Boxoffice-January.02.1967

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ffA stunning picturebeautifully 

built up with glowing images and color compositions. A 

FASCINATING PICTURE, which has something real to say about the 

matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzedup, 

media-hooked-in world... it is vintage Antonioni fortified with a 

Hitchcock twist. The performing is exceWenW" —Bosiey Crowther, New York Tkimes 

"So stunning that 

you want to see it 

more tiian once! 

Antonioni touches all current bases 

in advanced film-making. He does 

it with astonishingly and complete 

artistic beauty, with delicacy 

and taste. The scenes and 

the color of London, and 

the interiors, and those 

marvelous girl models, 

each one looking exactly 

are all 

like what she is, 

incomparably real!" 

— Archer Winsfen, Nnw York Posf 

A beautiful and 

startling film! 

AN ENGROSSING THRILLER! 

MAGNIFICENTLY TENSE! 

A FASCINATING POINT 

OF EXCITEMENT! 

A flesh and blood puzzle. 

A message belted at us 

with a twang of invisible 

catgut. The basic ugliness 

of creatures and rituals is 

explored and expounded 

brilliantly. I SUGGEST 

YOU TRY IT!" 

—Judifb Crisf, 

N. Y. World Journal Tribune 

A Carlo Ponti Production 

Recommended for mafure audience 

Pre-Chrlstmas Week 

CORONET- N.Y.C 

(589 Seats) 

^30.94200 

Michelangelo Antonioni's 

first 

English language film 

Vanessa Redgrave 

BLOW-UP 

David Hemmings 

Sarah Miles 

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lANUARY 2, 1967 

/ol. 90 No. 11 

Guest Editorial 

By JACK VALENTI 

A Decade 

President, Motion Picture Association of America 

SIGNALS 

are coming up green for the motion 

picture in 1967, and for the next decade. 

Business for the coining twelve months should 

range from two and one-half to five per cent 

better than 1966, judging by the current trends 

of significant economic factors. And these same 

economic factors indicate an improvement of 30 

to 50 per cent in the business as a whole by 1977. 

The factors I have examined, which are indices 

of things to come, include boxoffice gross, 

attendance, film rentals, new theatres, new pictures. 

The figures for 1967 do not indicate a spectacular 

gain but rather a steady, reassuring advance 

over the past year. I certainly see no falloff 

in business for exhibition or distribution. It 

will not be a year for the pessimists. 

As I see them, these gains are likely in 1967: 

1. Boxoffice gross in the United States, now 

estimated to be running around one billion 

dollars a year, should go up by at least two 

and one-half per cent. This could mean an 

increase of $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. 

2. Attendance, now averaging around 45,000,000 

weekly in the United States, should rise by a 

few points. 

3. Film rental grosses, spurred by returns from 

promising new major productions, should increase 

again, for the fifth consecutive year 

in the United States and the sixth consecutive 

year abroad where we are expanding old 

markets and creating new ones. 

4. A minimum of 200 new theatres should be 

built in the United States during the year. 

This would maintain the same relative level 

of annual increases in theatre-building of 

recent years. 

5. More American pictures should be produced 

in 1967. The downward trend in 1966, judging 

by the submissions to the Production Code 

Administration, should be reversed. 

There was 

in 1966 an increase in the number of scripts 

submitted but a decline in completed films 

submitted. Many of these additional scripts 

should be turned into pictures for theatres in 

1967. 

6. Another hopeful sign of heightened interest in 

film-making is indicated in title registration 

figures. Registration in 1966 was up more than 

ten per cent over 1965, and the upward trend 

would appear to be continuing. 

Multiply these economic factors by one-third 

or one-half, which I regard as a minimum, and 

we can anticipate a more stable and prosperous 

state of business in 1977. I think the ten-year 

gains are more likely to be spectacular than 

minimal, and I'll explain why. 

First: Population. The United States in 1977 

will have a population in excess of 260,000,- 

000, of which 60 per cent will be under 30 

years old. We can have, and I think we will 

have, a much larger share of this population 

of Expansion 

as moviegoers than the share we have of today's 

population of around 200,000,000. 

Second: America's growth. Today, our country's 

national wealth . . . the Gross National Product 

... is around $740 bUlion. In 1977 this 

figure will jump to an almost unbelievable 

one trillion, one hundred billion dollars—an 

increase of $360 billion. 

These are massive growth statistics for America. 

No one can convince me that the American 

motion picture can't keep substantially in pace 

with the country's growth. I think we will improve 

on it. 

Figures can mark the milestones of economic 

and material progress but they aren't the whole 

story. In a medium of expression—an art—such 

as the motion picture, the intangibles are also decisive 

factors. And because the tangibles, which 

I sum up in one word—creativity—occupy this 

determining position, I am more than ever convinced 

that the next ten years may outmatch any 

other similar period of time in the history of 

the American screen. 

In the next decade the scope of the motion 

picture will be broadened, its uses will be multiplied. 

Improved methods of exhibiting and distributing, 

developed within the industry, will be 

more efficient, less costly, and tuned to the requirements 

of a fast-moving, changing America 

and world. 

New techniques in production will be equaled 

by new emphasis on excellence and quality for 

the theatrical motion pictures. New and young 

creators will add dimension and diversity to 

films. 

The film will become one of the principal 

tools of education, fulfilling a vital need in 

primary, secondary, and higher education, and 

in life outside academic halls. The screen will 

stand on a par with the printed word. 

The American Fihn Institute, so long in the 

dream stage, now begins the turn towards reality. 

In the next decade, through transmission by 

satellites, the motion picture will be seen throughout 

the world by more than five times the 270,- 

000,000 persons who comprise the average weekly 

global attendance for all films today. 

For centuries men have dreamed of a language, 

universal in its appeal, which could more closely 

knit the earth's inhabitants. The film is becoming 

that language. 

None of this will lessen the role of the motion 

picture theatre. Its place as the center of attraction 

for the public, in city, town, and country, 

will be strengthened. Dialogue and rapport between 

the Motion Picture Association and the 

National Association of Theatre Owners, led by 

brilliant, energetic Sherrill Corwin, increase to 

the uhimate benefit of the entire industry. 

These are the things I see as I look ahead ten 

years to 1977. It will be the Expanding Decade 

for 

film. 

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ON MGM PROXY FIGHT FRONT 

Levin Gathers Support; 

Proposes 8 for Board 

NEW YORK.— Philip J. Levin, dissidenl 

director of Meiro-Goldwyn-Mayer, last week 

continued to solicit support in his battle for 

control of the film company, with his supporters 

notifying the Securities and Exchange 

Commission that they hold a total 

of 62t,S()2 MGM shares, or 12.3 per cent 

of the 5.042.000 outstanding. 

Levin himself revealed that he had purchased 

an additional 30,000 shares in his 

name and that of his wife Janice. 

Named on Levin's Slate 

Filings continued to be made before the 

SEC in the proxy fight, as Levin named 

eight of an expected 12-man slate which 

he will propose for election as the company's 

board of directors at the annual meeting 

February 23. 

Those filing with the SEC and named on 

the Levin slate include: William Goetz. Hollywood 

film producer; Charles H. Gross. 

New York stockbroker; Martin Weiner, New 

Jersey realtor and partner of Levin in the 

Levin-Wciner Development Co.; Jack Wilder, 

president of U.S. Smelting Refining & 

Mining Co.; Martin Horwitz, partner in the 

law firm of Horwitz & Hartnick and board 

chainnan of U.S. Smelting; Theodore W. 

Kheel, lawyer and mediator of labor disputes, 

and Harper Sibley jr., director of 

Western Union and head of Sibley Construction 

Lending Corp., Rochester, N.Y. 

Support also was thrown to the Levin 

camp by William S. Vernon, investor and 

communications consultant, who was expected 

to be named to the Levin board 

slate. Another supporter, Ronald J. Kahn. 

British 

film producer and managing director 

of Fitzroy Films of London, also filed a 

Schedule 14-B before the SEC indicating 

that while he would support Levin, he would 

not seek a scat on the MGM board. 

Another .Stockholder Suit 

Meantime, in other action here, shareholder 

Joseph S. Scheinberg filed suit in 

New York State Court seeking to bar MGM 

president Robert H. O'Brien and other officers 

from using company "cash, credit. 

prestige or personnel" in a proxy b;iiile. 

The suit, filed on behalf of MGM stockholders, 

names all current directors including 

I cvin and claims the adversaries have 

hired lawyers, public relations advisors, finan

low PUYING TO CAPACITY-WORLD PREMIERE EHGAGEMENT 

UA RIVOLI THEATRE. NEW YORK CITY 

AND FOX WILSHIRE THEATRE, LOS ANGELES 

Bosley Crowther in the New York Times: 

"A CRESCENDO OF HER01CSI..A FORCEFUL BLASTL.'THE SAND PEBBLES' AS A FILM 

HAS A GREAT DEAL MORE IMPACT THAN AS A BOOK . . . STEVE McQUEEN AT HIS 

BEST-THE MOST RESTRAINED, HONEST, HEARTFELT ACTING HE HAS EVER DONE!" 

Arthur Knight in the Saturday Review: 

''THE VIRTUOSITY OF ROBERT WISE IS IMPRESSIVELY DISPLAYED IN HIS NEWEST 

FILM, "THE SAND PEBBLES". ..A VAST, WIDE-RANGING ADVENTURE TALE, PANO- 

RAMIC YET ALSO INTIMATE AS THE UPSURGE OF CHINESE NATIONALISM IS VIEWED 

THROUGH THE EYES OF A HANDFUL OF AMERICAN SAILORS ON A U. S. GUNBOAT 

ASSIGNED TO CRUISE THE YANGTZE DURING THIS TROUBLED TIME . . . ACTION, 

ALWAYS COLORFUL IS THE ESSENCE OF THE FILM. STEVE McQUEEN IS NOTHING 

SHORT OF WONDERFUL IN THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF HOLMAN." 

Kate Cameron in the N. Y. Daily News: 

"^*** HIGHEST RATING! ROUSING ADVENTURE... FILLED WITH ACTION THAT 

HAS THE AUDIENCE SITTING ON THE EDGE OF ITS COLLECTIVE SEAT...A BIG AND 

SPLENDID CAST. ..STEVE McQUEEN GIVES THE MOST IMPORTANT AND BEST 

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— 

ABC-ITT Merger Okayed; 

To Be Effective Jan. 23 

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications 

Commission, in a 4-to-3 splii. 

has approved the merger of American Broadcasting 

Companies and International Telephone 

& Telegraph Corp. and the official 

merging of the firms is set for Monday, 

January 23. "or very soon thereafter, if no 

federal action is taken to prevent it." 

Approval by the FCC came shortly after 

it had received notification from the Department 

of Justice that the D of J had investigated 

the merger for possible antitrust 

law violation and that it planned no action 

against 

it. 

•Pn>mises Public Benefits' 

The FCC majority view held that: "Our 

review of the whole record persuades us 

that the merger of ABC and ITT promises 

unquestionable public benefits." 

The three dissenting commissioners 

charged that the FCC rushed the ruling 

"without more than superficial attention" to 

the antitrust division's conclusion that "the 

merger raises substantial anti-competitive 

questions" though not sufficient to warrant 

legal action. Commissioner Nicholas Johnson 

charged that the approval "makes a 

mockery of the public responsibility of a 

regulatory commission that is perhaps unparalleled 

in the history of the American 

administrative process." 

The approval was subject to sharp criticism 

by three members of Congress. Senators 

Gaylord Nelson (D., Wis.) and Wayne 

Morse (D., Ore.) who have consistently 

sought to block the merger approval, and 

by Rep. Silvio O. Conte (R., Mass.) a member 

of the regulatory agency subcommittee 

of the House Small Business Committee, 

which investigated FCC operations last year. 

Nelson said "the willingness and ability 

of the FCC to consider the public interest 

in such cases has been thrown open to serious 

question." Morse criticized the "precipitate 

action by the FCC on the most important 

merger ever to come before it." 

Suit Filed on One Station 

Meanlime. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.. 

filed a petition in U.S. Court of Appeals 

here asking the court to prevent the F-CC 

from allowing transfer of one of 17 ABC 

radio and television stations to ITT. That 

station is WABC radio in New York City. 

The ABC^ application for renewal of the 

WABC license has been pending belore the 

J-C

National Screen Convention 

In Chicago Jan, 18-21 

NEW YORK—The first national convention 

in two years of the National Screen 

Service field force has 

Milton Feinberg 

been called by Milton 

Feinberg, general 

sales manager of the 

company. The convention 

meetings will 

take place in the Ambassadors 

East and 

West in Chicago on 

January 18-21. 

This 

convention 

gives every indication 

of becoming a newsmaking 

meeting since, in addition to introducing 

several new display items, it will reveal 

plans and blueprints for the future of 

National Screen Service, which are part of 

the continuing revitalization of the company. 

Feinberg also will announce the final 

results and awards for the 1966 NSS Sales 

Drive. 

The New York home office delegation 

will be headed by Burton E. Robbins, president 

of NSS; and will include fin addition 

to Feinberg) Paul N. Lazarus, Norman Robbins, 

Albert Stefanic, Martin Michel, Perry 

Seifter and Joseph Freiberg. 

All NSS exchange managers and salesmen 

will attend the meetings which begin Thursday 

morning (19), concluding Saturday afternoon 

(21). Those attending from the field 

will be: Charlie Lester and Willard Kohorn, 

Atlanta; Joe Rossi, Boston; Milton Lindner, 

Charlotte; Jack Greenberg and Leslie Gurvey, 

Chicago; Billy Bein and George Bryant, 

Cincinnati; Paul Short and Ken Morris, Dallas; 

Jack Lustig, Denver; Ivan Clavet, Detroit; 

Jack Winningham, Kansas City; Fred 

Weimar and Al Blumberg, Los Angeles; 

Paul Ayotte, Minneapolis; Stewart D. Harnell. 

New Orleans; Irving Marcus, Milt 

Geller, Seymour Kaplan and Bob Levine, 

New York; Stanley Goldberg, Philadelphia; 

Clare Swonson, Pittsburgh; Al Rothschild, 

St. Louis; Ray Richman, San Francisco and 

Kenneth Friedman, Seattle. 

NSS Unit to Produce Reel 

For MGM Records Meeting 

NEW YORK—The special project unit 

of National Screen Service has been commissioned 

by Jack Maher, advertising director 

of MGM Records, to produce the audiovisual 

presentation for its upcoming distributors 

meeting, scheduled to be held January 

2-5, in Acapulco, Mexico. 

Multiple slide and motion picture projectors, 

driven by a specially designed pre-programed 

computer, will be focused on three 

screens, providing many new and unusual 

special visual effects for this meeting, highlighting 

MGM Records' 20th anniversary. 

Directing and supervising the entire visual 

presentation are Sid Rubinstein and Tom 

Kearns of National Screen, with full stereo 

sound provided through MGM's engineering 

facilities. 

This division 

of NSS has been extremely 

active recently with film and audio-visual 

assignments, particularly in the nontheatrical 

area. 

Commonwealth United 

To Buy Landau Firm 

NEW YORK—Ely Landau and Oliver A. 

Unger, president and executive vice-president, 

respectively, of the Landau/ Unger 

Co., have reached an agreement in principle 

with Peter Gettinger. chairman, and Theodore 

R. Sayers, president, respectively, of 

Commonwealth United Corp., for an exchange 

of shares of the two companies 

whereby Commonwealth United would acquire 

ownership of the Landau/ Unger Co. 

Subject to 

Subject to Voter Approval 

formal contracts being entered 

into between the two corporations and to the 

approval of their respective stockholders, 

the total consideration for the acquisition 

of 100 per cent of the Landau/ Unger stock 

will be 500,000 shares of the common stock 

of Commonwealth United, of which 380,000 

will be issued upon stockholder approval of 

the agreement, and 120,000 to be issued 

based on earnings of the Landau/ Unger Co. 

over the next four years. 

It is intended that the Landau/ Unger Co. 

will be operated as a subsidiary of Commonwealth 

United with no change in its present 

management or operating policies. The Landau/ 

Unger Co. will also have representation 

on the board of directors of Commonwealth 

United, a publicly held corporation listed 

on the American Stock Exchange, and is a 

diversified organization with substantial 

operations in the fields of real estate, insurance 

and shipping. The Landau/ Unger Co., 

a privately held company, is a producer of 

motion pictures and owner of theatrical and 

television 

distribution to full-length features 

of television to 

on a worldwide basis. 

Ely Landau and Oliver A. Unger originally 

joined forces in the pioneering days 

form National Telefilm Associates, 

Inc., and this became a major organization 

for television films and subsequently 

operated television and radio stations 

in New York and Minneapolis. 

Prodaced 'Long Day's Journey' 

Upon leaving NTA, Landau entered the 

film industry and produced the film version 

of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey 

Into Night," which was distributed by Embassy 

Pictures, and "The Pawnbroker," later 

distributed by American International. After 

NTA, Unger worked on the development 

of home television system, which was eventually 

sold to the late Matty Fox. He then 

established headquarters in Paris, where he 

produced "Ten Little Indians," "The Face 

of Fu Manchu," "Mozambique," "Coast of 

Skeletons" and other features, which were 

later distributed by Seven Arts. 

Landau and Unger joined again as a 

team in 1965 and their company, aside from 

its ownership of their own productions, controls 

distribution rights in various territories 

of the world to "The Servant," "The Umbrellas 

of Cherbourg," the new English-lan- 

Ely Landau Oliver A. Unger 

guage version of "La Dolce Vita," King and 

Country" and "The Eleanor Roosevelt 

Story," these now being distributed in the 

U.S. by American International. 

The upcoming Landau/ Unger films for 

release in 1967 include "Cervantes," starring 

Gina Lollobrigida. Horst Bucholz, Louis 

Jourdan and Jose Ferrer, and "Beyond the 

Mountains," starring Maximilian Schell, 

Irene Papas, Raf Vallone and Theodore 

Bikel, both currently being completed in 

Spain. 

Distribution for the films of the Landau/ 

Unger Co. is handled in varying territories 

of the world by MGM, 20th Century- 

Fox, Warner-Pathe, Seven Arts, American 

International, Franco-London Films and 

Peliculas Mexicanas. 

Landau/ Unger offices are in New York's 

Time-Life Building while Commonwealth 

United is at 745 Fifth Ave., in New York. 

Paramount to Distribute 

Two Rank European Films 

NEW YORK—Paramount Pictures has 

concluded an agreement with the Rank 

Organization of Great Britain for the release 

in the western hemisphere of two important 

overseas productions, "The Long 

Duel" and "Maroc 7," both of which are 

being distributed in the eastern hemisphere 

by Rank, according to George H. "Bud" 

Ornstein, Paramount vice-president in 

charge of European production, and F. L. 

Thomas, managing director. Rank Organization 

Film Distribution Division. 

"The Long Duel," currently being filmed 

on location in the Sierra Nevada Mountains 

in Spain by Ken Annakin, is in color and 

stars Yul Brynner and Trevor Howard with 

Charlotte Rampling and Harry Andrews. 

"Maroc 7," which was directed in color and 

Panavision in Morocco by Gerry O'Hara, is 

co-produced by Leslie Phillips and John 

Gale and stars Gene Barry, Elsa Martinelli, 

Cyd Charisse and Phillips with Denholm 

Elliott and Alexandra Stewart featured. 

Glen Alden Dividend 

NEW YORK—Glen Alden Corp. has declared 

a regular quarterly dividend of 17V2 

cents a share, payable January 17 to stockholders 

of record Jan. 3, 1967. 

BOXOFFICE :: January 2, 1967

— 

NATO Urges Fast Action 

Against Daylight Time 

DKTROIT—Less than 90 days now remain 

for theatremen to avoid the impending 

havoc and depressing consequences of 

the Uniform Time Act passed hy Congress 

in 1966. This warning and call to action is 

contained in 

the January issue of the NATO 

Newsletter of the National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners. The featured anicle titled "Time 

is of the Essence" continues as follows: 

"The federal government will make daylight 

time compulsory during six months of 

the year in every state which has not pa.sscd 

a standard time act hy next .April 1. 

V\ould 

Handicap Drive-ins 

"In many areas of the United States this 

will mean that drive-in theatres will not be 

able to put a picture on their screen until 

after 10 o'clock at night during July and 

August. Indoor theatres will have their last 

shows starting while the sun is still hot and 

bright overhead. Drive-in grosses will drop 

by 22 per cent and indoor theatre grosses 

will decline 8 per cent from last year according 

to statistics compiled by Ken 

Prickett. executive secretary of the Independent 

Theatre Owners of Ohio. This is 

based upon actual experience of theatres in 

areas which have already switched to daylight 

saving time. 

"Last year only 19 of the continental 

states were on daylight saving time. This 

means that 39 of the states will be affected 

this year by the federal law which makes an 

advance in time mandatory. The only "out" 

is if the state passes a standard time act before 

next April 1. 

"Action to get the necessary legislation 

is well under way in most of the states. Farm 

bureaus, parent-teacher associations, educators, 

traffic safety associations, restaurants 

and liquor establishments are among the 

many groups advocating standard time laws 

in each state. In many states, the exhibjiors 

arc well organized to guide and assist the 

introduction and passage of the nccessar\ 

legislation just as soon as the state legislatures 

convene. 

Example in 

Michigan 

"In .Michigan, lor example, the slate's 

leading newspapers are editorially demanding 

that the legislature pass a standard lime 

act. Aliorney General Frank J. Kelley has 

filed with Gov. (jiorgc Romney and the 

Mate legislative leaders a lengthy legal opinion 

urging state action. A Committee to Retain 

Lasiern Standard Time in Michigan 

has been lormcd with some of the stale's 

leading citizens as members. Petitions to the 

slate legisl.ilures are being circulated in every 

communily by the.iire man ijers and staffs, 

bowling alleys, restaurants nd bars, synagogues, 

churches, the Michi an Farm Bureau, 

pareni-teacher associations and many 

olher CIVIC groups. Similar action is taking 

pl.itc wlK-rrver the exhibitors are on the 

ball. In Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma, 

Texas and Arizona the exhibitors 

are especially well organized in their efforts. 

"In Arizona, the newly elected governor 

is expected to ask for standard time in his 

first message to the legislature, and it is believed 

that the legislative leaders will go 

along. Many other governors will also urge 

standard time in their State of the State 

messages in January. 

"M. A. Lightman jr., president of the 

Maico Circuit operating theatres in Arkansas, 

Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, 

does not believe in "let George do it" when 

there is an important job to be done. Properly 

concerned about the depressing consequences 

if standard time laws are not 

passed, Lightman has mobilized his circuit 

personnel to obtain action. A detailed 

letter to each of his managers states; "I am 

asking you to drop practically everything 

for the next two months in order to work 

on the most serious threat presently facing 

us, daylight saving time." Lightman has also 

urged similar all-out mobilization by every 

circuit in the nation. 

"In mid-November, representatives from 

all of the exhibitor associations in the southern 

states met in Atlanta, Georgia, for a 

very effective 

exchange of information and 

advice. Exceptionally good brochures for 

both exhibitors and legislators have been 

prepared by Mel Gerber of the Martin Circuit 

in Columbus, Ga. 

"All information on standard time campaigns 

and developments should be directed 

to the Detroit office of NATO, where 

the information and campaigns are being 

coordinated. Samples of petitions and legislative 

bills can be obtained by writing to 

executive director Milt London in Detroit. 

"It is most important that all favorable 

speeches, newspaper articles and legislative 

developments be immediately furnished to 

the Detroit office so that they can be 

printed and mailed to the exhibitor leaders 

in all of the states fighting to keep standard 

time. Through proper and quick exchange 

of information, we hope to achieve a 'domino 

effect.' Favorable statements by government 

officials in one state will certainly influence 

officials in other states. Passage of 

standard time legislation in one slate will 

pave the way for passage of similar legislation 

in adjacent states." 

'War Game' to Pathe 

NIW YORK - - Pailie Contemporarv 

Films has acquired "The War Game. 

" 

a 

featurette written and directed by Peter 

Waikins, for American distribution, according 

to Leo Dralfield, Pathe vice-presideni 

"The War Game" was originally produced 

as a television special but was wiililicld and 

then released theatrically in England. 

Busy Itinerary Scheduled 

For Corwin Until June 

DKIROIT—After a hectic pace in 1966, 

Sherrill C. Corwin, president of the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners, is now preparing 

for a whirlwind schedule in 1967. 

The first week in January, Corwin will 

be in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for ten days of 

NATO committee, executive and board 

meetings. Later in January Corwin will address 

the TESMA'TEDA conference at 

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In February he will 

address the Texas Drivc-ln Theatre Owners 

convention in Dallas, and attend a testimonial 

dinner for Marshall H. Fine in Cleveland. 

At the beginning of March he will deliver 

the keynote address for Show-A-Rama 

in Kansas City, and two weeks later give 

the keynote speech at the Mideastern regional 

convention in Columbus. Ohio. 

At the beginning of April he will address 

both the North Central convention in Minneapolis 

and the Michigan convention in 

Detroit. The week of April 17 Corwin will 

host meetings of the NATO committees and 

board of directors in Palm Springs. Calif. In 

May Corwin will speak to the convention of 

the Rocky Mountain Motion Picture Ass'n 

at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. 

Colo. 

In June. Corwin will 

address the Cinematograph 

Exhibitors Ass'n of Great Britain 

and Ireland in London. 

As Corwin stated to his fellow exhibitors 

in one of his speeches: "I can assure you 

that my every working hour is devoted to 

the tasks of the office to which I have been 

elected. The salary isn't ever\thing. As a 

matter of fact—it's nothing. But the challenge 

is there. This is still a great industry 

and you and I should unselfishly give it our 

best—for the best years of our lives 

ahead." 

Universal Sets Release 

Of 'Millie' as Roadshow 

NEW YORK — Universals "Thoroughly 

Modern Millie." starring Julie .Andrews, 

will be released as a roadshow engagement 

starting with its world premiere at the Criterion 

Theatre here March 22, it was jointly 

announced by Milton R. Rackmil. Universal 

president, and Charles B. Moss, president 

of B. S. Moss Enterprises, operator of 

the Criterion. 

This will he only the second Universal picture 

to be released as a roadshow in the more 

than 50-year history of the company. The 

other roadshow film was "Spartacus," released 

in 1960. 

A special unit for sales, advertising 

and publicity will supervise the roadshow 

release under the direction of Henry H. 

"Hi" Martin. Universal vice-president and 

general sales manager, and David A. l.iplon, 

vice-president. 

Norman E. Gluck will coordinate sales 

and distribution from the Universal New- 

York office, while advertising, publicity and 

promotion campaigns and special events will 

be coordinated from the Universal City Studios 

h\ Herb Steinberg. Jerome Evans will 

handle the eastern phase of promotional activities 

from the home office. 

BOXOFFICE :: January 2, 1967

'Man for All Seasons' 

Tops NY Critics Poll 

NEW YORK — "A Man for All Seasons," 

Fred Zinnemann's production filmed in England 

for Columbia Pictures release, practically 

swept the field in the 32nd annual 

New York Film Critics balloting Tuesday 

(Dec. 27), capturing four of the six awards, 

the first time any film had won that many 

prizes. The other two awards went to a 

British actress and a Czech film, leaving 

only Elizabeth Taylor's split "best actress" 

award as the sole Hollywood representation. 

"A Man for All Seasons" was named the 

year's best picture; Zinnemann was named 

best director of the year; Paul Scofield, who 

stars as Sir Thomas More, was named best 

actor and Robert Bolt, who did the screen 

adaptation of his play, took top honors in 

the best script category. 

The best actress award was split between 

Lynn Redgrave for her portrayal of the title 

role in "Georgy Girl," also a British picture 

distributed by Columbia, and Elizabeth Taylor 

for her star portrayal in "Who's Afraid 

of Virginia Woolf?," the picturization of the 

Edward Albee play made in Hollywood and 

distributed by Warner Bros. "The Shop on 

Main Street," Czech film distributed in the 

U.S. by Prominent Films, was named best 

foreign language picture of the year by the 

Film Critics. 

None of the year's other reserved-seat 

films, "Hawaii," "The Bible," "The Sand 

Pebbles" and "Grand Prix," garnered any 

votes even in the early balloting by the Film 

Critics. A few scattered votes in the first 

ballots went to another British film, "Morgan!" 

for best picture, to Mike Nichols, as 

director of "Who's Afraid of Virginia 

Woolf?"; to Richard Burton for his portrayal 

in the same picture and to "The Gospel 

According to St. Matthew," a Continental 

release, and to "A Man and a Woman," 

distributed by Allied Artists, in the best foreign 

language category. 

The awards for "A Man for All Seasons" 

practically guarantees that the picture will 

be nominated for these same awards when 

Academy Awards time comes around. 

The winners of the Film Critics' awards 

will receive their plaques at a private reception 

at Sardi's Restaurant January 29. 

The Film Critics who voted were Judith 

Crist, chairman of the group, and Robert 

Salmaggi and William Peper of the World 

Journal Tribune; Kate Cameron, Wanda 

Hale and Kathleen Carroll of the Daily 

News; Archer Winsten and Frances Herridge 

of the New York Post; Bosley Crowther, 

Howard Thompson and A. H. Weiler 

of the New York Times; Leo Mishkin of 

the Morning Telegraph; Joseph Gelmis of 

Newsday and William Wolf of Cue Magazine. 

David & Lisa Suit Dismissed 

NEW YORK—A suit filed against Continental 

Distributing by three limited partners 

in the Lisa & David Co. was dismissed in 

the New York State Supreme Court by Justice 

Aurelio late in December. 

BOXOFFICE :: January 2, 1967 

Three New NATO Commitfees Named 

To Tackle Industry Problems 

HOLLYWOOD — Sherrill C. Corwin, 

president of the National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners, has announced the formation of 

three important working committees to 

tackle the major problems besetting the motion 

picture theatre industry. Corwin revealed 

that some of the most knowledgeable, 

experienced and influential exhibitors in the 

country have agreed to serve on a trade 

practices committee, a blind bidding elimination 

committee, and a production subsidy 

committee. Initial meetings of all three 

committees will be held in conjunction with 

the board of directors meeting in San Juan, 

Puerto Rico, the week of January 8. 

Heads Trade Practices 

Group 

Sumner M. Redstone will head the trade 

practices committee. Assisting him: Jack 

Armstrong, Bowling Green, Ohio; Roy 

Cooper, San Francisco; Thomas J. Crehan, 

New York City; Irving Dollinger, New 

York City; Marshall H. Fine, Cleveland; 

Salah Hassanein, New York City; George 

Kerasotes, Springfield, III.; Bernard Levy, 

New York City; Jack Lowrey, Russellville, 

Ark.; David E. Milgram, Philadelphia; 

Bernard R. Myerson, New York City; 

Glenn Norris, Washington, D.C.; C. L. Patrick, 

Columbus, Ga.; Trueman Rembusch, 

Franklin, Ind.; Julian Rifkin, Boston; Wilbur 

Snaper, New York City; T. G. Solomon, 

McComb, Miss.; George Stern, Pittsburgh, 

Pa.; William H. Thedford, Los Angeles; 

Ray T. Vonderhaar, Alexandria, Minn.; 

Melvin R. Wintman. Boston, Mass. 

As was expected, past-president Marshall 

H. Fine will be chairman of the blind bidding 

elimination committee. In his keynote 

address at the NATO convention Fine had 

expressed his bitter disappointment in "the 

failure and outright neglect of the Department 

of Justice to hold the promised hearings, 

requested by the federal court over 

one year ago, on blind bidding and other related 

unfair practices." Fine had pledged that 

he would devote his full-time effort to a 

crusade to bring about the elimination of 

blind bidding. At Fine's request, the blind 

bidding elimination committee has been 

limited to only four members: Stuart H. 

Aarons (who also serves as chairman of 

NATO's legal affairs committee), Irving 

Dollinger, Bernard R. Myerson and Sumner 

M. Redstone. 

To Study Subsidy Plan 

As suggested by Harry Brandt at the 

October board of directors meeting in New 

York, Corwin has designated a NATO 

committee to investigate and determine the 

feasibility of production subsidy plans designed 

to increase the supply of motion 

picture films. Nat D. Fellman of Stanley 

Warner Theatres has been tapped to head 

this committee. Corwin also appointed the 

following members to the production subsidy 

committee: Stuart H. Aarons, New 

York City; Harry Brandt, New York City; 

Sam Clark, New York City; Marshall H. 

Fine, Cleveland; Irving H. Levin, Los Angeles; 

Ben Marcus, Milwaukee; Martin Newman, 

Long Island, N.Y.; Sperie Perakos. 

New Britain, Conn.; Matthew Polon, New 

York City; Walter Reade jr., Oakhurst. N.J.; 

Sumner M. Redstone, Boston; Julian Rifkin, 

Boston; John H. Rowley, Dallas; Arthur M. 

Tolchin, New York City. 

Even better intra-industry relations are 

the obvious objectives of two NATO liaison 

committees announced by Corwin. Corwin 

himself will head the MPAA liaison committee. 

Motion Picture Ass'n president Jack 

Valenti is chairman of a similar MPAA 

committee for liaison with NATO. 

Salute 

NATO-MPAA Rapport 

"I must acknowledge the rapport that has 

developed between the NATO leadership 

and Mr. Jack Valenti," Corwin recently 

stated. "Our relationship with Mr. Valenti 

has been one of the most refreshing events 

of the past year. Through his good efforts 

we are in consultation on a great variety of 

matters which are properly within the purview 

of our two organizations. This is a 

healthy development for the industry. I 

salute Mr. Valenti for his understanding, 

his courtesy, his progressive ideas, and 

above all his vitalizing policies." 

Jack Armstrong, Marshall H. Fine, Bernard 

Levy, E. D. Martin, Richard Orear, 

Matthew Polon. Robert W. Selig and John 

H. Stembler will serve with Corwin on the 

MPAA liaison committee. 

Bernard R. Myerson, executive vicepresident 

of Loew's Theatres, has been appointed 

chairman of the Academy of Motion 

Picture Arts and Sciences liaison committee 

by Corwin. Members of the Academy 

committee are Oscar Brotman, Sam Clark, 

Marshall H. Fine, Salah Hassanein, Henry 

G. Plitt, Dan Poller, and Robert W. Selig. 

"Increased cooperation could greatly 

benefit the Academy and the entire motion 

picture industry." Corwin stated. "NATO 

would like to assist the Academy in publicizing 

the awards presentations and assure 

maximum participation by theatres in the 

Oscar telecast. Many benefits can be derived 

from closer coordination between the Academy 

and theatre owners." 

Three Okayed for Loew's 

NEW YORK—Federal Judge Edmund L. 

Palmieri has approved the request by Loew's 

Theatres for acquisition of three theatres, 

two existing houses and one new theatre. 

The theatres to be purchased are the 1,386- 

seat Bay Terrace in Queens, N.Y., operated 

by Fabian Enterprises, and the 932-seat 

Melrose in Nashville, Tenn., operated by 

Martin Theatres of Georgia. Loew's also 

was granted permission to build a 1,500-seat 

theatre on Route 22 in Watchung, N.J.

1 

Nathanson, Dorfman 

Form New Company 

NbU YORK.—Nat Nathanson. who recently 

resigned as vice-president and general 

_ sales manager for Al- 

' V ^ lied Artists, and Irvin 

('.A Dorfman. who gave 

Nal 

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of Child- 

^^^ hood Productions. 

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^^mmjm^l Icising 

organization. 

«iih offices in New 

York, to distribute independent 

film product. 

The new company has signed contracts 

with film producer Sidney Pink to release 

all of this product theatrically, the first of 

his I I completed pictures to be released by 

PRO lo be "The Fickle Finger of Fate," 

starring Tab Hunter, for March 1. Other 

Pink films to be released shortly thereafter 

include "A VS'itch Without a Broom." starring 

Jeffrey Hunter; "The Christmas Kid." 

starring I.ouis Hayward and Jeffre\ Hunter; 

"Girl of the Nile." starring John Pasnc; "The 

Treasure of Makuba." starring Cameron 

Mitchell; "Flame Over V'ielnam" and "Fata 

Morgana." the latter an art film directed by 

Vinccnte Aranda. Pink has a multiple picture 

commitment with the Weslinghouse 

Broadcasting Co.. which will release his 1 

films on TV following theatrical release. Another 

of Pink's completed pictures. "Tall 

Women." starring Anne Baxter, will be distributed 

by .Mlied Artists early in January. 

Producers Releasing, of which Nathanson 

is president and Dorfman is general partner, 

plans to have 30 sales offices throughout 

the U.S. and Canada and will distribute films 

theatrically and for TV on a worldwide basis. 

In addition to Pink's product. PRO will 

release six other features, also finished and 

ready for release, as well as art films and 

pictures for the children's matinee market. 

Backers of the new company arc clients 

of and partners in the investment backing 

firms of Carl I.oeb. Rhoades & Co. and Lehman 

Brothers, in addition to members of 

the Tafl (Ohio) Broadcasting family. 

General Cinema Opens 3 

Units. Making 126 in All 

btJSHJN SSilh the opcnmg of its 124, 

125 and 126th theatres. General Cinema 

Corp. has new units in the stales of California, 

Ohio and Wisconsin. The theatres. 

all to be known as Cinema, opened December 

22 at the Hillsdale Shopping Center in 

San Maico, Calil., the Western Woods Shopping 

Center in Cincinnati, where General 

Cinema also operates the Montgomery 

Drive-In Ihcalre; and the Wcstlanc Cinema. 

Wcstlanc Shoppmg Center, .Milwaukee. 

The simultaneous opcnin.v > of the three 

units bring the Boston-based circuit's operation 

into 24 stales. On December 2S, the 

chain opcneil its new 1.7()()sc;ii C inenia in 

the Central Plaza Mall in Yonkcrs, N.V. 

BV's First Reserved Seat 

Film to Debut June 23 

,\LW "tORk— Buena \ isia Distributing 

will present its first reserved-seat attraction. 

VN'alt Disney's "The 

Happiest Millionaire," 

a musical based on 

the Broadway play 

about the life of .Anthony 

Drexel Biddle, 

in 1967 with the 

world premiere set 

Ining H. Ludwig 

for June 23 at the 

Pantages Theatre in 

Hollywood, according 

to Irving H. Ludwig, 

Buena Vista president. 

The Hollywood engagement will be 

followed by openings in 17-20 other key 

cities in October, all on a reserved-seat basis. 

The second Walt Disney special for 1967 

will be "Jungle Book," a cartoon feature 

based on the Rudyard Kipling classic, which 

has been in planning and production for 

more than a decade, will be released 

for Christmas 1967, Ludwig said. Buena 

Vista will also reissue a double bill of "The 

Abscnt-Minded Professor" and "The Shaggy 

Dog" May 30, 1967, another "unprecedented" 

move, he said. 

The other new Walt Disney Buena Vista 

releases for 1967 will be "Monkeys Go 

Home." starring Maurice Chevalier, Dean 

Jones and Yvette Mimieux, in February; 

"Bullwhip Griffin," starring Roddy Mc- 

Dowall, Suzanne Pleshette and Karl Maiden, 

for Easter, and "The Gnome-Mobile," based 

on the book by Upton Sinclair, for July. 

The 1967 schedule will lead off with "Follow 

Me. Boys." which was a Christmas 1966 

release and will continue into January. Another 

reissue, for June 1967, will be "Snow 

White and the Seven Dwarfs," the cartoon 

feature originally released by RKO in 1937. 

"The Happiest Millionaire," which has 12 

songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, 

who wrote the music for "Mary Poppins." 

.stars Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, 

Tommy Steele, Geraldine Page, Gladys 

Cooper, Hermione Baddeley and John Davidson 

and Lesley Ann Warren from the 

Broadway stage. The Hollywood premiere 

will be for the benefit of the California Insiiiuie 

of the Arts, an educational institution 

which was the late Walt Disney's favorite 

personal project. 

AIP Schedules 8 Films 

For Jan.-March Starts 

HOLLYWOOD—American 

International 

Pictures has given the green light to seven 

feature productions for January through 

March starts. "Devil's Angels" starts filming 

on January 10; "The Glass Sphinx" is currently 

shooting in Cairo. Fgypt; "Sunset 

.Strip and "House of 1,000 Dolls" ' starts in 

Fchriiary. The three in March arc "The 

Trip. " "The Hat fields and the McCoys" anil 

an untitled action drama in the "protesi 

film" calegt)ry. 

SIeaceca > > 

5^(^We4 

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (United 

Artists)—Clint F.astwood, known in the 

L'.S. c>nl> through his appearances in the 

"Rawhide" l\ scries, made several 

westerns in Italy which set records in 

Kuropc. This first, which was directed 

by Sergio Leone, is powerful, realistic 

action fare with a lean, taciturn James 

Dean-type of gunman hero who bids fair 

to capture (he favor of American fans, 

young and old alike. It's a tough, gunblazing 

film with no time for romance. 

Ihe photography is all browns or russetreds, 

as befits the desert backgrounds. \ 

co-production of Jolly Film (Rome), Constantin 

Film (Munich) and Ocean Film 

(Madrid). Germany's Marianne Koch, 

Jose Calvo and Daniel Martin are in 

cast. 

the 

TOBRL'K (I'niversal)—One of the heroic 

feats of World Uar II, the capture of 

fortified Tobruk in North Africa by a 

small band of British commandos, is the 

basis for an explosive (literally) battle 

adventure spectacle aimed at male action 

devotees but with less appeal to women, 

except for the Rock Hudson and George 

Teppard fans. It's a sprawling, overlong 

outdoors drama with so much night action 

that it's often difficult to identify the 

fighters. Hudson is merely adequate and 

Peppard makes a convincing German but 

it is Nigel Green who captures the acting 

honors as a tough British colonel. Guy 

Stockwell is also featured. Produced by 

Gene Corman. Directed by .Vrthur Hillcr. 

These reviews will appear in full in a 

forlhcomint; issue of BOXOFFICE. 

Named 

Milton Samuels Is 

V-P of RKO Theatres 

NFW ÔRK— Milton Samuels has been 

named vice-president of RKO QThe.itres by 

Matthew Poion. president, and wil 

tinue as executive assistant 

to Polon. 

Samuels has been 

associated with the 

Cilen .Mdcn Corp. and 

RKO Theatres for the 

past 15 years. He 

served as assistant to 

Albert A. List, then 

chairman of the board 

of Glen Alden, and 

Harry Mandel. former 

president of RKC 

I heaires. In addition he was named director 

of concessions and has been given the addeil 

responsibility as coordinating director 

ol new theatre constructions. 

Millitn .Samuels 

10 BOXOFFICE January 2, 1967

J 

FEATURE 

REVIEW 

the Sand 

20th 

Century-Fox 

Pebbles' 

By FRANK LEYEN DECKER 

TIOBERT WISE, the producer-director of 

"The Sound of Music," which is well 

on its way to becoming the top grossing 

film of all time, and of the outstanding 

"West Side Story," each of them roadshow 

triumphs, has created another picture of 

blockbuster proportions in this splendidly 

mounted, exciting and compelling picturization 

of Richard McKenna's first and only 

novel of the conflict between the Chinese 

warlords and the U.S. Navy in the Yangtze 

River region in 

1926. With the increasingly 

popular Steve McQueen giving one of his 

finest screen portrayals and Richard Attenborough, 

long one of Britain's finest actors, 

again giving an outstanding performance 

for marquee value, plus the fame of the 

novel, this should be a strong reserved-seat 

attraction and, later when slightly trimmed 

in length, do even bigger business on general 

runs. 

Wise, who spent almost a year shooting 

"The Sand Pebbles" in Taiwan and Hong 

Kong locations which approximated the 

Chinese mainland, where filming is an impossibility 

today, blended the many facets 

of his explosive story, well adapted by 

Robert Anderson, into an absorbing drama 

of human beings of several 

races caught in 

the upheaval of a full-scale civil war. In 

the process. Wise is able to put forth some 

ideas about the need for more understanding 

among various nationalities although 

the picture never becomes a preachment. 

The title derives from the name of the 

U.S. gunboat, San Pablo, (the crew call 

themselves "Sand Pebbles"), on which 

much of the action takes place, although 

there are equally important sequences in a 

Chinese mission, a Shanghai street with its 

"Red Candle" joy palace, the harbor cluttered 

with colorful backgrounds beautifully 

photographed in Panavision and De Luxe 

Color by Joseph MacDonald, A.S.C., who 

contrasts the brightly lighted outdoor scenes 

with murky, low-key interior shots. Equally 

fine, with one melodic theme recurring even 

during the more tempestuous parts of the 

score, is the music of Jerry Goldsmith, conducted 

by Lionel Newman. 

While the story is basically one of action 

and conflict during a tempestuous period, 

the human element of the film has many 

.stirring 

moments, both romantic and tragic, 

and even rare touches of humor. The picture 

builds to a battle siege with hand-tohand 

encounters which some of the more 

squeamish women patrons may find "a bit 

too bloody for comfort." 

However, "The Sand Pebbles" is 


also the 

Steve McQueen, center, as a fighting crewman of an American gunboat patrolling 

China's Yangtze River, is first to open fire on Nationalist rebels in Robert 

Wise's "The Sand Pebbles." Lining the ship's deck, left to right, are Ford Ramey, 

Barney PhUlips (chief petty officer), Richard Attenborough (who stars as Frenchy), 

Gavin MacLeod and Charles Robinson (the ensign). 

story of three of the crew of the gunboat, 

Jake Holman, the American expatriate sailor, 

who has given up trying to find peace in 

the world but has a romance of sorts with 

a young teacher to the China Light Mission 

and a true friendship with a loyal 

young coolie he trains to run the ship's 

"THE SAND PEBBLES" 

20th Century-Fox 

In Panavision and De Luxe Color 

Running time: 191 minutes, plus intermission 

CREDITS 

Produced ond directed by Robert Wise. Associate 

producer and second unit director, 

Charles Maguire. Screenplay by Robert Anderson. 

From the novel by Richord McKenna. Production 

designed by Boris Leven. Director of photography, 

Joseph MacDonald, A.5.C. Music by Jerry Goldsmith, 

conducted by Lionel Newman. Production 

associate, Maurice Zuberono. Film editor, William 

Reynolds, ACE. Unit production manager. 

Soul Wurtzel. Assistont director, Ridgeway Callow. 

Special effects, Jerry Endler. Sound, Bernard 

Freericks, Murray Spivack. Second unit photography, 

Richard Johnson. Special photographic effects, L. 

B Abbott, A.S.C., Emil Kosa jr. Costumes designed 

by Renie. Technical adviser, Horley Misiner, 

MMC, USN (Ret.). 

THE CAST 

Holman Steve McQueen 

Frenchy Richard Attenborough 

Collins Richard Crenno 

Shirley Candice Bergen 

Maily Moroyot Andriane 

Po-Han 

Wako 

Jameson Lorry Gates 

Ensign Bordelles Charles Robinson 

Stowski Simon Oakland 

Horns Fotd Rainey 

Bronson Joe Turkel 

Crosley Gavin McLeod 

Shanohon Joseph di Redo 

Major Chin Richard Loo 

Restorff Gus Trikonis 

Mama Chunk Beuloh Quo 

Victor Shu James Hong 

and Barney Phillips, Shepherd Sanders, James 

Jeter, Tom Middleton, Paul Chinpoe, Tommy Lee, 

Glenn Wilder, Jay Allan Hopkins. 

engine room; Frenchy, a frustrated British 

crewman, who rescues a Chinese virgin from 

the auction block of a joy palace, marries 

her but dies before finding happiness, and 

Captain Collins, the commander of the San 

Pablo, is ready to die defending his country's 

flag. 

While Steve McQueen's Holman is one of 

his sensitive and restrained portrayals and 

Attenborough's Frenchy is a well-thoughtout 

and moving performance, it is Richard 

Crenna, best known on TV and radio before 

his light comedy roles in "John Goldfarb" 

and "Made in Paris," who is most convincing 

and gives a mighty impression as the 

dedicated gunboat captain. With this role, 

Crenna is headed for a screen career which 

may lead to star stature. 

The two important women, who often 

hover in the background during the fighting 

action, are lovely Candice Bergen, who 

remains attractive while eschewing all 

traces of glamor as the Vermont girl who 

answers the call to teach in China, this being 

Miss Bergen's second film appearance; 

and Marayat Andriane, a Thailand model 

discovered by Robert Wise, who is 

pathetically 

appealing as the unfortunate native girl. 

Steriing supporting characterizations are 

contributed by Mako, as the timid coolie 

whom McQueen is forced to kill to save 

from torture; by Larry Gates, as the stubborn 

missionary who meets death from Nationalist 

troops, and Simon Oakland, as a 

coarse, burly crewman—a role reminiscent 

of Ernest Borgnine's in "From Here to 

Eternity." 

"The Sand Pebbles" is stirring, largescale 

entertainment with mass appeal. 

11

ôUtfcwxod êfiônt 

By SYD CASSYD 

f/gftf Wew Productions Charted 

To Go Before Cameras in 

Light new piv.iiires arc scheduled lor production, 

with the start of the new year, although 

several more went before the cameras 

the end of last month without previous 

notice, and there are a number of films 

cither just starting, or scheduled to go this 

month, on scattered locations. Seven productions 

were on the starling line for December. 

For January 1966 there were nine. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

The Glass Sphinx. Originally due to 

start production in Cairo. Egypt last month, 

this Robert Taylor-Anita Ekberg film is now 

shooting there with Fulvio Lucisano producing 

and I.uigi Scattini directing. Based 

on a screenplay by Louis M. Heywood. the 

picture will lie AIP's third feature in the 

multi-million dollar class to be launched 

this year. The story is an action adventure 

drama of an archaeologist and his secretary 

who are searching for a reputed formula for 

the elixir of life. 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Dark of the Sun. Rod Taylor, Yvette 

Mimicux and Jim Brown are co-starred in 

this dramatic story of soldiers sent by the 

government into the interior of the Congo 

to rescue the people and the diamonds being 

held by rebels. Ranald MacDougall and 

Adrian Spies wrote the screenplay, adapted 

from the action adventure novel by Wilbur 

Smith. Jack Cardiff is directing this George 

Englund production. Filming is being done 

on Jamaican locations. 

Rior ON THE Sunset Strii>. As the title 

signifies, this is producer Sam Katzman's 

production, based on an original screenplay 

by Orville H. Hampton, about the current 

activities on Sunset Strip with many scenes 

filmed during the rioting. Several featured 

roles arc played by the actual riot leaders. 

Aldo Ray. Michael Evans and .Mimsy Farmer 

head the cast, with Arthur Dreifuss directing 

the Lour Ixaf production for 

release. 

PARAMOUNT 

MGM 

I HI. Bi sHWiiAc KiKS. An A. L. Lyies production 

tor Paramount, this picture stars 

Howard Keel as a former river boat gambler 

and gunfighler who becomes sheriff of a 

town raked with lawlessness. Lesley Selander 

i< directing from an original screenplay 

by Steve Fisher. Roy Rogers jr., son of Roy 

and Dale Evans, makes his motion picture 

debut in a featured role. 

The L'nkii.i mhps. This Ivan Tors-Paramount 

picture is being filmed entirely in 

Florida and the Bahama.s with Lloyd 

Bridges starring, and Nico Minardos and 

January 

Joan Ukickman co-starring. Gene Levitt is 

producing and Iâslo Benedek directing 

from a screenplay by Andy White. It is 

about the members of the Flying Fish, a 

free swinging outfit of action specialists 

devoted to missions serving the free world. 

Michael Ansara and Shepherd Strudwick 

arc also among the toppers in 

the cast. 

UNIVERSAL 

Criss Cross. With George Peppard and 

Raymond Burr co-starred, this suspense 

drama is based on an original screenplay by 

Phil Rcisman jr. Burr plays a wealthy, sadistic 

business executive who hires Peppard. 

a private detective, as a bodyguard for his 

mistress. Edward J. Montagne is producing 

and John Guillermin is directing. 

The Ei'k of Josh.. Doris Day in a western 

with husband Marty Melcher and Andrew 

V. McLaglen as director. Harold 

Swanlon wrote the original screenplay about 

a period in Wyoming history dated in the 

1890s. 

WARNER BROS. 

\\Mr Uniii D>.rk. Mel Ferrer produces 

with his Oscar-winning wife, Audrey Hepburn, 

in the starring role of a Technicolor 

film based on the Frederick Knott Broadway 

hit. which has passed 340 performances 

on Broadway. Miss Hepburn's role as a 

sensitive blind girl terrorized by a trio of 

criminals is backed up with co-star Alan 

Arkin. talented newcomer, from "The Russians 

Are Coming" fame and Richard Crenna 

and Efrcm Zimbalist jr. The story written 

by Robert and Jane-Howard Carrington 

will be directed by Terence Young. It will 

be shot on location in Montreal and New 

York with principal photography at the 

studio in Burbank. 

Martin Ransohoff to Produce 

'February Plan' for MGM 

Martin Ransoholf. production head of 

Filmways. Inc., and Robert H. O'Brien, 

president of MGM. announce the acquisition 

of motion picture rights to "The February 

Plan," the forthcoming adventure novel 

by James Hall Roberts. Scheduled to be 

published the end of January 1967 and be 

produced by Ransohoff. Richard Alan Simmons 

has been set to adapt the novel to the 

screen . . . Broadway producer Robert Fryer 

has entered into a multi-picture producing 

arrangement at 20th-Fox. it was announced 

by Richard D. Zanuck. vice-president 

in charge of production. At the same 

time Zanuck announced the acquisition of 

the current London comedy hit, "The 

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." starring 

Vanessa Redgrave, as one of the first film 

properties to be produced by Fryer . . . 

Fielder Cook has acquired the motion picture 

rights to "The Long Winter." a novel 

by John Christopher. Cook, who is currently 

directing "Band of Gold" at Columbia, starring 

Dean Martin and Stella Stevens, will 

film "Winter" in early 1968 under his independent 

Eden Productions' banner. Prior to 

working on his own production. Cook will 

produce and direct "Prudence and the Pill" 

for 20th-Fox and will direct "No Truce in 

Trinidad" for Paramount ... Ed Leftwich. 

president of Stanley Todd Enterprises, announced 

that they had acquired all rights to 

an original story by Marcia Legere called 

"The Long Road to Mesquite" from Official 

Stale Productions. The yarn is planned as a 

future starring vehicle for Joi Lansing . . . 

Dick Van Dyke's Dramatic Features. Inc. 

acquired motion picture and television rights 

to "How to Become a Bishop Without Being 

Religious." tome by Dr. Charles Merrill 

Smith. 

Frank and Eleanor Perry to 

T-wo for Gersh-win-Kastner 

Do 

Frank and Eleanor Perry signed a twopicture 

co-production contract with Gershwin-Kastner 

Productions for projects that 

will be co-produced and directed by Perry 

and scripted by Mrs. Perry. The first picture 

"Clementina." for which Mrs. Perry 

already has completed the first-draft screenplay, 

will roll on location in Rome and 

Washington. D.C., early next summer. The 

property is based on a short story by John 

Chcever. The Perrys' second project will be 

announced as soon as all contracts for the 

property, an internationally known work, 

are executed . . . Ted Richmond, with Yul 

Brynner and Robert Mitchum co-starred, 

will produce Paramount's multi-million dollar 

production ""Villa Ridcsl" which goes 

before the cameras in the summer of 1967. 

The screenplay will be adapted by William 

Douglas Lansford from his own true story, 

which focuses on one incident in the life of 

the famed Mexican revolutionist . . . Burt 

Topper, producer and Daniel Haller. director 

will start location shooting January 10 

on American International's "Devil's Angels." 

for which no cast has yet been chosen. 

AIP chiefs James H. Nicholson and Samuel 

Z. Arkoff said the film, from a screenplay 

by Charles B. Griffith, will be shot in Arizona. 

It is the story of an outlaw motorcycle 

gang. 

Lemmon and Matthau to 

In 'Odd Couple' for Para. 

Star 

Jack lemmon and Walter Matthau were 

set for the starring roles in Paramount Pictures' 

film version of the Broadway stage 

success "The Odd Couple." The actors were 

signed for the roles by Howard W. Koch, 

who will produce the film as his first project 

under a new independent multi-picture deal 

with Paramoinii. Written by Neil Simon, the 

film version will be directed by Gene Saks, 

Negotiations are imder way for Simon, who 

adapted his stage play "Barcloot in the 

Park." for the screen, to write the motion 

picture version of "Odd Couple." 

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Rizzoli Adds 3 Field Men; 

Acquires New Italian Film 

NEW YORK— Rizzoli 

Film Distributors, 

which has already scheduled 14 features for 

release in 1967, starting with the Jacopetti 

and Prosperi documentary, "Africa Addio," 

has increased its national sales force from 

11 to 14 representatives, according to Irving 

Sochin, vice-president and general sales 

manager. 

Frank Thomas, headquartered in Kansas 

City and a veteran of more than 20 years in 

the industry, will represent Rizzoli in the 

Kansas City and St. Louis areas; Saul Perilman, 

formerly associated with Columbia 

Pictures, will handle the Pittsburgh and 

Cleveland areas from Pittsburgh and Milton 

Lipsner, former Allied Artists branch manager 

and representative for RKO Pictures 

in China, will represent Rizzoli in Baltimore 

and Washington. D.C., from the latter city. 

Rizzoli has also acquired U.S. and Canadian 

distribution rights to "Wake Up and 

Die," directed by Carlo Lizzani and shot in 

Eastman Color on locations in Milan, Paris 

and the French Riviera with Robert Hoffman, 

who will portray the role of Luciano 

Lutring, Italy's most wanted criminal, and 

Lisa Gastoni, English-Italian actress. The 

Rizzoli release is scheduled for March 1967. 

Feature Film Corp. Lists 

January-March Releases 

HOLLYWOOD—Feature Film Corp. of 

America's president Harold Goldman announced 

this week that the first pictures to 

be released by the new film distribution 

company during 1967 are "Ride the High 

Wind" starring Darren McGavin, and "Sunscorched" 

with Mark Stevens. This double 

bill is scheduled for nationwide release during 

January. 

In February, FFCA will release an actionadventure 

film, "The Destructors," starring 

Richard Egan, Michael Ansara and Joan 

Blackman, which was produced in cooperation 

with United Picture Corp. at Producer's 

Studio in Hollywood. 

March release, "Run Like a Thief," stars 

Keenan Wynn, Kieron Moore and Ina 

Balin. The film, produced in association 

with Twincraft Productions, was produced 

in Spain. 

Temporary Injunction Stops 

'Seventeen' Distribution 

NEW YORK—State Supreme Court Justice 

Thomas A. Aurelio has granted a temporary 

injunction restraining Peppercorn- 

Worniser Enterprises from distributing an 

exploitation film titled "Seventeen," as a 

result of an action filed by Triangle Publications, 

Inc., publisher of Seventeen magazine. 

In ruling that the publisher was entitled 

to protection against unfair competition, 

Aurelio said, "In weighing the equities and 

conveniences the conclusion is inescapable 

that a clear right to temporary injunctive 

relief is established." An early hearing is 

expected to be held. 

CZECH FILM DEAL—With an approving 

Tom Brandon, head of Brandon 

Films, at his shoulder, Ladlslav 

Katchtik, commercial head of the 

Czechoslovakian film industry, signs the 

agreement that will give Brandon Films 

U.S. and English-speaking Canada distribution 

rights to 10 features, 25 documentaries 

and some 15 puppet films 

and cartoons annually for three years, 

some 150 productions in all, produced 

by Czechoslovak Film Export. 

WB to Release 'Mikado' 

For Limited Engagements 

NEW YORK — Warner Bros, has acquired 

a new Technicolor picture version 

of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The 

Mikado," performed by the world-famed 

O'Oyey Carte Opera Co. and will present 

it in limited premiere engagements throughout 

the U.S. and Canada in March 1967. 

Produced by Anthony Havelock-Allen 

and John Brabourne and directed by Stuart 

Burge, "The Mikado" is a BHE Production 

based on the Anthony Beach stage production. 

Warner Bros, will hold the world press 

premiere of "Hotel," the all-star picturization 

of the Arthur Hailey best-selling novel, 

at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, 

Fla., January 20-22 with more than 250 representatives 

of the international press, radio 

and television on hand to see the Technicolor 

film and meet the stars. Rod Taylor, 

Catherine Spaak, Merle Oberon, Karl Maiden, 

Melvyn Douglas, Richard Conte, 

Michael Rennie and Kevin McCarthy are 

starred in "Hotel," which was directed by 

Richard Quine. 

"Hotel," which will open at Radio City 

Music Hall this month, will be released nationally 

in March. 

MGM Revises Subsidiary 

Over 'Blow-Up' Code Seal 

NEW YORK — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

has reactivated its subsidiary, Premiere Productions, 

to release Michelangelo Antonioni's 

"Blow-Up" without a Production Code 

Seal. The PCA had asked for and received 

several cuts in the picture and had requested 

a "suggested for mature audiences" tagline 

when the film was first granted a Seal. On 

Antonioni's insistence, however, at least one 

deleted scene was restored. 

Trans-Lux Acquires Two; 

Plans One Release Monthly 

NEW YORK — Trans-Lux Distributing 

Corp. plans to release one feature a month 

in 1967, starting with 

the January release of 

"The Hun t," 

t h e 

Spanish film acquired 

by Sidney Ginsberg, 

according to Richard 

Carlton, 

vice-president 

in charge of the 

Trans-Lux entertainment 

division. "The 

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Hunt" was shown at W^K^l^rA 

the 1966 New York 

Richard Carlton 

Film Festival. 

Ginsberg recently returned from Europe, 

where he acquired "The Fear," which was 

the official Greek entry at the 1966 Cannes 

Film Festival, and "Paris in the Month of 

August," a French film starring Charles 

Aznavour and Susan Hampshire, these two 

pictures to be readied for key city bookings 

in late January or early February, when 

"Paris in the Month of August" will be released 

and "The Fear" to follow late in 

March. 

Ginsberg is currently negotiating for additional 

properties in New York and he also 

plans to attend the next Cannes Film Festival 

in May and then cover western Europe 

for more new product. He noted that there 

is an increased demand for European imports 

and "the booking potential for such 

films is better than it ever has been." 

Ginsberg also remarked that new theatre 

construction is increasing in suburban areas 

across the country and "they'll serve a new 

generation of sophisticated art film enthusiasts 

and Trans-Lux intends to keep ahead 

expanding exhibitor demand for ap- 

of this 

pealing imports." 

Daniel Massey to Portray 

Noel Coward in 'Star!' 

HOLLYWOOD — British actor Daniel 

Massey will portray the role of Noel Coward 

in the forthcoming Robert Wise production, 

"Star!" which producer Saul Chaplin 

will begin rehearsing at 20th Century-Fox 

in late January. Julie Andrews plays the 

title role in the musical, based on the career 

of the late Gertrude Lawrence. 

Massey was recommended for the role 

by Coward, after being given a special 

screen test shot in London by William Fairchild, 

who wrote the original screenplay for 

the biographical musical. He is the son of 

actor Raymond Massey. 

Official Acquires 'Adios' 

NEW YORK—Official Films has acquired 

American theatrical television rights 

to "Adios Gringo," produced in Italy in 

Eastman Color, according to Don Getz, 

vice-president-international of Official. The 

picture was directed by George Finley and 

stars Montgomery Wood with Evelyn Stewart 

and Peter Cross. 

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BAROMETER 

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

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

ore reported, ratings ore added and overages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in 

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

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

Rodgers to New Post 

At Stanley Warner 

NEW YORK—S. 

H. Fabian, president of 

Stanley Warner Corp., has named Thomas E. 

Rodgers executive assistant 

to Nat D. Fellman, 

vice-president of 

Stanley Warner Theatres. 

Rodgers, who recently 

resigned as 

V i c e-president i n 

charge of theatre operations 

for Trans- 

Lux Corp., joined 

Trans-Lux in 1950 as 

Thomas E. Rodgers 

assistant general manager 

of theatres and has handled every 

phase of the operation in that capacity. In 

1956, he was elected vice-president of the 

Trans-Lux Theatre Corp. and shortly thereafter 

the company merged with the parent 

company, Trans-Lux Corp., at which time 

he was elected vice-president in charge of 

theatre operations. He supervised the building 

of new theatres, as well as the acquisition 

of other theatres for his company. 

Percival E. Furber, chairman of the board, 

and Richard Brandt, president of Trans- 

Lux, accepted his resignation regretfully 

and wished him success in his new affiliation. 

Tom is the son of the late William F. 

Rodgers, who was vice-president and general 

salesmanager for MGM for many years, 

Tom Rodgers started in the film industry 

in 1948 as an usher in New York City's 

Mayfair Theatre. He worked for a major 

film company in Philadelphia and participated 

in various film industry assignments 

in the field of distribution. He will make his 

headquarters in Stanley Warner Theatres 

office in New York. 

DuPont Wins Judgment 

In Bronston Lawsuit 

NEW YORK—A New York Supreme 

Court summary judgment has been granted 

to Pierre S. duPont in a $3,594,541 suit 

against Samuel Bronston personally. The 

suit, filed last year, involved three promissory 

notes. Bronston asserted that the now 

bankrupt Samuel Bronston Productions, 

Inc., was to guarantee the notes, rather than 

himself personally, despite any agreement 

made with duPont on the notes. DuPont 

charged that Bronston failed to present any 

facts supporting his claim that he personally 

was not liable. Justice Thomas A. Aurelia 

held no triable issue was raised by the suit. 

N.Y. Mayor Gets Citation 

For Film Cooperation 

NEW YORK—For the cooperation accorded 

the filming here of "The Tiger Makes 

Out," Mayor John V. Lindsay was presented 

a special citation in behalf of Eli Wallach 

and Anne Jackson, stars of the Elan production; 

Arthur Hiller, director, George 

Justin, producer, and Columbia Pictures, 

which will release the Technicolor comedy. 

Robert H. O'Brien Named 

Beloit College Trustee 

NEW YORK.—Robert 

H. O'Brien, president 

and chief executive officer of MGM, 

has been appointed to a three-year term on 

the Beloit College board of trustees, according 

to Miller Upton, president of Beloit College. 

Having held his present position since 

1963, O'Brien has a diversified record of 

executive positions, not only in the motion 

picture industry but in law and finance as 

well. On December 21, he was presented 

with the March of Dimes "Humanitarian 

Award." 

A native of Helena, Mont., O'Brien attended 

Beloit College from 1923-25, then 

spent two years as a sampler and mining engineer 

in the geological and mining engineering 

department of the Anaconda Copper 

Mining Company. In 1928 he entered the 

University of Chicago Law School, receiving 

his LL.B degree in 1933. 

Following graduation, he became associated 

with the legal department of the Public 

Works Administration. In 1934, he joined 

the Securities and Exchange Commission as 

an attorney, and rose through the ranks 

until in 1944 he was given the SEC's highest 

position, commissioner. 

Drive-Ins Seen as Auto 

Test Sites in Maryland 

BALTIMORE— Paul Burke, director of 

the Maryland Traffic Safety Commission, 

will submit legislation to the legislature this 

month, to use drive-ins in the state as auto 

inspection stations. 

He said federal funds for state roads will 

be cut 10 per cent unless Maryland has an 

auto inspection law on the books. The driveins 

could be used for this program, since 

they are closed during the daytime. 

T. T. Vogel, head of Maryland Theatre 

Owners Ass'n, said the organization had 

been working toward this effort for some 

time and drive-in owners have indicated 

their willingness to cooperate if an auto inspection 

law is enacted. 

AT 'BLOW-UP' PREMIERE—Producer 

Carlo Ponti, Robert M. Weittnan, 

MGM vice-president and studio 

head, and director Michelangelo Antonioni 

are shown at the world premiere 

of Antonioni's first English-language 

film, "Blow-Up," held at the Coronet 

Theatre in New York City. 

Sidney Cohen Backs 

MGM Management 

BUFFALO—Sidney J. Cohen, president 

of the New York State Theatre Owners 

Ass'n, in a special bulletin to members, urged 

exhibitor support of the Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer management. In his statement, Cohen 

wrote: 

"I feel that it is of the utmost importance 

that our membership is alerted at once to 

the danger that could happen in the battle 

that has been launched for control of Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM recently reported 

a net profit for the 12 months just ended 

at $10,221,000, a 31 per cent jump over 

the comparable figure for the previous year. 

This can only mean one thing to me. 

"They must be making good pictures for 

our theatres. This is the only thing that is 

important to the theatre owners. A change 

in management at this time could be a disaster 

and this is what the fight was brought 

on for. It is my personal opinion that the 

present management under the able leadership 

of Robert O'Brien and general sales 

manager Morris Lefko has and is doing a 

terrific sales job. We may not agree with 

the high terms they demand for their product 

but certainly the stockholders would not 

complain about this. 

"I not only hope that every exhibitor 

that owns MGM stock will make sure that 

you vote for the present management, but 

that you will also make sure that anyone 

you know that has any MGM stock is told 

some of the facts. We must not take a 

chance on what a change in management 

might do. Any exhibitor that can afford to 

should also buy MGM stock just to show 

Mr. O'Brien that you believe in the way he 

runs this company and believe in the great 

job that he has done in bringing this company 

to the top in the short time that he has 

been its head. 

"I would appreciate hearing from our 

membership at once as to how you feel 

about the above matter," Cohen concluded. 

Sidney Cohen Is Appointed 

To NATO Committee 

BUFFALO—Sidney J. Cohen, president 

of New York State Assn. of Theatre Owners, 

has been appointed a member of NATO's 

non-theatrical competition committee, by 

Sherrill C. Corwin, NATO head. 

Cohen says he is receiving an increasing 

number of complaints on the part of exhibitors 

on non-theatrical showings of films 

in colleges, universities, schools and many 

other tax-free facilities. He plans to take 

up the matter when the NATO board meets 

Sunday (8) in Puerto Rico. 

Isidor Epstein Dies 

PHILADELPHIA—Services were held 

here for Isidor Epstein, 66, president of 

Atlantic Theatres, southern New Jersey circuit, 

which has headquarters here. Epstein 

died in Jefferson Hospital. He leaves his 

wife Gertrude, a daughter, stepdaughter, 

two stepsons, eight grandchildren and a 

brother. 

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NEW 10RK.—While the near-blizzard 

snowstorm just before Christmas put a 

damper on the expected record business of 

the C"hristnias-New Year's holiday period 

in the Manhattan first runs, the out-of-town 

visitors and the vacationing school children 

packed the houses showint; strong new product, 

especially the se\en reserved-seat films. 

Right after Christmas, the two-ihree-hour 

waiting lines 

returned to almost encircle the 

Radiii City Music Hall, where Disney's 

•follow Me. Boys" and the annual Christmas 

stage pageant had a fourth week far 

ahead of the three previous weeks, big as 

these were. 

New York's biggest hit. especially since 

the unanimously favorable reviews and the 

Film Critics" accolades December 27, is "A 

Man for All Seasons." which has never had 

a vacant seat since it opened its reservedseat 

run December 12. .Seats are now selling 

for weeks ahead. All the other two-a-day 

pictures had strong business, including the 

two recent arrivals, "Grand Prix" at the 

Warner Cinerama and "The Sand Pebbles," 

which opened just before Christmas and 

had almost-capacity opening weeks. Even 

better were "Hawaii," in its llth week ;it 

ihe De.Mille: "Is Paris Burning?", in its 

sesenth week at the Criterion; "The Bible." 

which was especially strong for the parentsand-kiddies 

trade in its 13lh week at Locw's 

Slate, and the long-running "Doctor Zhivago," 

now in its second year of roadshows 

at 

I.ocw's Capitol. 

Best of the many other new Christmas 

product was "Murderers' Row" at the Victoria; 

"Funeral in Berlin." at the Forum in 

Times Square and the Guild, just back of 

the Music Hall, as well as Locw's Tower 

East; "After the Fox" at the Astor and the 

Trans-Lux East and Murray Hill, and "Blow- 

Up," which attracted off-beat patrons who 

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him bu\er under the super\ision ol 

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executive vice-president. Pope was 

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IFIDA Sends Out Award Ballots; 

To Announce Winners Jan. 20 

NEW YORK— Nominees lor the 1966 

awards of the Indepcndcnl Film Importers 

& Distributors of America have hcen revealed 

in ballots forwarded to members, according 

to Michael F. Mayer, executive director. 

The awards are made in seven categories; 

the Burstyn award, the Hnglish-languagc 

award, best director, best actor, best 

actress, a documentary award and the Edward 

I.. Kingsley short subject award. 

Winners in the last two categories will be 

announced following tabulation of the ballots. 

In the other categories a final runoff 

election will be held between the three leading 

contenders, with winners announced at 

the IFIDA annual dinner January 20 at 

Americana Hotel. 

Nominees include: 

the 

Burstyn award jor foreisn-language films: 

"The Shop on Main Street," "The Gospel 

According to St. Matthew." "The Slcepini! 

Car Murder." "Dear John." "Mandragola." 

"Lc Bonheur." "A Man and a Woman." 

"Masculine-Feminine." "The Shameless Old 

Lady," "Impossible on Saturday." "Loves of 

a Blonde" and "Galia." 

EntiUsh-languaiie award: "King and Country," 

"The Girl-Getters." "Morgan!" "The 

Wrong Box," "Alfie." "Georgy Girl." 

"Shakespeare Wallah." "Fahrenheit 451," 

and "Cul-de-Sac." 

Best forcinn film ilii\it(>r: Alex Joffe for 

"Impossible on Saturday," Agnes Varda for 

"Le Bonheur," Joseph Losey for "King and 

Country." Claude Lelouch for "A Man and 

a Woman," Lars Lindgren for "Dear John," 

Jean-Luc Goddard for "Masculine-Feminine," 

Bryan Forbes for "The Wrong Box," 

Lewis Gilbert for "Alfie," Pier Pasoiini for 

"The Gospel According to St. Matthew," 

Jan Kadar for "The Shop on Main Slrcel," 

Rene Allio for "The Shameless Old I. adv." 

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Francois Truffaul for "Fahrenheit i>\." 

Karel Reisz for "Morgan!" Milos Fornian 

for "Loves of a Blonde," Roman Polanski 

for "Cul-de-Sac," Georges Lautner for 

"Galia." 

Best actor in a foreii;n film: Robert 

Hirsch for "Impossible on Saturday," l\'lcr 

Sellers for "The Wrong Box," Michael 

Caine for "Alfie." Jean-Louis Trintignani 

for "A Man and a Woman," David Warner 

for "Morgan!" Yves Montand for "The 

Sleeping Car Murder." Jarl Kalle for "Dear 

John," Joseph Kroner for "The Shop on 

Main Street," Tom Courtenay for "King and 

Country," Jean-Pierre Leaud for "Masculine-Feminine," 

Oskar Werner for "Fahrenheit 

451," Lionel Stander for "Cul-de-Sac." 

Best actress in a foreign film: Vanessa 

Redgrave for "Morgan!" Ida Kaminska for 

"The Shop on Main Street." Sylvie for "The 

Shameless Old Lady." Anouk Aimee for 

"A Man and a Woman." Claudia Cardinale 

for "Sandra." Christina Schollin for "Dear 

John." Catherine Allegret for "The Sleeping 

Car Murder," Simone Signoret for "The 

Sleeping Car Murder." Lynn Redgrave for 

Cieorgy Girl." Hana Brejchove for "Loves 

of a Blonde," Mireillc Dare for "Galia." 

Edward L. Kingsley short subjects 

award: "The Hand," "Days of Dylan Thomas." 

"Study in Wet," "The Last Mohican." 

"Reflections in Love," "The Creditors." 

"Son of Dada." "Joachim's Dictionary." 

"The Boudoir," "Sherry Fiesta," "London 

Theme." "It's Not Just You. Murray" and 

"Adolescence. 

Documentary feature award: "The Last 

Chapter." "John F. Kennedy: Years of 

Lightning. Day of Drums." "Born Free." 

"Bing Crosby's Russian Adventure." "Tsar 

to Lenin." "Good Times. Wonderful 

Times," "Endless Summer," "Tokyo Olympiad." 

IKI ss ( OM l.RKNCI-,— Mmolil Knili. ( oinil I iliiis jirisiilenl, 

is flunked li> Mill I'lall, \cU, >iee-presidviil and Keiu-ral sales manauiT, and viccprf«iid(-iil 

Sam lU-ishnian at ii press conrercnci' at City .Sijiiire Motor Inn, where 

fiiluri- rclrasr plans and tin- roiiimiTi'ial sui'i'css of "Tlic Poppy Is Also a I'lowcr" 

«iTi- 

disi iissi-d. 

Fred Goldberg Shows Ads 

On UA's 'Dollar' Film 

NLW 'iOKK.— United .Artists' hard-hitting 

teaser campaign to introduce the first 

Fred Goldberg 

of the "Dollar" westerns 

to American 

fans, following their 

fabulous success in 

Italy, where they were 

produced, and in Germany. 

France. Austria. 

Spain and other 

European countries, 

was demonstrated at 

the L'A home office, 

after a screening of 

the first. "A Fistful of 

Dollars," by Fred Goldberg, vice-president. 

The picture is magnificently photographed 

in shades of brown, ranging from 

yellow or tan to russet-red. and the ad campaign 

uses mainly one-third of a page panels, 

in orange-red with part of the face of 

the star. Clint Eastwood, with a half-smoked 

cigar in his mouth—the copy reading "This 

Short Cigar Belongs to a Man With No 

Name! He's Going to Trigger a Whole New 

Style in Adventure." or similar copy such 

as "This Long Gun Belongs to the Man 

With No Name!" 

Here's one ad campaign which is bound 

to intrigue the western or action fans. 

"A Fistful of Dollars" will be released by 

UA in January with the second, also starring 

Clint Eastwood. "A Few Dollars 

More." coming later in 1967. 

Obscenity Charge Dropped; 

'Venom' Film to Times 

NEW YORK — Charges of obscenity 

against the Danish film "Venoni." produced 

and directed by Knud 1 eif Thomson, have 

been dropped and Times Film has been 

granted the distribution rights for the film 

in the United States, according to Jean 

Goldwurm, Times president. 

Prior to the film's importation to this 

country, it was seized by U.S. Customs and 

a complaint was filed against it by Robert 

M. Morgenthau, U.S. Attorney for the 

Southern District of New York. Charges 

were dropped in accordance with the ruling 

by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of 

Freedman vs. Maryland, which states in 

part that the film in question must be regarded 

as a whole and that if there is any 

"social significance" in the whole, the film 

passes. 

I cli\ Uilgre\. counsel lor Times Film, regards 

the release of "Venom" as a change 

for the better in the U.S. Customs censorship 

procedures. Now one man's opinion 

cannot bar a film from importation, and if a 

film is held up for some reason, it is immediaich 

referred to Morgenihau's office for 

prompt action in compliance with the existing 

statute. 

"Venom" was originally barred from its 

native country Denmark. However, Knud 

l.eif Thomson has since been awarded S15,- 

l)t)l) by the State Film Foundation in Copenhagen 

for his "artistically daring" producliiin 

of the film. 

E-4 BOXOFFICE January 2. 1967

John Reynolds Heads 

Paramounl's TV 

NEW YORK—John T. Reynolds has resigned 

as president of the CBS Television 

network to join Paramount Pictures as pres- 

Peter Bart 

John T. Reynolds 

ident of Paramount Television Productions, 

Inc., and Paramount TV Enterprises, Inc. 

Reynolds, who is 45, will be elected a senior 

vice-president of Paramount Pictures and 

will headquarter in Los Angeles, where he 

will head up all of the company's TV production 

and distribution activities, starting 

in January 1967. 

Also at Paramount, Peter Bart resigned 

from the New York Times to join Paramount 

Pictures January 2 as executive assistant 

to Robert Evans, vice-president in 

charge of production. Bart had been with 

the Times for seven years, in Hollywood 

and New York, and also served on the staffs 

of the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago 

Sun-Times. He has also been a contributor 

to Harper's, the Atlantic, Life, Esquire, 

Show and the Saturday Review, as well as 

consultant to the Ford Foundation. 

The appointment of Reynolds marks Paramount's 

large-scale entry into all phases of 

television and is its first expansion move in 

the leisure-time field since its merger with 

Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. Paramount's 

TV operation will be separate from its theatrical 

production operations, which are headed 

by Evans, Bernard Donnenfeld, vice-president 

of production administration and studio 

operations, and George H. "Bud" Ornstein. 

vice-president in charge of European 

production. Reynolds has been in the broadcast 

and entertainment field for the past 20 

years and was associated with CBS since 

1959 in various management positions, including 

president of the CBS TV network 

since February 1966. 

Radley Metzger Completes 

Filming of 'Carmen 13' 

MUNICH—Producer-director Radley H. 

Metzger completed filming of "Carmen 13," 

contemporary romantic drama based on the 

famous literary heroine created by Prosper 

Merimee, and has returned to New York to 

edit the Technicolor-Techniscope production. 

To be released early in 1967 by Audubon 

Films, "Carmen 13" stars Uta Levka, in the 

title role, Claude Ringer, Carl Mohner, Walter 

Wilz, Michael Munzer, Barbara Valentin 

and Christiane Rucker. 

BROADWAY 

JOHN DeLUCA, booker for Cinema V Distributing, 

has been named New York 

City salesman by James Hendel, executive 

vice-president, starting January 2. Prior to 

joining Cinema V, DeLuca worked as a 

booker for MGM. * * * Mel Konecoff, New 

York City editor of Motion Picture Exhibitor, 

has submitted his resignation as Press 

Guy and editor of New York Variety Club, 

Tent 35, having held the post of Press Guy 

for the past three years and acted as editor 

of the re-activated Tent Information Bulletin 

since it resumed publication earlier this 

year. * * * Bruce Talbot, who has been producing 

features independently in the U.S. 

and abroad, has joined Filmex, Inc., as a 

producer in the business film division. 

• 

George H. "Bud" Ornstein, Paramount 

vice-president in charge of European production, 

and Michael Flint, associated with 

him in the supervision of the company's 

European production, returned to their London 

headquarters after production conferences 

with Robert Evans and Bernard Donnenfeld 

in Hollywood. Here from London 

are Norman B. Katz, executive vice-president 

of Seven Arts International, and William 

"Bill" Levy, foreign sales manager, for 

a series of sales meetings with Eliot Hyman, 

Seven Arts president. * * * Mel Ferrer, who 

will produce "Wait Until Dark" for Warner 

Bros., left for Rome to hold pre-production 

meetings with director Terence Young before 

the picture goes before the cameras in 

Montreal January 12. 

• 

Headed for Hollywood from New York 

were British actor David Hemmings. who 

will play the role of Mordred in Warner 

Bros.' "Camelot," after attending the Manhattan 

opening of his MGM film, "Blow- 

Up." Pierre Olaf, the French actor who will 

play the role of Dap in "Camelot." also left 

for Hollywood as did Sandy Dennis, who 

flew out for costume fittings for "Sweet 

November," which will be her second film 

for Warners following the completed "Up 

the Down Staircase." * * * Gower Champion, 

who directed the Broadway hit musical, 

"I Do. I Do!," flew out with his wife 

Marge, and their two children, to spend the 

holiday period at their Hollywood Hills 

home, where they expect to remain for some 

months. 

• 

Jack Herschlag has resigned as advertising 

manager of Buena Vista, after five years 

with the Disney organization to pursue a 

writing career. His first book, "The Innocent 

Assassins," will be published in January 

by E. P. Dutton & Co., it being a collaboration 

with the explorer, Fred A. Salazar. 

* * * Harold J. Salemson, who has just 

completed subtitling "The Game Is Over." 

the Roger Vadim French film starring Jane 

Fonda, which Royal International is releasing, 

and "The Cat in the Bag," being distributed 

by Pathe Contemporary, has opened 

an office on 40th Street for subtitling films, 

translating books and doing literary editorial 

assignments. Salemson has been con- 

AT ANNUAL PARTY—Hundreds 

of handicapped underprivileged children 

were guests of Variety Club of 

New York as the entertainment industry 

children's charity held its annual Christmas 

party. The children were shown a 

Disney film at the DeMille Theatre, 

served lunch at the Americana Hotel, 

were entertained with a variety show 

by Paul Tripp, and were all presented 

with shopping bags full of gifts and 

goodies. Left to right are Nat Nathanson, 

Hill Weston and Elliot Cohen, 

co-chairmen of the event. The child being 

held is Michele Wood. The boys, 

left to right, are Brian Hanley and Michael 

Boylan. 

nected with the film industry for almost 40 

vears, in Hollywood and New York, as publicist, 

executive 

publicity director, distributor and other 

posts. 

• 

Paul Newman completed his 

starring role 

in Warner Bros.' "Cool Hand Luke" in California 

and returned to his home in Westport. 

Conn., to spend Christmas and New 

Year's with his wife, Joanne Woodward, 

and their six children. * * * Arlene Golonka, 

who completed her featured role in Paramount's 

"The Busy Body." also returned to 

New York for Christmas while Alan Arkin, 

who has been filming "Woman Times 

Seven" for Embassy Pictures in Paris, returned 

to New York for Christmas. * * * 

Ivan Tors, who is producing "Gentle Ben" 

in Florida for Paramount release, came to 

New York with a 650-pound black bear, 

which plays the title role, to receive the 

"International Pet and Animal Show Award" 

for his TV show, "Daktari." at the New 

York Coliseum December 28. 

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E-5

— 

A

BUFFALO 

at 6, 8 and 10 p.m. New Year's Eve, the 

downtown Cinema and the Amherst 

on the edge of the city presented "A Funny 

Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." 

The picture will open its regular run at both 

houses later this month. At Dipson's Colvin 

the regular schedule was that New Year's 

Eve for a screening of "Funeral in Berlin." 

The Center Theatre will present Warner 

Bros.' "The Mikado" March 8 and 9. A 

week after that, the film will have a twoday 

run at the Palace in Hamburg, the 

Riviera in Tonawanda. the Aurora in East 

Aurora and the Rapids in Niagara Falls, 

Thomas W. Feno, past chief barker of 

Tent 7 and an account executive at radio 

station WKBW, was married in Lake Placid 

to Dorothyann Nelson, former Olympic 

figure skater and now with the Ice Follies. 

Arthur M. Tolchin, assistant to the president 

of Loew's Theatres, was here to confer 

with Frank Arena, Loew's city manager . . . 

Bill Laney, general manager of Jo-Mor 

Enterprises of Rochester, has issued invitations 

for the premiere of "Hawaii" February 

15 at the Towne Theatre in Rochester. Proceeds 

from the black-tie event will go to 

Trinity College in Washington and the 

library of Brandeis University. 

Ike Ehrlichman, Universal branch manager, 

held an invitational tradescreening of 

"Deadlier Than the Male" December 30 in 

the Projectionist's screening room . . . Paul 

L. Wall, MGM branch manager, held an 

invitational screening of "Three Bites of 

the Apple," also in the Projectionist's screening 

room. 

Jerry 

George, manager of National Theatre 

Supply, held a Christmas party in his 

offfice. Among those on hand were Marvin 

Atlas, Broadway Drive-In; Al Becker, 

veteran theatre supply executive; Sidney J. 

Cohen, N.Y. NATO; Pat Mendola, Delavan 

Drive-ln; Eddie Meade, Joe Garvey, Nathan 

R. Dickman, Harry Berkson, Peter G. 

Becker, Earl Hubbard jr. and Mannie A. 

Brown. 

Among the exhibitors 

and United Artists 

officials attending the UA advertising 

seminar on "A Fistful of Dollars" and "For 

a Few Dollars More" in the Colvin Theatre 

were Ken Renter, Robert Rehme, Franklin 

Meadows, Howard McPherson, Francis 

Maxwell, Edward F. Meade, Frank Arena, 

Morris Slotnick, John Martina, James J. 

Hayes, Vincent Martina, Sidney J. Cohen, 

Marvin Samuelson. Peter G. Becker, Emil 

Noah, Irving Singer, Frank B. Quinlivan, 

Jerry Westergren, Mannie Brown, A. Wright. 

Ron Hoelcle, Jake Stefanon, Myron Gross. 

Marvin Atlas and Irving, Gary and Macy 

Cohen. 

The Downtown Retail Merchants Ass'n 

and the Buffalo Evening News are sponsoring 

free Wednesday morning films in the 

Center and Century theatres this month to 

aid downtown shopping. In order to get 

tickets, newspaper readers must use a coupon 

published in the Evening News. 

Dexter Johnson jr., 5, son of Dexter Johnson, 

assistant vice-president and advertising 

director of Eastman Kodak, received the last 

of several Christmas gifts from the late 

Walt Disney. Johnson had met Disney a 

connection with the TV 

number of times in 

program Kodak sponsors. This was the 

ALBANY 

prank Lynch, MGM Albany salesman since 

1961, will assume the branch manager's 

duties effective Sunday (15), succeeding 

Ralph Ripps who is retiring. Ripps and his 

wife will go to Florida for a three-month 

vacation. Lynch started with Paramount 

18 years ago as assistant shipper in New 

Haven. He later served as booker for the 

company, salesman in Cleveland and Albany. 

Jack McGrath, Theatre Supply Co. manager, 

is back on the job after recovering 

from eye surgery and being fitted with new 

glasses . . . Bill Hebert, General Cinema 

Corp. supervising manager of the Auto- 

Vision Theatre in East Greenbush, Super 

50 Drive-In at Ballston and 9-W Drive-In, 

Poughkeepsie, has conquered a bad cold. 

Joe Sherman, exhibitor in Fair Haven, 

Vt., Salem and Glens Falls, N.Y., continues 

a successful auction business, specializing 

in furniture . . . Kallet's Cinema at New 

Hartord played "The Christmas That Almost 

Wasn't" afternoons and evenings Walter 

. . . 

Reade's Community at Kingston held pre- 

Christmas afternoon shows December 17 

and 18. Additionally, Jo-Jo the Clown was 

on hand to distribute lollipops to the kiddies. 

They came from near and far for the 

Filmrow employe's Christmas party in the 

demonstration room of the RTA BIdg. Signing 

the guest book, prepared by Doris Mc- 

Grath, chairman and local manager of National 

Theatre Supply, were Joe Sherman. 

Fair Haven, Vt.; Loretta C. Googin and her 

son Nicholas jr., Cazenovia; Howard Goldstein, 

Schenectady; Ben Coleman, Guilderland; 

Ray S. Smith, Albany; Bill Hebert. 

East Greenbush; John Capano, Troy; Max 

Westebbe, Gene Lowe, Ralph Ripps, Frank 

Lynch, Katherine Shea, Bette Riley, Helen 

fourth Christmas that the boy had received 

a toy patterned for one of Disney's famed 

cartoon characters. The gift was mailed a 

few days before Disney's death. 

Herbert Slotnick Enterprises reportedly 

has taken over the Riviera Theatre in 

Syracuse, formerly operated by F&A Theatres 

. . . Albert J. Petrella, immediate past 

chief barker of Tent 7, has been named 

chairman of the campaign for Variety Week, 

February 5-11. 

It was reported that Japanese film director 

Akira Kurosawa will be in upstate 

New York this month to prepare for a film, 

"The Runaway Train." Kurosawa Productions 

and Embassy Pictures will produce the 

picture. 

Wisper, Herb Schwartz, Doug Hermans, 

Dick Dacey, Bert Freedman, Herb Gaines, 

Bob Adler, Deann Downing, Jack Keegan, 

Rose Norkus, Nancy Desormeau, James Van 

Dusen, Jacqueline Wildermuth, Betty Lourinia 

and John Y. Sczcerba. Also on hand 

were Ann Hosley, John Pemberton, Lillian 

Pillsworth, Catherine Ryan, Frank Carroll, 

Betty Reilley, Jack McGrath, Shirley Ann 

Heil, Vinnie Pitts, Ken Parker, Fred Fleitz 

and brothers Steven and Emelin of Troy. 

Gasoline fumes leaking from a tank at 

a dowmown Glens Falls service station 

forced police to evacuate 1,200 children attending 

the police department's annual pre- 

Christmas matinee in the Paramount Theatre. 

The youngsters, with the feature "Ma 

and Pa Kettle on McDonald's Farm," were 

moved quickly to the Rialto Theatre, also 

a Panther unit. Herb Nitke operates both. 

Condolences to Ted Moisides, resident 

manager of Hellman Theatre, on the December 

16 death of his mother Thalia. A 

widow, she leaves another son, two daughters, 

four brothers, three sisters and five 

grandchildren. 

The Times-Union editorially called Walt 

Disney "a genius." The Knickerbocker News, 

referring to his "incredible total of 29 Oscars," 

commented the best way to pay him 

tribute was to say "he was a man who became 

immortal long before he died." 

Marge Vigna Weinstein, whom Boxof- 

FiCE profiled in 1944 as an outstanding wartime 

manager (Roxy at Camden, N.J.). has 

received condolences from industryites on 

the death of her mother Rachael Vigna in 

a Philadelphia hospital. 

Jim Branche closed the Branche Theatre 

at Latham for Christmas Eve. Frank Purner 

darkened the Bijou at Troy several days before 

and reopened it on Christmas. 

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E-7

WASHINGTON 

Qdiistruciion ol 

the Byron Film Center has 

si.irted. according to B\ron Roudabush. 

president ol B>ron Motion Pictures of Washington. 

The SI million building will have 

three floors and a penthouse. Included in 

the 6().()00-square-foot center will be a lilm 

labt>ratory. recording studios and two preview 

theatres, in addition to screening and 

editing rooms. 1 he builders. E. A. Baker 

Co., expect completion to be in the fall, 

when Bsron Motion Pictures will nunc from 

its Georgetown site. Thomas J. .Stohlnian 

is the architect. 

Plans for a l,2(M1-seat theatre, designed 

for long-run pictures and a large stage for 

live pcrfomiances. have been announced in 

the expansion of W'healon Plaza. Regional 

Shopping Center, by Theodore N. I.erner. 

operating partner for the Gudelsky-I.erner 

interests, which owns the center. The present 

theatre in the center. Ira Sichelman's 

VVheaton Plaza, has 590 seats. 

Chrislmas cheer was e\idcnt in Filnirow 

offices, wreathed and trimmed in red and 

green. James Velde. United Artists vicepresident 

of sales, came from New York to 

attend Ed Biglcy's exchange Yuletide fete. 

Among other visitors were T.I. Martin and 

Tom Pitts of the Pitts circuit. Culpeper, Va.; 

Irving Ferman. International Latex, and 

Baltimore exhibitor Joe Walderman of the 

Park Theatre . . Jerry .Sandy had his 

. 

office party at American International December 

21. 

Paramuunt, Independent Theatres and 

Wheeler Films combined their "'open house" 

and entertained in Ted Krassner's Paramount 

exchange December 22. . . . Johnny 

Recher and Irwin Cohen of R C Enterprises 

and Aaron Seidler of the Hillendale and 

Northwood Theatres hosted the branch managers 

and their salesmen at cocktails and 

lunchei>n in the R'C buyer and booker 

offices at Randallstown on December 15. 

Bucna Vista's staff spirits 

were dampened 

by the death of Wall Disney and branch 

manager Joseph B. Brecheen is at home 

recuperating from a heart attack. Brecheen 

said his doctor reported he is "completely 

healed" and as soon as he gets his 

strength back, after 44 days flat on his 

hack, he would be "perfectly normal." He 

further observed his company had two years 

product on which to go. and 'The Happiest 

Millionaire" will be released next winter on 

a roadshow basis. The KB Ontario will 

premiere it here. An editorial in the Washington 

Post called Disney "the greatest 

entertainer of our time." 

Sid /.ins, Columbia regional publicist, invited 

the press and broadcasters to a preview 

of "Murderers' Row" at the MPAA 

rx-ccmbcr 22. After the screening, the 

"Slaygirls," who had been featured in the 

film, made a personal appearance and met 

the gucMs during refreshments. 

( olumbia's "A Dandy in Aspic" will be 

filmed in color in Austria. Ciermany and 

London 

— 

Loew's Announces Winners 

In Concession Contest 

NEW YORK.—The winners in Loew's 

Theatres" concession sweepstakes for the 

current year were announced by Bernard 

iJiumond, assistant vice-president and general 

manager. Prizes and plaques were a- 

\wirded by Jim Peterson, vice-president of 

•Automatic Retailers .Ass'n, Loew's concessioners. 

Following are the winning managers 

and categories; 

InlDwn ilicaircs—best popcorn per capita 

— Lafayette Woodard, Loew's Victoria; best 

candy per capita—Nat Bernstock, Loew's 

Jersey City; best potato chip per capita 

John Bateman, Loew's Gates; best ice cream 

per capita— Albert Boschi, Loew's Oriental; 

high hot dog per capita—Gene Miclnicki. 

Loew's Newark; high beverage per capita 

Fred Rieckhoff. Loew's National; highest 

per capita for year—Abe Levy, Loew's 

Spooner; highest gross volume—Horatio 

Tedesco, Loew's Metropolitan. 

Out-of-town theatres: best per capita 

popcorn— Milton Kaufman, Loew's Norfolk; 

best per capita candy—George Miismenn, 

Loew's Providence; best per capita 

ice cream—John Hebert, Loew's Poli; best 

per capita beverage machine—Buford 

Cranch, Loew's Nashville; best per capita 

beverage counter— William Shealey, Loew's 

Atlanta; highest per capita for year—Sam 

Gilman. Loew's Syracuse; best performance 

of new theatres— John Hclsley, Loew's 

Oxon Hill; theatre best improved per capita 

—Homer McCallon, Loew's Houston; best 

displayed concession area—Jane Regina. 

Loew's Providence. 

PITTSBURGH 

Jhc second drivc-in, which Blatt 

Bros. Theatres 

had planned to adjoin in the rear 

of the circuit's Altoona (Pa). Drive-In. did 

not materialize due to reconsiderations, highway 

traffic, etc., but Blatt Bros, will go 

through with construction of a second 

drive-in at Altoona this year. A site has 

been purchased about l'/2 miles from the 

present 

aircr. 

The Rialto Theatre, Johnstown, destroyed 

by lire last month, will not be rebuilt. Fire 

loss was in excess of $I5().()()0. Adolph 

Farkas, owner-proprietor, a diabetic, is in 

Mercy Hospital, Johnstown. His Lyric Theatre 

at Johnstown is booked for weekend 

exhibitions. 

Frank Lewis came through his hospital 

checkup fine and resumed his duties at the 

Blall Bros, office. 

Rand Is Union Carbide V-P 

M \\ 'lUKk — Muidock M. Rand has 

been appointed vice-president-marketing 

of the carbon products division of Union 

C arbide Corp.. it was announced b\ Fred 

B. O'Mara, division president. Rand joined 

Union C arbide in 194S as a control engineer 

for the carbon products division at Niagara 

Falls. N.Y. He was appointed director of 

marketing in 1964. 

BALTIMORE 

£Jve Holland, chief reviewer of the Maryland 

Censor Board 20 years, has resigned 

and taken a job in another state department 

. . . John Broumas. Broumas 

Theatres, has appointed Edward Campa. 

Baltimore district manager for the circuit. 

He will make his headquarters at the Glen 

Burnie Mall Theatre. Campa was former 

manager for Warners, in Washington. 

Shcrrill C. Corwin, N.ATO president, was 

in town and addressed a meeting of Maryland 

Allied December 14. He was accompanied 

by Milton H. London of Detroit, 

an executive director of NATO; Jack Armstrong. 

NATO board chairman, and George 

Roscoe. director of exhibitor relations for 

N.A10. .Among those attending were Leon 

Back. Rome Theatres; Edward Kimple, 

Rome Theatres; Elmer Nolte, Vernon Nolte. 

Sam Temple and Fred Schmuff of the 

Durkee circuit; Ted Schiller and Jack 

Fruchtnian. JF Theatres; Glen Norris; Doug 

Connelly. Elk Theatre. Elkion: Walter Gettinger, 

Howard Theatre: Mike Leventhal. 

Carroll Theatre; Jack Levin. Irvington Theatre; 

Jack Whittle, secretary of Maryland 

Allied; Wilbur Brizendine. Schwaber Theatres; 

Aaron Seidler, Northwood Theatre; 

Victor Savadow. Victory Theatres. 

.4bel Caplan, Westway Theatre, reopened 

the Westway Christmas day after 

making extensive improvements for the 

holiday attraction "My Fair Lady." . . 

. 

Otts Kel'auver. .Arcade Press, reports the 

new date book and directory of Maryland 

Theatre Owners Ass'n is going to press and 

it will feature a 14-month date book and 

calendar. 

Ann Cluster, owner of the Cluster Theatre 

here, died December 2.^. The theatre 

is one of the oldest theatres in Mar\ land and 

has been operated by the Cluster family 

since the silent film days. The house was 

closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 

Budco Managers Seminar 

Held in Doylestown, Pa. 

DOYLESTOWN, PA.—Budco Theatres 

held its annual pre-Christmas managers' 

seminar and luncheon at Conti's Restaurant, 

Doylestown, Pa.. December 12. hosted b\' 

Budco president Claude Schlangcr. Topics 

discussed included general operations, coming 

films and advertising and promotion. 

Guest speakers were Jerry Slass, Berlo 

Vending Co.; James Eves, Altec Service Co.. 

and Alan Preville of the 50-State Insurance 

.Agency. 

Schlangcr announced ih.il Budco's 12th 

theatre, the Barn Cinema. Doylestown, now 

under construction, will be readv for operalion 

about the middle of February. Plans 

also were presented for a new theatre to 

begin construction soon in a shopping center 

in York, Pa., and a new drive-in at Wilmington. 

Del. Budco currently operates .^1 theatres 

and drive-ins in Pennsyhania. New- 

Jersey and Delaware. 

E-8 

BOXOFFICE January 2, 1967

NEWS AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION CENTEK 

(Hollywood Office—1714 Ivar St., Room 205. Phone: HO 5-1186) 

Exciting 'Grand Prix' 

Opening in Hollywood 

HOLLYWOOD — The invitational West 

Coast premiere of the MGM presentation ot 

John Frankenheimer's film "Grand Prix" 

had a colorful opening December 22 at 

Pacific's Cinerama Dome Theatre. 

James Garner, director John Frankenheimer, 

and champion drivers Phil Hill and 

Graham Hill arrived here from New York 

to attend the affair, following the world premiere 

December 21 at the Warner Cinerama 

Theatre. 

The celebrity guest list included: Rock 

Hudson, Rex Harrison, Vanessa Redgrave, 

Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Rachel Roberts, 

Edward G. Robinson, Yvette Mimieux. 

David Hemmings. Los Angeles Mayor Sam 

Yorty, Phil Silvers, Jerry Lewis, Omar 

Sharif, Tammy Grimes, Macdonald Carey, 

Robert Vaughn, EIke Sommer and Glenn 

Ford. 

Also, Anthony Newley, Joan Collins, Bill 

Cosby, Alex Cord, Warren Beatty, Nancy 

Sinatra. Peter Falk, Agnes Moorehead, Patricia 

Crowley, Vic Morrow, Zsa Zsa Gabor, 

Helmut Dantine, Chuck Connors. Eva Gabor. 

Carolyn Jones, Polly Bergen, Jim 

Backus, Nina Foch, Cheryl Miller, Ryan 

O'Neal, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John, Jeremy 

Slate. Diane Baker and Leigh Taylor-Young. 

In the tradition of Grand Prix racing, a 

champagne party was held in the foyer of 

the theatre following the premiere. 

Television and radio coverage was extensive. 

Prior to the film's opening, KHJ-TV 

broadcast a half-hour special, "Grand Prix," 

produced by the station's Wayne Thomas. A 

delayed telecast of premiere activities also 

was seen on the station at 10 p.m. Army Archerd, 

Hollywood columnist and syndicated 

writer, served as master-of-ceremonies, introducing 

the stars and distinguished guests. 

A highlight of the premiere color was furnished 

by the first appearance of the official 

Tournament of Roses Band. The Goodyear 

blimp also flashed a series of electronically 

controlled messages over Los Angeles, hovering 

over the theatre during the festivities. 

Enlarged Hollywood Quarters 

HOLLYWOOD — New and enlarged 

headquarters in Sherman Oaks has been set 

for DePatie-Freleng, producers of "Pink 

Panther" and "Inspector" cartoons released 

by Mirisch and United Artists. 

Czechoslovakia Praises 

Boxoffice Blue Ribbon 

HOLLYWOOD — "The Shop on 

Main 

Street," which won an Oscar and was chosen 

for a Blue Ribbon Award from the Boxof- 

FiCE National Screen Council, is the subject 

of a story from Prague, Czechoslovakia, carried 

on Associated Press wires. Reports 

from that country also concern exhibition 

of the Blue Ribbon award at Eastern European 

film festivals as an example of better 

understanding among people on both sides 

of the ideological curtain. 

Burton to Co-Produce 

Film on Simon Bolivar 

HOLLYWOOD—An original 

screenplay 

by Robert Presnell jr. will be the basis for a 

film by Presnell and Michael Wilson on 

Simon Bolivar, South American liberator, 

according to Ronald Lubin, producer. He 

also announced that Richard Burton will 

star in the picture and be a partner with him 

in the project. A starting date of 1968 has 

been proposed tentatively. 

FLOOD BENEFIT—Italian fUm actress 

Luciana Paluzzi watches as actor 

Vito Scotti deposits a check for $500 

at the screening of Paramount's "Arrivederci, 

Baby" at the Stanley Warner 

Theatre in Beverly Hills. The preopening 

showing was a benefit for Italian 

flood victims and was attended by many 

Los Angeles dignitaries. 

Frank Vitale, 

Los Angeles music bureau chairman, is 

the executive co-chairman of the American 

campaign for the flood victims. 

He and Miss Paluzzi helped collect the 

donations. 

SEG to Vote on New 

Pact, Runoff Directors 

HOLLYWOOD—H. O'Neil Shanks, national 

executive secretary of the Screen Extras 

Guild, announced that ballots have been 

sent to the more than 3,500 members who 

will cast their secret votes by mail this 

month in a referendum on the approval of 

the guild's recently concluded 1966-1969 television 

commercials agreement and in three 

run-off elections for contested positions on 

the guild's board of directors. 

Details of the new SEG agreement and 

official results of the guild's annual directors' 

election and area chapter advisory 

councils were reported by Shanks to the 

SEG annual membership meetings in the 

Academy Award Theatre in Hollywood and 

the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco. Hawaii 

SEG members will attend a similar annual 

membership meeting in Honolulu this 

month. 

Eight of the 1 1 guild board positions up 

for election this year were filled by majority 

vote of the 

1,417 valid ballots cast. The winners 

were George Bruggeman, Luke Saucier, 

Evelen Ceder, Alan Marston, Sugar Geise, 

Charles Cirillo, Clark Ross and Herbert 

Winters. 

For each of the three board seats, where 

none of the candidates received a majority, 

the guild bylaws require a run-off election 

between the two candidates who got the 

most votes in running for that particular office. 

In the January run-offs, Don Anderson 

and Larry Evans will oppose each other 

on the ballot for office 18; Laura Gile and 

Monty O'Grady will compete for office 19 

and the election contest for guild office 23 

will be between Richard Cherney and Mike 

Lally. 

In contested elections for area chapter 

advisory council chairmen, Robert Vanderbilt 

defeated Russell Bennett in San Francisco, 

with Frank Ahem and Elizabeth K. 

Aarona elected in Hawaii. 

$10,000 MPRF Donation 

HOLLYWOOD — Cinematographer 

Lester 

Shorr and his wife have contributed 

$10,000 to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, 

announced George L. Bagnall, fund president. 

The contribution will be earmarked 

for the 15-year $40-million endowment and 

building campaign for expansion of the Motion 

Picture Country House and Hospital. 

BOXOFFICE January 2, 1967 W-1

'Funny Thing' Benefit 

Raises Over $50,000 

HUl-lA WOOD— More than S.mi.OOO was 

raised by ihc San Fernando Valley Child 

Guidance Clinic December 20 at the West 

Coast premiere of "A Funny Thing Happened 

on the Way to Ihc Forum" at Grauman's 

Chinese Theatre. 

Phil Silvers, who stars with Zero Mostcl. 

Jack Ciiltord and Blister Keaton in the comedy, 

he.ided a list ol celebrities who turned 

out for the event. Among them were Edie 

Adams. Herb Alpert. Julie Andrews. 

Frankie Avalon. Jim Backus. Warren Beatty. 

Pat Boone. Carol Burnett and Robert Culp. 

.Mso Jane Fonda. Eva Gabor. Richard 

Harris. C~harlton Heston. .Abbe I ane. Agnes 

.Moorehead. lôn Murray. Aldo Ray. Barbara 

Rush. William Shatner. Dinah Shore. 

Nancy Sinatra. Elke Sommcr. Inger Stevens. 

Lana Turner. Peter Ustinov, Andy Williams 

and many others. 

Premiere profits will he applied ici the 

non-sectarian, non-profit Sherman Oaks 

Center's crash program of treatment for 

emotionally disturbed youngsters throughout 

the area, particularly the national pilot priijeci. 

co-sponsored by the National Institute 

of Mental Health, according to Jerry Magnin. 

premiere committee chairman. 

New WGA Pact Eliminates 

Fifth Amendment Clause 

HOI I 

N wool) The new contract 

signed by the Writers Guild of America 

West and the Ass'n of Motion Picture and 

Television Producers has eliminated the 

clause permitting producers to withhold 

credit to writers who have taken the Fifth 

Amendment. 

In addition, the contract provides for protcciion 

of writers by producers and distributors 

in payments of 1.2 per cent of pictures 

sold to television, on which chattel mortgages 

have been foreclosed, and it settles 

the long dispute between the Guild and 

United Artists over pictures-to-television 

money in a clause in which the company 

guarantees its producers will respect all parts 

uf the contract. 

As a result, more than 50 writers will receive 

retroactive payments on foreclosed 

films, on which payments previously had 

been refused. 

Goldman Circuit 

To 'Special Art' Films 

Changing 

HCJLL'* WCJOi:) lollowing a long study 

of m.irkets (or speciali/.ed foreign "class" 

films. Harold Goldman is changing over his 

theatres in New York and Los Angeles to 

the "specially films" in the highly prolitable 

"arty art" class. At the opening of the Sunset 

Blvd. Tiffany Theatre which he operates 

with Robert I.. 

I.ipperl, Cioldman told of his 

trips to Flirope to locale this type ol product. 

He also operates a New York house, 

ihe Studio Cinema, close to the cultural, 

new Lincoln Center. 

Woolner Starts 13th Year 

Of Film Production 

HOIIAWOOD Woolner Bros, has 

started its 13th year of motion picture production. 

ci>mpleting the second country and 

western color feature and opening two more 

offices for theatrical and TV film distribution, 

sales manager David E. Woolner announced. 

President Bernard A. Woolner also announced 

registration of the title. 'Hillbillys 

in Outer Space." and start of pre-production 

work on five more scripts, three to be produced 

in Europe by Lawrence Woolner. 

headquartered in Rome, and the other two 

here. 

This month. David Woolner will open a 

new distribution office in New Orleans, 

where the brothers own a chain of theatres. 

This will be followed by a New York office 

opening. Bernard Woolner will continue to 

head the Hollywood production office, with 

David handling nationwide distribution from 

New Orleans and New York. 

W'oolners' completed features include 

Leigh. Italian beauty. 

"Hillbillys in the Haunted House." starring 

Basil Rathbone. Lon Chaney. John Carradine. 

Ferlin Husky. Don Bowman, Sonny 

James. Joi Lansing. Molly Bee and other 

country and western stars from the Nashville 

roster; "Red Dragon," filmed in Rome 

and starring Stewart Granger and Rosanna 

Schiaffino. and "Lightning Bolt." with Anthony 

"Hawaiian Eye" Eisley and Wandisa 

These three will be released 

in late spring. The first country-western 

feature. "Las Vegas Hillbillys." still is 

racking up good grosses. David Woolner reported. 

The "Haunted House" release will he 

timed with observances of the 80th anniversary 

of publication of the first Sherlock 

Holmes story. "A Stud\ in Scarlet." 

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Usual Six Features 

On Disney Schedule 

HOLLYWOOD — Ihough Wall Dimk\ 

wuN in the middle of many projects before 

he died last month, the first two productions 

slated for 1967 are the Dick Van 

Dyke starrer and a new musical comedy. 

The Family Band." Two of Hollywood's 

brightest \oung talents. Lesley .^nn Warren 

and John Davidson, are teamed for the second 

lime in this new picture. This is a follow-up 

of their motion picture debut where 

they played the romantic leads in Disney's 

"The Happiest Millionaire." Walter Brennan 

plays a lovable opinionated eccentric grandfather 

in "Band." 

The story, set in the 1888s. relates the 

humor and pathos of a family of virtuoso 

musicians who move from the Midwestern 

plains to the Dakota territory and along the 

way become hilariously embroiled in the 

politics of the Cleveland-Harrison presidential 

election and ihe question of Dakota 

statehood. 

"The Family Band" is based on the book 

by Laura Bower Van Nuys. Michael Herlihy 

will direct the screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley. 

Twelve original songs have been written 

by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman. Bill 

Anderson will co-produce, with production 

slated for early in the year. 

Disney's production schedule has always 

been at least six pictures a year, and a 

spokesman for the studio said that they expect 

lo continue at this rate. A major release 

for 1967 summer schedule is "The Gnome- 

Mobile." with Walter Brennan starring in the 

role of business tycoon with a side interest 

in lumbering and a colony of redwood 

country gnomes. 

Walt Disney's Will Filed 

For Probate in Burbank 

BLKBANK—The estate of Walt Disney 

will be divided among his family and his 

cultural and charitable projects, according 

to his will, dated .March 18 and filed here 

for prohale. Under terms of the will all 

pcrs»)nal effects go to Disney's widow. Mrs. 

Lillian B. Disney, along with half the community 

properly. Various trusts also are set 

up for Mrs. Disney and the two daughters, 

Mrs. Diane 13. Miller and Mrs. Sharon D. 

Brown. 

The Disney Foundation will receive another 

45 per cent, with 5 

per cent for foundation 

use and the remainder to the California 

Institute of Arts, which Disney 

founded. The remaining 10 per cent provides 

for trusts, one for a sister, Mrs. Ruth 

Flora Beecher, and Ihe other for three 

nieces, ,Mrs. Marjorie Davis, Mrs. Dorothy 

D. Puder and Mrs. i'hylliN Bounds. Value 

of the c>tale was not given. 

Universal Picks Up Option 

HOl.l ^ WOOD Univers.il picked up ils 

tiplion (or another year on Katharine Ross' 

long-term exclusive contract covering both 

motion pictures and television. 

The Jack Warners Donate 

$300,000 to MPR Fund 

HOLLYWOOD — In Ihe largest single 

donation ever made lo the Motion Picture 

Relief Fund. Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Warner 

have presented a $.100,000 Christmas gift 

to the film industry fund, announced George 

L. Bagnall. president of the organization, 

and Gregory Peck, chairman of the building 

and endowment fund. 

The coniribuiion uill he used for enrichment 

of facilities at the Motion Picture 

Country House and hospital, which have 

long been dedicated to the welfare of members 

of the film industry under the motto: 

"We take care of our own." 

"The premiere of "My Fair Lady' was 

further Uingiblc evidence, as that premiere 

represented the first one held for the industry— 

the proceeds of which entirely went 

lo our Fund." Bagnall said. 

The KH'RF is presently engaged in a \5- 

year, $40,000,000 endowment and building 

campaign for the expansion of Ihe Motion 

Picture Country House and hospital. 

Chaplin's 'Countess' 

To Make U.S. Bow March 15 

HOI I A WOOD — Charles Chaplin's "A 

Countess From Hong Kong" has been set 

by Universal for its West Coast premiere 

at Ihe Pantages Theatre March 17, launching 

an exclusive extended run of the picture. 

The New York premiere of the picture 

at the Sutlon Theatre on March 15 will be 

a benefit lor Research to Prevent Blindness 

Inc.. of which Jules Stein is chairman of ihe 

board of trustees. He also is MCA board 

chairman. 

"A Countess From Hong Kong" will have 

its world premiere at the Carlton Theatre in 

London Thursday (5), as a benefit for the 

"Fight for Sight" campaign of the Institute 

of Ophthalmology associated with Moorfields 

Eye Hospital, the oldest and largest 

eye hospital in the world. 

Sour Apple Awards Go 

To Presley, Natalie Wood 

HOLLYWOOD — The Women's 

Press 

Club has presented ils Sour .Apple Award lo 

Elvis Presley and Natalie Wood for being 

the least cooperative with the Hollywood 

press corps. On Ihe positive side, the Golden 

Apple Award went to TV stars Bill Cosby 

and Phvllis Diller. 

UA Filming in Rome 

kOMl- Death Rides a Horse," an outiloiir 

action drama slarring John Phillip 

I aw and Lee Van Cleef, has started filming 

here as a United Artists release in Technicolor 

and Cinemascope. Alfonso Sansone 

and F.nrico Chrociki are producing and 

Guilio Pelroni is directing from a screenplav 

by Luciano Vicenzoni. 

"Death Rides a Horse" is now before the 

cameras in Ihe "Western Village" selling. 

Filnimg also will take place on locations in 

Spain. 

Gregory Peck Chosen 

As MPRF Trustee 

HOI It WOOD—Gregory Peck has been 

unanimously elected to the board of trustees 

of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, it was 

announced by George L. Bagnall, Fund 

president. 

"Mr. Peck's appointment as trustee of the 

Fund is an appropriate and deserving tribute 

to the man. " stated Bagnall. "He has dedicated 

a large measure of his valuable time 

in service to the Fund." 

Bagnall pointed out that Peck will continue 

as chairman of the Fund's 15-year 

$40-million endowment and building campaign 

for expansion of the Motion Picture 

Countr> House and Hospital. 

'Jack of Diamonds' Filming 

Completed in Munich 

MUNICH— Jack ol Diamonds," the 

Independent American-German co-production, 

completed ils 12-week shooting schedule 

with the filming of the last interior sequences 

at the Bavaria .Atelier Studios here. 

Sirring George Hamilton. Joseph Gotten. 

Maurice Evans. Marie Laforet, Karl Leiffen. 

and Wolfgang Preiss, the color film also 

features guest star cameo roles by Carroll 

Baker. Zsa Zsa Gabor and Lilli Palmer. 

.'\ co-production of Sandy Howard Productions 

and Bavaria Atelier Studios of 

Munich. "Jack of Diamonds" is a suspense 

thriller. Don Taylor directed the adventure 

lilm. produced by Sandy Howard, with 

Luiz Hengst as executive producer. 

Shooting began in New York Octobe 

4 and then moved to locations in Paris, 

Genoa, the Bavarian Alps, and Munich. 

Principal interiors were filmed at the Bavaria 

Studios. 

Mailing Address Changes 

Sought by Academy 

HOLL.t WOOD— Members of the .Acadeiiiv 

of Motion Picture .Arts and Sciences 

are being asked to report iheir current mailing 

addresses lo the .Academy office if they 

are other ilian ihe perni.ment addresses on 

file. 

By reporting these address changes, all 

voting members will be assured of receiving 

Oscar nomination ballots for the 39lh annual 

awards, and any other pertinent materials, 

according to .Arthur Freed, president, 

.Address change notifications should be 

sent to the Academy membership office. 

9038 Melrose Ave.. Hollywood, Calif.. 

90069. 

Sonny & Cher in Second MPI Film 

IK)inWOOD Motion Piclure International 

president Steve Broidy announced 

the signing of international singing stars 

Sonny & Cher for a second motion picture 

feature, lenlalively titled "Igna/." Broidy. 

exercising his option on ihe popular couple, 

under an original Iwo-piclure contract, staled 

that the second film will be a musicalcomedy, 

lo sl.irt in .April 19(i7. 

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Exchange, Studio Personnel 

Guests of NGC at Opening 

LOS ANGELES — Fifty 

representatives 

from Los Angeles film exchanges and Hollywood 

studios were guests of Fox West Coast 

Theatres on December 22 at an afternoon 

preview opening of the new $600,000 Valley 

Circle Theatre in San Diego. 

The group was flown in a chartered jet 

to San Diego, had luncheon at the theatre, 

toured the new showcase and flown black to 

Los Angeles the same day. 

Serving as hosts were William H. Thedford 

and Dan A. Poller, vice-presidents and 

co-directors of theatre operations for National 

General Corp., the parent company; 

Ernest Sturm, assistant co-director of theatre 

operations, and John Klee, Pacific Coast 

division manager. 

Formal opening of the theatre was December 

23 with the premiere of United Artists's 

"After the Fox." Victor Mature was 

among the celebrities attending the firstnighter 

event. 

Four N. Mex. Groups Join 

Forces to Fight DST 

ALBUQUERQUE — A concerted effort 

to kill Daylight Saving Time in New Mexico 

has been launched here by the New Mexico 

Theatre Ass'n, the New Mexico Restaurant 

Ass'n. the Parent-Teacher Ass'n and the 

Farm Bureau, according to Lou Avolio, resident 

manager for Frontier Theatres and 

board chairman of the theatre organization. 

Lawyers now are drawing up a measure 

to be presented to the legislature when it 

convenes this week and members of the 

various anti-DST groups are contacting state 

representatives and senators. Avolio said 

many of the 110 legislators are opposed to 

DST. although it is strongly supported in the 

Albuquerque area, where Rep. Eugene 

Pierce jr. announced he was personally going 

to lead the fight to see that DST became 

statewide. 

Avolio said a campaign of public protests 

and letters to newspaper editors is being 

planned for the entire state. 

Peppercorn-Wormser Plan 

'Train Robbery' Release 

NEW YORK — Peppercorn-Wormser 

Film Enterprises will release "The Great 

British Train Robbery," an N.D.R.—Gibraltar 

co-production, theatrically in the U.S. 

and Canada in April 1967, according to 

Carl Peppercorn and Irving Wormser. 

The picture, which deals with the notorious 

1963 English mail train holdup, in 

which almost $7,000,000 was stolen, was 

directed by John Olden and Peter Witt from 

a screenplay by Henry Kolarz. 

'Man for All Seasons 

600 1st Week 

In Los Angeles; 'Fahrenheit' 410 

LOS ANGELES—Following a phenomenal 

engagement, "The Sound of Music" 

closed its 94-week run at the Wilshire with 

a terrific 300. "Fahrenheit 451" continued 

at 410 at the college-oriented Bruin; "A 

Man for AH Seasons" hit a spectacular 600 

in its opening week and "Grand Prix" racked 

up a very strong 330 in a hard-ticket debut 

at the Cinerama Theatre. "Follow Me, 

Boys," the Disney film, opened Christmas 

Day in a limited number of outlying theatres, 

although the usual practice is to start 

such films in 30 area situations. 

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(Average Is 100) 

Peverly—The Bible (20th-Fox), 12th wk 280 

Bruin Fohrenheit 4S1 (Univ), 3rd wk 

Chirnese A Funny Thing Happened on the Woy 

410 

to the Forum (UA) 225 

Cinerama Grand Prix (MGM) 

Crest— Alfie (Paro), 9th wk 

330 

300 

Egyptian Hawaii (UA), 1 Ith wk 260 

El Rey, Hollywood, State Fantastic Voyage 

(20th-Fox), rerun 1 00 

Fine Arts, Vogue After the Fox (UA), 3rd wk. . . 1 20 

Four Star Night Games (Hakim), 2nd wk 175 

Hollywood-Paramount Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 

33rd wk 210 

'ris, Worrens' The Fortune Cookie (UA), rerun .... 1 10 

Lido Blow-Up (MGM) 280 

"usic Holl—A Man for All Seasons (Col), 2nd wk. 600 

i^rpheum, Wiltern The Professionals (Col) 125 

Pontages Any Wednesday (WB) 

Pix—Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 

230 

(WB), 8th wk., moveover 100 

"illage Gambit (Univ) 235 

Warner Beverly Funeral in Berlin (Para) 215 

Warner Hollywood Is Paris Burning? (Para), 

7th wk 95 

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

94th wk 300 

Portland Christmas Business 

Lifts 'Music' to 250 Week 

PORTLAND—"The Sound of Music." 

in its 90th week, accumulated an amazing 

holiday total that raised the estimate easily 

to 250 per cent. Among first-week screen 

features, the highest grosses went to "Follow 

Me, Boys" and "Georgy Girl," both 

estimated at twice average, and to "After 

the Fox," 180 at the Music Box. 

Broadway is Paris Burning? (Paro) 175 

Cinema 21 The Professionals (Col); Dead Heat 

on a Merry-Go-Round (Col), rerun . 175 

Eostgate 1 Any Wednesday (WB) 165 

Eastgate 2 Gambit (Univ) 165 

Fire Arts Shoot Loud, Louder ... I Don't 

Understand (Embassy), moveover 155 

Fox The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 90th wk. .250 

Guild Georay Girl (Col) 200 

Hollywood Murderers' Row (Col) 175 

Irvington Alfie (Para); A Thousand Clowns 

(Para), 1 1 th wk 165 

Laurelhurst Fantastic Voyage (20th-Fox); 

Born Free (Col), reruns 200 

Music Box After the Fox (UA) 180 

Off-Broodway Gigi (MGM), reissue 155 

Orpheum Follow Me, Boys (BV) 200 

Paramount Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 37th wk 200 

'Hawraii' Eighth Week 225 

Leads Frisco First Runs 

SAN FRANCISCO—"Hawaii" was the 

outstanding boxoffice attraction here in a 

week that saw most first runs edge above 

average—but not very much above. While 

"Hawaii" was posting 225 per cent, the next 

best gross percentage was the 140 scored 

by "Night Games," showing for the sixth 

week at the Presidio Theatre. "Alfie," 

rounding out a second month at Cinema 21, 

registered 130. five points ahead of "The 

Sound of Music," completing its 90th week 

at the United Artists Theatres. 

Alexandrio The Fortune Cookie (UA), 7th wk. ..100 

Bridge The Shameless Old Lody (Cont'l), 5th wk. 110 

Cinema 21 Alfie (Para), 8th wk t30 

Coronet Hawaii (UA), 8th wk 225 

Empire, New Royal, New Mission, El Rancho— The 

Professionals (Col), 4th wk 120 

Metro A Man and a Womon (AA), 9th wk 115 

Orpheum Doctor Zhivaqo (MGM), 44th wk 115 

Presidio Night Games (Hakim), 6th wk 140 

Stage Door Romeo and Juliet (Embassy), 5th wk. 90 

St. Francis, Geneva Let's Kill Uncle (Univ) 115 

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

90th wk 125 

'Follow Me,' 'Murderers' Row' 

Triple Average in Denver 

DENVER—Fifteen of 16 reporting firstrun 

theatres grossed far above average as 

Denver patrons were free to seek entertainment 

after winding up their Christmas 

shopping chores. "Murderers' Row" and 

"Follow Me, Boys," the top new films, and 

"The Professionals," the leading holdover, 

tied for highest grossing percentage at 300. 

"Penelope" and "Gambit" came on with 

double average openings and "After the 

Fox" made its Villa Italia bow with 175. 

Aladdin The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 92nd wk. 200 

Centre Funeral in Berlin (Para) 150 

Century 21 Gambit (Univ) 200 

Continental The Bible (20th-Fox), 11th wk 200 

Cooper The Best of Cinerama (Cinerama), 8th wk. 150 

Crest, Towne Penelope (MGM) 200 

Denham Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 39th wk 210 

Denver Follow Me, Boys (BV) 300 

Esquire Is Paris Burning? (Para), 125 

5th wk 

International 70 Any Wednesday (WB) 100 

Ogden Dear John (Sigma III) 200 

Paramount Murderers' Row (Col) 300 

Villa Italia After the Fox (UA) 175 

Vogue Georgy Girl (Col), 6th wk 250 

Webber The Professionols (Col), 6th wk 300 

Y. Frank Freeman Named 

Life Trustee by USC 

LOS ANGELES—Y. Frank Freeman, 

vice-president of Paramount Pictures Corp. 

and a trustee of the University of Southern 

California since 1949, has been elected a 

life trustee of USC. He asked to become a 

life trustee because of his inability to attend 

all meetings now that he is living in La Jolla 

much of the time. 

Actor David Stewart Dies 

OMAHA—Services were held here for 

actor David J. Stewart, 52, former resident 

who died December 24. He had appeared 

on Broadway in many hits. 

CARBONS, Inc. I ' 

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in Washington—B. F. Shearer Compony, Seattle—Main 3-8247 

in Colorodo—Denver Shipping & Inspection Bureau, Denver—Acomo 2-5616 

in Oregon— B. F. Shearer Compony, Portland—Copitol 8-7543 

in Utah—Western Sound & Equipment Co., Salt Lake City—Phone 364-7821 

BOXOFHCE :: January 2, 1967 W-5

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LOS ANGELES 

H i»«i-du\ \aculion at the Las Vegas Riviera 

Hotel was the door prize of the 

Los Angeles Lilmrow Club party and dance 

December M) in the Embassy Room at the 

Ambassador Hotel here. 

Hurr> t'lihn's former executive assistant 

William N. Graf, now executive producer 

on "Man for All Seasons." stayed at the 

Beverly Wilshire Hotel with his wife and 

attended the opening of the picture at the 

Beverly Hills Music Hall. He returned to 

London, where he now lives. 

.\iiother Columbia Picture, "Goal." the 

siory of the 1966 World Gold Cup soccer 

scries, played here at the Statewide Picfair 

to qualify 

for the Oscar competition. This is 

the full-length Techniscope. Technicolor 

feature . . . Universal's 'Gambit" opened 

lis local engagement as an exclusive extended 

run at NGC"s Village Theatre December 

2.V One of the promotions for the film was 

a "millionaires only" preview for three 

wealthy Los Angeles families, who saw the 

picture as guests of producer Leo L. Fuchs. 

with Los Angeles Times writer Art Seidenbaum 

joining the select circle as an added 

guest. 

Eve and Russ Meyer announce they have 

moved over to 8380 Melrose Ave. from 

their Santa Monica Boulevard location. 

They own Eve Productions. Films Pacifica. 

Inc., Pad-Ram Enterprises and Grove Films 

. . . Frank Wurtzel. son of Dan Wurtzel. 

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JJ. O. Reed is leaving the Mesa Theatre at 

Douglas, Wyo., and the house will be 

operated by Commonwealth Theatres. Reed 

will reopen the Wyoma Theatre in Glenrock, 

which was closed by Howard Bailey. 

Artlin Zeigler will not be able to reopen 

the Range Theatre in Saratoga, Wyo.. until 

some time in the spring as damage from a 

recent fire is quite extensive . . . Western 

Service & Supply is sponsoring a basketball 

team in the YMCA Senior Men's League . . . 

Columbia had a Saturday morning screening 

of "Murderers' Row" at the Paramount. 

Rod, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tankersley 

of Western Service & Supply, was home on 

leave from the Glynco Naval Air Station in 

Georgia . . . Susan, daughter of Mr. and 

Mrs. A. M. Goodrich, Grand, Lander. 

visited her folks during winter vacation 

from the University of Wyoming. 

Janet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick 

Lutz of National Theatre Supply, was elected 

to the National Honorary Society . . . Mr. 

and Mrs. Chick Loyd jr. of American International 

announced the birth of a daughter 

just in time for Christmas. She was named 

Leslee Noel. 

Doing business on the Row were John 

Lindsey, Rialto, Loveland; Verne Peterson, 

Paramount, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Russ Berry. 

Highland Theatres. Boulder: Bob Heyl. 

Wyoming Theatre. Torrington, Wyo.; Carman 

Romano. Rex Theatre, Louisville; 

Howard Campbell and Larry Starsmore, 

Westland Theatres, Colorado Springs; Mitch 

Kelloff, Uptown Theatre, Pueblo, and Bill 

Hastings. Cinema Villa Italia Theatre. 

Wyoming Exhibitors Meet 

To Organize DST Fight 

CASPER, WYO. — Wyoming exhibitors 

met here to formulate plans to combat Daylight 

Saving Time, which is due for consideration 

by the 39th state legislature early in 

the 1967 session. 

Attending the meeting were Ross Campbell 

of Sheridan; Fred Faure of Worland; 

Paul Cory of Riverton; Bob Heyl of Torrington; 

Alan Mercer of Basin; Steve 

Schreck of Wheatland; Stephen Moser and 

Dan Smart of Cheyenne. Hosting the meeting 

were Ray McClain, Lloyd K. Brown and 

Paul Palmer of Commonwealth Theatres in 

Casper. 

Commonwealth Theatres executive Leon 

Hoofnagle spoke to the group concerning 

some of the successful methods being used 

in other sections of the country. Fact sheets 

were prepared and exhibitors assigned personal 

contacts to 

the state legislature. 

be made with members of 

Maurice Jarre won Oscars for the musical 

scores he created for "Doctor Zhivago" and 

"Lawrence of Arabia." 

PORTLAND 

n record has been set here during the year. 

At the Fox, Alton Robbins chalked up 

$1 mill'on with "The Sound of Music," 

rounding out its 90th week and booked 

through February 14. Ken Septka, 20th Century-Fox 

branch manager, says he's hoping 

for a two-year run. 

Cathy Slade, 20th-Fox office executive, 

will become one of the first women to take 

over a distribution office in the Northwest. 

She is scheduled to become exchange manager 

here of American International, with 

offices in the Star Film Exchange Bldg.. 

starting Monday (9). 

Target date for the opening of M. M. 

Mesher's $1 million suburban Village Theatre 

in the San Rafael Shopping Center is 

Saturday (28). MGM's "Penelope" has been 

booked as the premiere film. Another 

Mesher operation, the Valley, is expected to 

open in the spring in the Raleigh Hills area. 

Tom Meyer's new Westgate Theatre is 

another $1 million twin-theatre entry, due, 

possibly February or March in Beaverton, 

also a busy west side commimity. This theatre 

is almost a duplicate in architectural design 

to the Eastgate here. The Westgate, also 

located near a big shopping area, has parking 

for a like number of cars—500 or more 

—and has a 1.300-seat and a 500-seat auditorium 

served from a central spacious lobby 

—just as the modern Eastgate. 

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BOXOFFICE :; January 2, 1967 W-7

. . . Buena 

SAN FRANCISCO 

HI Camillo, head booker at 

General Theatrical 

Co. and former big league ballplayer, 

will be the manager of the new Variety 

Club Softball team. Don L'rquhart and 

Barney Levy will be coaches. The team has 

yet lo hit the field, because the first four 

scheduled practices were rained out. These 

"stars" will take the field, if and when a 

practice is held: Inliclders— Paul Williams. 

Jack Valle. Sid kicin. Warren Nasser. Jim 

Pierson and Irvin Golf. Pitchers— Max Talmadge 

and Bill Kelly. Catchers— Don Urquhart. 

Outfielders — Dick Jeha. Don 

Farrar, Mike Powers, Jack MyhiU. John 

Enca, Al Charopotli. Pete Vigna, Walt Von 

Hauffe and Wally Levin. The club has been 

challenged by squads from radio station 

KSLO and kS',\. 

John Oalk. manager of National Theatre 

SuppK. has returned from a business conference 

of the parent company. General Precision 

Corp. The meeting was held in Dclevan. 

Wis. This also is the 40 anniversary of NTS. 

The company had some buttons made up 

that read, "Life begins at 40." 

1 he Curran Theatre, which normally presents 

live shows and plays, will turn lo films 

on Sunday (22). "Holiday in Italy," an 

award-winning travel film from the Rome 

Cinema Fair, will open the annual European 

Travelogue Festival on that date. The showing 

will benefit victims of the Italian floods. 

Luigi Chilleri, West Coast manager of the 

Italian Tourist Bureau, will introduce 

George Wilhelm, noted European director 

who narrates the film. 

Bill Captain, manager of the Market 

Street Pix Theatre, died. He was the manager 

of the theatre 15 years under Manuel 

Levin's ownership and before that under the 

ownership of Lippert Theatres. He also was 

the manager of the Four Star Theatre and 

had worked as a manager for the Blumenfeld 

circuit. He leaves his wife Amy and 

lour daughters. 

Don Fuller, manager of Buena Vista, was 

host tor the invitational preview presentation 

of Walt Disney's "Follow Me, Boys" at 

the Fox Parkside Theatre. House Manager 

Charles Minehart hopes to have a long run 

with the film, which opened right before 

Christmas. 

Judith Stone, editor of the San Francisco 

C hronicle's entertainment and drama section, 

was awarded a Ford Foimdation fellowship 

to do advanced study in drama, art 

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BLIND BABIES AID—Mrs. Roy 

Cooper, retiring president of the .San 

I nineiseo Women of Variety, turns 

i>\.T a cheek for $31,200 to Tent 32 

Chief Barker Charles J. Maestri for the 

Northern California Variety Club's 

Blind Babies Foundation. The money 

was raised through the operation of a 

bazaar and the premiere of "Hawaii." 

I'he foundation was established in 1949, 

t«o êars after 

lent 32 was chartered. 

and music at Stanford University. The 

award is one of a series for working journalists 

to increase their professional knowledge 

at Stanford under a Ford grant. The helpful 

newspaper woman will be missed, but she 

will 

return the middle of this year. 

Woody Allen, who was in town to plug 

his new film "What's Up Tiger Lily," was a 

guest on the Gypsy Rose Lee's show on 

KGO-TV. He plugged the film and modeled 

some weird "mod" fashions for men including 

an almost non-existent bikini bathing 

suit and shirts with necklines that realK 

plunged. 

American International will open an office 

this month in San Francisco. Hal Gruber, 

manager of the San Francisco branch 

of Favorite Films, will become the new manager 

of the office. Bob Leach, who has been 

the assistant to Hal Grubcr, will become the 

manager of the Favorite office. F'avoritc had 

been handling all AlP films. The new 

branch will be located right next door to Favorite 

255 Hyde St. 

Tent 32 Women Seats 

Mrs. Smith President 

SAN FRANCISCO—The Northern California 

Variety Club Women has installed 

Mrs. Millard Smith as president, succeeding 

Mrs. Roy Cooper. Other officers installed 

lent }2 ceremonies are Mrs. Manuel levin 

anti Mrs. Richard Colbert, vice-presidents, 

and Mrs. Thomas McCleaster and Mrs. I. 

M. Wciner, secretaries. 

More New Haven Parking 

From Eoitcrn Edition 

NEW HAVEN—The city will acqiiiie 

and demolish the Tafi Ciarage at 219 Crown 

street and construct a 50()-car parking facility 

on the tract. 

in 

SEATTLE 

T ucky fugitives from Seattle's recordbreaking 

rainy spell were Morris Sherman. 

Columbia branch manager, and his 

family and John Kent. Paramount manager. 

They are expected to have deep tans when 

they return from Hawaiian vacations . . . 

Harry Hill of the Firewee was down from 

Anchorage, Alaska. 

In a recent Sterling management shuffle, 

John Lenze is the new manager of the Music 

Hall, which was reopened in November. 

Lenze formerly was manager of the Northgate 

Theatre. lb Johnsen, formerly of the 

Neptune Theatre, now manages the Northgate, 

while Ed Stoddard, formerly assistant 

manager at the Northgate, is managing the 

Neptune. 

Norman Chester, BV branch manager, is 

hack on the job after a two-week vacation 

Vista held a special invitational 

screening of ",'\n Evening With Walt Disney." 

in which "Follow Me, Boys" was 

shown. It opened Christmas day at the Coliseum. 

Visitors lo Filmrow included Glen O. 

Spencer. Proctor, Tacoma: Joe Rosenfield. 

Spokane: Sid Dean, Lakewood, Tacoma. and 

Howard McGhee. buyer from Kennewick. 

Calif. High Court Upholds 

Ban on French Film 

S.AN FRANCISCO — The California 

State Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has 

upheld a ban on the showing of the French 

film, "Un Chant D'.Amour" by French playwright 

Jean Genet. 

The court, after viewing the 30-minute 

film dealing with prison homosexuality, denied 

without conmieni the appeal ot 

exhibitor 

.Saul landau. This was the first time that 

the court had upheld a ban on the grounds 

of obscenity, according to Marshall W. 

Krause, American Civil Liberties Union attorney. 

The case. Krause said, will be appealed 

to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The finding upheld lower court rulings 

that the film lacks artistic merit, that more 

than half the footage is devoted to sexual 

perversion, eliminating the film from consideration 

as a prison documentary or scientific 

study on prison psychology. 

San Francisco Mayor Sets 

Aside Day on 'Paris' Bow 

S.\N I R ANC IStC) In a tiihiite, Ma\or 

John F. Shelley proclaimed Wednesday 

(21) as Salute to Paris Day. marking the 

noilliern California premiere of "Is Paris 

Burning?" at the Golden Gate Penthouse 

Theatre. 

The mayor said the Paramount release 

is a fitting tribute to the liberation of Paris 

22 years ago and urged residents to mark 

the event by seeing the motion picture. 1 he 

how here of the roadshow presentation was 

under the sponsorship of the .Alliance I'rancaise 

and marked the opening of the Penthouse 

Theatre, which is the upstairs twin 

unit of the Golden Gate Theatre. 

W-8 BOXOFFICE January 2, 1967

Uniform Fast Time 

Seen for Missouri 

ST. LOUIS—According to a report in the 

Globe-Democrat, the entire state, apparently, 

will go on Daylight Saving Time April 

23 for the first time. As the 1967 session of 

the general assembly nears its Wednesday 

(4) start, hardly a legislator could be found 

who would give a standard-time bill any 

chance of passage. 

Rep. C. M. Bassman, Gasconade County 

Republican who has sponsored a bill for 

Central Standard Time in the past, said, "I 

don't know of a single soul who is giving 

any thought to doing anything about a 

standard-time bill. I don't think such a bill 

would have any chance at all in the next 

session." 

Because the prospects for such a bill are 

so poor, the Chamber of Commerce has 

called off its barnstorming lobbying trips to 

out-state standard time backers. The organization's 

president Aloys Kaufman pointed 

out, "We're remaining alert, but don't think 

it warrants much activity now. We're playing 

it by ear." 

Daylight Saving Time is expected to have 

support from the 1967 legislature, where 

the speaker pro tern. House majority leader 

and president pro tern of the Senate are all 

from the St. Louis area. 

It has been indicated that they would not 

be expected to exert any effort to speed 

along a Central Standard Time bill to passage 

before April 24. 

Democratic Sen. John J. Joynt of St. 

Louis, president pro tern of the Senate, said 

he had not "heard one thing" 

about efforts 

to remain on standard time. 

Sen. A. Clifford Jones, a Republican from 

Ladue, explained, "Perhaps one House 

member out of 163 would feel that we 

ought to go on Central Standard Time, and 

in the Senate, one member is doubtful. The 

rest are against it." 

Pacific Names Wm. Upham 

Theatre Field Supervisor 

From Western Edition 

LOS ANGELES—Veteran theatre operator 

and concessionaire William Upham 

has been named Pacific's walk-in field supervisor 

by Art Gordon, division manager. 

He has been in the field for a year, familiarizing 

himself with Pacific's operating 

methods, since departing an executive post 

with National General Corp. 

Upham served as NGC's assistant director 

of merchandising, supervisor of certain 

San Diego operations and as director of 

drive-ins. 

H. J. Berroyer Dies 

PANA, ILL.—H. J. Berroyer, 66, who 

retired in 1965 as projectionist at the Tanner 

Theatre, died December 21 in Huber Memorial 

Hospital. A life-long resident of 

Pana, Berroyer leaves his wife Lucy; a 

daughter, Mrs. Mary Alice Waddington, 

Rosamond; a foster son, Eugene Boudell, 

San Diego; a sister, three brothers and 

three grandchildren. 

BOXOFHCE January 2, 1967 

Updated Chicago Village 

Reopened Christmas Day 

CHICAGO — The Village Theatre, recently 

added to the Kohlberg circuit and 

renovated, was reopened December 25 with 

"Shoot, Shoot Louder ... I Don't Understand." 

Situated on Clark Street near North 

Avenue, the 45-year-old movie house began 

its career as the Gold Coast, serving patrons 

from nearby Lake Shore Drive and 

Astor Street, where top society figures had 

homes and apartments. In 1962 it was renovated 

and renamed the Glove, with a double 

feature policy. Now, as the Village, the 

780-seat house has been updated again from 

lobby to big screen, with a new sound system 

and projection equipment. 

New 4-D Process Film 

Makes Bow in Chicago 

CHICAGO—"The Bubble," which had 

its world premiere at the Woods Theatre in 

the Loop December 21, was made by Chicago 

filmmaker Arch Oboler in a 4-D film 

process. Space-Vision. Oboler claims this 

process will "start another revolution in the 

movie industry." 

Woods Manager Jack Belasco predicted 

that all future films would be made in this 

process. 

Oboler, whose "Bwana Devil" was the 

world's first commercially practical 3-D 

film in 1953, said Essaness circuit head 

Edwin Silverman bought "The Bubble" for 

showing at the Woods after viewing only 

two reels in Hollywood. 

Belasco said a silver screen (45x18 feet) 

is necessary to show Oboler's new process, 

as are special lenses which fit onto the 

projectors and each porthole is equipped 

with special prisms. Also, each patron is 

given a pair of special darkened polaroid 

glasses to view the film. 

Oboler said he had turned down an offer 

from Cinerama to handle the film for him. 

and he will distribute the picture through 

his own Midwestern MagicVuers, Inc., 

headed by George J. Schaefer. 

Johnny Desmond stars in "The Bubble," 

a science-fiction mystery written, produced 

and directed by Oboler. Co-starred are 

Michael Cole and Deborah Walley. It was 

shot in secrecy at CBS Television City, said 

Oboler. 

Filmmakers Co. Announces 

Four New Vice-Presidents 

CHICAGO—Four executives of The 

Filmmakers, Chicago-based motion picture 

production company, were elected vicepresidents, 

it was announced by Edward 

Katz. board chairman, and Lincoln 

Scheurle, president. They are: 

Jordan Bernstein, producer-director; Jack 

Cannon, editorial supervisor; Richard 

Dobosz, production manager, and Maurice 

Stevens, producer-director. The Filmmakers 

has been in operation for four years, during 

which it has greatly expanded its staff, 

facilities and space. 

Kerasotes Acquires 

Six Rodgers Units 

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—Kerasotes Theatres, 

which has its home offices here, acquired 

six theatres 

from Rodgers Theatres 

effective January 

1. Located in 

southern Illinois and 

southeastern Missouri, 

the theatres involved 

in the transaction are 

the Rodgers Theatre 

and Rodgers Drive-In, 

Poplar Bluff, Mo.; 

Gem, Cairo, III.; 

Rodgers Theatre and 

George Kerasotes 

Rodgers Drive-In, Anna, 111., and the 

Varsity. Carbondale, III. 

Expansion of the Kerasotes circuit, which 

was founded with the Springfield Royal in 

1909, began in the late '30s when George 

P. Kerasotes, the current president, assumed 

office. Now heading an organization embracing 

61 theatres, Kerasotes is a recognized 

exhibition leader, having served as 

president of the Theatre Owners of America 

and currently on the executive committee of 

the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners. He 

also is a member of the appeals board of 

the Motion Picture Code Authority. 

Commenting on the sale of the six units 

to Kerasotes, Mrs. Grace S. Rodgers, president 

of Rodgers Theatres, said that her firm 

was retaining interest in the BIytheville, 

Ark., operation of a theatre and a drive-in. 

She added that the Rodgers circuit would 

continue to maintain an office at 230 Eighth 

Street, Cairo, III., with W. M. Griffin, vicepresident 

and general manager, in charge of 

day-to-day 

operations. 

Fast or Regular Time, It's 

Up to Colorado Legislature 


DENVER—Colorado theatre owners are 

not planning any legislative action to override 

the statewide referendum, when the 

people voted in favor of Daylight Saving 

Time, 346,274 to 258.490. All the large 

cities, except industrial Pueblo, cast ballots 

for fast time. However, in the outlying vote 

only 15 of 63 counties favored DST. 

The final vote does not mean the state 

definitely will be on DST, but it will be 

used as a guide by the legislature to decide 

on a statewide time. 

It is expected that farmers, ranchers and 

small communities will try to stay on 

standard time, as evidenced by this letter 

in the Denver Post: 

"An overwhelming majority of counties 

voted against Daylight Saving Time. If our 

state representatives and senators had represented 

the Colorado people instead of a few 

big cities and newspapers, the state would 

be on standard time. What to do about it? 

More than 250.000 Coloradans, who voted 

against DST, can vote these politicians out 

of office, then keep up the fight for standard 

time." 

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KANSAS CITY 

Ui)lidu,> purtiorn and Poppers Supph Co. held an 

open house December 21 in the office. 

Allen While. 20th Century-Fox publicity 

manager, entertained the office staff in his 

home December \}: also attending the Fox 

party from Durwood Theatres was Mr. and 

Mrs. .Stan Durwood. Mr. and Mrs. Dick 

Durwood. Bob Goodfricnd and George 

Kieffer. 2()ih Ceniury-Fox. held an open 

house December 21 in the office. Universal. 

Johnny Long of George Regan Film Distributors 

and those of .Mlied Artist who had 

shared office space with Cni\ersal and Al 

Elewilz. Universal exploitation man. had a 

Christmas party at the U-Smile Motor Court 

on December 19. Universal had a gift exchange 

and open house December 23 in the 

office. Columbia Pictures' office party was 

held in the Ciold Buffet December 21. 

Commonwealth Theatres had a gift exchange 

and parly in the office December 23. 

Paramount Pictures held an open house in 

the office December 21. and WOMPI had 

its annual Christmas party December 20 at 

the Belleri\e Hotel. Commonwealth Theatres 

had a pre-New Year's Eve parly December 

30 in the Kansas City Club from 

6:30 until 9:30 p.m. Dick Orcar and Doug 

Lighiner were hosts. 

All film exchanges and circuits closed 

their offices about noon on December 23 

for the three-day Christmas weekend. Filmrow 

also was closed for a three-day New 

Year's weekend. 

Paramount Pictures' "Funeral in Berlin." 

whicli opened at the .Metro I and II December 

23. got an exploitation push from a 

giveaway of a 20 x 26-inch blow-up poster 

of Michael Caine. The posters were produced 

here in Kansas City and tags on radio 

spots offered them to the first 1.000 ladies 

who attended. Dory DcAngcIo of Regency 

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Modern Shop»Repair Work 

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handled the promotion and advertising 

on the film. 

Ihe chairmen of the various committees 

of .Show-A-Rama held a meeting December 

22 in the United Motion Picture Ass'n office 

to discuss the progress of the various 

duties and it sounds like it's going to be the 

best and biggest convention ever. The meeting 

was conducted b\ Leon Hoofnagle of 

Commonwealth Iheatres and Dick Conley 

ol 

l-ox Midwest Theatres. 

John Vos, Paramount salesman, and his 

wile went to Milwaukee December 23 to 

spend Christmas with their son and daughler-in-law 

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Vos . . . 

Phyllis .Seward. Warner Bros, cashier, left 

on a week's vacation December 19 to finish 

her Christmas shopping . . . Goldie Woerncr. 

20th Century-Fox. was on a one-week 

vacation over the holidays . . Adeline 

. 

Roêwicz. Universal branch manager secretary, 

began a vacation December 23. 

Howard Thomas announced that Warner 

Bros, has set a saturation on "A Covenant 

With Death" on February 1. 

Paramount Pictures was robbed on December 

20 by a man who entered the back 

door and took S46. 1 7 in cash from the safe. 

Mary Lou Goss saw him and screamed as 

he left by the back door and then came out 

Ihe front door of the Colgate BIdg. Jerry 

Haile. branch manager, said the man must 

have heard how much their pictures were 

grossing all over the territory and he just 

had to get a share of it. 

. . . Frank 

Grace Roberts, 2()th Century-Fox, had 

her son and his family from Rhinelander. 

Wis., home for Christmas 

Monaco, branch manager of Buena Vista, 

had his brother-in-law and his wife Mr. and 

Mrs. Carl Phillips from Denver here as 

holiday guests. 

William R. Ellison, manager of the New 

Claco Drive-In, is at home convalescing 

from an eye operation. 

Chris Ellis of the 63rd Street Drive-In and 

his wife had a family reimion on Christmas. 

Their daughter and son-in-law Dr. and Mrs. 

Nick Papadakes came from England, where 

the doctor has been a student: their daughter 

Angela was home from the Missouri 

L'ni\ersiiy and their other daughter and her 

husband Mr. and Mrs. Ted Anastas were 

here troni St. 

Louis. 

Out-of-town exhihitors seen on Filmrow: 

all Iron) .Missouri: A. C. Woolen. Higginsvillc; 

Ned Busher. Blue Springs: Elmer 

Bills jr.. Moberly: Jim Cook. Maryville: 

II. E. McManus, General Drive-In Corp.. 

St. Louis; F. G. Weary. Richmond: Fred 

Wilcox. Cameron, and Dean McMillen. 

Joplin. Also. Dale Danielson was in from 

Russell. 

K.is, 

ScrveniuKs: "Bullwhip Griffin" (BV) at 

Fine Arts Iheatre Wednesday. December 

2«, 10 a.m.; "Come Spy Willi Me" (20th- 

Fox) at Commonwealth Wednesday. December 

2S, 1:30 p.m.; "Rage" (Columbia) 

al Commonwealth Thursday. December 29. 

1: U) p.m. 

Tenelope' Huge 500 

At Two KC Theatres 

K.\i\S.\S Cin — Penelope" and "The 

Bible" led the upswing here, these two new 

films turning out to be super-money-makers 

as Kansas City patrons renewed their interest 

in screen fare during the holidays. 

"Penelope" grossed five times average, inaugurating 

engagements at the Roxy and 

Avenue theatres and "The Bible" was right 

on its heels with 450 at the Midland Theatre. 

(Averogc Is 100) 

I 

Brookside, Electric Murderers' Row (Col) 375 

Copn Doctor Zhivogo MGM), 39th wk 250 

Embossyl, 2 Gombit Univ) 175 

Fine Arts Alfic (Poral, 7th wk 300 

Kmo A Mon ond o Womon (AA), 5th wk 200 

Metro t , 

2— Funerol in Berlin {Poro) 1 75 

MicJiantJ The Bible 120th-Fox) 450 

Paromouni Any Wednesday (WB) 1 25 

Plaza AHcr the Fox (UA) 175 

Rcckhill Shoot Loud, Louder . . . ! Don't 

Understond 1 25 

Rcxy, Avenue Penelope (MGM) 500 ( 

Uptown, Granada (K.C., Kos.)—The Professionals 

(Col) 125 1 

ST. LOUIS 

The Variety Club's Children's World" was 

the title of a 36 minute holiday special 

produced and moderated b\ Brad Holiday 

on KFUO radio. 7he program traced the 

history of Variety and spotlighted the local, 

national and international children's charities 

supported by the barkers. Guests on the 

taped show were: international president of 

Variety James Carreras. London. England: 

Tent 4 Chief Barker Ed Dorsey; past chief 

Joe Simpkins. fund-raising chairman, and 

staff members of the Child Center at Our 

Lady of Grace. The program featured a tour 

of Variety's Children's World facility at the 

Center for treatment of emotionally disturbed 

children. 

MITO board member, Sen. Edward V. 

long will be Ihe featured speaker at the 

annual dinner of the Missouri Baplist Hospital 

(9) in the Chase Club. Chase-Park 

Plaza Hotel, marking the hospital's first 1 

anniversary in its new building at 3015 

North Ballas road. 

, 

Dennis Tappella, son of Joe Tappella, 

manager of Arthur Enterprises' Columbia 

Iheaire. flew home December 17 for two 

weeks holiday leave from Officer Candidates 

School at Ft. Benning. Ga. 

Charles Krips, 20th Ccnuiry-Fox manager, 

is accepting applications locally from 

men under 2.'i to participate in the firm's onthe-job 

development program to recruit and 

train film salesmen. Sales training classes 

will be held in the New York City home office 

and will last three weeks. Curriculum 

will co\er modern sales theory and practice, 

orientation in all phases of home office 

operation—accounting, sales control, print 

and laboratory functions, advertising, publicity 

and expliMtation. Following the course, 

trainees will be apprenticed at a branch exchange 

and then be given a job in one of ihc 

31 br.inches in ihe United Stales. 

C-2 BOXOFFICE :: January 2, 1967

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CHICAGO 

H gruup of celebrities appcured on a special 

WCIL'-IA program in behalf of the 

opening of THE BIBLE ... In ihc Beginning" 

ai Ihe Michael Todd Theatre. Included 

were Tro\ Donahue and his «ife Valerie 

Allen, Kaihv Nolan. Dan Dailey. Elliott 

Reid. W. B. Bryden and Clayton Corbin. 

Bill Friedkin flew in from the West Coast 

for a two-week visit in his home town and 

to spread the word about Sonn\ and Cher. 

He directed their first motion picture, tentatively 

titled "New Times. Happ\ Times." 

which will be released by Columbia Pictures 

this spring. Tom Gorman of the B&K staff 

set up a heavy schedule of press dates for 

Friedkin. 

Vi Dane, sales manager for Filmack 

Trailer Co.. plans to retire after 31 years 

with the company . Eckhardt is 

being transferred from 20th Century-Fo.\ 

offices in Chicago to chief of the Milwaukee 

exchange. Ray Schwertz will take over Eckhardt's 

activities here. 

Actress Eleanor Parker is to leave her 

Chicago home for Italy this month to costar 

with Viltorio Gassman in "The Tiger." 

. . . Roosevelt university's winter film season, 

starting Wednesday (4), will include 

Douglas Fairbanks' last picture, "The Private 

Life of Don Juan," made in England 

in 19.^4 and directed by Alexander Korda. 

Also, a classic Russian film, "The End of St. 

Petersburg," will be shown. 

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Ind.. for 40 years. He had been semirelired 

for 20 years, during which time the theatres 

were operated by his son Roy L. Kalver, 

former president of the Theatre Owners of 

Indiana. Young Kalver was associated with 

his father in the business since 1936. 

Three teenage burglars chose the Rockne 

Theatre lor a hideout. While there going 

over their loot of ten guns, one of the trio 

was shot. The Rockne is located in a normally 

quiet and respectable neighborhood, 

where such an occurrence is unusual. Patrons, 

although disturbed by the incident, 

helped police locate the two boys who fled 

after the shooting. The victim is recovering 

in a hospital. 

Bernard Mack, president of Filmack 

Trailer Co., announced the appointment of 

M. M. Fisher Associates, Inc.. as the advertising 

agency for Filmack's theatre division. 

The assignment was made as part of Filmack's 

expanded program to supply more promotional 

ideas and sales aids to exhibitors. 

Primary media will be direct mail . . . Irving 

Mack is home after several weeks in the 

hospital. He lost an eye in surgery. 

Richard Stern is playing Claude Lelouch's 

"A Man And A Woman" at his near north 

Cinema Theatre. The grand prix winner of 

the 1966 Cannes Film Festival opened December 

30 . . . The B&K Century Theatre 

on the north side was the site this year for 

an annual kids" party hosted by county clerk 

Eddie Barrett. 

Irv Kupcinet, Chicago Sun-Times columnist 

and an active member of the Variety 

Club of Illinois, was honored as the State 

of Israel Bonds Man of the Year. The award 

was conferred at a dinner in McCormick 

Place, with more than 4.000 persons in attendance. 

Among those who have won citations 

are Harry S. Truman, Gov. Otto Kerner 

of Illinois and Archbishop Bernard J. 

Shell. In I960 a 16().000-tree forest in Israel 

was named for Kupcinet for his work in 

behalf of the Jewish National Fund. 

Chaplin's 'Hong Kong' Set 

For U.S. Opening March 15 

Frjin Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK — Charles Chaplin's "A 

Cinintcss From Hong Kong," starring Sophia 

Loren and Marlon Brando, will have its 

American premiere as a benefit for Research 

to Prevent Blindness, Inc., of which Jules 

Stein is chairman of the board of trustees, 

at the Sutton Theatre March \'>. according 

to Henry H. "Hi" Martin, vice-president 

and general sales manager of Universal, 

which is distributing the picture, and Donald 

S. Rugoff, president of Rugoff Theatres, 

which operates the Sutton. 

Stein is also chairman of the board ol 

MCA. Inc., parent company of Universal. 

Mrs. Albert l.asker, Mrs. William M. Greve 

and Susan Stein serve as co-chairmen of the 

.American premiere. "The Countess From 

nST OPPOSITION — William E. 

Saunders, general manager of the Butler 

Drivc-In, Danville, III., has put up 

this signboard as a diiily reminder to 

passers-by to apply pressure to their 

state representatives to vote against daylight 

saving time this month in the 

Legislature. Butler ran screen trailers 

against DST up until the airer closed 

for the winter, then had a local sign 

company put up the pictured 24-sheet 

boards facing a busy highvâj. Butler 

also is posting anti-DST messages on 

marquees of ail closed drive-ins in the 

circuit. 

Hong Kong" will have its world premiere in 

London at the Carlton Theatre January 5 

as a benefit for the "Fight for Sight" campaign 

of the Institute of Ophthalmology, associated 

with Moorefields Eye Hospital, followed 

by a premiere at the Paris Opera in 

Paris Januaiy 12 as a benefit for the Fondation 

pour la Research Medicale Francaise 

with Madame Alphand, wife of the 

secretary general of the French Foreign 

Office acting as chairman. 

Warners Sets April Start 

For 'Finian's Rainbow' 


BURBANK, CALIF.—"Finian's Rainbow," 

the Warner Bros, motion picture 

version of the famed musical hit, is 

scheduled to go into production in April. 

Joseph Landon, who will produce the film, 

has established headquarters at the Warner 

Studios, where he has been joined by E. Y. 

"Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, authors of 

the original book and lyrics, who will write 

the screenplay in collaboration with Landon, 

Fred Astaire will star as Finian in the musical, 

which includes such song hits as "How 

Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "If This 

Isn't Love." "Old Devil Moon." "When I'm 

Not Near the Girl I Love," "Look to the 

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'Zhivago' Ends Run 

In Memphis at 200 

MEMPHIS—A spurt in 

business was expected 

at first-run theatres as new pictures 

were offered to Memphis film patrons following 

the ending of several long runs. The 

27th and final week of "Doctor Zhivago" 

at the Crosstown was worth 200 per cent 

and the Malco Theatre grossed 175 in its 

fifth and final week of "Texas Across the 

River." Among the newcomers, the pacesetters 

were "The Bible" at the Crosstown, 

"Funeral in Berlin" at the Paramount and 

"Murderers' Row." 


Crosstcwn Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 27th wk 200 

Guild Women of the World (Embassy), rerun ... .100 

Malco Texos Across the River (Univ), 5th wk. ..175 

Palace Born Free (Col); The Trouble With 

Angels (Col), reruns 70 

Paramount Is Paris Burning? (Para), 4th wk 100 

Plaza The Professionols (Col), 5th wk 125 

Studio 10:30 P.M. Summer (Lopert); Up to His 

Ears (Lopert), rerun 90 

Warner The Man Called Flintstone (Col); The 

Texican (Col) 80 

Whitehaven Cinema Those Magnificent Men in 

Their Flying Machines (20th-Fox), rerun 100 

James Dodd Chief Barker 

Of Atlanta Variety Club 

ATLANTA—James L. Dodd, advertising 

director of Mead Packaging Co., is the 

new chief barker of Tent 21, succeeding 

Robert Hosse, Martin Theatres booking 

office head in Atlanta. 

Other officers to be installed officially 

this month are L. C. Ingram jr., WAIl-TV, 

first assistant; Charles C. Coleman, Avery- 

Knodel Agency, second assistant; Thomas 

Carr, TV and radio broker, property master, 

and James L. Reeves, manufacturer's 

representative, dough guy. 

To be installed at the same time are officers 

of the Atlanta Women of Variety. They 

are Mrs. Jacob Pries, re-elected to her second 

term as president; Mrs. Karl Koslow, 

vice-president; Mrs. Melvin Finkel, treasurer, 

and Louise Bramblett, who also is 

WOMPI president, and Grace Barrett, secretaries. 

Atlanta Films Council 

Lists Film Evaluations 

ATLANTA—The Better Films Council 

here has evaluated these films: 

GENERAL AUDIENCE—"The Endless 

Summer," "El Dorado," "The Venetian 

Affair," "After the Fox," "The Christmas 

That Almost Wasn't," "A Pistol for 

Ringo," "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl 

Bombs." 

ADULTS, MATURE YOUNG PEOPLE— 

"Funeral in Berlin," "Hallucination Generation," 

"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's 

Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' 

So Sad," "Penelope." 

ADULTS ONLY—"A Funny Thing Happened 

on the Way to the Forum," "Any 

Wednesday." 

In "Department K," star Camilla Sparv 

wears a fabulous wardrobe ranging from 

Alpine sport clothes to outstanding examples 

of European haute couture. 


High Point Airer Operator 

Is Fined in Film Showing 

HIGH POINT, N.C.—Judge Byron Hayworth 

levied a 30-day suspended jail sentence 

and a $25 fine in a municipal court 

on drive-in operator John Clay Holland for 

violating the city's nude bosom ordinance. 

Holland's attorney. Arch Schoch jr., said 

he would appeal to Guilford County Superior 

Court. A similar city ordinance directed 

against the same drive-in a year ago went 

all the way to the North Carolina Supreme 

Court where it was knocked out because it 

was vague. 

Judge Hayworth refused a motion to dismiss 

the charge against Holland. He allowed 

a similar motion, however, on the charge 

against Richard Michael Ford, the theatre's 

projectionist. 

The city ordinance, passed after the old 

one was declared invalid, makes it a misdemeanor 

for a theatre to show a picture of 

the nude breast of a female over 12. 

Holland and Ford were charged with 

violating the ordinance after detectives 

viewed a scene September 8 from "Secrets 

of Nina Duprez." 

Crown International Opens 

Southeast, Southwest Units 

HOLLYWOOD — Crown 

International 

Pictures has now set distributors in all the 

Southern territories of the United States, 

according to Newton P. Jacobs, president of 

the company. 

In addition to previously announced Starline 

Pictures Company in the Dallas, Okla- 

Memphis and New Orleans ter- 

homa City, 

ritories, the Atlanta distributor will be Jaco 

Productions; Jacksonville, Clark Releasing 

Co., and Charlotte, Variety Films. 

CIP's "Road to Nashville" Technicolor 

country musical is now in prerelease engagements 

in these territories and will go 

into general distribution in the spring. The 

company is planning to distribute at least 

ten features in 1967 worldwide. 

ATLANTA VISITOR — Deborah 

Walley, who made a big hit with exhibitors 

at the Alabama-Georgia-Tennessee 

convention, poses with MGM's 

Herb Bennin, left, Southeastern division 

manager, and Morris Lefko, vicepresident 

and general sales manager. 

North Carolina Men 

Organize CATV Firm 

DURHAM, N.C.—A group of North 

Carolina men, including several from Durham, 

have received articles of incorporation 

for Cablevision of Durham, Inc., signed by 

secretary of state Thad Eure. Albert W. 

Kennon, Durham attorney who is listed as 

the new firm's initial registered agent, said 

the men are essentially the same who attempted 

some two years ago to open a 

CATV franchise here. 

Directors of the group are G. Watts Carr 

jr. and Willis H. Aldridge of Durham, Michaux 

H. Crocker of Greensboro, Charles 

H. Crutchfield of Charlotte, H. Dail Holderness 

and J. Richard Fowler of Tarboro. 

Two years ago, when CATV was first 

brought up in Durham it brought about the 

resignation of city councilman Floyd 

Fletcher, a WTVD official, because he said 

it would lead to conflict of interest. The 

proposal by the group was then sent to a 

committee, chaired by Vance Fisher, but 

has lain dormant for many months. 

It was deferred, along with several similar 

CATV proposals across the state, when a 

Raleigh group went to the State Supreme 

Court to see if a municipality had the authority 

to demand licensing of such a communications 

facility. The court determined 

the decision on procedural grounds, not 

answering the specific question, however. 

Kennon said the group would be operating 

as a subsidiary of Jefferson Standard 

Life Insurance Co. He said it would request 

that the Durham city council committee 

hearings be resumed. Raleigh has 

granted a CATV application for license of 

a group there, he said. 

Weinstock and Dawson Buy 

3 Units From Gold Bros. 

JACKSONVILLE — Jerry Gold and 

brother Louie, who have headed Gold-Dobrow 

Theatres many years, have disposed of 

three of their units, the Hugo in Belle Glade, 

Prince in Pahokee and the Lake Drive-In 

near Belle Glade, which is being rebuilt. 

The new owners are Alex Weinstock and 

Pete Dawson, who represent Alpe Theatres, 

Inc. Weinstock operates the Riviera Theatre 

at Riviera Beach, and Dawson, in addition, 

operates the United Booking Service in Miami. 

The Gold brothers retain ownership of 

the Ace Theatre in Belle Glade and the 

Showboat Theatre in Pahokee. 

Paul Daegling Is Named 

To Post With Wometco 

MIAMI — Paul J. Daegling has been 

named assistant director of employe relations 

for Wometco Enterprises, 

Inc. He will 

report to Walter Cunningham, director of 

employe relations. 

Daegling is a graduate of the University 

of Miami and brings to his new position an 

extensive background in all phases of personnel 

administration. For 13 years he was 

associated with Food Fair Stores as supervisor 

of industrial relations. 

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Arizona Rail 'n" Ranch Locations. The firm 

was set up to develop motion picture properties, 

and to use the 36,000-acre complex 

for western and adventure films. Ranch 

boundaries start 15 miles from the edge of 

the city, with hotel and eating facilities 

within a short distance. 

NEW ORLEANS 

fiiilf states Theatres held its annual managers 

meeting and Christmas party 

December 14 at McConib, Miss., with 180 

managers, partners, office workers and their 

wives taking part. In addition, branch managers 

of major and independent distributors 

and their wives were special guests. Among 

them were Paul Back. Buena Vista; Jimmy 

Prichard, Allied Artists; John Winberry, 

Columbia; George Pabst, Blue Ribbon; 

Billy Bryant, Paramount; Jerry Kennedy. 

Universal, and Gus Trog and Al Boykin, 

Warner Bros. 

December 13 the Orpheum Theatre held 

'An Evening With Walt Disney," where 

"Follow Me, Boys" was previewed. The 

film opened Christmas day at the theatre. 

As mentioned earlier, the Don Theatre in 

Shreveport had the same feature, but the 

picture opened Christmas day, not December 

23 as erroneously listed. 

Mitty Tcrral, wife of Dr. William Terral, 

co-owner of the Lakeside Theatre, worked 

on a citywide Saturday and Sunday kiddie 

matinee, with proceeds going to the March 

of Dimes. 

A. I.. Royal of Meridian. Miss., and Ad 

Orkin, Jackson, Miss., were pre-holiday 

visitors to Filmrow. 

Hope Novel on Viet Tours 

Becoming a Best Seller 


HOLLYWOOD—Bob Hope's newest 

book, "Five Women I Love," is rapidly 

reaching the best-seller lists since its publication. 

The 255 pages of his story on his 

two Christmas tours to Vietnam and stops 

along the route are filled with typical Hope 

humor. The title refers to two sets of five 

women (one set each year), who accompanied 

him. Hope pays tribute to the male 

members of his troupe, his production staff 

and Les Brown and his musicians. In a 

preface, he sums up the reason for his 25- 

year career of pertorming for GIs: "I must 

be a sucker for a uniform." 

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pirst-run operators here and exhibitors 

visiting from the trade territory report 

business is looking up for 1967 ... A severe 

ice and snow storm Christmas week crippled 

the territory, but in spite of this holiday 

attendance was good. 

R. X. Williams, owner, is to reopen the 

Lyric Theatre at Oxford, Miss., Wednesday 

(4) after a temporary closing . . Grover 

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Wray, Exhibitors' Services, 

reported 

the Plaza Theatre at Dickson, Tenn.. reopened 

in time for Christmas . . . The Midway 

Drive-In at Camden, Tenn., closed for 

the winter Sunday . . . White River Drive- 

In at Batesville, Ark., has closed until spring. 

MGIVTs "Doctor Zhivago" closed at the 

Crosstown in Memphis after 27 highly successful 

weeks, during which 155,000 persons 

saw the film ... A Tennessee Supreme 

Court decision on the injunction banning the 

showing of "Mondo Freudo" at the Strand 

Theatre is expected soon. Arguments have 

been heard by the state's highest court. 

The Tennessee legislature 

meets Tuesday 

(3) in Nashville and the inotion picture industry, 

led by M. A. Lightman, president 

of Malco Theatres, Memphis, is leading a 

fight against Daylight Savings Time. The industry 

is urging the state lawmakers to pass 

a bill against DST 

Frank Heard, Lee Drive-In, Tupelo; William 

H. Cook. Valley, Water Valley; Theron 

Lyies, Ritz, Oxford, and C. J. Collier, 

Ellis, Cleveland, were among visiting Mississippi 

exhibitors. From Arkansas came 

Orris Collins, Capitol, Paragould, and Marjoric 

Malin, Lura, Augusta. 

Lura Malin, mother of Marjorie Malin 

and operator of the Lura at Augusta, who 

has been ill in an Augusta hospital, returned 

home much improved. 

Sigler Carey, 47, who owned and operated 

the Gem Theatre at Caruthersville. Mo., 

died at Caruthersville. Services were held in i 

Caruthersville and burial in Paris. Ark. He 

was well known in the area and was a frequent 

visitor to Memphis . . . Whyte Bedford, 

Marion and Ford drive-ins, Hamilton, 

Ala., was in town on business . . . Maurice 

Basse, Starlite Drivc-ln, Union City, Tenn., 

was a visitor. 

WOMPI reports two new members. 

Nancy Forsythe and Mary Cook, of Film 

Transit . . . Newell Garrett, formerly of 

Paramount, was a holiday visitor . . . United 

Artists and 20th-Fox employes joined together 

for a Christmas party. 

WOMPI members delivered 39 decorated 

cans filled with cookies and candy to 

Sunshine Home for elderly men. Lurlene 

Carothers. UA. was in charge. WOMPI also 

delivered packages to adopted families. 

The Christmas party was held in the home 

of Mary K.. Baker, with 25 attending. 

"A Dandy in Aspic." a Columbia release, 

will be the 45th film for producer-director 

Anthony Mann. 

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He resigned as Dallas MGM fieldman to 

operate the manikin business here. He had 

been with the company 16 years prior to 

his resignation. His wife Ann is secretary to 

Mayor Ivan S. Allen jr. here. Filmrow is 

delighted to have Moses back. 

More than 2,500 persons spent "An Evening 

With Walt Disney" December 13, 

when "Follow Me. Boys" was previewed at 

Wilby-Kinceys 4.000-seat Fox Theatre, and 

were shocked just two days later to learn of 

his death. Disney made many friends here 

in 1946 when he and his wife took part in 

the world premiere showing of "Song of the 

South." He returned to Georgia in 1955 to 

film "The Great Locomotive Chase." 

Don Baker of New York, advertising director 

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îirroll OKbiirii. Warner Bros, manager, mas and opened before New Year's with 

weni into Si. Luke's Hospital for a the Swedish adult film "Dear John," a leadmg 

nominee for best foreign feature in the 

physical checkup just prior to Christmas 

. . . Carl .Spiers. Universal hooker, and his Academy Awards sweepstakes. 

wife spent Christmas in the Miami area . . . 

Horace Denning, district supervisor of 

W. A. "Bill" McClure, Universal manager, 

Dixie l)n\c-lns, made his biggest play of the 

and his family went up into the snow coimtry 

of North Carolina for the holidays, and 

entire year when he latched onto "Spinout." 

for the Atlantic Drive-in's exclusive 

Sunny Jaszai, Universal's senior hooker, and 

first run and splashed large color ads in 

her hushand Victor went to Gainesville, Ga.. 

newspapers which dominated entertainment 

pages. 

for a hricf vacation with relatives. Sunn> 

carried along a German 

The Atlantic, oldest drive-in in 

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north Florida, normally has sub-run 

a Christmas 

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gift for her son. 

features for the family trade. 

The local Universal office staff won third 

Florida State Theatres also went in for 

prize money in the company's national 

some crowd pleasers for the year-end holidays. 

The big Florida Theatre had "The 

power sales drive for 1966 . . . WO.MPI Iva 

Lowe returned here after she had served as 

Professionals," which crammed multiple star 

relief manager at the Matanzas Theatre in 

power and taut action into a pleasing bundle 

for action fans. FST's other downtown 

St. Augustine while its manager. H. A. 

"Red" Tedder, was in a hospital recovering 

from pneumonia. 

house, the Center, presented "Murderers' 

Row." 

The heavy artillery' of big star names and The all-time Jacksonville boxoffice champion. 

"The Sound of Music," which broke 

lop screen attractions was lined up by local 

exhibitors for their Christmas and New 

all records for extended playing lime during 

its first run at the Five Points, also dis- 

Year's trade. The Meiselman circuit had 

"Gambit" at both its first-run indoor houses. played its magic in attracting patrons in a 

the Cedar Hills and the Town and Country. "special selective engagement" at FST's suburban 

Edgewood. 

Sheldon Mandell, co-owner of the suburban 

Five Points, and his house manager, 

Harley Bellamy, had "Alfie" through Christ- The San Marco Art Theatre, FST's only 

art house in the area, drew the young dating 

couples with its first run of "Georgy 

Girl." Most of these patrons already were 

familiar with the film's catchy title tune 

uhich has made many of the current most 

popular lists. 

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where she underwent major surgery, and is 

now recovering satisfactorily at home . 

A virus infection kept Edna Edwards, secretary 

to Robert Heekin, EST district supervisor, 

at home for a few days. 

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Hazel Schwenker has taken over management 

of the Stale Theatre in Eustis for 

owner Henry Koehne . Bob Bowers made 

his first trip into the panhandle of west 

Florida as a Universal salesman ... Ed 

Bledsc>e. veteran Universal salesman, returned 

from a tour of central Florida to embark 

on a fishing vacation before Christmas 

. . . W. A. "Bill" McClure, Universal 

manager, and his family left here to spend 

Christmas with friends and relatives in 

Charlotte, N.C. 

Kxhibitors in town to line up screen programs 

for the year-end holidays included 

Thomas Edison Bell. Smyrna Theatre. New 

Smyrna Beach; Ralph Bailey, Eagle Theatre, 

Blountstown: E. C. Kaniaris, San 

Marco i:)rive-In. St. Augustine Beach: Preston 

Henn and Harold Turbyfill. Henn Theatres. 

Pompano Beach; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 

Weir, Williston residents who operate theatres 

at Crystal River and Chiefland; Jim 

Beach, court-appointed receiver for the 

Mcrriit Theatre on Merritt Island (the site 

ot Cape Kennedy), since the former owners 

wen! into bankruptcy; Dick Eason, MCM 

Theatres, Leesburg: William Lee, Cinema 

Theatre, New Pork Richey; Hal Stanton, 

Florida Theatre. Hollywood (Fla.); William 

Carroll, Vogue Theatre, Orlando; Leonard 

Vaughan. Live Oak, and John Lawson, Ritz 

Theatre. DeFuniak Springs. 

Rex Grimm, Warner Bros, staffer, said 

her son Mike Gifford has sent her Christ- 

. . Charley 

mas good wishes from Greece and that her 

daughter and son-in-law Marine Lance Cpl. 

and Mrs. Douglas Wilson, came in from 

North Carolina for the holidays . . . Hal 

Jordon, Howco salesman from Flagler 

Beach, visited along Filmrow . 

King. AlP manager and president of the 

Motion Picture Charity Club, returned from 

I visit with exhibitors in Miami. 

The long run of "Alfie" at the suburban 

Five Points ended December 29 and coowner 

Sheldon Mandell has booked "Dear 

John" to begin Monday (.'Ô) through February 

15. On February 16, the Five Points 

will begin its run of "Hawaii," which is anticipated 

to last several months. 

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Kddie Waller, who operates the Oceania. 

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reopened the suburban Lake Shore and has 

renamed it the Family Theatre. Several 

weeks ago police seized film at the theatre 

when an attempt was being made by former 

operators to turn it into a nudie house. As 

the new name indicates. Waller is running 

a famil\-type theatre. His first program was 

a sub-run billing of "Batman" and "The 

Ghost and Mr. Chicken," with a 60-cent 

admission for adults and .''5 cents for children. 

The theatre property is owned by L. V. 

Ocsguin. who operates the Charlotte Harbor 

Drive-In at Punta Gorda . . . The Beach 

Theatre at Cocoa Beach, formerly operated 

BOXOmCE :: January 2. 1967

y BVF Theatres, has been joined to the 

Kent circuit. 

Ken Theatres used big advertising spreads 

lor the "Road to Nashville" at its Atlantic, 

Bianding and Main Street drive-ins, describing 

it as "the biggest country music 

jamboree ever filmed" . . . Al Hildreth, 

manager of the San Marco Art Theatre, 

circulated attractive handbills to the art spots 

ol town for his Christmas presentation of 

"Cieorgy 

Girl." 

MIAMI 

\A7amer Bros.' Benjamin Kalmenson, Richard 

Lederer and Joe Hyams have arranged 

with Miami officials and Morris 

I ansburgh of the Eden Roc Hotel to cohost 

the world premiere of "Hotel" over 

the weekend of Sunday (22). The St. Gregory 

Hotel of the Arthur Hailey novel, from 

which the film was made, is in New Orleans, 

but it was decided to hold the premiere 

here, instead of splitting the activities 

between the two cities, says Miami 

Herald columnist George Bourke. 

Theatre consultant Howard Pettengill reports 

his son Cmdr. Howard Pettengill jr., 

a physician, has been certified a diplomat of 

the American Board of Radiologists. 

A weekend birthday party was held for 

Mrs. Mitchell Wolfson, whose husband 

heads Wometco, when their son Miami Rep. 

Louis Wolfson and his wife Lynn entertained 

the family at Ocean Reef in the Keys. 

The Greta Garbo Film Festival will open 

Thursday (12) at the Parkway Theatre and 

will continue through Tuesday (31). 

Florida State Theatres held a children's 

matinee with "Cinderella" at the Boulevard, 

Shores, Suniland, Gables, Paramount, Florida-Hollywood 

in Fort Lauderdale and the 

Florida-West Palm Beach theatres. 

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The Hebrew Academy PTA held a theatre 

party December 22 at the Colony Theatre, 

with "Hawaii" featured. Proceeds went 

to the academy library . . . George Roy 

Hill, who directed "Hawaii," spent a few 

days at the Fontainebleau Hotel. 

The wardrobe of Shirley MacLaine in 

"Gambit" was on display here at Burdine's 

downtown store and at the shopping center 

stores in Dadeland and Fort Lauderdale. 

The film opened December 23 at the 

Carib, Miami, Miracle, 163rd Street, Bay 

Harbor and Gateway in Fort Lauderdale. 

Ivan Tors executives Ben Chapman, Ed 

Haideman, Stanley Colbert, Michael Waslenko. 

Gene Levitt, Charles Courshon, Lloyd 

Ruskin and Laslo Benedek were honored 

guests the week prior to Christmas at Bea 

Morley's Mouse Trap Restaurant. 

SPG Is Dropping 

Milestone Award 

From Western 

Edition 

HOLLYWOOD— In order to conserve 

its energy, time and money for other functions 

more closely related to its new image 

as a collective bargaining agency, the Screen 

Producers Guild is dropping its annual 

Milestone Awards, announces SPG president 

Louis F. Edelman. 

In addition to the yearly award, the SPG 

also cited the best produced motion picture, 

television show and college campus film. 

With one exception, awards have been given 

since 1951. 

Past recipients of the Milestone Award 

have been Gen. David Sarnoff, Alfred 

Hitchcock, Arthur Freed, Bob Hope, Irving 

Berlin, Jack L. Warner, Adolph Zukor, 

Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel 

Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer 

and Jesse L. Lasky. 

AIP Names Managers 

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HOLLYWOOD—American International 

has opened exchanges in Los Angeles, San 

Francisco and Seattle, according to Leon 

P. Blender, vice-president of sales and distribution. 

C. L. "Chuck" Newman, formerly with 

20th Century-Fox, has been appointed 

manager of the Los Angeles branch. Hal 

Gruber, formerly with Favorite Films, was 

named San Francisco branch manager, with 

J. R. "Jimmy" Beale, formerly with Columbia, 

appointed head of the Seattle branch. 

Lew "Tommy" Tomlison, who was with 

Favorite Films, is the Seattle office manager 

and head booker for AIP. 

Paul Comi, USC Alumnus, 

To Appear in School Film 

HOLLYWOOD—Actor Paul Comi, an 

alumnus of USC, will appear in the school's 

cinema department film production of 

"Down These Mean Streets." Since graduating 

from the University in 1957, he has 

appeared in 12 motion pictures. 

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With employee participation in the Payroll Savings Plan for 

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Industry leaders are behind the Savings Bond program 

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of the family, bolsters the economy of the country by 

helping lo contain inflationary pressures, 

and supports our 

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How can you help? By bringing the Payroll Savings Plan 

into your plant. By encouraging your employees to enroll. 

The savings put aside each week through this plan systematically 

add up. And at the higher interest rate of 4.15 "^c \shcn 

Bonds are held to maturity, savings 

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years with the firm. For 28 years she was 

secretary to J. B. Underwood, then secretary 

to Jack Judd and later to the present 

exchange manager. R. J. McCaflerty. Mrs. 

Cullimore always found her work at the 

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her. presented her with gifts and wished 

her well in her years of retirement. Shcs 

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Pendleton \sere married December 22 in the 

First Baptist Church of Urbandale. James is 

stationed at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma but was 

on leave here until January 2 . . . Mable 

Ciuinan of Paramount has been called for 

petit jur> service Tuesday (3). 

— 

Mike Cohen and Rex Hud- 

Lee Parrish, 

son of Associated Popcorn Distributing Co. 

entertained their employes and their wives, 

husbands and dates with a cocktail party 

and dinner dance in a private diningroom 

at the Tower Motel. Employes from the 

firm's Dallas and Houston branches were 

present for the festivities and to receive 

nice bonus checks. 

Mrs. Don Douglas, "Polly" to her many 

friends, made sure that one of her gifts for 

Don will be enjoyed throughout the year 

she subscribed to BoxoJFiCE for him. We 

congratulate Polly on her gift choice and 

send Don best wishes for a year of enjoyable 

reading. 

Ihc Paramount Pep Club dinner party 

was held at the Bc^B Restaurant. Among the 

guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bragcr. 

Vern Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Haynie. 

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Guern.scy, James Broiles, 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. 

J. 1-. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mealer, 

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sullivan, Lillian Stockdale 

and her mother, Mr. and Mrs. Harold 

Helm, Hazel Martin and a friend, and Mr. 

and Mrs. Cy Libby ... At the Variety Club 

dinncr-dance a drawing for the WOMPI 

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Juanita White and several other WOMPls 

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Mrs. Alta Mac Roberts is 

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TDITOA Convention 

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D.ALI.AS— With more than 250 registrations 

already on the books for the 15th 

annual Texas Drive-ln Theatre Owners 

Ass'n January .11 -February 2. a recordbreaking 

attendance is indicated, according 

to Joe S. Jackson, convention chairman. 

Booth sales were also at a record pace. 90 

per cent of capacity having been sold two 

months ahead of the convention's opening 

date. Jackson attributed much of the early 

registration to an announcement to members 

thai seating for the presidential dinnerdance 

will be reserved according to the payment 

dates on convention registrations. 

Jackson also urged that all firms desiring 

e-\hibit space or convention program advertising 

space make immediate contact with 

his committee. 

In addition to Jackson, other convention 

chairmen are ffarl Podolnick. nominating: 

Jack Arthur, resolutions; John Rowley, 

Hardin Award: Mrs. Shirley Tobolowsky. 

women's committee: Bill Rau, greeters committee, 

and Earl Podolnick. Morton Foods 

promotion. 

Among registrants from a distance are 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Cartlidge, London, England. 

Cartlidge is assistant managing director 

of Associated British Cinemas and has 

been invited to address convention registrants 

concerning exhibition in Great Britain. 

.Sherrill C. Corwin. president of the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners and president 

of Metropolitan Theatres. Los Angeles, 

will speak at the opening luncheon. Wednesday, 

February 1. 

On January 10 the association will host a 

cocktail luncheon for Texas legislators in 

the Sun Room of the Austin Hotel. Austin. 

SAN ANTONIO 

ponald Melville, a student at San Antonio 

College, is the new assistant to Manager 

Al\in Krueger at the Cinema Art Theatres' 

suburban Laurel. Other additions to the 

Laurel staff are Greg Nefford and Cieorge 

Franka jr., ushers, and Elizabeth Booth, 

concessions . . . General Cinema's Cinema 

I and Cinema II in North Star Mall donated 

their services to help the Distributive Education 

Clubs of America raise funds for 1 d 

scholarships. Special showings were held at 

11:45 p.m. .Saturday, necember 17. which 

was proclaimed Distrihuti\e liducation Day 

in San ,\ntonio b\ Ma\or W. W. McAllister, 

as Jerr> Lewis' "Boeing Boeing" was 

shown at each theatre. Tickets sold for SI, 

with 500 to (lOO club members acting as 

salesmen. 

.Santa sold tickets December 24 at the 

Josephine through arrangements made b\ 

Manager David O. Stoffle. Children under 

12 were admitted for 25 cents and a discount 

eou|Hm from the H. F. B. Food 

Stores to see "The Christmas That Almost 

Wasn't" and "The Sleeping Beauty." 

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Ccteral furmer Filmrow employes made 

their way back during ihe holidays, 

including Jack King. A booker many years 

wiih \ideo. he resigned lo join Warner Bros. 

as thai company's Oklahoma salesman. Later 

he was transferred to the \VU Detroit 

exchange where he worked under Howard 

Kinser, who tormerly was in OC" lor 2()th- 

Fox. Also here were Bates Farley and his 

wife. Bales was head booker for MGM for 

\ears before going to Denver as an MGM 

salesman under George Fisher, former 

MGM manager here and still in Denver in 

the same capacity. Fisher and his wife Mar\ 

also were Oklahoma City visitors duriny 

the holidays, as were George and Isia 

Friedel of Jacksonville. George was a 20th- 

Fo.x salesman here before going to Jacksonville 

. . . Max Feinsilber, who owns the 

theatre building in Yukon and now lives in 

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their daughter home for the holidays; Mr. 

and Mrs. Dennis Collier, 89er, Kingfisher, 

and Bulldog. Weatherford. Dennis having 

finished six months of armed forces training 

December 20; Jimmie Leonard. H&S, 

Chandler, and Garland Wilson, Mooreland, 

Mooreland. 

Condolences to Olen Nuckols, manager 

here for the Magic Empire Express, whose 

mother died. Funeral services were held at 

Itasca, Tex., December 18 for Mrs. 

Nuckols, who is survived by four sons and 

three daughters. Two of Olen's brothers, 

Clyde and Buster, are well known to Oklahoma 

City industry people. Olen has been 

with Magic Empire Express, which transports 

most films and industry supplies in 

eastern Oklahoma, since the local company 

started hauling films several years ago and 

finally sold its private lines to Magic F^mpiiL-. 

which has a home office in Tulsa. 

Well, we feel that we have gone along far 

enough this time, having had a brief vacation 

of one week when the December 19 

and 2h issues were combined. We hope you 

have had u pleasant Christmas and that 

I9h7 will bring you health and prosperity. 

ri>mmy Steele st;irs as Kipps in "Half a 

Sixpence, ' now in production for Paramount. 

UTOO Board Studies 

Anti-DST Progress 

OKI.AHO.MA CriY—Convention plans 

and strategy for preventing adoption of daylight 

saving time by the Oklahoma Legislature 

were major items considered by officers 

and directors of the United Theatre Owners 

of Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas 

at their December 12 meeting in the Sheraton-Oklahoma 

Hotel. 

C. B. "Brownie" Akers, honorary life 

member of the board, made a detailed report 

on how to handle the legislative situation 

when the daylight saving time issue 

comes to a vote this month. 

Books of 52 tickets each have been sent 

to each state senator and representative, the 

coupons good for admissions to the following 

Oklahoma City theatres; Centre. Midwest, 

downtown; Will Rogers. Lakeside. 

Plaza. Villa, Trend and Mayflower, suburban 

theatres; Twilight Gardens, Skyview. 

Cinema 70 and Hillcrest, drive-ins. The 

coupons in each book are for anyone who 

wishes to use them up until June 30. 

Horace Clark, chairman of the convention 

committee, reported progress on convention 

details. The 1967 convention is 

scheduled for the Sheraton-Oklahoma Hotel 

March 6. 7. Registration details still are to 

be worked out, probably by the time of the 

committee's next meeting January 9. 

HOUSTON 

Jerry Ribnick, local advertising man. has 

been named to handle publicity and 

advertising for Paramount Pictures in the 

Houston area . local premiere of 

"Grand Prix" the racing car film, will be 

held at the Windsor Cinerama January 25 

Boriski. owner and operator of the 

Alray. house of foreign and classic films, 

has placed on sale 1967 discount cards . . . 

Smiley Burnette. remembered by movie fans 

as Frog, the humorous cowboy companion 

to such Hollywood cowboy greats as Ro\ 

Rogers, Gene Autry and Charles Starrett. 

was a recent visitor on a tour which included 

stops at Dallas and San Antonio. 

Margaret Foster is handling groups or 

theatres parties at the Gaylynn Theatre, 

where "Is Paris Burning?" is the roadshow 

attraction . . . C. J. Dobbins has been 

named winner of the "Texas Across the 

River" contest. Dobbins will be flown to 

Guadalajara h\ Mexicana Air Lines after 

Easter for a week's stay and will receive 

S.MX) cash. The contest was conducted in 20 

cities throughout Texas in conjunction with 

the Interstate Theatre Circuit. 

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MINNEAPOLIS— It was all "hi, ho, the 

ox!" over the extended Christmas holiday, 

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L'losses not meeting expectations at most 

situations but with United Artists' "After 

the Fox" out-Foxing all comers and piling 

Lip an impressive 300 in its opening at Ted 

Mann's Orpheum. While "The Fox" was 

running strong, "Follow Me, Boys" found 

re atively few followers: the Walt Disney 

offering, predicted to be the giant of all 

'> iile arrivals, mustered a faint 100 at the 

(lopher, this despite the holidays. Among 

other newcomers, "Georgy Girl" bowed 

strong at Cinema II and at the Uptown in 

.1 dual opening; "The Best of Cinerama" 

was okay at the Cooper Cinerama; "Gamliit" 

checked in soft at the Lyric; "Murderers' 

Row" was a flashy 200 at the State and 

"Shoot Loud, Louder ... I Don't Understand" 

was acceptable at the Suburban 

World. The holidays upped weekly grosses 

at all the hard-ticket presentations, and 

these were the only holdovers. 


Academy Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 40th wic 200 

Cinema II, Uptown Georgy Girl (Col) 175 

CoODer Cinerama The Eest of Cinerama 

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Gopher Follow Me, Boys (BV) 100 

Lyric Gambif (Univ) 110 

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MILWAUKEE 

TTp'*'"'''' H:;rold Lc»k, «ho opcralCN ihc 

Badger Theatre ac Stoughlon, was the 

recipient of the Jaycees' gold-plated plaqii.- 

"in recognition of his community spirit" in 

offering the use of his theatre to the group 

and other organizations for benefit performances, 

kiddie matinees and other special 

events. The honor was conferred upon Lewis 

at 

the Jaycees annual dinner meeting. 

Ben I). Marcus, who recently was presented 

Israel's highest award to a Jew living 

outside the country, received "a hale" of letters 

and wires congratulating him. He was 

praised as a "model father, husband and 

citizen full\ entitled to this expression of 

community esteem." by Gov. Warner P. 

Knowles and lr\ing G. Rhodes, publisher of 

the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. The event 

took place at a dinner in his honor. Marcus 

immigrated to the United States at 13, and 

now is president of Marcus Theatres Management 

Corp.. of Wisconsin Big Boy Corp. 

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at Buena Vista, and Ed Stoller of Minneapol 

s taking Joe Imhofs chair at United Artists. 

Kddie C;avin, .MP branch manager, headed 

for California and his annual vacation. 

He will visit friends and relatives . . . Most 

of the exchanges held holiday parties for 

their employes . Deusing. Milwaukee 

naturalist-photographer who filmed 

many sequences for the Disney natural history 

movies, recalls the intensity with which 

(he U'.te Walt Disney attacked a problem. 

He said the studio wanted a motion picture 

of a mosquito "hatching" from its capsulelike 

pupal stage, and demanded extreme 

closeups. which in turn required lights so 

hot they killed the mosquitoes. Deusing suggested 

the use of a strobe light synchronized 

with the camera shutter, one flash, lasting 

only a few millionlhs of a second for each 

frame. "By George," said Deusing, "he went 

at it, and got such a device the next year." 

Dan MuUer, 75, onetime ward of Buffalo 

Bill, artist and writer at Knellsville, just 

north of Port Washington, is giving up his 

home and moving to New Mexico. He wrote 

My Life With Buffalo Bill" and is an authority 

on "cowboy stuff." He said, "I'll bet 

\ou think all cowboys are the same— like 

ihose in the movies. Well let me tell you, the 

least cowboy of all is the movie cowboy." 

Ray Milland, currently appearing in 

"Hostile Witness" at the Palace Theatre here, 

told reporters that when he was 35, he found 

out the picture business was not all velvet 

and someday "those directors would get 

wise and realize that I just couldn't act. But 

I figured that it was too late to learn another 

business, so I learned how to act." He said 

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nichard Hirstine has returned here to be us- 

MKiaied vsjth his father Lloyd in management 

of the Capitol Drive-In and Robo 

Car Wash Enterprises. Richard has been 

serving as assistant manager of Montgomery 

Ward in Fremont. Neb. He is married and 

has a son and daughter. 

Like Ihc rest of the world, our children 

were shocked by the death of Walt Disney. 

Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck certainly 

have won a place in American culture. But 

Disney made the classics of literature, 

music and history fun. too. If you are over 

40. how many kids of your generation were 

exposed to Tchaikovsky? A heck of a lot of 

kids today at least know "The Nutcracker 

Suite" when they hear it. And they probably 

associate it with Mr. Disney. Perhaps 

no one has contributed so much entertainment 

and culture in a quarter of a century 

as this man. 

Follow Me, Boys," opened at the Plaza 

here on Christmas. Earlier, the invitational 

"An Evening With Walt Disney," featuring 

a preview of the tilm. met with splendid 

reaction. 

Bill Towey, Tri-States city manager, set 

"Arri\ederci. Baby" for New Year's Eve at 

the Paramount. The film opens here on a 

regular run later in the month. 

Hal Haivorson is manager of the Plaza 

Theatre here. In another recent Tri-States 

circuit managerial change, .Steve Atherton 

is in charge of the Strand at Waterloo. He 

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Lire, set by burglars, caused an estim.iled 

SI.(K)0 damage at the new Plantation 

Dn\e-In here. The office of Manager Del 

McCaulley was gutted in the blaze, which 

firemen said was set b\ lighting paper in an 

office desk drawer. The burglars took a 

typewriter from the office and an undetermined 

amount of candy and ice cream. 

An office clock had stopped at 2:30 a.m., 

apparently from the intense heat. Employes 

had left about 12:15. a.m. 

LINCOLN 

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The house was full for both performances, 

reports Larry Louis, city manager for 

Cooper Foundation Theatres. This means 

that .'^,700 children were on hand for the 

free 9()-minutc show. The club topped the 

day with its annual luncheon in the Cornhusker 

Hotel for children of Cedars Home. 

Editorials in both dailies here paid tribute 

to the late Walt Disney, who died two days 

after "An Evening With Walt Disney" was 

held at Nebraska Theatre Corp.'s Varsity, 

when "Follow .Me, Boys" was previewed. 

Cooper Theatres held its annual Golden 

Age Christmas parlies December 16 and 17, 

and four persons received special honors as 

the oldest man and woman at each performance. 

The women received roses and the 

men, dinner for two. A\ Schulter is manager 

i>f the Stuart Theatre, where the parties were 

held. Arrangements were made by city manager 

Larry Louis. Also on hand were Herman 

Hallberg, Cooper vice-president of theatre 

operations; Mike Johannes, Nebraska 

Theatre manager, and Leon Wragge, relief 

manager. 

Walt Janeke, Nebraska Theatres city 

manager, left one of his prized Christmas 

gifts at home when he went to Philadelphia 

lor the holiday. It's an "executive" erector 

building set. given to him by assistant Varsity 

manager Pete Durham. Jancke's growing 

executive collection includes a yo-yo, 

lelcscope and microscope. 

Saints & Sinners Fall Gal 

Award to Debbie Reynolds 

HOLLYWOOD— Debbie Reynolds has 

Wi.".Iefn tdilion 

become the first 

motion picture actress to be 

hiinored in Washington with a "Fall Cial" 

.Award from the Saints and Sinners P. T 

Barnum Tent. 

The annual luncheon in the Hilton spotlighted 

the star's public career and her 

private efforts in behalf of some charitable 

group— in her case the Thalians. The Saints 

and Sinners "Fall Guy" Award has been an 

annual event in Washington lor a quarter 

of a century, but the distaff award was only 

started in 1964. 

OMAHA 

^he Cooper Foundation Theatres presented 

Mrs. Arthur Youngman a dozen red 

roses for becoming the 

lO.OOOth member in 

the Omaha Golden Age Club, sponsored b\ 

the foundation here. City manager Jack 

Klingel had the stage all set and pretty Jen 

McHugh of the foundation staff in Omah.i 

made the presentation while flashbulbs 

popped. On four mornings, the Cooper 

organization held free movies at the annual 

Christmas show for the club members. 

Coffee, cookies, baby orchids and cigars 

were distributed. 

Dale Pierce took over the Stale Theatre at 

Elk Point. S.D.. Sunday (1). He purchased 

the State from Lindy Anderson. Pierce 

used to be the operator at the theatre. 

Ed Cohen received good comments after 

a screening of Columbia's "Murderers' Row" 

at the Varsity Theatre in Lincoln. Attending 

from Omaha were Ken Claypool, head 

of the Co-Op Theatre Service, and Joe Reel 

of the Astro Theatre. 

Lee Rasmussen, owner of the Rialto Theatre 

at Missouri Valley, Iowa, has been released 

from a hospital and is reported to be 

getting along fine. He had a virus infection 

and pneumonia. 

Joe Damon of the Center Theatre here 

also has been released from a hospital, after 

a three-day stay for a checkup ... A number 

of Omahans were in Des Moines for 

Christmas parties. 

. . . Filmrow visitors included 

Don Shane, Tri-States city manager, had 

".Arrivcdcrci. Baby" as the New Year's show 

at the Orpheum 

Ncbraskans Jack March. Wayne: 

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Zedicker, Osceola, and 

Orville Dodds, Stromsburg, and lowans .Arnold 

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'Sound of Music' 285 

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DETROIT — "The Sound of Music" at 

the Madison slumped a little in the pre- 

Christmas week but still held a sizable lead 

over other Motor City first runs. Two attractions, 

both in their — fifth week, tied for 

second place honors "The Endless Summer" 

at the Studio-New Center and "Alfie" 

in a dual date at the Studio-8 and the Trans- 

Lux Krim. 


Adams Fanfastic Voyage (20th-Fox), llth wk. .. 90 

. . .200 

Allen Park, 17 other theatres Tanon and the 

Valley of Gold (AlP); Frankenstein Conquers the 

World (AlP) 85 

Grand Circus, Camelot, Quo Vadis Whot's Up Tiger 

Lily? (AlP) 95 

Madison—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 91st wk. 285 

Mercury, Palms, Woods, Moi Kai The Professionals 

(Col), 5th wk 120 

Michigon La Dolce Vifa (AlP) 115 

Northland Mediterranean Holiday (Cont'l), rerun. . 75 

Studio-1 Mademoiselle (Lopert) 95 

5tudio-8, Trans-Lux Krim Alfie (Para), 5th wk. 

Studio-New Center The Endless Summer 

(Cinema V), 5th wk 200 

Studio-North A Man and a Woman (AA), 

tlth wk 130 

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Ben Cohen Refurbishes 

His '19 Model Electric 

CINCINNATI — Ben Cohen, owner of 

the Holiday Amusement Co., is all set for 

the "new" age in 

the automotive industry 

— 

electric cars. He has a 1919 Detroit electric 

town car, refurbished and ready to run at 

the press of the button. 

Cohen found this gem in a barn in 1948, 

an unused derelict. Until 1954 it perched 

atop the attraction board at the Acme Auto 

Drive-In as an attention-getter. The car endured 

all the furies of the weather including 

lightning. Cohen decided to tear down his 

board and the car sat neglected in a shed 

for the next 

12 years. 

In the spring, when the automotive industry 

began searching for a new means to control 

exhaust fumes which causes so much 

air pollution, Cohen decided to give his car 

a whirl. He hooked up 14 golf-cart batteries 

and the old car ran. 

For a progressive man of tomorrow, the 

only decent thing was to restore the relic. 

Specialists went to work completely overhauling 

the car inside and out. Today the 

47-year-old model runs as smooth as the day 

it was produced. What's it worth? The unrestored 

1919 Electric in the Ford Museum 

at Dearborn, Mich., is valued at $17,500. 

While waiting for the electric 

automotive 

:'ge to arrive showman Cohen will use his 

car as a revolving museum attraction to promote 

various films to be shown at his Acme 

Auto and Mount Healthy drive-ins and at 

the charming Cinema Village at Erlanger, 

Ky. 

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Co-Star 

HOLLYWOOD—Henry Fonda starts 

his 

64th film in "Fury at Firecreek." This will 

be the first time he and Jimmy Stewart, 

first associated as fellow members of the 

University Players, will have appeared in a 

film together since 1946. Fonda plays an 

outlaw battling Stewart, a kindly farmer. 

CINCINNATI 

^he holiday season's line-up of new product, 

which opened during pre-Christmas 

week, seemed sufficiently varied to satisfy 

most movie patrons. Children should 

have been pleased with the many special 

matinees held during the week. As is customary, 

many theatres were dark Christmas 

Eve to permit employes to be with their 

families. On New Year's Eve many extra 

shows were scheduled, some theatres offering 

previews of upcoming pictures. 

On December 22 Mid-States executives 

were in Dayton for the formal opening of 

the deluxe Salem Mall Cinema playing "Penelope." 

Preceding the formal ceremonies 

there was a parade and a champagne party 

following the performance. 

"Is Paris Burning?" opened its Midwestern 

premiere December 22 at International 

'70 with a benefit performance for the 

Cincinnati Chapter of Brandeis University. 

This city's newest theatre. Western 

Woods Cinema, opened December 23 

COLUMBUS 

Jâyor Maynard E. Sensenbrenner cut a 

giant Christmas package red ribbon to 

open Loew's Arlington. Loew's Morse Road 

also opened on Christmas. The mayor and 

his wife are among Buckeye State celebrities 

included in twin "Celebrity Rows" at the 

two new Loew's theatres. Others include 

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Ted Lewis, 

Norman Nadel, Jack Nicklaus, Eileen 

Heckart, Gene Sheldon, Earl Wilson and 

Milton Caniff. Celebrities' nameplates are 

affixed to arm rests of the rows. 

Samuel T. Wilson, theatre editor of the 

Columbus Dispatch, who retired Sunday 

(1), was hospitalized for a minor operation. 

Pearl Hunt booked "Hawaii" as a hardticket 

attraction for mid-February at Hunt's 

Cinestage. 

Manager Ed McGlone of the RKO 

Palace, sole film industry representative on 

the Columbus film review board, was reappointed 

for another term, along with sev- 

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at the Valley, and Walt Disney's fitting memorial 

"Follow me. Boys" opened Christmas 

Day at the Grand. 

Mid-States executives needed extra energy 

to uphold them in their busy pre-holiday 

schedule. "After the Fox" opened December 

20 at both the Hollywood Theatre and 

Mariemont Cinema East with all proceeds 

going to the March of Dimes, a fund 

sponsored annually by the Post and Times- 

Star and city firemen. 

The Times Towne Cinema, with its facade 

freshly painted in white with red accents, 

entertained an invited audience at the 

opening performance of "A Funny Thing 

Happened on the Way to the Forum" December 

21. A peppy parade preceded the 

opening and after the performance champagne 

was served. 

er;il others, including Victor Goodman, Ann 

G. Highfield, Virginia Frakes, Al DeMers, 

Rosemarie Darenburger and Mrs. Frank 

Binder. The city council, which made the 

reappointments, turned down objections to 

Goodman, voiced by councilman James 

Baumann, who said he thought that since 

Goodman, a lawyer, represents local burlesque 

interests, he should be disqualified. 

Loew's Morse Road and Cinema East 

joined in a New Year's Eve showing of "A 

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the 

Forum" . 

. . Loew's Arlington scheduled a 

New Year's Eve showing of "Funeral in 

Berlin." 

Mexican Award to 


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MEXICO CITY—MGM's "A Patch of 

Blue," the Pandro S. Berman-Guy Green 

production, has been named "best foreign 

picture of the year" by the Universidad 

Iheroamericana, the only university in Latin 

America offering a program of motion picture 

production and cinematography. 

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operator; Eric Rose, managing the 

Shady Oak Theatre for .Arthur Enterprises 

at St. Louis—formerly manager of the 

Trans-Lux Krim here—and all his family; 

Dorothy Duncan of the Wyandotte Motion 

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Highland Heights, and NOT Mayfield 

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Mar) Lou Weaver of Buena Vista and 

her sister Elisabeth Murray spent the holidays 

with relatives in Dayton . 

Flward is the new secretary at Paramounl. 

replacing Judy Hardy, who has retired. 

Mr. and Mrs. Kari Kraus of Mamaroncck. 

New York, spent the holidays with 

son Bob and his family. Bob is with .\1GM. 

E. S. "Eddie" Johnson is the subject of so 

many calls that we tr> lo keep his friends 

posted. He is still in Barberlon Hospital. His 

condition is described by the staff as satisfaciory 

and from the grapevine we hear that 

he is improving and is more cheerful. 

.Martin Chams, (senior at Case Insiiiute 

ol lechnology) has been elected to the Blue 

Key Honor Fraternity and Tau Beta Pi 

Honor Fraternity. He is son of Edna 

Charns. branch manager's secretary at Warner 

Bros. 

Betty Kaplan of United Artists was surprised 

to learn via this column she has a new 

grandson. Having neither husband or a child 

she reassured herself that the column must 

have referred to her new grandnephew. 

which she knew all about. So now it's all 

clear and to be credited to the spirit of 

Christmas. 

Gerry Kerner, MGM booker, and his wife 

took a three-week trip to Mexico. They visited 

Mexico City, took the tours to the Pyramids, 

to Puebla. to Chollala (the city of 365 

churches), then on to Acapulco. Cuernavaca. 

Ta.xco and Xochimilco. 

Heart Beat, Variety Club publication, has 

a new editor, Erwin Rozner of WKYC. 

who came here about a year ago from Philadelphia. 

Variety Week will be February 

12-18. 

W. Ward Marsh Injured 

In Cleveland Crash 

CLEVELAND—W. Ward Marsh, motion 

picture critic for the Plain Dealer and 

correspondent for Boxoffice, is in satisfactory 

condition in St. Vincent's Charity Hospital 

after suffering three broken ribs, a broken 

arm, broken vertebrae and head cuts 

in an auto crash December 23. 

Police said his foreign-made car smashed 

mto a center guard rail and flipped over on 

Marsh told police he swerved 

the Inner Belt. 

to avoid an auto that did not stop. Police 

were continuing to investigate the crash. 

Marsh's wife Mabel said he had planned 

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ABC Affiliate Opens Redstone Men in 2-Day Conference 

New Worcester Plaza 

WORCESTER—New England 

Theatres, 

the regional affiliate of American Broadcasting 

Companies, has opened its latest unit, 

the newly constructed 830-seat Plaza Theatre 

in the rapidly expanding Lincoln Plaza 

Shopping Center. 

The opening attraction was "Alfie." 

The theatre supervisor is Leo Lajoie, formerly 

manager of the company's Capitol. 

Worcester. 

HARTFORD 

The Enfield planning and zoning commission 

has taken the preliminary site plan 

submitted by Suburban Development Corp., 

(Hartford, for a $3 million. 30-acre shopping 

center (including a motion picture theatre), 

"under advisement," promising no definite 

approval date . . . The Torrington planning 

commission has approved an application by 

New York developer Marshall J. Stewart for 

zoning change request to permit construc- 

I'tion of a $5.5 million shopping centeri 

motel-apartment house complex, including 

an 800-seat motion picture theatre. 

Franklin E. Ferguson, Art Theatre Corporation 

president, has installed new carpeting 

at the first-run Webster . . . James Lamo, 

76. of Hartford died. Survivors include Ann, 

a daughter, for many years house manager 

of the Webster, and Ben, a son, formerly 

assistant manager of the SW Strand. 

Herb Robinson of Buena Vista, New 

York, was a local visitor. 

SPRINGFIELD 

The Poppy Is Also a Flower," in western 

Massachusetts premiere, day-and-date, 

at the Bing, Springfield, and Majestic, West 

Springfield, was kicked off with the presentation 

of free corsages to the first 25 lady 

patrons at each theatre, through courtesy of 

a Springfield florist. 

. . . 

The Burr Theatre in suburban Ludlow, 

shuttered for many years, may now become 

a teenage dance center The Mahawaie, 

Great Barrington, opened a distinguished 

film festival, the attractions including "The 

vVrong Box." 

A sports arena and convention center will 

3e an integral part of the projected $17.6 

nillion downtown Court Square develop- 

Tient. 

Mexico City University 

Selects 'Patch of Blue' 

Tom Western Edition 

HOLLYWOOD—MGM's "A Patch of 

Blue" has been named the "Best Foreign 

Picture of the Year" by the Universidad 

Iberoamericana in Mexico City, the only 

iniversity in Latin America offering a full 

urogram on motion picture production and 

;inematography. 

Pictured while in conference at the Redstone Theatres' home offices in Boston 

were, seated left to right, Harry Schneider, district manager, Michigan; Walter 

Franco, district manager, upstate New York; John Dowd, data processing supervisor, 

Gerry VingI, traveling auditor; Maurice Lehrman, controller; Alex Castoldi, 

concession coordinator; Mannie Lima, district coordinator; Joe Sommers, district 

manager, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey; Gene Cramm, 

district manager. Quad City area, Illinois and Iowa; and Phil Klein, district manager, 

metropolitan Toledo. Standing, from left, Frank Diamond, district manager, Ohio- 

Kentucky-Indiana; John Lowe, Massachusetts indoor theatre coordinator; Alan Carpenter, 

purchasing agent, and Sam Feldman, Massachusetts district coordinator. 

BOSTON — All district managers and 

home office executives of Redstone Theatres 

gathered for the first time in the independent 

circuit's history for two days of 

meetings here. 

Primarily concerned as they were with 

"Is Paris Burning?" roadshow engagements 

(Showcase Cinemas. Lawrence, Mass., 

January 18: Cinema I. West Springfield, 

Mass., January 18; Cinema I, Louisville, 

and Cinema I, Toledo), the participants also 

concerned themselves with new promotion 

and booking procedures. 

At the same time, the new home office. 

Few Triple-Feature Shows 

Being Booked in Conn. , 

HARTFORD—Triple-feature programs 

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a "normal" component of the Connecticu n 

drive-in theatre scene during winter months 

can't be found in profusion at 

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the moment.} 

It is reasoned that the bulk of those drivein 

interests once given to booking three major 

features on a single program as a greater 

audience lure during colder evenings have 

had additional thoughts on the matter and 

now are content to concentrate on schedules 

containing two major features of distinctive 

quality. 

Industry critics of the once-prevalent 

practice in this territory argued that the idea 

of showing three films at once only tended 

to "cheapen" the outdoor theatre atmosphere. 

'Flight of Dancing Bear' 


HOLLYWOOD—"The Flight of the 

Dancing Bear." a novel by Mark Rascovitch. 

will be directed by Ken Annakin for Charles 

D. Kasher and William Freedman's Charwill 

Productions, London, with Russian authorities 

contacted to see if the film can be 

made in the Soviet Union. 

at 31 St. James Ave., was shown to all district 

managers and they in turn met various 

department heads. 

Edward Redstone said that more meetings 

of this nature will be held because of 

the pronounced success of the two-day 

meetings. 

A number of important ideas got the spotlight, 

too, according to Sumner Redstone. 

He commented that this was the first time 

all district managers had assembled, representing 

Iowa, Washington, Kentucky, New 

York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois 

and Indiana. 

Art Film Theatre Is 

In Hartford Plan 

HARTFORD — The Community Arts 

Center. Inc., readying a downtown community 

arts center, has disclosed that the project 

will include a theatre for the showing 

of art motion pictures. 

Also envisioned is an auditorium for attractions 

to be staged by the Hartford Stage 

Company, a professional repertory group. 

A $30,000 grant has been made from the 

Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation 

for a feasibility and development study, according 

to center president John K. Sinclair. 

Robert Mirisch Passes Bar 

Exams, Joins Dad's Firm 


HOLL"YWOOD — Robert Mirisch, 28- 

year-old son of Mirisch Corp. president 

Harold J. Mirisch, has been notified of his 

passing the California bar examinations. 

Mirisch, who graduated in June from the 

University of Southern California Law 

School, has joined the Mirisch Corp. 

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1st Week Record; 'Forum Debut 200 

BOSION—Allhough iradilionally looked 

upon as the worst time of the year to open 

pictures, two pre-Christmas arrivals not only 

made the grade hut "After the Fox" broke 

the Beacon Hill opening day record set by 

"Tom Jones" and s*.iared on to 200. the same 

percentage attained by "A Funny Thing 

Happened on the Way to the Forum" at 

Chen 2. 

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A»:cr -Altie iP;'3V I'th wk 

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LCacon H.h-AMtt the Fox (UA) 

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Chcti 2— A Funny Thing happened on tht Wo» 

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Circle C'rwmo— Is Porn Burning? (Pora), 6th wk. 120 

Exeter—The tndlc« Summer iCinemo V), llth wk. 135 

Gory—Hawaii lOA;, 9th wk 150 

Kenmcre— The Shomeleis Old Lady (Confl), 

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Muvc Hon— The Proteislonoh iCol), 6th wk 130 

Orphcum—The Idol Emboisy); Yesterday, Todoy 

and ToBiocrow Embossy), reissue 110 

Porornount^Jypsy Girl Cm . Go Home! 

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Par.s Cincmo—The Sound of Musk l20th-Fox), 

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Saxon— Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 30th wk 130 

West Erxl Cinetno— I, a Woman (Audubon), 

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Alfie' Still High Grosser 

At New Haven Cinemaii 

M:W H.-\VEN— '.Mlie, still displaying 

strong holdover power at the Stanley Warner 

Cincmart, coasted to a brisk 175 in its fifth 

week. Otherwise, the seven-day frame 

wasn't particularly distinguished. 

Bowl, SW Roger Shcrmon— The Brides of Fu 

Monchu Seven Arts); Ten Little Indians 

(Seven Arts) 

100 

Crown Modemoisello (UA); The Knock 

(Lopcft,, rerun 

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Lawrence Promises! Promises! (Harlequin), 

rerun, Ploygirls After Oork (SR) 80 

Lincoln—The Loves of o Blonde (Prominent), 

4th wk 70 

Loews College Blood Drinkers (Hemisphere); 

The Stock Cot Hcmispricre) 70 

Poromount—The Cfi/i$tmoi That Almost Wosn't 

(Childhood) 60 

Millord Diive-ln— Adorn ond Eve (SR); Nature Girl 

and the Stover (SR) 80 

SW Ccncmon— Alfie (Poro), Sih wk 175 

Whollev- Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 30th wk 90 

"The Professionals' Scores 135 

Fifth Week in Hartford 

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Wolff iSR), and The Broin (SR), the latter two 

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Art Cinema— The Time of Indifference (Confl); 

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Etrln-The Ploygirls ond the Vampire (SR); Th« 

Koked Kiss aa Horror Hotel (Trans-Lux) .... 85 

Burnside— Not With MY Wife, You Don't (WB), 

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Centrol—The Fortune Cookie (UA), 5th wk 100 

Cinemo One, Elm—The Greofest Story tver 

Told (UA). rerun 70 

Cinerama—Mediterroneon Holidoy (Confl), 

rerun, 7th wk 75 

Cine Webb— It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World 

(UA), reissue, 2nd wk 60 

E M Loews— The Professionals (Col), 5th wk. 135 

Strand— Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 30th wk 100 

Webster—Our Man Flinf (20th-Fox), rerun; 

Von Ryan's Express (20th-Fox), reissue 50 

Golden Globe Awards 

Set for February 15 


HOLLYWOOD—The 24th annual Golden 

Globe Awards presentation of the Hollywood 

Foreign Press Ass'n will be held February 

15 at 7 p.m. in the Cocoanut Grove 

of the Ambassador Hotel, according to Herbert 

G. Lufi, president of the association. 

The gala affair will be telecast the same 

evening by NBC as a special, with Andy 

Williams serving as the master-of-cerenionies. 

Bob Finkel will be the producer 

and Bob Henry, director. 

The Golden Globe nominees will be announced 

at a champagne parly January 16 

in the Embassy Room of the Ambassador 

Hotel, Luft said. 

Jack Smight Signs Pact 

With Mirisch for 3 Films 


HOLLYWOOD—Jack Smight, who is 

currently preparing to direct "Meanwhile, 

Back at the Front." for Universal, just 

signed a three-picture, non-exclusive producer-director 

contract with the Mirisch Corp., 

it was announced by Walter Mirisch. 

Additionally, .Smight has purchased the 

highly acclaimed Ray Bradbury book, "The 

Illustrated Man" for his own independent 

production company. This is the second 

properly acquired by Smight's company, the 

first being John Updike's "Rabbit Run," for 

which James Lee has written the screenplay. 

Discussions concerning the films he will 

make for the Mirisches have not yet taken 

place. 

por the opening of the reserved-seat c 

gagement of "A Man for All Season 

Ben Sack, president of Sack Theatres, is ^ 

ting up a special invitational party for >' 

at the Cheri 1 January 31. The picture \^ M 

open February 1. Sack, before leaving tor ' 

vacation in Hawaii to see at first hand the , 

locale of the production of the same name lA 

playing at his Gary Theatre, said he h;id 

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turned down a "tremendous preview p 

miere of $10,000." which had been offi. 

in favor of his own party for "distinguisli 

Bostonians." The affair will be formal 

invitations will be coveted, it was indie.;:.: 

as plans for the gala "film party" were being 

worked out. The Sack party should rival 

the recent Capote party held in New York. 

The Boston Cinerama Theatre was re- j 

furbished with new carpets, new seats and 

new decor inside and painting outside for I 

the opening of "The Grand Prix" December 

22. This was the public opening, the theatre 

being the scene of an invitational premiere 

the preceding evening. 

James Tibbetts, who formerly managed 

the Loew's Orpheum and State theatres here, 

now is managing the Broadway and Off- 

Broadway theatres in Portland, Ore. He left 

Boston to manage the Cinerama Theatre in 

Cleveland, Ohio, and was transferred from 

there to Portland. 

George DeLemos, manager of the Trans- 

Lux State Theatre here, is shooting final 

scenes of "Diary of a Swinger," the film he 

is producing for release in January. The 

film has a Boston locale and all scenes were 

shot using Hub exteriors and interiors. 

Clayton Pantages Named 

Filmsync Sales Head 

F'om Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK—Clayton G. Pantages, who 

was a 20th Century-Fox executive for 12 

years before moving to Magna Pictures 

Corp. as general sales manager, has been 

named e.xecutive vice-president of sales for 

the newly formed Filmsync-TV, Ltd., by 

Jack Curtis, 

president of the post-synchronization 

and dubbing firm. In addition, 

Pantages heads the worldwide theatrical and 

television sales for Dome Films International 

Corp.. new distribution outfit. 

Peter l-ernandcz. radio and TV writer for 

ten years, has been named secretary of 

Filmsync by Curtis, who has been engaged 

in dubbing and post-sync as producer, writer 

and director since 1955. beginning with 

"Wages of Fear" and "Rififi," the latter 

rated as the first major breakthrough for 

quality English-language dubbing for a 

foreign film. 

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Thf respuiutc by ihcairc audiences to a series 

of special attractions, essentially 

vintage classics, continues strong, both in 

the larger, more populous cities and in the 

smaller towns across New England. 

James M. Tot man. Stanley Warner zone 

manager for New England and New Nork. 

tells us that he's putting a series of once 

weekly (probably Monday or Tuesday) programs 

into effect in several Connecticut 

cities, among them New Haven (zone flagship, 

the downtown Roger Sherman). Danbury 

(Danbury Cinema) and New London 

( Garde ) 

He noted that six Tuesday shows at the 

College Theatre, in the Storrs Shopping Center 

adjacent to the sprawling L'niversity of 

Connecticut campus, proved tremendously 

appealing. What's more. Morris Simms. the 

College Theatre manager, pitched the idea 

to the university's department of fine arts, 

seeking at least an endorsement of the "classics." 

The department not only welcomed 

the Simms suggestion but proceeded to 

"send the word," in enthusiastic news releases, 

throughout Connecticut. 

And in the "north country," at Stowe, 

Vt.. the Stone Playhouse has concluded a 

four-part series, screened on Sundays. 

Shown were Warners' "The Maltese Falcon" 

(Humphrey Bogart): "The Man Who Came 

to Dinner." "The Fatal Glass of Beer" (W. 

C. Fields) and "Rashomon." All showings 

were scheduled a! S:30 p.m. 

The Stowe Playhouse is readying a similar 

approach in the sphere-and-scope of children's 

attractions on Saturday matinees. 

.Series "sponsors." be they major circuits 

or independent theatre owners, find that 

"word-of-mouih" contributes immeasurably 

to the series-being-screened as well as to individual 

theatre prestige in a given community 

and it's in this latter vein that New England 

exhibition can not do enough on a 

permanent, progressive basis. 

Moreover, it is noted in exhibition conclaves 

that "selling" the local motion picture 

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and will do for the community is of inestimable 

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Peter G. Perakos sr., at 78 one of America's 

oldest active exhibitors, told us at Perakos 

Theatre Associates headquarters in New 

Britain, Conn., that the upcoming January 

sessions of the various state legislatures will 

be as good a time as any to remind the law 

makers of what the individual motion picture 

theatre has meant to the individual town. 

"Not enough of our law makers," he said, 

"really are cognizant of what the operating 

theatre means. For example, whenever a theatre 

'goes dark," is shut down permanently, 

there's a tremendously lonely feeling to 

Main Street, regardless of the size or importance 

of the community. It's up to us as 

active exhibitors to make the law makers 

appreciate the fact that the lighted, operating 

theatres DO bring people downtown at 

night, in effect giving greater importance 

to parking lots, restaurants and the like. We 

shouldn't walk away from conversation in 

this vein with the people whose opinions 

count, both on the local and state level." 

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John P. Lowe, western New England division 

manager for Redstone Theatres, reports 

fine public response to an art gallery 

showcase set in the main foyer and upper 

mezzanine of the spacious lobby at the Cinema 

1 and II complex, Lawrence, Mass. 

The "showcase" is dominated by a multicolored 

modern graphic art display by Norman 

Ives of Yale University. 

The gallery, available for the theatres' patrons, 

is also open to the public during show 

hours without charge and provides a striking 

backdrop for club meetings and gatherings. 

This mezzanine art gallery is cooperating 

with all art centers in the Merrimack Valley 

area, offering itself as an additional showcase 

for works of the masters and helping 

to foster a greater appreciation for their art. 

Exhibitions from leading galleries, colleges 

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The new theatre of the Portland Players 

in South Portland. Me., will be named for 

the late Phyllis Schuyler Thaxter, in recognition 

of her service as the "most effective 

president the Players had" in the community 

drama group's 35-year history. 

Mrs. Thaxter, a one-time Broadway actress, 

was the mother of Phyllis Thaxter 

Lea, motion picture actress, 

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After a successful "Think Snow" campaign 

last winter. New Hampshire's ski area 

operations are indeed hopeful for a "Think 

Money-Green Snow" drive this season. 

Estimates of an expected record income 

from the slick slopes range from S20 million 

to S25 million, especially with forecasts for 

an old-fashioned big snow winter. 

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The Strand, Quincy, Mass, hosted a recent 

Saturday matinee "Top-A-Go-Go" 

show for kiddies, screening "Namu, the Killer 

Whale" plus a Warner Bros. "Bugs Bunny" 

cartoon and distributing free ice cream. 

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Is this a "length" record of sorts? The 

Avon Drive-In, Arlington, Mass., played a 

triple-feature program, comprised of "The 

Agony and the Ecstasy," "The Millionairess" 

and "Spaceflight K-L." 

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Completion of the portion of Interstate 

Route 91 south from Greenfield to Whately, 

Mass., resulting for first time in the complete 

bypassing of Greenfield, has aroused 

considerable interest among Greenfield business 

people about how the community as a 

whole will meet the challenge. 

It is felt that definite stepv should be 

taken to draw trade back into downtown 

Greenfield. 

NE\N HAVEN 

The first southern Connecticut booking of 

"The Sound of Music," following a 

record-shattering long-run engagement at 

the SW Cinemart, Hamden, bowed at the 

UA Trumbull Theatre, in the Trumbull 

Shopping Park. The Academy .Vward-winncr 

is playing at S2.75 top admission ... A. 

Leo Ricci, veteran Meriden exhibitor, has 

been elected vice-president of the Meriden 

Hospital . . . Chet Stoddard, president of 

New England Theatres, visited James Darby, 

resident manager at the downtown Paramount. 

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Heads Pioneers Unit 

WINNIPEG — The Canadian Picture 

Pioneers here inducted eight members at its 

annual meeting December 5. These were 

Harry Durham (Shaunavon, Sask.); Lou 

Golden, James Rainstock, Charlie Haysom, 

Clarence Marshall (North Battleford, 

Sask.). and Dave Williams (Regina, Sask.). 

The new slate of officers and board of 

directors are president, David Rothstein (reelected); 

vice-president, D. Wolk (re-elect- 

secretary-treasurer, B. Myers (re-elected); 

social chairman, G. Dowbiggin; publicity, 

Harold Joyal; membership, A. L. 

sick committee, A. Levy, E. Turner 

and H. Gray. Members are: K. Beach, 

J. Jerguson, H. Gunn, R. Hurwitz, H. 

Swartz and J. Taylor, Winnipeg: A. Mc- 

Lean, Rainy River, Ont., and W. Johnston, 

Yorkton, Sask. 

President Rothstein received an auxiliary 

award from the national body for his "outstanding 

contributions" to the organization 

as a whole. Hy Swartz was given a special 

award by the local branch, for his many 

years of extended effort in so many of the 

functions of the organization locally. 

George Heiber President 

Of Canadian Distributors 

TORONTO—George Heiber, Canadian 

supervisor for United Artists Corp., Ltd., 

has been elected president of the Canadian 

Motion Picture Distributors Ass'n, succeeding 

Mark Plottel, general manager of Universal 

Films of Canada. 

The new vice-president is Peter Myers, 

Canadian managing director of 20th Century-Fox 

(Canada), and Jerry H. Solway, 

manager of Astral Films, has been appointed 

secretary-treasurer. Heiber is a well-known 

figure in the Canadian industry, having been 

with United Artists since 1937. He is a 

Canadian Picture Pioneer, and has served 

as president of the Toronto Film Board of 

Trade, as well as several key posts in the 

Variety Club of Ontario. 

The CMPDA, having ten member companies 

with the general manager of each 

as a director, is represented by regional 

boards, with their own officers, in Montreal, 

Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, as 

well as the Maritimes. 

Windsor, Ont., Manager 

Wins WB 'Hotel' Contest 

TORONTO—Ed Lamoureux, manager 

of the Capitol Theatre in Windsor, Ont., 

has been named winner of the Canadian 

managers contest for Warner Bros.' "Hotel." 

He was selected from the managers registered 

at Warners' display on the film at 

Showa-Rama '66 in November. 

Lamoureux's first prize is a trip to the 

three-day world press premiere of "Hotel," 

which opens Friday (20) in the Eden Roc 

Holel in Miami Beach, where he will meet 

the stars of the Technicolor picture and 

Arthur Hailey, author of the best-selling 

novel on which the film is based. 

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Texas Across River/ 'Beau Geste 

'Good' First Week in Montreal 

MONTREAL—Leading motion picture 

theatres here had a good week although 

most people were busy with Christmas shopping. 

Holdovers were on the screens of many 

theatres but "Texas Across the River" at 

Fairview Cinema 2, "What's Up Tiger Lily?" 

at Fairview Cinema I, "Beau Geste" at 

the Palace and "Three on a Couch" all 

rated "Good" in their opening weeks. 

. 

Alouetfe Hawaii (UA), 8th wk Excellent 

Avenue Alfie (Para), 5th wk Excellent 

Capitol The Liquidator (MGM), 2nd wk Good 

Cinema Festival Onibaba (SR), 64th wk Good 

Cinema Place Ville Marie Bambole (SR), 

3rd wk Good 

Dorval (Red Room) Three on a Couch (Col) . . .Good 

Dorval (Salle Doree) Come Blow Your Horn 

(Para), rerun .Good 

Elysee (Salle Resnais) A Man and a Woman 

(IFD), 18th wk Good 

Elysee (Salle Eisenstein) Une Fille ef des Fusils 

(SR), 3rd wk Good 

Fairview (No. 1 Cinema) What's Up Tiger Lily? Good 

Fairview (No. 2 Cinema) Texos Across the River 

Univ) Good 

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Imperial Russian Adventure (SR), 7th wk Good 

Kent Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 8th wk Good 

Loew's Texas Across the River (Univ), 2nd wk. Good 

Palace Beau Geste (Univ) Good 

Porisien Le Lit Conjugal (Col), 3rd wk Good 

Seville The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 91st wk. Good 

Von Home Hotel Poradiso (MGM), 3rd wk Good 

Vendome The Green Mare (SR), llth wk Good 

Westmount Kaleidoscope (WB), 3rd wk Good 

York Is Paris Burning? (Para), 5th wk Good 

'The Blue Max' 'Excellent' 

In Winnipeg Roadshow Bow 

WINNIPEG—Grosses slumped, as anticipated, 

about ten per cent, due solely to 

annual pre-Christmas slackening. Two newcomers 

aided boxoffice returns, however. 

The opening week of "The Blue Max" was 

excellent and a reissue of a James Bond duo, 

"Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," was first rate 

at the downtown Garrick, though not so 

strong at the suburban Park. "Texas Across 

the River" closed a six-week run on a better-than-average 

note. Otherwise bookings 

were only average, with holdovers "Doctor 

NEW SUNSHINE COACH—Maj. 

Gen. G. R. Pearkes, left, lieutenant 

governor of British Columbia, honorary 

member of Tent 47, inspects the lift 

on the Sunshine Coach donated by the 

Vancouver Variety Club to the Alexandria 

Solarium in Victoria. Chief 

Barker Harry I. Howard, right, and 

barker Andy Robertson look on, as one 

of the little passengers has his first ride. 

Zhivago," "Alfie" and "Dear John" slowing 

somewhat. 

Capitol Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round 

(Col) 

Average 

Gaiety Alfie (Para), 8th wk Averoge 

Garrick Goldfinger (UA); Dr. No (UA), 

reissues 

Excellent 

Hyland Texas Across the River (Univ), 6th wk., 

moveover 

Good 

Kings The EIuc Max (20th-Fox) Excellent 

Lyceum Eong! Bong! You're Dead (Astral); 

The Girl Getters (Astral) Average 

Metropolitan Doctor Zhivago (MGM), ) 8th wk. Average 

Odeon Fireball 500 (Astral) Average 

Pork Goldfinger (UA); Dr. No (UA), reissues. .. .Good 

Tcwne Dear John (IFD), 7th wk Average 

Toronto Theatres Gross High 

Despite Adverse Weather 

TORONTO—Despite dull, wet weather, 

business remained very good for Toronto 

first-run houses. "The Professionals" got off 

to a big start in its opening week at the Imperial 

and three other FP locations, while in 

its second week at the Fairlawn, "Georgy 

Girl" did considerably better than in its first 

week. "Hawaii" was very big in its fifth week 

at the University, and "Way . . . Way Out" 

did very well in its first week at the Coronet 

and 12 other Odeon theatres. "Macabro" 

had an excellent week at the Downtown 

and seven other Twinex houses, and "A Man 

and a Woman" was still doing very well in 

its third week at the International Cinema. 

Capitol Fine Art—The King and I (20th-Fox), 

2nd wk Good 

Carlton The Wrong Box (Col), 9th wk Excellent 

Ccronet, 12 others Way . . . Way Out 

(20th-Fox) Very Good 

Downtown '5roup of eight theatres Mocabro 

(Astral) 

Excellent 

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

89th wk Excellent 

Fairlawn Georgy Girl (Col), 2nd wk Excellent 

Glendale Cinerama Is Poris Burning? (Pora), 

2nd wk Very Good 

Hollywood, North Cinema Who's Afraid of 

Virginia Woolf? (WB), 17th wk Strong 

Hollywood, South Cinema Alfie (Para), 

5th wk Great 

Hyland How to Steal o Million (20th-Fox), 

7th wk Excellent 

Imperial group The Professionals (Col) ....Excellent 

International Cinema A Man ond a Woman 

(IFD), 2nd wk Excellent 

Nortcwn Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 4th wk. 

moveover 

Excellent 

Towne Cinema Diobolique (Emp) Good 

Untvers'ty Hawaii (UA), 5th wk Excellent 

Yorkdale Cinema Mademoiselle (UA) Fair 

'Average' Week in Vancouver 

Led by 'The Professionals' 

VANCOUVER—Heavy rains, 

Christmas 

shopping and a lack of strong new entrants 

on the main stem led to an average week: 

no hits— no misses. "The Professionals," 

"Texas Across the River," "The Liquidator." 

"Alfie" and "Fantastic Voyage" continued 

to draw satisfactory crowds. 

Capitol The Liquidator (MGM), 2nd wk. Above Average 

Ccronet, three other theatres Texas Across the 

River (Univ), 4th wk Above Average 

Dor-inicn Visit to a Small Planet (Para); 

The Bellboy (Para), reissues Average 

Lyric Beau Geste (Univ); Arabesque (Univ) . .Average 

Odeon The Professionals (Col), 5th wk. Above Average 

Orpheum Spinout (MGM), 2nd wk Fair 

Park Rotten to the Core (SR) Fair 

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

9Ist wk Average 

Stanley Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 36th wk. . .Average 

Strand Alfie (Para), 8th wk Average 

Studic The Empty Canvas (IFD) Averoge 

Paul Scofield re-creates the role of Sir 

Thomas More which he played on Broadway 

and in London in Columbia's "A Man 

tor All Seasons." 

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Ti-:in I'iern- l.i-fcb^re, filmmaker, announced 

he and his crew have completed the 

filming of ihrec long feaiiire-fiImN, called 

"11 Ne Faul Pas Mourir Pour Ca," "Patricia 

and Jean-Bapiisie" and "Mon Oeil." 

The first film is in 35mm and the two others 

in 16mm. hut will eventually be blown up 

lo 35mm. Lefcbvre could not say when the 

films will be released. However, he said he 

hopes that "Patricia and Jean-Bapiistc" will 

be released in February. "Mon Oeil" will 

probably follow in March and "II Ne Faut 

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Pas Mourir Pour Ca in .Xpril. 

The National Film Board has issued "Antonio," 

a half-hour production by Tom 

Daly, with direction and photography by 

.•\ntonio lanuziello . . . These NFB films 

were featured in Montreal theatres: "High 

.Steel" at the Snowdon; "Universe" at the 

Fairview Cinema; "Art et Lcgendc" at the 

Amherst; "Courte Echelle at the Versailles; 

"La Bcaute Meme" at the Francais; 

"Course" and "Petite Selliere" at the Chateau; 

".Maiires-Sondeurs" at the Granada; 

"I eux Follets" at Place Ville Marie; "The 

Big Swim" at the Van Home and "The 

Drag" at the Little Cinema, Place Ville Marie. 

The Cinematheque featured in the NFB 

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films, along with one devoted to the work 

of the Crawleys of Ottawa. The showings 

were part of the retrospective of Canadian 

cinema sponsored by the Cinematheque C;inadienne. 

Films made by Mr. and Mrs. F. R. 

Crawley, who began making films 27 years 

ago in their attic and whose studio in Ottawa 

today makes them Canada's largest commercial 

film producers, included "The 

Loon's Necklace," "Newfoundland -Scene," 

"Beaver Dam," "Saskatchewan Jubilee" and 

"He d'Orleans," a silent film made in 1940 

and which won the prize as the best ;mi;Ueui 

film oi that year. 

"Kxpo "67 .\vant-Premicrc," a production 

of Weslminsler Films, Ltd., is now 

available through the offices of the Nl B. 

The color film is a documentary on the 

forthcoming international fair. 

'I'he death of Walt Disney was marked by 

sorrow, with the press, radio and television 

paying tribute. United Amusement Corp. 

and Consolidated Theatres, Ltd.. in press 

advertising said, "We in the theatre industry. 

aK)ng with everyone of every age, mourn 

the passing of Wait Disney, one of the 

unrid's greatest geniuses." 

"I.ydia," filmed in the Greek Isles by 

producer Julius Rascheff of Toronto with 

a Canadian crew and cast, had its North 

American premiere on Canadian Television 

Network December 28. It is the first featurelength 

Canadian dramatic film to be nationally 

telecast. Rascheff recently finished 

work on a second feature film, set in London, 

England, and titled "The Lift." The 

picture is being distributed in the United 

Kingdom. 

I'ierre Patry of the film association "Coiiperalio" 

of Montreal announced that revision 

of the "Cain" print is about completed. 

1 he film was shown some time 

ago. Scheduled for showing in the 

early year, if distribution can be arranged, 

are "Delivrez-Nous du Mai," based on a 

novel by Claude Jasmin and produced b\ 

Jean-Claude Lord; "Poussiere Sur la Ville." 

made by Arthur Lamothe and "Fnlre l;> 

Mer et l.'eau Douce," bv Michel Braiilt. 

Canadian Loew's Thealres 

Issues Earnings Report 

MONTREAL— Marcus Loew's Theatres. 

Ltd., which operates in Toronto, reports in a 

statement for the fiscal >ear ending August 

2f) that gross revenue totaled $592, i25, 

compared with $646. (i5() in the previous 

\ear. Investment and other income amounted 

lo $246,137 against $269,271. 

After all charges, including taxes, net 

profit for the year amounted to $145,819. 

against $127,570 the year earlier and earned 

surplus is shown at $2,003,768, compared to 

S2, 114,442. Ihe company declared a regular 

iiu;irterly dividend of $1 a share as well 

as an extra of $1 a share, both pavable 

December 30, 1966. 

Balance sheet showed current assets at 

.August 31 was SI. 77 1, 255. compared lo 

SL938.170 the previous year-end and current 

liabilities of only $37,372 against 

$80,938. 

The statement notes that the company has 

entered into an agreement, dated July 19. to 

purchase for $250,000 one-half of the common 

and preference shares of a compan\ 

to be incorporated to construct and operate 

a drive-in. The new company was incorporated 

subsequent to August 31. the end of the 

fiscal \ear. 

President of the company is Preston R. 

Tisch: vice-president, Arthur M. Tolchin, 

and secretary G. R. Mackie. Directors are 

L. A. Tisch, Preston R. Tisch, Arthur M, 

Tolchin, G. R. Mackie, J. H. Stephens and 

J, H. Clarke. 

Walt Disney Touch Seen 

In Montreal Expo '67 

MONTREAL—The spirit of the late Walt 

Disnev will pervade many points of interest 

in llic Montreal World's Fair, opening April 

28. Fxpo "67 took considerable inspiration 

from Disne\land for its "La Ronde Amusement 

Area." Disney, just about a year age 

offered to he'p Montreal World's Fair Corp. 

in any way possible, although he refused 

payment for any services. 

l:xpo '67's first interest in Disney wa'^ 

he;ause of its La Ronde Amusement are; 

whose original planners wanted to make i' ! 

something of a cross between Disneyland 

and the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen 

Expo's additional interest was in the han 

d'ing of millions of people, such as thosi 

at Disneyland. 

In No\eniber. deputy fair commissione 

Gen. Robert F. Shaw met with Disney i 

California and drew a pledge that Montrea 

Expo '67 would get every assistance possi 

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ble from the Disney organization. 

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The Telephone Ass'n, which groups Canada's 

te'ephone system and which has an 

impo ing pavilion at the fair, also drew 

Disne> into its preparations. The Telephone: 

pavilion will feature Walt Disney's Circl^ 

Vision 360 (degrees) film "Canada '67. 

This film already has been given a tria 

run after installation of the projcctior 

equipment was completed. The film anilI 

nsta lations were declared "eerie and excii 

ing." The Circle Vision 360 incorporates th 

latest techniques in advanced cinematoyra 

i 

p'ly and its use in the television pa\i!ioi 

marks the first time multiple 35mm 

has leen used in conjunction with muli 

synchronized soundtracks. The film is 

i 

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jected from nine synchronized projcc 

onto a 273-foot circular screen ami 

HHind provided by 15 speakers, is 

spaced around the screen and six in 

ceiling. 

Five loin 

Ontario Ass'n 

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joined the Motion Picture Theatres Ass'n ot' 

Ontario. They are the I'en Center Cinema 

( 1 air.ous Players), St. Catherines; the 

Odeon, Richmond Hill; Odeon Parkw;iy 

Willowdale; Twin Drive-In (Twinex) 

Windsor. ;md the Centre in Pembroke, 

owned by H, Rosenberg. 

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a possible walkout of employes of 

local newspapers, the Ottawa Theatre 

Managers Ass'n prepared a co-operative 

telephone service, through which the public 

could call for information regarding the 

programs and show times at any theatre 

during the afternoon or night. 

For Jhe year's wind-up, the board of Moving 

Picture Censors set some kind of record 

by listing 15 features which were classified 

for Restricted Attendance in recent weeks. 

One of them was "Georgy Girl." a holiday 

attraction at the Elgin. The board placed 

22 pictures in the caiegon,' of Adult Entertainment. 

Removed from this classification 

was "Not With My Wife, You Don't" 

which was booked into the Ottawa Capitol 

for 

New Year's. 

The National 

Museum of Canada had a 

series of three free film shows within eight 

days in the morning hours for Ottawa 

children over 7 during the school holiday 

period. The programs, conducted December 

23, 28 and 30. consisted of pictures from 

European countries and Canada. 

Three theatres in eastern Ontario, the Rideau 

at Ottawa, Port at Cornwall and Soper 

at Smiths Falls, held special matinees Saturday 

and Sunday, featuring "Santa Claus." 

The general admission was 50 cents and excellent 

crowds turned out. The Odeon Elmdale 

had a Saturday afternoon show for 

kiddies as well. 

It was a real holiday for employes of D. 

B. Stapleton's Centre in Ottawa. The theatre 

was closed for three days, Friday, Saturday 

and Sunday. Most other theatres here 

had late openings on Christmas day. 

When the Odeon at Peterborough, Ont., 

managed by Larry Ketelaars, reopened December 

22 after extensive improvements 

from the front door to roof, an interesting 

stunt was pulled off by Howard Binns, city 

supervisor. A photo was published which 

showed a large crowd outside the theatre on 

its first night 19 years ago. Persons who 

could identify themselves in the photo became 

special guests at the reopening. The 

Odeon was closed three weeks for the modernization. 

"Doctor Zhivago" held for a 23rd week 

at the Nelson in Ottawa and attractions at 

other theatres for Christmas included the 

Capitol, "Penelope"; Regent "Arrivederci, 

Baby"; the Twin Elgins. "After Ihe Fox" in 

one and "Get)rgy Girl" in the other: Elmdale, 

"The Trap"; .Somerset and Queensway, 

"Gambit"; Rideau and Britannia, "Murderers' 

Row" and Centre. "I.t. Robin Crusoe. 

U.S.N." 

The Odeiiii liylund at Kingston, Ont.. 

got 1 1 weeks on "Doctor Zhivago" as a 

roadshow, after which a return to regular 

price policy was made for "Hotel Paradiso" 

prior to the holiday sea.son. 

A vMlor in Ottawa from the Toronto 

head office of 20lh Century Theatres was 

John Kurk. manager ot theatre operations 

for the circuit. In the midst of preparations 

for Christmas week, word was received by 

local managers that Barney Fox, the chain's 

veteran director of booking, had to go into 

a 

hospital. 

Common shares of Famous Players Canadian 

Corp. went above the $30 line for 

the year's high in stock market trading as 

company president R. W. Bolstad reported 

net profit at S2,3 15,300 for the first nine 

months of 1966 compared with $1,803,098 

for the 1965 period for an advance in earnings 

per share to $1.33 from $1.04 at the 

end of September 1965, the latest quarterly 

dividend being raised by 10 cents to 37'/i 

cents. Of special interest was the announcement 

that the Cable-TV companies in which 

FPC has an interest were serving nearly 

100,000 subscribers at September 30. A new 

one in Ottawa is Skyline Cablevision 

Limited. 

Because Christmas was Sunday, Ottawa 

theatres were not able to stage owl shows 

starting at Saturday midnight but a couple 

of programs were scheduled for Sunday midnight 

because of the observance of the statutory 

holiday on Monday. The same situation 

prevailed for the New Year's weekend. 

For the first time in many months the 

2,300 Capitol in Ottawa conducted a sneak 

preview of the holiday attraction December 

9 along with the regular feature "See You 

in Hell, Darling." Jim McDonough, the 

Capitol manager, returned December 18 

from the fourth week of his 1966 holidays. 

He is a veteran showman, having been with 

Famous Players for 36 years. 

An Ottawa visitor from Toronto was 

Steve McManus, Ontario district manager 

for Odeon Theatres (Canada), Ltd., who 

also is president of the Motion Picture Theatres 

Ass'n of Ontario. The well-known 

mimic — Rich Little of Hollywood — arranged 

to spend a part of Christmas week 

at his Ottawa home with his parents. 

Here since 1953, novelist Nicholas 

Monsarrat 

has pulled up stakes to become a 

writer in England again. His plans include 

a story about Canadian life. One of his 

best-selling books "The Cruel Sea" was the 

basis for a motion picture. 

TORONTO 

The Briti.sh 

produeer Ronald Ncaine was a 

visitor here to promote his latest film 

"Gambit." He said his next film will be 

ba.sed on the book "Dieppe, the Shame and 

the Glory" by Toronto writer Terrence 

Robertson. The book tells of Canada's greatest 

World War II tragedy, the cross-channel 

raid by a Canadian force in 1942, which 

resulted in 3,000 of 5,000 being killed or 

captured. 

Arch II. Jollcy left his post as executive 

secretarv of the Motion Picture Theatres 

Ass'n of Ontario. He has given concentrated 

and devoted service to the industry over 21 

years, and everyone wishes him well on his 

retirement. 

H. C. "Dick" Main, respected figure in 

the Canadian industry and executive director 

of the new Motion Picture Theatre Ass'ns of 

Canada, has made good progress at the 

York Memorial Hospital in Newmarkei. 

where he has been a patient since Novem 

ber. 

On December 18 the Vaughan Theatre 

began a new policy of exhibiting foreign 

films with the Toronto premiere of the Italian 

production, ".Mandragola" . . . Reopenings 

were held December 22 for both the 

Crest and the Capri, formerly the Midtown. 

Extensive renovations were done on both 

houses. The Crest was reconverted for motion 

pictures after being leased as a legitimate 

theatre for several years. The opening 

film was "The Great St. Trinian's Train 

Robbery." The Capri is to be an art house 

in this central city district, and its opening 

attraction was "Shoot Loud . . . Louder, I 

Don't Understand." 

Nick Langston, Canadian director of publicity 

and advertising for United Artists, was 

busy showing actor Clint Eastwood around 

town. He was here for the North American 

premiere of "A Fistful of Dollars" at the 

Odeon Carlton. 

Brian Linehan of the Odeon advertising 

department here has returned from an eightday 

trip to Vancouver. While there he had a 

close look at several theatres, and had meetings 

with C. A. Sutherland, British Columbia 

district manager for Odeon, and his staff. 

Glen Ludlow has left AKO Productions 

here in Toronto to join the Ontario Educational 

TV department as head of post-production 

. . . Floyd Rumford, 77, owner and 

operator of the Kineto for 50 years, died 

of a heart attack. He was a Canadian Picture 

Pioneer, and founding member of the 

MPTAO. 

The Variety Club of Ontario raised more 

than $200,000 in the year for its charitable 

work and now hopes to expand its philanthropy 

beyond Variety Village, the vocational 

school for handicapped boys. This 

was announced by Chief Barker Jack Bernstein 

at Tent 28's regular monthly meeting 

here in the Park Plaza Hotel. 

The first winners in .Astral Films showmanship 

contest have been announced. They 

are Ed Raithby, the Casino, Halifax; Fred 

Varlow, the Capitol, Edmonton; Ken 

Fletcher the Odeon, Kingston; C. Beesley, 

the Gagetown, Oromocto; Ivan .Ackery. the 

Orpheum, Vancouver, and Don Jardine. 

the Odeon, New Gla.sgow. All received 

checks from Jerry H. Solway, .Astral's general 

manager, for their excellent campaigns 

to promote releases. 

And now comes the moment to wish all 

ilie friends we've made in this Toronto area, 

as well as many, many more at Showa- 

Rama '66, the very best and most successful 

new year. Without you, we'd be lost. 

K-4 BOXOFFICE :: January 2, 1967

• ADLINES & EXPLOITIPS 

• ALPHABETICAL 

INDEX 

• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

• FEATURE RELEASE CHART 

• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST 

• SHORTS 

RELEASE CHART 

• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS 

• REVIEWS OF FEATURES 

• SHOWMANDISING 

IDEAS 

BOXOFflCt 

THE GUIDE TO i BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G 

Telephone Turkey Shoot' Attention-Getter 

For Texas Across River' in Halifax^ N.S. 

Biiren Eidson, managing director of 

Martin's Rialto Theatre in Atlanta, set 

a tie-up with two radio stations in a 

promotional giveaway of seven weekend 

trips for two at the Stone Mountain 

Inn in connection with Columbia's 

"Alvarez Kelly." Here is the lobby display 

for the promotion. The prizes 

were awarded during the first seven 

nights of the dale. 

Robert Wagner in 24-City 

Tour for U's 'Banning' 

Robert Wagner has been set by Universal 

to an extensive prerelease tour for "Banning," 

which will cover 24 key cities in 

every section of the country. Wagner early 

in the year did a similar trek for "Harper," 

in which he co-starred with Paul Newman. 

The tour will cover a three-week period, 

with Wagner slated to cover two cities on 

some occasions. The trek will tee off in New 

York and then carry through Newark, Boston, 

New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington, 

Richmond, Atlanta, Miami, Louisville, 

Memphis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, 

Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Dallas, Minneapolis, 

Kansas City, Denver, Phoenix, San 

Francisco and Seattle. 

Rod Winston directed "Banning" for producer 

Dick Berg. Co-starring with Wagner 

are Anjanette Comer and Jill St. John. 

'Spinout' for Grandmothers 

In New Orleans, MGM, working on the 

belief that Elvis Presley has fans of all ages, 

including grandmothers, held a screening on 

"Spinout" for the ten oldest and the ten 

youngest grandmothers. Participants were 

invited by a radio station. 

A "turkey shoot" by telephone was an 

attention-getter for Universal's "Texas 

Across the River" at the Odeon Casino 

Theatre in Halifax, N.S. Manager Ed Raithby 

built his campaign around the shooting 

contest, which is featured in the film. 

Through the cooperation of radio station 

CHNS, a turkey shoot was set up, in which 

listeners were asked to phone in and "shoot" 

turkeys. A record was made up with the 

sound of gobbling turkeys. The record was 

played, then stopped. Participants then said, 

"Fire" or "Bang, bang." The record continued 

to play. If there were no sounds the 

listener had bagged himself a turkey. If the 

gobbling continued, he, of course, had 

missed. 

CHNS ran three of those spots a day for 

five days, immediately preceding the opening 

and during the first two days. Prizes 

were ten 10-pound turkeys, which Raithby 

This caged rooster was used in an attention-getting 

stunt for "Texas Across 

the River" by Manager Ed Raithby of 

the Odeon Casino Theatre in Halifax, 

N.S. He also held a "name-the-rooster 

contest," in which the child submitting 

the best name received a pair of ice 

skates and his mother, the rooster 

(ready for the oven, of course). 

obtained free from a local grocery chain, 

IPC Stores, Ltd. Losers received a guest 

ticket for two to see the picture. 

For another stunt, he and his supervisor 

traveled an estimated 100 miles, round trip, 

for a live turkey. When one couldn't be 

found, a rooster was obtained. The chicken 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 2, 1967 — 1 — 

was caged and placed in front of the theatre 

each day. Appropriate signs and banners 

were hung on the cage. Passers-by became 

excitingly curious to hear the sudden crow 

of a rooster as they walked by the theatre 

on the busy street. Says Raithby, some of 

the people's comments "were really wild." 

He also held a "name-the-rooster" contest 

for the children. The winner was 

awarded a pair of ice skates and his mother 

received the rooster, dressed and ready for 

the pan. (Raithby says for two theatre 

passes he was able to get a butcher to prepare 

the chicken for cooking, "saving me 

the messy job.") 

Tormar Opening Sets 

Up 'Man and Woman' 

The Trans-Texas Fine Arts Theatre in 

Dallas had a successful four-week run of 

the French-made "A Man and a Woman," 

an AlUed Artists release. The opening night 

was sold to the Mental Health Ass'n of 

Dallas County. Highlighting the campaign 

was a tie-in with the Neiman-Marcus French 

Fortnight, the department store's winter 

fashion show. 

The Southwest premiere activities included 

a champagne party in the home of Judge 

and Mrs. Robert Hughes. A trip for two to 

Jamaica was awarded to a couple at the 

party. French singer Minielle Mathieu sang 

at the fashion show and the premiere, and 

Nieman-Marcus models were in the theatre 

lobby dressed in the latest French fashions. 

Champion French poodles also were in the 

lobby. The French consul arrived in fulldress 

uniform, with his country's flags on 

his car. The film soundtrack album provided 

the intermission music, and patrons were 

served coffee and pastry in the lobby. 

Prior to opening night, newspaper copy 

pointed out the first night was sold to the 

Mental Health Ass'n. The ads reminded 

readers that October was National Movie 

Month, even though the French film was 

not a Movie Month presentation. 

The picture received excellent reviews 

from John Neville of the Dallas Morning 

News and Virgil Miers of the Times Herald. 

The theatre changed its newspaper advertising 

weekly to keep the picture alive.

As a street promotion 

for MGM's 

"S pino u t," the 

Trans-Texas Hollywood 

Theatre in 

Fort Worth, managed 

by Harry 

Gaines, held a 

dance and dance 

contest in front of 

the theatre, with 

two hands taking 

part. Prizes included 

a Nash Rambler 

and passes to the 

Hollywood. 

Street Dancing, Free Barbecue Sets Pace 

For Spinout' at Hollywood in Ft. Worth 

Dancing in the street to the tunes of two 

bands, free barbecue, soft drinks and corn 

and potato chips highlighted the opening 

night of "Spinout" at the Trans-Texas Hollywood 

Theatre in Fort Worth, managed by 

Harry Gaines. 

A dance contest also was held, with a 

Nash Rambler as first prize. Other prizes 

were a six months' pass for two to the theatre 

and a three months' pass for two. The 

bands were the New Rumley Invincibles and 

the Conflicts. 

Other phases of the campaign complete 

coverage in television cross-plugs in nearby 

Dallas, a special lobby set piece announcing 

the street dance and prizes and a tie-in with 

six music stores for windows to plug the 

picture and the soundtrack album. 

There was good play by the Fort Worth 

newspapers. Especially appropriate was a 

summary of Presley's career by Jack Gordon, 

amusement editor of the Fort Worth 

Press. 

The promotion was set up and carried out 

for Gaines by Dick Empey, Trans-Texas 

advertising-publicity director; Cecil Pearson, 

account executive for KXOL, and Roy 

Stamps of the William Armstead Advertising 

Agency. 

Pearson plugged the picture daily, along 

for an 

with the car giveaway, free food, etc., 

entire week. Green Motor Co. furnished the 

car for the radio advertising. Stamps promoted 

100 pounds of barbecue from a 

grocery chain and Pepsi-Cola from the local 

bottling plant. 

There was enough food for everyone on 

opening night, says Gaines. "We fed everyone 

and wound up with about one-pound of 

barbecue left over." 

5SSSSSSSSSS

CAPSULE 

REVIEWS 

THE 

GREER SHEET 

A MONTHLY SURVEY 

OF CURRENT FILMS 

JANUARY 1967 

ISSUE 

The Film Board of National Organizations 

American Jewish Committee 

American Library Association 

Daughters of the American Revolution 

Federation of Motion Picture Councils 

General Federation of Women's Clubs 

National Congress of Parents and Teachers 

National Council of Women of the U.S.A. 

National Federation of Music Clubs 

Protestant Motion Picture Coiuicil 

Schools Motion Picture Committee 

AFTER THE FOX: Italian films are spoofed in a wild 

faixe where Peter Sellers, playing an Italian crook, makes 

an avant-garde movie as a front for a big gold robbery. 

(Adults-Mature Yoimg People-Yoimg People) 

dramatic accoimt. 

People) 

(Adults-Mature Young People-Young 

CHUSHINGURA: A leisurely Japanese film of great 

beauty tells a classical story of forty-seven samurai who 

sacrifice their lives to avenge the untimely death of their 

lord. (Adults-Matm-e Yoimg People-Young People) 

KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE: A sciencefiction 

melodrama in James Bond style, in which mad 

scientist Raf Vallone negotiates with the Chinese for his 

radiation sterility ray, to be used in a play for world 

domination. (Adults-Mature Young People) 

COUNTERFEIT CONSTABLE: A comical British farce 

about a young Frenchman who idly puts on a constable's 

helmet and coat, and gets into a succession of slapstick 

misadventures. (General Audience) 

THE POPPY IS ALSO A FLOWER: Two United Nations 

agents and the international Narcotics Police unmask 

the head of a world-wide opiimi operation by tracing a 

shipment of opium from the poppy field to the consumer. 

(Adults-Matm-e Young People-Young People) 

THE DEVIL'S OWN: A British horror film deals with an 

English teacher who has had a horrifying experience with 

witchcraft in Africa, and finds the same evil at work in 

a charming English town. (Adults-Mature Young People) 

THE QUARE FELLOW: A Dublin prison's guards and 

prisoners are strongly affected by the schediUed hanging 

of a murderer, in this grim, well-acted film version of 

a Brendan Behan play. (Adults-Matme Young People) 

EL DORADO: In a western packed with action and goodhumored 

comedy, John Wayne, Robert Mitchiun and 

James Caan, each handicapped in some way, form a 

shaky triumvirate that defeats a ruthless land-grabber 

and his hired guns. (Adults-Mature Young People-Young 

People) 

FUNERAL IN BERLIN: British Intelligence sends secret 

agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) to Berlin to help 

the Russian colonel in charge of the Wall, a woiUd-be 

defector to the English. Sophisticated tale of espionage 

and coimter-espionage. (Adults-Mature Young People) 

THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM: American secret agent 

George Segal is sent to West Berlin by British Intelligence 

chief Alec Guinness to tra(ik down the leaders and headquarters 

of a growing neo-Nazi movement. (Adults-Matm-e 

Yoimg People) 

RAGE: An American doctor (Glerm Ford) in a remote 

Mexican construction camp, meets with a chain of delaying 

disasters when he is bitten by a mad dog, and races 

to a distant city for treatment. American-Mexican melodi-ama. 

(Adults-Matm-e Yoimg People) 

IS PARIS BURNING? : 

The last five days of the German 

occupation of Paris are graphically presented in this big, 

BOXOFnCE Showmandiser :: Jan. 2, 1967 — 3 — 

THE VENETIAN AFFAIR: Baffling plots and subplots 

are uncovered in this espionage tale when an American 

agent (Robert 'Vauglm) travels to Venice to find a 

sinister enemy group that possesses a brain-controlling 

drug. (Adults-Mature Young People)

— 

XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

S- 

ABOUT PICTURESi 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

Dirty Game, Ihc (MP)—Henry Fonda, 

Robert Rs.m. N'ltiorio Gassman. A bust for 

us even coupled with Universal's "A Man 

Could Get Killed." We had a very weak 

response. It's not bad. just not up to its 

stars. Piaved Fri.. Sat.—Arthur K. Dame, 

Scenic Theatre. Piltsfield. N.H. Pop. 2,300. 

COLUMBIA 

Cat Ballou (Col)— J.ine Fonda, Lee 

Marvin, Michael C'allan. Even though every 

other theatre in town had played it. people 

Mill came and really enjoyed it. Many stayed 

a second time. Well worth playing again. 

Played Sal.. Sun. Weather: Clear and cool. 

—John Hcberle. Capitol Theatre, Rochester, 

N.Y. Pop. .v^n.ooo. 

Lost Command, The (Col)—Anthony 

Quinn. Alain Dclon. George .Segal. Anthony 

Quinn is always good in any role. Color was 

great. Story had action and noise to please 

all. Only played three days because of booking 

change. Played three days only, with 

business below average. Weather: Foggy 

and cold.—W. F. Nokes. Odeon Oakville 

Theatre, Oakville. Ont. Pop. 50.000. 

Three on a Couch (Col)—Jerry Lewis, 

Janet Leigh. Mary Ann Mobley. Jerry Lewis 

has a fan club. Some towns like him. Some 

don't. I hit both. I played this in Marathon 

and it pulled people. Played here and it died. 

Cold weather had a lot to do with il. Played 

Fri.. Sat. Weather: Cold.—Bill Mellon. 

Portland Drivc-ln. Portland, Tex. 

CONTINENTAL 

Gospel According to St. Matthew, The 

(Cont'l)— hnrique Irazoqui, Margherita 

Caruso. Utter simplicity. Spell-binding! I 

worked hard, wrote letters and only had a 

fair gross. Played Sun., Mon. Weather: 

Chilly.—Charles Burton, Cozy Theatre, 

Lockwood, Mo. Pop. 852. 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Glass Bottom Bout, Ihe (MGM)—Doris 

Day. Rod Ta>lor. Arthur Godfrey. There 

was enough comedy here to tickle everyone 

in viewing range and thai was a considerable 

number. For this, plus "Maya" from Ihe 

same company, brought out the crowds. 

Both pictures arc in color and both arc real 

good. "Maya" certainly should appeal to the 

families with youngsters and, at the same 

time, these same youngsters and their parents 

will go lor "Boat." A dandy combina- 

Corn Like 'HiUhmys 

Is What Is Needed 

"Las VcRas llillbillys" from Woolncr 

Bros, is Kood. Patrons said it wa.s a 

lilllc short. Next one «ill be a better 

Knisser. This com is needed, instead 

of niessa(;es. 

CHARLIES BURION 

Cozy I heatre, 

l.ockwood. Mo. 

Humane Society Aids 

'Born Free' Playdate 

I 

played Columbia's "Born Free" for 

a second time—first in Newmarket with 

excellent results, and now in Oak>ille 

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An ,nterpp.tive analysis of lay ard trodeprcss reviews. Running time is in parentheses. The plus ond 

m"nussiQ«nclicate degree of merit. Listings ecver current reviews, updated regulorly. This department 

Ti^ .».^« as on ALPHABETICAL INDEX to feoture releases. © is for CinemaScope; .» VistaVision; 

^VnavSon, (I TecLnirom" I) Other onamorphie processes Symbol O denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon 

Awa?d ®^Co loV Photogrophy. Notional Catholic Office (NCO) rotings: Al— Unobjectionable for General 

prt^niae- >^— Unobjlctionible for Adults or Adolescents; A3— Unobjectionoble tor Adults; A4—Morally 

Unobiectionable for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objectionablo in Part for All; C—Condemned. For 

listings by compony in the order of release, see FEATURE CHART. 

Review digest 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

++ Very Good; + Good; ± Fair; - Poor; = Very Poor. In the summary +f is rated 2 pluses, — as 2 minuses. 

3043 OBcau Geste (105) ® Ac-Ad Uni* 8- 1-66 Al -f -f + + -}- 

3065 ©Bible, The . . . In the Beginninj 

(174) D-150 Dr 20th- Fox 10-24-66 Al ++++ + ++# 

3042 ©Birds Do It (95) Com Col 7-25-66 Al -(- i: -f -f i: 

3064 Blacl( Cat, The (72) Ho Dr. . Hemisphere 10-17-66 -|- 

3029 Black Klansman, The (SS) Melo US 6-13-66 ± ± ± ± 

3028 ©Blindfold (102) Com-Mys Univ 6- 6-66 A2 + + + + + 

3054 Blood Drinkers, The 

(SS) Ho Melo Hemisphere 9-5-66 ± 

3038 ©Blue Max, The (156) © Dr.. 20th-Fox 7-11-66 B + -f -f + ± 

3055 Blues for Lovers 

(S9) Dr with Mus 20th.Fox 9-12-66 A3 + + + 

3071 Bold New Approach 

(62) Doc. Mental Health Film Board 11-14-66 + 

3060©Bolshoi Ballet 67 (75) Ballet.. Para 9-26-66 Al + ff tt + 

3027 ©Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Numberl 

(99) Comedy UA 6- 6-66 A3 -f- -f -f 4- ± 

3060 Brig, The (68) Melo Film-Makers' 9-26-66 + -IlU 

3080 ©After the Fox (103) ® Com. .UA 12-12-66 A2 

3052 ©Alf ie (U4) ® Dr Para 8-29-66 A4 

3062 ©Alvarez Kelly (116) Hi D Col 10-10-66 A3 

3049 ©Ambush Bay (109) War D UA 8-22-66 A3 

3054 ©American Dream, An (107) Dr..WB 9- 5-66 B 

3066©Any Wednesday (109) Com WB 10-31-66 A3 

3058 ©App»loosa, The (99) Ad Dr Uni» 9-19-66 A2 

3032 Assault on a Queen (106) ® Ac Adv Para 6-20-66 A2 

m 

3051 ©Bani! Bang! You're Deadl 

(92) C My AlP 8-29-66 A3 + ± { + 

3044©Batman (105) Cliffhanjer C..20th-Fox 8- 1-66 Al -f + -f- + -|-

— 

REVIEW DIGEST 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX Very Good; ~ Good; — Fair; Very Poor. In the summory tt is rated 2 pluses, — os 2 minuses. 

c 

Loves of a Blonde, Tilt 

(88) CD Prominent 11-21-66 C 

Uiing Couples (113) Dr Prominent 10-31-66 C 

3028 Ol-t. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. 

(110) Com Bueni Vista 6- 6-66 Al 

—M 

3037 0Macabro (90) Doc. . Trans America-AlP 

3048 Mademoiselle (103) Dr Upert 

OMagnKiceflt Concubine, Tlie 

(97) Melo Shaw 

3303 Main Chance, The (60) Mela. . Embassy 

Man and a Woman, A (102) Dr. . . .AA 

3036 Man Called Adam. A (102) DM. .Embassy 

3048 OMan Called Flintstone, The (88) Col 

Mandragola (97) Com Europix 

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The (90) C Artkino 

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3041 Master of Horror, Tk* 

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3057 Mister Buddwing (100) Dr MGM 

3040 Moonvrelf (74) Melo AA 

3023 Morgan! (97) Com Dr Cinema V 

30410Movie Star, American Style or 

LSD, I Hate You 

(99) Fan Dr ... Famous PlayersSR 

3031OMuiister, Go Hone (90) Com Uni> 

30S2OMurderers' Row (108) Espionaoe C.Col 

3033 ©Mystery of Thug Island, The 

(96) Adv Dr Col 

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James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb 

©One Million Years B.C.Ac D. 

John Richardson, Raquel Welch 

fflTwo for the Road ® C. 

Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney 

UNITED 

ARTISTS 

©Finders Keepers 

nitr Richard, Robert Morley 

©How to Succeed in Business 

Without Really Trying ..Mus C. 

Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, Itud) 

Vallee 

©The King of Hearts ...Farce. 

Alan Batei. Jean-Claude Brlaly 

UNIVERSAL 

©The Countess From Hong Kong. 

Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren 

.^Thoroughly Modern Millie 

Julie Andrews, James Fox 

WARNER 

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©Up the Down Staircase C 

Sandy Dennis. Patrick Bedford 

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ADELPHIA 

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All Men Are Apes (S5) . .0. .Jan 66 

Stephanie De I'asse, Mark Ityan 

Fury Is a Woman OS) 0" f5 

The Witnesses (SO) Dec 66 

ARTIXO 

How NOT to Rob a Department 

Store (95) ....C. Jan 66 

Jean-Claude Brlaly, Marie Laforet, 

.Mbert liemy 

CAMBIST ,„„^ , ,, 

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Ttie Pink Pussy Cat (80). Feb 66 

Libi-rtad 

Lrblanc 

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Aroused (80) Melo Oct 66 

Sieve Ilollcster 

CDA 

Rat Fink (82) 

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D.. Feb 66 

Schuyler Uayden. Judy Hughes 

Poor White Trash (86) .Jan 66 

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I'eter Graves, Llta Milan, 

Iiniiglas Fowley 

Shame (80) °;-.°f 

William ShaUier, Beverly Lunstord, 

Itnbert Emliardt 

The Thrill Killers (SO) .Mar 66 

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(:isli KlaRC, Liz lienay 

Common Law Wife (84) . . D . . 

Jan 66 

L;icey Kelley 

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©The Weekend Warriors 

(90) Sports Doc. Nov 66 

CHILDHOOD PRODUCTIONS 

©Snow While (74) Oct 65 

Narrator: Paul TrlpD 

©The Christmas That Almost 

Wasn't (96) Nov- Dec 66 

Rdssann Brazzi, Paul Tripp, 

:\li.^ctia 

Atier 

CINEMA V __ 

The Hours of Love (S9) 

I'gn Tognazzl. Emmanuele Rlva, 

Barbara Steele 

The Model Murder Case 

(86) My.. Sep 66 

l.in Ilendrv. Ronald Fraser 

miscellaneous 

The Cool World (105) . 

.Sep 66 

Carl Lee, Gloria Foster 

GOVERNOR 

©The Endless Summer 

©Web of Violence 

(92) Doc. .Sep 66 

Mike nj-nson, Robert August 

Morgan! (97) Com Dr.. May 66 

Vanessa Redgrave, Darid Warner 

I.lz Rpn.iy 

COLONIAL 

Bum Baby Burn May 66 

Dana Sherry, Alfredo Crlado, 

Skip Gerson 

Beauty and the Cave May 66 

COMET 

. Jan 66 

©The Gentle Rain 

(110) Rom D. Sept 66 

Christopher George. Lynda Day 

©Angel on Earth 

(gg) Fantasy . 

Roray Schneider, Jean-Paul 

Belmondn. Henri Vldal 

©Ski Cha'ip (90) D.. Jan 66 

Tony Sall>r 

©Girl From Hong Kong 

(95) 0. Jan 66 

Aklko, Helmut Grelra 

©Only a Woman (86) -C. .Jan 66 

Maria Schell. Paul Chrlstman 

A Taste for Women (90) C. Oct 66 

Two Colonels (90) C. Mar 66 

Walter Plrigeon. Toto I 

©Operation Delilah (86) . C. .Jan 66 

Itnry Calhoun, Gla Scala, 

Manin Kaplan 

Web of Fear (92).. Rom D.. Aug 66 

Michael Morgan. Dany Saval 

©The Porpy Is Also a 

Flower (100) Ac D. .Nov 66 

Vul nr\-nner. Anîe Dickinson. 

Trpvnr Hnnard. R G Marshall 

DON KAY ASSOCIATES 

Mating Modern Style (92) C..Jun65 

Sophia Uren. Charles Boycr 

The Widow Is Willing (97).. Feb 65 

Eleonora Rosjil-Drago, Jean 

Trlntlgnant 

©Old Shatterhand (130) Sep 66 

Ouv Madison, Dallah Lavl 

EAGLE AMERICAN FILMS, INC. 

©Indian Paint (91) Apr 65 

Johnny Crawford. Jay Sllverheels 

EMERSON FILM ENTERPRISES 

©Make Like a Thief 

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(gO) My D.. Mar 66 

Richard Lone, Ake Llndman 

Saturday Night Bath in Apple 

Valley (81) ;•„,:,?• '^^ 

Miml Hlnes, Bert Ford. Cliff 

Arnuette 

Seven Against the Sun 

(115) Ad 66 

D. .Aug 

Gert Van Der Berg. Elizabeth 

Mevpr 

The Street Is My Beat 

(93) Sex D.. Oct 66 

Marshall 

Sh.irv 

©The Devil's Mistress 

(66) My D-fifi 

Jn.nn Stanleton. Robert Gregory 

Scream (74) Ho My. .66 

©Manos, the Hands of Fate 

(74) ....My.. 

Tom Neyman, Mane Mahree, 

Hal Wîrren 

JltriUl 

Frozen Alive 

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(80) SF..Melo Sep 66 

JIark Stevens. Marlarme Koch 

©Cyborg 2087 (90) Oct 66 

Mii-h.iel l!innle, Wendell Corey 

©Dimension— 5 (91) ..SF..0cl66 

Jeffrey Ihinter, France Nuyen. 

l)on;ild Woods 

©Ride the High Wind (96) Nov 66 

Darren McGavin, Maria Peischy. 

Brian O'Sbauglinessy 

©Sunscorched (7S) Nov 66 

Mark Stevens, Mario Adorf, 

Marianne Koch 

©The Destructors (98) Dec 66 

I! cliard Ecan, Michael Ansara. 

Joan Bbckman. David Brian 

©Run Like a Thief (94) Jan 67 

Kieron Moore, Keenan Wynn, Ina 

Biilin. Fernando licy 

GOLDSTONE ENTEP"RISES 

Intimacy (87) D.. May 66 

Jack Ginc. Joan Blackman, Nancy 

Malone, Barry Sullivan 

Wild Affair (87) C. May 66 

Terry-Tbiimas, Nay.cy Knan 

No Return Address (76) . 

.Apr 65 

Harry Lovejoy, Alicia Hammonds, 

Shaunna Dietllen 

Stork Talk (86) C. Aug 66 

Tnnv Britton. Anne Ileywood 

The touch of Flesh (76) .Aug 66 

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Ted Mor'shall. Jeanne Rainer 

The Mystificrs (115) Melo.. Aug £6 

Claude Dauphin, Jean Rochefort, 

Mirhfl Anclair 

(90) Ac Ad. .66 

r.rett Haisey. Margaret Lee 

Day of the Nightmare (89) Ho.. 66 

.lohn Ireland, Blatae Verdugo. 

Carry On Cabby (91) ..C. Nov 66 

Sidney James, Hattle Jacques 

©Carry On Venus (91) C..66 

Kenneth Williams, Bernard Crlbblns. 

Juliet Mills _ „ 

Carry On Jack (91) C..66 

Kenneth Williams. Bernard Crlbbhis. 

liillpt 

Mills 

HARLEQUIN 

All the Other Girls Do 

(90) C. .May 66 

Jacques Perrin, Rosemarle Dexter, 

Folco 

Liilli 

HEMISPHERE 

Blood Drinkers (88) .Ho May 66 

Ronald Remv. Amelia Fuentes 

Black Cat (72) D . 66 

Robert Frost. Rob Baker 

The Fiend With the Electronic 

Brain (90) SF..Sep66 

Roy Morton 

Terror on Blood Island 

(8S) 

SF..0ct66 

John Ashley, Kent Taylor, 

r.everlv Powers 

Chaplin's Art of Comedy 

(85) C. Sep 66 

niarllp Chariin 

HOFFBERG PRODUCTIONS, INC. 

©Czar and Carpenter 

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(90) operetta in German .. Feb 65 

The Eagle (75).... Ad Dr. 66 

Rortiilph Valentino In his last film 

©Fioaro, The Barber of Seville 

(103) 

Rossina 

. .Comic Opera by 

0"°° 

The Last Chapter 

(g5) Polish Doc. Nov 66 

©Lonesome Women 

(73) Ad Dr.. 

©Springtime in Vienna 

(90 Operetta in German 

Tempestuous Love 

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(101) German Dr.. Feb 66 

Ulli Palnipr. Ivan Dec 

D.. Sep 65 

Mflvy-n Douglas. Dean Stockivell 

LANDAU-UNGER 

Sands of Beersheba (90) Dr..Jun66 

LION-LENART 

The Uncle (87) Melo.. Aug 66 

Rupert Davlrs, Brenda Bruce, 

TTnhcrt Duncan 

lOPERT FILMS , _ 

©Fanlomas (104) ® Apr 66 

Jean Marals, Louis de Funes 

©Up to His Ears 

(92) CD..Jun66 

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula 

Andress 

FEATURE 

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. Feb 66 

CHART 

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Rel. 

rMPlRE PICTURES Mademoiselle (103) D..Sep66 

Naked ai.o the B.a.e (92) D.. Jan 66 Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Mannl 

It Happened Here 

EUROPIX-CONSOLIDATED 

(95) Doc D. .Aug 66 

©The She Beast 

Pauline Murray, Sebaatlin ShM 

(74) Ho..Jun66 

(§) 

©10:30 P.M. Summer 

naib:ira Steele, John Karlsen 

„ „ „ 

The Embalmer (S3) Ho..Jun66 

(g5) D. .No» 66 

Mcllna Mercourl, Romy Sclmelder, 

M;inicfti Itroun. Gin Ma:t 

I'eter Ftoch 

FEATURE FILM CORP. OF 

AMERICA 

©Destination Inner Space 

(93) SF. .Sep 66 

Soiiti Brady. Sheree North, Gary 

MANSON „^ ,- t ,^ 

Marine Battleground (So).. Feb 66 

.lock Mahoney, Pat Li . . 

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Dry Summer (90) Oct 66 

I'lvl Dogan, Erol Tass 

©Second Fiddle to a Steel 

Guitar (107) ® MC. 

MARATHON 

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Arnold StiUig, Pamela Hayes, 

lluntz Hall 

Hard Charger (97).. Ac D.. Oct 65 

Tiny Lund, Junior Johnson 

Sing a Song for Heavens 

DM.. Oct 66 

Sake (95) 

Kiel Foley. Chuck Wagon Gang 

RIZZOLI 

©The Moment of Truth 

(110) D.. Sep 65 

Linda Christian, Miguel Miguelhi 

Juliet of the Spirits 

, ,. ,, 

(144) D.. Feb 66 

GluMotta Maslna. Sandra Mllo 

ROADSHOW ATTRACTIONS 

©Country Music Caravan 

(83) Mus.. Sep 65 

Jim Reeves, Ray Price, Minnie Pearl 

©Tennessee Jamboree 

(75) Mus.. Sep 65 

Jim Reeves. Webb Pier«e. Marty 

Rohbins 

ROGOSIN 

©Good Times, Wonderful Times 

(70) Doc Melo. Aug 66 

RON AND JUNE ORMOND 

©40 Acre Feud (80) 

Country Music Jul o5 

©Girl From Tobacco Row 

(87) .... Country MC. Aug66 

. Mar €6 

Tev Ititter 

ROYAL FILMS INT'L 

Life at the Top (117) D Jan 66 

Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, 

TTnnor T^lackraan 

SIGMA III 

The Merry Wives of Windsor 

(97) Opera . 

Norman Foster. Colette Boky, 

I^nr Gorin 

Cul de Sac (118).. Black C. Sep 66 

Donald PleasinCP. Francois 

Dorleac, fjonel Slander 

©An Eveninn With the Royal 

Ballet (87) Ballet.. 65 

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Marent Fonleyn. Rudolf Nureyey 

SIGNAL 

THo Phonv American (72) 

William Bmdil, (Tlrtsllne 

Kniifmann, Michael Hlnz 

"iUPREME 

Murder Mississippi .. „ 

(g4) Melo. Mar 66 

Shi-lln Britton, Sam Stewart 

TAlttMlS 

Miles to Noon (66'/2) . . Melo. 

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ÊAWRE REVIEWS 

Symbol © denotes color; © CinemoScope; ® Ponavision; ® Teehnironio; © other onamorphie processes. For story synopsis on each picture, see reverse side. 

Arrivederch Baby 

Ratior 

Farce 

Comedy 

2.35-1 © 

Paramount (6608) 1C5 Minutes Rel. Dec. '66 

Tony Cui'tis has an actor's field day romping thi'ough 

this madcap farce about a "lady killer," a role which 

permits him to portray a 12-year-old (in flashbacks), his 

own personable self and, in the finale, a middle-aged 

Italian with a nagging wife and noisy brats. With Rosamra 

Schiaffino, the Italian beauty in her Englishlanguage 

debut, Nancy Kwan and Zsa Zsa Gabor for 

adaed pulchi'itude, plus Lionel Jeffries' British-style 

comedy antics, it's lightweight entertainment, which 

should do good business generally. Producer-director Ken 

Hughes, who also wrote the story with Ronald Harwood, 

treats the whole affair as a ^poof, which removes any 

bad taste from the schemes of the gold-digging gigolo 

who mixes marriage and mui'der for profit. Curtis, in 

tui'n, does away with his adoring guardian and his first 

two wives, one Hmigarian, one British, before meeting his 

match in Miss Schiaffino, his female counterpart. Fortunately, 

these killings are played for laughs only. There 

are some outstanding comic moments. Magnificent Technicolor 

backgrounds of Monte Carlo, the Cote d'Azui- and 

rm-al England are a distinct asset. A Seven Arts-Ray 

Stark production. 

Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, 

Nancy Kwan, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Anna Quayle. 

The Devil's Own 

Ratio: Horror Drama 

1.85-1 © 

20th-Fox (703) 90 Minutes Rel. Feb. '67 

Typical of the Seven Arts-Hammer Productions' hoiTor 

programers made in England, as regards highest quality 

in settings, capable direction, this time by Cyril 

Prankel, and rich De Luxe color photography, this Anthony 

Nelson Keys production benefits by the betterthan-average 

name value of Joan Fontame, established 

American star, who gives an excellent portrayal of a 

frightened schoolmistress. Also in the cast are the alwaysdependable 

Kay Walsh and Martin Stephens, the boy 

from "Village of the Damned," now a teenage juvenile. 

The screenplay by Nigel Kneale, based on the novel by 

Peter Curtis, is rarely believable but it does have many 

frightening moments in the Central Africa prologue and 

in the incredible climax as middle-class British vUlagers 

who secretly practice witchcraft plan a virgin sacrifice. 

Miss Walsh is almost plausible as a dig:nified jom-nalist 

who finally dons the robes of a high priestess of voodoo 

and Gwen Pfrangcon-Davies is most impressive as a domineering 

grandmother. Martin Lament and Ann Bell as 

bewitched villagers also stand out but Alec McCowen is 

colorless as a semi-hero, there being no actual romantic 

interest. The weird musical score and the photography are 

both first rate. 

Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Martin 

Stephens, Ann Bell, Duncan Lamont, Ingrid Brett. 

The Brides oi Fu Manchu " S5-1 © 

Seven Arts 94 Minutes Rel. Dec. '66 

Second in the new series of Fu Manchu films based on 

the famed Sax Rohmer character, as now delineated by 

England's Christopher Lee, this Hallam production filmed 

in London will satisfy the yoimgsters and adult devotees of 

this type of fare. While the melodramatic tale may have 

scant appeal to women patrons, it will get by as a supporting 

programer generally—but that's about all. As 

directed by Don Sharp, from a screenplay by Peter Welbeck, 

the pictm-e is replete with Oriental villainy and 

fiendish deeds with Lee making Fu Manchu a sinister 

figm-e except when he speaks with his customary clipped 

British accent. Since he has played many famous horror 

figui'es on the screen, including "Dracula," his name will 

have marquee value but none of the other players are 

familiar, although Marie 'Versini is featm-ed in the current 

"Is Paris Burning?" Tsai Chin, who played Pu Manchu's 

evil daughter in "The Face of Fu Manchu," again 

gives the most convincing portrayal. The sets and the 

color photography are adequate. And, as the pictiu'e ends 

with Pu Manchu supposedly dead, his voice issues from 

the screen: "The world wUl hear from me again," meaning 

that another sequel is almost a certainty for 1967. 

Howard Marion 

Christopher Lee, Marie Versini, 

Crawford, Douglas 'Wilmer, Tsai Chin. 

Pri, 

hil- 

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Ratio: Spy Comedy 

The Spy With a Cold Nose I 85-1 

Embassy 93 Minutes Rel. Dec. '66 

Following the plethora of spy spoofs in recent months, 

producer Leonard Lightstone has come up with a different 

angle for spying, having a British bulldog, bugged 

with a miniature transmitter, to get secrets from the 

only Russians. While never believable, the original story and 

xoifir screenplay by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson is replete 

~ with comic touches and breakneck action and director 

Daniel Petrie has directed at a fast pace for maximum 

laugh retmns. While Laurence Harvey is the top name 

draw, it is the increasingly popular Britisher, Lionel 

Jeffries (also in "Arrivederci, Baby"), who runs away 

with the pictm-e as the bungling British secret agent who 

conceives the idea of the canine spy. Harvey is good, if 

a shade too dandified, as the veterinarian involved in the 

REP 

plot and Daliah Lavi is striking as a glamorous Russian 

who defects to England but there is no romance between 

the two, as expected. Delightfully broad portrayals are injected 

in the wild proceedings by Eric Sykes, as Jeffries' 

nitwit assistant; June Whitfield as his nagging wife, and 

Eric Portman, as the British ambassador—all of these 

British standbys. America's Paul Ford has a cameo role 

and Nai Bonet adds a belly dance. Photography in Eastman 

Color of London locations is first-rate. 

Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric 

Sykes, Denholm Elliott, Eric Portman, Colin Blakely. 

Blow-Up 

Ratio: Murder Drama 

1.85-1 

Premiere Prods. (MGM) 110 Minutes Rel. Jan. '67 

Michelangelo Antonioni, whose Italian-language films, 

'La Notte," "L'Avventm-a," etc., have fascinated class 

audiences despite their slow pace and lack of a clear 

story line, now offers a bizaiTe, intensely moody mm-der 

mystery in his first English-language pictui-e, which he directed 

from his own screenplay with his regular collaborator, 

Tonino Guerra. Antonioni's name, plus that of 

Britain's Vanessa Redgrave, will mean magic to the discriminating 

patrons in the art spots, especially the 

younger set even though the pictm-e is "for mature audiences" 

because of excessive nudity and lacks a Production 

Code Seal (the reason for the Premiere, not MGM, 

label). While the pictm-e is decidedly off-beat, the background 

of London's mod crowd with its long-haired boys 

and eccentric-looking girl models, photographed in color, 

is unusual enough to keep most moviegoers captivated 

throughout, although some patrons may feel cheated 

at the finale which solves nothing and leaves the identity 

of the mm-dered man and the reason for the killing up 

Newcomer David Hemmings, a Terence Stamp 

in the air. 

look-alLke, shows great promise as a fashion photographer 

( the title refers to a photo enlargement. Carlo Ponti produced. 

Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, 

Verushka, Ann Norman, Jill Kenningion. 

Hallucination Generation 

Ratio: Exploitation 

1.S5-1 Drama 

AIP-Trans American (6623) 90 Minutes Rel. Dec. '66 

Dramatizing recent news items about youth groups' experiences 

with LSD and other drugs, this makes the archvillain 

an ex-college professor who uses young expatriates 

in Spain as guinea pigs for his research on the effects of 

hallucinary di'ugs. The professor, played by George Montgomery, 

acts as host—with the help of his pathetic wife 

—to a little colony, idle di-ifters who smoke "pot" and have 

alienated themselves from society in typical beatnik 

fashion. Listed as a Herbert R. Steinmann presentation, 

Edward Mann-Robert D. Weinbach production, produced 

by Nigel Cox and directed by Mann who also wi-ote 

the script, this featm-es beach bikini costumes as well as 

frenzied orgies—becoming something of a bore to movie 

audiences. However, there is more to the film—in fact, it 

might well give young people pause who see how the 

young di-ug-users are trapped into crime by their hallucinary 

actions, the cast is adequate if not outstanding 

and the story line is plausible, if we may believe recent 

news stories about di-ug defenders as well as addicts. The 

setting in Spain is selected as a place where the smuggling 

of di-ugs from North Africa is comparatively easy. Slanted 

for adult and mature youth audiences. Bernardo Segall's 

music captm-es some of the psychedelic ecstasy. 

' 

ith George Montgomery, Danny Stone, Steve Rowland, 

$9.50 Renate Kasche, Marianne Kanter, Tom Baker. 

The reviews on these poges may be filed for future reference in any of the following *

. . Stimulated 

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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitips; Adiines 

for Newspaper and Programs 

THE STORY: "The Spy Uith a Cold Nose" (Embassy) 

Lionel Jeffries of British Counter Intelligence con- 

the idea of "Operation Bandylegs," whereby, with 

ceives 

the aid 

'. ill bug 

of a playboy veterinarian. 

a British bulldog, who is 

Laurence Harvey, 

to be presented to 

he 

the 

s.\;it Prime Minister, with a miniature microphone 

•.i.iiismitter. Thus the British can listen in on Russia's es- , . 

l>ionage secrets. Complications develop when the dog de- \m by an attendant carrying a sign: "I'm a Spy With a 

Cold Nose." For the men, play up Daliah Lavi. recently 

in "The Silencers." and Nai Bonet. famed belly-dancer. 

CATCIILLNES: 

Who's the Big Burly British Spy 'Who Rubs Cold Noses 

With the Wily Russians? . . . The Greatest Spy Plot 

Which Failed Because of a Respiratory Ailment . . . The 

Spy Spoof to End All Spy Satires. 

THE STORY: 

"Blow-Up" (Premiere-MGM) 

David Hemmings, a blase, free-living fashion photographer 

in London, who frequently has affairs with his 

eccentrically gowned models, leaves his girl friend (Sarah 

Miles) to take early morning pictures in a park. Taking 

long-distance shots of what appears to be a pair of lovers. 

he is approached by the girl. Vanessa Redgrave, demanding 

that he give her the negatives. He refuses but. after he 

takes the pictm-es home to develop them, Vanessa again 

appears and hysterically pleads for the pictures. Later, 

he scrutinizes his blow-ups of the films and notices a 

man's body in one of them. He returns to the park at 

night and finds the body, but the next day it is gone. The 

identity of the girl or the now-missing body is never revealed 

and Hemmings (as well as the audience) is left 

puzzled as the picture ends. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

/«Ier 

For discriminating audiences who patronize the art v-Ree 

houses, the name of Michelangelo Antonioni is a tremen- "*' ' 

dous diaw through his foreign-language hits, "La Notte." 

"L'Avventura" and the recent "The Red Desert." Vaness^ 

Redgrave of the famed British acting family, who scored 

In "Morgan!" and is now filming "Camelot" for Warner 

Bros, has been widely publicized and Sarah Miles also. 

CATCHLINES: 

Michelangelo Antonioni 's First English-Language Film 

—a Stunning Drama You Will Never Forget ... A Fascinating 

Picture of London's Models and Beatniks at Play. 

THE STORY: "Hallucination Generation" (AIP) 

A young American < Danny Stone) drifts to Ibiza, island 

off the coast of Spain, to join a friend (Tom Baker). Supported 

by his wealthy mother. Danny joins a group of 

beatnik type expatriates who indulge in sexual promiscuity, 

drugs including LSD—anything for a thrill. They 

are being exploited by an ex-professor (George Montgomery) 

who conducts experiments on them under the 

influence of various drugs. Danny meets a German girl 

• Rcnate Kaschci in Barcelona where she is working as 

a secretary. They fall in love and marry, but when his 

mother cuts off his allowance, they quarrel over his allowing 

her to be their sole support. So Danny goes back 

to Ibiza and Montgomery, to whom he becomes indebted 

over poker games, and who slips Danny some LSD and 

[XTsuade.s him and Tom to commit a robbery. When the 

victim lesi.sts, Tom kills him with a candlestick holder 

then places It in Danny's hand. Danny escapes, confused 

in his mind as to what happened, goes to a monastery in 

Barcelona, confesses and police close In. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Cut out news stories from newspaix>rs and magazines 

about LSD and other drugs. Pa.ste lh;\se on a poster in the 

lobby. Run local comment about drug addiction In ads. 

CATCHLINES: 

EKK-Heads p:xperlmentlnR on Beatniks and SIckniks In 

the Name of .Science . 

Reallv Happened? . 

Mind Was In a Whirl—What r*^„„ 

tiy LSD. ^do 

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THE STORY: "Arrivederci, Baby" (Para) 

Even at the age of 12. Tony Cui-tis, an orphan being 

raised by an adoring aunt. Anna Quayle. plans to use 

his charms to entrap women so he "arranges" for his 

aimt to be electrocuted by his toy train and he inherits 

her estate. Attaining manhood. Tony and his loyal servant, 

Lionel Jeffries, conspire to "get rid of" Zsa Zsa 

Gabor, his chattering first wife, then Fenella Fielding, 

his sports-conscious second wife, before meeting Rosanna 

Schiaffino. an Italian beauty, who has certain schemes 

of her own. Now it is Rosanna's turn to try out the mui-- 

der game but the two eventually fall in love and—years 

later, they are seen living in poverty as parents of several 

squalling kids. 

EXPLOITIPS 

In addition to Tony Cuitis' name draw, stress the array 

of beautiful women, the Italian Rosanna Schiaffino, the 

Emasian Nancy Kwan and the Hungarian glamor girl 

Zsa Zsa Gabor. Make a tieup with travel agencies for 

window displays of Monte Carlo, the French Riviera and 

other popular Eiu'op)ean vacation spots shown in the pictui-e. 

CATCHLINES: 

Tony Cuitts As a Genuine "Lady Killer" With Beautiful 

Girls As His Target . . . Sex Is Here to Slay! "Baby" 

Is Here to Play! . . . From Proposal to Disposal—He's a 

Lady-Killer You'll Fall in Love With. 

THE STORY: 

"The Devil's Own" (20th-Fox) 

After a terrible experience with voodoo while teaching 

in Central Africa, Joan Fontaine has a breakdown and, 

on her recovery and retui'n to England, she accepts a 

headmistress post in a small village school run by Alec 

McCowen and his journalist-sister, Kay Walsh. Some of 

the villagers seem distant to Joan, especially after she 

becomes involved with two young pupils, Martin Stephens 

and Ingrid Brett, who are fond of each other. When Ingiid 

is kept from school by her domineering grandmother 

(Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies) , Joan interferes and the girl 

disappears. That night, Joan is visited by a frightemng 

voodoo god and she again collapses. Gradually recovering 

in a musing home, Joan escapes and is led by McCowen 

to a cave where his sister is high priestess of voodoo with 

her village followers preparing to offer Ingrid as a virgin 

sacrifice. Joan and McCowen manage to rout the witches 

and save the potential victim. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

In addition to playing up Joan Fontaine, who has 

starred in many Hollywood films and was acclaimed in 

"Rebecca," class patrons are familiar with Kay Walsh 

from her many British imports. Voodoo heads, horrifying 

masks and a boiling cauldron will attract attention. 

CATCHLLNES: 

What Was the Evil Secret That Terrified the Villagers 

in Rural England . . . Joan Fontaine as the Enghsh 

Schoolteacher Who Came Under the Cuise of the Voodoo. 

" 

THE STORY': "The Brides of Fu Manchu (7 Arts) 

At Fu Manchu's (Christopher Lee) North African 

headquarters. 12 beautiful girls, each a member of some 

powerful family or industrial figure, are being held captive. 

When Fu Manchu next attempts to kidnap Marie 

Versini. a student nmse, inspector Douglas Wilner. longtime 

foe of the Oriental, is brought into the case, but he 

is unable to prevent Marie's kidnaping. Fu Manchu then 

sends his daughter. Tsai Chin, to London to find the girl's 

father, this being part of his diabolical scheme to force 

the scientist fathers to reveal an explosive energy secret 

with which he plans to destroy an entire city. Wilner goes 

to Fu Manchu's castle, where guards capture him but it is 

the captive "brides" who tui'n on their captor and manage 

to save the day for the world. Fu Manchu disappears 

in a cloud of smoke, but he will midoubtedly be heard 

from again. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

The Fu Manchu title is the biggest selling point, as is 

Christopher Lee. who followed in the footsteps of the late 

Warner Oland and Boris Karloff. who played the character 

in earlier films. Use a lobby frame with comparing 

photas of L'.'e. Oland and Karlofl. Bookstores will cooperate 

with paperback displays of the Sax Rohmer novels. 

CATCHLINES: 

The Diabolical Fu Manchu and His Latest Scheme to 

Destroy the World . Lee As the Evil Dr. Fu 

Manchu. the Oriental Man of Madness and Mystery. 

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For sale: 380 pushback, upholstered 

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