Boxoffice-June.01.1970

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE EDITION • JUNE 1, 1970
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NaUonal NATO leaders in recent meeting with NATO of Southern California at the Century
Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Seated (I. to r.): Nat D. Fellman, NATO vice president; William
H. Thedford, president of NATO of Southern California; Julian S. Rifkin, national board chairman
of NATO; Eugene Picker, national president of Nato; Sherrill C. Corwin, NATO board
member; Robert W. Selig, NATO's notional public affairs chairman; Bernie Myerson, NATO
executive committee member. Standing (I. to r.): Bruce Corwin, luncheon chairman; B. V.
Sturdivant, president of NATO of Arizono; William Oldknow, NATO director at large; Burton
Jones of NATO president's advisory cabinet, and Joe Alterman, NATO executive director.

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MGM, UA Executives
Tell NATO of Aims
RANCHO LA COSTA,
CALIF.—The
board of directors of the National Ass'n of
Theatre Owners concluded its annual fourday
spring meeting at the La Costa Country
Club and Spa here May 21, with highlights
of the event including sessions with top
executives from two major film companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists.
MGM in Long-Range Planning
James Aubrey, president of MGM, and
Douglas Netter, vice-president worldwide
sales, met the NATO board at a luncheon
on Wednesday (May 20) at which Aubrey
asserted that MGM is committed to staying
in the motion picture business and intends
to make a substantial roster of films available
to exhibitors on a continuing basis.
Noting that the company expects the
forthcoming productions
average price of its
to be about $2 million, Aubrey said he
doubted that MGM would produce any
roadshow unless some unforeseen circumstance
makes this advisable. He also mentioned
that the company is
trying to cut the
time involved from acquisition of a story
property to answer print to six months.
"We expect to have our company headquarters
completely installed at our Culver
City studios by July," Netter told the NATO
delegates. Film star Jack Lemmon, staying
at La Costa as a private guest, also joined
the group and declared that the period ahead
"can be an exciting era for the motion picture
industry."
On Thursday (May 21), the NATO board
played luncheon host to David V. Picker,
president of United Artists and son of
NATO president Eugene Picker, and to
James Velde, United Artists vice-president
and general sales manager.
"We don't have a shortage of product,
we have a shortage of moviegoers," Picker
told the exhibitors. "You cannot prophesy
what the public will want. You cannot copy
today's success."
Roadshow Slated by UA
Picker noted that "Fiddler on the Roof"
will be made as a roadshow picture by
United Artists and that "Lord of the Rings"
will be among other properties slated for
production. Film companies, he continued,
can no longer stand the stress of huge losses
on individual films. "Each movie must be
made on the basis of soundly considered
economic risk," he asserted.
Calling attention to United Artists "firsts,"
Velde pointed out that the company had
been the first to eliminate blind bidding and
to establish a helpful policy for low-grossing
theatres. "Harmony between distribution and
exhibition is necessary to get workable solutions
to our problems," Velde said. "We
must give a picture enough playing time to
show what it can really do. And we must
have new ideas that will get people in to
see movies."
NATO Board Okays Experimental
Test Of New Buying-Selling Methods
RANCHO LA COSTA, CALIF. — The
board of directors of the National Ass'n of
Theatre Owners, in its spring meeting at the
La Costa Country Club and Spa here May
18-21, approved the initiation on an experimental
basis of new buying and selling
methods which NATO president Eugene
Picker has proposed to major film distributors.
The initial program will be started by
20th Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
United Artists, Columbia, Buena Vista and
National General, with Cinerama also probably
included among this number.
Reporting on NATO's campaign against
pay TV, Martin H. Newman, co-chairman
of the committee to fight pay TV, said he
believed the House of Representatives might
pass a bill which NATO favors within the
next 30 days. The measure imposes drastic
restrictions on pay TV. The board authorized
the pay TV committee to represent
NATO at forthcoming congressional hearings
on cable TV and to conduct lobbying
and public relations activities.
Due to the success of the NATO-sponsored
"Man in Management" theatre operations
seminar in San Francisco on May 14,
the board approved Picker's plan to extend
the seminars to other parts of the country.
Dates will be announced later.
Film Carriers Conference
In 1st Annual Meeting
NEW YORK—The first annual meeting
of the Film, Air & Package Carriers Conference,
Inc., was held at the Warwick Hotel
here, with John H. Vickers, president of
the organization outlining special plans developed
in connection with the future of the
conference and the creation of an office to
handle its needs.
The conference is an organization of the
American Trucking Ass'n and represents
certified motor carriers transporting motion
picture film and magazines, the delivery
and pickup of air freight and the transportation
of small packages.
Richard Harbourt, president of Air
Freight Motor Carrier Conference, announced
that the organization would become
the air division of the conference to
deal on a national level with the problems
and the promotion of interests of the truckers
handling air shipments.
The membership consists of carriers
handling
small shipments of package traffic
and Earl E. Jameson jr., chairman of the
package division, indicated an intense effort
to coordinate and develop package carrier
membership into the organization.
National Film Service Luncheon
Hosts Executives of MPAA
NEW YORK — National Film Service,
Inc., recently held its annual luncheon for
motion picture distributors at the Warwick
Hotel here, with Mrs. Margaret G. Twyman,
A resolution was approved calling for
NATO to participate, as an amicus curiae,
in the forthcoming Supreme Court consideration
of the "I Am Curious (Yellow)"
case. Intent of the NATO involvement will
not be to defend the film as such, it was
stated,
but rather to deal with the principles
of law that are involved.
Another resolution passed by the directors
expressed the continuing concern of
NATO with crime and lawlessness and offered
the talent and facilities of NATO theatres
to the U.S. Department of Justice and
other official bodies to help implement programs
consistent with the recommendations
of the U.S. Commission on the Causes and
Prevention of Violence.
In other actions the board decided that
NATO will produce its own projection and
sound test reel if such an aid is not available
from any other source; agreed to ask
major distributors not to make film available
for cassette reproduction until five years
after release date; adopted a resolution favoring
in principle a test fund-raising plan
on behalf of the American Film Institute
which would involve participation of the
nation's theatres, and urged theatres to practice
rigorous adherence to all provisions of
the Film Code and Rating system.
vice-president and director of community
services, and Taylor Mills, both of the Motion
Picture Ass'n of America, as guest
speakers.
Mills pointed out that the brilliance of
the annual luncheons is in the brevity of
speechmaking and the goodwill that National
Film Service has for its distributor
customers and the industry as a whole.
Mrs. Twyman was introduced by William
Rosen, president of NFS, and expressed appreciation
for the effective service being
rendered by the company in an industry that
is
beset by so many problems.
Allied Artists NY Offices
Move to Columbus Circle
NEW YORK.—Allied Artists Pictures,
including all subsidiaries, has moved its
home office to 15 Columbus Circle where
it occupies the entire eighth floor. The move
to the new building puts under one roof
Allied Artists Productions, Allied Artists
Music and Allied Artists Television Corp.
For the last two years, A.A's home office has
been located at 230 W. 41th St.. and other
office space was held on Lexington Avenue
and 40th Street.
'Patton' Score Now on Records
NEW YORK—The original score from
20th Century-Fox's roadshow attraction
"Patton" has been released on 20th Century-
Fox Records and is being distributed to
dealers throughout the country by ABC
Records.
BOXOFFICE :: June 1, 1970

'Horses Wins Four Honors in Initial President of Eastman
Motion Picture Advertising Awards Also Elected Chairman
NFW ^ORK—The lirst prcsentaiion ol
ihc motion picture advertising awards.
spiMisored by Cinema Lodge of B'nai Brilh.
at the Americana Hotel here May 20. honored
pictures in Ih categories of motion
puturc ad competition and cited "The\
Shoot Horses. Dont They.'" as winner of
four awards, including the Exhibitor's
Grand Prize.
Ted Lazarus, president of Cinema Lodge.
said that 95 finalists were selected from the
more than 300 entries. At the awards ceremonies
here, a Cinema Lodge past or present
officer read the names of the nominated
films, then ad materials were shown.
Three Cinema Center films won the first
three awards to be given, with Bill O'Harc.
vice-president in charge of advertising, accepting
certificates for "April Fools.'' best
television spot: "Boys in the Band." best
start-of-production ad. and "A Boy Named
Charlie Brown," best general trade ad.
.-\pril Fools" also won for best advertising
campaign and tied with "Horses" for best
original photo work. "Horses" also won for
— best copyline "People are the ultimate
spectacle"—and best ad.
Two awards, best theatrical trailer and
best radio spot, went to "Midnight Cowboy,"
United Artists' release.
Other awards included: best poster, "Z";
best original art work, "Hello. Dolly!"; best
treatment of a photo, "Last Summer"; best
title treatment. "Funny Girl": best teaser ad
or campaign, a tie between "Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice" and "Start the Revolution
Without Me."
The "Cutting Room Floor Award," for
the company or agency which devised an
advertisement that was never used because
it was rejected either by the film company,
the ad media or the Motion Picture Ass'n,
went to Paramount's "The Molly Maguires"
for a poster that was rejected by Paramount.
The board of judges for the awards consisted
of 22 executives from film production
and releasing companies and representatives
from major ad agencies which have been involved
in selling motion pictures to the public.
Judges viewed the entries last month and
selected the nominees then.
Committee for the awards project this
year: Albert Podell. coordinator: Ted
Lazaras, Carl M. Levine. Donald Freeberg.
Jerry Sunshine, Burton Rohbins, Norman
Rohhins, Stuart Kolbert and Leonard Rubin.
Paul Lazarus, executive vice-president of
National Screen Service, stood in for Burton
Robbins, luncheon chairman, who was
in Europe on business.
Second Annual Presentation
Open Through Feb. 19
NEW YORK—Speaking at the first
presentation of the motion picture advertising
awards here May 20, Ted Lazarus,
president of Cinema Lodge of B'nai
B'rith.
told the luncheon gathering of more than
'^'^0
"The large number of persons present
;iay plus the great numbers of entries in
our first annual motion picture .idvertising
awards, have made us see thiit we should
go ahead with the project again next year."
Entries for the 1971 competition will be
received until and including Feb. 19. 1971.
he said. Lazarus pointed out that the competition
is non-profit and said, "Any funds not
spent on the presentation of the awards
and we anticipate there will be some money
left— will go to benefit B'nai B'rith charities."
20th-Fox Ad-Pub Managers
Hold Promotional Meet
NEW YORK—Twelve 20th Century-Fox
regional advertising - publicity managers
were here last week to participate in a twoday
series of promotional meetings on upcoming
product.
The meetings, conducted by Jonas Rosenfield
jr., vice-president and director of advertising,
publicity and exploitation, concentrated
on all the marketing aspects of
the following films to be released for summer
playing time: "Beneath the Planet of the
Apes," "Myra Breckinridge," "Hello-Goodbye"
and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,"
as well as the reserved performance release
of "Patton." In addition, the campaigns on
the roadshow release of "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
and "Move" and "The Great White Hope"
were discussed.
Home office executives participating in
the sessions included John Friedkin. executive
assistant to Rosenfield; Mike Shapiro,
exploitation director: Nico Jacobellis, director
of roadshow publicity and exploitation,
and Hal Sherman, roadshow campaign
coordinator.
The regional managers, representing all
the key domestic centers, attending the
meetings, were Ralph Buring, Atlanta; William
Burton, Dallas; Jim Cullen, San Francisco:
Pat Dwyer, St. Louis; Charles Funk.
Buffalo; Sam Glasier, Toronto; Sol Gordon,
Chicago: William Lanese. Cleveland; Hal
Marshall. Philadelphia; Ronald Minnick.
Kansas City: Harry Weiss, Boston, and
Helen Yorke. Los Angeles.
George M. Josephs Named
Crown Gen. Sales Mgr.
HOLLYWOOD — Newton P. Jacobs,
president of Crown International Pictures,
announced the appointment of George M.
Josephs as general sales manager of the
company.
Josephs joined the company in 1967 as
assistant to the president. He subsequently
was named Eastern and Southern sales manager.
Prior to joining Crown, Josephs was
sales manager for World Entertainment
Corp., Magna Pictures Corp. and Astor Pictures
Corp. He also was with Columbia Pictures
for many years in sales and other executive
positions. Josephs will have supervision
over all the Crown sub-distributors
previously handled by Ward Pennington.
ROC Hi;sri;R. N.\. — President Louis
Filers has been elected chairman to succeed
William Vaughn, who has retired, by the
Eastman Kodak Co. board of directors. A
new United States and Canadian photographic
division which will be headed by
Walter Fallon, vice-president, has also been
announced by the company.
In other executive shuffles. Gerald Zornow.
executive vice-president, was named
president and chairman of the executive
committee, and two directors, Gwilym Price
and Donald Hornig, have announced their
retirements.
Filers, who was elected president in 1967,
has been with Kodak since 1934. He is
credited with being the chief developer of
long-range research and product development
programs. After having been with
the company 33 years, Zornow became vicepresident
of the company last November.
Encompassed in the new division will be
the company's distribution division, Kodak
apparatus division, Kodapark division, marketing
division, the Canadian Kodak Co.,
Ltd., and Canadian Kodak Sales Ltd.
Loew's Appoints Friedman
As General Counsel
NEW YORK—The appointment of Jack
Friedman as general counsel for Loew's
Corp. has been announced by Preston Robert
Tisch, president. Friedman has been
general counsel for the Wellington Technical
Industries and, before that, a partner in the
law firm of Sims & Friedman. He has also
been associated with the law firm of Guggenheimer
& Untermyer and served as law
clerk in federal court here.
At the same time, Tisch announced that
Lester Pollack, vice-president and secretary
of the corporation and former general counsel,
will be in charge of the corporation's
development activities as well as the Snyder-
Loew's joint real estate venture, and will
continue to be responsible for the law
department.
Film Title Changed
"Joe" has been selected as the final title
for Cannon's motion picture formerly entitled
"The Gap," it was announced by Dennis
Friedland, chairman and Christopher C.
Dewes, president. Produced by David Gil
and directed by John Avildsen, "Joe" stars
Dennis Patrick, Peter Boyle, Susan Saradon.
Audrey Caire, and introduces Patrick
McDermott.
'Sharer' Rogell's First
HOLLYWOOD— Plans to reactivate his
production company have been announced
by Sid Rogell, who has scheduled Joseph
Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" as his first
project. The screenplay, which will be
filmed on location in Mexico and at an
independent studio here, will be written by
Robert Lord.
BOXOmCE :: June 1, 1970

881 Theatres Qualify
For Col. Flat Rentals
NEW YORK—A total of 881 theatres in
ten exchange centers in the U.S. thus far
have qualified for Columbia Pictures' flat
rental plan for low-grossing theatres, it was
announced here recently by Milt Goodman,
vice-president and general sales manager.
"Additional exchange centers are being
added each week and the entire plan should
be in full operation within 60 days," Goodman
said.
The plan, put into effect in mid-March,
now is in operation in Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Denver, Des Moines, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma
City, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle and
St. Louis.
Theatres affected by the plan are those
grossing less than $500 in a split-week town
and less than $L000 in a seven-day town.
Each theatre and locale included in the plan
is treated as an individual entity, with no
other bearing or relationship to any other
situation.
The plan, Goodman stated, covers all
films, including those that were formerly
available only on a percentage rental basis.
"This gives the small theatre owner the opportunity
to exhibit top pictures and also
moves Columbia product on a broader
scale."
When the plan was initiated, Goodman
"The new plan was developed because
said:
of Columbia's growing concern over the
plight of the marginal theatre owner. It
will
eventually affect thousands of small theatres
across the U.S. and will enable exhibitors to
have a better overview of their week-to-week
operations."
AIP Offering Combination
Of 5 Karloff Chillers
HOLLYWOOD—American
International,
a pioneer of the double-feature release
system, is going a step further in offering
a quintuple-feature combo, "An Evening
With Karloff," consisting of five chillers
headlining the horror specialist. The package
includes "Die, Monster, Die," "The Terror,"
"The Raven," "Comedy of Terrors"
and "Black Sabbath."
Success of test engagements in the South
and Northeast has spurred national release
and complete accessories have been prepared
for its sales package including special
ads. trailers and radio spots.
Four Star International
Moves to Beverly Hills
HOLLYWOOD—Four Star International,
Inc., has moved from the MGM Studios to
400 South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills.
The new location will house all of the company's
departments, including motion picture,
television and music units, as well as
its
executive and administrative staffs.
The move was necessitated by the transfer
of MGM New York personnel to the
coast.
Conference to Discuss
Children's Films, TV
NEW YORK—The First National Conference
on Films and Television for Children
will be held in New York City at the Commodore
Hotel July 6-8. Sponsored by the
Center for Understanding Media under a
grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation,
the three-day conference will include featured
speakers Bob Keeshan of "Captain
Kangaroo," Fred Rogers of "Misterogers
Neighborhood" and Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney,
director of the Children's Television
Workshop which produces "Sesame Street."
Yvonne Anderson, director of the Yellow
Ball Workshop which specializes in films
made by children, director Robert Radnitz
and film animators John and Faith Hubley
will present and discuss films made for and
by children. Also speaking will be Charles
Martin Jones, George Heinemann, Allan
Ducovney and Lee Polk, directors of NBC,
CBS and NET, respectively.
James Shanahan Quits Post
With Loew's Publicity
NEW YORK—James L. Shanahan, vicepresident
in charge of public and press relations
for Loew's Hotels and the Loew's
Corp., has announced his resignation.
A graduate of Northeastern University,
Shanahan joined Loew's Theatres publicity
department in Boston in 1946, following
military service in the Army Signal Corps.
Four years later, he became assistant to
Ernest Emerling, Loew's advertising-publicity
head.
With Loew's diversification into the hotel
field, Shanahan joined the hotel division.
He opened and publicized all of the company's
15 hotel properties as well as directed
public relations for the recently acquired
Lorillard Co. and the Loew's Corp.
Edward Warren to Direct
Reade Broadcast Group
NEW YORK—The appointment
of Edward
A. Warren as vice-president and head
of the new broadcasting group of the Walter
Reade Organization has been announced by
Walter Reade jr.. president. In addition to
directing and coordinating all the company's
activities in the broadcasting field. Warren
also will serve as vice-president and general
manager of WRTV. the corporation's new
UHFstation to operate in the greater New
York area from Newark. N.J.. Reade announced.
Columbia Votes Dividend
NEW YORK—The board of directors of
Columbia Pictures Industries has declared a
cash dividend of 15 cents per share on the
common stock payable July 15. 1970 to
holders of record June 19. 1970. This is
a regular quarterly dividend. The most recent
cash dividend was 15 cents per share
paid on April 15. Currently outstanding are
5.970.968 shares of the company's common
stock.
Profitable 1970 Seen
For Reade Outlets
NEW YORK—The annual stockholders
meeting of the Walter Reade Organization
was held at the 34th Street East Theatre on
May 21. Walter Reade jr., chairman of the
board and president of the company, presided
and sounded subdued yet optimistic about
1970. He stated that he expected a generally
profitable year, especially in the traditionally
good third quarter. He pointed to the release
of several new films by Continental, Reade's
theatrical distribution subsidiary, and to the
Walter Reade 16mm division, which has had
its best year so far. With the acquisition of
500 titles from J. Arthur Rank, the latter
division should do even better, he said.
At one point, Reade paused to welcome
the arrival of playwright-producer Dore
Schary, a member of the board of directors.
Then Reade mentioned the development of
an off-track viewing system in automated
cinemas, now that off-track betting has been
approved. He said 1969 was "a good year,
fine year," and management was strength-
a
ened through strong banking support and he
predicted the company will be strong by the
end of 1970.
Reade was not interested in sex films of
the caliber of "I Am Curious (Yellow)" and
still feels that way. The company wouldn't
book the film into its theatres and now sees
a trend away from sex-oriented cinema.
Chairman Reade pointed to the Continental
releases as quality films that will help fill
the product gap. Last item on the agenda
was the approval of the election of directors
Frank A. Augsbury jr., Stephen P. Duggan,
Allan D. Emil, Sheldon Gunsberg, Samuel
Hoffman, Matthew Huttner, Walter Reade
jr., Dore Schary and Charles F. Simonelli.
After the meeting, coffee and doughnuts
were served to the stockholders present and
members of the press. Following this was
the screening of a British film which Continental
will release. A completely entertaining
family film, "Spring and Port Wine,"
was produced by Michael Medwin and directed
by Peter Hammond, with James Mason
and Susan George as stars. Other Continental
releases this year will include "Every
Bastard a King." "An Elephant Called
Slowly." "Entertaining Mr. Sloane." "The
Delta Factor," "The Invincible Six." "An
Event" and "Playtime."
United Film Receives
First 'Questions' Print
NEW YORK—Munio Podhorzer. presi-
announced
dent of United Film Enterprises,
completion of post-production work and receipt
of the first release print of "Questions,"
American color production featuring
Joseph Gotten, John Gabriel. .Anne Randall,
Charles Durning and the late James Edwards.
"Questions" was produced and directed
by members of the "now generation" filmmakers,
includins the 29-vear-old writerdirector.
John Vidette, and producers Al
Adamson and George R. Jahoda. United
Film Enterprises is handling world sales.
BOXOFHCE June 1, 1970

Conn. Supreme Courl
Opens Door to CATV
HAKll ORD— riic .Siaic Supreme Courl
h.is removed what may he the final ohstacle
in hringing communily antenna television
to Connecticut, the only state in the
nation without the service.
The high court rejected appeals by three
firms whose applications for CATV franchises
had been turned down b\ the State
Public Utilities Commission six years ago
at the same time franchises were issued to
17 other applicants.
The court's unanimous opinion follows
controversy and litigation that began six
years ago.
And barring further litigation, the CATV
system can become a reality, feeding multichannel
color and black-and-white TV by
cable into homes for consumers in 90 of
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the state's right to regulate CATV
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This decision is expected within the next
few months.
Para. Ncanes Frazier Head
Of Industrial Relations
NEW YORK.— Michael
Frazier has hccn
appointed director of industrial relations for
Paramount Pictures, it was announced by
executive vice-president and chief operating
officer Stanley R. Jaffe. The assignment is
in line with Paramount's policy of promotion
from within, stated Jaffe.
Frazier's responsibilities include the supervision
of industrial and employee relations
for the West Coast office as well as
for the home and branch offices. A Boston
College graduate. Frazier had been with
Grey Advertising and Thomas J. Lipton.
Inc.. before joining Paramount in April
1969 as director of employee relations.
Elect Simonelli President
Of National Industries
NEW YORK—Charles F, Simonelli. former
executive of Technicolor and of Universal
Pictures who joined National Industries,
Inc., two years ago as executive vicepresident
in charge of operations, has been
elected president of the diversified corporation.
He succeeds Stanley R. Yarmuth,
who was named chairman of the board.
A director of National Industries, Simonelli
also is on the board of the Walter
Rcade Organization. Simonelli joined Universal
in 1945 and became assistant to the
president in 1959. He left Universal in 1962,
joined Entertainment Corp. of America as
vice-president and later moved to Technicolor
as executive vice-president.
Deluxe Films Announces
Release of New Films
NEW YORK—Three new motion pictures,
"The Layout,'" "Marcy" and "The
Indelicate Balance," are available for distribution,
according to J. Arthur Elliott, producer
head of Deluxe Films.
Productions scheduled for the future by
Elliott include: "Daddy Why Are You Angry
When You Did It Yourself When You
Were Young?", Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson's
biography; two full-length animated
features, and an already-completed documentary
on the late singer Judy Garland's
last European appearances, which Elliott
states he co-owns with Mickey Deems, Miss
Garland's husband.
Actress Marlene Jobert
Meets Press in NY Office
Ni:W ^ORK— Marlene Jobert, young
French actress who is currently starring in
.Avco Embassy's suspense drama, "Rider on
the Rain," met the press in Embassy's home
office after a screening of the film. Although
she had difficulty with English, she
came across as a charmer, at odds with her
screen character as a distraught and rather
calculating wife caught up in murder. The
drama, directed by Rene Clement, was shot
in both English and French-language versions.
Miss Jobert learned English before
doing that version, so she knew the meaning
of her lines.
Charles Bronson, the American actor,
costars.
He is exceptionally well-dubbed in the
French version, having tlelivered his lines
phonetically. Another voice was used when
his French didn't measure up. Locations included
the seaside resort of Cap des Pins and
Paris, with action taking place inside the
Eiffel Tower. "Rider on the Rain" had its
American premiere here on Sunday (May
24) at the Plaza Theatre.
Miss Jobert, a petite redhead who looks
much younger than her 27 years was
greeted by Joseph E. Levine, president of
Avco Embassy. She was on tour for the
film and also had scheduled stops in Philadelphia,
Boston and Los Angeles. Declaring
that she has no preference as to where her
films are made, the actress mentioned that
she'll appear opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo
later this year in a film to be shot in Rumania.
The director, the co-star and the
story are Miss Jobert's primary concerns, not
the location.
Troupes of 19 Are on Tour
To Promote 'The Losers'
HOLLYWOOD—William Smith, Adam
Roarke and Bernie Hamilton headed troupes
of 19 celebrities who toured over 65 of the
350-plus situations opening "The Losers"
May 27.
Smith, Hamilton and Joe Solomon covered
such openings as Washington, Pittsburgh
and Wichita, using Philadelphia as a
base. In the South, Roarke and Jack Starrett,
the director of "The Losers," working
from Dallas, hit San Antonio, El Paso, Albuquerque
and Houston. In the Midwest
were Houston Savage, Randee Jensen and
Ronny Ross for the festivities in such situations
as Louisville.
"The Losers" had its world premiere at
the Pix, Hollywood.
New 'Greeks' Short Subject
Acquired by Columbia
NEW YORK — Columbia Pictures will
distribute "The Greeks Have a New Word,"
a short subject in widescreen and color depicting
the glory that was and is Greece,
the magical and mystical isle of Corfu, virile
manhood, bikinied girlhood and fun.
Stanley Willis directed the ten-minute featurette
which was photographed by Godfrey
Godar and Tripos Stamakis and features
music by G. Katsaros.
BOXOFHCE :: June 1, 1970

New Jerry Lewis Cinema
Was Equipped by NTS
NEW YORK—National Theatre Supply
has equipped the Jerry Lewis Twin Cinema
which opened May 26 in the East Meadow
Shopping Center, according to an NTS
spokesman. The common projection room
for both theatres is equipped with Simplex
XL 35mm projectors; Xetron 1600W xenon
lamphouses and power supplies; Kollmorgen
lenses, and Simplex 35 sound systems
with dual 40W amplifiers. Full automation
is achieved through the use of National
Theatre Supply's PEC 100 (Projection
Electronic Control) system operated
with remote status boxes. Booth accessories
are Neumade; speakers are Altec Lansing
V.O.T. units; screen and frame by Technikote
Corp. Carpeting is by Alexander
Smith and 330 American Seating Bodiform
chairs have been installed in each twin
theatre.
Marvin P. Taubman, National Theatre
Supply New York branch manager, supervised
the installation.
Calif. Deputy Sheriff Sues
Over 'Garden' Preview
HOLLYWOOD—A $2 million suit has
been filed by Orange County Deputy Sheriff
David Skaugstad in California Superior
Court charging MGM and the Edwards
Newport Cinema with fraud, deceit, misrepresentation
and the causing of "personal
emotional distress" as the result of his
seeing a sneak preview of "The Magic
Garden of Stanley Sweetheart." Advertised
as an R film and subsequently rated R
by the MPAA, "Magic Garden," though
not rated at the time of the preview, ran
on a bill with another R picture, "Bob &
Carol & Ted & Alice."
In his suit, Skaugstad stated that the
picture was rated X and "should not have
been shown to unsuspecting audiences." An
investigation into the circumstances surrounding
the screening is being made by the
Newport City Council.
New Production Company
Headed by Bud Ornstein
LONDON—A new production company,
based in Madrid, will be headed by Bud
Ornstein. former head of European production
for United Artists, Paramount and
Warner Bros. The Barreiros Brothers, whose
holdings include land development and a
film equipment company, will
provide initial
backing of $9.6 million.
To prepare and finance films for Barreiros
International Productions, Ornstein
says, "Although I don't like to give budget
ceilings for films, I think it would be
realistic to say that the top figure for any
picture would be $2 million."
Ben Kadish, who made "John and Mary,"
will produce the first scheduled production,
"Mutiny for the Cause."
Age Limits on Ratings
Enforced in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS—A spot survey of the
effectiveness of the film rating system
instituted by the Motion Picture Ass'n of
America in 1968 has, according to St. Louis
Globe-Democrat staff writer Paul Siemer,
apparently been keeping youngsters out of
theatres exhibiting X-rated films. His
survey quoted Loew's State manager as
saying, "Every 18-year-old male has a draft
card and must carry it and if he can't show
it he doesn't get in. Girls should have a
driver's license and if they don't and look
objectionable we refuse admission."
The manager of the Grandview Cinema
in Florissant said identification is demanded
in all borderline cases and teenagers unable
to present some proof of age are refused
admittance. "We stay within the rules," he
said.
The rules—for the MPAA's X ratingrequire
that no person under 16 (or under
18 in some areas) may attend. It is the
theatre manager's responsibility to enforce
the code and most, according to the survey,
rely on the "let's see some identification"
method.
The Creve Coeur Cinema manager reported
that driver's licenses are checked and
added that the theatre has run only one R-
rated (restricted to juveniles accompanied by
adults) film and no Xs. At Ronnie's Drive-In
in suburban Concord Village, where an X-
rated film is current, customers are warned
via taped telephone messages not to bring
the youngsters.
The recording says, "No children will be
admitted to see this film. It does have an X
rating. So parents, please leave the children
at home and save us both some trouble."
The manager at Ronnie's estimated 30 carloads
of patrons were turned away Friday
night. May 15, because of under- 16-yearolds
accompanying the adults.
16 and 8mm Rights to Rank
Films Acquired by Reade
NEW YORK—Walter Reade 16, has acquired
the exclusive nontheatrical rights in
16 and 8mm to 236 feature films produced
by the Rank Organization over the last 30
years, it was announced by Sheldon Gunsberg,
executive vice-president of the Walter
Reade Organization.
The films include such classics as Laurence
Olivier's "Hamlet" and "Henry V";
"Brief Encounter" with Noel Coward and
Margaret Leighton; David Lean's "Great
Expectations;" "Red Shoes," with Moira
Shearer; "This Sporting Life," with Richard
Harris; "Christopher Columbus," with Fredric
March; "The Promoter," with Alec
Guinness; "A Queen Is Crowned," the documentary
on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth;
"Romeo and Juliet," with Laurence
Harvey and Susan Shentall, and Somerset
Maugham's "Quartet." The Walter Reade 16
library now contains over 750 feature films.
The Rank films have been part of the Walter
Reade 16 library since January 1970 under
an interim agreement.
'Invasion of Body Stealers'
For AA Distribution
NEW YORK—Allied Artists has acquired
the distribution rights for the United
States and English-speaking Canada to the
science-fiction production, "Invasion of the
Body Stealers," starring Maurice Evans and
George Sanders. Produced by Tony Ten.ser
and directed by Gerry Levy, the picture tells
of the mysterious disappearance of parachutists
in mid-air after they tumble out of
planes at 15,000 feet. The film will be released
in June.
The weird "gobbling up" of the jumpers
leads a special investigator along a romantic
path involving two women.
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Avco Cassette System
To Debut Next Year
NEW ^OKK.--L.irl> iii r>7 1 lu.uks ihc
Ji'hut date for the cartridge color TV system.
Cartrivision. developed by the Avco
Corp. subsidiary. Cartridge Television Co..
according to James R. Kerr. .\vco president,
and F"rank Stanton, head of the subsidiary.
Fxpeclcd to retail for $8()()-9()0 at the start,
this first receiver-recorder-pla>back system
mass-produced for home use in the country
is to be manufactured by .\dmiral Corp.
.•\ prototype model v\'ill be demonstrated
during the Consumer Electronics Show.
June ':S-July 1.
The system is described as a solid-state
combination with a cartridge tape deck and
full-size color receiver built into one unit.
Cartridges for the system will he sold in 15-
minute. 30-minute. one-hour and two-hour
lengths, either blank or pre-recorded. No
list of films has been announced, although
it was stated that "hundreds of pre-recorded
full-length movies will be made available
for rental for as little as $3."
Created to provide another outlet for feature
film distributors and increase sales of
color TV sets, Stanton added that the new
system will "not compete directly with the
movie theatres."
There have been no talks between Avco
Embassy Pictures, another Avco Corp. subsidiary,
and its new sister company about
making the firm's pictures available for the
system, according to Joseph E. Levinc.
'Equinox' Prerelease Runs
Records in Southwest
HOl 1.^ WOOD— Prerelease
engagements
of the new Jack H. Harris science-fiction
color feature. "Equino.x." set new records in
a five-unit spread of McLendon Theatre in
Dallas and a four-unit spread of Spectro
Theatre in Oklahoma City.
Drive-in theatres grossed consistently
ahead of the hardtop in each town. Drive-in
dominated saturations are set lor July and
August on the GP-raied VIP Distributors
release in Philadelphia, the Carolinas, Boston,
New York and Chicago.
LETTERS
'Thank You' to TONE Executive
ReceniK. theatre managers throughout the
state of Massachusetts had tiled lor them a
bill which would exempt iheni from arrest
for showing cert.iin motion pictures which
might be claimed to he obscene. 1"he bill was
passed through the Senate and House and
signed by the governor of Massachusetts.
I write you to publicly thank the executive
director of Theatre Owners of New England,
Mr. Carl Goldman, whom I had the honor of
working with on this hill. It was certainly a
pleasure to see the respect shown to this man
who is entrusted with being the "watchdog"
for theatre owners for legislation which
might affect them. Many of us fail to realize
the problems that would exist if we did not
have lobbyists such as Mr. Goldman.
Respecl fully. I extend many thanks to
Julian Rifkin, chairman of the hoard of
NATO, for his support at the hearing hekl
on this bill.
The passage of this bill affects all of the
theatre managers in Massachusetts. Possibly,
this bill along with a bill of the same nature
protecting projectionists, which became effective
three years ago, will be enacted in
various states throughout the country.
The personal involvement and work that
coincided with realizing this bill in Massachusetts
is an excellent example of employeremployee
relationship, which is renowned in
the theatre industry.
JOHN J.
Manager,
Meadow Glen Twin Drive-In,
Medford, Mass.
NERICH JR.
Kunin Named Copy Writer
In Columbia Ad Dept.
NEW YORK — The appointment of
George Kunin as copy writer in Columbia
Pictures" advertising department was announced
by Richard Kahn, vice-president
and national director of advertising, publicity
and exploitation.
A graduate of Syracuse University, Kunin
comes to Columbia from Kameny Associates.
Prior to that, he was associated with
Diener/ Hauser/ Greenthal.
NSSI Technical Services
To Student Filmmakers
NlvW ^OKK- .\n .igrccjnent has been
made between the Columbia University
School of the Arts and National Showmanship
Services. Inc.. to provide technical
services to student filniniakers. it was announced
by Davidson Taylor, dean of the
School of the Arts, and Joseph J. Macaluso,
president of NSSI. The company, whose
subsidiaries offer post-production laboratory
and sound studio services to the film industry,
will grant use of its facilities by the
Columbia siLklenls on a non-profit or nocost
basis.
Under the agreement, Columbia's film
students will be permitted to use the professional
facilities of the various NSSI subsidiaries,
including recording and mix facilities
at Manhattan Sound Studios, processing
facilities at Cineffects Color Laboratory
and optical facilities at Cineffects. In
addition, NSSI will make its soimd and
laboratory facilities available for educational
field trips by the students.
Jack Gordon MGM Head.
Nontheatrical Sales
NEW YORK—Jack Gordon has been
named director of nontheatrical sales, a
newly formed department for worldwide
nontheatrical distribution, it was announced
by Douglas Netter, MGM vice president
sales. The new department will handle all
sales and distribution of Ifrmm and 35mm
motion pictures to airlines, ships and the
military.
MGM also will give greater attention to
the distribution of features to colleges and
universities across the nation, through a
series of selected film programs. The increased
activity in this area is a result of
the growing number of graduate and undergraduate
schools offering courses in film
study and filmmaking, and the importance
of film as an art form to young people
today.
Gordon joined MGM in 1953 and has
handled both theatrical and nontheatrical
sales in the international department. In
1969, he was named regional director for
the Far East for MGM International.
GO AHEAD, BE A TRAILER-FAILER
... BUT DOK'T SAY WE DIDN'T
WARN YOU.
Just make sure trailers are returned promptly to National Screen
Service . . . and you may be a big winner! Up to $10,000
in cash and prizes will be awarded in 1970 to theatre men.
Entry coupon and details are in every NSS trailer shipping box.
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BOXOFHCE :: June 1, 1970

Rogers Hospital Drawing
Slated for October 12
NEW YORK.—The Will Rogers Hospital
board of directors has announced that this
year's drawing for 85 prizes, including the
four top prizes of 1971 model Fords, will
be held on October 12. Tickets will go on
sale June 9-11 at the annual board meeting
at Saranac Lake and shortly thereafter in
every exchange area.
In addition to the 85 prizes, recognition
gifts will he awarded to the sellers of the
tickets winning the top 25 prizes. Drawing
tickets again will be one dollar each, with a
book of 11 tickets for $10. Net proceeds
will be used in the hospital's effort to
"breathe hope into life" by hindering or halting
all diseases that affect man's ability to
breathe.
President Ned E. Depinet reported that
the June to October schedule, which is much
earlier than for past years, is in response
to many requests for holding the drawing
before the Will Rogers Christmas Salute solicitations
begin across the country.
Depinet said every member of the entertainment-communications
industry is strongly
urged to give his enthusiastic support to
the success of the drawing. Tickets will be
available from branch managers of every
major distribution company in every exchange
area or direct from the Will Rogers
Hospital national office at 250 W. 57th St.,
New York, 10019.
Para, Releasing 'L'Aveu'
In U.S. and Canada
NEW YORK—Paramount Pictures has
acquired "L'Aveu" (The Confession), the
latest film directed by Henri Costa-Gavras,
for release in the United States and Canada.
"L'Aveu" opened to an enthusiastic audience
and critical reception in France, where
it is registering outstanding grosses.
"L'Aveu" also won acclaim when it was
presented out-of-competition at this year's
Cannes Film Festival.
"L'Aveu," similar in theme to Costa-Gavras'
last film, the Academy Award-winning
"Z," relates the imprisonment of a high
Communist official during the Stalinist
purge in eastern Europe of the early 1950's.
Based on a book by Lise and Arthur London,
the film explores the political climate
of the period as seen through the eyes of
London, who was vice-minister of foreign
affairs in Czechoslovakia.
Yves Montand and Simone Signoret
star
as the couple who are separated during the
Leftist purges.
Warner Bros, to Distribute
'Jealousy Ralian Style'
NEW YORK—Warner Bros, will distribute
"Jealousy Italian Style" (Dramma
della Gelosia), starring Marcello Mastroianni
and Monica Vitti, throughout the world
outside Italy. Distribution rights to the motion
picture drama were acquired by Warner
Bros, from Geoffredo Lombardo of Titanus
Films.
MOTION PICTURES RATED
BY THE CODE & RATING
ADMINISTRATION
The toUowmg teature-length
mjtion pictures
have Deen reviewed and rated by the
Code and Rating Administration pursuant
to the Motion Picture Code and Rating
Program.
Any picture whose rating was Ibted as
^
on the previous bulletins issued by the Code
may now auto-
and Rating Administration
matically be considered to be rated GP.
Title Diitributor Roting
Affairs and Relations (ColJ [U
The Boatniks (BV)
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The Buttercup Chain (Col) [U
Machine Gun McCain (Col)
The McMasters (Chevron)
Monte Walsh (NGP)
The Moonshine War (MGM)
The Revolutionary (UA)
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
The Way We Live Now (UA) [g
Which Way to the Front? (WB)
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LlOO at Northwestern U
View 'Watermelon Man'
CHICAGO—^Columbia Pictures' longrange
advance screening program on behalf
of "Watermelon Man" continued in high
gear here when approximately 1,100 film
students and faculty members from Northwestern
University attended a special showing
of the satire May 25.
John B. Bennett, producer of the Godfrey
Cambridge-Estelle Parsons starrer, participated
in the post-screening seminar. Dr.
Ellis, chairman of the Northwestern University
film department, hosted the program
which also was attended by key members of
the film departments and film societies of
other colleges in the Chicago area.
While in Chicago, Bennett met with the
Chicago area university and college press.
He participated in a similar screening pro-
San Francisco State College during
gram at
the previous week, where more than 1.000
fikn students and faculty members turned
out.
"Watermelon Man." a farcical story of a
bigoted white suburbanite who suddenly
turns black, was directed by Melvin Van
Peebles and written by Herman Raucher.
Bugie Adds Pittsburgh
To Area for Cinerama
NEW YORK—Gordon Bugie has been
named manager of the Cinerama Releasing
Corp. Pittsburgh exchange and will include
this area in his territory as Cleveland regional
branch manager.
The announcement was made by Harry
Buxbaum, Cinerama vice-president and general
sales manager, who put the change into
effect on May 11. Pittsburgh previously
has been supervised by the Washington
branch in the Cinerama operation.
Reade Handling Release
Of Two British Films
NEW YORK— I
he Walter Rcadc Organization
has acquired distribution rights for
the United States and Canada to two new
English films, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"
and "Spring and Port Wine," from Anglo-
Amalgamated Film Distributors, Ltd.. it was
announced by Walter Reade jr. president.
Reade concluded the arrangements during
recent meetings in London with Nat Cohen,
managing director and chairman of the
board of Anglo-Amalgamated.
"Entertaining Mr. Sloane" is the motion
picture version of playwright Joe Orton's
black comedy which scored heavily on
Broadway two years ago. Directed by
Douglas Hickox, it co-stars Beryl Reid.
Peter McEnery and Harry Andrews in the
tale of an ammoral young man who moves
in with a brother and a sister and gets entangled
in a love triangle.
"Spring and Port Wine" stars James
Mason and Susan George and was directed
by Peter Hammond. Based on Bill Noughton's
hit play, it is a comedy drama about
the generation gap.
Both films will be distributed by Continental
this summer.
Records of 'Woodstock'
Music Now Available
NEW YORK—The long-awaited music
from the original soundtrack of Warner
Bros." "Woodstock" has been released by
Cotillion Records, a division of Atlantic
Recording Corp., in a three-record set with
a triple-fold cover.
The "Woodstock" set, which will retail
for $14.98 and will also be available in 8-
track and cassette sets, features Joan Baez,
Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, Joe
Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young, Ado Guthrie, Richie
Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane.
Country Joe McDonald, Santana, John B.
Sebastian, Sha-na-na, Sly and the Family
Stone, Ten Years After and the Who.
Eric Blackstead produced the set, which
is labeled "music from the original soundtrack
and more."
Cotillion has begun a comprehensive promotional
and advertising campaign for the
set, for which more than 200,000 LP sets
and 25.000 cartridge sets were ordered in
advance.
Allied Artists Acquires
'Blood Rose' for Release
NEW YORK — "The Blood Rose," a
spine-tingler set in the locale of a French
chateau, has been acquired by Allied Artists
for distribution in the Western Hemisphere,
it was announced by Emanuel L.
Wolf, president and board chairman. Directed
by Claude Mulat from his own
screenplay, the suspense drama is based on
the intriguing premise that a once-beautiful
face, mutilated in a fire, might be restored
by means of a fantastic skin operation using
another live beautiful woman for the transplant.
BOXOFFICE :: June 1, 1970

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.By
/8 F\\m Productions Scheduled
To Go Before Cameras in June
Film production starts for June by major
companies and larger independents total 18,
two more than lor the immediately preceding
month, and equal to the number of pictures
put before the cameras in June a year
ago. Avco Embassy. Universal and Warner
Bros., with two picture each slated to roll.
lead the major companies, equalled only by
the independent C. Tobalina Productions,
which also has two scheduled.
AVCO EMBASSY
Till SriM.LE. This Joseph E. Lcvine
presentation co-stars Richard Benjamin and
Cloris Leachman. Paul Sylbert directs from
his own screenplay, with James Di Gangi
paiducing and Frank P. Rosenberg as executive
producer. The story concerns a college
professor, his wife and their two children
and the effect the international crisis
has on their lives.
Thlmb Trii'Ping. .An Irwin Winkler-Robcrt
Chartoff production, with Quentin Masters
directing, this film goes before the cameras
as soon as the cast has been selected.
Based on the book by Don Mitchell, who is
writing the screenplay, it is the story of a
young couple hitch-hiking up and down the
West Coast. John VV. Rogers, production
manager, plans to have the cast set for the
cameras June '^.
CINEMA CENTER FILMS
Le Mans. .Steve McQueen will drive the
competing Gulf-Porsche 917 at top speeds
on the Lc Mans circuit during the beginning
of principal photography at the French racing
circuit on June 8. John Sturges will direct
the Solar production and Jack N. Reddish
will produce, with Robert E. Relyea as
executive producer. Academy Award British
cincmatographer Walter Lassally will
serve as director of photography on this
story of the classic race.
CINERAMA RELEASING CORP.
I Want What I Want. Producer Raymond
Stross selected Harry Andrews to costar
with Anne Heywood in this film which
begins shooting in London the first week in
June. British director John Dexter will adapt
Gillian Freeman's screenplay, based on
Geoffrey Brown's novel.
PARAMOUNT
Intimatf. Games. Producer-director Lewis
Gilbert will lens this film in France with
toppers Anicee Alvina, Sean Bury and Ronald
Lewis. Based on an original idea by Gilbert,
it is the love story of a very young boy
and a very young girl.
SYD CASSYD
20TH CENTURY-FOX
The Mephisto W.^ltz. Marking the en-
'ry into the theatrical production field by
QM Productions in association with the studio,
this suspense melodrama stars Barbara
Parkins, Jacqueline Bisset and Al;m Alda
under Paul Wendkos' direction. Ben Maddow
wrote the screen play, a chilling odyssey
into the realm of the supernatural, which
was taken from Fred Mustard Stewarfs
novel. Arrangements were made for the production
by Richard D, Zanuck, president of
20th-Fox, and Quinn Martin, president of
QM.
UNITED ARTISTS
HuNiiNG Party. Levy-Gardner-Laven
productions has scheduled this Oliver Reed
starrer for the cameras at the end of this
month. Lou Morheim produces, with Don
Medford directing from an original script by
Morheim and Gilbert Ralston.
UNIVERSAL
The Hired Hand. Peter Fonda, making
this film under his independent Pando Co.
production banner, stars with Warren Gates
and also directs. The film is an original
western drama by Alan Sharp, which starts
filming in New Mexico, with William Zsigmond
as cinematographer. Pando Productions
is partnered by Fonda and producer
William Hayward.
Sometimes A Great Notion. This Universal-Newman-Foreman
production starts
June 15 in Oregon, with Paul Newman starring.
John Foreman producing and Richard
A. Colla directing.
WARNER BROS.
The All-American Boy. Jon Voight of
"Midnight Cowboy" fame is the star in this
contemporary story of a Golden Gloves
fighter who is trying to make the Olympics.
Charles Eastman is directing from his own
script. Joe Narr, is producing with the budget
set at nearly $3 million. West Coast locations
are being used for this action drama.
Zeppelin. Production started at Pinewood
Studios in England on this Getty-McDonald-Fromkess
production, produced by Owen
Crump and directed by Etienne Perier
for worldwide release by Warner Bros. The
film stars EIke Sommer and Michael York.
Based on an original story by Crump, the
Arthur Rowe screenplay relates the adventures
of a young English secret agent who
"defects" to Germany to investigate rumors
of a planned invasion of Britain using giant
Zeppelins. In color and widescreen, the picture
will shoot locations in England and on
the Mediterranean island of Malta to supplement
interior footage lensed at Pinewood.
INDEPENDENTS
Chiara Films International
The Manipulator. Rossano Brazzi stars
in this film, which he and his brother Oscar
will produce jointly for their indejjendent
Chiara Films International. The picture rolls
this month in Osaka. Japan, with Rossano
Bra//i directing.
Four Star-Excclsior
Tonight You Sleep. Bud Groskopf,
vice-president in charge of production for
Four Star International, Inc., reports that
this horror story about the criminally insane
was adapted by William Hersey from a
tale by Stephen Cannell, J. Rickley Dunn
and Hersey. Martin Cohan will produce.
International Film Company
Adveniurls in Bail Martin Potter, star
of "Fellini Satyricon," will
be the single star
in this film, which will also mark the 24-
year-old British actor's screenwriting debut.
Ugo Liberatore will direct the Italian production
in Bali for producer Antonio Musu.
Potter's story casts him as an Englishman
who is initiated into the occult while on an
ethnological study of the island.
Iscarcne
Productions
Madron. A co-production between Israel's
Iscarene Productions and the American
Edric Productions headed by Eric Weaver,
the package was put together by Herb
Dodell, attorney for both firms. Richard
Boone and Leslie Caron co-star in this first
American western to be filmed in Israel.
The picture was adapted for the screen by
Edward Chappcll from the Leo McMahon
novel. Jerry Hopper will direct this tale
about a French-Canadian nun thrown together
with a renegade Indian fighter.
Sagittarius-Omnibus Production
Jane Eyre. George C. Scott, Susannah
York, Anna Calder-Marshall and Ian Bannen
are the cast of this Sagittarius and
Omnibus production, which is shooting in
Yorkshire, England. Delbert Mann is directing
the picture as a special which will be
distributed as a motion picture outside the
U.S.
C. Tobalina Productions
Love Symbol In Red. In the leading
roles of this Hollywood International Film
release are Carlos Tobalina, Liz Renay and
Maria Pia. It is based on an original by Tobalina
about a youthful mother who sees the
image of her dead husband in her son, causing
incestuous emotions.
The Ticklers. Another C. Tobalina production,
this will feature the same cast as
"Love Symbol in Red." Tobalina wrote the
original, a comedy centering around psychiatric
hangups of beautiful women.
Maureen Stapleton. Matthau
To Co-Star in Tlaza Suite'
Paramounfs "Plaza Suite," which consists
of three segments like the Neil Simon
play upon which it is based, will co-star
Maureen Stapleton and Walter Matthau in
the first segment. The film will be produced
by Howard W. Koch and directed by Arthur
Miller from the screenplay by Simon.
Two other actresses will shortly be announced
to appear with Matthau, who will star
in all three segments opposite three different
leading ladies. Location shooting both in
New York and at Paramount Studios in
Hollywood starts in July.
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BAROMETER
This chart records the performance of current ottroctions in the opening week of their first runs in
the 20 key cities checked Pictures with fewer then five engagements are not listed. As new runs
ore reported, ratings ore added and averoges revised Computation is in terms of percentogc in
relation to normol grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normol,"
the figures show the gross ratings obove or below fhot mork. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.)
mmmmmm
Aitport
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All the Loving Couples lU-M)
Arme of the Thousand Days (Univ)
,00 900 400 600 400 500 1000 450 200 500 465
150 300 180 250 185 120 225 300 500 240 150 380 150 175 236

NY Airer Bill Vetoed
By Gov. Rockefeller
ALBANY—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
came to the rescue of worried New York
State drive-in owners by revealing that he
had vetoed, in the final group of "30-day
bills," Senate Bill 5296-A. The measure,
which died in rules committee last year but
was favorably reported this year, at the request
of Sen. William E. Adams (R-Buffalo)
unanimously passed the Upper House and
gained Assembly approval. It posed the most
serious threat to New York drive-ins in
years.
It proposed an addition to Subdivision 2,
Section 125.22 of the Penal Law making it
a felony for a person "knowing" the character
and content of a movie depicting "nudity,
sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse
and which is harmful to minors" to exhibit
such film "at a location near a public highway
so that the contents of such motion
picture are visible to minors using such highway."
'Nudies* Visible Too Far
The purpose of the legislation was to curb
a reportedly frequent practice of under-17s
of looking at "nudies" and sex-oriented releases
from cars parked outside ozoners.
Stories and complaints of this have been
reaching the Capitol for some time and
stirred the solons to approve a hoped-for ban
at the recent session. Albany area operators
of outdoor theatres had been cautious about
reacting publicly against the bill. Not so the
Metropolitan Motion Picture Theatre Owners
Ass'n which, through D. John Phillips,
executive director, wired a protest to the
governor.
Phillips pointed out the latler's signature
would cause serious economic consequences
to many drive-ins, "operating during evening
hours only," in the counties of Niagara. Erie,
Onondaga, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and
Rockland, among others. These areas are not
only dotted with drive-ins but also are represented
by leading legislators.
Governor Explains Veto
In his message, the governor wrote: "Not
approved. The bill would amend the Penal
Law to make it a felony to exhibit a motion
picture that depicts nudity, sexual conduct or
sadomasochistic abuse and which would be
harmful to minors, at a location near a public
high.way so that the contents of the picture
would be visible to minors using the
highway. I share the concern of the sponsors
of the bill and all responsible citizens with
respect to the increasing dissemination of
indecent material to minors. The bill is too
broad in its scope, however, and is, therefore,
subject to serious questions of constitutional
validity. Under its provisions, for
example, a projectionist in a drive-in theatre
could be found guilty of a Class E felony,
punishable by up to four years in prison, for
showing a film that might or might not be
obscene by law and which, in fact, was
never viewed by a minor.
"In recommending disapproval of the
bill, the Division of Stale Police has staled
that, as drafted, its provisions would be extremely
difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.
The New York State Sheriffs' Ass'n,
the Slate Administrator of the Judicial Conference
and the New York Civil Liberties
Union, among others, have recommended
disapproval of the bill.
"For these reasons. I am constrained to
withhold my approval of the bill in its present
form. The bill is disapproved. (Signed)
Nelson A. Rockefeller."
Supreme Court Intervenes
In Cinema License Denial
BUFFALO—The city of Buffalo has been
ordered by Supreme Court Justice Alfred
M. Kramer to show cause why it should
not issue an operating license to the Capri
Art Theatre, 3165 Bailey Ave. Entertainment
Systems, Inc., the plaintiff in the suit,
took over operation of the motion picture
theatre early last month and applied for a
license May 6. On May 13 it was given approval
to operate pending final disposition
on the application. That same day, the theatre
began showing "Without a Stitch."
Entertainment Systems claims that, because
of its investment, it was forced to
stop showing the film and to exhibit
R-rated
films. Sacco later is alleged to have written
the theatre that its application had been disapproved
by the police department.
In addition to asking that the city be
ordered to issue a license, the theatre asks
the court to restrain police from issuing summonses
pending a court decision. Herald P.
Fahringer jr., the attorney for the present
theatre owners, alleges that the theatre's
application for a license was denied without
a hearing, despite previous statements by
city officials that the building had been
used as a theatre previously and no obstacles
to approval should arise.
Police Captain Joseph E. DiVicenzo is
alleged to have informed the theatre manager.
Carl Trainer, that the house must
cease showing the film, "Without a Stitch,"
under threat of daily summonses. This feature
was the opening attraction under the
new management.
Defendants in the case are City Lie. Director
Samuel C. Sacco. Police Commissioner
Frank N. Felicetia and Capt. DiVicenzo,
commanding officer of the Kensington district.
The house is the former Circle Art
Theatre, operated for several years by Fred
Keller.
Arthur J.
Anscombe sr.
BUFFALO—.Arthur J. .Anscombe sr.,
father of .-Xlfred E. Anscombe. past chief
barker of the Buffalo Variety Club and president
of the Amherst CATV Co., died May
17 at his home. A native of Sussex. England.
Anscombe was a former indei>endent real
estate agent operating out of his home. He
was a past commander of the Pearl Harbor
Garrison. Army & Navy Union, and was a
member of Buffalo Lodge 37. lOOF. Burial
was in Elmlawn Cemetery, Tonawanda.
'Norway' World Bows
Aiding Project Hope
NEW YOKK-Project Hope will sponsor
the world premiere of Cinerama's "Song of
Norway," to be held November 4 at the
Cinerama Theatre here, it was announced
recently. A second benefit performance for
young people will be held December 19 and
also will be sponsored by Project Hope.
Heading the committees for the gala
theatre benefit are Mrs. Warburg Sarnoff,
general chairman; Eben W. Pyne. men's
committee chairman, and Emil Mosbacher
jr.. chairman for the second premiere.
Presented by ABC Pictures and distributed
by Cinerama Releasing Corp., the
film stars Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad,
Frank Poretta and Edward G. Robinson
and was produced, directed and written
by Andrew L. Stone.
Cinema Int'l Announces
Executive Changes
NEW YORK—Cinema International has
announced from its Amsterdam headquarters
the first major moves in the realignment
of key personnel following the Paramount-
Universal overseas sales merger. Michaud
and Arthur Abeles have appointed two key
supervisors and seven territorial chiefs.
Pano Alafouzo is sales supervisor for
Continental Europe and the Middle East.
Frank Pierce becomes sales supervisor for
Latin America.
In other key appointments, Daniel Goldman
becomes general manager in France:
Mario Pesucci, general manager in Italy:
Lutz Scherer, general manager in Germany:
Karl Jungmarker. chairman, and Curt Bergelin,
general manager in Sweden: Paul Silvius,
general manager in Holland: John Bird,
general manager in Japan, and Alfred Jarratt,
general manager in Australia.
Evans, Egley and Seshun
Promoted by Inflight
NEW YORK—Robert M. Evans has
been promoted to vice-president of marketing,
advertising and public relations for Inflight
Motion Pictures, it was announced by
David Flexer, president. Evans joined the
company in 1969 as director of marketing
after executive positions with airlines.
The appointment of Paul J. Egley as vicepresident
of sales also was announced. Egley
joined Inflight in September 1968 as director
of sales, having served 12 years with Pan
American World Airways.
Harold Seshun was appointed as director
of audio programing. Seshun joined Inflight
in 1969 as executive assistant to the vicepresident
of marketing. Previously he was
with Pan American in customer service for
14 vears.
Henri Heirman Is Dead
NEW YORK.— Henri Heirman. manager
in Belgium and supervisor of Scandinavian
offices for Warner Bros. International, died
suddenly in Brussels. His wife .'\drienne survives.
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BROADW AY
JOSEF SHAFTEL. whose independent production
company has already produced
four films this year for release by Cinerama,
has added "The Trojan Women" to his production
schedule this year. It stars Katharine
Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave and Irene
Papas and is directed by Michael Cacoyannis.
Based on the play by Euripides and
adapted for the screen by Cacoyannis, it will
begin production on August 24.
Katharine Hepburn will star as Hecuba.
She will be joined by Vanessa Redgrave as
Andromache and Irene Papas will play
Helen. Cacoyannis will co-produce with
Anis Nohra, who is currently producing
"The Statue" in Rome, also a Josef Shaftcl
production. Shaftel will serve as executive
producer.
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James Robert Parish, a publicist for Harold
Rand & Co., left for San Francisco
Wednesday, May 13. for client meetings.
•
li'arner Bros.' western comedy, "The Ballad
of Cable Hogiie," began at 40 showcase
theatres in the metropolitan exhibition area
May 13. A covered wagon, with three western
beauties on hoard, visited the houses and
provided entry blanks for a contest in which
five winners will win a western vacation for
two at the Big Vanilla at Davos ranch resort
iwar Woodbridge. N.Y.
•
MGM's psychological drama, "My Lover,
My Son," starring Romy Schneider, opened
strong May 13 in 26 theatres in the New
York-New Jersey area. Among the showcases
were the Apollo, Manhattan; Brandt's
Kent in the Bronx; Midwood, Brooklyn;
Casino, Richmond Hill; Rivoli, Hempstead,
and the Palace. Oranije. N.J.
Bomb Blasts in 2 Cinemas
NF.W YORK— At least 17 persons were
injured, ten seriously enough to
require hospitalization,
when small explosive devices
went off almost simultaneously in two Bronx
movie houses recently. The devices were
constructed of brass pipes filled with
powder, police said.
Merritt A. Kyser Dies;
Theatreman, Civic Leader
EAST AURORA, N.Y.—Merritt A. Kyser,
87, former manager of the Aurora Theatre
in East Aurora and long active in civic
affairs here, is dead. A lifelong resident of
East Aurora, Kyser was manager of the
Aurora Theatre for 25 years, until the
195()s. He served in the Buffalo office as
president of the Motion Picture Theatre
Owners of New York Stale from 1945 to
1950.
Long active as a musician, Kyser played
the French horn in several Buffalo musical
groups and was a member of the Shea's
Buffalo and Erlanger theatre orchestras and
once played with John Philip Sousa's band.
'Watermelon Man' Begins
NY World Premiere Run
NEW YORK—Columbia's highly unusual
satire, "Watermelon Man," began its world
premiere engagement Wednesday, May 27,
at the Murray Hill and Penthouse theatres.
The story of a bigoted white suburbanite
who awakens one morning to discover he's
turned black, the Bennetl-Mirell-Van Peebles
production was directed and scored by
Melvin Van Peebles.
Godfrey Cambridge stars with Estelle
Parsons and a supporting cast including Kay
Kimberly, Manlan Moreland, Erin Moran
and S;ott Garrett.
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BUFFALO
Qi(liii\\ J. Cohen annoimccs cxccUcnt business
at his new Sheridan II Drive-In al
Sheridan Drive and I'nsniinger Road. The
S5l)-ear ozoncr is equipped wiih a lOO-looi
screen and the lasl word in projection anil
sound equipment. "Loving" was the opening
(Mm and Cohen states the ouidoorcr soon
will be exhibiting many firsi-run and lopgrade
leatures.
Kdwurd l.icscr, son of Lewis J. I.ieser,
manager ol ihc Avco Embassy branch, has
been elected president of the Niagara Frontier
Chapter. Muscular Dystrophy Ass"n of
America. Lieser is an executive of Niagara
Apparel Co.
Karl I.. Hubbiird jr., managing director of
the Ciranada. has annoimced several coming
attractions, including "The Walking Stick"
Wednesday (3); "Brotherly Love" Wednesday
(17) and "Hello. Dolly!" (subsequcnl
run) Wednesday (24). Hubbard expects to
run "Dolly" most of the summer at this
Panther circuit house.
Labor replaced 40 broken windows in the
Courtyard Theatre. Lafayette Avenue and
Hoyt Street. Ed Connor, president. Local
660. Glaziers Union (AFL-CIO), said 15
members of his organization did the repair
work as a public service. Materials were
contributed by the shops which employ
Local (iM)'s members.
The much-poslponcd "M*A*S*H" made
its bow Wednesday. May 27, at the Dipson
Plaza-North, where the 20th Century-Fox
production that was selected as the best film
at the Cannes Film Festival is attracting
excellent business, much to the delight of
John J. Serfustino. local 20th-Fox exchange
manager . . . Earl L. Hubbard jr., managing
director of the Granada, had a novel way
of informing his wife that he was celebrating
her birthday. On the front of the illuminated
marquee was this sign: "Happy Birthday
Marie." It attracted a lot of attention
from passersby, as well as from his wife.
Fanny Walson, 84, one of the world-famous
Watson Sisters of showbusiness. died.
Fantas-y Island, the 25-acre amusement
park, opened Memorial Day.
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'Women in Love' 150
lect on his boxollice grosses, Dewey Michaels,
owner and operator of the Palace HUI TALO—The seasi>ii slump account-
In Buiialo 1st Week
Theatre, nodded. Michaels sees an evenliial
able to exams, graduation ceremonies, weddings,
conclusion to the current film wave. "It has
etc., resulted in the usual blah box-
to end," he said. "Everything in this business
office grades for late May. Only three features
escaped the public's indifference at this
happens in trends ... It has to wind up soon.
I mean, what can they take off next? Their lime of year— "The Liberation of L. B.
skins?" Still, Michaels sees a certain logic Jones" stood at 160 in a second go-round at
in the appeal of such motion pictures and the Teck and newcomer "Women in Love"
attributes it, to an extent. lo the backlash of rated 150 lor composite returns at the Cinema
an outdated morality. Basically, though,
and Amherst. Meanwhile. "Woodstock"
Michaels claims most exhibitors do have lo reported 140 for its third Center week.
travel this modern road. "Let's face it," he
(Averoge Is 100)
states, "we are not running these theatres just Backstage The Adventurers (Para), 9th wk 100
Buffalo Let It Be (UA), 2nd wk 100
to please ourselves. We would never stay in Center Woodstock (WB), 3rd wk 140
Cinema, Amherst
business very long if we
Women in Love (UA) 150
did. It becomes a
Colvin Anne of the Thousond Doys (Univ),
matter of giving the public what it wants to 6th wk.
Penthouse Night ot Bloody Horror (SR)
see. whether you want to see it or not. I'll Teck Tlie Liberation of L. B. Jones (Col),
100
100
bet you right now that nine-tenths of Ihc 2nd wk 160
exhibitors who play these skin pictures don't
like Iheni. But what can you do?"
Buffalo Area Houses Give
Milton Gcllcr, National Screen salesman, Servicemen Special Rates
was in town meeting with James Lavorato. BUFFALO—The suggestiiw that area
local branch manager, and showing area exhibitors
motion picture theatres follow the lead of
some of the new NSS products the baseball Bisons in giving preferential
. . .
Mrs. Sheldon K. Viele who, with Miss Jane treatment on prices for members of the
armed forces is about to receive an OK at
Keelcr, started the Studio Theatre (now the
1.^
Studio Arena), has retired after 25 years
district film houses. The suggestion was
as a reporter with the Evening News in the made in the Courier-Express that now that a
society department J. Serfustino. precedent was established, it would be a
.
manager of the 20th Century-Fox exchange, laudable gesture for theatres in and around
invited exhibitors to a tradescreening of Buffalo lo follow suit.
"The Sicilian Clan" May 19 in the operators
It was a suggestion quickly followed up
hall.
by three circuits: Dipson. Holiday and Martina.
Earl Lynge. managing director of the
James J. Hayes, the perennial delegate of Martina triplex at Main and Chippewa, said,
the Variety Club to the international conventions,
"I would gladly go along with this 100 per
took advantage of the special after-
cent."
conclave meetings to enjoy some of the further
Joseph P. Garvey. managing director ol
trips in and around the Puerto Rico the Holiday 1 and 2, declared the two thea
areas and has just returned from that part Ires have instituted an immediate reduced
of the globe. Jim is managing director of the ticket policy that will be in effect Sundays
downtown Cinema and the Wehrle Drive-In. through Thursdays.
William Dipson, Dipson circuit president
A new $2,000,000 theatre for Niagara-onthe-Lake's
announced his houses in the area would adcated
annual Shaw Festival will be lomit
servicemen at the same discount rate
on the town's main street, it was announced
given to students. Meanwhile, the manage-
by festival president Calvin Band. ments of the Century, Granada, Boulevard
He says the new theatre is expected to open Cinemas I and 2 and the Seneca Mall Cinema
for the 1972 season. The festival has been
slated they are seeking clearance from
located within the town since its inception home offices to institute special servicemen
eight years ago.
ticket policies of their own.
Linn Smeal, city manager for the Panther
Awards to Eastman Kodak
circuits theatres in Rochester, is becoming
ROCHESTER—Eastman
famous for his ability to make
Kodak has won
tie-ups in
TV's equivalent of a
Kodak Town
Hollywood Oscar and
for his attractions at the Monroe
and Riviera theatres. He covered the
two special citations for commercials at the
11th American TV and Radio Commercials
town with "Hello, Dolly!" promotions.
Festival in New York City.
Carl Trainer has been appointed manager
of Ihc Capri Theatre on Bailey Avenue, formerly
the Circle Art. and which is being BUFFALO—The dale has been set for
Date Set for Tent 7 Event
operated Royce Adams. Frontier Amusement
Corp.,
the Variety Club's "Night at the Races." It
is Tuesday (23) at the Garden City Raceway
Mannie A. Brown, president,
is booking the house.
at St. Catharines, Ont., Canada. Entertainment
chairman Brian Byrnes urges that all
Ben Bush, first assistant chief barker of barkers intending to enjoy the night send in
Variety Club Tent 7. is general chairman of reservations at once. It is expected to have a
the Ismailia Temple. AAONMS (Shriners) bus available for members and it will leave
spring ceremonial at Leisureland, Hamburg. the Tent 7 club rooms at 6 p.m. Dinner will
E-G BOXOFFICE :: June 1. 1970

ALBANY
The timeless "Gone With the Wind" followed
"The Lawyer" at Panther's Cinema
7, Troy-Schenectady Road. The MGM
release still sells tickets to youngsters who
have never seen it and to oldsters wishing
an additional look-see.
Elliott Gould, who won the favor of the
young crowd in "M*A*S*H," may make
the new film "Getting Straight" a boxoffice
success, despite the fact it virtually caricatures
"college campuses, students and professors."
IndustryTtes listening to NBC's
"Monitor" heard critic Jean Chailot express
this appraisal. The fact campuses are centers
of current spotlighting also is in the picture's
favor, according to Chailot. Candice
Bergen's performance did not impress him.
Rev. Dr. Lamaer H. Bruner, rector of St.
Peter's Episcopal Church, chaplain of the
New York State Assembly and Protestant
chaplain of the old Albany Variety Club
(when it had one for each of the three major
faiths) was the recipient of the "Outstanding
Alumnus Award" of State University College
at Buffalo when commencement was held
May 26. Dr. Bruner, a personal friend of
Harold Gabrilove, president of RTA, Inc.,
landlord to film companies maintaining exchanges
on the second floor of the RTA
Building, 994 Broadway, and ex-Tent 9
chief barker, was graduated from Buffalo
University in 1939. He later attended the
Episcopal School of Theology in Cambridge.
Mass. The distinguished appearing
minister participated in Variety Club golf
tournaments.
The Hellman Theatre will be the site for
the Thursday afternoon (4) graduation exercises
of the Albany Pharmacy College. That
institution and its neighbor, Albany Medical
College (both affiliated with Union University,
Schenectady), have been using the
beautiful film house for graduations for the
past several years. Dr. John Sherman, a
1949 graduate of APC, will be the principal
speaker. Dean Walter Singer will present the
young men and women for degrees.
Iselin's Turnpike Drive-In, outside this
city, and Fabian's Tri-City Twin Drive-In,
Menands, were among automobilers exhibiting
"Funny Girl." Fabian's Cohoes presented
"Oliver!"
"The Minx" reportedly attracted profitable
business at the RKO-SW Cinema Delaware.
The film, advertised as one that
"makes "I Am Curious (Yellow)' look pale,"
stars Jan Sterling, who some Albanians have
met and rate highly articulate. Weekend
scale for the feature was $2.50 for adults
and $2 for students. Week night prices were
BOXOFFICE :: June 1, 1970
$1.75 for grownups and $1.50 for holders
of SID cards.
Jonathan Phillips, son of D. John Phillips,
MM PA executive director, and Mrs.
Phillips, a retired attorney for the American
Broadcasting Cos.. was accepted by Cornell
and other colleges. The brilliant youngster,
who discussed motion pictures with authority
on a visit to the Capitol in 1966 with
his dad, will be going to Cornell in Ithaca
next fall. The institution's scholastic standards
are very high. Jonathan was attending
a private boys' school in New York, where
the late President John F. Kennedy studied,
at the time of his trip here.
Sen. John J. Santucci (D-Queens), sponsor
of two bills affecting motion picture theatres
that reached third reading in the Upper
House but never came to a vote due to objections,
on a visit to the State House stated
he would re-introduce them next year. One
would require drive-in marquees to post the
rating of the films under the "industry selfregulation
code." The other would ban the
exhibition of films unsuitable for minors at
matinees where "adult" releases are exhibited.
He pressed for their passage in 1969
and 1970 after introducing, as a member
of the New York City Council, a measure
like the second. A lawyer, Santucci is the
father of five small children. He is 37.
Alan Iselin staged a bargain $1.50-percar
night at his PUittsburgh Drive-In . . .
Walter Reade's 9-W Drive-In, Kingston, advertised
"free passes for lucky bumper strip
number on concession building" . . . Panther's
Forum, Utica, played "I Am Curious
(Yellow)."
Richard Muir Promoted
To New Cinecom Post
NEW YORK—Richard Muir, who joined
Cinecom Theatres as Fort Wayne, Ind., division
manager last November, has been promoted
by Jerry Swedroe. vice-president, to
the newly created post of site-research developer.
Muir, formerly with Redstone and United
Artists Theatres, will operate directly under
Swedroe in the selection of sites for additional
Cinecom theatres, currently totalling
1 13 in number. He will headquarter in New
York.
New Bausch & Lomb Plant
ROCHESTER—Bausch & Lomb is building
a $3,000,000 manufacturing plant for
ophthalmic lenses in Oakland, Md. Wil-
Kodak
liam W. McQuilkin, president of the
developed the Cinema-
Town company that
Scope lens, said the 175.()00-square-foot
plant will employ 200 and production will
start in the spring of 1971. He said construction
will begin immediately.
Daniel C. Davenport Dies
UNION CITY. N.J.— Daniel Cohn Davenport.
74. 6010 Boulevard East, West New
York, died Monday. May 4. He was a retired
theatre executive. Survivors include his
wife Jean; a son Jack, and six grandchildren.
NORTH JERSEY
Representatives of KKO-Stanley Warner,
United Artists and l.oew's, all of whom
operate theatres in Jersey City, appeared
before a recent meeting of the city council
to protest a pending ordinance which, il
adopted by the city, will call for creation ol
a film review board with powers to prohibit
certain films from being shown in Jersey
City, if the board so desires. The council
elected to postpone its decision on the ordinance,
following further study. A recent poll
taken by the Hudson Dispatch, a Jersey City
daily, showed strong support from residents
of the city for the ordinance, which originally
was proposed by Mayor Thomas Whelan.
Major attractions for the Memorial Day
holiday week included "Bob & Carol & Ted
& Alice." which opened at Paul Peterson's
Clairidge in Montclair. General Cinema's
Essex Green in West Orange and other area
locations. "Anne of the Thousand Days"
opened at several first-run spots, including
Nathan's Park in Caldwell. The latest Swedish
import, "I Am Curious (Blue)," bowed
at the Center in Bloomfield. New Plaza in
Linden, UA's Colony in Livingston and National
General's Fox in Woodbridge. Reports
indicate that "1 Am Curious (Blue)" is not
generating as much enthusiasm in this area
as "I Am Curious (Yellow)" did last
fall.
Fabian's Bellevue in Upper Montclair will
premiere "Fellini Satyricon" for the North
Jersey area on a roadshow basis Wednesday
(24).
The independent Art in Irvington held
"The Marriage Manual" for an eighth week
and business was continuing quite strong
. . . Mae Boyd is the new manager of UA's
Wayne Theatre in Wayne. She succeeds
Patti Kilmurray, who resigned. Miss Kilmurray
had managed the Wayne since 1968.
Mrs. Boyd started in the industry as a
cashier at the independent Garden in Paterson
in 1956. She was promoted to assistant
manager at the Garden six years later and
maintained that post until the theatre closed,
following a destructive fire in .April 1969.
David Male of Irvington. who recently
died at the age of 71. had been the owner
and operator of the Oxtbrd Theatre in Little
Falls for more than 20 years, until 1950.
when he sold the building to Warner Bros.
The Oxford was closed twice for a period of
several months during the early '50s and
then was operated by Stanley Warner until
1964, when they .sold it to a local b.mk to be
demolished for use as a parking lot.
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glati Bros. Thealres ofliccrs have wiiicil
.several years for the stale highway department
to announce highway planning and
interchanges which have held up construction
of a modern outdoor theatre near AlitH>na.
Still nothing new on this matter is
known but the new unit, when and if constructed,
will h>e located about a ntile-and-ahalf
from the well-established Blait circuit's
Alloona Drive-In.
Frank Lewis is observing his one-third of
.1 ceniufN in the motion picture business.
Most of these years have been with Blaii
Bros. Theatres, of which he is an officer.
Treasurer of NATO of Western Pennsylvania.
Lewis entered the theatre field at
Circenville with Micky Schlessinger . . .
Blatt Bros. Theatres is observing its 50th
anniversary.
Jack Van I.loyd, who was district manager
for Berlo N'ending for a score of years
until recent weeks, has been succeeded here
b\ Bob Warner.
James V. Boyle is the new field publicity
. . . AlP's "Wuthering
representative here for American international
Pictures, working out of the New
York headquarters
Heights" is available everywhere for premieres
under the sponsorship of Variety
Club tents . . . Gateway Clipper will use
three boats on the Allegheny River to ferry
. . Consumer
a total of 1.100 people to the taxpayers'
stadium from the Duquesne Boulevard
Wharf near the Sixth Street bridge .
prices here made their biggest jump
in two decades, rising 2.,^ per cent from
January to .April.
Chuck Fleming's St. Marys Theatre marquee.
St. Marys, has been badly damaged
twice in recent months by passing trucks
which went out of control . . . The Belmar
Theatre, in the Homewood-Brushton district.
is closed and the front has been boarded
up. Holdups and other harassments caused
ihe shuttering. This is the end of movies for
the entire area, as the nearby Navari Eastwood
Theatre also was closed and razed in
Exploitation films here
recent months . . .
include "House of Hooks" at the Penthouse
and "Hot Sput" and "Night of Fun" at Ihe
An Cinema.
Milton J. Shapp, multimillionaire CATV
innovator, got the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination. He had it four years ago. too.
but lost in the Pennsylvania general election
to Republican Ray Shafer. Shapp has owned
patents, systems, materials and most CATV
businesses fJerrold Electronics Corp.) for 22
years . . . .Some $26,000,000 will be the cost
of the planned city auditorium to be constructed
in the downtown Penn Central Park
site . . . Ihe 10,0()0,()()()lh patron \scn(
through the gates at ihe civic arena.
. . .
Gateway Theatre had a lic-iip with KQV
radio station to get started with "1 cl It Be"
The taxpayers' stadium, whenever it is
opened after years of dela\. will have a
hall of fame museum and theatre, which
will be operated in 2,000 square feet of
space adjacent to the outfield restaurant.
Marl) Wollson is general manager for Sportacade
Unlimited, which will operate this
museum-theatre where sports movies will be
exhibited. .Admission will be $\.5{) lor adults
and 75 cents for children.
Showplace Systems, Greensbiirg. is making
contacts regarding franchises for Jerry
l^ewis Cinemas, automated mini-theatres.
William DeMarsh, 72. owner-manager of
the indoor Guthrie and the outdoor Larkfield
theatres. Grove City, died suddenly at
his home as the result of a heart attack in
the middle of the night. Survivors include
his son Chester DeMarsh, who operates a
circuit of theatres headquartered in Grove
City.
Howard G. Minsky's initial film production
will be a Christmas release from Paramount.
"Love Story." Howard, in years
past, was a local film salesman . The
. ,
.Squirrel Hill Theatre returned "2001: A
Space Odyssey," in 70mm. to its 45x25-fool
screen, with six-track stereophonic magnetic
sound.
James Lewis, Greenville, projectionist for
27 years and a brother of Frank Lewis. Blatt
Bros. Theatres executive and NATO of
Western Pennsylvania treasurer, died at the
age of 56. James had been projectionist at
Ihe Jordan Theatre there and, prior to that,
had been the boothman at the former Mercer
Square Theatre in Greenville, Never
married, he is survived by his father William
F. Lewis. Greenville: a sister, and his brother
Frank.
PHILADELPHIA
The Colonial Theatre here has been purchased
by Fox Theatres, it was announced
by Stephen B. Fox, company president.
This will be the I5th theatre in the
rapidly expanding Fox circuit . . . RKO-
Stanley Warner has set July 15 as the date
for the opening of its new Twin Theatre on
Route 38, Cherry Hill, N.J. The inaugural
attraction will be "Z." The theatres will
have a combined seating capacity of approximately
1,000 . . . David E. Milgram of Milgram
Theatres attended the recent board of
ilireciors meeting of NATO at the LaCosta
Country Club, San Diego, Calif. He will
report on the results of the gathering to the
Theatre Owners of Pennsylvania at its annual
board meeting, to be held in July.
AlP kicked off its annual branch manager's
weeks Wednesday. May 27. The con-
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test runs through Tuesday (16) and prizes
include an RCA color portable TV set, an
AM-FM clock radio and a $25 U.S. Savings
BtinJ. F.xhihitors are reminded that every
.MP hooking set during that period gives
them adtliiional chances to win a prize. Last
year, the top prize of the color TV set went
to Al Myers of the Apollo Theatre
Columbia Pictures is doing the multiplebreak
bit. Its top-flight science-fiction picture
"Marooned" broke in many neighborhood
situations May 27. Now. they arc
bringing back "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
for a new series of bookings in a score of
sub-run city and suburban theatres . . . Columbia's
new Elliott Gould starrer "Getting
Straight" is set to bow at the Arcadia sometime
this month.
Roy Robbins, RKO-Stanley Warner advertising
man. is recuperating from major
surgery in Presbyterian Hospital. He's expected
to be off the job for at least another
three weeks.
Paramount Pictures is currently finalizing
a tie-in with Continental Trailways Bus Lines
for its new Glen Campbell starrer "Norwood."
Several of the transport company's
buses are featured in the film. The tie-in,
still in the planning stage so far, consists of
picture displays in the bus terminal, a special
screening for company employees and a
feature spread in the company's house organ.
"Norwood" starts a multiple run in the
area Wednesday (17) .
Universal's "Skullduggery," starring Burt
Reynolds, will break in 37 area theatres
Wednesday (10). The picture is reported to
be "similar to 'Planet of the Apes' " , .
,
"Airport" at the Boyd Theatre continues
to be one of the biggest-grossing pictures
in town ... "I Am Curious (Blue)" bowed
into the Theatre 1812 with nary a protest
or cry of indignation from any quarter. It's
certainly not causing the stir that its predecessor
(Yellow) did. But then, local audiences
are much more acclimated to
the super-sexy
type of film today than they were a year—or
even six months—ago . . . Stars Don Johnson
and Linda Gillin were in town recently
for one day to plug MGM's "The Magic
Garden of Stanley Sweetheart." The picture
opened May 27 at the Trans-Lux . . . Robert
Kraus. assistant divisional manager at the
local MGM branch, was given an in-office
going-away party May 28. He's leaving the
city for a new job (not with MGM) in the
New York City area.
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NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE PRODUCTION CEINTEFv
Seeking Ways to Set
Up Film Hall of Fame
HOLLYWOOD — Movement of local
groups interested in the possibility of a collection
of motion picture memorabilia is
going forward with renewed vigor. Plans
may be announced sometime in the next
few months for a building, without the fanfare
of distorted publicity. One of the key
efforts driving the Hollywood people is the
constant effort by collections, museums and
institutes to obtain donations of films and
other related material.
The American Film Institute collection at
the Library of Congress. Washington, D. C,
has just obtained original negatives and master
prints of over 500 short comedies and 30
feature films produced by Hal Roach between
1915 and 1942. Sixty-six titles, including
those acquired by Roach as well as
those produced by him, have already been
deposited in the archive program which the
institute operates collaboratively with the
Library of Congress.
Debbie Reynolds is bidding for some of
the material at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
auction, announcing that this is for a proposed
Hall of Fame.
Colorado Newsman Lauds
NM's Film-Wooing Efforts
ALBUQUERQUE—New Mexico's current
film-wooing activities recently were
lauded in an article in the Denver Post by
the Colorado newspaper's entertainment
editor Del Carnes.
Games lauded the state's efforts in attracting
film production, including three major
features in the past 24 months, which he
says has benefitted the state's economy by
several million dollars.
Carnes noted that the state set up a film
commission to bring in pictures and that
the recent legislature appropriated $100,000
for the work.
"New Mexico has discovered that film
location work enriches the local economy
and that the color scenes shown throughout
the world are a terrific tourist boost," he
writes.
Colorado. New Mexico's neighboring state
to the north, on the other hand hasn't openly
courted Hollywood's business, Carnes
continues. Producers in Colorado profess
unhappiness over not being able to get the
kind of information they need, particularly
that dealing with logistics, he writes.
Max Youngstein to Head
Einstein Awards Group
HOLLYWOOD — Max E.
Youngstein,
producer and theatre owner, whose credits
include "Fail Safe," "Money Trap" and
"Man in the Middle," has been named chairman
of the Albert Einstein Commemorative
Awards Committee in the Arts.
The appointment of Youngstein was announced
by Charles C. Bassine. board chairman
of the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University, which
sponsors the awards. Youngstein is a founder
of the college and a member of its council
of governors.
Past recipients of the Einstein Award in
the Arts include Leonard Bernstein. Marian
Anderson, Paul Muni, Pablo Casals, Andrew
Wyeth and Carl Sandburg.
Now an independent producer. Youngstein
formerly was a vice-president of United
Artists, Paramount and Eagle-Lion.
Sign Sugar Ra'y Robinson
For Role in NGP Film
HOLLYWOOD—Former boxing great
Sugar Ray Robinson has been signed by director
Barry Shear for an important role
the currently filming production "What Are
We Going to Do Without Skipper?"
Robinson, ex-middleweight and welterweight
champion of the world, will play the
part of a police officer in the contemporary
drama that co-stars Robert F. Lyons, Richard
Thomas, Belinda Montgomery and Barbara
Bel Geddes.
New Outdoor Screen Adds
To Drive-In Show Time
San Francisco—A revolutionary development
in outdoor screens called
Erisnialite, invented by Dr. Richard
Vetters, United Artists Theatres Circuit
vice-president in charge of research
and developments, was unveiled here
May 27 at the new Hayward Aulo Theatre
outside San I'rancisco.
Demonstration of the screen proved
that light was increased over conventional
drive-in screens by almost 250
per cent. RcsuHantly. drive-in theatres
will be enabled to start their shows 30
minutes earlier, adding that much to
their playing time.
UATC will merchandise the screens
through various distributors.
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Saluting Joe Levine
HOLLYWOOD — Joseph E. Levine,
"Showman of the Decade" for Variety Club
Tent 25, will receive his accolades at a luncheon
to be held at the Crystal Room. Beverly
Hills Hotel. Wednesday (10). Ladies will
be welcomed to this event.
Don Wilmoth Joins Staff
Of NTS's Seattle Branch
NEW YORK—Donald L. Wilmoth has
been appointed sales representative for National
Theatre Supply's Seattle branch office,
according to an announcement from John
E. Currie, vice-president-marketing. National
Theatre Supply Division of National Screen
Service Corp.
Currie stated. "We are very pleased to
have a representative with the wide experience
in both theatre equipment and theatre
operations that Donald Wilmoth has to
offer. Theatre owners and managers in the
Seattle-Portland exchange area will find him
a valuable source of help in selecting theatre
equipment and supply needs."
Wilmoth had been sales-service representative
for F. B. Shearer Co.. Seattle,
defunct distributor of theatre equipment.
Prior to this he had been senior manager
for two motion picture theatres in Louisiana
operated by Southern .'\musement Co.; sales
representative for Southeastern Theatre
Equipment Co., New Orleans; owner-operator
of the Elza Drive-In. Oakridge. Tenn..
and operator-projectionist for theatres maintained
by the Oakridge Recreation and Welfare
Ass'n.
In his new position with National Theatre
Supply. Wilmoth will be working closely
with Kenneth Friedman, NSS's Seattle
branch manager, at the consolidated NSS/
NTS branch office located at 2413 Second
Avenue, Seattle.
Cine-World to Operate
Tucson 4-Theatre Complex
TUCSON. ARIZ.—The quadplex theatre
developmeni announced for Monterey Village
Shopping Center b\ developer Evo De-
Concini will be under construction by July 1.
Each auditorium of the complex will seat
some 300 persons and completion is tentatively
scheduled for late October.
Once the building is completed. DeConcini
said, it will be leased to Cine-World of
Sioux City, Iowa, which will equip and
operate the theatres.
BOXOFFICE hme I. 1970 W-1

Hollywood Happenings
pOUR INCUMBENTS won rc-okvlion
ihe Writers Guild Council and five
opcninjis were filled al the annual membership
meeting held at the Beverlv Hilton
Hotel Ma\ 18. Current council members to
start another two-year term were Edward
Anhalt and Leonard Spigelass representing
the screen biiard and John Furia jr. and
David Harmon representing the televisionradio
board. New additions to the screen
board are l9hS Laurel .Vward winner Casey
Robinson and Stewart Stern and to the television-radio
bi>ard Danny Arnold. David
Friedkin and Richard Alan Simmons.
•
Harold Wicsenthal. head of the newly
formed Dick Ross & .Associates Releasing
Organization, returned to his New York
headquarters after a week of conferences
with Dick Ross in Hollywood.
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Kirk Douglas" independent company. Bryna
Productions, is now being called The
Bryna Co. They currently are shooting
"Summertree" for Columbia release, which
Anthony Newley is directing and Douglas
producing.
ALBUQUERQUE
paul Cornwall ol Oklahoma City. Western
divisonal manager for Video Theatres,
spent two days in town on a routine visit
to local operations . . . Max Evans, local
writer and film producer, has started production
on a 30-minuie documentary, ""The
Mountain,"" which he plans to sell to TV.
The film is being shot in the Sandia Moun-
of Albuquerque.
tains east
Vincent Barrcll Price, son of film actor
Vincent Price, resigned as an administrative
aide for the local Model Cities program.
He resigned after the program"s director,
Johji Cordova, was terminated.
Film-TV actors Bob Culp, Dean Jagger,
Slim Pickens. Edgar Buchanan. Steve Forrest
and Simon Oakland are currently in
town filming a fall episode of the "Name of
the Game" TV series. Production started
locally May 25 and continues for about ten
days.
Albuquerque Loew's Has
Solid Summer Lineup
ALBUQUERQUE— Albuquerque
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LoeWs
Theatre manager John Ciill reported that
he has several top films lined up for first-
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to research a series of articles he is
writing about the "new" HolKwood.
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Veteran actor Malt Clark, whose greatgrandfather
fought as a Union soldier in the
Civil War. will play a Contederale soldier
in Universal-Malpaso's suspense drama "Beguiled."
starring Clint Eastwood.
•
Phil Mishkin has been set by Jerome M.
Zeitman to script Playboy Prodiiclions"
"Aren"! You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goculbye'.'.""
feature film to be proJucctl this summer
in Chicago by Joseph Coniielh.
•
The 1970 KCET Auction, which started
May }\ and runs through Saturday (6). is
now well under way. It involves the entire
Southern California area and a large number
of WOMPIs are giving freely of their time.
Mrs. Steve Binder, celebrity auctioneer
chairman, and Lee Hanna, WOMPl community
service chairman, report that some
of the stars participating arc Ernest Borgnine.
Art Linkletter. James Coburn and
Diane Baker.
run bookings at the new house this simimer.
Loew"s is currently showing "The Boys
in the Band."" which opened a three-week
run May 27.
Opening Wednesday (17) for a fourweek
booking is the Academy Award-win
ning foreign film "Z." '"The Out-of-Towners""
opens a three-week stand July 15. to
be followed by "'The Cheyenne Social Club"
August 5.
Ciill said he expects 'The Cheyenne
Social Club"" to have an extensive local
run. since much of the exteriors of the
picture were shot near here and more than
300 New Mexico residents are featured in
extra and minor speaking parts in the
picture.
VIMS to Sponsor 'Darling
Lili' World Premiere
HOLLYWOOD — The .Southern California
chapter of VIMS. Volunteers in
Multiple Sclerosis, will sponsor the world
premiere of Paramount Pictures" "Darling
Lili,"' a Blake Edwards production starring
Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson, Tuesday
night (23) at the Pacific Cinerama Dome
Theatre in Hollywood.
A comedy-adventure with music. "Darling
Lili" involves Julie Andrews as England's
top entertainer of World War I, who is
secretly a German spy, and Rock Hudson as
the dashing American air ace she is ordered
to seduce.
"Darling Lili" was filmed in Panavision
and Technicolor in Hollywood and on locations
in Dublin, Brussels and Paris. The
70mm production features eight new songs
by the Academy Award-winning duo of
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
.
'Making It' Lensing
Starts June 29 in NM
Al UUgUI.RQUL 'M.ikmg ll," a
youth-oriented contemporary motion pictiue,
will be filmed in Albuquerque starting
Monday (29), according to associate
producer Ciary I-'rederickson.
Frederickson. who said the film will
have a budget of just under $1 ,()()(),()()0,
recently spent several days in Albuquerque
touring locations for the film. He was accompanied
by John I'rman, who will direct
ihc film for 2()th Century-Fox.
1 rederickst)n said the movie was based
on the James Lee iiosel "Wh.il Can You
Do'.'"' and added Ihal Ihc picliirc has not
been cast vet.
Universal Studios Signs
Actress Patty Duke
HOLLYWOOD — Acadcnn
Award winner
Patty Duke, an Emmy nominee this
year as Best Actress for her performance in
"World Premiere: 'My Sweet Charlie," " has
been signed by Universal Studios to an exclusive
contract covering motion pictures
and television, it was announced by Sid
Sheinberg, vice-president, MCA. Inc.. and in
charge of television production for the
studio.
Miss Duke also garnered a Golden Globe
for Best Actress and other critical acclaim
recently for her performance in the motion
picture "Me. Natalie."
Miss Duke gained public prominence in
1962 for her outstanding portrayal of the
blind and deaf Helen Keller as a child in
"The Miracle Worker," a performance which
earned her an Academy Award as Best
Supporting Actress in the role she had
created on Broadway. She followed this success
by starring in her own series, "The
Patty Duke Show," in which she played a
dual
role.
'Airport' Showing Aids
Kiwanis Youth Projects
ALBUQUERQUE—A benefit showing of
"Airport," with proceeds to charity, marked
the opening of the extended run of the
film at the Sunshine Theatre here Wednesday.
May 27. Manager Lino Cosimati made
arrangements with officials of the Albuquerque
Kiwanis Club to sponsor the opening.
Kiwanis Club members sold tickets for
the opening night, with proceeds going to
their various youth projects.
Money raised from the premiere goes
to help such Kiwanis projects as Little
League football and baseball, Boys and
Girls State, physically handicapped youngsters,
a visual aid program and a new drug
education program, all in ihj Albuquerque
area.
Kiwanis president Joe O'Connor said the
various club projects total some .$11,000
annually but the "Airport" benefit was not
expected to raise more than 25 per cent of
this amount.
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'A Man Called Horse' 210
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Dl-NVliR — A Man Called Horse"
earned solid 225s at the Cinderella and
Wcstland in its threc-thcatrc debut here but
reached only 180 at the North Valley, bringing
ihe composite opening week percentage
down to 210. Only "WoodsioLk." 2.'in in a
second week at the Century 21. and "Airport.
225 in a tenth at the Webber, were
.ible to surpass the "Horse" composite. Also
enjoying good business was "What Do You
Say to a Naked Lady?", which doubled average
at the Towne, and "Man and Wife."
also 200 in a fourth week at the Bluebird.
Aladdin— Potton (20th-Fox), 12th wk 150
Bluebird—Man and Wife (5R), 4th wk 200
Centre—M*A*S*H (20th-Fox), 8th wk 150
Century 21 Woodstock (WB), 2nd wk 250
Cherry Creek, Villo Italia A Walk in the Spring
Roin (Col), 3rd wk 85
Cinderella City, Westlond, North Valley A Man
Called Horse (NGP) 210
Continental— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 23rd wk. ..175
Cooper Point Your Wagon (Poro), 30th wk 150
Denham Anne of the Thousand Days (Univ),
6th wk 135
Denver Venus in Furs (AlP); De Sade (AlP) ... .100
Esquire—Z (SR), 6th wk 125
Paramount Bloody Mama (AlP), 2nd wk 100
Tnwne What Do You Soy to o Noked Lody?
(UA), 5th wk 200
Webber Airport (Univ), 10th wk 225
Mr. & Mrs. Sam Munch Buy
The Trade Winds Theatre
CARPINTFRIA, CALIF.—Sam C.
Munch and his wife Gaye have acquired
Carpinleria"s Trade Winds Theatre from
Vern Lindsay and are operating the movie
house on a seven-day-a-wcek policy. Munch
is in partnership with John Lecouix in olher
Southern California theatres and Lecouix
will continue to manage the Ritz in Escondido.
Munch will actively manage the Trade
Winds Theatre.
Munch said that he believes Carpinteria
should have a full-time movie house and
will book a solid prt)gram and carry il for
the full seven days.
Calif. Institute of Arts
Receives $50,000 Grant
U)S .XNCIlU.rS— A gil'l of S.'^O.OOO has
been made by ihe I'gmont H. Petersen
Foundation to the Calili>riiia Inslitute of the
Arts. The conlribulion. announced by Robert
W. Corrigan. president of the institute,
will go toward building the campus now
being conslructed for Ihe new community
of the arts in the city of Valencia, just north
of Los Angeles.
The F.gmont H. Petersen F-'oundalion was
established in 1920 in memory of the founder
of .Scandinavia's leading printing and
publishing house in Copenhagen, known as
Ihe Gulenburghus, which operates subsidiaries
in Norway, Sweden and Germany.
Its publications include a number of popular
weekly magazines, school texts, securities
and quality books. Since its formation, the
foundation has contribulcd 40.000.000 Danish
crowns ($5.4 million) to public service,
primarily in Denmark.
The Petersen gift of $50,000 advances
the development drive of California Institute
of the Arts for $54,000,000, which is to provide
a multi-winged complex of six schools,
underwrite the program through 1974 and
create an initial endowment for instruction
and scholarships. To date the campaign has
achieved belter than one-third of its goal.
The first two of four phases of construction
are scheduled for completion in 1971
and will furnish classroom, studio and performance
facilities for the Schools of Arts.
Design. Music. Theatre and Dance, Film
and Critical Studies and housing for 360
students.
The institute will open this October in
provisional quarters with a first-year enrollment
of 650 students currently being recruited.
At capacity, by 1973, the institute
will
accommodate 1,500 students.
'Everything About Sex'
Put in Film Version
HOLLYWOOD — Dr. David Reuben's
best-selling nonfiction book. "Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
But Were Afraid to Ask." will be produced
for the screen by Paramount Pictures and
Brodsky/Gould Productions, a joint venture
headed by producer Jack Brodsky and actor
Elliott Gould, according to Robert Evans,
Paramount senior vice-president in charge of
worldwide production.
Rather than being a "cinematic manual on
various sexual experiences," Brodsky and
Gould stated the film version of Dr. Reuben's
"candid guide to the facts of life" will
be "a dramatic treatment of Dr. Reuben's
experiences in researching the information
as well as dramatizations of certain passages."
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LOS ANGELES
Jules Gcrelick, general sales manager, Excelsior-Four
Star Productions, celebrated
his birthday last week . Wilson.
Chellee Films distributor, arrived from New
York to see Jack Sherriff of Goldstone
Films regarding product . . . Norman Newman,
head buyer. Metropolitan Theatres, is
vacationing in Honolulu.
Good news received from Don Farrar,
Pacific Drive-In booker-buyer for the Northwest
territory, reports that his wife is now
at home recuperating nicely from her recent
surgery.
Girls Friday of Showbusiness will hold a
gala Angel Ball at the Wilshire Hyatt House
Friday (5), with Greg Morris as emcee of
the charity affair.
Word Pennington resigned as West Coast
district manager for Crown International
to become a partner with Teddy Reisch in
Reisch Enterprises based in San Francisco.
Mary Hart of the Jacksonville Club and
WOMPI Internationa! president was in Hollywood
to confer with the local WOMPI
convention chairman Gertrude Gass and
president-elect Elena K. Vassar regarding
the international convention to be held this
year in Hollywood at the Ambassador Hotel
September 18-20.
Early Opening Is Planned
For Oceanside Twin Airer
OCEANSIDE. CALIF. — Opening soon
will be the first twin drive-in in San Diego
County, the new Valley West Drive-In and
the Valley East Drive-In. The airers are
located on Mission Avenue, Oceanside, onehalf
mile west of Mission San Luis Rey.
The twin facility, located on 20 acres in
the San Luis Rey Valley, will
be the largest
drive-in complex in the area. Each drive-in
will have a 55x1 10-foot screen and each
will show a different movie. Both drive-ins
will be served by a centrally located snack
bar building.
The projection booth will be fully equipped
with the newest and finest projection
and sound equipment available. It also will
be fully automated, a "first" for this area.
The Valley West Drive-In and the Valley
East Drive-In will provide the best in movie
entertainment and each will operate on a
first-run
double-feature policy.
New Fox, Manager Bowman
Saluted in Springfield
From New England Edition
SPRINGFIELD — The new National
General Corp. theatre on Boston Road and
manager Arthur Bowman were saluted in a
program starting the new year for the
Springfield Chamber of Commerce.
The program, which gave recognition to
the achievements of many area firms, colleges
and individuals, pointed out that the
new Fox Theatre here was the 30()th unit
to be operated by the National General
Corp.
NACs Western Conference, Seminar
To Feature Four Business Sessions
ANAHEIM, CALIF — The initial list of
speakers who will participate at the forthcoming
Western Regional Conference and
Seminar of the National Ass'n of Concessionaires
at the Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim,
Calif.. Wednesday through Friday (10-12)
has been released by Shelley Feldman and
Al Lapidus, conference co-chairmen, and
Harold F. Chesler, conference coordinator.
There will be three business sessions occupying
the morning and afternoon Thursday
(II) and a morning session Friday (12). following
8 a.m. registration of delegates.
Heading the list of speakers at the Thursday
morning session, handling the topic
"Facing Rising Costs," are: Duncan Shaw,
national product manager, institutional-industrial
division. Carnation Co., Los Angeles,
and Andrew S. Berwick jr.. Wright Popcorn
& Nut Co.. San Francisco, NAC first
vice-president.
New Food Concepts
Speakers at the Thursday afternoon session,
covering the topic "Facing New Concepts
of Food Preparation and Serving," are
Pete Patman, vice-president, Patman Meat
Co., and Robert A. Evers, vice-president.
B&l Service. ARA Services, both of Los
Angeles.
The second topic of the Thursday afternoon
session, "Facing the Need to Sell
More." will have as speakers Stanley M.
Veltman, president. Cable Car Caterers, San
Jose. Calif.; Barney Ross, manager, schools
and vending. Western region, Coca-Cola
U.S.A., Los Angeles and Shelley Feldman,
vice-president, Ogden Foods, also of Los
Angeles.
Speakers at the concluding session Friday
morning (12). handling the topic "Facing the
Need for Controls," are Joseph Pietroforte.
Sero Amusement Co.; William Nelson of the
law firm of Essay & Horwin, Los Angeles,
and Joe Kitts, Servomation Duchess, San
Bernardino. Calif.
Lefkowitz as Moderator
Julian Lefkowitz, NAC president, will
moderate one of the conference's sessions.
The highlight of the conference on Friday
will be a visit to Disneyland Park for a tour
of their unique food service facilities.
Several sponsored food functions will be
held. These include two breakfasts, a luncheon,
two cocktail receptions and a dinner.
.Among the sponsors to date are Coca-Cola
U.S.A.. Carnation Co.. Farmer Bros. Coffee,
Superior Tea & Coffee and Vogel Popcorn
Co. Others are now being firmed up.
Advance registrations at $10 per person,
which includes the food functions and receptions,
are now being received at NAC headquarters
at 201 North Wells St.. Chicago
60606. Delegates requiring rooms are urged
to send requests for reservations direct to
the Disneyland Hotel. Anaheim. Calif.
Names of other speakers at the conference,
the theme of which is "Will You
Know What You're Doing in the '70s," will
be announced soon. The conference will be
attended by NAC members and other lood
service-vending operators from the entire
Western region.
Members of the conference committee, in
Hassanein to Moderate
NATO of NJ Session
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK— United Artists Eastern
Theatres president Salah Hassanein will act
as -moderator at the film buying clinic which
will be held at the first business session of
the NATO of New Jersey convention. The
meeting is scheduled for June 22-25 at West
End, N.J.
Irving Dollinger. convention chairman,
reports that exhibitors from throughout the
state will be present for the event and NATO
addition to Feldman, Lapidus and Chesler.
arc: Andrew S. Berwick jr., Wright Popcorn
& Nut Co., San Francisco; M. A. Kohlbcrg,
ARASERV, Los Angeles; Stanley Lcfcourt.
Ogden Foods, Los Angeles, Dick Mahorick.
Servomation Duchess. LaMesa, Calif.; Joseph
Pietroforte, Sero Amusement Co., Los
Angeles; Maury Propper, Pacific Theatres,
Los Angeles; Barney Ross, Coca-Cola
U.S.A. and John W. Wilson. National General
Corp., Los Angeles.
of New Jersey president Howard Herman is
working with Nicholas Schermerhorn in arranging
a motion picture preview at a West
End theatre.
MGMs "My Lover,
My Son" was produced
by Wilbur Stark and directed by John
Newland.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Cunini,> SiescI, American International Pictures
publicist, returned from the Variety
Clubs International convention only
to turn right around and hop a plane to
Seattle and Portland to set up the openings
of "Bloody Mama."
Four generations of the Levin family
gathered together at the reopening of their
theatre on West Portal Avenue, now called
the Empire Cinema. The "steering" committee,
headed by Al Camilio, Wally Levin,
Arnold Lavagetto and .Steve Levin, did an
impressive job on the opening festivities,
which included the attendance of numerous
San Francisco city supervisors. Models from
Patricia Stevens" school, under the direction
of Darl Pavlak, distributed champagne and
cake to the guests, amongst whom were
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preview attraction on the screen was "One
More Time." Outside the theatre, Jamn, a
rock band, played and a doorman in tails
and tuxedo opened the doors of automobiles
that drove up to the theatre. The guests
stepped onto a red carpet rolled out onto
the sidewalk from the theatre lobby. Master
of ceremonies for the evening was Dave
Niles. On opening day. a mock cable car
drove around town with models who passed
out "goodies" to all the people. The theatre's
opening attraction was "Let It Be."
with The Beatles. The theatre is managed
by Harvey Anderson, who can be proud
of the new marquee and completely redone
interior of the house.
Jim Cullen, 20th Century-Fox publicist
here, is back on his feet at the office and
had the "brass" up from the studio May 21
for the first preview of "Myra Breckinridge"
at the Fox Warfield Theatre, which is managed
by Jack Lucy . . . Stewart Engebretson.
MG.M division manager, returned from a
trip to Seattle and Portland, where he conferred
with exhibitors on upcoming summer
product . . . Mickey Carney, booker at
MGM, is off vacationing for a couple of
weeks.
MGM previewed the new Peter OTooIc
film "Brotherly Love" for approximatclv
200 local psychologists and psychiatrists al
the Regency Theatre Thursday. May 21. The
Regency is managed by Les Lewis . . . Norman
Dorn, who writes for the Sunday section
of the Examiner, is the publicist for the
Women of Variety, who are sponsoring the
second annual Flower Fair Friday through
Sunday (5-7) at the Hall of Flowers in
Golden Gate Park. For more information,
as well as tickets, contract Paula Grubstick.
Bob Broadbent, formerly at
the Orpheum
here and now in Los Angeles, was seen attending
the theatre managers symposium
held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel last month.
Stars Ja.son Robards and Katharine Ross,
. .
in town filming "Fools," managed to get
away from their busy schedule to say a few
words to those attending . Tom Toumajan
and Tony Cuneo have joined the Jack
Wodell firm as account executives and will
be handling various phases of publicity and
promotion for the firm. Tom recently handled
the first part of Jacqueline Bisset's
stopover here on her seven-city tour in conjunction
with National General Pictures'
"The Grasshopper."
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Lipperi Twin Opens;
Inimitably Luxurious
SAN PABI.O, CALIF.— Lippcii Theatres-
Cinema 1 and 2 in the El Portal Shopping
Center here opened to the public in early
May, bringing the entertainment level in
West Contra Costa County to a new high
in interest and quality.
Offering the very best in cinematic artistry,
each auditorium accommodates 400 persons.
To assure dignity and hours of topflight
film entertainment, juveniles under
18 will not be permitted to enter either
theatre after 6 p.m., unless they are accompanied
by a parent.
The decor of Cinema I is done in a
warm red, while the companion Cinema 2
offers the interesting decorative contrast of
deep blue with lively green highlights.
Doors open at 6:45 p.m., shows start at
7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday showings
are continuous from 1 p.m.
Managing the twin unit is Fonzie Parrish,
well-known throughout Contra Costa
County. Parrish brings to the San Pablo
facility many years of theatre experience.
and through his knowledge intends to make
the showplace an outstanding entertainment
attraction for the entire area.
Cinema Amusement Buys
3 Upstate NY Theatres
From Eastern Edition
MIDDLEBURG, N.Y. — Cinema
Amusement Corp. of Amsterdam has announced
the acquisition of three film
theatres in upstate New York. The firm currently
operates the Rialto Theatre in Amsterdam
and the Valley Theatre in Middleburg.
It
has acquired, under a lease from Realty
Equities Corp. of New York, the Rialto
Theatre in Little Falls, the Forum Theatre in
Hamilton and the Community Theatre in
Hudson.
The firm leased the Valley Theatre in
Middleburg last August from owner Edgar
Bush.
Holdup Man Is Sentenced
DENVER—Louis Archuleta was convicted
by a jury in district court of having
held up the Oriental Theatre and taking $90.
He was sentenced to serve eight to 15 years
in the state penitentiary. Alertness of the
cashi.er and of manager Eric Wingate was
responsible for getting the license number
of the suspect's car and he was arrested
within minutes at his apartment.
Dunbar in Political Race
DENVER—Duke W. Dunbar, formerly
secretary of the old Film Board of Trade
and who has held state elective office longer
than any other state official, has announced
that he will again be a candidate for Colorado
attorney general, an office he has held
since his first election in 1950. In 1966. he
led his ticket (Republican) by 385,693. Dunbar
is 75.
Boulder s First Twin Outdoor Units
Placed in Operation by Highland
BOULDER, COLO.—Highland Theatres
celebrated the grand opening of the new
Twin Holiday Drive-ln here in late May.
This is the first twin drive-in operation in
the immediate area. The Holiday I has a
550-car capacity, while the Holiday 2 will
accommodate 400 cars.
The new theatre complex is ultramodern
in every respect and features twin, kingsize
widescreens, dual sound systems, an
air-conditioned twin concession area and
electric in-car heaters for year-rotmd operation.
The booth is automated by EPRAD.
Bruce Archer, Boulder city manager for
Highland Theatres, arranged for free balloons
for the youngsters as well as special
favors for the adults. Free prizes were
awarded to the holders of "lucky" balloons
and to drivers of cars with lucky license
plates. A special display of Triumph motorcycles
was tied-in with Holiday 1, which
opened with "Easy Rider," while Holiday
2 opened with a John Wayne triple-bill
program.
This is the 12th and 13th drive-in units
to be operated by Highland Theatres in
the Denver exchange area in addition to
their six conventional theatres.
Highland Next Piroject
Will Be Indoor Twin
BOULDER, COLO.—Russ Berry, general
manager of Highland Theatres, has announced
the immediate construction of a
twin auditorium theatre to be located in the
DENVER
Tack Box, Universal branch manager, and
his wife traveled to Oklahoma City
over the Memorial Day weekend to attend
the wedding of their son Michael, who was
married to Miss Margaret Tener. The ceremony
took place at St. Francis of Assissi
Church in Oklahoma City. Michael Box is
with Shell Oil Co., stationed in St. Louis,
while the new bride has just received her
degree with a major in education.
Jules Needelnian was in town calling on
accounts in behalf of his Tower Films . . .
Jack Micheletti of Favorite Films of California
traveled to Los Angeles for sales
meetings . . . State Rep. Harold McCormick.
who operates the McCormick Theatres in
Canon City, has announced that he will seek
a fifth term in the State House of Representatives
this fall. McCormick has been
serving as chairman of the legislature's Natural
Resources and the Executive Water
committees.
Members of the Denver Motion Picture
Bowling League have ended their season.
Honors went to the "Tom and Jerrys" team
comprised of Bates Farley of MGM. Linda
Lane of Paramount. Jerry Smith of National
General and Edna Tow of United Artists.
High average honors for the men went
Base-Mar Shopping Center in the University
of Colorado campus area in Boulder. The
mw facility will he known as Cinema I and
Cinema 2 and will be ready in mid-Augu.st.
Arrangements were made with Van Schaack
&. Co. of Denver, a realty concern which
manages the shopping center.
The new theatre will be of the sideby-side
type, with a common lobby and
entrance, de luxe loge seating and the finest
furnishings available, as well as electronic
air-conditioning and heating. The twin auditoriums
will accommodate 400 patrons on
one side and 275 on the other. There will
be a completely automated booth which will
service both screens.
Berry also announced that upon opening
the new Cinema 1 and 2, Highland then will
close its 1.200-seat Flatirons Theatre, located
on the campus of the University of
Colorado, for a complete rebuilding. The
Flatirons will be completely gutted and rebuilt
into a twin auditorium theatre featuring
approximately 500 seats in each theatre.
Highland Theatres, which also operates
the newly opened Village Theatre, along
with the recently opened Holiday 1 and 2
and Motorena Drive-In in Boulder, will be
in the position of having five indoor screens
and three outdoor screens in the area of
the University of Colorado, which has an
approximate enrollment of 25.000 students,
with all projections pointing to an increase
in the student enrollment in the years to
come.
lofty
to Gene Vitale of Warner Bros., with a
174, and high average honors for the women
went to Bobbie Gallagher with a hefty 168.
Individual high game went to Bates Farley
with a 246, while Edna Tow led the women
by rolling a 232. High game series honors
went to Gene Vitale with a 651, while Bobby
Gallagher led the women with an amazing
600 series. Second place in the team
standings went to "The Stretchers." followed
by "The Daffys," "The Caspers," "The Road
Runners." "The Wild Bunch," "The .-Kardvarks,"
"The Pink Panthers" and "The Mc-
Goos," while the "Chuck-a-Lucks" managed
to
hold down the tenth position.
Visitors to the exchanges were Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Catlin, Plains Drive-In, Sidney,
Neb.; Michael Trent, Pines Theatre, Manassa;
Howard Campbell, Westland Theatres,
Colorado Springs; R. L. Stanger, Lake Estes
Drive-In, Estes Park; Don Swales, Wheeler
Opera House. .-Xspen, and Paul Allmeyer,
El Grande Theatre, Granby.
Casto to Powell Enterprises
From Eastern Edition
HUNTINGTON. W. VA.—Jim Casto of
Pikeville has joined Powell Enterprises, motion
picture exhibitors operating five theatres
in four Kentucky communities, as advertising
manager and public relations director.
Powell Enterprises' general manager is Ernie
Powell of Pikesville.
BOXOFFICE June 1970 W-7

SEATTLE
The ,Mo\ic lluii.sc, ;i new theatre, opened
uiih "In.idmissable Kvidcnce" in the
University district. The theatre is owned by
Jim Hatfield. Randy Finley and Jim Klein.
Il seats 74 and a coffee house soon will be
added . . . John O'l.eary and Connie Carpoii
of Avco Embassy Pictures were in town
from -San Francisco seeing exhibitors and
showing their product reel at the Jewel Box
May 20. Following the product reel, they
screened "Rider on the Rain, " which opened
May 27 at the United Artists Cinema 150.
Jim Si'lvidge screened "I Am Curious
(Blue)" for the media in the afternoon May
20. prior to the film's opening to the public
that night . . United Artists screened "One
.
More Time" May 21. The picture opened
May 27 at the .Seattle 7lh .Avenue . . .
.American International Pictures screened
"The Losers" May 22 at the Jewel Box.
"The Losers", is set to open in a number of
situations Wednesday (10).
Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sterling Recreation
Organization sneaked "The Magic
Garden of Stanley Sweetheart" at the Uptown
May 2i. The film opened in the same
theatre \iay 27.
Al Boodman, Columbia Pictures branch
manager, and his wife Caroline returned
from their trip to Los Angeles and the wedding
of their son. Boodman also did some
business while on the visit . . . Buena Vista
screened "Boatniks" at the Jewel Box for
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showings from 1:J0 p.m. daily, with a
special children's price of 75 cents.
"Rebel Rouscrs" had .i first-run showing
111 ihc Sno-king and Duwaniish drive-ins
May 20 and "Ice Station Zebra" went into
Unitcd's Southcenter hardtop, as well as in
their Aurora and New Midway drive-ins . . .
The Harvard Exit brought back Errol Flynn
in "C.iptaiii Blood" and paired il with James
Cagnev and George Rail
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in "Each Dawn 1
Die."
Sterling Recreation Organi/atlon, KJK
radio and Kerns Music joined together to
present a '"batlle of the bands" live on the
stage of the Seattle 7th Avenue Saturday.
May 2.1. at 10 a.m. Four bands participated,
plus the "Chinook" and "Myn's Eye," which
put on a stageshow nightly three times during
the run of the new Beatles' film "Let It
Be." The winning hand was awarded an audition.
"Airport" at the Renton Village Cinema 1
and "M''.A*S''H" at the Coliseum continued
to pack them in. along with ""Fellini Satyricon"
at the United Artists Cinema 70.
Vincent Price. actor-author-lct;turer-collector,
will host the Variety Club-KIRO
Grand Festival of the Arts at the Seattle
Center Exhibition Hall Friday through Sunday
(12-14). The festival will feature outstanding
artists, collections of fine art. floral
displays by the Washington State Florists
.Ass'n and culinary expertise by the Northwest
Chefs Ass'n. This is Variety's major
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event will go directly to Norlhwesl children's
thariiies.
Memorial Day holiday week openings
were "1 lie Boys in the Band" at the Blue
Mouse and "Bloody Mama" in a number
of situations throughout the Greater Seattle
area.
Sundance Drive-In Debut
Delayed by Bad Weather
SUNDANCE. WYO.—Construction of a
drive-in in Sundance was started in mid-
April by 1 red D. Tschclter. Sundance, anil
Gerald Bullard, Upton, partners. Opening
of the ozoner originally was planned for
early June but early phases of the building
were delayed by inclement weather.
Located just outside the city limits on
the north side of Highway 585, the drive-in
will feature a CinemaScope screen and will
have 120 speakers. The sound system and
projectors were installed by Bullard.
Tschetter said he and Bullard, owner of
the Upton Drive-ln, formed a corporation,
Sundance Theatres, Inc., to operate the
airer.
Expansion Move Planned
By Shea Theatre Corp.
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Gerald J. Shea, president
of Shea Theatre Corp., announces that contracts
have been signed for three new theatres,
two of them in shopping centers. In
the New Philadelphia-Dover, Ohio. area, the
Shea Cinema presently is under construction
in the Nichols Shopping Center and will be
ready for operation July 1.
In Saybrook Township, located four miles
west of Ashtabula, Ohio, the new theatre
will be located in the Nichols Shopping Center.
Ground was broken Friday (15), with an
anticipated opening date of October 1.
The third theatre, located in Conneaut,
Ohio, will be a complete modernization of
the State Theatre in that city. It is expected
that this theatre will he ready to open
October 1.
"The Kremlin Letter." espionage thriller,
set a first-week record for a 20th Century-
Fox film at the Boston TTieatre, Helsinki,
Finland.
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BRANSON, MO.—The Owen Theatre,
owned by the Dickinson Operating Co., is
undergoing renovations. The rustic-type
Workmen touch up the
front of the
rustic Owens Theatre, Branson, Mo.,
which dates from 1932.
theatre located in the Shepherd of the Hills
country, was built in 1932 by Ji-m Owen
with labor at ten cents an hour.
Laurence Barney, who took over the management
of the theatre in April, said installations
will include new projectors and a wide
screen with an automatic screen curtnin.
The seats will be re-covered and the floor
painted. Also new rugs and new lights will
be installed.
The Branson Beacon, local newspaper, in
its issue of May 7, commended Barney
for his efforts in brightening up the theatre
and playing films suitable for family audiences.
X-Rated Movie Canceled
After Minister's Protest
CLAY CENTER, KAS.—A minister's
complaint against the X-rated "The Babysitter"
caused cancellation of the film at the
Rex Theatre here recently. It was replaced
by "The Undefeated," an action-western
movie rated G,
The Rev. M. L. Alderson, pastor of Clay
County Assembly of God Church, filed a
complaint against "The Babysitter" with
County Atty. Bruce Wingerd. He alleged the
film had "no redeeming social value" and
displayed "nude seduction, brutal slaying.
lesbianism, smoking of marijuana and a portrayal
of the language and vices that accompany
such immoral acts."
Wingerd took no official action on the
complaint after Mr. and Mrs. Ken Ehret.
theatre owners, voluntarily withdrew the
film.
Members of the Clay Center Ministerial
Union unanimously expressed their opposition
to the movie and requested the Ehrets
not to show X-rated films in Clay Center.
Lee ARTOE REFLECTORS
In a letter to the theatre owners, the ministers
said
they realized they were not personally
responsible for the production of the
film but fell they "had responsibility to the
community to select and screen films which
will add something of value to the lives of
its
people."
In a newspaper advertisement announcing
the film's withdrawal, the theatre said anyone
wishing to view "The Babysitter" could
do so in the near future at a Junction City
drive-in. Referring lo the G-rated replacement
movie, the preview of which showed
bloody gun battles and prisoners being
mowed down by firing squads, the ad continued:
"If you have doubt as to the quality
of the movie or whether it has anything
wholesome to contribute to the lives of the
people of our community, come see the
movie and make your own decision— which
should be your own right."
'Airport' Again No. 1
With 500 KC Tenth
KANSAS CITY — "Airport" regained sole
possession of the No. 1 spot on Kansas City
first-run grossing charts with a 500 tenth
week at the Midland. "M*A*S*H," the preceding
week's co-leader at 550 with ".'Kirport."
slipped to 400 in its three-theatre engagement
and was passed by "What Do You
Say to a Naked Lady?". 425 in a second
rollicking week at the Plaza. "Woodstock"
tied "M*A*S''H" with a 400 fourth frame
at the Roxy.
I
(Average Is 100)
Antioch, Metcalf, Empire 2, Uptown Borquero
(UA) 75
Brookside Women in Love (UA), 3rd wk 260
Eight theatres The Forbin Project (Univ) 90
Embassy II A Wolk in the Spring Rain (Col),
3rd wk i50
Empire 1 Potton (20th-Fox), 1 2th wk 175
Empire 3 The Adventurers (Para), 9th wk 100
Fine Arts—Z (SR) 7th wk 225
Glenwood Mr. Chips (MGM), 23rd wk. 120
Glenwood II Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 23rd wk. 200
Kimo Fuego (SR), 2nd wk 100
Metro 3, Parkway One, Towne 1 M'A*S*H
(20th-Fox), 9th wk 400
Midland Airport (Univ), lOth wk 500
Plaza What Do You Say to o Naked Lody?
(UA), 2nd wk 425
Roxy Woodstock (WB), 4th wk 400
Towne 2 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Col),
22nd wk 120
Towne 4 Brotherly Love (MGM) 75
Twelve Theatres Day of Anger (NGP) 125
Geo. Hutcheon Appointed
WB Chicago Branch Chief
CHICAGO—George D. 'Scotty" Hutcheon
has been promoted to branch manager
of Warner Bros." Chicago office, it was
announced by Leo Greenfield, the company's
vice-president and general sales
manager.
Greenfield pointed out that Hutcheon's
promotion follows the Warner Brt>s. policy
"of affording greater opportunities to
members of its distribution organization as
we move to increase the vitality and
efficiency of our operations at all levels."
Hutcheon, whose new appointment is
effective immediately, succeeds Murray
Devaney, resigned. Hutcheon has been
salesman-office manager in the Chicago
branch and previously served in Warner
Bros, branches in Philadelphia and Salt
Lake City.
AM-CI Testing Lower
Prices in Si. Joseph
ST. JOSEPH, MO.- American Multi-
Cinema announced admission price reductions
for Hillcrest 4 Theatres here May
1. St. Joseph will be a test market for an
experiment, according to Stanley Durwood,
AM-CI president.
"If the people of St. Joseph respond and
the lower price is successful, this policy
will be adopted in other situations across
the country where American Multi-Cinema
is operating," he said.
Noting the rise in the cost of living,
Durwood said, "We should not only do
everything we can to hold back our prices
but to roll them back to keep motion picture
entertainment within the price range of the
family pocketbook."
Everett T. Hughes, district supervisor,
listed the reductions as follows: Adults, from
.$1.75 to $1.25: students with AM-CI cards,
from $1.25 to 90 cents: children under 12,
from 75 cents to 50 cents, and twilite hour,
from 90 cents to 75 cents.
Reopen Stanberry Theatre
.STANBERRY, MO. — The Stanberry
Theatre, formerly the Moderne, reopened
here May 8 under the ownership and
management of Rex Eckard. The movie
house has been remodeled, redecorated and
new seats installed and the exterior of the
building has undergone a repainting.
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Universal here, died Sunday. May 24, at
Research Medical Center. Ta\lor was a veteran
of World War I with the British army
and served during World War 11 with the
U.S. forces. He was a member of the Molion
Picture Ass'n of Greater Kansas City.
Lorena Cockman, National Screen Service
cashier, is on a three-week vacation, making
a sight-seeing drive through Nebraska,
Idaho. Oregon. California. Arizona. Mexico
and Texas and visiting relatives along the
way.
A farewell dinner party was held May
25 at Heritage Hills clubhouse for Dick
Conley, who is leaving the NGC Theatre
Corp. District managers and office employees
from the Kansas City office attended.
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Joe Ruddick and J. O. Martin also were in
town for the occasion . Henderson.
Commonwealth Theatres secretary, and
Evelyn Stein, Buena Vista secretary, went
to Manhattan. Kas., for a baseball game.
Bill Byrne, MOM division manager in St.
Louis, was here Tuesday, May 26, to meet
with exhibitors and confer with John Shipp.
local sales manager . . . Mary Jane and Bill
Silver, Motion Picture Booking Agency,
spent Memorial Day weekend swimming and
water skiing at Lake Viking . . . Bud Truog.
United Artists city salesman, spent the week
in Texas on vacation.
Don Walker, WB exploiteer. said that
his Crag O'Lea resort opened for the season
two miles north of Pineville . . . Paramount
will screen "Tropic of Cancer"
Wednesday (3) at the Commonwealth
screening room at 1:30 p.m. . . . Al Stout,
Paramount branch manager, will be in
Springfield Thursday (4) for the opening of
National General's new Century 21 Theatre.
Visiting here from Portland, Ore., were
the parents of Chuc Barnes. United Motion
Picture Ass'n executive secretary . . The
.
Motion Picture Ass'n of Greater Kansas City
meeting, which was scheduled for May 26,
was postponed and a new date will be announced
. . . Fred Souttar, Commonwealth
TTieatres, and his wife Shirley were in St.
Louis the weekend before Memorial Day.
Souttar's mother-in-law Mrs. Kaysing, who
lives there, was celebrating her 88th birthday.
Exhibitors on the Row included: From
Missouri— Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilcox. Gallatin;
Mrs. Herschel Alldredge, California;
Shelby Armstrong. Milan; Bob Buscher, Excelsior
Springs; C. H. Hickman. Eldorado
Springs, and from Kansas— Dennis Montee.
Hutchinson . . . Debbie Wachter, 20th-Fox
assistant cashier, was in Jefferson City over
the holiday weekend to visit her grandmother.
She also spent some time in the
Lake of the Ozarks region.
Condolences to Donna Jones, Columbia
branch manager's secretary, on the death
of her grandmother.
Bev Miller, Mercury Films, was in Des
Moines calling on exhibitors . Becky
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Linneman, Paramount branch manager's
secretary, spent the long weekend water skiing
at Table Rock.
Citizens' Group Seeks
A Way to Reopen Theatre
RICHFIELD. UTAH—A group of citizens
has met with the city council to discuss
the closing of the Huish Theatre and
to discuss the possibilities of reopening the
movie house. Verl Langston, spokesman
for the group, indicated an interest in finding
a solution for reopening the Huish. The
theatre has not operated since March 28.
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daughter of .Susan and J,ii.k Sclial/ of New
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prospects in northern Minnesota are when
he returns next week.
Wally Heini, Midwest adverlisiiig aiul
publicity director for United .Ariisis. hosted
an advance screening of "One More Time"
at the Woods Theatre. Helm alsii has been
occupied with the early lune openings of
"The Hawaiians" at the U.A Cinema 150
and the Edens 2. Charlton Hesion and Tina
Chen arc due in to assist in exploitation activities
. Artists" "let It Be" is
one of the outstanding boxoffice draws in
the current film programing.
Condolences lo the family ot
Milton Reingold,
who died suddenly from a heart attack.
He was the owner of the 400, the
Adelphi and Devon theatres.
Advance information from ABC-Great
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the Loop has booked John Wayne's "Chisum"
for July opening . 3,000
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Following this stunt, a midnight screening
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Womelco Will Build
Twin in St. Croix
MIAMI—Wometco Enterprises will open
the first theatre built on the island of St.
Croix November 10, it was announced here
at the circuit's headquarters.
The new theatre, an indoor twin, is being
built in the Sunny Isles Shopping Center,
largest in the Virgin Islands.
According to Walter Senior, vice-president
and general manager in charge of
Wometco's Puerto Rican circuit (Wometco
Commonwealth Corp.). the twin will be
called the Wometco Sunny Isles. The dualers
will have two auditoriums, share a common
lobby, cashier's desk and concessions area.
Xenon lighting, designed to provide a steadier
and brighter picture, will be utilized by
the latest-style projection equipment in each
section. Each auditorium will have spacious
seats, full stereophonic sound system and
individual zone-controlled, no-draft air conditioning
system. Total seating capacity will
be 800. Conventional, art and roadshow
films are to be booked.
The Sunny Isles represents the circuit's
first expansion to St. Croix and the Virgin
Islands but further expansion is planned,
according to Senior. In recent years,
Wometco has expanded its Florida theatre
operations to the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and
Alaska. Wometco currently operates 70
theatres.
A. Herbert Mathes. AIA, Miami, one of
the country's foremost theatre designers,
together with Frank Blaydon, AIA, St.
Croix, is the architect for the Sunny Isles
duo.
Miami Beach Summer Fun
Shows Starting June 17
MIAMI—Summertime fun starts Wednesday
(17) when Florida States' Sheridan at
Miami Beach again brings its fabulous annual
summertime fun shows to area youngsters.
A series of 1 1 weekly programs has
been booked, each of the shows in the series
to be shown on Wednesday morning.
The double feature programs have been
selected for thrills, science-fiction, adventure
and laughs and will be supplemented
each week with a color cartoon, "reels o'
fun," valuable prizes for stage activities and
many other surprises.
Starting the series will be the combination
of "My Side of the Mountain" and "Terror
in the Jungle."
Youngsters of all ages and sizes have enjoyed
the summertime fun shows in past
years and reported that the Wednesday
morning programs were a "must" each week
during vacation months.
Century Earnings Rise
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Leslie R. Schwartz, president
of Century Circuit, Inc., has announced
that earnings for the six months
ended Feb. 28, 1970. were $166,517, compared
with $94,778 for the same six months
last year. Earnings per share were 52 cents,
compared to 24 cents a year ago.
BOXOFFICE :: June 1, 1970
Opens DeKalb
Georgia Theatre Co.
Twins; John Stembler Jr. Manager
ATLANT.'\—Georgia Theatre Co. held
the grand opening of its twin cinemas in
the South DeKalb Mall May 20 and during
the first week gave free admission tickets
to twins who appeared dressed identically.
The South DeKalb units are the first dual
theatres to have Ultra-Vision sound and
projection equipment and curved screens.
Named South DeKalb I and South DeKalb
II. the auditoriums seat 1.100 patrons, each
unit equipped with 550 luxurious, rockingchair
type of seats.
Opening attractions were Walt Disney's
filmization of Jules Verne's "In Search of
the Castaways" and Columbia's "Cactus
Flower."
John H. Stembler sr., president of the
circuit, said these twin theatres represented
"one of the most expensive projects this
company has ever undertaken."
"It is the policy of Georgia Theatre Co.,"
Stembler added, "to build each theatre in a
shopping center with individual architects,
designers and decorators. No two of the
many theatre buildings we have constructed
in the past ten years are alike. All of these
houses have been designed to complement
the decor of the malls and are entirely different
in structure."
Stevens and Wilkins, Architects, designed
the South DeKalb twin cinemas, and Dinah
Stonis, specialist in design and decoration,
selected a color scheme blending red, white
and black. A new type of flooring, imported
troni Italy, has been used where the theatre
traffic will be heaviest, the first time Atlanta
has seen this special design selected
from Pirelli.
Batson Cook Co., builder in charge of the
entire shopping center, did the construction
work.
Charlie
Fortson of Wil-Kin Theatre Supply
supervised installation of the Ultra-Vision
projection and sound system, the second
such installation in a GTC theatre. Ultra-
Vision employs a curved screen which insures
an in-focus view from every rockingchair
seat in the house. This seating, by
Heywood-Wakefield, enables the two new
GTC units to carry out the circuit's theme of
being "The Rocking-Chair Theatre Circuit."
Two entrances provide access to the twins,
one directly from the center of the mall,
the other from the shopping center parking
lot.
John Stembler jr., who has been associated
with the circuit in various capacities, is
manager of the twins and Don Blackburn is
his assistant.
GTC owns and operates 1 1 conventional
theatres and nine drive-in situations in this
metropolitan area. The 650-seat Lenox
Square I is the company's flagship and last
year Lenox Square II, a 300-seater, was
added as its companion. The most recent
addition to the circuit was the 800-seat
Gadsden, Ala.. Cinema.
More Than hOOO Entries Are Judged
For Finals of Atlanta's Festival
ATLANTA — Prejudging screenings of
more than 1,000 entries in the third annual
Atlanta International Film Festival were
held in all categories following the closing
of the entry list Friday, May 15. Dates of
this year's festival are June 22-27, the Regency
Hyatt House serving as headquarters.
Festival Week screenings, however, are to
be in the 1.900-seat Symphony Hall in the
Memorial .Arts Center, showings for awardwinning
films scheduled at 4, 6, 8 and
10 p.m. daily. Finalists were to he notified
Tuesday (2).
Entries are competing for the following
awards: Golden Phoenix (Grand Award,
best of festival: Silver Phoenix (best film in
each category); gold, silver and bronze
medals (best film in each sub-category):
Golden Dove (best film dealing with, or
contributing to, world peace): Eastern Ionosphere
.Award (best international film dealing
with flight); Regency Hyatt House
Award (best film by a Southern U.S. .A. producer,
any category); Forward Atlanta
Award (best film by an Atlanta producer,
any categoiy).
New categories in the 1970 competition
include documentaries—in-house productions;
ecology and conservation, fund raising
and recruiting; television commercials
political and international. Addition of these
categories to those of preceding festivals
held here brings the 1970 list to 36.
Major theatrical companies entering
product this year include Warner Bros..
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal Pictures.
Several feature films are to have their
world premieres during the festival; several
evenings are set aside to honor productions
film abroad.
Members of the
board of advisors of the
festival include these industry notables:
Elmer Bernstein. O. H. Coelin, Andre de la
Varre, Louis de Rochemont III. Morton
Goldsholl, Lenore Hershey, Samuel C.
Johns, Herbert A. Lightman. Sheldon
Leonard. Samuel Magdoff. E. D. Martin,
P. J. Mooney. Judd L. Pollock, Carol Ragsdale.
Spyros P. Skouras. Liz Smith. Frederick
G. Storey. David Wolper, Allen Zwerdling
and Glenn Ireton.
There will be a special jury award for
notable achievement in an area of unusual
note. To encourage student filmmakers, the
festival has waived all entry fees in this
category; the Interfilm Award for the best
student film in any category will include a
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ATLANTA
Priih Scjjal, .lulhor ot ihc siicccsslul (No. I
on some hesi-sellcr lists) novel, "Love
Siory." came in lo promote sales of his hook
and get in a few licks for Paramoiint's
filmization. which stars Ali MacGraw and is
scheduled for release later this year. He was
en route to Hollywood to view rough cuts of
Ihc picture, taking time out as an associate
professor of the classics and comparative
literature at ^ale University. .Mthoiigh
"Love Stor>" is his first novel, it isn't his
first as.sociation with moviemaking. He revealed
that leachmg takes up 65 per cent of
hLs time but he devotes 20 per cent of the
remainder to writing, some of it for motion
pictures. He helped the Beatles put the finishing
touches on their animated picture.
"The Yellow Submarine." and wrote the
screenplay for 20th Century-Fox's "The
Games." The latter brought Segal. .12. to the
attention of producer-director Stanley Kramer,
who hired him for two films. The first.
"R.P.M.*", stars Anthony Quinn and was
shot in California.
A native of Brooklyn, Segal was graduated
from Harvard University in 1958 and
was chosen class poet and Latin salutatorian.
the only occasion in Harvard's long history
when one man received both honors. Har-
Febru-
per & Row published "Love Story" in
ary and it started hitting the best-seller lists
almost immediately. It was condensed in the
February Ladies Home Journal, made an
alternate selection of the Literary Guild and
will be published next year by the New
.American Library as a paperback. Although
he appears rather frail, Segal actually is in
good physical condition, thanks to his commitment
to a daily ten-mile run wherever he
may be. Just as he has done in the past
seven or eight years, he participated in the
Boston Marathon this year and completed
the 26-mile plus run.
.Another Atlanta visitor was Frank M.
Murphy of Cleveland, Ohio, now publicity
chaimian of the National Ass'n of Public
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been quite happy in the exposition field,
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Obviously his NAPFM associates value his
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and treasurer at the convention at the Marriott
Motor Hotel. Incidentally more than
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home and flower shows each year.
Michael Parver, National (icneral's
Southeastern representative, moved about
during May. He started May 8 by hosting
Corinna Tsopci, co-star with Richard Harris
in "A Man Called Horse." and Clyde Dollar,
a non-Indian historian of the Dakota Sioux
tribe and technical director of "Horse." The
two visitors met the news media here, taped
TV and radio interviews and took part in
other promotional activity. Parver flew with
them to New Orleans for a similar round of
action, then returned to Atlanta to set up
the May 20 sales seminar conducted by
Herman Kass, vice-president in charge of
National General's advertising and publicity,
and Bernie Korbin. director of exploitation.
Also on hand for this event in the Atlanta
Cabana Motel's Industry East and West
rooms, were Cinema Center Films' national
advertising and publicity director and Gordon
Weaver, national promotion director
for the company, whose pictures are released
by NGP. May 21 Parver picked up
Jacqueline Bisset, star of "The Grasshopper."
at the Atlanta airport and repeated the
publicity-promotion routine.
Production Starting Soon
On Two Films in Georgia
ATLANTA—Wilmac International Productions
is preparing to start shooting its
first feature film. "J.C". on or about Monday
(15), according to William F. McGaha.
who will produce and direct the film.
Location shooting will be centered around
Norcross. a small town near here, and the
studio sequences will he shot in Storer
Studios in .Atlanta. Robert M. Storer, president
of the studios, has been assigned as
director of photography.
McGaha is assembling a cast and is negotiating
with five Hollywood name actors for
top roles in the film, in which he will double
as star in the title role. The other 17 feature
parts will be cast on the eastern seaboard
from here to New York.
McGaha. who has had experience in all
phases of moviemaking during a five-year
stay in Hollywood, is co-author with Joe
Thirty of the playscript of the film. The
story line centers around a rural Southern
town and the central characters are a
sheriff, a deputy, various small towners and
an integrated hippie motorcycle peace group
led by "J.C." Since the picture is very much
south-oriented, lock music will be featured
in the score.
.Another picture with a motorcycle gang
theme will soon be in production in Georgia,
this to be produced by Jack Vaughan, president
of Jack Vaugh.in Prouuclions. and Ed
Monloro, lormerK ol Holl\vvood. Their
film will be titled "iMassacre at I'cachtree."
More Than 1.000 Entries
In Atlanta Film Festival
(Continued from preceding page)
cash grant. A student film seminar is scheduled.
Morning seminars are to be presented at
the Regency Hyatt House by several important
manufacturers and service organizations
including Eastman Kodak, Arriflex,
Bolex, WRS, Eclair, American Film Institute
and Technicolor. New equipment and
techniques are to be introduced, demonstrated
and discussed.
Friday (26) a cocktail party for the news
media, special guests and award winners will
be held at the Regency. The following night,
the Festival Awards cocktail party and banquet
will be held in the Regency Phoenix
ballroom, covered by live TV.
A special feature for sentimentalists and
lovers of the nostalgic in films will be the
screening of popular movies from the 1930s,
including "King Kong" and "Gold Diggers
of 1933."
J. Hunter Todd, who founded the Atlanta
Festival, is director of the event.
Paramount's 'Gold Fever'
In Atlanta Festival
ATLANTA—^A Paramount Pictures' featurette
based on the musical production
"Paint Your Wagon" will be featured as
entry in the Atlanta Film Festival. "Gold
Fever," a 30-minute short photographed in
70mm and narrated by Alan Jay Lerner,
presents scenes from the motion picture,
including the production number of the
same name sung by Clint Eastwood and
chorus. The featurette was produced and
directed by Lepard-Sands.
"Gold Fever" will be shown as part of
the documentary film category, the entries
being screened at the Arts Alliance Theatre
to an audience of critics, film students and
members of the press from all parts of the
U.S.
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C H. Sfrech, owner of the Music Mountain
Theatre, has started operation of the
theatre at Horseshoe Bend, Ark,
Leon Rountree, Holly, Holly Springs,
Miss.; Andy Jonas. Trenton Drive-In, Trenton,
and John Stillwell, New Orleans district
manager for the Coca-Cola Co., were
among the business visitors on Filmrow.
Reports thai the famed paddle-wheel
steamer "Delta Queen," last of her breed
to be active on the Mississippi, may be
mothballed, due to noncompliance of federal
oceanic regulations, has led producer-director
Tay Garnett to form a "Save the
Queen" committee here. With the aid of
local river residents, Garnett is masterminding
a lobbying effort which will bombard
Washington with pleas for continued
sailings of the unique ship. Garnett hopes to
film footage aboard the "Queen" for his
forthcoming feature, "Comin" 'Round the
Bend."
"A Walk in the Spring Rain," Columbia
release, is based on a Rachel Maddux novel.
'Patlon' Picks Up
Another 400 Week
MEMPHIS—The success of "Patton" is
continued story at the Crosstown. where the
management happily reports another multiple-
100 percentage each week. This time the
roadshow was at the 400-level, considerably
overshadowing the next best pair of first-run
grossers: "The Molly Maguires," Park newcomer,
and "M*A*S*H" with a matching
150 in its fifth week at the Plaza.
(Average Is 100)
Crosstown Patton (20th-Fox), 1 1th wk 400
Guild—My Lover, My Son (MGM) 50
Maico The Bollod of Coble Hogue (WB) 110
Memphian Oh! What o Lovely War (20th-Fox) . . 75
Pussycat, I Palace Pussycot, Love You (UA) .... 80
Poromount Woodstock (WB), 2nd wk 100
Park Molly Maguires (Para) 1 50
Plaza— M*A*S*H (20th-Fox), 5th wk 150
State Naked Under Leather (WB) 100
'Watermelon Man' Showing
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JACKSONVILLE
^^illiam Goewej has been shitted hy Kent
Theatres general manager Tommy
Hyde from management of the lo.-al Plaza
Rocking-Chair Theatre to the new Halifax
Rockmg-Chair Theatre, scheduled in the
near future lor its grand opening at the
Halifax Shopping Center in Oaytona Beach.
Succeeding Goevvey at the Plaza is James
Beach, a veteran Kent cost accountant, who
moved here from south Florida.
Ronnie Fddv. former assistant at the
downtown Center, visited friends along
Filmrow on his first Navy furlough after
comp'eting boot training at Great Lakes. 111.
He has been assigned to the Memphis Naval
Air .Station for training as a jcl plane mechanic.
Bob Pollard, Buena Vista manager, and
his assistant Bill Williams staged a special
invitational night screening for "The Boatniks"
at the Preview Theatre . . . The only
other Preview showings of the week were
AIP's "Venus in Furs" and a closed screening
for the X-raled "Loving Feeling" arranged
by .Arv Rothschild and Ed Bledsoe of
Universal-Marion Film Productions.
Al Hildrelh, manager of the downtown
Florida Rocking-Chair. had one of the longest
sneak preview programs of local record
when his patrons were given a bonus showing
of "What Do You Say to a Naked
Lady?" on the same bill with "Midnight
Cowboy" and "Alice's Restaurant" .
Beverly Wirick left the Warner Bros, office
for a sunburning vacation session at Daylona
Beach.
Robert .Stephens is Wallace Prevatt's new
assistant manager trainee at the downtown
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Imperial, succeeding Richard Schlinkmann
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Two big ones opened here during the
week. They were "Airport" at Florida Stale
. . . Other
Theatres' downtown Center and the sensational
"Boys in the Band" at Sheldon Mandell's
Five Points in Riverside
openings included the last screen pcrtormance
of Boris Karloff in "The Crimson Cull"
at FST's Fdgewood on the same program
with "Horror House"; "The Swimming
Pool' at three Kent drive-ins.
Jacksonville in Move
To Be Film Center
JACKSONVILLE—This Florida city has
taken a major step toward re-establishing
itself as a national production center for
motion picture and TV film companies.
After four months of organizational work,
the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce
has announced the formation of the
Motion Picture and Television Council of
Jacksonville.
"Jacksonville was the birthplace of the
American film industry." said chamber
president Gert Schmidt. "The first fulllength
feature film was made here and at
one time scores of production companies
had headquarters and studio facilities located
here.
"We mean to attract this business back to
Jacksonville. The fact that the Motion Picture
and Television Council has been
formed already has resulted in some major
filming on location in Jacksonville."
Schmidt said that Rabko. Ltd. of Toronto,
and the J. Walter Thompson Co. of Canada
presently are at work in Jacksonville using
the city as a backdrop for high-budget commercials
for Lincoln-Mercury and Ford
Motor Companies of Canada.
The Committee of 100. the industrial development
arm of the chamber, sees the impact
of increased film and television production
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ranks to promote its development in cooperation
with the film-TV council. Heading the
task force is Ted Johnson, president of
Jacksonville-based Manor Dinner Theatres
Corp. of America.
"We are encouraged by the interest in
what we are attempting that has come from
such film and TV figures as Jack Lemmon
and Gordon Stulberg. president of Cinema
Center Films in Hollywood." Johnson said.
"They agree that Jacksonville has a lot to
offer the film industry nationally in terms
of local resources, climate and physical
features."
One of the first objectives of the Motion
Picture and Television Council is to compile
and publish an inventory of motion
picture and TV facilities currently in Jacksonville,
including creative and technical
personnel in the field. A detailed directory
will be distributed nationally in a bid to
attract increased film production in the
communitv.
Two Managers Arrested
In Winston-Salem, N.C.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C—Two drivein
theatre managers were charged here recently
by police with violating a city ordinance
that prohibits showing motion pictures
between midnight and 8 a.m.
Police arrested both managers about
12:30 a.m. May 2.
James Styers jr., manager of the Winston-
Salem Drive-In, was cited to appear May 21
in district court. E. H. Dreylinger, owner
and operator of the Flamingo Drive-In, was
cited to appear in court May 22.
The arrests came after police chief
Justus M. Tucker instructed his men to
enforce the city ordinance strictly. Exhibitors
are trying to get the law changed. A
proposal was discussed by the board of
aldermen April 20 and was returned to the
board's public safety committee for more
discussion.
The late-night motion picture problem
evolved from complaints by people who live
near the Thunderbird Drive-In. the only
drive-in operating in a city residential area
here.
Durham Rialto Is Closed
By Urban Renewal Project
DURHAM, N.C—Maggie Dent's Rialto
Theatre in Durham, which for several years
was the only exclusively "art" cinema in
North Carolina, has been closed to make
way for urban renewal.
Miss Dent commemorated the final use
of the theatre by showing "Jules and Jim,"
the film she booked to open the Rialto with
Nov. 1 1, 1962.
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MIAMI
Tim Shunahan, who helped open l.ocw's
RiMor.i Iheatre and the 170th Street
Theatres here, has resigned as viee-presideni
of l-oew's Hotels public relations. He had
heen with the l.oew"s and Tiseh organization
for 24 years.
"Sympathy for the Devil" was given a
special showing May 2S at the Roosevelt
Theatre on .Arthur Ciodfre\ Road. Miami
Beach, raising funds for the remainder of
the Intermedia lilm calendar, largely a nonprofit
artistic venture. The film was shown
three times that evening.
TalenI agent Beverly Mcl^ermotl and
actress hlisa Ingram flew to London in the
latter part of May to sign a movie contract
with Dino DeLaurentiis. the famed Italian
producer. Elisa will co-star with Clinl Eastwood
in "The Meanest Man on Earth." to
be filmed in Europe. Paolo Croschiko will
direct the movie. Elisa. who has been living
here, has a good record in all branches of
acting. She has appeared in "The Loved
One." with Tony Richardson: Jerry Lewis'
"Bellboy," Elvis Presley's "Tickle Me" and
"Oui-lsland Caper." On TV. she did the
"Deep Lab" pilot for NBC-Universal and
has worked in "Hogan's Heroes," "Mannix."
Inierstale Building
100th Unit in Piano
From Ssuthweifern Edil:cn
PLANO, TEX.—A unique shovel made
of movie film reels and canisters was used
to turn the first spade of earth as groundbreaking
ceremonies were observed here by
executives of Interstate Theatres to mark the
start of construction of the circuit's lOOth
unit.
John Q. Adams, president of Interstate
Theatres; George McVay of Hunt Properties
and Piano Mayor Connor Harrington
were cast in the leading roles in the ceremonies
in Piano's Dallas North Shopping
Center at Central Expressway and Janwood
Drive. The theatre designed for the shopping
center, which was developed by the Hunt
film, will be a de luxe 600-seatcr.
NYU Film School Adds
New Summer Courses
NEW YORK.— New York University's
School of Fine Arts is offering for the first
time an expanded program of workshops and
courses in film and TV production, film history,
criticism and acting during the summer.
It will be under the direction of the Institute
"Mission Impossible." "Bewiichcd." "Ciei
Smart" and "Man From U.N.C.L.H." Her
stage credits include off Broadway's "Play
It Again, Sam" with Red Buttons, three
seasons in slock and she was in "Inherit the
Wind" at the Coconut Grove pl.isluuisc here
with the late Ed Beglcy.
Jack Mitchell conducted a search lor past
and present skywriters, those pilots who
squirt smoke from their planes and write
advertising in the clouds, as a preliminary to
opening "The Grasshoppers," which has a
skywriting angle, May 29.
"Follow Me," the story of Israelis' six-day
war against the .Arabs, had its premiere at
the Plaza Art Theatre. Miami Beach. The
film was made by the Israeli government
and 37 cameramen were with the armies.
"Follow Me" is an authentic movie and is in
English.
Family audiences will have an opportunity
to show whether or not they will support
G-rated pictures this summer. Tom Elefante.
Loew's Florida division manager, announced
the following lineup of G films booked for
local Lc>ew's theatres; "Norwood," "Darling
Lili," "Return to the Planet of the Apes"
and "The Oiit-of-Towners."
of Film and TV. Eleven of the courses will
be available to undergraduates and will include
"Beginning Film Production," "Film
Production Seminar" and "TV Production-
Direction." There also are courses in history
and criticism: "New Directions in the Cinema."
"Art of the Film." and two seminars,
one on Contemporary Cinema and one on
Documentary Film. The courses will run
from June 15 to July 24.
Sen. W. W. Fincher Sells
Three Airers, Buys One
ATLANTA—W. W. Fincher of Chatsworth,
a member of the Georgia Senate and
owner and operator of drive-ins in Alabama
and Tennessee, recently disposed of three of
the airers and purchased one to go with his
Skyway Drive-In at Anniston. Ala.
The Atlanta-based Wilby-Kincey circuit
purchased his Montgomery Drive-In and Jet
Drive-In. both in Montgomery, Ala. The
latter location, in turn, was sold by Wilby-
Kincey to R. M. Kennedy, Birmingham exhibitor.
Senator Fincher also sold his Starlite
Drive-In at Athens, Tenn., to Jack Jones
and purchased the Blue Sky Drive-In at La-
Fayette in this state from Jim Maffett.
Jack Jones also owns and operates the
Midway Drive-ln at Etowah, Tenn.
TCC Adds Kingsville
Screens to
From S')Lithwcstcrti EcJilion
Circuit
KINGSVILLE, TEX. — lexas Cinema
Corp. of Ennis has purchased a half-interest
in the local King's Theatre and Rancho
Drive-In from L.
D. Sipcs of Kingsville and
has assumed operation of both situations.
Sipes will concentrate on management of
his Parkway Foods Store. 1906 East Kenedy.
Leroy Mitchell, president of the Ennisbased
circuit, already had announced (in
March) that construction of the TCC twin
screen Cine I and Cine II near H. M. King
High .School is to be ready for opening in
August. This indoor theatre will seat 600
patrons in Cine I and 400 in Cine 11 and
will occupy a 70x1 16-foot building just
south of Kroger's Discount Family Center
and west across the street from the First
Christian Church.
Mitchell said that TCC already had taken
over management of the King's and Rancho
and has started renovations for both theatres.
Bookings already set up for this month are
being followed but TCC will do the booking
for both theatres, starting next month.
Spyros P. Skouras to Be
Honored at June 24 Event
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Spyros P. Skouras, chairman
of the board of Prudential Grace Lines
and formerly president and chairman of the
board of 20th Century-Fox Films, will be
the guest of honor at the 17th annual dinnerdance
at the American Israel Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, Inc.. it was announced
by Max Ratner. president. The gala
affair will take place Wednesday, June 24,
in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel. New York City.
Skouras will be honored for his efforts in
creating trade and understanding with all
countries and especially Israel.
Skouras had been chairman of the
board
of Prudential Lines since 1960 and prior to
that had been a member of the board of directors
of that company as well as Admiralty
Lines, World Wide Tankers and Skouras
Lines, with which Prudential was affiliated.
His son Spyros S. Skouras is president of
Prudential Grace Lines and had been president
of Prudential Lines since I960.
Skouras was president of 20th Century-
Fox frcrm 1942 until 1962. at which time he
resigned as president to become chairman
of the board, a post he held until April
1969.
He is still an honorary member of the
board of directors of 20th Century-Fox, as
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Triangle 4
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DALLAS—Triangle 4,
a complex of four
theatres under one roof, will be built at the
Golden Triangle Shopping Center for operation
by American Multi-Cinema of Kansas
City. Announcement of the project was
made by Stanley H. Durwood, AM-C president;
James W. Smith and Vernon S. Smith,
developers of the Golden Triangle Shopping
Center on Marvin Love Freeway between
Pentagon Parkway and Polk Avenue.
American Multi-Cinema opened a sixtheatre
complex at the Dallas Northtown
Mall in March 1969 and is about to open a
four-theatre setup in the Northwood Shopping
Center in June.
Designs for the Golden Triangle complex
are for the two larger auditoriums to have
350 seats each, the two smaller ones to seat
250 patrons each—a total capacity of 1.200.
To be built side-by-side, four auditoriums
will share a common boxoffice, lobby and
concession stand, as well as a common restrooms
area and display space.
Howard Decker of Dallas has been selected
as local architect for the project and
is preparing initial working drawings for
the theatre building.
Mexico to Be Represented
By 'Olympiad en Mexico'
SAN ANTONIO—Mexico's official entry
in HemisFilm '70, international film
festival scheduled June 18-21 in San Antonio,
will be a color spectacular on the
entire 1968 Olympic Games staged in Mexico
City. The entry, "Olympiad en Mexico,"
is a Techniscope production running
171 minutes in length.
The production required 81 cinematographers.
15 sound specialists and 20 production
assistants. Alberto Isaac was director.
The 35mm entry is the story of more
than 6,000 athletes from 119 participating
countries vying for the gold, silver and
bronze medals awarded Olympic winners.
It
covers 250,000 feet of film.
The Rev. Louis Reile, S. M., director of
HemisFilm and director of the Cinema-Arts
Seminar at St. Mary's University, said the
showing will be held Friday, June 19, in
the Aztec Theatre. He said that several
special guests will be present for the event.
HemisFilm is sponsored by the International-Fine
Arts Center of the Southwest
and co-sponsored by St. Mary's and Cinema
Arts
Theatres.
In 1969, HemisFilm drew more than 50
qualifying films from Germany, Russia,
Yugoslavia, Canada, Mexico, France, India
and the U.S.
Inquiries regarding entries this year have
been received from a number of countries.
Israel and France already have submitted
official
entries.
Columbia's "Pendulum" has been honored
by Mystery Writers of America as "One
of the Best Suspense Films of 1969."
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SA 'Longest Day' Revival
Honors Gen. Earl Rudder
SAN ANTONIO, TEX.—A brief ceremony
honoring Maj. Gen. Earl Rudder, the
late
president of Texas A&M and a hero of
the Normandy landings in 1944, was held at
7 p.m. May 8 on the stage of the Cincmatex
Theatre in Colonies North, managed by
Tommy Reynolds.
The theatre is featuring a revival of
Darryl F. Zanuck's epic of the European invasion,
"The Longest Day." Friday was also
the anniversary of V-'E Day, when the forces
finally surrendered, 1 1 months and two days
after the landing.
General Rudder, then a lieutenant colonel,
commanded a Ranger battalion at the landing
and led his troops up the 90-foot cliff of
Point du Hoc, a heavily fortified and seemingly
impregnable German position. Rudder
was wounded twice during the assault.
The ceremony, as well as the film, was
open to the public but special invitations
were sent to A&M alumni as well as to a
number of businessmen and civic leaders to
participate in the event.
The Texas Military Institute band played
a concert and marched on the parking lot
prior to the start of the ceremonies.
The entire engagement of the film will be
known as the Gen. Earl Rudder Tribute
Engagement, dedicated to his moral courage,
bravery and devotion to America.
SAN ANTONIO
Daphael, the singing idol of Spain, was
scheduled to appear in the HemisFair
Arena on May 16. Following his appearance
here, he was to go to Los Angeles, Las
Vegas and then to New "York. His latest
movie is "El Angel" (The Angel), which is
being shown throughout the Spanish-speaking
world. He has offers from Hollywood
and Mexico City to film new pictures . . .
Emil Kupca. genial manager of the downtown
Majestic, has returned to full-time duty
following a recent illness. He was being
greeted by his many friends and patrons.
Les Jay Ketner, who at one time wrote
these columns, has become engaged to Miroslava
Garza with the possibility of a June
wedding . . . David Stoffle, manager of the
Josephine Theatre, is. admitting children
under 12 years of age free to see the current
attraction when accompanied by their
parents. The screen program is "The Cockeyed
Cowboys of Calico County" . . . Mrs.
Edna Ward is at the boxoffice of the downtown
Majestic Theatre greeting patrons with
her cheerful smile.
The Incarnate Word College Film Classics
Society announced that Mrs. Helen Bernal.
assistant principal of Incarnate Word High
School, and John Igo of the English department
at San Antonio College made up the
panel for the discussion of "To Kill a Mockingbird."
The film was the last in the 1969-
70 series and was shown on Wednesday in
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Alex Blue Appointed
Bartlesville Manager
BARILESVILLE. OKLA. — Alex Blue
has been appointed manager of the Eastland
Twin Theatre by
co-owners Marjorie
Snyder and John Ashley
of Tulsa. Blue assumed
his new duties
May 6.
The new manager,
who has been in the
motion picture business
throughout his
adult life, broke into
exhibition as a ticket
Alex Blue
taker while attending
the University of Texas. From this starl, he
progressed to building and operating his
own theatres, his most recent ownership
venture being the Village Theatre in Tulsa.
He built and operated that situation until
April 15. when he sold it to the General
Cinema Corp. of Boston.
While operating theatres. Blue has kept
busy in civic work. During his years in
exhibition in McAlester. he served as president
of both the junior and senior chambers
of commerce. He also was president of the
Choctaw Area Boy Scout Council, where he
received the Silver Beaver Award, the highest
award given by the council. He is a 32nd
degree Mason and Shriner.
Blue and his wife Elsie have moved here
to establish their residence.
June 10 Hearing for Suit
On Texas Obscenity Law
WICHITA FALLS, TEX.—An appeal to
the Texas Supreme Court will be heard
Wednesday (10) on a suit in which a Wichita
Falls trial court declared the amended Texas
obscenity law unconstitutional.
District Judge Temple Driver declared
the law unconstitutional February 9 and
based his ruling on decisions of the Supreme
Court in Washington and other decisions in
related cases.
The case arose when county attorney Tim
Eyssen asked for an injunction against a
suburban local theatre to keep the management
from showing any obscene matter.
Steve Scott and Cinne Arts Theatre are the
defendants in the case. The Texas attorneygeneral's
office is assisting in the appeal.
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20. in the limhassv Garden Room of the
SlaiL-r Hilton Hotel hy Dallas WOMlMs.
Mitchell was chosen as the ciub"s Boss of
the Year on basis of his contributions to
WOMPI and his general excellence as an
employer, as extolled in a nominating letter
hy l.orce Butler. Mitchell was presented .1
plaque b\ I .i\'erne Gordon, president ol
the club.
The P.ir.iniount ^t, liters recaptured the
Will Rogers statuette emblem.itic of the
industry group m.iking the greatest contribution
to Ihe Will Rogers Hospital Medical
Book Fund. Mable Guinan, Paramount
booker, accepted the statuette from emcee
Bill Barber, this becoming the third tinie
Paramount has won the statuette in five
years of competition for it. Barber announced,
too, that WOMPI has received from the
Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs the
Outstanding Club Award for Service for
the fourth consecutive year. Guest speaker
William L. Watkins. administrator of the
Dallas Mental Illness Court, discussed "Drug
Abuse by Students in the Dallas Independent
Schools" and efforts being made by the
schools and the community to educate and
protect the young people.
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award and the women who had noniin.iled
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Booking Service; Bill Slaughter (19(i.S) and
HIsie Parrish. United Artists Theatres: Jim
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SA Cine Arts Asks Block
For Obscenity Law Use
SAN ANTONIO Ihe Ic.xas Cine Arts
Theatre filed an injunction May 22 in district
court to prevent the enforcement of the
Texas obscenity statute.
The suit was filed against district attorney
Ted Butler, sheriff W. B. Hauck and police
chief Cieorge Bichsel by S. D. West of Arlington,
owner of the Texas Cine Arts Theatre,
and Omar Urialdes, manager of the
theatre.
West and Urialdes are asking that the
amended Texas obscenity statute, approved
by the legislature two years ago, be declared
unconstitutional.
The two men also ask for a temporary
restraining order and later a temporary and
permanent injunction to prevent the defendants
from enforcing the present law.
They are also seeking a temporary restraining
order to prohibit the district
attorney from proceeding with cases pending
against the Texas Cine Arts Theatre.
The suit claims West and Urialdes are
threatened with arrest, seizures, prosecution
and civil injunction proceedings against the
exhibition of constitutionally protected motion
picture films under the Texas law and
that the threat prevents them from operating
their lawful business and earning a living.
Injunction suits were filed by the district
attorney against the Texas Cine Arts Theatre
April 29 and May 12 to prevent the
showing of movies described as obscene by
the petitions. Those cases are pending.
The theatre is showing adult films only
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Texas Citizenship Given
To Disney Cast and Crew
MARSHALL, TEX.—A special proclamation
from Gov. Preston Smith, a former
theatre owner, has made the cast of Walt
Disney Productions' "Bayou Boy," which
recently completed shooting at Caddo Lake,
honorary Texas citizens.
Jerry Morgan, representing the Texas
industrial commission, visited the location
and presented certificates to John Mclntirc.
Frank Silvera. Jeanette Nolan, Mitch Vogel.
Michael l.ookinland. Percy Rodrigues. Vito
Scotti and director Gary Nelson. Associate
producer Tom Leetch accepted for producer
James Algar.
Daniel Taradash wrote the screenplay for
"Doctors' Wives." based on the Frank G.
Slaughter novel.
'Flying Machine' Filming
Continuing in Houston
HOUSTON Sliooling beg.in here May
on "Brewster McCloud's Flying Ma- 22 .
in the Astrodome, four or five days in Astroworld
parks, two weeks all around the city
and some scenes in the Paul Barkley home
at the Bay and Ihe t)ld Jim Hogg home in
the city.
Michael Miirph\ will star as a (.leleclive
trying to solve mysterious murders in the
film being produced by Lou Adler and
directed by Robert Altman. The film is a
Lou Adier-John Phillips production in association
with Lion's Gate Films (Altman's
company)
This is Murphy's Ihiril role lor director
Altman. the actor having appeared in
"M*A*S*H" and "That Cold Day in the
Park."
Actor Stacy Keach, a Tony nominee,
arrived in Houston to begin work on the
film. He has just completed a role in "The
Traveling Executioner."
SAN ANTONIO
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the IWC Auditorium. The discussion was
held following the showing.
The city's top school safety patrols were
honored during the San Antonio Kiwanis
Club's tenth annual school safety program
at the Majestic Theatre. More than 3.000
elementary school children, teachers and
guests attended the ceremonies held on two
Saturdays, the final one May 9. A fulllength
film and cartoons were shown prior
to the presentation of trophies and certificates
to youngsters with exceptional school
crossing guard records.
Funeral services were held for San Antonio's
first jazz band leader who played
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jazz and dance music in the Majestic Theatre
as early as 1920. He was Rudolfo "Rudy"
Almaguer. 72, who died May 6 . . . Interstate
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Sid Shacnfield, manager of the Woodlawn
Theatre, and his wife Vivian had as their
house guest their son Dale, who was on furlough.
Dale left for San Francisco and then
went on to the Philippines for his next assignment
with the U. S. Navy.
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from Loew's State Theatre, when
a fire started backstage. The fire, extinguished
after about 15 minutes, did little
damage. The movie being shown was "Let
It Be." starring the Beatles . . . Nathan Fain,
former movie critic and amusements writer
for the Houston Post, has joined the staff
of KPFT-FM here as editor-in-chief of "Aftermath,"
a program which will go on the
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Ass'n has recognized Robert R. Marich,
local freelance movie director and producer,
for his new film, "After the Attack," which
. . Bill Werneth has come to
depicts recovery of a heart attack patient.
The film was premiered in the school district
board room .
Houston as unit publicist for the MGM crew
here to film "Brewster McCloud."
Interstate Theatres' Houston publicist Sue
Harris looked for area motorcyclists to
help
open the showing of "The Losers" May 28
at the Majestic. The film is a drama about a
daring group of motorcyclists in Vietnam.
Ana Korita, the Filipina actress in the film,
and its director Jack Starrett were here for
the opening.
Clyde Dollar, Sioux reservation historian,
archeologist and advisor on the film "A Man
Called Horse," was in the city May 22 to
explain how much effort went into authen-
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"Rider on the Rain" moved into the Vil-
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lage Theatre May 28. It stars veteran actor
Charles Bronson and Continental actress
Marlene Jobert
Houston
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May 27,
.
opening that date at the
River Oaks . . . The long-awaited appearance
of "Fellini Satyricon" was made at the
Dclman May 27. The bizarre film, which
has confounded critics and has been given
considerable publicity in national magazines,
is reportedly rife with hidden messages.
Starlets
Holly Near and Victoria Racimo
were in Houston May 21 for a special
screening of MGM's "The Magic Garden
of Stanley Sweetheart." Miss Near first appeared
in "Angel, Angel, Down We Go,"
while for Miss Racimo this is her first American
film . . . Cash Baxter is the new executive
producer of the Windmill circuit.
While in the Air Force, Baxter directed more
than 200 training films. Two of his training
film actors were Robert Reed and Ron
Elv.
Managerial Changes Made
LONGVIEW, WASH.—Jerry Kivela has
been named city
manager of Kelso theatres,
Everett Lamb was named city manager of
Longview theatres and Marvin Melcher
was appointed manager of Your Drive-In.
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'Woodstock' Up 100
Points in Mill City
MINNEAPOLIS—With the temperature
at 90 for the first time here this season, 90
was all that two new arrivals could muster
on the barometer as potential patrons heeded
the call of the great outdoors. While the
warm weather put the chill on "My Lover.
My Son" at the Suburban World Theatre
and on "Four Clowns" at the Varsity, it
seemed to light new fires under "Woodstock"
at the Riverview: After bowing there
with a sensational 550, the theatre's first
first-run booking climbed to a breathtaking
650 in its second week. It should be kept
in mind that this figure is inflated by the
fact "Woodstock" is the house's initial firstrun
offering—but hippie-types and young
mods are packing the place.
(Average Is 100)
Academy Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 22nd wk , ,100
Cinema II, Uptown Tell Them Willie Boy Is
Here (Univ), 2nd wk 1 30
Cooper Cinerama Airport (Univ), 9th wk 390
Gopher M*A*S*H (20th-Fox), 9th wk 150
Lyric A Mon Called Horse (NGP), 4th wk 170
Mann Anne of the Thousand Days (Univ),
3rd wk 175
Orpheum Halls of Anger (UA) 100
Rialto I Am Curious (Yellow) (SR), 34th wk. ...185
Riverview Woodstock (WB), 2nd wk 550
St. Louis Park Patton (20th-Fox), 11th wk 225
State Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(20th-Fox), 33rd wk 130
Suburban World My Lover, My Son (MGM) .... 90
Varsity Four Clowns (20th-Fox) 90
World Women in Love (UA), 2nd wk 110
Five Films Share Average
Level— High in Omaha
OMAHA—Ak-Sar-Ben horse races, warm
weather, spring school activities— all these
and probably other factors were responsible
for the dearth of patrons at Omaha theatres.
Films reaching 100 were the gross
leaders and two of the — five rating that figure
were long, long runs "Hello, Dolly!", 20th
week at the Dundee and "Paint Your
Wagon," 25th week at the Indian Hills.
Cinema Center The Adventurers (Para), 6th wk. 100
Cinema II Anne of the Thousand Days (Univ),
6th wk 100
Cooper Zabriskie Point (MGM), 2nd wk 90
Dundee Hello, Dolly (20th-Fox), 20th wk 100
Indian Hills Paint Your Wagon (Pare), 25th wk. 100
Omaha The Libertine (SR) 100
OMAHA
J^t the NATO meeting in Lincoln, there
was a report to the effect that the
Douglas Theatre Corp. was contemplating
the construction of a four-plex on its own
piece of ground at the southeast edge of
Millard, a booming community on the southwest
outskirt of this city. The corporation
owns 80 acres at the corner of 120th and
Q streets. Douglas partners are Russell
Brehm of Lincoln and U. S. Senator Roman
Hruska. Douglas at present operates the
Cinema Center and Cinema II in the southwest
area, the 84th and Center, Capri (formerly
Airport) and Q-Twin drive-ins here
and the 84th and O Drive-In at Lincoln
... It also was reported that a multiplex
theatre may be built at the new shopping
center being developed north of Millard by
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BOXOFTICE June 1970
Quarterly Winner Named
In NSS Trailer Contest
MINNHAPOI.IS — Vivian Harvatinc.
owner-operator of the Cornell Theatre in
Cornell, Wise, was the winner of National
Screen Service's "Trailer Cash-In" contest,
it was announced by Paul Ayotte, N.SS
branch manager here. The prize was $100.
The contest was started to encourage the
prompt return of trailers and the competition
is on a quarterly basis. Fir.^t prize is
$50; however, if the trailer with the winning
ticket is received by NSS within 72
hours, then the amount is doubled. An entry
blank is enclosed in every trailer shipment.
At the end of the year there will be a
drawing for a grand prize, a travel trailjr
(the kind with wheels). The slogan at NSS:
"Don't he a trailer failer!"
Fall Opening Planned
For Sioux Cily Twin
SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Construction
was started in late April on the Capitol Twin
Theatre at Fourth and Jones streets, the first
private building to be erected in the CBD-
East urban renewal area. The $550,000 facility,
located just north of the new municipal
parking ramp, faces north on Fourth on
the west side of Jones. The theatre is being
built for ABC Theatres as a replacement for
the present Capitol Theatre, to be torn down
soon to make way for other CBD-East development.
A fall opening is planned.
The two theatres in the 150x1 28-foot
building will seat a total of more than 1,000
persons. The west cinema will .seat 420 and
the east will have a capacity of 605. The
spacious lobby area will include separate
lounge, restroom and concession facilities for
each theatre, richly furnished with brick and
fabric-covered walls and carpeted and quarry
tile floors.
The theatre areas are finished with carpeted
floors, completely draped walls and
acoustical tile ceilings. Both auditoriums will
be equipped with wide screens and comfortable,
convenient continental-type seating. A
second-level mezzanine includes a twin projection
booth, locker rooms, storage rooms
and mechanical areas.
The exterior of the building is designed to
create a sculptured effect by using recesses,
projections and multi-levels of large areas of
dark brown brick, tan precast concrete,
black trim and bronze glass.
The building features an all-electric heating
and air-conditioning system and is
equipped throughout with an automatic
sprinkler system for fire protection.
W. A. Klinger is the contractor and the
architect is DeWild, Grant, Reckert & Associates
of Sioux City, in association with
ABC's consulting architect, Henry George
Green & Associates of New York City.
Adamsons Lease K&M Airer
KASSON, MINN.—Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
.Adamson of rural Dodge Center have
leased the K&M Drive-In from Mr. and
Mrs. Albert LeMieux.
First Triplex Under
Way in Milwaukee
MII.WAUKEL-Angelo Porchctta,
president
of Mill Road Theatre Corp. here, has
announced that construction is under way
Architect's concept of the Mill Road
Theatres triplex now under construction
in the Milwaukee area hy Mill
Road Theatre Corp.
for the area's first triple-theatre complex
in the 76th and Mill Road .Shopping Center.
According to Porchetta, who also is
vice-president of Capitol .Service, which is
headed by Dean Fitzgerald, parking for
patrons will be available in the shopping
center area adjacent to the theatre.
The auditoriums will have seating capacities
of 234, 456 and 532. respectively, and
each unit will be fully automated. At the
touch of a button, the house lights will dim,
the curtains will part, the proper projection
machine will start and the sound will turn
on. The performance then will begin without
further attention.
In addition, Porchetta said, the system
will automatically switch over to the second
projection machine, watch sound and
light levels, conduct intermissions and even
shut itself off after giving a warning in the
event of a malfunction, such as a break
in
the film.
While the triplex is designed primarily to
appeal to people on Milwaukee's northwest
side, Porchetta explained that he anticipates
people from the entire metropolitan area
will visit the unique complex periodically.
Involved in the project are the following;
General contractor, Lloyd Levin; projection
room, Harry Melcher Enterprises:
seats, Irwin .Seat Co.; carpeting, Mohawk;
vending, Capitol Service; booking, Capitol
Service; architect, LeFebvre-Weggins &: .Associates;
design consultant. Sue Larson, and
automation, EPRAD.
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MILWAUKEE
TDi)> Aitktfn Mil rc;iiJN Bdxdiiici. It was
ihc Aiikcn brothers (Roy and the laic
Harr)) who produced the film "Birth of a
Nation." that grossed about SdO.OOO.OOO. at
a cost of $114,000. Roy. now 88. has been
hospitalized for several months, which accounts
for our unsuccessful attempts to
reach him lately, he explained in a phone
call May 11. -Said he has been living
with his sister, next door at 425 East Broadway.
Waukesha. He wanted to call our attention
to having seen the "nice" article on
his "Birth of a Nation" in the May 4
issue of BoxointE. He said he was going
to have his telephone number changed, as
he finds that others have been trying to contact
him. also without success. .Mso thai
he severed all his connections with the movie
in
the disposition some time ago. This piece
of information was not included in the article.
Roy says he feels pretty good considering
his
age.
Wanted: A cottage or home to rent in
this area. Imogene Coca and her husband
King Donovan, who also appears with her
in "Cabaret." are looking around. They'll
be here Monday (29) through July 19. Anyone
with rental information can call the
Melody Top Theatre at 271-7703.
Vintage films are still drawing good patronage.
The Milwaukee Film Circle, sponsoring
a program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fine Arts Recital Hall,
included the following movies: "The Lion
and the .Souse," (1924) a Mack Sennet comedy
featuring Andy Clyde; "Friends," (1912)
directed by D. W. Griffith with Mary Pickford
and Lionel Barrymore; "The Clever
Dummy." (1917) featuring Ben Turpin and
Wallace Beery: "One Week." (1920) with
Buster Keaton: "With Love and Hisses."
(1927) spotlighting Laurel and Hardy; "The
Golf Specialist." starring W. C. Fields, and
two rare Mickey Mouse comedies from his
early career. The tab for the performance
was 50 cents for children, 78 cents for students
and $1.04 for adults. And at the First
Unitarian Church. 1009 East Ogden, five
of the old Laurel and Hardy films were
shown. Tab: Children. 25 cents, and adults.
75 cents.
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I'rriU'h lilmmaker Jean-Luc dodard's
"Sympathy for the Devil" was shown ai
two performances at the Performing Arts
Center and featured The Rolling Slones.
Godard. considered a controversial filmmaker,
made the film in the summer of
"68 after the student riots in Paris. It's his
first in English. It is being disliibiiled by
New Line Cinema, a small iiulcpeiKlcnt
company, and is said to be doing well across
the country, on campuses especially.
Brookfield .Stjuarc Shopping Cciilcr
picked up the tab for 100 tickets given away
free to lucky mothers on Mother's Day
for Brookfield .Square Cinema. The promotions
continue by manager Bob Gross.
MINNEAPOLIS
Tom Visle, Cokinibia branch country salesman,
shot himself in the foot. The mishap
occurred while Viste was target practicing.
Happily, the wound was more an inconvenience
than serious and Tom himself
has been a target—of plenty of kidding . . .
Minnie Super. Columbia biller, returned
from a vacation that carried her out Spokane
way . . . H. C. Martinez. National General
Pictures division manager, was in town May
26 on routine branch business.
Harold Lundquist, Cinerama Releasing
Corp. branch chief, was exuding plenty of
enthusiasm after returning from Chicago
and a peek at footage from "Song of Norway."
Predicting it'll be another "The Sound
of Music," Lundquist opines that by the time
. . .
the picture plays late this year "the public
will be starving to see a wholesome movie"
Mike Adcock of the Warners Bros,
branch pops his vest buttons with pride as
he points to the "Woodstock" performance
at the Riverview Theatre. The second week
was abt)Ut 25 per cent better than the first.
Filmrow visitors: Shelly Kliman, Palace
Theatre and Pal-Mote Drive-In, Spooner,
Wis.; Don Quincer, Cozy, Wadena; Clint
Norine, Frederic, Frederic, Wis.; Bob Levy,
Flying Cloud Drive-In, Eden Prairie; Gene
Grengs. Hollywood, Eau Claire, Wis. and
James McKnight, Prague, New Prague . . .
Rev. Fr. Frederick Nelson, Powers Lake,
N.D., long-time friend of the film industry
in that area and a friend of Warner Bros,
salesman Tom Lutz, was a visitor at the WB
offices.
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
smashed records at both the State Theatre
here and the Riviera in St. Paul. It departed
each theatre at the same time May 27, the
longest-running picture in the history of the
State—and the longest-running film ever in
the history of the St. Paul Loop. The previous
record-holder in St. Paul was "The
Robe" (the first CinemaScope movie, remember?),
which did a sensational 25 weeks
at the St. Paul World back in 1953. "Butchbreaks
Wednesday (24) in Twin Cities neighborhood
situations. It'll be interesting to see
how much meal is left on it.
Any film honor seems lo help a picture.
M A S H" took American film honors at
the Cannes Film Festival and grosses suddenly
firmed up at the Gopher Theatre . . .
John Brenden, circuit head who operates
theatres in Rochester and Northfield and
who's the son-in-law of circuit owner Ted
Mann, is ailing and abed in St. NLiry's Hospit;il
here. Carils and letters would be welcomed.
Lcc Campbell, Paraimninl branch booker,
was among the thousands who headed for
one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes on the
slate's fishing opener May 16. Campbell
reported "very good results" (hui then you
know how fishermen are) . . . Dan Houlihan,
Paramount division manager, was here
from Detroit on branch business May 12-13.
Bill Dobel, National General manager;
Charles Caliguiri, Paramount manager;
Frank Rubel, Central States, and Tony
Goodman of Omaha were in Dubuque May
20 for the grand opening celebration of
General Cinema's new Kennedy Mall Theatre
.. . May 17 was an important day for
Bill Dobel at Grandview golf course. On
the 16lh hole (295 yards) he shot an eagle.
Witnesses were Steve Blank. Dick Day and
George Catanzano, all of Central States.
Visiting Filmrow were Nat Nathanson,
20ih Century-Fox division manager from
Chicago; Bill Lyons. Buena Vista, Omaha;
Dick Kuhl, Greenfield; Margaret Gibson,
Panora; Carl Schwanebeck, Knoxville; Jack
Compston, Forest City; Charles Lagg,
Estherville, and Hubey Shrodt, Marshalltown
. . . Chuck Isles and Harold McKinney
of Iowa Film were in New 'V'ork City
attending the Film Express and Air Package
convention.
Fred Ditter Is Appointed
Columbia Milwaukee Chief
NEW YORK—The appointment of Fred
Ditter as Columbia Pictures branch manager
in Milwaukee was announced by Milt
Goodman, vice-president and general sales
manager.
Ditter began his association with Columbia
in November 1966 as a sales trainee in
San Francisco and most recently served as
the company's Salt Lake City manager.
The appointment, which is effective immediately,
is in keeping with Columbia's
long-time policy of promotion from within.
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JJoy H. Metcalfe, NATO of Iowa president,
spent lour days in La Costa, Calif., for
the national NATO board meeting . . . New
NATO of Iowa members are G. A. Peterson.
Waverly Theatre, Waverly, and NGC's
Strand Theatre, Council Bluffs, and Fox
Theatre, Fort Madison . . . Davis Distributing
Co. has screened "Free Grass," starring
Russ Tamblyn and Lana Wood, and is setting
up a July saturation for Iowa and Nebraska.
Bert Thomas, B&l Booking Service, is
happy to be out of the hospital and back
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at his desk . Gloria Taffae, Variety
Women's president, is in Mercy Hospital
with a concussion.
Tri-States now is officially ABC Midwest
Theatres . . . Becky Long will be the new
booking clerk at Warner Bros., succeeding
Nonnie Lovejoy.
Vacation department: Hal Halverson,
manager at the Plaza Theatre, was visiting
grandchildren in Los Angeles . . . Nola
Wright of Iowa Film is spending a week in
Minnesota just fishing ... At the 20th Century-Fox
office, Eloise Lawrenz, cashier,
and contract clerk Judy Richards arc vacationing.
"M*A*S*H," now playing at the Astro
Theatre, Omaha, has set a new record for
the city by having the largest gross for a
nonroadshow engagement . Dollar
was in the city recently. He is the historian
who worked with producer Sandy Howard
on "A Man Called Horse." This picture is
scheduled for this city and Omaha this
month .
Fonda and Gene Kelly
will be in Omaha Thursday (ID and in this
city Friday (12) in connection with their
new movie. "The Cheyenne Social Club."
OMAHA
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Abe Baker . heard at the NATO
meeting was some comment by exhibitors
that "there isn't a solid picture" in all the
product shown in the production reels at
the meeting. And some weren't too happy
that sex predominated, even though those
films apparently are the ones where the
Among those attending was
money is . . .
Mrs. Glenn Slipper. She said her husband,
who has a theatre supply company in this
city, was being released from Methodist
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. George Monroe of the Fort
Theatre at Kearney came to this city after
the NATO meeting in Lincoln to visit their
son and his wife, who live at Millard, and
attend the races at Ak-Sar-Ben. The elder
Monroes expect to be grandparents in the
near
future.
A. E. Blaakob, for many years an exhibitor
at Bonesteel, S.D.. had lunch with Bill
Wink, Warner Bros, city manager and a veteran
in distribution in this territory. Blaakob
and his wife Glee spent some time here
during the recent illness of a relative. Blaakob
now has a root beer franchise and told
Bill it offered a lot less rugged life than
showbusiness.
Among visitors in
town were Sid Metcalf,
Nebraska City exhibitor, who reported his
wife was getting along okay. She fractured
her arm in a fall. Other Nebraska exhibitors
here were Jay Gorton, Tecumseh; Art
Sunde, Papillion, and Jack McCarty, Louisville,
lowans included Al Woodraska and
S. J. Backer. Harlan.
NC-4 BOXOFFICE :: June I, 1970

'Airport' Takes Over
Lead in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI — "Airport" again surged
to the front in the first-run grossing derby
as its big fifth week at the Kenwood Theatre
yielded a gratifying 550. Also continuing
to thrive was "What Do You Say to a
Natced Lady?", 400 at the Cine Carousel
where its run began a week before "Airport"
came to town. Most notable among firstweek
features was "Let It Be," the Beatles'
latest picture and a 250 grosser in a threetheatre
booking.
(Average Is 100)
Albee The Lost Grenade (CRC) 150
Ambassador, Grand M*A*S*H {20th-Fox),
4th wk 335
Cine Carousel What Do You Say to a Naked
Lody? (UA), 6th wk 400
Hollywood Cinema North, Mariemont Cinema East,
Western Woods Let It Be (UA) 250
International 70 Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox),
22nd wk 225
Kenwood Airport (Univ), 5th wk 550
Princeton Cinema A Man Colled Horse (Unlv) . . 1 50
Studio Cinemas Women in Love (UA), 3rd wk. . .250
Times Town Cinema—Z (SR), 12th wk 200
20th Century Patton (20th-Fox), 11th wk 275
Valley Zobriskie Point (MGM), 2nd wk 175
'Airport' Grosses Stout 400
Eighth Frame in Detroit
DETROIT — "Airport" in its eighth week
at the Northland quadrupled average figures
for that theatre and ran away with the city's
grossing championship for the week. The
nearest competitor, grosswise, was "Hello,
Dolly!", which came up with a good 300 in
a 2 1st frame at the nearby Americana.
"Patton," tenth week at the Mercury, and
"M*A*S*H," seventh week of a four-theatre
booking, the widely contrasted pictures dealing
with war. scored identical 290s during
the current report period.
Americano Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 2l5t wk. . .300
Civic, Mai Kai The Lawyer (Para); The Brain
(Para) 90
Four theatres M*A*S*H (20th-Fox), 7th wk 290
Fox The Scavengers (SR); The Desperodos (Col),
4th wk 95
Mercury Patton (20th-Fox), 10th wk 290
Northland Airport (Univ), 8th wk 400
Quo Vadis, Penthouse What Do You Soy to a
Naked Lady? (UA) 90
Six theatres Bloody Momo (AlP), 2nd wk 90
Studio-8 Women in Love (UA), 2nd wk 220
Studio-New Center Putney Swope (SR), 21st wk. 120
Studio-North La Femme Infidele (AA), 2nd wk. 130
Three theatres—Z (SR), 4th wk 145
Three theatres A Man Called Horse (NGP),
2nd wk 200
Downtown Detroit House
Reports Good Boxoffice
DETROIT—The Michigan Theatre, second
largest downtown house, is currently
doing very well at the boxoffice, reports
Alexander "Sandy" Thomas, general manager
of Nicholas George Theatres, contrary
to
previous reports.
Big holiday business was expected from
"The Grasshopper," which opened May 27
for a four-week run. and Thomas is enthusiastic
about prospects for "EI Condor."
another first-run, set to open Wednesday
(24) for an extended run.
Family Films Open Airer
BARNESVILLE, OHIO— Mr. and Mrs.
Rolland Hall booked two family-type films,
"Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" and "Yours,
Mine and Ours," for the season reopening of
the Leatherwood Drive-In.
Service Awards Presented by GDMPC
To Detroit Area Industry Leaders
DETROIT—The annual spring luncheon
meeting of the Greater Detroit Motion Picture
Council drew a number of industry
representatives for a special presentation of
awards, including Bob Kinser. branch manager
for Warner Bros.; Woodrow R.
Praught, W. R. Praught Co.. theatrical exploitation
company; Mrs. Robert Anthony,
wife of the co-owner of the Shores-Madrid
Theatre; Mrs. Ross Caccavale. wife of the
general manager of the Studio Theatre circuit,
and Lou Marcus, supervisor. Suburban
Detroit Theatre.
The invocation for the event was given
by Mrs. George Zacharias. Mrs. Orene
Chargot Bien, owner of the Esquire Theatre
and a second generation showman herself,
presented a series of awards on behalf of
the council to:
Marygrove College, "whose great concern
in motivating moviegoers is overwhelming";
Ross Caccavale, for his association with art
theatre operation and active encouragement
Sister Mary Avila McMahon,
of the Youth Film Forum; Haviland F.
"Hal" Reves. Detroit correspondent for
Boxoffice since 1935, whose letter of citation
cited "your efforts in helping us enhance
the ideal of our organization. By your
cooperation you have helped to make our
activities more meaningful and much more
interesting to our members. For all this and
more, we deem you worthy of our Merit
Award"; Nicholas George, circuit owner,
for his interest and generosity in connection
with the work of the council; Richard and
Eugene Sloan, owners, Suburban Detroit
H. C. McKee, 70, Dies;
Veteran Theatre Manager
DETROIT— Harry C, McKee. 70. for 35
years manager of the Cass Theatre in Detroit,
died May 12. He was executive secretary
of the E. D. Stair Corp. and, in connection
with that company's holdings, managed
other downtown theatres over the years
as well.
The Cass, while primarily the Motor
City's leading legitimate theatre, also was
used for roadshow motion picture engagements.
McKee retired from active management
of the house when it was renamed the
Summit and converted into a film roadshow
house in 1965.
Survivors include his wife Gertrude and
a
daughter.
Theatre Editor's Credo
COLUMBUS— Ron Pataky. theatre editor
of the Columbus Citizen-Journal, placed
the following credo on the wall over his
desk: "Neither sleet nor hail nor howling
windstorm; neither Montezuma's Revenge,
avalanche, waterspouts, blackest dark of
night nor any form of disaster, natural or
man-made, shall keep the steadfast reviewer
from making his appointed critical rounds
faithfully six nights of each week of each
year, weather permitting,"
circuit, for similar activity—an award presented
in their absence to general manager
Norman Ladouceur; Mrs. Wilma Naimark
for outstanding leadership ability in the
past Iwo years as president of the council
(a first time for this award), and Mrs. Raymond
Kanagur, past president and chairman
of the 1970 national conference of Federation
of Motion Picture Councils.
Mrs, Kanagur. in recounting the recent
national gathering here,
said of council people,
"We are the unpaid advertisers of the
motion picture business. We are organized
to disseminate information."
She asked the several filmites present
from both distribution and exhibition to
name their best-grossing films of the season,
stressing that "this is what makes the film
business possible." She noted that in their
responses not one Disney film was mentioned
though the council had named one
as the best of the year. Hence, information
on other product also is needed, she said.
Mrs. Kanagur almost heretically declared
that the familiar council goal, " "Support the
Best, Forget the Rest,' doesn't carry us anywhere
today. It is not enough."
Mrs. Earl Seielstad. past president, spoke
further on the national convention and she
then presented the special "Sparkplug
Award" to Mrs. Naimark. Mrs. Paul Worona
presented a special award for exceptional
service to the council to St. James Council
of Catholic Women. Ferndale.
The new officers were then installed by
Mrs. Max Williams, former national president.
COLUMBUS
J^orris Schwartz, operator of the Little
Art Theatre, said he is planning to get
out of the exploitation film field and obtain
a
franchise for a Jerry Lewis Cinema here.
TV producers Goodson-Todman have applied
to the city council for a franchise for
cable TV service here. Canterbury Cablevision
and Coaxial Communications hold nonexclusive
CATV franchises for this area .
Stage
of this city
. .
and TV comedienne Dody Goodman
has been signed by Kenley Players
to co-star with Peter Marshall in "Plain
and Fancy" at Veterans Memorial the week
of July 19 . . . Soupy Sales. Ja\c P. Morgan
and the Mack Sennett Girls Ballet will appear
in the Kenle\ musical. "High Button
Shoes." the week of July 26. This replaces
the tentative booking of Shirley Booth in
"A Tree Grows in BrookUn."
The late spring and earh summer parade
of big pictures is under way with "The Boys
. . Tower
in the Band" at Loew's .Arlington and ".Airport"
at University City Cinema .
Parking has opened the new lot adjacent to
the Ohio Theatre and work is being completed
on surfacing the parking lot at Broad
and High streets, adjacent to the RKO Palace.
The latter site housed the now-demolished
Beasley-Deshler Hotel.
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groups of show people, has been
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542, Mrs. George Frederick advises. The
post was formed in l').V> and named alter a
projectionist at the old Fronienae Theatre
who w.is killed in World NN'ar 1. Merger with
the more active KKoii Post will give members
contact with more Legion activities, includmg
headquarters on Grand River Avenue.
The flags of the Theatrical Post, with
the new niimher. will be kept available for
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ceremonial use. Jack Dickslein, veteran
showman and former theatre manager and
booking agent, was the last commander.
The rceciil death o( Ray Branch, who was
"Mr. Lxhibliion" in Michigan lor decades,
recalls an interview this writer had with him
in the fall of 1951. which brought out that
he was likely the only man in Ihc national
industry to have held the presidency ot
trade
associations in three quite divergeiil phases
of the business. .As reported in ihc May 1 I
issue of BoxohUCE, he had been president of
both the Detroit Projectionists Local (not
local 199 of the lATSE) and of Allied
Theatres of Michigan. As a distributor, he
also served as president of the Detroit Film
Board of Trade. This was before he went
li> Hastings to go into exhibition aboiU 1924,
when he was film salesman and later branch
manager for Universal. He started in showbusiness
in 1904 with the Academy of Music
in Kalamazoo and at one time was owner
of the Enterprise Theatrical Supply Co.
here, which later became the local branch
oi National Theatre Supply.
Merle M. Alvcy has been elected president
of the Federation of Musicians Local
5. .AFM. Other officers elected are: Robert
W. Turner, vice-president; Fred E. Crissey,
secretary, and Russell H. Weaver, treasurer.
Executive boad members are: William Horner.
Fred Netting, Phil Pcrrone. Eddie Schick
.uid .lack Wcick.
Dr. Martin Naimark, husband of Mrs.
Wilma Naimark, retiring president of the
Greater Detroit Motion Picture Council, is
. . .
the new president-elect of the Detroit District
Dental Society W. P. Dawson,
veteran operator at the Roxy Theatre here
and now in the manufacturing business in
Fullerton, Calif., recently visited friends on
Filmrow, reports Edith Schettenhelm of National
Theatre Supply.
Maxwell R. Siler. operator at the Calvin
in Dearht)rn, also is the proprietor of Mr.
Klean Kwick Cleaners at Wonderland Center
.. . Chargot—the family still has
the Esquire Theatre in Grosse Pointe, the
last of a circuit of nine theatres— is rated
one of the trio of the oldest active filmites
around town, along with Cully Buermele
and Samuel Barrett.
. .
.Sam Rubin, veteran operator at the Palms.
Irving Belinsky.
IS expecting to retire soon .
Theatrical Exchange druggist and
owner
of the Eastwood Theatre, became the
Detroitcr to qualify as a life patron member
of Variety International.
Max Kolin, projectionist, has returned to
. . .
his old booth—only it's in the Plaza now,
formerly the Tclenews Willard Wood,
chairman of trustees, reports the Billposters
Union has moved to 2428 Michigan Ave.
Ros.s Caccavalc, general manager of the
Studio Circuit, has successfully recovered
from the cold which was plaguing him.
Bruce Grcenhaw, our almost-neighbor
once, now projectionist at the Northland,
c.ilis to tell about the interesting showmansliip
things being done out there.
Newsman Sees Theatre
As Community 'Must'
From North Central Edition
ESTHERVILLE, IOWA— Following the
reopening of the Grand Theatre here and
the announcement of remodeling plans, the
Fstherville News editorialized as follows:
"If the day of the theatre in small communities
has come upon days of financial
woes, it may be time for a wholly new look
at theatre programming. There are perhaps
overlooked opportunities to provide entertainment
that attracts paying audiences.
"It is
good news that owners of the Grand
will not only reopen the theatre but also
will refurbish it, install more comfortable
seating and seek quality films for showing.
We are sure its confidence in demand for
theatre entertainment in the community is
not
misplaced.
"It is interesting that on college campuses
there has been a revival of such old classics
as Laurel and Hardy comedies, W. C. Fields
masterpieces and the mimicry of Charlie
Chaplin. This may have some significance
in measuring a changing public taste . . .
Could it be that the American people—and
small-towners in particular—are ready for
a rest from terror, perversion and off-color
humor?
"In making the theatre more comfortable
and placing emphasis upon quality productions,
the Grand Theatre ownership, it
would seem, cannot go wrong. But finding
the precise programming to draw good boxoffice
receipts is not simple by any means.
"Perhaps there are ways that the community
can assist to assure that theatre entertainment
survives the vicissitudes of changing
habits and mutations of taste. It is a
community problem, because every community
needs a theatre.
"Perhaps some broadening of the horizons
and appealing to the tastes of persons who
have lost touch with the cinema may produce
winning combinations of entertainment.
"The performing arts cannot be allowed
to perish as community public entertainment."
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—The downtown
Capitol Theatre has been sold by
Kansas City-based American Multi-Cinema
to the Central Realty Co., an affiliate of
Central Trust Bank. AM-CI recently opened
the Ramada 4 Theatres here.
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CINCINNATI
Jack Haynes, Cincinnati Theatres general
manager, is vacationing in England for
several weeks . . . Lorraine Inabritt. 20th
Centur\'-Fox booker, has returned from a
short vacation . . . Sue O'Brien, secretary
to Paramount branch manager William A.
Meier, has retired.
Susan Ellen Goldberg, 13. daughter of
Jay Cioldherg. JMG Film president, will be
Bat Mitzvah at a special service at Wise
Temple in mid-June.
HImrow visitors included Sam Diamond.
Cinerama district manager; Joe Wolfe. Avco
Embassy division manager; Bob Blitz,
branch manager. Cleveland; Jerry Grucnberg.
20lh-Fox Midwest district manager,
and William Lanese. publicist . . . Kentucky
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Ray Glover, Wurtland; James Denton.
Owensburg. and Marshall Mahaffie.
Beattyville . . . Bud Hughes. McKee. Ky..
exhibitor, and his wife also were in to attend
several baseball games at Crosley Field . . .
Ben Geary. Chakeres Theatres district manager.
Logan, also was a visitor on the Row.
. . .
Nancy Keyes, Paramount cashier, was in
Chicago for a company cashiers meeting
Times Towne Cinema held a champagne
premiere for "The Boys in the Band"
Tuesday. May 26. for a large invited audience.
Erich Segal, author of the best-selling
""Love Story."' was in town for appearances
on local TV stations to promote the book.
""Love Story" is being adapted for a Paramount
film by Segal and is scheduled for
December release.
Mel Stuart Set to Direct
Wolper-Quaker Oats Film
From Western Edition
HOLLYWOOD— Mel Stuart will direct
"Charlie and the Chocolate Soldier" for
David L. Wolper and the Quaker Oats Co.,
the latter the angel in the film business putting
up the coin for the children's novel
to be lensed as a family musical.
Munich, Germany, will be the location
for the production.
Conneaut Theatre May Be
Remodeled and Reopened
CONNEAUT. OHIO— Mayor Edward
Griswold, interested in reopening the presently
closed State Theatre, met recently
with Shea circuit owner Gerald Shea to discuss
the possibilities. Shea and building engineers
examined the theatre, shuttered for
five years, and estimated that a total of
$60,000 was needed to remodel the movie
house.
According to Griswold. Shea is interested
in renovating the building; however, he has
to be granted local financing on a 20-year
basis before work can begin. Griswold is
negotiating at the city's two banks concerning
financial arrangements.
Mayor Griswold said
the front portion of
the building would be remodeled, along with
the stage, restrooms and front seating area.
When asked by a reporter if he felt the city
would patronize a remodeled local theatre,
the mayor said he thought "the city would
support the theatre."
ME-4 BOXOFFICE ;; June 1970

Esquire Circuit Adds
Five More Theatres
BOSTON — The Esquire circuit, which
has home offices here, will open a new indoor
twin in Rome, N.Y., this month, start
construction soon on a three-theatre complex
in a Rhode Ishtnd regional shopping
center and carry out a six-week remodeling
project at a newly acquired theatre in Pawtucket,
R.I. Announcements of these projects
were made by circuit executive Steve
Minasian.
A gala opening is shaping up for the new
Fsquire Twin Cinemas on Black River
Boulevard in Rome Wednesday (17), Minasian
said.
The new triplex in Rhode Island will represent
Esquire's expansion in the North
Providence area as the site of the construction
will be the junction of Route 44 and
new Route 295. The complex is to be part
of the new Apple Valley Mall, a shopping
area which will include a hube enclosed
mall. The theatres to be built at the site will
be Cinema I and 2 (300 seats each) and
Cinema 3 (275). They will be only five
miles from the Rhode Island State House.
In Pawtucket, Esquire has acquired the
Fairmount Theatre, which is to be completely
renovated, freshly decorated and equipped
with new seats. At the same time the
parking lot is to be expanded. When ready
lor reopening, the Fairmount is to be Esquire
Cinema I
The above additions will bring to 19 the
number of Esquire units in the Providence
area.
E. M. Loew's in Hartford
Closed for UR Project
HARTFORD— E. M. Loew's Theatres
has shuttered the 1,500-seat, first-run. downtown
E. M. Loew's, preparatory to deniolishment
of a four-block tract for a multi-million
dollar Civic Center.
The ABC 1.900-seat Allyn. in the same
tract, was closed last October.
An E. M. Loew spokesman disclosed that
the independent company is looking into
other metropolitan Hartford sites. The circuit
will continue to operate the Hartford
and Farmington drive-ins.
Future plans for George E. Landers, the
theatre manager, were not disclosed. He had
managed the E. M. Loew's since the mid-
1930s.
Pickus Takes Economic Post
STRATFORD, CONN. — Albert M.
Pickus, owner of the Stratford Theatre and
past president of Theatre Owners of America,
has been elected the town's economic
development commission chairman.
'Anne of the Thousand Days Gains
Loffy 600 Level in Boston Debut
BOSTON—A cold wave and the teacher's
strike which closed half the city schools and
created an unexpected school holiday combined
to revive first-run business. It could
have been even better had not students' protests
and their .seeking of pledges and signatures
in front of downtown theatres kept
some patrons from buying tickets. "Anne
of the Thousand Days," with all the week's
pluses and minuses accounted for, came
up with a remarkable 600 at Cheri Two
the best percentage on the barometer.
"Woodstock" rang up another outstanding
score. 450 in its .seventh week at Cheri
One. and "M*A-S*H" showed 500 in its
seventh at the Charles. Other products were
scattered through the 75-250 range.
(Averoge Is 100)
Abbey End ot the Rood (AA), 4th wk 75
Astor The Boys in the Band (NGP), 8th wk 125
Center The Sidehackers (5R); The Wild Rebels
(SR) 120
Charles—M*A*S*H (20fh-Fox), 7th wk 500
Cheri One Woodstock (WB), 7th wk 450
Cheri Two Anne of the Thousond Days (Univ) . .600
Cheri Three Fellini Satyricon (UA), 7th wk 150
Circle Potton {20th-Fox), 10th wk 130
Exeter—Z (SR), 19th wk 175
Gory How to Succeed With Sex (SR) 250
Kenmore Sympathy for the Devil (SR), 2nd wk. 110
Music Hall The Ballad of Coble Hogue (WB),
2nd wk 150
Orpheum The Gomes {20th-Fox) 100
Paramount Airport (Uniy), 8th wk 250
Paris Cinema—The Walking Stick (MGM) 100
Pi Alley—Women in Love (UA), 4th wk 200
Pilgrim Scavengers (SR) Alimony Lovers (SR) ..160
Saxon Hello, Dolly! (20th. Fox), 10th wk 175
West End Cinema The Secret Lives of Romeo
and Juliet (SR), 2nd wk 1 70
'Woodstock' Nearly Doubles
Average in New Haven
NEW HAVEN — "Woodstock," second
week at the Whalley. was the best revenue
producer among first-run features on New
Haven screens. "Without a Stitch" also attracted
a substantial percentage of the theatre
trade, showing 150 for its second frame
at the Crown. Other bookings did well to
reach the vicinity of the average 100 level.
Bowl Day of Anger (NGP); Torzon's Jungle
Rebellion (NGP) 90
Cinemart— Hello, Dolly! (20th-FQx), 23rd wk 85
College Women in Love (UA), 2nd wk 70
Crown Without a Stitch (SR), 2nd wk 150
Lowrence Hot Spur (SR) 115
Lincoln Fellini Satyricon (UA) 100
Milford Cinema A Walk in the Spring Rain
(Col) 100
Showcase Cinema II The Magic Christian (CUE) 100
Showcase Cinema III—M'A'S'H (20th-Fox),
7th wk 65
Whalley Woodstock (WB), 2nd wk 175
'Woodstock' Outstanding 400
In Hartford Opening Week
H.XRTFORD — Three screen
programs,
out of the many available here, brought the
customers running and all three were firstweek
fare. "Woodstock." booked by the
Cinerama Theatre, packed the house wallto-wall
for a 400 start; "Bloody Mama"
tripled average in its Strand debut; "The
Sidehackers" and "The Hooked Generation."
making up a new double bill at the
Berlin and Meadows drive-ins, scored 120.
Art Cinema- Juliette dc Sadc (SR), 2nd wk 100
Berlin, Meadows The Sidchockers (SR); The
Hooked Generation (SR) 120
Berlin Cine II, Webster A Walk in the Spring
Roin (Col) 100
Burnside, Newington The Adventurers (Pora),
8th wk. 60
Cinema I—The Walking Stick (MGM) 100
Cinema II—My Lover, My Son (MGM) 100
Cineramo Woodstock (WB) 400
Elm— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), I 0th wk SO
Farmington, East Hartford, Hartford drive-ins
Night of Bloody Horror (SR), Astro Zombies
(SR) 100
Pons Cinema II, UA Theatre East M*A*S"H
(20th-Fox), 6th wk 70
Rivoli— Monique( Embassy), 2nd wk 100
Strand— Bloody Momo (AlP) 300
Annual Variety Golf
Outing in Westboro
WESTBORO, MASS.—The annual
movie
industry golf outing, sponsored by the
Variety Club of New England, will be held
here Monday (8) at the Indian Meadows
Country Club.
Attractive events have been arranged
for the entertainment of all attending: buffet
from noon until 1:30 p.m.. cocktails,
free hors d'oeuvres. swimming pool, steak
dinner and fabulous prizes. Golfers may tee
off anytime during the daylight.
People coming here from out of town for
the event are advised to take the Massachusetts
Pike to Route 495. then to Route 9 and
west to Indian Meadows.
The outing Variety committee is composed
of Mai Green, Bill Koster. Jim Mahoney,
Larry Herman, Irving Shapiro and Mike
Fleischer.
Using Hartford Dailies
HARTFORD— Redstone Theatres division
manager John P. Lowe is now carrying
a daily composite ad for Showcase Cinemas
1-2-3, Orange, and Showcase Cinemas
1-2-3. West Springfield. Mass., in the metropolitan
Hartford dailies. Both complexes
are within an hour's driving time from here.
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BOSTON
Ven Leonard, sales manager for the Kollmorgen
Corp.. called at Eddie Comi's
Massachusetts Theaire Supply as the first
stop on his trip through the Eastern U.S.
and Canada to visit theatre supply dealers.
Leonard said that the most interesting part
of his trip is describing a new type of lens
Kollmorgen has developed, particularly for
drive-in theatre, the lens being high speed
in diffusion of light.
The Kurzon brothers— Boh. Ken and
Newell—of the Graphic circuit have arranged
with architect Arthur Weinbaum
for extensive theatre jobs in two of their
Vermont situations. Bert Fedderman of the
Weinbaum office is supervising the installation
of a twin cinema on the site of the pres-
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HARTFORD
S Ifred Alperin, former manager of General
Cinema Corp."s 2,070-car capacity
Meadows Drive-In here, is now registrar
at the Housatonic Valley Community College.
His dad Mike, an industry pioneer,
lives in Miami Beach (1500 Bay Rd.) . . .
The independent Rialto, Windsor Locks,
has temporarily shuttered.
Harold Konover, president of HK Theatres,
is experimenting with dollar admission
policy from opening to 2 p.m., Mondays
through Saturdays, at the downtown
first-run Strand. Konover also promoted a
"Miss Swimming Pool" competition in conjunction
with the U.S. premiere of Avco
Embassy's "The Swimming Pool" at the
Strand. A local singer Midge Christopher
was crowned in ceremonies at an invitational
screening by Mayor Ann Uccello. Xds
played up the fact that the film is presented
"By the man who gave you "The Graduate."
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ABC's Central, West Hartford, and
GCC's Cinema I, Newington. distributed
Mario Thomas photos to early patrons lor
"Jenny."
Revenue, Earnings Drop
In Cinerama 1st Period
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Revenue and earnings for
Cinerama, Inc., dropped in the first quarter
of 1970. with operating revenues totaling
$11,284,652. compared to $ll,5«7,945 a
year earlier, and earnings before taxes of
$730,888, compared to $1,549,012, according
to president William Forman.
Net earnings dropped to $298,888. or
three cents p;r share, from $734,012, or
seven cents per share a year earlier. Forman
said the earnings drop was expected and resulted
primarily from a reduction in fil.Ti
and equipment rental revenue.
Results from the showings of "They
Shoot Horses, Don't They'.'" and "Too Late
the Hero," as well as those from an increased
number of releases later this year
will be shown principally in the third and
final quarters, Forman said.
"Investigation of a Private Citizen,"
Cannes Film Festival entry from Italy, is
the story of a police inspector driven to
murder by his mistress.
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BL Rl INti K)N. \1 I. iiK-m.i I .mil
Cinema II. l«o new theatres sharing a common
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here by SBC Management Corp., which operates
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Site of the dual theatres is the Burlington
Pla/a on ShelSurne Roail in South Burlington.
t)nl> quality first-run films are to be
Kvked for both units, according to circuit
spt>kesmen. Performances will start at 7 and
9:20 p.m. daily, supplemented by a 2 o'clock
matinee on weekends and holidays.
The cinemas will have wall-to-wall
screens, pushhack chairs, vibrant conleniporary
decor, year-round air conditioning
and acres for free parking. Other features
will include enclosed mall w.ilks and an art
gallery. Cinema I will be equipped to seat
300 patrons: Cinema II. 400.
VERMONT
The Mount View l)rivc-ln in Winooski advertised
in the Burlington Free Press
"Welcome. Vermont Musical Festival Lovers."
in announcing it was "proud to bring
back to this area the "star-crossed" lovers of
Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet.'" In
this nationally known skiing state, further
inducement to view the film was emphasized
with the promise that ""skiers and action fans
will thrill to the drama and excitement of
"D.twnhill Racer.' " the co-feature film.
There was a S2 adult admission price.
The \'crmont Development Board has
approved a contract with the Boston advertising
firm of Kenyon & Eckaidt to promote
tourism in Vermont. Donald Lyons
of Montpelier. promotion and travel chief
of the department, said over SIOO.OOO would
be spent on seasonal advertisements to attract
New Englanders and others into Vermont
for recreation and travel.
Theatre Request Is Tabled
.AVON. CONN.— 1 he twin zoning hoard
has tabled a request by Alexander Stieher
for construction of a twin motion picture
theatre complex in this Hartford suburb.
The project would be the first film facility
for Avon.
CORONARC
'Mr. Chips' Wins Praise
Of Manchester Publisher
\l \N( III SI 1 K. Nil Ihc muhUiii
\ersion of the motion picture. "Cioodh\e,
.Vlr. Chips."" has been given high praise in a
front page editorial in the Manchester Union
I eader written b\ the publisher. William
l.oeb.
The editorial read in pari:
"Just for a change of pace to lorgel
politicians who are scheming to rob the
taxpayers, crazy revoluiionisis who want
to o\erthrow the government and smut
peddlers and other diseased minds that bedevil
the U.S. today— let"s turn to a pleasant
subject—the motion picture, "(ioodhyc,
Mr. Chips."
"'If you h,i\eTi'l seen it \el. by all means
do so!
"'Older people might hesitate to sec this
updated version because the first version
was such a delight with Robert Donat and
Greer Garson in the leading roles. However,
any apprehensions that Hollywood might
have spoiled the modern version can be
forgotten.
"This motion picture is especially reci>niniended
to \ounger readers who might
ha\e obtained the idea, from recent films,
that relal unships between men and women
do not extend beyond carnal performances
in which love plays no part at all.
"'This picture, with the eternal human values
it expresses, is a refreshing change of
pace on the motion picture screens of the
U.S."
NEW HAVEN
^ownJown first-run Loew's College is experimenting
with a series of Tuesday
Italian-language programs . , . Columbia
branch manager Walter Silverman is now
reporting directly to New York metropolitan
district manager Eugene Margoluis in
a realignment of area administrative supervision
by the distributor. The move expands
operations of Columbia's newly created metropolitan
New York district.
Mike Johannes to New Post
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DENVER— Mike Johannes, manager of
the Nebraska Theatre. Lincoln. Neb., is
moving to Greeley. Colo., where he will
manage the Cooper I and 2. it was announced
by Cooper Theatres.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Culoniul Theutrc in Laconia attracted
a capacity crowd (he night of May 1.^
— not for a movie but for a talk by the Rev.
David Wilkerson. author of ""The Cross and
the Switchblade." who described his somelimes
happy and sometimes harrowing experiences
while working with drug addicts
in New York.
I'at O'Brien, sl.igc and screen star, was
the principal speaker at the annual Brotherhood
Awards dinner held by the New
Hampshire Chapter. National Conference
of Christians and Jews, at the Highway
Hotel in Concord May 21. During his acting
career, dating back to post-World War
I days. O'Brien has been honored for his
ability in the acting profession as well as
for his efforts to promote brotherhood. He
twice was named as Father of the Year.
The IVIaysles Bros.' new film, "Salesman."
was shown May 12 in the New Hampshire
College function room in Manchester under
sponsorship of the New Hampshire
College student senate. There was an admission
charge of $1.50 for the program.
New Hampshire's unemployment rate for
April was .^ per cent, compared with the
average national rate of 4.8 per cent, it was
reported by the New Hampshire Department
of Employment Security. State Employment
Security Commissioner Ben Adams
noted that New Hampshire has been
under the national average of unemployment
for the last ten years.
Student experimental films were the subject
of a special movie program in the
Spaulding Auditorium at Dartmouth College's
Hopkins Center in Hanover May 12.
13 and 16. It was a two-hour collection of
award-winning experimental films called
"Genesis 1." selected in the past two years
from outstanding student films.
'Darling Lili' to Premiere
In Hollywood June 24
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—The world premiere of
Paramount's "Darling Lili," a spoof of
World War I. has been set for June 24 at
the Pacific Cinerama Dome Theatre in
Hollywood on an exclusive, reserved-seat
basis. The Blake Edwards production, in 70-
mm Panavision and Technicolor, stars Julie
Andrews and Rock Hudson. Filmed in Dublin.
Brussels. Paris and Hollywood, the production
features eight new songs by Henry
Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
Whymcm to Network Cinema
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK—Roger A. Whyman, formerly
of the law firm of Whyman & Why-
the staff of Network Cine-
man, has joined
ma Corp. as general counsel for the real
estate department, it was announced by Gerald
Entman, Network Cinema president.
Whyman will be responsible for general
legal matters and all legal aspects of negotiations.
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NFB Leads Winners
Al NY Film Festival
MONTREAL—Canada's National Film
Board topped all producers at this year's
American Film Festival in New York with
the best film of all entries, as well as seven
other first prizes and a second. The Emily
Award, presented each year to the top film
of the festival, was won by Norman Mc-
Laren's "Pas de Deux." This imaginative
and artistic production from the NFB also
was judged the winner in the Film as Art
category. "Pas de Deux" now has won 1
awards in international competition.
Each year, over LOOO films around the
world compete in this, the world's largest
and most comprehensive, festival of 16mm
films. Now in its 12th year, the Ameri:an
Film Festival is sponsored by the Educational
Film Library Ass'n. This year's
competition was held May 12-16 at the
New York Hilton.
Other blue ribbons to the National Film
Board were presented to "Bing, Bang,
Boom," directed by Joan Henson, in the
music and dance category; "Rise and Fall of
the Great Lakes," directed by Bill Mason
(physical science and astronomy) "Boomsville,"
directed by Yvon Mallette (urban
problems), and "Matter of Survival," directed
by Bernard Devlin (economic, business
and labor).
Two films from the board's extensive
"Challenge for Change" program were
awarded first prizes. These were "Alinsky
Went To War" (social documentary, poverty
and welfare) and "You Are on Indian Land"
(social documentary, Indians). A second
prize red ribbon was awarded to "Juggernaut,"
directed by Eugene Boyko in the
geography and social studies category.
Roche Appointed Columbia
Operations Control Head
From Western Edition
HOLLYWOOD—John Roche has been
named director of operations control for
Columbia Pictures West Coast production
facilities, it was announced by Robert K.
Hagel,
vice-president.
Roche, who had been supervisor of the
construction and art departments, will now
direct all preproduction activities for both
motion picture and Screen Gems TV production
on the lot as well as at Columbia's
Burbank ranch. This will place several departments
under his immediate direction,
including set construction paint, grips, utility,
effects, electrical rigging, greenery, set
decorating and drapery.
Roche, who joined Columbia in 1932,
became superintendent of construction at
the ranch in 1935, moving over to the Hollywood
facility in the same capacity in
1944. He will continue to be in charge of
the assignment of all stage space at both
facilities.
Virna Lisi and George Segal star in 20th
Century-Fox's "The Girl Who Couldn't Say
No."
Tellini Safyricon Draws Strong
Support First Week in Montreal
MONTREAL— Attendance was fair al
most first-run theatres as the weather continued
on the cool side, the sharp breezes
discouraging people from devoting themselves
to outdoor activities. At the Cinema
Place Ville Marie, the initial week of the
well-publicized "Fellini Satyricon" drew
strong response.
Alouette Potton (20th-Fox), lOfh wk Good
Afwater Airport (Univ), 7th wk Good
Avenue Women in Love (UA), 2nd wk Good
Capitol Red (SR), 7th wk Good
Cinema Place Ville Marie Fellini Satyricon
(SR)
Excellent
Cinemo Westmount Square M'A'S'H (20th-Fox),
7th wk Good
Elysse (Resnais) More (SR), 1 7th wk Good
Elysee (Eisenstein) L'Arche (SR), 2nd wk Good
Kent Cactus Flower (Col), 7th wk Good
Loew's The Adventurers (Para), 8th wk Good
Good
Good
Palace
Parisien
Female Animal
L'Initiation
(SR),
(SR),
2nd
16th
wk
wk
Seville Anne of the Thousand Doys (SR),
12th wk Good
Cherry,
12th
Snowdon
wk
Harry and Raquel (SR),
Good
Vendome— Z (C-P), 27th wk Good
Westmount— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox), 23rd wk. .
.Good
York Woodstock (WB), 3rd wk Excellent
"Airport,' "Curious' and M*A*S*H'
All "Excellent' in Vancouver
VANCOUVER—While preholiday blues
were affecting most theatres, the Strand was
raking in the coins with "1 Am Curious
(Yellow)," the Odeon had a real winner in
"Airport" and the Park was kept busy with
New Production Ratio
Is Proposed by NFB
MONTREAL—Canada's National Film
Board, through its chairman Hugo McPherson,
has told the Canadian House of Commons
Broadcasting Committee that it has
proposed "an approach to parity" between
its English and French-language productions.
McPherson said the NFB had made
the proposal in a report to State Secretary
Gerard Pelletier (he answers in the House
of Commons on affairs of the NFB). The
report was part of a departmental review of
government film policy.
McPherson said the board "has decided,
as policy, that we would like an approach
to parity between French and English production."
This stand was attacked vigorously by
members of the opposition parties on the
committee, so McPherson said he would
change the term "parity" in the report to
"flexibility and balance" between French
and English.
David Orlikov, member for Winnipeg
North, led the opposition. He said the population
is not equally divided between English
and French and that parity would
amount to "equality-plus" for Frenchspeaking
Canadians. McPherson replied
that the relationship of French to English
production was a "fairly flexible matter"
and that the board did not propose a
"mechanical relation" of the two. He said
he was unwilling to use 50-50 as the standard
for parity but it was the board's inten-
.
customers eager to sec "M 'A"S*H."
Good
Capitol— The Last Grenade (IFD) _ ^
.^
Coronet— What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?
,(j^)
Above Average
Odeon—Airport (Univ), 7th wk I""!!!"'.
Pork- M-A-S'H {20th Fox), 7th wk Excellent
Ridge— A Nice Girl Like Me (IFD) ..... ^a"
.
Stanley— Point Your Wagon IPora), 28th wk Fair
Strand 1 Am Curious (Yellow) (SR),
txceiieni
2nd wk
Vogue- Marooned (Col)
Above Average
'M*A*S*H' Repeats "Excellent'
Business in Winnipeg 8th
WINNIPEG—Business continued steady,
with little change from the previous two
weeks. Leaders continued to he the long
holdovers, with little assistance from the
three new pictures. "M*A*S*H," ending its
second month, again was "excellent," while
"Butch Cassidy," "Airport," "Cactus Flower"
and "1 Am Curious (Yellow)" were unchanged
from the preceding week and still
carried very good ratings. "Let It Be." the
Beatles' latest film, was strong.
Downtown—A Long Ride From Hell (IFD), Hot Rod
- - . ..
f 1 P Pi
Garr'ck"l— rOir
\ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(20th-Fox), 27th wk Very Good
Garfick ll-Airport (Un,v), 8th wk ... .Very Good
King's-Anne of the Thousand Days (Univ),
^^^^
No^rth Star I—The Lawyer (Para), 2nd wk Good
North Star II— Hello, Dolly! (20th-Fox),
^vtruycr .„p^„_
1 I th wk
°r '^^^M.^i^\2oth-Fox,,- 8.h wk.- -."f .^;s:?
Towne—Camille 2000 (Emp) Average
tion to move closer to a 50-50 split.
McPherson said the NFB frequently
makes films on such groups as the Italian
communities of Montreal and Toronto and
native peoples.
Marcel Martin, director of the NFB's
Ottawa office, said that French production
previously formed only 12 per cent of the
board's output.
The NFB officials were appearing before
the committee in its review of the budget
estimates of the board. The government has
frozen the appropriations of the NFB at
$10,000,000 for 1970-71 or the same as in
the last two fiscal years.
20th-Fox to Distribute
'Four Clowns' in Fall
From Eastern Edition
NEW YORK.—Robert Youngson's "Four
Clowns" has been acquired for worldwide
distribution by 20th Century-Fox. which will
release it in the fall. Rare footage has been
selected from the careers of a quartet of
comedians. Buster Keaton, Charley Chase,
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The team
of Laurel and Hardy is seen both as individual
performers and as co-stars.
A two-time .Academy .Award winner,
Youngson has produced and written "Four
Clowns," with a narration by Jay Jackson
and a music score by Manny Alban. Fox
previously released Youngson's compilations
of silent footage entitled "When Comedy
Was King" (1960), "Days of Thrills and
Laughter" (1961), "30 Years Of Fun" (196.t)
and "The Further Perils Of Laurel and
Hardy" (1967).
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^hc pri-niit-re shovving of a locally made
tnovic at France Films' St. Denis and
Bijou theatres is expected to draw good
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crowds. It is Claude Fournier's "Deux
Femmes en Or," a color film depicting the
lives of two suburban women and starring
an extra-long list of well-known Montreal
actors. To mark the beginning of the career
of the motion picture, a most unusual
locale was chosen for its initial showing
the staid Bank of Montreal's main office on
Si. James Street West.
Local radio station CJMS reportedly is
entering the film distribution business. Reports
said that Pierre David, the official
mainly responsible for this departure of the
radio station from its usual policy, said,
"We plan to take about two years to see if
we are successful." The CJMS management
;\ said to be working in close collaboration
with a local circuit of movie houses. According
to an unofficial report, the circuit is
Odeon of Canada, with which CJMS participates
at present in a number of promotion
schemes. Pierre David also said that eventu-
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the plans are not far advanced in that matter.
Arthur Lamothe has just finished editing a
95-minute film entitled "Le Repris N'Aura
Qu'Un Temps" (working fitle, "Requiem
Pour une Ville"). The film was produced by
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the Societe Generale Cinematographiqiie for
a local labor syndicate Denis Heroux,
highly successful maker of "Valerie" and
"L'Iniliation," is well under way in his latest
. . . Claude
production, which has as its working title
"L'Amour Humain." The picture is a Denis
Heroux-Cinepix co-production
Jutra, whose "WOW" had a good career
locally, has finished shooting a short film
entitled "Marie Christine" (35mm color for
theatrical release) on the underground .section
of Montreal's downtown area . . . Larry
Kent is back on his feature film project,
abandoned last summer, "Triple Bill," in
collaboration with Frank Leflaguais. Shooting
is expected to begin .soon.
Ritz Plans May Opening
From Western Edition
SOLEDAD, CALIF. — Roy Martinez,
operator of the Rio Theatre here, has announced
a May opening for the Ritz Theatre
in Huron. The 700-seat house will show
Spanish-language films until September.
Jerry Paris directed National General
Pictures' "The Grasshopper."
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Craig Named JLC Director
For Western Washington
From Western Edition
Ol.Y.MPIA, WASH.—Jerry Craig, Olympia
restaurant owner, has been named as
western Washington area director to offer
franchises for a circuit of Jerry Lewis Cinemas
by Network Cinema Corp. of New
York. Craig said plans call for establishing
about 20 theatres in the western Washington
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AFI Center to Award
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NEW YORK—John Wayne has won the
Golden Saddleman Award of the Western
Writers of America as "The Man Who Has
Contributed Most to the History and Legend
of the West," he was informed on the Tucson,
Ariz., location of Howard Hawks'
Cinema Center film "Rio Lobo" by awards
committee chairman Nelson Nye.
The statuette will be presented at the organization's
convention in North Platte,
Neb., June 18.
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AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX
4239 ©Ace High (122) ® W Para 10-20-S9 B A2
4268 ©Activist, The (86) D Univ 2-23-70 ®C
©Adalen '31 (U5) ® D Para 11- 3-69 ® A4 +
++ tt 6+
4236 ©Adding Machine, The (100) F Univ 9-29-69 H A3
± + 4+3-
4280 ©Adventurers, Tlie (171) Ad D Para 4- 6-70 H B + = = ± + 3+6-
4262 ©Age of Consent (98) CD Col 2- 2-70 IH B + + + 4+
4268 4Ji©Airport (137) D Univ 2-23-70 Ifil A3 + + + ++ ++ 8+
4230 ©Alfred the Great (125) ® Hi MGM 9- 8-69 m A3 +
+ + 4+1-
4285 ©Cycle Savages, The
(82) Cycle D AIP 4-27-70 B ± = 2+8-
4235 ©All Neat in Black Stockings
(96) CD NGP 9-29-69 B B ± i: =t i: ± 5+5-
American Revolution 2
(80) Doc Cannon 9-15-69 + + ^
:t + 5+2-
4254 ©Anne of the Thousand Days
(143) ® Univ 12-22-69 M A3 + + H H 7+1-
4232 ©Arabella (91) C Univ 9-15-69 Kl A3 ± + + 3: 4+2-
4246 ©Arrangement. The (133) (g D WB 11-24-69 El B ± + ± + 6+4-
4240 ©Artful Penetration, The
(86) Sex D
—B—
Audubon 10-20-69 ®C -f
3+4-
4275 ©Ballad of Cable Hogue, The
(120) WC WB 3-23-70 EJB ± + ±±++ + 7+3-
©Band of Assassins
(121) Samurai D Toho 5-18-70 +
2+
4239 ©Bed Sitting Room, The (90) C UA 10-20-69 m A3 ± +
+ 5+3-
4292 ©Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(94) ® SF 20th-Fox 5-25-70 El
4+2-
4260 ©Black Veil for Lisa, A (88) Cr CUE 1-26-70 IB
5+5-
4257 ©Bloodthirsty Butchers
(79) Ho Mishkin 1-12-70 El +
1+
4279 ©Bloody Mama (90) D AIP 4-6-70 m B + + - 4+ + 6+2-
4270 ©Bora Bora (90) ® D AIP 3- 2-70 El C ± 2+2-
4258 ©Boy Named Charlie Brown, A
(85) Animated C NGP 1-12-70 B| Al + + + ± =t ff 7+2-
4286 ©Boy of Two Worlds
(88) D G G Productions 4-27-70 m Al -f + 2+
4275 ©Boys in the Band, The
(120) CD NGP 3-23-70 El A4 H +
4282 ©Brotherly Love (112) D MGM 4-13-70 m A4 + -
++ -H tt -(- 10+
+ + + + S+1-
©Bullet Wound (93) D Toho 5- 4-70 + ± 2+1-
—C—
4278 ©Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
(106) ® D MGM 3-30-70 m ++ + ± + 5+1-
Cat and Mouse (92) Melo ..Grove 3- 2-70 +
± 3+3—
4242 ©Change of Habit (93) CD Univ U- 3-69 IS + + + + 5+
4287 ©Cherry, Harry & Raquel
(71) Sex CD Eve 5- 4-70
3+5-
4259 ©Circus, The (72) C UA 1-26-70
1+
Civilization (104) Doc . . .Time-Life 4- 6-70
1+
4285 ©Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, The
(100) WC Univ 4-27-70 Bj Al
3+2-
4243 Coming Apart
(UO) D Kaleidoscope Film U-10-69 ® C + ±
- 3+5-
4257 ©Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The
(90) C BV 1-12-70 El Al
H + 7+
4280©Cowards (89) Melo Jaylo Infl 4- 6-70 H -
3f3-
4289 ©Crimson Cult, The (87) Ho ..AIP 5-11-70 GP A3 + + ± 5+3-
4245©Day of Anger (112) ® W ...NGP 11-24-69 |al A3
©Degree of Murder, A (87) Melo Univ 9-29-69 El B
4237-©de Sade (113) AIP 10-13-69 (£ C
©Deserter and the Nomads, The
(103) War Royal 10-20-69
Destroy, She Said
(100) D Ancinex/Madeleine 5- 4-70
Devil by the Tail (93) C UA 7-21-69
4284 ©Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl
(108) D AA 4-20-70 GP A3
4277 Dionysus in '69 (90) D ..Sigma III 3-30-70 (g)
4245 ©Don't Drink the Water (98) C Emb 11-24-69 m
4241 ©Downhill Racer (102) D Para 11- 3-69 IH
4253 ©Dream of Kings, A
(107) ® a NGP 12-22-69 H
4282 ©Dreamer, The (86) D Cannon 4-13-70 H
4261©Dunwich Horror, The (90) Ho AIP 2- 2-70
—I—
Early Works (87) D Grove 5-18-70
4266 ©End of the Road (111) D AA 2-16-70 (
4280 ©Every Bastard a King
(91) D Confl 4-6-70 A3 +
+ + -f
4+1-
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42S6 OMa^iHii't Millioia (79) CO ..AlP
41 Ulan. TIK (95) C ..CUE
4^ rj HofU. A
...... K W NOP
4237 OMxawt (95) Halo MCM
4248 0MVMM4 (124) if> M Col
QUtniti CoupU (97) Oot Aguviui
42620II*A*S*H (Ul) it C ..20th-roi
4274 OMn'invr. The (lOS) iS> W ..UA
OMilkjr Wo. Th< (105)
Rili«ioia AI U-H Film
42S3 QMiuiuiPpi Unnim (110) s D UA
4259 0H*II|> Mnx'M. Tbt
(12J) R P«r»
4244 eHMilort. The (92) C Sitirt ..CUE
42SS OMoon Zt" Tm (100) SF WB
Houchtttt (80)
Melo Cinema Ventures
OHiduir (84) Milo ..Haien Int'l
4265 QMuaiy. Ninn>, Sonny A Girly
(101) Mo C CRC
4271 QUy Loter. My Son (98) D .MGM
My Night at Mauil'i (105) ..Pathc
1- 5-70 n A2 ±
2-23-70 H B
Nalie4 HcorU {la Coeun Verts) (90)
Semi-Doc Altura 5-25-70
4232 0K>'«> Puruit
(73) Melo Boiollice Int'l 12-15-69
42410Naru Men. The (95) Ac RAF Inil. 11- 3-69 m
QNiiM •( Uic Scaaull, The
(90) Melo Toho 3-9-70 A3
«S9 ONorrromi (96) CO Para 5-11-70 g A3
4271 ONotorlous Cleopatra, The
(88) Melo Boxoflice Int'l 3-9-70
4273eNitn at the Cro»roads (100) D Uni» 3-16-70 GP A3
4234 OOhl What a Loiely War
(U9) t> MF Para 9-22-69 SS A2
4230 OOnce You Kisi a Stranger
(106) Melo WB 9- 8-69 a A3
4253 OOn Her Majesty's Secret Senice
(142) I Ac UA 12-22-69 M A3
4264O0nly Gaae In Town, Tha
. . Dorowite 3-16-70 A4
1113) CO 20th-Fox 2- 9-70 M A3
©Other Voices (100) Doc
4246 Oat of It (97)
4276
CO UA U-24-69 B A3
OOut-ol-Tov>ners. The (98) C . . Para 3-23-70
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g)
4277 0PaiJily (97) C AA 3-23-70 GP B
4242 ©Paint Your Wagon (166) ® M Para 11- 3-69 B A3
Passenger
(Pasaurka)
(60) s D Altura 5-25-70
4264 UOPatton (170) ® War ..20th-Fo> 2- 9-70 GP A2
Peach Thief (84) Brandon 9-22-69 A3
4290OPhymi, The (91) Satire WB 5-11-70 GP
OPIeasure Game, The (78) Sex Eve 5-18-70 %
Portrait of Hell (95) Jap. Melo Toho 12-15-69
4279 OPussycat, Pussycat, I Lon You
(100) Sex C UA 4- 6-70 GP B
—«—
.NGP 12- 8-69 H A3
4250ORei»ers. The (107) (R C . . .
Rilen (75) Janus Films 9-29-69
4286 ©riierrun (87) Melo Col 4-27-70 B) A3
4240 ©Royal Hunt ol the Sun, The
(113)

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(g) Panavision; ® Techniromo; (§) Other onomorphic processes. Symbol O denotes 60X0FFICE Blue Ribbon
Aword; Q Color photogrophy. Letters ond combinations thereof indicate story type—(Complete key on next
page.} For review dotes ond Picture Guide poge numbers, see REVIEW DIGEST.
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ARTISTS
AMERICAN INT L 3 1=
AVCO EMBASSY
BUENA VISTA
CINERAMA
©Two Gentlemen Sharing
(106) D
Judy (Jetson, BoblD PbllUps
S918
©Chtnge of Mind (103) ..Sus..U£
Raymond St. Jacques, Buaan Oliver O
o
CO
©La Femme Infidele (100) D..6902
Stephane Audran
©Truman Capote's Trilogy
(100) D..6908
Mildred Natvdck. Maureen Stapleton,
Oeraldine Page, Martin Balmn
©Angel, Angel, Down We Go
(93) D..6910
Jennifer Jones, Jordan Cbristopber
©Don't Drink the Water (98) . C.
Jackie Gleadon, Bstelle Paraoos
o <
©Fearless Frank (79) C..e921
Jon Volgbt, Monlque Van Tooren
(Shown In combination with)
©Madigan's Millions (79) C. .6914
Dustln Hoffman, EHsa MartlneUl.
Cesar Romero
©Krakatoa. East of Java
(127) ® Ad.. 071
Maximilian Schell. Brian
Keith (General Releaae)
©They Shoot Horses, Don't _
They? (120) D..225:ro
Jane Fonda. Michael Sarrazin jg
(Selected engagements)
©The Dunwich Horror
(90) Ho. 6911
Sandra Dee, Dean fltockwell
©Savage Wild. The
(103) ® Ad.. 6923
Qordon Baatmao (Bi>edal Release)
©To Commit a Murder
(91) D..126
Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger
©Jenny (90) D..233
Mario Thomas, Alan Alda
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©Enil of the Roail (111) . .0. .7001
Btse; Keach, James Earl Jones,
Harris TuUn, Doroth; Tristu
©Scream and Scream Again
(94) Ho.. 6922
Vlnceot Price, Ckristopber Lee
©Bon Bora (90) Sex D..S90e
Hiydee PoUtoff, Corrtdo Paiil
©A Time for Giving (formerly titled
'Generation") (104) C
.
David Janasen, Carl Reiner
©The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
(93) C..221
Kurt Busaeli, Oear Romero
©They Shoot Horses, Don't Theyt
(120) D..225
Jane Fonda. Michael Sarrtiln
(General Release)
The Honeymoon Klllert
(108) 0..136
Shirley Btoler, Tony Lo Bianco
(Reviewed as AIPs 8-22-69)
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©Bloody Mama (70) D..7001
Shelley Winters, Pat Hlngle
©Explosion (96) D..6919
Don Stroud, (3ordon Thomson,
Richard (^onte
©Monique (86) Sex D.
Sibylla Kay, Joan Alcorn
©A Long Ride From Hell
(94) D..104
Steve Reeves. Wayde Preston
©The Last Grenade
(94) ® Ad.. 131
Stanley Baker, Alex Cord
>
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©Diary of a Schizophrenic
Girl (108) D..6904
(ihlalslne lyOraay, Margarita Lozaoo
©Horror House (79) Ho.. 7002
Frankle Avalon, Jill Haworth
(In combination with)
©The Crimson Cult (57) Ho.. 6814
Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee
©King of the Grizzlies (93) Ad.
John Yesno, Qiris WIgglna
222
><
©Cycle Savages (82) Ac. 7003
Bruce Dem, Melody Patterson
©Paddy (97)
Des Cave, MUo O'Shea
..CD.. 7002
©24-Hour Lover (..) C. .7005
Harald Leipniti, Sibylle Marr
(Special Release)
©Wedding Night (..) ....O..70O6
Tessa Wyatt, Dennis Waterman
©The Man Who Had Power
Over Women ( .
Rod Taylor, Carol White, James
Bootb
. ) D
©Rider on the Rain {..) Cr.
Charles Bronson, Marlene Jobert
©Suppose They Gave a War and
Nobody Came (113) ....C..234
Tony Curtis. Ernest Borgnlno
(Pre-Release)
©Too Late the Hero
(133) (S^ War 0..213
Michael Caine. CUff Robertson
(Pre- Release)
> -<
©Wife Swappers (..) D..
James Donnelly, Valerie St. John
©Count Yorga, Vampire { . . ) . . Ho .
Michael Murphy, Robert Quarry
©The Swimming Pool (87) Cr.
Alalo Delon, Romy Schneider
©Sunflower (105) D..
Sophia Loren.- Marcello MastrolannI
©Suppose They Gave a War and
Nobody Came (113) ....C..234
(General Release—See May)
©Cry of the Banshee (..) ..Ho.
Vincent Price, Robert Hutton
©A Bullet for Pretty Boy
(..) D.
Fabian Forte, Joccljn Lane
7010
©Soldier Blue (..) Hi.
Candice Bergen. Peter Strauss
©The Sporting Club ( . . ) .
Robert Fields. Maggie BIyo
.Ad.
©Boatniks (100) C. .227
Robert Morse, Stofanie Powers,
Phil Silvers
©Too Late the Hero
(133) ® War D .213
(General Release—See May)
©The Beast Must Die D.
aaude Chabrol
©Invasion of the Body
Stealers (..) SF..6906
(}eorg« Bandera, Maurice Evam
©GAS! Or It Became Necessary
to Destroy the World in Order
to Save It CD
Robert Corff, Klaine Glftos
©Legion of the Damned D
Jack P.'Uance, Thomas Hunter
©Unchained
Don Stroud, Luke Askew
©Up in the Cellar C
Wes Stern. Joan Collins
D
©Macho Callahan W.
David Janssen. Jean Seberg
©The People Next Door D.
Ell Wallach. Julie Harris
©Promise at Dawn Hi.
Melina Mercouri, A.-saf Dayan
©The Road to Salina D
Mlmsy Farmer, Robert Walker Jr.
©The Ski Bum D
Zelman King, (3iarIotte Rampllng
©Aristocats (78)
(Animated)
Mc.
©Ask Agamemnon 0..141
Jud.v Geeson. Martin Potter
©How Do I Love Thee (5^ .C..226
tackle Gleason. Shelley Winters
©A Last Valley D. 232
Michael Calne. Omar Sharif
©Mumsy. Nanny. Sonny &
Girly (101) C..139
Michael Bryant. Ursula Hnwells
. 138
©Tomorrow M .
Olivia NcvrtonJohn. Karl Chambeis
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Th» key to l*«t*rt and combination! tharoof Indkatlng ttory ty»«: (Ad) Adrantora Dranra; (Ae) Action
Dromo; (An) Animated-Action; (C) Comody; (CD) Comody-Oramo; (Cr) Crim* Drama; (DM) Drama with
Muilc; iDoc) Documonlorv; (D) Dromo; (F) Fontoty; (Ho) Horror Dromo; (OD) Outdoor Droma; (S) SpactacI*;
(SF) Science Fiction; (Spy) Spy Dromo; (HI) Hlitorlcol Dromo; (Mclo) Melodrama; (M) Musical; (My) Mystery
Dromo; (Sui) Suspense Dromo; (Wor) Wor Dromo; (W) Western.
COIIIMBIA
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CONTINENTAL
M-G-M
NATIONAL GEN L
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aurlry tkUo. Richard (ktaoa
©Alfred the Great (125) (B D .7004
David llrmnilngs. Michael York
©A Place (or Lovers (90) D..7003
Paye Dunaway. Marcello MastrolannI
©All Neat in Black Stockings
(96) D..6903
Susan (Jeorge, Victor Bcnry
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OCactw FlMW (103) ... COU
Wilt«r MitUau. Inpld Berman
SHanItt (114) D..017
Mm! WIlllusDO. Mulinnr
FilUinill
OThe Monitors (92) C. .6910
Oij Storkwell. Siisan Olher
©Thi Day the Hot Lint Got Hot
(100) Spy C..6B11
Cliarlea Boirer. Robert Tajrlor
UOVIn Max! (92) C..6914
Peler Cstlnof. Tainela Tlfflo.
Jonathan Winters
War and Peace (373) 0..851
T^t'o parts; General Release
LudmlUa Bavclyera
OOThe Christmas Tree
(110) D..g64
WUUam Holden. Vlma Usl. Andre
Bourrll
l>©Goodbye. Mr. Chips
(156) M..7050
Pel or O'Toole. Petula Clark
©The Gypsy Moths (110) Ac. 7006
Riirt Lancaster. Deborah Kerr
©Marlowi (95) My. .7005
Jame.1 (Jarner, (]arle Hnmlciitt
©Hail, Hero! (100) D. 6914
Mlcliael Douglas. Arthur Kennedy,
Teresa WrlRlit
(Olnema Center)
©The Royal Hunt of the Sun
(113) D. .6909
Robert Shaw, Oiristopher Plummer
(Cinema Center)
(Limited Engagements)
©The Reivers (107) (g) ..C..6912
Steve McQueen. Sharnn Farrell
(General Release)
OTiger by the Tall (99) .7002
.
Cbrlslopber Ueorge. Dean Jacaer
©Johnny Cash: The Man. His
World, His Music (97) Dec. .865
©Flareup (98) Sus. .7008
Raquel Welch, James Stacy
©. . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . .
..(97) (E) D..7009
Jin Brown. (]«orge Keuwdr
©A Dream of Kings
(107) (B D..6910
Anthony Qulnn. Irene Papas
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Jiaes Mhoo. Heleo Mlrres
OTht Magic
Christian (95) ..C Satire. .7001
Peter Sellers. Rlo(o Btair
©Zabrlskle Point (112) (g> D..7007
Mark Frechette. Darla Halprtn
©Hirwnrt (134) (f) Ad.. 016
(kttfn Pec», BWurd Ctenni
OVIrfln Soldltn, Thi
(9S)
D..Oia
Ljoo RedtraK, Hjirel Bcnxtt
©Full (92) Satire. 6913
la Mana Troupe
©My Lover, My Son (96) D..7010
Romy Setmelder, Dennis Wsteraun
©Five Man Army (107) ..Ac. 7014
Peter (Trares, James Daly
©A Boy Namid CharlU
Brown (85) An. .7002
(F^Jl Length Animation)
(Cinema Center Films)
(Limited engagements)
a.
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'i«>«
D..005
STIn Ubtration e< L. B. Jons
(104) D..020
Ue J. (bbb. Loll Palina
OUiinQ (90) 019
(5»rtt 8«aJ. Bra Marie Saint
Orntrnm (57) 0Z2
Jota MdJaB. loriie Otw
9A Walk In the String Rain
(98) (?l
D.oa
Anihony Qutnn, Inerld Brrtnnn
I BTlio Reckoning (108) D
Weol Wnilamtm. Rachel Roberta
©The Promise ( .
. ) D . . 7005
Ian McKellen. Susao Macready
©Venus In Furs (86) Sex D..7004
James Darren. Barbara McNalr
©Battle of the Commandos .
(..) War. .7006
Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter
©Triangle (..) D..7007
Ra; Danton. Dana Wjnter
©Strangers at Sunrls*
(•) Ac. .7008
Oenrge HonKomerr, Deana Martlo
©Every Bastard a King (91) D..866
Pier Angell. WUllam Berjer
©An Event (90) D..868
Pavle Vulsle. Sergio Mlmtca
©An Elephant Called Slowly
(91) D. .867
Virginia McKenna, Bill Trarers
©The Walking Stick
(101) (R D..7011
David Hemmljigs, Sam&ntha Eggar
©Captain Nemo and the
Underwater City
(106) S) Ad.. 7017
Rot)ert Ryan. Oiuck Connors
©Zigzag (104) ® D..7013
George Kennedy. Ell Wallacb
©Brotherly Love (112) ..D..7018
Peter O'Toole, Susannah York
©The Magic Garden of Stanley
Sweetheart (..) CO.. 7020
Unda OllIlD. Don John. D..023
Oeorfe Peppard, Joaa OoUlin
©Battle of Neretva (145) 0.7010
Yul Brynner. Orson fVelles
©The Delta Factor (91) ..D..570
Yvette MImleux. Christopher Oeorte
0The Strawberry Statement
(107) D..7021
Bruce Davison. Kim Darby
©A Boy Named Charlie Brovm
(85) An. 7002
(General Release—See March)
©The Boys In the Band
(120) CD. 7004
(General Release—See April)
OHuttuds (..) 0.
B»fl Razuri. Pet»r Falk
©You Can't Win 'Eiii All Ad.
Tbny (Sirtls. Charles Brarwn
©Tilt Invincible Six (90) ..D..S69
Stuart Whitman. Eike Sommer
©Kelly's Heroes (?) C. .7022
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FEATURE
CHART
PARAMOUNT
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OOnl wnat • Lmely Vnr
(135) C..6901
Laurence OUrler, Michael BedfraTe
ODownhlll Racv (102) ..Ac. 6910
Robert Redrord, Gene Hackssan
20TH-FOX
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©Butch Cassidy ana tlie Sundance
Kid (110) (g) CW..915
Paul Newman, Katlurlne Rosa
©A Walk with Love and
Death (90) D..918
Anjellca Huston, Aasat Daran
OPaint Your Wagon
(166) (E) M..S902
Iie« Marvin, (Hlot Baatwood
©Those Were the Happy Timet
OThe Sterili Cuckoo
(120) M..980
(107) CO.. 6804 (tonnerl; "Starl")
Liza MlnnelU. Wendell Burton
Julie Andrena, Richard Oenu
©The Undefeated (119) ...W .919
John Wayne. Bock Hudson
U NITED ARTISTS
©The Battle of Britain
BAs
(133) War.. 6923
Michael Calne. Laureuce Ullner
©The File of the Golden Goose
(105) Cr..e925
Tul Brynner, Charles Glray
©Secret of Santa Vittoria
(13«) C..6927
©The Bed SIttInt Room
(90) 0.-6929
UNIVERSAL
©Change of Habit (93) ..C..6927
Mary Tyler MtKire, Blvln Presley
WARNER BROS.
©The Gooa buys ano tat Baa
Guys (90) CW..957
Bobert Mltchun, Oeorie Kennedy
©rhe Miowoman of Challlot
(132) CD.. 956
Katharine Hepburn. Bdltk Biaia
^The Ram People (102) ..D
Shirley Knlitht. Janes Caan
.954
©83 Steps to Jonah (107) D. .963
. .
Wayne Newt

ALASKAN AOVCNTURES
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AQUARIUS
AUDURON
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FILMS
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Oati
Dx ..NotfiS
. . ( ) ...0.. Jul 70
V _..11L rr«n» Wolf!
Olil« ' .' l/mj. DxBir l^aanltr Tht Hard Road Jan 70
rNcf 3Ki Sht uid HiB
(»»(' 0. .Jrni 70 A Boy. A Girl Feb 70
FANFARE FILMS
OThe Losefs (95) War D .
G. G. PRODUCTIONS
BoxoFFicc mrt
OFishinp. U.S.A.
CTht S«'»t S«« Li>M o( Hom«o jnd
Juliet (96) S« C. Jin 70
,
May 70
(110) Ad.. Apr 70
OCraiy Baby (80 ....D.May 70
lUcky Shane
©Weekend Wixes (90) .0. Juno 70
Sandra Mllci. Jean Sorcl
©Le Viol (The Rape)
(90) 0. June 70
BibI An(tcrsson
OBoy of T*o Worlds
(88) D. .Apr 70
GERALD FINE PRODUCTS
©Talent for Lme D . .Sep 69
GOLDSTONE
Nov 69
©The Ruthless Four D . .
Van Renin. Gilbert Roland, Sarah
Ro«a
GROVE PRESS
The Funniest Man in the World
(90) Doc. Jan 70
Narration: Doujlas Fairbanks Jr.
Float Like a Butterfly,
Sting Like a Bee (94) Doc . . Dec 69
HALLMARK OF
HOLLYWOOD
©Uncle Tom's Cabin
(118) © D.
Herbert Lots. Jobn Kltanlller
HOLLYWOOD STAR
PICTURES
©Free Grass (83) ...Ac. Oct 69
Richard Bej-mer. Bius Tambljn
©Is This Trip Really Necessary!
(*») C.Apr 70
Peter Dtiryea. Marvin MDler
©Violent Breed (84) ..Ac. Jul 70
Ron Hacan. K. Tbordsen
INDEPENDENT INT'L
©Satan's Sadists (86) Ad . . Dec 69
Buss Tamblyn, Scott Brad;
JAYLO INT'L FILMS
©Cowards (89) Melo Apr 70
John Ross, Su.

Opinions on Current Productions
^EATURE REVIEWS
Symbol S) denotes color; c CinemoScope p Ponovition; ;*i^ Tctchniromo; j;i other onamorphic processes. For story tynopste on eoch pictur*, m« rwofva sMo.
BARQUERO
United Artists (7012)
Gl
Western
©
108 Minutes Rel. June '70
In the Colorado -filmed "Baiquero," Lee Van Cleef
proves to be as effective an anti-hero as he was a villain
in many Italian-made westerns in the past half dozen
years. A good oater in the adult vein. "Barquero" looks
like a pleasing item for the outdoor market. Although lots
of actors get killed, the emphasis is on action rather than
gore. Director Gordon Douglas has done a workmanlike
job and has managed to get in some psychological angles
without letting the story stray too far. Forrest Tucker all
but steals the show as a grizzled old trapper; he gives aU
the indications of becoming a major character actor with
his comedy performance here. Also acquitting theinselves
well as villains are Kerwin Mathews and Warren Gates,
although the latter has to struggle with a role as a bandit
leader full of nemoses. The women, Mariette Hartley and
Marie Gomez, impress, especially the well-endowed Miss
Gomez. As a captive, John Davis Chandler overcomes his
lack of dialog to create an interesting character. The
story, by George Schenck and William Marks, wastes no
time getting into action. Hal Klein produced for executive
producer Aubrey Schenck. Color by De Luxe.
la,/
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The Cross and the Suitvhitlade GP
Drama
O
Dick Ross & Associates 106 Minutes Rel. June '70
As produced by Dick Ross and megged by Don Muiray
in his directorial debut, this message film will require
strong selling to religious and civic groups interested in
the almost insoluble problems of ghetto life. Ba.sed on the
autobiographical novel by David Wilkerson, on which John
and Elizabeth Sherrill collaborated, the film casts Pat
Boone as the small town preacher who comes to the
streets of Harlem to mediate and resolve the differences
between warring gangs. Boone's portrayal is tempered by
a naive honesty that makes his role entirely convincing.
With Murray directing from his own and James Bonnet's
screenplay, some excellent performances are tui'ned in
by the off-Broadway talent utilized in the New Yorkbased
production. Erik Estrada and Don Blakely are aptly
cast as the warlords of the opposing factions, led by Gil
Frazier and Dino DePiUppi. Jo-Ami Robinson gives a
stand-out performance in comedy relief as the self-reliant
black girl who would rather live in the streets than in
her crowded home, and Jackie Giroux is uncannily believable
as Estrada's girlfriend eventually cm-ed of heroin
addiction. Realistic locations enhance the Eastman Color
photography.
Lee Van Cleef, Forrest Tucker, Warren Gates, Kerwin
Mathews, Mariette Hartley, Marie Gomez.
Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Dino De Filippi, Don Blakely,
Jo-Ann Robinson, Jackie Giroux. Gil Frazier.
THE GRASSHOPPER \K
Drama
©
National General (7001) 95 Minutes Rel. May '70
New star Jacqueline Bisset, fresh from her prominent
role in "Airport," sets her place in the firmament in the
title role of this Technicolor production, a delineation
for which she was named top female star of the year at
Show-A-Rama 13. Portraying a young woman caught up
in the whirlwind, round-the-clock life of Las Vegas, Miss
Bisset literally hops from one love affair to another, but
never quite finds the fulfillment she seeks. Throughout
the film, she is likeable and enchanting and her sequence
with Jim Brown is di-amatic and tragic. The film tends
to be episodic, and its mievenness will make it difficult
for audiences to sustain interest, but there are some highly
amusing vignettes, and the general, overall tone of the
pictm'e is aimed at the matui-e and sophisticated. Of interest
to older patrons will be the appearance of Joseph
Cotten in a major supporting role, but top audience reaction
will come with the climaxing sky-writing scenes
and the final denouement. Jen-y Belson and Garry Marshall
co-produced and collaborated on the screenplay,
which is based on the novel, "The Passing of Evil," by
Mark McShane. Jerry Paris directed with a light touch.
10 '
Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
MGM 1
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ComedyOrama
70200 113 Minutes Rel. June '70
Right in today's groove, MGM's "The Magic Garden
of Stanley Sweetheart" should appeal to the under-30s
who are turned on by youthful lovemaking, nude romps,
psychedelic discotheques and obscured meanings. Since
the film is a somewhat disjointed tale about a college
dropout, most adults will probably wonder what it's really
all about. At times. "Sweetheart" seems like a junior
league version of "Tiopic of Cancer" with a sprinkling of
"Blow Up" here and there. Michael Greer makes a most
favorable impression as a dope-pushing singer. Don Johnson
seems properly bewildered by life: all he really wants
is sex. Dianne Hull is quietly effective and the only girl
Johnson truly loves. The scenes involving the freakedout
club, built on the stage of a deserted theatre, are well
done, as is the location w-ork all around New York City.
The theme song, "Sweet Gingerbread Man." by Michel
Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, should be a
big hit and will help in the promotion. In MetroColor.
the film was produced by Martin Poll, directed by Leonard
Horn and waitten by Robert T. Westbrook from his novel.
Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett
Monica, Ramon Bieri, Christopher Stone.
Suppose They Gave a War
and Nobody Came
GP
Comedy
©
Cinerama (234) 113 Minutes Rel. June '70
This is a pleasant, though not overly amusing, comedy
in the same vein as "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?"
and "The Russians Are Coming, Tlie Russians Are
Coming." It's not a war comedy, nor is it really a satii-e:
it deals with the sobering subject of military-commmiity
relations in satiric terms. The residents of the town are
small-minded bigots and emerge as caricatures, while the
miUtary persomrel come across as more himian, likeable
beings. A tighter editing job would make it more acceptable
for summer bookings and it should do all right generally,
probably best in areas with military installations.
A large cast is headed by Tony Curtis, Brian Keith and
Suzanne Pleshette. Outstanding are Keith as a warrant
officer who is tired of trying to be nice to the townsfolk,
and Arthur O'Comrell as the banker, hamstrung by the
town's prejudice. Hy Averback. who directed from a
screenplay by Don McGuire and Hal Captain, has handled
his players well. Worthy of mention are Ivan Dixon,
Ernest Borgnine, Don Ameche, Bradford Dillman, Tom
Ewell, John Fiedler, Jeanne Bates. Grady Sutton. Pamela
Britton iTV's "Blondie"i, Robert Emhardt and Christopher
Mitchum.
Tony Curtis, Brian Keith, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon.
Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Ewell. Bradford Dillman.
-r'tv
Don Johnson, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull, Linda Gillin.
Victoria Racimo, Brandon Maggart, Holly Near.
BROTHER CRY FOR ME
Fine Products
95 Minutes
[q1 Action Drama
Rel. March '70
Gerald Pine's initial entry into the action market, set
in the South American jungles, is a fast-moving drama
about three brothers batthng for the rich legacy left by
their father. Properly promoted, it will produce revenue
from those fans who delight in rough-and-tumble scraps,
excitement and all-out action. The International Center
production, produced by Hubie Jay Kerns and William
White, who also directed, featm-es an added exploitable
in the music track by Jamie Mendoza. Leslie Parrish.
toplining the capable cast, performs creditably as the sole
feminine interest, romantic target for the brothers. Steve
Drexel. Richard Davalos and Larry Pemiell are outstanding
as the bitter, hatred-dominated brothers. Andrew
Herbert. Carl Monson and Ed Himt. who edited the film,
coupled the color jmigle footage with excellent water
scenes to put together a smooth-flowing story, which begins
by plunging dii'ectly into the heart of the conflict;
the greed which destroys even close family relationships.
Tony Rome. Anthony Caruso and Ron Brown also have
strong supporting roles. Exhibitors can do nicely with
this G-rated entry, appealing to the younger teens and
adult action faiis In all promotion.
Leslie Parrish. Tony Rome, Steve Drexel, Larry Pennell.
Richard Davalos. .-Vnthony Caruso.
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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitips; Adlines for Newspapers and Programs
rili: STOKY: "The Cross and the Swltchbliide"
(Dirk Kos-s A Associates)
i'l Kev. Diivid Wilkersoii finds Pat Boone
iiiisvlvniua ministry to no to Harlem at the
1...- piiilsli to help some New York boys on
L !.
.md to bnak up the fishts between warring Puerto
:; and black nangs. Tiymw to intervene in court,
.e luts tlie newspaper pages and. when ti-eated shab-
!>v th'' i>olice. is accepted by one gang, with reserva-
'
t and an outpoui-lng of love and
into the heroin and pot problems
- tiies to get them to renounce
... - ..>iv,i>'i
'.
;...-uce. In a
> - >»"d
sequence of killings and fights with the
.'•.xo. the gangs uncork excitement as they chase thi'ough
.. ; alleys and across Harlem rooftops. Despite Boone's
..; mpts to get them to compete without knives, the gangs
.; > .do to meet where ho is attempting a reconciliation.
1 1 rir plans are intorniptod by his preaching and everyoi.o
joins the nUnister in being saved.
EXrLOITIPvS:
Anange a screening for leading members of the clergy
and ask thom to plug the film from the pulpit and through
chiu-ch papers. Contact libraries for displays of Rev.
David Wilkerson's book.
CATCHUNES:
He Came to Hailem to Save the Warring Gangs . . .
The Minister With a Message for the Ghetto.
L 5'
rut STORV: 'The ."Magic Garden of
Stanley Sweetheart" (IVIGM)
Stanley Sweetheart iDon Johnson), a junior at New
York's Columbia University, combines two interests by
making those girls who are interested in his underground
filmmaking. He's attracted to Dianne Hull, a nice girl
who's a classmate. Her fat rooimnate. Holly Near, begins
an affair with Johnson, who has the girls in shifts. Old
friend Linda Gillin hves with Vicki Racimo: they introduce
him to pusher-singer Michael Greer. Johnson is in
love with Hull, who's given in to his sexual demands. She
takes up with Greer and frequents the psychedelic club
where he works. Johnson moves in with Vicki and Linda
and the three enjoy nude romping and just being together.
Blood turns on the club patrons and Greer kills
himself after unsuccessfully trying to hunt. By now a
dropout and as confused as ever, Johnson leaves for his
—
noisy apartment, promising to return to the girls.
EXPLOITIPS:
Tie-up with college bookstores and libraries to display
23-year-old Robert Westbrook's novel. Get radio disc
jockeys to promote the theme song and other music as
performed by Ricliie Havens. Eric Burdon & War, the
Mike Curb Congregation, Kathy Smith and others.
CATCHLINES:
Fieedom Is a Golden Byzantium—It Is a Magic Garden,
Lush and Intertwined . . . Caution: Magic Gardens May
Be Hazardous to Yom- Health.
THE STORY:
•Brother Cry for Me" (Fine)
Three brothers, Steve Drexel, Richard Davalos and
Larry Pennell, arrive in South America simultaneously
because their father, in his will, has told them of a fortune
buried in the middle of a jungle. Each has a map
and a note stating that the fortune is his alone. Davalos
and his wife, Leslie ParrLsh, are en route to the jungle
when Drexel kidnaps Pan-ish and takes her on his boat.
A violent stomn has hit the jungle and the boat is the only
way to the other side of the island. Davalos takes a jeep,
but kills a policeman. Then a blowout forces him to move
on foot through the jungle. The police come after him.
Drexel leaves men on guard at the boat and takes out,
also on foot. The third brother, Pennell. in love with Parrtsh,
frees her and they go to a waterfall where she spots
the entrance to a hidden cave. A police inspector, Drexel
and Davalos arrive and Davalos, now in.sane. kills Drexel.
The police catch and kill Davalos, and Parrish and Pennell
are united.
EXPLOITIPS:
Decorate the theatre front in jungle style and play
jungle records constantly. Post a hidden treasure map and
offer free popcorn to the one finding the loot.
CATCHLINES:
A Fast-Moving, Action-Packed Drama of Three Brothers
in a Legacy of Hate.
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THE STORY:
"Barquero" (UA)
After looting the town of Buckskin and killing its inhabitants,
mercenaries led by Warren Gates and Kerwin
Mathews attempt to cross the Paria River into Mexico.
They find that bai-geman Lee Van Cleef has cleared the
settlement and w^aits across the river for the gang to
make its move. Frank Babich, husband of Mariette Hartley
is a prisoner; Van Cleef wants to exchange captive
Jolin Davis Chandler for him, but the latter is killed on
Dates' orders. With his trapper friend Forrest Tucker,
Van Cleef swims the river to rescue Babich. After collecting
his "reward" from an ungrateful Hartley, Van Cleef
retui-ns to his woman. Marie Gomez. Mathews decides
to build rafts to ford the river, but Van Cleef tuiiis the
tables. All his men die and Gates kills Mathews and
Tucker. Van Cleef wins the final roiuid by getting Gates
in a duel across the river.
EXPLOITIPS:
Build a miniatme raft or barge on wheels to be pulled
arotmd town by a man dressed like a boatman, with signs
reading, "I'm a 'Barquero,' See me at . . .. etc." Have a
man di-essed like a fm- trapper riding a horse alongside.
CATCHUNES:
Barquero—Yom- Time Is Rmming Out. Cross the River
or Die . . . Lee Van Cleef Retm-ns to America in His Most
Outstanding Western.
THE STORY: "The Grasshopper" (NGP)
Jacquelme Bisset, a free soul bored with life, leaves
a note for her sleeping boyfriend and takes off for Las
Vegas. She wants to find a job as a chorus girl. Her first
associations are with members of a pot-smoking homosexual
musical group. She travels on in the never-stop
city and begins an affair with Jim Brown, but is beaten
angry that she rejected htm
up by a wealthy man who is
for a Negro. Brown retaliates by beating the other man
savagely on a golf couise, a revenge which costs Brown
his life when the rich man later has him shot and killed.
Miss Bisset di'ifts to a young man, keeps him while he
procures for her, although he eventually leaves her. Joseph
Gotten becomes enamomed of her and takes her
mider his wing, and still she isn't happy. Finally, she
shows her disillusionment and dissatisfaction by asking
an airplane mechanic to take her up to sky-write smutty
words. People on the gi'ound are both shocked and
amused. The police await the duo when they land.
EXPLOITIPS:
Tie-up with youi- local travel agency to promote Las
Vegas as the setting for the film. Post Las Vegas travel
signs on your doors.
CATCHLINES:
She Gets Caught in the Endless Cycle of Las Vegas
Life . . . She Hops Prom One Love to Another, Never
Knowing How or Where She Will Land.
THE STORY:
"Suppose They Gave a War
and Nobody Came" (Cinerama)
The XV Corps at Fort Blair near the small Southern
town of Anderson in Davis County is the object of the
tovmspeople's narrow-minded prejudice. Col. Don Ameche,
the base commander, wants to promote community relations
and organizes a dance for both factions. His senior
officers, Maj. John Fiedler, Capt. Bradford Dillman and
Warrant Officer Brian Keith, see little hope for the project.
Sheriff Ernest Borgnine, always out for trouble,
arrests Sgt. Tony Curtis for romancing waitress Suzanne
Pleshette, whom Borgnine considers his girl. Rejected by
the bank in a bid to borrow cash for a gas station, Negro
Sgt. Ivan Dixon joins Keith in a rusty old tank to release
Curtis. Tom Ewell, who nins the town, finds his private
army devastated by the tank, which demolishes the jail.
"The town fathers fire Borgnine. Ameche promises his men
a quick trial and acting Sheriff Bill Bramley gives an indication
that things will remain the same.
EXPLOITIPS:
Decorate the theatre front to resemble a rickety jail.
Use a cut-out of a tank to appear to be ramming it. Use
a street bally of improperly dressed soldiers, caiTylng
"We're giving a war" signs.
CATCHLINES:
War Isn't Hell—The Peace Is . . . The Wackiest Group
of Misfits in the Ai-my Wreck a Whole Town to Prove
That War Is Pun.
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EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
THEATRES WANTED
THEATRE SEATING
Progressive and growing California
theatre company with large circuit of
walk-ins and drive-ins needs ambitious,
young (22 to 35) men. Some theatre
management experience is helpful, but
not required. We will train you!
Excellent hospitalization, life insurance
and retirement program.
Send resume to P.O. Box 69402,
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THEATRE MANAGER TRAINEE: Work 2-3
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Excellent salary, iringe benefits. No telephone
please. Mail resume: Western thea-
!res, 8816 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.,
30069.
EXPERIENCED THEATRE MANAGER
WANTED for conventional and drive-ins,
in Nev.^ York-New Jersey area. Many benefits
including retirement plan. Apply: The
Walter Reade Organization, Inc., Mayfair
House, Deal Road, Oakhurst, N. J. 07755.
Progressive and growing Texas theotre
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Excellent hospitalization, life insurance
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Wanted, Manager with booth knowledge
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"D OPERATOR that knows booth equipnent,
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iNo change artists, please). Please send
ull resume and recent photograph. J. D.
Dliver, AUred Theatre, Pryor, Oklahoma,
'4361.
Theatre manager. New, Twin Theatre
n Iowa. Good salary and bonus plan.
Jend recent photo and resume to: George
layers, 222 Crocker St., Des Moines, Iowa,
10309.
MANAGERS WANTED. Managers (6)
vanted for Texas, fastest growing. Mini
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POSITIONS WANTED
CONCESSIONS, director field and colege
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MANAGER desires year round warm dilate.
Major circuit 17 years. Now with
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Health, exploitation, newspaper very
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DIVISION or GENERAL MANAGER. Over
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DEIBLER TRACKLESS TRAIN, 914 Clafhn
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Manhattan, Kansas.
PROJECTION EQUIPMENTI ALL types
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Coin handling device for rapid sortingcounting-wrapping.
$29.95, satisfaction
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NADEX, 220 Delaware, Buffalo. New York,
14202.
2 Morelite. Mon-orc lamps. Model E.
complete with ballasts. Very good condition,
$200-00 complete. Boxoffice, 2213.
RCA, Drive -In ampHiier; 2 Strong Excelite
lamphouses; 1 Hobart generator,
115—230 amps; 1 Hertner generator, 115
230 amps; 2 Brenkert BX 100 mechanisms,
4" lense mounts; 4 RCA 9030 soundheads
and bases. Also miscellaneous equipment.
What Do You Need? Lou Wahers Sales &
Service Co., 4207 Lawnview Avenue, Dallas,
Texas, 75227.
Outdoor screen. 75' x 40'. Original cost,
$18,000. Excellent condition. Also speaker
post and concession equipment. Write:
Holland Theatre, Box 265, Belief ontaine,
Ohio, 43311.
Good pair Eollmorgen, BX-294 Super
Snaplite, F-1.7X, 21/4 E.F., $55000. Boxoffice,
2223.
EQUIPMENT WANTED
Proiection equipment vrantedl Highest
prices paid. Lou Walters Sales & Service
Co. , LawTiview Avenue, Dallas,
Texas, 75227.
USED EQUIPMENT bought and sold.
Best prices. Texas Theatre Supply, 915
So. Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, 78205.
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
REPUBLIC AMUSEMENTS CORP., prominent
exploitation distributor, interested acquiring
new 35mm features. Substantial
cash advances are available. Contact:
Geraldine Takavoshi or R. W. Cresse, 88U
Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif ornio
90069. (213) 659-1600.
BUSINESS
STIAAULATORS
BINGO CARDS, S5.75M, 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 of
Hawaii, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los Angeles,
Calil. 90005,
BINGO-CARDS, DIE CUT, 1-75-500 combinations,
$5.75 per thousand. PHOTO
BLOW UPS, any size of your favorite
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339 West 44th St., New York, N. Y.,
10036. Phone: 212/CI 6-4972.
THEATRE CONSTRUCTION
WANTED TO BUY or lease indoor, outdoor;
metropolitan area. Contact; Griffith
Enterprises, Roxy Theatre Building, 1527
Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida
33139.
THEATRE IN METROPOLITAN AREAS in
any city with population of at least 100,000.
Contact: G. Takayoshi at Republic Amusements
Corp. 8816 Sunset Blvd., L.A., phone
(213) 659-1600.
WILL RENT OR LEASE: Indoor theatre,
metropolitan areas in ctny state with population
at least 100,000. Contact: Americana
Entertairmaent Association, 929 E. 139th
Avenue, Tampa, Florida, 336l2.
Wont to lease. Fully equipped, indoor
motion picture theatre in Southern California.
Contact: Hammond Productions,
1660 No. Berkeley, 201, Pomona, Calil.,
91767.
Want lease theatre, family operation,
experienced all phases West Coast region.
Boxoffice, 2220.
Buy, lease, rent going theatre in New
Jersey. Preferred in small town. Boxoffice,
2221.
THEATRES FOR SALE
NATIONAL THEATRE BROKERS. For
complete information write, Joe Joseph,
P. O. Box 31405, Dallas, 75231. Phone:
214-363-2724 or 214-368-3897.
FOR LEASE with option to buy. Only
drive-in theatre in heavy industrial Western
Kentucky County. Nice good grosser.
To rated firm or individual. Phone; A/C
502-683-2078.
GOING THEATRE, concrete block building,
350 seats. Good family operation in
Wisconsin. Boxoffice 2202.
Park Theatre, Lincoln Pork, Mich. Only
Theatre in this Detroit suburb. Includes
2 rentals, plus adjoining, large vacant
property. Call: 313 961-9517.
CLEAN 400 seat theatre with furnished
apartment on Southern Oregon coast. Very
profitable for family operation. (Retiring)
Inquire Box 1020, Bandon, Oregon 97411.
Oklahoma, CouintY Seat, indoor with living
quarters, $9,000, terms. Sam Cash,
Box 922, Burkburnett, Texas. Phone: 817
569-1368.
For sale or lease. New theatre, Central
Florida. Great resort, retirement area in
citrus belt. Inland fishing. Wonderful investment
to enjoy life. Apply: Boxoffice,
2208.
$10,000 buys complete theatre, equipment
and fireproof building. Town of 1500,
good farming and livestock area. Exceptional
buy. Owners retired. E. L. Parsons,
Renville, Minn., 56284.
Bertrand Theatre, Clayton, New York,
13624. 2i0 seats, fifty years association.
Retiring, health. Boxoffice, 2219.
WALLA THEATRE. Walholla, No. Dak.
446 seats, continuous operation since 1950
construction, one owner. At new ABM
missile and proposed Pembileer Dam sites.
Terms available. Mrs. Peter Campbell.
COLOR MERCHANT TRAILERS
Only 162.50 tor a 45 it. color merchant
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Phone: 813 248-4935.
WE REBUILD THEATRE CHAIRS anywhere.
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60605. Phone: 939-4518.
CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHEREI EXPERT
workmanship, personal service, finest materials
Arthur Judge, 2100 E. Newton Ave.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS.
Best workmanship. Reasonable prices. New
and rebuilt theatre chairs for sale. Haywood,
Ideal American. Staggering, respacing.
Travel anywhere. Seating Corporation
of New York (Neva Burn). 247 Water
Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201. Tel. 212-
S75-5433. (Reverse charges.)
700 AMERICAN. 750 plywood cushion,
600 Bodiform. Lone Star Sealing, Box 1734.
Dallas, Texas, 75201.
FILMS
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etc. Box 0187. College Grove Center Station,
San Diego, Calif. 92115.
FILMS FOR SALE
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Manbeck Pictures, 3621-B Wakonda Drive.
Des Moines, Iowa.
FILMS
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