Boxoffice-January.24.1966

JANUARY 24. 1966 

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THIS FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENT FOR "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" 

WHICH APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1966, 

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THE FIRST IN THE VAST NEW CAMPAIGN THAT PARAMOUNT HAS DEVELOPED 

FOR THE RETURN OF CECIL B. DE MlLLE'S MASTERPIECE. 

IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS TO COME, YOU WILL SEE UNFOLDING THE FULL SWEEP 

AND SCOPE OF THIS CAMPAIGN. 

THE PROVEN BOXOFFICE PERFORMANCE OF "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" 

WILL, IN OUR OPINION, PROVE ITSELF ALL OVER AGAIN THIS YEAR.

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Paramount pictures 

is proud to announce 

the return of the greatest 

motion picture of all time! 

There was only one Cecil B DeMille And this is his picturemaking 

masterpiece. The Ten Commandments " 

This its first appearance since its original all-record-breaking 

run. is in every sense a command performance 

Families who saw it together the first time want 

New families want to see it for the first time 

The Ten Commandments'' was. in fact, the most acclaimed, the 

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most successful, the most popular motion picture ever made. 

People in every walk of life acclaimed it 

People in every age group acclaimed it 

People in every country acclaimed it 

For all people, it was an emotional experience 

Paramount Pictures is indeed proud of the most acclaimed 

motion picture of all time. The Ten Commandments 

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JANUARY 

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No. 14 

A 

TIMELY 

"ETERNAL VIGILANCE . 

warning has been issued 

by the Council of Motion Picture 

Organizations to exhibitors throughout 

the country, alerting them to the danger 

of a restoration of the Federal admissions 

tax, which was abolished only January 

1. In just a week after President 

Johnson, in his State of the Union address, 

said that he would recommend the 

restoration of the excise tax on automobiles 

and telephone calls, he did just 

that. And, it is feared, that the extension 

of such action to other articles and businesses 

may include theatre admissions. 

Charles E. McCarthy, executive vicepresident 

of COMPO, also is urging increased 

efforts in connection with the 

minimum wage law, a new version of 

which is to be presented at this session 

of Congress. Extended coverage under 

this bill is among President Johnson's 

recommendations. 

Significant is Mr. McCarthy's observation 

that, "These two suggestions in the 

President's speech simply go to show 

that we must never relax our vigilance 

on legislative matters—censorship, tax, 

minimum wage—or other legislation 

that hits our business. We must always 

—but ALWAYS—be prepared and ready 

to act." 

This is true on all counts, no reminder 

being necessary, for the industry knows 

full well that once a law—tax, censorship 

or whatever — gets on the books, it 

almost never comes off. The ticket tax 

law had its beginning during World War 

I—nearly 50 years ago. Censorship, too, 

is a half-century old nuisance, deterrent 

and expense. While it has been removed 

from the statute books in all of the six 

states in which it was originally introduced, 

the efforts of its advocates persist 

in trying to retain it in one form or another, 

regardless of court rulings that 

these forms have been unconstitutional. 

The last of the state censorship boards, 

in Kansas, was declared unconstitutional 

by the ruling of a Kansas District Court 

January 8 and is under appeal to the 

Kansas Supreme Court. Pending the 

hearing, a court order is being sought 

which would allow the Kansas Board of 

Review to continue its operation, indicating 

the "never say die" attitude that 

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has been evident wherever censorship 

has been outlawed. 

Whether censorship will remain outlawed 

in Kansas depends on what the 

motion picture industry does about it. 

Fraught with danger is the possibility 

that, if the appeal is rejected, some theatre 

screens in that state may become 

flooded with the types of pictures that 

will arouse public indignation. And, 

then, not only would this bring back 

censorship or classification in Kansas 

with teeth—but it could set a pattern 

for like legislation in many other states. 

It wouldn't take much to bring this 

about. If the objectionable films in question 

were to be shown in only one theatre 

in one fair-sized city in Kansas, it 

would be enough to set off the charge 

and the resulting explosion would be 

heard around the country. 

It is true that the industry has won 

battle after battle with censorship. But, 

until it wins the last one, it has not won 

the "war." 

Kansas is not only the scene of the 

"last stand" of censorship; it could be 

the last stand for freedom of the screen 

—unless the vigilance to preserve it is 

not only eternally but assiduously, as 

well, exercised at every point of exhibition 

in the state. 

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Pertinent Pointers 

Motion picture theatres are a business 

asset to any community or Chamber of 

Commerce. They can help get people out 

of their homes and into the business district 

where they are exposed to the wares 

of other merchants. They add glamor 

and color to the area or business venture 

being engaged in. Most merchants 

must be impressed with the fact that 

"people on the go" are the people who 

spend money. Obviously, special campaigns 

and promotions must be used to 

keep "people on the go." These are the 

basic reasons why you should help your 

town promote — and your town merchants 

should help you promote! 

— Commonwealth Theatres "The Bright Side" 

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following World War II, his first assignment 

being in Universale office in India, 

following which he was named manager 

of the Malaysia territory. He left Univerr 

to join Paramount, serving in managerial 

capacities in Chile and Venezuela 

In 1950. Rothman joined producer Edward 

Small as his worldwide representative, remain'ng 

until 1952. when he left to become 

a member of the international sales department 

of United Artists and. by 1955. 

he had risen from assistant to sales man- 

the Continent and Far East In 

1957. he was promoted to Continental manager 

and, three years later, he became vicepresident 

of international operations for 

United Artists. 

Rothman served with UA in New York 

for a brief period before becoming execu- 

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Rofhman Named Head 

Of Col. World Sales 

NEW YORK — Mo Rothnum, executive 

vice-president of Columbia Pictures' foreign 

subsidiary for 

the past five years, 

has been named vicepresident 

in charge 

of world distribution 

to supervise all Facets 

of distribution, both 

Ic unci foreign. 

Rube Jackter. who 

Is vice-president In 

charge of domestic 

sales, will shortly relinquish 

this post and 

AIo Kothman become a general administrative 

executive 

and. in tlrs new capacity, will join Abe 

Schneder, president; Leo Jaffe. executive 

(fee-president, and Sol Schwartz, senior 

vice-president, in dea'iiig with all phases 

of company policy. 

Names of the new domestic and foreign 

sales managers will be announced shortly. 

Rothman entered the industry as a stu 

'in' trainee with Universal-International 

tive vice-president of Columbia's foreign 

•subsidiary in 1960. 

Jackter entered the industry in 1913 

with Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Co. Before 

joining Columbia in 1924. he served 

with Goldwyn Pictures. Fox Film Corp 

and Universal. In 1933. he was named assistant 

general sales manager of Columbia 

and in 1957 he was named general sales 

manager. 

Sherrill Corwin of NATO 

Leaves Allied Artists 

NEW YORK—Sherrill C Corwin. who 

was elected president-designate of the 

National Ass'n of Theatre Owners Tuesday 

ill' to succeed Marshall Fine in October, 

resigned from the board of directors of 

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Allied Artists Friday > to avoid the possibility 

of any future conflict of Interest 

Corwin is president of Metropolitan Theatres 

Corp. and also serves as president of 

the Southern California Theatre Owners 

Ass'n. now affiliated with NATO. He became 

a member of the Allied Artists board 

in 1957. 

Claude A. Giroux. AA president, said the 

company deeply regretted Cbrwin's departure, 

and expressed the appreciation of all 

its officers and executives for his efforts 

in behalf of their organization. 

Universal Plans Release 

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rent pictures in production prior to the luncheon of the tradepress. Left to right: 

Henry "Hi" Martin, vice-president and genera] sales manager; Norman E. oiuck. 

manager of short subjects and nrwsrecl department: Janus .!. Jordan, assistant 

to the general sales manager, and K. \. Wilkinson, ass't general Bales manager. 

NEW YORK — Universal Pictures will 

hold a national sales meeting in New 

Orleans February 7-11 to announce its 

1966 program of 26 feature releases, approximately 

the same number as for 1965. 

according to Henry H. "Hi" Mai !m. vicepresident 

and general sales managi i 

For the first time in the company's history, 

ail of the 26 new releases will be in 

color. Martin told the tradepress at a 

luncheon at the Laurent Restaurant Monday 

i. For 1965. Universal had 

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16 

tures in color, ten in black-and-white 

Many of the company's completed reu:ll 

be screened at the sales :i 

and plans for campaigns and scheduled 

premieres during the early months of the 

yen- will be discussed. An eight-page 

tradepaper product announcement lis 

scheduled for the same period in February, 

Martin pointed out. He did mention 

there will probably be "fewer con: 

tlie 26 pictures but that the company 

will make every effort to release tinpictures 

in orderly fashion, with al 

one important film for each month of 

1966, even In the so-called "orphan 

Universal has scheduled premli I 

three of its early 1966 releases. "Moment to 

and "Madame 

X." for late January througl 

(1 out. all of these I 

local 

openings. Mervyn LeRoy. producer, and 

Jean Seberg. Honor Blackman and Sean 

n, the three stars, will attend the 

four-tl ire In 

and Florida territorial op. 

::••.' coming in 

from Hollywood whJ will 

come in from Paris and Miss Blackman 

from London for three days of promotional 

activity prior to the event. For 

"Die Rare Breed." I and 

n O'Hara. plus director Andrew Mcattend 

the Texas opening, 

February 2. this to be similar to 

starting 

last year's successful Texa 

"Shenandoah." Martin pointed out. For 

"Madame X." which will open in Miami 

March 3. following the convention. Lana 

who plays the title role, John 

Forsythe and other duled to 

then go on to Detroit and Chicago 

for later openings their 

will have big local 

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Asked about UniversaJ's position on 

"blind bidding." Mail in said that most of 

the company be completed 

so far in advance of release that 

this will not bo tux-' 

exhibitor bids "blind." he will be given an 

opportunity for a "second guess" when the 

picture is ready for screening, when he 

eel if he wish. 

Martin told the tradepress that Universal 

had exiK-rienced "a strong 191 

looked forward to an even tx 

luncheon, which Ma:-r 

Phil 

press for 

Gerard. R 

"their co;' 

M Wilkins in, 

sales manager; James Jordan. Norman 

Gluck. the latt nian- 

Blaustein to New WB Post 

held posts in • playdate and 

Bros, since he joined the company in 1931. 

baa been named to ! 

partment, succeeding Sol Shernow. who will 

ret in- from the company January 28. after 

according to 

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"Razz" Goldstein, vice-president and general 

sales manager. 

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DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASS'N OF THEATRE OWNER 

In the photo above, clockwise from lower left: George Buzza, 

Herbert Bonifas, Richard Lochry, Trueman Rembuseh, Rafael R. 

Cobian, Stuart Aarons. Bernard Myerson, John Broumas, Jerome 

Gordon, E. N. Thompson, Lou Avolio. Arthur Tolchin. Wilbur 

Snaper, Philip F. Harling. Ernest Stem, George Stern, (standing: 

George Roscoe, Carl Goldman). Alden Smith, Irving Dollinger, 

Edward Fabian, Roy H. Metcalfe, Harrison D. Wolcott, Sidney J. 

Cohen, J. T. Hitt, Jay Wooten, Richard Orear. William Thedford, 

Robert W. Selig, Oscar Brotman, David E. Milgram and 

Sherrill C. Corwin. 

MGM Quarter Net Hits $2,084,000; 

Gains in All Major Operations Seen 

NEW YORK — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

operations for the first quarter, which 

ended November 25, 

showed a profit of 

$2,084,000 or 83 cents 

a share on the 2,506,- 

000 shares outstanding, 

Robert H. 

O'Brien, MGM president, 

announced 

Thursday (13). This 

compares with a 

profit of $1,566,000 or 

60 cents a share on 

the 2.611.829 shares 

Robert H. O'Brien outstanding for the 

same period in 1964. 

In his letter to stockholders, O'Brien said, 

"The improvement stems from gains in all 

our major operations." A quarterly dividend 

of 40 cents a share accompanied the 

report to stockholders. 

"Feature film operations." continued 

O'Brien, "ran ahead this quarter, reflecting 

strong current releases during the 

quarter and increased revenues from the 

licensing of films to TV." Among MGM's 

more successful first quarter releases were: 

"The Cincinnati Kid," "Harum Scarum," 

"The Hill." "Once a Thief" and "The Loved 

One." which opened late in November in 

New York and Los Angeles with very satisfactory 

results. "The Loved One" has continued 

to do extremely well in subsequent 

key city openings over the year-end holidays. 

In addition, the carry-over strength 

of the company's major summer pictures, 

"The Sandpiper." "The Yellow Rolls- 

Royce" and "Operation Crossbow" contributed 

significantly. 

O'Brien called "Doctor Zhivago" the 

company's most important release during 

the second quarter. The film had its world 

premiere December 22 in New York and a 

second gala premiere the following night 

in Los Angeles. "The first two weeks of 

the engagements in these two cities." said 

O'Brien, "exceeded the gross of our most 

successful previous roadshow attraction . 

30 per cent more than the opening two 

weeks of 'Ben-Hur' and 50 per cent more 

than those of 'How the West Was Won.' " 

The picture, which was preceded by many 

months of excited interest from press and 

public, is currently being shown on a roadshow 

basis in New York and Los Angeles 

and will be introduced on the same basis in 

major cities this winter. 

"A Patch of Blue." which was also released 

in December and will be played on 

a selective basis, has established itself as 

being one of the most distinctive and appealing 

pictures of the year. Additional 

important second quarter films include: 

"Where the Spies Are," "7 Women," "Made 

in Paris," "The Money Trap" and a reissue 

of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller. 

"North by Northwest." Expanded versions 

in color of two of the most popular "Man 

From U.N.CL.E." programs "Spy With My 

Face" and "To Trap a Spy," will be released 

in U.S. theatres. 

TV program operations showed improved 

profits in the first quarter as compared to 

1964 with programs generally rated well on 

the networks during the fall, particularly 

"The Man From U.N.CL.E." and "Flipper." 

A new series, "Daktari," produced by Ivan 

Tors, premiered on the CBS television network 

January 11. Five new television 

pilots have been completed for the 1966-67 

season with a sixth set for production later 

this month. In addition, the development 

of two animated series for Saturday daytime 

viewing are Hearing completion. 

O'Brien reported that on December 1. 

subsequent to the end of the first quarter 

of the current fiscal year, MGM Telestudios, 

the company's videotape commercial 

production subsidiary, was consolidated 

with Videotape Productions of 

New York. Inc., and that MGM now has a 

50 per cent interest in the combined company. 

"The results achieved by the consolidated 

company in the first month," 

O'Brien reported, "were profitable and we 

expect that this operation will contribute 

to our earnings in the future." 

O'Brien told stockholders that the company 

has progressed in the development of 

plans for a new studio at the Conejo Valley. 

Calif., site which it has under option. 

The company is currently awaiting preliminary 

plans from architects based upon 

engineering and economic feasibility 

studies prepared by outside consultants in 

association with the studio management. 

Wometco Dividend 

MIAMI—Wometco Enterprises Monday 

1 declared a regular quarterly cash 

dividend of 14 cents on Class "A" stock and 

5 cents on Class "B" stock. Dividends are 

payable March 15 to stockholders of record. 

March 1. In announcing the payout, the 

board again stated that the dividend payment 

adhered to its previously announced 

intention of paying quarterly cash dividends 

at the annual rate of 56 cents on 

Class "A" stock. Shares now outstanding 

total 2,223,949. 

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IT FIRST MEETING OF BOARD IN NEW YORK JANUARY 1 

Loew's Theaiers Has 

Rise in Year's Nei 

NEW YORK—"Our fiscal year ended 

Aug. 31, 1965 was one of growth In both 

volume and profits; 

the net income rose 

to $3.32 per share, of 

which S2.76 was derived 

from operations 

and 56 cents from 

capital gains." Laurence 

A. Tisch, president 

and chairman 

of the board of 

Loew's Theatres, told 

the annual 

of stockholders at 

Laurence A. TLsch Loew's State Theota e 

Thursday '13). "In 

the first quarter of our current fiscal year. 

earnings amounted to $1.37 per share, representing 

83 cents of operating income and 

54 cents capital gain income." he stated. 

I theatres are projected for 0] 

in 1966. all in fine, suburban shopping 

centers," Tisch said. 

Tisch then told the stockholders that 

Loew's eight hotels in New York cit: 

Untied to maintain higher occupanc 

than city averages, The Warwick, "our 

.-quired 

last spring and a complete rehab:'.: 

•n has just been completed with the 

hotel em truly modem and desirable 

500-room unit." he said. The Ambassador 

East and West in Chicagi 

purchased by Loews in September 1965 

and are undergoing thorough renovation 

and refurbishing and Loew's has contracted 

to acquire property in the heart 

of Washington, D.C.. near the White 

House, to erect a 500-room luxury hotel. 

Loew's Americana. San Juan and Bal 

Harbour, both operated at high levels during 

1965. Tisch said. 

Following the meeting, the following directors 

were re-elected: Charles B. Bcnenson. 

James Bruce. Lewis Gruber. Herbert 

A. Hoffman. John F. Murphy, Bernard 

Myerson. Simon H. Rifkind. Arthur M. 

Tolchin. Jay Wells and both Laurence and 

Preston Tisch. 

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Above, from lower left: Richard Brandt. E. I). .'Martin. 

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C. I.. Patrick. Ronald Krucger. Morton Sunshine, 

Martin Newman. Ernest Stellings, Myron N. Blank. Albert Aaron. 

J. L. Whittle. Fred Schnintf. .lack (lark. Kdward E. Johnson. Ray 

T. Vonderhaar. George Wilkinson, Charles Bazzell. Richard Kennedy. 

II. F. Kincey. Bernard Levy. E. l.iMar Sam, Harvey Garland, 

Jack I-oeks, Richard Mann, Roy Cooper. .Malcolm Green. 

At other tables, not shown, were Mitchell Wolfson, Ben Marcus. 

John Rowley, George Kerasotes. Salah Haxsani-in. M. A. I.i:.lit 

man jr.. T. G. Solomon. Maurice Miller and E. David Rosen. 

USIA Announces Grants 

To Young Filmmakers 

NEW YORK — The US. Information 

Agency's motion picture and television 

service has announced plaits to sponsor a 

series of documentary films by young 

American filmmakers as part of a continuing 

effort to discover new talent to 

produce films and TV shows for 117 coun- 

In the theatre division, 1965 marked the 

end of a long period of theatre dispositions 

tries, according 

USIA director. 

to George Stevens jr.. 

and, for the first time, Loew's has more Addressing a meeting of the American 

theatres in operation at the close of the Women In Radio and Television. Stevens 

year than at the beginning. "Eighl 

said that the USIA this year will "extend 

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three grants to young filmmakers who can 

bring a measure of freshness and perspective 

to the American story." The 

will be S7.000 each for writing and din-ding 

a one-reel docum> :. 

an ex- 

American Film Series 

in 1963 by the USIA. 

"The great strength of the motion picture 

medium is that it ;• 

parochial to speak In terms of the human 

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said that USIA's motion picture and teleervice 

Is now engaged In a world 

of transmitting "ideas on a 

beam of light." 

Filmways' 3-Month Profit 

Twice That of '64 Period 

new YORK — Filmways. inc., reports 

net income, after taxes, of $286,934. or 43 

cents per share, for the three-month 

period ended November 30. 1965. this 

figure being more than twice the earnings 

for the corresponding period in 1964. according 

to Lee Moselle, president. ThLs 

represents almost half of the total earnings 

cents per share I for the entire 

fiscal year ended Aug. 31. 1965 and 

exceeds the earnings for the first six 

months of that year, Moselle 

On the motion picture front, under 

chairman of the board and production 

head Martin Ransohoff. Filmways. had 

three major releases this past year, all for 

MGM. "The Sandpiper." "The Cincinnati 

Kid" and "The Loved One." Now comproduction 

in Europe Is "13, 

>< borah Kerr. David Niven and Flora 

Robson. also for MGM release, while 

Roman Polanski's "The Vampire Killersis 

about to go into production In Europe 

In various stages of production an 

Station Zebra." to star Gregory Peck. 

David Niven and George Segal under John 

Sturgee' direction, and and 

"Don't Make v. 

Keep for Columbia release, and "Devil 

a novel by Martin Caidui 

Filmways currently has el-'ht network 

Henry Phyfe," starring Red 

ABC 

Life of 

Buttoivs. which made its debut on 

"Eye Guess." a joint venture 

Bob Stewart Productions, wbil 

owing 

3. and "The Beverly Hill- 

' 

Petticoat Junction." "Green 

Acres," "The Addams Family." "Mr. Ed" 

and "The Trials of O'Brien."

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American 

Lavish Trodeshow for Show-A-Rama; 

Showmanship Awards Announced 

DENVER—More than 75 venders, suppliers 

and equipment people will participate 

in the lavish tradeshow planned in 

conjunction with Show-A-Rama IX at the 

Denver Hilton Hotel, February 28 through 

March 3. The tradeshow, which opens 

February 28 at 4 p.m., with ribbon-cutting 

ceremonies, is under the direction of Bob 

Tankersley, head of Western Service and 

Supply Co.. who said the expanded facilities 

this year will make possible the 

best tradeshow in Show-A-Rama's history. 

One of the highlights of the show, designed 

by Larry Starsmore of Westland 

Theatres. Colorado Springs, will be a huge 

display of "The Theatres of Tomorrow," 

blown up in giant reproductions from samples 

around the nation, in the convention 

entrance halls. 

NAMED 'SHOWMEN OF YEAR' 

Selections for "Showmen of the Year" 

awards from 55 nominations also were announced 

this week by Marvin Goldfarb, 

president of the Rocky Mountain Motion 

Picture Ass'n. and Douglas Lightner, president 

of the United Theatre Owners of 

the Heart of America, co-sponsors of 

Show-A-Rama. Showmanship awards will 

be presented to the following: Bob Corbit, 

director of advertising. Paramount Gulf 

Theatres, New Orleans; William Hurst, 

district manager for National General 

Theatres, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Ed Marks, 

director of advertising for Stewart and 

Everett Theatres, Charlotte, N. C, and 

John Heathcote, manager of Los Altos 

Theatres. Los Altos, Calif. 

The showmen will detail campaigns on 

specific motion pictures at the Wednes- 

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day morning session March 2. Corbit will 

present publicity and exploitation on 

"Harper" Bros. i. Hurst will present 

selling ideas on "Fantastic Voyage" 

Century-Fox >. Marks will bring out 

merchandising stunts for "The Ghost in 

the Invisible Bikini" Interna- 

while Heathcote will present the 

campaign on "The Oscar" ( Embassy i. 

Also a small-town showmanship and 

promotion session is scheduled for Thursday, 

March 3. Chris C. Corder of Poplar. 

Mont., will be the moderator of a select 

panel of exhibitors from the Rocky Mountain 

area. 

'EVENING WITH THE STARS' 

Frank H. "Rick" Ricketson jr., former 

vice-president and general manager of 

National Theatres, will act as master of 

ceremonies for "An Evening With the 

Stars." annual festive highlight of the convention, 

in the Grand Ballroom of the 

Hilton. The event will be glamorized by 

Larry Starsmore, head of Westland 

Theatres, Colorado Springs, and 

John Dobson, branch manager for 

United Artists, Denver, double-checked 

with a Cripple Creek, Colo., assayer, 

on ore that came out of a gold mine 

they bought two weeks ago. The mine 

will be given away to some lucky exhibitor 

attending Show-A-Rama EX. 

Starsmore and Dobson are co-chairmen 

of the international meeting. 

in Paris," will be presented by Emery 

Austin, assistant director of advertising 

and exploitation of MGM. 

Governor Love of Colorado will welcome 

the delegates at the convention's 

opening session and Marshall Fine, president 

of the National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners, also will be a speaker. 

For the ladies there will be a special 

trip to the U.S. Ah- Force Academy in 

Colorado Springs and a luncheon at the 

Officers Club. 

Supreme Court Asked 

To Reopen Trust Suit 

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court 

has been asked to rule on whether a release, 

freeing some defendants in an antitrust 

action, frees the others. The request 

was made by a group of exhibitors, Winchester 

Drive-In Theatre, Syufy Enterprises, 

Bell Drive-In and the Rancho 

Drive -In, who are trying to revive their 

case against 20th Century-Fox, Buena 

Vista, MGM, Paramount and Blumenfeld 

Enterprises. 

The case involved antitrust law violation 

allegations in agreements between the 

exhibitor chains and distributors. Fox West 

Coast Theatres Corp., named in the original 

suit, was released on two separate 

agreements and a new suit was filed. 

Although the district court ruled that 

the case could still be prosecuted, the appeals 

court ruled that releasing one released 

all unless a specific distinction had 

the personal appearances of a number of 

Hollywood personalities, including producer 

been made as to the others. 

Martin Rackin and stars Ann-Mar- 

Exhibitors believe that recoveries under 

gret, Alex Cord, Red Buttons, Honor the antitrust laws will be hampered unless 

Blackman and Miss America, Debra Bryant. 

"The Star of the Year" luncheon will 

take place on Thursday, March 3. 

the 

case. 

Supreme Court agrees to review the 

Robert M. Weitman, vice-president in 

charge of production for Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer, will address a luncheon Tuesday, 

March 1. Later in the afternoon $250,000 

worth of Helen Rose fashions, 28 changes, 

which were designed for MGM's "Made House." The film has had other titles. 

AIP Film Again Retitled 

HOLLYOOD—"Ghost in the Glass Bikini" 

is the new title for American International's 

"Bikini Party in a Haunted 

TESMA, TEDA Meeting 

In New Orleans Feb. 6-9 

NEW YORK—Approximately 150 persons 

will attend the Theatre Equipment 

Dealers and Manufacturers conference at 

the Royal Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, 

February 6-9. 

On the opening night there will be a 

cocktail party sponsored by Carbon Products 

Division of Union Carbide Corp. and 

a buffet dinner sponsored by TESMA. 

Guests will be entertained by strolling 

musicians. Luncheons February 7-9 will 

be sponsored by EPRAD, Inc., of Toledo, 

C. S. Ashcraft Manufacturing Co. of New 

York and the Edward H. Wolk organization 

of Chicago. 

On Wednesday night February 9 the 

LaVezzi Machine Works of Chicago will 

sponsor a cocktail party immediately preceding 

a dinner sponsored by TEDA. 

Strong Electric Corp., of Toledo will entertain 

dealers at a breakfast, during 

which sales programs will be presented, 

and the Century Projector Corp., which 

will entertain dealers, their wives and 

their guests at a cocktail and dinner party. 

Dr. Richard Vetter, president of Dimension-150 

Co., and of its inventors, is 

expected to make a presentation on behalf 

of the D-150 all-purpose theatre, and 

as another important feature, Dr. Wendell 

Miller, president of the International Corp., 

developers of a new daylight drive-in 

screen and tower, will speak. 

Other speakers at luncheons will be 

John Robertson and his associates of 

American Management Ass'n who will discuss 

better methods of business management. 

Sam Clark, vice-president of the 

ABC Companies, which operates about 500 

theatres, will discuss theatre management 

in relation to equipment now available. 

The ladies will have extra entertainment, 

too, with a motor tour of the New 

Orleans gardens and a walking tour of 

the famous French Quarters. 

EMBASSY SELECTED—Joseph E. 

Levine is flanked by Roger L. Stevens 

(1) chairman of the board of trustees 

of the Kennedy Center for the Performing 

Arts, and George Stevens jr., 

director of the U.S. Information 

Agency's Motion Picture Service, at 

a luncheon at the Four Seasons Restaurant 

in New York announcing 

that Levine's Embassy Pictures had 

been selected by the Kennedy Center 

to distribute in the U.S. the motion 

picture, "John F. Kennedy—Years of 

Lightning, Day of Drums." The film, 

produced by George Stevens for the 

USIA, has been made available for 

a special Act of Congress. 

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Four New U.S. Units 

Board al Technicolor To New Tax Possibility Added by Cinerama 

HOLLYWOOD—Thomas J. Welsh. 55, a 

member of the Technicolor, Inc. board since 

1960 and recently named chairman of the 

executive committee, was elected new 

board chairman and chief executive officer. 

Paul W. Fassnacht. 60. former corporate 

vice-president, international operations, 

and general manager of Technicolor's motion 

picture division, was elected president. 

Patrick J. Frawley jr.. 42 years old. resigned 

as board chairman and Melvin II 

Jacobs. 60. stepped down as president and 

chief executive officer. Frawley, however, 

assumed the newly created post of chairman 

of the finance committee. Both he 

and Jacobs will remain directors of the 

film processor and incentive-merchandising 

concern. 

All the changes, made at a directors' 

meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 

New York late Tuesday H8> are effective 

Immediately. Fassnacht said the management 

changes involve "no particular big 

change in operation or policy." He declined 

to discuss the moves any further. 

W. C. Chambliss to Direct 

Technicolor Advertising 

HOLLYWOOD—Admiral W. C. Chambliss 

i ret.' has joined Technicolor Corp. 

as head of advertising and public relations, 

succeeding Huntly P. Briggs, who 

assumed the post the end of last month. 

Briggs has left the company, after moving 

to a publicity-advertising post from 

Costa Mesa, where he was a member of 

Technicolor's commercial and educational 

division. He had succeeded Curtis Kent. 

promoted November 8 to vice-president. 

marketing, of Schick Electric, Lie. 

Paramount Has a Short 

On 'The Slender Thread' 

NEW YORK — A special 

eight-minute 

short subject focusing on Paramount's "The 

Slender Thread" is being made available 

immediately to exhibitors and for nontheatrical 

use on television and for group 

showings. Filmed with the cooperation of 

the Bell Telephone Co., the short, entitled 

"Dial O for Emergency." shows how the 

telephone can help to save a life in time 

of emergency, as depicted in "The Slender 

Thread." 

Thirty-five millimeter prints of the short 

are being serviced to theatres for programing 

well in advance of their openings of 

the suspense drama. Sixteen millimeter 

prints are being used for television and for 

showings to women's groups, community 

organizations and other interested groups. 

Richard Feinstein Named 

AA Eastern District Head 

NEW YORK—Richard A Feinfitel 

resigned as assistant general sales manager 

of Cinema V Distributing to become 

eastern district manager for Allied ' 

according to Nat Nathanson. vice-president 

and general sales manager. His territory 

will include the Boston. New Haven. 

Albany and Buffalo exchange areas. 

Feinstein started in the industry with 

MGM in 1951 and later served in sales 

posts with Universal. DCA and Continental 

Distributing. 

BOXOFTICE January 24. 1966 

New York— In a letter issued to tax 

campaign committees in each f the 50 

states, the Council of Motion Picture 

Organisations trained exhibitors to be 

on the alert to prevent the return of 

the federal admissions t.i\. 

Charles E. McCarthy, executive 

vice-president of COMPO, pointed out 

in the letter that President Johnson, 

in his State of the Union address 

January 12, bad called for a restoration 

of few excise t.i\cs which were 

a 

ended January 1 and also had indicated 

that if necessary he would 

recommend restoration of additional 

excise taxes which had just been 

abolished. 

McCarthy also pointed out that 

President Johnson had listed extended 

minimum wage coverage as one of his 

recommendations for the current session 

of CongTess. "This means." the 

letter said, "that we must Increase our 

efforts to win congressional approval 

Of our position." There have been indications 

in Washington that the bill 

reported out by the House Labor Committee 

at the last session, which was 

returned from the Rules Committee, 

will in- considerably modified and a 

new version presented at this session. 

The COMPO letter also stated: 

"These two suggestions in the President's 

speech simply go to show that 

we must never relax our vigilance on 

legislative matters—censorship, tax. 

minimum wage—or other legislation 

that hits our business. We must always—but 

ALWAYS— be prepared and 

ready to act." 

Code Changes Discussed 

With NATO Executives 

NEW YORK — Ralph Hetzel. acting 

president of the Motion Picture Ass'n of 

America, has been holding further meel 

ings on proposed changes In the Production 

Code with officials of the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners. 

Exhibitor leaders met with Hetzel last 

fall at the time of the Theatre Owners of 

America annual convention in Los Angeles. 

During the past two weeks Hetzel also has 

had further discussion of Code re. 

with representatives of various religious 

groups. 

No final draft of the revised Cod. 

ready for submission to the MPAA board 

of directors for consideration despite the 

most recent meetings. Prevtou d 

been presented to the board and v. 

(erred back to Hetzel for a go:: 

'Queen of Blood' to AIP 

HOLLYWOOD — Producer Geo: 

wards and director Curtis Harrington, partnered 

: 

concluded a: 

Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff for the release 

of "Queen of Blood." The m 

shocker toplines Job: 

fiction 

Rathbone. Judi Meredith. I 

and Florence Marly AIP will open the picture 

in key city saturation dates March 3 

HOLLYWOOD — Cinerama's worldwide 

Ion of its theatre installation is being 

continued by arrangements just con- 

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cluded for building four more domestic 

units, it was aimounced by Howard G. 

Cinerama executive vice-president. 

aii and Pittsburgh 

have I- for Clni 

by Stanley Warner 

be built 

Theatres, Minsk? Bald The fourth new 

Cinerama house will be constructed In 

Reno. Nev.. by Ray Syufy. San Francisco 

exhibitor. 

These four new projects will bring to 

16J the total number of world theatres 

equipped for showing Cinerama product. 

of these. 77 are located in the United 

States. Other Cinerama theatres are in 

Argentina, Australia. Austria. Brazil. 

Canada, Chile, Colombia. Denmark. England. 

Finland. France. Greece. India. Italy. 

Japan. Lebanon. Malaya. Mexico. Netherlands. 

New Zealand, Peru. Philippines, 

South Africa. Spain. Sweden, Switzerland. 

Thailand. Uruguay. Venezuela and West 

Germany. 

Minskv also announced that William 

Forman. Cinerama president, has lined up 

ama films through 1967 and that 

additional deals are in progress for several 

major Cinerama productions. "Battle of 

the Bulge," the current Cinerama picture 

in release by Warner Bros., will be followed 

in June by "Khartoum." made by Julian 

Blaustein for United Artists. Other forthcoming 

Cinerama films will be Stanley 

Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and 

John Frankenhelmer's "Grand Prix." both 

from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and "William 

the Conqueror,'' a Philip Yordan production 

for Warner Bros. 

James Coburn in 13 Cities 

To Promote 'Cur Man Flint' 

NEW YORK-^James Coburn. star of 

20th Century-Fox's "Our Man Flint." made 

a jet -propelled promotion tour covering Ki 

cites In four days. Coburn's record- sett.ing 

achievement was made possible by traveling 

In a Lear jet. the fastest and highestflying 

aircraft used for business purposes. 

Many of Coburn's interviews with leading 

journalists and television and radio 

reporters were condm 

ing at 570 miles per hour at an altitude 

above 40.000 feet. 

Coburn was in Boston. Pittsburgh and 

Cleveland Monday (17) After a one-day 

' 

resumed his whirlwind tour, visiting Cinand 

Chicago on We.: 

(19); St. Louis. Kansas Cky, Wichtta and 

Dallas 0O Thn 1 Denver. Salt 

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Short Wins Cannes Prize 

NEW YORK ft 

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pie don't '.ike me." baa been award 

Grand Prise among short subject 

concluded International Chil- 

U held In Cannes. 

France, it was learned by Pathe Contemporary 

Films, distributors of the 

picture

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Global Sales, Promotion 

Plan Launched by Para. 

PARIS—Starting 1966 with its entire 

line-up of releases for the year completed, 

Paramount Pictures 

has launched the 

most intensive sales 

and merchandising 

efforts in its history 

to insure the success 

of these attractions 

on a worldwide basis, 

president George 

Weltner said here 

Tuesday H8> at the 

opening of a threeday 

meeting of the 

George Weltner 

Conti- 

company' s 

nental. United Kingdom 

and South African divisions at the 

new Hilton-Orly Hotel. 

Pointing to the diversity and variety of 

Paramount's forthcoming releases. Weltner 

said that "the time has long since 

gone when a motion picture is made with 

but one nation or one people in mind. The 

screen of today knows no national or international 

boundaries. To be successful 

and profitable, a picture must win the 

acceptance of audiences in New York, Los 

Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong. Bangkok, 

Tel-Aviv, Rome, Paris, London, Montreal 

and all the places in between. 

"This internationality of pictures," he 

continued, "extends not only to stories 

and themes but also to settings, casts and 

creative talent. Through extensive research, 

much of it achieved with the cooperation 

of our offices throughout the 

world, we have tried to select pictures with 

the widest appeal and diversity. Of course, 

there are certain types of pictures that can 

always be counted on to do business, but we 

have tried to anticipate new trends and 

new audience tastes with many of our 

forthcoming pictures." 

Weltner noted that "there is no longer 

a formula approach to moviemaking. The 

public expects something different and 

exciting with every picture. This is what 

Paramount will deliver in 1966 and the 

years ahead." 

Addressing the representatives of 20 

countries attending the meetings, Weltner 

said that "in past years, I have urged on 

you the greatest selling efforts of your 

careers. Your response has always been 

an inspiration to me, and I know that you 

will summon forth all your talent and experience 

in the marketing and merchandising 

of each forthcoming attraction." 

Paramount's meetings here were divided 

into three parts, concentrating on production, 

sales policies and merchandising. 

Joining Weltner in key roles in the meetings 

were James E. Perkins, president of 

Paramount International Films; Howard 

W. Koch, Paramount vice-president and 

studio and production head; Henri 

Michaud, general manager of the Continental 

division; Milton Goldstein, assistant 

to Perkins for special productions; Luigi 

Luraschi, production executive; Joseph 

Friedman, assistant advertising and publicity 

director for Paramount Pictures; and 

Guenter Schack, Paramount International 

advertising-publicity director. 

New Color Prevue Trailer 

CHICAGO—Bernie Mack, president of 

Filmack Trailer Co., announced that a revised, 

shorter and more economical version 

of Filmack 's color prevue trailer is 

now available to exhibitors. The longer, 

original version of this trailer featuring 

"comment cards" is available also. 

CO-PRODUCTION DEAL — Fred 

Thomas, managing director of the J. 

Arthur Rank Organization, and producer 

Ivan Foxwell came from London 

to Hollywood for a series of meetings 

with top executives of Carthay 

Center Productions, the motion picture 

arm of National General Corp. 

Carthay and Rank will co-produce 

"The Quiller Memorandum," based on 

Elleston Trevor's best-selling novel. 

Michael Anderson will direct the 

multi-million dollar, widescreen action-adventure 

drama in color. Harold 

Pinter is writing the screenplay. 

Pictured above signing the joint production 

agreement are from left to 

right: Thomas; Allen Martini, Carthay 

production associate; Irving H. 

Levin, NGC executive vice-president; 

Jules Schermer, vice-president of Carthay 

Center Productions; and Foxwell. 

Film Leader Herman Rifkin 

Dies in Boston Hospital 

BOSTON — Services were held Sunday 

il6) for Herman L. Rifkin, pioneer of the 

motion picture industry and dean of the 

local Filmrow. and nearly 1,000 persons, 

including heads of virtually all the film 

distribution companies in the nation, were 

on hand to pay final homage. 

The Russian-born motion picture leader, 

who became Boston's first film exchange 

owner in 1911, died Friday < 14 > in Peter 

Bent Brigham Hospital here, two days before 

he would have been 82. He helped 

found Allied Artists, of which he had been 

a director and vice-president. 

Rifkin also founded Rifkin Theatres and 

was president of the New England-wide 

chain of movie houses and drive-ins. In 

1934, he was named "pioneer" of the motion 

picture business in Boston. On his 

50th anniversary he was chosen Man of 

the Year by the Boston Cinema Lodge of 

B'nai B'rith. He leaves his wife Sadye: a 

son Julian of Cohasset; a daughter Selma 

Roberts of Newton; three grandchildren 

and a great-grandchild. 

C. S. Ashcraft III Dies 

NEW YORK—C. S. ( Sheldon > 

Ashcraft 

III, 25, died at Acapulco as the result of 

a drowning accident. He was the son of 

C S. (Bud> Ashcraft jr.. and the grandson 

of C S. Ashcraft and Mary Ashcraft. 

Funeral services were held Wednesday 

•19 1 at the Wigand Brothers Funeral 

Home in Garden City. L.I. Interment was 

private. 

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Columbia Names Margoluis 

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To Executive Sales Staff 

NEW YORK—Eugene Margoluis. Columbia 

Pictures' short subjects sa Up 51% 1st Quarter 

Sign 3-Piclure Deal 

ROME;—Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures 

Corp. and Marcello Mastrolanni's 

to the home office 

consul: 

has been appointed WILMINGTON. DEL. — The Stanley 

Master Films, the actor's newly formed independent 

film company with producer 

announced by company's flsc 

first, quarter at the 

Pietro Notarianni, have entered into a 

Rube Jackter. Columbia's 

via 

was $1,864,600 

ended Nov. J, 

multiple-picture agreement calling for a 

minimum of three films to be made during 

the next two years. Mastroianni will 

„ t sales manager. Mar- over the correspond- 

. dent and general crease of 51 per cent 

star in each of the pictures and Embassy ^_ ^^^^ goluis succeeds Nat 

will distribute worldwide, excluding Italy. ^^H ^^^^^ Goldblatt. recently vious year. S. H. 

The first will be the motion picture version 

of Eduardo de Pilipo's stage play, "Le Hv^S I print announced at the an- 

^V & d^m named manager of Fabian, pri 

Vocl de Dentro" iThe Voices Within'. 

^^^^^^^^^ department, and will nual stockholders 

which will begin filming in Rome and Eugene Margoluis handle the Mideast 

g Thursday 

Naples at the end of March under De 

and Southeast (13). Profit fo 

Pilipo's direction. Discussions are under territories. 

quarter is equal to s 

way for the film version and New York Margoluis joined Columbia - " ' aMan 

la April 1963 

share, compared 

to $1,233,400 or 60 cents a share for 

stage presentation of Mastroianni's currenl as a member of the company's executive 

musical play. ,, Ciao Rudy." based on the training program, where he studied all the 1964 period. 

life of Rudolph Valentino. Other projects phases of Columbia's domestic and foreign Fabian. In 1 

will be announced later. 

operations. Upon completion of the training 

program, he was named short subjects 

the profit for our second quarter will 

holders, said. "Based on our operations to 

Levine. who flew to Rome to announce 

the deal at the Excelsior Hotel Friday 14' sales manager. 

1 

also show a favorable increase over the 

said that De Filipo. who joined Mastroianni 

profit for the corresponding quarter last 

at the press conference, is adapting his 

Walt Disney Productions 

confident the profit for all 1966 

play for the screen in collaboration with 

will be substantially ahead of the profit for 

Suso Cecchi d'Amico. one of Italy's top Has Record Net for Year 

1965." 

scenarists, and that De Filipo will also appear 

in the film version. Levine will serve Disney Productions and its domestic sub- 

Increase of $5,490,100 over the $35,430,700 

BURBANK. CALIF.—Net income of Walt Merchandise sales were $40,920,800, an 

as executive producer of "Le Voci de sidiaries for the fiscal year ended Oct. 2, 

ted for the corresponding quart* 

Dentro." which will be made in color and 1965 '52 weeks) was a record $11,378,778, year. Theatre and television revenues declined 

by S608.400 from $9,138,400 to $8.- 

will be distributed in Italy by Titanus. 

$6.08 per share on the 1,870,- 

Gianni di Venanzo will be director of 097 shares outstanding, president and 530.000. Thus drop was accounted for primarily 

by the reduction in the number of 

cinematography and Nino Rota will write chairman of the board Roy O. Disney said 

and conduct the original music. 

in his annual report to the stockholders. theatres operated. 

"As a distributor, some of the This compares with the previous year's Fabian stated. "We are continuing our 

- 

personal and professional satisfaction I weeks' net profit of $7,057,435. equal am of updating our theatre circuit by 

have received in the motion picture business 

has been from presenting films in then outstanding. 

or adjacent to key shopping centers In ma- 

to $3.96 per share on the 1.784.410 shares 

located prima 

which Marcello has starred— 'Divorce Gross income for the year- was $109,947,- jor population areas and disposing of maroperties." 

Dur- 

Italian Style,' '8'j.' 'Yesterday, Today and 068, an increase of $23,295,960 over the 

Tomorrow,' 'Marriage Italian Style,' 'Casanova 

and now "The 10th Victim,' In revenue resulted primarily fron from the disposition of theatres in the 

$86,651,108 reported for 1964. This ln< 

ing the November quarter there was a loss 

Levine said Levine also cited the achievements 

and contributions made by the Poppins." 

charged to current earnings and $104,500 

overwhelming public acceptance of "Mary amount of $201,500 of which $97,000 was 

Italian film industry in recent years and During the year ended October 2, the was charged directly to earned surplus. For 

the November quarter last year there was 

a credit of $57,100 direct to surplus repre- 

noted that "Today Italy ranks as one of 

the most important motion picture productalg 

nations m the world." 

UA Names Morton Braude 

Merchandising Consultant 

NEW YORK—Morton Braude. a New- 

York marketing and promotion executive, 

company paid cash dividends totaling 40 

cents per share, plus 3 per cent in stock. 

Disney further stated that the purchase 

of certain assets, organization and corporate 

name of WED. Inc. was consummated 

Feb. 20, 1965. 

In addition, the company has acquired 

approximately 27.000 acres of land in Central 

Florida. Disney pointed out that many 

legal and other problems, which are currently 

in the process of study, need to be 

has been named merchandising consultant 

for United Artists' special projects division 

by David W. Picker, first vice-p:v 

ed prior to the company commencing 

He replaces Alan Douglas, who previously actual development of the property. 

headed the division before he resigned. 

In his new capacity. Braude will supervise 

UA's newly created Home Entertain- 

Pollack and Lapidus Named 

ment Center along with other activities of Executives of NAC 

the special projects division. The Home CHICAGO—The appointment of two exto 

the National Ass'n of Conces- 

Entertainment Center is a subdivision of 

special projects, which UA established in sionaires has been announced by Jack 

1965 to create, develop, license and merchandise 

a wide range of products for its England Theatre Service Corp. Leonard 

O'Brien. NAC president and of the Newmotion 

picture, television and recording Pollack. New York, was named as a member 

of the NAC board, representing the 

ope rations. 

Prior to joining UA. Braude headed his concessionaire segment. Pollack hca 

own sales and marketing firm which specialized 

in educational and entertainment O'Brien also announced the appointment 

concession department of Loews T! 

book and record tie-ups with supermarkets. of Al Lapidus. Los Angeles, as regional 

Earlier, he was director of public relations vice-president of NAC for Region No. 8. 

for Standard Reference Works Publishing covering California, Nevada, Utah. Arizona 

Co., which had pioneered the book-a-week and Colorado. Lapidus Is president of 

sale of encyclopedias in supermarkets. L&L Concession Supp: 

senting a profit from the sale of theatres. 

Dr. Charles F. McKhann. S. Stewart Mc- 

Donald and David Fogelson were re-elected 

as directors for a two-year term. Approxi- 

90 per cent of the stcok was represented 

at the meeting In person or by 

MGM 'Zhivago' Featurettes 

HOLLYWOOD — Three separal 

minute film featurettes on "Doctor Zhivago" 

are being distributed 

more than 250 theatres from coast-tocoast. 

Subjects vary from "Moscow In Madrid." 

location coverage during filming in 

Spain, to "Behind the 

David 

Lean." to profile on the Nobel Prize wln- 

Boris Pasternak. 

UA Acquires 'Skaterdater' 

Artists has acquired 

a short in Eastman 

[arshall Blackley and 

written and directed by Noel Black 

film, which Is without dialog, was recently 

at the Lido Theatre. Los A] 

to qualify for the forthcoming Academy 

Award nominations. 

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JACK L. WARNER announced the addition 

of three best-selling novels to the 

slate of William Conrad's feature pictures 

at Warner Bros. These are Norman 

Mailer's "An American Dream," "A Covenant 

With Death" by Stephen Becker and 

"Speak Not Evil" by Edwin Lanham. Conrad 

will serve as executive in charge of this 

special Warner operation designed to accelerate 

the production of high-budget theatrical 

films. He is directly responsible to 

Warner. Stan Margulies, who has been 

preparing "The American Dream" and 

"Speak Not Evil." will continue to function 

as producer of these two pictures in the 

new operation. With the previously announced 

"Green Apple Road." Conrad's 

slate now numbers four active productions, 

with others in various stages of development, 

looking forward to a minimum of six 

and a maximum of 12 films to be made directly 

for theatrical release in the next 

12 months ...AC. Lyles, Paramount producer, 

acquired two new properties for 

1966-67 and has taken an option on a third 

story. Lyles now has "Apache Uprising" 

and "Johnny Reno" awaiting release dates, 

and will have "Waco" ready later this 

month. Script on "Port Siege" has been 

completed, and Steve Fisher has finished 

the screenplay on "Red Tomahawk," an 

original by Fisher and Lyles. The third is 

an untitled western by writer Robert 

Thomson . James B. 

Harris, whose Oscar contending "The Bedford 

Incident" is in current release, announced 

the pre-publication purchase of a 

new novel by Julian Gloag, "Sentence of 

Life," which he is gearing for production 

under his James B. Harris banner for late 

1966. Harris also will direct. Also on the 

Harris production slate is "A Hot Time in 

the Old Town Tonight," being written bv 

Bob Kaufman for production this summer 

with Warren Beatty starred. No releasing 

arrangements have been made for either 

film. 

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Ian Bannen, currently starring with 

Jeanne Moreau in the United Artists release, 

"Sailor From Gibraltar," shooting on 

location in Florence, Italy with Tony Richardson 

directing, has had his option for a 

second picture exercised by the Associates 

and Aldrich Co. Barmen's performance in 

that company's "Flight of the Phoenix" 

has earned him consideration for an 

Academy Award nomination in the best 

supporting category McCallum, 

. 

co-star of TV's "The Man From 

U.N.C.L.E.," will be starred by MGM in one 

of the year's gayest romantic adventure 

comedies, "Three Bites of the Apple." Alvin 

Ganzer, as producer and director, will 

surround McCallum with a top cast, with 

a leading European star to be selected to 

play the fascinating siren with whom he 

falls in love. The picture is based on an 

original story and screenplay by George 

Actor-singer John Mitchum is 

Wells . . . 

taking a three-week hiatus from his regular 

role in ABC-TV's "F Troop" series to join 

his brother Bob in the cast of Paramount's 

film, "El Dorado" with John Wayne. "El 

Dorado" marks the first duo appearance of 

the Mitchum brothers since 1951 in "The 

By SYD CASSYD 

Korean Story." Howard Hawks produces 

and directs ... In Munich, Lex Barker has 

been signed for three additional western 

films by Munich's Constantin Films. All 

will be oaters from novels by Karl May, 

who, incidentally, never traveled further 

west than the Rhine . . . Producer-director 

George Sidney signed Horace MacMahon 

for his 126th screen role in Paramount's 

"The Swinger," currently before the Technicolor 

cameras with Ann-Margret. Tony 

Franciosa and Robert Coote in the starring 

roles. 

Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems 

have signed actor Bill Bixby to a threeway 

motion picture, television and recording 

contract. The feature film pact calls 

for Bixby to appear in six pictures over a 

five-year period with the first film to be 

completed by December 1966. The television 

contract guarantees BLxby a stanlng 

role in a series at the conclusion of his costarring 

role in CBS-TV's My Favorite 

Martian series. The proposed teleseries 

will be produced by Bixby's production 

company for Screen Gems release. The 

actor recently completed a co-starring role 

with Chuck Connors in Columbia's "Night 

of the Tiger" . . . Because of the enthusiastic 

reaction to the performance of 

Sajid Khan, 13-year-old Hindu boy who 

appeared in "Maya," the MGM release, the 

King Brothers are exercising options on the 

teenager and will bring him to Hollywood 

to play the leading role of an American 

Indian youth in their forthcoming film. 

"Heaven With a Gun." He is being teamed 

in the picture with Jay North, 13-year-old 

former Dennis the Menace, who stars as 

the son of Clint Walker in the production 

Davidson, who is under contract 

to Bob Banner Associates, arrived in Hollywood 

to confer with Walt Disney, for whom 

he will make his motion picture debut in 

"The Happiest Millionaire" scheduled to 

begin filming next month, and with Banner, 

who will produce The Kraft Summer 

Theatre, in which he will star this summer 

on NBC-TV. 

Producers Martin Ritt and Irving 

Ravetch set Janice Rule to co-star with 

Paul Newman and Fredric March in 

"Hombre," based on the screenplay by 

Ravetch and Harriet Frank jr. Filming 

begins on location in Tucson. Ariz., in 

February, with Ritt directing the 20th-Fox 

production. Miss Rule just completed a 

co-starring role at Columbia with William 

Holden in "Alvarez Kelly" and a role in 

Sam Spiegel's production of "The Chase," 

which stars Marlon Brando. Diane Cilento 

is also starred in "Hombre" . . . Christopher 

Holt has been signed by producer-director 

George Sidney to make her film debut in 

Paramount's "The Swinger," which stars 

Ann-Margret. Tony Franciosa and Robert 

Coote. Miss Holt's debut marks the entry 

into films of the third generation of the 

Holt family, as she is the granddaughter 

of producer Nat Holt and the daughter of 

Nat Holt jr., an assistant director on "The 

Swinger" . Cuffe, actress of a 

thousand faces, will do some USO stints 

in February. Included will be other outstanding 

acts, set under the auspices of 

the union for agents, movie and television 

personnel, as well as advertising agencies 

Sebring, a top New York and Los 

Angeles fashion and commercial model. 

was signed by Walt Disney to make her 

motion picture debut in Disney's "The 

Gnomobile." Walter Brennan and Tom 

Lowell star. James Algar produces, with 

Robert Stevenson directing. 

Stirling Silliphant was signed by the 

Mirisch Corp. to write the screenplay of 

"In the Heat of the Night." modern suspense 

novel by John Ball. Academy Award 

winner Sidney Poitier will star in the film 

which will be released through United 

The assignment reunites Silliphant 

Artists. 

and Poitier. recently associated on "The 

Slender Thread," much-acclaimed melodrama 

co -starring Anne Bancroft, also an 

Oscar winner . Martin is scheduled 

to write the original screenplay of "Desert 

Raiders," initial film to be made in Israel 

under Noah Films-Cinema Productions 

International co-production deal. The 

pact was signed with Noah Films' head, 

Menahem Golan of Tel Aviv . . . Producer 

Ellis Kadison set Dan Barton to screenplay 

his original story. "Ah! The New Ones" . . . 

Writer Robert Sherman is scheduled to 

prepare the final draft of Bert I. Gordon's 

"Creatures of Dr. Freak." due to roll at 

Paramount Studios in mid-March for Embassy 

Pictures. The film is Gordon's third 

production for Embassy. His first, "Village 

of the Giants," now is in release, while 

his second "Picture Mommy Dead," is currently 

before the cameras. 

Novelist-screenwriter Clair Huffaker has 

sold his 11th book. "Nobody Loves a 

Drunken Indian," to Gene Perkapis, president 

of Trident Books, for publication in 

June, at which time agent Jerry Adler will 

offer it to the studios. Seven Huffaker 

novels have been purchased for the screen 

has taken up its option to purchase 

Clifton Adams' western novel, "The 

Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones." Max 

Youngstein will produce and John Sturges 

direct. Frank Fenton is doing the screenplay 

. Shdanoff acquired exclusive 

stage and screen rights to "In Solitary 

Witness," Gordon Zahn's non-fiction 

book about Franz Jagerstatter, "the man 

who said no to Hitler." Shdanoff will cowrite 

the dramatization of the Zahn book 

and also direct the stage production . 

Paul Mart Productions announces the purchase 

of the motion picture script. "The 

Day the Clown Cried," by Hollywood writer- 

Joan O'Brien and San Francisco Chronicle- 

Examiner coliunnist Charles Denton. 

Linda Lawson, who four years ago was 

delivering mail to William Castle, has just 

been signed by the producer-director for 

the feminine romantic lead in his production, 

of "Let's Kill Uncle" at Universal. 

During the interim the young lady resigned 

her mail girl job and made good in TV; 

now she has been given a start on a motion 

picture career as well . . . Jean Arthur, 

one of the industry's most celebrated and 

beloved comediennes ended 12 years of selfimposed 

retirement when she began filming 

at Universal City Studios as star of 

her own projected new half-hour comedy 

series, "The Jean Arthur Show." Richard 

Quine is producing and directing. 

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

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

are reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation terms percentage in of in 

is 

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

the figures show the gross ratings above or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.) 

Agony and the Ecstasy. The (20th-Fox) 200 140 375 150 220 200 

1 Battle of the Bulge (WB)

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Irving Dollinger Installed 

As Variety Chief Barker 

NEW YORK—Irving Dollinger was inducted 

as chief barker of New York Variety 

Club, Tent No. 35, at the general membership 

luncheon at the Americana Hotel 

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Wednesday win n more than 300 barkers 

turned out to witness the induction of 

166 officials, tins despite the cold and 

the New York transit strike, 

Other Variety Club officers In 

were E. David Rosen, first assistant chief 

barker: Charles A. Smakwitz, second assistant 

chief barker: J. Harold Roth, dough 

guy, and Edward C. Finneran, property 

Che new crew consists of Charles 

Boasberg of Paramount, who recenl 

a sick bed: Simon H. Fabian. Salah M. 

Hassanein, Joseph M. Sugar, James R. 

id George Waldman. 

Ralph W. Pries, fust assistant chief 

barker of Variety Clubs Intel national, was 

on hand to administer the oath of office to 

the recently-elected group and the luncheon 

guests also witnessed an exchao 

between outgoing chief barker. Jack 

II I \:n. and Dollinger. Fabian, chairman 

of the luncheon, thanked Levin for th. advances 

made by Tent No. 35 during the 

two years of his administration. In appreciation 

for his leadership, Fabian presented 

Levin with an inscribed plaque and 

a gift of a conference watch. 

Also on the double dais, in addition to 

those mentioned, were Jack Armstrong, 

George Dembow. Steve D'Inzillo. Edward 

Fabian. Edward Feldman. Nathan Feldinan, 

Marshal] Pine, Maurice Goldstein. 

Philip Hailing. Van Harris, who entertained 

the crowd: Roger Hurlock. Saul 

Jeffee. Harold Klein, Leonard Lightstone, 

Harry Mandel. Rabbi Moshay Mann. Benjamin 

Marcus, Michael Mayer. Ira Meinhardt, 

Bernard Myerson, Nat and Mis. 

Nathanson, James V. O'Gara. 1 

Picker, Walter Reade jr.. Sumner Redstone, 

Samuel Rinzler, Burton Robbins. 

Samuel Rosen, Leslie Schwartz. Edward 

Seider. Father William Shelley. Dr. Ralph 

Snyder and Richard F. Walsh. 

Gould Named Music Hall 

Head Succeeding Downing 

NEW YORK James F. Gould, a memthe 

Radio City Music Hal! 

since its opening in 1933. has been named 

president and managing director to succeed 

Russell V. Downing, president of the 

theatre since 1952. who is retiring, effective 

February 1. according to G. S. Eyssell. 

president of Rockefeller Center. Inc., of 

winch the Music Hall is a wholly owned 

.subsidiary. Downing, who became 65 last 

August, will continue with the theatre as 

consultant and a member of the board. 

Gould, who is 57. was named ti 

in 1948. vice-president in 1957 and has 

A native of England, I, 

ce 1964. 

in 1930 and joined the Radi 

im Corp. and continued his studies 

to become a certified public accountant. 

Downing joined the Music Hall as 

lirer In 1933 after .serving as an executive 

with the Tidewater Oil Sales Corp.. the 

Razor Corp.. Holmes 

i and tli F:u 1' nee Co. It was elevated 

to vice-pi. sitl. nt in 1942. to c\ 

vice-president in 1948 and to president 

and managing director in 1952. He is also 

ctor of Rugoff The;.: 

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hi inm i; Norman Weltman, 

left, general sales manager of 

the Continental division oi Walter 

Beade-Sterling, presents t • > Donald 

Schwartz, metropolitan New York 

sales manager, a $1,000 United states 

savings bond as first prize in Continental's 

Golden Quarter Sales Drive. 

NSS Regional Meetings 

To Chart Sales Goals 

NEW Y( IRK Thri i 

meel 

ings of the National screen Service field 

Eorci have been scheduled by Milton Feinberg, 

general sales manager, for Los An- 

January 31 and February l: Chicago 

February 4. 5, and New York. February 

10. 11. 

The 

rices will be attended 

by Burton E. Robbins, NSS president 

Paul N. Lazarus, ex i sident; 

Walter E. Branson lent In 

of distribution: Stewart 1) Bai 

nell, assistant to Feinberg; Martin Michel, 

rig manager, and P 

NSS branch managers Fred Wi 

Los Angeles; Ray Richman, San Francisco: 

Kenneth Friedman. Seattle, and 

Jack Lustig, Denver, will attend the Los 

meeting, Attending the < 

ence will be NSS branch mat 

Jack Greenberg, Chicago: Paul A 

polls; Jack Winningham, K 

Col. Ups Van Haverbeke 

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NEW YORK— Pete :r a spring performance and 

BOXOFTICE January 24. 1966 

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'Music Still Broadway Toppers 

NEW YORK—Just after the Broadway 

first-run theatres were starting to get 

back to normal after the 12-day transit 

strike ending Thursday (13), the colder 

weather arrived in New York. However, 

the stronger pictures were still above the 

below- normal two weeks which followed 

January 1. The only new major first run 

to open since before Christmas was "Judith," 

which followed the seven-week run 

of "That Darn Cat" at the Radio City 

Music Hall Thursday . 

The Music Hall had a good final week 

of "That Darn Cat," which was coupled 

with the annual Nativity stage pageant 

until Sunday in its 

fourth week at the Paramount and the 

east side Sutton and Cinema I, and "The 

Spy Who Came in Prom the Cold," in 

its fourth week at the DeMille and the 

east side Coronet, which had suffered less 

than the other new pictures, bounded 

back to better-than-average and the twoa-day 

pictures, the newer ones protected 

by advance sales, all did well. They were 

"Doctor Zhivago," which was capacity for 

its fourth week, as it was for the preceding 

week; "Battle of the Bulge," closeto-capacity 

in its fifth week at the Warner, 

and "My Pail' Lady," very good in 

its 65th week at the Criterion; "The 

Sound of Music," much better in its 46th 

week at the Rivoli, and "The Agony and 

the Ecstasy," in its 15th week at Loew's 

State. All are scheduled to continue into 

the spring. 

Most of the others in Times Square are 

falling off. including "Viva Maria," in 

its fourth week at the Astor and the east 

side Plaza, where business was better; 

"The Slender Thread," in its fourth week 

at the Victoria and the east side Festival 

and Murray Hill, and "Boeing Boeing." 

in its fourth week at the Forum 

and the 34th Street East. 

Much better were most of the smaller 

east side art spots, especially with such 

pictures as "Juliet of the Spirits," in its 

11th week at the RKO 58th Street and 

still playing for an 11th week at the New 

Embassy on Broadway; "A Thousand 

Clowns." in its fifth week at the Trans- 

Lux East; "Life at the Top," in its fifth 

week at the Paris, and "A Patch of Blue," 

in its fifth week at the Beekman. "Sandra" 

opened strong at the Fine Arts Sunday 

(16). 

(Average Is 100) 

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Cinema I— Thunderball (UA), 4th wk 

Cinema II—The Loved One (MGM), 14th wk 

Cinema Rendezvous The Eleanor Roosevelt 

Story (AA), 10th wk 

Coronet The Spy Who Come in From the Cold 

(Para), 4th wk 

Criterion—My Fair Lady (WB), 7th wk. of 

DeMille—The Spy Who Came In From the Cold 

(Para), 4th wk 

Embassy Juliet of the Spirits (Rizzoli), 11th wk. . 

1 wk 120 

55th Street Eride Napping (Shaw), 4th wk 100 

Fine Arts Sandra (Royal) 75 1 

Forum Eoeing Boeing (Para), 4th wk 135 

Guild Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying 

Machines (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 160 

Lincoln Art The 10th Victim (Embassy), 

Carnegie 

Little 

Sallah (Palisades), 14th wk. ... 

Lcew's Capitol Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 4th 

wk. of two-a-day 

Loew's The Agony State 

ond the Ecstasy 

(20th-Fox), 15th wk. of two-a-day 

Loew's Tower East—The 10th Victim (Embassy), 

-The Slender Thread (Para), 

Par m unt -Thunderball (UA), 4th wk. ... 

Paris— Life of the Top (Royal), 5th wk 

Plaza Viva Maria (UA), 4th wk 

Radio City Music Hall That Darn Cat (BV), 

*io'to—The Skin Game (Mishkin), 15th wk. ... 

?ivoli The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 46th 

wk. of two-a-day 

3KO 23rd Street—Juliet of the Spirits (Rizzoli), 

Spirits 

(Rizzoli), 

Sutton Thunderball (UA), 4th wk 165 

34th Street East Boeinn Boeing (Para), 4th wk. ..125 

Trans-Lux East A Thousand Clowns (UA). 

6th wk 145 

Victoria A Slender Thread (Para), 4th wk 145 

Warner— Battle of the Bulge (WB), 5th wk. 

-day 165 

(Cambist), 8th wk 160 

'Thunderball' Fourth Week 

400 at Shea's Buffalo 

BUFFALO—"Thunderball," in its fourth 

week at Shea's Buffalo, and "The Sound 

of Music," in its 42nd at Shea's Teck, 

continued to lead the town with fantastic 

returns. The Bond thriller was running at 

a 400 pace and "Music" an almost unbelievable 

180. "The 2nd Best Secret 

Agent in the Whole Wide World" is the 

best of the newcomers, with a 160 at the 

Centre Theatre. 

Buffalo— Thunderball (UA), 4th wk 400 

Center The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the 

Wide World (Embassy) Whole 

Century Who Killed Teddy Bear? (Magna) 

160 

....100 

Cinema, Amherst That Darn Cat (BV), 4th wk. 160 

Disturb (20th-Fox), 4th wk 125 

Colvin— Do Not 

Granada The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th-Fox), 

4th wk 150 

Teck The 180 

Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 42nd wk. 

'Batman and Robin' 185 

First Week in Baltimore 

BALTIMORE—"Batman and Robinopened 

strong and continued busy at the 

boxoffice over its initial weekend. Matinee 

audiences were predominately of the 

younger set. Although "Thunderball" tapered 

off slightly, grosses still were substantial 

at three theatres. "Never Too 

Late" is bowing out of its two locations 

this week. 

Charles, Westview The Spy Who Came in From 

the Cold (Para), 4th wk 130 

Cinema One, Five West Juliet of the Spirits 

(Rizzoli). 4th wk 1 40 

Crest, Hippodrome, Northwood Thunderball 

(UA), 4th wk 350 

Little Laurel ond Hardy's Laughing '20s 

(MGM), 6th wk 90 

Mayfair The Great Race (WB), 14th wk 100 

New—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 43rd wk. ..140 

Playhouse Batman ond Robin (Col) 185 

Reisterstown Plaza, Senator Never Too Late 

(WB), 4th wk 120 

Seven East—Mickey One (Col) 140 

Town— Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox), 4th wk 100 

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ANDREW SAGER, formerly associated 

with Reade-Sterling in New Jersey, 

has been named to head the group sales 

unit for the Czech film, "The Shop on 

Main Street," for which Marion Billings 

Associates is handling the publicity and 

promotion for Harold Wiesenthal as national 

sales representative for Eurofilm, 

Ltd. Miss Billings has also been retained 

by Continental Distributing to handle publicity 

and promotion for "The Gospel According 

to St. Matthew." which will open 

in February. 

* * * Charles Schlaifer & Co. 

has been named to handle the advertising 

of the Loew's theatre division, starting 

January 31 with Lloyd Seidman, vicepresident 

of the agency, as account supervisor. 

* * * Lawrence J. Quirk resigned as 

editorial director of Screen Stars and 

Movie World fan magazines to free-lance 

and complete his current book. 

Eugene Jacobs, United Artists southern 

division manager, is on a three-city sales 

tour to meet with branch personnel in New 

Orleans, Atlanta and Charlotte while 

Eugene Tunick, UA eastern and Canadian 

division manager, got back from similar 

meetings in Philadelphia and Carl Olson, 

western division manager, got back from 

Des Moines meetings with branch personnel 

and exhibitors. * * * Charles M. 

Powell, Columbia national exploitation 

manager, and Leonard Beier, cooperative 

advertising manager, got back from Boston 

after planning conferences on the New 

England opening of Sam Spiegel's "The 

Chase" at Ben Sack's Cheri Theatre February 

17. 

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Seymour Poe, executive vice-president 

20th Century-Fox, left for a business 

of 

trip to Australia, where he will hold meetings 

with company representatives and 

tour the offices there. He first attended 

the invitational world premiere of "The 

Flight of the Phoenix" at the Carlton 

Theatre, London, Thursday (20) for which 

Joseph M. Sugar, vice-president in charge 

of domestic sales; Jones Rosenfield jr., 

vice-president and director of advertising, 

publicity and exploitation, and David 

Raphel, vice-president of 20th-Fox International, 

flew over Wednesday (19) and 

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president, and Elmo Williams, European 

production head. James Stewart, 

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ALBANY P^RIETY FILM REVIEWS January 12, 1966 

gob Adler finished a five-month .si mi as 

local sales representative foi 

tury-Fox on Saturday (15). His suci 

has not yet been announced. Adler, acn\ 

In local service for Monogram and Allied 

Artists, joined 20th-Fox in October. 

replacing Leon Weston who was pri 

to branch manager at Pittsburgh. 

Herb Schwartz, Columbia branch manager, 

met with Harry Rogovin, district 

manager, Jerry Esin, brand 

chief, and Larry Sutner. home office 

sales executive. Schwartz has completely 

recovered from a neck ailment. 

A Saturday night audience chuckled 

throughout a sneak preview of "Our Man 

Flint." at the Palace Theatre. The picture 

was advertised as a "zany spool, the 

name being withheld. Manager Bill With 

it believes will do business, 

The Branche, Latham, swinging ii 

fourth week with "Thunderball," may play 

such roadshow releases as "The Sound of 

Music" and "My Fair Lady" at latei 

Pharmacy owner James Branche opened 

the 1.000-seater during the last week of 

May 1964. There have been newspaper 

articles of a possible "business zoning" addition 

near the theatre . . . The Capitol, 

Ballston Spa, is on a three-day weekend 

schedule. 

Charles Horwitz. administrative supervisor 

of Schine Theatres in the home office 

at Gloversville. has resigned to accept 

the business manager's post at the 

new Saratoga Center for the Performing 

Arts. The 3.600.000 complex opens In 

July with the New York City Ballet and 

Philadelphia Orchestra. Horwitz has been 

with Schine for 23 years. 

"The Greatest Story Ever Told" opened 

at the Hellman Theatre Friday (21) with 

two previews, under the auspices of Women's 

Auxiliary, Academy of the Holy 

Names, and the Vincentian Institute. The 

< 

previews, held Tuesday Wednesday 

'19i. were announced in the Evangelist, 

official weekly of the diocese, and 

from some Catholic pulpits on Sunday 

'16'. The Church of Christ of Latter Day 

Saints also sponsored a preview for the 

benefit of its building fund. 

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Schine Theatres featured senior and 

junior citizens' matinees durum 

ments of "That Darn Cat." The fust afternoon 

screenings were advertised for 

"older folks who can not go out in the 

evening," while the second were for school 

children. Fielding O'Kelly, manager of the 

Mohawk in Amsterdam, ran eye-catching 

copy for "Cat." The Glove. Gloversville, 

was another house, which spotlighted the 

citizens' afternoon exhibitions, that "everybody" 

could attend. Special prices were 

charged. 

Tuo Chinese pictures are being -hown in 

Albany exchange dlsl \ Warner 

Bras.' short, "Reborn Nation. 

on Taiwan, has played a number of commercial 

theatres, as well as at Army post 

bases . . . Felix Greene's "China." advertised 

as a combination of historical newsreel 

material and footage from a company 

in Peking, filled a playdate at the circuit 

operated Paramount in Glens Falls. The 

Symphony Orchestra also was 

billed. 

night success as Mr. Big. 

Rat Fink 

Hs certainly not an uncommon 

Willi s ( itl X) 

pli 'butthe style to brisk ofun 

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abrupt and totally unsentimental. 

st„rv Ol a VOUn* Camera work captures restless 

mood and inner anguish of a 

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un « m ,-in who "wants what he 

£„". and aims to get It "Tom 

Boutross' editing also contributes 

ps>cho Pal h.C l0 a mood of a man caged in b> 

his own supreme ego. Music sco e 

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lo atmosphere of the moment. 

n or.hulors of America ores- 

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a he teenager who gets in singers 

way. has a natural and memorable 

charm. 

James Landis' direction borrows 

a few pointers from others but he 

usSthm to build, swiftly P.«J 

or cutting them entirely. It is ine 

rush of implicitly known e\ents 

that g°ves the P ,c Us suspenseful 

vertigo. 

A balcony death scuffle between 

singer and manager 

S 

s wife is iru 

">d *° r fiCrCC 

'To drunk driving sequence and other 

g?3SHSr5g5 

immediately feels her angu.sh 

Production sets by Dann>Toledo 

give Pic an expensive look ana 

nop songs introduced are above 

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rbe%crea ming type and P.c could 

„oil take its title from M> =° ul 

Run, Naked" which in » way Is 

what It is all about, and title under 

which it was made. 

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VESTSMs 

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coldlv calculates his wa> 

Mar.M.iU.'.s 

man on the mar for rock n 

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llavden. who brinss a P»l-a«- 

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BUFFALO 

John Ames, formerly associated with 

Schine Theatres, has been named 

manager of the Tech Theatre, a Loew's 

operation. He succeeds Prances Augustine 

who had been serving as interim manager. 

She has been assigned to the Waterbury. 

Conn., area. Ames comes here from Norwich, 

N.Y.. where he managed the Colonia 

Theatre. Frank Arena is Loew's city manager 

here. 

Sumner M. Redstone, board chairman of 

NATO and executive vice-president of 

Northeast Drive-In Theatres Corp, and 

chief of the Redstone Management Circuit, 

has enrolled his theatres in New 

York Allied, says Sidney J. Cohen, Allied 

president. 

Bill McKnight, former manager of the 

Seneca Theatre, now is manager of the 

Bailey, a Dipson house . P. Geffen, 

former officer of Tent 7, now is sales manager 

of the Kenmore Moving & Storage 

Co. at Kenmore. 

Barbara Quinlivan, president, announces 

the Women of Variety directors have been 

named. They are: three-year terms, Adele 

Messinger, Joanne Reuter, Rita Santifiero, 

Marjorie Schaeffer; two years, Helen Borman, 

Dolores Stephen, Ethel Tyler, Elizabeth 

Wilcox; one year, Lola Cohen. Sara 

Digesare, Rosalie Hemedinger and Evelyn 

Kraft. 

Fred Keller managing director of the 

Circle-Art here and the Glen-Art in Williamsville, 

is recovering from injuries suffered 

in an auto crash. 

Leon L. Sidell, who leases the Shea's 

Buffalo property to Loew's, has signed a 

lease for the property immediately behind 

the 3,500-seat theatre and will utilize the 

space for free parking for patrons. Sidell 

said the parking plan is a long-needed 

convenience. 

Response has been overwhelming to the 

offer of free movie tickets for the three 

special Wednesday matinees at the Century, 

in conjunction with a promotion by 

the Retail Merchants Ass'n, in cooperation 

with the Courier-Express. The ticket 

requests were so many that another theatre, 

Center, has been added. The same 

films will be shown at both theatres. 

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SEE PAGES 2 AND 3 OF YOUR 

JANUARY - FEBRUARY INSPIRATION 

FILMACK TRAILER CO. m 

AT "CHASE" PREVIEW—Columbia 

Pictures vice-presidents Sol Schwartz, 

left, and Rube Jackter, right, flank 

stars E. G. Marshall and Angie Dickinson 

at a special preview in New 

York of Sam Spiegel's production of 

"The Chase," due to have its premiere 

at New York's Victoria Theatre 

February 17. 

McCutchen of MPAA 

To Begin Speaking Tour 

BUFFALO—William M. McCutchen, associate 

in the community relations department 

of the Motion 

Picture Ass'n of 

America, will begin 

a speaking tour in 

western New York 

Monday i31> at a 

meeting of the Buffalo 

Lions Club. Ronald 

Hoelcle, executive 

secretary of Allied 

Theatres of New 

York and an associate 

in the Holiday 

Drive-In Circuit, is 

arranging McCutchen's 

schedule here 

and in Rochester, 

Syracuse and other 

cities. 

McCutchen's address 

will be: "No Need 

William McCutchen 

for Censorship." He also will discuss the 

motion picture industry in general. 

After an association with a New York 

advertising agency, McCutchen became 

connected with television, ranging from 

producing and directing to hosting his 

own show, in which he interviewed celebrities 

and community leaders. 

Buena Vista Holds Meets 

In New York, Chicago 

NEW YORK—Buena Vista held two 

meetings of its top sales executives the 

week of January 17 to project marketing 

concepts and releasing patterns for the 

three Walt Disney features that will be 

SW's Village Theatre 

To Open by Spring 

PITTSBURGH—The steel structure is 

now completed for the new Village Theatre, 

which will be a Stanley Warner operation 

in the South Hills Village Shopping 

Center. Couched between the two entrances 

to the Mall off Fort Couch Road, 

the building's uitra-modern loggia will 

face Washington Road. 

Designed by Drew Eberson, the Village 

will be the largest of the circuit's area theatres, 

with 1,400 widely space loge-style 

seats. Ground was broken for this structure 

in September and the work has progressed 

because of the mild winter weather. 

Opening is expected in the late spring. 

PHILADELPHIA 

J^s a gimmick to recruit more policemen, 

Philadelphia has selected an officer 

who resembles Sean Connery, given him 

badge number 007 and a car bearing 

the same number. The local "James Bond" 

made his first appearance at the Fox 

Theatre—and, true to the "Bond tradition." 

was accompanied by four women 

policewomen. 

The local Variety Club will sponsor the 

first television telethon in this area in 

12 years on March 12. Harold H. Salkind, 

chief barker, said the money will go to 

club charities. Especially named charities 

were the new wing on Children's Hospital 

and the camp for handicapped children. 

Ralph W. Pries of Variety International 

will serve as chairman. Many top 

stars will participate. 

Louis Molitch, president of Clark 

Transfer, Inc.. the largest film carrier 

and theatrical trucker in the nation, died 

Thursday (13). He was a member of the 

Variety Club and Motion Picture Associates. 

AIP Renews Home's Pact; 

Named to Policy Board 

NEW YORK—David D. Home's contract 

as vice-president of American International 

Pictures Export Corp. has been renewed by 

James H. Nicholson, president, and Samuel 

Z. Arkoff, executive vice-president, and 

they have named him to the policy board 

for American International. Prior to this 

the board consisted of Nicholson, Arkoff, 

1 

David J. Melamed, vice-president in charge 

in distribution this summer, "Bullwhip 

Griffin," "Lt. Robin Crusoe" and last year's 

"Mary Poppins." 

of finance, and Leon Blender, vice-president 

in charge of sales and distribution. 

Irving H. Ludwig, president, conducted Stanley E. Dudelson, vice-president of 

the meeting in Chicago Tuesday with American International Television, has 

Leo Greenfield, domestic sales manager; also been named to the company policy 

Don Conley, western division sales manager, 

board, the purpose of which is to review 

and explore the expansion of AIP into other 

and the following district managers 

on hand: Marvin Goldfarb, Denver; Doug entertainment fields. 

Desch, Dallas, and Harris Dudelson, Chicago, 

as well as Andy Heederik, Los Angeles 

metropolitan manager. 

The New York meeting Thursday 

> 

brought in Greenfield, and Herb Robinson, 

eastern division sales manager, and 

the following district managers, Herb 

Schaefer. Boston; Ted Levy. Cleveland; 

Ken Laird, Atlanta, and Mort Magill. 

Philadelphia, with Ludwig conducting. 

Yates Film Joins IFIDA 

NEW YORK—Independent Film Importers 

& Distributors of America has accepted 

application for membership from 

Richard G. Yates Film Sales. New York 

importer of foreign films, with Michael 

deGuzman to serve as alternate to Yates 

on the IFIDA board. 

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PITTSBURGH 

Leon Weston, who has been here several 

months as 20th Century-Fox branch man- 

leave the local scene He will 

transfer to the company's Jacksonville office 

. Gilliam, formerly with the 

Stanley Warner circuit office as a book* 

and for many years a house manager for 

Morris Finkel at the Arcade Theatre, has 

joined Screen Guild as booker. This post 

has been open since the death ot Larrj 

Carettie several months ago. 

Ellen Feinstein. daughter of SW zoni 

manager Harry and Mrs. Feinstein, and 

Jerald Paul Esrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. 

Reuben Esrick of Rock Island, 111., have 

announced their engagement. The bridecl 

wiU graduate in June from Simmons 

College in Boston. Esrick is attending Harvard 

University Law School. A late summer 

wedding is planned. 

Dime movies have returned. The Rit/ at 

Baden now has a Wednesday "Dime Night" 

and Mrs. George Tice of the Woodland 

Drive-In, West Mifflin, are on vacation 

in Florida. They hope to visit former 

members of the industry from this area 

While in Miami . and Mrs. E. Le- 

Viant. former Filmrow printers for 30 

years or more, will spend the remainder of 

the winter in Florida. 

Joseph Pasco, Ridgeway showman and 

manager of the Strand Theatre, has been 

installed as mayor of Ridgeway. Formerly 

B Stanley Warner circuit manager, he nun 

is employed by Blatt Bros. Theatres, managing 

the Strand. 

"See what the movie left out" was the 

ad campaign for the stage version of 

"Never Too Late," which was presented at 

the Regent Theatre. Beaver Falls . . . Daniel 

M. Rooney, vice-president of Cartel. 

Inc., a local CATV organization, is a member 

of the Art Rooney-Pittsburgh SI 

family and a Steelers executive. 

MOM alone tradescreens its products 

here. On Thursday '13' "The Day and 

the Hour" was previewed and on Wednesday 

1 

19i "Two Are Guilty' was presented. 

Both were screened at the WAMO 

Bldg., at one time the RKO-Radio Pictures 

Building. 

George C. Wilson III of the Wilson Theatres, 

with Tyrone headquarters, ha 

ited a series of ten kiddle sh 

Saturday mornings at the Wilson 1 

Tyrone. The features began Saturds 

and will continue through March 19 

for the ten features is $2. or single admission 

of 30 cents Tliree-thousand heralds 

were distributed to school children. 

Mr. and .Mrs. John Blatt are spending 

the winter months In Tucson, as they have 

done for many years. An officer of the 

Blatt Bros. Theatres and vi 

field of motion picture exhibition. Blatt 

is the only surviving member of the Blatt 

brothers. 

Rackmil, Aboaf Conduct 

Latin American Meeting 

RIO DE JANEIRO—Milton R, Rackmil. 

gill Brooks has resigned from his Paramount 

Pictures post. He was employed 

president of Universal Pictures, and Americo 

Aboaf. 

by the company several years ago and then 

general 

for a number of years was m 

with the Co-op 

conducted tin : 

booking office before returning to Paramount 

about two years ago. Jimmy Ley, 

of 1966 overlongtime 

Universal booker, has at 

the Paramount job to succeed 

Monday 

'17' Also at- 

Brooks. 

tending the 

execul Lves 

Alex 

Black 

nference 

k were 

or, and 

and 

(1 i' p a r t in e n t 

Universal Latin American managers and 

distributors present at the 

Augusta Lorenzo, Argentina; RudJ 

balk, Brazil; Juan Gentili, Chile: 

Luis Jiminez, Colombia: Jose Gk 

Dominican Republic; Miguel Perez. Ecuador; 

Cesar Aboaf. Mexico; Saul Jacobs. 

Panama: Henry Bonifacio. Peru: Jose 

Colon, Puerto Rico: Walter Lambert. Trinidad; 

and Dudley Sutton, Venezuela, with 

members of Brazil's Rio head office staff 

and local Brazilian branch managers also 

on hand. 

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Delegates saw a product reel prepared 

for the sales meeting as well as screenings 

era! completed product; 

Rackmil and Aboaf will hold similar 

conferences in the Far East and in 

this spring. 

Aboaf announced a 22-week Oppoi 

Sales Drive, running from January 30 to 

July < 

2. in which all of Universal's 

branches and distributors will participate. 

During this period, a number of the company's 

most Important pictures will be released 

in Europe, Latin America and tin- 

Par East. 

NOW AVAILABLE 

Blatt Bros. Drive-in 

Rising at Altoona, Pa. 

ALTOON 'i heatre 

is constructin 

rear of its Altoona Drive-In. The unnamed 

ozoner. adjoining the original 850-car 

drive-in, will have a capacity for 400 cars. 

Although Blatt Bros, has held the 

"back a many years, it 

for the company to pu 

a 593-foot frontage strip on Route 220 for 

an foi tie Thenwill 

be an exit and each 

entrance for 

Veteran Industryite's Wife 

Succumbs in Pittsburgh 

PITTSBURGH Services for Roberta 

Anderson. 56, Wife Of Louis E, llanna. 

a partner with Bert M Steam in the 

Oo-operative Theatre Service one 

tion. were held in the Beinhauer Mortuary. 

With burial at Jefferson Memorial 

dud in her home 

Sundaj ear illness, a 

Pittsburgh Auxiliary 

of Variety Tent 1. she was a Filmrow 

employe in former years. 

l«s her husband, she lea\e 

sons Louis E.. also of the film booking 

organization, and Robert A Her brother 

Col. E. Franklin Anderson in years past 

was a local film distributor. 

Harry Hummel of 

WB Dies 

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NEW YORK—Funeral bi 

held Saturday (22) at St. Patrick's Church 

m Long Island City for Harry Hu 

18) at the age of 61. 

Hummel, head cashier of Warner Bros.' 

New York exchange at the time 

had been mployed by Warner Bros. 

and its predecessor companies for more 

than 40 years. 

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WASHINGTON 

Jôew's Theatres' Hotels has bought 

a site in the downtown theatre district 

and plans to build a 500-room luxury 

hotel. Warren Howe is the local salesman 

for the hotel subsidiary, with offices 

in the Loew's Palace. 

Elizabeth Ashley of "Ship of Fools,'' who 

a member of the Kennedy Center's National 

is 

Council on the Arts will be the fea- 

tured guest Tuesday (25) at Mrs. Johnson's 

"women's doer's" luncheon in the 

White House. She will report on visits to 

various colleges, where she surveyed activities 

on the arts. 

The body of Susan Hayward's husband. 

Floyd E. Chalkley, 56, native of Washington, 

was brought to the Timothy Hanlon 

Funeral Home here before burial at Carrollton, 

Ga.. on Thursday (13). He died 

Monday U0> in Fort Lauderdale and had 

left a written request that his body lie in 

repose here before interment. His two 

daughters, two sisters and three brothers 

live here. 

Columbia regional publicist Sid Zins 

attended a screening at the home office on 

"The Chase" and an all-day seminar with 

merchandising of the film was held Wednesday 

(12). 

Morton Gerber, president of District 

Theatres, has moved his headquarters to 

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Bldg. Mike Hanainey, former office 

manager and head booker at United Artists, 

has been named to the staff of District 

Theatres as booker. 

Sheldon Tromberg, president of Boxoffice 

Attractions, has "Agent 38-24-36, 

the Warm Blooded Spy" showing at eight 

theatres in Baltimore. He has booked 

"Party Girls for the Candidate" into Abe 

Atenson's Gayety Theatre . . . Lou and 

Phil Bress were up from Norfolk booking 

for their circuit. 

Joseph Summers is the new district manager 

for Redstone Management of Boston. 

He formerly was with Walter Reade- 

Sterling's New Jersey area . . . The Queens 

Chapel Drive-In was robbed Friday (7) by 

two gunmen. Two shots were fired and the 

evening's receipts were taken from Manager 

Roland E. Edwards' office. 

Frank's Penn Theatre 

To Open in February 

PENNSVILLE, N.J.—The Penn Theatre, 

now under construction here, is ex- 

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Helen Rose, MGM designer, presented 

the $250,000 wardrobe she designed for pected to open sometime in February, according 

to Al Frank, vice-president of 

"Made in Paris" at a fashion show luncheon 

here Tuesday . Similar shows are Frank Theatres, Inc. 

to be held in Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. 

Atlanta and Dallas . . . MGM pub- 

and will be located in the Pennsville Shop- 

The 750-seat house will cost $500,000 

licists Jim Sheahan attended the premiere ping Center. It will be the eighth theatre 

in the Frank chain. 

of "Doctor Zhivago," and Emery Austin. 

home office assistant director of publicity, 

visited here concerning the film's opening 

February 2. An J. Donohue Dies; 

Vincent 

invitational press preview 

will be held February 1. 

Stage, Film Director 

NEW YORK—Funeral services for Vincent 

J. Donohue, 50, Broadway, film and 

Jerome Sandy, AIP branch manager, 

visited the home office and salesman William 

Michalson called on accounts in Nor- 

TV director, were held at the Frank E. 

Campbell Funeral Home Tuesday (18), 

folk . publicist Ernie Johnson 

followed by a requiem mass at the Roman 

screened an Easter release, "The Redeemer." 

at MPAA Church of St. Jean Baptiste 

Catholic 

for some church groups. 

Wednesday (19). Donohue died of Hodgkin's 

disease at Lenox Hill Hospital Monday 

(17). 

Donohue had directed Katharine Cornell, 

Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Kim Stanley, 

Geraldine Page and other stage stars on 

Broadway before directing Mary Martin 

in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, 

"The Sound of Music," and then directing 

Miss Martin in "Peter Pan" a TV spectacular. 

His picture credits include "Sunrise 

at Campobello." starring Ralph 

Bellamy and Greer Garson, for Warner 

Bros, and "Lonely Hearts," a Dore Schary 

production which was released by United 

Artists. He is survived by his father and 

mother, Julian and Helen, who live in 

Albany. 

John Dervin Will Handle 

Sales for Classics 

NEW YORK—John Dervin, who has 

been a sales executive with Allied Artists 

for the past 16 years, has joined International 

Classics, 20th Century-Fox subsidiary, 

handling sales on the upcoming 

foreign releases, "Male Companion," "La 

Fuga" and "Cleoportes," according to Elmer 

Hollander. International Classics 

sales head. 

Dervin had been home office sales representative 

for AA, supervising the northeast 

sales territory for the past seven years 

and was in charge of sales for special attractions 

the previous nine years. 

BALTIMORE 

Pddie Albert will be here February 19 to 

accept an award from the Advertising 

Club as the "outstanding TV personality 

of 1965" at the club's annual banquet. 

Don Penrod is the new manager at the 

Reisterstown Plaza. He had been with 

Timonium Drive-In as assistant manager. 

His parents were here to visit him from 

Barberton, Ohio . Bishop, former 

manager Carlin's Drive-In and now in a 

similar post at Camden, N.J., was in town 

several days renewing acquaintances. 

Leon Back jr. is visiting his father Leon 

Back, Rome Theatres executive, having 

arrived from Los Angeles, where he has 

temporarily interrupted his course in law 

school to serve with the Army Reserves. 

Ray Thompson, advertising executive 

for various Baltimore theatres, is recovering 

from surgery at Baltimore County 

General Hospital at Randallstown. 

Mildred Wolsh, head of Wolsh Theatre 

Service, spent a week's midwinter vacation 

in Atlantic City, N.J. . . . Bob Stebbing 

is a new assistant manager to Art 

Hallock at the Paramount. He replaces 

Robert Jones who resigned. 

Fran Feikin of JF Theatres staff is in 

charge of arranging theatre parties for 

"The Agony and the Ecstasy," which will 

have its Maryland premiere Wednesday 

at the Mayfair . 

Royal Theatre, 

ordinarily presenting feature films, 

scored a busy seven days with a stage 

show of more than a half dozen leading 

rhythm and blues artists. 

The Playhouse has new. all-color posters 

lighted from the rear in its theatre 

front frames. Joseph Liberto is manager 

. . . Charles "Chuck" Kasda, formerly of 

the Hippodrome boxoffice staff, now is at 

the Mayfair for "The Agony and the Ecstasy." 

Owen Schnapt, manager of the Mc- 

Henry, spent two days visiting friends in 

Philadelphia . . . Hal Marshall, publicist 

for 20th Century-Fox out of Washington, 

was in Baltimore on business . . . 

Douglas Connellee, chairman of the legislative 

committee for the Maryland Theatre 

Owners Ass'n, was in Annapolis for 

opening sessions of the 1966 legislature. 

Frank Circuit Completing 

$500,000 Pennsville Unit 

PENNSVILLE, N.J. — Work is nearing 

completion on the $500,000 Penn Theatre 

being built by Frank Theatres in the 

Pennsville Shopping Center on Route 49 in 

Salem County. Al Frank, vice-president 

and treasurer of the circuit, said he expects 

the theatre to be ready for opening 

in February. 

Already being operated by the Frank 

circuit are the Surf and 12th Street Arcade. 

Ocean City; Atlantic Drive-In. 

Pleasantville; Absecon Drive-In, Absecon: 

Circus Drive-in, Hammonton; Colonial, 

Beach Haven; Colony, Brant Beach, and 

the Colonial, Egg Harbor City. The Frank 

circuit is headed by Al's father Samuel, 

Atlantic City, a motion picture industry 

pioneer in this area. 

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NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE PRODUCTION CENTER 

'Hollywood Of/ice— Suite 321 at 6362 Hollywood Blvd.) 

Danny Thomas Cited Russian Film in Cinerama Is Set 

By Varieiy Ten! 25 For Easter; Crosby to Narrate 

HOLLYWOOD—More than 600 persons 

< were on hand Friday night > in the 

Beverly Hilton Hotel when Danny Thomas 

I). limy Thomas, left, accepts Tent 

25's Heart Award plaque from Chief 

Barker James II. Nicholson. 

was presented the annual Heart Award of 

the Variety Club of Southern California. 

He said that since Variety represented his 

"family." show business, the honor presented 

by Chief Barker James H. Nicholson 

was his "most treasured." 

The award was made at Tent 25's annual 

inaugural ball. Nicholson, AIP president, 

was reseated as chief barker. Also 

installed were Alfred S. Lapidus. first 

assistant chief barker; Herbert L. Copelan. 

property master, and S. Charles Lee, 

doughguy. and canvasmen Michael Forman, 

M. J. Frankovich, Monty Hall, 

Robert L. Lippert. Ezra E. Stern and William 

H. Thedford. Copelan and Robert H. 

Benton were co-chairmen of the event. 

Carl Reiner was toastmaster. 

Joining members of Variety in honoring 

Thomas were many of his colleagues and 

the stars of his various enterprises, including 

Dick Van Dyke. Sheldon Leonard, Bob 

Culp. Bill Cosby. Mary Tyler Moore, Rose 

Marie. Morey Amsterdam, Dean Jones and 

Marjorie Lord. 

Ed Schellhorn, 58, Former 

Paramount Executive, Dies 

LOS ANGELES—Ed Schellhorn. 58. 

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former head of Paramount's foreign and 

censorship departments, died Mom! 

Starting at Paramount's New York office 

about 40 years ago as an office boy. he 

advanced to succeed Luigi Luraschi as 

head of the studio departments, holding 

the post until November 1964. He leaves 

his wife Beryl and two sons, Donald and 

Keith. 

HOLLYWOOD—In a major production 

pment, William R. Forman. president 

of Cinerama. Inc., has closed a deal 

with J. Jay Frankel. president of Accord 

International Corp., New York, for an Ininal 

Cinerama production for roadshow 

release at Easter. 

Under the working title of "Cinerama's 

Russian Adventure With Bing Crosby," the 

production will combine the best of seven 

Russian films, compatible with the American 

Cinerama process, plus two additional 

sequences especially filmed. 

PRODUCED BY FRANKEL 

Crosby will be the "host star." nai 

and appearing in the film prodw 

Frankel. Harold J. Dennis, long-time production 

associate of Bing Crosby Enterprises, 

will function in a major production 

ty. Crosby will be filmed Tuesday 

it Desilu Studios for opening seg- 

.ind possibly for an appearance at 

the end of the film. Me will narrate the 

entire picture. 

The far-reaching development is in line 

with Forman's continuing program to increase 

Cinerama product in keeping with 

the rapid expansion of new Cinerama theatres 

worldwide. The production will be 

shown in cooperation with the Department 

of State under the cultural exchange 

program. 

UI.MINt; COVERED 8 VI IRS 

The multi-million-dollar film will include 

dramatic sequences photographed 

in eight-year period throughout the 

Soviet Union. The final running time is 

expected to be a little more than two hours, 

edited from more than 15 hours of film. 

Embracing the wide spectrum of Rustment 

and cinematic adventure, 

the film will include the Moscow Circus, 

the Bolshol Ballet, a troika race, wild 

boar hunt, cross-country reindeer race, 

octopus hunt and thi eers. 

ir the deal were carried on 

a five-year period. Cinerama will 

share in the receipts on a major basis, said 

Frankel, and Sovexportfilm. the R 

producer, also will get a portion of the 

proceeds. 

the 70mm playoff, the film will be 

ed generally in 35mm for use on 

widescreens. Frankel said. Distribution of 

the film will be in the US. and most of 

the world, with the exception of France, 

Italy and a couple of minor spots. The 

may even bo shown in Russia. 

he said, since it is unlike any of the others. 

MPRF Names Robert Rene 

Chief of MP Hospital 

HOLLYWOOD—Dr. Robert M. Rone of 

Canoga Park lias been named chief of 

staff of the Motion Picture Country House 

and Hospital, announces George I 

nail, president of the Motion Picture Relief 

Fund. Bagnall also announces creation of 

a new post, assistant chief of staff, to be 

filled by Dr. Eugene Saxon. 

Dr. Rene joined the hospital staff in 

1960 and since 1963 has been chief of 

medicine. Dr. Saxon joined the staff three 

succeeds Dr. i 

E. Browne, who has been active in MPRF 

became chief 

l in 1938. Dr. Browne will continue 

surgery for the hospital. 

says Samuel B. Mosher. board 

chair man ol B i Co., and his 

nated $2,500 to the fund's 

endowment and building campaign. Bagnall 

said the gift was particular!- 

ruficant, in view of the fund's campaign for 

$40 million and its objective of ei 

the support of donors outside the industry 

18th DGA Awards Dinner 

Set for February 12 

HOLLYWOOD — The 18th annual Di- 

Guild of America awards dinner 

will be held February 12 in the Beverly 

Hilton Hotel, announces George Sidney, 

president. Final ballots for film awards 

have been mailed, with a return deadline 

of January 30. The final television ballots 

binary 

6 deadline. I 

George Cukor for 

Lamont John 

director of "The Oscar Underwood .- 

First Updating Since '29 

was built in 1929. 

and v. ipplied a light cream 

terior. 

Paramount's "Judith," starring Sophia 

Loren. is based on a story by Lawrence 

Durrell. 

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LOS ANGELES 

prank Diaz, Pacific Drive-In Theatres 

California division manager, announces 

Doyle Shelledy, Fresno city manager, 

has been named city manager of San 

Bernardino. His headquarters will be at 

the Baseline Drive-In. 

Vinnicof Theatres has moved its offices 

from the old Filmrow to 211 S. Beverly 

Dr. in Hills . . . Beverly Arnold Michelson, 

Stanley Warner Theatres, was in 

Hollywood Community Hospital for a 

checkup. 

Harry Goldstone, Goldstone Productions, 

New York, conferred with Jack Sherriff, 

Manhattan Films branch manager, and 

Mel Novioff, Surf Theatre, San Francisco, 

also was at Manhattan Films . . 

Julie Fine, assistant to Burton Robbins, 

president of National Screen Service, conferred 

with Fred Weimer, local branch 

manager. 

Mark Tenser, vice-president of Favorite 

Films, and Jack Douglas, producer of 

"Tokyo Olympiad," are back from San 

Diego after setting up dates for the picture. 

Playdates also have been set in Denver 

and Salt Lake City . . . Bill Hobson, 

booker and buyer for Lowell Theatres in 

San Diego, resigned and has been succeeded 

by Jack Lowell . 

Silcocks 

observed his 84th birthday. Now retired, 

he last managed the Uptown in Pasadena. 

World Cine Associates, which purchased 

its own building, also has bought an ad- 

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MEET IN LONDON— 

The first day of filming 

on Universale "Fahrenheit 

451" at Pinewood 

Studios i n London, 

French director Francois 

Truffaut, left, meets 

Giulio Ascarelli from the 

Paris office of Universal; 

David A. Lipton, vicepresident 

of Universal 

Pictures in charge of advertising 

and publicity, 

and David Golding, Universal 

publicity department 

in London. 

c'itional 32-acre site near Llano Falls in 

Ventura County. Ellis Kadison, president, 

says two sound stages will be built on the 

property. Completion is expected in August, 

Dick Mason, Statewide Theatres district 

manager, is supervising the firm's property 

in Phoenix . . . Harry Levinson, Favorite 

Films sales manager, was in San Diego on 

a film selling trip . . . Leo Molitar, Plaza 

Theatre, Newhall, was here on business 

Feder, Roxy Theatre, Long 

Beach, was here booking and buying. 

$200,000 Long Beach 

House to Open Feb. 14 

LONG BEACH—The new $200,000 Plaza 

Theatre, first art house here, will be managed 

by Cliff Loth, who held a similar post 

at Warner's Beverly. He formerly was supervisor 

of theatres for the Interboro circuit 

in New York and is a partner as secretary 

in the theatre. Sam Stiefel is president 

and Jack Feder, treasurer. 

The 500-seat house, located in the Plaza 

Shopping Center, will be launched with a 

benefit premiere for the City of Hope on 

February 14. 

Fox West Coast Promotes 

Six in Managerial Moves 

LOS ANGELES—Fox West Coast 

Theatres' 

Pacific Coast district manager John 

Klee announces the promotions of six persons. 

They are: 

John Sedgebeer, former assistant manager 

of the Fov Van Nuys, is the new manager 

of the Capri Van Nuys. Lew Decker 

moves from the Iris Hollywood to El Portal 

in North Hollywood. Marino Bugliosi 

leaves the Fairfax here to take over at the 

Iris and Owen David Pritchard has been 

given his first managerial assignment at 

the Wilshire in Santa Monica. 

Also. C. V. Mitchell has been promoted 

to manager of the North Park in San 

Diego, and in northern California, John C. 

Bondi has been named manager of the 

Carlos in San Carlos. 

Charlotte Theatre Being 

Updated for Reopening 

oldest theatre when it was closed in January 

1964, has been leased for reopening 

by William Morgan of Concord from owner 

S. W. Craver. A building permit for $8,000 

has been issued to Morgan Enterprises 

and the renovation work is under way. 

Variety 26 Planning 

For Prince's Visit 

HOLLYWOOD—A breakfast press conference 

was held Monday 1 in the 1 Beverly 

Hills Hotel to outline the Variety Club's 

plans for the three-day visit of Prince 

Philip. March 13-15. On hand were international 

Chief Barker James Carreras. international 

representative Fred Stein and 

Ezra Stern and Tony Owen of Tent 25. 

Prince Philip will receive an honorary 

LL.D. degree at the University of California 

and then will visit the Variety-supported 

heart research project at the university's 

medical school facility. Selected 

undergraduates from the 99 countries attending 

the school will be presented. 

Also planned is a 20th Century-Fox industrywide 

luncheon of stars and executives, 

with 350 persons expected. Mike 

Frankovich, a member of the London 

Variety Club, where the prince is a life 

member, will coordinate the evening 

activities, which will include a dinner. 

Col. V. A. J. "Bill" Head, military attache 

and aide to Prince Philip, said Henry 

Rogers will visit Buckingham Palace next 

month to finalize the details cf the prince's 

trip. The prince will fly his own plane on 

the 10,000-mile trip. 

Carreras and Heald stressed that this 

"was not a social tour" for the prince, but 

he was going "all out" for Variety. "The 

prince is one of England's best salesmen," 

said Heald. 

The slogan for the trip is, "For Every 

Step of the Way, a Child Will Benefit." 

At a stopover in Palm Springs before 

coming to Los Angeles, the prince will be 

a guest at Lou Taubman's home, where 

former President Eisenhower and Walt 

Disney will attend a western outdoor barbecue 

luncheon. 

Variety Sunshine Coach 

Presented in Los Angeles 

LOS ANGELES—A specially made Sunshine 

Coach has been presented to the local 

chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Ass'n 

by Frankie Avalon and Salli Sachse in behalf 

of the Variety Club of Southern California, 

according to Chief Barker James 

H. Nicholson. 

Presentation was at the chapter headquarters 

Wednesday morning (12). John 

J. Preis, president of the chapter, officially 

accepted for the group. 

The bus, constructed to permit easy 

entry and exit for patients in wheel chairs 

and on crutches, is one of many which 

Variety has presented to hospitals, schools 

and organizations for the handicapped in 

this area. 

Pacific Moves Art Gordon 

To Home Office in LA 

LOS ANGELES—Art Gordon, formerly 

district manager in charge of Pacific 

Drive-in Theatres' San Fernando Valley 

drive-ins. has been assigned to the circuit's 

home office, it was announced here by 

Frank Diaz, Pacific Drive-In Theatres' 

division manager for Southern California. 

Gordon's specific position and new assignment 

will be announced soon. 

He was succeeded in his former position 

by Bruce Ogilvie. former San Bernardino 

city manager for the circuit. 

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Palace and Serra theatres, grossing 200 at 

the Crown while "Where the Spies Are" 

pulled 300 at the Coliseum, 250 at the Alhambra 

and 200 at the New Mission. 

Opening this week were "Caressed" (Presidio) 

; "Agent for H.A.R.M." (Crown); 

"Moment of Truth" (Bridge); "Deathwatch" 

(The Movie); "Playground" (Laxkin 

Too Late" St. Francis, and 

"Our Man Flint" . 

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Alhambra— Where the Spies Are (MGM) 250 

Bridge Kwaidan (Cont'1), 3rd wk 100 

Coliseum Where the Spies Are (MGM) 300 

Coronet The Greot Race (Wr3), 13th wk 400 

Crown—The Big T.N.T. Show (AIP) 200 

Empire My Fair Lady (WB), 4th wk 150 

My Fair Lady (WB), 4th wk 150 

Esquire 

Fox-Parkside The Agony and the Ecstasy (20thwk 

Fox), 4th 180 

Fox-Warfield Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox), 

4th wk 150 

Golden Gate Cinerama- Battle of the Bulge 

(WB), 4th wk 700 

Metro— The 10th Victim (Embassy), 4th wk 450 

Music Hall, New Clay- -Juliet of the Spirits 

(Rizzoli), 4th wk 250 

New Mission—Where the Spies Are (MGM) ....200 

Orpheum Cinerama Mediterranean Holiday 

(Cont'l), 17th wk 400 

Presidio— Batmon and 150 

Robin (Col), 4th wk 

St. Francis—That Darn Cat (BV), 4th wk 100 

Door 

Stage The Loved One (MGM), 4th wk. ...300 

United Artists—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

43rd wk 400 

Vogue Tokyo Olympiad (Favorite), 5th wk 350 

'That Darn Cat' 250 Earns 

Fifth Week in Portland 

PORTLAND— In a week when every 

first-run theatre was screening holdover 

product, "That Darn Cat" held its own 

with a gross percentage of 250 and earned 

a fifth week at the Orpheum Theatre. 

Bagdad My Fair Lady (WB), gen. rel., 

4th wk 125 

Broadway Those Magnificent Men in Their 

Machines (20th-Fox), 22nd wk Flying 175 

Cinema 21 Repulsion (Royal), 3rd wk 135 

Arts—The 10th Victim (Embassy), ..140 

Fine 4th wk. 

Fox The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 40th wk. ..200 

Hollywood The Greot Race (WB), 3th wk 175 

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Irvmgton The Loved One (MGM), 5th wk 150 

Laurelhurst, Music Box, Sandy Boulevard 

Thunderboll (UA), 4th wk 200 

Off-Broadway The 2nd Best Secret Agent in 

Wide World (Embassy), 4th wk the Whole ...150 

Orpheum— That Darn Cat (BV), 4th wk 250 

Paramount—Mary Poppins (BV), 1 4th wk 200 

Holdover Quartet Shares 

LA Grossing Honors 

LOS ANGELES — Business continued 

strong at first-ran houses, with holdovers 

leading the field. Four films shared 

top honors — - "Thunderball," with 500; 

"Patch of Blue," 380; "The Loved One," 

220, and "A Thousand Clowns," 280. 

Baldwin, Wiltern, World Darling (Embassy) . . 1 75 

Beverly Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox), 4th wk. . 160 

Bruin, Vogue Viva Maria (UA), 4th wk. . 115 

Carthay—The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th-Fox),' 

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Cinerama Battle of the Bulge (WB), .350 

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A Patch of Blue (MGM), 6th wk 380 

Crest 

Egyptian— My Fair Lady (WB), 64th wk 230 

El Rey, Hollywood Gypsy !WB); The Music 

Man ( WB), reissues 00 

Fine Arts The Loved One (MGM), 10th wk 220 

Star—The 10th Victim (Embassy), 4th wk. ..150 

Four 

Hollywood-Paramount Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 

4th wk 230 

Lido Rapture (IC), 4th wk 100 

Those Los Angeles, Loyola 

Magnificent Men in 

Their Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 2nd wk., 

gen. rel 85 

Music Hall Life erf the Top (Royal), reissue, 

4th wk 140 

Orpheum, Ins That Dorn Cat (BV), 3rd wk 90 

Pontages Inside Daisy Clover (WB), 4th wk. ...180 

Pi*—The Great Race (WB), 10th wk 120 

State Return From the Ashes (WB), A Rage 

to Live (WB), reruns 65 

Villoge A Thousand Clowns (UA), 4th wk 280 

Warner Beverly— The Slender Thread (Para), 

5th wk 65 

me II Spy Who Como in From 

the Cold (Para), 4th wk 170 

Warren's The Great Wall Magna); The Long 

Ships (Col), reissue 75 

Wilshire The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

"Greatest Story,' 'Bulge' 300 

As Denver Holdovers Flourish 

DENVER—The city's lone newcomer, 

"Never Too Late." turned up with 100 

and all the holdovers grossed far, far above 

this mark as "Battle of the Bulge" and 

"The Greatest Story Ever Told" led with 

a pair of 300s. "Thunderball." in its fourth 

week as were so many other Denver screen 

offerings, turned in an excellent 275 at 

the Paramount. 

Aladdin The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

wk 43rd 175 

Centre Never Too Late (WB) 100 

Cooper The Greatest Story Ever Told (UA) 

4th wk 300 

Crest The 2nd Eest Secret Agent in the Whole 

Wide World (Embassy), 4th wk 180 

Uenham The Great Race (WB), 14th wk 140 

Denver—That Darn Cot (BV), 4th wk 175 

Esquire The 10th Victim (Embassy), 4th wk .140 

International- Battle of the Bulge (WB), 4th wk.. 300 

Paramount Thunderball (UA), 4th wk 275 

Towne The Loved One (MGM), 4th wk 175 

Vogue Juliet of the Spirits (Rizzoli), 4th wk. ..125 

SAN FRANCISCO 

^merican International Pictures held a 

special screening of its "The Big T.N.T. 

Show" Tuesday night (11) for disc jockeys 

and record distributors. Folk singer Joan 

Baez stars, along with rock 'n' roll, western 

and blues personalities. The feature 

opened Thursday (13) at the Crown. 

Palace and Serra theatres. 

Jean Genet's "Deathwatch" premiered 

here at the Movie Thursday (20). It was 

first shown in the new director series at 

the 1965 San Francisco International Film 

Festival. 

Warner Bros, is releasing "Othello" nationwide 

for a two-day run. It plays 

February 2 and 3 at the St. Francis here 

and was produced by the National Theatre 

of Great Britain. 

"Ceylon, the Magic Island" was presented 

by the Town Hall Armchair Cruises Friday 

14 the 

1 Veterans' Auditorium. The 

week before, the group sponsored a 

travelogue on Russia, narrated by its 

photographer. Season tickets for 15 performances 

ran from $16.65 to $20.65. Lidividual 

tickets also are available at $1.50 8«TrrTimi 

or $2 per performance. Town Hall is 

headed by impresario Albert Rappaport 

who arranges a series of morning lectures 

as well as the armchair cruises. 

The Explorers Club of San Francisco began 

its series Sunday

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Qriginally slated for the Varsity Theatre, 

the Warner Bros, presentation of Sir 

Laurence Olivier's "Othello" will have its 

exclusive Honolulu run at the Waikiki 

Theatre instead. Four- performances, twoa-day 

on an unreserved-seat policy, are 

scheduled for February 16 and 17, with advance 

sales of tickets at five Consolidated 

Amusement Co. theatres beginning 

January 25. Preopening notices and ticket 

requests indicate a complete sellout before 

the initial screening. 

MD 0THER HAWAIIAN AREAS 

with 4 weeks under her collar. Rizzoli 

Films' "Juliet of the Spirits" and Paramount's 

"The Spy Who Came in From the 

Cold" are two top-liners standing by to 

fulfill bookings at the New Royal after 

"Thunderball." 

The Japanese film dealing with the famous 

Nichibo Gold Medal Tokyo Olympics 

women's volleyball team and its dynamic 

and controversial coach Daimatsu, Toho's 

"You Can If You Try," is attracting the 

largest foreign-language audiences in 

Honolulu. The French "Banana Peel" and 

John Huston's "Beat the Devil" were 

clicking as good opening numbers at the 

All-time high grosses and attendances 

for 20th Century-Fox's "The Sound of Varsity, mainly drawing the University 

Music" were reported by the management of Hawaii campus crowds. 

of the hard-ticket Kuhio Theatre. Now in Six theatres throughout the island chain 

its 42nd week, "Music" is expected to continue 

will have simultaneous showings of "Han- 

through mid-February. 

and Gretel" on a special weekend prosel 

UA's "Thunderball," rounding out a graming, including the Palace in Hilo. 

month's run at the New Royal, is heading 

for more holdover dates while Walt Kaimuki, Wahiawa and Waipahu theatres 

Lihue on Kauai Island and the Princess, 

Disney's "That Darn Cat" is still scoring on Oahu Island. 

Exhibitors 

Form Albuquerque Group 

To Police Product and Advertising 

ALBUQUERQUE—A committee of motion 

picture exhibitors has been formed 

here to voluntarily police the industry, 

particularly in regard to product booked 

and ad copy. 

The committee, believed to be the first 

of its kind in the country completely made 

up only of exhibitors, was formed because 

of criticism leveled against so-called "obscene" 

films and "suggestive ads" by city 

commissioner Sam Brown at a meeting of 

the commission. 

The Albuquerque Motion Picture Exhibitors 

Committee formally was recognized by 

the city fathers at their weekly meeting 

here Tuesday (11). 

Louis Gasparini. manager of the Fox- 

Winrock Theatre, is chairman of the group. 

which is scheduled to meet on the second 

Tuesday of each month. Other members of 

the committee are James Griffing, Video 

Theatres: Paul West, Video; Lou Avolio, 

Frontier Theatres: Blanche Hatton, Frontier, 

and Lino Cosimati, Frontier. 

Committee membership represents 17 of 

the city's 19 movie houses. The two that 

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Theatre and the Roxy Art Theatre. 

In his original criticism of theatre advertising 

and product here, Brown particularly 

singled out the Roxy and Don 

Pancho's. The Roxy generally runs burlesque 

and nudist movies, Don Pancho's 

leans heavily to art films. 

Gasparini was highly pleased with the 

formation of the committee, calling it a 

definite step forward for the industry 

locally. He said he felt this was the first 

city in the country to pick a committee 

completely made up of theatre people, without, 

the outside influence of non-theatre 

people, such as is the case in many cities. 

He admitted the group will have no police 

powers, and will merely ask for cooperation 

from other theatres. 

Gasparini said the committee would welcome 

comments from the public on product 

shown locally, and that all complaints 

and criticisms would be studied. He said 

the group has a code, which forbids member 

exhibitors from exhibiting films which 

do not have the motion picture production 

seal or are listed as condemned by the 

Legion of Decency. The group also will 

attempt to urge theatres to shy away from 

offensive advertising. 

It was pointed out at the commission 

meeting the city already has an antiobscenity 

ordinance on the books. At 

least two of the five members of the city 

commission reported, however, they were 

unaware that such an ordinance existed 

'Thunderball' Prices Up 

PORTLAND—E M. Loew's Fine Arts, 

hosting the Maine premiere of UA's 

"Thunderball," boosted admission to $1.75. 

evenings, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 

and to $1.25 for matinees. Children 

are being charged 75 cents at all times. 

WAC Circuit Planning 

Eugene, Ore., House 

LOS ANGELES — Western Amusement 

Co., a Los Angeles-based theatre operating 

company, has announced plans to build a 

1,000-seat de luxe theatre in Eugene, Ore., 

where the company operates the Mayflower, 

recently completely renovated, and 

the Heilig Theatre. 

The circuit, which has been operating in 

Oregon for more than 20 years, has its district 

office for both the Western Amusement 

Co. and Jones Enterprises in 

Eugene. 

The new Eugene house, the Oakway 

Cinema, is to be situated in a huge shopping 

center under construction between Oakway 

Road and Coburg Road. The house will be 

equipped with the finest loge seats and 

latest screen and projection facilities available. 

A long-term lease has been signed 

with builders of the shopping center and 

construction is to start within 45-60 days 

for summer completion. 

The new Eugene theatre is the first of 

several de luxe hardtops Western is planning 

for shopping centers in California 

and Oregon. In addition the circuit will 

complete a drive-in at Barstow, Calif., for 

opening late in April and land has been 

purchased for building a drive-in at 

Victorville, Calif. Western has completed 

remodeling on the Port Theatre at Corona 

Del Mar. 

Jasper Morgan, 81. Dies; 

Retired Denver Supplier 

DENVER—Jasper J. "Jap" Morgan. 81. 

in the theatre supply business for many 

years, died at his home January 6. Born 

in Asherille, N.C.. he came to Denver in 

1900 and operated a projector at Elitch 

Gardens in 1902 and 1903, when the picture 

illumination was a carbide gas lamp. 

He also operated at the Crystal Theatre 

on Curtis Street, when the street was 

claimed to be the best lighted three blocks 

in the nation. He was a member of the 

International Alliance when the operators 

and stagehands were in a combined local. 

He was an expert in his craft. 

Morgan started in the theatre supply 

business in the employ of Swanson & 

Nolan. Later he organized the Denver 

Theatre Supply Co. and in 1926 consolidated 

it with the National Theatre Supply- 

Co. , remaining as branch manager until 

partial retirement in 1952. He was retained 

in an advisory capacity until 1958, when he 

made his retirement complete. 

He leaves his wife Ada and two daughters, 

Mrs. Virginia McNeill and Mrs. Bernice 

Gilmore. both employed on Denver's 

Filmrow. 

DENVER 

Chick Lloyd of American International 

"' 

Pictures hosted the monthly luncheon 

of the Rocky Mountain Motion Picture 

Ass'n in the My-O-My Room of the 400 

Club with some 70 members in attendance 

screened "Life at the Top," 

"That Man in Istanbul" and "The Great 

Sioux Massacre" at the Century screening 

room. 

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PORTLAND 

Thunderball" continues its merry way b sre 

still showing on three screens. Until 

the film opened at the Sandy Boulevard 

Drive-In, United Theatres planned to close 

the outdoor house for a few week 

plans were canceled. The 104th St. Drivein, 

also a United Theatres operation, has 

remained open. Plans are to play Columbia's 

"The Heroes of Telemark" day-unddate 

with Cinema 21. 

l 

Portland premiere Of Warner Bros.' "Battle 

of the Bulge" Wednesday '19' returned 

Cinerama to the Hollywood. The opening 

was a benefit for the University of 

School of Nursing. Manager Carl Miller 

recruited the Kelly Kadet Korps. fea 

Wende Brown, a national baton twirler and 

strutting champion. George Sanders. 

radio and television personality, interviewed 

city, state and university officials 

' 

•Our Man Flint." 20th Century- Fox's 

super spy comedy-adventure, has an exclusive 

date at the Orpheum. downtown. 

on Wednesday (26> ... Sammy Siegel, Columbia, 

has been working on "Heroes of 

Telemark," taking full advantage of the 

greal number of ski buffs who visit Mount 

Hood and adjacent mountain skiing resorts 

here. The picture opens next at Cinema 21 

and the 104th Street Drive-In ... Ed 

Fessler, Cinema 21 owner-operator 

a 4-hour 20-minute "An Evening With 

Batman" for a one-week run. which started 

Wednesday 19 

Eugene Groesbeck, Theatre 

Operator 53 Years, Dies 

EVERETT. WASH.—Eugene W. Gro 

beck. 96. who had been in the theatre business 

53 years before retiring 17 years ago. 

died in a local hospital following a week's 

illness. The Jackson County. Iowa, native 

moved here last year after traveling extensively 

following his retirement. 

He opened a kinetoscope parlor as his 

first operation in 1896. A year later. Groesbeck 

opened a theatre in Portland, Ore., 

showing 15-minute films. Six months later. 

he opened a Seattle theatre. For a number 

of years he toured the West with his 

movie equipment. He operated a theatre in 

1910 at Buckley, Wash., and later op< 

houses at Enumclaw, Wilkeson. Carbonado 

and South Prairie, all in Pierce County, 

Wash. 

He leaves his wife Leta: a sister and one 

brother. 

Sweden Freezer Appoints 

California Service Firm 

SEATTLE. WASH. — Recently appointed 

by Sweden Freezer, manufacturer of Soft- 

Servers. ShakeMakers. SlUShMakers and 

related fountain equipment, is a new service 

company in the California an 

R&R Refrigeration Co. of San Jose. 

Founded in 1949. the firm has specialized 

in work with commercial refrigeration and 

air - conditioning for restaurants, di 

and cocktail lounges. Fully equipped with 

shop and mobile units, the company offers 

24-hour, guaranteed sen-ice. 

Columbia's "The Silencers" will ;>: 

in Chicago February 18. 

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Associated Amusement Joint Chicago Variety Installation 

Leases Two Theatres 

JOLIET, ILL.—Uninterrupted operation 

of the Rialto and Princess theatres was 

assured here early this month whe 

sociated Amusement Corp. took over both 

downtown situations on a five-yea] 

with option for renewal. The thea 

leased from the Royal Theatre Co., operators 

of the Rialto Square Building. 

A joint announcement of the lease was 

made by Robert G. Rubens. Royal President, 

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and J. R. Gottlieb, president of As 

Amusement Corp. and the pari n\ company, 

L&M Management Co. The same corporation 

has been operating the Mode Theatre 

here for four years and is compli 

$40,000 remodeling project at that house. 

Robert Bachman, vice-president and 

general manager of the two c 

the .loin t Herald-News that renovation and 

cleanup are planned for the Rialto Theatre 

There are other extensive plans for the 

Rialto, he Indicated, but said he could not 

disclose details at this time. 

Holdup Man Takes $200 

From Rockhill Theatre 

KANSAS CITY—A man, appearing to 

In his 20s, according to Jo Ann Land- 

be 

reth, ticket seller at the Rockhill Theare, 

stood outside the ticket booth 

and handed her a holdup note Saturday 

(15). She handed him $200 and 

be walked away, briskly. 

Landreth. a student at the Uniof 

Missouri at Kansas City, said 

the man was dressed in gray coverall 

wore a snap-brim straw hat. but "didn't 

look the type." The robbery came during 

a lull between shows, about 8:20 p I 

man pulled a pistol out of his pocket and 

handed her a note and paper sack for 

the money, she told police. 

Joseph E. Levine has acquired motion 

picture rights to William P. McGivern's 

latest novel, "Caper of the Golden Bulls." 

which will be published by Dodd Mead & 

Co. 

Attended by More Than 400 Members 

CHICAGO—The Variety Club of 

Illinois 

held its first joint installation of officers of 

the men's and women's division Thursday 

Pick-Congress Hotel. 

Where more than 400 members w;i: 

the formal induction of David Smerling as 

Tent 26s chief barker and Mrs. Madge 

for her third consecutive term as 

president of Won 

The Celebrity dinner honored James 

London. England, chief barker 

of Variety International, ami 

by Col. V. A. J. Heald. military attai 

Philip of Great Britain, who is to 

visit Chicago in mid-March. The prince is 

to be a guest at a Variety Club dinner 

which will be attended by 1,500 persons. 

The installat on dinner also marked the 

; 

36th year of Variety's sponsorship of the 

Club Research Center at La 

Rabida Sanitarium. A check for $38,783 

was presented to Ray Meyers, president of 

La Rabida Sanitarium, at the dinner by 

Vic Bernstein, who was retiring as 

barker of Tent 26 after two terms. 

Publix-Great States, operator of the 

Rialto and Princess theatres until January 

1, announced in November that it would 

give up their operation since the circuit 

CITED FOR LEADERSHIP 

was planning to build a theatre, the Hillthe 

Hillcrest Shopping Center. 

Bernstein and Mrs. Raymer were cited 

Improvements are being made at the 

for Variety accomplishments made under 

their administrations. To name a few Tent 

Princess, including installation of a larger 

L'ti achievements and headline events under 

The first film shown there under 

the leadership of Bernstein, there were the 

AAC control was "The Hallelujah Trail." 

many projects to fill the coffers for La 

The Mode Theatre, with Its new 

Rabida. the club's pet project; a birthday 

new restrooms and interior remodeling is 

for Carmen De LaRosa, a La Rabida 

to be used for roadshows and special longrun 

films, such as "My Fair Lady." A feted on the birth date she shares with 

patient who will long remember she was 

prominent theatre decorating firm. Hans 

Abraham Lincoln; the staging of a program 

Teichert Co., has charge of the interior 

in the La Rabida wards by the 

decoration. 

Serendipity Singers; a "King for a Day" 

Roy Chrisman, who had been mat 

the Mode, has been assigned to managerial 

dinner 

n 

honoring 

Globetrotters; 

Abe Saperstein 

dedication 

of 

of 

the 

memorial 

duties at the two newly leased theatres. 

plaques for various past La Rabida 

Baciiman told the Herald-News. 

etors; annual golf outings; Christmas 

The third officer, along with Gottlieb and 

and theatre parties. 

Bachman, of both Associated Amusement 

and L&M Management is Mrs. Dorothy R. 

BERNSTEIN PR \l-i S 

Berman, the firm's secretary-treasurer. 

Main offices are at 120 South LaSalle St., 

Chicago. 

Bernstein said that his efforts had been 

given a sound foundation by his immediate 

predecessor Jack Clark, president of Allied 

Theatres of Illinois and Va 

tional in the Midwest. The 

for a Day" idea came into being 

while Clark was chief barker and has become 

an event that is always profitable 

and well attended. Clark always contended 

that the Variety Club's unity would be 

augmented by embracing all members of 

tertainment field. As a result, exhib.tors 

and distributors have well 

newspaper, radio and TV personnel, In- 

; Tent 26 membership and providwith 

stronger support. Clark 

•heatre benefit 

for La Rabida, a premiere showing of 

"Cleopatra." which resulted in 

$30,000 for the sanitarium. 

In addition to Smerling. other Tent 26 

officers and crewmen for this year, installed 

at the Thursday dinner 

Arthur Holland, first assistant chief 

irten. second assistant 

barke: 

chief barker: Harry Balaban. dough guy: 

George C. Regan, property master: Ben R. 

Iden, Donald 

Raymer, Ralph Smitha. Bern 

canvasmen; Rev. John S. Banahan. Dr. 

James Cam ras I >:i\ iti Smerling 

Preston Brad 

chaplains. 

The new chief barker of 1 

son of the late Manuel Smerling, one of the 

14 past presidents of the Illinois org i 

tion. 

Other officers and directors installed by 

Club, in addition to 

Sally Madden, first 

esident; Beat econd 

landing 

secretary; Barbara Regan, recording 

secretary; Ruth Bloom, treasurer; Rose 

Fischer, Heart Fund chairman; VI 

Grand, co-chairman; Cora Berenson. liaison 

officer; Rae Smerling. official hostess; 

la Grand. bulletin chairman; 

Evelyn Blumenthal, Joan Bourdeaux. 

Esther Brotman, Olive Gottlieb, Penny 

Mandusich and Sadie Palais, directors. 

Realistic Moviemaking 

Brings Police to Scene 

Kansas env Realism that apparently 

could have put .wood's 

to shame sent four polio 

and two patrol wago to a 

Mi of th Liberty Memorial I 

day (13), when authorities were :. 

war was in full force. 

With guns drawn, the several policeimii 

advanced cautiously I 

only to learn that a group of Lilli 

School pupils 

for the senior English Class movie, and 

ones, 

the "actors" 

looked rial and police should bai 

Courtney said they didn't v 

way of mo 

should 

Richard Flores, writ oducer 

and cameraman for the film 

on 39th 

o had 

d about the r during 

too." 

Joe Hendricks, Edna Lovan 

Repurchase Two Theatres 

Sprin 

. 

Porta have sold the El 1 

i the Park Theatre 

Jr. and Edna T. 

•.tres 27 years 

before selling them to the Portas. 

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: January 24, 1966 C-l

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ST. LOUIS 

^Jrs. Leslie T. Barco, Better Films Council 

of Greater St. Louis leader, was 

honored by the Business and Professional 

Women's Club for her civic awareness, 

with emphasis on her volunteer duties as 

chairman of the city-county Mothers' 

March against Crippling Birth Defects. 

. 

The 1965 World Series color film, a 40- 

minute filming of the Los Angeles Dodgers 

versus the Minnesota Twins, had its 

premiere showing here at the Ambassador 

Theatre. Henry C. Riegel jr. is manager. 

Showings at noon and 1 p.m. were free to 

the public and were sponsored by the St. 

Louis Cardinals Peck was 

here heading a list of stage, screen and 

sports personalities participating in the 

kick-off meeting of the American Cancer 

Society fund-raising campaign. As national 

chairman, he will tour 22 other 

cities. Former screen actor William Gargan, 

who speaks with an artificial larynx, 

figured prominently in the events of the 

two-day meeting in the Chase-Park Plaza 

Hotel. 

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BOXOFFICE :: January 24. 1966 

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KANSAS CITY 

^yarner Bros, held two special screenings 

of "Othello" last week for school 

Larry Biechele, 

and 

Universal salesman, reports: 

Mr. Mrs. A. O. Featherston of 

authorities and the press. One was at the the Opera Theatre at Cherryvale, Kas., 

Commonwealth Theatres' screening room were baby-sitting with their 2-month-old 

on Tuesday (18) and the second at Dickinson 

granddaughter, when he last was there on 

Theatres' screening room on Thurs- 

business K. Gregg did not open 

day (20). Because many pupils are expected 

. 

the Gregg Theatre at Caney, Kas., for the 

to see the picture when it opens winter, but plans to open the Caney Valley 

here February 2, 3, the school officials Drive-In this spring . . . Stella Setterstrom 

were invited to view the film and become 

familiar with it. 

and her sister Bernice Gregg of the Chief 

Theatre at Sedan, Kas., are getting back 

James Coburn, star of "Our Man Flint," 

was here Thursday (20) for a short visit, 

during which he attended a press luncheon 

at the Municipal Airport. Traveling by 

Lear Jet. similar to one used in the film, 

he was making a whirlwind tour of several 

cities. After leaving Kansas City, he went 

to Wichita and then on to Dallas for the 

night. Harold "Chick" Evens of 20th Century-Fox 

flew to Denver Friday (2D, 

where he met Coburn on his tour and then 

went on to Salt Lake City and San Francisco 

with him. From there Evens went to 

Los Angeles on Saturday (22) to visit his 

daughter. 

John Long of the George Regan Film 

Distributing Co. has returned from business 

trips to St. Louis, Springfield, Mo., 

Indianapolis and Louisville . . . Maurice 

Shackelford, district manager of United 

Screen Arts, also was in St. Louis on business 

. . . Bernie Evens, United Artists area 

exploiteer, last week was in St. Louis on 

business. 

Donna Beale, assistant to Glen Reubart 

of Commonwealth Theatres' payroll department, 

will be married to Gary Lee Ramer 

Friday (28) in the Fairmount Methodist 

Church at Independence at 7:30 p.m. 

CARBONS 

should be 

BARGAINS 

use them correctly 

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let us show you — 

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Theatre Supply Co. 

115 W. 18th—K. C, Mo. 

BA 1-3070 

to normal after entertaining a houseful of 

relatives during the holidays. 

Bea Johnson, director of KUDL-Radio 

Club Awards, will be at the Tuesday (25) 

noon meeting of the Women of the Motion 

Picture Industry at Columbia Pictures, 

where she will discuss the KUDL contest. 

Edward Asner, formerly of Kansas City 

and brother of Ben Asner of the Asner 

Building Materials Co., Kansas City, Kas., 

is appearing in the John Wayne motion 

picture, "El Dorado." He is 35 and has 

appeared in "The Untouchables" on television, 

the "Amos Burke" show and others. 

He soon will be seen in "Please Don't Eat 

the Daisies." 

The Cinema Lounge officially opened 

Monday evening (17) in the former location 

of the Vista Theatre. Pete Randazzo, 

Elmer Dillon, booker for American International 

Pictures, celebrated a birthday 

who formerely was in partnership as 

Wednesday (19), which marked 40 years 

owner-operator of the Vista, is the sole 

in the motion picture industry . . . Marty 

owner-operator of the cocktail lounge. 

Watson, AIP cashier, said her son Doug 

Boxing and sports films will be shown in 

will be married on Saturday (29). 

addition to go-go girl shows. Elmer Dillon 

said the Vista was the last remaining opposition 

to his National Theatre on the has been in Research Hospital, room 446, 

Larry Klein, office manager for Universal, 

Northeast side of town. 

since Monday (17) for tests and a hernia 

operation . . . Bev Miller of Mercury Film 

Co. was on a business trip into Oklahoma 

and Texas last week. 

Jack Winningham, branch manager of 

National Screen Service, will be in Chicago 

February 4, 5 for a meet'ng with the new 

general sales manager Milton Feinberg. 

United Artists' "Lord Love a Duck" was 

screened Saturday (22) at the Brookside 

Theatre for high school newspaper editors 

. 

screened "A Thousand Clowns" at 

Commonwealth Wednesday afternoon (19) 

screened "That Man in 

Istanbul" at Commonwealth Thursday 

1 . . Universal held an employes' 

screening of "Blindfold" Saturday evening 

(15) at Dickinson screening room. 

AIP's "Secret Agent Fireball" and "Spy in 

Your Eye" will open an 11 -theatre multiple 

Wednesday (26) In the Kansas City area. 

Mrs. Dean Boyd and Mrs. Gerald Rotherberger 

have taken over as managers of the 

Blair Theatre in Osborne, Kas., for Sterling 

Bagby of Stockton. Carolyn Nuzum, manager 

until she resigned, and her family have 

moved to Dodge City. 

Out-of-town exhibitors seen on Filmrow: 

Glenn Jones, Gravois Mills: Myron Woolever, 

Unionville; Don Burnett, Larned. 

Kas.; Oscar Johnson. Hiawatha, Kas.; 

Jerry Wise, Brookfield; Jay Wooten and 

Dennis Montee. Hutchinson. Kas.: Leo 

Hayob, Marshall: Bob Shade. Excelsior 

Springs: Frank Weary, Richmond; Mr. and 

Mrs. Paul Ricketts, Ness City, Kas.; Ken 

Winklemeyer, Boonville; Harley Fryer, 

Lamar; Ed Harris, Neosho; Ernie Block, 

Sabetha, Kas.; Blon Bryant, Lexington; 

Basil Fogelson, Marceline; William Wagner, 

Independence, Kas.; Fred Munson, 

Arkansas City, Kas.; Prince Black, Mound 

City; Hershal McManus, St. Louis; Jim 

Cook, Maryville, 

City, Kas. 

and A. W. Heyl, Junction 

Screenings: "Paradise, Hawaiian Style" 

(Paramount), at Commonwealth screening, 

Monday (10); "The Ugly Dachshund" 

and "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey 

Tree" (Buena Vista) at Fox Midwest 

screening room Tuesday evening (11); 

"Forty-Acre Feud" was screened by Bev- 

Miller of Mercury Film Co. at Commonwealth 

screening room Wednesday afternoon 

(12); "Harper" (Warner Bros.) at 

Dickinson Theatre Wednesday evening 

(12); "Life at the Top" (Columbia) at 

Commonwealth screening room Tuesday 

afternoon (11); "A Big Hand for the Little 

Lady" (WB) at Commonwealth screening 

room Tuesday evening (11). 

Gershmcms Are Building 

Theatre in Grand Forks 

From North Central Edition 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Sketches and 

plans are being prepared for a de luxe, 

800-seat theatre which will be built this 

spring for Harry and Louis Gershman of 

Grand Forks. The site of the theatre is 

just north of the Rydell Chevrolet Co., 

south of the city on the west side of U.S. 

81. 

The Gershmans expect to have the theatre 

ready for its premiere around September 

1. 

Harry Gershman told the Grand Forks 

Herald that the theatre is being designed 

by Henry G. Greene, widely known eastern 

theatre designer, and completion of the 

construction project will give Grand Forks 

its first new theatre in more than three 

decades. 

Rocking-chair seats will be installed 

exclusively and the theatre is to be 

equipped with sound and projection facilities 

for showing all types of motion 

pictures being produced today. The parking 

lot will have 9-foot wide ramps with 

space for 300 cars. 

Officials Suspect Arson 

In $50,000 Airer Fire 

LEE'S SUMMrr. MO.—Robert Morrison, 

fire chief, and A. J. Steen, police 

chief, said they suspect arson and forced 

entry in the fire which caused an estimated 

$50,000 damage Monday (10) to 

the projection and utility rooms and the 

kitchen area of the Terrace Drive-In on 

Highway 50. 

Steen has sent evidence gathered at 

the scene to the Missouri Highway Patrol 

laboratory at Jefferson City. He said 

the pattern of the blaze resembled that 

at an equipment company, across the 

highway from the airer. Several burglaries 

and a fire of undetermined origin occurred 

at the business last fall. 

According to Morrison, the blaze started 

near the generator in a room adjoining 

the projection room. The fire apparently 

burned through the door, into the projection 

room, and then across the ceiling 

and into the kitchen area. 

New York comedienne Constance Sawyer 

will play the key role in "The Last of the 

Secret Agents?", the Marty Allen-Steve 

Rossi comedy for Paramount Pictures. 

C-4 BOXOFFICE January 24. 1966

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loved One' Grossing 

High in Kansas Cily 

KANSAS CITY—Top gross being rolled 

up by "The Loved One" in extended run 

at the twin Embassy Theatres is pu 

the Kansas City engagement well up 

among national leaders. The picture is 

expected to hit a $50,000 figure during a 

six-week run, although at a $1.50 top, 

well under that of other leaders. 

Executives of Durwood Theatres a ml 

MGM here believe the gross is far in excess 

of what ordinarily might be expected 

from a 600-seat theatre. Seating capacity 

of Embassy I and n is about 300 each. The 

record figure presents a classic example of 

results to be found in the schedule flexibility 

of the side-by-side houses. 

Playing the picture in both 

mits scheduling five performances in prime 

evening tunc Embassy I at 5:15, 7:30 and 

9:45; Embassy II at 6:15 and 8:30. This 

means a comparatively short wait by patrons 

until the next show and has resulted 

In very few turnaways, according to M. 

Robert Goodfriend, general manager of 

Durwood Kansas City Theatres, During 

the holiday rush it even was found advisable 

to schedule an extra evening show 

in Embassy II at 10:45 more than once, 

bringing many admissions that might 

otherwise be lost. 

The prime time scheduling also includes 

the "twi-liter" half-price hour which Is a 

regular feature of Durwood operation. 

Several years of experience with tin 

in continuous-run theatres has proved it 

brings in a class of patron not ordinarily 

attendn and notably \ 

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ofien- shocking ns>chopath.c 

study. 

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and Judy Hughes: 

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Hank Sheldon. Reviewed 

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CHICAGO 

show "Faust," "Pagliacci," "II Trovatore," 

"Don Giovanni," "Tosca" and "La Traviata" 

in January and February . . . The 

Chicago Boys Clubs benefitted from the 

The Nestle Co. has named John G. Potter Friday and Saturday shows are set for grand opening celebration, all proceeds 

as Southern sales supervisor and 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Matinees 

on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sun- 

to the clubs. Richard Balaban of H&E 

from three performances being turned over 

Charles A. Pollard as sales supervisor in 

the Western region. Both men are working 

with Nestle's vending and institutional scheduled to "meet the occasion." 

said they plan to keep the "popular price" 

days begin at 2. Holiday matinees will be Balaban handled the modernization. He 

marketing division. Joseph T. Woznitski 

policy—50 cents for admission, at all times. 

James Coburn checked in to make the 

was appointed sales manager for confectionery 

products in the chocolate market- 

press rounds with 20th Century-Fox publicist 

Sol Gordon on behalf of "Our Man Supply Co. at 5795 North Elston Ave. and 

A sales office has been opened by Movie 

ing division. 

Flint" . de Mis Recuerdos" Harry Goodman, the firm's genial sales 

Jack Clark, president of Allied Theatres 

of Illinois and owner of the Tiffin ries. It was chosen for showing in Chi- 

Movie Supply's new phone number (763- 

opens the 1966 Spanish-language film se- 

manager, wants everyone to know that 

Theatre, became a grandfather for the cago after it had been chosen by Mexican 1771) will be answered from 9 a.m. to 10 

first time when his son became the father journalists and screen writers as Mexico's 

"best film of the year." The Chicago serve customers. 

p.m. Monday through Saturday to better 

of a son. 

showing is a benefit for Pan-American 

The Vendo Company announced it soon scholarships sponsored by the Spanish 

will open a new 75,000 square foot supply Club of Northwestern University and the M&R Amusement Co. 

center in Elk Grove Village outside Chicago. 

The new quarters will be the com- 

Pan-American Council. 

pany's principal parts depot, supplying "The Ipcress File," which was SRO at 

Seeks Airer Permit 

the entire central region . . . Curtiss the Chicago during its run of several 

Candy Co. is touting its newest and latest weeks, goes into 35 neighborhood and suburban 

theatres for its first outlying 

CHICAGO—A special use permit to allow 

construction of a drive-in on prop- 

product—Royal Peppermint Marshmallow. 

showing . . . Big color quarter-page ads 

erty at Milwaukee Avenue west of Hintz 

Crush International unveiled its 1966 heralded in the initial opening of "Dracula. 

Prince of Darkness" and "The Plague quested of the county zoning board of 

Road in Wheeling Township will be re- 

sales and marketing program during a 

recent organizational conference. It was of the Zombies" at a series of neighborhood 

theatres. 

appeals. 

announced that new advertising and merchandising 

techniques include color TV, 

said he expects opposition to issuance of 

Paul Marcy, zoning board secretary, 

larger illuminated signs and increased According to a report from Lou Abramson, 

executive director of the National village had indicated a desire for light 

the permit from Wheeling. He said the 

quality and volume of point-of-purchase 

mailing materials. 

Ass'n of Concessionaires, the largest industry in the area, which is zoned for 

candy-selling holiday of the year is manufacturing. 

Sincere condolences to Oscar Brotman Christmas, with estimated sales of $350 Phillip Toomin. attorney for M&R 

on the death of his mother Mrs. Jennie million at the retail level. Halloween is Amusement Corp., was reported to be asking 

the board for the permit to construct 

Brotman, a former Chicagoan. Mrs. Brotman 

died in Santa Monica, Calif., but lion; Easter is third with sales of $190 a two-screen drive-in on a 36-acre tract. 

second, with sales estimated at $300 mil- 

burial services were held here. She was million; Valentine's Day, fourth, with sales The drive-in would accommodate about 

the widow of Isaac Brotman, an owner of $130 million, and Mother's Day. fifth, 1,200 cars. Owners of the property are 

of several movie theatres in the Chicago with sales of $110 million. 

August Grandt and W. Edward Fritz. 

area who died in 1956. Surviving Mrs. 

Paul Hamer of Wheeling, an attorney, will 

Brotman are three sons, Dr. David M. Milton 

and Oscar; two daughters, Mrs. Emma as did Dore Schary. Both were en route 

William Inge made a stopover visit here, represent the village in the hearing. 

Feldman and Mrs. Elsie Seliger; 11 grandchildren; 

seven great grandchildren and theatres have joined forces in booking the Paul DelVitto Buys Two 

to New York . Chicagoland 

three sisters. 

"new-old" version of Batman and old Pennsylvania Theatres 

comic book characters being released by From Eastern Edition 

The boxoffice at the Bismarck Palace Columbia Pictures. All 15 chapters of Columbia's 

1943 Batman movie serials are his wife Adelaide of Penn have purchased 

NEW CASTLE, PA.—Paul DelVitto and 

Theatre is a very, very busy spot since 

it opened for advance sales for tickets to combined into a four-hour and 15-minute the Hi-Lander Theatre and shopping center 

"Doctor Zhivago." The Midwest premiere feature . were held for Ben here for $125,000. They also announce the 

is set for Thursday (27) and ten performances 

a week are included in the Hillside. 

Valley from the Winograd family. 

Weiss, a former member of Local 110, at purchase of the 51 Drive-In in the Beaver 

current schedule. Performances Monday 

through Thursday 

William F. Bennis sent word that work The sale transfer for the Hi-Lander was 

begin at 8 p.m., while 

is under way for his new drive-in, Freeport. 

Bennis, owner of the Freeport and pany, and Janet M. Wincek, secretary. 

from Albert R. Tate, president of the com- 

Comet drive-ins (Freeport), lost the Comet Tate will remain as manager, for the 

last August 26 when a tornado swept the present, as he enters semi-retirement. 

area. The location of the new drive-in will DelVitto plans to install lighting for the 

be on Route 20 at the west edge of Freeport. 

Harry Jones, architect and builder. atre building. 

parking area and will modernize the the- 

laid the plans. Work on the concession is Ken Winograd will be in charge of the 

in progress and in the spring a large steel 51 Drive-In. as part of the deal, in which 

tower will be erected. There will be indoor it was agreed that the family would continue 

management of the ozoner for two 

seating for 350 to 400, in addition to accommodations 

for some 1,500 cars. 

years. 

^c&l (Imwmwi 

Morry Roth, head of Variety magazine 

"A Man Called Adam." starring Sammy 

operations here, was married to Judy 

Davis jr., was filmed in New York under 

Scheinfeld. Congratulations! . . . Several 

the direction of Leo Penn. 

SEE PAGES 2 AND 3 OF YOUR B&K theatres are booking additional matinees 


geared for children. American International's 

"Gulliver's Travels" will be 

run for "kiddie" entertainment at the 

Berwyn, Century, Congress, Nortown. Oakbrook, 

State. Uptown, Varsity and Will 

Rogers in conjunction with other neighborhood 

theatres. 

4 FILMACK TRAILER CO. W 

In view of previous successes with open *. 

films, the newly decorated Bryn Mawr u \vih' 

C-6 BOXOFFICE January 24, 1966

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primarily, and an occasional drive-in, 

Brandt noted, with 15 new theatres be- 

ussed. 

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'Heroes of Telemark' 

200 in Chicago Bow 

CHICAGO—While there were a few 

decided 

dips in business at boxoffices in 

the Loop, several holdovers edged up into 

the 200 per cent even though shov 

their third or fourth weeks. "The Great 

Race" again grossed 200 per cent in its 

tenth week at the State Lake Theatre and 

.am d B continuation of its run there 

until around the second week in February. 

Outstanding among the newcomers was 

"The Heroes of Telemark." which mad. 

its debut at the Roosevelt Theatre as a 

"200 percenter." Another solid opener was 

"Kwaidan," a new Japanese film which 

jumped off to a 170 start at the Playboy 

Theatre. 

(Average 100) 

Is 

Carnegie— Juliet of the Spirits Rizzoli). 4th wk. .165 

Chicag.- Thot Darn Cot BV), 4th wk 160 

Infidelity Cinema Hioh MGM| 175 

Cinestage— The Agony ond the Ecstosy (20th- 

Fox), 3rd wk 375 

Esquire—The Spy Who Come in From the Cold 

(Para), 3rd wk 200 

Loop—The 10th Victim Embassy;, 4th wk 200 

Michael Todd The Sound of Music 20th-Fox), 

40th wk 375 

McVickers— Bottle of the Bulge .VB), 4th wk. ..230 

Oriental—Thundcrball (UA), 3rd wk 350 

Palace— Do Not Disturb ;0th-Fox), 150 

3rd wk 

Kwaidan ,Cont'l) 170 

Roosevelt -The Heroes of Telemark (Col) 200 

State Lake—The Great Race (WB!, 10th wk 200 

Town Variety Lights (P-C); White Sheik 

(SR) 140 

United Artists—Th« Loved One (MGM), 4th wk. ..145 

Woods— Boeing Boeing Para), 4th wk 165 

Holiday Openers Still Lead 

Percentages in Kansas City 

KANSAS CITY—"The Leather Boyswas 

the only one of four new screen programs 

to break past the average barrier, 

running up a commendable 150 per cent at 

the Rockhill. The big percentages were accumulated 

by the same films which had 

been grossing on the superlative level since 

the Holiday—"Thunderball." 475 at the 

Plaza and Avenue; "The Loved One," 250 

at the Embassy 1 and 2; "The Sound of 

Music." 250 at the Midland in its 27th 

week, and "That Darn Cat," 200 at the 

Uptown Theatre. 

Boulevard, Crest, Heart, Riverside Paris Secret 

(Cinema V); The Devil's Mistress ;SR) 100 

Brookside—The 10th Victim (Embassy), 4th wk. 150 

Capn The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th-Fox), 

4th wk 150 

Embassy 

Empire—The 

1, 2—The Loved One ,MGM), 4th wk. 

Grcot Race Wl 14th wk 

...250 

175 

Isi*.. Foirway, Now 50, Fairyland, 

in Hiway 40- The 2nd Best Secret Agent the 

Whole Wide World ; i Kimberlcy Jim 

(Embassy) 100 

Kimo My Foir Lady ;WB), 4th wk. at regular 

prices .150 

Midland— The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

27th wk 

Paramount, Electric—Situation Hopeless— But 

.250 

Not Serious Pora ... 90 

Plaza, Averue Thundcrball (UA), 4th wk 475 

Rockhill— The Leather Boys AA 150 

Rcxy— Do Not Disturb 20!h-Fox), 4th wk 90 

Uptown- Thot Darn Cot BV), 4th wk 200 

Dean Martin will play the role of the 

rugged American undercover agent in "The 

Devastators." the sequel to Columbia Pictures" 

"The Silencers." 

Harrisburg, Pa., Colonial 

To Be Ready This Spring 

Trans-Lux Corp. will 

open its new 1,000- 

nnsylvania, at the Colonial Park 

Plaza Shoppin 

m the 

cording to Rii 

Brandt, president. 

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Drew Eberson, will be equipped to show 

ma, Cinemascope, 70mm and 35mm 

and will occupy a section of the 

films 

45-acre shopping center with free parking 

illy 6.000 automobiles. Oth< 

cupants of the Colonial Park Plaza include 

Sears Roebuck, Woolworth's, Kress 

Fair. Coin ushers 

and fronl personnel will be used In 

in!: with the historic significance ol this 

part of Penni l'homas 

Rodgers. Trans-Lux 

Trans-Lux now ope In New 

York. Philadelphia, Boston. Washington, 

Baltimore and Detroit. Wh 

"downtown" houses. Trans-Lux' new const 

Miction will be in shopping centers, 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Warietj Tent 10 sponsored the formal 

opening of the new Ramona Inn at 

38th and Shadeland Friday (7). A party 

was held, with food, drink and entertainment. 

Proceeds went to the Variety Club 

charity fund. Karl J. Stipher, a club 

mi mber, was the winner in the drawing 

for a colored television set. 

Charles Tamler, owner of tin Garfield 

vacationing in Miami. His 

brother Irving, who retired after selling 

his Moonlite Drive-In at Fountaintown, 

also is in Miami. 

A 20-year-old man was seized by police 

minutes alter an attempted robbery at 

downtown Ohio Theatre. Manager 

Wilbur Fiey identified the young man 

as the one who demanded money while 

Frey was In the boxoffice, hut tied when 

yelled for help, police said. 

The annual Varietj Encore I?. ill will be 

held February 19 in the Egyptian Room 

of the Murat Temple. Awards will be presented 

to the most outstanding performers 

in 11 categories, non-professionals, from 

the various theatre grom 

Eugene Theatre Remodeled 

Western Amusement Co. 

EUGENE, ORE.- I The- 

I ith Avenue completed exsupervision 

of LeRoy Hulsey, resident manager. 

Hulsey said a new front, new drap> 

new snack bar and a con 

paintin rior and Interim 

ALL OF THESE 

PRACTICAL 

SERVICE 

DEPARTMENTS 

APPEAR REGULARLY 

in 

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BOXOFFICE BAROMETER 

First Run Reports) 

EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

ABOUT PICTURES 

FEATURE BOOKING CHART 

FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST 

cS ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

REVIEWS OF FEATURES 

SHORT SUBJECT CHART 

SHOWMANDISLNG IDEAS 

THEWTRE EQUIPMENT 

L2 N. ILLINOIS ST.. INDIANAPOLIS, IND 

"Everything lor the Theatre" 

tion. for which he said the cost had not 

mined. 

owned and operated 

aent Co.. whii si 

headquarters in Los Angeles. The circuit 

also iv tg Theatre on " 

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Why do so many 

corporations contribute 

to America's colleges? 

1. ( ) they want to 

help the colleges 

Z. ( ) they need the 

leaders colleges train 

You were right if you checked No. 2. 

American corporations want to make 

sure there will be enough college-trained 

leaders to fill the management jobs open 

today and in the future. 

This is good insurance for business. 

And the need, we must remember, isn't 

getting smaller. 

World trade is developing fast; business 

is getting more competitive, more complex; 

science is introducing new products 

and processes rapidly. 

College-trained men and women are 

needed, in increasing numbers, to plan 

and direct the activities of business. 

CINCH FOR 

FINANCIAL 

AID TO 

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Op, 

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But the colleges can't do the training job 

alone. They need classrooms, laboratories 

and facilities, yes. But even more, 

they need backing to maintain a staff of 

top-notch teachers. 

This is the human equation that makes 

the difference in reaching the margin of 

excellence needed in the U.S. 

This is everybody's job, but especially 

industry's. 

Of course American business wants to 

help the colleges, so you were also right 

if you checked No. 1. College, after all, 

is business' best friend. 

GIVE TO THE COLLEGE 

OF YOUR CHOICE. 

SPECIAL TO CORPORATE OFFICERS-A new 

booklet, of particular interest if 

your company 

has not yet established an aid-toeducation 

program. Write for: 

"How to Aid Education-and Yourself" 

Box 36, Times Square Station 

New York 36, N. Y. 

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'Batman, Robin 7 250 

First Memphis Week 

Memphis Paced by "Thunderball," 

Memphis first-run business experienced 

another week of high grosses. The United 

Artists' hit grossed 600 per cent during 

a thud week at the Palace Theatre. A 

third week of Buena Vistas "That Darn 

Cat" earned 300 per cent. A newcomer, 

Columbia's "Batman and Robin." scored 

250 per cent. 


Crosstown- The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th- 

Fox), 3rd wk 200 

Guild— Botman and Robin v Col) 250 

Nevci Too Lata fVB), 2nd wk 150 

Thunderball 3rd wk 600 

The Sound Music ot (20th-Fox), 

41st wk 200 

Plaza— That 300 

Darn Cat BV), 3rdwk 

Paris Secret (Cinema V) 100 

State 

Warner—Do Not Disturb 20th-Fox), 3rd wk 160 

Two Arrested in Memphis 

On Obscene Film Charge 

MEMPHIS- The Memphis polio vice 

squad confiscated two movie films and 

am sted the manager and projectionist 

following the showing of movies the officers 

charged were obscene. 

Lts. L. G. Weaver and H. R. Hodge 

at Airways Theatre in 

Memphis and sat through the showing 

of "The Stripping Wives" and "Sexus." 

Ui.\ then seized the films, arrested Man- 

Carl R. Carter, 29, and projectionist 

Billy Lee South. 37, on charges of showing 

obscene movies. 

It was "Ladies Day." with women admitted 

free, and the theatre was crowded. 

In court. Judge Bernie Weinman contmu-d 

until February 15 the cl 

against South. Carter waived preliminary 

bearing and was held to the grand jury. 

Both were freed under $250 bond. 

Airways changed pictures and continued 

to operate after a short delay. Police 

limited Carter as saying the films "were 

a little hotter than the ones we havi 

been showing." 

South said he didn't know what was in 

ms. "I never watch the films. I run 

the machine." said the projectionist. 

The maximum penalty for showing obpictures 

in Tennessee is one yeai 

in prison and a $5,000 fine. 

Vice squad officers confiscated the advertising 

posters outside the 

Floyd Chalkley, Husband 

Of Susan Hayward, Dies 

ATLANTA—Services for Floyd Eaton 

Chalkley. 56. attorn iy, businessman and 

busband of Susan Hayward. were held 

Thursday '13' at Carrollton. He died Sunin 

bis Fori I 

, 

resiifter 

a six week's illness ti 

:i business 

enterprise.- that included motion picture-, 

building and 

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tion of motels and restaurants in G 

In addition to their Florida residence, 

• 

th maintained a 300-acre farm 

home in Carrollton. 

He became ill in Rome. w I 

ward was working on her latest film 

one for Venice?" She returned to be With 

him. Besides his wife, survivors include 

two sons, two daughters, three b] 

two sisters and four grandchildren. 

St. Petersburg Central Plaza Site 

Chosen for City's 4th New Theatre 

ST. PETERSBURG With threi 

indoor theatres already opened ben 

last June, the booming exhibition situation 

received fresh Impetus when Florida 

smt. Theatres announced that it would 

build a 1.200-seat twin theatre In expanding 

Central Pla/a. 

The circuit already operates 

downtown theatres — the Florida 

and Cameo. Since antitrust laws pi 

a circuit owning mo 

posal of one ol 

units will be a neces Louis 

FST president, told the St P 

burg Times that no fir 

which 

be i d will be made until 

Plaza projeel 

il 

The new FST theatre is to occupy a 

Site in 5.2 acres just purchased I 

Chael R. Sudakow & Associates east oi 

the present Central Plaza complex, across 

31st Street South. Lowell S. Pj 

manager of the Central Plaza for the Sudakow 

firm, said the theatre will h 

200-foot site at the north' asl 

the tract, on First Avenue South. New 

stores will reach southward to Third Avenue 

South along the 30th Street line, 

leaving a new parking area along 31st 

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Street. 

The FST project follows opening 

new Tyrone Theatre last summer and the 

new Crossroads and Loews durii 

recent Christmas holiday season. Like the 

new Loews, the new FST C 

house Will feature 

New Theatres and Drive-ins 

Going Up Throughout Florida 

JACKSONVILLE — 

construction 

in Florida, which continued 

strong throughout 1965, appears 

headed for another booming period in 

1966. Harry Botwick. Miami-based district 

manager of Florida State Th 

announced on January 2 In the Palm 

Beach Post -Times that FST will build a 

new twin motion picture theatre buildar 

future to replace the old 

Palms Theatre which was recently demolished. 

An upbeat note also was supplied by 

Floyd Theatres in the announcement that 

the circuit's new Thunderbird Drr. 

tentatively scheduled for a Feb: . 

drive-in theatre i- 

an Theatres 

suburban Arlington section east of Jacks 

inville. 

H( rb K indoor house at Miami, 

i: 'i action, is ex 

month 

irbor. 

Wometco Will Build 

Dade County Twin 

MIAMI A March 1 groundbreaki: 

aire, modeled on the dual Park Ea 

Park \\ 

Park last, spring. 

Harvey Plelschman, Wi 

dd the 

new twin, to be known as the Dadeland. 

is to be built In the Dadeland Bu 

one of the fastest growing commercial 

areas in Dade Coup.' 

twin theatre will be on the smith 

'1 the 

Palmetto 

Dadeland Shopping Center. 

Under two roofs the Dadeland will have 

icity of 1.400 

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auditoriums will be equipp (1 

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ATLANTA 

flt Loew's 2,200-seat Grand Theatre, 

film critics Terry Kay of the Atlanta 

Journal and Tom Gray of the Constitution 

had plenty of elbow room for the 

screening of "An Evening With the Royal 

Ballet," set up by manager Bill Shealey. 

They were the only ones there, besides 

the projectionist. 

WSB-TV, oldest television station in the 

South, has purchased 103 feature motion 

pictures of comparatively recent vintage 

from Universal Films, including "Pillow 

Talk" at the highest price ever paid by a 

local station for a Hollywood package. Most 

of the films, like "Written on the Wind," 

"Operation Petticoat," "This Happy Feeling." 

"The Benny Goodman Story," and 

others, were released in the late 1950s or 

early 1960s. WSB revealed plans to offer 

movies on both Thursday and Friday 

nights next season. The network, NBC, is 

offering film fare on Tuesday and Saturday 

nights. 

Filmrow visitors included Phil Richardson 

of the McLendon circuit in Union 

Springs, Ala.; Clyde Vaughn of the War 

Eagle, Auburn, Ala.; Marshall Maddox of 

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From Central Edition 

HILLSBORO, ILL—Frestle P. Chenoweth, 

manager of the Orpheum Theatre 

here for Frisina Enterprises since October, 

was transferred to city manager for 

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at Taylorville effective Friday < 14 > . Chenoweth 

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Bethany, Mo., for 27 years and for a short 

time was with Commonwealth Theatres in 

Creston, Iowa. 

Home offices for the Frisina circuit, 

which operates theatres in Illinois, Iowa 

and Missouri, are in Taylorville. 

MEMPHIS 

Variety Tent 20 is searching for Miss Variety 

of 1966 to preside over Variety 

Week festivities February 13-19. Candidates, 

15 through 17, will be accepted 

until February 5. 

Don't ask the Guild Theatre management 

why "Batman and Robin" causes 

patrons to eat more popcorn, but it does. 

From the opening day of the film, the 

Guild has had to reorder popcorn supplies. 

More than 1,000 boxes per day was 

the latest report. That's twice average. 

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SW io Open Cleveland 

Theatre in February 

From Mideost Edition 

CLEVELAND—A new theatre, the Stanley 

Warner North Olmsted, is scheduled for 

opening next month, adding a new major 

house to the Greater Cleveland area. It 

is to be a Cinerama show place as well as 

being capable of projecting all other film 

forms and scopes. 

Cleveland lost its Cinerama outlet when 

the equipment was moved from the Palace 

Theatre more than a year ago. 

"Battle of the Bulge," in Cinerama, will 

open the house. 

B. B. Adwell Sole Owner 

Of Theatres in Ozona 

From Southwest Edition 

OZONA, TEX.—B. B. Adwell now is sole 

owner of the Ranch Theatre and the 400- 

car drive-in here, having bought out his 

father, who owned the houses for about 

20 years. The Ranch was rebuilt in 1965, 

with a totally new masonry building replacing 

the fire-destroyed older theatre. 

Barney Adwell also owns the Adwell drug 

store here, which adjoins the theatre and, 

opening into the theatre lobby, provides 

the concessions for the theatre. 

The Adwells and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Joseph 

of Hardin Theatre Supply Co., Dallas, 

recently went to Via Aquna. Mexico, 

for a quail dinner. On the way to Mexico, 

Adwell told Joseph that he had counted 

97 deer on the road to Mexico from Ozona. 

Joseph expressed some doubt, telling Mrs. 

Joseph that he'd never seen that many 

deer in all his life. 

On the way back from Mexico that 

night, the Josephs and Adwells counted 

more than 100 deer on the highway, and 

Joseph said, "We probably missed 100 

more because it was dark." 

He continued: "It was hard to believe, 

but there are more deer around Ozona 

than anywhere in the country. In fact, 

the ranchers are trying to get them killed 

since they are eating the grass needed for 

cattle." 

Hardin Theatre Supply Co. supplied the 

equipment for the new Ranch Theatre at 

Ozona, including Ballantyne sound, Strong 

lamps and rectifiers, Technikote screen, 

Bausch & Lomb anamorphics and Kollmorgen 

lens as well as 500 cushioned chairs. 

Adwell nearly cut off a thumb, Joseph 

said, trying out one of the projectors 

while the hood was off the shutter. He 

also has been recovering from an eye infection. 

A mild winter across the Memphis trade 

territory has enabled many drive-ins to 

stay open, most of them on weekends. 

Among the few closing since January 1 

were the Starlite, Henderson, Ky.; 41, 

Amory, Miss., and Skylark, Pocahontas, Ark. 

"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" made 

such a hit at the Guild during its two 

weeks and so many patrons requested its 

return, according to Manager Bill Kendall, 

that the picture has been brought 

back to town. This time it's showing at 

the Studio Theatre. 

Gila Golan, the Israeli beauty who in 

just two films has achieved stardom, was 

here to promote her current film, "Our 

Man Flint," which opened at the Malco 

Theatre Thursday

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Site of New Theatre 

GASTONIA, N.C.—Work will begin soon 

on a $250,000 motion picture theatre in 

tin Dixie Village Shopping Center, the 

Gastonia Gazette has been informed by 

Hugh Johnston, developer of the commercial 

ari a 

"It's being put up by a circuit which 

llizes in shopping center theatres," 

Johnston said. "But I don't feel I can 

divulge any more information at this 

time. The new theatre will be In operation 

next summer." 

major tenants the Dixie All in Village 

project are to be housed and open for 

business within a year, Johnston told the 

Gazette When completed, the shopping 

center will represent a total inve 

of $2,750,000 and will provide parking 

for 1,500 cars. 

Weinberg to Paramount 

In 'Commandments' Post 

From Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK—Myron "Mike" Well 

formerly with Warner Bros, as national 

sales promotion director for roadshow engagements 

of "My Pair Lady" and the current 

"Battle of the Bulge," has been named 

to head a special merchandising unit on 

Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." 

which Paramount will re-release 

for Easter 1966. according to Martin Davis. 

vice-president in charge of advertising and 

public relations. 

Weinberg, who will coordinate advertising, 

publicity and promotion on the film. 

for which an all-new campaign is beini? 

created, has also held similar assignments 

on "Cleopatra," "West Side Story," 

"Judgment at Nuremberg," "Exodus," 

"Lawrence of Arabia" and "Porgy and 

Bess," during the past few years. 

Baltimore's New Theatre 

Builds 'Music' Display 


BALTIMORE—Constructed entirely of 

theatrical material and hand crafted bystudents 

of the art department of College 

of Notre Dame, a unique nativity reproduction 

is displayed in the New Theatre lobby 

where "The Sound of Music" is showing. 

Manager Harry Turner said the platform 

was built by maintenance personnel 

of JP Theatres. It is covered by gold vinyl 

theatre-seat covering and fiberglass rubberized 

cushion filling. The figures' bodies 

were made of theatre poster board, with 

the heads and faces constructed of incandescent 

stage lamps. The background 

setting was made from a discarded advertising 

display, originally built to publicize 

"The Sound of Music." The fabric covering 

the figures had previously been used, 

and reworked poster coverings and scenic 

complete the reproduction. 

Don Circuit Acquires Third Ruston 

Theatre; Ed Edwards City Manager 

I 

HUSTON, LA.—All three local ti 

now are owned by Don Theatres, which 

is operating them m association with Gulf 

Theatres of McComb. Miss. Tin- 

Don circuit had operated the Tech Theatre 

and Ruston Drive-In the la 

bul acquiri d thi 

lary 1 

Don Theatres also operates theatres in 

Jonesboro. Alexandria and Natchitoches, 

while Gull States Theatres has approximately 

85 theatres in the South 

Ed Edwards. Ruston city manager for 

["heatres, now has headquarl 

rhea B 

studenl from Minden, as assistant ma 

m charge of the Tech Theatre, while Dun 

Cotton, a Louisiana Tech student from 

Monroe, remains as assistant manager 

at the Huston Drive-In. 

New policies are in effect 

the three theatres. The drive-in, which 

formerly was closed in midweek during 

January and February, is remaining on 

.-day schedule this year, with shows 

starting at 6:30 p.m. daily. Children under 

12 are always free, while adults are 75 

cents except on Tuesday and Wed: 

the regular "buck nights." Four program 

changes are made weekly. The drh 

niis bai was recently improved 

with new equipment; painting and 

ration still are in progress. 

The Tech operates on a Friday-Saturday 

run. using the tops in doubl 

films and reruns, with admission 

at 35 and 75 cents This theatre 

also is used for roadshows when available. 

Edwards is operating the Dixie on a 

full-time, first -run policy, showing pictures 

about the same time as they play 

first run in Monroe and Shn 

are program changes each Sunday and 

Thursday, the theatre opening at 

p.m. du 

days and 12:45 on Sundays. Adm 

have been changed to 75 cents for adults 

and 35 cents for youngsters under 12 

Edwards pointed out that tin 

and Tech have installed an automatic 

answering device carrying a separate numm 

tie office lines of tl 

call the answering 

number 24 hours a day for informa- 

• ture tunes 

at all tl 

AG Hon board has 

In Hi Dixie lobby for post- 

Oreei sheet 

which nations of current entertainment 

films prepared by the Film 

Board of National Organizations. Patrons 

and parents may look over the board 

i each v auditor 

any film booked by the 

Ruston theatre! Edwards also has invited 

parents to call the Don Tl 

ii on other films nol 

for classification 

i-(l with the 

Don circuit since coming back to his 

led in 

exhibition at the Dixie Theatre in 1938 

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was built ii 

ii opened its doors for the 

Ime in March 1941 and the Ruston 

an operation later in the 

Belmondo Film Retitled; 

UA Acauires New Short 

From Easter 

NEW YORK—"Up to His Ears" ha 

set as the U.S. release title for Philippe de 

Broca's picture starring Jean-Paul Belmondo 

and Ursula Andress. which Lopert 

Pictures will distribute in 1966. The picture, 

which reunited De Broca and Belmondo. 

was formerly called "Chinese Adventures 

in China" and is based on Jules 

Verne's "The Tribulations of a ChU 

China." It was produced In Eastman Color 

in Hong Kong. Nepal and Malaysia by 

Alexander Mnouchkine and George 

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Cean Garrison, who is co-starred in "Moment 

to Moment." arrived in Jacksonville 

Monday (17) to start a tour of the 

state in behalf of the world premiere, set 

for Miami-area Wometco theatres on 

Thursday (27). Garrison was due in Daytona 

Beach on Tuesday (18); Orlando 

on Wednesday (19); Tampa and St Petersburg 

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For Annual Awards Jan. 21 


NEW YORK The ballot mi', for th. 

ts tinali for the International Film Awards 

to be presented by the Independent Film 

Importers and Distributors of Ami 

to be held at the Americana Hotel January 

21, has been completed with the nomtor 

the Joseph Burstyn Awa d 

tiu best foreign-language picture of 1965 

picked as "Juliet of the Spirits." the Rizzoli 

Films release, already named best 

foreign-language picture by the New York 

Film Critics, and "Kwaidan," a Walter 

Reade-Sterling release, and "Sallah.'' distributed 

by Palisades Intl. 

Nominees for best foreign film in English 

are "Darling." Embassy Pictures release, 

already named best picture of 1965 

by the New York Film Critics, and "The 

Knack," distributed by UA-Lopert, and 

"To Die in Madrid." released by Alt ma 

Films. 

For best director, the nominees are 

Federico Fellini for "Juliet of the Spirits." 

Roman Polanski for "Repulsion" i Royal > 

and John Schlesinger for "Darling." For 

bi st actress, the nominees are Julie 

Christie for "Darling." Catherine Deneuve 

for "Repulsion" and Rita Tushingham for 

"The Knack" and "The Leather Boys" 

'Allied Artists*. For best actor, the nominees 

are Dirk Bogarde for "Darling," 

Marcvllo Mastroianni for "The 10th Victim" 

and "Casanova '70" (Embassy) and 

ilaym Topol for "Sallah." 

IFIDA also named "Pompeii," a short 

distributed by William Mishkin, as the 

winner of the Edward L. Kingsley short 

subject award for the outstanding short of 

1965. this being elected by secret ballot by 

IFIDA members supervised by S. D. Leidesdorf 

& Co.. New York public accountants. 

"Pompeii" was made in Italy by Golden 

Promotions and was produced and directed 

by Richard Manning with commentary by 

V. J. Clancey and narration by Gregory 

Krne. This is the fourth Kingsley Award 

named in honor of the late distributor, 

last year's winner being "The Hat." distributee! 

by Reade-Sterling. 

Nat Goldblatt Is Manager 

Of Columbia's Print Dep't 

Prom Eastern 

NEW YORK—Nat Goldblatt. a member 

of the Columbia Pictures home office sales 

department, has been named manager of 

the print department, it was announced 

by Rube Jackter. Columbia's vice-president 

and general sales manager. Goldblatt succeeds 

Albert "Nicky" Schwartz, who recently 

retired after 30 years with the 

company. 

Goldblatt. who joined the company in 

1930. served in Columbia's playdate and 

print department before becoming a member 

of the sales department Tom Kane 

has been named Goldblatt's as 

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Diiss Mien, noted Florida 

who has appeared in several motion 

pictures m the role ol 

sold his Reptile Institute to Silvei Spi 

the entertainment complex operated by 

Florida 

Stati 

as a directoi ol I 

he Ins I Itute 

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Henry Harrell, JOth-Fox manager, and 

Wall Meier, Florida Theatre manager, did 

of papering the house for a 

sneak preview of "Our Man Flint" Saturht 

in 

i15i order to set word-of- 

advertising in motion prior mouth 

pictures regular opening at the Florida. 

.Martin Ritt. producer-director oi 

Spy Who Came in From the Cold." 1 

maximum exposure before the Miami ana 

public when in- attended the Florida preoi 

his film at th Sh 

luimi Beach. Harry Botwick. FST 

district supervisor, and his staff kept Ritl 

busy with radio, television and press ins, 

a session with students at the 

University of Miami and thi 

local celebrities at opening-night ceremonies 

at a benefit sponsored by the Miami 

chapter of the National Council of 

Jewish Women. 

. , . Hairy 

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Gordon Hubbard, projectionist at the 

downtown Imperial, began a leave of absence 

for medical reasons 

Clark, Allied Artists salesman, returned 

from a trek through the Fort Mj 

area Greenwood, 

Peti 

Universal booker, entertained her cousin 

Bowers, a public school teacher 

limn Buffalo, NY., who vacationed in 

Florida. 

A fine new Florida convention Site for 

groups of 100 persons or less is being supplied 

by Florida State Th. 'at its. Jack Million. 

FST publicist for the Weeki Wachee 

underwatej theatre, announced thai a 

in u Holiday Inn will open to the public 

at Weeki Wachee on May 1 with facilities 

for the complete conduct of conventions. 

Sandra Raulerson, former Florida 

lner. married Kelsey K. Kemp the 

afternoon of January 15 m a ceremony at 

first Baptist Church. Sandra 

daughter of Enidzell "Easy" Raulerson. 

also a former Florida Theatre cashier and 

a former WOMPI treasurer 

Eddie Waller, well-known local automotive 

merchant who acquired thi 

Oceanway D: 

has added 

igo, 

to his holdings by taking over the Candler 

Drive-In at Metter, Ga. Both outdoorers 

booked by Marvin Skinner's 

local booking agency . Va 

ran motion picture exhibitor 

toric Live Oak. Fla.. is now operatl 

Branford Theatre at Branford which was 

formerly managed by Harlow Land. 

When WOMPI president K: Dowell 

of MGM called for WOMPI volunt 

care for children each Thursday :.. 

and other volu 

come equip] 

who are the uncared-for offof 

delinqueir added 

tual prisoners In 

the 

e group of WOMPI members reel 

the 

ist Florida Heart Ass'n and cornnil 

thousand 

of wompi volunteer; 

lunch 

eon hours for .> week by collecting funds 

osevelt tin- i.\ Hotel for March of 

drive aimed at correcting thi- birth 

Of 

children 

Mr. and Mis. I. Edison Bell, 

the first-run Sinvi; 

Smyrna Beach, are now booking 

1 he Smyrna had been listed among 

Marvin Skinner's booking accounts 

Eddie m 

Miami Drive-In, has turned over booking 

to Earl Turbyfill of tin 

jimmj Raulerson, who iperated four 

theatres in the Lakeland area, died at the 

home of his sister in Moore Haven January 

11. It is reported that his widow will 

continue to operate the small circuit. 

Hershey Names Wm. Harrer 

Field Sales Coordinator 


HERSHEY. PA.—William J Harrer. who 

has been with the Hershey Choco'.r 

since 1933. has been named 

created post of field sales coordinator by 

W. E. Dearden. director of sales and 

keting. He will be headquartered it Btarshey's 

main office and will tx 

for coordinating the communications flow 

between sales management stafl tu 

and those of the field 

began his sales career in the Philadelphia 

area and, in 195S, wa 

manager in an area 

Pennsylvania from Reading. In 1964 

rer was named sales promotion manager. 

Dearden also named Vernon O 1 

director of marketing personnel for Scott 

Paper Co.. to the post of manager, marketing 

and sales development for Hershey 

Chocolate Corp. 

"The Devastators." ninth novel m a 

series by Donald Hamilton, h 

the third Helm adventure film produced by 

Irving Allen for Columbia Pictures. 

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H group of Hollywood screen celebrities 

expected to be in Houston Saturday 

is 

1 at the Houston Astrodome to 

appear between chukkers of the National 

Championship polo game between the 

Texas All Stars and the National All Stars. 

All proceeds will go to the benefit of the 

Texas Children's Hospital Building Fund 

The Laurence Olivier version of "Othello." 

filmed by Warner Bros, from the 

London stage production, will be shown 

on February 2 and 3 at the Gaylynn, Oak 

Village and Bellaire. and possibly the 

Santa Rosa. There will be four showings 

daily and special showings may be arranged 

for groups. 

Andrew Mcl.aglen. director, will join 

stars of his latest film "The Rare Breed" 

on a four-city Texas premiere tour. Mc- 

Laglen will Join Maureen O'Hara, Juliel 

Mills and Don Galloway on the tour 

which begins in Fort Worth on February 

2 and takes the troupe to Dallas, Houston 

and San Antonio. 

The Windsor Theatre is presenting 

special youth shows on Saturdays of its 

. 

current Cinerama feature "Battle ol the 

Bulge." The showings begin at 10 a.m. 

with youth admission prices at $1 and 

Liberace. who has 

adult prices, $1.75 . . 

appeared in several motion pictures, made 

personal appearances here at the Music 

Hall on Saturday '15' and Sunday (16), 

Special bargain matinee prices are in 

effect from opening until p.m. at the 

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three twin theatres, Cinema I and II in 

Gulfgate Shopping City. Meyerland Plaza 

and Northline Shopping City, operated 

by General Cinema Corp. Admission pi itis 

Hollywood 

just 50 cents 

star 

son 

Dennis 

of actor 

O'Keefe 

Don 

and 

Duryea, 

Peter 

were in the 

stage production "The Subject Was 

Roses" at the Music Hall here and in 

Dallas, for two performances each. 

Mrs. Valentino Moreno 

TEMPLE. TEX.—Valentina Moreno, 

the 

wife of Mexican film star Cantlnflas, died 

January 5 in Scott and White Hospital 

Her husband was at her bedside. 

hi re. 

Mrs. Moreno. 50, had been rei 

nt for cancer at Scott and White 

for about a year. A former Russian ballet 

dancer, she and Cantinflas were married 

31 years. They had an adopted son, 5. 

She entered the hospital here for the 

last time after flying to President Johnson's 

ranch from Mexico City the same 

day. Cantinflas and Johnson are personal 

friends. 

Paramount's "The Swinger." in which 

Ann-Margret co-stars with Tony Franciosa, 

is based on an original story by Larry 

Roman. 

Texas Governor Proclaims Statewide 

Drive-In Theatre Week February 1-7 

DALLAS—Go\ Liner .John Connally has 

made it official The week of Febi 

1-7 ha. 

Week throughout Texas by official proclamation. 

The gubernatorial memorandum 

was secured in Austin by Earl Podolnick, 

of the Texas Drive-In Theatre 

Owners Assn. which will hold its 14th annual 

convention al the Statler-Hllton Hotel 

in Dallas February 1-3. 

A bag of gold ore nuggets will be presented 

to every person registering for the 

convention activities in recognition of the 

TDITOA program theme of "Gold in '66." 

Id ore, being shipped in from Central 

City, Colo., has been mined especially 

for the Texas drive-in conclave b: 

only miner remaining In Central City during 

the extremely cold winter months. 

Each registrant will be given his 

nt half-pound bag of gold ore nuggets 

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Juanita White, WOMPI president, met 

with the WOMPI Pounders Day luncheon 

committee at Mable Guinan's home 

Sunday and plans were developed for a 

most interesting program. Special tribute 

will be paid at the luncheon to founders 

of the WOMPI organization and to veterans 

of the motion picture industry still 

at work in the Dallas exchange area. 

WOMPIs checking the list of those attending 

their Pioneer banquet in 1955 and 

the list of those expected to attend the 

Pounders Day affair were amazed at the 

many changes. At a business meeting 

Wednesday (19), the WOMPI club membership 

was to vote on the place to hold 

the luncheon. 

Funeral services were held in San Antonio 

(13) for Roy Moore jr., who died 

the preceding day after an extended illness. 

Burial was in Daingerfield on Friday. 

Moore had operated theatres in Atlanta 

and Winnsboro in Texas and was 

making great progress for a young theatreman 

when he was engaged by Gulf 

States Theatres to serve as city manager 

for their San Antonio theatres, where he 

was employed at the time of his death. 

He leaves his wife and son Roy. 

"Dutch" Cammer of American International, 

who broke all bones in hand a 

when he fell while mowing his lawn last 

year, is showing improvement. He now 

is able to sign his name and do a little 

paper work . . . Joy Surratt of AIP spent 

the Christmas holidays in Milwaukee, she 

and her family making the trip by car. 

She said the kids had a ball as the Surratts 

stopped along the way to let the youngsters 

enjoy snow fights and, as she said, 

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"live it up." However, she is glad we don't 

have the kind of winter weather in Texas 

that she found in Wisconsin . . . Bill Bond 

of AIP made a trip to East Texas last 

week. 

Among exhibitors in town on buying 

and booking business were: A. R. Chew, 

Odeon, Mason; Roy Townsend, Palace, 

Burkburnett; L. Lee, Rietta Drive-In, 

Henrietta; Mrs. Pippens, Varsity, Port 

Worth; Cortez Hamm, El Rancho Drivein, 

Vernon; K. C. Lybrand. Majestic, Wills 

Point; Bill Breagh, Corral Drive-In, Breckenridge: 

"Webbo," Palace, Breckenridge, 

and Roy Nelson, Plaza, Kaufman. 

SAN ANTONIO 

£"eorge Watson, city manager of Interstate 

Theatres, and Lynn Krueger. 

manager of the downtown flagship of 

the circuit, the Majestic, were hosts at 

the Woman's Breakfast at Show Time 

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at 9:30 a.m. Friday 

The "Top Picture of the Year" will be 

followed by luncheon at the Gunter Hotel. 

A number of the motion picture industry 

will emoee. Co-chairman will be 

Mrs. Henry P. Shaper, president of the 

local Motion Picture Advisory and Reviewing 

A south Texas showing of "Those Magnificent 

Men in Their Flying Machines." 

at Cinema I in North Star Mall began 

Thursday 

< San Antonio Junior 

Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio 

Memorial Air Museum group sponsored 

the premiere which began at 7:30 

p.m. with cocktails and champagne served 

in the lobby of the theatre. The movie 

began at 8:30 p.m. A fashion show was 

presented during the refreshment hour by 

Braniff International stewardesses. Tickets 

sold for $7.50 each. A static display of 

scale model aircraft, prepared by the Air 

Museum, was exhibited in the lobby. 

Cantinflas disappeared here over the 

weekend. Fidelcia Segura told local police 

that a statue of the Mexican comedian 

had been stolen from the front lawn of 

her home. She valued the statue at $30 . . . 

Chill Wills, former Texan and a personal 

friend of "Big" John Hamilton, local restaurant 

owner, who has appeared in a 

number of John Wayne films with Wills, 

was in for the formal opening of the 

Spook House, a night club to be operated 

by Hamilton. Also scheduled to visit during 

the grand opening ceremonies were 

James Arness and Maureen O'Hara. 

When Universal's attraction, "Rare 

Breed," opens here at the Majestic, Maureen 

O'Hara and two of the film's stars 

Juliet Mills and Don Galloway will be 

on hand for stage appearances. With them 

will be director Andrew McLaglen. The 

film will have its premiere at the Palace 

in Fort Worth on February 2. The troupe 

also will visit Dallas, Houston and San 

Antonio. McLaglen and Galloway are 

scheduled to be here Thursday

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TJay Smith, who has operated motion picture 

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Shattuck, opened the State Theatre at 

Harrah Saturday (15 >. Athel Boyter's 

booking agency will do the buying and 

booking. The theatre is owned by Bess 

Kitchen, who closed it a few years ago 

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was discharged from the hospital four 

days later. Jim O'Donnell does the buying 

and booking for the drive-in ... In 

the January 10 issue, we noted that Bill 

Turk, Video Independent Theatres, had 

been elected to the Variety Club crew, 

but this was erroneous. He is not a crew 

member. 

Sometime a?o, Barton Theatres closed 

the downtown Midwest for remodeling 

and had planned to make two theatres 

out of it—one on the first floor and another 

one on the second. It now appears 

this won't be done since the project comes 

under the Urban Renewal Program in 

downtown Oklahoma City. Authorities 

requested that the work not be done at 

present. 

Visitors to Filmrow included John L. 

Fagan. Bunavista, Borger, Tex.; Bennie 

Robison, K. Lee Williams Theatres, De 

Queen, Ark.; Levi Metcalf, Canadian, Purcell; 

R. G. Crumpler. Gentry, Checotah; 

Dick Thompson, Thompson Theatres, 

Healdton, Lindsay and Walters; his 

brother John, Atoka; O. K. Kemp, Victory, 

Poteau; Bob Downing, Crown, CoUinsville 

Eddie Jones, Rex, Nowata; Mr. and Mrs. 

Bill Boren, Tower, Memphis, Tex. 

Other Filmrow visitors were Jimmy 

Leonard. H&S, Chandler: Carlton Weaver, 

Carlton Drive-In, McAlester; Hank Robb 

and Alex Blue, Admiral Twin, Tulsa; Mr. 

and Mrs. Bob Smith, Grand, Canton; his 

brother Charles. Corral, Wynnewood; Mr. 

and Mrs. Dennis Collier. 89er, Kingfisher, 

and Bulldog, Weatherford: J. O. McKenna, 

Tulsa and Circle at Tulsa; Charles Proctor, 

Broadway Theatres, Muskogee; Fred 

Brewer, Video Theatres, Ada; John Kniseley, 

Norman, Horace Clark, Chickasha, 

and Johnny Jones, Shawnee, all with 

Video; Bill Slepka, Crystal, Okemah; Volney 

Hamm, Mt. Scott and Hankins, Lawton; 

H. D. Cox, Caddo, Binger, and Frank 

Meyers, independent distributor from Dallas. 

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Continental Denver 

Opening January 26 

From Western Edition 

DENVER — Formal opening ceremonies 

for the new Continental Roadshow Theatre 

are being planned for January 26, it 

was announced here by president George 

Gaughan and vice-president and general 

manager Norman Nielsen of Continental 

Roadshow Theatres. The premiere of the 

$750,000 theatre, which seats 917 patrons, 

will be attended by state, civic, church and 

industry leaders. 

The theatre is the first of several under 

construction and dedicated by the Oklahoma 

City-based company to a straight 

hard-ticket roadshow policy for exclusive 

widescreen presentation with the D-150 

projection system. The new Continental 

has the first western installation of D-150 

and is the third de luxe theatre in recent 

months to be equipped for D-150 showing, 

following opening of the new United 

Artists in Lefrak City. Long Island, N.Y., 

last August 25 and the new United Artists 

Trumbull, Trumbull, Conn., December 22. 

D-150 is a projection process utilizing a 

deeply curved, wall-to-wall screen and presenting 

films made in all aspect ratios, 

ranging from conventional 35mm to 

stepped-up 70mm and king-size audienceenveloping 

D-150. 

The first attraction will be "The Agony 

and the Ecstasy," sponsored by the Metropolitan 

Ass'n for Retarded Children. 

The Continental tops a hill on Valley 

Highway at the intersection of Hampden 

Road and Monaco Parkway, serving Colorado, 

Wyoming and Nebraska. It represents 

a complete break with tradition in 

motion picture design and concept, setting 

a new, sophisticated and exciting pattern 

in construction. 

The structure is of reinforced concrete, 

with black exterior. The roof, of valleyand-ridge 

design, is supported by 50 

decorative columns in gleaming white. 

Rows of 20-foot picture windows look out 

from the 3,300 square-foot, deep-carpeted 

lounge on the ever-changing scene of the 

Rockies towering above the theatre site 

and the city of Denver, below. The auditorium 

entrance and egress is facilitated 

by wide aisle-ways from right-and-left of 

the foyer. Rocker-loge type chairs installed 

by American Seating 46 inches apart complete 

the ultimate in patron comfort. 

Golden Globes' Telecast 

HOLLYWOOD—The Hollywood Foreign 

Press Ass'n moved its announcement of 

the annual Golden Globes awards up one 

week and made the scroll ceremony on 

Wednesday (5). The program will be telecast 

on Monday (31) on the Andy Williams 

Show. 


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New Theatre Planned Good-to-Excellent Grosses Prevail 

In West Point, Neb. 

WEST 

In Milwaukee Despite 

POINT, 

12-Inch Snow 

NEB.—This town (pop. 

2.658 > is going to have a new indoor theatre, 

according to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin 

Johnson of Schuyler, who recently purchased 

the Y-Knot Drive-In from the J. 

P. Lannon estate. The Johnsons are considering 

a site on South Main Street for 

building the indoor theatre, while their 

recently purchased airer is located south of 

tou 11. 

The Johnsons, who have operated the 

Sky Theatre in Schuyler for the last four 

years, also have purchased and are now 

occupying a home here with their four 

children. 

WB Sets 2-Day 'Othello' 

Bookings in February 

Women's Screenings Held 

For 'The Slender Thread' 

From Eastern Ed'ticn 

NEW YORK — Special screenings of 

Paramount's "The Slender Thread" are 

being held for women's and other opi 

making groups throughout the country in 

advance of this month's national release 

In keeping with the story of the suspense 

drama, in which a telephone line plays a 

crucial role in a life-and-death struggle, 

make at least one phone call to friends or 

guests at the screenings are being urged to 

relatives on their reactions to the film. 

The film currently is playing special 

Academy Award-qualifying engagements In 

New York and Los Angeles. 

MILWAUKEE — Cold weather, along 

with close to 12 inches of snow, tended 

to hold down boxn: during 

the week. Nevertheless, only two houses 

the first runs) reported average 

business. All the others were good to excellent. 


Capitol Court—That Darn Cat (BV), 3rd wk 300 

Cinema I- The Great Race (WB), IJIh wk 200 

7 Cinema South,, w„min v.GM) 100 

r II, 

Downer—Mole Hunt (P-C) 

Esquire, Times The 10th Victim (Embassy), 

3rd wk 200 

Palace Thunderbolt (UA), 3rd wk 300 

Riverside Boeing Boeing Para), 3rd 300 

wk 

Strand— The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 42nd wk. 300 

Towne— Do Not Disturb ?0lh-Fox), 3rd wk 300 

Warner—When the Boys Meet the Girls (MGM) .150 

Most Omaha Grosses Strong; 

Thunderbah" 350 Is Tops 

omaha Holding Its position at the 

head of the field last week wa 

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NEW YORK—Warner Bros, will present 

'Othello," starring Laurence Olivier, in 

two-day engagements in leading theatres 

ball." which .< His in 

throughout the U.S. and Canada, beginning 

February 2-3, when 51 New York- 

front Of regulation figures at the Admiral 

Theatre. Holdovers and long-run ofwere 

on the menu from top to bot- 

New Jersey metropolitan area houses will 

play matinee and evening shows, with tom and only one failed to come up to 

tickets not reserved but sold in advance. 

"The Sound of Music" in It 

Other 

week at 

theatres in the U.S. will play 

the Dundee, "Battle Of tie B 

at i lie 

"Othello" February 9-10, February 16-17, 

Indian Hills Cinerama and "That 

February l'3-24 and March 2-3, using the Darn Cat" at the State all did good solid 

business. 

same policy. 

Admiral— Thundcrboll (UA), 3rd wk 350 

In New York, more than 300 civic and 

Those Maqn.ticcnt Men in Their Flying 

Mochincs ;20th-Fox), 14th wk 110 

community leaders, representing schools 

and local organizations, met Saturday (8) 

at the RKO 58th Street Theatre with RKO 

Theatres and other exhibitor officials and Casino Co. Sues Azteca. 

Warner Bros, executives to discuss group Columbia, 7 Exhibitors 

sales of tickets. They saw a preview of From Western Edition 

"Othello" and were addressed by Richard NEW YORK — Casino Cinema, Inc.. 

Lederer, WB vice-president; Joe Hyams, which operates a Spanish-language theatre 

m the Bronx, has filed a $150,000 

national director of advertising and publicity; 

Ernie Grossman, national manager triple-damage anti-trust action against 

of publicity, and Matthew Polon, Fred two distributors. Columbia Pictures and 

Herkowitz and Tom Crehan, RKO Theatres 

executives. 

ing discrimination against an independent 

Azteca Corp., and seven exhibitors c 

The Manhattan theatres to play operator in the exhibition of distributors' 

"Othello" are the RKO 58th Street. RKO films on first run and early availabilities. 

23rd Street: RKO 86th Street, the Coliseum 

and the Symphony while those in Tin- exhibitor firms are Interboro Circuit, 

Cinema Circuit. Anho Corp., Solis 

the Bronx are the Fordham, Castle Hill 

and Royal and those in Brooklyn are the Theatre Corp., 490 Theatre Corp.. Brown- 

Albee, Walker, Kenmore, Dyker, Prospect, Brook Corp. and South Boulevard Theatre 

tac 

Bushwick, Madison, Mayfair and Marine. 

Fifteen other theatres are in Queens and 

no has been operating the Casino 

Nassau, one in Staten Island, four in 

Westchester and the others in New Jersey. 

Theatre in the Bronx since 1964 and 

charges that discrimination against the 

independent has been going on since 1957. 

forcing it to exhibit inferior films and 

reissues. 


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James E. Byrd. owner of Byrd's 1: 

eration in Germantown. Wis . had ex- 

is a member of the i 

eration Service Engineers Society and a 

graduate of the refrigeration, vocational 

and welding Institutes. 

The Sound ot Music 20th-Fox), 

40th ... 1 60 

Indian Hills— Bottle ot the Bulge (WB), 

3rd vsl 170 

Omaha- Never Too Lotc WB) 3rd wk 110 

Orphcum Do Not Disturb 20th-Fox), 3rd 90 

wk 

Thot Dorn Cot 150 

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Thunderball' 350 Points 

To Long Mill City Run 

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lengthy run at the 2,800-seat Orpheum 

Theatre, "Thunderball" chalked up a 350 

in its thud week. "The Greatest Story 

told" at the Cooper Theat: 

at lie- Park Cinecond 

and third 

honors with 300 and 250—each in n 

placi 

week. The Uptown Theatre continues to 

downtown houses a run fOl 

Victim" scored 200 in 

low average bu I 

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Acodemy—The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th- 

Fox), 3rd wk. 150 

Cooper—The Greatest Story Ever Told 

3rd v.- ...300 

Gopher— Do Not Disturb 20rh-f .). 3rd wk 150 

Lyric— Never Too Late (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 70 

Mann The Sound ot Music 20th-Fox), 

42nd wk. ... 150 

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Mrs. Bill Bradley and her husband, who Richard Smith reports that the first 

have the New Moon Theatre month of 

at Neligh, 

operation at the new Fourth 

can kid each other and joke about two 

Street Theatre in David City went very 

recent incidents in the Bradley 

well . . . 

family now 

Keith Knipe of the Sun Theatre Calif. Patrons Buy Tickets 

but they both are aware the situation 

at Beaver City has returned from a vacation 

in California . . . Mrs. Henry Car- 

Despite Power Failure 

might easily have been no joking matter. 

lin, 

Mrs. Bradley's car was battered when another 

driver allegedly went through ing, is 

who has the Carlin Theatre at Spald- 

Fran 

Edit 

a red 

planning to spend the remainder RIVERSIDE, CALIF.—With more than 

light. Bill had been giving her a hard 

of the winter with her daughter who lives 600 people in the audience at Fox West 

time about "wrecking her car" 

in 

but changed 

the Pacific Northwest. 

Coast Theatres' Riverside here, the house 

was plunged into darkness 

his tune when his car went 

when a transformer 

failed during the last ten 

off the road Mrs. Eileen Leise is continuing the operation 

of the Roxy Theatre at Randolph of Walt Disney's "That 

and into the ditch as he and 

minutes 

his wife 

were returning from 

Darn Cat." 

a dinner 

To 

engage- with her brother-in-law Al, exhibitor at further complicate matters for Manager 

Hartington, assisting in the buying and Dave Lackie, a scheduled preview had to 

booking. Exhibitors on the Row included be canceled because the print could not 

Nebraskans Don Campbell, Central City; be delivered on time. 

ALL IT DOES IS MAKE 

Richard Smith, David City; Mrs. Leola Although Lackie announced to a crowd 

Schuler and her son of Humbolt; Ed of more than 250 outside the theatre the 

Christensen, Ord; Sid Metcalf, Nebraska preview would not be shown and that lights 

1 

City: William Zedicker, Osceola, and 

MONEY! 

Iowans S. J. Backer, Harlan, and Byron 

Hopkins, Glenwood and Villisca. 

Family Policy Prevailing 

At Updated Clinton House 

From Mideast Edition 

CLINTON, MICH.—Following remodeling 

which has placed the Clinton Theatre 

on a basis with other up-to-date 

houses in this area, it was reopened January 

7 by Mr. and Mrs. John Truesdale on 

a five-days-a-week basis. The theatre is 

closed only on Wednesday and Thursday. 

The Truesdales are booking only familytype 

films, starting their new operation 

with "How the West Was Won" and following 

it with "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed 

Lion." 

Julian Abraham Resigns 

As Durwood Controller 


KANSAS CITY—Julian Abraham, controller 

for Durwood Theatres, has resigned 

from the company to move to San Fernando 

Valley, Calif., where he plans to go 

into business for himself, announces Stan 

Durwood, president. Abraham has been 

with the theatre chain for eight years. 

Frank Rutkowski, who has been acting 

as Abraham's assistant, has been promoted 

to the controller position. Rosalie Wise 

has been promoted as Rutkowski's assistant. 

Roxy in Winlock, Wash. 

Reopened by Lions Club 


WINLOCK, WASH.—After a whirlwind 

Jim Waters and Ike Jones are producing 

'A Man Called Adam." an Embassy reease, 

for Trace-Mark Productions. 

gal Slominski, who has the Liberty Theatre 

at Loup City, will readily swear 

ment at Clearwater. The highways were 

covered with glaze ice and the Bradleys six weeks' campaign to raise funds, the 

and affirm that the exhibitor in a small had to get a truck to pull them back onto Lions Club has reopened the idle Roxy 

town must be a versatile gent and always the road. 

Theatre. Operation is entirely by Lions, 

ready to contribute freely of his time to 

with 

uphold Mel Kruse, 

about 75 per 

his traditional place as one who has 

cent of 

of the 

the Pierce Theatre 

the club's 35 

members volunteering 

community at Pierce, 

their 

is 

leaders. He recently spent 

undecided whether 

services and 

he'll get 

a 

Earl Biddle, 

week in Lincoln, where he attended 

back 

former 

into the 

operator 

political 

of 

race. 

a 

He formerly 

the theatre, 

serving as 

special school on the construction and 

was county 

adviser to 

clerk 

the club 

. 

care 

held a 

and 

instructing several 

of golf greens. Sal is a 

screening for member "That Man members in 

of the 

in Istanbul" 

projector 

at 

techniques. 

committee 

the 

in charge of converting 

Astro Theatre. A the 

screening also was 

The theatre facilities 

greens at the Loup City golf course from 

arranged by United Artists for "A Thousand 

Clowns" at the Admiral . . . 

were offered to the 

Lions at a greatly 

sand to Jack 

reduced rental by owners 

of the property, the heirs of the late 

grass. And, of course, with winter 

a is 

theatre is 

time to be talking many cards 

beautiful grass 

highly praising "The 

greens. 

Agony 

on a two-nights-a-week 

basis, movies scheduled 

Incidentally, some of the hardier and the Ecstasy" following a 

on Friday and 

special press 

niblick 

Saturday. 

artists in the film fraternity were 

screening at the Cooper Theatre. 

able 

Klingel 

to 

Reopening of the 

get in a few rounds of 

also 

unusual January 

was busy 

Roxy, closed since last 

getting set for the return 

spring, serves the dual 

of "My Pair Lady" 

purpose of 

at the State Theatre. 

provid- 

hovering 

deal the 

over 

area 

the 

Sunday 

Midlands, 

punch, 

waiting 

now 

to 

the 

Foundation Theatres, said he had received 

city Klingel, manager for the Cooper 

V. O. Harkins. 

The 

mayor, 

golf. 

ing a needed leisure time facility for the 

town's youth and furnishing means to raise 

funds for the Lions' community service. 

would be out for an indefinite period, patrons 

could not be discouraged and tickets 

were sold with the aid of a flashlight. 

Lackie reports that great cooperation by 

audience and theatre staff resulted in 

peace and quiet for the entire 61 minutes 

before power was restored. 

Hailey, Ida., Cinema 

Booking Art Pictures 


HAILEY. IDA.—Renamed the Cinema. 

the former Spur Theatre has been reopened 

by John M. Koppes of Ketchum on a policy 

of serving only adults and mature, 

well-behaved teenagers. 

The controversial nature of most of the 

bookings prohibits attendance by children 

unless they are accompanied by adults. 

Very young children and infants are not 

admitted under any circumstances. Admission 

is a straight $1.50. 

Koppes says he hopes to fill an entertainment 

gap in this region by offering 

the sort of films usually shown only in 

the large cities. Among his early bookings 

have been "Lilith," "The Collector," "White 

Voices," "The Knack," "The Married Woman," 

"Bambole," "Girl With Green Eyes" 

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a proposed ordinance to establish city 

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Pees of unspecified amounts would be required 

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only if reception of out-of-town stations is 

banned. Thus far, those seking franchises 

here include: Wisconsin Cablevision, Universal 

Cablevision. Marcus Theatres CATV 

Systems, Television of Sheboygan, Inc., 

owned by the Press Publishing Co., Tower 

Service, Inc., and Tower Erection Service. 

Inc., Menomonee Falls. Wisconsin Television, 

the Cream City Broadcasting Co. 

and the Milwaukee Journal Co., through a 

subsidiary. 

Reopens in Grafton, Wis. 

GRAFTON, WIS.—After many years, 

Grafton again has its own theatre and 

people here are giving it solid patronage. 

The refurbished Grafton Theatre was reopened 

in time for the holidays and its 

good business has carried on through 

January. 

Reopens Wyoming Theatre 


JACKSON, WYO.—The Teton Theatre 

was reopened last month, booking "Cat 

Ballou" as its initial feature. The theatre 

will follow a family picture policy. 

New Circuit Assignments 

Made by Brotman-Sherman 


CHICAGO—Irving Tombach, Brotman- 

Sherman Theatres' advertising and public 

relations representative, has resigned 

to become account executive with Donald 

Young & Associates, setting off a chain of 

appointments and promotions in the circuit. 

Tombach himself was succeeded by 

John Steward-Butkovich, who brought new 

and profitable business ideas to the Carnegie 

Theatre during his managership 

there. 

Stepping up to the Carnegie helm is 

Jack Custer, a graduate of the theatre 

manager seminar recently inaugurated by 

Oscar Brotman and Leonard Sherman. 

The Capitol, acquired by the circuit a 

few months ago, is reopening following 

complete remodeling and William Jeffer- 

Ben Marcus, head of the chain of theatres 

bearing his name, has been elected 

treasurer of NATO. He had been chairman 

of Allied's executive committee. 

son is transferring from the Parthenon in 

Hammond, Ind., to manage the updated 

house. Rod Schneider goes to the Parthenon 

as manager. Bob Tauscher has been 

appointed manager of the circuit's Thunderbhd 

in Urbana; William Browne is new 

manager of the Chicago Rhodes and Weldon 

Bleiler has moved up to night manager 

at the Loop Theatre. 

Brotman soon will present a report on 

the progress and success of the circuit's 

managers training school. 

Robert Morley in "Way . . . Way Out" 


NEW YORK—British actor Robert Morley 

has been signed for a costarring role 

with Jerry Lewis in "Way . . . Way Out," 

20th Century-Fox's space-age comedy. The 

film is being produced by Malcolm Stuart 

and directed by Gordon Douglas. 

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CINCINNATI—Attendance at first-run 

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percentages for the corresponding 

weeh oi last year. The opening oi 

films whetted the interest of movie paadding 

zest to the strong bill of 

holdovers. 

Albee- The Slender Thread (Para) 1 50 

Ambassa r My Fair Lady (WB), rerun, 4th wk. 200 

Capitol— Battle of the Bulge (WB), 4th wk. ..275 

Esquire— Repulsion (Royal), 4th wk 200 

Grand—That Darn Cot BV), 4th wk 275 

wk 150 

Guild—The Ipcress File 

International 70—The 

Univ), 3rd 

Sound of Music 

(20th-Fox), 42nd wk 260 

Manemont Cinema Eost—The Ipcress File 

(Univ), 3rd wk 

Princeton Cinema— Do Not Disturb ?0th-Fox), 

150 

4th wk 150 

Times 

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Drive-In—Where 

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Cinema— Thundcrboll (UA). 4th wk. 

the Spies Arc (MGM) 

Valley— Darling (Embassy), rerun 125 

Three-Theatre 'Thunderball' Showing 

Compiles Huge 450 in Cleveland 

CLEVELAND — The percentage topper 

this week, to the surprise of no one who 

has seen the patrons flocking to the Detroit, 

Shaker and State theatres, was 

"Thunderball" with a fourth week 450. 

The phenomenal "Sound of Music," in its 

45th week at the Ohio, jumped up to 50 

points over its pier report. 

Announcement that "Th Greatest Story 

Evei Told" was approaching the end of its 

Colony run greatly strengthened its business 

in its 13th week. 

Allen—The Greet Race (WB), 14th wk 75 

Cinema, Fairvicw, Severance— That Dorn Cot 

Hipoodrome, Richmond— Do Not Disturb 

(20th-Fox> 90 

Ohio—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox). 45th wk. 200 

Palace—The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th-Fox), 

4th 

Vogue—The 

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Loved One MGM), 4th wk 

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Leads in Delroii 

"Woman in the Hum. s" has been 

DETROIT—"Thunderball" was first in 

L965 by 

line in the Detroit vicinity. P 

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second week at nine theatres, the Jami award ui!l 1' i luncheon in 

thi 

Bond money-maker grossed 525 per cent, 

6 to Ben Siege], curtain on 60 

according to the various managers concerned 

in its multiple run. Second in line The Japanese film, an allegorical study An ll 

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and still holding its own was "The Sound of a man and woman forced to h 

motion pictu 

of Music." in its 4'Jnd week at the Madison 

Theatre, with a percentage of 510. in most key cities across the country, and durini b C. K "Buddy" 

gether a 1965 release 

to each patron 

Taking a turn for the better was "The 

.tril on many "tenbest" 

lists, including that of the Phila- 

and operated by a partnership of C. D. 

Arnold, Arco n 

as built 

Loved One" at the Studio-8, which re- 

400 week for the MGM feature. delphia dietin, which named Arnold and Pope Sisco. 


"Woman in the Dunes" as best film of the 

Adams—Boeing Boeing (Para), 2nd wk 275 year. In 1964 the film was mentioned on 

Calvin, eight other theatrci Thundcrboll 

(UAI, 2nd wk 525 

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Grand Circus, Mai Kai— Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox), 

Baltimore Sun and other publications, 

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2nd wk 210 

Madison—The Sound of Music ;20th-Fox), 42nd wk. 510 

pecia] award at the Until After Feb. 1 Trial 

Michigan— Never Too Lotc (WB) 135 Cannes Film Festival, the picture also was GRAND RAPIDS—The Paris Township 

Radio City, three other theatres—The Greotest 

Story Ever Told (UA), 2nd wk Not Available an Academy Award nominee. 

Board 

i a building 

Studio-8- The Loved One MGM), 2nd wk 400 

to Floyd G. Bloss for construction of a 30- 

Trans-Lux Krim, Studio-North- Juliet of the 

Spirits (Rizzoli), 2nd wk 250 

foot-higb fence around his Stardust Drivein. 

Earlier, Circuit Judge Fred N. Searl 

turned down a similar request. 

The judge closed the airei in the summei 

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hi ii homes. A 

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Stardust will be hi ard Pi bruary 1 In 8 iarl's 

court. The judge said until then th 

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would take no actio:, oi feno until 

after the trial. 

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J^Jarly Zide of Allied Film in Detroit, distributor 

of AIP product, and his wife Nancy 

are parents of a son Warren Peter. Marty 

is the son of Jack Zide, owner of Imperial 

Pictures here, also distributor for AIP . 

Sanford Leavitt of the Washington Theatre 

Circuit and of Variety Tent 6 announces 

Variety Week will be observed February 12 

to 18. 

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Forthover, married 

Saturday (8), have returned from their 

wedding trip. She is the former Dolores 

"Sis" Smith, secretary at Universal . 

Paul Vogel of the Midway Drive-In, Ravenna, 

who also is a colonel in the Army 

Reserve, was on Filmrow. He will go on 

duty Sunday (30) at Ft. Meade. He'll get 

some time off for his brother's wedding on 

February 19 and for the ITOO convention, 

of which he's chairman, March 14-16. At 

Ft. Meade, he'll be involved in Exercise 

Bear Trap HI, which is to last until April 

24. 

Eugene Frank, Mapletown Theatre, reports 

a large and enthusiastic crowd was 

on hand for the two-day showing of "Rum- 

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plestiltskin." The Mapletown was one of 

11 theatres showing the film. 

Herb Horstemeier of Horstemeier Booking 

Service, who returned from his annual 

winter vacation in Florida, is unhappy because 

his Christmas greetings were not included 

in the December 20 issue of Boxoffice. 

And whose face is red? This correspondent's. 

The ad was given and taken 

Visitors to Filmrow Monday 

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included 

George Manos and George Pappas of 

in good faith, but it was lost. 

Manos Amusement Co., Toronto, Ohio, and 

Billy and Sandy Steele of Oberlin. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kerner (MGM 

booker) took their Caribbean trip all right, 

but didn't get to visit San Juan because 

the Rotterdam couldn't get close enough 

to shore. High seas. 

Born in December was Timothy Michael 

Hall, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kendrach 

of Mingo Junction and son of their 

oldest daughter Gertrude and her husband, 

who live in Coudersport, Pa. . . . On Tuesday 

another Kendrach, Paula Jean, 

was married to Army Lt. John S. Kopcha. 

They are living at Ft. Rucker, Ala., where 

he is a clinical laboratory officer at the 

Army hospital. 

CINCINNATI 

Mewcomers to Filmrow include bookers 

Paul Enright, 20th Century-Fox, succeeding 

Dennis Glen who has enrolled at 

Eastern State College, Richmond, Ky., and 

Robert Meinerding, MGM . . . Chakeres 

Theatres, Springfield, has appointed Harley 

Pence as new manager-trainee at the 

Regent Theatre, and Richard Dillahunt, 

new auditor. Judy Conklin has returned to 

the Chakeres auditing department after an 

absence of several months. 

Jack Needham, Columbus booker, and 

Nick Condello, Chakeres Theatres' construction 

manager, have returned from 

Florida vacations . . . Carl Ferrazza, Universal 

field representative, is in Charlotte 

working on "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" 

promotion. 

Elstun Dodge, former local exhibitor, has 

become affiliated with the Robert S. Johnson 

Realty Co. . . . Zeb Epstin of the MGM 

home office was here to start the ball rolling 

for "Doctor Zhivago," which will have 

its opening at the Valley Theatre March 

30 under the sponsorship of Variety Tent 

30. Proceeds will go to the tent's various 

charities. Esther Nemo, group sales manager, 

has been appointed for "Doctor 

Zhivago." 

"Thunderball" opened the newly remodeled 

Capitol, Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday 

under the sponsorship of the 

Junior Chamber of Commerce. Gov. Edward 

Breathitt and other officials were 

honored guests. A number or branch and 

district managers attended the opening 

and also the special dinner given by 

Chakeres officials. 

Kal Bruss, MGM field representative, was 

here, as were exhibitors Ted Christ, Spencerville, 

and Kentuckians Robert Perkins, 

Lexington, and Dick Johnson, Hazard. 

E. C. Nagel Booking Services is booking 

and buying for the Monte Vista in 

suburban Pleasant Ridge for owner Elmer 

Shard . Goldberg, JMG Film Co., 

and his family have returned from a vacation 

at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. . . . Also 

returning from vacations are salesmen 

Bill Spensley, Warners, and Charles Palmer, 

JMG Film Co. . Davidson, 

Lynchburg, exhibitor, is vacationing in 

the South during January. 

Altec Widens Lead to 11 

Games in Detroit Race 

DETROIT—Altec Sound succeeded in 

widening its big lead in the Nightingale 

Club Bowling League to 11 games, while 

other teams traded places or stayed put. 

Ed Waddell converted the difficult 6-7-8 

split in a losing cause, as his Theatre 

Equipment teammates took only one point 

from Armstrong Funeral Home. The 

standings are: 

W L W L 

Altec 45 15 TEC 28 32 

NTS 34.. 26 Local 25 35 

199 

Armstrong 32 28 Galaxy 25 35 

Ark Lones 30 30 Nat. Carbon ...21 39 

High scorers were: Nick Forest, 222-201, 

604; Jack Colwell, 226, 578; John Onde.jko, 

211, 565; Francis Light, 192, 551: Ken 

Grenke, 178,506; Matt Haskins, 205, 500; 

R. Bolton, 244. 

Bill Burrud Entering 

Feature Film Field 


HOLLYWOOD—Bill Burrud, president 

of Bill Burrud Enterprises, announces the 

appointment of McFadden, Strauss, Eddy 

& Irwin, Los Angeles and New York, as 

public relations counsel, effective immediately. 

The Burrud organization now has 

seven half-hour travel-action programs 

on television and is entering feature film 

production, with the first to be "The Wonderful 

World of Women." 

Dell Paperback Edition 

For Upcoming WB Film 


HOLLYWOOD—"A Covenant With 

Death," which Warner Bros, will produce 

as a major motion picture, will be released 

in paperback form next month by Dell 

Books. The suspense novel by Stephen 

Becker was a Book-of-the-Month selection 

and sold more than 186,000 copies in hardcover. 

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Construction has started on Cinema I and 

II, to be operated by General Cinema 

Corp. of Boston, in Whitehall, opposite 

Town and Country Shopping Center. The 

twin theatre is expected to be completed 

by summer. The site is near Cinema East, 

de luxe suburban house operated by 

Charles Sugarman. 

Mayor M. E. Sensenbrenner has appointed 

three new members to the city film review 

board. They are Rosemarie M. Derenburger, 

Al J. DeMers and Mrs. Frank 

Binder. Reappointed were Virginia Frakes 

and Ann G. Highfield. The mayor was 

quoted by the Spectator, local neighborhood 

weekly, that all citizens should join in 

a boycott of theatres which feature "girlie" 

and nudist films. He also called for a boycott 

of newsstands peddling pornography. 

Charles N. Lum, 88, native of Columbus 

and a retired professional actor, died in 

Spearfish, S.D. For ten years prior to his 

death. Lum played a prominent part in the 

Black Hills Passion Play at Spearfish. 

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Darn Cat" played four weeks at RKO 

Palace . run of "Those Magnificent 

Men in Their Flying Machines" was extended 

at Cinema East, delaying the start 

of "Do Not Disturb." 

Glen Woods, assistant manager of Loew's 

Ohio, has enlisted in the Air Force and 

will leave soon for basic training at Lackland 

Air Force Base near San Antonio. 

"Thunderball," which opened a fifth week 

January 18 at Loew's Ohio, has been 

the biggest boxoffice hit in the near-38- 

year history of the theatre. It is running 

considerably ahead of "Goldfinger," which 

played 15 weeks at the Ohio a year ago. 

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Charles Sugarman opens the Doris Day 

feature, "Do Not Disturb," January 19 

at the Cinema East, following "Those 

Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" 

Cinerama will have 

the Central Ohio premiere of "Battle of 

the Bulge" January 25 Deeds, 

operator of the legitimate Hartman, was 

the only local show business representative 

included in the list of ten outstanding 

Columbus men of 1965, chosen by the 

Columbus Citizen-Journal. Deeds was 

named because of his determined efforts 

to revive legitimate attractions at the 

Hartman. 

Charles Van Fossen has returned to his 

post as assistant manager of the Grand 

Cinerama, following army service . 

The RKO Palace and Neth-Academy 

State will show Laurence Olivier's "Othello" 

February 2 and 3. 

Academy Award winners Sidney Poitier 

and Anne Bancroft star in Paramount's 

"The Slender Thread." 

Aurora Complex Will 

Serve 3,000 Patrons 


AURORA, ILL. — This area's first indoor 

theatre combination is being constructed 

on Route 30 and Montgomery 

Road by Anthony Howaniec, owner of the 

Hi-Lite Drive-in. Howaniec is forming 

the complex by building a 1,000-seat theatre 

adjacent to the airer. 

The indoor unit will be ultramodern, air 

conditioned and equipped to present widescreen 

films. 

"Both theatres will be playing first-run 

movies," Howaniec told the Aurora Beacon-News. 

A centrally located refreshment stand 

will serve both of the theatres which will 

have separate screens and projection 

booths. The drive-in is being enlarged so 

the combined facilities will accommodate 

more than 3,000 patrons, the indoor theatre 

to be served by a 600-car parking lot. 

The dual theatre complex will be part 

of what Howaniec described as the "biggest 

recreation center in one locale in the 

state." 

Site Sought for 'Indian' 


HOLLYWOOD—Seeking a primitive site 

near Los Angeles for a portion of the shooting 

of his upcoming "The American 

Lidian Story" and also endeavoring in 

some measure to contribute to the ailing 

financial status of the California tribes, 

producer Robert L. Lippert and director 

James B. Clark left for the Hoopa Valley 

reservation in Humboldt County. 

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HARTFORD—Stanley Warner is 

staying 

in downtown Hartford. 

James M. l rid zone 

foi tin' sw circuit, ended months 

of local speculation by announcing an extension 

of the Strand Theatre lease. The 

1,400-seat first-run showcase, equipped for 

70mm attractions, is owned by the Talcott-Poindexter 

interests. Terms of the 

e were not spelled out. 

SW and it* predecessor organization, 

Bros. Theatres, began oi> 

the Strand in 1929. It was completely 

remodeled m the late '40s, 

Pay TV Station Explains 

Lack of Roadshow Films 

HARTFORD—The "A Word With 

Our 

Subscrib?rs" page of the weekly program 

bulletin issued by WHCT-TV I Channel 

18), the pay-TV outlel here, cai 

: 

;n>h: 

"Like the lady in Meriden who asked 

why we didn't have 'Mary Poppins' on the 

schedule. Answer: Not available for a few 

more months. That's the way thii 

with a few pictures. They're something 

called 'roadshows.' They play theatres 

only, on a very limited basis, for a 

mi.- 'My Fair Lady.' 'Those Magi 

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M n and a few others belong to this 

group." 

WHCT-TV, owned by RKO General, is 

America's only on-the-air experimental 

subscription TV outlet. 

'My Fair Lady' Breaking 

Records in Burlington 

BURLINGTON, VT.—On? of the bigtsreen 

hits here In recent months. 

"My Fair Lady." started its fourth week 

State Theatre, where th? management 

reported it was "breaking all boxoffice 

records." 

The musical is being shown at 2 and 8 

p.m.. with admission at $1.25 and $1.75 

for adults and 75 cents for children 

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BOSTON — Services for tin at: 

owner Arthur F Saturday 

Viano. 82. who died 

'8 wi 

(12) in 

St. Agnes Church. A prominent theatre 

owner and real estate developer in Lex- 

Ington, Arlington and Somerull 

irs, he first built the Telle Square 

Theatre at Somerville in 1920. Survivors 

include two sons, two sisters and five 

grandchildren. 

New Admission Policy 

MKDFORD. MASS The Mrdford Twin 

In has a new admission policy of 

one dollar per person in effect on a nightly 

basis. 

John Gordon Recuperating 

SPRINGFIELD John M. Gordon, retired 

am ditor of the morning 

field is recuperating from 

Union, 

auto accident injuries. Gordon lives in 

Northampton. 

A TRIBUTE TO 

HERMAN RIFKIN 

MOTION PICTURE PIONEER 

and 

DEAN OF BOSTON'S FILMROW 

By 

GEORGE ROBERTS 

57 YEARS AGO . 

The Boston Opera House op 

Coin in the nickelodeon 

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tie Gem Theatre in Haverhill. 

And Herman Rifkin arrived in Boston 

carryin print of a Wi 

thriller—"The 101 Ranch." 

Bis Jim Donovan, managing the St. Jean 

Hall in Webs 

ind paid $42 for film 

The second booking was by the Blanch- 

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BOSTON 

Tack Saef has been named managing director 

of the Paramount Theatre here, 

succeeding Arthur Morton, who resigned 

to accept the position of managing director 

of Cinema I and II at Framingham, Mass. 

Saef will continue as advertising and publicity 

director for the Paramount, a position 

he lias held many years . Sack 

is being called "Mr. Boston Theatreman" 

because he now controls the majority of 

theatres here and will soon open the Cheri. 

His houses are the Music Hall, the Gary, 

Saxon, Savoy, Beacon Hill and the Capri. 

There appears to be a great demand for 

pictures starring the late Humphrey Bogart 

in the Harvard Square section of 

Cambridge, where Harvard University is 

located. The two theatres there, the Harvard 

and Brattle Square, have been showing 

Bogart films to capacity crowds. The 

all girls is college, Radcliffe, also nearby. 

Roy E. Larsen, executive committee chairman 

of Time. Inc., has been honored by 

the dedication of Larsen Hall by the Harvard 

Graduate School. Upon his graduation 

in 1921, he became publicity director 

of the B P. Keith's theatre interests 

here. 

Anthony Zinn has been appointed managing 

director of the Shubert Theatre here. 

He has been treasurer, and has been associated 

with motion picture theatres many 

years, having been manager of the RKO 

Memorial Theatre and treasurer of the 

Cinerama Theatre . Barrack, 

managing director of the Saxon Theatre, 

has been named chairman for the motion 

picture division of the March of Dimes 

drive. 

General Cinema Corp. has promoted 

William Romanoff to district manager, 

covering theatres in northeastern New 

England. He has been managing director 

of Cinema I and H at Framingham . 

Mario Poto has been named managing director 

of the Paramount Theatre here. 

The Hall of Fame, featuring portraits of 

Hollywood's outstanding motion picture 

is producers, being installed on the mezzanine 

of the Circle Theatre at Brighton. 

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make its bow there February 18. Levine's 

portrait will be included with those of 

Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, Samuel 

Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille. David O. Selznick 

and John Huston. The Circle Theatre 

is operated by the Redstone Management 

Circuit, headed by Sumner Redstone, who 

is board chairman of the National Ass'n of 

Theatre Owners. 

John Blass, for many years associated 

with theatres in managerial capacities, is 

the treasurer of the Wilbur Theatre in 

Boston. He formerly was managing director 

of the Fenway Theatre, and had 

been managing director of the Music Hall 

and of the former RKO Memorial Theatre 

before joining the Wilbur. 

There has been a great demand for 

"Thunderball" and the United Artists 

bookers here have been scurrying to find 

enough prints for the New England area. 

Bookers here are Agnes Donahue, Maura 

Jane Jago and Samuel Levine. 

Publieitymen representing Boston exchanges 

have been busy with campaigns 

in New England. Harry Weiss of 20th 

Century-Fox has been working on "The 

Sound of Music," "Tire Agony and the 

Ecstasy," "Those Magnificent Men in Their 

Flying Machines," "Do Not Disturb" and 

"Rapture." Arnold Van Leer of United 

Artists has been busy with "Thunderball." 

Floyd Fitzsimmons of Warner Bros, has 

been working on "My Fair Lady." 

Drive-ins, which have been closed for 

the winter, are getting spruced up for an 

early spring opening . . . Arthur Moger, 

widely known motion picture publicityman. 

is being lauded by the success of his new 

book in its first printing. It's titled "Some 

of My Friends Are People." He was the 

Northeastern publicityman for Warner 

New Theatre Proposed 

For Amherst, Mass. 

AMHERST. MASS.— BEB. Inc., represented 

by Robert E. Shumway, treasurer, 

has filed an application with the Amherst 

zoning board of appeals for authority 

to build a motion picture theatre. 

The new film house would be built on 

the west side of University Drive. 

Milford Theatre Robbers 

Labor Long, Gain Nothing 

MILFORD. MASS. — It was snowing 

heavily around midnight when would-be 

robbers went to work on an elaborate 

plan to break into the Strand Theatre safe 

in Manager Arthur Mabey's office. 

Their first step was to break into the 

Nelson Motor Co. at Park and Congress 

streets. From the maintenance department, 

the thieves procured two acetylene 

tanks, complete with long hoses and nozzles. 

These they carried 30 feet through 

the deep snow to the next door State 

Theatre. 

After dragging the tanks, which full 

would weigh 100 pounds, up a stairway 

to the State's second floor, the thieves 

set to work on the three-foot high floor 

safe containing the theatre's receipts for 

the night. They managed to pry open 

the outer door, then went after the inner 

safe. Before they could burn their way 

in. however, the oxygen fuel in the tanks 

apparently ran out. The thieves then fell 

back on trying to pry the door open with 

a crowbar but it too failed to budge the 

safe's inner door. 

The next morning Mabey found the 

tanks, torches and crowbar on his office 

floor, about the same time that Nelson 

Motor Co. staffers were discovering that 

their tanks and torches were missing. Mabey 

said "a little bit of change" was 

taken from a shelf in the outer compartment 

of the safe but valuable papers and 

other records kept in the inner compartment, 

as well as the theatre's receipts, 

still were safe. 

WORCESTER 

Derry Nathan, former Stanley Warner 

Theatres district manager, has joined 

Redstone Theatres as resident manager 

of the de luxe Cinema ... Nathan 

1. 

"planted" a four-column layout concerned 

with a newspaper reporter's quest for the 

popularity reasons of UA's "Thunderball" 

in the widely read Worcester Daily Telegram. 

The Redstone Showcases Cinemas, new 

dual theatre complex in Lawrence, hosted 

a "My Fair Lady" champagne premiere, 

sponsored by the convention and visitors 

committee of the Chamber of Commerce. 

John Corbett is managing director . . . 

Cinema ... 1 opened a lobby display of 

prize pictures taken by Worcester Telegram-Gazette 

photographers. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE 

TVning the winter's first blizzard on January 

8, when more than a foot of 

snow fell over much of New Hampshire, 

about ten hardy moviegoers gathered in 

front of the Rex Theatre in Manchester 

in hope of seeing "My Fair Lady," but 

the weather apparently was so rough that 

the theatre owner couldn't make it downtown 

and the disappointed patrons trudged 

home through snowdrifts to watch the 

"late show" on television. Many other 

movie theatre schedules also were disrupted 

by the big storm but the snowstarved 

ski areas were delighted with the 

heavy snowfall. 

Clowns on Screen, Stage 

SCITUATE HARBOR, MASS. — The 

Playhouse hosted "Mr. Sweep," the clown, 

at a recent Saturday matinee. On the 

screen was "Clown and the Kid." 

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Vermont's Improving Economy Brings 

Exhibitors Hope for Better Income 

By ALLEN M. WIDEM 

state, doesn't feel that product and personnel 

problems are going to be readily re- 

MONTPELIER. VT.—The political pundits 

were wont to say, "As goes Vermont, solved with slogans. Nor are they naive or 

so goes the nation." 

gullible enough to feel that high-sounding 

The claim can be identified with any slogans, promulgated by a philosophy of 

state, true, but in an atmosphere with worrying-about-problems-tomorrow, will 

tradition and conservatism very much part 

induce the younger Vermont generation to 

ill 

of the daily living, it's an accepted factor 

get into a movie attendance habit and 

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that what's gone before will be embraced, look to motion picture management as 

if not adhered to, by those living now. a particularly attractive career training 

ground. 

Economically, Vermont's exhibition finds 

All of which brings this evaluation of 

the Green Mountain State exhibition in 

these beginning weeks of 1986: Holding its 

own. anticipating hefty grosses with the 

likes of UA's "Thunderball," and haven't 

we all heard the same refrain in years 

past? 

One independent circuit owner told 

Boxoffice: "If we could depend upon product 

in a regular continuity the year 'round, 

we'd all be ahead of the game and well 

distribution knows it. But we've got to depend, 

just as much as the boys in the other 

less-populous states, on product that will 

stand up long after it's played to somewhat 

spectacular success in the more cosmopolitan 

centers. It's not an especially appeahng 

situation." 

Product and personnel, the two most 

pressing problems facing American exhibition, 

are discussed by Vermont theatre 

owners and managers and they, like their 

counterparts across the country, feel that 

it's the sole and express duty of distribution 

to provide the nation's exhibition 

plant with sufficient product to keep the 

audiences in a "Let's Get Out to the 

Movies" frame of mind. 

But Vermont exhibition, Boxoffice 

leams after trekking into towns and cities 

across this handsomely endowed-by-nature 

Bond's Thunderball' 

Leader in Hartford 

HARTFORD — The fondly regarded 

phrase, "Tops in Town" can be happily 

applied to UA's sturdy "Thunderball." It's 

rolling strongly along. Lockwood & Gordon's 

Cine Webb will probably play the 

James Bond effort well into spring. 

In a unique development, the SW 

Strand, downtown first-run showcase, 

brought in Embassy's "Darling," after it 

had played an extended regional bow at 

the Keppner-Tarantul Burnside and a 

short run at the L&G Plaza. 

The SW New Britain Strand hosted the 

Eastern premiere of the Jack Douglas Associates-states 

rights release, "Tokyo 

Olympiad." 


Allyn— That Darn Cat (BV), 4th wk 70 

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that much business endeavor is perking. If 

the present pace of activity, for example, in 

the state's rapidly-expanding ski industry 

continues, Vermont ski slopes can add as 

much as $50 million to the state's winter 

recreation coffers. 

The $50 million figure is predicted by 

deputy director Donald Lyons of the state 

development department here. It includes 

lodging, meals, gasoline, lift rides and sales 

of all equipment and accoutrements of the 

winter sport. 

Vermont now has over 150 miles of ski 

trails and the largest number of lift lines 

in the east. 

The state legislature, now in session, is 

mulling over a state sales tax and a boost 

in the gasoline levy. 

There have been no closings in exhibition. 

But, for that matter, there' ve been 

no openings, or plans for new construction. 

It's status-quo. And Vermont's typical 

exhibitor? He thumbs through his tradepress, 

tries to maintain an inviting theatre 

atmosphere and is hopeful that distribution, 

which can come up with a "Thunderball," 

won't forget him in the winter of 

discontent 

(Next week: New Hampshire Exhibition 

Survey) 

Art Cinema The Rope (Zenith); No Exit 

(Zenith) 

Berlin—The Block (SR); 3 Nuts in Search of a 

Bolt (Harlequin), reissue 

Burnside—Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox), 4th wk. . . 

Central—The Great Race (WB), 11th wk 

Cine Webb— Thunderball (UA), 4th wk 

Cinerama— Bottle ot the Bulqe (WB), 4th wk. . 

Elm—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 30th wk. . 

E. M. Loew's, Me-dcws— Spy in Your Eye (AIP); 

Secret Aaent Fireball (AIP) 

Menden, Newington My Fair Lady (WB), re- 

New Britain Strand Tokyo Olympiad (Douglas) 

. 

Plaza—The Ipcress File (Univ), rerun 

Rivoh The 10th Victim (Embassy), 3rd wk. 

Strand Darling (Embassy), rerun 

Webster The Cincinnati Kid (MGM); The Secret 

of My Success (MGM), reruns 

'Thunderball' Slips 30 Points 

In New Haven Cold Snaps 

NEW HAVEN—The winter's first cold 

spell sent grosses plummeting, although 

UA's "Thunderball" continued to show 

strong response. One cold night's wind 

knocked the Bowl Drive-In out of action 

temporarily. 

Crown Repulsion (Royal); Nothing But the Best 

(Cont'l), 2nd wk 70 

Lawrence Women, Oh, Women! (SR); Mondo 

Cane (SR), reissue, 2nd wk 65 

Lincoln The 10th Victim (Embassy), 4th wk 100 

Loew's College, Milford Cinema, Milford Drivein— 

Thunderball (UA); McLintock! (UA), reissue 

(drive-in companion feature onlv), 4th wk. 220 

SW Cinemort The Sound of Music !20th-Fox), 

30th wk 50 

SW Roger Sherman The Loved One (MGM) .... 80 

Westville, Whitney The Slender Thread (Para) . . 75 

Whalley—The Agony ond the Ecstasy (20th- 

NEW HAVEN 

Hnthony Terrazano. owner-operator of 

the newly reopened Forest, West Haven, 

has opened an art gallery. In addition, 

he's now providing parking in two 

adjacent lots . . . The Lockwood & Gordon-E. 

M. Loew jointly operated Candlelite-Pix 

Twin Drive-In, Bridgeport, playing 

the Fairfield County premiere of Paramount's 

"Boeing Boeing," brought back 

Paramount's "To Catch a Thief" (1965> 

as a companion feature. 

Franklin E. Ferguson, general manager 

of the Bailey Theatres, was a New York 

business visitor . . . Doug Amos, general 

manager of Lockwood & Gordon Theatres, 

was a New Haven visitor. 

PROVIDENCE 

J"he license of a second area drive-in theatre 

has been renewed after a "frank" 

discussion with the owner that has resulted 

in an apparent understanding over 

what kind of films will be shown. The 

license renewal, approved by the Seekonk, 

Mass., board of selectmen, is for the Bay 

State Drive-In. The owner, the Independent 

Amusement Co., has agreed not to 

book films "not appropriate for anyone, 

much less teenagers." Some weeks ago, 

the same board renewed the license for 

the Seekonk Drive-In with the provision 

that no "Adults Only" films be shown. 

Lockwood & Gordon's Cinerama Theatre 

set a January 19 Rhode Island premiere 

of Warner Bros.' "Battle of the Bulge." 

HARTFORD 

Connecticut business growth continued 

at about 10 per cent over last year 

in September and October, according to 

the Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. 

Guy Bourrie, assistant manager of the 

Stanley Warner Garde, New London, and 

his wife Carol are expecting their second 

child. Sandra, their first-born, is 18 

months old. 

Allen M. Widem, Hartford Times amusements 

editor, predicted that Lee Marvin 

will get an Academy Award. "It's a tossup," 

he wrote, "between 'Cat Ballou' and 

'Ship of Fools'." 

Portland House Records 

Fall to 'Thunderball' 

PORTLAND — The Maine premiere of 

UA's "Thunderball," at the E. M. Loew's 

Arts, smashed all existing house records. 

Admission scale: evenings, Saturdays, 

Sunday and holidays, $1.75: matinees, 

$1.25; children, 75 cents at all times. 

Berman to Tour Key Cities 


HOLLYWOOD — Producer Pandro S. 

Berman will make his first nationwide personal 

appearance tour of key cities this 

spring to publicize and exploit MGM's "A 

Patch of Blue" prior to the film's general 

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MONTREAL—Don Owen, who was director 

of the National Film Board's "Nobody 

Waved Goodbye," is planning a second 

full-length fi ature, a police thrillei 

sel in Montreal. He believes Canada Is 

finally going to establish a feature film 

industry oi its own. and said, "I think 

we're headed for a renaissance—or rathei 

a naissance of the film industry in Canada." 

He said in the past Canada has been 

rely upon the United States 

and European films for movie fare. One 

reason for this, he added, is there has 

been no shortage of films, in English or 

French, to force Canada to produce its 

own. 

Since "Nobody Waved Goodbye. 

has shot two more films, both documentaries. 

One, still not in its final form, will 

be shown on television. Called "Notes For a 

Film About Donna and Gail," it is a sketch 

of a relationship between two Montreal 

factory girls. The other is called "High 

Steel" and is the story of the Caughna- 

Indians of the Montreal district. 

t)wen is enthusiastic about his forthcoming 

movie, based on the Santa Claus 

bank robbery and murder case which created 

a sensation across the country three 

years ago. Owen expects the film to cost 

at least $200,000 and said Peter Schreter, 

an "industrialist-entrepreneur" is promoting 

They hope to begin 

shooting here in mid-March. 

Montreal Movie Editor 

Reports on 1965 Films 

MONTREAL — Of the Canadian-made 

feature films presented to local film fans 

during 1965, the film editor of Mont 

weekly Le Petit Journal said the Gille.s 

Carle production of "La Vie Heureuse de 

Leopold Z" was the leading one. The film 

has been holding tremendously well al Le 

Parisien The&tn hi consecutive 

weeks now. In August at the Montreal International 

Film Festival. Canadian-made 

film division, the film won the Grand Prix. 

Another Canadian-made film. "Le Rcvolutionaire." 

produced by Jean Pierre Lefebvre. 

also attracted good crowds. Two 

other full-length films to make a mark 

"La Corde au 

Cou" and "Cain." Another featuj 

"Pas de Vacances Pour les Idoles." starring 

Joel Denis of Montreal. 

The editor, commenting on An 

films, said, the Americans, with "Zorba 

the Greek." "Mary Poppms." "The Sound 

of Music" and "Those Magnificent 

Their I lied Montreal 

Vancouver Theatres Finally Sharing 

In Big Grosses as Weather Improves 

VANCOUVER Christmas was a couple 

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weekend and reallj tilled the mal 

stockings. Every hou capacity 

and business held up well into midweek, 

as rams and warmei 

chased away the record snows. 

Capitol— Bottle o» the Bulge- WE 3rd »k. Very Good 

Dim 

3rd 

3rd Horum Scorum wk Good 

Biq TNT. Shnw Good 

The 

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Boeing Boeinq 2nd wk. Very Good 

Magnificent Men in Their 

Flying Machines th-Fox), 29th wk Very Good 

The Sound Music ,20th-Fox), 

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Excellent 

My Fair Lady .'. B), 63rd wk Good 

That Dotn Cot np), 2nd wk Excellent 

Casanova '70 Very Good 

sthcr theatres Thundcrball (UA), 

wk Excellent 

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Absence of Snow Helping 

Attendance in Toronto 

TORONTO— Receipts were holding up 

well afl holiday bu 

Odeon reported "Those Magnificent Ml n 

in Their Plying Machines" still doing very 

well in its 28th week at the Fairlawn Theatre. 

"That Darn Cat" and "Darlin 

latter in its 14th week at the Capitol Fine 

tops with Twentieth Century 

hoi has had very 

now to hamper theatre attendance. 

Albicn group— Do Not Disturb 20th-Fox), 

3rd wk Very Good 

Holiday Fare Still Strong 

At Montreal First Runs 

MONTREAL,—Despite severe, cold weather, 

Montreal theatres enjoyed fairly good 

boxoffice returns throughout tin 

Most of the screen offerings were good 

films brought in specially for the initial 

new year and their pal 

continued to be good. 

Alouettc—The Agony ond the Ecstosy 

Excellent 

Th. Hill .. .Good 

ing Boeing 

Cinema fc- . ...Good 

Juliet ot the 

Spirits, 

Excellent 

Return 

Dorvol (Salli Lord Jim 

. . .Good 

Th. urcatcst Story Ever Told 

Matioso 

Us 

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'Thundorball,' 'Cat.' Roadshows 

Grossing Big in Winnipeg 

WIN' uned strong. 

from 

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ued as unqualified lead record 

third week gross at the Odeon. Runner-up 

was "That Darn Cat." whli 

surpri. 

the 

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Fair Lady" and "Tin 

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during the holiday season. Gross, 

ttle down but remain 

through January. 

3rd Capitol— Never Too Late WB), *v Gooo 

My fair LarJy Good 

ry 

Garrrck- The Halleluiah Trail .-ry Good 

Th. Sund ol Music .I'Oth-Fox), 

Very Good 

Lyceum -Fronkcnstcin Meets the Spocc 

ot Monster IFD The Curse the Voodoo (IFD) Good 

Metropolian That Darn Cot (Emp}, 3rd wk 

Odeon—Thunderbolt (UA), 3rd wk Excellent 

The Great Race (WB), II th wk 

.. movcovcr Very Good 

Co-.onovo 70 ery Good 

Actor Donald Crisp Plans 

To Retire From Industry 

VANCOUVER—Veteran actor Donald 

Crisp, in an interview with the Sun motion 

picture columnist Les Wedmen, said 

he is "setting up" in Hollywood and will 

and tak 

the rest of his life. Now past 80 and with 

incouver, he Ik. 

tor here durln 

Crisp said be has numerous rea 

but the main one is that 

no less than 37 old-time friends bavi 

i hiir in the last four years. Also, i- 

the demise of the "cl lan, family-type film" 

is another reason. 

Crisp, founder and treasurer of t i 

Relief Fund, now can.; 

raise $40 million, said I 

wlnn for $10 to $15 you could "fix up" a 

or, Now one ol tl 

and at one time chair- 

>1 bilfront 

of a camera for 61 years He joined 

ph Studios several years bit 

: nth. 

Crisp's first film was "The New French 

Maid.' shot m one day. "We all u 

act, direct and turn a crank 

and I got paid $3.50 per da'. 

used to work two or three days a week and 

• hi- "owned the world." hi 

that was when a person coul 

With a bath for 80 CI 

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Montreal Columnist Lists 

His Choice in 1965 Films 

film 

In the international films division 

Bond pictures were popular. Sophia I 

Marcelio Mastroianni and Monica 

proved good attractions in "Marriage a 

d "Le Desert Rouge." The 

Japanese films also were popular, especially 

"The Woman of the Sands" and "Onibaba" 

"Le Bonheur" by A 

Jean Luc Godard's 'Une Femme Mariee" 

and "Alphavul 

de St. Tropez" and "L'Homme de Rio." also 

were record earners. Of the British films. 

"The Knack" proved a good boxoffice 

attraction. 

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Th, Sound of Music 

Nothing Doing on Soturda. 

Darling 

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of 20 films, which hi thy of 

med up with 

'.owing films—although not 

: merit: 

".Juliet of the Spirits." "Nothing 

"Onl- 

I'arapluics de Cherbourg." 

The runners up wen 

Yellow Rolls-Royce." "Tin I 

"The Knack—and How to Get It 

•Saboteur." "Rio Conchos." 

BOXOFFICE .January L'4. 1966 :-i

MONTREAL 

Tean Gouban of Prestige Films has returned 

from a month's trip to Mexico, combining 

business and pleasure. He announced 

that as of Saturday the company's 

shipments are being handled by 

Eastern Canadian Film Distributing Co. 

"ThunderbaH" has set a Montreal boxoffice 

record at the Palace for a continuous 

performance movie in its first week. The 

second week's gross was even better, and 

according to reports, no end to the ran is 

in 

sight. 

Reaction to the Billy Graham film. 

World Wide Pictures' "The Restless One." 

indicates there is still strong interest in 

religion among young people here. The 

picture had been scheduled for a single 

showing at Place des Arts on Saturday 

• 22). The Rev. Ron Marr, director of 

Montreal Youth for Christ, announced that 

all 2.885 seats were snapped up so quickly 

that arrangements had to be made for an 

extra matinee showing that day. 

Sir Laurence Olivier, starring in a film of 

William Shakespeare's "Othello," will be 

seen in four performances on two successive 

days at the Loew's Snowdon and 

Dorval theatres, February 2 and 3. The 

four performances will consist of two matinees 

and two evening shows. 

l)u Pont of Canada will use a great number 

of scientific and technical films from 

all over the world in its Montreal World 

Fair pavilion. The company has signed a 

contract with Expo '67 authorities committing 

itself to $360,000 towards construction 

of a 350-seat auditorium. Programs for the 

auditorium will include a lecture series of 

specific interest to professional groups in 

the arts and sciences; a junior lecture 

series and daily public screenings of scientific 

and technical films. The auditorium 

will be located on St. Helen's Island next 

to one of the Montreal Exposition Corp.'s 

theme buildings. 

Another motion picture theatre will be 

opened when the huge "Westmount 

Square" building complex is completed. 

The project, a creation of Mies van der 

Rohe, one of the world's most prominent 

architects, will cost approximately $25 

million and is to feature a 21 -story office 

tower and two 21-story apartments. A 700- 

seat theatre along with underground parking 

for 750 vehicles, as well as a weathercontrolled 

shopping mall, are included in 

the project. Westmount Centres, Inc.. is an 

associate company of MonDev Corp., the 

development subsidiary of Montreal Trust 

Co. 

Phil Maurice, one of the leading men in 

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VANCOUVER 

Wishing here and on the coast was Paul 

Nathanson of Empire Films, who conferred 

with branch manager Bill Grant 

and circuit and television heads on the 

forthcoming product. 

Sam Bondi made the trip in from 

Squamish to pick up a weekend film, and 

said one more snowfall and the town would 

have "had it." He said snow was piled so 

high the plows and blowers could not move 

it any further. Almost six feet had fallen 

in two weeks, with no thaws in between, 

and everything was at a standstill. Rain 

began, however, and the snow melted over 

a foot, making it possible for the plows to 

open up the side roads. 

Bill Risk, in from Parksville where a 

like amount had fallen, reports he and his 

wife had shoveled all morning to open up 

a lane for his car to reach the road. They 

had to wait for the plow to make its way 

in from the highway. 

On the mainland, where the thaw 

started Thursday (6), drive-ins began to 

open again for the weekend, with the Delta, 

Richmond, Odeon, New Westminster, and 

Odeon's North Vancouver opening by Friday 

(7>, as did the Tillicum in Victoria. 

The Lougheed, making repairs, stayed 

dark until Wednesday (12). 

In Vancouver, the public rushed to patronize 

every house during the holidays. 

Even long runs such as "Those Magnificent 

Men in Their Flying Machines" at the 

Park, "The Sound of Music" at the Ridge 

and "My Fail- Lady," which had gone into 

its last three weeks at the Stanley, registered 

capacity houses. Downtown the lineups 

were a block long for each theatre. 

Columbia's "The Collector" moved into 

the suburban Dunbar, Fraser and Totem 

North Vancouver, after a long run at the 

downtown Odeon . sneak preview, 

moving around the Famous Players' theatres 

for the last two months, was held in 

the Orpheum Wednesday U2> along with 

"Boeing Boeing." 

TORONTO 

H ndrew G. Rouse has resigned as executive 

vice-president of General Sound & 

Theatre Equipment, Ltd. He had been 

with the firm since 1957, when it was 

known as General Theatre Supply. He is 

a Heart Award winner, an energetic Variety 

Club canvasman, and is finance chairman 

of Variety's Duke of Edinburgh dinner in 

March. He has been associated with the 

industry since 1940 when he joined Famous 

Players. His new affiliation has not been 

announced as yet, but he is expected to still 

be active in this business. 

John Ross and Dean Peterson have 

avoided publicity in producing a lowbudget 

Canadian film, which should prove 

to be solid boxoffice. This color feature, 

titled "Minotaur," is basically a horror 

film, and stars Broderick Crawford and 

Akim Tamiroff. The film is a product of 

Homeric Productions, which is a British 

subsidiary of Iliad Productions, the Canadian-based 

and financed company 

owned by Ross and Peterson. Total cost of 

the film is relatively small—about $200,000 

—or possibly less. "Minotaur" is to be distributed 

through Paramount, which has 

assigned Jack Lamont to the project. With 

such sales opportunity, Ross and Peterson 

feel certain they have a winner. As for 

their low-pitched publicity, Ross said, "We 

were determined not to make any noise at 

all about our plans and wait until the picture 

was ready for and assured of general 

distribution before publicizing what we 

were doing. This is not a major film by 

any means," he added, "but we feel it will 

be successful commercially, and in the 

process, we've learned a great deal about 

the mechanics of putting such a deal together." 

Ross also was anxious to make it 

clear that this Iliad-Homeric-Paramount 

production did not involve the Torontobased 

companies which he and Peterson 

head. These are the Robert Lawrence Productions 

(Canada) and the S. Dean Peterson 

Productions, two of this country's leading 

producers of TV commercials. 

It would seem that with this feature film, 

Ross and Peterson qualify in every way for 

the federal government's proposed new 

$100,000 loan, as Iliad has produced at least 

one completed feature, has made a major 

distribution tie-up, in this instance with 

Paramount, has set up the machinery for 

Eady Plan assistance, through Homeric, 

and has assurance of major production 

assistance—Paramount 's. 

The retirement of Lawrence G. "Dick" 

Geering, general auditor and assistant 

treasurer of Famous Players, has been announced 

here. He was born in London and 

came to Canada in 1916. He joined Famous 

Players four years later, when the company 

became incorporated. He began as bookkeeper 

for the small group of theatres, 

then assumed responsibility for the real 

estate and insurance divisions. With the 

reorganizing of these departments, Geerins 

then headed the auditing, statistical and 

accounting divisions. When the company 

began building new houses across Canada, 

he became auditor for construction costs. 

From that position, he soon became chief 

general auditor and assistant treasurer, a 

post he has held ever since. Geering is to 

be succeeded by Joseph Whyte. one of his 

assistants. 

Philip Nemirow has been named city 

manager in Toronto for Loew's Theatres 

by Bernard Diamond. Nemirow is a veteran 

of 35 years with RKO Theatres, and 

was manager of the RKO Albee in Providence, 

R.I., until it closed in August. He 

will work in association with William J. 

Trambukis. northern division manager. 

Bill Morland of Astral Films is still in 

high spirits over a successful promotion 

for "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" 

at the Downtown in Toronto. He obtained 

six bikinis from Cole of California and 

used them as giveaways. Two were won 

by CKFH listeners, while the others went 

to patrons on opening night. At the opening, 

Go-Go Girls from a night club danced 

in the theatre window, tying up traffic 

in all directions. A "Goldfoot" recording 

could be heard from five blocks away. 

A more sedate celebration marked the 

first anniversary of "My Fair Lady" at the 

University. Manager Ron Hall lit a single 

candle on a cake in the lobby, flanked 

by his staff, while a model in costume 

distributed roses to the women. 

OTTAWA 

The Ottawa Theatre Managers Ass'n has 

gone to the proverbial mat with civic 

representatives to register opposition 

against the removal of overhanging signs 

on business streets throughout the city under 

a bylaw which also covers marquees 

extending over sidewalks. The managers 

have joined forces with retail merchants 

to fight the pre 

The Composers, Authors and Publishers 

Ass'n of Canada, headed by Sir Ernest 

MacMillan, held a conference here to deal 

with developments in connection with performing 

rights. A counterpart of ASCAP in 

tin- U.S.. CAPAC was organized in 1925 

to regulate fees for the use of music. 

The film community mourned the passing 

of a veteran projectionist Alfred J. 

Meranger, 61, who was employed at the 

Rideau and previously for many years in 

the booth of the Centre Theatre. The 

funeral mass was conducted Friday (14) 

in St. Anne's Church. 

"The Sound of Music," which opened its 

roadshow engagement June 30 at the Ottawa 

Nelson, now is expected to run until 

Easter week, thanks to exceptionally good 

business. Despite the arrival of below-zero 

weather, three pictures, "The Great Race" 

at the Regent and "Thunderball" and "The 

Loved One" at the two Elgins, were still 

going strong in their third week. Regardless 

of the deep-freeze, line-ups are particularly 

in evidence for "Thunderball" 

afternoon and night. 

Prince Philip, the consort of Queen 

Elizabeth, has announced plans of a threeday 

visit in Ontario starting March 20, 

with one day in Ottawa for presentation 

of awards. A life member of Variety International, 

he also will 

of the Toronto tent. 

attend a function 

Ottawa exhibitors are concerned over the 

prospect of a tie-up in film shipments because 

of a threatened trucking strike, for 

which the teamster locals voted in all 

parts of Ontario. 

President Doug Pinder and officers of 

the Ottawa Theatre Managers Ass'n have 

drawn up plans for the annual meeting to 

be held shortly at the Holiday Inn—and 

it 

looks like another year for the prexy. 

George Clark, formerly in charge of the 

Seaway Drive-In at Cornwall in the Ottawa 

district, now is installed as manager 

of the 20th Century Hall at London, 

Ont. 

"Othello" has been announced as a special 

screen attraction at the big Ottawa 

Capitol for two days February 2 and 3, with 

matinee and evening performances both 

days. 

With the good year-end business throughout 

the chain, common shares of Famous 

Players Canadian Corp. hit $26.50 in stock 

exchange trading this month to establish a 

good pace for 1966. 

In its latest classification list, the Ontario 

Board of Censors gave the rating 

of Restricted Attendance to only one feature, 

"Repulsion," while ten others, including 

two from Europe, were classified as 

Adult Entertainment, which means they 

cannot be shown at Saturday or holiday 

matinees. 

K-4 BOXOFFICE : 

24. 1966

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• ADLINES it EXPLOITIPS 

• ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

• FEATURE RELEASE CHART 

• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST 

• SHORTS RELEASE CHART 

• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS 

• REVIEWS OF FEATURES 

• SHOWMANOISING IDEAS 

THE GUIDE TO BETTER BOOKING AND BUSINESS-BUILDING 

Movie Theatre Is Key 

To Merchant Campaign 

Carl E. Schaner, managing director of 

the Century Theatre in Buffalo, tied in 

with the downtown merchants and the 

Courier-Express for a promotion that is 

bringing the house a wealth of goodwill 

publicity. 

He cooperated with the merchants m 

t lit 11 campaign to get more residents downtown 

by offering free tickets for a series 

of Wednesday morning films, two this 

month U9 and 26) and two in February 

and 9 1 

The promotion was announced in an 8- 

column. three-quarter page ad in the Sunday 

Courier-Express, with a circulation of 

more than 300,000. The films being presented 

are "What a Way to Go," "Carousel,' 

"Flower Drum Song" and "Imitation 

'Patch of Blue' Records 

Singles of the "A Patch of Blue" song 

have been distributed to disc Jockeys in 

southern California from San Diego to 

Santa Barbara. 

New York Century Theatres Ballyhoos UA s 

Thunderball' With Series 

Century Theatres in New York used 

several excellent stunts to promote 

"Thunderball" at Its various houses. 

In one stunt, 50 wallets, in which special 

secret code cards were inserted, were 

dropped in busy areas. The cards requested 

finders to return them to the name and address 

listed on it, which was actually the 

manager's name. There was no mention of 

the theatre. Those who returned the wallets 

were Ktven guest passes and were permitted 

of Life." 

Readers were asked to fill out a coupon, 

indicating what films mot more than two' 

they wanted to see, and mail them to the 

newspaper. Through the free shows, the 

merchants hope to get residents from 

Buffalo and outlying areas downtown to 

shop. 

missions. 

The newspaper is running a series of 

articles on the promotion, and the Century 

is prominently mentioned in each 

He passed out throwaway cards which 

film. 

entitled the holder to a free guest pass for 

two if the name of James Bond's enemy 

San Antonio 'Spy' Contest 

listed on the card was posted in the theatre 

lobby. The name of the merchants, 

Based on Sense of Humor 

which furnished the outfits, was Imprinted 

Film fans in the San Antonio area had 

In addition, a 

on tin back of the cards. 

manikin dressed in skin diving equipment. 

tin- opportunity to find out about their 

was set up in the stores', with appropriate 

to keep the wallets. 

A special "Thunderball" word contest was 

set up in local area newspapers. Entrants 

were asked to submit a list of words compiled 

from the letters In the title. Those 

who submitted the largest lists were 

awarded passes. 

On the local level, managers set up bookstore 

and recordstore tie-ups, A special 

announcement record also was made up, to 

be played over the non-sync during inter- 

As a street stunt, a boy, dressed as a 

scuba diver, paraded through busy shopping 

areas, with a sign on his back plugging the 

now line of mi The company 

took a full-page ad in the Journal American 

plugging the 007 gift line. Included in the 

comes the biggest BOND of 

all: 'Thunderball,' starting (date) at the 

following Century Theatres 

In addition, Colgate-Palmolive gave near- 

of Clever Stunts 

As a street stunt for 'Thundcrboll," Century Theo 

tres in New York had a boy, dressed in a scuba 

diving outfit, walk busy streets and shopping areas 

distributing throwaway cards, which entitled the 

holder to a guest pass for two if the name of 

Bond's enemy listed on the card was posted in the 

lobby of the theatre. 

sense of humor. This opportunity came in 

a contest sponsored by the Texas Theatre, 

managed by Richard Vaughan for the 

held in conjunction with the film engage- 

ly $1,000 in 007 gift sets as pn. 

signs to plug the plctt 

Cinema Arts Theatre circuit, and the San Century also ran a special classified ad in. m Patrons took part by submitting an 

for three days in the New York Post, World 

Antonio News in connection with "The 

entry blank on which they wrote what 

2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole 

Telegram, Long Island Press. Star Journal James Bond film they most enjoyed and 

andNewsday It read: "II you 

Wide World." 

why. A lobby 30x40 and the herald-type 

in action on the ground, under the sea and 

A scene from the picture was published 

entry blank adl ind 007 

' 

ase call from 10 ajn. 

special contest trailer which the 

the News each day for five days. The 

until noon. Monday-Thursday." 

ran prior to playdate. 

caption for the fifth picture, the five promotion for the film, coming soon to 

were to be clipped together and mailed to Century's theatres. They then were asked 'Spy' Music Campaign 

the contest editor. 

a question from a prepared list pertaining 

:nuing a large-scale music camfor 

Paramount's "The Spy Who 

First prize was a week's use of a car to previous James Bond films. If they gave 

from Avis Rent-A-Car. The first place the correct answer, they were given guest 

In From the Cold." the original 

winner also received $25 in cash. The next passes. 

soundtrack recording of Sol Kaplan's score 

:. 

50 winners received a pass for two at Mel Aronson, Century fleldman. worked 

released by RCA Victor, 

the Texas Theatre. 

out a tie-up with Colgate-Palmolive on its 

ilbum cover features the same drairt 

work that highlights Paramount's 

in Ritt 

in 

contestant was asked to write a funny 

caption for each photo. After writing the 

(1 this was a special 

BOXOFFICE Showmondinor : 

24, 1966 — 11 — 

production, which is registering smash 

grosses in its prerelease. Academy Awardqualifying 

engagements. RCA already has 

released Peter Nero's single recording of 

the title theme from the film.

Special Promotion Record 

On 'Patch' Distributed 

A special record containing 63 comments 

from screen, television and press personalities 

on their reactions to "A Patch of 

Blue" is being made by MGM to circulate 

throughout the company's exchanges in 

English-speaking countries. The record will 

serve as a pattern for booking and exploitation 

of the film during its domestic and 

international release dates. 

Many of the quotes were recorded by the 

celebrities after the invitational press preview 

held in the Crest Theatre, Los Angeles, 

in December and at various other screenings. 

The Pandro S. Berman-Guy Green 

Production is playing in special prerelease 

engagements at the Crest and the Beekman 

Theatre in New York to qualify for Academy 

Award consideration. 

'Zhivago' Car Stickers 

In New York, MGM home office employes 

have made available bumper stickers, 

which feature the copy line: "Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer presents David Lean's 

film of 'Doctor Zhivago'." 

Alfred Alperin, left, Meadows Drive-In, Hartford, 

looks on as a pretty model gives Frank Bambussi 

of Hartford Honda an assist in determining the 

winner of a theatre-dealer promotion tie-up. 

Effective Newspaper Plugs 

Melvin Katz. Midwest division manager 

for Brounias Theatres, with his 

headquarters in Youngstown, appreciates 

that little things—especially plugs 

—do mean a lot. 

The Youngstown Vindicator, Katz 

points out, makes it a habit—daily and 

Sunday—to use a filler at the bottom of 

its amusement page, such as: "Enjoy 

life. Dine in one of our fine restaurants 

and then see a good show." Or "Enjoy 

yourself—see a good show tonight." 

Says Katz, "Just simple Uttle sentences—but 

a help—especially when 

most newspapers throughout the country 

use this extra space to sell their 

classified 

ads." 

Mt. Kisco Theatre Birthday 

Ties Into Town Promotion 

The Mount Kisco, N.Y., Theatre, managed 

by Ed Lander, was able to use its 

third anniversary as an excellent goodwill 

builder. The observance was held December 

21 and was effective in drawing shoppers 

downtown. 

The theatre gave away 19 gift certificates, 

donated by local merchants and 

banks. The president of the Mount Kisco 

Board of Trade, Robert Holloway, drew 

the names of the winners on the theatre 

stage. 

Residents were asked to leave their 

names in the contest box at the theatre. 

and the winners were drawn from them. 

The local newspaper played up the promotion. 

Cincinnati Cites Theatre, 

Sets Thunderball Week' 

The Times Towne Cinema in Cincinnati 

received a gigantic plug for its "Thunderball" 

playdate, when Mayor Walton H. 

Bachrach issued a proclamation declaring 

"Thunderball Week." The document cited 

the theatre for its showmanship efforts in 

bringing people downtown and the Times' 

operation of a special free "Thunderball 

express bus" for shoppers, December 17-22, 

in downtown Cincinnati. 

Concentrated Drive 

Pays Off for Canadian 

When Manager Dan Jardine of the 

Odeon Theatre at New Glasgow, N.S.. 

played "Goldfinger," he worked out an all- 

around campaign, complete with co-opera- 

tive and regular newspaper advertising, 

un 

uefi! . 

street bally, radio spots and window displays. 

The newspaper campaign launched the 

promotion weeks in advance of playdate, 

when Jardine intended to run a full-page 

co-op ad in gold leaf, with 14 merchants 

tying in. However, the gold leaf would not 

print and he was forced to use golden 

yellow. The page ad announced a contest, 

with the top prize a bar of gold. Contestants 

were asked to secure entries from 

the participating merchants. Also included 

in the ad were merchants' coupons valued 

at $30 to the readers. 

With 14 merchants distributing 5,000 

entry forms, it gave the Odeon countywide 

coverage and got word-of-mouth advertising 

under way. Entries received 

totaled 4,000. A photo of the winner, the 

Odeon district supervisor and Jardine appeared 

in the newspaper. 

Other merchant tie-ins included window 

displays with F. W. Woolworth, whose large 

display was most prominent in the main 

part of town. The display consisted of LP 

recordings from the soundtrack of the film, 

stills and 11x14s. Also, the store offered 

the LPs at special prices a week prior to 

playdate and featured them in newspaper 

and radio advertising. 

Another display, in the window of Im- ua 

perial Optical Co., featured a tie-in with hree 

the Ian Fleming novels. Emphasis was 

placed on "Goldfinger," centered on a lead 

bar, painted gold. A similar gold bar display 

at the Penny Lee Shoe Salon also 

highlighted a gold shoe and gold handbag 

and included stills, one-sheets, 11x14s and 

theatre credits. 

On outside activity, Jardine had a real 

attention-getter by the way of a roving 

car display. He made this with a sheet of 

plywood, framed with 2x2 molding painted 

The giant picture frame display was 

gold. 

mounted on his car. It had two sets of 

door panels, one set on each side, along 

with the playdate. The roving "Goldfinger" 

car attracted more attention, Jardine 

said, than anything of this type "I 

ever tried." 

On radio, he again had excellent cooperation, 

with the "Goldfinger" recording 

receiving saturation, along with theatre 

credits. 

Jardine says on free newspaper space, 

"I am sure we must have set a precedent 

with our- free reader space featuring Sean 

Connery, Honor Blackman, the roving car 

and winner of the gold bar - ." 

The intensive promotion resulted in exceptional 

boxoffice results. 

Actresses Regina Rugieri and Terry Carr, swathed in white furs, represented MGM riding a pearl-gray 

sleigh with an authentic Russian troika—hitched horses, three abreast—down Hollywood Boulevard in 

the annual Santa Claus Lane Parade. The Christmas spirit of the parade entry was inspired by scenes in 

David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago," which premiered New York the Loew's Capitol December 22 and 

in at 

the Hollywood Paramount on the following day. 

'Zhivago' Is Screened 

For California Students 

A special screening of MGM's "Doctor 

Zhivago" was held Monday (10) in the 

Studio Theatre for Arthur Knight's cinema 

classes at USC and students of motion pictures 

from UCLA. Director David Lean was 

present to answer questions. He discussed 

special techniques used in the filming. 

12 — BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 24, 1966

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nded 

Radio Contests in Philly 

To Promote 'Loved One' 

In Philadelphia. WIBG held a contest in 

conjunction with MGM-Filmways' "The 

Loved One" to find out which disc jockey 

was the most loved by listeners. Listeners 

were invited to mail in their voles. The 

winning DJ then drew a card from a 

those voting for him. and presented the 

winner with a transistor clock radio. 

In another Philadelphia contest, held 

by WDAS. listeners were invited to specif]' 

with what staff member they would like 

to have dinner. Five card* were picked 

at random. The winners received dinners 

at their favorite restaurant and guest 

passes to "The Loved One." 

'Ten Little Indians' 

Paperback on Stands 

As part of an extensive presenilis campaign, 

tlie Seven Arts production of "Ten 

Little Indians" is being given a promotional 

outburst via the paperback edition 

of the Agatha Christie novel, specially designed 

to coincide with the release of the 

film. 

The soft cover book, published by Pocket 

Books, is packeted with a full-color cover 

us 111:1 elements of the films advertising art 

and features copy promoting the new 

Christie movie. Pocket Books shipping 

is 

175.000 for its first printing to book stores 

throughout the country. 

Best Reviews Win Bonds 

For High School Pupils 

Two high school editors have been 

awarded U.S. Savings Bonds by United 

Artists and National General Corp. for 

writing the best reviews for their school 

newspapers on UA's "A Thousand Clowns." 

playing exclusively at the Village Westwood 

Theatre. 

The winners are Denice Kocalis of Montebello 

High School, who won a $75 bond, 

and Vicki Bissell of Santa Monica High 

School, a $25 bond. 

Arthur Knight, critic for the Saturday 

Review, was the judge for the contest. 

Complete Campaign for Magnificent Men 

Opens Camelback Mall in Arizona 

Award-winning showman Charles "Scottie" 

Stokes, who was transferred from the 

Plaza in Patchogrue, N.Y., by Associated Indent 

Theatres to Arizona, opened 

All s luxurious Camelback Mall Theatre in 

Scottsdale, Ariz., with the state premiere of 

"Those Magnificent Men in Their Plying 

is before the opening, Stokes placed 

standing counter cards on the playdate 111 

and airlines. The 

a .' beni in toi the Phoenix 

Center lor the Blind. British comedy star 

Terry-Thomas, who has a role in the 20th- 

Fox picture, was unable to attend the opening. 

A cablegram from him was blown up 

and placed in the lobby. Charmian Carr. 

who doesn't appear in "Magnificent Men," 

but who had the role of Leisl in Fox's "The 

Sound of Music," substituted for Thomas. 

A week before opening, Stokes held a 

private screening for the press, TV and 

radio. This resulted in good publicity for 

the theatre. The Sunday before opening, 

.111 open house was held at the Camelback. 

No films were shown. People were invited 

to see their new theatre. This proved high- 

1 

ly successful. 

On the day Miss Carr arrived, Stokes 

borrowed a gold Rolls-Royce from a museum. 

She was met at the airport and 

driven to two television station int< 

Later, the cowboy-dressed chauffeur drove 

her around Phoenix, which attracted lots 

.1 ion. 

For color, Stokes arranged for 1L' . 

cars and they were parked around the 

theatre. Also, he set up a "pre-show show" 

ertain patrons in front of the house 

Featured were a Beatles-type group, a Dixieland 

band, clowns and a "shoot-'em-up" 

staged by a cowboy group, complete with 

horses. The Phoenix Scottish Rite Band 

marched around the theatre and onto the 

:u the house. When Miss Cur came 

This poster was set up in the lobby of the Camel 

back Theatre to call attention to the record give 

away Patrons, whose ticket stubs ended in "500," 

were given records containing the theme music from 

"Those Magnificent 

Men." 

Here is the gold Rolls Royco used effectively 

promote the Camelback and its playdate The cow 

boy-dressed chauffeur stands by the vehicle 

band played 

•' 

uiony. 

lined her on 

In other phases ot stokes 

I 

had a spotlight shining on the gold Rollsitre. 

In 

the re.i: seat with 

down. f World War 

Kddie Rickenbacker and Lt. 

Frank Luke 

tlso had the lo< 

lobby. 

beard about a woman, m hi 

who builds her own 

tacted and set up a display, including 

Here ore some of the finalists in the Doris Day Look Alike Contest conducted by WHB in Konsos 

City in conjunction with "Do Not Disturb" at the Durwood Roxy. The winner is Sandy Mctcolf, center, 

standing with other finalists and disc jockey Ron Martin The contest was in two phases, seeking the 

girl who most resembled Doris Day, ond another os the typical girl next door Ten finolists in each 

class were chosen and judging was held at the Durwood Empire by M. Robert Goodfnend, Durwood 

general manoger; Dole Lundhigh, Kline's Deportment Store, ond Richard Wore. Columbia Records 

The judging was part of a major screening for WHB listeners ond included on appearance by RCA 

recording artists, The Blue Things, ond a fashion show staged by Kline's, with the finalists modeling 

: 

Records containing the theme music of 

(he fill] out to patrons 

ticket stubs i with "500." In the film. 

Whitman plays the part of a Phoenix 

man who 

.is a natural, and Stokes 

A World 

ads. 

from Arizona was 

holding a convention and they were invited 

I 

to ouvenir 

program was printed and mailed to Scotts- 

-idents and handed out to patrons. 

BOXOFF1CE Showroandiser :: Jan. 24, 1966 — 13

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Me 

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' 

XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

ABOUT PICTURES) 

s. 

ALLIED ARTISTS 

Blood and Black Lace (AA)—Cameron 

Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Mary Arden. A very 

good murder mystery put together with unknown 

actors up this way. If your patrons 

go for just what the title says, you will 

do business. Played Wed. through Sat. 

Harold Bell, Opera House, Coaticook, Que. 

Pop. 3,000. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

Black Sabbath (AIP> — Boris Karloff, 

Mark Damon, Michele Mercier. One of the 

biggest Thursday-Friday-Saturday dates 

of this year. Picture has great appeal to attract 

kids and teenagers if they like 

horror. Weather: Hot.—Terry Axley, New 

EMBASSY 

Seaside Swingers (Embassy)—John Leyton, 

Mike Same, Freddie and the Dreamers. 

Folks, including teenagers, are getting 

Teachers Urge Students 

To See 'Without Sun' 

We did real well on Columbia's documentary, 

"World Without Sun." Contacted 

all the school teachers and they 

put notices on the bulletin boards urging 

and some requiring their students 

to see it. I saw it six times. Really 

fabulous! This is what Disney built his 

name on—True-Life Adventures. If it 

had Disney's name on it, this would 

be one of the big ones. It's worth extra 

exploitation. 

Ramona Theatre 

Kremmling, Colo. 

BILL CURRAN 

'Pinocchio in Outer Space 

Excellent Cartoon 

"Pinocchio in Outer Space," the animated 

feature from Universal, is an 

excellent cartoon feature, very comparable 

to a Disney film. The kids 

loved it and really turned out for the 

matinees. Played it seven days with 

"The Hallelujah Trail" from United 

Artists. 

DONALD E. BOHATKA 

Du Page Theatre 

Lombard, III 

tired of the beach-type pictures. Boxoffice 

was down. Lacked a story and adventure. 

Played Sun., Mon. Weather: Cool. 

Wes Stuckwish, Jaycee's Ritz, Crescent, 

Okla. Pop. 1,500. 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Harum Scarum (MGM)—Elvis Presley, 

Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries. This did 

better than average business but did not 

do average Presley business. Did less than 

"Tickle Me." "Harum Scarum" was okay. 

Theatre, England, Ark. Pop. 2,136. 

Tomb of Ligreia (ATP)—Vincent Price, 

Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook. We 

have had better product from this company. 

Could it be that they are making 

them too fast? Still worth a playdate on 

a double bill. Played Wed. through Sat. 

Harold Bell, Opera House, Coaticook, Que. 

Pop. 3,000. 

BUENA VISTA 

Cinderella (BV-Reissue>—Animated fea- 

No complaints, but I hope they keep him 

out of this type picture. They never do 

ture. Not the draw it was originally. Still 

a good show, anyway. Played Sat., Sun. business for me. Of course, there are so 

Arthur K. Dame, Scenic Theatre, Pittsfield, 

many Presleys on TV now that I'm afraid 

N.H. 

none of his future pictures will do as well 

as they once did. Played Wed. through 

COLUMBIA 

Sat.—S. T. Jackson, Jackson Theatre, Flomaton, 

Ala. Pop. 1,480. 

Lord Jim i Col >—Peter O'Toole, James 

Mason, Eli Wallach. Very good. Will please 

all who 

Young Cassidy (MGM> — Rod Taylor, 

come. Did below average business 

Flora Robson, Michael Redgrave. It's hard 

for me, but with good comment. Played 

to imagine so little interest from our public 

Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather: Cold.—Rod 

in so many of our shows that are really 

B. Hartman, Coulee Theatre, Coulee Dam, 

Wash. Pop. 

good. This was good, but no audience. 

1,400. 

Played Wed. only. — Arthur K. Dame, 

Only Two Can Play (Col—Reissue)— 

Scenic Theatre, Pittsfield, N.H. 

Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough. 

I picked up this '62 release because 

of Peter Sellers and am I glad I 

PARAMOUNT 

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (Para)— 

did! Outgrossed "Pussycat" two to one Pete Cushing, Christopher Lee, Ray Castle. 

and is really a very funny picture. It is Brought in the younger set. Good for a lot 

Very best suited for adults. Played with Embassy's 

of screams. different. Also in color. 

Killer." Thurs., 

"The Bounty Played Played Fri., Sat. Weather: Clear and warm. 

Fri., Sat. Weather: Cool.—Larry Thomas, 

Payette Theatre, Fayetteville, W. Va. Pop. 

1,800. 

—Wes Stuckwish, Jaycee's Ritz, Crescent, 

Okla. Pop. 1,500. 

Sands of the Kalahari (Para)—Stuart 

Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York. 

A good cast and an even better story make 

this an above-average adventure story. 

The brutal ending is a real masterpiece 

of filming. Highly recommended for action 

houses. Title needs explanation. 

Played seven days with United Artists' 

"The Glory Guys." A good double feature. 

Weather: Mild to cold. Donald E. 

Bohatka. manager, Du Page Theatre, Lombard, 

111. Pop. 25,300. 

20th CENTURY-FOX 

Man in the Middle (20th-Fox>—Robert 

Mitchum, Barry Sullivan, France Nuyen. 

Man in the poor house ! ! Lowest Friday 

gross since the last basketball season. 

Third lowest Friday gross in history. Picture 

is dull and dry. What few kids we 

had ran the carpet off the aisles. No high 

schoolers and very few adults. No action, 

no color, no nothing. Played Thurs., Fri., 

Sat.—Bill Curran, Ramona Theatre, Kremmling, 

Colo. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Hallelujah Trail, The (UAi-Burt Lancaster, 

Lee Remick, Jim Hutton. A wild, 

wacky, way-out western that will please 

people of all ages. Burt Lancaster shows 

fine comedy talents. The narrator's comments 

were quite funny at times. Beautiful 

scenery and an excellent cast form 

to make a really fine family comedy. 

Started New Year's Eve for seven days to 

good business. Played with Universale 

"Pinocchio in Outer Space." Weather: 

Cold.—Donald E. Bohatka, Du Page Theatre, 

Lombard, 111. 

Lilies of the Field

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He's no secret agent 

he's 

'Watch the fantastic 

million-dollar blow-up! 

"Watch "Baby Fat" strip for action! 

"Watch "The Hook" get hooked 

on the minaret! 

"Watch the Turkish Bath 

get really hot! 

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COLUMBIA PICTURES presents 

HORST BUCHOLZ In 

An Anthony Isasi Film THAT MAN IN ISTANBUL" 

• 

Screenplay by GEORGE SIMONELLI and NAT WACHSBERGER Music Composed by GEORGES GARVARENTZ 

• 

Executive Producer NAT WACHSBERGER Directed by ANTHONY ISASI 

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Tony Horst Bucholz 

Kenny Sylvo Koscina 

Bill Mario Ador 

Elisabeth Perrette Pradier 

Schenck Klaus Kinski 

Bogo Alvaro de Luna 

Brain Gustavo Re 

Josette Christine Maybach 

Charly Gerard Tychy 

Jonny Augustin Gonzales 

Chinese 

THE CREDITS 

Rocha 

Director, Anthony Isasi; Screenplay by George 

Simonelli and Nat Wachsberger; Photography, Juan 

Gelpi; Music composed by Georges Garvarentz; 

Dialog, Lewis Howard; Main Title, Jean Fouchet; 

Production Manager, Anthony Irles; Executive Producer, 

Nat Wachsberger; A Constantin—Film Production 

in Technicolor * and Techniscope 

Columbia Pictures Release. 

THE STORY 

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'Not for Publication) When the United States pays a 

million dollars ransom for a kidnapped atom scientist, 

and he is not returned, a girl named Kenny 

a government agent—takes off on her own for Istanbul 

where the ransom act was staged. She interests 

Tony MacDonald, light-hearted young American night 

club owner and gambler in Turkey, and the million 

dollars interests him even more. Tony finds himself 

in a constant squeeze between the secret, power-mad 

organization of individuals who have the money and 

the scientist, and a group of Chinese agents eagerly 

seeking both. Tony is both hunter and hunted, but 

his death-defying battles and ingenious escapes 

bring him ever closer to his dual goals. In time, Tony 

manages to return the scientist to America; he will 

keep Kenny and the million dollars 

117 

Worth of Action . . . Comedy . . .Thrills . . 

Screen 

BALLY GIRL 

Send a pretty girl, costumed in a 

modified belly dancer's costume, 

,-- to radio/TV and newspaper 

people bearing gifts of Turkish 

cigarettes, Turkish paste candy, 

Turkish wine, figs, etc., with an 

invitation to attend the opening 

of the picture. 

Adventurers 

Horst Bucholz is a modern-day agent in "That Man 

in Istanbul," an action-adventurer with the derringdo 

ingenuity and light-hearted romantic appeal of 

the current crop who have made motion picture 

history. Plan a contest in which a local deejay asks 

listeners to identify stars playing similar adventurers, 

sleuths and agents in earlier films from the titles 

of the pictures. Correct answers receive guest tickets 

to "That Man in Istanbul." Examples: 

Who was that man in 'Dr. No.?" Sean Connery 

Who was that man in "That Man From Rio?" 

Jean-Paul Belmondo 

Who was that man in "The Thin Man?" William Powell 

Who was that man in "The Ipcress File?" Michael Caine 

Who was that man in "Our Man in Havana?" 

Alec Guinness 

Who was that man in "To Catch a Thief?" Cary Grant 

FUN -FILLED TABLOID! 

4-Page Miniature Herald Plugs 

'That Man in Istanbul' 

. 

Contests . . . Games . . Stills 

Specifically slanted towards college 

and high school audiences! 

JO. JU F.O.B. 

Plant 

Back page carries ad for film and 

space for theatre imprint. 

IMPRINTING WITH ORDER 

This cost in addition to cost of heralds. 

4 lines of type each 4" long. 

First 1,000 $5.00 

Additional thousands $3.50 per thousand. 

Over 5,000 $3.00 per thousand. 

Extra copy 40c a 4" line. 

FOLDING $2.00 per thousand. 

Rush Your Orders Direct To: 

HARRY K. McWILLIAMS and associates 

405 Broome St. New York. N.Y. 10013 

Phone: (212) CAnal 6-3335 

MYSTERY MAN 

The faces of the ruthless kidnappers in "That Man in 

Istanbul" are disguised by nylon stockings pulled 

over their heads. Plan promotion stunts on this with 

the cooperation of a radio station or newspaper. 

• Have a deejay sponsor a "raffles" stunt, wherein 

he tells listeners one of the men of mystery in 

the film will appear around town carrying a brief 

case supposedly holding $1,000,000. 

Contestants 

identify him by asking if he is "That Man in 

Istanbul." and receive guest tickets. In a newspaper 

tie-in, 

the contestant must have a copy of 

the paper when making the identification. 

• Newspaper runs photo of a man wearing a nylon 

stocking over his head under the heading: "Find 

'That Man in Istanbul!' " Readers spotting the 

disguised man around town, as suggested above, 

FEZ UP TO IT! 

The fez, a red felt cap with a tassel, national headdress 

of the Turks, is much in evidence in "That 

Man in Istanbul," and should be used in your promotion 

of the picture. Here are several suggestions: 

• Post an offer on a lobby board to admit first 

patrons wearing a fez as your guests. 

• Local novelly shops stock inexpensive paper fez's. 

Imprint with picture copy and have youngsters 

wear them around town in advance. 

• Another idea would be to have a bally wearing 

a fez walk through town carrying a suitcase with 

copy: "$1,000,000 for 'That Man in Istanbul.' State 

Theatre." 

TOUGH SPOTS 

Hor5t Bucholz finds himself in a considerable number 

of desperate situations as "That Man in Istanbul," 

a fact that can prompt a radio and/or newspaper-sponsored 

contest. In either case entrants 

are to send in postcards describing briefly the 

"Toughest Spot" they were ever in. The most interesting 

should be read over the air or reproduced 

in the paper, with the author interviewed. 

CLASSIFIED AD 

Herb's a classified ad for your newspaper that 

sho lid stir up interest in your playdate: 

"LC ST—$1,000,000. No Questions Asked if Returned 

Imn ediately. Call, (Theatre Number)." Cashier answering 

phone can tell inquirers to see "That Man 

itanbul" for further information. 

Girls! 

Million -Dollar Ideas 

Horst Bucholz's objective in the picture is the recovery 

of $1,000,000 in currency. It's an impressive 

amount of money and can be an interesting gimmick 

to attract attention to your playdate. Try these: 

• Have a disc jocky alert the public's attention by 

telling them his representative would question 

passersby on a problem concerning a million 

dollars. The man appointed will query those he 

stops on the street; "If you counted a dollar bill 

every second, day and night, how long would 

it take you to count $1,000,000?" The answer is 

approximately 14 days and those estimating 

closest are to be presented with guest admissions. 

• Another stunt would be to have a radio personality 

have listeners estimate the height of a stack 

of new one dollar bills il placed one on top of 

the other. The answer is 358 feet, 1/4 inch. 

• An added contest might be based on listeners 

guessing the weight of 1.000,000 dollar bills. The 

answer is 2.125 pounds, slightly more than a ton 

of 

paper money. 

In the theatre lobby, of course, there might be 

seemingly-filled money sacks with the dollar sign 

"$" —near posters and art calling attention to the 

film . . . And, of course, there is the perennial favorite, 

"What Would You Do With a Million Dollars?" as 

a take-off for a radio forum or newspaper write-in 

contest . . . Alternatively, it might cue an out-front 

still display: "See What "That Man in Istanbul' Must 

Do For a Million Dollars!" 

single. faced. $80.. 

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TV TRAILERS 

TRANSCRIPTIONS 

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HORST BUCHOLZ 

100% 

in 

An Anthony Isasi Film 

20% 

THAT MAN IN ISTANBUL 

100% 

SYLVA KOSCINA PERRETTE PRADIER 35% 

and MARIO ADORF 

100% 

Screenplay by GEORGE SIMONELLI and 

NAT WACHSBERGER 

Music Composed by GEORGES GARVARENTZ 

Executive Producer NAT WACHSBERGER 

Directed by ANTHONY ISASI 

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(Mat 2A; Still No. 58) Horst Bucholz, as a light-hearted 

adventurer in Turkey, faces a considerable number of 

perils in the course of "That Man in Istanbul," Columbia 

Pictures release in color. One such peril is the gentleman 

with the knife, above; others are lovely Sylva Koscina, who 

plays an FBI agent, and Perrette Pradier. 

'That Man in 

A thoroughly enjoyable addition 

to the present screen flood of secret 

agent adventures is to be found at 

the 

Theatre in "That 

Man in Istanbul." In fact, "Thai 

Man in Istanbul," new Columbia 

Pictures release in Technicolor and 

'!'< Iiiiim ope. probably i- even more 

enjoyable than most. 

With Horst Bucholz in the title 

role. "That Man in Istanbul" is a 

wild, ingenious and suspenseful 

cnmed> involving a million dollars 

and a kidnapped American atom 

scientist, the exotic city of Istanbul. 

the I' BI, a Chinese espionage ring. 

a group of power-mad individuals 

determined to rule the world. Bucholz, 

.is an American playboy, a 

nighl club owner and gambler in 

the Turkish city, becomes mixed-up 

with .ill of them in his light-hearted 

pursuit of both the million dollars 

and the girl, an FBI agent, who attracts 

his attention. 

Bui liol/' quest for the million 

hi. I the girl brings him into numerous 

awkward situations and his 

Istanbul' Review 

escapades are ingenious indeed. 

Also ingenious are his various romantic 

escapades — with the girl 

who i- really an FBI agent and not 

a strip-tease artist as she originally 

claim-, with the daughter of a millionaire 

yachtsman, with various 

blonde-, brunettes and red-heads 

whom he meets in the course of his 

chasing and being chased around 

Istanbul ... in bedrooms, on balconies, 

in a Turkish bath, in hotel 

swimming pools and wherever else 

there are girls . . . and gangster-. 

"I hat Man in Istanbul" is a happy 

combination of fun and action. 

Sylva Koscina plav- the girl who 

involves Bucholz in the chase for 

a million dollars and is herself 

chased b\ him. Mario Adorf also 

is featured as one of the colderblooded 

lillains and Perrette Pradier 

figures importantly as the yachtsman's 

daughter. Nat Wachsberger 

served as executive producer for the 

film, and penned the screenplay with 

George Simonelli. Anthony Isa-i directed, 

with a keen sense of humor. 

Horst Bucholz 

In a strange paradox, one of Hollywood's 

hottest and most exciting 

young stars has never made a 

picture in Hollywood. The actor is 

Horst Bucholz, who is starred in 

"That Man in Istanbul," the Co 

lumbia Pictures "secret agent" 

thriller at the Theatre. The 

clinch suspense-thriller features 

Sylva Koscina, Perrette Pradier and 

Mario Adorf. 

Bucholz leaped from top boxoffice 

star in European films to a 

succession of major starring roles 

in Hollywood films made in Mexico. 

Germany, India. France. Italy, Egypt 

and Yugoslavia—everywhere but the 

United States. 

Bucholz first won fame in German 

films but his recent career includes 

stardom in seven straight 

English language motion pictures 

and in two major Broadway productions. 

Bucholz made his American 

film debut as a Mexican gunman in 

"The Magnificent Seven" (made in 

Mexico). This was followed by his 

sensitive portrayal of Marius in 

Joshua Logan's screen production of 

"Fanny" (made in France). In this 

film, German-born Bucholz played a 

Frenchman with the same depth of 

feeling and conviction with which 

he played a Polish seaman in "Tiger 

Bay,'" Hayley Mills" debut picture 

which won Bucholz an armful of 

European film festival awards. 

After "Fanny," Bucholz starred 

with .lames Cagney in Billy Wilder'? 

"One, Two, Three" (made in Germany 

I. followed with the starring 

role in Mark Robson's "Nine Hours 

to Rama," (filmed in India). "The 

Empty Canvas." (made in Italy) in 

which he co-starred with Belli' Davis. 

and hi- recently completed title role 

in "Marco Polo" (filmed in Egypt 

and Yugoslavia). 

Sylva Koscina 

Lovely Italian actress Sylva Koscina 

had to take sharply-diverse lessons 

for her feature role in "That 

Man in Istanbul,'' new Columbia 

Pictures comedy-action adventure 

starring Horst Bucholz at the 

Theatre. Miss Koscina had to study 

judo and other unarmed combat 

techniques, and she also had to learn 

how to do an alluring strip-tease. 

She plays an FBI agent in the Bosphorus 

city who helps Bucholz recover 

a million dollars in loot and a 

scientist. kidnapped atom Perrette 

Pradier and Mario Adorf are featured 

it, the Techllicolnr-Tei 

General Advance 

In a city which embraces both 

East and West, as well as the ladies 

thereof, Horst Bucholz and an international 

star cast have made 

"That Man in Istanbul," new Columbia 

Pictures release opening 

at the 

Theatre in Technicolor and Techniscope. 

A light-hearted suspensethriller 

involving a million dollars in 

ransom money and a kidnapped atom 

scientist, girls, a Chinese espionage 

ring and a group of individuals determined 

to rule the world, and 

more »irls. "That Man in Istanbul" 

reportedly is a delightful addition 

to—and a thorough-going spoof of 

the current cinema crop of secret 

agent antics and romantics. 

Bucholz plays an American playboy 

in the Turkish 

exotic, erotic 

city; a night club owner and gambler 

who becomes involved in the 

quest for the missing million. The 

missing atom scientist only is incidental 

to Bucholz, he is far more 

terested in a would-be stripper 

i 

who really is an American intelligence 

agent. She is much prettier. 

Italy's provocative Sylva Koscina 

plays the girl whose knowledge of 

the art of judo is far greater than 

her capabilities as a strip-tease performer, 

and France's equally provocative 

Perrette Pradier plays another 

of the many international beauties 

with whom Bucholz tangles 

in the course of his gay pursuit of 

loot, not love. Mario Adorf also is 

featured, as one of the more ruthless 

killers whom Bticholz ingeniously 

Advance Notice 

A light-hearted suspense-thriller. 

"That Man in Istanbul" opens 

at the Theatre with Ilor-t 

Bucholz in the title role. Sylva 

Koscina. Perrette Pradier and Mario 

Adorf are featured in the Columbia 

release, a comedy drama of a playboy's 

one-man fight to recover a 

stolen million dollars and a kidnapped 

atom scientist. George Siinonelli 

and Nat \S achsberger penned 

the screenplay and Wachsberger 

served as executive producer. Ant'loin 

Isasi directed the film, in 

Technicolor and Techniscope. 

International! 

Horst Bucholz is the young international 

star of "That Man in Istanbul," 

new Columbia Pictures release 

in Technicolor and Techniscope 

at the Theatre, 

a suspense-comedy of spies 

and adventurers and girls, with 

Bucholz playing an American who 

has settled down in the Turkish 

,i\ as a playboy and gambler. Featured 

are Svlva Koscina. Italian a' - 

in -- who plays an FBI agent seek'na 

a kidnapped atom scientist and a 

million dollars in ransom monev : 

Perrette Pradier. the French beautv: 

and Mario Adorf. the German actor. 

Anthony Isasi, a Spanish filmmaker, 

directed the thriller with a 

sense of humor. 

(Mat 1A; Still No. 79) Horst 

Bucholz is "That Man in 

Istanbul," in the new Columbia 

Pictures release in 

color. Sylva Koscina, at left, 

plays an FBI agent in the 

comedy-action thriller.

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Family Diary (114) Ital Drama. MGM 7-16-65 A2 

2939 ©Family Jewels. The (100) Comedy Para 7- 5-65 Al 

Fascist. The (102) Ital. Com ..Embassy 8-12-65 

Female Prince. The 

(105) Mus Drama Run Run Shaw 8-30-65 

2979 Fiendish Ghouls. The 

(74) HorTor Melo Pacemaker 11-29-65 

H 

i the Phoenix (148) Adv Dr 20th-Fox 

2971 Frankenstein Meets the Space 

+ 

Monster (78) S-F AA 11- 1-65 

Friend of the Family. 

A (95) © French Comedy . 

2970 OGhidrah, the Three-Headed Monster 

. I -C 12-20-65 A2 + -, ~ + 

(85) s Sci-Fic Conf I 10-25-65 A2 

Ghost, The (96) 11-22-65 + 

2978 Horror Melo. 

2963 ©Git! (92) Adv Drama Embassy 10- 4-65 Al -4 

2942 Glory Guys. The (112) 

Great Armored Car Swindle, The 

Melo Taurus SR 8-30-65 .... 

2953 

2942 i^GGreat Race, The (152) ® Com.. WB 7-19-65 Al ft ft ft 

2961 ©Great Sioux Massacre, 

The (91) © Western Drama ..Col 9-27-65 A2 -f- + 4- ~ 

Greed in the Sun (122) Melo... MGM 9-20-65 + + ± ft 

2944 ©Gunmen ot Uie Rio Grande 

(86) Western AA 7-26-65 t 

2940 ©Hallelujah Trail, The (156) © C W UA 7- 5-65 A 1 u H 

2939 ©Harlow (125) ® Drama Para 7- 5-65 A3 4- + 4J 

2974©Harum Scarum 

MGM 11- 8-65 A2 + 

+ 

+ 2: + + 

(85) ® Drama with Music. 

©Harvey Middleman, Fneman (75) 2946 C Col 8- 2-65 A2 + -4 + ff ft 

2946 Having a Wild Weekend 

-f- 

8-18-65 Al + 2949tJ©HELP! (90) Com with Songs + ff ff 

ft ft 

2194 ©Hercules Against the Moon Men 

(90) S Melodrama Governor 7-12-65 + 

2951©HerculK vs. the Giant 

Warriors (94) Spec . 

2982 ©Heroes of Teltmark, 

.John Alexander 8-23-65 ^ 

The (131) ® War Drama Col 12- 6-65 A2 ft + ft ff 

Heroina (105) Spanish Melo Royal 11-22-65 + 

High Infidelity (120) 

Ital Four Episode Com Magna 8- 2-65 + ft 

2931 ©High Wind in Jamaica, 

A (104) © Drama 6- 20th-Fox 7-65 A2 -f 

Hill, The (122) War Drama 

+ + 2: + ft 

2966 + + i H (t 

10-11-65 A4 4 

2979 Horrors of Spider Island 

(75) Horror Drama Pacemaker 11-29-65 -f 

2958 Hours of Love, The (89) CO. Cinema V 9-13-65 + + 

2944 ©How to Stud a Wild Bikini 

(93) 03 Com AIP 7-26-65 B -t- 

2982©Human Duplicators. The (82) SF. .AA 12- 6-65 + 4- 

—I— 

+ ± 2933 ©I'll Take Sweden (96) Com UA 6-14-65 B + + + 

2948 ©Image of Love (88) Doc Green 8- 9-65 C -f + 4 i 

2987 ©Inside Daisy Clover 

(12S) p Drama WB 1- 3-66 A3 

2947 In Trouble With E.e (64) Comedy Borde 8- 9-65 

2943©lpcrrss File. The (108) 

SPy Drama Univ 7-26-65 A2 + -r + • 

2928 I Saw What You Did (82) Or Univ 5-24-65 A3 4 4 - 

Italiano Brava Gente 

(156) War Drama Embassy 11-15-65 A3 

I Was All His (101) Melo Casino 6- 7-65 + 

2942 Jig Saw (97) Western Drama Beverly SR 7-12-65 4 

. 2986 Johnny Nobody (88) My Or. Medallion 12-20-65 A2 

2977 ©Juliet of the Stints 

(137) Fantasy Drama Rinoli 11-22-65 M I tt 

2991 Kid Rodelo (91) Crime Drama Col 1-17-66 A2 

2973 Kin, Rat (134) Col 11- 8-65 A3 + + 4 

The (84) Farce Com 

2887 Kwaheri (80) Jungle Doc Unusual 1-4-65 + 

Kwaidan (125) s Three-part Dr Confl 1-17-66 

—L— 

©La Boheme (108) 0:tii WB 10-18-65 2967 A2 44 44 f ft 44 

©Last Woman of Shang. The 

(109) Chinese Period Drama Frank Lee 11-22-65 := * 

La Tia Tula (98) Melo United Infl 7-28-65 A3 4 

2949 Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 

•20s (91) Como Com MGM 8-16-65 Al 4 - 

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Cinema 

REVIEW DIGEST 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX Very Good; + Good; — Fair; — Poor; = Very Poor. fr is rated 2 pluses, — as 2 minuses. 

29S4 Leather Boys. The (77) Melo .... Piatt 12-13-55 A3 

©Les Amiclie (100) Ital Or Premiere 11-22-65 

2986 Life at the Top (117) Drama ... Col 12-20-65 

Lite Upside Down (93) Fr Or . . Landau 

10- 4-65 

2960 Little Nuns, The (101) Com Embassy 9-20-65 A2 

is 

»: p £ ? li 

2979 Best Agent the Whole ©2nd Secret in Wide 

World, The (96) My Com Embassy 11-29-65 A3 

2951 ©Second Fiddle to a Steel 

Guitar (107) © Musical ..Marathon 8-23-65 

2991 ©Secret Agent Fireball 

i 

2963 Little Ones. The (66) Dr Col 10- 4-65 

(89) © Susp Drama AIP 1-17-66 

2950 ©Love and Kisses (67) 

Com with Songs Unix 8-16-65 A2 

Maedchen in Uniform (91) Or Seven Arts 9-20-65 A2 r£ 

Madame White Snake (105) 

+ 

Fairy Tale Frank Lee 12-20-65 

Mad Executioners. The (92) Dr.. Para 10- 4-65 2: 

2964 Cr A2 

2989 ©Magic World of Topo Gigio, 

The (72) Cartoon Col 1-10-66 + 

Magnificent 

Cuckold, 

The (113) Com-Dr Cont'l 6- 7-65 A3 + 

2936 Make Mine a Million 

(82) Comedy British Lion SR 6-21-65 + 

Male Hunt (92) French Farce Com..P-C 5-31-65 B + 

Married (94) Dr. Royal 10-25-65 C Woman, The — 

©Marriage on the Rocks (109) ® CD WB 9-27-65 B + 

2961 

2934 ©McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force 

(90) Farce Comedy Univ 6-14-65 Al + 

2965 Mickey One (93) Drama Col 10-11-65 A3 ++ 

2928 Mirage (107) Drama Univ 5-24-65 A2 + 

2955 ©Mission to Hell 

(83) © Adv Dr.Jones-Carpenter-SR 9-6-65 t 

Moment of Truth, The (105) Doc Rizzoli 8-25-65 A4 + 

2932 ©Monkey's Uncle, The (90) C ....BV 6- 7-65 Al + 

Mother and Daughter (80) Melo. .Artkino 11-15-65 + 

2959 Motor Psychol (74) Melodrama ....Eve 9-20-65 ± 

2973 ©Mozambique (98) Dr Seven Arts 11- 8-65 + 

2953©Muneta (108) Western ...WB 8-30-65 + 

Dr Al 

2977 Mutiny in Outer Space (85) S-F Melo AA 11-22-65 + 

2933 My Baby Is Black! (75) Melo AFOC 6-14-65 + 

2981 My Pal Wolf (76) Melo Pitkin 12- 6-65 + 

—N— 

2969 Nanny, The (93) Susp Dr ... 20th- Fox 10-25-65 + 

5-t2~ 

6+ 

7+1- 

3+3- 

1+ 

6+2 

2+ 

2963 ©Secret of My Success, 

The (105) Comedy Dr MGM 10- 4-65 A2 

2950 ©Sergeant Deadhead 

(90) Com with Songs AIP 8-16-65 A3 

2954 ©Seven Slaves Against the World 

(96) © Spec Para 8-30-65 A2 

©7 Women (93) Drama MGM 12-13-65 B 

Shepherd Girl, The 

(105) Mus Drama Frank Lee Int'l 9-13-65 

2926 Ship of Fools (149) Dr Col 5-17-65 A3 

2965 Situation Hopeless— But Not 

Serious (97) CD Para 10-11-65 A2 

2940 ©Ski Party (90) ® Com with songs AIP 7- 5-65 A2 

2950 ©Skull, The (90) Horror Para 8-16-65 A2 

2985 Slender Thread, The (98) Dr Para 12-20-65 A2 

2938 ©Sons of Katie Elder. The 

(122) Western Drama Para 6-2S-65 Al 

2908 y©Sound of Music, The 

(174) Todd-AO 20th-Fox 3-15-65 Al 

2985 Space Flight IC-I 

(65) Science-Fiction 20th-Fox 12-20-65 B 

Swedish Wedding Night (95) Melo Royal 11-29-65 C 

2927 ©Swingers' Paradise (85) © Dr.... AIP 5-24-65 Al 

Symphony for a Massacre 

(115) Crime Drama ....Seven Arts 7-26-65 

2923 Synanon (107) Drama Col 5-10-65 A3 

2991 ©Spy in Your Eye (88) Susp Dr.. AIP 1-17-66 

2986 Spy Who Came In From the 

Cold, The (112) Spy Drama . . Para 12-20-65 A3 

2977 ©Taffy and the Jungle Hunter 

(87) Comedy AA 11-22-65 Al 

2987 Ten Little Indians (92) My Dr Seven Arts 1- 3-66 

2957 Tennessee Jamboree 

(75) Musical Coloiama SR 9-13-65 

2962 ©That Darn Cat (116) Cr Com ... . BV 9-27-65 Al 

± 

8+2- 

5+1- 

3+ 

2972 y ©Never Too Late (105) ® Com. .WB 11- 1-65 A3 4+ 

New Angels, The (94) Doc. . Promenade 6-21-65 C ± 

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OHercules Against the Moon 

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©The Moment of Truth 

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(83) Mus. Sep 65 

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(104) Sep 65 The Awful Dr. Orlof 

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Hlldegarde Neff. Dillsh Latl. 

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CiCorpse of Beverly Hint. 

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ONinbtmare I" the Sun 

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Paramount 16520) 106 Minutes ReL Feb. '66 

Out of the tumult and tragedy of World War II a new 

nation was born- Israel- and the grueling ordeal of it.s 

birth is the setting of this grim but poignantly beautiful 

drama. Sophia Loren brings Judith, the woman bent on 

avenging her wrongs, to life with such impact thai tinintensity 

of her performance is not soon forgotten. This o 

is a dramatic story of war and has few lignl mom 

but does end on a note of hope that most mo\ 

seem to require and is therefore suitable for standard 

houses. The idea for the story was conceived by producer 

Kurt Unger and he took it to Lawrence Durrell. 

author of the novels known as "The Alexandrian 

Quartet." Filmed on a barren, rock-strewn lull In Israel 

where a kibbutz, modeled after a real kibbutz ol the 

period, thai of 1945-49. was built, the picture has authenticity 

in its background and a fine cast to follow 

through. Peter Finch as the kibbutz leader is dedicated 

b in romantic appeal for female audiences. Jack 

Hawkins as the English major is convincing and sympathetic. 

Zaharira Charifai is so natural in her role of 

Doctor Rachel she seems to typify the spirit of the entire 

communal colony. Daniel Mann directed and the music 

was composed and conducted by Sol Kaplan. 

Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins. Hans 

Verner, Zaharira Charifai, Shraga Friedman. 

The Big T.N.T. Show ££ ^-JJS 

American Int'l 16517) 93 Minutes Rcl. Jan. '66 

Like 'The TAMI Show" of a year ago, which spotlighted 

a succession of singers and rock 'n' roll acts 

that whipped most teenagers into a frenzy of delight and 

adoration, this Phil Spector production is also a succession 

of singing acts, filmed before a live audience in 

Hollywood. But where the first was filmed in grainy 

Electronovision with strictly teenage favorites cavorting, 

this has a half-dozen big names, including Joan Baez. one 

of the nation's top recording stars; the British Petula 

Clark, who scored with "Downtown," and Ray Charles, 

all of them with large adult followings. as well as David 

McCallum. the handsome star of "The Man From 

U.N.C.L.E.," the popular TV series, and The Lovin' Spoonful, 

The Byrds and Donovan, who are strictly for the 

younger set. While there is no continuity and the singis 

are interspersed with shots of screaming and 

waving fans, this has been well directed by Larry Peercc 

and has sharp and clear black-and-white photography by 

Robert Boatman—in every respect it's far superior to 

ear's Electronovision film. Miss Baez. with her 

Ive folk songs, and the blind Ray Charles are outstanding. 

The long-haired, bespectacled Byrds are just 

for the kids. McCaJlum merely waves a baton. 

Joan Baez, Roger Miller, Petula Clark. The Lovin' 

Spoonful. Kay Charles, Bo Diddley, Donovan. 

Agent for H.A.RM. 

Universal (6604) 84 Minutes 

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Feb. '66 

Universal's entry in the secret agent pictures series, 

now at the height of their popularity with the public, is 

a routine programer produced by Joseph F. Robi 

with Mark Hichman, best known on TV, and Wendell 

in the guest role of chief of security of HA R M 

'Human Aetiological Relations Machine', luimshi 

marquee value. Actually the initialed title, which suggests 

the hit TV series. "The Man From U.N.CLE." will 

best attract the youngsters and male patrons. The screenplay 

by Blair Robertson deals with Soviet attempts to 

steal the formula for a deadly spore from outer space 

which turns human beings into fungus, this idea being 

eience-fiction than spy stuff and not always too 

clear to viewers. However, Gerd Oswald has directed th 

film at a fast pace and, again following the James Bond 

l, he involves his strong-jawed agent, wellby 

Richman. with two sexy ladies, briefly with 

Alizia Gur and more often with blonde, bikini-clad Barbara 

Bouchet. who is finall 

Two veterans of Nazi portrayals m World Wa: II films, 

Martin Kosleck and Carl Esmond, steal wl 

honors the picture has. 

Mark Kichman. Barbara Bouchet. Wendell « OTej < Ml 

Esmond. Rafael Campos. Martin Kosleck, \lizia Gur. 

Feature reviews 

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The Money Trap 

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Ratio: Suspense-Drama 

2.35-1 ® 

MGM (612) 92 Minutes Krl. Feb. '66 

In a directorial move back to the gangland-type suse 

story, director Burt Kennedy delivers a successtul 

... 

police 

story for producers Max Youngst.em and David Kan. A 

Sommer, Rita 

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Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban and Joseph Cott 

this Walter Bernstein sen enplaj into the realm of crime 

yarns, which h of this kind ol drama 

for many years, its prime appeal is the conventionalstyle 

gang battle. Ford delivers his usual solid underplaying 

role of the quiet detective who has a wife with a Park 

Avenue taste which is suddenly cut off due to stock losses. 

He goes for the "perfect" crime when he sees SI million 

in sight. Screen-and-eye fi mmer and Miss 

Hayworth appear in several torrid love 

ban is good balance to Ford's scenes as he p] 

detective partner who sees a chance to end his middle 

class scale of living. Joseph Cotten portrays a doctor 

who is a cunning underworld character, : 

"hot money" and drug gangs from the East. In I 'anavision. 

Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo 

Montalban, Joseph Cotten. 

The 10th 

Victim 

Embassy (514) 92 Minutes Rel. Dec. '65 

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A hilarious satire type comedy based on 

Sheckley's science-fiction novel. "Untouched by 

Robert 

Human 

Hands," tills rates as top adult entertainment. La 

sophisticates. For general audiences 1 

amusing and surprising twists, fun and 

such as a bullet-shooting brassiere and an exploding 

banana. Well produced by Carlo Ponti a 

directed by Elio Petri, the widescreen film In 

Color has some scenic backgrounds of New York City 

and Rome, showing some of the famous landmarks, including 

the Colosseum. Partly in Italian language with 

English subtitles, there are the ingredients of suspense. 

terror, comedy and romance. The story is quite 

' imaginative, purportedly in the 21st century when world 

v F c wars have been outlawed and certain sub 

are licensed to kill for fame and fortune as a substitute 

Noted Italian star Marcello Mastrol B crew 

cut. bleached hair and no moustache, and ste 

Swiss Ursula Andress are the ki' :• 

other and turning to romance. Some unflattering social 

comment also Is made in the film, which should arouse 

discussion. Joseph E. Levine was executive producer. 

Marcello Mastroianni. Ursula Andres-., Ik., Martinelli. 

Salvo Random'. Massimo Serato, Evi Kit;. in. 

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One of the lesser Hammer Films with a callable cast 

but which nee value, this Anthony 

Nelson Keys production has enough bat lie at 

patrons 

tribal skin; 

as a supporting program 1 he story 

and screenplay by John Gilling, who also direi 

place at a lonely British outpost in India in 1850 where 

the stuffy Britishers' prejudice against a bra 

ited into the otherwl 

plot. Ronald Lewis, who plays the handsome bearded 

half-caste officer, and Oliver Reed, also bearded as a 

tribal chief, have played In previous Hammer pictures 

ible In this although they contribute 

good performances. Glyn Houston, playlrj 

paperman from the London Times, gives the a 

irtrayal. The: nich, and 

women. Catherine the two Woodville. 

fleer's wife, and Yvonne Romain. as a Jealo 

e just adequate, no more. Color adds to the 

if some of them 

seem lik, As minor action fare, this fills 

the second spot well enough. 

Ronald Lewis, OUv« Seed, Vvonne Romain. Duncan 

I.amont. Catherine Woodville. Glyn Houston. 

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EATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitips; Adlines for Newspapers and Programs 

THE STORY: 

"The Money Trap" IMGM) 

Detective Joe Baron (Glenn Ford), who is on a homicide 

case with Pete Delanos (Ricardo Montalban), finds 

a dying robber shot by Dr. Van Tilden (Joseph Cotten) in 

front of a safe, who gives Baron the combination before 

he dies. The suspicious circumstances lead the detectives 

to look further. With $1 million mentioned as the prize, 

Baron decides the money will help him solve his own 

financial problems, caused by his wife's (Elke Sommer) ESE 

extravagant way of life. Delanos has the same views. 

Rosalie (Rita Hayworthi, wife of the murdered hood, 

gives Baron, an ex-sweetheart, a lead that the money is 

"hot" and the doctor is not respectable. Baron and 

Delanos break open the doctor's safe, but Delanos is 

fatally wounded. Rosalie is pushed off a building to her 

death. In a phony deal, the doctor treats Delanos' wound, 

only to see him die. Baron is swindled into handing over 

the money and is to be killed, but in turn kills the doctor 

while being mortally wounded himself. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Have a number of cooperating stores put a cellophane 

bag of "stage" money in their windows, together with 

picture stills and playdate credits. Guest tickets may be 

offered daily to the five people who come closest to guessing 

the total amount of "money." 

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Only Way Out Is With a Gun!

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Bailey, Box 90, Nocona, Texas. 

UNBEATABLE VALUES1 Ashcraft 85 

ampere selenium rectifiers, $375.00 pair; 

aluminum reels, $2.00; Simplex X-L soundheads, 

used few hou: 

CLOTH SEATING TAPE. x2160" $5.95 

3"xl080" $3.50. All types of reflectors a 

lowest prices. Movie Supply Co., Inc 

P. O. Box 72, Morton Grove. 111. 60053 

USED EQUIPMENT FOR SALE 

USED PROJECTION EQUIPMENT 

WE BUY. SELL. TRADE. REPAIR all 

makes projectors, movements, sound equipment 

and lamp houses. Lou Walters Sales 

5 Service Co., 4207 Lawnview Ave., Dallas, 

Texas. 75227. 

Did not receive my copy of the issue that 

carries the Quarterly Index for the last 3 months 

of 1965. This is a MUST. So kindly send another 

copy so I can have the BOXOFFICE Feature Reviews 

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DICK ALLAIRE 

Theatre Victoria, 

Victoriaville, Canada 

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ANTIQUE EQUIPMENT THEATRE SEATING 

For salo. 1927 Holmes. 35mm pro; : SEAT COVERS MADE to your choice ol 

Beautiful condition, minus lens and lamp- color, material. Easily installed by your 

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LOW prices. CHICAGO 

1320 So. Wabash 

Ave. Chicago, 111. 60605. 

THEATRES FOR SALE 

One-half downtown Syracuso 1st runs 

for will be closed this year urban renewal. 

600-seat theatre, can bo expanded 

fastest Located growing suburban area. 

Syracuse, NY. Prime commercial property 

with rentals plus theatre. Almost unlimited 

in parking area. Theatre operated 

11 discuss lease. A. Klayman, 

Brookford Road, Syracuse, New York, 

13224. 

Wanted. District Manager your 

[or circuit in 

requirements. STAR CINEMA SUProwlh 

area. Must be sound businessman PLY, 621 West 55th Street, New York, County soat. Wostorn Kansas. Indoor 

,- operation. 

nd showman, well versed in exploitation 10019. 

All buildings, fixtures, and inventory included. 

Selling for a low price, with 

nd administration. Send references, ex- 

•rience, recent photo to Boxoffice, 

For sale: all equipment :n 355-seat thetre. 

1268. 

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including marquee. Newhall, Calif, lerms Write P.O. Box 1666, Hutchinson, 

/rite for inventory L T Molitor, P.O. 

For Sale: Modern 550-seat theatre with 

living quarters. For complete informatior: 

write to: Rex Theatre, Curwensville. Penn., 

16833. 

Drive-in and Indoor, centra] Ka 

county seal, population 14,000. Only 

aires Price. $40,000 Real esta 

indoor. Boxoffice, 1264. 

_ 7-seat motion picture theatre in South 

California, year round resort city. Ex- 

;nt family business and return. $7,500 

n, 10 year lease. Trade Winds The- 

, P.O. Box 175. Carpmteria, Cali- 

SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS. 

Best workmanship. reasonable prices. 

Have men, will travel. Rebuilt theatre 

chairs for sale Neva Burn Products Corp., 

262 South St N Y C. 

CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHEREI EXPERT 

workmanship, personal service, finest materials. 

Arthur fudge, 2100 E. Newton Ave.. 

Milwaukee. Wisconsin. 

SOUND PROJECTION 

MAINTENANCE MANUAL & 

MONTHLY SERVICE BULLETINS 

START 1966 RIGHTI GIVE YOUR PA- 

TRONS THE BEST IN SOUND & PROJEC- 

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Trout's Looso-Loaf Sound and Projection 

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arc and Xenon 

on lenses; "How to set sound 

lamps; data 

lenses"; valuable data on amplifiers, preamplifiers, 

soundheads (Course in Electronics); 

Speaker systems; Optical and 

Magnetic sound; transistor systems; Rectifiers 

and Generator sets; Optics, etc. 

S$ in Authentic Data. Save repairs and 

supplies. Data on !'• 

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460-seal stadium stylo, 

and PROJECTIONIST? Only 57.95-^pric. 

seated and redecorated. Progressive town, 

terms Manual and ONE YEAR SUB- 

includes western Iowa. Cash or to suit. C. D. 

Vickers, Mapleton. Iowa. Phone: SCRIPTION to Monthly SERVICE BULLE- 

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THEATRES WANTED OKLAHOMA 73701. 

Wanted to Buy or Lease Indoor the 

tre in metropolitan areas, population a 

east 75,000. Contact William Berger 

letropole Hotel. Cincinnati, Ohio. 

PROPERTY FOR SALE OR LEASE 

Replica of old Frontier Fort Stockade 

eral store. On Lewis & Clark Lake, Gavin's 

Point Dam, Yankton, So. Dakota. 

Built new in 1963. Area attracted 1,- 

700, 0C0 people in 1965. Fort Dakota, Inc . 

BUSINESS STIMULATORS 

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BINGO. MORE ACTION. $ i: : i 

ither games available, on, off screen 

lovelty Games Corp., 106 Rogers Ave, 

Build attendance with real Hawaiian 

orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers of 

Hawaii. 670 S. Lalayette Place. Los An- 

Callf. 

Bingo Cards. Die cut 1. 75-500 combinations. 

1. 100-200 combination Can bo used 

for KENO $4 50 per M Premium Products. 

New York 36, N.Y. 

FILMS WANTED 

16-3Smm features, serials, westerns 

contact Jack Cates. 2144 Ravenden Road. 

(8116. 

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