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MIAMI<br />
The Footlighters Club initiated its ninth<br />
annual benefit golf tournament planning<br />
with a luncheon kickoff at the Villas.<br />
Footlighters have $3,500 in reservations for<br />
the June 14 affair at the Doral Club and<br />
the money will be used to help indigent<br />
patients at the Variety Children's Hospital.<br />
a welfare project of Variety Tent 33 of<br />
Miami. Celebrities. Playboy Bunnies and<br />
VIPs will turn out for this year's fundraiser<br />
and Howard Kaskel. Dorel Country<br />
Club president, offered one of the resort's<br />
prestigious courses for the tournament<br />
when he learned the site originally scheduled<br />
for the charity event would not be<br />
ready for play. Max Meyers, tournament<br />
chairman, was happy over this news, saying.<br />
"With the famous Doral as the site,<br />
how can we miss?"<br />
Representatives of the Women's Committee<br />
of Variety Children's Hospital returned<br />
from the Variety International convention<br />
in Las Vegas, where Bernice (Mrs.<br />
Edward J.) Melniker spoke at a forum<br />
moderated by Monty Berman of London.<br />
Other Miami Variety women attending the<br />
convention were Mrs. Ivan Miller. Mrs.<br />
Baron de Hirsch Meyer, Evelyn Taylor,<br />
Catherine Gilbert. Mae Rose Levine, Marie<br />
MacDermott. Julie Wisncsky and Pearl<br />
Gurevitz.<br />
The Women's Committee of Variety will<br />
sponsor a roast beef dinner and show Wednesday<br />
night (26) at the Miami Springs<br />
Villas Playhouse for the benefit of the<br />
Variety Children's Hospital. Art Bruns. a<br />
hospital board member many years, has<br />
made the facilities available to the organization<br />
for the special charity party and<br />
theatre presentation. Mrs. Herman Niswander,<br />
president of the Women's Committee<br />
of Variety, said the Ring Theatre<br />
Players will present a command performance<br />
of "The Amorous Flea." a musical<br />
comedy based on the hilarious Moliere<br />
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play. "School for Wives." All proceeds will<br />
be allotted to the hospital for support of<br />
its 23 outpatient clinics, which treat around<br />
30.000 youngsters annually.<br />
Three Miami theatres—Mayfair. Sunset<br />
and Normandie—became Plaza Pictures<br />
showcases beginning Friday (21) with the<br />
opening of "Pigeons." "Detective Belli"<br />
makes its Florida debut at the theatres<br />
June 11, to be followed June 18 by "Dead<br />
ol Summer."<br />
A six-week Summer Film Workshop will<br />
start at the Balmoral Hotel the final week<br />
in June, conducted by Ruth Foreman, director-producer<br />
of the North Miami Playhouse<br />
and Actors' Studio. Students are to<br />
gain knowledge of the technique of motion<br />
picture acting and to take part in a film<br />
they will produce themselves. Applications<br />
are being accepted from a limited number<br />
of children, teenagers and adults.<br />
Lerners Unveil Mall<br />
In Hallandale # Fla.<br />
HALLANDALE, FLA.—Sol<br />
Lerner and<br />
June Taylor Lerner, both show business<br />
personalities, are owners of a new theatre<br />
opened this month at Hallandale Beach<br />
Boulevard and Diplomat Parkway. Known<br />
as the Mall, the new showplace has an admission<br />
policy of $1 before 2 p.m., $1.50<br />
until 6 p.m. and $2 from 6 p.m. until<br />
closing.<br />
An unusual but popular feature of the<br />
new theatre is the "Celebrity Painters'<br />
Corner," which showcases art works of U.S.<br />
entertainers. The inaugural art showing included<br />
an oil by Jackie Gleason in impressionist<br />
style titled "The Pugilist."<br />
June Taylor, one of America's foremost<br />
choreographers and renowned for the work<br />
of her dancers on the Jackie Gleason Show,<br />
also is exhibiting ten of her most distinguished<br />
art works.<br />
Ackerman Circuit Leases<br />
Four Connecticut Airers<br />
From Eastern Edition<br />
NEW YORK—Ackerman Theatres, a<br />
subsidiary of Ackerman Enterprises of New<br />
York, announced the leasing of four drivein<br />
theatres in the New London-Groton area<br />
of Connecticut.<br />
The airers are the Groton Drive-in,<br />
Bridge Drive-In, Taftville Drive-In and<br />
Waterford Drive-in. The latter, now under<br />
construction, is scheduled to open June 30.<br />
Weislock and Dawson<br />
Buy Holiday Theatres<br />
MIAMI—Controling interest in Holiday<br />
Theatres, a public company based here, has<br />
been sold to Alex Weinstock and R. P.<br />
Dawson, former owners of Dawson &<br />
Weinstock Theatres of Pennsylvania.<br />
Simultaneous with this sale came the announcement<br />
that Holiday had purchased the<br />
Cinemanagement Corp.. Holiday Theatres<br />
Development Corp. and Dawson & Weinstock<br />
Theatres, which are to be merged<br />
into Holiday Theatres.<br />
Holiday Theatres operates 1 1 units in<br />
Florida and Pennsylvania, including the<br />
new Midway and Holiday theatres. Weinstock<br />
recently stated that the corporation is<br />
considering making some of its single theatres<br />
into twins.<br />
Unusual Approach Taken<br />
In Detroit Film Reviews<br />
From Mideastern Edition<br />
DETROIT—Some unusual<br />
new developments<br />
in film criticism are arousing interest<br />
and speculation in both film and press<br />
circles in this city.<br />
Perhaps most unusual was the publication<br />
of a full-scale 20-inch review of two films<br />
on the church pages by the Detroit Free<br />
Press' religion writer Hiley H. Ward, who<br />
seemed therein to move outside his normal<br />
beat. He criticized "Little Big Man," about<br />
Michigan's own famed hero Gen. Custer,<br />
and "Patton"—both rather adversely. In his<br />
lead, Ward urged churchmen to view the<br />
pictures because of their concern in "war<br />
and peace, missionary attitudes and politics."<br />
"Patton" he called "perhaps one of the<br />
dullest ever produced," while the Custer<br />
film is compared to the My Lai tragedy.<br />
Ward's thesis appears to be summarized:<br />
"Knowing that all persons have a profound<br />
human dignity, a prospective missionary<br />
and those who support missionaries enter<br />
their task with a deeper commitment and<br />
usefulness to mankind" for seeing the films<br />
which he has just scathingly reviewed.<br />
Then, in the city's other daily, Detroit<br />
News amusement writer Bill Gray did a<br />
review on "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" in<br />
lingo that seems almost incomprehensible to<br />
a mature, "square" American citizen and<br />
climaxes his review (?) by criticizing the<br />
presentation at the Madison Theatre. He<br />
said that while the four-track stereo gives<br />
a "live performance effect," it's wrong because<br />
"the volume's too low. Joe Cocker's<br />
music wasn't meant to be heard at the<br />
drama level."<br />
The review may be clearer to rock-androll<br />
fans than it is to others.<br />
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