Boxoffice-January.19.1970

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Theatre construction surged forward during 1969 with exhibitors investing a total of
$179,607,000 in 540 new houses. Mini-theatres and multiple auditorium installations were
predominant. Typical of the new theatres are these, from left top: Gage 4, o four-auditorium
complex in Topeko, Kas., American Multi-Cinemas, Inc.; Ultravision Theatre, Charleston,
S.C, Wilby-Kincey; Cinemo West, Kansas City, Kas., Commonwealth Theatres, and River
Oaks, Chicago, ABC-Great States Theatres. Construction survey begins on page 11.

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A NEW DECADE is ahead of all of
us as this new year (1970) gets under
way. To put the right foot forward is
everybody's job. But how does one
know if his resolutions and future
plans are sound?
EXPERIENCE AND TBAVEL ore
two vital teachers. After we had
plotted HALLMAFiK'S course for 1970-
71-72, we reminded ourselves that we
didn't know it all. "Ma" and "Pa"
Babb didn't raise any geniuses. So
we started the new year with a 7,000-
mile trip during which we observed
the habits, the likes and dislikes, the
attitudes and appearances of millions
of people.
THE BIG lETS were moving us
back and forth so fast across one-fifth
of the United States that we had only
a limited number of opportunities to
talk with grass root theatre men. Yet
we learned plenty.
PERHAPS OUR MOST rewarding
stop was an afternoon visit at Surfside,
Miami Beach, with the man who
started us in this business, that ole
pro, Phil Chakeres. Phil must be at
least 85—yet he's so healthy and
strong that he can convince anyone
that he's only 83. What a great "Pop"
a showman!
FOR OUR NEW 'DEAR'S day visit,
Phil was dressed up in his finest, just
like he was going to a Greek wedding.
He rejoiced in telling members of
our travel-party about the exploitation
ideas that used to pack them in during
the depression days of the '30s
how showmanship has built his
. . .
circuit
from a one store-room theatre to 45
deluxe operations in a half-century.
Today's Chakeres circuit spreads
throughout Ohio and Kentucky.
WE WENT OVER our HALLMARK
blue-print with "Pop." In general he
approved it but he suggested a vital
and important change here and there.
We not only listened but we welcomed
and accepted his suggestions.
AS A RESULT our national showmanship
contest in 1970 is going to
be bigger and better. Theatre Managers
are going to compete in five different
groups instead of three. We're
going to announce the TWO top Managers
in EACH group on Thanksgiving
Day. We'll fly all 10 (with their wives)
to the West Coast on December 3rd.
We'll "pool them" in Las Vegas and
open HALLMARK'S University of Showmanship
of America morning classes
there. We'll include a couple of afternoons
of sight-seeing and six big
nighttime shows.
ON SUNDAY, DEC. 6 we'll move
our Contestants and Guests on to
Hollywood for four jam-packed days of
U.S.A. classes, sight-seeing, cocktails,
food and fun.
IN THE MEANTIME our Contest
Judges will impartially vote and determine
the Ace Showmen—the winner
in each of the Five Groups. The
runners-up will receive plaques. The
five Aces will receive plaques and
$1,000 U.S. Savings Bonds. Then we'll
turn up the 'Heat' and the Five Aces
will compete for National Honors. Four
will go down fighting. The nation's
best—the top Ace—will go home with
an additional $5,000.00 U.S. Savings Bond and a
one-year 'lease' on the biggest, most beautiful
Gold Cup that money could buy. His or Her name
will be engraved on it for posterity. In 1971, the
big trophy will move on to a new one-year home.
PHIL CHAKERES SAYS that this format will be
more fair and more appealing to every theatre man.
And "Pop" knows because everything he taught us
about this screwy business has proven true. Sure
Phil is getting old! Aren't we all? But you can bet
your bottom dollar that he's right. P.C. made his
millions by living by the formula that "you've got
to tell 'em ... to sell 'em!" and not by poppin'
pop corn. He can't even boil water, let alone cook
a Pizza Pie! He hires Mrs. O'Brien to run his cook
tent 1 1 !
_HoH_
TAMPA WAS COLDER than Alaska so
we all
sat down with Al and Betty Rook, from Jacksonville,
at the Port O' Call at the southern tip of St. Petersburg
Beach. It was a long meeting-of-the-minds for
two days with evening interruptions which enabled
all of us to enjoy two wonderful nights at Lenny
Dee's Den. Each night the big room was jampacked
You had to know Lenny to even get in. The
food was good, the service excellent. Lenny's shows
are simply terrific.
—HoH—
ENROUTE WEST, NATIONAL Airlines sold over
$500.00 worth of booze to Flight 59 passengers. A
30-minute stop at New Orleans became a six-hour
ordeal. Instead of getting us back at 8:20 P.M., it
was 4 A.M. when we finally landed at LAX. The
Hostesses got so tired of counting the concession
dollars they gave the booze away free on the final
leg of our flight This prompted a Negro minister
and his wife, seated behind us, to each sample a
bottle of gin. The minister explained that he could
preach better against the sins of alcohol if he
sampled the stuff so he would know what he was
talking about. When the gals came down the aisle
with another load, the tall black man with the white
reverse collar decided to go again. "So far, I don't
feel a thing," he explained.
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THIS
OH THE PLUS SIDE
industry may bruise easily, but
it also heals quickly! For, as one industry
executive long ago observed,
"There is nothing WTong with this business
that good pictures won't cure!" So
it has been proved over the years; and so
it will continue ad infinitum.
Currently, the turn to the better—from
what was a rather gloomy outlook for the
past few months—has been evidenced by
extraordinary performances on several
counts. In one instance, it is the report
from 20th Century-Fox that a trio of its
current releases— "Hello, Dolly!," "John
and Mary" and "Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid"—in the last two weeks of
December and the first week of January
—achieved a total gross intake of $10,-
209,065. This was comprised of $2,610,536
from "Hello, Dolly!," in this roadshow's
first 21 days; $2,939,723 for "John and
Mary," and $4,658,806 for "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid" in the same
period.
Six Columbia pictures grossed a total
of $12,374,548 in the week of December
25-January 4, as follows: "Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice" $2,214,687; "Cactus Flower"
$2,125,000; "Easy Rider" $2,764,808; "Marooned"
$281,488; "Oliver" $2,846,500,
and "Funny Girl" $2,142,065. The latter
two, roadshows last year, are now in general
release.
Other fine examples: United Artists'
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service," with
a gross of $7,555,009 as of January 11;
National General Pictures tallied a gross
of $4,166,123 for the first two weeks of
"The Reivers," and its release of "A Boy
Named Charlie Brown" set an all-time
record at Radio City Music Hall with $1,-
133,433 in its first four weeks.
Gratifying as are these good signs, perhaps
even more significant for exhibition
in general are the announcements of
the stepping up of production and releasing
schedules for the remainder of the
current season, as well as the entry of a
number of new film sources into the
market.
Noteworthy is the announcement by
American International Pictures of its
biggest product lineup in the company's
history, with 21 feature films to be released
in the first nine months of 1970.
This represents an increase of seven or 50
per cent more than the company's entire
schedule last year.
That the market can absorb considerably
more product than it has required in
the last several years is indicated by its
growth through new theatre construction,
as well as reopenings of closed theatres
and refurbishing and updating older
houses. The biggest number of new
houses and the largest investment therein
is reported elsewhere in this issue. The
facts and figures, as tabulated in Boxoffice's
continuing survey, reveal that
$179,607,000 was allocated for 540 theatres
in 1969. Of these, 149 are multiauditorium
complexes comprising 353
additional outlets for films. As these operations
usually play different features in
each unit, it is patent that they can absorb
a substantial increase in product
output.
Thus, exhibition is gearing to meet the
demands for motion pictures in new residential
and shopping areas and is
strengthening the attraction value of
older theatres—even bringing new life to
downtown theatres that had been
thought beyond revival. With a greater
output of good product, a better atmosphere
for its showing and the extension
of these points of public contact, the industry
is strengthening the foundation
on which to build for continuing growth
throughout this entire decade, if not beyond.
Vital thereto is the improvement of
means and methods to cultivate increasing
attendance by all classes of patrons at
every level of exhibition, not overlooking
the smaller theatres in the smaller situations.
As the record will show, these outlets
for films often spell the difference
between profit and loss to productiondistribution
and to the overall health of
the industry.
As we have said many times over the
years, the triumvirate of production, distribution
and exhibition, by working
more closely together than ever before
as a team—will increase the "margin of
safety" that consistent strong attendance
assures.
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Adult Film Ass'n Sets
NAJO,MPAA Jointly to Announce
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Changes in Code, Rating System
CHICAGO—The executive committee of the National Ass'n of Theatre
Owners met here Thursday (8) for two days of discussion on various industry
matters, and agreed to proposed changes in the Motion Picture Ass'n Code and
Rating System designed to clarify the M rating. The changes are expected to be
announced by NATO and the MPAA jointly on January 27 in New York, since
the plan for the alterations must be approved by the MPAA directors
and cooperating
organizations such as the Independent Film Importers & Distributors Ass'n
and the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers.
Reportedly, the plan will change the M designation to a GP rating (all
ages admitted with parental guidance suggested) and will raise the age limit on
R and X-rated films to 17 in those areas where local or state law does not set
a higher age designation.
Eugene Picker, NATO president, conducted the meeting here at which
executive committee members heard the results of recent discussions by a NATO
committee with Jack Valenti, MPAA president, Louis Nizer, MPAA general
counsel, and others concerning the rating changes.
In other action, the executive committee pledged cooperation by NATO
•members in the use of theatre trailers publicizing this year's Academy Awards
telecast.
The general state of the industry came in for consideration and an agenda
was adopted for the board of directors meeting scheduled for February 8-13 at the
Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas.
The committee also decided to back the work of the National Commission
on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
Meantime, Picker announced that he is scheduled to address two more film
industry groups next month. On February 2, he will deliver the keynote speech at
the first annual joint conference of the Theatre Equipment Dealers Ass'n and the
Theatre Equipment & Supply Manufacturers Ass'n at Monterey, Calif. On February
4, Picker will address the membership of NATO of Texas, at their annual
convention in Dallas.
COMPO Bylaws Topic
Of Jan. 27 Meeting
NEW YORK—The executive
committee
of the Council of Motion Picture Organizations
(COMPO) will meet here Tuesday (27)
to consider bylaw changes related to the
present status of the National Association of
Theatre Owners.
When COMPO was formed in 1950, exhibitor
representation consisted of the Theatre
Owners of America and Allied States
Association. Both organizations have since
merged into NATO, which is not recognized
in
present COMPO bylaws.
Other agenda matters will include election
of COMPO executives. Charles McCarthy,
veteran motion picture executive, will retire
from his position as executive vice-president
and the council's office will be merged with
that of NATO, located at 1501 Broadway.
Although all proposed action must be ratified
by participating industry organizations,
no COMPO dues have been collected for
some time. The council's treasury now contains
close to $35,000.
COMPO member organizations include
NATO, the Independent Theatre Owners
Ass'n of New York, Metropolitan Motion
Picture Theatres Ass'n, the Motion Picture
Ass'n, the lATSE and the Independent Film
Importers and Distributors of America.
Conrad Baker Is
Elected
President of AFAA
HOUSTON — The Adult Film Ass'n of
America, in its convention here last week,
named Conrad Baker of New York as president,
succeeding Sam Chernoff. Other officers
are: David Friedman, first vice-president;
David Isacson, second vice-president;
Donald Davis, secretary; Whit Boyd, treasurer;
Jay B. Rubin, assistant secretary, and
Jay Fineberg, assistant treasurer.
Named to the board of directors: Sam
Lake, Ralph Donnelly and Arthur Morowitz,
for the East; Dan Cady, Robert Cresse
and Sol Cohen, for the West; and Sam Chernoff,
Arthur Barnelt and Peter Kaufman,
Central. Alternates on the board are: East
Ed Saretsky, Don King and Jimmy James;
West—Armand Atamian, Vince Miranda
and Paul Mart. Central—Reat Younger,
Harry Wald and Floyd Blass.
Cinecom Goes International
NEW YORK—Barry B. Yellen, president
of Cinecom Corp., has announced the formation
of a newly created subsidiary, Cinecom
International S.A., a Panamanian company.
This subsidiary of the diversified company
was formulated to undertake the worldwide
distribution of films released by other divisions
of the parent company. Childhood
Productions, Chevron Pictures and Cinecom
Pictures, as well as the product of other
distributors and producers.
HOUSTON—The Adult Film Ass'n of
America convened at the Sheraton-Lincoln
Hotel here Sunday through Tuesday (11-13)
in its first annual meeting and devoted primary
attention to upgrading and improving
the image of the adult film industry and
to the problems besetting it through legal
maneuvers and by newspaper refusal of X-
rated film advertising. The AFAA was organized
a year ago in a meeting at Kansas
City.
Would Eistablish
Guidelines
Self-regulation and creation of an adultfilm
production code drew an official nod
as delegates okayed a proposal to set up a
committee to establish guidelines for producers,
distributors and exhibitors, leading
to a system in which a seal would be affixed
to those pictures produced within the guidelines.
It also would provide for legal defense
by AFAA of exhibitors conforming to the
code but harassed by local authorities.
Bob Cresse, producer and theatre owner,
in an unscheduled talk, struck the keynote,
saying, "We should be greedy, greedy for
change, greedy for self-improvement, greedy
for betterment of our theatre and industry.
We need to set up guidelines in which our
producers would work to the betterment of
their product, the acceptance by this trade."
This was followed by a discussion of the
G, M, R and X ratings, which were described
as "highly unsatisfactory" and "detrimental"
to the adult film trade.
A committee was appointed to check into
newspaper refusal of advertising and to determine
steps which might be taken, individually
or as a group, to overcome the
problem.
Legal Defense Kit Prepared
Sam Chernoff, outgoing president,
opened the meeting, announcing that a legal
kit had been prepared by attorney Stanley
Fleishman designed to aid local attorneys
in theatre defense.
Fleishman, joined by attorneys Tom Gudgel
and Frierson M. Graves jr., discussed
the devices used by prosecuting attorneys
or civic organizations in "baiting" and "persecuting"
theatre managers, and they suggested
some defenses.
Fleishman said,
"There are cases now before
the Supreme Court that can make or
break our industry." He cited the question
of how far a state can go to suppress what
it terms obscenity and whether federal
courts can continue to provide relief from
local and state prosecution. He said consideration
should be given to AFAA participation
in the problems before the Supreme
Court and he urged drafting of a law the
AFAA thinks is fair for submission to legislative
bodies, as well as establishment of a
"witness bank" that would be readily available
to testify on short notice that "sex is not
dirty."
The Tuesday sessions were devoted to
presentation of film trailers and brief talks
by members of the association.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

It works like thls:
1) In 1970 every trailer delivered to your theatre
will contain a Trailer Cash-In entry coupon in the
shipping container.
2) Fill out the entry coupon and return it with the
trailer.
3) Entry coupons will be kept at your local NSS
branch. Every 3 months a drawing will take place
from among coupons received at each branch.
4) $50 in cash will be awarded to the winners of
quarterly drawings.
5) If trailer is received by NSS within 72 hours
after you've finished running the trailer. . .your
coupon will be considered a "bonus coupon."
This doubles the prize to $100.
6) At the end of the year a nationwide grand prize
drawing will be held.
1sl Grand Prize: Your own travel trailer (sleeps 4)
or $1,000 in cash
2nd Grand Prize: $500 in cash
3rd Grand Prize: $250 in cash
Complete details and official Trailer Cash-In contest rules
are available from your local NSS branch. Or write: National
Screen Service Corp., 1600 Broadway, New York. N.Y.
The Grand Prize: A trailer (with wheels, not
sprocket holes) that's big e nough to sleep 4!
DON'TBEATRAILiR-FAILER
NgS NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE CORPORATION
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

AlP Schedules Record 21 Releases
From January Through September
NEW YORK.—American International
Pictures has announced its biggest product
lineup in the company's history in the face
of what AlP heads Samuel Z. Arkoff and
James H. Nicholson termed "a critical period
for the motion picture industry when
film studio retrenchment and budgetary realignment
is in full force and a severe product
shortage appears imminent.
"Our company will distribute 21 feature
films to the nation's theatres during the first
nine months of 1970," said the AIP heads.
Principal photography already has been
completed on 17 of these films on the new
program and four features are currently in
pre-production, Nicholson and Arkoff reported.
No Policy Changes Planned
"We are aware," said the AIP heads,
"that due to exhorbitant overhead and excessive
negative cost investment, some film
companies have taken steps to divest themselves
of studio properties, curtail production
of motion pictures, trim personnel and
revise their policies and procedures. American
International has no intention of changing
its policy nor does it contemplate any
retrenchment moves," they declared.
Arkoff and Nicholson observed that other
companies may now he taking a more realistic
view of the entire economic structure
of the motion picture industry to insure a
more stable future with no product shortages.
In AIP's releasing program through September
1970, the company will distribute
from one to four features a month.
Launching the new year releases in January
will be "The Dunwich Horror" and
"The Savage Wild."
Beginning in February, AIP will launch
a series of attractions through September
which include "Scream and Scream Again,"
"Bora Bora," "Explosion," "Bloody Mama,"
"Horror House," "The Crimson Cult." "Cycle
Savages," "Witchcraft '70," "Tough
Time for Bachelors." "Wedding Night,"
"Gas! Or It Became Necessary to Destroy
the World in Order to Save It," Edgar Allan
Poe's "Cry of the Banshee," "The Wife
Swappers," "Three in the Cellar," "Hell's
Angels Unchained," "Vampire Lovers,"
"Beach Bum," "A Bullet for Pretty Boy"
and "Mafia."
'Bloody Mama' Bookings Start
Although AIP's big special, "Bloody
Mama," will not be released until late
March and April, the company heads noted
that this picture already has had an unprecedented
number of advance bookings.
"Bloody Mama" stars Shelley Winters as
the notorious Ma Barker, who, with her
four desperado sons, comprised a one-family
crime wave in the South and Midwest
during the rambunctious '30s.
For early production AIP has scheduled
"Three in the Cellar," to be personally produced
by Nicholson and Arkoff which rolls
in February or March and "Beach Bum,"
also to be produced by the AIP heads on location
in Hawaii,
Projected feature films in the company's
production program include Emily Bronte's
memorable classic, "Wuthering Heights,"
to be directed by Robert Fuest, for which
Pat Tilley is now writing the screenplay,
"The Venus Machine," a comedy based on
the sensational Robert Kyle novel; "The
Adulteress," from the novel by William
Maidment, scheduled for summer production
with Gilliam Freeman presently writing
the screenplay; "Public Parts and Private
Places." based on the Robin Cook novel
and slated for spring or summer filming: a
modernized version of the time-honored
classic, "Dante's Inferno" and Phillip Roth's
award-winning novel, "Letting Go," which
concluded a portion of the imposing array
of American International films being readied
for production. Additional properties are
now under consideration.
Arkoff and Nicholson stated that, although
the American International program
was largely diversified in theme and subject
matter, the product lineup did firmly
thea-
indicate that the company favored the
tre ticket buying percentages which show
65 per cent or 70 per cent of the moviegoing
audiences are under 25 years of age, a
figure which the AIP heads contend has
been the basis of AIP's policy since the inception
of the company 16 years ago.
Matofsky Named President
Of New RHM Subsidiary
NEW YORK—Harvey Matofsky has
been appointed president and executive producer
of RHM Productions,
a new subsidiary
of RHM Associates
of Delaware, according
to RHM president
Sidney Fried.
Fried said the subsidiary
will produce
motion picture features,
television films
and specials. Initial
projects include two
Harvey Matofsky
^ j , ^, features, "The
Martlet's Tale" and "A Loving Girl" plus
an hour-long TV special.
Matofsky recently resigned as executive
vice-president of Marston Productions.
'Dolly' Soundtrack Hits
No. 29 on Record Charts
NEW YORK—The soundtrack album of
20th Century-Fox's "Hello, Dolly!" has hit
the Number 29 spot of best selling record
albums in the country, according to Cash
Box magazine. The album is rated No. 30 in
the Record World survey.
In addition. Billboard magazine, which
has a different system of listing l.p.'s, placed
the soundtrack at Number 52, a jump of
five over the last week.
Valenti
Asks Support
To Shun 'Smut' Films
CLEVELAND—Expressing concern over
the growing popularity of films bordering
on the pornographic. Jack Valenti, president
of the Motion Picture Ass'n of America,
issued a call here Wednesday (14) for theatre
owners and communities throughout the
country to shun such productions. Valenti
spoke before the International Printing
Week luncheon sponsored by the Cleveland
Graphic Arts Council and the Printing Industries
Ass'n of Northern Ohio.
Pointing out that governments should
never intrude into the area of public choice,
Valenti emphasized that the nation's theatre
owners "must understand that the
future
of their business rests with quality, not
with trash." He reported that one theatre
chain had booked a "smut" picture and that
he had told the circuit head, "if other large,
responsible theatre operators decide to play
this kind of film, then we are going to be
witness to the death of quality exhibition
in this country.
"Too many theatre playdates are going
to the frankly salacious film," Valenti said.
"This creates the danger that Gresham's
Law will operate in the motion picture industry
as certainly as it does in monetary
affairs. This is, the bad will surely drive
out the good."
Many responsible filmmakers, he said,
cannot get theatre playing time for their
films, ones which can be viewed by entire
families. This is "an unhappy augury" for
those producers and distributors willing to
invest large sums in craftsmanship and skill.
"The theatre owner," Valenti said, "who
lives in the community must be the one to
say, 'No,' to the prurient and clearly fastbuck
producers who are out to make as
much money as they can with no concern
for the public interest or the future of motion
pictures."
Turning to the role of the community,
Valenti said it must have greater pride in
its own tastes, and added: "If the community
truly wants something better, then the
community must demand films of merit
and wider appeal." While the community
patronizes films appealing to the lowest instincts,
he said, "it blots out the opportunity
to exhibit films which craftsmen and skilled
artisans have labored to bring forth.
"Our motion picture industry," Valenti
said, "remains a great cultural and artistic
enterprise. It is the greatest ambassador the
U.S. has ever sent abroad. We will not allow
it to be tarnished by those who go beyond
the line where creative pioneering ends and
outrage begins. We will continue to fight
government censorship of movies, compulsory
rating systems, discriminatory theatre
license practices, all of which attempt to
inflict government control on what is shown
on the screen.
"But." Valenti concluded, "I am determined,
whatever the cost, to fight in our
own ranks for self-regulation and self-restraint.
I shall condemn obvious and gratuitous
trash no matter where it comes from,
nor who cashes in on it."
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BOXOFTICE :: January 19, 1970

$50,000 Showmanship
Awards by Hallmark
HOLLYWOOD—Convinced the incentive
plan for theatre managers is the best
and fastest way to get Hallmark attractions
properly exploited and enjoying top grosses,
showman Kroger Babb this week announced
that Hallmark has set aside approximately
$50,000 for 1970 awards. Babb will expand
all phases of his showmanship contest in
hopes of improving boxoffice grosses in all
parts of the nation.
In 1970, competing managers showing
Hallmark attractions will be divided into
five groups instead of three. "We want to
give the small city managers greater opportunity,"
Babb explained. Hallmark's judges
will select the two top campaigns in each
group and all 10 theatre managers and
their wives will be awarded all-expense vacation
trips to Hollywood and Las Vegas. The
trip winners will be announced on Thanksgiving
Day and will depart on their trip a
week later, December 3.
After arriving in Hollywood they will be
enrolled in Hallmark's new non-profit subsidiary,
University of Showmanship of
America (USA). Morning meetings will be
held for the theatremen who will hear the
nation's top men in advertising and exploitation
fields. Afternoons and evenings will involve
tours and social events.
All ten theatremen will receive plaques.
While in Hollywood, the two managers in
each group will compete to determine the
group champion. The group champs will
each receive a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond.
Babb then plans a knock-down, free-for-all
showmanship battle between the five group
champs to determine Hallmark's national
showman of the year. The winner will receive
an additional $5,000 U.S. Savings
Bond and one year's possession of Hallmark's
beautiful Showmanship Gold Cup.
This huge trophy, standing 32-inches tall,
made of solid bronze gold-plated, was imported
from Europe where it identified royalty
for hundreds of years. Hallmark has insured
the cup for $2,500. Each year's winner
will be given possession for 12 months
and his name, theatre and city inscribed on
same. Hallmark plans the cup as a perpetual
showmanship trophy moving about the nation
year after year with its hsting of best
showmen among theatre managers annually
increasing.
Babb broke down the 1970 groups as
follows: Group 1—managers in towns under
10,000 population; Group 2—managers in
cities 10,000 to 25,000 population; Group
3—managers in cities 25,000 to 100,000
population; Group 4—managers in cities
100,000 to 250,000 population; Group 5—
managers in cities over 250,000.
Hallmark is printing a set of contest rules
which will be mailed to each theatre manager
when a Hallmark picture is booked
into his theatre this year. "The rules are few
and simple." Babb said, "and are intended
to reward the managers who do the most
thorough, productive campaigns resulting in
the best boxoffice grosses."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," in CinemaScope
and color, is the current attraction Hallmark
is pushing. In late spring, the company will
release Jac Zacha's "Walk the Walk." Hallmark
has two other exploitation specials
completed and two pictures on the production
hoard, one a sequel to Babb's famous
"Mom and Dad." The company is searching
both U.S. and foreign markets for other
worthwhile, highly exploitable lilms.
Cinerama Seminars Geared
To Exhibitor Ad Campaigns
NEW YORK—Cinerama Releasing Corp.
is hosting a series of seminars aimed at giving
150 top exhibitors the opportunity to
plan advertising campaigns on films being
released from now until summer.
The first of three sessions was held Tuesday
(13) in New York, with other seminars
scheduled for Chicago, Tuesday (20) and
Los Angeles, Tuesday (27).
In each case, the exhibitors arrive the
night before and together with local exhibitors
attend a showing of "They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?"
Harry S. Buxbaum, Cinerama's vicepresident
and general sales manager and
Arthur Manson, vice-president of advertising
and publicity, will welcome the exhibitors,
executives and their advertising-publicity
chiefs.
The seminar also will cover the campaigns
for "Jenny," "Take the Money and
Run," "The Last Grenade," "The Honeymoon
Killers," "The Long Ride from Hell,"
"To Commit a Murder," "Mumsy, Nanny,
Sonny, and Girl," and a look ahead to "Too
Late the Hero," "Suppose They Gave a
War and Nobody Came," "Tomorrow" and
"How Do I Love Thee."
As Regional Exploiteer
NEW YORK—Rick Rubin has been appointed
regional field advertising and publicity
manager in Denver for Paramount Pictures,
it is announced by Mort Hock, vicepresident
in charge of advertising and public
relations.
Rubin, who assumed his new post on
Monday (12) is under the supervision of
Robert Rehme, Paramount's field advertising
and publicity manager. In addition to
Denver, Rubin will supervise Paramount
advertising and publicity activities in the
branch cities of Kansas City, Salt Lake City
Rick Rubin to Paramount
and Des Moines.
Rubin, 28 years old,
publicity director,
BOXOFFICE BAROMETER
This departmental feature appears in
comes to Paramount
from MGM, where he has been Midwest
with headquarters in Chicago,
since August 1968. He previously
served with United Artists in New York as
coordinator for Premiere Showcase engagements.
Rubin succeeds Robert Miller, who is rejoining
Mann Theatres in
Minneapolis.
MOTION PICTURES RATED
BY THE CODE & RATING
ADMINISTRATION
The following feature-length motion pictures
have been reviewed and rated by the
Code and Rating Administration pursuant
to the Motion Picture Code and Rating
Program.
Title Distributor Rating
Blow Hot, Blow Cold (WB)
Come In, Children (Excelsior)
Crescendo (WB)
Halls of Anger (UA)
The Hard Road (Excelsior)
Invasion of the Body Stealers (AA)
M*A*S*H (20th-Fox)
MGM Plans Production
On Yippie Movement
NEW YORK—Ahbie Hoffman's "Revolution
for the Hell of It," the story of the
Yippie movement—whose members were
involved in the 1968 Democratic Convention
riots in Chicago—will be brought to the
m m
m
screen by producer Hillard Elkins and director
Jacques Levy.
The announcement was made, Monday
(12). by Herbert F. Solow, MGM vice-president
in charge of production, who said production
will begin in March on locations
in New York and Washington, D.C.
The screenplay will be written by Hoffman
and Levy. "Revolution" will be the
first film directed by Levy, whose stage attractions
include "Oh! Calcutta!" and
"American Hurrah." Hillard Elkins' first
film venture is the current attraction.
"Alice's Restaurant."
Russ Meyer Spotlighted
In Newsweek Magazine
NEW YORK—The entire motion picture
section of the current issue of Newsweek
magazine is devoted to Russ Meyer,
currently producing and directing 20th Century-Fox's
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
The article, entitled "Mister X," describes
the ten-year career of Meyer who is, according
to the publication, "turning out the most
sumptuous, trend-setting and technically expert
skinflicks in America."
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," which
marks his first motion picture for a major
studio, will be released this summer. Meyer
wrote the original screenplay with Roger
Ebert.
Hoffberg Closes Down After
46 Years in Film Industry
NEW YORK—Hoffberg Productions, engaged
in importation of films for the past
46 years, has announced the closing of its
office here due to the death of Jack H.
Hoffberg, president.
The announcement was made by Ida E.
Hoffberg, vice-president. No further details
of the closing were released. Jack Hoffberg,
73, died September 23. He began his career
in the film industry in 1912.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

MGM Announces 11 New Division Advertising Managers
MGM's 11 new division advertising managers, left to right,
front row: Karl Fasick, John L. John, Mike Gerety, national
advertising coordinator David McGrath, Hilda Cunningham, director
of advertising, publicity and promotion Mort Segal, Gary
Johnson and Don Davidson. Back row: Walter von Hauffe, Larry
Dieckhaus, Dave Forbes, Jerry Martin and Judson Moses.
NEW YORK — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
has completed the reorganization of its distribution
system with the restructuring of its
field advertising-promotion department to
conform to the sales system. The new division
advertising managers, ten domestic and
one in Canada, attending the home office
meeting at which the program was formally
implemented, were addressed by James T.
Aubrey jr., president and chief executive
officer of MGM; Douglas Netter. vice-president—
sales, and Mort Segal, director of
advertising, publicity and promotion.
Bill Madden, general sales manager, recently
set in motion the new distribution setup,
providing sales autonomy in the field
through direct control and contact with regional
exhibitors.
Under the new system, division advertising
managers will work hand-in-hand with
division sales managers in formulating advertising
campaigns within their respective
areas on a city-to-city basis. While general
advertising policies and budgets will be determined
at the home office, all decisions
will be made independently at the division
level. David McGrath, national advertising
coordinator, will supervise and administer
the new program.
The division advertising managers and
their headquarters are; Don Davidson, Philadelphia,
servicing Pittsburgh and Washington,
D.C.; Karl Fasick, Boston, servicing
Albany, Buffalo and New Haven; Judson
Moses, Los Angeles, servicing Denver and
Salt Lake City; Larry Dieckhaus, Chicago,
servicing Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Minneapolis;
Jerry Martin, Atlanta, servicing
Charlotte, Jacksonville and Memphis; Mike
Gerety, Dallas, servicing New Orleans and
Oklahoma City; John L. John. New York,
servicing New York-New Jersey metropolitan
area; Walter von Hauffe, San Francisco,
servicing Seattle and Portland; David
Forbes, Detroit, servicing Cleveland and
Cincinnati; Gary Johnson, St. Louis, servicing
Kansas City and Des Moines, and Hilda
Cunningham, Toronto, all of Canada.
Jeffries Heads Brochure
For Show-A-Roma 13
KANSAS CITY—William H. Jeffries has
been named as one of several committee
chairmen serving on
the 1970 She w-A-
Rama 13 convention.
Jeffries is heading a
four-member committee
responsible for
preparation of an 80-
^A ~ page brochure pre-
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The 1970 International
Show-A-Rama
William Jeffries
13 convention ranks
as the world's second largest convention and
tradeshow for the film industry and is sponsored
by the United Motion Picture Ass'n.
As 1970 brochure chairman. Jeffries will
coordinate arrangements on the brochure
featuring an extensive merchandising section
devoted to key ideas utilized by theatre
managers across the country in promoting
films. The brochure will include a yearround
calendar of events and a promotion
checklist for theatre managers.
Other members of the brochure committee
are J. O. Martin, Fox Midwest; Dave
Rogers, Century Advertising Agency, and
Bev Miller, Mercury Film Co.
Jeffries also served as 1969 brochure
chairman. He is a past president of the Motion
Picture Ass'n of Greater Kansas City
and served as a member of the board of directors
from 1958 through 1962. Office
manager of the local branch of Columbia
Pictures, Jeffries is also account manager
controlling ten other branches.
The 1970 theme . . . "Swing Into Orbit
With Out-of-This-World Ideas at Show-A-
Rama 13," has been selected as the focus
point of the annual movie industry extravaganza,
scheduled March 2-5 at the Muehlebach
Convention Center. A simultaneous
tradeshow will attract more than 100 booth
exhibitors to the Muehlebach's Exhibition
Hall.
General committee members are Paul
Kelly, Joe Ruddick, Jack Winningham and
Dick Durwood. Heading committees are
Don Carver, decorations and set-up; Darrell
Shelton. registration and tickets; Bill Allison,
loot kit; C. C. Murray, display sales;
Don Ireland, reception-hospitality; Jerry
Ireland, booth sales; George Kieffer, publicity,
advertising and Miss Show-A-Rama
starlet; Sylvia Stone, ladies entertainment;
Bob Goodfriend, sponsors-stars; Elmer Bills
jr., business building; Fred Souttar, staging
co-chairman and Ab Sher, budget and finance.
Mrs. Martin Quigley Dies;
Publisher
Widow of
NEW YORK—Funeral services were held
Tuesday (13) at the Church of St. Thomas
Moore here for Mrs. Martin Quigley, 81.
widow of the late Martin Quigley. Mrs.
Quigley was a director of Quigley Publishing
Co. from its inception until 1967 and
has since then been honorary chairman. The
company publishes Motion Picture Daily
and the Motion Picture Herald.
She is survived by Rev. John S. Quigley,
S.J.; Martin Quigley jr., editor-in-chief and
publisher of the two tradepapers; Mrs.
Edouard Eller and Mrs. John Burlinson jr.,
and by 14 grandchildren.
Alex Lovy Named Producer
HOLLYWOOD — Alex Lovy, associate
producer at Hanna-Barbera Productions,
has been promoted to the newly created post
of producer of animated entertainment product.
The announcement was made by Bill
Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
MGM Film Retitled
HOLLYWOOD — MGM's "False
Witness,"
starring Academy Award winner
George Kennedy. Anne Jackson and Eli
Wallach, has been retitled "Zigzag." Release
is scheduled early this year.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

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'Doctors' Wives' to Start Filming
Next Month for Frankovich
Producer M. J. Frankovich has announced
an all-star cast for his first 1970
production. "Doctors' Wives." set to go before
the color cameras at Columbia in mid-
February. Richard Crenna and Gene Hackman,
stars of the Frankovich-Sturges production.
"Marooned." will star in the new
picture with Dyan Cannon. Janice Rule.
Rachel Roberts. Diana Sands, Cara Williams.
Ralph Bellamy. John Colicos and
newcomers Kristina Holland and Anthony
Costello. George Schaefer will direct from
the Dan Taradash screenplay of the bestselling
novel by Frank G. Slaughter. Frankovich
also has four other productions on his
1970 slate: "The Love Machine," "Alex in
Wonderland," "There's a Girl in My Soup"
and "Dylan," the latter the hit Broadway
play based on the life of Welsh poet Dylan
Thomas . . . Joe Wizan, Steve Spielberg and
Claudia Salter have joined forces to produce
a film titled "Ace Eli and Rodger of the
Skies." Wizan will produce, Spielberg direct
from a screenplay by Miss Salter, her first
.... "Zeppelin," original story by Owen
Crump with a screenplay by Arthur Rowe.
will be shot in the British Isles, Holland and
Germany by GMF (Getty, McDonald,
Fromkess) Picture Corp. The World War I
era adventure will be co-produced by
Crump, with J. Ronald Getty as executive
producer. "Zeppelin" is the first of a threepicture
releasing deal between GMF and
Warner Bros. The other two are being readied
for production in Hollywood. Crump,
Herbert G. Left, executive assistant for
GMF, and production designer Fernando
Carrere flew to London to arrange for an
immediate production start.
AIP and Hammer to Produce
'Vampire Lover' in England
A co-production agreement has been
reached between American International
and Sir James Carreras of Hammer Films,
London, for the filming of "The Vampire
Lover," it was announced by AIP heads
Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson.
The film will be produced in London by
Carreras, with Roy Ward Baker directing.
Set for a February start, the picture stars
Peter Cushing, Dawn Addams. Kate
O'Mara, Madeleine Smith and continental
For his second
sex image Ingrid Pitt . . .
theatrical motion picture effort. James Goldstone
will direct "Kane." starring Sidney
Poitier, for Columbia release. The film will
be produced by Joel Glickman for Poitier's
E&R Production Corp. and is set for a camera
start in mid-March. It is being written
for the screen by Ernest Kinoy and will be
shot in a California community representative
of a small Southern town . . . Argo
Internacional S.A. Films of Panama and
Copercines Films of Madrid will co-produce
"Checkpoint," film dealing with Vietnam,
By
SYD CASSYD
with Jack O. Lamont as producer. The picture
starts February 1 and will be filmed
entirely in Spain, based on an original story
by Lawrence Huntington, with screenplay
by Joy Garrison.
Fonda and Hopper Re-Teamed
In Universal's 'Last Movie'
Peter Fonda is being re-teamed with his
"Easy Rider" co-star Dennis Hopper in
Universal's "The Last Movie." which Hopper
directs and Paul Lewis produces, starting
at the end of January in Peru. John Phillip
Law was set for a co-starring role and
Julie Adams and Dean Stockwell also drew
top roles. Lewis named David Hopper as associate
producer on the film, based on an
original story by Dennis Hopper and screenplay
by Stuart Stern ... Sir Alec Guinness
co-stars with Albert Finney in "Scrooge,"
musical film version of Charles Dickens'
"A Christmas Carol," a Waterbury Films
production for Cinema Center Films. Finney
portrays Scrooge and Guinness will appear
as the ghost of Jacob Marley. Produced
by Robert H. Solo and directed by Ronald
Neame, with Leslie Bricusse, who screenplayed
and composed the music and lyrics
. . .
for the 12 songs featured, production is currently
before the cameras in England
George Peppard, in his sixth film for Universal,
stars in the new western drama,
"Hark," which goes before the cameras early
in March with Robert Arthur producing.
"Hark" is based on an original screenplay
by William Roberts and is set in California
gold country during the 1800s . Mc-
Intire, son of actor John Mclnlire and actress
Jeanette Nolan, was signed by producer
Michael S. Laughlin for a featured role in
Cinema Center Film's "The Christian Licorice
Store," starring Beau Bridges, Maud
Adams and Gilbert Roland. James Frawley
directs from Floyd Mutrux's original screenplay.
CUE Signs Patricia Neal
To Star in
'The Visitor'
Patricia Neal will star in Commonwealth
United's "The Visitor," a gothic love story
being completed by her husband, Roald
Dahl. The story is an adaptation of the
novel, "Nest in a Falling Tree," by Joe Cowley.
Allen Holshire will produce with location
shooting in Italy . . . Angela Lansbury's
co-star in Walt Disney Productions* musical
comedy, "Badknobs and Broomsticks,"
set for an early 1970 start, will be David
Tomlinson. Robert Stevenson directs and
Bill Walsh produces. Co-authored by Walsh
and Don DaGradi. the feature combines live
action and animation . . . Scott Glenn, New
York television and stage actor, makes his
film debut co-starring in "The Baby Maker,"
Robert Wise production for National General,
it was announced by Dan A. Poller,
NGP vice-president in charge of production.
Glenn will portray the boyfriend of
Barbara Hershey, who stars in the title role.
Wilcox-Horne and Sam Groom also
. . .
Collin
star in the film, which starts production immediately.
Richard Goldstone produces and
James Bridges directs from his own original
story and screenplay Nino Manfredi
co-stars with Vittorio Gassman and Alberto
Sordi in Columbia's comedy. "Contestazione
Generale," three-episode color satire directed
by Luigi Zampa and produced by
Turi Vasile of Ultra Film. Manfredi plays
a successful Italian businessman who succeeds
in out-hippying his son at college . . .
Mark Frachette, who makes his film debut
in "Zabriskie Point" for MGM, was signed
to co-star in the World War I drama, "Uomini
Contro." now being filmed in Yugoslavia.
The film is being directed by Franco
Rossi and produced by Lucino Prugia for
Primo Cinema de Grafica.
Columbia Acquires Film Rights
To 'Summertree' Stage Sho'w
Columbia, now associated with producers
Sanford Ferber and Eddie White in the off-
Broadway production of "Summertree," has
acquired the film rights to the play for production
by Kirk Douglas' Bryna Productions,
according to Stanley Schneider, Columbia
president. The play, a first by 23-
year-old Ron Cowen. was produced last year
by the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center.
Filming is expected to get under way
this year. The play now is running at the
Players Theatre in New York, where it
opened December 9 . . . James Lee Barrett
has completed the screenplay of the Pulitzer
Prize winning post-Revolutionary War trilogy,
"The Awakening Land," which will be
produced by George W. George . . Producer-writer
.
Lou Shaw has added "Tilt,"
an original comedy screenplay of his own,
to his newly formed independent film production
company. Lou Shaw Productions
. . . Robert
Conrad optioned the film rights
to Ford Price's original story. "The Con
Game" for Conrad Productions. The story
concerns an old con artist and his teenage
grandson who works the "shell game" at
fairs at the turn of the century . . . Philip
Yordan has acquired the rights to "Goodbye,
California," original screenplay by Bernard
Gordon, and has signed Irving Lerner
to direct the feature, a "realistic fantasy"
dealing with events when California starts
to slide into the sea.
George Kennedy Will Co-Star
In 'Ballad of Dingus Magee'
George Kennedy will co-star in MGM's
"The Ballad of Dingus Magee," joining
Frank Sinatra, who has the title role. The
film is set to roll in February in Arizona
with Burt Kennedy directing his own screenplay.
Based on the novel by David Markson,
the feature is a lusty comedy of the
Old West . . . Director-producer Robert
Wise named Arthur Hill to head the cast of
"The Andromeda Strain," scientific-thriller
which Wise's independent company will start
shooting this month for Universal. The film
will be shot on location in Schafter. Tex.,
for two weeks before returning to Universal
for 12 weeks of interiors. Based on Michael
Crichton's "Andromeda." the screenplay
was written by Nelson Gidding.
10 BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

$179,607,000 INVESTED IN 540 NEW THEATRES
Mini-Houses, Multiple-Auditorium Projects Draw Primary Interest
KANSAS CITY—Theatre construction
in the U.S. surged forward during 1969 as
theatremen allocated a total of $179,607,000
for the construction of 449 new indoor
theatres and 91 new drive-ins—a total of
540, compared to the 1968 total of 383,
costing $122,880,300 and consisting of 311
indoor houses and 72 drive-ins. Of the
totals for 1969, 164 of the four-wall houses
and 32 of the drive-ins were opened. The
remainder were either placed under construction
or announced during the year.
Additionally, exhibitors opened another
84 indoor theatres and seven drive-ins, rep)-
resenting a total investment of $29,651,500,
during 1969, although they had been started
in previous years and tabulated as construction
projects for those years. Thus,
while these 91
theatres are listed in the stateby-state
tabulations, they are not credited
to the construction totals for 1969.
The shopping center theatre, multiauditorium
complexes, mini-theatres and
twin drive-ins continued to dominate the
construction scene. Of the 449 new indoor
theatres, 225 were located in shopping
centers; 149 of the new theatres were multiauditorium
installations, broken down into
121 twin theatres, seven triplexes, 18 fourplexes
and three six-plexes. Each multiauditorium
house is considered one theatre,
although the 149 houses actually contain
NEW INDOOR THEATRES
ALABAMA
Birmingham—Festival Cinema, 200 seats, on site of
former ice cream plant, Mini-Cinemas of Alabama
and JACO Theatrical Enterprises.*
Dothon—450-heat theatre, in OGF Shopping Center,
Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Enterprise—Clarl< Cinema, 600 seats, in Westgote
Shopping Center, Marl< Clark.*
Enterprise—College Campus, 450 seats, ocross from
Junior College, Southern Cinema.*
Florence—New theatre, Martin Theatres.
Gadsden— 863-seat theatre, in Agricolo Shopping
Center, Georgia Theatre Co.
Jasper—Mini-Theatre, 202 seats, in Parl

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In 540 New Theatres
Rocky Hill— New theatre, m shopping center, Charles
Schneir Associates.
Stanford— 1,800-seat theatre in shopping center,
Brandt Theatres.
Woterbury—Mini-Cinema, 338 sects, on site of old
Lido Theatre, Charles E. and Frank L. Laflamme.*
West Hortford— 850-seat theatre, American Broadcasting
Theatres.
Wethersfield—Cinema I II, 1,000 seats, in shopping
center. Esquire Theatres of America.*
Winsted—New theatre, in shopping-residential complex.
Mutual Theatres.
DELAWARE
Wilmington—Concord Mall Cinema, 850 seats, Budco
Theatres.*
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington— Roth's Parkway 1, 2, 3, ad)acent to
Randolph Hills Shopping Center, Roth Theatres.*
Washington— 900-seat twin theatre, in Hampton Moll
Shopping Center, District Theatre Corp.
FLORIDA
Cape Coral—Cinema, 850 seats, Budco Theatres &
Gulf American Corp.
Cocoa—Six-plex, 1,130 seats, in Merritt Square Shopping
Center, Alpert Investment Corp.
Daytona Beoch—500-seat theatre, in Holy Hill Plaza,
Chris McGuire Theatres.
Daytona Beach— Halifox, in Halifax Shopping Center,
Kent Theatres,
Eustis—Plaza, in Eustis Plazo, Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Fort Lauderdale— Southport, Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Fort Lauderdale—Chris McGuire Village, in shopping
center, Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Fort Lauderdole—Commercial Boulevard, 500 seats,
Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Fort Pierce—Village, in Sears Town Shopping Center,
Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Gainesville—Twin theatre, in shopping center. Eastern
Federal Corp.
Hollywood—Cinema, 500 seats, in shopping center,
Chris McGuire Theatres.
Homestead— New Village, 500 seats, Dawson & Welnstock
Theatres of Miami.*
Jacksonville—St. Johns, 800 seats, Kent Theatres.*
Leesburg— 500-seat theatre, in Palm Plaza Shopping
Center, Chris McGuire Theatres.
Melbourne— 498-seat theatre, in NASA Shopping
Center.
Miami—Twin Gables Theatres, J ,350 seats, Florido
State Theatres.
Miami—Loew's 1 67th Street Twins, 750 and 400
seats, Loew's Theatres.*
Miami—Patio, 850 seats, twin addition to 186th
Street Theatre, in 186th Street Shopping Center,
Wometco Theatres,
New Port Richey—Southgote, 437 seats, in Southgate
Shopping Center, Floyd Theatres.*
Orlando—Theatre in the Lounge, 150 seats.*
Orlando—Semoran Village, 400 seats, in
Village, Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Ormond Beach— Harvard Square Twin, in
Square Shopping Center, Kent Theatres
McGuire Theatres.
Semoran
Harvard
& Chris
Panama City—Capri, 500 seats, in shopping center,
Martin Theatres.
Rockledge— 900-seat theatre, in Village Green Shopping
Center.
Sarasota—Studio 41 Cine, 250 seats, in Sears Shopping
Center, Gulf Coast Theatres.*
Sarasoto—Teatro, 310 seats.
South Daytono Beach—Big Tree, 650 seats, in South
Daytona Beach Shopping Center, Chris McGuire
Theatres*
St. Augustine— Plaza Cine Mini-Theatre, 150 seats,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison Bell.*
Tollohassee—New theatre, Kent Theatres.
Tollahassee—Second new theotre, Kent Theatres.
Tallahassee—Miracle, 950 seats, Meiselman Theatres.*
Tampo— Bubble, 300 seats, in Grandway Shopping
Center, International Tourist Attractions.*
Tarpon Springs—Tarpon Mall Theatre, 550 seats, in
Tarpon Mall Shopping Center, Floyd Theatres.*
GEORGIA
Albany—Twin 1 & II, 856 and 609 sects, Martin
Theatres.*
Athens—Classic, 1,200 seats, Georgia Theatre Co.*
Atlanta—Ben Hill I & II, 600 and 378 sects, in Ben
Hill Shopping Center, Eastern Federal Corp.*
Atlanta—Cobb Cinema, 350 seats, adjacent to Miracle
Theatre, in shopping center. Eastern Federal Corp.*
Atlanta—Lenox Square II, 370 sects, twin to existing
Lenox Square Theatre, Georgia Theatre Co.*
Atlanta—Metro Cinema, 350 sects, 10th Street Art
Theatre Corp.*
Atlonta— Phipps Plozc, 850 sects, in Phipps Plaza
Shopping Center, Wilby-Kincey.*
Dalton—Capri, 550 seats, in Dalton Shopping Center,
Martin Theatres.
Dublin—Village, 500 seats, Chris McGuire Theatres.*
Macon—Cinema I II, 750 and 400 sects, in shopping
center, Weis Theatres.
Marietto—Town and Country, 458 sects, in Town
end Country Shopping Center, Eastern Federal
Corp.*
Savannah—Oglethorpe, 900 sects, in Oglethorpe
Shopping Center, Georgia Theatre Co.*
Tifton—Towne, 500 seats, in Town & Country Plczc,
Martin Theatres.*
Vidalia^-Brice Cinema, 600 seats, in Maxwell Plaza
Shopping Center, Pol Amusement Co.*
Warner-Robins— Plczc, 400 seats, Chris McGuire
Theatres.*
HAWAII
Oahu— 600-sect theatre, in Aikchi Shopping Center,
Consolidated Amusement Co.
Waikiki—Triplex, adjoining Waikiki Theatre, Consolidated
Amusement Co.
IDAHO
Boise-— Plaza Twin, 200 sects.*
Meridian— Fcir-Vu Cinema, 744 seats. Lewis L.
Pressler.*
Twin Falls— 556-seat theatre. Interstate Amusement,
Inc.
ILLINOIS
Aurora—West Plazc Cinema I II, 650 and 460
sects, in West Aurora Shopping Center, L&M Management
Co,
Bloomington—Campus Flix, In shopping center, Mid-
America Theatres.
Chicago— 450-seat theatre, conversion of Shcngri-
La Restaurant, Stanford Kohlberg.*
Chicago—Acrdvcrk Cinematheque 2, conversion into
two auditorium house, 200 sects end 90 sects.
Chicago—Golf Mill II, 1,000 seats, addition to existing
Golf Mill Theatre, in Golf Mill Shopping Center,
Bene Stein, general manager.*
Chicago— River Oaks D-150, 1,200 seats, in River
Oaks Shopping Center, ABC-Great States.*
Decatur— 1,100-seat twin theatre, in Noorthgcte Mc'l
Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.
Decatur— 800-sect theatre, adjacent to Decatur Drivein,
Kerosotes Theatres.
Evanston— 600-seat theatre, conversion of commercial
film studio, Lester Sterner.
Evanston—Evanston II, 600 sects, Evanston Theatre
& Associates.*
Granite City—Pontoon Cinema, 1,050 sects, at Pontoon
Beach Village, Arthur Enterprises.*
La Grange—
1
,000-seat theatre, in $3 million motelthectre
project, Gottlieb, Becle & Co., Chicago,
developers.
Moline—
1 ,000-seat theatre, in Grant Shopping Moll,
General Management Corp.
Niles—Twin addition to Lcwrencewood Theatre, Kohlberg
Enterprises.
Norridge—Norridge I & II, 1,300 and 1,000 sects,
M&R Amusement Co.
Palatine—New theatre, adjoining 53 Drive-ln, Kohlberg
Enterprises.
Peoria— Fox, 821 sects. Fox Eastern Theatres.*
Quincy—Town & Country Twin, 600 sects, in Legion
Town & Country Shopping Center, Dickinson Theatres.*
INDIANA
Anderson—New theatre, in Mounds Moll Shopping
Center, Cinecom Corp.
Bloomington—Cine 1 & II, 641 end 375 sects, in
College Mali Shopping Center, General Cinema
Corp.*
Bloomington—Village, 600 sects, Mid-Amerlcc
Theatres*
Columbus—Cinema I, II, 960 sects, in Columbus
Shopping Plczc, Cinecom Corp.*
Fort Wayne—Glenbrook, 1 ,800 sects, in Glenbrook
Shopping Center.
Fort Wayne— Holiday, 700 sects, adjacent to existing
theatre, in Northcrest Shopping Center, Mailers
Management Corp.
Huntington— 600-seat theatre, in Huntington Plczc
Shopping Center, Cinecom Corp.
Indianapolis—Cinema III & IV, 900 and 500 sects,
in Glendcle Shopping Center across the street
from Cinema I & II, General Cinema Corp.
Jeffersontown— Four-plex theatre, in Indiana Moll
Shopping Center, American Multi-Cinemcs, Inc.
Logansport— 900-seat theatre, ct Logcnsport Mall,
Cinecom Corp.
Michigan City—
1 ,200-sect theatre, adjacent to 212
Drive-In, Kohlberg Enterprises.
Mishawaka—Town & Country Theatre, 1,200 sects, in
Town & Country Shopping Center, ABC-Great States
Theatres.
Richmond—Twin theatre, 850 and 650 sects, Mid
States Theatres.
Torre Haute— 800-seat theatre, Cinecom Theatres.
Terre Haute—
1 ,000-seat second theatre, Cinecom
Corp.
Terre Haute—Cinema I II, 800 and 450 sects, General
Cinemc Corp.
Vincennes— 500-seat theatre, in Vincennes Plczc,
Cinecom Corp.
IOWA
Ames—Century Cinemas I & II, 850 seats, Dcvis-
Hecrtland Cinema,
Ames— 800-sect twin theatre, Central States Theatres.
Burlington—Cinema I II, adjacent to existing drivein.
Central States Theatre^;,
Cedar Falls—Cinema I II, 600 end 400 sects, in
College Square Shopping Center, Central States
Theatres & General Cinemc Corp,
Cedor Ropids—Century Cinemc I II, 1,000 seats,
adjacent to Twixt-Town Drive-In, Dcvis-Hecrtlcnd
Cinemas.*
Clinton—Twin theatres. Central States Theatres.
Des Moines— Ecstgote Cinema III, 168 seats, adjacent
to Eastgcte I & II, Richard L. Davis.*
Des Moines—Wckondc, 344 sects, in Wckondc Shopping
Center, Dcvis-Hecrtlcnd Cinemas.*
Dubuque—Cinema II, 600 sects, addition to Cinema
Theatre, Dubuque Theatre Corp.
Fort Dodge—Twin theatre, 830 sects, Cenfi'dl States
Theatres.
Le Mars—Rovcl, converted to twin theatre, Phil end
Jack March.
Moline^—New theatre, Tri-Stctes Theatres.
Sioux City—Cameo I II, conversion of former business
building downtown, Campus Theatre";Corp.*
Sioux City—New theatre, to replace downtowVi 'Capitol,
lost in urban renewal, Tri-Stctes Theatres,
KANSAS
Concordia—Sigma Jack Roney, *
I, 375 sects,
Kansas City—Cinema West I & II, 1,000 seats, Comseats.
Commonwealth
monweclth Theatres.*
Manhatton—Varsity, 350
Theatres.*
Overland Park—Glenwood 1 1, 601 sects, addition to
existing Glenwood Theatre, Dickinson Theatres.'
Topeka—Gage Four Theatres, 1 ,200 sects, four-plex,
American Multi-Cinemas, Inc.*
Wichita—Fox, 930 seats. In Gorvey Center, National
General Corp.*
Wichita— 800-seat theotre, in Moll Shopping Center,
National General Corp.
KENTUCKY
Ashland—Paramount, conversion to twin, 900 end
500 sects, Roy B. White.
Ashland—Mid-Town Twin, 800 sects, rn Mid-Town
Mall, Mid-State Theatres.
Central City— Theatre, 380 seats, 15 local businessmen,*
Louisville— Four-plex, in Race land Mall, American
Multi-Cinemcs, Inc.
Newport—Mini-twin theetres, 350 seats each, Automated
Theatres of America.
Paducah—Twin theatres, in new shopping center,
Columbia Amusement Co.
LOUISIANA
Eunice—Queen Cinemc, Liberty Amusement Co.*
Lofayette— 700-seat theatre, in Westwood Shopping
Center, Westwood Theatre Corp.
Morgan City— 550-seat theatre, Aubrey Lcsseigne.
MAINE
Augusta—Twin Cinema, 1 ,000 seats, in shopping
center. Esquire Theatres of America.*
Old Town—Twin theatres, Cinema Systems of
Americo.
Westbrook—Cinemc 4, 250 sects, fourth auditorium
at Cinemc City in Brcdless Shopping Center, Esquire
Theatres of America.*
MARYLAND
Aspen Hill—Cinema Del Mercodo, Frick Theatre
Management Corp.*
Baltimore— 200-seat mini-theotre, in Liberty Shopping
Center.
Boltimore— 800-seat theatre, in Hunt Valley district,
Durkee Circuit.
Bel Air-^Twin theatre, in new shopping center, Durkee
Circuit.
Frederick—New theatre, in shopping center. Interstate
Theatres.
Frederick-— Holiday, 600 sects, Frederick Theatres.*
Hagerstown— New theatre. In shopping center. Interstate
Theatres.
Hagerstown—Cinema I & II, 600 and 350 sects, J.
Kenneth Ridenour.
Laurel—625-seat theatre, in Town Center Shopping
Center, District Theatre Corp.
Lounge—The Flickery, twin addition to Park Plczc.*
Silver Springs—Roth's Silver Springs East, 400 seats,
Roth Theatres.*
MASSACHUSETTS
Athol—Cinemc I, 350 sects. Esquire Theatres of
America.*
Athol— 400-seat theatre, in Mohawk Shopping Plczc,
Esquire Theatres of America.*
Boston— Pi Alley, 800 seats, in Government Center,
Sack Theatres.*
Boston^Scck Twin Cinema 57, 1,000 and 800 sects,
in $1.5 million hotel complex on Carver Street, Sack
Theatres.
Boston—Abbey II, 800-seat addition to Abbey I, near
Boston University campus.
Boston—New theatre, in Employer Commercial Insurance
Building on site of old Beacon Theatre, Sack
Theatres.
Brockton—Cinema 3 & 4, Interstate Theatres end
General Cinema Corp.
Cambridge—Central Square Twin Cinemas I & II, 300
sects. Brattle Films.*
Combridge—Orson Welles Theatre, on site of old Esquire
Theatre, Cambridge 7 Associates.*
Chicopee—Ccbot Cinema, Kenneth D. Graham.*
Dennisport—New theatre. Interstate Theatres.
Fitchburg—Cinema I & II, in Mid-City Shopping Plczc,
Sack Theatres.*
Gardner—Cinemc I, II, in existing Orpheum Theatre
and In new adjacent building.
Hyonnis— New theatre, in Cape Cod Mcll, Interstate
Theatres.
Lawrence—Showcase 3 & 4, 1,512 seats, across the
street from Showcase 1 $ 2, Redstone Theatres.*
Leominster—Cinema I II, 1,800 sects, in Secrstown
Shopping Center, Esquire Theatres.*
Marshfield—Cinema Mcrshfield, 300 sects, in Mcrshfleld
Shopping Center, Cinemc Systems of America.*
Marshfield— 300-sect theatre, on Route 139, Patriot
Cinemas.
Maynard— Fine Arts II, 265 sects, in restaurant building
at right angle to existing Fine Arts.*
North Attleborough— Cinema I II, 600 sects, at
Triborough Plczc, Cinema Systems of America.*
Northampton— Electric Kaleidoscope, 104 sects. Dale
Adklns.*
Northampton—Cinema 3, 500-seat addition to Cinema
I II, in Campus Plaza Shopping Center.*
Rockland—Pembroke Cinema, in Pemfield Plczc.
Roxbury—Roxbury Cinema, Roxbury Cinemc, Inc.*
MICHIGAN
Albion— Plczc Theatre.*
Dearborn— Living Room, 119 sects, piggyback in
Dearborn Theatre, Wisper & Wetsman.*
Bloomficid— 900-sect theatre, Dick Sloan.
Detroit— Foirline, 850 sects, in Suburbia Northwest,
Eugene & Dick Slocn.*
Detroit— Eastland, 1,000 sects, in Eastland Shopping
Center, Eugene & Dick Sloan.*
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Detroit—^Southgate, 1,500 seats, adjacent to Fort
George Drive-in, Nicholas George Theatres.*
Flint— Eastland Malt, 800 seats, in Eastland Molt
Shopping Center, United Detroit Theatres.*
Grand Rapids—Northtown, 800 seats, Robert E.
Goodrich.*
Grosse Point—Twin auditorium, addition to existing
Woods Theatre, United Detroit Theatres.
Jackson— Plazo Cinema, 1,200 seots, in Pake Plaza
Shopping Center, W. S. Butterfield Theotres,*
Kalamazoo— 800-seat theotre, in Main Moll, Fabian
Management Co.
Lansing— Lansing Mall, 988 seats, in Lansing Mall
Shopping Center, United Detroit Theotres.*
Mount Pleasant— 400-seat twin theotre, neor Central
Michigan University, Jack Loeks,
Soginaw— 350-seot theotre, in Shields Plaza, Trans-
Lux Inflight.*
Saginaw—Cinema, 775 seats, in shopping center, General
Cinema Corp.
MINNESOTA
Bloomington— New theatre, in shopping center, Monn
Theotre Co.
Columbio Heights—Chief, 900 seats, Chet ond Gerry
Herringer.*
Duluth— 800-seot theotre complex, Prindle-Lochmund
Co , developer.*
Mankato—Twin theatre, 950 seats, in shopping center
on Monkoto State College campus, Comeiot Theatre
Corp. of New York.
Mankato—Modison I & II, 300 and 500 seats, in
Madison Shopping Center, Town Theatre Corp.*
Minneapolis—AAonn One, 1,300 seats, adjoining present
Mann Theatre, Ted Mann.
Rochester—Ookview, 800 seats, in shopping center,
ABC North Central.*
Rochester— 500-seat theatre, in former Montgomery
Word building downtown, Brendon Corp.
St. Cloud—Cinema Arts, 250 seats, Theotre Enterprise
Corp.
St. Poul^Twin theatre, 800 and 500 seots, in Mar
Mall Shopping Center, Ted Monn.
MISSISSIPPI
Natchez—Trocetown Cinema, 500 and 400 seats, in
Trace Town Shopping Center, Gulf States Theatres. "^
Tupelo—Twin Theotre, Molco Theatres.
MISSOURI
Bridgeton— Northwest Plazo Cinema, 1 ,700 seats, in
Northwest Plazo Shopping Center, Generol Clnemo
Corp,*
Cope Girordeau— 250 and 300-seat twin theatre, in
Towne Plaza Shopping Center, Mid-America Theatres.
Columbio— 250 and 270-seat twin, Mrd-Americo
Theatres.
Crcvc Coeur—Creve Coeur Cinema, 900 seots,
Wehrenberg Theotres.*
Florissant— Strollwoy Theatre, 700 seats, in Strollwoy
Shopping Center, American Multi-Cinemas, Inc.
Jefferson City— Four-plex theatre, 1,200 seats, American
Multi-Cinemas, Inc.
Joplin—Twin theotres, in North Mark Moll.
Richmond Heights^—Twin theatres, 975 and 775 seats,
Notional Generol Corp,
Sikeston—Twin Cinema, 420 seats, in Midtowner Viliaoe
Shopping Center, Maico Theatres.*
St. Chorles—Cinema IV Center, four-plex, 1,200 seats,
in Mark Twoin Shopping Center, Wehrenberg
Theatres.
Joseph— St. Hi Merest 4, four-plex in Hillcrest Plazo
Shopping Center, 1,074 seats, American Multi-
Cinemas, Inc.*
St. Louis—Cvpress Village, 922 seots, Nationol General
Corp.*
NEBRASKA
Grand Islond^— New theatre, in Grand Shopping
Center.
Omaha—Cinemo I & II, General Cinema Corp. & Central
States Theatres.*
Omaha^—Cinema 2, 450-seot addition to 82nd &
Center Cinema, Douglas Theotres.*
Omaha—Six West, six-plex, 1,800 seots. In Westroods
Shopping Center, American Multl-Cinemos, Inc.*
Wayne—New theatre. Jack McKlnnon.*
NEVADA
Los Vegas— Four Star, 450 seats, Fourth Street Theatre,
Inc.*
Los Vegas— Romon, 415 seats, in Coesar's Poloce,
Syufy Theatres.*
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Bedford^Bedford Mall Clnemo
center,
Manchester—Cine
818 and 553
&
seots.
II, 440
I &
General
seats,
II, In shopping
Cinema Corp.*
addition of second
I
auditorium to Queen Cinema, which was re-
named. State Theatres.*
Nashua— 350-seat twin theatre, Brandt Studio
Theatres.
Somersworth—Tri-City Cinemas, 1 ,000-seot twin in
shopping center, Stolmon Enterprises.*
West Lebanon—Valley Cinema 1, 2, In Upper Valley
Plazo, Cinema Systems of America.*
NEW JERSEY
Camden—New theatre, in Glen Oaks Moll, Sameric
Theotres.
Cherry HitI— Ellisburg Circle Cinema, 900 seats, in
Ellisburg Circle, Budco Theatres.*
East Brunswick—Jerry Lewis Cinema, 300 seats, Jerry
Lewis Cinemas.
Jersey City— 500-seat auditorium, addition to existing
Stanley Theatre, RKO-Stanley Warner Corp.
New Milford— Brookchester, 778 seots. In Brookchester
Shopping Center, J. J. Brunetti estote.
Paramus—Twin theotre, in Alexander's Shopping
Center.
Paramount— 419-seat auditorium, addition to existing
Route 4 theatre, RKO-Stanley Warner Corp.
Saddle Brook—
) ,200-seat twin theatre, In Pork 80
Plazo.
Trenton—Eric Ewtng, 1,400 seats, in Lawrence Shopping
Center, Someric Theatres.*
Union— Fox, 1,350 seots. Notional Generol Corp.*
Verona—Cineromo 23, 1,000 seats, in Pilgrim Shop
ping Center, F&A Theatres and Lomas Amusement
Co.*
Wayne— 1, 500-seat theatre in South Klein Shopping
Center, Spyros Lenas.
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque— Loew's, 950 soots. Mall Shopping
Center, Loew's Theotres.
Albuquerque—Mini-Vue Adult Cinema, 108 seats, Joy
Battcrshell and Mike Wersonick,*
Hobbs— Broadmoor Theatre, 400 seats, In Broadmoor
Shopping Center, Commonwealth-Frontier Theatres.
NEW YORK
Albany—Cinema Center, 835 seats, In Colonie Shopping
Center, Hallmon Enterprises.*
Bronx—Fordham, 350-seot addition to existing theatre,
RKO-Stanley Warner Corp.
Brooklyn— 250-seat theatre, Automoted Theatres of
America."
Buffalo—Backstage & Penthouse, twin odditions to
existing Center, Martina Theotres/
Buffalo— Fine Arts, 175 seots.*
Buffalo—Holldoy I II. 1,636 seots, Holidoy Theo
tres.*
Buffolo—Yonkee & Dixie twin, 1,600 seats, Aero
Drive-In, Inc.
Chester—Quickway Cinemo, 600 seots. In Chester
Mall Shopping Center, Cinecom Circuit.
Clarence—New theatre in Eastern Hills Shopping Center.
Glens Foils—Twin Cinema 1 & 2, 560 seats, in Air
port Shopping Center, John W. Gardner.*
Glens Foils—New theatre, in shopping center. Interstate
Theatres.
Greenburgh—Cinema 100, 800 seats, Meyer Ackerman.
Hudson— Studio, 350 seots, in Jomesway Shopping
Center, Brondt Studio Theatres.*
Lake Grove—Century's Mall, in Smith Haven Moll
Shopping Center, Century Theotres.*
Loke Placid—Harbor, at Holiday Horbor on Loke
Placid.*
Lathom—Two- oudi tori um addition at existing Cinemo
7, Panther Theatre Corp.
Latham— 800-seat theatre, across from New Saratoga
Drive-In, Hellman Enterprises.
Manhattan—Cine Lido, on West 48th Street, Nick
Justin.
Manhattan—Cine Mallbu, on East 59th Street, Nick
Justin.
Mottituck—Twin mini -theatres, 700 seats, at Matt I
tuck Shopping Center, Sidney Dreler.
Mcnonds— New theotre, Fox Eastern Theotres.
Ncwburgh—Cinema I & II, addition of twins to existing
Ritz Theatre, Morgon American Manogement.
New Platz—New Plotz Cinema, 58 1 seots, Cinecom
New Reode, 1,562 seots, part of One Astor
Corp.*
New York^—Twin theatre, on Third Avenue, Robert
Fermon.
York—
Plazo complex, Walter Reade Organization
New York— Ziegfeld, 1,200 seats, on West 54th and
Ave. of the Americas, Wolter Reade Organization.*
New York— RKO Twin Rockvllle Center, RKO-Stanley
Warner Corp.*
Niagara Falls—Cinema I I!, 600 and 400 seots, in
Grant City Plazo, Cataract Theatres.*
Oswego— New theatre, in urban renewal area, Slotnick
Enterprises.
Peekskill—Cinema I II, 600 seats, In Beach Shopping
Center, Lesser Enterprises.*
Plottsburgh— New theatre, In Northwoy Moll, Golub
Corp., deleveloper.
Plottsburgh— 350-seat theatre, Brondt Studio Theatres.
Rochester—Towne II, adjacent to existing Towne, in
Southtown Ploza, Jo-Mor Enterprises.*
Schenectady—
1 ,000-seat theotre. In Mohawk Mo'l.
Smithtown— Elwood Cinema, in Elwood Shopping Center,
Town & Country Corp.*
Syrocuse— 350-seat mini-theatre, adjacent to Cinema
East ond DeWitt Drive-In, Slotnick Enterprises.
NORTH CAROLINA
Burlington—New theotre in Spoon Plazo Shopping
Center, Trons-Lux Inflight Corp.
Chapel Hill— 500-seat theatre in downtown location,
Schneider & Merl Associates.
Durham—Art theotre, Schneider & Merl.
Goldsboro— Eastgote Cinemo, 475 seots, Stewart &
Everett Theotres.*
Greensboro—Jonus I II, 700 seots. In O'Henry
Shopping Center, Trons-Lux Inflight Corp.
Jacksonville—Cardinal, 700 seats, North Corolino
Theatres.
Salisbury—Terroce, Wllby-Kincey.*
Wilmington—
1
,000-seat twin theotre, Stewart 8. Everett
Theatres.
Winston-Salem— Ultra Vision 70 Theatre.*
OHIO
Bowling Green—Stadium Cinema I & II, 950 seots. In
Stadium Piozo Shopping Center, Armstrong Theatres.*
Cincinnati—Studio Cinemas Mini I & II, 300 seats, in
lobby of Executive Building, Mid-States Theatres.*
Cleveland—World-Eost, 450 seats, in Hillcrest Shopping
Center, Roppaport Theatres.*
Cleveland—World-West, 450 seats, in Komms Plaza
Shopping Center, Roppaport Theotres.
Columbus — Triple mini-cinemas, east of Eastland
Shopping Center, Academy Theotres.
Dayton— 250-seat theatre, Doyton JME Corp.
Hubbard—Loew's Eostwood Mall, 1,086 seats, in
Eastwood Mall Shopping Center, Loew's Theatres.*
Kent— Ploza I & II, 400 and 700 seots, at University
plaza. Associated Theotres of Pittsburgh.*
Morion-^500-seat theotre In Southland Mall, Cinecom
Corp.
Nework^—Cinema Cine, 650 seats, near Denison University,
Midland Theatre Co.*
Piquo— Piquo Cinema, 700 teats, Chokeres Theatres.*
Toledo— Fox Woodville, 926 seats, in Woodville Moll
Shopping Center, Notional General Corp.*
Worren— Loew's Warren, 1 ,076 scats, in Mall Shopping
Center, Loew's Theotres.*
Weirton—Wclrton Plozo, 350 seats, in shopping center,
Gardner Theatres.
Youngstown—l ,000-seot theatre, in Southern Park
Moll Shopping Center, Youngstown Enterprises,
OKLAHOMA
Buffolo—Cino, 240 seats, replaced fire-de'.troyod Bison
Theatre, T.V. McDowell.*
Enid— -Esquire, 550 seats, replacement for fire-razed
theatre, Video Independent Theotres.
Enid—Twin theotre, 600 seots, Video Independent
Theatres.
Lawton—Showcose Cinema, Tronrcontinental Theatres.*
Lowton^— New theatre. Video Independent Theatres.
Midwest City— Four-plex, 2,400 seats, in shopping
center, Entertainment, Inc.
Midwest City— Apollo II twin theotres, 505 ond 450
seots, Spectro Theatres.'
Muskogee— 16mm twin theatres, 700 seats, Trans-
Lux Inflight Corp.*
Oklahoma City— Quail Twin Theotre, 560 and 725
seats, in Quail Plazo Shopping Center, Entertoin
ment, inc.*
Oklohoma City—Westwood Theatre, 700 seats, Mond
T. Sorenson and sons Digby and Gregory.*
Tulsa— Park Lone, 898 seats, General Theatres.
Weotherford—Vesta, 500 seats, Woodle Sylvester.*
OREGON
Salem— 600-seat theatre, in shopping center, Formon-
United Theatres.
PENNSYLVANIA
Allentown— New twin theatre, in Le High Valley Moll.
Allentown^Eric, 1,200 seots, Sameric Corp.'
Bristol—Copitol Plazo Cinema, 1,000 seats, in Capitol
Plazo Shopping Center.*
Butler— Bontom, piggy bock addition to Penn Theatre,
Chester De Marsh Theatres.*
Chambersburg— New theotre, in shopping center, In
terstote Theotres.
Exton— Exton Cinema, in shopping center, Budco Theatres.*
Hazelton—Church Hill Cinema, in Church Hill Moll,
Comerford Theatres.*
Lancaster—Twin theatre, 500 and 300 seots, in Manor
Shopping Center, Meyer Ackerman.
Lancaster— Eden, 800 seats, ABC of Pennsylvania.*
Lancaster— Eric, 1,000 seots, in Lancoster Square
complex, Sameric Corp.
Lancaster—Wonderland Cinema, in entertainment
complex on Route 30, Budco Theatres.*
Lancaster—RKO-SW Triplex, 1,115 seats, RKO-Stanley
Warner Theatres.*
Philadelphia—Premiere, 1,200 seots, in Lumor Shopping
Center, Poesel Enterprises.*
Philadelphia—Duke and Duchess twins, 1,970 seats,
Sameric Theatres.*
Pittsburgh—Twin theotre, in Allegheny Center.
Pittsburgh—New theotre, in Synergist'One skyscraper
on Mc Knight Road.
Reading—850-seat theatre, in Berkshire Mall, Fabian
Management Corp.
Scronton— 500-seat theatre, in Birney Ploza Shopping
Center, Cinecom Corp.
Sharon—221 -seat mini-theatre, in Hickory Plazo
Shopping Center, Clinter Corp.
State College—Twin theatre, in sports arena complex,
Carl E. Temple.
Wilkes Barre— 500 seot theotre, In Blackmon Shopping
Center, Cinecom Corp.
York—Stoney Brook Cinema, 800 seats, near Stoney
Brook Drive-In, York Drive-In Associotes.
RHODE ISLAND
Newport News—Twin theatre, 300 and 200 seats,
Ken Andrews.*
Providence—Cinema 1, 2, Esquire Theatres of America
(Cinema I opened).
Warwick—Cinema 5 & 6, 650 seats each, addition to
Four Seasons complex, Esquire Theatres of America.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Anderson— Belvedere Cinema, 600 seats, in Belvedere
Shopping Center, Percy Osteon.*
Charleston— Ultra Vision Theatre, 800 seots, in Grant
City West Shopping Center, Wilby-Klncey Service
Corp.*
Florence—Crown, 650 seats, in Florence Mall, Florence
Theatres.*
Greenville— 800-seat theatre, in McAlister Squorc
Shopping Center, Polmetto Theatre Corp.
Myrtle Beach— New theatre, Po'metto Theotres,
Orangeburg—Cinema 111, 550 seats, in Orangeburg
Mall, Winyoh Bay Theatres,
SOUTH DAKOTA
Vermillion— New theatre, Jack Morsh.
TENNESSEE
Broinerd—Showcose Cinemo, 634 seats. Transcontinental
Theatres.
Chattonooga— 600-seat theotre, in East Ridge Shopping
Center, Robert L. Lippert.
Chattanooga—Mini -Clnemo, 388 seats, in Broinerd
Village Shopping Center, Modular Cinemas of
America.*
Clarksville— 500-seot theatre, Martin Theatres.
Cleveland—Village, 504 seats, in Cleveland Village
Shopping Center, Atco, Inc., of Atlanta.*
Dolton— 500 seat theotre, Mortin Theatres.
Greenville—500-seat theatre, Martin Theatres.
Johnson City— New theatre, in Moll Shopping Center,
Johnson City Enterprises.
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Kingsport—350-seat theotre, in shopping center.
Kingsport— New theatre, in shopping center. United
Paramount Theatres.
Madison—750'Seat theatre, Martin Theatres.*
Memphis—The Quartet, four-plex, 800 seats, in Park-
Gatewell Shopping Center, Cinerama, Inc.'
Morristown— 500-seat theatre, Martin Theatres.
Nashville— 500-seat theatre, Martin Theatres.
Nashville—Playhouse Cinema, Jaco Productions.*
TEXAS
Abilene—Westgote Cinema, 950 seats, in Westgate
Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.*
Arlington—Cinema I II, 700 seats, in Six Flag Mall,
General Cinema Corp.
Arlington— Four-plex, in Forum 303 Shopping Center,
Alpert Investment Corp.
Boytown—Twin theatre, 600 and 400 seats, Jack S.
Losey Trust & Gulf States Theatres.
Baytown—Twin theatre, 500 and 300 seats, Cinema
Corp. of America.
Cleveland—Texan, 300 seats, Owen Properties.*
Corpus Chfisti—Fox Twins, 1,250 seats, Notional General
Corp.
Dallas— Loew's, 980 seats, in Elm Place complex,
Loew's Theatres.*
Dallas— Medallion, 950 sects, at Medallion Center,
Interstate Theatres.*
Dallas—Northwood Four, four-plex, 1,000 seats,
American Multi-Cinemas, Inc.
Dollos—Northtown Six, six-plex, 1,800 seats, American
Multi-Cinemas, Inc.*
Dollos—Theatre 4, four-plex, 203,203,315 and 525
seats, in shopping center, Trans-Texas Theatres.
Denton—UA Twin Cine, 700 seats, in University Plaza
Shopping Center, United Artists Theatre Circuit.
Fort Worth—Cinema I, II, in Seminary South Shopping
Center, General Cinema Corp.*
Fort Worth—Village Opera House, 518 seats, in 1849
Village, Bonanza International of Dallas.*
Gatesville—New theatre, in Cove Shopping Center,
Kirk Kirkpatrick, developer.
Grand Proirie—Century 5, twin indoor theatre and
3-screen drive-in, on site of Downs Drive-In, 1,000
seats, McLendon Theatres.
Grand Proirie—Chalet, in Marshall Plaza Shopping
Center, Meagher Theatres.
Houston—Alameda 4, 1,140 seats, in Alameda Mall
Shopping Center, American Multi-Cinemas, Inc.*
Houston—Town & Country Six, six-plex, 1,140 seats.
Town & Country Shopping Center, American Mul-
In
ti-Cinemas, Inc.*
Houston—Northwest 4, four-plex, 1,140 seats, in
Northwest Mall, American Multi-Ctnemas, Inc.*
Houston— 900-seat theatre, In Magic Circle area,
Walter Reade Organization.
Houston—New theatre, in Post Oak Park, Wolter
Reade Organization.
Huntsville— 800-seat twin theotre, Mitchell Theatres
and Cinema Art Corp.
Killeen—Cinema I & II, 720 seats, in Northside Village.
Loke Jackson—Mini-twin, Long Theatre Circuit.
Loredo—Cinema 1 & 2, 700 seats, Laredo Theatres.
Lubbock— Fox Twin 2, addition of second auditorium
to existing Fox Theatre, National General Corp.*
Lufkin—Cinema I II, in Angelina Mall Shopping
Center, 318 and 420 seats. Gulf States Theatres.*
Midland—Westwood Cinema, 750 seats, adjacent to
Chief Drive-In, Midland Theatres.*
Plono—Cameo, 600 seats, in Dallas North Shopping
Center, Hunt Properties and Interstate Theatres.
Pharr—New theatre, in EI Centro Shopping Center,
Hicks & Co., developer.
Port Lavaca—New theatre in Fairway Shopping Center,
LCL Theatres.
Richardson—Westwood North, 502 seats, addition to
existing Westwood Theatre, ABC Theatres.
Round Rock—Sterling, Louis Sterling.*
Son Angelo—Twin theatre, at site of former Jet
Drive-In. United Artists Theatre Circuit.
San Angelo—Village Cinema 1 & 2, 105 and 224
seats, R.A. "Skeet" Noret.
Son Antonio—Century South, four-plex, 750,550,550
and 450 seats, John Santikos & Associates.*
Son Antonio—Cinema I II, 1,100 seats, in McCreless
Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.
Son Antonio— Fox Twin, 825 and 812 seats, in Central
Pork Shopping Center, National General Corp.*
Sherman—Twin theatres, 800 seats. In Sher-Den Shopping
Center on site of former Perri Drive-In, United
Artists
Theatre Circuit.
Stephenville—New theatre, across street from shopping
center, Mitchell Theatres,
Temple—Twin theatre, 500 and 350 seats, in Wooico
Shopping Center, Gulf States Theatres,
Victorio— Playhouse 1 1 and III, adjoining present
Playhouse Cinema, 268 and 96 seats, Frels Theatres.
Ogden—Wilshire, 828 seats, ABC Intermountain.*
Salt Lake City—Century 22, 950 seats, Syufy Enterprises.
Salt Lake City—Cinema, 200 seats.*
Salt Lake City—Riviera triplex, 200, 300 and 700
seats, Heber Amusement Co.
Salt Loke City—New theatre, Intermountain Theatres.
Salt Lake City—New theatre, in ZCMI Shopping Mall,
replacement for Uptown Theatre, Notional General
Corp.
UTAH
VERMONT
Morlboro— New theatre, at Marlboro
boro College.
College, Marl-
VIRGINIA
Danville— Pork Theatre, 637 seats, at Ballou Pork
Shopping Center, Charles Abercrombie.*
Fairfax—Turnpike, Frick Theatre Management Co.*
Foirfax— 900-seat theatre, in Lochman's Plaza Shopping
Center.
Georgetown— Francis Scott Key Theatre, 400 seats, in
office-restaurant complex, Don King.*
Georgetown—Cerberus 1, 2, 3 mini triplex, 530 seats,
Mortin Field and Harold Slate.*
Monassas—Monoport Theotre, 900 seots, Showcose
Enterprises, Inc.
Norfolk—Six-plex, 1,900 seats, in Military Circle
Shopping Center, American Multi-Cinemas, Inc.
Rocky Mountain—Town Theatre, R/C Theatres.*
Sterling— 500-seat theatre, in shopping center, Cinecom
Theatres.
Williomsburg—Twin Cinema, 500 and 300 seats, in
Monticello Shopping Center, Paul Bill and Milton
Blane.*
WASHINGTON
Pasco—Columbia Center Cinema, 132 and 832 seots,
Sterling Theotres.*
Seottie— Dimension 150 & 70, 600 and 850 seats,
dome theatre, United Artists Theatre Circuit.*
Seottie— Eostside Indoor-Outdoor Theotre, 138 seats.
Sterling Theotres.*
Seattle—
1
,200-seat theatre, in South Center Shopping
Center, Forman-United Theotres.
Seottie—
1 ,056-seat theatre. General Cinema Corp.
Tocomo—Villa Plaza I II, 600 and 1,000 seats, in
Villa Plaza Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.*
WEST VIRGINIA
Charleston—Charleston Repertory Cinema, Aubrey
Amey.
Mortinsburg—Plaza Theatre, 659 seats, in Berkeley
Plaza Shopping Center, Virginia Theatre Enterprises.*
WISCONSIN
Berlin— Berlin, 400 seats, Nello D'Orazio.*
Eau Cloire—Mall Vistaramo Theotre, 800 seats, In
shopping center. Gene Grengs.
Madison—Stage Door, mini-theotre, 352 seats, 20th
Century Theatres.*
DRIVE-IN THEATRES
ALABAMA
Enterprise— 400-car drive-in, Mark Clork.
Livingston—Twin City Royal Drive-In, A. L. Royal.*
Samson—Neva Drive-In, 300 cars. Hoi Hudson.*
ARIZONA
St. Johns—New drive-in, Apoche County Community
Action Agency.
ARKANSAS
Foyetteville—62 Drive-In, 550 cars. Commonwealth
Theatres.*
CALIFORNIA
Montcloir—New drive-in.
Narco— 900-cor drive-in, Notional General Corp.
Oceonside—Twin addition to existing drive-In, John
and Robert Siegel.
Pacoima—Valley Drive-In, 1,250 cars, Pacific Theatres.
Santa Ana—
1 ,600-car drive-in, Pocific Theatres.
Stockton— Hammer Drive-In, behind existing West
Lane Drive-In, Westland Theatres.
Tuolumne—New drive-in, on O'Byrnes Ferry Road,
C. Donold Folsom.
Ventura—Twin drive-in, 1,100 cars. Pacific Theotres.
COLORADO
Boulder— Holiday Drive-!n, 519 cars. Highland Theatres,
Colorodo Springs— Falcon Drive-In, on Templeton Gap
Rood.*
Lamor— 350-car drive-in. Evergreen
Windsor—
Theatres.
Valley
Drive-In.*
CONNECTICUT
Waterford— 500-car drive-in, in $3 million shopping
center, at Boston Post Rood and Clark Lane.
FLORIDA
Palotko—St. Johns Drive-In, 300 cors, MGM Theatres.*
Sarasoto—Bee Ridge Drive-In, 800 cors. Theatre Management.*
GEORGIA
Monroe—New drive-in, Charles Whitley.
Savannah—Weis Twin Auto Cinemo, 500 cars, Weis
Theatres.*
HAWAII
Woiluku—New drive-in, Jomes Emerson & Associates.
ILLINOIS
Cicero—Cicero Outdoor, 1,200 cars, Essoness Theatre
Corp.*
Godfrey— New drive-in, Mid-America Theatres.
O'Follon—New drive-in, Mtd-Americo Theatres.
INDIANA
Bloomington— New drive-ln, Mid-Americo Theatres.
Hammond— Hammond Outdoor, 1,600 cars, Essaness
Theatres.*
Merrillville—Twin addition to U&W Outdoor Theotre,
500 cars. Gory Outdoor Theotre Corp.
Terre Haute—North Drive-In, Fourth Avenue Amusement
Co.*
IOWA
Cedar Ropids—Cedar Rapids Twin, 1,200 cars. Central
States Theatres.*
Independence—New drive-in, 375 cars, Don Yoerger
and Charles Houston.*
Sioux City—Copri Drive-In, Herb Schrote.*
KANSAS
Olothe—South Twin Drive-In, Mid America Cinema
Corp.
KENTUCKY
Franklin— 3 1 -W Drive-ln, Joe C. Rhoton ond Davis
Duff.*
LOUISIANA
Covington—Cinema City, 400 cars, Philip Solles and
Warren Solles.*
Shreveport—Showtown U.S.A., Gulf States Theatres.*
MICHIGAN
Grond Rapids—Woodland Drive-In, Jack Loeks.*
Grand Rapids—Cascade Twin Blue & Red, 2,500 cars,
Redstone Theatres."
Lonsing—Twin addition to Northside Drive-ln, 700
cars.
Mason—M-78 Twin Drive-ln, 2,500 cors, Redstone
Theaters.*
Sterling—Twin drive-in and shopping center, Krim
Enterprises.
Wayne—Wayne Twin Drive-In, 1,000 cars, Woyne
Amusement Co.
MINNESOTA
Crookston— Saturn Drive-ln, 250 cars, Jerry Hickerson
and Bernard Elseth.*
St. Paul—Maryland 35E Drive In, 1,300 cars, Eden
Amusement Co.
MISSOURI
Columbia—New drive-in, Mid-America Theatres.
Konsas City—North Twin Drive-ln, 1,600 cars, in
North Kansas City, Mid-America Cinema Corp.
Liberty—Twin addition to New Claco Drive-ln.
Springfield—Queen City Twin Drive-ln, Commonwealth
Theatres.
Springfield— Holiday Twin Drive-ln, Commonwealth
Theatres.
St. Louis—Twin drive-in, 900 cars, Mid-America Theatres.
St. Peters— 1-70 Drive- In, 600 cars, Mid-Americo Theatres.*
NEW MEXICO
Hobbs—New drive-in, Commonweolth-Frontier Theatres.
NEW YORK
Buffalo—Sheridan Twin Drive-ln, 1,700 cors, Sidney
J. and Irving Cohen.
Lothom— 800-car drive-in, Fabian Theatres.
Morcy—Super 12, 700 cars, Alan Iselin.*
Wellsville— New drive-in, Phil Scoville.*
NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte—East 70 Twin, 1,200 cars. Consolidated
Theatres.
Goldsboro—Air Vue Drive-ln, 750 cors, James S.
Howard jr.
NORTH DAKOTA
Longdon—Sunset Drive-in, 250 cars, Lionel M. Tail-
Ion.*
OHIO
Dublin—New drive-in. Jack K. Vogel.
Springfield—Showboat, 1,150 cars, Edward Investment
Co.
Steubenville—Winter Drive-ln, 1,000 cars, Skirball
Investment Co.
OREGON
Albony^—Albany Drive-ln, Milton Swerson, manager.*
Eugene—West 11th Twin Drive-ln, 1,400 cors, Tom
Moyer.
Portland—Foster Rood Drive- In, 1,800 cars, Tom
Moyer.*
Salem—New drive-in, Forman-United Theatres.
Salem—New drive-in, Tom Moyer.
PENNSYLVANIA
Altoona—New drive-in, 1,000 cars, Jack K. Vogel.
Erie—Peninsula Drive-ln, 1,100 cors. Associated Theatres.*
SOUTH CAROLINA
Spartanburg—Thunderbird Drive-ln, 600 cars, Northwest
Theatre Corp.*
TENNESSEE
Etowah— 400-car drive-in, Howard Brooks.
Hendersonville—Colonio! Drive-ln, Martin Theatres.
Knoxville—Twin Drive-ln, 1,000 cars, Simpson Operating
Co.
Knoxville—Twin drive-in, Riviera Theatre Corp.
Portland—31-W Drive-ln, J. C. Rhoton ond Davis
Duff.*
TEXAS
Angleton—New drive-in. Long Theatre Circuit.
Austin—Southside Twin, 1,300 cors. Gulf Stotes Theatres.*
Dollos—Astro Super Star Drive-ln, McLendon Theotres.*
Dollos—Gemini Super Star Triple Drive-ln, conversion
of Gemini Twin, McLendon Theatres.
El Poso—Cinema Pork I, II, III, McLendon Theotres.*
Fort Stockton—New drive-in, Commonweolth-Frontier
Theatres.
Fort Worth— 1,250-car drive-In, replacement of Mansfield
Drive-In, Interstate Theatres.
Galveston— 900-car drive-in, Gulf States Theatres.
Grand Prairie—Century 5 Drive-ln, 2,000 cars, Mc-
Lendon Theatres.
Plono— Plono Drive-ln, 900 cars, McLendon Theatres.*
Plono—Twin drive-in addition to Plono Drive-ln, Mc-
Lendon Theatres.
Son Angelo—Angelo Twin Drive-ln, 1,200 cars, United
Artists Theatre Circuit.*
Son Antonio—New drive-in, Gulf States Theatres.
Sherman—New drive-in, Rowley United Theotres.
Temple—Apollo & Gemini Twin Drive-ln, 1,000 cors.
Bell County Drive-ln Theotres.*
Temple— 1,200-car drive-in, Mitchell Theatres,
Texas City— New drive-in. Long Theatre Circuit.
VERMONT
Rutland—Rutland Drive-ln, Bridghom Theatres.
VIRGINIA
Newport News— Peninsula Twin Drive-ln, Prices Enterprises.
WASHINGTON
Longview— New drive-in.
Ocean Shores—New drive-in, Jim Bonholzer.
Seattle— Eostside Drive-ln, 700 cars. Sterling Theatres.*
WYOMING
Casper—Mile-Hi Drive-ln, 600 cars, Commonwealth-
Frontier Theatres.*
14 BOXOFHCE :: January 19, 1970

Exec. Shakeup at
Nicastro to
CU;
Top Post
NEW YORK.—The board of dircLtors of
Commonwealth United Corp. has announced
election of Louis J. Nicastro as
president and chief executive officer and
the resignation of George N. Friediander,
as chairman and chief executive and Robert
B. Friediander as president.
Roger Sodcrbcrg, designated to the
Comnionvvcalth board by Exeter International
Corp.. a Boston-based investment
company controlled by the Friediander
family, also resigned as director.
The management changes were initiated
after a majority of Commonwealth directors
disapproved a plan proposed by Exeter
recommending sale of Commonwealth's
entertainment division and other properties.
New board members elected with
Nicastro were Charles Koppelman, president
of Commonwealth United Music, Inc.,
a wholly owned subsidiary, and William
Bartholmay, president of Olson and Bartholmay.
Inc., a Chicago insurance company.
Continuing directors of Commonwealth
are Oliver Unger, vice-chairman and a
director since 1967: Peter Gettinger,
corporate counsel who served as board
chairman from 1961-1966: Morton Schiowitz.
a financial consultant elected board
member in August 1969, and business
consultant Robert F. Sutner, a Commonwealth
director since August 1969. Schiowitz
and Sutner are serving as directors of
Commonwealth as representatives of I.O.S.,
Ltd., a substantial creditor of the company.
The board's new executive committee
includes Louis J. Nicastro, Peter Gettinger,
Oliver A. Unger and Morton Schiowitz.
The Commonwealth board also adopted
a program for the continued operation of
the corporation based on retaining entertainment
and Seeburg Corp. divisions as
well as a financial interest in the assets of
the real estate division.
Under a new agreement in principle
between Commonwealth and Exeter, substantially
all assets of the real estate division
will be transferred to a new venture,
jointly owned by Exeter and Commonwealth.
Commonwealth's present agreement to
employ Exeter as its financial consultant
at a $3,000 weekly compensation will be
canceled and Exeter will surrender warrants
for 1 million shares of Commonwealth
common stock exercisable at $2 and $8 a
share.
Ginsberg to
IFIDA Board
NEW YORK—Sidney Ginsberg of Haven
International Pictures has been elected to
the board of governors of the Independent
Film Importers & Distributors of America.
The other members of the governing board
are Munio Podhorzer of United Film Enterprises
and Manny Reiner of Sigma III.
In addition to being treasurer for the past
four years, has has served on the board of
directors since IFIDA's formation.
NGC Plans Times Square Skyscraper
NGC executives gathered in New York Tuesday (13) to announce plans
for a 32-story skyscraper, to be built in the heart of Times Square, housing
two ultra-modern theatres and various NGC corporate subsidiaries. NGC Realty
Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of National General Corp., has entered into a
long-term lease for the building. In the photo, left to right, are Samuel Schulman,
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'Z' and 'Dolly!' Display Power
NEW YORK—In a week that began
testing holiday entries to see if they have
genuine staying-power at the boxoffice,
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", "John
and Mary," "The Damned," "Z," "Hello,
Dolly!" and "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
demonstrated that they have it. The latter
film, playing its fifth week at the Radio
City Music Hall, advanced close enough to
the $1.5 million-gross mark that it's sixth
and final week (before it gives way to "Viva
Max!") is a shoo-in to surpass that impressive
figure—a record for six weeks at the
Hall.
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", backed
by a powerful promotion campaign, gained
65 percentage points at the Fine Arts;
"John and Mary" climbed to 275 at the
Sutton; "The Damned" continued in the
high 400s at the Festival and "Z" again
had the highest-grossing percentage in the
city. "Hello, Dolly!" gave the Rivoli a
rousing 475 third week.
These boxoffice powers, all introduced
in the Christmas-New Year's season, were
joined by a Danish product, "Without a
Stitch," which promised to match grossing
strides with the best of them as it opened
with 310 at the Cine and 465 at State I.
(Average Is 100)
Astor Cactus Flower (Col), 4th wk 240
Baronef Downhill Rocer (Para), 9th wk 260
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Cinema 57 Rendezvous Hamlet (Col), 3rd wk. . . 95
Cinema I & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
14th wk 115
Cinema II A Dream of Kings (NGP), 4th wk. ..170
Coronet Midnight Cowboy (UA), 33rd wk 275
Criterion Funny Girl (Col), 68th wk 90
DeMille On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
3rd wk 165
86th Street East On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(UA), 3rd wk 140
Festival The Damned (WB), 3rd wk 470
Fine Arts They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (CRC),
5th wk 335
Globe— Love Me Please (JER), 6th wk 185
Murray Hill Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
(Univ), 3rd wk 185
New Embassy The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk 230
New Loew's Orpheum Cactus Flower (Col),
4th wk 165
Palace Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 10th wk. ..120
Plaza Hoppy Ending (UA), 3rd wk 80
Radio City Music Hall A Boy Named Charlie
Brown (NGP), 5th wk 1 20
Rivoh— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 475
State I a Stitch (Sherpix) 465
State II Paint Your Wagon (Para), 13th wk. ...155
Sutton John and Mory (2ath-Fox), 4th wk 275
34th Street East The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk. ..150
The Cinerama Topaz (Univ), 4th wk 200
Trans-Lux East The Arrangement (WB),
8th wk 85
Trans-Lux West The Arrangement (WB), 8th wk. 85
Ziegfeld Morooned (Col), 4th wk 165
James Bond and 'Hello,
Dolly!'
Lead Baltimore With 250s
BALTIMORE— "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service" and "Hello, Dolly!" rocked merrily
along with 250s, "The Reivers" and "Bob
& Carol & Ted & Alice" trailed closely at
225 and three other films grossed even 200s
as theatres here had one of their best weeks
in months.
Boulevard, Perring Plaza, Pike's Vivo Max!
(CUE), 3rd wk 170
Charles The Arrongement (WB), 3rd wk 200
Crest, Hippodrome, Glen Burnie Mall On Her
Majesty's Secret Service (UA), 3rd wk 250
Five West Oh! What a Lovely Wor (Para),
3rd wk 180
Little Coming Apart (SR), 5th wk 150
Mayfair Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 4th wk. ..200
New— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 4th wk 250
Playhouse Putney Swope (SR), 9th wk 120
Reisterstown Plazo, Senator Cactus Flower (Col),
3rd wk 1 50
Seven East A Wolk With Love ond Death
(20th-Fox), 3rd wk 150
Tower John and Mary (20th-Fox), 4th wk 200
Town Point Your Wagon (Para), 8th wk 125
Westview Cinema I Reivers (NGP), 3rd wk. 225
York Road Cinema, Liberty Bob & Carol & Ted
& Alice (Col), 3rd wk 225
Snow, Super Bowl Combine
To Lower Buffalo Figures
BUFFALO—A crippling snowstorm and
the Super Bowl telecast hit this area over
the weekend, bringing traffic and theatre
patronage to a near-halt, although all the
first-run houses managed to stay open. Only
"Hello, Dolly!" at the Century was able to
score above average.
Buffolo On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
4th wk 100
Center The Arrongement (WB), 3rd wk 90
Century— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 4th wk 130
Cinema, Amherst The Sterile Cuckoo (Para),
3rd wk 100
Colvin Point Your Wagon (Para), 9th wk 100
Granada John and Mary (20th-Fox), 4th wk
Teck Comille 2000 (Audubon)
100
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Loew's Taps Matsoukas
For Special Events Post
NEW YORK—Nick John Matsoukas
has been appointed coordinator of special
events and community relations for Loew's
Theatres. Matsoukas will work under Ernest
Emerling, advertising-public relations vicepresident,
headquartered at Loew's home offices,
666 Fifth Ave.
A veteran of the motion picture industry,
Matsoukas is past director of advertising for
Magna Theatres and Todd-AO. a field staff
member with Columbia. Fox and United
Artists and has served as advertising director
for United Artists Theatres.
Matsoukas was also active in Greek War
Relief during World War IL when he served
as national campaign director for the motion
picture industry's Will Rogers Memorial
Hospital and Research laboratories.
He initiated
the original Will Rogers Christmas
Salute.
Predicts Top 1970 Gross
For NGP's The Reivers'
NEW YORK — "The Reivers"
starring
Steve McQueen will be one of the top-grossing
films of 1970, according to Eugene
Tunick, executive vice-president of National
General Pictures, the distributor of the
Cinema Center Films production.
Tunick made the prediction on the basis
of a $2,222,457 first-week gross for the
film in 190 cities in the U.S. and Canada
during the Christmas-New Year period.
All theatres, almost without exception,
Tunick said, are continuing to report outstanding
grosses for "The Reivers" and the
second week's boxoffice totals loom bigger
than the opening stanza with holdovers in
order everywhere.
The film ranks number one in many
cities and original playdates have been extended
due to initial public reaction and
boxoffice returns, Tunick added.
Beatrice Lillie to Mark
Theatre's Grand Opening
NEW YORK — Beatrice Lillie was
guest of honor at the opening Sunday (18)
of the American Film Institute Theatre in
Washington, D.C.
Part of a weekend of activities tied to the
AFI Theatre opening, the evening was
highlighted by a showing of the famous actress'
1926 film, "Exit Smiling."
A black tie premiere was also held at
the theatre Friday (16), with Gregory Peck,
Shirley MacLaine, Roger L. Stevens, Jack
Valenti and AFI director George Stev.ens
jr. attending.
"Exit Smiling" was screened at the New
York Film Festival this fall after decades
of neglect.
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BROADWAY
gARBRA STREISAND, currently starring
in 20th-Fox's "Hello, Dolly!", has been
named "Entertainer of the Year" in Cue
Magazine's ninth annual awards. The first
time any personality has received the award
twice, Cue described Miss Streisand as "the
performer who has been called today's hardest-working,
only super-star."
•
Mark Dudehon, son of Stanley E. Ditdelson,
first vice-president of American International
Television, Inc., has announced his
engagement to Joyce Mart, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Buddy Mart of Massapequa, N.Y.
Miss Mart is a sophomore at Finch College.
Dudelson, a graduate of Northern
Michigan University is currently employed
with an advertising agency.
•
Federico Fellini
and Albert Grimaldi, director
and producer of "Fellini Satyricon,"
arrived in New York Tuesday (13) to host
previews of the United Artists release.
•
William Tennant, Ziegler-Ross-Tennant,
Inc., returned Monday (12) from conferences
in Switzerland with agency client Roman
Polansky.
•
Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, coproducers
of "They Shoot Horses, Don't
They?", are in New York for conferences.
The two producers will leave for London
and Paris in several days.
•
Lucretia Love and Mauro Parenti, stars
of Gemini Pictures Int'l-J.C.A.R.'s "Zenabel,"
have arrived in New York from Rome
for promotion activities.
•
Sue Mengers, Creative Management Associates,
returned Tuesday (13) from European
client conferences.
•
COBONARC
Sperie Perakos, vice-president and general
manager of Perakos Theatres Associates,
is in Me.xico discussing Latin American
distribution of Norma Film Productions'
"Antigone." Perakos is one of the
hackers of the film starring Irene Pappas.
•
Louis Weber, vice-president of United
Artists Theatres, is a grandpa, with the birth
of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Burton J. Sherwood
of Branford, Conn.
Kinney Files
Statement
With SEC on WB Sale
NEW YORK—Kinney National Service,
Inc. has filed a registration statement with
the Securities and Exchange Commission
covering securities reserved for issuance in
connection with acquisition of Warner
Bros. -Seven Arts last July.
The filing, Friday (9), covered securities
already reported in the company's financial
statements. Included in the registration statement
were 4,463,725 shares of common
stock issuable over the next 10 years upon
exercise of a cash conversion privilege attached
to a certain Kinney preferred stock.
Kinney would realize approximately $35
million if all such shares were converted.
UA Names Goldschmidt
Continental Sales Mgr.
NEW YORK — Ernst
Goldschmidt has
been promoted to the post of continental
sales manager for United Artists, according
to Eric Pleskow, UA vice-president in
charge of international distribution.
Goldschmidt, who will continue operations
from Paris headquarters under Irwin
Marks, continental division manager, is a
native of Basel, Switzerland, and a member
of the United Artists organization since
1958. He is former general manager of
UA's Geneva, Switzerland, office and general
manager of United Artists in Germany.
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MANHASSET, N.Y.—Ralph Jones and
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architects and planners, have designed
the soon-to-open theatre in the parish of St.
Anthony, Montserrat, in the Caribbean, the
first
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'Hope' Star Is Featured
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NEW YORK—James Earl Jones, who
re-created his Tony Award-winning role in
"The Great White Hope," 20th Century-
Fox's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
play, is featured in the current issue of
Sports Illustrated.
The article, which discusses Jones' training
for his role as the first black heavyweight
champion of the world, includes a
photograph of the actor working out with
trainer Mushy Callahan.
"The Great White Hope," also starring
Tony Award-winning actress Jane Alexander,
is produced by Lawrence Turman
and directed by Martin Ritt.
Special Paperback to Mark
'Virgin Soldiers' Release
NEW YORK—A special paperback edition
of Leslie Thomas' best-selling novel,
"The Virgin Soldiers," has been published
by Fawcett World Library to coincide with
the upcoming U.S. release of the Columbia
Pictures and Carl Foreman presentation.
On behalf of the new paperback. Fawcett
has prepared special promotional banners
and streamers for display in book stores
and other paperback outlets.
Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett and Nigel
Davenport star in the film which was recently
named one of the top-ten moneymakers
of 1969 in the United Kingdom. Columbia
will open the film in the U.S. early in 1970.
MP Bookers Club Holding
Dinner-Dance February 13
NEW YORK—The 31st annual installation
dinner and dance of the Motion Picture
Bookers Club has been set for Friday
evening, February 13, in the Empire Room
of the Waldorf-Astoria, it was announced
by Ronald Lesser, newly elected president
of the club. The theme will be a Valentine's
Day ball.
Irving Dollinger will be this year's emcee
and the guest speaker will be announced
shortly.
ABC Opens 800-Seat Plaza
Theatre in Middletown
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — Vicky Smith,
Miss Orange County, snipped a ribbon December
23 to open the ABC Theatres circuit's
Plaza Theatre, an 800-seat showplace
located on Route 211. John W. Boyea, manager
of the Middletown Paramount, also will
be manager of the Plaza.
Milton Freedman. vice-president of ABC
Theatres of New York, was host at a luncheon
for guests following the ceremony.
Ask Theatre Permit
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Application has
been made by the Lolaw Realty Corp. for
a permit to construct a twin theatre in a
shopping center located at the southeast corner
of Hempstead Turnpike and Newbridge
Avenue.
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tee
BUFFALO
gen Bush, first assistant chief barker, has
been named chairman of the annual
Variety Club combined banquet-installation
to be held Sunday evening (25) in the Delaware
Avenue headquarters. 193 Delaware
Ave. At this time chief barker John Serfustino
and his staff and president Mrs. Kenneth
Reuter of the Women of Variety and
her 1970 officers will be sworn in.
Frank Guzetta. manager of the Dipson
Riviera in North Tonawanda, presented
Tom Hazelton in an organ recital Wednesday
evening (14). The program was sponsored
by the local chapter of the American
Theatre Organ Society. Guzetta is boosting
business at his 67 Webster house by the
presentation of famous organ soloists and is
getting a lot of splendid publicity.
Frank Arena, Loew's city manager, declares
the James Bond film, "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service," at the Buffalo, is
running ahead of such other Bond films as
"From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger."
The Buffalo introduced all the Bond
features except the first 007 adventure.
West Coast backers of "To Find a Man,"
which screenwriter Arnold Schulman was
setting to be filmed this month in Rochester,
were afraid to take a chance on Kodak
Town's weather and decided to film the
feature in Albuquerque, N.M., photographer
Lou Ouzer reports. Lou, the Rochester contact
for Schulman and his partners, says that
snow—either too much or not enough
could have delayed filming which, on a
major budget picture, would be disastrous
financially.
Cyril Ritchard, actor, versatile screen and
TV performer, director, singer, etc., helped
inaugurate the Studio Arena's $90,000
Maintenance Drive Monday (12) at a luncheon
in the Statler Hilton in the place of
Joan Fontaine. Miss Fontaine sent her regrets
and Ritchard stepped in. Ritchard discussed
regional theatre, of which the Studio
Arena is a member. About 100 workers and
leaders of the drive attended the luncheon.
A film commitment in Rome caused Miss
Fontaine to bow out of the meeting.
"Paint Your Wagon" ended its long run
at the Colvin Tuesday (13) and "Viva
Max!", the Commonwealth United comedy,
opened the following day, according to an
announcement by Emil T. Noah jr., manager
. . . William Hebert, manager of the
Cinerama Releasing office, screened "They
Shoot Horses, Don't They?" for the trade
in the operators' hall Thursday evening (8)
and on Thursday (15) previewed "Jenny"
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Tiie Variety Club telethon will be held
this year the latter part of February and
WKBW-TV again has offered its facilities
to put Tent 7's fund-raising event on the
airwaves. The station is a Capital Cities operation.
Past chief barker Mickey Ellis jr. is
chairman of this year's telethon. The event,
which has raised over a million dollars since
its inception, has been so successful that it
has been written about and illustrated in the
Barker, national publication of Variety
Clubs International. Edward F. Meade, Tent
7 press guy, was the author of that widely
read tale.
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BUFFALO—James J. Hayes, managing
director of the downtown Cinema in Buffalo,
is running for
of the Great-
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for children on the Niagara Frontier.
The various candidates presented individual
sketches at the general meeting of the
club Tuesday (13) and Hayes has adapted
the popular song of other days, "Happy
Days Are Here Again," as his theme melody,
changing the title to "Happy Hayes
Is Here Again." The words of the song were
written by Buffalo's famous composer, Jack
Yellen.
Cohen Says Wage Hike
Will Mean Automation
BUFFALO—NATO of New York will
fight to the end Governor Rockefeller's
recommendation to the legislature that the
minimum wage rate be raised to $1.85 effective
July 1, not June 1 as reported in
BoxoFFiCE Monday (12), declares Sidney
J. Cohen, president of the state exhibitor
organization.
The help in the refreshment booths, now
working on the $1.60 minimum wage, is
taking all the profits from the candy stands,
according to Cohen, who says any raise in
the rate would cause complete automation
of that department of theatre operation;
i.e.. installation of coin machines.
Cohen also declares that a boost in the
minimum rate would mean that most theatres
would not be able to hire extra help.
The state NATO head says members will
start bombarding members of the legislature
with protests against the governor's recommendation.
ALBANY
The Sunshine Club, a
family group consisting
of Strand Theatre employees and
wives, dined and danced at a holiday party
at Mario's Theatre-Restaurant in Troy. Mrs.
Mary Lourinia, cashier, is president. Those
attending the lively affair included: Joe Stowell,
RKO-SW district chief; Herb Dashiell,
house manager; Philip F. Fagan, operating
engineer, and Mrs. Fagan; Vincent Lopez,
doorman; Mrs. Edna Fisher, director of concessions,
and husband; Bill Foley, projectionist,
and Mrs. Foley; Mrs. Marie Smith,
candy stand attendant, and husband, and
Mrs. Marie Tanner, cashier, and her husband
(of the maintenance staff).
Anthony Brady Farrell, 69, an Albanian
who bought the Warner Theatre, New York
City, in 1948 and transformed it into the
Mark Hellinger (housing "My Fair Lady,"
among other shows), died here in Medical
Center Hospital after a brief illness. For the
past ten years. Farrell, who helped to finance
a number of Broadway stage successes
and was called "its greatest angel," had lived
on a large family estate in Day, north of
Gloversville. Survivors include two married
daughters, a son and 14 grandchildren. In
lieu of flowers, it was requested that donations
be made to Little Sisters of the Poor
Home for the Aged in this city.
Pete Antoinette, veteran projectionist,
suffered an eye infection.
The Knickerbocker News picked the following
as the "year's best performances":
Liza Minnelli in "The Sterile Cuckoo";
Cathy Burns, "Last Summer"; Dick Van
Dyke, "The Comic"; Dustin Hoffman,
"Midnight Cowboy"; Jon Voight, "Midnight
Cowboy"; Beryl Reid, "Killing of Sister
George"; Richard Burton and Rex Harrison,
"Staircase"; Paul Newman and Robert Redford,
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid" and Alan Arkin. "Popi."
Copy spotlighting "Lillian Gish in Person
and on the Screen" at Proctor's Schenectady
Wednesday (14) appeared areawide. The
one-nighter was under the aegis of Robert
Hadley, who rents the 2,500-seater for a
yearly series of legitimate performances. The
Rochester man, a former Broadway producer,
is doing likewise in Kingston and
other cities. Walter Reade's Community is
the Kingston spot.
The UptowTi Madison apparently is enforcing
strict limitations on the age of young
patrons wishing to view certain films, even
when accompanied by a parent or authorized
adult. A Pie Hills resident reported he
approached the boxoffice with his son to see
"Greetings" and when asked the lad's age,
replied he was several weeks short of 18.
The lady said he could not enter. When
the would-be adult patron countered that
newspaper advertising stated none under 17
could go in, she explained that "line" had
been prepared in New York City, that 18
was the Madison's minimum and that held.
"Greetings" is an underground feature produced
by two young men.
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. . "Camille
NORTH JERSEY
after a seven-month run and will open in
several neighborhood spots Wednesday (21).
The Essex Green in West Orange and the
n II explosion ol uiulctcrmincd origin ripped Palace in Orange are the latest General Cinenia
houses to discontinue Monday through
ihrough the independent Fine Arts
Theatre in Passaie on a recent Saturday P'riday matinees. Both had presented daily
night only minutes after the last patrons and matinees for years.
staff had left the premises following closing
"Putney Swope" was held for a fourth
at 11:20 p.m. According to Passaic Fire
week in exclusive area showings at Moss'
Chief Louis Jaffe, the blast left the theatre
Mall in Paramus and the independent Orinonl
in East Orange.
a shambles, blowing out the front of the
building, as well as several nearby stores.
The blast reportedly occurred in the rear,
orchestra section of the theatre and blew a
hole six feet in diameter in the main floor. SYRACUSE
It also cracked the walls and roof to such
an extent that the city has declared the ^ello, Dolly!" played to a full house at the
building unsafe and ordered that it be torn
local premiere at Shoppingtown I Theatre
during the holiday season in a benefit
down. Investigators on the scene have not
ruled out the possibility of a bomb having performance for the Cazenovia Junior College
scholarship fund. The next evening,
caused the damage. Furnaces and gas lines
were checked and found to be in perfect Shoppingtown II opened with "Goodbye,
condition. The Fine Arts had been opened Mr. Chips" as a beaefit sponsored by the
in 1920 as the Rivoli and in 1939 changed Holy Cross Athletic Ass'n. It also was a
its name to the Lincoln. The theatre closed soldout house. Manager Sam Mitchell expects
a long run for both pictures . . .
in 1956 and was reopened by the Kaplan
family shortly after as the Fine Arts. Local "Paint Your Wagon" is playing at the other
theatre exhibitor Richard Nathan assumed Kallet theatre, the Genesee.
control from the Kaplans in 1963. For
The Greater Syracuse Antipornography
many years the Fine Arts has featured a
Commission served notice that it will oppose
"girlie-show" film policy. Henry German
the license renewals of movie houses here
had managed the house for the past three
that show what it considers obscene films
years.
as a matter of policy.
Sam Englemann, who has operated the
"I Am Curious (Yellow)" is currently
Castle in Irvington for the past 15 years,
showing at the Franklin Art Theatre. The
has sold his lease to Irving Knowle, owner
policy of both local newspapers, the Postof
the Iselin in Iselin, who reopened that
Standard and the Herald-Journal, is not to
theatre last year. An industry veteran of
run reviews of X-rated films.
more than 50 years, Englemann had spent
over 30 years with Warner Bros, and Stanley
Warner Theatres. Among others, he had film on the Loew's Theatre program last
"Midnight Cowboy" was the only X-rated
managed the Sanford in Irvington and the year but it expects to bring in the Swedish
Roosevelt in Newark for SW. The Castle film "Fanny Hill' in a few weeks . . . Although
not rated, the controversial "Putney
has been operating as a subsequent-run,
neighborhood house. There are no plans to Swope" is playing at Mini I Theatre, an
change this policy.
automated house of 500 seats.
United Artists' Colony in Livingston, after
negotiations with the town government the Slotnick circuit, had full houses of
Bill Moclair of the Eckel Theatre, part of
and the student council of Livingston High youngsters during the holidays with a return
School, has announced that it will lift its of Disney's "101 Dalmatians."
ban against the admission of persons under
18, unless accompanied by adults. The ban
New Trial Date Is Set
against unescorted teenagers had been invoked
by the theatre after several incidents
For Fine Arts Manager
in which serious damage had been done to BUFFALO—A new trial date of February
9 has been set in city court by Judge
the theatre through acts of vandalism. The
lifting of the ban is currently on a trial basis. H. Buswell Roberts for Gerald Attenson,
Phylis Hughes is manager of the Colony. manager of the Fine Arts Theatre, charged
with 120 counts of operating without a license
since Sept. 9, 1969.
Gloria Martinez, assistant to Jerry Littenburg
at RKO-SW"s Warner in Ridgewood In requesting the second adjournment in
for the past year, has resigned her post
the case, Asst. Corp. Counsel Frank A.
there, prior to her marriage to Stuart Lee.
Sedita jr. noted that Federal Judge John
The couple is residing in Houston, Tex. No
T. Curtin has not yet ruled on the challenge
replacement has yet been named at the Warner.
by Attenson's defense attorneys of the constitutionality
of the city's action in lifting
the theatre's license for allegedly promoting
Mitchell Shocket, a member of the Projectionists
Union, Essex County, Local 244
obscenity.
Buffalo police are issuing a
and
new summons
an operator at the Castle in Irvington
against Attenson, 23, for each day the theatre
at 663 Main St. remains open until
for the past ten years, died recently.
"Funny Girl" closed an exclusive, reserved-seat
engagement at Walter Reade's Judge Curtin has reserved decision in the
the case is resolved, Sedita told the court.
Community in Morristown Tuesday (13) federal case.
PITTSBURGH
JJATO's fourth annual Mideasiern regional
convention of theatre owners of western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and
Kentucky will be held here at the William
Peim Hotel March 8-10. It will be open to
members and nonmembers, according to
George Tice, president of NA TO of W. Pa.
Festivities will begin with a cocktail party,
buffet and Monte Carlo Night at the Variety
Club Tent 1 Sunday evening, March 8, at
6;30 p.m.
The taxpayers' topless stadium, which is
to be opened late next summer, will have a
roof added within five years, again at taxpayers'
expense 2000"
. is on
screen at the Strand . . . Pro basketball owner
of the Pipers, Gabe Rubin of theatre note,
taking a financial bath, replaced coach John
Clark with Buddy Jeannette . . . Thomas
Blaklcy, Press critic, writes, "If the Swedes
don't have anything belter than this to offer
('Yes' at the Manor) they should let the
Danes, Italians or someone else take over
the pornographic market!"
The MGM exchange is
operating now as
a sales office, all other business being handled
by the company's branch at 1612
Market Street, Philadelphia 19103 . . .
Blood-O-Rama, being used in the territory,
includes "Blood Fiend," "Blood Creature"
and "Brides of Blood" . . . Pennsylvania
has increased its cigaret tax five cents, from
13 to 18 cents a pack . . . Norman Mervis,
Associated circuit's general theatre manager,
served on the committee for Rodef Shalom's
champagne dinner dance Saturday (17) . . .
Featured here are "Going for the Third
Time" and "Hot Line" at the Casino, "Tea
for Three" at the Penthouse, "Yes" at the
Manor and "Flareup" at the drive-ins.
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips," said to be MGM's
last roadshow movie, opens Wednesday (21)
at the Fulton as a benefit for the Baldwin
Community United Methodist Church . . .
The musical stageshow, "You're a Good
Man Charlie Brown," will be featured at the
Nixon for three weeks, opening February
3 and closing February 22 . . . Record tax
load has stunned state firms. They will now
pay the highest corporate net income tax in
the nation! , , , Second test concert at the
Penn Theatre will be held Saturday evening,
February 28. Meanwhile, the Symphony
Society has inaugurated a $400,000 fund
drive.
"Funny Girl" opens Wednesday (21) at
five neighborhood theatres . . . "The Outdoorsman"
opened at about 25 theatres in
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BOXOFFICE :; January 19, 1970 E-7

WASHINGTON
J^GM's policy to consolidate its branch offices
into a streamlined sales structure
is reflected in branch manager Otto Ebert's
announcement: "The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
exchange in Washington. D.C., will operate
as a sales office only, effective Monday
(12). All other business will be handled
by MGM's Philadelphia branch, located at
1616 Market St.. Philadelphia, Pa. 19103.
Washington. D.C.. will continue to be a
shipping point as in the past and prints will
be returned to such location." Ebert will
head the sales force, assisted by Leon Weston,
former branch assistant, and Pete
Prince, former Baltimore salesman, and continue
to serve the D.C., Maryland, Delaware
(south of Wilmington), Virginia and eastern
West Virginia. Former office manager
Howell Owens and bookkeeper Doris Perie
will remain until the transfer of the digitronic
machines and booking data is completed.
Former head booker Eddie Kushner
and branch secretary Ernie Huyett are
spending a week in Philadelphia assisting
with the transfer. Gary Johnson, who has
been in charge of the local exchange advertising-publicity
since midsummer, was transferred
to the newly reorganized St. Louis
office. Tom Baldrige, publicist, will continue,
as for the past several years, to handle
special assignments for MGM in the South.
Advertising-publicity for this area will be
handled by Philadelphia-based Don Davis.
Herbert Schwartz, National General division
manager, has increased his staff in the
local branch. Henry Ajello, formerly with
MGM. starts Monday (19) as booker-office
manager and Virgil Jones of Warner Bros.'
Pittsburgh branch will assume the duties
of branch manager February 2. Schwartz
had a holiday vacation in West Palm Beach.
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Jerome Sandy, American International
Pictures branch manager, has moved his
AIP office to 1217 H St., N.W., which is
adjacent to the Reade-King Town Theatre.
AIP occupies the second floor. Its new
phone number is 202-347-2442. According
to salesman Bill Michalson, campaigns are
being set up for AlP's Easter release,
"Bloody Mama."
Allen Bazzini, filmmaker and president
of Unisphere Motion Picture Corp., has
opened an office here in the National Press
Bldg., Room 898, zip 20004, phone 202-
296-2618. His sister Rosily manages the
New York outlet.
Alex Scbimel, Universal branch chief, had
an exhibitors' screening of "Anne of the
Thousand Days" at the K/B screening room
Thursday (15) Ray Foreman, salesman,
. . .
resigned from Universal to handle the same
functions at United Artists . . . Schimel said
"three strikes and not out." He has had his
car stolen three times and has gotten it back
each time.
Stanley Bowden, Warner Bros, head
booker, while getting into his car Saturday
evening following a 6-8 p.m. cocktail-buffet,
was attacked and severely beaten by five
ruffians. Hospitalization was required. A
few days prior, thugs broke his car's window
and made away with about $200 worth
of merchandise.
Sid Zins, Columbia regional publicist, issued
invitations to a preview of "Marooned"
at the Stanley Warner Uptown Monday
evening (12). The film will open there February
9.
The American Film Institute Theatre had
a black^ie invitational opening Friday (16)
showing the 1925 production of Erich von
Stroheim's "The Merry Widow" at the National
Gallery of Art. The gallery trustees
were hosts at a reception following.
BALTIMORE
Trene Szpara, Cluster Theatre manager,
celebrated her 35th wedding anniversary
Monday (5). Irene has been manager
at the Cluster for over 25 years.
Bernard Lust, Lust circuit,
returned from
a New York business trip Friday (16) . . .
Irwin Cohen, managing director R/C Theatre
circuit, has appointed Joe Bernheimer
his assistant. Joe was with MGM for many
years in the Washington area.
Willard Cohee, owner of the Arcade,
Salisbury, was visited Monday (12) by Cliff
Jarrett, owner of the Capitol, Ocean City,
and Fritz Goldschmidt, Paramount salesman.
Willard has closed the Arcade during
the midweek for the winter—it is open only
Friday to Monday.
Ronald Freedman and William Hewitt,
B.F.S. circuit owners, went to Dallas, Tex.,
Sunday through Thursday (11-15) to attend
a convention. Lord Baltimore manager Jerry
Kelly was in charge of the circuit during the
owners' absence . . . Walter Gettinger, owner
of the Howard Theatre, reports that his
Stowaway Motel will remain open yearround
with special rates. So far business has
been excellent.
Dick Harrison, publicity director, J. F.
Theatres, returned Wednesday (14) from a
business trip to New York ... Ed Flax, New
Carver Theatre owner, has changed the
policy at the house. X-rated pictures are not
to be run in the near future.
George Brehm, general manager. Westview
Cinema I and II, reports that on Saturday
morning church services are held at
Westview Cinema II.
PITTSBURGH
(Continued
from preceding page)
the city district ... A brawl in front of the
Electra Theatre, Broad Street Mall, East
Liberty, injured three, including a policeman.
Cinema 56 at Windber, managed by Robbert
Kennedy, was cited for showing an
X-rated movie, "I Am Curious (Yellow),"
with one youth under 18 found in the audience
by Mayor Louis Giusto, a constable
and six policemen who viewed the movie.
Kennedy, 41, was arrested and charged with
corrupting the morals of a minor and was
released on bail. This movie from Sweden
has been showing at the Dattola Theatre,
New Kensington, now into its third month
without incident.
Tri-State Drive-In Theatres' night at the
Variety Club was an event Friday (16). Serving
on the committee were George Saittis,
George Tice, Frank Lewis, George Stern,
Elston Mahr, Saul Perilman, John Glaus,
Gabe Rubin, Lou Lambros, Tom Zaimes,
Ted Grance, Ernest Stern, Bert Stearn, the
Vogels, Warrens, Grays, Ranallis and Castellis.
Prizes and games were features.
Clarksville's former theatre was much in
the news in connection with the Yablonski
probe, with this building, now the town's
fire hall, serving as command post. Union
mine leader Joe "Jock" Yablonski, his wife
and a daughter were murdered in their home
in Clarksville and communications and police
headquarters were set up in the former
theatre . . . United Artists tradescreened
"The Happy Ending" Monday evening (12)
at the Studio Playhouse . . . Art Cinema at
Point Marion was destroyed by fire Saturday
night (10). This is the former famous
Barney's Theatre, which was owned and
operated for many years by Jack Maple,
veteran retired
exhibitor.
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NEWS AND VIEWS THE PRODUCTION CENTEK
Gregory Peck Names
3 Awards Committees
HOLLYWOOD—Three branch executive
committees for the annual Oscar Awards
have been formed by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences and their
memberships announced by Academy president
Gregory Peck. The branches are music,
short subjects and writers.
Co chairmen of the music branch executive
committee are Elmer Bernstein and
Bronislau Kaper. Its members are Gene de
Paul. Gerald Fried. Herschel Burke Gilbert,
Jay Livingston, Jerry Livingston, Henry
Mancini. Dory Previn, Walter Scharff, Lafo
Schifrin, Ernie Sheldon. Richard M. Sherman
and Robert B. Sherman.
Co-chairmen of the short subjects branch
executive committee are Hal Elias and
Harry Tytle; members are Joseph Ansen, T.
Hee, Jack Kinney, Herbert Klynn, Alex
Levy and Adrian Woolery.
Chairman of the writers branch executive
committee is Daniel Taradash; members are
Michael Blankfort, Warren Duff, Ivan Goff,
Ernest Lehman, Richard Murphy, Edmund
H. North, George Seaton and Stirling Silliphant.
An Academy president. Peck is an ex
officio member of all committees.
Award rules committees for six Oscar
categories also have been announced by
Peck. Committee members will establish
rules for Academy Award consideration in
their respective categories.
Chairmen and committees are: Walter
Scott and Jack Martin Smith, art direction;
Hal Mohr, cinematography; Shelia O'Brien,
costume design; William Hornbeck, film
editing; Fred Hynes, sound and Farciot Edouart,
special visual effects.
Reuters to Determine
Golden Globe Winners
HOLLYWOOD—The Hollywood Foreign
Press Ass'n has retained the services
of Reuters News Bureau to conduct a poll
of moviegoers throughout the world to establish
the top world film favorites, male
and female, for the 27th annual Golden
Globe Awards presentation.
The Golden Globe Awards will be held
at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador
Hotel February 2.
Last year's world film favorite Golden
Globe winners were Sophia Loren and Sidney
Poitier.
Benefit 'Dolly' Showing
For LA Newsman's Family
HOLLYWOOD—A special reserved-seat
pcrlormance of Ernest Lehman's production
of the 2()th Century-Fox musical, "Hello,
Dolly!", was held Monday (12) at Grauman's
Chinese Theatre here, with all proceeds
going to the widow and children of
the late Douglas Wilson, long-time press
photographer on the defunct L.A. Examiner
and the Herald-Examiner. Wilson died
last April 12 of injuries sustained in a motorcycle
accident.
Themed as the Doug Wilson Memorial
Benefit Performance, the special presentation
of "Hello, Dolly!" was jointly sponsored
by the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents
Ass'n; Cameramens Union, Local
659, and the Los Angeles Press Club
Eightball Welfare Foundation, organizations
of which Wilson was a charter member.
During World War II, Wilson covered the
Pacific theatre of operations from Guadalcanal
to Iwo Jima as a decorated Marine
Corps combat photographer.
Ellsworth to Helm Talent
Dept. for Frankovich
HOLLYWOOD—Bob Ellsworth, former
casting director for Columbia Pictures, has
been named to head the talent department
of Frankovich Productions, it was announced
Friday (9).
Ellsworth has been with Columbia for 26
years, starting his career in the industry as
an actor and stuntman. Active in the formative
years of the Screen Actors Guild,
Ellsworth worked as liaison between SAG
and the Hollywood studios. In 1943 he
joined Columbia as assistant casting director
and assistant director of labor relations
with the guilds.
Frankovich Productions will put "Doctors'
Wives" before the cameras in February;
"There's a Girl in My Soup" will start
in March, and "Alex in Wonderland" will
begin in April, all for Columbia release.
Feldman to Produce Two
For Warner Bros. Release
HOLLYWOOD—Edward S.
Feldman will
film two productions for Warner Bros, release,
"Choice Cuts" and "Scuba Duba."
A vice-president and executive assistant
to former studio head Kenneth Hyman,
Feldman will personally produce "Cuts"
based on the suspense novel by Pierre Boileau
and Thomas Narcejac. He will serve as
executive producer on "Scuba," adaptation
of the Bruce Jay Friedman play.
Winkler Wants Films
With Social Content
BY SYD CASSYD
HOLLYWOOD—He sounds like an angry
young man when he calls for a change
in the Hollywood practice of top executives
viewing films in their comfortable homes
instead of mixing with audiences in theatres
and getting their honest reactions. He wants
his directors tuned in to the "way it is." He
makes pictures to satisfy himself but will
choose directors as "I treat a painting."
Irwin Winkler, producer of "They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?" with his partner Robert
Chartoff under their Chartwink Productions
banner, extended his last statement
with the proviso "that some people like
Matisse, some Rembrandts," and he looks
upon today's filmmaking as a director's medium.
He buys his stories "with social content,"
for as he explains it, "today's motion
picture audiences are proving conclusively
that they are interested in social issues."
One Stars
Lee Marvin
The list of their films carry this stamp
of content; "Point Blank," the Lee Marvin
picture which introduced young Britisher
John Boorman as the director and who is
now part of their organization, and their
present picture, "Leo the Last," based on an
original by George Tabori, with Marcello
Mastroianni starring, is another Boormandirected
film soon to be released.
Three other films, "Speed Is of the Essence,"
with Isreal Horowitz writing the
screenplay; Jimmy Breslin's comedy being
scripted by Waldo Salt, "The Gang That
Couldn't Shoot Straight" and "Thumb Tripping"
are in early stages of preproduction.
They also own "Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern
Are Dead," the modern approach to
Shakespeare adapted from the stageplay.
Film Rights Cost $5,000
With Kim Darby starring in "The Strawberry
Statement," now in its final stages, a
question about the source of the material
came up. "Frankly," said Winkler, "a magazine
man recommended it to me as a short
story and I bought the rights for $5,000.
Subsequently, I chose young people, including
Stuart Hagman to direct the Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer release. The kids will dig
it, for it's about a riot on the Columbia
campus. I'm not sure how the Establishment,
the older people, will take it. But with
Miss Darby and Bruce Davison, one of the
stars of 'Last Summer," we can't
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970 W-1
miss."

Hollywood Happenings
fHE ANNUAL MEETING of Larry Harmon
Pictures Corp.'s executive group
was held in Hollywood corporate headquarters
Friday (9). Harmon representatives
from all over the United States, Canada
and the Far East were in attendance.
*
A film was shot in Simi Valley on special
background footage to be used in a fiveminute
demonstration reel on the new front
projection process, FPC 101, developed by
Front Projection Co. Bill Hansard, partner
in the company owned by Sherman Fairchild,
was in charge of the fihning.
•
Helmut Berger, who co-stars with Dirk
Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin in the Warner
Bros, release of Luchino Visconti's "The
Damned." arrived for a series of meetings
with the press. From Hollywood Berger will
continue to San Francisco, Chicago and New
York.
•
Quincy Jones, president of Symbolic Mu-
Productions, announced the appointment
sic
of Johanon Vigoda as
firm.
vice-president of the
•
Now that principal photography of National
General's "El Condor" has been completed
in Almeria, Spain, director John Guillermin
has set up headquarters at the Goldwyn
Studios to supervise the editing of the
picture.
•
Production designer Serge Krizman, on
his return from ten weeks' work on the
ABC Pictures Corp. feature "Mastermind"
in Kyoto, Japan, disclosed that he has been
experimenting with and has brought back
some rare Thai-inspired mica puppets, long
used for theatrical purposes in the Orient.
•
be a mem-
Robert C. Will, vice-president client services
of Harshe-Rotman & Druck, announced
the appointment of Robert Werden as an
account executive in the Los Angeles office.
Werden, who most recently was unit publicist
on Ross Hunter's production of "Airport"
for Universal Studios, will
ber of the account group responsible for
public relations on behalf of the 42nd annual
Oscar Awards of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. Co-chairmen
of the Short Subjects Branch Executive Committee
are Hal Elias and Harry Tytle; members
are Joseph Ansen, T. Hee, Jack Kinney,
Herbert Kiynn, Alex Lovy and Adrian
Woolery.
•
The Los Angeles Teachers Ass'n, composed
of 250 high school and college English
and history teachers, was the guest of
Universal at a special screening Saturday
(10) at the Encore Theatre of Hal Walhs'
production of "Anne of the Thousand Days."
Prior to that (7-8-9),
the picture was screened
for Academy members of the Screen Directors
Guild Theatre.
•
Leon Mirell announced the appointment
of Dan Whitman, former producer-director,
as executive in charge of TV development
for Leon Mirell Productions.
•
The National Conference of Christians
and Jews named Michael Landon, co-star
of NBC's Bonanza, as the recipient of its National
Mass Media Brotherhood Award. The
announcement was made by Norman Houston,
president of Golden State Mutual Life
Insurance Co. and newly elected co-chairman
of the NCCJ's Southern California region.
Genesis Films, the Filmways subsidiary
involved in the distribution of student-made
films, set a deal with CBS-TV's Glen Campbell
show to use a portion of the current
"Genesis 11" student film presentation on
one of the Campbell shows.
•
Peter Collinson arrived from London and
New York to complete final editing of the
Gene Corman production, "The Dubious
Patriots," which he directed for Columbia
Pictures.
•
One of the largest studio orchestras ever
used for a film, 92 pieces, has been assembled
by composer-conductor Gerald Fried to
record the background music for Robert
Aldrich's $8 million World War II drama,
"Too Late the Hero." The ABC Pictures
presentation for Cinerama Releasing Corp.
was produced and directed by Aldrich.
•
The Theatre Arts Department of UCLA
will hold a special screening of 20th-Fox's
"M*A*S*H" Tuesday (20) at the campus
theatre. Following showing of the Ingo
Preminger production, the 285 theatre arts
majors will join in a symposium with director
Robert Altman and co-star Donald Suth-
HOLLYWOOD HOST—Nevpton P.
"Red" Jacobs, left,
president of Crovrn
International Pictures, entertains with
a party in his Hollywood offices. Guests
Diane McBain, Syd Cassyd of BOX-
OFFICE and Ross Hagen, extreme
right, look on as Jacobs points out features
of "Sidehackers" promotion material.
the film.
Miss McBain and Hagen star in
erland. The picture will be given its West
Coast premiere March 4 in National General's
new Fox Westwood Theatre.
•
Commonwealth United's "A Play on
Love" opened on the London stage, following
the season's hits "Promises, Promises"
and "Play It Again, Sam."
•
Filmation, preparing for the biggest season
of its three-year history, has acquired
extra space for its offices and studio facilities
in its currently occupied quarters in
Reseda and has begun extensive remodeling
operations, according to Filmation executives
Norm Prescott, Lou Scheimer and Hal
Sutherland. In addition to their new-work
series, the company will produce two liveaction
and one full-length animated features.
•
George Parnassus, for 60 years one of
the top personalities in international boxing,
will be honored at a Friars Club testimonial
luncheon February 4 at the Friars Club, it
was announced by chairman Danny Goodman.
•
An exhibit of paintings, drawings and
sculpture by Aaron Stell, well-known motion
picture film editor, opened at the W&J
Sloane Shop in Beverly Hills.
•
Dennis Cross, who ran as an independent
candidate in the recent election of the
board of directors of the Screen Actors
Guild, has been appointed to the board as
a replacement for Phillip Pine, who resigned
due to pressure of interests. Also elected to
the board was Robert Easton.
•
Lloyd Burns has been appointed executive
vice-president of Screen Gems, succeeding
John H. Mitchell, who was recently
named president of the company.
•
Dean Parker, vice-president of Entertainment
Media, signed Brooks Atkinson, criticat-large
for the New York Times, for a college
lecture series to commence this spring.
The national tour features such noted lecturers
as Lillian Gish, David Aram and Vincent
Sardi jr.
•
Bertil Unger, president of the Hollywood
Foreign Press Ass'n announced that the 27th
annual Golden Globe Awards will be held
at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles February 2.
•
A 160-pound Great Dane named Juta has
been cast in a major role in "Invasion," the
Ultra-PIC-PECF motion picture production
being filmed in Rome for Warner Bros.
release. Juta portrays a pet for Lisa Gastoni,
who stars with Michel PiccoU.
*
Yvonne DeCarlo was set by producer
Robert Blees for a cameo appearance in
"The Delta Factor," the Spillane-Fellows
production now shooting at Universal, based
on the Mickey Spillane novel of the same
title. Spillane-Fellows Productions, an independent
film company, is a tenant of Universal
Studios, where they maintain their
international headquarters.
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Bookings Hold Up
Solidly in LA; 7' Debut Worth 780
Holiday Initiated
LOS ANGELES—Post-holiday grosses
dipped slightly but most pictures which
made their debuts here during the Christmas-
New Year's hiatus still were attracting
goodly numbers of patrons. The week's big
percentage, however, went to a fresh screen
attraction. "Z" grossing a king-size 780
as it bowed in at the Regent Theatre.
Next in line on the barometer came a
quartet of the holiday films— "Hello,
Dolly!", 480 at the Chinese; "Bob & Carol
& Ted & Alice," 480 at the Crest; "They
Shoot Horses, Don't They?", 400 at the Picwood,
and "The Reviers," 350 at the Pantages—
plus "Midnight Cowboy," still a 450
winner after 24 weeks at the BruinTheatre.
Still raking in the dollars in a most satisfactory
manner were "Marooned," 330 in
a fifth at the Egyptian, and "Paint Your
Wagon," also 330. although it has had ten
weeks at the Cinerama Theatre. Other newcomers
showing boxoffice power, in addition
to front-running "Z," were "Sidehackers,"
breaking in with 150 at the Academy
and State, and "The Mad Doctor of Blood
Island," also 150 in its debut at the Los
Angeles Theatre.
(Averoge is 100)
Academy, State Sidehockers (SR) I 50
Baldwin, Hollywood On Her Majesty's Secret
Service (UA), 4th wk 90
Beverly Generation (Embassy), 3rd wk 80
Bruin Midniglit Cowboy (UA), 24th wk 450
Chinese Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 4th wk 480
Cinema The Stewordesses (SR), 20th wk 190
Cinerama Point Your Wogon (Poro), 12th wk. . .330
Crest— Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col), 10th wk. 480
Egyptian Marooned (Col), 5th wk 330
Fine Arts A Dream of Kings (NGP), 3rd wk 200
Hollywood Pacific The Arrangement (WB),
4th wk 85
Loew's Cactus Flower (Col), 4th wk 195
Los Angeles The Mad Doctor of Blood Island
(SR) 150
Pacific's Beverly Hills 2001: A Space Odyssey
(MGM), 91st wk 95
Pontages The Reivers (NGP), 3rd wk 350
Picwood They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (CRC),
4th wk 400
Pix—Topaz (Univ), 4th wk 235
Plaza The Sterile Cuckoo (Para), 11th wk 250
Regent—Z (SR) 780
Village Gaily, Gaily (UA), 4th wk 225
Vogue John and Mory (20th-Fox), 4th wk 275
Westwood Hamlet (Col), 3rd wk 165
Wilshire Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 9th wk. ..170
'Bob & Carol' Outdistances Field
With Another 1,000 in Portland
PORTLAND—Still rated at 1,000 for a
third week was "Bob & Carol & Ted &
Alice," with which Cinema 21 has hit the
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jackpot. "101 Dalmatians," 500 in a third
stanza at the Orpheum, was the only picture
anywhere near the leader, percentagewise,
and since the Disney film is a reissue it isn't
carried in the regular first-run listings.
Business
generally was very good here as things
returned to normal after the Christmas and
New Year's vacation days.
Aladdin Putney Swope (SR), 2nd wk 250
Broadway Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 3rd wk. 175
Cinema 21 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
(Col), 3rd wk 1000
Eastgote I Topaz (Univ), 3rd wk 175
Eastgate II, Westgate II The Reivers (NGP),
3rd wk 300
Fox—On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
3rd wk 275
Irvington John ond Mary (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. ..200
Laurelhurst Coming Apart (SR), 3rd wk 200
Music Box Midnight Cowboy (UA), 22nd wk. ..300
Paramount Point Your Wagon (Para), 11th wk. 250
"Reivers' Gains 25 Barometer
Points in 3rd Seattle Week
SEATTLE—Three holdovers showed an
increase in grossing percentages over the
previous week: "The Arrangement," third
week at the Blue Mouse, gained 20 points
to 140; "The Reivers" added 25 points in a
third week at the Town to reach the 225
level, while "Paint Your Wagon," tenth
week at the Music Box, climbed from 175
to 180. "I Am Curious (Yellow)," however,
still ran far ahead of the field, showing 300
for a 32nd go-round at the Ridgemont.
Blue Mouse The Arrangement (WB), 3rd wk. ..140
Coliseum John and Mory (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. ..100
Fifth Avenue Cactus Flower (Col), 3rd wk 125
Music Box Point Your Wogon (Paro), 10th wk. 180
Paramount Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 2nd wk. 80
Ridgemount I Am Curious Yellow) (SR),
32nd wk 300
Seattle 7th Avenue On Her Majesty's Secret
Service (UA), 4th wk 1 50
Town The Reivers (NGP), 3rd wk 225
Uptown Downhill Roeer (Para), 7th wk 100
'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'
No. I in Denver With 350
DENVER—"Bob & Carol & Ted &
Alice" enjoyed another outstanding week
of solid patronage at the Cherry Creek and
'V^illa Italia theatres and ran off with the
city's best percentage—a composite 350.
Most tenacious challengers for the No. 1
spot were two highly popular roadshows
"Paint Your Wagon," 300 as it played the
Cooper for an 11th week, and "Hello,
Dolly!" 250 in completing a month on the
Continental screen.
Aladdin John and Mory (20th-Fox), 4th wk. . 125
Centre The Happy Ending (UA), 4th wk 125
Century 21 Cactus Flower (Col), 3rd wk 200
Cherry Creek, Villa Italia Bob & Carol & Ted &
Alice (Col), 3rd wk 350
Continental Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 4th wk. ...250
Cooper Point Your Wogon (Pare), 11th wk. ...300
Crest, Towne The Arrangement (WB), 3rd wk. . . 90
Denham Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 4th wk. ..200
Denver On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(UA), 4th wk 150
Esquire A Dream of Kings (NGP), 3rd wk . . 90
Ogden Oh! Whot a Lovely Wor (Para), 3rd wk. 80
Paromount The Reivers (NGP), 3rd wk 175
NSS-NTS Consolidation
In Kansas City and L.A.
NEW YORK — Holding to
a pledge to
speed consolidations of National Screen
Service and National Theatre Supply branch
offices for expanded customer facilities, the
latest mergers have taken place in Kansas
City and Los Angeles, according to an announcement
by Milton Feinberg, NSS vicepresident
and general sales manager. These
moves bring to 13 the total number of NSS-
NTS consolidated branch offices which have
been established since National Screen Service
Corp. acquired National Theatre Supply
in mid-1969.
In Kansas City, NTS' former office at
1800 Wyandotte St. has been moved into
NSS' present branch at 1800 Baltimore Ave.
In Los Angeles, the former NTS branch
office at 800 North Cole Ave., Hollywood,
has been merged into the existing NSS office
at 2001 South LaCienega Blvd.
Feinberg stated that National Screen Service's
goal of 13 merged offices by Thursday
(1) had been reached. Plans are being completed
to schedule the remaining NSS and
NTS branch offices.
Executive Story Editor
AIP Names George Bloom
HOLLYWOOD—Lawrence A. Gordon,
AIP vice-president in charge of project development,
armounced the appointment of
George A. Bloom as executive story editor.
The appointment of Bloom, who was associated
with MCA and Universal for nine
years before joining American International,
is in keeping with AIP's continuing plan for
orderly expansion to match the company's
accelerated production pace for the coming
year.
UPA Exchanges Stock
With DEI Industries
HOLLYWOOD—Henry Saperstein, president
of UPA Pictures, Inc., has announced
acquisition of all outstanding UPA stock in
exchange for common shares of DEI Industries,
Rockville, Md.
Saperstein said the agreement calls for
initial delivery of 400,000 shares of DEI
with an additional 700,000 shares made
available to the UPA stockholders based
on UPA's earnings performance.
City May Buy Theatre
TORRANCE. CALIF.—The city of Inglewood
is considering acquisition of a parcel
of land for a proposed downtown redevelopment
civic center complex which will include
the Inglewood Theatre.
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Les White, owner of the Gem Theatre in
Garden Grove, Calif., reports that he
and his wife, who have owned the theatre
since 1937, will again operate the theatre
now that the last five-year lease has run
out. White has leased the theatre four different
times during his ownership and now
plans to close it
for repairs and cleaning before
reopening.
. . Roily Gunderson,
Bill Wassernian, branch manager. Cinerama,
just returned from a vacation at Palm
Springs and Carmel .
branch manager. United Artists, also has returned
from his vacation.
Commonwealth United's "Viva Max!" will
open in the Los Angeles area with a 30-
theatre multiple run beginning Wednesday
(28). The picture has included two house
records among its first grosses from the
selected openings, it was announced by Mel
C. Maron. the company's senior vice-president
in charge of U.S. and Canadian distribution.
Lou Formate, MGM assistant general
sales manager, has retired from the company
effective Friday (9) and Lou Marks, assistant
general sales manager, will assume his
duties. There will be no replacement.
Favorite Films of California has acquired
distribution rights to "Free Grass," which
stars Richard Beymer, Lana Wood and Russ
Tamblyn.
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To Appear in LA Court
LOS ANGELES—Six theatre managers
were ordered to appear in Los Angeles
Municipal Court under a criminal complaint
issued by the city attorney's office based on
Section 853.6 of the California Penal Code.
Voluntary appearance, instead of an arrest,
was set by the judge, though he has the
authority under the code to subject the managers
to personal arrest. Arraignment was
set for Wednesday (14).
The judge viewed the film "I Am Curious
(Yellow)" at the police auditorium before
issuing the criminal complaint and a spokesman
from the district attorney's office stated
that an expert had deemed the film "to exceed
contemporary community standards,"
which brought it under state law.
The district attorney declined to name his
two expert witnesses who will testify when
and if the case comes to trial.
Punishment, if the managers are found
guilty of the disdemeanor, carries a maximum
jail sentence of six months or a fine
of $500 or both. Trial may be delayed for
some time depending on motions filed.
In federal court in Los Angeles, attorney
Stanley Fleishman, representing Grove
Press, distributors of the film, presented the
case against seizing the physical prints of
the film, which had no relation to the case
to be heard in the municipal court. Hearing
was held Friday (9).
Managers asked to appear are Ralph
Younts, State Theatre; Robert L. Towers,
Corbin Theatre; Erne Sussman, Capri Theatre;
Robert L. Towers, Corbin Theatre;
Erne Sussman, Capri Theatre; John Arnold,
Century, and Jon Murki, Picfair, both
Loew's circuit theatres. Arnold is an assistant
manager; also, Sotos Kappas, North Hollywood.
Nat Fellman Announces
Twin Theatre for Texas
HOLLYWOOD—Ground has been broken
for the Fox Twin Theatre in Corpus
Christi, Tex., it was announced by Nat D.
Fellman, president of NGC Theatre Corp.,
theatre division of National General Corp.,
Los Angeles.
Fellman said the new entertainment facility
will have two theatres, one with 700
seats and the other with 550 seats. The
theatres, which will be equipped with all
the latest innovations in motion picture presentation,
will open in early spring.
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The firm presently operates 287 theatres
27 states.
Dead
Robert Barrat Is
HOLLYWOOD — Veteran actor Robert
Barrat, 78, who portrayed General Douglas
MacArthur in "They Were Expendable" and
"American Guerilla in the Philippines," died
of a heart ailment Wednesday (7) in Midway
hospital.
Barrat came to Hollywood after many
years on the New York stage and played
in dozens of films, including a leading role
in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"—one
of the industry's first color pictures. He had
been in retirement since 1963.
AM-CI Opens Westdale
Quadplex Theatre
PHOENIX, ARIZ. — American
Multi-
Cinema's quadplex Westdale Theatre opened
Christmas day in the Westdale Shopping
Center at 35th Avenue and Van Buren.
The four side-to-side auditoriums seat 329
each, giving an over-all capacity of 1,316.
Two projection booths are arranged so each
serves two of the auditoriums from individual
projection machines for each of the
four screens and the eight projectors are
computer programmed, with the computer
also controlling lighting and curtain. All
auditoriums are served by a common lobby
and boxoffice.
The multi-theatre complex plans a policy
of diversified film fare to meet the tastes of
all age groups of the family.
Stanley Durwood of American Multi-Cinema
has previously announced similar quadplex
theatres for the Westwood Shopping
Center in Mesa and the Sears-Rhodes Shopping
Center here.
Radnitz, 'Mountain/ Gamer
Honors From Film Critics
HOLLYWOOD—Robert B. Radnitz, who
will produce "The Little Ark" and "The
Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" for Cinema
Center Films during 1970, is the recipient
of three accolades for his production of "My
Side of the Mountain," a Paramount release.
The Venice Film Festival has awarded
the picture a Silver Medal for 1969, the
third top honor accorded Radnitz by the
festival. Judith Crist, noted film critic, has
chosen the film among her ten best films
of 1969. Frances Taylor, syndicated columnist
for the Newhouse National News Service
and the National Catholic Register also
saluted the film as one of the ten best of
1969.
Since 1960, Radnitz productions of "A
Dog of Flanders," "Misty," "Island of the
Blue Dolphins," "And Now Miguel," have
won a total of 17 awards and honors from
such organizations as the National Education
Ass'n, National Council of Churches
and Parents, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen
magazines.
South America
Stars to
For 'The Last Movie'
HOLLYWOOD—One of the largest contingents
of film stars ever to "invade" South
America takes off from Los Angeles on
APSA Peruvian Airiines Friday (23) when
the cast of "The Last Movie" heads to Cuzco
via Lima for start of filming.
Among those on board for the Dennis
Hopper starrer will be Peter Fonda, John
Barrymore jr., James Mitchum, Dean Stockwell,
Russ Tamblyn, Chill Wills, Diane
Varsi, John Philip Law, Poupee Bocar, Severn
Darden and Don Gordon, along with
producer Paul Lewis.
The Universal release wUl be filmed entirely
in Peru.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

Ask More State Funds
To Lure Filmmakers
ALBUQUHRQUE—St ate IliiuIs arc
needed to continue the work of attracting
the film industry to New Mexico if
the state
is to become a "second Hollywood," Albuquerque
exhibitor Lou Ciasparini told the
Optimists Club here.
"We have to get on the bandwagon now
or lose everything we have accomplished."
said Ciasparini, who is also chairman ot
the Uovernor's Movie Committee.
Ciasparini, manager of the Fox-Winrock
Theatre here and head of the governor's
committee since its formation in 1967, said
that Gov. David Cargo would ask the upcoming
session of the legislature for $100,-
000 to set up a formal organization to lure
filmmakers.
He said that about $25,000 of the money
would be used to pay a local liaison man
and also a Hollywood contact man.
"We must keep politics out of this," he
said, and noted the liaison man must have
a deep background knowledge of the state.
"Hollywood producers can be enticed to
New Mexico as long as they are not victims
of politics, pressuring and gouging when
they get here," Gasparini said. "For years
1 have been hearing the question asked how
we can hold tourists in New Mexico another
day. A motion picture complex such as the
one at Old Tucson would not only hold
them another day but four or five days."
Gasparini said that since his committee
was organized three years ago, approximately
$35 to $40 million worth of pictures
have been shot in the state, with about 30
per cent of the total actually remaining in
the state. He went on to say that his committee
is a bi-partisan one which has never
received a penny in state funds on which
to operate and that personal expenses for
telephone calls, lunches and so on have
come out of members' pockets.
Building Sound Stage
On NM State Fairgrounds
ALBUQUERQUE—The New Mexico
State Fair has started work on renovation
of a 15,000-square-foot building on the
grounds to make it available for use as a
film sound stage.
The building, which at one time was a
ballroom here, caught the eye recently of
TV producer David Dortort who was in
New Mexico scouting locations for upcoming
properties. He expressed an interest in
using the building on the fairgrounds, because
of its facilities and its accessibilities
to housing and services in Albuquerque.
Work on conversion of the structure is
expected to take about six weeks and cost
approximately $15,000 to $20,000, says
fair manager Finlay MacGillivray.
The building, used during World War II
for classified government work, was acquired
by the state fair here about two years ago.
It has been empty for several years.
Another building on the state fairgrt)unds,
the massive 12,()00-seat Tingley Coliseum,
was recently used as a sound stage by crew
from RFB Hnterprises, which filmed "The
Wine and the Music" feature interiors in it.
Pruneyard UA Cinema
Automated Triplex
CAMPBELL, CALIF. — Workmen
rushed to complete the projection booth in
the 26,000-square-foot building housing the
United Artists Theatre circuit's triplex
Pruneyard United Artists Cinema, the first
commercial unit in the big Pruneyard Shopping
Center at Bascom and Campbell avenues,
set for a Christmas Day opening.
Kingpin of the complex being built with
very strong early California architectural
lines, including arched entries, is the UA
Cinema One with 816 loge seats and a
screen policy of first-run films. UA Cinema
Two has a 480-seat auditorium and the
third entrance off the ornate main lobby
leads to UA Cinema Three, a 279-seater,
Decor ranges from seven 600-pound
wrought iron chandeliers in the main lobby
to a natural-stained beamed ceiling in the
large theatre, heavy emphasis on orange
color and heavy woodwork. The 40x20-foot
screen in UA Cinema One has no drapery
shrouds.
The central projection booth serving all
three theatres is equipped with unique, new
Italian-made Cinemeccamica projection
equipment which functions on a fully automated
basis, with even intermissions prescheduled.
Manager of the triple situation is William
Miller, one-time manager of the RKO
Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, and
most recently manager in Inglewood.
ALBUQUERQUE
'^Jayae Gardner, manager of the Duke City
Drive-In here, is currently on his annual
two-week vacation.
Hollywood writer-producer
Abby Mann,
his wife and director Alistair Reid were in
New Mexico to look over locations for their
upcoming film, "The Pied Piper," which
they plan to do for National General.
Lou Higdon, a former official of Frontier
Theatres at Dallas before his retirement, is
hospitalized in Dallas, it was reported here.
Higdon reportedly suffered a heart attack.
After his retirement he operated the San
Mateo Golf Center here until his move to
Texarkana, Tex., last August.
Rio Theatre Repainted
SOLEDAD, CALIF,—Roy Martinez has
painted the exterior of his Rio Theatre on
Front Street. The new colors are olive green
with black trim.
SAN FRANCISCO
The l''.nipirc Thealre here celebrated its 44th
anniversary with a large and elaborate
cake served to patrons arriving near the
dinner hour. Taking its original name from
a nearby municipal railway structure, the
house opened Dec. 26, 1925, as the West
Portal. Several members of the Levin family,
which has operated the house since
opening, were present
for the event.
Universal International tied up bookers
and buyers for the whole day Thursday (15)
with screenings of forthcoming product. A
luncheon at the Jack Tar Hotel was sandwiched
between a morning showing of "Anne
of the Thousand Days" and an afternoon
unreeling of "Airport." both at Blumenfeld
Theatres' new Regency 11 Theatre.
John Roberts, salesman at MCiM. is leaving
for a similar position with Elmer Hollander's
Tower Films . . . Dave Baughn,
another MGM dropout, has moved to Los
Angeles to become Western States sales
manager for Eve Productions. Dave will be
back in town Friday (30) to wed his longtime
girl friend Joanne Prall.
Seen about town recently were NGP's
Mitch Vogel and Rupert Cross, here for promotion
of "The Reivers." Local flack was
handled by Dave Allen of the Jack Wodell
Agency . . . Daniel Mann, director of "A
Dream of Kings," also was in town in connection
with the opening of the film at the
Alhambra.
The world premiere engagement of Cinerama's
"Jenny" got off to a fine start, breaking
the Stage Door Theatre's house record
previously held by "Romeo and Juliet." . . .
House records also are being broken at the
lovely Castro Theatre by "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid," which has been
running continuously at one theatre or another
since October I.
Pat Lachnit, booking office secretary at
Syufy Theatres, has been out of service for
several days following a minor auto accident
. . . Norm and Toni Dyksterhuis, both
with the local United Artists branch, returned
from a year-end holiday in Seattle.
FINER PROJECTION-SUPER ECONOMY

DENVER
The regular monthly meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Motion Picture Ass'n was
held at the Radisson Hotel. The organization
is now pushing for payment of the annual
dues . . . Columbia screened "The Virgin
Soldiers" at the Century screening room
and Warner Bros, screened "Frankenstein
Must Be Destroyed" . . . Louis F. Polk,
former president of MGM, was the speaker
Tuesday (13) at the University of Denver.
His talk dealt with marketing aspects of business
combinations.
Visiting the exchanges to set bookings
were Vern Peterson and John Lindsey, Evergreen
Theatres of Colorado. Loveland; Bob,
Dolly and Donna Heyl, Wyoming Theatre.
Torrington, Wyo.; Dick Klein, Trojan Theatre,
Longmont; Neal Lloyd and Howard
Campbell, Westland Theatres, Colorado
Springs; Lyle Myers, Yuma Theatre, Yuma,
Colo.; Lloyd Grove, Cine-Moly Theatre,
Leadville, and Don Swales, Wheeler Opera
House, Aspen.
Le Roy "Bill" Hobson, a veteran film
distributor who has been handling Allied
Artists product in the territory, has been
seriously injured in an automobile accident
and is a patient at St. Lukes Hospital here.
Hobson and his wife were hit broadside at
a downtown intersection. Clarence Batter of
Batter Booking Service at 925 21st St., phone
244-7069, is temporarily handling the bookings
and other business for Hobson until
he is able to be back at the desk again.
SEATTLE
^JGM, closing its exchange here the end of
the month, will maintain a one-person
sales office at the same address and phone
number, with Ed Hinchey, the resident sales
representative, in charge. Other functions
will be handled by the San Francisco branch.
Paul Ripps, the present branch manager, is
transferring to San Francisco as assistant
division manager and Kelda Ytterdahl, who
has been cashier, also is transferring to the
California office. In Portland, a similar office
sales set-up will be manned by Al Heminway,
presently of Portland, who will continue
as resident sales manager.
Booker Frank Staeger, transferred here
from Portland by 20th Century-Fox. will
continue to handle Portland bookings from
this city.
Connie Carpou, representing Embassy
Pictures out of San Francisco, was in
town
before going on to Portland. Carpou formerly
was branch manager of the MGM
exchange here . . . Larry Blair, manager of
Commonwealth United, was in Portland calling
on the trade.
Paramount company auditors from Los
Angeles have been at the exchange for the
past two weeks . . . Ben Hannah of the
Paramount sales staff is growing a goatee
for the new year, while branch manager
John Olds started the new year by shaving
off his mustache . . . Paramount held a
special invitational preview performance of
"The Molly Maguires" at the Uptown Theatre
Wednesday (14).
"The Magic Christian," the Raquel Welch
and Peter Sellers starrer released by Commonwealth
United, will be playing in early
February at United Artists' Cinema 70.
Ex-theatre manager John Eric Lenze, 28.
was charged with grand larceny. Lenze was
accused of embezzling money from the Seattle
7th Avenue Theatre between August
1967 and August 1969, while he was manager
of the theatre. Audits have disclosed
more than $18,000 missing from the theatre.
Bail for Lenze was set at $3,000 by
Justice Court Judge Charles M. Stokes.
Theatremen Are Fined
In Obscenity Hearing
SEATTLE — Ralph Raymond "Tiny"
Becker. 40. and Michael Harvey Borden.
28, who pleaded guilty after being arrested
in the raid on the Rivoli Theatre last spring,
were sentenced in the Superior Court of
Judge David W. Soukup.
Becker, charged with exhibiting obscene
motion pictures and maintaining a public
nuisance, was fined $1,000 and given a
suspended one-year jail term on the condition
he would no longer conduct the same
type of business.
Borden, who sold tickets at the theatre
and also was arrested in the April 9, 1969.
raid, was fined $500 and given a suspended
sentence of six months, also on condition
he would not participate in the same type
of business.
The prosecution
had recommended fines
totaling $2,100 for Becker and a $500 fine,
plus six months in jail, for Borden. Gary E.
Culver, attorney for the defendants, said
his clients had been unemployed for the
past few months but have job opportunities
outside of Seattle.
Avco Embassy Opens New
Branch in Salt Lake City
NEW YORK—Avco Embassy Pictures
has announced the opening of a Salt Lake
City branch office Thursday (15) under the
local control of Lyle Livsey, whose responsibilities
will include the Salt Lake and Denver
territories.
The new branch facility, located in the
University Club Bldg., 136 East South Temple.
Suite 1111, will be under the general
administration of the Los Angeles office.
PORTLAND
J^ex Hopkins, who retired as Fox-Evergreen
city manager, was honored Friday (9)
with a luncheon at the Benson Hotel attended
by National General and Fox-Evergreen
executives and theatre managers. William
Thedford, vice-president in charge of
theatres for NGC, Los Angeles; Al Davis,
Fox-Evergreen district manager, Seattle,
and 17 managers from Oregon and Washington
attended. Hopkins, who retired after
more than 28 years as a manager for Fox-
Evergreen, was presented with a stereo radio
for his den. His wife Ruth attended the
luncheon, as did members of his staff. Mrs.
Alton Robbins, wife of his successor, and
Robbins, a 30-year veteran with Fox Evergreen.
As for longevity with Fox-Evergreen,
Louise Todd, who continues as secretary for
Robbins, and Carl Miller, Hollywood Theatre
manager, also are long-time employees.
Edward J. Myrick, 80, a theatreman
known nationally, one-time manager of
theatres here, died Saturday (3). Myrick,
who retired in 1941, once was co-director
of a theatre managers training school in
New York operated by the Paramount Theatre
Co. The veteran, who managed, built
and supervised theatres throughout the
country in Florida, New Orleans, San
Diego and here, was once executive vicepresident
of the United Theatre Corp. of
New Orleans. Born in Girard, La., he began
his career in 1903 as a rewind boy on
an Edison machine in a Little Rock, Ark.,
amusement park. Before coming to this city
to manage the Columbia Theatre in 1913,
he worked in theatres in Missoula, Mont.,
and Seattle.
Dewayne Foust Manager
Of Updated Voris Theatre
TWIN FALLS, IDA. — The remodeled
Voris Theatre was reopened recently under
the managership of Dewayne Foust, who
bought the movie house from the Bowen
Theatre Co., Burley.
Foust has put a new brick veneer on the
outside of the building and has repainted
inside and out, as well as installing new
seats and carpeting in the auditorium. He
said that as soon as the new sign was delivered,
Frontier
the name would be changed to the
Theatre.
"If Jerome will support my theatre, if I
can show a gross profit, I can run first-run
movies," Foust stated. "If not, I will have
to show second-rate features. I don't want
to do that."
Close MGM Seattle Exchange
SEATTLE—The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
exchange in Seattle will operate as a sales
office only, effective February 2. All other
business will be handled by MGM's San
Francisco branch located at 3360 Geary
Blvd.. Suite 301. San Francisco, Calif.
94118. Seattle will continue to be a shipping
point as in the past and prints will be returned
to such location.
W-8 BOXOFFICE ;: January 19, 1970

Goodbye,
'Bob & Carol; 'Dolly!'
Remain Ahead in KC
KANSAS CITY—Although post-Christmas
grosses dropped considerably, the "top
five" attractions remained the same as the
previous week. "Bob & Carol & Ted &
Alice" and "Hello, Dolly!" continued to vie
for the top spot, with the former pulling 650
as opposed to "Dolly's" 600. Third place
with 450 each—went to "Paint Your Wagon"
and "John and Mary." "Cactus Flower"
(400) and "The Reivers" (375) took
number four and five slots, respectively.
The sole newcomer, "All Neat in Black
Stockings"— playing a multiple run at ten
theatres—garnered a "just average" 100.
(Average Is 100)
Brookside Midnight Cowboy (UA), 23rd wk 235
Capri Point Your Wogon (Para), 9th wk 450
Cinema Wesf 2, Metro 2, Ranch Mart 1, Towne
I—The Reivers (NGP), 3rd wk 375
Embassy I, II John ond Mory (20th-Fox),
4th wk 450
Empire— Vivo Mox! (CUE), 4th wk 1 50
Fine Arts Toite the Money and Run (CRC),
4th wk 125
Glenwood I Mr. Chips (MGM), 4th wk. 250
Glenwood II Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 4th wk. ..600
Kimo Putney Swope (5R), 3rd wk
Kimo South Oh! What a Lovely Wor (Para),
1 50
3rd wk 100
Midland Cactus Flower (Col), 3rd wk 400
Plaza On Her Maiesty's Secret Service (UA),
4th wk 175
Ranch Mart 2 The Sterile Cuckoo (Para),
12th wk 90
Roxy Topoi (Univ), 3rd wk 250
Ten theatres All Neat in Black Stockings (NGP) 100
Bob & Corel & Ted & Alice (Col),
Towne
3rd
2
wk 650
Towne 3, .350
4 The Arrangement (WB), 3rd wk. . .
Children Are Offered
A 'Movie of the Month'
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Under the
sponsorship of L. S. Ayres & Co., the Lafayette
Square Cinema, Carlyle, Regency I and
Glendale Cinema I theatres are participating
in showing a "Children's Movie of the
Month" on one weekend of each of the first
four months of 1970.
Ayres' officials, citing what they feel is
a need for "films suitable for young children,"
said the films are distributed by a
New York firm founded by two fathers of
large
families.
The movies scheduled include "The Boy
With the Laughing Dog," Saturday and Sunday
(17-18); "The Blue Bird," February 14-
15; "Smiley," March 7-8, and "Son of Robin
Hood," April 18-19. The motion pictures
have been screened and approved by familyoriented
groups including the National Catholic
Office of Motion Pictures, National
Council of Churches of Christ in America,
National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, Motion
Picture Ass'n of America and Synagogue
Council of America.
Award to
Al Boos
ST. JOSEPH, MO.—The Area Chamber
of Commerce's Civic Achievement award
was presented to Al Boos, assistant manager
of American Multi-Cinema, at the
grand opening of the Hillcrest 4 Theatres, a
four-theatre complex located in the Hillcrest
Plaza Shopping Center. The award was
made by Joseph' L. Gray, chamber president.
(PhotD by Harry Kaufman)
VARIETY TENT 4 CREW—Newly elected St. Louis Variety Club Tent 4
crew installed at the December meeting, headed by chief barker Leon Neuman
(seated center): Standing, left to right, Harry Wald, Arthur C. Benassi, Joseph
Marion, Roy Muehlemann; seated, left to right, Dion Peluso, first assistant chief
barker; Frank Chervitz, second assistant chief barker; chief Neuman; Milton
Mandel, dough guy, and property master, Al Wheeler. Crew members not present
were Eugene P. Slay and Johiiny Londoff.
NSS-NTS Consolidation
In Kansas City and L.A.
NEW YORK — Holding to
a pledge to
speed consolidations of National Screen
Service and National Theatre Supply branch
offices for expanded customer facilities, the
latest mergers have taken place in Kansas
City and Los Angeles, according to an announcement
by Milton Feinberg, NSS vicepresident
and general sales manager. These
moves bring to 13 the total number of NSS-
NTS consolidated branch offices which have
been established since National Screen Service
Corp. acquired National Theatre Supply
in mid-1969.
In Kansas City, NTS' former office at
1800 Wyandotte St. has been moved into
NSS' present branch at 1800 Baltimore Ave.
In Los Angeles, the former NTS branch
office at 800 North Cole Ave., Hollywood,
has been merged into the existing NSS office
at 2001 South LaCienega Blvd.
Feinberg stated that National Screen Service's
goal of 13 merged offices by Thursday
(1) had been reached. Plans are being completed
to schedule the remaining NSS and
NTS branch offices.
MGM Closes Its Exchange
In Indianapolis Jan. 19
INDIANAPOLIS—The Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer exchange in Indianapolis will operate
as a sales office only, effective Monday (19),
it was announced by R. B. Meinerding,
branch manager. All other business will be
handled by MGM's Chicago branch, located
at 550 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 111.
60606.
Indianapolis will continue to be a shipping
point, as in the past, and prints will
be returned to such location.
Fred Souttar Elected
MPA of
KC Head
KANSAS CITY — The Motion Picture
Ass'n of Greater Kansas City held its annual
election of officers
Friday (9) during a
luncheon meeting at
Dave Smith's Armour
East Restaurant. The
following officers
were elected: Fred
Common-
Souttar,
wealth Theatres, president;
Gerry Haile,
Paramount Pictures,
first vice-president;
Fred Souttar
Dan Meyers, Galvin-
Farris-Ross, Inc., second vice-president;
Harold Hume, Fox Midwest Theatres, secretary,
and Lee Joehnck, Commonwealth
Theatres, treasurer. Chuc Barnes, United
Motion Picture Ass'n executive secretary
and outgoing MPA secretary, turned in his
resignation to the MPA board prior to the
election so Souttar could be placed on
the board.
The Crippled Children's Nursery School
monthly board of directors meeting was held
Tuesday (13) at the school. Doug Lightner,
Commonwealth Theatres, and Ray Mc-
Kitrick, Universal Pictures, represented the
MPA and reported that proceeds from the
"Hello, Dolly!" benefit, held at the Glenwood
Theatre, will exceed the $7,500 mark.
Donations are still being received and the
total proceeds have not been announced at
the
present.
Souttar announced that a meeting would
be held Thursday (15), at which time the
new committees would be formed.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970 C-1

KANSAS CITY
Qrace Roberts, 20th Century-Fox cashier,
will remember the first full week in
the year. She celebrated her social security
birthday, as she calls it, purchased a new
1970 Chevy and was selected as "Sweetheart
of the Day" by Radio WDAF Friday (9).
She received several gifts from the radio
for a movie of her choice.
Ernie Block, Sabetha, Kas., exhibitor, now
residing in Florida, reports that his wife
Louise has entered the Palms of Pasadena
Hospital in St. Petersburg. Mrs. Block is
under intensive cardiac care and would
enjoy any cards or notes from her friends
on Filmrow. She is in room 324.
station, including a hairdo at Ronnie's, perfume,
flowers from Chandler's, dinner for
two at the Pavilion, a gift from Boyle's Famous
Corned Beef Co., pendant necklace and
two tickets to one of three Dickinson theatres
Mo-
Emily Bums, secretary for the local
tion Picture Machine Operators Union, who
became ill during a holiday flight to Washington,
D.C., is still in the Georgetown Hospital
in Arlington, Va. At present her condition
is not known. Mrs. Burns underwent
surgery Monday (12).
Bob Busher, Excelsior Springs exhibitor,
returned home last week after a five-day
holiday in Las Vegas . . . Leo Zabelin, Columbia
Pictures publicity man, was in Louisville,
Ky., last week on business ... Ed
Cruea, Allied Artists district sales manager,
spent a few days in town last week visiting
the newly reopened office here.
Dan Meyers, Galvin-Farris-Ross, Inc.,
advertising agency, was recognized by Radio
WDAF on Friday (9). "Be Nice to Dan
Meyers Day" was the frequent salutation
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and secretary at Fox Midwest
Theatres. Shirley formerly worked at the
MOM office here.
Several Filmrowers were able to leave
work a little early to join thousands of other
Kansas City fans to hail the Chiefs, the No.
1 Champs of the Football World. Some
went to the Liberty Memorial, others along
the parade route and some settled for TV.
Gerry Haile, Paramount branch manager,
says he still has good front and second row
seats left for the Golden Gloves finals to be
held February 19 at the Municipal Auditorium.
The tax deductible tickets are only
$5 for this worthy cause.
Evelyn Stein, Buena Vista secretary, has
returned to work after a three-week vacation
in Germany. When asked about her
trip, she said it was beautiful, the weather
bitter cold, and we quote, "There's No
Place Like America."
Robert Carney, retired veteran film salesman,
is a patient at Veterans Hospital after
breaking his hip from a fall on an icy pavement.
He is expected to be confined for
about eight weeks. Carney was with Paramount
Pictures for 25 years and later joined
Allied Artists and Howco Film Distributors.
He will be pleased to hear from friends in
the industry. Cards should be addressed to
him care of Veterans Hospital, 4802 Linwood,
Room 804 E.
Dr. James K. Loutzenhiser,
chairman of
the film committee for the Missouri State
Council on the Arts, spoke Sunday morning
(18) at the All Souls Unitarian Church
on "Modern Movies; Art or Obscenity?"
His talk was part of the Unitarian Forum
series. Dr. Loutzenhiser also will start another
of his Family and Films lecture series
at the University of Missouri—Kansas City
—division for continuing education. His
talks will be illustrated with U.S. and foreign
films about family relationships. There
will be eight sessions on Wednesdays, 7:30
to 9:30 p.m., from February 4 through April
1 except March 25. For further information
call CR 6-1463.
Forty years ago, the Kansas City Times
in its column by that name appearing Monday
(12) reports downtown first runs as follows:
"Dance Hall," starring Olive Borden,
Arthur Lake and Joseph Cawthorn, at the
Mainstreet; "The Sacred Flame" with Pauline
Frederick and Lila Lee at the Royal;
"Flight" with Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and
Lila Lee at the Pantages; "Sunnyside Up"
with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, at
the Loew's Midland, and "Disraeli," with
George Arliss, at the Newman.
Velma West Sykes, former member of
the BoxoFFiCE staff, and chairman of the
National Screen Council, was in Fort Collins,
Colo., for the wedding of her granddaughter
Patti Hadwick to Timothy Baab.
They will reside in Greeley, Colo., where
they are students.
Helen Walsh, wife of Chanute, Kas., exhibitor
Ray Walsh, is a patient at KU Medical
Center. She is in room 315D . . . Louis
Sutter's Princess Theatre in Kansas City,
Kas., closed for the last couple of years,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night (13).
Dick Conley's mother-in-law, who suffered
a stroke in Denver, died. Heartfelt sympathy
to Mrs. Conley and the family.
Bill LaVells is in Chicago today (19) for
Cinerama Releasing Corp.'s seminar on
forthcoming product. Later in the week,
LaVelle will go to St. Louis for the openings
of "Jenny" and "They Shoot Horses,
Don't They?"
Kansas Official Unhappy
With New Criminal Cocie
TOPEKA, KAS.—Dist. Judge E. Newton
Vickers has declared "Sex Family Robinson
on the Farm" immoral, lewd and lascivious
and ordered it not be shown in Kansas.
Shawnee County Atty. Gene Olander says,
however, that he views the ruling with
"mixed emotions." While it set a guideline
for judicial obscenity standards, it had
little
practical effect because the movie's run
at the Princess Theatre was completed before
legal wheels had been set in motion.
Other films to be considered for action by
the court are "Precious Jewels" and "Secret
Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet." The
Princess Theatre agreed not to show "Precious
Jewels" pending a ruling. A week is
the normal run of movies at the house, just
time for the county attorney to view the
film and file charges.
Olander predicted the situation will worsen
when the new criminal code goes into
effect in July. The new code strikes the
present statute and makes it a misdemeanor
for the manager of a theatre to show an
obscene movie. In effect, it removes the
criminal action from the film and places it
against the person who is showing it.
County Atty. Olander said obscene movies
could still be shown by other employees in
the event the theatre manager is prosecuted.
But he said he intends to continue
prosecuting movies which, in his opinion,
are in violation of the statute.
Reopen
Folly Theatre to
As Adult Art Film House
KANSAS CITY—The Folly Theatre, 72-
year-old burlesque house at 12th and Central,
which has been closed since December
30, is being remodeled and will be reopened
as an adult art film theatre under new management.
The date is expected to be by February
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The Royce Adams Enterprises of Miami
and William Berger of Cincinnati will operate
the theatre. William Britt of Florida will
be the new house manager.
Most of the original sculptured walls and
decorations will be retained.
Mae Questel has been signed for the role
of "Mrs. Katz" in 20th Century-Fox's
"Move."
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OPENING SOON—Wehrenberg Theatres' Cinema IV Centre, St. Charles,
Mo., is Hearing completion in the Mark Twain Shopping Center at suburban St.
Charles. The attractive building complex features four separate auditoriums offering
different fibn programs with staggered starting times. Ron Krueger, president
of Wehrenberg Theatres, plans a February opening date.
ST. LOUIS
J^idnight Cowboy" topped the best-ten lists
of films of the estimated 200 first-run
films shown in this area in 1969, as compiled
by critic Myles Standish, Post-Dispatch,
and Globe-Democrat motion picture editor
Frank Hunter . . . Standish, who called the
year 1969 one of turmoil in the movie world,
said: "TTiere was a resurgence of good westerns,
both comedies and realistic ones, a few
good dramatic films, some good musicals and
some first-rate comedies of the old-fashioned
type so despised by the Eastern critics."
Other films on his list were: "The Wild
Bunch," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,"
"Popi," "True Grit," "Faces," "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid," "Hello, Dolly!",
"Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell" and "The
Secret of Santa Vittoria."
Hunter, who prefaced his list with the
comment that 1969 may well be remembered
as the year when "doing your own
thing" was the war cry of the young and
some of their elders, said he would strike
a blow at tradition and name the "ten-bestplus-one"
and listed the following selections
for No. 2 through 11: "Oliver!", "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid," "Popi," "The
Wild Bunch," "Goodbye, Columbus," "True
Grit," "Hello, Dolly!", "Staircase," "The
Killing of Sister George" and "Me, Natalie."
Both critics listed dozens of other films
having special merit and Hunter continued
with a category of "A Few I'd Like to Forget,"
including: "Castle Keep," "Chastity,"
"Che," "de Sade," "80 Steps to Jonah,"
"491," "Greetings," "Grazie Zia," "How to
Commit Marriage," "Hannibal Brooks,"
"Hugs and Kisses," "Kiss Me, Kiss Me,"
"Putney Swope," "Plucked," "The Oldest
Profession," "Succubus," "Slaves," "Skiddo,"
"Secret Ceremony," "File of the Golden
Goose" and "The Christmas Tree." He called
"Loves of Isadora" pretty awful; "The
Wrecking Crew" Dean Martin's worst Matt
Helm picture thus far and commented that
for sheer vulgarity, you can't beat "The Gay
Deceivers," "2" and "3 in the Attic" and
called "The Sweet Body of Deborah" unquestionably
the most dreadful movie of the
year.
Harold Cohen produced and John Frankenheimer
directed the contemporary drama
for Columbia, titled "An Exile."
Karl Doran Has Reopened
Shuttered Lisbon Theatre
SALEM, ILL. — Anthony Corey has
leased the former Lisbon Playhouse to Karl
Doran of Haverhill, who has opened the
house as the Lisbon Cinema. Daily matinees
at 2 p.m. and two evening showings are
planned.
Doran has 31 years of experience in the
theatre business in Lexington, Maiden and
Wakefield, Mass., and in Boston proper. He
was associated with E. M. Lowe's General
Cinema Corp. of Boston and Lexmil Theatres
of Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Doran recently
moved to Haverhill.
Corey has owned the Lisbon Playhouse
since Oct. 9, 1956 and operated it until
1963. Since then it has been used on infrequent
occasions for community affairs.
Opening attraction for the Lisbon Cinema
was "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and
Doran announced plans to bring "good
wholesome family film entertainment every
day of the week."
Vandals Damage Screen
NAPERVILLE, ILL.—Vandals who hid
in the Naper Theatre after it closed for the
night irreparably damaged the screen by
kicking or punching holes in it, according
to Walter Matekaitis, manager. He patched
it for use temporarily but a new screen will
be required. The vandals also
broke a large
plate glass mirror in a washroom.
Remodel Paris Theatre
PARIS. ILL.—Remodeling and refurbishing
of the former Lincoln Theatre, now
owned by the Kerasotes Theatres circuit,
progressing according to schedule. Official
opening is anticipated some time next
month.
Colonial Theatre Reopens
BICKNELL, IND.—The Colonial Theatre
has reopened under the managership of
Mrs. Paul Love and Mike Love with showings
planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday
nights, as well as a Sunday afternoon
matinee.
"The Oblong Box" was produced and
directed by Gordon Hessler for American
International from Lawrence Huntingdon's
screenplay.
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Mexico Ledger,
72-Year-Old Patron
Praise 'Romeo and Young Filmgoers
MEXICO, MO.—Reflecting a complete
reversal of the "in" trend prevailing in some
publications, the Mexico Ledger recently
printed the following editorial:
"Well, there was this nude scene at the
Liberty Theatre last week. A lot of people
saw it. And, certainly, the Ledger has editorially
been denouncing nudity and that
kind of thing in movies for a long time . . .
"But this nude scene was different. It was
part of the movie "Romeo and Juliet.' The
show was rated M—mature audiences. Probably
it should have been. However, we wish
the rating committee had gone ahead and
made it G for general audience. Because
it was a great movie, it was great theatre,
and, of course, Shakespeare.
"The camera impressed us. Each scene
was magnificent. The cast was excellent. It
couldn't have been better. And the direction,
that priceless ingredient which can take a
great story and cast and camera and make
it nothing, or make it even more magnificent,
was magnificent.
"Yes, there was a nude scene. But it was
part of the story, it was not forced, it was
well done, it was not objectionable, it was
more than decent, it was . . . proper. I
believe is the word for it.
"So we want to congratulate the Frisina
circuit for bringing this splendid movie to
Mexi;o and playing it here at popular prices.
"And there is something else that must be
said. A 72-year-old Mexican telephoned
this editor one morning and said it well:
'Saturday night my wife and I went to
the Liberty to see "Romeo and Juliet." The
minute we got to the theatre I was afraid we
had made a mistake because there were so
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they almost filled the theatre and I had
visions of the kind of inattention they would
display for the inspiring words of that greatest
master of them all—my old friend William
Shakespeare. Also, I must confess, I
expected the worst because I had been told
Hollywood had forced a nude scene into the
story.
"I am calling to tell you my fears came to
naught. Our young people were magnificent,
just as magnificent as the production itself.
The nude scene was merely a part of the
whole wonderful flow of the drama. The
audience was just as wonderful. When the
show ended, those young people filed out of
the theatre quietly, almost reverently.
'So I am calling to say I am proud of our
young people. I am proud of this generation.
And I hope the next time somebody denounces
them as irresponsible campus-rioters
you will quote this representative from all
the way across the generation gap as saying
our younger generation—may well be the
best generation our country—the best country—ever
produced.' "
'The Damned' Midwest
Premiere in Chicago (22)
CHICAGO — Luchino Visconti's "The
Damned." the Warner Bros, motion picture
widely acclaimed in its American premiere
engagement at the Festival Theatre in New
York, will have its Midwest premiere Thursday
(22) at the Carnegie Theatre here.
Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin star in
the Technicolor drama with Helmut Berger,
Helmut Griem. Charlotte Rampling and
Florinda Bolkan.
A drama that probes the German soul on
the eve of Nazi power, "The Damned" was
directed by Visconti from a screenplay he
wrote with Nicola Badalucco and Enrico
Medioli. Alfred Levy and Ever Haggiag
produced the Pegaso-Praesidens film, for
which Maurice Jarre wrote the music.
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MAYOR CUTS RIBBON—Mayor
Nicholas Blase (center) is shown participating
in the ribbon-cutting ceremonies
for the opening of the new
1.000-seat, stadium-type Golf Mill II
Theatre Christmas Day, 1969, in suburban
Niles, III. With the mayor are
Bene Stein, left, general manager, and
Mort Fink, right, owner.
Prestige Shopping Center
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NASHVILLE—A theatre was announced
as one of the businesses to be operated in
a de luxe regional shopping center which the
C. Hooper Realty Co. plans to develop as
part of a residential-commercial complex
on 300 acres at the southeast corner of Old
Hickory Boulevard and Interstate 40.
Cliff Hooper, president of the development
company, said that home construction
will begin early this year, no two homes
to be alike and many ranging in the
$100,000 class.
Jack Dionne Is Appointed
Columbia Branch Manager
CHICAGO—Jack Dionne has been named
Columbia Pictures branch manager in
Chicago, it was announced by Milt Goodman,
vice-president and general sales manager.
Dionne had been branch manager in Milwaukee
since September 1966. In the new
position he will report to Milt Zimmerman,
Columbia's Midwest division manager. The
appointment is in keeping with Columbia's
long-time policy of promotion from within.
City Reconsiders Permit
URBANA, ILL.—The Urbana City Council
has agreed to review a request for a permit
to build a drive-in made by Decatur
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Midwest Film Event
Set for Friday (23)
CHICAGO—Last year's highly successful
Midwest Film Cont'crcnec hccomcs an annual
event with ihc expanded three-day conclave
scheduled to start Friday (23) at The
Latin School, 59 West North Blvd., Chicago.
Chaired by Frank McCallister, director of
the Roosevelt University's labor education
division, the program again will emphasize
"the creative use of film for education." Both
classic and newly released short films highlight
this year's session with special-interest
workshops in seven categories: "The Short
Film As Art." "Films and Aesthetic Education,"
"The Film As Art in Elementary and
Secondary School," "Films for International
Understanding." "Social Issues," "Language
Arts" and "Math and Science."
Special features of this year's conference
will include programs of noted filmmakers
Michael Whitney (computer-generated
films). Fred Hudson. Norman McLaren (animated
films) and others— feature screenings
of "The Fixer" and "Young Torless" and
talks by noted film personalities, including
Ronald Sutton of the American Film Institute.
Michael Whitney, Fred Hudson and
other filmmakers will personally present and
discuss their films.
The conference aims at all, not solely
teachers, who are interested in communicating
through films. The more than 400
who attended last year were made up of educators
of all levels, audio-visual department
heads, filmmakers, organization heads, religious
and community leaders and film buffs
from all parts of the country. All agreed with
the need for such a conference and called
for it to become an annual event.
The nonprofit Midwest Film Conference,
a group of Chicagoans interested in fostering
the use of fine films, anticipates a record-breaking
attendance at The Latin School,
which features ultra-modern facilities.
Co-sponsors are the American Film Institute.
Antidefamation League, Chicago Council
on Foreign Relations, Clark Theatre, Columbia
College Motion Picture Department,
Contemporary Films-McGraw Hill, The
Latin School, Films Incorporated and Roosevelt
Universitv.
Michael Ritchie to Direct
'Three Lives' for CCF
NEW YORX—Michael Ritchie has been
signed to direct "Three Lives for Mississippi,"
a Jalem production to be produced
by Gordon Carroll in association with
Douglas Netter for Cinema Center Films,
according to Jere Henshaw, vice-president
in charge of production for the company.
The film, involving many of the documentary
techniques Ritchie used in "Downhill
Racer" for Paramount, will be adapted
to script form from the William Bradford
Huie best-seller, dramatizing the true accounts
of the Ku Klux Klan-instigated murder
of three young civil rights workers in
Neshoba County, 'Miss., in 1964. Production
is set for 1970 on southern locales.
CHICAGO
Pnlph Baiigliart,
Midwest exploitation manager
for Cinerama Releasing Corp.,
was in New York for publicity sessions
dealing with new Cinerama films due to
open in this area. New product discussion
also will take place here Tuesday (20) at
the Continental Hotel, where Harry Buxbaum,
general sales manager, will start off
seminars. Also here for the activities involved
will be Arthur Manson, head of publicity
in New York; Bob Conn, Atlanta division
manager: Nate Levine, branch manager.
Detroit: Harold Lundquist, branch manager
for the Minneapolis-Omaha-Des Moines
areas: Ralph Hacker, St. Louis-Kansas City,
and Harry Goldman, Herman Gorelick and
Ralph Banghart of the Midwest exchange.
One of the new Cinerama films, "They
Shoot Horses, Don't They?", was recently
previewed for local exhibitors. Comments
after the showing indicated it was agreed
that this will be one of the more outstanding
films for 1970.
Condolences to Al Raymer on the death
of his father Morris Raymer. When Al was
in Florida Thanksgiving Day to help his dad
celebrate his 80th birthday, he had appeared
to be in good health.
Jonathan Winters, here for a two-day
round of press interviews in connection with
"Viva Max!", helped ease the difficulties
encountered in the sub-zero weather with his
clever comments.
"Cactus Flower," doing great business at
the State Lake Theatre in the Loop, has inspired
Columbia Pictures and the Chicago
Dental Society to search for "the prettiest
dental assistant" in the area. Jim McMillan,
Columbia publicist, says the "prettiest dental
assistant" does not need to be a look-alike
for Ingrid Bergman or for Goldie Hawn to
receive the numerous prizes involved.
Neighborhood moviegoers who have been
wanting family-fare entertainment will get it
in a double dose when outlying theatres join
in the showing Friday (30) of "The Undefeated"
with "Ring of Bright Water."
Jack Dionne was welcomed as exchange
manager for Columbia Pictures.
Herman H. Goldberg, who was a member
of Local 110, died.
Oscar Brotman has booked the first showing
in this area of "The Damned." It opens
at his Carnegie Thursday (22) . . . The Brotman
and Sherman Carnegie Theatre on the
near north side was the site for a special
preview of "The Molly Maguires."
Ringo Starr is due here for personal appearances
Friday (30) and Saturday (31) at
the Oriental Theatre showings of "The Magic
Christian." the film he made with Peter
Sellers . . . "Salesman," a documentary
about Bible-selling by Albert and David
Maysles, the filmmakers who recently photographed
the rock music orgy at the Altamont
Speedway near Livermore, Calif.,
opened for the first showing here at the
. . . Three Penny Cinema We have just
learned that Alban Evrim, new Carnegie
Theatre manager, is a linguist and he also
has a B.A. degree in accounting from the
University of Istanbul.
In the second of five public auctions,
ABC-Great States Theatres will dispose of
paintings, furniture, vases, torchieres, sculpture
and other items which glamorized such
B&K. theatres as the Chicago, Granada,
United Artists, Gateway. State, Congress
and Norlown theatres. At the first auction
last year, buyers from New York and Europe
came here to bid and reportedly paid up
to $1,500 for marble statuettes and placed
five-figure bids for paintings by such artists
as Ralph Blakelock, Cesare Detti and Ferdinand
Piloty. Ray Fox of ABC-Great States,
in talking about the auctions, said "all the
old theatres are being renovated and we no
longer need these things." Auctions are held
at Chicago Art Galleries, 5960 Broadway.
"The Gypsy Moths" opened for the first
time here in some 20 theatres all over town
. . . City and suburban theatres scheduled a
first showing of "The Brave Little Tailor"
as a matinee feature on Saturdays and Sundays.
The governor of Illinois, the mayor of
Chicago and the president of the Cook County
board officially proclaimed Wednesday
(14) as Ahepa Charities Day in recognition
of Ahepa's district programs, which include
their work with heart patients, scholarship
awards and the American Farm School.
Ahepa Charities Day coincided with their
sponsorship of a benefit preview of National
General Pictures Corp.'s "A Dream of
Kings" at the Roosevelt Theatre.
Mrs. Sarah Halper, 72, former manager
of movie theatres here, died in Michael
Reese Hospital. Mrs. Halper began managing
the Irving, Metro and other independent
theatres when her husband Samuel died in
1945. Mrs. Halper is survived by a son H.
Robert and two daughters, Mrs. Lenore
Aronson and Mrs. Helend Rosenberg.
Bruce Trinz calls the Clark Theatre movie
program for January "something for everyone."
During the entire month he has scheduled
action films, musicals, westerns, comedies,
thrillers, war dramas and classics from
Russia, France and Sweden. Included in the
program are "The Caretaker," "The Birthday
Party," "Spartacus," "Petulia," "How I
Won the War," "Ivan the Terrible" (I and
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II). "This Sporting Life," "Saturday Night
and Sunday Morning," "The Balcony," "The
Birds," "Winning," "Ulysses," "No Way to
Treat a Lady," "Lola Montez," "The Manchurian
Candidate," "The Boston Strangler,"
"Persona," "Hour of the Wolf," "Young
Girls of Rochefort." "Hell in the Pacific"
and "Charge of the Light Brigade."
Larry Dieckhaus, who came here from
MGM's Cincinnati office to handle publicity,
started off his duties by setting up a
campaign for the opening of "tick . . .
tick . . . tick" at the Roosevelt late this
month.
Universal Pictures executives feel, in
view of exhibitor praise, they have a couple
of winners in "Airport" and "Anne of the
Thousand Days." Hosts for the screening
held at the Oakbrook Theatre were Milton
Rackmil, Universal president; R. N. Wilkinson;
H. H. Martin; N. E. Gluck, New York,
and A. R. Kolkmeyer and H. Mitchusson of
the local exchange. Some 180 exhibitors
from all over the Midwest attended the
screenings and luncheon.
Cliarles Teitel said the Cinema at Madison,
Wis., reported very substantial business
with the showing of "All the Loving
Couples," which also is doing well in its
current run at the World Playhouse here.
Teitel Film Distributing is handling upcoming
bookings of the movie at theatres in
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Charles Einfeld, once a 20th Century-Fox
vice-president, stopped here for a visit with
his daughter Linda before going on to the
West Coast. Einfeld came here from Switzerland,
where he has established residence
... A full-fledged office romance in the
MGM offices here is resulting in the marriage
of Adele Drendel, bookers clerk, and
Evan Jeffrey Williams, who recently joined
MGM as a salesman. The wedding takes
place late this month . . ."Z" is in its first
local showing at the Cinema Theatre . . .
"The Monitors," filmed in this city, is being
presented at Le Image, 750 North Clark St.
. . . Louis Aurelio, United Artists branch
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Universal hosted a back-to-back
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screening of "Airport" and "Anne of the
Thousand Days" for exhibitors at the Oak
Brook Theatre Friday (9) . . . Buena Vista
executives have set a complete campaign for
the saturation booking in Chicagoland of
"The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," slated
to open in February.
Charles Teitel, head of Teitel Film Distributors,
was pleased to hear from the Cinema
II in Milwaukee that "All the Loving
Couples" broke all records . . . Teitel Films
is starting its campaign in behalf of the new
Audubon Film releases for upcoming city
breaks. Included are "Madame O" and "The
Artful Barbara," formerly titled "Black on
White." Teitel also has been appointed to
represent two new companies—Haven International,
with a first release soon to open
in this area titled "Fuego," an Argentinian
film, and Kaleidoscope, which is releasing
"Coming Apart," a movie which deals with
the mental collapse of a psychiatrist.
Quaker Oats Co, held a special screening
at the World Playhouse of "Monterey Pop."
Quaker has announced its intention of using
the film in connection with new promotions
and may employ the Leacock Pennebaker
organization in its proposed film ventures.
Charles Teitel is currently involved in the
production of Leacock Pennebaker product.
Leonard Grossman^ a highly respected
veteran of some 50 years, is now associated
with Stanford Kohlberg. He is in charge of
film distribution among the Kohlberg theatres.
Following the recent news reports that "I
Am Curious (Yellow)" has come under increasing
pressure as warrants were issued for
eight movie houses in Los Angeles County,
Ray Simon, Chicago corporation counsel,
said the film was allowed to be shown here
because of a Federal Appeals Court ruling
in New York which overturned a lower court
decision declaring the film was obscene. The
Illinois Small Businessmen's Ass'n is seeking
to have the movie and similar films banned
here. They maintain the Massachusetts law
which allowed the film to be banned in Boston
exists in almost identical form in Illinois.
The censor board reviewed only 38 films
during December 1969. Three were rejected.
The eight foreign movies reviewed were
made up of six Greek films, one French and
one Japanese.
Henry Markbreit, publisher of Where
Magazine, is chairman of the Variety Club
of Illinois third annual celebrity ball. The
event takes place Friday, February 13, in
the Guild Hall, Ambassador West Hotel.
Jack Gilbreth, president of Gilbreth Productions,
is vacationing at Key Largo . . .
Kermit Russell, Fanfare Films manager in
this area, is starting a West Coast holiday.
combined with some business activity, for
the balance of the month.
Jack Eckhardt, head of Cinemation industries
in the Midwest, is setting up bookings
for "Fanny Hill" throughout the area. Campaigns
have been arranged for the film to
show in 38 Chicagoland indoor theatres and
drive-ins; at the Wausau in Wausau, Wis.;
the Capitol, Racine, Wis.; the Downtown,
as well as six outlying theatres, in Detroit,
and business is holding up strong at the Point
and Tesa in Milwaukee, as well as the Orpheum,
Kenosha, where "Fanny" opened recently.
Sidney Kaplan and Allan Press of Commonwealth
United have completed arrangements
for the Midwest opening of "Viva
Max!" It shows first at selected outlying theatres,
including ABC-Great States' Uptown,
Valencia; General Cinema's Studio and Ford
City, Harlem Cermak and Randhurst; also
independent theatres, including the Glenwood,
and in the Kohlbert circuit, at the
Glen and Lawrencewood. "Viva Max!" had
additional openings in mid-January at the
South Town and Villa in Milwaukee; the
Cinema and Uptown theatres in Minneapolis;
the Cinema, Des Moines, and the Astro
in Omaha. To help start off the multiplerun
openings, the theme music from the
picture, which has been recorded by Al Hirt,
was featured during half-time as entertainment
at the Super Bowl game.
Timothy J. Ryan, who was a member of
Local 110, died.
The second Midwest Film Conference will
be held Friday through Sunday (23-25) at
The Latin School, 59 West North. Seven
workshops will be held in film culture, education
and technology, with special seminars.
Feature films to be shown include "The
Fixer" and "Young Torless." Tickets cost
$12.50 for the full conference. Chairman
this year is Frank McCallister of Roosev.elt
University.
Hugh Hefner, head of Playboy operations,
staged a showing of "How Did a Nice Girl
Like You Get Into a Business Like This?"
in his mansion. On hand for the showing
was Barbi Benton, star of the movie, producer
Horst Wendelandt and Will Trempler,
writer and director.
Bandit Gets Feel of $100
But Drops It in Flight
From Southeastern
Edition
ATLANTA—A "popcorn bandit" staged
a stickup at the 10th Street Art Theatre but
dropped the bag, which included $100 of
loot.
Entering the theatre at 1026 Peachtree
St., about 3 p.m., with Christmas shoppers
crowding the busy shopping center, the robber
told the cashier: "This is a stickup."
He then filled a bag with popcorn from
the theatre's concession machine, emptied
the cash register of $100 and stuffed it
into
the popcorn bag.
When a theatre employee walked up and
asked what was happening, he dropped the
bag and fled.
C-8 BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

'Wagon' Second Week
Huge 500 in Memphis
MEMI'HIS— Kilm grossing pciccntiigcs
read like the good old times, up and down
the first-run list, with "Paint Your Wagon"
roaring through the report period to a 500
second week at the Meniphian. Again having
a near capacity week was "The Reivers,"
400 at the Park, while "Hello, Dolly!" came
up with a rousing 300, third in a roadshow
engagement al the Paramount. "Goodbye,
Mr. Chips," "Putney Swope," "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid," "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service" and "Cactus Flower"
each grossed twice-average or slightly better
business for the week.
(Avcroge Is 100)
Crosstown—Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 3rd wk. 250
Guild— Putney Swope (SR), 2nd wk 210
Maico— Butch Cossidy and the Sundance Kid
(20th-Fox), 8fh wk 275
Memphion— Point Your Wagon (Para), 2nd wk. . .500
PolQce—On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
3rd wk 200
Paramount— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. ...300
Park—The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk 400
Plaza, Whitehoven Cinema—Cactus Flower (Col),
2nd wk 275
State—The Arrangement (WB), 2nd wk 100
Studio—All Neat in Black Stockings (NGP) 50
'Butch Cassidy' Still No. 1
On New Orleans Barometer
NEW ORLEANS—Grosses at first-run
theatres again were excellent as "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid," in its seventh
week at the Orpheum, ran up a tremendous
700 and held on to the city's No. 1 grossing
spot. "Topaz" dropped 100 percentage
points in a third stanza at the Joy, turning
in 250, while "Cactus Flower" lost 50 points
at the Lakeside Theatre and still reported
a solid 400 second week. "Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
each rated 500 as they neared the end of
their first month in New Orleans.
Cine Royale—Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
3rd wk 500
Joy—Topaz (Univ), 3rd wk 250
Lakeside—Cactus Flower (Col), 2nd wk 400
Orpheum— Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(20th-Fox), 7th wk 700
Robert E. Lee—Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM),
4f h wk 500
Trans-Lux Cinerama— Paint Your Wagon (Para)
1 0th wk 300
Second Half of Twin-Aire
Operating at Knoxville
KNOXVILLE, TENN.—Twin-Aire West
Drive-In on Clinton Highway has been
opened as the companion theatre to Twin-
Aire East, which had been in operation since
last fall,
Twin-Aire West, which has a capacity of
512 speakers and 250 in-car heaters, was
unveiled Christmas night with a cartoon
carnival, "True Grit" and "My Side of the
Mountain," The other section of the Twin-
Aire has speakers for 600 cars and 300 incar
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under way in this, the newest, U. S,
city. The theatre will be part of a regional
shopping center taking shape along 1.6 miles
of Babcock Street.
Melbourne, population 40,245,
came into
existence July 15 of last year through a
referendum just hours prior to the launch
of Apollo I I on its historic moon flight and
first landing of the astronauts on the moon.
Among voters bringing about the merging
of the former communities of Eau Gallic
and Melbourne to form the newly incorporated
city were space scientists, technicians
and launch-day personnel behind the journey
to the moon. Many other heads of
households here are employed by Florida's
11th largest employer. Radiation, Inc.,
which has 4,462 workers in this area.
Two New Chapel Hill
Units for
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C—Construction has
been started on one indoor theatre here and
announcement of plans for a second made
by Stanley Schneider, president of Schneider
& Merl Associates,
The new Chapel Hill theatres will be the
seventh and eighth units operated by circuit,
which also has theatres in Gastonia, High
Point, Raleigh, Winston Salem, Durham and
Burlington, all in North Carolina.
To be known as the Ram Theatre, the
450-seat project under construction here
will show first-run product and choice art
films. Located across the street from the
University of North Carolina campus, the
Ram is
to be completely automated and will
be provided with the finest equipment and
seats. It's to be fully draped and will have
wall-to-wall carpeting throughout the auditorium,
lobby and lounge areas, A May 1
opening is planned.
The second theatre the circuit plans for
Chapel Hill is a 350-seater which is to concentrate
on art films, although first-run
product also will be booked occasionally.
Schneider said that it should be ready by
June 15 and will be fully automated.
Casto Development Buys
Suburban in Bradenton
BRADENTON, FLA. — The Casto
Development Corp., North Miami, has purchased
the Suburban Drive-In, owned by the
Super 50 Theatre Corp., for a stamp-indicated
price of $472,500.
No drive-in theatre will be permitted on
the property at Cortez Road and U.S. 41
for five years, according to the deed recorded
at the Manatee County courthouses.
Furthermore, no conventional theatre will
be allowed there as long as the Bayshore
Cinema in Bayshore Gardens is operating
as a subsidiary or affiliate of General Cinema
Corp,, a restriction continuing until Oct.
31, 1986.
Tennessee Will Have
Underground Theatre
NASHVILLE—A motion picture theatre
and facilities for movie and TV production
and sound stages arc among units designated
for inclusion in phase 2 or phase 3 of the
construction of Underground City U.S.A.,
according to Shelby Singleton jr. Most of
the businesses will be operated in some of
the 100 "rooms" formed by limestone mining
that covers five acres.
Singleton, president of Underground City
Corp, and Shelby Singleton Corp., said that
construction on phase 1 will start at once
on the $1.3 million first phase on the 343-
acre site 24 miles west of here. This phase
includes remodeling of an underground restaurant,
installation of rides, partial camping
facilities, a deer ranch and various other
facilities to be opened by midyear.
Johnson City Theatre Is
Updated, Renamed Capri
JOHNSON CITY. TENN.—The former
Tennessee Theatre was reopened late last
year, following extensive remodeling, as the
Capri, showing "Run Wild, Run Free,"
The Capri is operated by Appalachian
Enterprise, headed by president E. R, Miller,
Other officers are Howard White, vicepresident;
C, Dale Johnson, vice-president
and secretary, and Lucille S, Miller, treasurer.
Miller has been connected with the theatre
business here for several decades, starting
with the Majestic during the 1925-1937
period. He was one of the organizers of the
Sevier Theatre Corp., and acted as general
manager of the Sevier for about ten years. It
was destroyed by fire in 1966.
While the Tennessee was closed for remodeling,
new carpet was laid in the lobby,
foyer, restrooms and aisles, restroom facilities
were improved, a new heating system
was installed in the theatre and new seat
cushions were provided throughout the auditorium.
Painting, redecorating and a new
front were capped by the new triangular
marquee with the new name on each face.
Donald Buka's name has been added to
the cast of "The Great White Hope" for
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Low Prices, Frequent Film Changes
Help Keep Neighborhood House Open
NEW ORLEANS—Alfred J. Viola celebrated
his second anniversary as combination
owner and manager of the neighborhood
Coliseum Theatre on New Year's Day.
In the spirit of the holiday season and in
the old neighborhood tradition, one of his
program highlights that day was a turkey
raffle.
Viola, who managed the Coliseum three
years before addmg "owner" to his title, is
making a game attempt to keep alive this
neighborhood house, one of the very few
such theatres remaining, by maintaining low
prices at the boxoffice and concession stand.
His efforts made him the subject of a recent
feature by David Cuthbert in the New Orleans
Times-Picayune. Cuthbert's article follows,
in part:
A friendly and open man with white hair
and a weathered face, Viola defies all rules
for a nabe manager. He books film on a
flat rate instead of a percentage basis,
changes his bill three times a week, always
plays a double feature and keeps concession
and admittance prices incredibly low.
"I look for bargains," Viola explains. "'It
may be a little more work but it pays off."
Viola's office in the 1,100-seat Coliseum
is in the permanently roped-off balcony in
what used to be the "crying room." Showing
the Friday night he was interviewed
were "The Screaming Skull" and "The Spider,"
plus two cartoons.
On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday the
Coliseum tries to run a double bill of family
fare. Wednesday and Thursday Viola tries
to give his audience two action films. Friday
and Saturday he relies on a double feature
of science fiction or horror films.
And does he show a profit?
"Oh, yes," Viola says with a smile.
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On Saturday and Sunday (when the article
was published) he ran "My Side of the
Mountain," one of the most acclaimed children's
films in years. Sunday he was scheduled
to host the children from St. Elizabeth's
Orphanage and offered to admit any orphanage
group "Free, as my guests" to the theatre,
for that day.
Viola knows his customers, too.
At about
the time "The Spider" was devouring the
last of its victims to screams from the screen
and squeals from the audience, Viola was in
the lobby, sipping coke and nodding goodnights
to couples leaving the theatre. They
obviously knew each other.
"Satisfying people is important," he said.
"We try and keep the Coliseum quiet and
clean; my employes are courteous and polite.
Good will brings people back—it really
does."
Viola always has irons in the fire and
plans for a little "something extra" for his
clientele. For last Halloween, for instance,
his features were "Queen of the Blood" and
"The Brain Eaters." There were prizes, too,
for the boy and the girl wearing the best
costumes, with a pass to the theatre for
each.
There are plans for a third remodeling of
the Coliseum and Viola takes great pains
to point out that while some people think
his theatre is in an undesirable neighborhood,
it
couldn't be safer.
"We maintain good surveillance here," he
said. "Several times when parents have been
late picking up children, I didn't close
the theatre. I stayed until the parents showed
up. On occasion, I've given kids lifts home
or called taxis for them."
Speaking with Viola almost makes you
forget the dwindling number of theatres in
the "independent ladder" in the paper, or
the ones that have turned to
"sexploitation"
films.
And although there is a lot of brave and
affectionate talk about the nabe, there is
no getting away from the fact that unless
they are supported by the public, they will be
torn down or converted and slowly drift out
of the entertainment picture here and all
over the country.
"A few months ago," Viola said, "I was
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Carrollton section. It was all boarded up
hadn't been used in something like four
years—but I saw some men opening the
doors so I parked and walked inside for a
look around. I've managed theatres for 25
years, including all the Uniteds, and it really
brought back memories.
"A man came up to me and asked me
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daily tabs on the thermometer readings.
Blairsville recorded 10 degrees below Friday
(9), when Atlanta had a reading of 2
degrees, followed by a teeth-shattering 7 the
next day. Of course, motion picture theatre
business was frozen, along with the populace.
Atlantans, unaccustomed to such weather,
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eastern publicity and advertising director,
returned from Birmingham after conferring
there with Fred Barton, manager of Wilby-
Kincey's Ritz Theatre, about the forthcoming
roadshow run of "Hello. Dolly!" Buring
reported that he hurried home to escape
Alabama's cold wave, only to find the temperature
lower here than in the Alabama
metropolis. Buring's next big project is "Patton,"
starring George C. Scott in the title role
of the film at first called "Blood and Guts."
It's scheduled to play Martin's Georgia Cinerama
as a roadshow.
Steve Cucich, Buring's former assistant
and now Paramount's Southeastern exploitation
and advertising representative, also returned
from Birmingham, where he huddled
with Norm Levinson. executive vice-president
of Cobb Theatres, concerning the hardticket
engagement of "Paint Your Wagon,"
scheduled to open at the circuit's Eastwood
Mall Theatre, managed by Rodney Curlette.
Cliff Wilson, the circuit's buyer and booker,
maintained his headquarters close to
Two other fieldmen
Atlanta's Filmrow . . .
away from their Atlanta
headquarters
were Mike Parver. Cinerama Releasing
Corp., and Tom Smith, Warner Bros, representative,
who chose to visit the Charlotte
territory.
Atlanta investors purchased the Town and
Country Shopping Center, including the 450-
seat Town and Country Theatre, one of the
new additions to Eastern Federal Corp.'s
string of conventional film theatres in the
metropolitan area . . . President Esther
Osley presided at the WOMPI board meeting
Wednesday (7) at the downtown Carnegie
Library. Nominating committee members
chosen at that meeting are to make a
report at the club's first 1970 meeting Wednesday
(28).
Ivan S. Allen jr., retiring mayor, made a
special gesture in the waning days of his administration
to heal old wounds which have
kept him and alderman Ed A. Gilliam apart
politically in recent years. Allen invited Gilliam,
who did not seek re-election after 41
years in office, to be his luncheon guest and
gave him a silver platter. Gilliam is wellknown
along Filmrow since he married
Christine Smith, Atlanta's last film censor
whose office was abolished when the city
statute setting up the office was ruled unconstitutional.
When his wife was ill, Gilliam
would represent her at trade and press
screenings.
Michael A. de Gaetano, Cinerama Releasing's
new Southeast advertising manager.
reluctantly flew to Chicago for the company's
sales seminar—reluctantly because
he knew the temperature in Chicago was 12
below zero, compared to Atlanta's 5 above
at the time he took off. Arthur Manson,
CRC vice-president for advertising, and
Norm Delaney, director of exploitation, conducted
the sales conference focused on
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Screening
of the film was followed by discussion
of sales techniques to be used for the picture,
scheduled for early release.
Bob Geurink, .Atlanta Constitution movie
editor, selected Universal's "Topaz," now
showing at Martin's Georgia Cinerama, as
his Movie of the Week, commenting in part,
"When Hitchcock sticks to Hitchcock, he's
great. "Topaz' is the work of a careful man.
But, he was much too careful.'' . . . Geurink
performed a thoughtful service for his readers
on Saturday (10) when he gave a rundown
of product under the heading "Best
Films for 1970." Listings included "films
the movie companies say will be their biggest
and best openings in Atlanta this year"
from American International, MGM, United
Artists, Cinerama Releasing Corp., Avco
Embassy. Warner Bros., Buena Vista, Walt
Disney, Columbia, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox
and National General Pictures.
Patricia Gardella, WOMPI publicity director
and MGM teletex operator,
returned
to work after recovering from injuries sustained
in an auto accident while visiting
relatives in Detroit during the holidays . . .
Charlotte Jones, famed actress and comedienne,
co-starred in two performances of
"Fiddler on the Roof" in Robert F. Maddox
Hall . . . Dan B. Smith, 19-year veteran of
the soft drink industry, has been named advertising
manager of the Bubble Up Corp.
He formerly was advertising and sales promotion
manager for the National NuGrape
Co. of Atlanta.
Noble Arnold Retires
From Wilby-Kincey
ATLANTA—J. Noble Arnold, city manager
here for Wilby-Kincey Corp. for the
last 19 years, has retired after rounding
out 43 years of service with the circuit
which operates 90 de luxe theatres in the
Southeast.
He had under his wing in Atlanta the
company's flagship, the 4,000-seat Fox on
historic Peachtree Street, the 1,250-seat
downtown Roxy and, since December 19,
the elegant Phipps Plaza 900-seater in the
swank shopping center of that name.
Arnold's career in show business started in
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a college minstrel show at Mercer University
in Macon when he joined the glee club,
which had been transformed into a minstrel
show by a Baptist minister Roy Hurst,
formerly a member of Al G. Fields' minstrel
troupe. By the time graduation was at
hand, Arnold was head ciimcdian, stage
manager and director of the minstrels (he
majored in sociology because it was a "crip
course" and unlikely to interfere with glee
club activities).
Meanwhile Arnold had acquired a partner
Hd Benton, and they had developed a
song-and-dance act that kept them booked
throughout the Southeast. This was in the
1926-27 era. just before movies began to
talk and the inflationary period that led to
the Great Depression—soimding the death
knell for traveling minstrels and vaudeville.
Arnold wasn't doing too badly but his
financee Elizabeth Haddock, a gifted musician,
was not fascinated by the traveling life
he envisioned. She felt that a managerial
post was more stable and told him so. Arnold
had a telegram offering him $175 a
week, plus expenses, the day he went to a
friend who managed a Macon theatre and
asked for a job. The surprised friend gave
him a position as "semi-doorman and assistant
manager."
"1 ended up as assistant at Loew's Grand
there in June 1927, when we were playing
vaudeville and roadshows—vaudeville three
days a week and roadshows the rest of the
time," Arnold recalled. " 'The Scandals,'
"The Music Box Revue' and all the big
shows were touring at that time."
He didn't tarry long in Macon. He had
heard of Robert B. Wilby of Atlanta, who
with Herbert F. Kincey of Charlotte, owned
theatres in the South. Arnold's fiancee Elizabeth
had played the organ in one of their
theatres at Selma, Ala. He came to Atlanta,
obtained an appointment with Wilby and
asked for a job.
When Wilby inquired if he knew anything
about film exhibition, Arnold replied,
"1 don't know a thing but Td like to learn."
He was hired.
He started in the circuit's Raleigh theatre
Dec. 14, 1927, and he recalls that he and
his wife Elizabeth moved nine times in the
first three or four years with the company.
Then came an assignment to Durham as
manager of an 1,800-seat de luxe theatre
with a fine stage—aji assignment that was
to last 19 years.
"What attracted me was that it was live
theatre," Arnold explained. "I'd had some
experience and enjoyed the applause. Live
theatre was real show business, a lot of
glamor and all that. It's cut and dried now.
I don't get the thrill 1 got out of it then."
Of course, he was getting into the theatre
when the legitimate stage was on the way
out. The talkies hit the screens in 1928 in
North Carolina; vaudeville struggled but had
to give up the fight, surviving performers
winding up in night clubs.
Arnold moved to the Fox in Atlanta Jan.
1, 1951. and during the next 19 years he
enjoyed fantastic success which brought him
in contact with many stars and provided
many happy memories to take into retirement.
Charlie Lewis Sets Out to Prove
Many People Still Want G Films
DURHAM, N.C.—Charlie Lewis, man
ager of the Center Theatre, began a local
innovation in movie programing when the
Center's "Saturday Movie Special" started
Saturday (10).
Selected motion pictures for "everyone"
will be shown each Saturday at 1 1 a.m. and
1 p.m. A feature of the series will be the
cost, which is lower than the regular admission
price. Lewis said "our hope is to
make 'Saturday Movie Special' an event to
be enjoyed by patrons of all ages but more
Neighborhood Announces
Richmond Twin Theatre
From Western Edition
RICHMOND, VA.—Neighborhood Theatres
has started construction on the Ridge
Cinema I and Cinema II on Old East Ridge
Road. This new theatre was designed by
William Riseman, a Boston architect, noted
for designing of twin theatres across the
United States. Construction is expected to
take approximately one year.
The new twin will have a common lobby
which will serve two auditoriums, one seating
approximately 850 people and the other
approximately 550 people. "The main lobby
will include a mezzanine which will contain
an art gallery and a coffee bar. Both auditoriums
will have rocking chair seats, which
is a first for the Neighborhood Theatres in
Richmond. The small auditorium will have
a carpeted stage, perfect for f>ersonal appearances
and selective stageshows.
The complex will be built in a modern
style,
highlighted by the use of white block,
glass and effective lighting.
Col. Appoints Margoluis
NY District Mcmager
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Eugene Margoluis has
been apjwinted metropolitan district manager
for Columbia Pictures in New York, it
was announced by Milt Goodman, vice-president
and general sales manager. Margoluis
previously had been the company's branch
manager in Chicago.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Margoluis
entered the motion picture industry
in 1963 as a member of Columbia's executive
training program. Later he held positions
as a sales executive for the company
in New York and Philadelphia and was
named head of the Chicago branch in June
1968.
In his new assignment Margoluis will be
based at Columbia's New York exchange.
The appointment, which is effective immediately,
is in keeping with the company's
policy of promotion from within.
especially to encourage our parents of today
to fellowship with their children."
All programs will be for "General Audience."
Lewis said that many parents have requested
that wholesome motion pictures be
made available regularly in Durham. "Saturday
Movie Special" is a way in which this
request can be satisfied.
"Most parents recall their regular Saturday
visits to the movies as a high spot of
their childhood," Lewis continued. "They
saw the great comedians, singers and roughriding
heroes of all kinds. Such entertainment
drew family groups in fun and fellowship
together in large numbers— not so prevalent
today."
For the series, the Center is selecting top
quality productions with proven audience
popularity.
"Saturday Movie Special" is seen as a
new concept in theatre programing, according
to Lewis, an attempt to prove to filmmakers
that there is still a large segment
of public desirous of, and who will support
to the hilt. "General Audience" films.
GTC's Decaiur Twin
Will Open in April
DECATUR, GA.—An April debut is in
the works for twin cinemas being built at
the new South DeKalb Mall, 1-20 East and
Candler Road.
John Stembler, president of Georgia
Theatre Co., which will operate the new
twin, spoke highly of the new shopping
center and said that the theatre his company
is building there will be one of the
most expensive projects GTC has undertaken.
It's the circuit policy. Stembler told the
Decatur News, to build each theatre in shopping
centers with individual architects, designers
and decorators. None of the many
theatre buildings constructed by GTC in
the last ten years is like any of the others.
Each such theatre has been designed to complement
the decor of its particular mall.
The South DeKalb Twin Cinemas were
designed by Stevens & Wilkinson, architects,
with Dinah Stonis specializing on design and
decoration. Batson Cook Co.. builder for
the entire shopping center, is handling construction
of the theatre.
Each of the two theatre auditoriums will
seat 550 patrons. Like all
other units of the
circuit, the twins will be furnished with
rocking chairs by Heywood Wakefield Co.
Comedian B. S. Pully, a top burlesque
performer, has been signed for a cameo
role in 20th Century-Fox's "Myra Breckinridge."
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JACKSONVILLE
\X7alter Johnson, Warner Bros, salesman,
traveled Florida's entire east coast
southward to Key West and visited many
major and minor exhibitors along the way
. . . Janet Mette of MGM became the local
Filmrow"s first bride of the year when her
name changed to Mrs. George Woleshin in
a New Year's Day ceremony at the Hendricks
Avenue Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
Patrick Branton left his booking post at
Warner Bros, to re-enter an Arkansas college
in pursuit of his ambition to become a
marine biologist . . . Larry Lancaster, a
former doorman at the downtown Empress
Theatre, flew from here via San Francisco
to the Tonga Islands in mid-Pacific to resume
his teaching career. He was accompanied
by his foster son, Sione Fatu, a Polynesian
native to Tonga who graduated from
Jacksonville University in December 1969.
Harley Bellamy, a theatre circuit executive
of San Bernardino. Calif., visited his
mother of this city during the yearend holidays.
He was house manager of the local
Five Points Theatre for many years . . . Mrs.
Charles J. Garard, a member of the Florida
State Theatres managerial team, visited relatives
in St. Louis, Mo., for a few days.
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This area's recent coki clays ami nights
iliJn't help drivc-in Iheatrc business one
bit. Ihe 40-degree (and a lillle below during
the evening hours) weather kept people
shivering, wearing overcoats and searching
lor electric and other kinds of heaters for
homes and offices. A spokesman at the
Ciulfstream Drive-In at Hallandale. north
ol Miami, reported that his new-picture audience
Thursday night (8) was only a quarter
of normal. Car occupants were running
their engines and heaters to keep warm.
W')inetco Knterprises is further diversifying
its business interests by entering the mobile
home field, beginning with a research
and development project in Hallandale. The
development will
Miami News said the trial
he on a 50-acre site which should have places
for 250 homes. "The park could be the start
of a big new part of our company," Mitchell
Wolfson, Wometco president, told the News.
Wometco's Children's Movie of the Month
began Saturday (17) and Sunday (18), the
series starting with "Smiley." The circuit offered
free horoscope readings to patrons of
Anthony Quinn's "Dream of Kings." Prof.
A. F. Seward was in one Wometco theatre
for matinee and evening performances when
the film opened Thursday (15) while a woman
astrologer was available for readings
at the Miracle Theatre Friday, the 163rd
Street Theatre Saturday and the Carlyle the
next day.
Frank Sinatra will be saluted as "Man of
the Year," an honor won last year by Art
Carney, at the forthcoming annual fundraising
dinner for the Children's Center, a
school for emotionally disturbed children.
Sinatra is substituting for Milton Berle, since
Berle will be in London at the time of the
observance.
When film star Rod Taylor and director
William Grefe met for lunch at the Jockey
Club the other day, it was to discuss several
projects that fit into Florida's future. Taylor's
"Darker Than Amber" and Grefe's
"Naked Zoo" will be released early this
year.
Hcxrmon Schedules Bozo
Film for Foreign Market
From Eastern Edition
BANGKOK — Larry Harmon, producer
of "Bozo, the Clown" TV series, announced
plans for a full-length animated feature
based on the antics of the international cartoon
favorite.
Harmon is currently on a business tour of
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Leonard White Dies;
Exhibitor 53 Years
WHATHHRl ORD, OKI.A—Leonaid A.
White, 7.^, twice mayor and for 46 years
owner and i>pcrator of a theatre here, died
December 31. the day after he rcturneil
from spending Christmas holidays in Culver
City, Calif., with his son Daniel and his
family.
Death was attributed to the rupture of
the abdominal aortic blood vessel. He had
undergone surgery for this ailment exactly
two years tt) the day prior to his death.
Born in Ennis, Tex., White came here
after serving with the U.S. Army in World
War I and in August of 1919 began operation
of the Bungalow Theatre on Main
Street. In October 1929 he brought this part
of Oklahoma the first sound movies and
changed the name of his theatre to Tech.
In his first years here he also was associated
with the Liberty National Bank in addition
to operating his theatre.
During his years in exhibition here, he
was active in the Theatre Owners of Oklahoma,
serving as a director until it merged
with Allied Theatres of Oklahoma. White
also was a member of board of United Theatre
Owners of Oklahoma and the Panhandle
of Texas until his sale of his theatre.
At that time he was elected an honorary
life member of the UTOO board.
His wife Jane died in 1963 and two years
later White sold his theatre and retired from
active business. At the time he was the oldest
exhibitor in the state, having started in
the industry in 1911 in Hobart.
In addition to serving as mayor of Weatherford.
White also was president of the
chamber of commerce and Kiwanis Club.
For several years was chairman of the county
excise board.
In addition to his son. White is survived
by his mother Mrs. D. A. White of Tulsa,
his brother Gordon, Tulsa, and two granddaughters.
Attending the funeral services from Oklahoma
City were Ed Harris, Jerry Malone
and Paul Kearns, Columbia Pictures; Harry
McKenna and Sam Brunk, Screen Guild
Productions: Charles Hudgens, Universal;
M. O. "Buddy" Rimmer, United Artists;
Ed Cernosek, Oklahoma Theatre Supply Co.,
and L. W. "Webb" Newcomb, Newcomb
Theatres and president of The United Theatre
Owners of Oklahoma and the Panhandle
of Texas.
Glen Alt and his wife also attended the
services. Glen is a former Republic film
salesman, now retired. Roy E. Heffner, former
salesman and branch manager here for
many years of Paramount and a hunting
and fishing buddy of White, flew to Oklahoma
from Massachusetts to attend the funeral.
W. B. Sylvester and his family had been
vacationing in the state of Washington when
the news of White's death reached them.
They reached Weatherford in time to attend
the services.
"The Virgin Soldiers" was filmed in color
in Singapore for Columbia.
NATO Blasf-Off Expected to Attract
700 Registrants; Booth Sales Big
DALLAS—Great plans are being made
lor the NATO of Texas Blast-Off convention,
which will be held in the Statler Hilton
Hotel February 3-5, with president John
Rowley presiding. Dick Empey is the general
convention chairman.
Most of the bimth spaces have been sold,
creating a situation where those ilesiring a
booth inside the main exhibition hall must
get their contracts in at once.
Associated Popcorn Distributors leads the
list of multiple booth space holders with
four adjoining booths. Other firms with two
or more booths reserved are Pepsi Cola Co.,
National General Pictures, Texas Ice Machine
and National Screen Service/National
Theatre Supply. Single booth contracts are
in from Universal Film, American International
Pictures, United Artists Corp., Morton
Foods, Union Carbide, Warner Bros.,
Modern Sales & Service, Dr Pepper Co.,
Glenn E. Koropp, Craven Bros, and Parkaire
Engineering Corp.
Dallas 20th-Fox Exchange
Takes Over OC Functions
OKLAHOMA CITY—Effective with the
week beginning Sunday (11). exhibitors in
the Oklahoma City exchange territory began
being served from the 20th Century-Fox
exchange in Dallas, which is managed by
Lloyd Edwards.
The Dallas exchange,
St.,
1400 South Griffin
(Dallas 75215), assumed the supervision
of bookings, sales and collections for the
area formerly served out of the now-closed
Oklahoma City exchange.
Edwards said that exhibitors of this territory
should direct requests or inquiries related
to bookings to the Dallas exchange
bookers—Mrs. Margie Seely, Mrs. Billie
Webb and Mrs. Muggins White. All remittances,
boxoffice reports and similar information
also should be directed to the Dallas
exchange, where Mrs. Joan Hansen is cashier.
Exhibitors who have been asked to report
daily grosses by wire or telephone to
the Oklahoma City exchange now are asked
to report this information to the Dallas exchange.
The telephone number is Area Code
214 748-7221.
However, 20th-Fox prints will continue
to be shipped out of the Oklahoma City
Shipping and Inspection Bureau to customers
in this trade territory, Edwards said.
J. C. McCrary, headquartering in Oklahoma
City, and Jack Whelihan, traveling out of
Oklahoma City, will continue to be the company's
representatives here.
Basil Theatre Subleased
From Eastern Edition
SHARON, PA. — The Pittsburgh-headquartered
Associated Theatre circuit has
subleased the 800-seat Basil Theatre, Hermitage
Square Mall, from Marshall & Roed
Theatres, Cherry Hill, N. J., and has taken
over its operation.
John Rowley
Dick Empey
Inasmuch as this is the first convention
of NATO of Texas, formed by the merger
of Texas COMPO with the Texas Drive-ln
Theatre Owners Ass'n, it will attract exhibitors
from the conventional theatre field as
well as from drive-in interests. Attendance
has been forecast at around 700, principally
from Texas, Oklahoma and neighboring
states, supplemented by industry representatives
from New York and Hollywood.
Style Show Planned
For NATO Ladies
DALLAS—Beverly Gates, chairman of
the Ladies Events for the NATO of Texas
convention to be held in Dallas Februairy
3-4-5 at the Statler Hilton Hotel, has very
exciting plans to keep the ladies well entertained
and happy to be a part of the first
convention of the newly organized exhibitors
group.
A hospitality room will be open for guests
most of Tuesday and Wednesday and during
the morning on Thursday during the convention.
A sherry party is planned for Tuesday in
the Statler Hilton, with a bingo sherry party,
also at the convention hotel, the main attraction
for the ladies the next day. On
Thursday NATO ladies will be invited to
the city's plush new Fairmount Hotel to attend
a paper doll luncheon and style show.
All ladies within the film industry are
urged to attend the convention and enjoy
these special events planned for their enjoyment
while their husbands are attending the
business sessions, before joining their husbands
for the general social events and programs
planned for the convention.
Charles W. Herndon Dies;
Retired Film Ad Salesman
DURANT, OKLA.—Charles W. Herndon,
77, a retired salesman of the Motion
Picture Advertising Corp., died Friday (9)
at his home here. Funeral services were held
Monday (12) in Dallas.
Herndon also worked as a sales representative
for Dr Pepper Co. several years
and was a bottler for the firm in Illinois.
Survivors include his wife, two stepsons,
three brothers and five sisters.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970 SW-1

OKLAHOMA CITY
Cam Brunk, Boxoffice correspondent in
Oklahoma City, is in a hospital here
recuperating from an apparent stroke. At
presstime, his fellow staffers at Screen Guild
Production reported that his condition "is
unchanged" and that all his industry friends
"are hoping for a speedy recovery for him."
Seen on Filmrow streets booking for the
new year were Mr. and Mrs. H. S. McMurray.
Dumas, Tex.; L. E. Mahaney, Guymon,
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Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. T. V. McDowell, Buffalo;
Howard Collier, owner of theatres in
Crescent and Mangum; Eric DeNeve and
Rick Gould of Gulf States Theatres, in from
Dallas; W. B. Sylvester, Weatherford, and
John Holokan, Mid-America Entertainment
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Mr. and Mrs. Danny Wolfenbarger were
here from Shattuck for the first time since
his accident. He's doing very well, getting
back on his feet again ... J. Warren Mc-
Gee, former owner of the Aldridge Theatre
here, was on Filmrow to call on his industry
friends.
Ed and Mable Ray returned from California,
where they visited for several days
with their son. Ed Ray is head booker here
for Warner Bros.
Funeral services were held Monday (5)
for Floyd J. Barton, better known to his
film industry friends as "Sparky." He died
Thursday (1) in South Community Hospital,
where he had been a patient since falling
at the Downtown Airport and suffering a
brain injury. Bom in McLoud, Okla., he
resided in Texas for years and managed
theatres for the Griffith Amusement Co. and
Video Independent Theatres. He also was
connected with the International Crystal
Co., which operates on Filmrow, having
been with latter company, organized by the
late Henry Griffin and Charles Guthrie, for
ten years. Barton, a first cousin of R. Lewis
Barton, who operated a circuit in Oklahoma
City for many years, was a member and
past president of Rotary, an amateur radio
operator since 1940 and a lieutenant commander
of the Civil Air Patrol's Squadron
2. He had gone to the airport to perform
some work on his air patrol plane when he
fell during the icy weather.
Plan Shows for
Oldsters
From Eastern Edition
KINGSTON, N.Y.—Robert A. Battaglia,
city manager of Walter Reade Theatres, announced
plans to show special features
especially suitable for senior citizens.
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Jupiter-Teqnesta, Fla. — Featuring
varied-size theatre chairs for varied-size
viewers, the long-awaited Mini Cinema
was opened recently with "True Grit"
and a champagne party for 50 invited
guests.
The theatre, first of its kind in North
Palm Beach County, seats 255 patrons
in chairs that vary from Twiggy-size
up to wide, wide upholstered or overstuffed
models. Matinees are presented
each weekend at 2 and 4 p.m., with a
kiddies show at 10 a.m. Saturdays. Regular
nightly shows are at 7 and 9. Admissions
are $1.25 for adults, 75 cents
for children and 50 cents to the kiddies
show on Saturday.
'Buck' Buchanan Retires;
In Industry Since 1923
OKLAHOMA CITY—H. K. "Buck" Buchanan,
after 47 years in distribution, has
resigned as head booker and office manager
for Paramount Pictures and will retire.
Asked what his plans are, he said that for
the present he will "take it easy" but eventually
he expects to settle in Arkansas,
where he has relatives.
Jonnie Enyart, Paramount's assistant
booker here for several years, is taking over
as head booker and office manager and will
be assisted by Wayne Snipes, student booker
for several months.
Buchanan started out in the film business
in 1923 and for 20 years owned and operated
independent film exchanges here, his
last one being the Allied Film Co. He closed
it in the latter part of 1942 and joined Paramount
in January 1943 — just 27 years ago.
He was in the booking department throughout
his long service with the company.
Paramount moved off of Filmrow to a
downtown location for a few years, then the
exchange here was closed with only a sales
force left on duty. Buchanan moved to the
Dallas exchange, handling the Oklahoma
City territory business from the Texas office.
After a few years of operating in this
manner, Paramount reopened its Oklahoma
City exchange at 704 West Grand with
Frank Carbone as exchange manager and
Buchanan moving back here as head booker
and office manager.
Soon thereafter he left the company, returning
when Paul Rice was transferred here
from Indianapolis to become exchange manager.
Buchanan had held the combined posts
of head booker and office manager since
then up until his retirement.
To Legal Department Post
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Stephen M. Kravit has
been named executive assistant to Herbert
T. Schottenfeld, United Artists vice-president
and head of the legal department. Kravit
joined the company's legal staff in June
1967. Prior to that he had been a member
of the legal department of Embassy Pictures.
SW-2 BOXOmCE :: January 19, 1970

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BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970 SW-3

DALLAS
J^ou Walters Sales & Service Corp. has purchased
all the equipment of the Lexington
Drive-In, Corpus Christi, and will overhaul
it and place it in first-class condition
before placing it on the market.
Fairfax Nesbit, well-known to Dallas
Filmrow staffers and a frequent Boxoffice
reporter assigned to cover Texas Drive-In
Theatre Owners Ass'n conventions here,
fractured the inside and outside bone of
her right ankle in a fall. At this writing she
was a patient in Baylor Hospital and no
doubt would appreciate getting cards from
her many industry friends.
WOMPIs will hold their midyear business
meeting Wednesday (21) in the Majestic
Steak House with president LaVerne Gordon
handling the gavel. Committee chairmen
are to make their reports and the nominating
committee will present nominees for
the April 15 election of officers . . . During
the holidays. WOMPIs sent gifts to the two
children
they are sponsoring through school
at different homes through the services of
the Christian Children's Fund. WOMPIs
also presented a tree and toys to children
in the Tel-Star Day Care Center. As
WOMPl representative, Esther Covington
delivered more than 125 Christmas corsages
to senior citizens and she said each corsage,
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which she pinned on the recipient, made
each of the women feel like "Queen for a
Day."
H. L. Durst of Kerrville entered a hospital
in Fredericksburg just before Christmas
for treatment of kidney stones while his
wife was in another hospital recuperating
from arm and hip fractures. Now the man
Durst left in charge of his Kerrville theatre
has suffered a broken foot.
for
Funeral services were held Monday (5)
Roy C. Lee, a native of Granbury, who
for 25 years was an actor and lighting director
for major California film studios and
for local acting groups. A graduate of Southern
Methodist University, he started his
acting
career as a youngster in San Antonio
and served as lighting director for many major
Hollywood studios in the days of the
big musical productions. During the 1940s
he was personal lighting director for
Betty Grable. His Dallas studio is
of all
actress
a museum
types and models of lighting and studio
equipment which has been of great interest
to students and others interested in
theatre lighting and directing. Survivors include
his mother Mrs. Murnor B. Lee, Fulton,
Ky.: his daughter Callie E. Lee and son
Robert E. Lee, both of Houston.
WOMPIs are assisting NATO of Texas
in securing souvenirs for the convention
registration kits to be presented each person
registering for the Blast Off convention to
be held February 3-5 in the Statler Hilton
Hotel in Dallas.
Jimmy Neeley, husband of Evelyn Neeley
who is handling booth reservations for the
NATO of Texas convention, re-entered Baylor
Hospital Monday (5) for additional surgery
on his
foot.
Linda, daughter of Forrest and Juanita
White, celebrated the new year's arrival in
Las Vegas, after she and her friend Jean
Fain, a Dallas teacher, decided to see that
fabulous place during the festive season.
Linda had been to Las Vegas before but always
before had been too young to enter
the Casino. This time she was old enough
and celebrated by hitting the jackpot on a
25-cent machine. She brought home her
winnings and many exciting stories about
celebrities seen in the big shows. Jean Fain,
the teacher, is the niece of Thelma Jo Bailey
of Starline
Pictures.
Jack Walton of Goldstone Pictures, still
in Presbyterian Hospital when this column
was written, says that cards and letters he
has received from film industry people have
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vacationing in Europe, posted a card to your
correspondent informing us that he's having
a wonderful time and wishes everyone in
the industry a happy 1970. Al's card was
postmarked in Spain.
Lee Parrish, president of Associated Popcorn
Distributors, is in the Scott and White
Hospital, Temple, for a check up and would
like to hear from his industry friends who
read this column.
Fred Taylor, 72,
Dies;
Retired Film Expressman
DALLAS—Funeral services were held
December 30 for Fred J. "Shorty" Taylor,
72, retired Railway Express driver who was
known for many years as one of the most
accommodating and pleasant personalities
on Dallas Filmrow.
Taylor drove the Railway Express film
truck for 50 years, loading and unloading
a dock of films every day, making six to
eight trips daily to the film exchanges. In
the days when 95 per cent of the 35mm film
shipments went by Railway Express,
"Shorty" always was understanding of the
exchange problems and willing to help a
hard-pressed exchange manager. If an exchange
was looking for a particular shipment
for immediate reshipment, "Shorty"
would keep a lookout for it, pull it aside and
hot shot it ahead of his regular film deliveries.
Although he was short of stature, he
was as strong as some of the present-day
football stalwarts.
He retired about seven years ago but
came back to the film exchanges frequently
to chat with friends in shipping departments
and front offices, always a welcome visitor
wherever he went on the Row. He had suffered
with emphysema for years and had
been in and out of area hospitals several
times. Although fully aware he was eligible
to go to the Will Rogers Hospital for treatment,
he just wouldn't go to Saranac Lake,
N. Y., and leave his wife Jennie Lou, a
former Paramount employee. He and his
wife contributed regularly to the WOMPI
Will Rogers Medical Lijjrary Book Fund
by giving to the Paramount Will Rogers
contest fund each pay day.
He had lived in Dallas a half-century but
was a native of Cooper, where he once
worked for the late Henry Sparks, Cooper
exhibitor. When the Dallas WOMPIs held
their Pioneer Luncheon in 1966, Taylor attended
so he could meet again so many of
his industry friends, oldtimers like Sparks
and the other men who had once served in
shipping departments of exchanges but had
worked their way up to regional, exchange,
sales managers and theatre ownership.
Survivors include his wife, daughters Mrs.
Hazelhurst Reynolds and Mrs. Haseltine
Schwab, Dallas; his son James of Huntington
Beach, Calif.; three sisters—Mrs. Vergie
Little of Commerce, Mrs. Ina Martin of
Dallas and Mrs. Lena Hendricks of Cooper;
his brothers. Tommy, Cooper, and Ray,
Dallas; five grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren.
SW-4 BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

Dallas Times Herald Wins
Commendation for Policy
DALLAS—The Times Herald's policy of
identifying X-rated and unrated films only
by title, theatre location and program times
has received widespread support by United
Methodist Church laymen and ministers.
The Times Herald policy, which rules out
the use of descriptive material and art in
advertising for the X and unrated films, was
adopted in November and the survey of reactions
among the Methodists followed just
before the Christmas holidays.
"I'm glad the newspapers are taking this
stand, especially if it cuts down on the blatant
advertising," G. William Jones, professor
of film art at -Southern Methodist University,
told the Times Herald.
Morris Walker, a Fort Worth businessman
and lay leader, said, "I think that concerned
churchmen should let both newspapers
and theatre owners know our feelings
regarding movies and movie advertising."
Dr. William H. Dickinson, minister of the
Highland Park United Methodist Church,
told the Times Herald: "I am delighted and
appreciate very much the Times Herald taking
the stand it has. This is the kind of leadership
we need from the press."
The pastor of the First United Methodist
Church in Dallas. Dr. Robert E. Goodrich,
stated: "One element in the new policy is it
makes for more honesty in advertising. The
tendency was to take one scene and blow it
up in the ads."
Mesquite Decision Appeal
Withdra-wn by McLendon
DALLAS—B. R. McLendon of McLendon
Theatres has notified the city council
of suburban Mesquite that he is withdrawing
his appeal from the city planning
commission's 6-to-l turndown of zoning
changes which would have cleared the way
for the circuit to build a $1,000,000 fourscreen
drive-in in the area. However, Mc-
Lendon said he would reinstate his appeal
at a later date.
The planning group was requested to permit
theatre zoning on a 6 1 -acre tract fronting
the highway at Samuell and Big Town
boulevards, across Samuell Boulevard from
the Big Town Shopping Center. The planning
commission turned down the application
because it declared that building a
drive-in at that site would create "an im-
possible traffic situation."
"To override a 6-1 Plan Commission
vote," city councilman Bill .Smith told the
Dallas Morning News, "McLendon will
have to get a three-fourths approving vote
of the city council and that means the votes
of six of the seven members of the council."
Smith "reserved comment" on how he
would vote if and when the circuit's appeal
is reinstated.
Murray Wolfson Appointed
Assistant to Cinecom VP
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Barry B.
Yellen, president
of Cinecom Corp.. announced the appointment
of Murray J. Wolfson as administrative
assistant to Jerome D. Swedroe, vice-president
in charge of the company.
Wolfson entered the industry as a bookkeeper
for Skouras Theatres, later became
controller and manager of the real estate
department until 1968, when he joined the
G. G. Theatre circuit.
Texas Historical Group
To Shoot Documentary
AUSTIN—A grant of $.^7, .^80
was made
by the Moody f'oundation of Galveston to
the Texas State Historical Ass'n for the
making of a .5()-minute film of the Big
Thicket in southeast Texas.
The film, according to Jim Seymour who
will make it, will be shot next spring when
the thicket comes alive.
The historical dissociation plans to distribute
the film, without cost, to schools and
libraries, church, civic, youth, conservation,
travel and other educational groups, and to
television stations throughout the Southwest.
PTA Group Lauds Manager
From Western Edition
DINUBA, CALIF.—A group of PTA
members have commended Joe Wills,
manager
of the State Theatre, for bringing
family-type films to the movie house and
for his efforts in refurbishing the theatre.
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BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970 SW-5

Each Contestant May Enter as Many
Films as Desired in
SAN ANTONIO — Three new aspects
will mark the fifth annual international film
festival, HemisFilm '70, which will be held
June 18-22 in San Antonio's Convention
Center.
Included are rule changes permitting
countries for the first time to enter as many
films in the festival as they wish and eliminating
a past requirement that compelled
filmmakers to go through embassy channels.
Also, the traditional short subject category
is to be divided into three cinema areas
—commercial, films up to 30 minutes in
length and featurettes running 31 to 59 minutes.
The Rev. Louis Reile, S.M., critic, columnist
and director of HemisFilm, explained,
"We have both tightened the rules
and in other ways made them more flexible
so filmmakers might be enticed to show
their wares on this southwest market, in a
most picturesque city."
HemisFilm is sponsored by the International
Fine Arts Center of the Southwest
and co-sponsored by St. Mary's University
and Cinema Arts Theatres, William O'Donnell,
president.
Father Reile, an assistant professor of
English at St. Mary's, is director of IFACS
and director of Cinema Arts at St. Mary's.
Awards night for the 1970 festival will
be held in the Theatre for the Performing
Arts at the Convention Center.
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'70 HemisFilm
Hemi trophies will be awarded in eight
categories. Included will be the five traditional
categories for which top awards were
presented in the past—best director, actor,
actress, photographer and film— plus the
three new short subject categories.
A still unnamed international film figure
will be given the highest award of the 1970
festival, granted each year as a reward for
artistic contributions to the art of cinema.
Past winners have been Mexican cinema
artist Gabriel Figueroa, silent screen star
Pola Negri and famed director John Ford.
Father Reile said a panel selected to make
final judgments in all categories will be
made up of three nationally known critics.
Their nam£s will be announced at a later
date but far in advance of the arrival in San
Antonio of film entries.
Final screenings, June 18-22, will be open
to
the public.
Father Reile said the 1970 festival is being
held in the centrally located Convention
Center because of the varied facilities it
offers and because HemisFilm co-sponsors
have expressed a desire to expand the festival.
In the 1969 HemisFilm there were more
than 50 qualifying films from Germany,
Russia, Yugoslavia, Japan, Canada, Mexico,
France, India and the United States.
In past years, the Walter Reade organization
brought the complete version of the
mammoth, multimillion-dollar Russian production
of "War and Peace" to HemisFilm
and South Korea showed its first feature
film export.
SAN ANTONIO
TJorman Schwartz, manager of Interstate's
Wonder Theatre, was pleasantly surprised
by members of the Wonder staff with
a Christmas gift of two ewes. They have
been placed on the Schwartz ranch-farm at
nearby Floresville, from where Schwartz
commutes each day to the Wonder . . .
Mamie Van Doren, star of many films, was
the main star at the New Year's Eve party
at the Club Corte Real at the Hilton Palacio
del Rio Hotel.
Ted Waggoner, manager of Cinema I and
Cinema II. scheduled a number of special
morning matinees, with the exception of
New Year's Day, beginning at 11 a.m. Eight
great movies were booked to be shown each
Saturday through January 17 in conjunction
with the Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. Admission
the Pepsi Saturday Movie Party for kids
to
was six Pepsi bottle caps or 75 cents, shows
held from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Youngsters
also were eligible for prizes each Saturday
morning.
Maureen Halligan, actress-in-residence at
Incarnate Word College, was recognized by
a number of San Antonians in Walt Disney's
"Darby O'Gill and the Little People." Miss
Halligan plays the role of a woman in the
post office in the film, which has just completed
an extended engagement at the Olmos.
She was asked to play the role several
years ago while she was with the Dublin
Players. Disney had assembled an Irish cast
for the Hollywood production.
The First Repertory Company Workshop
presented a Film Festival Friday (2) and
Saturday. Local filmmakers showed short
subjects and industrial films produced in
this area. A discussion of "dos and don'ts"
of filmmaking techniques and desired finished
effects was moderated by Father Louis
Reile of St. Mary's University. Among the
films shown were works of Severo Perez
and his film class at Our Lady of the Lake
College.
The San Antonio Woman's Breakfast Club
was entertained by Interstate Theatres at
9 a.m. Friday (16) at the Wonder Theatre
with a movie and coffee. George M. Watson
is city manager for the circuit here and Norman
Schwartz is manager of the Wonder . . .
Fernando J. Obledo, branch manager for
Columbia Pictures, was on a business trip
calling on exhibitors in Central and South
Texas.
A check for $4,000, representing the proceeds
from a special screening of the Commonwealth
United film, "Viva Max!", was
presented Monday (5) to Northwest Rotary
Club officials by Larry Benson, resident
manager of the Fox Twin Central Park
Theatres. Present for the ceremonies were
L. B. "Roy" Horn, president; Dick Miller,
club secretary, and James Banduris. Olmos
Theatre, the benefit chairman.
Old-time movie fans were able to view a
double bill Monday (12) evening in Trinity
University's Earl C. Sams Memorial Center.
Starting at 7:30 the film program included
"The White Zombie," the first of Bela Lugosi's
long series of horror movies. The
second was a W. C. Fields short, "Fatal
Glass of Beer," based on an earlier Fields
stage sketch and set in the Canadian northwoods.
Admission was free and movie fans
from all over the city were invited to attend.
Visitors to Azteca Films included
"Chucho" Elizondo, city manager in San
Antonio for Ruenes Theatres; Don Dingus
of Lamesa and Mateo Vela of Galveston . . .
Jose Carabaza is owner and manager of the
Azteca Theatre in New Laredo . . . Joe
Homer Martinez, exhibitor in Batesville, recently
returned from a trip to Mexico City
and Monterrey . . . Paramount Pictures'
Donald Lea is in San Antonio from Hollywood
working for Guy Linton Enterprises.
He and his wife Nancy are parents of a baby
girl.
Special Children's Shows
From Western Edition
OROVILLE, CALIF.—George A. Burrous,
manager of the State and Mesa theatres
here, has initiated a special quality film
feature matinee for children on Saturday
and Sunday afternoons.
SW-6 BOXOFnCE :: January 19, 1970

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bonds in order to beat The Bad Three.
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like you.
Why should you become a Savings Bond supporter'^'
Because it's good for you. By promoting U.S. Savings
Bonds, you're doing one of the few things an individual
can do to fight inflation. (A penny saved is more than
a penny earned . . . it's a penny out of circulation.)
Because it's good for your employees. To the guy
who has trouble saving $5 a week, you're providing a
viable fringe benefit— systematic savings— without incurring
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are vitally
Because it's good for your country. Savings Bonds
are the cornerstone of United States debt financing and
important to your country's continued financial
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patriotism than beating Hitler.)
Of the nation's 16 largest companies— all active in
Payroll Savings— nine have more than 60% employee
participation. Five have over 75%. Whether large or
small, your company can do as well.
If you already have a Payroll Savings Plan, promote
It. If you don't, install one. For information or assistance,
write Director of Sales, The Department of the Treasury,
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BOXOFTICE :: January 19, 1970 SW-7

HOUSTON
The Classic Museum, Houstons only wax
museum, has added W. C. Fields and
Will Rogers to its roster of motion picture
greats on display. Other stars to be seen include
Jean Harlowe. Clark Gable, Gary
Cooper, Rudolph Valentino, and Carole
Lombard . . . Former Houston actor and
new screen writer Floyd Mutrux will be
here in late January for the filming of location
scenes, at least, of his movie "The
Christian Licorice Store." The Cinema Center
film release has Beau Bridges in one of
the
leading roles.
Michael F. Cusack, president of MFC
Film Productions, is building a production
center and sound stage at 5915 Star Lane.
Frank Dobbs, former director of special
projects at radio station KPRC here, has
joined the firm as vice-president ... Ed
Geldhart, Houston actor, is in Los Angeles
in preshooting scenes for "The Christian
Licorice Store," which begins location work
here this month. Geldhart has appeared in a
number of supporting roles at the Houston
Music Theatre in musicals and stage shows.
. . .
Hollywood actor Henry Fonda was in for
a brief visit, staying at the Warwick Hotel
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There are eight
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fulltime in Houston, which is a net in-
. . Pete Fountain, has
crease of three from last year. Several are
showing 16mm films from Los Angeles and
San Francisco and some films are billed as
being 100 per cent, which means
who
everything
is shown .
been seen in a number of musical film
shorts, will appear in person in concert, "An
Evening in New Orleans" Friday (23) at the
Music Hall.
Although normally during the winter season
there is no need for in-car heaters, when
the weather went below zero recently, heaters
were provided to patrons by a number
of the drive-in theatres.
The Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce
sponsored the Southwest premiere
of "Marooned" at the Windsor Cinerama.
Richard Crenna, one of the film's stars as
well as producer M. J. Frankovich, director
John Sturgis and Frank Kappra jr., associate
producer, were in attendance. Col. Dave
Scott, one of the NASA astronauts, was also
in the audience. Proceeds will go to the
Houston Jaycee community activity fund
for work in poverty areas of Houston.
. . .
A. J. Carothers, a former Houstonian,
now with 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood,
where he is writing several scripts, is expected
to visit Houston with his brother
Gipson this month. Carothers will have a
television series making its debut Wednesday
(21) titled "Nanny and the Professor"
The Houston Chronicle has censored
the title "The Best House in London" out
of the various display ads of local theatres.
Jeff Millar, who writes "Looping the
Films" column for the Houston Chronicle,
went to Dallas recently for an interview
with Alfred Hitchcock, whose "Topaz" has
opened at theatres throughout the state and
at the Metropolitan Theatre in Houston.
Several local theatres have opened with one
of Hitchcock's great films, "Psycho" making
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MENT—Claude Stewart, right, Interstate's
city manager in Waco, Tex., was
honored by the Motion Picture Operators
local during its 50th anniversary
breakfast. Stewart was presented a
plaque inscribed "for 35 years of outstanding
showmanship." O. K. Kelso,
business agent for Local 597, made the
presentation on behalf of the union.
'Wings' Rerelease Brings
Pianist Back to Theatre
From North Central Edition
MINNEAPOLIS — Mrs. Laura Stearns,
who played the piano accompaniment for
Paramount Pictures' "Wings" when it was
first released in 1927, is performing similar
duties for a revival of the silent film classic
at the Westgate Theatre in Edina, Minn.
She played the piano steadily for 52
nights in St. Paul last spring and is accompanying
the film in a more recent engagement
in Edina. A veteran accompanist who
worked throughout the heyday of the silent
screen era, Mrs. Stearns recalls that the last
time she played in a silent movie house was
in Langdon, N. D., and the film was
"Wings."
When she returned to playing for the picture
last spring, Mrs. Stearns came to the
theatre without even one practice run. "They
were really nervous and so was I," she said,
"but I had my old cue sheet that came out
with the movie in the 1920s and I just sat
down and played. It came back real fast."
Thus reported Mrs. Stearns in an interview
which appeared in the Minneapolis Star.
'Andromeda Strain' to Be
Shot on Texas Locations
MARFA, TEX.— Universal Studios will
make its film of "The Andromeda Strain,"
the best-selling suspense novel about a bacterial
crisis caused by a returning missile
from outer space, at Shafter, about 40 miles
from here.
It will be the eighth film to be made
there. Robert Wise, who directed "Sound of
Music," will direct "The Andromeda
Strain."
The western town set to be used will be
made into a permanent film set.
SW-8 BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

All Mill City Films
Earn Mill City Status
MINNHAPOLIS—So firm were the first
grosses of the new year that not a single
lirst-riin marquee got a face-Hfting. Holdovers
light down the line were the order ol
the cincmatie day and a happy new year
every sense of the word was celebrated at
ill
all locations here. This is contirmed by
barometer reports showing every location
with above-average business, even at situations
with films in their 14th and 15th
weeks, and only one attraction below the
200 mark. "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
headed up the parade with a soaring 400,
bigger than its opening week, as it rounded
a second turn at the Gopher.
(Average Is 100)
Academy—Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 275
Cinema II, Uptown Topaz (Univ), 2nd wk 240
Cooper Cinerama Point Your Wogon (Para),
9th wk 350
Gopher Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
2nd wk 400
Lyric The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk 325
Mann Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 8th wk 150
Orpheum On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
3rd wk 200
Rialto I Am Curious (Yellow) (SR), 15th wk. ..390
St. Louis Pork Cinerama John and Mary
(20th-Fox), 3rd wk 200
State Butch Cassidy ond the Sundance Kid
(20th-Fox), 14th wk 300
Suburban World Fonny Hill (Cinemotion),
5th wk 210
World Eosy Rider (Col), 15th wk 240
PES MOINES
JJoger Dietz, manager of the Columbia
branch, has been elected chief barker
of Variety Club Tent 15 for the coming
year. Other officers for 1970 are: Peter Mc-
Lane, program director for radio KIOA,
first assistant chief barker; Dick Day, buyer
and booker for Central States Theatres, second
assistant chief barker; Lloyd Hirstine,
owner and operator of the Capitol Drive-In,
dough guy, and Lee Neary, salesman for
radio KSO. property master and press guy.
The officers will be installed at a banquet
in February. Last year's president was Lyle
Cass who, with his wife Mary, who presided
over Women's Variety, moved to California
in December. Serving out the last few weeks
of Cass' term was Verne Shaeffer, the 1969
first assistant chief barker.
National General's "The Reivers," which
has started its fourth week at the Paramount
Theatre, is one of the two top-grossing pictures
at that theatre in the last five years
. . . "Oliver!" and "Funny Girl," now in general
release, are doing "great" in the state's
medium-sized towns, according to Roger
Dietz, Columbia exchange head .
. . Dave
Gold, 20th Century-Fox branch manager,
notes that his company has reissued "The
Bible" and that the film will be available
through April 30. when it will be taken out
of release for at least two years.
Margaret Umphress has joined the Universal
branch on a part-time basis.
Visiting Filnirow was John Darnielle of
the Eldon Theatre in Eldon.
"The Phantom Tollbooth" is a Chuck
Jones production for MGM.
Dubinsky Circuit Planning to Build
Twin Indoor Theatre in
LINCOLN, NEB. — Irwin Dubinsky,
president, Dubinsky Bros., has revealed
plans for a new twin theatre in suburban
Sioux City which will replace the downtown
Hollywood, razed last August in the Iowa
city's urban development program. Construction
will begin as soon as weather permits,
looking to a May opening date. Dubinsky
said it would have started several
weeks ago if severe weather had not come
along.
This will be the first twin theatre in the
Midwest Dubinsky Bros, theatre operation.
It will be one of a number of conventional
houses and drive-ins in Sioux City, Des
Moines, Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown
owned by the JSB Corp. of Iowa and operated
by Dubinsky Bros. In addition to the
future twin, the family circuit has the 1968
remodeled downtown Orpheum and two
drive-ins, the 75 and the 7-5-7, in Sioux
City.
To Be Plaza I and II
The twin house will be known as Plaza I
and II, taking on the name of the Sunset
Plaza Shopping Center, Sioux City's largest,
where the theatres will be located. This center
was opened about five years ago by the
owner-builder, the Klinger Construction Co.
of Sioux City.
Klinger will construct the twin houses,
which have been designed by Mel Glatz &
Associates of Denver. Interiors will be done
by HoUis Jack of Kansas City, who handled
the same job on the Orpheum. He and the
Dubinskys conferred in Omaha Tuesday
(13) on these details with Glenn Slipper of
the Slipper Supply Co.
The twin will be owned by Klinger but
leased to the Dubinsky circuit under longterm
arrangements.
Capacity
Not Definite
The auditoriums will accommodate 550
to 650 patrons, the final capacity being determined
by the seating company as construction
progresses. They will be situated
side-to-side, served by a common lobby and
a single projection booth with all-automated
equipment. Auditorium walls will be draped.
The twin will open onto an arcade area
of the shopping center where professional
offices and a restaurant already are located.
The established center has a large representation
of stores and other shopping services.
Phil Keough is the Dubinsky's city manager
in Sioux City, where the family name
has been identified with theatre entertainment
for more than 50 years. President
Irwin Dubinsky remembers from boyhood
days the family's stock company which offered
stageshows regularly to Sioux City's
large-drawing trade area. The subsequent
changeover to motion pictures kept the Dubinsky
operation in this Iowa region.
"Sioux City is an older, established town
in Iowa but we believe it has a great future
potential, drawing people from nearby areas
Sioux City
of South Dakota and Nebraska as well as
many nearby farming communities," Dubinsky
said.
The urban development project, gaining
federal assistance, which eliminated the
downtown Hollywood Theatre, is one example
of Sioux City's progressive thinking,
according to Dubinsky. However, lack of
suitable downtown land for the replacement
of the Hollywood and residential growth
led to the family circuit's decision to locate
the new twin in a suburban setting.
MINNEAPOLIS
pilnirow, still buzzing over the drastic cutback
at the MGM branch here, was set
on its ear with the news Monday (12) that
the staff at the Universal branch also had
undergone a pruning with the forced retirement
of two female branch employees (the
branch secretary and an inspector) and a
salesman. This action, in the wake of the
MGM move, left all of Filmrow jittery, the
expectation that this is "just the beginning"
voiced at many offices. Consensus here is
that MGM simply cannot operate its branch
with a staff of two or three—and that when
this becomes apparent, "they'll be back at
full strength in a year."
Winter in this northland always is a season
of fires, with steady sub-zero readings
often overstraining heating plants. Theatres
have been prominent among victims
of flames: The Paradise Theatre at Howard,
S.D., the Kodaka at Kodaka, S.D., and the
theatre in Gilbert, all hit by devastating
fires . . . Paul Ayotte, National Screen Service
branch head, is back at his desk after
a brief bout with flu.
"Viva Max!"—the season's biggie for
Commonwealth United—has been dated
locally, reports branch manager Jack Kelvie.
It opens a dual bow in this area February
4 at the Uptown and Cinema II theatres,
barring added weeks for "Topaz," which
has been clicking at both situations. And in
. . .
St. Paul, the day-and-date opening will be at
the Strand. Kelvie was off to Des Moines
Tuesday (13) for a round of account-calling
The Walla Theatre in Wallhala, N.D.,
has closed for the balance of the winter.
.
Visitors at the Cinerama Releasing Corp.
branch were local auditors on a routine
check . . "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid" continues to be the darling of
areawide film fans and the super-grosser
has gone into its 16th week here, in St. Paul
Marvin Agotness,
and Sioux Falls, S.D. . . .
Lyric Theatre, Park River. N.D., is back in
form again after a heavy bout with flu . . .
Filmrow visitors: W. L. "Bim" Lakie. Bijou.
Barnesville, and David Chvatal, State,
Spring
Valley.
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'\A7'iUiain Lofthus of Madison has taken
over the Lake Theatre at Lake Mills
with a new policy of more adult pictures
and a full seven-day operation. Lofthus also
manages the New Midway Theatre at
Prairie du Sac.
Jerry F. Giesen, president of Servomation
The Milwaukee Public Museum is
of Wisconsin for the last five years, has become
chairman of the board and Wayne A.
Schulz has been advanced from vice-president
to president. Servomation of Wisconsin
includes automatic vending operations
here, at La Crosse, Racine and Fort Atkinson.
featuring
a series of films titled "History of the
Motion Picture." which includes such films
as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "The Road
to Yesterday." "Tempest" and "Yankee
Clipper." The film programs are open to
the public without charge.
MGM announces that effective Monday
(19) the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer exchange
here will operate as a sales office only. All
other business will be handled by MGM's
Chicago branch at 550 W. Jackson Blvd.,
Chicago, III. 60606. However, this city will
continue to be a shipping point as in the
past and prints are to be returned to such
location.
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LINCOLN
Uerman Hallberg, vice-president and general
manager of Cooper Theatre Enterprises,
and Irwin Dubinsky returned Friday
night (9) after screening "Anne of the
Thousand Days" at a special preview in Chicago.
The latter rates the performance of
Richard Burton and other Enghsh cast
members as outstanding but wonders if the
present day audiences will accept this historical
picture in the manner of support it
deserves." The veteran believes a big measure
of success for Universal, which produced
the film, will be achieved by strong
cooperation between exhibitors and history
class teachers in cities across the land. That's
why Dubinsky hopes the picture won't be
released at Easter, as is being discussed, in
order to get this school-industry tie-up.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Dubinsky rate their
New Year's Eve-Day 1969-70 celebration
one of the best in years and certainly one
of the longest, ending up at 5 a.m. Thursday
(1). The couple was in Kansas City
where their son-in-law and daughter, the
Arthur Lapins. turned their home over to
the local couple for a party to which Kansas
City friends were invited. This was like
old home week, since Mrs. Dubinsky was
born and raised there and it was Dubinsky's
place of business years ago when he met and
convinced Mrs. Dubinsky that she should
become his bride.
Cooper/Lincoln staff members ended up
with a Saturday night (10) party menu appropriate
for the steady, low, local temperatures—a
warm pizza feed at the nearby
Pizza Hut . . . Walt Jancke didn't let the
snow, ice or low temperature readings keep
him from wandering afield Sunday (11),
making a trip south to Nebraska City . . .
Mix the first of the year letdown, the frigid
air on the snow-covered ground and finals
coming up for the large number of industry
employees who also attend the university
and the city has the makings of a dull January.
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brake on some attendance records, which
still aren't bad. This applies to "Sweet Charity"
at the Stuart, which ended a Christmas
run Thursday (15), giving way to Liza Minnelli's
predicted Academy nominating picture,
"The Sterile Cuckoo," and to the 'Varsity
where "The Reivers" has been running
at high figures since New Year's Day. "On
Her Majesty's Secret Service" is due in at
the Varsity sometime after the Saturday
(17) weekend and the calling public seems
anxious for the date to arrive.
"Stie is partially right and wrong," says
Nebraska NATO president Irwin Dubinsky
in reference to movie actress Sharon Farrell's
recent comments on the Johnny Carson
Tonight show from New York City.
Miss Farrell, a star in 'The Reivers," currently
showing at the Varsity here and opening
soon in the Dubinsky's Orpheum in
Sioux City, is a native of Sioux City. Her
parents and other relatives still live there.
It was in Sioux City that Miss Farrell stirred
up a fleeting "hornet's nest" against her
family when she said on the Tonight show
that "the only movies making money in
Sioux City now are the pornographic ones."
The stir was mostly critical telephone calls.
An Associated Press dispatch quotes her as
saying "good people haven't gone to the
movies since 'Gone With the Wind' " during
her TV appearance. In Dubinsky's opinion.
Miss Farrell made her big mistake when she
didn't go on in the appearance to explain
"pornographic movies are doing well because
they are shown in small theatres at
higher prices and the overhead expenses are
small." When there's no more than 300 seats
in a theatre, Dubinsky says the overhead is
much less. More important, he adds, a full
house there represents only a minority of
the people, "while the majority come to
the
bigger theatres where the better, more acceptable
films are shown. Why the Cameo's
business for a week in Sioux City is only
comparable to one good day's attendance at
our Orpheum." This Iowa area also has another
similar small house across the river in
Nebraska at South Sioux City showing films
like
those running at the Cameo.
On the same subject of movie theatre business,
a story in the Sunday (11) Journal
and Star based on the most recent U. S.
Commerce Department's Census Bureau reports
shows that movies showed the biggest
increase in use of any selected service in
Nebraska between 1963 and 1967. In that
four-year period, motion picture attendance
rose 41 per cent, while all other amusement
and recreation services in the state only
progressed 16 per cent. After reading the
article, Dubinsky observed the same substantial
growth probably was realized in
1968 but doubted the same will be said
eventually for 1969. "The pictures haven't
been as strong the past year but that slogan
of movies being better than ever in the
1963-67 period did continue over into
1968," he analyzed. Dubinsky believes the
big 41 per cent four-year growth pattern
does support the industry's long claim that
people will attend or go back to the movies
for entertainment if the product is good
enough to merit their limited spending
money. Nebraska, in other services for the
same four years, showed a 30 per cent increase
in money spent for hotels, motels,
tourist courts and camps, as well as for miscellaneous
business services. Personal services
went up 26 per cent, automobile repair
services and garages 19 per cent and miscellaneous
repair services
18 per cent.
Jack Thompson, president of Cooper
Theatre Enterprises and Cooper Foundation,
and Mrs. Thompson were accompanied by
. . Assistant
directors and wives of the foundation to
Omaha for the recent premiere showing of
"Hello, Dolly!" at the Dundee .
vice-president Charles Kroll observes the
circuit's Omaha roadshow offering could be
no better. It also includes "Goodbye. Mr.
Chips" at the Cooper 70 and "Paint Your
Wagon" at Indian Hills Cinerama . . . Echoing
this comment are the managers of the
three local Cooper houses offering "Sweet
Charity" at the Stuart, "Change of Habit"
at the Nebraska and "Krakatoa, East of
Java" at the Cooper/ Lincoln.
Looking back at his Christmas Day dinner
with a Cook, Neb., farm family, Walt Jancke
wonders how he survived. He says there was
duck, turkey, ham and pheasant, not to
mention all the accompanying tempting
items . . . Ev Greathouse and his wife gave
Walt a brass cuspidor as a gift. Now that the
Webster Directors brand of cigars he's been
smoking for 40 years will no longer be made
by the tobacco company (he's got a case of
100), he hints that he may take to chewing
tobacco . . . Pasha, Walt's canine companion,
got that promised rawhide porkchop in his
Christmas stocking from Ev.
Phil McDermott of the Joyo usually drives
home to Omaha nightly after the suburban
house closes down but not the evening of
December 27. It's the second time this winter
that weather has kept him here in a
motel . . After Thursday (1) the Douglas
.
. .
Corp.'s 84th and O Drive-In closed until
March and the Starview will be open weekends
only until spring . Bob Cochrane, the
State's projectionist, is off again to Hawaii,
then is due to make a trip to London as a
member of an industry promotion show . . .
Irwin Dubinsky reports "John and Mary" is
a most satisfactory attraction at the Astro.
He's also pleased with "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service," being shown in Dubinsky
houses at Des Moines. Sioux City and Cedar
Rapids . . . State manager Gene Buhrdorf's
family must seem small to him at times like
this when hundreds of children are flooding
the downtown movie house daily to see "101
Dalmatians."
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In West Main Mall
KALAMAZOO, MICH.— F;ibi;iiis 750-
seat West Main Theatre, located in the
recently opened West Main Mall, opened
Christmas Day with "John and Mary," starring
Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow.
The lobby opens on the enclosed niall
and the attractively draped auditoriimi is
equipped with push-back seats to add to
moviegoer's comfort and convenience.
Mrs. Elaine Hanser, formerly of Pennsylvania,
is manager of the theatre, the
second Michigan movie house for the Hackensack,
N.J. -based Fabian Management
Corp.
Store, Theatres, Present
Children's Film Series
CLEVELAND—Higbee's, one of this
city's major department stores, is cooperating
with a half-dozen theatres for the showing
of the "Children's Movie of the Month,"
beginning Saturday (24).
The following attractions are scheduled:
"The Blue Bird," the Maeterlinck fantasy
with Shirley Temple, February 24; "Lad,
a Dog," from the Albert Payson Terhune
favorite story, with Peter Breck and Peggy
McCay, February 14; "Son of Robin Hood,"
with Al Hedison and June Laverick, plus
great cartoons, March 14, and "Gay Purree,"
a feature-length cartoon about a country
kitten that goes to Paris, with the voices
of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet on the
sound track, April 18.
Four of Loew's theatres will show these
films. The East, West, "Vorktown, Stillwell
and two additional houses are included in
the group—the Midway Mall Cinema in
Elyria and the Great Lakes Mall Theatre in
nearby Mentor.
"We expect this program to be extremely
popular, judging from the response we had
after the first announcement of the showings,"
said Herbert Brown, district manager
of Loew's.
The entire program has the approval of
the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures,
the National Council of Christ, the
Synagogue Council of America, Parents
Magazine and the Motion Picture Ass'n of
America.
Advance ticket sale has already opened
at Higbee's.
Shea Announces 650-Seat
Theatre for Ohio City
NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO—Area
residents can look forward to a new theatre
by late June, according to information released
by the Empire State Construction Co.,
developers and owners of Nichols Discount
City building and the Shea Theatre Corp. of
Ohio. Plans are under way to construct a
650-seat theatre on Monroe Street.
The de luxe theatre, which will exhibit
top first-run films, will be supervised by
Harold E. Snyder of New Philadelphia,
supervisor of Shea's Bexley in Dover and
the Quaker TTieatre here.
'On Her Majesty s Secret Service
2nd Week 600 Peak in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI—"On Her Majesty's Secret
Service" at the Times Towne Cinema
topped all first-run product grosses during
New Year's week with a 600 second week.
"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice." which had
300 to show for its first frame al the Kenwood,
raised its intake to 550 in the next
go-round. Also in the super-grossing class
was "Cactus Flower," which combined its
three-theatre engagement totals for a second-week
500, while "John and Mary"
played a third week at the Ambassador to a
happy tune of 450. "Paint Your Wagon,"
ninth week at the Cine Carousel, and
"Hello, Dolly!", in a third at the International,
drew 375 apiece, slightly ahead
of "Viva Max!", a composite 325 at the
Beacon Hill and Covedale, and "Goodbye,
Mr. Chips," 300 in a third week at the
Valley.
{Average Is 100)
Albee The Arrangement (WB), 2nd wk 150
Ambassador John and Mary (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. 450
Beacon Hill, Covedale Viva Max! (CUE),
2nd wk 325
Cine Carousel Point Your Wagon (Para), 9th wk. 375
Grand The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk 250
Hollywood Cinema North, Marremont Cinema
East, Western Woods Cactus Flower (Col),
2nd wk 500
International 70 Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox),
3rd wk 375
Kenwood Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
2nd wk 550
Princeton, 20th Century Topaz (Univ), 2nd wk. 250
Studio Cinemas Midnight Cowboy (UA),
23rd wk 250
Times Towne Cinema On Her Mojesty's Secret
Service (UA), 3rd wk 600
Valley Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 3rd wk 300
'Curious' Has Best Week
In Detroit in Last Month
DETROIT—The holiday spirit prevailed
at area theatres as many sections of the
public enjoyed extra days and leisure time
for showgoing. As a result, "I Am Curious
(Yellow)" came up with 380 in its 18th
week at the Six Mile Theatre, the film's
best gross percentage in the last four reports.
"The Secret of Santa Vittoria" at
the Towne nosed out "Cactus Flower,"
booked into five Detroit theatres, for the
runner-up spot, 200 to 190.
Eight theatres—On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(UA), 2nd wk 115
Five theatres Cactus Flower (Col) i 90
Seven theatres The Reivers (NGP) i35
Six Mile I Am Curious (Yellow) (SR), 18th wk. . .380
Towne The Secret of Santo Vittoria (UA) 200
'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Triples Average in Cleveland
CLEVELAND — Grosses were
running
close to twice average for most first-run
theatres as holiday fare continued to draw
excellent patronage. "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service," just opening at the Detroit
Theatre, soared ahead of everything else,
however, with a rousing 300 and every indication
that its run here will he a long and
profitable one. Newcomer "Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice" at Loew's East and Loew's
West finished the report week in a dead heat
with "Hello, Dolly!", second week at the
Great Northern, as each grossed 200 per
cent.
Beach Cliff Coctus Flower (Col) 175
Center, Mayfield The Reivers (NGP), 3rd wk. ... I 75
Colony Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 3rd wk 150
Detroit On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA) ..300
Fox Cedar Center Paint Your Wagon (Para),
9th wk 100
Great Northern— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 2rd wk. 200
Hippodrome The Best House in London (MGM);
(MGM) 90
Loew's East, West Bob & Corol & Ted & Alice
(Col) 2001
World East—John and Mary (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. 125
Long Showbusiness Record
For Detroit's Music Hall
DETROIT—The welcome report of the
reopening oi' the Music Hall by Merv Gaskin
and Frank Upton with a first-run policy
overlooked a significant point in the early
history of this well-appointed house.
The present Music Hall was built as the
Wilson Theatre in the 1920s by Mrs. Alfred
G. Wilson, who was the widow of automobile
manufacturer John Dodge and herself
a major benefactor of Michigan State University.
She took an active, personal part
in the operation of the theatre, under manager
Alton Warner, as the city's newest and
finest legitimate theatre. It was used rarely
for motion picture roadshows, such as "Gone
With the Wind," "Fantasia," "A Midsummer
Night's Dream" and "Dinner at Eight."
Outstanding stage productions and artists
appeared on the boards, as well as grand
opera.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under
the direction of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was
housed in Orchestra Hall on Woodward Avenue
on the site of the former Westminster
Presbyterian Church. This building became
the Paradise Theatre during the depression
years and was operated by the late Ben and
Lou Cohen, whose circuit is now Detroit
Theatre Enterprises, with a policy of bigtime
Negro stageshows and motion pictures.
The Detroit Symphony, meantime, under
the sponsorship of Henry Reichhold, moved
to the Wilson, renaming it Music Hall. At
one time Reichhold had the only known TV
set in Detroit in his upstairs office there,
picking up closed-circuit broadcasts from the
stage. In the 1950s, the symphony moved
again and then Gaskin took over the house
for the debut of Cinerama, retaining the
Music Hall title.
Elyria Airer Burglarized
ELYRIA, OHIO—In a recent break-in
at the building housing the manager's office
and concession stand at the Tower Drive-In,
burglars escaped with an estimated $840
worth of loot, including a stereo record
player, an electric fan and 1,000 packs of
cigarets.
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DETROIT
The Croswell Theatre in Adrian may be
Micholas George announced that he has
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The city park commis.sion endorsed a
completed phins for building second the oldest theatre in Michigan, it is indicated
auditoriums in three of his theatres—in by a feature story in the News by Catherine
Allen Park-Mai Kai. Livonia and the Americana
Smith. It was built as the Opera House in
Theatre in Southfield near mini-Film-
1858 and became a motion picture theatre
row—with construction slated to begin in in 1919. It has recently become a community
early spring.
project, used for amateur theatricals and
other civic events. Does any other theatre
Drive-ins reversed their thinking regarding
claim over 112 years?
heaters and have reverted back to the
25-cent charge instead of the 40 cents contemplated.
The Michigan Theatre in Lansing, oper-
In most circumstances, for the ated by the Butterfield circuit, was evacu-
balance of the season, admissions will run ated when a $500,000 fire destroyed a 95-
$2. of which 25 cents will be deducted as year-old structure adjacent and about two
heater fees, making a net admission of feet of water accumulation was reported
$1.75.
in the theatre later.
The eily has experienced sub-zero weather
Clive R. Waxnian, enterprising head of
with chill winds and snow. Schools and Independent Exhibitors Theatre Service in
roads over the state have been closed, all of Grand Rapids for a good many years now,
which blows a cold, ill wind for exhibitors. marked the completion of 50 years in the
film business with the turn of the year. He
The Americana Theatre had the largest
started with Lewis J. Selznick, father of
one-day gross December 3 I for any picture
David Selznick, in New York in 1919. He
in the area with "Hello, Dolly!" . . . The
used to sit in the Selznick projection room,
majority of theatres playing a midnight
then at 136 West 48th St., with young
show found the experience disappointing,
David, while Mrs. Selznick was busy with
as it appeared the majority of patrons did
her chores of signing checks for the two
not want to be on the streets that late at
companies. Select Pictures and Selznick Co.,
night. The regular showing did very well,
which folded in 1920. Clive went with First
however . . . One exhibitor braved the miserable
weather to make the rounds and that
National Pictures. He came to Michigan in
1933 and many remember the many years
was Steve Eisner of Spring Lake, followed
he was a salesman with Monogram Pictures,
the next day by Howard Sharpley from the
then with Alexander Films and others. He
Hillsdale area. Safe motoring fellows!
established the pioneer film-buying service
at
A thank you to more
Grand Rapids and has long been a
friends for pleasant
staunch pillar of Variety Club and other
greetings of the season—Gigi and Bill Flemion,
former local exhibitor and distributor,
film business activities in the furniture city.
Clive reminisces
now
about a pair
of Bradenton.
of other durable
veterans
Fla.; Dick and Gene
Sloan, Norman Ladouceur
who date before his
and
own
Bill Marcus
start in the industry
of Suburban
and are still active
Detroit Theatres, and Bill
Brown and Herman
around Filmrow—Carl "Cully"
Cohen of the Fox
Buermele
Theatre.
and Samuel Barrett, also well-known as a
hunter.
Critics of the moral standards of films
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exhibited and advertised in this town might
take
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proposal by the traffic engineering division
to convert State Street, between Front and
Third streets, into a pedestrian mall. The
Ohio Theatre and the Hartman Theatre are
located on State Street. One proposal in
connection with the mall is to install an
ice-skating rink between the Ohio and the
State Capitol. Trees, park benches, planters
and fountains also are envisioned. The mall
would not become a reality for five years,
according to present plans.
Frank A. Marzetti, 73, father of Frank
A. Marzetti jr., operator of Studio 35, died
following a heart attack. The elder Marzetti
was a retired operator of a parking garage.
Since his retirement in 1967, he assisted his
son in operation of the neighborhood theatre.
James T. McCafferty, entertainment editor
of the Dispatch, picked 16 films as the
best of 1969. The list includes: "Midnight
Cowboy," "Staircase," "Alice's Restaurant,"
"Easy Rider," "Bob & Carol & Ted &
Alice," "The Sterile Cuckoo," "The Rain
People," "The Madwoman of Chaillot,"
"The Learning Tree," "The Fixer," "The
Lion in Winter," "War and Peace," "The
Stalking Moon," "Sweet Charity," "The
Christmas Tree" and "Goodbye. Mr.
Chips."
Gene Gerrard, Citizen-Journal staff critic,
increased his "ten best films of 1969" to 13,
with the addition of "Alice's Restaurant,"
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and "Bob & Carol
& Ted & Alice." Earlier Gerrard had selected
"Oh! What a Lovely War" as the best
film of the year. The list also includes "Midnight
Cowboy," "Easy Rider," "If . . .,"
"The Wild Bunch," "Medium Cool," "Take
the Money and Run," "Goodbye, Columbus"
and "The Sterile Cuckoo." He predicted that
"Hello, Dolly!" will be named the best picture
of the year in the coming Academy
Awards and that Liza Minnelli and John
Wayne will win best actress and best actor
Oscars. He said other nominees may include
Peter O'Toole. Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight,
Jane Fonda and Petula Clark.
The RKO Palace will present the computerized
fight film of Rocky Marciano vs. Muhammad
Ali Tuesday (20) .
Columbia Pictures' "Marooned," starring
Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and David
Janssen, will open as a roadshow in December.
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Moore Theatre Equipment Co.
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CINCINNATI
The MGM exchange in this city will op-
Cleveland, Ohio 44142
sides, and the first time a roadshow attraction
ever played the west side.
Phone: (216) 267-2725/6
located in the Dayton Mall shopping complex.
erate as a sales office only, effective
Dayton, opened Christmas Day playerate
Monday (26). All other business will be ing "John and Mary."
handled by MGM"s Detroit branch, located
Joe Alexander, RKO-SW district manager;
Dick Wright, district manager, Cleve-
at 2310 Cass Ave., Detroit. Mich. 48201.
This city will continue to be a shipping
land, and Joe Stickler, International 70 assistant
manager, were in New York for a
point as in the past and prints returned to
such location.
publicity seminar on "Hello, Dolly!"
Charles W. Worrell, formerly Universal
branch manager at Indianapolis, is new
manager of the local exchange. CLEVELAND
17 years,
Betty Sontag, with MGM for
ha.s joined the J.M.G. Film Co. office staff Jack Zide of Detroit, branch manager of
. . . Bill Garner, formerly with the United American International films, feels
Artists Washington, D. C, exchange, is considerably honored. He was elected to
working in the local exchange.
the board of directors of Brent General
Hospital and then was appointed as one of
Watty Watson, long-time Filmrow publicist,
is recuperating from a recent illness in
the trustees in Michigan for our own Will
Rogers Hospital.
St. Francis Hospital.
Hank Davidson,
Summit County has had more than its
Lynchburg, Ohio, exhibitor,
usual quantity of snow in all sizes, shapes
is vacationing in Florida.
and hardness. Little knots of little skiers
can still be found enjoying the snow but no
Peter F. Rosian, Universal regional sales
toboggans, no bobsleds and not much sliding
(on sleds, that is). One thing we've not
manager; Larry Conti, Commonwealth sales
manager; exhibitors Bernard Gingley, Columbus;
Harley Bennet, Circleville, and storms.
had in a couple of weeks—a let-up in the
Wally Allen, Springfield, were visitors on
the Row.
Bill Gross, booker at Columbia Films, has
Chakeres Theatres' new de
returned from his month's vacation, spent
luxe Dayton with relatives in California.
Bartko, that faithful worker for
Mall Cinema, the 41st theatre in the circuit,
Marge
the WOMPIs. has changed her background.
For several years she has been with MGM
and has now transferred to Cinerama.
Grace Dolfin, Columbia booker, is back
to health after a bout with surgery at the
hospital at Painesville.
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 606571 Bill Lanese, 20th Century-Fox field representative,
attended a ceremony in which
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"Hello, Dolly!" day for the Greater Cleveland
area. The presentation of the musical
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Automated Plaza Twin
First in Akron Area
AKRON — The first automated film
houses in the Greater Akron area opened
Christmas Day, 1969, in the Northfield Plaza
Shopping Center on Route 8 in northern
Summit County.
Plaza I and Plaza II theatres share a common
lobby, refreshment counter and indoor
boxoffice. One auditorium seats 670 and the
other 470. Carpeting not only is wall-to-wall
but also goes up the wall for better decoration
and improved acoustics. The color
scheme in one auditorium is gold and blue,
the other green and blue. Though all projection
and operation is push-button controlled,
an operator is present to handle emergencies
and to rewind the film.
The opening feature for Plaza 1 was "On
Her Majesty's Secret Service," while Plaza
II bowed with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid."
This twin situation is operated by Associated
Theatres of Pittsburgh and reportedly
was constructed at a cost of $400,000.
Chakeres Circuit Honors
Two Veteran Employees
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO—Two veteran
employees of Chakeres Theatres circuit
have been honored for 34 years service
each, it was announced by Michael Chakeres,
executive vice-president and general
manager. They are Bullous Brewster, an
employee of the State Theatre, and Grant
Frazee, assistant general manager of the
theatre circuit.
Both theatremen were presented engraved
gold watches by Chakeres, who said this
has been the policy of the organization for
the past two years in honoring veteran
employees.
Newspaper Sponsors Movie
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO—The Examiner,
a local newspaper, treated the city's
youngsters to a free movie at Dick Vicario's
VKM Holland Theatre during the holiday
season, featuring a full-length film and three
cartoons. This assisted parents by giving
them extra time to shop without children in
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BLJRl.lNCilON, Vr.—Twin eincm;is being
built at the Burlington Plaza Shopping
Center on Shclburne Road in South Burlington
will be opened in the early spring, according
to Arthur H. Lockwood. president
ol the SBC" Management Corp. of Boston,
which operates indoor and drive-in theatres
in Maine. New Hampshire. Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut.
He said the circuit, an alfiliate of the
Sonderling Broadcasting Corp., a diversified
communications company, had signed a
lease for the space with Justgold Properties
of Stamford. Conn.
The twin theatres. Cinema 1 and Cinema
2. will present different film programs and
will have automated projection equipment
and high-fidelity sound, Lockwood said.
Seating capacity of about 700 for the two
theatres will be provided by specially designed
push-back chairs, each giving an unobstructed
view of the screen. The theatres
will have a glass-walled lounge area, decorated
with works of area artists, alternating
with memorabilia of the earlier days of
motion pictures. Other modern features will
include air conditioning and ample parking
in the shopping plaza.
Dave Jacobson Building
Fully Automated Theatre
H.ARTFORD—Independent Connecticut
exhibitor Dave Jacobson has started construction
on western Connecticut's first
fully-automated theatre in the Torrington
Parkade Shopping Center on Winsted Road,
some 30 miles to the northwest of Hartford.
The new theatre's location is adjacent to
the Sears Roebuck store and has available
parking space for 1.500 cars.
The hardtop will be the third fully automated
theatre in Connecticut. The first two
-—Berlin Cine 1 and 2—were opened some
weeks ago by Bernie and Sy Menschell on
Hartford's suburban Berlin Turnpike.
Torrington Parkade Cinema lists Jacobson
as president and Paul Jacobson as vicepresident.
The Jacobson interests will continue
to operate the Warner Theatre, Torrington.
Updating Springfield House
SPRINGFIELD. MASS.—The Irwin Cohen
interests, operating the downtown firstrun
Paramount, on lease from Western
Massachusetts Theatres, will install a new
sound system at a cost of $2,500, extensively
redecorate the interior and give the
seats a "new look" with disposable covers.
First 10 Week Sets Fast Grossing
Pace in Boston; Bond Film 650
BOSTON— New Year's week was a
good
one for Boston exhibition, although New
Year's Eve was off somewhat becau.se of a
snowstorm. However, New Year's Day came
through strong and business continued picking
up rapidly until another snowstorm, this
one coming Saturday evening (3), took the
edge off the excellent grosses. The strength
of boxoffice support is indicated by the
grossing percentage ranges: ten of the 14
reporting first runs ranged from 200 (twice
average) to 650; the other four films grossing
110 to 175. all well-above average. The
Big Three: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
650, third week, Music Hall; "Secret
of Santa Vittoria," 600, second week. Pi
Alley, and "Cactus Flower," 500, second
week, Cheri Two.
(Average Is 100)
Astor A Dream of Kings (NGP), 2nd wk 120
Charles John and Mary (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 375
Cheri One Topaz (Univ), 3rd wk 300
Cheri Two Cactus Flower (Col), 2nd wk 500
Cheri Three Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
9th wk 220
Circle Cinema Painf Your Wagon (Para),
10th wk 130
Exeter—Z (SR) 250
Gary Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 9th wk 200
Music Hall On Her Majesty's Secret Service
|UA), 3rd wk 650
Paris Cinema Putney Swope (SR), 14th wk 175
Pi Alley Secret of Santa Vittoria (UA), 2nd wk. 600
Savoy The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk 350
Saxon The Arrangement (WB), 2nd wk 300
West End Cinema Hang-Up (SR) 110
"Loving Couples' Takes Over
Hartford Lead With 225
HARTFORD—Two exploitation releases,
"Cherry, Harry and Raquel" and "All the
Loving Couples," joined a formidable array
of good grossing holdovers as the holidaytriggered
business carried on through another
week.
Art Cinema Cherry, Harry & Raquel (Eve) 200
Berlin Cine I, Paris Cinema II Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid (20th-Fox), 14th wk. ... 1 00
Berlin Cine II, East Hartford Cinema I, E.M.
Loew's, Webster The Reivers (NGP), 2nd wk. 175
Central, Paris Cinema I and Mary
(20th-Fox), 3rd wk 125
Cinema I, Burnside Cactus Flower (Col), 2nd wk. 150
Cinema II Paint Your Wagon (Para), 9th wk. . . 90
Cinerama Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM), 3rd wk. . . 125
Cine Webb, UA Theatre East On Her Majesty's
Secret Service (UA), 3rd wk 90
Elm—Bob & Corol & Ted & Alice (Col), 2nd wk. 200
Newington Topaz (Univ), 2nd wk 125
Rivoli All the Loving Couples (SR) 225
Strand The Arrangement (WB), 2nd wk 100
'Hello, Dolly!' Defies Snow
And Cold to Score 300
NEW HAVEN—Snow and cold failed to
block theatregoing. as percentages generally
stayed on the upperside of the 100 average
line. "Hello, Dolly!", third week at the Cinemart,
even managed to triple normal business
at that theatre, while "Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice" doubled the Whalley's average
lake in a seconil week.
Cinemart Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 300
College, Bowl On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(UA), 3rd wk 75
Crown All the Loving Couples (SR), 2nd wk 150
Lawrence Eat, Drink and Make Merrie (SR),
2nd wk 150
Lincoln The Sterile Cuckoo (Para), 2nd wk 125
Paramount, Milford Cinema Coctus Flower (Col),
2nd wk 150
Princess That Loving Feeling (SR) i 00
Roger Sherman The Arrangement (WB), 2nd wk. 75
Showcase Cinema I Your Wagon (Para),
9th wk 140
Showcase Cinema II Funny Girl (Col), 22nd wk. 120
Showcase Cinema III Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM),
3rd wk 150
Westville, Whitney John and Mary (20th-Fox),
3rd wk 100
Whalley Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
2nd wk 200
Jimmy Fund in 1969
To $721942 Level
BOSTON—In thanking the public lor
generous support for the Jimmy Fund last
year, Thomas A. Yawkey, president of the
Jimmy Fund board of trustees, and William
Koster. administrative vice-president, said
that donations for the war against cancer
in children totalled $721,942 in 1969.
Ken Coleman, Carl Yastrzemski and
James Mahoney, chairmen for last year's
campaign, attributed this huge contribution
to the combined efforts of New England
theatres. Variety Club of New England,
Little Leagues, the Boston Red Sox
baseball club, law enforcement agencies,
press, TV, radio, fraternal, religious and
business organizations.
The novel manner in which people from
all walks of life contributed time and money
to the annual campaign for furthering research
to help children afflicted with cancer
makes the Jimmy Fund unique, as well as
a household word throughout New England.
State chairmen for the 1969 drive included
Joseph O'Kane and Hector Pelletier,
Massachusetts; William Mead and Tom Sullivan,
Connecticut; Charlie Sharpe, Maine,
and Tony Russo.
New Plan for Hartford
Trumbull Civic Center
HARTFORD — Architect Vincent G.
Kling has presented a new plan for the city's
long-projected Trumbull Civic Center.
His proposal, which must get city council
approval, would greatly increase facilities
and almost double the cost to $27.3 million.
Kling's plan would cost $12.3 million
more than the $15 million Connecticut's
capital city was authorized to spend in a
1968 referendum.
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Cam Rjchmond Films has moved to new
and larger quarters in the Park Square
Building. The firm's new office is on the
fourth floor in room 430 (next door to
Buena Vista). Richmond informed the trade
that the firm has been reorganized under
the name of Richmond Film Distributing
Co., Inc., and that Pat Lyons, secretary,
and Charlie Wilson, office manager, are
ready to welcome customers and friends to
their new headquarters.
The Davis brothers, proprietors of the
Needham Cinema, announced the appointment
of J. Gerald Servant of Watertown,
Mass., as full-time manager of the Cinema.
Servant, who has been in show business 35
years, began in his native Montreal and
worked his way up as usher, assistant manager,
and manager in Montreal theatres. In
1964, after managing the Montreal Cinerama
Theatre ten years, he came here to
manage the Boston Cinerama. When it was
closed in 1968, he joined Sack Theatres as
manager of the Boston Gary, remaining
there until he accepted the Needham position.
He is a veteran of World War II, having
served with the Canadian armed forces.
Interstate Theatres, through general manager
James Mahoney, announced that it
has ceased management of the Town Hall
Theatre in Bellows Falls, Vt. Formerly operated
by Charles Cray, the theatre was
taken over by Ansin and Stoneman, the
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widely known in New England film industry
circles. Bob Stocker of Stocker Enterprises,
former owner of the Belmont Drive-In, has
taken over the Town Hall Theatre, which is
closed temporarily for redecoration. The
ceiling of the auditorium is to be lowered
and the balcony closed off to increase the
feeling of compactness, a trend in current
theatre construction.
Tony Russo is the artist responsible for
the always-awaited caricature announcement
for all movie outings, conventions and
exchange parties arranged by the Theatre
Owners of New England, the Variety Club
and film exchanges of the last 30 years. He
will continue his association with Interstate's
publicity department, specializing in
program announcements in all advertising
campaigns of the circuit.
Boston Theatre Face
Changing Rapidly
BOSTON—Two more old film theatres
aie coming down to make way for development
projects in the city, the Orpheum on
Washington Street and the Fenway on Massachusetts
Avenue in the Back Bay. Both
theatres were for many years part of the
Loew's circuit. Their former State theatre
was torn down last year. The Orpheum was
last managed under Loew by James Tibbetts,
who went with Cinerama and is now in
Portland, Ore., managing theatres.
In the meantime, construction work on
two theatres has begun at the Carver 57
Project, which will house twin Sack theatres
in a hotel to be built by Howard Johnson.
An additional Sack theatre is being
added to the Sack Cheri complex of three,
making four, according to A. Alan Friedberg,
executive vice-president and general
manager of the Sack organization.
The city's film face is changing rapidly
and the newest theatre to arrive on the
scene, the Pi Alley, built in old newspaper
row on lower Washington Street where old
time printers threw their pied type, has its
lobby decorated with historic front pages
of old Boston newspapers—the Boston Transcript,
the Boston Post, the Boston Journal
and the still existing Boston Record American,
Globe and Herald.
Long-time Projectionist
Matthew Dragen, 9L Dies
NEW BRITAIN,
CONN. — Matthew
Dragen, 91, retired projectionist, died at the
New Britain General Hospital. His industry
affiliations over the years included the
Lyceum, Embassy, Capitol, Scenic, Palace
and Strand theatres.
Dragen was a charter member of Local
301, Moving Picture Projectionists Union
and worked in New Britain theatres for more
than 60 years.
May Rename New London
Main Street for O'Neill
NEW LONDON, CONN.—A group hoping
to persuade the city council to change
the name of Main Street to Eugene O'Neill
Drive would like actress Geraldine Chaplin
to visit this city and lend her support to the
campaign.
Miss Chaplin is a granddaughter of the
late Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning playwright
and daughter of Charlie Chaplin and
Oona O'Neill Chaplin. Eugene O'Neill lived
here in his youth.
HARTFORD
^arvin Koppel, son-in-law of the late Ted
Harris, who was managing director of
the State, Hartford, has been named chairman
of the Elm Plaza Merchants Ass'n in
Enfield. He manages Levison's Men's Shop
in that northern Connecticut town.
Ray McNamara, area representative for
New England Theatres, was a Boston business
visitor.
Ed Rosenfeld, northeastern exploitation
manager for National General, conferred
with Murray Lipson, General Cinema's Cinemas
1-2, on the Connecticut premiere of "A
Dream of Kings."
Sperie P. Perakos, vice-president and general
manager of Perakos Theatres Associates,
was a New York business visitor.
The British import "Accident" was screened
at the Hartford Jewish Community Center
as part of its Winter Film Series. Admission
was $1.75 . . . Murray Lipson, General
Cinema Corp.'s Cinemas 1-2, ran a series
of "Good-Time People Love 'Paint Your
Wagon' " ads, highlighting photos of prominent
area people, in conjunction with roadshow
engagement at Cinema 2.
NEW HAVEN
^he trade extended sympathy to Ernie Gilbert,
retired Bridgeport projectionist,
on the death of his brother Harry . . . John
Scully, manager of the UA Trumbull Theatre,
Trumbull shopping complex, and his
wife Barbara attended the New York screening
of 20th Century-Fox's "Hello, Dolly!"
National Ass'n of Theatre Owners of
Connecticut president Robert Spodick is
readying a late January meeting to be devoted
to the film code system. Panelists will
include the press, women's groups, clergy
and educators.
MGM has shifted Connecticut sales responsibilities
to its newly enlarged Boston
exchange: shipping will continue out of New
Haven . . . "The Elm City Clarion," longtime
nostalgia column in the New Haven
Register, carried some memories of the
Rialto Theatre fire of 1921. The theatre was
situated on College Street, opposite the Hotel
Taft.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
H medee J. Morency, who was one of the
first motion picture projectionists in
New Hampshire and Vermont, died at a
Manchester hospital Monday (5) following
a brief illness. He was a native of St. Johnsbury,
Vt., but had lived in Litchfield, in this
state, for the past 15 years. He had also
resided in Manchester and Lancaster and
was a member of St. Francis of Assisi
Church in the Goffe's Falls section of Manchester.
In his later years, he had been a
painter and decorator.
A report by the New Hampshire Department
of Employment Security Tuesday (6)
showed that the state's total unemployment
increased by 600 workers to 7,850, or 2.6
per cent of the labor force, during the preceding
week. The Manchester area had a
jobless increase of 150, while 50-worker increases
were reported in the Berlin, Concord,
Laconia, Nashua and Portsmouth
areas. The Dover and Keene offices each
reported an increase of 100 jobless.
.Area theatre owners were shocked to
learn of the death of 55-year-old James Patrick
Lynch, president of the Exeter News-
Letter Co. and co-publisher of the weekly
newspaper Exeter News-Letter. and "The
Viking," a newspaper for airmen at the
Pease Air Force Base in nearby Portsmouth.
Lynch, a native of South Boston, was formerly
with the Boston Traveler, and had been
active in Republican politics during his residence
in New Hampshire.
In recent newspaper advertising in the
Manchester Union Leader, the Queen City's
four downtown theatres. Cine 1, Cine 2,
King Cinema and Strand Cinema, all under
the same management, have emphasized that
"every theatre has close free parking," which
is an advantage these days in the state's
largest city,
now undergoing many changes.
New Hampshire theatre operators are
concerned about a tax reform package recommended
by Gov. Walter Peterson's Citizens
Task Force to raise an additional $8
million in state revenue. No broad base
levies were proposed, but the new income
program would include a 6 per cent business
profits tax, raising an estimated $22.8 million;
a 4 per cent nonresident income tax to
yield $1.7 million, and a two-cent-per-pack
tobacco tax. Under the proposal, however.
New Hampshire's controversial stock-intrade
tax would be repealed.
A recent special children's show at Cinema
2 at the Bedford Mall in Bedford featured
"Ring of Bright Water," with a 50-
cent admission charge for all seats for the
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youngsters and free admission for their
mothers. At the same theatre, a program
highlighted by the popular film. "Bob &.
Carol & Ted & Alice," as well as "On Her
Majesty's Secret Service," went into a third
week holdover. The movie establishment is
still continuing bargain matinees with all
seats for 75 cents, except on holidays.
Area theatre owners heard with regret
the news of the death of Harold "Life"
Richards, former advertising manager of
the Laconia Evening Citizen and job printing
manager for that newspaper for more
than 35 years. He was a former baseball
player, a great sports enthusiast and an
Army Air Force veteran of World War I.
Director Joseph Losey
Teaching Film Course
HANOVER, N.H. — Returning to this
country for his first extended stay since
1952, Joseph Losey, U.S. -born motion picture
director whose films recently won him
a New York award as best foreign director,
is teaching a course entitled "The Role and
Responsibility of the Director" at Dartmouth
College.
Losey. who was graduated from Dartmouth
40 years ago, began teaching the
course Monday (5). He has directed more
than a dozen plays, 90 radio dramas and
documentaries and more than 20 movies,
most of which have been produced in Europe
during the past 16 years.
The course being taught by Losey, who
was a classmate of Dartmouth President
John Sloan Dickey during his college career,
includes analysis of a variety of selected
films, inckiding his own, as well as lectures
and discussions. Losey became interested
in drama and writing while associated
with the Dartmouth Players, which he
headed during his senior year.
His last two films were "Boom" (1967),
starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor,
and "Secret Ceremony" (1968), with
Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert
Mitchum. He will sandwich his Dartmouth
course in between two new movies.
SPRINGFIELD
^he trial of an exhibitor's showing of the
Swedish import, "I Am Curious (Yellow),"
has been postponed for the sixth time
in Springfield District Court. Frank A. Curran,
30, manager of the B&Q Arcade, downtown
first run, was arrested and the theatre's
print seized by police, who charged
Curran with showing of an obscene motion
picture October 29.
Redstone Theatres division manager John
P. Lowe has firmed up a Wednesday (28)
regional premiere of Paramount's "Paint
Your Wagon" at Showcase Cinema.
The General Cinema circuit's Eastfield
Cinema brought back 20th Century-Fox's
"The Wizard of Baghdad" for a kiddies
show sponsored by B'nai B'rith Women of
Springfield. Admission was $1.50 for adults,
$1 for children. "Adequate Adult Supervision"
was prominently advertised.
Western Massachusetts Theatres booked
Paramount's "My Side of the Mountain,"
day-and-date, into the Bing, Springfield;
Rivoli, Chicopee; Victory, Holyoke; Calvin,
Northampton, and Garden, Greenfield.
Rockland Boothman Home
From Florida Vacation
ROCKLAND, ME. — Richard
Welch.
Strand Theatre projectionist, and Mrs.
Welch returned from a motor trip to Eglin
Air Force Base, Fla., where they spent
Christmas week with their daughter Mrs.
Harold Solletti, her husband and son
Brian, 2.
Harold Solletti, the son-in-law who is a
staff sergeant, recently was awarded the Air
Force Commendation Medal for meritorious
service as non-commissioned officer in
charge of the cost accounting section, 556th
Civil Engineering Squadron (Red Horse)
while operating at a Royal Thai Navy Air
Force Base in Thailand from June 5, 1968,
to April 30, 1969.
En route to and from Florida, the
Welches visited overnight at Glen Burnie.
Md.. with Maj. and Mrs. Ernest Whitney
and at Decatur, Ga., with M/Sgt. and Mrs.
Raymond (Sylvia Whitney) Hicks.
VERMONT
The severity of the recent blizzard which
hit Vermont, disrupting the operations
of movie theatres and other business establishments,
was demonstrated when Mayor
Cain announced that Burlington, the state's
largest city, would embark on a "crash program"
to clear sidewalks so that children
could return to school without walking in
the streets. He said a number of small bulldozers
would be hired to do the sidewalk
work.
When the legislature convened Wednesday
(7), it was predicted that the 3 per cent
sales tax, enacted at the last session of the
lawmakers and applying to theatre admission
tickets, would be a subject of considerable
consideration. In fact, a bill that was
being prepared by Sen. Fiore L. Bove for the
Democratic minority in the Legislature
would abolish the tax.
William Pryce Sr. Dies;
Montpelier Exhibitor
MONTPELIER. VT.—William Pryce sr.,
69, who was manager of the Capitol Theatre
here from 1940 until his retirement in
1967, died December 21.
Coming to this city in 1918, Pryce, who
was also well known in sports activities, was
employed by the old Playhouse Theatre,
which later became the Capitol.
He had been manager of the Montpelier
Independent baseball team and of the Blue
Devils basketball team and a director of the
Twin City ba.seball team of the Northern
League. He had also been chairman of the
local
Jimmy Fund for many years.
NE-4 BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

Coctus
Cactus
Goodbye,
Public Support Asked
By Employees of NFB
MONTREAL—Employees of Ihe National
Film Board based in Montreal who believe
the Canadian government is moving
toward emasculation, if not obliteration of
Ihe internationally known filmmaking organization,
are fighting hard against austerity.
They will soon be asking some 7,000
Canadians the question, "Do You Care
What Happens to the National Film
Board?"
The emplo>ees—or more speeifically the
General Union of Cinema and TV Workers,
which has more than 400 members employed
by the Montreal-based NFB—will be
putting the question in the form of a letter
to people throughout Canada who may have
used NFB films in the past.
Essentially the union is trying to bring to
ihe notice of these people the fact of the
government-announced layoff of 31 film
board employees in the past three months
and that it may be laying off about 70 more
in the next three months or so.
Beyond that, the union will be suggesting
that
the layoffs are symptomatic of a developing
attitude within the top levels of government
that has resulted in the assignment
of a low priority rating to any government
program related to culture.
"We will be trying to wake people up to
this," said producer John Howe, president
of the union. "We hope that if they don't
like it. they will let the government know
they don't like it."
Howe argues that a top government priority—austerity
or no austerity—should be a
continuing discovery and reinforcing of the
national identity. That, he says, is what the
film board is all about.
The film board, he argues, is not a collection
of irresponsible individuals doing
their thing on government time and money
but rather, a group of people who are dedicated
to the film board mandate of telling
Canadians and the world about Canada.
Howe said that the purpose of the film
board and its need for a high priority seems
to have been forgotten by the government.
This has been demonstrated, he says, not
only by the fact that austerity measures
have hit the film board harder than most
government departments but by the fact
that they have been applied in "blind, bureaucratic
fashion." cutting into the meat,
rather than the fat, of the organization.
Of the 31 jobs eliminated by the government
in the past three months, ten are in
production departments where the actual
filmmaking is done. And of the 73 jobs that
were to be eliminated in the next three
months—the decision is being reviewed
no fewer than 44 were in the production department.
Theatre Accents Comfort
ASHLAND, ORE.—The $1.4 million Angus
Bowrner Theatre has been designed to
accent patron comfort by spacing the 600
seats in rows wide enough to permit moviegoers
to walk through without disturbing
seated viewers.
'On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Breaking Vancouver House Records
VANCOUVER — New house records
were established in the Vogue in Vancouver
and Odeon. West Vancouver, by "On Her
Majesty's Secret Service" and at the Richmond
Islander and West Vancouver Park
Royal Twin by the reissued "101 Dalmatians."
With few exceptions, the rest of the
town reported grosses running well-above
expectations, no less than nine "excellcnts"
showing up.
Capitol The Arrongement (WB) Very Good
Coronet Topaz (Univ), 2nd wk Excellent
Downtown Vivo Mox! (Astral), 2nd wk Good
Fine Arts A Dreom of Kings (Emp) Excellent
Hyland Oliver! (Col), 48th wk Above Average
Odeon Bob & Corel & Ted & Alice (Col),
2nd wk
Orpheum The Reivers (Emp)
. Excellent
Excellent
Park John ond Mary (20th-Fox) Excellent
Ridge Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 2nd wk. ..Excellent
Stanley Point Your Wagon (Para), 9th wk. Excellent
Strand Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM) Excellent
Studio The Libertine (C-P), 3rd wk Very Good
Vogue, Odeon West Vancouver On Her Majesty's
Secret Service (UA), 2nd wk Excellent
Five 'Excellent'
Toronto Marks
As Holiday Fare Flourishes
TORONTO—Grosses held up well at
many first-run theatres, particularly at the
Uptown 1, showing "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
for the third week; at the Eglinton, playing
"Hello, Dolly!" for a third week, and at
the Carlton, where "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service" was in a third frame. Other
heavy grossers included "Cactus Flower,"
second week at York L and "Funny Girl,"
marking its 66th at the Fairlawn.
.
Capitol Fine Art The Arrangement (WB),
2nd wk
Corlton On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
.Good
3rd wk Excellent
The Explosion (IFD), 2nd wk Good
Fairlawn Funny Girl (Col), 66th wk Excellent
Glendale 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM),
83rd wk Good
Downtown
Hollywood (North) John ond Mory (20th-Fox),
3rd wk Very Good
Hollywood (South) Butch Cossidy ond the
Sundance Kid (20th-Fox), 10th wk Very Good
Hyland Secret of Sonta Vittorio (UA),
3rd wk Very Good
Imperial group The Reivers (Emp),
2nd wk Very Good
International Cinema The Circus (UA), 2nd wk. Fair
Loew's Topaz (Univ), 3rd wk Good
Nortown Fonny Hill (SR), 2nd wk Good
Towne Viva Max! (Astral), 3rd wk Fair
University Point Your Wagon (Para), 10th wk. Fair
Uptown I Mr. Chips (MGM),
3rd wk
(Col),
York I
York II
Flower
Bob & Carol
(Col), 2nd wk
& Ted & Alice
Excellent
Excellent
2nd wk
Yorkdale Cinema, Dominion Cinema
Excellent
A Dream of
Kings (Emp), 2nd wk Good
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
'Excellent'
And 'Bob & Carol'
WINNIPEG — Business continued very
strong, actually
improving over the previous
holiday week. The best grossers again were
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "Bob
& Carol & Ted & Alice," each earning an
"excellent" rating for the week's business,
while "very good" marks were achieved by
this quartet: "Hell's Angels '69," Downtown:
"Cactus Flower," Garrick L "The Reivers,"
Metropolitan, and "John and Mary." Polo
Park.
Copitol The Arrongemenf (WB), 2nd wk Good
Downtown Hell's Angels '69 (Astral); Hell's
Belles (Astral) Very Good
Gaiet'y Point Your Wagon (Pora), 2nd wk Good
Garrick I Flower (Col), 2nd wk. ..Very Good
Garrick II Topaz (Univ), 2nd wk Fair
King's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
2nd wk Excellent
Metropolitan The Reivers (Emp), 2nd wk. Very Good
OdGon^On Her Majesty's Secret Service (UA),
3rd wk Excellent
Polo Park—John and Mary (20th-Fox),
2nd wk Very Good
Towne Take the Money and Run (iFD),
2nd wk Good
Windsor The Sisters (C-P), 2nd wk Good
Holiday-Originated Bookings
Still Good in Montreal
MONTREAL — Boxoflice results were
generally good, although the city was recovering
from a record snowfall, with all
the resulting traffic tie-ups, frozen pipes,
colds, accidents and other usual accompaniments
of a real Canadian winter. The firstrun
films available, of course, were the ones
which attracted such satisfactory attendance
during the holidays.
Alouette Paint Your Wogon (Para), 1 J th wk. . .Good
Atwater (Cinema I) Cactus Flower (Col),
3rd wk Good
Atwater (Cinema M) Butch Cassldy and the
Sundonce Kid (20th-Fox), 6th wk Good
Avenue A Dream of Kings (Emp), 3rd wk Good
Bonaventure Oliver! (Col), 3rd wk Good
Cinema Place du Canada Bob & Carol & Ted
& Alice (Col), 3rd wk Good
Cinema Place Ville Marie Putney Swope (SR),
3rd wk Good
Cinema Westmount Square Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(MGM), 9th wk Good
Elysee (Resnois) Une Femme Douce (Para) ....Good
Imperial Mediterranean Holiday (SR), 14th wk. Good
Kent Who's That Knocking at My Door? (SR),
5th wk Good
Loew's The Arrangement (WB), 3rd wk Good
Palace The Reivers (Emp), 3rd wk Good
Snowdon Loving Feeling (SR), 4th wk Good
Vendome—Z (SR), ]2th wk Good
Westmount Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 5th wk. . .Good
York John and Mary (20th-Fox), 3rd wk Good
Retrospective Series Set
By Canada's Cinematheque
MONTREAL—The Cinematheque Canadienne
will start the year by featuring a
mini-retrospective of German expressionist
films, along with a series devoted to Quebec
cinema as well as a series of coming American
pictures and a series of Polish animation
films.
Of the American comic films, there will
be several Charlie Chaplin productions as
well as some of Max Sennett. the Marx
Bros.. Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, W. C.
Fields and one with Mae West.
Quebec films include those of Jean Paul
Bernier, Jean Claude Labrecque and Marcel
Carriere.
Commonwealth United Sets
Agreements in Far East
From Western Edition
HOLLYWOOD — Exclusive pacts have
been signed by Commonwealth United and
national distributors for release of product
in two major Far East areas, according to
Maurice Silverstein, president of Commonwealth
United International, the company's
foreign distribution arm.
The Commonwealth agreements are with
Shochiku for Japan and Okinawa and with
Shaw Brothers for Hong Kong. Singapore
and Malaysia, Silverstein said.
BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970 K-1

MONTREAL
Quebec's Film Board has
appointed Gilles
Boivin as deputy to the director of distribution.
Formerly with the National Film
Board. Boivin for seven years was education
officer for the French-language areas of
Canada. He also was in charge of distribution
in Quebec for the National Film Board
as director of distribution for the five regions
served by the Film Board.
Sophia Loren and her producer husband
Carlo Ponti may attend next month's Quebec
Winter Carnival. Last year. Princess
Grace of Monaco was a guest of honor at
ihe internationally known event. Roger Bernier,
president of the Quebec carnival committee,
said that Sophia Loren had been invited.
Sydney Newman, who at the beginning
of his career served under John Grierson,
founder of the National Film Board of Canada,
from 1941 to 1952, has been appointed
special adviser to the chairman and director
of the broadcast programs branch of
the Canadian Radio-TV Commission. The
the regulating office for the Cana-
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media of Canada. Great Britain and the
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with the releasing of a study on Gille Groul.
The release was made in connection with
the premiere of Groul's latest film, "Ou
Etes-Vous Done," at the Verdi Theatre.
Le Pussycat Theatre on St. Lawrence
Boulevard, which is offering, according to
its operators, "a new concept in motion picture
entertainment," is continuing to attract
good crowds after some six weeks of operation.
Currently it is featuring a twin bill,
"The Pleasure Girls" and "Mud Honeys."
The opening program of "Motorpsycho" and
"Lorna" (Russ Meyer) held good for six
weeks.
OTTAWA
Jl^s the new year got up steam the announcement
was made that the 1970
convention of the Motion Picture Theatres
Ass'n of Ontario at the Seaway Hotel Motel,
Toronto, would be moved to February from
the usual fall date to coincide with the annual
session of the Canadian Picture Pioneers,
of which Myer Axler is president.
Also in the books is the intimation that
H. C. D. Main will voluntarily retire as executive
secretary of the MPTAO after three
years of faithful service. The office of the
Ontario organization is now located at 175
Bloor St. East, Toronto.
Steve McManus, former supervisor of
Odeon Theatres (Canada) for Ontario, was
successful in being elected a member of the
Metro Separate School Board in the civic
elections at Toronto this year for the metropolitan
area. He is a past president of the
Motion Picture Theatres Ass'n of Ontario.
The extensive promotion by Doug Pinder
for "Explosion" at the Rideau and Britannia
had one peculiar result. Shortly after the
opening of the engagement a large fire took
place on Rideau Street and what with the
wide use of the title of the picture in all media,
people persisted in phoning to ask, "Is
the Rideau Theatre open for business?" This
gave Pinder still more opportunities to plug
"Explosion" on the screen.
At a meeting of creditors of the Theatre
Foundation of Ottawa, organized in 1957
to open a new theatre here, D. F. McKechnie,
trustee in bankruptcy, announced that
assets totalled only $1,520 after several
losing ventures. The heaviest loser is Sam
Berger, president of the Montreal pro-football
club.
No less than 1 1 holdovers were registered
in spite of cold weather. Seven holiday attractions
held for a second week and the
longer engagements were: "Oliver!" for a
43rd week at the Cinema U, "Paint Your
Wagon" at the Nelson and "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid" at the Elmdale, both
for a ninth week, and "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service" for a third week at the Elgin.
Odeon Cinema I brought back "Snow
White" for a second Saturday morning show
for juveniles at 50 cents admission immediately
prior to the reopening of schools
Monday (5). Incidentally, the St. Paul University
here has organized a course of 15
weeks, starting Friday (16), for the Friday
night presentation of feature films to be
evaluated by teenagers.
In nearby Hull a third week on the
French-language feature "Fantomas Against
Scotland Yard" was rung up by the Vendome
Cinema where "I Am Curious (Yellow)"
was good for 16 weeks.
Lew Wassermon Gift
J. Stein Eye Institute
From Western Edition
Aids
HOLLYWOOD—Contributions for establishing
the Charles Kenneth Feldman Research
Fellowship in perpetuity at the Jules
Stein Eye Institute are exceeding expectations.
A gift of $20,000 from Mr. and Mrs.
Lew Wasserman was received before the
end of the year and is the largest contribution
other than the original bequest of $50,-
000 left to the institute by the late Charles
Feldman.
Other substantial donors of $5,000 each
include Billy Wilder, Mike Frankovich,
Jack Warner and Warren Beatty, with a
number of $1,000 gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Stein
have added $10,000. It is hoped the final
goal will exceed $150,000, thereby establishing
a permanent fellowship with an annual
stipend of $10,000 or more to a
worthy post-doctoral scientist in vision research.
The Wassermans simultaneously
similar gift to
made a
the institute for an eye scholarship
in memory of a former MCA executive,
Abe Meyer. This fund now approximates
$40,000 and will provide an annual
grant of about $3,000.
New Mexico to Accelerate
Drive for Filmmaking
From Western Edition
ALBUQUERQUE — Lt. Gov. E. Lee
Francis predicted here that New Mexico
would spend $100,000 in the next year to
promote motion picture production.
In a speech before the Albuquerque Kiwanis
Club, he said that only $36,000 was
spent during 1969 to bring in filmmakers
but that it resulted in some $20 million
worth of production in New Mexico.
Noting New Mexico's sister state, Francis
said, "New Mexico is now in the pyosition
that Arizona was 15 to 20 years ago. All of
a sudden people are starting to realize we
are
that
here."
In the same speech Francis commented
last year.
tourists spent $142,500,000 in the state
He went on to say that the state is on the
"brink of an unprecedented period of
growth, both in tourists and industry."
K-2 BOXOFFICE :: January 19, 1970

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BOXOFFICE January 19, 1970 K-3

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TORONTO
The management of Cinecity here is currently
an unsettled question, made
more so by incidents reported in the press
over the past few days. Until about six
months ago the theatre was part of Film
Canada operations. At that time, Cineshow,
Cinecity's parent company, voted to transfer
management of the theatre from William
Poolman, president of Film Canada, to Bennet
Fode, owner of the nearby New Yorker.
Fode immediately attempted to sever all
connections with Film Canada—from dismissing
all of the staff except the projectionist,
protected by his union contract, to
changing all of the locks on the theatre.
Two weeks ago, as the newspapers reported
it. Poolman and a Film Canada delegation
attempted to put their own set of locks on
Cinecity, only to be stopped by the manager.
Fode and the police were called to the
scene and a Fode employee seized a reel of
the current well-grossing attraction, "A Married
Couple," to avoid any surprise takeover
by Poolman and his delegation. The
incident ended in a saw-off but Fode still remained
in command. However, with a directors"
meeting to be held this week, control
of Cinecity will likely revert to Poolman
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and Film Canada. In such case, Cinecity will
likely reinstate its policy of exhibiting Canadian
and avant-garde films in coming
months, along with underground film showings,
American screen classic programs and
special Friday midnight screenings. Next
month. Film Canada hopes to give two new
Canadian films their first local screenings,
"A 50's Trip—A 60's Trip," the first feature-length
production by Torontonian Philip
Rowe. and "The Last Act of Martin
Weston," which was shot in Czechoslovakia
with Czech financing by Canadian director
Michael Jacot.
Loew's Yonge Street, now under Twinex
Century ownership, is to be renamed the
Yonge. Also under the Twinex wing now,
the Uptown I has reopened with "Goodbye,
Mr. Chips." The four other cinemas to be
fitted into this renovation project are due
to be ready within the next two months,
ranging in capacity from just under 1,000
seats to just over 100. When completed, it
will become the largest cinema complex in
Canada.
The Paramount head office here had a
special preview showing of "The Molly Maguires"
Wednesday evening (14) at the new
Ontario Science Centre.
With business continuing to hold up very
well on many holiday attractions, there were
few new bookings. However, "Putney
Swope" had its opening at the Towne Cinema,
as did "Nanami First Love" at the
Vaughan Cinema. Many neighborhood
houses booked double-bill reissues. NFB
bookings included "The Rise and Fall of the
Great Lakes" at the International Cinema.
"Carousel" at the Cinema Luimiere, "Multiple
Man" at the Odeon Humber and Sheridan
Cinema II and "What On Earth" at the
Roxy in Markham.
VANCOUVER
Jncreased boxoffice activity was by no
means confined to the Granville Street
mainstem. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid" moving over to the West End Denman
Place gave the house its best gross in
months. The Cascades Drive-In, reopening
with a triple-horror, triple-restricted bill,
cashed in on the balmy weather for an eightday
stand with the combos of "Run, Angel,
Run." "Wild in the Streets" and "Born
Loser." Further out at the Guildford Towne
Cinema, an all-day pitch was made to the
patrons. Afternoons featured a 2 p.m.
screening of "Doctor Dolittle." while evenings
were given over to "Mediterranean
Holiday" at 7 and 9:15 p.m. Odeon theatres
had a six-house multiple at Odeon; New
Westminster; Clova. Cloverdale; Totem,
North Vancouver; the Eraser, Dolphin, and
the Dunbar, holding over in the Dunbar.
Visitors to Filmrow included Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Morrow of Alert Bay and Myron
McLeod of Powell River. While Filmrow
was very quiet over the holiday season, Victoria
Shipping had a finger-licking-good
chicken luncheon party to celebrate the
completion of their recent move to new
quarters on Clark Drive.
Ivan Ackery was honored after his last
day as Orpheum manager with a party
thrown by friends and the Famous Players
staff. At the party were the youngsters moving
up as a result of Ivan's and other retirements.
The new Orpheum manager is Ted
Bielby who, while only in his '30s, has managed
the Columbia, New Westminster,
i
Strand and recently the Richmond Square
twins. Bob Elliott is now at the Park Royal
Twin; Noel Frayne takes over the Richmond
Square twins; Maurice La Croix
moves to the Paramount, New Westminster,
and Brian Rogers to the Strand.
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No time was lost by the circuits after 57
of 58 municipalities ratified Sunday sports
and entertainments Dec. 6, 1969. Sunday,
December 28, it was go in all situations and
results, helped by the generally mild weather,
were almost uniformly good. Only one
municipality, Chilliwack district, turned the
plebiscite down. Three cities, Campbell
River, Courtenay and Penticton, did not
have referendums or it has not been reported
in the press. Some drive-in operations
are in unorganized areas but all are adjacent
to cities which did ratify the refereni
dum. so it is hoped that the minister of municipal
affairs will be able to do something
about it.
Beautiful After 40 Years
From Western Edition
SAN DIEGO—The Fox Theatre, third
largest theatre in the West when it was built
at 720 B. St., seats 3,000 persons. Firstnighters
at its November 8, 1929, opening
thrilled to the music of a $50,000 organ.
Stageshows have not been presented since
1964 but the house is still one of the most
beautiful and is
presenting first-run films.
the largest downtown theatre
K-4 BOXOFFICE January 19. 1970

• ADLIRES * cxrv.oiTi^i
• ALPNABCTICAL
INDEX
• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY
• FEATURE RELEASE CHART
• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST
• SHORTS RELEASE CHART
• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS
• REVIEWS OF FEATURES
• SHOWMANDISING IDEAS
THE GUIDE TO i BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G
STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN FOR VIVA MAX!
Cooperation of Texas Officials and Appearance of Stars Aid Film
A massive statewide campaign, complete
coof)eration by the city of San Antonio,
proclamations by Texas governor Preston
Smith and San Antonio mayor Walter W.
McAllister and appearances by many of the
film's stars highlighted the charity world
premiere of Commonwealth United's "Viva
Max!" held on December 18 in San Antonio,
Tex.
The contemporary comedy, filmed at the
site of the famed Alamo in downtown San
Antonio, was premiered at a total of seven
theatres qualifying it as one of the largest
single city charity premieres ever held in
the United States.
Festivities actually covered the two days
of December 17-18, but preparations were
well under way more than six weeks prior
to those dates.
"Viva Max!" stars who attended the
festivities included Peter Ustinov, Pamela
Tiffin and John Astin. Also present was Al
Hirt who performed the "Viva Max!"
musical score. Producer Mark Carliner and
director Jerry Paris rounded out the "Viva
Max!" personality roster.
A top-level Commonwealth United
executive contingent was led by Oliver A.
Unger, vice-chairman of the board, Milton
T. Raynor, executive vice-president, Mel C.
Maron, senior vice-president of the entertainment
division in charge of U.S. and
Canadian distribution, and Richard S.
Bllman, vice-president and western sales
manager.
The entire premiere was under the direction
of Martin Roberts who supervises
all of Commonwealth's marketing activities
worldwide.
The premiere program began on the
night of December 17 with a city-sponsored
Festival of Lights on the San Antonio
river with celebrities assisting in the lighting
of hundreds of candles to signify the
official beginning of the Christmas season.
The following day began with a press
breakfast attended by all the personalities
from "Viva Max!" and more than 50 local
and national press. The rest of the morning
was reserved for the Alamo-based interviewing
and additional press contact.
At noon Governor Smith, who flew to
San Antonio from the state capital at Austin
especially for the occasion, read an official
state "Viva Max!" memorandum citing the
quality of the film, and especially its "G"
rating, in official welcoming ceremonies in
front of the Alamo. San Antonio Mayor
McAllister proclaimed "Viva Max Day" and
the city was presented with a print of the
picture by producer Mark Carliner.
After attending a luncheon sponsored by
the National General Corp., the "Viva
Max!" contingent was escorted to nearby
Lackland Air Force Base where they dedicated
the new Thunderbird base 1000 seat
theatre. They were hosted by base commander
Major General G. B. Greene jr.
The evening began with civic dignitaries
hosting the film contingent at a riverside
cocktail party at Hemisfair after which the
official world premiere party was escorted
by gondola down the San Antonio river to
the first of the participating theatres, the
downtown Texas.
A city-escorted motorcade transported
the personalities to the Century South
complex where all four theatres were
reserved for "Viva Max!". Following
appearances by the stars, the motorcade
proceeded to the new Fox Twin complex
where both theatres were also hosting the
premiere and which were being dedicated
especially for the purpose.
At the Fox Twin, the "Viva Max!" personalities
appeared on a special premiere
telecast originated over WOAl-TV (NBC)
and which was aired the following night
over KHOU in Houston and KRLD in
Dallas. It was repeated over WOAI on
Sunday, December 21. Both showings were
fully sponsored. Top Texas personality
Martha Buchanan was the television
hostess.
San Antonio charities benefiting from
complete sellouts of the almost 6,000 seats
were the Lions Club, the Rotary Club and
Holy Cross high school.
Dedication of new post theatre at Lackland
Air Force Base. Left to right: Al
Hirt; Major General G.B. Greene jr,
base commander; Mark Carliner; Pamela
Tiffin; John Astin; and Peter Ustinov.
Dignitaries at Alamo-based ceremonies are, left to right; Mrs. Oliver A. Unger;
Oliver Unger; Mrs. Mark Carliner; Mark Carliner; Mrs. Jerry Paris; Jerry Paris;
John Astin; Pamela Tiffin; Peter Ustinov; Judge Solomon Casseb jr.; and Preston
Smith, governor of Texas.
BOXOFFICE Showmandiser ;: Jan. 19, 1970 — 9 —

Canadian Showman Takes love Bug'
Promof'ion to
Children's Hospital
Walt Disney characters Yogi Bear, Pinocchio and Donald Duck distribute gifts
to sick children in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hospital as part of a "Love Bug"
promotional campaign devised by theatre manager George Forhan.
Manager George Forhan of the Paramount
Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
thought up a promotional campaign for
"The Love Bug" that brightened the day of
patients in a local children's hospital.
Although his theatre was closed for remodeling
and the Disney film was booked
into another theatre, Forhan arranged to
have a decorated Volkswagen entered in a
local parade complete with four young men
costumed as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse,
Pinocchio and Yogi Bear.
After the parade, the four happy Disney
characters visited the children's hospital
and gave miniature "Love Bugs" and doUs
to the wide-eyed children. Two large Volkswagen
pedal cars were also donated for use
in the hospital playroom.
Forhan coordinated the campaign with a
local Volkswagen dealer and radio station.
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Tlie ad at left for "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid" appeared in the Minneapolis
Tribune and the St.
Paul Pioneer Press just before
the Minnesota Vikings played
the Kansas City Chiefs in the
Super Bowl for the professional
football championship.
The advertisement was the
creation of Mike Boen, a
member of ABC North Central
Theatres' advertising department.
Apparently the
World Champion Kansas City
Chiefs didn't read the ad.
Extensive Campaign
Aids 'Easy Rider'
Andre Beauregard, manager of the Odeon
Theatre in North Bay, Ont., carried out an
eight-point promotion campaign for the
opening of "Easy Rider," which he claims
did much to increase attendance for the run.
Beauregard designed and installed seven
large window displays in downtown North
Bay and set up a theatre lobby display highlighted
by a Triumph 750 motorcycle.
In conjunction with a local radio station,
the theatre manager also launched a contest
to see who could make the most words out
of "easy" and "rider." The winner totaled up
a score that would shock a veteran "Scrabble"
expert: 361 words! The station was also
persuaded to broadcast live from the Odeon
theatre lobby opening night.
Beauregard didn't forget the other mass
media members in his campaign either. He
held a special screening of the movie that
resulted in stories and pictures in the local
paper.
Aware of "Easy Rider's" strong pulling
power with the young theatre audience, the
Rank circuit theatre manager sent special
invitations to area colleges for the grand
opening and got publicity in student publications.
Rounding out the
promotion on opening
night, Beauregard had his theatre staff
decked out in "Easy Rider" gear—crash
helmets, black leather jackets and all.
Film Festival Promotion
Boosts 'Johnny Cash'
The Continental documentary release
"Johnny Cash" played a good engagement
at the Town Theatre, High Point, N.C., recently
after the theatre manager, Sid Hart,
hit on the idea of sponsoring a special
"Johnny Cash Film Festival."
With the cooperation of a local radio station
and department store. Hart organized
the promotion featuring prizes worth over
$1,000.
The radio station began the festival by
plugging the "Johnny Cash" show for an
entire week and giving away 60 of the country-western
singer's latest albums.
Hart followed through on the film's opening
night by giving away 500 records and
50 passes to the first 100 customers attending
the festival.
Two on-stage country and western bands
provided live music, and free Cokes were
distributed during the entertainment. Hart
said a live radio program broadcast from
the theatre lobby also generated lively interest
from theatre patrons attending the
festival.
TV Plug for
'Racer'
Paramount's "Downhill Racer" received
coast-to-coast TV exposure when three persons
claiming to be Joe Jay Jalbert, former
Olympic ski champion, appeared on "To
Tell the Truth." Jalbert served as a photographer
and technical adviser for the film,
and also had a supporting role.
— 10 BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 19, 1970

XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY
lABOUT PICTURES
"S-
ALLIED ARTISTS
Mara of the Wilderness (AA) — Adam
West, Linda Saunders, Theo Marcuse. An
excellent movie for the children which
played twice as a kiddie show and did well
each time.—Jerry M. Spencer, liirnpike
Cinema, Fairfax, Va. Pop. 11,000.
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL
Hell's Angels '69 (AIP)—Tom Stern,
Jereniy Slate, Conny Van Dyke. This motorcycle
gang-type picture had a plot that was
realistic, and the movie was pretty well received
by those who like this type of fare.
Unfortunately, I feel that this kind of picture
is losing its appeal and each is doing less and
less at the boxoffice. Played one week.
Weather: Good.—Mel Edelslein, State Theatre,
Ribbing, Minn. Pop. 17,000.
AVCO EMBASSY
Sweden-Heaven and Hell (Avco Embassy)
— 1 didn't see this documentary-type picture,
but 1 heard that it wasn't as bad as the X
rating would indicate. Be careful of the
trailer, however, as it is quite revealing.
Business was average, and no one beefed
about the X rating. Played Fri., Sat., Sun.
Weather: Cold.—Mel Edelstein, Lybba Theatre,
Hibbing, Minn. Pop. 17,000.
BUENA VISTA
Parent Trap, The (BV)— Hayley Mills,
Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith. The kids and
teens came but no adult business, and this
hurts in the boxoffice. Played Fri., Sat.
Weather; Wet.—Lew Young, Surf Theatre.
Port Coquitlam, B. C, Canada. Pop. 15,000.
CINERAMA RELEASING
Krakatoa, East of Java (CRC)— Maximilian
Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith. Did
only fair business. The picture has good
photography and color,
but on the whole it
was a little boring and drawn out. Played
two weeks starting November 19. Jerry M.
Spencer, Turnpike Cinema, Fairfax, Va.
Pop. 11,000.
COLUMBIA
Mackenna's Gold (Col)—Gregory Peck,
Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas. This is a very
good western— photography good, color
good, story good, acting good—and a great
cast of stars. Business was only fair. Played
Thurs.-Tues.—Jerry M. Spencer, Turnpike
Cinema, Fairfax, Va. Pop. 11,000.
Wayne. 'True Grit' Draw
Full House Nightly
"True Grit" (Para), starring John
Wayne, Glen Campbell and Kim Darby,
is a routine western made great by the
talent employed. We hope John Wayne
gets an Oscar nomination; he deserves
it. Thanks, John, for a full house every
night.
Rex Theatre
Hayden, Ariz.
THE FELDHAKES
BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 19, 1970 — 11 —
Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis. Well
made with Clint Walker, who is strong boxoffice
in these parts. Played Fri., Sal.
Weather: Cool. — Charles Burton, Cozy
Theatre, Lockwood, Mo. Pop. 852.
Number One (UA) — Charlton Heston,
Jessica Waller, Bruce Dern. This is a good
Horror Bill Scores Big
iiiovie about professional tootball, but not
even Charlton
In Surt Midnight Show
Heston could draw them to
the boxoffice. People can see all the football
"Bloody Pit of Horror" (Pacemaker),
they
starring Mickey Hargitay and
want for free so why should they have
Louise
lo
Barret, played on the midnight show
pay to sec just another movie about football.
Played Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather:
with "The War of the Zombies" (AIP).
Good.—Mel Hdclslein, State Theatre, Hibbing,
Minn. Pop. 17,000.
The trailers brought us our best midnight
business since January 1 of last
year, but they found "Zombies" more
UNIVERSAL
comical than horrific. "Pit" seemed to
Angel in My Pocket (Univ)—Andy Griffith,
Kay Medlord, Jerry Van Dyke. Played
satisfy the horror fans so everyone was
happy, including me for once.
with "True Grit" (Para). This is a good
LEW YOUNG
combination; business was good. Both of
Surf Theatre
these movies are for the family trade. Played
Port Coquitlam, B. C, Canada
the week of October 29.—Jerry M. Spencer,
Turnpike Cinema, Fairfax, Va. Pop. 11,000.
Castle Keep (Col)—Burt Lancaster, Patrick
O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont. This ex-
Eye of the Cat (Univ)—Michael Sarrazin,
Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker. Very
pensively made war picture is rated R. Both
good semi-horror story. Played Wed.,
men and women walked out. Played Fri.,
ihurs., Fri.—S. T. Jackson, Jackson Theatre,
Flomaton, Ala. Pop. 1,480.
Sat., Sun. Weather: Good.—A. E. Jarboe,
Ritz Theatre, Cameron, Mo. Pop. 3,850.
3 Into 2 Won't Go (Univ)—Rod Sleiger,
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
Claire Bloom and Judy Geeson are the
2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM)—Keir
threesome who form the love triangle in
Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester.
this very outspoken and frank drama. Our
This is tops for its type but my small crowd
audience was a little shocked at a few
did not appreciate it. Sorry 1 used it (1 didn't
scenes but seemed to enjoy the goings on.
enjoy it either)! Played Sun., Mon.—S. T.
Business was just fair; it's a playable picture
for the larger situations. Played Wed.,
Jackson, Jackson Theatre, Flomaton, Ala.
Pop. 1,480.
Thurs., Fri., Sat. Weather: Good.—Mel Edelstein,
State Theatre, Hibbing, Minn. Pop.
Where Eagles Dare (MGM) — Richard
Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure. Superb! 17,000.
In "The Dirty Dozen" (MGM) vein, but
Three Guns for Texas (Univ)—Neville,
even Eastwood cannot make Richard Burton
boxoffice here. Just blah business.
Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith. This is
a good little "Laredo" western. Played Sal.
Played Fri., Sat. Weather: Cool.—Charles
—S. T. Jackson, Jackson Theatre, Flomaton,
Ala. Pop. 1,480.
Burton, Cozy Theatre, Lockwood, Mo. Pop.
852.
NATIONAL GENERAL PICTURES
WARNER BROS.
April Pools, The (NGP)—Jack Lemmon, Big Bounce, The (WBj—Ryan O'Neal,
Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford. Excellent!
Jack Lemmon is at his funniest and the finest movie to come along in some
Leigh Taylor-Young, James Daly. Here is
saddest. Peter Lawford uses profane words time. It is for the mature and has the worst
which should never have been allowed. It advertising campaign possible. If you can
did not do as well as expected, even though let them know what you've got, they will
we did play second-run. Played Sun., Mon., like it. Played Sun., Mon. Weather: Cool.
Tues. Weather: Cloudy.—Jack E. Jones jr.,
Charles Burton, Cozy Theatre, Lockwood,
Midway Drive-In, Etowah, Tenn.
Mo. Pop. 852.
Twisted Nerve (NGP)—Hayley Mills, Hywel
Bennett, Billie Whitelaw. A good Eng-
Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan. This is a
WUd Bunch, The (WB)—William Holden,
lish thriller which I enjoyed but my teenage movie the people who have not been to
audience was very restless and complained movies for six years should see. Played Fri.,
that the dialog was difficult to follow. Business
was down. Played Fri., Sat. Weather: Theatre, Hayden, Ariz. Pop. 7,500.
Sat., Sun. Weather: Nice.—Feldhakes, Rex
Cool and foggy.—Lew Young, Surf Theatre.
Port Coquitlam, B. C, Canada. Pop.
'Mountain' Is Excellent
15,000.
Fare for the Children
UNITED ARTISTS
Guns "My Side of the
of the Magnificent Seven (UA)
Mountain" (Para),
starring
George Kennedy, James Whitmore,
Theodore Bikel, Ted Eccles and
Reni
Santoni. We
Tudi Wiggins, is one of the best pictures
played this as a merchant
for children that I
Christmas
have ever seen. Business
special. Had adults come to see
and all enjoyed it. It must
was
have
good and I hope to play it in
been interesting—concession
sales were down. Played
the spring.
Mon. Weather: Warm and nice.—
JERRY M. SPENCER
Feldhakes,
Rex Theatre, Hayden,
Turnpike Cinema
Ariz. Pop. 7,500.
More Dead Than AUve (UA) — Fairfax, Va.
Clint

BOXOFFICE
BAROMETER
This chart records the performance of current attractions in the opening week of their first runs in
the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements are not listed. As new runs
are reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage In
relation to normal grasses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal,"
the figures show the gross rotings above or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.)
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Alices Restaurant (UA) 200 800 150 225 500 200 300 175 200 425 760 150 350 300 200 300 400 338
All Neat in Black Stockings (NGP) 120 85 200 65 125 90 114 i
All the Loving Couples (Cottage) 150 180 120 500 150 380 175 234 i
Arrangement, The (WB) 200 400 100 175 185 200 125 150 500 100 200 300 325 200 300 120 224 M
Baby Love (Avco Embassy) 150 100 60 100 200 90 125 200 128
Babysitter,
The (Crown Int'l)
Birthday Party. The (Conl'l)
130 100 175 300 75 150 200 90 153 1
100 100 no 100 120
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col) 200 700 225 300 550 350 375 700 640 350 350 200 500 1000 300
Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid (20th-Fox) 180 500 140 300 200 200 250 125 300 750 500 250 300 500 700 500 300 300 160 340
Cactus Flov^er (Col) 150 600 225 375 250 500 200 300 250 450 540 450 300 220 344
Change of Habit (Univ) 145 40 160 400 100 130 163
Change of Mind (CRC) 150 110 175 115 100 100 100 140 90 100 70 114
Christmas Tree, The (Cont'l) 250 90 100 175 175 100 130 100 150 125 200 150 125 70 139 .|
Comic, The (Col) 150 100 100 90 120 250 250 100 90 125 90 133
pj de Sade (AIP) ii50 500 140 215 235 110 250 300 300 75 200 300 150 200 250 250 180 230
P
Downhill Racer (Para) 200 200 210 200 175 500 200 250 300 250 250 249
Dream oi Kings. A (NGP) 160 100 340 300 175 215
80 Steps to Jonah (WB) 250 80 185 60 125 100 75 100 122
Fanny Hill (Cinemation)
106
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Les Creatures (102)
D Sandrew Atelieerna 12-22-69
OLes Gauloises Bleues (93)
Psychological DF UA 6-16-69
Socrate (90) Satirt Films 10-20-69
U
. . N.Y.
©Libertine (90) C Audubon 5-26-69
©Lions Love (115) Am. Avant
Garde Max L. Raab 10-27-69
4229 ©Lock Up Your Daughters (102) C Col 9- S-69
©Lola Monies (110) .C' D - S-25-69
4202 ©Lonesome Cowboys
(110) Satire Sherpix 5-19-S9
4243 ©Looking Glass War, The
(105) P> Spy Col 11-10-69
4203 ©Lost Man, The (122) ® D .
4252 ©Love Doctors, The
(90) Sex Siijma III
420S ©Love God? The (101) C Univ
—M
4256 ©Madigan's Millions (79) CD ..AlP
4214 ©Madwoman of Chaillot, The
(132) FC WB
4222 0Maltese Bippy, The (92) ® C MOM
4223 ©Man From Nowhere, The
. Univ 5-26-69
(107) d) W GG Prod S-18-69
©Marco of Rio (70) Experimental Film
Rev Bizarre Prods/Signature. Inc. 6-23-69
4237 ©Marlowe (95) Melo MGM 10-13-69
4248 ©Marooned (124) ® Ad Col 12- 1-69
©Marry Me! Marry Me! (85) C AA 6-23-69
Matter of Days, A (106) D Royal 5-26-69
4220 ©Medium Cool (110) D Para 7-28-69
4217 ©Me, Natalie (111) CD NGP 7-21-69
4204 ©Midas Run (106) C CRC 5-26-69
4203 ©Midnight Cowboy (119) D UA 5-26-69
©Milky Way, The (105)
Religious Al U-M Film 10-27-69
4227 ©Minx, The (84) Sex D Cambist 9- 1-69
©Monterey Pop (80)
Doc Leacock-Pennebaker 7- 7-69
4244 ©Monitors, The (92) C Satire ..CUE 11-10-69
4255 ©Moon Zero Two (100) SF WB 1- 5-70
4227 ©More (110) D Cinema V 9- 1-69
—N
4252 ©Naked Pursuit
(73) Melo Boxoffice Infl 12-15-69
424I©Narco Men, The (95) Ac RAF Ind. 11- 3-69
4251 ©Nice Girl Like Me, A
(90) CD Emb. 12-15-69
4226 ©Nightmare in Wax
(95) Ho Crown Int'l 8-25-69
4212 ©99 Women (90) Prison D CUE 6-30-69
4223 ©Number One (105) D UA 8-18-69
—o
4209 Oblong Box, The (9) Ho AlP 6-16-69
4234 ©Oh: What a Lovely War
(139) (H) MF Para 9-22-69
4207 ©Once Upon a Time in the West
(165) ® W Para 6- 9-69
4230 ©Once You Kiss a Stranger
(106) Melo WB 9- 8-69
4253 ©On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(142) (g Ac UA 12-22-69
4222 OlOOO Plant Raid, Tht
(94) War D UA 8-4-69
4211 ©On My Way to the Crusades I Met
a Girl Who (93) C WB 6-30-69
4246 Out of It (97) CD UA 11-24-69
— P
4242 ©Paint Your Waaon (165) pj M Para 11- 3-69
4215 0Panic in thi City (96) Spy ..CUE 7-14-69
4228 ©Paranoia (91) ;s) Melo CUE 9- 1-69
Peach Thief (84) D Brandon 9-22-69
4215 ©Place for Lovers. A (90) D ..MGM 7-14-69
Portrait of Hell (95) Jap. Melo Toho 12-15-69
Putney Swope (84)
—R
. Satire Cinema V 7-21-69
4212 ©Rain People, The (101) D WB 6-30-69
4206 ©Rascal (85) C BV 6- 2-69
4231 ©Reckoning, The (108) Melo ...Col 9-15-69
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©Destroy All Monsters (§i
(88) SF. -6905
(iodzUla. Rodan & Mothra
©God Forgives— I Don't
(97) W. .6904
Terrace Hill, Prank Wolff, Bud
Spencer
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Music; (Doc) Documentory; (D) Dramo; (F) Fantasy; (Ho) Horror Drama; (CD) Outdoor Drama; (S) Spectacle;
(SF) Science Fiction; (Spy) Spy Dromo; (Hi) Historical Drama; (Melo) Melodrama; (M) Musical; (My) Mystery
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ALASKAN ADVENTURES, INC
©This is My Alaska
(115) Doc, Nov 69
AUDUBON
©The Libertine (90) Rom C Aor 69
Catherine Spaak. Jean-Lnuis
Trintipnant
©Black on White (89) .. . D 10-69
Anita Sanders. Tenr Carter
BOXOFFICE INT'L
SThe Concubines (90) D. 6-30-69
Tomokn Mavama. Shikvokii Taka-^hlma
Weekend Lovers (88) C. Jul 69
©Naked Pursuit
(73) Melo. 12-15-69
MasavoshI Nosaml, Marl Aokl
CAMBIST FILMS
©The Deadly Orijan (75) .
BInnoa RiirKiipno. M.nirlrlo It**
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CANNON REL.
American Revolution 2
(80) Doc 9-15-69
(Film CJrnnn, Inc.)
CINEMATION INDUSTRIES
©Fanny Hill (91) Sex. .10-69
ntana K)aer. Hans Erabick
CROWN INTERNATIONAL
Auj 69
©The Babysitter D . .
Patrirla Wvmer. Georpe E. Carey
©The Big Hunt (94) ..Ad Nov 69
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PLUS SERVICE
Listed herewith, alphabetically by companies, are all of the feature pictures
reviewed in BOXOFFICE from January 1 through December 31, 1969. This is
designed as a further convenience lor Picture Guide users, the page numbers being the key to
reviews kept
therein. Between quarters. Review Digest pages serve as a cumulative P. G. index for feature pictures.
Documentary, Experimental
Date Reviewed
American Revolution 2
(Cannon Releasing) Sep 15
Fantastic Plastic Machine, The
(Crown Int'l) Apr 14
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting
Like a Bee (Grove Press) Dec 15
Golden Breed, The (Cont'l) Jan 6
In the Year of the Pig
(Pathe Cont.) Dec 1
King, Murray (Unconographic-
Nowak Assoc iates-
Lowin) Jun 23
Lions Love (Max L. Raab) Oct 27
Monterey Pop (Leacock-Pennebaker)
Jul 7
Putney Swope (Cinema V) Jul 21
Follow Me (Cinerama) ...May 12
Foreign Language
I
Adalen 31 (Para) Swedish Nov 3
Adelaide (Sigma III)
French ....Feb 10
Alexander (Reviewed as "Very
Happy Alexonder") (Cinema
V) French Mar 24
Arch, The (Film Dynasty)
Chinese Jan 20
Cats, The (Nationol Showmanship)
Swedish Jan 6
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena
(New Yorker Films)
German-Italian May 12
Concubines, The (Boxoffice
Int'l) Japanese Jun 30
Daredevil in the Castle (Frank
Lee Int'l) Japanese ...Mar 17
Degree of Murder, A
(Universal) German Sep 29
Deserter and the Nomads, The
(Royal) Czech-ltolian ...Oct 20
Detour (Brandon)
Bulgarian Aug 18
Djvil by the Tail (UA)
French Jul 21
Doctor Glos (20th-Fox)
Swedish May 19
Goyokin (Toho)
Japanese Sep 22
Grazie, Zio (Avco Embassy)
lt

•
I Met
Commonwealth United
PC. Page
Committee, The
(A Session With) 4174
Futz 4244
Monitors, the 4244
99 Women 4212
Castle, The 4186
Christmas Tree, The 4236
Golden Breed,
Continental
Crown International
Blood of Drocula's Castle,
The 4226
Fantastic Plastic Machine,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Alfred the Great 4230
Best hlouse in London,
The 4224
Extraordinary Seaman, The .4176
Flareup 4247
Ghosts— Itolian Style 4178
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 4241
Green Slime, The 4203
National General
All Neat in Black Stockings .4235 Hail, Hero! 4238
April Fools, The 4205 Me, Natalie 4217
Chorro! 4187 Reivers, The 4250
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting 4205 Royal Hunt of the Sun,
Day of Anger 4245 The 4240
Dream of Kings, A 4253 Twisted Nerve 4177
Fine Pair, A 4199
Ace High 4239
Adalen 31 See foreign
Assassination Bureau, The ...4187
Brain, The 4234
Deodly Sweet 4219
Downhill Racer 4241
Fraulein Doktor (Reviewed as
"The Betrayal") 4184
Goodbye, Columbus 4190
Hello Down There 4185
If 4177
Italian Job, The 4225
Lawyer, The 4253
Boys of Pauls Street, The ...4207
Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid 4231
Chairman, The 4211
Che! 4210
Decline and Fall of a
Bird Watcher 4175
Doctor Glas See foreign
Girl Who Couldn't Say No,
The 4248
Guru, The 4193
Hard Controct 4195
Alice's Restaurant 4223
Battle of Britain 4236
Bed Sitting Room, The 4239
Bridge at Remagen, The 4218
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell. .4172
Death Rides a Horse 4216
Devil by the Tail See foreign
File of the Golden Goose,
The 4233
Paramount
20th Century-Fox
United Artists
P.G. Page
Paranoia 4228
Panic in the City 4215
That Cold Day in the Pork ....4210
r
Viva Max! 4252 (%
mp 7
The See documentary
Slaves 4202
Teorema See foreign
The See documentary
Nightmare in Wax 4226
Gypsy Moths, The 4228
Heaven With o Gun 4198
Kenner 4191
Maltese Bippy, The 4222
Marlowe 4237
Mayerling 4176
Place for Lovers, A 4215
Trouble With Girls, The 4228
Medium Cool 4220
My Side of the Mountain ...4184
Oh! What a Lovely War 4234
Once Upon a Time in
the West 4207
Paint Your Wagon 4242
Riot 4169
Sterile Cuckoo, The 4237
Those Daring Young Men in
Their Jaunty Jalopies 4207
Une Femme Douce See foreign
True Grit 4204
Where's Jack? 4201
John and Mary 4245
Justine 4220
Last Shot You Heor, The ....4197
100 Rifles 4186
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,
The 4182
Secret World 4217
Staircase 4226
Undefeated, The 4238
Walk With Love and
Death, A 4230
First Time, The 4196
Hea"
Gaily, Gaily 4246 5)'
.
Guns of the Magnificent ^}''
Seven 4202
Hannibal Brooks 4191
Happy Ending, The 4247
If It's Tuesday, This Must
Be Belgium 4193
Impasse 4132
WD.
r D.
. D . .
United Artists
P.G.
Page
La Chamade See foreign
Laughter in the Dark 4201
Les Gauioises
Bleues See foreign
Life Love Death See foreign
Listen, Let's Make
Love See foreign
Midnight Cowboy 4203
More Dead Than Alive 4193
Number One 4223
1000 Plane Raid, The 4222
On Her Mojesty's
Secret Service 4253
Out of It 4246
Play Dirty 4173
Popi 4196
Adding Machine, The 4236
Anne of the Thousand Days .4254
Arabella 4232
Better a Widow 4174
Change of Habit 4242
Death of a Gunfighter 4200
Degree of Murder, A. ...See foreign
Eye of the Cat 4211
House of Cards 4190
Journey to the Far Side
of the Sun 4227
Lost Man, The 4203
Love God? The 4206
Arrangement, The 4246
Big Bounce, The 4120
Big Cube, The 4186
Damned, The 4216
Dracula Has Risen
From the Grave 4171
80 Steps to Jonah 4242
Good Guys and the
Bad Guys, The 4232
Great Bank Robbery, The ...4212
Illustrated Man, The 4181
Learning Tree, The 4214
Madwoman of Chaillot, The ..4214
All the Loving Couples
(Cottage Films) 4205
Black on White (Audubon) .4240
Camille 2000 (Audubon) 4221
Can Heironymous Merkin Ever
Forget Mercy Humppe and
Find True Happiness?
(Regional) 4190
Coming Apart (Kaleidoscope
Films) 4243
Concubines, The (Boxoffice
Int'l) 4221
Fanny Hill (Cinemation) 4240
Flesh and Lace
(Boxoffice Int'l) 4178
Gamblers, The (U-M
Film Dist.) 4248
Game Is Sex, The
(William Mishkin) 4232
Gay Deceivers,
The (Fanfare) 4209
Gutter Trash (William
Miskin) 4249
Hand of Night, The
(Schoenteld) 4208
Lonesome Cowboys (Sherpix) 4202
Love Doctors, The
(Sigma III) 4252
Man From Nowhere, The
(GG Prods.) 4223
Minx, The (Combist) 4227
Miracle of Love, The
(Times) 4159
Universal
Warner Bros.
Miscellaneous
(Cont.)
P.G. Page
Sam Whiskey 4179
Secret of Santa Vittoria,
The 4238
Sex of Angels, The 4250
Shame See foreign
Sinful Dovey 4183
Some Kind of a Nut 4235
Stolen Kisses Sec foreign
Submarine X-1 4181
Support Your Local
Sheriff 4181
Waiting for Caroline 4234
Where's It At 4198
Witches, The
See foreign
Young Billy Young 4229
Loves of Isadora 4194
Man Called Gannon, A 4198
Night of the Following Doy,
The 4174
Strategy of Terror 4173
Sweet Charity 4182
Tell Them Willie Boy
Is Here 4244
This Savage Land 4200
3 Into 2 Won't Go 4213
Winning 4200
Wise Guys, The 4218
Once You Kiss a Stranger ....4230
On My Way to the Crusades
a Girl Who 4211
Rain People, The 4212
Sea Gull, The 4170
Seven Golden Men 4187
Sweet Body of Deborah, The ..4180
They Came to Rob
Las Vegas 4178
Trygon Factor, The 4171
2000 Years Later 4184
Valley of Gwangi, The 4197
Wild Bunch, The 4214
More (Cinema V)
.4227
My Body Hungers
(Boxoffice Int'l) 4171
Naked Pursuit (Boxoffice
Int'l) 4252
Narco Men, The (RAF
Industries) 4241
Night Fog (Boxoffice Int'l) .4176
Outdoorsman, The
(Theatre Management) ...4185
Raw Weekend (Boxoffice
Int'l) 4197
Red Roses of Passion
(Boxoffice Int'l) 4173
Run, Angel, Run (Fanfare) . ...4195
Scratch Horry (Cannon
Releasing) 4222
Secret Sex Lives of Romeo
and Juliet, The (Boxoffice
Int'l) 4199
Sinai Commando S
(Gillman) 4172
Sod Sisters (Popular Prods.) ..4231
That Tender Touch (World
Premiere Dist.) 4251
This Is My Alaska (Alaskan
Adventures) 4249
Tree, The (Guenette) 4216
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Hallmark) 4180
What's Good for the Goose
(Notional Showmanship) .4250
Witch, The (GG Prods.) 4221

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employment available.
PROJECTIONIST-Managers, permanent
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23851.
Progressive and growing Texas theatre
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Excellent hospitalization, life insurance
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Send resume to Dept. M
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THEATRE MANAGER TRAINEE: Work
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POPCORN MACHINES
ALL MAKES OF POPPERS, caramel com
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111., 60606,
BOXOFHCE :: January 19, 1970
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
DEIBLER TRACKLESS TRAIN, 914 Clai-
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Manhattan, Kansas.
Now projectors. Does the wort ol 2
machines. Bovilsky, 34 Batson Street,
Glasgow, Scotland.
LENSESI All standard sizes and popular
makes in like new condition at greatly
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your needs. STAR CINEMA SUPPLY. 621
West 55lh Street, New York, 10019.
Bell & Howell. Jon 614D, 16mm sound
projectors, factory rebuilt. List $1,675,
$795.00. Other projectors Irom $125.00,
Seven page listing. CAVALCADE EQUIP-
MENT CO,, 2994 N,W. 7th St,, Miami, Fla.,
33134,
Century Model C projectors. Century
sound heads, Brenkert lamps, Strong rectifiers
and generator, magazines, bases,
changeovers, scope lenses. Extremely
large Altec spaker system, dual channel
sound system. Completely crated and
ready to go, $4,995.00. Write, wire or
phone today: Steve Krams, Cavalcade
Equipment Company, 2994 N,W. 7lh St,,
Miami, Florida, dc 305 642-2304,
EQUIPMENT WANTED
Projection equipment wanted! Highest
prices paid, Lou Walters Sales & Service
Co., 4207 Lawnview Avenue, Dallas,
Texas, 75227.
New mtermittent Star and Cam. three
sets, Motiograph, Model K, Premium prices
ofiered. Capitol Theatre, Box 578, Yellowknife,
N.W.T., Canada.
TOP PRICES PAID lor soundheads, lamphouses,
rectihers, projectors, lenses and
portable projectors. Wnat have you? Star
Cinema Supply, 621 West 55th Street, New
York, 10019.
16mm & 35mm projectors, booth and
portable. State price, P.O. Box 1433, Coral
Gables, na., 33134.
FILMS WANTED
35mm and IGmin films and projectors,
etc. wanted. Boxoffice, 2027.
Wanted: 16mm sound western features
and any serial. Wanted, 16min sound one
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lobn.^on Circle West, Memphis, Tenn.,
38112.
FILMS FOR SALE
16MM Classics. Illustrated catalog 25^.
Manbeck Pictures, 3621-B Wakonda Drive,
Des Moines, Iowa.
3Smm features, mostly color. Three for
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THEATRES WANTED
Wanted to Buy or Lease: Indoor theatre
in metropolitan areas, population at
least 75,000, Contact William Berger, Belle
Plaza 1210, 20 Island Avenue, Miami
Beach, Fla,
WANTED TO BUY or lease indoor, outdoor;
metropolitan area. Contact; Griffith
Enterprises, Roxy Theatre Building, 1527
Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florido
33139
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Contact: G, Takayoshi at Republic Amusements
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metropolitan areas in any state with population
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Avenue, Tampa, Florida, 33612.
Want to lea::e, fully equipped, indoor
motion picture theatre in Southern California.
Contact: Hammond Productions,
1660 No. Berkeley, 201, Pomona, Calif.,
91767.
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of 70,000 people or more, and would
be interested in selling, leasing or renting
same, please contact: Mr. Larry Aiken,
Theatre A Corporation, 1352 Division St.,
Evansville, Ind, 425-4407.
Wanted to buy or lease indoor theatre,
Indiana or Illinois. Boxoffice, 21()7.
LET'S START 1970 right! 4 fine situations,
1 Texas, indoor, small down, 1
New Mexico, indoor (controlled) minium
down, I excellent, Texas established,
drive-in, 29% down, 1 Dallas, indoor, unlimited
opportunities, terms. Arch Boardman
Theatre Real Estate, 20131/2 Young St.,
Dallas, Texas, 75201. 747-1385.
Wanted to buy, rent or lease by private
party. Fully equipped indoor theatre,
small town. East or Midwest area. Boxoffice,
2110,
THEATRES FOR SALE
Majestic Theatre- Monroe, Mich. Recently
put in A-1 condition, $40,000. Also; Lincoln
Pork Theatre, Lincoln Park, Mich.
You must seel Call: 313-961-9517.
BULLETINS giving descriptions, locations
and prices of "Theatres For Sale"
mailed on request. Joe Joseph, National
Theatre Brokers Co., P.O. Box 31406, Dallas,
Texas, 75231. Phone: 214 363-2724. If
no answer, please call at night!
Three Texas hardtops, Texas Drive-In,
Kansas Drive-In. Theatre Advertising Service,
Box 93, Neodesha, Kansas.
One hardtop, one Drive-in. Located twenty
miles from Phoenix in metropolitan area,
Chandler, Arizona. Best potential area in
valley. Alice B. Woods.
All theatres in four counties, in towns
ranging from 1,500 up to booming city of
15,000. One owner past 40 years. Middle
Eastern seaboard. Boxoffice, 2098.
Iowa, County seat town of 6,000 with
Junior College, Indoor and drive-in. Write:
Kerr Theatres, Knoxville, Iowa, 50138.
300 car, drive-in on 8 acres, 3 miles from
town on main highway. All steel screen,
cinder block concession and projection
building. $25,000 total price, $8,000 down.
Donald Monson, Rifle, Colorado.
Iowa. County Seat drive*in. Nicest one
around. Equipment and buildings, excellent
shape. Write: Box 187, Harlan, Iowa,
51537.
INDEPENDENT CIRCUIT FOR SALEl
Hard tops and drive-ins. Very easily a
potential, miUion dollar operation. Located
in a growing and progressing Western
state. All healthy situations {no competition)
with excellent possibilities. This is a
growing and profitable operation, not a
distress sale, owner merely wishes to
retire. No time wasters or agents, pleasel
200 thousand dollars cash required. Inquire,
BOXOFFICE, 2111. All qualified
inquiries will be answered immediately.
THEATRE SEATING
WE REBUILD THEATRE CHAIRS anywhere.
Finest materials, best workmanship,
LOW prices. CHICAGO USED CHAIR
MART, 1320 So. Wabash Avenue, Chicago,
60605. Phone: 939-4518.
CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHERE! EXPERT
workmanship, personal service, finest materials
Arthur Judge, 2100 L Newton Ave,,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS.
Best workmanship- Reasonable prices.
New and rebuilt theatre choirs for sale.
Heywood, Ideal, American. Staggering, respacing.
Travel anywhere. Seating Corporation
of New York (Neva Burn), 247 Water
Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201 Tel. 212-
875-5433. (Reverse charges.)
700 AMERICAN, 750 plywood cushion. 600
Bodiform. Lone Star Seating, Box 1734,
Dallas, Texas, 75201.
LET US SOLVE YOUR SEATING REPAIRS
REASONABLY! We specialize in custommade
theatre seat covers. Quality materials,
finest workmanship. Reasonable
prices. Shipped anywhere Sands Theatre
Service, 60 Broadway, Suite 912, Providence,
Rhode Island 02903.
1.000 cushion bottom, upholstered back
seats for sale. Very reasonable. Community
Circuit Theatres, 4751 Northfield Road,
North Randall, Ohio. 44128. Phone: 475-
0466.
650 used International seats. Good to
fair condition. $2.00 each, takes all from
our location. Call: Donn logha, ac/ 203
379-5242, anytime.
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
REPUBLIC AMUSEMENTS CORP.,
FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEA-
TRE OWNERSl If you are a successful
theatre owner, you will be interested in
"TIME-OUT," America's newest, unique,
money making entertainment franchise.
Reach the fastest growing, multi-billion
dollar market in the country. No inventory
— no equipment—no location requirements
— no personnel problem. Call or
write: "TIME-OUT," 414 Hungerford Drive,
Rockville, Maryland, 20850 a/c 301 424-7400,
attn: Mr. Dan Richard or Mr. Fritz Wilhelm.
prominent
exploitation distributor, interested acquiring
new 35mm features. Substantial
cash advances are available. Contact: Geraldine
Takayoshi or R. W. Cresse, 8816
Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90069.
(213) 659-1600.
COLOR MERCHANT TRAILERS
Only S62.50 lor a 45 ft. color merchant ad
with 5 scenes, narrated track, with appropriate
music, superimposed with address,
lades and dissolves, produced from
your transparencies. Three-day, in-plcmt
service. H & H Color Laboratory, 3705
No. Nebraska Ave,, Tampa, Florida,
Phone: 813 248-4935,
BUSINESS
STIMULATORS
BINGO CABDS, S4,50M. 1-75, Other games
available, Off-On, screen. Novelty Games,
1263 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn, New York,
Build attendance with real Hawaiian
orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers oi
Hawaii, 670 S, Lafayette Place, Los Angeles,
Caiif. 90005
BINGO-CARDS, DIE CUT. 1-75-500 combinations,
$4.50 per thousand. PHOTO
BLOW UPS, any size of your favorite
movie and TV stars. WANTED—OLD POST-
ERS and STILLS— 1930-1940. Premuim Products,
339 West 44th St„ New York, N. Y.,
10036. Phone: 212/CI 5-4972,
MISCELLANEOUS
Wanted. Large quantities of movie advertising
material. Pressbooks, posters,
stills, etc. Boxofiice, 2099.

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