patio in front of the<br />

lounge. Evening theatregoers will be treated<br />

to the city's countless lights twinkling after<br />

dark.<br />

The exterior of the Continental is to be<br />

a departure from traditional theatre design,<br />

yet pleasing to the eye and in complete<br />

harmony with the architectural concepts<br />

of the community in which it is located.<br />

The entire structm-e is of reinforced concrete.<br />

Exterior walls are to be black, with<br />

an unusual valley-and-ridge roof design<br />

and its 50 supporting and decorative columns<br />

in gleaming white.<br />

The screen end of the building is almost<br />

a half-cii-cle, designed to accommodate<br />

the largest screen considered practical<br />

for the motion pictm-e presentation. The<br />

three Continental theatres have been de-<br />

Checking construction progress at<br />

the Continental Theatre site are, left<br />

to right. George Gaughan, president,<br />

Continental Roadshow Theatres, Denver;<br />

R. Lewis Barton, president. Barton<br />

Theatres, Oklahoma City, and<br />

Haskell Robinett, who will be managing<br />

director for the Continental Theatre,<br />

the front of which is at left of<br />

picture.<br />

Continental<br />

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This photo taken from the Founders<br />

Life Building shows the north side,<br />

top and some of the parking space<br />

available to the Continental Theatre.<br />

The Founders Life Building was constructed<br />

by Atlas Construction Co.,<br />

which also is building the theatre.<br />

signed as all-purpose theatres and can<br />

adjust screen size to that chosen by the<br />

producer of certain pictures as being best<br />

fitted for the most life-like and dramatic<br />

presentation of his story. The local Continental<br />

Theatre is committed to Cinerama<br />

product and Cinerama engineers assisted<br />

in designing it.<br />

The tastefully decorated lounge area<br />

will contain over 3.300 square feet, decorative<br />

featm-es blending into a large patio,<br />

which will create a park-like exterior setting.<br />

The entire lounge area is to be carpeted<br />

in a pattern especially woven for<br />

the theatre. Wide passages lead from the<br />

lounge to the auditorium, which will be<br />

carpeted wall-to-wall.<br />

CONTINENTAL SEATING PLAN<br />

Seats spaced in rows 46 inches from<br />

back-to-back will be installed on the continental<br />

plan, making up a huge center<br />

section served by ten-foot wide side aisles.<br />

Custom-made seats are to be of rocker<br />

loge design and the platfonn ramp floor<br />

will assure each patron the vei-y finest<br />

viewing.<br />

Only one concrete booth is being constructed,<br />

since the most recent Cinerama<br />

productions require only a single projector.<br />

However, space is provided for installation<br />

of two additional booths. Air conditioning<br />

and heating units are to be of the<br />

latest design and best quality, with the<br />

building engineered so the temperature will<br />

be uniform in every section. Space also is<br />

being provided for dressing rooms, in case<br />

the management should desire to book a<br />

legitimate stage show.<br />

C. L. Garrett, vice-president, designer<br />

and engineer for the Atlas Organization,<br />

is one of the foremost designers in the<br />

country and has applied his talents to the<br />

three Continental theatres.<br />

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of the theatre by mid-March .<br />

Dreher of Crescent Theatres spent several<br />

days in Bristol Hospital for ear surgery<br />

but is reported to be doing nicely and is<br />

at home recuperating. He is expected back<br />

on the job soon Briley, shorts<br />

booker at Paramount, left Pi'iday to return<br />

to college. He will enroll this week at<br />

North Texas State in Denton.<br />

Ed Green of Texas Theatre Service is<br />

suffering with a back ailment. Fi-iday he<br />

was lifting a can of film from his car at<br />

the Paramount loading dock when he suffered<br />

a muscle spasm and could not stand<br />

up for about 15 minutes. He was rushed<br />

to the hospital and given emergency treatment<br />

and sent home to bed.<br />

Jerry Stogsdill, retired film employe,<br />

celebrated his 70th birthday Pi-iday and<br />

was pleased with the many cards, telegrams<br />

and telephone calls he received. Jerry<br />

keeps in touch with his Pilmrow friends<br />

through BoxoFFiCE and asked us to express<br />

thanks to his friends for their kindness.<br />

At this time he is suffering with a<br />

bad case of shingles and finds it most uncomfortable<br />

to rest.<br />

Dallas will be well represented at the<br />

forthcoming WOMPI International Convention<br />

at the Hotel Astor in New York<br />

September 17-19. Those from Dallas planning<br />

to attend are Juanita White, Elsie<br />

Parish, Ora Dell Lorenz, Rosa Browning,<br />

Blanche Boyle, Betty McDaniel. Virginia<br />

Elliott. Linda Kay White, Melba Marten<br />

and several guests. The Dallas club will<br />

host a "Till We Meet Again" luncheon on<br />

Sunday at the close of the convention . . .<br />

Rosa Browning and Blanche Boyle have<br />

a perfect attendance record at the conventions,<br />

having not missed a convention since<br />

the organization's first was held in Dallas<br />

for the pui'pose of making it an international<br />

organization. Now there are 17 clubs<br />

in the U.S. and Canada. Mrs. Lee Nickolaus<br />

of New Orleans will preside over the convention.<br />

Ford Releases Film<br />

From Mideast Edition<br />

DETROIT—A teenager and his first car<br />

form the theme of a 15-minute film produced<br />

and just released by the Ford Motor<br />

Co. "So You Want to Buy a Good Used<br />

Car" gives tips on how the expei-ts evaluate<br />

used cars. It is being distributed thi-ough<br />

the three Ford film libraries at Dearborn,<br />

New York and Oakland.<br />

Jennifer Jones in London<br />

For Filming 'The Idol'<br />

DALLAS—Possibility that actress Jen^<br />

nifer Jones is ready to start a significant<br />

new chapter in her film career was suggested<br />

to William A. Payne, amusementf<br />

editor of the Dallas News by Miss Jones<br />

father, Phil Isley, Dallas theatre owner..<br />

The actress, known to Dallas as Phyllis<br />

Isley, is in London to start work on "The<br />

Idol." her first screen role in nearly four<br />

years.<br />

"This could be the start of a new film<br />

career for Phyllis," Isley told Payne. "She*<br />

has been more occupied with being a wife<br />

and mother these last years, but with the<br />

death of David this summer (Miss Jone?<br />

was married to film producer David O<br />

Selznick in 1949 1 and her children grow^<br />

ing up, Phyllis wants to make more pictures<br />

when the right opportunity comesi<br />

along."<br />

The actress has two grown sons, Robert'<br />

Walker jr. and Michael Walker, born during<br />

her maiTiage to the late actor Robert:<br />

Walker, and an 11 -year-old daughter!<br />

Mary Jennifer Selznick, who is in London'<br />

with her mother.<br />

The right story to bring Miss Jones back:<br />

to screen prominence, Payne believes, could<br />

be "The Idol," in which she portrays ai<br />

attractive, highly moralistic woman wht<br />

succumbs to the physical appeal of hei<br />

son's best friend and the tragic consequences<br />

that sui-round that triangular relationship.<br />

Her co-stars are Michael Parks<br />

John Leyton and Jennifer Hillary.<br />

The film is being produced by Joseph E<br />

Levine's Embassy Pictm-es for Paramount<br />

release, probably in the fall of 1966.<br />

Miss Jones' last picture was "Tender I.'<br />

the Night," made four- years ago witl<br />

Jason Robards. In the last ten years she<br />

starred in "Farewell to Ai'ms," "The Barretts<br />

of Wimpole Street" and "The Mar<br />

in the Gray Flannel Suit,"<br />

Malcolm Stuart to Leave<br />

General Artists Oct. 1<br />

From Westerwn Edition<br />

HOLLYWOOD — Malcolm Stuart, vicepresident<br />

in charge of the literary department<br />

of General Artists Coitj. for four- years<br />

will leave GAC October 1 to enter motior<br />

pictm-e production.<br />

He will move to 20th-Pox to start preparation<br />

of his first feature film. "Way, Waj<br />

Out," space-age comedy starring Jerr.y<br />

Lewis. Filming will be done under th(<br />

banner of Coldwater Productions, Inc.<br />

Stuart's newly formed company, and 20th-<br />

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From Westerwn Edition<br />

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HOLLTWOOD—Howard W. Koch. ParaJ<br />

mount vice-president and studio and production<br />

head, announced that Sue Ladd<br />

agent and widow of Alan Ladd, has joinec<br />

Paramount as a producer to develop properties<br />

for future production, which will bt<br />

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TEXAS CITY, TEX.—Charlie Payne and<br />

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Theatre here who obsei-ved their first anniversary<br />

in that capacity, were subjects of<br />

a tribute, written by Dee Walker, local<br />

realtor, who appeared in the Texas City<br />

Sun.<br />

The Paynes, known in show business as<br />

"Cousin Elmer and Cousin Essy," became<br />

managers of the Long interests, owned by<br />

Johnny Long, a chain of theatres in the<br />

Southwest, including the Showboat, Texas<br />

and Tradewind drive-ins here. In one year,<br />

the Showboat has become a successful<br />

business and is widely known for its promotions,<br />

sponsored by the Paynes.<br />

One outstanding achievement was the<br />

"Mary Poppins" campaign, to which<br />

everyone from Walt Disney to Pi-esident<br />

Lyndon B. Johnson were invited. Gov. John<br />

Connally of Texas, along with Walt Disney<br />

and many others, wired congratulations.<br />

Western stars Tex Ritter and Gene Autry,<br />

with whom Payne worked as a clown in<br />

show business many years ago, also wired<br />

theii- wishes.<br />

1932, Payne started in show business<br />

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bills, served as a doorman and assisted<br />

the manager of the Grand Old Theatre in<br />

Ashland, Ky. In the '30s and '40s he worked<br />

as a comedian for the Grand Ole Opry. a<br />

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Hope entertained President Roosevelt in<br />

White House during this time. After<br />

World War n he managed for the Old<br />

Columbia Amusement Co. and other theain<br />

Ohio for the Capitol Amusement<br />

Co.<br />

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was accompanied by a three-quarter page<br />

advertisement section, endorsed by 16 local<br />

businesses.<br />

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ABILENE, TEX.—Lines forming at the<br />

Paramount Theatre in the futm-e will no<br />

longer block entrances to nearby stores,<br />

following moving of the boxoffice to the<br />

north side of the building as part of a<br />

general remodeling project.<br />

The front of the Paramount has been retiled,<br />

aluminum doors with tinted glass installed<br />

and seating on the main floor respaced<br />

on wider rows, the chaii-s having<br />

been rehabilitated. Other improvements include<br />

remodeling of the main louiige, where<br />

new lighting, new mirrors and new carpeting<br />

have been installed.<br />

Prank Sheffield, who manages the Paramount<br />

for Interstate Theatres, said that a<br />

new screen will be installed later, the ceiling<br />

painted and improvements made in the<br />

balcony seating.<br />

SAN ANTONIO<br />

H majority of the subui-ban theatres discontinued<br />

their matinee showings as<br />

of September 7 and reverted to their<br />

winter policy of opening in late afternoon<br />

on weekdays . Ballou" was in its<br />

third week at the suburban Olmos. where<br />

there is a possibility that the picture may<br />

break all house boxoffice records.<br />

Casey Tibbs, world champion rodeo<br />

cowboy and film producer, was a brief<br />

visitor in the city en route to Brackettville,<br />

where he presided at the annual Labor Day<br />

horse races. Tibbs spends much time in<br />

Hollywood producing western films. He is<br />

considering bringing his International<br />

Rodeo to San Antonio dui-ing the 1968<br />

HemisFaii- . . . Hollywood film star Chill<br />

Wills is being seen on KENS-TV as narrator<br />

for a special 30-minute film, "100<br />

Years of San Antonio," capsuling Alamo<br />

City and South Texas history. The special<br />

is being shown three times dui-ing the<br />

week.<br />

Gene T. Cole, city manager of Gulf State<br />

Drive-In Theatres, staged a back-toschool,<br />

dusk-to-dawn show at the cii-cuit's<br />

four drive-in theatres Saturday i4). beginmng<br />

at 7:30 p.m. Five features and<br />

foui- cartoons were shown at the Alamo.<br />

Mission Twin, Varsity and Circle 81. Fi-ee<br />

coffee and doughnuts were served to patrons<br />

beginning at 1 a.m. A door prize<br />

was given at each drive-in.<br />

Richard A. Vaughan, manager of the<br />

downtown Texas, staged another Pepsi-<br />

Cola Saturday morning show with admission<br />

being six Pepsi bottle caps. On the<br />

screen was "Long Ships," plus a cartoon<br />

and prizes for the youngsters.<br />

Peter Duryea to Co-Star<br />

In 'Never Steal Anything'<br />

From<br />

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HOLLYWOOD—Peter Duryea has been<br />

signed to co-star with Thomas Kirk and<br />

Del Moore in the Executive Independent<br />

Pi-oducers' "Never Steal Anything Wet," an<br />

original screenplay by Clyde Ware. Producer<br />

Bond Blackman said, after a threeday<br />

filming schedule at the Paradise Cove<br />

location site, director Leo Sholem will lead<br />

the company to Catalina Island for the remainder<br />

of the production.<br />

HOUSTON<br />

The Sons of Katie Elder" closed at 20 area<br />

and local theatres at midnight Wednesday<br />

and the prints of the film were collected<br />

and dispatched in a chartered truck<br />

to Dallas, where the film opened Thursday<br />

at 18 theatres. The film has been booked<br />

for a retui-n multiple-engagement later<br />

this month in Houston.<br />

Bill Baskin has taken over a supervisoiT<br />

post with the General Cinema Corp. He<br />

was previously a booker with Florida State<br />

Theatres. Baskin will work with Billy Wilson,<br />

now district supervisor in Texas for<br />

the circuit . . . Jerry Lewis is scheduled<br />

to arrive here in January with a film crew<br />

to shoot portions of his new film, "Way,<br />

Way Out," at the Manned Spacecraft<br />

Center . . . The Windsor and Gaylynn,<br />

both operated by the Jefferson Amusement<br />

Co., will discontinue matinee showing on<br />

Thursday.<br />

E. B. Buffington, a projectionist at the<br />

Santa Rosa theatres, was subject of an<br />

article in the Houston Post, together with<br />

a picture showing his new personalized<br />

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KINGS X. Buffington says that he has<br />

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Ellis Ford, manager of the Delman. was<br />

wondering whether to offer a dubbed or<br />

subtitled print of "Casanova '70," the<br />

Italian comedy which opens an engagement<br />

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an liour to see the Beatles' latest "HELP!"<br />

John Harvey, president of State Theatres,<br />

says two other showings that evening also<br />

were sold out. Ronnie Brown is house manager.<br />

Betty McDonald, Columbia Pictm-es billing<br />

clerk, has resigned to again become a<br />

hou.sewife. instead of a "career" girl. She<br />

wa.s succeeded by Jo Ann Linstead.<br />

Vacationers included H. K. "Buck" Buchanan,<br />

head booker at Paramount here,<br />

and Karen Turner. 20th-Fo.\. who went<br />

to Houston . Griggs, salesman for<br />

United Artists, and his wife have retui-ned<br />

from a 6.000-mile trip to the Northwest and<br />

West Coast. Wliile in San Francisco he<br />

visited Connie Carpou. who was transferred<br />

from New Haven as branch manager<br />

earlier this year.<br />

Exhibitors visiting Filmrow included<br />

Clyde Walker, Video City manager, Lawton;<br />

O. K. Kemp, Victory, Poteau; J. G.<br />

Millirons. Alamo, Snyder; E, B. Anderson,<br />

Riverside. Norman; Charles Smith, Corral,<br />

Wynnewood, and his brother Bob of the<br />

Grand at Canton; Homer C. Jones, Rialto<br />

and Alva at Alva; Clint Applewhite, Liberty.<br />

Carnegie, who had been to Las Vegas<br />

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Ed Ray, head booker at Warner Bros.,<br />

and his wife Mabel attended the horse<br />

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change-maker is accompanying "The,<br />

Sound of Music" at the Ambassador The-i<br />

atre these days, but theatre officials say<br />

one phase of the engagement is proving<br />

"a source of madness."<br />

It's all because of the "reserved seat'<br />

provi-sion of the spectacular musical<br />

Raleighites aren't used to such. The lasl<br />

"reserved seat" arrangement at a movie<br />

theatre here was years ago when "Gone<br />

With the Wind" first came to town.<br />

"Tlie Sound of Music" is here for an<br />

indefinite stay and all seats are reserved]<br />

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ceived a call that went something like this:<br />

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obtained in advance, although patron<br />

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UTOHA Urges Exhibitors<br />

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Midwest Theatres Fred C. Souttar, who i'<br />

on the legislative committee of the Unite'<br />

Theatre Owners of the Heart of AmeriCf<br />

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in Missouri urging them to oppose a bl'<br />

that would increase the minimum wage f<br />

$1.75 an hour, which would cover theatr<br />

personnel. The measure would cover ever<br />

retailer with an annual volume of $250,00<br />

a year. The House Education and Labo<br />

Committee is recommending the bill.<br />

Souttar states such a move would be in<br />

flationary in nature and would almost cer<br />

tainly set off another wage price spira<br />

Theatres employ many part-time an<br />

juvenile workers who would actually b<br />

classified as trainees, as it is their firs<br />

position. Souttar urges theatre owners ti<br />

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MILWAUKEE—Unusually cool weather<br />

for this time of year gave exhibitors a<br />

most valuable assist, resulting in a week<br />

when 125 was the lowest figure and five<br />

features grossed the top 300 percentage.<br />

Funny Feeling," showing on four<br />

compiled a composite 200 first<br />

week. The only other opener, "Moritml"<br />

here as "The Saboteur") garnered<br />

150 at the Cinema I.<br />

(Average Is 100)<br />

Avalon, 41 Twin (south screen), 24 Outdoor,<br />

Starlite That Funny Feeling (Univ) 200<br />

Capitol Court Those Magnificent Men in Their<br />

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 300<br />

'Cinema I Saboteur (Morituri) (20th-Fox) ....150<br />

II, Moyfoir The Sons ot Katie Elder<br />

(Paro), 3rd wk 150<br />

Downer Goldstein (5R), 2nd wk 125<br />

41 Twin (south screen) Cinderella (BV), reissues 250<br />

What's New Pussycat' (UA), 2nd wk. . .300<br />

(UA), 2nd wk 300<br />

Strand The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 23rd wk. 300<br />

Tower Art High Infidelity (Magna); Nurse on<br />

Wheels (Janus), 2nd wk 125<br />

My Fair Lody (WB), 36th wk 300<br />

Warner The Monkey's Uncle (BV), 2nd wk 200<br />

Elvis Presley's Tickle Me'<br />

Minneapolis Topper at 150<br />

Elvis Presley<br />

the Mill City ratings for the week<br />

a 150 count for the debut of "Tickle<br />

Me" at the Gopher. Otherwise, crowds<br />

were hard to come by for local exhibitors,<br />

the state fail- and major league baseball<br />

off a good number of entertainvacationers.<br />

Hard-ticket<br />

shows held up largely due to the influx of<br />

out-of-town visitors.<br />

My Fair Lady (WB), 44th wk 140<br />

It's a Mad, Mad, Mod, Mad World<br />

(UA), 43rd wk 140<br />

Gopher Tickle Me (AA) ... 150<br />

Cot Bollou (Col), 5th wk ''lOO<br />

The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 24fh wk 140<br />

HELP! (UA), 3rd wk 100<br />

Shenandoah (Univ), 5th wk 90<br />

Louis Pork Those Magnificent Men in Their<br />

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 10th wk 1 10<br />

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Suburban World Craiy Paradise (5R) 80<br />

Uptown The Pawnbroker (AA) ....<br />

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New Pussycot? (UA), 6'th' wk 125<br />

Triples Average<br />

21st Week in Omaha<br />

were two standouts as<br />

the movie industiy was beset by competing<br />

on many fronts here. "Shenanhad<br />

a second fat week at the Orpheum<br />

Theatre, doubling average again.<br />

"The Sound of Music" kept up its<br />

dizzy boxoffice pace for another week,<br />

,<br />

tripling regular returns.<br />

New Pussycat? (UA), 4th wk. ..110<br />

Cooper—My Fair Lady (WB), 42nd wk 110<br />

The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 21st wk 300<br />

Hills The Greatest Story Ever Told<br />

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Having a Wild Weekend (WB) 115<br />

Shenandoah (Univ), 2nd wk. . 200<br />

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DULUTH, MINN.—Although it may be<br />

a year before the transaction for purchase<br />

of the Lyceum is completed, tenants already<br />

are assuming that the famous old<br />

building will be razed and are looking<br />

about for new business locations. Among<br />

these tenants is the Lyceum Theatre, managed<br />

by Michael Wainstock of the Lyceum<br />

Building Corp.<br />

An option has been negotiated for purchase<br />

of the Lyceum, which was built in<br />

1890-91 at a cost of $500,000, as well as<br />

for the Holland Hotel and Fifth Avenue<br />

Hotel, its neighbors at the Fifth Avenue<br />

West and Superior street intersection. All<br />

these buildings are in the path of the proposed<br />

Fifth Avenue West mall. If the<br />

$900,000 federal gi-ant for the mall is approved<br />

and the purchase option exercised<br />

before it expires in May, the Lyceum will<br />

come down.<br />

In its days of glory, the Lyceum Theatre<br />

seated 1,500 in magnificent surroundings<br />

to be entertained by the great stage<br />

names of the 1890s and early 1900s in the<br />

prime of their theatrical careers. The theatre's<br />

massive stage— 72 feet wide, 45 feet<br />

deep and 90 feet high—was one of the three<br />

in the nation big enough to stage "Ben<br />

Hui-" with its cast of 350, a dozen horses,<br />

two camels and 12 boxcars of scenery, according<br />

to James J. Tills, Duluth Herald<br />

staff writer.<br />

Movies came to the Lyceum in 1921 and<br />

today's progi-am is usually a double bill<br />

of second-run films. Wainstock told Tills<br />

no decision has been made on whether<br />

the movie house will continue operations<br />

elsewhere in Duluth.<br />

John Stopulos Remodeling<br />

Davenport, Iowa, Coronet<br />

DAVENPORT, IOWA—November 10 Is<br />

the target date when a big-scale remodeling<br />

job wiU be completed at the Coronet<br />

Theatre here. Manager James Stopulos<br />

said the theatre will remain open during<br />

the rejuvenation.<br />

Exterior work will include simulated<br />

wood siding with glass doors leading to the<br />

lobby and inside ticket booth. Burnt<br />

orange carpeting, curtain and seat covering<br />

will accent the contemporary look. An<br />

enlarged concessions area, new screen and<br />

sound equipment are planned.<br />

Stopulos plans to continue the Coronet's<br />

coffee and television lounge, inaugurated<br />

14 years ago, but this area too, will undergo<br />

a complete face-lifting. There still will be<br />

room for art exhibits in the walnut paneled<br />

lobby.<br />

New Leon Drive-In Open<br />

LEON, IOWA—The newly constructed<br />

2-65 Drive-In, with accomniodations for<br />

325 cars, has opened at the junction of<br />

highways 2 and 65, 13 miles east of here.<br />

Ray Webb of Des Moines is one of the<br />

owners.<br />

Taeger Released From Pact<br />

From Westerwn Edition<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Ralph Taeger has requested<br />

and received release from his exclusive<br />

contract with Paramount, where,<br />

for three years, he has appeared in "My<br />

Six Loves." "Stage to Tliunder Rock," "A<br />

House Is Not a Home" and "The Carpetbaggers."<br />

MILWAUKEE<br />

H mong the changes taking place in the<br />

Milwaukee area were: John Bates,<br />

manager of the Southgate Theatre, resigned<br />

and was replaced by Jack Kois,<br />

manager for 15 years of the Telenews.<br />

Wayne Blaschka, formerly with the Pradential<br />

circuit, now is assistant manager<br />

under Hany Boesel at the Palace.<br />

Roy J. Bemier, 63, long-time projectionist<br />

at a number of Milwaukee theatres,<br />

died suddenly Thui-sday. For several<br />

years, he held the advertising manager's<br />

job at the Miller Brewing Co., then moved<br />

over to the Fox Head Brewery, and later<br />

to Schlitz Brewing Co. In 1951 Roy was<br />

a chairman of the Milwaukee Community<br />

Chest campaign.<br />

Another familiar figure in this area,<br />

Henry Mead Stillman, 91, died Wednesday<br />

111. He was best known for having<br />

decorated the Palace and Majestic theatres.<br />

The success of "Goldstein," currently<br />

appearing at the Downer here, is consuming<br />

more of Zev Braun's time. A former<br />

Milwaukeean, now of Glencoe, 111., and<br />

president of the Braun-Hobar Corp., a plastic<br />

molding company here, he produced<br />

the pictme, with some financial assistance<br />

from a Milwaukee group. The film is already<br />

in the black and Braun no longer<br />

considers it a hobby. His next picture<br />

will be filmed in Israel, with a budget of<br />

"aromid seven figures."<br />

Reopens Kasson State<br />

KASSON, MINN.—E. A. Peterson, proprietor<br />

of the State Theatre, planned<br />

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Iowa. This latest updating, coupled<br />

with major improvements completed<br />

earlier, gives the Monte a new look from<br />

street to screen . . . The Humota Theatre at<br />

Humboldt is a face-liftnig. undergoing too.<br />

The project includes new carpeting<br />

throughout, according to Pied Meyer, manager<br />

Reopened for the fall season is<br />

. . . the redecorated Clarinda Theatre.<br />

H. L. "Chub" Golladay. manager of the<br />

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Strand mow the Pox<br />

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and has served in a number of civic<br />

posts, including the Fort Madi.son mayor's<br />

planning committee and as chairman of<br />

the city's Rodeo Days.<br />

Arrow Theatre Corp. of Spencer, Iowa,<br />

will have its proposal for cable TV on the<br />

Storm Lake. Iowa, municipal ballot November<br />

2. The Storm Lake city council recently<br />

approved putting the measure on<br />

the ballot. Arrow also is seeking to install<br />

cable television .service in Spencer and<br />

Cherokee.<br />

Des Moines VVOMPIs have scheduled a<br />

garage sale for Saturday i25i at the home<br />

of Margaret Shields. The September meeting<br />

will be at Margaret's home on the<br />

night of the 24th. 'WOMPIs ask that you<br />

help them with their stamp-saving project.<br />

Save all commemoratives, plus foreign and<br />

U.S. stamps (of larger denominations!.<br />

Please do not tear them off envelopes.<br />

Instead, cut them off, leaving a wide margin,<br />

or simpler yet, save the envelope.<br />

WOMPIs will soak 'em off.<br />

The Strand at Mount Vernon has been<br />

reopened by Mr. and Mrs. L. C. West. The<br />

theatre was closed for the summer . . .<br />

Tlie Waco Drive-In at Washington. Iowa,<br />

is closed for repairs following extensive<br />

damage to the screen tower during a<br />

twister-type storm August 26 . . The<br />

.<br />

Grand at Greenfield played "The Family<br />

Jewels" to launch its Saturday matinee<br />

progi-am for the coming season.<br />

MINNEAPOLIS<br />

poreign film buffs who have been wondering<br />

why such flicks as "The Pawnbroker,"<br />

"The Collector." "The Servant,"<br />

"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," "Red<br />

Desert" and others have not played Mill<br />

City art houses can now rest assured that<br />

this product will make the local scene.<br />

Mann Theatres has made some new deals<br />

with distributors and the films will appear<br />

shortly on local screens. Part of the hang<br />

up has been the difficulty in coming to^<br />

and part]<br />

terms between Mann and outlets,<br />

of the delay has been Mann's willingness 1<br />

to wait for the University of Minnesota<br />

and other local schools to resume session.s<br />

and restore the .summer-slumped art<br />

house audience.<br />

The festival of older musicals, so success-;<br />

ful at the Mann Westgate in Mill City, has<br />

been picked up by the Grandview Fine Arts<br />

in St. Paul with much the same line-up of<br />

movies: "F^inny Face," "An American in<br />

Paris," etc. Bill Diehl plugged the festi-,<br />

val's opening as "a sumptuous feast for.<br />

fans of this brand of screen fare, with<br />

movie musicals an infrequent treat these<br />

days."<br />

Other experimental programing aimed<br />

at the art house audiences for this fall includes<br />

a festival of Humphrey Bogart<br />

movies, scheduled for a near-campus theatre<br />

in Mill City. Tlie old Bogie flicks have<br />

been big boxoffice for some years at Eastern<br />

campus-oriented theatres, and the<br />

thinking is that the idea is worth a try<br />

locally, where the student Film Society has<br />

paved the way with scattered Bogart,<br />

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Working Girls Day" tomorrow (14) with<br />

movie passes for the State Theatre, which,<br />

will be featuring the new Rock Hudson<br />

picture to help make the gals' hearts<br />

pitter-pat a bit faster.<br />

Earl Beck of the Minot. N.D., Drive-In<br />

announces the airer has closed and the<br />

land will be cleared for constraction of a<br />

Holiday Inn motel. Beck's future plans<br />

were not announced immediately.<br />

.<br />

Merle and Rose Burns are celebrating'<br />

their 25th anniversaries in the movie business<br />

and the 50th anniversary of the Roxj<br />

Theatre in Menno, S.D. The Bui-nses havei<br />

been at the Roxy for the entire 25-yeai<br />

period . The El Lago neighborhood house<br />

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returning to family-type double feature;<br />

after .some years as a nudie theatre. i<br />

Bert I. Gordon Sets Two!<br />

New Films for Embassy<br />

From Westerwn Edition<br />

HOLLYWOOD—Bert I. Gordon set the<br />

next two pictures on his IS-pictui'e pad<br />

with Joseph E. L-evine's Embassy Pictures<br />

to be produced and directed from Gordon';<br />

original stories. Set are "Creatures of Dr<br />

Freak," to be scripted by Herbert D. Kastle<br />

and "Horror House," written by Roberl<br />

Sherman. "Creatures" is to roll in Novembei<br />

on the Paramount lot. Gordon's first filn"<br />

for Embassy, "Village of the Giants," is t(<br />

be released in October.<br />

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To 'HELP!' Advance Sale<br />

OMAHA—The Beatles' "HELP!" at the<br />

Omaha Skyview Drive-In and Chief Theatre<br />

outgrossed the first Beatle picture<br />

and some expert handling by owner Ralph<br />

Blank and his managers prevented damage<br />

such as occurred at the earlier<br />

showing.<br />

Tickets were offered by the two theatres<br />

la week ahead of the picture's opening. On<br />

the Saturday morning of the advance sale,<br />

teenagers began arriving at the Center<br />

Shopping Center at 3 a.m., although the<br />

ticket office was advertised to open at 10<br />

o'clock. By that time, more than 800<br />

teenagers were in line and two policemen<br />

[were on hand to keep order. Considering<br />

that the weather was bad—rain and chilly<br />

—all went well. The preceding year when<br />

tickets were sold in advance, the youngsters<br />

broke some windows.<br />

World Fair Theatre<br />

iTo Cost $2,500,000<br />

From Conadian Edition<br />

Canadian Corp. for<br />

the 1967 Montreal World's Pair, April 28<br />

through Oct. 27, 1967, has unveiled its 2,-<br />

000-seat theatre which will be used mainly<br />

for film festivals, popular entertainment<br />

and special events during the fair.<br />

The $2,500,000 theatre will be near to<br />

the exhibition's main entrance on Mackay<br />

'pier facing a proposed art gallery. John<br />

!I>i-att, producer of entertainment for "Expo<br />

'67," explained the planned theatre will<br />

!be used mainly for film shows, light culitural<br />

displays and popular shows.<br />

theatre will be fully equipped to<br />

handle almost any kind of production, including<br />

a stage that will measure 120<br />

feet, wall-to-wall, and 40 feet deep with<br />

a proscenium opening 28 feet high and 50<br />

feet wide. The grid will be 72 feet high.<br />

theatre is planned as a temporary<br />

for the duration of the exhibition.<br />

it was added that it could be<br />

made permanent if a sponsor could be<br />

foimd who is willing to pay the difference<br />

between a peimanent and temporai-y<br />

building.<br />

refemng to motion pictui-e pres-<br />

OMAHA<br />

^Jr. and Mrs. Adolph Rozanek were one of<br />

the entertainment attractions at the<br />

Nebraska State Pair in Lincoln. The Rozaneks,<br />

who have given ballroom dancing performances<br />

featuring a very polished polka,<br />

performed at the open air auditoriimi on<br />

the Wayne West show with the Harold<br />

Loffelmacher band. The program was<br />

telecast.<br />

. . . Joella Cohen, Columbia<br />

Dwight Hansen, his wife and family have<br />

returned from a fishing trip at Okoboji<br />

and are on the job at the theatre at Rock<br />

Rapids, Iowa<br />

publicist, is leaving October 11 on an extended<br />

trip to the Orient. Joella is the<br />

daughter of Ed Cohen, Columbia salesman.<br />

At week's end the Variety Club Golf<br />

League's annual tournament was getting<br />

down to where the wool was short. Arnold<br />

Stern, whose last two victims were Pat<br />

Halloran and Willie Wilson, gained the<br />

finals. In the other bracket. Jack Klingel<br />

was to meet the winner of the Ed Bryant-<br />

Bill Osterberg match for the other finals<br />

berth.<br />

According to word from Grand Island.<br />

Robert Taylor, the native Nebraskan who<br />

climbed to fame in movies, will join a<br />

group to bring cable television to the<br />

Grand Island area. Bill Martin, president<br />

of station KMMJ, said others in the organization<br />

will be Bill Moore, head of Bill<br />

Moore and Associates of Grand Island:<br />

Richard P. Shively, Chicago: Charles C.<br />

Bevis, former NBC executive in Chicago,<br />

and Jack B. Hopkins, Evansville, Ind.<br />

Exhibitors on tlie Row included Nebraskans<br />

Harman Grunke, O'Neill : Sid Metcalf<br />

Nebraska City: Mrs. Leola Schuler, her<br />

son and grandson, Humboldt: and lowans<br />

S. J. Backer, Harlan; Alfred Klemme,<br />

Akron, and Mr. and Mrs. 'Vern Brown,<br />

Missouri 'Valley.<br />

Movie industry people in this territory<br />

were saddened by the death of Cornelius<br />

Biemond. a long-time exhibitor who died<br />

at Hastings recently. Biemond built the<br />

present theatre at Ord and at one time<br />

owned the theatre at Loup City. He had<br />

been retired for a number of years. Serv-<br />

. . .<br />

ices and burial were at Ord. Biemond is<br />

survived by his wife, two sons and two<br />

daughters Darrell Port reopened the<br />

Norka Theatre at Akron, Iowa, last week.<br />

He will be assisted for a while by Alfred<br />

Klemme, veteran Akron exhibitor.<br />

Adrian Mueting had to fight hard to meet<br />

the opening deadline at the Rialto Theatre,<br />

Pocahontas, Iowa, last week. Mueting completed<br />

an extensive remodeling and reseating<br />

project . Adams, junior at Iowa<br />

State University at Ames, had a very successful<br />

vacation season as salesman for<br />

S&M Service of Omaha. The star Cyclone<br />

hurdler received many fine compliments<br />

from exhibitors. His father Wilbur is back<br />

on the job with S&M after an illness.<br />

Willis 'Warner, Fort Dodge, Iowa, exhibitor,<br />

again is active in the operation of the<br />

Hilltop after an 8,bsence due to the illness<br />

and death of his wife . . . Roger Blunt is<br />

reopening the Strand Theatre at Milford<br />

following his return from summer National<br />

Guard camp at Camp Ripley, Minn. .<br />

Elmer Larson reopened the State Theatre<br />

at Lake Park, Iowa, last week . . . Gary<br />

Amick has announced he will close the Gem<br />

Theatre at Moville, Iowa, the latter part of<br />

the month.<br />

Interstate Planning<br />

San Antonio Theatre<br />

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SAN ANTONIO — Interstate Theatres<br />

has announced plans for the construction<br />

of a theatre at Wonderland Shopping City.<br />

The new theatre, according to Watson,<br />

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55 feet wide. Equipment will handle<br />

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will be adjacent to the theatre.<br />

Watson said the announcement is in<br />

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throughout Texas and that other<br />

location announcements will be forthcoming.<br />

Ricciardi Remodeling<br />

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PONTIAC. MICH.—Plans for construction<br />

of a twin-auditorium theatre by Redstone<br />

Theatres of Boston have been escalated<br />

to incorporate two 1,100-seaters.<br />

Plans announced earlier were for one of<br />

the auditoriums to be considerably smaller.<br />

revision of planning on size, bids<br />

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work is scheduled to start within 60 days,<br />

with attention to be concentrated on the<br />

Michigan project inmiediately following<br />

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Ky., later this month.<br />

This will give Redstone two pairs of<br />

jtwins in Michigan, including the Cinema<br />

II and II opened just across the Detroit<br />

city line last winter. Sumner Redstone<br />

noted that the experience with the four<br />

jpaii-s of twins already in operation will<br />

:benefit the new one to be opened here.<br />

CINCINNATI<br />

Urith the closing: thi-oughout the Tri-<br />

area of a vei-y good summer<br />

season, attention is being focused on the<br />

fall-winter products. Special interest for<br />

the time being in the city centers around<br />

the theatres. The Grand, now operated<br />

by Cincinnati Theatres, is closed and its<br />

reopening depends on the time schedule<br />

|of the renovation. Keith's, also operated<br />

'by the cuxuit, shut its doors for the last<br />

I time September 6 after a 73-year run. It<br />

is to be demolished for the city's renewal<br />

project in the core area. The circuit reports<br />

the construction of its de luxe subur-<br />

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ban Princeton Cinema is progressing rapidly<br />

after being shut down for six weeks<br />

because of labor strikes. Other theatre<br />

items include the Mid-States' renovation<br />

of a number of its area theatres and the<br />

Bein interests' extensive remodelmg of its<br />

properties, these projects being nearly com-<br />

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pleted.<br />

vacationers include office staf-<br />

20th-Pox<br />

fers Dorothy Maddox, Warners; Naomi<br />

Reese, JMG Films, and Murray Baker, dimanager<br />

for Continental Distribut-<br />

:ing . Woodruff, Columbia<br />

was in Dayton for the Labor Day<br />

Bauxbaum, weekend . . . Han-y<br />

central division manager, was on Filmi-ow,<br />

were Kentucky exhibitors Waller Rodes,<br />

Lexington: Howard Shelton, Vanceburg;<br />

[Ohioans Bob Mills, Dayton; Wally Allen,<br />

Springfield, and Jack Stallings, Blan-<br />

Chester.<br />

Kent's 'Caressed' Invited<br />

To New York Film Festival<br />

Eastern Edition<br />

YORK—Laurence L. Kent's "Caressed"<br />

has been invited to participate in<br />

the Lincoln Center's third New York Film<br />

It will be shown on September 15.<br />

and directed by Kent,<br />

already has won two awards.<br />

In Toronto, the feature won the special<br />

award of merit. In the Montreal Film Festival,<br />

it won the special Jury Award.<br />

Preparations are being made to enter the<br />

film in the London and Venice festivals.<br />

It is being distributed throughout the<br />

world by Joseph Brenner Associates, Inc.<br />

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Cincinnati Grosses Up for Holiday<br />

Weekend; 'Pussycat?' 6th Week 500<br />

CINCINNATI—The Labor Day weekend<br />

resulted in very good attendance at<br />

first-run theatres, an especially encouraging<br />

development because of the keen competition<br />

of so many live attractions in the<br />

area. "What's New Pussycat?" continued to<br />

lead the area with a 500 sixth week at the<br />

Times Theatre.<br />

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(Average Is 100)<br />

Albee, Twin (Reading) HELP! (UA) 200<br />

Ambassador Cot Bollou (Col), 2nd wk 300<br />

Capitol Casanova '70 (Embassy), 3rd wk 70<br />

Esquire The Knack (UA-Lopert), 4tti wk 250<br />

Grand—Closed.<br />

Guild The Pumpkin Eater (Royal) 150<br />

Hyde Pork The Monkey's Uncle (BV) 150<br />

International 7(3 The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

23rd wk 300<br />

Keith A Very Special Favor (Univ), 3rd wk 100<br />

Times What's New Pussycat? (UA), 6th wk 500<br />

20th Century The Sons of Katie Elder (Para) ..350<br />

Twin (Northwood) Joy in the Morning (MGM)<br />

Valley Those Mognificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Mochines (20th-Fox), 10th wk 125<br />

'The Collector' Leads Detroit<br />

With 275 Second Week<br />

DETROIT — "The Collector," in its<br />

fourth week at the Bloomfield and Studio<br />

theatres, took fii-st position among high<br />

grossing first runs with a combined percentage<br />

of 275. Second honors went to the<br />

250 fom-th week of "Those Magnificent<br />

Men in Their Flying Machines" at the<br />

Adams, followed by 200 seventh week of<br />

"The Pawnbroker" at the Camelot and<br />

Studio-North.<br />

Arams Those Magnificent Men in Their<br />

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 4th wk 250<br />

Bloomfield, Studio The Collector (Col), 2nd wk . 275<br />

Fox— High Yellow (SR); Sapphire (5R), 2nd wk. .150<br />

Grand Circus, Mai Kai The Sandpiper (MGM),<br />

5th wk 90<br />

Michigan, Woods, Mercury Lord Jim (Col), 3rd wk.<br />

Michigan Drive-ln, Allen Park, Galaxy, Jolly<br />

145<br />

Roger, Royal Oak, Grond River How to Stuff o<br />

Wild Bikini (AlP); various co-features 140<br />

Palms, Norwest, Radio City, Terroce, Punch &<br />

Judy Operation Crossbow (MGM); various cofeatures,<br />

3rd wk 1 70<br />

Studio-North, Camelot The Pawnbroker (AA)<br />

7fh wk 200<br />

Cleveland Business Improves<br />

Final School Vacation Week<br />

CLEVELAND—The seven days before the<br />

opening of schools brought more business<br />

to all theatres but none profited more than<br />

Loew's Ohio where "The Sound of Music,"<br />

showing in its 24th week, gained 190 gross<br />

percentage points over the preceding week<br />

for a new reading of 500. The Warner Bros.<br />

Power Men Powerless<br />

In Theatre Blackout<br />

Akron, Ohio—It was an embarrassing<br />

evening: for the power company<br />

employes the other night at the Village<br />

Theatre, 55 Miller Rd., North., when<br />

they had to sit in the dark because of<br />

a power failure.<br />

Of course, there was good reason for<br />

the blackout. Just 45 minutes after the<br />

Ohio Edison Men's Club and their families,<br />

an assemblage of 500, settled down<br />

to enjoy "The Sound of Music." lightning<br />

hit a Fairlawn transformer and<br />

out went the lights all over the area,<br />

including those in the theatre.<br />

There was one compensation, though,<br />

for the frustrated theatre guests. All<br />

of them got rain checks.<br />

musical has been gaining steadily at the<br />

boxoffice since week-day matinees became<br />

continuous.<br />

Allen Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines (20fh-Fox), 8th wk I 50<br />

Colony My Fair Lady (WB), 43rd wk 200<br />

Continental Your Past Is Showing (SR), reissue,<br />

4th wk 125<br />

Detroit, Moyland What's New Pussycot? (UA),<br />

10th wk 120<br />

Heights, Westwood Casanova '70 (Embassy),<br />

3rd wk 250<br />

Hippodrome, other theatres She (MGM); Hercules,<br />

Samson ond Ulysses (MGM), 2nd wk 125<br />

Ohio The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 24th wk. 500<br />

Poloce The Sons of Kafie Elder (Poro) 275<br />

State, Richmond Billie (Col) 200<br />

Vogue The Collector (Col), 6th wk 130<br />

COLUMBUS<br />

Uarold Walton, assistant manager of<br />

Loew's Ohio, has been promoted to manager<br />

of Loew's Victory in Evansville, Ind.<br />

Glenn Woods has been named assistant at<br />

the Ohio, succeeding Walton . new<br />

state office buildings are planned for the<br />

Capitol Square area in the heart of the<br />

downtown theatre district. A 20 to 25-<br />

story office building is planned for the<br />

southwest corner of Broad and High<br />

streets and a sU-uctme replacing the present<br />

State House annex on Third street<br />

may be constructed soon.<br />

Food market, several small service stores<br />

and an automotive service center will be<br />

part of the Zayre Department Store Center<br />

to be built on the site of the In-Town<br />

Drive-In in subm-ban Whitehall. The In-<br />

Town, operated by Monarch Theatres of<br />

Chicago, sold the property and will have<br />

booked performances for Tuesday U4 1<br />

Albert E. Armbruster, 97, retired owner<br />

of the old Aiinbruster Scenic Studio, died<br />

August 30 at his home here. The Aiinbruster<br />

studio was fomided in 1845 by<br />

Matthias Armbiiister, his father. The studio<br />

supplied stage settings and cui'tains<br />

for many theatres and toming companies.<br />

Gary Green, assistant manager of Grand<br />

Cinerama, has entered the army for twoyear<br />

service at Fort Knox, Ky.<br />

2 Students to Make Film<br />

At Montreal University<br />

From Conodian Edition<br />

MONTREAL—In order to gain an insight<br />

into the cinema from the filmmakers'<br />

point of view, two Montreal McGill University<br />

students are embarking on a film<br />

project. Don Dniick and Leonard Angel,<br />

both 20, are co-directing a 30-minutc documentary<br />

on student life at McGill. Financial<br />

support is coming from the university's<br />

students' executive council.<br />

The film will be an all-student affaii'.<br />

The dii'ectors are filUng in as actors and<br />

editors. The cameraman is Peter Svatek,<br />

who has had experience with the National<br />

Film Board, and music student Stephen<br />

Freygold has produced an original musical<br />

score. Druick and Angel said they became<br />

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Detroit Tlieatxes has given up operation<br />

of the Mel Theatre in suburban Melvindale,<br />

which it operated since opening 24 years<br />

ago. The new owner is Theatre Operating<br />

Co.. formed by Louis J. Mitchell and Delno<br />

A. Ritter. Buying and booking will be<br />

handled by Mitchell Theatre Service.<br />

House records are being shattered at<br />

two houses of the Studio Circuit of art<br />

theatres here, reports Ross Caccavale.<br />

supervisor, '"nie Pawnbroker" recorded<br />

new bo.xoffice marks in each of its eight<br />

weeks at the Studio-North, while "The<br />

Collector" reached a new high in its second<br />

week at the Studio Theatre.<br />

Marlene Dietrich will be featured by the<br />

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theatre here, according to an announcement<br />

in the Western Builder, published in<br />

Milwaukee.<br />

Specifications call for a building 90x145<br />

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Monroe Goetz Installing<br />

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From North Centra! Edition<br />

WIS. — Remodeling of the<br />

marquee at the Goetz Theatre is going<br />

forward here. Manager Robert Goetz<br />

planning that the new marquee will be<br />

Swiss in design.<br />

Mom'oe Times carried a twocolumn<br />

photo showing workmen removmg<br />

the old marquee, which had been on the<br />

theatre since it was founded in 1931.<br />

Fire Damages Snack Bar<br />

NEW CARLISLE, OHIO—Fire did exten-<br />

'sive damage, not immediately estimated, at<br />

the concession stand of the Park Layne 69<br />

early Satm-day morning, August<br />

121, A spokesman said he thought the fire<br />

have started in the wiring of a popcorn<br />

popper.<br />

CLEVELAND<br />

pilm Bldg. tenants were shocked and saddened<br />

when news came of the Sunday<br />

morning (5i death of Rhoda Koret. killed<br />

in a two-car crash on South Woodland<br />

Ro:id in Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb.<br />

She had been in the theatre and<br />

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the Jewish Community Theatre, and. reportedly,<br />

was rehearsing for a new play.<br />

Her father was the late Rabbi Mano Spira.<br />

Survivors include the husband Ben, the<br />

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and a brother. Rites were held Monday 1 6 1<br />

Several changes have been reported in<br />

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mcved to the fourth floor, and Allied Artists,<br />

from the fourth to the second floor<br />

. . . E. M. Stutz is reopening the Regent<br />

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Edna Charns, Warners secretary, will be<br />

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retardates who are capable of employment.<br />

4. Select jobs in your company that the mentally retarded<br />

can fill, and hire them.<br />

5. Accept the mentally retarded as .American citizens.<br />

Give them a chance to live useful, dignified lives in<br />

your community.<br />

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6. WriteforthefreebooklettothePresident's S?2°<br />

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MAINE<br />

Three juveniles were apprehended August<br />

27 for an incident involving the theft<br />

of two speakers from the Lisbon Drivein<br />

in Lewiston, it was reported by Sgt.<br />

Ralph Bolduc of the Lewistown police department.<br />

The suspects were referred to<br />

the department's juvenile division for further<br />

action.<br />

Drive-in operators throughout Maine<br />

shared in everybody's surprise at the "early<br />

winter" which marked the last two days<br />

of August. Heaters came into general use<br />

with the calendar still saying it was summer<br />

but the thermometers registering near<br />

or below freezing. A mass of cold air from<br />

Canada was blamed for the record-break-<br />

ing situation.<br />

Harley D. True, 75, who was one of the<br />

motion picture projectionists in the<br />

Paris area, died at the Central<br />

Maine General Hospital August 26.<br />

was a native of Norway and attended<br />

schools there. In addition to his movie theatre<br />

work, he is well remembered as a member<br />

of area orchestras.<br />

Razing of Conn. Theatre<br />

Generates Several Suits<br />

NE'W BRITAIN—The city parking commission<br />

will sue the Valley Construction<br />

Co., Waterbui-y, prime contractor for demolition<br />

of the Embassy Theatre, and<br />

others involved in the project for $10,000<br />

for damages resulting from that operation,<br />

according to corporation counsel Andrew P.<br />

Denuzze.<br />

The city claims loss of parking revenue<br />

and physical damage to Hensen pai'kade<br />

during the theatre demolition.<br />

Collapse of part of the structure during<br />

razing, which caused injui-ies to thi-ee employes<br />

of the Raphael Department Store,<br />

has resulted in earlier suits filed by the<br />

store owners and an employe.<br />

Fred N. Viano, 75, Dies;<br />

Lexington, Mass., Manager<br />

BOSTON—Pi-ed N. Viano, 75, of 15 Reed<br />

Lexington, manager of the Lexington<br />

died September 2 in Beth Israel<br />

Hospital here. A life-long resident of Lexington,<br />

Viano had managed the theatre, a<br />

business, for the past 15<br />

years. A veteran of World War I, he was<br />

;<br />

a member of the American Legion and the<br />

Veterans of Foreign Wars.<br />

Sui'vivors are his son Alfred, chaii-man of<br />

Lexington school committee: his<br />

Mrs. Albert E. Wills: his brother<br />

and three sisters, Lillian and<br />

Viano and Mi-s. Angela V. Boyd, all<br />

of Lexington.<br />

Oscar Honors Forecast<br />

For 'Ballou,' Lee Marvin<br />

M. Widem, Hartj'<br />

ford Times amusements editor, predicts an<br />

Award for both the film, "Cat<br />

(Columbia) and its leading player,<br />

hee Marvin.<br />

"Mamn's dual roles," writes Widem,<br />

"are worthy of an Academy Award and director<br />

Elliott Silverstein has pulled off the<br />

effects coup of the year."<br />

Third Big Boston Weekend in Row;<br />

'HELP!' Climbs to 240, 'Music 250<br />

BOSTON—The greatest holiday business<br />

in many years boomed the Boston boxoffice<br />

to bonanza with good weather, a heavy influx<br />

of tourists, vacationists and back-tocollege<br />

students all contributing. With Bostoir<br />

theatres hitting capacity stride, it<br />

marked the third big week in a row for<br />

Boston exhibition and roadshow films<br />

scored lofty percentages. "Darling" finished<br />

its second week at the Savoy Wednesday<br />

i8i with a way-above-average gross, rivaling<br />

its first week: "Sergeant Deadhead"<br />

opened with 150 at the Paramount and<br />

"The Sound of Music" recorded 250 at the<br />

Gary in its 24th week with 14 shows.<br />

"HELP!" gained 40 points in its second<br />

week at the Orpheum. "Those Magnificent<br />

Men in Their Flying Machines" ran up 155<br />

in its 11th week at the Music Hall, while<br />

"The Knack" gained grossing strength in<br />

its sixth week at the Paris Cinema. "My<br />

Fair Lady" continued at a high 150 level<br />

in its 45th week at the Saxon as "Casanova<br />

'70" scored 155 at two theatres, the<br />

Park Square and Kenmore Square, in its<br />

fourth week,<br />

(Average Is 100)<br />

Astor Lord Jim (Col), 5th wk 150<br />

Beacon Hrll What's New Pussycat? (UA), 10th wk. 155<br />

Boston The Greatest Story Ever Told (UA),<br />

26th wk 145<br />

Copri The Collector (Col), 3rd wk 180<br />

Exeter Rotten to the Core (Cinema V), 4th wk. ..140<br />

Gory The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 24th<br />

Music Hall Those Magnificent Men in Their<br />

wk. 250<br />

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 11th wk 155<br />

Orpheum HELP! (UA), 2nd wk 240<br />

Paramount Sergeant Deadhead (AlP); Jig-Saw<br />

(SR) 150<br />

Pans Cinema The Knack (UA-Lopert), 6th wk. ..ISO<br />

Park Square, Kenmore Square Casanova '70<br />

(Embassy), 4th wk 1 55<br />

Savoy Darling (Embassy), 2nd wk 200<br />

Massachusetts Sales<br />

Saxon—My Fair Lady IWB), 45th wk 50<br />

Symphony Cinemo—Wild, Wild World (SR), 2nd wk. 135<br />

West End Cinema Bockfirc (Royal), 2nd wk. 135<br />

'HELP!' Standout 275<br />

In Hartford Debut<br />

HARTFORD — "HELP!" rang up a whopping<br />

275 in its multiple-run Connecticut<br />

premiere. Embassy's "Casanova '70" continued<br />

to demonstrate strong pulling power<br />

in an extended Rivoli engagement.<br />

Allyn, Berlin, Manchester, Meadows HELP! (UA);<br />

various co-features 2/5<br />

Art Cinemo Eva, the Devil's Woman (Times);<br />

Defiant Doughters (Times) 90<br />

Burnside The Collector (Col), 2nd wk 150<br />

Cineroma—The Hallelujah Troil (UA), 10th wk. 90<br />

Cine Webb My Fair Lody (WB), 22nd wk 70<br />

Elm The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 11th wk 70<br />

E, M. Loew's, Eost Hartford, Pike The Saboteur<br />

(Morituri), (20th-Fox); vorious co-features 100<br />

Rivoli Casanova '70 (Embassy), 5th wk 160<br />

Strand, East Windsor, Hertford, Farmington<br />

A Very Special Favor (Univ); various co- features 125<br />

'Cat Ballou' Runs Away<br />

With New Haven Honors<br />

NEW HAVEN—Bailey Theatres' Westville<br />

and Whitney tried something different<br />

on the first day of the second week of<br />

Universal's "A Very Special Favor": allday<br />

previews. Interspersed with a regular<br />

program, were screened of the same distributor's<br />

"The Guns of August."<br />

Lincoln Casanova '70 (Embassy), 6th wk 100<br />

Loew's College HELP! (UA), 3rd wk 100<br />

Paramount, Bowl, Milford, New Haven She<br />

(MGM); various co-features 100<br />

Milford Cinema, SW Roger Sherman Cat Boilou<br />

(Col), 2nd wk 200<br />

SW Cinemort The Sound of Music l20th-Fox),<br />

nth wk 100<br />

Westville, Whitney A Very Special Favor<br />

(Univ), 2nd wk 90<br />

Whalley My Fair Lody (WB), 22nd wk 100<br />

Tax Proposals<br />

Exempt Admissions, Film Rentals<br />

NORTH FALMOUTH, MASS.—Massachusetts<br />

theatres will be exempt from Gov.<br />

John A. Volpe's proposed 3 per cent sales<br />

tax, Cai'l Goldman reported to exhibitors attending<br />

the 34th annual regional convention<br />

of Theatre Owners of New England and<br />

the Northeast conference of the National<br />

Ass'n of Concessionaues at the Sea Ci-est<br />

Hotel August 30-September 1.<br />

Goldman, TONE executive secretary and<br />

legislative counsel, said that the governor's<br />

proposal exempts theatre admissions, film<br />

rentals and concessions sales from the state<br />

sales tax. The alternate proposal by the<br />

Democratic party also exempts film rentals<br />

and admissions, according to Goldman.<br />

Malcolm C. Green, in his opening addi'ess,<br />

reported: "The final complete repeal of the<br />

admissions tax and freedom from prior<br />

cejisorship recently won in Rhode Island<br />

are major victories for theatremen everywhere<br />

and could not have been accomplished<br />

without effective trade associations.<br />

"However, much remains to be done.<br />

Our censorship battles must be fought constantly.<br />

New restrictive legislation is apt<br />

to confront us at any time. As to cooperative<br />

exploitation programs, we have<br />

barely scratched the suiface of our potential."<br />

Massachusetts political leaders speaking<br />

at the banquet were Robert Quiiui, majority<br />

leader of the House : George Keneally, chair-<br />

Michael<br />

man of the committee on taxation:<br />

Catino, House chairman committee on taxation,<br />

and Richard Caples, commissioner of<br />

public safety.<br />

Goldman was coordinator for the convention<br />

and officers and directors of TONE<br />

and NAC comprised the convention committee.<br />

TONE officers are Malcolm C. Green,<br />

president: James F. Mahoney. first vicepresident<br />

: Ben Greenberg, second vice-president:<br />

Ray Canavan, third vice-president: W.<br />

Leslie Bendslev. secretary-treasmer: Julian<br />

Rifkin, chainnan, board of directors.<br />

Officers and directors of the NAC: Edward<br />

S. Redstone, president: Sydney Spiegel, first<br />

vice-president: Jack O'Brien, second vicepresident:<br />

Nat Buchman, treasurer: Irving<br />

Shapii'o, regional vice-president: Louis<br />

Abramson, executive director: Augie J.<br />

Schmitt, chairman, board of directors.<br />

The convention's keynote speech, a warning<br />

against further dangers from pay TV<br />

and CATV by Philip Harling, chairman of<br />

the Joint Committee Against Pay TV. was<br />

reported in <strong>Boxoffice</strong> September 6, page<br />

12. Reports of NAC award-winning concessions<br />

programs will appear in Modern<br />

Theatre for September 20.<br />

BOXOFFICE September 13, 1965 NE-1


Most Critical Exhibition Problem<br />

In Massachusetts Is<br />

By ALLEN M. WIDEM<br />

SPRINGFIELD — The state of Massachusetts,<br />

traditionally contributing pace<br />

and prestige to the New England motion<br />

picture industry, is just as concerned with<br />

dwindling product availabilities as tlie lesspopulated<br />

states in this burgeoning region.<br />

The Bay State, with a profusion of de<br />

luxe shopping center theatres newly completed<br />

and on the drawing boards, is barreling<br />

ahead, first-run wise, and only the<br />

continued shutterings and markedly reduced<br />

grosses of small-town theatres across<br />

the remoter reaches fog up the brighter<br />

outlooli of exhibition interests.<br />

The General Cinema and Redstone circuits,<br />

among the giants spearheading the<br />

multi-million-dollar shopping center theatre<br />

construction program, have infused<br />

the state's exhibition with a spirit of enthusiasm<br />

and ebullience unparalled since<br />

the heydays of early talking pictures, say<br />

veteran Filmrow observers.<br />

At the same time, the quantity of subsequent<br />

runs in practically every major<br />

population center of Massachusetts has<br />

fallen sharply and there's no indication of<br />

an upswing in the immediate or long-range<br />

period.<br />

The clamor and concern of independents<br />

and circuits alike to buy product day-anddate.<br />

on multiple runs, has di-astically curtailed<br />

what was once a flourishing subsequent-run<br />

element.<br />

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Too Few Films<br />

the crowd,' " explained one exhibitor, "as<br />

much as a vital necessity to maintain economic<br />

stability in going after first runs,<br />

be they in the metropolitan Boston. Worcester.<br />

Springfield areas, or in the smaller<br />

cities. National merchandising, by major<br />

distributors, has meant greater stress on<br />

premiere activity and just about everybody<br />

in the business wants to derive greater<br />

boxoffice response from the national exposure.<br />

The thinking is that by the time<br />

the normally subsequent-run booking could<br />

be scheduled, the generated response from<br />

national advertising is long dissipated."<br />

And like the larger city bookers across<br />

the country, there's perplexity about suitability<br />

of art product for long runs. Increasingly,<br />

avers one veteran art theatre<br />

owner, an art import is good for a maximum<br />

of several weeks while, not so many<br />

years ago, an Ingmar Bergman or Fellini<br />

release could not be relied upon for several<br />

months' duration.<br />

NEED MORE BERGMANS<br />

"It's well and good for people like Bergman<br />

and Fellini 'to sit on their accolades." "<br />

said an exhibitor "but they're not contributing<br />

to further industry prestige by<br />

severely reducing personal production<br />

activity."<br />

The fast-fading 1965 summer has been<br />

distinguished at the boxoffice by such<br />

titles as Warners' "My Fair Lady," UA's<br />

"What's New Pussycat?" 20th-Pox's "The<br />

Soimd of Music," Columbia's "The Collector,"<br />

MGM's "Operation Crossbow" and<br />

Universal's "Shenandoah."<br />

In many large city and small-town situations<br />

throughout Massachusetts, the bulk<br />

of the foregoing releases have proceeded<br />

to smash long-standing boxoffice records<br />

and. gratifyingly enough, maintain a surprisingly<br />

strong money position for many<br />

weeks after the initial opening.<br />

OUTDOOR COMPETITORS INCREASE<br />

Competition for the recreation dollai' is<br />

just as pronounced, proportionately, in<br />

Massachusetts as it is elsewhere in New<br />

England: many of the aggressive-minded<br />

amusement parks and the like have spent<br />

thousands of dollars in an active bid for<br />

the more plentiful warm weather recreation<br />

dollar, coming from both resident<br />

Bay Staters and the thousands of summer<br />

tourists.<br />

Parking problems, too, have plagued the<br />

bigger cities. First-run exhibitors, in particular,<br />

report greater demand by regular<br />

patrons for ample and adequate car space,<br />

preferably close to theatre entrances.<br />

The nation's racial turbulence hasn't<br />

ignored Massachusetts recreation. Business<br />

has fluctuated from highs to lows in<br />

the wake of demonstrations, marches and<br />

the like in such major cities as Springfield:<br />

first-run boxoffice activity was hit hard<br />

by a recent Sunday afternoon march<br />

through the heart of downtown Springfield.<br />

"All we can do," reasons a Springfield<br />

exhibitor, "is caution our staffs to handle<br />

any delicate situations within the sphere<br />

and scope of racial disturbances with a<br />

minimum of friction, mindful that patronage<br />

is patronage, regardless of creed or<br />

color. We know that hoodlumi.sm or<br />

vandalism is part of 1965's living picture.<br />

If we have brawls or incidents on a Sunday,<br />

in particular, we have to take these<br />

things in stride, appealing to the participants<br />

for a sense of mature responsibility."<br />

Exploitation continues strong: the bulk<br />

of the major distributors continue representation<br />

iti Ma.ssachusctts and exploitation<br />

men regularly contact the bigger city<br />

communications media with both prepared<br />

material and visits of acknowledged<br />

"names."<br />

Significantly, while many Massachusetts<br />

newspapers have stepped up televisionradio<br />

coverage—to the extent of weekly<br />

sections, both standard and tabloid size<br />

the amount of free space for motion pictures<br />

hasn't been reduced. The press feels,<br />

and rightly, that motion pictures remain<br />

"hard news" and as long as distribution<br />

and exhibition sources provide sustained<br />

flow of information there's no reason to<br />

withhold such material from exposure.<br />

Broumas Resumes Building<br />

Of 3rd Baltimore Theatre<br />

'<br />

From Eastern Edition<br />

BALTIMORE — Constmction has been<br />

resumed by Broumas Theatres on its North<br />

Point Plaza project, which will be the circuit's<br />

third Baltimore theatre. 1<br />

To be known as the North Point Plaza<br />

Theatre, the 1,000-seater will feature sixchannel<br />

stereophonic sound, line-of-sight<br />

viewing and an all-climate control system.<br />

Equipped with one of the widest<br />

screens m the state, the North Point Plaza<br />

is to show 70mm and Todd-AO features<br />

offering top product from major Hollywood<br />

studios as well as outstanding international<br />

films.<br />

Bridgeport Safety Show<br />

BRIDGEPORT—Four automobile dealers<br />

sponsored a back-to-school safety show at<br />

the Beverly Theatre, the afternoon high^<br />

lights including screen entertaiimient and<br />

stage appearances by WNHC-TV personalities.<br />

To Sponsor Theatre Revue<br />

WESTFIELD, MASS. — The Westfield<br />

Kiwanis Club will sponsor a musical revue<br />

featuring an as yet undesignated orchestra<br />

at the Park Theatre November 15.<br />

Magician Tony Giorgio will portray a<br />

professional gambler in WB's "A Big Hanc<br />

for the Little Lady."<br />

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NEW HAVEN<br />

The Nutmeg Theatre Circuit's Crow is undergoing<br />

major remodeling, including<br />

a new front, marquee, lobby, carpeting,<br />

boxoffice, lights, lounges and screen. The<br />

new art film policy will start September<br />

22 at the Crown.<br />

Perakos Theatre Associates' Beverly,<br />

'Bridgeport, has opened after a two-month,<br />

$150,000 major remodeling. The new stage<br />

measures 75 feet wide and 39 feet deep<br />

and can hold 110 persons at one<br />

time. Some "live" productions are planned<br />

. . . Al at the first-run showcase<br />

Stanley Warner zone ad-publicity<br />

Swett,<br />

manjager,<br />

tied up with radio station WDEE for<br />

[a motor bike giveaway in conjunction with<br />

the Roger Sherman Theatre, New Haven,<br />

playdate of Buena Vista's "The Monkey's<br />

, Uncle."<br />

WORCESTER<br />

Massachusetts Stanley 'Warner<br />

theatres are now advertised in the metropolitan<br />

Boston dailies, under the composite<br />

head of "Stanley 'Warner Theatres."<br />

Participants are the White City Shopping<br />

Center Theatre, Shi'ewsbury; Port, Newbiu-yport;<br />

Palace, Lawrence; Warner, Lawrence<br />

and Warner, Lynn.<br />

M. Totman, SW New England<br />

manager, visited Bill Decker, district<br />

. Lajoie, Capitol Theatre<br />

manager, met with diet Stoddard, presiof<br />

New England Theatres.<br />

Two Pencil Box Shows<br />

CONN. — Mrs. Marge<br />

Stanley Warner Capitol manager,<br />

ai-ranged Willimantic Trust Company<br />

of back-to-school pencil box<br />

at two successive matinees at the<br />

and suburban SW College, Storrs.<br />

were gifted with pencil boxes.<br />

Bakeries' Gifts to Kiddies<br />

BRITAIN — The Palace, Perakos<br />

circuit flagship, hosted a back-to-school<br />

j<br />

matinee, distributing free pencil<br />

compliments of Cousin's Bakeries.<br />

Returns From New York<br />

NEW BRITAIN — Sperie P. Perakos,<br />

general manager, Perakos Theatre Associates,<br />

has returned from New York business<br />

meetings.<br />

Pencil Box Giveaway<br />

STORRS, CONN.—The StaiJey Warner<br />

College hosted two back-to-school matinees,<br />

distributing free pencil boxes to all<br />

youngster patrons.<br />

Walt Disney Purchases<br />

New Englander's Novel<br />

HARTFORD—Eric Stowe Hatch, radio<br />

station WBIS owner, has sold a novel, "The<br />

Year of the Horse," to Walt Disney for early<br />

production.<br />

The book, the result of two years' work,<br />

will be published October 7 by Ci'own<br />

Publishing Co., New York.<br />

A Hatch novel, "My Man Godfi-ey," was<br />

filmed some years ago.<br />

NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />

Two Haverhill, Mass., men now in the<br />

county jail in Brentwood, waiting trial<br />

at the next session of Superior Court, are<br />

reported to have confessed seven breaks in<br />

the Plaistow area, including two burglaries<br />

at the Plaistow Drive-In. Police Chief<br />

Lyman Hill of Plaistow said Leonard Dick.<br />

21, and Daniel Yeo, 22, admitted victimizing<br />

other business establishments two or<br />

three times each. The suspects were trapped<br />

by a Plaistow police officer in a stake-out<br />

at a diner which had been entered three<br />

times.<br />

Drive-in theatregoers were glad to use<br />

heaters, and some patrons might have<br />

wished they had brought blankets, when a<br />

two-day cold snap shattered all weather<br />

records as August made its exit. During<br />

the August 30, 31 period, frost covered a<br />

number of New Hampshire's droughtstricken<br />

areas and early snow fell on Mount<br />

Washington. There were below-freezing<br />

temperatures in some areas.<br />

Winsted Strand Theatre<br />

May Go on Sales Block<br />

WINSTED, CONN.—The Strand Theatre<br />

announced a midmonth special stockholders<br />

meeting to consider proposed sale of the<br />

theatre and office building, one of Winsted's<br />

largest structures.<br />

The stockholders are to be also asked to<br />

elect a director to succeed Harry M. Gale,<br />

who has resigned. He had been a director<br />

since the corporation built the theatre in<br />

1926.<br />

"Born Free," a Columbia release, is<br />

based on Joy Adamson's international bestseller.<br />

HARTFORD<br />

J^ickey Daly has dropped Thursday performances<br />

at the 1,800-seat, Spanishlanguage<br />

Daly Theatre. The downtown theatre<br />

is now operating Fridays through<br />

Sundays only . Floyd Fitzsimmons of the<br />

Warner Bros,<br />

. .<br />

field exploitation force was<br />

in town for meetings with MuiTay Lipson,<br />

general manager of the Park Street<br />

Investment Co., on the November 3 Connecticut<br />

premiere of "The Great Race" at<br />

the Central, West Hartford.<br />

Weekly wages in Connecticut factories<br />

remained at an all-time high in July, according<br />

to the latest summary of the state<br />

labor department. High overtime contributes<br />

to the boom, says the department<br />

Bantam, Bantam, has installed a<br />

24-hour answering service 567-5420).<br />

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Paul McNamara. 16-year-old son of Ray<br />

McNamara, American Broadcasting Companies'<br />

Hartford resident manager, and<br />

Mrs. McNamara, retm'ned home from the<br />

national Junior Achievement convention<br />

in Bloomington, Ind. Young McNamara is<br />

president-elect of the 60-member Achievers<br />

Ass'n of Hartford.<br />

Midweek Shows Dropped<br />

PLAINFIEL'O, CONN. — The Parkway<br />

Drive-In has di'opped Monday through<br />

Thursday perfoiTnances for remainder of<br />

the season.<br />

Free 'Flipper'<br />

Tickets<br />

BRIDGEPORT—Holroyd Pontiac distributed<br />

free tickets to MGM's "Flipper's<br />

New Adventui-e," playing the Perakos<br />

Beverly Theatre.<br />

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to America's colleges?<br />

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2. ( ) they need the<br />

help the colleges<br />

leaders colleges train<br />

You were right if you checked No. 2.<br />

American corporations want to<br />

make<br />

sure there will be enough college-trained<br />

leaders to fill the management jobs open<br />

today and in the future.<br />

This is good insurance for business.<br />

And the need, we must remember, isn't<br />

getting smaller.<br />

World trade is developing fast; business<br />

is getting more competitive, more complex;<br />

science is introducing new products<br />

and processes rapidly.<br />

But the colleges can't do the training job<br />

alone. They need classrooms, laboratories<br />

and facilities, yes. But even more,<br />

they need backing to maintain a staff of<br />

top-notch teachers.<br />

This is<br />

the human equation that makes<br />

the difference in<br />

reaching the margin of<br />

excellence needed in the U.S.<br />

This is everybody's job, but especially<br />

industry's.<br />

Of course American business wants to<br />

help the colleges, so you were also right<br />

if you checked No. 1. College, after all,<br />

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College-trained<br />

men and women are<br />

needed, in increasing numbers, to plan<br />

and direct the activities of business.<br />

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Good Business in Toronto<br />

by All Theatres<br />

— Uniformly good business<br />

to be reported at all Toronto<br />

houses, with holdovers and long<br />

all reporting "excellent" grosses. "The<br />

Sons of Katie Elder" ran in several neigh-<br />

borhood Famous Players' houses with very<br />

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WINNIPEG—Grosses reached their highest<br />

point of the summer, after declining<br />

steadily during August, The upsurge was<br />

attributed to the influx of youngsters taking<br />

a last fling before school opening this<br />

week. All situations showed above average<br />

returns, with the lead being shared by a<br />

newcomer, "Slave Ti-ade in the World Today,"<br />

the long-running "The Somid of<br />

Music" and a reissue double bill of "A<br />

Shot in the Dark" and "The Pink<br />

Panther." "What's New Pussycat?" and<br />

"The Family Jewels" continued strong.<br />

Capitol The Great Spy Mission (Operation Crossbow)<br />

(MGM), 2nd wk .Good<br />

Gaiety Those Mogniticent Men in Their Flyiitg<br />

Machines (20th-Fox), 9th wk Good<br />

Gorrjck Lord Jim (Col), 4th wk Good<br />

Kings The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

22nd wk Excellent<br />

Lyceum A Shot in the Dork (UA); The Pink<br />

Ponther (UA), reissues Excellent<br />

Metropolitan The Family Jewels (Para),<br />

2nd wk Very Good<br />

Odeon What's New Pussycat? (UA),<br />

5th wk Very Good<br />

Towne Slave Trade in the World Today<br />

(IFD)<br />

Excellent<br />

'Exterminating<br />

Angel' Is<br />

Impressive in Montreal<br />

MONTREAL — With the majority of<br />

Montrealers back in the city from summer<br />

,<br />

places, the leading motion pictui-e theatres<br />

had good boxoffice results. The favorite<br />

holdovers of some dm-ation were continuing<br />

to show good pulling power, while<br />

at the "specialized" Cinema Festival on<br />

St. Catherine Street East, a very good<br />

attendance was reported for "The Exterminating<br />

Angel," which took over following<br />

a few weeks of daily French and<br />

European films.<br />

Alouette My Fair Lady (WB), 45th wk Good<br />

Avenue Whot's New Pussycot? (UA), 5th wk. . . .Good<br />

Cinemo Festival The Exterminating Angel<br />

(SR)<br />

Excellent<br />

Cinemo Ploce Ville Mane II Successo (IFD),<br />

4th wk Excellent<br />

(Red Room) HELP! (UA) Excellent<br />

(Salle Doree) it's a Mad, Mod, Mod, Mod<br />

World (UA), 3rd wk Good<br />

Imperiol The Hallelujah Trail (UA), lOth wk. ...Good<br />

Kent The Collector (Colj Good<br />

Loew's The Sons of Katie Elder (Para),<br />

2nd wk Good<br />

The Saboteur (20th-Fox) Good<br />

Porisien Harlow (Para), 2nd wk Good<br />

Seville The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

wk Good<br />

Westmount<br />

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Those Magnificent Men in Their<br />

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 5th wk Good<br />

Corlton Shenondonh (E/U), 5th wk Excellent<br />

Coronet group HELP! (UA), 3rd wk Excellent<br />

Eglinton—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),<br />

24th wk Excellent<br />

Foirlown Those Mognificent Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines (20th-Fox), 10th wk Excellent<br />

Hollywood The Collector (Col), 5th wk Very Good<br />

What's New Pussycat? (UA),<br />

9th wk Excellent<br />

Imperial, Ycrkdale, Runnymede, Golden<br />

Mile The Great Spy Mission (MGM),<br />

3rd wk Excellent<br />

Mory Poppins (E/U), 44th wk Very Good<br />

Palace, Vaughon, other theotres The Sons of<br />

Kotie Elder (Poro), 2nd wk Excellent<br />

Fair Lady (WB), 43rd wk. . Good<br />

WB's "Sweet November," an original story<br />

and screenplay by Herman Raucher, is<br />

scheduled for early shooting.<br />

BOXOFFICE September 13, 1965<br />

Montreal Motion Picture Producers<br />

Continue Many Short-Term Projects<br />

MONTREAL—Motion picture producers<br />

of Montreal and the district have numerous<br />

projects for the short-term, according to<br />

an extensive review contained in the<br />

Montreal La Presse weekly supplement<br />

which deals with arts in general.<br />

Claude Jutra, first grand-prize winner<br />

of Canadian-produced films competition<br />

for his "A Tout Prendre," has a definite<br />

project in sight, along with Gilles Carle.<br />

The film would be written by Jutra and<br />

produced by United Artists. Jutra is<br />

finishing the montage of "Technologic<br />

Scolaire," filmed in the United States last<br />

spring. Carle also has several projects in<br />

mind with a film called "Portmie" most<br />

likely to be realized.<br />

FILMING INDUSTRIAL TRIO<br />

Gilles Groulx, second grand-prize winner<br />

of the Canadian Cinema with "Le Chat<br />

Dans le Sac," now is a member of the<br />

Cineastes Associes and is preparing a film<br />

on industrial Quebec for Quebec's Film<br />

Board. The company has three projects in<br />

pi'ogress, apart from Groulx. One film is<br />

on Montreal, while the others concern the<br />

fur trade and operations of the Montreal<br />

Stock Exchange.<br />

Michel Brault, who has formed his own<br />

film-producing company, is preparing a<br />

feature-length production "Entre la Mer a<br />

I'Eau Douce." It is hoped that filming will<br />

begin next winter mider the auspices of<br />

Co-Operatio. Also, Brault, in partnership<br />

with Claude Foumier, is preparing a series<br />

of 26 films in color intended for inauguration<br />

of color television in Canada in 1967.<br />

The films also are planned for showing in<br />

other countries.<br />

"La FoUe of Camil Adam" is being<br />

readied at Co-Operatio. and Fournier has<br />

a two-year contract with the Montreal<br />

Exhibition Corp. for a series of films which<br />

will keep him occupied for the next two<br />

years.<br />

Pierre Perrault, who made "Pour la Suite<br />

de Monde" with Brault, is producing for<br />

the National Film Board three hour-long<br />

films on the St. Lawrence River.<br />

Don Owen, writer-director of "Nobody<br />

Waved Goodbye," is finishing a film called<br />

"Donna and Gail" for the National Film<br />

Board.<br />

COMPLETING THREE FILMS<br />

Also at Co-Operatio, finishing touches<br />

are being made to "La Corde au Cou,"<br />

"Deliverez-Nous du Mai" and "Poussiere<br />

Sur la Ville," made by Arthur Lamothe.<br />

"La Corde au Cou" is expected to be shown<br />

at France Film Co.'s St. Denis Theatre<br />

here early in October and "Deliverez-Nous<br />

du Mai" just before Christmas, while<br />

"Poussiere Sur la Ville" is scheduled to be<br />

shown in January.<br />

Pierre Patry has made extensive changes<br />

to the sound of "Cam" and the revised<br />

film is to be distributed in the fall throughout<br />

Quebec.<br />

Arthur Lamothe has several still incomplete<br />

projects and currently is making a<br />

short film in color for the National Film<br />

Board.<br />

At the film board, Jacques Godbout's<br />

"YUL 871" is expected to be released during<br />

the winter. The film "La Fleur de<br />

I'Age" has been completed. Godbout is<br />

now ready to film a documentary called<br />

"L'Homme et Son Habitat" dealing with<br />

architecture throughout the world. Following<br />

in the same series will be "La<br />

Techniques et I'Homme and I'Aviation."<br />

During October, Georges Dufaux and<br />

Clement Perron will renew work in Italy<br />

on "Cinema-Realite."<br />

Jacques Giraldeau is completing his film<br />

on water, ordered by the United Nations<br />

Educational, Scientific and Cultui'al Organization.<br />

The film will be distributed<br />

throughout the world by National Film<br />

Board and UNESCO.<br />

Louis-Georges Carrier and Marcel Dube<br />

soon will start shooting a feature-length<br />

film based on the script by Gabrille Roy.<br />

"Pas de Vacances Pour les Idoles" has<br />

been completed and the montage has been<br />

the responsibility of Wenier Nold. The<br />

film was realized by Denis Herous and<br />

financed in part by France Film Co., which<br />

will distribute the film.<br />

NEW CASZENDER PROJECT<br />

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Georges Caszender, author of "Phoebe"<br />

which won first prize in the short films<br />

category at the International Film Festival<br />

of Montreal this year, is working with<br />

Gerald Taasse of the National Film Board<br />

on the script for a dramatic 30-minute<br />

film.<br />

"The Montage" possibly a temporary<br />

title) is now completed. It will be distributed<br />

in the United States and Canada<br />

by Jacques Gibeault, French producer concerned<br />

in "Ordeau Negro" and "Les Dimanches<br />

de Ville d'Avi-ay." who has<br />

founded his own production-distribution<br />

firm here. The film, which is reported to<br />

have considerable commercial success, is<br />

expected to be released in Montreal early<br />

next month.<br />

Montreal Catholic Group<br />

1964 Films<br />

Classifies<br />

MONTREAL—L'Office Catholique National<br />

des Techniques de Diffusions, which<br />

among other activities circulates various<br />

news media as to the moral code of motion<br />

picture films shown in Quebec, has issued<br />

its ninth edition of films. Tliese were<br />

shown in Quebec theatres during 1964.<br />

The national film body gives its own<br />

moral classifications of the various films<br />

as well as its own appreciation as to the<br />

artistic value of the film and its main technical<br />

characteristics. Moral classifications<br />

are: adults, adults and adolescents, for all,<br />

adults with some reserve and not recommendable.<br />

The office is a Roman Catholique organization,<br />

and, therefore, inclined to judge<br />

films in line with the Catholic morals<br />

standards. However, the classification<br />

bulletins issued periodically by the office<br />

are fairly well publicized by newspapers<br />

and periodicals of the province.<br />

Steven Peck is the choreographer for Jill<br />

St. John's wild Afro-jazz dance number in<br />

Embassy's "The Oscar."<br />

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tJeg Wilson of Seven Arts. Toronto, was a<br />

visitor to Montreal's Eastern Canada<br />

Film Distribution— Fernandel. the French<br />

international movie star, along with his<br />

son Prank, who is singing professionally,<br />

are scheduled to make MontreaJ's Place des<br />

Ai'ts at the beginning of December when<br />

Flank will appear in a program.<br />

Johnny Charron, manager of the Imperial<br />

Theatre of St. Jean. Que., has asked the<br />

"over 60" citizens of St. Jean to join the<br />

Golden Age Club of United Amusement<br />

Corp.. Ltd. A special rate of 40 cents, the<br />

same admission as for club members, has<br />

been set up for matinees at the theatre, he<br />

says.<br />

Best Theatre Supply currently is engaged<br />

in installing eight projection screens in the<br />

Lecture Hall of McGill University's new<br />

buildings. The screens are distributed<br />

by Hurley Co.. Long Island. N.Y.<br />

Jean-Pierre Desmarais of Select Films<br />

Inc.. spent some da.vs in the Lake St. John<br />

district. Mrs. Desmarais reported three or<br />

four inches of snow while going through<br />

Laurentide Park ion the weekend of August<br />

28-291 . . . Eloi Cormier, sales representative<br />

at Paramount Pictures, has left<br />

on a four-w-eek business trip in the Maritime<br />

Provinces . Carlini. formerly<br />

of United Artists' office, has joined Warner<br />

Bros, as secretary to Archie Cohen, manager.<br />

Albert Desbiens of Sovereign Films was<br />

holidaying with his family in New York<br />

. . . Motion picture industry people extended<br />

deepest condolences to William Elman,<br />

manager. Astral Films, whose<br />

mother died in New York. He spent about<br />

Prompt theatre service from<br />

qualified<br />

personnel<br />

Complete projection<br />

sound<br />

equipments<br />

Replacement parts always on hand<br />

BEST THEATRE SUPPLY REG'D<br />

4810 Saint Dsnis Street Montreol 34, Qua.<br />

Phone: 842-6762<br />

&<br />

a week in New York in connection with his<br />

mother's burial<br />

Montre;»l Poster exchange's offices were<br />

burglarized on August 30. An important<br />

sum of money was stolen, although many<br />

valuable items such as cameras and radios<br />

were ignored by the burglars. Tlie thieves<br />

entered the place by breaking a window.<br />

It is the third time that MPE has been<br />

ransacked in recent years.<br />

Press-Information Office<br />

Opened for 'The Bible'<br />

From Eastern Edition<br />

NEW YORK — The world premiere of<br />

Dino De Laurentiis' "The Bible" is a year<br />

off. but 20th Centm-y-Fox has inaugurated<br />

a continuous publicity and promotion campaign<br />

for the roadshow attraction. A worldwide<br />

press and infoiination office has been<br />

established in New York and will be operated<br />

by Ted Goldsmith who will work with<br />

20th-Fox's press and new roadshow departments.<br />

Jonas Rosenfield jr., vice-president, said<br />

the press and information office would be<br />

engaged solely in disseminating information<br />

and distributing publicity material on<br />

"The Bible," keeping the trade and the<br />

press up to date on, the progress of the<br />

film.<br />

Goldsmith has had a long career with<br />

the legitimate theatre and has handled<br />

publicity in New York and on the road for<br />

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way<br />

to the Forum," "Oliver," "Auntie Mame,"<br />

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "Death of a<br />

Salesman" and "Finian's Rainbow."<br />

'Button Willow' Cited<br />

By California Council<br />

From Westerwn Edition<br />

HOLLYWOOD—United Screen Art's<br />

animated<br />

color feature "The Man From Button<br />

Willow" has been cited by the Southern<br />

California Motion Picture Council, according<br />

to Elayne BIythe, president. In its list of<br />

honor awards for the year, the council<br />

selected the film as the only full-length animated<br />

picture to be so honored.<br />

Camilla Sparv co-stars with Rosalind<br />

Russell and Hayley Mills in Columbia's<br />

"Mother Superior."<br />

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KANSAS CITY,<br />

KANSAS<br />

NY Variety Club 'Raceway'<br />

Set for September 21<br />

From Eastern Edition<br />

NEW YORK—Variety Club barkers and<br />

their wives and friends will trot out to see<br />

the trotters on the evening of September<br />

21 when Tent No. 35 will hold its annual<br />

"A Nite at Yonkers Raceway." All proceeds,<br />

as in the past, will go to the Variety<br />

Club Foundation of New York.<br />

For $15 per person, the evening will provide<br />

admission to the track, a de luxe<br />

roast beef dirmer and all gratuities. All<br />

tables will be in the clubhouse, with accommodations<br />

for four, eight and ten. The<br />

event will be limited to one thousand.<br />

Charles A. Smakwitz is chairman of the<br />

affair, with Jack Levin and Charles Alicoate<br />

as co-chairmen.<br />

The ticket committee is headed by<br />

Charles Sanders, aided by Charles Boasberg.<br />

Harry Brandt, Irving DoUinger, Salah<br />

Hassanein, Rube Jackter, Saul Jeffee. Morris<br />

E. Lefko, Joseph E. Levine, Leonard<br />

Lightstone, Howard Minsky, Nat Nathanson,<br />

Joseph Sugar, James E. Velde and<br />

others. Mel Konecoff and Morton Sunshine<br />

are handling publicity and Lee<br />

Koken is the concessions chairman. Representing<br />

the Barkerettes is Mrs. Nat<br />

Nathanson. president.<br />

Reservations can be made by sending<br />

check to Variety Club of New York. 1501<br />

Broadway, Room 2101, New York 36, NY.,<br />

or by telephoning Wisconsin 7-5076.<br />

TORONTO<br />

Mews of an unusual exploitation comes<br />

from the little British Columbia community<br />

known as Cranbrook. There the<br />

premiere showing of "Mary Poppins" was<br />

given wide press and radio coverage. As<br />

a result, opening night was a festive occasion;<br />

attended by most of the local dignitaries.<br />

"Mary" was booked for a single<br />

week, but was held over, playing to over<br />

5,000 paid admissions in a town with a.<br />

population of 8,000. As Barry Camon of(<br />

the Toronto Empire-Universal office put'<br />

it: "Exploitation in small situations isi<br />

practically non-existent today. Therefore;<br />

we are more than pleased with the results;<br />

out there."<br />

Here for a week's engagement at the^<br />

Canadian National Exhibition, Bob Hope<br />

was given a citation by local Red Cross<br />

officials for being "the soldier's best<br />

friend." Addressing a group of nurses, Hope<br />

quipped, "Go to my room and wait, girls."<br />

Alexander "Sandy" Mackendrick, the<br />

eccentric Spanish movie director, has spent<br />

the past two weeks in and around Toronto.<br />

Rumor has it that Mackendrick is here<br />

to make a picture, possibly with Robert^<br />

Lawrence Productions, a Toronto organl-j<br />

zation.<br />

A "first neighbor's" preview of "The!<br />

Ipcress File" was part of the Odeon Carl-j i<br />

ton program on Sunday evening 1 29 1 The'<br />

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Canadian premiere was held Thursday f2)<br />

also at the Carlton.<br />

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In Toronto for the Canadian premiere ol<br />

"The Ipcress File." actor Michael Caine<br />

disclosed that he has been signed by producer<br />

Harry Saltzman to make ten filmf<br />

Bob Hope kept busy all week, making<br />

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larious public appearances and taking part<br />

n local events.<br />

Pussyat?"<br />

Long-term holdovers crowded local firstlun<br />

houses. "The Yellow Rolls-Royce"<br />

/ent into its sixth week at Loew's and "A<br />

'evy SE>ecial Favor" has its second week at<br />

"What's New /oew's Uptown . went into its ninth week at the<br />

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)deon Hyland . . . "The Married Woman"<br />

pened Wednesday ( 1 ) at the New Yorker<br />

Zebra in the Kitchen" also opened on<br />

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iVednesday (1 1 at the Downtown. Midtown<br />

Ind several other neighborhood houses . . .<br />

The Collector" takes a fifth week at the<br />

lollywood.<br />

Pert Boone, Roy Rogers<br />

fo Build 8.000-Acre City<br />

jrom Westerwn Edition<br />

Boone. Roy Rogers<br />

ind business manager Edward G. Brown<br />

innounced the founding of a new city, yet<br />

,0 be named, to be built on 8,000 acres in<br />

Jutte County, 125 miles north of Sacranento.<br />

conjunction with the development,<br />

..000 acres will be set aside as an amusement<br />

jark to be known as "Roy Rogers' Western<br />

World," complete with a pioneer town,<br />

imusement and ride area, motel and eating<br />

'acilities. It will be built in full scale with<br />

olans to include leasing of site for motion<br />

Mcture and TV locationing.<br />

The master plan, now being completed,<br />

;;vill be submitted by Brown to the California<br />

Land Reclamation Bm-eau on November 15.<br />

Groundbreaking for the fii'st structm-e will<br />

Ifollow shortly after.<br />

Paging, Laundry Service<br />

For Golf Mill Patrons<br />

[From Central Edition<br />

Golf MUl Theatre has<br />

installed a paging service. Customers may<br />

leave name and seat location with an usher<br />

•who will inform them if they receive a<br />

phone call.<br />

A laundry service is also being provided<br />

'for women who wish to drop a bundle off<br />

;at the boxoffice and it can be picked up as<br />

ithey leave the theatre.<br />

Other features for patron pleasure include<br />

the serving of coffee and cookies<br />

every evening.<br />

Paramount and MCA Vote<br />

Quarterly Dividends<br />

iFrom Eastern Edition<br />

YORK—The boards of directors of<br />

[Paramount Pictures and MCA, Inc.. each<br />

|declared a dividend.<br />

quarterly dividend of 50 cents per<br />

i.share was voted on the Paramount common<br />

;stock, payable September 20 to stockhold-<br />

^ers of record on September 3.<br />

MCA board declared a dividend of<br />

i37'/2 cents per share on its outstanding<br />

[preferred stock to preferred stockholders of<br />

on September 17, payable on Oc-<br />

Itober 1.<br />

New Marquee in Dayton<br />

From Mideast Edition<br />

— A sleek new marquee with<br />

simple lines now advertises motion pic-<br />

[tures and their stars at the 'Victory Theatre,<br />

138 North Main St. The fontier marquee<br />

was replaced because it was rusty<br />

[and old. The job took five days to complete.<br />

OTTAWA<br />

f^ity solicitor Donald V. Rambling prepared<br />

a report on the introduction of<br />

privately operated cable TV in Ottawa<br />

which indicated the system would not be<br />

available to city residents mitil well Into<br />

1966, probably six months after the project<br />

is approved by the municipal council<br />

late this year. Nationally, the theatre managers<br />

are not enthusiastic about it.<br />

F. G. Robertson's Mayfair in Ottawa<br />

South reopened after being closed for a<br />

staff vacation and got off to a good start<br />

with a program topped by "The Ti-ain"<br />

which played a full week.<br />

The Canada council, sponsored by the<br />

federal government, announced a program<br />

of assistance to theatres for which grants<br />

totaling $200,000 have been provided, but<br />

moving pictui-e theatres are not included,<br />

as usual.<br />

A large area of eastern Ontario, including<br />

the cities of Kingston, Brockville and<br />

Cornwall, had the first taste of color television<br />

Thursday (9i. but the soui'ce was<br />

not in Canada. The programs came from<br />

WWNY at Watertown, N.Y., which has installed<br />

the necessary equipment. The RCA<br />

Victor Co. plant at Prescott, Ont., which<br />

is in range of Watertown, already is producing<br />

color sets, although Canada has<br />

no color-TV stations.<br />

Ottawa now has two roadshow film theatres<br />

with the opening at the Famous Players<br />

Regent of "Those Magnificent Men in<br />

Their Flying Machines" on a reserved seat<br />

basis at $2.50 top. At the 20th Century<br />

Nelson, the engagement of "The Sound of<br />

Music" is well into its third month.<br />

The summer was cut short by the arrival<br />

of cool wet weather and Ottawa's roofed<br />

theatres are having the benefit of holdovers<br />

as follows: Capitol, "The Great Spy<br />

Mission," fourth week; Rideau and Britannia,<br />

"HELP!" second week, and, of course,<br />

the Nelson with "Music."<br />

The Ottawa Theatre Managers Ass'n<br />

held its first fall meeting at the Holiday<br />

Inn with Doug Pinder in the chair as president.<br />

The local dailies have asked for a 1-<br />

cent per line increase in theatre advertising<br />

and it was decided to send a delegation<br />

consisting of Pinder and the secretary Leo<br />

Ouelette, Regent manager, to the publishers<br />

to seek a five-,vear contract at the new<br />

rate.<br />

The long-establi.shed Rialto has a new<br />

manager, Allen Swedlove. the son of Casey<br />

Swedlove, proprietor of the Linden here<br />

and a director of the Motion Pictui'e Theatres<br />

Ass'n of Ontario.<br />

Ottawa had a special visitor, Verd Marriott,<br />

manager of the Centui-y at Hamilton,<br />

Ont., and president of the Hamilton Theatre<br />

Managers Ass'n. He made the round of theatres<br />

and palatial federal goveiiunent<br />

structures.<br />

A group of managers, including Emie<br />

WaiTen, Jack Marion, Doug Pinder, Sven<br />

Pedersen of Ottawa and George Clark of<br />

the Seaway, Cornwall, left for Toronto<br />

to attend the 30th annual two-day convention<br />

of 20th Century Theatres, which<br />

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'Open' Letter Helps<br />

To Sell 'Shenandoah'<br />

Manager Paul Laminack of Midstate<br />

Amusement Corp.'s Liberty Theatre in<br />

Walla Walla, Wash., successfully promoted<br />

his "Shenandoah" playdate through a letter<br />

sent to city officials and 35 active clubs,<br />

then published as a 2-column newspaper<br />

ad.<br />

This really paid off at the boxoffice, he<br />

said. "Normally, the most we run a picture<br />

is seven days, this one was held for 11 and<br />

was still doing quite well."<br />

The letter read:<br />

"Much has been written and said<br />

during recent months criticizing the<br />

motion picture industry for showing<br />

the "adult"-type movie. I am sure that<br />

you are aware many individuals and<br />

groups are always ready to condemn<br />

this type of movie showing, but do<br />

little to help support a "family" movie.<br />

"A wonderful film 'Shenandoah'<br />

will open at the Liberty Theatre on<br />

August 4. 'Shenandoah' is the story of<br />

a wonderful family headed by Charlie<br />

Anderson (James Stewart) . The Andersons<br />

attempt to remain neutral as<br />

the Civil War battles are waged nearby<br />

in the lush Virginia countryside,<br />

but wars have a way of injecting themselves<br />

into the lives of everyone.<br />

" 'Shenandoah' is a warm and at<br />

times amusing story of a most unusual<br />

family. There always is a display<br />

of family unity, love and devotion . . .<br />

and respect for each other that provides<br />

each one with the strength to<br />

meet the challenges which the war<br />

brings to them.<br />

"I sincerely hope the mothers and<br />

fathers, the teenagers and the grandparents<br />

in the Walla Walla area will<br />

show their approval of 'family films'<br />

by attending the showing of 'Shenandoah.'<br />

"The Liberty Theatre will show<br />

'Shenandoah' continuously and at<br />

regular admission prices."<br />

'Sandpiper' Tie-in<br />

In Indianapolis, a special tie-in was<br />

established with Ross & Babcock Travel<br />

Agency for "The Sandpiper." Centrally<br />

located in the downtown Claypool Hotel,<br />

the agency featured a window display,<br />

highlighted by a color stUl of the "house on<br />

the cliff," used by Elizabeth Taylor in the<br />

MGM film. The agency also is promoting<br />

travel to the Big Sur region in California,<br />

where part of the picture was made.<br />

This display of the prizes offered in the James Stewart "Shenandoah" Contest was set up in the lobby of<br />

the Tennessee Theatre at Nashville for three weeks. The contest was co-sponsored by the Nashville<br />

Tennessean.<br />

Newspaper Tie-Up in Playdate Contest<br />

Paces Nashville Exhibitor's Campaign<br />

Jesse L. Marlowe, manager of the Tennessee<br />

Theatre at Nashville, and Casey<br />

Jenkins, city manager of Martin Theatres,<br />

topped off their elaborate campaign for<br />

"Shenandoah" with a widely heralded contest<br />

that brought entries from as far away<br />

as West Virginia and Washington, D.C.<br />

Jenkins arranged with the Nashville<br />

Tennessean to co-sponsor James Stewart's<br />

"Shenandoah" Contest, in which readers<br />

were required to name 12 Stewart movies<br />

from scenes published in the newspaper's<br />

Sunday Showcase section. Three titles of<br />

Stewart films were listed with each cut,<br />

and the reader had to choose the correct<br />

one.<br />

The winner, Mrs. James O. Brown of<br />

Gallatin, Tenn., along with her husband,<br />

received a seven-day, all-expense-paid trip<br />

to the historic Civil War sites at Stone<br />

Mountain, Ga., plus a new convertible to<br />

drive there and back. They chose the<br />

Labor Day weekend to make the trip.<br />

The car. plus gas and oil for the round<br />

trip, were promoted from Pearsall Motors<br />

in Nashville, as were runner-up prizes,<br />

such as a portable television set and four<br />

tires. The fourth prize was a year's pass<br />

to the Tennessee Theatre. All of the prizes,<br />

including the car, were on display in the<br />

theatre lobby for three weeks.<br />

The free newspaper coverage, featuring<br />

the well -publicized contest, would have<br />

BOXOFFICE Showmondiser : : Sept. 13, 1965 — 139 —<br />

cost an estimated $3,900, Mai-lowe said.<br />

Harry Haun, Tennessean motion picture<br />

editor, took a special interest in the tie-up,<br />

writing articles and judging the entries.<br />

Other phases of the campaign started<br />

several weeks prior to playdate with lobby<br />

displays and teaser trailers. Marlowe also<br />

furnished three radio stations with records<br />

— "The Legend of Shenandoah"—for disc<br />

jockey shows. The playdate was plugged<br />

with the use of records. AiTangements<br />

also were made with WKDA to hold a contest<br />

on James Stewart and "Shenandoah,"<br />

with 12 soundtrack albums going to the<br />

winners. The theatre gained 15 free spots<br />

each day for ten days.<br />

Marlowe used 24-sheets effectively, too.<br />

Two of them were mounted and set up on<br />

the mezzanine overlooking the main lobby<br />

and in the foyer several weeks prior to<br />

playdate. Twelve others were spotted in<br />

various sections of the city.<br />

'Joy in Morning' Tie-In<br />

station WMAD in Madison. Wis., devoted<br />

its weekly Project Program to an indepth<br />

discussion of the problems faced by<br />

young married couples in the nation's colleges,<br />

in connection with MGM's "Joy in<br />

the Morning." The program was aired during<br />

registration week at the University of<br />

Wisconsin and gained a broad audience,<br />

estimated at 28.000.


Bit of Showmanship<br />

Adds to Playdate<br />

CITATIONS FOR AUGUST<br />

MvKYON Hi Di.iNs. mana^inii ilirecloi oj ihc Cineraiiiii Capri In Dnllas. nml l)l( k Km-<br />

I'KV. adrt'/li.siiig-piihlirily director jar Traiis-Ti'xas Theatres, are cited for ihcir<br />

highly sucivssful |)ri)inotiaced tie-ins and promotion even led the strait-laced Kansas<br />

City Star to do a feature piece on the film's opening.<br />

•<br />

Ru.l'n Chelmimak. manager of Delavan Theatre. Delavan. Wis., earns an award<br />

lor his campaign on "Mary Poppins." which included obtaining the backing of<br />

the merchants in his small town in a "Mary Poppins Shoppin' Days" promotion.<br />

Denver Theatre Adds to Magnificent' Bow<br />

These tandem bicycles<br />

and the boys<br />

and girls were used<br />

in a street stunt in<br />

Denver to ballyhoo<br />

"Those Magnificent<br />

Men in Their Flying<br />

Machines" at the<br />

Centre Theatre.<br />

They<br />

rode around town<br />

passing out heralds<br />

on the film and<br />

tickets for free airplane<br />

rides.<br />

Manager Ray Gosnell of the Center Theatre in<br />

Alexandria, Va., made sure eoch showing of "Mary<br />

Poppins" got off to a "flying start." He flew from<br />

a corner of the stage, appeoring to come from the<br />

screen, to the edge of the balcony dressed as "Bert,<br />

the chimney sweep."<br />

A little "live" action on the part of Manager<br />

Ray Gosnell of Neighborhood Theatres'<br />

Centre in Alexandria, Va., during the<br />

"Mary Poppins" playdate gave patrons<br />

something to talk about. To launch each<br />

showing, he, dressed as "Bert, the chimney<br />

sweep," appeared to fly from the screen to<br />

the edge of the balcony. The patrons loved<br />

it.<br />

As part of his campaign for the picture,<br />

Gosnell held a win-a-puppy contest which<br />

required contestants to characterize either<br />

Mary Poppins or Bert. A concession clerk<br />

Eve Finger dressed as Mary Poppins for a<br />

street ballyhoo and wore the costume<br />

thi-oughout the 14-day run.<br />

In the street stunt, the concessionist was<br />

driven around the Alexandria-Arlington-<br />

Falls Church area in a convertible giving<br />

out lollipops to children and "Mary Poppins"<br />

heralds to adults. The theatre's name<br />

and telephone number and "Poppins"<br />

posters decorated the car.<br />

Gosnell used a vacant building adjoining<br />

the theatre to place posters and to spell out<br />

"Mary Poppins" in large letters.<br />

d<br />

Bob Blasingame of the Centre Theatre<br />

in Denver took advantage of a film being<br />

shot on location at Boulder to turn the<br />

regional premiere of "Those Magnificent<br />

Men in their Flying Machines" into a<br />

highly successful Hollywood-type affair.<br />

He and Buzz Lawrence of station KHOW<br />

made a trip to the location site of "Stagecoach."<br />

where interviews were taped with<br />

Van Heflin. Stefanie Powers, Alex Cord<br />

and Slim Pickens. These were used on the<br />

air in conjunction with spots to promote<br />

the picture. Miss Powers. Bob Cummings<br />

and Red Buttons also came in from<br />

Boulder to make personal appearances.<br />

On the day of the opening two tandem<br />

bicycles, ridden by two boys and two girls<br />

dressed in 1910 bathing suits, rode through<br />

town passing out heralds on "Magnificent<br />

Men" and tickets for free airplane rides,<br />

through the cooperation of the local Cessna<br />

dealer. The same dealer also furnished a<br />

plane to fly over Denver and drop 300 ping<br />

pong balls containing certificates for<br />

prizes donated by merchants. Lawrence<br />

broadcasted from the plane directing people<br />

to the ping pong balls, plugging the<br />

picture all the way.<br />

Four standees on the film were placed in<br />

lobbies and windov/s of downtown merchants.<br />

The local antique car club agreed<br />

to chauffeur the stars and celebrities to<br />

the premiere. Upon arrival at the theatre,<br />

they were led to a platform in front where<br />

a band had been playing for the gathering<br />

crowd.<br />

Inside, a packed house applauded as the<br />

curtains parted and six men in red coats<br />

and straw hats appeared, the 16th &<br />

Broadway Boys from KHOW, who also had<br />

been plugging the picture on the air for ten<br />

days at no cost. Then Miss Powers, Cummings<br />

and Buttons appeared to highlight a<br />

most successful premiere.<br />

Free Candy for All Kids<br />

Impressive Promotion<br />

William D. Walsh, manager of Schine's<br />

Massena Theatre in Massena, N.Y.. made<br />

a big hit with the childi-en on opening<br />

day of his "The Monkey's Uncle" playdate<br />

and impressed the parents, too. He had<br />

an employe, dressed as a monkey, distribute<br />

free candy to all children as they entered.<br />

The local newspaper played up the goodwill<br />

promotion by using a good 3-column photo<br />

of the "monkey" passing out goodies to 15<br />

children.<br />

Who Is She?<br />

"Who is She?" This was the name of<br />

a special radio contest in Lincoln, Neb.,<br />

in connection with the opening of "She."<br />

Clues were given daily to the identity of a<br />

mystery woman walking around the city.<br />

c<br />

140 BOXOmCE Showmcmdiser :<br />

: Sept. 13. 1965


FOR OCTOBER<br />

Important<br />

Dates<br />

This is National Restaurant and National<br />

Science Youth Month.<br />

October 1—1935: Italy invades Ethiopia.<br />

October 2—1780: Major Andre hanged<br />

as spy.<br />

1918: Lost Battalion, World<br />

War I.<br />

October 3—Fire Prevention and National<br />

Pharmacy Weeks begin.<br />

October 4—Child Health Day.<br />

1957: First man-made satellite<br />

launched, Sputnik I.<br />

1958: First jet airliner<br />

crosses Atlantic.<br />

October 5—1854: First baby show,<br />

Springfield, Ohio.<br />

October<br />

6—Yom Kippur.<br />